Chelsea Manning is both a Transgendered and Traitor, making xer a humungous hero to People Against Goodness and Normalcy (The PAGAN Left). Xe completes the Left-Wing Heroic Icon Trifecta by also being a lazy Marxist who resents the idea of having to work for a living.
We are threatened by force to participate in wage labor every day
Working sucks: Why can’t we just tax rich people so they can pay for us to stay home all day painting our nails into rainbow colors.
taxation is a sharing of responsibility
only the wealthy believe that taxation is theft
they dont pay taxes
we should make them
(And like most ignorant leftists, xe has no idea how capitals work and a childish love of colorful sitckers.)
“We should make them”, yep that can only lead to rainbows and unicorns. I’m afraid humanity is dying of terminal studpidity (there’s a song in there somewhere…).
So xe thinks it’s bad to threaten people by force to participate in wage labor (this is really happening?), but at the same time xe thinks it’s good to threaten people by force to pay taxes?
Chelsea Manning is way past xer expiration date. Xe is not reinventing xerself so much as xe is becoming too numerous in our otherwise Chelsea Manning-free lives.
Ogden Nash: “God in his wisdom made the fly; then forgot to tell us why.”
Suppose Chelsea Manning spoke and nobody listened. Well, it won’t work because “freaks.” Freaks attract interest and mild attention. I went to side shows at the country fair in the early ’50’s when you see freaks for 10¢ or maybe a quarter. I saw a stuffed two headed calf with one head that looked like it had been tacked on by a blind Cub Scout. I saw a woman with four legs and feet stand up and move each foot back and forth. I even sat in Hitler’s armored Mercedes limousine and saw an electric chair actually used to end the life of a rogue’s gallery of the people in 8 x 10 glossies mounted in the trailer exhibit. I saw a man lying on a special form who was slowly turning to stone. I laughed at midgets flipping themselves around. I saw a bearded lady who smelled bad. I saw a man so skinny you could see his skeletal bones. I might have paid 10¢ to see Chelsea Manning, but the poster and the barker would have to have been really convincing.
But, I never went back for a second look. Freaks are like that.
I would assume thugs and thieves have been among us ever since we started to club our fellows on their way back to the cave with the product of their hunt or harvest.
For 2,000+ years they then had the idea to make it legal by writing it into laws of an endless imagination — or for the promise of getting dozens of virgins in heaven as a reward for their do-gooding.
Since 1789 they have made it look like it was contractual — a social contract, you know (never mind you don’t recall signing anything).
With the postmodern neo marxists of the last 4 decades or so, it now comes with the n-th justification en vogue — facilitate spoiled brats in adult bodies to deal with the almost unaccountable set of personal disorders that get in their way to feel good about themselves — you guessed it: at your expenses, intolerant bigots you.
Face, please Meet Palm again.
Or, what did I miss?
I have always wanted to go to a real freak show, as Heliotrope has described. I’ll settle for the daily freak show put on by the Left’s Liberals which is narrated by Left’s left which has supposedly hijacked their party.
However; my brain is unable to process these pronouns. I know, it’s been explained here at length & elsewhere in tidy grids. As I’m also terrible with names I foresee a big problem in my future social life.
Bradley is the gift that keeps on giving & I’ll state once again, I just don’t think it’ll survive.
With my fellow software engineers, I deal with an endless supply of arbitrary codes we come up with all the time.
We try to make it so that we get something if only remotely useful (for people, ourselves included) from the dumbest and most obedient creatures ever — namely, machines.
Their greatest quality though : they never turn against whatever we, their source of life, put into them — we get back only as much flaws or virtues we brought in the first place.
Hence the ultimate wisdom we learned from our having to deal with a limited, finite set of resources:
be liberal in what you make them accept, be conservative in what you make them do.
It just so happens the left has decided to do the exact opposite with people, as their clay of their social experiments, anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
You wonder when they’ll start considering the achieved results.
To be clear:
…is 100% wrong. In the modern-day U.S., no one threatens anyone into working; you can go on welfare (and not work), if you would rather.
Taxpayers, on the other hand, face actual force: like jail time if they don’t comply, being gunned down if they should resist jail, etc.
@8 ILC, and this is why I am so angry (if only in the inner self) at my fellow french on the left of 1789, 1830, 1848, and the late ’60s on to this day:
to have brought and turned this pure absurd evil abstract nonsense which rationalizes the uses of brute force for the oldest way to avoid the toil and assure oneself the gain —
by “the end justifies the means”, and just turn a blind eye including or especially when it’s nothing but plunder of your fellowmen.
Why does anyone care what Bradley Manning says? His 15 minutes of fame are over.
I’ve lost track of (or interest in) Manning’s progress to womanhood or whatever.
But from the looks of the message, he’s got 13-yo teen girl down pat (no offense to 13-yo girls that are, uhm, intelligent).
Does s/he read Tiger Beat (is that still a thing?)? Or, perhaps, Teen Vogue?
Livewire, you are correct. There is nothing interesting about Chelsea Manning. What is interesting are the people the left chooses for its heroes.
@8
oh, and, even if it were only remotely “true”, let’s just keep on following for a few more inches (read: seconds of implicit rhetoric) the “logic” of these geniuses, paragons of virtue:
“… therefore, we need to not merely threaten, but actually use to steal from those who voluntarily participate in the same wage labour that we do find so convenient to stick around nevertheless (when we don’t simply prevent them to flee our plundering them).”
Because social “justice”.
And they profess surprise that some other, non-deranged, people (that’d be most of the commenters here or elsewhere, it seems) get a tiny lil bit tired of the application of their “principles” (read: virtually complete absence thereof whatsover, once you’ve reached their bottom line).
My only bitter consolation, ever, is to watch them to start eating each other, eventually, given enough time.
*[but actually use] force
“Wage labor”? What about those of us with salaries?
(Yes, I am probably ignoring that this is a term of art by somebody-or-other.)