" I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence." -- Fredrick Douglas.
Excuses are like assholes; everybody has one; they all stink; and they should rarely be heard.
There is nothing more disheartening (and disgusting) to The Overlord than to hear another recite a litany of excuses for a personal failure, and then to top it off with an accusation leveled at him that he enjoys "privilege".
Case in point:
A woman complains that she cannot get a job. She has a degree, but there are no jobs related to it near her for her to take. She claims this is the fault of "greedy businessmen", who enjoy "privilege", who "don't care" about the plight of ordinary folks.
Now I must stop here and define the term "ordinary folks". Let's make it clear that the antagonist in this little drama did not actually use those words, but the general thrust of her argument is that she is just an ordinary person dealing with extra-ordinary circumstances. That is, of course, when she isn't a special case and deserving of extra-specially special consideration because special.
Let's look at how "ordinary" this "special-ordinary" Snowflake really is.
She has a college degree. In an IT-related field.
She is back in school and supposedly studying 40-hours per week (perhaps she never left? I did not ask).
She claims she is homeless and has nothing and is living in her car...but somehow manages an internet connection. And 40 hours a week of college credits.
I offered to help.
I gave her a link to a company that specializes in hiring freelance IT workers.
She made an excuse not to look at it (I believe her exact words were "Which T-shirt should I wear"?, as if to say "this opportunity is beneath me"). This is a company I often do business with.
I sent her links (several) to trade schools, along with articles reporting on the shortage of skilled workers in the trades, and the high salaries they are now commanding, most of which are available after short training periods.
She made an excuse; why go into a field that is going to be automated, eventually?
I checked the three largest internet placement sites for IT jobs in her area. There are literally hundreds.
She made an excuse: how am I supposed to work 40 hours a week and go to school 40 hours a week?
I asked her if she was willing to move to where the high-paying jobs in her field are.
She made an excuse: all those places suck.
I'm then a jerk for asking a very pertinent question:
At what point does your sense of personal responsibility, let alone your self-preservation instinct, finally kick in? Are you serious about finding work and not being homeless, or is it just easier to bitch about how hard it sucks to be you and demand that someone else do it all for you?
Silence. Except that it's all easy for me to say, seeing as how I'm "privileged" and American Society is heartless, racist, and sexist.
It became apparent what I was dealing with.
A lazy, self-pitying, immature, entitled fucktard, who has probably not only been encouraged to think of herself as "a victim", but rewarded for it. Probably all of her life.
It's no wonder you're unemployed and living in your car.
And it is at times like this that I wish we were allowed to simply shoot the stupid as soon as it self-identifies.
On another, somewhat related topic, the addled thought process of the average liberal.
If you weren't paying attention this past week, then you missed these recurring themes, simultaneously flowing out of the pieholes and rectums of the Collective Retard:
* America is an unjust, oppressive place....but we should open the borders to others seeking a better life.
* Children go hungry in America...but morbid obesity is our greatest public health threat.
* We spend $700 billion on the military, and this hurts the less-fortunate...but no one asks about the other $4 trillion the government spent.
* Diversity is our strength...unless we need to practice a divisive form of Identity Politics in order to win elections.
* America is a racist country...and yet we live in a society in which it is often impossible to classify people on the basis of race for all the mixing, and where people can claim to be any race they want so long as it's to their advantage. Also, we're supposed to celebrate things on the basis of race, like "the first Somali-American Congresswoman".
* There is wealth disparity in America...while the average welfare recipient receives in benefits more than the average American takes home, pre-tax, but somehow they can pay more. And if they don't want to, then they're heartless bastards who are _____ ist.
* There is a digital divide which threatens to hurt The Poor...and yet iPhones are ubiquitous and the new model is set to hit the market at $1,000 a pop. By the way, the people who tell me this all seem to have internet connections and access to computers and claim to be Poor.
* Trump's rhetoric is hateful and divisive...yet it's perfectly okay to call for the extermination of White Males, Christians, Heterosexuals, and Conservatives, or to terrorize their families.
* There is no Freedom of Speech in America...but no one is being silenced except the Right because Hate.
* Trump is a Nazi, but there are no concentration camps and the only blackshirts are lefties.
* A male dominated court will now tell women what they can do with their bodies, overturning the decision of an all-male court that told women what they could do with their bodies. This is somehow a harbinger of the Apocalypse.
* The GOP is the party of rich white men...when it isn't the party of poor, uneducated bigoted rednecks.
* We must support all women...except the ones who disagree with the Left.
* All cultures are equally valid...but this one is particularly evil.
* We gratuitously call out other's "hate" speech, even when it isn't...but routinely ignore our own, because Tolerance.
* Gender is fluid...but sexism is rampant.
* A Socialist who won election now complains that she can't afford to move to Washington to take her new job...because Capitalism. Apparently, Marx's promise that the Apartment fairy would just give her a place to live didn't pan out.
I'm telling you: shoot the stupid.
2 comments:
Don't shoot them. Snatch them up in vans and sterilize them! The problem is reproduction of the dim witted gene pool.
That still leaves the dimwitted behind, and modern medical science ensures they are living longer (at everyone else's expense, naturally), and sterile dimwit is still capable of passing her (it's usually a "her") stupid on to another through persuasion.
Shoot the dimwit and not only is the dimwit gone, but the ability to transmit the retard is gone, as well.
Now...when the Overlord says things like "shoot the stupid' he would like to make clear he is NOT advocating that you actually do so; he is engaging in hyperbole. I have to make this statement because people no longer understand things like context, hyperbole, logic, ethos, pathos and all the rest a) because stupid and b) because if the average person understood them, then the Left would not be able to use the "yeah, but..." or "See? I told you so..." forms of argument.
People who understood these things would be able to make judgments, and the one thing the Left cannot stand is people who possess the intelligence and knowledge to make a judgment. Judgment and intelligence leave no room for the Leftist.
The Overlord does not condone murder or violence; specific instances where such things appear as if they are being championed in my musings are time-tested literary devices, spiced with a bit of dark humor. It (advocating the shooting of morons) is an expression of exasperation with the tolerance of such idiocy in the modern West, but in America, in particular.
Besides, it's "Progressives" who believe in things like abortion, euthanasia, forced sterilization, industrialized genocide, selective breeding, all things that the Progressive has believed in and acted upon, whether we're speaking of Planned Parenthood, the Nazi Death Camps, the deliberate starving of the Kulaks, Mao's Teenaged Social Stormtrooper Mobs, or the propensity of, for example, Upper Class Ivy Leaguers to marry and mate exclusively among themselves and produce Ivy-League-bound offspring. These have been, historically, the real killers in the world.
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