Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

The ones with big breasts and plastic faces? Surely that qualifies a person to rule!

Wise men. How many of us have never wanted to see some heinous criminal die slowly and horribly? Which is why we outsource it to a system of justice that doesn't do that stuff.

Oh, wait...

 

Well stated. It's ahistorical, as is just about everything about the current iteration of the woke mob (here today, gone tomorrow). It's a denial of human nature and the elevation of desire and passion to the highest of virtue. There is reason behind the image of justice as a balance or scale.

 

We would still keep all our checks and balances like today. We would still have elected leaders, senate bodies and the courts. But our direct representative bodies like the state assemblies, city councils and the house of representatives would be replaced with direct referendum.

 

BLM. I agree. So do some other lives that were whiped out in the history. Nazis Suck! Antisemitism sucks. I agree. There were a lot of jews who were Gulag admins. I don't know , this sucks to man,. (Maybe the sources are lying?) Jews were hated and were forced out from country to country before this - racism basically. This dosen't mean that people can spit on the Holocaust, ever. Not related. Racism sucks totally. Political division can suck hard too, where you might be undermining your own goals. Or human decency.

Using BLM as a symbol against racism is fine by me... Django Unchained. I liked this movie for showing bad but good too. Hope people don't spread the COVID too much for their own sake and others.

Learning from near history might be more important to many people. I have learned a lot by understanding the past 50 year history in the Middle East. If you look short term you see almost nothing. There is much to learn. They have gone through deception, someones else's rule, historical division in faith. Shias and Sunnies. It was no big deal for a while who you were in some countries. Then again financed division in faith in the end of 20th century. Country vs country. Same faith, divided by someone elses will over others then end up hating each other. Lots of manipulation that served no good. Very bad things have happened there. How these militants groups formed and so on. A lot to learn from the past. Are they doing better now? Hope so. (This is what I saw in a few documentaries, It made sense) P.S If you want to play the easy blame game, it is quite difficult tbh. Certain dark forces are involved.

Compassion can be abused but you can't mess with understanding which needs some compassion too.

 

Dune also ended with the Mahdi of a twisted, worm shit smoking version of a outerspace Sunni Islam / Zen Buddhism fusion (because those religions on earth just weren't austere enough for the cold reaches of space) dropping nukes on the unbelievers to rule a Kingdom of God where he was God. I highly doubt the modern hollywood, star wars for mall goths adaptation of Dune will end with that even though the book foreshadows it from the opening Fremen prayer.

 

That's why responsible and/or involved countries try fix or control these situations that were created years ago.

 

Britain is still reeling from the stink too. But, with the money in its pocket.

I never learned much history at school, and there are lots of shocking things that I never knew about (and maybe, back in 1950/1960-something they wouldn't have taught them anyway). Here's something I never knew until this week. When the Brits outlawed slavery they compensated the slave owners. Not the slaves, but the slavers. And it wasn't small money either, it was large sums.

 

A holiday commemorating the end of slavery is long overdue, but can we come up with a better name than Juneteenth? That sounds like a word made up by a five year old.

 

I mentioned Juneteenth to a buncha white Americans last week when we were discussing upcoming holidays and they looked at me like I was crazy. When I told them it was an official State holiday, they thought I was just being the idiot I usually am.

 

I use Nativity as well, but Christmas makes sense if you look at the origin of its word: Christ+mass. Mass meaning a celebratory Eucharistic service, and this one being a major festive event of the Church. Rendered quite literally as "Christ's Mass".

If you ain't Catholic, that probably won't mean anything to you.

 

Not to take away from the moment but while slavery as an institution was outlawed it still exists in practice in almost every city in the country in the form of sex trafficking. Popular culture celebrates it even. And how many virtual slaves are being worked to death to build the stadiums for the next World Cup in Qatar or making Nike shoes in China? Do you think we’ll see athletes or teams boycotting the World Cup or Nike? Pigs will sooner fly. So yes, it’s good to recognize why Juneteenth is important but this isn’t a fight that’s over and people shouldn’t get so hung up on the past that they ignore what’s right in front of them today.

 

Wuuttt??

Not sure if this is the most or the least surprising Florida I've ever seen.

Meaning Asian people getting home invaded or doing the home invasion?

 

That's a good summary of the meaning. If you go back far enough, it used to be referred to as "Cristenmasse" in some parts of the world.

 

It was the time very well spend. No other time is the US history can teach you more about the country, the people who fought on both sides, or the wisdom and foresight that was required to succeed in something as impossible as Reconstruction after the bloodiest war of 19 century.
I read the biography of Ulises Grant, actually a few of them, and it was heart breaking. My thoughts were: how the f**k any contry can do it to itself, and how is it possible that the people were so smart and so forward thinking, Lincoln and Grant in particular, to remain one country, to reconcile, and to become the technology and military single superpower.
I am sorry but comparing to the Americans of the Civil War the current generation of politicians, on both sides of the isle, look like a full bunch of f'ing clowns. The period in the US history that is the defining moment for the country is being painted in black and white and its memories destroyed.
I read somewhere that the ugly graffiti was painted on the monument to the first black regiment who fought under Grant's command against the Confederation in the Civil War. Is that even possible? Just because the Twitter mob said so?