I’m often asked why every day I take 5 minutes (or less) to skim through the daily fail website, given my obvious attitudes to things.
The answer is fairly simple, I do it to see what TPTB would like me to care about today, in effect it is a cheat sheet of things that should neither concern me, nor are likely to contain a shred of truth.
If we rationalise it as “The Daily Propaganda” then it is something they will want the masses to read, but which everyone should glance at, because it doesn’t just tell you what “they” want you to think, it tells you what lots of people will think, and unless you live on a desert island, that matters.
In reality when you have what we have today in the west, just a few individuals controlling most of the media across multiple media types, there are strong analogies to trying to grip and handful of sand harder and harder, and the harder you try the more slips through your fingers.
In the past week I have overheard conversations from those who a scant five years ago would have regurgitated everything ad nauseam, to the effect that the head of the medical council only cares about making abortion easier, that the head of the prosecution service only cares about making rape easier to convict, that the head of the police service only cares about making the police above the law, and so on…
A few years ago I would have heard about how all these strong wimminz were amazing and had so much on their plate not to mention plenty of people trying to bring them down, now, because of the media, being on message and all that crap, they have all turned to one trick ponies, and yesterday while waiting for someone (he was one street over waiting for me, the joys of crossed wires and poor navigation) my smirk got the better of me, so this woman made a comment to me instead of to her friends.
“Did you know..” I said, “.. that it is now illegal, and an arrestable offence of either actual or grevious bodily harm, to smack a child, such as you just did?”
eh? what?
I explained to them quite clearly that as the law actually stands today there are some weasel words about “reasonable chastisement”, and if a ***judge*** decides that what you did falls within that, they you get to walk, but the automatic default position is that it is always illegal to smack or strike a child in any way under any circumstances, and you will be arrested.
They were, frankly, astonished, and started muttering about a police state and you can’t be right, even though they checked via their smartphones and saw I was right, the fact is they had no idea…
The rabbit hole goes a bit deeper because if the parent is angry or scared, and the hitting is done as a punishment, then it falls outside the definition of reasonable chastisement.
Of course it is all done to protect the childruuun..
Who would vote for a law that said you could kick seven bells of shit out of kids, after all..
I can now go out and talk to policemen who will freely admit that they have no idea at all about 90% of the laws out there, there are just so many, and so many of them are contra intuitive, thankfully there are enough staples that they can make the monthly arrest quotas without straying into any of the unknown areas.
There is a local guy now in court because he took his young boy to the doctors because he had a bruise on his ass, when questioned he said yeah, he smacked the kid earlier in the day for breaking a vase, but he did not cause the bruise, next thing he knows he is arrested as the doctors called the police and reported him… got a friend whose daughter slipped on a playground slide and bruised her cunt, the daddy was of course in fear of even being told about it, much less looking at it, mummy asked if I should take the kid to the doctors, my advice was not unless you want life as you know it to end today… thankfully she listened to me…
It would be interesting to go around a hard clinton state or a hard trump state and ask people in the street, real people who drive buses and fix cars and haul refuse and sell coffee and so on, how much of the russians hacked the elections and kim is rocket boy and the vegas killer was a lone crazed white guy narrative they actually buy.
If my observations are anything to go by, a lot of the answers will depend on who is asking, and if the person questioned feels that they can speak relatively freely or not.
Most of the people on the street are far more concerned with much more mundane and pertinent stuff, the next bills due in, how many days to pay day, how much is left in the bank till then.
I know actual real people, *working* people, who have made such choices as the car stays on the driveway unless it is the 10 mile drive to work and back, and yes that ended the relationship with the girlfriend who lived 8 miles away and didn’t drive, and no the heating isn’t going on this year, not if I can help it, and there is fuck all in the fridge and fuck all signs of anything changing any time soon.
To people like this the daily fail content is as relevant as a lifestyle magazine, and as insulting… ah yes, GB£3,000 for a tap on my sink that can spew boiling water, and the breakdown slides ever downward.
I know houses that contain families that once would have been called family homes, how when you go in there the reality is they are all individuals concerned with themselves alone, and none of it for the common good or common causes, and these are the good ones…
I dunno if I am grateful or sad that my libido died some time ago, cos there sure as shit is a lot of potential for exploitation of one kind or another lying around.
In closing, back to the wimminz outside the Aldi and the illegal to smack your own kid thing, one of them had a 7 year old there, he knew I was right and instantly said so, how do you know this stuff, mummy asked, oh, teachers tell us all this stuff all the time, was the rely…
females are the ones who vote for this shit to begin with. they vote to make it illegal to “abuse kids” and then go home and beat the holy mortal dogshit out of their child because it annoyed them for a moment.
Comment by patriarchal landmine — October 9, 2017 @ 3:48 am