The wife is watching this show about an American girl working in Paris.

After 10 minutes I realize that if I had a time machine I’d give a copy of The Guns of August to the German high command in 1913.

Just to make sure that they destroy the French Army and capture Paris and win the war by 1915.  Also to avoid getting into a war with the Russians.

For that matter I’d give the Prime Minister, Czar and Sultan a copy of the book too.

Without the Russians getting into the war there would be no Soviet Revolution, the Ottoman Empire wouldn’t have collapsed leading to a rise in Middle Eastern Islamism.

WWII and the Holocaust would have been averted.

And the snooty French would be crushed under the boot heel of the industrious Germans.

The British wouldn’t have gotten involved and neither would the Americans, meaning no long drawn out WWI, no Roaring 20, no Great Depression, and no FDR.

But mostly no insufferable French.

Now all I need is my time machine.

We’ve discussed gun culture in the past.

Gun Culture 1.0: hunting, plinking, with 22s, blue steel and wood, rural, Fudds.

Gun Culture 2.0: personal defense, AR-15, high capacity magazines, concealed carry, more urban/suburban.

I’ve seen more and more discussion of Gun Culture 3.0.

It’s seems to be an advanced form of Gun Culture 2.0: suppressors, SBRs, nigh vision, hard armor, tactical training, 80% builds/3D printing, etc.

All thing I support, except Gun Culture 3.0 seems to be mutating into “Gun Culture Fuck You Poors.”

I had an issue with the CG2.0 guys who would say shit like: “You’re only carrying a J-frame?  You’re gonna die in a gunfight.  You need a Glock 19 with three reloads at least.”

GC3.0 on social media ups that ante to ridiculous levels: “What do you mean you have a Bushmaster/M&P15/Delton/etc?  You’re just a liability.  You need a LWRC or Noveske with an Elcan or Nighforce, NODs, a can, IR laser, LCD weapon light, a SAPI chest rig, etc., have to shoot 1,000 round a month, and go to this shooting school run by an retired SEAL.”

The pictures they post look like they are fully decked out operators with the best DOD funding possible.

GC3.0 seems to have replaced a personality with expensive gear.

The number one rule of gun culture should be “don’t be a prick” and LARPing as SOCOM and shitting on people who buy their guns and gear off the rack at a big box sporting goods retailer is definitely in violation of that rule.

Harvard has an endowment of over $53 Billion.

I’ve heard Harvard described as “a hedge fund with a University attached for tax purposes.”

I think David Hogg proves that to be true.

The second amendment is not an absolute right. None of our rights are.

We have a right to not be shot.

— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) December 28, 2021

He’s consistently wrong about everything he says on social media.

He was invited to attend Harvard based entirely on his politics and Harvard has done nothing to correct his ignorance.

A university worthy of being ranked the number one school in the nation should probably endeavor to educate its students better.

But Harvard clearly doesn’t care.

Its students are merely a shield to protect its endowment from the IRS.

In return, the students get a piece of paper they they can wave around and say “this means I’m better than you.”

As such, if I ever got elected, I will take great pleasure is seizing Harvard’s endowment and use it to pay for vocational training for every kid who attends a vocational community college.

When Harvard complains, I will hold up David Hogg’s tweets and say “if you really were a college, you’d at least do the minimum to educate one of your most high profile students in basic civics, since you didn’t, you clearly are not a school.”

The woke movement could be the next great U.S. cultural export — and it is going to do many other countries some real good https://t.co/3kvQYHm44v

— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) December 27, 2021

If you decide to nuke the United States to stem the spread of American Wokeism, I honestly wouldn’t blame you.

All that I ask is that whrn you aim your missiles, you use a 2020 electon results map by county and target only the Blue ones.

If you really want to stop the spread of Wokeness you that is the source.

This fucking guy and this fucking thread:

So, here we go. I’m moving out of the Bay Area.

This is obviously not a fresh opinion; but the framing may be slightly controversial. My biggest reason is that I believe the Bay Area is no longer the best crucible for the American Dream. ? https://t.co/00BwcbJSPS

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

This is not a “fuck SF” post. This is a saddened recap of what could have been. I’ve had a tremendous time here, which had nothing to do with “tech” or “startups”. It had to do with my family, the people, the food, the culture, the debates, the nature.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

This is broadly stemming from the fact that we traded definitions of “equity”. From “let’s create opportunity for everyone” to “if everyone can’t have it, no one can have it.” We’ve adopted the socioeconomic philosophy of a grade-school bully. And as a result:

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

1. It’s hard to feel safe. We’ve experienced 4 home breakins; 1 car breakin; other thefts and near-assaults. I desperately want this fixed but it’s *not possible* for a private citizen to. Which brings us to… https://t.co/Cg2yJTRMXK

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

2. The political animus. There is a social contract between a govt + citizens. We pay taxes / abide by the law, and the govt provides social services and governs by the will of its people. SFBay has broken this social contract, over and over and over. https://t.co/CpNy5oPhK7

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

3. Environment is hostile to small biz.

You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have to wet sign, snail mail 2 forms, pay 7x the cost of straps in filing fees, wait months to find out that your “lace permit” has been declined. https://t.co/x1oeSDVScx

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

4. Privilege and success, instead of something to be mindful, have become something to be ashamed of. I have thought for a long time that Atlas Shrugged is an unrealistic straw man full of contradictions. I never thought I’d live in a society that actually approximated it. https://t.co/AxUy0zlg9H

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

5. While uncertainty on the upslope can be an excellent crucible for opportunity, a shining city devolving into bureacracy is the opposite: a symbol of decline.

I think it’s more inconvenient to live in San Francisco or Oakland than when I lived in Chennai or Bombay growing up.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

6. I consider paying taxes a privilege and honor, but you have to agree with the philosophy of where it’s being spent.

In the US, every state is undertaking its own experiment.

The CA experiment was audacious. But when experiments failed, we didn’t pull the plug… we kept going

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

7. Virtue signaling over virtue seeking; neuroticism over optimism.

A well-intentioned person can step one foot out of line and is instantly met with a “how dare you.”

When did we stop being optimistic, and so steeped in our own neuroticism?

When did we trade hope for guilt?

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

8. Merit, achievement, and success are becoming a lost cause. https://t.co/9vrl9Mpjz1

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

In summary: the Bay Area, instead of harvesting the golden eggs, bled the magical goose dry.

Instead of taking that boundless spirit of optimism, tax windfall, abundance of resources, and channeling it into the greatest city-state the world has ever known… we fucked it up.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

Then the pandemic arrived. As everything went online, the mirage was stripped away.

Ideas now stream over the web as freely as movies. And so, the idea of living somwhere for purely professional reasons feels as quaint and nostalgic as my DVD shelf.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

I admire the people who are fighting to fix things. This city and the surrounding region still brim with potential. But that’s not me. I’ve always been a midwesterner, and always felt like a transplant on the west coast.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

This is such a cliché, but we’re moving to Miami.

I know there’s plenty to be apprehensive about. Worse politics (from our perspective), its own superficiality, weather issues, critters, guns… but lots to love about food, warmth, service industry, vibrancy.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

I’m sure we’ll find plenty to complain about (or maybe not, because hopefully we’ll become less neurotic ?). But we’re eager for a new chapter, and mint a new identity for ourselves.

Here’s to the newest corner of the world where upstarts are gathering.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

So the Progressive Utopia of San Francisco, where Leftists have total monopolistic control, is a violent, decaying, shithole of neurotic Leftists attacking each other.

So he is moving to Miami, but he already hates Miami because Florida is an icky Red state and is somehow worse than the shithole he was forced to flee.

But that is not where this story ends, oh no.

Half the internet called him out for this glaring hypocrisy.

Rather than have a moment of introspection, he kept digging.

Seriously…

Also, while I personally think DeSantis is terrible, it’s not exactly apples to apples. The electorate voted him in. He isn’t a “problem” to deal with… it’s kind of an odd comparison to make.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) October 16, 2021

Hi Deb! I disagree with extreme policies; I won’t be voting for any extreme left policies (or extreme right). While I disagree with FL politics, Miami appears reasonable.

Respectfully — asking anyone (regardless of politics) to not vote is anti-democratic + anti-American.

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

Hi! Anyone who sees someone expressing their personal views as a “plague” is the problem.

I’m very happy with how I grew up. I could see how I sound like I’m complaining; but out of curiosity, which aspects of my post are bulldozing, close-minded, or willfully blind?

— Hari Raghavan (@haridigresses) December 28, 2021

I’ll be happy to tell him.

He sees all the symptoms of the Progressive disease but absolutely, steadfastly refuses to admit that the core ideals of Progressivism is wrong.

This is the Progressive version of “that wasn’t real Socialism” every time nation fails.

Instead, he’s going to relocate to a place he is already complaining about, run by a leader he hates, and will work diligently to ruin it by trying to create another Progressive Utopia.

Red States need to impose a 100% (or more) sales tax on homes purchased by people from Blue States.

And honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised is this guy’s house caught fire shortly after moving in.

I’m old enough to remember when the gay community – before it became the LGBTIAQ+ alphabet soup – was adamant that they were not pedophiles and groomers out to convert your children into being gay.

It was that argument that helped normal middle Americans accept gay rights.

It’s amazing what two decades of victories has done to embolden the LGBTAIQ+ activists.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1475353140471889920

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1475958691513864193

https://twitter.com/Teacher_Exposed/status/1475420395515772928

Now they are bragging online how they have infiltrated the schools and are grooming little kids to be trans/queer/etc.  That all little kids will either be non-conforming or allies.

Make no mistake about this, this is psychological child sex abuse.

The backlash is coming.  It’s inescapable.

When happy boys and girls go off to a school at the beginning of the year and by midterms are demanding puberty blockers and double mastectomies while threatening suicide, not every parent is going to be proud to show off their allyship on Facebook.  Some will want answers why Johnny is below proficiency on math but knows all about his preferred pronouns.

And I am excited to sell those parents the drum chippers they will want to get those answers.

https://twitter.com/Teacher_Exposed/status/1475878738126684164

Anyone who needs their gender validated by a baby and criticizes that baby for being transphobic when the validation does not happen is mentally ill and needs to be locked away.

Instead, these are the people who work in schools and daycare facilities with children.

We need to bring back asylums and use them.