It is no secret that Liberals/Progressives/The Left hate the Military.  The evidence is clear, down to the City of Berkeley telling the USMC they are not welcome, to Harvard having a years long ban on ROTC on campus.

They hate the military and its “toxic masculinity.”

That was until Trump banned transgender individuals from serving.  Now they love the military and believe that any person who loved their country should be able to serve, mental stability not withstanding, and are going to fight tooth and nail for the military against hateful Conservatives.

It’s also no secret that Liberals/Progressives/The Left hate football and its violent, toxic masculinity problem.  Football skews Republican in terms of viewers and fans.

Colin Kaepernick takes the field.  He is a mixed race man, abandoned by his black father,  put up for adoption, he is raised by a middle class white family with all the privileges that entails.  He decides he’s going to go full #BLM on the NFL’s time and takes a knee during the Pledge of Allegiance.  ESPN has an orgasm over this.

In the real world, this drives viewers away, which drives advertisers away, which drives money away from the league.

If there is one big rule in business it is: Don’t piss off the customer.

Kaepernick did this to 32% of the NFL’s customers.

Beyond the protests, he was ranked 29 out of 32 quarterbacks.  So he just sucks at the sport.

He also wore a t-shirt with Fidel Castro on it, and then defended the Cuban dictator during a press conference.  Hooray, another #BLM liberal who just loves mas murdering, socialist, despots.  Had he been more famous a few years ago I bet he would have gone down with Sean Penn and Oliver Stone to blow Hugo Chavez for some revolutionary chic cred.

So, here you have a quarterback who is ranked at the bottom of the list.  He has driven away Middle American fans with his antics.  He has offended the Cuban American population with his antics.  He has lost the league untold millions of dollars with his antics.  So it is just good business that when he went to Miami, they told him “no and fuck off.”

Well, that’s apparently racist.  Spike Lee is now arranging a protest  on Kaepernick’s behalf.

A bunch of Liberals, who yesterday hated football, are now suddenly NFL superfans who want to see Kaepernick play?  Oh bullshit.  They are simply upset that one of their protected class victims was unable to get his way anymore.

If Kaepernick really wants to be newsworthy again, he should cut off his dick and try and join the Marines.

King Leopold II of Belgium was the ruler and owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.   The enormity of his rule in Africa is ranked among the Holocaust, Holodomor, and killing fields of Cambodia in terms of human atrocities and suffering.

Among the horrors that occurred in the Congo during his rule was a policy of severed hands.  Leopold II demanded quotas of rubber from Congolese rubber plantations.    If a village failed to meet the impossible quota, several slaves (that’s what they were) were executed.  A hand was to be severed from the body and shipped to Belgium to show the execution took place.  Severed hands became an acceptable alternative to rubber for quotas.  This created a perverse incentive where villages raided each other, severing hands, and sending the hands back to Belgium.

Some 15 million Africans were killed or worked to death in the Congo, and many more were maimed, all for the natural resource of rubber.

Fast forward to now.

Volvo has promised to go all electric or hybrid with their cars by 2019.

France and Britain are banning petroleum powered vehicles in 2040.

The demand for cobalt for electric and hybrid car batteries has resulted in the enslavement of countless children in heavy metal mines in … you guessed it… the Congo.  It is described as “hell on earth.”

Picking through a mountain of huge rocks with his tiny bare hands, the exhausted little boy makes a pitiful sight.

His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and a deadly lung condition. Here, for a wage of just 8p a day, the children are made to check the rocks for the tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt – the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.

And it’s feared that thousands more children could be about to be dragged into this hellish daily existence – after the historic pledge made by Britain to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2040 and switch to electric vehicles.

Once again, fancy Europeans show that there is no natural resource that they want that they aren’t willing to engage in the enslavement and  mass murder of Congolese to obtain it.

So I caught this moron yesterday in Twitter.

I could not help myself but to check on the proper laws and let him know of the results.

And then I remembered something a wee bit important:

“Scott “Danger” Bravo is an acoustic, instrumental, guitarist from NYC.” So we have another case of a Dancing Monkey unable to contain his pie hole.

This is why we win

Update: Scott finally saw the post and gave his opinion.

Not unexpected. Then again, I am not trying to convince him.  😀

I could be wrong (My wife says I am plenty wrong) but I don’t think this is gonna be cause celebre.

Police arrested a 48-year-old man they identified as Nelson Hernandez Mena, a Honduran national, later on Sunday. He faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault with a firearm, the Palm Beach Post reported.

Source: Florida Man Killed After Standing Up For Gay Friends, Witnesses Say | HuffPost

I have the strange feeling that the killer is not a legal resident of the United States.  So the Left will find itself with the dilemma of either defending the victims or trying to come up with reasons to explain such brutal homophobia by a Person of Color (“If we were in my country I’d kill all of you like rats.”) They probably would rather sink this story than face the fact that the Latin American Machismo culture is brutally Anti Gay.  And the use of the word “brutal” is not an exaggeration on my part.

The Memory-Hole process will double its speed if the killer is found to have previous encounters with the law and/or had deportation orders or was deported & returned.

Via The Feral Irishman.

An engineer at Google went around a 10 page memo on his opinion about life inside Google.

I read it.

The down and dirty points the guy made, seem to me to be:

1. Google loves diversity as long as it isn’t diversity of opinion, it is one giant Leftist echo chamber.
2. Anybody who isn’t a hard Leftist is harangued into submission to the hard Leftist.
3. If engineering (and STEM in general) is never at perfect demographic parity in terms of gender or ethnicity, that’s perfectly OK.
4. Stop pushing the diversity thing all the time because No 3.

I started down the STEM path in 2001 when I went to college.  My entire adult life I have been beat over the head with the “we need parity of *insert identity group here* in STEM.

The author of the Google memo, from best I can find online is in his late 20’s, so probably has an experience close to mine.

I saw boy and girls enter engineering and both boys and girls flunk out.  I’ve had good male and female professors.  In my experience, women and minorities who want to become engineers (and are capable of passing the classes) do.  Those who don’t, don’t.

What gets me, is that I have been beat over the head with the notion that the reason not as many women or minorities want to go into engineering is because white males are awful, sexist, racist, people who are mean spirited and drive everyone who isn’t like them away.

OK, they don’t say it exactly like that, but I can’t tell you how many diversity/sensitivity training seminars I’ve been in where the lack of parity is blamed on “microaggression.”

Dental hygienists make on average $70K a year and are 97% women.  How come I never hear about the need for parity in dental hygienists and the microaggressions keeping men out of such a high paying field.

Or why 97% of kindergarten teachers are women.

Or why 98% of mechanics and heavy equipment operators are men.

Many days being an engineer is being a mechanic with math.  Maybe that doesn’t appeal to a wide range of women.

But NO.  The reason aerospace engineering isn’t 50/50 male/female is because the men in the field are just fucking awful sexist pigs in need of reeducation.

Maybe, just maybe, this poor Google memo guy was sick and tired of hearing the same thing over and over again.  That he’s a terrible, sexist, piece of shit and the evidence of that is the fact more than half of his co-workers have dicks.

Anny Barvínková. The young lady has skills.

Hat tip to the Mad Ogre.