Here is an example:

A brave man tried to intervene in an armed robbery in Oakland. It did not work. pic.twitter.com/SoMEknul4S

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) July 16, 2021

How many times have we been told we are some sort of blood thirsty animals because our solution to deadly violence upon us is dishing it back and we describe it? We shock some sensitive souls with our “crassness” which is simply realism of what needs to happen because otherwise it will happen to us.

I can’t criticize helmet guy because his intentions were honorable and good. Anybody willing to stand up to criminals deserves kudos, but we also need to make people understand that there more than likely be violent and painful consequences when they make their move and are not prepared for them. Hollywood has programmed people into thinking bad guys will just cowardly run away at the slightest verbal confrontation. Reality has taught us otherwise.

If we intervene, we must make sure we thoroughly “win” and that is not an easy thing to predict. And then comes the legal aftermath which we will subjected to. It makes you wonder if being a good person is worth it.  This is something I always confessed changes with me every day: Sometimes is “Not my circus, not my monkeys” and the next day will be “But of course I will intervene. It is the human thing to do!”

I guess I will never know till it happens.

Rules do not apply to them.

On the left (in more ways that one) are Texas legislators who ran away from the state to break quorum and sabotage the passing of Voting Laws.

On the right, just regular folks traveling under Covid Theater rules.  And that is not enough:

The above are more Texas legislators pretending to be more “folksy” and running away in a bus still without wearing a mask against US DOT Covid mandates and the added bonus of a case of beer!

But the  best commentary award goes once again to the Babylon Bee:

One in a mall garage:

https://twitter.com/DionLimTV/status/1415805484246786048

Another on the street:

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The victim who would like to remain anonymous. She left the bank 7/7 & was stuck in traffic at Broadway & 22nd when a man approached her car… (1/4)#oakland pic.twitter.com/aQOgj99Qgt

— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) July 12, 2021

…tried to break in the passenger side window & then broke the one behind it, CLIMBED IN & stole her purse & backpack. You can see traffic prevented her escape.

The woman told me she didn’t leave her house for days after the incident.

“I wish this was not our world.” #Oakland pic.twitter.com/pkJb1COJW5

— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) July 12, 2021

In unenlightened society, where we value the right to self defense, if someone attacks you and gets into your car with you, you can ventilat that piece of shit with a couple of hollowpoints.

In Progressive, tolerant, enlightened San Francisco, you just hope and pray you don’t die and that the cops will respond in less than 30 minutes.

Because I’m a knuckle-dragging redneck, I prefer to live where if someone tries to jack my car I can rupture his liver with a 38.  Those places, not coincidentally, have fewer car jackings.  The potential of catching a bullet from an angry and terrified driver has a way of discouraging potential car jackers.

But what do I know, I’m just a dumb redneck.

I know, slim selection but so where the picking and I am not in my computer.

Mom’s orchid blooming in Tennessee. I guess I can officially say it survived the trip.

Most disturbing datapoint I've seen in awhile: two-thirds of Southern Republicans now say the South should break away from the Union, up from 50 percent in January. https://t.co/IALe5x7HzF pic.twitter.com/OWx23L9pLc

— Christopher Ingraham? (@_cingraham) July 14, 2021

Politics are downstream of culture.

Our American culture is coming apart.

Obama and Hillary made it clear that they Left felt anyone who disagreed with them want just a political opponent with a different point of view but an evil person, a heretic to their ideology, a “deplorable” who should be relegated to second class status.

Why would an enlightened state like California be shackled to us knuckle-dragging untermenschen?

From our perspective, we don’t want to live in their idea of utopia.

Lots of people down here don’t want to lose their jobs because some twitter mob goes after their employer because they didn’t let Dildo the Tranny Clown read See Dick Tuck to their 5 year old at the library.

We want to live by our social norms and not have theirs coerced upon us by threat of loss of employment, income, and opportunity.

We love the American flag.  They burn it and then prosecute people who disrespect the Pride flag.

They destroy monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt, then ruin the lives of people who paint over murals of George Floyd.

Political separations are the product of cultural conflicts and right now our cultures are just not compatible.