@AndToddsaid One side note I think worth mentioning. And it *is* a side note, not even tangentially related to the point he's making.
He says, "Not only do I not love it, I don’t even hate it".
This is a subtle point, at least to me.
It took years and several explanations before my wife was able to get me to understand that when she says, "I hate you" in an argument, it just means "I love you" through the lens of anger.
It's still love, in a way. It's still as *close* and *intimate* as love.
The other, more clear way I've seen this sentiment is: "the opposite of love is not hate, it is apathy".
So it is an excellent point the writer makes:
He feels *zero* connection to the USG, despite having grown up in it.
The USG is cold, unfeeling, and *should* alienate people.
Those who hate the govt viscerally *are*, sorta, emotionally ill...just as much as those who love it.
The govt should not be loved or hated.
It should be chopped down to the size of being a tool.
Which helps explain the Totalitarian Left.
They *are* totalitarians: everything is political, and nothing escapes it.
So they LOVE or HATE everything.
For example, they are fundamentally unable to see guns as a tool. It is an object of *power*, hated when held by their enemies.
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Brainfertilizer's/Gitabushi's 4th Law:
Every insult/dis that leaves a mark on Leftists will become THE go-to insult for the Left to use within 6 months.
This one is too wordy, and kinda too stupid to be a law, but the applications of it matter enough to still explain.
At one point, someone responded to some stupid Leftist proposal saying "That won't work, because Math".
It became popular.
Then a few months later, Democrats/Leftists would criticize a tax cut or respond to some conservative criticism with "because math".
It took a few months before Democrats took up calling conservatives "snowflakes" and asking us if were "triggered" or telling us to "cry more".
I support Jews.
Anti-Semitism is wrong because it is racist, but it is also a special kind of racism because of its specificity, the history of the world, and the pervasiveness of it.
I don't know many Jews. I haven't lived in many places I could encounter many Jews.
I didn't care that much one way or the other for most of my life.
The Holocaust was history, and we'll make sure it never happens again, right?
Right?
But I started noticing what Israel was dealing with in the run up to the Liberation of Iraq in 2003.
Brainfertilizer's/Gitabushi's 3rd Law:
Tough Love is the only *TRUE* compassion
This one is kind of self-explanatory.
But I'll explain it anyway.
Any assistance is a crutch.
Any assistance makes it easier for people to stay in a bad situation.
Democrats talk about Compassion a lot. It is ALWAYS using your money in *their* name to buy votes.
There is NO END to the number of problems they can solve with just a little bit more of your money.
Brainfertilizer's/Gitabushi's 1st Law:
Happy People Don't Vote Democrat
I'm determined to get this one established as an Axiom that even television talking heads use.
It just makes so much sense.
The history of it started with reading someone's snark that Democrats sure do love poor people, that's why their policies make so many more of them.
Trying to make that snark more pithy, I thought about it a little bit more. I think about that time, I saw multiple references to Cloward-Piven strategy, where Progressives would try to flood welfare systems to make them collapse.
And then use the collapse to argue for Socialism.
I have a bunch of new followers, so I'm going to start a series of (hopefully) shorter threads detailing some of the views/stances/paradigms that I think I've pioneered...or if not pioneered, helped expand and advance.
I will then come back and link them all under this tweet.
My attempt to introduce a new definition/view of the Left vs the Right:
I used to go by Brainfertilizer, and have a web presence with that "Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame".
Then I joined the Bushis and become Gitabushi. You can find some writings at pcbush.wordpress.com
My 1st Law: