On a different note, there's reason to avoid using plumber as your example. The average person's perception of plumbers is lower than for most trades:

They work on the poo poo part of the house, man! Gross.

Is thinking like that immature and stupid? Yes, but it's common perception, which is nearly always immature and stupid.

Ergo, plumber as an example is provocative, but it also makes the case less convincing. Using it will lead to your critics insulting plumbers, and with current public perception, those insults will tend to win out. Sad, but it's how it goes.

I recommend that you opt for carpentry as an example. It's more neutral in public perception, and it makes the anti-working class vitriol more self-apparent when folks see insults being thrown at Christ Himself's mortal profession

There's also something to be said about being someone who wants to become a politician. Being the sort of person who feels the need to "do something" to fix the world opens oneself up to all sorts of corruption, and that makes you the sort of person likely to make the problems that we have worse.

If you crave power that much, you are already lost and in need of help.

Plato's Republic, book VII, teaches a valuable lesson here:

if beggars hungry for private goods go into public life, thinking that the good is there for the seizing, then the well-governed city is impossible, for then ruling is something fought over, and this civil and domestic war destroys these people and the rest of the city as well.

Those who should rule are those who would really rather not bother with it. The best rulers are those who need to be compelled to rule.

If you're hungry for power, you've demonstrated that you don't deserve it.

The tradesman who puts his effort into doing good work and raising a family will possess a cleaner soul, and is unlikely to make things worse for society.

The power-hungry politician trying to "make the world a better place," on the other hand... How does that story usually end?

Thank you albania, for holding the torch of illiteracy 🫡

Have you heard reports from corporate employers in Canada about how they refuse to hire from some universities because of the low hygiene incompetent immigrants that get pushed through there? What happens when all the white men reject the university instead of the other way around? Gay anti white and globohomo corporations and universities crumble because they only have stinky retards left

Some words from Epictetus in his Enchiridion to remember when engaging with folks on the Internet:

4. When you’re about to embark on any action, remind yourself what kind of action it is. If you’re going out to take a bath, set before your mind the things that happen at the baths, that people splash you, that people knock up against you, that people steal from you. And you’ll thus undertake the action in a surer manner if you say to yourself at the outset, ‘I want to take a bath and ensure at the same time that my choice remains in harmony with nature.’ And follow the same course in every action that you embark on. So if anything gets in your way while you’re taking your bath, you’ll be ready to tell yourself, ‘Well, this wasn’t the only thing that I wanted to do, but I also wanted to keep my choice in harmony with nature; and I won’t keep it so if I get annoyed at what is happening.’

10. With regard to everything that happens to you, remember to look inside yourself and see what capacity you have to enable you to deal with it. If you catch sight of a beautiful woman, you’ll find that you have self-control to enable you to deal with that; if hard work lies in store for you, you’ll find endurance; if vilification, you’ll find forbearance. And if you get into the habit of following this course, you won’t get swept away by your impressions.

13. If you want to make progress, put up with being thought foolish and silly with regard to external things, and don’t even wish to give the impression of knowing anything about them; and if some people come to think that you’re somebody of note, regard yourself with distrust. For you should recognize that it isn’t easy to keep your choice in accord with nature and, at the same time, hold onto externals, but if you apply your attention to one of those things, you’re bound to neglect the other.

20. Remember that what insults you isn’t the person who abuses you or hits you, but your judgement that such people are insulting you. So whenever anyone irritates you, recognize that it is your opinion that has irritated you. Try above all, then, not to allow yourself to be carried away by the impression; for if you delay things and gain time to think, you’ll find it easier to gain control of yourself.

28. If someone handed over your body to somebody whom you encountered, you’d be furious; but that you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so that, if he abuses you, it becomes disturbed and confused, do you feel no shame at that?

42. When someone acts badly towards you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he is acting or speaking in that way because he regards that as being the proper thing for him to do. Now, it isn’t possible for him to act in accordance with what seems right to you, but only with what seems right to him. So if he judges wrongly, he is the one who suffers the harm, since he is the one who has been deceived. For if anyone should think a true idea to be false, the idea itself isn’t harmed, but the person who has been deceived. If you start out, then, from this way of thinking, you’ll be gentle with someone who abuses you, for in each case you’ll say, ‘That is how it seemed to him.’

I'll take December over July any day. December is the reward, July is the suffering.

Millions Must Be Jolly

I wonder what kind of person would lie about this 🤔

Yesterday, a random 6 month old approached me and said "excuse me, sir, but do you happen to be impoverished?" After I told him yes, he said "I could tell lol."

Santa deniers once again on suicide watch

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