One of the most bizarre trends on "the right" is that it has an incredible tendency to praise its past enemies and to contaminate itself with them. The example of this you will all agree with is how the mainstream rate in the US will praise people like Martin Luther King Jr.. More controversially, the right more broadly will praise the Whig US founding fathers. That one is fairly obscured by our modern conception of the history, though. One that really baffles me is how modern dissident right wingers will praise the Irish Republican Army, who were often outright communists. But they were, in some sense, also ethnic nationalists, so le "race is the highest good" crowd are of course terminally confused on the subject.

I wrote this with speech to text while shoveling the snow off my garage's roof. This is realpolitik.

The founding fathers were whigs, and whiggery is evil. It constantly struck at the order that be, pulling it apart, and leaving the world in a fundamentally more chaotic state. Liberalism par excellence.

What do I mean here? The whigs would consistently undermine established authority and traditional social bonds. For example, they targeted Royal authority in favor of the Parliament, they challenged Anglican religious supremacy and authority, pushed for expanding suffrage, pushed for various reforms including the elimination of land ownership or religious tests for voting, supported commercial interests over traditional landed authority, and, perhaps most importantly, elevated things like "liberty" over concrete and traditional social institutions.

Each Whig "victory" — from the Glorious Revolution through Catholic Emancipation and Reform Acts - weakened some existing source of social stability and authority. While Whigs claimed to be defending "ancient liberties," they were actually dissolving the traditional social fabric piece by piece.

Whig emphasis on individual rights, religious tolerance, and commercial freedom helped create a more atomized, unstable society. The Whig tendency to justify political change through appeals to abstract principles like liberty (rather than tradition or divine right) introduced a permanently revolutionary element into politics — there is always some new "reform" needed in the name of liberty, in the name of equality, in the name of progress.

Again, leftism par excellence.

Thus concludes my SPED Talk — "Society Pre-Enlightenment Defense"

If you own a device that can display 4K resolution, you are a lib. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Kwik Trip gave us a second set of 52 free butters. Neat.

I'm in a bunch of other chats where I've helped people with their gardens and livestock. I let an irl friend borrow equipment to work up a pasture at a place he just bought.

I've been preaching leave the cities for years

Prisoner before execution: “MR. POOR! THATS NOT FAIR! WHAT ABOUT MY RIGHTS?! MY FREEDOMS?!”

Mr. Poor: “I literally have zero idea what you are talking about. Goodbye.”

I like how Google AI perfectly captures the spirit of an annoyed high school freshman answering some inane literature question in his English 1 class.

The Midwest without the vowels

Neat

Delicious winter berries

More delicious winter berries

Pack it up, fellas, science says morality ain't real

Real. Stop complaining and manage yourself better. If you need guidance, find someone better than yourself who is willing to help.

Uneducated people blame others when they are doing badly. Those whose education is underway blame themselves. But a fully educated person blames no one, neither himself nor anyone else.

- Epictetus, Enchiridion, 5

He who is discontent with things present and allotted is unskilled in life. If this is you, the first step is to admit that you are unskilled and to improve yourself.

PSA: Breakfast for supper is underrated!

I'm against breakfast as a meal, but eat breakfast food at all other occasions. Life is complicated.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

— Romans, 12:19

There are two ways of dealing with the anger which comes when we are offended. The first is to hold back and let it pass, for once the fury of rage has subsided it will not return, and we can learn to swallow it. The second way is to give it to God and store up the wrath against the day of judgment, when God will reward each person according to his works. For if we avenge ourselves, there is not much we can do apart from demanding an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth, or else insulting others as they have insulted us. But if we reserve these things to the vengeance of God, he will without doubt punish them far more severely than we ever could.

— Origen, Commentary On The Epistle To The Romans

What the injured man most desires to see is revenge, and God will give it to him in full measure, provided that he does not try to avenge himself. Leave it to God to follow up the wrongs done to you.

— Chrysostom, Homilies On Romans

Give place to wrath. That we do, says St. Chrysostom, when we leave all to God, and endeavour to return good for evil.

— George Leo Haydock, Haydock Commentary

To a people which was very obdurate, and wanting in faith towards God, it might seem tedious, and even incredible, to expect from God that vengeance which was subsequently to be declared by the prophet: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.". He who counselled that an injury should be forgotten, was still more likely to counsel the patient endurance of it. But then, when He said, "Vengeance is mine, and I will repay". (Again: ) "Avenge not yourselves; ". , "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

— Tertullian, Against Marcion

Paul warns us to avoid anger, especially because so often anger is the chief cause of sin. Someone who is motivated by wrath will demand more than the cause of the sin merits or will put himself out to do more harm while seeking revenge.... In the end he will destroy someone when he could have corrected and restored him instead.

Paul forbids us to seek revenge not only from those under us but also from those who are our equals or superiors.... We are not to seek to avenge ourselves against brethren who may have sinned against us but rather to commit everything to God’s judgment, so that an enemy will find no way of promoting or advancing what is against our interest while we are too angry to notice what is happening.

Paul quotes Proverbs [25:22] to back up his point. If we do not do what God teaches, he will show us contempt. But if we give revenge over to God it benefits us in two ways: it overcomes our anger and tends toward our perfection and justification in God’s sight.

— Ambrosiaster, Commentary On Paul's Epistles

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

— Proverbs 25:21-22

This is written lest another’s wrath draw you into sin when you want to offer resistance, when you want to be avenged. You can take the fault from him and from yourself if you decide to yield to the other.

— Ambrose, Letter 59

I will avenge the wrong, says the Lord, as my own, not as yours.

— Pelagius, Pelagius’s Commentary On Romans