THE MORNING RANT: At WSJ - The Challenge for Therapists in Treating People With “Unorthodox” Beliefs Such as Religious Faith or Free Speech; also, Universities’ Exploitation of Students Pursuing Social Work Degrees

There are countless examples of how thoroughly the radical left has captured just about every institution and intellectual discipline in this country, but a piece in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago emphatically drove the point home, by accepting the premise that conservatives, people of faith, and those who favor uncensored speech are “unorthodox.”

The thesis of the piece was that even though the fields of psychology and social work have become echo chambers of left-wing doctrine, the people employed in those fields should still compassionately treat those with different views, rather than treating them with scorn or hostility.

That’s a worthy notion, I suppose, but not when the entire piece accepts that the Overton Window of acceptable opinion has moved so far left that those with traditional values and opinions are now “unorthodox.”

The Doctor Won’t See You Now: Therapists who judge, recoil, or quietly rage at their patients can’t provide effective therapy

The large majority of the country has at least one “unorthodox” opinion—maybe a conservative political bent, a literal belief in the Bible or support for free speech even when it’s offensive. This includes centrists, moderates, libertarians, and many liberals, as well as people who are simply open-minded. These people need mental healthcare as much as anyone else, and they deserve a therapist who respects their values.

That is an amazing paragraph, but I am willing to consider that the author, Andrew Hartz, is attempting to use a little irony in his writing, thus the term “unorthodox” is being used as a euphemism for “mainstream.”

But the word “unorthodox” soon loses its scare quotes, and it gets used unironically thereafter.

Today, people with unorthodox beliefs face unprecedented antagonism, yet the mental health profession largely ignores them.

And again…

But instead of training therapists to help these people, schools increasingly teach students to view those with unorthodox opinions negatively.

This repeated usage completely inverts who is out of the mainstream. It accepts by definition that normal church-going conservatives who won’t muzzle their beliefs are “unorthodox,” while the left-wing radicals he is trying to persuade to be more tolerant are not labeled at all. Their left-wing extremism is now implicitly accepted as “orthodox.”

In fairness, I am going to share a couple of Hartz’s paragraphs where he identifies the politics and intolerance of those organizations which are clearly radicalized.

The same ideologies that have infiltrated education, medicine and the legal profession have also invaded mental healthcare. The American Psychological Association has decried “traditional masculinity.” The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association published a paper describing “Whiteness” as a “malignant, parasitic-like condition.” Two years ago, a prominent psychiatrist speaking at Yale shared her fantasies of killing white people. Recently, the president of the APA’s division of psychoanalysis said that therapists should “center Palestine . . . as a central working tenet of any clinical praxis.”

Asking these people to provide counseling services to conservatives and independent
thinkers doesn’t sound like a very good idea to me.

These attitudes are more common than one might imagine. The most recent APA psychoanalysis conference, which has in the past focused on the practice of therapy, was absorbed by identity politics, such as “the white supremacist within” and “psychic colonization,” to quote two panel titles.

Rather than imploring radical left-wing psychologists to provide therapy to people even if they are “unorthodox,” perhaps the effort should be made to get those therapists to stop accepting the premise that a Bible-believing Republican who believes in free speech is “unorthodox.”

The National Association for Social Work, which represents many therapists, has a code of ethics requiring “all members of the social work profession to practice through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens.”

Wherever one is on the political spectrum, getting counseling or therapy from these people sounds like it would be an excruciating form of psychological abuse.

(h/t @physicsgeek who brought this story to my attention.)

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While on the subject of psychology and social work, there is a related topic that’s been bothering me for quite a while, specifically, the collusion between the university cartel and the licensing organizations for social work and psychology. To work in these fields, a Masters degree is required. That requirement is beyond preposterous, and it is exploitative of those choosing that career path when they enter college.

Do you want to be a speech pathologist? “Entering the field requires academic and clinical coursework and the successful completion of a master’s degree at an institution accredited by the American Speech-Hearing Association (ASHA).”

Or maybe you’d like to be a psychologist? A Master’s degree may not be enough. “Most psychologist positions require a doctoral degree in psychology, but the BLS reports a master’s degree in the field can be sufficient for some roles.”

If you want to become a social worker you are going to spend a long, long time going to school. “A master's degree in social work is the minimum educational requirement for employment in supervisory, clinical, and specialty practice. Depending on whether attendance is full-time or part-time, it takes two to four years of graduate-level studies to earn a master's degree in social work (MSW)”

Children of several of my friends and family have entered college and pursued degrees in social work and speech pathology. Once they obtain their undergraduate degrees, they must continue on for a Masters degree if they want actual employment in their field, causing them to continue to pile on debt and/or drain their parents’ savings.

This is all a racket and a scam that mainly preys on young women and enriches the universities. In fact, every single person I’ve know that has followed these 6 or 7 year degree plans is female. I am not disputing that these are legitimate academic fields and respectable careers (although the radical left’s takeover of their accrediting agencies has certainly tarnished their image in my eyes) but there is no reason that it takes 6 or more years of schooling to become a social worker. If architects and RNs can practice with a bachelor’s degree or less, so can a speech pathologist.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 st?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:00 AM (t0OGg)

2 1

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2023 11:00 AM (OpBvH)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 21, 2023 11:01 AM (jLM4c)

4 Oh, wise guy eh?

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2023 11:01 AM (OpBvH)

5 I kept hitting and it wasn't registering

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2023 11:01 AM (OpBvH)

6 The large majority of the country has at least one “unorthodox” opinion—maybe a conservative political bent, a literal belief in the Bible or support for free speech even when it’s offensive. This includes centrists, moderates, libertarians, and many liberals, as well as people who are simply open-minded. These people need mental healthcare as much as anyone else, and they deserve a therapist who respects their values.
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If it is the "large majority," then it is it really unorthodox? Or are those who are steeped in Prog Orthodoxy the ones who are unorthodox in the culture they're trying to subvert and dominate?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM (t0OGg)

7 Now those are some scary eyebrows...

Posted by: Martin Scorsese at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM (PiwSw)

8 >>a literal belief in the Bible or support for free speech even when it’s offensive

Wow, just wow -- a "literal belief" in the Bible and support of free speech is now extreme?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM (avru5)

9 Today, people with unorthodox beliefs face unprecedented antagonism, yet the mental health profession largely ignores them.
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Gee whiz. Antagonism from *whom?*

I mean, I know the answer and so does everyone else, but these guys seem to be largely ignoring the question...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM (t0OGg)

10 Conservatives being shunned by therapists would only benefit conservatives.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM (KFhLj)

11 Mental health care has gone out the window since the 70s, it's all Leftism now days

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2023 11:03 AM (OpBvH)

12 Unorthodox beliefs = based on reality.

Posted by: BignJames at July 21, 2023 11:03 AM (AwYPR)

13 Not free speech, my heavens no!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:03 AM (MGB5H)

14 The large majority of the country has at least one “unorthodox” opinion—maybe a conservative political bent, a literal belief in the Bible or support for free speech even when it’s offensive.

Non-offensive speech doesn't need protection. Funny how that works.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:04 AM (nW4TA)

15 This repeated usage completely inverts who is out of the mainstream. It accepts by definition that normal church-going conservatives who won’t muzzle their beliefs are “unorthodox,” while the left-wing radicals he is trying to persuade to be more tolerant are not labeled at all. Their left-wing extremism is now implicitly accepted as “orthodox.”
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Yes, which is an obvious inversion.

But perspective *does* matter. The stuff he's talking about *is* unorthodox, if you happen to adhere to prog orthodoxy.

Like Islam. I am not a Muslim and do not recognize the holiness of Mohammed. To the Muslims, I am an infidel. To myself, I am just not a Muslim. This "orthodoxy" stuff is the same phenomenon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:04 AM (t0OGg)

16 Buck has used a picture of me (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) for this thread.

My lawyers will be in touch.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 21, 2023 11:04 AM (lf83v)

17 In archeology, if you don't have a PHD, or at the very least a Masters, you're a ditch digger.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (aD39U)

18 That's no monkey.

Posted by: spindrift at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (iG1Nf)

19 Today, people with unorthodox beliefs face unprecedented antagonism, yet the mental health profession largely ignores them.

Big fucking whoop. Only weak minded need them.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (nW4TA)

20 10 Conservatives being shunned by therapists would only benefit conservatives.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM

Of course! No one wants to be associated with the rapists.

Posted by: Sean Connory on SNL Jeopardy at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (JCZqz)

21 I agree on the social work / psych thing - it's terribly popular right now with students - especially girls - my daughter is a STEM major and just rolls her eyes at them! they are already planning on grad school and she is doing a paid internship for one company and has another constantly in touch (they do an in-school internship your senior year which moves into working for them - it's a big consulting firm yes) ... I told her there is no way she will need to pay for any post-grad her employer will pay. as was the case with all the other engineers in our family!

if you don't have an employer willing to pay for any post grad and you're not pre-health you're doing it wrong!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (AcWfM)

22 Asking these people to provide counseling services to conservatives and independent thinkers doesn’t sound like a very good idea to me.
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They shouldn't provide counsel to anyone. If you're a prog, they'll make you a harder and more frantic prog, compounding whatever problem you have by providing a false outlet or solution. If you're not a prog, they will try to progify you and declare you defective if it doesn't take.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (t0OGg)

23 If you're not a prog, they will try to progify you and declare you defective if it doesn't take.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (t0OGg)

and Red Flag your guns.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 11:06 AM (aD39U)

24 I don't think the target audience of that article was the general public. I think he believes his use of the term "unorthodox" is merely the accepted view of the people in counseling and therapy professions who he is talking to.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 21, 2023 11:06 AM (ssESX)

25 The Conservative Therapist Is In

Quit your crying or I'll give you something to cry about!

That will be $100 please.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2023 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

26 Of course! No one wants to be associated with the rapists.
Posted by: Sean Connory on SNL Jeopardy
_________

The penis mightier than the sword.

Posted by: Burth Reynolds at July 21, 2023 11:07 AM (lf83v)

27 >>The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association published a paper describing “Whiteness” as a “malignant, parasitic-like condition.”

W
T
F

I don't even understand what this mean -- except that this thinking very quickly leads to genocide.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2023 11:07 AM (avru5)

28 But how will people protect their phoney baloney jobs without this onerous gatekeeping. Harrumph! Harrumph, I say!

Posted by: Governor Lepetomane at July 21, 2023 11:08 AM (SJ8gU)

29 The voices tell me that therapists don't have my best interest at heart.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 11:08 AM (aD39U)

30 These attitudes are more common than one might imagine. The most recent APA psychoanalysis conference, which has in the past focused on the practice of therapy, was absorbed by identity politics, such as “the white supremacist within” and “psychic colonization,” to quote two panel titles.
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"Psychic Colonization." Good grief.

I assume - though I do not know and I can't be bothered to look it up right now - that this is the new framework for what used to be "internalized misogyny" or "internalized white supremacy." It would be a useful linguistic tweak if so, because it makes the person involved non-culpable. It isn't that she internalized the patriarchy, it's that the patriarchy psychically colonized her. It removes even more agency - something that the progs *always* do. For all they bleat about agency, nobody has any in their ideology. They are all just objects acted upon by social constructs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)

31 I am not disputing that these are legitimate academic fields

I am, with the possible exception of speech pathology, done properly. If the corpus of your "field's" work is subject to political trends, it's not an academic discipline. Furthermore, the notion that "fields" like social work require a college diploma AND grad school is nonsense on stilts. It's simply an attempt to put a high status gloss on what is, at it's core, not a discipline, but a low status art, much like most teachers.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:08 AM (eOEVl)

32 {25} Quit your crying or I'll give you something to cry about!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2023 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

"And if you insist on crying, go do it while mowing the lawn."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:08 AM (nRMeC)

33 The Conservative Therapist Is In

Quit your crying or I'll give you something to cry about!

That will be $100 please.
Posted by: JackStraw

Suck it up buttercup, rub some dirt on it, and no one cares about your feelings are also acceptable answers.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (MGB5H)

34 My guess:

The number of conservatives who see a therapist is quite low compared to liberals.

The liberals going to therapy probably do so because they feel guilty that they may actually hold a conservative viewpoint (e.g., not thinking we should mutilate kids).

Therapists assume its their job to fix these people so that they can become good libs like the presumed therapist.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

35 psych majors = social workers pretty much anyway

and even psychiatry is so suspect to me now. if medicine is corrupt and weak, that's the weakest sector so yikes!

no reason to touch those practitioners with a ten foot pole! certainly no reason to major in this field.

or public health. if you tell me you're majoring in public health right now I know you're a dumb bunny. history is a better major!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (AcWfM)

36 Social Workers are Priests and Nuns. If you are a heretic they will crucify you.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (4eKPg)

37 Hell. I have a literal belief in the Qur'an. I see one sitting there, I look at it, and literally believe that it's sitting there in front of my eyeballs.

Every word in it is bullshit, regardless of what language it's in.

But I do believe it exists.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (/EuRN)

38 Queue up the R. Lee Ermy Geico Therapist commercial.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (N3zMI)

39 In case it needed to be said, DO NOT take your kid to a therapist if they are having issues. They will only alienate them from you if not trans them.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (avru5)

40 16 Buck has used a picture of me (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) for this thread.

My lawyers will be in touch.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 21, 2023 11:04 AM (lf83v

Heh. I was going to say that cartoon looks like Andy Rooney on PCP.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (KFhLj)

41 Yes, the requirement for a master's enriches universities. True requirement in STEM fields, too. Basically most fields if you want a promotion. And why does a cop need an undergrad degree?

I worked in grad ed, and the whole grad ed program would collapse if these reqs were eliminated.

Posted by: PJ at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (G1dq6)

42 Off topic, but ABC (owned by Disney?) is referring to Grassley's unclassified document reveal as "previously debunked".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (MeG8a)

43 The large majority of the country has at least one “unorthodox” opinion—maybe a conservative political bent, a literal belief in the Bible or support for free speech even when it’s offensive

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Wow.

I can be marked down for all three.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (oxVgP)

44 The liberals going to therapy probably do so because they feel guilty that they may actually hold a conservative viewpoint (e.g., not thinking we should mutilate kids).

they're doing it to get a prescription/diagnosis

they want the pills and they want the "doctors note" for special treatment

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (AcWfM)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (KFhLj)

46 That top image looks like F. Joe with hair.

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:10 AM (Pk+pJ)

47 If it is the "large majority," then it is it really unorthodox?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:02 AM (t0OGg)

Heterodoxy is just as bad. There is only one way to think, and that is the left's adherence to their own rigid and unyielding orthodoxy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2023 11:11 AM (PHmov)

48 That second sentence after the bold is even better. Actual liberals, apoliticals, those dastardly libertarians...why, anyone who's not a card carrying Marxist is a deviant!

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:11 AM (PZvjL)

49 >>And if you insist on crying, go do it while mowing the lawn

>>Suck it up buttercup, rub some dirt on it, and no one cares about your feelings are also acceptable answers.

My dad didn't have any formal training yet he was quite conversant with all of the modern forms of conservative therapy.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2023 11:11 AM (ZLI7S)

50 44 they're doing it to get a prescription/diagnosis

they want the pills and they want the "doctors note" for special treatment
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (AcWfM)

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I suspect there's a healthy dose of the unintended effects of self-esteem culture combined with some normal overestimation of expectations.

"I'm great no matter what, then why do I have less than that guy? Why is he happier?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:11 AM (LvTSG)

51 47 Heterodoxy is just as bad. There is only one way to think, and that is the left's adherence to their own rigid and unyielding orthodoxy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2023 11:11 AM (PHmov)

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It would help if I could get that written down, you know, what the orthodoxy is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

52 {38} Queue up the R. Lee Ermy Geico Therapist commercial.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (N3zMI)

Even better than I remembered it: https://youtu.be/hv6FJ-U3css

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (nRMeC)

53 the premise that conservatives, people of faith, and those who favor uncensored speech are “unorthodox.”

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That's not a premise. That's just a fact.

Those people are all guilty of dangerous ideological heterodoxy, no question about it. Those people's beliefs run counter to every last bit of bien pensant received wisdom in this mediocre dull-gray, authoritarian society.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (SB0hu)

54 they're doing it to get a prescription/diagnosis

they want the pills and they want the "doctors note" for special treatment
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Plus when they all get together at wine night they can talk about how they are all good people
Cause they go to therapy. None of them
Wants to be the Becky of the group that doesn't go.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (MGB5H)

55 Without looking, I guessed this guy is a PhD, and not a medical doctor, I guessed Brooklyn, and I guessed young.

I got all that right, but I got some things wrong. Hartz is also involved in Heterodox Academy, which marks him as probably a free speech advocate, and he's also published an essay at the Federalist.

I'm leaving this article tab open so I can read this opinion piece, because I hope to see if he sneaks in some unorthodox opinions of his own into it. It seems like there might be more to this guy than initially meets the eye.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (0qcUc)

56 they want the pills and they want the "doctors note" for special treatment

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (AcWfM)

Service dogs...handicapped tags...accommodation at school...work requirements in line with their lunacy...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (PHmov)

57 Children of several of my friends and family have entered college and pursued degrees in social work and speech pathology. Once they obtain their undergraduate degrees, they must continue on for a Masters degree if they want actual employment in their field, causing them to continue to pile on debt and/or drain their parents’ savings.
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And there is probably little reason for it other than wealth extraction (which you mention) and - possibly of greater import - further indoctrination. There can be *no* chance of someone going off the reservation or considering *any* non-prog idea or approach.

These professions are incredibly hidebound and do not - ever - deviate from the prog orthodoxy. To get to that point requires intense and lengthy indoctrination.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (t0OGg)

58
That's no monkey.
Posted by: spindrift

Unorthodox monkey.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 21, 2023 11:13 AM (63Dwl)

59 ...there is no reason that it takes 6 or more years of schooling to become a social worker.

I beg to differ. If someone takes fewer classes or, GOD forbid, fails to attend university at all, they might be unaware that religious persons and/or conservatives are "unorthodox", wrong, and needing of being "fixed".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 21, 2023 11:13 AM (1Z8zZ)

60 That’s a worthy notion, I suppose, but not when the entire piece accepts that the Overton Window of acceptable opinion has moved so far left that those with traditional values and opinions are now “unorthodox.”

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Virtuous traits have not only become "unorthodox" now -- but "white supremacist" and "racist."

Not gonna end well ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:13 AM (Pk+pJ)

61 This is all a racket and a scam that mainly preys on young women and enriches the universities. ... there is no reason that it takes 6 or more years of schooling to become a social worker.
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There is if you're running a racket.
There is you need to enforce ruthless ideological conformity.

Both are true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)

62 I mentioned this a while back, but I think it bears repeating: for all their goofiness and litigious fuckery, the Scientologists have been proven correct about the mental health profession. We really are being led to ruin by a cabal of malevolent shrinks, the signs are everywhere in the Covidian Age.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (PZvjL)

63 This just goes to show that most of what passes for modern "therapy" is bullshit, and has been bullshit for years.

There are a lot of time-tested methods for creating communities who are able to support their members who are having a rough time with the normal sorts of ups and downs normal people have, and to reinforce positive behaviors. This is something I had to explain years ago to the spouse - who was, I'll be honest, a recovering stark raving moonbat - in how I was not a social conservative, but understood the value of functional cultural practices even if I dismissed the facial reasons for them.

Similarly, all this crying about "oh, you have to be nice to these freaks so they feel 'valid' and can 'live authentically" - ah, bullshit. Being dicks to them so they keep it to themselves is what keeps the really pathological ones in check. It's how EVERY functional society since the dawn of time has dealt with such things. We don't ask people to be 'normal' - we ask them to pretend to be normal enough in public to keep a lid on a bunch of degenerate shit. Raising the next generation of functioning young adults is more important than pandering to weirdos.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (geKVs)

64 Guy Clark sees the Doctor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6RJKUiMRfM

Posted by: BignJames at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

65 "If architects and RNs can practice with a bachelor’s degree or less, so can a speech pathologist."

Very true. But I think another reason why the social work path is unreasonably long and cluttered with endless schooling is more insidious: they want to keep you locked up in leftwing think tanks for as long as possible, for maximum indoctrination and brainwashing.

Very few people in any of these social work fields is anything but a leftwing nut. I'd love to see the 6 or 7 year curriculum for a speech pathologist. I'll bet it's 20% actual speech pathology and 80% toxic leftwing diarrhea.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

66 https://tinyurl.com/3envyfenThe New York City psychiatrist who stunned a Yale School of Medicine audience in April when she revealed her fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way” characterized white people as “psychopathic” Thursday in an interview with disgraced former CNN pundit Marc Lamont Hill.

Dr. Aruna Khilanani — who also revealed in her talk at Yale’s Child Study Center April 6 that white people “make my blood boil” and “are out of their minds and have been for a long time” — joined Hill on the fledgling Black News Channel’s prime-time program “Black News Tonight” to discuss her shocking statements. . .
Thursday’s comments seemed to be an extension of other remarks Khilanani made in her Yale lecture, which was titled “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.”

“We keep forgetting that directly talking about race [with white people] is a waste of our breath,” Khilanani said at the time. “We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility. It ain’t gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.”

Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (avru5)

67 I firmly believe psychologists and psychiatrists have been leftist atheist activists since the """science""" was invented.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:15 AM (xcxpd)

68 60 That’s a worthy notion, I suppose, but not when the entire piece accepts that the Overton Window of acceptable opinion has moved so far left that those with traditional values and opinions are now “unorthodox.”

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Virtuous traits have not only become "unorthodox" now -- but "white supremacist" and "racist."

Not gonna end well ...
Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:13 AM (Pk+pJ)

Soon!

Posted by: The Gods of the Copybook Headings at July 21, 2023 11:15 AM (N3zMI)

69 Hartz is more centrist than he initially seems, and his essay at The Federalist is a tip-off: "Leftist Extremism Is Turning Therapists Against Their Own Clients"

https://tinyurl.com/4sy5emum

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 21, 2023 11:16 AM (0qcUc)

70 Oh well, let's just let the media define the orthodoxy shall we? What could possibly go wrong...

Posted by: Mutilating the sex organs of children orthodox now is it? Really? Really? at July 21, 2023 11:16 AM (sh1GZ)

71 “We keep forgetting that directly talking about race [with white people] is a waste of our breath,” Khilanani said at the time. “We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility. It ain’t gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.”
Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (avru5)
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So turns into a rage monster when she thinks about white people and wants to literally murder them, yet I am the violent predator.

Amazing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:16 AM (t0OGg)

72 The National Association for Social Work, which represents many therapists, has a code of ethics requiring “all members of the social work profession to practice through an anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens.”

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"Anti-racist" and "Anti-Oppressive" are dog-whistles for "Kill Whitey" (not that there's anything racist or oppressive about that).

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:17 AM (Pk+pJ)

73 Literally every single therapist I've ever met (such as my wife's sister's "wife" - who is a social worker) is a stark raving leftist. I won't ever seek therapy from those who are mentally ill themselves.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 21, 2023 11:17 AM (9PI6G)

74 In the 1950s, there was no such thing as school psychologists. People went to school to learn in a safe, stable environment.

Now, there are multiple school psychologists assigned to individual schools.

And now we have mass shootings, record suicides and a historical explosion of transgender/homosexuality in schools.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 21, 2023 11:17 AM (lf83v)

75 So turns into a rage monster when she thinks about white people and wants to literally murder them, yet I am the violent predator.

Amazing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!

I don't think I'm a superhero. I jumped off the roof once, it didn't work out to well for me.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:17 AM (MGB5H)

76
Similarly, all this crying about "oh, you have to be nice to these freaks so they feel 'valid' and can 'live authentically" - ah, bullshit. Being dicks to them so they keep it to themselves is what keeps the really pathological ones in check. It's how EVERY functional society since the dawn of time has dealt with such things. We don't ask people to be 'normal' - we ask them to pretend to be normal enough in public to keep a lid on a bunch of degenerate shit. Raising the next generation of functioning young adults is more important than pandering to weirdos.
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This.

Bullying isn't bad.

Bullying that isn't dealt with properly by adults - teachers in most cases - is bad, but I've started to realize that the anti-bullying in school stuff was entirely to make it easier on admin. It had nothing at all to do with the kids, because the kids are still getting bullied, just in different ways. And the adults - teachers - refuse to help because it requires paperwork and lawsuits.

I'm willing to bet big money it's why school shooters gained popularity.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (oxVgP)

77 70 Oh well, let's just let the media define the orthodoxy shall we? What could possibly go wrong...
Posted by: Mutilating the sex organs of children orthodox now is it? Really? Really? at July 21, 2023 11:16 AM (sh1GZ)

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This feeds into my ongoing question of the difference between culture on the ground and culture as projected from institutions.

Is it our culture to mutilate children based on feather light whims? Our cultural institutions certainly seem ready to make it that way, but how is it playing out on the ground floor of the culture? Sure, there are those that rush into it, but are they small pockets of exceptions that should define the larger culture just because they align with the institutions?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (LvTSG)

78 @71

>>So turns into a rage monster when she thinks about white people and wants to literally murder them, yet I am the violent predator.

I you eliminate the Black Murder and Crime rate, the US would have a murder and crime rate lower than most European and Asian countries.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (rc3Z7)

79 60 That’s a worthy notion, I suppose, but not when the entire piece accepts that the Overton Window of acceptable opinion has moved so far left that those with traditional values and opinions are now “unorthodox.”

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Virtuous traits have not only become "unorthodox" now -- but "white supremacist" and "racist."

Not gonna end well ...
Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:13 AM (Pk+pJ)
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I'd love to live long enough to see all this "not end well," but I doubt it. Nothing deters the pychopaths running the country.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (ssESX)

80 "Children of several of my friends and family have entered college and pursued degrees in social work and speech pathology. ...

This is all a racket and a scam"

I'm less worried about scam degrees than I am about the number of children of friends and family that have offed themselves, mutilated themselves, or are somewhere on a curb in Portland with a needle hanging out of their arm. Each successive generation is getting smaller; the great grandkids' generation is as small or smaller than their great grandparents' and half of them flamed out as lefty freaks. It's not sustainable.

The progs are doing this deliberately while flooding us with third-worlders.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (geKVs)

81 Off, Kipling sock, I'm Gunga-Done with you.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (N3zMI)

82 Service dogs...handicapped tags...accommodation at school...work requirements in line with their lunacy...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Ah. The recent claim of 'Time Blindness' comes to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (vrkNi)

83 69 Hartz is more centrist than he initially seems, and his essay at The Federalist is a tip-off: "Leftist Extremism Is Turning Therapists Against Their Own Clients"

https://tinyurl.com/4sy5emum
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 21, 2023 11:16 AM (0qcUc)

Then he's a lousy writer

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (xcxpd)

84 And there is probably little reason for it other than wealth extraction (which you mention)

That's part of it, but only part. The point of taking over entire academic fields and institutions, married to credentialing requirements, is to shut conservatives out of polite society, to marginalize and impoverish them. To make their politics unthinkable and punishable professionally. Yes, they want to indoctrinate, but mot everyone will comply. This allows them to destroy the noncompliant. You can be conspiratorially minded enough in modern America.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (KFhLj)

85 {57} ... These professions are incredibly hidebound and do not - ever - deviate from the prog orthodoxy. To get to that point requires intense and lengthy indoctrination.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (t0OGg)

And if someone does somehow successfully resist that (very rare) the profession itself will try to drive them out. Example: What's happening right now in the province of Ontario to Dr. Jordan Peterson: https://tinyurl.com/7eyxbuk2

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (nRMeC)

86 It would help if I could get that written down, you know, what the orthodoxy is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:12 AM (LvTSG)
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And when the orthodoxy changes the old orthodoxy should be entirely and instantly cleansed and the new orthodoxy inserted so citizens can be constantly up to date.

Posted by: Winston Smith at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (0qcUc)

87 I'm surprised they recoil rather than try to "treat" that unorthodox wrong-think for the social disease it really is. *eyes rolling SO hard*

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (ftFVW)

88 I'm willing to bet big money it's why school shooters gained popularity.
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Yep. Fault Free Felonies will create monsters.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (4eKPg)

89 This.

Bullying isn't bad.

Bullying that isn't dealt with properly by adults - teachers in most cases - is bad, but I've started to realize that the anti-bullying in school stuff was entirely to make it easier on admin. It had nothing at all to do with the kids, because the kids are still getting bullied, just in different ways. And the adults - teachers - refuse to help because it requires paperwork and lawsuits.

I'm willing to bet big money it's why school shooters gained popularity.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

I'll go a step further and say some amount of bullying is necessary.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (MGB5H)

90 Similarly, all this crying about "oh, you have to be nice to these freaks so they feel 'valid' and can 'live authentically" - ah, bullshit. Being dicks to them so they keep it to themselves is what keeps the really pathological ones in check. It's how EVERY functional society since the dawn of time has dealt with such things. We don't ask people to be 'normal' - we ask them to pretend to be normal enough in public to keep a lid on a bunch of degenerate shit. Raising the next generation of functioning young adults is more important than pandering to weirdos.
Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (geKVs)

I remember watching a video not too long ago where a girl (maybe 19-20) decided to use some holiday dinner to come out to her family. She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat. You know who will never have to hear about her bullshit sexual identity ever again? The family that ignored her.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (KbCG3)

91 I firmly believe psychologists and psychiatrists have been leftist atheist activists since the """science""" was invented.
==
Well Kinsey, that freak, bears a lot of blame. But at the end of the day, a lack of humility, Ironically, is the root of the problem. It used to be that the mental health professionals helped disturbed people learn how to cope with reality. Now they tell disturbed people that reality must be changed to suit their dysfunction. In lay terms, they now enable, rather than try to correct. Because, to correct, you have to apply judgment naming right from wrong, real from false. There's not much money in that. Its also icky and confrontational.

Posted by: Mutilating the sex organs of children orthodox now is it? Really? Really? at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (sh1GZ)

92 Also worth noting that the only person left in Hollyweird who wants to make normal blockbuster type movies is *checks notes* the world's most famous Scientologist. Not trying to simp for their cult, just saying that the 2020s are so far off the rails that anything is possible now.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (PZvjL)

93 "previously debunked".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 21, 2023 11:09 AM (MeG8a)

Meaning no one's seen it.

Posted by: BignJames at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (AwYPR)

94 “We keep forgetting that directly talking about race [with white people] is a waste of our breath,” Khilanani said at the time. “We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero to accept responsibility. It ain’t gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.”
Posted by: Lizzy at July 21, 2023 11:14 AM (avru5)
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So turns into a rage monster when she thinks about white people and wants to literally murder them, yet I am the violent predator.

Amazing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:16 AM (t0OGg)

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Psychopathy is not just a river in Egypt.

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (Pk+pJ)

95 Related? More than one-quarter of young adults are estranged from one or both parents, or have been, a finding that suggests a societal shift away from the traditional bonds of family... 26 percent of interviewed adult children reported estrangement from fathers. 6 percent had cut ties with mothers.

“I think it relates to this new desire to have healthy relationships,” said Rin Reczek, a sociology professor at the Ohio State University. “There might be some cultural shifts around people being allowed to choose who is in your family. And that can include not choosing to have the person who raised you be in your family.”

A Profoundly Positive Societal Shift!! As with all of life one must embrace what one needs and leave the rest, otherwise one is simply doomed to repeat the same mistakes as those that came before us. Being the change that one aspires to be is never easy. Of course nothing worthwhile ever is…

Tell that to the grieving parents. Two friends have had an adult child reject them, and for truly ridiculous reasons. These two friends are broken hearted and in a great deal of emotional pain. Their kids are selfish and manipulative.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (JCZqz)

96 anyway, at least I have my emotional support handgun

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

97 We are at a time when good is called evil and evil is called good, and standing for good is an act of rebellion.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (ynpvh)

98 And when the orthodoxy changes the old orthodoxy should be entirely and instantly cleansed and the new orthodoxy inserted so citizens can be constantly up to date.
Posted by: Winston Smith

The NPC download.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (MGB5H)

99 The actual requirement is masters/doctorate in communist doctrine.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (kzHlT)

100 Rep Connolly: trump was impeached for making a phone call to Z about burisma, and no republicans voted for it. So why are they so concerned about it now?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (slgIg)

101 "If everyone is ghey then no one is."
-Alfred Kinsey, probably

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (PZvjL)

102 I tune in for monkey.
I no get monkey.
Not even spider monkey.
Not even orthodox monkey.
Not even reform monkey.

Posted by: Monkey Man at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (T0tUU)

103 In archeology, if you don't have a PHD, or at the very least a Masters, you're a ditch digger.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 11:05 AM (aD39U)

The world can get along fine without archaelogists. And most likely social workers, too. Speech/language pathologists have some value, one would think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (/mRF8)

104 That's part of it, but only part. The point of taking over entire academic fields and institutions, married to credentialing requirements, is to shut conservatives out of polite society, to marginalize and impoverish them. To make their politics unthinkable and punishable professionally. Yes, they want to indoctrinate, but mot everyone will comply. This allows them to destroy the noncompliant. You can be conspiratorially minded enough in modern America.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 21, 2023 11:19 AM (KFhLj)
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Which was my next point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (t0OGg)

105 Each successive generation is getting smaller; the great grandkids' generation is as small or smaller than their great grandparents' and half of them flamed out as lefty freaks. It's not sustainable.
==
Its all part of the plan.

Posted by: Soros, Gates, WEF, etc etc at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (sh1GZ)

106 /OT

I keep seeing the Mattel CEO on TV doing interviews about the Barbie movie. Turns out he has a Tony Montana accent. Not a typical hispanic accent, but whatever Pacino was doing. While talking about Barbie. I am amused.

First you get money, then you get the dream house, then you get Skipper.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (z+89e)

107 Psychology is not a science regardless of their claims.
When they went from categorizing homosexuality as a mental disorder to maintaining that it was normal, they showed that psychology was little more than a political weapon for the elites.

Posted by: Speller at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (pSotA)

108 >>> a Masters degree ... to pile on debt and/or drain their parents’ savings

And sometimes a Ph.D.: Piled higher and Deeper!

Posted by: m at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (Dz9Qm)

109 "Virtuous traits have not only become "unorthodox" now -- but "white supremacist" and "racist."

Not gonna end well ...
Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:13 AM (Pk+pJ)"

One of the Smithsonian institutions put this out:

https://___ur.com/HwDmODt

I've told you all for years: minimum 10k rounds per able bodied household member.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (geKVs)

110 I tune in for monkey.
I no get monkey.
Not even spider monkey.
Not even orthodox monkey.
Not even reform monkey.
Posted by: Monkey Man

That's because today the monkey is you.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (ftFVW)

111 {102} I tune in for monkey.
I no get monkey.
Not even spider monkey.
Not even orthodox monkey.
Not even reform monkey.

Posted by: Monkey Man at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (T0tUU)

Not Buck's circus.
Not Buck's monkey.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (nRMeC)

112 99 The actual requirement is masters/doctorate in communist doctrine.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (kzHlT)

"The consensus is that blood-letting is good for you to release your bad humours"--doctors 200 years ago

"The consensus is that transgender surgery is a good thing"--doctors today

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

113 95 A Profoundly Positive Societal Shift!! As with all of life one must embrace what one needs and leave the rest, otherwise one is simply doomed to repeat the same mistakes as those that came before us. Being the change that one aspires to be is never easy. Of course nothing worthwhile ever is…
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (JCZqz)

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These people will never connect the dots between the decreased family bonds across the culture and the degradation of the culture they themselves complain about, especially when it comes to violence.

I've been noting this weird tic where they will bemoan that the past was less violent but then attack anyone who actually talks about efforts to take us to that less violent past.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

114 91 I firmly believe psychologists and psychiatrists have been leftist atheist activists since the """science""" was invented.
==
Well Kinsey, that freak, bears a lot of blame. But at the end of the day, a lack of humility, Ironically, is the root of the problem. It used to be that the mental health professionals helped disturbed people learn how to cope with reality. Now they tell disturbed people that reality must be changed to suit their dysfunction. In lay terms, they now enable, rather than try to correct. Because, to correct, you have to apply judgment naming right from wrong, real from false. There's not much money in that. Its also icky and confrontational.
Posted by: Mutilating the sex organs of children orthodox now is it? Really? Really? at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (sh1GZ)

I think it goes back further than Kinsey. Post WW2 you see it kick into high gear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (xcxpd)

115 People who are confident in their knowledge and its relation to reality have no need to shut down those who disagree. In fact, they encourage the other side to make their case, so that it can be publicly disproven.

The fact that these people are trying to quash contrary opinions tells you everything you need to know about them and their "fields".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (eOEVl)

116 ^ that's an Imgur link, keep forgetting they're chopping them out

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (geKVs)

117 Tell that to the grieving parents. Two friends have had an adult child reject them, and for truly ridiculous reasons. These two friends are broken hearted and in a great deal of emotional pain. Their kids are selfish and manipulative.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (JCZqz)

I want to believe there's a hint of normality here but I'm guessing the "truly ridiculous reasons" they cite here are something along the lines of the kid wouldn't cut off his junk or gobble a lady penis.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (KbCG3)

118 I firmly believe psychologists and psychiatrists have been leftist atheist activists since the """science""" was invented.
==
Well Kinsey, that freak, bears a lot of blame. But at the end of the day, a lack of humility, Ironically, is the root of the problem. It used to be that the mental health professionals helped disturbed people learn how to cope with reality. Now they tell disturbed people that reality must be changed to suit their dysfunction. In lay terms, they now enable, rather than try to correct. Because, to correct, you have to apply judgment naming right from wrong, real from false. There's not much money in that. Its also icky and confrontational.

Posted by: Mutilating the sex organs of children orthodox now is it? Really? Really? at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (sh1GZ)

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Nailed it. "Mental illness-affirming."

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (Pk+pJ)

119 Most social workers burn out in a few years if they have hearts, rather than raw activist ambition

Posted by: Regular joe. Not just mad, Samuel L Jackson mad at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (nnp+f)

120 I'll go a step further and say some amount of bullying is necessary.

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Yep, same here. It creates stability and normalcy in society.

You can still be a weirdo, but the lines of what is normal in society and what isn't weird are clear. Exist outside of that and you will be aware of it. Go too far outside of it and you could be risking danger.

That's not a bad thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (oxVgP)

121 Quit your crying or I'll give you something to cry about!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2023 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

"And if you insist on crying, go do it while mowing the lawn."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Mom? Is that you?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (nW4TA)

122 110 I tune in for monkey.
I no get monkey.
Not even spider monkey.
Not even orthodox monkey.
Not even reform monkey.
Posted by: Monkey Man

That's because today the monkey is you.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (ftFVW)

Well, we ARE living in a Banana Republic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (ynpvh)

123 I tune in for monkey.
I no get monkey.
Not even spider monkey.
Not even orthodox monkey.
Not even reform monkey.

Posted by: Monkey Man at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (T0tUU)

Not Buck's circus.
Not Buck's monkey.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (nRMeC)

Buck is a Throckmorton, not a monkey. You can tell by the feathers

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (xcxpd)

124 "In archeology, if you don't have a PHD, or at the very least a Masters, you're a grave robber."
FIFY

Posted by: Speller at July 21, 2023 11:24 AM (pSotA)

125 Bullying isn't bad.

Bullying that isn't dealt with properly by adults - teachers in most cases - is bad, but I've started to realize that the anti-bullying in school stuff was entirely to make it easier on admin. It had nothing at all to do with the kids, because the kids are still getting bullied, just in different ways. And the adults - teachers - refuse to help because it requires paperwork and lawsuits.

I'm willing to bet big money it's why school shooters gained popularity.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:18 AM (oxVgP)
____________

"I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son."

Bullying is the best thing that can happen to many young kids. It's a necessary evil in any child's development. It's how kids learn to navigate social situations and learn what is acceptable and what is not. Many kids won't get this learning any other way, and they will remain weirdo outcasts or social misfits their entire lives.

Yes, like anything else, bullying can go too far.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

126 Good rant.

The speech pathologist and psychologist might be under unions, i.e., teachers, NEA, federal, and fund their further education through & by the government. Any and all could work for non-profits including certain hospitals. It's all so overly complicated now; circular job, pension & educational funding.

The federal government pulled the same thing for employment years ago. Everyone was supposed to have "initials" behind name & job title. (Mine, NFI.) It's waned, some because of DIE, some because it could get no asses in the seats to do actual work. I

Try to find a family physician that will take middle-aged and up, having no particular intersectionalism to fall upon.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 21, 2023 11:24 AM (GshMh)

127 118 I firmly believe psychologists and psychiatrists have been leftist atheist activists since the """science""" was invented.
==
Well Kinsey, that freak, bears a lot of blame. But at the end of the day, a lack of humility, Ironically, is the root of the problem. It used to be that the mental health professionals helped disturbed people learn how to cope with reality. Now they tell disturbed people that reality must be changed to suit their dysfunction. In lay terms, they now enable, rather than try to correct. Because, to correct, you have to apply judgment naming right from wrong, real from false. There's not much money in that. Its also icky and confrontational.

Posted by: Mutilating the sex organs of children orthodox now is it? Really? Really? at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (sh1GZ)

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Nailed it. "Mental illness-affirming."

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (Pk+pJ)

the science is social. So is the disease they have: socialism.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:25 AM (ynpvh)

128 @106

>>I keep seeing the Mattel CEO on TV doing interviews about the Barbie movie. Turns out he has a Tony Montana accent.

Someone should ask him how much he got paid to allow PedoWood to make a mockery of their most valuable IP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 21, 2023 11:25 AM (rc3Z7)

129 I remember watching a video not too long ago where a girl (maybe 19-20) decided to use some holiday dinner to come out to her family. She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat. You know who will never have to hear about her bullshit sexual identity ever again? The family that ignored her.

As if we didn't already know.

Posted by: The girl's family at July 21, 2023 11:25 AM (eOEVl)

130 I guess I got lucky. My therapist (when I was using one, when I had money and COVID wasn't a thing) pointed me to the faith-based support program I attend to this day. Honestly it's a better fit (and probably better understands what's really at work).

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 21, 2023 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

131 I'm strongly anti-bully. Hence my emotional support handgun.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:25 AM (xcxpd)

132 When fostering, we had 2 kids we were in track to adopt taken from us by a social worker because we are white, the kids were hispanic and they "deserve to be raised by their own kind, in their own culture".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 21, 2023 11:25 AM (WRsWA)

133 99 The actual requirement is masters/doctorate in communist doctrine.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 21, 2023 11:21 AM (kzHlT)
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You must attain a Ph.D in something so that you may superciliously ask to be addressed as "Doctor".... it is written.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 21, 2023 11:26 AM (ssESX)

134 The world can get along fine without archaelogists.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (/mRF

An argument I frequently made to my professors when the subject of cultural remediation budgets on construction projects came up. (at that time, 2% on Federal projects)

We were a nice thing that a rich society could afford to have but didn't require. Something that should be paid for by rich patrons rather than paid from the public fisc.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 11:26 AM (aD39U)

135 Education is in the same racket. Pretty much every school district has a pay scale that incentivizes teachers to get a masters degree. It’s not required per se, but as a teacher you’d kind of be stupid not to get one. The pay difference can be $10-15k a year between a BA and an MEd. that’s $300-400k over the course of a career. Pretty good investment for spending $25K for the degree.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:26 AM (LNucI)

136 If you seek mental health care the cops will be by seeking your weapons.

Posted by: torabora at July 21, 2023 11:26 AM (3edcJ)

137
First you get money, then you get the dream house, then you get Skipper.

Then you get shipwrecked.

Posted by: Thurston Howell III at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

138 More than one-quarter of young adults are estranged from one or both parents, or have been, a finding that suggests a societal shift away from the traditional bonds of family..
==
this is the time of division. Sheep and goats, sorting.

Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Posted by: choose wisely at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (sh1GZ)

139 Bullying isn't bad.
...

I agree. There are degrees, of course, but some bullying can be very, very beneficial. It creates anger, fuels drive to succeed. This movement to protect children from every single possible negative effect creates this generation we have now that curls up into a fetal position if someone disagrees with them.

Posted by: Biergood at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (FQWHA)

140 I want to believe there's a hint of normality here but I'm guessing the "truly ridiculous reasons" they cite here are something along the lines of the kid wouldn't cut off his junk or gobble a lady penis.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (KbCG3)

Or maybe they did.

Posted by: BignJames at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (AwYPR)

141 You must attain a Ph.D in something so that you may superciliously ask to be addressed as "Doctor".... it is written.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 21, 2023 11:26 AM (ssESX)

Or an Ed.D...

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (PiwSw)

142 Posted by: Defenestratus at July 21, 2023 11:17 AM (9PI6G)

And some of the ones I have met are not, but since I haven't seen one for some time (and that was related to clinical depression) I don't know what they're like now. When I have to have a chat with a psychiatrist about medication he asked me what are some things that helped me deal with depression and I said "Religious faith" his response was "That's great!" O course, he's probably retired by now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (Keyt1)

143 There's a great writer, Pamela Paresky, who writes about these issues regularly. Her latest missive is about the credibility crisis in psychology. I recommend everything she has written wholeheartedly.

https://tinyurl.com/5h8evfzx

(Interesting aside: She was in Christopher Wray's HS graduating class)

Posted by: 496 at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (Bf+P4)

144 "90
I remember watching a video not too long ago where a girl (maybe 19-20) decided to use some holiday dinner to come out to her family. She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat. You know who will never have to hear about her bullshit sexual identity ever again? The family that ignored her.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (KbCG3)"

This isn't about kids making a racket at the holiday dinner table. I'm talking about when they chop body parts off, publicly denounce the family as bigots to the local paper, then move off to Portland or Seattle or SF and end up homeless, dead, or in jail in short order.

You don't correct this by ignoring them. You correct it by finding the people deliberately pushing this bullshit and throwing them out of fucking helicopters.

Half of my extended family's younger generation has been deliberate destroyed by the left.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:27 AM (geKVs)

145 People don't need therapy, they just need a good swift kick in the ass or popped upside their fucking heads. Majority on the left need a good drubbing but we have some on our side too.

This was my parents "therapy" that was a cure for everything, they called it "jogging your brain".

Violence more often than not is the answer.

Posted by: JROD at July 21, 2023 11:28 AM (IlL6s)

146 anyway, at least I have my emotional support handgun
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

My emotional support hand gun really really likes it when it gets the bore brush lubed up with some Hoppes #9.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 21, 2023 11:28 AM (3CCua)

147 I think it goes back further than Kinsey. Post WW2 you see it kick into high gear.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, b

Funny isn't it? It's almost as if the rise of the mediocre, dull-gray authoritarianism I mentioned above directly coincided with establishment of the wartime/postwar American superstate. It's almost like those things might be connected or something.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 11:28 AM (oINRc)

148 124 "In archeology, if you don't have a PHD, or at the very least a Masters, you're a grave robber."
FIFY

Posted by: Speller at July 21, 2023 11:24 AM (pSotA)

Some years ago, a female researcher noted that the dino bones in some areas of Wyoming stank when dug up. That was not supposed to happen to 65Myo bones. There was material in those bones that was still rubbery like proteins were still present; that was not supposed to happen to 65Myo bones. The "scientific" consensus was that it was impossible and she was a creationist "nut". When she asked her graduate advisor about it, he told her, "Prove that what you found is NOT biological". She tried many different ways and could not disprove. That's science, but Consensus? Not science.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

149 Bullying is the best thing that can happen to many young kids. It's a necessary evil in any child's development. It's how kids learn to navigate social situations and learn what is acceptable and what is not. Many kids won't get this learning any other way, and they will remain weirdo outcasts or social misfits their entire lives.

Yes, like anything else, bullying can go too far.

Posted by: Elric Blade

It also acquaints you with hard truths, such as "some people suck", "you can't trust Authority to fulfill its duties", and a neglected classic, "sometimes violence is actually the best answer".

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 21, 2023 11:28 AM (OUMaO)

150 Education is in the same racket. Pretty much every school district has a pay scale that incentivizes teachers to get a masters degree. It’s not required per se, but as a teacher you’d kind of be stupid not to get one. The pay difference can be $10-15k a year between a BA and an MEd. that’s $300-400k over the course of a career. Pretty good investment for spending $25K for the degree.

True, but that doesn't give the degree any inherent value. It's just another obstacle to limit entry into the field. It's a guild.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:28 AM (eOEVl)

151 " She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat"

'That's nice dear, can you pass me the mashed potatoes?'

Posted by: The mother at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (isNL8)

152 Buck, there is another field which has succumbed to "you must have the highest degree possible even though it will not improve your practice".
Nurse practitioners (NP) get a masters and work in their field. 10 years ago the PTB decided all NPs must get a Doctorate. The 'D' was acknowledged to have no impact on the NPs practice; but, because Pharmacists were all getting at least the D the Nursing Boards decided to shove this onto the NPs.
I wanted to get an NP; but, when I was about to apply for the Masters program they added a piece of paper that said "I will continue in school, while practicing with my Masters as an NP, to attain a Doctorate" (paraphrased).
I had no intention of getting a D and I don't sign papers while lying to myself or others so I remained a BSN until retirement.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (SC4LU)

153 125 Bullying isn't bad.
...

Yes, like anything else, bullying can go too far.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

I was ready to beat the shit out of the kid in class over it. I had self-control back then.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

154 Do there therapist and psychologist ever sit themselves down on the couch to examine what kind of evil monster demands everyone think and believe the same?

No?

Because that is exactly them.

BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (oVrDc)

155 When I had to put the kids in school, the constant focus on anti-bullying really grated on me. Seems a little less prevalent now a couple years on, but sheesh, giving someone a dirty look, calling a name one time, or a single practical joke is not bullying. Grow up.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (ftFVW)

156 "I remember watching a video not too long ago where a girl (maybe 19-20) decided to use some holiday dinner to come out to her family. She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat."

So, hows your team doing in that field hockey league?

Posted by: Speller at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (pSotA)

157 Yes, like anything else, bullying can go too far.
--

+1

Like I said, in Heritage America there was a point where it could be allowed to a point and then be dealt with properly by adults, but instead they have created environments where all the same conditions exist and they've washed their hands of any and all responsibility because the bully has the most power in the schools.

The kids being bullied cry out for help over and over and over, and the teachers ignore them because the schools have implemented a zero tolerance approach to bullying that essentially pretends it doesn't exist, and then the poor bastards figure out a way to solve the problem the only way their underdeveloped minds can come up with.

But at least the teachers got an "exceeds expectations" raises for a few years because they didn't have any major discipline issues and didn't have to have a parent-teacher conferences with the bullys parents.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (oxVgP)

158 Therapists refuse to provide therapy to normal, sane people?

Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (CysFb)

159 @141
That's Doctor Evil. I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called "Mister," thank you very much.

Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (ssESX)

160 154 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (oVrDc)

======

Roddenberry put a therapist on the bridge of the Enterprise, giving her a seat right next to the captain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

161 I want to believe there's a hint of normality here but I'm guessing the "truly ridiculous reasons" they cite here are something along the lines of the kid wouldn't cut off his junk or gobble a lady penis.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM (KbCG3)
++++
The "truly ridiculous" reason was probably a minor disagree an arcane point of progressive doctrine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (t0OGg)

162 Helicopters are an often under-used mental health treatment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 21, 2023 11:31 AM (isNL8)

163 I remember watching a video not too long ago where a girl (maybe 19-20) decided to use some holiday dinner to come out to her family. She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat. You know who will never have to hear about her bullshit sexual identity ever again? The family that ignored her.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (KbCG3)
___________

Big, public, specifically-timed displays of coming out like this are never about actually coming out. The coming-outer thinks they are special and wants fawning attention and praise. If I was one of the family, after her big theatrics, I'd be like "nobody gives a fuck what you do in the bedroom, now sit down and shut up . . . and pass me the turkey."

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

164 This repeated usage completely inverts who is out of the mainstream. It accepts by definition that normal church-going conservatives who won’t muzzle their beliefs are “unorthodox,” while the left-wing radicals he is trying to persuade to be more tolerant are not labeled at all.

This is what happens when a country shifts from center-right to far left of center. And that is what has occurred. Folks, you're going to have to assume now that you're in the minority. Act accordingly. Think accordingly.

I do find it ironic, this sudden interest from the Right into Classical Liberalism. Because the entire appeal of Classical Liberalism is the idea that you can be vocal, in the minority, yet still not swing from a lamp-post.

Yet it's too much interest too late. Once you're actually considering the possibility of an uninvited ride off a bridge or roof ? Then Classical Liberalism is not a winning philosophy for you.

Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 11:31 AM (sH/RF)

165 Problem is in today's day and age, you defend youself against a bully, you're the one that gets in trouble. Happened to one of my kids. That other kid was known by the school to have "issues". He took my kids backpack and pushed him down, so my kid threw a bottle of water and hit him in the head. Wasn't son's fault bottle was partially frozen. Other kid deserved what he got.
My son got in trouble, the other kid did not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

166 133 You must attain a Ph.D in something so that you may superciliously ask to be addressed as "Doctor".... it is written.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 21, 2023 11:26 AM (ssESX)

Fun thing about working in hardware, I deal with a lot of physicists and they aren't the DoctorDoctorDoctor sort. One of my coworkers once remarked that advanced degrees are a sign of persistence, not latent talent. I knew he had a masters, but I didn't know until much later that he also had a physics Ph. D and national-lab experience before switching to doing embedded stuff.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (PZvjL)

167 160 154 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (oVrDc)

======

Roddenberry put a therapist on the bridge of the Enterprise, giving her a seat right next to the captain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

Crap, kind of ruins my Sopranos spinoff idea: Dr. Melfi in Space!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (KbCG3)

168 I want to believe there's a hint of normality here but I'm guessing the "truly ridiculous reasons" they cite here are something along the lines of the kid wouldn't cut off his junk or gobble a lady penis.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:23 AM

Commies love destroying the family, as it's the main competition to government power. However, "Obamanut 2012" had responses along your line of thought.

Their parents are selfish and manipulative. There, fixed it for you. Very doubtful teh adult children had ridiculous reasons. It takes a long time to make that break. Your friends are not truthful. But your friends know, and the reasons are not ridiculous. Odds are decent the kids talked to a therapist about how best to do it.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (JCZqz)

169 158 Therapists refuse to provide therapy to normal, sane people?

Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2023 11:30 AM (CysFb)

They are redefining what normal is, kulak.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (ynpvh)

170 My psychiatrist is a Christian. I guess that's unorthodox, although he is Greek Orthodox.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (45fpk)

171 I-uh, uh-I-uh,, I'm f, f-f-feeling-uh, I'm uh-uh,, feeling a little-uh, a little-uh, faint

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (5hfjS)

172 Oh, yes; Another psychiatrist I had to deal with was an Orthodox Jew-probably not anti religion/s, but he will still working because he worked as lawyer first-didn't like it and went to medical school instead so was still paying off his students loans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (Keyt1)

173 " She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat"

I AM A TRANSGENDER TWO-SPIRIT NEURODIVERGENT FURRY OTHERKIN, AND I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, YOU BASTARDS!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (dcmzF)

174 When I had to put the kids in school, the constant focus on anti-bullying really grated on me. Seems a little less prevalent now a couple years on, but sheesh, giving someone a dirty look, calling a name one time, or a single practical joke is not bullying. Grow up.
Posted by: She Hobbit

We had to take anti-bullying 'training" in tech school. Where everyone is a fucking adult.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (MGB5H)

175 Dr. Aruna Khilanani.

What a deranged cunt. It would a karmic hoot if some crazed diversatoid pushed her onto the subway tracks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2023 11:33 AM (5+JAj)

176 168 Their parents are selfish and manipulative. There, fixed it for you. Very doubtful teh adult children had ridiculous reasons. It takes a long time to make that break. Your friends are not truthful. But your friends know, and the reasons are not ridiculous. Odds are decent the kids talked to a therapist about how best to do it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (JCZqz)

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"They wouldn't call my brown hair blue. My hair identifies as blue, dammit!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:33 AM (LvTSG)

177 "anyway, at least I have my emotional support handgun
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (xcxpd)"

A reminder, if you need an... emotional support handgun, then you need 3 or 4 of them. That can't be linked to you, with the spares well oiled and sealed with some spare ammo and mags, well stashed.

Ask a vet. The stupid opponents who didn't last long kept their beat up AK's in their own closet at home.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:33 AM (geKVs)

178 Their parents are selfish and manipulative. There, fixed it for you. Very doubtful teh adult children had ridiculous reasons. It takes a long time to make that break. Your friends are not truthful. But your friends know, and the reasons are not ridiculous. Odds are decent the kids talked to a therapist about how best to do it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (JCZqz)
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Probably

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:34 AM (t0OGg)

179 173 " She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat"

I AM A TRANSGENDER TWO-SPIRIT NEURODIVERGENT FURRY OTHERKIN, AND I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, YOU BASTARDS!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (dcmzF)

Shut up and eat your f**king food.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

180 Big, public, specifically-timed displays of coming out like this are never about actually coming out. The coming-outer thinks they are special and wants fawning attention and praise. If I was one of the family, after her big theatrics, I'd be like "nobody gives a fuck what you do in the bedroom, now sit down and shut up . . . and pass me the turkey."
Posted by: Elric Blade at

Nobody cares Becky.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:34 AM (MGB5H)

181 Fun thing about working in hardware, I deal with a lot of physicists and they aren't the DoctorDoctorDoctor sort.

The Ph.D.s who demand to be referred to as "doctor" are the ones who have done nothing with their lives, other than get a Ph.D.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 21, 2023 11:34 AM (dcmzF)

182 Rather than imploring radical left-wing psychologists to provide therapy to people even if they are “unorthodox,” perhaps the effort should be made to get those therapists to stop accepting the premise that a Bible-believing Republican who believes in free speech is “unorthodox.”

Maybe these assholes need to remember just how it is they are able to freely express themselves in this society, and to espouse the beliefs that they do, without fear.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 11:35 AM (e4fEA)

183 "Captain, Captain, the Away team is in some kind of trouble, but I can't tell exactly what it is..."

Posted by: The Extent of Deanna Troi at July 21, 2023 11:35 AM (PiwSw)

184 I never understand people who are in therapy for years and years. It’s like if it was useful doesn’t it the mean yiu stop needing it?

I can see needing short term therapy to get over a specific event like the death of a family member or something. But if you’re in therapy all the time what’s the point?

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:35 AM (LNucI)

185 "I AM A TRANSGENDER TWO-SPIRIT NEURODIVERGENT FURRY OTHERKIN, AND I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, YOU BASTARDS!"

Thats nice, Peanut. Have some more Cocoa Puffs.

Posted by: Speller at July 21, 2023 11:35 AM (pSotA)

186 " She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat"

'That's nice dear, can you pass me the mashed potatoes?'
Posted by: The mother

"Now that the elephant in the room is gone, can we have a nice, quiet meal?"

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:35 AM (nW4TA)

187 CollegeFix:

Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

188 Using the word unorthodox might make sense if it's considered in the context of professional therapist training and organizations.

Posted by: Synova at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (BD/yx)

189 Problem is in today's day and age, you defend youself against a bully, you're the one that gets in trouble. Happened to one of my kids. That other kid was known by the school to have "issues". He took my kids backpack and pushed him down, so my kid threw a bottle of water and hit him in the head. Wasn't son's fault bottle was partially frozen. Other kid deserved what he got.
My son got in trouble, the other kid did not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

--

Yep.

One can't help but notice that the female version of David Hogg disappeared from all media appearances immediately after she said something about how they had driven the school shooter to do what he did.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (oxVgP)

190 "I AM A TRANSGENDER TWO-SPIRIT NEURODIVERGENT FURRY OTHERKIN, AND I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, YOU BASTARDS!"

Well bless your heart.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (nW4TA)

191
The Ph.D.s who demand to be referred to as "doctor" are the ones who have done nothing with their lives, other than get a Ph.D.

—

How dare you?
- DOCTOR Jill

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (LNucI)

192 @179 Should put a cross-stitch sign over the door that says, "Nose ring and danger hair free zone."

Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (ssESX)

193 But you know what?
They can have this world.
They can have their supremely confident view that this is all there is, before the endless midnight of the grave.
There is more. Much more.

But, but.

They know they are wrong. They know they are lying. They know and they hate the rest of us so much more because, in their lonely nights of terrible contemplation of their eventual demise, they know they are missing out on the happiness those with "unorthodox " beliefs enjoy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (oVrDc)

194 Half of my extended family's younger generation has been deliberate destroyed by the left.
==
Condolences. They really do want most of us dead.

Posted by: i'm not crazy, just ahead of the curve at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sh1GZ)

195 The Ph.D.s who demand to be referred to as "doctor" are the ones who have done nothing with their lives, other than get a Ph.D.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts

Dr Jill has entered the chat

(Tho she couldn't even get a phd)

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (MGB5H)

196 Problem is in today's day and age, you defend yourself against a bully, you're the one that gets in trouble.

When was it not you that got in trouble ? Taking a brick to the head of the kid that enjoyed kicking your ass, every day at the bus stop for a week, was considered not appropriate behavior in this establishment as far back as the early 80s. As I constantly ask - where was this awesome place some of you grew up ? And when ?

Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sH/RF)

197 Psalm 1:1 says Jews and Christian shouldn't go to these folks anyway.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (LaNzR)

198 ... She got up during the meal, got everyone's attention and announced she was gay. Everyone simply ignored her and she slunk back into her seat. ...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:20 AM (KbCG3)
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Good. Exactly the right way to go about it. "Whatever. Pass the salt."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (t0OGg)

199 Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.

Don't you other me and deny my truth!!!

Posted by: Apache attack helicopter at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)

200 Therapy is also GIGO.
During the divorce, my brother got my Mother to go to a "therapist" as proof of abuse. It was all bullshit. Therapist wrote letter for court that said Mom was afraid of Dad and all the kids except the perjurer who was helping her. And mom, at behest of perjurer, no doubt, started keeping a police record, calling the police for the least little thing, e.g. "He brought strange people to my house!" (they were realtors and the house had to be sold).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (ynpvh)

201 How unfortunate that any 4473s I may or may not have filled out over the years list addresses on the other side of the country, it'll make tracking me down a bit more difficult yeah?

Oh, yes, and my CNC machine can cut steel, not to mention there's professional machinists *everywhere* in this beet-red region, many of whom live halfway off the grid as a mater of habit. Just sayin'

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (PZvjL)

202

Wesley Crusher: Captain, the vessel is firing on us!
Pickard: Counselor Troi?
Troi: I am sensing aggression, Captain.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (aD39U)

203 Forgot to mention no hospital or city, county, State, or the Feds required the "D" to be hired as an NP.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (SC4LU)

204 "168 Their parents are selfish and manipulative. There, fixed it for you. Very doubtful teh adult children had ridiculous reasons. It takes a long time to make that break. Your friends are not truthful. But your friends know, and the reasons are not ridiculous. Odds are decent the kids talked to a therapist about how best to do it.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 21, 2023 11:32 AM (JCZqz)"

30 years ago I would have agreed with this. But modern public and college education is largely designed to paint the kids' parents as monsters in order to split families apart.

I have coworkers with college age kids who are disowning their parents because the parents refuse to parrot the correct ramblings about "white privilege" or to attend BLM protests.

We're not talking about parents who are cardboard villains from Footloose who think dancing is sinful. I can think of.... two people I've known, ever, who whose parents drove them off like that.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (geKVs)

205 95 Related? More than one-quarter of young adults are estranged from one or both parents, or have been, a finding that suggests a societal shift away from the traditional bonds of family... 26 percent of interviewed adult children reported estrangement from fathers. 6 percent had cut ties with mothers.

Nothing made youth respect parents & guardians more than needing to go promptly onto COBRA &/or pay for their health insurance years ago through employment. On mom & dad's insurance until 26, free to sign on for more & more studies, helped create many entitled, expensive and dopey brats.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (GshMh)

206 Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.
Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (RHGPo)
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Well, it is. It ain't what they say it is, and the perpetrators ain't who they say they are, but ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

207 199 Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.

Don't you other me and deny my truth!!!

Posted by: Apache attack helicopter at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)

I piss on all that.

Posted by: Man who Identifies as Fire Engine at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

208 167 160 154 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:29 AM (oVrDc)
____________

Pretty much every girl under the age of 30 in any major city is in some kind of therapy. Totally unnecessary. It's a total racket.

But in all fairness, these girls never learned how to deal with even routine disappointment or depression. They have been coddled and feted their entire lives. So when the usual disappointments of life show up -- don't get a job you want, get fired from a job, you go through a bad break-up, your friend turns out to be a toxic little backstabbing bitch, etc -- they have no idea how to deal with them. None. So they run to "therapists."

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

209 The best part about identifying as an Apache attack helicopter is they can't make you go outside and do stuff when the weather's bad!

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (PZvjL)

210 Re the side piece: Who doesn't remember the Talking Heads? Their 1977 album is incredibly relevant today:

Psycho Killer
Don't Worry About the Government
And soon... Life During Wartime

Posted by: Regular joe. Not just mad, Samuel L Jackson mad at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (nnp+f)

211 185 "I AM A TRANSGENDER TWO-SPIRIT NEURODIVERGENT FURRY OTHERKIN, AND I WILL NOT BE IGNORED, YOU BASTARDS!"

Thats nice, Peanut. Have some more Cocoa Puffs.
Posted by: Speller at July 21, 2023 11:35 AM

I'm thinking Froot Loops is more fitting.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

212 Orthodox is the new Politically Correct.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (LaNzR)

213 These people will never connect the dots between the decreased family bonds across the culture and the degradation of the culture they themselves complain about, especially when it comes to violence.

I've been noting this weird tic where they will bemoan that the past was less violent but then attack anyone who actually talks about efforts to take us to that less violent past.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

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It was amazing that in 2008 The DogEater actually ONCE publicly decried the irresponsibility and lack of black fathers in the home (and these days, it increasingly applies to all races).

After which The OG Grifter Jesse Jackson was caught on a hot mic saying "I want to cut his nuts out. Barack, he is talking down to black people."

And that was all it took to figuratively and literally neuter the coward puppet Obama ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:39 AM (Pk+pJ)

214 We had to take anti-bullying 'training" in tech school. Where everyone is a fucking adult.
Posted by: BruceWayne

How fucking lame

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:39 AM (ftFVW)

215 One of my kids has a friend who is “gay”. The parents are total fucking nut jobs San Francisco. Although weirdly enough the dad is into guns too. Go figure.

I keep telling the kid by the time you graduate high school the “gayness” will have disappeared. That girl isn’t gay she just thinks being gay is what the world expects of her.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:39 AM (LNucI)

216 Much of therapy is just plan junk. I’d almost suggest to anyone to go to some Reiki practitioner and get your chakras balanced.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 21, 2023 11:39 AM (cMXNt)

217 Andrew Hartz is a blithering idiot.

The nation as a whole needs LESS “mental health care”. We are a nation awash in over-medicated people, including tragically kids.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 21, 2023 11:39 AM (cn6fk)

218 Condolences. They really do want most of us dead.
Posted by: i'm not crazy, just ahead of the curve at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sh1GZ)
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Not if they can avoid it. They'd like us all to convert and accept their new church.

Only the refusenicks need to be killed off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

219 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.

Most shows are set in NYC or some other big liberal city. I'm sure the incidence is much higher there, although still not anything like what's protrayed.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)

220 "201 How unfortunate that any 4473s I may or may not have filled out over the years list addresses on the other side of the country, it'll make tracking me down a bit more difficult yeah?

Oh, yes, and my CNC machine can cut steel, not to mention there's professional machinists *everywhere* in this beet-red region, many of whom live halfway off the grid as a mater of habit. Just sayin'
Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (PZvjL)"

The problem with 4473's is that they've been steadily digitizing them. They're ultimately intended to be a tool to link found caches and battlefield pickups to specific individuals, and for that purpose they'll work perfectly fine regardless of where you move.

So make good use of that CNC.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (geKVs)

221 194 Half of my extended family's younger generation has been deliberate destroyed by the left.
==
Condolences. They really do want most of us dead.

Posted by: i'm not crazy, just ahead of the curve at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sh1GZ)

Of all us kids, I believe maybe on or two of us will ever have grandkids. I have a niece trying to become a nephew, another niece that is bi-sexual (but mostly lesbian), another that is not interested at all. WEF and Soros would be proud.

Posted by: Man who Identifies as Fire Engine at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

222 Not to mention that significantly more people identify as conservative than liberal, and a significant majority of Americans still favor free speech when offensive.

This MFer clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.

Posted by: McLurkerson at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (wNDOJ)

223 About 25 percent of the “malicious responses” provided some airplane-related response to gender, including several who specifically identified as an “Apache helicopter.” Identifying as an “attack helicopter” is a meme that goes back to at least 2014.

Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

224 219 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.

Most shows are set in NYC or some other big liberal city. I'm sure the incidence is much higher there, although still not anything like what's protrayed.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)
________

See my comment above on this point . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (iFTx/)

225 A critical mass of The Left is culturally exploding away from the Center at the speed of light. Any ideas or positions not in absolute lockstep with the everchanging instant-by-instant "orthodoxy" will get red-shifted to the Extreme Unorthodox Right, even if that position was a mainstream Left one even just a couple years ago. It's only going to get worse from here.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (PWI4f)

226 Most shows are set in NYC or some other big liberal city. I'm sure the incidence is much higher there, although still not anything like what's protrayed.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)
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But probably *not* higher than the incidence of those in the writing room.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

227 Off vehicular sock!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

228 Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.

Don't you other me and deny my truth!!!

Posted by: Apache attack helicopter at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)
***

You wipper-snappers! Get off my LZ!!!

Posted by: I Identify as a Huey at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (e4fEA)

229 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

That phrase has nothing to do with therapy, unless you're going to a therapist who says, "Religion and a belief in God is total bs". As testified to by people on this thread there are some who are quite supportive of a life of faith.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (Keyt1)

230 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy?

—

Fuhgetaboutit
- Tony Soprano

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (LNucI)

231 I've been getting YT ads with Obama demanding money. Just seeing that smug f***'s face and hearing his voice is enough to send my blood pressure through the roof.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:42 AM (eOEVl)

232 A critical mass of The Left is culturally exploding away from the Center at the speed of light. Any ideas or positions not in absolute lockstep with the everchanging instant-by-instant "orthodoxy" will get red-shifted to the Extreme Unorthodox Right, even if that position was a mainstream Left one even just a couple years ago. It's only going to get worse from here.
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (PWI4f)
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It's the "Left Pole" phenomenon.

If you stand on the North Pole, any direction you go is south.
If you stand on the Left Pole, any direction you go is Literally Hitler.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:42 AM (t0OGg)

233 "221 194 Half of my extended family's younger generation has been deliberate destroyed by the left.
==
Condolences. They really do want most of us dead.

Posted by: i'm not crazy, just ahead of the curve at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sh1GZ)

Of all us kids, I believe maybe on or two of us will ever have grandkids. I have a niece trying to become a nephew, another niece that is bi-sexual (but mostly lesbian), another that is not interested at all. WEF and Soros would be proud.
Posted by: Man who Identifies as Fire Engine at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)"

It's important to physically move to some place where you can raise your kids in a like-minded community so they know what functional looks like. And if I'm going to be brutally honest, consider how easy it is for a drone to spot you in the terrain.

A large chunk of the lower 48 is probably permanently lost.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:42 AM (geKVs)

234 Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”

… hey, Joe Biden won’t get much sleep now with “F-16 fighter jet” out there

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (RHGPo)

235 "These people need mental healthcare as much as anyone else" - This is a false statement. Psychological disorders are found in higher rates among liberals than conservatives. Interesting (but not surprising) that living divorced from much of what has provided meaning, purpose, and fulfillment throughout human history, much less having to pretend that many objective facts are not true, leads to depression and anxiety.

Posted by: Dr. Lurker at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (ZTcU7)

236 TV Show - Fraiser

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (nW4TA)

237 One of the results of low grade bullying is that you find out you are not made of glass. Someone calls you a name or embarrasses you and the world keeps spinning. Their words don't define you.

People are meant to acquire a little scar tissue in life. Imagine if your immune system never encountered a pathogen. It would attack healthy tissue or over react to minor things and you get autoimmune disorders flaring up.

Psychology works the same way. You need to be exposed to negativity. People who live with no pushback or boundaries treat the first person who points out that maybe a penis is not a birth defect like an axe murderer. Screaming, terror, demands for safety over the most minimal things.

We are seeing Societal Autoimmune reactions because the kids' egos have been bubble wrapped into adulthood.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (z+89e)

238 Much of therapy is just plan junk. I’d almost suggest to anyone to go to some Reiki practitioner and get your chakras balanced.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Go move heavy things, eat less garbage, and work hard at something, anything. Mood boost without the bill or quackery.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (ftFVW)

239 Re the side piece: Who doesn't remember the Talking Heads? Their 1977 album is incredibly relevant today:

Psycho Killer
Don't Worry About the Government
And soon... Life During Wartime

Posted by: Regular joe. Not just mad, Samuel L Jackson mad at July 21, 2023 11:38 AM (nnp+f)

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My new girlfriend at the time gave me one of their albums and I loved it. They were the first kind of "alternative" band that appealed to me.

"Take Me To The River" was like a spiritual experience (imagined self in some loud, southern black Baptist church belting out gospel goodness) ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (Pk+pJ)

240 It's not new at all. It was noticed as far back as the 1940s, at least. And of course the USSR used mental illness as one of their ways of locking up those who departed from the Party Line.

And, yes, it IS a scam. But then, most degree mills now are.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (brAQZ)

241 Librarianship is a bit of a scam as well. You do NOT need a MLS to work in AS or Kids in a public library. In an academic or specialty library - sure. I've worked in both and it's overkill on the public library side. The cost for an MLS is outrageous and you're not going into the field bc you're money driven. A BA in library science would be a good idea.

Posted by: fergiebees at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (3oqBR)

242 219 BTW, have you ever noticed how many characters in current movies and shows go to therapy? It's fricking bizarre, once you see it.
In my life, I know exactly zero people who do.

Most shows are set in NYC or some other big liberal city. I'm sure the incidence is much higher there, although still not anything like what's protrayed.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 21, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)
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Some people thrive off of affirmation and become depressed and withdrawn if they aren't getting a daily dose of it. They a are happy to patronize a therapist who will tell them, "you're good enough, smart enough, strong enough, and gosh darn it, people like you!"

Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (ssESX)

243 My youngest kid is on the way to being a leftist. All I can do is try to put some thoughts in there that counter the bullshit. But at the end of they day, I can’t control it or change what kids become.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (LNucI)

244 234 Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”

… hey, Joe Biden won’t get much sleep now with “F-16 fighter jet” out there

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (RHGPo)

My kid said he wanted to be an F-35 fighter. I clipped his wings.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (ynpvh)

245 "Problem is in today's day and age, you defend yourself against a bully, you're the one that gets in trouble."

Don't put your kids into those institutions

If they need to deliver a beatdown to some bully out in public, teach them how to get away with it.

There, solved.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (geKVs)

246 223 About 25 percent of the “malicious responses” provided some airplane-related response to gender, including several who specifically identified as an “Apache helicopter.” Identifying as an “attack helicopter” is a meme that goes back to at least 2014.

Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”
Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (RHGPo)
________________

Put me down for SR71 then . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

247 This bikini blonde once started studying social work, but she dropped out after she determined that both she and society as a wholw would be better served if she did literally anything else:
https://is.gd/heZfS6

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

248 Why would anyone other than a trust-fund baby want to spend 7 years for post-HS education to take a job that's likely to pay nothing more than just above the poverty line in most major cities?

Posted by: Octochicken at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (oCS0o)

249 225 A critical mass of The Left is culturally exploding away from the Center at the speed of light. Any ideas or positions not in absolute lockstep with the everchanging instant-by-instant "orthodoxy" will get red-shifted to the Extreme Unorthodox Right, even if that position was a mainstream Left one even just a couple years ago. It's only going to get worse from here.
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (PWI4f)

The fact that they hate Glenn Greenwald as much as they hate Donald Trump is very telling.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (PZvjL)

250 I'd love to believe that the answer to all of this lies in having strong parents but I'm not so sure. My parents were the straightest of shooters who just told me what was what and called BS when they saw it.

I was the type of kid who responded to that. I always had an innate sense of self so never really followed crowds and such.

But, my teachers and friends never showed any vested interest in changing me. That's not the case today. I try to parent much like mine did but it's a different world now.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (KbCG3)

251 "243 My youngest kid is on the way to being a leftist. All I can do is try to put some thoughts in there that counter the bullshit. But at the end of they day, I can’t control it or change what kids become.
Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (LNucI)"

It requires serious effort, usually between the ages of, oh, 9 and 13 or so.

If you're starting too late, well, then you're probably too late. Conservatives have been sleeping on this for decades.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (geKVs)

252 247 This bikini blonde once started studying social work, but she dropped out after she determined that both she and society as a wholw would be better served if she did literally anything else:
https://is.gd/heZfS6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Odd blotch in skin on left arm.

2/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

253 Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”

… hey, Joe Biden won’t get much sleep now with “F-16 fighter jet” out there
Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (RHGPo)
***

It would be hilarious to have a jet break the sound barrier right over Capital Hill during the State of the Union. Just imaging watching all the cockroaches scurry for their lives.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (e4fEA)

254 I think it goes back further than Kinsey. Post WW2 you see it kick into high gear.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, b

Funny isn't it? It's almost as if the rise of the mediocre, dull-gray authoritarianism I mentioned above directly coincided with establishment of the wartime/postwar American superstate. It's almost like those things might be connected or something.
==
Frankfurt school critical theory of the thirties, based on Kant Hegel Marx Weber that came before. In essence the long project was tearing down western civ. It was drivien by a manic obsession with perfecting the human condition/society. Which we can't do, and ain't going to happen by dipshits with monocles and tophats telling us we gotta do it their way. The so called mental health experts had serious mental health problems.

Posted by: i'm not crazy, just ahead of the curve at July 21, 2023 11:46 AM (sh1GZ)

255 Some people thrive off of affirmation and become depressed and withdrawn if they aren't getting a daily dose of it. They a are happy to patronize a therapist who will tell them, "you're good enough, smart enough, strong enough, and gosh darn it, people like you!"
Posted by: Doctor Evil at

Thus then like button on social media.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:46 AM (MGB5H)

256 I want to identify as an A-10 Warthog, the natural predator of everything.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:46 AM (PZvjL)

257 Librarianship is a bit of a scam as well. You do NOT need a MLS to work in AS or Kids in a public library. In an academic or specialty library - sure. I've worked in both and it's overkill on the public library side. The cost for an MLS is outrageous and you're not going into the field bc you're money driven. A BA in library science would be a good idea.
Posted by: fergiebees at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (3oqBR)
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Library Science is a deeply corrupted profession and academic field of study. It stamps out glass-eyed culture warriors and communists with a 100% success rate, and has for decades.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:46 AM (t0OGg)

258 The so called mental health experts had serious mental health problems.
Posted by: i'm not crazy,

All therapists go to therapy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:47 AM (MGB5H)

259 Ask any lawyer that's any good whether they needed law school.

All will say no.

But the snobs that need the credentials and prestige of XYZ school will lie and praise their alma mater.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:47 AM (oVrDc)

260 Psychiatric medicine is, by virtue of being a medical practice, institutional in nature.

So it works like anything else.

Is the institution in question American? If yes, then it is rigidly intolerant, shockingly dishonest and totally corrupt.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 11:47 AM (17z9Q)

261 Put me down for SR71 then . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

Mark me down for AC-130 Juliet - AKA The Ghost Rider

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (OgrpQ)

262 You may be right.
I may be crazy.
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.

Posted by: Billy Joel at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (NBVIP)

263 Go move heavy things, eat less garbage, and work hard at something, anything. Mood boost without the bill or quackery.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (ftFVW)

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Yeah, having gotten seriously into genealogy for some years now, I think about our ancestors who's lives were harder, shorter, and more brutish ... but I'm guessing more spiritually fulfilling.

For most, EVERY DAY was literally a struggle for survival -- there had to be tremendous focus & fortitude, and no time or place for petty narcissism, trivialities, idiocies, et. al.

I often say that I was born a century or three too late ...

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (Pk+pJ)

264 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

Why study anything when you can get paid to be a model on Instagram with a cute little body and a sullen expression-until the money runs out?.

Didn't click. Just guessing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (Keyt1)

265 I'm skeptical of the psychological profession in general, but when I do look into that, it's nonnegotiable that the therapist be a devout Christian, preferably Catholic.

Posted by: logprof at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (g3ooz)

266 I love the scene where George Costanza goes to a therapist and obsesses about his stuck zipper and just drives the new therapist nuts. An obsession about nothing FTW!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (cn6fk)

267 But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
Posted by: Billy Joel at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (NBVIP)
++++
You're *never* what I'm looking for, Bill. And when you find me, I change the station.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)

268 If you stand on the North Pole, any direction you go is south.
If you stand on the Left Pole, any direction you go is Literally Hitler.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Lol...I like that. I'm going to use that.

Posted by: Biergood at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (FQWHA)

269 Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.

Don't you other me and deny my truth!!!

Posted by: Apache attack helicopter at July 21, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)
***

You wipper-snappers! Get off my LZ!!!
Posted by: I Identify as a Huey at July 21, 2023 11:41 AM (e4fEA)

*orbits about threatening everyone*

WTF are we talking about?

Posted by: Cobra gunship at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (3CCua)

270 259 Ask any lawyer that's any good whether they needed law school.

All will say no.

But the snobs that need the credentials and prestige of XYZ school will lie and praise their alma mater.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:47 AM (oVrDc)

Read the law, pass the test. The old ways were best.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

271 242 Some people thrive off of affirmation and become depressed and withdrawn if they aren't getting a daily dose of it. They a are happy to patronize a therapist who will tell them, "you're good enough, smart enough, strong enough, and gosh darn it, people like you!"
Posted by: Doctor Evil at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (ssESX)

It's a millennial thing. Even the less commie of our ranks mostly grew up in a bubble and struggle to deal with anything less than everything going our way. Easily the worst of my personal demons, it's not even bad parenting or whatever it was just that we grew up in the best of times and now we're paying the price.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (PZvjL)

272 Psychiatrists: Inmates running the asylum.
Psychologists: Outpatients at large in society, and the people who go see them for bad advice.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (nRMeC)

273 245 "Problem is in today's day and age, you defend yourself against a bully, you're the one that gets in trouble."

Don't put your kids into those institutions

If they need to deliver a beatdown to some bully out in public, teach them how to get away with it.

There, solved.
Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (geKVs)
__________

This. I give all of my nieces and nephews the same advice when they whine "he hit me" or "he did this to me." My advice? "Stop whining. Hit him back." That was the way of the world for a hundred thousand years and it worked fine.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

274 I learned about ISBNs and the Dewey decimal system by second grade. What the hell kind of major is Library Science, LOL? I bet Cart Pushing 401 is a real challenge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (oINRc)

275 My kid said he wanted to be an F-35 fighter. I clipped his wings.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Wanted to be a money pit that is never capable of performing a mission? That's sad.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (ftFVW)

276 Go move heavy things, eat less garbage, and work hard at something, anything. Mood boost without the bill or quackery.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (ftFVW)

I've joined a gym and taught myself woodworking in the past few years.

The highs of besting previous limits are better than anything some therapist is going to say to you.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

277 I took one Psycho Class. I realized very quickly that a 'science' with no definition of 'normal' really isn't going anywhere. Further, those that majored in it were quite clearly Abby Normal.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (4eKPg)

278 After all these years, the Talking Heads lyric that most speaks to me is:

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile.

And you may find yourself with a beautiful house.

With a beautiful wife.

And you may ask yourself:
Well,
How did I get here?

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (dcmzF)

279
It requires serious effort, usually between the ages of, oh, 9 and 13 or so.

If you're starting too late, well, then you're probably too late. Conservatives have been sleeping on this for decades.
Posted by: somedood at July 21,

I got 2 kids. Same parents, same environment, same everything. From the earliest ages Incould tell one would be a right wing loon the other a lefti wing loon. One was all about sharing, caring, fairness, etc. the other was fuck your this is mine go get your own toys. I’m talking like at 4,5 years old. It just kind of happened and as they get older it’s still there, they see world completely differently. There’s no changing it.

I’m the same with my sister. We went totally different paths in life everything from politics to what we enjoy doing for fun, etc. and again we had the same parents, same schools, same everything. We’re individuals, not clones of parents.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (LNucI)

280 "I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now."

Posted by: Miles Monroe at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (PiwSw)

281 It requires serious effort, usually between the ages of, oh, 9 and 13 or so.

If you're starting too late, well, then you're probably too late. Conservatives have been sleeping on this for decades.
Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (geKVs)
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Best counter at that age is teaching them how to bait a hook. Skin a deer. Set up camp. Use a compass. Learn the basics of poker. Change spark plugs. Throw a change up. Change a tire.
In short, spend time with them.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (e4fEA)

282 267 You're *never* what I'm looking for, Bill. And when you find me, I change the station.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)

At least he didn't start the fire.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (PZvjL)

283 *orbits about threatening everyone*

WTF are we talking about?
Posted by: Cobra gunship at July 21, 2023 11:49 AM (3CCua)
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Yeah, huh?

Posted by: AC-130 Spooky Spectre at July 21, 2023 11:51 AM (t0OGg)

284 {274} I learned about ISBNs and the Dewey decimal system by second grade. ...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (oINRc)

Nobody dared to goof off during Conan the Librarian's instruction.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 11:51 AM (nRMeC)

285 Off Vietnam era tank killing CAS chopper sock

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 21, 2023 11:51 AM (3CCua)

286 Wanted to be a money pit that is never capable of performing a mission? That's sad.
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I think you've missed the mission statement of all government.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 21, 2023 11:51 AM (4eKPg)

287 266 I love the scene where George Costanza goes to a therapist and obsesses about his stuck zipper and just drives the new therapist nuts. An obsession about nothing FTW!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 21, 2023 11:48 AM (cn6fk)

The best part is that he eventually sucked her into his insanity.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 21, 2023 11:51 AM (KbCG3)

288 When was it not you that got in trouble ? Taking a brick to the head of the kid that enjoyed kicking your ass, every day at the bus stop for a week, was considered not appropriate behavior in this establishment as far back as the early 80s. As I constantly ask - where was this awesome place some of you grew up ? And when ?
Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sH/RF)

Well, Scoggy, when I was in fourth grade, I was constantly being bullied by another kid. Finally got sick of it, and popped the fucker right on the nose. Made his nose bleed, and he cried. Since it happened at school, I got sent to the principal's office for a lecture. The bully never bothered me again. Never became a friend, but there was mutual respect.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2023 11:51 AM (0C6U5)

289 252 247 This bikini blonde once started studying social work, but she dropped out after she determined that both she and society as a wholw would be better served if she did literally anything else:
https://is.gd/heZfS6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

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Odd blotch in skin on left arm.

2/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

Don't go for lepers, huh?

Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (rqgpJ)

290 The Bowling Green office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was engulfed in flames in an overnight fire, officials have confirmed. No injuries were reported.

Whereabouts of Dr Fauci unknown

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (RHGPo)

291 279

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:50 AM (LNucI)

I was a caring, sensitive soul when I was small. But I thought about things, too. I'm sorry, but sounds like one of your kids might not have a brain.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (ynpvh)

292 TheBlaze reports: Whistleblowers at Fox News reveal that the company is matching employee donations to the Satanic Temple, far-left LGBT activist organization The Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the SPLC.

https://tinyurl.com/r3b5vsw2

Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (R38qh)

293 Yeah, having gotten seriously into genealogy for some years now, I think about our ancestors who's lives were harder, shorter, and more brutish ... but I'm guessing more spiritually fulfilling.
---
I was watching one of Gordon Ramsay old shows, where he goes up among the Indians in Peru.
I'm betting they live on less than $100 a year.
And would all rate their life as happier than 90% of the "modern" world.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (oVrDc)

294 Screw your airplane identity politics. I identify as a Patriot Missile System. Bring it Bitchez!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (e4fEA)

295 290 The Bowling Green office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was engulfed in flames in an overnight fire, officials have confirmed. No injuries were reported.

Whereabouts of Dr Fauci unknown

Posted by: SMOD at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (RHGPo)

So breaking his ribs was not enough.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (ynpvh)

296 Frankfurt school critical theory of the thirties, based on Kant Hegel Marx Weber that came before. In essence the long project was tearing down western civ...

--

Wasn't Oppenheimer tied to the Frankfurt School push?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (oxVgP)

297 I saw the Glass-Eyed Culture Warriors open for The All-American Rejects at The Criterion in 2000.

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (Pk+pJ)

298 292 TheBlaze reports: Whistleblowers at Fox News reveal that the company is matching employee donations to the Satanic Temple, far-left LGBT activist organization The Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the SPLC.

https://tinyurl.com/r3b5vsw2
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (R38qh)

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Welcome to the party, pals.

FoxNews's news division has been obviously left leaning since...2008?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (LvTSG)

299 Whistleblowers at Fox News reveal that the company is matching employee donations to the Satanic Temple, far-left LGBT activist organization The Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the SPLC.

—

Meh
- Boomer Fox News watchers

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (LNucI)

300 Good rant, Buck. Another example of the long march through our institutions.

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (2pH9T)

301 Go move heavy things, eat less garbage, and work hard at something, anything. Mood boost without the bill or quackery.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 11:43 AM (ftFVW)

I've joined a gym and taught myself woodworking in the past few years.

The highs of besting previous limits are better than anything some therapist is going to say to you.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

I've been around this a long time. People get off their SSRIs. People find confidence and start holding their heads higher and speaking up. It's really not rocket surgery.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (MGB5H)

302 Problem is in today's day and age, you defend yourself against a bully, you're the one that gets in trouble.

When was it not you that got in trouble ? Taking a brick to the head of the kid that enjoyed kicking your ass, every day at the bus stop for a week, was considered not appropriate behavior in this establishment as far back as the early 80s. As I constantly ask - where was this awesome place some of you grew up ? And when ?
Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 11:36 AM (sH/RF)

The 1950's, early 60's. Usually when you caught the bastard alone. No one else around.

Dad was Slovak, mom was Hungarian. I am the recipient in that DNA and am NOT a calm individual, nor patient when someone was bullying me.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (Zvtjl)

303 Non-offensive speech doesn't need protection. Funny how that works.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:04 AM (nW4TA)

The larger point to me is that all speech is offensive to *someone*.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (g16rN)

304 It's important to physically move to some place where you can raise your kids in a like-minded community so they know what functional looks like. And if I'm going to be brutally honest, consider how easy it is for a drone to spot you in the terrain.
Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:42 AM

I'm afraid this is insufficient. As a product of the 80s and 90s, I tried to be hands-off, sharing my conservative thoughts with my kids in middle America, but not pressuring or forcing anything. Big mistake.

While I felt I wasn't indoctrinating my kids, all media (and most of society) actively was. Unfortunately, I'm now of the opinion that, if you have kids, you and your spouse need to actively feel like you're brainwashing your kid to keep them normal. Because if you don't, the Left is always actively trying.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (JCZqz)

305 289 252 247
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

Don't go for lepers, huh?

Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (rqgpJ)

There was this leper gigolo, but his business fell off...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (ynpvh)

306 Know who else went to a German school?

Posted by: Just Sayin' at July 21, 2023 11:55 AM (NBVIP)

307 301 I've been around this a long time. People get off their SSRIs. People find confidence and start holding their heads higher and speaking up. It's really not rocket surgery.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (MGB5H)

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But a miracle pill sounds so much easier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:55 AM (LvTSG)

308 I'm betting they live on less than $100 a year.
And would all rate their life as happier than 90% of the "modern" world.
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For Manhattan to become the New Rome everything under the sun had to be monetized. The Peruvian Indians were proof that very little needs to be monetized.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 21, 2023 11:55 AM (4eKPg)

309 Screw your airplane identity politics. I identify as a Patriot Missile System. Bring it Bitchez!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (e4fEA)

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* My AGM-114 Hellfire Drone Missile alter-ego had entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:55 AM (Pk+pJ)

310 Fox News has always been neoconservative, so they're cool with nutty domestic social crap so long as there's wars and a lot of rah-rah-rah flag waving for its own sake.

Posted by: CppThis at July 21, 2023 11:55 AM (PZvjL)

311 303 Non-offensive speech doesn't need protection. Funny how that works.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 11:04 AM (nW4TA)

The larger point to me is that all speech is offensive to *someone*.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (g16rN)

Reminds me of my Econ teacher at the JC. Someone once told him, "Good Morning", and he replied, maybe for you but how do you know if it's the same for me? Next time, 'Morning' will suffice".
So the next day, same gal says, "Morning", to which he replies, "Yes, it is".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

312 I took a few psych courses in college, including abnormal psych. That one was pretty wild. There's a lot of truly bizarre behaviors in which people engage.

Of course, it's only a matter of time before all of those become "orthodox."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (YIVH2)

313 Fox News has always been neoconservative, so they're cool with nutty domestic social crap so long as there's wars and a lot of rah-rah-rah flag waving for its own sake.
Posted by: CppThis

—-

Add in tax cuts for billionaires and that describes the GOP.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (LNucI)

314 The Bowling Green office of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was engulfed in flames in an overnight fire, officials have confirmed. No injuries were reported.
Whereabouts of Dr Fauci unknown
Posted by: SMOD

TOTAL coincidence. Just like those numerous, statistically highly unlikely fires at food processing plants over the past year is not a thing.

Posted by: Biergood at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (FQWHA)

315 It's important to physically move to some place where you can raise your kids in a like-minded community so they know what functional looks like. And if I'm going to be brutally honest, consider how easy it is for a drone to spot you in the terrain.

Posted by: somedood at July 21, 2023 11:42 AM

------------

* Cues "Try That In A Small Town" *

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (Pk+pJ)

316 313 Fox News has always been neoconservative, so they're cool with nutty domestic social crap so long as there's wars and a lot of rah-rah-rah flag waving for its own sake.
Posted by: CppThis

—-

Add in tax cuts for billionaires and that describes the GOP.
Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (LNucI)

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"Make my kids gay with low taxes."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (LvTSG)

317 By the way today is the anniversary of the moon landing.
54 years ago.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (CecP5)

318 This bikini blonde once started studying social work, but she dropped out after she determined that both she and society as a wholw would be better served if she did literally anything else:
https://is.gd/heZfS6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Odd blotch in skin on left arm.

2/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

The skin blotch does not bother me. The lack of feminine hips does. That might be a dude.

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (2pH9T)

319 I was watching one of Gordon Ramsay old shows, where he goes up among the Indians in Peru.
I'm betting they live on less than $100 a year.
And would all rate their life as happier than 90% of the "modern" world.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (oVrDc)

Lack of social media will do that

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (xcxpd)

320 I took a few psych courses in college, including abnormal psych. That one was pretty wild. There's a lot of truly bizarre behaviors in which people engage.

Of course, it's only a matter of time before all of those become "orthodox."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Just read the encyclopedia of serial killers. Give all the information you ever wanted a ton you didn't.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 21, 2023 11:58 AM (MGB5H)

321 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at July 21, 2023 11:58 AM (OpBvH)

322 Whistleblowers at Fox News reveal that the company is matching employee donations to the Satanic Temple, far-left LGBT activist organization The Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the SPLC.
—
Meh
- Boomer Fox News watchers
---
"Why can't my single 35 year old granddaughter find a nice young man like Shep to marry?"
- Other thoughts of the same Boomers, clueless about Shep's preferences for penis

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 21, 2023 11:58 AM (oVrDc)

323 319 Lack of social media will do that
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (xcxpd)

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Dolley will never give our kids phones as long as they can't drive. Once they do drive, she's considering flip phones.

She REALLY doesn't want them accessing porn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:58 AM (LvTSG)

324 317 By the way today is the anniversary of the moon landing.
54 years ago.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (CecP5)

I was alive but too young to remember.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:58 AM (ynpvh)

325 Hey, aren't there a bunch of chicks playing soccer or something right now?

Posted by: logprof at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (g3ooz)

326 317 By the way today is the anniversary of the moon landing.
54 years ago.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (CecP5)

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Kubrick did a good job.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (LvTSG)

327 Reminds me of my Econ teacher at the JC. Someone once told him, "Good Morning", and he replied, maybe for you but how do you know if it's the same for me? Next time, 'Morning' will suffice".
So the next day, same gal says, "Morning", to which he replies, "Yes, it is".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

Unorthodoxy warning ; if I sa good I'm wishing someone else have a good morning. I'm not commenting on the quantity of the morning.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (aCNZ6)

328 318 This bikini blonde once started studying social work, but she dropped out after she determined that both she and society as a wholw would be better served if she did literally anything else:
https://is.gd/heZfS6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

=======

Odd blotch in skin on left arm.

2/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

The skin blotch does not bother me. The lack of feminine hips does. That might be a dude.

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (2pH9T)

https://youtu.be/KWBDKzvdazk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (ynpvh)

329 Hey guys - which comes first in the alphabet? "G," or "R?"

Thanks - I'm studying for a Library Science exam, and it's a real doozy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (oINRc)

330 The 1950's, early 60's. Usually when you caught the bastard alone. No one else around.

Dad was Slovak, mom was Hungarian. I am the recipient in that DNA and am NOT a calm individual, nor patient when someone was bullying me.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (Zvtjl)
***

Early 60's. Had my bully encounter when I was 10. The other kid was 13. Kept hitting me so I punched him in the nose. Hard. He turned around so I kicked him in the ass. And yeah, after that he landed a couple good shots on me, but we both went home bloody. He never bothered me again.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (e4fEA)

331 Don't go for lepers, huh?
Posted by: Roy at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (rqgpJ)

Interest is falling off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (0C6U5)

332 Screw your airplane identity politics. I identify as a Patriot Missile System. Bring it Bitchez!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 21, 2023 11:53 AM (e4fEA)
----------
* My AGM-114 Hellfire Drone Missile alter-ego had entered the chat *
Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 11:55 AM (Pk+pJ)

*throws down atlatl*
*stalks off in disgust*

- Ogg

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (3CCua)

333 Reminds me of my Econ teacher at the JC. Someone once told him, "Good Morning", and he replied, maybe for you but how do you know if it's the same for me? Next time, 'Morning' will suffice".

My standard reply is, "mighty big of you to think I fucking care how you feel".

Next time he wouldn't even have received a grunt.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (nW4TA)

334 Fox News needs to die financially and go away. What an upside down world we live in in 2023. Any more masks come down and I’ll have no reference points to go by…. Sigh. I’m slow as it took me until
Election night 2020 to recognize FNC was not my friend

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (cn6fk)

335 139
'but some bullying can be very, very beneficial.'

I don't agree. I think bullying is an inevitable condition in life and it has to be dealt with. I have been somewhat successful at it but it left me with a hell of a lot of latent hostility that I have to manage.

If it is so beneficial, explain how the bullying we are getting from FJB and his fellow creeps will benefit us.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (a1ycR)

336 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

We forget that that is the point of "free speech". Despite protests to the contrary there is no way to come to a consensus on what is offensive.

Now even sentences that include "he" and "she" are offensive.

I'm offended when the Left tells me a baby is a "clump of cells". No one is looking to restrict *that* because the winners and losers of Speech Club have already been chosen.

It's not supposed to work like that. It cannot work like that. Restricted speech makes everyone a slave.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (g16rN)

337 The skin blotch does not bother me. The lack of feminine hips does. That might be a dude.

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (2pH9T)

https://youtu.be/KWBDKzvdazk
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (ynpvh)

Teed that one up for ya!

Posted by: Doof at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (2pH9T)

338 This bikini blonde once started studying social work, but she dropped out after she determined that both she and society as a wholw would be better served if she did literally anything else:
https://is.gd/heZfS6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

Long and sleek, plus belly chain. She bangs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (xcxpd)

339 327 Unorthodoxy warning ; if I sa good I'm wishing someone else have a good morning. I'm not commenting on the quantity of the morning.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (aCNZ6)

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What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

340 Pretty much every girl under the age of 30 in any major city is in some kind of therapy. Totally unnecessary. It's a total racket.

I wonder how much of it is simply paying somebody to pretend they're your friend for an hour. And I wonder how much of this new fad is because the same folks don't get the same social affirmation in the old social circles. Church. Social clubs. Like minded folks getting what they need from an in-person echo chamber.

Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (sH/RF)

341 329 Hey guys - which comes first in the alphabet? "G," or "R?"

Thanks - I'm studying for a Library Science exam, and it's a real doozy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (oINRc)

The correct answer is “ the alphabet is a tool of the patriarchy and white supremacy and needs to be reimagined”.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (LNucI)

342 IIRC, the left wants to use social workers in lieu of police. That's going to be an expensive investment. And excuse me, but how much do social workers get paid?

If it were one million dollars a year, I would not accept such a job. Ugh.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (Mzdiz)

343 Jack Smith turned one of Trump's aides, who is spilling all the details about the coup.

Posted by: Sid - Aviators are Off at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (pBhcC)

344 NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (nRMeC)

345 TheBlaze reports: Whistleblowers at Fox News reveal that the company is matching employee donations to the Satanic Temple, far-left LGBT activist organization The Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, and the SPLC.

https://tinyurl.com/r3b5vsw2
Posted by: bonhomme at July 21, 2023 11:52 AM (R38qh)
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They probably match any registered 501(c)3 organization. That's how my company does it (except churches, in my case - of any kind).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (t0OGg)

346 Hey, aren't there a bunch of chicks playing soccer or something right now?

THESE WOMEN ARE THE GREATEST ATHLETES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED IF YOU AREN'T PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO WOMEN'S KICKY-BALL!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (dcmzF)

347 But, my teachers and friends never showed any vested interest in changing me. That's not the case today. I try to parent much like mine did but it's a different world now.
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This is very true. However, the strongest influence is what you do and do not do. Set a good example. They subconsciously will absorb a lot of what you do. If a kid grows up seeing his mom and dad aunts and uncles, gramma and grampa bend their knees and pray, that leaves a strong impression.

Posted by: If you have kids, you gotta walk the walk, its not the talk at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (sh1GZ)

348 By the way today is the anniversary of the moon landing.
54 years ago.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (CecP5)

Nay, July 20 not 21.

Posted by: spindrift at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (iG1Nf)

349 All blame goes to the left

Posted by: Paul at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (Wkmjf)

350 But a miracle pill sounds so much easier.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures

Skip the pills! Try this one simple trick...

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (ftFVW)

351 325 Hey, aren't there a bunch of chicks playing soccer or something right now?
Posted by: logprof at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (g3ooz)

Wake me if they start playing beach volleyball

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

352 I'm afraid this is insufficient. As a product of the 80s and 90s, I tried to be hands-off, sharing my conservative thoughts with my kids in middle America, but not pressuring or forcing anything. Big mistake.

While I felt I wasn't indoctrinating my kids, all media (and most of society) actively was. Unfortunately, I'm now of the opinion that, if you have kids, you and your spouse need to actively feel like you're brainwashing your kid to keep them normal. Because if you don't, the Left is always actively trying.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 21, 2023 11:54 AM (JCZqz)

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O'Sullivan's Law applies in the home perhaps more importantly than anywhere else.

[Wifey was totally a-political, but clearly a cultural conservative from Texas, when we met 21 years ago. Now, because of me, she's more right-wing than me. And yes, the first gift I gave her was a hardbound Atlas Shrugged with a romantic personal poem inscribed.]

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (Pk+pJ)

353 I saw a youtube video of a gal that spent 13 years in therapy. She was raised Baptist and kept sinning.

She converted to Catholicism, went to Confession and BOOM! No more therapy needed.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 21, 2023 12:03 PM (jgJfd)

354 Asking these people to provide counseling services to conservatives and independent
thinkers doesn’t sound like a very good idea to me.

Good thing that 99% of conservatives and independent
thinkers don't need counseling.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 21, 2023 12:03 PM (17s+e)

355 I wonder how much of it is simply paying somebody to pretend they're your friend for an hour. And I wonder how much of this new fad is because the same folks don't get the same social affirmation in the old social circles. Church. Social clubs. Like minded folks getting what they need from an in-person echo chamber.

Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (sH/RF)

Or, you can pay somebody who genuinely despises you, the conservative.

Or better yet, come to the ONT for sympathy and good advice.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 21, 2023 12:03 PM (Mzdiz)

356 Posted by: Sid - Face-Planting on the Short Stairs at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (pBhcC)

Fixed. You keep screwing up your nic!

Posted by: spindrift at July 21, 2023 12:03 PM (iG1Nf)

357
I warned everyone about Bigmouth Billy Barr
I warned everyone about Fix News
And I am still warning everyone about Ron DePlantis

Maybe one day I won't get insulted for the favor.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2023 12:03 PM (g16rN)

358 336 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 11:56 AM (ynpvh)

We forget that that is the point of "free speech". Despite protests to the contrary there is no way to come to a consensus on what is offensive.

Now even sentences that include "he" and "she" are offensive.

I'm offended when the Left tells me a baby is a "clump of cells". No one is looking to restrict *that* because the winners and losers of Speech Club have already been chosen.

It's not supposed to work like that. It cannot work like that. Restricted speech makes everyone a slave.

Posted by: ... at July 21, 2023 12:00 PM (g16rN)

If a baby is a clump of cells, anybody can be called a clump of cells.
"Hey, clump of cells, stop rubbing your tail clump of cells against my leg clump of cells!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 21, 2023 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

359 YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED IF YOU AREN'T PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO WOMEN'S KICKY-BALL!
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TBF I pay no attention to men's kickball. I pay a lot more attention to women's water polo and volleyball than i do to men's. How come you aren't complaining about that. . .

Posted by: there's this thing, called the market, it reflects the voluntary choices of consumers at July 21, 2023 12:04 PM (sh1GZ)

360 Actually Norm, the anniversary of the moon landing was yesterday.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at July 21, 2023 12:04 PM (NBVIP)

361 Nay, July 20 not 21.
Posted by: spindrift

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220, 221 whatever

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 12:04 PM (LNucI)

362 By the way today is the anniversary of the moon landing.
54 years ago.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 21, 2023 11:57 AM (CecP5)

Nay, July 20 not 21.
Posted by: spindrift at July 21, 2023 12:02 PM (iG1Nf)

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It was the 21st in Australia.

/

Posted by: ShainS at July 21, 2023 12:04 PM (Pk+pJ)

363 Unorthodoxy warning ; if I sa good I'm wishing someone else have a good morning. I'm not commenting on the quantity of the morning.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (aCNZ6)
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What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM (LvTSG)

What if I've had six good mornings in a row, and it's my turn for a really shiity one and some loose lipped asshoe has just morally obligated me to fuck right off with my plans?

- George Carlin (kinda paraphrased)

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 21, 2023 12:04 PM (3CCua)

364 I showed people at the Dojo last weekend a picture of me 50 years ago, back from Vietnam, and before the truck ran over me a couple of years later. Most of them couldn't believe that 25 year old smiling guy used to be me. One of them asked, and they were all thinking, "What the Hell Happened to you?"

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 21, 2023 12:04 PM (CecP5)

365 Does it have to be an aircraft...? Because I have Ontos fantasies....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 21, 2023 12:05 PM (d9q+b)

366 Hey, aren't there a bunch of chicks playing soccer or something right now?
Posted by: logprof at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (g3ooz)

Apparently our lesbians have won the last two World Cups.

This was news to me.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 21, 2023 12:06 PM (aD39U)

367 The correct answer is “ the alphabet is a tool of the patriarchy and white supremacy and needs to be reimagined”.

Posted by: Montec at July 21, 2023 12:01 PM

We could use cunieform, brown people invented that written language.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 21, 2023 12:06 PM (ncXxy)

368 Took a master's in library science in the 70s. Was it overkill? Yeah, maybe -- if Dewey and cart pushing were all you needed to know. But the courses also covered more reference and bibliographical sources than I'd ever run across in the libraries I'd used in the years prior to chasing the degree. But was there so much to cover that a master's was required? Probably not. Most of what was covered was the sort of thing that could be learned on the job, and I doubt library science is the only graduate field where that's true.

These days, with libraries trying to be everything to everybody, I wouldn't be a good fit for the job and wouldn't dream of going into it now. The writing was on the wall when you started seeing librarians saying that the library was more than "just books."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at July 21, 2023 12:07 PM (a/4+U)

369 "People with unorthodox beliefs" used to be referred to as "Normal." The fact that it requires a decade-plus of indoctrination into social sciences to counter natural inclinations and mores that shaped advanced western civilizations for centuries ought to be a tell.

Posted by: red speck at July 21, 2023 12:07 PM (0Id0S)

370 Apparently our lesbians have won the last two World Cups.

So they licked all the competition?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 21, 2023 12:07 PM (ZGrMX)

371 Kubrick did a good job.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 21, 2023 11:59 AM (LvTSG)

--Mekons: "Ghosts of American Astronauts"

https://youtu.be/JtaAWk6YLqQ

Posted by: logprof at July 21, 2023 12:10 PM (g3ooz)

372 Pretty much every girl under the age of 30 in any major city is in some kind of therapy. Totally unnecessary. It's a total racket.
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They should all save their money and read . . .

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally’s award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty.

Posted by: there's this thing, called the market, it reflects the voluntary choices of consumers at July 21, 2023 12:12 PM (sh1GZ)

373 Apparently our lesbians have won the last two World Cups.

This was news to me.
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It is moved that the USA Women's World Cup team now be referred to as "Our Lesbians in Baggy Shorts".
Do I have a second?

Posted by: Rules Committee at July 21, 2023 12:14 PM (sh1GZ)

374 The next time a government form asks for my sex, I'll just write in "no"

Posted by: logprof at July 21, 2023 12:16 PM (g3ooz)

375 He is a nut, who has fully bought into the evil lie of man-made climate change. But if he causes confusion in the enemy camp, he has some value. But never forget, he ain't on our side.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

When they do things like censor an evil Republican, they never question it and it's a wonderful thing. When they do it to one of their own, it causes real cognitive dissonance, which is very valuable for us.

Posted by: Biergood at July 21, 2023 12:17 PM (FQWHA)

376 When they do things like censor an evil Republican, they never question it and it's a wonderful thing. When they do it to one of their own, it causes real cognitive dissonance,
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It sends a message. They have to control their own as much as they have to control us. Anyone who does not tow the party line is an enemy. They will cull the unpure, no matter which party they claim to support.

Posted by: Operation Valkyrie at July 21, 2023 12:20 PM (sh1GZ)

377 So now I presume that an orthodox Jew or a observant member of the Eastern Orthodox Church would be considered to be unorthodox. Am I right?

Posted by: Ralph at July 21, 2023 12:42 PM (wnTj5)

378 30 years ago, A friend of mine was having romantic difficulty with a man. Her therapist, a new yorker, hopefully suggested that she might consider being a lesbian. They've been crazy for a long time.

Posted by: Beverly at July 21, 2023 12:50 PM (Epeb0)

379 Quick context:
The "orthodox" National Association of Social Workers has about 120,000 members. That's bigger than the Church of the Brethren, but smaller than Christian Congregation, Inc.

There are 50-70 MILLION Catholics and around 25 MILLION Baptists in the US.

Even the Scientologists outnumber them by 30-1.

"Orthodox," indeed.

Posted by: ChickenBoy at July 21, 2023 12:51 PM (wY++6)

380 Debbie Wasserman Schultz is one of the worst human beings to ever inhabit the planet.

Posted by: FRED at July 21, 2023 12:56 PM (2znMt)

381 This is what happens when a country shifts from center-right to far left of center. And that is what has occurred. Folks, you're going to have to assume now that you're in the minority. Act accordingly. Think accordingly.

Posted by: The Way Things Work at July 21, 2023 11:31 AM
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But that's the bitch, isn't it? We aren't actually in the minority. Not by a long shot. A small percentage of very noisy radical tail in this country is trying to wag the dog.

Posted by: MartynWW at July 21, 2023 01:12 PM (N1vqS)

382 I think physical therapy is another accreditation racket. Most well-trained personal trainers with experience are just as helpful and effective with orthopedic issues and recovery exercise from surgery or injury. My course of PT was over $3000. My work with a personal trainer and a good massage therapist cost me less than $500 and did the job just fine. The whole notion that you need a friggen doctorate to give people a couple of dumb bell workouts or put them on a stationary bike for 20 minutes is outrageous. And if you feel you must get "expert" advice from a PT, go to YouTube - there's a zillion of them on there.

Posted by: Syracuse1989 at July 21, 2023 01:27 PM (exm8+)

383 27 >>The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association published a paper describing “Whiteness” as a “malignant, parasitic-like condition.”

W
T
F

I don't even understand what this mean -- except that this thinking very quickly leads to genocide.
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Is it really genocide when the people killed are psycho(therapist)s? I mean, they're not a distinct racial or ethnic group...

Posted by: buddhaha at July 21, 2023 02:04 PM (KxnWu)

384 It takes at least 6 years to cleanse a Social Worker candidate of all his or her intelligence, experience, and common sense.

Posted by: Socratease at July 21, 2023 02:16 PM (oqnjT)

385 Kudos to Archimedes for using 'quash' correctly.

(Here's to quashing the substitution of 'squash' for 'quash'...)

Posted by: Beverly at July 21, 2023 02:24 PM (Epeb0)

386 I'm making $90 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning sixteen thousand US dollars a month by working on the connection, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply. Everybody must try this job now by just using this website... www.Payathome7.com

Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at July 21, 2023 03:06 PM (gnZTP)

387 And these are the people who can take away your rights with red-flag laws.

Posted by: SDN at July 21, 2023 03:58 PM (KdP4Y)

388 I'm a conservative mental health clinician, in a rural area. There are a lot of us in more rural areas who are not leftists (and maybe even some in suburban/urban areas), but we face extraordinary pressures. We have to be careful and keep our heads down. If they "spot you", they will go for your license to practice.
Ghosts in the machine.....

Posted by: Jim at July 21, 2023 04:20 PM (qGMbT)

389 Somebody probably already said this, and jut spitballing here, but " "unorthodox” opinion—maybe a conservative political bent, a literal belief in the Bible or support for free speech even when it’s offensive. This includes centrists, moderates, libertarians, and many liberals, as well as people who are simply open-minded." might just maybe lead to more stable psychological outcomes, maybe?

Posted by: Penultimatum at July 21, 2023 06:31 PM (1QSX/)

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