Although it gets a lot less fun the closer we come to a federal election, I have for years enjoyed reading the Ace of Spades blog. Ace is a big-C conservative, which means he spends a lot of time being a Sad Republican and sometimes that gets old. But the writing is good and witty and I forgive the crew for often missing the point.
Most of the time. Except sometimes they’re such perfect examples of how conservatives are just as deluded as the liberals they love to call deluded.
Case in point…Here’s a bit of fun ridiculing some liberal writer’s obsession with evil rich people whose breakfast sandwiches are more upscale and expensive than yours. Seriously, there’s some SJW out there who gave us 800+ words in the Washington Post on how bad it is that people with more money not only can spend it on fancier food, but often do.
Okay, that’s as risible a topic as I can imagine offhand, so go with that by all means. I was enjoying the AoS piece very much, when suddenly…
And when they’re not plotting the grand metaphysical overthrow of basic human thinking, they are obsessing over break-f***ing-fast sand-f***ing-wiches.
Or a “racy” cabana shirt a rocket scientist wore.
Or a football team’s name.
Etc.
They do not see the dangers in front of them — ISIS is beheading men across the Middle East, and impressing women into sexual slaveries — because they have the Curse of the Stars and the Smalls.
Okay, okay, if I were forced to choose between ISIS violence or some guy’s problematic shirt as to which is the greater evil, I’d likely not choose the shirt. Trouble is conservatives love to view ISIS terrorists with alarm, but not because they’re a genuine existential threat to American society – which they palpably are not. Ace claims to believe that violent followers of a hokey religion constitute ‘the dangers in front of us,’ and I can think of others – far greater and far closer to home.
Remember the Taliban, and how our masters solemnly told us it was just so horrible we needed to wipe the earth clean of it? Now here we are, a whole domestic surveillance industry and lots and lots of dead people later, all better. Well – except now there’s ISIS.
And – when nobody’s around so I don’t get in trouble – I must ask: Which is the greater evil? Some idiot obsessing about breakfast sandwiches, or your tax money buying bombs to blow up brown people who weren’t hurting you half a world away? Ace is all in favor of that.
That, Joel, is simply the curse of being smarter than “conservatives” or “liberals”. Your eyes get sore from rolling at their silliness. Silliness they’ll never see because they aren’t smart enough to notice it.
Liberals and Conservatives are different sides of the same coin.
I agree with Judy’s comment above. Liberals get po’d at conservatives demanding unlimited abortions while telling conservatives that owning firearms should be controlled. Each side demanding the same from the other – leave my personal life alone. If you want to stop people from taking your rights, then stop demanding to take away their rights.
Read that somewhere, I’m too stupid to think that up myself . . .
” . . . conservatives demanding unlimited abortions . . . ”
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🙂 I think he meant the liberals demand unlimited abortions…
I wish you’d put the ‘brown people’ comment at the start of the article, so I’d know not to bother.
Unless you lamented ‘buying bombs to kill white people halfway around the world’ in the ’90’s. If you did, please accept my implied apology.
All sides need to stop obsessing about melanin. It derails the conversation, every time.
Really? The inclusion of a single word upsets you so? Interesting. If you think the mention of brown is illegitimate unless balanced elsewhere by white, I must suggest that I’m not the one obsessing about melanin.
First, they come for your breakfast sandwich, then your lunch, etc. I can see the rallying cry on t-shirts now: ‘They can have my pannini when they pry it from my cold, grease-laden fingers”.