Shot in the Dark

Priorities

A friend of the blog emails:

I don’t really like having police departments barricaded. But, I understand it. I look at [Saint Paul city councilwoman] Nelsie Yang’s post and I really don’t see a lot of support for her demand that the barricade be torn down, especially from non-White constituents, the very people she claims to be supporting in this action-

To social justice warriors like Yang and, let’s be honest, most of the Saint Paul and the entire Minneapolis City Councils, “social justice” with all its intellectual and political trappings is an abstract, academic concept that has little to do with the lives of their constituents – or at least the ones not employed in non-profits and academic humanities and soft science departments.

Rarely do people like Yang allow themselves to come into contact with the real life concerns of those they “represent”

When they do? It’s entertaining, at least.

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18 responses to “Priorities”

  1. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    The thing is The People may know what they want but it takes the Nelsie Yang’s of the world to know what they truly need.

    Given that, it is best that Nelsie keeps her distance from the prols, least she be confused by wants rather than needs.

    Clear enough?

  2. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    Far cheaper to install an M60 on each corner of the building.

  3. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    golfdoc50:

    I like your thinking, bro!

    I’ll even volunteer to man one of them. 😁

  4. shakingmyhead Avatar
    shakingmyhead

    GolfDoc – I’d suggest the M240B vs the M60. It’s a much easier tool to disassemble and deal with. A lot less stoppages as well. Same ammo though.

  5. Pete Strunk Avatar
    Pete Strunk

    This got me wondering; what happened with John Thompson, the black reprobate candidate who and former SPPS janitor who went on illiterate, incoherent, racist rampage in Hugo?

    He is now Rep. Thompson, one of the people that will make the laws under which you will be forced to live. But he’s still oppressed, and don’t you wipipul forget it!

    It won’t be long before state reps are swinging from light to light across the room in the House chamber during debate, buggering kids in the cloakroom between votes and demanding animal sacrifices before the start of the session…so vibrant!

    $20 says he’ll show up to his inauguration in a pimped out Escalade, baked af.

  6. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    The problem with removing barricades is they leave the building vulnerable to the next flash mob until barricades can be reinstalled.

    The real solution is to eliminate all police so we can convert the building into a recreation and midnight basketball center. Then, it won’t need protection from flash mobs: they’ll already be inside.

  7. Maximum Overlord Avatar
    Maximum Overlord

    Why not let them in & lock the damn doors?

  8. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    It won’t be long before state reps are swinging from light to light across the room in the House chamber during debate…

    I think I’d prefer them swinging from lampposts. Which, if you follow history, will likely be next.

  9. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    NW, not likely. Just look at the voting record – the prols like to be proled and will keep electing the prolers. So no, in MN, history will not be followed.

  10. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    jpa
    It is called The Nobility of the Lumpenproletariat™ and they take it very seriously.

  11. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    Shakingmyhead:
    Yes, I accept your suggestion!

  12. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    shaking,

    If the M240B jams less often than the M60, that would be an improvement. In all fairness, the M60 doesn’t really jam that often, but when do, they can be a bear to clear.

  13. shakingmyhead Avatar
    shakingmyhead

    Boss: I think the 240 is superior to the 60 in about every aspect. If you’ve ever shot/looked at a M249 (SAW/Minimi), it’s essentially the same thing in different caliber. Taking it apart and cleaning it (and clearing) are much easier.

  14. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    smh:

    As a Vietnam vet, outside of an M16, the other rapid fire guns that I fired, were the M60, the MADeuce and only because I had a buddy that worked in Fire Control Systems, a GE M61A1 Vulcan 20mm, which were used as tail guns on the B52-H models.

    As nice as the M60 was to fire, I’m glad that the current generation has something better.

  15. shakingmyhead Avatar
    shakingmyhead

    Boss: Yes, it’s nice when some of that defense money makes it’s way to the folks in close contact, instead of just for airplanes and boats. Body armor (vs flack vests), load bearing equipment, helmets, radios. and night vision are all areas that have really changed since your time frame.

  16. shakingmyhead Avatar
    shakingmyhead

    Boss: Yes, it’s nice when some of that defense money makes it’s way to the folks in close contact, instead of just for airplanes and boats. Body armor (vs flack vests), load bearing equipment, helmets, radios. and night vision are all areas that have really changed since your time frame.

  17. Bill C Avatar
    Bill C

    demanding animal sacrifices before the start of the session

    Only if they’re Halal….

  18. Pete Strunk Avatar
    Pete Strunk

    Bill C, I was thinking more about the Hmong, but you’re right, the Smallies will be gutting goats in there too.

    It’ll look like a mashup between the last night scene from apocalypse now and the group therapy scene from 1 flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

    And the best part is, the transcripts from those shitshows become MN law.

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