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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You don't say?


Hey, random question, what's the markdown tag for sarcasm?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


We’ve engaged in a concerted propaganda campaign for decades suggesting that because moral equality is mandatory, biological identity must also be mandatory. This makes it practically unthinkable to consider that it’s perfectly possible to construct a political system that grants equal rights to all citizens while acknowledging that not everyone can visualize a rotating 3D cube with equal fidelity. But biting that bullet feels dangerous to many. It feels like opening the door to old aristocracies. So instead, we pretend the differences don't exist, which inadvertently creates a new aristocracy of "people who know the right shibboleths."




I wish this was driven by a fear of aristocracy, but I don't think it is.  Many of these same people scream for a dictator of the proletariat.  They imagine themselves as the rightful aristocracy because they are just heckin' good people, you know?  And if they had absolute power they'd show it to you.


No, the fear of noticing is driven by a paranoia of Eugenics.  If we abandon people to the consequences of their choices, or heaven forbid their children, then that's nearly the same as putting them on a train to the nearest extermination camp.  No, instead the moral thing to do is to feed, clothe and house them and allow them to have as many kids as they want, and just keep giving them more and more and more forever because resources aren't finite.  LBJ won a Nobel Prize for inventing the free lunch.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


When you ask such a question, most people in their heads would envision a car already at reasonable speed intentionally crashing into a cop, not a scenario which was visible from the various footages here.




Hard disagree!  And I think the only reason you think that is because suddenly, the entire discourse is revolving around everyone being a fictitious expert in exactly was sort of pedestrian-vehicle collisions you are allowed to fear for your life in.  Prior to this being such a scissor statement, I believe most people would have said "All of them.  Are you retarded?"  Now, suddenly, because one side can't be correct unless there are hairs to split, people are parsing the exact position of the pedestrian and the SUV, the exact speed they were going, the exact point of impact, the exact angle of the tires.  It's all bullshit, it's all hindsight, and it's a standard that no one has ever applied to hitting a pedestrian before in the entire history of cars hitting humans.  Ask the poor schmuck who got railroaded into several life sentences at Charlottesville!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for January 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, I'm stilling holding out for a better offer from the other place.  Their tech stack is .net which I've spent the majority of my career in, so it's a much better fit.  Plus I've received every indication the pay will be better too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for January 13, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well, that wasn't nearly as bad as I feared it would be.


Got my first job offer.  Even negotiated it up fairly easily.  Almost too easily.  It's going to involve a lot of Java, and I hate Java, but such is life.


Another company seems to like me, and they are bringing me nearly all day for a whole series of interviews with the whole team I'd be working with.  I'm kind of hoping they give me an offer because I think I'd rather work with them.  But beggars can't be choosers, and providing for my family comes first.


While I've been feverishly updating my skillset, I think an appreciation for containers finally set in for me.  They were a tedious black box that defied my profound need to see all the moving parts transparently.  A silent, frustrating wall when the slightest thing went wrong in a tangle of configuration options, CI:CD or honest to god bugs in the container itself.  But since I've been speeding through off the shelf dbs, web servers, reverse proxies, caches, etc in an effort to freshen up my knowledge of what's even out there and say with a straight face "Yeah, I've used that before", being able to just download a container with a few configuration parameters has been infinitely easier than cluttering up my OS with a dozen different technologies.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
You are washing over the raw fact that this person was purposely obstructing justice.  That is still a crime.  This wasn't (or shouldn't) be legally protected free speech.  She purposely put herself in a position to obstruct legal law enforcement activities.  Then we had the front line of lies about her just being confused, or trying to do a 3 point turn, or having gotten lost.  Lies which still seem to cling to your heart as a reason none of this deserves to have happened.


But rest assured, if you have Democrat politicians telling their voters "These aren't real police, you don't have to cooperate with them" and you have NGOs training randos "Here are all the ways a lawyer told us you can fuck with ICE that might hold up in court" and you have these twin forces sending people out to fuck with ICE at scale, shootings like this were unaviodable.


Given how quickly the fallacious narrative was spread, and how quickly protest materialized, I'd say that was always the plan.


Do I have iron clad evidence this woman was part of a conspiracy to make this happen?  No.  But I think you'd be a fool to see she didn't take a very deadly bait from people she thought had her best interest at heart.  Which is more or less what the Democrats plan for all of us.


To summarize, you don't get to obstruct justice, you don't get to flee police, you don't get to drive through police.  Dude wasn't standing blocking her car, he was circling it filming, likely for evidence.  She chose to floor it at him in the 5-10 seconds he was passing in front of her, which was lethally poor judgement on her part.  She won a well deserved darwin award.  She probably could have gotten away with everything else she'd done but for that.  These are not things normal people need fear.


Once again, I'm reminded of another forum I used to frequent, and their emotive meltdown over the Rittenhouse verdict meaning "Conservatives can just murder progressives".  Ignoring the fact that before the congenital felons who chased down Rittenhouse got shot, first they were rioting, then they chased him through the streets, then they beat him over the head, then they ignored him yelling to get away, then they lined up one after another for a chance to murder him while he heroically defended his own life.  They could have gotten away with the rioting, even chasing him off, without getting shot.  All they had to do was not try to murder him, and Progressives whinge about "That could have been any of us!"


Likewise here.  All the lady had to do was not drive forward while an ICE officer was walking in front of her, and people like you go "That could have been any of us!"  Do you even hear yourself?


Edit:  You know, what, furthermore...


This wasn't some "one neat trick cops can use to murder you" type bullshit.  I would expect any reasonable person as of a month ago, when asked "Hey, if someone tries to run over a cop, do you think the cop might shoot them?" would have gone "Yeah, probably."  I donno, maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe we've gone so far that above the bugman constant literally believes cops allowing themselves to be seriously injured or killed is just "part of the job", and they must allow their life to be snuffed out forever by congenital felons, brainrotted retards and traitors.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


So you really think that cowering in your home, as the cited person on twitter was saying, is a valid thing we should accept as a society?




I mean, it depends.  I think people who don't belong in this country, who are here illegally, if they aren't going to do the honorable thing and leave of their own accord, should absolutely cower in their homes.  Why do we want a world where criminals are free to parade themselves around our cities without fear of justice?


Some people deserve to be afraid of the consequences of their actions.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And he loses still further sympathy points if it was him who said "fucking bitch"




This cannot be a serious talking point.  This is downright mild profanity compared to what I'd spew if I were hit by a car.  Again.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Two things can be true at the same time.  She was being a profoundly obnoxious and immature criminal.  Hardly unique, nor exculpatory.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


She said stuff like "I'm not mad at you" and "I'm pulling out", and those are not the words attempting to murder a federal agent. For fuck's sake, someone (possibly Ross) called her a "fucking bitch" not two seconds after she was shot, which cuts the other way. Again: none of this requires you to think Good's wife, for example (!), or nearby protestors, or Good, are virtuous, only to think that the cop did at least something wrong. Something is wrong, and it's the attitude here.




There are certain tells that you know someone is lying about this.  This is one of them.


By way of example, because I guess this is what schools do now, or maybe just my daughter's old school, "Please walk away" was the prescribed phrase kids were told to use when another kid was bothering them.  Sounds polite right?  Your inner monologue reading that probably made it sound as nice as can be, yeah?


Yeah, that's now how the kids say it.  They've found a way to pour as much passive aggression, or even overt aggression, into that polite phrase as possible.  It became a universal means of taunting.  Get up in another kid's business who was quietly doing their work, and start chanting it at them in that shitty sing song way that comes so naturally to kids.


If you actually watched the video, you'd know how Good was saying "I'm not mad at you" was not at all matching the blank page reading of the words.  Nor were her actual actions consistent with it, nor were the goads and taunts of her wife.  And the fact the left is falling back on the same defense of their shitty behavior as a pack of feral 6 year olds is concerning to say the least.  "But she said 'I'm not mad at you'!  This is unfair!"


It reminds me of other protests actions I've seen, with crowds of antifa beating people senseless while shouting "nonviolence".  Or punching people in the face doing nothing while screaming "I'm being attacked!"  I don't know if the cognitive dissonance created by them saying the exact opposite of what they are doing is the point.  Or if it's purely to enable liars like you (or maybe you are just repeating the lies you've been told, you are a liar by proxy.  I'm not mad at you), to say with a straight face "The crowd was chanting 'nonviolence' as police fired tear gas canisters and waded into the crowd with riot gear".


Anyways, this whole screed is pack of half truths, lies of omission, and naked emotional pleading.  I'd rather have a country, thanks.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean, they would, had they not been such a heroic effort on the part of the electorate voting for a guy explicitly running on promising to do so.  Most establishment Republicans denounced it, along with mainstream Republican media organizations.


I don't know if they still thought there was some value in trying to be perceived as "fairly calling balls and strikes" or if they are addicted to losing, or if they really are controlled opposition.  But rest assured, the only reason that happened is because a possibly crazy person (and I say that affectionately) won a historical electoral victory with that as a part of his public platform, to the consternation and finger wagging of nearly everyone with fake PTSD from Jan 6th.


And in another historical first, he actually did what he promised on the campaign trail.  Which the political class cried was somehow "corrupt".  What you are supposed to do is promise to do things and then not do them!  Anything less is immoral!


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Do you believe your in-laws literally want you dead and your daughter transed?




No, but they literally keep voting for local politicians who have that as their party platform.  They just... I donno, refuse to grapple with that part of things.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Well yes. Thats another reason i hate my enemies.  They don't even have the descency to admit it and have a fair fight.  Its just gas lighting about their naked aggression 24/7.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


My gut says this is solidly in the category of didn’t try to kill but had zero concern about the officers safety. In many cases that ends up getting people killed.




Also I believe meets the definition of depraved-indifferent murder, in jurisdictions with such a thing.  It just feels like that meme, with "I didn't mean to kill him, I just didn't care" and someone responding "That's worse.  You know that's worse, right?"


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


he's unlucky at best




Luck has nothing to do with it.  Democrats are telling their voters to do this..  And their PD's and DA's broadly let them get away with it too.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Is it your genuine sincere belief that every single person identified as being "on the left" is an evil liar? That it's literally impossible for anyone to be a Democrat or a liberal and sincere and well-intentioned?




I think they do evil.  I think at this point to be a Democrat is to be deeply committed to doing evil.  The hills Democrats have chosen to die on (castrating children, giving billions in fraud to immigrants of questionable legality, forcing people to take experimental medications, mass censorship) are virtually unrecognizable from the Democrats of 30 years ago.  All the good ones left the party and joined the Republican ticket.  Which is probably why so many high ranking positions in Trump's administration got filled with former Democrats (RFK Jr, Tulsi).


I have in laws who are deeply committed Democrats, deeply committed to destroying the country.  They don't think of it that way.  They are hopelessly, and willfully, ignorant of the consequences of their policies.  If "Evil" had a version of "without intent" like manslaughter, they'd be that.  All the same...




If we allowed some of those anti-MAGA posters who wander in to post like you do, would you be okay with that, or are you explicitly advocating we make the Motte a "leftists fuck-off" space?




If they were honest.  I only care about honesty.  They may view me as evil, for caring about my heritage, and wanting it to continue to exist.  For not wanting billions of 3rd worlders enshittifying my homeland.  For the very fact that my ancestors conquered this nation in the first place.  And these are the exact reasons these differences can only be sorted out finally.  I cannot exist in their world, and they cannot exist in mine.  We are mutually evil to one another.  I find their morality an abhorrent inversion of proper morals, and they feel the same.  I can recognize this however, and accept that it's all over now but the violence.  We cannot coexist.


But only if they are honest.  If they stroll in here like Darwin of yore, playing Arguments as Soldiers, refusing to be pinned down, refusing to ever admit what the negative space around their rhetoric is gesturing towards, fuck em.


Which goes straight to it, and you see this over and over and over again.  The leftist always calibrates their speech towards maximum fog of war.  Among their own it's "Yes, I want to destroy the white race." but then in public it's "Oh why can't we have sympathy for the 65 IQ serial rapist an NGO imported from Africa?  He just needs more restorative justice.  That 3 year old probably won't even remember what happened to it."  Which also goes straight to why LibsOfTiktok went so viral.  These people just put all that nonsense out there, under their real ass names, employment in bio, and thought they were the victims when people outside their bubble saw it.  Because, like Hillary Clinton famously said, sometimes you have two sets of opinions, a public set and a private set.  It was an invasion of privacy to see their private opinions... even when they posted them publicly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yes, this is what happens when "My outgroup is evil" is straight up not allowed.  When you can't just go "Well, they've lied about literally everything the last 15 years of my life... so I'm just going to assume the worst about them this time."


Obviously every narrative about this shooting from the left was going to be a lie.  Did we already forget the cloud of bullshit they kicked up attempting to claim the Kirk shooter was MAGA?  The weeks people spent here giving time to lies that were obvious immediately, irrefutable days later, and still trying to be "charitable" to obvious liars wondering in here weeks later from new accounts to discuss if Kirk's shooter was actually MAGA.


I'm reminded, ironically, of one of Sam Harris' criticisms of Donald Trump.  Which is that, if he tells 1000 lies, just completely thoughtlessly, maybe 10 seconds per lie, and it takes you 2 hours to disprove each one... Donald Trump still wins because he wasted minutes of his life on the effort and you wasted days if not weeks or months.


So this is me weighing in finally.  I don't understand why anybody even entertained a leftist narrative when the obvious reality is that this woman chose every step of this encounter, and fucked around and found out.  She was not innocent, confused, wrong place wrong time, panicked, any of it.  She's a brainwashed lesbian activist who thought she could run down an ICE agent because she's on the right side of history and Democrats have been telling her she can for years now.  She doesn't deserve charity, the people creating fog of war do not deserve charity, evil actually exists no matter how much you claim it's against the rules to discuss.


To say nothing of Tim Walz having every appearance of being willing to cross the Rubicon because the Feds are finally going after his fraud kickbacks.  Which is rich after having been beat over the head with "Insurrectionist" for 4 years.


There are no offramps or political solutions.  It's between you, your God and your conscience your level of involvement in what's coming.  I pray that keeping your head in the sand works out for most of you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Man, don't ping me on this.  There is nothing I can say that won't get me banned!


I kid, I kid.


Kind of.


It does bring me comfort though that I no longer need to say the things that will get me banned.  You know.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why do you think we had such different experiences?




It's remarkable the things you can be oblivious to if your news diet doesn't tell you.  Then one day your coworker and their mother are murdered in their apartment (in one of the gentrified parts of town) in a gang killing.  At least, that's how my wife's illusions were shattered.


My local news bends over backwards to not cover crime.  Itty bitty little articles, no photos of perps, they usually even decline to provide descriptions of the suspect, though they'll mention the police have released one and if anybody has seen them to call.  Never makes their front page either, you have to specifically go to this little "Crime" section that has the feel of a subsection they are just about ready to delete entirely.  Sometimes a particularly heinous crime will get some attention on the regional subreddit, but usually posts about crime just get deleted because reddit and agenda pushing.


So yeah, I don't really take your lack of noticing as a proof of absence.  You and a million like you.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


What's stopping him from letting his kids be free range ? The restrictions feel self-imposed.




It's a different world man.  I checked the FBI crime statistics, and in my home town, when I was allowed to bike 30 minutes as google map says, probably 60 minutes as a kid bikes, down the bike path on the parkway to the nearest shopping center for a slushy, the murder rate in my county was 0-1 per year.  Entirely domestics.  In the year 2025 it's closer to 50, and lots of gang deaths.  To say nothing of other random tragedies caused by associated rises in drunk driving, drug availability, and the general third worldification of my homeland.  In 30 years we went from random murder literally not being a thing that ever happened where I lived, to constant low level gang violence.


I get the arguments about per capita.  But I think when it comes to the loss of quality of life due to violent crime, the incidents per 100,000 residents matters a lot less than the proximity to incidents.  If I'm in a crowd of 100 that gets randomly fired into, versus being in a crowd of 100,000 that random gets fired into, I sincerely doubt my perception and attendant stress levels will be much different between the two.  I'm thinking "I could have been killed!" either way.


And so it goes with our kids.  When I was a child, it was major news when a neighbor's child wondered off and drowned in a lake.  A tragedy the likes of which hadn't been seen in decades in our town.  Now teenagers show up dismembered in public parks and it's a Tuesday.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I stayed up late to watch the finale last night, and I broadly agree.


I've have my beef with the direction they took Will in.  I'd been predicting since then that Will's gayness would consume the entire story, and by the end he'd be defeating the main villain with the power of homosexuality.


I'm happy to say I was wrong, for the most part.  Yeah, the climax, such as there was one, of the second to last episode was Will's coming out, with absolutely everyone being super cool with it.  Which is a far cry from the grittier "Man, people were pretty blunt and even bigoted in the 80's" attitudes of season 1, or even season 3.  At the end of the day by season 5, it was current year in 1987 or whenever the finale is supposed to be taking place.


That said, the final episode still delivered more or less.  The story proper is wrapped up in a fairly straight forward 60 minutes, and then we get another 45-ish to indulgently say goodbye to all the characters.  When most shows give you a quick 5-10 minute "where are they now?" montage, it was nice to not feel rushed.


I didn't feel like Will defeated Vecna with the power of homosexuality.  I think Dustin had been the main character since season 4, maybe season 3, and I was ok with that.  Finn Wolfhard has been phoning it in since he started doing movies and I'm not sure anyone cared about him and 11 anymore.  Season 4 might have been the best season since the first one, but at least season 5 didn't completely shit the bed.  It was missing a lot of the slice of life "this is what the 80's were like" trappings of earlier seasons.  Even if many of them were imaginary.  Then again, it was basically the back half of season 4 which set it up.  Slice of life had been well and left behind.


I also think it was trapped in development hell, and had been through so many damned rewrites, that they'd lost track of what they were even doing anymore.  So a lot of the thematic and character threads seemed to have fallen between the cracks.  Most of the distinct character dynamics seemed to have been lost besides the love triangle between Steve, Jonathan and Nancy.  Everything is just subsumed into this group "Gosh aren't we all just swell friends?" vibe.


I guess at the end of the day, it didn't ruin the show for me, which is high praise these days.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Tinker Tuesday for December 30, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've been melting my brain with leetcode.  Some highlights.


I really enjoy doing a Topological Sort, or Kahn's Algorithm.  Almost every graph problem I see, I take a minute and have a think if it can be solved with a topological sort.


I took a day to really try to understand Monotonic Stacks or Deques, because on the face of it I couldn't grasp what they were doing at all.  But after manually stepping through a few examples of the algorithm on paper it clicked.  Been redoing a bunch of stack problems seeing if they can be solved with a Monotonic solutions.


Floyd's Cycle Detection remains a blind spot for me.  I mean, I get it, but I often fail to perceive that a given problem can be reinterpreted as a cycle detection problem.


Solving shortest cost problems in a graph with a minheap was something I'm not sure I ever learned in school.  I always remember doing that with a breadth first search queue.


I wonder if that had anything to do with learning all this in C/C++ without any standard template libraries.  If we wanted to use a minheap to solve a problem, we would have had to code one up ourselves, and I'm not sure we were taught that in undergrad.  Least I never was.  Doing the leetcode problems in modern languages, or even C++ with STL seems mostly to be a matter of picking the right data structure off the shelf and solving the problem with it and/or having heard of the algorithm you never would have come up with yourself.


Also, having been a software engineer for 20 years already, it has me looking back over my career.  Over all the stitching together of off the shelf libraries I've done, wondering if at any point I could have done a better job with any of this.  The answer is absolutely not.


Ah well.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Let me clarify.


The allegation is that, when this amateur reporter comes to the door of a supposedly not at all fake daycare, the children are placed on lockdown such that they cannot be heard or seen at all.  As if he were an active shooter.  Right out the gate, just as soon as he shows up, because they don't know him.


I'm not saying red tribe daycares/schools let any random person have free reign of the place.  If they aren't an obvious threat though, at least into the lobby to have a discussion about why they are here.  You'll be able to hear kids around at least.  Maybe see one bring a note up on some errand from a teacher.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
And the red tribe/blue tribe split shows itself again.


When I lived among the blues... honestly some childcare institutions were this paranoid, deranged as it seems.  Loudoun County Schools called the police on a father who showed up to collect his raped daughter because he was a little too upset that his daughter was raped.  I believe they didn't even allow him in the building, locked down classrooms, and sent out an email that a parent had caused a disturbance.


I don't live among the blues anymore.  That level of neuroticism and inverted priorities is just too cruel for me to live under.  But though you may scoff and think he's exaggerating, depressingly he may be describing how childcare institutions actually behave around him.


They really are completely different from us.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 29, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
That's always existed.  The problem is their preferred policy to deal with this is to bury the fraud and accuse anyone of pointing it out, no matter how outlandishly excessive it becomes, of -isms.  And that hasn't changed.


Minnesota cannot vote their way out of being looted as extensively as they are.  They've been conquered by figurative, as well as literal, pirates.  You can't vote conquerors out.


This is not an endorsement of any particular acts.  Just a bare statement of fact.  I know pointing out the reality in front of our very eyes sounds more and more like fed posting.  But that's not my fault.