Preliminary vivisection of a jezebel

The SDL came across a jezebel who expressed a fear about Republicans ending no-fault divorce. As it happens, Ms. Cheung's general point is reasonable. If you're going to protect babies from murder, why not protect them from the family courts as they grow up? Therefore, it behooves one to look at the arguments offered in defense of no-fault, and their rather shaky logical foundations, which is exactly what I intend to do here.

Before I begin, a brief note about style. While I announced a vivisection in the title, I will stay away from harshness and other unbiblical ways to treat women, because a) God will judge me for what I write here and b) I hold out hope that jezebels will have their hearts softened when they see how men are supposed to conduct themselves around women. Please see the bottom of the post for the Bible references.

Let us get to it then, emphasis being mine:

No-fault divorce, which was first enacted in California in 1969, has always been a feminist issue. It’s allowed domestic abuse victims to leave a bad marriage without onerous barriers,

That's the thing about the Western legal system. The idea of 'innocent until proven guilty' is an onerous barrier indeed. To be fair, asking a Cheung to comprehend, let alone agree with, Western anything may be an undue burden.

empowers women and all people to escape legally binding situations with someone they don’t love.

Love is a choice. That's why spouses promise to love one another til death do them part. They can promise this because they can choose to do it. For instance, I cannot promise that I'll be hungry when I come to someone's house for dinner, because I cannot choose my feelings. I can promise to eat a light lunch, because what I eat for lunch is a choice. It's an important distinction. Food for thought: ask yourself how pretending that love is not a choice helps other evil causes like baby murder, fake-and-gay marriage, even pedophilia.

One would think no-fault divorce is a no-brainer

I do not think that Ms. Cheung meant to insinuate that it takes an absence of brain to support no-fault, but that would make the above sentence correct.

Pool says, “The courts are heavily biased in favor of women to an insane degree, especially with children.” (Notably, one woman in Louisiana briefly lost custody of her daughter to her rapist, and was forced to pay him child support earlier this year.)

Here we are treated to a classical jezebel argument: the attempt to counter a general assertion with a single outlier. I would accuse Ms. Cheung of attempting to deceive the reader, but the state of public education makes it possible that she, at age 24, is not numerate enough to know that one case means precisely nothing in a country of 300 million people. For instance, I know a guy who fishtailed across three lanes of a congested Chicago highway without hitting anything whatsoever. Nobody got hurt. Does that mean that all of us should drive 80 mph around a curve in a snowstorm?

In the same episode on Pool’s show, conservative commentator Ian Crossland adds, “We live in this culture where no-fault divorce is the law of the land… If young folks know they’re in an environment where divorce is not an option, I firmly believe they’re going to be more careful about who they choose to marry.”

Does anyone think that being careful whom you marry is a bad idea? What exactly is the problem about being careful with whom you vow to spend the rest of your life? Do you think the Louisiana woman above would have benefited from a social and legal environment where people are real careful about whom they marry?

The more analytically inclined will notice that this specific quote is inserted seemingly at random, without leading to a point that Ms. Cheung is trying to make. Is it possible that the quote is the point, that jezebels have legitimate reason to be concerned about potential husbands becoming more selective?

It’s tempting to write off Crowder’s words as an obvious projection of his own insecurities that no woman would ever marry him for love, but unfortunately, there’s something more sinister afoot.

Here is another tactic you will run into in your dealing with jezebels: woefully underinformed remote psychoanalysis. Of course, such an accusation will never come with detailed connections between a long-term record of the accused's behavior and the relevant DSM-V definitions, so don't pay any attention to it. However, I am tempted to wonder why Ms. Cheung's mind immediately jumps to peoople projecting their insecurities. Seems oddly specific, does it not?

When women’s abusive partners or other adults harm their children, laws in some states criminalize the mother—there have been several recent high-profile cases of this, including Rebecca Hogue in Oklahoma and Melissa Lucio in Texas.

In this case, it makes sense to cite isolated cases, since child murder is now a fairly rare crime, courtesy of overturning Roe v. Wade. The specific crime that Ms. Hogue was convicted of, the crime that Ms. Cheung finds it objectionable to prosecute, is failure to protect. This shows that it is not about the 'rights' of specific parties to a marital contract, but about removing protections for children.

Here be the Bible verses: Colossians 3:19, 1 Peter 3:7, Ephesisans 4:32 for style. Finally, Hebrews 13:4 shows that defending marriage is a good idea by itself.

Sunday Sampler No. 1: the example edition

Good day everyone, and welcome to the first ever Sunday Sampler here on this blog. The purpose of this sampler is to provide for you, dear reader, a sampling of the good, the beautiful, and the true on this day of our Lord Jesus Christ's resurrection. I have a few entries today, mostly in text format. In the future, I hope to find more content to sample, especially in the audio and video formats. Therefore, if you know any good stuff that I haven't put here, please drop a comment and I'll look it over for the next edition. And with that, let's get to it:

[1] Everyone's favourite Indo-British Russophile, Didact, has his own Sunday Scripture series. Since today's entry isn't up yet, enjoy last week's one.

[2] I remember the first time someone looked up to me. I was fifteen and it shocked me a little bit. That event really hammered home that what I do actually matters. Frank Luke takes the Scriptural approach and argues that it matters even more.

[3] Roosh, who needs no introduction, offers an Eastern take on the same idea.

[4] Rev. Matt asks himself and the reader about getting comfortable and boring in the faith. I want to draw special attention to the prayer invitation that he closes with:

In the great mercy and grace of God, pray that our hearts never become too familiar with his grace and border on contempt.

[5] Finally, a video from the great Fr. Mark Goring out of Canada.

And that's a wrap for today. I hope you find joy, inspiration, or both in each of these links.

Blogger has been acting up, so here are the raw link texts for you to copy-paste if needed:

[1] https://didacticmind.com/2023/04/sunday-scripture-a-living-stone-and-a-holy-people-2-24.html

[2] https://frankluke.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/what-we-do-matters/

[3] https://www.rooshv.com/are-you-poisoning-your-family-and-friends-with-lawlessness

[4] https://younggospelminister.blogspot.com/2023/04/familiarity-breeds-contempt.html

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyTbH6B-0s

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 Step One: go to https://www.unauthorized.tv and there click the box on the right:

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I would have done it for ten bucks in Chinese takeout!

 This is a story of an acquaintance of mine. I will call him Kenji. Kenji is a decent enough guy, especially given his particularly tragic personal background. For all intents and purposes, he is an indoor cat. By way of example, I had to help him change his girlfriends tire once. I'm pretty sure the most blue-collar thing he has ever done is adjusted the screws on his drumset.

Anyhow, this is the story of a splinter in his hand. How someone who never fixes anything catches a splinter is beyond me, but it happened. Kenji, in the minuscule fraction of an isolated neuron that constitutes his practical sense, went to the ER. They fixed him up, and stumped him with a bill around US$ 600.

Yeah, you read that right. Six hundred dollars for a splinter in his hand. This upset Kenji enough to go around for like a week, telling anyone who would listen how bad US healthcare is. Maybe he has a point. I know about Bidenflation and the labor shortage, but that's at least one zero too many for pulling a splinter out of a dude's hand and taping it up. Doing that takes all of twenty minutes, but only if you spend ten of them looking for the tweezers.

When he told me this story, I made a show of how I had a pair of tweezers and some booze strong enough to sanitize a wound, right there in my house. I'm pretty sure there was gauze and tape somewhere in the bathroom, but my roommate brought the first aid from his car, just to help me make my point.

Then I looked at him: "Kenji, why the [clean speech] did you go to the ER? I would have done it for ten bucks in Chinese takeout!"

To be completely honest, I would have done it for free for most people. But Kenji is a pain to listen to, and a whiny leftoid to boot. Ten bucks would have paid for my gas to get to him, the materials I taped to his hand, and my time. Some good fried duck with sweet-sour sauce would have helped me deal with his whining on a mental health level.

I'm sure this is not an isolated story. Heck, just this morning I put a rather deep cut into my right thumb. It's currently covered in gauze, masking tape, and finally a layer of duct tape because the masking tape started to come off. It looks kind of ghetto, but my friend taped me up for free. Even if I buy him a fancy cigar as a gift of gratitude, that's still seven bucks, as opposed to a couple hundred.

This begs a question: how much of healthcare is so expensive because people go in for stuff where you really do not need a fully trained medical professional? Yes, I know there is all kinds of corruption and whatnot going on inside the healthcare system. I also know that there are a decent amount of people whom I would not trust to tape up my hand, because MPAI. And one or two people not going along with it won't fix the system. But it will save those one or two people a heck of a lot of money.

Happy Birthday America

 Dear Americans,

I know there are only a few hours left of it, but happy 4th of July!

Like too many of you, I had the exquisite displeasure of running into a Current Thing Buzzkill (CTB) today. This particular superspreader of negativity decided that one cannot celebrate Independence Day because of whatever event(s) happened recently. 'Guys, our country does some random thing that I don't like so you can't have fun tonight! You gotta hate the Star-Spangled Banner as much as I hate myself!'

This clown upset me, und ich bin nicht mal mehr ein Amerikaner! I can but imagine how detrimental these sub-sentient cretins are to your mood. So, in insufficient reciprocity for y'all's wonderful hospitality to myself, permit me to offer you a dialectical consolation: they're wrong.

They're so wrong that they don't even have to be Americans to be wrong. But they're especially wrong as Americans on and about the 4th of July.

Mind you, their original sentiment is at least somewhat reasonable. You don't walk into someone's house, screaming in joy about the Bears winning, when said someone just lost a loved one to a car wreck. Doubly so if the recently bereaved is a Packers fan. You don't barge in on someone's legitimate grief like that. But that is not the case, is it?

The CTBs are usually not personally affected by The Current Thing. They just got told to be mad about something political and now they insist that nobody gets to have a good time because they're mad. Worst of all, they somehow think that America of all places cannot be celebrated while some political wrongs allegedly exist.

America!

On Independence Day!

The whole celebration is about solving your political problems! That's what they declared in Philly, some two and a half centuries ago. Permit me to paraphrase: 'We these thirteen colonies are tired of complaining across the pond for the government to come in and fix our problems. We're doing it ourselves now.'

That is what America does. You, the citizen, don't like the system? Go fix it yourself! Leave the pleading with an aloof nanny state to the old world. That's what we do.

If anything, a given political injustice, real or otherwise, is a reason to celebrate being an American, especially today. Because you live in a country where you, the ordinary person, are both permitted and expected to go and do something about it.

Don't let some self-hating buzzkills ruin your Independence Day. Ignore them like the morale parasites that they are, and enjoy the fact that they are wrong, especially if the superficially offered complaint has some merit to it.

How to work with various SSH ranks

Editor's note: this post will change over time, as people wiser than me add their ten cents.

Alphas:
Don't contradict them in front of other people. Request a private meeting and contradict them there. Then the alpha knows that you are loyal and honest. Also save the technical/detail problems for the bravo(s) wherever possible.

Bravos:
Don't get between them and their alpha in any capacity. Don't ask them to contradict their alpha, don't disrespect their alpha in their presence. Bravos are known for their loyalty, and if you get between them and their alpha, you'll find that out in a hurry. Also, you can use them to run problems up the food chain to the alpha. Like alphas, save the contradictions for a private meeting.

Deltas:
Request and respect their input. They know what they're talking about. Be sure to acknowledge their input and praise their work, ideally in public, but at the very least in private.

Gammas: Make sure interactions are in-person, with witnesses. Avoid anything you can't publish or at least document. Points 2, 3, and 5 of the SJW attack survival guide apply to everything you do with gammas: don't try to reason, don't apologize, and document everything. And keep them away from the women. They are stupidly high maintenance and probably best avoided.

Omegas: Remote work

Sigmas: Let them do their thing, because that's what they're going to do anyway. Ignore their various eccentricities and focus on that which is relevant to the work. The few I've interacted with appreciated the personal space. They're remarkably rare so not really worth worrying about.

Lambdas: Rare. If they're really open about their proclivities, see gamma. If not, see delta.

Witnessing in victory

This post only applies in the USA. Also there's a TLDR at the bottom. 

I'm sure you've heard that Roe vs Wade finally got tossed out of the Supreme Court precedent today. This is a good time for everyone, in every objective sense. But what about the reaction?

There has been some talk about violence against churches and stuff. I think that's mostly overblown. Any such violence will limit itself to areas where the DAs are on board with this stuff and nobody has guns. Here's what's going to happen to many more of us: emotional outbursts of some description or other.

A woman's 'right' to choose abortion is a demonic lie, regardless of how you feel about it, it just is. But a lot of people do believe in it. They're not actually evil. To use Christ's passion as an analogy, they are the crowd, not the pharisees. And these normal people are hurting today. Their hurt is based on a demonic lie, but the hurt itself is real. And some of them may lash out at you.

Don't react to them.

Don't return the hissy fits. If they're not doing actual damage, you should turn the other cheek. That Gospel passage is not about surrendering actual ground, like churchians did when the various evil laws came in to begin with. It is about the anger we will see today, the impotent rage that comes from a place of pain and defeat.

Today is a win, and everyone knows it. There is no need to gloat, to rub it in. It won't change any minds. By gloating, you're doing the equal and opposite of their lashing out: using the other person to derive emotional satisfaction/relief for yourself. So don't.

TLDR don't gloat. Be gracious in victory.