Author Archive

Per My Wife the Three Stages of Young and Mitchell vs Spotify

Posted: January 30, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I’ve always known how to count

Tip O’Neill

Now that Joni Mitchell has bravely decided to go all in on censorship joining Neil Young in pulling her music from Spotify until they drop Joe Rogan and his nine million listeners what has been the reaction? According to my wife it’s generational:

The kids: “Who is Joni Mitchell?”

The Middle: “Joni Mitchell is still alive?”

The old: “What is Spotify?”

I’m sure most of you have heard this one or a variant by now but when my wife came home and told it to me last night I laughed my ass off.

Famous Last Words: “I’m not black enough to be shot”

Posted: January 29, 2022 by datechguy in crime, culture
Tags:

Apparently the false media message that the only reason why black felons wielding weapons are shot by police is due to their race was taken to heart by a knife wielding man in New Jersey:

When one of the officers said, “I don’t want to shoot you,” Ackley showed a high level of political awareness by responding, “I’m not black enough to be shot?”

Life is often a journey toward knowledge and one of the final acts of Daniel Ackley thirty three years of life was the discovery that this information that the media imparted to him concerning white privilege and police was in fact in error:

Within 15 seconds, one of the officers fires his service weapon and Ackley stumbles to the ground, apparently struck by a bullet and stays seated, raising his now empty hands.

He would be life flighted to a hospital but pronounced dead on arrival clearing demonstrating that there is less to white privilege then meets the eye.

I’ll give the last word to Stacy McCain who notes that this police shooting is even less newsworthy nationally then the hundreds of death from black on black shooting in Chicago, LA or Baltimore:

Nobody looted Best Buy. No statues were toppled. White guys get shot by cops all the time, and CNN never seems to notice.

If only he identified as a black woman, than CNN could have gone with: “Police shoot potential Biden SCOTUS nominee”.

Update: Alas this was not the case so DaTechGuy’s 3rd law of media outrage applies:

The MSM’s elevation and continued classification of any story as Nationally Newsworthy rather than only of local interest is in direct correlation to said story’s current ability to affirm any current Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking point, particularly on the subject of race or sexuality.

Now I’m an old fashioned guy who thinks that race doesn’t matter when you’ve got a guy waving a giant knife around threatening people and that shooting such a person (because crazy people are dangerous) is justified in such a case.

But that’s playing by the old rules that our friends on the left no longer apply.

Ready for the Blizzard of 2022? Thank a Bunch of Dead White Men

Posted: January 28, 2022 by datechguy in American Success Stories, culture

A lot of people spend a lot of time going after Western Civilization in general and White Men in particular as the cause of all the evils in the world, which I find very amusing as they are living in comfort thanks to the actions of a bunch of these old dead white men.

You have electricity in your house because of an old white man (Edison), you have a car in your yard because of of an old white man (Ford & others), you have a stove to cook with because of an old white man (Franklin), You have a flush toilet thanks to an old white man (or several), a water heater in your house thanks to an old white man (Maughan), a furnace thanks to a couple of old white man (Babcock and Wilcock) although you can give Alice Parker a black woman credit for central heating.

Bottom line there are a bunch of things that people take for granted that came from white men that their in no rush to abandon.

I bring this up today because there is a blizzard heading for my area and people are getting stocked up and ready for it.

The fact that they are able to know what’s coming and be ready for it can be laid at the feat of a bunch of dead white men. The old white men who developed the weather service and the observation stations that monitor the weather and just as important the old white men named Morse and Bell that invented the telegraph and the telephone which allowed these observations to be reported and coordinated.

If it were not for all these old dead white men we would have no clue, so if you survive this storm safe and sound give a bit of thanks to all those old white men who made it possible, and if acknowledging these facts trigger you too much to do so publicly do it privately.

Closing thought: The reality is the race of these men is not really relevant to what they did, but our friends on the left had decided that race is the most important thing in the world to consider on anything so I decided to play by their rules today.

#MassFormationPsychosis A $10 word for something that’s not new

Posted: January 27, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Today is “Everybody blog about Mass Formation Psychosis day but when it comes down to it I think this is just giving a name to good old fashioned propaganda.

It’s the same type of thing that’s been in play in the various communist paradises for a century, it’s what was deployed in Germany under der Führer and it’s been the type of thing used to move populations all the way back to the war of Jenkins ear and before.

It’s just that today with mass media, the net, and all the other stuff whereby if someone farts in Uganda in the morning it’s on youtube by 11 am it’s been refined to an art. An evil and destructive art.

Many tyrants and leaders from history would recognize what’s being played today and marvel at it jealously but it’s to quote Aerosmith: The same old song and dance.

You can beat it with knowledge and reason but we’ve been sorely lacking of that lately so let me ask you one thing:

Do you want to be a serf or not?

That’s what it comes down to

Older Entries
Newer Entries