Garret Langley, the CEO and co-founder of Flock Safety (the name alone causes my fist to clench) is 38-years-old. This explains a lot about Flock Safety – the name and the man.
Langley almost certainly grew up strapped into a “safety” seat. This probably instilled in him an unhealthy fixation on “safety.” Said another way, he – like most of his age cohorts – learned to be afraid from birth. Of cars. Of driving. Of everything. Langley was 13 when Nahhhhhhnnnnlevven happened. He has at best dim memories of the world that existed before See Something Say Something and With Us Or Against Us. He probably never got to ride a bike alone and unsupervised, miles away from his parents’ house and sans a helmet. He probably considers it abusive to allow a thirteen-year-old to ride a bike alone and unsupervised, miles away from his parent’s house and – call CPS! – sans a helmet.
People his age went to Trunk-or-Treats in the school gymnasium. They didn’t walk down the street to the end of the road, to wait by themselves for the school bus to pick them up. They either waited in the car with mom or dad for the school bus to come or they got dropped off (and picked up) at the school by mom or dad. You have surely seen (and had to wait on) the conga lines of cars waiting to drop off/pick-up kids at schools. They extend for an eighth to a quarter of a mile. What you never see are kids – elementary and middle-school-aged kids – just leaving school, on their own. Jumping on bikes and heading to wherever. This was the norm before the Safety Cult became a mainstream religion, which happened sometime in the mid-late 1980s or just after GenX reached young adulthood.
Since I am a member of that generational cohort, I can remember when the Safety Cult began to become a mainstream religion. We snickered at it, at first – as people do when they see the Moonies or the Hare Krishnas. The first clear sign the cult was gaining traction among the general population was literally a sign. The Baby on Board sign. If you are a GenX (or older) person you will remember these signs as well. They came seemingly out of nowhere. Just like that, every third car had one, calling attention to the presence of a baby – as if having a baby on board were a novelty that people had to be made aware of. What it really amounted to was a declaration that a Safetyite was on board. It was a declaration that you had better be extra-very careful about your driving. In other words, it was proselytizing about Saaaaaaaaaaafety.
The first mass instance of it.
It was around the same time that safety seats for kids became a thing. The freedom luvin’ state of Tennessee was the first to require that kids be strapped into safety seats, in ’79. By 1985, it was The Law in every state. Garret Langley was born in 1988, just in time to be strapped in. Imagine the psychological effect this has had on that entire generation and all born since this began. Since I was born before that time, I can only imagine – but I do not have to imagine what it was like growing up before that time.
Is it just a coincidence that Safetyism was a kind of niche neurosis until safety seats came along? I can tell you that almost no one back in the ’70s thought it was “unsafe” for kids to to get into (and out of) a car as soon as they were old enough to be able to reach the door pulls on their own. To sit wherever they wanted to and to change seats, if they wanted to – even while the car was (gasp!) moving. Station wagons were common in those days and it was common for kids to roll around in the cargo area. When the windows were down, they stuck their hands out and felt the wind. Before they were anywhere close to being old enough to drive, it was common for mom or dad (it was usually dad) to let a kid sit on their lap while they drove and steer the car. 
Kids were often left inside the parked car while mom or dad went inside a store to get something or other. Almost no one wore seat belts.
Garret Langley – if he is reading this – has probably just called CPS (again). Actually, he did something worse. He co-founded Flock Safety, to assure that the free-ranging of the past remains a part of the past. He perhaps does not see it that way consciously because in order for him to be conscious of that, he’d have to have some awareness of that and he is too young to have that. He is aware of nothing that isn’t Safetyism. His mindset was formed within its nimbus. The Jesuit Ignatius Loyola is said to have said something about how if you gave him a kid for the first ten years, he would own that kid – psychologically/emotionally – for the remainder of his life. The evil genius of the thing is that the kid isn’t conscious of this conditioning. It is not just the way things are, it is the way things ought to be. Mark the tincture of righteousness that attends religious immersion, especially when it is a secular religion.
Langley may not, in other words, be consciously evil.
From his perspective, he is only trying to keep us safe. It is in fact just what he says and he just might actually believe it and (if so) that is why he and those who believe similarly are so dangerous, because they will stop at nothing to keep us safe.
How could you do anything less?
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When I was a wee lad (in the early 1970s) I was “strapped into” a car seat. But I’m pretty sure it was so that mom didn’t need to keep track of me and get distracted from driving.
From the pictures I’ve seen, once I could sit up on my own it was a smaller version of a bucket seat, with a proper back and a simple bar that kept me from roaming around. I’m sure prior to that it was just a bassinet sitting on the seat.
It was in the front passenger seat unless mom and dad were in the car.
Morning, RK!
I never wore a “mask,” nor did I ever sit in a “safety” seat as a child. I think the two are related…
Hey Eric, on the heels of your post, here is a link, of a story of how police AI drones are now being used for surveillance. Pretty soon they can simply shoot us from the air from said drones as we drive to-and-from-work, because we were not “safe” enough to follow the BS they dish out to us. Or hell, nail us in the grocery store parking lot, because we bought too much, parked wrong, whatever their excuse will be. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/police-ai-drones-take-the-surveillance-state-airborne/
Here’s a summary of last year’s Skydio Ascend keynote and demo:
https://youtu.be/uXvsPB4TBZ4?si=ZG6Xiki-YmlCnw2_
The whole thing was over an hour and a half and is on YouTube, just search for Skydio Ascend 2025. It’s worth a watch. Adam Bry wants millions of autonomous drones in docs blanketing the country (good for Adam Bry and his backers at Andreesen Horowitz) able to be controlled by a few centralized “operators” – don’t call them pilots! without any questions about why and who’s going to use the data they collect. And as the article points out, these systems are being put in place without any oversight by elected officials. Skydio has spent millions on lawyers to get the FAA to issue waivers to let these police forces to fly drones without requiring humans to keep eyes on them (beyond visual line of sight) because somehow cops are somehow better able to avoid aircraft and birds than civilians, who have no such waivers. But if I crash my $30K drone my business is done until it’s repaired or replaced. If a cop crashes the taxpayers’ $30K drone, well, that’s just a day wrecker. If my drone crashes into a human, that’s pretty much the end of my drone business. If a cop does it? Well, the victim is an instant millionaire, the union will blame the equipment, and because an “operator” is not a pilot in command, it will be called a “culprit-less accident.”
There has always been a “safety cult” usually led by women.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement fighting “demon rum” that resulted in alcohol Prohibition began in the mid-late 1800s. We all know how that worked out.
Interrupted by a couple World Wars things got back on track in the 1960s with the attacks on tobacco. The girly-man Ralph Nadar stepped up and gave us Unsafe at Any Speed. Add in the enviro-Marxists who then went on about humans “killing the planet” and us along with it that gave us the first “Earth Day” in 1970. The undercurrent was “feminism”.
Things settled in from that point in the 70s with Nixon mandating via Executive Orders both the EPA and OSHA. See the trend? Schools became full blown enviro-Marxist as well with endless fearmongering over Flipper going to Davey Jones’ Locker for good.
When Reagan took office Nancy led the Just Say No War on [some] Drugs. Any effort that didn’t include a scorched earth mentality wasn’t enough. Then Len Bias died and it was Katey Bar the Door.
The institutional structures built around these events over 30 years naturally took on a life of their own and self-preservation and growth became their sole reason to exist.
Then the 90s showed up and HWBush told us “We have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here”. The endless wars sold as “protection” of the homeland then got their Pearl Harbor moment and…well, now we’re here.
Obviously, there are more data points to look at over the last 60-70 years but, these are some of the highlights. Could it have ended any other way?
And yet, Mark, it is a bunch of “girly” men that sign the orders and implement the procedures. Who created the bill for OSHA? Harrison Williams and William Steiger. The House passed it with 310 votes and 83 in the Senate. How many women were in Congress in 1970? 11
I would recommend reading about Anne Gorsuch who ran the EPA under Reagan. She did her best to downsize regulations, reduce standards, and decreased the size of the agency by 22%.
It was a man by the name of John McConnell who came up with the blueprint of Earth Day.
How dangerous are women? Let’s take a look at the recent Congressional bills sponsored by women that actually passed into law. There are two – The Protection of Women in Sports Act and IMPROVE which focuses on maternal care for pregnant women.
The cries of gynocracy sound scary, but show me where women are truly influencing anything. Hell, we even tried to burn our bras and we are still forced to wear these uncomfortable things. Guess who designed that contraption…a man.
RG, there is a post on Facebook, of a lady addressing men who asked women if bras were/are uncomfortable. It is hilarious! She relates that it is akin to a man wearing a bra for his nuts. Making sure it does not fit right, is too tight and does not fit properly, and he has to wear it for about 18 hours as day, for the rest of his life. I surmise that is why menstrual products are considered taxable (in states with sales tax). If a man had to use them every month, they would be free of charge, no questions asked. But yeah, not ever woman out there is a screaming, lunatic, man-hating leftist. They are just the ones making all the noise. And really, that is all it is, is noise.
Hi Shadow,
Ah, and let’s not forget about the horrible metal underwire that rips through the fabric after three washings and pierces a woman’s skin all day…and guys wonder why we are in a bad mood. Peace on Earth maybe possible if we would just get rid of bras.
Hi RG,
“Peace on Earth maybe possible if we would just get rid of bras.”
I support this!
See men and women can agree! 😂
I think we should take it before Congress. Would Trump sign it?
“I support this.”
I see what you did there…
I had a co-worker friend of mine, who, when she traveled to where there was real shopping (ha ha) found a department store that custom fits women and figures out their real bra size. Poor gal. The whole time she thought she was a 38D, or perhaps a DD? Nope, she was actually a size G. And they wonder why women hate the damned things.
Well, some women have, RG.
My GF, e.g., never wears one.
I applaud her. I never wear one at home and if I have no appointments at the office that day I won’t wear one, but when roaming out in public I still wear the hideous thing.
RG,
I’ll simply answer your question with a few of my own. One, how often do you hear politicians speak about women’s issues? You hear them prattling about women’s issues all the time, right? Two, when’s the last time you heard any politician even bring up, let alone express concern, about men’s issues? Three, even though there weren’t many women in Congress in 1970s; even though the vast majority of those in Congress were men in 1970; how many of them had women in their lives? How many of those Congressmen were married? How many of them had mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces, etc. in their lives? What about their female constituents? Do you think for one second that these women weren’t getting in the Congressmens’ ears plenty back then? Do you think that these women weren’t affecting these Congressmen?
The fact of the matter is that women’s power has always been more covert throughout history. Ever hear about the face that launched 1,000 ships? I guarantee you that face didn’t belong to a man. SO! Even when women didn’t exercise overt power like men, they nevertheless exerted a lot of power on their own, even if it was done covertly.
Hi Mark,
Is your example of women being in control a fictional rendition of Greek mythology followed by “guys pass these things because they know women.” You have to give me something to work with here, hon.
Covertly? Like Adam, the first Beta male, taking a bite of apple because Eve brought him something to eat? Samson chopping off his hair because Delilah told him to? Cleopatra apparently stringing along both Caesar and Marc Anthony? Powerful men brought down by a lone female. Really? The male excuse is now “I am so besotted I can’t tell her no”?
Why don’t you think Congress (which is still mainly men) have not addressed masculine issues? Do these things not concern them? Do men not care that other men suffer from depression, homelessness, job loss, etc? Why are men not looking out for other men?
Clovers will build the peace and safety New Man workers utopia?
No but it will be fun to mock them at ever turn.
You’re in the wrong world for peace and safety uber alles.
Morning, Rainbow!
I resisted the “maskers” and Sickness Psychotics and will do the same as regards Clovers, too!
Hat tip to Merle Haggard! The greatest country player ever…
My favourite childhood memories;
Playing chicken on the coasting hill
No monitors on the playground at recess or lunch… law of the jungle
Smoking in the boys room
Laying down in the back of a VW bus(while driving)
Playing hockey with no helmet
Leaving school with my younger bro at the end of the day to walk two miles to hook up with my mother. Grade 4
Getting kicked off the school bus on the 104 hwy and having to hitchhike home.
As a close friend mentioned we just didn’t know how good we had it back then.
“I’m sittin’ in the classroom thinkin’ it’s a drag…
Listening to the teacher, it just ain’t my bag…
The Noon Bell rings, and that’s my cue…
I’m gonna meet the boys on floor number two…
(Chrous)
Checkin down the hall, make sure the coast is clear…
Looking around the stalls, yeah, they’re ain’t nobody here!
Oh my buddy Freedie, me and Paul…
To get caught would surely be the ‘death’ of us all…
(Chorus)
Well, they put me to work in the school book store…
Checkout counter and I got bored…
Teacher was lookin’ for me all around…
Two hours later, ya know where I was found!
(Chorus)
Yep! We were free, in ‘73 !!!
Morning, Douglas!
Motley Crue’s version of this is the best one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oVBvxA0mm0
That faggot no more founded flock than Zuckerberg founded facebook. Front men for jew corporations, cunts.
They both look like the smart-assed punk you just wanted to punch because he was annoying, but there wasn’t any honor in it.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis
BREAKING: Homosexual Jewish Politician Says America is Not His Homeland and it Should be Israel’s Pawn:
“The entire purpose of my career is to make sure America continues to support Israel, I don’t think it’s wrong for Israel to use America as a pawn, America is not our homeland, we have been victims of antisemitism here.”
https://www.unz.com/jnino/jewish-state-senator-jeremy-moss-faces-backlash-over-hot-mic-comments/
Un-frickin’ real. The jig is up. The guy ADMITTED who he really is and what he is up to.
Maybe those “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” aren’t quite as crazy as we’ve been told???
I wonder what Garrett does when he isn’t spying on people for fun and profit?
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/07/sun-valley-conference-2026-attendees-kushner-karp-kraft-altman-weiss-iger/
Oh. Well I’m sure a large group of wealthy jewish control-freak psychopaths getting together anually to plan out how to most efficiently screw over the rest of humanity can’t really be *that* bad, can it? Perfectly normal behavior, I’m sure.
It’s a Big Club, etc.
My route to work sees more and more people taking their kids to school. Bugs the hell out of me. I’m gonna make a sign at the entrance to the school “you’re raising pusses”.
We made our boy (w touretts) take the bus. Of course he got bullied w his tics. We taught him how to fight it. But he had to go against the whole machine. He eventually won big, and then protected his little sister when she started.
Yes I got called into the principals office a lot in those days. I wouldn’t let my wife go. My son won every time with about one sentence from me every time. Then his peers got bolder, was fun to watch and be a part of.
I am on vacation this week and so got to drive around in the middle of the day today. Amazing all the Costocs and Publix down appear to be full of people. I went past the public skoolz as the they were letting out. I wish maps would have an option to avoid the skoolz. They are not good places to be around because of all the cops and parents on edge. There were a bunch of parents waiting around for their kids. Whole lines of cars and women and even some men just hanging out. Their kids can’t take the bus anymore even the parents paid for it already through the property tax scam.
Give em’ hell RG.
Unfortunately there is a core of commenters here that love to whine and pretend they have no agency over their lives and relationship choices. It’s the fault of this religion or that. It’s the fault of Government. It’s the fault of women. It’s the fault of the safety cult. They were forced to take the jab. On and on. They live in a fantasy world of their own making that is at odds with reality.
I enjoy your commentary but unfortunately you have become one of the few here worth reading.
Not sure what happened to the old crew but it seems they have tired of the nonsense and have bailed. Maybe normal attrition, or maybe not.
Thank you Barney for the compliment.
I echo Barney’s comments. I always wondered what happened to old timers (like Nasir) that do not post anymore? Oh yes, the Internet is full of nonsense, AI-generated crap, and fake news. Finding nuggets of truth is like finding the needle in a haystack, sadly. And finding people who see, know, and understand the truth is a rarity, as well.
Nasir posts occasionally, but not as much as he used to. I also miss drumphish, Nunz, and BID’s posts, too. There are a few other guys who posted every now and then, but haven’t back to the forums for quite awhile.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbTeCtxO3WZ/
A semantic trick is at play here, and I’m surprised no one has noticed it.
‘Whoa, is me’ [i.e., self restraint] is an entirely different emotional state than the traditionally reported ‘woe is me’ [i.e., self pity].
I’m leaning into the former at the moment. 🙂
You give me too much credit, Jim. It isn’t contextual foreplay just straight indignation.
Just so you know Rubble, pointing facts is not whining.
Just so ya’ know Nova – pointing at facts and doing nothing to overcome them is whining and isn’t what real men do.
This country wasn’t founded by people that looked at all the trees and said well, I guess we can’t farm here, might as well get on the boat and go back to the old country.
Our ancestors cut those trees down, they used to lumber to build homes & barns, they pulled the stumps, they plowed the fields, they dug drainage and wells by hand and built farms, livelihoods, and communities.
Enjoy being a victim to the facts.
Poor Garret, there, is quickly becoming one of the most hated men in America, which is quite a competitive list these days, to his credit.
Make no mistake: Flock cameras are despised by both the “left” and the “right” and everything in between or outside of that scheme, and in a rational world this would be a recipe for the elimination of this abominable panopticon.
Expect the appeal to the “Thin Blue Line” enthusiasts as this being necessary for “Law and Order!”. Continued resistance, in every way possible, must be pursued. Garret and his surveillance empire easily persuaded those hungry for power and control and you can bet they are paying off those who are on the fence.
There was an article on Zerohedge the other day about antifa and their dislike of the flock company CEO’s. Antifa called out Kanley specifically.
A few of the towns around here have pulled the Flocking spy cameras because – I’m shocked! – they discovered lots of LEO’s and others with access were using them to track their ex-girlfriends/wives, etc. Who woulda thunk it? A couple cops even got wrist slapped “paid administrative leave”, aka vacation; wish my job had that option. A spokesman for Flock claims they are adding some features to prevent “unauthorized access” to the data in an attempt to protect their business model but if the data is there someone will be able to access it. I think the tide is turning against the Flocking surveillance and the AI data centers nationwide, hopefully it’s not too late to keep the trap from closing on us.
If a nurse or doctor accesses a patient’s chart to whom they are not taking care of directly, they can (and will) be fired for violating HIPAA privacy laws. There needs to be a HIPAA law for the LEO’s, and for those who think that because they enforce the law (and Congress who makes laws), they are somehow above it. People like this Langley fellow are too damned scared-even terrified-to walk out the door without a helmet on? Do not force the rest of us to cater to your fears by forcing us to do the same. Geez, “The right to be left alone”. One of those rights I wish the Founding Fathers had included in the Bill of Rights. I suppose they would really flip their lids if they knew we carried rifles in the rack in the back window of our trucks on a gun rack, and not a soul got shot at school for it. The lunatics really are running this asylum. As Robin Williams quipped in Mrs. Doubtfire: “What am I doing here, this is beyond obsession”!
I was born in 1981, and I think this over emphasis on safety is nonsense. George Carlin has been proving right agian when he said that this over emphasis on safety will only create a generation of soft, fruity, and weak people; like Garrett Langley.
Amen, Chris!
Here it is in a nutshell, from Jeff Spicoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwlHICyWaBQ
“Those guys are FAGS!” Fast Times was an awesome movie.
Another psycho success story. I will become Faucis clone. First expose myself a bit. Become a “well hated” icon. Claim anti whateverism harrasment. Obtain secret service detail for national security interests.
Raise middle finger at humans. Retire happily everafter. . .
No doubt this guy is disturbed. But he didn’t donate the cameras. The perpetually anti human thing called government bought and installed them. The entity that only does one thing well. Kill people.
Spot on as always John.
Langley fits the profile of what one would expect from an early Millennial. One of my kids, born at the same time has similar goofy wiring. I never put her in a child ‘safety seat,’ never made her wear a helmet when biking or rollerskating, and, often let her ride, in my truck without a seat belt. Yet to this day she shows deference and respect to the safety cult and much of the insane nonsense they come up with.
Until I saw “Langleyism” and Garret Langley, I hadn’t realized this Flock guy’s last name is Langley. That the CIA is headquartered in Langley is, I’m sure, mere coincidence.
Wouldn’t be in the least surprised if Flock is a CIA “front” company like Air America was.
Good call. They love to rub it in our faces what they’re doing.
I remember after the formation of the TSA, they were getting a lot of pushback, so they sent in a guy to shoot up a few of their agents. His name? Ciancia. After that, pushback eased off.
Last year I was surprised to see about 20 white children aged 5-12 or so pile out of a government school bus stopped on the road. I had driven to a neighboring county to buy a used Toyota RAV4. The seller was a Ukrainian who spoke no English, and we had to drive from his house to his mechanic shop nearby to get all the paperwork. At the shop were several more Ukrainians, and only one of the wives spoke passable English. There is apparently a large Ukrainian community there.
The white children who got off the school bus were speaking Ukrainian as they started their walk home. All the American children got picked up by Mom in the SUV car line, naturally.
Note: I loathe the government’s schools, and advise parents to avoid them if at all possible. None of our several children (all grown now) ever saw the inside of a government indoctrination center.
First Ukraine gets blown up by theglobalists. And then they escape here and have to deal with our government schools and transportation systems. The poor Ukrainians.
Wric.com assures us in one article that laws are being written curtail flock camera abuses. In the crime reports, they emphasize that flock cameras caught the suspect. An article with a worrisome tone states that fire departments may not have access to flock camera data, suggesting this may endanger lives. This full-court press of flock camera PR started this week.
Darth Vader: ‘Surveil rebel scum as they move from playground to playground’ —
‘A man dressed as the iconic “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader on Wednesday appeared to defend the use of Flock cameras before the San Diego City Council, assuring that “this is what the emperor needs.”
‘The man approached the podium to address the Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting, with the character’s signature breathing audible to the council chamber’s microphone. The council addressed him as “Darth Vader.”
“This is what the emperor needs. This technology will help us find the rebel scum and the hidden base on Hoth,” the man said, referring to the ice planet from “The Empire Strikes Back.”
‘He urged that the cameras be used to surveil any “rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium, because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers, they are following children.”’
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6042349-darth-vader-flock-surveillance/
Was that you, James Clapper?
Hi Jim,
You can tell how many of these “news articles” are written by AI. When the headline reads “Man Dressed as Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras” we have lost the sweet smell of irony that only a human brain can associate.
I applaud the gentleman for his creative use of incongruity.
The “safetyism” developed simultaneously with the feminization of society and the rise of the gynocracy. Prior to the 1990s and the Clinton Era, society was much more masculine. There were good and bad aspects to that. It was definitely freer, but more violent and more risky. Kids fought more, took more risks, and some of them died doing stupid things. I grew up in the 1970s getting the fuck beat out of me and viciously bullied, by my own family and by everyone else as well, and let me tell you, it wasn’t pleasant. You just had to suck it up. I did ride in the back of station wagons without seat belts. Was never in an accident, but if I had been I would have gone flying, it’s just simple physics. A kid up the road got severely injured and almost died riding in the back of a pickup truck that got into an accident. Drinking and smoking was very common, kids went out to get shit-faced the day they turned 18 and that was pretty much a way of life several nights a week through college if not beyond. Many did very stupid and reckless things while stone drunk. Serious drug use and absurdly promiscuous sex were rampant during that period and there were consequences to that, too.
The safetysim began when women of that era graduated from college and got jobs in decision-making roles, and when they started having kids they remembered all the wild and reckless shit they did, they became “helicopter parents” because they didn’t want their kids to suffer the consequences they had miraculously avoided but had seen other people suffer.
Also, being females, they had different priorities. A women’s only true power is sexual, so the gynocracy prioritizes sexual “freedom” such as abortion, trannyism, and homosexuality, but not guns or smoking or fisticuffs. Women prioritize consensus over free speech and individuality, so the gynocracy cannot accept certain individuals taking risks they disapprove of while others conform to safetyism. (This was exemplified by the mask and vaxx mandates during the covid hysteria). For women, unacceptable speech like “hate speech” is “violence.”
For the males of today, maybe 40-50% of whom grew up in single-mother households and then went to female-dominated schools and colleges where female psychology and sociology but not military history or mechanical engineering is taught, this is the norm.
X,
When I continue to read this entire tide of “victimization” from a handful of men (not all, some actually still have balls) I can’t help, but think wimp, milksop, wuss. How are a small group of men pretending that they have no control over their own lives any better than the ESG supporters and feminists of today? There are still mentally tough men out in this world that get up everyday, throw on their boots and jacket, and face the world with conviction and confidence because they know they cultivate their own environment and life choices.
I can’t imagine a man in my life playing the “whoa, is me” card. Not my husband, my son, my father, my grandfathers, my brother in laws, uncles, cousins, etc. Not in 48 years have I heard any of them state “A woman is holding me back.”
The men that suffer from this victim complex attract the very women that they complain about. Why? Because, a confident and mentality strong woman is going to have nothing to do with them. Competent men attract competent women. Neither of these groups have time to listen to bellyaching from the other how the world has provided them a raw deal.
Guys want to know why they attract the worst women? Because they have nothing to offer other than excuses.
I realize with this post that I have brought down the rains of Hell onto me, but so be it. I am tired of pussyfooting around and reading about a small group of men and why they haven’t succeeded and why it is someone else’s fault.
Is it possible that you two are both correct at the same time?
Both X and Raider Girl make good points. Thank you,
Let me counter with a third.
Women want it both ways. Women are their own worst enemies.
I have always been chivalrous, holding doors open for others (not just for women) with some women snapping at me “I can do that myself” or “I don’t need your help” just because it’s the right thing to do.
It goes further when a woman declares that “I can do anything a man can do” with the ultimate betrayal of differences between the sexes (which are real) who are now complaining about men on woman’s sports teams. Suck it up, sisters, YOU wanted “equality”, now you’ve got it.
Men were forced to abdicate their responsibility with the feminism push which has been wildly successful beyond feminists’ wildest dreams. Now, it’s come full-circle and bit these same women in the ass.
There are still good women out there who realize that the sexes compliment each other, taking two (a male and female) for family formation.
🤣” Men were forced to abdicate their responsibility with the feminism push”
Really?!!!
If there were more strong, moral, honorable men that stood on principles that build a society, that protected and believed in stemming the onslaught against their families, women and children (society) maybe we wouldn’t be in this position today. If there were more honorable strong women being cared for by their men so that they could stand alongside and fight with, instead of against each other, we wouldn’t be in the position we are in. The takeover of our country happened because enough good men and women didn’t solidify their relationships and stand against it in unity.
Instead the country (men and women) as a whole was lulled to sleep by the beautiful lie of self gratification and empowerment. Sadly most men who want to blame it all on women were most likely taking care of themselves in their bathrooms with their jew propaganda or worse cheating and betraying their families while the powers that be moved in on schedule to save the day for said broken homes.
And here we are today with a growing number of men and women falling for this bull s**t propaganda that it’s his/her fault.
Divide and conquer.
“The takeover of our country happened because enough good men and women didn’t solidify their relationships and stand against it in unity.”
Preach it!
Standing ovation from me.
I agree. Think they are talking about two different things.
“Why male Gen Zers are dropping out of the US job market in droves (article doesn’t really explain)… While young men’s participation has fallen nearly 13 points since 2000, women now hold a majority of U.S. jobs and accounted for two-thirds of recent employment growth…Some men have reported reducing paid work hours to spend more time with their children and contribute to housework. Still, a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that men, when they’re not working, spend about 70% of their non-working hours playing video games.
“While a fifth of NEET women report caring for children, only 3% of NEET men do, according to AIBM.
“The vast majority of job growth, meanwhile, is coming from healthcare – a field that’s largely dominated by women, which could help explain why they’re outpacing their male peers in the job market.
“Eric Pachman, executive director at nonprofit Data 4 The People, which tracks government labor market data, noted that most of the strength, ironically, is coming from the need to care for those aging out of the workforce.
“Men need to go start becoming home health care aides. This is a booming industry and if they want good employment, that’s the kind of jobs they’re going to have to take,” Pachman told The Post. “For the last two to three years, there’s been increasing overreliance [on women]….Both male and female labor market participation rates are lower than they were in 2000, meaning both young men and women are working less than their fathers and mothers did. ”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/business/male-gen-zers-are-dropping-out-of-the-us-job-market-in-droves/
[Meanwhile these men are staying home w/their parents which means parents have live in home health care aides…]
Exactly. RG, she obviously didn’t grow up or live in the Pacific Northwest/Puget Sound/Seattle area. At my aerospace job we were getting many workers transplanted from other USA regions. First thing the guys would ask “what’s with the women around here? Chat them up and they recoil in horror, good grief.” Here the ‘confident female’ often is just a bitch on wheels. I worked with a retired Navy CPO who had been all over USA and most of the world. The worst females to deal with? Seattle and blue blood areas of the East Coast.
This timeframe late ‘50s to present day.
RG, what us guys are stating isn’t to just complain, it’s the reality for the majority. Confidence is great, good, but works best with a moral code and friendly attitude. Many close friends from work (these are all decent, hardworking, good looking guys – white, black, Asian) got s**t on in relationships for no reason other than the dream girl turned on them: ‘bored’ or ‘he works too much’ or ‘ohhh just couldn’t resist that new hunk in the warehouse!’
So, 71 years in, the decent women – you, my wife, a handful of her friends, my daughter, my mom – are extremely rare at least in this corner of the USA. Thanks for being one of the good ones, my rant over.
Sparkey, I love you, but comparing the women in the Pacific Northwest and Puget Sound area is like me comparing the men in Afghanistan and Uganda as women’s rights activists.
You are, correct!! Male/female relations are a bit more normal here east of the Cascades. I’m a bit taken aback at how friendly the females are at my daughter’s shop – a welcome change from growing up in Western WA. “Oh Dad the gals here just love you!”
?? “Don’t tell your mother I’ll never be allowed to help out here again!”
“Don’t tell your mother I’ll never be allowed to help out here again!”
What a great way to teach your daughter that men in relationships can be trusted.
Sense of humor? I think not.
Oh good grief! Mom knows all sees all! We all tease each other to no end.
You bring up excellent points. Thank you.
Almost all women who are in factory, production line and maintenance jobs prefer male supervisors. Women get too irrational and bossy at times, not knowing that quite often keeping silent is the better part of discretion. In more crass terms, not knowing when to shut up.
On the home front, a woman will notice a slight imperfection in a big job rather than realizing the hard work it took to get the big job done.
Unwarranted criticism is another female trait that deserves scrutiny, women being detail-oriented.
Fortunately such attitudes can be minimized by honest discussion…
If that doesn’t work, divorce (which most are initiated by women) is the solution.
I was lucky – my Commander is very appreciative of any projects I work on here. Guys at work would relate your take though. Two had Scottish wives, eee gads both insufferable! John installs the storm door on his day off. Scottish harpie arrives home “that looks like craaaap!” Wow, just wow. Apparently the frame had a 1/8” gap on one side flush on the other. That was “craaap”.
I have never criticized my husband’s work or work ethic. He is outstanding at what he does. He is rewarded with lots of kisses and butt pats.
Hi RG:
Your reaction to X’s post is a very female one, in that you’ve attempted to manipulate what was said. You took his analysis as to causes of safetyism and characterized it as a cry of “victimization,” not “hav[ing] balls” and playing the “whoa, is me” card. Nope. I know you feel attacked by his post, but get over yourself.
Spare me your uppitness, ML. You are one of the first ones to get bent out of shape when “men” are mentioned.
Your post to Pat:
“Hey Pat, who are these “most of the men” you speak of? I’ve been here for a long time and I’m not seeing what you claim about most of the men here. I think you might be engaging in some Jungian projection here.”
Pot meet kettle.
RG: Come on now. I didn’t try to manipulate Pat’s post into something it was not, like you did with X’s. Disagreeing with somebody’s post is one thing, but creating a strawman in order to imply that X is a ball-less whiner is another.
Simmer down now. 🙂
Hi ML,
Over the last few weeks strawman arguments have been made daily on this site against women. X’s post is just the one that put me over the edge.
What do you think would be the consensus if a woman came on there and completely vilified men in a daily rant? Would you stand by and shrug your shoulders ignoring it? Doubtful.
Personally, I am tired of the likes of the Garrett Langleys and Ralph Naders of the world getting swept under the rug and then the finger is turned on us who have boobs and being told “This is all your fault. You did this.” Let’s take a look at the companies who initiated ESG…very, very, very few are women.
Is it women out installing Flock cameras? Is it women out there touring jobs sites as OSHA writing guys up because they aren’t wearing an orange vest and hard hat? How about all those women on the rooftops erecting these surveillance centers?
Maybe, SOME women are chewing their nails concerned that Little Susie is going to get hurt since she isn’t banded up in bubble wrap, but it is SOME men that build it, erect it, license it, and yes, worst of all, design and implement it.
I need a freaking drink now.
Nobody’s saying you, RG, are doing anything. That said, my experience is that women in general find a feeling of safety to be paramount goal. Most men don’t. I know there are exceptions, but this generalization is not a strawman.
If the vilification of men posted here is true and accurate, I would not argue with it. I agree that men need to be the bulwark against the tyranny that we all see out there, like they’re supposed to be. There’s been a great dereliction of duty out there for sure.
Shit, it’s Friday. Drink away!
That neon army of strangers installing curbouts, 5g and flock was overwhelmingly male in two small towns I know well.
They’re never locals. Nobody questions this. Nothing will change as herd is facing $8 gas and the end of their dream.
Hi rain,
I noticed that, too. They are building one about seven miles from us.
“Men and women equal? Sure! Just that men are MORE equal.”
Reaction of my then 9 yo daughter: “Mom, is this why all your friends hate Dad?” “Well, that along with his ‘guest in a man’s world’ rant.”
“wimp, milksop, wuss”
Hmm.
With all due respect RG, you need to look around a bit more. Anecdotally, in the mid-80s I was a manufacturer sales rep in the foodservice industry. I traveled quite a bit and had a company car and the perks that went with it. At the time news stories abounded with the “women only make 67¢ for every $1 a man makes” mantra. While at a small trade show several of us men were chatting before it opened. We were all in that “manufacturer rep” milieu. A very attractive woman who was repping some product joined in the conversation. After a few minutes she announced that she was just part-time. Her husband was an orthodontist, and she wanted something to do to get out of the house. A chill went over the group. We knew we were toast. If a company can hire a woman much more inexpensively, without any benefits, it’s over for us. The demands of our employers increased and the benefits went out the window.
Also, ask the guys that used to be pharmaceutical reps that had bio-chemistry degrees, but not quite good enough to be a doctor, how it went when the 5’9″ marketing degreed woman who looked great in 4″ pumps started getting the gigs?
Not all of us “put on our boots” to earn a living. BTW, Brooks Brothers’ suits are great but, not cheap.
Hi Mark,
The boots and jacket is a figure of speech. If you put on a blazer and loafers my goal is not to make you feel inferior. The same thing with shorts and sneakers. Jeans and Doc Martens. Just not Crocs. 😉
Why is a 5’9″ woman in 4″ heels selling more than you? I am asking in all seriousness. Who is she selling to? Who is making the buys? Is she using sexual charm to sell to the very same men that you were selling to? Why are they not buying from you? Because she has boobs? These seems to be a pretty easy counter. I am assuming you are a damn good salesman which is why you were so successful in the field. Why were your customers willing to overthrow that for a pair of Jimmy Choos?
It’s not the “customers” per se, it’s the employers that see woman as a cheap alternative as in the case of the orthodontist’s wife. Many sales positions are gone entirely and customers place their orders online. That may seem convenient but, it provides no service. Much of my sales in that industry was due to the fact that I would show customers new ideas and how to implement them. That’s stuff a website just can’t do; hands on demos and product introduction that you can taste. Stuff has gotten to the point where an AI analysis determines “best practices”, a term I loathe. Why? Because it takes the attitude that “best” is something that you can look at on a P&L sheet
Hi Mark,
You are steering into dangerous territory. 😉 Are women paid less than men? Is that why women are being offered the jobs compared to men? I am not a big believer that pay is as a big discrepancy as feminists claim, but there could be some truth in it at least during the 1970s/1980s.
It is like the Fortune 500 companies hiring younger workers to get rid of their more expensive, but higher compensated workers. Shareholders are going to do what shareholders are going to do.
I agree with you, wholeheartedly, that online and AI are killing jobs. The problem is that companies (usually bigger companies) don’t care. I have been trying to reach a sales guy for the purchase of a propane tank for weeks now. I called eight different companies. Only one company responded. The salesmen came out the next day, walked the property, took measurements, and returned with a quote in four hours. I went over the numbers with my husband and he agreed to it. Signed off on the paperwork and put down the deposit. One company out of eight was the only one who could be bothered. Will the salesmen call in the following weeks when sales run slow? Probably. But, by then the job will be done. What company now has my loyalty? The one that got back to us.
People seeing faces is important. It is one thing to order 10 reams of paper online and have it delivered, but when you dealing with big ticket purchases or something the customer doesn’t feel comfortable doing or have limited information on a competent sales and service team is a must.
more experienced, not more expensive.
Agreed. Perpetual victims of life attract perpetual victims who aren’t disgusted by their constant complaining but rather agree, sympathize and sing their amen chorus.
Disgusting as well as insanely unattractive -for both sexes.
Especially on this site.
It’s shamefully hypocritical to vent about the Government, collectivism and the Jews when they are actually adhering to the same mindset in their own lives.
Makes you wonder what kind of desolate relationships/ sex lives they must have. Good thing the Jews provide them with plenty of fresh flesh on their devices..
If they recognized their own shriveled up beliefs influencing their lives they would know how to escape.. but perpetual victims don’t have much self awareness do they. They only recognize how unfair life is for themselves blaming everyone else and refusing to peek in the mirror critically at their beautiful mugs.
Thank you, OG. I agree with your viewpoint.
Yup. Have had it with the rotting stench of perpetual victimhood.
OG: I’m just not seeing that X claimed victimhood. You and RG just inferred that.
May I suggest taking out feminism and women and change it to masculine and men. Let me know if your reaction would be tranquil and serene.
If something that’s said about men is true, I won’t disagree. What X says about the feminization of society is true. I’m not a victim, but I do recognize the truth. Society would benefit much with more masculinity. The powers that be don’t like masculinity though because it’s an obstacle to their goal of neo-feudalism.
Who deems this truth, ML? The Masters of the Universe? You are arguing subjective truth. Your beliefs, your preferences, your feelings. Don’t get me wrong I have my own subjective truths, but that doesn’t mean they are deemed factual, they are my experiences.
The only real “truth” is objective. mathematical equations like 8×8=64, water freezes at 32 degrees, the laws of gravity, etc.
Now, we can argue can subjective truth be factual since is based on one’s experiences and one’s experiences are objective? Maybe, but I will save that debate for another day.
My whole argument is some people have a tendency to use wide brush strokes when generalizing others.
Can one promote individual liberty and personal sovereignty if one exalts sweeping statements about certain genders, cultures, etc.?
As an individual does one have a right to push unqualified abstractions? Of course. Does one get to declare this as truth? Absolutely not.
I’m not whining or claiming victim status. I’m just saying that masculine society and feminine society are different. Masculine society was absolutely freer but more dangerous and more difficult. It wasn’t easy. And it wasn’t safe. We rode bikes without helmets and blew off rockets and fireworks. I know a guy (he’s over 70 now) spent most of his life with a metal claw for a left hand. He blew his hand off with a firework when he was 14. Kids used to bring guns to school to shoot on shooting clubs or go hunting after school. Some of them died in gun accidents. Adlai Stevenson killed a girl when he was 14 trying to show off military drills with a loaded Springfield.
Shit like that happened. Boys beat the fuck out of each other. How many time have you actually been punched in the face, RG? Or thrown on the ground and curb-stomped? I have, too damn many times for me recall fondly. I know a white guy (in this 50s now) who had to stab two blacks to survive inner-city high school.
The guys grew up and joined the Marines and went to war. In feminine society, our military is casualty-averse. People flipped out over losing 4,000 soldiers in Iraq, But we lost 58,000 in Vietnam and 400,000 in World War II… 19,000 killed in one month at the Battle of the Bulge.
In today’s society a single mom will lose her shit of her 14-year old son says he wants a .22 rifle. But she’ll be totally supportive if he says he’s gay or trans. In 1972 that would have been reversed.
There are benefits and drawbacks to both masculine society and to feminine society. Both are extreme in their own ways, what is really needed is the proper balance.
But right now the gynocracy is in control, make no mistake about it. It is safer but less free.
How is a man blaming women any different than a feminist woman who blames men?
How far does blame get anyone in any facet of life?
Masculinity needs femininity as much as femininity needs masculinity. They are meant to complement each other not tear each other down.
If only more people would be rooted morally, and be the first brave souls in their own society to think and act benevolently regardless of any perceived reward, instead of throwing stones.
All the worlds problems come down to bad parenting, so, plenty of blame to go around on all sides. At some point the balance always tips between essential liberty and temporary safety. Would be nice if we are at or near the far end of the spectrum for temporary safety. Then again maybe we get, neither.
I’ve often wondered why so many of my Gen X cohorts, who themselves had free-range childhoods, grew up to become such overbearing parents? I think you nailed it with, ” they remembered all the wild and reckless s*** they did” in their youth.
The problem is so many of them weren’t raised as level-headed children by their Boomer parents: there was little or no Christianity in the home, hence they grew up to be stoners, drunkards, party animals, whatever.
Level-headedness comes from having a strong moral base — the kind that only Christianity can confer. Without it, people grow up to be untamed, brute beasts who cry out for control…and the powers-that-be are all too happy to provide it.
It’s the author’s generation that had a good childhood and later parented kids scared of their own shadows. Sorry, I am not sympathetic to your poor me rant.
It’s my generation and the next who pay the price for the mistakes the baby boomers and generation ‘X’ made.
I’m still in college and completely envious when my parents gather with aunts and uncles to reminiscence. The eighties and nineties sound like they’d have been alright. How did you people let this happen?
“How did you people let this happen?”
We are in a multi-front, multi-generational, progressive war for civilization. Evil forces are aligned against all of us. Blaming the victims of this war does not help.
“The eighties and nineties sound like they’d have been alright.”
You can still live like that. It takes courage and conviction. The future is yours, go make it what you want it to be.
“ We are in a multi-front, multi-generational, progressive war for civilization. Evil forces are aligned against all of us. Blaming the victims of this war does not help.”
“ You can still live like that. It takes courage and conviction. The future is yours, go make it what you want it to be.”
Absolutely agree. Well said Philo
Hi Seeking,
Us Gen X’rs are not all like that. I’m not. My oldest friend isn’t. He lives up the road from me and his son (20) is a lot like us when we were his age. I try to fathom what happened. The Baby on Board thing happened well before us GenX’rs were parents; we were your age at the time. I remember us laughing at the signs. So, what did happen? I think a major factor was an onslaught of social conditioning/social pressuring, which began in the ’80s. It took hold obviously by the mid-late ’90s. By the early 2000s, the conditioning had totally transformed the majority. Not any particular age group, either. The world changed. More finely, it was changed.
It begs a question: Who changed it?
It didn’t change me – and a few others. Why? Because some people are outliers. I have heard them characterized as Sigmas. They are instinctively not collectivists. They are neither leaders nor followers. They are self-directed. Such people are the greatest threat to the collective because they’ll fight it to the end and because they just don’t give a shit about it. Here’s an example of the Sigma personality type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXBVRvm-prg
The poor millenials got drowne d in the damn koolaid.
In the 90s I explained that foul “Neighborhood watch” sign along her walk to school to my 9 yo daughter as obvious fear mongering being spread by the usual suspect to this day. I rolled the bones sorta on that, thank god grampa and dad were correct about em all along. . .
She remembers being taught by my wife and I that the “Bad boys Bad boys” were the AGW. She rode behind me on the ol’ Seca thru Santa Cruz mountains her hair blowing free in defiance of evil Wilsons hellmut ordinance.
She hasnt paid a dime in tax and grandkids are doing well.
Victory
Another force behind safetyism (and also “healthism” and “environmentalism [which is a completely different beast than conservationism, but I digress]) is that we as a society stopped believing in and worshipping God around that time
When you stop believing in and stop worshipping God, three things happen:
1) When you stop believing in and worshipping God, that does not mean that you believe in and worship nothing—it means you in and worship anything. That God-shaped gap doesn’t stay empty, but rather is filled by something else. Safetyism is one of those things that fills the gap—we worship safety.
2) When you stop believing in and worshipping God, you believe that this life and this world are the end-all-be-all and when you’re dead, it’s all
over, and when the world ends, it’s all over, then you must do whatever you must to prolong this life and this world—even though doing so means you
never really live and never really make the most of the world.
3) When you stop believing in and worshipping God, you see bad things happening as a conspiracy, not as fate, the will of God, bad luck, or tragedy.
What’s more, the false god of safety is not a loving, forgiving God who cares about us just because God made us, but a vengeful god who must be appeased with regular sacrifices, but is never satisfied.
Someone’s not happy…
“Let’s Downsize”: Antifa Uses Instagram To Put ‘Luigi-Style’ Hit On Flock Camera CEO
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lets-downsize-antifa-uses-instagram-style-hit-flock-camera-ceo
I think this is a bit of a false flag victim play in order to get “conservatives” to recoil in the hope that they’ll become supportive of Flock and that Langley prick.
Welcome to the Truman Show.
I say fuck him. Narcs like this used to be subject to severe consequences.
He looks like the type who got his head stuffed into a toilet, more than once.
Oh no, principled, free market blog zerohedge has pointed out that antifa hates him. I guess that means now I have to like Flock cameras. Darn. Just when I think freedom is near, circumstances always seem to pull it further away. Can’t agree with antifa on anything, freedom is not worth that.
Exactly!
On the discreet charm of coded messages:
‘Karlyn Borysenko posted a screenshot of an Instagram post from an account called “3chordpolitics.” The post could be interpreted as a targeted, implicitly violent communication directed at Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety.
‘As Borysenko wrote on X, “Antifa on Instagram is issuing death threats to CEOs, referencing bullets and Luigi Mangione, and essentially using the platform to call for more CEO assassinations.”‘ Here are the threat indicators present in the post:
– CEO Garrett Langley is individually named and pictured.
– A black bar obscures his eyes, creating a targeting effect.
– Three bullets appear alongside a Luigi character, likely a coded reference to Luigi Mangione and the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
– The slogan “No CEO Left Behind” appears to imply hostility toward Langley and CEOs as a class.
– The caption “Let’s downsize” functions as a double entendre, suggesting the physical elimination of a CEO.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lets-downsize-antifa-uses-instagram-style-hit-flock-camera-ceo
As ol’ James “Seashells” Comey would say, 86GL ! 😉
As antifa is to the left of the legal system it will be ignored. If President Trump said the exact same thing he would be arrested, impeached and sent to prison pending deportation.
Antifa is a CIA or other deep state creation.
While that’s true, I don’t think whacking club members is part of their program.
Some True Believers are going rogue.
Langely. Georgia Tech. I work in tech, and I’ve never had a good experience with one of their grads.
Wikipedia has skant background, but my guess is that he grew up in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district in GA … if that really was where he grew up.
I remember the Safety Cult appearing on “The Phil Donahue” show in the 80s.
As liberal as he fronted — I often wonder in retrospect — even Phil seemed more amused by the Cult, including frequent guest Ralph Nader, than he genuinely interested in promoting their issues.
After a divorce in 1975, Phil finished raising five kids, four boys and a girl, solo living across the street from Erma Bombeck in an Ohio suburb. Something tells me that not every child was buckled up for safety.
To be fair, not everything parents did in the 70s/80s were qualifications for canonization. I’m “Ferris Bueller” high school class of 1986, and my War Baby mother nearly killed me with her cigarette habit.
Watch “I, Tonya” for the poster child of War Baby mother. Allison Janey is 10 years older than I am, but she knows.
My employer, a tech name you would recognize in a heartbeat, also knows. Cigarette smokers are not just banned from the building, they are bannished to the edge of the parking lots on campus.
“my War Baby mother nearly killed me with her cigarette habit.” -Roscoe
She was a product of Edward Bernays’ Torches of Freedom campaign to get women to smoke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
Welcome to the Truman Show. It’s been running since at least 1898, when the Spanish American war began: “Remember the Maine!!!”
War Baby, born in 1942.
Watch “iTonya”. That’s her.
“and my War Baby mother nearly killed me with her cigarette habit.”
Do you mean in the womb? What disease/life threatening event happened? What about your siblings? Father? Could you please explain. Tonya Harding was an athlete who nearly won a gold medal–are you saying she didn’t quite make it cause her mom chain smoked?
Allison Janey’s potrayal of Tonya Harding’s mother in “I, Tonya” is the poster child for War Baby mothers that a lot of my generation (early X-er) had at home, complete with the chain smoking, short hairccut, Sophia Loren glasses, pet obsession, and b*tchy attitude.
I make no judgements about whether Harding’s failure to win a gold medal was related to the mother’s smoking. I don’t know Harding, but I sure do know the mother as portrayed in the film.
My mother’s chain smoking put me in the hospital three times between Kindergarten and 1st Grade due to poorly controlled asthma because she told every pediatrician in town what they could do with themselves when they suggested that she cut the smoking at home.
I also believe in the widely held theories outside the US that many of my allergy issues were an autoimmune response to the chain smoking. Good luck getting study money for that even now, with the tobacco companies on the run.
As for my siblings, one is dead, passing at 35 due to an oral cancer from her own cigarette habit. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
My father? He quit smoking at age 40, divorced my mother at 55, but still passed of lung cancer at 72. What he thought was a bruised muscle from a bad flu jab turned out to be a stage 4 tumor, and he was dead in a year.
Sorry to bring down the room, but you asked.
Among the pediatricians my mother told off was the first woman to graduate from University of Florida medical school Nothing but the best for my mom.
Never thought there could be a more punchable face than Fuckerberg, but here we are. Fuck this little twink, hard, with a splintered Louisville slugger.
Right with, BAC –
I need to do something physical to bleed off my fury just looking at that smug little prick’s face.
Before he founded flock, he founded two other cos. including a car subscription company: “Clutch (incubated at Cox) – imagine if everyone owned a garage full of cars, matching the perfect ride for the situation – Co-founder”
Some other start-up ideas he’s had:
“Startup Ideas
-Toilets – impacts the whole world. hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. plumbing is tricky though.
-Constrained social networks – path (RIP) remains my favorite social network. constraints breed creativity.
-Wine – could you make a guilt-free (i.e., no alcohol) wine?
-Vertically integrated technology companies in big, old industries (Atrium for XYZ)
-Mass consumer company using crypto
https://garrettlangley.com/
He says he founded Flock because of the high crime in Atlanta. Both his parents were in sales. The brains may have been Matt Feury Chief Technology Officer who is no longer with the company. Vanity Fair has an article 8.14.26 on the other two Langley and Paige (Chief People Officer).
‘Safety’ is a diversionary word, in the corporate name Flock Safety.
What Flock does, plain and simple, is surveillance. But since surveillance sounds a bit shady and threatening to the sheeple, ‘Safety’ serves as a stand-in word. At best, Flock’s actual impact on public safety is quite indirect, in the rare instance when it enables nabbing an armed-and-dangerous maniac on the run.
Coincidentally, a few hours ago I got woken up in the middle of the night by loud, alarming siren noises emanating from my shartphone. WTF? A lengthy notification informed me, irrelevantly, that Pima County (200 miles away) is seeking a fleeing homicide suspect riding a Harley Davidson FXLRS, and even supplied his Arizona license plate number.
Which raises the pertinent question: why can’t Flock report his next recorded location? Why hound uninvolved bystanders like me out of our beds?
Not being a Harley fan, I had to look up what FXLRS means: ‘an aggressive, blacked-out performance cruiser powered by a Milwaukee-Eight 117 cubic-inch (1,923cc) V-twin engine.’ Well, no damned wonder this menacing conveyance is favored by violent criminals! Who in their right mind would mount a nearly 2-liter engine, composed of two gigantic but poorly balanced cylinder pots, onto a freaking motorcycle?
My outrage over the mere existence of this ridiculous contraption almost — but not quite — assuages my annoyance at receiving intrusive public safety alerts on my shartphone in the middle of the night. Sheesh — time to go Amish??
My phone kept going off throughout the night because of freakin’ thunderstorms. I’m in the Heart of Dixie. Newsflash: we get thunderstorms. Simple solution: I turned the damn thing off.
As for your position on Flock, I agree 100%.
You can stop those alerts:
iPhone
Open Settings → Notifications.
Scroll all the way to the bottom.
Under Government Alerts, switch off the alert types you don’t want, such as AMBER Alerts, Emergency Alerts, Public Safety Alerts, or National Alerts.
If you see Enhanced Safety Alerts, go to Settings → Notifications → Enhanced Safety Alerts and turn off the available categories there.
Android
Open Settings → Notifications.
Tap Wireless emergency alerts.
Turn off the alert categories you don’t want, including available options for disaster warnings, threats, AMBER alerts, and test alerts. The exact options vary by phone manufacturer.
Some Android phones also have Settings → Safety & emergency → Crisis alerts; turn that off if you want to stop Google’s separate crisis notifications.
That BS alert got me as well, jarring me from my hour of well-earned sound sleep.
Eric, as the man said in Josey Wales, there’s no end to doing good.
Morning, Rik!
Yup. That movie – that character – captures the essence of fanaticism. The worst sort. The “for our own good” sort.