POG Politics Thread Version 3
Come on in! Since Dustin is taking his ball and going home, it's time to start a new politics thread.
Going to some college where people wear different hats vs having to deal with annoying people all day.
Why do HOA exist.
things that should not exist:
HOA
USA
HOA's exist because neighbors are often stupid, cheap, messy, have bad tastes and loud (and/or dog is loud).
Have 20 cars in drive way at all times
Live and let live I say. Mind your own beeswax.
HOA's exist because neighbors are often stupid, cheap, messy, have bad tastes and loud (and/or dog is loud).
that's why code enforcement officers exist
HOAs exist to localize amenity so property owners don't have to consort with itinerants
the fact that HOAs can also lean on struggling or idiosyncratic land owners is merely a bonus for retired bullies to keep living their best lives
What is a code enforcement officer and how do they get your neighbor to put his trash cans away?
What is a code enforcement officer and how do they get your neighbor to put his trash cans away?
they are a type of police with citation but not arrest powers who enforce local (city or county) ordinances
the HOA enforces its covenants by placing liens on owners' homes and suing to collect
the major differences are that HOA enforcers are not necessarily bound by the same restrictions and requirements (eg. 4th amendment, open records) and that they keep your spent-money geographically closer to you, as opposed to developing your greater community
mechanically, ordinance enforcement can proceed much faster and more forcefully than HOA and at a more efficient economy of scale - but again, their true interest is in elitism, not public good
Long was he at work, and slow at first and barren was his labour.
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed while others reap and sow in his stead.
Ever [he] found some ears that would heed him, and some tongues that would enlarge what they had heard; and his lies passed from friend to friend, as secrets of which the knowledge proves the teller wise.
Bitterly did the [people] atone for the folly of their open ears in the days that followed after.
from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1977
I don't think much of Tolkien as a writer but I appreciate his ability to choke the life out of a metaphor (paragraph 2).
i instantly judge anyone who has read any tolkien outside of the 4 main hobbit books as a tasteless dullard - we should have recited the silmarillion at guantanomo instead of waterboarding them
weird how some writers kinda suck, but also write great books.
Tolkien
James clavell
the jurassic park guy
bret Easton ellis
cs lewis
Madeline lengel(it was a dark and stormy night)
HP Lovecraft
i instantly judge anyone who has read any tolkien outside of the 4 main hobbit books as a tasteless dullard - we should have recited the silmarillion at guantanomo instead of waterboarding them
"The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water."
"An empty and pompous bore, lacking the narrative drive that made The Lord of the Rings compelling. Its heroes are distant, its tragedies impersonal, and its style unrelentingly cold."
Robert M. Adams, The New York Review of Books
"Taking a negative view, one might say that this is not a book or even a fragment of one; it is a grandiose outline showing the Tolkien style at its most determinedly pseudo-biblical, more concerned with cataloging than storytelling."
Kirkus Reviews
"Noble intentions do not necessarily produce a noble work; the lofty ambition collapses under the weight of endless lists, genealogies, and battles that blur into one another with no compelling character to follow."
The New Republic
"Its pompous and archaic style makes it hard to read and harder to care about any of the characters; every scene feels like a sermon, every action like a footnote to a grander, unseen history."
John Gardner, The New York Times Book Review
in other words - in addition to being a sock puppet alt account - you are clearly being fisted by a souless cretin without taste
you are clearly being fisted
that's not how I read books, but you do you
sorry for letting myself get dragged down in again
I think a common, of not defining, feature of conservativism is a ... clinging? ... to structure - to established patterns and predictable outcomes.
I read the critics offered by rickroll above with this in mind, and I learn more about them than about the work itself by their comments.
Bill Maher is back from his vacation! I think he is still a democrat?
I think a common, of not defining, feature of conservativism is a ... clinging? ... to structure - to established patterns and predictable outcomes.
I read the critics offered by rickroll above with this in mind, and I learn more about them than about the work itself by their comments.
Yes, they want to...conserve things as they are, or more often as they were in some mystical past. As opposed to progressives. Who...I'm sure you are seeing a pattern here.
Note the Rabid irrational clinging to "traditional" gender roles. Conservative men perform masculinity while their women make themselves up like drag queens.
Bill Maher can suck a lemon imo. I think it is time for him to go jump into a lake.
