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Unfortunately pared with this attitude is the magic thinking that ‘as long as everyone follows The Rules and keeps to Their Proper Place then nothing bad will happen ever’. They literally believe that The Hierarchy is the only thing keeping civilization from disintegrating into chaos.

It’s not that they don’t realize they’re buffoons, it’s that the buffoons are ‘following The Rules’ and so are they, so that buffoonery will never be turned on them.

Paired with this is the belief that everyone thinks exactly as they do, just some people are too stupid to realize it. So they need to exert The Rules and The Hierarchy to help those poor other people see sense.

Some people hate their own agency. They want to be told what to do by a ‘higher power’, whether that’s God, men, a cult leader… that way they can safely say nothing in life is their fault.

It’s the adult version of wrapping themselves in a blanket because they’re scared of something. That something being their own choices, or worse, random chance, leading them to fail.

But those who desire control often desire both to be subject to it and to exert it over others. So a hierarchy forms. Men tell those women what to do, and in turn they tell those lower on the ‘ladder’ (younger women, children, and in their ideal world ‘others’ like PoC) what to do. Thus everything in their life is controlled, and they feel safe. And they get to have a little power of their own, again without real responsibility, because they’re just underlings for someone ‘higher on the ladder’.

Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.

-Mary Wollstonecraft

Nah, this is normal in the medical world. You think the Thin Blue Line is bad, you should see doctors cover each other’s shit. It’s one of the reasons their insurance is so high.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

-Wilhoit’s Law

Why do you think the pigs always kiss the ass of conservatives and fascists? So they can be in the first group.

You do realize how much Doge was able to dismantle specifically the parts of government that tax the rich, right?

But aside from that, people tend to conflate appearance for substance. He feels controlling the government makes him powerful because he appears powerful.

Yes, fertilizers can be a skin irritant due to the concentration of chemicals. Obviously it depends on the fertilizer; most likely this owl stepped in a water-soluble chemical fertilizer, as they tend to be quite concentrated and are placed on top of the soil so they can dissolve a little bit every time the plant is watered.

Unfortunately people often dump more on the soil than plants really need (the ol’ ‘if one application is good than twice as much is twice as good!’ crowd that also drives doctors crazy). At usual application rates and spread the fertilizer should, in most cases, be too spread out to be much of a problem, but obviously a giant pile of it…

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

-Susan B. Anthony

Hey now, medical leeches provide important services to the community and are often essential for reattaching limbs.

I’d say he’s a lot more like a mosquito. Or a horsefly.

I dunno, in Japan at least there was a lot of woowoo as far back as 1000 years ago. The gardening version of Feng Shui that Japan adopted has fun stuff in it like ‘don’t put a rock in upside down, or it will curse you for seven generations’.

Soft firing without having to pay severance. That makes their quarterly numbers look better, which in turn makes stocks and thus their compensation package go up.

Of course it will probably kill the company in the long run, but by then the board will have elected a fall guy to blame and they will all jump out with their golden parachutes, leaving the rest of you to burn.

If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.

lol