Script

A few things on the script are about how people are not taking the virus seriously, how they need to wear their damn masks, and how science is right and they are wrong.

This guy/girl thought it was clever to put all that stuff on the script, no wonder people keep hearing it over and over, they're using the same script, and if they change the script, people notice how reopening started with three phases, and ended up four phases and beyond.

by Solid Mantis July 30, 2020

Statue protests

Protesting a Confederate statue is not the same thing as protesting the death of a man in 2020. The death of George Floyd happened in Minnesota, a northern state, and was unrelated to the Civil War. The average soldier in the civil war wasnt fighting to defend slavery, since they weren't wealthy enough to own slaves. These were poor and middle class soldiers who were mostly concerned about their own families way of life, and not soldiers who thought that slavery or the way of life of a wealthy slaveowner was right. The civil war wasnt really about slavery in the first place, slavery just became Lincoln's public relations campaign cause to gain popular support so he could get control of the southern states back. Lincoln didnt really care about whether people were enslaved or not, yet black people treat him as a hero, and treat anything that even symbolizes the confederacy as the enemy because of what it represents, and not because any of these privates or enlisted confederate soldiers actually did any wrong to their people. It was the wealthy slaveowners and the slave traders who displaced them, tortured them, killed them, and sometimes the KKK, and with many unknown identities in the KKK, theres not much way to know whether many of the KKK had had any ties to the confederate army.

Statue protests are about as far off the subject of george floyd's death as you can get, but a lot of people want to think of anything and everything they hate at one time, instead of focusing on what they're really protesting for in the first place. People who think what was done to george floyd was wrong dont have to agree that anything else a protestor thinks must also be true because they're still angry about george floyd and lockdown all at once. A confederate statue outside of a courthouse is not the same thing as putting up a confederate statue in a black neighborhood, it wasnt put there for the reason some black people are saying it was put there, to stir them up. Theres a reason a statue of MLK is across the street from a confederate statue, if you want one removed, you might as well want them both removed, and say they all upset people too much to be remembered or heard about.

by Solid Mantis June 09, 2020

Known

Someone you know is known. When you know somebody, you don't have to test them to know who they always were.

1) The guy was a relative of him/her, so he didn't need to test him/her to know who he/she really was, he had known him/her growing up.

2) The guy had spent years around him/her at work, so he knew who he/she really was without having to test him/her. The other worker/coworker was known to him.

by Solid Mantis November 25, 2019

Wienie wacker

A good bunch to have arrested when you're trying to make quota at the end of the month.

Where you goin with the mask I found wienie wacker?

by Solid Mantis March 30, 2018

Privacy

A lot of times people say privacy when they mean personal freedom.

When you hear someone talking about what degree of privacy they are willing to give up, they really mean what degree of personal freedom are people willing to give up. There are people who call other people selfish or narcissistic just to try and get them to give up more of their personal freedom.

by Solid Mantis August 26, 2020

Imitation

Sometimes it takes more humility not to be an imitation, not to do everything someone else does, or try and talk like someone else, and to really know that they're different from you, rather than the same. You dont have to give anybody credit you havent taken, but without humility, you'll always try to give credit and try to get other people to do the same because you know you've been busy taking credit from somewhere else, then claim that you had to do all this for someone else, when really it's always been your own lack of humility.

Imitation comes from thinking everybody is the same because everyone is human. Of course everyone is human, of course nobody is more human and nobody is less human, that doesnt mean there aren't the small, subtle things that make each person different than the next. Doing something you saw somebody else do, even if you alter it a little bit, or try to add to it to outdo the person you're imitating, doesnt make you the same as them, any more than talking the way they would talk or saying shit they would say makes you the same as them. There is no speaking any language but your own, people dont go for your shit when you try and speak theirs. Some of us don't give credit or feel that its owed to anybody, since we're not taking any from anybody.

by Solid Mantis September 18, 2020

Vaccine hoarding

Vaccine hoarding is a lot like toilet paper hoarding when the pandemic started, it's silliness. There's enough vaccines to go around for the rest of the world to the people that want to get one just like there was enough toilet paper to go around for everybody at the start of the pandemic, then a few people hoarded the supply and tried to sell it for outrageous prices on ebay. The vaccine hoarding is really about power and control, not about protecting a population.

It helps no one to vaccinate everyone in one country while no one from another country has been vaccinated, since all you are really giving people is a placebo and a false sense of hope/morale boost when they get a shot in their arm. The virus is everywhere, not just in the countries that got the most vaccines, so vaccine hoarding won't really do anybody any good. The countries that got excessive amounts of vaccines they don't need might as well get rid of their vaccines if they are not going to give them to countries that could use them.

by Solid Mantis March 09, 2021