The not that bad guy and society.

[pettertb]

I recall a story from middle school, I might have been 13.

There was two brothers in the neighborhood I grew up in. Both had much money and big houses. We we're good friends with one of them, he was sociable and kind and his children are and were great. Upstanding people. His brother was bad. He was bitter over the inheritance, dumped trash on the good brothers property, threathened to shoot their puppy. Their kids and house was weird.

I was talking about the bad brother with my best friend. After talking about it for a while, he mentioned something his father told him. That bad brother, sure he was kinda unsavory and "bad". But you know what? If we fell in the river, he'd jump after us. He knew our parents from way back and was after all one of the dependable people in our community. My mind was blown.

I remember that story when I listen to people wave off countrymen as deplorables (or horribad SJW people). Sure that somewhat racist guy seems unsavory, but he's still be "one of us" and a part of our society. I might not like your opinions, or appearance, or smell. But as long as we're holding up the same community, county or country then there is a level of cameraderie at the bottom right?

It takes a village after all.

[DrYouth]

This story may have to do with your being from Norway...

There are precious few neighborhoods in the west where people will jump in the river to save one another.
The social fabric is for the most part thin and getting thinner.
People like the man you are talking about in the west are very unlikely to jump in the river for anyone.

[TheReal_ND]

Eh. You'd probably be surprised. Also peter did something and is trying to assuage his conscience clearly.

[DrYouth]

Eh. You'd probably be surprised. Also peter did something and is trying to assuage his conscience clearly.

I'm sure there are some tight neighborhoods...
I've simply never had the privilege of living in one... again something that is probably more true on the left.

So... what do ya figure he did?

[Smitty-48]

This story may have to do with your being from Norway...

There are precious few neighborhoods in the west where people will jump in the river to save one another.
The social fabric is for the most part thin and getting thinner.
People like the man you are talking about in the west are very unlikely to jump in the river for anyone.

The landed gentry has never let me down, it's only the leftists who are destroying the sense of community, supplanting it with a nanny police state uber alles, if you jump into the river to save someone, no doubt some kneedipper is going to call for your head, because you weren't a public sector unioized employee having filled out the paperwork in triplicate and then got it stamped by some poltical appointee mandarin before you took the plunge.

Champagne Socialist Physician, heal thyself.

[DrYouth]

The landed gentry has never let me down, it's only the leftists who are destroying the sense of community, supplanting it with a nanny police state uber alles, if you jump into the river to save someone, no doubt some kneedipper is going to call for your head, becuase you weren't a publci sector unioized employee having filled out the papperwork in triplicate and had it stamped by some poltical appointee mandarin before your took the plunge.

Well the left haven't helped any I'll give you that...

But you can't blame the bolshie's for everything.

It 's the unstoppable march of technology, the migration of labour into cities from the countryside, the automobile, the single family dwelling, the air conditioner, the television... and now the constant movement of labour within and between nations.

Techonology is a solvent dissolving our social fabric... The left aren't responsible for this.

[Smitty-48]

As I said, the landed gentry, be they in Downtown Toronto, or out here in Wellington County, have never let me down, my neighbors of property, be they urban or be they rural, have always been there for me in a pinch, and I for them as well, the landed gentry sticks together, the only ones who would fuck you over and not give a damn, are the filthy tenants being usefull idiots for the kneedippers, and the champagne socialists who enable the nanny police state to nowhere therein.

[DrYouth]

As I said, the landed gentry, be they in Downtown Toronto, or out here in Wellington County, have never let me down, my neighbors of property, be they urban or be they rural, have always been there for me in a pinch, and I for them as well, the landed gentry sticks together, the only ones who would fuck you over and not give a damn, are the filthy tenants being usefull idiots for the kneedippers, and the champagne socialists who enable the nanny police state to nowhere therein.

Not a fan of the peasants and the working class then... more on the side of the landed nobility...

You can't be that much of a cliché.

[Smitty-48]

As I said, the landed gentry, be they in Downtown Toronto, or out here in Wellington County, have never let me down, my neighbors of property, be they urban or be they rural, have always been there for me in a pinch, and I for them as well, the landed gentry sticks together, the only ones who would fuck you over and not give a damn, are the filthy tenants being usefull idiots for the kneedippers, and the champagne socialists who enable the nanny police state to nowhere therein.

Not a fan of the peasants and the working class then... more on the side of the landed nobility...

You can't be that much of a cliché.

I grew up amongst the working classes, no champagne socialism for me, doctor, but having grown up with the proles, I well know what a morally bankrupt pack of dishonorable felons they really are.

[DrYouth]

I grew up amogst the working classes, no champagne socialism for me it was, doctor, but having grown up with the proles, I well know what a morally backrupt pack of dishonorable felons they really are.

And you blame the left for the condition of the proles?
Was it not the feudal lords who left them landless and the propertied class who ground them down in their factories and coal mines?