Seriously, I am not affiliated with the Republican party, but I'm sick and tired of people being caught red-handed...and nothing happens. And I have just enough strong views about personal/financial/medical sovereignty, private property, 2nd amendment to be on the Democrat naughty list...even though I'm a law-abiding citizen. And criminals need to go to prison...or you just encourage more to join them since there are no repercussions.

A good read from el gato malo - what a difference a generation makes? ==== if you’d like to understand why the generations above you have so little respect (and increasingly so little tolerance) for your cohort, it’s simple: everything we made was optional and opt in. interesting people did interesting things and if you liked them, you got on board. and that was cool. and if you didn’t, you didn’t. and that was cool too. but you and yours took the awesome stuff we built for you and you politicized it all. you turned it from the ask of “accept me?” upon which our culture was based to an institutionalized demand of “accept me!” backed by the force and institutions of the state and of mass media and indoctrinated into curriculums and cancel culture. you have not pushed boundaries, you have captured institutions. and that’s not art. it’s soviet. what’s the difference between commerce and theft? consent. ... this issue and gen X’s distaste for what you and those you courted became was never about identity or phobia. it was about choice. it was about liberty and free expression including the right not to care or to disapprove. that which may not be criticized is not rebellion. it’s orwellian. and, in no small irony, back in 1984, we did not do this. ====

cultural consent and experiential inversion

why the rebels of gen X find the "artists" of gen Y so intolerable