Via Chris Snowdon, I find myself reading the outpourings of a public health parasite. Chris refers to this creature as a self-righteous prig. In doing so, he is too kind. Still, what is it that incenses Simon Capewell so much? Well, it is us, which is interesting. It seems we are trolls. This is lefty parlance for “disagrees with me”, rather than the troll we associate with Usenet. Daring to openly challenge these charlatans makes us extreme, it seems.
This usage of extreme is interesting to me because my views are pretty much mainstream. At least, a few years ago they were. Now, extremism, it seems, is professing a preference to be left alone to decide for myself how I live my life without the state or various parasitic hangers-on telling me what to do and if I do not comply, then they try to shame me, nag me, bully me and tax me until I do comply. Except, I still won’t comply. Yup, this it seems, is extreme. And daring to complain makes me a troll.
Thing is, these people are funded by the taxpayer. Yes, that’s right; me. So, I am their employer. All I can say is that if I spoke publicly about my employer in the manner that Capewell talks about me, I’d be on JSA faster than you can say IDS – and rightly so. The difference here is that despite being forced to employ these people against my will, I have no power to dismiss them. And I am extreme? I am unreasonable?
These people are bullies, nothing more, nothing less. That we fund them is a national disgrace. That Capewell engages in a nasty attack on his employers suggests that deep down, they are beginning to realise this. So, what we are seeing is pre-emptive attack being the best form of defence. It doesn’t change anything though. They are still bullies, they are still nothing more than parasites stealing from the productive – and the sooner all funding is removed the better.
Also, the usual canard is trotted out:
Though usually few, they may be generously financed by Big Tobacco or other vested interests perceiving a current or future threat to profits.
When can I expect my cheque?
And it is surely our job to use our democratic (bwahahahahaha – Ed) powers and ensure that the policy playing fields remain level?
That has to be the best piece of unintentional humour this year. The lack of self-awareness is strong with this one.
Why am I funding, via the state’s pickpockets, these purveyors of bollocks to the gentry and hoi-polloi?
Their urge to regulate, control and ban suggests their mental state is highly questionable.
“…they may be generously financed by Big Tobacco…
Highly unlikely: ‘Big Tobacco’ doesn’t love e-cigs, as their use greatly reduces the amount spent on combustible tobacco. My wife and I both switched last January from a 15 – 20 a day cig consumption to vaping and it has saved us a lot – and of the greatly reduced expenditure on fluids, none is going to ‘Big Tobacco’. Therefore the esteemed ‘expert’ is spouting utter bollocks. Almost certainly, not for the first time.
The same lame accusation about funding is thrown at those who are sceptical about climate change alarmism. The fossil fuel lobby is paying them to spread disinformation you see.
I thought SSM meant surface to surface missile; perhaps that’s what’s needed.
“It seems we are trolls. This is lefty parlance for “disagrees with me”, rather than the troll we associate with Usenet. “
Progressives know that if you want to change society, the first thing you have to change is the language.
Indeed it is so, Julia. ‘Progressives’ adopted PC talk as the thin end of the wedge, inspired by Orwell’s ‘Newspeak’.