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the dissident frogman | Fri, April 03, 2009 | Permalink | 1191 hits

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DISCLAIMER: in my experience, the following doesn't apply to 99% of my readership. Unfortunately, experience also shows it has to be written down for the remaining 1%.

The short version, when it comes to my comments policy, goes down to a line taken from the (mediocre) second opus of the Matrix:

"I built this place. Down here, I make the rules."

Let's elaborate a bit:

  1. Try to stay on topic. If you have a beef against the cow-fart(1) induced climate change and this post is about monkey spanking(2), then it's not the place to draw your sword(3).
    I have nothing against a freewheeling conversation, but if it's off-topic AND stupid or offensive, then it will have a badly limited lifespan.
  2. Consider the two following statements…
    • I'm totally open-minded when it comes to rational ideas.
    • It is quite obvious that Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, Islamism, Nationalism, Racism, Collectivism(4) and Multiculturalism (non-exhaustive list) exist in complete contradiction with Reason.
    … And guess the total amount of tolerance you can expect from me if you indulge in any of these.
  3. If you shall persist in these ways nevertheless, understand that I'm not spending countless hours of work on this site to "reach out", "debate" with you, "understand" your "root causes" or "learn" about your religion. Unlike race, ideology is something we choose, and for which we must bear all responsibilities. I loathe your sick mindset and what you defend and promote. I've heard all your pitiful excuses for your despicable totalitarian psyche and your compulsion to coerce or enslave your fellow men and women in the name of some "greater good".
    So understand that this is not a public forum: it is my outpost in the culture war you wage against me, my kin, my rights and my freedom — thus, you will only be tolerated here, and only if I decide so. I call the shots and I owe you nothing. As a matter of fact, I don't like having you around, so the only argument you're truly entitled to hear from me would come, if you insist, amplified through the barrel of my Sig-Sauer high powered rifle(5) — because when it comes to intolerant scumbags, I'm an intolerant bastard.
    So keep your distances, and nobody gets hurt.
  4. I also have a very limited patience for social-democrats of all race and creed, center-of-center jellyfish and buttermonkey(6) hybrids, Blame-America-First (and always) Libertarians (usually of the Rothbardian school), Hollywood idiots & Festival-de-Cannes cretins and those Parisians who fancy themselves as an elite when they are nothing but the developed world's rednecks(7). However, I tend to ignore them, so they may consider themselves lucky if they manage to draw some sarcasm in colorful language from me.
  5. Yeah, and don't get me started on journalists and the Wonderful World of Mainstream Media...
  6. American and British soldiers (including the Commonwealth) stand on a special pedestal in my personal pantheon. Disrespect them here, and you'll quickly wish you'd rather stand naked in Mecca during Hajj, wearing only a sign that reads "Muhammad was a pedophile".
  7. I may moderate, remove or edit anything and give neither excuses nor explanations. It has nothing to do with "censorship": I am not a State, you are not a coerced citizen of said State and so you are always free to express yourself on your own facility and by your own means. Commenting is not a right, it is a privilege I grant or take away, according to my right as the owner of this place.
  8. My site is not awfully biased: it's shamelessly opinioned. If you're on my side, you get my vote and are free to rant 'n' roll. If not, live with it or go rot in the gutter.
  9. Oh and, if you're a vegan, be advised that I hunt, kill, cook(8) and eat all sorts of animals, and thoroughly enjoy the whole lot of it. Have fun with your carrots, Doc.
  1. Ha ha. Beef. Cow. Geddit?
  2. It's been known to happen.
  3. Neither is the guestbook by the way.
  4. That includes of course all its variations: Socialism, National-Socialist, Communism, Fascism, etc.
  5. With a loud 'Bang'
  6. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
  7. Tell me London, New-York, Sydney or Tokyo, but Paris is a dump.
  8. Frequently in some sort of wine sauce or with loads of tears-pulling spices. Grapes and pepper count as veggie stuff right?

AVERTISSEMENT : selon mon expérience, ce qui suit ne s'applique pas à 99% de mes lecteurs. Malheureusement, l'expérience prouve aussi qu'il faut que cela soit écrit pour le pourcentage restant.

La version courte, concernant ma politique pour les commentaires, se résume à une ligne tirée du second (médiocre) volet de Matrix:

"J'ai construit cet endroit. Ici, je fais les lois."

Élaborons un brin :

  1. Il existe une subtile différence entre "être familier" et "traiter familièrement". Cela signifie que les culs-sales qui s'imaginent débarquer ici et me tutoyer comme si nous avions gardé les piquets de grève ensemble verront leur contribution à la conversation éradiquée sans autre forme de procès. Quelle que soit la pertinence de ladite contribution. Même si vous n'êtes Vraiment Pas Content® avec ce que j'écris, cela ne vous dispense pas de surveiller vos manières : tant que je n'ai pas été présenté à votre chère Maman, nous nous vouvoierons. Vu ?
  2. Évitez le hors-sujet. Si vous avez une rancune à l'égard de l'impact des pets de vache sur le changement climatique et que cet article traite de la fessée de macaque(1), alors ce n'est pas l'endroit d'où lancer votre croisade (2).
    Je n'ai rien contre une conversation à bâtons rompus, mais si c'est hors-sujet ET stupide ou insultant, ça aura une durée de vie salement limitée.
  3. Considérez les deux affirmations suivantes...
    • J'ai une ouverture d'esprit totale en ce qui concerne toutes idées rationnelles.
    • Il est évident qu' Anti-américanisme, anti-Sémitisme, Islamisme, Nationalisme, Racisme, Collectivisme(3) et Multiculturalisme (liste non-exhaustive) existent en complète contradiction avec la Raison.
    ... Et tâchez de devinez la dose totale de tolérance que vous pouvez attendre de moi si vous cédez à l'une de ces sirènes.
  4. Si vous deviez cependant persister dans ces voies, comprenez que je ne dépense pas un nombre incalculable d'heures de travail sur ce site pour vous "tendre la main", "débattre" avec vous, "comprendre" vos "causes profondes" ou "apprendre à connaitre" votre religion. Contrairement à la race, l'idéologie est le résultat de nos choix, et nous devons en supporter l'entière responsabilité. J'abhorre votre mentalité tarée, et ce que vous défendez et promouvez. J'ai entendu toutes vos pitoyables excuses pour votre détestable psyché de totalitaire et votre compulsion à forcer et réduire vos semblables en esclavage au nom d'un quelconque "intérêt général".
    Comprenez donc que ceci n'est pas un forum publique : c'est mon avant-poste dans la guerre culturelle que vous lancez contre moi, mes semblables, mes droits et ma liberté — vous ne serez que toléré ici, et seulement si je le décide. Je tire les ficelles, et ne vous doit rien. En fait je n'aime pas vous voir dans le coin, et en conséquence les seuls arguments de ma part auxquels vous puissiez réellement prétendre, si vous insistez, se transmettent par le canon de ma carabine de fort calibre Sig-Sauer(4) — Parce dès qu'ils s'agit d'ordures intolérantes, je suis un salaud d'intolérant.
    Alors gardez vos distances, et personne ne sera blessé.
  5. J'ai aussi un patience très limitée pour les sociaux-démocrates de toute confession et couleur, les centristes-du-centre fruits de l'union d'une méduse et d'un cul de singe, les Libertarés de l'École Rothbard conditionnés au "C'est la faute à l'Amérique, toujours et partout", Les Idiots d'Hollywood et les Crétins-de-Cannes, de même que ces parisiens qui se prennent pour une élite alors qu'ils ne sont que les bouseux du monde développé (5). J'ai cependant tendance à les ignorer, et ils peuvent donc s'estimer chanceux s'ils arrivent à me soutirer ne serait-ce qu'un sarcasme en langage fleuri.
  6. Ouais, et ne me lancez pas sur les journalistes et le Monde Merveilleux des Medias...
  7. Les soldats Américains et Britanniques (parmi lesquels j'inclue le Commonwealth) prennent place sur un piédestal particulier dans mon panthéon personnel. Manquez leur de respect ici, et vous souhaiterez rapidement vous trouver plutôt à la Mecque en période Hajj, tout nu avec seulement une pancarte autour du coup sur laquelle on puisse lire "Mahomet était un pédophile".
  8. Je peux modérer, supprimer ou éditer quoi que ce soit, sans fournir d'excuses ni d'explications. Cela n'a rien à voir avec de la “censure”, pour une raison très simple : je ne suis pas un État, vous n'êtes pas un citoyen opprimé dudit État et demeurez donc libre de vous exprimer sur votre propre support et par vos propres moyens. Commenter n'est pas un droit, c'est un privilège que j'accorde ou refuse selon mon droit de propriétaire des lieux.
  9. Mon site n'est pas affreusement partial, il est impudemment orienté. Si vous êtes de mon côté, vous avez mon aval et êtes libre de disserter à l'envi. Sinon, faites avec ou allez crever dans le caniveau.
  10. Oh, et si vous êtes végétarien, sachez que je chasse, tue, cuisine(6) et bouffe toutes sortes d'animaux, et que j'apprécie le tout sans aucune retenue. Soyez heureux avec vos carottes Docteur.
  1. C'est déjà arrivé.
  2. C'est aussi valable pour le Livre d'Or.
  3. Ce qui inclue aussi ses variantes : Socialisme, National-Socialisme, Communisme, Fascisme, etc.
  4. Avec un gros 'Bang'
  5. Londres, New-York, Sydney ou Tokyo, d'accord. Mais Paris, c'est un bled de cul-terreux.
  6. Généralement avec une sauce au vin, ou alors des poignées d'épices à t'arracher la tripaille. Le raisin et les piments, ça compte comme trucs de végétarien, non ?

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  1. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
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Proof | 2 years, 10 months ago
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In: Stockton, Callifornia, USA
04/03 2009
11:40 PM

300? Isn’t that the combined IQ of the 500 person entourage Obama took to Europe?

 
2hotel9 | 2 years, 10 months ago
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In: Western Pennsylvania
04/04 2009
06:02 AM

Barri already has 200 man security team traveling with him, why does he need more?

 

Hell!! He is the socialists’ messiah. Why does he need ANY security in France?!?!?

 
Bruce | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/04 2009
12:05 PM

i am bemused and befuddled by the fact that France - who has one of the most BADASS, KICK ASS military units in the world - in the person of the Legion E’trangre - has some of the most pussified police forces. At least the brits are basically unarmed ... what is the French police’s excuse? I don’t excuse my former brothers in the US, either, by the way. When I was active we didn’t have SWAT teams with military weapons, didn’t have "hostage negotiators" and all that crap ... a 2 man radio car team armed with only .38 special 6 shot revolvers went in and if necessary kicked some ass to correct the situation. Period - end of story. Now? Meh… NOT SO MUCH.  

Geez, Diss ... don’t your countrymen remember the French Resistance during WWII? Won’t they fight to protect their culture anymore?

 
adagioforstrings | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/04 2009
02:13 PM

It’s not just a French thing. US police often avoid going into bad neighborhoods, as well.

 
Gozer the Carpathian | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/04 2009
11:11 PM

Oi Oi,  this is turning into SOP for all police forces.  Do as little as possible in the safest place you can find. 

 
Grimmy | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/05 2009
03:29 AM

Pity the poor Afghans for having to deal with EUnix inspired ISAF bullcrap. Each contributing country sending in forces speaking another language, using differing protocols, practices and procedures, each doing its own thing its own way with little or no coordination between them, and often in direct contradiction or passive aggressive hostility toward the other contingents around them… All in the name of pathetic vanity by nations so deeply entrenched in parasitism when it comes to anything military or defense related that they can not even begin to provide for themselves to any real or meaningful measure.

 
Instinct | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/05 2009
02:52 PM

Sorry, gonna call bullshit on some of that.  Both my brothers and my dad are/were cops in Albuquerque and the cops there make it a point to go into the bad areas in force just to let the gangs know that Albuquerque PD is the biggest gang in the city.

The pussification of police departments come when the Mayor and the city councils decide that they need the cops to protect only the pretty sections of the city and force them to waste resources hanging around low crime areas to make sure they are low crime.

Another example is traffic stops.  When I was an MP I got most of my good busts from doing traffic, people who had warrants out on them, and even a guy who was trying to move five kilos onto the base.  Many cities actually tell their officers not to do traffic and to focus on other areas, so you miss a lot of opportunites to pick up bad guys becasue you aren’t allowed to pull them over for something like a busted tail light or a license plate that is hanging on by one screw.

 
adagioforstrings | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/05 2009
05:46 PM

re: Instinct

 

I’m certain there are good & bad police officers, everywhere. The anecdote that I have is from my cousin. He was driving around Los Angeles and took a wrong turn & was shot. He sped to the nearest hospital with a cop car on his tail. The policeman was going to give him a ticket when my cousin pointed out that he was bleeding & summarized his misadventures. Allegedly, the cop replied that he never drove down that road since it was a well known bad neighborhood. My cousin though, but didn’t articulate at the time, that there might be a correlation between a neighborhood being bad & a lack of police presence.

 
privatei2 | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/05 2009
08:12 PM

Sarkozy needs to unclench his fist.  Or maybe he’s holding out for a subservient bow before he commits troops. 

Either way, I’m very disappointed with DF’s latest blog.  Where’s the description of Michelle’s dress?  What was Carla wearing?  Did they have a private lunch?  What did they eat?  Did Michelle keep her arms covered out of fear the French would confiscate her "guns"?  To show my disgust with DF’s complete lack of sensitivity on these issues, I’m boycotting this site for at least the next 24 hours.   

 
the dissident frogman | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/06 2009
03:01 AM
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Privatei2: that’s just nicotine withdrawal speaking. I know, I’ve been there.

Chill out, spank the monkey - you’ll see through this.

 
Instinct | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/06 2009
04:22 AM

adagioforstrings, you’re right about LA and no offense taken, sorry if it seemed that way.  The police there seem to only really be able to maintain the status quo and not really change anything. 

I blame a lot of that on all the activist groups that start screaming any time the police actually DO something to clean up a neighborhood and arrest all the crooks.  Apparently, in Los Angeles, arresting drug dealers and gang members is only OK if they are of a certain ethnic background that could be compaired to wonder bread.

So, the war zones stay that way, the minorities bitch that the cops don’t do anything and refuse to do anything about the problem themselves.  A screwed up situation if there ever was one.

 
privatei2 | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/06 2009
12:57 PM

DF - I tried to spank the monkey, but something is wrong.  I don’t think I’m playing it right.  I’ll try it again.  

40-60 cigarettes a day!  Yikes!  You are now my inspiration whenever I start feeling sorry for myself.  

Okay, I’m off to try to spank the monkey again.                 

 
privatei2 | 2 years, 10 months ago
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04/06 2009
01:45 PM

Ha!  I finally figured out how to spank the monkey.  I wasn’t dragging the hand the right way!  It requires a special touch.  My score was 219.  Need to work on that…   

 
DGB | 2 years, 5 months ago
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09/09 2009
09:08 PM

DF,

Came to this—late!— by way of Hot Air. My only quibble is the gendarmes have spears. An accurate depiction would show them armed with nosegays or swag bags with complimentary Hermès toiletries to pacify the Taliban.

The truth is Afghanistan doesn’t need 5 or 500 or 5,000 Euro-peacekeepers. It needs soldiers. Guys with guns and mission. Europa of course has precious few soldiers, but plenty of peacekeepers with, in the case of the Belgians, toy guns.

DGB 

 
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