Sanity

Reality is affected by neither your dogma nor your mental illness

How SJWs read

SJW Scanning,

This is a form of near literacy employed by SJWs in order to disqualify written works, and signal adherence to the accepted group think. First one reads the Wikipedia entry about the author and searches Huffpo, Reddit, Feministing (or other, similar gathering places) and searches the twitter feeds of one's handlers to determine if one is allowed to enjoy the work. If not, one then reads the first and last couple of pages so as to get the tone and the narrative arc. Then one skims until offended, looking eagerly for any hint of a mention of sex or race.Whether or not any is found, the work and the author are denounced as double plus ungood, racist, anti-woman, pro-rape, pro-kitten-sadness, etc. Any literary effect the reader does not understand, such as the use of nicknames to evoke the emotional state of a character, are treated as both pro-rape and evidence of the author's stupidity.

Shock Troops

Embrace the extremists. Defend them. Refuse to permit them to be cut off and isolated. Allow them to play their role as the intellectual shock troops they are. That is how you win. Because if they're not taking the incoming fire, you are. And the shock troops are much better equipped psychologically to take it and survive than the average self-styled moderate.
                                     --Vox Day

basic deficiency

You're not smart enough to tell me how to live.
                              --Kathy Shaidel

Fairness

Fairness is like some exotic sub-sub-subatomic particle:
It has never been observed in the real world.
It exists only in theory.
There's not even any evidence that it is a useful model.

But the theories all work out so nicely if it does exist, that a great many people think it must be real.

self-interest

If you are a normal young woman — desiring a life that includes men, marriage and motherhood — you need to recognize how modern feminism is directly hostile to your own self-interest.
                                          --R.S. McCain

Emergence

Though some may think they have buried it, the truth has a pesky way of emerging - no matter how well guarded the tomb
                                             --Rabbi B

conspiracy Theory

Feminism is an elaborate conspiracy theory that allows unhappy and often mentally ill women to blame their unhappiness on men.

Gender Feminism is the belief that men, all men, and every man, are at fault for the fact that the feminist is a desperately unhappy, unlikeable, viscious, emasculating harpy. 

Social Justice! Because....

"Getting back at your father is a lifetime job."
                                    --Ace

And if you work it right, it can come with tenure.

Modifiers

Hyphenated justice is either theft or sadism.

misidentification

Danby's Law;
If I were what you say I am, you would never dare to say it.
Scuzzaman's codicil;
Were I what you say I am, you would not survive saying it.

Niemoller revisited

First they came for the black people's guns, and I didn't object because blacks are violent thugs who scare me.
Then they came for concealed carry, and I didn't object, because only criminals carry hidden weapons.
Then they came for the machine guns, and I didn't object because only government employees can be trusted with machine guns.
Then they came for the Saturday night specials,  and I didn't object because my guns are all high-quality and expensive.
Then they came for the assault weapons, and I didn't object because they look like scary military weapons.
Then they came for open carry, and I didn't object because someone told me "don't be a dick."
Then they came to register everyone's guns, and I didn't object because I'm not a criminal, so I don't have to worry.
Then they came for my family, and I effectively couldn't object, because by then they'd taken away my gun.

Sad Puppies memes

Two versions

and

I did a meme photoshop!

Well, actually an MS Paint. I ran across this comment from mil-scifi author Col. Tom Kratman and thought it needed illustration.

SMLE rebuild attempt 1

Well, the smle arrived and I'm not impressed. I ordered a new stock, forestock and handguards from Numrich and stock bands and screws from Sarco. Here's what I started with:

 Yeah, pretty awful, but that's just wood. What's worse is what I find next. The charger bridge (the piece that goes across the top of the receiver to hold the stripper clips) has obviously been broken off and welded.

Here are the original photographs.


If you have trouble seeing
the break, I've highlighted it here.



















And to add insult to injury, here's the last straw:

 

 That's right, Bubba the gun mangler shortened the barrel by a good 3 inches, so it no longer fits in the forestock. Well, that means another order to Numrich and wait another couple of weeks while I figure out how to fake up a barrel wrench and an action wrench, cause I'm already $300 into this project, which is as much even a good SMLE is worth, let alone this one.

On the other hand, took it out to run a few rounds through it today. I was worried about the welded charger bridge, but that piece is just pinned in normally, and by all reports the rifle operates just fine without it. Still, it was worrisome, so I threw a sandbag over the action when I fired it the first time. Just in case. Also, I checked the headspace. I used a dime for the low space (a US dime is approx .060 inches) and a nickel (approximately .075 inches) for the no-go gauge.I had to cut them down with bolt cutters to get them in, but they checked out just fine. This is not exact, but could be improved with a bit of sandpaper.

Anyway, the gun fires beautifully. The trigger is a bout 3 lbs, with a nice clean break. I wasn't really aiming, just trying to get a feel for the gun, but bullets went downrange very accurately. The recoil on the  other hand, well, the phrase "kicks like a mule" isn't enough. More like "kicks like a rage-fueled mule on steroids." The first round I braced on my bicep, with the action under a sandbag. I didn't want to put my face that close to a 70 year-old gun that had been abused. The kick was very painful, no bruises yet though. After that, I fired from the shoulder, one shot kneeling and one laying down, both braced on the shoulder. The recoil was serious, but not painful.