Seemingly everything is a "hill to die on" for these people. Seriously - milk? I don't have a dog in the homogenization fight - or a million other "issues" I'm told I must have an opinion on. And I'm an "opinionated" person! However, if I'm forced to HAVE an opinion on "milk", I have to come down on the side of liberty - if somebody wants to buy raw milk, and someone's willing to sell him raw milk, let them at it. What's it to you?
It's not always the same people who go nonlinear about stuff that shouldn't matter to them, but the groupthink and herd mentality is such that when one goes, the rest reflexively follow.
As for hot having an opinion - I'm with you. Look, however, at the anti-racism concept, where silence (aka no opinion) is lumped in with the worst actual racists out there, and how that spurious association scares people into compliance and into therefore acting "anti-racist."
Only these people can parse the microscopic elements of others’ personal choices and relationships and assign them derogatory buzzwords. I think most of us married people simply live our lives and do stuff without scrutinizing the stereotypical gender role associated with every single little thing we do.
I can't tell you how many people I have met since I adopted Warren who assume I am liberal because of the color of his skin. I shake my head and move on. That assumption is so false. In my experience, libs don't adopt, they throw money at needy kids. I have spent hours with adoptive familes and I have never met a lib there. The overwhelming majority of adoptive parents were traditional with deep family values and a spirit of giving of themselves rather than throwing money.
Prior to their entry into the European Union, little milk for sale in Ireland was pasteurized, still less homogenized. (I used to love how the cream sat on top in the un-homogenized bottles.) Most milk came from local Co-ops, and Irish farmers bragged that "that milk was grass just yesterday.".Then Irish voters, and more avidly, politicians, sold their souls to the EU, and a host of cradle to the grave regulations came. Including, in 2015, a "statutory instrument" drawn up by the Ministry of Health that regulated the terms under which raw milk can be sold. The Irish, historically unused to individual rights as a thing, still didn't expect to lose their amazingly rich and healthy milk in exchange for money for roads.
Peter, I rely on you to keep me up to date on all the neologisms 😁
Seemingly everything is a "hill to die on" for these people. Seriously - milk? I don't have a dog in the homogenization fight - or a million other "issues" I'm told I must have an opinion on. And I'm an "opinionated" person! However, if I'm forced to HAVE an opinion on "milk", I have to come down on the side of liberty - if somebody wants to buy raw milk, and someone's willing to sell him raw milk, let them at it. What's it to you?
It's not always the same people who go nonlinear about stuff that shouldn't matter to them, but the groupthink and herd mentality is such that when one goes, the rest reflexively follow.
As for hot having an opinion - I'm with you. Look, however, at the anti-racism concept, where silence (aka no opinion) is lumped in with the worst actual racists out there, and how that spurious association scares people into compliance and into therefore acting "anti-racist."
Which, as you and I know, is racist.
Well said, as usual.
Only these people can parse the microscopic elements of others’ personal choices and relationships and assign them derogatory buzzwords. I think most of us married people simply live our lives and do stuff without scrutinizing the stereotypical gender role associated with every single little thing we do.
They just make me tired.
I can't tell you how many people I have met since I adopted Warren who assume I am liberal because of the color of his skin. I shake my head and move on. That assumption is so false. In my experience, libs don't adopt, they throw money at needy kids. I have spent hours with adoptive familes and I have never met a lib there. The overwhelming majority of adoptive parents were traditional with deep family values and a spirit of giving of themselves rather than throwing money.
Usually other people's money.
I've quoted David Mamet more times than I can count: "socialism is the abdication of responsibility."
Prior to their entry into the European Union, little milk for sale in Ireland was pasteurized, still less homogenized. (I used to love how the cream sat on top in the un-homogenized bottles.) Most milk came from local Co-ops, and Irish farmers bragged that "that milk was grass just yesterday.".Then Irish voters, and more avidly, politicians, sold their souls to the EU, and a host of cradle to the grave regulations came. Including, in 2015, a "statutory instrument" drawn up by the Ministry of Health that regulated the terms under which raw milk can be sold. The Irish, historically unused to individual rights as a thing, still didn't expect to lose their amazingly rich and healthy milk in exchange for money for roads.
It's a sad reality that much of the world is unused to individual rights.