Saturday, October 14, 2023

And the man of the year is...

By N.S.

https://babylonbee.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-is-the-babylon-bees-new-man-of-the-year

Dylan Mulvaney!






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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The other nominees were Joe Biden,Jussie Smollett,Eric Adams and Michelle Obama.Mobama should have won--Whitey's not supposed to win anything--doesn't the Babylon Bee know this?

--GRA

Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 9:11:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

jerry pdx
I was walking downtown and a group of people were handing out flyers, A woman rather rudely shoved one in my hand and I saw they wanted donations for a mission to africa to "dig wells for the poor starving negroes". There were pictures of little black kids with distended bellies and parents that looked like walking skeletons, the usual pull at the heartstrings crap. Ordinarily, I just walk by these kind of people (they're like flies in pdx) but they caught me waiting for a walk signal and a woman aggressively forced a flyer into my hands, then took offense at my brusque "I'm not interested" (and perhaps my eye roll) and asked me why I don't care about the suffering of children. Sensing they had an ideological enemy the group began to stare at me like I was satan and the woman began to dig in suggesting I had moral deficiencies of some kind. In a situation like that it's near impossible to engage in a meaningful debate so I hit them from a tangent they never expected.

First thing I asked them is if they know what an aquifer is and all I got was a lot of blank expressions. So I explained: Aquifers are underground pools of water that have accumulated for thousands of years, but are a limited resource in that they don't replenish at nearly the rate they are depleted when used by humans for agriculture or other uses. Right now, underground water tables are dropping at a rate that will have that resource running dry in the not too distant future. It's basically a worldwide crisis that gets little media coverage because it's not a glamorous subject.

Underground water is kind of like oil, humans search for sources and tap into them for agriculture, industrial use and for city water sources. africa is a somewhat less developed than other continents so there are more undiscovered aquifers than other places but when sources are discovered, it's not necessarily "villagers" that benefit but large scale agricultural operations or industrial interests that get the water. Which is what this "missions" is really all about, not helping some poor starving villagers.

I went on for a bit on this and then threw in that the population of africa is set to double in a few generations and maybe those people would benefit more from family planning or female empowerment, both of which result in people having less babies, which means children are better fed, cared for and have better futures. Plus, less people means more room for forests, endangered species and less pollution. So why aren't they focused on that instead of "digging wells" nonsense?

I might have thrown in a few more things and when I finished my spiel they were mumbling to themselves, shuffling their feet uncomfortably and had nothing to say...except for the woman who first approached me who weakly said something like "well, they still need help". I was done with them so turned and walked away. I only did that because they had gotten snarky with me but the expressions on their faces were amusing to see. Doubt I made any kind of real impression though, reality just doesn't compute with wokesters.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ongoing-collapse-of-the-worlds-aquifers/

Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 10:28:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

Every country is supposed to take care of their own people,the point of self-governance. We are in sad shape in the U.S.financially and are headed for major economic problems ourselves.Our cities are imploding with crime and debt.If the U.S. was not around,Africa would need to solve their own issues--and if they didn't,the world moves on--as it has since it all began.

--GRA

Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 10:45:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

I suspect that no amount of outside "help" will improve Africa. Yes, the population will double and the biggest problem is that they are Africans. And digging wells is not rocket science--a bunch of Africans could get together and do it themselves--if they had the intelligence and willpower. I remember reading that an early missionary to Africa complained that all Africans wanted to do is "drink beer and have sexual intercourse." Probably that is still the case. The worst thing is that the exploding population will result in massive immigration to advanced countries--if they are stupid enough to let them in--and most are. One thing which might help is not digging wells, but supplying them with water laced with birth control pills.

Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 12:57:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
“Every country is supposed to take care of their own people,the point of self-governance”


United States now to be considered, as in moderate danger of becoming a failed state number one cannot control its borders anymore number two failed indebtedness and excessive indebtedness

Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 8:05:00 PM EDT

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