Weaponized big government departments, judiciaries, bureaus, agencie and even corrupt career politicians is quite the lingering Obamanation these days.

Isn’t the IRS motto, “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!”? The new Oz, starring James Comey as the king of the flying monkeys.

Should you ever see the man behind the curtain with someone else? That's when you're supposed to complimentary place the tip of a forefinger over your lips and hiss a "Shhhh!"
You sure as hell don't want to righteously yell, "Hey, who's that man behind that curtain?!" That's a good way of receiving an IRS audit.

I like you. I wish that there were more of your kind.

To paraphrase an old Buddhist tale:

A young millennial runs to Buddha and demands that his peanut allergy force all to bend to his will. Buddha agrees with one condition. The millennial must find at least one person who has no allergies, no aches, no pains and no mental turmoil to witness the transfer of power.

....but, but...said the millenial....

...but, indeed...said Buddha.

😑

Allosaur. I also thought of the beat-nicks finger snapping!!

Do not clap for that man behind the curtain!!!!

California, eh?

Add quiet earthquakes, mudslides, and wildfires to my list.

:-)

I don't doubt it.

Many years ago I lived in the leftist town of Davis, CA. That town's famous for building a tunnel under the freeway for toads. I did like living there...the limousine academic lefties don't tolerate crime in their own community. I had a contractor doing an addition to my home and he told me one of the college profs asked him to hammer nails on a job with those rubber mallets to make it quieter. He said, "Ok, but I'll have to charge you twice as much." "Oh, nevermind then."

...Note which ones are wearing ear muffs. Those are the ones who really suffer. Heck, some of these kids with these issues wear ear muffs almost everywhere. It's pretty fucked up...

My dog loves thunder for some reason. Aussie cattle dog...haven't seen anything scare him yet.

I can just see the outraged far left being crazy enough to demand quiet bombs and all guns have silencers.
That’s if that would make a more peaceful world.

You left out thunder. My dogs hate that stuff!

Terrorist attacks, inner city gunfights, and riots are loud. Someone needs to regulate those things.

And, although this is not much of an issue most of the time in North America or Western Europe, military invasions can be very distracting. Someone needs to make military personnel keep it down, so that the sound-sensitive are not agitated.

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ooh! I almost forgot: drone strikes, bombs, and asteroid impacts...

What sets many of us off about this stuff is that the sufferers are indoctrinated to maintain external loci of control, meaning that they feel entitled to compel everyone else to adapt to the sufferers, rather than the other way around. It's as if an amputee expected others to carry him around on their backs, rather than learn how to wear a prosthetic leg. To the sufferer who maintains an external locus of control, those of us who maintain internal loci of control (i.e., we sort out our own problems) say, "Yeah, sure, your life sucks. I get that. I even sympathize. Leave me out of it; I'm not bothering you with my woes."

As for lethal peanut allergies, what percentage of the population does this represent? Even more important, how much of this is caused by parents' not exposing their children to peanuts at an early age and by parents' dousing their young children in buckets of hand sanitizer, rather than letting them stress their developing immune systems by playing in dirt and chewing on shoes? If the parents and the school teachers are to blame, then pin the cost of mitigation on them, and not on the other kids who just want to be left in peace to enjoy their peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for lunch.

As for loud alarms, for one thing they don't need to be that loud to get our attention, so that is just a matter of bad design that any competent technician can fix; and if the loudness is set by statute, regulation, or administrative rule, then we should petition for legal change. For those who are sensitive to loud noises, as I was as a child, covering one's ears with one's hands is always an option. If that is not enough, the put some baggies of those little squishy ear plugs into your child's book bag, and teach him how to pinch them down and insert them safely. Coddling those who panic during fire drills very well could mean their unnecessary deaths in the event of a real fire.

It is fascinating how offended those who maintain external loci of control become, when one suggests that they maintain internal loci of control. They expect the strong to sacrifice themselves to the weak, and falsely accuse the strong who refuse to sacrifice themselves of sacrificing the weak to the strong, when the strong don't want to sacrifice anyone to anyone else.

While I agree completely that not giving in is the best defense, I also recognize that the vicious little culties really are victims, but not in the way that they mean.

Their indoctrination began in nursery school and continued unabated through undergraduate and graduate school. By the time that they are finished with school, they are expected to function in the real world as independent adults, even though they are incompetent to distinguish floating abstractions, stolen concepts, and anti-concepts from high-level concepts that are gounded on objective reality; and they cannot rank primary values and secondary values.

And, like feral animals that have been injured, they attack those who try to help them. Singly, they are pitiable; en masse they are a violent, deadly nuisance.

Techniques for repelling pests
Category- wokists, snowflakes, progressives

Hand clapping gives them anxiety and they scurry away as best they can with heads down and ears covered.
Clapping emits no carbon pollution and is renewable.

But when they go to a rock concert ..

Haha! I don't have the answer. But, nice to see that somebody is trying!

The solution is simple. All loud noises should be made much softer. To start, order people to only air clap, quiet down emergency sirens, slow down jet engines, remove car horns, and set a mandatory volume limits on all audio amplifiers. This way everyone is severely affected by those pretending to be outraged by this problem. Also anyone who disagrees these far left based solutions should be mercilessly ostracized.
Now don’t you feel much better and even more morally superior?
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Ok...stay with me here... There are probably a couple factors at work here. I know about one of them. Recently I posted a thread here about how neurological problems are an exploding epidemic in our youth. One effect of many such disorders are extreme sensitivity to loud noises. I've seen it firsthand at my kid's school. They have a fire drill with the alarm going off and many of the kids simply can't handle it. They can't help it. It's 94 db you you and me, but much higher to them.

Is this crazy? You bet it is. Get used to it. Oh...and while you're at it, don't bring a peanut onto an elementary school campus. It could actually kill some of the students. Mull that over...

These are real problems. Of course, there is a facet of the young population and their keepers who just want to control others by claiming victim status. They aren't helping matters...

Those students could always snap their fingers like beatniks did after hearing a poem in a coffee house.
Me a little dino thought that weirdness looked kinda cool on my parents' black and white TV during the Fifties.
On the other hand, me dino thought The Addams Family cool during the Sixties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMKl...

heh...

In my dayyy... we didn't hold up our mobile phones at rock concerts; we held up lit cigarette lighters!

"...availability of handheld devices could play a role..." Hmmmm. Could it be that having to put down the device in order to clap has the effect of pulling a pacifier out of a baby's mouth? Cooooould beeeee, LOL!

I think your first guess is correct. Nice link, thanks.

My first guess is that this is just another manufactured 'crisis' and that the mandate is yet another power play.

As Bradley Campbell points out, we are not dealing with fragile snowflakes here; we are dealing with an anti-rational cult:

https://quillette.com/2018/11/14/the-...