{"id":4161,"date":"2023-06-03T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2023-06-03T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T16:41:20","slug":"you-can-remain-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/you-can-remain-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Remain Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been following along with the news, especially the backlash retailers are experiencing with “Pride,” loosely after my apartment was flooded again at 0230EDT last Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think things are kinda-sorta getting back together. We’ve got a lot of stuff that we’ve got to have hauled out, but we’re back home since Wednesday. Big thanks to my MIL for coming up to help with the cleanup and reorganization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In amongst the chaos at home, I did watch the last episode of Vice News Tonight.<\/em> I will have trouble missing it. They didn’t really say anything about that being the last episode. The episode, itself, focused on some guy who died in Mississippi under suspicious circumstances. Was he lynched? Um…he was not hanged publicly for the public to see. Nobody quite understands the circumstances of his death. But, that the Podunk law enforcement agencies haven’t spent considerable time and effort trying to find who lynched him means that he was killed like it’s still 1963. Nothing’s changed. (And that’s why it’s important that the cheerleaders for the party of Jim Eastland<\/a> must come down to set things straight….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was more bummed about Kennedy’s <\/a>departure from FOX Business. It was fascinating to see her transition from the token Republican on MTV to a Libertarian stalwart. In spite of her too-frequent dalliances with the NeoHips, I will miss her show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I’d find something else. Maybe not. Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But back to the not paying too-close attention to the news, there’s been a bit of controversy over Twitter’s brief cancellation of What IS A Woman?.<\/a><\/em> While I’m happy Elon Musk overrode his employees’ inclination to bury it, it’s still something I really just don’t care to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without the burial, there’s nothing subversive about trying to find it. I simply don’t care about the movie, or its producer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with the controversies about what Target<\/a> has done with transgender swimwear, too, it’s something I care very little about. While I think what they’ve done is a bad business decision, there’s very little for me to do about it aside from shopping there even less than I do now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If that makes me a bigot, great. What was your name again? Where do you like do you work? Where to you like to shop? Great. I’ll make sure I avoid those places, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that’s about all I’m going to say about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the title. I have the right not to participate. I have the right to deny you my business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not going to proclaim loudly either of those choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think that makes me a bad person, again, Whatever.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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