3 Takes
Ark Press Authors
1. Tools of Civility
2. Rainy Day Women #13
3. Off to the Pickle Factory
1. Larry Correia
Tools of Civility
A common tactic used by dishonest bully assholes is to pretend that the internet is a real place, which functions on the same rules of civility as in real life conversations.
When they see someone saying something they don’t like, they weaponize the unstated rules of discourse by swooping in and “only asking questions”. . . Of course these rules of civility are a one way street. At no point do they honestly answer the people asking them questions. They might spend 30 seconds on Google and paste the first headline they think agrees with them (and they never read the article) but you have to write them a thesis with annotated bibliography or else. Which they will ignore anyway, and then demand you write another.
In real life if some fucking bum comes up to you asking bullshit questions because he wants to take advantage of you “nice” people get trapped, and now you’re in a conversation you never wanted about how he needs to borrow $20 for gas money because his baby mamma got a job interview and blah blah blah until he robs you.
These fuckers are that, only online.
Source. Get American Paladin by Larry Correia.
2. Kurt Schlichter
Rainy Day Women #13
Somewhere along the way, some women decided masculinity is bad, and some men played along with this nonsense. Today, if you’re tough, aggressive, and don’t take guff from half-wits, or if you are aggressively heterosexual, you are toxically masculine. It’s possible to be a jerk in a distinctly male way; again, the problem is too much, or a perverted practice of the thing. Again, you need both sexes, properly understood. This is why you have a man and a woman, the two parts of humanity that come together and create a functioning society.
But we stopped doing that. As Helen Andrews observed, our society has gone way too far in the feminine direction, which is a problem because hostile societies have maintained their traditional, masculine focus when it comes to the areas of business and conflict. When you get a bunch of soft men, and they come up against hard men, the hard men win.
Systems only function if all the parts work as designed. You can’t refuse to do your part in a system and expect it to keep functioning. When you change your input, you alter the output. . . . And it’s not going to work out well for the women.
Source. Pre-0rder American Warlord by Kurt Schlichter
3. Sam R. OYKEN
Off to the Pickle Factory
“Yep. This place.” BUTTONFLY gestured all around. “You probably haven’t heard that one before. That’s what we used to call CIA. Way back, before you were born, I’m guessing, all those officers who lived in Georgetown, the old OSS swashbucklers, they’d kiss their wives goodbye in the morning and say, ‘Well, Honey, I’m off to the Pickle Factory.’” “I wonder why they called it that.” “I don’t know,” said BUTTONFLY. “Maybe because they used to get into a lot of pickles. Those guys, they had a sense of humor about the place, they didn’t take themselves too seriously. And they couldn’t wait to get to work. Not anymore, though. Now everyone here takes this place and themselves very seriously, because it’s no longer a serious place. And they can’t wait to retire.”
Excerpt from The Pickle Factory by Sam R. Oyken. Get The Pickle Factory by Sam R. Oyken.
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