INSPIRED BY GREATNESS

My co-worker recaulked the bathroom because senescent old farts are destructive to the fixtures. As it turns out. Which is probably why their nearest and dearest tend to drop them off. One of the reasons. Sanity (destruction of) is another. I now know that the fires in the Los Angeles area were caused by liberal elites. It's a plot to bring down regular Americans, and space age technology was involved. They didn't mention Jewish space lasers or the Rothmans, but I'm sure they would have if they had remembered.
And if two or three of them hadn't been Jewish.

Senile rightwing assholeism doesn't discriminate when it strikes.
It neither respects nor distinguishes among ethnicities.
If you're not sure, it's always "their" fault.
Whichever "them" of the moment it is.

You know, I'm rather glad the great Dutch United East Indies Company no longer exists. Two centuries ago all English speakers were convinced that we were behind everything wrong in the world.

Which in many cases we were.

Amongst our many achievements was the occasional and highly justified slaughter of English traders in the Spice Islands. Also the brutal expulsion of the Portuguese from several areas. Regrettably, our siege of Manila to expunge the Spanish blight there was unsuccesful, and attacks on Macao did not result in a cleansing of the place as they should have -- June 24 is consequently a black anniversary -- but I'm still mighty proud of our activities in Asia, Africa, and America.

The V.O.C. and the Dutch Republic demonstrated that unrestrained Dutch mercantile plotting and monopoly imposition can bring immeasurable benefits. At least for us.
Admittedly, Pacific Palisades has no spices of note.
But it's probably still worth burning.
Symbolically Portuguese.

And the locals will benefit enormously from the imposition of enlightened Dutch rule. They always do. Just look at Ceylon, the conquest of Banda, and the benefits of teaching native Americans about scalping for fun and profit, as we did, four centuries ago. Jan Pieterszoon Coen famously said: "Dispereert niet, ontsiet uwe vijanden niet, daer en is ter werelt niet dat ons kan hinderen".

And even though the currently burning "Millionaires' Coast" is in Southern California instead of the Far East, I'm sure that there is a great deal to exploit there. Suffering and profit are always intertwined.



Errm, I mean it's horrific what's happening there, and I feel for those people.
How sad to see your home going up in flames!
A tragedy. Monumental.

Horrific.

That stuff about great Netherlandish rapine and slaughter was just inspired by too much caffeine and a fervent dislike of the repulsive old coots at work. And I may have had too much sugar, too. It does stuff to the head. Sorry.

The suffering is hard to imagine.

Liberal elites.

Horrific.



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