When I worked security at Liberal Mountain Concert Venue^TM, that would happen with some regularity when we had to kick people out for things like fighting and SA. Just flailing and screaming about how this is bullshit, they didn't do anything, who the fuck are we to etc etc. Maybe 1 out of 5 would take the L and walk to the door with us, but most had to be dragged out, drunkenly protesting their innocence while some poor partygoer bled from the nose 10 feet away. I guess the point of this comment is that the worst people will tell themselves they did nothing wrong until the very end, and also that I would like to be a gulag guard.
Imagine Nicolas Kristof being dragged to a nice little Siberian GULag screaming "THIS IS FASCIIIIISCM!" at the top of his lungs.
You, the guard, just take a drag from your cigarette, smile cooly and reply "Oh no, comrade columnist dude, not at all. This is just socialism!"
This shuts him up, possibly forever.
When I worked security at Liberal Mountain Concert Venue^TM, that would happen with some regularity when we had to kick people out for things like fighting and SA. Just flailing and screaming about how this is bullshit, they didn't do anything, who the fuck are we to etc etc. Maybe 1 out of 5 would take the L and walk to the door with us, but most had to be dragged out, drunkenly protesting their innocence while some poor partygoer bled from the nose 10 feet away. I guess the point of this comment is that the worst people will tell themselves they did nothing wrong until the very end, and also that I would like to be a gulag guard.
1 out of 5 Americans comrade.