Quote of the Day
Voting for communists because you’re poor is roughly akin to throwing virgins into a volcanic caldera to stop an eruption.
But then so are most of the things governments think they can do to improve the economy, from printing more money or less money, raising or dropping interest rates, regulating several aspects of the economy, or just about anything else.
I mean, all of those do something. They just rarely do what the government thinks its doing/wants them to do.
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Which is why communism is the worst of all systems, because it thinks it can “scientifically” and “top down” control all of economy from production to consumption.
And all it does, over and over again, is throw virgins in volcanos to stop the lava flow.
Only the promised wonderland of free stuff never arrives.
And you end up tragically short on virgins. And everything else, as well.
Sarah A. Hoyt
November 6, 2025
Throw Another Virgin Into the Volcano! – According To Hoyt
My analogy for this is that an economic system is a like a machine. Government is like friction in the machine. It removes energy (wealth) that could have been used for something else. Some of this government removed energy is put to beneficial interests. Enforcing contracts and protecting the rights of individuals are essential functions that government has the potential to do reasonably well. When government imposes regulations the friction does little more than turns the machine energy into heat and the benefit is near zero as far as the machine (economic system) is concerned.
As more friction is inserted (regulation and taxes) into the machine the net energy decreases and more and more system in the machine must be shut down to conserve energy while still allowing the machine to run in some capacity. Black markets appear as bypasses around the friction points. These bypasses work after a fashion but there are other problems. Contracts are ultimately enforced by violence and threats of violence. Trust decreases because of all the laws that are being broken put people at risk of being ratted out to the government. Planning becomes difficult because supply chains are not predictable. If enough friction is added the machine slows down and stops (economic collapse).
The socialist will not admit responsibility for their destruction of the economy. Among other excuses, they will claim it was bad luck.
It’s not bad luck. It’s hoarders and wreckers.
Those too.
And Counter-Revolutionaries.
We can’t forget those, either.
Part of the problem with sacrificing virgins for Communism is once full Communism takes hold, you run out of virgins as they trade favors for food. Barter and underground capitalism still rule in the land of equality and virgins are a commodity you can and will have a limited supply of.
That and the fact a lot of those who are claimed to be virgins being tossed off the precipice really aren’t and that tends to upset the Gods. One does not mess lightly with politics of lava that can burn you as badly as Communism. False virgins are consumed in the false name of Communism.
You’d think after the Khmer Rouge that people would see through it. Stacks of skulls tend to do that. Or Venezuela. We have a literal modern example of riches to rags in the name of Socialism/Communism/Collectivism occurring within the lifetime of its starry eyed proponents and they still refuse to see the results of their misguided beliefs!
Throw Another Virgin in the Volcano!
We have to fix this mess!
That’s almost short enough for a bumper sticker.
I compare Democrat policies to Cargo Cult. They can sit at their desks all they want, shuffling papers and making humming noises like airplanes, but John Frum (or Karl Marx) is never showing up with the cargo they want, so in between making fake control towers, when they get tired of merely humming, and the people begin to see that’s all they are doing, they go out among the people and collect what cargo they have and redistribute it, taking a healthy cut off the top because after all, they are the experts and are “doing something to help.”.
Oh, and as to your analogy of government as frictrion; As I put it, sometimes government is the jockey, but usually it’s just the saddle.
That must be the reason my ass hurts from saddle sores at tax time!
“But then so are most of the things governments think they can do to improve the economy, from printing more money or less money, raising or dropping interest rates, regulating several aspects of the economy, or just about anything else.”
(Throwing virgins into a volcano is a good analogy of government at work. Just as cutting out someone else’s heart to appease the sun would be.)
And therein lays the heart of the matter. That “something” needs to be done.
Second is the facts of what government can actually do.
Without “something” needing to be done. We wouldn’t need government.
In this day and age of plenty. We don’t need anything more than to be left alone so true market forces can take there course. And criminals be hung.
Government was to provide for a common defense, and promote a general welfare. (Not a welfare state. But roads and bridges.)
Today government only defends those that are willing to pay them. And promote government welfare for all.
But it wasn’t like our forefathers didn’t tell us it wasn’t going to happen.
To the contrary. And black letter laws are still in place to stop it.
Government casting virgins to their death is because of our sloth, and none other.
We were warned. And still do little.
People vote for communism because they are lazy and stupid. They believe the lies. They don’t want to actually work so they vote for people who promise to GIVE them other people’s stuff. They NEVER get what they think they were going to bet but they also NEVER LEARN. The existence of communism and the fact that people continue to vote for it every election is just more proof that we are not an intelligent species.
My analogy to government is like a hydraulic or plumbing system with a leak, but I like yours too.
The left’s Long March Through the Institutions continues to bear its noxious fruit.
Speaking of “throwing virgins into volcanoes”…….
Sounds like we need Congress to fund a government agency for a study to determine the proper ratio of virgins per volcano to achieve results.
HHS needs money to, first, define exactly what a “virgin” is, then come up with a virgin-to-non-virgin ratio to make sure there’s no discrimination against non- or partial-virgins.
Then we can have subsidies for Virgin Breeding Farms and tax deductions for private firms to do the same. (I see Dept of Agriculture involved here, because nutritional guidelines for the growing virgins is important, and just like cattle, there must be a proper number of virgins per acre, or something).
Then Dept of Ed can hire people to develop a Virgin Education and Training Operation to ensure only properly trained virgins are thrown into the volcanoes.
Dept of Labor will need funds to study the working conditions of virgin growers and, of course, the proper age, height, weight and compensation rates for the virgins themselves.
Of course, NOAA needs a grant to study the proper atmospheric conditions and lava temperature necessary for proper virgin-throwing, and Department of Interior’s Geologic Survey Agency will need money to determine the best volcanoes to use, and the EPA will require a grant to study the atmospheric effects of combustion and possible pollution resulting from virgin-throwing.
EEOC will need money to conduct a study to ensure the virgins are not being discriminated against and make sure the proper racial, sexual and LBGTQABCDEF++++ ratios of virgins being thrown imeets federal guidelines, and determine the potential success rate achievable by using greater numbers of partial virgins in place of pure virgins.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs funding to create the “virgin rehabilitation of prostitutes program” because it’s only fair, doncha know, and some of those are probably poor and need government assistance. (And, that brings Agriculture in again, because some will need SNAP benefits).
Treasury will get involved because, due to time delays caused by all the bureaucractic stuff some Volcano Virgins wil go on disability, and some will reach retirement age before they get to the volcano, so Social Security and SSDI checks will need to go, out, so more Congressional fundng for that.
CIA will need more funding to make sure other countries are not getting ahead of the US so they can notify the President of a Virgin-Throwng Gap (Which will lead to billions in defense spending for Pentagon contractors to develop and build highly technical virgin-throwing systems).
Not to mention HUD (either “Housing and Urban Development” or “Hopeless, Useless and Depressing,” I’m not sure) to establish guidelines and federally-funded programs for housing the pre-volcano virgins (and, rest assured there will be a 50-person HUD office devoted entirely to studying, and funding, the housing needs of post-volcano virgins…)
Several Soros-funded groups will need money to hire leftist attorneys to file suit aganst the federal government, and the virgin growers, because someone, somewhere must be doing something unconstitutional in all this virgin-throwing business, but since those are all private dollars, and only involves the 637 US District courts who actually are in charge of running the country, who cares.
Dept of Transportation needs funding to establish and monitor the transportation needs of virgins to the volcanoes.
Interior is back, because there must be a commemorative Volcano Virgin Park built somewhere.
The SEC will need Congressional-issued funds to examine and monitor stock offerings among virgin-growing and virgin-throwing firms.
The State Department needs money because they’ll need to contact other nations that have volcanoes because the US may not have enough, and treaties will need to be negotiated to allow US virgins to be thrown into foreign volcanoes. The US ambassador to the UN will have to make several earnest speeches on this, and probably fly around the world several times on US government-provided transport because those countries that do not have volvanoes will need aid in the form of US government money to make up for their lack of volcanoes.
See? There’s an opportunity here for an entirely new growth industry. Of course, it will take at least 25 years to make sure all government requirements are being met, so the first virgin will get thrown into the volcano somewhere around 2058 (and you thought that Social Security reference above was ridiculous, didn’t you?)
Hope that’s soon enough to solve all the problems throwing virgins into volcanoes will fix.
I wonder if we could conduct a pre-virgin volcano test to establish a performance baseline using members of Congress and heads of federal agencies?
You forgot the anthropologists to study and report on previous virgin throwing cultures. Are we appropriating their culture? What can we learn from them? Etc.
Sorry, my fault, mea culpa. You’re right. How could I forget the anthropologists. And the historians. And the linguists. And the….well, hell, let’s just include everyone on Schumer’s Favorites List, it’s all going to burn down anyway.
And, of course, there will be the new social movements of Trans-Virgins, people seeking surgery to revirginize themselves or just identify as a virgin. After all, you can’t challenge their claim to virginity!
The Technical Virgin practitioners will certainly acquire their voice and you’ll have worry about the splinter LTBQIDASAVIRGIN+ groups telling you that you don’t have the right to define their virginity. Or that virginity can take many forms. What is virginity, after all, but a social construct of the Sex Oppressors? The Title V lawsuits will be messy and drawn out.
This is long before you are climbing up the hill to deal with the issues of big, hot holes and introducing virgins to them. The possibilities are endless there as stated.
But Heaven help you if it is found Conservatives or Libertarians enjoy Volcano Virgin rituals and things like the VFL (Virgin Flinging League) get a foothold. Then virginity will be denounced as the tool of the Patriarchy and funding to promote promiscuity and lasciviousness will abound in liberal circles.
Oh wait…
“…..funding to promote promiscuity and lasciviousness will abound in liberal circles.”
Will?
Uh, Matt……