Don’t Touch Their Biscuits
Following the recent scolding by her crab-bucket comrades, Laurie Penny wishes to reassert her leftist credentials:
All very pious. Though it seems to me those credentials were amply visible immediately after the rioting and thuggery at UC Berkeley, covered here, when Laurie was letting her followers know just how brave she is for mixing with conservatives and college Republicans, i.e., the people under attack, who are apparently “vicious and vengeful.”
Well. Here’s an interview with Kiara Robles, one of the “far right” women surrounded and assaulted, repeatedly, by the righteously left-leaning Berkeley ‘protestors’. It seems that merely wearing a hat with the words “Make Bitcoin Great Again” is enough to make you a “Nazi,” a “fascist,” and therefore a target of physical abuse. And here’s an interview with another woman – sorry, “Nazi” – who was repeatedly assaulted at UC Berkeley, along with her husband, who was severely beaten with metal bars.
These ladies, then, are some of the people of whom Laurie Penny is, and I quote, “fucking terrified.”
Update:
Meet Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher and one of the organisers of the Berkeley rioting. “The left has been far too timid for far too long,” says she.
Update 2:
Here’s Yvette Felarca and her goons getting ‘hands-on’ in Sacramento. And again, watch the police.
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Ignore them. If they attack, stomp them and return to ignore. Repeat as necessary.
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I suppose that if you want to imagine yourself as heroically fighting monsters – Nazis, fascists, zombie hordes, whatever – and reality doesn’t oblige, and doesn’t justify the intimidation and thuggery that’s so very titillating, then you’ll just have to invent them or wildly exaggerate. And so a camp provocateur who snipes about how fat feminists are and how much he likes black cock has to be construed as a mortal threat to civilisation. And whatever your view of Milo, much the same delusion and hysteria has erupted in response to more measured speakers – say, Ben Shapiro and Christina Hoff Sommers, whose attempts to speak attracted intervention from these sweet-natured creatures.
And don’t forget the conservative writer Don Feder, who attempted to give a (rather dry) lecture on “hate crimes” legislation and relevant statistics, but wasn’t allowed to speak for more than a few seconds. Instead he was assailed with screamed abuse and epithets about his daughter, thanks to members of the International Socialist Organisation and Radical Student Union. Or Tom Tancredo, a retired congressman, who was physically harassed by leftist students who, being pious, then started smashing windows, showering people with glass, before literally chasing him off campus.
And if you poke through the archives, you’ll find plenty of other examples.
Do you think it possible for her to have a midlife revelation about things and become dogmatically conservative in later life? Sort of like Dylan going electric, man.
Nuts. My Altruism-Caution light is flickering again…
Ignore them. If they attack, stomp them and return to ignore. Repeat as necessary.
I’ve had conversations with a couple of raving warmists, and at least one conspirANNOYanist (all relatives) – I ended it in each case – they refused to reply – by pointing-out “One of us is right. One of us is wrong, I will NEVER convince you it’s me, you will NEVER convince me it’s you, and the issue is way beyond any ability of ours to materially affect in any way, if we lived a thousand years – which we won’t. Only time will tell – right?”
So when the day comes that one of us can no longer deny even to himself that he was wrong… what then? We’ve still gotta share the Earth… I (usually try to) retreat into “I disagree with what you’re saying, but I’ll defend to the death” &c – how magnanimous of me. Too soon old, too late smart…
And so a camp provocateur who snipes about how fat feminists are and how much he likes black cock has to be construed as a mortal threat to civilisation.
Lol. That.
Lol. That.
As Ben Shapiro says, the thuggery at Berkeley isn’t even about Milo per se, as indicated by their bizarre descriptions of him as a “Nazi,” a “white supremacist,” and a “homophobe.” He’s whatever bogeyman they need him to be. It’s much more about not allowing anyone deemed, as it were, corrupting to leftist purity anywhere on campus. It’s a territorial power play. Hence the chanted claim, heard over and over again, that whatever it is they’re ‘occupying’ or obstructing or trashing suddenly belongs to them.
Laurie’s pious tweet suggests to me that she’s still smarting from the Twitter criticism she recently received from her ostensible comrades. They out-competed her status display by virtue-signalling their disapproval of engaging in any way with ‘fascists’. Now, she responds with a holier-than-thou pontification – containing a sly dig at her critics – to reclaim the moral high ground. Classic.
They out-competed her status display by virtue-signalling their disapproval of engaging in any way with ‘fascists’.
It all sounds so exhausting.
So, Penny’s enemies are “charming;” her allies are “spiteful.” I suppose she doesn’t expand on what leads her to use those two adjectives.
So, Penny’s enemies are “charming;” her allies are “spiteful.” I suppose she doesn’t expand on what leads her to use those two adjectives.
Laurie has often stressed the importance of “staying angry,” of being angry all the time. Which doesn’t sound like a recipe for a sense of proportion, or for mental health in general. And certainly not charm.
Baby steps.
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And they famously split, for they are dysfunction.
The next leftist you meet who can articuklate the kause will be the first and yet they’re eternally on about ‘principle’, or my favorite, ‘messaging’. Suffer a stinging defeat and it’s all due to poor messaging. This is another manifestation that they think you think like they do, or dysfunctionally.
For these reasons it’s good to remember that to give them too much time and space is codependency.
In other news, according to the Canadian branch of Black Lives Matter, Justin Trudeau is a “white supremacist terrorist.”
Charming but deadly eh? Is she talking about Milo, or has she met someone she deeply fancies who holds one or two regrettable opinions?
To my eternal shame, I haven’t been studiously following Laurie’s Twitter journey, but I read that she’d erred for a second and said that even rightwing people were human. Apparently the pack descended on her, furiously..
I read that she’d erred for a second and said that even rightwing people were human. Apparently the pack descended on her, furiously.
That’s pretty much the gist of it. I believe the words “collaborator,” “appeaser” and “sympathiser” were used, unironically, along with accusations of “soft-selling fascism” and “literally promoting violence.” Because “THEY WANT TO KILL US.”
Oh, and one chap said, again quite seriously, that “if you go drinking with someone U R 1 of them (invariably).”
Purity of essence, people. Don’t touch their biscuits!
I read that she’d erred for a second and said that even rightwing people were human. Apparently the pack descended on her, furiously.
Well, to be fair, there a certain things people just know, their personal experience, observations and interactions notwithstanding.
“It’s a territorial power play. Hence the chanted claim, heard over and over again, that whatever it is they’re ‘occupying’ or obstructing or trashing suddenly belongs to them.”
Absolutely. And what is Penny’s tweet but a clear admission that it’s entirely about tribal labels and absolutely sod-all to do with anything anyone actually does or says? The whole thing reminds me of nothing so much as soccer violence. “No matter how charming City fans can be, don’t become one of them. No matter how spiteful United fans can be, don’t lose faith or stop fighting”. It fits like a glove. Laurie’s a Lefty casual.
Anyway, you’ve probably already seen this, but:
Bravo, Lord Carey. Cue denouncement and ostracization in 3, 2, 1…
Personally I’m far keener to get an update on Laurie’s steamy (or not) love life as I found her recent-ish admission that she’s quite lonely (on account of not exactly having blokes queuing round the block to date her) rather bewildering all things considered.
Indeed, what’s not attractive about a helium-voiced, mockney-accented, mentally infirm, upper-middle class ‘Socialist’ (with a legacy) and raging narcissist boasting a consistently tenuous grip on reality?
What indeed.
*sigh* If only she could pick a man as skilfully as she picks her nose she surely wouldn’t have these trite concerns and the glorious world revolution could continue mercifully unimpeded….
…on account of not exactly having blokes queuing round the block to date her…
It appears the locals are taking to heart the old saying about what shouldn’t be placed in crazy.
This is for Matt G.
If his hands go anywhere near his trouser pockets, everybody scream.
This comment by redlonghorn, from the previous thread, seems apposite.
This is for Matt G.
As I recall, Miss Penny said she was trying to normalize her appearance. Though the weird hair color is gone, she still needs to work a bit on the “really, I’m not crazy” look, and if Matt’s hands go near his pockets a tranquilizer dart would be more appropriate than screaming.
and if Matt’s hands go near his pockets a tranquilizer dart would be more appropriate than screaming.
Big Mary keeps just the thing behind the bar. She says the dose is non-lethal, more or less.
Oh, and one chap said, again quite seriously, that “if you go drinking with someone U R 1 of them (invariably).”
Purity of essence, people. Don’t touch their biscuits!
Don’t share that water fountain.
Don’t share that water fountain.
I’m now trying to imagine what it must be like to have to vet your entire social life so as to avoid proximity to unbelievers and accidentally indulging their wickedness with small acts of kindness, or even forbearance. I mean, you wouldn’t want to buy someone a drink and then find out that they aren’t even an anarcho-communist, like Laurie says she is.
It makes sense that her progressive friends — or whatever they are — would denounce Penny’s fraternizing with the enemy.
They live in a cult. Cults must defend against exposure to alternate viewpoints, as their ideology is a house of cards that does not stand up to the winds of solid rebuttal.
In a healthy ideology — e.g., classic liberalism — exposure to alternate viewpoints is considered a positive, as it helps one refine and sometimes correct one’s beliefs. The tree is strengthened by the wind.
Oh, and one chap said, again quite seriously, that “if you go drinking with someone U R 1 of them (invariably).”
Well that explains why going to a party and not spending the whole night insulting the host would be treated like a capital offense.
Why does everything the left does these days remind me of a scene in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian?
Whoops, here’s the Life Of Brian scene:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QereR0CViMY
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Speaking of projection, here’s a thing. It turns out that if you’re a Christian lady who owns a wool store and you put up a notice explaining why you’d rather not sell your yarn to feminists who want to dress as giant vaginas and scream about their genitals, this makes you an oppressor, a hater, and therefore justifies threats of rape and violence, and round-the-clock harassment, from those same caring and compassionate feminists.
All in the name of “social justice,” presumably.
It makes sense that her progressive friends — or whatever they are — would denounce Penny’s fraternizing with the enemy.
They live in a cult.
It rather reminds me of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Stan,
I was thinking more of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
“Why does everything the left does these days remind me of a scene in Monty Python’s Life Of Brian?”
It’s interesting and indeed telling to note that many on the Left (at least those that I’ve observed) discussing/lauding ‘Brian seem to take the film purely at face value, regarding it simply as a searing indictment of Christianity as a religious edifice.
Now this may well be a subconscious necessity of self-deceit given the film’s proficiency in lampooning the far Left but one gets the distinct impression that they genuinely don’t comprehend such wry satire, nor the sort of people the ‘People’s Front of Judea’ and the ‘Judean People’s Front’ is directly inspired by…
All that aside do you know what’s truly depressing about 1979’s Life of Brian? Arguably not a single satirical facet is either antiquated or else irrelevant in 2017….
. . . and you put up a notice explaining why you’d rather not sell your yarn . . .
. . . Honestly, why?
Very much instead as in Hi there, welcome to the store, where as long as you don’t trash the place and pick fights with the other customers, we’ve got lots of stuff to sell to you . . . Certainly, I may think and you may prove you’re an idiot, and I’m more than happy to legally take your money from you so that I can have it instead of you and will then giggle all the way to the bank . . .
Then again, given a comment in the article of . . . .
. . . she spent three hours sitting in a car staring at FB . . . . Or as a neighbor or two may have commented over a shoulder, Mom, that weird yarn lady is stuck in her driveway staring at her phone again . . .
They live in a cult.
It rather reminds me of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
—Better yet, instead, what if she very loudly announced a pink yarn sale, equally loudly noting that a massive amount of the resulting profits will be donated to [insert enraging charity here].
Better yet, instead, what if she very loudly announced a pink yarn sale, equally loudly noting that a massive amount of the resulting profits will be donated to [insert enraging charity here].
I think that might be closer to my response, if I were the owner of a yarn store, etc. But the point is the lunatic vitriol and disproportion of the response – by people who presumably imagine themselves as heroic, noble, just, etc.
“This is for Matt G”
Blimey, she even scowls at the camera in purportedly more candid moments!
Nevertheless said image has inspired me to ask a particularly pertinent question:
Has anyone ever seen Laurie smile?
Now obviously I appreciate that as an aspiring socialist/feminist revolutionary singular in both purpose and mind Laurie can’t afford the bourgeois luxury of indulging in mirth, humour, love and happinesses et al……but surely even she must give herself a day off every so often?
Blimey,
Er, just keep those hands where we can see them.
I’m still trying to imagine what it must be like to be one of the Berkeley ‘activists’, loudly professing a devotion to “social justice” and the wellbeing of humanity, while exulting in mob intimidation and spraying blinding irritant into some random woman’s eyes. And then hitting her, while she’s blinded, with a metal pole. The dissonance and projection must be tricky to manage.
But apparently, projection and disproportion are very common among people with Cluster B personality disorders.
I think that might be closer to my response, if I were the owner of a yarn store, etc.
Some number of years ago I was working in a campus textbook store, and one of the customers was looking for a copy of Mein Kampf. We didn’t have any, as we only carried whatever was being requested for the current classes, but I did have an idea. I called up the then current local revolutionary communist bookstore to ask them, given what seemed the rather obvious idea of Know Your Enemy/Fellow Extreme Leftie/Whatever. The very immediate response from the fellow at the store was No, We Don’t CLICK!!!!
My congregation supports all denominations, but our favorites are twenties and fifties.
—Henry Gibson
……but surely even she must give herself a day off every so often?
Bah. Humbug!!!
Following the recent scolding by her crab-bucket comrades, Laurie Penny wishes to reassert her leftist credentials:
Romania’s government refuses to quit despite dropping corruption amnesty in face of mass protests
Now that is a protest . . . .
… among people with Cluster B personality disorders.
Sometimes known as ladies who munch.
Farnsworth:
You’ve got the wrong version.
And Kevin McCarthy’s sister Mary is the one with the famous zinger about Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”
Now obviously I appreciate that as an aspiring socialist/feminist revolutionary singular in both purpose and mind Laurie can’t afford the bourgeois luxury of indulging in mirth, humour, love and happinesses et al……but surely even she must give herself a day off every so often?
Probably obvious, but I’m reminded of this:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C.S. Lewis
What’s pernicious about Laurie, and SJWs in general, is that they seem to combine both ends of Lewis’s spectrum: a cause they consider supremely moral not only gives them license to indulge in the lowest and pettiest human nastiness by brushing that behavior with a veneer of righteousness, it commands them to do so.
The very immediate response from the fellow at the store was No, We Don’t CLICK!!!!
Rather telling, I think. With the combination of belief in the semi-magical power of words (see: false consciousness, having the right “narrative”, etc.) and some type of (suppressed) identification of the mush-headedness of everyone in their circle, perhaps even recognizing the Not So Different nature of the thing, they decided to be safe in not carrying it. The dark talismanic power of an Austrian painter’s grumbling might prove too much for a feeble mind…
Even if they can’t ever acknowledge it, leftists always assume that their opponents won’t ever decide to treat them in the way that they treat their opponents. Indeed, their survival depends on the assumption that the law-abiding majority will always stay law-abiding and that the evil fascist right won’t actually start acting like fascists. But the Trump phenomenon is evidence that many people on the right, and others who are simply appalled by the left, are deciding that civil political discourse is for suckers.
In fact, we can see a clear process of escalation. The Tea Party was a patriotic reform movement that was polite and civil and worked within the system. In return it was relentlessly slandered and insulted, harassed by the IRS and betrayed by the GOP. The Trump movement has given up on civility but still works within the democratic system. If Trump is defeated, then the next level of escalation will be a populist movement that rejects all the normal bounds of civil behaviour and which also rejects normal democratic politics as irredeemably corrupt.
What’s more, because the only ways that the left can defeat Trump are through large-scale violence or flagrantly illegal obstruction from the deep state then the next populist movement would be even more popular. A majority of the population would decide that the whole system was rotten to the core and that the only way to save the country was to burn Washington to the ground (metaphorically or literally) and bury all the traitors and parasites in the rubble. If leftists really understood the forces that are unleashed when civil society breaks down they would pray that Donald Trump succeeds, for fear of what will happen to them if he doesn’t.
If leftists really understood the forces that are unleashed when civil society breaks down
Setting aside the prevalence of mental health issues, people on the bedlamite left – the ones who find mob coercion arousing and who call themselves anarcho-communists without falling about laughing – tend not to be the most realistic of people.
It occurred to me when writing my previous comment that there is in fact a natural hierarchy of populist movements, and that the prevalence or absence of each kind is a measure of the health of a political system. In reference to DEFCON, it can be called the POPCON or “Populism Condition” of a society:
POPCON 5 (BLUE) – Lowest state of public discontent with the status quo, little or no support for populist movements.
POPCON 4 (GREEN) – Increased public discontent, emergence of populist movements which mostly respect the norms of civil behaviour and which work within the existing political system.
POPCON 3 (YELLOW) – Significant increase in public discontent, emergence of populist movements which reject the norms of civil behaviour but do still work within the existing political system.
POPCON 2 (RED) – Widespread and intense public hostility to the status quo, emergence of populist movements which reject the norms of civil behaviour and reject the existing political system.
POPCON 1 (WHITE) – Revolution, civil war or other large-scale violent conflict is imminent.
On this system, the emergence of the Tea Party was when America went to POPCON 4. In 2016, it moved up to POPCON 3. A successful Trump presidency could move it back down to 4 or even 5. If Trump fails to really change anything or is forced out of office then it’s on to POPCON 2, and you really don’t want to find out what that would be like.