Annihilation Of Bourgeois Life Delayed Somewhat

and worse, enables tomorrow’s “small business owners.”
The bastards!

and worse, enables tomorrow’s “small business owners.”
The bourgeois oppressors who’ll be left to cover these communists’ student loans.

“The bourgeois oppressors who’ll be left to cover these communists’ student loans.”
Hey, they’re just following in the non-funny Marx brother’s footsteps, so their purity is intact.

“Relevant”…

I don’t know if it’s art, but I do like it.

By way of additional context, Indiana has one of the best public business schools in the country. No wonder they’re pissed. Its graduates actually get jobs when they graduate.

Bugger.

If they find IU less than congenial, imagine how they’d feel if they’d gone to Purdue.

“small business owners”
The Left used to pretend that its hatred of capitalism stemmed from how “big business oppresses the workers”, but every now and then the Left lets slip that it hates all private enterprise right down to those bastards the “rich kulaks”.

Pah. These lightweights and quitters just don’t have the staying power required for a glorious revolution.
Well, that is a good object lesson in what leftism brings: endless theft and violence–first one boot stamping on a human face, forever, followed by a leftist boot of a slightly different ideological flavor, followed by another, and another….

and worse, enables tomorrow’s “small business owners.
It’s so much harder to unionize when the workers and owners are on a first-name basis.

And so, the mighty Mao-lings will now direct their heroic and selfless efforts to “the larger community,”
“Oh great,” says the larger community, weakly.
“dismantle the capitalist settler-state of the USA.”
Unless all these chaps are native Americans, does that not mean they should be dismantling themselves?
Ideally with fire.

“dismantle the capitalist settler-state of the USA.”
Presumably after that they’ll start on France (all those dastardly Franks stealing the Gauls’ land), Italy (Goths dispacing Latins), and all of North Africa (Arabs vs. Copts, Berbers, etc.). Then they can team up with the BNP to purge Britain of anyone who wasn’t here before 1066.
You know, what really annoys me about these people is all the American exceptionalism…

Yeah, if Bruce Jenner was trans, would it be right to oppress him just because he was Republican?

…enables tomorrow’s “small business owners”…
Justin Trudeau, is that you?

Naked Capitalism has a category called “The Ongoing Crapification Of Everything.” Do you have that across the pond? Here, companies seem to put a great amount of time and effort into making their products and services worse.

How can I tell when people are writing Clown Quarter articles vs when they’re having a stroke? I’d hate to rub DMSO all over a feminist by mistake.

How can I tell when people are writing Clown Quarter articles vs when they’re having a stroke?
As the main symptom of Clown Quarter Article is logorrhea, the differential include stroke, psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, manic phase of bipolar disorder, etc), and just Useless and Angry Studies Degree. The latter does not preclude the other two, and some studies have shown the second to be a prerequisite for the latter.
Unfortunately, logorrhea, if the result of a stroke, is due to a frontal lobe lesion, and unless it is significant enough also to involve any of the motor cortex, there may be no visible signs such as any form of paresis, and diagnosis would rely on imaging.
If there is any doubt, the best course of action is to hoist the yellow flag and stay well away from the afflicted.

My apologies for the diversion, this from our occasionally mentioned friend Zinnia Jones has raised the bar on Woke™ beyond imagination.
Except that she’s subjunctive-phobic. Her comment should begin, “If Hitler were trans…”
So I’m a grammar Nazi….

Believe me, if the lyrics of Biggie Smalls were on the GCSE reading list, state education wouldn’t be failing our children.
OTOH, the failure of state education is why “our children” listen to that dreck. A small sampling, NSFW, mainly.
Me & My Bitch
Gimme the Loot
Miss U [A tender ballad]
Who could forget the timeless classic, Big Booty Hos.
The guy puts Gershwin and Cole Porter to shame. The guy is a veritable Kipling of rap.

the mighty Mao-lings
If this isn’t already on the List of Band Names, I don’t know what you’re doing.
I picture a “no-core” act, founding a musical genre defined by the musicians placing great demands upon the venue, then not showing up to perform, then demanding full appearance fees plus everything they calculate should have been collected at the door – or else they firebomb your house.

“For all you Brit birdwatchers, from Naked Capitalism:”
Some of the tweets (heh!) there are terrifying, e.g.:

I had the same thing happen with an owl. I had my newborn in the car too.

She put a wild owl in her car… with a baby.
This is what happens when a nation becomes so prosperous that it thinks wildlife is something to be worshipped rather than feared. The hunter-gatherers of the last ice age didn’t end up as a spacefaring species by inadvertantly feeding their offspring to ravenous birds of prey. Then again, I suppose in a way we should be grateful there are – that is, that there can be – idiots like this around.
“Trans objects: materializing queer time in US transmasculine homes”
Doing what now? It sounds like the sort of bullshit Brannon Braga used to louse up Star Trek: Voyager with. Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!
(Yes, I know. That was Doctor Who. Sue me.)
“Who could forget the timeless classic, Big Booty Hos.”
Crumbs. That makes Sir Mix-A-Lot’s evergreen ballad Baby Got Back sound like These Foolish Things.
“Or a rippling of crap. Whichever.”
And in a single bound, Hopp Singg won the thread.

. . . by the musicians placing great demands upon the venue, then not showing up to perform, then demanding full appearance fees . . .
Keep in mind that this is also a quite proven method for enforcing performance and show hall safety requirements. When dealing with idiots who may resort to merely frantically waving their hands about,’tis better to utterly require that they actually note and acknowledge the correct details.

The staging sank through their floor. They didn’t bother to look at the weight requirements or anything, and this sank through their new flooring and did eighty thousand dollars’ worth of damage to the arena floor. The whole thing had to be replaced.

At the University of Missouri-Kansas City:

“We don’t give a fuck what you’re fine with. We’re gonna meet regardless of what you do, and we will stop you. Your shitty-ass meeting is not gonna fly.”

Said the not-at-all-shitty-ass Progressive Youth Organisation.
This, I think, is what happens when parents repeatedly fail to discipline their children. And imagine how dim and dysfunctional the rest of them must be, given that she seems to be their leader.

I don’t think any of those words mean what they think they mean.
As I said at the time, you have to marvel at supposedly educated people, self-styled intellectuals, who insist that supporting one’s family and enabling employees to support theirs is a bad thing, something to be demonised and destroyed. And who insist that “the wealth” is something to be “allocated” by an enormous government apparatus, via endless cronyism, and that “equitable distribution” should take no account whatsoever of who did what to generate the wealth being “allocated,” or of how to ensure that the wealth-creating process continues.
People who, being educated, imagine themselves as enlightened angels while salivating at the thought of “expropriating” the eventual, modest rewards of some random stranger’s sacrifice and hard work.
Still, I suppose it’s good to be reminded that there are people whose worldview is a near-total inversion of reality, and utterly poisonous.

I feel Zinnia Jones shows more intellectual consistency than is common with these sorts of people in that tweet. Obviously the obsession with trans rights is typically Liliputian, but the idea of not compromising on one’s beliefs even for Nazis is more like the old-fashioned liberalism than modern SJWs usually manage.

supporting one’s family and enabling employees to support theirs is a bad thing…“the wealth” is something to be “allocated” by an enormous government apparatus
Yes, very odd: An individual store owner offering someone X dollars a week to run the cash register or stock shelves is “domination”, but a government telling everyone that they must take the job they are assigned and work for the wages decreed is “freedom”. One can only suppose that these enlightened beings are deluded by theory and by a psychological defect.

One can only suppose that these enlightened beings are deluded by theory and by a psychological defect.
I do wonder how one could ever walk back from such a worldview. Does reality ever impinge on their revolutionary fantasies? Would vanity permit it? Or do they end up old and resentful, and still coughing up the same Marxoid claptrap?

For instance, Bearded Hat Guy, above, who looks down his nose while regurgitating his lectures notes, and who fantasises about punishing random strangers for daring to own a small restaurant – what will he be doing in forty years? Will he be happy? Will his have been a life well lived?

David
That was filmed in 2011 I think.
Can the resources of the mighty galactic leaky, creaky-barge community locate this guy and see what he is up to? Has he grown up? Is he working for a major corporation in sales, has he opened a Starbucks franchise or is he still stuck in his own private little time warp?

Will he be happy? Will his have been a life well lived?
Yes, but my chief concern is with the many people will have made unhappy and the lives he will have damaged. Those are the ones who most deserve our compassion.

Those are the ones who most deserve our compassion.
It wasn’t so much compassion as morbid curiosity. I was curious about the trajectory, as it were.

*Hits preview button multiple times to check italics tags*
[ Quietly slides revolver back under bar. Straightens beer mats. ]

The prospect of doing harm thrills them and energizes them.
Having poked through this stuff, and these people, for more than a decade, the two common motives do seem to be vanity and malice. It’s telling, for instance, that the Mao-lings’ alleged consciousness-raising almost always takes the form of harassment, insults and attempts to dominate, either physically or psychologically. And so we’ve seen them using loudhailers in a library so no-one else could study for exams; and blocking the path of white students and making them walk through mud; and trapping a wheelchair-bound woman in a lobby and jeering at her predicament; and shattering the windscreen of a random female motorist, then laughing as they videoed her distress. Endless variations of the same dumb malevolence.
If you’re sufficiently twisted, and insufficiently deterred, it’s a powerful motivator.

“I had to remind myself, twice, that Dotun Adebayo is a 57-year-old man.”
Why doesn’t he just buy a Harley like everyone else?
“An individual store owner offering someone X dollars a week to run the cash register or stock shelves is “domination”, but a government telling everyone that they must take the job they are assigned and work for the wages decreed is “freedom””
My father visited Romania in the ’60s. It was right at the beginning of Ceucescu’s reign, and it was still considered an interesting destination. He got talking to his “travel agent”, because it turned out she’d trained in law, as he had. So why was she doing this? “Because I speak English. I trained as a lawyer, that’s what I wanted to do. But the communists gave me a ‘choice’: be a travel agent, or work in the fields. What would you do?”
Only tangetially related, in that Steyn often talks about the same kind of things we do here, but I bet David wishes he’d thought of this headline.

I bet David wishes he’d thought of this headline.
If I had a pound for every headline I’d coveted… well, I wouldn’t be here talking to the likes of you heathens for a start. I’d be on a giant bejewelled yacht, reclining, sipping a good red, while the help peeled grapes for my perusal.

I’d be on a giant bejewelled yacht, reclining, sipping a good red, while the help peeled grapes for my perusal.
Let me know if you need a sailing master. 🙂

“The Revolutionary Anti-Colonialist Pictish Collective would like to have a word with you.”
SPLITTERS!
You need to talk to the Revolutionary Collective of Anti-Colonialist Picts.

Believe me, if the lyrics of Biggie Smalls were on the GCSE reading list, state education wouldn’t be failing our children.

Of course, an rap lyrics were included on GCSE syllabi, text book publishers and exam boards would be risking prosecution.

“Look at the Twitter feeds of Irn Bru and Ribena (2 formerly popular drinks which have reduced their sugar content in response to George Osborne’s happy tax on sugary drinks)”
What frustrates me is that people only seemed to notice the desucrification* of fizzy pop after it became mandatory. It’s been getting harder and harder to find real, unadulterated, lemonade for years. Now, no doubt, it’ll be impossible and I’ll have to resort to Coke this summer. Which is okay, but I’ll pay the sugar tax. Because I drink about two bottles of the stuff a year, and must be punished.
Dammit, I like liked lemonade.
*Made that up. Sounds right.