I Feel Safer Already

“Here’s a mini thread to clarify what a “gulag” is… actually a compassionate, non-violent course of action…”
Sadly, said item disappeared before I could savour it, due to the LGBTQ+ Society of Goldsmiths University “protecting their tweets temporarily for the sake of safeguarding.” Safeguarding what is left to the imagination. Though as one wag put it, “Not sure there is anything more 2018 than a *gay rights activist* explaining the positive benefits of gulags.”
Truly, we live in an age of wonders.

Sadly, said item disappeared before I could savour it
Well, it did get reported to…ahem..the South Yorkshire police, so no doubt the tweets were seized as evidence and the perpetrators have been promptly apprehended. (Here are the screenshots, though.)

The Pythons were on to this a generation ago:
Presenter: Most of the strange tales concern Dinsdale, but what about Doug? One man who met him was Luigi Vercotti.
Vercotti: I had been running a successful escort agency — high class, no really, high class girls — we didn’t have any of *that* — that was right out. And I decided (phone rings) Excuse me (he answers phone) Hello……no, not now……shtoom…shtoom….right……yes, we’ll have the watch ready for you at midnight…….the watch…..the Chinese watch….yes, right-oh, bye-bye…..mother (he hangs up phone) Anyway I decided to open a high class night club for the gentry at Biggleswade with international cuisine and cooking and top line acts, and not a cheap clip joint for picking up tarts — that was right out, I deny that completely –, and one evening in walks Dinsdale with a couple of big lads, one of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I had bought one of their fruit machines and would I pay for it.
2nd Interviewer: How much did they want?
Vercotti: They wanted three quarters of a million pounds.
2nd Interviewer: Why didn’t you call the police?
Vercotti: Well I had noticed that the lad with the thermonuclear device was the chief constable for the area. So a week later they called again and told me the cheque had bounced and said… I had to see… Doug.
2nd Interviewer: Doug?
Vercotti: Doug (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I’ve seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
2nd Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used… sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and… satire. He was vicious.

Meanwhile, also in Yorkshire…

LBC’s Nick Ferrari has some fun with this story.

Squires,
It’s funny how you know the truth about melanin and melatonin is extracted from the same thing which is DNA and it can be used as a sleep aid but that’s not what they made it for.
She’s precious.
Work is slow this week (yikes), and I’m a bit bored at this moment. I’m tempted to post that at 4Chan, including a link to her insane Twitter, and see what happens.

I’m tempted to post that at 4Chan, including a link to her insane Twitter, and see what happens.
Do it!
That Goldsmith’s link above, and many posts by our gracious host, show what a lot of that crowd think and know about science…
It’s enough to drive a rational person to drink.

David,
“I wonder, do police officers have any inkling of how much damage is being done to their standing among the public?”
My suspicion, particularly with respect to those who control the levers of power within our institutions is that they are very aware indeed. The Theodore Dalrymple quote below gives some hint as to the why.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/124952-in-my-study-of-communist-societies-i-came-to-the