Leading The Way
Climate change activists chained themselves to the wrong building in the City of London after failing to realise the fossil fuel company they wanted to disrupt had moved address last year.
And yes, there is a punchline:
The group of 200 protesters instead brought chaos to the entrance of a building which houses the offices of a leading renewable energy company.
The protestors’ chanted demands include “No borders, no nations, no gas power stations.”
Update, via the comments:
Readers are invited to marvel at the patchwork of seemingly incompatible concerns, and to ponder how, if at all, any of the protestors’ professed objectives could actually be met without nations, with borders, to implement them. Do they imagine that some borderless, undifferentiated and continually shifting mass of human beings with no common identity or common bond could function at all for any length of time, let alone in ways that they, or we, might find congenial?
Via Tim. Previously. Also, open thread.
I get your point in general but as specifically stated here, strongly disagree. I’m talking about wealth here, not money nor prestige.
Etc.
We can couch it as we wish but ultimately we face the inevitable implosion of the real machinery of our national existence. How our notions of our civil superiority comport with our survival skills then is therefore all that matters in our rhetoric today.
The rest is typical American civil religiosity and terribly short sighted at that. No? We’re so dim-witted and up our own rears about who we think we are that we make 50 year old moon landings, national football anthems, and militarism the ne plus ultra of proper civil identity and discourse. Meanwhile, as this blog well catalogs, we’re fighting an eternal culture and political war badly and that’s before we face the real music, which has been my point.
Either we’re into uncharted waters or we are not. How you elect to parse that matters when the Big One just happens to be the one virtually everybody denies. The print/leverage absolutely does not ‘only concern who can claim ownership of it’. It owns us.
‘If it didn’t exist it couldn’t be stolen’ is sophistry. Wall St “owns” a quarter quadrillion in derivatives.
Spelling is hard. Also cartography.
Hence the origin of the mocking name “the Grauniad”.
In today’s exciting episode of “Everything is Racist”, stay tuned for, “Robots !”
I am going to go out on a limb and guess our plucky researchers have never heard of sex robots that come in all flavors, but I digress…
The jokes, they write themselves. The whole paper is at the link if you want to see how this groundbreaking study was conducted. I am not responsible for any concussions suffered from banging your heads on tables.
Will that robot shout “Allahu Akbar!” and then explode?
Gauchos versus Vegans.
Pst314,
I wondered about The Grauniad. Thanks!
Gauchos versus Vegans.
Sure, just wait until some homicidal maniac comes at you with a bunch of loganberries.
Sorry for the sound quality on that link this one is a lot better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgbOkLdRaE
Gauchos versus Vegans.
I believe the expression is one-nil.
Grouchos versus Vegans would be even more interesting.
Grouchos versus Vegans would be even more interesting.
Godzilla versus the Vegans.
What? Oh, come on. You’d watch.
Hell, I’d pay.
Godzilla versus the Vegans.
More like, Abbot & Costello versus the Vegans or The Three Stooges versus the Vegans.
“Qumbecians are going to be sore about being reduced from a province to a city”
Quebec City is actually already a city, though. It’s where that Wolfe and Montcalm thing happened.
Quebec City is actually already a city…
I think, giving the accuracy of the rest of the thing, you may be giving the map makers way too much credit for knowing the distinction. Maybe it is a tourist bureau thing – “Canada is so nice y’all will Qumbec soon, eh !”
Quebec City is actually already a city
The people who live there just call it Quebec.
Godzilla versus the Vegans.
Bambi Meets Godzilla
The people who live there just call it Quebec.
That must cheese off the people in Montraal and all the other cities in Qumbec the province. I blame the French. Good thing it is not Qumbec City, New Brunswick like Kansas City, Missouri, that would be a real mess.
How did David Hogg get into Harvard – the boy is thick as mince
Because he hates the correct people.
They want a single, global government: socialist, totalitarian, and ever-increasing in power.
Don’t forget the most important part:
With themselves in charge.
And Obama went to Harvard and was President of the Law Review. I don’t like him either, but it’s undeniable he has some smarts.
Without access to his transcripts I’ll stick by my assumption that it’s his melanin that got into Harvard and the Law Review. Barack was just along for the ride.
Leaving aside other considerations as soon as Africans or Arabs create a robot they can make it whatever color they damn well please. Until then, ‘Sod off, Swampy’.
It looks like the usual incoherent patchwork of leftist posturing. For instance, I’m not quite sure how any of their supposed ecological objectives could be met without nations, with borders, to implement them.
I’ve often noticed the Compulsively Woke are horrified at nations but absolutely adore their little cities; they’re still patriotic, only incredibly more parochial in their patriotism. Presumably their model for the ideal society is as a series of city states. Indeed, there could be something in that – national politics, being performed on a larger scale, and not on the humble and personal level of local governance, tends to have much more associated corruption.
But then, go back a few centuries to when city states were common, one notices – they were *always* at war with one another.
It’s a very bad idea to assume people you don’t like are stupid. A lot of Democrats don’t seem to realise that with Trump. But it’s no more edifying in reverse.
Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude. Even with a melanin edge, that isn’t something to be sniffed at. It’s kind of funny people who couldn’t produce an academic record half as good as his insisting he’s clearly not clever. It comes across as jealousy to me. “I don’t like him, he must be stupid”.
Of course he didn’t do much at the Law Review. The man’s a politician, and always has been one. Hes absolutely brilliant at politics too. I regard him doing it for personal benefit largely, but there’d be few that isn’t true of.
He didn’t produce his scripts for the same reason Trump didn’t produce his tax records. He doesn’t want opponents sniping at it for years.
“He didn’t produce his scripts for the same reason Trump didn’t produce his tax records. He doesn’t want opponents sniping at it for years.”
All correct, Chester, and it is interesting to compare him with Boris Johnson, with a similar high level of education at an esteemed institution. Johnson’s journalism, however, is copious and has been effectively trolling lefties for years.
It’s also only fair to note that Obama left some big opportunities for his critics in his two published books, especially his record of drug taking. “I inhaled – that was the point.”
And yet I don’t believe they were either of them always so calculating about their political ambitions.
the Compulsively Woke are horrified at nations but absolutely adore their little cities
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/opinion/peter-thiel-google.html
It’s kind of funny people who couldn’t produce an academic record half as good as his insisting he’s clearly not clever.
Except no one actually knows what that academic record really is because he had all of it sealed.
He didn’t produce his scripts for the same reason Trump didn’t produce his tax records. He doesn’t want opponents sniping at it for years.
Yeah, except anyone actually graduating magna cum laude would have nothing to be sniped at (“Oh look, straight ‘As’, what a dweeb”), and his legion of sycophants would have had them carved onto Mt. Rushmore, and recited every 4th of July by the Marine Band Chorus.
Don’t forget the most important part:
With themselves in charge.
And we must also not forget that the reason Democrat cities are such failures, are such cesspits of poverty and crime, bad schools and filth, is that this benefits the left: the key to their winning elections is in having a populace which is uneducated and unemployable and which therefore can be counted on to vote for those who promise lots of free stuff.
It’s kind of funny people who couldn’t produce an academic record half as good as his insisting he’s clearly not clever.
Clever or intelligent? He’s not intelligent enough to avoid Marx. Or the attendant dysfunction. Or the most prolific spate of institutional corruption in American history. So, clever or intelligent?
And to what aim, which is kinda the salient upshot.
It comes across as jealousy to me. “I don’t like him, he must be stupid”.
Too bad because it’s actually that normals don’t like Marxists. Because they’re unavoidably stupid although, to your point, they’re frequently clever.
And we must also not forget that the reason Democrat cities are such failures, are such cesspits of poverty and crime, bad schools and filth, is that this benefits the left: the key to their winning elections is in having a populace which is uneducated and unemployable and which therefore can be counted on to vote for those who promise lots of free stuff.
Rush Limbaugh used to (and may does still, I don’t know, I quit listening to talk radio ages ago, about the time I quit watching cable news) say that Democrats aren’t interested in solving any problems because they’d rather have the issues to campaign on.
Thus, they want, they need, racism to continue to exist (despite the demand far outstripping the supply), as opposed to ending it, so their candidates can continue to run on, “Elect me! Because racism!”
Obama or Vogon, you decide…
Hey, hey, hey…I’m sure you are aware that when it comes to Vogon poetry, and especially as September soon is rapidly approaching…like soon…no one can top the eminent Algore:
I would argue Obama is clever. But not wise.
When I read the article, my first thought was picturing the thermonuclear levels of sturm und drang that would have occurred had the robots (the non-human chattel servants) been predominantly black.