May Contain Traces Of Irony

“It’s enormously demoralising to people, to be made to lie.”

Peter Robinson interviews Douglas Murray.
A slightly less sober interview, by former Love Island contestant Chris Williamson, can be found here.

Hide the generator!
https://twitter.com/OptoSean/status/1181262114222161921

Woman in background muttering, “She doesn’t have the same future…”, yeah, about that…
We’ll gloss over that the only ones scaring their kids about the future are the ones screeching about our certain doom ever 10-12 years every 10-12 years.
(BTW, thanks for not having that Disqus/Recaptcha horsecrap here)

Speaking of protests, can someone explain just what the hell is supposed to be going on here, or is it just someone from the Ministry of Silly Walks demonstrating something new, maybe ?

can someone explain just what the hell is supposed to be going on here…?
Ah, the moral vanguard.

Because packing sandwiches is hard.

Many are preparing to go on hunger strike so they need some food now…

Wait, what ? You just can’t start, you have to gorge up like a bear preparing to hibernate (protip – it doesn’t work that way in people), or just laying in stocks for the “hunger strike” (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) ?

Chanting and banging on about the world’s on fire and it’ll all be burnt to ashes and so forth.
Good thing they’ve wrapped up well. Wouldn’t want the poor darlings to catch cold, now would we.

Yesterday I was enjoying the Missed Apex podcast whose Formula 1 discussions are always pleasant and wonderfully politics-free. When talking about how too many races a year would result in wives divorcing the mechanics, drivers etc (a mostly tongue-in-cheek observation) the special lady guest just had to make a “women hardest hit” argument. To wit: since women are more likely to take up childcare duties a packed calendar of races would discourage them from adding to the diversity of F1. To the guys’ credit, they quickly move on without comment, but you cannot escape these idiots, can you?

….the one involving the fentanyl
Must have missed that particular episode of Friends.
Mrs. Oik and I were there in September 2017- the Embarcadero was fine but, sweet baby Jesus, the Tenderloin was nasty, as was some of the area up near the old Winterland on Van Ness and parts of Haight Ashbury. Five or six million bucks for one of those gingerbread “Victorians” when you’ve got schizoid junkies taking a dump by your front gate? I don’t think so.

Violet Elizabeth Bott in Halifax.

Coming to a filling station near you!

“The law will not apply to celebrities purchasing jet fuel.”

Heh.

Coming to a campus near you.
Not campus in the Glorious Rodina, thank you very many. (Long video, but take a look – the Roosians are pretty unimpressed with St. Greta and the whole green scam).

“Will Cancel Culture Find Out About Karl Marx The Racist?”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/344649/

what the hell are they supposed to be accomplishing by doing it in the middle of the road? Other than block traffic and generally make pests of themselves, of course.
It’s probably ceremonial.

Every time they link climate change to capitalism it solidifies my belief that there’s nothing there. The worst polluters in the world are and have been in the past the counties most opposed to capitalism. Yet these people don’t harass those countries, they pick on people even when those people are doing the right thing.
At my previous job, millennial guy and x-ers that I worked with essentially ostracized me for saying, not that climate change doesn’t/isn’t happening, just that scientifically the conclusions were unsound. I was mocked with”Do you believe in dinosaurs, dude?” etc. during one discussion. Now millennial boy who most was all-in on this idiocy had traded in his Mustang muscle car for a Chevy Tahoe, just to drive his butt to work and back. Meanwhile, my Acura gets 30+ mpg. Similar BS from our x-er, quasi-commie lead who drove a big pickup (forget the model). These people are full of themselves.

Every time they link climate change to capitalism it solidifies my belief that there’s nothing there.
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Yet these people don’t harass those countries, they pick on people even when those people are doing the right thing.
It’s almost as if the climate change is just a vehicle for agitation. Just like environmentalism generally, LGBTQ stuff, feminist stuff, BLM stuff, illegal immigration stuff, etc.
Here’s the test: ask a liberal/leftist for his take on a news item, but first redact any political signifiers. They don’t know which way to jump, unless they just resort to their prejudices, in which case it’s easy to cross them up. The unvarnished facts do not suffice to let them make a determination; they need to know which way hurts America, the West, men, whites, etc. THEN they’re either outraged, or understanding, as the case may be.
I once asked a liberal his take on a case in which several thugs beat up a college student as he left a bar.
He predictably plumped for the thugs – they were deprived, suffered from systemic racism, should be treated leniently and with compassion, went to poor schools, came from broken homes, etc. while the college student had white privilege (i.e., probably had it coming).
I then informed him – and gave him the link to the news story – that the thugs were white. The college student was black.
Did he learn anything? I doubt it. But if you have to know irrelevant aspects to decide what you think, you need to take a long look inside yourself, and then to realize you’ve swallowed agitprop hook, line, and sinker. You’ve been had.

“He’s here to save the Amazon…”
“This is how we make a difference. This is how we make a change” – by collectively pretending to have St. Vitus’ Dance.
I get it, there is no way there are enough mental institutions for all these people, but a couple judiciously applied (and it seems quite warranted) hickory shampoos might sort things.

Interesting plant pot design. Described as a ‘shape-shifting origami pot’ that unfolds as the plant grows to accommodate the size of the plant.
I was just going through some of my old origami books so of course the question that occurred to me was, ‘how can I fold one for myself’?

“you’ve swallowed agitprop hook, line, and sinker”
What’s that old quote about it being easier to fool someone rather than convince them they’re been fooled?
“…self serving bias kicks in to protect their decision and provide evidence to support it.”

Golly, the leader of ringleader of Extinction Extermination Rebellion sure seems nice.
A true child of Marx and Lenin.

There’s some suggestive evidence that they were sometimes inscribed on the ground or the floor of a stone cave, and traversed as a form of ritual or worship[1]. The repetitive spiraling inward walk is quite calming, actually.
Thanks – I did not know that, but what the hell are they supposed to be accomplishing by doing it in the middle of the road ?
Traversing the Pattern will allow them to Travel the Shadows, and return to Amber.
Obviously

Nate: evergreen Orwell quote.