Little Things

Deepfake of note. https://youtu.be/8OJnkJqkyio

“Smell this” followed by “pull my finger” is even rarer.

Not a student of English, I’m guessing.

Hoooonk.

He’s a reckless driver who put pedestrians at great risk because he doesn’t agree with their protest.”

“Pedestrians”. Right.

’ Last time I checked, wilfully obstructing traffic was an arrestable offence.’
Look again. The modern police farce aids them by…closing the roads.
http://twitter.com/CambridgeCops/status/1228992502960730112

https://netpol.org/resources/common-criminal-offences/

In examining ‘lawful excuse’ [to avoid successful prosecution under Section 137 of the Highways Act 1980 – willful obstruction], courts need to decide if an activity causing an obstruction is itself lawful and whether it is reasonable: in the case of a protest, taking into consideration Article 10 (freedom of expression) and Article 11 (freedom of assembly) of the ECHR.

Expect the police to do absolutely nothing to remove them.

Further to the above, and as illustrated here many times, it’s curious just how often woke ‘protest’ takes the form of what might otherwise be regarded as overtly and triumphantly anti-social behaviour, naked malice, even outright sociopathy. That the two should coincide so reliably probably tells us something about the kinds of people involved and what it is they really enjoy.

(Pardon my French.)
No pardon needed. If you’ve ever seen these clowns up close, you’ll have noticed that they tend to be a fairly specific, decidedly twattish, demographic.

Nah. It’s not sociopathy. Sociopaths lack the social skills or understanding as to why their behavior is wrong. Sociopaths don’t understand society. Sociopaths technically do not justify their behavior based on morals. This sort of thing is much, much worse. These people were created by our culture, our academic institutions, our news and entertainment media (blurred lines and all there), and much of the psychology profession, to become destructive tools. Sociopaths, for all their faults, at least do care about themselves. These people have been brainwashed into becoming creatures of their own destruction. I would say that the people who made them this way are sociopaths. Or even psychopaths. Especially many of the psychologists, who unlike academics, can do their nefarious work behind closed doors. We have a very nasty cancer in our society. The only hope is that people start to wake up, stop wasting their youth (and stop putting themselves deep into debt) in academic BS, and start thinking for themselves by getting their minds out of the Narrative.

We have a very nasty cancer in our society.
Well, if your go-to solution to pretty much any ostensible cause is to screw over other people – whether by obstructing traffic, or immobilising trains at rush hour, or harassing random people, or vandalising their property – and doing it while visibly exulting in the power of mob coercion – then it seems to me that what you want is the thrill of behaving anti-socially, seemingly with impunity, and having power over other people. The rest is a glorified pretext, merely an opportunity.
This is what happens when you indulge narcissism.

Despite the pretence of martyrdom and claims by the participants that they “do not enjoy” exerting power over random passers-by – or would-be passers-by – it seems quite obvious that personal gratification is by no means incidental. These disruptions and obstructions – forcibly immobilising large numbers of people – are very much recreational, a rush of ego, as bullying often is. Now imagine being so privileged, so removed from normal concerns, that being arrested is a form of recreation, a leisure activity, a way to impress your peer group and accrue status.

Somewhat related.

The thrill comes more from filling a hole. In any social group members attain status by contributing to the group’s progress. Our institutions have denigrated any form of productive work. Listen to most music, hell look at the (God help me) “Bowling for Soup” video linked here recently. The (former) ideal of becoming a productive member of society is mocked even by lame conservative-leaning bands.

Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husbands a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty four
Only been with one man
What happened to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of White Snake’s car
Her yellow SUV, is now the enemy
Looks at her average life
And nothing has been alright

Well, who wants that life? Drive an SUV? Marry a CPA? Nah. That’s for losers. You young people need to aspire to shake your ass on the hood of a rock star’s car. Or BE the rock star! Oooh! Follow your dream! Which of course leads to failure. So what to do, what to do, what to do…Ah! You can Save The Planet! There you go. See, no sociopathy required. Not that it doesn’t help. But many, many of the people in these groups, not the ones doing the anti-social behavior but the majority…those supporting it, cheering it on, are not getting satisfaction from their own sociopathy. They’re getting it from the standard human, even mammalian social contract that runs much deeper in the human brain than the appearance of one-off sociopaths. While similarly juiced, it’s actually a much more dangerous thing than run-of-the-mill narcissism. Though as you say, that is what is being fed. By the real sociopaths.