You Deserve No Less
Yes, an open thread, in which to share links and bicker.
I’ll set the ball rolling with some sporting scenes, via Mr Newman.
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A reminder that, like all good citizens, one should always respect the media.
And the end of a TV series that seems to have been on air forever, but which was nonetheless often interesting, not because of the behaviour of the officers, but because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
“The stealth of a sofa moving across the lawn.”
Brilliant and true. 🙂
Looks like SpaceX gets to use a pre-flown booster and capsule on the next human flight.
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-nasa-astronaut-launch-rocket-reuse-approval/
“SpaceX gets to use a pre-flown booster and capsule on the next human flight”
Remember when auto dealers stopped selling used cars and switched to pre-owned cars?
“Come on down to Crazy Eddies for the best deals in pre-flown boosters!”
Please remember that when our betters in the Ruling Class are pushing to defund/dismantle the police, they are not talking about them.
Remember, citizens. Always respect the media.
Mystery Politics Theater 3000: put this silhouette at the bottom of a photo of your favorite gathering of leftists:
Added transparency to the screen area and drop shadow.
I have no idea how to add transparency to an image, but was thinking about that. Thanks.
“The stealth of a sofa moving across the lawn.”
Something my dog aspires to have.
Let’s see how the silhouette PiperPaul and pst314 provided works.
Me likey! Me likey much!
I think I’d like the silhouette better without the shadow effect.
Now, how exactly do you overlay that silhouette onto another image?
I thought you might want to see something from the World of Surrender Monkeys.
BLM demands that universities close down STEM (that scary science stuff that discriminates against race studies and hokum, what does the administration at Stanford do?
We got email at work today that we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”. I have no input whatever into hiring decisions and told them years ago that I would resign if required to be a manager. This is such a waste of time, not to mention incredibly annoying.
we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”.
That’s the training where your claim that you are not a racist is proof that you are a racist. Zero evidence for that fraudulent product of a corrupt academia.
I wonder what percent of corporations are now going to impose this sort of evil filth on their employees.
Just went out to Indeed.com to look for work. Was met immediately with a banner regarding how they support Black Lives Matter. The failure of normal society to support and stand by George Zimmerman was the final straw getting us here. Yes, it took another 8 years but they forced you to swallow their lies. Be prepared to swallow more. Cowards.
That’s the training where your claim that you are not a racist is proof that you are a racist.
Fortunately we’re working from home and I helpfully said I would not return to the office until there was a vaccine against COVID-19. In other words, never. So it will be all online and I will do my best not to interact at all, which is my standard way of dealing with meetings.
This city disbanded its police department 7 years ago. Here’s what happened next
Carrot “Head Banger” Ironfoundersson
How to make British tea.
A coincidence, I’m sure.
Thing is, the series was often interesting not because of the behaviour of the officers, but because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
LW: “We got email at work today that we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”.”
Admiral Ackbar says…?
No surprises here. White liberals making demands for black students and the craven university immediately capitulating and throwing the errant prof to the wolves:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8404307/Professor-suspended-refusing-request-lenient-marking-black-students-assessments.html
because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
There’s your problem.
We got email at work today that we are required to undergo training against “unconscious bias”
Speaking of which.
In short, it’s a license for psychological abuse, and the likely motives of its proponents and practitioners are worth pondering.
My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd. He did not attend. He also pointed out that when someone who had worked there for over 40 years passed, that fellow’s death was acknowledged only by an emailed memo.
My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd.
It’s almost as if someone were running an elaborate social experiment to establish exactly how ludicrous human beings are.
The Lathe Of Heaven, PBS, 1980, Antwerp!
Today, on ~~Dear Deardrie~~ Slate
The “Uneven” Nonmonogamous Marriage
Aunty’s answer:
TIL: “poly munches“.
The Cops producers tried to address the accusations of bias, but it was never going to be enough to satisfy their critics.
Mark Steyn wrote this after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, but it’s all just as relevant today: Cigars, But Not Close. Trigger-happy police wielding second-hand military equipment from Afghanistan are an issue. Cops, Little Britain and Gone with the Wind are not.
“My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd”
I’m certain that the murder of Justine Damond by Mohamed Noor (a Somali immigrant and affirmative action hire in the Minneapolis Police) passed without notice.
I’m certain that the murder of Justine Damond by Mohamed Noor (a Somali immigrant and affirmative action hire in the Minneapolis Police) passed without notice.
For the most part, it did, in the mainstream media complex, anyways. The Aussies weren’t too happy, and I think local memorials were held for her, an actual innocent person. But her epidermis had too little melanin for her life to matter, and the poorly trained idiot with anger management issues had plenty of it, plus he worshipped the only Approved religion in the secular lefty world, so it was under the rug with that inconvenient mess.
There may even have been talk along the lines of “she shouldn’t have been outside after calling the cops” or some such she-brought-it-on-herself excusing of Noor’s behavior.
because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
Not following the left’s narrative. Bad boys!
His father long ago decided he didn’t want to perpetuate stereotypes, so he insisted that the show feature as many white people being apprehended as people of color.
Which rather sounds like a roundabout admission of The Unspeakable Statistics. And despite these efforts, it was still quite striking which demographics are more likely to resist arrest, often with great physical enthusiasm. It was practically a drinking game.
Note that Camden NJ did not “do away” with policing or defund the police. They closed the department temporarily and reorganized it to get rid of corruption. They implemented some sensible community relations efforts that are used my many other PDs. The officers shown wear badges and emblems reading “Police”. Camden does not send social workers as first responders to emergencies. The article makes a good case for police reforms favored by the Minneapolis Mayor Frey rather than the dismantlement pushed by the Minneapolis City Council.
I am sick to my stomach of the hero worship of a thug who stuck a gun in a pregnant woman’s belly while he and his friends gang raped her.
I’m also sickened by the edited version of his arrest.
It’s Rodney King all over again.
We’ve learned nothing.
Quote taken from a rather telling tale about the current mood and moment:
‘my boss has my back’
“For the most part, it did,”
Yes, but I meant at Squires’s lab.
From Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War (my emphasis):
So revolutions broke out in city after city, and in places where the revolutions occurred late the knowledge of what had happened previously in other places caused still new extravagances of revolutionary zeal, expressed by an elaboration in the methods of seizing power and by unheard-of atrocities in revenge. To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one’s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man, [ … ] Family relations were a weaker tie than party membership, since party members were more ready to go to any extreme for any reason whatever. These parties were not formed to enjoy the benefits of the established laws, but to acquire power by overthrowing the existing regime; and the members of these parties felt confidence in each other not because of any fellowship in a religious communion, but because they were partners in crime. If an opponent made a reasonable speech, the party in power, so far from giving it a generous reception, took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect.
Revenge was more important than self-preservation [ …] [A] victory won by treachery gave one a title for superior intelligence. And indeed most people are more ready to call villainy cleverness than simple-mindedness honesty. They are proud of the first quality and ashamed of the second.
Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils. To this must be added the violent fanaticism which came into play once the struggle had broken out. Leaders of parties in the cities had programs which appeared admirable—on one side political equality for the masses, on the other the safe and sound government of the aristocracy—but in professing to serve the public interest they were seeking to win the prizes for themselves. [… ] [N]either side had any use for conscientious motives; more interest was shown in those who could produce attractive arguments to justify some disgraceful action. As for the citizens who held moderate views, they were destroyed by both the extreme parties, either for not taking part in the struggle or in envy at the possibility that they might survive.
@Nikw211: given the usually supine police seem to be actually taking an interest, I wonder if that will remain the case when they come knocking on his door?
…a rather telling tale about the current mood and moment…
Color me surprised that our little revolutionary cluster-B-itch is married to a (presumably successful) banker.
Looking forward for the calls to close down the Guardian…..
“That’s the training where your claim that you are not a racist is proof that you are a racist.”
When Evil Pretends That It’s Good:
And that’s from March, before the Church of George even started. But the choice of words is apt. This is evil. Not least because it’ll only be the useful idiots, the footsoldiers, who’ll feel that rush of righteousness. Their Generals will feel satisfaction, after calmly and deliberately creating the enemy they need to win power.
“They’re called Black Lives Matter! How can you object to that?”
“Antifa. Anti-fascist. It’s in the name!”
“It’s almost as if someone were running an elaborate social experiment to establish exactly how ludicrous human beings are.”
“Almost”? I think that’s exactly what they’re doing.
And that is unforgivable.
and that is unforgivable.
Well, it’s generally harder to sustain foolishly indulgent ideas about criminality, all conveniently abstract and theoretical, when you can actually see it, vividly, and imagine how you’d feel if such creatures targeted you, or your children, or moved in next door, or next door to an elderly loved one.
Biological sex is a white supremacist conspiracy!
Interesting article obviously written by a bot using every woke buzz word and phrase saved in a MadLibs database.
Denial Level: Aswan
Thing is, the series was often interesting not because of the behaviour of the officers, but because it revealed the behaviour (and demographics) of the criminals.
What always amazed me is that the arrestees (not criminals until they’re convicted) apparently signed a release to have the footage shown.
Biological sex is a white supremacist conspiracy!
Given that the author touts xemselves as a “Muslim drag queen”, I suspect there is a more than usual degree of blackwhite supremacy going on in that particular cranium.
From the headline:
I wonder what they’ll do when they find out who his opponent was…
So much of what passes for public language these days seems to be an intentional troll. ‘Black lives matter’ practically lusts after the response ‘all lives matter’ (‘how dare you!’) For the same reason the phrase ‘all lives matter’ has been relegated to the fringes, so any nut who wants attention can get it by putting on an ‘all lives matter’ t-shirt. Likewise the phrase (cooked up in 4chan as a deliberate troll) ‘It’s okay to be white’ sends otherwise sensible people into conniptions. The best way to deal with trolls is not pay them attention. So – considering our current media environment – we’re stuffed….!
Given that the author touts xemselves as a “Muslim drag queen”…
The author should try living in Egypt or Pakistan. 😉
The best way to deal with trolls is not pay them attention. So – considering our current media environment – we’re stuffed….!
Yep, considering Silence Is Violence, Kneel or be complicit, your avatar better be a black square or whatever the latest twattery is on social media – or else – RAAAACIST! Refusal to participate is not an option. You will be made to care.
I have been avoiding farcebook since the mask and cower in place nazis went on patrol, and with the new blm crap I am doubling avoiding it.
And now supposedly tomorrow is STEM Strike for George or some such nonsense. Stuff that – I’m going to work as normal. This coronation and sanctification of some drug-addled thug who got helped to his eternal reward by a melanin-challenged thug with a badge while the diversity crew with badges watched is beyond ridiculous. What are they going to make us do next?
What are they going to make us do next?
Whatever the hell they want. It’s not like anyone is interested in doing anything about it. Just stop paying attention to it. It will all go away. Ignoring it has worked so, so well for the last 30, 40, 50 years, why stop when we’re almost there?
Fish slapping dance? Pathetically ineffective. In these troubled times we need something more powerful. Deploy the salmon gun!
I’m going to hell. Because my morning seems a little brighter suddenly:
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1270896048236630018
One more time, always respect the media.
For those of you who fret about such things, yes, tomorrow’s Ephemera has been compiled and should materialise just after midnight, UK time.
@David
Will it include this:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/antifa-organizer-seattles-autonomous-zone-begs-vegan-meat-soy-keep-area-operational-homeless-people-take-food/
In other news, a crim local to the area has declared himself security, and is shaking down businesses for $500 ‘security services’
Will it include this
It’s not unlike giving lighter fluid and car keys to very small children.
I see London’s vermin problem has not improved.
“”Yet again this starkly shows the dangers @metpoliceuk face and the bravery they show each and every day keeping Londoners safe.”
Do they keep Londoners safe?
Do they keep Londoners safe?
It does seem that any beneficial effect is increasingly incidental.
Not sure where I read it, possibly at this very establishment, but it’s true nonetheless. You, meaning the society in which you’re living, needs to decide if your police and military are meant to do what it says on the tin or if they’re just a jobs programme. The video shows a police force (service?) that’s a jobs programme, much like the flock of yellow-vested, blue-crowned, slack-spines that ran away from the crowd in London recently and needed to be saved by a young girl.
None of this bodes well for us I’m afraid. I had a small hope that it might work out well until I saw the police and, God help us, the National Guard, kneeling in supplication to these scrotes.
Not sure where I read it, possibly at this very establishment,
Maybe this, or over at Tim’s.
And needless to say, in terms of credibility, this kind of thing doesn’t exactly help.
David Cole has and excellent piece in Taki’s:
And… we’re back.
My buddy at the primates-and-infectious-diseases lab has informed me that said institution held a memorial for Floyd
It’s nice to know that there is an appropriate connection between Floyd, primates, and infectious diseases.
‘But we only want equality!’
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1271090441358839808
#GuardianMustFall
https://order-order.com/2020/06/10/guardian-must-fall/
#GuardianMustFall
I’m reminded that Guido Fawkes was also perfectly happy with suppressing the free speech of the bloke who stood outside the courthouse during the trial — excuse my imperfect memory — of certain people who did certain things to certain children.
I’m certain I got the facts wrong, but not that GF was willing, nay, thrilled to bow to the will of the State.
At least someone on the Left understands that something is wrong with the pictures we’re seeing on TV every night. I was about to say that he “gets it”, but reading the article, I’m not sure he does. He ends:
They don’t want the laws to be enforced, Connor, even new ones more amenable to them. They want their own whims to be enforced. They want power. As many on the so-called “right” have noted over the years, Marxism and its derivatives, while appropriating the language of science and reason, are the counter-Enlightenment (many among BLM and its hangers-on openly decry it – the movement which resulted in the recognition of slavery as evil and resulted in its abolition – as, predictably, “racist”). They want the end of the rule of law, and a return to what Rand called the rule of men*: arbitrary “social”, i.e., mob, justice and strong-man Leaders.
Still, at least there’s a glimmer of recognition, if not that these are bad people, at least that they’re dangerous.
*Although no doubt it will also include women, and those who aren’t quite sure. At least at first. Until the strongmen crush them.
I’m reminded that Guido Fawkes was also perfectly happy with suppressing the free speech of the bloke who stood outside the courthouse during the trial — excuse my imperfect memory — of certain people who did certain things to certain children.
I don’t know anything about this. I hope a few readers can fill in the details.
London’s vermin problem has not improved.
So if you see a neighbo(u)r being assaulted and you step in to defend her, you’re going to be put through the wringer by the cops, the press, and the SJW brigade because you’re some sort of above-the-law vigilante. “Law enforcement must be left to the professionals” they’ll say. And when you stand aside to let the professionals exercise their superior skills and training, you’re put through the wringer for not getting your hands dirty.
It boils down to, “We can’t protect you, and we insist that you not protect yourselves or each other, and also we demand that you protect us.” Do any of these idiots understand the damage they do with this kind of messaging?
Heh.
Do try to hide your astonishment.
Also, from my inbox:
I feel like I’m having a 1990s AbFab flashback.
The national chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation said: “How dare people stand by and video my colleagues in distress. Far too many people stand back and [watch] rather than assist anyone in trouble.”
London and other Police Forces have, for the last week
– facilitated the gathering of crowds when the country is apparently in the middle of a pandemic and such gatherings are illegal
– stood by as property was destroyed by these crowds
– pandered to these mobs by “taking the knee” with the approval of their Chiefs
– run away rather than confront the mob
I wonder if the Police Federation Chairman is any good at joining the dots?
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Join us for the launch of the first digital and gender neutral London Fashion Week…
In simpler times it was called unisex fashion and the fashion show was the performance piece.
These self-proclaimed edgy people are really just boring.
Don’t forget their extreme heavy-handedness in enforcing the arbitrary lockdown rules.
In simpler times it was called unisex fashion and the fashion show was the performance piece.
All I know is there’s a guy wearing a plastic apron accessorised with an elaborate pearl necklace, and another guy wearing what appears to be a ruched tangerine duvet cover. It’s not really speaking to me on an aesthetic level.
It’s not really speaking to me on an aesthetic level.
Philistine. ;-p
An interesting, if long, video from a nurse who was on the front lines at Elmherst hospital in Queens, NY. I highly recommend. Any thoughts?
https://youtu.be/UIDsKdeFOmQ
I don’t know anything about this. I hope a few readers can fill in the details.
Ah, a check of my memory (aka Google) shows it was Tommy Robinson who I was thinking of.
A check of Guido Fawkes’ archives will reveal the details. It should be said that by standing outside with a camera, the police assumed that he was planning to violate a judge’s order over publicity of an on-going trial. But GF’s contempt for TR and his fans were on a par with, well, you know who.
Mind you, I’m an American who believes in near-total free speech. Adjust your attitudes accordingly.
“Heh.”
As a great woman once said, the facts of life are conservative.
“Ah, a check of my memory (aka Google) shows it was Tommy Robinson who I was thinking of.”
Yep. Guido has a bit of a blind spot regarding Tommy.