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.
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.