Provoke, Whine, Rinse, Repeat

Basically chihuahuas displaying nervous aggression
Heh. At ten-to-one or thereabouts, they comfortably outnumber their intended victim, a lone driver they presumably plan to menace and dominate, and when he takes exception to their delinquent provocation and responds accordingly, and effectively, they squeal for back-up. Like the nasty little bitches they are.
But it does, I think, capture a defining dynamic, a rather telling one – and the extent to which the phenomenon could be seen as a middle-class parenting failure. I mean, the juvenile psychology, the uncorrected narcissism, is hard to miss.

More of that please.

Karens in balaclavas.

Like the nasty little bitches they are.
Reminder that it’s exactly these same nasty little bitches that want to defund professionals of this calibre.

randian
I take the royal caste point; but I also think that the fact that one or two of them might have got HURT had they tried might have influenced them somewhat.

the Antifa Expanded Universe
[ Muffled chortling. ]

Also, if I vote for this Chinaman in my GOP primary, does this make me more or less racist? Or more pro- or anti-American?
https://yukongzhaoforcongress.com/

Pathologizing. Happy. Women.
It’s certainly been my experience that leftist women tend to be discernibly less happy and much more neurotic, regardless of actual circumstance, so far as I could determine it. And as we’ve seen many times, the mental landscape of many leftist women doesn’t exactly lend itself to happiness. Or self-possession. Or coherence, or realism.
One might reasonably infer, then, that the problem isn’t so much the world as the bong rip of leftism.

The number of people on that thread insisting that the problem is false consciousness ignore another possible reason for the study result: people who believe Satan is lurking in their sock drawer are likely to be less happy than people who don’t.

They’ve done a hundred studies and written ten thousand magazine articles documenting that contemporary 21st Century gender roles are making women miserable, as they stretch themselves to be white-collar professionals and mothers and wives and household managers and community organizers and a hundred other roles simultaneously.
They’ve done three studies showing that women who embrace more traditional gender roles seem to be happier.
Now they’re going to twist themselves into knots trying to find a way of explaining that these findings are contradictory. Because they HAVE to be, you see.

As the scurrying mob stays 20 feet away, the stillness that surrounded one lone voice echoing through the suddenly silent streets was overwhelming.
One man, angry enough to show it, and all the silliness melted away instantaneously.
We are losing against the weakest human beings in our species’ history.
[ finishes whiskey bottle, opens another ]

David, in this interview Somali-born immigrant Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a few things to say about the left’s attacks on Western civilization.
The Case against Revolution with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Jun 30, 2020
Hoover Institution
Recorded on June 25, 2020

As the United States and the world embark on fraught conversations about race, history, law enforcement, and the underpinnings of our very civilization, Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins Peter Robinson for an enlightening conversation. A refugee from Africa, Hirsi Ali fled to Europe to escape an arranged marriage, becoming an activist, (now former) member of the Dutch Parliament, and now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. With a different set of life experiences and perspectives from American-born Blacks, Hirsi Ali discusses how, as a Somalian, she views America as the best place on earth for minorities to grow up and achieve their potential. While acknowledging the hardships and miseries that American Blacks have endured and that racism still exists in many quarters of American society, Hirsi Ali emphatically believes that America is more than capable of solving racial inequalities, provided it preserves the institutions that ultimately ended slavery and empowered the protest movements of the 1960s that birthed the Civil Rights Movement. As she wrote in a recent column for the Wall Street Journal, an opinion she reiterates on this show, “There will be no resolution of America’s . . . problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld as sacrosanct. . . . Without them, honest deliberation, mutual learning, and the American ethic of problem-solving are dead.”

The gibsmedat projection is strong with Nerd Jesus.

What nice people.
Here, too.

But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor. As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space.

More.

I will be, as ever, a dedicated reader of their work. But I can no longer do the work that you brought me here to do…

So, as ever and despite the lesson taught by a strict taskmaster, nothing will be learned.

. . . . nothing will be learned.
Ehn, if he was being a dedicated reader of, oh, The Colonial Chronicle, then he hadn’t been learning . . . .

Re: Bari Weiss

and all sorts of reputational damage all around
To whom, gov? One must first hold that disgusting rag in esteem and the only ones who do are not physically capable of shame.

This chap has had to resign as curator…
I have little sympathy for someone who swam in (and I suspect, encouraged) that fetid PoMo, CM swamp, but leave that to one side. Would it not have been just as easy (or even easier) to offer the employees who signed the petition the immediate opportunity to work in a more congenial environment somewhere else?

Dutch tulip bulbs and money laundering. The quality of the art is irrelevant, so there is no reason for them not to chase identity (con)artists.

The article about the curator has helped my understanding of the word “tenure”. For a white male it means he’s been around for too long and has to go. For a black female it means she can do or say whatever she likes without fear of retribution.

the power to spoil
That.

Dutch tulip bulbs and money laundering. The quality of the art is irrelevant, so there is no reason for them not to chase identity (con)artists.
This.
Modern seems mostly to be a money-laundering scam perpetrated by ‘artists’, critics and dealers that, in it’s entirety, has produced nothing of value to Western Civilisation but has lined the pockets of those involved in the scheme. Indeed its aim seems to be to undermine Western standards of beauty and replace them with ugliness and then call that great art. It is, like PoMo culture in general, the product of people who feel inadequate when faced with the glories of the West and want to to tear it all down like the Barbarians when they conquered Rome.

What’s remarkable, to me at least, is the widespread accommodation of such behaviour, and the fact that many people will see scenes like those above and not register, or not admit to registering, the obvious motivation.
If you criticise such behaviour, you leave yourself open to accusations of callousness, racism, white-supremacism, insert-here-phobery. You know the kind of thing: do you really consider a few broken windows, smears of graffiti or black eyes too high a price to pay when insert-here-victims have been savagely oppressed for a thousand years?
Of course, such arguments can’t withstand a moment’s scrutiny, but then they never receive a moment’s scrutiny with today’s rules of argument: shout “racist” and retreat to your group of friends and stand jeering and nose-thumbing until your interlocutor retires, frustrated.
On the other hand, if you express approval of such behaviour you can present yourself as progressive, intellectual and deeply, deeply caring. Only the most sophisticated can see past the oafishness and squalor to what it truly is: a gesture of sacrifice and magnanimity.
The desire to approve of, and celebrate, overindulged narcissism is, in itself, a form of narcissism.