Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One

“Relevant people” LOL

Professor Adjunct Lecturer Zenkus. I know, you are as surprised as I was.

He was trained by Vice President Al Gore as a presenter in his Climate Reality Project…

Well, that rather explains quite a bit about his tenuous grasp of reality.

Mr Breton “likes the energy” of threats to “fucking take” someone else’s earnings. So, I suspect that Mr Breton’s one-world peacenik pantomime is a Rizla-thin camouflage for a rather unpleasant personality. In my experience, it has generally been the case.

Nice touch.
Bonus content!

…A world without war will not happen overnight. Nexus will maintain a sizeable military presence all over the world to ensure all sides lay down their arms…
When they make war, it’s different.

I imagine if someone showed up with guns at Mr. Breton’s door to fucking take his wealth, he’d feel differently.
If someone takes his wealth, they should not merely take it; they should fucking take it. 😀

Pint of Bovril and Pernod, barman…put it on the slate…square up with you next time I’m in. What’s the latest lunacy? Oh…I see…

He also serves as an expert on family violence and trauma in television, print and digital media
Adjunct lecturer Zenkus is plainly anchored in the realities of life – or maybe, not.

I suspect both have serious envy issues.
A resentful, covetous leftwing academic? Surely not.

I suspect both have serious envy issues
And not just about money/status. The joke is they would never have the balls. I have more respect for the looting rioters peaceful protesters, they did just go and take it.

What if ‘Prof’ Zenkus earns more than me? Can I ‘f*cking take’ his stuff?

[O]r we’ll fvcking take it.
It’s hard to take seriously someone who can’t just say “fuck.”

He also tells us, quite emphatically, that “capitalism is theft”…
Well, seeing as how the average Columbia adjunct lecturer makes less in a year than the basic undergrad tuition, it is not surprising he does say in his bio he was one of the Occupy Wall Street clowns.
Of course he also brags about having given a single TedX talk five years ago, all 14 minutes of which you study here to raise your class consciousness and learn that money is directly correlated to brain size – up to middle class, which is of course undefined, but I am guessing anyone above the salary of a Columbia adjunct lecturer gets shipped to the beet fields.
If you like, you can jump to about 8:40 when he goes full Marxist with all the SJW boilerplate.
Don’t say I am not a giver.

Natalie Solent on Pontins and Irish ‘travellers’.
This last line of this part of Solent’s post: caught my eye in particular:

You don’t put Gandalf clip art on top of an announcement that is likely to be met with outrage. The writer assumed that the staff would accept what he or she saw as the obvious need to keep Travellers out […] I assume that there was an implied “after what happened last time” there.

Incidentally, an article from 12 January 2016 in The Independent,‘Butlin’s and Pontin’s accused of keeping secret ‘blacklists’ of Traveller families’, shows this goes back at least five years and probably longer.
I think it’s probably also worth noting that there’s been a long-standing admiration for travellers and gypsies among bourgeois intellectuals – at least in the UK – that stretches back at least to the nineteenth century.
The painter Augustus John for example, a darling of the Bloomsbury Group, took to the road in a gypsy caravan, taking both his wife, children and mistress with him in an early prototype of something like an experiment in anti-Capitalist polyamory.
It was a lifestyle seen as being in defiance of stifling Victorian morality and an escape from Middle Class peer pressure to conform and consume.
And apparently it’s a lifestyle that still seems to be popular with present day inheritors of that Bloomsbury tradition … which I can only imagine must involve some very practised turning of a blind eye to the almost certainly shocking rates of domestic violence against women and children in that community
Not to mention slavery of course.
And, no, that’s not a joke

Eleven members of [a] Traveller family with Irish roots have been jailed in the UK for violently exploiting at least 18 victims of modern slavery.
The Rooney family, who were based on Traveller sites in Lincoln, targeted homeless people and men with learning disabilities to work and live in squalid conditions for up to 26 years. Their offences were described in court as “chilling in their mercilessness”
The victims were kept in caravans without running water or toilet facilities, Nottingham Crown Court heard, while their captors wore Rolex watches, drove expensive cars and lived in gleaming homes that were “palatial in comparison” to their workers’ conditions.
Judge Timothy Spencer said the difference in their lives was “akin to the gulf between medieval royalty and the peasantry” as he jailed 11 members of the family for up to 15 years on Tuesday.

I read the link to Nexus Global and read it in disbelief

Once upon a time, in a land far away (depending on how far you live from the Aegean Sea), people lived peacefully for periods of thousands of years. It was a time when women and men lived together harmoniously, a time when technology was used solely to improve the quality of life for all. It was a time when all deities were women. The seeds for this prevailing order were sown as early as 30,000 B.C. and it continued to flourish and prosper until approximately 4,000 B.C. At that point, a massive cultural upheaval took place resulting in the structures and perspectives that pervade the present society.
Evidence reveals that these societies were essentially peaceful. None of the sites for towns were chosen for their ability to be defended. Rather they were chosen for their good water and soil, and availability of animal pastures. There is no sign of damage from war for a period of 1,500 years. Male domination was not the norm and a division of labour between the sexes is indicated, but not a superiority of either.
However, it is not human nature to be warlike because there was a time when we were peaceful. It is not our nature to dominate others because there was a time when we lived harmoniously.

How could an educated person write this? It’s just untrue. It’s so utterly wrong, it’s hard to know where to start. Where are the sources and evidence for these assertions?
The whole piece is just awful, brain numbing.

Where are the sources and evidence for these assertions?
Here.

Natalie Solent on Pontins and Irish ‘travellers’.
Note the first comment in that link, which begins “…As the 1800s wore on, people began to distinguish between the ‘shanty’ Irish and the ‘lace-curtain Irish’ as a shorthand for noting evolving behaviour probabilities.”

And as a result, the reputation of said “community” grows ever more unflattering.
“Workers trying to clean-up a historic brewery ransacked by travellers were disgusted to find the place not only looted and wrecked but covered in piles of human excrement.”
Theodore Dalrymple has written that it is common in the UK for burglars to engage in malicious vandalism, including defecating on the floors and furniture. I have also read a few reports of illegal aliens doing the same thing in unoccupied houses in Arizona etc as they make their way from the border. Can anybody give me a good reason why such creatures should not be permanently removed from society?

if your chosen lifestyle is rooted in parasitism and a belief that, having turned someone’s field or whatever into a litter-strewn biohazard, you can just move on and leave some other sucker to deal with it, then other antisocial tendencies are hardly surprising.
That.

How could an educated person write this?
Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” (1945): “The average intellectual of the Left […] could believe these things because his hatred for the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could succeed. There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind. I have heard it confidently stated, for instance, that the American troops had been brought to Europe not to fight the Germans but to crush an English revolution. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.“

Interesting that these people never call out the super-rich by name. Republicans need to start pressing this crap. Let’s go all-in on taxing the super-rich, yes. Make Bill Gates, Jeff Bozos, the Google Boys, Warren Buffet, etc. defend why they should not take a haircut. Why should they have billions and billions of dollars? One billion should be enough for anyone. Call them out by name. Make them defend themselves. Put AOC and similar idiots in the uncomfortable position. These rich bastards have already turned on the rest of us, why do we continue to defend them?

Meanwhile in Chinese medicine… (NSFW)

Is that the semen extraction machine?
No, but the commentary is pretty funny. NSFW is mostly for language.

Is that the semen extraction machine?
No, but the commentary is pretty funny. NSFW is mostly for language.
Ah, I see: it’s that Traditional Chinese Medicine that I am supposed to hold in highest regard. Was it John Derbyshire who commented that the Chinese are the least religious and most superstitious?

Is that the semen extraction machine?
Because someone’s bound to ask.
Is this a case of technology “doing the jobs that Chinese women won’t do”?

Can we have 2020 back ?
First, this slackwit wants to cancel a cartoon skunk claiming it promotes rape, and now this obligate mouth breather has his knickers in a twist over his own cartoon rabbit.

“Lola [Bunny] was very sexualized, like Betty Boop mixed with Jessica Rabbit,” he said. “Lola was not politically correct…This is 2021. It’s important to reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters…So we reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice. For us, it was, let’s ground her athletic prowess, her leadership skills…

Yes, because in Woketopia, female athletes must never be easy on the eyes or wear revealing outfits.
Oh, wait.

also Columbia, separate but equal
Equal? Graduation for most groups starts at 4pm or pm. However they have to start the Asians at 10am.

What if ‘Prof’ Zenkus earns more than me? Can I ‘f*cking take’ his stuff
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‘Earns’?
I’ll go as far as ‘receives’.
‘Extorts’ is probably most accurate.

If you create a Designated Victim Group and exempt its members from normal proprieties, even basic reciprocation, the result will not be gratitude. A contemptuous sense of entitlement, expressed with increasing boldness, seems much more likely. Lord Acton, but it is immunity that corrupts.

Whichever Pontins employee wrote that list was unusually careless to put it on paper. … The writer assumed that the staff would accept what he or she saw as the obvious need to keep Travellers out. … I assume that there was an implied “after what happened last time” there.

Careless, and old economy. It should have been contrived as computer-says-no. The call centre manager lacks the procedural obfuscation skills to flourish in the new economy and get his children into good schools.
This sentence from the Deep Throat scoop reads like a Gestalt puzzle – is it supposed to be the case for the prosecution or for the defence? What conclusions would a reasonable person draw from this, or what follow-up questions would a truth-seeking journalist ask?

In the midst of Britain’s hugely competitive vacation market, Pontins was in a cut-throat battle for every client it could get – except, it is now clear, when it came to bookings from members of the Irish Traveller community. For Pontins, this was business it did not want and it was prepared to breach racial equality laws to do so. To use the company’s own terminology, Gypsies and Travellers were “undesirable guests”.

Professor Adjunct Lecturer Zenkus. I know, you are as surprised as I was.
Anyone who holds himself out as “Professor” or “Doctor,” isn’t one. Not of a serious subject, at least.
This is known.

“Gypsies and Travellers were “undesirable guests””
I do believe the Kiwis had unpleasant experiences with some Irish scum last year [and it was nothing to do with sheep]:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8196290/british-traveller-family-deported-new-zealand-chaos/
We in Australia are ‘blessed’ most summers with a bunch of similar [Irish] travelling scum conning elderly folks out of large sums of money by offering to paint and seal their rooftops or lay asphalt on their driveways. The work, if done at all, is always of inferior quality.

pst314: we need to work on accelerating global warming, then. Antarctica awaits!

pst314: we need to work on accelerating global warming, then. Antarctica awaits!

Antarctica awaits!
I’ve been rereading portions of Heather MacDonald’s The War on Cops. It would probably be easier to sell Antarctica than the increased application of the death penalty that I was contemplating.

To use the company’s own terminology, Gypsies and Travellers were “undesirable guests”.
Unscarequoted:
To use the English language, Gypsies and Travellers were (putting it mildly) undesirable guests.

However the Warner Brothers cartoons were not created for children. They were shorts before the main feature at adult cinema. Therefore it was perfectly obvious to the audience that Pepe le Pew was a caricature of a French lothario. That was obvious to me even as a seven year old. Other racist tropes were less apparent to me as a child, e.g. Speedy Gonzales as an “amusing” counter-example of the “lazy Mexican” stereotype.
“First they came for Pepe, and I said nothing, as I was not a skunk that spoke French…”
God, I love those cartoons.

cartoon rabbit
How long until we are shown in explicit detail that Bugs Bunny is trans, Elmer Fudd is gay, and Daffy Duck identifies as a sexy skunk?

I think we could probably do with A bit less constant sexualisation in children’s media
Or questioning of sexuality. Why can’t they just leave it alone? They’re kids. And maybe just accepting Ernie and Bert at face value is what it’s about.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17879916/bert-ernie-gay-sesame-street-mark-saltzman-controversy

I don’t know what these cartoon scolds are on about. Growing up Slowpoke Rodriguez was my idol and I turned out just fine.
What?

Growing up Slowpoke Rodriguez was my idol and I turned out just fine.
When Speedy was in the crosshairs a few years back I distinctly remember the commentary from (non-woke) Americans of Mexican descent being that the character was a hero to them growing up. In other words, they viewed him the same damned way every non-Mexican kid did.
Regarding scenes of exaggerated sexuality in classic cartoons, I believe they served three important purposes:
1) They clued girls into the power of femininity.
2) They clued boys into the dangers of giving into that power – i.e. making themselves into the fool.
3) They were funny.

I distinctly remember the commentary from (non-woke) Americans of Mexican descent being that the character was a hero to them growing up
Fluffy joins the conversation.

I think we could probably do with a bit less constant sexualization in children’s media.
On the other hand I do wonder a little how we got from Pogo and Loony Tunes to porn-y furries.

People pimping things like this to kids not cartoon rabbits with bewbs.
Well yes, and I suppose there is some sociological connection between that and the furry phenomenon, but I was first confronted with furry paraphilia many years before the current radical LGBTQ* invasion of very young children’s education and I did wonder where these people came from since it seemed like a very improbable fetish.

…A world without war will not happen overnight. Nexus will maintain a sizeable military presence all over the world to ensure all sides lay down their arms…
I had more thoughts about this part. The most important part of the Declaration of Independence is

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Note that under Nexus, you will have no right to abolish the form of government to which it subjects you. That’s why it has armies, and nobody else will be allowed to.
Of course, this is just some lone crank, but I think his general ideas are held by many.

First, this slackwit wants to cancel a cartoon skunk claiming it promotes rape…
Good news: you can still buy Private Snafu.

So long as we’re talking about furries, here’s Jimi Hendrix’s opinion

here’s Jimi Hendrix’s opinion

Speaking of which, a Frenchman weighs in.
That.
As with the doltish and perverse annual posturing about Baby, It’s Cold Outside, the woke-scolds seem remarkably tin-eared and untroubled by mental subtlety.

But Markle and Harry? There’s some trainwrecks so spectacular even I can’t look away.