Friday Ephemeraren’t

Heh.

Apropos to my last comment, does anyone know the protocol for people with multiple pronouns?

My own protocol is to use whatever I damn well please.

…the difficulty of translating these pronouns to German…
One article says “Nun erklärt der Popstar, dass er sich als nicht-binär identifiziert” (now declares the Popstar, that he self as non-binary identifies), and another article says “Die Sängerin möchte künftig genderneutral mit «they» und «them» angesprochen werden” (the Singeress wants in future gender-neutrally with “they” and “them” addressed to be). The trouble with German is that everything declares its pronouns, leaving less room to use pronouns for persona-curation or transgression.
…an odd Americo-centric parochialism…
In the past decades French and German media have become very Americanized, far more in sync with the globalist monoagenda. The journalists, belonging to the class for whom an exchange year in an American high school and postgraduate study in Metropolis are rites of passage, speak up-to-date English with very little “satellite delay” in comprehension. The global agenda from the New York Times is delivered instantly into their electronic devices, so it’s more synchronized and immersive than the old days when you had to go to some effort to get your hands on a 36 hour old copy of a US paper.
One of the satisfactions of learning foreign languages used to be to access the diversity of viewpoints that were protected by language barriers. Nowadays there’s less viewpoint diversity, and French and German journalists strive to make sure that language barriers doesn’t get in the way of culture-rotting trends.

What sort of candle has that sort of safety limitation?
Any candle in a jar, which is what this was.
The longer you burn a candle in a jar, the larger the hot liquid wax layer at the top gets. The temperature differential between the hot wax layer and the colder bottom of the candle can cause the glass to crack, spilling hot, flammable wax and burning wick around the candle. Or, the burning wick can drift around in the liquid wax until it comes into contact with the glass jar, with much the same result.

But I thought those were vagina candles and now I don’t know what’s going on anymore. Again.
Vagina candle =/= ear candle.
I’ll let myself out now.

I bet it does come up quite often in social media…
And elsewhere? One interest group I joined many years ago has now embarked on a woke project to remove “gender bias” from all documents. I fully expect to eventually be corrected on the proper pronouns to use when talking about certain members.

Make work for leftists since they’re incompetent at so many other, meaningful tasks.
Or more of the usual manipulative mindset:
Create problems, offer yourself as the solution.

“In the past decades French and German media have become very Americanized, far more in sync with the globalist monoagenda.”
No doubt. But there’s still a certain… shall we say bigotry (yes, let’s, if only because it’ll annoy them) about the automatic assumption that America’s internal problems matter and, more to the point, are even translatable to the rest of the world.

You missed a trick. This was in the replies to one of those tweets:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1395802982768422912

“This queerphobic bulls**t in 2021 is unacceptable. I’m speechless.'”
There are so many completely false claims of oppression of Muslims, yet here is a genuine one where a person (not going to argue with that person’s own narcissistic “gender fluidity” here) demands a Muslim does not follow her sincerely held beliefs for no sound reason and is not being condemned because that person pretends to be special.
Surely there are other salons? Probably even speciality ones. Yet you have to bully a devout beautician and her employer.

While searching the archives for something else, I ran across this post about radical feminist “performance art”.
Commenter Mike asked, “Do they actually think the bollocks they say relates to anything they’re doing?”
Was it a macro-aggression to describe radical feminist antics as “bollocks”? I wouldn’t want to be contacted by the British police for my comments here. 😉

I think you just described 95% of the past 10 years.
Remember the appearance in the 1990’s of the term astroturf to describe fake grass roots activism?

Breaking: KGB assists Belarus air force to hijack airliner carrying dissident journalist. According to some reports, KGB operatives on board the plane started a fight with the crew, claiming they had an IED.

You both missed a trick…
Now this a a trick…

It was only a matter of time…
“A critical race studies and ethnic studies professor”
In other words, a professional liar.

Black supremacy, or more moderately, superiority, does not require a black person to perpetuate it. Many, many white women whom I know and (previously) had some degree of respect for are proof of that. Not to mention a few white men whom I have known under similar situations. And a few of the latter being the (supposedly) alpha-male type. At least as they were/ are perceived by the greater so. By myself, not so much.

That or just a loon
Or someone who has been convinced that The Cause is just and urgent and who is also unable to extrapolate or project as to the implications and inevitable abuses that would result from “fixing the problem”.
(From https://lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/the-noble-lie-on-masks-probably-wasnt – “…it also illustrates a key weakness of groupthink among expert views- once something becomes the “institutional opinion” it automatically gets endorsement from every other major institution similar to the way an AAA rating was rebroadcast through the financial system in 2008. You think you’re getting a diversity of viewpoints which are coalescing around the truth, but in reality many institutions are just repeater stations who accept the incoming opinion unquestioningly and then derive all their other positions from there.”)