Friday Ephemera

When I say “degenerates” I mean both the thugs who commit these brutal crimes and the politicians who protect them.

Why do I get the imoression that Friar Tuck’s (who has zero boobage) kvetching about a freeking bra is just LARPing based on something a woman overheard said ?

In middle-class leftist bedlamite news, “A period of deep shame for being white.”
Actual indoctrination.

Parenting in action Vs. Progressive motherhood
That’s some compare and contrast.

That’s some compare and contrast.
It occurs to me that someone should make a film, or at least a comic book, about a dad who punches lions.
Oh come on.

Complications
A meme is born.

glasses are racist…unhappy educator…deep shame…problematic white person…microaggression…Self-absorbed hippie…collective pronouns
Remember when My name is Boxxy was about as goofy as the internet got? Innocent times, sigh.

Niche browser extension
I want a Google Maps overlay which displays crime levels. I seem to recall that someone did that once, and was immediately condemned as a racist.

For reasons unknown, they always look so smug.
Note that her profile says she is a “writer” and “educator” with degrees in journalism and education. She has opinions about everything without knowing anything. But then, that’s what ed schools and journalism schools are for.

glasses are racist
I suppose it is just easier to bitch about your trendy oversize internet bought glasses than get off your tuchas and go to an optical shop to find glasses that fit.

Oy! Stop trashing my bush. Or I will ruin a TV series for you a second time.

Something nice, for a change.

It’s quiet today, comment-wise
Maybe everyone’s watching Season 7 of Bosch.

Something nice, for a change.
Lots more here

Talk about the tuck.
Oh, please, make it stop. I must wake up. My feet are trapped in mud. I promise to be good.

Glasses Girl’s TikTok may be her PhD dissertation. She expects an immediate job offer of a tenured post at an Ivy League university as a full professor of oppression studies.
Thesis: Origin in Europe = Racist.
Deep.

Bush whumping
Band name.

And it looks like Jess is cleaning that woman’s home?
I did briefly wonder if it might be some butch lesbian dominance thing. But then I remembered how easily aroused some of the rabble here are, so I said nothing.

glasses are racist
Not to mention that you can re-orient the nose pads so their flat parts are actually resting on your face.

Telling an East Asian to re-orient is racist.
Please forgive him. It was an occident.

he goes to a bar to Taiwan on
You found the chink in his armour.

When will David throw down the yellow penalty flag?

WTF is this boxxy thing all about?
(and get off my lawn you kids).

WTF is this boxxy thing all about?
For a while, back in the day, Boxxy became a meme. You could find videos collecting clips of funny and silly things on the internet, some of which began with a five-second clip of her announcing “My name is Boxxy!” followed by, say, a chubby teen pretending to be a Jedi light saber expert.

ShoeOnHead
However, she soon realized that she was not good at directing and dropped out. She abandoned her channel and deleted her old vlogs and got a job at the cosmetics section of Macy’s.
Smart career move

glasses are racist
Is she under the impression that the bridge of the glasses is supposed to rest on the bridge of her nose? I mean … that’s going to put the lenses really close to your eyes. Close enough that your eyelashes will probably touch them and get them oily. Now, I do have a nose-bridge, and yet the nose-pads leave marks on my nose just like the marks on her nose. I notice that her glasses keep sliding down — that’s because the ear-pieces aren’t adjusted correctly.
And since her complaint is that glasses are racist because they were invented in Europe, maybe she shouldn’t support racism by wearing them. Of course, she’s a high myope, so that may not work so well for her, but isn’t fighting racism worth some inconvenience?

Smart career move
I kinda liked Shoe0nHead. Wondered what happened to her. Ace use to link to her a bit.

In case anyone missed it, lingerie inspired by George Floyd, because before now women’s underthings only came in white.

Heh.
Quip aside, though, this is not a healthy way to be. When you’re defining your own fashionable pretensions and racial neuroticism, and assumptions of collective racial guilt, i.e., guilt for things that predate your own existence, as “becoming an authentic person,” then something is awry. Screws are rattling loose.

Coming to terms with your place in the world… becoming aware of reality… the guilt is there, waiting to be felt, and you’re either conscious of it and real about it or you’re not … Becoming an authentic person. Feelings are meant to be felt.

The normal messaging to white people is that nothing is real that’s bigger than the individual. You might feel, or think you feel, that nations are real, that where people come from makes a difference, that your birth makes you part of something bigger than yourself, that you’ve inherited something different than foreigners have inherited. But what you’re feeling is at best a sentimental illusion. And at worst your feelings make you complicit in a conspiracy against non-whites who have just as much right – as individuals – to what you maliglantly consider to belong to “your people”.
And haven’t you heard about the discovery that an African sailor was living in Gothenburg in 1600, and how this debunks the notion of Swedish national purity and historical continuity, indeed the very notion that you could recognize a Swede as a Swede without even seeing his passport or his football shirt.
So coming from that direction, it’s interesting to hear language that makes so much of the reality of feelings associated with your ancestry, that those feelings represent something real and outside your mind that you can’t make go away or disassociate from yourself by an individual act of self-definition.

So coming from that direction, it’s interesting to hear language that makes so much of the reality of feelings associated with your ancestry
It is interesting and instructive to examine the fraudulent “Out of Africa” claims that the Greeks stole their philosophy and science from Egypt (and that those Egyptians were black). The claims are used to boost the self esteem of black Americans, but if Greeks object to these lies, they are condemned for “clinging” to a “false pride” in ancestors–that is, a pride in things that they themselves did not accomplish. Black Americans who cannot get passing grades in introductory math and science classes are entitled to take pride in false claims of super-accomplished ancient ancestors, but Greeks who get college degrees must not be proud of what their ancestors did indeed accomplish.

middle aged white woman whom I don’t recognize, I cringe.
As an aside, I’m beginning to think there might be some odd connection between women of pallor being perhaps the most kowtowed to group in all of human history and their seeming “Karening” trends.
However, that would require more thought, and I’m going fishing, so there.

I have a theory that white men have become such pushovers, defaulting to letting women have their way in all but the most extreme circumstances (and for many, even then) that white women think that they can change the world simply by whining. And it looks more and more like they may be right. Though not always, or even often, in the way they intended.

white men have become such pushovers
Jess is replaying the role of the traditional housewife who restricts her observations to domestic matters, and defers to her husband in external matters like money and politics.
And the hippy chick who strives to use collective pronouns isn’t safe out in the world, because if you can’t tell the difference between yourself and others, and between friends and strangers, then you’re going to get taken advantage of. But sweet, empathetic, optimistic young women like this can be good at looking after children.
These possibilities for living out feminine tendencies are now socially taboo and assumed in all cases to be domestic abuse and a waste of what could have been a good cubicle career.
Instead we have women like Jess submitting to the racial other, and hippy chicks with maternal instincts treating the whole world as their kindergarten.

What could possibly go wrong ?
Will they be shocked if people start vandalizing those cameras?

Job offer of note.

Job offer of note.
*checks diary*

“Alfi, an AI platform that seeks to deliver ‘the right content to the right person at the right time in a respectful and ethical manner,’”
Sure. Nothing says “respectful and ethical” like spy cameras, right?

Hair and shaving products for starters please.

Mr. Mrs. Potatohead and Discount Freddy Mercury are not leading images to inspire my sympathy.
Ah, fuck it. I wasn’t going to have any sympathy anyway.

Sure. Nothing says “respectful and ethical” like spy cameras, right?
As some liberal journalists and intellectuals have told us, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear. (Speaking of such morally corrupt swine, David Brin said such things many years ago–ahead of the curve, I suppose. Has he ever walked back his embrace of the idea of a society without privacy?)

Heh.

But then I also think that when it comes to those same people, they have already had half a foot in that camp for some time
Well if we include the NeverTrump crowd in that assessment as well, I might agree. Many on the conservative side cannot refer to Trump without denigrating the man in some manner to show that while they tolerate those who voted for him, or even went so far as to vote for him themselves, they are not to be confused with the far right homophobe and racist extremists. Yet how often does one see those on the left distancing themselves from a president who never was all that bright and is now slipping into early stages of dementia, has a son who is a whore chasing crackhead, and a VP who is pretty much a whore herself? And a cackling one to boot. But no need for those people on the left to say any such things because they have nothing to fear. Neither economically nor socially.
they’re not infrequently people who see shift(ing) from more liberal to more conservative values as a sign of ageing, of ‘turning into your mother/father’…is a way of keeping youthful.
Assuming you meant ‘shifting‘ as it fits in with the latter part of the sentence…As if there would be something wrong with that? Granted, one should have a significantly greater degree of perspective on issues such as race, sex, etc. than one’s parents given a generation of history and experience one has gained over their elders. But again, fear of being ostracized for thinking.
Now the situation is more like watching a fanatic throwing another book on the raging bonfire and when you ask them to stop burning books they say “What books? I’m not burning any books” as they toss yet another Solzhenitsyn into the flames, adding slyly “Only a fascist would call this garbage a book. You’re not a fascist are you? Hmmm?”
And if you were to try to grab an armful of unburned books and make a dash for it, they would report you for a hate crime. No amount of “But it really is book!” is going to help you when Twitter and Youtube close down your accounts or when the police invite you for an informal chat down at the station.
Look, I don’t hold out much hope for turning this situation around neither. I don’t know how to communicate these points without coming across as judgmental (ooh…I could definitely get ostracized for that). I respect that everyone has to look at their own situation and think about what they CAN do. But this latter bit here is loser think. Finding excuses why one cannot do them.
The bigger issue that concerns me is that far too many conservatives…”conservatives” place far too much faith in ivory tower “the truth will set us free” thinking and not enough in understanding that in the real world, over much of human history, the “truth” was essentially what everyone else believed it to be. The understanding of “what everyone else” thinks is 79.9956% a function of how often that truth, or “truth”, is repeatedly heard. That is, until the Gods of the Copybook Headings awaken, look around, and unleash The Raging Times.

Mentalist detected.
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1409167174040571904

I respect that everyone has to look at their own situation and think about what they CAN do. But this latter bit here is loser think. Finding excuses why one cannot do them.
As a loner, hermit, misanthrope, social misfit, whatever you want to call people like me, the fear of ostracism isn’t the main driver of my fear of speaking out. As long as I have a few good friends, I’m ok. What concerns me more is my job, which allows me to eat, sleep in a bed, have a roof that keeps off the rain, electricity, and yes, the internet. I lost a job – the old “resign or be fired” option – for being Different. I try to keep most of my opinions to myself, but apparently I let slip some that put me on a list, and just before my probationary period was up, I got called into the office of one of the higher-ups (the layers of bureaucratic hierarchy at this place was astounding, and all the Titled, from the top down, were women. Every last one of them. Lovely people, too. All smiles to your face. All of the Left, of course, as these types tend to be). I had enough savings to pay the rent and got lucky finding another job, back in research where I like to be, and somewhat separated from the academic bureaucracy. But it’s a temp job.
So am I one of the cowardly baddies who won’t speak out for fear of losing a job? I don’t have a hubby’s income or a pension to fall back on, and no parents’ basement to move into. And no inheritance coming when my mom dies. I’m on my own. I’ve lost one job, not for doing it poorly, but for opinions I hold. I’d rather not go through that again. I don’t know how to make a difference for good – I personally don’t think I can. Heck, my vote doesn’t matter anymore. Some days it’s this rickety barge and the intelligent humor, fisking, and comments from our host and his commenters that keeps me afloat these days. I don’t read any of my old blogs and aggregator sites (not even Insty, sadly) anymore. It’s too damned depressing.

My mom has the coolest fridge.

Umair tweets about the scary, scary mockery of his silly opinionating:
“I see the american gun nuts and batshit conservatives are on my case today with the requisite threats and vitriol and rage and hate….”

devilbunny: Yes, a lot more fun. The possibilities are endless. A hobbit jumps out and asks about second breakfast. A dwarf jumps out and demands that you to to the liquor store right now and buy multiple barrels of beer.

Has he ever walked back his embrace of the idea of a society without privacy?
The Sci-Fi author David Drake wrote a series of stories Lacey and his friends, but the link points to different collection on his website. I do believe he’s anti-Trump (given some comments that I’ve read), so perhaps his head is firmly jammed up his ass in his old age. OTOH, he’s pretty knowledgeable about the ancient Roman/Greek world, so he may see patterns that I don’t.
I’ll admit that reading the early Hammer’s Slammers novels as well as my interest in military history lead me to become a US Army officer and then an Armor officer.
Mr. Drake did go where he could be shot at because he hated the rear-echelon chickenshit. His early stories are certainly worth a read or two; one of them has this text:

Life’s a forge, boy, and the purest metal comes from the hottest fire. When you’ve been under the hammer a few times, you’ll find that you’ve beaten down to the real, no lies, no excuses. There’ll be a time, then, when you got to look over the product…and if you don’t like what you see, well, maybe there’s time for change, too.

That particular story is named Under The Hammer and I sure as bleep remembered those lines during the “stuff” I experienced at West Point and in the active Army.
YMMV and probably should.

What he says would be true, if by “minorities” he meant “crazy people”.
Projection. You should pay attention to the events in South Africa and other places there.
The meme really is “We fully expect you to do to us what we would do in your position.”
When I was young person, there was the idea that we can look under the skin and see who is there. Them there ideas be gone now.