Danger, Will Robinson

Ms Koe’s contact page has an interesting image.

I wonder if she was abused, growing up.
Oh wait, no I don’t.

#ThingsThatNeverHappened

“talking about consent”
Did the parents consent?

I wonder if polyamorous “families” are like Indian tribes with casinos – run afoul of tribal leaders and notwithstanding your lineage as, say, full-blooded Morongo, you can be cast out and no more casino profit checks for you.
I couldn’t help but think that someone like Koe is the type to be booted from the group because she IS an expert and I could imagine someone like her letting her other partners know, they’re simply doing it wrong and AS THE EXPERT and a “second-generation queerspawn” – as if that gives her some hereditary title of honor – she knows best.

According to a 2018 Forbes article:

Since 2001, 2.77 million service members have served on 5.4 million deployments across the world with soldiers from the Army accounting for the bulk of them. Deployed personnel were under 30 years old on average, over half were married and about half had children [ … ] a substantial number of those serving across all services have gone on several deployments. Around 225,000 soldiers who served with the Army deployed at least three times or more.
Some Americans, particularly those in the special forces community, have deployed even more frequently. Delta Force Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler [who] was the first U.S. soldier to die in combat against ISIS [ … ] was a veteran of 14 combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

While one section of society has quite literally risked, and sometimes lost, life and limb in what has been understood as an existential struggle, yet another section of the very same society has done everything it possibly can to demean, alienate and ostracise the “cissexual” (mostly) white (mostly) males in the former section.
Surely Miss Creation, who astonishingly turns out to be 30, must know someone who’s served or at the very least has a relative who has?
I get vertigo just thinking of the chasm that’s opened up over the same two decades.

Looks like polyamory isn’t great for kids.
Are you sure? My Mensa friends assure me that it’s just fine. Just as psychologically and sociologically healthy as monogamy. /sarcasm

In other news, academic sacked for racism sues with claim racismCRT is a legally protected belief.

Surely Miss Creation, who astonishingly turns out to be 30, must know someone who’s served or at the very least has a relative who has?
I have seen an article that stated only 30% or so of those <30 knew someone or had an immediate family member who was or had been in the military.
Self-selection at work: I have far-left relatives who hold the most amazing, hostile opinions about those who serve in the military. Most people quickly learn to avoid those who hate them, so it’s a good bet that veterans and patriots quickly choose to avoid these fools, and so they continue to lack exposure corrective facts and opinions.

Given Ms Creation’s background and social media footprint, readers may wish to imagine the pre-school teacher job interview: “Bondage and sadomasochism, you say? Excellent. Just what we’re looking for. The parents will be thrilled…”

…so it’s a good bet that veterans and patriots quickly choose to avoid these fools, and so they continue to lack exposure corrective facts and opinions.
In my travels of late I have of necessity been where I had to work with or along side many of this ilk and the general COA is to fly under the radar until someone says something so head bangingly ignorant that something has to be said. 1-2 SD to the left, they might listen, but the real problem comes from those so hard over they won’t even listen to facts and alternate opinion, or better still, tell you your facts are wrong*.
I rather suspect our “teacher” is of the latter group.
*(My favorite trivial example is a nitwit at a party of academics proclaiming Hueys had two engines, a piston engine to turn the rotor blades, and the jet engine to push it forward.)

until someone says something so head bangingly ignorant that something has to be said. 1-2 SD to the left, they might listen, but the real problem comes from those so hard over they won’t even listen to facts and alternate opinion, or better still, tell you your facts are wrong*.
Sister-in-law, the former nurse, posted some Atlantic article about Texas and Gov. Abbot ranting about ignorance. Now this was the same SIL with whom I had my first argument about 3 years ago regarding the obvious (to me anyway) falsehoods and historical fictions in the “Hidden Figures” movie. I gave her ample opportunity and provided clear evidence about how bad it was. She stubbornly stuck to refusal to acknowledge a single point while condescending to me about how the facts are unimportant. So rather than debate the subjectivity of the Texas/Abbot article, I asked her simply if Trump ever told people to drink bleach. She went away for a while but about a day later came back with the “he said to inject disinfectants, don’t mess with me (former endearing name she used to call me)”. I pointed out that the “disinfectant” was light, that this was quite clear if you watched the video, and to believe otherwise either reflected poorly on you reasoning skills or an indication that you were brainwashed by the media. I saw where she replied to me, apparently sometime between midnight and 5AM. I didn’t get around to reading it until later when I discovered that not only was her post gone, but she had deleted her entire FB account. Because dealing with objective fact is truly too traumatizing.

Because dealing with objective fact is truly too traumatizing.
The common refrain I (and I think most of us) hear is “We’ll have to agree to disagree.” Or in my mother’s case, “I don’t want to argue about this any more.” It’s the supposedly “adult” way of taking your ball and storming off for home because you’re not winning.
Ideally, whatever it was you were arguing over seeps into the consciousness of your counterpart and they slowly start to internalize whatever your argument was. In my mother’s case, this often results in me having the same argument six months later, except that she’s taking my initial position and I have to delicately admit that she’s right and I don’t know what I was thinking when I first argued with her. In the fraught political age in which we live, it’s more often the case that I’m just branded a doubleplus ungoodthinker and coolly excluded from future gatherings.
Which I’m honestly okay with, since I’ve found that life is too short to waste on such pursuits. There’s a very good reason that my retirement plan involves a sailboat with a maximum of 2 or 3 people aboard.

a sailboat with a maximum of 2 or 3 people aboard.
‘Cos of all the room that leaves for knives, right?

Libs of Tik Tok is basically a blog content generator, huh?
There’s pr0nstars that get off on knowing they’re being…watched. I wonder if these types get off on the attention they know they’re getting.

Conservative: “Whatever people get up to in the privacy of their own homes…”
Purple-Haired-Side-Shave: “…should be required to be taught in schools!”
Conservative: “Well, um, no, that’s not…”
Man Wearing Penis Costume: “Too late, it’s law now! Stay in your home and give us your children.”
Conservative: “You know, this positions us well for 2022. Dem’s gonna get shellacked!” [ smiles to self as daughter books double mastectomy on WhatsApp ]

I wonder if these types get off on the attention they know they’re getting.
I think we can assume some strain of narcissism is involved.

Oh, well, I suppose landing on a pad during instead of the roof is hugely different in a panicked bug out, but how does Snopes “know” that while the embassy types were forming their calm and orderly queue (cough) that the Shithook wasn’t really doing an OGE hover waiting for them to get their act together ?
Fact Check: Snopes, mostly guessing and covering for the left since 1994.

The pandemic isn’t COVID, it’s the derangement subsuming every institution.

“Snopes”
“The sky is blue”
PAAAARP! Mostly false.
What’s true:
A clear sky during daytime is mainly blue.
What’s false:
Clouds often make the sky grey, or partly white. At night, the sky, especially in urban areas, can be completely black. In the evening, skies can be red, orange, or even, occasionally, green.
Snopes is a f#@*!n’ joke. But the British broadcasting regulator Ofcom is pleased to cite it as an authoritative source. They might as well link to Viz Comic’s “Top Tips”.

It seems lately that most of the people that I do care about now are people whom in my younger years were frienemies at best.
I have of late come to the conclusion that one’s friends are not those who share one’s interests, but one’s values.
Koe yearned for a realization of theirself beyond the “shadow of their tribe.” This drive for a singular identity led Koe to leave the alt-Seattle scene to find the self that no one person or family could make for them
TL;DR: having discovered that being deliberately shocking and tediously rebellious in typical adolescent fashion does not garner much attention when everyone else around her was doing the same thing, Ms. “Creation” (not her real name) moved somewhere where it was easier to get the reaction she desires from normal people.
Although if I’m honest San Francisco seems like a lateral move.
Looks like polyamory isn’t great for kids.
I had to sever ties to a college friend of mine because he’s deeply involved in the kink/poly/BDSM community, believes that children as young as 13 can be capable of fully informed adult consent because he was at age 13[1] and is raising his twin daughters accordingly. He lives in the Castro.
[1] Narrator: He wasn’t

I have of late come to the conclusion that one’s friends are not those who share one’s interests, but one’s values.
True. But that’s the thing. I am now much closer friends with people with whom I had significant values differences 40 years ago.
In my case, I was somewhat liberal in my youth and then slowly “got it”–after which it became very difficult to remain on good terms with all those liberal friends and relatives who saw conservatives as being evil and stupid.

TomJ’s link at August 17, 2021 at 12:07 “In June, finding that gender-critical views were a protected belief, the employment appeals tribunal said only views akin to nazism or totalitarianism were unworthy of protections for rights of freedom of expression and thought under the Equality Act.”
So, Nazism which is a Socialist society which discriminates on the basis of race, i.e. skin colour, is banned as a belief.
Yet Critical Race Theory demands the adoption of a Socialist society which discriminates on the basis of race, i.e. skin colour, and is to be celebrated and supported instead of being banned.
Thanks Grauniad, and the Employment Appeals Tribunal. It does seem that all beliefs (animals) are equal, but some are indeed more equal than others. If belief in totalitarianism is also not protected, then every communist’s beliefs shoud be not protected; although a communist will tell you that there were problems with every implementation of communism so far then communism is not totalitarianism in and of itself. They would be wrong there too.

Oh dearie me. Ms Creation, also known as Valkyrie Jacobson-Smith, is now upset that “the trolls” have found her public announcements and have not been sufficiently impressed by them. Insufficient enthusiasm – and any kind of demurral – apparently warrants the designation troll.
Presumably, the wider public – those outside of “polyamorous and kink communities” – should be thrilled to discover that pre-school children are being taught by a self-styled “expert” in bondage and sadomasochism, and being quizzed on their genitals, and being used as a basis for “intergenerational dialogue around relational identities (such as polyamory, sexuality… and kink).”
Because, hey, there’s nothing creepy or concerning about that at all.
Yes, dear reader, it’s terribly unfair when people fail to affirm your radicalism and subversiveness, with children aged three and four – a subversiveness of which you’re so proud – based on “moments when that rhetoric happened to come up in the classroom.”

It just happened, you see.

is now upset that “the trolls” have found her public announcements

She does seem genuinely upset in that tiktok video though which itself is pretty odd. As if the very idea that her act may not be universally venerated is a shock to her.