A Sudden, Quite Rapid, Relocation Of Stock
One for our ongoing series on the progressive retail experience. I believe this is part 445:
A young woman asks in a brazen voice as the destruction and theft rages behind her, “Are y’all gonna make the sandwiches or are ya’ll just gonna keep recording?” The Wawa employee responded, “Uh, it’s going to be a while.”
“No arrests were made.”
Update, via the comments:
The celebratory twerking seen in the background is, you’ll agree, a charming touch. Presumably done on grounds that trashing someone’s business and stealing their property, while exulting in mob intimidation and giving two fingers to the idea of civilisation, is all so jolly. Perhaps we can look forward to another Vice article telling us how looting is a good thing when black people do it.
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – are famed for making weirdly contrived excuses for pathological selfishness. Say, the kind of pathological selfishness seen above and throughout the progressive retail series. Indeed, excuses for sociopathic behaviour are a staple of progressive posturing, appearing all but weekly, and with increasing moral convolution and outright perversity.
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Animals.
“Are y’all gonna make the sandwiches or are ya’ll just gonna keep recording?”
The new normal. Part and parcel…
The new normal. Part and parcel…
Well, I suppose you could think of the rather blasé sandwich-demanding lady and the delinquent morons behind her as two faces of the same dysfunction.
I wonder how many of them know who their father is.
I wonder how many of them know who their father is.
Perhaps Lloyd George knows…
Yes, I am a bit old and I wonder how many know who Lloyd George was.
The new normal. Part and parcel…
Seems like that. The next new normal will be shuttered-up convenience stores.
But until then, looting is social justice, right?
Perhaps we can look forward to another Vice article on how looting is a good thing when black people do it.
Speaking of violent mobs of sub-humans, Jordan Peterson is giving talks in Europe and Antifa is organizing “direct actions” to silence him.
I’ve been reading reports of communist riots in Europe for many decades, so this isn’t surprising. Am waiting to see how many rioters show up and what tactics they use. Will it be only fists and clubs, or will they throw firebombs as they have in the past?
I wonder how many of them know who their father is.
I wonder how many of them know what a father is.
Think of them as animals that must be either put down or permanently removed from civilization.
A “diverse youth” assaulted a 68-year-old shopkeeper so violently that he is no longer able to walk. Like I said, animals. Put them down or otherwise deal with them in a permanent manner.
Nice work if you can get it, won’t someone think of the left wing meme makers?
Fan-baiting and cultural vandalism
Animals.
The celebratory twerking was a charming touch. Presumably done on grounds that destroying someone’s business, stealing their property, and giving two fingers to the idea of civilisation, is all so jolly. If all of the participants were compressed into paste, the loss to human flourishing would, I think, be bearable.
The celebratory twerking was a charming touch. Presumably done on grounds that destroying someone’s business, stealing their property, and giving two fingers to the idea of civilisation, is all so jolly.
Perhaps the persistence of the demographic IQ gap leads them to see civilization as “something by and for others”.
Reminds me, just a little, of the tourist videos of monkeys vandalizing automobiles for the fun of it. Am I a bad person?
The fat female might easily be the mother of some of the rioters. I doubt she would turn a hair if they were her kids as long as she got her sandwich.
P.s. in my own Sussex town I recently came across a young feral (around 5-6 years old) violently kicking at the shop fittings. My “stop that” generated a disturbingly threatening reply from his mother who saw nothing wrong with the behaviour and had made no effort to stop it.
We’re not that far behind.
The next new normal will be shuttered-up convenience stores.
But until then, looting is social justice, right?
The thing is I recall shuttered shops in and around Moss Side in Manchester. Closed because of shop lifting vandalism and so on. The response of the progressives was that poor people were being discriminated against: (1) they were denied the services enjoyed by residents of other areas (2) the remaining shops charged higher prices which is discriminatory (3) shops were left empty because of discrimination of potential shop leasees, leasers or both and so on.
If we do not hold people responsible for their individual actions but instead treat them as a group unable to escape the influence of their peers, malign 3rd parties or environment then we just cycle between different excuses to blame someone else.
My “stop that” generated a disturbingly threatening reply from his mother who saw nothing wrong with the behaviour and had made no effort to stop it.
I’m sure there are ways to excuse that behavior as a result of “white supremacy” and “the legacy of slavery”.
If we do not hold people responsible for their individual actions but instead treat them as a group unable to escape the influence of their peers, malign 3rd parties or environment then we just cycle between different excuses to blame someone else.
At this point, those feral people are just a symptom of the problem. The progressives are secondary. The root of the problem is the conservatives…”conservatives” who do not speak up against those progressives and confront them regarding these absurdities. It’s not like we live in a society that doesn’t understand these things. We live in a society that refuses to acknowledge where the true problems lie.
Clearly based on Larry Niven’s essay “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”.
I’ll just get my coat now.
Hard not to think of the retreat of the Western Roman Empire.
I’ll just get my coat now.
Here, take this:
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[ Searches Amazon for asbestos clothing. ]
How these things are handled in (certain parts of) Florida. You’re not in Chicago anymore, Sunshine.
Practised liar defends lying.
And in dating scenarios, it’s a pretty good way to get beaten up. (See the last two paragraphs here.)
As I said in the thread linked above, it seems to me that deceiving would-be sex partners as to one’s own sex – a deception endorsed by the dysmorphic woman in the TikTok video, and by Mr Riley Dennis and many other trans activists – ventures awfully close to sexual assault territory. The other party, the unwitting party, is being put in a position, as it were, that they would most likely not have chosen had they known the facts.
Seems about right. 🙁
“Put them down or otherwise deal with them in a permanent manner”
Punishment ceases as civilization ebbs. OTOH, I hope the 18th century trade was worth it…
The first and most important duty of government is protection of citizens from criminals.
When government abandons that duty…
When government abandons that duty, Part 2.
What incredible journalism. I know that subject was keeping me up at night.
I grew up in that neighborhood walking distance from that store. It was a solid blue collar/ middle class Catholic white area for generations where young Philadelphia couples bought their first house and raised kids. We played sports on the street under the watchful eye of neighborhood moms. Mom and pop stores on every corner. The worst ruckus was the heavy metal kids might play their music a little loud in the arcade parking lot.
In recent years, the neighborhood has become more “diverse.” I’ll defer to the video and let it speak for itself.
If we do not hold people responsible for their individual actions… then we just cycle between different excuses to blame someone else.
And so, we get self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – making endless, weirdly convoluted excuses for pathological selfishness. Say, the kind of pathological selfishness that manifests as trashing someone’s business and stealing their property, and vandalising nearby cars, and generally exulting in mob intimidation, purely for amusement. Because, hey, they can.
And these excuses are a staple of progressive posturing, appearing all but weekly, and with increasing moral convolution and outright perversity.
With the GBP being what is, can we expect call centers, previously in the subcontinent, Philippines etc being relocated to the English Midlands? Newcastle Upon Tyne?
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – are famed for making weirdly contrived excuses for pathological selfishness.
That.
That.
Well, it is a little odd just how often, and how zealously, these professed champions of compassion show utter disregard for the victims of sociopathy and predation.
Why, it’s almost as if there were something fundamentally wrong with them.
And the woman wanting her sandwich – it is telling that she sees nothing in the circumstances such that she should be afraid for her own safety. Perhaps she planned to grab some chips – literally – on her way out.
I grew up in that neighborhood walking distance from that store. It was a solid blue collar/ middle class Catholic white area for generations where young Philadelphia couples bought their first house and raised kids.
A common retirement planning strategy was Social Security plus the value of the home. (If the employer had a pension plan too, so much the better.) When an invasion of feral creatures destroys the value of that home, retirement becomes much more precarious: If you stay, your physical safety is precarious. If you move, your financial situation is precarious. I knew various people who found themselves in that situation. Many once-fine neighborhoods that I will never visit again. But the left says that only a very bad person would notice the pattern.
Well, it is a little odd just how often, and how zealously, these professed champions of compassion show utter disregard for the victims of sociopathy and predation.
Good citizens should show utter disregard for those leftists. Treat them as existential enemies. No respect, no courtesy, no tolerance.
Britain has performed miracles of inefficiency, resulting in a substantial population of expensively educated semi-literates, whose labor would be too expensive even if it were free.
Theodore Dalrymple lays down some truths.
Though someone unable to spell “labour” may be on shaky ground criticising the erudition of others.
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism – are famed for making weirdly contrived excuses for pathological selfishness.
Frequently famed, rarely if ever shamed. Therein lies the problem. I am currently engaged in yet another round of pointing out to a leftist friend of a leftist cousin-in-law that Trump did not tell people to drink bleach. This is a clear, objective fact and stunning absurdity that two years on now should have been driven home to these deluded nutcases that it always was, not just misinformation, nor just a “hoax”, but a very clear mass psychosis. As usual, I predict that I am the one who will be mocked, shamed, etc. by these clowns without so much as a single supporting (pubic) comment from the couple of conservatives…”conservatives” whom I know will read it, but I will do it anyway. Someone has to.
After all, self-styled progressives – the people who loudly announce their supposed compassion and altruism…
Speaking of The American Academy of Pediatrics, for the equity, don’t you know.
So tell me Muldoon, do the doctors speak up against any of the pediatrics nonsense? The lice thing is curable but are other doctors speaking up against these puberty blockers and/or the trans surgeries on young people? Do they dare to suggest that the trans problem just might possibly, especially in the tween set, be a form of hysteria? Or are y’all prohibited from using the term’hysteria’?
Theodore Dalrymple
From the comments:-
“Finally, he can tackle the rampant fraud in the UK welfare system by banning anyone committing welfare fraud from claiming further benefits, and by starting a program to target cities like Liverpool where astonishing proportions of the working population claim to be disabled (25%!!!!).”
More nonsense…
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/facebook-holocaust-film-race-policy-1234592908/
So tell me Muldoon, do the doctors speak up against any of the pediatrics nonsense?
Yes, but like most things similar, individual voices are drowned out by the usual suspects as well as the “Academies” and “Associations” which often are left leaning, e.g., the “advocacy” of the AAP much of which which has actual bugger all to do with actual childhood health/disease.
Only about 13% of all US physicians belong to the AMA (also trending moonbat) and the average Joe Doc working 10-12 hours a day (not counting call) doesn’t have the time (and often energy) to deal with extraneous nonsense particularly when you have things like state boards threatening licenses* for speaking out against coof dogma, or watching the authors and signatories of “The Great Barrington Declaration” get demonized by the organized left.
*(or like Simone Gold, jailed)
“whose labor would be too expensive even if free” ahhaahahah so true. These twits are a negative value in any company. I saw where some interns in a US company wanted to organize a protest or something and were immediately fired. They didn’t even understand that an employer has a business to run. More actions like that are needed. The internal treatment of James Damore at google was way off base.
Civilization is hard earned. Even progs will miss it when it is gone.
When the children ask…this is precisely the strategically genius reason that the UK and France had to invade Poland in 1939.
individual voices are drowned out
Yeah. Individuals. Doctors, with all their wealth and power (potential) are simply not smart enough to figure out how to make their voices heard…from the 13th green on Wednesdays. Yeah, I get that it’s a stereotype. But it is also true for a lot of them. And the ones who actually do work 60+ hour weeks, after personally butting heads with a couple of doctors now over their significant group-think, it might behoove them to get out of the office more. Too much work makes smart people…smaaaaart people…stupid.
Yeah, I get that it’s a stereotype.
If by “stereotype” you mean “myth”, OK, but having done this for 40+ years I have known precisely zero Wednesday (or any other weekday) golfers (boaters or other hobbyists) .
…after personally butting heads with a couple of doctors now over their significant group-think, [and everyone clapped] it might behoove them to get out of the office more.
Where upon you will no doubt bitch because you can’t get an appointment or procedure in what you perceive to be be a timely fashion.
Do let me know, however, what your community of whatever are doing about the trans business, seeing as how you are apparently both concerned and smart (but not smaaaart).
“whose labor would be too expensive even if free” ahhaahahah so true. These twits are a negative value in any company.
We had an employee who wasted everyone’s time in various ways, in addition to doing zero useful work. Every line of code that he wrote was either removed or replaced within a year of his termination.
Though someone unable to spell “labour” may be on shaky ground criticising the erudition of others.
I credit the editors at City Journal for correcting Dalrymple’s prose to the correct Murrican spelling.