Make Way For The Activist-Wanker Caste
As the activist delight in vandalism and traffic obstruction has cropped up in the comments, along with their bizarre rationalisations, I thought it might be worth revisiting some earlier rumblings on the subject.
It’s interesting just how often “social justice” posturing entails something that looks an awful lot like spite or petty malice, or an attempt to harass and dominate, or some other obnoxious behaviour. Behaviour that, without a “social justice” pretext, might get you called a wanker or a bitch. A coincidence, I’m sure.
It is, I think, worth pondering why it is that these supposed displays of righteousness routinely take the form of obnoxious or bullying or sociopathic behaviour, whereby random people are screwed over and dominated, and often reduced to pleading. Pleading just to get home, to children, or to work, or to get to the doctor’s surgery. Even ambulances and fire engines can be obstructed, indefinitely, with both impunity and moral indifference. Among our self-imagined betters, it seems to be the go-to approach for practically any purported cause. Which is terribly convenient. Almost as if the supposed activism were more of a pretext, an excuse, a license to indulge pre-existing urges.
And what kind of person would have urges like that?
Update, via the comments:
The little people will mop up afterwards:
Fearless, selfless, an inspiration to us all. No wait. The other thing.
Imagine the thought process.
“Comrades, I have an idea. It’s brilliantly radical and a jolly lark. Let’s walk into Waitrose and then needlessly steal and destroy dozens of pints of milk, by tipping the contents across the floor while telling people what to do, so that someone else – someone less radical and less well-off – will have to do hours of extra work to clear up the mess before someone slips and the whole thing starts to stink. The customers and staff will be too bewildered and too polite to give us the kicking we deserve. The most they’ll do is walk us out of the store…! How heroic we will be!”
As a way to win hearts and minds, or to sway government policy, it’s not exactly promising. Indeed, the reaction of the general public tends to be overwhelmingly negative, often vehemently so, and hostility to the professed cause is, if anything, likely to increase. But as a way to indulge in some practised self-involvement, and to feel important and powerful at others’ expense, it does have potential. Expressing contempt for those deemed unsophisticated – and generally fucking people over – can be its own reward, for a certain kind of person. All that’s needed is a pseudo-moral fig-leaf.
It seems we are to be scolded by the inadequate, the confused, and the psychologically marginal. And so, the assorted cranks and monomaniacs invoke their End Times fever dreams and boast of how they “will not be stopped” by such trivia as the law, or norms of reciprocation, or common decency. Apparently, and rather conveniently, they “have every right” to vandalise whatever they choose and to screw over countless other people, recreationally and gleefully, in whatever ways they deem fit, while applauding themselves. Say, by “disrupting traffic, throwing soup, and blocking oil depots.” Verily, they have been touched by The Lord.
I suppose some people are all but destined to join apocalyptic cults. It isn’t too hard to see the appeal of the fervour and license of a new-found religion – conveniently stripped of those annoying restrictions on one’s own behaviour. Only the behaviour of others. And with Just Stop Oil, Animal Rebellion and Insulate Britain all indulging in their antisocial roleplay, the subsets of the activist-wanker caste are vying for our attention. And our deference, obviously.
Update 2:
It’s also worth noting how the activist-wanker demographic is quite defined, socially, in terms of class. We don’t see much of the lumpen proletariat, or people who are busy earning a living. But we have seen quite a few videos of upper-middle-class activists, very often upper-middle-class women, looking faintly confused, or just smug, when frustrated working-class people explain, desperately and in vain, that they’re trying to get to work, or trying to take a child to hospital.
The same, rather pointed, class divide is evident in terms of social media support and excuse-making. People who want us to know that they work for the BBC, the Guardian, and the New York Times, for instance, are much more likely to excuse the vandalising of galleries, supermarkets and petrol pumps, and to downplay the obstruction of tube trains and emergency vehicles, than people whose livings are less glamorous and perhaps more modest.
As is the custom among the activist-wanker caste, much of the behaviour we’ve seen, and will doubtless see again, amounts to a moral non-sequitur. Rather like saying, “I’m troubled by the plight of the Javan rhinoceros, so I’m going to start spitting at the elderly and keying random cars, and then boast about it on Twitter, while waiting for likes.” Hence the need to consider other, less edifying motives.
And were I feeling particularly animated about an issue, I don’t think my first thought would be to vandalise an art gallery or a supermarket, or to gratuitously immobilise thousands of random commuters, or to trap ambulances and fire engines, thereby endangering lives, all while feeling important, and powerful, and immensely self-satisfied. I don’t think that would occur to me as an obvious thing to do. I mean, the thought of people dying needlessly because the ambulance couldn’t get to them, or people consequently burning to death in a fire, would, I suspect, put a downer on any self-righteous buzz.
But hey, maybe that’s just me.
But they don’t WANT to behave like spoiled brats. We’re MAKING them do it. /sarc
But they don’t WANT to behave like spoiled brats. We’re MAKING them do it. /sarc
As noted before, it would, I think, be foolish to assume that such behaviour is indulged in only reluctantly, in desperation, or under duress. It is sought out and chosen – and, regardless of any obvious relevance, chosen rather a lot and with great enthusiasm. To quote from the item linked above:
Needless to say, the quoted piece and subsequent thread have links to other, often quite vivid, illustrations of the phenomenon.
This isn’t politics. This is recreational sociopathy.
This – and then some.
Just as sociopaths / psychopaths are renowned for using whatever means are to hand, moral or physical, to satiate their own appetites, the videos posted on Twitter and elsewhere are incredibly revealing.
Most noticeably, how gleefully they are willing to use the police and the threat of prosecution to anyone who defies while ostensibly being opposed to those very same forces of law and order (so-called).
For every three or four protestors in bright orange vests, there’s at least two camera operators carefully filming everything and making it known to anyone offering threats of violence that they will prosecute them for assault using the video as evidence.
And that’s only before the police arrive, whose protection they are seen enjoying almost whenever they appear (scenes of police carrying protestors off seem to be slow to come if they come at all).
I think it’s telling that the one time such activists got a thoroughly deserved beating from an enraged general public , the only cameras on them appeared to be from the phones of other members of the public.
That they are without exception that I have seen from blatantly privileged upper middle class backgrounds and have public school education awakens a certain kind of atavistic class hatred I think you have to be British to truly appreciate.
These people are worthless scum who may as well be literally spitting in my face while laughing at how I can do nothing about it.
I look at people impeding ambulances and fire engines.
I look at this definition.
I wonder why the Secretary of State doesn’t exercise his power under section 3(a)…
They do it because menacing other people – and spoiling someone’s day, or night, arbitrarily – is gratifying. If, that is, you’re a certain kind of person. They are, as it were, pleasuring themselves.
That.
That.
Hence the term activist-wanker caste.
Or if you prefer, The Unspanked.
But they don’t WANT to behave like spoiled brats. We’re MAKING them do it. /sarc
They are doing it, and getting away with it, because they have enough support among the media and in many parts of the administration of Government and among politicians that the response is neutered.
There is a disconnect between the significant portion, if not the majority of the population and press, the political and administrative classes. It is possibly wider than in the past and appears to be everywhere in the Western world.
From what I can see (peering eastwards across the Irish Sea), this partly explains the extraordinary ineptness and obvious unwillingness to deal firmly with these Tarquins and Poppys. It partly explains why the Government is incapable and, I suspect, unwilling to stop the criminal-controlled flotillas sailing across the channel from France. It partly explains the indulgence of the BLM protests, including the criminal damage of statues and the eagerness almost every taxpayer-funded organisation to denounce itself and destroy some of its heritage.
The reputation of the police has probably never been lower- and deservedly given their apparently skewed priorities and pursuit of people who have broken no laws.
It is hard to see how things will improve when the State has grown so large as to suffocate any counter points to its authority (through its control of the economy and authoritarian legislation) and most of those working for the State have a vested interest in the present direction of travel.
This isn’t politics. This is recreational sociopathy.
“A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
–Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals
This came to mind.
As you can see, they’re positively dripping with compassion.
As you can see, they’re positively dripping with compassion.
Which illustrates why I encourage people to have zero compassion for them.
Keep reminding folks that these climate dipshits are funded by Putin and other conflict oil producers.
Putin is the bad guy now, isn’t he?
Hang this mess around their necks.
Police in the UK focusing like a laser beam on the real criminals.
Mongo
I don’t think you can blame Putin for the conspicuous failure of the police, the courts, the media, the twittersphere and even large parts of the government to condemn let alone raise a finger to stop these worthless little pieces of excrement.
Anyway they certainly do not lacks funds as their own foreign-travel laden social media accounts testify.
pst
That not particularly jolly but quite high-ranking copper was outside the recent Conservative Party conference where he thought he heard an offensive comment (which the actual person he alleged might have been offended denied) and proceeded to make a complete fool of himself. The full story can be found on the LotusEaters website, podcast or YouTube channel.
His career prospects will not have been harmed and arguably enhanced.
It is interesting to compare this wanker behavior, almost always by young people, to other types of protest. The sit-ins at lunch counters in the US South in the 1960s were specifically to protest black lack of rights to eat in those establishments. Protesting with signs generally does not stop ambulances from getting to the hospital. Marching does not damage property. The spite and anger remind me of a toddler who wants TV and wants it NOW! And they often want impossible things: an immediate end to fossil fuels or cars, world peace. They are frustrated by life and want someone fix it immediately, and if not, they will have a tantrum.
Further to the above: consider the Antifa riots in the US. They wanted immediate end to racism (or so they claimed) but with no details of what needed to change or how. They wanted an end to capitalism, but again, with what to replace it. Free-floating anger at “the system” which reflects I think, a belief that the universe in general is unfair and imperfect.
Somewhat related, on the severely educated.
University students…..show up at an event, dump some milk, throw cans of tomato soup, etc, and, get credit for a higher grade in your SJW 203 course. That’s why these whalers are always young, and, zealous. They will be rewarded by a cheap meaningless stunt.
Fearless, selfless, an inspiration to us all. No wait. The other thing.
Imagine the thought process.
“Comrades, I have an idea. It’s brilliantly radical and a jolly lark. Let’s walk into Waitrose and then needlessly steal and destroy dozens of pints of milk, by tipping the contents across the floor, so that someone else – someone less radical and less well-off – will have to do hours of extra work to clear up the mess before someone slips and the whole thing starts to stink. The customers and staff will be too bewildered and too polite to give us the kicking we deserve. The most they’ll do is walk us out of the store…!”
As a way to win hearts and minds, or to sway government policy, it’s not exactly promising. But as a way to feel a thrill of spite, to indulge in some well-practised self-involvement, and to feel important and powerful at others’ expense, it does have potential.
If they try to block my car, I will run over them. They have no right to detain anyone for any reason.
They can take their issue up with the members of government they elect not with innocent people going about their business.
When they take it to me in the street, they will get ME IN THE STREETS and I don’t like being harassed in the street or anywhere else.
Protesting with signs generally does not stop ambulances from getting to the hospital. Marching does not damage property. The spite and anger remind me of a toddler who wants TV and wants it NOW! And they often want impossible things: an immediate end to fossil fuels or cars, world peace. They are frustrated by life and want someone fix it immediately, and if not, they will have a tantrum.
I don’t know about the experiences of other people my age, per se, but when I was younger, an expression of leftist outrage was generally encouraged or at least smiled upon by teachers and administrators and even some/many pastors/clergy. Yet an expression of similar enthusiasm for traditional values of God, family, country were either dismissed as jingoistic or were opportunities for those previously mentioned to “correct” such thinking.
Another one asking for a slap.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1581655857141403652
I was reflecting this morning on the milk-pouring. In the US, SCOTUS decision in Texas v Johnson said that burning a us flag was protected speech. It does qualify that by requiring that it be your own flag, and not on somebody else’s property. So the problem with the milk-pouring is that they did not first buy the milk, and made a mess on private property.
Then the other side of my brain said, literally, “How quaint.”
These folks, and the CHOP /CHAZ mob, and Antifa, and BLM, are not, or rarely, prosecuted, because the enforcers and reporters and their respective managements, are on their side. As is noted here every damn day.
These folks are Brownshirt NAZIs and should be called that at every opportunity.
If they block your car, remember that the guy in Charlottesville who was surrounded by a mob and panicked and drove over someone went to jail for murder.
It is interesting that they are raiding the homes here in US of those who have been picketing against abortion and arresting them (on the basis that they “blocked” entry to abortion clinics) but no arrests in dozens of fire bombings of churches and pregnancy counseling (pro-life) clinics. None. These two things are not the same. And yet we laugh that Iran has “morality police”.
Imagine the thought process
Don’t leave out the excitement. Thrill-seeking, behind the mask.
Share ye links and bicker.
[ Searches desperately for something to bicker about. Ah ha! ]
They’re sandwiches, not butties, you [assorted gratuitous slurs] heathens!
[ Need a slur going in the other direction, to provoke the rest of the readers. ]
Very few American supermarkets sell Wensleydale cheese. Few Americans have heard of it. Unwashed barbarians.
Very few American supermarkets sell Wensleydale cheese. Few Americans have heard of it. Unwashed barbarians.
To make things worse, they’ve obiously missed out on Wallace and Gromit.
Out: White Supremacy;
In: “Lite” Supremacy.
For the world to return to balance, the feminine wing of humanity needs to be restored to its full divine potentiation
…the feminine wing of humanity needs to be restored to its full divine potentiation.
I don’t get it, there were no men present.
Meanwhile, if you laugh at this, you are a horrible person.
In: “Lite” Supremacy.
glad I saw the byline “Charles Blow” so I know what is exactly in that article without ever reading it. And while it looks like he is making an backhanded excuse for the racism of Los Angeles’ “Latino” leaders, I bet some the most outrageous statements about Councilcritter Mike Bonin’s adopted black son, such comments were mostly aimed at the Bonin (gay, white) and mocked his relationship with, of, and (lack of) disciplining, his son aren’t even addressed. It would undercut his theme that all racism is really white supremacy no matter the melanin level of that racist du jour.
…I saw the byline “Charles Blow”…
Yeah, it was a tell. I don’t know the specifics of the LA brouhaha, but skimming through (because Blow, after all) it seems like a preemptive strike to make excuses and keep the grift going.
Wherein he inadvertently paraphrases Booker T. Washington.
QED.
Eco-freak vandalizes auto dealership.
Another look at the freak.
David, could you poke the spam filter please?
I believe the civil rights movement and feminism unleased a monster. That monster is holding people guilty for their thoughts (racism, sexism) rather than their actions. Now you can get fired for your thoughts, have paypal fine you $2500, get arrested. And this new religion has no salvation and no grace, no redemption. urgh
I believe the civil rights movement and feminism unleased a monster. That monster is holding people guilty for their thoughts (racism, sexism) rather than their actions.
Your alleged thoughts, even. All speech and actions may be dishonestly interpreted to make you guilty of, well, of whatever they want. This is the “arc of history” that the left celebrates. And when I was a mere child conservatives were denounced for calling attention to this danger.
David, could you poke the spam filter please?
Hazmat suits are not cheap. This explains David’s drink prices.
To make things worse, they’ve obviously missed out on Wallace and Gromit.
NASA doesn’t want Americans to know that the Moon is made of Wensleydale.
Music literacy matters.
Eco-freak vandalizes auto dealership.
We are to be scolded by the inadequate, the confused, and the psychologically marginal. And so, the assorted cranks, misfits and monomaniacs invoke their End Times fever dreams and boast of how they “will not be stopped” by such trivia as the law, or norms of reciprocation, or common decency. Apparently, and rather conveniently, they “have every right” to vandalise whatever they choose and to screw over countless other people, randomly and gleefully, in whatever ways they deem fit. Say, by “disrupting traffic, throwing soup, and blocking oil depots.” Verily, they have been touched by The Lord. I suppose some people are all but destined to join apocalyptic cults. And with Just Stop Oil, Animal Rebellion and Insulate Britain all indulging in their jolly larks, the subsets of the activist-wanker caste are vying for our attention.
And our deference, obviously.
Eddie Izzard’s going to have to up his game.
But as a way to indulge in some practised self-involvement, and to feel important and powerful at others’ expense, it does have potential.
That.
Verily, they have been touched by The Lord.
That too.
That too.
Well, many of these clowns seem to want the fervour and license of a new-found religion, but without any of the annoying restrictions.
It seems we are to be scolded by the inadequate, the confused, and the psychologically marginal.
As our host would say, let’s put him in charge.
As our host would say, let’s put him in charge.
How dare you suggest that his perceptions may not be entirely reliable.
How dare you suggest that his perceptions may not be entirely reliable.
Rupert Grint isn’t looking so good since the work dried up.
I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be a resentful, spiteful narcissist attending one of the activist planning meetings, where the fits of psychodrama, and the imposition on others, can be rehearsed. I mean, to be a resentful, spiteful narcissist and finding yourself in a room full of other resentful, spiteful narcissists.
[ Added: ]
Though perhaps I have an inkling.
Lot of shouting in the background as that freak rails and rants. Did I hear correctly, “Show us yer Tits?”
Meanwhile, if you laugh at this, you are a horrible person.
I got a one-way ticket to Hell. THAT was funny, I don’t care who you are.
Au contraire, I picture them — many of them — giddy with excitement when they plan these stunts, bursting when they think: we’re really going to do it! it’s a dream of action they couldn’t allow themselves to have any other way.
How many of these superannuated boy-ies do you suppose were ever permitted to roughhouse when they were of child years? Or even had sessions of unsupervised play? There looks like a lot of pent-up kiddie rackaroo coming out in weird ways. And it’s gone stale and rancid in them, from being held too long. Not to mention the ugliness that comes from needing a hated enemy, someone they can resent, a target who justifies the splurge of action they crave.
I have some pity for the teens and younger-twentysomethings doing this. They didn’t ask to be brought up the way they were. I hope all of them find a way not to be like the thirty and forty-year-olds, and even older, who are still behaving this way, or promoting or justifying it.
Another look at the freak.
So sad to be that young and require a comb-over.
I am feeling rather neglected because I live in an area, East Tennessee, where we simply don’t have youngsters pouring out milk or spray painting auto dealerships in protest, likely because it would earn them either a hit upside the head or an unfortunate encounter with the front of an F-150 truck.
We are so very unenlightened here.
Meanwhile, in town-next-door Oak Ridge, they just broke ground on a new nuclear facility so at least we will have the lights on: https://www.wate.com/news/ground-broken-on-first-of-its-kind-nuclear-facility-in-oak-ridge/
There looks like a lot of pent-up kiddie rackaroo coming out in weird ways.
It’s certainly juvenile. It’s also worth noting how the activist-wanker demographic is generally quite defined, socially, in terms of class. Not many low-status ruffians, or people who are too busy earning a living. (Hence the endless videos of upper-middle-class activists, very often upper-middle-class women, looking faintly confused, or just smug, when working-class people, whose days they’re screwing up, explain, in vain, that they’re trying to get to work, or trying to take a child to hospital.)
And I suspect that these are people for whom the prospect of misbehaviour being followed by physical correction is entirely alien. Which may go some way to explaining the preferred targets, which seem carefully chosen, quite genteel. Waitrose, for instance, or the meat counters at Harrods. Places where the customers and security staff are unlikely to deliver the kind of correction that is evidently required.
Eco-freak vandalizes auto dealership.
Betcha his mommy and daddy are rich, he feels guilty about that, and this is his way of turning that guilt into rage at others.
It’s also worth noting how the activist-wanker demographic is generally quite defined, socially, in terms of class. Not many low-status ruffians, or people who are too busy earning a living.
That. The activism is a middle class leisure activity.
That. The activism is a middle class leisure activity.
It does seem to be a very large part of it. And you’ll see the same, rather pointed, class divide in terms of online support and excuse-making. People who want us to know that they work for the BBC, the Guardian, and the New York Times, for instance, are much more likely to excuse the vandalising of galleries, supermarkets and petrol pumps, and to minimise the obstruction of tube trains, fire engines and ambulances, than people whose livings are less glamorous and more modest.
Looks like we have another time-travelling comment.
Though perhaps I have an inkling.
Am re-reading Your Host’s Idea of Hell and Your Host’s Idea of Hell (2), and the comments bring all sorts of memories to the fore. I haven’t heard anything lately from China Miéville and Cory Doctorow–which is just as well–and wonder if my “progressive” and “libertarian” acquaintances have gotten bored and moved on to new “daring” thinkers, or if China and Cory have dropped out of the news as they get older and consequently slow down and quiet down.
Am re-reading Your Host’s Idea of Hell and Your Host’s Idea of Hell (2), and the comments bring all sorts of memories to the fore.
There is, of course, a third visit to Hell.
I suspect more may follow.
I haven’t heard anything lately from China Miéville and Cory Doctorow
Speaking of which, they and other socialist sf writers get mentioned in this book:
Science Fiction and the Dismal Science: Essays on Economics in and of the Genre, edited by Gregory Benford et al:
“[Kim Stanley] Robinson has this in common with [Ian] Banks, who also has sentient artificial intelligence running a galactic economy in the presumptively titled Culture. This seems to appear often in future sf to make it seem plausible that the human science of economics could be objective and not subject to great emotional surges. Nobody questions what the AIs think about taxes or distribution. Nobody much wonders how you know the AIs aren’t running the world to benefit…. AIs? Stuff just appears because the AIs apparently know what will be needed before humans even know themselves. So you get these implausible AI futures that have plentitude, with all the economic magic done off stage.
…
In 2312 the Mondragon Accord is crucially controlled by means of a network of AIs running on quantum computers, as though this solves the knotty human aspects of economics.
…
Maybe that’s why there’s so much love of AI future economies—you build an AI with no motives or biases, to be fair. Can’t trust those pesky humans! …So… AIs should run economics? This is an empty dodge.
Such futures are akin to soft dreaming, ignorant of biology. We are really plain old smart chimpanzees.”
[ Reviews recent comments. Eyes widen. ]
Now I’m time traveling!
There is, of course, a third visit to Hell.
I suspect more may follow.
Suggested book title: The Nine Circles of Socialist Hell.
Now I’m time traveling!
Have I become “unstuck in time”? I hope I don’t end up in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore.
Well, many of these clowns seem to want the fervour and license of a new-found religion, but without any of the annoying restrictions.
They have adopted a strange new religion that actually removes restrictions involving morality and adds a litany of restrictions on your life. It is a new asceticism, but you get to impose it on others. They would gleefully shut it all down and then be puzzled why they are starving.
Visit to hell: ironically (but not surprisingly) when these twits get a chance to “govern” even themselves, such as at Chaz or Occupy Wall Street, it is anarchy and in their meetings they can’t discuss or make decisions AT. ALL. Because it is a room full of toddlers and narcissists.
They have adopted a strange new religion that actually removes restrictions involving morality and adds a litany of restrictions on your life.
I rather like the line from the U2 song “The Wanderer”: “They say they want the kingdom, but they don’t want God in it.
(The addition of Johnny Cash makes it so much better.)
I’ve come to the conclusion that environmentalism, antiracism, antigender is simply religion without morality, and anything that smacks of teaching ethical behavior (like Jordan Peterson) has to be ruthlessly exterminated. Can’t have people advocating the Golden Rule who are not profiting from it. Makes the milk pourers and sh!t throwers look bad you know.
…when these twits get a chance to “govern” even themselves, such as at Chaz or Occupy Wall Street, it is anarchy and in their meetings they can’t discuss or make decisions AT. ALL.
Anarchy until a Lenin shows up–which is usually sooner rather than later.
I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be a resentful, spiteful narcissist attending one of the activist planning meetings, where the fits of psychodrama, and the imposition on others, can be rehearsed.
I’ve always thought that this (also from a previous thread) is how the average meeting goes with this sort. I’m not so sure it’s rehearsed. I think they’re always on this way.
Pst314,
It took, what, 12 hours for Lenin to show up at CHAZ?
I’ve always thought that this (also from a previous thread) is how the average meeting goes with this sort…
I remember that video. Hilarious, in a sick way. It’s a bit like visiting Bedlam to laugh at the inmates.
…I’m not so sure it’s rehearsed. I think they’re always on this way.
They are, they are.
pst314 has come unstuck in time.
Again.
Poo-tee-weet?
Another satire site. But it can be hard to tell sometimes.
Poo-tee-weet?
So it goes.
Quite.
Stephanie I live in an area, East Tennessee, where we simply don’t have youngsters pouring out milk or spray painting auto dealerships in protest, likely because it would earn them either a hit upside the head or an unfortunate encounter with the front of an F-150 truck.
David And I suspect that these are people for whom the prospect of misbehaviour being followed by physical correction is entirely alien.
Send them to East Tennessee for a while. For that matter, there ought to be some parts of the UK, away from the cities, where the people could also provide the proper ‘therapy’.
The activism is a middle class leisure activity.
Again, the behaviour we’ve seen, and will doubtless see again, is a moral non-sequitur. Hence the need to consider other, less savoury motives. It’s rather like saying, “I’m troubled by the plight of the Javan rhinoceros, so I’m going to start spitting at the elderly and keying random cars, and then boast about it on Twitter, while waiting for likes.”
And were I feeling particularly animated about an issue, I don’t think my first thought would be to vandalise an art gallery or a supermarket, or an upscale car dealership, or to immobilise thousands of random commuters, or to trap ambulances and fire engines, thereby endangering lives, all while feeling important and immensely self-satisfied. I don’t think that would occur to me as an obvious thing to do. I mean, the thought of people dying needlessly because the ambulance couldn’t get to them, or people consequently burning to death, would, I suspect, put a downer on any of self-righteous buzz.
But hey, maybe that’s just me.
the endless videos of upper-middle-class activists, very often upper-middle-class women, looking faintly confused, or just smug
It’s high school mean girls all the way down.
This sociopathy will continue until there are consequences for it that cannot be evaded. Unfortunately, the Bezmenov demoralization is now complete and there is no organization with the moral authority to apply those consequences.
And were I feeling particularly animated about an issue, I don’t think my first thought would be to vandalise an art gallery or a supermarket…
None of these people, none of them, have ever considered careers in STEM fields where they could do the research related to energy generation, energy storage, and so on. They don’t want to do the hard work necessary to actually solve problems in ways that benefit real people. They just want to bully people and break things.
They don’t want to do the hard work …
And yet their ideologies often bang on about “doing the work” and, of course, the irony is lost on them because in clown world, where words mean the opposite of their accepted meanings, “doing the work” usually involves doing no work at all.
They are always telling us to “do the work”. (Whether that work be understanding and agreeing with their ideology or producing the goods that they want to steal from us.)
And remember that risible slogan “I will not enact the labor to explain”?
Another satire site. But it can be hard to tell sometimes.
Indeed, male trees and botanical sexism screw with your allergies.
“Thus, people who want to be not-racist should be willing to “do the work” but not on the terms Critical Race Theory demands, which are themselves racist and productive of more racism.”
– James Lindsay
Netherlands begins feeding bugs to school children.
Male vs female trees: the only tree I know of that is dioecious and planted in urban areas is ginko, which has gross smelly fruits. Maples do not have male/female trees, nor do most major species in Europe or America. Ignorance sure makes it easy to rant about sexism/racism.
A lot of these people are deranged, obviously. Still, when it comes to these activists’ Twitter and online behavior, and behavior towards strangers on the streets, there’s this remarkably close marriage between sadism and exhibitionism.
Maples do not have male/female trees, nor do most major species in Europe or America.
Wikipedia confirms that all oaks are monoecious (male and female parts on same tree), and says that some maple species are monoecious while others are dioecious (individuals trees are either male or female.)
It could be that the pouring of milk and vandalizing stuff comes from a sense of panic about the future (which happens if you read the MSM uncritically) OR from a general anger at not having a place in an imperfect world, so lashing out. How dare the world be uncertain, how dare it not offer me unquestioning love and admiration, how dare there be imperfections in society!!! It is unfair that I have to struggle and work just to afford a used car!!! This is the attitude of a 15 yr old. Adults grow out of this feeling.
Out: “homeless”. In: “unhoused”. Accurate: “unhinged“. When we lock up all the deranged vagrants, let’s lock up their leftist enablers, too: One leftist and one vagrant in each cell.
Does anyone really know what time it is? There should be a handbook covering this — nothing advanced — a Primer. Wouldn’t want to be late for dinner.
Since this is an open thread, I’d like to contribute this rather… unfortunately shared acronym:
https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1582101548712472578
Does anyone really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care? About time?
That’s what I learned from the pretty lady whose diamond watch had stopped cold dead.
That’s what I learned…
That’s what I said to the pretty lady, not what I learned.
OR from a general anger at not having a place in an imperfect world, so lashing out.
It used to be that those seeking a higher calling became a priest or a nun or joined the Peace Corps. This generation has gone full marxist/leninist by abhoring the personal while making everything personal. Nobody talks about having a family and raising the next generation anymore. It’s all about saving the world now. And since that’s never been a real thing, they sh!t on those who also don’t want to save the world, as a balm for their egos. At least the hippies became “the man” and had families (dysfunctional as they may have been); they joined the human race. This group seems to think they live outside of society; that they’re The New Soviet Man; when really, they’re the Beta class from Brave New World.
It used to be that those seeking a higher calling became a priest or a nun or joined the Peace Corps…
Put another way, people who worried about hunger and homelessness used to distribute food and build homes, but now they bully everyone else to subsidize the shiftless. People who worried about illiteracy used to build free schools and libraries, but now they impede those those who do well in school. People who worried about self-destructive behavior used to go among the poor to persuade them to give up drug and alcohol abuse, but now they hand out free drugs and needles. People who worried about mental illness used to build asylums and counseling centers, but now they demand that lunatics be allowed to wander the streets threatening and assaulting the innocent.
Tomfoolery is on the rise.
Share ye links and bicker.
[ Looks around. Still no bickering. Racks brains over ways to provoke acrimonious responses… ]
France is a pretty good country.
Who remembers “Sod off, swampy”? Bunch of Greenpeace activists got a well deserved kicking by the traders at the London Petroleum Exchange in 2005 for invading the floor. Back then the protesters got arrested for trespass. These days it would probably be the other way round and the traders would end up in clink.
Want report from the future, when does the Tomfoolery Bubble burst so I can get out before.
France is a pretty good country
No argument from moi.