Friday Ephemera (666)
It’s called health-conscious cooking, darling. || Modern dating. And yes, she’s a Guardian contributor. || You know, I’m no expert but I’m not sure it’s meant to do that. || Same deal here. || Today’s word is suddenly. || Classroom scenes. Well, at least it’s keeping the kids quiet. || Incoming. || Look, I’ll tell you when to stop. || “Is mine normal?” she asked. (NSFW) || Neighbourhood of note. || Signalling detected. || Moral conundrum: gum or matches? || More joys of public transport. || It will tock again. || Waiting room scenes. (h/t, Julia) || She was wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. || Zoomable tree of life. || As a lair, this baby has potential. (h/t, Things) || I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing. || And finally, not quite a force-field, but I suppose it’s a start.
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Attention, all lesbians. Today’s your lucky day.
Today’s your lucky day.
How are the hench-lesbians reacting?
Incidentally, Sunday breakfast in the Thompson household must be a fun occasion with material like that to hand (as it were).
The hench-lesbians are busy showering. I’ll ask them when they’re done.
[ Sounds of laughter, cavorting. ]
Attention, all lesbians. Today’s your lucky day.
[Clears throat]
Well played, sir.
This seems like a variety of concern trolling: We must be unfailingly courteous and soft-spoken, and never directly call out those who tell lies, much less point out ulterior and malevolent motives. The pretense is that otherwise we would betray our cause but the real reason is that we might succeed.
I know a lot of supposed conservatives and libertarians who seem to fit that pattern, and some even go so far as to explicitly decry “an excessive fear of communism”–seemingly because it’s not really communism and thus not evil until the killing actually begins, and maybe not even then.
Ooh, this. In a lot of ways. Story of my life in some regards, though as I said Walsh does it more bluntly than I would…well some of the time. But that doesn’t make him wrong. Especially in this specific context in which he is taking a lot of undeserved crap from the sort of people who should be supporting him.
Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams is under fire, having his comic canceled from several newspapers because he stated something factual and necessary regarding race. Even Fox News could not be honest about reporting on it. Far more so than Walsh, Adams likes to be facetious in ways that often go over a lot of people’s heads. But by talking about the subject in a way that most people are afraid to, by being something of a lightning rod, he is getting a large number of minds, far more so than otherwise, to at least spend a few cycles actually thinking about the subject.
and this…
and this as well.
All this speaking truth to stupidity, of winning as opposed to #WINNING (remember that guy?) is giving me a dopamine rush.
There is a legitimate place for a wide variety of techniques and tactics, from soft-spoken scholarship to hell-raising punditry.
The Rasmussen poll reported that 47% of American blacks would not agree with the statement ‘It’s okay to be white’. (26% disagreed while 21% said they didn’t know or weren’t sure.)
Oh, but don’t you see that Adams is being terribly racist, because it is so unclear what “okay” means? Maybe the polled blacks think that “okay” means “supremely wonderful” or “better than everyone else”. We must ignore all the evidence from speech and actions that blacks are not more racist than whites. /sarcasm
Adams may feel that we have reached the point where a few people loudly stating the obvious may spark some change–that there are enough people who see reality but have so far been afraid to speak up.
The burning question I have, and this goes to a whole lot of these polling questions, is wtf do people take polls so seriously in the first place? The wording and the context are nearly always lost in the ‘conclusive’ reports and discussions. The show Yes, Minister (which wife and I are now binging) did an excellent bit on that 30 years ago.
Not that there have not been polls and the bloody obvious observation of reality that show that a lot of Black people are extremely racist toward Whites and especially Asians.
That said, I noticed something oddly dare-I-say positive the other night at my pool hall. First I noticed one rather large black man wearing a Troy Aikman #8 Dallas Cowboys jersey. You see white kids/adults quite often wearing black athletes’ jerseys but not the other way around. Still didn’t think too much of it but then noticed another big tight-end sized black guy wearing a #12 Tampa Bay Rays shirt with “Boggs” on the back. I hadn’t remembered that Wade Boggs changed his number when he went to TB so I’m thinking it must be some other Boggs…a black guy named Boggs…it could happen…but no, Wade Boggs did wear #12 in Tampa. Interesting.
It’s an unhealthy sign when people choose their heroes and art and music on ethnic/national/racial grounds, so I agree that’s a hopeful sign.
Related: Victor Davis Hanson has said that he encounters a lot of Mexican immigrants while working and driving around his farm, and that he has noticed a significant trend towards support of conservative politicians and resentment of Democrats.
The burning question I have, and this goes to a whole lot of these polling questions, is wtf do people take polls so seriously in the first place? The wording and the context are nearly always lost in the ‘conclusive’ reports and discussions.
Often true. Poll results need to be assessed in conjunction with other polls and with other sorts of real world observations.
But I have often noticed how important poll results can be ignored. For instance, there were one or more polls back in the 90’s, assessing the opinions of Muslims living in Europe. While only a very small fraction expressed support for terrorism, a very large fraction supported Sharia law and conquest of Europe by immigration and out-breeding native Europeans. I vaguely recall that people on the left touted the low numbers for terrorist support while ignoring the high numbers for other methods of conquest.
Or misrepresented.
Apparently, it’s now gasp-worthy to say that a dysmorphic 26-year-old man, one fixated by his own cartoonish pantomime of inner girliness, isn’t actually a woman, or anything close.
I can’t help wondering whether the same people would have been tutting and fainting and flapping their handkerchiefs had the video been made by one of the many women who feel much as Mr Walsh does.
“The name is Bond, James Bond and my pronouns are he/him.”
…fixated by his own cartoonish pantomime…
C’mon man, other than the male shoulders, lack of either breasts or hips, and having a johnson, claiming this is cartoonish pantomime is only transphobic h8terism.
That.
Update your gender cards, please.
Security system of note
another example of how the Left ruins everything: the drive to eliminate “unfairness” led to federal rules in the US that disabled kids be mainstreamed. Kid in a wheelchair? no problem. kids with autism or very low IQ? Very disruptive and require an aide to accompany them at extreme cost. Also the drive to eliminate honors, advanced placement, etc so every kid is “equal”. Try teaching a class where grades on tests range from 100% to 50%. In my local high school, 97% of kids were above grade level but that meant they could not show “improvement” over time and were penalized by feds and had to reorganize their teaching. Meanwhile 55 schools in chicago have not a single kid at grade level on math or reading.
In a tweet which I can’t find now, one of the women responding to him says they’ve been “longing” for someone to say what he said. Why didn’t they do it themselves? “If I am not for myself, who will be? And if not now, when?” (Rabbi Hillel, IIRC)
Canada, too, as this video shows (probably posted here before): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWT9zhKcuJo&t=128s
Why didn’t they do it themselves?
Because they’ve seen what happened to J. K. Rowling.
The troons can’t hurt Rowling and they know it. That’s not their goal. Their goal is to ensure every woman not as independently wealthy and untouchable as Rowling stays in her f*cking lane.
Truth. Women have complained for years that their gains were so “fragile”. Then trans comes along and shows they were far more fragile than women thought. I see that and I remember Helen Reddy’s song: “I am strong! I am INVINCIBLE! I AM WOMAN!” Yeah, right.
Update your gender cards, please.
While you are at, update your “pronoun” cards because if you feel you are connected to nature, and as we know male and female are not, you can use the same ones anthrax uses.
And again, this. Having been a competitive swimmer, having swam (swum?…all these years still…sigh…) on a team where relatively the guys were good but the girls were state champions in a very competitive state, Olympic quality athletes, I still am grossly disappointed in the milquetoast reaction of most of the women whom I know and especially know of (the Olympic level ones). On the one hand I understand it because they were girls/are women. OTOH, all my life I’ve had to listen to this rah-rah-women crap. Yet with the obvious, grossly obvious BS of that Penn swimmer, even the lesbians that I know/knew, while somewhat vocal, are still not speakingup about it on swimming forums as much as I have.
A mystery only a latter day John Snow could solve…
…or maybe not.
If they are not “engaging” how do they know the rates are higher? I know silly question, it is obviously all because of a lack of funding due to systemic racism.
Betcha they’re lying and there are such factors.
But we’re supposed to think that racism causes these people to do dangerous things. Or maybe they are being persecuted by a racist STI fairy.
I miss the days when it was inconceivable that a public health agency would lie.
But the STI infection rates are shockingly high in Africa where blacks are the majority. So to hell with all this “racially minoritized communities” crap.
And “racially minoritized” is a very odd expression, calling attention to the left’s fetish for endlessly inventing new jargon.
Its been a long time, but I seem to recall reading that 18th and 19th century European travelers in sub Saharan Africa reported witnessing very high rates of promiscuity.
20th century, too: American Army Air Force officers, building a global network of air transport bases during WW2, reported that many of the local women and even young girls would approach the soldiers offering sex in exchange for what we would call trinkets.
<i>The Independent</i> scores (STI story):
Nadine White
Race Correspondent
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Corrections and clarifications to what I wrote about promiscuity in Africa are welcome. As I said, I read about those travelers’ reports many years ago.
And “racially minoritized” is a very odd expression
Those Asians and Indians keep stubbornly refusing to underperform, requiring the left to come up with more Newspeak to refer to the underperforming groups.
Like “BIPOC”.
Another reason for endless Newspeak: To keep normal people off balance.