An Unconvincing Basis For Applause
I’d suggest that this is precisely what raises doubts as to Ms Ashley Markham’s fitness to be a school principal in charge of 12-year-olds.
This is a school principal. These are the people in charge of your children’s education. pic.twitter.com/kJOZtPhmal
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 21, 2023
To boast of abandoning reality at the drop of a hat – and by extension, coercing others to be unrealistic too – and to boast of creating an environment in which manipulative pretension and mental illness thrive – is an odd moral flex.
Readers are welcome to ponder exactly how “safe” an environment is in which such practised affectations are dominant or mandatory, and in which one can expect to be scolded and punished for not wishing to pretend, for not wishing to become dishonest and absurd.
Oh, and by the way, should you ask Ms Markham about the implications of her position – say, as touched on above – she may make a smug and dismissive TikTok video in which she expects you to pay her $100 an hour, plus an extra $250, for an expert “consultation” on why she is right.
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading of course.
It’s certainly been my experience that the incongruous political scolding has usually, almost invariably, come from one side of the aisle.
I have a first cousin, only 4 months younger than me who is a yellow-dog Democrat. We’ve finally come to a point where she has stopped tossing politics in my face after confronted her and she couldn’t argue one point past the emotional. Though, I’m glad we are on opposite coasts and only see each other in person once a blue moon.
There’s this weird assumption by the portside that their opinion is never to be challenged in “polite company” least us deplorable beings prove again just how deplorable we really are.
Doesn’t that clearly indicate a really dumb person?
Maybe she should start a blog. The Other Half tells me I’m much less aggravating now that I take it out on you heathens.
Just remembered, it’s our wedding anniversary.
There’d better be wine.
And we thank you for it and sometimes even pay you for the privilege. I’m not sure what that says about us…
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
So, there’s a fix to the update that fixed the last update that updated the last fix . . .
We’re going to need more oxen.
Flanders and Swann have nothing on the software industry.
Not really. Being intelligent doesn’t preclude emotion trumping reason.
“Doesn’t that clearly indicate a really dumb person?”
I would never say that about someone whom I know secondhand. I, too, hold opinions that I don’t have support for (particularly about movies and TV shows I haven’t seen). And trying to research every position can take time away from living a life.
It’s a universal truth that we tend to embody the first opinion expressed about something new, which is why the mainstream media, shoddy, lying, and incompetent, is still a powerful weapon in establishing The Narrative (h/t Critical Drinker).
it’s our wedding anniversary.
Well, then Happy Anniversary and (ping) I hope my little contribution can up the quality of that bottle of wine you have your eye on.
Doesn’t that clearly indicate a really dumb person?
My cousin is pretty competent, but she lives in a bubble of like-minded. She’s also always been a rather forceful personality and doesn’t get challenged on her assumptions much, if at all. I remember one family gathering several years back that she was really taken aback when I disagreed with her. It was not feigned, she was sincerely shocked, not just by my non-acceptance but by my marshalling of a cognizant counterargument.
It’s that cloistered “How did Nixon win? I don’t know anyone who voted for him” mindset.
[ Returns from supermarket with suitable quantity of booze, checks messages. ]
Bless you, madam. A wonderful surprise. On a warm summer evening, may you have a chance to register just how bogglingly varied the song of the humble Blackbird is.
There’s also the status aspect, which is, I think, part of the asymmetry mentioned upthread. If your political views function largely as a kind of social jewellery – if they confer status as an elevated being – then they’re less likely to be tested, at least not voluntarily. There’s less incentive to kick at the foundations. And indeed, strong incentives not to.
But, being jewellery, they’re more likely to be announced, however slim the pretext.
That is an interesting idea, which I am going to immediately embody forever.
(But, truly, it really is interesting. Where did you come up with that idea? I’ve never heard it before.)
Where did you come up with that idea? I’ve never heard it before.
An observation based on my career in journalism. The initial report of any breaking story tends to be set in cement in people’s minds. Challenging that report with alternative facts later tend to be resisted, sometimes fiercely.
Which, now that I’m looking this up, is an expression of the selective exposure theory. It’s related to cognitive bias and cognitive dissonance.
Speaking of delusional, malignant fools…how long before one of these folks is murdered during a response call?
Anyone care to make odds on an over/under on the first 100 calls?
https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1694072347790295377
The initial report of any breaking story tends to be set in cement in people’s minds
A cherry picker, which was on-site to help volunteers carry out maintenance work, was used to remove the flags…
AHA! I knew it!
…my wife and I voted for The Reincarnation of Hitler…
Uhh, which one?
Where do they get those ugly identification glasses?
I’ve read (just read) that they are known as “splooge” glasses, worn by certain “actresses” in adult entertainment. The purpose of the glasses is to act as a landing space for certain precious bodily fluids…If you like that sort of thing..as it were. Really, I read about it…something about the demeaning of the pretentious, if you want to go all Freudian.
[ Opens David’s notebook. Writes ‘Suspiciously knowledgeable’. ]