Friday Ephemera (692)
A reminder that modernity is a helluva thing. || “Poverty simulation event.” The venue, obviously, is a country club. || Incoming. || Question asked. || It’s low-calorie. || Closer to the boss, I guess. || Ungodly bathroom debate. || Because it’s an open wound. || His name is Jezebel Lilith Eve and he is a natural-born lesbian woman. || She uses the time to not listen, while applauding herself. || NASA’s rubber room. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Women in science. || Portland scenes. || Portland scenes 2. || The progressive retail experience, parts 496, 497, 498, and 499. || The progressive learning experience, a possible series. || It’s different when men do it. || Temptress detected. || I believe this is called influencing. || Today’s word is friction. Also wear-and-tear. || I get the feeling it’s not her first time. || Lost and found. || And finally, a feat of automotive derring-do.
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The progressive learning experience…
Speaking of which, I doubt this one will learn from her experience.
The name itself is a red flag.
The progressive retail experience…didn’t go to plan.
Covid 19 test. Very accurate.
“Closer to the boss, I guess.”
‘For centuries, monks had to use rope ladders to reach the monasteries’
I hope someone’s installed an escalator now….
2.5 hours of pretend poverty – then back to the golf course!
Morning, all.
As poverty LARPing goes, it’s quite the thing.
Apparently, there should be more retroactive, ahistorical diversity.
A minstrel walks among us.
Reality bites progressive bint.
Teachable moment.
It’s worth bearing in mind that Ms Sathanandan’s earlier, quite emphatic attitude regarding crime and policing – specifically, her demands for the “dismantling” of the Minneapolis Police Department – wasn’t just some weirdly improbable intellectual error. It was an ostentatious profession of piety and values – and a statement of the kind of person she is and wishes to be seen as. A statement of her priorities and character.
Apparently, she didn’t expect the newly emboldened sociopaths to come after her, only the people across town.
Which does rather temper any sympathy one might have.
Reality bites progressive bint.
Judas on a Vespa Delivering Pizzas with Pineapple for Uber Eats in Portland! That “before” photo is terrifying!
That.
What sympathy?
Bet she won’t resign though.
I’m surprised he survived.
Analogy.
In a consistent world Ms Sathanandan’s robust criticism of the ferals would result in censure if not outright dismissal as a clear case of white (as in the imminent Disney Snow White) on black hate speech. However this is Minnesota politics and there is only one consistent rule* – blame whitey.
* except in the case of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, best known for her innovative approach towards obtaining immigration status for siblings, where one particular class of whitey is always to the forefront.
The logical consequence of the notion that criminals only exist in society because policing and the justice system have created them and so getting rid of the latter resolves the problem with the former at a single stroke.
Such perversity of thought might well work wonders in a university debating society, throwing a more rational opponent off guard.
But anywhere else it’s like a farmer killing all his chickens to prevent the foxes getting at them.
“Some far-right groups have concerns about the Smoke Affirmation movement, but experts say they are fear-mongering and hateful.”
Heh.
See the little beating heart of the modern progressive.
I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing.
I’m not familiar with the kind of thing I’m seeing.
It looks like a DYI butt lift going south in a hurry, but the real question is whether the guy is brave or stupid for not wearing gloves.
Reality bites progressive bint.
It’s like deja vu all over again…
[ Considers whether to claim he reads every comment carefully, reads room, heads out for lunch. ]
Considers whether to claim he reads every comment…
Totally understandable if you were temporarily disoriented by the nigh necrotic butt.
Meanwhile, Anheuser-Busch products will soon be available only by subscription, subject to updates while trying to consume (if you are mad enough to do so), and failing to be poured from the cans.
Good for Mads. We need more laughing and pointing at these
journalistsactivists.There’s a longer version here, with another Mads moment. In fairness, the unnamed journalist doesn’t seem to object to the answers he’s given – he may even agree with them – and the exchange does rather highlight the absurdity of Hollywood’s “representation” guidelines and racial bean-counting.
But yes, more open mockery by celebrities, as opposed to their neurotic endorsement, wouldn’t go amiss.
The idea of being isolated from much of the daily ruction appeals.
There’s a longer version here, with another Mads moment.
That flips on its head the impression given by the original clip of an anti-white journalist getting a short answer.
From the longer clip it sounds like like it was a pro-white, or at least anti-anti-white journalist. Mads saw the danger of getting drawn into a quote, so he pushed the journalist into the dangerous assertion that it’s ok for whites to sometimes have their own stuff, then he pretended not to understand the question. And then the director, after saying that it was 1750, went on to say that he overcame that difficulty and still shoved a non-white suffering from racism into the film.
“poverty simulation event”: in college my parents barely supported me so “poverty” was right there with me. I’m glad. I tried all the cheap cuts of meat (livers, brains, bologna) and never ate out. Had to learn to cook. Very educational.
He’s been waiting his whole life to do this.
Connect Five.
Highland Park is indeed one of the wealthier suburbs of Chicago.
I did like mama’s chest-clutching sigh at the end.
See the racism inherent in the system! “They wouldna shot him if he had been white”
A suitably vivid example of the behaviour that many progressives seem determined to deny, as if it couldn’t possibly exist. As if it weren’t a staple of Cops and similar reality TV series.
The same progressive demographic that insists such creatures are just like you.
Callouses of steel
The decade or the age of the band?
Be careful what you ask for . . .
It occurs to me, based on the many examples we find here, that MtoF trans succeed in being not attractive to hetero men, to gay men, to hetero women or to lesbians. And not merely “not attractive” but actively grossing out these demographics. 100% success, I guess.
The same people hold similar notions regarding poverty and money.
Now for something completely different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6C7mk0pxNw
Not high-brow entertainment by any means, but pretty funny.
That and much else besides.
Get rid of men and women, no more misogyny or transphobia (allegedly).
Get rid of heterosexuality, no more homophobia.
Get rid of parenting, no more … Say, wait just a minute now!
The event has been cancelled. Because it got too much bad publicity? Yes.
“They wouldna shot him if he had been white”
Well, he was wearing an appropriated white culture emblem on his shirt…
The event has been cancelled. Because it got too much bad publicity? Yes.
That’s a very old-fashioned sort of outrage, as if Winthrop Moneybags III and his chums were dressing up as poor people for shits, giggles and a true canvas of the suffering of humanity.
But it seems more like a bunch of charity sector employees were invited to turn up at 9am on a Saturday to play a sort of nickel-and-dime Monopoly that was supposed to morally improve them. The only involvement of the country club was to rent out a meeting room for this dreary event. Were the participants going to have a cocktail on the veranda afterwards? I wouldn’t have begrudged them.
“Winthrop Moneybags III”
That’s Luis Winthrop. The Third.
Louis. Darn autocucumber.
Well, ladies, have you?
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