It’s Trivial When The Victim Is Someone Who Isn’t Me
Habitual car theft is a “victimless” crime. Says Nora the socialist:
Nora doesn’t think that a third conviction for car theft should result in incarceration. Because, and I quote, the victims “get new cars though.”
They get new cars though
— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) February 5, 2024
“I write books and I know things,” says Nora, who lives in Quebec, where, in the last year, the rate of car theft has practically doubled.
I wonder if dear Nora has ever paused to consider what stolen cars are very often used for – besides, say, joyriding and endangering other road users. And whether those doing the stealing might often belong to criminal gangs, whose anti-social activities spill over into other areas. Say, smash-and-grabs, and forms of liveliness requiring a getaway car. Or, as Michael Rothe of the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association points out,
And then of course there are these jolly scenes.
But hey, no biggie.
Perhaps dear Nora was too busy airing pretentious sympathy for the practised criminal. Though one might note she seems rather less concerned for the criminal’s numerous victims, and likely future victims, whose violation she denies. Someone who steals a car and is apprehended for the third time is unlikely to have stolen only three cars. And the conviction rate for car theft is around one in twenty.
Perhaps it would be ungentlemanly to wish on dear Nora some first-hand experience of the crimes she so merrily diminishes when inflicted on someone else, someone who isn’t her. Though it is, I think, tempting.
And should this cake need a cherry:
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course. And yes, regular readers may detect a familiar pattern. One we’ve seen so many times.
Great googly moogly, this is long, but worth a read. Mark Steyn’s opening statement in Michael Mann’s defamation suit against him.
Indeed.
And today the defense rested, so I guess it now goes to the jury.
A District of Columbia jury.
Prayer is indicated.
Via Ace, a feminist manifesto courtesy of the taxpayers, etc. in the UK. No true monkeys were available for comment.
I was thinking of George of the Jungle just the other day.
You’ve got to wonder about the mental stability of these “powerful feminists” with all their howling, barking, pussy hats, and so on. Likewise those who listen to them.
…a feminist manifesto…
Rita Panahi always comes up with some corkers, check out the first and last here. The middle is par for the course for the ilk, but the last one not doing his any favors.
ISWYDT
Nora’s description of herself as a “Chialeuse” is Québécois patois for a woman that argues. It other words a woman who bitches. Seems appropriate for a socialist
I recently saw a satirical blog post laying out a detailed plan for
conqueringliberating Canada. Significantly, it left Quebec to fend for itself (not worth the trouble.)David, is your mind a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives?
Is your date “trans”gender?
So Ms DiAngelo is a self-styled intellectual, an expert in “critical discourse analysis,” and says was raised a Catholic, but she doesn’t know to whom God is bestowing life in one of the most famous religious paintings in human history.
Ms DiAngelo’s inadequacies have been mentioned here before, of course, along with her devotees’ obvious mental health problems.
Definitely Cluster B. If it happened to her she’d be duly outraged but she’d never reconsider her former position as it relates to other people. Who for her are mere props in her psychodrama.
Elon? He’s a Vivek guy. He’s never mentioned that stiff on X.
It’s like an actual witch trial. These people are seriously twisted.
Well, yes. It’s easy to laugh at Ms DiAngelo’s scholarly shortcomings, the sheer fatuousness of it all, and I have wondered how it can be that she isn’t laughed out of every room she enters. What she peddles is pernicious flim-flam, and obviously so. But as seen in the linked video, her devotees include many unhinged and appalling people. People who are entrusted to shape the education of children.
The scenes that resemble a witch trial – and in which we see competitive, near-orgasmic scolding, accompanied by screeching and fits of hysteria – were recorded during a meeting of the New York City Community Educational Council, which provides “hands-on leadership” to the district’s public schools. They may be neurotic, spiteful, and unmoored from reason, but these people have influence. And as seen in the video, they’re determined to inflict their demons on others.
Starting with children.
Well worth reading. Nonetheless, I fully expect to see Mr Steyn found guilty and required to pay $37 million in damages.
Getting back to Nora The Socialist™ (odd way to spell commie, but OK) an interesting statistic about the incarcerated, though I am not clear on the distinction between “legally innocent” prisoner and someone who is just plain innocent.
Not to start a religious war (no need to prepare the galleons) in her (somewhat) defense, I find Catholic laymen, and even some clergy, a bit weak on their knowledge of what is actually in the Bible. Especially the Old Testament. Fortunately Michelangelo wasn’t one. But then that was back in the day a bit.
Following that link yields an explanation: “Legally innocent” is a euphemism for “not yet convicted, awaiting trial for a crime serious enough to preclude release on bail”:
Note that jails are chiefly for short sentences and for criminals awaiting trial, while prisons are for convicted criminals undergoing longer terms of incarceration. Many people do not clearly distinguish between the two, and thus can be easily confused by the left’s rhetorical word hi-jinks.
No, the Harvard alum. Bill Ackman. I just couldn’t remember his name. Conservatives was getting all juicy pantsed when he and his Harvard alum woke up to find out who was running their precious university. Not exactly red pilled to support idiocy-light like Dean Phillips.
Another passage from that link:
Once again, we have a professor of criminology who wants criminals released to commit more crimes. This is a consequence of allowing the left to infiltrate and subvert our educational institutions: Liberals who preferentially hire leftists and leftists who only hire other leftists.
The people of Salem were not known for their sense of humor. Nor the (totally unexpected) Spanish Inquisition, nor the Cultural Revolution, nor…well you get the picture. This stupidity persists because people are afraid to speak up. They know if they dare do so, unless from a very safe distance and sometimes not even then, they will pay the consequences. And when someone does say “f*** the consequences” they are vilified for “being stooopid”. Dumb. Like Donald Trump dumb. He’s enormously wealthy yet they are preparing a prison cell for him. What chance do you have by yourself, little peon?
Thus creating more opportunities for criminologists. In a society without honor, what should you expect? Subsidize something, get more of it. They are overwhelmingly government employees. Not many regular people are hiring professional criminologists for work around the house. Well, not to do any criminology anyway.
Having tackled all the important problems, a Labour MP (himself a woman) wants the dead to be able to be able to change their “gender”, nothing about their pronouns though.
It’s all so tiresome: Bobbi Althoff interviews sukihanagoat.
I have no idea who either of these females are, and the full interview seems to be available only on TikTok and Instagram, but I cannot think of a reason to aggressively confuse “musician” and “magician” which does not betray mental defect.
Well, why not? They already have the vote.
Marone – “Helpful steps for transitioning at Delta”, no no, that doesn’t mean from a first officer to captain or from a turbo prop to a 757.
What could possibly go wrong?
Indeed, or, one they just can’t let go, to find a way to call the British countryside a “…colonial space”.
This shameless and ungrateful grift gets wheeled out, with minor variations in dishonesty, every few months.
I’ll just leave these here, I think.
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This, from the first of the linked posts, seems apposite:
Or worse.
Road trip?
Sounds like they’re upset because they can’t steal things as easily.
It cannot be said too often: DEI activists are enemies of civilization.
the British countryside a “…colonial space”.
Er…who colonized who and when in this scenario? Did it occur after there was a place formally recognized as Britain? Before? The Romans colonized the area way back – were the local tribes magic black or brown people? Magic indigenous? As a member of a former British colony, I’m confused.
From Londinium to Londonistan in a thousand and some years – there’s definitely some colonization of the area, but it’s not the British doing it.
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I could of course bang on, but there’s dinner to prepare.
I seem to recall that, during the Jim Crow era, there were places where white people were allowed to cast votes for dead relatives on the grounds that they knew how the deceased would have voted. Completely open and above-board*, unlike Chicago where the graveyard ballots would be counted in back rooms.
* For certain values of “above-board”.
…were the local tribes magic black or brown people
As seen in these pages a few days ago, The Magic 8 Ball says “Signs Point To Yes”.
That might have been The Magic Screwball, I get them confused.
Historic Brits black? ahahha it was very bad skull bone detective work. Up to the quality standards of woke “scholarship”. However, the very earliest brits and Europeans in general, like 30,000 yrs ago, were probably somewhat tannish compared to today.
Time to post this classic mockery:
It cannot be said too often: DEI activists are enemies of civilization.
Bosh, bollocks, balderdash. DIE is our strength.
More on the racist and colonial countryside.
Well, we don’t know if any DEI hires were involved in this accident, but there is no doubt that DEI can only mean more accidents.
Heh. Sports gnome Steph Smith gets Red Pilled. Never saw this one coming.
She’s a community organiser who thinks that hard, strategic work will bring about the revolution
Oubliez-vous ca, Jacques. C’est Ville de Quebec.
an illegal strip club, complete with […] live horses on the property
I have many questions.
Once again, we have a professor of criminology who wants criminals released to commit more crimes.
I hate to engage in the time-worn Canadian hobby of being exasperated by how little Americans know about Canada, but do not make the mistake of assuming Canadian law restricts the police the same way yours does. In Canada you can apply for a “record suspension” after 5-10 years, which is near as dammit a pardon; also it’s illegal to disclose a person’s criminal records without their consent. The combined effect of this is that the police here can and do arrest citizens on the flimsiest of pretexts and hold them as long as they can in the hopes of squeezing out a guilty plea, using “it can be wiped later” as incentive.
You’re falling for the Bezmenov tactics. The fact that “defund the police” wacktivists exist does not mean police corruption doesn’t.
Speaking of Canada, my apologies on behalf of all normal Americans.
…in her (somewhat) defense, I find Catholic laymen, and even some clergy, a bit weak on their knowledge of what is actually in the Bible…
We don’t know chapter and verse like the Prods, but we get the catechetical Cliff notes, and we have paintings and statues to make an impression on children. We might not know the character actors, but Adam and David are among the star players who even indifferent Catholics are likely to recognize.
All of her stories are well-rehearsed. If she wasn’t 100% sure who was depicted in the picture, she’s had the time to “research” it on Wikipedia. This display isn’t momentary absentmindendness. It’s not to be read as an anti-intellectuual gesture, because that’s something her type accuses the other side of. It’s a display of contempt towards white culture, which she considers as immoral for having a Renaissance without consulting Netflix, and therefore sometimes having four whites in a frame without a black.
Speaking of Canada, my apologies on behalf of all normal Americans.
So, living in the Yukon Territory is like living in Alaska only with fewer people. Can’t see it having a particularly easy go of things, given some of the people who live there. Although, the miners and oil guys get pretty drunk when they come into Whitehorse to spend their paychecks.
Say, $1 million?
Say, $1 million?
Exactly. And the jury was very clear about why they were doing it – as an example for anyone else who dares to publicly disagree.
I admire Judith Curry. That same litigious little toad who couldn’t prove defamation damages spewed his vitriol about her”denialism” far and wide and actually did end her academic career. But she successfully built up a private business doing work similar to her research, so good on her. She gets to keep going, until the toad decides to sue her.