Friday Ephemera (714)
Lifestyle choice. || Where would we be without great art? || Got skillz. || His grandpa “thinks I am his grandson’s girlfriend.” Allegedly. || The German tongue. || Common interest. || Incoming. || “Strong women,” but no fitness test. || Fallen snow versus car. || Maximum fussing. || Meaty goodness. || White ghost apple. || Escape pod. || Pointing out hypocrisy is “white supremacy,” says educator. || Price paid. || Our betters opine. || Uppity hairdresser. I wonder what happens if her salon gets robbed. || Remaining calm in trying circumstances. || The Trautonium, circa 1930s. || Must be that “trans joy” we keep hearing about. || Ladies, he just wants to listen to you pee. || A database of 13,000 specimens. || And finally, it’s the “most transphobic” situation he’s ever had to deal with.
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“Surprising findings”
After seventeen years of doing, er… this, you can imagine the shock.
[ Steadies nerves with stiff drink. ]
Ancient history.
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Now I need a stiff drink.
These days?
The notion that progressives are bearing the burden of knowledge is risible.
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Yeah, but the 95 cent shrimp cocktail would be almost 10 frogskins in Bidenbucks. and depending on which source you look at the average income in 1960 was $5,600, and now around $60,000.
Now if you could take today’s average income and go back to 1960, you would be walking in taller cotton.
I’d say they are bearing the burden of rebelling against knowledge and truth.
As noted by Monty Python.
Science has been very cruel to “progressive” dogmas: The heritability of intelligence. The heritability of various personality traits. Sex differences in personality and cognition. The biological basis of standards of beauty.
In the first half of the twentieth century, “scientific” socialism failed spectacularly. In the second half of the twentieth century, the welfare state proved to be a pernicious failure. Simultaneously, advancing scientific knowledge undermined liberals’ assumptions about human nature. Instead of accepting the science and adjusting their world view, liberals closed their eyes, shouted, and tried to silence heretical facts, while searching for ever more bizarre “reasons” to cling to their beliefs. In other words, they went mad.
Those toothed wheels are kinda genius in terms of multi-surface traction, but what condition is the surface left in? Did they just cut up a bunch of ice-continents that will tip unsuspecting ice-skaters into the drink?
Those toothed wheels are kinda genius
Just beware of auto-amputation should you happen to fall off.
Well they did learn something from religion. It’s always the wrong stuff though.
Heh. The implication that those of us who aren’t neurotic lefties must therefore be “ignorant” is quite the conceit.
However, if progressivism tends to attract people who wish to be seen mouthing statusful opinions – and who then get anxious about that social status being lost by a failure to mouth some new hopelessly unrealistic ideological fad – again, borderless societies, bewigged men in ladies toilets – well, that wouldn’t be altogether surprising.
I must admit I thought “great AI“, but apparently it’s real!
Why men don’t live as long as women.
I did wonder how many loops might cut through the ice. But don’t mention this to Representative Hank Johnson: He has enough to worry about already.
I’m impressed by Art Lady’s commitment to the bit – praising a monocoloured green square as ‘symmetrical’!
Must be that burden of knowledge.
Yet the ones who mouth such opinions are the very tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of people who vote left or center-left, or even TDS anti-Brexit/whatever “right”, who give these people actual power are the shy ones, the even less informed ones , the more ignorant, the less intelligent who at least being somewhat self aware of their own limitations go along with and more quietly support the people who are most presented to them as being the properly statusful. That is where the real political power lies. The quiet ones. The Quiet Majority isn’t necessarily where the wishful thinkers on the right like to believe it is.
By the way, our “upcycler/writer/artist” – the one who feigned puzzlement at why anyone should find the deliberate abuse of animals by trans activists in any way obnoxious or telling, or a provocation – is not dealing well with subsequent challenges. There’s quite a bit of twisting and fabrication, and some outright denial of her own earlier, dismissive comments.
When several readers pointed out the likely (and rather obvious) intention of the trans activist in the video – to alarm the horse, throw the rider, and cause injury – the disingenuous pose – that such behaviour isn’t a provocation – became difficult to sustain. Now, our “upcycler/writer/artist” is insisting that the behaviour is merely “immature” and “pointless” – the explained point of the behaviour being suddenly forgotten.
This is not, I think, unrelated to the remarks, upthread, about progressives and neuroticism. It must be quite stressful to feel that one ought to be seen as both virtuous and correct, while simultaneously showing no regard at all for being consistent or coherent. Or even honest. For earning the correctness, or the virtue.
Except when it’s related to progressives and psychopathy. 😉
One can hope.
Liberal compassion is evil in disguise. Supporting data here.
“Compassion to the wicked is cruelty to all beings.”
–Maimonides, Guide to the Perplexed
Brilliant.
How Murray kept his temper is a wonder for the ages.
I’m so glad he does. Like what we’ve seen from Jordan Peterson, it’s a masterclass on how to keep these pretenders-to-journalism from controlling the narrative based on feelz.
I do note, too, that this attempt at sandbagging non-leftists is conducted almost solely by females when a man is being interviewed. IMHO this is because they cynically feel it gives them an edge that the male interviewee will feel obligated to defer to the female.
I despise these kinds of females.
That woman is one evil, nasty, disingenuous b***h. She has gotten that way, not just because of who she is but because people who see through her are too chickens**t to stand up to her, as Murray is doing here. She, and others like her, should be met with not just this exceptionally polite and restrained resistance as Murray is doing, but with far more pointed, dare I say Trump like (in his more restrained moments) push back as well. More people on the right need to have this degree of backbone.
This. This, this, this. And men need to stop being p****s about standing up to this crap.
And in travel news…
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/fliers-trying-avoid-boeing-planes-turning-prayer-anti-anxiety-meds-report
I can’t recall seeing a supposedly professional journalist so keen to “move on.” And so keen so often.
For those who missed it, some eye-widening television.
“One of the hallmarks of the modern age, in western civilization, is the tendency to promote to the highest offices in politics, the military, and business, on the one hand weak and morally cowardly men, and on the other, evil women.”
–Tom Kratman, author and retired Lt Col US Army
Served up to starving people, with melted butter, might be the first time she benefited humanity. Hmmm?
This cannot be said too often. Nor, barring a miracle, are they reformable. Hence my cruel joke about serving up a leftist scrunt with melted butter.
That thing that never happens, happens again.
And eventually will morph into “it happens and that’s a good thing”. Or, to be more accurate, will be said by more leftists.
brilliant:
“occupation of Gaza”–Israel left gaza decades ago. They were fooled into believing gaza could govern itself and be a peaceful neighbor. 71% of gazans support the attack on Israel. They teach their children that the jews should be exterminated. Gaza has taken billions in foreign aid and built tunnels with it. It is the big lie. Israel, at risk to its own troops, tells gazans where they are going to attack next.
That seems low.
800,000 Imperial Dollars to discover Shakespeare didn’t write about made up 21st century nonsense.
Agree. I think they meant 71% of the Democrat and/or Labor parties.
In other news, apparently a few of my friends are negroes and I don’t think they know. My moral dilemma is, should I tell them?
Camille Paglia: “The Movement Towards Androgyny Occurs in Late Phases of Culture, as a Civilization is Starting to Unravel”
Full video here.
“Andrew Doyle, the comedian and author, said: “There’s a very good reason why Shakespeare is performed frequently and John Lyly barely at all. Shakespeare was by far the superior playwright. Yet again, ideologues are reducing great art to mere mechanisms for the promotion of an ideology.”
I am reminded of when “woke” teachers and professors began to replace standard works of literature with I, Rigoberta Menchu on the pretense that literature courses needed to be enriched with great works outside the Western European canon. But I, Rigoberta Menchu was an inferior work which was chosen precisely because it was a far-left political polemic, while actual great works from South and Central American literature were ignored.
David Stoll demonstrated her ‘testimony‘ was replete with fabrications.
Yes, and it was eye-opening to see how liberals pretended they were not lies and/or claimed they didn’t matter.
I’m not sure where Dodge Ram drivers fit in the douchebag hierarchy, but that was very Christian of her.
Which to fund? A Mars mission or this?
Or maybe pour money down this rathole?
Why not combine the two and deliver him to Mars?
Ah, but you’re forgetting about The Forest Rangers and Adventures in Rainbow Country
Fair. Although reading the IMDB summary, I’m not convinced the latter show was entirely serious. Then again I grew up with The Edison Twins, notable for its budget not even extending to permanent hair dye.
I suggest that reparations take this form.
Apparently it’s incredibly obscure Canadian TV week here at the Lair. Have you ever been to Bala?
there still is plenty that’s not set in high schools
Military academies, wizard schools, training programs for supernaturally powered and supernaturally endowed female weapons of mass destruction, etc. Admittedly the other 50% of anime is just That Time I Got Injected Into Final Fantasy XIV, but that’s not disproving my point. You simply aren’t going to find the equivalent of Planetes, Patlabor, Monster, Black Lagoon, or Master Keaton in current anime.
it’s usually a comic situation
There’s a pretty fine line between comic embarassment and sissification, and a lot of the early gender-bending stuff leans more towards the latter than the former.
Japanese media is very unwoke
Unwoke, yes, but Japan has a very real problem with what the West would consider criminal sexual degeneracy in its media. A lot of anime that was dubbed into English for kids in the West had to be edited to remove scenes that would get people fed into woodchippers. IYKWIM.
OTOH, Firefigher Daigo has been a notable and welcome exception to the “everything is by, for and about degenerate teenagers” rule.
Have you ever been to Bala?
Twice. Saw Max Webster and April Wine at the KEE. I had a friend with a cottage near Gravenhurst and we made the drive.
Adventures in Rainbow Country (Espinola/Manitoulin area) was about as serious as 1970s TV drama could get. Now, it was no Beachcombers…
If you go full Trump on these Cluster B harpies, then the takeaway is that you lost your mind and you’re a horrible person. They win.
When you keep your cool, eventually the harpies reveal themselves to be in the wrong because you can see them evading and scrambling and being dishonest and unfair. It takes awhile, but it works.
If you’re the good guys, you have to be good. Not “polite” (deferential) but rational, lacking in malice or hostility, being a lover of the TRVTH and defender of it. Murray’s insistence on facts and truth are his strong suit.
MLK’s movement insisted on stoicism, peace, uprightness, lack of malice, and behavior above and beyond the call. They exposed their opponents as brutes and they established their strongest argument: We are just as human as you are and we deserve to be treated with the same respect as everyone else.
Their iron dignity in the face of abuse did a LOT of the heavy lifting. Given that leftists dehumanize the right, it’s incumbent on the right to behave as humanly and humanely as possible, to sustain the argument that we are just normal people and they’ve gone off the rails.
I understand the urge to punch back twice as hard (which you would do in an actual war), but in a war of ideas such as we’re in, the calm, rational, patient, non-malicious, non-hostile people will win, if we keep our wits about us.
In other news, apparently a few of my friends are negroes and I don’t think they know.
As if the fact that the sender identified themselves as Le’queesha wasn’t enough.
Great. Sucks getting old such that one can’t even keep up with esoteric Canadian humor.
Well, tbf I didn’t say full Trump.
The harpies revealed themselves long ago to those of us who have seen this game being played for decades. They have been wrong for decades yet they have persuaded 81 million (probably more, possibly a little less) to go out and vote for their insanity. The brainwashed masses didn’t get that way by being reasoned into it.
MLK, nor the sainted Gandhi, nor any other power shift made progress without a simultaneous push from the likes of Malcom X or publicized letters to ‘Dear friend’ Adolph. Politeness has its place but when dealing with an intractable foe, one who already has considerable political power, you need to put them on their back foot. This is something women simply do not understand, at a conscious level anyway, and like to wish away. Subconsciously…
And how well was that process working before Trump, before Milie, before Nigel Farage? We’re not talking about physical punching, which you would doin an actual fistfight. Politics on a national level not a war of ideas, it is a contest of mass persuasion. Ideas can be persuasive in a conference/class room environment yet even then there’s an implied head nod to the masses/mobs outside the door. Murray is reacting here. He is giving a good, rational response to an offensive move by the left. You do not win battles of any kind on defense alone. There must be some sort of an offense. The Overton Window does not move itself.
Gonna have to stay out of this conversation, as almost everything is incredibly obscure to me: I didn’t even encounter Sergeant Preston until, at about age 9, I vacationed in North Carolina where the TV stations broadcast a much different mix than those in my big city home.