Perhaps The Cardboard Has Magical Properties
Lifted from the comments, where WTP alerts us to more fun times for commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area:
❓ Did you know ❓
You can ask any station agent for BART’s free bystander intervention cards, which you can use if you’re experiencing or witnessing harassment in stations and trains.
Here’s how they work 👇 pic.twitter.com/09WmyquxVS
— BART (@SFBART) March 29, 2024
The cards, we’re assured, are “a concrete way to deal with an unsafe situation.” Though given the consequences of recent attempts at intervention – or what Bay Area Rapid Transit refers to as “allyship” – readers may wonder whether prompt and meaningful assistance may be less frequent than one might wish.
In case you had doubts, WTP adds, “This is not parody.”
Perhaps we can look forward to the issuing of “I am being stabbed” cards. And some “The man next to me is masturbating” cards. It does have the makings of an unhappy board game. It also calls to mind this uplifting scene from no-less-progressive Portland:
What the card for that would say, I leave to the reader.
Update, via the comments:
Diogenese asks, if direct and effective intervention has been discouraged and entails a serious risk of punishment,
Well, I’m assuming the point is largely to misdirect, to conjure an illusion. To give credulous progressive women, like the ladies in the video, the impression that the situation isn’t as bizarrely horrible as it actually is. And to make credulous progressive women imagine that progressives are The Ones Who Care, while so much of what they touch gets much worse, quite rapidly.
By issuing little cards, they’re creating “new social norms.” To supposedly address the problem of having created other “new social norms” in which punishing criminals is deemed unjust, racist, and terribly old-fashioned.
But hey, if you’re travelling to work on a BART train and some deranged creep starts masturbating against your leg, or pissing on the floor, or you find yourself standing next to yet another knife fight, or overdose, or commuter mugging – and no-one else does anything, or dares to do anything, except watch impotently and demoralised – because even noticing such things is racist – at least you’ll have a little card to clutch. Apparently that’s something.
And – and – every woman in the explanatory video, every single one of them, has brown skin. So there’s that.
Progress!
It’s not What The Phuck?
Women’s Torah Project?
I’m sure this can be permanently solved by a social worker.
Heh. Scrolling through Insty just now. Was distracted when my wife said something and when I look back at the iPad my ‘nick jumps out at me. “White Trash Party”…I kinda like the sound of that. Not sure it fits but I do like it.
For the record…ish…it stands for William T(ecumseh) Peabody. Not my real name. I used to use my real initials until about 2010 or so when I got a bit concerned that any online activity might cause problems at work. I saw this woke stuff and HR departments becoming too intrusive into private lives and too much of a threat to take too lightly. So I took one of my favorite generals and changed his last name to my favorite cartoon character professor.
Added: And yes PiperPaul, that was the secondary meaning.
The best pizza topping is doner kebab meat.
Yeah, most of them could only do good by buggering off to the Marianas Trench.
Whack the Ferret?
In New Guinea and Haiti that’s organ donor kebab.
And the British Navy.
Hmmm? [ Vociferous whispering ]
Captain B. J. Smethwick asks me to say that the Navy have the problem relatively under control, and that it is now California and Oregon who now suffer the largest casualties in this area.
kinda like the sound of that.
Eminem’s White Trash Party.
Ah. Thought it sounded vaguely familiar but I thought I was thinking of Insane Clown Party. Which is really Insane Clown Posse. I think.
If someone hands me the “I am being harassed” card, can I shoot the harasser?
No?
Taser him?
No?
Beat him fookin senseless with a stick?
Then what’s the fookin point?
Then what’s the fookin point?
You could always ask nicely, pretty please…
and good luck with that.
“It does have the makings of an unhappy board game.“
Don’t fancy pulling out a community chest card in ‘Frisco…
As read through the comments I became more and more crestfallen as I saw my social status evaporate before me:
Sociopathy detected.
About so many things. About SO many things.
I went to a pizza place in Cali Colombia with a mixed crowd of Americans and Colombians. Reading through the list of toppings, which included fruit such as peaches and cherries, were higos.
What are those, we asked the natives. Oh, they’re little black things…
Olives! we exclaimed, and ordered them. Only to find out that higos are figs.
Colombians further defile American food by putting potato salad on hot dogs, among other strange things.
I’m assuming the point is largely to misdirect, to conjure an illusion. To give credulous progressive women, like the ladies in the video, the impression that the situation isn’t as bizarrely horrible as it actually is. And to make credulous progressive women imagine that progressives are The Ones Who Care, while so much of what they touch gets much worse, quite rapidly.
But hey, if you’re travelling to work on a BART train and some deranged creep starts masturbating against your leg, or pissing on the floor, or you find yourself standing next to yet another knifing incident, or overdose, or commuter mugging – and no-one else does anything, or dares to do anything, except watch impotently and demoralised – because even noticing such things is racist – at least you’ll have a little card to clutch. Apparently that’s something.
And – and – every woman in the explanatory video, every single one of them, has brown skin, so there’s that.
Progress!
[ Post updated. ]
It was the 80’s. I still have the (audio) scars. On the plus side, I will defend to the death (ok, maybe not quite that far…pick your battles they tell me) your right to put anything you like on your hot dog or pizza. Except maybe long pig. I used to be pretty firm against that one as well but depending on the specific species, how they are raised and marinated, I may reconsider. Just don’t ask me to join you and stay away from the jukebox and we’re cool.
Well, that’s a relief.
That’s exactly it. It’s about tolerance. You are being trained. Once they get you to tolerate this, they know they can get you to tolerate anything. But noticing this is conspiracy theory. Crazy talk. Something not to be tolerated. Fascist! Why do you need to control what someone else does on a train?
Ah, but, by issuing little cards, they’re creating “new social norms.” To supposedly address the problem of having created other “new social norms” in which punishing criminals is deemed unjust, racist, and terribly old-fashioned.
And remember, brazen fare-dodging is never, ever an indicator of other, rather more alarming antisocial tendencies.
How dare you notice it happening.
[ Slides drink down the bar. ]
I never choose ketchup on a hot dog, but it would be acceptably tasty if that’s what I was given.I enjoyed every visit to the California Pizza Kitchen.Sauerkraut on hot dogs and bratwurst, yum!I no longer remember Journey and REO Speedwagon and Phil Collins, but I know I didn’t hate them back in the day.
J K Rowling is on a tear, daring the Scottish police to arrest her, while citing numerous instances of trans creeps committing crimes.
‘If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words and they can charge us both at once.’
The left (all the way from Stalinists to squishy brain-dead liberals) regard all “escalation” as criminal. Thus, you cannot use more force than the attacker uses.
Conclusion: Leftists are enemies of civilization and should be treated as such.
And here’s the original tweet.
And the National Organization for Women now condemns women who oppose men in women’s sports as “white supremacist patriarchy at work”.
Amazing: the NOW of my youth was run by a bunch of lesbians who hated men, and now it’s run by a bunch of perverts who hate women.
See the writings of former NOW officer Tammy Bruce, a lesbian who does not hate men.
Diogenese: If someone tries to force his way into your tub, that counts as home invasion and you can shoot him.
As has been said many times before:
Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks “I’m a sadist” or “I’m a malignant narcissist.” They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virtues.
The ultimate in social norm achievement.
Jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Hence the $487 million dollar fine against Trump in a case where no one lost a dime and they all made money. Another step, giant leap even, in the direction of making this the stupidest of all possible worlds.
[ Schedules Friday’s Ephemera, sighs with relief. ]
[ Schedules Friday’s Ephemera, sighs with relief. ]
And it’s still only Wednesday. [ raises eyebrows ]
Lunch at Beloved Sister-In-Law’s tomorrow. Best to get the compiling out of the way, I thought.
Hide everyone!
When did the space under the bar sink become a ‘wine cella’?
Tenderloin district is that way . . .
OT a little: the Woke accept the psychology science that is most dubious (implicit bias, self-esteem importance, etc) but reject the most well-established science (biological basis for sexual behavior, IQ heritability).
Now that WTP has clarified what his nick stands for, it’s pst314’s turn. I’ll start by guessing: “pi starts thus: 3.14.”
Now do Hamas.and Israel.
I cannot tell you how many people really think this way – and lecture us Israelis.
It comes together with complete misunderstanding of the scale of real war and its casualties.
I attribute this in part to the sheltered lives that many people lead, never forced to confront harsh realities. But a more important factor is the left’s generations-long war to destroy education and culture and morals.
See also: Childish TV westerns in which the good guy never shoots first–and usually just shoots to wound.
“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.”
–Col. David Hackworth
escalation, war, fighting back: if a guy is threatening you with a gun or knife, your only two options are to submit or use lethal force. The fallacy of the Woke is thinking that if you just give the guy your phone you are done. These guys shoot people just because. Even if they gave up their stuff. Also, what they want may be rape. It is not “your stuff more valuable than his life”, because you can give up your stuff and still die. As to just shooting to wound: big guys or those who are high will not necessarily stop if wounded. Shooting the gun out of his hand? ahahahaha not possible
“No rules” gives you Haiti or Somalia.
So true.
More bad advice: Shoot him once, and wait to see if that stops him.
Correct advice: Keep shooting without pause until it is obvious that the thread is ended.
And of course he can go on to prey on others. Over and over again.
Also, as Derek Fossier noted, he, the attacker, is the one who’s decided, by his choices, that his life is less valuable than your possessions, or your safety, or the safety of your wife and children.
As I’ve said before, the decision to steal someone’s car, or their dog, or to assault or rob some random stranger, or to break into someone’s home, is precisely how you know that person’s wellbeing is of very low importance.
A corollary: The decision to protect a criminal is precisely how you know that a person’s wellbeing is of very low importance.
A complete, often willful, misunderstanding of human nature leads to that sort of thing.
Intervention: in grad school in Seattle, I was walking near the university to get dinner with 2 friends. We walked into a black crowd on the sidewalk with lots of shouting. I found myself face to face with a young lady (and I use the term loosely) about to kick another lady, who was laying on the sidewalk, in the head. I reached out and put my hand on her shoulder and she stopped. 2 sec later a tall black male punched me in the face –fortunately a glancing blow. I noped out of there. Fast reaction times come in handy but better situational awareness would have been better.. As I put it together afterwards, the guy who hit me was egging on the lady about to kick. I might have saved the victim’s life. A kick in the head is no joke.
Sure, go ahead, intervene. I was lucky there was no knife or gun at hand for the guy who hit me. If on the train, how are you going to get away when it goes south?
A comment on Israel: for decades they have withstood rocket attacks, including tear gas. tens of thousands of rockets. And suicide bombers. Do you imagine that any other country would stand for that?