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!
Meanwhile from The Great White North something you won’t read every day…
Bespoke plumbing paid for by the state are key to personal interpretations. A bit of a shame that for the “non-binary” there are still only two choices. It is obviously a public health crisis that more research isn’t being done in making more diversity of genitals. Yet.
No word whether Dr. Eappen’s Wrongthink Tribunal is scheduled yet.
This makes my blood run cold. This is not the behavior of moronic bureaucrats or political partisans. This is mafioso behavior.
What on earth are they actually protecting? Who the hell is pushing this and why?
But the mafioso behavior is not without precedent in this country:
You’ll notice that we lived through that, and the bad behavior was mostly suppressed and rejected in the intervening decades. Unfortunately, a lot of our mettle came from fighting the Nazis and Japanese Empire. God help us all if that’s the only path back to sanity.
I don’t even drink, but damn. Maybe I should.
[ pokes spam filter; prior entry had much linkage ]
[ Frees, slurps coffee. ]
Cheers, thanks a lot.
At the end of last thread someone posted a link to zombietime, where the last zomblog entry was 4 years ago, and no farewell.
What happened to old zomb?
No idea. Zombie’s was a regular port of call for me, back in the Before Times.
[ Prepares digestive system for lunchtime visit to Beloved Sister-In-Law’s and prospect of rather generous portions. ]
They care so much, you see.
For me too. I suspect that Zombie either burned or aged out or decided she didn’t have anything new to report.
And in film news.
Don’t all rush at once.
Right, heading out for a feedin’.
Play nicely.
The Labour Party, dispensing wisdom.
As I recall, even when Wilson was first running for president he had gangs of thugs intimidating political opponents.
Today’s progressives are not much different from those of 100 years ago.
What are the odds this is for an OnlyFans or porn-type reason?
David forgot the coasters.
This is mafioso behavior.
TBF to the Mafia, they are not going to show up on your doorstep because of a Facebook post mocking The Current Thing™ and don’t have the power to investigate you or toss you in the calaboose.
Is the spam filter being extra vigilant? Posted one comment with one link that has yet to make an appearance.
Heaven forfend dullards feel, well, dull.
He wasn’t the first ‘progressive’ president but he had the whole ‘anti-fascist’ schtick down before there was fascism.
OT, but what’s the procedure for getting a credit note honoured in this bar? Asking for a friend.
Are there credit notes in this establishment?
Here you go. What?
A few days ago, we had fantastic wood fired pizzas at a little place in coastal South Carolina – one BBQ chicken, and one pear & fig. Tasty pizza is tasty pizza…
Cardinal Fang will be along later with an Italian special forces team.
“It’s hard to call this actual health care,” said Dr. Roy Eappen
It’s hard to call anything we have in Canada health care. I’m currently looking at an three month wait to schedule deviated septum surgery, which will take eight to nine months after that.
Quelle surprise!
Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy in action.
And Heaven knows, governments around the world are turning medicine into a bureaucracy.
Yes.
Freed.
Did the recent spate of spam force you to boost its vigilance?
Health care: In the US it is not government but waits for specialists can be several months. The reason is simple–to be a doc, one must do a residency, and all $ for residencies comes from federal gov. They have not kept up with demand so there is a doctor shortage, especially for specialists. Fortunately, for most things there are good walk-in clinics.
Patience, weedhopper. It will be.
True, they can’t subject you to the legal system, but they can break your kneecaps or merely slaughter you and your family.
But the Mafia aren’t likely to weak vengeance on a mere critic, whereas destroying dissenters is the heart and soul of the left.
So, would these commuter cards include, perhaps, race cards? That one could, well, play?
I expect I ask too much. Still, “Spate of Spam” is a good band name.