Into Himself
Time for a spot of downtrodden-minority news:
The Vancouver Police Department, quoted above, are referring, rather coyly, to this chap here:
The assault occurred on Thursday, May 9, at approximately 2:15PM, when the mother, her husband, their baby boy, and one other family member were sitting in their vehicle on Commercial Drive. A strange man opened the door of the car and attempted to grab the mother and her nursing four-month-old infant from the back of the car.
Happily, passers-by assisted the alarmed mother, and Mr Beekmeyer, who was shirtless at the time, was overpowered and arrested shortly afterwards, before being charged with assault. Unlike the police and several news outlets, including the Vancouver Sun and the CBC, witnesses to the crime were quite comfortable using the words he and man when referring to Mr Beekmeyer.
Apparently, it’s the kind of euphoria that results in one attacking random women and their four-month-old babies. Until a crowd of passers-by pin one to the ground.
If the above isn’t sufficiently Silence of the Lambs, there is more.
He’s going to his happy place. Where the good vibes are:
He continues: “Now I’m thinking, how can I kill you? I could have killed you in a different video… Yeah, I’m a serial killer. Do you hate women? I hate women. They don’t take enough oestrogen.”
So nothing of concern there.
Readers with an interest in self-expression and interior décor will find much to ponder in the video below:
🚨A man in Vancouver, Canada, was charged yesterday after assaulting a mother while she was breastfeeding her baby.
Nathaniel “Millie” Beekmeyer, 26, identifies as transgender and made videos about taking estrogen so he could masturbate to himself. pic.twitter.com/W03mw5gpN8
— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) May 11, 2024
When not sharing his thoughts on how “super cute” he is, and therefore how sexually aroused he is, Mr Beekmeyer declares himself a saviour who will “fix the world.” Specifically, by transforming men into women. However – and this is perhaps something of a catch – “all women have to be destroyed.”
Mr Beekmeyer adds, “I’m a beautiful person.”
For reference purposes.
Still, at least the public were spared getting what might laughingly be referred to as the wrong idea, thanks to the police and media misleading said public about the identity of a dangerously deranged criminal.
Though it occurs to me that, for the passers-by who intervened and overpowered Mr Beekmeyer, it must have been quite strange to see subsequent reports in which this shirtless man was referred to by the police and the media as a woman. As if their own, first-hand perceptions, from mere inches away, were somehow wildly and implausibly inaccurate.
And as noted by Genevieve Gluck, author of the piece quoted above,
But hey. This is where we are now. Feel the progress.
Update, via the comments:
As noted previously, you have to wonder whether the absurdity above will continue indefinitely, a sort of routine surrealism, or whether it will it just peter out, like any fad, and then be remembered with some embarrassment. As if it were on a par with wearing flares.
And if it does become unfashionable, I wonder how the players below will feel:
It must be quite surreal, and presumably upsetting, to hear lawyers and officials pretending that a 6’5” man – the 6’5” man who recently molested your child in a supermarket toilet – is somehow, magically, a woman. One would hope that lawyers, judges, and the other occupants of a courtroom – and possibly, at a stretch, even journalists – were interested in reality, in establishing facts. Not affirming some unhinged and misleading fantasy.
I wonder how those journalists, lawyers, and court officials will retrospectively process their very public participation in our current, ongoing clown show. In which, as above, the child molester is flattered and indulged, his pretence affirmed, while his victims are repeatedly insulted. Will they still like to think of themselves as beings of high probity?
I was already a regular at Protein Wisdom when she came swanning into the comments as southwestpaw. I sparred with her like everyone else did. I saw her turn into a monster in real time.
Maybe orbital lobotomies need to make a comeback.
And when the public does cotton on, who’s going to clear out the vermin? The same justice system that became thus corrupted?
I don’t know how you escape this. A revolution whereby it all burns down will inevitably lead to terror and tyranny. There’s no new continent where we can escape and start over. You can’t build a parallel judiciary that replaces the old one when it falls apart.
Is there a historical example of a country escaping the widespread corruption of its leadership class?
Try saying that, or things to that effect 30, 20, or even 10 years ago. You would be met with blank stares and thatwillneverhappens or thesethingshavewaysofresolvingthemselves. There’s a tipping point that societies can reach long before most people in them recognize it. Anyone who tries to warn them gets written off as a Cassandra or a conspiracy theorist. Even if they start to wake up, they expend more energy on killing the messenger than addressing the problem.
That said, there is a way outside chance that a reverse mind-virus kicks in. Societies have gone mad over shorter periods of time. Like a month or so. But this requires revolution/tyranny madness in the opposite direction. And once that is over, while you may have retained shreds of the old society, something recognizable, good luck restoring the Republic to what it once was. The Romans, well some of them, dreamed of it for centuries. The French, after burning it all down, tried to go back somewhat to their monarchy. The residual madness is hard to stop. We are staring down the barrel of some serious shit.
Is there a historical example of a country escaping the widespread corruption of its leadership class?
No. Next question.
This needs to be everywhere:
Argentina. We can go to Argentina.
And in entertainment news.
Not entirely unrelated.
The bad news: rampant fraud in scientific journals.
The good news: there’s a concerted effort to root out the back eggs.
aelfheld: “Norfolk’s Tony Martin comes to mind.“
No need to go back that far, we’ve a more recent case.
That is indeed a large part of the reason that I didn’t bother with the Nu Who.
Perhaps it was inevitable that such a remake couldn’t satisfy the nostalgia of fans, and that it had to be jazzed up in some way.
But the over obvious sexing up and the emoting is redolent of the insincerity of nothing more than Blairist politics. The show didn’t have anything near the cultural impact of the original ‘Who’, whose titular character got his grandfatherly sternness and kindness and reserve from a generation that had endured two world wars. It also tapped into the golden age and New Wave SF era and presented some truly original and compelling plot lines, whereas the Nu show was merely a series of callbacks to old themes.
@TimT – Just reposted the links above in the new thread, where they may get more attention. Perhaps you’d be willing to copy your comment over there too?
Consider it done!
The authorities won’t stop the criminals, and they won’t allow the citizens to do so.
Obvious question for all citizens to ask: Whose side are they on, actually?
Not peacefully and not without widespread disruption.
Why? The U.S. long surpassed Argentina in fiscal and monetary corruption.
I think that was a reference to President Javier Milei’s reforms.
The side of those who sign their pension checks.
Leave Ric Flair out of this.
Ok, you’re a woman. Bye, honey. [pulls switch to electric chair]