Your Affirmation Is Mandatory
And he will “take note” of who does not obey:
I expect Liberal MPs to march in the pride parade in Ottawa, even if they do it without party approval. I will take note of who does not. https://t.co/IPxXmgGH9b
— Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇵🇸🇺🇦 (@JakeLandauTO) August 19, 2024
Mr Landau, since you ask, is a “left wing, progressive Liberal organiser” – pronouns “he/him” – who spends a lot of his time being “exhausted and sad.” Oh, and he doesn’t like people who “suppress… dissenting voices.”
Mr Landau has not yet specified what he will do to those reluctant to march on demand. Something progressive, no doubt. Sadly, Mr Landau, our champion of radical dissent, is not permitting questions or replies from those insufficiently like-minded.
Via Mia Hughes.
Update, via the comments:
Rafi adds,
Ah, but, you see, they’re “dissenting,” albeit in a very conformist way. And any failure to “dissent” – on demand, as instructed – will be punished. Compliance under duress being the way of the dissenter.
The rhetorical inversions may, I grant you, take some getting used to. But you will start celebrating now, comrade, spontaneously, and with great joy.
Lest your hesitation be noted.
Update 2:
Oh, and speaking of affirmation being demanded:
BREAKING: DNC Protesters BLOCK CARS demanding they say “Free Palestine”, angry driver drives through, gets out of the car to CONFRONT protesters when his window was dented pic.twitter.com/HuSWTyJ43Q
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) August 23, 2024
Behold our betters and their recreational malice.
I thought pride was one of the seven deadly sins?
You will start celebrating now, comrade.
Funny how support sounds like a lot like obedience.
Also, note the signature aversion to reciprocation. No Golden Rule. And so, if you don’t wish to be associated with a terrorist movement or competitive depravity, and choose to do something else, then you must be trying to “suppress our dissenting voices” and are therefore A Bad Person, someone to be punished. But when he “takes note” of who demurs, however politely, with implications of serious consequences, this is all fine and dandy, all tickety-boo. It’s “fighting the good fight.”
This is who they are.
Oh, and note that Mr Landau, our champion of progress, is not permitting replies from those insufficiently like-minded.
Symbolism, baby.
Compelled speech isn’t enough. Now it’s compelled marching.
Ah, but, you see, they’re “dissenting,” albeit in a very conformist way. And any failure to “dissent” – on demand, as instructed – will be punished. Compliance under duress being the way of the “dissenter.”
The rhetorical inversions will, I grant you, take some getting used to. But you must struggle on, comrade.
Lest your hesitation be noted.
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Freedom is slavery.
Diversity is our strength.
Conformism is dissent.
During the last local Pride March in the town where I live, a number of ex military veterans, all gay, attended, wearing T shirts showing the Union Flag (Union Jack) with the words “MY PRIDE FLAG” above.
Despite others carrying Palestinian flags, and calling for the genocide of all Jews, it was those veterans who were singled out by the Police for possibly causing a breach of the peace.
Also, “Queers for Palestine” didn’t seem to get the irony. Words fail me.
Sounds a bit ableist to me. What if you can’t march? Or walk?
It does not seem to have occurred to Mr Landau that those he threatens might return the favor, that people who previously were inclined to allow him to quietly get on with his life as he sees fit might now be inclined to withdraw the social contract and treat him as an enemy of civilization towards whom no courtesy or even tolerance is owed.
This is the inevitable trend of all “progressive” causes: First is the demand for tolerance. Then passive acceptance (but still called tolerance.) Then strict adherence to speech codes. Then public displays of celebration.
At every stage, liberals will deny the reality of what they are demanding.
Mr Landau boasts of being employed the CBC News Network. I’m guessing they found his values in accord with their own.
Why not “take note” of when the CBC employs such creeps?
It makes you think maybe those leading the protests are running a honey pot.
*shocked face*
By the way, should anyone care, I finally got around to watching the season two finale of House of the Dragon. Bit wobbly and underwhelming, frankly. The weakest episode, I’d say, and not at all well-paced. All set-up, more set-up, and needlessly long detours into peripheral events, and no actual pay-off.
For many years the libs I knew would deny that the depravity even existed. When it became too difficult to deny, some switched to “none of your business”. The same was true of the terrorism.
Meh. You’re all overreacting. It’s no big deal. Not worth being concerned about. You see, these problems have ways of working out for themselves. Plus, it’s just God’s will anyway.
Not entirely unrelated, “Hot damn, looky them thar camafluge hats! Now me and all my buddies out here in Flyoverlandia are gonna be a-votin’ for that Harris gal ’cause they are totally like me now!”
Said no one ever. These leftoids are so out of touch it is not funny. Read through the article linked at the tweet at our own risk. You will be surprised to learn the writer is NYC born and bred and doing her damnedest to turn Nashville into the Portland of Tennessee.
Also, leftist women with tattoos positioned seemingly at random are probably best avoided.
…leftist women with tattoos positioned seemingly at random…
That, believe or don’t, is the Veep’s stepdaughter who is a model.
They are really are and it really isn’t.
On this side of the Atlantic, Supreme leader Keir Jong Un and his inner circle have made that clear with unnecessarily impressive abundance.
The only bright spot?
They have so lost control of the ‘narrative’ that everything they say now is having the direct opposite effect to the one intended.
Related to nothing…
TBF, we and the Soviets got all the good rocket scientists…
It does not seem to have occurred to Mr Landau that those he threatens might return the favor
Who, the Liberal MPs? The CBC is 100% funded by the Liberal government. This is all theater. The Liberal Party withdraws so they won’t be tarnished by the spectacle of their pet groups brawling in the streets, while the individual MPs march so they can keep those same votes.
Plus, CBC TV has ads.
Landau is, in his own words, “Bi Liberal DemSoc Jew.”
That is consistent with “left wing, progressive Liberal organiser,” but it is also very much more than that.
Behold the awesome power of trading on your stepmother’s fame.
Ah yes, those ‘dissenting voices’, raised to drown out those who . . . dissent.
When done in public it is my business – and yours and that of anyone else who goes into public spaces.
It’s Rolling Stone – they’ve make CNN look sane.
One or two discreetly placed tattoos on a woman (or man for that matter) is one thing. Looking as if your child got hold of a Sharpie while you were passed out is another.
I think I see the problem.
I’m not a fan of tattoos generally, aesthetically, but when I see someone who has lots of them scattered seemingly at random, unrelated, as if wherever there was space would do, then I think this counts as fairly important information.
And maybe even honest.
It’s neck tattoos that scream ‘Danger Will Robinson!’
Let’s not get crazy.
In regard to the public depravity documented by Zombie, I was told “just avoid those streets”.
It used to be understood that in a democracy/republic, different people have different interests and wants. Politics was a way to balance those needs. Politicians tried to find balanced solutions or spent too much to try to satisfy all constituencies. Now the desire of progressives is to use politics to completely dominate the public, no matter what their wishes. If you disagree with prog policies, you are the problem. There is no concept of compromise. You no longer have a right to have different wishes.
That is baked into progressive ideology–well, all leftist ideologies.
By the way, now that I’ve finished watching season two of House of the Dragon, I’m on the lookout for some other last-thing-in-the-evening viewing. Nothing too emotionally taxing. And nothing with gangsters or hoodlums.
An old Cary Grant movie?
A light-hearted murder mystery perhaps?
As I type, The Other Half is watching Howard Hawks’ 1955 epic, Land of the Pharaohs. Picture, if you will, plotting, scheming and tomb-building in ancient Egypt. With Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins and – obviously – James Robertson Justice.
I’m half expecting Terry-Thomas and Margaret Rutherford to appear.
Ella Emhoff is who I immediately think of as a perfect rep of Southern …er … wait, that would be Southern California where she grew up in Brentwood, went to a $50K/year private school and now resides in New York.
:::snort:::
You know, I can’t remember the last time a leftist gave me affirmation.
It’s called ‘strange new respect’ and you only get it when you’ve lost your self-respect.
Now that’s an expression I’ve not heard in a long time.
I’m on the lookout for some other last-thing-in-the-evening viewing
Of late I’ve been watching a lot of reality TV that involves rapidly building effective things with limited time and money. Homestead Rescue, The Bridge, and others. Minimal squabbling, technical competence on display, and some clever ideas.
If you’re looking for drama, the first five seasons or so of Chicago Fire are surprisingly wholesome – and based – before the show lurches wholeheartedly into woke idiocy.
Those parades celebrate other deadly sins as well, especially lust, gluttony, wrath, and envy.
Progressivism long predates Marxism and the revolutionary movements common to the same time frame, yet progressives love to parrot the rhetoric and ape the postures of Marxist revolutionaries because it ties them, in their own minds, to October ’17, and thus makes them more macho by propinquity. They see themselves as fellow warriors. The reality of course is that the number of Queer Unltd. franchise offices in Moscow or Beijing is vanishingly small, yet no matter comrade, forward to victory! I suspect the Progessive’s true understanding of revolutionary movements in general rivals that of a chimp trained to use the proper fork when served the salad.