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.
Airports. I’ve seen them, or something close enough, in airports.
‘Genuinely’ is, perhaps, not being employed in the service of truth.
I don’t see it in the cities much, if at all. Maybe the business, and thus even the credit card company, has more to lose in the higher volume areas. When first started coming up here about 20 years ago or so, businesses that did take credit cards would refuse Discover because they said Discover charged 4%. The extra 1% of course being returned to the customer, minus a little extra vigorish.
Which seems to tie in with the increasing complaints about a lack of complaisant men.
From what I can make out, their social and political personas, and perhaps much of their lives, rely heavily on pretence. It’s a defining attribute. Like breathing.
Luggage carts aren’t really the same thing, but that reminds of an interesting bit of trivia: The Greek word for “transport” is “metafora” (μεταφορά) which literally means “carry across”. You will see “metafor” on trucks and airport luggage carts.
The derived English word metaphor carries a meaning across:
And thus, “metaphor” is itself a metaphor.
The local businesses aren’t adding a 3% charge for credit card use, they’re offering a 3% discount for using cash.
Yes, I know, it’s a transparent dodge but, given the ever-increasing fees charged by the credit card networks, it’s a clever workaround.
Ooh, haircut in half an hour.
[ Excitement mounts. ]
[ Anticipates Apollonian levels of radiance. ]
Rather easy to please. Meanwhile I’m counting down still 29 hours to my next happy hour. Probably a gin martini. I’m craving something that hurts going down but it’s still too warm for the 119 proof Yellowstone or Rittenhouse Rye.
Ahem.
[ Points to hair. ]
I know, right.
The years have dropped away.
immigrants: my wife and many friends r legal immigrants. upstanding citizens. the old system vetted immigrants for ability to support themselves and criminal record. if u get rid of that vetting and offer free stuff what happens? our current mess
credit card fees: Some years ago in US, business had to eat the cost of people using debit cards. Big business lobbied hard and got a bill passed that was framed as protecting the public, and forced banks to eat the cost. As a result, banks stopped offering free accounts for the poor and young. Side-effects, how do they work?
Same thing with the war on payday lenders. Poor people may need immediate cash to fix their car or bail out the husband. Serious stuff. Without payday lenders they have to go to loan sharks, who charge even more and will break your kneecaps if you don’t pay. but payday lenders are so icky they want to shut them down.
I’m coming to the conclusion that in sufficient numbers such women could be the downfall of civilisation
It is dangerous to be right too soon. And you can remove “such” from that sentence without loss of accuracy.
From what I can make out, their social and political personas, and perhaps much of their lives, rely heavily on pretence
They’re women. Their opinions are fashion.
a round or two of the Marie Antionette Chop-and-Drop Challenge might be something the people of the UK need to consider
Unfortunately la Revolution is always followed by le Terreur. Civil wars have a tendency to get out of hand very quickly and end up somewhere no one predicted or wanted. And then there’s the Bezmenov argument: a civil war is what they want.
Same thing with the war on payday lenders
That’s just pandering to low-IQ voters. People with good financial management skills don’t need payday loans. People who use payday loan places are always stunned by the notion that they have to pay the money back at exorbitant interest, so they compain about “predatory lending”.
One of the many reasons government doesn’t work is those in government are bloody idiots.
Yes. My point to certain conservatives back during Obama administration. Especially the let-it-burn crowd popular over at Ace and elsewhere. Including Ace himself. But we have long crossed that Rubicon. Or at least the UK has. We have maybe three more months. I see nothing but chaos ahead. The “Cooler heads” who prevailed in the past really just kicked the can further down the road. We are running out of road.
Speaking of non-serious
countriesstates…Well, OK, I guess. It is Minnesota, the California of the upper midwest.
I think the card networks exact the 3% and then pay the interchange to the issuer, though not at that rate (because the network gets its cut). That’s for credit cards. Debit cards charge about half that.
I remember listening to a speech by Victor Davis Hanson on the Peloponnesian War and that Athens could never have foreseen its own destruction and likewise how the Japanese cabinet of 1940 couldn’t have known that in less than 5 years their capital would have been burned to the ground and two cities immolated by a weapon that didn’t even exist at the time.
War has a tendency to get out of hand, and civil wars more than nation wars.
There have always been “odd” people on farms as well as in cities, but only recently have the “intelligentsia” celebrated them.
Note that this is from the uber-liberal Minneapolis Star Tribune, which recently canceled James Lileks’ column. It is presumably only a matter of time before the Star Tribune does a glowing profile of a farmer who “loves” his sheep.
The idiocy lies in being a leftist. The reasons advanced by this advocate for “queering” nuclear weapons are dishonest, consciously crafted to shame normal people into accepting policies intended to do them harm.