Great Darkness Foretold
A tightly-wound progressive gentleman offers lifestyle advice:
These are the basic ground rules for surviving a fascist government.
It all sounds terribly exciting.
Leftist shares his plan if Trump wins this election. This is a whole new level of delusion… pic.twitter.com/BYYqVAL8T9
— Amala Ekpunobi (@amalaekpunobi) October 26, 2024
Via Protein Wisdom.
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Did he just forget Trump was in office for four years and none of this happened?
I could only guess at what’s happening in the gentleman’s head. I was, however, intrigued by the keep-your-mouth-shut part. Though I suspect that might be a challenge. A bridge too far.
Laughed, not sorry.
Heh. I did like the nesting dolls thing. And of course, “Hitler… and joy.”
Do help yourself to bar snacks.
They’re savoury.
None of this happened to him.
Charles Murray, Jordan Peterson, Janice Fiamengo, Kelly “Posie Parker” Jay-Kean and no doubt dozens of others I could name – and hundreds or even thousands I can’t – have all had variations of this treatment at the hands of what are presumably the intended audience for that video.
[ Slides dish of savouries to Nikw211. ]
As ever with progressive activist types, they operate on the assumption that everyone else thinks, behaves, and acts exactly as they do.
They apparently just cannot imagine that other people think differently, or even could think differently from them, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
And it’s in that they reveal themselves.
Hmm! Why thank you barkeep!
[ Mumbling to self while attempting to take polite enough portion ]
It’s just a carrot, it’s just a carrot, it’s just a carrot.
It is a carrot, right?
As Wanye Burkett has often illustrated, despite all the guff about empathy, progressives do seem quite bad at understanding other people’s minds. And I suppose that if your political persona relies so heavy on an elaborate demonology – white supremacy, everything is racist, trans genocide, literally Hitler, etc – then the outpouring above is hardly to be a surprise.
Oh, meatier than that.
[ Extends finger, pushes bowl tantalisingly close. ]
As a personal illustration, I’ve often had the sense that my middle-class, left-leaning acquaintances – whose motivations I think I understand, at least to some extent – seem baffled by me. As if I were something imponderable and mysterious, an inexplicable phenomenon. At best, merely contrarian.
I was recently asked, on two occasions, and somewhat incongruously, who I would vote for if I could vote in the upcoming US election. My answer, which could not have been much of a surprise, was nonetheless met with something like shock. A non-plussed silence. As if I’d suggested that I could levitate, or spontaneously turn a luminous purple.
Which made me wonder why the question had been asked, if one of the two possible answers was already inconceivable and seemingly could not be processed.
I don’t think I’ve seen a dog more embarrassed . . .
Empathy!
Purity test?
To be fair, we’re baffled by you, too.
Well, it was a little odd. I’m not in the habit of asking people how they vote, but if I were to, for some reason, I don’t think I would be left incredulous and spluttering if the answer were one of the two mainstream options. As if the other person had just announced that they’d been probed by aliens while walking the dog.
[ Pushes dish of savouries towards Ted. ]
As if I’d suggested that I could levitate, or spontaneously turn a luminous purple.
Wait, what? You can’t? We always figured that was SOP for you. I am so chagrined.
As I get over my bitter, bitter, disappointment, back to the topic, I am down with these morons shutting the hell up (as if that would ever happen) but their need to see themselves as Oppressed Martyrs of Petrograd™ is both laughable and pathetic.
That did strike me as the least plausible aspect of the tirade.
As if the other person had just announced that they’d been probed by aliens while walking the dog.
I think the response to that among a random gathering of people would be an invite to the support group, not incredulity.
This obviously pampered young man working himself up into a lather of fury reminds me of this quote. If President Trump wins, he will be so depressed when none of this happens.
@VeryBadLlama
Well as an assumption, in the absence of much evidence to the contrary, are they really wrong? We are all are steeped in a culture, the overwhelming predominant culture of leftism. Of the Overton window being permitted to move in one and only one direction. And conservatives…”conservatives” don’t/won’t speak up to say much differently. When conservatives, or even just non-BSC leftists* do, no matter how solid their foundational evidence (Trump told people to drink bleach for example) they are mocked. Not even their fellow “conservatives”, no matter how much they agree, will offer public support. Oh, they’re great in private though.
*I actually find a couple of my leftist friends from my college years being more willing to speak up than most “conservatives”. One even got canceled by many people he knew simply for defending free speech about ten years ago.
I would guess, having been asked somewhat similar questions myself, that the spluttering was pre-planned. Not knowing your exact relationship to the parties involved, I would venture a guess that they were 95% sure of the answer you would give and were really only asking to try to intimidate out the 5% chance of a proper response.
Bar snacks…
Hem. David Does Finger Food?
I think I see a mushroom…
Pig tails?
Amazing how trust in the media is at an all time low.
They look like wieners to me. Not sure what kind tho.
[ Slides intriguing dish closer. ]
[ Washes hands thoroughly. ]
It’s a strange feeling, to simultaneously want and not want to know what that is.
James Damore, Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, Amy Wax.
Tamara Lich and the Canadian truckers’ protests.
All the climate scientists who were defunded for questioning the catastrophic global warming narrative.
All the teachers and professors who were demoted or fired for disputing the merits of DEI.
All the people who objected to mandatory pronouns, or queer grooming in schools, and child “sex reassignment” surgery. And so on.
He is saying that Thanksgiving will be different this year?
Multiple reasons:
1. Seeking comforting personal affirmation that everyone agrees with them.
2. Attempting to subtly pressure everyone they meet into publicly declaring their support for the Right Opinions–or at least to be intimidated into silence.
The problem is not “institutional racism”, it’s an evil culture that needs eradication.
Again, that was the bit that really strained credulity. The idea that Agitated Chappie and his comrades could ever inhibit their compulsion to announce their own superiority at every opportunity. It was a stretch, even compared to the implication that the streets would soon be patrolled by some Trumpian Sturmabteilung.
I mean, despite the alleged peril, the risk of being chased into the sea or imprisoned in a camp, Agitated Chappie couldn’t resist videoing his latest commands and then posting them on social media. And should Mr Trump win the election, do we think Agitated Chappie will follow his own advice – his emphatic advice – and delete all of his social media accounts?
How would he signal his superiority then? How would we know how much better than us he is?
… an evil culture that needs eradication
Speaking of which…