Great Darkness Foretold
A tightly-wound progressive gentleman offers lifestyle advice:
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
Update, via the comments:
Martin D adds, not unfairly,
Ah, yes, but there’s a sweet role to play, a self-flattering psychodrama to enact. Or as Mr Muldoon puts it,
And regarding the prospect of Our Betters being forced into some terrified silence, Eagle quips,
That was, I think, the bit that really strained credulity. The idea that Agitated Chappie and his radical 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, where his oppressors might discover them. 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?
Via Protein Wisdom.
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Oh Lord. Two neighbours are using leaf blowers. It’s like they’re competing or trying to harmonise the bloody things.
Only Strouse’s was published, so I’d say this is a sign of the degeneration of scholarship.
You shouldn’t have said that. Now someone is sure to do a “musical” arrangement for leaf blowers.
At the moment, it’s just two loud, quite aggravating noises, very slightly out of tune with each other.
[ Closes window. ]
Fantasia for Leaf Blowers and Neighbor, by PDQ Bach’s g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandson.
[ Starts pondering what it would take to retune a leaf blower. ]
@David
If you read one of the replies further down, someone relates that this went on at a Janet Jackson concert he attended some 20 years ago. She just stood there and bathed in it. His fault in my book for attending a Janet Jackson concert.
You’d think that at some point it would just become embarrassing.
[ Fetches box, stands on it, arms outstretched. Waits for 17 minutes of applause. ]
Musical leaf blower? Ask and ye shall recieve.
Wouldn’t a bookmark work better?
The hallmark of modern celebrity is the inability to be embarrassed.
[ Starts pondering what it would take to retune a leaf blower. ]
This guy has it figured out – “When you can’t beat them, join them”. Nigh the same as a bagpipe drone…
“…we will not be discussing gender identity in school…”, but mind the talking points.
Or, Learn To Lie, Children.
And not uncommon among Our Betters.
Cutting the hands off people like that would seriously cut down on that kind of nonsense.
Hallowe’en costume.
While I love that my office windows open and let in fresh air, at this time of year there is a veritable untuned orchestra of leaf-blowers all day long as the university facilities people go up and down the walkways.
That was pretty cool!! My musical abilities with leaves are limited to a screeching whistle from a blade of grass, and a loud “pop” from the thinner broadleaves (maple is best).
Take it to an auto “performance” shop where they tune mufflers for lads.
An amuse-bouche for your delectation:
The treat in question
What I’d like you to enjoy the most is that the likely pervert defending his own sort is unbothered by the general run-down of the rule of law elsewhere; he’s most disturbed that the breakdown in law’norder is affecting one of his chosen constituencies, the pedophile community.
Never mind what the rise in vigilantism says about people’s trust in the judiciary; never mind what the realities are with regards to how people are losing faith with the entire concept of civilized public order that’s inherent to the judiciary, he’s upset that people are hunting pedophiles…
No concerns about catch-and-release policies for shoplifting or theft, no concerns about murderers being released on technicalities by prosecutors, or said prosecutors focusing on what are really non-crimes by the unapproved, he’s worried about fairness for pedos.
It does make one wonder.
The situation is one that reminds me of dealing with some of this moron’s peers in the military: He demonstrates an utter inability to grasp the entire concept of prioritization, the understanding that one must identify that which is truly important and then do that first and foremost, leaving the minor details to themselves.
In other words, if you’re on a sinking ship, you first fix the gaping holes in the hull, before you start worrying about whether the decks are swabbed and the various ropes are coiled neatly…
Dr A. W. Strouse’s dissertation titled Literary Theories of the Foreskin.
A work that pulls back literary dogma, unsheathes academic complacency and reveals the tumescent prose of all previous work in the field.
[ Pushes dish of savouries towards Steve, along with a large unwashed spoon. ]
Clearly, Strouse is an absolute helmet.
“bystanders ignored her calls for help”
It should be legal for a bystander to stop such a criminal “by any means necessary”.
[ Pushes dish of savouries towards Steve, along with a large unwashed spoon. ]
Thank you, but I’m on strictly circumscribed diet.
I’ve been saying that for years. Don’t forget about the easy anonymous identification and recruitment of the malleable and their weaponization.
I’ll do you a portion to take home. Don’t want you starving.
[ Fetches enormous dry-cleaning carrier bag. ]
@pst314, who unknowingly triggered me:
Daniel Penny unavailable for comment.
Here’s a news flash for all those who are not up in arms and forming lynch mobs to go after Alvin Bragg and his minions: You are acquiescing to the destruction of public order, and supporting your becoming free-range feeding for the criminal element.
I’ve no sympathy at all for New Yorkers. They see this going on in public, in front of them, and do nothing to defend or support Mr. Penny. He’s twisting slowly in the wind, life ruined… Do you think that anyone else, anyone at all, will involve themselves in your tragedies, when they come? Will they step one inch out of their way to aid you, in your victimhood?
Frankly, were I to live in New York City? I’d likely step over you as you were being raped, murdered, or robbed, only acting if the victim was myself, or someone I gave a f*ck about. I no longer care about abstract unknowns… You made this world? You’re A-OK with it, and aren’t working against Alvin Bragg and his ilk?
You deserve the world you’ve made, your place in it, and whatever you have coming to you. I’m done with playing “white knight” for good causes in this sadly diminished society of ours.
How much does it cost to arrest, prosecute, and jail a pedo? How much hassle is it and how many people are really affected?
Meanwhile, thousands of people are offended by your posts disparaging the antisocial and criminal behavior of the, quite literally, dirty foreigners. And the women voted to make ‘being rude’ a crime. And your name and address are trivially tied to your posted opinions. And paying a guy to add 2+2 and send a team out to pick you up for being mean is a lot easier than dealing with all the whining and violent fatwas that would result from mass deporting a rape gang (and their entire families).
@Joe Ego, who (I think…) said sarcastically:
I think you’re being sarcastic, here. I wish you’d have flagged it as such, but… Can’t have everything you want, now can you?
I do believe that the overall point I was making is missed by your post: My main point, in support of the thesis I’ve posted innumerable times, is that the idjit class utterly fails to comprehend what they’re doing with all of this, which is breaking the social compact which says “We give up our right to our individual justice to the government, who will administer it fairly…”
Compact breaks down, or doesn’t exist? Nature, red in tooth and claw. Vigilantism; little old ladies selling their houses to raise funds to pay someone nasty to slaughter the men who raped their granddaughters… Which is something that happened down SoCal way, per an informant, not all that long ago. Grammy lost her shit, sold her all, and paid some Latino gang-bangers to creatively kill a set of black gang-bangers that raped her twin granddaughters. Said gang-bangers did not go out quietly or at all painlessly, and Grammy counted it a bargain; she got video of it sent to her as “proof of work”.
That’s the world these ohsosuperior idjit types are building for us, all unknowing. They think that leniency for the criminal is cheap mercy, that they can display to show their virtue. What it actually is? Insuring unpleasant death for a lot of people to come, including actual innocents mistaken for malefactors.
These people are utter morons, with no idea of the follow-on effects of their works. And, it will go on, all as it is… Until it isn’t. Then, they’ll step out on the front porch to a mob that’s been ginned up because their neighbors don’t like their looks, and discover that the cops won’t come, and the mob wants to drape tires around their necks, fill them with gasoline, and set them afire.
Won’t feel a bit of sympathy, when that happens.
@Kirk
I’m going to go out on a limb and kinda defend this guy* by saying he’s more likely an over-educated tool who has watched The Oxbow Incident and 12 Angry Men** too many times. However, I also suspect our overeducated subject has been rather mum when the situations are reversed. After all, where does he get off disparaging these men without knowing their full story?
*whom I know nothing about so reserve the right to be wrong
**One of my law-and-order father’s favorite movies.
Oh, this. This f’n this. Though my personal experience being more with morons of the corporate type. Not just in regards to the PC/Diversity/DEI BS but as to regular business practices as well.
Well, she could help herself and the other potential victims that she says she is concerned about by providing a better description of these so-called “young people” (did she check their ages on their IDs?). Were they dark or light complected? Any clues in what accent or manner of speech they used when they called her those names? Someone in that Twitter thread said they knew “for a fact” that she voted for Harris. Not sure how seriously to take that but it is Oakland. Which she says she will be moving away from shortly. Hopefully she doesn’t bring any standard Oakland voting preferences with her.
@WTP, who said with perception:
I truly believe that the critical issue of our era is that we’ve put entirely the wrong set of people in charge of things, and because our system is a rigid hierarchy, once they are in charge, they cannot be removed short of system-breaking revolution.
I hold the belief that nobody is permanently “fit for purpose” in a leadership role; it’s a thing of fits and starts. You may be the man of the hour, but when that hour passes? You’re an actual impediment to further progress, and entirely unfit for the role you’re now stuck in because you did well at an earlier point.
I once had a most enlightening experience, my platoon of hierarchy-based Combat Engineers assigned to support a veteran and well-experienced Special Forces team. Those guys were a revelation; there was no rank, no locked-down hierarchy on display. They all just slotted in together to get the job done, smoothly shifting “who was in charge” from one moment to the next, each man on the team taking appropriate command and subordinating themselves in turn, as their areas of expertise shifted based on momentary needs through the week-long mission we were on with them. No egos, no “I’m the officer; I’m the decision-maker, you have to get my permission to breath…” sort of bullshit typical to Big Army; it was just a community of highly competent types coming together to do a job, and doing it well.
That’s the way things ought to be, the way they should work. Unfortunately, we’ve become ossified, rigid, unable to work together flexibly… Mostly due to the incompetent idjits infesting everything everywhere, who’re too ego-involved to set proper priorities on anything other than their imagined primacy and position.
Yes. And this. Though I was saying similar regarding the Trayvon/Zimmerman encounter a dozen years ago. Something that happened very close to where I worked. Then a follow on incident where someone shot at…Zimmerman while he was driving down a main road that I took every morning/afternoon to work. Which is a big reason why I have no sympathy for most of my friends in central Florida. Idiots and cowards, the lot of them.
@WTP, who said:
What’s going on with this is that the powers-that-are are silently and very effectively conditioning people against being pro-active citizens. They’re turning people into subjects, domesticated animals, removing their agency.
I think it’s a deliberate thing, not necessarily planned, but certainly performed with deliberate intent. The Alvin Bragg’s of this brave new world want to be the arbiters, the only ones who get to decide what is criminal and what isn’t. And, they cannot abide competition; were the citizenry to be actively engaged in these situations, then they wouldn’t happen in the first damn place, and there’d be no scope for the Alvin Braggs of the world to lord themselves over it all.
You see an Alvin Bragg? Know that he’s your mortal enemy, a man dedicated to the destruction of good cohesive social order, and its replacement with his sole power to arbite over that which is permissible. By rights? The moment he chose to indict Daniel Penny? Someone should have dragged his sorry ass out of his office, beaten him to a thin slimy puddle of goo on the sidewalk outside, and then gone on about their day, having effectively checked the power of the elite.
Won’t happen, mostly because today’s deracinated New Yorker is too ‘effing stupid to comprehend that they’re no longer citizens, but self-domesticated animals, prey for their “betters”.
And this as well. I believe a lot of this is ironically follow-on from the success of the US in WWII. Not so much in actual battle where from my limited knowledge things flowed a bit closer to your SF support observation, but in the greater logistics and rear support officer corps. But one thing that kept even that under control was generally speaking, one significant loss in battle, lose one ship, one major failure and your fighting leadership role was generally over. Or at least put on the back burner for a few years. We definitely don’t do that at all anymore.. where was the punishment for the administrators who gave us the “open classroom” concept for our middle schools? For the medical people who pushed the tonsillectomies? The nutritionists who pushed the food pyramid and all this other claptrap? We are more likely to punish the successful than the guilty today.
@WTP, who observed:
Said it innumerable times before this, but the thing that’s most lacking from modern life is accountability. We’ve institutionalized the old Army observation about “F*ck up, move up…”, and no one who has made a single step along our modern cursus honorum can be allowed to fall from grace. They just go ever onward, screwing things up even more; despite the observations made of the Peter Principle, we cannot simply say “OK, you’ve done f*cked up, boy… Go do what you’re good at, instead…”
Or, alternatively, we might say “You’re just an incompetent moron; get out of the pool entirely…”
Note what happened to the EPA officials who managed to kill a thousand miles of Colorado river: Not demoted, not disciplined, not anything you would expect in a rational world of rewards and punishments: They were promoted and given performance bonuses…
It’s like that throughout government. Why? Because we put the precise wrong sort of people in charge, and they’ve actively recruited their own to work alongside them. If you try to hold anyone accountable, for wrongdoing? You’re the guy who they’re going to go after, for “conducting a vendetta” or some such similar bullshit.
Been there, done that, have multiple T-shirts to show for it. The system actively punishes anyone enforcing standards, other than the capricious ones they’ve set.
Every so often, X/Twitter turns up some tidbit of esoterica that leaves me amazed that I’d never heard of it before.
And, no doubt, many will chime in now that I’ve said that to say “Really? You didn’t know…?”
https://x.com/vanska_ville/status/1851205464379236501
Do the translation click-through… I had no idea about the provenance of the “Red Star” in Soviet iconography, and I’m rather bemused to discover it came out of Lenin’s fascination with a piece of utopian science fiction he loved as a boy…
It is mind-boggling to me how much of this trite and trivial bullshit underlies much of the modern world, and how influential some of these idiots actually manage to become…
Makes you wonder what weird little bit of current pop culture will turn out to be hugely influential decades down the line, some ridiculous minor thing that flaps its little butterfly wings and kills millions.
Oi… Shoulda dug a little deeper in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_(novel)
That’s the Wikipedia piece describing the books, in English. Read through that bit of utopian tripe, and note all the typical signs of leftish fantastical thinking. It’s like checklist; swapping of sexual identities, androgyny, lunatic economic ideas, and all wrapped up in a convenient bundle of idealism.
Is there anything so bizarre as the exposed ravings of the leftoid mind?
Dicentra once referred to Star Trek – or rather, its unconvincing economics and pretentious hand-wringing – as a “pernicious ideal.” Which sounds about right.
Vigilantism: people forget that lynchings only ended in the US a few decades ago. Lynchings were not, contrary to propaganda, only of blacks. A majority were white. It was vigilantism pure and simple. The last major lynching I could find was 8 italian men in New Orleans (1960s?). They imagine it can’t happen now but it certainly can if we we keep sliding.
@David, who said:
We need a word that incorporates “pernicious” with “verminous”, because I don’t think either one is quite evocative enough.
You shudder to think at what might happen after the apocalypse, should some of the current range of bullshit be what is accidentally preserved, versus the actual reality/truth of things.
What, pray tell, would come of a world reliant upon the lunatic ravings of the Insane Clown Posse for moral and scientific guidance?
It’d be bad enough if they took Tolkien’s oeuvre for actual history…
@ccscientist, who said:
The overt semi-organized sort of vigilantism isn’t what worries me the most; the majority of those cases, you had an actual event, a crime, a breach of the peace going on that people reacted to because they didn’t trust the “system” to deal with it all.
The cases that scare the living snot out of me are the ones like you often find in Central America, where some idjit starts a rumor of something, like “They’re kidnaping kids for organ donation!!!”, and then go looking for some stranger to kill. Which they then do, horribly. Actual cases of this have been documented, and the mania is a lot like the craze for witch-burnings they had back in the 1600s.
Watch what happens as social trust levels drop. You see a stranger walking down the alley behind your home…? Oh, my gawd!! He’s a peeping tom!!! No, he’s here to rape the babies!!! Kill him!!!!!! Kill him!!!!!!!”
Actual reality? It’s the guy who just bought the house behind you, and he was taking the trash cans out to the street. Too late, though… You just set him on fire in the alleyway.
That’s where this crap ends, and the current lot of idjits have no idea what they are actually doing, what the fifth-order effects of their little “fixes” to the justice system will result in.
Frankly, knowing what I know about the length of sentences for things like murder and rape…? I honestly don’t know what I’d do, should I ever find myself in a situation where I’ve caught someone violating one of my own. I like to think I’d call 911, but… I just don’t know. I no longer have the trust I formerly did in the judicial system, and whatever calculation I make in the moment is going to be very biased, I fear, towards not relying on it for either dissuasion or “justice”. As a mechanism for social behavioral control, our current “system” isn’t doing the job it needs to.
Japanese tourists lynched in Guatemala by mob inflamed by rumors of baby stealing.
There sure are a lot of idjits. Note how quickly after a crime is reported the internet rumors will begin, asserting absolute certainty about the identity of the suspect, his race and religion and nationality, his motive, and so on. I’m sure some of this is from malicious actors bent on stirring up trouble, but some also from people too stupid to know that their assumptions are merely assumptions.
As has been observed, much of what is called “thinking” is merely random ideas that bubble up from the subconscious and which the person having the idea never subjects to any critical thinking.
@pst314,
In my analysis of the situation, much of modern “civilization” basically consists of short-circuiting and preventing the formation of the mob mentality.
For some reason, the idjit class seems to be operating on the principle that it’s a great idea to bring mobs back.
Me? I’m all for the rule of law, and considered action in the service of public order. They don’t seem to like that idea, so they’re “agin it”, and don’t seem to grasp that the sad fact is that a lot more innocent lives will be lost and that there will be much more injustice and suffering under the regime they’re helping bring about. Not smart of them, at all…
If they weren’t so damn stupid, I’d think they were doing it intentionally, but the vast majority of them are just the usual “luvvies” who’re taken by the idea that people are basically nice and decent, rather than barely civilized great apes with a preference for violence and carnivory.
More evidence that this map is correct.
The idjit class thinks it can control the mobs.
Japanese tourists lynched in Guatemala by mob inflamed by rumors of baby stealing.
My wife and I adopted our eldest son from Guatemala in 1998. We were advised to stay at our hotel and be discrete. International adoption was a very contentious issue at the time. The big concern was that children were being sold. By 2008, they had stopped all international adoptions.
@aelfheld, who said:
They always do.
Right up until they have what I’ve christened their “Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin moment”, and find themselves “saying the words”: “There they go, and I must follow them, for I am their leader…”
Ya start things, you have precisely zero guarantees for where they’re gonna go, or how it will all end up. I do believe that the rocket scientists of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge thought they were in charge of it all, until they found themselves joining the glasses-wearing class in the prisons. I haven’t seen the stats on it, but from what I’ve heard, the Khmer Rouge cadre wound up contributing heavily to the death toll, quite the same way that Robespierre did.
Revolutions always, always eat their young. A lesson that few revolutionaries ever recognize…
Oh hey. That was me.
I’m not near as forceful in my prose since I got my glucose under control. Funny, that.
Regarding leadership, I just re-ran across this from a book by Eisenhower on his WWII leadership experiences.
Obvious two-tier “justice” doesn’t help things, either.
Kate Steinle was murdered; her killer walks free, acquitted of murder.
The man who invaded the home of Nancy Pelosi and beat her husband with a hammer, under questionable circumstances? He’s been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Lesson’s clear, folks… Murder a prole, get set free after less than a decade. Beat a connected man up, of the wrong sort? Life in prison, no parole.
The clear signal is sent: The life of Kate Steinle is valueless; the life of an illegal alien and a criminal is not to be blighted, but if you dare to lay hands on someone of the elite, you’re going to rot behind bars for the rest of your life. He should count himself lucky that it wasn’t a capital sentence.
You have to marvel at their utter lack of self-awareness, their oblivious attitude towards how it all looks to the normies. Watch this space; you won’t like what happens here.
They. Know. And. They. Don’t. Care.
They’re Cluster B nightmares — sociopaths and malignant narcissists — who thrive on power and domination. Having a two-tier system of justice is thrilling to them, because they know exactly how badly they’re screwing us and how well-protected they are. They luxuriate in it. They drink our tears and find them delicious.
Heh. We really gave the assumptions of Star Trek a good chewing.
The cases that scare the living snot out of me are the ones like you often find in Central America, where some idjit starts a rumor of something, like “They’re kidnaping kids for organ donation!!!”, and then go looking for some stranger to kill
How do you mean “Central America”? Recall from the prior thread the entire police force of a major Canadian city conspired to destroy the lives of 50 citizens for crimes that hadn’t actually happened, driving two of them to suicide. And got away with it for four years, because anyone who so much as peeped was accused in the press of being at least an apologist for p*d*ph*les.
Part of the reason the p*d* hunter videos are concerning is that the accusation alone is enough to cause people’s brains to fall out the back of their head and react violently. People have (and should have) a visceral reaction to threats against children; that can be weaponized, and has been.
Heh. For a second there I thought you were about to reference the many churches that were burned in Canada because someone interpreted tree root images as a mass graveyard of Native American victims.
Yet they aren’t the problem. As numerous as they are they themselves have little power without a whole lot of others supporting them. These people have plenty of assistance both directly via their aides and sycophants, and especially indirectly from the brainwashed masses who vote for them.
That’s why it’s so important that the justice system is seen to effectively catch these people and deal with them harshly. If that happens these videos will be less popular, and vigilantism would be unnecessary.
@Daniel Ream
McMartin Preschool anyone?
@Daniel Ream, who said:
Different sort of thing than what I’m referring to. The case you’re talking about happened under the color of law, and served to tear down the judicial system once it got out.
In Central America, it was more a traditional mob-action sort of affair; the people involved were not involved in the judicial system, and acted mostly because they perceived the absence of such a thing.
Injustice in both cases, but the one stemmed from a system-sanctified action and the other was people acting in the absence of a system. Very different things, in that regard.
In the case that I think you’re referring to, eventual end-states meant that people were prosecuted for malfeasance and innocents released. When the mob acts, as in Central America, you don’t generally have survivors. When the system breaks down here, it’ll be the same, with minor differences of execution.
I think that an astute social scientist could likely make a study of it, with equations, demonstrating that once a certain amount of faith in the social structure is reached, it’s all over but the burials. We’re getting damn close; you’ll know we are there when stores start putting in security guards that kill shoplifters with effective impunity. See “Brazil” for examples of where we’re going.
Oh, and thank a Democrat for me, while you’re at it. Along with the odd collaborationist Republican that’s been going along to get along for the last few generations. They are the authors, here; they should get proper attribution. And, precisely zero approbation along with it.
Has the world always been *this* full of absolute twats?
I mean, people used to have serious lives, did they not? Even annoying fucksticks had something real to complain about….right?
Cuz, DAMN, this is some weak-ass shit right here.
If you solve the real problems, fucksticks must complain about unreal problems.
In the case that I think you’re referring to, eventual end-states meant that people were prosecuted for malfeasance and innocents released
No. The OIC was forced to resign and the constables in the unit were re-assigned. That was it. I don’t even know if any lawsuits were filed by the families of the men who committed suicide.
Not one of the convictions was voided, not a single police officer was so much as charged. I was somewhat adjacent to these cases, assisting a lawyer with some of the technical/computer aspects, and he said repeatedly that the cases were so transparently flimsy that they could not have proceeded without the knowing complicity of at least the Crown Attorneys and multiple judges (he caused quite a kerfuffle in court defending one of the cases by accusing the Crown Attorney of committing perjury to influence the sentencing and provided incontrovertible proof on the spot. Want to guess what happened to the Crown Attorney?) Like the Satanic Ritual Abuse hoax, it was simply too big for justice to ever be done. And two men are dead.