Those Non-Reciprocal Pieties
Regarding the recent Māori theatrics in the New Zealand parliament:
Interesting. Are we indigenous Danes also more spiritually and culturally connected to our land than the recent immigrants? https://t.co/4WzK6HOr2g
— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) November 16, 2024
Oddly, no reply was forthcoming.
Update, via the comments:
On those connections to the land:
Apparently, museum visitors must be warned that the sight of a Constable landscape may trigger TERRIFYING BLOOD AND SOIL TENDENCIES. Or at least inspire thoughts of historical attachment, continuity, and belonging – thoughts that may be disconcerting or very much frowned upon, if only by the – wait for it – keepers of our heritage.
Today’s word, since you ask, is juxtaposition.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
She wants to take a bite out of glutes, but not in a good way.
I have to say, those glasses do nothing for her.
The attitude’s not exactly an asset either. But that goes without saying.
Part of assimilation into upper middle class norms is to pretend various truths are false and various falsehoods are true.
But of course motives can vary: When most liberals I knew disparaged McDonalds they were mindlessly voicing shibboleths. When Marxists did it, it was part of the program of undermining “capitalism”. When Harlan Ellison abominated McDonalds “toadburgers” it was because he really hated ordinary people and passionately wanted to a society he hated since childhood.
I’m not sure I’d use the word delicious, though I have been known to partake occasionally. And it does rather hint at the degree to which the public views of Our Betters are determined by an assertion of status.
“Jewraelis” derails the vile “I’m not antiSemitic I just hate colonialist Israel” line before it gets started.
Normies need to do more progressive culture jamming.
Also, bumfuzzled.
Part of assimilation into upper middle class norms is to pretend various truths are false and various falsehoods are true.
Part of assimilation into leftist upper middle class norms is to pretend various truths are false and various falsehoods are true.
There are plenty of normal upper middle class individuals and populations, you just aren’t going to find them along I-95, I-5, in the MSM, and select cities or, for that matter, Minnesota, which should be voted off the island.
OK, after listening to that story with the sound on, there are some issues there. First off the story is from 2016. Second…supposedly…the two dollar bill itself failed a pen swipe or whatever they check counterfeit currency with. Which itself is suspect because, like I said, why suspect a two dollar bill in the first place? OTOH, not sure what good those pen swipes are on two dollar bills. Especially if they have been sitting in a drawer for decades like many. And still, a felony charge for a kid? The whole story stinks, as do all the people involved, in a lot of ways. I now smell a Buffalo Run.
How needy? This needy.
Part of assimilation into upper middle class norms is to pretend various truths are false and various falsehoods are true.
To be fair . . . Wendy’s is better than McDonalds. Especially the nuggets.
But if you live in the American South: Cook Out.
Should have said at the start.
I’m not sure I’d use the word delicious, though I have been known to partake occasionally.
On the subject of Micky D’s, one person looks less than enthused…
Acting, certainly.
She needs to see a specialist.
Perhaps she’s unaware aware of just how rabies is tested for.
That skit was much funnier when it was presented as comedy. Feels closer to being prophesy now.
Bluesky in a nutshell?
A gentleman has a question.
Love is not the vibe I’m getting.
I’m sceptical tbh. It used to be common knowledge that the Maori encountered others when they got to New Zealand; and a main source for that was Maori oral history itself. It seems that they’ve since retconned their own stories to be “just myths”.
Remember the Maori and their supporters have spent the last 40 or so years rewriting history to grant themselves that venerated “indigenous” status, and I doubt anyone with an alternative view would get far in a career on the subject with the way modern academia is.
There’s also a conflation between the Maori (who in reality are a group of different tribes with different history and customs) and the early Polynesian settlers in the 12th Century. We have no way of knowing whether the Maori’s ancestors were the first Polynesian settlers, or were in a later wave which wiped out any previous settlers.
Civilization depends on people controlling their emotions so we don’t get in fist fights on an hourly basis. Social media virtue signalling encourages getting as emotional as possible about the least thing. Not heading for happy outcomes.
Charles Murray is conducting an experiment to test how easy it is to get banned on Bluesky. See here.
Love is not the vibe I’m getting.
At least she admits she is a beast, so she has that going for her, which is nice, I guess.
The question, though, is whether there is room for us to start a giant idiotic glasses consortium and make a mint, or is that market already saturated?
Speaking of the preferred platform of Our Betters.
Unsure if the items in question were female ones.
Kulaks could not be reached for comment.
And yet the Guardian must not be called a Stalinist rag, y’know.
This clip is a few years old, I think, but it’s a pattern we’ll doubtless see again.
Remember, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
And they wonder why their profession is not held in the esteem they expect.
And they wonder why their profession is not held in the esteem they expect.
On that note…
Doesn’t ‘profession’ imply ‘professional’?
Are unattractive glasses the new thang for unhinged progressive women?
Yes, but they have been for awhile now, along with aposematic hair colors, nose rings, and multiple tattoos. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed in the videos of said deranged females linked here – if I watch at all, it’s with sound off, so I notice the visuals.
Ooh, snow.
Every day is now casual day.
Are unattractive glasses the new thang for unhinged progressive women?
There are a bunch of videos out there of people parodying the big glasses. They’re often made of pipe cleaners and are hilarious.
Also, aren’t these crazy glass people the same ones who were telling people they had to bake the cake just a little while ago? Now they want to refuse service.
Ooh, snow.
Just finished putting the snow tires on the wife’s car. Mine is set for tomorrow.
Jesus F Christ, is there nothing the left won’t kvetch about?
Think of them as another level on the ‘Danger, Will Robinson’ scale along with tattoos on or above the neck, facial piercings, and Popsicle® coloured hair.
Addendum: just saw the comment from @ComputerLabRat
It’s amusingly ironic, given that absurdly large glasses can look cute if they’re the right shape glasses on the right shape face.
I wonder to what extent this sort of poor choice indicates a defective ability to perceive what looks good vs. a defective personality which wishes to signal affiliation with a defective group.
“We used to call these people perverts, not literary critics and scholars. That’s a word that has sadly fallen out of fashion and needs to be brought back.” (Commenting on this Wikipedia page.)
Happens all the time: Socialist Tacitly Admits That She is to the Left of Stalin
Jesus F Christ, is there nothing the left won’t kvetch about?
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! They were all Jewish. So were the twelve apostles. I thought everyone knew that. I think there may even be mention of Palestine in the gospels. Tweren’t Muslims living there – Mohamed wasn’t born until 700(?) years after Jesus was. Now the Romans were doing their Colonizer Occupier thing at the time, but they were just another group in the long line of colonizers and occupiers in that area.
Why is it that Europeans/British native people never get the sacred Indigenous tag (as the Dane in the OP so rightly mentioned)? Or Israelites for that matter. Just about every people on the planet today has been a conqueror and a conquered, a slave and a slave owner, at some point in their history. These freakin history began the day I was born, wipipo are evil, progressive lefties are really starting to piss me off.
For those who want their Tolkien pervy, there will always be this.
They’re Cluster B glasses. At first they were worn ironically because they made you look like a Far Side lady, but now I wonder if the exaggerated shapes and colors are normal-looking to distorted minds.
That’s because the status-obsessed progs don’t like what they like — they “like” what’s popular and high-status to like. I noticed this in grad school, how people would tout something as if they wanted to let us all know that they liked the right things, and they were terrified of not fitting in with the intelligentsia by having the wrong tastes.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! They were all Jewish.
Indeed, but these are the same breed of booger eating morons who had a hissy fit over Helen Mirren playing Golda Meir because Mirren isn’t Jewish yet swooned over a black actress playing Anne Boleyn.
Dude has the best deadpan delivery I’ve seen in a long time.
Five stars.
It’s 8 days old. I’m disappointed in Bari Weiss. Sounds like she’s allowed her personal dislike for someone who favored Something Wrong to affect her current opinion of Gabbard.
It’s also interesting how they treated Warren: I’d hoped FP was legit centrist and not just pretending to be. Hmmm.
I should have been more specific. It’s the wearing of glasses that don’t suit them. Not the specs themselves, necessarily, but the inaptness for the face, the mismatch. It’s sort of like when you see a grown woman with jarringly incongruous make-up. It invites questions about what it is they’re perceiving.
What caught my eye was the adamance and boldness – the everyone just knows attitude – followed almost immediately by a revealed lack of substance. As if very public badmouthing based on something much like gossip were the height of journalism. It was like watching the on-campus videos of mouthy progressive students being untroubled by their own shortcomings, their own gaps in knowledge: “I should be seen having This Very Adamant Opinion, though, apart from in-group status, I’m not sure why.”
It reminded me of this rather instructive interview.
But hey, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Also, kudos to Mr Rogan.