Catching Their Good Side
Speaking of spite as progressive pseudo-piety:
Odd message to send, really.
For people who imagine themselves the good guys in their own mental drama.
Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading, of course.
Consider this an open thread.
Update, via the comments:
Rafi adds,
Yet apparently it needs saying.
And setting aside for a moment the weird random malice, there’s the more mundane oversight. A Tesla has eight external cameras which record any untoward activity while alerting the owner. The odds of being identified, in high definition, and consequently prosecuted, are fairly high. Yet the people doing the keying and daubing tell us, loudly and quite often, that they’re the smart ones. Our moral and intellectual betters.
It’s not just the conceit that vandalising some random person’s car is a thing one should do as a good person, as an act of righteousness. Bewildering as that is. It’s the idea of doing that to a make of car that’s famed for its ability to record anything that approaches. Which suggests a level of emotional dysregulation, of total impulse control failure, that’s quite hard to relate to.
Via Aitch, another one. With man-bun bonus.
More deep thinkers of a progressive persuasion.
I fear we’ll be at this at all day.
Oh wait.
Deranged leftist scrapes his own butt hole and smears it on a cybertruck.
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As so often, one feels obliged to say, “You know this isn’t how well-adjusted adults generally behave, right?”
[ Scans Steve for lesbianism. ]
I hope Zoot doesn’t get tipsy and light the Grail shaped beacon again.
Hey, I’m just sayin’.
[ Scans pst314. ]
Meanwhile:
And the people doing this claim to be heroically opposing “fascism.”
Ok, so maybe the left can’t meme, but they did make Gary Oldman laugh himself to tears.
Ye gods that was hilarious!!
While I wish I could see the thread about Biden and the astronauts, it would just have torqued me off to no end. Instead I am helplessly laughing at farts. Good stress relief, that.
This just in:
Better scan me, too. I briefly considered replacing my Toyota with a Subaru.
[ Points upthread. ]
Uhhhmmm here in Israel Subaru is a beloved family brand – it was the only Japanese marque that defied the Arab boycott, and therefore one of a few quality cars available for almost 2 decades.
Israelis still buy them in large numbers even though everyone sells here now.
Many of the super–macho Israeli soldiers and reservists you see in memes are probably 2nd or 3rd generation Subaru owners.
So the “Subaru is lesbian” theory does not work in every market.
What is that noise?……. David – stop pointing that… THING… at me!!
[ Installs lead shielding. ]
David has discovered a new power source!
Not gonna lie. I’m sexually attracted to women.
Oh, and I played on the company softball team.
Why, yes, it is.
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Victims of their potential success?
That’s the first Soviet tractor girl poster I’ve seen in which her biceps were thinner than a man’s thighs. 😁
Perhaps a function of the Dunkirk mentality? Brits make movies about Dunkirk, Americans make movies about D-Day.
Interesting observation. Mark Steyn once observed that Canadians celebrate mediocrity and failure while Americans celebrate success. I wonder if it stems from Canada’s close ties to British culture or if it’s a coincidence.
With the trade war currently raging between Canada and the US, the “OMG AVRO ARROW BESTEST FIGHTER JET EVAR” memes have been flying thick and fast again. It’s a good example of the phenomenon.
Don’t forget “elbows up” being posted everywhere. What idiots.
I worked in a fast food joint when I was a teen. Hood rats would occasionally try to pull the “give me then I pay” trick, but they never got violent when we required them to pay first.
Just to note that the Toyota 86 and the BRZ Subaru do not use the 6 cylinder Subaru engine but the 4 cylinder one, an engine rather noted for its tendency to expire prematurely, often in a somewhat spectacular fashion. To be fair, that can often be ascribed to users of said engine being rather fond of modifying it to increase the output.
Presumably, they expect a light sentence, and after the slap on the wrist to be hailed, by the right kind of people, as martyrs of The Cause. (What cause? What do I know?)
It’s not a theory. Subaru actively marketed to lesbians.
From here–notwithstanding the Israeli experience.
Per my mechanic, that was rectified in the 2015 (?) model year.
Turnabout is fair play, I guess. As if the current complement of contradictions and absurdities weren’t obvious enough.
[ Slurps coffee. ]
And in sporting news.
The word sporting may warrant a certain ironic intonation.
As Wesley Yang notes, imagine the mental contortion required to find the scene affirming, a basis for applause.
But remember, according to the super-woke Scientific American:
Please ignore the evidence of your own eyes.
Wasn’t on my bingo card, either.
When reality has to be tweaked a little.
More deep thinkers of a progressive persuasion.
I fear we’ll be at this all day.
The supply of stupidity and spite being all but inexhaustible.
As so often, one feels obliged to say, “You know this isn’t how well-adjusted adults generally behave, right?”
If Teslas have all those cameras, surely a Taser could be installed on each side of the vehicle.
It’s an electric car. Plenty of voltage.
On the one hand, it’s pleasing to see Tesla haters suffer abuse. On the other hand, people who modify their trucks for rolling coal are sadistic dog-fuckers.
I think we have a winner.
Again, one more time, one feels obliged to say, “You know this isn’t how well-adjusted adults generally behave, right?”
The titans of tomorrow.
Even without his hate, do you want someone with shitty hands walking around dirtying everything he touches? Shunning and banishment into the wilderness.
It would seem to violate laws against assault, possibly aggravated assault, battery, and poisoning.
And in breaking news from Tennessee, this year no one finished the famed Barkley Marathon.
The mountain won.
If you don’t know, the Barkley is a remarkable exercise in masochism for ultramarathoners. And it was created to commemorate James Earl Ray’s failed attempt to escape from nearby Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.
Shockingly, I didn’t.
[ Resumes tweaking of tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
Back in the 70’s I once visited a group of hippie, pagan, “non-conformists” living in an old house. One of the residents displayed, in full view of other residents, a shockingly “casual” attitude towards excrement, an attitude that bothered none of the other residents. They all went on my “avoid” and “never touch anything they touch” lists. They were not violent, and did not threaten anyone, but their habits clearly put others at risk.
pst314:
Theo Dalrymple wrote that the hippies came down with rashes and diseases that had been eliminated by soap and clean water in the early industrial age – and so they were still known by their Olde English names (Mange, Thrush) rather than spiffy modern Latin terms.
This is an apt metaphor for the entire bien-pensant/unspanked phenomenon – a Great Forgetting among the privileged, made possible by a long period of health, wealth, and security.
[ Post updated. ]
Most cars come equipped with a lug wrench. It seems likely they’ll soon be employed for . . . secondary . . . purposes.
As with most things in life, time, place, and context, matters.
Another poop-flinging Tesla hater.
You’re referring to their debt.
Right?
@BenDavid
It was Tom Wolfe, not Theodore Dalrymple, who wrote The Great Relearning.