Coping Well, I See
I bring scenes of composure, grace, and emotional maturity:
This is what terminal and peak TDS looks like:
Liberals are the most vile, hateful, insufferable and toxic species on earth. pic.twitter.com/bbYyUC6XMw
— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) March 4, 2025
And who here hasn’t spent their evenings crafting voodoo effigies of people with whom they disagree politically?
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
I think I found the original reddit thread on the MRIs.
It’s real and it’s spectacular!
Just me, or does that sound like Pelosi?
Bleh. 34.
But then, I’m not English.
Except by ancestry.
I clicked the link and up popped my Norton dialog box to say it protected me against something at that site.
Reddit is 45% loons, 45% villains, and 10% tradies/normals
Why, it’s almost as if the need for creepy intrusion and the insatiable complaining were comorbidities.
A hot take, a riposte:
A thread ensues.
In the ensuing thread, this chart, which may have been posted here before.
A direct correlation between the functionality of the country as a whole and the contributions their immigrants make to their adoptive country.
In 1996 I was in lower Manhattan, Battery Park. Along the sidewalks native African men sat alongside rows and rows of cheap plastic sunglasses that they’d laid out on sheets.
“They’ve gotta be kidding,” I thought. “They can’t make more than $10 a day doing that.”
But that’s exactly what they’d have done in the home country: buy a bunch of junk wholesale, then sell tiny amounts every day. Not get a job washing dishes, then work your way up to cook or waiter or manager. Not attempt to get an actual job that pays a steady wage instead of relying on fickle sales.
What a waste! If you’re going to come here, take advantage of the opportunities that you don’t have back home!
It does rather matter to whom you give your front door key. It’s a familiar pattern, the results of which can be seen daily. And yet, for the put-upon hosts even to ask the question “What’s in it for us?” is now considered scandalous, a pretext for gasping and finger-wagging.
And so the indigenous are expected to quietly endure the ongoing, quite rapid degradation of their home. Lest they be called mean.
[ Compiles tomorrow’s Ephemera, slurps coffee. ]
Indecency, you say.
Guardian overheats, is wrong, again.
But this gets 300+.
Seriously, people?
No worries, dicentra, it’s a reaction stemming from Winter Fatigue. I spy a wee crocus pushing its head through the mud and I could just cry from relief that the season is winding down.
Weird mouth movements, equally weird advice.
From the replies:
Not unfair, I think.
Oh, no!
Anyway . . .
What is with the tongue thing? Maybe I’m seeing the same woman or something but I notice this behavior several times now. Do they have food stuck in the pockets of their mouths or is it a form of nonverbal communication? It seems forced and creepy.
Band name.
What is the proper punishment for treason?
This is a historical first: Non-Muslims enacting a a two-tier justice system which favors Muslims.
Apparently the squawking classes in the UK are upset because they identify as a “random country” now or something. Their feelz are hurt because, in the interest of pretending otherwise, they joined an international effort to fight a terrorism that they would apparently just rather have surrendered to anyway, and now are not feeling appreciated because of something JD Vance said. Forgetting entirely that maybe, just maybe their participation might have been just a tiny little return of favor for the US spending trillions of dollars and the lives of hundreds of thousands of American men defending random European countries over the last 100 years. F*** those guys.
Regarding which.
Odd that we should have to point out we already have our own subhuman trash, thank you very much.
Trendy imitative affectation (see also S-backing) afflicting people with mannerism mimicry disorder and brain slugs. They’re not fully in control of external signaling or their own thoughts.
Indecency, you say.
A Muslima who was in such a position to have a photo taken without covering her hair to protect men from the excitement rays is obviously a shameless sharmuta and should be stoned. Hey, I don’t make the rules.
Meanwhile, cops must wear body cams to record their misdeeds, cop body cams are racist.
What is with the tongue thing?
Tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder primarily linked to anti-psychotic meds, but lesser to some anti-migraine, anti-depressant, and others.
That, or something stuck in the teeth.
Doubtless some would recoil from the term subhuman trash, as if that were the most pressing issue, the gravest offence. Though it seems an apt descriptor of shockingly ungrateful, entirely parasitic foreigners who repay the offer of a new and better home by exulting in the random, unprovoked murder of the host society’s citizens – to, in their own words, “kill English people” – and by raping twelve-year-old children.
[ Peers over spectacles. ]
Do tell me again about all cultures being equal.
No need for alarm, just working out the terms of surrender.
The only reasonable objection to left/liberal/progressives wearing masks is the masks just don’t cover enough.
They must be cutting into defense attorney fees.
My first thought when I hear “tongue thing” is that it’s an antipsychotic thing, but also she seemed to be addressing something with her lower teeth.
But then why go on camera with unaddressed stuff like that? Fix the problem, then record again. Unless she’s totally unaware of it.
[ Bets fiver on anti-psychotics. ]
It was only a matter of time before this place turned into a gambling den.
Leftism and mental illness: Many of the liberals I know who are active on social media have been talking a lot about mental health problems.
[ Ventures into stock room, sounds of rummaging. Returns with traditional British betting games – Whose Shoes Are These?, Rattle The Box, and Jigger-Ma-Hoop. ]
[ Rattles box, waits for bids. ]
More on that far-right narrative.
Self-awareness isn’t a trait associated with that lot.
Our betters in Congress…
Interesting discussion regarding the biases inherent in AI.
Left off, “I am the alpha and omega, I am the way, the truth, and the light”. It is nice, though, to see fired federal employees are so modest, because what will happen without park rangers in (cleans glasses) Iowa, where danger lurks behind every corn stalk.
Yay! Al Green got censured by Congress–bet you can guess how the votes went.
Africans with sunglasses on the street: better than welfare but there are so many jobs open…
The elites have left religion and instead adopted a new one with only one precept: minorities are oppressed. That’s it. Nothing about refraining from crimes (as in several of the Ten Commandments). Nothing about equal justice.
I am a woman.
I am a certain race.
Plus, I AM A WOMAN.
Staggering credentials.
This glass in the short term rental where we are staying, seemed odd. Then I noticed the date. Damn the people who did this. Hope everything worked out for these kids eventually.
AI bias: the problem with fake news, science, etc. is that it is complicated. We can take the “fact” that CO2 is making the earth slightly warmer but then jump to only using solar and wind…a leap not justified by the first fact, and in fact not even possible. We can have COVID but the “fact” of the efficacy of masks was simply decided by a couple of elites based on no data and the assumption that COVID spread in droplets rather than aerosols (it is the latter of course). The “fact” that covid was a greater risk to the obese was hidden by calling obesity a “pre-existing condition” so that most fat people said “well, I don’t have a condition”–all to prevent hurting feelings. So many inconvenient facts can be squiggled away or blamed on something ludicrous.
But even that isn’t a fact. It’s an inference from data that itself is suspect. “True AI” should be able to understand and relate even that. Granted such can be taken to extreme on certain issues but on an issue as broad and important with impacts as broad as the economic impacts from green policies it is relevant and important. However I don’t see how AI, not being human could ever know how to draw that line. Most humans can’t. Maybe there’s a way to do so but that would have to come down to an individual’s specific judgment.
This just posted, and I haven’t listened to it yet, but it’s all about the Cluster B explosion in our culture. Always a propos.
Somebody played way too much Fortress America in the 1980s.
I am the terror that flaps in the night!
But even that isn’t a fact. It’s an inference from data that itself is suspect.
It’s deeper than that to get at facts: CO2 is a “greenhouse gas”, and “greenhouse gases”, broadly, tend to trap heat [near the surface?], all things being equal, in the absence of checks, balances, and feedback mechanisms etc, etc.
What is generally never said are the facts that there are other “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere – water vapor being one, and also one that is in much higher concentration than CO2 (there’s a helluva lot more of it), and that CO2 concentrations have …doubled?… in the last 50 years, with not much effect on the overall temperature of the earth’s surface.
So which “greenhouse gas” is really the fabled “control knob” for The Climate? The one which is always in superabundant supply, or the one which has doubled in abundance but doing so has not changed things much except in climate models and power-mad WEF-types’ fever dreams?
I have spoken heresy and blasphemy, and shall report myself to the Correction Booth forthwith.
I am the Walrus, goo-goo-ga-joob.
Hey, somebody had to say it. But more to the point of the 2500 year old American Indian burial grounds, notice how these sorts of people don’t claim ownership of the evils perpetrated by such cultures. Nor the overreach that leads to the burning of churches nor the miserable poverty, alcoholism , child rape, etc. found on reservations. If they really cared they would address the problems, not the grievances. But where’s the money in that? Ah, that’s right…in the casinos.
Mental illness: there is a % of mental illness that is medical, such as psychosis. But much of what passes for mental illness today in the US really reflects a lack of self-control, social pressure to have unhealthy habits/beliefs, and a lack of a proper spanking. For example, the whole thing with “trigger warnings” blew up out of nothing. No one needed trigger warnings in 1960. No one needed coloring books and a blankie when the wrong person won an election. This is self-indulgence. There is also the fad of believing that your feelings are always valid, and giving in to them. Self-pity (oh poor me, I am fat and the world hates me) is self-indulgence. Thinking the world should notice you is self-indulgence. So many are spoiled brats. This is not a “mental illness” in the same way that psychosis is. But even true mental illness can be made worse if it is indulged instead of people being given coping skills and struggling against it. The discomfort with puberty that most get over can be turned into a lifetime catastrophe if these young people are convinced that they are “really” the opposite sex. Many for example are simply gay and would settle down into that reality if left alone.