Scenes From The Zombie Apocalypse
In the comments, Dicentra shares the video embedded below:
Are you ok with this?pic.twitter.com/iC22VLL8bo
— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) June 16, 2025
Along with the comment,
There is, I think, among many, a weariness of seeing escalating levels of fucking about with too little of the customary finding out.
The driver’s actions are at least comprehensible, a response to aggression, alarm and danger. The activists’ actions, in contrast, are a deranged provocation, a twisted entertainment. A gratuitous cause of danger. And the kinds of creatures who play these unhinged, sadistic games cannot be relied on to observe normal moral boundaries.
She, the activist, and her gang of masked associates, are the ones needlessly initiating the drama. They are the ones going out of their way to aggress random strangers, creating a credible threat, and doing so with glee. It’s an in-your-face display of recreational malice. They are high on themselves, on their mob power, and they’re loving every minute of it. These are not activities indulged in reluctantly or under duress.
And the activists’ power lies in an assumption that their victims will not risk injuring their assailants.
But to insist that the victims should remain trapped, inert, and at the mercy of their aggressors, indefinitely, and while risking greater danger to themselves or their property, does not strike me as a morally persuasive position. And note that the activists typically rush from all sides, rapidly surrounding the car and its occupants, intensifying the alarm, the likelihood of panic, and drastically reducing the driver’s options. This is not accidental.
There’s an implied dare. The game being, “You won’t do what’s needed, despite our alarming and menacing behaviour, because you’re nicer than us, less vain, and not unhinged, and so we can dominate you and terrorise you, and break your stuff, for as long as we want, for shits and giggles.”
Well. I would suggest that the activists’ own actions render their wellbeing of very low importance.
Again, people who behave in this way cannot be relied on to observe normal moral boundaries. Are their victims, their chosen targets, those alarmed drivers and passengers, the ones just going about their business – are they supposed to assume that the mob of unhinged aggressors exulting in their capture and harassment will not press their advantage and do something worse?
“Now they’re only smashing the windscreen and pulling at the door handles.”
“And now they’re only…”
At what point, precisely, would one’s alarm be considered sufficient? By all means use the comments to thrash out this terribly modern moral problem.
Update, via the comments:
Drivers and passengers who suddenly find themselves being harassed by self-styled activists would be wise to consider what kind of person would aggress them in this way. They wear masks and rush in front of moving cars, and then encircle them, trapping them, in order to dominate and terrorise the occupants and thereby feel important.
Importance being conceived as having power over others.
To assume that the bedlamites who do this – who choose to do this, over and over again, exulting in each triumph – are somehow good people, or that they mean well, or that they are likely to show restraint and not violate further boundaries… seems foolish. To say the least.
I was reminded of this rather shocking incident, from Portland in 2016, showing similar ‘activist’ tactics, and in which a lone female driver is encircled by a mob of baseball-bat-wielding ‘protestors’ who are trying to smash her car’s windscreen into her face while videoing her distress. For amusement purposes. And bragging rights, one assumes.
Because they’re such righteous people. Not, say, sociopaths with a pretext.
Commenter ccscientist adds,
The primary reason they’re behaving in this way is because they really do enjoy behaving in this way. Again, it’s not done reluctantly or under duress. It’s chosen. It’s a go-to activity. The rest is pretext, a fig-leaf for self-pleasuring.
It is, I think, worth pondering why it is that these supposed displays of righteousness routinely take the form of obnoxious or bullying or sociopathic behaviour, whereby random people are screwed over and dominated, and often reduced to pleading. Pleading just to get home, to children, or to work, or to get to the doctor’s surgery. Even ambulances and fire engines can be obstructed, indefinitely, with both impunity and moral indifference.
Among our self-imagined betters, it seems to be the go-to approach for practically any purported cause. Which is terribly convenient. Almost as if the supposed activism were more of a pretext, an excuse, a license to indulge pre-existing urges.
And what kind of person would have urges like that?
The most interactive part of this place is the correction booth.
I still feel a twinge when the wind is from the north.
[ Starts compiling Friday’s Ephemera. ]
That can’t be said often enough.
Well, it does seem fairly obvious that, contrary to the participants’ claims, they’re not in fact being driven by some acute moral sensitivity to reluctantly take extreme measures; but rather that they jump at the chance to behave in deeply antisocial ways and seem immensely self-satisfied while doing so.
Which doesn’t make them heroic, as they like to imagine. It makes them twats.
For instance.
See also.
The weaponization of Cluster B and various other mental illnesses, disorders and neuroses.
That from 2019. The Before Time. Some very good comments by Daniel Ream and…others. Some very prescient, some very naive. Some of even the prescient comments were a tad naive. It was like some time shortly after November of 2019 we crossed a singularity or something.
Matt Christiansen has some thoughts on the car-swarming incident above, and the eye-widening dishonesty of subsequent media coverage.
Here’s something mildly interesting — grandson Nik’s ship, USS Rushmore, is currently in Australia and he received 3 days shore leave in Sydney. He snapped this pic and sent it to us. And while the idea of 3 days of socialists gathered to worship Marx and complain loudly about capitalism sounds like just loads of fun, I was more intrigued by the photo montage.
There’s a couple of prominent pics – “Dump Trump” and “Eat the Rich” with a pic of Elon Musk. For a conference in Sydney organized by locals? Say, what? Not enough successful Aussie capitalists for their tastes? Or is this just another tell that “socialism” isn’t some home-grown, grassroots movement of the People as they keep trying to tell everyone?
You shouldn’t report thefts to the police because thieves will suffer.
That’s a good question. Part of the answer is that we quite recently had a federal election where the centre left Labor Party won quite comfortably. There is less of a sense, at the moment, of a local enemy for the progressive classes to band together against. As is usually the case, they like nice, safe, symbolic causes. It’s probably safe to stick your tongue out at Trump standing on Sydney’s foreshores. Probably.
Doesn’t the saying go that ‘America farts, the rest of the world ducks for cover’? The cultural influence of the US is certainly vast. The same ferals who are out organising for world socialism or whatever will happily quote American pop culture to you if you’re talking to them. This to me suggests, also, that the local flavour of socialism comes ultimately from a variety first bottled in the US – hence ‘dump Trump’, etc.
There are a few Australian Trump wannabes and hangers on, very sad types. One such is Clive Palmer, a Queensland billionaire who has for years been running for parliament. Recently he renamed his party ‘Trumpet of Patriots’, an obvious gesture to you know who. He failed to win a single lower house seat in the party and announced his retirement. I’ve no idea if that is true. But one can only hope.
And revolutionaries have to have enemies. Mere disagreements are not enough.
Pakistani are 64% of cases… when they are only 3% of population.
Most of those horrible stereotypes you were cautioned not to believe are probably accurate.
John Derbyshire weighs in, almost a quarter century ago.
“Good intentions”.
The historian Tom Holland, I take it.
Can academia be reformed, or must it be replaced?
These words seem more pertinent with each passing year.
3% of population…but what % of that is male and of “criminal” age?
As noted in the linked thread, the ‘progressive’ attitude is a very large part of why the crime problem being moaned about exists and persists. It’s a perverse enabling of predation, dragged up as empathy and caring.
The implication being that the law-abiding victims of crime are of much less importance than the habitual criminals who prey on them and steal their property, over and over again. And who likely do other things, since habitual criminal transgression is rarely confined to just one kind of activity.
And the fragrant utopia that ensues is one in which more people will find themselves burgled or robbed at gunpoint, with ever greater boldness, and in which expectations of lawfulness, of justice, of basic reciprocation, are met with accusations of being unsophisticated, or racist.
To say the piety is perverse scarcely covers it.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote:
And:
And:
Can there be any doubt that American libtards want to build their own Gulag Archipelago?
At which point, this preening piece of shit came to mind.
Pardon my French.
How does one say “punchable face” in French?
Or even “deserves to get brutally mugged”?
“Teens don’t follow rules. Therefore, we should not have rules.”
This guy’s logic tracks perfectly with Chicago’s ruling class.
FTFY
Agreed.
Rachel Corrie the lot.