Reheated (112)
For newcomers, some items from the archives:
Because burglars are special and deserving, unlike you.
Instead, the bill would oblige homeowners to “retreat” wherever possible, thereby reducing the risk of “force likely to cause death or great bodily injury” to the burglar or burglars, whose wellbeing is apparently a matter of great importance, if only to progressive lawmakers. This restriction is framed as a “safety” measure, albeit one that prioritises the safety of the criminal, who will presumably be enabled to continue his trajectory of repeated home invasion, but with reduced resistance and ever greater boldness.
But remember, wokeness is just about being compassionate.
To assume that a home invader is anything less than an existential threat is, as seen in the links below, foolish in the extreme – and morally perverse. It may be unkind – but it would not, I think, be unfair – to wish upon Mr Zbur and his fellow progressives some first-hand experience of the home-invasion scenarios that they would happily see others endure, passively and impotently, and sometimes not survive, supposedly in the name of “progress.” And fairness to burglars.
Or, my activist lifestyle should be subsidised by others, the less important.
Because noticing routine and shameless thievery is apparently much worse than indulging in it. And certainly more likely to result in opprobrium.
Poking through the wreckage of academic literature.
Scenes From The Zombie Apocalypse.
There is, it turns out, a time and a place for running people over.
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?
“The masked, screaming people are only blocking our path and surrounding us.”
“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?
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
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It’s just the Ministry of Silly now. Walks were eliminated to save water.
Leftists are great first order thinkers.
How long until the Little Sisters of the Poor are required to include “gender affirming surgery” in their health care plan? And how long until David French tells us that’s what every true conservative wants?
Who said this? Was it a Pakistani minister?
To be honest, I think the punishment is a tad lenient.
America’s Lord Haw-Haw.
Get upset that a
filthy illegal immigrantundocumented enricher has broken into your home so you chase him off? nee naw nee naw! here come the cops … to arrest youAll leftists believe that the purpose of taxation is not to raise revenue for gubmint expenses but to execute social justice. Cut the rich down to size. Give their “excess” wealth to the poor, so they’ll be richer.
They have zero awareness that they’re taking away the farmer’s seed corn to someone to eat. Or rather, they don’t care if that’s what it amounts to.
It’s all about the redistribution.
On unrevealed preferences:
It doesn’t sound like an environment in which probity, realism or courage would be likely to flourish.
In no way related to anything immediately above.
She can switch that shit up at any minute.
Any minute, you hear?
FAFOs with wolves.
When you haven’t made enough room on the head of the pin for all the angels to dance on.
Can’t help feeling it’s rather symbolic of our times.
“…complete with a tail, plastic fangs, and a Bluetooth speaker playing recorded howls.”
Error in translation?
Show don’t tell.
They’re falling in love with bad prose.
God Almighty, they’re really falling for it.
I guess this is one way to recognize one’s role in the current mess.
[ Hands Rafi zip-lock freezer bag full of an unspecified atmosphere. ]
From the replies, this.
[ Eyes clientele. ]
[ Orders larger, more durable zip-lock freezer bags. ]
Careful. I just had some sauerkraut.
[ Leaves can of Oust air-freshener on bar, retreats to cellar. ]
They’re falling in love with bad prose.
God Almighty, they’re really falling for it.
“Alastor – the Radio Demon?” Someone’s taken their obsession with anime and fed it into Chat GPT.
Only six rozzers for that hardened criminal? Here is the safe way to deal with criminals like that.
OK, it is a guy, but not unrelated.
That’s not good. Wokeness + enrichment + low trust + feminization…
He’s got a point.
It’s all about being the one redistributing.
Have a zip-lock bag of… Have a mystery bag.
Searched without success for the original source. At one time I would have then assumed the story was fake, but news biz shenanigans somewhat undermined that.
I’m not finding anything by that name in an internet search. Not that the search engines are models of reliability though.
No, it’s not good at all. And I’m pretty sure the trend can be seen with the naked eye. Wokeness, which amounts to perpetual cognitive dissonance, a mismatch with reality, does correlate with neuroticism, and neuroticism is negatively correlated with conscientiousness. Which may help explain the convolutions and behaviour of so many self-styled progressives.
Regarding, as you say, enrichment and the consequent, equally visible decline in social trust, I can only repeat this:
Regardless of one’s ideology or personal preferences, there are real-world limits on what things can be mixed together, in what ways, and in what ratios.
Even if it turns out to be a hoax, it really is “fake but accurate”. Furries are nuts.
Casper Planet is a satire site.
“God bless us, every one!”
Ah, Muldoon, there you are.
Would you like a mystery bag…?
Aelfheld, you haven’t touched yours.
[ Slides inflated zip-lock freezer bag towards Aelfheld. ]
Haz-mat gear’s been back-ordered.
Actually, it sounds like our entire civilization for decades now. We all do this to some degree and if the question truly was “Have you ever…” what that survey says to me is that only 12% were being dishonest. To the survey anyway. Likely the 88% saw it as an opportunity to cry for help.
Our generation(s) has(have) let this get so far out of hand that now the bloody obvious has to be denied in order to be accepted socially. Especially amongst women. Women among women and men with women. Men among men less so but that’s where a good chunk of your violence comes from.
Such a late 80’s/early 90’s thing. Dancing with wolves in the pale moonlight.
[ Fetches stick, pats inflated zip-lock freezer bag. ]
And in parenting news.
Laughed, not sorry.
He does. Something I have been thinking about since switching from coding on a team to woodworking for myself. When it takes longer to do a task you have more time to think about what specifically you are doing in that specific intermediate step. The fewer number of decisions/thoughts in a given time frame somewhat leads to making improvements in the original plan. OTOH, with larger volume of decisions that you make doing something like coding, you can do more experimenting. Scope that out to life in general and there you are. Not saying one is better or should override the other but both are worthy of consideration. Something that most corporate management, the kind who never or barely ever did real work themselves fail to grasp.
Not that the general idea is limited to furries. The broader cultural insanity regarding coyotes and bears moving into places they never existed before and pretending that this should just be accepted is nuts.
Having a Florida perspective, the relative dangers of different kinds of sharks and different sizes of alligators amongst people both native(ish) to Florida and outsiders/new residents/visitors is amusing. People just do not understand how to evaluate risk. Some grossly overestimate it while others grossly underestimate it. If one dares to provide some degree of rationality you can find yourself fighting a two front war. See also hurricanes.
I am now envisioning WTP kicking a shark and punching an alligator simultaneously.
I’ve been picturing Stephanie shovelling in sauerkraut and bearing down industriously in order to inflate a production line of zip-lock freezer bags.
What?
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m upping the price of the drinks.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread…
I doubt it, but I am a bit concerned about your new found fixation on bags of farts. Do you have rye fields nearby?
Hey, I didn’t start it.
[ Pouts indignantly, checks upthread. ]
Bugger.
I know nothing about David Pakman, but my first impression isn’t good.
Wanye Burkett revisits his bottom quintile post.