Reheated (113)
I expect to be busy elsewhere for much of this week, so, to soften the blow, the trauma of it all, here are some items from the archives:
An experiment in self-annihilation.
It seems to me we’ve strayed very far from the idea that an attractively developed society should – and must – be discerning about which kinds of newcomers it welcomes, lest it be flooded with incompatible tribes and the trash of the world. The idea that the locals, the voting citizens, might want a good deal and ask, “What’s in it for us?” seems anathema to Our Betters. Likewise, the notion of a civilised society implying, quite strongly, “You’re lucky to be here. Behave accordingly.”
And so, instead, we get the routine airbrushing of crime news, and instructional videos in which ludicrous progressive women film themselves performing please-don’t-rape-me dances.
On the psychology of Antifa’s Transgender Enforcement Wing.
And remember, the targets in the videos above – the unimposing, the elderly, the disabled – are chosen deliberately and with glee. Because that’s who they are, these mighty warriors of the Cluster B Tendency. Malevolence is their aphrodisiac, their euphoria. It’s how they feel important. It’s how they process the buzzing noise inside their own heads…
The threat of catastrophic injury would, I suspect, be the only language such creatures are likely to heed. It’s certainly hard to imagine them being swayed by appeals to logic, reciprocation, or basic decency. I see no evidence of a better nature to which one might appeal. I mean, once you’ve chosen to spend your afternoon menacing the elderly and disabled precisely because they’re unlikely to give you the vigorous kicking you deserve, you’re pretty much beyond any negotiation or genteel outreach project.
How To Invalidate Your Own Vocation.
On the evaporating standards of “affirmative psychotherapy.”
In this supposedly therapeutic context, the words affirmation and validation translate as a willingness to lie. A willingness to indulge obvious bollocks and play along. And so, one might wonder how Dr Tess Kilwein – PhD, pronouns “she/they” – might affirm and validate some of the chaps seen here. Or this merry bedlamite, who violates women’s toilets and pushes his phone camera under the doors of occupied stalls in order to livestream to his admirers, all those affirming fans, the protests of his latest victim.
Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, is not entirely honest.
The phenomenon was seemingly contagious and quite bizarre, a collective fit of transparent fabrication, and soon became a mocking meme. But I think we’re seeing much the same psychology. The same telling of tall tales in order to assert status and to fuel some progressive psychodrama.
The urge to inflate grievances, and indeed to fabricate them, to balance umbrage and chest-puffing on the merest mote, is a progressive credential. Theirs is a hamster-wheel world of competitive indignation. But when you’re very publicly complaining about a flight attendant using the word blessed, as if this one word signalled some impending theocracy – and when you’re using your eight-year-old child as a political ventriloquist’s doll – then we’re in the land of make-believe. And possibly, anti-psychotic medication.
For those craving more, this is a pretty good place to start.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Ooh, three buttons. I wonder what they do.
re New Zealand doesn’t get it. No, but from the comments NobodyYouKnow is starting to get it.
As I have been proposing for quite some time, finally someone with more reach has proposed something similar. Tho Robby Starbuck is willing to pay them to leave. I would pay to deport them but giving them $40,000 on top is a bit much. Apparently many are self-deporting to Canada.
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/americans-flee-canada-seek-refugee-status-numbers-spike-dramatically
Change that to “knowledge, experience, and opinions“.
And the same applies to police, firefighters, and other people that liberals despise but cannot survive without.
I wish I could edit or at least amend two-hour-old comments.
“It’s soft terrorism.”
Speaking of which, this.
In a feat shaming Cubans making boats out of old Studebakers this guy bravely kayaked into Canada – across the Detroit river, max width 2.5 whole miles. Bligh himself would be impressed.
He left because he was “…fearing retaliation after criticizing a Michigan non-profit connected to state service dog programs.” Service dog non-profits are one micron away from being the NKVD, you see, and they brook no dissent.
Right.
More on the “violence interrupters” fraud.
Another example of a bubble living person lacking in awareness of anything outside of it and supremely confident that their ignorance is reality. Of American Soldiers (and Marines, Sailors, and Airmen) all officers must have a college degree. Past Major (or equivalent), many have a masters, doctorates are not uncommon. Most senior NCOs have at least an Associates, many more advanced, same with Warrants.
After 9/11 all kinds of people were signing up, I knew a junior enlisted chap who had been a teacher of ancient history, just another knuckle dragging troglodyte, I guess.
The Defenestration of Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya doesn’t have quite the same ring but it’ll do.
@dicentra, from my reading, Smith is vacationing in New Zealand after an Australian court ruled against her. Though I suspect such nonsense wouldn’t be foreign to NZ courts.
The expensively inculcated gullibility of journalists accounts for some of the contempt in which they’re held.
Sprung a leak?
Vibrant culture.
“[I]f you have to have a hill to die on, the bepenised woman is as fetching a butte as the landscape offers.”
She can only do so much, though it is entirely unclear what her actual point is, if she even has one.
She’s demonstrating that she is indeed disabled–mentally disabled.
More of this.
The great thing about Chicago is that when you are knocked unconscious, a security guard will take your valuables out of your pocket and walk away.
Not the first time this has happened. Not even the first time it’s been documented online.
You already know without me telling you that he’s previously been arrested many times.
Violent and insane.
Such people should be given a choice: permanent incarceration or death.
But what to do about the “liberals” who allow them to walk the streets?
I am reminded of immigrants who came to America not for free handouts or conquest, but because they passionately admired what America was and wanted to become Americans.
Genre-swapping FTW. I like this new version better.
Heh. I knew it must be Steyn even before I clicked over.
For one thing, he doesn’t scream the lyrics.
One for our host.
Does anyone know why some Twitter videos seem to hang forever? This one won’t play in Bing and Firefox, but does play in Safari on a phone.
One for the Things That Didn’t Happen™ files – a secret meeting in a red North Georgia town too scary to be held in a “clubhouse” the size of a supermarket, so secret he had to blab aboot it on TikTak.
My shocked face.
Plays in Vivaldi; hangs in Brave; plays in Firefox; plays in Iron; plays in Waterfox.
Kind of wish it hadn’t played in any of them.
Cracking down on crime is “the first step into rounding black people up and putting them in detainment camps.”
An “interesting” implication about what black people are.
Two killed by yet another immigrant truck driver who’s not fluent in English.
Well, considering their behavior when they think they’ve been “disrespected”….
Agreed. Fake.
But also: He demonstrates projection when he says he fears ostracism and blackballing if his neighbors find out he’s an anti-Trump liberal, as that’s what liberals have been doing all too often to conservatives.
And spoke movingly about the experiences which led them to so admire America.
…yet another immigrant truck driver who’s not fluent in English.
For the record, he is Ukrainian.
2023 police dashcam video of shooting: Liberals hate dashcams and bodycams because they persuade citizens (and jurors) that more perps need to be executed. And liberals love criminals, especially brown and black criminals.
Thanks.
Both nations do seem to be known for “problematic” people.
I too often see drivers doing that, even though there is someone sitting next to them who could take the call, allowing them to concentrate on driving.
No, as a north Georgia resident I totally believe that happened just as he said. The fear of course, the TDS and hysteria is all in their heads but there is a considerable element even here in heavily red territory of a red state who want this to be true, thus they make it true. The thing is that they really don’t have to hide it because just like this guy, as you point out, they are out there making videos like this or protesting on “No King’s Day” or commenting on FB groups calling Trump the Orange Taco or whatever and nothing happens to them.
I really don’t think most conservatives truly understand the depth of the TDS problem we are facing. These people, mainstream people, have lost their minds. They are normal as normal can be but one mention of anything remotely political and the TDS comes out. Their fundamental personalities, everything on which they base their value judgements, their perceptions of reality, even down to their religious beliefs are being threatened right now. And the two men who are in positions and have the power to do the most are fighting to stay above the fray by limiting their engagements with it. I hope they have some sort of plan here but whatever it is I don’t see it. I hope I am wrong because heads may literally explode.
OT: The petition on behalf of that killer truck driver from India has topped 3 million signatures. I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually hits 5 million.
It’s amazing how many signatories seem to agree that he didn’t do anything criminal. (It doesn’t count that he entered America illegally, stayed illegally, sought a CDL even though he knew he was not qualified, got a CDL by presumably fraudulent means, and grossly violated traffic laws by making that U-turn. I guess racial solidarity trumps all objective concepts of justice.)
I have some direct experience with just how severe the TDS is, because my family ties and personal interests have forced me into regular contact with delusional, tyranny-minded libtards. Thus, decades to exposure to their lunacy in which they display approval of the punishment of those they disagree with while simultaneously denouncing conservatives as the ones bent on tyranny.
Some of the libtards I’ve known have, ever since Trump was reelected, exhibited signs of serious psychological breakdowns in their social media posts…until either they went dark at the advice of friends or I got tired of their rants and de-friended them.
Cannot feel sympathy for them after so many years of their malevolence.
But this is my point. I’m not speaking of the overtly political, the ones who are or were politically active. Those have already been exposed. They are the tip of the iceberg. I’m talking about the quieter ones. The ones who vote Democrat all their lives and expect to vote Democrat all the rest of theirs lives. They got 100% of their news from the usual sources, they felt that they themselves were well informed. Vanilla people. The kind who read the books displayed on that table as you enter the library. They still go to the movies regularly. They attend church almost every Sunday yet haven’t noticed anything drifting to the left. They think the Narrative is what all normal people believe. They didn’t think about politics, they just trusted that left was right and right was wrong and that anyone that they were friends with or related to on the right were just uninformed or uneducated or just-not-Christian-but-that’s-ok or otherwise ignorant. They didn’t hate such people….until now.
It’s all so tiresome is a global phenomenon.
Note her t-shirt’s message, “bougie with a little bit of hood”, the honest meaning of which is “middle class income with a hoodrat personality”–which somewhat supports a comment I made a while back that middle class blacks commit violent crimes at a greater rate than poor whites.
And again: Indian Truck Driver Caught Driving On The Wrong Side of Interstate 55 Across the Mississippi River Bridge
Another illegal immigrant killer from India.
“I wish I had never come to Minnesota.”
I wish he had never come to America.
w00t!
Starship 10 made it through its test routine! Sweet splashdown for both segments.
Kinda hard to test something that isn’t there.
Dunno what English has to do with perceiving a line of cars stopped ahead of you at a stop light.
Even Ukranians know that semis aren’t allowed to just plow through.
Seen on the internet:
“The country is groaning under an epidemic of self-diagnosed genius.”
From Ace, a tutorial on bird hands.
Meanwhile in Colombia, the new Minister of Women.