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.
Another benefit of multiculturalism!
How it started; how it’s going.
Is it true that the story of the ax-wielding girl is not being told on that side of the pond?
I wonder whose idea this was.
a secret meeting in a red North Georgia town
Ten bucks says this guy is the first to rat out a neighbor to the HOA for leaving their garbage bin two minutes too long after the trash truck went by.
Before he even said the age group, I knew it. That’s my age group, the late Boomers. Too old to rock and roll, too young to die. We were kids when Woodstock was going on and came of age under Reagan. Sure, we were all go-go-capitalism and materialism then, but secretly wanting to be the revolutionary hippies of our older siblings and cousins. And now as we enter our senior years, many are caught up in this fever dream and see in “resistance” to Trump and the GOP the realization of that dream, one in which we’re cool, counterculture, and communist . . . but fear being dropped from pickleball. Look at these “No Kings” rallies – the median age of the participants is this one.
Karens and Kens of the world, unite!
What this guy doesn’t get is that they WANT to meet secretly. Reserve the clubhouse for a 4pm meeting of the People’s Republic of Medicare? Where’s the fun in THAT?
Imma need a bookmark. I am enjoying this thread but I have a feeling it will last until the Ephemera.
“Journalist”, squeeeee!
Meanwhile, I don’t think they have thought this AWFL plan through…
Recall this feminist slogan of the 70’s/80’s:
Also the arbitrary and cruel rules that feminists attempted to impose upon men.
“guess racial solidarity trumps all objective concepts of justice.”
It’s more complicated than that
Firstly, it’s not so much race, but region. The driver was from Punjab. Sikhs from that region have (unfortunately, and recently) become highly parochial, with a highly radicalised minority – as Canada is about to find out to it’s cost in the next decades. Also, parts of North India are notorious for the kind of uncivil, aggressive behaviour that this driver showed that’s a big reason I fled. Other people in India can’t stand them.
That said, this is really shameful for Indians. I think you would find Indians who either say “he did nothing wrong, just a mistake” or would have preferred him to rot in jail for 90 years (there are many in that camp, incidentally).
I would only suggest though (irrespective of race involved), taking emotions aside, that there needs to be a difference between a) idiot, reckless behaviour and b) downright irredeemable evil.
The former deserves lengthy jail. Lack of intent is no justification. But 40 years should be reserved for the truly evil, intentional crimes. It’s absurd that certain immigrants who sell dangerous drugs or gang rape young girls on a massive scale for years, get a fraction of the jail this idiot driver got.
There are another really key issue here.
Reality is that truck drivers in India are uneducated, untrained, reckless, accident prone – and very lowly paid. They are the main reason for sky high road deaths there.
Now, take Indian doctors – they are very well trained, fluent in English, but still have to spend years in training if they come to the UK or US. But how is it even possible that a person can just come here and somehow start driving a truck?
Again, no excuses for illegal migrants who turn up and kill people, but point is, given the gap in income, there is a huge incentive for Indian (or Ukrainian etc) drivers to come here. The West needs to wake up and stop allowing this instead of post facto recriminations.
The West needs to stop illegal immigrants. For their own sake, for the sake of legal migrants, social cohesion…
A few details can be found on Wikipedia.
I believe it’s satire.
But if real, Italy would be justified in dispatching a fleet of vengeance galleons.
Freshly Fierced .I am sure all these “artists” know exactly what “drag” and their absurdly over the top make up and clothing is all about.
absurdlygrotesquely over the top make upAnd for the sake of those illegal immigrants as well. How many died, were raped or robbed and even murdered by the human traffickers that were supposed to be helping them get here? How many get here with absolutely no clue as to what they are doing? Yes, there are entities, ngo or otherwise “helping” them but much of that is its own exploitation. Sex slavery for some, perpetual servitude for others. As Kamala Harris insincerely stated, don’t come. That is a message we need to get out to the world. Coming to the US illegally is not a good decision for a lot of reasons.
I’d thought the saddest possible way to live was making your sexuality your entire personality… Until I found out there are people who make Taylor Swift’s sexuality their entire personality.
I hope this is satire, but who can tell nowadays?
Remember those people who were so heavily invested in claims of secret gay relationships between various characters in Star Trek and other shows?
Screwed.
This is abuse.
You don’t hate journalists enough.
You don’t hate the BBC enough.
Funny how the “diversity” of London suddenly disappears.
Dicentra: Is it true that the story of the ax-wielding girl is not being told on that side of the pond?
According to Lilek’s Bleat today, computer says “yes.”
https://lileks.com/bleats/archive/25/0825/43.html
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH! I’m soooooo sorry!
I’ll report to the correction booth for regrooving.
Only when the advert shames.
Scrolling down, what does Lileks have against Haagan Dazs? What does he mean by “going junky”? The few flavors I’ve tried recently were all tasty and the ingredient lists remained free of dubious additives.
Scrolling down even farther, there’s been a mass shooting at a church only half a mile from Lileks’ home. At least 20 victims, including children. Black-clad shooter.
Baked beans flavour Haagan Daz is good; but if you top it off with bacon bits, it is magnificent.
Sorry about the blood, David, but it had to be done. I’ll mop it up myself.
Bye bye Typepad.
*Waits for David’s eye to twitch*
The Minneapolis shooter is already trending on X: Robin Westman.
And yes – trans identified.
Is it time for someone to write a book titled Don’t Make the
BlackTrans Kids Angry?unrealism:
Me: “Young ladies should take care in dark and dangerous places to avoid assault”
Young lady: “but men shouldn’t rape”
Me: “but they do”
Young lady: “but they shouldn’t”
As is that absolved her from needing to be careful.
Confirmed.
The photos and videos attributed to Westman show a bizarre cluster of hatreds. Westman set out to murder Christians but also wanted genocide of Jews. Could he have been some sort of trans Nazi?
Court records show Westman legally changed her name from Robert to Robin in 2020 and grew up nearby. [emphasis added]
As if the perpetrator deserves some affirmation, some courtesy.
Yeah…great. Does anyone remember my password?
A lot of this strikes me as people who grew up way too sheltered and are naive in the extreme. They believe what they are told, do not imagine that there is evil in the world (and their fragile world view cannot accommodate the existence of evil), cannot imagine that good intentions can have bad consequences, and blindly accept narratives of oppression. Real life is not a disney movie. Try to pet a bison or moose and get killed. Support terrorists and other people get killed. There are harsh realities out there and they do not want to know about it.
Cheek.
One advantage of attending an integrated “urban” public school is exposure to evil.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Frey told reporters at an update presser Wednesday afternoon.
“Anybody who is using this … as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone,” the mayor said.
Frey stated emotionally that instead of the shooter’s gender-identity and state of mind, public focus should be put on the child victims —- and then he segued into calls for gun control.”
The supporters are coming out of the woodwork.
“tRaNs CoMmUnItY mEmBeRs DoN’t DiSpRoPoRtIoNaTeLy BeCoMe MaSs ShOoTeRs!”
No, but people with severe mental illness do and a disproportionate number of trans people are mentally ill, having been sold a lie that if they transition their lives will be perfect, completely ignoring the other demons in their heads for which no treatment is given.
I am hearing that Mom worked at the school until 2021 and supported her son’s transition fully.
Here is a claim that the shooter was an Order of Nine Angles freak.
Never even heard of them before now–thank goodness.
“I have the same cells as Henrietta Lacks!”
A new variation on “deranged sovereign citizen”. Was it all the weed she smokes? 🙂
He may have just handed the election to Fateh.
Sounds like a 4-chan op.
You must admit it shows more creativity than “I can’t breathe!”
Somebody else’s creative bullshit: I’m sure she’s just repeating what she heard.
Still and all, a nice change.
These two Twitter accounts have many posts on incompetent immigrant truckers:
American Truckers United and The Disrespected Trucker
This one is not taking the news of the alleged engagement at all well.
A breath of fresh tainted air, you might say.