Friday Ephemera (784)
A project for the weekend, requires detergent sprinkles. || Oh, I dunno, a little picky, methinks. || Improbable levitation. || Why, what did you see? || So how was your day? || You don’t get to, says she. || She’s looking for the perfect liberal. Note obligatory pinching of fingers. || “Sneaking… Mum’s underwear,” says he. || Schoolgirling scenes. || Signage issues. || Signs of enrichment. || Hugging occurred. || Mr Hopper liked to wear his sister’s clothes, but that’s not the detail you’re going to remember. || For everything, a time and a place. || Guitar playing, simplified. || Moustachioed woman has thought. || Mistakes were made. || Birds of the night. || Highway intervention. || Just another fifty times, dear human. || And finally, via Elephants Gerald, big-hair Kirk and the milk-stealing Klingons.
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There is the inside face – trusting, open, liberal – and there is the outside face – suspicious, defensive, illiberal, and tribalist.
Now if they can do something about Devil Facial Tumour Disease.
Oxford expended more effort than he ever did.
Douglas Murray remarks.
NICE
He was in an electrical apprenticeship program, in his third year, which implies he was out of the classroom and doing practical work. So maybe not in this case.
I’m fairly sure “Judge not” was a mantra spat out by the counterculture revolutionaries as a way of telling normies that they were going to do what they wanted, and the normies were going to shut up about it, because Jesus said.
And yes, it was meant from the beginning to expand like insulation foam to fill every space.
Yeah, I don’t buy it, either. He was jubilant. Now he looks utterly despondent. He won’t forget Sept 10 any time soon.
“It’s hard to comprehend the near perfect inverted reality being fed to the left regarding the shooter.
“This FB page has 7.6M followers and this post is closing in on 100K likes. Lots of my old friends are sharing it with comments like ‘Finally, reality.’ We have a problem.”
[ Slurps coffee, surveys kingdom. ]
“I was exposed to man-made horrors beyond comprehension.“
Come back to the UK, we’ve changed! *giggles*
On that point.
The result of such efforts is, I’d suggest, unlikely to be gratitude.
Well, to ostentatiously disavow one’s own tribal inclinations, and one’s own tribe, while inviting in other tribes of the world and not insisting on reciprocation, on similar disavowals on their part, and indeed while actively encouraging the tribalism of others, does not strike me as a sustainable model. Or a morally palatable one.
Yet here we are.
Bird-hand theory.
A message from Chase Hughes, a member of The Behavior Panel who has many years of experience in the military, and who is an expert in brainwashing and psy-ops.
He says that the military playbook on psy-ops is being run in this country, just as it was done in other countries.
Wonderbar.
[ Weighs merits of a hot roast pork sandwich for lunch, dipped, with stuffing. ]
[ Chomps hot roast pork sandwich, dipped, with stuffing. ]
I’m calling it brunch so shut up.
Thanks for that. I had seen that he was a 4.0 student but they did not say in what and I took that in a more academic context. Checked out their course overviews and such. They say that they have 100% completion, pass, and licensure rates. 100%. Which seems odd, but whatever.
Secondly, I would still maintain that such a track in electrical apprenticeship…well I don’t see why such a thing couldn’t start at age 16 instead of post-high school. Or even 15 for more disciplined young people. We still drag people, even trades-oriented people, through more years of useless schooling than 50 or 60 years ago. Reasonably intelligent people shouldn’t be still flipping burgers in their early 20’s.
Listened to about 5 minutes of that but the whole thing being 23…well, isn’t helping me get back to sleep but…I agree in general with what he’s saying and I recognize some of it from what I have off and on delved into regarding cults. I don’t entirely buy into the sinister aspects of it though. People over whom you have direct control, like smaller cults or very hard totalitarian regimes with the power to kill or imprison on a whim, yes these things are as sinister as that. But I get very uncomfortable with this idea, well these ideas in general, that try to find some “other thing” to blame for the stupidity of people in a free society. People are free to make their own decisions regarding what they believe. Blaming the news media or social media or “rock and roll” records or religion (outside of the totalitarian ones that control entire countries) or drugs/alcohol/etc is still a copout IMNSHO. That road is too full of these anonymous theys. It’s they are doing this or they are making us do that. Not that there isn’t some truth to it but who exactly is they and what makes them immune to their own poisons? I would suggest that they are not. It’s a failure all around. They just have bigger egos. Which should be it own vulnerability.
The question answers itself…
Indeed. To ask the question is to answer it.
An affirmative action student, who grew up in Zimbabwe. A far-left extremist who hates white civilization.
The West should never be a benefactor to people who want to destroy it.
I believe this is called mixed messages.
Are there any demerits?
The sandwich was slightly too big.
FEEL MY PAIN.
Now you’re telling porkies.
But also, how Oxford matriculated such an affirmative-action under-achiever.
Regarding that guy, another guy sure to be denounced or worse for wrongthink.
Hey, I offered to help you with your best meals and drinks, but did you listen? No…
Via Elon Musk, “This needed an update”:
[ Returns from agreeable drive around Peak District, aglow with bonhomie. ]
Don’t worry, it’ll pass.
Is bonhomie a British name for a gin and tonic?
Just realised they’ve put President Camacho in as president of the Oxford Union.
[ Writes down gin and tonic, watches clock carefully. ]
[ Underlines. ]
AYFKM, Canada?
Oddly enough, I was just reading this:
Also, I had to look up AYFKM.
Sweet, blushing ingénue that I am.
I am no longer surprised by anything that people on the left do.
Did you notice what a fascistic brutalist monstrosity the school board is in?
Given the tendency of self-serving bureaucracies to ‘circle the wagons’, is the phrasing “the report of this incident is extremely troubling and completely unacceptable” addressing the incident or the notice taken of same?
It does make sense, in leftist terms:
First, ruining the lives of dissenters is baked into leftist ideology.
Second, many on the left are outright sadists who deeply enjoy cruelty.
Conclusion: No civilized society should tolerate leftists.
I’ll just post this for no particular reason.
“Flasher gets lit up” was not on my bingo card.
Meanwhile, in South Korea. (somehow I doubt the Left expected this)
Watching some videos about ancient monuments/tombs. These neolithic sites dating from 12,000BP to 7000BP predate the wheel or writing. They are found from England across Europe, the middle east and in to China. Also in the Americas dating not quite as old but quite old. Africa? Cannot find any reference to such stone monuments of this age there. Feel free to correct me if wrong, but if not it is a little disturbing.
“Unfortunately, the mayor ended the city’s relationship with the [ShotSpotter] gunfire detection system one year ago.”
“Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.” — P. J. O’Rourke
The cat is a nice touch.
ShotSpotter was racist because:
Via A Blue Canary:
$667M of taxpayer money has been spent on “Community Violence Interrupters” in the last 5 years by the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago.
Read the comments.
It’s the brazenness of the corruption that’s so galling.
I thought Tyler Robinson was living with his parents.
Massive protest for free speech in London.
@David, what observations and insights can you offer to your readers who are thousands of miles away?
Over 100,000, according to BBC, Guardian, and PBS.
PBS calls it “far right”, but Stalinists always say that sort of thing.