Being Real, She Says
As illustrations go, this one is worthy of note:
There are many things to dislike about progressivism, even just from a purely aesthetic point of view, and so we spend a lot of time on here ridiculing it on that basis, but it’s important always to remember that the main problem with progressivism is that it’s not true.
It’s… https://t.co/Wqs5FaS6JZ
— wanye (@xwanyex) April 7, 2026
Readers will note Mrs Newsom’s assumptions of accidental criminality – among occupants of San Quentin, a maximum-security prison – and her obliviousness regarding how much effort is required – how many accidents – to actually end up in a prison of any kind.
Such wildly inaccurate conceptions of the criminal demographic and of the psychology and motives in play, as expressed by the criminals themselves, have been noted here before, with corrective – one might say eye-widening – statistics and illustrations.
Update, via the comments:
Among the scrupulously progressive, there’s also a failure to grasp that criminal and antisocial behaviour is rarely confined to one sphere.
We might, for instance, revisit the outpourings of Nora Loreto, who insisted, quite emphatically, that habitual car theft is a “victimless” crime. Ms Loreto was far too busy applauding herself for mouthing the approved attitudes to consider what it is that stolen cars are very often used for, and by whom, and the rather significant overlap of car theft with getaways and other untoward activities, including human smuggling.
In the case mentioned here, a trio of burglars – with over 200 convictions between them – also amused themselves by stealing cars, endangering other motorists in truly alarming ways, and assaulting and mugging the elderly and bedridden cancer patients.
But hey, accidents happen.
And among progressives, contrivance and obvious falsehoods function as luxury goods, as markers of in-group status. Like rhetorical jewellery.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
“Lower-case letters, please.“
Matthew Yglesias could not be reached for comment.
Well yes, and bewildering, frustrating and angering the normies (AKA, “the enemy”) is a major win for certain types of people.
Zoe Williams, ladies and gentlemen.
It’s not rape, just ad hoc exogamy.
Um, what?
Should context be required.
Mr Yglesias seems to believe that one can’t acknowledge certain realities without being preoccupied with them. To notice them at all is, in his mind, unsavoury.
Where does she think GPS came from?
Assuming she thinks may be an error.
I think it’s fair to say Zoe doesn’t excel at joined-up thinking. She seems to mouth things, often quite adamantly, that are somehow entirely isolated from whatever she was mouthing adamantly two weeks ago. There’s little, if any, connecting logic.
Though there is a remarkable imperviousness to internal contradiction.
She’s a professional journalist, you know. Working at the Guardian for 26 years.
Pervert’s gonna pervert.
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I mean, I would guess that at some point most of us have had that experience when you’re about to say something and then you realise that it jars with something you’ve said previously and which you’re pretty sure is true, and so you have to retrace your steps to figure out where the screw-up is. It can be mildly irritating.
I don’t think Zoe experiences that.
Grok, is this real?
Yes.
Fucking “public” broadcasting corporations.
Get it together, man. DON’T KEEP US WAITING.
It’s one of the left’s more unsavoury rhetorical ploys: The left imposes an idea or a policy which is wrong and harmful. When you object you are “preoccupied” or “obsessed”. Or worse.
Correction posted before your admonishment. 😁
Caution to David’s readers: The MS 10/11 screenshot tool saves screenshots with filenames that cannot be handled not just by WordPress but many apps including MS Paint and File Explorer.
One of the things about blogging that I’ve decided to find amusing rather than aggravating concerns the software used for traffic stats – how many people are lurking in the bushes hereabouts, where they came from, which links were clicked, etc. Every so often, the software asks me, “How would you rate your overall experience?”
Thing is, the pop-up asking this question actually stops the software from loading at least half of the information I generally browse. And so I have to reload the page. Every. Damn. Time. By asking the customer how satisfied they are, they’re degrading the experience just a little bit. And no-one at the company in question seems to have noticed this bug.
I asked Grok to translate the Danish the creepy expert was saying:
“I accidentally stabbed that lady 37 times.”
“Whoops!”
“Whoopsie!”
We are but eggs for their omelletes.
I’ve not had issues of that sort with the Snipping Tool.
Use ShareX for screenshots.
Modern excuse for being a lazy slob.
That’s because the Snipping Tool is not overly helpful: It merely creates a default filename which is fairly simple. In contrast, the Screenshot tool creates astonishingly long filenames that describe the web page that was screenshotted. Very Smart Microsoft People.™
Her professor told her, so it must be true.
She asserts that lawns are a competition to show our worth/status.
And yet her ignorant virtue signalling is precisely that.
[ Slides hairbrush of unknown origin to pst314. ]
Tanner Horner pleaded guilty Tuesday.
It being Texas, there is a good chance he will receive the death penalty.
Still, though, three plus years to come to trial seems ludicrous. The abduction and murder happened in November, 2022, the indictment in February, 2023. Even with a change in venue there seems little justification for the delay. And, should he receive the death penalty, how many years before he is helped along to the afterlife?
Yes, well, that seems a point in its favour.
We have weeds.
She’s one of them.
Simple is good.
It’s not rape, just ad hoc exogamy.
Wait – just so I’m clear on this:
Two unrelated Danish people having children is considered inbreeding and genetically bad for the offspring.
But…
Third-world migrant first-cousin marriage customs are A-OK genetically for the offspring?
So if one of the unrelated Danish people gets a good dark tan, is it no longer considered inbreeding if they mate with a pale Dane?
Do these f^%&*^rs understand genetics at all??
Embrace tradition: the punishment for arson was death.
What immunity?
It’s California. Jennifer Newsom’s probably drafting an apology.
We shoot mad dogs.
But he’s a Muzzie. If we kill him, they win. Ask any journalist or other talking head. They know and understand these things.
You know, “arson” isn’t considered a violent crime in CA. Really.
BTW, Ontario PD arrested him today, so I’ll check court calendar for arraignment on Friday. Unless Central office wants it, all the hearings will be out of Rancho Cucamonga Courthouse. (where I worked DA office for 18 years, 4th floor)
I’m still tracking the JashanPreet Singh case (on calendar for Pretrial 4/24). Being about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, watch news coverage for both to drop to nothing. Doesn’t fit the “white racist guy” narrative.
I don’t know about NC, but it used to be in CA that what happened to such people, is that they are committed to state hospitals for the criminally insane. They stay there until they are fit for trial. They DO NOT get out.
Personally, I think a woodchipper is too good for this guy — drawing and quartering should come back.
Mamdani bloviates about “inequality” of net worth due to melanin-level, but never addresses the “inequality” of criminal perps due to melanin-level.
David, it’s just not fair that poor oppressed minorities should have to pay to ride the subway. Don’t you know that subway fare eats up a much bigger proportion of their income than it does yours? Where’s your empathy?
Help me understand why people are shocked at the concept of “unfit to stand trial.” We’ve had this concept for decades if not longer. We don’t subject someone to a trial if they’re incapable of participating in their own defense. We recognize that schizophrenia impedes accountability. Instead of a trial we lock them in the criminal looney bin.
What I want to know is this: we’re often told that most schizos aren’t dangerous people, because before they broke with reality, they weren’t dangerous people.
So this guy? Prior to his first break, was he violent? Imma guess he was violent then, which is why he’s violent now.
So that kind of settles things, doesn’t it? Even if you put him on meds he’d be violent.
Not shocked at the concept but definitely tired of way the concept’s been warped into a ‘get out of jail free’ card.
DeCarlos Brown, Jr. had prior arrests, including for armed robbery and assault, and was free on a ‘written promise’ that he would return for his next court appearance.
This strikes me as broadly accurate:
Much of the content here that’s about crime, antisocial behaviour and recreational malice is informed by a quite visceral dislike of expectations of exemption and immunity – and actual immunity – from normal moral consequences. Consequences that I would expect to befall me, were I sufficiently selfish and unpleasant to engage in similar behaviour. Hence the term The Unspanked.
To take another example, were I to move to a distant country, hoping to flourish, it would not occur to me to behave as these vibrant newcomers do. Or in ways seen quite vividly here. Were I to repeatedly violate the values and decencies of the indigenous, as if I owed nothing to those on whom I impose – as if their values, their expectations of reciprocation, were contemptible – then I would very much expect my welcome to be withdrawn. And quite promptly.
I think we’ll give that one a post of its own.
Comments that-a-way.
Mamdani and inequality. It is interesting that married black couples do almost as well as whites. Going to jail certainly cuts into your “wealth”. It has also been shown that for any given income level, blacks are more careless with their money, going in for more expensive cars, clothes, jewelry–it saving less. Wealth results from saving.
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to the idea of patriarchy.
I spent six months in Mexico in 2023, enjoying the benefits a US salary affords me there, and one thing I remember quite vividly was being told to stop tipping. Tipping is highly optional in Mexican culture, and no more than 10%. I’d been throwing around 20% tips routinely because to me that was literally pennies. But Mexico is having a real problem with wealthy expats moving there and distorting the local economy.
Regarding Zoe Williams – stopped clocks, etc. There isn’t a contradiction; it’s just that far too many people have no idea how orbital and space travel works and think everything is Star Trek.
GPS (and other) satellites are in low Earth orbit. Low Earth orbit is famously expensive to get to (“Low Earth orbit is halfway to anywhere in the Solar System”) but the ROI is large. Anything beyond LEO has a massive negative ROI. There’s zero reason to go the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else in the Solar System. It’s just a massive black hole of taxpayer money.