New Ideological Hemlines Announced
Please update your files and lifestyles accordingly:
Elite opinions change fashion faster than elite wardrobes.
When you express a luxury belief, you are communicating your level of education, your income, and your sociopolitical sympathies. It is an expression of what the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu called cultural capital.
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— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) July 23, 2026
Mr Rob Henderson, speaking above and in this longer interview, has been mentioned here before.
The role of status-seeking in political opinionating, whereby a person’s professed beliefs function as a kind of social jewellery, the latest must-have, has cropped up here quite frequently over the years. Along with the inadvertent social gaffes that can arise if you’re not particularly interested in whether your views are perceived as suitably modish and high-status:
Presumably, because there’s no social status to be had in acknowledging the realities of the matter, only in being seen to mouth support for a fashionable cause. Even when the particulars of that cause, its actual implications, remain utterly mysterious and of no discernible interest.
Oh, and this came to mind – on the unhappy siting of adverts – lots of adverts – for assisted suicide:
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
That. ☝️
Well, it’s quite weird, even when it’s happened before, to find yourself having a conversation for reasons that are seemingly incompatible with those of the other person. To find yourself in a game you didn’t know you were playing.
How attractive is this, that I can be fashionable at, well . . . really, no cost. I only need a keyboard with access to social media, and occasionally a piece of cardboard and a Sharpie pen to make a sign for a protest. If even that.
This fits well with what I read this morning on the op ed page of the Wall Street Journal:
So with this latest in luxury beliefs, ddoes one switch from telling them “learn to plumb: to “delete yourself?”
Vain, resentful people who make bad choices. Hey, I know. Let’s put them in charge.
from that link:
Even in the 70’s college students tended to keep “relationships” casual, and the relationships ended when the graduated and moved on.
Simultaneously, many of them were openly contemptuous of women they described as “working on their Mrs degree”: Four years of casual sex without commitment was great, while treating dating as a serious endeavor to find the right person to marry was somehow wrong–a betrayal of one’s proper careerist role in life, déclassé, even.
also from that link:
I have had “conversations” in which my offers were explicitly rejected as harassment–even when the individuals were self-described “rational skeptics”.
I’ve not been accused of that. Not yet, anyway. But over the years I’ve encountered the phenomenon above more times than I can count and the dynamic is generally much the same.
Suddenly, ostentatiously, seemingly at random, Other Person shoehorns-in a fashionable but dubious political assertion, unrelated to anything previously being discussed, presumably to assert their own standing. This is done with an expectation of agreement or deference.
Then there’s an awkward pause as its noticed that I’m not joining in with sufficient enthusiasm. Pressed for an opinion – again with the expectation of agreement – I say what I think to be the case. This is typically met with confusion and something like consternation.
Not, I think, because what I’m is saying is wildly incoherent or factually incorrect – a meaningful challenge is rarely offered – but because it isn’t deemed statusful. It’s breaking some unspoken rule regarding what the opinionating is for.
And in film news:
At last, Pong: The Movie.
It’s ‘Golden Ticket’ thinking: Now I’ve got this shiny sheepskin I’ll be wafted up the corporate ladder, showered with riches, and never, ever have to do a thing again.
Unfortunately, reality intrudes, the ease, riches, and status don’t magically appear, and we get mini-Marx making TikToks.
Even the screenwriters are illiterate.
Lest I get too high-and-mighty, I should add that I found myself entertained much more than expected by the 2012 film based on the game Battleship.
Wow. I can feel the judgement. I’ve gone cold down one side.
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I feel like everyone involved in that film understood the assignment.
I wonder how much of this new licensing deal is about Hollywood failing to understand Gen X nostalgia combined with Hollywood wanting to avoid anything with any kind of narrative.
Heh. It’s possibly not one for cineastes, and I doubt I’ll feel a need to watch it again any time soon, but I did enjoy it. It’s very much what you’d expect – dumb and loud – it does what it says on the tin, as they say – but it did entertain. And it does have one of the funniest lines of dialogue I can recall.
Wow. That judgement’s really something.
[ Fetches gloves, warm coat. ]
Teen handyman accused of killing ‘sweetest’ elderly couple was well-known ‘troubled juvenile’ suspected of other crimes
Add “teen handyman” to the long list of euphemisms.
Morality aside, only a moron robs and murders his own employers.
And their grandfather goes all “he dindu nuffin”.
Can we confidently estimate the mean intelligence of that family?
But isn’t that cold judgement a welcome relief from the hot summer weather?
Exactly. For example, the compassion that led to unlimited welfare has had pernicious consequences such as no fathers around and rampant crime, these two things being causally linked. The laws in Europe “protecting” workers means that it is almost impossible to fire anyone so businesses are reluctant to hire, thereby hurting workers. “Protecting” tenants has led to reluctance to develop or maintain rental properties, thus raising rents. I could go on. All of these problems would be lessened with fewer rules and more market response to incenives.
This. And going back even further into high school in most cases. This is a huge sociological change from tens of thousands of years of social evolution, going on right under the noses of a society with the greatest number of students of sociology per capita in the history of the entire world. This has been going on for half a century yet all these ever increasing legions of sociologists blather on and on about every stupid insignificant bump in social changes except this one. It’s absurd.
“This isn’t high school. You’re not going to get to be Queen Bee by showing you have only the most fashionable opinions. The girls don’t want to be you; the boys don’t want to fuck you. You have no power here. Now fuck off.”
Oh. Dear. Lord.
At least with that the game itself was based on naval warfare and required some form of strategy, but Pong, just a blip moving back and forth, resembled ping pong much like Starmer resembled Churchill. Besides, the definitive ping pong movie has already been made.
Speaking of England, more enrichment ensues.
Is diversity occurring?
I was hoping that someone would notice that. 😀
“Allah sent me to kill women”
It would not be immoral for bystanders to cut off his balls right then and there.
Incidentally, the state of London – its ongoing, quite rapid transformation – was one of the many topics that resulted in the status game mentioned above. Apparently, there are some opinions on the matter that one isn’t supposed to have, or at least admit to.
Lest I get too high-and-mighty, I should add that I found myself entertained much more than expected by the 2012 film based on the game Battleship.
I love that movie, especially the ending when the WWII warship gets put into action, by the elderly vets who manned her back in the war. Old school tech and human grit and ingenuity ftw!
I’ve also never been accused of classiness…never could get into the high and mighty Lit-tra-ture type stuff. Give me a good story and adventure any day.
Alliterative.
They do all have the same surname. Patronymic or matronymic not stated.
[ Fetches scarf, snow goggles. ]
Does he have sisters named Latrina, Latrinal, and Latrinalia?
Random life advice.
Though on reflection, maybe not entirely random.
Amazing courage and poise shown by this 16 y/o young man.
Liberal couple vandalize GOP offices, mock Charlie Kirk’s death. But the article carefully avoids saying if that’s a man and a woman or a man and a “woman”.
MEANWHILE…
My phone is on fire with every conservative X account talking about Fauci.
Screaming about him, really. Rand Paul published a PDF of subpoenaed journals and emails, and wowza.
We’re going to have to bring back the stocks.
Forgot to say “because ‘she’ seems to have a very odd beard.” Circus in town?
I hope I’m wrong but I doubt it will add up to more than talk. The majority of people fell in with his BS. They will never admit they were fooled because by the old adage that it is easier to fool a man than for him to admit he was fooled. And that’s just the typical, average person. The smaaaaaaart people’s heads would explode if they understood what they’ve done. They need to be beat, and beat down hard and severely humiliated. Just not likely to happen.
But my God the arrogance of that little prick. If you haven’t read any of that yet, it’s nauseating how highly this man thinks of himself. No surprise that he has a portrait of himself in his office. That is likely the least self-aggrandizing aspect of him.
Posting this because I know our host has been mesmerized in the past by the curls of young ladies, gently falling across their brows.
I absolutely fell for it. It never occurred to me that medical professionals would politicize something as simple and science-based as infectious disease, or vaccines. Never thought it would even be possible.
And I’m asthmatic, pretty severely since childhood, so I saw this horrifying disease with what she said was high likelihood of transmission and fatality, and I thought this was it. I was going to die. So I took the vaccine and to my shame, convinced my skeptical wife to take it as well. My son was forced by his college to take the vaccine.
Thank God, none of us have any signs of vaccine injury. But I did get COVID two times, right after taking the stupid vaccine that didn’t work.
I guess in my defense, after the vaccine failed me, I never took any boosters. Because clearly, that’s not how vaccines work. So I figured out they were redefining the term vaccine.
I had no idea what MRNA was. I was so stupid, I didn’t know the difference between horse paste and remdesivir, and would have been happy with either. Which of course would have ended my life had I been intubated and dosed with that poison.
So I was stupid. I believed scientists would be scientific. And because I’m not a specialist in epidemiology or microbiology, I bowed to the wisdom of those I thought were in good faith.
I’m ashamed, but I’m also very angry. It feels the same as my anger because I was betrayed by the news agencies I also trusted.
And I’m grateful I got off easily. The worst thing that happened to me was being avoiding social situations I hated anyway.
There’s the 16-year-old lifeguard rescuing the young boy and down the coast is this guy.
Another Hollywood turd that I stopped watching. I don’t care if you and I don’t share the same politics or the same faith but not when you’re a dick about it.
Bystanders stopped a naked pedophile who kidnapped a child in Portland as police staffing shortage delayed response up to 40 minutes.
Here me out: Everyone who calls for defunding the police should publicly declared to be unprotected by the law: They may be assaulted, robbed, raped, and murdered with impunity. No action will be taken by the police and courts.
If he didn’t have short spine syndrome he does now.
Don’t beat yourself up. You’re not stupid because by now realizing the situation for what it was you are ahead of probably more than 50% who still buy into the basic BS. Nor should you be ashamed as pretty much everyone was deceived at first. It took me about a week to realize…hey, I should at least have heard of, seen, known some dead people. But for that first week or so…? We were prepped for this with the constant end-of-the-world disaster movies that they had been shoving at us for many years. At one point, when sitting through the “coming attractions” that preceded every movie, no matter what you went to see, I turned to my wife and said, “I wish the f’n world would just end itself and get over it so we don’t have to sit through this tiresome crap”….or something like that.
I also broke down and got the vaccine, but I got the non-mRNA J&J one more out of fear that should anything besides covid put me in a hospital, I was more afraid of getting some nurse or doctor who might disregard or maybe “accidentally” kill me for being unvaxxed. I was discussing this on Insty and a medical professional said he and a colleague felt the same so they mucked up some history or something for their charts regarding heart conditions that would exclude them from any vax.
They literally did.
So support for suicide is now becoming the fashionable stance.
As if the nihilism at the root of it all weren’t sufficiently apparent.
The traditional term for this is “outlaw”.
I believe Anthony Faici and Peter Strzok are the same person. Or at least, clones. Maybe from a biolab in PRC. Harder to explain the Vindmans, though.
Same lab, more bearclaws.