The Unspanked Spread Joy
Or, His Unbeaten Ass.
Yesterday, at UC Berkeley, that fiefdom of Our Betters, detransitioner and “former trans kid” Chloe Cole invited students to discuss the realities of sexual transition, a procedure she very much regrets.
However, expressing regret, or doubt of any kind, is apparently an outrage, a wickedness to be punished. And hence the grinning chap seen below, the one expressing himself via the medium of tomato juice:
Today at a @tpusastudents tabling event at UC Berkeley with Chloe Cole and Harrison Tinsley, this individual threw a full bottle of tomato juice all over the TPUSA chapter members, staff, and their table. @Harrisontinz @ChoooCole
VC: @uhneti pic.twitter.com/CTWd4rfpsm
— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) October 23, 2024
“I’m not touching you,” says he. “I’m grabbing your phone.”
Update, via the comments:
EmC asks, not unreasonably,
I would guess that if you attempt it, even politely – at least, at Berkeley, that great seat of reason – you risk being assaulted by a spiteful, emotionally incontinent misfit. One clearly accustomed to impunity.
And that’s rather the thing, isn’t it?
If, for instance, I were considering whether to amuse myself by flinging tomato juice over people and over their computers and whatever, while grinning with satisfaction, I’d expect a not insignificant likelihood of consequently being punched in the face. This expectation is important.
The risk of being punched, vigorously, is important. It inhibits quite a lot of recreational malice.
And the assumption of being able to behave badly, malevolently, with impunity, as seen above, and as seen repeatedly and quite vividly here, is not, to my eye, progress.
Decriminalize violence.
I think this is the precise point at which he should have been punched, quite hard, then pinned to the ground, and possibly punched again, until he learned to behave.
“Behold the tolerant Left!”
Well said, sir.
Can we mention the mental health problems yet?
The gentleman in question has apparently been detained.
I would guess that if you attempt it, even politely – at least, at Berkeley, that great seat of reason – you risk being assaulted by a spiteful, emotionally incontinent misfit. One clearly accustomed to impunity.
And that’s rather the thing, isn’t it? If, for instance, I were considering whether to amuse myself by flinging tomato juice over people and over their computers and whatever, while grinning with satisfaction, I’d expect a not insignificant likelihood of consequently being punched in the face. This expectation is important.
The risk of being punched, vigorously, is important. It inhibits quite a lot of recreational malice.
And the expectation that it won’t happen, the assumption of being able to behave badly, malevolently, with impunity, as seen above, and as seen repeatedly and quite vividly here, is not, to my eye, progress.
[ Post updated. ]
But they just stand there while he throws crap on them.
Presumably, the targets of the recreational malice understand that their assailant is a Protected Being, and that any physical resistance, however warranted, would result in gasps of pretentious indignation and institutional disapproval. Needless to say, this is not an ideal situation. It’s a golden ticket for spiteful little shits.
And from the aggressor’s point of view, the prospect of being half-heartedly told off, maybe, by someone who regards you as Protected Being, and therefore entitled to excuses and uncommon latitude, will not be much of a deterrent, if it’s entertained at all. But the real and imminent prospect of having your teeth loosened by the people you’ve just violated seems more likely to serve that function.
Not perfect, perhaps, but probably good enough. And certainly better than the farce above, variations of which we’ve seen many times.
Overwhelmingly in academia, where progressives reign.
Vandalism and assault and no one dares touch him.
And hence, presumably, the grin.
Not to mention criminal charges, lawsuits. Basically having your life sidetracked for the next two years. Even if you “win”.
Clearly oppressed.
(Via Elon Musk) This is apropos–but replace “the media” with “the left”:
This makes my blood pressure go up.
Think of it as a workout. But without all that tiresome dashing about.
[ Imagines a gym in which patrons sit in comfy chairs and watch videos that make them quite annoyed. ]
Straight out of Alinsky. “Your reaction is their action.”
I suppose you could think of it as a test of Progressive Demoralisation. Or maybe Progressive Emasculation. Something along those lines.
I wonder, do the ladies feel differently about this?
From this:
If you haven’t seen the videos in that post, I do recommend watching them. They’re quite revealing of the mindset.
Not to mention criminal charges, lawsuits
Daniel Penny. Everyone knows full well what will happen if you intervene.
It really needs a good beating.
If this guy (I first watched it with the sound off — I assumed otherwise) is a student or employee then the civilized course of action is that he never be allowed to step back onto campus again.
But this is Berkeley, so I’m not holding my breath.
And legal action is also called for, but I can’t see the courts punishing the perp in any meaningful way. They might find him guilty and order him to carry out community service.
sigh.
I never understood this sort of sentiment. When you resort to vandalism, your message is completely obscured by your total assholery. No one cares about message –all they see is an asshole behaving like an asshole.
Just once, I’d love to see two booths, each with diametrically opposed viewpoints right next to each other . . . and everyone is respectful to each other.
Heck, maybe each side may learn something from the other. That would be novel.
Maybe in some other universe.
Bit radical, that. For a place of learning.
Or, your assholery is your true message.
Plenty of f*cking around, not enough finding out.
Emboldened, premeditated assholery.
I thought “the unspanked spread Joy” was a stage direction in the script of “A Clockwork Orange”?
[ Muffled laughter, makes last-minute addition to tomorrow’s Ephemera. ]
[ Practises innocent face. ]
Relevant to the transitioning thing but also science in general: my experience and my friends is that journals do not want to publish studies that replicate past work (affirming or contradicting), that point out flaws in past work (even if serious), or that fail to find an effect that was hypothesized. They like positive results only. Thus bullshit studies are rarely disproved because one can’t get that published.
@sH2, who observed:
Ah, but you see… There’s a word you left out: The all-important one. YET.
Think of the social commons as being a bit analogous to a bank account; as of yet, there is plenty of slack, plenty of “tolerance” in the account. These assholes are drawing on that account, such that it is going into the red. When it first goes, then it will become less easy to get away with such transgressions because there won’t be any “social commons” left; it will all be the rule of nature, “red in tooth and claw”.
It will start with people punching back. From there, it will get worse and worse, until you see sudden impromptu capital punishment imposed.
The thing you have to recognize here is that those people whose displays you’re ripping up? They’re offering you polite warning; you’ve gone too far, and you’re in grave danger of breaching the public peace. You go ripping up their signs, tearing down their statues? Oi. Things are due to get right-up spicy around these parts.
The thing a lot of these assholes don’t recognize is that while they were, for a short time, the actual “good guys” in the arguments, in that it was wrong to deprive others of their sexual/political freedoms based on things like being gay or black? The thing was, you had to know when you’d won all the argument you’re going to, and recognize when “too far” is actually, y’know… Too far.
We’re in that “too far” stage, right now, and the backswing on the social pendulum is gonna be lethal. Collateral damage will abound, and I, for one, am merely going to stand aside as nature and history work their course. It will not be pretty; things cannot go on like this, and will not. The form of “after” remains to be seen, but I suspect that it’s gonna be Victorian-era repression and social separation on steroids.
It’s always excess, ‘innit?
The imposition of a caste system is well on its way.
Just call it the internet.
The internet, where half the videos on YouTube are interrupted by annoying ads from some crappy insurance company.
Two words: pepper spray.