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Our Betters Issue Threats

January 27, 2025 125 Comments

Behold the latest milestone in fearless resistance:

Tiktoker says she will ruin your car if you support Trump and eat at a Mexican restaurant pic.twitter.com/DTqrVcAQdj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 26, 2025

Because vandalising the cars of random strangers is progressive piety now, the very measure of heroism. Oh, and note the implied conflation of Mexican restaurant and US citizens of Mexican ancestry and illegal, criminal migrant.

I believe there’s a word for that kind of thing.

Readers are welcome to speculate as to what Madam might do upon discovering that the car she’s just vandalised – with such self-satisfaction – belongs to someone of Mexican ancestry. 

Update, via the comments, which you’re reading, of course:

What’s funny about these things, given a certain sense of humour, is the unearned moral certainty, the rush to smugness.

The posturing above, the promise of gratuitously antisocial behaviour, does fit what has become a default template, a pattern seen countless times. Some obnoxious, childish liberal woman records herself saying something childish and obnoxious – in this case, about the joys of vandalising strangers’ cars, with a bit of bigotry thrown in – and she then awaits likes and applause. As if her boast of incoherent malice were a basis for congratulation.

And when the inevitable, much deserved pushback occurs, including statements of basic logic from those she would have happily wronged, she then locks down her social media and feigns victimhood. As if she were enduring some outrageous persecution. As if a smug racist who threatens vandalism on random strangers, people she deems inferior, were an obvious candidate for sympathy. As ways to pass the time go, it’s an odd mental drama.

And just a tad self-flattering.

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Anthropology Free-For-All

I Know, Let’s All Film Our Mental Breakdowns

January 20, 2025 49 Comments

As Mr Trump unboxes his kettle in the White House, I’m going to offer this reminder of the meltdowns and moon-howling that greeted his election victory. Such were the feats of pretension and competitive neuroticism, some kind of historical document seems in order. 

Among those traumatised was the novelist and Guardian contributor Francine Prose, whose mental health took a catastrophic turn, complete with hair loss and sudden-onset eye-twitching. Symptoms that were accompanied by agitated ramblings about Hitler, Stalin, dictatorship, people thrown from helicopters, and “the imprisonment and execution of those who disagree.”

Of course, Ms Prose was far from alone in her weird theatre of distress, and social media was ablaze with performative convulsion. Among the titans of the fabulist resistance was this tightly wound progressive chap, who envisioned internment camps for those like himself, i.e., tightly wound progressives, with the streets being patrolled by some Trumpian Sturmabteilung.

Oh, and let’s not forget the Ohio high-school teacher Danielle Mann, whose post-election demands, issued from her classroom, included a list of the addresses of likeminded progressives, all of them, everywhere, and the mandatory wearing of identifying bracelets. So that she would know how everyone else voted.

At which point, readers may wish to imagine an alternative timeline, in which society has been customised to accommodate the fevered twitching of our self-imagined betters. A world they would find congenial, shaped in their image, according to their compulsions.

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

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Dominion Over All Things

January 14, 2025 119 Comments

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

Oh, and in travel news, I bring you this:

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Free-For-All Science

Rotatable Apparatus

January 11, 2025 124 Comments

Or, The Thigh Straps Were To Ensure Comfort. 

One for ladies of child-bearing age:

George and Charlotte Blonsky suggested that modern women were ill-equipped to give birth… They argued that modern women who live with modern luxuries “often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed,” and that something was needed to provide them with the force necessary for a smooth birth.

And so, obviously,

This patented invention from 1963 was designed to help women give birth easily

📹Hashem Al-Ghaili pic.twitter.com/VBrlB6N1L7

— Game of X (@froggyups) January 11, 2025

I can tell you’re impressed. The net and bell combo is a lovely touch. “In case medical personnel are momentarily distracted.” 

The patent, from 1963, can be found here.

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Tidings

December 19, 2024 338 Comments

Or, He’s Put Tinsel On The Tip Jar.

Konkon’s Yawn, photographed by Tak.

As is the custom here, posting will be intermittent over the holidays and readers are advised to follow me on X, or subscribe to the blog feed at the very bottom of the page, either of which will alert you to anything new as and when it materialises.

Thanks for another 1.5 million or so visits this year and thousands of comments, many of which prompted discussions that are much more interesting than the actual posts. Which is pretty much the idea.

And particular thanks to all those who’ve made PayPal, Ko-Fi, or SubscribeStar donations to keep this rickety barge above water. It’s much appreciated. Should you be gripped by a seasonal urge to express encouragement via currency, by all means use the buttons below this post.

Just think of my little face lighting up.

Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the Reheated series in search of entertainment. You may find things you’d missed. And this, needless to say, is an open thread.

To you and yours, a very good one.

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