Notice that the initial person he offended was too much of a pussy to eject a 12 year old. He had to run and tell another judge who confronted the scary 12 year old.
Also notice how the judge performed like good party apparatchik. "I'm sorry, but the rules are the rules."
"The head judge tells me that he was sorry and that it sucked but I was disqualified due to pokemons [sic] policy. At this point I’m at the verge of tears but I tried my best to keep my composure. I just couldn’t understand what was happening. Was the judge just not listening to anything I had just told him? Was he trying to look at my side of the story at all??
This is the sort of shit you read about in Gulag Archipelago. Today it's silly kids pokemon tournaments. But this mindset is percolating upwards and reaching a tipping point of what Gramsci called "cultural hegemony. "
All sorts of nuggetts in this article.
Notice that the initial person he offended was too much of a pussy to eject a 12 year old. He had to run and tell another judge who confronted the scary 12 year old.
Also notice how the judge performed like good party apparatchik. "I'm sorry, but the rules are the rules."
This is the sort of shit you read about in Gulag Archipelago. Today it's silly kids pokemon tournaments. But this mindset is percolating upwards and reaching a tipping point of what Gramsci called "cultural hegemony. "
I honestly, honestly expect my University will do something like this, soon…
Some businesses (including government departments) already do…