Jokes gonna be on them though, right my fellow min?
Eh, the energy needed for global race riots is spent. Shit like that has to recharge for a while. What we’re due for is large-scale pro-troon rioting. That’ll be fun, just need an eminently misrepresentable fatal incident to spark it off.
Whenever I see posts like this on Twitter, for some reason I always think of Allen Ginsberg’s 1997 deathbed poem, “Things I’ll Not Do.”
And not only because both that poet and so much of Twitter have the same sexual interest in children.
“All The Fire That We Hold Tomorrow”
Fucking hilarious, and so true. Actually, the rest of it is all true too, but that’s the best one.
It’s kind of their biggest strategy though, isn’t it? Endlessly drill into people’s heads the idea that “you need to listen to people of color,” that such people’s “lived experience” (for which read, asserted stories) are “valid,” that there is a such think as “my truth,” and so on, all of which ask you to put aside questions of evidence and supportability in favor of, essentially, “believe me because I’m the right demographic.” And of course, because rhetoric works, a lot of people now ARE willing to believe the right people if they make any claim. Even if, apart from all the above, people would be wise to just not believe anything any celebrity says happened to them anyway, since part of what they do in the celebrity business is keep themselves in the news by hook or by crook.
That would not surprise me either. She pulls a do you know who I am?!? line and the put-upon cashier says, look lady you can’t afford this gift card so move along. And now it’s anti-black, er, anti-30 minutes-in-a-tanning-bed prejudice
Ive been led to understand that in very extreme endurance events, women’s physical natures allow them to compete equally with men. Think here of like, 10 x Ironman triathlons. To give an idea of how long that would be, the run portion is 262 miles. The bike I suppose would be over 1,000 miles. These events are, obviously, not high-participation sports, but apparently at extreme distances like that the physical advantage of men vanishes, even taking into consideration the fact that such a distance would be impossible for like 99 percent of people regardless of gender.
Over/under on how long it will take to release his manifesto set at, what, 2.5 days?
Just like with trans stuff more generally, it seems the current qualifications for access to women’s spaces and opportunities are (1) born female, or (2) have upper-middle-class money or higher.
Men are better than women at everything, including at being women in a competitive endeavor that shouldn’t necessarily give any advantage to one sex over the other. So we’re better than women are at being gender-neutral women. …or, um, something along those lines I guess.
The real story is probably just that the checkout person didn’t recognize her and that’s what upset her. I have provided as much evidence for my theory as she has for hers (none) but since she has a platform, her version gets the media treatment with a handwringing headline about racism being rampant.
I don’t even bother getting annoyed by this sort of thing anymore, I just laugh. Laugh at how all the “fierce, independent feminist KWEENS” are viscerally terrified of me. Little ol’ me and everyone who looks like me lololol.
Then of course it’s only ever a few hours from a feminist saying something like this, to her crying “where are all the men willing to stand up for women’s rights?!?” when they’re faced with real or perceived discrimination. You hear this a lot currently re: troons playing women’s sports. Babe, I was once willing to stand up for you, but I’m not e teeing any bargain where I have to help you when it’s convenient but otherwise you get to treat me and my entire demographic cohort like we’re monsters. Either there’s equal respect between us, or I stand up for my own rights and leave you fierce independent KWEENS to fiercely and independent advocate for your own interests.
And here I thought the whole “Navy is the fag branch” thing was just sort of a running joke between the Army and the Marines.
It’s a different entertainment landscape now, for sure. I’m sure a good deal of the people who watch modern late night are just older folk who were around for Johnny and just never stopped watching late night, out of habit through all the changes in who the hosts were over the years. My in-laws are that cohort exactly, they’re old and just never changed their habits. Meanwhile I recently hit 40 and I’m still young enough to where I never STARTED watching late night, other than Craig Ferguson sometimes when he had his show. Certainly I never watched late night habitually, even with Craig. Those numbers aren’t going to go up, the continuing decline will be the legacy cohort dying off.
Yeah, I’m guessing this is the case as well, like with any kind of business venture. Same as with Etsy, same with crypto bros, same with opening a restaurant or bar or whatever, same with those pyramid scene-type direct sales companies, most who play the game don’t make it. But I guess if you fell for Lularoe you’re just out some cash and have a garage full of dumb clothes. If you fail on OnlyFans you’ve got nudes out there forever.
In the same way I express shock when people pay for OnlyFans when the Internet is loaded with free porn for anyone who wants it, I express shock that it’s even news if one single porno website blocks access because… well, again… Internet, loaded, free porn, etc.
I remember reading this back to back in English class with A Farewell to Arms. Which is interesting because they both have opposing themes. The latter is a very romantic story about the importance of true love in a shitty world, while The Great Gatsby shows why romance and true love is complete bullshit.
One of my probably harebrained ideas about human nature is that we, to greater or lesser extents between different individuals, seek chaos, strife, failure, etc. Not uniquely and not solely, and usually not to a greater extent than we seek success, order, harmony, etc. But we do have a weird animal need for discord. So it’s interesting to consider those two books against each other. In the war story, there was literal chaos and discord and fear and horror all around, so the characters tried to find an actual love. In Gatsby the characters are comfortable, taken care of, safe, nigh-untouchable by real problems, so they chase a “love” that is chaotic and ruinous: both Jay and Daisy know full well that if they go for one another it will wreck multiple lives, as it ultimately does. They were just so bored with the good life that their dumbass animal brains sought discord.
I dunno, just one semi-articulate person’s hypothesis really!
At its best, they’d “interview” comedians and it would basically just be another sketch where the host was straight man and the guest was the funny one. Rodney Dangerfield and Johnny Carson would absolutely kill it in that format. But Carson never tried to use the show to prove he was part of the Hollywood scene, even though he absolutely was. That’s the biggest problem these days, hosting one late night show is all the hosts do in the public eye so they have to gladhand their more-famous guests and act like equal members of the Hollywood elite.
I’ve been boycotting late night TV since Craig Ferguson ended his show. Not for any reason other than the shows all suck, mind you. But hey! I’m sure that however this is resolved we’ll finally get a bunch of fat queer women-shaped humans of color into the hosting slots. I’m sure corporate-safe SJW humor will become funny then, since it sure isn’t when a white guy does it!
Plus “illegal immigrant” or the “illegal” descriptor generally is a major language-policing talking point. “No human is illegal!” they cry. And like, I don’t even really get THAT bothered about border jumpers, in the grand scheme of things, but it’s definitely illegal and you definitely take the risk of having worse done to you than being called “illegal” if you breach a nation’s borders without permission. Seems to me “illegal immigrant” is a fair description and if being called that is the worst thing that happens, they’re doing alright. Sometimes just for a laugh I tell libs I agree not to call them “illegal” but I reserve the right to shoot them on sight. Just to see what they say.
Man, I’m darker than Shaun King. I realize that statement doesn’t have any impact if you can’t actually see me, but it still makes me laugh every time his name comes up. No one would ever think I’m anything but white.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
This still applies to the rich today (and every day really) but it is also apropos of the “correct opinions” political class - instead of money they retreat into their protected status within the dominant political religion after smashing up things and people.
See, e.g., the story from Reason the other day and, if you can stand to search for it, the full-throated defense of the activist by local allies:
https://reason.com/2023/04/24/the-most-hated-person-on-campus/
They probably had a triumphant “fuck around, find out” article pre-written for when Hogwarts Legacy’s sales were shitty, as they fully expected them to be based on what they expected would be a successful boycott led by people on the right side of history. Then that didn’t happen, so after they literally cried and literally shook for about 48 hours, they angrily deleted that draft story and had to write the “gamers is bigots” stories they actually published.
It’s the sort of thing you put in your story when you think you’re invincible, and that consequences are just something that happen to other people.
It always interests me what the situations are where people or institutions will retreat from woke excess when exposed. There are so few times when it’s disadvantageous to be as woke as possible, so it’s fascinating when someone runs from it.