"People think it's feral because these are country kids in utes making noise, but people going to a doof doof festival and eating pills is socially acceptable. Everyone wants to be woke."
I mean, he's not wrong.
Meanwhile, from the stupid crone who managed to temporarily destroy this event (by making it uninsurable, of all things):
"It's unsafe for everyone, but particularly for women because of the objectification."
Ms Currie says events like wet-t shirt competitions involve women giving away their agency for "fun".
"The social construct of fun [in this environment] has some really strong gendered overtones.
"The peer pressure is immense and in those moments a woman can feel under tremendous pressure to comply, to be accepted."
Lol. Women have agency (or do they?), bitch.
Edit: I saw this commented on Reddit, but it really is telling how TPTB have done as much as possible to torpedo in-person connection, and the opportunity to meet people. Everything from Covid lockdowns to taking away in-person lectures, even after Covid.
Everything is commodified and controlled. Every conversation. Every "connection". Every question to authorities. Everything must be text-based and through an app.
No wonder people clamour for offline, in-person events like Elmore.
I know I personally get really... Not well, if I spend too much time not meeting people/going to social events. Very obviously I wouldn't be alone in that.
It makes me complete a Captcha to get through to it, but beyond that, seems to work fine for me!
Or at least it did when I put these articles through it, anyway…
Here's the "official" line:
I note that Stockholm has done the same thing with their Medieval Museum, although that one is and even more political decision, and may be permanently closed.
I've been to the Pergamon Museum. It was extremely impressive, and the Ishtar Gate is one of the coolest exhibits I have ever seen. To close it, for fourteen years, is completely absurd, and, whatever the real political reasons behind it, could probably only happen in a city that took nearly a decade to open its white elephant new airport, lol...
Fourteen years. Longer than it takes the Emiratis to build entire, full-scale museums, and China to build entire ghost cities...
Absolutely absurd. But very "on brand" for Berlin, to say the least.
Even Paris isn't this bad with things like this, lol. Istanbul is, but at least with Turkey we know it's blatant corruption, lol. The Germans are just better at "cloaking" it.
There’s also the comic book series, which takes place a few years before KOTOR1, was actually (very) good, and has strong female characters in it already (Jarael and Chantique, mostly), plus it already has Mandalorians in it…
They should adapt that, and leave the game alone. They probably won’t, but they should.
Or the Exar Kun/Uliq Kel’Droma saga, which was slightly earlier, but they definitely won’t do that, because they already cannibalized some of it for Kylo Ren’s plot line (yes, really)…
Give the graphic novels and books a go, if you haven’t yet, folks. Many of them, especially from that era (and produced by Dark Horse!) are awesome.
'hot women bottle feeding newly born puppies'
Is... Is this a real thing?
Asking for a friend.
Or because you own an Android phone, lmao…
Mainly a thing with terminally “trend-obsessed” teenagers, but I’ve come across it IRL before, and it is always the biggest red flag available, lol…
On this note, even though Scandinavia is obviously closely interrelated, I noticed a substantial difference in appearance between Danes versus Norwegians/Swedes. Danes are, generally, shorter, stockier and, I guess, less "blonde-looking". Both women and men.
Which is interesting, considering the history of those regions, and historic intermingling. It's interesting that it is still noticeable, even though Sweden is now almost as urbanised/cosmopolitan as Denmark is.
Same as how I can generally tell the difference (most of the time) between Aussies and New Zealanders. Although an outsider might struggle more with that, I guess...
Yeah, I mean I don't know about the dairy bit, but the Dutch have been the tallest in the world, on average, for some 200 years or so, I believe...
Good nutrition is definitely a huge part of that, so you're right in that regard!
But I think the "West Germanic" ethnicity probably also trends towards height, at least in recent centuries...
Seems to peter out when you get towards Western/Southern France, and the UK, though!
Interesting that WW2 seems to have actually increased the rate of height increase in Germany, vis a vis Australia where it obviously had the opposite effect (I assume)...
Different selection pressures, I suppose.
I know we got dicked over by rationing a bit (compared to the US, for example), but I very much doubt that would have had as much of an effect as the bombing and occupation of the whole of Germany, lol...
Would be interesting to have a breakdown of East Germany vs West, though, rather than just the total, for that period, because I suspect that might differ quite substantially...
I imagine that has changed slightly since all the (mainly Orthodox) Ukrainians arrived. But still...
It does seem like a lot of this shit is accelerating, across much of the West...
I guess we could say "Election Year" (or "Olympic Year" for France), but I don't think that's an adequate explanation...
I honestly think that TPTB waited, saw how easily everyone forgot the egregious rights violations (and actual rights violations, in that instance) of Covid, and forgot the "Summer of Love", and so they've decided to really... "Up the ante", this year.
As another example, statue teardowns would never have been allowed in Aus, even five years ago, especially when conducted by vigilante mobs, and yet, because people keep voting for the left-wing fucks who want that to happen, we've now seen an appalling example of that, in the last week...
And there's no pushback, so it won't stop. Nor will the pronoun/"misgendering" police, nor will the authoritarian creep (needing a QR code on your phone to enter Paris during the Olympics, for example).
It's all getting worse, and no one (outside places like New Caledonia) is doing anything to push back.
Frog boiling indeed.
They were also sort of just... Handed the land they got in 1948. Sure, they partly "conquered" it (mainly through literal terrorism), but then the British were like, "Yeah, you know what, this is too difficult. Here you go."
Slightly different to most tales of conquest, IMHO. Literally a vassal state getting the empire to come in and use superior force to crush their opponents, lol.
And then there's the post-1967 situation, like you mention. They just can't seem to help themselves...
Now imagining live-cannibalism…
Blech
Thanks for that image, lol…
Similarly, there was an Irish guy in the news where I am, whining about provision of homelessness and health services, after he was injured and could no longer work…
He was so Irish that his nickname is apparently “Irish”, and he was essentially begging people to donate money (to the charity that serves him, but still).
To which I responded: Ireland isn’t exactly a war-torn, poor country anymore, now is it? Nor would it have been at any point during this guy’s adult life. So why the fuck should Australians, and more specifically people in this city, be paying to keep this guy afloat? It’s not like these services don’t exist in Ireland, so I fail to see why he can’t just go back.
To which I’m sure the argument would be, “But waaah, I’ve lived in Australia for 10 years! This is where my life is!”
Too fucking bad, leech. It’s not up to me, or anyone else, to prop up an economic migrant who can no longer afford the rent.
Harsh, but he is literally living in a pub where I used to go to gigs, which they converted into “crisis housing” to support the numerous leeches like him (because their previous housing was “too old”, lol), so my empathy is… Limited, in this case.
If you can’t work to pay your rent, and you’re not a refugee, you shouldn’t be here, imho.
There was a story where they brought out some housewife who thought she was somehow entitled to citizenship simply for being married to a British man for 5+ years
Any idea where she was from, out of curiosity?
Yep, totally agree re the correspondence bit.
In short, unfortunately I think the error was probably done by the bureaucrat in person. But yep, it did (probably, though I never got a clear answer) come down to the address issue you mention...
From what I heard from another Australian who had similar happen, they defaulted to sending the residency card back to Australia. For some reason, you're not allowed a second one, so she, at least, had to wait for the idiots to send it to the embassy in Australia, the embassy to realize the error, and then send it back to Sweden, to the correct address this time...
Given that I knew that when I went in, in person, I very specifically made the bureaucrat write down the correct address, and insisted that he send it there. But then he basically ignored me, said "Hurry up, other people are waiting for their turn" (which is very Swedish behaviour) and shoved me out of the office. Thus, I'm entirely unsurprised he then still managed to fuck it up.
Anyway, so I waited and waited for them to sort it, and for this fucking card to arrive (which delayed my leaving the cult I was living in), but it never did, even by the time I left Sweden, apparently, lol...
Bureaucracy, amirite?
So yeah. Ridiculous all round.
I was gonna reply with this to the other comment, but given that this is Indo, and the rampant levels of corruption and graft there, I would be entirely unsurprised if they just claimed "we'll do cloud seeding lol", and then expropriated the funds, without actually doing anything of substance...
Because it would be very hard for the public, especially in poor regions of Sumatra, to prove one way or the other, or to even know if the cloud seeding is actually taking place, I would imagine...
Versus something like building dams, or planting trees, or any other sort of flood prevention, as you say...
Given an article I saw this week that says there is a women-only social media site where they make up fake stories to slander men, including one case where someone uploaded an AI-generated face and they still made all these fake claims about the "guy" in question, it's pretty clear that this is the modus operandi these days...
Character assassination libel isn't exactly a new thing, but it is crazy how much that plays into cancel culture, at this point...
"Just a reminder that Harrison Butker lives in the City of Lee's Summit."
There. That's what it said.
Meh.
There's screenshots still out there, if you Google it.
It's not that hard to find, and I wouldn't really call it a doxx.
Stupid, and totally unnecessary? Yes. But calling it a "doxx" just plays into the culture war saga of this whole thing, imho...
It's a "city" of over 100,000 people. It's not a street address, lol.
Can confirm I did, hahaha.
Honestly, that was one of the best aspects of the trip.
I (very temporarily) felt like a fucking boss, lol.
Also the Ukrainian girls, although obviously that... Comes with caution, lol.
But yeah, on your latter point, I completely agree. Even in 1977, I firmly do not believe that anyone (from Ghana, no less, and not a "skilled migrant", either) could arrive in the UK on a student visa and then "accidentally" just assume that they could remain there for life, now. I'm not naive enough to believe that as a "legitimate" mistake...
So yeah, sucks to be him, but he ran the risk of getting caught eventually, aaand then he was.
Somewhat similarly, I thought I was in trouble when leaving the Swedish border, because the customs official was confused by my lack of residency card, and the fact that i had been there for six months. But once I explained the situation (and corroborated it with the evidence I had on hand), he was totally fine with it.
Which, compared to the horrible threats I had received from the cult, when I left it, was a massive relief off my shoulders.
Which is to say that when you "play the game", the official system may or may not screw you over, but, by contrast, bad people will always try to take advantage of you, and cause you trouble when you don't play by their arbitrary rules...
I don't like this ruling, particularly, but it's not that unusual, really.
It happens in Australia and NZ (and probably other Commonwealth countries) with a fair degree of regularity, and I believe I remember a similar case in Scotland a few years back.
Yes, it's shitty, but unlike, say, the Post Office scandal, I don't think the government is technically in the wrong, here. Morally is a different question, but technically and legally? I don't think the Government will lose this case...
Having said all that... even when you try to do things "the right way", it's still extraordinarily easy to get fucked over by the system.
I had that happen in Sweden, where migration system fuck-ups meant I never received my residency card, couldn't earn money or open a bank account, and then, when I decided to quit my study program, I was never informed how long I could remain in the country afterwards, so I was always on edge, lacking both that official "residency confirmation" and the knowledge of how many days I had left...
It's an awful situation to be in, from experience.
Meanwhile, while moving to Sweden, I did everything the "legitimate" way, paid a fuck-tonne of money, and yet couldn't even open a bank account, use the government-mandated payment system (Swish), work for pay, transfer to a different visa, or even change study program, and had to leave the country not long after I decided to leave a cult... Oh, and also got stopped and questioned by police while crossing EU land borders (returning to Sweden from Denmark), for no reason other than "because we can"...
Fucking clown world.
I fear that we are so far down the slippery slope of "public health hazards condoned by the official bureaucracy" that this pales in comparison to, uhh, other things (some of which this individual may also have partaken in)...
We live in a world where "breast milk from trans women is just as safe for babies as from 'cisgender' women" is accepted as scientific fact.
Unfortunately the danger to others/potential public health hazards is something that the people who make those "rules" no longer even pretend to care about, post-Covid and vaccine mandates...
Remember "vaccines stop the spread", too? Yeah, they don't care about factual accuracy, anymore, lol.
Steelman - ha.
But yeah, you're not wrong. It's the 14 years that I find unacceptable. I can come at four. But there is literally no reason I can see to close half the museum for 14 years.
It's Berlin. They could literally build two brand new Pergamon museums on Tempelhofer Feld or any of the other empty spaces in that city, in that time...
Or even just shove the artefacts into the largely empty City Palace/Humboldt Forum, on the same island...
So it's mostly the timeframe, and what specifically is being locked away, that I find nefarious...
Paris got around this by opening the Grand Palais Ephemere (temporary) while the proper Grand Palais was being reno'd. Istanbul did much the same thing while they demolished (and sadly never rebuilt, even though they were supposed/promised to) Istanbul Modern.
Pergamon Museum could do something similar, but because they bizarrely don't seem to want the public to see the Ishtar Gate and other related artefacts for that 14 years, they're doing it this way, methinks...