Like, I appreciate that the Overton Window shifts, but there’s no way this shit is organic…
It’s everywhere, now. Not just college campuses. Not just the internet. Not just cable news. In urban Australia, it is almost literally inescapable (unless you never turn on the TV, never use a streaming service, never read the news, and practically never leave your suburb).
It’s… Bizarre. And people have become afraid to speak out, or question it.
Hell, I even know some of my own family members (and family friends) have started to “adopt” political positions fundamentally at odds to the beliefs they claimed to hold, less than a decade ago… So much so that it takes getting them in a one-on-one, face to face situation to admit they secretly don’t believe what they pretend to, when around the rest of the family, or that they secretly don’t believe that the endless boosters and masks will “protect” them from this virus that everyone around me claims to still fear…
It’s… I don’t think I’ve ever seen society be this… Conformist, and cowed, and fundamentally… “Degenerate”.
Honestly, from where I sit, it feels like the loudmouth activists have won, and “we”/normies have fundamentally lost.
It’s fucking disillusioning AF. Just look at any “documentary” that covers how things have “changed” in the last 2-3 decades. I promise you, you’ll see the trend…
Something’s gotta give. Society can only bend so far left before it a) breaks, or b) snaps back.
More and more this feels like the last days of Athens/Rome/Constantinople. I very much doubt we have the technology and wherewithal to prevent a similar collapse.
Stay sane, y’all. I’m not sure how much longer I can keep pushing back, for what that’s worth…
Seriously, Rafa is… Such a fucking weird cat, I have no idea how anyone in his personal life can put up with that. And I definitely have mild to moderate OCD myself, but even I can see how fucking bizarre it is…
Let alone the 10-minute toilet breaks, and the stupid shit like making the ball kids order his drinks correctly, SMH… 😂
As for Kyrgios, maaaaann… Hearing my whole country shill for a race-grifting, abusive (literally) bully is surreal, I’m not gonna lie…
He’s such a horrible, horrible person, but sure, he IS entertaining… No wonder he likes basketball more than tennis (so he claims), lol…
Anyone else watching the dumpster fire that is New York’s “biggest sports event of the year”..??
Watching an event with Moderna as one of the main brand sponsors is just… Fucking surreal, dudes.
I like motorsport, so I watch a lot of it. I try to go in person, where possible. I know some local drivers personally, and I have considered becoming a track “official”. That’s my starting point for this “perspective”.
Recently, I came across Formula E. The all-electric version of Formula 1, basically…
It’s a bit shit, partly because the cars and drivers are like off-brand Formula 1, but mainly because the rules are fucking absurd, and they have chosen absurd temporary tracks, in shitty locations, in old industrial parts of big cities around the world, instead of using existing track infrastructure… So it just… Looks like shit the whole time. Seoul was novel because they used the old Olympic Park, but in general it was just… Shit.
Today I watched Extreme E, which is the rally equivalent (electric), and it is just… A complete fucking joke. Comically absurd.
All teams must have one man and one woman. Each of those does one lap of the course in the car, with a 40-second stationary changeover in between (yes, really). Each of the races is held “in a remote location” WITH NO SPECTATORS. It is purely made for TV. No pit. Everything (external to the car) is done indoors, in tents. Teams aren’t allowed to travel by air, so the series bought their own cargo ship, which they then proceed to use to carry all the equipment to these “vulnerable” locations (which is why no spectators, they claim), which they then destroy with race cars…
Half of each episode is devoted to greenwashing initiatives, climate change shit, and “white man bad”. At one point they were literally planting trees in the desert sand (!!), for virtue signaling purposes…
The whole thing is sponsored by the Saudi government (who else?), with the most convoluted rules I have ever seen in a car race, and yep, the first round held in the Saudi desert…
It’s a joke. A mockery of the sport. And yet all that fucking Saudi blood money means it is is widely promoted, and essentially immune to criticism…
Like, fuck, surely banning spectators tells you what a joke the whole thing is (even Dakar does not do that, and it literally uses some of the same course, now)…
Who would have thought that they could even ruin car racing, in current year (thanks, Hollywood, Jenson Button and fucking Lewis Hamilton once again!! They’re some of the main “sponsors” of this shit) smh…
Unironically…
The woman’s name is Nara Mansell. In my home state, that surname is… Enough to evoke a pretty substantial reaction, in most people…
The family claim to be (claim being the most important word) Tasmania’s largest Aboriginal “clan”. Despite the last full-blood Tas Abo dying in the 1870s, despite them being white as fuck, and despite them never being able to PROVE any blood lineage…
They formed their own organization, the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. Most… Non-Mansell Aboriginals (I know a number of them) despise the Mansells and Maynards, because they are, in essence, degenerate criminal (literally) grifters…
Michael Mansell, family patriarch and founder of that “organization”, is an avowed Marxist. At some point in, I believe, the 80s, he went and lived in fucking LIBYA, to learn tactics from Gaddafi himself. Unironically. When Gaddafi was killed, Mansell had glowing articles in the local press sermonizing his “good friend”, and everything the warlord had done for him…
Now, back to the present. His daughter is leading “the statue wars”, in a different city to the one in which her “tribe” claims ownership of the land. She can do that, because the local tribe is extinct, and has been for a century, so she has no opposition…
This stupid bitch is the one who corrupted the local council into trying to get the damn thing taken down. But now it’s even worse. She has somehow managed to convince THE NATIONAL PUBLIC BROADCASTER (think PBS combined with NPR) to uncritically run her racist tirades, and alternative accounts of history from 160 years ago, on the national news service.
But then, even worse than that, today she started threatening the councilors and community members who dared to oppose her. So I called her out. Enter… The current moment, where the stupid bitch is trying to drive me off Facebook, while simultaneously threatening the people I was defending…
Absolutely insane shit. Marxism has come home to roost, lol.
Fuck this stupid fucking country, at this point. Jesus fucking Christ…
Why, though?
Why is this the hill the left has chosen to die on..??
This predates Floyd. Arguably it goes back much further than that, but modern leftists... Seem to have made this "their lot", this last... Decade. Why? Why do we think that is??
Not books, not movies, but statues and buildings. Why the fuck is this the left's current game?
The culture wars have, as I say, come to my home city now (thanks, leftist cunts), and I do actually have a dog in this fight, as a result.
Tips on how to fight back appreciated.
Oddly, this is being done expressly against the wishes of ratepayers, only weeks before an election is due to take place, for that council. It is very, very dubious timing, to say the least.
I know these people personally (the councillors), so while they ain't gonna listen to me, you can sure as shit bet I am going to use that to my advantage, here, lol...
Who'd have thought this would come home to roost quite like this...
All the single issue (and anti-Dom) spammy accounts, all the butthurt liberal Reddit refugees, all the bad faith trolling…
Come on, we wanted to be better than Reddit, didn’t we..?? Not worse.
Some of you get weirdly triggered over the stupidest shit, too…
I’m not sure how, but “we” seem to have, for want of a better word, “degenerated” somewhat, as a place of civil discussion (again), of late, unfortunately…
Seriously, I can’t tell. The media refuses to report honestly on this. Photos suggest one thing. Unusual biological statistics back that thing up. But we are told the exact opposite. We’re told that we “can’t” even ask this question.
I feel like the importance of this has been a bit… Lost, during the trial, because if Griner is actually a biological male, this… Changes a fair bit. Not just about the trial, but also about the media reporting of the whole saga, AND the WNBA…
Imagine the actual female WNBA players who didn’t know, if this comes out in the wash. Imagine them learning they’ve been lied to for nigh on a decade.
I get it, “serves them right”, “fuck the WNBA”, etc, but come on, this is a massive culture war self own for the left, if it turns out that they’ve lied about Griner’s biology for all this time…
I'm not one to "dirty delete, myself. I never do it, and really never have. From Facebook, through Twitter, Reddit and now here, it's just... Not something I do.
Unless I'm getting dogpiled to the point of a doxxing attempt (Twitter, Reddit, Facebook), I accidentally double-post/comment or a link doesn't work, or I am so glaringly wrong about something that it simply isn't worth it being there anymore, I just... Don't do it. Not posts. Not comments. And certainly not messages. I fucking hate women (and in my experience it is nearly always women) who do that in "private" messages/chats/whatever. It really pisses me off. Which is something.
I'm 100% sure that this has made me lose some "friendships" (again, on those other sites. Particularly the compulsorily non-anonymous one), and it has left me in some... Dubious positions. But I simply won't do it.
I sometimes (usually) admit when I am wrong, or made a mistake. Or else, I just let the thread go dead. Like if I just... Don't have time or energy to deal with it.
I realise that my... Philosophy, here, is not for everyone. I'm not claiming some sort of "moral high ground". But I will say that people's deleting of their comments here (and also posts) does get pretty frustrating and annoying, at times. Particularly as we don't have any way to see what was said, after it is gone. I'm not sure if it is getting worse or better, but it certainly doesn't seem to have improved, lol.
Some sort of "archiving" or "snapshot" system, a la the Reddit sites that I listed, would be fantastic. Game-changing, even. If someone could develop the code for it, and the site allowed it.
Controversial? Sure, but we're (theoretically) anonymous anyway, and even with those Reddit versions, it didn't save everything, and if you made a mistake and deleted it quick enough, it generally didn't save/make it to archive...
But I do think it would make a huge difference, cut down on spam, and on the "dirty delete" shit I just outlined...
Thoughts?
It’s not funny, it’s just… Horrible. Elitist, classist, sexist, just… Rank. Heckling (by some autistic bloke who actually works here), and just… So bad.
I got convinced to go to this thing. It’s like, as local as you could get, for me, but yeah…
Dunno if comedy is like this where you live, but man, in this “hipster bar”, dear god there is no way this was worth the cover charge.
Eugh…
