It's actually even worse than just being a "violent lunatic". He was a violent lunatic who had been arrested 42 separate times, 4 of them being for assaulting random people, the most recent being an attack on a 67 year old woman:
The woman sustained a broken nose, a fractured orbital bone, and "bruising, swelling and substantial pain to the back of her head" in the Nov. 12 attack, according to a criminal complaint.
This guy was 100% a danger to everyone in that city, and Daniel Penny did absolutely nothing wrong in acting on this asshole bursting into a train, and informing the riders that he was going to "fucking kill everyone".
It's absolutely disgusting that Penny is probably at greater than 50/50 odds for going to prison for stepping up, and stopping this menace in his latest (and final. LOL) attack. When you've violently assaulted multiple random people, up to and including literally breaking the faces of nearly 70 year old women, I don't really give a fuck if you die when someone tries to stop you.
Update: The Guardian is no longer posting on X, Don Lemon is leaving X, expect more to follow suit. This is just hilarious.
I've said this multiple times both here, and on reddit. The left is going to be gunning so hard to get people off Twitter/X, and to outright destroy it now. They absolutely cannot stand the fact that they no longer have complete control over the messaging/narrative going out to the masses. Those "Community Notes" corrections that now appear every time some entity like The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc. tries to set the narrative (to a BS spin of what really happened) infuriates them. Think about how they used this control during the first Trump presidency. That is now (currently) not available to them, and they are shitting themselves.
The left cannot stand on its own without having total control of the messaging the public is being fed. Once again - normal people don't come to the ideological conclusions that the left has tried to propagandize everyone into having. They are indoctrinated into all the crazy shit (the trans stuff, the hating your own race stuff, the hating your own country stuff, etc). Thus, they need Musk/X to fail. They're entire existence depends on having the control that he (and others) are taking away.
This is why the whole left-being-in-charge-of-AI thing is so goddamned frightening to me. Google already serves up a an "AI Overview" for nearly every search you - and every other person on the planet - does now. The "AI" that provides that summary is trained by, and trained on stuff exclusively produced by, the left. They are the sole deciders of what is a "credible" source, and they are building the "AI" to have the same opinion of what is "credible" as they do.
They are going to have virtually total control over what people believe is "true".
I don't know why there aren't more people on the right that are terrified right now. Thinking of how the left abuses literally every bit of power they come into, they are 100% going to use this for indoctrination, and narrative control.
Nothing is below these people. They are the most hateful people on the planet. The second you, I, the latino men, the black men, the fucking pygmy hippo, runs afoul of their politics, we're all subhuman monsters that need to be killed.
These people - the really radical ones - have zero actual morals, or values. The only thing they value is gaining, and maintaining power, and then using it to force your compliance with their politics.
It was the first chink in their "total ability to control the online narrative/discussion for nearly all people in the middle" armor.
They will literally never shut the fuck up about him after that. The left cannot survive without the ability to control the news/narrative, and he broke that. Every time the average person gets to see what they've been hiding from them, stuff immediately goes south for them.
The average human doesn't want what the radical left wants. What they want isn't normal. People are indoctrinated into sharing the radical left's worldview.
Not sure, but they sure must be after this m’fer. Here is what you get served up on a google search:
About: Graham George Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist. He created or co-created the sitcoms Father Ted, Black Books, and The IT Crowd, and he has written for shows including Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye and The Fast Show.
You don’t even have to click search to get it served up. It’s so fucking crazy how much power the left has to set the narrative on anything via their control over the internet companies.
The media always does this with women. Whenever google serves you up a photo to go with whomever you searched, or you look at a wiki entry - if it’s of a woman, it’s always at least a decade out of date.
This lady is one of the best examples ever.
Kamabalaballah gets sworn in to office in January -> Nobody fucking does anything about it, part II.
You're missing some important steps there:
- Media spends the entire time they're "counting the votes", and after they've declared the "winner", blasting the public with how, if they don't accept this result, they're traitors, and insurrectionists, and how they should have seen what happened to the "insurrectionists" last time.
- Leftist politicians conspire with the tech companies to prevent anyone from challenging things too much online.
- Leftist politicians use the power of government, backed by the threat/application of force, to go after anyone that tries to organize any opposition.
Which then reminds me of the single greatest thing to come out of the new B&B stuff. "Your mouth works, ma'am. You can stop testing it.". Man! I've watched this probably a dozen times, at this point, and it's still funny every goddamn time.
Seriously - fuck this guy.
The entire article (not to even mention the no-endorsement ploy) is one massive spin attempt, in which he tries to appear to “get it”, and to be conciliatory, but you barely need to read any further than the micron deep surface to see how he actually feels: he thinks they’ve done/are doing nothing wrong, and it simply infuriates him that some people have tuned them out, and are tuning stuff like Rogan’s podcast in. Oh. They’re also mad that Elon stopped them from 100% controlling the narrative online (and silencing any critics) by spending a bajillion dollars on Twittter,
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.
The guy clearly thinks they only suffer from the second problem he laid out - i.e., it’s not that they aren’t reporting professionally, unbiasedly, truthfully, it’s just that the big bad right and Donald Trump have convinced the unwashed masses that they’re lying. Yeah… no. For the last 8 years, all of you assholes have run near 24/7 outright propaganda in an absolutely disgusting attempt to keep “your side” in power. You were wiling to print anything - literally anything (didn’t matter if it was second hand, third hand, completely unsourced, made up, outright bullshit) - so long as you thought it would hurt the right, and help the left. You guys (for any part of the public that is actually engaged enough to pay attention, anyway) suffer from both of your “requirements”, now. You’re completely biased, and full of shit, and people know you’re full of shit.
God, this article infuriates me. I’m so goddamn tired of their attempts to spin everything. Even the no-official-endorsement stuff is absolutely obnoxious spin. Anyone that isn’t a retard knows that, of course, all these people endorse Harris/The Left. That was his whole game here: saying to themselves, “why bother giving the endorsement, when literally everyone knows it’s implicit. This way, we can act like we are being so virtuous, and garner some brownie points! Look how clever a boy I am!”.
TLDR: guy’s teh big mad that his ability to push propaganda, and control the narrative isn’t 100% as strong as he feels it should be.
We need to have a little more compassion than that. This particular person is most likely just another super weak willed individual that allowed herself to be indoctrinated into this, and that's what all of this is: indoctrination.
She's owned up to it. She's realized she fucked up. She seems actively engaged in calling out that system of indoctrination, which - in whatever small way - may stand a chance of helping others not fall to her same fate. She deserves a bit of understanding, and compassion for that.
Look - anyone here can read through my comments. I absolutely loathe the radical left with every fiber of my being at this point. That being said, even I have to catch myself, from time to time, and think about what that level of resolve/hatred might be turning me into?
So - the activists that are indoctrinating these people? Go all out. Hold nothing back. These are the ones that need to be driven out. The weak willed people that succumbed to this massive indoctrination campaign? We've got to allow for a bit of compassion. They need to see that they can be allowed a way out to redemption. Yes, they should have been stronger people. They weren't. If they're willing to admit their failures, there has to be some level of forgiveness. Being weak willed doesn't make them subhuman.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you..."
- Nietzsche
I'm constantly worried about passing as a female, even though I fucking am one.
LOL. Man. I actually feel bad (just a little bit) laughing out loud at that line, but God - if that line doesn't read exactly like we live in Teh Clown World...
Fuck the left for this. Goddamn, people for being so weak willed that they allowed these activists to entrench themselves like they have.
- That usually leads to higher trust societies and more peace, see Japan and Switzerland
This one always drives me so mad. It does so because reddit is absolutely filled to the brim with outright weebs, and on top of them, there is nary a person that isn't always heaping praise on Japan whenever it comes up in any discussion: on its culture; on its train system; on how "everything is so clean!"; on how it's low crime; on how everyone is respectful....
Look - I am married to a woman from there. If I add up all the trips we have taken there to be with her relatives, I've spent more than a year of my life there. Everytime I'm there, it feels so refreshing (and I say this even living in a super nice place in the US). I love Japan, and don't ever want to see it change. People exaggerate (somewhat) how good things are, but - of the things they are praising Japan for - the vast majority of it is better, directly because of the fact that they lack the exact same diversity the left is trying to ram down everyone else's throats.
It turns out that, when everyone is from roughly the same background, shares roughly the same ideals, grows up in roughly the same manner, and feels a sense of national being, society has a lot less friction, can be a lot higher trust, and a lot better, in just about every way. The time I spend over there, makes me imagine that that's what it must have been like to exist in the earlier version of the United States. That that's what it must have been to live in the US pre allowing the left to start destroying society.
So, anyhow, it's infuriating how those same shitbag leftists absolutely refuse to make the connection. Diversity - on the scale that the left wants to use to destroy all western nations - is most certainly NOT a strength. The diversity they want just creates nations with no shared culture, no trust, no one feels any obligations, everyone's at everyone else's throats, and it doesn't fucking work.
The stuff all the idiots admire/praise Japan for all exists because the left hasn't been allowed to destroy it (yet).
Delta has been in the news lately for this: Marine Veteran Removed from Flight for Wearing Shirt About Veteran Suicide\
Basically, one (or more) of their flight attendants booted some marine woman off the plan for wearing a shirt that said: "Do not give in to the war within. End veteran suicide."
Combining that story with this new comedian one, it sure seems like there is a massive infestation of rabid radical leftists at Delta. Kicking the marine veteran off the flight for that shirt was bad enough, but it's utterly ridiculous that they think they are going to patrol fucking Twitter, and look for people to ban from flying based on jokes.
It's just all so tiresome. Watching these activists infest everything, and then use whatever power they can get their hands on to attack their political opponents is so fucking tiresome.
Stop allowing communists to run for office
It really does have so much to do with this. The shitbag left abuses our western values to get themselves entrenched into places of power, then - once they are in - they start removing the protections those values provided.
"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom, because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom, because that is according to my principles."
- Frank Herbert (Author of Dune)
It's literally just like that. Our system cannot survive without gatekeeping the shitbag left out.
If Trump wins it won’t really matter. If he passes strict immigration laws blue states won’t comply and the GOP is to weak willed to hold them accountable.
I believe this as well, though I want to add my usual. The reason the GOP won't hold them accountable is the same reason as always - the left controls the media (the traditional, and - most importantly - the internet based information). Whenever the GOP tries to respond in kind, to hold the left accountable, or whatever, the media just absolutely blasts the country with endless stories about how bad the right is, how they are "abusing" their power, how it's racist, etc. The GOP can be doing the exact same thing the DNC literally just did, and it doesn't matter - the media still springs into action, ignores/minimizes what the DNC did, and just absolutely RIPS on the right. This constant propaganda works on the large, disinterested, masses in the middle.
Once again (and, as always) that is the primary source of all our problems. Our system simply cannot survive in an environment in which only one party is held accountable, and only one party gets to decide what the "truth" is. The party that has that power can get away with almost anything it wants, and the party being persecuted by that power is nigh powerless to do anything at that point.
In any event, I think your first sentence hits the hardest. If Kamala wins, we get 4-8 more fucking years of massive illegal immigration changing our demographics until the entire country is in the same situation as California. Basically, it's going to be really hard to come back from. If Trump wins, we get 4 years of watching that aforementioned media going ULTRA negative on everything, finally reporting on how bad the economy is, and using Trump as the scapegoat. He'll probably be paralyzed from doing anything, just like last time, and after 4 years of constant media induced negativity (I really hope people remember how pervasive it was), the left will springboard back into power again (under the banner of "change"), and all we will have gotten is that 4 year reprieve.
Sure, if Trump wins, it's going to be super cathartic to watch/enjoy the Tantrum of all Tantrums, but it's still not going to mean much with regards to the course the country is on.
Until the left's ability to set/control the narrative the masses are forced to consume is taken seriously, and destroyed, nothing else can change. If we did destroy that, then - and only then - we could finally start doing the things to actually fix the country. We could start rooting these radicals out of all the places they have entrenched themselves (starting with education, and government), deporting the people who are here illegally, putting a stop to the immigration of people who don't share our values, etc.
Until then - as much as people don't want to hear it - the only hope is to have lots of kids, and make sure you are the one that "indoctrinates" them, before the left has a chance. It's the only way you are going to raise an army big enough to fight these people.
Seriously - white people should face accountability, but not for what CNN thinks. White people should face accountability for being the only "race" stupid enough to allow the constant bullshit, the radical shitbag left has been putting out, to indoctrinate them into this asinine world view, where they hate themselves for their ancestors being successful (and having flaws, like every other "race"). No other "race" (it's not even the white race, it's just the leftists) is dumb enough to have a negative in-group bias. Literally every other group of people sees themselves as better than everyone else, but the stupid shitbag left.
Fuck the left. Fuck the people who are stupidly allowing themselves to be manipulated into destroying everything their ancestors built, fought, and died for. Especially fuck the leftists who aren't content hating themselves, but try to indoctrinate and propagandize our kids into doing it, too.
It's the same problem as usual. The left has near total control of what gets disseminated to the disinterested masses in the middle. It's great that O'Keefe is finding proof of what we all already know is going on, but it's not like anything is going to come out of it. The media just won't report on this, and the tech companies that control public discussion will make sure this doesn't reach the people in the middle.
We have made a really big fucking mistake letting the shitbag left get entrenched like this. It's extremely hard to do anything about their system of indoctrination and propaganda because they control access to the masses in the middle, and they just protect themselves.
Musk had to invest like what - 40 BILLION fucking dollars - to even put a small crack in the system they have created, and the entire apparatus of the left has been busily going about destroying Twitter, in an attempt to make it worthless, directly because they no longer control it.
Let me help - the shitbag left.
Seriously. That's the answer. That's basically the answer to all of these sorts of questions nowadays.