Good morning my little rays of sunshine! And what a glorious morning it is as the government is still partially shutdown. Unfortunately, the IRS did recall 46,000 of their furloughed workers to process tax returns without pay.
There’s really not much to add to the awfulness of of that pandering to the opposite of your demographic Gillette ad other than that it looks to be a desperate attempt for attention from a failing company. I don’t know of anyone who still uses Gillette type razors, what do ya’ll use?
CNN legal analysis accuses David Webb of having white privileged, not knowing he’s black.
Every day I try as hard as I can to be balanced and look for an article from CNN to post, but it’s impossible. They have collectively lost their collectivist minds. There’s going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance when this whole Russia narrative finally falls apart. I kind of am eager to watch it unfold, but am horrified of the fallout at the same time.
FBI tried to re-engage contact with Christopher Steele via Fusion GPS, after he was fired for being an unreliable source and after Comey was fired.
Unpossible! It should be dem evul a salt rifles!
Here’s a crazy idea, loosen your insane regulations and allow for more constructions of residential buildings.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and take off.
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I don’t know of anyone who still uses Gillette type razors, what do ya’ll use?
When I’m flush it’s Astra Superior Platinum blades in either a Merkur or Edwin Jagger safety razor. When I’m broke it’s Derby blades, or whatever else is cheap. I haven’t used a cartridge blade in probably around 10 years.
When I’m flush it’s Astra Superior Platinum blades
Last I checked the Astra blades were about 10 cents each in bulk. Perhaps you need a financial advisor.
I buy the big packs at Amazon that last me about 6 months. Sometimes I’ll spend a few extra bucks for decent blades, sometimes I cheap out.
How do you like the Edwin Jagger? I have a Merkur Futur but I find that the head is kind of bulky and difficult to maneuver.
The EJ was my first upgrade from a drug store safety razor. It’s nice for the money. Cleans easily. Blade angle isn’t adjustable, but it works well for me anyway. I primarily use the Merkur these days though. For not much more reason than I prefer the weight and shape of the handle.
I have one of those. I think they were designed for people that don’t have noses. It’s pretty for what it is though.
..so you need to move like Jagger?
*tapers stare*
That’s quite the euphemism!
Astra blades are my go to. Good price & a good shave.
I’m not sure what the point of this ad was. People who don’t use their blades are not going to be persuaded to switch (mostly because people who like this ad don’t use ANY razors), and people who do use their blades are likely to be turned off.
The purpose was to virtue signal that they were woke… to their friends and peers…
These sort of people that feel an obligation to brandish their wokeness creds are not the brightest people. That has been established every time they go woke publicly so they can act smug.
I like Schick Extreme 3 – been using them since college I think. New design isn’t quite as good, but they’re generally a bargain – even better with the non-expiring 20% coupons from bed bath and beyond.
I use one of the Gillettes I got sent when I was young. Of course, I only shave once a week, so a cartridge lasts me a long time. I just picked up more cartridges, so I won’t be picking up any razors for the foreseeable future.
Dollar Shave Club – 5 (?) blade type refill every two months for $7. I like some of their other products for hair and shower, but they’re pricey.
Wish I was single so I could fuck the damsel while her white knight is out buying a Gillette.
Hey, easy there Nipponese Lancelot.
I picked up a Phillips Norelco series 3000 a couple years ago. It has served me well so I suppose I am ahead of the cost curve versus buying blades every couple months.
I also use a Merkur and buy mixed brands of blades from Ebay. Since I only shave once a week, I’m not spending a lot of money. The old cartridge razors don’t seem to cut as much as yank the hair out, while I get a much better shave with my safety razor.
I have a sexy beard, but I use Dorco to shave the neck part.
I have a Mühle closed-comb with Gillette Silver Blue blades. So I guess I use Gillette. But they are made in Russia, so collusion, or something.
dorcousa
Decent, cheap-ass cartridge blades without any subscription model BS, you just buy em in bulk. I believe I read that dorco actually manufactures the blades sold by dollar shave club.
I tried to post this yesterday but I think it got eated up as advertising spam (which, to be fair, it would have been hard to distinguish).
*squints suspiciously*
“I don’t know of anyone who still uses Gillette type razors, what do ya’ll use?”
I’ve been using Gillette for a long time because until recently, they were the best razors on the market. Now, let’s talk about the last batch I bought. They are far inferior to any previous. If anyone remembers, they were recently marketing on reducing their prices. And they did. They also lowered the quality to match the price. So, my next razor purchase will be Harry’s. I care more about quality than price, Gillette, and now that you’ve decided to market your product exclusively at manginas, good luck with that, they can’t grow facial hair or just go around with a neck beard, I’m out, fuck you.
I could never get the hang of cartridge razers, used electric razors only until i learned about safety razors. I bought a merkur model and 100 7am brand razers back in like 2013, i paid $15 for the razers and still havent used even half those yet. But i keep a short/stubble beard and really only trim neck and cheek lines twice a week.
Overall though, i really like the brush and safety razer method
I’m shocked…. shocked to learn that an attention-seeking, fame-whoring civil-rights attorney like Areva Martin is an idiot.
She helped to prove that a “racist” is really just someone who’s winning an argument with a leftist.
I’m also creeped out that she said “She had the wrong information”. Do you have your researchers look into what race everyone you are going to talk to is?
But of course she does. Victim class weighs heavily on the scales of truth.
I sort of expect all leftists to always look into people’s race, gender, sexual orientation, and other such things they like to attack so they can shut them down during any discussion that might allow said person to use facts & logic to attack the left’s position and make them look bad. The left’s go to is to accuse people of ill intent to avoid any discussion, because they can’t argue anything based on logic, fact, or good faith.
I don’t know of anyone who still uses Gillette type razors, what do ya’ll use?
Cheap knock-off grocery store house brand.
I don’t shave. I’ll shape my beard with my electric trimmer when my fiancee says I’m looking a bit Mountain Man-ish.
I’m still stuck in the 90’s with a goatee, I just use my beard trimmer to cut the rest down to the skin. I also have an electric with the 3 spinny blades (no clue what brand) that I will break out on rare occasions to get it a bit closer. Doesn’t exactly leave my face baby soft but frankly I don’t really care.
I actually do the same most of the time, but I use razors to keep it neat, no hair on the neck, etc. Or on occasion, I do shave all the stubble and just leave the goatee.
Pussy beard, eh?
Harry’s.
Same.
I tried them, they don’t work for me.
#metoo
I use a bowie knife…like a real man. *scratches self and burps
I use a bowie knife…like a real man. *scratches self and
burpsbelches.Babies burp, real men belch.
I knew a Welch that belched when he felched.
SJWednesday: Toxic Femininity Is the New Hotness
Hey, you can appear, and behave, however you please; it’s your right. However, you don’t have the right to require others to find it attractive or appealing.
“Toxic femininity is in evidence when a woman won’t let herself eat anything but a salad while on a date”
Or, she is responding to what body shapes are deemed in fashion by trying to convince her date that she will keep her fashionably slim figure if they get in a long term relationship.
Instead of finding someone who likes her for something besides being eye candy.
Instead of finding someone who likes her for something besides being eye candy.
Finding your potential partner physically attractive is important for a relationship, it’s not just a matter of “eye candy”.
You better have more than that unless you really like cats. Looks dont last.
Of course more than that is needed, much more for a long term relationship, but it is a significant component. I don’t see how you could marry someone you don’t find physically attractive. That seems like a formula for trouble down the road.
My first priority, after some hard slaps from reality, was “not crazy”. There is no level of hotness than can compensate for someone who will treat you badly.
Then smart and funny.
Then someone who gets me.
Then, “Are they sexy and make my dick hard?”
The last item is a necessary but not sufficient criteria for a long term relationship.
Based on this, it seems we actually agree.
The thing is what you find sexy changes over time based on your experiences. Your wife is not going to look like a supermodel when she is 40, forget when she is 60 (unless her name is Andie McDowell but she is a special case) but the reality is that as long as your relationship is otherwise good you will still find her hot. Maybe not as hot as a 21 year old hardbody but on average you will probably still rather choose her over the hot but immature and likely crazy in a bad way 21 year old.
Agreed.
Not all wives/women stay attractive…
Neither do all husbands/guys.
~Two decades ago I lusted after a blonde punk rock chick. She was like a size 6 and was, provided she wasn’t on a down swing, a lot of fun to be with.
Now she is 40-something and considerably fatter – size 16?, haggard, and not at all fun to be with.
Neither do all husbands/guys.
LIES!
Christie Brinkley.
Point goes to CPA.
Very attractive, but seriously dumb as a stump. It wouldn’t last and would drive me crazy.
If you aren’t fucking an obese tranny with at least 8 physical deformities you are the literal embodiment of toxic phallohitlerarchy.
“toxic phallohitlerarchy”
I hear they have a Day 2 stage at Lollapalooza this year!
Does it count if the obese tranny is fucking you?
Asking for a friend.
It depends. What gender do you identify as?
I am pangendered.
Don’t try to pigeonhole me, you shitlord! (runs away sobbing)
So half goat? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
“I am pangendered.”
What do pandas have to do with this?
That’s Pandagendered.
Pangendered is what you call Goat fuckers
And Scotsmen is what you call sheep fuckers?
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS PITCHER, NOT CATCHER!
LIEZ!
STEVE SMITH OFTEN CATCH ASS!
AND BY “CATCH” MEAN…
LOVE IS IN THE AIR!
“Finding your potential partner physically attractive is important for a relationship”
Well, of course. What I was getting at was someone who prioritizes looks first and everything else … not at all.
If you broaden your criteria of what is acceptably sexy and attractive, instead of working off a checklist, it makes it much easier to find someone who is an awesome person whose company will be a delight.
Not sure what you mean by broadening your criteria, I just like what I like, I don’t have a checklist, someone either looks attractive to me or they don’t – there is no way to convince myself to find someone attractive, it’s just a visceral response.
We might need Q to chime in here and show pics?
thing is I generally find the majority of the girls in Q’s links not very attractive at all. Sure boobs and butts are always nice to look at but ultimately the shape of a woman’s body has never been all that important to me, I’m just a sucker for a pretty face and very few of those models are bag heads.
This is the sort of women that I’d have been missing out on if I had set my search criteria to “slim”. Not for everyone, obviously.
https://thesexier.com/hot-thick-girls-25-pics/
“Broadening criteria” — this phrase might make more sense if I note that pretty much every woman I went on a date with I met on an app like OK Cupid.
If I had told the search engine to only show me women who were blond and had a skinny body and were at least 20 years younger, I wouldn’t have gone on many, if any, dates.
By leaving all the boxes unchecked, I had dates galore with women I found sexy, and about 50 dates in found my fiancee, who is thicc and African-American and less than ten years younger than me.
Shorter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE
Ah, okay – I’m old enough that I met women the old fashioned way, out in meatspace.
You met women the old-fashioned way: you earned them?
Yeah, god forbid I ever have to enter the dating scene again, but if I was out on a date with my new gal, I wouldn’t exactly want to see her chompin’ on a bucket of ribs, a basket of onion rings, and sucking down an extra malt.
I’m a skinny gent (lost 45 pounds from my highs) and now tend to look at overweight people as undisciplined and more likely to be an addict of some sorts, or a slob by nature. Definitely not a fair characterization by any stretch of the imagination, but that’s how initial impressions work.
I judge people based on race, gender and sexual orientation. Why don’t more people do that? Makes life easier.
Hey is there a term for constantly meddling in other people’s personal choices that have no bearing on you and your life because you’re a miserable hollowed out husk of a human being with absolutely nothing to offer and the only way you can obtain any validation of your existence is by making everyone else as miserable as you are?
Yes, it’s called “progressive”.
I can sum up every ‘toxic gender’ article very quickly: ‘Some people are assholes’.
That saves a lot of pixels.
It’s like with the mansplaining=being condescending bit. Don’t have to make up new words for things that already exist.
They call it “mansplaining” so they can pretend only men can be condescending assholes. It’s just Newspeak to try to shape the way people think.
Also so they can try to imply that the condescending jerks who do it are doing it specifically to women as a way to put them in their place as opposed to something they do to everyone they interact with as a means of wielding social power. The behavior identified as mansplaining absolutely does exist but it is not unique to men and it is not a tool used to put women down as it is used equally against both men and women.
Good point.
I love really feminine women.
When your argument has to begin with “it exists” , it’s not going to go well.
So, in short, those displaying “toxic femininity” are still helpless victims of the patriarchy. Got it.
Ruh roh. I wonder if they’ve noticed any correlation between infant ear piercing and last names?
I thought toxic feminity is women talking crap behind one another’s backs but never confronting the person they are mad at.
I though it involved tampons.
From the IRS link:
“At the time, the White House Office of Management and Budget, under President Barack Obama, rejected that position and directed the IRS not to pay refunds during a shutdown. But the IRS said last week that OMB had reviewed the issue at the Treasury’s Department’s request and now agrees with the IRS counsel’s position that refunds can legally be paid.”
Politicians like Obama think that everything we earn belongs to them. Otherwise, how do you justify refusing to return overpayments of taxes, as if that is some largesse that the administration can dole out or withhold at their whim?
Politicians like Obama think that everything can and should be used for political leverage. It’s the Chicago way.
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law”. So I guess it depends on whether tax refunds fall into the category of money withdrawn from the treasury. Obama: EVERYTHING belongs to the treasury so the answer is clearly yes. Glibs: money taken in excess of what is required (SLD applies) does not belong to the treasury, it belongs to its rightful owners.
Well said, sir.
He needed the extra $$ to close low/un-staffed open air parks and monuments during the “shutdown”.
Not that I needed one, but yet another great reason to manage your taxes such that you owe a small amount every year instead of letting Uncle Asshole hold your money for you.
^^THIS^^
Every year I pay the state and feds about $500. I am amazed that people over pay in order to get a large refund every spring.
I manage it so I owe a small sum. I’d rather risk paying interest on that sum than giving a zero percent loan.
Somebody should explain to the 70 year old hep cat throwing around the term “incel” because one of his interns saw it on Reddit that it doesn’t need to be capitalized.
Bill Maher peaked in D.C. Cab.
Gary Busey, Mr. T, that guy from Barney Miller. DC Cab wasn’t half bad.
Power booster!
+1 I Dont Work On Elvis’s Birthday
Bic disposables. Bag of about 25?50? from Sam’s for about ten bucks. They have two blades and one lasts me about 2 weeks. I dont shave every day as I spend most days either around the house or in the woods. I shave when I go to town.
Gillette who?
I don’t shave every day either, but damn, those things are like dragging sandpaper across my face. I’d use them if I could stand it.
Speaking of which, it’s time to finish getting ready for work…
I don’t know how people use those. For me, it’s like trying to cut barbwire with cheap scissors.
SJWednesday: Dressing Like A Ho Is Part Of My Culture
Feministing. Of course it is.
That was the line that stuck out to me. Of course her impression of you changed, you dumbass. That was the point of wearing revealing shorts, wasn’t it? To send a specific message to other people.
Damn prudes, if there aren’t labia hanging out the shorts should be fine.
Ugh! That is the Male Gaze! I should be able to wear my revealing clothing but only guys who i like should be allowed to ooggle me.
Don’t put it on display if you don’t want EVERYBODY looking at it.
**fondly remembers Amber B. tacking in a small sailboat in her silk/satin running shorts**
*touches self*
*slaps hand*
shouts “Not at work! Not at work!”
** Girl in next cubicle over Rolls eyes, mutters **
why does he scream that every day?
“criminalize students of color”
Cause White Girls never wear short-shorts.
essentially giving school administrators the green light to criminalize students of color.
No, it ended gov’t enforced discrimination in school discipline.
Not literally?
It hasn’t occurred to her that the point of Obama’s “guidance” was to stir up racial BS, I guess. To the point where teachers are now afraid to discipline the “wrong” children.
“the point of Obama’s “guidance” was to stir up racial BS”
Did they guy ever do anything for any other reason?
Underplaying her hand. I would have gone with “essentially mandating that privileged white overlords commit cultural genocide”.
Why only cultural genocide? It’s literally genocide genocide.
This is the school, not Planned Parenthood.
Good morning my little rays of sunshine!
Meh.
Feh.
Eh?
Heh.
nuqneH!
Bah.
Excuse me fellows, would you please go cough outside?
“Good morning my little rays of sunshine!
Meh.”
What? You don’t think we’re like little rays of sunshine?
We cause cancer? Needs a larger sample size.
I don’t know of anyone who still uses Gillette type razors, what do ya’ll use?
Some no-name electric shaver. But I’m kind of lazy so I rarely shave (like once a week or something.)
I quit using an electric a decade ago exactly because I only shave a couple times a week. Those things just love to yank out the hair by the roots once it gets a little long.
And then there are many who think the requirements of femininity are all about love, parenting, giving, and being of service.
And sammiches. Don’t forget the sammiches.
I use Schick, sasuga Nippon and their love for that brand. I hope to learn to use straight razors in the future after I had it done by the barber’s one time. That Bill Maher tweet made me laugh my ass off. Based on what I’ve been told about incels, I thought they were pathetic losers who couldn’t even dream/pay to make something like that billboard happen.
Incels wouldn’t dare get that high off the ground without Mommy to hold their hand.
Should Family Guy ‘phase out’ gay jokes?
Hey, let’s kill the irreverent edginess that made this show kind of funny! What a great idea!
Recently I discovered that there’s this thing in my living room called a “remote control”. Best part is, if I don’t like the show I’m watching, I can switch to a different one without even getting up! What a country!
Do what you want with fucking show. It sucks.
Family Guy should just be phased out. The show just went in a nosedive once it got brought back from cancellation.
Make bank for 20 years telling those jokes and then use them as a point of attack on the pres. Macfarlane is such a jackass…The Orville is a kickass show though.
^This. I hope they don’t go woke, at least on The Orville. I haven’t watched Family Guy in years.
I do wish The Orville would stop trying force in pop culture references and lame jokes though.
The pop culture references in Farscape were pretty damn funny.
I’m a cartoon fanatic and love horribly politically incorrect humour but FG ran its course for me years ago.
This ain’t gonna help.
SJW wokeness is a virus.
The FG Tea Party episode was disingenuous af. They kinda lost me with that one.
That show’s winking-and-nodding “look how edgy we are, it’s OK because we’re woke!” style of humor is a total sham. They’re not poking fun at themselves or saying anything relevant, they’re just throwing shit at a wall because they can.
This exactly. It’s anti humor.
Or, more accurately, “It’s not funny”.
South Park mocked FG years ago.
And they were right.
No balls or creativity.
Is that show still in production? Fox either kills things too early or drags them on way too long.
And, oddly enough, they managed to do both with Family Guy.
Cheap disposable Schick “sports” razors. I hate shaving, and generally only do it a couple of times a week. Looking like a hobo provides me with a welcome buffer against having to talk to people I don’t know.
Steve Bannon, is that you?
Why, whatever do you mean?
Bannon ate the edit faerie!
That’s a porno I don’t want to see.
Eh, with the right camera angle, it could be pretty good.
“In fairness, we’ve been trying to phase out the gay stuff,” Peter replies. “But you know what? We’re a cartoon. You’re the president.”
Such clever.
Does Trump have a habit of making gay jokes? I seem to have missed that.
They’re in the same file that has all the Russian Collusion stuff.
I see that is the strong Ethical Philosphy “Malum Base” meaning, “I can excuse my horrible behavior by pointing to someone else and saying “THEY DO IT” and hold them to a higher standard than myself”.
^^^
This guy gets it!
SJWednesday: Evolved To Oppress the Individual
Therefore, we must embrace socialism.
So, they are actually arguing in favor of tribalism? Because that’s what was.
As long as their tribe is on top, sure.
Without explicitly calling for it… yes, that is exactly what the author is suggesting. That a return to more primitive tribal arrangements is preferable because capitalism is an unnatural arrangement in terms of human social networks. Coolidge’s quote seems appropriate here.
“Early humans had a strong disposition to cooperate with one another…”
and to kill anyone from outside the immediate group. But hey, it’s not capitalism so it’s all good.
And they don’t seem to understand the immediate group was akin to a few neighbors on your block.
Anthropological assumptions that predate written language are as worthless as the turd I just flushed.
Not true. Fertilizer my friend. Fertilizer.
I highly recommend reading “Individualism: True and False” by Hayek. It pretty much smashes the argument here. The basic gist is that true Individualism is not a system where people are Selfish Strawmen, but that of where individuals freely cooperate and that cooperation creates systems organically…
I’ve been reading it again lately in hopes of getting a kind of write up for Glibs. (that makes two write ups i need to do).
WERK HARDUR, FASTUR!
(really, we appreciate content)
People interacted in mutually beneficial ways. That’s what happens in a free market, which results in division of labor and specialization which results in prosperity. Way to defeat your own argument for collectivism.
“Thanks to organic social mechanisms, humans became capable of pair bonding, food sharing, and even collective childcare.”
Yeah, that worked pretty well when we were hunter gatherers. I guess it’s a good thing you have a new green plan so that we can go back to grubbing roots.
Paging Camille Paglia: It’s also what agrarian societies did when large families lived together and gender roles were clearly drawn. But those are now bad things.
Tax “refunds” are repayment of an interest free loan made by the citizen to the Treasury (under duress). So stop dawdling mail the checks.
Vacation time!! Spending a long weekend in Indian Rocks beach with my parents, bro and SIL. Sand, sunshine, Greek food, booze….
https://youtu.be/kFQAIzg9vlM
Enjoy man. First vacation this year for me isn’t until April. But that’ll be my fourth Viva Las Vegas show, with the Reverend Horton Heat as the headliner again. Delta Bombers are playing as well as Los Straitjackets. And this year I’ll be staying at the Orleans, so no shuttles unless I want to hit the strip for a bit.
Los Straightjackets are muy bueno.
Had to miss them one year because the girlfriend didn’t think staying around to watch a luchador themed instrumental rockabilly band would be good. She is slowly learning to listen to my recommendations at Viva after laughing her ass off at the Charles Phoenix show. But this year… rooms just upstairs from the concerts!
Charles Phoenix is a gas, too.
Seconded.
Viva!
Beer!
Good lineup. I’ve never been to Viva…and I stopped going to roundup. Same cars every year almost.
That’s just a couple, the full band list is much longer (as there’s live music in several different venues over the four day fest). Burlesque shows, pin-up contests, classic cars, and two different places to make regrettable life-long decisions (wedding chapel and a tattoo room).
Have a nice and fun vacation! Speaking of that, you just reminded me my passport expires soon so I gotta get to renewing that asap.
Enjoy, my brother!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y84ERGNjmp4
Does Trump have a habit of making gay jokes? I seem to have missed that.
Trump denigrates the colored folk, and says he want to round up the gays and send them back to Gayland. Haven’t you been listening (to CNN)?
I love Gayland! Elvis used to live there. They still have his cars and shit.
“Are you going to send me or anybody that I know to a camp?” —Rachel Maddow
She really said that?
“No. Are you?”
Better reply: “You mean like FDR and the other socialists?”
She was “joking.” The sort of joking where you spend the next two and a half years validating the supposed joke, like you weren’t joking at all.
“This one time, at gay camp . . . “
Lesbian Camp 2: Electric Bugaloo
Buggeroo
How science fiction helps readers understand climate change
“familiar with this junction you would know it is far from the US’ current coastline.”
“is flooded after unabated climate change causes the sea level to rise by 50ft (15.25m).”
I know i’m a fucking Hick from the Inter Mountain west… But to me nowhere in Manhatten (it’s an island right…) Is far from the US Coastline. Especially not somewhere on an island, that is only 50ft above sea level.
Being factually correct is not as important as being morally right!
How science fiction helps readers understand climate change
By properly relating the scare-mongering to fiction?
Get them a copy of Fallen Angels to go along with it and see how they react.
Modern science fiction helps me understand that all societies are best organized so that teenage protagonists can arise from the ashes of a post-catastrophe society and lead the way towards utopia.
You mean like Fallen Angels? Or the Spider Robinson short story (couldn’t find it on a quick search, have it in a collection at home) that had grandpa talking about the good old days:
Back in my day, we didn’t have to walk to school. Buses would pick us up at our houses and take us there. Not only weren’t we forced to work in the mines for food, but we were forbidden from working at all. etc…
Oo, I have to check that out…
But yeah, climate nonsense has been a staple of SF for decades. It’s really starting to grind my gears. One of my favorites just fell down that rathole and it pisses me off.
I think the Spider Robinson story was “In The Olden Days.” Pretty sure I read it in the “Melancholy Elephants” anthology.
Climate-fiction.
I am stealing that.
Someone should write one of these sci-fi novels where the AGW cult got their way and most of humanity now lives as slaves of the new marxist upperclass ruling them like the serfs they are causing a global revolution…
Niven did it.
And Nephilium linked it 2 comments before you.
And Private Chipperbot mentioned it a couple of posts before mine. That’s three sources, doesn’t that mean the science is settled?
The science isn’t settled till you’re picking caviar out of your teeth at a posh hotel in Gstaad.
And Private Chipperbot mentioned it a couple of posts before mine. That’s three sources, doesn’t that mean the science is settled?
Plenty good enough for a FISA warrant, anyway.
I stopped reading at this point, just like I did before finishing his Mars trilogy.
Yeah, I got about a quarter of the way into the third one before I gave up.
That was about the same for me.
I made it about 1/2 way thru each book. Stopped. Picked it up a year later and finished. Except the 3rd, I never picked it back up.
Red Mars was decent, Green Mars was Commie propaganda, and I can’t even bother to start the third one. KSR is a commie ratbastard.
I’ve seen more of this stupid stuff lately – but some writers are better than others. Neal Stephenson is just about always solid.
Paglioco…(sp?) – “The Wind Up Girl” had a stupid climate premise but was a decent story on the whole.
What about White Mars?
racist
The White Martians are shapeshifters, so you never know…
Kindof a tacit admission that their (climate change hysterics) notion of climate change is not fully grounded in science such that it, itself, is science fiction.
But contemporary research strongly supports more generous motives in altruism, which have nothing to do with self-interest. Early humans had a strong disposition to cooperate with one another, at great personal cost, even when there could be no expectation of payback in the future. Members of a group who violated the norms of cooperation were punished. Solidarity and community were prized in their own right.
Contemporary “researchers” are just making shit up now, apparently.
They should read the story about the Mayflower Pilgrims’ failed and nearly fatal experiment with socialism in their first year.
The right people didn’t do socialism then either Brooksie!
That was state capitalism!
” a strong disposition to cooperate with one another, at great personal cost”
We still do this, dipshit author.
DOJ: Handguns Are the Weapon of Choice for Criminals
And the margin is not even close. It’s almost like criminals want to conceal a weapon and will do so regardless of any concealed weapon regulation/permitting/etc.
Well they only have access to those guns because Indiana has such loose Gun laws. If we could force those Hoosier Gun Runners to stop selling all would be peace and prosperity.
It’s almost like criminals want to conceal a weapon
That was the impetus behind banning sawed off shotguns and short barrel rifles, for example. Criminals are all using bump-stock-equipped long guns when we want to ban “assault weapons” and they’re modifying long guns to make them concealable when we want to ban concealed weapons.
Their entire argument breaks down and falls into the mud when you realize that they have this idea that they will have any influence on criminals or people with criminal intent – by definition, those who ignore laws – by making new laws. It’s about the same as legislating a women’s dress code to Islamic standards to ensure that homosexual males are not sexually stimulated when in public.
If only we had laws prohibiting criminal activity with handguns. If only!
Hot ladies here to remind you that other people are merely products to be consumed.
http://archive.li/g4FnC
9’s great even with the absurd hair color. 11 wins despite the vacant stare.
35>7>47>2
7, 8, and 31 for me.
43 is about the only woman here with curves, so my top pick.
35 has gorgeous eyes, though she could use a burger stat.
14 has a nice girl next door look.
Robinson’s 2017 climate-fiction novel belongs to a growing cadre of works about drowned nations, wind farm utopias or scarred metropolises decades into the future. As diplomats draft the rulebook for the global response to the climate crisis and engineers race to produce better solar panels, writers have found their role, too: telling what Robinson calls “the story of the next century”. In doing that, they might be helping readers across the world comprehend the situation in which we currently find ourselves.
So apocalypse porn’s latest bogeyman is global warming, now. Wow, I never would have guessed. It used to be thermonuclear war.
+1 Waterworld (the movie.. Kevin Costner.. never saw it?)
I was in 5th grade or so when that came out, I remember arguing with kids in school that the ice caps melting wouldn’t cover everything but Mt Everest. Everyone else was convinced it was possible.
Raphael & Tejicano (and straff if you log in later).
Question – at what age does a woman using “atashi” go from cute to kimochiwarui?
Early 30s at best for me.
I think up to early 30s is a reasonable limit. But then again, I am a simple man who has eyes mostly for the ojou-samas and their watakushi instead.
uhh….translation ?
Japanese Crash Course lessago:
ojou-sama=”refined”/fancy type of girl AKA the types who are totally out of my league.
watakushi=a fancy/formal way of saying “I”. Japanese has Watashi (standard/slightly formal), Watakushi(formal), Atashi (cutesy one mostly ladies use), Boku(less formal, chicks and dudes use it). and Ore(look at you being informal you manly man) to all mean “I”.
Thats a lot to un-pack.
And that’s only one word.
Just refer to yourself by your avatar handle. It’s what I do.
Dude – pronouns in Japanese are the stuff of books.
And for reasons too long to go into here you actually try to generally avoid using them.
https://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2009/papers/Ponamareva.pdf
Depends on how intimate we are….
I dunno. At my age anything under 30 is the same as somebody’s child. But yeah, I guess a 40-something would sound affected.
Oh, and these days the term is Kimoi.
Kimokawa. As for the question, I very rarely hear any ladies using either “watashi” or “atashi”.
Kimoi sounds like some teenage girl to me!
Same thing for me – 20 something girls are in the somebody’s child category. But the kawaii part still works for me there.
My boys are in grade school so Kimoi is what I hear a lot.
I don’t think the Kawaii schtick ever worked for me. My target was always the early 40’s, slender MILF type.
Early 40s and slender would be my target market as well if I were in the market.
Any younger and we’d be discussing kimoi again…
“DOJ: Handguns Are the Weapon of Choice for Criminals”
Good point, sounds like we need to ban those too.
Historically, gun control has always been more focused on handguns. The “assault weapon” craze started in the nineties.
The halcyon days of the Saturday Night Specials. Guns so cheap the criminals would use them once, then throw them away.
Maybe we should ban the criminals, then the demand for handguns would go away and they would stop being manufactured.
sounds like we need to ban those too.
By all means. If we ban criminals, we’ll have nothing to worry about.
Just ban assault and murder. Problem solved!
“We have outlawed crime – let Utopia begin!”
Historically, gun control has always been more focused on handguns.
Nixon talked about banning handguns. Another reason the progressives should worship him.
Yeah, I once pointed out to my proggie MIL that she should love Nixon, because he ended the Vietnam War, created the EPA, normalized relations with China, and wanted to ban handguns. She was not pleased for some reason.
He ended the draft too.
Wage and price controls. He actually did that.
I’m confused:
This video said handguns are the Good Cats, and no one wanted to take away my good cats.
But then this vidoe said that they did want to take away my gun and that we can’t have any because some people are bad, Oh and that we need to loose the electoral college (though that is not expanded on).
“A wall would be worthless because it wouldn’t stop most of the drugs that come through points of entry.”
“We want to ban assault weapons because you gotta start somewhere.”
These two thoughts can exist in the same head for some reason.
Uffda. Come to Minnesoda to see the wonderful, efficient TSA operate at peak performance (20 min wait for normies, 4 min wait for pre-check). But get here soon, the traditional hordes of MLK holiday travelers will probably swamp the system.
The only people who get MLK day off are govt workers and they are all dead in the streets because of the shutdown.
Every year, I need to explain to the girlfriend that only schools, banks, and government offices are closed on MLKj Day. Every year she asks if I have it off (same with most of the other government holidays)…
Milk jr. day? You Americans.
Last year our company announced we were going to start getting MLK day off but they were taking away one of our personal days. Assholes. Thanks for the forced personal day in freaking January. Bunch of employees talking about how woke we were now? Really? Dumbasses.
My company tried that and it backfired so bad they cancelled the plan immediately after it was announced and people reacted.
I did a contract at a financial services company and they had MLK day off. I showed up for work anyhow because I assumed that they’d be open (because they weren’t a govt entity). Since I took the bus, I had to wait around until 1 when the buses started up back home.
It was OK though. I went into the main board room and watched Netflix on the fancy big screen they had in there.
And I hope you charged them for your time…
hmmm. I thought i got MLK day off last year, and i don’t work for the Gubbmint.
It’d make more sense to have a Dred Scott day and give them that off.
Meh. I don’t know. MLK was an important Civil Rights Leader. I have no problem taking a day off, and I’d prefer to have MLK day than to have, say, Labor day, which is steeped in communist history.
MLK day is fine. Dude was a horn dog, but tried to get people to stop hating. Good enough for me.
I work for a private company and get MLK day off. Given how ugly things could have been without him, I have no problem making the day a holiday. It’s too bad that those who praise him the most usually forget about the whole judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin thing the other 364 days a year.
VA used to have a dual MLK/Robert E. Lee day. Then the snowflakes complained and they moved Robert E. Lee day to the Friday before. Then the snowflakes cried even harder and the progs finally took Robert E. Lee day away as an official state holiday.
“The only people who get MLK day off are govt workers”
Sorry, this is not true. There are private companies that include it as a holiday.
Not that they’ll notice but that chick who didn’t know Webb was black (I didn’t know and I sometimes catch him on Patriot radio), they just PROVED ‘white privilege’ is a myth. It’s a Marxist bullshit construct.
Re Maher: It’s been said his fans are ‘clapping seals’. Judging by some of the comments, that’s precisely what they are. They wait for him like cult members.
Bill fucking Maher. 11m cult followers.
Guy who’s roughly in the same league as George Wendt.
Maher sometimes gets it right regarding speech. I usually don’t agree with him, but at least he has an ethos.
This story about Minnesoda’s new legislative committee would be funny if it wasn’t so infuriating.
The big scare is that our winters are warming much faster than our summers. I’m not sure why that is a bad thing, but SCIENTISTS are worried. It would have been nice for the reporter to ask any of the people involved in this boondoggle what impact the state of Minnesoda could have on this problem.
The only thing that kept me from popping a blood vessel in my brain was the closer….
“warming winters would chase out Minnesota’s state bird, the common loon.”
Seems like ya’ll have enough already.
There was an audible murmur in the room when a committee member noted that the National Audubon Society has said warming winters would chase out Minnesota’s state bird, the common loon.
It wasn’t so long ago that the state mammal was the mastodon. Really makes you think.
As a forester I can provide one example of an impact. Typically loggers cut 2/3 of the wood in winter, depending on location, since it protects soil. With current technology the only time they can cut in wetlands is on frozen ground. Warmer winters will make that extremely difficult. Obviously, some technology can help, but at a pretty large cost in equipment which already costs well into 6 figures new.
Not being able to harvest on a large amount of land (northern MN has lots of swamps) would create quite an impact to supply. Of course supply can possibly picked up elsewhere, and there are likely positives to counterbalance the problem, but it will have an effect.
I thought the state bird was the mosquito.
What about the uncommon loon?
They elected those to Congress.
We’re talking about Minnesoda and one of their biggest worries is that it’s going to get too warm? Greenland is next on that wagon I spose.
All I know is if Old Spice were to go woke, it would devastate me.
Drop that crap and get yourself some Thai Crystal
I’ve seen that before. You use it or are you being sarc? I never know with you people.
I use it. It works, although there is some question as to whether it’s any healthier than a standard deodorant.
Bernie Sanders declared it top of the list of his deodorants to ban…
“All I know is if Old Spice were to go woke, it would devastate me.”
Gawd, I remember that stuff. When I was a kid, all the grandpas reeked of it.
YouTube bans dangerous challenges like the ‘Bird Box’ dare
Okay mommy.
They banned dodgeball already, right?
In two months, nobody will even remember the dumb movie. “Bird box challenge” will be all the cachet of the ice bucket challenge.
behave*grumble*
Gillete: Betas gonna be betas. I use Schick Hydra. Does the job on my wire brush stubble.
What are the folks over at the Atlantic all het up about?
Guess
As the longest government shutdown in American history drags on, it’s not just hurting the morale of America’s federal work force and the broader American economy. It’s hurting our national security. Some of the damage is already plainly apparent—but in four crucial ways, its harms will persist long after the government reopens.
We’re beginning to see indicators of short-term national- and homeland-security vulnerabilities. Airports are short on screeners; thousands of FBI agents, analysts, and staff are on furlough; and our government’s newest cybersecurity unit barely launched before half of its staff were furloughed. Each of these lapses may cause specific problems: dangerous weapons may slip through security, endangering the flying public; investigative leads may suffer from inattention, causing investigations of federal crimes to be delayed or go unfinished; and recent efforts to improve federal cybersecurity may be stopped before they ever really started. Moreover, given the importance this administration purports to place on immigration enforcement and border security, the irony of the Department of Homeland Security’s border agents and immigration officials not being compensated to perform their important work is hard to miss.
OMG the wizards have all been laid off. We have no magic spells to protect us!
RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Something tells me the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection is nothing like its name suggests.
Oh no, not the morale of America’s federal work force! Those poor fucks, getting a forced paid vacation on my dime!
I hear that TSA employees get real depressed when there’s no easy stealin to be had.
And the gropin’. If they get a little grope on without the uniform, people get all uppity!
Slavers
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/15/poll-solid-majority-americans-support-raising-highest-income-tax-rate-70/
Newsflash: Paul supports robbing Peter.
Another
dog bites mandog licks balls story.Nobody needs to earn more than I do.
Broke are you?
I smell bullshit.
Look at the survey question:
“Currently the top tax rate is 37%. Would you favor or oppose a tax proposal that would apply a 70% rate to the 10 millionth dollar and beyond for individuals making $10 million a year or more in reportable income?”
To paraphrase: “We pinky swear the proposal would only hit what we consider the insanely rich. Ignore the possibility of mission creep into your tax bracket. Ignore how this will fuck over investment and job creation. Free money!”
I suspect the results would be a tad bit different if they said everyone’s taxes would be doubled, with the top rate at 70%.
“I oppose any tax change that is not a reduction from where we are.”
Just watch the first part with Jesse Lee Peterson. That chick is a disconnected loon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8UqbASjQCo
The real crazy part is her feeling the guy calling out her crazy is the one with an issue..
It’s apparent she was never challenged for her views.
She just sat there with a ‘what do you mean? It’s there. Don’t you see Shoeless Joe Jackson?’
They’re burnt in the head.
Our fourth and final concern may be most worrisome of all: The United States is showing the world how utterly polarized, even paralyzed, we’ve become. This plays directly into Moscow’s strategy to weaken us at home and abroad. Yes, the Kremlin seems to have wanted Trump in the White House, but even in the campaign’s waning weeks it didn’t expect him to win—hence Russia’s continued messaging that the election was “rigged,” a meme that disappeared after Trump’s surprising victory. More than Trump’s election, the Kremlin wanted America to tear itself apart, leaving it unable to oppose Russian foreign policy or to push for democratic reforms. The first two years of this administration, with Trump at the helm, have weakened our ties to our global allies in favor of foreign policies more sympathetic to Russian strategic interests. Now, at home, this government shutdown further weakens our defenses with every passing day.
The president says that our security requires the shutdown. But actually, the shutdown is the real national-security threat—and its damage will prove lasting.
The Russians are coming. It’s as if we have travelled back in time.
“hence Russia’s continued messaging that the election was “rigged,” a meme that disappeared after Trump’s surprising victory”
Self awareness check. People didn’t stop saying the election was rigged, just who was saying it changed.
Rim shot: “…and its damage will prove lasting.”
And the echo goes….Lasting, lasting, lasting…
Also: None of you furingners can have any opinions about our elections! We on the other hand can weigh in on any issue/election (“back of the queue”) we feel like.
Is it any wonder that Russia preferred Trump to Hillary? Hillary would have been shooting Russian planes out of the air over Syria if she had been elected. I bet there are a lot of secret diplomatic memos in a lot of foreign countries that said “Trump would be better for relations between the US and our shithole country, but Hillary is going to win.”
I bet there are a lot of secret diplomatic memos in a lot of foreign countries that said “Trump would be better for relations between the US and our shithole country, but Hillary is going to win.”
Isnt that proof that Trump is weakening our position in the world? They must FEAR us.
Exactly this. She openly called for targeting them during the election and her historical foreign policy positions indicate that it was probably not just bluster. Open hostilities with Russia is far more dangerous than the very mild level of cooperation Trump has been pursuing.
I just realized that both Hillary and Bill advocated “No Fly Zones”, but they both meant something completely different.
Is it any wonder that Russia preferred Trump to Hillary?
Who says they did? For awhile, they were botting and trolling both sides. When it became “clear” that Hillary was going to win, they focussed on “supporting” Trump, which is exactly what you would do if your goal was just to stir shit up. Honestly, given the kompromat they must have on Herself, I think they were hoping she would win.
I was gobsmacked to read that, after Comey was fired, a bunch of FBI wallahs opened an investigation into Trump because he was making decisions that were so pro-Russian that it could only be because he was colluding with them. Trump, the most not pro-Russian President we have had in ages, who blows up their shit in the Middle East, sanctions them economically, etc.
But we’re not shooting down Russian jets in Syria and risking a no-shit shooting war with our reset buddies, therefore Trump is on the Kremlin payroll.
It’s not Trump and the Republicans who have been protesting, rioting, engaging in character assassination, and obstructing for the past 2 years.
No, they have been sending people to camps and murdering womez and childrenz for their Russian masters!
/progtard
I am continually flabbergasted by how deeply invested the prog world is in this utterly retarded narrative. They are fucking *hysterical* over it, and they are convinced that it’s a desperate race between Mueller finally lowering the boom that will result in Trump’s immediate impeachment and Trump completing his mission to totally dismantle America (somehow).
They’re fucking looney.
“They’re fucking looney.”
It could be much worse. I keep seeing comment sections around the web where posters seem to think that Gulag Barbie is a genius and our future.
Zod spare me from those dark places. It’s bad enough when I come across people who sincerely support Kamela Harris.
Rep. Hank Johnson receives threatening calls from Trump supporters for ‘Hitler’ comparison
“his words have been taken too literally,”
“did not intend to demean Republican voters.”
Sometimes a politician makes the mistake of speaking what they truly believe. This is often called a gaffe.
Hank hasn’t learned to keep his mouth shut after his comments about the midgets ?
God, that never gets old.
The man is mentally slow, to say the least.
He’s a certified moron. Like I said in a previous article, he’s only able to win in a district where half his voters vote for him because they’re racists and the other half vote for him to prove they’re not racists.
I was actually thinking about Elijah Cummings there. He’s like Johnson, only not funny.
LOL, i have never seen that. Outside of politics, Hank actually seems like a really nice guy.
I hadn’t seen that one either. All I could think of was this.
Which Glib was that one calling himself Hubgdaddy?
That episode and the original with the alien butt-probe are likely my 2 favorites
with NAMBLA* being a close runner-up
*National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes
It was OK though. I went into the main board room and watched Netflix on the fancy big screen they had in there.
I hope you billed them for the hours.
I was about to ask the same question.
Duh!
It’s like you think I don’t even now Consulting 101.
Hooray for Carlson, but let’s keep expectations in check
Carlson conveniently ignores the fact that non-libertarian economics have gotten us to the point where debt is overwhelming. Unlimited fiat money is the chief source of our economic woes.
Tucker Carlson proved that SoCons can be just as Economically Illiterate as the Democratic Socialists. I’ve said it before but I think the GOP has set itself up for having the “rug” pulled out from under them when a particularly easy going socialist nabs up the christian socialists from underneath them, just like Trump snatched blue collar workers from the Left.
And to think there were once xenophobes in this country who worried that waves of immigration from Irish countries would have a negative influence on the body politic.
*Catholic countries. Same difference. I’m also allowed to say these things because of my Irish Catholic ancestry. Suck it.
Carlson seems to be related to Elizabeth Bruenig.
consenting adults making voluntary decisions about how to live their lives. OK. But it’s also disgusting.
That statement is disgusting.
That is the start of the thread that leads to Top Men planning out every bit of the economy and telling you exactly what to do. What factory to report to in the morning, what food to buy, etc.
See the movie “Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl”
You Know Who Else prohibited moneylending and usury?
You aren’t free unless you are free to be wrong.
And, there it is. TDS confirmed.
Harris Raises 2020 Speculation
“First of all, let’s be clear, you cannot hold the American people hostage over your vanity project. I mean, but that’s what it is. That’s what it is,” Harris said on Wednesday evening during a discussion focused on her new memoir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, at George Washington University.
“We’ve had enough of these powerful voices that are trying to sow hate and division among us. I’m done with that. I’m really done with it because it is not only wrong from a moral perspective; it is unproductive if we actually want to be on a trajectory that is about achieving success and progress. It is morally wrong,” she added.
“Any good parenting would tell you that you don’t listen to those kinds of tantrums, and you don’t reward bad behavior, like, I mean, seriously. Let’s put this in context. The United States Senate – unanimous bipartisan agreement on the spending package, voted out of the United States Senate, people were singing Christmas carols while we voted. I was, too,” Harris said. “The design of our democracy is being tested right now.”
Isn’t it ironic?
“The design of our democracy is being tested right now.”
:roll-eyes:
It’s always the same thing with these people. Our Democracy is being attacked, but it is also insufficient because it won’t allow us to do what we want. I would note that a Tantrum would be what happens when someone screams and yells about how wrong everything is yet have no power to change it. It’s not a tantrum for Trump to refuse to sign something. That’s his prerogative. A tantrum would be closer to screaming about how it was unfair that Trump refused to sign something the senate passed and that it should be law anyway.
So, democracy is in peril, but they still refuse to accept the results of the last general election.
That wasn’t democracy, duh. Hillary actually won by billions of votes.
Progspeak: “Tantrum” = exercising constitutional power to veto legislation.
“Not a tantrum” = getting really loud and upset about the unfairness of being unable to muster the 2/3 votes to override the veto.
Also “not a tantrum”: egging your supporters on to confront and harass your political opposition in public places, private places, and their homes.
Projection – it’s what proggies do.
Roku U-turn over streaming Alex Jones’s InfoWars
It’s not enough that people can choose for themselves whether to watch it, it must be de-platformed.
InfoWars is vastly more entertaining than half the channels on Roku.
This is a HUGE mistake on the part of Roku. The only thing keeping them alive is that they are agnostic when it comes to content. Or maybe I should say, were.
“A wall would be worthless because it wouldn’t stop most of the drugs that come through points of entry.”
“We want to ban assault weapons because you gotta start somewhere.”
These two thoughts can exist in the same head for some reason.
“If we slap a big tax on stuff we don’t want people to eat/drink/smoke, they’ll stop.”
“If we slap a big tax on working, they’ll work harder.”
Is Trump the ‘Most Libertarian’ President in Half a Century?
Now let’s hear the Robby Soave “… and here’s why that’s problematic” rebuttal.
Parker open comb with Feather blades. Proraso shaving cream/aftershave.
Harry’s when I have to carry a bag through security.
I use cheap-ass Barbasol in the shower to shave with and it’s great.
Something tells me the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection is nothing like its name suggests.
Somebody has to protect government functionaries from the Constitution.
Did anyone here discuss this? I understand that schools no longer teach any real history, but are people really this misinformed that they don’t know Cleopatra was part of the Greek Ptolemy dynasty that ended up ruing Egypt (and thus white)? That reference that the Pharaos of Egypt were children of the sun god because of their skin color seems no longer to be made/thought…
No wonder the left feels obligated to rewrite all history so they can do stupid shit like this.
You seem unfamiliar with the whole “Egyptians were black” internet subculture
WE WUZ KANGS
It’s kind of sad. That reference has gotten labeled vaguely racist and impolite. But, the idiocy it’s mocking is somehow considered acceptable.
“Everything is Racist” – the people who scream “racism!”
So I don’t care what people have slapped the label on.
They look brown – at least in the tomb paintings – and often different shades from dark to fair skinned.
http://wcdf-france.com/tomb-paintings-in-ancient-egypt/ancient-egypt-painting-stock-photos-ancient-egypt-painting-stock-tomb-paintings-in-ancient-egypt/
The Egyptians were brown. But their ruling class was old Greek honkeys.
Weren’t Greeks and Romans considered Mediterranean? This isn’t an argument about true “white” race, but that they would not appear as white a Northern European Americans.
That depends.
Given how much those lands got overrun after the collapse of their civilization, we’re not sure if the ancient ‘mediterranian’ peoples looked like modern ‘mediterranian’ peoples. I mean I have to figure out how to take accounts of blonde greeks from pre-varangian times.
most genetic evidence says they were
They have a lot of testable material from ancient greeks? It’s hard enough to get egyptian DNA, and they preserved their dead.
In the eyes of the race mongers Greeks and Italians are honkeys.
well i guess that shows how far out i am from the Race Mongers. I’m not sure i understood/understand that honkey is a racial term.
In the Late Kingdom. In the Early and Middle Kingdom they probably looked much like their subjects, who probably looked like modern Arabs today, considering all of the intermarriage between various tribes. The very dark skinned people were the Nubians who warred against the Egyptians
There were a handful of Nubian dynasties, but I think there were fewer pharohs from them than from the greeks.
And Cleopatra certainly wasn’t from such a dynasty.
Oh, no, they were the 25th dynasty, and the ptolemys were the 32nd or 33rd.
The Egyptians were Hamitic people, who were very closely related to Semitic people, and hence not black.
Egyptians considered themselves “red”, in contrast to Ethiopians, who they considered “black”. They considered Greeks “white”. “Whiteness” was not considered a good thing until the Ptolemies showed up.
Here’s a better question: what did the mysterious “boat people” look like? The Egyptians mention them during the Middle Kingdom, but modern historians do not believe they were Phoenicians.
“what did the mysterious “boat people” look like?”
I imagine they had a masthead.
what did the mysterious “boat people” look like?
I’m not saying its aliens . . .
… but it’s odd for humans to have barge-shaped bodies.
STEVE SMITH KNOW!
Weren’t they Vietnamese?
Are you talking about the Sea Peoples? From what I know of the scholarly literature, historians are uncertain as to what tribe(s) from which they were made.
She was famously ugly, however,so being played by Angelina Jolie is still weird;mm
So you are saying Mark Anthony was in de Nile about her looks?
He was in the same Nile that his adopted father had been in. Ewwww
Can we get a “gaze, narrowed-type, 1 ea.” over here?
Here you go
No, HERE you go
Ooh! That’s a severe gaze.
It ain’t just a river in Egypt!
It’s also a virus!
Cleopatra was Greek (or Macedonian, if you prefer to be specific). She was descended from the dynasty begun by Alexander the Great. I’m all for a black actress playing Cleopatra (I still think Tyra Banks was one of the hottest women of modern times), but let’s not pretend as if we are doing this for historical accuracy.
Moreover, you needn’t even get into arguing over what ethnicity egyptions of the time were, because the Ptolemys had a habit of marrying their sisters, so no egyptian blood got into that family.
I care as much about a black actress playing Cleopatra as I do a straight woman playing a gay woman (which is a faux pa today too). This is just really bad history being flaunted by the stupid
Also, “would” young Elizabeth Taylor. And Rihanna would no doubt be a hotter Cleopatra than Angelina Jolie, who is woefully overrated
Liz
God damn
Yep
Wuuuhhh…
Now all the husbands make sense.
I don’t care about movies/tv/streamingvideo stars, but I do love a good discussion of history.
Same. That seems to be a common trait among libertarians and it probably explains why any mention of the Civil War becomes an epic shout fest.
I’ve recently been watching some of The History Guy
I’ve always thought that was weird. Cleo was a Ptolemid, She was Macedonian. She’s closer to Pie’s neck of the woods than anywhere you’d normally find dark-skinned Africans. But for people who are really concerned about blackwashing history, go look south of Egypt. The Nubians had a pretty interesting civilization going on while Egypt was a thing. Shoot, there were plenty of African civilizations that are interesting and worth studying. No, they weren’t Rome, but neither were the Gauls, the Dacians, or anyone else. It’s just really strange to me that these supposedly Afro-centric history types can’t be assed to do more research into lesser-known African civilizations and would rather just say Greeks were the result of some lost Namibian colony or something.
I suspect it’s a case of “These civilizations didn’t shape the world today” to anyone who does find out about them, and rather than celebrating the actual history, want to take the contributions of other people’s and attribute them to the mythic pan-african tribe they associate themselves with. Nevermind the fact that there is no connection between the Nubians who rivalled Egypt, the west african gold kings who were so rich one managed to almost ruin the economy of the middle east through gifts given out while on pilgrimage, and the Zulu who managed to militarily challenge Britain in the south, just to name a few off the top of my head.
I’ll bet that’s exactly it. There’s a weird pan-African thing that’s somehow not racist or stupid that tries to collectivize an entire continent across time and space. It isn’t even like saying all Europeans are the same, it’s like saying all Asians are the same in some sense.
you shut your whore mouth about the Dacians. Taught the Romans and the Greeks everything they new.
I don’t doubt the Dacians taught the Romans and Greeks everything the Dacians knew – which took about an afternoon, then the fighting resumed.
Damn. That’s some good Dacian hate right there
Also Romans > Greeks. Change my mind
No disagreement. The Greeks couldn’t even stop murdering each other until a foreigner (Macedonian) kicked all their asses and got them in line to murder other people.
“The Greeks couldn’t even stop murdering each other until a foreigner (Macedonian) kicked all their asses”
Don’t tell the Greeks that the Macedonians weren’t Greeks
Don’t tell the Greeks that the Macedonians weren’t Greeks
and don’t tell a Macedonian they were. Everybody always hates everybody else. This hate increases with proximity and only decreases after a genocide, when the dead become cool.
I’ll play contrarian here and say I don’t give a rat’s ass who plays Cleopatra as long as she understands the character well enough. I mean, we are not talking about a documentary.
I don’t know of anyone who still uses Gillette type razors, what do ya’ll use?
I still use a Gillette. Honestly, since trshmnstr’s article, I’ve been mulling going over to a wet shave. Really, the only thing stopping me, at this point, is finding a good starter set for wet shaving.
South Dakota Considering Bill Barring Transgender Students From Competing Against Opposite Biological Sex
On Monday, two Republican legislators in South Dakota introduced a bill that would throw out the South Dakota High School Activities Association’s 2015 policy allowing transgender students to join sports teams of the gender they chose, instead of their biological sex.
The bill was introduced by Sen. Jim Bolin, R-Canton, and Rep. Brunner, R-Nisland. Bolin served as mayor of Canton, South Dakota, from 2007 to 2008; before that, he served as the Athletic Director of the Canton Public Schools from 1996-2007. He said he brought forth the legislation in order to ensure fair competition, adding that he wanted to emulate Texas. As The Argus Leader notes, “Texas’ University Interscholastic League requires that students participate on sports teams that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate.”
Bolin stated:
I believe the activities association is a very good group, but I think they made a bad decision when they implemented this policy four, five years ago. We have sports that are set up — boys go over 39-inch hurdles in 110 meters and girls have to clear 33-inch hurdles in 100-meter hurdles. We have a smaller ball for girls basketball than we do for boys basketball. If we’re going to have these modifications, then my point is that the birth certificate should be the determining factor in which team you play on. It’s all about fair competition.
So Democrats will be on board with this, right? I understand them to be deeply interested in fairness.
Yeah, that’s where your argument falls apart because progressives are more interested in pretending their push for a totalitarian system is about fairness than they are about any kind of fairness whatsoever.
Here is a thought about all the Federal Employees whining about working and not being paid. Tax Freedom day is consistently in April for Private Sector folk. So it means that the Private Sector spends over 3 months of the year working and not getting paid for it. So shut your trap and FOAD
More to the point, 3 months of the year working to pay you useless fucks for sitting around with your thumbs up your asses watching internet porn while running out the clock on your fucking overpaid pensions. So FOAD x 100.
I am hoping for some insight. My laptop at home started doing weird things with my mouse pointer. It goes from normal to really big and back. And then after awhile, instead of a pointer is becomes a couple of parallel, squiggly, vertical lines about 3/8″. To get it back to normal, I have to reboot my laptop. I have run full Norton scans and it says everything is fine. What’s causing this?
All I know is that if your pointer becomes enlarged for more than four hours, you should seek medical attention.
Have you checked the thermostat?
Knowing your computer type, OS, and if you have a special pointer installed would help. Off the top of my head it sounds like your pointer setting have some dynamic function you are triggering but unaware off.
Just a regular Dell laptop. Nothing special. Have checked all of the mouse settings. It’s very odd.
Does the touchpad have gesture support? You might be inadvertently activating a gesture.
Found this
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3351631/mouse-cursor-problems.html
Graphics Card driver?
Norton scan would indicate a probably Windows system. But, yeah, when did it start? Were there any changes? Does it only happen on your user account (if you are the only user of the system, create a new user to test)? What exact OS, and is it up to date in patches? What application are you in when this happen? What happens if you change the mouse pointer icon set to something else?
Does it happen right off the bat or after some time? I’ve noticed heat can cause laptops to do some weird stuff, such that it’ll work fine for a while and then start acting strange as heat builds up.
That is some weird shit. If you haven’t already done so, I would try disabling the touchpad completely and see if that helps. But, that’s partly because I’m deeply biased against touchpads.
Add trails to the pointer and see if it solves the issue.
The problem with working with people PeopleSoft (psoft) and Postfix, is that my fingers get really muddied about what order to type the letters ‘posft’
I hope this idea takes off and that it then destroys most of the woke college scams going on these days where people hock their lives to get worthless degrees. I would love to see most of these leftist academics unemployed and forced to live off the welfare state they have forced upon others.
+1 “I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results!”
The limits of libertarianism, and neoliberal economics in particular, have been evident to many of us for some time and we should welcome all converts to the cause. Charles Koch may be celebrated at the Catholic University of America, but Catholic social doctrine has always recognized the erroneous autonomy that is at the heart of much modern economic theory.
Fuck
off,
slaver.
I’ll say this. No one trolls better than Distributists. They enjoy shitting on everyone’s sacred cow. Tom Woods (a Latin Mass attending Catholic) was railing against Chesterton and the Distributists in an episode that he just did with Michael Malice.
“Leaving ME alone is all well and good, but YOU need to be regulated.”
Netherlands Investigates Pastors Who Publicly Affirmed Marriage
Freedom of Conscience and Religion. I had a teacher say he didn’t think that it was necessary for a free people. All i can say is, It must have been necessary enough for a bunch of people to Leave Europe and start a new place that guaranteed it.
Madison wanted the First Amendment to originally read “freedom of conscience shall not be abridged”, which would have been a more specific guarantee of liberty. But, yeah, only in the US is the government required to accommodate your beliefs. Sounds a lot more like liberty than the alternative
Agreed. Even if a person is atheist or agnostic, guaranteed freedom of religion is the only obstacle checking many totalitarian initiatives.
Homeschooling is a perfect example. Many states are doing everything possible to ban homeschooling or make it as difficult as possible to force all children in public school. However, they are still forced to offer a Religious Exemption option. Apply for religious exemption and the local school board has to cease harassing you. I don’t understand why every single homeschooling family doesn’t go this route. One letter to the school board and you’re free of their authoritarian shit forever.
It’s a copout to have to go with the religious exemption. Real freedom would be the ability to sue the shit out of the state for trying to prevent you from letting them turn your kids into progressive idiot drones.
Yes, that’s exactly my point. Freedom has been pushed out over the cliff, and in some cases, the finger tips holding onto the ledge is Freedom of Religion. It’s not real freedom, but in some cases, it’s the only staving off complete totalitarianism in some areas.
True. But, the alternative is children being taken away from their parents for not sending them to public school as recently happened in Germany and was reaffirmed by the EU Court of (In)Human(e) Rights.
We can’t be forced to stand for the pledge of allegiance or recite any oath, send our kids to public schools, or be drafted into war all because some religious group first dissented.
There was a reason that so many people left Europe; and why there is a large Dutch Christian Reform Church in the United States.
Sigh. I’m thinking that, in fifty or so years, people will look back on our currently fashionable social policies wonder “What the hell were they thinking?” They’ll do so, either much the way we tend to think of phrenologists and eugenicists or the way I’m sure those who lived in the Dark Ages looked upon the citizens of the late Roman Empire.
If the Dutch prosecute these ministers, the only way to honestly describe them will be prisoners of conscience. They will literally have been jailed for voicing what, to them, is an article of religious faith.
I hope you’re right, W, because that implies that they’ll have come to their senses by then. I’m personally more concerned that we’re going down the Idiocracy track and we’re not coming back.
That’s why I included the Dark Ages / Roman Empire scenario. Honestly, I think the Idiocracy track is entirely possible. I just think it’ll lead to a very, very, bad place where people won’t be able to afford the Idiocracy track any longer. And even returning to reason will only get us partially the way back.
Mankind as a whole will move on. But historically when a culture collapses it isn’t replaced by its descendants; someone from outside moves in and bad things happen for a while. The people alive today with Roman, Classical Greek, Mayan, incan, Aztec, Babylonian etc. ancestors are descended from the rape of those ancestors by whatever barbarians moved in.
Albert: I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones!
Everyone will be barbarians soon enough.
Mankind as a whole will move on.
I’m not so sure. Our civilization came up with some pretty nifty ideas. Individual rights. The dignity of the individual. Universality of principle. I see no reason to be sure those things will stick around even after the bad things subside.
Now who’s the optimistic one.
Oh no, I didn’t mean to imply that liberty and the rights of man will continue. Just that some humans will have a civilization of some kind. It will probably involve women as chattel, property by patent from the crown, religious mandates for every aspect of life and all the other stuff that for a brief shining moment we beat back.
I posit we are already in an intellectual dark age: the overwhelming majority of Western governments, media, and culture rejects the Enlightenment values enshrined (however imperfectly) in the U.S. Constitution.
I mean, we have a serious intellectual movement pressing to remove basic due process protections based on the gender of the accused. A (if not now, soon to be) majority of the public want the government to have more say over what individuals can do and what they must do. Our courts neglect to enforce basic constitutional protections yet continue to expand the powers of the legislature and executive over individuals. It’s all so disgusting that I’m not sure the U.S. (and the rest of the West) is worth defending.
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I use Dollar Shave Club. Cheap and effective.
My theory about Gillette is that they know they can’t compete and are going under, so this ad can give them cover. When they do close down, they can blame those racist, sexist, toxic white males who ruin everything.
I doubt it, unless you’re saying the head of the razor division of P&G saw the writing on the wall, and knew the corporate overlords were going to go “We’re shutting down some unprofitable divisions” and threw this as a smokebomb.
That’s where I was going with that. Another alternative is that people in charge of marketing for a high-profile brand no longer consider increasing sales to be their highest priority. I’m not sure I’m ready to live in that world.
Well, if you’ve paid attention to Disney and EA, there are plenty of spots of corporate rot where people have forgotten that the purpose of business is to make money, and that you make money by A: not insulting your customers, and B: providing something the customers want to pay for. So I wouldn’t be surprised to find it in P&G
I still think the ad is targeting women (and woke men), and I bet it works (as in, profitability).
They’d be better off advertising leg shaving kits to trannies.
We’ll see what happens to their stock price soon, I guess.
Everyone knows that trannies are like 35% of the population.
You misplaced the leading 0.00 there
“The Best A Tran Can Get”
“The Best A Tran Can Get”
Kaboom.
So, they’re becoming “more selective in their appeal”. I joke, but this does seem to be a thing in “fashion-conscious” industries. Even having an money-making market is less important than having the “right” market.
When I was in grad school, a marketing professor made some snide comments about CBS having an audience of old people. I asked why that was a problem, given older people have a lot more disposable income. I never did get a satisfactory response.
No. They’re appealing to women who will then convince their men to buy Gillette.
Is that really a thing though? My wife doesn’t tell me which brand of razors to use and I don’t tell her which brand of deodorant to use. I’m not seeing it.
It can be. They’re going for that lucrative father’s day/Christmas present from the kids market.
Yeah, I don’t know. Just a thought. My thought-process might be affected by the sixty-year-old sitcoms I grew up on where the women did all the shopping.
Agreed. My girlfriend might occasionally buy my grooming supplies when she goies to the store. But, she’s not picking out the brand. She knows I use certain brands and refills my stock of those.
And it brings up the point RC Dean makes. The kind of woman this sort of trashing of men is going to appeal to probably either doesn’t have a guy she’s buying shaving supplies for.
Statistically, women still do most of the shopping, but the kind of woman who is in a stable relationship is not the kind that is going to respond positivly to the insulting of the men in their life.
Posing a conundrum. What is a woman who believes men are toxic animals, only some of whom can barely manage to restrain themselves from assaulting women, doing with a man at all? The women who might respond positively to this are unlikely to be in the kind of health long-term relationship with a man where they talk about what bathroom gear the other should have.
My “right” market is one that pays me a lot of money. If for whatever bizarre reason my writing became a hit with intersectional genderqueer transsexual furries, I’d still take their money, regardless of what personal opinions I held of the people. I wouldn’t attend any fan events, because it would cause a negative reaction from a financial standpoint due to interprsonal incompatability. But I wouldn’t go out and tell them to their faces all my less charitable thoughts about them.
You don’t have a hankering for a fox dressed up as a fox?
+1 tailplug
My “right” market is one that pays me a lot of money.
Oh, completely agreed. But, that’s why I’m in finance and not marketing. I always like those stodgy old brands that aren’t ever really a hit, but keep on going in the marketplace.
Mentally I refer to this as the ‘Bakery problem’ because it got lodged in my head due to the tragedy of Freihoffers. They are a smaller bread manufacturer in this area who have a good deal of market share locally, and turned a reliable profit, but had no room to grow because of market saturation. You could run the company forever and keep turning a profit because people keep buying bread, but consecutive owners kept trying to find ways of forcing it to expand, and ended up nearly destroying the company in the process.
Sounds like what’s happening the the mid-sized to larger craft beer brands. One of the local ones has been expanding like mad, with plans to open up even more tap rooms this year. I was chatting with a guy at one of the other local breweries, and found out they are just taking out loans like mad to finance their expansion. They’ve been able to keep up with the payments so far, but I have the feeling that when they start slipping, it’s going to come crashing down.
My 83yo mother responded to the ad by posting the photo of the marines raising the flag at Iwo Iima and said “boys will be boys”.
Awesome
Gillette was basically trolling. They got their name in print everywhere for the price of one ad.
Just a regular Dell laptop. Nothing special. Have checked all of the mouse settings. It’s very odd.
Is it wireless? Put a new battery in it and see if that helps.
Anyone see CNN or the NYT/WaPO cover any of these revelations? I mean the fact that the DOJ and the FBI acted out of malice to spy on political enemy of the sitting administration’s political party – likely under orders from said administration – seems to now be documented fact, but neither the WH nor Congress seems willing to act on something that has earth shattering political implications.
I continue to be baffled by Trump’s tolerance of the FBI/DOJ’s refusal to submit to Congressional oversight, never mind investigate and prosecute the multitudinous crimes its people have committed. Hell, Mueller himself is responsible for destroying evidence when he wipe Page’s and Strzok’s phones and reissued them to employees.
But . . . nothing. Its hard to avoid the conclusion that the Congressional Republicans themselves are just running a false flag campaign of bullshit faux “investigations” just to placate their base. Why else would they put up with years and years of lies, evasions, and defiance of Congressional authority without doing one goddam thing about it.
“Anyone see CNN or the NYT/WaPO cover any of these revelations?”
Anyone see the publications that purport to oppose expansive government cover this?
They don’t have time, what with reporting progressive headlines as if they were established fact.
The alternative that wasn’t
Maybe some people stopped buying Gilette products because of the goddamned Patriots.
Another
dog bites mandog licks balls story.Nice.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/15/glenn-reynolds-class-warfare-elites-explains-world-conflicts-trump-column/2569252002/
We are in the midst of a class warfare, so says Instapundit.
FTA:
“If you look at the “yellow jacket” protests in France, the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and events in places like Italy and Hungary — or, for that matter, the Brexit movement in Britain — you find a similar unhappiness with institutional arrangements and the sleek and self-satisfied elites who benefit from them. People who, in President Bill Clinton’s famous phrase, worked hard and played by the rules now suspect that the rules were rigged, and that they were treated as chumps.
Talking about the yellow-vest movement, French geographer Christophe Guilluy observes: “Immediately, the protesters were denounced as xenophobes, anti-Semites and homophobes. The elites present themselves as anti-fascist and anti-racist, but this is merely a way of defending their class interests. It is the only argument they can muster to defend their status, but it is not working anymore.”
That’s right. It’s class war masquerading as something else, but people have seen through the mask.”
Agreed. It hit me last night again when I read somewhere that the vast majority of British MP’s (i.e. the elite) are Remainers.
It also underscores the divide over illegal immigration. We may argue over various policies and positions from a principles standpoint, but most people base their opinion off of what they see in their everyday life. Lower middle class people see illegal immigrants as those taking their jobs (anyone who has every worked in manufacturing or knows others who do knows that a lot of illegal immigrants are hired through agencies), while the upper middle class views illegal immigration as cheap labor that they can purchase for child care or home repairs.
This also explains why media outlets were so outraged that the Trump administration wanted to expand skilled immigration. That would force the upper classes to actually compete with immigrants for jobs, much like the lower classes already do, and that upsets them.
That’s only because they no better than the dumb people. It’s not about class, it’s about being smart. And you can only be smart if you know THE TRUE way to think.
And that’s a key part of the problem. A sizeable portion of our elites have convinced themselves that they are elites purely by virtue of their intelligence.
“by virtue of their intelligence”
No. By virtue of parchment. Some of the least original and most generic people I have ever met in my life were on a college campus.
By virtue of parchment.
I know it’s by virtue of parchment. You know it’s by virtue of parchment. They need to convince themselves that parchment denotes intelligence.
I know it’s by virtue of parchment. You know it’s by virtue of parchment. They need to convince themselves that parchment denotes intelligence.
while with the other hand doing everything possible to eliminate any intelligence in the classroom. The skin suiting of the humanities is astounding. They have turned the intellectual basis of civilization, justice, and wisdom into degrees in being offended.
Been saying since 2016 that the massive shitstorm is an angry elite class feeling threatened by, and thus angry at, the working class they feel should just shut the fuck up and let them keep doing what they have been doing. Or elite have managed to do real well for themselves peddling this globalist marxist order, and they have no desire for the people they consider to be beneath them to upset that apple cart. That is why they are so adamant about resisting Trump. They want the serfs to know that they will not let them change the status quo that benefits the elites by demanding they actually be held accountable in return for all the goodies they have appropriated themselves. The elite want to keep the power, the wealth, and remain unaccountable, and the working class has basically told them they are on notice that will not be allowed.
+1 Upvote
I think this is about right. The key is that recent experience has shown that the elites really haven’t been doing a particularly good job of managing things – in business, in government, in academia, in the sciences. The reasonable response, the response much of the public expects, is a chastened elite. I don’t think they even expect the elites to step aside, so much as admit their own fallibility and substantively address the public’s counter-arguments. Instead, the elites have doubled down, demanding to have their authority obeyed unquestioningly.
To me, it’s one of the fascinating things about the elites’ reaction to Trump. So many of the claims they attack him with are their own failings projected onto him.
It hit me last night again when I read somewhere that the vast majority of British MP’s (i.e. the elite) are Remainers.
Well, yeah. Something about which side of their bread the butter is on. And who puts it there.
Not sure that fits the evidence: “432-202 in the House of Commons” vote to defeat Mays Brexit deal, setting up a hard exit with no concessions to the EU.
Dunno if the Remainers were part of the 432 votes, but if so, they were in an odd alliance with the hard exit MPs.
Yes, the remainers and the bexiteers were both voting no. The deal was the absolute worst mess possible. I’m surprised May managed to whip up 202 votes. It should have been something like 15, tops (the cabinet members who didn’t want to be booted.)
“Britain’s ‘First Transgender Family’ Now Transitioning Their 5-Year-Old Son To Female”
What’s a fitting punishment for this, a stay in the Tower of London or The Boats?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42237/britains-first-transgender-family-now-amanda-prestigiacomo
What’s a fitting punishment for this…
An anticipatory full pardon for the son when he hits his teen years and decides to go full Ed Gein on both of them.
Pfft, Britain will be under Sharia long before then and EVERYONE in this story will have been beheaded. Intersectionality only works until the more violent favored class gets on top. Islamic States do not tolerate.
I’m certainly no psychotherapist, but I’d suspect this behavior to indicate some far more sinister things going on within the walls of that house.
There’s plenty of room in a liberal society to accommodate all manner of alternative lifestyles, even those of very questionable provenance, but what’s the currency in forcing the issue? Shouldn’t the health of the child be of primary concern for his parents and for society? The child displays characteristics well out of bounds of normal, or, if you prefer, traditional expectations. That would seem an inducement to handle the matter gingerly, rather than this jarring headlong rush to not only accommodate the child’s abnormal/nontraditional behavior, but to validate it as if it could ever be true. The child was born male with, presumably, the full suite of masculine traits, and has decided, either due to genuine confusion or at the behest of his suspiciously coincidentally dysmorphic parents, to present as a girl. But he is neither a girl nor will ever be a girl. It’s possible to permit his dysmorphic presentation without attempting to reconfigure reality to validate his confusion. That strikes me as a deeply perverse and unhealthy misapprehension, one that will exacerbate rather than succor his confusion. His parents, and the progressive society they inhabit, are leading this poor boy down the primrose path. Rather than understanding his predicament, to the extent it’s genuine and not a product of his parents’ lunacy, he’ll be brought up believing that the rest of the world cannot cope with his delusion.
I tried listening to this yesterday but couldn’t get past the part where she pathetically tries to backpedal by claiming that her people gave her bad information. Really? A radio host’s race seems like an oddly specific thing to be briefed on prior to doing a guest spot on a show.
“A couple of things you should know before going in. The guy hosting the show has an expired Costco membership, drives a ’94 Acura with a left fender in primer and has a weird habit of pouring the milk first followed by the cereal. Also, he’s white.”
You know who else saw everything through the lens of race?
Seriously these people are like Bizarro Hitler.
“Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should’ve been better prepped. I’m black,” Webb said.
Pfft. Black men can still exhibit white privilege, David. Or should I say “Dave,” that’s how white you are. Sit down, Uncle Dave, real black people are talking.
A radio host’s race seems like an oddly specific thing to be briefed on
Or, she made a stupid assumption, because she’s stupid, and blamed her staff for not telling her he was black.
“Britain’s ‘First Transgender Family’ Now Transitioning Their 5-Year-Old Son To Female”
What’s a fitting punishment for this, a stay in the Tower of London or The Boats?
Flogging.
Hey, if you can flog to that, more power to ya.