I’ll be honest my mental schemas did not at all factor in black celebrities reacting to “unlike ever before, America stands up for black issues” with “perfect, time to take the fight to the Jews!”
Fox News is experiencing the same internal warfare as every other newsroom in America, which I guess isn’t shocking inasmuch as it fits into the broader pattern, but holy shit how did all of these people apply for jobs at Race-Baiting White Grievance Television Network and get hired and work there for years and somehow only now they’re catching on
I will say that as someone whose dad told him about being deployed to Newark ‘67 and was around to notice LA '92, the idea that camo-uniformed federal forces would be ordered out to pacify racially-inspired unrest doesn’t actually strike me as a departure from regular order
Wonder if I should go downtown and try to get abducted by the little green men
I mean that’s only partly a joke, there are literally rented minivans full of unidentified full body camo-tactical federal cops driving around downtown Portland wordlessly grabbing people off the street
They interrogate you for like an hour then drop you off, word has apparently come down from DC that playtime is over and if the local admin won’t roll up the lingering street ruffians they will, and they’re in the preliminary intel-gathering phase
if i ever run for president my platform will be an exceptionally detailed policy agenda on the question of affordable family formation, and my campaign slogan will be “tight pussy, loose shoes, and a warm place to shit”
Can’t help thinking about how the Cold War “peace dividend” was diverted from masculine professions like soldiering and engineering to feminine “helping professions” like teaching and nursing under Clinton and Dubya (NCLB!), and how much of our culture since that explains
And now they’re like wait, you expect me to risk my life in service of existential social function as defined by the elected government that funds me?
Dude, do you remember the original GoDaddy commercials back ~15 years ago, when it was "half naked woman behind GoDaddy sign and they ask her if she has what it takes to be a GoDaddy girl" and there was very casting couch vibe to the whole thing? I just saw a GoDaddy ad on youtube, somber tone, telling small businesses to reach out to GoDaddy if they need support in this time of crisis. Its... weird, like they arrived at the 2020 definition of 'Daddy" by getting more wholesome while the rest of
culture got there by getting more skeevy and predatory but they’re still somehow weirdly at the same place. I don’t want to fucking DD/lg with you GoDaddy man its too fucking bizarre.
Yeah, that’s true. It’s not that the two are directly analogous; it’s more that they’re both terms better used to describe fictional dynamics than actual people.
(Also, the phrase “like the Cat in the Hat but sexy” has powerful @dagny-hashtaggart energy)
I don’t think it’s exactly Manic Pixie Dream Guy. The MPDG fantasy involves a bubbly free spirit, usually paired up with a depressed introvert, who whisks that person out of their mundane, dreary world and introduces an element of whimsy into their lives. Like the Cat in the Hat, but sexy.
The himbo/bimbo is more like a big dumb sweet puppy in human form. There’s not really an “unpredictable free spirit” element to that. Both fantasies appeal to the wish to have a partner who is tailor-made to fit your own emotional needs, but the MPDG at least superficially challenges the protagonist/fantasizer by changing their world in some way.
Yeah, pretty much. Which is not a bad thing to find appealing in the abstract – fantasies are fantasies – but I’m uncomfortable with calling real actual people “himbos”.
I don’t think “himbo” is *ableist*, but I do think making fun of that particular logical leap distracts from pointing out what’s actually wrong with it, which is that way too many people who use the term imply that they want a partner with no complex thoughts or interiority whatsoever
That’s an intriguingly disconcerting phrase and it warms my heart that you think of my statements in connection with it
I think there’s a psychological need addressed for some women by the fantasy of a big, strong, good-natured, loyal guy who’s not clever enough to be faking the nice.
Additional thing: the himbo *knows* he is dumb, and so will listen to you, and respect what you have to say. It is a control fantasy in a lot of ways but I think it’s a reasonably wholesome one - the himbo is a guy it is utterly safe to let your guard down around.
I just can’t stay away from this discourse. Way too much blather below; adding a cut.
Hicks showing up to repel antifa isn’t a joke. “In the face of urban insurrection, increasing numbers of irregular troops muster in the provinces” is a familiar pattern. Unless either
They are suppressed by main force, which would either result in the start of the long-planned shooting war or the suppressing troops defecting to them, or
Existing governments convincingly crack down on antifascism, in the face of impending elections
I strongly expect they will attempt to seize control locally, purge their territories of what they take to be antifa, and begin to raise armies to retake the cities.
Everyone involved in leftist activism, known as leftists, media workers, nonprofit workers, visible minorities, as well as anyone who doesn’t want to be around for this, in the Northwest outside of the I-5 corridor from Seattle to Eugene should have supplies and plans to relocate to it, by multiple routes. Alternately, if you are east of Idaho, consider taking refuge with the Mormon Church.
Eastern Washington, rural Oregon, and Northern Idaho have well-developed alternative government structures already. Even in places where “oh those guys, but they don’t run things around here”, the people who “do” have strong professional networks, those guys have guns and training and can press that advantage. Spokane, Kalispell, Whitefish, Sandpoint, even at extremes Missoula and Bend may not be secure.
I love the carefully intertwined urban legends in which antifa are dangerous radicals coming to shoot your livestock and trash your community but also limp wristed colorful haired gender nonconforming soyboys and girls who couldn’t possibly pose a physical threat and they’re funded by Soros in cash and drugs but he also doesn’t pay them because he’s sneaky and they’re suckers and they’re black but they’re also white and they’re poor but actually they’re spoiled rich kids and they’re hot then they’re cold they’re yes then they’re no they’re in and they’re out they’re up and they’re down
The first part, at least, is no contradiction. A person or group can be both pathetic and dangerous. School shooters, for example. But if the police refused to respond to a school shooting, it would both be true that “this is a significant physical threat” and “this threat could be immediately solved by the government simply deciding to do so”.
Like, in an insurrection where conservative outlying areas are seeing increasingly large musters of irregulars to defend against X, the central government needs to show credible signs of acting against X or the rural areas will secede and start purging themselves of X, or what they take to be X or X-adjacent.
Now, what would the competent way be for the regime to deal with this?
String things out, let them develop without agitating, let all the strands separate out and independently end up at different places - the Atlanta black activists, the Portland white anarchists, the NYC bluechekists, the Midwestern moms that want to end gosh-darn racism. The people who want to abolish America, abolish the police, structurally reform the police, soften them up a bit.
Encourage them to come to their own demands, without a single coordinating force. Make sure they notice these are different.
Encourage cooptable “organic” leadership in NGO-leftist type crowds
Draw less radical elements’ attention to the unpalatability of the ultras, legitimating their suppression.
Shave support down further with concessions compatible with regime stability.
Keep in mind security forces, antagonists, and neutrals will all be increasingly shaved down by a plague.
When unsatisfied crowds are whittled down enough, engage in provocation to illustrate that their desires alienate more moderate elements, justifying their suppression.
You can island-hop and leave issues as problems for local Democratic administrations, wedging their elite liberal and street left branches. If pockets of Seattle are autonomous zones, well, that’s a problem for the city government with a Socialist on it. Lewis-McChord can protect Boeing.
If insurgents claim some information channels, keep others open. Twitter might constrict, but Facebook knows it’s the conservative social media network and can shift operations to their largest market of India if under labor threat. (No one remembers tumblr still exists.) The NYT can go Pravda, but in Pittsburgh they’re purging their journalists in response. Deadspin already purged.
Now, this barely accounts for the plague, not at all for the election, it requires a coordination among local governments greater than during the Occupy movement but also with a federal government headed by Donald Trump.
My general take is these “uprisings” are the equivalent of the 1935 Business Plot, left/right valences reversed
Not that it’s arranged by shadowy powerful figures like Soros, that’s dumb. Grassroots riots are an authentic left form like rich conference tables are right.
But that it’s a back-to-the-wall lashing-out by an old order that realizes whatever it does the new order’s never going to feel obligated to respect the principles they took for granted.
A video (below) taken by Attractions Magazine at Disney World’s
shopping district Disney Springs in Orlando shows a pair of First Order
Stormtroopers playfully enforcing pandemic protection measures such as
wearing masks and keeping an appropriate distance from others.
The apparently prerecorded dialogue is played as
two stormtroopers perform on a balcony for the benefit of guests passing
by below.
“Stay in your sector!” one stormtrooper warns the
other when he gets too close. Then she draws an imaginary line to
separate them and he backs off.
Later, one stormtrooper notes that male banthas (those large hairy creatures ridden by stormtroopers on the planet Tatooine in A New Hope) can reach 3.9 meters long, and the other warns again about getting too close.“Yeah, I’m going to need you to move one male bantha’s length away, please.”
wait a fucking minute barry’s hive is in the wild so the humans never took any honey from him. he had no right to any of the reparations honey. it all should have gone to the domestic hives.
what the fuck barry
“the humans think they can take whatever they want from us” THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN “US”, BARRY? YOU ARE NOT A PART OF THIS. YOU HAVE NO FUCKING PART IN THIS. YOU ARE IMMENSELY LUCK TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE OPPRESSION OF BEES. WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL STAKE IN THIS? WHY DO YOU DESERVE REPARATIONS?
what are the domestic bees going to do now that they’re no longer under human’s care? huh? are they going to be redistributedted to wild hives? where are they? are the wild bees going to help the domestic bees adjust to their newfound freedom? or are they just taking the honey from the trial and leaving the domestic bees to go fuck themselves?
you never personally suffered under beekeeping, yet you profit from the domestic bees’ suffering. you just swoop in for that sweet sweet reparation honey then leave them to their fate.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
what the fuck does barry know about bee exploitation when he himself has never been exploited? how can he know when he never stoops to converse with the lowly domestic bee?
barry uses his perceived proximity to oppression for personal gain and he’s the real villain of bee movei, actually.
ok this post is like a year old but I found it again an I just remembered “that’s not a real queen!” And like transmisogyny aside what the fucks up with that? he just rolls up into this hive and starts insulting their queen implying they’re not a real hive they’re not true bees then he turns around and through their suffering obtains more honey than he could possibly eat in his life.
what the fuck I hate Barry Benson fucking respectability politics piece of shit. if only you were a Good Bee you would have your honey right now. good thing I’m here to rescue and then take the honey for myself. I hope the domestic bees fucking guillotine barry.
Set the headline aside, we know how clicks are baited.
At first this article seemed a bit of a whine – not even in the sense of “complaint about something that should be accepted”, but rather it doesn’t really offer any novel information as payload, just a sustained high tone of anxiety.
But then I realized – that’s not it, it’s a trick, it’s mimicking the form of a certain kind of blue tribe table-pounding – a section on the importance of test-trace-isolate, some moral noodling – as a candy coating around the payload of adjusting those people to the reality that an overall response sized to the most vulnerable would be too costly and we will not attempt it
