You know what? I’m getting sick of all this shit.
Never mind the “war games”, Lefties. Why don’t you just let slip the dogs of war, and let’s see how it pans out for you.
Here’s a tip. Each of us has already war-gamed the scenario. All you have to do is make the first overtly hostile move.
Zuckerberg’s company, Meta (formerly Facebook), announced it would lease offices in a massive new building in Austin, Texas.
Looks like we executed Timothy McVeigh too soon.
Do we really need that kind of company in Texas or, more to the point, hundreds of their insufferably-woke Gen Z employees to poison the voting pool?
If these little shits can ban someone from their poxy spy platform for calling Fauci an insufferable motherfucker, can we not ban them from Texas for meddling in elections?
Some good news, if it can be called that, is that they’ll be in downtown Austin, where the homeless encampments, needles in the streets and aggressive panhandlers should make them feel quite at home — as will the foul Green laws that govern life in Austin.
And the other “good” news: at least Faecesbook is not moving to Plano.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to look at real estate in western Montana/ Wyoming, just in case .
I remember once watching a movie where the bad guy screwed a silencer on to the muzzle of his revolver (!) and how people looked at me like I was the crazy one, when I burst out laughing during what was supposed to be a suspenseful scene.
All my Loyal Readers will know why I was laughing, of course, because we are all familiar with the term and concept of “cylinder-gap flash”.
I was reminded of the episode when I saw this GIF over at Kenny’s place:
Note the initial size of the gas explosion at the cylinder gap…
What if your research (involving actual facts as opposed to feelings and/or dogma) shows that your employer’s cultural Zeitgeist is completely wrong?
Silly boy; if the corporation you work for is full of Marxism and Wokedom, you’re going to get defenestrated.
Which is what happened to this guy:
Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy. He then spent six years at Thomson Reuters Corporation, the international media conglomerate, spearheading the company’s efforts on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced software engineering. By the beginning of 2020, Kriegman had assumed the title of Director of Data Science and was leading a team tasked with implementing deep learning throughout the organization.
But within a few months, this would all collapse. A chain of events—beginning with the death of George Floyd and culminating with a statistical analysis of Black Lives Matter’s claims—would turn the 44-year-old data scientist’s life upside-down.By June 2021, Kriegman would be locked out of Reuters’s servers, denounced by his colleagues, and fired by email. Kriegman had committed an unpardonable offense: he directly criticized the Black Lives Matter movement in the company’s internal communications forum, debunked Reuters’s own biased reporting, and violated a corporate taboo. Driven by what he called a “moral obligation” to speak out, Kriegman refused to celebrate unquestioningly the BLM narrative and his company’s “diversity and inclusion” programming; to the contrary, he argued that Reuters was exhibiting significant left-wing bias in the newsroom and that the ongoing BLM protests, riots, and calls to “defund the police” would wreak havoc on minority communities. Week after week, Kriegman felt increasingly disillusioned by the Thomson Reuters line. Finally, on the first Tuesday in May 2021, he posted a long, data-intensive critique of BLM’s and his company’s hypocrisy. He was sent to Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion for the chance to reform his thoughts.
He refused—so they fired him.
I love the “chance to reform his thoughts” line — straight outta 1984, minus the rat cage strapped to his face. His only mistake was going to HR at all — what did he think was going to happen? Now go and read the rest of it to see the full extent of the rot.
For the umpteenth time, I am truly grateful that I no longer have to work for Global MegaCorp, Inc.
And final thought:
If the wire services continue to promote myths about race, violence, and policing, they will inflict grave harm on their reputations for fairness; they will also help unleash a new wave of destruction in America’s poorest and most vulnerable neighborhoods.
Both have already happened… and I don’t care if it gets worse.
From the mainstream media:
178-year-old Princess Ingrid Alexandra co-piloted a plane during a visit to the Norwegian royal air force base of Bodø on Saturday.
They make ’em tough in Norway.
Gotta say, though, the old broad looks pretty good for her age.
I dunno… maybe this?
