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Tag: Culture Wars
Civilization vs. Barbarians
Self-Destruction
Victor Davis Hanson delivers an almighty spanking on America’s well-deserving backside:
Our enemies abroad, particularly China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, are watching all this woke, comic madness with absolute glee.
They are delighted the United States is diverting trillions of dollars and man-hours away from production to ideological witch hunts, woke cannibalism, green virtue-signaling, spendthrift consumption, racial and gender fixations, warped science, suicidal surveillance, and commissariat indoctrination.
Woke means that Americans have less money, labor, and time to hone their military readiness. They will produce less competitive energy, but more pseudo-science, non-meritocratic advancement, and unsound investment—all the reasons why America will no longer dominate the world.
As with all VDH’s musings, you must read them all.
Offensive
Here’s the background to this story.
A town put on a carnival, which featured a parade of bands, floats, and so on. The usual.
A bunch of pranksters decided to pull a fast one, and entered their own (and unapproved) float.
The float featured a sign declaring: ‘Of course we’re women, we sit down to pee’ and ‘Olympics 2024 woman’s 100m final’ – referencing the recent decision from FINA, world swimming’s governing body, who recently adopted a new policy to prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s races.
Three men ran behind the float, which was not officially entered into the carnival and secretly joined the procession on the day of the event, dressed in sports-bras and Speedos while wearing comedy wigs.
They were joined by five women running alongside them, who laughed as they followed the homemade float, which featured a toilet and a man standing in a white coat – appearing to pose as an official referee.
Funny as hell.
All went well until — you guessed it — a passing tranny saw the float, and of course took offense:
Trans stand-up comedian Donna Landy attended the Great Torrington Mayfair and Carnival in Devon back in May and blasted a float for being ‘offensive’ and highlighting a backwards’ viewpoint on transgender issues.
I thought being a comedian required having a sense of humor, but clearly not. Anyway:
‘I was going to the Torrington Carnival to see my daughters, who were in the parade. I got there a bit late and was just catching up with the procession when I came across this float, the last one in the parade, and was a bit puzzled.
‘When I caught up with the float and read the sign my heart sank, it was clearly mocking trans athletes in sport and by extension all trans people, really.’
Ms Landy said she was worried she ‘could get attacked’ at the event because people could have began ‘mocking her’.
Of course: afraid for your life, you were, what with Great Torrington being internationally renowned for being a hotbed of tranny oppression.
Needless to say, the carnival issued a groveling apology — despite the float being a “non-approved” entry. Whatever.
My question for our frightened tranny comedian is quite simple:
Do your daughters call you “Mom” or “Dad”?
I’m guessing “Mom”, as you clearly have no balls.
More Fish To Fry
I think it’s time that conservatives look at the overturning of Roe, declare victory, and move on to more important (and really vital) social topics, at the state level, rather than start making people nervous by more-invasive anti-abortion laws.
And by “people”, I mean people like me.
Yes, there will always be some state-level folly that needs to be addressed — oppressive state gun ownership “tests”, for example — but just as with the major 2A victory, let’s not push for AK-47s in Aisle 7 at Kroger because while that doesn’t make me especially nervous, it probably would most people. Apply that concept to abortion-restrictive laws, and you’ll get my drift.
Let’s start with another state power: our schools and the destructive policies of Critical Race Theory, anti-male indoctrination and Marxism which have all become embedded in public school curricula.
If we want a more urgent local action, let’s address another state power: that of voting management and policy. Without serious controls in place to guarantee that another ten million votes aren’t suddenly “found” in ballot boxes or the foul voting machines, none of the rest counts.
We’ve won the 2A battle and we’ve destroyed the Constitutional foolishness of Roe v. Wade. It’s time to get serious about the rest of the Counterculture.
Oh, and if we want another national ailment to tackle, let’s talk about the wokeness and feminization of the Armed Forces, and their baleful effects on our ability to protect this republic. More on that later.
New Name
Seeing as we’re renaming every damn thing — women to womyn, Latino to Latinx, his/her to xis/xir, Wuhan virus to Corona virus, and of course homosexual to gay, I think we took a hard look at this monkeypox thing, and courtesy of Insty, I think I’ve come up with the (data- / reality-based) proper name.
First, the data:
All patients identified as men who have sex with men and there was a median age of 41. 90% of the patients who responded to the questions on sexual activity (47/52) reported at least one new sexual partner during the three weeks prior to symptoms, and almost all (49/52) reported inconsistent condom use in this same time period. Over half of the patients (29/52) had more than five sexual partners in the 12 weeks prior to their monkeypox diagnosis.” [my emphasis]
So, ladies and gentlemen, as monkeypox has in fact got pretty much nothing to do with monkeys, herewith its new name:
HOMOPOX
Please adjust your grammar / spelling correction systems accordingly.
Moi? Never!
From MicroSquish’s Terms of Agreement / Code of Conduct:
a. By agreeing to these Terms, you’re agreeing that, when using the Services, you will follow these rules:
i. Don’t do anything illegal. [check]
ii. Don’t engage in any activity that exploits, harms, or threatens to harm children. [check]
iii. Don’t send spam or engage in phishing. Spam is unwanted or unsolicited bulk email, postings, contact requests, SMS (text messages), instant messages, or similar electronic communications. Phishing is sending emails or other electronic communications to fraudulently or unlawfully induce recipients to reveal personal or sensitive information, such as passwords, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, passport numbers, credit card information, financial information, or other sensitive information, or to gain access to accounts or records, exfiltration of documents or other sensitive information, payment and/or financial benefit. [check]
iv. Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity). [ummmm…]
v. Don’t engage in activity that is fraudulent, false or misleading (e.g., asking for money under false pretenses, impersonating someone else, manipulating the Services to increase play count, or affect rankings, ratings, or comments). [check]
vi. Don’t circumvent any restrictions on access to or availability of the Services. (I dunno what that means, so probably [check].)
vii. Don’t engage in activity that is harmful to you, the Services or others (e.g., transmitting viruses, stalking, posting terrorist or violent extremist content, communicating hate speech, or advocating violence against others). [oops]
viii. Don’t infringe upon the rights of others (e.g., unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music or other copyrighted material, resale or other distribution of Bing maps, or photographs). [check]
ix. Don’t engage in activity that violates the privacy of others. [check]
x. Don’t help others break these rules. [oh fuck off. I can’t help what other people do.]
I’m not sure about the “pornography” one — to the best of my recollection, I’ve never posted any porn.
Unless it’s “art”, of course.
As for the “graphic violence” and “criminal activity”, I’ve never done that either, although I’ve certainly highlighted it (e.g. Dept. of Righteous Shootings).
However, when it comes to “advocating violence against others”, I gotta fess up.
Oh well. Nobody’s perfect.