Vollerei
9d ago
These proposals do not come from a place of genuine concern or worry. This is damage control and limitation for their ideology. They don't give a fuck about Arday beyond being able to leverage his final gift to them in order to prevent further ideological damage.
The left was caught diversity hiring to one of the most prestigious organisations in the land, deliberately and wilfully overlooking obvious lies and inability in order to do so. Their devotees blindly defended him without even looking at the claims, because he was a black man. All of this concern about Arday's decision to die rather than face scrutiny is simply an attempt to limit or prevent anyone exposing more of their diversity hires. And there will be more. There will be a lot more.
Exposing frauds is in the public interest and exposing Arday is one of the few good things the media has done in recent times. I would be in favour of a guideline that future Ardays be placed into protective custody until the landscape settles, if indeed anything must be done about such things.
Vollerei
15d ago
The single most tragic thing about this entire conflict is that anyone in the civilised world has any sort of opinion about it whatsoever.
This should be completely unknown to us, off our radar. This does not concern us. Desert shithole ethnoreligious land conflicts are nothing to do with us. And yet there are people shitting up my town centre every weekend about this. I have to endure conversations with people who inexplicably make this core to their identity.
So I'm in favour of whatever route out of this puts a stop to that as swiftly and decisively as possible while costing my country as little as possible. If that is Palestine becoming a radioactive glass crater, so be it. This is my sole concern about this matter.
Vollerei
16d ago
Hmmm.
The thing that made Woke different, in my opinion, was social media. To criticise oneself is noble and self-effacing, and a desire to appear such, as well as morally superior, is what I think drives much of wokeness. Essentially white leftists are pick-mes for minorities, they sell out their own race or nationality to be considered "one of the good ones". Some cynically think they are helping minorities upend the entrenched order (to install socialism, or whatever) and that they will be rewarded with a higher position than they currently have in the new hierarchy, or indeed something other than a shallow grave, once their fantasy revolution is complete.
Vollerei
16d ago
A lot of the cultures they like to portray as having a concept of "trans" or "third gender" didn't, and they're just reinterpreting them through their values.
As far as I've been able to tell, the vast majority of them are simply "failed male, useless for the normal purpose of men". Spartans would have yeeted these off a cliff. These other cultures allowed them to live, and found something marginally useful for them to do.
Vollerei
16d ago
We should focus less on being normal and more on being kind.
No, we should be normal. We tried being kind, and then the definition of what kind is shifted from "refraining from outright laughing in their faces" to "wholeheartedly playing along with their delusion at all times". Now, "being kind" just means outright lying because a person prefers lies to truth.
Vollerei
16d ago
What she's calling Woke 1.0 was actually already Woke 2.0. Woke 1.0 existed on tumblr, it was Atheism+ and the invention of a billion insane genders.
Turning DEI and Critical Race Theory into curse words and ending affirmative action were huge
These are non-achievements. Wokeism is still the law of the land. Policy is still based on it. Until you can get fired from university positions for being accused of being a communist, it isn't done. Until 13/52 is openly stated and policy is based on it being true and self evident, it isn't done. Until BLM is viewed the same as Kony2012, it isn't done. Until stating your pronouns gets you laughed out of a room, it isn't done. As long as people are willing to openly call themselves socialists, antifa, anti-racists and the like, it isn't done. Until Ibram Kendi, Kehinde Andrews, Priya Gopal and all such people are destitute, derided, and working in McDonalds cleaning toddler vomit from the ballpit, it isn't done.
Vollerei
17d ago
This is a dog bites man/man bites dog distinction, surely?
Black guys stealing cars happens basically every single day. Anyone at all stealing a plane is a much rarer event. And for it to all proceed so... almost peacefully? That's what captures people about it.
Strangely, I have much more sympathy for Sky King's sadness on a human level than I would if his stunt was in the service of, say, environmentalism. It's extremely... human, in a way. If Tyrone broke into a racetrack to run a few laps before self-deleting while expressing such sadness (with a reasonable level of articulation), I'd consider it noteworthy too.
Vollerei
23d ago
I think you vastly overestimate the number of people who are willing to risk injury to defend the honour and corporate profits of Aldi for minimum wage.
Vollerei
24d ago
No minimum wage cashier is tackling a tweaking drug addict shoplifter, I guarantee you.
Vollerei
24d ago
If there's no profit motive, none of the employees or managers have any reason to care about shoplifting
None of the employees in any normal store have any reason to care about it, either, other than the threat of losing their jobs for not tackling it, which is unchanged here. Their wages aren't based on profits the store makes.
I would have loved for this to happen.
London would, of course, have had to pay for a hard border and enforcement as part of its EU joining process. This would have then made the encirclement, blockading and sieging of London very easy. We could then charge London absolutely exorbitant rates for water, power, food and access, and thereby regain some of its hoarded wealth at least.
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