If you are determined to commit a crime, laws won’t stand in your way. The former PM of japan was gunned down with the cheapest POS zip gun imaginable.
It seems even the black powder was home made.
So here we have a smooth-brained genius somewhere in India deciding that the obvious thing to do is to physically assault a cop who already has his revolver drawn. One shot, followed by a lot of caterwauling. Note to Hollywood: getting shot seems wholly un-fun, and it instantly changes the mood and tone. It is unlikely to be the sort of thing one just shrugs off.
And for those other bright sparks who constantly question “why don’t the police just aim for the legs” every time some moron serves as a bullet sponge… *this* guy caught a bullet in the leg. One bullet. Take a look at how quickly he’s spewing precious bodily fluids. I don’t know any more about this story by this one video (i.e. squadoo), but if he didn’t receive *prompt* medical attention, his next appearance in the paper was likely an obituary.
. @PMOIndia .@rashtrapatibhvn .@NIA_India
If like this deal by punjab police so every one shot by police.
How slap first pic.twitter.com/AibF8N2Yik— vivek(obama is hero) (@vivek58334551) June 28, 2022
The Babylon Bee is at its best when you read one of their satirical articles and realize that if you didn’t know it was satire, you’d accept that it was a real, if perhaps disturbing and/or insane, article. Well… here’s a website that doesn’t seem to say anywhere that it’s satire, and I can’t tell if it’s satire or complete insanity:
There are a hundred pages of content, with about ten articles per page. A thousand articles of satire is a hell of a commitment to cause… but then, so is a thousand articles of utter nuttery. There are articles such as:
And so on
The site seems to just take whatever “articles” get written and submitted to it. So it may be a fully serious site (a lot of the articles seem fairly normal) that is either:
1) Being bombarded by articles written by loons
2) Being bombarded by articles written by trolls pretending to be loons
3) Being bombarded by both trolls and loons
Either way… I’m all for people paying attention. A bunch of leftwing lunatics who want to tear down civilization? That sort of thing should be noted. Insane trolling proves indistinguishable from honest insanity? That should also be noted.
“Red Flag Laws” are *supposed* to be a way to temporarily disarm people who are a danger to themselves or others. Who could argue against them? Well… anyone who has ever noticed that they are not based on due process. They are not based on sober judgement of people who understand the gravity of depriving a person of their Constitutional and human rights. They are, sadly, based on the whims of people who have, and like to exercise, power. Witness:
>I am not in principle opposed to red flag laws.
You should be. https://t.co/g7PDvOlf4D
— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) June 14, 2022
Remember, Eric Swalwell is the Representative who not only bedded a Chinese Communist spy and did untold damage to the US (with no repercussions as far as I can tell), he’s also the guy who thought it would be a good idea to threat American citizens who do not wish to give up their rights. Threatening to use *nuclear* *weapons* on these citizens. Do you think it would be a good idea to turn over the power to deprive a citizen of their rights to a man with judgement like that?
So, what do you do if you are in HR *and* you’re a political extremist who loves to use the power your job gives you in order to screw with people who don’t think like you? Well, if you’re smart, you keep your yap shut about how awful a person you are. If, on the other hand, you’re dumb as a post, you do what Tammy here did and broadcast your particular banality of evil to the cosmos:
And these people think they’re on the right side of history? pic.twitter.com/mpfvtFmFCV
— Luke 🇨🇦🍁 (@scotchypoli) June 5, 2022
And here’s the ironic part: what she posted on social media has come to bite her right directly in the keister. Love to see it.
HRPA is aware of this video post by one of its regulated members and does not condone or endorse in any way the statements made about HR practice therein.Further, HRPA is reviewing this matter to determine if there has been a breach of its Rules of Professional Conduct.(Part 1/2)
— HRPA (@HRPA) June 6, 2022
It’s my understanding that in the US (she’s Canadian, so might not apply), HR departments telling other companies HR departments not to hire certain people violates privacy laws or some such. She should be investigated, and if it can be proved that she engaged in such practices, I have to imagine that the lawsuits from people denied employment by her and her ilk could be fiscally damaging to her and her ilk.
Alrighty then. This particular bit of video has been making the rounds the last few days. In short, it shows an apparently unhinged feller going bugnuts on a subway train in New York City, at one point assaulting a woman who begs for help from her fellow passengers. Nobody raises a finger, other than to film it.
The arguments I’ve seen basically boil down to two sides;
1: “Where are the men? What has happened to make men such cowards that they will not help a woman in distress?”
2: “Strong independent woman don’t need no man.”
Argument #2 is of course pure snark. There is validity to it… a lot of modern feminists sneer about the utility of men, but they get kinda quiet about that when TSHTF. But that need not be litigated here. Argument #1 is of greater interest.
This is hardly the first Public Transit video depicting violence and a lot of people standing around doing nothing more helpful than looking uncomfortable. The basic story is not new; look at Kitty Genovese. People stand around and are basically useless a lot of the time. “It’s not my fight.” “I could get injured.” “If I ignore it it’ll go away.” “Someone else will help.” “Maybe I’m wrong about what’s really going on, who’s the bad guy.” And so on.
But there are of course a few new ones:
“If I wade in, I could get sued, by the perp, by the bus/train company, by a bystander, by the victim herself.”
“If I use any kind of force, I could get arrested.”
“That guy is black. I’m white. If I intervene and edited video goes out, I could get cancelled, lose my job, my career, my friends, home, family.”
It is normal for people, and I believe men in particular, to fantasize about playing the hero. I’ve often seen people, and here in particular that tends to be man-hating modern feminists, claim that the “male power fantasy” is that they will be Billy Badass, able to lay a beatdown on their opponents, be just the meanest, toughest, strongest, scariest sumbitch out there. I have no doubt that many men daydream about just that, viewing themselves as the GigaChad that all the women insta-swoon over. But I also believe that a lot of other men have a different sort of “male fantasy:” that when the moment comes, when they are needed, they will prove to be competent. That they will be up to the task, whatever that task is. Change the tire, put out the fire, save the damsel in distress. And, if needed, wade into the fight and succeed. But these sort of fantasies rarely ever get put to the test. And actual violent lunatic is *not* someone you, a sane person, want to go up against. And so if you don’t actually have to… it seems most of the time, you don’t.
Especially now when trying to be a hero, doing the right thing, being selfless, stands a not unreasonable chance of having a large and vindictive chunk of society dropping on you and your future like a ton of angry, unthinking bricks.
What would you do? What would I do? Hell if I know. What I’d like to *think* I’d do is, to start off, *not* wade in and try to lay out the whacko. That would not go well. But what I’d like to think I’d do is to spot one or two likely looking other guys, preferably large and young, get their attention and have a *group* wade in. A few people stepping between whacko and victim might shut down the aggression. Might not. But three against one is way better odds than one against one.
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Perhaps just through random chance, YouTube recommends this video after the one above:
It shows the sort of thing that any decent man *wishes* he could pull off… and any smart man knows he couldn’t. In reality, Our Hero would be incapacitated or dead in seconds.
Counterpoint: Snack Man.
Huh. The Snack man video is “age restricted.” The clip from “Nobody” doesn’t seem to be. Go ahead and try to make that make any kind of sense.
Another “western scientific tradition rocks, suck it supernaturalists” success story:
He got his arms amputated after they were electrocuted back in the 90’s, and replaced a year and a half ago. And now he’s not only gaining movement in them, but sensation as well.
Soon: cloned arms, no worry of rejection.
There’s an old observation: you might see a lot of abandoned crutches piled up around a faith healer or a witch doctor… but you won’t see many prosthetic legs or eye patches.
This time they caught a Twitter employee laying out how the company would rather be ideological than either fair or profitable… good reasons for Musk to *seriously* reconsider his purchase:
And this Very Special Tweep gets confronted and bravely runs away:
The whole thing is freakin’ *hilarious.* He says a number of goofy things, like saying that since Musk has Asperger’s, he is “special needs” and thus he cannot be taken seriously.” Coming from someone who makes Liberace seems like a Soldier of Fortune cover model, that’s fabulous.
I don’t know that this guy is anybody of any significance… he is a “lead client partner,” which kinda sounds like “salesman.” Still, it’s interesting to see what Outer Party members think about the Proles.
This feller is probably closer to the Inner Party and spills the beans:
When you over-use and abuse a derogatory word, it loses it’s sting or outright changes its meaning. Remember when “Nazi” used to mean something inherently bad? Now, thanks to Antifa and Putin, it simply means “anyone who disagrees with my insane rants.” The same will happen with “racist.”
This particular form of video meme has been around for a while, but it is sometimes interesting. The song “Little Dark Age” by MGMT, often slowed down somewhat, is played against a series of images all to a particular theme, such as “America” or “Space Exploration.” Often the videos start with images or video clips from the present that show some of the bad aspects of the topic, depressing stuff such as Antifa and Joe Biden and “Hamilton” for the “America” theme, then follow it with uplifting historical images. The point, it seems, to be to contrast the current-day insistence of many to view things only in the worst possible light with a much better view of the topic. A lot of these videos are lame, but the better ones have an evocative mix of despair and hope.
Some vary the style up by ditching the Black Pill content at the beginning and just use a vast number of historical images to tell a story. This one, for instance, tells the story of Western Civilization and somehow got itself “age restricted,” even though there’s nothing in there that seems to merit it… looks more like some algorithm decided that “western civilization = bad.”
