I’m not much an ideologue on the issue of abortion; I can see valid points on both sides. But *this*? Nope. Nuh-uh.
There are good reasons for getting an abortion: rape, incest, dire health risk to the mother, visible monsterism. But because you gots ta get rich? Ya suck.
By the way, that thumbnail created for the video is never going to not be hilarious. Especially given that the Bond villain shown is known for *not* being much of a monologuer.
Because a left-winger who advocates for physical violence against conservatives complained about being made fun of, YouTube has demonetized a slew of non-leftist channels using vague handwavy appeals to mysterious rules. Basically, they bent the knee to a modern fascist, and created yet another argument for people to bail from YouTube and find an alternate platform that’s much more sane and stable.
And this was *after* Crowder issued an apology:
There’s an election coming up in 2020. I suspect we’ll see a whole lot more demonitization and deplatforming of right wing/conservative content before then.
As many now, the “Streisand Effect” is when you try to prevent some piece of information from going public and in the process you simply make the public more interested in it and spread that info much further than it would have gone if you’d just shut the frak up. The latest example of this is “Soph,” a soon-to-be-deplatformed 14-year-old girl who makes (soon, “made”) some surprisingly foul-mouthed YouTube videos touching on numerous political issues. There are doubtless a million like her in that regard, but since she takes the politically incorrect positions, the attack-leftists could not allow her to continue. And thus, Buzzfeed squeezed this article out a few days ago:
Prior to this I’d never heard of her. Chances are good you hadn’t either. Now you have. The video that seemed to most irritate the author of the Buzzfeed attack piece was dutifully removed by YouTube, and so “Soph” has set up a BitChute account, and re-uploaded the video there. To my recollection I’ve never tried to embed a BitChute video… but now, thanks to Buzzfeed and their desire to silence this kid, I now have. So, behold (and beware: NSFW):
Oh, and if you might find the author of the Buzzfeed article familiar, it might be because he was momentarily newsworthy last year when he advocated for genocide, or at least mass murder. I fully expect to see calls for physical violence against her now because that’s the world we live in: silence anyone who disagrees with you, by whatever means necessary.
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” came out when I was a little kid, waaaaaaaaaay back in 1975. At the time (and for several years), it was a cultural monster; to promote the song, Queen produced what is basically the first modern music video. You could not possibly hope to avoid it. As is the way of things over time it faded. But it never truly disappeared, as “Wayne’s World” amply demonstrated. It’s kinda like “Star Trek:” it has always been there, and it boggles my mind whenever I stumble across someone unaware of it.
And it seems that some youngun’s are unaware of it, assuming these “reaction” videos are honest (and in the era of Smollett… who can say). In a way I kinda envy them. It’s not every day you are introduced to “Bohemian Rhapsody” for the first time.
If you search on YouTube for Bohemian Rhapsody Reaction, there are a *lot* of such videos. So as far as I know, there might be some sort of meme where people are *pretending* to hear it for the first time and be blown away. it’s possible. But another thing to note is that at first glance it appears that the great majority of those being exposed to this for the first time are black folk. I do not recall that in the mid 1970’s Queen was considered particularly exclusive white folk music; perhaps in the intervening decades the segregation of media has cut a lot of people off from *good* music and left them stuck only with hip-hop.
Admittedly, “reaction videos” are about the lowest form of YouTube video… no script, forethought, planning needed. Just sit there and emote. But if these are even halfway honest, I remain shocked that “Bohemian Rhapsody” is *apparently* so unknown. Like it or not, there’s no denying that “Rhapsody” is a *lot* better, technically, than the vast majority of the gibberish that passes for music. While it’s lyrics are essentially nonsensical and taste in musical styles is of course highly variable and subjective… it is craftsmanship.
Feh. Kids these days.
This video makes my eyebrow raise in skepticism…the kid seems to protest ignorance of the song, Queen, even the pronunciation of “Bohemian” a bit too much. I do wonder if he’s acting.
“Star Wars: Clone Wars” was an uneven series. But at its best, it was really good. It was a fully CGI animated half-hour show set between “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith,” focusing mostly on Obi Wan and Anakin, but often going rather far and wide. It saw the return of Darth Maul… yes, the feller what who got lopped in twain. And what was really good about *that* was that Maul wasn’t fine. He didn’t just shake it off and get over it; he was a rather terrifying whackadoodle of a mess. The series was cruising along well… and then Lucasfilm sold out to Disney. Disney decided to take Star Wars in a different direction and summarily cancelled “Clone Wars,” leaving a lot of plots unfinished. Disney did follow up “Clone Wars” with “Rebels,” which started off uneven and then ended up a really rather remarkable show, not least because “Rebels” showed quite clearly that the SJWs who argue that the only reason why anybody didn’t like Admiral Holdo in “The Last Jedi” was because they just don’t like strong women. “Rebels” had a number of female characters ho were so much better than Holdo it’s not even remotely funny. But “Rebels” was not the ending of “Clone Wars” that fans of the show wanted.
Looks like they’re finally going to get it, though.
Recently (last few years) it has been popular to call the AR-15 a “high power” rifle. Which is funny, given how relatively *low* power it is compared to a lot of battle and hunting rifles. The 5.56 mm round used in the AR-15 develops in the range of 1,700 to 1,800 joules muzzle energy; the 7.62-51 mm round in the obsolete M-14 rifle gives you 3,300 to 3,500 joules. The 30-30 Winchester, introduced more than 120 years ago and used in hunting rifles, gives you around 2,500 joules (I had a 30-30 once upon a time, and when you pulled the trigger on it… you knew it). The .50 Beowulf round used in modified AR-15s develops 3,200 to 3,900 joules. Heck, the .50 Action Express round used in *pistols* develops 2,000 to 2,200 joules.
But then there are the weapons described in this video that develop up to 57,000 joules (the 14.9mm SOP round is still supersonic FIVE KILOMETERS downrange). Yimminy.
(note: irritating commercial for a video game is built into the beginning of the video. Shrug. Errybody gots to get paid, I suppose.)