“Identification with Evil”

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Jan 042020
 

This is an interesting video:

This first meme of 2020 is here, and it’s “New Guy.” The short form: an SJW “cartoonist” has a strip with a self-insert of the author portraying the petty evil that SJWs so often display, and completely failed to understand that she was indeed showing herself, her self-insert character and their joint worldview as mean spirited. And as a result, the rest of the internet has glommed onto the character she was trying to make fun of and have turned him into a symbol of what’s good and just.

The video goes into this and the resulting online kerfuffle, including how the cartoonist has wholly and utterly failed to take this as an opportunity for self reflection. Additionally the video describes how SJWs so often identify with evil and villains, including, and rather startlingly, Pennywise the Demonic Homicidal Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror Clown. This is not a new thing, of course… SJWs have been wearing Che shirts and celebrating Antifa and the Soviet Union and Mao and Jihadis for *years.* That they would also identify with the likes of Vice Admiral Holdo and other fictional villains is hardly surprising, never mind Bernie and Bubbles and Swalwell and all the others who would bring gulags, pogroms, death camps, food riots, famine and civil war to the United States.

New Guy, created specifically to be a stupid, mockable strawman, is the wholesome and sincere meme we need in these dark times. See more at Know Your Meme.

 

 

 

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B-1 Artwork: not the view you really want of a supersonic aircraft

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Jan 042020
 

Certainly a dramatic shot, and also a very final shot for a bug, bird or unfortunate parachutist.

This Rockwell illustration dates from the early 70’s and represents the almost-final B-1 configuration, from back when being very supersonic was the goal rather than being stealthy at low altitude.

The full image has been made available as a thank-you to APR Patreon and Historical Documents Program patrons at the $4 and above level, placed in the 2020-01 APR Extras . If interested in this piece or if you are interested in helping to fund the preservation of this sort of thing, please consider becoming a patron, either through the APR Patreon or the Monthly Historical Document Program.

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Toxic fandom

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Jan 012020
 

It’s just barely possible that I may have, in passing, dropped subtle hints that I ain’t no spring chicken anymore *AND* that I’m a sci-fi fan from way back. Additionally, I might have let slip a hint or two that I’m not fond of recent efforts by the owners of various franchises and intellectual properties to twist culturally important works to fit new political views and cater to people who actively dislike not only the original properties… but they also basically despise *me.* Over the last decade and a half or so as Hollywood has repeatedly mangled the legacy of Star Trek, Star Wars, Ghostbusters and a bunch of others, the paid shills have cranked out the predictable – and predictably lazy and wrong – message that anyone who doesn’t like turning Han Solo into a joke or Luke Skywalker into a cowardly traitor or crapping on established canon is a “toxic fan.” But it’s hardly news that the fragile egos of the shallow “fans” of the new, revised, ruined versions are the real source of toxicity, as JJ Abrams is finding out after disappointing a bunch of “Reylo” snowflakes with the latest DisneyWars fan-film.

Leave it to SJWs to invade what you love, turn it into what *they* want… then set it on fire all while blaming *you.*

 

 

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Poe’s Law in the wild

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Jan 012020
 

Poe’s Law was originally specifically about Creationists:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.

In the 15 years since then, though, it has expanded to cover just about every form of whackery, from religious to political. And it is accurate… parody will often be indistinguishable from the actual crazy. And thus you get this:

Antisemitism Only Counts From Whites

I define antisemitism ontologically as a product of white supremacy, making antisemitism by others – Black Hebrew Israelites, Muslims, whoever – impossible.

…Once we understand that the term “antisemitism” applies only to white-on-Jew violence, we realize other terminology must come into play. My suggestions include “economic protest” and “anti-gentrification crusade,” but others are welcome to weigh in with theirs.

The website this was published on, “Preoccupied Territory,” is explicitly a satirical website. But taken out of that context, it reads *exactly* like the sort of woke rubbish you’ll get from “Progressive intellectuals.” For example, it was reproduced in its entirety at jewishpress.com; and even with a single reference up top to the fact that it’s from a satire site, read the comments. A few folks missed that bit and believe that this is the current state of Progressive thought. And the thing is, they’re not far wrong.

It could prove entertaining if Reddit or 4chan or some such snagged this article and posted it without the reference to satire in order to hook as many Progressives as possible. Because I suspect they’d get a *lot* of them. The same ones who believe that “cultural appropriation” and “racism” only go one way, that words can and should be re-defined to support their left-fascist political agenda.

I hadn’t seen “PreOccupied Territory” prior to this. I think I’ll add it to my daily reading list of religious websites alongside the Babylon Bee. What the frak kinda world are we living in that the best and actually funniest political comedy comes from the religious fundies and that the ones who want to ban video games and burn books are on the left?

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