Political Theater at its most hyperbolic

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Jan 132021
 

So the House voted to impeach Trump. Again.

Meh.

I *tried* to listen to the speeches in the House today. I really did. But the histrionics, the hyperbole, the outright whackjob insanity of some of those overpowered goons squealing about “hundreds of domestic terrorists” was just too damn much.

Feh.

Anyway, on to other matters. Here is a useful chart (from an apparently legit mental health organization) to tell if you are in an abusive relationship. Any similarity to an authoritarian government or an ideological media near you is entirely coincidental. It’s available in a high-rez PDF form, perfect for printing off poster size and hanging up at your place of employment. Or your nearest government office, if you are insurrectionist enough to get within touching distance of such a place.

 Posted by at 4:55 pm

Huh. Númenor.

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Jan 122021
 

Official Show Synopsis for Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS Series

 This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, … . From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map…

Amazon has spent *buckets* of money on this. Telling all-new stories, rather than, say, adapting the Silmarillion, is perhaps a risky move. Their casting choices make it clear that they’re tossing out JRR Tolkiens notions that what he was creating was a mythology specifically for the English people in favor of modern sensibilities, which is another risky move. They are clearly hoping for Game Of Thrones level fandom, but a lot of it will revolve around how good the writers are since none of them will be JRR Tolkein.

Of course, if Númenor is a place in the show, then adapting *some* of the Silmarillion is in the cards. Perhaps it will show Sauron corrupting the King, the invasion of Aman and the drowning of Númenor. Which would be spiffy.

 

 Posted by at 10:40 pm

Well that was fast

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Jan 122021
 

A PBS executive made the mistake of speaking his mind in front of a hidden camera. And since his mind included such notions as burning down the White House if he didn’t get his way and sending ideological opponents to re-education camps, apparently even PBS thought that was a bit much and they’ve invited him to explore new career opportunities in the hospitality and food service industries. However, seems fair to wonder if he’ll score an even higher paying gig in Beijing Biden’s administration…

One could see this as a small,a  very tiny victory in the battle to try to root out the totalitarian whackjobs who have infested out media and culture. What will be more likely to occur is a further effort to deplatform and relegate to the digital ghetto the likes of Project Veritas.

 Posted by at 1:47 pm

Another take on “The Matrix”

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Jan 122021
 

“Bliss” is a movie, if the trailer can be trusted, that takes place in a world that is apparently essentially a utopia. But people have gotten bored or at least used to the wonderfulness, so “brain box” simulations – essentially the Matrix – are created where life kinda sucks, so people will better appreciate reality.

The idea of a utopia that people dislike makes sense. Look at the world we have no: at no time in history have people had it anywhere near as good. And yet all of 2020 was a litany of bored millenials burning cities to the ground because they thought things were terrible and unjust. They were essentially bored with utopia. Thus it will likely always be.

Of course the problem is, and most likely will come up in the movie, that once you establish that the world you live in and fully accept is a simulation, then you can’t *ever* trust that you’re in the actually really real world.

 Posted by at 1:41 pm

Maybe I’m reading this wrong

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Jan 112021
 

So, we get this article:

Danish proposal on translating sermons gets pushback from Church

It seems that there are sermons in Denmark that are not in Danish. Arabic, as the case seems to be. And that irritates some people, because it is not only exclusionary, it excludes the very people who allowed those sermonizers to come into Denmark in the first place. And so, not have a First Amendment, this law has been put forward.

OK, shrug, that’s for the Danes to deal with.

The line that stood out to me:

Blah, blah, blah said Precious Blood Sister Anna Mirijam Kaschner, general secretary and spokeswoman of the Nordic bishops’ conference.

“Precious Blood Sister?”

Ummm… I *can’t* be the only one to read that and suddenly get an image of an angry woman in power armor wielding a chainsaw sword in the service of the Emperor of Mankind, can I?

 Posted by at 10:09 pm

Can’t stop the signal, Mal…

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Jan 112021
 

Well, we’ll see:

Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service

Seems they’ve signed up with Epik, the webhosting service that Gab also uses. Useful, but I imagine if Parler successfully migrates everything to the same servers running Gab, both systems are gonna be *reeeeaaaaal* slow until a lot more hardware is brought up to speed. And of course if both of these social media darlings are run through the same web host, a single attack on Epik could knock them both out.

 Posted by at 9:58 pm

“Latin Phrases Patriots Should Know”

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Jan 112021
 

Latin Phrases Patriots Should Know: Patriotic Latin Phrases and Their Translations

I guess this is an ok compilation article… has stuff like:

“De oppresso liber”: To liberate the oppressed, U.S. Army Green Berets

“Noli me tangere”: Don’t tread on me, U.S. Army 2nd Infantry Regiment

“Semper fidelis”: Always loyal, U.S. Marine Corps

“Mors ab alto”: Death from above, U.S. Air Force 7th Bomb Wing

“Si vis pacem, para bellum”: If you want peace, prepare for war

“Audentes fortuna juvat”: Fortune favors the bold

“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem”: I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

“Scientia potentia est”: Knowledge is power

Those are all ok, I suppose. But what I was really looking for was:

“Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc”: We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us

Yeah, yea, it’s not actually Latin, just something made to *sound* like Latin. May I remind you, 2+2=4 is racist, so…

Google Translate says the Latin should be “Non in die festo Parvam piamque dum lubenter eorum non proderunt domare Nobis,” Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

 Posted by at 2:57 pm
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