Folks, we’ve gone beyond mere doublethink into the Twilight Zone of Social Justice insanity. There is nothing too stupid, too bereft of meaning, to become an SJW headline. It’s getting to the point that a random chat bot could compose headlines that made more objective sense. Turing’s test must now be applied in reverse: when does a human being become so stupid as to approximate an AOL chat bot?
For our first example, I present Exhibit A:
There is narcissism, there is solipsism, and then there’s whatever the hell this is. The ability of SJWs to coin irrelevant, bizarre jargon for their nigh-incomprehensible word salad is impressive, in its own way. Although, this headline begs the question: did this woman swear an oath to lie only with herself?
I can only presume that this woman conducted a sort of false ceremony in an effort to convince others that she was happy with her miserable life. More attention-seeking devices from the same species that invented the selfie stick and duckface, because damnit, it all has to be about me. Why go through all this effort to convince others of your satisfaction in your choice to remain single? If Social Justice remains true to form, we will soon be told that “sologamy” is morally superior to mere monogamy, because all sex is rape, or all men are evil (#YesAllMen). But hey, it’s all about equal rights for women, right?
Let’s move along to Exhibit B:
Affinity Magazine is one of the few SJW rags to approach Gawker levels of Social Justice virtue signalling. I actually skimmed this pile of drivel, and I feel dumber for having read it. One quote stood out as especially idiotic:
The surplus of women seeking higher education at universities has created less power for women in relationships they develop. This has caused women to compromise their Christian values and have sex in order to attract and keep a male partner. Women have to compete with one another for a male’s attention. Because of the ratio, women are both pressured into being promiscuous and being slut-shamed by the Christian influenced American society.
Here we see the SJW ranting about the “surplus of women seeking higher education.” Presumably, she is bothered by the fact that more women than men are attending and graduating colleges these days? I thought education was all about empowering women? Make up your damned mind, please. Now, she explains, colleges are promiscuous because they are not Christian enough? And this is, somehow, Christianity’s fault because America is mostly Christian.
Even a superficial reading of the article is sufficient to expose the author as a drooling idiot.
On to Exhibit C:
Family is a concept Marxism has been at war with for a very long time. A strong nuclear family tends to resistance collectivization because of the simple truth that a parent generally wants the best for his children. Bread lines, riots in the streets, and the other sorts of things common in Communist countries just aren’t seen as wonderful and great for the children. Certainly Venezuela’s infant mortality rate didn’t so so well recently.
And so for SJWs, anything to promote the image of families as divisive, oppressing, and outmoded is quite welcome, even when presented in the passive-aggressive form of “how not to hate your husband.” The very premise is ridiculous. You don’t need a guide to tell you not to hate your husband. If you hate him, why are you married in the first place? And why would having a child with someone you love cause you to suddenly do a complete 180 and hate his guts?
Exhibit D:
Okay, it’s not a news headline. But it is a spectacular example of just how far the Leftist will go in his quest to make everything political. A mother who died 25 years ago is dragged into a political tweet about Trump on Mothers Day. This rationalization is like a final boss in the game of word salad. The pretzel-like intellectual hoops Joss must jump through to associate his dead mother with Donald Trump are truly staggering to observe.
What is this? What is he even trying to say? Is he saying he’s glad his mother is dead, because if she were alive, Donald Trump’s existence would somehow ruin her day? Is he saying that, if his mother wasn’t dead, he’d “give her the gift” of death, because Donald Trump is president?
Our final exhibit today exceeds even the idiocy and pettiness of Joss Wheedon:
Yes, my friends, this is true. Trump sometimes eats more ice cream than other people at the dinner table. CNN thinks they are delivering a funny when the reporter says “and CNN got the scoop… literally!” Bad puns aside, the pettiness of talking about dessert choices at the White House is low even for the very same media that fell for the 4chan Russian hotel prostitutes hoax.
When I saw this graphic floating around Social Media, I was convinced it was a photoshop job, just because I couldn’t believe even CNN would stoop quite that low. But I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised, after all the media told us that Trump’s habit of ordering his steak well done was some kind of apocalyptic omen.
Oh, whatever will you do, if you are eating dinner at the White House, and the server brings you one scoop of ice cream, and gives Trump two!
The lengths the media has gone to in order to discredit Trump is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in America. The vitriol, the passive-aggression, attacking him for even the most minor and petty of perceived transgressions against the gods of ice cream scoops has convinced me that this is only one step removed from all-out open warfare. Nothing is off limits. Not even the most minor of things, one’s taste in food, is off the table.
The attack is 24/7, never letting up for even a moment, with the entire media, most of the government, and most of the entertainment industry engaged in constant battle against Trump’s administration.
They didn’t even hate Bush quite this much.
Looking on the bright side, maybe this degree of f*ckwittery turned all the way up to twelve by the assortment of SJW loudmouths assembled here might result in a lot of people backing away quietly, and thinking, “Oh, man — how crazy is that?”
Something quite a few people have forgotten:
About 10 days or so ago, the Democratic Party had some sort of big strategy convention. There was a press conference, very heavily attended. At that PC, Tom Perez was quoted as telling the assembled media that they weren’t doing anywhere near enough in their attacks on Trump. There was actually a response from a correspondent from CNN, saying “well, we still need to objectively report the news.” If memory serves, MSNBC echoed the same sentiments. Perez had delivered his exhortation in such strident tones that even CNN and MSNBC were taken aback. The retort from Perez was that this was exactly the WRONG thing to do, and that the media had to drastically raise their number of attacks and their intensity. They were given the kind of injunction that the world last heard when Trotsky was baiting the Supreme Soviet into showing a sufficient level of revolutionary fervor.
Now tell me, folks:
What have we seen happen over the last week?
We’re on a truly bad tack as a nation. I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic when I say that this could rather easily result in significant violence in the very near future.
If Trump fails, it will come to violence. If a Billionaire can’t make a difference, then folks will know there is no reforming the system.
Yep. No more ballots but our bullets next time.
Who knew being a disabled vet was such a privilege. When we have ice cream my wife gives me THREE scoops.
On a more serious note I agree with the Wombat. I think the left has created a feedback loop in their rhetoric that will lead to bloodshed sooner rather than later.
Believe me – I don’t want or hope for this.
The rhetoric, however, has reached the level of febrile hysteria. It’s delusional. It’s ABSOLUTE MADNESS. There is no room at all, not even a nanometer of breathing space, for anything contradicting the Progressive Narrative to even the tiniest degree. Their gospel is now being SCREAMED FROM THE ROOFTOPS by the Party, the MSM and their nascent brownshirts.
Has anyone seen any of the last week of WH press briefing footage? The WH spokespeople naturally try to defend the President, but at the same time they are also very polite and try to move the ‘discussion’ onto ground that has at least the appearance of some rationality. Yet notice how the MSM people respond – the incredulity, the wide-eyed and stunned reaction to hearing anything that doesn’t completely agree with, validate and even enhance their utterly lunatic, ridiculously extreme and deranged perspectives on even the most innocuous issues, events and information. And if the WH briefers give so much as an INCH of ground in the hope that they’ll see at least a millimeter of response from the MSM, they get something else entirely – the press corps get a look in their eye, expressions on their faces, stances and postures shifting in their seats, tone of voice and body language all changing to physically reflect what they are evidently thinking from their followup questions – “YES! The enemy has lost ground! We’re driving them by force from their trenches! WE ARE FINALLY WINNING!”
Because for the MSM, there is zero room for dialogue or discourse. They are at WAR. There is a winner and a loser in war, and the loser often winds up either a corpse or a lowly, broken captive.
It’s clear that the democratic party, the MSM and the Progressive ‘zombie horde’ will not shift gears or change course. If they don’t flip either the House or Senate in 2018, it’ll be war. Even before then, I’m pretty sure we’ll see blood.
I remember growing up as a kid on the east coast, the years from 1968 to about 1979 were bad. I could read the vibe from my parents, my grandparents, aunts and uncles. I figured things could never get that bad again.
But it’s way worse now.
I despair.
Agreed. I remember those years and since I was a kid in the 60’s and a teenager in the 70’s I thought this was nuts then even. It’s nothing close to what it is now- insane. This lefty nonsense is a religion to these nuts. The funny thing is that most of what they believe totally contradicts other lefty beliefs and they believe things that could not possibly be true. I hope they keep it up right to 2020.
Well, I have been saying for some time that the U.S. is going to have a second civil war. This one without geographical boundaries, just ideological ones.
Paul L. Quandt
I expect CWII to be geographical, but not by state; more city vs. country.
Most likely. But it will be very short. The cities won’t survive long without the countryside.
In war whoever has the best logistics wins, and whoever is closest to the food has better logistics to begin with.
Rural America can cut off the lifelines to the city (food) so fast they wouldn’t know what to do.
And whoever has millions of welfare addicts starts with a massive logistics handicap.
Just remember, when someone says “Social Justice” both words are a lie. They’re anti-social since they intend to pit people against each other, and if they have to qualify Justice, they’re obviously in favor of some sort of injustice. Kind of like “Democratic People’s Republic of…” meant the country was undemocratic, oppressed the people, and was not a Republican form of Government.
It’s all you need to know.
The profound hypocrisy of essentially all the tenets of the progressives is widely understood – except by the Progressive Left.
It is impossible to make them see reason on this. Logic, evidence, fact…..all of them ‘bounce off’ and make ZERO impression, like a rock hitting the turret of a T-72. The truth simply cannot enter into their minds – their Mystical Psychosis precludes the consideration of ANYTHING that contradicts or challenges the progressive theology.
There’s simply no way to come to terms with them. There is no middle ground, no common understanding on anything at all. The reds and blues have no common ground at this point. Everything that one side holds dear, the other side holds as inimical to their beliefs. It cuts across every category and issue: the constitution, America’s history, the social fabric, the economy, the legal code…..EVERYTHING.
We’re not a country anymore.
Maybe, to avoid an all-out civil war, we need to break the country up.
See this 2016 election may by county:
http://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/
There are some outliers. Notice the blue strip along the NW nevada border with california. It’s almost completely empty, a truly desolate place – but there’s an Indian reservation there (I think it’s the Paiute), and they vote their interests. Same in NE Arizona, where the Navajo are. But by and large, it looks like a Blue USA would be the West coast, New England down to DC, and maybe a slice of Minnesota.
The urban population centers throw things off – they dominate certain states despite their terribly small geographic areas. I’m not sure how to fix that.
But whether you do it by county (which skews by area) or by state (which skews by population), you can still make a broad divide between the coasts and the interior. Those who aren’t satisified by their particular situation would have to emigrate. It’s inconvenient, but would be a way to avoid all out civil war.
But like I said: as things stand, we aren’t a country anymore.
There’s also a useful acronym, TWANLOC: Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen.
Search your heart. You know it to be true.
Truth.
Subotai Bahadur, who comments at Belmont Club and posts occassionaly at Chicagoboyz.net originated that acronym some months ago. I’ve been passing the word about it myself –
http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/44007.html
I like to say that it’s one of those terms where the adjective negates the noun.
Small minds always need their Emmanuel Goldstein.
I’m all FOR the media’s madness. This is HOW we’ll GET MORE TRUMP.
If you don’t believe the lies, they can always mace you or hit you with a rock. Heh! Progressives.
You can’t say Ayn Rand and George Orwell didn’t warn you of their dangerousness.
The subject surfaced a while ago in Good Housekeeping (!) which reprinted this article.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a8507112/marrying-yourself-wedding-trend/
It was the “you will hate your husband after the baby is born” thing that got to me. So destructive, so insidiously vicious. After having a baby, especially the first baby, marriage hits all kinds of challenges. People used to get help and advice from their families. Now it’s easy to say “see, it’s not me, it’s him”, and how terrible that is. People who dish out that kind of garbage deserve a special punishment.
Are you sure that the post about “sologamy” isn’t a spoof?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sologamy
For your daily dose of people can’t be that stupid. The UMich is going to renovate the 100yr old Michigan Union building and asked students for input. A woman, I assume white, said they needed to get rid of the wood paneling on the walls because it oppressed minorities.
When you think SJWs can’t get any dumber.
How can wood paneling be racist? I can’t even imagine a connection.