(1) Gay porn film accused of racism after actors have sex with a didgeridoo
A hardcore porn film has been accused of racism after actors had sex with a didgeridoo – a ceremonial tribal symbol in Aboriginal culture.
The gay porn movie, ‘Didgeridoo Me’, features two ‘roommates’ using the instrument as a sex toy on each other.
After the film’s release, viewers complained that porn had ‘crossed the line’…
Porn fanatics took to Twitter to blast the decision to use a didgeridoo in ‘Didgeridoo Me’, which features lines such as “I’m gonna didgeridoo you in the ass.”
[This article is from 2017 and yet so very Current Year!]
(2) In my blogroll I’ve replaced the defunct blog A Mari Usque Ad Mare (requiesce in pace) with Tell Me How This Ends. I just discovered this and he has a great mix of humor and well-founded contempt and anger for the scum who presume to claim to rule us. (By the way, we still need a good tag for those, er, people. Calling them an “elite,” even ironically, is a bad move. Words matter. These people are a spraying diarrhea hose of stupidity, insanity and evil. There’s no sense in which they’re “elite.”)
Also, while exploring there I discovered that at the bottom of a Substack home page there’s a link called Sitemap, which lets you archive-gorge without having to go to the Archive page and hit the “page down” key a hundred times like a lab rat hitting the button that releases the pellet of crack into its cage. Boy, finding that was a time-saver!
(3) Leftism is a multi-headed hydra and it’s important to analyze all its aspects. Doing this is also rather interesting if you approach it as a purely intellectual excercise. It’s like the metaphor of the blind men and the elephant. So here’s another take on what Leftism is:
Leftism is eating the seedcorn.
That’s why it is so successful in the short run and always fails in the long run.
In economics, leftism’s most extreme version is killing people with stuff and taking their stuff – this is e.g. Marxism. The “less extreme” version is being a parasite to an extent that doesn’t kill the host, or only does so slowly. Yet the very people who want to do this lack the self-control to keep the destruction slow forever, and there’s the ever-present holiness spiral dynamic, so it always ends up morphing into its own extreme version.
In debate/rhetoric/propaganda, leftism consists of eating the seedcorn of social trust. Specifically, this consists of constantly lying about everything all the time. It also consists of destroying the very meaning of words by e.g. calling a man a woman, calling minimal state libertarianism “fascism,” etc.
It eats the seedcorn of human fellow-feeling, of empathy, by making frivolous claims of victimhood central to its ideology. The psychologist Martha Stout, who specializes in sociopaths, says their central identifying feature is the pity play, i.e. the victimhood gambit. In light of modern politics that’s all kinds of interesting, isn’t it?
In governance, leftism eats the seedcorn of state legitimacy by various actions, from brazen electoral fraud to outrageous evils like ordering the nation’s border to be opened to an army of foreign invaders. And on, and on…
(4) Hilarious Washington Post headline: Conn. mayor wins do-over race after GOP seized on Democratic ballot-stuffing. Right, that’s the story here. The story isn’t that Dems engaged in electoral fraud; the story is that Republicans “seized on” it.
What is the logic here in the WaPo’s minds? Are they arguing that Republicans talking about the Dems’ electoral fraud somehow counteracts the fraud? Like, “Sure, the Dems committed fraud, but Republicans talked about it, so it doesn’t count!”
(5) Speaking of sewer-dwelling media slime:
First, the Los Angeles Times was just forced to lay off almost a quarter of its “journalist” employees. Awww, that’s too bad. Did you try the strategy of not being a passel of amoral liars?
Second, the headline at NBC News: Journalists of color hit hard in seismic L.A. Times layoffs. THEY DID IT! THEY DID THE MEME! Layoffs at L.A. Times, women and minorities hardest hit.
NBC News continues: “In a move that jolted the journalism industry Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times, one of the leading newspapers in the country, laid off more than 115 journalists, a gash that affects several journalists of color.”
(My God, out of more than 115 people who were laid off, “several” were not white! Heavens!)
(6) Well, this is interesting! A December 2023 piece at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum: Central banks and the revival of gold.
One of the most significant changes in the world of money has been happening by stealth rather than through any policy announcement. Gold has regained a solid yet unofficial role in the world’s monetary system in a barely noticed, gradual process that cannot now be overlooked. This is the result of several interlinked reasons. The last few years have seen central banks run into gold, accelerated by declining trust in the dollar following western countries’ freezing of $300bn of Russian foreign exchange reserves after the Ukrainian invasion.
I love the understated tone of that last sentence: Foreign central banks amass gold, not trusting the dollar after the US coalition grabs $300 billion of Russia’s dollars. No shit.
By the way: See what I mean about eating the seedcorn? “We have a currency of uncontested global dominance, and this benefits us in all kinds of ways. Let’s see, what short-sighted and pointless actions can we take that will destroy this asset?”
(7) China warms my heart: “Chinese Intelligence has all but openly admitted that TikTok is part of a targeted program to spread deviance…” In the modern US?! Are you fucking kidding me?! Talk about carrying coals to Newcastle! “Spreading deviance” in the modern US is like bringing sand to the beach.
I find it rather touching that some Chinese still have such a high opinion of us that they think they actually need to “spread deviance” here.
(8) The original COVID vaccine was released during Trump’s Presidency; in fact he bragged about fast-tracking it. So why doesn’t the Left just point that out and blame Trump for all the vaccine’s problems? Sure, this makes no sense, since Trump didn’t personally design the vaccine, but making no sense has never bothered the Left before. Sure, it would require a neck-snapping U-turn on the safety of the vaccine, but neck-snapping U-turns have never bothered the Left before. Neck-snapping U-turns are their forte. For fuck’s sake, they’ve spent every day since World War II calling everyone they don’t like a “Nazi” and yet they barely hiccupped last year when the Canadian legislature hosted an actual, literal Nazi. They spent four years saying Trump and Russia stole the 2016 election, then in November 2020 started saying that anyone who questions a US election is a fascist, with no cognitive dissonance whatsoever. Doing a U-turn on the vax would not only be possible for these people, it would be routine. So why don’t they? One hypothesis: They’re planning on doing another round of “You must get vaxxed” before the 2024 election, as part of all the mail-in ballots theater. So they can’t say, just yet, that the vaccines were terrible and it was all Trump’s fault. That may come, but not until circa November 10, 2024.
(9) The human race contains a significant proportion of lamentable fuckwits who can’t think their way out of a paper bag. It seems a lot of them know they’re lamentable fuckwits who can’t think their way out of a paper bag, and have a coping strategy of simply repeating whatever rhetoric their semantic environment tags as “intelligent” or “enlightened” thoughts. This is okay when the prevailing semantic environment is sane, but bad when it’s insane. Furthermore, evil people know all this and that is one of the reasons they devote so much effort to taking control of society’s semantic environment.
A large part of political struggles consists of trying to capture the idea-propagating institutions in order to control the minds of the lamentable fuckwits who can’t think their way out of a paper bag. They’re a resource that is fought over, like valuable terrain in a land war.
(10) A commenter here quotes one Robert Lewis Dabney on conservatives:
This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader.
This was written in 1897.
(11) I like to end these posts on a lighter note, so: I recently learned there was a Marine weapon in World War II which was called, rather excellently, the Modified Johnson.
I have no further questions at this time.
Neurotoxin 