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Let’s Categorize the Losers Who Hate Anime

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To the end of arbitrary categorization, let’s look at various types of people who hate anime, with brief descriptions.

The Hanna-Barbara Boomer

This is the guy who remembers back when cartoons didn’t take their viewers seriously, didn’t bother with things like “character development” and “quality”, and still sees them as being for children, as though children don’t deserve a quality product.

The cartoons that he grew up with were boring and insipid, so it’s no surprise that he grew up to become yet another yutz who produces nothing of value, but still somehow has money. You probably somehow payed for the tech that he uses to fire off his mouth.

When he discovers Family Guy, his head will probably explode.

The MSM Karen

She’s one of the few people left who still listens to the mainstream media, so it’s no surprise when, after first hearing about anime from the MSM, she became convinced that it’s the biggest moral problem facing our country. She’s too closed-minded to listen to any facts to the contrary, which her minuscule brain will interpret as an attack against it.

If confronted with her, you can divert her attention if you were to present her with another documentary on another topic, provided the music is sufficiently creepy/mysterious-sounding, then find an opportunity to escape from this perfume-drenched outrage junkie.

The Baseball Cap

Jocko’s main beef with anime is that it’s complicated, therefore, he perceives it as threatening. And his way of dealing with threatening things is with torches and pitchforks.

The Baseball Cap looks forward to being accepted into college through a sports scholarship or, failing that, getting into the Army, unaware that the Army turns away those with an IQ under 82.

The Eagle Eye

This guy goes out of his way to make sure you know that he hates pedophiles. And because his peanut brain conflates anime with child abuse, he also hates anime and vilifies anyone who watches it.

Like anyone with dreams of being e-famous, he has a podcast that’s listened to by maybe one or two people, just in case you’re interested in the next installment of the series of “have I mentioned that I’m not a pedophile, today?” He also picks on furries. Or pretty much anything, as long as the heat’s off him and whatever the hell it is that he’s into.

The Funko Pop Bookshelf

The face of consoom culture, with the bookshelf to match. He unironically believes that buying Marvel crap makes him a better person, by reason of whatever the hell activist causes that multinational media conglomerates are currently bloviating about.

Like the Baseball Cap above, he’s an idiot. So if you were to get into the social commentary of Gundam or the psychological elements of Girls Last Tour, you’d likely be met with the same thousand-yard-stare that you’d see out of his rows and rows of near-identical Funko Pops.

The Espresso Spiritualist

This chick has the entire “You’re About to Hear Bullshit” starter pack. Power stones? Check. Thick-rimmed glasses? Double-check. Black nail polish? Standard issue. Hardcover copies of dubious spiritual tomes? It’s what the knapsack is for.

She basically believes that the Japanese are trying to hypnotize Americans with brainwaves, and that if you watch anime, you’re funding their efforts. You deal with her the same way as anyone else on this list: by not talking to her.

There you go. There’s others, but these are the kinds that are less likely to comprehend how embarrassing their viewpoints really are, increasing the likelihood that these are the ones that you’ll encounter.

Frieren: From Mortality To Morality

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I’ve been seeing Frieren come up from time to time. A friend recently recommended it to me, so I decided to make some time to watch the anime.

Two days and 22 episodes in, I think I can say I get the general premise, and can comment on the controversy surrounding it.

First thing to point out is that Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is a work of fiction. Because I recognize it as such, it doesn’t inform my morality. If a work of fiction were to attempt to teach a moral lesson, it could teach any lesson that the author might want it to, and the scenario could be written to present it in a favorable light, regardless of what the reality of the matter might be if a person were to attempt to put it into practice.

Entertainment is supposed to be entertaining, and that’s all it has to do to justify its existence. The idea that entertainment must have a moral value is generally propagated by busybodies who don’t trust other people to think for themselves. If children are taught that entertainment is merely to entertain and not to inform moral perspectives, they could watch shows like South Park and Family Guy and still become a moral child (though those probably might not be your first entertainment choices for your child). It’s not a bad idea to instill the proper perspective to prepare them for the inevitability that they’ll come across these shows, or shows like them.

Otherwise, if your child comes across a cartoon that extols the virtues of pushing old people into mud instead of helping them across the street, there’s no telling how they’ll take it. There’s no substitute for proper parenting.

As obvious as this is, lazy parenting that failed to instill a proper perspective on entertainment has resulted in a new generation of busybodies that have become everyone else’s problem.

Based on this framing, you might guess that Frieren is Ren and Stimpy on PEDs. Nope. Frieren is about life, mortality, and friendship from the perspective of a person who, being an elf, would be likely to outlive the humans around her by many centuries. While the story takes place after another story has already concluded, it still succeeds in conveying a compelling and beautiful narrative, which is at times exciting.

So, what’s the problem?

The problem is, some people are taking issue with the portrayal of a fantastic race, called “demons”, as being evil.

For clarity, the demons in Frieren are not the mind manipulating spiritual beings that are often featured in religions, they’re more like the tieflings in Dungeons and Dragons in that they are humanoids with horns. But while the tieflings might be capable of morality on an individual by individual basis, the demons in Frieren are irredeemable psychopaths with no understanding of human desire for friendship or family, and have learned human language to the end of using it to manipulate. Which, concerning the abuse of language, makes them sound like the propagandists in the corporate mainstream information media.

I was aware of the controversy before watching Frieren. But what surprised me was just how little screen time was given to the topic of the morality of demons. The impression that I got was that demon morality was a contrivance designed to convey that Frieren’s original journey was strongly justified.

This is in addition to the antagonists being called demons, and the point was labored that they were incorrigibly wicked and that tragedy was the long-term consequence of any attempt to co-exist with them. Could the point have been more strongly conveyed?

However, for the busybodies, this is just the problem. Because as they see it, fantastic racism is still racism, and they can’t bring themselves to trust the rest of us to think for ourselves. But in coming to the defense of these fantastic psychopaths, these same busybodies are showing that they’re just the kind of people who, if they were to live in Frieren’s fantastic setting, would fall for the demon’s honeyed words.

At this point, you might have guessed that it’s primarily leftists who are raising an issue with Frieren. Yep. It’s leftists again.

And, right on brand, they want everything, including every form of entertainment, to bend the knee to their worldview, even anime and manga. Because when it comes to cultists, the usefulness of anything is measured by its utility for propagating the cult’s ideology.

But the problem isn’t just that the left seeks to subvert entertainment and transform it into a vehicle for their worldview. The left is also waging a long war against the traditional morality that derives its principles from natural law. To this end, they seek to undermine basic ethics in favor of a new set of values that is disconnected from reality and ignores the second order consequences of their own unwise behaviors.

It’s part of the reason why the left can’t meme. Memes are shortform communication delivered with an understanding of what’s considered normal, so that humor can be found in a variation from expectations, much like a punchline in a joke. Take the old cat meme, “I can has cheezburger?” For most viewers, the expectation is that a cat can’t employ language, but if it could, its syntax and spelling would likely be poor, as it is in the meme. However, if the meme were to have been presented by a vegan, and thus someone with a left-wing fringe ideology, they might include a disclaimer that they don’t condone the cat’s request, or they might object to even sharing the meme on principle.

Leftist memes tend to be wordy, and there’s a reason for that: the leftist meme is part of a deliberate attempt to redefine normalcy, and to this end, they don’t want there to be any possibility that the meme could be misinterpreted, especially in a way that may defeat their ideology.

The verbosity it would take to redefine expectations does not lend itself to shortform content. But it also reveals something about leftists: that their ideology is more important to them than whether you’re amused or entertained.

When you know this, it’s easy to see why leftists have a problem with Frieren. The rest of us have basic understandings about morality which don’t need continual reiterating. Among the points we consider axiomatic: Immorality is corrosive to families, communities, societies, and nations. Some cultures are incompatible with other cultures. There are people who make it difficult to live peacefully.

If you understand these things, then the way that Frieren handles the demons in its world shouldn’t challenge you. However, leftists feel threatened by Frieren, because the narrative of Frieren supposes a morality that hasn’t imbibed on a toxic dose of outgroup empathy.

Frieren has frequently been accused of saying that coexistence with certain people is impossible. The following panel is often pointed to, which is probably the most controversial in the manga:

It has often been said that Frieren said that you can’t live with certain people. The words she used are different in the panel above, but they carry the same implication.

For clarity, here’s the surrounding context (being manga, panels and word bubbles are ordered from right to left):

While Frieren might not have used the phrase “coexistence with certain people is impossible”, it’s plain to see that this is a sentiment that she would hold, and she illustrated this while addressing a demon who was okay with sacrificing lives in an attempt at coexistence, showing that those lives were less meaningful to him than his endeavor.

However noble the demon’s stated endeavor may have sounded, it’s undermined by his inability to comprehend the value of life. It’s the old “making an omelet by breaking a few eggs” line of reasoning.

But however one might interpret Frieren’s words, it remains that the Frieren manga and anime are works of fiction. Any lesson, moral, or social statement that they make, whether expedient or not, should be viewed in that light.

After all, the main point of entertainment is to be entertaining. If leftists had their way with it, entertainment would be turned into propaganda.

And that’s one of many reasons why they must be resisted.

Guy attempts to destroy fertility clinic, fails hard.

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The next time you think that you’re a failure, you can take comfort in knowing that you haven’t failed as hard at the person that we’re laughing at, today.

That would be Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect in the Saturday Palm Springs attempted bombing of a fertility clinic.

Guy believed that life wasn’t worth living, for himself or anyone else, probably because he was grounded when he wanted to attend a concert, or something about as mundane.

Guy had extreme nihilistic beliefs consistent with some anti-natalist cult. If you’re wondering what anti-natalism is, it’s the belief that life is so intrinsically painful that its considered immoral to bring more people into the world.

Guy took his beliefs to extremes, and attempted to destroy a fertility clinic with a car bomb. But he botched his efforts. Hard.

For one thing, he attempted to live-stream the bombing, but failed to properly set it up. When you see the kind of people who spout off their own naive ideas on how to run a society on social media, that puts Guy’s level of ineptitude into perspective.

Second, while his car detonated, he failed to kill anyone else nearby, and none of the embryos in the clinic were damaged. So, he failed in his endeavor.

Third, his own charred remains were found outside the car. This suggests an attempt to escape, which failed. As much as Guy hated life, he apparently attempted to spare his own, but failed.

If you wonder what I mean when I say “he rolled a zero”, that’s a D&D colloquialism. In that game, checks are often performed with a 20-sided die, with possible outcomes being the range of natural numbers from 1 to 20. Because a zero is impossible to roll without penalties, rolling a zero implies a disastrous failure that seems like it’s outside the range of possibilities.

Guy Edward Bartkus rolled a zero. Three times in a row.

He desired an infinite universe that’s devoid of life. But the only life he succeeded in ending is his own.

Also, his microbiome and whatever parasites which required his continued life to survive. Which was a bummer for them.

Look, it’s normal to feel sad from time to time. But there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the things that you like. For example, plushies. Also, grownup drinks.

While some of the things that you like might end up in a landfill one day, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying them in the time being.

But as for life, philosophers through the ages have struggled to understand it. I think it’s a valid question why some 25-year-old would claim to have it figured out, and conclude that there’s no purpose.

Through basic observation, it should be evident that life experiences the universe. Each life is a different vantage point through which the universe is experienced. One of the functions of life is the creation of new vantage points. If a person sees this, and still insists that there’s no purpose, they’re just not willing to see it.

But there are people out there who reject the universe as they see it because it has pain, or it doesn’t appeal to their sensibilities. For example, some object to the consumption of life by other life, which humans do to live. It’s best to come to peace with the universe as it is, which can come by appreciating that life went into your own sustenance.

As for what’s beyond this life, that’s something we can’t humanly perceive at this time. But I think it makes intuitive sense that there would be a continuity of life, even if in a different form, considering that if the universe were to continue onward, the continued existence of life would be needed for it to be experienced. And if the universe is not experienced, then it truly becomes pointless!

So, life is precious and valuable, even if only for its capacity to experience the universe.

Anti-natalists are wrong, and it’s a matter of basic observation.

UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that Guy was a vegan. Which would mean that he had yet another left wing fringe ideology, though not as much on the fringe as anti-natalism.

I don’t know for certain which ideology acted as a gateway to the other in Guy’s case, but either way seems plausible: perhaps he embraced anti-natalism in the interest of reducing suffering, then determined that veganism would be a natural choice by the same reasoning, or perhaps veganism was the pipeline to anti-natalist extremism, expedited by mental decline by reason of nutrient deficiency.

In either case, it seems like it’s a fringe leftist yet again, and I’m getting sick of it.

Joe Biden Diagnosed With Cancer

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People need to stop getting cancer. A cure would be nice.

On Sunday, it was made public that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with cancer. It’s a prostate cancer which has metastatized to his bones, which isn’t great, but it’s the kind that responds to hormone therapy, so it’s manageable, and the outlook is generally positive.

As I would have it, he would make a full recovery immediately, and so to everyone who has cancer. I might not have agreed with everything he has ever said or done, but I don’t wish illness on him.

However, the diagnosis did raise some eyebrows, as the variety of prostate cancer that Biden has is the kind that takes years, often the better part of a decade, to metastatize, and can be detected early with a simple blood test.

This brings up two possibilities. The first being that the White House physicians that gave Biden his routine physicals are astoundingly incompetent for their position. After all, about one in eight men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, especially as they age, so it’s definitely reasonable to screen for the disease for a man in his eighties, such as Joe Biden, as part of a periodic blood test.

The other is that White House physicians were complicit in the plot to conceal Biden’s physical and mental state, which are highly relevant considering the position he was holding. And that was probably the case.

In light of this, people recalled a speech in which Biden admitted to having cancer. At the time, it was assumed that Biden was referring to a minor form of skin cancer which is usually not a huge threat. However, people are floating now that Biden may have been aware of his prostate cancer, but forgot to keep it under wraps.

What I find interesting is that, early on in the Biden presidency, shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, the propaganda arm of the establishment was pushing speculation that Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, had a secret cancer diagnosis, and was dying.

Naturally, nobody believed state media as they said this. But considering that an old strategem in disinformation is accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing, an old story has picked up some new optics.

But at this point, it’s already well-known that Biden has been carefully propped up over the course of nearly his entire administration, until the point that his health couldn’t be concealed any further, at which point leftists either pretended to be surprised, or that they weren’t party to the cover-up.

All this instead of, you know, just leaving a poor man to retire with cocktail in hand, after about five decades of accomplishing nothing on Capitol Hill (which is kinda preferable, things considered).

Regardless of the circumstances involved, I wish Biden well, and a speedy recovery.

Skeptic Officer Pushes Man Out Of Wheelchair, Arrests Him For Home Invasion

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I think we can agree that when a public servant carries out their duties, they generally get a pass. But when the servant is put in a position of power over other people, there’s much more on them to not act like a colossal smeghead.

Let’s have a look at one way a person could fail catastrophically in that regard: The officer who attempted to arrest a paralyzed man over an allegation that he kicked in a door.

You’ll likely find it evident what was wrong. But that’s assuming a typical level of intellect. The arresting officer was a special kind of savant who knows that skepticism is a sign of intellect, so he decided to take it to a whole other level.

When he met the man who was falsely accused, a man who was in a wheelchair, he called him out, saying that his alleged paralysis was a ruse.

Here he is, the arresting officer, Markenley Bolette:

This is the officer who wouldn’t extend the benefit of the doubt to a paralyzed man, who he knocked out of his wheelchair as he arrested him, insisting that he had to have somehow kicked in a door, then get into an altercation with a resident before somehow making a getaway on foot.

Before we jump to the conclusion that Bolette had already herped every last derp that was available on the market, then hocked them on eBay at scalper prices, let’s turn a look to the woman who made the complaint. Katherine Jensen had previously dated the accused, though it had been decades since the two last saw each other.

There are many reasons why you don’t date crazy. Among them being that there’s no telling how long she’ll stew over old wrongs and decide to get revenge in the most characteristically crazy way possible: with a bullshit allegation.

I don’t know why the relationship ended, but considering the facts surrounding this case, I think it’s reasonable to suspect that it was her fault.

For a bit more irony, let’s consider the name of the accused: Charles Read. For the arresting officer, the name Read probably triggered repressed memories of his time in the education system, when those judgemental teachers insisted that he develop a particular skill as a requirement for a middle school education.

To drive the point home that officer Bolette is something special, he insisted that Read’s paralysis was a ruse as he apparently sought assistance on how to proceed with the arrest, and another officer had to lay out for him just why it was unreasonable to expect a paralyzed man to invade a home. By kicking a door in. Then attempting to strangle its resident. Then make a getaway on foot.

I used to think that stupid people were harmless. They’d do stuff like lose track of how much is in their food stamp account before going to the store, or pour energy drinks into their lawnmowers, or leave their clothes to sit in a washer for days to find them crusted in mildew. They naturally harvest the consequences of their own unwise behaviors.

But I see now that I was wrong. Stupid people have a corrosive effect on the world around them. They’re the ones who nearly cause vehicular homicides because they pull out at intersections, assuming that other motorists also have a stop sign. They’re the ones who hot box in their apartments, creating the risk that their neighbors fail drug tests. Also, Hamas supporters.

Their effect is more corrosive still when they’re put into a position of power over other people.

I know that this is a bit of an old story, at this point. But that doesn’t mean that anyone should think it’s safe from my scrutiny. There may be a statute of limitations for crimes, but there is no statute of limitations for having the stupid.

Verizon leaves the sinking DEI ship of fools.

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It’s yet another bad day for the losing side. Verizon is now ending it’s DEI programs.

From Brendan Carr on X:

When he said “effective immediately”, he wasn’t kidding. Feast your eyes on the dessicated husk of their All of Us page:

I was gonna drink anyway, but now I can call it a celebration.

Human resources, training, everything down to hiring goals. It’s a complete gutting. And with no hesitation.

This is huge because Verizon is a major telecom company. People are more connected today than they’ve ever been, and smartphones are a major reason for this. Because Verizon is a major mobile service provider, they had a lot of potential to propagate the kind of woke ideology that’s permeated the West Coast, where much of the tech world is headquartered. Through the tech giants, much of Coastal Californian culture could be easily exported to the rest of the world, and it seemed to have even reached as far as to poison Europe’s political climate.

However, pushback has been increasing in recent years. And now, even tech giants such as Verizon are starting to see that something is wrong.

It’s obvious that Verizon has changed course due to the potential for pushback from the FCC. It’s a fact of life: people and corporations act based on incentive. It was venture capital and the perceived desires of investors, among other reasons, that motivated companies to embrace DEI, even though it’s not expedient to effectively running a company.

As apparent as it is now that DEI programs are toxic and discriminatory, remember that there are people out there who have incentivized it. And while it’s apparent that they’ve lost much of their ability to incentivize their bad ideas, diligence is needed to ensure that they don’t return to damage society again, especially considering how extensive the damage was that they had already done.

You Might Have This Weird Superpower!

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In times past, I would have used the term “simple situational awareness” to refer to an ability that I thought that most people had. As it turns out, this was projection, and this ability is more rare than I thought.

This was what I’ve learned through a long history of nearly bumping into people who back up without looking, or seeing people strike up conversations in doorways.

To me, one aspect of situational awareness is a reasonable understanding of your current situation, and where it’s taking place. After a long time exercising this ability, it’s almost automatic. I’d walk into a room, and note it’s layout, the exits, and likely high-traffic areas that a reasonable person would not want to poke around in if they don’t want to be annoying.

It can also be the wisdom that comes with avoiding certain behaviors, if the location is such that the behavior had the potential to lead to an undesirable outcome. For example, it hope it’s obvious why it would be risky to play pin the tail on the donkey while on an industrial mezzanine.

It seems like I’m one of the few who have this ability, which is why one of my previous employers had to put up a sign telling employees not to gather in front of the lunch room door to chat it up. It’s awesome that they put the sign up, but it sucked that they had to.

Come to think of it, I don’t recall anyone in management or anyone in a leadership position failing in situational awareness to the point of holding up foot traffic. And it stands to reason, because if someone is going to posture as an intellectual better, they can at least exhibit intellect.

When it comes down to it, the purpose of the brain in animals is to allow for decision-making for mobile creatures. To make decisions in light of our environment is one of the key features of the brain. It’s expedient to survival.

So then, why are there so many people who lack situational awareness? I’m guessing that it’s because the nature of society provides some amount of insulation from some of the worst consequences of recklessness. Sure, some consequences are still there, but they’ve been reduced to the point that people have relaxed some of their basic survival skills.

And, as you might expect, stupidity has filled in the resulting gap.

So it seems like simple situational awareness isn’t so simple anymore, it’s become more like a superpower.

Is this a superpower that you have? If you can use it, please do.

Watch out, here comes “dark woke”.

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Okay guys, we need to get our concerned faces on. The Democrats are up to something that they’ve totally never tried.

Thankfully, we have The New York Times, that bastion of journalistic integrity, to keep us informed.

Democrats are trying out a new attitude. It’s provocative, edgy and perilously toeing the line of not being too offensive.

Uh oh, are they painting their fingernails black and listening to The Cure?

There was a time last summer when the Democratic Party was cool.

Wrong.

Okay, I broke sarcasm there. But that was dead wrong.

Kamala Harris had just stepped in as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in the waning days of Bratsummer. She went on the popular podcast ‘Call Her Daddy.’ Tim Walz’s outdoorsy drip led to a Chappell Roan-inspired camo trucker hat. The memes were flowing, and the party’s mood was high.

One thing I’m not letting Democrats live down is that they thought that Kamala Harris was a viable candidate. Auto-complete finished that sentence for me, and I’m not ashamed of that. Even now, Democrats still don’t know why they lost, and they’re looking like they’re going back to the same strategy.

But now, it’s looking like that’s all about to change.

As liberals try to get their groove back, some party insiders say Democratic politicians have been encouraged to embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump’s no-holds-barred version of politics.

Remember when Democrats abrasively criticized you and your virtues to a pulp? Well, watch out! Now the Dems are getting serious!

It’s an attempt to step outside the bounds of the political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing. And it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point.

Online, it has a name: ‘Dark woke.’

Okay, I’m going to go ahead and bust out the laughing anime girls for this one.

You might remember that the left already attempted a “dark” branding with this confidence-inspiring gentleman:

“Being able to use this strategy of being raw and unapologetic and unabashed about our beliefs is something our base really wants,” Mr. Ossé said. He referred to a quote by one of Mayor Eric Adams’s advisers, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who said, “When they go low, you gotta dig for oil.”

I seem to remember that leftists called people who disagreed with them Nazis, and attempted to get them regarded as such. It’s one of many reasons why you can’t expect a leftist to argue in good faith.

I also remember that a leftist Disney director had called for students to be thrown into wood chippers for smiling while wearing MAGA hats.

I remember that it was leftists who called out “punch a Nazi” and “bash a fash”, while implying that their political opponents are fascists, advocating for violence against them.

And while I can continue with the long list of examples, for brevity, I can point out that if leftists want to try something new, they can start by shutting their mouths.

‘We can be bold, we can be petty, we can be punchy and still have a moral compass. We don’t have to replicate the right’s formula.’

That’s exactly what the right does. And for the right, it comes natural. That’s because the right are the cool kids, not the edgelords who are trying too hard.

It’s not resonating with everyone. For some, the universal truism that it can never be cool to try so hard applies here. Others, too, have criticized Democrats for seeming to place a premium on affect over policy.

To be fair, NYT does seem to have some introspection, here. The problem that they point to, that Democrats favor affect over policy, is intrinsic to the feminized nature of the political left, tending to prefer the subject to the object. Their focus is on optics more than problem-solving, and the nature of this political environment has made it way too easy to maintain positive optics while being intellectually dishonest.

Alex Peter, a lawyer and left-wing commentator who makes content under the handle LOLOverruled, said the Democrats’ new focus on viral ‘dark woke’ posts was just ‘a lot of hot air.’

‘Part of the problem with the mainstream Democratic Party is that it all kind of rings hollow,’ Mr. Peter, 33, said. ‘I don’t care about another clapback. People want concrete deliverables.’

That, and the fact that “dark woke” is really nothing new. I remember that the left were the principle agitators behind the “Summer of Love” and the George Floyd riots. And now they mean to tell us that they intend to start dressing in black and throwing chairs in the ring?

It sounds to me like they’re continuing with the same failed strategy while trying to trick whoever’s listening into thinking that they’re trying something new.

UN Human Rights Judge Found Guilty of Keeping Slave

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We’ve found a special one, and that’s her in the picture above. And considering that she belongs to the race that most persistently complains about slavery, one would think she would know better.

But, no. Lydia Mugambe, a UN human rights judge, has been found guilty of keeping a slave, which she had brought to her residence in the UK from Uganda.

Specifically, the charges were “conspiring to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.”

During her arrest, Mugambe attempted to leverage her diplomatic immunity.

“I am a judge in my country, I even have immunity. I am not a criminal.” -Lydia Mugambe

Anyone else with a mental picture of Mugambe snapping her fingers while draped in sequins?

In case you’re wondering, Mugambe’s diplomatic immunity has been waived by the UN Secretary General.

According to the prosecutor in the case: “Lydia Mugambe has exploited and abused [her alleged victim], taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights to properly paid employment and deceiving her as to the purpose of her coming to the UK.”

The UK, by the way, was among the first countries in the world to ban slavery. Their national anthem stated that they shall not be enslaved, and they decided that it would be great if that applied to everyone. They determined that no slave shall breathe a breath of air in Britain. They were so determined about it that they declared that any slave that set foot in Britain would immediately become free.

To get right down to it, for a slave owner to bring a slave to the UK is a mistake.

Mugambe had apparently been getting away with it for a while, since she arranged for the slave to come to the UK while she was still studying for a law PhD at Oxford.

If there’s a PhD law student who doesn’t know that slavery is illegal, it should be easy to be skeptical of the post-secondary education system.

While the civilized world has outlawed slavery, it’s still a huge problem in the world today. There are more slaves today than there have ever been in human history.

The main reason is Islam. According to Islamic law, Sharia, a person cannot make illegal something that Muhammad allowed. And not only did Muhammad allow slaves, he had some. Because of this, slavery is still commonplace in the Islamic world.

Winning wars against Muslims is generally easy for those in the civil world. After all, the Islamic religion gives Muslims a reason to die, not a reason to live. But you really, really do not want to lose a war against them. As far as their cruelty is concerned, nothing is off the table. The usual outcome for women who are captured is that they become sex slaves.

While slavery may be illegal in the civilized world, the war against slavery is not over. Not by a long shot. And if Europe’s culture continues to shift, it might make a comeback.

The Leftist Pro-DEI Boycott Results Are In.

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Say what? There was a leftist boycott? Since when? And it concerned DEI? When did that happen?

Oh yeah, I remember now! I made fun of that!

Back in February, the crayon munchers decided to have a one-day boycott over the decisions of companies and retailers to drop DEI programs. The intention was to show these companies “who really holds the power”.

Well now, we finally get to see just what impact their little boycott may have had on the bottom lines of these companies. Let’s check it out (the data was from Not The Bee):

Amazon: 9% growth

Nestlé: 2.8% growth

Target: 1.5% growth

Walmart: 6% growth

General Mills -1% growth

When a boycott is successful, the expected outcome is that a company loses growth.

The boycott rolled a zero. Critical miss.

It seems these businesses generally benefitted a lot more from ditching DEI than they might have lost from the boycott. It also seems as though regular people with real American values have more power in the American marketplace than a bunch of leftists with their stupid boycotts.

The one example of negative growth can easily be attributed to the MAHA movement, which advocates for healthier foods. The left could’ve tried to spite the MAHA movement by buying their processed, seed oil heavy foods. But even where they could’ve screwed up to muster a marginal victory, they still failed. But, to be fair, what happened with General Mills could be attributable to typical fluctuation.

I expected the boycott to fail. I did not expect it to fail so hard. But as companies are starting to align more closely with American values, it does stand to reason that Americans are going to feel more comfortable shopping with them.

That is, unless Americans are secretly okay with retailers pushing pseudo-diverse victimhood narratives on them and their children, in spite of having proven differently with their money. Which is probably one of the fantasies that the left is nurturing at this point.

As for what the left can do to become relevant again, I don’t know. But considering that they sincerely believed that Kamala Harris was a viable candidate, I wouldn’t expect them to understand what resonates with the American public.

They can go right on having fun pretending to be the resistance. They are rebels without a cause. Or an effect.