Sooooo. CNN posted a pretty dopey item about the dude who may or may not have made some kind of threat in the general direction of Nancy Lugosi, as America's greatest vaudevillian, Michael Savage-Weiner has taken to calling her. Take it away, Sister Shakes:
In all seriousness, I point out that this terrorist's weeping has been turned into an important news item for a reason: It further serves the narrative that each of these Totally-Not-Terrorists of the American Rightwing are independent actors, whose motivations formed in solitude, their actions exclusively attributable to lunacy. Men who cry, of course, are axiomatically unstable, each tear a wet little drip of evidence of the mental illness that is the exclusive source of their behavior.Man, we're really lowering the bar on terrorism these days. I mean, hey, did you just, did you just look at me wrong? Terrorist! Did I just pay you with a twenty and you made change as if I paid with a ten? Terrorist!
It's a cunning little potion of sexism and disablism, delivered stealthily in an unmarked package, designed to assure you don't worry; it's only a few bad apples; pay no attention to the swelling indication that there's a dark ideology on the rise, fueling hatred and justifying extremism and tacitly encouraging violence…
Meanwhile, in, uh, all seriousness . . . a dark ideology . . . on the rise . . . fueling hatred . . . justifying extremism. Jesus, Moe, and Curly, that shit is totes 2001. Deliver it with hunched shoulders, a misplaced grin, and a phoned-in scrubbrush twang and you're straight-up Bushin' it.
So, you know, the left, whatever that is, is ascendent, and in its dreams fifth columns march like Pink Floyd hammers. At the risk of engaging in a bit of, yuh, disabilism, I'm just going to out and say it: this gang is proving to be even weaker in the knees than the other terror brigade.
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I'm sure I'm lifting this idea from somebody else, but the Oklahoma City bombing serves the same purpose for Concerned Liberals as 9/11 does for conservatives: as a rationalization for irrational fears about "terrorism," both being the incidents immediately brought up if one shows insufficient fear of the Enemy Within (for Republicans, that's dark-skinned Muslims, while for Democrats, it's white hicks who subscribe to Guns & Ammo.)
There's pussy hounds, and then there's pussy hounds.
Ms. Shaker? C'mon, IOZ. This is not a worthy fucking adversary.
-- sglover
Actually, Chuck, "concerned liberals" tend to reserve their concern for the white hicks who bring their assault rifles to public townhall meetings on health care, that sort of thing. But as all you fauxhemian Starbucks anarchists have taught me, it's totally irrational to pay any attention to that as long as the US military is doing something bad somewhere. Whatever would you guys do without your facile equivalences?
By the way, how many words does one have to write about how bad it is that Obama blows up some Pakistani villagers before they're allowed to suggest that, you know, maybe Americans could stand to grow up and stop screeching about civil war and armed revolution every time a policy decision disagrees with them? I'm just looking for a ballpark figure here. Is it a straight one-for-one type of deal? If I harness the power of my mighty blawg to write a righteous post thundering about Obama the war criminal and how the only solution is dissolution, blah blah wank wank, may I then express the hope that every gun-loving yahoo in the country blows their own empty head off without having to fear condemnation from younz for being insufficiently above it all?
Starbucks? bitch please.
fk,
A freeper may knot his head around a mass of wriggling conspiracy theory snakes - sure - and come up with some plainly silly ideas about who runs thing, how, and to whomever's benefit.
He may even get mad enough to bat off nasty e-mails to poor Nancy Pelosi.
He may be such a fuckwit that he'll kill an abortion doctor.
Who has justified any of that?
But, how many freepers get to pull off a fiat execution and walk away from it with a pension, bodyguards, a $30k an hour speaking tour and a multi-million dollar vanity massaging Presidential library?
As an Appalachian boy at heart, I am forever amused by Liberals bearing the phrase "assault rifle" with all the gleeful certitude of a Kansan school-boarder crying out, "a theory, not a fact."
i'll say it: bringing a gun to a town hall meeting is provocative.
that said, let's tackle the equivalences. if one of these whackos actually opened fire and shot 100 people in a town hall, that would be the same as, what, 3 maybe 4 drone attacks?
Montag wrote:
"i'll say it: bringing a gun to a town hall meeting is provocative.
that said, let's tackle the equivalences. if one of these whackos actually opened fire and shot 100 people in a town hall, that would be the same as, what, 3 maybe 4 drone attacks?"
..and after a drone attack, there'd still be more drone attacks. And more. And then some more.
After a man shoots up a town hall meeting, I imagine Sara Robinson would get to smile and smirk her little "I told you so," even if no one is stupid enough to shoot up a town hall meeting for another thirty years.
It's hard to get people to kill each other. Murder is extraordinary. It's uncommon. Even within the borders of a highly militarized, hyper masculinized country like our own, murder is relatively rare, and we are near to the top of a list which drops off sharply.
Professional liberals want people to be afraid of the lone gunman. Some of them (Sara Robinson, et al) would like us to fear the lone gunman as indicative of an organized, transcontinental movement. A movement which has the audacity to question the legitimacy of the state.
That's her core concern, and the gunman is a prop in her case.
Which is why she (and her ilk) rarely takes the opportunity to answer Thoreau's challenge*, since it undermines her central premise, that the state's legitimacy ought not be questioned.
* - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Thoreau/CivilDisobedience.html
h/t Charles Davis: http://charliedavis.blogspot.com/2010/04/that-anti-patriotic-feeling.html
so prolific this week, ioz! lovin' it. that's why i shall continue to remain All In. (did i do it right? that's the same blog right?? oh whatever.)
Nancy has what—like 5 kids? Who's the eco-terrorist now beeyatch!
The left is ascendant? Dude, the left is nonexistent.
FK,
I brew my own Fair Trade coffee, thank you very much.
I think I was using it ironically, Rojo.
Strong men also cry.
Fuckin' pantywaist urbane liberals fear guns like nobody's business. They want all dogs leashed, they want guns outlawed, but they'll drive their fucking SUVs in a distracted state through a neighborhood full of children and dogs, yakking on a cell phone while putting on makeup or drinking coffee, at 20mph over the speed limit, and that's okay.
THE GUNS! THE UNLEASHED DOGS!
While they drive Death Race 2000 style, threatening all living creatures in their weaving, wobbling, unpredictable paths.
BUT HE BROUGHT A GUN TO A MEETING!
Jesus, talk about a disconnect from reality.
Sister Shakes "safe space" = a cracked glass house to throw stones from. No dude, these are not worthy fucking adversaries. And like crying in the uhh .... city .... that's not legal either.
Actually, worthy adversary or not, I love seeing Monsieur take on Sister Sniffly over at what I call the Tight Crack. They may be a creepy little cult of easily dismissed PC totalitarians, but they represent the ultimate logic of Progressivism. They aren't likely to be the future, but they are a good indication of what certain people wish it was.
Wait, did someone say "assault rifle"?! Talk about being all in.
What amuses me out here in the wild, wild west is our progressive "blue dog" representative who campaigned riding around in the desert on a horse with her cowboy boots on, then about had a stroke when some rancher's open carry revolver fell out of its holster while he was waiting to meet her at a meet and greet. So unbelievably lame.
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