Random Thoughts: Masks and Pulled Episodes

Because of Coronavirus, theaters can’t currently be full enough that it would be illegal for you to yell “Fire!” in them.

It’s possible the idiots randomly destroying things don’t have any grand political ideals and are just idiots who like destroying things.

“Hi, child Frank, I’ve come to bring you news of 2020!”
“Wow. Do you have a Mars base?”
“Nope.”
“Flying cars?”
“Nope.”
“What do you have?”
“We’ve discovered way more things are racist than your small mind could ever possibly conceive.”
“Oh, so are race relations better?”
“Nope.”

Got a 1-star review for Fathom. Had no idea what he was talking about in the review and I checked and he just gives 1-star reviews to like every book and complains about them having rich people in them.
So you have to pretty insane to not like my novel.

Can wearing a mask actually harm your health? Ninjas do have a lower life expectancy than the general population.

If you don’t like the current national anthem, you can play the unofficial one, the theme to Team America.

How have the South Park guys avoided being canceled? They only do problematic.

“It’s awful to see that man killed by the police.”
“We need to take on police unions and qualified immunity.”
“Exactly. Going to tear down statues.”
“What?”
“And remove episodes of old shows.”
“That’s not…”
“Make sure cartoon characters are voiced by the same race.”

frantically searches for pretext for having episodes of Friends removed

I see some conspiracy theories that old episodes being taken down from Netflix and Hulu is to make the movement look dumb and petty, but when you have ever changing and arbitrary rules with a disproportionate punishment if you ever break them, this is what happens.
I.e., dumb things are happening because you made things dumb.

BLM lost the messaging because there wasn’t enough separation of rioting from protesting. Blame the left who tried to justify stores being burnt down as legitimate protest. Now when people see a protest, they assume violence will follow and that’s the focus and not the message.

I assume more than 95% of the protest is peaceful, but the coverage is like 80% of destruction and no one really knows what’s going on.
Anyway, violence bad. And anyone who said otherwise helped hurt any postive momentum forward.

So with the black face moral panic, we’ve lost one of the best episodes of Community but the Governor of Virginia is still around? Everything seems so arbitrary.

It seems the relevant thing with the couple with guns is whether the protestors were on private property or not, and the fact that no one leads with that seems political.
And hey, if you’re all for abolishing the police, a lot more suburbanites standing around with AR-15s is what you’re going to get, so don’t be hypocritical here.

Stop telling journalists to “learn to code.” I don’t want to have to end up working with any of them.

Slave owning was a horrible sin. It’s hard to see how anyone thought that was okay.
So are we a better people now that we don’t have slavery?
No. We’re the same people still.

Everyone is like that Pharisee who prayed to God saying, “Thank you I’m not like that tax collector.”
The devil is fine with you hating sin — as long as it’s not your own sins.

People like Batman because he speaks to a truth we all have deep in our hearts: Crime can be solved by a billionaire punching poor people.

You’re going to defund the police and cancel Batman? This is like a Joker plot.

The left like to think they learned something from the civil rights era but many act as if they can just hate certain groups of people out of existence.

Can we blame the uptick on COVID-19 cases on all the people who unequivocally cheered on the protests?
I mean, I thought protests were good (looting, burning bad obviously — plus looting is often indoors where it’s higher risk), but it really was so bizarre for people one week to go “You’ll kill grandma!” about going to the zoo suddenly cheer on large crowds gathering.
Anyway, all the people who were cheering on the protests but are now yelling at other people for the increased COVID-19 cases should really just be banned from having an opinion for the rest of the pandemic.
I hate how partisan the stupid pandemic has become, but that’s what it is for all the loudest yelling voices.

I put on a mask and literally within seconds I was dead. But I took hydroxychloroquine and am better now.

A bunch of weird, hateful little trolls think they’re so right about politics they can decide which contrary views shouldn’t be allowed to be expressed, and it’s hard to believe they don’t see how insane that is.
I mean, you want to say to these people: “Just look at yourself. The idea that you’re right about even 50% of things is pushing it. You think the fact that you’re miserable and angry all the time is a good indication there’s a lot you don’t have figured out very well.”
We’re all wrong about things we’ve very sure we’re right about. That’s the point of the liberal tradition. It’s very bad if any of us go unchallenged. And it’s also bad to hold views — even if they’re right — that we can’t coherently defend.

The accumulated filth of all their politics and activism will foam up about their waists and all the boomers, millennials, and zoomers will look up and shout “Save us!”… and the Gen Xers will look down and whisper “Whatever.”

5 Comments

  1. It’s possible the idiots randomly destroying things don’t have any grand political ideals and are just idiots who like destroying things.

    Alternatively, destroying things probably is their grand political ideal.

    Oh, and they are definitely idiots.

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