— and that might strike some bitterclingers — whose plastic beer helmets and vinyl carry-along Bible covers are cravenly beholden to Big Oil, it bears pointing out — as a bit regressive.
But it’s not all ‘regression’ in Europe. For instance, leftist academics are taking a hard look at political violence. And they’ve progressed in their thinking to such a point where they’ve done away with left-wing political violence altogether. By refusing to define it as such!
Voila!
Next up, the academic left will do away with war, turn capitalism into a rape culture, and end poverty as we know it simply by wielding ‘fairness.’ All they need is an open faculty lounge, a box of highlighters, and a few dozen copies of Animal Farm. And maybe some coffee and biscotti, if one of the proles they’re fixing to champion wouldn’t mind going and fetching some. Now. Chop chop!
If they ban cars, then there won’t be any more car-B-ques in the banlieus.
Problem solved!
It also occurs to me that they’re not reading Animal Farm so much as Atlas Shrugged, and they’re taking a yellow highlighter to the “looter” parts.
On account of they’ve got THOSE lines down cold.
Related to this and the previous post.
Thuggery shows positive ROI. Rosy future for thuggishness predicted.
Thug: from the Hindu, Thugee – a devotee of the goddess Kali, known for strangling and burying random strangers as a sacrament. See also: Gunga Din
Compare: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
I’ve thought it through and concluded she needs to be punched in the head.
Then look for more confiscatory taxes to replace the “lost revenue” from decreased income via gasoline taxes.
I have no problem with principled, thought-through political ‘violence.’
And I have no objection to a judicious, well-executed “whiff of grape.”
Oh, and the riots in London? Anarchists, demanding larger government.
Yes, they think you’re stupid.
The word “violence” is used to conflate, make a moral equivalence between the act of self-defense and the attack which precedes and is the cause of the self-defense. What they are now doing is to black-hole the attack and foreground the defense so as to invert the whole moral equation in favor of the thug. Britain has already taken this whole idea and written it into the law.
Confucius say:
2500 years ago…
40-odd years ago, the Guardian was a bastion of working-class left-wing stupidity, now it has become a bastion of upper-class academic left-wing stupidity, a journal of chardonnay socialist self-congratulation.
Someone remind me: When is “Punch a Hippie in the Throat Day” again? And can we change it to “Shoot an Anarchist in the Head Day”?
Wait ’til they ban airplanes.
That next Euro-diaspora to America’s gonna be a bitch when the continent starts going full-blown sharia in about ten years.
My favorite part is that these sorts of things end up as a ban on cars for YOU. Not US. I mean, the important people will still have them, they need them. But you guys? You need to give them up, and quick, for fairness and gaia.