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In The Mailbox: 07.25.18

Posted on | July 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #327
EBL: What Happened To Facebook?
Twitchy: Politifact Goes Easy On Kamala Harris And Her “Rent Crisis” Claim
Louder With Crowder: Is Work Ethic A Lost Art?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Incoming Dumbass Comments Alert, also, Podcast #88 – The Mission Episode
American Power: Allie Beth Stuckey Not Apologizing For Hilarious Interview With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also, Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
American Thinker: Black Crime Gets Crazier
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Plastic Straws Bonus Post
BattleSwarm: It’s The Smug
CDR Salamander: Deep Strike Or Distant Standoff?
Da Tech Guy: The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword, also, The NFL, Maxine Waters, & Kirsten Gillibrand – The Gifts That Keep On Giving In 2018
Don Surber: School Banned T-Shirt, Now Must Pay Student $25,000
Dustbury: A Brief Historical Moment
First Street Journal: Elon Musk And Doxxing
The Geller Report: Obama’s Cybersecurity Coordinator Confirms Susan Rice Ordered Him To Stand Down On Russian Meddling, also, ISIS Claims Responsibility For Toronto Attack After Police Deny It’s Terrorism
Hogewash: Spoiled Brat Mode? also, Looking Toward The Center Of The Galaxy
Legal Insurrection: Chris Cuomo Punked – Broke Big Trump Tape Scoop, But Cohen Taped Him Too, also, U. Minn. Alumnus Yanks Support Over Censorship Of Ben Shapiro, Conservative Students
Michelle Malkin: Shared Wisdom On A Silver Anniversary
The PanAm Post: The American Left Still Getting It Mostly Wrong On Russia
Power Line: Trump Makes A Deal, also, The WaPo’s Idea Of A “Good Summer” For Socialists
Shot In The Dark: When You’ve Solved All Your Real Problems
The Jawa Report: Islamic Terrorist Murders Twelve In Canada
The Political Hat: Bible Study Banned On Private Property
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Corpsman Devon Rideout Ambushed, Murdered, also, CPT Christopher Anderson Saving The World
Victory Girls: The Trump-Cohen Tape – Much Ado About Nothing
Volokh Conspiracy: The Dead Can Vote, At Least On The 9th Circuit
Weasel Zippers: Fauxcahontas Promises Dems Will Raise Taxes If They Retake Congress, Doesn’t Think 50% Is Too High, also, Poll Says Dems Less Likely To Know What Socialism Is, Twice As Likely To Support It
Megan McArdle: People Are Getting Fired For Old, Bad Tweets – Here’s How To Fix It
Mark Steyn: The Amalgamated Union Of Known Wolves


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You Need Some ‘Fat Positive Activism’?

Posted on | July 25, 2018 | Comments Off on You Need Some ‘Fat Positive Activism’?

Some readers may remember Ali Thompson, the bisexual queer fat activist who declared, “Just being around men is exhausting.”

Ms. Thompson runs a Tumblr blog called “OK2BeFat” where she offers her readers “fat positive activism,” i.e., sloganeering like this:

 

“Diet culture is capitalist violence”? What does this even mean? It is a rhetorical appeal to left-wing prejudice — capitalism is bad, and therefore associating “diet culture” with capitalism is a way of demonizing anyone who suggests you eat a salad instead of a double cheeseburger. Fat people are engaged in “a form of resistance” if they eat the cheeseburger with a large order of fries and a strawberry milkshake.

And is it even necessary to say Ali Thompson is a feminist?

 

The hijacking of civil-rights rhetoric — “discrimination” and “fat rights” — is as obvious as it is offensive. It is absurd to claim that fat people suffer “discrimination” analogous to Jim Crow, and what can feminism do to eliminate the “policing of fat bodies”? The self-evident purpose of this sloganeering is to convince fat people that their misfortunes are essentially political, that they are victims of oppression, in order to mobilize them to do . . . what? Vote Democrat?

 

The self-declared “Mean Fat Girl” wants to guilt-trip people for their alleged “fatphobia.” Stigmatizing ordinary preferences as irrational “phobia” is a tactic borrowed from gay-rights activists. “Homophobia” is a word coined for political purposes, implying that a preference for heterosexuality is wrong, and you see how Ali Thompson uses “fatphobia” to imply that the mere existence of thin people is oppressive.

 

The “pain,” “suffering” and “agony” of fat people is “inflicted” by thin people who are motivated by fear, Ali Thompson informs us. You see what extraordinary rhetorical jiu-jitsu is required by this effort to stigmatize thinness, to depict thin people as oppressors inspired by malign motives, responsible for “the pain inflicted on fat people.”

This is the “fat positive activism” that Ali Thompson solicits contributions for via Patreon, but it doesn’t seem very “positive,” does it?

She is now producing videos like this one, accusing critics of “hate” and claiming that “fat haters” are denying her humanity.

 

When fat activists point out that fat people are routinely discriminated against in our culture, the inevitable response is — well, if you don’t like being discriminated against, why don’t you just lose weight? . . .
I object to the entire framing of the issue that fat people should somehow have to prove to the people who hate us that we don’t deserve to be hated. It’s not my job to prove to you that I’m a person.
To even agree to debate my humanity is to lose, because I would have to agree that fat haters have any right to pass judgment on me.
I absolutely reject that idea. I will never agree to a framing that positions me as less than human or as somehow having to prove my humanity to anyone.

Who is questioning her “humanity”? But never mind — this rhetoric is merely preamble to Ali Thompson’s argument that dieting is futile, that there is no point in fat people even trying to lose weight: “Dieting doesn’t work. That’s simply a fact.” And you see this is essential to her argument that fat people, like gay people, constitute a special political class as victims of unjust discrimination: They’re born that way.

What is actually being targeted here is personal preference. If you think it is better to be thin than to be fat, you’re a “fat hater” and, because this preference is quite general in society, fat people are victims of “very obvious and public suffering,” according to Ms. Thompson. Her logic is entirely analogous to the LGBT lobby’s claim that gay people are oppressed by rampant societal “homophobia.” In both cases, activists seek to shame normal people for entirely normal preferences.

The victimhood mentality of “social justice warriors” (SJWs) is leveraged to bully people into silence. Characterizing a belief as “hate” is a way to make it impermissible to express that belief — a totalitarian project which seeks to prevent people from forming their own opinions and defending their own values, free from political coercion.

SJWS always require scapegoats to blame for their unhappiness.

 

Who is inciting “hate”? Unless you accept the liberal definition of “hate” (i.e., disagreeing with a liberal), you see that the real hate is coming from people like Ali Thompson, who have embraced an ideology that encourages an attitude of resentment and self-pity. Her entire worldview is based on believing herself to be a victim of “fat haters” and “cis men” with their “rudeness and aggression.” It is no coincidence that this attitude is integral to the identity-politics formula that is the organizing principle of the Democrat Party, whose 2016 presidential candidate has spent the past 18 months blaming everyone else for her defeat.

What’s an angry obese SJW to do?

 

Y’know, if Ali Thompson started a GoFundMe to leave America — $800 for a one-way ticket to Caracas, Venezuela — I’m sure it would succeed. Hunger is rampant in Venezuela and there’s no capitalism there.

Only socialism can cure the obesity epidemic — vote Democrat!

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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 07.24.18

Posted on | July 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 07.24.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: The Genesis Of Leaks – Schiff Happens
EBL: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Super Cut
Twitchy: Iowahawk Dreams Big As Santa Barbara Ups The Ante On Seattle’s Plastic Straw Ban
Louder With Crowder: Nikki Haley Has Advice For Young Conservatives Not Everyone Will Like

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Jordan Peterson’s Psychobabble
American Power: Allie Beth Stuckey’s Satirical Interview With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets One Million Views On Facebook, And Liberals Are Furious, also, Justice Department Wants Refund From Georgia Sheriff Who Bought Muscle Car
American Thinker: Hillary Couldn’t Remember Benghazi Ambassador’s Name
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Parking Space Shootout News
BattleSwarm: San Francisco, A Literal Sh*thole
CDR Salamander: Priorities, Money, And…Good Googly Moogly, I Need A Drink
Da Tech Guy: Cleese & Grail v. Gadsby & Nanette – Advantage Cleese, also, Diagnosis TDS
Don Surber: You Are Not That Important, Newspapers
Dustbury: You Are Summoned By Queen Allura
First Street Journal: Where Is The Money Coming From?
The Geller Report: Toronto Jihadi Faisal Hussain – Another “Known Wolf”, also, Indian Muslims Lynch Hindu Man For Affair With Muslim Girl
Hogewash: An Anniversary, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Show Me The Money
Legal Insurrection: Handmaid’s Tale-Themed Protests Of VP Pence Not Only Stupid But Dishonest, also, Norks Start To Dismantle Satellite Launching Station
The PanAm Post: Duque Says Santos’ Error Was To Divide Colombia Into Friends & Enemies Of Peace
Power Line: Our Under-Incarceration Problem, Atlanta Edition, also, The Damond Case Against Minneapolis
Shot In The Dark: Pro Tip
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – Let’s Sue The Feds!
The Political Hat: The Normalization Of Medical Homicide
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday Morning Feelgood Stories, also, Faisal Hussain, Toronto Gunman
Victory Girls: Rand Paul Is Right – Ex-CIA Head Brennan Should Lose His Security Clearance
Volokh Conspiracy: 9th Circuit Declares Second Amendment Secures Right To Open Carry In Public
Weasel Zippers: Texas Man Slammed For Creating “Alternative To Illegals” Business Card, also, CNN Host Feigns Outrage After Reports That AG Sessions Joined “Lock Her Up” Chant
Megan McArdle: Ink-Stained Kvetches And The Daily News


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FMJRA 2.0: Shamanic Tales

Posted on | July 25, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: The Bikini Invitational
Animal Magnetism
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Loony Troons: Fantasy, Mental Illness and the Transgender Victimhood Narrative
EBL

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Russian Military Intelligence
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: Strange Man, Changed Man
357 Magnum
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.16.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Socialist Democrat: ‘Human Evolution … Marching Towards Progress’
EBL

The Butler Did It: ‘Gender Trouble’ and the Academic Roots of the #Transcult
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.17.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Trump’s Summer Summit Bummer
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.18.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Sex Offender Goes Transgender, Moves in With Family, Rapes 15-Year-Old Girl
A View From The Beach
EBL

Worst Mother Ever?
A View From The Beach
EBL

These People Are Crazy
Eternity Matters
EBL

Accused Murderer Kills Convicted Sex Offender in Florida Jail Fight
EBL

Immigrant From Guatemala Raped, Impregnated 12-Year-Old Girl, Police Say
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.19.18
Proof Positive
EBL

‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’
Pushing Rubber Downhill
EBL

‘Cohen! Cohen! Cohen!’
EBL

She Keeps on Frisching
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.20.18
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending July 20:

  1. EBL (19)
  2. A View From The Beach (9)
  3. Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!


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John Hawkins and Self-Inflicted Wounds

Posted on | July 24, 2018 | Comments Off on John Hawkins and Self-Inflicted Wounds

by Smitty

Hawkins brings us “5 Ugly Truths About Women That Young Men Need to Recognize“, and the operator is “young”. You should read the whole thing, lads, but focus on growing up ahead of, rather than through, such self-inflicted wounds.

Let’s review:
1. Beauty fades
It transitions, certainly. but I have seen plenty of women continue to glow right on through wrinkles and grey hair. And it’s not about getting work done and war paint. It’s about taking care of themselves and NOT comparing themselves to the cover of Cosmo.
Men are grey/fat/balding/falling apart, too. Get over it.

2. After your relationship ends, you may be surprised at the ruthless treatment you get
OK, I lived this one. And all I can say is: keep your distance until marriage. The advice I currently give to the young men is to hang out, and have a blast IN THE CHURCH GROUP. There’s nothing perfect about anyone, but what a great noise filter the group can be to keep the actual fun high, and stress low.

Hawkins goes on to explore status, stability, and hatred of weakness. Read the whole thing.

I just don’t think you can make any useful generalizations along those lines. What we’re really discussing here is maturity. While I think I perhaps waited too long to settle down, the key is to ensure that one is morally and mentally mature before getting to the point of committment.

Because that’s what’s at stake: the seriousness with which the marital oath is taken. Now, obviously, skipping out on that oath does not preclude becoming President [Bill Clinton joke goes here].

But you know what’s more important that being POTUS? Having joy under the sun. Avoiding stress. Knowing that, no matter what Southern Poverty Law Center says, you’re an honorable man.

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Radical Feminist Exposes #TransCult

Posted on | July 24, 2018 | 1 Comment

It is difficult to exaggerate how radical Natasha Chart’s feminism is. She is chairwoman of the board of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), an organization that originated in Deep Green Resistance, which is just about as far left as you can go (without moving to Pyongyang).

It is therefore highly significant that Chart has joined the Hands Across the Aisle coalition, an effort to unite women across ideological boundaries in opposition to The Transgender Cult.

In a must-read article at The Federalist, Chart describes the harassment feminists have endured — including violence and bomb threats — for daring to dissent from transgender ideology:

  • Lesbian women have been pushed out of LGBT events and social groups, including groups they founded, for saying they wouldn’t consider male sex partners. . . .
  • Many women have been forced to resign, or were fired, like I was, or writers blacklisted, for dissent from a male-centered line on gender identity and the sex trade. . . .
  • During Pride month this year, a lesbian was beaten up outside of a drag show for being unwilling to lie about another woman’s biological sex. . . .
  • The weekend before London Pride, a small group of lesbians marched in the San Francisco Dyke March with gender-critical signs. They were assaulted, knocked over, their signs were stolen and torn. The march committee and the National Center for Lesbian Rights blamed the victims for the assaults. . . .
  • The Obama administration ended the effective right to single-sex accommodations for women in all crisis shelters, prisons, immigration detention centers, and publicly funded schools. . . .
  • A trans-identified male who protested the Michigan Women’s Music Festival, as a leader of “Camp Trans,” murdered two lesbians who used to attend the festival, and their son. . . .
  • All of us became nearly numb to the death threats, rape threats, directives to commit suicide, doxxings, and calls for women to be fired over gender politics, over social media. . . .

You can and should read the whole thing.

 

Category: The Transgender Cult

Offending the Easily Offended

Posted on | July 24, 2018 | Comments Off on Offending the Easily Offended

 

Do I want to defend Trevor Noah? No, he’s not funny and I hate his politics. On the other hand, who is offended by this 2013 joke?

South African comedian Trevor Noah is facing heavy criticism after a video of a stand-up routine from 2013 where he made a joke about Australia’s Aboriginal women resurfaced online.
Australians on social media are now calling for a boycott of his tour scheduled to begin with a performance at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on August 23. . . .
“All women of every race can be beautiful,” the host of the Daily Show said.
“And I know some of you are sitting there now going, ‘Oh Trevor … I’ve never seen a beautiful Aborigine’ But you know what you say? You say, ‘Yet.’ Because you haven’t seen all of them, right?”

Is that offensive? To whom? Aborigines, perhaps.

According to the most recent Australian census, there are fewer than 700,000 Aborigines, about 3% of Australia’s 24 million population.

Because I’ve never been to Australia, and have no plans to go there, my opinion about Aborigine women’s beauty (or lack thereof) is moot. If you’re a world-traveler who greatly admires Aborigine women, OK, but opinions may vary. What’s so outrageous about Trevor Noah’s joke?

Isn’t it the suggestion that beauty is not distributed equally among women? That some women are more fortunate in this regard than others? And that beauty is a generally desirable quality?

Trevor Noah could have made Peruvian women or Mongolian women the punch-line of his joke, to the same effect, and the perpetually offended would still scream in outrage. The very idea that women vary in beauty, and that men notice this, is sexist objectification, according to feminists.

Pandering to the social-justice mobs is Trevor Noah’s stock-in-trade — he’s made The Daily Show about as funny as a Rachel Maddow monologue — and so of course, he rushed to apologize:

Henceforth, Trevor Noah will ask the SJW overlords for prior permission to joke about anyone who is not a white heterosexual male Republican.

 

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In The Mailbox: 07.23.18

Posted on | July 23, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

“They don’t respect Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein anymore. They’re certainly not going to take long to forget about a mediocre, middle-aged white male.” – Vox Day, A Belated Discovery

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: So What “Severe Mental Problems” Did The Toronto Shooter Have?
Twitchy: “Don’t Use That Term,” MSNBC’s Katy Tur Whines About Fox News & The Daily Caller
Louder With Crowder: Radical Feminist Becomes A “Man”, Gets Accused Of Male Privilege

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Apparently The Way To Fix Immigration Is With More Immigration
American Power: Apply The Same Rules To James Gunn, also, Raising A Black Daughter In A Red State
American Thinker: Losing America
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Twitter Suspends Jim Treacher, also, Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez Overspends $200K To Avoid Obeying The Law
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, July Maritime Natsec Melee
Da Tech Guy: Washington Post Is Racist Against Mexicans, also, The History Of Democratic Party Failures On Russia
Don Surber: Welcome To The Trump Schadenfreude List, New York Daily News
Dustbury: Paying The Deergeld, also, Strange Search Engine Queries
Fausta: Sunday Palate Cleanser – Russia Russia Russia
First Street Journal: Good News! Bernie Sanders And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Want To Turn Kansas “Red”
The Geller Report: Toronto Police Finally Name Former Muslim Boyfriend In Brutal Murder of Alyssa Lightstone, also, Tunisia Muslims Hold BBQ In Jewish Cemetery
Hogewash: Trump Derangement And Losing, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
JustOneMinute: A Tale Of Two FISA Applications
Legal Insurrection: NY Daily News Goes Full TDS – Now It’s Laying Off Half Their Staff, also, #OccupyLafayettePark Protest – Another Clintonworld Subterfuge
The PanAm Post: The Sao Paulo Forum And The Threat Of Left-Wing Totalitarianism
Power Line: Devin Nunes Vindicated, also, The Associated Press Lies About The FISA Application
Shark Tank: Trump Stands Up To Iranian Threats, Threatens “Yuge” Consequences
Shot In The Dark: Is This The MPLA, I Thought It Was The USA
STUMP: Around The Pension-O-Sphere
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Mummy Mojos Don’t Drink Them
The Political Hat: “So, Just So You All Know: Trans. Girls. Get. Periods.”
This Ain’t Hell: FTC Cracks Down On Phony Veteran Charities, also, Iran Threatens US With “Mother Of All Wars”
Victory Girls: Dear Feminuts – You Asked For This!
Volokh Conspiracy: Abortion, Clarence Thomas, And The Commerce Clause
Weasel Zippers: Obama – “I’m The First Sitting American President To Come From Kenya”, also, Gowdy Says If Collusion Existed, Schiff Would Have Leaked It
Mark Steyn: Summertime, also, What’s Left To Say About Psycho?


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