These are strange times indeed in the imaginary world inside Davis Aurini’s bald head.
Last week, the failed filmmaker and white nationalist (on paper) posted a response, of sorts, to the Orlando massacre that tells us very little about the tragic event itself — but quite a bit about Davis Aurini, including his exceedingly creepy thoughts on the sexual fantasies of teenage girls.
As you might imagine, the bald bigot has little sympathy for the mostly gay victims of the massacre — he describes them, in present tense, as “a group who predominantly work against our interests.” But he still wishes he could have been there to shoot the shooter himself, because “pragmatic, honourable, loving, and rule-following wolves” like himself “do not tolerate people who break the rules.”
Apparently the problem with Omar Mateen wasn’t so much that he murdered 49 people but that he broke some rules in the process. I shudder to think what Aurini thinks the penalty should be for jaywalking, or peeking at someone else’s cards while playing Go Fish.
So that’s strange enough. But what’s this thing about “rule-following wolves?”
Aurini is drawing on a notion — explicated in detail in Anonymous Conservative’s book The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics and promoted heavily by far-right “thinkers” like Vox Day — that conservatives are steely “K-selected” reproducers well-suited for harsh environments while liberals are a bunch of irresponsible, resource-guzzling “r-selected” losers who practice free love and single motherhood.
Or, in furrier terms: Liberals are rule-bending rabbits, while conservatives are wolves who “prefer explicit hierarchies and distinct rules.”
Brace yourself, fellow rabbits, because we’re about to go deep into the mind of Aurini.
“The morals of a Liberal,” he declares, “are the morals of a prey animal; cowardice, treachery, appeasement, irresponsibility, crowding.”
Crowding?
They promote social chaos so as to hide themselves in its milieu. When society has no clearly defined boundaries, or families, or communities, then it has no customs or rules. The Liberal is able to seek out their immediate benefit without censure or consequence – aside from the natural consequences of Mother Nature and the Gods of the Marketplace – but by the time the collapse occurs, they will have out-bred and cheated their way into dominance of the genome. They’ll have the most iligitimate children, they’ll form the bulk of the mob, and though many of them will be culled once winters hit, their genome will survive.
Fascinating, though completely wrong. Conservatives actually have about 40 percent more children than liberals, according to a 2006 study that seems to be backed up by voting preferences in presidential elections. As Amanda Marcotte notes in Slate:
Higher fertility in red states … is the product of the societal pressure on women there to marry young, have more children, and put less of their energy into developing careers. In blue states, on the other hand, women tend to limit their family size and have kids later in life. …
But don’t buy the conservative hype linking ideology to family stability. Red states have higher incidences of teen births and divorce … .
Let’s ignore the fact that Aurini’s rickety theoretical framework is totally and completely wrong in every way it could possibly be wrong, and let him explain more about the rabbits.
“The only emotions I’ve ever seen them display are lust and terror,” Aurini writes.
The rabbit – upon suffering abuse, violence, and threat – this is the closest they ever come to feeling love.
I really, really, really hope that Aurini has never had actual pet rabbits.
He continues, getting creepier by the sentence:
Their terror morphs into something that’s downright spiritual – a spirituality that’s utterly demonic – and they find the same catharsis in Islamic murderers as they do in bug chasing and sharing their wives. The overwhelming fear snaps their amygdala, and for the first time in their life they are at peace.
Apparently us liberals are all murder-loving, AIDS-wanting wife swappers?
The rabbits love the pedophile, the single mother, the graffiti artist, the tyrant, and the drug addict; of course they’ll love the terrorist.
I spoke too soon! Apparently we liberals are single-mother enabling, tyrant-obeying, drug-addict coddling, murder-loving, terrorist adoring, AIDS-wanting, wife swapping, pedophile-phile graffiti art enthusiasts.
And I haven’t even gotten to the bit about the sexual fantasies of teenage girls. Brace yourself again, dear readers, because, well, this is Davis Aurini writing about what he thinks are the sexual fantasies of teenage girls.
Raised on narcissism, solipsism, and social media, your average girl graduating High School has been inundated with images of American Soldiers marching in cherry-red high-heeled shoes; of weak White men bowing down before the dictates of the diversity crowd.
The red shoes bit, in case you’re wondering, is a reference to the fact that last year several college ROTC programs encouraged (or forced, depending on whose account you believe) male cadets to participate in a Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event during Sexual Assault Awareness month.
And you gotta love the capital “W” for “white.”
Aurini — *shudder* — continues:
Her erotic fantasies have been focused on pretty-boy homosexuals and yaoi porn, and having never suffered any adversity in her life, she cannot begin to fathom the threat that exists.
Oh, but it gets worse:
Compare her mental image of Western masculinity to that of the the Orlando shooter – the Boston Bombers – the Paris attackers – or the jihadis who behead innocents: instead of graduating from pretty-boy Luke Skywalker to bad-boy Han Solo, her first tingles will happen when she matures beyond the safe sexuality of anime characters to the blood-dripping blade of a third-world savage.
Even if we set aside from the odd (and oddly dated) Star Wars reference — I’m pretty sure that very few teenage girls in the US today have posters of Mark Hamill hanging over their bed — this is almost incomprehensible.
Is Aurini really suggesting that teenage girls — or young women, or older women, or even Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford — are getting off on videos of terrorists beheading people?
Who the hell knows. What we do know, though, is that Davis Aurini is getting off on the idea of killing a whole bunch of Muslims. He ends his post with this chilling declaration:
Our mission as Men of the West – as men of God, of Civilization, of Honour, and Beauty – is to take upon ourselves the task of building ourselves up so that we might rebuild civilization. To reclaim the potency and virility of the Crusading Knight, and to be prepared at all times to fight these heretics and give them an ignoble death. …
If we are to die, let us die as heroes, slaughtering the forces of darkness that are railed against us. Pray for the strength of ten men during your final hour, because one of us is worth a hundred of them.
Wrong again. Davis Aurini isn’t even worth a cat poop.
All this talk about “tingles” makes me want a Chuck Tingle book parodying Davis Aurini.
Call it “Pounded in the Butt by 50 Toy Skulls”
All this talk about “tingles” makes me want a Chuck Tingle book parodying Davis Aurini.
Call it “Pounded in the Butt by 50 Toy Skulls”
Well, that was an interesting glimpse into Aurini’s pysche.
@Bryce , good point and good (implied) question!
We’ve talked about hot women here before, as well as other hot men! Human beings can have “conventionally attractive” as an attribute!
There are two things to point out about this, though.
Point the first is that feminists do not reduce a woman to her hotness. Attractiveness is not considered the most important thing about a woman, it’s just one of the attributes she can have. And it’s a pretty shallow attribute too – I don’t think anyone here would disagree with that!
Point the second is that there’s a big difference between calling a man hot and calling a woman hot! Mainstream society acknowledges men as actors, who go out and do things! Hotness is acknowledged as an attribute that they can have without impinging on this. If a woman is described as hot within mainstream society, it is generally used as an attribute that stands in place of her other attributes. She isn’t an actor, she is a thing-that-is-hot. Which isn’t cool!
We want the world to be more like point the first, and less like point the second. Do you see? Did I mess that one up, everyone?
@Bryce
To add to Scildfreja’s comment, even in the case of blatantly objectifying a man, it’s doesn’t have the same weight as objectifying a woman. They just aren’t comparable actions.
Objectification – in general – isn’t a great thing, and it’d be fair to ask something like “Why are you glad he’s hot? What does that have to do with him being PM?” I think that’s an interesting question, and could lead to some good discussion.
But the ol’ “What if the genders were swapped?” is lazy and doesn’t add much to the conversation, because the genders aren’t swapped, and swapping the genders makes the context entirely different. ([…imagining how people would like apple pie if apples were oranges…])
@Hambeast, well, he and Obama get along really well, so you have that! Obama’s apparently coming up here pretty soon to give an address to Parliament, which ought to be fun. I mean, everyone can see the bromance between Obama and Trudeau, right?
http://i.imgur.com/7NE3ude.gif
But there’s plenty he can’t do. Mostly centred around the fact that he’s super dorky and can’t help but goof off 😀
22 photos that show that men shouldn’t wear kilts
Yeah, let’s pretend women aren’t the sexual class with their attractiveness or lack of attractiveness discussed constantly by men.
*Eyeroll*
That table thing is really hard. If you get it wrong (which is pretty easy to do) you slash your wrists and faceplant the table.
I’m impressed. Wish we had a few politicians like that.
@Dalilama
Perhaps I’m letting my own tastes in men get the better of me here, but EXCUSE YOU
@Alan, yeah, I agree – it’s so refreshing to see a politician who’s an actual human being! My vote in the election for him was between the Liberals and the NDP, and both were proposing fairly similar platforms. What it came down to was the fact that Trudeau was born the son of a very popular former Prime Minister (Pierre Trudeau) … but he didn’t turn into a rich brat. He’s been a school teacher, a camp councilor, a drama teacher. He didn’t pick up his dads’ sexism, either (which was sort of a complex thing, too). Compared with the others, he struck me as being the most – you know – real. Someone who understands the concerns of an average Canadian family, and won’t let his message get bogged down by formality or pretension.
The Tories and their fans over here love saying how he got in solely because of his name – and that most certainly is what got him the limelight to begin with – but I’m pretty confident that he’s his own man, and he’s going to do great things.
I hope you get some real people into parliament soon, over there!
(Or at the least, a few fewer lords in the House of Lords)
Dalillama – That black one (looks like a Utilikilt) with the tartan on the insides of the pleats is to die for! Husbeast might just get one for Winter Solstice…
His name did have some to do with it though. Not because his last name is “Trudeau”, mind, but rather because it isn’t “Harper.”
Oh, Davis Aurini. You are such a disgusting human being.
@ scildfreja
I have a few friends in politics, across the spectrum. On the whole they are all decent people who enter politics with anintention to try to do good (one big exception, he changed parties when he was offered a safe seat).
The “Ya-boo!” hyperbole is what makes the news, and passion is a good thing; but the flipside is you end up with a lot of bitterness and hate in the electorate. The extreme consequences of that is the Jo Cox murder, but that’s just an extension of the general vitriol.
The irony is the actual politicians are a lot less partisan and nuanced than the electorate. PMQs makes good TV, but if you look at the committees where the work of governing is actually done people are a lot more cooperative.
Ironically when a politician does show a human side it goes down well. That’s part of the reason for Boris Johnson’s popularity. If any other politician nearly garrotted themselves getting stuck on a zip wire it would be the end of their career, but he just gets “Well that’s Boris for you”. But if you watched the London Assembly meetings, again there was a lot of cooperation and the politicians of all stripes are a lot more friendly there than they pretend not to be when they’re interviewed.
Politics, it’s a funny old game.
@Alan, that’s quite true, and I don’t mean to say that politicians are bad. There’s a worrying trend in the US where only rich people can get into federal government, and I worry that it’s started to leak up here. In general, though, they’re normal people trying to do good!
I was more talking about the way they act – there’s a certain condescension in the way the “stock” politician speaks that Trudeau doesn’t have. I’m hoping it starts to spread to the rest of our government here, and they can actually settle into doing some actual governing! With the Conservative political machine in shambles and the NDP doing no better, there’s a slight window in which their reconstruction could be for the better. Here’s hoping!
And another picture, because I can’t help myself and it’s heartwarming. Here’s the pink “heart” picture from before, this time with the original text:
http://www.joemygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/JTtransrights-660×330.jpg
I thought people here would like to know the context of that one.
Well Aurinni is wrong on the yaoi part . Bara is obviously better then yaoi!
@ scildfreja
You might like this story. A mate was asked to stand for the Tories. It was in a Labour safe seat so they just needed a hod carrier. He’s not particularly into politics so he was happy to do it (so long as he didn’t actually have to do any work)
There’s a nice convention here that you always vote for your opponent (so no-one ever gets zero votes).
We asked if he’d “done the decent thing?”
He said “I would have done, but I’m not on the electoral register”
(Amazingly you didn’t actually have to be at the time to stand for MP)
That’s the level of commitment you want in a politician 🙂
@Vicki, Hambeast, Carayak
*stares shyly at the floor*
Thx for answering. I’da felt a right git if nobody said anything
@Chio specifically
Fffffuuuuucccckkkk
http://67.media.tumblr.com/e06d7acd5f864764c70fa437e65c54d7/tumblr_inline_nos3tte5P01r5ight_500.gif
2sexy4me 😛
But since you sorta asked… you leave the house but forget your hat. The bus comes in, like, a minute. Is it worth it? Can you make it in time? That twinge in your belly. Like when you hold your breath for a second. That’s my immediate ‘dayum, you’re hot’ reaction. If that makes sense
As far as genitals (TMI ALERT)… “touchy”? Kinda. But more… heavy? Best word I can come up with. It’s like adding an extra book into a backpack… except on the front. Yours seems more fun. Mine’s an uncomfortable inconvenience. As in, getting heavy is way better than actually being heavy
@Alan
If you’re still curious, I’m 5.5′ (168cm for the SI types). Bringing down the average since middle school…
There’s a lot of Justin Trudeau love going on here, but despite his pretty face and socially liberal platforms, his parliamentary record is not good. He voted “yes” to a lot of Steven Harper’s ugliest legislation, he’s currently selling military hardware to Saudi Arabia, and he’s neoliberalist through and through (he favours the TPP). Harper swung Canada toward a Republican party style of governance, and many Canadians voted for Trudeau as an “anything but Harper” strategy. My impression of the guy is he’s the smiling face of capital – lots of women in the cabinet, a guy in a wheelchair, some Sikhs and a South Asian woman. Its just an aesthetic mask for the same old domination, and in 4-8 years we’ll dump them and vote in the Conservatives again and the cycle will continue to repeat.
@ axecalibur
Ha, 🙂 but thank you for your input.
***TMI warning***
Re: tingly bits
Ever since accidentally whacking myself in the nads some years back I’ve been able to predict the weather.
Apparently that’s quite common. You get a bit of fluid trapped that acts as a mini barometer. So guys, if you sometimes feel a ‘dragging’ sensation down there (especially on the left) there’s nothing to worry about.
@rick, I’m certainly not happy about everything he’s done! Especially the Saudi Arabia thing, that makes me really angry. I had thought he was anti-TPP, as well! The TPP is a complicated thing, really (it’s terrible, but staying out of it will isolate us from those markets), but on the whole I do hope we stay out.
He isn’t perfect, but I have a better estimation of him than you, I think! I’m more hopeful that his policies will usher in a Canada that I can recognize again.
@Alan, hee hee!
to the story. Not the built-in barometer. That sounds uncomfortable :S
@ scildfreja
It’s the nearest thing I’ve got to a superpower so I quite like it.
I have to agree with you, Rick. I like him as a person, but not as impressed at the policies. He’s done some good things, and some not so good ones. Very disappointed re: TPP and Saudi arms deal, for example.
Oh my god, really???
Okay, I take back everything, men really are magical.