Over on Chateau Heartiste, everybody’s favorite pickup-artist-turned-racist-shithead-with-delusions-of-literary-grandeur Heartiste is getting pretty worked up about Confederate statues and, er, high-speed rail.
The Confederate statues being torn down across the South are just the latest battle fronts opened up by shitlibs who obey the credo that a good offense is the best defense. As the shitlib religion sits on a very shaky foundation that the Maul-Right is currently rupturing with seismic waves of realtalk, it behooves shitlibs to press their hate machine forward, into enemy territory bla bla bla blabbity blab blab bloo bloo.
Ok, I got a little bored there, and you probably did too. He finally comes to the point:
The lesson: never give the Left an inch. They’ll take a parsec. Confederate statues today, books authored by White men tomorrow, until it finally reaches end game: second class status for all Whites outside of a few Acela elites who sufficiently grovel at the altar of anti-Whitism.
Acela elites? Acela is a regional “high speed” rail line on the east coast that can only run at top speed on less than 30 miles of track because our rail infrastructure is so crappy. Apparently the people who ride it are all seeekret Soros race-traitor Illuminati who conduct dark anti-white rituals on the train’s altar cars. Who knew?
“Behooves” is an older, out-of-style word that people use when, you guessed it, they are trying to sound smart.
@Steampunked
I used to roleplay with people who would type things as long as that for their responses(called poses, in the particular jargon used for the sort of games where this sort of RP occured).
It didn’t bother me too much, but I probably don’t want to read a book of that.
Their Nazis And Confederacy obsession baffles me. Why do they always identify with the side that spectacularly lost?
If you want fascists that people respect go with the Spartans or something.
ETA: Just remembered they actually lost at Thermopylae
Since the late 1960’s in the US, there’s been a steady rise in the number of addiction-related deaths (like cirrhosis of the liver) among white people without a similar rise among minority groups. The white birth rate has also declined. That’s supposedly proof that there’s a government conspiracy to destroy white people.
Confederate Statutes and monuments are the biggest participation trophies I’ve ever seen. And if you hate participation trophies, then it’s probably good idea to get rid of those.
Also, since when did we name schools, public spaces, and libraries after losers? Likewise, we found a perfectly good use for one of those loser general’s homes… Fill it full of dead people.
As for high speed trains? What’s the matter? Afraid that people will prefer mass-transit over wasting money on a piece of crap car? On the bus I can play video games and listen to music without focusing on the road…
But I forgot, most white guys like this clown are too damned lazy and afraid of walking after a bus or train drops them off somewhere.
oh how I wish that were true.
this shit would be over now.
instead, it was exactly the opposite. the left was far far too tolerant of these shitbags, and it’s THEM who have taken way more ground than they ever should have.
so tired of these fucking asshats playing the victim, when they have managed to gerrymander the entire rural US into voting their way.
fuck them.
“Realtalk”?
Heartiste is halfway to developing an Alt-Right Newspeak! I’m just waiting for him to start ranting about the doubleplusungood Globohomos.
What the actual fuck do these fascist shitheads have against technological progress? I mean, being mad because there’s a new fast train? Really?
Like, I’m totally down for being upset at gentrification, and I think there’s a good conversation to be had for why it’s bad and how we can fix the problem, and how this train might contribute to that at the moment but seriously.
It’s like they wanna cling to EVERYTHING from the “great” times, like slavery, shitty coal-belching trains, and women in the kitchen.
As someone who’s ridden Amtrak quite a few times: It’s about damn time we got on the same page as the rest of the world and got some faster fucking trains that don’t run and sound like it’s the 1800s.
Amtrak’s still better than flying though. Seats are wider, they go back farther, and they don’t cram you in like a fucking sardine. Plus the conductors are far better tempered than flight attendants it seems. I’ve never had a problem with a conductor, and I’ve only gotten sat next to an asshole passenger once. (He was drunk as hell and going to the same place I was to be a carnival worker. He wouldn’t stop playing his harmonica until the lovely conductor from Chicago told him to knock it off, or else.)
I also got sat next to a kid once, and his mother was very apologetic and asked if it would bother me, and I said no (I was traveling by myself), and I amused us both by taking pictures of the scenery when the train was moving slow with my DS, and doodling in dinosaurs and aliens. It was a nice trip, and the kid was very nice. He and his mom were going to Salt Lake, which was a good two week trip.
@Ludo
Apparently their newspeak is cobbled from words some black people in the US use. What a time to be alive.
@Alan
You mean the Spartans weren’t just super ripped, handsome brodudes who said funny things like “THIS IS SPARTA!” and kicked people into pits, like, they were actually just fascists?
What a twist! /s
@PI
Nazis burned books and killed professors, and you can remind any neonazi who tells you White German Aryans were the superior civilization that.
They have always been against education and learning. They have no place amongst civilized people. They are regressive tribal animals.
TW: nazi shiat
There. That’s the great Pinnacle of Civilization and Science and Technology, the wunderwaffen-maker nation that invented rockets and the internet, according to the Neonazis, burning fucking books like it’s the Library of Alexandria all over again.
This is what neonazis would do.
They don’t debate opposing ideas, they just destroy them. They did not call the authors of these books to debate the matter with them in Berlin; they just burned the fucking books.
Nazis like burning books and killing academics.
Always remember that. Knowledge is the enemy of fascism, fascism can’t stand close contact to knowledge, it disintegrates like dirt rubbed with soap.
The Confederate States of America were literally an enemy nation to the United States. That nation was founded by traitors, and it existed because of their attachment to slavery. And they lost. Get over it already.
Monuments to that failed racist country are appalling. They exist solely to perpetuate racism by glorifying racists. “Heritage not hate” is specious nonsense; Germans had the right idea when they outlawed the display of Nazi symbols. When the heritage you want to honor and emulate is based on hatred and bigotry, you can’t hide behind claims that you’re just honoring your ancestors. Honoring them is inextricably linked to honoring their views and beliefs, which in this case are atrocious.
This isn’t a slippery slope leading to some kind of liberal authoritarianism, and has nothing whatsoever to do with oppressing the poor beleaguered white men. This is very simple: the United States of America should not have public monuments to its ideological enemies. Being anti-racist isn’t remotely the same as being anti-White, except insofar as so many White people are comfortably racist.
You know, even with the recognition of privilege, which honestly is an ongoing process, I have never been ashamed of being white… except when I read crap like this.
I grew up in the South, spoon fed casual racism and the Lost Cause, and it’s taken a lot of time and introspection to set all of that aside. And, again, it’s not cured – it’s more like a chronic condition that has to be managed.
I am FINE with statues of Confederate generals being pulverized into gravel. The war was a big “fuck you” to the United States, to the ideal of democracy, to the ideals of statesmanship and compromise and oh, yes, to the very ideal of freedom.
I know this isn’t a shock to anyone, as many of these people are explicitly opposed to those very same ideals. But they matter to me.
Angri-la?? Perfect!! (Stealing, with your permission, Citizen Rat.)
This is perfectly phrased.
@Policy of Madness
Oh dear! I seem to be totally without friends on this one ?
I guess, though, I don’t use it to sound smart but because it has a specific meaning that I want to indicate at the time, so there is that difference between me and the jerks.
I sometimes wish, though, that using a wide vocabulary (when the words are being used properly) wasn’t automatically associated with being snobby and/or a shitbag. It was a constant source of shame to me, at school, to have a large, usable vocabulary. I was teased quite mercilessly because I didn’t restrict my expression to the more limited vocabulary used by my peers. This wasn’t out of snobbery, but out of a desire to be accurate. If I knew a word expressing exactly what I wanted to say, I used it without thinking twice. It was only when I left school and went to university that I started to be proud of and see the potential in my linguistic abilities.
Kids who seem smarter than others frequently have a rough time at school. Unlike sporting endeavor, book smarts aren’t valued by one’s peers. So because my ‘super power’ was English, not skateboarding or footy, I was constantly derided and every attempt made to crush my soul.
To me, though, every word has a specific meaning so I use the one that best expresses what I want to say, whether it has two syllables or six. It’s that straightforward.
@Lucrece
Behoove is an amazing word, always has been, and you’re not alone *fist bump of vocabularists*
@Fran
Those specific books, if I’ve correctly identified that video, are the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sex Research, including his work on gender-affirming medical interventions for trans folks.
@Axe
@Lucrece
I used to play old vocabulary builder games on my old 386 Windows 3.1 PC for fun, you guys.
I also had Word of the Day calendars and etc. For a while I stopped because of similar reasons and attempted to narrow my language to suit others, which was literally one of the worst decisions I have ever made in my lengthy career of terrible decisions, but I’ve improved and realized the error of my ways and now continue to expand my vocabulary to the best of my ability.
Orange Fuckup’s ascension particularly revitalized my wish to further improve myself, I’d say.
@Axecalibur
Yay! Thank you! You literally made me feel good enough to actually get out of bed today (it’s 11:30am in Melbourne and I was feeling a little down. By which I mean deeply depressed. I also tend to understate things ☺️)
Goofiness break:
Speaking of the Ratzis, I hear Boss Ratzi came to regret his choice of allies…
^_^
Off-topic, and someone may have already beaten me to the punch, but a bunch of men are in a tizzy because a theater in Austin, Texas decided to have ONE special, women-only showing of Wonder Woman… and the theater’s facebook page is pretty funny right now.
I honestly doubt any of these men bemoaning it would even ‘lower’ themselves to go see a female-led superhero movie.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelblackmon/wonder-woman-women-only-screening?bfsource=bbf_enus&utm_term=.mipJEayRj#.keKLx4MzV
@Francesca
One of us! The ascension of the Orange One is an excellent reason to get back into vocab building! I’m a word nerd, it’s true, but I feel a quiet thrill in finding the exact right way to express something.
Maybe we should start a Mammotheer Reading Club? Hmm…
@Ivory Bill
Ah, Kancolle. I always wanted to play that game but it never got actually officially released this side of the pond.
@lucrece
Looks like there is an argument on this one!
I thought behooves was from horses. Because of hooves.)))) But regarding what you say about vocabulary i have remember something someone said to me before – if everyone is writing often they get their own style. That is sounding natural and has a balance. So you must naturally use this word and lots of wide vocabulary.
But these people do.not write naturally – they make adjustment so that people.will think they smart and that is maybe why i dont like this words or other similar unusual ones. Because for them it is abnormal and possible to feel that when you read what they say. If they had intellegence or experience to support what they write then it would show and it would be smooth and feel like a natrual when you read it. This is the difference i think.
Also i mean this for writing on a language that is your mother tongue.
You are not alone, Lucrece.
It is astonishing that intellect is so devalued, when without it, we’d still be scratching our naked butts in the wilderness–the pitiful few of us who existed, that is.
Now that I think of it, that may be one of the reasons I became a teenage Randroid (I outgrew it in my college years, and I recently completed my 54th solar orbit). In Rand’s world, despite all its other flaws, at least intellect was not something to be ashamed of.