Here’s a little case study in alt-right hypocrisy.
Last week, like a lot of people, the wannabe self-help guru and alt-right opinion-haver who calls himself “DarkTriadMan” professed to be outraged by Kathy Griffin posing for photos with a stylized severed head of Donald Trump.
Given that DarkTriadMan’s whole schtick is based on the idea that men should act more like psychopaths if they want to get ahead in life, you wouldn’t think he’d be much bothered by Griffin’s admittedly dark stunt, but he made quite a show of his outrage, endlessly retweeting alt-right attacks on Griffin and adding his own spin to the news:
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/870652822836195328
He was glad to see Griffin brought to tears by the reaction to her photos:
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/870689717049634816
And fantasized about Barron Trump ultimately taking his revenge:
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/869935774883500033
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/869958745186590720
Today, in the wake of latest London attacks, Mr. Dark Triad seems to have gotten over his squeamishness about Griffin’s supposed call for violence against a sitting politician. Now he’s quite openly calling for the mass slaughter of Muslims.
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/871471460543602688
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/871355215215304704
He’s also talking about how great it would be if the mayor of London — a sitting politician, like Trump, with two children — were to be burned at the stake.
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/871354479593091072
Or impaled:
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/871353175466496000
Or torn apart by horses:
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/871352151846658048
Or blinded and hung:
https://twitter.com/DarkTriadMan/status/871352529262694400
This is more or less what I’ve come to expect from the alt-right; their “moral outrage” is almost always in very bad faith. But it’s still a little surprising to see just how blatant their hypocrisy can be.
Tangentially, it just occurred to me that Barron was one of the names Trump used when he was pretending to be his own imaginary publicity agent… Back in the ’80s.
HE NAMED HIS SON AFTER HIS OWN SELF-FELLATING PSEUDONYM.
Wut.
@PeeVee
Awesome! 🙂 Let me know if you ever want to recreate one of these. I’d give better instructions.
On Barron, I really hope that, unlike the rest of his family, he grows on to be a decent person. Poor kid didn’t ask to have a walking genital wart for a dad. Hopefully when he’s older he’ll give his dad no quarter for using him as a prop and fucking over the US
I can’t really cook for myself, so I usually make boxed macaroni and cheese. Also pizzas. And cheese sticks. And sandwiches.
I’m considering learning to make tofu. I tried it once and actually liked it, especially soaked in soy. Plus vegetarian dishes usually work for me, so I’m thinking about trying to go down that route.
@Sir Alan
On the contrary, I am glad you brought this to my attention, and by association, the Anglo-Saxon practice of Infangthief, which is very much relevant to the original article’s mention of harsh punishments that were common in the annals of history.
Also, how did I know Lord Halifax would have been behind the construction of such a thing? I fully expected it.
Hahahahaha, oh my Goddess. I’m slain, this man has killed me.
@SFHC
Maybe I’m reaching here, but has anyone actually seen Barron’s birth certificate? He could be much older than he looks. Maybe he was working for his dad back in the 80s.
@PeeVee
@Fran
Thank you!
Also on the list of harsh punishments common in history: The Oubliette. I don’t wanna go into that, it’s very much my personal third-worst case scenario.
@Sandra
Stir-fry it in a wok, with soy sauce, garlic, onion. I highly recommend it. It’s very tasty. You can add stir-fry vegetable packets to this.
I’m not sure how authentic or historically accurate this is, but I find that adding thyme and parsley to this lends a pleasant flavor to the tofu.
ETA:
From what I understand of oubliettes, rats would eat you while you were in them.
I think this gave George Orwell his idea of having the Ministry of Love torture Winston Smith with rats.
You are absolutely right. They are truly awful.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
All his examples show is that white men can’t rule without general slaughter.
@Francesca
Authenticity is secondary to being tasty. I’ll have to consider that. Thank you <3
I have serious problems ordering in restaurants because I have a limited set of foods I can tolerate well, and I've found that dishes heavy on cheese, rice, and vegetables are good standards to fall back on. Turkey is fucking terrible, and chicken is right out. Potatoes are particularly awesome. Baked, boiled, mashed, love em.
Drowning is also a pretty terrible way to die in my opinion, so that's also a harsh punishment commonly used in history.
@Feral Crone
Or the last resort of the righteous. Let’s not devalue that violence is the primary reason historical tyrants, all of them, fell if they ever did.
The other day I made a delicious lemon chicken on egg noodles with a fresh lemon right off the tree. Sadly, it was my last lemon and I won’t have any more until fall (unless I buy one in the store, but, why). Hopefully I’ll be moved by then and won’t need to share anymore.
The recipe was simple and improvised: deboned chicken thighs, butter, lemon, salt, a little sugar because I put too much lemon in it, pepper, garlic. If I made it again I might thicken the pan sauce with cornstarch, because it was a little runny.
My fall lemons will be Meyer lemons, so those will be some nice lemon drop martinis.
@Sandra
I could not agree more.
It’s so…bland. It manages to be bland and rank at the same time. It’s like you’re eating a fish that walks on land, and isn’t even a very tasty fish.
I don’t do the Thanksgiving turkey thing, and, apparently, this makes me an awful heretical un-American Enemy of the Public.
@Hippodameia, you’re welcome!
It was pretty easy to find the other two: I just looked up rulers who had defeated the Ottomans in wars, and voilá.
In other words, I thought like that asshole, and now I need to bleach my brain.
@Fran,
Yeah, he definitely has that Eastern European look, and God knows, they liked their cheetah royal attire.
@IP,
I most definitely will! Do you just make these recipes up yourself?
I’m with Scented Fucking Hard Chairs on this one. I highly doubt Barron ever even saw the thing, he’s, what, 10? 11? Kids that age aren’t that into Twitter or FB – those are for old geezers.
Besides, I get the idea that, whatever flaws Melania has, she makes some effort to be a halfway involved mom. Even if he’s primarily supervised by nannies or personal assistants, I doubt he’s just allowed a ton of screen time, even for a child born into wealth.
Just my two cents. Drumpf just has no compunctions whatsoever about exploiting anyone, including his own son.
@PeeVee
I imagine he makes sure everyone who takes his portrait is well aware of the impalement that might await any who don’t show him with immaculate volume and lift. Vain and fabulous Dracula is my headcanon
Family resemblance…
Whenever I see John or a permutation thereof and something Eastern European, I hafta anagram it now. How about… Bio Skies John! Don’t know what it means, but it sounds cool ?
@Axe
Sold. How much do I have to pay to commission a picture or fanfic of this?
@Francesca
Ugh. Me either. I do not eat turkey at thanksgiving. Hell, I don’t eat most of the traditional thanksgiving foods.
Turkey just falls apart in my mouth and the texture just squicks me out so fucking much it makes me wanna puke. That’s my objection to most foods – the fucking texture, not the taste. I can’t help but think I’m eating literal fucking dirt when turkey is in my mouth, and chicken reminds me of a short image I saw of cannibals picking stuff off of human bones. Which were probably turkey bones, since this was in a cinematic for a western game.
Don’t even get me started on mayonnaise. That shit makes good sandwiches bad, IMO.
Oh, and whenever I tear paper, it makes my skin crawl. It just feels so fucking wrong.
@PeeVee
They are usually inspired by something I’ve seen somewhere, but yeah, as much as you can make up recipes, they’ve been made up by me.
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Turkey is actually the thing I miss the most from my pre-vegetarian days.
@Petal
I made a lovely vegan meal last night with homemade soba noodles and sautéed mushrooms, garlic scapes, scallions, and a ginger-sesame sauce. It was delicious, but the noodles fell apart.
@IgnoreSandra
At first I thought you meant making the actual tofu from scratch, and was going to share an article I found, but then I realized that you meant making dishes that use tofu. 🙂 I don’t have any specific recommendations for that; I usually just throw it into a stir fry, which I typically play by ear.
@Sandra
Do you want to do a mistake?
Crumple tinfoil.
The sound of it bothers me so much that I have difficulty touching the stuff.
This is John. This is John’s first time holding kittens.
The kittens are the Huddlestons. The pictures of John and the Huddlestons are from http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com
@Francesca
Ugh it bothers me too. So does plastic wrap and how it sticks to my fingers.
Some clothing fabrics are just impossible to deal with too. Ewww.
Beans bother me when they’re not in a mush of some kind. Enough that I don’t eat them normally.
Texture is big for me, which doesn’t surprise me too much. One of the reasons I like holding my stuffed animals tightly.
It was a sad day indeed when these people decided to use ‘history’ (i.e. their own version of events) as a prop for their views. Every time I see an image like the one above, I wince. Presumably the idea is to make one seem credible, “we have the weight of history yada yada” but it just makes them look ignorant.
STOP TALKING ABOUT FOOD YOU HORRIBLE PEOPLE
As revenge I shall go and eat a big bowl of red lentil dahl. One of the perks of having a Sikh partner who is also a trained chef 😛
ETA: @PaganReader – Misandrist Spinster
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE <3
@Fran
From me? A scholarship to art school and/or a few extra hours in the day. Not sure how much that’ll run you. Might try shopping it around. I’m officially putting Vlad ‘Whip My Hair Back and Forth’ Tepes into the public domain. Y’all welcome 🙂