By David Futrelle
For your convenience, a small collection of awful tweets from some of the delightful individuals who have appeared in the virtual pages of We Hunted the Mammoth over the years, and a few who haven’t. You will be happy to learn that I have included no tweets dealing with the Mueller report in any way. [EDIT: Ok, I lied about the Mueller thing.]
Let’s start with our old friend Roosh V, continuing his pivot from traditional pickup artist misogyny to far-right crackpottery. Like our incel friend from yesterday, he is exercised by women with tattoos, and thinks that they should probably be exorcised.
Here’s racist YouTube “philosopher” Stefan Molyneux, who some people incredibly still see as some sort of intellectual, with the deepest of Deep Thoughts.
Truly a galaxy brain insight right there.
Oops, wrong gif. I meant:
Here’s (allegedly) Dapper Nazi Richard Spencer working himself into a pure white froth over the Notre Dame fire, and managing to spell the name of the cathedral wrong in the process.
Here’s white nationalist and women’s-suffrage-opponent RAMZPAUL with a somewhat, well, puzzling take on antisemitism:
Right-wing weirdo and Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter started off the week with some truly weird and possibly extremely drunken tweets, but he seems to have deleted them, alas. But this Extremely Serious and Sober tweet of his is nearly as strange.
Aging actor James Woods, who is turning out to be as creepy and assholish as many of the characters he’s played, apparently thinks that Ilhan Omar’s election was the result of some extremely elaborate plot by secret Muslim Barack Obama.
Let’s end this little parade of terrible with a post from permanent GamerGater Ian Miles Cheong, who apparently has convinced himself that a video of some random dude getting really, really emotional about the new Star Wars trailer is somehow a harbinger of The Death of Manly Men, or something.
Enjoy your weekend, and do your best to refrain from tweeting anything as bad as any of these terrible tweets! I will do the same.
EDITED TO ADD: Just discovered this one from alleged leftist and Trump/Russia Denier Glenn Greenwald. It’s … something!
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Lol Ian Miles Miles Cheong calling anyone an unfuckable blubbering manchild is beautiful and I wish I had that kind of sheer, blind self-confidence.
Ilhan Omar is a “horror” because she doesn’t constantly kiss Netanyahu’s ass like the entirety of the GOP and the majority of Democrats.
“we will one day bless this catastrophe”
“We will one day bless this catastrophe” is something Nazis always say. (An attenuated version of it can be found in Ender’s Game.) The problem with the Notre Dame fire, from the Nazi POV, was that it wasn’t severe enough — it wasn’t enough of a catastrophe to shock and stun people into the dazed state from which they might be browbeaten into blessing it.* (The Reichstag was close-to-utterly consumed while most of Notre Dame is still standing. From the Nazi POV, that’s a bad thing.)
Nevertheless and still, Nazis to the contrary, people-in-general aren’t in the habit of blessing catastrophes, and it remains a hard practice to get The Masses to adopt.
*Those who sense a parallel with Game Theory in which overbearing suitors try to shock and stun women into the dazed state in which they (the overbearing suitors) can most successfully zoom in and make their move are probably not too far off-base.
Now my eyes hurt and my brain hurts. I have two owies.
Since when was Minnesota a conservative leaning state? It’s been years since we elected a Republican governor or Senator and we haven’t voted Republican for president since I don’t even know when. Not in my lifetime.
District 5, Ilhan Omar’s district (and mine) has been Democratic probably forever and is very heavily progressive. Just because we’re not on the coast, doesn’t mean we’re all white Christian conservatives!
If these idiots have no real power or influence then these are hilarious. If they do then it is worrying to say the least.
No disagreement, but aren’t they *every* week’s terrible people?
That pseudo-profound one makes me laugh.
Only one letter separates words from swords.
It also starts separates!
Streptococcus!
Serendipity!
Soliloquy!
Serendipity!
Slimy!
Smallpox!
…STRESS!!!
A friend of mine has recently decided to give Jordan Peterson a “fair hearing” and you can guess how that’s going. Currently he’s incensed that anyone would take Ben Shapiro’s Notre Dame tweets for the racist dog whistles they are. But Ben Shapiro seems to be a master of the “judge me by what I mean while I judge you by what you say” school of gymnastics.
The first letter of “sword” is pronounced in silence.
That Glenn Greenwald quote. Even when I agree with him I always felt he was a good definition of moral vanity
Why are men whose very identity revolves around that they unable to persuade anyone to sleep with them describing as “unfuckable” a man who not only has a girlfriend but one to whom he is engaged to be married?
What the fuck is Glenn trying to say?!
Not Edward – but his girlfriend isn’t a submissive supermodel. So it doesn’t count.
Do *they* have such girlfriends? Well, no, but the incels long ago decided that so long as no woman is interested in them anyway, they might as well NOT have a submissive supermodel girlfriend as NOT have a “regular” girlfriend.
It’s obvious the incels’ dismissal of women is sour grapes, talking, er, carp about what they desperately want but cannot get, female attention. (There is also the MGTOWs sour lemons, pretending they *like* loneliness.)
Also words and worms. Does the m stand for misogynist?
Does the D in “Words” and “Swords” stand for “Dorks”. Because I’ll be honest that is one of dorkiest things I read from Molyneux.
OT: I and spending my Spring break hanging out with friends. It feels nice to be social and relax with people I like.
Greenwald should probably spend less time tweeting and more time preparing to get the hell out of Brazil. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bolsonaro going after gay foreigners.
@WWTH Was wondering if I should say something, but it occurred to me you might have this covered. Scrolled down and was not disappointed.
@Bakunin No idea, could not parse Glen. Is that tweet in response to something?
Wasn’t Ian Miles Cheong one of the people that got super upset about the last couple Star Wars films? That’s a nice looking glass house he’s got there…
I think calling the Star Wars kid a “blubbering manchild” is certainly a bit much. Kind of hard to argue that he’s sexy, though. To each his/her own, I suppose. I don’t personally think “they” are trying to emasculate us, but I do think it’s important to sometimes hunt mammoths.
See…the “proper” response to this is to Agree & Amplify. “Yeah, there’s nothing women like more than caveman gorillas!” or some such thing.
Now….applying Game Theory to Game, it turns out that being overbearing and shocking/stunning women into dazed states, well…that’s not a very good strategy, now is it? Not if you want to keep them coming back, never mind be on the right side of ethics. Nope, it’s much better to present a scenario to a potential lover where she is not only safe (physically, reputationally and emotionally), but very turned on. Now that’s Game. It’s about producing as far from “dazed” state as is possible, although if you “do it” right they might be blissfully dazed afterwards. That’s how you to play to her needs.
I have no idea why I give out secrets here. Penance, I guess.
By the way, Rooshv is a total piece of shit. I’ve always hated that fucker. As far into the manosphere as I went, I never liked that son of a bitch. These days….I want to think of him as a pathetic has been grasping for any remaining glory, but I can’t. I still hate the fucker.
And go Mueller. Units of the Russian fucking Army cyberattacked us, and these fucking Trump supporters just deny, deny, deny. It’s not a good look, to put it mildly. They’re supporting a guy who threw them under the bus the first chance he had with his massive tax cut.
Imagine how different things could have been if Trump:
1) immediately issued pardons for the nasty shit he’s been covering up
2) took effective actions against the enemy who attacked our election
3) pushed a massive infrastructure bill that would help deep red states
Such a waste.
Only one letter separates smart from mart. It’s the first letter of sporting goods.
OT (ETA:Not really, since David added Greenwald in there.)
AG Barr’s summary of Harry Potter series: Voldemort is innocent.
Only one letter separates “Stefan Molyneux” from “Alt-right”.
It is the only letter in the word “surreal”.
@John
What in the name of Persphone’s pomegranates are you on about now, old bean? The most of that post is completely incoherent, and the last bit appears to be defence of fascism as long as it’s carried out in a semicompetent fashion, which isn’t a good look at all.
@Kupo
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