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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Roosh somehow managed to word his thought on tattoos more coherently than the Reddit guy in yesterday’s thread, but that’s a low bar to clear.
Indeed, one of the reasons they spread so much false propaganda on the state of Europe (and Sweden especially) is exactly because they want the world to be on fire, and they want people to be afraid, and anyone not jumping the bandwagon is labeled a brainwashed moron. Like, I actually live in Sweden and I’ve had American idiots seriously try to argue with me that I’m wrong when I say my homeland isn’t a Mad Max dystopia with roving gangs of rapists in every street and a thought police forcibly brainwashing everyone, and I’ve been seriously told you can be completely unaware you’re living next to a war-zone as long as you’re not within hearing distance of the gunshots.
@Dalillama
I think John meant to reply to this thread.
(Also, glad you got my reference ?)
Wait, the “w” isn’t usually pronounced in “swords”.
So it’s really 2 letters separating them. Or 3, since the “o” is pronounced differently in “swords” vs. “words”.
“S”, by the way, is the final letter of “Nazi POS”.
@John:
So that the perpetrators could skate, with no consequences? How would that discourage Russia (and accomplices) from attacking our elections again?
Why only deep red states?
Pretty much the catastrophe Trump is designed to be for Americans.
and plenty HAVE been browbeaten into blessing that disaster.
America has already become the Germany of 100 years ago.
I read it three times. I’m still not sure.
Only one letter separates “hit” from “shit”.
It’s the first letter of “shut your pie-hole, Stefan”.
In other news, the US now has armed blackshirts conducting mass “arrests”. This could be extraordinarily bad if it’s not slapped down hard.
I hope Richard Spencer sees an eye-doctor soon. Either something is terribly wrong with his vision, or I have had white and non-white people mixed up for going on four decades. I was totally under the impression that Trump, most of the US Congress, Theresa May, most of Parliament, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and every other leader of a northern European country who didn’t get a mention were white. Perhaps a doctor can give poor Spencer some specs so he can see reality.
Does anyone know why Richard B Spencer has a bunny emoji where his middle initial should be? Sure, bunny begins with a B, but it’s hardly what I would expect to see from him.
@Moggie:
Holy crap. Thanks for posting that, about the “arrests”. Truly shocking.
Tangentially related, I’ve just started reading The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett about how the Weimar Republic turned into the Third Reich and the parallels between then and now, in the US and many other backsliding democracies is chilling. I’m only three chapters in, but so far, I highly recommend it.
In other news, I’ve gone from leaning Elizabeth Warren to definitely supporting her. It’s so nice to see a Democrat with a spine! For those who didn’t see, she called for impeachment when so many others are being wimpy and disappointing.
The whole ‘praise this catastrophe’ thinking reminds me of a lecture I once heard where there was discussion on the old question of ‘what’s the difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist’. One of the ways of slicing it was basically that the goal of freedom fighters is to end the fighting, while terrorists always want there to be an enemy to fight against so that people have nowhere else to turn but them.
Active relationship-poisoning taken to a geopolitical level.
@Scanisaurus
Have you ever turned the argument on them and argued that’s why there are Americans who don’t think the US has a gun problem?
@Lumipuna
Your wordplay is best wordplay.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/rve.gif
@Dowdy Dickie:
It won’t. Now crawl back under your rock, fast, before some hero punches you upside the head again, you scum-sucking bottom-feeder.
(Also, extra dumb-erit points for “Nortre” and “sieze”.)
Most North European leaders are white. The leader of Ireland is a half-Indian gay man. No chaotic breakdowns of law and order observed as a result, though.
I was cleaning up a bunch of undead miniatures. Thoses guys seem less alive than the aforementioned specters and ghost.
@Bakunin @moregeekthan @Icthyic
Oh thank heavens. For a moment I thought I’d woken up stupid.
@ Weatherwax: You and me both.
There’s nested colons! Wasn’t Glenn a lawyer? I’m kinda embarrassed I read his column so much back in the day.
I think the first bit, comparing skeptics of Russian meddling to slavery apologists is supposed to be in a hypothetical opponent’s voice; Glenn then says that is a terrible comparison, and finally accuses his critics of thinking they’re so woke they can use slavery comparisons.
One, the tweet makes no goddamned sense; I’m not certain I’ve parsed it correctly.
Two, Glenn maybe switches from an imagined opponent’s voice to his own with no notice or distinction.
Three, Glenn doesn’t like slavery comparisons, so I’ll briefly compare his dumb ass to Ernst Rohm.
Fuck Glenn, how long until you just mockingly tweet “orange man bad”?
Netanyahu’s Likud party & Gantz’s Blue and White alliance party each won 35 of the 120 Knesset seats in the April 9, 2019 election.
Obviously the Jewish people who voted to fill 85 Knesset seats with candidates other than Netanyahu’s Likud party are anti-Semites, and not Jews who disagreed with Netanyahu’s policies.
OT: Caitlin Doughty, who runs the “Ask a Mortician” channel on YouTube, has posted a very good video on the Columbine shooting and the media’s distortion of the background and motivations of the shooters, and also its contribution to a morbid cult of celebrity that may have contributed to other mass shootings. Pertinent in the context of Elliott Rodger & other perpetrators of violence from the manosphere/ incel communities.
RE: Molyneux
Why would “unthreatening” be on that list of “negative” traits? Do they really think that it is supposed to be insulting? Do they see people being wary and/or scared of them as a positive? I myself do want men to be unthreatening, so I guess he’s onto something there at least in that case?
“unthreatening” == feminine == less than human
“He can’t control his own emotions, let alone anyone else” == dominating other people is manly and necessary to earn respect. Failure to dominate == loser == feminine == less than human.
Very much OT, but as there’s no open thread at the moment, happy Pesach and also happy Easter to any Mammotheers who celebrate those!
Also OT, but possibly my favorite bit of the Mueller report:
Just in case there was any doubt that Trump is a crook… (And incredibly stupid.)