By David Futrelle
So the incels are hailing Spongebob Squarepants as a bluepilled version of themselves. Over on Incels.co, one commenter has this to say about the underwater icon:
I suppose this is a step in the right direction; Spongebob may not be the idea role model but he’s certainly better than the mass killers the incels generally lionize.
Of course, the incels responding to Gymletethnicel’s post eagerly await Spongebob’s ultimate “blackpilling,” his acceptance of the incel ideology of bitterness, despair, and death. And of course they imagine him going “ER” — Elliot Rodger — and shooting up the Krusty Krab fast food joint.
“Final episode of SpongeBob: he either ropes or goes ER,” writes one commenter.
“First he kills Sandy, then goes postal at the Krusty Krab and then shoots himself,” adds another.
Still others speculate about the other characters on the show. According to Slavcel11,
patrick would be a blackpilled uglycel who don’t want his youth be wasted away on wageslaving and crawling before a haughty uncultured foid that is sandy.
btw squidward is too blackpilled on the society even for an incel.
But a prolific Incels.co commenter called Sparrow’s Song has a somewhat different take on the show.
The show is actually Jewish propaganda designed to convince incels to go gay. Obviously, Patrick and Spongebob are both ugly and disabled mentally and physically… they will die alone if they pursue foids. If they were blackpilled, they would just go ER or rope. Too bad the show is cucked. The show depicts them as “best friends” because back then, they couldn’t just have gay poop dick sex relationships on children’s shows like they do now. The writers want ugly and autistic male children to engage in homosexual buttfuckery at a young age.
That’s why I watched Rocko’s Modern Life instead when I was a kid. My dad liked that show but hated Spongebob. He didn’t let me watch Spongebob. In his own words “you’re not watching Spongebob because Sponegbob is a faggot”.
Well, that’s enough Incels.co for one day.
H/T — Twitter’s @EyesOnTheRight, the dude behind the Angry White Men blog
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@Hello
If you think that you are really hanging out with the wrong people friend.
@dormousing_it:
Funny, it’s my understanding Jim Carrey HATES Trump.
@Hello:
I’m with Lainy.
@Hello:
No. No, it’s not.
It does affect a large number of us, however, that population also is heavy with ones who base their arguments on vacuous reasoning. Since they have nothing to base their arguments on except “Some Random Person On The Internet Said…” they have no recourse when challenged except “how DARE you question me!”
@Hello
I’m with Lainy and Chris O on this one as well. If your friends are that way, you need a better community. And if you feel that way, you should probably do some self-reflection on why.
You can’t do this to me, Krabs. I WENT TO COLLEGE!
OK, time for someone to do a wellness check on David …
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Four days since the last new article. Site’s becoming quiet verging on moribund. And as you might have heard there’s a nasty bug going around …
@Surplus
David’s Twitter is still active, the last time he tweeted was about 3 hours ago. I think it’s more likely that David is just taking things a little easier, and I can’t blame him.
If anyone thinks that this country can survive another 4 years of Trunp’s presidency, check out the damage that he is doing on the appeals court as he delivers on his promise to deliver a conservative and male evangelical court. Say what you will about Biden, but at least he is not going to go decades backwards, and quite frankly the single most important step of moving forward is preventing backslide.
Trump’s judges: a revolution to create a new conservative America
“While the US supreme court is the country’s highest judicial authority and attracts most national and international attention, it is the country’s appeals courts that have the last word on justice in the vast majority of cases. They hear thousands of cases each year, compared with the 100-150 the supreme court typically hears.”
“…Trump has appointed 51 out of the 179 active circuit court judges, or almost 30% of the entire bench, and next month the total is expected to hit 53. By comparison, Barack Obama appointed 55 circuit court judges and George W Bush appointed 62 – in eight years each. Trump’s judges, who can serve for life, have a starting median age of 48.2, compared with 52.8 for Obama and 51 for Bush. As the country demographically becomes more diverse, they are predominantly male and white, and ideologically they tend to inhabit deep right field.”
“…Keeping up a brisk clip established early in his presidency, Trump has advanced 19 judges to fill federal vacancies since early February, in unwavering pursuit of his grand project to impose a new, conservative cast on American justice.
And even as the virus rages, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has vowed to make confirming the judges the first order of business when the chamber reconvenes early next month.
‘My motto for the year is leave no vacancy behind,’ McConnell said in a radio interview on Wednesday. ‘That hasn’t changed. The pandemic will not prevent us from achieving that goal.’ ”
“The Guardian reviewed dozens of cases affected by Trump’s judges, which included creating majorities in rulings that targeted immigrants and workers and undermined protections for society’s most vulnerable. They have:
*Attacked the Affordable Care Act and chipped away at healthcare.
*Greenlighted funding for Trump’s border wall.
*Stepped aside to allow partisan gerrymandering.
*Defended abusive policing.
*Permitted encroachments on the *Americans with Disabilities Act.
*Shrugged at emergency requests in death penalty cases.
*Established and reinforced religious exemptions from anti-bias laws.”
The article goes on to use Trump’s remaking of the 9th circuit court as an example. Historically it was of the most liberal courts that would have provided the most checks to Trumps abuses of power. However Trump and the Republicans have gutted it, making it increasingly likely that Trump appointees will be randomly selected to oversee together and “legislate from the bench”, as the conservatives like to
sayproject.It really is a very interesting read. The power of the courts can’t be understated.
OT for levity. This video made me smile, which is amazing considering how sad I’ve been lately about my job situation.
@Victorious Parasol
That reminds me of this otamatone video of a decidedly different but still entertaining character.
@ moogue
“Control the currency and the courts; let the rabble have the rest.”
~ Leto Atreides II
@Naglfar
Cool!
@Alan
… you posted that at the same time I was discussing the Dune cycle with a friend of mine. *suspicious squint*
@ Vicky P
Yeah, you need the invisible to precogniscence gene.
But the spice must flow!
@ Surplus
On one hand, I think it does kind of look bad to be asking whether David is all right just because he hasn’t demonstrated a base level of productivity, especially right now. On the other hand, I can see why you say these kinds of things the way you do. I frequently get frustrated by how much I have to wrangle just to get useful information. I can see how you’d want to cut out the fluff and ask for a lot of details and steps, and how that ends up sounding entitled to others.
@ Moogue
*sigh* I know I’m posting this at my own risk, but… there may be a little too much emphasis on “saving the judiciary/state” here. How long is it until you even get to the ideological balance that ruled in favour of Citizens United? We’re facing a crisis that will progressively fuck over most of society unless we do something drastic about the richest and worst offenders in 10 years. It may be more worthwhile at this point to build parallel institutions to hold people up in the event of state collapse, than to put so much hope on a presidential election. The U.S. is ultimately a social construct, and people are choosing to keep it running a certain way.
In Canada, voting takes close to zero effort for most. I also live within a short walking distance of where the polling booths tend to be, and I’m in and out in maybe five minutes even if I go at the last minute. I still mostly believe in electoralism, and hate when people refuse to vote because they think all the parties suck, and then have trouble remembering who the leaders are or what they stand for. I just think there has to be a limit, a standard. If a brown or Indigenous person says they can’t forgive Trudeau, maybe it’s not my place to insist that they should vote Liberal in the next election, even if it might matter.
In the U.S., the calculus is potentially even worse. Voter suppression tactics have forced people to wait in hours-long lines far away. And maybe the pandemic will survive to November and the USPS won’t. Is Biden worth all that? Is it worth risking people’s lives to try to elect one racist credibly accused sexual assaulter because he’s still better than the other racist credibly accused sexual assaulter because something something Medicare for a Few More, something something court-packing math? I don’t know. I hope it doesn’t come to that.
A lot of us have been fucked by many many layers of lies based on a “golden age” before fine folks like Reagan, Thatcher, Bush, and Harper fucked everything up. Not only that, but a lot of people have been fucked even worse, even in said “golden age” and before that. The Wet’suwet’en protests have been a good recent reminder of this.
@An Impish Pepper
We’ve already had this discussion before, but I will say this:
If Trump wins again, he could easily proclaim himself dictator and get rid of democracy once and for all. He knows nobody will hold him accountable. And every minority group that’s had to fight for their rights will be under attack again.
If Biden wins, he will not proclaim himself dictator and has openly stated that he would be open to the idea of being a one-term president. If Biden wins, we will get to elect a new president in 4 years. If Trump wins a second term, we likely will not have that luxury.
I am no fan of Biden, but between losing a leg and losing both legs, I’d choose the less awful option.
@An Impish Pepper
“How long is it until you even get to the ideological balance that ruled in favour of Citizens United?”
We’re talking about the circuit courts, and not the supreme court. It’s true that the supreme court will be slow to change, but there’s a lot more circuit judges, with a lot more turnover. And they are the ones to give the final rulings on most cases and not the supreme court, since the supreme court declines to hear most.
There are only 3 judges assigned at random to each panel, so you don’t have to have some ideal ideological balance, all you are doing by picking the president is improving, or decreasing, your odds at the crapshoot. Right now, about 1 out of every 3 circuit judges is a Trumpanzee, would you like to increase those odds, or decrease them? That is the only question that matters.
“It may be more worthwhile at this point to build parallel institutions to hold people up in the event of state collapse, than to put so much hope on a presidential election. “
Not to be mean, but let me just be blunt here. The “surprise” decision they used to show Trump’s influence on the court was a decision that interfered with abortion services, what parallel institution *could* be possibly built to hold me up in this situation, and would it involve coathangers?
@An Impish Pepper:
Wait — you think it looks bad when someone expresses concern about a person who a) has preexisting health issues and b) has not posted in several days during c) a pandemic?
(Keeping in mind that I do not have a Twitter account, so cannot follow David there. So what I know of his status is how active he is here.)
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@Surplus, I don’t have twitter either but I noticed David’s latest tweets are always displayed on the right-hand side of the WHtM home page (some ad-blockers may render them invisible, which is why I never saw this for ages). Keep going down, past Recent Posts, Top Posts and Archives, and you get to My Twitter; the tweets are time stamped so you can see how recently he’s been active. I’m seeing “1h” or “3h” etc in pale, almost greyed-out-looking script in the bottom right of each tweet, and if you click on a tweet you can see it in full even without having your own twitter account.
That’s odd. All I see is a link there, “Tweets by David Futrelle”, which I’d have to click through to see anything more.
@Surplus
Well, if you click through it it should work. It think the widget itself requires JavaScript, so that would explain why you’re not seeing the tweets.
@Moogue
I just want to say before all this that my ultimate point here isn’t to go around saying you shouldn’t vote for Biden in November. I just think there are folks who won’t see voting for him as worthwhile, and it will sometimes be for reasons I wouldn’t argue with, and the situation is more complicated than a bunch of white supposedly left-leaning dudes whining that their favourite candidate didn’t make it.
It wasn’t that long ago that people were despairing that Trump was packing the lower courts and that this would unavoidably fuck over social progress for a generation, even with consistently spectacular gains by Democrats in the legislature in the meantime. And now the story is that, no, it actually can be meaningfully salvaged, and in fact that’s the only question that matters. We’re at the point now where apparently believing women is politically inconvenient even for certain former #metoo promoters, so I’m not sure your insinuation that support for Democrats equals support for women’s rights is on a very firm foundation.
It just sucks to me when I think about people being so enamoured with protecting the “system”, the “rules”, because it’s the only “correct” way to do things. No, I’m not actually talking about U.S. politics, but about Super Smash Bros. Melee. Actually I lied. I’m talking about European wars in the 1700s, where opposing armies would take turns shooting at each other because war is a game and it should be played in as fair a manner as possible. You have to just stand there and let the enemy kill you. If you don’t do that, I’ll shoot you myself. So that’s your decision: let yourself die, or get murdered by your own guys.
…Okay I fibbed again. I actually am talking about U.S. politics.
It wasn’t that long ago when we were talking about antifa. They weren’t just in the business of political agitation, counterprotesting fascists. They had things in place to protect and help people to the capacity they can. It wasn’t even that long ago when we were talking about Black Lives Matter. These groups never went away. Similar groups are actually everywhere. In fact, I’ve been truly baffled by how much socialist character there is in some white conservative Trump-fanatic communities. Apparently a lot of white people are all about that socialism when it only benefits them. But even leaving the radicals and reactionaries out of this, what about the response to the first Muslim ban? Those were lawyers going above and beyond to help people when “the rules” were up in the air. I’m not saying any of this was perfect or has the potential to magically make Turtle Island a better place. I’m just asking for a little imagination. I want to believe that things don’t have to be like this.
One last observation. A lot of Bernie Sanders supporters, especially in the DSA, apparently didn’t really have a plan for the scenario of him dropping out. I’m sure there’s a lesson for Democrats in there, somewhere…
@An Impish Pepper
I really don’t relish having this argument again, but if we must:
I don’t know how well the court can be salvaged, but I do want things to stop getting worse. I at the very least know that Biden will be unlikely to appoint 35-year-old Federalist Society members to fill each vacancy.
What Joe Biden allegedly did was wrong and I condemn his actions. I also keep in mind that Trump has done much worse, and that not voting is effectively the same as handing the election to Trump. I don’t like Biden, but when choosing between losing one eye and losing both, it’s better to lose one eye (and there is no scenario in which we lose neither).
I don’t like the establishment, and I don’t think I’ve given the impression that I do, but to be clear:
There is no other viable option at this time. Third parties don’t win in a two party system, and in general they tend to take away votes from the more similar candidates (i.e. Jill Stein taking votes from Hillary Clinton).
There is no option in which everything is perfect. There’s only a bad option and a worse option. The lesser of two evils should be obvious. Hint: It’s the one who didn’t just legalize doctors refusing to treat trans* patients. It’s the one who didn’t remove us from the Paris Agreement. It’s the one who didn’t tell people to drink toxic chemicals. It’s the one who hasn’t openly stated his intentions to be dictator for life.
@ Surplus
See, this is kind of the problem. Nobody here really knows David very well. We have so little contact with him that the only way any of us can tell he’s even alive are signs of internet activity, particularly activity involving doing work writing articles about assholes so others don’t have to. Actually, not even doing, just publishing. As it turned out, he was working on another article as this was being talked about.
On an individual level, I’m sure David appreciates when people show concern for his well-being, and I don’t mean any criticism of him when I say these things. The problem is, signs of productivity aren’t really a good way of judging that. David could one day enjoy greatly improved physical and emotional health for something like a week, and simultaneously decide to take a break from the blog and do fun stuff that he’d put off before. And we’d be sitting here fearing the worst. David’s pretty upfront about his situation, so maybe this scenario wouldn’t happen quite the way I described. I just think we could all be more careful with tying health to productivity, especially in these times. David apologizes for long stretches of inactivity whenever one happens, and while he can still do that if he wants, he doesn’t have to.