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[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Normally I'd say word salad, but that can be unintentional. When actually used for the purpose of making your statements sound more impressive or to hide the fact that you bring nothing new or interesting to the table, maybe "Butleresque" would work?

You've reminded me of this bit from Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds:

Another curiosity about the intersectional movement is the camouflage that it employs. For aside from [Peggy] McIntosh’s most popular document [White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack], the one thing that all the purveyors of the ideologies of social justice and intersectionality have in common is that their work is unreadable. Their writing has the deliberately obstructive style ordinarily employed when someone either has nothing to say or needs to conceal the fact that what they are saying is not true. Here is one sentence from Judith Butler in full flow:

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural tonalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something.

 

[AnOminous]

Prose this bad can only occur when the author is trying to hide something.

Such as their lack of intelligence or anything actually worth saying.

 

[Point and Laugh]

You've reminded me of this bit from Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds:

Judith Butler could easily be replaced by ChatGPT and would be just as factual.

 

[Chandelier]

Trans rights are human rights, you fucking bigots. You dirty fashies, you. Archive.

"We're not grooming your kids. You just hate books." Archive.

Again, they cry you're sending them unsolicited porn when you show them these "banned books."

Man beats up woman. Right Wing Cope cops for trannies. Archive.

 

[AnOminous]

Again, they cry you're sending them unsolicited porn when you show them these "banned books."

Porn is only for groomed kids apparently. If you send them what they want forced on your children, you're "harassing" them with "porn."

 

[monstrous bubo]

Super Hon’s posts are the main show, but her comments can have some gold in them. This, for example, shows just how femme her soul truly is.

Spoiler: text

Thanks, sis! And, of course, it’s ok for you to say you’ve accepted yourself as a woman. We are the only ones who can accept ourselves for the gender expression we are using! (Now, if you were meaning that I could be accepted as a woman, I do take that as a compliment—but be aware that not everyone in the community sees binary transition as the goal, so it can be a challenge to use things like that as a compliment. Even I, who wish to express myself as femme as possible, acknowledge that the journey of a trans person is more like the journey of a hot rod, rather than a binary formula 1 racing car for the track or a sports car for the streets!)

As a mere woman, i reach for non-motorsports analogies, but what would i know of womaninity? Especially when we all define shit for ourselves.

Also, every woman poses with rusty shears. Don’t worry, she isn’t planning castration, either professional or DIY.



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Spoiler: Previous installments

modern family problems

freaking out his son

flip your wig

barrel-chested babe

transphobic supply chain

ms potatohead shoots up

i feel pretty, oh so pretty

hair today, gone tomorrow

my monstrous autism

vintage vamp

mein Kampf mit dem Gewicht

girl with a Go-Pro

pouring one out for my homie’s Reddit account

feels like the first time

occupational health and safety

 

[Wallace]

Is there a term for the opposite of Newspeak, where you flood your statements with so much unnecessary drivel it becomes impossible to parse?

Prolix?

 

[Roland TB-303]

I wonder if this tranny shit is an op to remove autistic retards from the gene pool. If so way to go. You’re really nailing the majority of them.

 

[assigned Karen at birth]

Man beats up woman. Right Wing Cope cops for trannies. Archive.

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If you're like me you probably saw this and thought, huh, I wonder how the attacker mistook an 86 year-old woman for a tranny...

Got it, makes sense now.

Article from Right Wing Cope screenshot (A), which cites its source as The Irish Times (A) but fails to mention that the attacker was hallucinating on drugs.

Spoiler: Full text of Irish Times Article

Man who robbed, punched, kicked and threw woman (86) into wheelie bin is jailed​

Sonya McLean

A man who attacked an 86-year-old woman by putting her inside a wheelie bin after the victim had got lost en route to her Ranelagh home late at night has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
The court heard that Alex Bailey (30) was experiencing induced psychosis due to his level of intoxication and was under “the delusional belief that the victim was a predatory paedophile”.
Bailey met Marie MacGowan, who had early onset dementia, in Ranelagh around 2am after she got lost on her way to her home.
CCTV footage showed he remained in her company for over an hour. The footage shows Bailey assaulting Ms MacGowan sporadically for 42 minutes, including knocking her to the ground, putting her head first into a wheelie bin and applying pressure to the lid of the bin.
The bin fell over, and as Ms MacGowan tries to get out, she was punched in the face and kicked to the body, Garda Paul O’Donnell told the court.
The woman feared she was going to be killed and later told gardaí: “I really thought I was going to be dead.”
Counsel for Bailey said his client had taken a significant number of intoxicants on the night, which led to “induced psychosis”, and he was under “the delusional belief that the victim was a predatory paedophile”.
Bailey believed the woman was a man dressed up as a woman, Patrick Gageby, SC, defending, told the court.
Garda O’Donnell told Paddy Jackson BL, prosecuting, that three students passed by and came to Ms MacGowan’s assistance. At this point, she was sitting on the kerb with her feet stretched out into a cycle lane. Her face and hands were covered in blood, and she was shaking.
A compilation of the footage was shown to the court, which shows Bailey standing nearby as the three students tried to help Ms MacGowan. Bailey can be seen engaging in conversation with the group before walking away.
Garda O’Donnell said Ms MacGowan told the students that Bailey had assaulted her and taken her wallet. He had left the scene before emergency services arrived.
Bailey was arrested after gardaí secured hours of CCTV footage. They traced his steps from the time he left work that evening before he spent some time in a number of pubs in the Dublin 2 and Dublin 6 area and ultimately met the victim. He wore the same clothing throughout.
Ms MacGowan was later treated for a fractured nose and blood loss. She had been diagnosed with early onset dementia but was living independently in Cullenswood at the time. She has since had to move into a nursing home because she struggles with her balance following the attack and needs constant care due to a risk of her falling.
Bailey of Claragh, Ramelton, Donegal pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Ms MacGowan, causing her harm, in Ranelagh on September 1st, 2022 . He also admitted robbery of cash and false imprisonment.
Bailey was arrested 12 days after the attack. He has no previous convictions and was in full-time employment up to the attack.
Jack MacGowan speaks to the media outside the CCJ. Photograph: Collins
A victim impact statement from Jack MacGowan, Ms MacGowan’s son, said leaving his mother in a bin that night “nearly killed her”. “It has impacted her life in a major way and significantly reduced her quality of life.”
His mother was traumatised and unable to walk for weeks. She lost her sense of balance and required 24/7 specialist care for four months.
His mother was obsessed with her “near-death experience” and repeated regularly, “Please stop killing me,” and “Are you trying to kill me?” She suffered regular bouts of physical shaking and did not sleep well.
Mr MacGowan said the incidents of physical shaking have since reduced considerably but his mother has become withdrawn and is unable to walk unaided. Due to “fall risks”, she is no longer able to live independently and had to move to a nursing home.
He said she has lost her confidence and her dementia has worsened, is highly unlikely to leave the nursing home and is sad and depressed. “Many times, it seems as if she has given up,” the statement continued.
Prior to the attack, his mother really did not want to lose her independence and led “quite a fulfilling social life”.
Gda O’Donnell agreed with Mr Gageby that Bailey told the students that came to help Ms McGowan to keep away from her and that she was dangerous and a paedophile.
Mr Gageby handed in a book of testimonials into court and a psychiatric report. He said his client had consumed a significant number of intoxicants that night and suffered a memory blackout.
He said, as a result of his intoxication, Bailey had “induced psychosis” and was under “the delusional belief that the victim was a predatory paedophile”.
Counsel said his client was “deeply sorry for the pain and suffering he has caused” and has since “fully engaged with the Rutland Centre” to deal with his alcohol and drug misuse. He had €10,000 in court to offer as a token of his remorse.
Passing sentence on Friday, Judge Crowe said this 30-year-old man with a previously unblemished record is now before the court for assault causing harm to a then 86-year-old woman whom he robbed, punched, kicked and threw into a wheelie bin.
She said the aggravating factors were the nature and duration of the offence, the age of the injured party and the injuries she sustained.
The judge took into consideration mitigating factors including Bailey’s early guilty plea, the fact that the injured party did not need to give evidence, his remorse, his good work history and the considerable work he has done while in custody to rehabilitate himself.
The judge treated the assault as the principal offence and took the offence of robbery into consideration. This was on the higher range of offending and the maximum sentence was five years.
Judge Crowe sentenced him to three years in prison, backdated from when he went into custody. To incentivise Bailey, she suspended the final six months on condition he keep the peace and be of good behaviour for two years post-release, abstain from all alcohol and drugs and attend the Rutland Centre for one-year post-release and agree to random urine testing.
Ms MacGowan did not wish to accept €10,000 brought to court by Bailey as a token of his remorse and that sum will be donated to The Royal Hospital in Donnybrook, where she received rehabilitation treatment.

 

[Betonhaus]

Spoiler: warning: ugly

 

[Flaming_Barghast]

The Transgender Lesbians group is the gift that keeps on giving. Meet Vanessa.
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To be fair, not everyone in the group passes this poorly, and I admit to scraping the bottom of the barrel for lulz. Yes, the others all know about the "trans girl photo angles", filters, etc. and probably don't pass as well IRL, but at least they put in the effort and some even made me wonder if they were just trolls using cis women photos to catfish. Some of them also have fairly ambiguous faces that can be made more feminine through some surgery. And then there are ones like Rachel, who can put all the effort in they want and still just have no chance of passing.

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Can't hate on Angel for trying for those gains rather than sitting around playing Pokemon cards all day like a Groyper, but still I don't see how it is really helping them "feel like a smol girl".

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"Hi there, fellow lesbians. Do you like golf?" I just love this one for the horrible framing, the awful posture, terrible clothes, failed manboobs, it's just a fashion and photography trainwreck and I'm here for it.

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Someone help me figure out what fictional character, maybe a horror movie slasher or comic supervillain, that this guy is evoking in my brain? Maybe the Skrulls? Would that make their hairdo a "Skrullet"? Or maybe the movie poster for From Beyond? Something deeply unsettling here on a subconscious level.

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Makes me think of the promytheus movie. (Terrible as it was, that surgery scene was awesome. And lol at aborted alien starfish crushing the guy)

 

[Aunt Carol]

A man who attacked an 86-year-old woman

Marie MacGowan, who had early onset dementia

She had been diagnosed with early onset dementia

If 86 counts as early-onset dementia, I can only assume Ms. MacGowan intends to live to 200.

Presumably she has early dementia, or a recent diagnosis. Words still have meanings, though. For everyone except troons.

 

[Flaming_Barghast]

If 86 counts as early-onset dementia, I can only assume Ms. MacGowan intends to live to 200.

Presumably she has early dementia, or a recent diagnosis. Words still have meanings, though. For everyone except troons.

Early onset just means the beginning stages, I believe. It's like the difference between stage 1 and 4 cancer, minus available treatment.
For anyone curious, imagine doing a daily activity you enjoy with a loved one, then forgetting to shut all the cabinets and drawers. Nothing super severe but very noticable. Mid stage is where you start forgetting names, distant loved ones, or short bursts where you don't recognize the person.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Early onset just means the beginning stages, I believe. It's like the difference between stage 1 and 4 cancer, minus available treatment.
For anyone curious, imagine doing a daily activity you enjoy with a loved one, then forgetting to shut all the cabinets and drawers. Nothing super severe but very noticable. Mid stage is where you start forgetting names, distant loved ones, or short bursts where you don't recognize the person.

You assume incorrectly, as did that Irish editor, that "early-onset" means the same as "early stages of."

Early-onset dementia occurs before age 65. That's it.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Is there a term for the opposite of Newspeak, where you flood your statements with so much unnecessary drivel it becomes impossible to parse?

In a word: Academia.

In more basic words: "A stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like."

 

[Vesperus]

Irish editor

 

[Omen_Sulk]

Second Grade, America

Public bathroom, Brazil.

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

Super Hon is out at work and it’s all sunshine and roses.

Resting Count Olaf Face

 

[AssignedEva]

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural tonalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

This Judith Butler sentence is notorious. I think it means something along the lines of:

We used to think that money and power controlled society and social relationships in specific ways via class. Now we think power relations are formed through repetition and they change over time. Now we consider the role of performance and changes over time as important in our understanding of power relations.

Louis Pierre Althusser was a Marxist scholar. He criticised Marx and Lenin, who thought capitalism came about as a result of class struggle and ideology - capitalism exists because a few people control all the resources, and therefore raising class consciousness to seize the means of production and overthrow the elite means we can implement communism.

Althusser argued that ideologies exist through social institutions and the roles they play. He thought things like schools, churches and the family are not only structures that can instill ideas that make people think capitalism is good, but they require the performance of cultural norms that reinforce this (e.g. "respect your mother and father and obey them" = "respect the authority of the ruling elite and obey them") and so exist as extensions of the state, socialising people into being submissive proles that will benefit capitalism. Because existing in a capitalist society means you have to participate in capitalist society and everything conditions you into being a functional capitalist unit, ideologies exist in reality and are not just thoughts. Capitalism is not a top down structure of the ruling elite oppressing the proletariat, capitalism is society. The ruling elite have power as a result of small interactions from various aspects of society. You can't overthrow capitalism through class consciousness alone, you have to examine the fixed units that are capitalism and make you capitalist.

Because we now accept that changes over time as important, we have shifted away from Althusser's ideas that sees social structures as fixed structures that enforce ideology as extensions of the state. This is where articulation comes in. If someone tells you they like jazz, you might assume they're quite classy and refined, because there's a perception that jazz is a bit of a specialist classy interest. But jazz used to be seen as subversively countercultural, decadent and degenerate, and was largely performed by poor black people. It wasn't always thought of as a classy pursuit, there's nothing inherently bourgeois about it. These assumptions are formed by seeing who the audience of jazz concerts are. If poor rowdy people all started going to jazz concerts and listening to jazz, it would no longer be seen as a classy thing.

This therefore extends to other power structures. Ideology and power exist as a result of repeated actions; the power relations that exist in society have to be continually reinforced. If enough people change their actions over time, then the ideology and power structures change over time. This ties in with Judith Butler's ideas about gender being performative. Gender is performed - people act out gender roles using cultural assumptions about gender so e.g. wearing makeup, high heels and dresses and having long hair are seen as being feminine and something women should do and something men shouldn't do. This performance of gender roles then reinforce what those gender roles are (because you keep seeing women doing it and men not doing it). Performing these gender roles not only shape our understanding of gender, they are what gender is and your gender is therefore not a fixed innate trait but a continual performed action. Therefore if you change what people do when performing gender, you change what gender is. When writing "gender troubles" she was mostly looking at this in the context of feminism (e.g. trousers are no longer seen as specifically masculine, it's possible for a woman to have a feminine pair of trousers) but essentially if enough people agree through their actions that trans women are women, then trans women are women, because ideologies like that aren't ideas but things that exist in material reality through manifesting via people's action.

I'm not saying I agree with this assessment but that's what I think that sentence is saying (I'm no sociologist). Obviously I've typed a brief essay about it so trying to cram that whole idea into a sentence isn't really the best approach. I think academic journals for these subjects rely on using a lot of jargon because their audience is exclusively people who eat and breathe that jargon.

 

[lolcow yoghurt]

This is not social media but I think this fits here. I was watching the news as usual and saw the graduation ceremony of the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) of Turkey. Some graduates were waving the sacred troon flag and the holy "progress" flag with nigger stripes. I don't have a picture of it but I found pictures of their previous ceremonies where the graduates had also carried the troon flag.

Translations:
1. "we will establish a free academy, a safe campus and a world without colonisation together."
2. "Not only the stairs, we want to paint the world colourful." (the hashtag below is an unrelated feminist movement against femicide in Turkey)

FYI ODTÜ is the local breeding ground of Starbucks "leftists".