Look again at this photograph. He left this on Facebook, knowing we would find it. It's from the same location he's been taking selfies from as of late, but he added a filter:
Now compare this to "Regulus" from JMW Turner. Notice anything?
Keep in mind Turner was primarily a landscape painter, so if you're wondering where Regulus is in this painting -- he's not. You, the viewer, are Regulus. If you were to flip the scene around and focus it on Regulus with the sun in his eyes, you might have a similar scene to what David Gallant provided above -- but Turner would have used watercolors for a more nuanced effect.
Now consider David Gallant's point of view as it evolved over the last several weeks.
@Jaimas has been spelling it out for him, but David needed to "see the light" for himself. To wit:
1) The entire Rat King bet the house on Hillary Clinton, and it came up Trump. That means Brianna Wu will not be the USA's next CTO, the Twitter Trust and Safety Council won't be handed arrest powers, and Alex C. Leal will not become the Secretary of Otherkin. What, therefore, can the Rat King do to him if he were to leave it? Sure, Nora Reed may threaten to throw him in a spike-filled barrel (bottom left) but she'll more than likely just grab her CPAP and take deep breaths.
2) Just as the USA didn't devolve into a weird racist paradise overnight with Donald Trump's election, it wasn't going to be some sort of LGB-topia with Hillary Clinton either. Government forms wouldn't contain 53 different check-boxes for different genders, and vending machines wouldn't be slated to carry estradiol and spironolactone any time soon. But to hear the Rat King tell it, their way of life is under attack! Donald Trump is going to round them all up and throw them into big, beautiful death camps! So we get pictures of safety pins, and baseball bats, and Laurelei recycles the picture of him holding a BB gun. Funny, there's a nation called Canada that's due north of the United States and several of the Rat King expressed interest in emigrating to it. It's also funny that David Gallant is a resident of this mysterious country, has worked in its government, and might be of some assistance in obtaining a work permit or at least maybe he knows someone that's hiring that would underwrite those particular details. All they have to do is ask -- his DM's are always open. He told us!
How many requests did he get? I'm thinking somewhere on the scale between "zero" and "not fucking one."
3) Elizabeth Waite and the Trans Lifeline. I really don't have to explain this one, but I'm sure he's following the story and the moral relativism by the Rat King reads as something more out of Machiavelli as opposed to traditional activism. You would think that "call-out" culture would have put a damper on Trans Lifeline's activities long before it got to this point, but why bother with that when they're opposed to the dreaded Kiwi Farms?
So then he draws the conclusion: Maybe social-justice warriors aren't about social justice at all. Instead, they're
nihilists. They've taken the phrase "this is why we can't have nice things," and turned it up to 11. If they can't have it, no one will! Zinnia Jones made this particularly clear in her video about how she wants to destroy America because she thinks it threatens her ability to do tranny-cam porn shows. Laurelei is a little nicer -- he only wants to kill 50% of the population. Jake Alley only wants to kill himself, but he's going to use a toaster and that's stupid. Nora Reed, despite the fact that David Gallant is paying her, isn't mentioning anything about Trans Lifeline -- rather she contents herself with video games, calling out privilege whenever someone does something totally irrelevant to her daily life, and writing about her bodily functions on Twitter.
Speaking of filters, I don't think we'll see any more ass pictures or toilet selfies from him -- the sorts of things that make up a lolcow. I suspect that once one joins the Rat King, a version of Jante's Law takes effect: You're not allowed to be better than any of the other members, but the corollary to that is you're better than anyone else outside the group. And if you're better than everyone else, you don't need to
impress anyone else. I think that's where the filter starts to come off -- after all, why would you care if an outsider made comments about your ass? That person is just a neo-Nazi shitlord anyway! Finally, as I'm not finding anything cringeworthy prior to him joining up with the Rat King, I doubt I'll see it in 2017.
Or maybe he had the balls to off himself.
