Transgenderism is an uncontrolled society-scaled experiment in conformity and obedience: a test of how far you can make people parrot absurdities, inflict cruelties, collude with unrealities, and ostracize and punish people for things they do not themselves believe.
It is a test of whether the moral self-abasements and routine betrayals that occurred in the Soviet Bloc with its secret police and political prisons and armies of informants could be replicated in liberal, democratic, and pluralistic societies that lacked this formal apparatus of repression: whether minor rewards and punishments could force people to punish people for stating the most self-evident of all truths and inspire them to cheer on the chemical castration and dismemberment of their own children. It is a test of whether civil liberties organization could be twisted into instruments of state repression and human rights groups instruments of defamation and violence against women.
It is a test that most of the Western world is failing.
Han, Bubby, I'm Your White Knight to this question as all the death scenes in Die Hard . . .
From the “falling” of the (other) Hans (played exceptionally well by Alan Rickman) from Nakatomi Tower, to the death of all the other common (exceptional) thieves, to the death of the Nakatomi’s President (Takagi) by some idiot who ruined a perfectly good suit because of some code. . . The one death that was a seriously an obnoxious tragedy was Ellis who played the biggest tool in the history of cinema as he was only armed with a simple fountain pen (and coke).
This is amazing.
Scott Galloway on Elon Musk's "nazi salutes" (which didn't actually happen) vs. Scott Galloway on Graham Platner's nazi tattoo.
What a broken mind. What an absolute clown.
Jury update: no paper towels in the bathroom. Hand cleanser empty at all spots. None of the clocks are set at the right time. My yelp review is going to be scathing.
Currently in a big room for jury duty. I feel compelled to nominate myself as jury foreman immediately. Then later tell them I’m guilty of the crime they’ve accused the defendant of. I learned this from Clint Eastwood.
this is a reversal of The Usual Suspects. here - as their case for Platner implodes under known crimes - the loathsome media attempts to reveal itself as a seemingly weak, but honest story teller. but they fabricated the whole narrative.
The one good thing I can say about this entire Platner shitshow is that most Democrats are calling for him to drop out, which is not how Republicans have acted when their favored candidates have faced credible rape allegations. The parties are still different: Democrats see credible rape allegations as disqualifying; Republicans continue to have a nearly unlimited tolerance for abusing women. Call them "Dem HR lady politics" if you want, but I'm actually glad we haven't fully rejected them.