Slouching Towards Oblivion

Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts

Thursday, June 09, 2022

Today's YouTuber

Julie Nolke - IMDB

A perfect metaphor is one that allows us to overlay whatever is on our minds. I don't know that there is such a thing, but dang - this gets pretty close.

Reminds me of: "What it means is up to you - I was just tryin' to make it rhyme"

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Today's Video


Kinda hard to believe an internet creation like Charlie Kirk never saw that meme.

Starts at about 23:00

Wednesday, September 08, 2021

About That Ivermectin Stuff

Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets such as Slate, Popular Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. She's also the host of Quiz-o-tron, a rowdy, live quiz show that pits scientists against comedians.

Thursday, September 02, 2021

Making His Point

Somewhere out there, people just like us are starting to let these asshole "conservatives" know that open-minded tolerance goes only so far, and that we're getting pretty fuckin' tired of their shit.

Saturday, February 01, 2020

Today's Prank

There are truly heroes among us.


Gizmodo:

YouTuber Josh Pieters has revealed that he pranked far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins by flying her to Prague and presenting her with a fake award. Hopkins, who is frequently retweeted by President Trump and was recently suspended on Twitter, was awarded with the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy, abbreviated as C.U.N.T. And if you think that’s mean, just wait until you hear her hate-filled acceptance speech for the award.

The 26-year-old Pieters explained the prank in a new video on his YouTubechannel, which has over 1.2 million subscribers. And it was a surprisingly large undertaking to convince Hopkins that she was getting a real award. Pieters organized flights, hotels, a dinner at the Four Seasons, and even hired actors to play members of his fake advocacy group, the Cape Town Collective For the Freedom of Speech.

Pieters, who’s originally from South Africa but lives in the UK, set up a fake website to make his organization appear more authentic, though there are some clear hints it might be fake. The photo of the founder that appears on his website is the current leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as just one example.


The video:


I'm guessing Katie Hopkins doesn't really care that she got punked. She cares that she got the exposure.

Because some people are so desperate for attention, they'll act out - to the extreme if necessary - just to get people to notice them.

Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Monday, September 10, 2018

News Broke

Francesca Fiorentini

"Knowledge makes people question power, so it's no wonder politicians try to defund public schools, raise college costs, keep people working too much to educate themselves and stigmatize higher education as elitist. Knowledge is power to us, but to the people who rule us it's a liability."

Yes, it's Al-Jazeera. (bring your own grains of salt)

But here's the thing: I'll try to think through my own haze of ideological purity and see if there might be tiny kernels of reality outside my own little bubble.

Friday, March 16, 2018

A Town Hall - VA05

Tom Garrett is a Daddy State clown of the highest order.


Follow him on Twitter. Listen to his speeches. Watch the YouTube videos. And then troll the fuck out of him.  Nobody deserves a good old-fashioned slagging more than this guy.

My comment at YouTube:

(and you might have to hurry - no telling how long his media people will allow criticism to stay in place)

Your "logic" is that banning bump stocks wouldn't save all that many lives, so why bother? Because - long guns? Well, what's the number, Mr Garrett? How many Americans do you need to see murdered before you get up off your ass and do something? 50? 500? How many? 

Then you turn around and say we have to spend enormous amounts of time and energy and money to solve the problem of immigrants involved in 3% of traffic deaths. 

You're an ideologue. You insist on taking every circumstance and smashing-fitting it into your narrow preconceptions. And the kicker is that you insist on using the most obviously ham-handed debate tactics, most often heard in a middle school cafeteria:
eg: "As someone who respects the Bill of Rights..." - what grade are you in now? 

Everybody respects the Bill of Rights, dopey - nobody is saying anything about tearing it up except you, when you're using it as a false premise. 

There is no honor in your outlook, or in your intellectually lazy presentation, or in your blatant attempts to impose your Daddy State agenda on us. 

You need to go.

Friday, January 17, 2014

These Kids Today

Political (and other messaging) Manipulation might get some of us to believe practically everything anybody tells us, but it's just as possible that digital tricks get way too many of us to the point where we're not willing to believe anything about anything at all.

Welcome to the dawning of The Age of Radical Skepticism.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

At The Nexus

...of dreams and reality - yeah, OK it's pretty obviously a little Twilight Zoney, but damn if this ain't impressive either way.