Feature, Not A Bug
By Mitch Berg
In the wake of three episodes of pro-Palestine protesters burning themselves to death, the sixties – the radical-chic version – called to tell the left of the 2020s to dial back the crazy:
I mean, if “interests of power” = weeding out the most insane elements of the crowd that also wants to self-immolate Western Civilization, she may have a point.
On the other hand, it’s a teeeeeny little step from this to “not immolating other ‘serves the interests of power'”.
April 22nd, 2024 at 7:55 am
This is very telling. The fact that she’s having trouble articulating her speech, makes me think that even she doesn’t believe the bull that she’s spewing.
April 22nd, 2024 at 9:28 am
I’ll supply gasoline and a lighter to any anti-Semite who wishes to follow her advice. And while we’re on the subject I’m old enough to remember a very funny episode of Seinfeld in which his dentist, (played by Brian Cranston), accuses Jerry of being an “anti-dentite.” It seemed funny enough back then, not so much now.
April 22nd, 2024 at 9:39 am
Yet another example of the “What about Bob?” phenomenon, where it often seems that the most mentally ill people out there are mental health professionals. You’ve got this, removing gender dysphoria as a mental illness, the time a therapist tried to tell pre-pubescent me that my problems were due to guilt over masturbation (I didn’t even know what it meant), the time another therapist blew up my stepdad’s first marriage and almost destroyed his relationship with my stepsister, all the times my brother-in-law’s therapists missed his coming manic episodes (where I spotted them), therapists ignoring supposed “gold standard” evidence….
Sorry, but as I look around, the profession isn’t exactly covering themselves in glory.
April 22nd, 2024 at 12:24 pm
In other words: Keep your laws off my body! You’re not the boss of me! I can set fire to myself if I want to!
Okay, yes, but not during a burning ban. It’s a fire hazard. That’s a public safety matter. And no flame more more than 3 feet tall.
Might be okay if they sat inside a wire cage to keep the embers from lighting nearby rooftops aflame, like my little backyard firepit from Menards.