Category: Stupid Human Tricks

So true

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“Back when there were gatekeepers, at least there was a gate and you could go, ‘That’s the gate. And if I go through that gate, good things will happen,'” he said. “Now, there’s a million gates.”

—Andrew Clark cbc.ca/news/entertainment/comedy-business-booming-1.7248706

Personnaly, I’ve always been a fan of the gatekeepers. For all the bad they can do, they (their teams usually) put in a lot of work to improve the quality of the product and filter out the oh-so-humungous amount of dreck…
Just my 2 cents.

Stop pretending

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Stupid Human tricks, December Edition

A recent headline in a newsletter I received.

Drag storytimes are “a simple, positive way to teach acceptance” yet hate groups are targeting them (CBC)
— Booknet News, Booknet Canada

I get why it was phrased that way but I think it would be much more effective (and activating) to change “yet” to “so.”

Drag storytimes are “a simple, positive way to teach acceptance” so hate groups are targeting them.

You can’t effect change until you recognize the resistance to change. FWIW, I think these kind of events are exactly what we as a society should be promoting. Hit ’em where it scares them the most and we’ll all be amazed what we can slip in behind them.

As always, just my 2 cents.

(Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé)

Because stupid is stupid

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I  post a lot of right-wing idiocy in the Stupid Human Tricks category but that doesn’t mean that dumb-f*ckery is limited to that end of the political spectrum.

Travis Toews, centre, makes a comment as Leela Aheer, left, and Brian Jean listen during the UCP leadership candidates’ debate in July. All three have been targeted during the campaign. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

Two candidates running to lead Alberta’s United Conservative Party say they’ve received death threats over the course of the campaign.

Travis Toews, the former finance minister, and Brian Jean, the MLA for Fort McMurray-Lac La Biche, told CBC News they’ve each been the subject of at least one death threat.

Both have also received additional threats online and via social media.

—https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ucp-leadership-alberta-threats-harassment-von-scheel-1.6566076

This is the state of politics in our province and I imagine in our country as a whole. To those who feel free to threaten anyone, of any political stripe or social viewpoint I refer you to a previous post and say:

Just fuck off.

I’m done now. I’ll reserve any further political commentary to things that don’t involve the dregs of our society.

Addendum: Going back and reading the comments the assumption being made is that the death threats are coming from the extreme right. I want to believe this is so, at least for the actual death threat parts but I know in my heart that the online abuse and threatening behaviour is not limited to that extreme end of the right. I see it every day. Threats, abuse and just general intolerance are all unacceptable.

 

Some redemption

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My last post was a bit negative about the world so… here’s how I think things should work.

The EPL has a thing called Over the Rainbow Storytime and decided to celebrate a bit of diversity by invite a drag queen to read to the kids. The “stick in the muds” decided to protest. The lgbtq camp decided to counter-protest. And a passerby with his family decided to to investigate the kafuffle.

 

Protests form outside Edmonton library over drag queen reading to children

…Justin Duval was walking nearby with his wife and two daughters, Anna and Evelin. They saw the crowd and eventually learned what people were doing on the corner, so they went inside for storytime, Duval said.
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Anna and Evelin [the kids] told CBC News it was their first time attending an Over the Rainbow Storytime event, and they really enjoyed it.
—https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-protest-library-lgbt-drag-reading-1.6543883

So good on ya Justin. This is why a protest of any sort can be a good thing as long as everyone can refrain from being a dick about it… Educate yourselves people…

You don’t want to know my opinion…

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Well they (you) can all just fuck off.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-politics-prime-minister-hate-filled-comments-1.6535354

Jared Murphy, co-owner and CEO of Lone Oak Brewing Company, said they were excited to host the prime minister at the pub, which only opened for business in mid-May.

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“So within a few hours, we had thousands of comments, we were getting hundreds of private messages, we are now getting phone calls to the brewery and all of these comments are extremely negative, vulgar, there is a lot of profanity being used, sexualizing our staff,” Murphy said in an interview outside the pub.

“To see a group of individuals, who have never even visited our establishment, who are taking a political stance, to make threats against our brewery, to say that they are going to take us down, that they are going to wait until we declare bankruptcy until they finish with us, that was really hard for our staff to see,” he said.

What the hell is wrong with people. Never mind…I already know the answer. And frankly my response to these morons is the same one I had towards the sources of any other hate-filled outburst of any political or social stripe. To quote the internet:

Just fuck off.

Keep fucking off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying “You Can’t Fuck Off Past Here.” Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.

I feel so very sorry for these self-blinded twits. Repeat after me: Hate. Never. Solves. Anything…EVER.