As the weather warms up, various Young People™ are getting about their kittenish antics of Protesting The Cause Du Jour — these days this seems to consist of making something inconvenient as possible for the neutral folks.
Because, you know, nothing makes me want to support your side on a position more than you blocking a highway and making me sit in a sweltering car for hours in the Texas sun until the road gets cleared. I may have been neutral on the subject before, but after sitting in a puddle of sweat for hours, hungry, thirsty, and late for whatever I had planned because of you and the rest of your dacoit buddies — I realize that your cause must be just!
That was sarcasm, by the by. Nothing stirs up that deep-buried streak of oppositional defiance in me quite like getting annoyed, harried, harassed, inconvenienced, or just plain prevented from going about my trying to earn a living by a bunch of foetal honyocks yelping about a country they couldn’t find on an annotated world globe. With a head-start and grid co-ordinates.
Judging from videos popping up of protestors getting a sudden Dose of Reality from outraged citizens, I’m guessing I’m not the only one.
As an amateur student of history the interesting thing I find is that the older folks who are ginning the children up — yes, someone is winding up the little bugsnipes, someone older and nervous about getting their precious pink skin anywhere near where police or bystanders might start thinking wistfully about tactical applications of extreme violence —
I know this, because 1) I’ve been a Young Person™ and my passions at the time revolved around anything comely members of the opposite sex were interested in and doing whatever it took to keep the NCOs off my fuzzy butt; and 2) I’ve been to the classes on riots/ mobs/ whatever the politically correct term for “spontaneous socio/political violent mass exhibitions” is now, and I clearly remember being told that there are always somebodies with clear heads behind it, and the best way to shut it down is to find those persons and … “Remove them from the chess board”.
— these older folks, people with authority, people past the age where “passion overrules the sense”, people who have an allergy to hickory shampoos and catching a pepper-ball to the teeth, but who don’t have any issues with sending someone else’s kids to take the beat-downs: These are the ones I can’t quite figure out. They’re older, hopefully a little more wise to the ways of the world, and they should know that pissing off the neutral middle actively drives those folks away from your side.
If send a bunch of colledge stoodenz to block a bridge on behalf of the Gay Baby Whales For Jesus, and they prevent 4,000 drivers from going home, going to work, going to the hospital, or going anywhere else — those 4,000 drivers aren’t going to suddenly decide to support the Gay Baby Whales For Jesus. No, they’re going to support Depth Charging Said Whales, Preferably With Protestors Duct-Taped To The Charges.
And worse … sooner or later at one of these protests a whole bunch of fed-up, pissed-off folks are going to show up with axe-handles and rubber hoses and Commence to Beating Wholesale Ass.
When that happens I can see Young Biff and Blonde Buffy romantically believing that the sight of Biff’s chiclet teeth flying out of his skull in slow-motion on National TeeVee will magically result in the country deciding to support whatever quixotic cause they represent …
… Anyone with enough age and experience to have a job and a family to support understands that the only result will be people yelling, “Hit him again!” at the TeeVee, whooping, and saving the Best Hickory Highlights to their Favourites file.
And the folks pushing these kids to do this dumb stuff understand this, too. Or they should.
These protests aren’t going to change anyone’s mind. The only thing these idiot protests are going to do is get some college kids horrifically injured. And the adults running this bushwa ought to know that.
So … why pull this gradoo?
LawDog
Lawdog- lamentably I think these victims of the collective media-inflicted lobotomy are hoping to the become victims of violence from normies which will then be used to justify violence against normies by their cheerleaders in high places.
” With a head-start and grid co-ordinates.”
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I think it’s safe to say that giving them grid co-ordinates will just increase the confusion…
The point of the exercise is the revolution. They intend this to at some point go beyond inconveniencing you and extend to killing you if you don’t give them what they demand, or at least wave the correct flag as their victorious legions march through. This is just battlespace prep, and if there are some martyrs, well, they’re useful too.
Right. They don’t actually care about the Palestinians, or transfolk, or blacks, or gays, or women, or the workers of the world who were going to Unite! before they became rednecks, or even (especially) the climate, whales, spotted owls, or Mother Earth herself.
No, those are all just excuses to get in your way and make you first tolerate them, and finally obey them.
Destroying statues and defacing art and historical documents is merely proving that their causes are better than yours, and that you should stand aside while they build a better world–better because they rule you.
All just ways to make sure you understand that they are better than you, that they are your natural masters.
Why are they doing this? To distract us from the ridiculousness of the candidates that have been propped up for us to choose from. To distract us from the ridiculous things they are paying to push through the state and federal legislatures. To distract us from how they have screwed up the economy and what really needs to be done to fix it.
Why? To justify wholesale confiscation of anything that could kinetically disrupt future mob actions. especially the tools that could selectively remove the planners, coordinators, and weapons mules from the event from a distance.
As a nation, we have been breeding and educating for ignorance and lack of cognitive abilities. We have succeeded.
It may piss off 4k there at the roadway, but it will be covered with appropriate emphasis on the heroic protesters being dragged off forcibly with torn skin and asphalt on thier palms. It is for the TV audience, not the poor bastard trying to decide if 25 to life is worth the pouring bleach in the gene pool.
I’m guessing the many of the folks participating are hoping their party last long enough to give them another excuse for not keeping their nose to the grindstone and giving their parents a reason to be proud of their investing in their children’s future. Reality usually sets in over time, and a pepper ball to the teeth expedites the process.
What’s better than exercising your hatred of the general population? Exercising your hatred of the general population by cynically manipulating their moronic children into doing it for you.
Hey, Dawg. To the extent there’re genuine “students” in the mix, you are correct, they couldn’t find Gaza or Ukraine or wherever with GPS and a homing pidgin. I believe the majority of these pukes are paid “Rent-A-Mob”, who may be politically motivated or simply mercenary muscle, the Left’s “Brownshirt” StormTruppen. Paymasters start with Soros and go down the motivation spectrum to millionaire Alum who just contribute without paying much attention until it blows up in the news. The students getting cracked skulls is part of the plan, I believe to gin upmore dislike for the more Conservative, to legitimize the coming Leftist violence this summer and fall, to an election day crescendo that’ll make the ’68 Chicago Dem. Convention look like a garden party, with Antifa/BLM playing Yippies and Weather Underground. ( Q; How many Weathermen does it take to wire a bomb?
A; three. One to wire the explosives and two to hose him off the sidewalk.) It’s another Commie uprising, being led internally instead of the war in Vietnam being exploited by the USSR – but Putin having a finger in the pie wouldn’t surprise me, old KGB hand that he is….
The best strategy for the enemies of America, is to get Americans fighting themselves.
I believe the majority of these pukes are paid “Rent-A-Mob”, who may be politically motivated or simply mercenary muscle, the Left’s “Brownshirt” StormTruppen.
And you would be correct.
Legal Insurrection (and others) reported that of the 33 “protesters” arrested at Columbia University, 6 were Columbia students.
Left unsaid — but which my mind immediately latched on — was that this headline means 27 of the 33 were NOT students.
Nobody (and I mean, nobody) is reporting that. They all focus on the 6 poor, downtrodden Ivy League students whose lives — or worse, permanent records — could forever be affected by their heroic protest.
The 27 protesters “not affiliated with the University”, and who are very likely as close to “professional instigators” as can be found, don’t get a mention.
Two theories:
1. Youngens will fight against the powers that be on general principle. Whatever side the old folks seem to take, they’ll just take the opposite. Rebellion regardless.
2. This is masterminded by Republicans to make Democrats look like idiotic terrorist sympathizers, to swing votes more red.
Both could be true.
3. This is masterminded by Democrat supporters behind the scenes, to make crack-downs on violent criminal behavior look like Republican over-reaction to “(mostly) peaceful protest” and “free speech”.
So they have to make their political points by letting a few young lives be destroyed. Omelets and eggs.
I do believe that they may have learned the dangers of blocking roads after the incident on the way to Burning Man last year. Then again, maybe not. The lesson may have to be repeated for the slower ones.
Difference there being, that occured on Tribal Land, at the hands of very annoyed Tribal Police.
Not only did those protesters get bodied, they got bodied and the people who did it got a pass, because “Tribal Sovereignty, Mother[deleted]!” If the Radical Left, as a whole, went against any Tribal police agency directly, they will alienate every single tribe they’ve claimed to support for years, and they can’t have -that-.
So, they get a pass, and it rapidly disappears from the news.
Glad for the Paiutes, laughing at the protesters for losing at their own game.
The puppet masters merely seek chaos and the resultant societal upheaval. Therein lies the potential for revolution. If not this cause, then the next perhaps.
“why pull this gradoo?”
To get us to do stupid things. What them puppeteers don’t get: once we actually start goin’ to town on puppet keister (once we do stupid things) we won’t stop. Why would we? By that point, we’re damned, and the damned have nuthin’ to lose. The puppeteers confuse forbearance for timidity. That mistake will cost ’em. -Henry
First one is expensive. The rest are free.
At UCLA the protest was loudly anti-police–until the ‘counterprotestors’ came to visit with fireworks and big sticks. Check out the videos of protestors, surrounded by violently anti-police posters, screaming hysterically for the police to come save them. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
To quote an old saying b the (deceased) Mike Vanderbough, “After the first, the rest are free. . . one hundred heads” And that’s what soros and the rest of his billionaire/millionaire friends will NEVER understand.
There’s a factor I seldom see addressed;
Since the 1960’s (which really ran into the early ‘70’s) ‘protest’ has become something between a hobby and a lifestyle. Kind of like SF fandom or Civil War reenactment, although the Fen (plural of fan, in fan jargon) and the Civil War buffs are orders of magnitude less annoying. It’s a party, and an opportunity to play ‘shock the squares’. That’s a fun game. I played it, too, when I was active in SF fandom. The Fen usually limit it to SF conventions, in the con hotels and close surrounding restaurants.
The ‘protesters’ play it out in public, and make it as hard as possible to ignore them, largely because there are seldom any adverse consequences. Oh, a few may get arrested, and some tear gas may be used, but charges will likely be dropped, even if there has been vandalism and arson (they do so love playing with fire).
We’ve seen clear signs of this for a long time. Pride events packed with narcissistic idiots in bondage gear aren’t going to promote acceptance. Instead they convince the majority that Gays are arrested adolescents with poor impulse control; pretty much the worst possible message. These ‘protests’ are only nominally about the designated Cause. They are about parading the ‘protesters’ supposed moral superiority to the rest of us.
I seem to recall a story by a certain individual about hijacking a student demonstration and the plight of the Nauga. It would seem to me that a repeat performance for modern students would be in order.
I’d wager, as Andy Ngo observed in 2020, that you’ve got the trained, hard-core professionals who stir up the well-meaning idiots and steer them. Those people have a variety of goals, none of which are beneficial for society as a whole. Then you have the 1)dumb idealists who have swallowed too much propaganda whole, 2)the “get out of finals free” fools, 3)the people who have discovered that they really like the rush from being angry and “morally right,” and 4)the guys and gals who are looking for a quick buck/free pizza/hot date.
In other words, a core that know the consequences and want other people to suffer them, and the larger mob that folds like wet tissue when the hickory shampoo and pepper balls arrive.
My $.10 (two cents adjusted for inflation).
A certain Austrian Corporal adopted the strategy of creating chaos in order to campaign as the “Leader” who would solve said chaos and provide security.
I know he gets mentioned waaaay too often, but he is such an apropos example.
Brownshirts, jugend, salutes, slogans and broken windows. Let me know when it all starts to sound familiar.
Antifa are indeed imitation Brownshirts…with about half the fashion sense. If I were them (and I hope that if I were still that young, I’d have better sense) I would be thinking seriously about The Night of the Long Knives, and when the powers using me might repeat that bit of history.
Hamas, meanwhile, reminds me of what G. K. Chesterton wrote about the sort of person who “laughs when he hurts you, and howls when you hurt him.”
The people running it, ‘The cause is never the cause, the Cause is always the Revolution.’
The cooler heads at the back know pissing off the 4000 people tuck in traffic won’t convince them. Convincing others that the cause is just is not the goal. The goal is the same as any terrorist activity: intimidation and making them submit to your demands. Blocking traffic and petty vandalism are pretty minimal as far as terrorist activities go, but the threat of escalation to violence is always there.