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April 12, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (12⧸04⧸2015)
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Hello everyone, welcome to This Week in Stupid for the 12th of April 2015 this week.
I think this week's episode is going to be quite a lot of fun, so let's start with Campergate.
Activists demand wicked campers remove what the fuck is wicked campers?
Remove misogynist slogans from fleets.
I can't even say this with a straight face.
This stuff, it just cracks me up.
There is nowhere that isn't misogynist.
Wicked Campers must remove violent, misogynist, racist, and homophobic slogans from its rental fleet, activists say.
Must.
Wicked Campers is apparently a Brisbane-based hire company that has established its identity by painting shocking and lewd slogans on the side of its camper vans for years.
Oh, that sounds like an attention-seeking tactic, and I suppose if you hated them, you wouldn't want them to get attention.
So what the social justice warriors doing?
Oh, giving them attention.
Idiots.
You've got to hand it to Wiki Campers.
This is pretty fucking funny.
Community outrage at one particular slogan, in every princess is a little slut who just wants to try it once, led to the Senate unanimously passing a motion calling for it to be removed in July 2014.
And the slogan was removed.
But you can't fucking please these people because activists say there are still countless other offensive slogans on the vans.
Of course there are.
You find everything fucking offensive, you pricks.
And some of these slogans are fucking hilarious.
Slogans like, she can't wrestle, but you should see her box.
Fat chicks are harder to kidnap.
It's better to be black than gay because you don't have to tell your parents and a wife and attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done.
You know, I've been dealing with social justice for a while now, and I'm just imagining saying any of these things to a die-hard social justice warrior.
These slogans are fucking hilarious.
I am only surprised that social justice warriors have only just got around to complaining about them.
Listen to this retardation.
They're saying it's okay to kidnap a woman.
They're saying it's okay to use gaffer tape against a woman.
They're pretty much saying it's okay to rape a woman.
That's what their messages are, she said.
You couldn't put this stuff on a fixed billboard.
How is it acceptable for these slogans to be driven down our streets in front of us and our children?
Holy fucking shit, you fucking retards.
You don't know what jokes are.
You don't know what makes jokes funny.
Anyway, Queensland Federal Labour Senator Claremore said the company thinks their customers feel young, cool, and part of a wider society.
But they're wrong.
Oh, go.
Okay, mum, gone.
Tell me how you know better than the youth as to what they think is edgy and cool.
The senator goes on to say, make sure this mob doesn't get a reward for the view that many people don't share for views that offend the eyes and the education of our community and which are wrong.
They're fucking jokes, you moron.
But now I get it.
Now this, it totally makes sense now.
Social worker Barbara Crosser said that slogans were abhorrent in a society where one in three women aged 15 have been assaulted.
Are you fucking serious?
I mean this is like the worst written article ever, but an aborrant society where one in three women or woman aged of 15 has been assaulted, one in five has been sexually assaulted and one in six has been threatened or sexually or physically assaulted by their partner.
I'm sure all of those statistics are completely accurate and there is absolutely nothing about them that's complete bullshit.
20% of women is completely true.
Despite the fact it would mean Australian women are about twice as likely to be assaulted as women in the Congo, I'm sure there's absolutely no bullshit being peddled here.
It's fucking textbook.
We need to stop the culture that supports rape and violence against women and wicked campers promotes these attitudes.
And apparently it's time to expose them for what they are.
These messages are not funny.
They're not intelligent or witty.
They are hateful.
Sexist and promote a violent and objectifying culture that says women are possessions to be used by men at their will.
Oh my fucking lord, you miserable bitches.
Honestly, these fucking people and their first world problems.
Seriously, these are the same sort of people who fuel headlines like this, where healthy eating may be the new eating disorder.
Raw food and the paleo dieters at risk of a dangerous obsession with nutrition.
I can't imagine how someone can have a dangerous obsession with eating like a caveman.
Orthorexia nervosa, the healthy eating disorder, don't mix Latin and Greek, you fucks.
Gets his name from the Greek word ortho meaning straight and proper, and the second word from the Latin meaning nervous.
Fucks.
But it was coined by some fruity doctor in 97 after his experience in a commune in upstate New York where he developed a unhealthy obsession with eating proper food.
Oh, let's listen to this guy.
He sounds exactly the sort of level-headed person we should be taking advice from.
You know, maybe I'm not being fair to the guy.
I mean, he says, all I could think about was food.
But even when I became aware that my scrabbling in the dirt after raw vegetables and wild plants had become an obsession, I found it terribly difficult to free myself.
I had been seduced by righteous eating.
Oh, do tell me about your Paleolithic diet, doctor.
I find these things hilarious.
I really do.
But the thing is, they're all worryingly cultish.
Bratman's description has drawn parallels with many modern dietary fads that promise superior health by restricting whole food groups without medical reason or even a valid scientific explanation.
Raw food followers might meet regularly to align their bodies, minds, and souls by feasting on cleansing and immune-boosting raw foods.
I mean, isn't that not the biggest pile of bollocks you've ever heard?
Apart from the article from The Guardian we just went through.
I'm half expecting these people to tell me what the theta level of their food is.
Just look at this.
Such foods are never heated above 44 degrees Celsius.
So all the living enzymes in the food remained intact.
Why?
You're going to fucking eat it.
You know what?
There are idiots everywhere.
There is literally no end of idiocy.
And it's idiocy like this that I really fucking hate because this is idiocy from one side that gets swept up by idiocy from the other side and it produces like a little idiot tornado.
Pastor fails hard in his demonstration of why male leadership is so superior.
Ah, fucking idiots arguing with idiots.
Go on then, Pastor.
Let's hear what you have to say.
That's why we are not ashamed to put the sign out there, male leadership.
I know when somebody left their weapon in one of our bathrooms, by the way, I had a suggestion today that we put holsters in every stall.
That way that you people that are carrying just whip your gun out and put it in a holster there.
But I got a kick out of when the guy came to interview me.
I knew what was going to happen.
I know all those news people think.
They're looking for a story.
They're desperate for a story.
Their job relies on having a story.
So when the guy called me and says, I want to come over and do a little filming, I call CLA and said, what do you think I ought to do?
And he says, well, if you feel letting the Lord do it, do it, but normally it don't end up very well.
I felt led to do it, give the guy a story.
But I just knew, I told him, I said, I bet they go out there and film that sign, male leadership, and that's going to go out throughout the whole county.
Do you know what we'd have had to pay to do something like that?
That was probably a $100,000 gift.
I'm not going to thank the person that left the weapon, however.
It just ended.
God had mercy on that whole deal, man.
Male leadership, don't you be ashamed you go to a church with male leadership?
Every church that's right with God ought to have a sign male leadership because that's the only kind of leadership both from Adam all the way to the last part of the Bible.
It's all been male.
This is a man's world.
Oh, fucking shut up, man.
For fuck's sake.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Not only do you sound like a dick, but you are just giving them ammunition.
This is what they will use.
They will directly quote you in video form saying it's a man's world like a fucking twat.
And feminists will use this as weaponry, as ammunition, to prove their fucking points, even though you're a dick and you represent hardly anyone.
Even out of the people who have come to see you talk.
This is a man's world.
And all the men said!
Get up!
Oh, that is actually stupid and embarrassing, you cock.
Shut up, for fuck's sake.
You are reinforcing their retarded dichotomy.
So now when they go on and talk about fucking female religious leaders, they are justified in doing so because you have been talking about male religious leadership.
I know they started it, but seriously, you fucking idiot.
Stop playing into it.
This gives them power.
And they use this power by doing shit like this.
Reddit CEO Ellen Powell's bold move to end gender discrimination by banning salary negotiations.
Great job, Marxists.
You've dragged everyone down to the bottom level.
They couldn't be more transparent about this if they wanted to be.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, she says, she decided to rewrite the rules of hiring at Reddit.
In addition to hiring a workplace diversity consultant, the company no longer allows new hires to negotiate their salaries.
Powell defended the move based on studies that have shown when women negotiate, they don't fare as well as their male counterparts.
Powell's solution wouldn't give hiring managers a chance to inadvertently discriminate against women who ask for more.
We come up with an offer we think is fair.
Of course, you would think it was fair.
If you want more equity, we'll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren't going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.
And they think that this will make the hiring process and salary decisions as democratic and equitable as possible.
This is clearly an attack on men.
It is calculated.
Don't believe me.
Does ending salary negotiations mean it will be better for every single woman?
No, that's not how things work, says Joan Williams, a law professor at UC Hastings.
But if you want to eliminate an advantage men have because of these prescriptive stereotypes, then this is a clear way to do it.
Holy fucking shit.
This isn't about raising women up.
This isn't about helping or empowering women.
This is about dragging men down.
That's what she's saying.
Some women will not be helped by this.
As she says, she knows that some women are good at salary negotiation, and they do end up with more than they otherwise would.
And I want to note that this isn't at the expense of other women, that they would have more.
They would have more at the expense of Reddit, the company, the corporation.
Williams has been outspoken against people who encourage women to negotiate more, saying that this strategy tends to blame the victim and rarely acknowledges the fact that women are fighting a losing battle against their own fucking laziness.
But I mean, well, Walter Winder, this blames the victim.
Let's pull everyone down to the same level.
I'm sure that the end result of a system like that isn't that everything is shit for everyone.
But seriously, this is a system done out of spite.
It's done out of spite for other people, not just men, women as well, but other people who rise above the bare minimum.
That's what this is.
Completely done from spite, and not to the benefit of anyone other than Reddit.
There is no benefit to the people who were unable to negotiate a higher salary.
They haven't got any more.
It's just that other people have less.
You know, we're talking about people having less, and no one has less of anything, especially spine, than University of Michigan students, who cancelled a screening of American Sniper because it made the poor lambs feel unsafe.
I'm not joking, the university actually said, while our intent was to show a film, the impact of the content was harmful and made students feel unsafe and unwelcome at our program.
It's a fucking film.
They don't have to see it, do they?
Do they have to see it?
Is it mandatory?
Almost 300 students complained that the film perpetuates negative and misleading stereotypes against Muslims.
You know, a bunch of people who have probably never fucking met a Muslim.
A bunch of insulated college students who know fuck all about the world, but I'm sure know everything about Islam.
They sent a fucking weepy letter to the university and the university replied, we deeply regret causing harm to members of our community and appreciate the thoughtful feedback provided to us by students and staff like who was hurt?
Who was hurt?
What harm was done?
Name an injury.
But luckily they were brave enough to show Paddington Bear instead.
Fucking honestly, what?
A bunch of fucking pussies.
This sounds like a story that came out of a crash or a fucking preschool or something where they were supposed to bring in a movie on the last day of term and someone brought an inappropriate film from their parents collection.
But luckily another one brought in Paddington Bear.
So everything was fucking hunky-dory.
The University of Michigan must be a fucking awful place.
Just listen to this.
Zenierb Khalil, a recent University of Michigan graduate, Muslim and progressive activist who won numerous distinctions amongst her time on campus, including an award named for Martin Luther King Jr., claims that the University of Michigan is a hostile place for Arab Muslim students.
And she's right.
Because one Muslim student, Omar Mahmood, whose off-campus apartment was vandalized last December by a trio of women who pelted his door with eggs and left him hateful messages because they didn't appreciate a satirical column he'd written, mocking trigger warnings and microaggressions.
Well, he was harassed by Khalil herself.
According to evidence video footage obtained by Reason.com, Khalil was assisted by two others, according to Mahmood, who are recent graduates and progressive activists in the University OF Michigan Muslim community.
Holy fucking shit, I was wrong.
They do know Muslims.
They are fucking Muslims.
This is how we know there are going to be dangers and it's an unsafe space on the University OF Michigan campus.
Fucking progressive activists are going to make sure it is.
These people are fucking mental.
At 1.40am Friday, December 12th, 2014, the three women entered his building.
They vandalized the door leading to his apartment unit, pelting it with eggs, gum and hot dogs, and left hateful messages such as, you scum, embarrass us, you have no soul, and everyone hates you, you violent prick.
They also left a picture of Satan and defaced copies of the thing that had drawn their ire, the satirical column he'd written.
He wrote a column mocking the idea of trigger warnings and extreme progressivism, clearly.
And they responded with threats.
These are spiteful, nasty people, just like the people who want to drag down everyone else at Reddit because they are a bunch of fucking losers.
They are spiteful, mean, vindictive harpies.
Even though they were caught.
On surveillance video and their identities are known to many on campus, no official action or reprimand took place.
They didn't even have to apologize.
Talk about a protected class.
Motherfucker, if you can actually get away with doing the thing that you're demonizing and threatening someone else without repercussion, without even having to fucking apologize for your behavior, that is privilege.
That is being above the fucking law.
And this isn't even the first time she's fucking done this.
She apparently took part in vandalism and was investigated by the Dean of Students over the matter last year.
But for some reason, she gets a fucking pass.
Changing the subject slightly to government rather than universities.
Britain's huge green spaces means immigration is not too high, says ex-labour minister.
That's exactly how immigration works, mate.
If you can see a patch that isn't brown, we are not yet full.
If not wall-to-wall immigrants.
What the fuck?
What the fuck's such a stupid statement is that?
The would-be mayor of London insisted the UK did not have too many immigrants.
If you look at our population, it can manage.
There are huge green spaces in the country where there aren't immigrants.
He's actually serious.
Is that how it works?
Is it just, you know, if you can see some green space, then you probably should fill it with an immigrant.
This article descends into the usual sort of politicking, and I'm not really interested in that kind of shit.
Look at these fucking eyes.
Just fucking look at these bloodshot eyes of a man who hasn't had an unbroken night's sleep since about 2003.
Tony Blair.
Looking like he's been possessed by some kind of demon on the cover of Newsweek saying that democracy isn't working.
So Tony Blair's threat to the world is that he won't retire until he is 91 and plans to create a cadre of former leaders to advise presidents and prime ministers on how to run their countries.
That kind of sounds like you're trying to create some sort of world governmental council, Tony.
I mean, sorry for sounding all conspiratorial, but you're sounding like an anti-democratic New World Order lunatic.
He told Newsweek magazine that his latest ambition was to recruit former heads of government to go around the world and advise presidents and prime ministers on how to run their countries.
I tell you what, the last thing I would want as the sane ruler of a sensible country would be for George Bush and Tony Blair to stop by and you know impart some words of wisdom.
Blair said that he himself had been mentored by US President Bill Clinton when he took office in 97.
I'm sure that's not suspicious as fuck.
And Blair said that he wants to build up his organizations so they are capable of changing global policy.
I mean, Tony, it sounds like you're trying to take over the world, mate.
You know what?
I'm not giving you enough credit here, Tony.
You are indeed a great uniter.
You have managed to get the general public and the Conservative Party on the same page.
Nobody wants you remaining in public life for another 30 years.
You know, he just wants to help these leaders use their talent and experience.
He wants to build a cadre of people.
Why not come and help the president of this country or the prime minister of that country?
I mean, why not just get the most powerful people in the world and have them all turn up to advise the democratically elected leader of another country?
Especially when they probably have a lot of pullback in their own countries.
Why would this be a bad thing?
Is there any chance that this could be influencing leaders away from what is in the national interest of that country?
I mean, is there any chance?
All I'm saying, Tony, is that there are people wondering if you are a megalomaniac.
And when you say that if you were to retire, it would be about three days before you were, quote, bored out of your mind and took to drink or something.
Well, Tony, I've got to tell you, if it's you undermining democracy around the world or dying an early death from drinking too much, probably to silence your conscience, I know which one I would prefer, Tony, because honestly, it looks like you've been taken over by a fucking demon.
Tony, just fucking go away.
You're creeping everyone out.
No one wants you to try and form a group of leaders that go around advising democratically elected leaders.
No one wants that.
Democracy is working.
It's just not doing what you want it to do, which seems to be making Alex Jones look like he's not crazy.
Just like this fucking woman.
You an official.
We should make every effort to depopulate the planet.
The United Nations and others have built these giant armored seed vaults all over the world, not just at the Arctic Circle.
And they admit they're doing it in case all of this gets out of hand, that they'll have a type of Noah's Ark.
This is a population reduction program.
Do you hear all that crazy nonsense?
Well, it's a hell of a lot easier to believe that it is crazy nonsense when the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change doesn't say in interviews that the earth is already overburdened with people and we should look at depopulating the planet.
And saying things like, so yes, we should do everything possible.
And the real reason for the global warming scare is to kill off capitalism.
And they would like to implement Chinese style communism and population control.
These are all things that the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has said.
Someone with power and influence is saying these things.
She sounds like a fucking lunatic.
She sounds exactly like the sort of person Tony Blair would like to meet.
This is fucking retarded.
This is making Alex Jones sound like he isn't crazy.
And it's going to push people to him.
This is why Alex Jones is so fucking popular.
It's because you mentalists say shit like this and he might be fucking right.
You people make it sound like Alex Jones might be right.
The UN has said that their stated plan is an 80% population reduction.
You've heard Ted Turner call us useless eaters and feeders and say that 80% of us need to be killed.
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