Frank has his head screwed on. The writer is the usual hand wringing faux liberal that fits right in at the Guardian.
Frank’s views were disturbing, a brazen assertion of white privilege.
There’s no such thing as white privilege. But read it and weep, nonetheless. It gives you an insight into the mindset.
Throughout the pandemic, Frank and I have sent each other glimpses of our respective lives. His cheery videos last year of unmasked people clustered closely indoors looked like nihilism to me. Meanwhile, when looking at pictures of my masked life in Baltimore, he saw a heedless slide into a totalitarian culture.
I know who I would rather spend time with.
Nihilism? I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means. I don’t see living your life to the full while staring possible death in the eye to be nihilistic in the slightest, quite the opposite in fact.
Words mean whatever I decide that they mean – H/T Humpty Dumpty.
In some ways, Frank sounds like a true Libertarian. Giving up his time and money at the drop of a hat, to help others personally, while not demanding that the Government do something
Throughout that whole article, the author just seems to be begging the reader to agree they are the decent and virtuous person in the duo and that Frank is evil, but none of it comes across that way
Reading that article, I saw an interaction between and adult and a spoiled child, with the child decrying how unfair everything is
It surprises me that people can write a piece like that, read it back to themselves and not think, “Am I the baddie here?”
Indeed. But such is clownworld, that the likes of the Guardian and its readers do think like that.
Self-delusion is harder to shake than alcoholism.
Not to mention the high levels of pomposity.
I stopped reading at the bit where the author refused a drinking straw because he’s concerned about disposable plastic.
How do these people get through a day?
I wonder sometimes. Their heads are so far up their arses I’m amazed they function at all.
Oh yes, plastic in the sea, the greens love to bash us over the head with this one and tell us how evil we are. But we used to put our plastic waste into disused quarries and then cover it with topsoil and landscape it. Then the greens told us that we had to recycle it instead. So we started packing it off to China where they recycle it by tipping it into the sea.
They never like to admit that the people tipping the stuff in the sea is not the much maligned ‘white supremacists’ like Frank, its the very people the Left want to import into the West, the Third Worlders who despoil the environment everywhere they go.
As an addendum to this, an interesting discussion on the new snobbery as exemplified by the article.
https://youtu.be/VJxLO3diaCw
I saw the headline and thought you were talking about me. So disappointed. 🙁
Thought you might.
I thought that you might like this story, although I don’t suppose that you will have any trouble in keeping your business away from this particular establishment.
BALTIMORE — A Baltimore restaurant is taking the city’s indoor mask mandate one step further and is requiring customers to bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to enter.
The policy is plastered on the front door of Silver Queen Cafe — customers ages 12 and up only get in if they have proof they’re fully vaccinated.
The comments on the US blog that this story came from are unanimous in saying that the place deserves to go out of business.
Seen elsewhere:
They need us a damned sight more than we need them.
I would suggest that restaurants are particularly vulnerable. Boycotting supermarkets could potentially leave you with nowhere to buy your food. Eating out is a luxury that you can easily do without. People who enjoy cooking can easily create the eating out experience at home, for a fraction of the price.
I find it interesting that the only people that I know personally who have contracted this disease have been in their twenties. Is it possible that being exposed to multiple variations of cold and flu viruses for five or six decades gives you some effective immunity even to new variants? Personally I don’t tend to get regular colds and flu bugs when they are going around. I’m not invincible of course, I still get smitten occasionally so I don’t want to get too smug about it, but I think that it is an interesting observation.
I’m aware of about seven people either known to me directly or indirectly. One was severely ill, otherwise all recovered fairly quickly with a couple complaining about lingering symptoms (loss of smell and taste mostly), so post viral syndrome seems to be more of a thing with this. Age range from teens to sixties.