It's all explained in another video on the next page.
The word "explained" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
If you enjoy Mexican Batwoman, I direct your attention to the Roger Corman film and television series Black Scorpion, the elevator pitch for which was - I am not making this up - "1963 Batman for the scripts, 1989 Batman for the art design, and we cast porn stars for all the female roles."
Somehow they managed to get many of the original 1963 Batman actors to play various villains. I presume the porn stars on set helped.
I guarantee you it's a more entertaining watch than the CW Batwoman.
It's absolutely extraordinary that we have people in black shirts rioting in the streets, smashing the windows of businesses owned by the enemy race, hounding their opponents from their jobs, enforcing displays of loyalty to their cause before sporting events, destroying books, yet we're supposed to believe that the threat of incipient fascism comes from the President.
Don't know about you, but I'm beginning to think they're lying.
Flicking through the Black Scorpion wiki page I was pleased to discover lurking among the numerous villains an apparently terrible musician named Vox Populi and her band The Bleeding Eardrums.
[O]ne feels as if we are entering bizarre territory when Zoe Saldana feels obliged to apologise for playing Nina Simone. Now, a white person playing Simone would be ridiculous. One could share people’s grievances then. But Ms Saldana is black. She just is not black enough. The irony is that Nina apparently had a terrible script, but putting silly words into the singer’s mouth was deemed less significant than having an actress with a slightly wrong skin tone… Everybody wants to be a critic nowadays. The bar to entry has never been lower... But there is a problem: not everyone has something to say. Happily, commenting on the ethnic make-up of a cast is easier than commenting on the script, the cinematography, the themes, the performances et cetera. Anyone could do it.
Ben Sixsmith on wokeness as a substitute for competence.
we have people in black shirts rioting in the streets, smashing the windows of businesses owned by the enemy race, hounding their opponents from their jobs, enforcing displays of loyalty to their cause before sporting events, destroying books, yet we’re supposed to believe that the threat of incipient fascism comes from the President.
One more time. Lefties project.
And one has to wonder whether the efforts of Antifa and Black Lives Matter – resulting in weeks of feral sociopathy, arson, looting and conscienceless predation – have done much to improve the public perception of black people.
"The core of this is that their request is something that cant be granted. ie. the removal of police. You remove the police, and they will not go quietly into that good night they will go bat crap crazy and the full revolution is on… but if you don’t, they have a never-ending excuse to keep doing this endlessly… which is the point of asking or requesting something that cant be granted... Its tactical… its not about the actual validity of any request, but about how the request appears such, so that useful idiots join and provide cover and more. Without the larger idiot crowd, the insurgents would be rounded up in an hour, charged and over."
Or rather, watching Alan Rickman showing total ignorance about making tea.
I’m assuming you’re referring to the use of cold or tepid water. Or possibly the whole tipping-over-the-table thing. Because, here in Blighty, we don’t usually do that.
the whole tipping-over-the-table thing does suggest that he may know how tea should be made, but if so, why go through the charade in the first place (just follow the money?).
As an aside, do you brew or mash your tea?
When will the current in-fashion graffiti phrase "ACAB" (all cops are bastards) be cancelled due to marginalizing children of single-mothers? Anyone want to get this started on the hacker known as 4chan? After all, if the world is burning...roast marshmallows.
Indeed, where might we start applying this principle across the board? Let's be a little bit sceptical any time emotive scenes are shown on the news. Are they representative? How much more of the same is there? What role is being played by advocacy groups and their PR consultants and agents provacateurs? Who's selecting, in the interest of what narrative, whether this is on page 7 of the local paper or leading on the 6 o'clock news?
I take that the TV news has recklessly been showing raw footage of illegal immigrants looking like an invading army, thus feeding the racist trope that immigrants are an invading army; and interviewing immigrants without an NGO prompter/translator/media attache present.
So it needs to be contextualized, that is make conformist with the narrative. And making raw emotive footage conformist with the narrative might mean replacing some proportion of it with different raw emotive footage, footage better representative of crying children or of "awestruck, wide-eyed, open-mouthed, child-like newcomers full of wonder, good will, and innocence". Does the narrative-conformist raw footage need to be contextualized in turn? We can stop there.
In other news, Thomas Sowell has “white masculine fragility.”
The Plashing Vole/Aidan Byrne/the chap who doubled down on his embarrassing description of Sowell as a 'rich white man' says of the incident that 'some prominent far-right guy' found it out.
Does anyone know any more about this? Clearly Sowell isn't far right. Nor is City Journal. I expect Byrne to be exaggerating again, it'd be nice to know the details is all!
Mr Byrne does seem rather impervious to self-reflection. Having publicly aired a lazy, self-flattering and somewhat racist assumption, and aired it triumphantly, as if waiting for applause, he even now seems unable to process the possibility that the consequent mockery aimed his way may have been justified. The idea that he, an elevated leftist, may have been wrong in some important and telling way – and still be wrong – is, it seems, quite literally unthinkable.
Instead we get an ironic “sigh” and an implied eyeroll. It seems that Mr Byrne regards his critics as beneath him, by definition.
I’m *so* looking forward to the woke idiots spoiling English rugby with their pointless kneeling crap, just like they did the cricket, F1 etc etc.
I’m also looking forward to the mindless false dichotomy whereby anyone who objects to a worthless quasi-religious ceremony with no positive objectives but numerous rebarbative associations is himself “racist”.
God knows none of this will do anything to stop actual racist incidents, so presumably they’ll either have to do it forever or knock it off at some point. At which point on their own logic they’ll have stopped caring about racism.
In practice it’s entirely epigonous on bloody America, so they’ll probably stop when the Septics do. I’m sure they’ll manage to create plenty more entirely spurious outrage from people not toeing the line though.
they’ll have hidden the Perseid meteors which are active right now.
Hereabouts, it was cloudy, so I doubt we’d have seen much. But the flashing purple clouds were quite a sight. Especially when accompanied by deep-bass rumbling. I was waiting for the mothership to emerge.
UW Health’s Safdar said “I have to confess in the world of science it’s been a little bit odd for us to see how political mask wearing has become..."
Other things which it might have been a little odd to see politicised in the world of "science":
- eugenics
- lamarckism
- climate studies
- gender studies
- race studies
- nutritionism
- dietary epidemiology
In fact, now I'm struggling to think of things which haven't been politicised.
"There really is no risk to mask wearing..."
Oh sure, there really is no risk to blindly obeying authority!
I'm re-reading early Silver Age Iron Man and Captain America and I often think the hagiography of Stan Lee could use a bit of sober deconstruction. One of Cap's earliest adversaries was Batroc the Leaper, a guy whose superpower was basically...jumping. Like, not superhumanly far or anything, mostly just drop kicks. Oh, and being offensively French. It's to Kevin Feige's credit that he was able to make so many of these Z-list villains watchable.
Also, Tony Stark breathlessly using the word "transistors!" every other sentence goes from tedious to comical very quickly.
Obstructed air flow keeps more carbon dioxide for extended time in masked airspace --> more carbon dioxide in lungs --> lowers pH -->
increasing acid condition (respiratory acidosis) overwhelms compensatory mechanisms of the body --> The kidneys now have the hard job of dumping acid. How do the kidneys get rid of bad stuff? Excrete that acid in the urine. --> Urinalysis shows very low pH, bottom of the chart: pH = 5.0.
Not a doctor (although the author is), but I can't help thinking that if restricting airflow to the lungs for extended periods was a good idea, we might have evolved a method of doing it naturally.
Tony Stark breathlessly using the word "transistors!" every other sentence
So science and engineering were not Stan Lee's strong suits? :-) Oh well, I have been told that he did improve comics on other ways and he provided a lot of entertainment for countless kids.
Why did no one tell me this existed?
Posted by: John D | August 10, 2020 at 15:36
Now I wish there had been a Mexican Batwoman/Crimson Bat crossover.
Posted by: Squires | August 10, 2020 at 15:41
“A mad scientist is murdering wrestlers and draining their pineal glands…”
Posted by: David | August 10, 2020 at 15:52
"I can't breathe!"
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1292744439010480128
https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-shouts-i-cant-breathe-as-she-loots-luxury-clothing-store-in-chicago
Posted by: Rafi | August 10, 2020 at 17:39
“I can’t breathe!”
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
Posted by: David | August 10, 2020 at 18:01
"Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation against normal Americans and you won't go far wrong"
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/392927/
Enemy of the people.
Posted by: [+] | August 10, 2020 at 20:05
I’ll just leave this here, I think.
From that thread, y'all still going to rename the White Cliffs of Dover? Or just not capitalize the word 'White'?
Posted by: WTP | August 10, 2020 at 20:15
It's all explained in another video on the next page.
The word "explained" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
If you enjoy Mexican Batwoman, I direct your attention to the Roger Corman film and television series Black Scorpion, the elevator pitch for which was - I am not making this up - "1963 Batman for the scripts, 1989 Batman for the art design, and we cast porn stars for all the female roles."
Somehow they managed to get many of the original 1963 Batman actors to play various villains. I presume the porn stars on set helped.
I guarantee you it's a more entertaining watch than the CW Batwoman.
Not that that's a high bar.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | August 10, 2020 at 20:17
“Enemy of the people.”
It's absolutely extraordinary that we have people in black shirts rioting in the streets, smashing the windows of businesses owned by the enemy race, hounding their opponents from their jobs, enforcing displays of loyalty to their cause before sporting events, destroying books, yet we're supposed to believe that the threat of incipient fascism comes from the President.
Don't know about you, but I'm beginning to think they're lying.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | August 10, 2020 at 20:31
I guarantee you it’s a more entertaining watch than the CW Batwoman.
I do like the idea of a cement gun.
And suddenly I’m reminded of Paste-Pot Pete.
Posted by: David | August 10, 2020 at 20:32
[ Drifts into vintage Fantastic Four reverie. ]
Posted by: David | August 10, 2020 at 21:02
Flicking through the Black Scorpion wiki page I was pleased to discover lurking among the numerous villains an apparently terrible musician named Vox Populi and her band The Bleeding Eardrums.
Posted by: John | August 10, 2020 at 21:11
I'm sitting here quietly, thinking deep thoughts, after watching Alan Rickman make tea.
I think I'll be this way all afternoon.
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet | August 10, 2020 at 21:14
Lucha libre mujer murcielago? Well, approved.
Is it too late to swap out the CW Batwoman with Gina Carano?
Posted by: Hippogryph | August 10, 2020 at 22:18
Is it too late to swap out the CW Batwoman with Gina Carano?
I only watch FF6 to see Gina beat the crap out of "Miserable" Rodriguez.
Posted by: Ray | August 11, 2020 at 01:27
Ben Sixsmith on wokeness as a substitute for competence.
Somewhat related.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2020 at 06:43
One more time. Lefties project.
And one has to wonder whether the efforts of Antifa and Black Lives Matter – resulting in weeks of feral sociopathy, arson, looting and conscienceless predation – have done much to improve the public perception of black people.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2020 at 07:33
Now, a white person playing Simone would be ridiculous.
The other way round (cough)Hamilton(cough) is just jake, though.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | August 11, 2020 at 11:38
Antifa's method.
"The core of this is that their request is something that cant be granted. ie. the removal of police. You remove the police, and they will not go quietly into that good night they will go bat crap crazy and the full revolution is on… but if you don’t, they have a never-ending excuse to keep doing this endlessly… which is the point of asking or requesting something that cant be granted... Its tactical… its not about the actual validity of any request, but about how the request appears such, so that useful idiots join and provide cover and more. Without the larger idiot crowd, the insurgents would be rounded up in an hour, charged and over."
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/08/08/method-to-the-rioters-madness/
Posted by: sH2 | August 11, 2020 at 11:53
In other news, Thomas Sowell has “white masculine fragility.”
Yes, it’s the super-woke reviewer mentioned here.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2020 at 12:04
Well, it looks like old Peg Atwood was right with “The Handmaids Tale” - women need to surrender their uteri for fertility equality.
https://nyti.ms/2OPUFek
Posted by: Stephanie Richer | August 11, 2020 at 12:08
watching Alan Rickman make tea.
Or rather, watching Alan Rickman showing total ignorance about making tea.
Posted by: asiaseen | August 11, 2020 at 13:07
Or rather, watching Alan Rickman showing total ignorance about making tea.
I’m assuming you’re referring to the use of cold or tepid water. Or possibly the whole tipping-over-the-table thing. Because, here in Blighty, we don’t usually do that.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2020 at 14:50
I figured the reaction was due to what he was given after asking for a nice cuppa.
Posted by: Governor Squid | August 11, 2020 at 15:04
the whole tipping-over-the-table thing does suggest that he may know how tea should be made, but if so, why go through the charade in the first place (just follow the money?).
As an aside, do you brew or mash your tea?
Posted by: asiaseen | August 11, 2020 at 15:36
As an aside, do you brew or mash your tea?
I rarely drink tea. If offered while visiting, I’m happy to accept, but it’s not something I’d search out. For me, it’s an occasional novelty.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2020 at 15:47
When will the current in-fashion graffiti phrase "ACAB" (all cops are bastards) be cancelled due to marginalizing children of single-mothers? Anyone want to get this started on the hacker known as 4chan? After all, if the world is burning...roast marshmallows.
Posted by: Sam | August 11, 2020 at 15:48
"if the world is burning...roast marshmallows"
If you mean by marshmallows the soy boys rioting in the street, then at least play "Mr. Sandman" while you are doing it.
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet | August 11, 2020 at 17:38
https://twitter.com/SineadEOShea/status/1293130382955753472
Indeed, where might we start applying this principle across the board? Let's be a little bit sceptical any time emotive scenes are shown on the news. Are they representative? How much more of the same is there? What role is being played by advocacy groups and their PR consultants and agents provacateurs? Who's selecting, in the interest of what narrative, whether this is on page 7 of the local paper or leading on the 6 o'clock news?
I take that the TV news has recklessly been showing raw footage of illegal immigrants looking like an invading army, thus feeding the racist trope that immigrants are an invading army; and interviewing immigrants without an NGO prompter/translator/media attache present.
So it needs to be contextualized, that is make conformist with the narrative. And making raw emotive footage conformist with the narrative might mean replacing some proportion of it with different raw emotive footage, footage better representative of crying children or of "awestruck, wide-eyed, open-mouthed, child-like newcomers full of wonder, good will, and innocence". Does the narrative-conformist raw footage need to be contextualized in turn? We can stop there.
Posted by: Hank Amstramgram | August 11, 2020 at 18:49
Have we reached peak Virtue Signaling yet?
Posted by: Darleen | August 11, 2020 at 20:07
Have we reached peak Virtue Signaling yet?
Well, yes.
Posted by: David | August 11, 2020 at 20:16
‘ draining their pineal glands…“.
There’s probably already a movie with batwoman draining their penile glands.
Sorry I misread it.
Posted by: Col. Milquetoast | August 11, 2020 at 23:09
In other news, Thomas Sowell has “white masculine fragility.”
The Plashing Vole/Aidan Byrne/the chap who doubled down on his embarrassing description of Sowell as a 'rich white man' says of the incident that 'some prominent far-right guy' found it out.
Does anyone know any more about this? Clearly Sowell isn't far right. Nor is City Journal. I expect Byrne to be exaggerating again, it'd be nice to know the details is all!
Posted by: TimT | August 12, 2020 at 06:56
We had quite the thunderstorm last night around 2am. Sky-wide flashes of lightning every two or three seconds for several minutes.
Still bloody hot, though.
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 07:01
I expect Byrne to be exaggerating again
Mr Byrne does seem rather impervious to self-reflection. Having publicly aired a lazy, self-flattering and somewhat racist assumption, and aired it triumphantly, as if waiting for applause, he even now seems unable to process the possibility that the consequent mockery aimed his way may have been justified. The idea that he, an elevated leftist, may have been wrong in some important and telling way – and still be wrong – is, it seems, quite literally unthinkable.
Instead we get an ironic “sigh” and an implied eyeroll. It seems that Mr Byrne regards his critics as beneath him, by definition.
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 07:22
Well. Kamala Harris. November promises to be a special month.
Posted by: JuliaM | August 12, 2020 at 09:22
Sky-wide flashes of lightning every two or three seconds for several minutes.
Same here. It was spectacular.
Posted by: John D | August 12, 2020 at 09:39
It was spectacular.
It was rather like a war of the gods.
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 10:07
Well. Kamala Harris.
But not Kamala Harris. I'm beginning to wonder if God's aim is off.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wwe-james-kamala-harris-dead-70
Posted by: WTP | August 12, 2020 at 10:15
It was spectacular.
It was rather like a war of the gods.
Whenever that happens here they call it The Storm Of The Century.. No one knows why.
Posted by: WTP | August 12, 2020 at 10:20
Whenever that happens here they call it The Storm Of The Century…
Some of the best thunder I’ve heard in a long while, too. Excellent bottom end.
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 10:44
And yet despite all this, it’s still too bloody hot.
[ Shakes fist at Sun. ]
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 12:40
I’m *so* looking forward to the woke idiots spoiling English rugby with their pointless kneeling crap, just like they did the cricket, F1 etc etc.
I’m also looking forward to the mindless false dichotomy whereby anyone who objects to a worthless quasi-religious ceremony with no positive objectives but numerous rebarbative associations is himself “racist”.
God knows none of this will do anything to stop actual racist incidents, so presumably they’ll either have to do it forever or knock it off at some point. At which point on their own logic they’ll have stopped caring about racism.
In practice it’s entirely epigonous on bloody America, so they’ll probably stop when the Septics do. I’m sure they’ll manage to create plenty more entirely spurious outrage from people not toeing the line though.
Posted by: Charlie Suet | August 12, 2020 at 14:26
Sky-wide flashes of lightning every two or three seconds for several minutes.
A pity because they'll have hidden the Perseid meteors which are active right now. I was seeing a meteor streak every couple of minutes last night!
Posted by: Karl | August 12, 2020 at 15:16
they’ll have hidden the Perseid meteors which are active right now.
Hereabouts, it was cloudy, so I doubt we’d have seen much. But the flashing purple clouds were quite a sight. Especially when accompanied by deep-bass rumbling. I was waiting for the mothership to emerge.
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 15:27
I was waiting for the mothership to emerge.
Like this?
Or maybe this?
Probably this!
Posted by: Steve E | August 12, 2020 at 15:40
Like this?
It’s uncanny.
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 15:49
Have we reached peak Virtue Signaling yet?
UW Health’s Safdar said
“I have to confess in the world of science it’s been a little bit odd for us to see how political mask wearing has become..."
Other things which it might have been a little odd to see politicised in the world of "science":
- eugenics
- lamarckism
- climate studies
- gender studies
- race studies
- nutritionism
- dietary epidemiology
In fact, now I'm struggling to think of things which haven't been politicised.
"There really is no risk to mask wearing..."
Oh sure, there really is no risk to blindly obeying authority!
Posted by: Karl | August 12, 2020 at 16:00
And suddenly I’m reminded of Paste-Pot Pete.
I'm re-reading early Silver Age Iron Man and Captain America and I often think the hagiography of Stan Lee could use a bit of sober deconstruction. One of Cap's earliest adversaries was Batroc the Leaper, a guy whose superpower was basically...jumping. Like, not superhumanly far or anything, mostly just drop kicks. Oh, and being offensively French. It's to Kevin Feige's credit that he was able to make so many of these Z-list villains watchable.
Also, Tony Stark breathlessly using the word "transistors!" every other sentence goes from tedious to comical very quickly.
Posted by: Daniel Ream | August 12, 2020 at 16:53
Oh, and being offensively French.
[ Glares across Channel, shakes fist. ]
Posted by: David | August 12, 2020 at 17:05
Compare and contrast.
Posted by: Darleen | August 12, 2020 at 17:33
"1963 Batman for the scripts, 1989 Batman for the art design, and we cast porn stars for all the female roles."
Keep talking. I'm intrigued...
(Honestly, they're comic books. Stop trying to make us take them seriously.)
“The Bleeding Eardrums.”
Band n... oh.
"There really is no risk to mask wearing..."
H'mm...
Not a doctor (although the author is), but I can't help thinking that if restricting airflow to the lungs for extended periods was a good idea, we might have evolved a method of doing it naturally.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | August 12, 2020 at 22:53
Not a doctor (although the author is)
Not really. A naturopath.
Posted by: Trevor | August 13, 2020 at 00:44
“Not really. A naturopath.”
Yep, hands up: I didn't spot that.
Posted by: Sam Duncan | August 13, 2020 at 02:24
Obstructed air flow keeps more carbon dioxide for extended time in masked airspace . . . .
. . . . if you have your face wrapped in plastic wrap, in which case you'll suffocate far too quickly to worry about what your kidneys do . . .
Or, when one seeks to obstruct only a flow of airborne fluid drops, one goes for that . . .
Posted by: Hal | August 13, 2020 at 02:53
"I have to confess in the world of science it’s been a little bit odd for us to see how political mask wearing has become..."
As if a government agency named the Department of Natural Resources is not and has never been political. Riight.
Posted by: pst314 | August 13, 2020 at 12:52
Tony Stark breathlessly using the word "transistors!" every other sentence
So science and engineering were not Stan Lee's strong suits? :-) Oh well, I have been told that he did improve comics on other ways and he provided a lot of entertainment for countless kids.
Posted by: pst314 | August 13, 2020 at 12:56
Virtual signalling...Are pants still optional?
Posted by: FlynPigRanch | August 14, 2020 at 21:39