We warned you that Virtual Pulp is more free-wheeling than before.
We pose the following questions:
Are Democrats really “liberal?” Or are they socialists?
Are establishment Republicans (RINOs, NeoCons) fundamentally different from the Democrats?
How intelligent is the average Obamunist?
Was the 2012 election legitimate?
Where is our nation going?
Remember The Animals’ cover of “House of the Rising Sun?”
If you’ve never entertained any of those questions…you might after watching this video.
Nothing is more fun than trying to find logic in a neo-Marxist’s rhetoric, right? I never heard of Wordsmouthwick Court before, but the blogger had some astute summaries of assumptions made by the typical leftard (read that: “liberal” if you don’t care what words mean). Here are some I found worthy of comment:
Humans in the past were on average more stupid and ignorant than at any point later.
Yup. Talk to any leftard and you’ll find out that the present day (whether you talk to them today or 40 years from now) is the pinnacle of human intellect and everything there is to understand about science, for instance, is known (by the people who publish scholastic textbooks, at least). The higher literacy and academic savvy in generations past proves they were dummies compared to us—just look at how much tax revenue gets flushed down the bureaucratic toilet spent on education now, versus those dark days. That is proof that we are smarter.
Education can solve all social issues.
And by “education” they mean state-controlled compulsory indoctrination/socialization that requires more money than the astronomical amount paid the year before…and every year since they began turning America into the academic laughingstock of the world.
Carbon Dioxide being released in to the atmosphere is always very bad and very serious.
Right. Because plants need it. And plants are bad for the environment. Photosynthesis contributes to global warming. The science is settled.
All religions are or have been equally violent.
If you ever pay attention during debates, aitheists/Darwinists will attack Biblical Christianity by attributing to it the track record of other religions. And sooner or later, the following assertion will surface:
Christianity was made up as a tool to control people with.
Which, if true, and given their fetish for controlling people, should make it their favorite institution.
Men and women are easily interchangeable.
Except in entertainment, where women are obviously superior…and yet victims at the same time.
If a corporation is big, it is doing something evil.
Unless Democrats voted to bail it out with money extorted from the proletariat (taxpayers), and said corporation shovels contributions back into Democrat coffers.
Government is very much less corruptible/evil than business is, if at all.
Because all the nice people go into politics, while all the mean people go into business. Earning money=bad. Confiscating/wasting other people’s money=good.
Terrorism is caused by the US and UK bullying and policing other countries.
Well, to be more accurate, all the problems in world history have been caused by the USA.
All music and art have equal value.
But some is more equal than others. Just ask the anti-puppies (during the B Phase of their self-contradicting tirades).
…But is that “attaboy” of societal approval much of a consolation prize? Watch the two excerpts in this clip:
The first guy did everything our feminized society tells us a man is supposed to do to keep a “good” woman. What is his reward for all the sacrifice and servicing of the woman on his pedestal? You red-pillers know all too well: she got bored, contemptuous, and found excuses to dump him. “All his cooking made me get fat!”
That’s what happens to chumps. But at least you have the approval of a TV judge, huh?
I don’t watch TV, unless it’s a show on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video. I’ve certainly never wasted my time watching court shows, except when I’m in a waiting room. So I don’t know the story of the second couple. Maybe the guy is a scumbag—I never heard the particulars of what he did or didn’t do. But he’s an alpha dog, and that alone was probably enough to prejudice this TV judge against him.
Exhibit C–another “strong independent womyn” who grew contemptuous of her beta provider:
And again, the simp earns the approval of society. Go let yourself be taken advantage of by the next entitled princess and flush another few years of your life down the toilet. Maybe she’ll turn out to be “the one.” Or maybe the entitled, egotistical shrew after her.
Exhibit D: “That Guy.”
This guy obviously let himself go physically, emotionally and mentally.
At least he’ll be able to see his kids, sounds like. Trouble is, observing their weak beta provider father get walked all over as they grow up is going to damage his kids anyway.
Maybe some of you have noticed we’re much more free-wheeling at VP than we used to be. We still aren’t intentionally offensive, but we don’t worry about offending anymore, either. There is a growing subculture that makes a lifetime hobby (or profession, in some cases) of finding excuses to be offended. Such individuals were never part of our target audience, nor will they ever be.
Virtual Pulp never was intended to be all things to all people.
With that in mind, I thought it was time to reassess our “mission statement,” and here’s what I came up with:
Andrew Klavan has weighed in on the destruction reboot of Mad Max. The reaction to this flick could be fairly summed up as “A Tale of Two Worldviews.”
It would appear that the $200 million social conditioning tool is flopping—actually being outperformed by the sequel to some heretofore forgettable chick-flick about a singing group. (There must be some blog-worthy irony in a Grrrl Power flick targeted at guys losing out to a Grrrl Power flick for girls, but I’ll let somebody else report on that.)
However, if you perform an Internet search, you’ll find all the “mainstream” (left-wing) sources claiming that Max is strong at the box office. “Nyah-nyah! In your FACE, all you misogynistic naysayers! Your Y-Chromosome Ilk are falling for the brilliant bait-and-switch all according to plan!”
Andrew Klavan brings up a point that is related to part of Virtual Pulp’s mission (contesting the left’s monopoly on the culture):
As long as you conservatives stay on the sidelines, the left will win the culture and the culture wars. As long as you refuse to build a critical and award-giving infrastructure to celebrate great liberty-loving works, as long as you praise only G-rated films while watching the R-rated ones in secret, as long as you dismiss freedom-supporting art because it’s naughty or contains violence and sex or four-letter words or sympathetic gay characters…
Boy, Klavan was really going in! Then he had to slip in the obligatory “gay” element. Sorry Andrew: you can sneak mushrooms, onions, and even hot sauce into my bowl and, if the stew was tasty enough to begin with, I’ll dodge my spoon around those unwanted ingredients. But when you plop in steaming heaps of dogshit, I not only won’t eat the stew (or drink the Kool-Aid), but I will no longer trust the cook, either.
…or whatever makes you wrinkle your righteous little nose — as long as you do those things, the left will continue to use the culture to eat away the free earth beneath your feet.
And now Klavan has sufficiently recovered from his Pavlovian pander to the pervert lobby. His sights swing back on the target and he mauls it with a sledgehammer:
The results are already plain to see. Only a nation in which the left had monopolized the arts for 50 years could have elected a mean-spirited little anti-American incompetent like Barack Obama to the presidency while honestly believing him a messiah bringing Hope and Change. Only a nation that has been taught to believe what Shelby Steele calls “poetic truth” over actual truth could make that stupid a mistake. We learned to believe the Obama mythology at the movies.
For decades, feministas and white knights have been slipping their amazon superninja fantasies into action adventures. To a large degree, this has had the desired effect. More men have been assimilated into white-knighthood and the ridiculous ideas planted into the subconscious from entertainment have convinced people, for instance, that women in the military—even in the combat arms—is a great idea.
But this isn’t enough. Now the cultural programmers are trying to take it a step further. They’re gonna take an iconic hero, put his name on the marquis to draw fans in, then shove him to the sidelines to showcase the amazon superninja trope that they really care about, mix in plenty of explosions as camouflage, and assume you’re too stupid to notice their bait-and-switch.
Movies like this are an attempt at a transition. What they really wish we would do is make blockbuster successes out of overt feminista flicks like Tank Girl, Barbed Wire and Elektra, without needing to be tricked. Until then, though, they’ll hijack the heroic icons that have earned our admiration, to try programming us into liking what they think we should like.
If they had the confidence they pretend (much less some artistic integrity), the Ministers of the Propaganda Corps would come up with their own stories and characters, instead of hijacking, say, a historical figure like Noah to pimp their bankrupt mythologies. Instead they fawn in masturbatory glee over Frank Miller introducing a female Robin, and Marvel giving Thor a sex-change.
What’s sad is, George Miller himself has assimilated to the point that he willingly ruined his own creation in order to prove himself a loyal conformist.
In the past, I might have gone to see the movie anyway, in hopes that something good accidently survived to the final cut. But the truth is, we’ve all seen this movie a zillion times already, only with different titles, actors, and camera angles. And all the desperate hype from the Marxosphere about how great it is only confirms what we knew well before it was released. Fool me once, Hollywood…
I refuse to pay for a ticket to Fury Road precisely because I am a fan of Mad Max and The Road Warrior.
Looks like some other men are finally wising up, too
…But the alternative media isn’t there to blow the whistle…was it, in fact, a lie?
According to Sherman’s sources, in 2013, Williams refused to broadcast the news about a Justice Department memo justifying drone strikes against American citizens. Later that same year, Williams wouldn’t air a report that said the Obama Administration had known since 2010 that ObamaCare would cost millions of Americans the very same insurance policies President Obama repeatedly promised they could keep.
It never ceases to befuddle me how NeoCons and others seem to assume things like:
…Myers couldn’t get Williams to air a segment about how the White House knew as far back as 2010 that some people would lose their insurance policies under Obamacare. Frustrated, Myers posted the article on NBC’s website, where it immediately went viral. Williams relented and ran it the next night. “He didn’t want to put stories on the air that would be divisive,” a senior NBC journalist told me.
Divisive? Hmm. As opposed to how NBC and their fellow travelers handled the Trayvon Martin and Ferguson stories? ‘Cause, you know, editing the 911 tapes and their other race-baiting tactics weren’t designed to be divisive at all.
The much-hyped; long-anticipated unification bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was disappointing; but not surprising.
Mayweather fought a smart fight, using the “sweet science.” He used his longer reach to keep Manny outside for most of the bout, scoring with the jab and an occasional straight right. When Manny did get inside, Mayweather either tied him up or used his agility to dance out of danger.
Manny stung him a couple times, but he never seriously hurt him. Mayweather covered up effectively until his head cleared, then got back on his bicycle.
Neither man is a power puncher, but Pacquiao is an attrition puncher. He may have been a Twitter favorite, but he was always an odds underdog. It was an uphill fight for him—victory would have meant either putting out some of his best work, or capitalizing on an opening or mistake that just don’t come very often against elusive boxers like Mayweather. When all was said and done, the grinning Pacquiao just didn’t work hard enough to win.
People who don’t know much about the fight game were surprised by his answers in the post-fight interview. When asked why he wasn’t more active; why he didn’t throw as many punches as in other fights, he admitted that he didn’t think he needed to.
Not just in boxing (though perhaps fighters suffer this worse than anyone), but anywhere in life, you’re gonna find people who mistake their subjective, personal impression for the objective, universal truth.
Some have such a proud, amplified self-image that their assumption of superiority skews their perception of what they’re involved in. But even humble individuals (like Manny?) can put themselves at a disadvantage by overestimating their performance.
In boxing this is a bit more understandable than in other endeavors, because you’re getting smacked repeatedly in th
e head while you work. In the case of the Mayweather fight, Manny had to work very hard just to get inside. If he landed a clean shot before Mayweather tied him up or danced away, he recognized that he had just accomplished a very difficult feat. Those are the highlights for a fighter in real time–not what happens in between those accomplishments.
But the judges scoring the fight don’t understand or appreciate the energy you have to expend just to make a fight competitive. They don’t appreciate the footwork, feints, and tricks needed to get your opponent into position where you can land a blow or two. Most of them don’t even appreciate the power behind the shots you land.
What the judges keep track of is how many times the other guy taps you with his gloves while you’re busy working toward those highlights.
This myopia can come in handy sometimes. In boxing, there’s always “the puncher’s chance” (if you are, in fact, a puncher) if you never get discouraged and keep the pressure on. In so many arenas of life, this can keep you mentally in the game no matter how much you struggle, and your positive attitude projects an image of success to those who haven’t been adding up all the punches you take.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill: “Success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
However, there are certain circumstances wherein your hyper-perspective can give you a false sense of security.
In team sports when you have a myopic egotist on your side, it can be frustrating trying to make corrections (because that person believes they’re just crushing it on the field, and need no correction). If you spend any time in the ‘hood, you’ll come across fat chicks with ugly attitudes who think they’re sexy. This myopia is an easy trap for writers to fall in; which is why it’s so important to have somebody else look at your work before you submit it for the acid test.
And of course, “conservatives” in the USA have this myopia about our country. You can point to our military victories or our quality of life and assure yourself “it can’t happen here!” even as our national suicide kicks into high gear.
Seeing the glass as half-full is a commendable mindset. But more important is honest examination that is free from the prejudices of personal experience.
Here we thought the Ebola Virus was gonna spread over the continent and usher in the zombie apocalypse. Looks like it’s a riot epidemic that’s the real threat.
This video below, for some reason, ends with several minutes of a still image. But up until then, it’s educational.
What we know so far is that Freddie Gray has a rap sheet, and was arrested on weapons charges. He went into a police van healthy but came out with severe spinal cord damage, and later died in police custody.
I sound like a broken record even to myself, but the cops who did this to an unarmed, handcuffed man, regardless of his previous crimes, need to hang for this. Unless a really convincing piece of evidence is revealed showing that the injury was some sort of freak accident through no fault of the Baltimore Police, that is.
However, these dirtbags attacking innocent bystanders and baseball fans don’t give a flying rat’s ass about Freddie Gray or his family. These entitled vermin have been waiting for an excuse to unleash their sanctioned racism, and strike a blow against “Whitey.” This gave them the opportunity.
I watched some video of these #Blacklivesmatter “activists,” and whatever sympathy I might have had for them is fading fast. I am so done with “white guilt.” The press; the Attorney General; the fraud in the White House and half the world is frantically piling on to make excuses for these “demonstrators” in places like Ferguson and Baltimore, but they take one look at my skin color and call me “privileged.”
If you visit a big city, and you are the wrong demographic, you would be wise to make some sort of preparations to defend yourself against mob violence. Police brutality is everywhere. Abuse of authority is the rule, not the exception, and something like this could break out at any time and catch you unawares.
These Hitler subtitle clips just don’t get old. This one doesn’t require pausing to read them and, since it was evidently put together by Vox Day himself, it focuses specifically on Scalzi and Hayden.
“Don’t worry–we’ve still got the Nebulas.” ROFLMAO!
This is evil genius.
Another sign of how polarized our culture has become is that the anti-puppies are able to publish such blatant, outright lies on the subject, easily proven false with minimal effort in research—and the lemmings on the left swallow it whole and rabidly defend it in the face of the facts.
The Fast and the Furious franchise has been better known as “The Lame and the Ludicrous” from the very beginning by people who know anything at all about cars. The machinery on display has grown less and less lame, but the plots and stunts have grown more and more ludicrous.
Not that the audience at large seems to notice or care.
This latest instalment not only ramps up the stunts and special effects, but also the big name actors. Vin Diesel and the Rock are back, of course. Though Paul Walker died before completion, his brothers stood in for him in missing scenes and were digitally altered to fool the eye. And the cast grew with the addition of Jason Statham as the villain and Kurt Russel as a government agent.
Here’s a plot summary of this film:
Bad guy shows up–angry brother of previous bad guy. He does ee-veel things.
The Rock needs Diesel to put together a crew to stop Statham’s ee-veel.
Race scenes; chase scenes. Diesel confronts Statham. They play chicken. Neither one chickens out. A beautiful car is destroyed. There is a desperate attempt at a memorable line of dialog.
More chase scenes. Ludicrous stunts. More fine machines destroyed. Another desperate attempt at a memorable line.
The location changes. More chase scenes. Fight scenes. Even more ludicrous stunts. More fine machines destroyed. Another desperate attempt at a memorable line.
The location changes. More chase scenes. Fight scenes. Even more ludicrous stunts. More fine machines destroyed. Another desperate attempt at a memorable line.
…And so on, until the bad guy is put in a Hulk-holding tank, and there’s a short tribute to Paul Walker.
Since the end of the first flick, it’s become increasingly in-your-face obvious that the normal Hollywood fetish for destroying fine automobiles is multiplied tenfold with the sickos behind this franchise. They destroy them in head-on collisions; they drive them over cliffs; they launch them out of skyscrapers; they throw them at helicopters; and of course, they destroy them in big fiery explosions.
I guess all those “memorable” lines make it worthwhile.
