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Friday, 25 March 2022 11:03
Credit Suisse Has A Diversity Champion in Pippa BunceWritten by Jade Cano | Editor
Pippa Bunce, head of global markets technology core engineering strategic programs at Credit Suisse (Image: Credit Suisse)
With her shiny blond hair, nails polished pink and personality radiating pure vivaciousness, Pippa Bunce breaks like a ray of sunlight through the cloud that has been hanging over the Swiss bank.
«Expression is so important,» Pippa Bunce said, perfectly done up for our 30-minute zoom interview.
As from the age of five, she didn’t want to stick to dressing only as a boy. «Luckily, my family was accepting, where home was a safe environment in which I could show who I was and how I felt,» she said.
Coming Out at Work
Then came work, and coming out in the IT department of a bank was another thing altogether.
From Financial News in 2017:
From around the age of four, I knew I felt slightly different. I knew I liked to have the stereotypical boys’ toys and clothes but equally I knew that I liked princess dresses, tiaras and makeup. I also knew from an early age that I liked girls, so it wasn’t a sexuality thing, but I knew I liked to have different forms of expression.
I told my wife after we got married. Back then I didn’t fully comprehend the depth of how important expressing differently was going to be to me later on in life. I guess initially I thought it was something that I would continue doing privately and it was not a problem, sometimes expressing as a woman at home when I felt the need to. Whereas as I’ve matured, it’s become more apparent that although it does not define me, it is an innate part of who I am.
I have two amazing children, aged 18 and 21, and have been married for over 22 years. At home my children have never known any different. They have always known that dad likes to express differently at different times.
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iSteve, are you claiming to have an A.I. that predicts the next bank to fail?
Well, Steve,
You called this all the way back to the arrival of gay marriage. What surprises me is how quickly it became normalized. And if you even notice the craziness of all this you are cancelled.
The upcoming reinstatement of selective service will be interesting as many formerly male-identifying persons will suddenly discover their feminine side.
What is the lesson? Credit Suisse gets diversity cookie points for an employee that actually got hired for merit, in spite of having looked like a boring cis-gender white male.
@isteve, what are the qualification of “minority” hires, by minority status and intersectionality? A real win-win situation. As opposed to hiring black “minorities”, who would clearly be underqualified, just for quota purposes!
If a Black were fully qualified for the job, he/she/zer/they could get a much better paid job because of quota privilege. QED.
How did he develop autogynephilia at such a young age? He always liked girls…he just can’t orgasm unless he pretends he is one.
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I was eating dinner Steve
“Don’t bother, they’re here”,
Another blow to the belief that we live in a sane and serious world.
These people don’t believe for a second they are “women”. It’s a power game they play. They like to think that they are powerful and they can do anything to you. Including forcing you to call them a woman, and cutting your children’s penis.
In a slightly more normal world, such people would be in an insane asylum, not running banks.
Let it crash and burn. There is no way out of this shit but through a total destruction of the “West”, then its rebirth.
I enjoy saying “go woke go broke”, but this person is in the bank’s technology department. Nothing to do with the reported “material weaknesses in financial reporting controls”.
OT — Exciting and new!
Hey dudes ……HOG JOWLS > blond wig, make-up , dress ,necklace i.e. don’t be the brick.
I understood this reference.
Steve,time to rethink your position that SVB did not fuck up because of all this diversity bullshit?
BTW,SVB is eerily similar to SBF.,innit? Like Monkeypox,Sam seems to have faded from view.
Steve laughs but on merits this guy has just demonstrated such intense autism and singleness (From the looks of him I’d bet he was married at one time, maybe even with children but living that sweet isolated divorced troon’d out lifestyle now and for a technology role a guy with endless free time outside work is ideal.) that he surely would be excellent in his core technology role. Whether his presence and management would prove to be drag on the morale and performance of his staff is another matter.
The banks were broken again several years ago, what we’re witnessing is the tsunami of noticing that they are fucked. (Again) In addition, Steve should probably disavow his previous lauding of CoinBase too in being a supposedly hugely successful and productive company and having anti-woke hiring practices. The extent of the fraud at CoinBase is immense.
With her shiny blond hair, nails polished pink and personality radiating pure vivaciousness, …
LOL. Absolute clown world.
The funny thing about those two pictures of him is that he actually looks more masculine dressed in women’s clothes.
Someone needs to start an etf of companies that don’t play the woke game. Separate the winners from the losers.
Kinda like in Aliens, when Hicks peeks through the ceiling panel only to discover dozens of trannies, I mean, aliens, approaching to finish them off.
Well, we do not need to find a cloak of invisibility to get into the girls’ locker room any more.
That’s funny. In one photo, he looks like a very obvious tyranny, and, in the other photo, he looks like a very obvious homosexual. I don’t know or care about all of the finer points that distinguish between homers and trannies, but If I didn’t know, I would not be surprised at learning that the male version in the photos also dresses like a woman.
It’s corporate personhood. It’s natural and healthy for persons to express. The organism hums along on its internal processes while delighting in the display of expression.
What a disgusting, vomitous creature. Jesus H Christ I just puked myself
Is there a convenient phrase for the opposite of “invasion of privacy”? How about “exvasion of privacy”?
Since when did it become part of any employee’s legitimate job description to “express”, i.e., force others to be exposed to, details of an employee’s private life and sexualized eccentricities?
People should be hired to perform work that will make a meaningful contribution to the success of a company or organization, not to be a walking billboard for the choices that they make in their private life about matters unrelated to their job description. The workplace is not a theater of the absurd for the Pippa Bunces of the world to force other employees to attend (and applaud, or else).
Public company managers who force their employees to be a captive audience for “exvasions of privacy” by narcissistic exhibitionists create a genuinely hostile work environment, and fail in their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders.
OT — Netflix went after the Hispanic audience by making a family fantasy story drawing on Mexican culture (wierdly, they didn’t re-use the same story those two Day of the Dead animations shared). Problem: apparently nobody working on this project knew that if you abbreviate “chupacabre” to “chupa,” you lose all reference to the folktale monster, and unintentionally invoke a sexual term frequently attested in Spanish-language pornographic music (demonstrating the local understanding of the term). So they remade ET and titled it “SUCK IT.”
https://www.netflix.com/ca/Title/80992263
Autistic autogyns outnumber real women in elite computer fields, as well as related ASD-favored hobbies.
I don’t like them, but think they can just go to war against lesbians and careerist feminists and I can ration my energy toward more important issues.
Yes it is alarming to see the share of trannies rise, but this is evolution in action: if you want to mutilate yourself at age 15, you probably shouldn’t be reproducing at all. And feminine gays becoming ladyboys, while not a positive development, just isn’t a big deal in the long term.
A side benefit is these cartoonish assertive troons becoming the face of the woke left is a positive for the right.
Gold star for you, but at this point, sending in actual clowns would be a positive improvement.
Real-life, genuine clowns attend Clown College (a real thing), where they train to master their craft. They have actual expertise in an actual thing, which is testable in the real world (do people laugh at what they do? Are they fascinated or at least somehow entertained? Unlike globalists, clowns have to professionally answer a real-life yes-or-no question.)
Fun strange fact: at the end of her career, Lucille Ball, though formally untrained, was officially recognized by the National Board of Clowns (or whatever their governing body is called, they have one) as an honest-to-God, genuine Clown, and was duly bestowed a professional Clown Name ( hard-to-attain honor.) I think their decision was fair.
Indeed an amazing call by Steve.
In a properly functioning–majoritarian, patriarchy–society, any creeps like this who insisted on parading their mental illness in everyone’s face would be run out of town.
Ergo there would simply be no such people. Just some weirdos who in the privacy of their brain would get off on imaging themselves as women.
This is fine. I’ve got no problem with it.
The problem is that Carnival is not allowed to market “whites only” or “no blacks allowed” cruises for people who do not enjoy black “vibrancy”.
What is of course much, much, much worse is that Europe is no longer allowed to have whites only nations.
In our system of woke consumer capitalism, everybody gets to be his own little Caligula and the rest of us play along.
Is there a libertarian or classical liberal argument against this?
I don’t even think that trannies dress like women. They dress like trannies. What woman would wear that hosiery with that dress to work in a professional setting? That’s a tyranny outfit all the way, including hair, nails, and accessories.
The mental version of color constancy.
Not investment advice but there is an ETF similar to what you describe:
Drop them off in Liberia and then go back home to pick up another load. Repeat.
Pippa Bunce breaks like a ray of sunlight
Every Mexican bordello must have a funny homosexual radiating pure vivaciousness to fire up the spirits in those otherwise depressing places. That is well known among the connoisseurs. It is reasonable that the same applies to those funebral Swiss banks.
Do you have access to information the rest of us don’t? It’ll be 50 years this June since the last man was drafted in this country. Reinstatement would be in the news– it would take an act of Congress, wouldn’t it? Biden couldn’t do it with an executive order alone.
The Selective Service System may be the last agency in the federal government that doesn’t recognize sex “changes”. Here’s a handy list from a tranny site– the SSS itself doesn’t use the language “assigned”, at least the last time I checked.
Take note of this window:
Steve was home free. However, he also doesn’t have a draft card to show at parties. For all the anti-“boomer” memes out there, the experience of conscription law varied widely– wildly– depending upon which year one was born in. “1946-64” is an arbitrary and meaningless grouping.
For some reason, this immigrant-focused site buys the “assignment” meme:
https://immigrantsrising.org/resource/selective-service/
The Somalis are leaving two different one billion zimbuck notes on the starving kid: do an anything goes Black Line, yes, but also do a separate White Guilt line where rich white liberals will essentially be crucified. Beauty part: they’re the same boat.
Exactly.
Your “exvasions of privacy” is excellent. That’s a great phrase that describes exactly what’s going on–shines clarity.
Do other (normal) employees have the right to express themselves? By mocking these disgusting perverts and laughing in their face?
Damn good comment.
And the cherry on the cake is we’re supposed to celebrate his PRIDE.
WTF? Pride? In what? What has he achieved that warrants pride? Isn’t pride something someone is supposed to feel after a job well done? How the hell does wearing a wig and dress constitute an accomplishment of such merit that one deserves to feel PRIDE? For the love of Christ, wake the F*** up, idiot. You aren’t entitled to feel pride until and unless you have exerted yourself in some exemplary manner in the accomplishment of some tangible goal. And even then, only if it is somewhat above and beyond the call of duty. If it’s just your job description you’ve fulfilled then okay, feel good about yourself, you’ve measured up to the norm, but PRIDE? Satisfaction, maybe, but you’ve set yourself a pretty low bar if you allow yourself to feel PRIDE in just showing up and going along.
Gay Pride. Showing up to work in drag = exemplary performance. What has happened to the world?
Those folks belong to what Lavrov and Putin have called the “golden billion”*. Ironically they likely know as much about the petrodollar system as does my dog.
Maybe ten years from now the idea of such people taking cruises will seem impossible?
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_billion
“Reinstatement would be in the news– it would take an act of Congress, wouldn’t it? Biden couldn’t do it with an executive order alone.”
Hee hee. Silly Rabbit — we don’t have any actual “laws” in this country any more, and not for quite a while. You’ll live long enough to absolutely marvel at the sort of outrages which are soon to be imagined into reality in the name of (always unexamined and undefined) “Equity”, which is our new sci-fi legal lodestar.
She is probably just a fruitcake but the expression global markets technology core engineering strategic programs is a barbaric assault on Western Civilisation.
That would work, but it would still raise the prices for all passengers unless Carnival charged a premium for the black only cruise to cover the costs of the damage. They would also have to start paying employees a premium to work those cruises, assuming they can even keep them staffed well enough to operate in the first place.
I’d like to know how the pecking order of the grievance class shakes out in all of this woke chaos…
It appears some white males have found a way to “hack” the grievance hierarchy and put themselves back on top by playing the “I’m a woman game.” And the left doesn’t know what to do with it, because if they come out and deny these tranny men their biological female status, it obliterates the LBGTQ “sex is a social construct” narrative. They can’t have it both ways, at least not for long. And they are stomping on a shit ton of female privilege.
E.G. The men in woman’s sports controversy.
It had been white women with black – minority women riding their third wave feminism coat tales.
The Hispanics illegals get a lot of sympathy but no one is really out there pedestalizing them.
As recently as the summer of Floyd… black men briefly occupied the top slot “carte blanche” to commit crime. Black men still hold the get of jail free card on crime. But they aren’t the focus of the poor me narrative. It’s kooky white men.
The left is spinning a lot of plates, eventually they have to crash.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m having a blast watching them cannibalize each other.
Does xe count toward women in STEM, or no?
Does anyone know if more STEM patents have been filed by autogynephiliacs or biological females?
Or can they dress up as their favorite fictional or historical character? How about Christopher Columbus? Charles Martel?
Or even a trenchcoat.
“Post hoc, ergo propter hoc” is a fallacy. Every woke organization (which means basically all large banks and corporations) are going to have a handful of trannies now, mostly in relatively meaningless positions such as director of DIEversity. If you go back and look at any failed bank, you are going to find these characters but that doesn’t mean that they (or even wokeness) CAUSED the bank failure. You can walk and chew gum at the same time and you can be a competent bank and still make meaningless gestures toward DIEversity that please your young staff and the Powers that Be.
In some cases, these are really rather competent guys (who develop a mental illness late in life), such as Dick “Rachel” Levine. If Dick Levine wants to wear a dress from now on, it doesn’t really affect his underlying and proven high level of competence. He’s still highly respected scientist Dick Levine, just now in a dress.
OTOH, in some cases (e.g. Sam Brinton), the trannie affectation is part of a much more pervasive mental illness. Such people can and should be dismissed if their bad behavior (e.g. stealing luggage at airports) extents beyond just wearing a dress and makeup.
Zero Hedge headlines this morning:
6:12 AM
Bailout Arrives: Credit Suisse To Borrow $54BN From SNB To “Pre-emptively Strengthen Liquidity”
6:52
Credit Suisse liquidity actions assist sentiment, the tone is tentative pre-ECB – Newsquawk US Market Open
7:27
ECB Preview: “None Of The Available Options Come Without A Cost”
7:39
Wall Street Reacts To Credit Suisse Rescue: Stock Gains Fade Amid Doubts SNB Support Not Enough:
10:36
‘Bailout Bust’? European Bank Default Risk Rises As Credit Suisse Stock Tumbles
If 54 $BN buys you 4 1/2 hours, pretty soon it’s real money.
Tomorrow’s headline?
Send Lawyers, Guns and Money.
What are the verbs that correspond to “express” or “include” in the same way as “take” corresponds to “give”? Are people including in an active, ongoing, and enthusiastic way, or are they being included upon?
Is Pippa Pig Bunce one of the Gnomes of Zurich? Somehow, I’d always pictured gnomes as looking a lot … well not like this at all.
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Huh! I’d always thought the Gnomes of Zurich term was coined by a guy who wrote a book just called Money or something, that I read about 15 years ago. The book I linked to is by one T.R. Fehrenbach, whose book on the Korean War, This Kind of War, was very good.
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Lastly, Credit Suisse Gold Bars, Bitchez!
“No Sir, Mr. IRS man. I’d still have them but for that tragic boating accident.”
Over at Meta, The flounce is being bounced:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/meta-starts-next-round-of-layoffs-with-1-500-recruiting-hr-jobs
Who says there’s never any good news?
Antiperistasis.
Aristotle wins again.
According the The Daily Mail, Wagner, Russia’s private mercenary group is now recuiting on PornHub. If Wagner can raise an all trannie battalion I’ll throw down for airfare.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11866745/Russias-Wagner-mercenary-group-puts-ad-PORNHUB-new-recruits.html
I believe you, but do you have a link?
“Post hoc, ergo propter hoc” is a fallacy.”
Yes, Mr. Sailer’s post is exactly that. Thanks for NOTICING.
“Every woke organization (which means basically all large banks and corporations) are going to have a handful of trannies now”
And then you resort to the old standby—overgeneralizing.
Everything is “woke”: Banks. Children’s books. The military. Disney. M&Ms. Super Bowl performances.
Can you even clearly define “woke”?
https://twitter.com/vanguard_pod/status/1635749284355211264/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1635749284355211264¤tTweetUser=vanguard_pod
I hate to say it, but if things go bad with Putin, there may not be time for a draft…
This is now aggressively marketed to kids since infancy. Kindergartens, schools, media, social media… Oh and let’s not forget therapists, who push it on kids as some kind of panacea. It’s everywhere you turn. These young kids have never known any different.
Personally, the mutilation and the destruction of health of any kids, regardless of sexuality, is deeply repugnant to me. But the range of kids affected is wider than you think, and only getting worse. E.g. a growing contingent are heterosexual girls with no particular history of gender nonconformity, simply dealing with all the usual hardships of female puberty (amplified by the omnipresence of social media and hardcore porn), being told by all the institutions of our society that this is the solution to their troubles and that there is no cost to it.
A growing concern are also the very young kids whose families decide they’re trans, increasingly with little evidence of actual and persistent gender non-conformity, if any. This whole phenomenon (with the insistence on zero safeguarding, and with all the media attention and just general adoration heaped on such families) is absolutely perfect for all sorts of mentally ill, attention-whoring and/or dimwittedly virtue signaling parents to ruin their kids’ lives to rapturous applause from the public. Just recently I saw an interview of a proud Mom and Dad explaining how they knew their “daughter” was trans before “she” could even speak.
Guys like “Pippa” may be funny, but they aren’t merely perverts grossing people out or harassing adults in chase of sexual gratification. They are actively promoting and funding the butchery of children.
There’s a pattern to these endless displays but I’ll be danged if I can put my finger on it. Where’s Toofie? He’s usually good at explaining these things. And TD can quote some philosopher of negritude on how it’s all wypipos fault.
Society does everyone a favor when it puts immense pressure on people to keep aberrant sexual and psychological behavior out of the public sphere. On the other hand, this guy gets off on the transgressive nature of his kink, if this were actually normalized and no one batted an eye, what would he do then?
No, he predicted the next thing was going to be polygamy. Commenters like included, said it was going to be pedophilia.
“The problem is that Carnival is not allowed to market “whites only” or “no blacks allowed” cruises for people who do not enjoy black “vibrancy”.”
A little travel tip from your kosher friends:
Another option:
Yes, there is a cloud hanging over the Swiss bank, a shadow. A five o’clock shadow.
M to F trannies are part of the patriarchy. Because both patriarchs and M to F trannies are men.
This is a lie. Journalists never bother to check out these claims. His pattern is that of an autogyne. No one ever bothers to interview the parents, siblings, elementary and secondary school teachers and classmates, or childhood neighbors. Oblivious girlfriends are too embarrassed to admit they ever went out with him.
But you notice that he never claims that he did anything to act out or express his “different feelings,” so he has plausible deniability.
And what’s with that dress and necklace? Where do these guys get that stuff?
Are you sure he’s not the CRO? I had read in the Credit Suisse profiles that Mr. Bunce was the Chief Risqué Officer.
Here we see another autogynephile trick themselves into believing that they secretly liked girl things as a kid. Many such cases!
I don’t know. Do they have their own fashion magazines yet? That’s the only way to be sure.
AFAIK, the bank’s problems over the last six months or so haven’t been due to the IT department.
Do these destroyers have submersibles?
“Post hoc, ergo propter hoc” is a fallacy. … If you go back and look at any failed bank, you are going to find these characters but that doesn’t mean that they (or even wokeness) CAUSED the bank failure.
That looks more like False Cause, rather than post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, so caused by that), based strictly and solely on a relation of time, which I don’t see explicit in the representation.
Just a mechanic’s note.
The undemonstrated cause as such needs a link.
Lol!
Levine wasn’t / isn’t a competent public health official.
But then is there any longer any such thing as a “competent public health official”.
In his case, f**king dudes who pretend to be dogs. A sane society would have never hired him not because he is a luggage thief, but because he is a loathsome, disgusting pervert.
In other news, PornHub was just bought by a private equity firm called “Ethical Capital Partners”.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-16/pornhub-parent-company-to-be-bought-by-new-private-equity-fund?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Ethical!
There should only be handful on trannies in the entire country, not in “every” or “all” of anything, except mental institutions.
Even if their positions are “meaningless” in the sense that they produce nothing of value to the organization, they can do a lot of damage with their predatory, maladaptive behavior, e.g. at best, make normal employee’s lives miserable; at worst, get people fired. Besides, their salaries are a drain on the organization.
Normal people are entitled to their norms, and there is zero reason to tolerate some mentally ill fruitcake in any position of responsibility, just because they are “competent”.
In fact it is a very bad sign when normal people tolerate this level of obnoxious f-u assholery from a “leader”. In the old–and better–days, he’d have been given the bums rush out of the village, much less been a “leader”.
BTW, he’s still a professor of psychiatry at Penn State School of Medicine … yet he can’t figure out that he is mentally ill dude? How competent is that?
Men like this jackass are not “transwomen.” They are female imposters.
Can you “clearly” define sweet, or sour, or ugly, or pornographic? Or stupid?
But here’s a good start:
Woke: “A pathological and maladaptive secular religion built on the two fundamental axioms of systemic racism and gender ideology.”
I, Hypocrite, Twitter, March 15, 2023.
Lol you stole my comment. I’ve had problems w you in the past though so I don’t know how to feel right now.
Agree with the sentiment, but don’t read an electronic device while eating dinner. Have a nice conversation with your spouse, children, friends, etc.
This guy is probably really smart at IT. A lot of ex-men have strong logical skills and high mental energy.
Freudian slip of the day
My best attempt at a reply is below the MORE tag:
Sorry if I misunderstand your question. My answer is based on my understanding of the political phenomenon of “DEI” (“Diversity, Equity, Inclusion”) workplace programs, and the relationship of the verb “include” to “Inclusion”. My understanding also replaces your use of the verb “take” with the verb “receive”.
I would say the verbs “express (or include)” and “interpret” have a similar relationship to “give” and “receive”. Just as I can receive something positive or negative, I can interpret something as positive or negative.
In terms of workplace interactions, Person A can “express”, or seek to “include” co-workers in, something that Person B will “interpret” as positive or negative. The important question is if Person A is “expressing”, or seeking to “include” co-workers in, something that is related to Person B’s job description. If Person B is criticized for poor job performance, or required to re-take a licensing exam that he failed, and all this is legitimately job-related, it doesn’t matter what person B’s interpretation is.
In the above scenario, the DEI propagandists claim that Person A should be able to “express” (make manifest) aspects of their private life that have nothing to do with Person B’s job description. The DEI propagandists claim that Person A, if you will, is being “excluded” if not allowed to do so, and person B should be disciplined or fired if he interprets Person A’s “expression” negatively. Person B is more correctly (to use your expression, if I understand it properly) “being included upon” by Person A, as Person B is being forcibly exposed to Person A’s private fetishes that ipso facto have nothing to do with Person B’s job description.
The luggage thievery is part of his perversion.
The conventional wisdom has long been that the gay trannies aren’t as fetish driven in their transition and don’t get off on making people uncomfortable, but now, as there’s more and more of these people and they flaunt it more openly, it’s become clear that’s not quite right.
Their motivations are obviously different, given that they’re not sexually attracted to women, but many of them clearly do get off on imposing on women, and fetishize women’s things as part of a twisted fantasy of womanhood. Most notably tampons. Stealing actual women’s clothes, as opposed to buying or stealing some from a store, is part of that.
I think at the end of the day most of us here fight for the same side.
From the vaults …
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jan/25/juliafinch
According to the New York Times, yesterday 11 large banks had to come together to inject 30 billion dollars into First Republic bank to keep it from collapsing. The storyline that will be pushed by the mainstream media will be that these bank collapses are caused by stupid people making bad business decisions rather than stupid government officials making bad decisions. When the Fed prints up money to bail everyone out and high inflation returns, the storyline will switch from stupid businessmen to greedy businessmen raising prices. The rising prices won’t be caused by the government either.
He was more correct than his commenters; there’s a small push for polyamory, though none for pedophilia.
I really think people overestimate that, though I guess it’s rhetorically useful. There is some sense in which this ideology has to reproduce by converting kids because it can’t in the usual fashion. But I doubt there is that much grooming going on. Look at the obsession with the evils of age-gap relationships.
NR’s probably more Catholic. But it’s a good gag.
I am reminded of someone’s comment, when asked how he would characterize the works of Edith Wharton, said she was “a masculine Henry James”.
Are you kidding? The only age-gap controversy is with heterosexuals. It’s an attack on nature and reproduction, since most normal heterosexual pairings will have something of an age gap (men are more attractive to women once they’ve matured and established themselves, women are more attractive to men when they’re younger). All the moral panics about sex are deliberately targeting natural tendencies, like forbidding men from approaching, when women instinctively use willingness to approach and accept rejection as the universal first test. It’s like this going back to the gay hectoring about how important it is that straight people wear condoms given the spectre of straight AIDS and then oh it turns out that not only do gays not have to wear condoms, but at a gay orgy if you even ask about condoms or HIV status, you will be kicked out for hurting peoples’ feelings (viz The Gift, free on YouTube).
Did Brinton pretend to be a dog? I thought that was all those Army officers.
I figured you would use someone else’s definition. How about defining it yourself?
So, let’s start with “secular religion”, which is a communal belief system that often rejects or neglects the metaphysical aspects of the supernatural, commonly associated with traditional religion, instead placing typical religious qualities in earthly entities.
How exactly does this philosophy fit into the wokeisn paradigm? Please offer your own examples here. Remember, this is now a dialectic conversation.
Reminder that it’s considered unforgivably sexist to describe actual women in terms like this.
Ann Coulter once said the love that dare not speak its name had become the love that won’t shut the hell up.
Anon,
You are right, imposing on women is a key part of this.
“It puts the lotion in the basket…”
In this part of the US, Carnival does not have to market “Blacks Only” cruises–it is assumed that if you go on one of their ships there will be a supermajority of American blacks with expected behaviors such as those on the above video. I don’t think you will see Kathy Lee Gifford or anyone else of her ilk on a Carnival Cruise today!
It’s one of my favourite little ironies of liberal thinking that on the one hand they believe that a bank board or any kind of business will get a better product if they have a more diverse workforce, and yet at the same time they also believe that in the context of a family setting, which involves human children, it makes no difference to the end product if they are raised by two men as compared to a man and a woman.
You end up believing that a 50/50 split between men and women is good everywhere EXCEPT in the home. I’ve never had a chance to argue this point with a liberal, but I’d be interested to see how they explain it. Other than ‘shut up racist’ I mean.
I can. To be woke is to enthusiastically and unreservedly endorse every bit of progressive cultural nuttery that comes down the pike. It’s not enough to not be racist. You have to be anti-racist. You have to have a sign in your yard. You have to read books by Ibhriam Kendi. You have to pretend Joy Reid is smart.
It’s not enough to say, “Sure pal. Cut your dick off. I don’t give a shit.” You have to cheer wildly when a 6’4″ man beats a bunch of girls at a swim meet. You have to demand (DEMAND!) that children be able undergo genital mutilation. (As a note, I thought we were against that? Maybe only when Muslims do it.) You have to be happy that the 300-lb blue-haired freak discuss her sexuality with your kindergartner.
To be fair, and to clarify (not endorsing, just explaining) the uses of the word “pride” in this context are not literal in the conventional sense, they are meant as a counter-active measure against the active society “shame” which was imposed on such people throughout much of history. So here, “pride” is not pride in the ordinary sense, but a rallying point, to refuse to any longer feel shame about what one is and cannot help being. Right or wrong, that is what is meant.
See the old-fashioned slogan, “Say it loud — I’m black and I’m proud.” Not too many specific high achievements to point to per se to warrant pride, but definitely sick and tired of being spat on and abused.
It’s not wise to lambaste others for what you have done, for as the definition you provided to him was sourced from elsewhere as his was, thus making your first point moot.
Secondly, a secular religion is just an idealogy, or a set of ideas, with the main point being that it’s adherents’ faith is not rationally sourced, but derived from faith alone akin to any mainline religion.
You can be passive-aggressive all you want, but like left or right which I am sure you use in daily parlance, it is a catch-all term for an encompassing set of ideas pertaining to modern progressive thinking around race, sex, and economics. Thus albeit crude, it’s fine enough for designating political entities.
Yes, he talks about his true self and expressing differently… but really he’s just letting out his inner jerk. This is something we are all taught to slay–our inner jackass–through intense civilization processes of child development. I believe it has a generic name of “self control.” This is also named as a fruit of the Spirit in the book of Galatians.
How can we possibly parent our kids with examples like this being broadcast everywhere? The message is loud and clear that we can be whatever we feel at the moment, and it’s completely acceptable.
And, remember that marriage and reproduction is declining. So many essays written on what to do, and yet stuff like this is never mentioned. Can I get married knowing that my husband may become a woman some day? Can I have kids knowing that they may want to switch sexes during the teen years? Those questions have got to be pretty central to young couples contemplating the next step.
There was a fairly public banning of a sodomite from Paypal for being critical of pedophilia a few years ago. It was one of eye-openers for me in regards to the question of “Are there no limits?” There’s a constant background drip every week or so promoting it in some way.
Pride is a sin, and it goes before destruction. I recommend NO pride in one’s life.
Also, God hates it. “I hate pride…” Prov. 8:13
I’m on God’s side on all this.
It’s clips like this that still shock me a little bit. I remember watching the Olympics for the first time and seeing a black gymnast representing the U.K. and thinking “there’s black people in the U.K.?!” I also remember hearing about the Memphis 3 ritual killings in the 90s, and learning that Memphis was actually a very dangerous city. I thought how could any city in Tennessee be that dangerous?? I had no clue about the black population in Memphis at the time, as that was never discussed and all the focus thrust onto the White suspects.
I see clips similar to this Carnival video about Disney World and the fights amongst blacks at their parks. The price to go to Disney World is a big financial decision for a middle class family, where the hell are these ghetto blacks getting the money to go on vacation there?
Is anyone aware of a nice vacation that has not been completely ruined by the black hordes? I’m being serious, any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks.
Putin only need drag us into a low-level stalemate with a steady flow of U.S. casualties to both strain our resources and enrage public opinion. An invasion of Russia or “flexible response” style of retaliation is not feasible so our wonder weapons will not be of much use if they simply dig in at the point of conflict. Our military is currently unable to meet recruitment goals. The cohort of potential enlistees will not step forward to participate in a european conflict. During the Iraq War our Army was in crisis from manpower shortage. After we take some tens of thousands of casualties and the whole enterprise is threatened by engagement with other enemies, you can bet selective service will be reconsidered. Whether women and non-binary genders are included in the draft will be a test of our national resolve to bring cross-dressing out of the closet and into mainstream society.
“ global markets technology core engineering strategic programs”
I don’t speak the version of German that the Swiss use. Is there anyone here who does and can translate that job title into understandable English?
Indeed, but how many of these troons have bad User Interfaces? And how many use a lot of that high mental energy for real work vs. drama?
OK, it’s be definition the very worst that come to our attention like Coraline Ada Ehmke and Sarah->Sage Sharp are awful and awfully destructive people, and I notice a lot of them seem to burn out after a while, but how far does that extend into the general population of them? How many are reserved enough to not “make normal employee’s lives miserable; at worst, get people fired?” In IT like this one they by definition have to work fairly closely with other people.
Obligatory reference to Norm McDonald’s “I’m so proud my son is a cocksucker” joke.
Pride has nothing to do with it. Forcing your sexual deviance on another person in order to watch them squirm is sadism.
Rothbard’s “Mystery of Banking” is a good thing with which to educate the financially naive:
https://mises.org/library/mystery-banking
Free pdf ebook etc.
I suppose that working alongside such a person ( assuming they’re qualified) wouldn’t bother me if it ended there. If you want to look like an asshole, be my guest. But it never ends there.
I thought the Swiss were famous for chocolate -not fruitcake!
My only thought in seeing that top photo of this fattish guy smiling in his red dress, was “Yikes !”
Do banking executives think pushing transvestites as spokesmen for their financial institutions gives their customers assurance that they are safe, solid, conservative institutions?
“Yes, I want my money to be in the hands of publicly open sexual fetishists” said no one, ever…
Of course it is. This psychopath can show up at work as Pippa or Phillip depending on his whim. So basically he’s a passive-aggressive human landmine, keeping everyone tiptoeing around him lest they misgender, nongender, gendergender, deadname, or wrong-pronoun him at any time. Guaranteed he is an emotionally abusive control freak at home.
I’ll bet you impressed yourself with this.
If I offered “my own definition” you’d say, “According to YOU” or “Any support for that assertion?”
I used that definition because it’s pithy, helpful, and pretty much true. If you asked me to “clearly define” what’s beautiful, or ugly, or socialist I’d probably use someone else’s definition provided it was well thought out and well expressed. Same if you asked me to define what is an abacus or a zebra or a violin. Saves time too.
It’s impossible to “clearly” define “woke-ism” in the same way it’s impossible to “clearly define” pornography; it’s hard to do, but we usually know it when we see it.
Victoria’s Secret catalogue? Probably not.
Graphic footage of intercourse? Yes.
Swim suit contest in a beauty pageant? Nah.
Woke-ism is the current iteration of what was once called “political correctness” before that expression got co-opted and over-used. It’s mainly concerned with racial grievances against white people and proselytizing for weird sexual proclivities. It’s like a religion in that it’s faith-based and impervious to reason.
The “private” bailout of First Republic was spearheaded by Secretary Yellen, with an assist from J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon.
Probably most cruise buyers are savvy by now but I’ll bet that some % are naïve and have never been on a cruise and they see an ad for a 4 day $199 cruise and they sign up and they don’t know what they have signed up for until they get on board.
Like so many others I want to see this war end at once, not expand, BUT… there would be a certain delicious wickedness in watching the currently-constituted US re-institute a draft to force young people to fight and die for the defense of foreign people in a White nation. The sight of all draft-age diversity squawking like mad to flee back home at once to their respective native toilet bowls would be a healthy, welcome tonic, a wake-up lesson for all American-Americans.
And the insane rhetoric from the usual suspects would be the most entertaining and educational thing one could possibly hope for.
It has nothing to do with pride, but a lot to do with gauging your support of their “cause”. Their cause being tied to the hip of the left. It’s implicitly understood that if you speak up against this guy’s sexual deviancy; you’re an enemy of the party. So in essence, this guy is an initial qualifier for sorting out who supports the party versus who’s against the party. Personally, all they’d have to do is ask me, but I guess they prefer the theatrics of the whole thing.
Well, one of these dudes steals women’s clothes and one doesn’t.
Er.., I guess I have to take that back, on further inspection…
Some of these guys have been known to steal women’s luggage at airport carousals.
It is not fully understood how they know this luggage belongs to women, unless they are somehow scanning the tags surreptitiously. Or bribing the baggage handlers. Maybe look for pink suitcases with flower stickers on them.
Best for females with nice clothes on flights to just use luggage tags with first name initials.
(Who says iSteve isn’t full of handy practical advice?)
Let’s her back to something more important. You say you love data. Put your alleged expert pattern recognition skills to the test to bolster your case. Prove your point—BLM were other than mostly peaceful protests—rather than rattle your tin cup narrative.
https://elephrame.com/textbook/BLM/chart
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/
Mine the data. Clearly define terms and criteria. Establish how many BLM protests were violent and murderous, along with how and why each protest met that criteria, and how overall these protests are directly linked to the Ferguson Effect and the “racial reckoning”.
And the reality, iSteve, is that the police did NOT “back off” to arrest blacks for bad behavior.
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2020/11/report-finds-racial-bias-in-2019-traffic-stops/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-police-traffic-stops-20190111-story.html
https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-police-sfpd-racial-profiling-traffic-stops/6422281
https://news.wosu.org/news/2019-12-19/black-drivers-and-pedestrians-most-likely-traffic-stop-targets-in-ohios-biggest-cities
Canadian or American Rocky Mountains.
Most places that require hiking or walking, horseback riding to see the best sights. Or anywhere close to bears or things that can eat you.
There will be some blacks usually, a few, but not many. Few are into outdoor sports requiring effort.
Their racial high early death rates, aside from aspiring rappers, are due to many being obese and thus become Type II diabetics at an early age. Hence not much walking.
In my experience, blacks, like gays are okay in most public places when in small groups and sober. When they congregate and become a near or actual majority, the the cream sinks to the bottom. In both cases the language usage, words and patterns discourse change noticeably.
Blacks become louder and more rowdy (males in particular) whereas gays alter inflection and tone.
Jungian slip. It was my shadow typing. Most likely auto-correct.
His beard shadow really is very bad. Perhaps the lighting for that photo was unflattering. But I’ve known people who were serious about “going full-time” and subjected themselves to laser treatment to permanently remove facial and other hair. It takes a long time with repeated sessions and is expensive and also painful, with the treated skin needing to be smothered in analgesic creams afterwards.
https://enfemmestyle.com/collections/dresses
Apparently, they do, and the clothing looks pretty much like something that a really tacky hetero man would think looks sexy on a woman. It looks like trannies aren’t gay. They are just attracted to themselves, or something like that. I can’t quite figure it out.
Why don’t you put your cognitive horsepower to the test rather than playing the role of Mr. Chump?
“If I offered “my own definition” you’d say, “According to YOU” or “Any support for that assertion?””
Right, because it’s essentially an opinion. One that needs to be backed up by facts rather than by feelings. So feel free to answer my inquiry.
“It’s impossible to “clearly” define “woke-ism” in the same way it’s impossible to “clearly define” pornography; it’s hard to do, but we usually know it when we see it.”
“Wokeism” is way more subjective. It means different things to different people.
“Woke-ism is the current iteration of what was once called “political correctness” before that expression got co-opted and over-used.”
And wokeism won’t?
“It’s like a religion in that it’s faith-based and impervious to reason.”
Using your reasoning, so is HbD, a weaponized personal grievance masquerading as a genuine social concern.
? That doesn’t even make sense. Apparently, it just sounds good to you.
“With her shiny blonde hair, nails polished pink and personality radiating pure vivaciousness, while her bell-end cheekily peers out from under the hem of her fine skirt. F.F.S!
This from 2013?
https://www.unz.com/isteve/post-gay-marriage-cont/
Note that the models are actual women.
Norm MacDonald summed it up gay pride pretty well back in the 90s.
How ’bout the creeping normalization of pot since circa 1995? Back in 1990, most college aged people opposed legalization.
With due respect to iSteve, it was Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC) who “called this”. When asked why he didn’t vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 he answered in so many words that it would open a can of worms that would never be closed; indeed, it has just gotten bigger and bigger.
And as a footnote, if/when “reparations” get rammed down our throats you’ll see the same process repeated yet again, this time as farce.
An investor in that fund will have no future in politics, in either party.
Then you’re not that bright after all.
Correct. Even if the absurd proposals that have been made for San Francisco were carried through – half a million dollars down for every eligible person, with $97,000 a year to follow for the rest of their lives, so I’ve heard – it wouldn’t reduce whites’ burden of alleged blame in the slightest. In fact it’d only confirm their everlasting blameworthiness, and the supply of grievances would be just as perpetual.
We can’t all be as sharp as you, Corvinus.
it wouldn’t reduce whites’ burden of alleged blame in the slightest
Correct. There is no absolution. An apology is seen as an admission of guilt and justifies punishment, not forgiveness.
They look like men to me.
anyplace in Alaska, during the depths of winter,
you will find hardly any Blacks. You can
snowboard in complete safety.
I was really slapped around by 2020, not just by the fake election result, but by the slaughter of excellent and necessary websites. Among them and to your point — BestGore. Try to talk to somebody about what life in Brazil or South Africa is like — good luck. But give them ten minutes’ browsing on BestGore …
Perhaps remote work — working from home — will destroy the validation freaks receive when they force other to watch/touch/cheer. This, alone, is a good reason to champion work-from-home. (I wonder if their mental illnesses were either exasperated or mitigated during the government-mandated COVID lockdowns. I don’t recall hearing much from them, then.)
The freaks don’t want to be secretly freakish. They want to be in your face about it, forcing you to look away (very carefully), avoid (again, carefully), pretend (lie and act), or validate (loudly and publicly). Remote work eliminates these options because they can’t impose them on you.
Remote work also re-creates objective metrics for performance. Metrics are clearer when employees are judged on how they do their job at home — productivity, skill, knowledge, etc. Eliminating social considerations as a metric for work performance also eliminates freakish control of normies.
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We tend to concentrate on their mental illness — there’s probably a handful of pills, which, if taken daily, would eliminate freakishness, or at least reduce it. But the real problem is the spill-over from internal/mental to social. They are not high functioning mentally ill individuals, like some autists, but low-functioning, asocial, rejected, uncouth, tasteless … you know, the kids that never got an invitation to birthday parties.