I should have held out on publishing yesterday’s photo of the tomahawk steak because today I read the news that ads for meat have been banned in Amsterdam for some ludicrous woke reason. I could have used the photo to protest against this Dutch silliness.
I’m rereading the diaries of Rafael Chirbes for my new research project, and I wonder what he would have thought about the trajectory of the Left. Chirbes believed that one of his greatest callings was to be a food writer. He was a man of the Left before the Left ditched the working classes and embraced the life philosophy of fussy rich spinsters. The bans on eating meat and smoking (both of which are a working man’s alternative to therapy) would have shocked the writer.
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OT: but this is the most beautiful possible example of affluent liberals self-justifying their total failure to care about anybody who makes less money than they do.
https://x.com/60Minutes/status/2051075885051027681
Yes, friends, domestic disaster relief is racist.
And obviously, you don’t hate toady journalists enough.
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–would note: it’s from CBS, so the Bari Weiss takeover hasn’t changed anything essential. She is, like the rest, an affluent liberal, with affluent liberal concerns.
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Hell, even Canucks saw that Biden’s DEI-infected FEMA failed North Carolina flooding, sometimes through utter ignorance — but some worse, far, far worse, because of the deliberate political(racial/caste?) abandoning selective victims. What a bloody media horseshit show, how much time, money, and effort did it take the bimbos of 60 Minutes/CBS to find a suitable nazi retard and a gullible sheriff ;-D
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Sherriff didn’t even need to be gullible, just bribe-able.
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LOL, mea culpa, I was trying to suggest something along the lines of him being rather impressionable or susceptible, simply accepting/exaggerating the image that Lesley Stahl was trying to portray.
But other than the assistance from both local airborne divisions, government help seemed incredibly slow and uncertain. Meanwhile the non-governmental help was widely known: everything from volunteer helicopter pilots, to individual truckers and heavy equipment; from Samaritan Purse to Amish communities. But instead, the Sheriff chooses to babble on about a few inignificant nazis. Who the hell knows why, maybe he just wanted his 15 minutes of fame ;-D
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I reckon playing to people’s desire to be on TV and feel important is a type of bribery. It’s selling out cheap, but plenty of people do it.
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Also because Chirbes was a prodigious smoker himself.
P.S. I shall never thank you enough for leading me to Chirbes. He’s now one of my literary gods.
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I remember back in 2002 a professor said to me, “I have two words that will change your life: Rafael Chirbes.” Boy, was he right. I’m eternally grateful. And this was way before Chirbes even wrote his best stuff.
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