Blue Flower

The public defense of morality requires that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"

 

In real time, the march towards the lawyer's code of ethics: Don't get caught.

 

Note, this is the same crowd that will argue you have «the liberty to eat bread» when in actual fact there is no bread to be had.

A bread shortage of their own making? Oh, now they want a handout.

 


Humour always has a victim.

 

Some notes on how to best pursue respectability politics in this, the current year.

  • Reams of what jokes are unsuitable for public consumption. Everyone knows it's much easier to remove concepts from the meme pool than it is to introduce them.
  • Set ourselves up as virtuous examples, because the Right are known to care deeply about the conduct of their opponents.
  • Assume that if the other side is made to look like "extremists", then that will severely hurt their likeability.
  • Operationalize the strategy by constantly complicating the issue to show how clever we're. Nuance is important; it clarifies muddied waters.
  • Above all, don't even think of anything uncouth and never do anything which might relieve stress (that means you lose).

 

Unfortunately it seems no-one can develop a sixth sense for when they've begun to buy into their own bullshit, or worse.