Weird!

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

The new slur of the left for those of us who won’t conform is “Weird.”

Apparently “Deplorables” has lost its sheen, and “ultra Maga” (Ultra Maga assemble!) is no longer working, so now we must be stigmatized as weird.

To say this is bizarre is an understatement. It’s also a symptom of their losing the etymological war. Oh, and the ontological war too, while we’re at it.

You see, for years now, the left has anchored its power on two things:

1- being able to define what “bad word” their enemies are, a single bad word, which, whether it makes sense or not, puts you outside the overton window and makes you someone to shun and disparage. An untermensch if you will. A no-man.

2- being able to define which ways of being render you untouchable. “If you are this way, whether a characteristic of birth or acquired, or just the way you prefer to be, it makes you the enemy.”

The two can work together and often do. So, if you are, say, an anti-Marxist, that both makes you “stupid” and therefore untouchable. “Well, she’s really dumb. She doesn’t even understand Marxist dance theory, and that it’s the only way to interpret modern dance.” This is a bit on the nose, of course, but something like this would be the code phrase that rendered you unhirable for anything from art criticism to serving coffee at the local coffee house.

It would also make people laugh behind their hands at you, and ascribe all sorts of other characteristics to you, in sort of a reflexive cloud-grouping. So if you were anti-Marxist they would adduce traditionalist, easily shocked, very religious, not very educated, etc. etc. etc.

It is that sort of grouping that caused people in the early days of this blog to come here and yell at us that if either I or my commenters had ever finished highschool or left the deep South we’d think differently. It’s also behind their forlorn foghorn of “educate yourself” which really means “Fall in line with my mental categories, and behave as I want you to.”

Because this started breaking down, they had to try to resort to more overt stigmatizing. Which led to racist, sexist, homophobe, leading to the absolutely hilarious moment during a late in-field kerfuffle when a blog accused me of homophobia, a year after the publication of A Few Good Men. (Oh, I’m sure they would come up with a justification. You see, REAL gay people can’t be USAian, therefore I must be writing them wrong because I hate them. But it’s stupid, and even they know it’s stupid.)

Their old stigmatizing of “stupid” doesn’t work, as not only have a lot of us with advanced degrees from institutions THEY respect are coming out of the closet as conservative, but it’s becoming glaringly obvious most of their leading lights are utterly brainless, like the current candidate for the presidency on the dem side. Or their previous one.

So they tried deplorables, which because Hilary is old is almost charming. It’s like she called us ne’er do wells or rogues. Of course, it was immediately seized up, ran with, worn as a badge of pride and in online names etc. I honestly can’t figure out how they expected anything else, except they had their sense of humor ablated at birth.

And then there is Ultra Maga. I keep trying to get my favorite artist to do a picture of a Maga Superhero, whatever that would look like, in a power-pose with Ultra Maga, Assemble! But they don’t get that either, and hence the red speech and the insistance that this that and the other thing are “ultra MAGA.”

Except that too didn’t bring opprobrium. And they’re desperate.

So the new thing is to call married men with children “incels” which of course means involuntary celibates. Which has ALL OF US laughing into our hands, because either they don’t understand how children are made, or they’ve lost their minds. (Narrator voice: They lost their minds.)

When that kind of glanced off us with a “LOLWUT?” they then resorted to “Weird.”

There are multiple problems with that. It starts with the fact that well… weird is rather a province of the left, from weird hair colors to weird neurological groupings, where people make their disability their identity.

But they’re now trying to claim the ultimate ontological beach head by defining that as “normal” and you know, being married, having kids, working a full time job, etc as “Weird.” Oh, and being male as “weird.”

They’re not going to succeed. They don’t realize they’re no longer “the youth” however defined.

To be fair, they kept that badge as “the youth” far too long, riding on the boomers being generally understood to be left (even when it was not true) and the fact that “the boomers” for a long time took one more year every year, till a generation — not a genealogical generation but a commercial and experiential one defined as “babies born of parents returning from WWII” included people whose parents weren’t born by WWII — so that they were “forever young.” But that was a battle they’d lose, anyway, and they have. “Boomer” now means “Old” and heck, “Millennial” now sounds old. And each generation being not only smaller, but by virtue of our bizarre leftist regulations and governance that make adulthood and entrance into the workforce difficult, increasingly more desenfranchised and poorer, they don’t have that kind of power as to make a bizarre way of life “normal” and normality “weird.”

I’d expect that new definition of weird to hit the movies, TV, youtube, lefty media all over, at the same time, in coordination. It’s their modus operandi.

But it won’t work. Why won’t it work?

Well, it would have worked on THEM. The leftists remaining are creatures of group and consensus. They couldn’t stand to be out of step, strange, considered not hip.

They don’t realize those of us who clawed our way out of a Marxist Leninist mind set DESPITE all means of indoctrination aimed at us are, by definition, immune to group-shaming and calls for us to fall back in line.

They don’t understand we’ve been out of the mainstream so long, we’re comfortable here.

Weird? Sure, we’re weird, and frankly the fact that many of us have happy marriages and families is not our weirdness. We have far more weird things we think/do/believe/work at.

Weird? You call us weird like it’s a bad thing.

Yes, we are weird. And together we’ll build a beautiful weirdness.

One in which the NPC greyness of fake weird will feel so out of place they’ll need to fit in with us and adapt to our weirdness.

They’ll never be free-thinkers, poor things. There’s something intrinsically broken in them that forbids it.

But with work and care, they might be able to fake it, and not be quite so boring, speaking only in echos.

Sure, go ahead, call us weird. That was a badge of honor before you even started finger-pointing and screaming.

I predict by the end of today there will be t-shirts with “Weird by choice” and “Get with the program, be weird.”

There is no one here but we weirdos, and in our chaotic lack of conformity, we’re a target they can’t begin to hit.

226 thoughts on “Weird!”

  1. Weird? They really think that…. *Breaks down laughing.*

    I want one of those t-shirts!

    Along with, “Chaos, panic, disorder… my work here is done,” and “Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard; be Evil!”

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    1. I want one too:

      American By Birth

      Marine By Training

      Weird By Choice

      And on the back (maybe; still considering):

      Weep With Envy, Lefty

      :twisted:

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      3. There’s the old classic: “Don’t try to out-weird me. I get weirder things than you with my breakfast cereal.”

        More generally, they’re caught on a dysphemism treadmill, a euphemism treadmill running backwards.

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    2. I know, right? Awww, they think “weird” is an insult. I didn’t know they were so in love with high school. /sarc

      I got over being weird as a teen. If being against them is “weird,” I’ll take it. How is it our hostess put it? “When things get weird, the weird go pro.” Let’s goooo!

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      1. *Fistbump*

        (When it comes to weird going pro…. Hmm. A bit of internet research reveals that Kindle Short Reads of 10-15K words are considered good bang for the literal buck of cost. I have one side story in the Colors ‘verse that’s about 7K. If I finish one more I could put them out together and make that wordcount….)

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        1. :checks site to make sure: My novella Contact: Angeles falls under that heading. It’s been getting good reviews lately. I want to do more in a couple of other universes. Just need to get some editing done, darn it….

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            1. So the bit I looked up said…. I think that plants it firmly in the half-hour to one-hour read time (12 to 43 pages) for “average readers”.

              I suspect Contact: Angeles would be in the longer end of the “Short Reads” range – 2 hours plus.

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                    1. Cross your fingers, knock on wood. We’ll make it.

                      (We’re too stubborn not to.)

                      Besides.

                      I don’t think “weird” will go the way they think, at all. ;)

                      Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) – The World’s Biggest Game of Chicken

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            2. I think, by the time I had it ready to publish, I had cracked 21k words. Initially I was trying to keep it around 16k, but it didn’t fit too many of the places I shopped it around. So I finally just published it myself and added in the bits that I had had to ignore or cut trying to keep it within the word limits. :D

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      2. Same. Weird was a badge of honor I wore proud. D&D playing, book reading, curve breaking, history knowing, Latin in language class when everyone “knew” Spanish was the easy one (hah), musician and tai chi practitioner. I was weird enough nobody even thought to go after my friends at the time, which worked for me.

        Weird was not smoking anything, not drinking, not eager to jump in the sack with anyone, and getting a dang job. Weird was never with the party crowd, the in crowd, or the cliques. Weird had to figure stuff out for themselves, so Marx didn’t even get a chance (nothing made sense there. It was so gobsmackingly dumb it was anti-intelligent).

        I know good and well what my choices cost me. And I would choose them again, seeing what the end result of my path is now, compared to the others. Weird? My whole culture is weird. It stretches back beyond human ken, the deviant genes that don’t work well with the tribe, but that in some critical times the tribe couldn’t do without.

        I may die, with Himself’s grace, old and likely alone but still weird by choice. But never would I force my way of life onto another. Weird as it is, I believe in personal responsibility as the inextricable mate of power. Freedom is powerful, but requires wisdom and effortful toil to keep it and maintain it. As it should. I would grant freedom to all men were it in my power to do so, if only to neuter tyrants in their first steps.

        Weird is good. Uniformity is for insects. Be mammal. Be MAGAfauna. Be properly sapient. Be weird.

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        1. Once upon a time at a family gathering, I was telling the story about the two airline pilots who were waiting for the elevator where there was an SF convention so some fans were also waiting, except the elevator was broken, so the fans went in search of stairs, and one pilot told the other, “Follow the weirdos, they always know where the stairs are.”

          And a cousin took offense at the term on behalf of the fans, unaware that I was only one of three fans there and all three of us were offended at the notion that we weren’t weird.

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    3. I need a new T myself. I’m thinking “WEIRD!” on the front and “You Were Warned.” on the back.

      Or else “Unexploded Scotsman.” That’s a great one too. ~:D

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    4. crossovercreativechaos;

      I already HAVE that T-shirt! (Knowledge is…) My previous car had that bumper sticker, as well as my son’s car when he was still going to high school (Gee, guess who gave it to him??)

      I STILL wear it occasionally, but ALWAYS for at least one day when I went out to tech school.

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    7. Reminds me of a song lyric from back before most of those children were born:

      We are forces of chaos and anarchy. Everything they say we are we are.
      And we are very proud of ourselves.

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  2. No green hair, big plugs in ears, tattoos, on bondage clothing… What kind of weirdos cover their butts and comb their hair? Frighteningly weirdos for sure.

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    2. Well, I have green hair, but only partly, and only because I like green, not as some sort of message or symbol. For many, many years I worked in a position where such things were verboten. Now that it’s not, I indulge. I’m kinda pissed that the alphabet mafia have appropriated my 80’s rebel culture.

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  3. Ha, labels are so much fun for signaling over thought. There once was a politician in Florida in the 50’s who won an election by publicizing the fact that his opponent’s wife was an avowed thespian. What exactly do they call that drag queen Last Supper Olympic display if not “weird”. Especially fun is the way they’ve banished that video from the web (because copyright, doncha know), and then issued that very “w” word non-apology for it.

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    1. I honestly think that France is so militantly atheist that they had no clue how offensive they were being, because it’s not as though anyone on their planning committee knows any serious Christians. (I think it’s sub-5% for actual practicing Christians.)

      I mean, they don’t take it seriously, how could anyone take it seriously? There is no seriousness to their thinking about religion.

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      1. IMO It’s one thing to mock Christians/Christianity with something like that “Display”.

        It’s another thing to Lie about what you are doing and doing it in such a stupid way.

        One Idiot tried to claim that the “Display” was “REALLY” based on a painting called IIRC “The Feast Of The Gods”.

        The problem is that the “Display” looked nothing like that painting but did look very similar to the de Vinci’s “Last Supper”.

        So not only did the Idiot lie but it was a Stupid Lie.

        Nope, those Idiots are Cowards and Liars.

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        1. My understanding is that the painting was based on (wait for it) the Last Supper. Haven’t bothered to look up the painting–circa some time in the ’80s. Not going to bother. Others pointed out that a) Greek feasts are done reclining, and b) the title for the ceremony piece called it “The Last Supper on the Seine”.

          Further commentary from the person responsible (for values of) for the thing was that it was supposed to shock the normies. Shock, no. Disgust, yes. Mister T takes the sack… Missed the video, the stills were bad enough. The smileyface emoji over Mr T’s crotch on one still pic was entertaining…

          I don’t recall watching much of the Olympics after 1972 (bits and pieces, some figure skating–sort of had a crush on Debi Thomas, which crush surprised my mother, which surprised me. OTOH, the RC clan is weird) and reveled in the ’80 hockey triumph, but after ’88, I was having too much life to care.

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      2. Certain Parisians are militantly atheist, and probably live in a bit of a bubble where some of their neighbors are concerned.

        Paris (and likely certain other French cities) are reportedly very different attitude-wise than the rest of the country.

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      3. No, I think they assumed that being provocative and subversive and sh*t was perfectly fine on an international stage, and the international audience would react with rapturous approval, just like the usual trendy audience for provocative subversive sh*t.

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      4. When I first started seeing the “weird” epithet, it was the lefties on X pointing out that people like Vivek seemed to get defensive when called it. I suspect that a lot of the popularity of the epithet on the left is because of a knee-jerk defensiveness by the initial targets. This caused the lefties to see it as a viable way to go after the right, and they promptly escalated.

        Now that the right is pushing back by showing examples of lefties who got the definition to a ‘T’, there’s attempt by the left to lock down a solid definition of it that has some actual negative conotations to it, and has nothing to do with green hair.

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        1. Green Hair?

          Painted White Face?

          Red Lips on a manic grin?

          That doesn’t seem “Weird” to me as that’s The Joker and he’s dangerously CRAZY.

          Oh, I don’t think the Joker would like anybody “mimicking” His Look. Somebody doing that would likely turn up very very dead.

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      5. They would not dare do similar with a blue nude dude with a turban holding a “Mo” placard.

        Cowardly cheeseweasels.

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        2. Meanwhile…

          Video game company Ubisoft has inadvertantly red-pilled a good-sized chunk of Japanese that hadn’t already been red-pilled by the anime localizer revelations.

          Ubisoft develops and publishes a popular long-tunning franchise called Assassins Creed. They are about to release the first game in the franchise set in Japan, and one of the two main characters will be a samurai named Yasuke. Who is black. And gay. In a video game set during the historical Warring States era (Sengoku Jidai).

          Yasuke actually existed. And was black. He was an African slave brought to Oda Nobunaga’s court by the Jesuits. Nobunaga was so shocked by his appearance that he acquired Yasuke from the Jesuits (after trying to wash him white), and kept him in the court as a retainer. The Japanese are aware of him as an historical curiosity, and he turns up in cultural stuff from time to time (for example, the videogame Nioh). But there’s no evidence that he was a samurai, or that he ever fought. And there’s definitely no evidence of his sexual orientation.

          This has caused a *massive* furor in Japan. The series has been very popular in Japan, and each game has had the protagonist playing as what is basically a ninja (even if not actually called that). So Japanese fans were looking forward to the series finally getting a game set in Japan.

          The Japanese fans don’t feel that way anymore.

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          1. They also apparently randomly dumped some Chinese stuff into their Japan world building, which is going over as you’d expect in the Japanese home market.

            Ubisoft tried the normal “We’re sorry any of you thin skinned racist homophobes felt offended by our developers calling you that, but please buy our game anyway” non-apology apology thing, which has gone over like a lead balloon.

            Ubisoft is massive corporate game development, so it’s not surprising they did the same thing as Hollywood. It’s schadenfreudey indeed to observe the straights they have imposed upon themselves.

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            2. I hadn’t heard about the Chinese stuff. Yeah, that would not go over well. All of the Asian nations are very touchy about that sort of thing.

              As you note, Ubisoft’s arrogance has not played well. Enough word about it has spread that this has literally escalated to “international incident” levels, with outraged Japanese contacting their own state department to complain about it. There’s even been at least one Japanese comedian referencing it in his material.

              The funny thing is, it wasn’t all that long ago that an American developer put out a proper “stealth warrior” game that the Japanese *loved*. Ghosts of Tsushima was a 2020 release from Sucker Punch that featured a *Japanese* samurai doing the stealth warrior thing in an open world game (the island of Tsushima). And nearly everyone (exceptions noted below) loved it. The Americans loved it. The Japanese loved it. It was possibly the best selling Playstation title that year. The developers became ambassadors for Tsushima, and there was a successful fund-raiser held to support the island following a natural disaster not long after the game released. It was a big deal. And it wasn’t stupidly woke like Ubisoft’s upcoming disaster. It stuck to the general historical facts, and didn’t add “for modern audiences” crap.

              The exceptions to the wide-spread acclaim toward the game were members of the woke gaming press, who apparently decried the fact that an American company had made a game set in 13th Century Japan, with a Japanese protagonist. Cultural appropriation, doncha know!

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              1. The vid I saw going through the details on this seemed to indicate it had escalated to actual diplomatic incident levels, with the Japanese government starting “concerned inquiries” with the US State Department.

                To which I saw “heh”. Couldn’t happen to a nicer corporate behemoth.

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              2. I can no longer see the words “modern audiences” together without hearing it in the Critical Drinker’s voice.

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      6. The haut French, the city dwellers, have been and are, as you say, militantly atheistic. Well, socialism of various forms is their religion, along with ‘diversity’ (as long as their children don’t date diversity and diversity stays in its sections of the cities.)

        The Provincials, France’s country and small town folk, the ones that always seem to vote for conservatives and are really peeved that all the leftist jackwagons joined up to screw them every election cycle, are not militantly atheistic. In fact they tend to be quite religious. It’s a thing, during summers, for these people to actually go on pilgrimages during vacations.

        Coincidentally, the good French happen to be the ones that still view the US as good because of WWII.

        Much like most all of the US problems exist in 10 cities, same with France.

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        1. meme winnner re., Paris. “Why pay for the Olympics to see an Algerian man beat up a European woman when you can just walk around Paris and see it for free?”

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          1. The Reader notes that on the streets of Paris the beating wouldn’t be the main event.

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    2. “What exactly do they call that drag queen Last Supper Olympic display if not “weird”.”

      They call it “brave!” and “exciting!” and “edgy!” They call it “speaking truth to power!”

      The stay-at-home mom with the five kids, who bakes and keeps house and takes her offspring to soccer practice in her minivan… that is who they call “weird.”

      We must have t-shirts. Such an opportunity. >:D

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        1. He didn’t, really.

          Dionysus’s bacchanals were notorious for – among other things – angry drunken women (the maenads) who would enter an ecstatic frenzy, and tear people limb from limb. They’re the ones who killed Orpheus after his unsuccessful trip to the underworld.

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        2. Except, I don’t think he did. But it would serve them right if he did show up. Rather like the Calormen invoking Tash, then being terrified when he actually showed up.

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          1. One idiot invoked Hecate to put a “binding” on Trump (after he was elected President).

            The fun-and-games was that the idiot didn’t believe in Hecate.

            I thought then that it would be “interesting” if Hecate paid him a visit. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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      3. And an even worse example, I think, than the cheapening of the word CHARITY is the new newspaper cheapening of the word COURAGE.

        Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as “daring,” though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it.

        ― G.K. Chesterton,

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    3. The female who portrayed Jesus is now threatening to sue al, the people who have “defamed,” her, of course.

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      2. I’m just upset that they obscured what was actually a kick-ass symphonic metal song with all the rest of that stupid crap. The world could’ve been talking about music instead (and also the odd choice of a set piece focused on the beheading of Marie Antoinette, to be honest), but nope…

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    4. Ah, the Florida of the 1950’s, back when we were King Sugar and King Citrus and empty military airfields everywhere (one about every 30 miles along the coastlines and a solid line of them along the center spine.)

      Our modern Florida resembles that time not at all.

      Now, in comparison, 1950’s NYFC could pretty much look like modern NYFC except for the clothes.

      Florida’s changed, a lot. Liberal hives of stupidity like NYFC and Boston et al haven’t really.

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  4. I’ve been called “weird” since grade school. My whole family uses it as a self-descriptor.

    I somehow don’t think that it’s going to gain much traction.

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    1. Really. Call me weird? What next, nuggies? They won’t let me sit near them during lunch? Tell me I’m not cool enough?

      Ooooh, I’m so hurt. not.

      I think that ‘they’ chose ‘weird’ because even the Kamala-toe can’t, mostly, sort-of, screw it up, maybe.

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  6. I mentioned this the other day at Ace’s, but “wierd” is child’s play to turn around on them.

    Show image of rioting and flag burning. Voiceover “Democrats think this is normal.”

    Show image of orderly and cheerful 4th of July parade. Voiceover “Democrats thinks this is weird.”

    Tagline: “Be Weird. Vote Republican.”

    Substitute any two pictures or video clips contrasting the chaos, disorder, and filth (literal and metaphorical) that the Dems like, with the order, joy, and camaraderie that most people like.

    Job done.

    It even harmonizes with the little moment of zen ads that the Trump campaign has already put out.

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    2. The genderfluid luggage thief and Officer Pup can be shining examples of the Dem’s values of normal.

      I haven’t worn a graphic teeshirt since my Abacus World Expo (for 2000 and 2001) and the Tubes Rock shirts wore out (h/t geekculture dot com*), but I’d be happy with a “weird” shirt. Size 2X, all cotton. :)

      ((*)) They did the AfterY2K web comic, thus AWE200x. They’re still around, and do a Tubes Rock shirt. Hmm.

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        1. I drifted away from geekculture when the AY2K strip stopped. Was medium active on the forum, where I got my first exposure to [foo] can’t be [thing]ist, because [not-foo] has all the powah. As memory serves, the first person to do that found what it’s like to be a chewtoy.

          Wore those shirts til they wore out. I see there’s a white-on-black Tubes Rock shirt. Must consider… OTOH, the budget says maybe not.

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  7. If weird is finding a bunch of disturbed men, wearing women’s clothing, insulting what I find decent, then I’m weird, but reality states it’s the other way around.

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  8. I think they got the “e” in the wrong place. Not that being weird is a bad thing (it never was, frankly), but being wired is something that we’ve become, increasingly so, and being weird used to mean being wired wrong. But now, we weirdos are wired just fine and are winning!

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  9. You know who was weird? Both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. But both got rich, and Jobs got really rich and powerful, and wore black turtlenecks in the summertime, and did I mention he was rich, enough that he acheived “eccentric”?

    But paths cross here in Silicon Valley, with Woz a couple times in person, and second degree with Jobs, and they were both weird dudes, though Jobs got weirder with more power, ending up effectively weirding himself to death by avoiding actual medical treatment when he became ill.

    But you will not find a more beloved cult of personality figures here than Jobs and Woz.

    So their “weird” label is just what Sarah goes through, a redefinable $string that means “bad”, full of noise and thunder, signifying actually nothing.

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  10. Hunter S. Thompson said it best: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

    That be us. While the term most used here is ‘odds’ I will accept the variation and happily be weird. Normal always was and is overrated anyway. I also remember a good friend of mine who was a Phycologist told me there is no definition of “normal” so wear whatever traits you have and be happy.

    I think this is just another sign of the current ‘elites’ trying to shape the conversation and they don’t realize that we’re not even in the room anymore. Sure, a few will be captured by the new and improved term of disrespect but in the long run – don’t mean nothing. If someone calls you weird just say, Yup, and darn proud too! While they try to re-boot you can walk off smiling.

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    2. Just for reference, this apparent Alinsky trick of labeling the enemies of the Left goes back a waays. I recall back in the’60s (when this phrase was au courant andI was a mere sprat) the women in my family used to jokingly refer to the men as “male chauvinist pigs.” To which, the men would grin or chuckle and assert loudly, “Yep!” Sort of disarming.

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    3. I love it when one of my favorite movie quotes becomes the perfect response to an attempt to shame/other.

      “My dear girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”

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  11. All the World is Weird but me and you, but I sometimes worry about you. [Very Big Crazy Grin]

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  12. There’s an Irish YT channel I enjoy watching who has as her channel motto “Weird is Good!” — she even sells merch with that emblazoned on shirts, hats, and even pillows. But sure, weird is now a slur against the right. How weird.

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  15. “You’re just a bunch of quakers.” They claimed it.

    “What a bunch of methodists.” They claimed it.

    “Barbarians! You’re the Devil’s own dogs!” They claimed it.

    “Those people over there are wierd.” Massive feral-cat grin.

    Although in my case, wyrd might be equally appropriate. ;)

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    1. I’m literally writing a story with the Norns in it right now. Somebody stole their eye, so Our Hero lends them one of his. (They grow back, nano you know.) Currently they’re about to have dinner with our favorite robot girlfriends on good old Midgard.

      I’m so weird. ~:D

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  18. I remember whem Keep Portland Weird and Keep Austin Weird were real syaings and code for keeping the (people we dont like this week) out.

    The Addams family, the original cartoons that ran in the New Yorker were a way to skewer the normies. Then…..they made a TV show with them and the Munsters to frighten the straights…..

    and they were embraced…..because they were exactly what America was about. The outcasts of the world settled here.

    In Stripes Bill Murrays character is supposed to be insulting Americans by calling them mutts. It was embraced.

    It keeps happening.

    One last note….the song America (the beautiful) was written orginally as a protest poem excoriating industrialization. No wiki mentions none of that. I read it back in the 80s so it may be wrong. Still it is the 2nd National Anthem. So a protest song was also taken.

    They do not know us.

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    1. I know “This Land is Your Land” was written as a protest song, and specifically against “God Bless America”. Ironically, the two are frequently paired together in medleys now.

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      1. It went in the very American way such things do. We found a thing we like. We took it, celebrated it, and made it our own. We’re mad for taking the best of the world, bringing it home, and sharing it with those we love. What better way to flatter and honor those who made it than bringing it into our own homes?

        It is no wonder they fear us. We grab everything and make it better, just by bringing it to Liberty.

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      2. This brings to mind a parody I encountered on Usenet a few decades back, tweaking Guthrie for hypocrisy:

        This sang ain’t your song
        This song is my song
        From first to last verse
        From here to Hong Kong
        If you want to sing it
        You can’t just wing it
        You got to pay the royalty

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      3. I found a Guthrie translation into Gaelic (Irish) on YouTube some years ago; California and the New York islands were replaced with towns in Connaught or Wexford or County Derry or such.

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    2. Wiki has background on the “America” poem that is the basis of the song. (part of the “America the Beautiful” article. They show three versions (1893, 1904, 1911). If there was an intent to protest industrialization, it’s pretty subtle (though I don’t do subtle well. YMMV). Part of the inspiration was a visit to the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893, among other things, a showcase of technology.

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        1. I don’t recall where I saw it (perhaps Johhny Carson or Dick Cavett), but the lyrics stuck. Very ’60s or early ’70s (stopped watching in ’74 when I moved to Pacific Time–11:30 was way too late for me).

          Looks like I’ve forgotten enough of the lyrics. Whew,

          OTOH, with respect to pollution, when I moved to Silicon Valley, it wasn’t until the winds/rains of October that I realized that there was a line of mountains on the east side of the bay. Things got considerably better in ensuing years, though I recall driving into LA in ’91 and noting the smog. Ah, the wisdom of locating whacking great metro areas in an air bowl. (And making it the problem of everybody else, such is the progressive way. Weird!)

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    3. I think Yankee Doodle Dandy was the first documented case.

      USAians have always taken the insults hurled at us and turned them into anthems.

      (Maybe someone can link the Retards-r-us FBI meme?)

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  19. Seen on a button (think it was from, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) :

    “I’ve had weirder things than you free in my breakfast cereal.”

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  20. Don’t try to outweird me, kid. I get stranger things than you for free in my breakfast cereal.

    RIP Mr. Adams, we miss you.

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  21. On Twitter, someone was saying this was bait and we were stupid for responding by pointing out Brin- ton, et al, because the whole point was to get good quotes which could then be turned into,

    “See how cruel they are! They mock anyone else different, calling them weird! We told you they were evil/cruel/narrow-minded people! They’re the weird ones, because they can never accept people different than they are!”

    Trying to maintain the notion that all these folks are “oppressed,” and therefore we are “oppressors,” revealing our true natures for all to see.

    Twitter has been very black-doggish today.

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    1. That could be the case (I doubt it, but it could be). But if it is, it won’t convert anybody. Maybe if they’re lucky they’ll scare a few fence-sitters who were never on our side to begin with, but how many even of those? It’s red meat for the hyenas in their pack, is all.

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    2. Nah. It’s not. They really thought this would fly. When it didn’t they are trying to escape.
      It’s what they do with everything. See Social Justice Warriors.
      BAH. Stop thinking the left are geniuses. They’re very frightened children ghost dancing.

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      1. I figure they have to wear slip on shoes because laces are mostly beyond them. What bothers me is the number of people ostensibly on the right who are like the one I was paraphrasing: they are convinced the general public is utterly gullible and will obediently believe the propaganda “because they only see the evening news for five minutes a day.” And then it’s gloom, doom, death, destruction and despair.

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        1. Yes. Oh, yes. Brad is again convinced that there really is an upsurge not for Kamala but because “everybody hates Trump.”
          He’s a friend. I’m not going to thump …. too hard.

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          1. Well, the propaganda machine has done a very good job of convincing some otherwise levelheaded people that Trump is the second coming of that fascist with the funny little mustache. My wife and daughter loathe Trump with unreasoning fury and are also utterly convinced that America will end abruptly and forever if he wins again.

            All my aunts and uncles (boomers all, and Nice Mormons to boot) hate Trump, voted for Nikki Haley in the primaries, and are only contemplating voting for that horrible mean guy because (fortunately) they know what a horror show the Biden/Harris/Obama cabal is.

            If I didn’t have all the Huns as a counterweight, I might be thinking a lot like Torgerson. I’d certainly be thinking I was a lot more isolated in this than I really am (I used to feel *very* alone before I came back here; it was crazy-making).

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  22. weird?

    im not the faggy, sexually confused, godless trans gender loving purple haired tatooed commy loving lazy POS calling for peoples re education. Those farkers are the weird ones and they need a solid kick to the head.

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  23. First posted this under ~Cost of Self Image but it REALLY has to go here;

    “Went looking for info on the ‘White Dudes For Harris’ event that a coworker hadn’t heard about yet.

    Came across the following quote from a ‘Daily Beast’ article:

    “When you’re liberal, you wear “weird” like a badge of honor. Only when your power comes from fear does weird become an epithet.”

    And yet it is THEM using it as an epithet. Gee, I wonder what that REALLY means??”

    Yeah, they really ARE that delusional. And lacking in self awareness.

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    2. I’m feeling an urge to concern-troll with remedial lessons in insult-crafting. Is this wrong?

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  28. “Apparently “Deplorables” has lost its sheen, and “ultra Maga” (Ultra Maga assemble!) is no longer working, so now we must be stigmatized as weird.”

    Yeah, I saw that while surfing brain-rot on YouTube. The new attack on JD Vance is “he’s a weirdo.”

    The #HeelsUp campaign released a TV ad where a bunch of creepy old men say f-ed up s3x things with the claim that this is what Republicans are going to do. Such as: “Your g3n1tals are reserved for procreation!” It really is creepy as f-. Full horror movie. But, if I’m honest, less creepy than the Paris Olympics and less creepy than #HeelsUp and her cackle.

    To me, it looks like they are trying to goad the marginalized/mentally ill contingent of the Left into spontaneously rioting. Having another try at #BLM. I mean, this is heavy duty. Its a call to run out and burn churches.

    They hope to beat down the majority of the American public with literal school yard bullying and threats of violence.

    Having failed by a quarter of an inch to rid themselves of troublesome #OrangeMan, they’re going to have a go at Christians.

    To which I can only reply that Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese Imperial Navy had something to say about Americans, and a gun behind every blade of grass.

    That was a long time ago. After eight years of #Barry the greatest gun salesman in world history, there are three guns, a sword and a pickup truck behind every blade of grass. Every deplorableweirdofreakNazi in the country (aka normal people who work) has a murder/death/kill assault weapon and a New York reload for it, and so does his deplorable tradwife.

    All of that being said, I’ll wear that Weirdo label with pride. Damn right I’m a weirdo. Get off my lawn you frickin’ commies.

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  29. Wait 10 minutes and the inevitable childish “That’s not what we meant” will appear. Followed by THEM using yet another perfectly good word in such a way as to reflect the actual opposite meaning. At which point we will embrace the now-evil word and… wait 10 minutes for the inevitable childish…

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    1. OT on this comment: A lot of the despondent bros on Twitter are accounts I’ve never seen. I think they’re trying to prevent us pushing back on fraud before it happens. It’s a demoralizing corps.
      Fire into them without mercy. Debunk them. When you tell them it’s just fraud, they run to “the debt. DeSantis would have fixed that!” I’m not even joking.

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  35. Joseph Heinrich wrote a book using WEIRD as an acronym..

    Western

    Educated

    Industrial

    Rich

    Democratic

    It referred to societies that had all those characteristics, and the people raised in them.

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  37. The left is already losing weird. Right now the jokes are turning it back on the Left with memes like a photo of Rachel Levine standing next to Sam Brinton with a captions along the lines of, “JD Vance is just weird!” Soon the Right will take ownership of the term and, like “Deplorable,” turn it into a badge of honor. The idiots on the Left just don’t get they are sitting at the cool table in the cafeteria of a mental hospital.

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    1. Must. Not. Laugh. Too. Loud.

      Recalls a couple of lost friends, one of mine–Job hopped until he was fired, got an MBA that was useless because of his resume. Ended up homeless, working at Burger King. $SPOUSE’s friend was psycho-liberal. (Talked up every feelgood bond issue and was SHOCKED that her taxes went up. She thought they’d never have to be repaid.) Her house (hoarder special, never maintained) got repossessed, and we lost track. It’s been long enough, and we saw the trends. Doubt either is alive. ($SPOUSE’s friend would threaten suicide to get a vacation at the mental ward–which triggered this comment. Sigh.)

      It’s hard on the soul when you have friends like that and you’ve proven to yourself that There. Is. Nothing. You. Can. Do.

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      1. My brother…..

        The house is sitting abandoned. I just haven’t been able to bring myself to call a lawyer; we have no claim on it and he died intestate, so all I’d do is sell/auction it and try to pay some of his debts.

        And yes, I keep feeling like there must have been something I could have done, but…

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        1. Do not get involved. Seriously. Don’t. Let the bank or county take it. Let court deal with it, since he died intestate. His creditors will come after you. Not worth the headache. Trust me.

          I watched from a distance. Grandparents died huge in debt. Other than the mortgage, courts, funeral, mom, estate *lawyer appointed by the courts, **medicare, the creditors got $0.10/$1 owed when all done. None of the personal assets were worth anything. Not even grandpa’s or great-grandmother’s paintings (except to family). Seriously most of household contents ended up at the dump or burned. Neither Goodwill nor Salvation Army would take it.

          (Family tried to get involved about 7 years before they died. Their county threatened elderly abuse charges. Two things. 1. County where they were taken when everything came crashing down threatened elderly endangerment against their county. 2. If family had succeed getting involved with their finances, family might have been responsible for their debts, had they had any. Would had at least prevented the “credit card checks received were free money” mindset grandma had the last few years. OTOH the credit cards deserved what came down, so there is that.)

          The creditors called and harassed mom for months until the court put the fear of legal action, with extra penalties for elderly harassment (mom was over 70) into them. Even though they were not suppose to.

          (* Mom was the legal estate distributor, named and oldest child. She was entitled to X% of the gross assets for triggering and overseeing the process, regardless of the debts. The estate lawyer (retired and a friend of mom & dad) was entitled to another X%, of which he donated anything above his expenses back to mom. Courts and funeral expenses paid in full off the top. Mortgage paid in full because they held the property paper. Mom shared equally with her two siblings, not required, but she did. A whopping $9k shared 3 ways. Hey we figured the bank or county would just take the property. But it sold for $100k, over priced FYI but it did have a house on it, mortgage $60k, property taxes paid.)

          (** Even medicare who paid for the nursing home, total of 4 (1 – grandpa, 3 – grandma) weeks, didn’t get fully paid back.)

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          1. Just to be clear. This is what mom went through with a legal Will and one of the designated inheritora. Hate to see what anyone, not part of the legal system, would go through for someone who died intestate.

            Hate to say it. But walk away. Do not be tempted to “help” in his memory.

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            1. *Waves* Unfortunately, speaking from personal experience, it may be impossible to not get involved.

              If someone dies intestate what’s left isn’t just split between all potential heirs. If there’s something like a house or other property involved, you all become co-owners.

              Meaning any one of those involved can run up all kinds of repair/modification bills and then stick you with them.

              …Guess how I know.

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              1. Ouch.

                Mom was fully legally in control. They all 3 inherited. But mom had control. Could the property gotten more than $100k (2006) on selling? Yes. Put a stop to that conversation. Not without gutting the house, putting in $50k at minimum, even in 2006. Even then would have sold for $130k. Because that is exactly what happened. Real Estate person (friend of grandparents) who didn’t want to see the house torn down, bought the property. Gutted it to studs, except the kitchen. Rebuilt. Lost $20k (sold for $130k, 2008). People who bought that ended up losing it to the bank (year???). Sold again for $130k (2016), house gutted again … Oh heck no. The only way they lowered the house foundation, and enlarged it, is they tore down the house. To add a garage to the west end of the house, they had to lower the foundation. Period. End of discussion.

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              2. It was 45 years ago when Uncle W died intestate. Uncle A (W was oldest, A middle, Dad was the youngest, who passed away several years before) was the executor. W’s house had never been lived in, since he was living with Gp and Gm RC, so the old house was trash. It was sold at a clearance price and the proceeds divided per status. Grandpa got half, A got a quarter, and my brothers and I each got a 12th.

                This was medium simple. W had little to no bills, no debt. Was in Illinois, so long ago and far away. No idea how things changed.

                Late BIL died intestate in Cali, and $SPOUSE’s kid sister (the youngest of the three) pulled the executor straw. Hideous mess, though there was only one heir. OTOH, his ex(!)-wife kept trying to butt in. Word is the court told her to butt-out or face serious sanctions…

                Mom died with a will, but what few assets that hadn’t previously been distributed got sucked up in settling things. The good news is it closed out a long dysfunctional chapter of family life.

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  40. My favorite singer, “Weird” Al Yankovic, is a Christian who has been married to the same woman for 20 years. (He was introduced to her on a blind date by Bill Mumy, a mutual friend of both of theirs). Tell me again how “weird” is an insult, do.

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  41. And, just to top off the day, the Biden DOJ has worked out a $%#@&!! plea deal with the 9/11 masterminds in our custody. “To avoid the death penalty.”

    I will say, 23 years is a long time to wait for a trial. But I would have been quite happy with a prompt, fair (and I mean really fair) trial followed by a prompt hanging. Preferably from a gallows constructed from WTC wreckage.

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    2. I wonder what the folks who did the dirty dangerous work to bring them into custody think about that, with note that the SEAL team fellows specifically did not make any such effort to preserve OBL in breathing order for trial.

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  42. Hmmm… I can’t imagine that they actually think this will make any of us abandon our position and run to their side. But maybe they do. They believe all sorts of ridiculous crap, so I dunno.

    Alternatively, they know there’s a hardened core of people (which they imagine to be very few) that they’ll never persuade, but they’re trying to separate us from all the “normal” people who just want to be part of the Kool Kids Klub, thereby isolating us and making us easier targets…

    But in either of those cases, they seem to have forgotten that ALL OF US can see them. And they have no idea how ridiculous they are. And how few.

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    1. I don’t think they care about converting us. They are looking for this who are not committed to one side or the other. The usual epithets like “racist”, “sexist”, “bigot”, etc have lost a lot of effect outside the faithful so they are searching for a new word.

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  43. To quote Londo from Babylon 5: It doesn’t MEAN anything, but it scares them every time.

    “No. No, this report is totally inappropriate. You have to do it again.”
    “But Londo, why? I’ve spent weeks working on this report. I didn’t even sleep on the flight back from Minbar so I could go over it again. I’ve checked everysingledetail myself. It’s absolutely accurate.”
    “Yes, Vir, I’m sure it is. And that is the problem. Here, you say: ‘The Minbari have carefully preserved their cities over the course of centuries’.”
    “That’s right, absolutely.”
    “No, what you should say instead is: ‘Their cities are very old indicating a decaying culture.'”
    “What?”
    “And here: ‘The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature and music.’ Say instead: ‘They are decadent people, interested only in the pursuit of .. of dubious pleasures.’ Dubious-part is very important. It doesn’t mean anything, but it scares people every time. All right?”

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  44. And yeah, it’s part of their strategy: Give women the ick.

    “Who would vote for those skeevy felon weirdos?”

    Doesn’t matter that high crime and a terrible economy might cause the women some discomfort too, Trump and Vance give women the ick.

    Cause the TV says they should have have the ick.

    So they’ll vote the way they’re told like good little girls, then go on TikTok and make more videos crying about how they can’t find happiness and they have no money.

    But at least they have the approval of society.

    Ick.

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      1. The type appears to really be single, upper-middle-class, college-educated white (mostly young) women. And young or old, white or some shade of brown, their eyes look funny.

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  47. I’ve been called ‘weird’ and ‘weirdo’ since … about 1979. ?I’ve been kinda responding “yep” since… 80 or so.

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  48. Portland, OR has always been proud to have “Keep Portland Weird” as its (probably unofficial) motto. Including a large mural. To be fair, that mural has probably been covered over with BLM/Antifa messages or the building burned down in the mostly peaceful protests.

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    1. “Keep Portland Weird”

      This was the underlying theme of the TV show “Grimm” placed, and filmed, in Portland Oregon.

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  49. I had to laugh at Hillary’s “deplorables” thing. It reminded me of decades ago working in a logging camp and Canfor ( the company) was still running a logging railway to haul logs to the dryland sort at the beach. Now the railway workers were technically known as “sectionmen” in the industry and a few other terms not suitable for delicate ears. We were young and rough and tough and a few were excessive partiers especially on the weekends as the bunkhouses were open on the weekends. So come into camp one Monday morning and the Camp Super(and actually a very good guy overall so I don’t blame him) was stomping down the walkway between the bunkhouses and the cook shack calling all sectionmen “SCUM!” and tossing his hardhat. Guess a couple of the harder partiers had absolutely destroyed a couple of the rooms so I don’t blame him a bit. Also thank you IWA Union!(for saving our arses) Of course as soon as the rest of us who weren’t total arses and hadn’t trashed the rooms heard ‘Scum, you’re all nothing but Section Scum!” it was immediately “Section SCUM!!…..The Few, the Proud, the SCUM!!” and that’s what we called ourselves actually till there was a tragic accident in 2017 that caused the closure of the railway and ended the lives of 3 men and a 100 years of railway logging in the Nimpkish Valley. I worked my way up from that job of course over the years and retired as an excavator operator building industrial logging roads about 4 years ago but still call myself a “Section Scum” today when talking about the old days. :) So nicknames can have a LOT of staying power under the right conditions! :)

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    1. So very much this. I look at what the VileProgs desire to normalize and shudder. When the ghosts of Sodom and Gomorrah are whispering, “Guys, you might want to tone it down …”

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      1. Some of these guys seem to think that it’s not enough to tick off the Author, but they might as well get Cthulhu to join in the self-destruction. [Looks for alternative solar system to view the results.]

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  51. Nice one Sarah. I could comment at deliciously insightful length to build on and simultaneously underpin your primary assertions, and tie them into this Great Strife that runs across the current world playing out in historically unprecedented ways (running with your ontology flag).

    In fact… that would be my default setting (as evidenced by the above paragraph which is just a hanging preamble of intent to not reply at length to your piece). But I felt so satisfied and perhaps even slightly reassured that the long night has not yet fallen on history and might even fail to so, that “Well said!” will suffice.

    You know… with some brief additional context. For the enlightenment and whatnot.

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  52. Calling me “weird” just makes me laugh. “HA! I laugh at you, stupid liberal! I’m a nearly-forty-year veteran of science fiction fandom! I’ve been to more SF conventions than I can easily count! I SNEER at your puny definition of weirdness, MUNDANE! I get weirder things than you with my breakfast!”

    As for “incel”—since when is it that “liberals” think it’s cute or funny to sneer at the less fortunate for their misfortune? I wonder if they call mentally challenged people “retards,” or physically challenged people “crips?” I’ve known several very nice, wonderful guys whom I am sure died virgins. Sometimes because of early programming they couldn’t shake, sometimes because they were Not The Thing (short, round, roly-poly, high-pitched voice), sometimes due to severe shyness. I have also known married people (of both sexes) who’ve moaned to me that they get no action because Hubbypoo or Wifeypoo has decided unilaterally that sex is no longer part of the deal. If it were me, any spouse who tried that on with me would be out in the street with my boot-print on her butt, but they’re more forebearing than I am. (If there are medical reasons for this, I am the soul of patience and understanding. Just unilaterally deciding this, though, would be a deal-breaker for me.)

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    1. There often are medical reasons for middle aged women. I just suspect a lot of them are too stupid to tell the husband, and do what they can, because embarrassed.

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  53. Per etymonline, weird means “able to control fate”. One sees how this became a term applied to scary people, like witches.

    Hey, if they think the Trump folk can control, who’s to say they’re wrong?

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    1. Well, I do have a co-worker who, intelligent and capable most otherwise, was insisting left and right that Trump paid the kid to die for the “Assassination Attempt” publicity stunt.

      Dude, at least mix your Kool-Aid with water first, and use a straw, not a $100-bill…

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  54. Pingback: Current Events: Born to Be Weird | Crossover Queen's Creative Chaos

  55. Actual conversations (many) I’ve had with people.

    Person: “Your weird”.

    Me: “Strange Weird or creepy Weird?”

    P: “Strange”

    Me: “And??”

    Amazing how many of those conversations have ended up with folks just talking to the weird, terminally shy me. And making a few friends along the way.

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      1. Normie?

        Vanilla? (In the sense of “not into alternative lifestyles”)

        Respectable?

        Heck, they might even be so desperate as to dredge up … “Enthusiast!” (In the 1700s in England and the Colonies, to be called an enthusiast meant you were unhealthily serious about something like religion [took it seriously and did good works et al], or education [encouraged girls and laborers to learn to read and write], or other socially questionable behaviors.)

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  57. It’s peculiar how the Left reverences weirdness in itself while making it a slur for others. (It does show that they aren’t completely bubbled, that they have some awareness of how the middle thinks and can make a play for it.) We have the whole “Keep [Town Name] Weird” thing here in Asheville, which is all in fun — fun things like imposing racial reparations by unanimous city council vote.

    (I live in an unincorporated area that’s technically not part of Asheville, meaning technically this doesn’t affect me. So it’s a “good” thing that the Buncombe County Commission passed its own racial reparations bill, confirming my guilt by skin color. I am known occasionally to answer, when asked how I am, “Eternally damned, by country resolution.” But that’s all part of participating in the weirdness.)

    There is a very broad conformist streak in me, confirmable by anyone who has ever seen me be the lone con attendee wearing a tie. (Even though they’re great ties.) But I try to conform to things that make sense, and work. In the current atmosphere, that sure does make me weird.

    In the current atmosphere, there are a lot of things that make me weird.

    Repbulica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.

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    2. I visit the area fairly often. Could do without the flaming rainbow pride, but there was (don’t know if it’s still there) a nice weaving/spinning/craft store downtown run by holdover hippies who did *not* shove their opinions in their customers’ faces.

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  58. I mean, the ENTIRE chain of events that led to the birth (and subsequent survival thus far) of the United States was one long chain of weird. In a world of monarchy and tyranny, coming up with a government over a semi-loose association of geographical locations represented by elected officials constrained by a document with the premise that ALL men (no matter birth, status–and though we ended up fighting a war in part over it–implicitly race, religion, creed, etc) are equal and automatically have the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness bestowed on them by *GOD* and not a government…man that’s HELLA weird. Still is, compared to the rest of the world (which is, of course, why the leftists are trying so very hard to destroy it…)

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  59. years and years ago, a cousin was waiting for his then girlfriend in an icecream shop, eating a parfait, and a perky girl bopped in, sat in front of him and said “Hi, I’m Candy! Who are you?” and he answered in a graveled voice “I’m Weird” and went back to eating his parfait and otherwise ignoring her. His girl actually saw the exchange and was laughing her butt off when she sat down, after “Candy” had walked away, rather flustered.

    Many of us are going to proudly wear the moniker because we have worn it for most of our lives.

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  61. As usual, definitive statements are (usually) incorrect – which is why engineers are accused of weasel-wording everything.

    Agreed: the average person is not the idiot who can be swayed by simplistic propaganda. However, a stint in the US Army, in the days of the universal draft, convinced me that there is, in the overall population, a not insignificant number of idiots, or, more accurately, people who have an antipathy to thinking.

    These people don’t usually bother to vote, but they are easily convinced of preposterous things, especially if they hear no counters. The Dem/media complex is not only telling them that the Reps are bad, but a new level of apocalyptic evil, and the Ds are the only path to salvation.

    Enough fear, and they can be herded to the polls without their usual resistance. I think ( and so do Dem strategists) that there are a sufficient number to win the election.

    I don’t think that we will ever move them to vote correctly, but we can’t ignore the D effort. Enough counter-propaganda will reduce them to their usual voting torpor.

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    1. There aren’t enough. If there were they wouldn’t be enabling fraud by EVERY POSSIBLE MEANS.
      They lost the idiot brigade. They lost it before 2016. Obama’s second term was fraud, just more subtle.

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  62. Two things. First, I was labeled ‘weird’ by my classmates (friends and non-friends alike) before I started junior high back in ’79, and by high school wore it as a badge of honor. I wouldn’t bend the knee to what the Kool Kidz decreed was the in-thing this week, and was visible enough to take the hurled scorn from the lemmings so by the time I started college I just did my own thing and paid no attention to whatever the crowd was doing/saying. Second, I have had a compulsion to do the opposite of whatever the “normal” thing to do was, man did that make the Navy a tough career. But as an adult it has left me shaking the head at fad after trend.

    Go ahead, call me crazy, nerd, geek, whatever. The hive-minded in-crowd can have it. I will be me and wear whatever label that translates as individual with honor.

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  63. Another thought…for leftists to call anyone weird is really a case of “Pot, meet kettle!” A lot of them look to me like they belong at a “free beer and come as your favorite psychosis” party.

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  64. And who is one of the most enduring and popular figures in music today? ‘Weird’ Al Yankovich! Weird Al took your waifu!

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  65. So it seems that the Mean Girls and “Popular” Guys are running the asylum on the left (and to some degree on the right truth be told). Or at least that’s who they “identify” as. Their own sideshow of deranged folk like the cross dressing luggage thief they use to annoy the “normies”. Their worst fear their, their strongest opprobrium is to be weird. As usual they project knowing in their heart of hearts that their fellow travellers ARE weird and throw this against their feared opponent.

    It maybe that their conscience is so seared or missing at this point that they do not see the dissonance. Their training, like that of the Inner Party of Oceania lets them see 2+2 as 3, 4, 5 or even chartreuse depending on the needs of their “logic”. Honestly the left just doesn’t know who or what it is. They have no explicit rationale because all is relative. My truth is not your truth. What they have is a plethora of (often contradicting and even self contradicting) postulates based on leftovers from a variety of failed or disproven world views. One can not argue them out of their funk as they view the tools that one might use (logic, absolute facts) to argue with them as anathema. They’re like the man in the insane asylum who thinks he’s Napolean and is massively paranoid. Unfortunately for the last 75-100 years we’ve slowly been letting these madman run the asylum.

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  66. Yeah, ‘weird’ isn’t going to go the way they hope it will.

    My family was sitting around the dinner table one night, wandering from topic to topic, (something along the lines of Roman military ruck loadout and its influence on modern western military loadout, segueing into the proper kit needed if you wind up isakai’d) as is our wont.

    Housemate (who had only been living with us for a few weeks) suddenly blurted out, “I’m so glad you guys are normal!”

    You could have heard a pin drop. Everyone was staring at her. Confusion. Affront.

    She blushed and clarified, “I mean my kind of normal.”

    Oh, well, okay, that was acceptable, she had six cats and was a true blue Whovian. The conversation picked back up. We still tease her about calling us ‘normal’.

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      1. It came down to whether or not you knew where you were going to be isakai’d to ahead of time. If you didn’t there were some universal things to include, but if you knew there were some very specific things you’d need depending on which fictional world you wound up in.

        Xanth would require very different survival tools than say, Ravenloft or the Firefly ‘Verse.

        Then there was the discussion on how to make sure your survival kit travelled with you….

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        1. I can’t help but think about the Planetary Survival Test in Robert Heinlein’s “Tunnel In The Sky”.

          Just what kind of place were the testers going to send you to?

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