Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Once Again, the Babylon Bee Predicts the Future Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:27:32 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <20240529182732.000045ba@example.com> References: <9ICdnTY9o730Esr7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 00:27:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="de9df25d9227e76b2ce06db56e8efee2"; logging-data="1265112"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18XM4Njlf+jPNDy6zDZgnQpVSOQnku6q30=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:lv2D4QZ9xRLof0RLrVQGJrZONpM= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240529-8, 5/29/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 3172 On Wed, 29 May 2024 20:26:17 +0000 BTR1701 wrote: > Once again, the Babylon Bee publishes a mocking satire of the Left > and the leftists take it as a challenge to turn it into reality. > Here's the Bee's satirical Men's Health magazine: > > https://ibb.co/ZxF6Tw8 > > And an actual recent Men's Health edition: > > https://ibb.co/2thRR3f > > These people are literally unmockable. > > It's not really that hard to make these predictions. Just extend whatever weird ideas the "progressives" have this week into next week or next month and you can make a pretty good guess about what they will champion in the near future. For example, a year or two back, I heard about a duly-elected student council at an American university that all stepped down to make way for an all black (or maybe it was predominantly black) group to have those offices, all in the name of righting past injustices or whatever. So, essentially, democracy was subverted just to make the elected leaders feel good about themselves in the aftermath of St. George of Fentanyl. If I were a student there, I would have been pretty angry! Instead of simply vacating their offices they should have finished their terms and let the blacks - and anyone else who wanted - run in the next election and let the biggest vote getters take the various positions: that's how democracy is supposed to work. Heck, if they felt REALLY strongly, the elected council could have resigned on mass and then held fresh elections immediately and even declined to run themselves but to simply give the council to other unelected people is profoundly wrong. So, if we use that as a model, then shortly after the next federal election, Biden or Trump should simply vacate the White House and allow BLM, Antifa or whoever to run the country. After all, the precedent has been set and it's not hard to imagine "progressives" insisting that the precedent needs to be followed at all levels of government. See? Anyone can make these kinds of predictions! -- Rhino