Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January 7, a strain of online panic has painted the city as functioning a lot like The Purge, the horror movie about a 24-hour period where all crime is legal.
Take a purported conversation that former Tinder executive Brian Norgard relayed in a Twitter/X post that’s been seen over 2.5 million times. “My famous actor neighbor came by today after the looting gangs freaked him out,” he posted, “and whispered in my ear, ‘I guess I am a conservative now.’”
In sharp contrast to the doom and gloom pronouncements, the city has actually been smothered, sometimes even a little overwhelmed, in such acts of goodwill. When I went to drop off other donations at the Snail Farm and Bike Oven—an artists studio and community-run bike workshop, respectively—both were so thoroughly stocked there was hardly room to put anything down. “Please, no more children’s books,” begged a local bookstore, calling off a previous request for donations of reading material for evacuated kids. “Once again having to put a stop to Angelenos bottomless generosity at this time!!!” (As such messages attest, at this point, it is far more useful to send money to affected people; most places have stopped accepting physical donations.)
In the movies, the purge is a psyop by the ruling class to purge the nation of undesirable poor people using paramilitary troops.
You wouldnt know them, they go to a different Hollywood.
Funnily enough there are different Hollywoods: Hollywood (obviously), East Hollywood, West Hollywood, North Hollywood, Hollywood Hills (this is the one near Hollywood that was on fire, but it was very small compared to the other 2 burning now), and Hollywood Hills West. There is no South Hollywood, but I might be missing some others. One of them is independent of the city of LA (WeHo) and another isn’t even bordering Hollywood (NoHo).
This has been your unscheduled autistic info dump about cities in LA County with Hollywood in the name.
Yep. I lived in North Hollywood. As I used to tell people, there is a mountain range between it and Hollywood. The name was essentially a real estate scam. They changed it from Lankershim (still the main road) after the movie industry became an L.A. success story.
And the two are connected by Cahuenga, which has one of LA’s best blues clubs.
But comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla proclaimed on January 13 that the National Guard had been called in to deal with widespread looting, claiming that “We live in Sodom and Gomorrah times here in Los Angeles.”
Since so many of these scumbags seem enamoured about Sodom and Gomorrah, can we just find an uninhabited place in the desert, name it S&G, and send all of them there?
Just rename Las Vegas.
The funny thing is that the actual sin the people of those cities were supposedly punished for was being unkind to strangers from a foreign land (in that case, angels).
How many foreigners do you think Adam Carolla would let in his house- other than his domestic staff, obviously.
Well, the two cities were destroyed for not having a single just man in either of them besides Lot. God sent the angels to have a look around, to give them the benefit of the doubt, after Lot begged God to do so, but the locals didn’t exactly rise to the occasion, instead sending a mob to Lot’s house who demanded Lot hand over the strangers so they could ass-rape them. Which made me wonder, do angels even have assholes? And Lot distinguished himself by offering the mob his daughters instead, but those angels must have been some really fine-looking twinks, because the mob was not at all into the daughters idea.
But yeah, the ancient Semitic tradition of providing hospitality was really deep in those cultures. You can still see it in their modern successors.
“My famous actor neighbor came by today after the looting gangs freaked him out,” he posted, “and whispered in my ear, ‘I guess I am a conservative now.’”
Ah we’re back to the “[obvious fake story] now I’m a raging MAGA!”
The “famous actor” must have been Mel Gibson.
“I used to be a progressive but then a random liberal online was gently critical of me and now I believe immigrants are poisoning the blood of our race!”
Same energy.
Not even remotely similar.
There are 69% fewer women executives in leadership teams than there are in the US workforce. While women account for 47% of the US workforce benchmark, they account for just 28% of all executives in the top leadership teams of the S&P100. Comparably, men account for 53% of the US workforce benchmark and account for 72% of the executives in those top leadership teams.
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/02/22/gender-diversity-in-the-c-suite/
The point was that no 6yo ever said that.
Have you raised any daughters?
6-year-olds notice things like that. Especially the girls. I know because I had a 6-year-old daughter once. She noticed who was a girl on TV and websites back then more than she does now at 14.
I haven’t heard anything about Los Angeles
If you have any interest in finding out what MAGA is raging on about, may I recommend The Righting. Their blurb is, “Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from The Right”.
It’s an awesome source.
It is genuinely difficult to tell if the stories they link to are real or just hyperbolic parody. Even just skimming them I can feel the incoherent rage and desperate glee for vengeance billowing off of them. Anyone actually reading them seriously would inevitably end up getting swept along, and it makes a lot of what we’ve seen make a lot more sense.
Oh god. It’s horrible.
Thanks, I guess?
Lol.
It’s an aquired taste. I get their daily emails. That’s about all I can handle.
The creator is center-left, and some of his commentary is pretty good.
I joke. It’s important to stay informed. I’ve just read most of those headlines already and having them all laid out like that is…kind of disgusting to see.
They’re literally making fun of people being worried that they’re going to end up in concentration camps…
Well The Washington Times should be happy to know that this (former) Hollywood (still) leftie is fleeing the country on Monday. And yet, at least until Trump decides to change things, I’ll still retain my citizenship and can both come back whenever I want and stay as long as I want and vote in elections from overseas. So fuck you, Washington Times.
I admire people like the creator because I could never EVER do that for funzies.
Shit, it took me weeks to get over the fact America elected Trump again.
