Tweet of the Day, …Who’s next to stand up for @PPAct? NAMBLA? edition.

As I noted on Twitter yesterday, we can more or less call this a public relations FAIL.

Now, let me explain something. I don’t actually take Satanists as seriously as I do, say, Islamic State. The latter is a no-fooling death cult worshiping a dark god*: the former are just mocking assholes** who like to go around pissing off people who are generally happier than they are.  I however do not exactly see how Planned Parenthood benefits from having the Satanists in their corner. I mean, I’m sure that the Online Hard Left loves it: but what about the other 99.999999999% of the population?

Moe Lane

*I’m not going to get into comparative religion, Abrahamic traditions, or other rhetorical minefields on this one. But I will readily say that whatever god Islamic State is worshiping is not the one being worshiped by, say, the Kurds. You can tell by the general lack of human sacrifice in the unoccupied parts of let’s-not-call-it-Kurdistan. If you wanna think that they’re both false gods, go right ahead. But there is a significant practical difference in the two’s respective liturgies. That’s all I’m saying, man.

**I don’t even see that as being a swearword, in this context. It describes them too perfectly.

5 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, …Who’s next to stand up for @PPAct? NAMBLA? edition.”

  1. I do not view it as a swear word intrinsically. As an excellant Anglo-Saxonism, it is brutally to the point and evocative. However, these qualities diminish with use. In the current culture, overuse and familiarization devalues their impact and coarsens debate and we strain for more powerful explitives. We need to save it for those times that really offend us. Satanism is buffonish and silly. Islamism is not. I would apply the strongist language to the evil, murdering, seventh century savages. However, those vile monsters have far exceeded common notions of mere assholery.

    1. Technically, “arseholes” is Anglo-Saxon. “Assholes” is a relatively recent euphemism for that term.

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