sabotabby: (lolmarx)
Just kidding. You're more likely to win the lottery than get tenure—they'll just replace him with an overworked adjunct.

But anyway Lobsterboi rage-quit UofT in a hilarious display of histrionics. I won't link to it because I don't want to give the National Socialist Post the clicks but the whole thing is extremely funny and you can read it if you want to put those kinds of words in your brain meat.

The reason he flounced is not, I'm quite convinced, that academia has become too woke that a cishet white man cannot catch a break anymore. It's more likely that he is a reanimated corpse kept mobile by the necromantic machinations of young Mikhaila Peterson's demon-possessed sorcerer boyfriend. Or he's making more on Patreon, or both.

If he were true to his beliefs he'd have to admit that the turn academia has taken is the inevitable result of the natural superiority of queer BIPOC academics with blue hair and they/them pronouns climbing to their place in the hierarchy over inferior cishet male academics, just as the unusual blue colouration of a lobster renders it fitter for survival in our modern order, but he'd rather be a whiny baby about it, clearly.
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Peterson's reply.

ZIZEK IS HAAAAAARD I don't know how to respond.

more )

Zizek:

Zizek you have never tried to be as short as possible.

more )

rebuttals )

questions )

Conclusion: That was really bad. Like funny ha-ha bad, but also just bad-bad. Despite the pretence of talking about Weighty, Important Subjects, there was really none of that, because you need the other party to at least have the same reference points, and Peterson is just not that well educated. Also because Zizek's a dick and has gone red-brown, making him a shit spokesman for contemporary Marxism. It was like a 4chan cartoon come to life.

I guess the best thing that came out of it was that some of Peterson's fanboys, having seen their idol soundly humiliated, might now flock to Zizek, whose ideology, though demented, is substantially less harmful.

Save yourself some suffering and watch the toilet speech again:

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IT'S SLAVOJ TIME

Zizek starts by talking about China's economic success.

Zizek you are using big words Peterson will not understand this.

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APPLAUSE! The Muppets have arrived! Announcer announces that there is to be no recording or heckling.

Stephen Blackwood is the moderator, says some self-congratulatory shit, and then welcomes the Muppets.

Lobster in a suit, Oscar looking slovenly as always in a polo shirt and pants that don't reach his shoes.

Oh shut up Stephen, this is not "real thinking about hard questions" this is mud wrestling.

IDEOLOGY! *takes a shot*

Stephen just claimed that neither are primarily political thinkers. Broken clocks, etc.

"Surprising agreement on deep questions" yes they both have cryptofascist leanings.

"Let's hear it for psychoanalysis!" Audience cheers.

I am pretty sure no one has ever called Zizek "dazzling" in his life until now. Zizek facepalms, then yawns, then claps for himself.

Audience is overwhelmingly Peterson fanboys, judging by the cheers.

OH GOD PETERSON IS GOING TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. He's doing a Thinker pose.

There is far too much San Pellegrino and not enough coke on this table.

EACH OF THEM GETS TO MAKE A 30 MIN OPENING STATEMENT oh god. Then each has 10 min to reply. Then there's 45 minutes of fanboys asking questions. It's going to be a loooong night.

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Found a totally legal stream. No sound so far. No one on stage either, but it looks legit. Apparently there is no sound on the paid one yet either.

The audience looks about half empty. I guess not that many people wanted to pay $500 for a ticket? There's, unfortunately, a live chat as well, and it is full of fascists, tankies, and people just typing "sniff" over and over again.

Now faded to a galaxy thing with an ominous silhouette.

SOUND!!!!!

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sabotabby: two lisa frank style kittens with a zizek quote (trash can of ideology)
Turns out the livestream of the Kermit vs. Oscar debate is $15, because there is nothing that Peterson will not shamelessly monetize. Obviously I am unwilling to pay this (I wouldn't be if the filthy lucre wasn't going to Peterson, but it is). Unless something changes in the next hour and a half, I hope you're all cool with me holding off on the lulzy commentary until tomorrow when the torrents go up and watching the season finale of Disco instead.
sabotabby: swift wind from she-ra (swift wind)
It is happening

It is really happening


happiness

I am so nervous. What if I can't internet from there? What if my snark fails me? But also, I am so excited. My entire life, perhaps all of human history, has led to this moment and I am blessed to be alive and in Toronto.

P.S. I hope they both lose.

sabotabby: (furiosa)
 Doug Ford apparently takes time in his busy schedule of dismantling all forms of civilization in Ontario and procuring off-the-books RVs to meet with LobsterBoi. (God, I love FOI requests; everyone should know how to make them.) The subject may have had to do with abolishing the Ontario Human Rights Commission so that he can continue abolishing human rights without the threat of someone telling him to not do that, accompanied by a stern glare.

P.S. Like father, like daughter. Kyla Ford is also an illegal drug dealer; wonder if Daddy will whip out his OPP goon squad to arrest her.

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