What Can We Learn From Sprouts?

Readers of my ramblings will know that I view Brussels sprouts as the manifestation of Satan’s very own gonads in vegetable form. In the past when I’ve mentioned this some readers have very kindly offered recipes which seem to involve altering the flavour of the repulsive things until they become vaguely edible. I’m not sure they’re worth all that work. Why not do all that work for a vegetable one actually likes in the first place?

Anyway, this is not a call for more recipes, but really a reflection on the fact that some people hate the damned things, whereas other people really love them.

That’s just the way us humans are. We’re not at all the same really. We usually have roughly the same form - head, arms, legs, and so on - but underneath there’s a myriad of ideas, tastes, motivations, morals, and Lord knows what else that differ from person to person.

It’s kind of cool - within certain limits. There’s like an “Overton window” of acceptable variation. I mean, even the wokoids are not likely to try to excuse someone who really loves torturing small furry animals and dissecting them. They’ll excuse all sorts of other things, though, and their version of that ‘acceptable’ window often differs from Team Bigot’s version of that window.

A fat tarted-up freak waving his todger and arse crack in your 5-year old daughter’s face at a family-friendly drag show? Fantastic! Just what she needs¹.

Team Anything Goes (TAG) are very different from Team Bigot (TB).

Over the last week or so I’ve been totally baffled by the number of posts I’ve seen on both 𝕏 and Substack that are insistent Musk did the whole “Sieg Heil” thing at the inauguration. They use words like ‘obviously’ and ‘clearly’. It’s still going on (insert slap-head emoji here).

It’s true that opinions differ on what message Elon was trying to convey

But, broadly speaking, people fall into two main camps; the Salutists™ and those who actually have a brain.

Same gesture, two different versions in time. You’ll pick the one that most corresponds to your own interpretation of the event.

One of the prime arguments seems to be of the form “He’s right-wing, has supported the German nasty party (the AfD), and therefore it was a Nazi salute” with variations thereof.

Musk may have pyjamas covered with embroidered Swastikas, he may have lovingly reconstructed a scale model of Auschwitz out of matchsticks and old bottle tops, he may go to goosestepping parties at the weekend. It still doesn’t mean it was necessarily a Nazi salute.

In fact, it was so obviously and clearly a gesture of thanks to the audience for having voted in President Trump. He even supplied a running commentary on what it meant.

It does have certain similarities to a modified form of Nazi salute adopted by some of those knuckle-dragging extreme right-wing groups of today. Unlike the Nazi salute of yesteryear², they put their hands on their hearts to begin with and then do the formal stiff straight arm thing at something like a 45° angle to the horizontal. If you watch any video of these dimwits you’ll see a good deal of formality and stiffness that really doesn’t look much like Musk’s gesture. There’s a ‘military’ snap to it all from the nutters. And unless one of these dickheads needs shoulder surgery, it’s also not to one side.

But even if Musk’s gesture was identical in all respects, it still wouldn’t make what he did a Nazi (or neo-Nazi) salute. Context matters (unless you’re woke, and then context be damned).

I suppose it’s just possible that Musk was really overcome with his love of Adolf at that very moment and wanted to convey it to the assembled crowd. In truth, we’ll never really know because none of us are actually psychic.

But, to quote JD Himmler Vance, “Martha, do you hear yourself?”

Is it really more plausible that he was Hitlering away rather than actually doing what he said he was doing (right there and then)?

No doubt this whole thing will not go away, but what fascinates me is how very different the perceptions of reality are here.

My version of ‘clear’ and ‘obvious’ is 180° out of phase with the version used by the Salutists™

How is it that people can come to two such diametrically opposed understandings of the same reality? Is it just a Brussels sprouts thing?

Here in the UK we have a Prime Minister, Mr Robot (aka Sir free-gear, two-tier, Keir the farmer-harmer Starmer) who is insistent that the majority of the British public are raving Nazi extremists who would love to go to one of Elon’s weekend parties.

If the polls are to be believed, the majority of the UK public are very uncomfortable with the current levels of immigration and also uncomfortable with the kind of cultural mores that many immigrants bring with them.

If you express that discomfort in any shape or form, you’re definitely with TB and need to be muzzled, or jailed - at least that’s the impression we’re very strongly getting from our glorious commissars leaders.

It’s like there’s (at least) two alternate realities out there and their respective denizens have no idea how to communicate with their counterparts in the other dimension.

There was a time, it seems aeons ago now, when I used to pride myself on being able to see the other side’s point of view. Nowadays, I’m often more like “Huh? What the fuck are you going on about?”

Whilst these mismatched perceptions of reality, these ‘parallel universes’ of understanding, provide much material for a lot of fun and snark there are some very serious implications.

Here in the UK you can get extra naughty time for a crime you have committed if it is judged that your crime was motivated by hate. Here’s how the CPS (the Crown Prosecution Service) goes about establishing that

Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on a person's disability or perceived disability; race or perceived race; or religion or perceived religion; or sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation or transgender identity or perceived transgender identity

[emphasis mine here]

If you have actually committed a crime that’s serious enough then, yes, off to jail you should go. If your victim wants to get some extra revenge all he or she needs to do is to claim that it was motivated by hate. Indeed, according to the guidelines here it could just be some random busybody who perceives hate (or claims to).

Note also that it’s not clear whether this “any other person” they talk about needs to actually be a direct witness.

This is not ‘law’ - or at least law based on objective principles.

As always, there are questions about how consistently these kinds of laws are applied. I don’t know whether the brutal gang rapists multicultural enrichers of young girls in the UK were convicted of hate crimes, despite there being ample evidence of them having substantially crossed even the CPS’ deranged low threshold.

It’s actually worse than this in the UK. This CPS definition applies to some actual crime in which there is perceived to be this extra naughty element. But you can also find yourself prosecuted for this extra naughty element alone even if you haven’t committed any other crime.

You can be prosecuted for the things you write and say if they are judged to have passed some un-defined (and un-definable) threshold of hate that is deemed (by whom?) likely to stir up (incite) hatred.

In the UK we have examples of people being arrested, actually arrested, for having caused ‘anxiety’ to someone else for what they have said. I’m not sure whether any of these cases have proceeded to the courts, I doubt it, but the fact that our police are ‘policing’ such things is astonishing - especially when (for years and years) they let the multicultural enrichers do their thing with impunity, despite knowing about it, for fear of causing them and their community undue anxiety.

The, erm, anxiety of the rape victims themselves didn’t even factor in to any of their deliberations. There was even (at least) one instance where the police went round to a place in which several multicultural enrichers were ‘entertaining’ an underage girl who was in a state of undress, and the girl was arrested.

If you get angry about this (and why wouldn’t anyone sane or reasonable do so?) then you’re in danger of going onto Starmer’s naughty list; you’ll be classed as a TB hate monster whether or not you’ve done the whole Nazi salute gesture of thanks.

So, perception matters; very much if you’re in the UK. If you don’t like Brussels sprouts, you’re fucked. We’re not allowed to dislike them, we are instructed to like them or suffer the consequences!

The perception that tackling the perverted community of multicultural enrichers would ‘increase racial tensions’ is what led to many more thousands (and it was many thousands) of young girls being abused.

Utterly sickening.

According to the c**t³ in Number 10, the suffering of these thousands upon thousands of young girls does not even warrant the establishment of a national enquiry as to how this could have happened, or why it was allowed to carry on for so long (and it’s my understanding that it’s still happening).

But say something ‘bad’ about the millions of immigrants entering our shores - and then you’ll feel the dread cold hand of ‘justice’ falling firmly upon you - and very swiftly indeed. It took them years to grudgingly do anything about the suffering of thousands of young girls, but they can react at near light-speed when you post a naughty meme on 𝕏.

If you have the temerity (how could you?) to complain about the double-standards that are applied, the two-tier nature of it all, then that’s enough to throw you into Team Bigot and you might be up before the judge.

This is how perception has really fucked things up for us in the UK.

And don’t even get me started on the appalling mis-management of perception that went on with regards to covid and those ‘vaccines’.

I shall forever remain one of those despicable sprout-deniers.

1. Does it really need to be said that this isn’t just oozing sarcasm, it’s like the Niagara Falls of sarcasm?

2. They just did the arm thing straight up without the heart thing

3. Clot. I definitely meant clot here, and not something else