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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

When all these climate zealots start killing themselves, then I will believe they believe it.

Only in a demonically inverted paradigm would the media scream climate change about Lihaina, and then say nothing at all about the barricades, the fact that there was no water in the pipes to put fires out, and why schools were closed before the fire.

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"Are they “true believers” — sincere, but deluded, useful idiots who are unaware that their quasi-religious devotion has been weaponized by others? Or are they cynical grifters, eager to signal their loyalty to the regime in order to catch the eye of some powerful patron who will promote and reward them for being on the correct team?"

I used to be a senior writer for a national running magazine (there aren't many) and freelanced for a few other fitness pubs. Happily, not only am I formally excommunicated from that environment, most of the stuff I wrote for those demoralized outlets has been digitally vaporized as well.

Because neither distance running nor track and field more broadly are popular spectator sports in the U.S., they were more organically susceptible to Wokish vandals, saboteurs, others of a shitbird bent long before anyone realized Wokism was coming. Also, its fan base consists of a lot of recreational runners and joggers; this is an activity for those with free time, which in turn makes it a pursuit of the affluent. It also attracts body-neurotics. Presto! The entire running media now consists of white, frazzled harridans and old maids whose main purpose in life is to infect women's sports with as many mentally ill "females" with pink goatees and persistent erections (penile not clitoral, like you had to ask).

The whole shitshow is nothing but the most cynical and gelatinous grifters around. One is a black woman posing as a marathon runner who really is 5' 3" and 300 pounds, just like the fuckin' song. Sponsorships from HOKA, a free entry to the Boston Marathon (with 8,000 others turned away because the entry field was allegedly capped and full) so she could waddle 3 miles and quit.

Does one laugh? Cry? For me, each now bleeds into the other and I can tell you that I know some of the professional runners who are now all in on the horseshit -- and they to a one absolutely believe none of the shit they retweet, like praising "nonbinary" bozette who now holds the American record in the women's mile. And I think I would forgive them more if they did; I would rather consign someone to terminal retardation than optional spinelessness.

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