Perhaps the aspect of the modern internet that I hate the  most is influencer culture.

There are legitimate influencers, people with real skill and knowledge worth watching.

Unfortunately, as Miguel said, sex sells.  So beng attractive and vapid on the internet is often enough to get a person noticed and monetized.

What has happened is that this sort of influencer has pushed the knowledgeable and skilled out of the market.

Why invest years in gaining experience and knowledge, and putting hours into creating detailed content when the money is going to go to Ms. Yogapants for jiggle clips?

I’ve seen it myself in shooting.  I knew one female shooter.  She’s not good (USPSA C class) But she’s got a very nice ass in very tight pants and an ammo sponsorship from a distributor and they love to record her shooting from behind in slow motion.

It’s killing gaming.  Look at the complaints about eThots who play video games in lingerie with the camera on them and the game streaming in a corner of the screen vs. actual (often male) gamers streaming the game.

The cosplay community for years has been bitching how cosplayers who make their own costumes have taken back seats to hot chicks who wear only the skimpiest costumes, which are largely store bought.

And it is most definitely killing STEM.

Holy shit, the amount of posts by young woman “I fucking love science, look at this thing at the Air and Space museum I’m at” while in a short skirt and tits coming out of the top of her shirt like a Leg Avenue Sexy Scientist costume is fucking infuriating.

Spend a lifetime doing research and have your CV passed over for fun bags in a skin tight NASA t-shirt.

I don’t want to come off sounding like a misogynist, but what we’ve done is create a culture that tells young people, especially young women, that investing time and effort into something has a much lower return on investment than having a cursory interest and the willingness to show a lot of skin.

All it does is create a superficial culture which sours people.

Waiting for the sunrise with the local rag and coffee.

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” ― Mark Twain

OK people, I know and probably knew it long before some of you: Sex Sells.  You don’t need to give me chapter and verse plus a whole dose by hose of Libertarian syrup. And I will go as far as admit that as a heterosexual male I do enjoy the photos in some blogs of the occasional young lady dressed very lightly and treating a long gun like it was a portable dancing pole.  A dead give away is the shorty-shorty Spandex shorts and the new tactical garter belt known as a thigh rig in the obligatory black.

But please, dear Lord, do not confuse sexy looks with knowledge and that is what I see that starting to creep here and there and that is what the meme above addresses. My guess is that in an effort to drive traffic to their website, some “gun” blogs and companies use Gun Bunnies not just for decoration but go the extra step of trying to sell them as experts. And before you protest, the scant clothing is the biggest indicator of tactical BS as anybody who has ever done the Hot Brass Dance will attest.

“But it will attract new shooters to our side!” and they will leave the moment they realize they have been brought in under false pretenses and rather than seeing sexy Monique wearing the latest Daniel Defense AR and very thin and little in the way of clothing, they are welcomed by Bob wearing tactical overalls, a scruffy beard and a thick layer of range dirt around his neck.

And I am not even going to try to delve into what women think about Gun Bunnies. If you brave enough and really wanna see somebody steamed about it, bring the subject up to Mas’ better half AKA The Evil princess.  Burn Gel might be required afterward.

Sell the sex and the sexy, just do not confuse it with firearms proficiency.

Hat Tip to whomever sent me this and apologies for forgetting who it was.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Tennessee’s first ever lifetime order of protection has been granted.

Fittingly, the woman who fought for the law was the first person given the lifetime order of protection.

Nikki Goeser’s beloved husband Ben was literally assassinated by a deranged man who was stalking the married woman.

What most people don’t realize is that victims like Goeser have to renew their order every year.

First ever lifetime order of protection granted in TN: ‘Your voice matters,’ victim says | WZTV (fox17.com)

Nikki Goeser’s tragedy led her to be also a strong Second Amendment advocate. She had a concealed handgun permit the night of her husband’s murder, but they were in a Gun Free Zone so she followed the law and always wondered if things would have been different if the GFZ was not active. The killer simply ignored the law and murdered her husband.

And I do believe this law is right.  It is an unnecessary punishment for a victim to yearly relive in front of a judge the events that led to the need to obtain that order.

May this bring a little bit of peace to her and other victims.

Apparently a lot of people are worried about inflation and spending in the recovery.

If they shut us down again people will demand money because they will have no income.

The only way to justify what they want to do is to lock the economy down again.

Enter the Delta Variant and it’s ability to infect the vaccinated.  The perfect justification for Lockdown 2.0.

https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/1416960358271512579

1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones sparks outrage with unearthed 2019 podcast saying communist Cuba is among the ‘least racist’ countries in the world because socialism means the ‘least inequality’

1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones has come under fire after comments she made in 2019 about Cuba being among the ‘most equal’ countries in the world because of its socialist government resurfaced online.

Hannah-Jones appeared on a podcast with Ezra Klein of Vox and The New York Times in 2019 and was asked for her thoughts on places around the world that had a ‘viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda’.

She replied that she thought Cuba to be among the most ‘equal’ and ‘multiracial’ country in the western hemisphere due to its socialist society.’The most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba,’ she said.

There is still racism in Cuba.

But CRT advocates teach the racism isn’t an individual idea, it’s material and legal differences between people of different races.

You may or may not have racist ideas in your head but if you are white, since white people on average have higher incomes and savings than black people, the system is racist in your favor and you are guilty of racism.  That is the basic concept of systemic racism.

In Cuba, everyone is oppressed.

In Cuba, everyone is poor.

So individuals may be racist but systemic racism doesn’t exist because nobody has wealth or freedom (except the political class which Communists like Jones see themselves as part of).

The oppression and poverty of Communism isn’t a bug, it’s a feature that eliminates racism by grinding everyone down into the mud.