Today is our special Christmas edition of This Week, where we take out just the whackiest headlines we can find, take an action back, and laugh at simply what a clown world we’re all suddenly living in.
1. Quidditch Quandry
For those of you who do not know, Quidditch is a sport. Not a real sport, a made up sport from the Harry Potter stories, in which Wizards chase magical flying balls on magical flying broomsticks.”Real life”Quidditch leagues have actually existed for a very long time now. Nevertheless, because Harry Potter didn’t really happen, which oddly easy brand name of magic has actually not yet been revealed to exist, neither the balls nor the broomsticks fly. Rather, 14 people run around a muddy field holding broomsticks, usually between their legs. The only genuine resemblance to imaginary sport is the name … and now they’re going to alter that. Yes, in protest at JK Rowling’s “transphobic”belief that individuals born with XY chromosomes are men and XX chromosomes are women, various Quidditch
leagues worldwide are altering their names. Well, partly the trans rights thing, and partly that they are trying to avoid getting sued over copyright issues. Mainly the first one. Honest. The point is,it will
still very much be the very same sport as in the books. Just with various rules, and no magic … and now a various name. Some might argue that continuing to play
, and benefit from, a”sport” whose inventor you decline to acknowledge is rather unusual. But then so is running around with a broom between your legs
, pretending you can fly. 2. Recovering the Redpill< img src =" https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/matrix-red-pill-blue-pill-650x366.jpg?x73884"alt= ""width ="650 "height ="366 "/ > There’s no question the Matrix is
one of the most influential films ever made. Its cultural tradition is much more than simply slow-mo action and every motion picture for the next 10 years having black latex in it. It birthed numerous expressions of cultural significance, consisting of”problem in the matrix”, and a lot of prominently”taking the red tablet”. The expression is ubiquitous enough you likely do not need me to discuss it. In brief,”taking the red tablet” indicates to discover a deeper agenda, or uncomfortable fact, whereas”taking the bluepill” means to choose to welcome a comforting impression. It’s so ingrained in the cumulative mind that “to redpill”has just end up being a verb… and
now they wish to change that. The Matrix Resurrections just came out, a long-awaited follow up to the original Matrix trilogy, and the film writers have actually said one of their primary aims in the movie was to “recover” the redpill meme considering that
it has been co-opted by “the far right “: Things like the Red Pill/Blue Pill trope or meme and how it was kidnapped by the right-wing. The verb”to red tablet”and so on. So one thing we bore in mind is how to recover that trope. To restore the meaning of Red Pill/Blue Pill. There’s been a lot of speak about that, at least 5 separate articles discuss it. A long piece in Vanity Fair claims that the”red pill”has been misinterpreted by antivaxxers and QAnon, which the message of challenging your assumptions and questioning authority was never truly in the text in the method its been translated. Certainly, the concept we ought to question authority, and the base presumptions of our world and system, shouldn’t ever be used to our politics, and definitely not vaccinations or the influence of Huge
Pharma. That’s just “far ideal”talk from people who”willfully misinterpreted”the initial movie. Of course, they do not imply the real” far best”, as in
the fascists taking over the governments of most of the world, they mean people on the web– like us– who oppose the mainstream.”Far best”has simply end up being the basic media-speak for anything outside the establishment. How you”reclaim”a meme, and why you would make a 200 million dollar movie simply for that purpose, I do not understand. I’m 100%specific it will not work though. 3. Dancing Nurses: Christmas Unique We all keep in mind the “dancing nurses “, the tone-deaf attempts to increase spirits supposedly from healthcare employees who were being worked almost to death by the”pandemic “. The significantly elaborate and unusual regimens are among the oddest things to come out of the Covid years … and Joe Biden simply commissioned a brand-new one for the White House.
Yes, POTUS and Mrs POTUS invited nurses to sing and dance at the East Room of the White House for Christmas, and it was simply precisely as odd as you ‘d anticipate it to be … NEW– Joe and Jill Biden welcomed singing and dancing nurses to carry out at the White Home, comparable to the countless videos shared on the Chinese app
TikTok.pic.twitter.com/ 8BcOz6F0ur– Disclose.tv(@disclosetv )December 23, 2021 … oh and Jill isn’t using a mask. Equipping fillers It’s starting to look a lot like fascism: OffG’s choice for
this year’s Christmas number 1
… Football fans tell it like it is: A a great deal of Scottish football fans appear to be dissatisfied with Nicola Sturgeon’s vaccine policies, and let her know it in classically Scottish style: Scotland football fans have their say on the booster pic.twitter.com/hAT0eXM4Cq– Anonymous UK Citizen (@AnonUKCitizen)December 23, 2021 The Christmas Spirit Resides On In Finland individuals are needed to have a vaccine passport to go to church, as such lots of discover themselves prohibited
from Christmas services all over the country. Their reaction is best, gathering crowd outside the half-empty churches, and singing their own carols: Oulu tänään! pic.twitter.com/J6nhX1f6Pe– Anu Huusko(@AHuusko)December 19, 2021 A perfect, tranquil way to rather actually make your voices heard. * All in all a very hectic holiday, and we didn’t even have time for Scotland pardoning all individuals they carried out
as witches (which is a relief to them, I make certain
), how Jesus wants us to get vaccinated, or the BBC’s convenient guide on how to speak to conspiracy theorists
over Christmas supper. Merry Christmas everybody, and see you all in the new year.