by Travis Mateer
This is the kind of attendance that occurs when Missoula attempts to restrain the proliferation of “urban crisis camping” along our prized riverfront. The virtue-signaling of commenters is very predictable and generally depicts anyone crisis camping as helpless victims who should be allowed to trash the environment because victims can’t be accountable for their own decisions.
Since victimhood is such a popular state of existence for garnering and leveraging sympathy from uninformed signalers of virtue, I’m going to show how EVERYONE in Missoula is a victim because we are ALL being victimized by a compromised media landscape, from local jokers, like Martin “Gomer” Kidston, to national media outlets, like CNN.
That last link takes you to the latest hilarity coming from a propaganda outlet pretending to be a news one. Did you know that Jake Tapper, like Martin Kidston, began his media career working for the Democratic Party? From the link:
In 1992, Tapper served as a Campaign Press Secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) and later served as her congressional press secretary.
Who actually thinks that our national media outlets are capable of being “unbiased”? No one with a pulse, and who isn’t getting paid directly to think otherwise, has any illusions anymore that media is anything other than blatant information warfare being waged by disgusting opportunists and paid hucksters.
To bolster the local virtue-signaling, a writer who got platformed by Netflix has an op-ed in our shit-rag newspaper about how terrible the ordinance will be, if passed. Here’s how Stephanie Land opens her support for open-air meth-colonies where I’m sure the healthiest of relationships exist among the campers (emphasis mine):
My oldest daughter moved to Missoula when she was 4. She’ll be 17 on summer solstice. I chose Missoula 13 years ago because of its family-oriented and compassionate community. We really needed that.
We became homeless when my daughter was seven months-old. After endless emotional abuse, her dad became violent, and I left with only $200, no job, and no child care. I was grateful to have a car where we could nap, eat, and store our things. We lived in a camper parked in my dad’s driveway until I found us a place in a shelter where my daughter started crawling, and eventually took her first steps the day before her first birthday.
It’s important to remember that ONLY virtue-signalers are allowed to use their children when supporting an issue they are passionate about. Parents like me, who think meth-colonies promote the kind of criminal behavior that shortens a walk with my own daughter because vehicle break-ins happen so regularly now, and in the middle of the day, that I can’t visit the river without something happening, are to be shamed and dismissed as privileged. Got it?
If not, here’s Land’s conclusion:
I’ve been hearing a lot of fear for privileged people’s safety in recent city council meetings. Ordinances like this one will force victims of domestic violence to go back to their abusers because they’re scared of being fined, jailed, and losing custody of their children. I implore you to let go of the fear you have imagined, and consider the fear you’re creating.
If Stephanie Land was capable of stepping back from her divisive dismissal of the “fear for privileged people’s safety” she might see that NO ONE enjoys the anti-social behavior that stems from enabling addiction, even those camping in our urban core.
Since virtue-signalers are supposed to be receptive to the “lived experiences” of homeless people, I’ll share some of mine regarding what I “fear” as I live out of a truck under a bridge. I have some degree of fear for the unpredictable behavior that comes from drug and alcohol dependency, and since the change in my housing status, I’ve had my car broken into and peed on, a mentally-unstable person yelling and staring me down, someone banging on my truck at 2am, and the yelling that occurred yesterday from a vehicle parking in the vicinity.
The yelling yesterday came from a couple and had the feel of a potential DV situation, so I was relieved when they finally left because this is PRECISELY the kind of behavior that I’m worried about attracting. Hopefully, by transforming myself into an eccentric character who uses toy bricks to tell subversive stories about local corruption, I can keep a good vibe going in the space I’m currently occupying.
Speaking of using toy bricks to tell stories, I was amused to see how Lego is joining the mindless virtue-signalers for some easy PRIDE dollars.
As the political season heats up it’s going to be important for the virtue-signalers to maintain an anti-reality stance regarding what our eyes are clearly seeing. Whether it’s the senility of a sitting president, or the collapse of society, denying reality is the only way the left can succeed, and I think they know it.
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Thanks for reading!