Yeah. I estimate, based only on my experience, that 98% of those males who present themselves as radicals are giant pussies. The female radicals I have known over the decades fall into several categories -- True Believers, for the moment at least, of whatever the current popular thing is. Then there are those who just want to be part of a group that proves to their parents that the parents can no longer control them. There are the ugly and or fat chicks who cannot get a guy or accepted into a sorority or any of the groups they would kill to be in. There are the confused, not-so-bright girls who are looking for non-parent to give them direction. There are others --
The males generally consist of one or two kind of alpha males who have failed in attempts to lead other groups, so they create their own group by being relatively outrageous <see above female groupies list>, and when successful attract beta and lower-ranking males who are in it for the possibility of sex, and because they are natural followers, who more than likely havent been allowed in other groups.
IOW, most radical groups are full of beta-gamma males and the damaged females who will have ex with them.
As a followup, my first experience with radical groups was in 1966-7 or maybe 1967-8 at Univ of Illinois. I had mustered out in June 1996 and Lefties already had their undies bunched due to the huge draft numbers. They really didnt like it when I wore my old military stuff, but I was poor, and not about to buy new clothes I didnt actually need.
An amorphous bunch of vaguely anti-war types had an older, male grad student who told them he was Vic Berkey and he was from Berkeley and from that moment on he was the radical leader.
I am pretty sure there were never as many as 500 hard care members, in a school with at least 35,000 students, but they got an enormous amont of local press.
Also, most of the males deserately didnt want to get drafted. I didnt blame them, but they were still pussies. I was astounded when I found out my 4-F status <discharged due to injuries that left me unable to fulfill duties> would allow me to be drafted before a college student with a 1-S ,or were college students 2-S> status.
He railed against The Man a lot, but without telling them he was married with two children to a woman who had a job as a teacher in a nearby small town. He was wildly admired by all the women in the group. And the men who got access to the women he didnt want.
His second-in-command was a weasel-looking small guy who seemed to function as a gatekeeper, deciding who got access to Vic. He got first choice of Vics rejects abd discards.
After thet there aeared to be a lot of ugly people buming uglies and smoking dope. Although there we speed freaks on campus I never saw any harder drug usage among the anti-war radicals.
Anyway, I doubt if the general composition of radical grous has changed a whole lot.
I probably would have the bad taste to ask them, were I given the chance to interview them, the question: "If you had been performing at the NOVA music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, how many Jewish girls would you have raped and murdered, and would you have sliced off their breasts to play hacky-sack with them as your Hamas comrades did?"
Yeah. I estimate, based only on my experience, that 98% of those males who present themselves as radicals are giant pussies. The female radicals I have known over the decades fall into several categories -- True Believers, for the moment at least, of whatever the current popular thing is. Then there are those who just want to be part of a group that proves to their parents that the parents can no longer control them. There are the ugly and or fat chicks who cannot get a guy or accepted into a sorority or any of the groups they would kill to be in. There are the confused, not-so-bright girls who are looking for non-parent to give them direction. There are others --
The males generally consist of one or two kind of alpha males who have failed in attempts to lead other groups, so they create their own group by being relatively outrageous <see above female groupies list>, and when successful attract beta and lower-ranking males who are in it for the possibility of sex, and because they are natural followers, who more than likely havent been allowed in other groups.
IOW, most radical groups are full of beta-gamma males and the damaged females who will have ex with them.
Sounds to me like the members of Kneecap.
As a followup, my first experience with radical groups was in 1966-7 or maybe 1967-8 at Univ of Illinois. I had mustered out in June 1996 and Lefties already had their undies bunched due to the huge draft numbers. They really didnt like it when I wore my old military stuff, but I was poor, and not about to buy new clothes I didnt actually need.
An amorphous bunch of vaguely anti-war types had an older, male grad student who told them he was Vic Berkey and he was from Berkeley and from that moment on he was the radical leader.
I am pretty sure there were never as many as 500 hard care members, in a school with at least 35,000 students, but they got an enormous amont of local press.
Also, most of the males deserately didnt want to get drafted. I didnt blame them, but they were still pussies. I was astounded when I found out my 4-F status <discharged due to injuries that left me unable to fulfill duties> would allow me to be drafted before a college student with a 1-S ,or were college students 2-S> status.
He railed against The Man a lot, but without telling them he was married with two children to a woman who had a job as a teacher in a nearby small town. He was wildly admired by all the women in the group. And the men who got access to the women he didnt want.
His second-in-command was a weasel-looking small guy who seemed to function as a gatekeeper, deciding who got access to Vic. He got first choice of Vics rejects abd discards.
After thet there aeared to be a lot of ugly people buming uglies and smoking dope. Although there we speed freaks on campus I never saw any harder drug usage among the anti-war radicals.
Anyway, I doubt if the general composition of radical grous has changed a whole lot.
Buinneach indeed - they need whistling lessons (and more). Perhaps on my next trip to Mom's hometown (Derry) I'll run into these losers!
Kneecap? More like Kneecrap, amirite?
I probably would have the bad taste to ask them, were I given the chance to interview them, the question: "If you had been performing at the NOVA music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, how many Jewish girls would you have raped and murdered, and would you have sliced off their breasts to play hacky-sack with them as your Hamas comrades did?"
I know we can't prosecute them, but maybe they would appreciate the enhanced street cred they would get from being kneecapped themselves.
Great piece to close out the month.