I'm reading "Welcome to Secular Sharia/Drunks, cheaters, and Karens beware: TikTok is the new home for public floggings" (The Free Press).
That article is summarized in video, here:
@the.free.press Drunks, cheaters, and Karens beware: TikTok is the new home for public floggings. "Secular sharia" is here. It's a combination of decentralized mass surveillance, morality policing, and voyeuristic schadenfreude, according to River Page. It's main point is to turn other people's lives into a reality show. Read River's full piece at TheFP.com.
♬ original sound - The Free Press
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What ever happened to MYOB? I'm not pro-cheating but for the love, people need to get a life.
The spirit of resentment is strong at this historical moment. The Free Press guy says this is not political, but I'd be willing to bet that Mr. Guapo is a "tax the rich" guy.
Like dad said, "Joey, it's simple. They love each other"
Vicious bad manners.
Here's a good explanation of why we are awash in such stuff. Humans have always wanted to punish people who dared to offend society's sensibilities, but until social media made extracting punishment costless, if not rewarding, it was too much trouble. The podcaster has a good rant, and I do mean rant, about it,
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-answer-is/when-mass-outrage-is-cheap-nK_3RbE8t-h/
First you do it to white heterosexual people.
Nobody protects white heterosexual people. That's not a thing. You are free to mock them, harass them, embarrass them. You'll get points for doing so.
At some point, they'll expand to black and brown heterosexuals. And then you start mocking and shaming the gays.
The fuckers who do this have hierarchies in their head. It's race-based, sex-based, identity politics. And they do all sorts of bad stuff to out-of-favor groups.
The socialists on the left who have done this are horrible people. This is Hitler Youth stuff.
Imagine being hostile to people kissing in public.
It is a secular sharia. It's socialism with an Islamic twist. It's Mamdani NYC.
People caned for kissing on TikTok
no thanks
We used to have a civil society, virtues: honor, ethics, responsibility, loyalty and more. We’ve managed to kill them off, in public, at least. Even the smallest are gone. Cursing? Spitting? Cutting the line?
As a child, I was fully aware that any adult could and would would tell my parents of bad behavior. Shocking, isn’t it?
No more.
“Teens” regularly swarm parks, pools, stores, like locusts, destroying everything in sight.
“Dine and dash” is a routine occurrence.
“Gangs” turn weekends in our major cities into mass shootings.
Illegal aliens, far from hiding their illegality, defiantly fly around the country. “Sanctuary Cities”, in open defiance of federal law, protect criminal illegal aliens.
All these laws? What are these laws, once never enforced?
And then we have the smaller, more personal immoral acts. Cheat on your spouse? Oh, but now you can do so publicly. Attack the cops? Somehow that’s accepted practice.
And today, 2026, now the public is the “sharia police” for recognizing anti-social behavior. We have rights, you know, but never any responsibility. No, never responsibility. Peer pressure isn’t allowed to perform its much needed role.
We are now “I”, atomized, autonomous, answerable to no one.
And society shrinks daily.
Didn't know about this till Althouse published it. Sort of ironic given she isn't a fan of sticking a camera in someone's face just to embarrass them. But maybe she's ok with it.
Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating ~ Politico
“New reporting on government documents claiming that Miller poured hot water on his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, held a gun to her head and broke their young daughter’s collarbone has brought a wave of new attention to the Ohio lawmaker’s long-running public marital dispute.”
A regular Romeo
We need a cheater's bill of rights.
Voyeurisms has come a long way. It's a profession now.
The internet has sucked all the class out of being famous.
It may be in public, but the person being cheated on deserves more privacy than this.
She is cute!
Is privacy the latest luxury? For smart people, it always was.
I hate his socks.
She is Order of the Coif at NYU Law. Also a federal judge law clerk. A young Althouse!
He was Order of the Coif at Georgetown.
Two Coifers!
His wife is better looking than the young associate.
Big mistake!
Probably coiters, too. If that's a word.
If it isn't, it probably ought to be, as another euphemism for the old Anglo-Saxonisms.
Associate, “I will not be ignored! “
I wouldn’t want either of them to counsel me on operational security.
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