Extreme Games: Virtue-Signalling Competition!

 "Never  value anything profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect others, to curse, to be a hypocrite, to desire anything that requires walls and curtains to hide." - Marcus Aurelius

I've been remiss in posting for a bit.  My work schedule was full, than I came down with a nasty head cold that kept me feeling low for a week.  It was not Covid.  No antibodies, no antigens.  Guess I'm still a Covid virgin.

The definition of Virtue-Signalling: "Virtue signalling," according to The Cambridge Dictionary, is "an attempt to show other people that you are a good person, for example by expressing opinions that will be acceptable to them, especially on social media."

Virtue signalling is super easy.  It's as easy as placing a yellow ribbon on the rear window of a gas-guzzling SUV to show how much you support the troops, who are dying so that the US can import more crude oil for your SUV.  Or you can buy a $100,000 Tesla to show off your concern for the environment - while ignoring the environmental damage caused by mining the materials needed to build it.

It can be as minor as wearing a sticker that says "I Voted", and as big as screaming "Fuck Trump" at the Oscar Awards ceremony.  

The important thing you should understand about virtue-signalling is that it's performative - it has no effect on the real world, and it costs the person doing it nothing, or nearly nothing.  It's a shameless bit of acting, as opposed to actually making a sacrifice or doing something that would require real effort.

Now that we are done explaining what virtue signalling is (performances), and what it is not (effective), let's see some samples.

Below are a few sceenshots of news articles - and these are all examples of virtue-signaling.  None of these are going to send the tanks, troops or aircraft back to Moscow.  It's to make it look like you are doing something, without actually doing something.  Let the Xtreme Virtue-signalling games begin!!!  

Bear in mind that this inventory has already been purchased, so the money is already in Russian hands.

Let me know what your favorite X-Games virtue signalling article is, and feel free to add more in the comments!

My personal favorite is Britain excluding Russian aircraft from their airspace.  A tiny island nation.  Russia returned the favor, and now British flights are excluded from flying over half the northern hemisphere.  Talk about virtue-signalling and reverse sanctions...