What do the NRA and your fav website have in common?
It ain’t easy being the website where “thinking surfers congregate.” All those multiple orgasms under the womb stroking of Zach Wiesberg’s formidable weapon, all those swooning love stews, quickly sour if anyone deviates from the “thinking surfers” script.
Is there a demographic more prone to hysteria and rigidity of thought than one that casts itself as “thinking”?
Recently, The Inertia posted an innocuous story on Facebook called Why Every Surfer Should Know Rescue Breathing with the note, “It’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.” While guns are different story, the message applies to rescue breathing: Learn it. Hope you never need to use it.
Guns! Not at the The Inertia where Salon.com and the Huffington Post are held to the bosom of its readers as beacons of truth and righteousness!
The comments hissed like wildcats.
“Douchebag analogy!”
“Shithouse analogy. The Inertia started out as the the thinking surfer’s blog but it has become the surfer’s version of Fox News, rubbish.”
“How on earth is saving someone’s life related to guns which only cause injury and death!?!?! You are idiots!”
“As others have suggested I think you need to edit the post and get rid of the silly gun quote. Absolute idiocy to make such a comment, especially in the current climate!”
“How much did the NRA pay for this Facebook post??”
“Nobody ever needs a gun! All the mass shootings that happen in the USA prove that the pro gun argument doesn’t work! If it did as soon as a maniac pulls his gun out then John Wayne walking down the street would shoot the bad guy before 10’s or 100’s are killed!! The world is a different place to 1787! Wake up America! Wake up the enertia!!”
“What the hell, Inertia, did you really post that analogy? I had to read it twice. I strongly consider unfollowing the page – not that you care, but i hope more followers will do the same if there’s no respond to all the comments.”
“Like when your 3-year old accidentally kills you with rescue breathing.”
“What kind of idiot uses a gun analogy like that, in these times, to make a point about being an improved human? If that’s you Guillaume Barucq, you’re an effing tool. The Inertia, you need to check it before you wreck it.”
“Create a headline that gets attention. Check…Social Media 101. Gun violence has been in the news a lot lately. Get as much publicity and followers seems to be the Inertias goal. Also, You know surfing is becoming mainstream when media outlets, like this one, get paid to run articles for companies. How else would they get money in an industry where even surfboard builders give up and have machines make their boards for them. Not saying it’s wrong, but surfing is Losing its soul.”
This is my fav: “Why is everybody so butthurt? If someone came into your house with a loaded gun, how else would you protect yourself but by being PREPARED. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
Do you want to join in the voluptuous bonanza?
Scandals at The Inertia are nothing new, of course.
Do you remember when one of its writers begged to have the Brazilian world champ Gabriel Medina suspended and fined? A racist intrigue!
And, when Kauai locals threatened to besiege their Venice Beach office?
Hang on…surfing is Losing its soul?
It’s Inertia genius.
When I’m packing the car for a drive down the coast I ALWAYS think, ‘It’s better to have a gun and not need one than need a gun and not have one.’ Then I strap my 6’10 on the roof too.
I’d give full credit if you said 8’10”.
That’s some serious dick swinging right there.
The serious dick swingers that I know have laughed me in on an 8’10”.
Is a 6’10” a gun where you live?
Unfortunately (or fortunately) a 6’3″ is a gun where I live.
Reality.
Rescue breathing is kind of useless anyway. Learn chest compressions first. And how to use a defibrillator.
good advice nick, my girlfriend has one of those she loves it.
You use it too don’t you wincy. Don’t you.
The Inertia is just a circle jerk of confirmation bias. My first impression of this Zach Wiesberg guy is that he seems like he’s such a smug cunt, he could hold an entire conversation with his eyes closed.
I’m yet to meet a private-schooled entrepreneur who doesn’t flutter her/his eyelids or roll them back into their head like a passive-aggressively attacking Great White. White yuppie speech 101, requisite to reside or work in many environs from SD to Seattle, I’m told.
Guns don’t kill people, Inertia readers on single fins kill people
Leave single find out of this!
The inertia wavestorm riding douchebag posse!
Some will recall a far better option – “Better to know me and not need me, than to need me and not know me.” RIP King Stahlman.
I had to google that slice of Americana, but I’m glad I did…