Balderdash

How bad will white rage get? (UK Sikh Stabbing)

2026-06-09T12:55:00.000+08:00

"For many, the officers’ decision to immediately accept Vickrum Digwa’s version of events was grim evidence of the “two-tier” justice system that has evolved, thanks to a state obsession with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) above all else...

What Farage and Badenoch appear to understand is that two distinct forces are combining to raise the political significance of white identity in Britain – anti-white discrimination, and an anxiety among conservative white voters about the country’s rapidly changing demographics.

Discrimination against white people in Britain has become a byproduct of woke ideology, which I define as the making sacred of historically marginalised race, gender and sexual identities. This reached a fever pitch between 2015 and the early 2020s, having been rocket-boosted in 2020 by Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, which included the toppling of statues and the overhaul of museum displays.

Today, it is encapsulated by the prioritisation of the concept of “equity” over “equality”, both in policing and elsewhere.

This became institutionalised in public and private organisations in the form of DEI policies. Instead of treating everyone equally, DEI seeks to engineer equal outcomes by favouring protected groups. It takes inspiration from the critical race theory slogan that “disparities equal discrimination”, and prefers a colour-conscious approach to a colourblind one.

Instead of protecting all groups equally, DEI results in minorities, but not whites, being insulated by “hate speech” laws and corporate or university codes banning offensive speech. This also infringes on the freedom of expression of “privileged” groups, such as white people and men.

While the law and public morality still claim to treat everyone the same, the reality is that critical theories of systemic racism, sexism and gender identity have deeply penetrated Britain’s legal system, institutions, social norms and public sensitivities. Thus, sections 158 and 159 of the 2010 Equality Act permit institutions to engage in “positive action” to hire and promote members of protected groups.

The same legislation, introduced under Gordon Brown, enlarged the definition of discrimination to include radical “systemic” definitions, including so-called “indirect” forms, meaning that companies could be sued for policies which are applied in the same way for everyone, but are said to disadvantage a particular group. The Equality Act also introduced a legal duty on public bodies to not just protect against discrimination, but to promote non-discrimination and “foster good relations... between people who have a protected characteristic and those who do not”.

This served as the justification for HR professionals and lobby groups to force DEI into companies, charities, schools, the NHS and other public bodies. While the legislation mentions that steps to combat discrimination should be “proportionate”, in practice, its spirit gave a green light to activists within organisations to start calling the shots. Banding together in identity-based “affinity groups” and DEI committees, and with the assistance of politically extreme DEI consultants and lobby groups such as Stonewall, they implemented their own expansive interpretations of the Equality Act.

Woke ideology dominates the ethos of numerous institutions, including universities, schools, the BBC, the NHS, the Civil Service and a growing number of law firms. A recent study found that up to 90 per cent of staff in UK public bodies surveyed using the centre-Left More in Common’s “Hidden Tribes” questionnaire were from the “progressive activist” segment of the population, which makes up just 10 per cent of society at large. Other organisations that have fielded the same survey have been so embarrassed by the skewed results that they have destroyed the data. The prestige of progressive extremism among the highly educated, who dominate human resources and public-facing roles, means that this ideology has even penetrated the upper reaches of institutions not dominated by university graduates, such as the police and military.

Progressive staff hire each other and form echo chambers where their sense of reality departs from social norms. Only when scandals break the surface, as with the Nowak murder, the leaked report into BBC bias or universities advertising positions where white men are prohibited from applying, does woke capture become visible to the public.

While culture-war issues roil the newspapers, they have yet to decide British elections. However, the woke and anti-woke divide over race is emerging as a critical divide in British politics, predicting whether someone votes for a party of the Right or of the Left. That split is highlighted by fresh polling that I conducted this week on the Prolific survey platform, of around 500 British voters...

While young people and minorities are more politically correct regardless of ideology, voting intention is by far the strongest predictor of views on this question.

All voters are empathetic, but the object of their affections differs. I asked respondents about their sympathies for four different types of people: a person who feels like an outsider in Britain because they are in the racial minority; a person who feels a loss of community because Britain has been changed by immigration; a white British person who feels that there is a double standard in which all groups apart from white people are socially permitted to express their identity and defend their group interests; and an ethnic-minority person who feels that it is harder for non-white people to get accepted for a job or a property rental...

While race appears to be central to the above story, the differences between white and non-white voters are less stark than the divide between white progressives and white conservatives over which groups deserve sympathy. Racial groups thus function as symbols within a menu of ideological attachments. Progressives are warm toward minorities and Leftists, and cooler toward whites and men. Conservatives are more likely to feel affection for whites, Right-wingers and men, and, while friendly toward minorities, are less sympathetic toward claims of race and gender inequality...

It is not apparent that race is more salient than ideology, especially on the Right. Indeed, the “two-tier” charge blends concern over how racial groups are treated (whites versus blacks or Muslims) with ideological groups (police reacting harshly to Right-wing marches while coddling Left-wing climate or pro-Palestine demonstrations)...

The question of equal treatment without special privileges, as distinct from affirmative action quotas, taps a distinct set of attitudes on the Right that might be termed “classical liberal”. Group privileges are seen as violating an ethic of equal treatment, fairness and individual responsibility. This attitude dimension is heavily associated with identifying with Right-wing and centre-Right parties in all Western countries. On the other hand, those who believe that special protection for minorities is necessary to overcome discrimination and inequality orient toward Left-wing parties and beliefs.

Will the Nowak case upend politics or decide the Makerfield by-election? Not necessarily. “Two-tier” policing, as with culture wars more broadly, still sit relatively low on British voters’ priority lists. In my survey, 68 per cent of Reform voters rank immigration as a top-two issue from a list of 13, while 38 per cent say the same about the cost of living. Only 13 per cent rate “two-tier policing” among their top two issues. Immigration is the main motivating issue for the populist Right.

Concern about anti-white, anti-male or anti-conservative discrimination is common among such voters, and is bound up with their political ideology and party identification, but is not top of mind.

Incidents in which woke “anti-racism” results in disaster – as with the grooming gangs, Manchester Arena bombing, Nottingham stabbings, Southport murders and Nowak tragedy – tend to be narrated differently in Left and Right echo chambers. Already, the British progressive establishment is talking about Nowak as a regrettable incident of knife crime, which is being exploited by the “far-Right”.

When confronted with the George Floyd example, Left-wing politicians and activists protest that he was killed by the police, so the examples cannot be compared. As with terrorism, these incidents reinforce existing loyalties, but tend not to dramatically shift the electoral landscape...

Research shows that far-Right violence tends to be lower when populists do well in the polls because there is an electoral outlet for their frustrations. Political violence, whether in Northern Ireland prior to the rise of Sinn Fein as a party, or in contemporary England, is greater when there is no democratic safety valve for grievances. If Reform were in power, there is a reasonable chance that the Southport riots would not have taken place. And with Farage giving voice to the views of the demonstrators, they are more likely to feel that they are being heard, and thus less likely to riot.

Badenoch is also wrong about the prospect of civil war because white conservative grievances are primarily oriented against progressive whites rather than minorities, while the rise of populist parties gives voice to popular discontent.

This does not mean that there isn’t a problem. After all, what the Nowak case shows is that the culture war is not some trivial tempest in the campus teacup. The woke cultural revolution that has been rolling through our elite institutions is profoundly destabilising, divisive and dangerous. The progressive establishment runs interference for the cultural revolutionaries by pretending that innocuous-sounding labels such as “anti-racism”, “trans rights” and “inclusion” mean what they say on the tin, with those opposing the revolutionaries smeared as “stoking a culture war”.

The dual phenomena of demographic anxiety among white voters, and the perception that the system is slanted against them, has the potential to forge a powerful electoral bloc. Concerns about rapidly changing demographics, abetted by an elite which is unwilling to listen to restrictionist voters, exacerbate the sense of injustice created by the cascading effects of woke ideology. As the white British decline in number, demographic anxiety is likely to rise, while the willingness of a self-assured majority to grant extra privileges to minorities declines. This makes it all the more imperative not to fan the flames of populist resentment by implementing woke cultural socialism in our institutions.

Criticism of DEI is not divisive – suppressing criticism is. To stand any chance of tackling this problem head-on, the cultural questions about changing society in the name of anti-racism or inclusion must be dealt with openly, not behind closed institutional doors. The ideas that equity should trump equality, and that some groups deserve special rights, run counter to what most British people believe.

Woke is not some arcane intellectual pastime – it has powerful real-world effects. It is imperative that those who believe in freedom, truth and cohesion resist its pernicious effects on the elite institutions that govern much of our lives."

Muslim rage is proof that we need to crack down on "Islamophobia" and arrest the "far right". White rage is proof that we need to crack down on "white supremacy" and arrest the "far right".

Time to ban Reform, because it's a Danger to Democracy for a "far right" party to get into government. Riots are only the language of the unheard when they push the left wing agenda.

If you believe in equal treatment without special privileges (i.e. a Classical Liberal), you are now a dangerous far right extremist.

Organisations only need to represent society demographically when that pushes the left wing agenda. Organisations being full of progressive activists is good, because progressive activists are virtuous and push good policies.

"Empathy" is good - but only for groups the left approves of. Hating white people and men is good because they are evil.

If you oppose the left's attempts to radically remake society, you are the villain for stoking a culture war. If you push the left's attempts to radically remake society, you are a decent human being doing the right thing and are not being political at all.

Links - 9th June 2026 (1 - Feminism [including 'Rape Academy', Women vs Boys in Football])

2026-06-09T09:39:00.000+08:00

Meme - Shannon Watts: "CNN exposes a global "online rape academy" that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone."
"Exposing a global 'online rape academy' that is teaching men how to abuse women an..."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "The post incorrectly labels the monthly traffic for one porn site as the number of men participating in drugging and raping women to create their own porn. 62 million is the site's total traffic. The number of men in drugging groups, according to CNN, is "nearly a thousand""
Left wingers have very poor comprehension skills and no shame. She literally linked the article, yet failed to understand it

Meme - "The same ones who insist that "women don't lie about rape!" are now saying that it's OK to lie about rape"
Jenni Soldner: "Currently many women are posting to bring awareness to the fact that a "rape academy" website had 62 million visits in February of this year alone. Men's comments? Not horror. Not disgust. Not supporting victims. Instead they are saying "it was 62 million VISITS, not people. And you can't know how many were men." Rather than focusing on the existence of this website that was created by men, they are arguing the semantics of the data."
Rae Tindell: "It was a telegram group of about 1,000 men across the globe that were using drugs to sedate and rape their wives, and sharing tips on how. CNN's article on it mentions Motherless, the most trafficked pom site on the intemnet, and how it had 62 million visits in February while also hosting a few thousand videos of somnophilia content, some of which are certainly of questionable legality. People are equating the two and thinking it means there were 62 million men in some online academy teaching each other how to sedate and rape. Is the fact that the group and content exist absolutely abhorrent? It is. Should the individuals creating and engaging with content be held accountable? Absolutely. Is there an online rape academy getting 62 million visits in one month? There is no actual evidence to support this claim. Im not defending any of the abhorrent behavior that the article actually revealed, but I think myself and most men simply want to point out what the article actually revealed and correct the sensationalized narrative that is being spread by a misunderstanding of the actual data presented."
Willow Glade: "here we fekking go.."
The truth behind the "Rape academy with 62 million members" that left wingers have been huffing and puffing about. Left wingers love to hyperventilate over made up scenarios. Left wingers can't help but lie, and if you fact check them you're a bad person (of course, they mock non-left wingers who point out dishonest fact checks as not caring about the truth)
Female and left wing logic: feelz are more important than facts

Threads - qasimrashid: "If you're on a boat with 100 people & someone punctures the hull with a sledgehammer, would you immediately restrain him & work with everyone to stop the boat from sinking—or would you stand there & say, "Don't look at me, I've never taken a sledgehammer to a hull." You'd do the former—because you're not a sociopath. So, when we talk about systemic abuse of women & the existence of things like 'Rape Academy' & men respond, "Don't look at me, I never raped anyone," you sound like a sociopath."
Comments (on his Facebook): "Yea except your forgetting the part where half the boat screeches to the other half how the puncture is there fault and they need to fix it now and it's all of them. While also screaming that there are holes all over the boat rather than just the one hole and finally just claiming anybody that points out there is only one hole is part of the reason the hole is there to begin with and should be treated like the person that punctured the hull one and the same. With of course a stream of insults thrown in to those they expect to fix the hole."
"Talk about the recent trend of female school teachers sleeping around with their young male students….then say “women can’t be trusted around kids , if you disagree you’re most likely a grapist”"
"This is the dumbest analogy I think I've ever heard. You are saying all men are collectively responsible for the actions of a few. Does that also mean all Muslims are terrorists or all women are sex workers because some of the people in those groups are? Just because you don't want to be viewed the same as the minority of people of that group it doesnt make you a sociopath, it makes you rational and logical."
"Cool. Now be more honest. One guy used the sledgehammer, but instead of holding him accountable alone, you want him to be taken down and then chastise and become paranoid about every single other man just because."
"Imagine if the media reported that 62 million migrants were guilty of raping women when the actual numbers was 1000... what kind of unnuecessary division and harm do you think that would create to that community that is already viewed in a very negative light."
Of course, someone replied to the last and claimed that "most women and people assigned female at birth have been sexually assaulted. which is the bigger problem - that, or someone using the wrong number on a post? Like, really?"; at some level, left wingers know they're lying, but do it anyway because it's good for propaganda

Meme - Fight the Patriarchy: "Men can be pretty chill until they find out you're smarter and funnier than they are."
"This is why men and women's sports are separated. It's not because men have a physical advantage, it's because they don't want to lose to women. Their fragile egos literally cannot take it."
"Y'all remember when the women's world cup champions got smoked by a boys Varsity team?"
"Is this feminist humor?"
There're still lots of deluded feminists who claim that women's sports are sgated because the women perform better, so it was done to protect men's egos because they don't want to lose to women. Even a casual look at sports statistics shows how women cannot compete, but feminism and left wing ideology in general are about feelz over facts anyway

Janet Murray on X - "Guardian columnist Zoe Williams claims the reason we don't have mixed football teams is because “women are too good”. 🙄 Now, I’m no expert on football - but you don’t need to be. You can see it with your own eyes. Watch an elite men’s match and an elite women’s match side by side. The men are, on average, quicker, stronger and more powerful - which changes the pace, intensity and physicality of the game. Saying that doesn’t diminish women’s football. It’s simply acknowledging reality. Men’s and women’s football are different - because men and women are different. This isn’t really about Williams - it’s about the kind of baseless arguments that get bandied around to justify men in women’s sports and spaces. Including by women themselves."
i/o on X - "A local team consisting of 14 year-old boys soundly defeated the US women's national team in 2017. The Australia women's national team lost 7-0 to a club of 15 year-old boys in 2016, and the Swiss women's national team 7-1 to a team consisting of 14 year-old boys in 2025."

FootyRoom | Facebook - "😳🇨🇭 Switzerland's women's national team, featuring Alisha Lehmann, lost 1–7 to Luzern's U-15 boys' team in a friendly match. The Swiss Football Association tried to keep the result under wraps, but one of the boys posted it on social media (Blick). The home Women's European Championship kicks off in Switzerland in just a few days 😅"
Martien 🇳🇱 on X - "I believe in equal pay in football. That’s why I think under-15 boys should earn the same as professional women players."
The copes are that the women let the boys win, and it was a friendly so it doesn't count

Why Women's Football Sides Continue to Play Men's Youth Teams Despite Criticism - "In 2023, Wrexham beat the USWNT 12-0 in a mini-tournament, once again leading to widespread mocking of the women's game. So why are these games played? In 2022, after Arsenal women were defeated 5-0 by the club's under-15 boys’ side, an explanation was given. Per a report in the Times, the leaked 5-0 defeat was used as an example to dismiss the quality of women’s football. However, Arsenal viewed the match as an opportunity to improve their women's team regardless of any external criticism. Journalist Molly Hudson wrote: 'Biologically, a team of boys aged 14 to 16 are thought to provide the ideal test for a women’s team because, although they are often quicker and stronger, they are not at the insurmountable level of a senior men’s side.' While the boys tend to have an advantage when it comes to physical attributes, it forces the women to adapt and improve their speed of thought, technical skills, and positioning. Hudson added that the Gunners aimed to play against men's youth teams on a more regular basis, so that playing against other women’s teams would seem easier in comparison. Former Arsenal women’s manager Jonas Eidevall explained: “It’s an astonishing opportunity that most football teams around the world would give everything to do: to see if we can make our training harder than the games. “That means if we’re successful in training then we will, for sure, be successful in games. We’ll have a bit more time and it will be a little easier. Under-15 or 16 is usually a good age group where the physicality hasn’t grown so much on all the players. They are a little faster than our players but it’s not impossible to play against.”"
How ignorant. They need to learn more feminism so they know that women are actually better than men in sports

Meme - *White Man and Black Woman running a race, with the white man having one tiny hurdle that doesn't cross the track and the black woman having many obstacles and a ball and chain on her ankle*
White Man: "What's the matter? It's the same distance!"
*Ball and Chain on ankle as Wake up on time!*
*Landmines as Don't break the law!. Barbed wire and posts as That's your 5th break today! Crocodile pond as It's ask, not ax! Broken wall as Comply with the police! Jagged spears in ground as Stop stealing!*

J.T. Alexander on X - "Pro-Tip for Women: “I want the world to treat women the same as men,” and “I don’t want the world to view women as pieces of disposable meat,” are contradictory demands."

Meme - elizabeth_marie_osborn: "One of the young guys in the ambulance raised up my bra to high to where he could feel my boob."
"Contact Only-No Report Written
Accident reports will be available for purchase by or your insurance company at www.AuthorizeTransaction.com. A copy of this report may also be obtained from the Central Records Bureau of the Miami-Dade Police Department, 9105 NW. 25 St., Miami, Florida 33172, from Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m to 5:30 p.m. It is suggested you call (305) 471-2085 to verify that it is available for release. No other information will be given over the telephone in reference to the report. Reports may also be obtained by mailing a stamped, self-addressed envelope with you your request, to the above address."
Clearly men being reluctant to give women CPR is proof that misogyny is literally femicide, and men are afraid of false accusations for no reason

Meme - elizabeth_marie_osborn: "It is clinically unnecessary to reach above this line to put your hand under my bra and touch my boob so that you can put the stickers on. If you needed help lifting my bra you could have asked!"
tabi.blakemore: "There was literally just an episode of the Pitt about this where a woman was actively having a heart attack and the doctors didn't know because the paramedics put the leads on her too low because they were afraid of getting in trouble for going under her bra."
laurenjonesartist: "Yes! Men are now too afraid to preform CPR on women because they are afraid of being sued for assault."
Meme - beasredblanket2: "This is not the case here. OP is a well known frequent flyer at her local hospital. She constantly claims heart problems, has had hundreds of ECGs, all negative for any problems. She believes the government is harassing her with sonic waves, and that the COVID vaccine she got nine years ago (impossible) is responsible for all her problems. In short, she's insane, and she's an attention seeker."

Three women found not guilty of indecent assault after using sex toys on passed out man - "There were tears as a jury found three Ōamaru women not guilty of indecent assault charges stemming from an incident involving an unconscious man at a “Dirty 30” themed birthday party in 2023. Tuesday marked the fifth day of the trial, in the Timaru District Court, in which there was no dispute between the Crown and the defence that an incident occurred. The three women, all aged 32, had each faced three charges of indecent assault but the defence maintained throughout that their actions that night had been a prank. The complainant, who was the boyfriend of one of the women at the time, drank too much at her 30th birthday party, and went to bed fully clothed to sleep it off. His girlfriend at the time, and her two friends, who all have interim name suppression, then wrote lewd comments and drew pictures on him and used lube and two sex toys on his buttocks. There was no suggestion of penetration. Photos and a short video were also taken, and shared among the defendants... the jury sided with the defence case from lawyers Ron Mansfield, KC, Katey Barker, Paul Norcross and Joanna Lorigan Innes who maintained throughout the incident was “good-natured fun”, and charges were the result of retaliatory campaign by the complainant against his ex-girlfriend."
Women not guilty of assault after using sex toys and lube on unconscious man at party : r/MensRights - "So this means men can undress and "prank" unconscious women as long as there's no penetration, right? They can also film the humiliation and share it to have a laugh later. Disgusting double standard. Do better NZ."
"We remember the worldwide outrage when a french man and his friends played with unconscious wife, and demands for the harshest sentence. There is no way a group of men doing this to a woman would get away with it"
And their identities were hidden too

In the UK, 52% of men and 31% of women aged 16–29 agree that feminism has done more harm than good — UK Youth Poll 2025 : r/MensRights - "The UK Youth Poll 2025, conducted by the John Smith Centre (University of Glasgow), covered a representative sample of British men and women aged 16–29. Among the findings: 52% of men and 31% of women agree with the statement that feminism has done more harm than good. Overall, the numbers of those who agree and disagree are roughly the same (42% vs 45%). Only 12% of men strongly disagree with this statement. Maybe there is hope that when this young generation grows older and begins to enter positions of power, gender policies will become more balanced and fair toward men?
Source: original, archived (question about feminism — p.65)"

Meme - ajab: "I work in construction, the women get the easy jobs and still never show up for work and when they are fired, they sue the company. Company owner now only hires a handful of women and pays them the minimum to do filing and answering phones. Unfortunately because they answer the phones, we lost 2 of our biggest contracts because one lady said she was having a bad day and told the customer "deal with it, not our problem". She also sued."

Meme - James L. Nuzzo, PhD @JamesLNuzzo: "The UN has added another day of observance for women--because 15 days just wasn't enough. The below chart from The Nuzzo Letter will now need to be updated to reflect the new total of 16 days for girls/women, while the total for boys/men will remain the same at 0."
"United Nations' Days of Observance for Women and Men
Women's Days. 15
Feb 6 - International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Feb 11 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Mar 8 - International Women's Day
Mar 10 - International Day of Women Judges
Apr 24 - International Girls in ICT Day
May 23 - International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Jun 23 - International Widows' Day
Jun 24 - International Day of Women in Diplomacy
Jul 25 - International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent
Sep 5 - International Day of the World's Indigenous Women and Girls
Sep 18 - International Equal Pay Day
Oct 11 - International Day of the Girl Child
Oct 15 - International Day of Rural Women
Oct 29 - International Day of Care and Support
Nov 25 - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Men's Days. 0"
United Nations @UN: "Tuesday marks the first-ever International Day of Women in Industry, celebrating women’s contributions to industrial development and promoting a more inclusive and equitable future worldwide. Details from @UNIDO :"

J Stewart on X - "🚨This Clip Is SPECTACULAR! 🤯
Ross Kemp Sits Stunned As He Realises In Real Time That Almost Everything He Believed About Incels Was Wrong 😳
He thought they killed lots of girls globally and in the UK. ❌
He thought they were a permanent threat to national security. ❌
He thought there were hundreds of thousands of them. ❌
He thought they were mostly white and right-leaning. ❌
All those preconceptions, fed by media, government briefings and reports, turned out to be false. You can see the moment hit him: he goes quiet, looks confused, processes it live on camera and with no excuses or pushback simply admits he got it wrong. Amazing."

JACBailey on X - "Norah Vincent wanted to prove men are evil and found the complete opposite. Cassie Jaye wanted to prove MRAs were evil and found they weren't. Now Ross Kemp tries to prove Incels are evil and finds out they arent. When will people realise men arent the problem?"

John Duffield on X - "Fair play to Ross Kemp here. A reminder that as British women & girls are facing a wave of random sexual violence from foreign nationals the Labour government funded & promoted the fictional nonsense that is 'Adolescence'."

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 on X - "This will be the best selling drug ever, men love raw sex, their fear of STDs has been solved by instant test kits. Their only worry was pregnancy, with this pill, men will be having sex with no commitment whatsoever Men will now be in control of reproduction and knowing men, they'll wait for as long as they want. Whilst women can't do the same, they have a biological clock And the fact that this will reduce partenity fraud and trapping men with pregnancy. All the rich and famous men will be taking this pill, having countless sex, zero fears of a baby being pinned on them This is actually bad for women!!!"
Mizutamari💧• Puddle Yokai on X - "Fun fact: the arguments used in this tweet are the exact reason male birth control doesn't exist yet for sale. All the original trials showed it was much safer, with less side effects, and higher success rates then even the most invasive female birth control methods. But it was forcibly shut down by women's advocacy groups which lobbied using the claims that it was denying women control over pregnancy which was seen as an exclusively female right."

Meme - Kaguya's Top Gal @hayasaka: "Jesus and his followers are famously known for not being persecuted and crucified"
"Female rage is realizing when Jesus or other men performed magic tricks, they were miracles, but when women did magic tricks, they were burned at the stake."

Evidence Mounts: Sex Dolls Reduce Men’s Sexual Compulsivity - "As adult-looking sex dolls and robots become more popular, more lifelike, and—thanks to artificial intelligence—more animated, a chorus of critics warns of horrible consequences:
Increased sexual violence against women
Objectification of women as passive playthings
Encouragement of sex crimes, especially against children
Destruction of real human relationships
Triggering or aggravating mental health problems in users
In a previous post, I discussed a study by English researchers who found that sex doll critics are mistaken on all counts. Their findings showed no significant mental health differences between sex doll owners and non-owners, and no evidence that, compared with non-owners, doll owners pose any greater sexual threat to women, children, themselves, or society. Now, another report by German researchers has corroborated and extended those findings. The latest study shows that, far from posing dangers to women, children, themselves, or society, sex dolls can serve as safe, benign sexual substitutes for men who might otherwise commit sex crimes...
Doll owners who admitted sexual attraction to children generally said that playing with sex dolls decreased their desire for sex with minors. One said, “My doll completely satisfies my pedophilic urges. I don’t dream about sex with children anymore.”
They also reported significant decreases in the use of pornography and fantasies of illegal sex—incest, public exhibitionism, and sexual violence.
Many doll owners claimed improved their mental health—less anxiety, depression, and sexual disappointment.
Owners said their dolls helped them adjust to desire differences in their relationships. Coupled owners had sex with human partners once a week, but with their dolls, three times a week.
Many said the dolls had improved their partner sex. “I’m more patient with my partner, more caring, more focused on her needs.”
Many owners said their dolls allowed them to act out fantasies their partners would not permit, particularly oral and/or anal sex. “My wife doesn’t like oral or anal sex, so I have it with my doll.”...
when porn viewers, overwhelmingly men, enjoy solo sex while watching porn, they are not out in the world raping women and children. When Eastern Europe was Communist, porn was illegal. Since then, several of those nations have legalized it—and uniformly, sex crimes have decreased. Now, many are demonizing sex dolls and their users. But again, when men play with dolls, they are not abusing real women or children—and this study shows that they lose interest in doing so."
The misinformation and hysterics are all down to the same reason feminists hate porn, prostitution and women hate sluts.
The feminist cope around prostitution reducing sex crime is that the prostitutes are being raped. Too bad they can't claim that about sex dolls

I Lived The Feminist Dream. I Want My Money Back. - "We were sold the lie to go after our careers, make money, and make our mark on the world first, and then go find a partner once we've accomplished A through C. We used to have a backstop against some of this—our biological clock ticking louder around our mid-thirties—but we did an end run around that too, with egg freezing. And the worst part of it is that we, women, did this to ourselves. Not a single man told us to do any of this. In fact, historically, they’ve been pretty petulant about the whole thing, but we pushed right through that sentiment by calling them all “toxic” and threatening them with cancellation if they didn’t comply. We are our own worst enemy, and the architects of our own demise. While we were busy climbing the corporate ladder, raising unheard of amounts of money, and optimizing ourselves in every possible way, the men in our cohort weren’t just waiting around for us to feel "ready" to settle down. They were dating, and as we aged up, still too busy self-actualizing for them, they continued to date twenty-year-olds (women in their fertile prime, because that’s what men are biologically programmed to find attractive). So we freeze our eggs, maybe buying us some additional time. Ten years go by. Surely, the men left in their forties are still single because they're looking for something real, something mature; a woman of substance. Wrong. They're still dating twenty-year-olds, just now with a hair transplant and an eye-rolling age gap. And it’s not really their fault; it’s mostly biology. Men have about the same fertility as they age until well into their sixties. Up until that point, they will be pursuing women in their fertile prime, as their biological directive is telling them to procreate, and with a mate with the highest likelihood of success to carry on the gene pool. Feminism sold us the lie that being a well-rounded, articulate, and successful woman would up the value of our stock; the investment in ourselves was worth it. In reality, it does absolutely nothing to our market value and, actually in some cases, lowers it, as many men prefer to be more successful and smarter than their partners. Women date laterally and up, men date laterally (sometimes), but mostly down. Most men couldn’t care less if you're successful or incredible intelligent, or have any amount of self-knowledge you might have gleaned on your therapy journey. Sure, those things are “nice-to-haves,” but often they don’t even come into their assessments until after you’ve already been dating for a while. They have the ability to make a marginal difference, at best. Men, even when they say they want someone they can ‘talk to on their level,’ are kind of kidding themselves—they look mostly for biological markers of fertility and high estrogen (waist-to-hip ratio, full lips, heart-shaped face), and as far as talking goes… they just want someone to listen. It’s women who want someone to talk to on their level—another gross mis-assessment of feminism. Just to get to the point where other non-physical attributes come into consideration, you have to pass the first gate, which I’ll call the ‘visual fertility assessment.’ ... Now, onto the topic of the ‘sexual revolution.’ "Explore your sexuality" they said, "women can also have satisfying sex lives." A noble quest for sure. This point is the hardest for me to make, because I do believe that a lot of good came out of this. I do think women were, for many years (and often still are), short-changed in the bedroom, mostly because they don’t take the time to learn what they like, or feel confident enough to ask for it, and much of that knowledge comes unfortunately only from experimentation. But, feminism’s call to “f*ck like men” was the wrong message. Its call for sexual freedom wasn’t ill-intentioned so much as ignorant of biology. "Do away with the archaic notions of the religious past, rooted in oppression, that chastity is a virtue. You do you girl, a real man won’t care.” Wrong again. Whether men know it or not, they are pre-disposed to prefer women with fewer partners... Feminism told women to delay marriage and the dating market moved on without us... Now don’t get me wrong, feminism got a lot right: the right to vote, equal pay, the ability to have a job, and not be sexually harassed at that job, bodily autonomy, ability to open a bank account or just exist without a husband. It gave us options. But maybe, just maybe, it got this one thing wrong. I did everything feminism told me to do: I worked my ass off, made a shitload of money, and became one of the youngest female directors in my field. I broke the “glass ceiling.” But now I’m just lying here, covered in broken glass."

Links - 8th June 2026 (3 - George Floyd Unrest)

2026-06-08T21:03:00.000+08:00

Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police - "Philonise Floyd’s earnest call for reform has been drowned out by an elite-driven narrative about race relations that is empirically weak, counterproductive, and not reflective of most black Americans’ attitudes and wishes... black women in the same age bracket are killed by police at roughly 5 percent the rate of black men; surely if police killings were driven solely by racial animus, then black women would be victimized at a much higher rate. Despite the racial disparity in rates, a study of police-involved homicides between 2009 and 2012 shows that whites constituted a majority (52 percent) of victims. What explains “state violence” against whites? All in all, the evidence paints a murky picture, though still a troubling one. Too many people—including whites—die at the hands of law enforcement, but black men and women are much more likely to be killed by civilians and certain diseases than by the police. Polling data suggest that most African-Americans do not share Collins’s bleak view of their experiences. In a 2019 Pew survey, 44 percent of blacks reported being “unfairly stopped by police” because of their race; 54 percent said, “No, has not happened to me.” In a Monmouth poll taken after Floyd’s death, 44 percent of African-Americans reported that they or an immediate family member felt “harassed by police,” but a majority did not share this experience. When asked, “How satisfied are you with the job your local police department does,” 21 percent said “very satisfied,” 51 percent said somewhat satisfied, 12 percent said somewhat dissatisfied, and only 5 percent said that they were “very” dissatisfied. These results do not suggest a complete endorsement of contemporary policing, as many blacks report negative interactions. Yet nearly three-quarters of surveyed African-Americans report themselves satisfied with their local police departments... Polling from New York City in the immediate aftermath of Eric Garner’s death in 2014 is telling. In response to an open-ended question asking them to name the “most important problem facing New York,” only 6 percent of all respondents in a Quinnipiac University survey of New York City voters listed police, and only 1 percent mentioned racism or race relations—far behind the economy, housing, crime, and education as issues of topmost concern. When asked if “being the victim of police brutality is something you personally worry about,” 53 percent of African-Americans said “no” and 46 percent said “yes.” Still, a clear majority of African-Americans (56 percent) described “police brutality” as a “very serious” problem. Another 34 percent called it “somewhat serious.” Among blacks, the approval rate for the New York City Police Department was low: only 35 percent approved while 59 percent disapproved. Yet, when asked about “the way the police in your community are doing their job,” 56 percent of African-Americans approved, and 41 percent disapproved. Though nearly all blacks called the police actions that took Garner’s life inexcusable, they were split on the details of the encounter. The poll asked, “If someone were selling loose cigarettes in a neighborhood, would you want police to ignore that behavior or try to make that person stop, even if it means arresting that person?” Forty-six percent of black respondents said, “Try to stop,” and 46 percent said “ignore.” Another question asked, “If a person tells police they are not going to allow police to arrest them, should police walk away or use whatever amount of force is necessary to arrest the person”? Only 20 percent of black respondents said that police should “walk away.” Fifty-four percent said, “use necessary force.” None of this is new. In a 1970 Vera Institute survey of residents of the predominantly black neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, we hear familiar complaints about police... These grievances notwithstanding, these respondents wanted more police presence, not less, in their community... Though aware of, concerned about, and opposed to “state violence,” African-Americans are far more worried about bread-and-butter issues, like jobs, housing, education, and health care. And public safety is also a bread-and-butter issue. Black people consider violence and some street crimes threats to their pursuit of the good life, as they define it. At times, they have even endorsed draconian measures and aggressive strategies to meet that threat. Instead of relating these comprehensible complexities, “explainers” at Vox and opinion pieces in major newspapers have doubled down on a deeply flawed pop sociology that demands the erasure or marginalization of these black perspectives. We are witnessing the embourgeoisement of racial politics. A reading public not long ago captivated by Hillbilly Elegy is now obsessed with White Fragility. Each day, college-educated millennials race to social media to practice the rituals of wokeness by condemning various cultural artifacts as racist and policing the discourse. Statues are coming down, and the “b” in black is being capitalized. Corporations, private schools, and major philanthropic organizations are declaring that “black lives matter.” Elite institutions have committed themselves to a theory, program, and performance increasingly detached from the aspirations, worldviews, and everyday concerns of millions of blacks. Activists have secured pledges to “defund” or “dismantle” police departments, but black Americans haven’t received concrete, alternative public-safety plans to curb violence. Most African-Americans clearly desire police reform over abolition. They echo Philonise Floyd’s mournful call. Their perspectives deserve consideration. Any “antiracist” movement that disregards how working and middle-class African-Americans define and pursue the good life is not worth its name."

Thread by @RichardHanania on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There's this PC argument on the right claiming inner city communities want tougher policing, it's just those white liberals who want to "defund the police." It ignores the grass-roots political behavior of these communities. Same reason the right also blames rioting on the media Yes I know about the polling, which shouldn’t lead us to override everything we know about activism, protests, and politics in these communities. Polls are narrowest kind of evidence of what people want. I discussed this with @robkhenderson and @ZachG932.
It’s funny how even anti-wokes need a narrative of black innocence and white guilt to make their arguments. Let’s ignore actual election results because they tell a different story. But I’m sure people will find a way to blame whites for Larry Krasner. phillytrib.com/news/local_new… “Support for Krasner spanned Black voting districts in North, South, West and Southwest Philadelphia… Meanwhile, the majority of support for Vega was limited to the primarily white neighborhoods of Northeast Philadelphia and River Wards section.” Let’s not just look at polling data that tells us what we want to hear either. Here’s one showing blacks only have a 40% approval for the police, compared to 59% of Hispanics and 68% of whites.
How about support for tough on crime policies? In 2012, it was found that 57% of whites in NYC supported stop and frisk, 53% of Hispanics, compared to 25% of blacks. About half of blacks say the prison system, policing, and courts have to be "completely rebuilt" so they can be treated fairly. If you think that means getting tougher on crime, you're delusional. 40% of blacks say that criminals spend too much time in prison, compared to 25-26% of other races. Only 17% of blacks say criminals should be locked up for longer, compared to 36% of whites, 34% of Asians, and 28% of Hispanics.
I could go on. Again, Americans of all ideology need a narrative where whites are to blame. Liberals blame "structural racism," while conservatives blame white liberals. Our racial taboos are very strong, and conservatives and liberals have more in common than they think. On Alameda County, which had two black candidates: "Voters who live in higher-crime areas tend to favor advocates of criminal justice reform, while people living in suburbs with lower crime rates tend to support people promising crackdowns on crime." sfchronicle.com/election/artic…
It's hilarious people keep bringing up Eric Adams. Yes, black voters vote on race first and foremost. Wanting gov to be soft on crime is secondary. When the race is black vs. black or white vs. white, every case I've seen has blacks more in favor of the pro-crime candidate In San Francisco, Chesa Boudin was recalled by a "coalition of Asians and wealthy whites." Why was Boudin recalled? "Black voters, who played a key role in keeping progressive DAs in Philadelphia and in Chicago in office, make up only 6% of San Francisco’s population."
Ah I see people have pulled the "low turnout" cope. What evidence would these people accept? I'm sure somewhere deep in the ghetto there's a missing black voter who just happens to agree with you, a tough on crime twitterer, you just have to reach him. Good luck on your journey. If you think you're more in touch with what black voters want than their own elected officials, the way to prove your theory is to run tough on crime candidates and see how they do in black areas. But it's been done, and we have data. But you're in touch with "real" black opinion"

Daniel Friedman on X - "A lot of people don’t realize that Chauvin is like 5’7 and weighs about 160 pounds. Floyd was 6’3 and 340, resisting arrest, refusing to get in the police car and completely out of his mind on drugs. Chauvin was trying to maintain control over a very large, potentially dangerous suspect. Chauvin had no idea how badly Floyd’s decades of hard drug abuse had damaged his heart, or how fragile Floyd was as a result. Floyd’s death was unfortunate, but it was not a crime and people like him occasionally suffering health crises due to the stress of being subdued and arrested over their resistance is a perfectly acceptable and inevitable occurrence when you actually police and enforce law and public order."

FBI fires agents seen kneeling in iconic photo during George Floyd protests five years ago | CNN Politics : r/Full_news - "Disgusting that they’d fire them for being human."
"It falls in line of code of ethics violation. You cannot, under any circumstances, show or give the impression (as any reasonable observer would see), of impartiality. The act of kneeling, while on duty, is an act of impartiality that cannot be displayed. It became a refusal to maintain a safe and secure environment."
"Sooo… the director of the same agency wrote a children’s book depicting the current president as the king. Would you count that as impartial or cuckoo bananas level of partiality? https://a.co/d/evh6sAN"
If you support the left wing agenda, you are just "being human" and anyone who thinks government agents shouldn't show political bias is a disgusting person. Of course, if a government agent does something the left disapproves of, that's "fascism"
Clearly, doing something on your own time before you were hired for a job is exactly the same as doing it while working and representing the government

Philonise Floyd Sheds Tears For His Brother George While On The Stand In Chauvin Trial - "Philonise Floyd described growing up in a poor area of Houston with George and their other siblings. "He used to make the best banana mayonnaise sandwiches. And he used to make the best syrup sandwiches because George couldn't cook, he couldn't boil water," he said."

Why big business loves Black Lives Matter - "One reason Black Lives Matter is so difficult to talk about, and it elicits such a vast range of reactions, is that no one can pin down exactly what it is. No decent human being could disagree with the assertion that the lives of black people matter – and if they don’t currently, then they should. But to agree with the claims made by protesters, activists and campaigners marching under the banner of ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a different question entirely... Confusingly, there are a number of organisations claiming to represent ‘Black Lives Matter’ in some capacity. Khan-Cullors is involved with two: the non-profit BLM Global Network Foundation and the for-profit BLM Global Network. (To make matters even more complicated, another big recipient of donations intended for BLM is the Black Lives Matter Foundation, which has no relation to either of these entities and promotes a diametrically opposed line on the police.)... There are many layers to this relationship. There is the immediate branding boost companies can gain from associating with BLM. According to an Edelman survey of 35 countries, 64 per cent of customers say they would reward firms for taking a stand on social issues. Brands like to win over consumers young so they can stay loyal for life – and many young people are uncritically supportive of BLM. Woke politics has also been useful for firms hiding all kinds of unsavoury practices. Many firms will proclaim allegiance to BLM one day, while lobbying against curbs on forced labour the next, for instance. Indeed, whether you take the Marxist view, that all firms in a capitalist system exploit labour anyway, or the Adam Smith view, that sellers in a marketplace act out of self-interest rather than kindness, it is surely hard to take any company’s proclamations of righteousness too seriously. But there is more to all this than cynicism and wokewashing. Many of the ideas about race being pushed by BLM – particularly the ubiquity of structural racism – are now part and parcel of corporate culture and the white-collar workplace. Race experts are invited to give workshops and training on diversity and inclusion. Employees are tested for their unconscious bias. An entire race industry worth billions has mushroomed. The most famous and sought-after race entrepreneurs, like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X Kendi, can earn vast sums of money in the corporate sector – sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per hour. Those BLM protesters setting fire to police stations were not radical revolutionaries — they were more like the militant wing of the human-resources department. Why has this happened? Clearly, these kinds of workshops are wasting precious work hours and don’t actually produce anything that can be sold. Perhaps what is most useful to the capitalists in these ‘anti-racist’ campaigns is their relentless attempts to re-racialise society. The Coca-Colas and the Nikes of the world are very keen on highlighting the racial differences between working people at every opportunity. According to leaked emails, insiders at Amazon-owned Whole Foods consider the ‘racial diversity’ of its workers in each branch an important metric in determining how likely they are to form unions. Campaigns for ‘racial awareness’ seem almost perfectly designed to foreground apparent differences between their employees, to pit the ‘privileged’ against the ‘oppressed’ among the workforce, to downplay their common interests as workers. The potential for racism in the workplace – whether overt or in the form of microaggressions – has also given management much more authority to monitor workers’ interpersonal relationships, and even their private lives and political activities (particularly on social media). Race has always been relied on by elites to divide and manage people. But where they once drew on racist tropes, now they draw on ‘anti-racism’. That one of the co-founders of BLM is earning a fortune and amassing a property empire is not a bug but a feature of elite-driven racial politics. Black Lives Matter is the best thing to happen to capitalism in years."
From 2021. The Uighurs definitely support BLM taking the heat off the companies benefiting from their forced labour

Why is Twitter suppressing criticism of Black Lives Matter? - "Jason Whitlock shared a link to the story that Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of BLM’s co-founders, had purchased a $1.4million compound in Topanga, LA. This is reportedly only the latest in a string of high-end buys by Khan-Cullors. Whitlock, a black journalist, tweeted that black people make up just 1.4 per cent of the town’s population, adding mockingly that ‘She’s with her people!’. Twitter then deleted the tweet and locked his account on the spurious charge that he had broken privacy rules. A screenshot shared by another journalist shows that Twitter told Whitlock, ‘you may not publish or post other people’s private information without their express authorisation or permission’. In other words, you are not allowed to do journalism. Whitlock told the Daily Mail that ‘BLM is one of Big Tech’s sacred cows’. He said, ‘I’ve been harping on the fraudulence and the financial grift of BLM for years’... This case is highly reminiscent of Silicon Valley’s suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal."
From 2021

13+ Studies Indicating No Police Racial Bias + Counterpoint Studies

Meme - On Charlie Kirk: ebbi @itsNOTebbi: "Reminder- George Floyd was also a father and not a single one of you gave a rats ass about his children."
Tony Moon @RoofKorean7: "Neither did he, so what's your point?"

Meme - Andrew Branca Show @TheBrancaShow: "The legitimacy of the "knee on back" technique used by Chauvin upon Floyd was known at the time of the trial--the police academy training manual with the photos of the "knee on back" technique was in evidence. But the entire trial--and I watched every minute of it--was an exercise in racist anti-white hysteria, with a single defense attorney fighting night- and-day against arguments and motions being made and filed continuously by more than a dozen prosecuting attorneys, many of them who volunteered and flew in from out of state for the sole purpose of participating in this lynching of Derek Chauvin."
"Ok they are in handcuffs now what.
.Sudden cardiac arrest typically occurs immediately following a violent struggle
Place the subject in the recovery position to alleviate positional asphyxia
Once in handcuffs, get EMS on scene quickly to monitor and transport
Sign a transport hold on these individuals
Complete a CIC report"
Fischerking @Fischerking64: "So the restraining technique Chauvin used was a taught practice in the police department - more than 50 officers say so. want to know why this wasn't part of the trial, why it wasn't reported by the media. Did no one try to find this out? Were they intimidated to silence?"

Daniel Friedman on X - "During the George Floyd “race reckoning,” US cities implemented “police reforms” that scaled back traffic enforcement, which progressives believed had a racially disproportionate impact and caused dangerous encounters between black people and cops. This killed 20,000 Americans."

Thread by @KatieDaviscourt on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Breaking: I am in Seattle covering the first major trial against the city related to the 2020 Antifa-BLM CHAZ/CHOP. The City of Seattle is accused of negligence in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Antonio Mays Jr., a 16-year-old black teen who was shot dead inside the Antifa autonomous zone. Seattle Police had abandoned the East Precinct to rioters, and then officers were prohibited from entering the zone— resulting in numerous cold-blooded killings during the 24 days of sustained violent anarchy. The lawsuit claims that the city’s failure to provide adequate protection and response to violence in the CHAZ zone contributed to the death of Antonio Mays Jr. Would the teen still be alive if SPD didn’t forfeit the precinct? Was CHAZ really a “Summer of love?”... Antonio Mays Jr. was shot dead on June 29 around 3 am while driving a vehicle inside the CHAZ with his 14-year-old friend, who was shot in the head but survived. Witnesses reported that armed protesters guarding the barricades (CHAZ security) opened fire on the vehicle. Video footage taken directly after the shooting shows militant protesters rushing to pick up spent shell casings, tampering with the evidence: “Hell yeah, no evidence!”
Seattle police did not respond to the scene until hours later due to safety reasons. A large mob of protesters had violently confronted officers when they were responding to a separate CHAZ killing a few days prior, according to video evidence. No ambulances arrived on scene. As a result, protesters shoved the two critically wounded teen victims into separate vehicles and drove them to medical care. CHAZ warlord Raz Simone, who was self-designated head of security and got caught on video distributing firearms to minors inside the zone, transported the surviving teen victim to a nearby hospital. Other protesters, transporting Antonio Mays Jr., attempted to chase down an ambulance, but it drove away. City medics met with the protesters in a parking lot roughly 25 minutes later. Antonio had already died by that time.
The lawsuit claims that Antonio’s death was the result of Seattle enabling “state-created danger.” Additionally, the complaint mentions former Democrat Mayor Jenny Durkan referring to the violent deadly uprising as a “Summer of love.” The complaint states that Antonio Mays Jr. "was shot and left to die without the assistance he was entitled to by the government." It further claims that he "was alive and conscious after being shot inside the City-created Capitol Hill Occupied Protest area." It also states that the teen "was shot and bled out while trying to escape, while being barricaded at the ‘CHOP’ or ‘CHAZ’ area in the city of Seattle, which the city abandoned without a working plan to provide essential services, creating a danger." The City of Seattle’s defense strategy includes allegations that Antonio Mays Jr. was driving a stolen vehicle, claiming he was committing a felony at the time he was killed. However, the other side has countered that argument claiming that vehicles were being passed around for “security” to patrol. Seattle Police has not yet arrested a suspect in this case. Witnesses told police that the shooting was allegedly committed by CHAZ security, which consisted of armed protesters that included members of the John Brown Gun Club, the Antifa terror group’s militant security arm...
The jury pool appears to be an ideological mixed bag; however, the majority stated during questioning that they supported the 2020 anti-police BLM protests. Some of them said they participated in the CHAZ/CHOP protests, and made it clear that they dislike Seattle PD. Some of them stated that they have strong feelings about this case, as it involves the death of a minor. When asked about the defense's strategy in claiming the victim was committing a felony and shouldn't have been prone to medical care, many of the jurors expressed distaste. A few jurors said that they thought the CHAZ protests were criminal and thought Seattle PD abandoning the precinct to rioters was unfortunate. These jurors said that they do not like going to Seattle because they feel unsafe in the city."
Andy Ngo on X - "A civil trial is starting in Seattle where the family of a black teen killed in the 2020 BLM-Antifa CHAZ is suing the city for allowing the violent anarchy. The victim and another black teen were fired upon when they were in a car by CHAZ’s “border security” who believed they were Proud Boy “white supremacists.” CHAZ security had their comrades pick up the spent rounds after the shooting and no one was ever apprehended."
Left wingers are outraged that Kyle Rittenhouse had a gun, but in CHAZ/CHOP, anything went

Oklahoma Black Lives Matter leader indicted for fraud, money laundering - "A federal grand jury indicted the leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Oklahoma City over allegations that millions of dollars in grant funds were improperly spent on international trips, groceries and personal real estate, prosecutors announced Thursday. Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, was indicted earlier this month on 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering, court records show."

Policing the Police: The Impact of "Pattern-or-Practice" Investigations on Crime - "This paper provides the first empirical examination of the impact of federal and state "Pattern-or-Practice" investigations on crime and policing. For investigations that were not preceded by "viral" incidents of deadly force, investigations, on average, led to a statistically significant reduction in homicides and total crime. In stark contrast, all investigations that were preceded by "viral" incidents of deadly force have led to a large and statistically significant increase in homicides and total crime. We estimate that these investigations caused almost 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess felonies. The leading hypothesis for why these investigations increase homicides and total crime is an abrupt change in the quantity of policing activity. In Chicago, the number of police-civilian interactions decreased by almost 90% in the month after the investigation was announced. In Riverside CA, interactions decreased 54%. In St. Louis, self-initiated police activities declined by 46%. Other theories we test such as changes in community trust or the aggressiveness of consent decrees associated with investigations -- all contradict the data in important ways."
Aka the Ferguson Effect

James L. Nuzzo, PhD on X - "George Floyd's name appeared in the titles or abstracts of 243 biomedical papers indexed in PubMed between 2020 and 2024."

There Is No Greater Political Blunder Than Progressives Calling For Body Cams : r/TrueUnpopularOpinion - "I am convinced that the progressive push for body cams is the greatest political miscalculation of all time. When progressives and reform advocates pushed for body cameras, the underlying assumption was that constant video monitoring would expose systemic abuse, racial profiling, and unlawful uses of force by police. The expectation was that transparency would confirm their narrative and erode public trust in police departments. But in the most spectacular backfire in history, in practice, the body cam programs produced the opposite effect. Footage frequently vindicated officers by showing that suspects resisted, attacked, or escalated confrontations with weapons. Studies found that in a majority of controversial incidents, video either supported the officer’s account or at least complicated simplistic narratives that officers were the aggressors. And juries and the public, when shown footage, often sided with officers once they saw the context missing from short clips or secondhand testimony. Ultimately, progressives armed their opposition with undeniable evidence (videos) that undermined their own case. They institutionalized transparency in a way that ended up strengthening, not weakening, law enforcement’s legitimacy. And, what was meant to be a reform weapon turned into a shield for the very institutions they wanted to weaken."
Of course, the cope is that they turn it off when they want (the best data I found was 92% of use of force incidents being captured by 2H 2015, and it was on an upward trend) and review footage when writing reports so they can't be caught lying (as if what's in a report changes what happened in the past)

Drew Hernandez on X - "A black man attempted to shoot this single mother in her home with her kids in the apartment She called the police and the shooter got shot and killed by police BLM then shows up to support the shooter and call the victim a liar and a b*tch"
Minneapolis police shoot, kill man after 6-hour standoff in apartment building

Zonie🌵🌴 on X - "I'm tired of people saying Police Officers need more training. You had 18 years to train your child not to steal, shoot, stab, burn down buildings, laser people's eyes, flip cars, block traffic and attack people. Police didn't fail you, you failed your child!"

Thread by @DanFriedman81 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "During the George Floyd “race reckoning,” US cities implemented “police reforms” that scaled back traffic enforcement, which progressives believed had a racially disproportionate impact and caused dangerous encounters between black people and cops. This killed 20,000 Americans. The open border policy of Joe Biden, which let in millions of unvetted migrants from Central America, also contributed to skyrocketing traffic deaths over the last five years. These people are on our roads driving on fake licenses, and without auto insurance. Democrat-governed cities have sanctuary politics that bar police from checking the immigration status of drivers involved in accidents, even fatal ones. The increase in traffic fatalities over the last five years is especially shocking because new cars have revolutionary new safety features that prevent accidents and make accidents less likely to cause fatalities. But policy is killing people faster than tech is saving them. Of course, progressive policies always disproportionately harm the people they’re trying to protect, and “reforms” to traffic enforcement that were supposed to protect black people from dangerous encounters with cops caused a lot of black people to die in traffic accidents. The number of white traffic deaths increased 4% in 2020. The number of black traffic deaths increased 23%. abcnews.go.com/Politics/traff…"

San Francisco General Hospital fatal stabbing: Community mourns social worker Alberto Rangel as tragedy reignites safety concerns - "The community gathered to mourn outside Zuckerberg General Hospital Sunday evening, with candles in hand for 51-year-old Alberto Rangel, the UCSF social worker who died after being attacked by a patient earlier this week... "Members have been raising safety concerns for a long time. Workers have been complaining about safety for years. This is something that should never have happened," Suarez said. The suspect is now in sheriff's custody. The attack happened in the HIV ward of the hospital, a ward that does not have a metal detector. Hospital staff had already raised safety concerns about a patient and requested deputy protection after a doctor in Ward 86 received threats. according to the union. The deputy was in a nearby room when he heard a disturbance and saw the patient in the hallway stabbing Rangel with a kitchen knife."
Luckily there were no police in the room at the time. If the patient had been killed, that would've been an unspeakable, horrible tragedy and further proof that the police need to be "defunded"

Remembering a CIA Coup in Iran That Never Was

2026-06-08T18:02:00.000+08:00

Remembering a CIA Coup in Iran That Never Was
"When anti-regime protests spread like wildfire throughout Iran in mid-October of 2022, the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was quick to lay the blame on the usual foreign suspects. “I say explicitly that these riots and this insecurity were a design by the U.S. and the occupying, fake Zionist regime and those who are paid by them,” he told a class of cadets at a police college in Tehran. He suggested that the ultimate goal of the U.S. and Israel was regime change in Iran.
This elicited a response on Twitter from Iranian rapper Hichkas, who defended foreign support for the uprising, saying that it represented solidarity, not collaboration. He ended his riposte with a taunt that was retweeted or liked more than 50,000 times:
“And you can shove that Mossadegh tale you’ve lived off of for a lifetime.”
The rebellious young hip-hop star was connecting dots that Khamenei had only implied: that in 2022, the United States and its allies were once again seeking to overthrow an Iranian leader, just as in the summer of 1953 the United States had cooperated with players inside and outside Iran to help end the political career of the doomed nationalist prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
For anyone who needs a reminder of the significance of that episode, whose 70th anniversary falls this year, let Columbia University’s professor Hamid Dabashi provide one, from his book Iran: A People Interrupted:
As Iranians never get tired of repeating (for this is the defining trauma of their modern history), the CIA, aided by British intelligence, mounted, paid for, and executed a military coup, overthrew the democratically elected government of Mosaddeq, and brought the corrupt Mohammed Reza Shah back to power.
This Ivy League encapsulation of the events of August 1953 in Iran contains at least four remarkable untruths, though “As Iranians never get tired of repeating” is not one of them.
First, the CIA did not mount or execute a coup. Second, Mossadegh was not democratically elected. Third, the shah was not yet corrupt. Fourth, he was not brought back to power, because he had never left it: Assassinations were a fact of life in 1950s Tehran, and having survived an attempt on his life in 1949, Mohammed Reza chose to wait out Mossadegh’s fall in Baghdad and Rome but never abdicated.
What actually happened in the land which once harvested prime ministers more promiscuously than Henry VIII harvested queens was this: After Shah Mohammed Reza’s Prime Ministers Mohammed-Ali Foroughi, Ali Soheili, Ahmad Qavam, Mohammed-Reza Hekmat, Ebrahim Hakimi, Abdolhossein Hazhir, Mohammed Saed, and Ali Mansur, came Ali Razmara, who was assassinated in March 1951. Following the brief caretaker premiership of Hossein Ala, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi wanted Seyyed Zia Tabataba’i, but in deference to the aged Qajar aristocrat Mohammed Mossadegh, had him offered the job, feeling confident he would decline. To everyone’s surprise, Mossadegh accepted, and the Majlis concluded a brief poll to endorse him. Then the shah gave Mossadegh the job. Again, the sequence of events is significant: The shah chose a prime minister, the parliament consented, and the shah appointed him.
Between 1953 and 1979, the shah would appoint and dismiss 10 more prime ministers, including Mossadegh twice. Not even the most overheated Iran historian, in Islamic Iran or American academia, describes these changes as coups. The difference is that when Mossadegh’s second government went down in flames in August 1953, there were some American would-be arsonists in the wings who may or may not have shared responsibility, but who insisted on claiming the lion’s share of the credit, however implausibly or unwisely.
Constitutionally, appointing prime ministers in imperial Iran was the sole prerogative of the shah. As Gholam Reza Afkhami wrote, “The Constitution … gave the Crown and only the Crown the power to appoint or dismiss the ministers (Article 46, Supplementary basic Law) …” In George Lenczowski’s Iran Under the Pahlavis we read that “The Shah’s authority embraced the right to appoint and dismiss the prime minister and ministers.” However, according to Afkhami, “over the postwar years it had become the accepted practice for the shah to ask the Majlis to express its preference before he appointed a prime minister.”
Article 46 of the Supplemental Constitutional Law of the Iranian constitution in force at the time was blunt: “The Ministers are appointed and dismissed by the decree of the King.“ The poll noted above to align king and legislature behind a prime minister was “a tentative consent of the majority of the Majlis which was ascertained in the form of a vote of investiture known in Iran as raye tamayel (“vote of inclination”), prior to the issuance of Royal farman appointing the prime minster,” as Iranian American scholar Sepehr Zabih put it in The Mossadegh Era. Mossadegh scholars Darioush Bayandor and Christopher de Bellaigue call it a straw vote or straw poll.
The Iranian parliament’s role in the choice of a prime minister was similar to, but weaker than, the U.S. Senate’s role in confirming presidential appointments, such as, among others, Supreme Court justices, some cabinet posts, and ambassadors. Yet despite this even stronger legislative role, no one refers to “the democratically elected Justice Samuel Alito,” the “democratically elected Secretary of State Antony Blinken,” or “the democratically elected Ambassador Pamela Harriman.”
This fetishistic formulation, applied to Mossadegh is even odder, for reasons that are worth examining. First, though, it’s worth retracing Mossadegh’s steps on his way out of power.
The story of Mossadegh’s departure from power is notorious among Middle East scholars, on par with the JFK assassination or abdication of Edward VIII. Hence retelling it is a little laborious, with sensationalism vying in a death match with numbing familiarity.
Once in power, Mossadegh quickly achieved national hero status by getting a bill through the Majles nationalizing the Iranian oil industry. However, negotiations with the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, AIOC, went in circles over details such as management and future compensation to the British. As the U.S. worked with the British toward a solution, the Brits were annoyed by the Washington upstart’s idealism towards Mossadegh, while Washington was peeved by London’s anachronistic, patronizing greed.
The U.S finally dispatched Averell Harriman to work with Mossadegh toward a resolution. The canny old man’s posturing and slippery illogic inclined the Americans to sense that he plainly did not want an agreement. As the Iranian prime minister himself conceded, he was wary of “my fanatics” in the Iranian polity who would kill him for making concessions. Harriman went home empty-handed, and Eisenhower soon replaced Truman.
The British, having been talked out of military action by the Yanks, pulled AIOC staff out of Iran. The British pullout and boycott, combined with the lack of domestic Iranian expertise to produce or market oil, proved catastrophic for the economy, as increased production in Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia made the renamed National Iranian Oil Company, NIOC, irrelevant. Mossadegh and his advisers were blind to these realities amid the nirvana of unanimous domestic support for their anti-imperialist bluster. Worse, his decision to end the oil talks were a signal event for Washington, who now joined London in seeing the prime minister as unstable and untrustworthy.
As the political and economic tides turned against him, Mossadegh sparred with the shah over who had the right to appoint the minister of war. This demand was a red line for the shah, who prized the military as his key constituency. The prime minister resigned in protest, but his brinkmanship got him what he wanted, his job back along with power over the War Ministry. He was quick to rename it the Ministry of Defense and appoint himself to head it, cut its budget by 15%, purge the services of 136 officers, install men loyal to himself, including his nephew General Vossuq (whom he named assistant minister), and obtain six months’ emergency powers, including the power to legislate. He then dismissed the Supreme Court, and, lacking support in the Majles, sought to dissolve it, too—a power that the constitution reserved to the shah.
This was the beginning of the end for the prime minister who spoke eloquently of democracy but, when given opportunities to exercise it, always showed a dictatorial bent. Claiming to seek legitimacy not from the legislature but from “the people,” Mossadegh set up a national referendum on dissolving the Majles, with no secret ballot: Yes and no votes were cast in different locations. Mossadegh’s stacked referendum gave him a landslide victory, which cost him the support of the Shia clergy, the National Front coalition, and even family members. Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, his niece, wrote in her memoir, Daughter of Persia, of how “wretched” she felt over this betrayal. Majles Speaker Ayatollah Kashani denounced him, and his former National Front allies called him a “worse dictator than Reza Shah.”
Having lost nearly all political support except the communist Tudeh party, and with even his pro-oil nationalization supporters split, Mossadegh found himself with a reduced base composed of radical supporters and an increasingly united front opposing him: the clergy, the military, and the bazaar, with the U.S. and Britain now both solidly behind the monarch. Most importantly, the absence of a functioning Majles offered the shah an opening to remove his unpopular prime minister.
Previously, the shah had rejected repeated advice, domestic and foreign, to fire Mossadegh, though it was within his constitutional powers. There had already been 14 recess appointments or dismissals of prime minister, which Mossadegh knew well, but he boasted that the shah would not “have the guts” to dismiss him. His bluff backfired. Absent a parliament, Mossadegh could now be removed from power. All it took was royal will.
Despite the cresting of the feud between Mossadegh and the now less-deferential young shah, the latter hesitated to oust his prime minister. The British succeeded in persuading Eisenhower to connive against Mossadegh...
Long since declassified, TPBEDAMN was an anti-communist covert influence program in Iran. KGSAVOY was the shah, and TPAJAX was the plan for the rather tame machination—far removed from a British military invasion—to remove Mohammed Mossadegh from power legally and constitutionally, by persuading the shah to use his prerogative to replace him.
Enter RNMAKER, true name Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt, Teddy’s grandson and no stranger to the sandbox. In his book Arabs, Oil, and History (1949), he devoted a chapter to Iran, which in his telling is one of the “fringe lands,” as a Muslim but non-Arab country in the suburbs of the Middle East (there are Iranians who would punch him in the nose for this alone)...
In a subsequent book, Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran, published in 1979, Roosevelt detailed the course of his plotting. Like Stephen Kinzer’s 2003 book All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, which relies heavily on Roosevelt, it is overly padded and suffers from what H.R. McMaster would call strategic narcissism—the tendency to put the United States at the center of everything, deserving of both glory and blame, whether rightly or wrongly...
A good example of this world view occurred in the movie Shakespeare in Love, where we see the cast of Romeo and Juliet taking a break in a tavern. When the portly actor who plays the nurse is asked by a fellow drinker, “So what’s the play about, then?” he starts to explain, “Well, you see, there’s this nurse … “...
One of the best accounts of the movement to oust Mossadegh is in Ervand Abrahamian’s Iran Between Two Revolutions, and in a dozen dense pages he scarcely mentions the CIA. Having inherited the (still closed) British Embassy’s human intelligence network, the CIA station in Tehran, in the person of Roosevelt, held secret meetings and moved some money around. Yet the already-existing network, meeting in the capital’s Officers Club, lacked neither motivation nor money. Abrahamian notes that Roosevelt’s support did help Major General Fazlollah Zahedi—the declared candidate to replace Mossadegh—win over key allies such as Imperial Guards Commander Nassiri, Air Force Chief Gilanshah, gendarmerie Chief Colonel Ardubadi, secret police Chief Mu’tazed, and the senior tank commanders of the Tehran army garrison.
The TPAJAX plan unfolded on the night of Aug. 15. Colonel Nassiri arrived at Mossadegh’s house with the royal edict, or farman, signed by the shah. This one dismissed Mossadegh as prime minister, another appointed Zahedi to replace him. Despite the weird circumstances—it was nearly midnight, and Nassiri was accompanied by two truckloads of soldiers—this was a legal and constitutional action. But because it was the worst-kept secret in Iran, Mossadegh had been tipped off... Mossadegh signed a receipt for the edict but refused to comply, and his men placed Nassiri under arrest.
The plan had failed, and the Americans had no plan B... the underlying fact was that Zahedi was the legitimate prime minister of Iran.
That was Roosevelt’s focus for the next couple of days. He arranged for photostats of the two farmans to be circulated to local newspapers, who published them. Skeptics of the Roosevelt legend point out that the only papers the CIA could suborn were low-circulation organs in south Tehran and thus of limited citywide influence...
A tearful Mossadegh heard the public radio broadcast of Zahedi’s victory speech saying that Mossadegh’s “coup” had failed. He learned, but refused to believe, that his relative, the police chief Col. Daftary, had turned against him. When his house was overrun, he fled and turned himself in to Zahedi’s government the next day. He was treated respectfully.
Before flying home, the shah sent telegrams to Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi and Ayatollah Behbehani. The more senior ayatollah responded with elaborately polite hopes that the shah could now put an end to the country’s ills and bring glory to Islam. He closed, “Do return as Shiism and Islam need you. You are the Shiite sovereign.”
More than one Iranian historian has derided Roosevelt’s memoir as “prophecy made after the fact,” and Afkhami complained that “[t]his false history, fostered by pro-Mosaddeq Iranians and liberal and leftist westerners, has diminished Mosaddeq, demonized the shah, and turned Iranians into traitors or wimps.”
The highly detailed, if also highly redacted, U.S. government histories of the so-called coup make the same point. While rich on details of secret travels and meetings, money changing hands, successive British and American drafts of the TPAJAX plans, and intragovernmental communications, all of them—the National Security Archives’ “Secret History of the Iran Coup, 1953” of 2000, “Zendebad, Shah!” by the CIA history staff, partially declassified in 2017, and “Planning and Implementation of Operation TPAJAX, March-August 1953,” an archive of documents published by the Office of the Historian of the State Department, all concur that it is impossible to establish who, if anyone, was directing the protests and mob actions on the fateful and chaotic day.
In retrospect, Roosevelt did himself no favors in Countercoup. He places himself at the center of the action, including instances that stretch the imagination. He gives us a shah who spends long evenings listening to him and gushing with praise, as well as a remarkable instance of him lying to the monarch: In a final meeting before the ruler left Tehran and Nassiri would start enforcing the two royal edicts, Roosevelt lacked a message from Eisenhower, so he made one up. “Since [Eisenhower] had failed to send one, I put into words what he must surely be feeling,” he wrote. His fabricated message from the president to the king was, “If the Pahlavis and the Roosevelts working together cannot solve this little problem, then there is no hope anywhere!” That he chose to publish it just as the shah was overthrown provided the nascent Islamic Republic and its partisans with yet more reasons to hate America. Eisenhower, who had died a decade prior, would have been furious.
It is unsettling that the cult of democratic Mossadegh exists, even in the United States. When I asked a friend of mine who served as the CIA’s chief of Iran analysis—albeit more in the Qassem Soleimani than the Mohammed Mossadegh era—to explain this bizarre interpretive slant, he blamed “bias” and “an overinflated view of U.S. power and influence,” which he called “bullshit.” He added, “Whatever the wisdom of U.S. and UK involvement in his ouster—which was likely near at hand even absent foreign involvement—his removal from power sparked mostly public indifference and some celebration. His contemporaries, including many former supporters, were glad to see him go. Mossadegh’s fictional status as a victimized, heroic advocate of democracy was only later cynically conferred by those who sought and supported the decidedly undemocratic dictatorship that rules Iran today.”
Reuel Gerecht, another former CIA observer, but from the operational side, put it this way: “Look, the focus on ’53 among Iranians is primarily a reflection of, one, left-wing, tier-mondiste critique of American power after the Vietnam War went south—starting in the West before it started in Iran—and two, the growing dissatisfaction among Iranian leftists, most tellingly the Islamic left, with the course of the revolution. Imagining Mossadegh triumphing allowed them to see a democratic Iran where the Shah and Khomeini, Khamenei, Rafsanjani, et al, get deleted.”
Back home, there is a thread that runs through the Mossadegh literature, from Roosevelt’s and Kinzer’s wildly tendentious accounts, down to Shahzad Aziz’s In the Land of the Ayatollahs Tupac Shakur Is King, and even the Cambridge History of Iran. The thread combines hindsight versus historical context to connect American villainy, lack of Iranian agency, and an alarmist view of the future, always panicking about the folly of Washington’s next terrible moves but never Tehran’s. And then there is the purely magical phenomenon of those who loathe the CIA and its operatives yet who naively take Kim Roosevelt’s self-centered memoirs at face value. American spies overthrow democratically elected governments, but they never tell a lie.
The enduring myth is that the CIA dispatched its serpent, Kim Roosevelt, into a democratic Iranian Garden of Eden, and everything bad that happened over the next half-century can be attributed to this original sin. (The “original sin” metaphor is everywhere—The New York Times even worked it into Ardeshir Zahedi’s obituary). On this, the tier-mondistes, American progressives, and Qajar memoirists all agree. A quick sampling:
Not only did Kinzer blame Mossadegh’s fall for the Islamic Revolution, he wrote that “From the seething streets of Tehran and the other Islamic capitals to the scenes of terror attacks around the world, Operation Ajax has left a haunting and terrible legacy.” His book is a warning against the U.S. projecting power—fair enough—but not satisfied with blaming the September 11 attacks on the Mossadegh action, his reissued 2018 edition contains a new and unhinged preface titled “The Folly of Attacking Iran.” In it, he slays vast legions of straw men, such as “the idea of attacking Iran and seeking to decapitate its regime,” which, he judiciously informs us, is “dangerous.”...
In a similar but also unhinged and infinitely more turgid work, Going to Tehran, the team of Flynt and Hillary Leverett castigate Washington for overthrowing the democratically elected prime minister. The entire book makes the case for the U.S. to fold to the ayatollahs and for the U.S. president actually to go to Tehran, something the Tehran regime would never dream of allowing. Leverett is a former CIA analyst who has been wandering toward Code Pink territory for years now.
Obama repeats the “democratically elected” canard more than once in his memoir A Promised Land, unsurprisingly from the leader who would use the feckless John Kerry to negotiate the weak JCPOA and seek a legacy of accommodation with the regime. Those who recall Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in Cairo will remember that he not only mentioned Mossadegh but used Kinzerian wording.
Also unsurprisingly, Princeton University’s unsavory Hossein Mousavian, who served as Iran’s ambassador to Berlin during the Mykonos Café massacre of dissidents, wrote in his Iran and the United States (in which he denies that Tehran ordered the Mykonos killings or the Khobar Towers bombing), “the 1953 coup that toppled Iran’s first democratically elected government.” His whole book pleads the wounded innocence of the Islamic Republic.
Dabashi, unsurprisingly, lines up with Mousavaian on Mossadegh, with the difference that he opposes the Islamic regime, though he shares the mullahs’ hatred for Israel. He outdoes Kinzer in alarmism, lobbing brickbats not only at “warmongers” but at “native informers, imperial strategists”—Azar Nafisi and Ken Pollack—Bernard Lewis, and “self-loathing Oriental” Fouad Ajami. (He also thinks Salman Rushdie is Pakistani.)
Even innocuous books by writers with no apparent agenda repeat the error. Akbar Ganji, Mark Bowden, and Scott Peterson have all done it. I have a gripe with the monumental Cambridge History of Iran, whose chapter “The Pahlavi Autocracy” by Gavin R.G. Hambly tells us that “Iranians have never had the slightest doubt that the C.I.A. … organized the conspirators and paid the pro-Shah mobs … By 1982 this tenacious rumor had been fully confirmed and is now incontrovertible.” Hambly footnotes Roosevelt’s book, seeming to take its contents at face value.
For neutrality, readers must turn to the relatively obscure work of Diarioush Bayandor—fittingly, a resident of Switzerland—who possesses the most impartial moral sense among all Mossadegh historians. In his fastidiously sourced Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mossadegh Revisited (2010), he delivers the verdict, that while “It is fair to conclude that even if the Shah’s dismissal order was not stricto sensu unconstitutional … it was a feature of a foreign scheme to bring about a change of government” and thus was of questionable legitimacy.
However harsh that is—and it is distinctly harsh, considering that at no time did the shah ever breach the laws of his country, while Mossadegh did promiscuously, and unapologetically—facts remain: Mossadegh was not democratically elected. He was not a democrat. He was not overthrown by the CIA, but by domestic forces he had repeatedly manipulated or misunderstood, and who welcomed a foreign hand of unmeasurable and uneven utility...
Sentimentality toward Mossadegh is understandable. His nationalization project boosted the morale of a proud and often-humiliated country. He did seek a system with a weaker king, although more to gain power for himself than to pass it on to the people. He undoubtedly won hearts and minds with small acts of integrity like making his aristocratic mother pay her back taxes. Even more endearing is the incident when his daughter reported to him an altercation with a policeman who didn’t buy her “Do you know who I am?” defense. She demanded her father act, and he did—rewarding the cop with a promotion for his honesty. But character is fate. The prime minister had a deep strain of decency, but was an inept visionary who overplayed his hand."

Links - 8th June 2026 (2 - Pro-Crime Policies [including Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska])

2026-06-08T15:36:00.000+08:00

Man accused of killing Ukrainian refugee is unfit to face trial
Time to let him out onto the streets so he can kill more people
Meme - "Jeffrey Dahmer: Murdered 17 victims, Committed acts of dismemberment and cannibalism. competent to stand trial
Decarlos Brown Jr.: 14 arrests over roughly 18 years, violent offenses. competent for all those charges. Murders Iryna and he isn't competent all of sudden"
Horror video of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska's slaughter on Charlotte train is met with deafening silence - "Liberal media and politicians have been accused of staying silent on the savage murder of a young Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train — after a career criminal with no less than 14 arrests was charged with her murder. Iryna Zarutska, 23, was stabbed to death on a light rail train in Charlotte, with horrifying surveillance footage showing the moment the unsuspecting young woman was brutally attacked. Decarlos Brown Jr., 35, is allegedly shown pulling out a pocket knife and getting out of his seat behind Zarutska before the video cuts just as he prepares to plunge the blade into her, footage shared by police shows... Charlotte’s Dem mayor even thanked publications that chose to keep the video from the public... Brown, who is homeless, has more than a dozen convictions dating back to 2014, court records seen by The Post show. He served five years for a 2014 armed robbery and was released in September 2020, before being arrested just five months later for assaulting his sister at her home in Charlotte. Despite his lengthy rap sheet, Brown was free on the streets when he allegedly carried out the murder."
All those who stand with Ukraine and are against femicide don't care
The solution is to force even more people to use public transport
Time to let him out again
Meme - Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs: "Never thought I'd see the day where leftists targeted murals of a female Ukrainian immigrant."
"Please vandalize this"
They just hate her because she was white
Meme - ""Same 'Creative Capital. Private Property. Totally Different Rules." *No sign over Iryna's face*
PROVIDENCE Murals painted on boarded- up businesses in Providence *George Floyd*"
Artist fumes after tribute honoring slain Iryna Zarutska gets scrubbed amid woke blowback - "The Providence, Rhode Island artist commissioned to paint a mural of slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska said he feels his freedom of expression has been curtailed after left-wing backlash to the project caused it to be shut down. “So, we installed the mural, and, as it started to evolve, the gay community spoke loudly about their displeasure that Elon Musk donated to the project, and that has reached a fever pitch, and the result is that the business owners have decided to remove the mural,” Ian Gaudreau, who was working on the project before its abrupt cancellation, told Fox News Digital “I’m saddened by the fact that the mayor has called for the work to be removed before I was allowed to finish speaking,” he said. “I think that it is stifling my freedom of expression, my freedom of speech, and it’s unfortunate.”... Gaudreau explained that he wasn’t taking sides politically when he took the job painting the mural. “I think that some people are not able to view the work for what it is — for the work that I have done — because they’re allowing their disdain for Elon to cloud their judgment of the work as itself, because the work as itself is a response to the entire conversation,” he said. He said he was incorporating symbolism into his work that was itself a critique of the political flashpoint caused by Zarutska’s death that he thinks overshadowed her memory... Gaudreau also said his work was a response to how works of art depicting Zarutska, and their artists, have been treated. In early March, a mural of the young woman was defaced in Chicago. “I’m making this work in reaction, post all of the conversation,” he said. “I have the benefit of being on the tail end of this project, in a sense, because I’ve seen how these murals have been treated in the past. I’ve seen that they’ve been defaced, I’ve seen my fellow artists get dragged through the mud for making the choice to paint her, and my work is a reaction to all of that.” The mural was set to be displayed on the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBT bar in Providence. When the bar received blowback, it first defended itself from criticism, noting on Instagram that “Any of you who know us personally—even just for five minutes—realize the illicit intentions being portrayed here are completely false.” As pressure mounted, the bar paused the project, and then later canceled it completely. Amid the scrutiny, Providence’s Democrat Mayor Brett Smiley slammed the mural. “The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the country is divisive and does not represent Providence,” he said in a statement, later adding that he wants to “encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us.” He later doubled down in an interview with WPRI. “I regret the state of where we are in politics today where absolutely everything is political and controversial and hard,” he said in the interview. “There’s nothing we should be doing to take away from the tragedy of the loss of life represented here, but then it was distorted by an erroneous tweet by our president and then a movement was funded by some right-wing billionaires, and it found its way to our community.”"
If Elon had really donated $6 billion for that one time project to temporarily feed people, left wingers would still be viciously attacking him. And maybe the project too, since it would be associated with him
Politicians influencing private actors is only a threat to free speech if it hurts the left wing agenda
Rhode Island Republican Party | Facebook - "A 23 year old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska was brutally stabbed to death on a Charlotte NC light rail train in 2025. A private nonprofit with funding ties to Elon Musk commissioned a simple memorial mural of her face on the exterior wall of The Dark Lady a downtown Providence LGBTQ plus nightclub as part of a national project. The mural was nearly finished on private property. Then the outrage started. Public criticism poured in. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley a Democrat publicly demanded its removal calling the project misguided and divisive. The owners caved and are now painting over it. Here is the hypocrisy that should shock every Rhode Islander. In 2020 and 2021 multiple large George Floyd and Black Lives Matter murals went up all over Providence on private storefronts and public streets. Then Mayor Jorge Elorza a Democrat personally participated in the unveilings the city spent taxpayer money and Democratic leaders celebrated them as art and healing. Not a single government official complained or called for them to be removed. But a portrait of an innocent murder victim? Suddenly it is divisive and must be erased. Same state. Same Creative Capital. Same private property rules except this time the victim does not fit the approved political narrative. This is not about art. It is about selective outrage and two tiered standards for free expression. If we truly believe in honoring victims and protecting private property rights the standard must apply equally or it applies to no one. What do you think Rhode Island? Should a memorial mural on private property be censored because politicians do not like who funded it or who the victim was? Drop your thoughts below and keep it respectful. GOP"
Xenocosmography on X - "This has been such a luminous revelation about the true nature and commitments of the Left (including even its most mainstream politicians)."
wanye on X - "I try not to spend too much time ridiculing hypocrisy, which is amongst the lowest forms of criticism, but seeing people on the providence subreddit who spent the last 10 years learning the word “systemic” and working it into every possible conversation ask, “what does her murder have to do with us?” is just too much"
Because We Live Here 🇺🇸 on X - "Reflexive Anti-White Hatred. Whether a Pavlovian response conditioned via 24/7 anti-White programming, or an innate animosity to a higher ideal."
Kyle Shideler on X - "Of course they do. Because they understand that murals can function as iconography which generates what the Marine Corps Combat Hunter program calls a “proxemic push or pull”. That is it attracts certain people and repels others."
If your house is burgled, don’t call the police. They’ll only blame you for having nice things - "Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, was speaking at the International Mobile Phone Crime Conference in Bloomsbury, London. He explained how his force wanted to see tech firms and manufacturers make the resetting of phones harder, to block devices from functioning and to implement multi-factor authentication and time delays, so that once phones have been stolen, it is much harder to sell the devices on. He even got quite cross, issuing a threat that, in his words, “If by June 1, the industry has not come to the table in a genuinely serious and solution-focused way, with concrete commitments on stolen mobile phones… the Met will formally write to the Home Secretary to ask that she legislates.”... For there we were, thinking the onus, when it came to theft, might be on the police to catch the criminals. That resources might be focused on detaining thieves, punishing them miserably and even, while we’re at it, investing in education and within society to deter would-be criminals from even considering lives of crime. But that would be tedious work – it might require plodding the streets, tracking the hooded gangs and nicking wrong’uns. None of which is glamorous. Rowley and his colleagues want to make the stealing of phones unprofitable – in his words, he wants devices to become “unusable bricks”. So he blames the phone companies for leaving their customers at risk. Which is basically a catastrophic admission that this country’s authorities have simply given up seeking to address the underlying causes of crime... As to our burglary, there was a strong feeling within our family that the police considered any insurance payouts as adequate compensation for the theft of things that we were in so privileged a position to have inherited. And the suspected thieves? They had a documentary made about them on the BBC, and the subject matter became dinner party fodder in our part of the country."
Daniel Concannon on X - "Jayvon Hatchett “wanted to kill a White man,” so he went to AutoZone and stabbed a White man seven times. That White man survived. No “hate crime” charges. Ten days later, while awaiting trial for the stabbing, Jayvon Hatchett fulfilled his desire to “kill a White man” and choked his White cellmate to death with his bare hands in an unprovoked attack. No “hate crime” charges. Because the “justice system” feels the same way about White people that Jayvon Hatchett does."
Dinesh D'Souza on X - "This classic headline illustrates “progressive logic.” The author thinks it’s ironic and strange that prison populations are growing even though the crime rate has dropped. It simply does not occur to him that the crime rate has dropped because more criminals are locked up."
Prison Population Growing Although Crime Rate Drops - The New York Times
Subversive Force on X - "🚨 Morons from the group Take Back Power are now shoplifting en masse — but it’s “activism” in Britain 2026…"
Mike Jones on X - "If anyone doubts the dark future that awaits us, take a look at the mass shoplifting spree in Exeter today, dressed up as “activism”. The reason these communists feel emboldened to behave like this is simple: they do not fear the police, and they believe they are effectively immune from serious consequences. Frankly, it’s hard to blame them for thinking that. Even if they are arrested, I suspect they will face little more than a slap on the wrist. Remember The Colston 4?"
𝐀𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐬 on X - "Also, the way Palestine Action and Just Stop Oil have been treated basically says "if you say you're doing it for a good cause, the law doesn't apply""
i/o on X - "Beginning in the late-60s and then accelerating in the 1970s, "reforms" were made to the justice system in more "progressive" areas of the country and unsurprisingly crime exploded. It took Democrats until the early-90s to finally become tough on crime, and when they did cities became safer than they had been in decades and people looked back on the 60s-80s as a mistake that would never again be repeated. Then in the 2010s a new generation of progressive reformers — moaning about "systemic racism" and promising "depolicing" and "decarceration" and seemingly unaware that you can't change basic laws of human behavior — once again established their political influence and power, and predictably once again made cities less safe. It's an endlessly repeating cycle."
Left wingers pretend to care about history, but they ignore it when that would hurt the left wing agenda
Johannes M. Koenraadt on X - "Oh my god! 😂 There's no crime gene, but there is a "propensity to shoot and stab someone gene". It's the 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene. African-Americans are 50 times more likely to carry this gene. Ahahahaaaaaaaaaahaha "Analyses revealed that African-American males who carry the 2-repeat allele are significantly more likely than all other genotypes to engage in shooting and stabbing behaviors and to report having multiple shooting and stabbing victims.""
Will Tanner on X - "Europe selected against this gene for centuries by hanging about 1% of each generation in a continual, harsh effort against crime All serious crimes were capital crimes, and centuries of effort meant eventually this gene, which amounts to a crime gene, was selected against Notably, the fact that the time this process completed, around the late-18th century, was the start of the second great imperial period in European history, and hardly a peaceful period, so they managed to remain warlike and bold fighters...just without the "criminal behavior" gene The paper on this is called "Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification""
Hunter Ash on X - "Many liberals just don’t know the gritty details of what they’re talking about. I was a soft-on-crime guy when I was picturing a starving orphan stealing bread. When I learned that death-row criminals are mostly guilty of things like “raped a 72 year old woman to death” I stopped caring about their rights or feelings."
"The Death Penalty Is Even More Horrifying Than You Think" - NYT
Of course, the article doesn't talk about how left wingers keep trying to release murderers into the wild and just blandly claims that the chance of wrong conviction is "far too high", without giving what that number might be
NYPD captain accused of choking man, 67, who allegedly groped teen girl: DA
John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽 on X - "The Emasculation of the NYPD
NYPD Captain Kai Bowen, who by all accounts is respected by his supervisors, peers, subordinates, and the community, was arrested by the NYPD for allegedly choking a 67 year old man who is accused of groping a teenage girl. For more than a decade the NYPD has been run by left leaning academics from the mid west who never wore the uniform and never policed the streets of New York City. They like to call themselves “leaders without badges.” I call them classroom cops. For years the NYPD’s politically appointed, upper management pushed diversity, equity and inclusion ideology while repeating the slogan: “We don’t want warriors in policing, we need guardians.” What that phrase really means is they want emasculated security guards who react after the crime, not proactive police officers who prevent it. They want robots, not human beings with judgment. Through policy, training, and discipline they have created a generation of officers, many now supervisors, who are afraid to think for themselves and can’t distinguish right from wrong in real time. I saw this firsthand over 10 years ago when I was a Sergeant in Brooklyn. I responded to a scene where I observed: A male white Con Edison worker in handcuffs, an attractive asian woman who appeared to be distraught, holding a small white dog and an ambulance treating a belligerent intoxicated mexican male with what appeared to be minor injuries. The moment I stepped out of my vehicle, the woman ran up to me frantically yelling: “He saved me.” She pointed to the Con Edison worker who was handcuffed. She explained that the intoxicated man had been following her while she walked her dog. At one point he grabbed her and attempted to drag her down a staircase beneath a large apartment building. She began screaming and fighting back. The Con Edison worker, who was elevated in the bucket of his work truck, heard the screams and immediately lowered the bucket and ran to help. He physically subdued the man while the woman called the police. When the officers arrived, they handcuffed the worker and called an ambulance for the perpetrator because he had a bloody lip and some scratches. I walked over and asked the officers what happened. They repeated the woman’s account almost word for word. So I gave them a simple instruction: Remove the handcuffs from the worker and place them on the perpetrator. The worker had just prevented what very likely would have been a rape. Instead of receiving a medal, he was handcuffed. I shook his hand and apologized to him. I said to him: “We need more men like you in this world.” What I remember most was how the officers seemed so confused by the situation. They were so focused on the minor injuries to the perpetrator that they struggled to understand the obvious reality of what had happened. At the precinct later I explained it clearly: The worker committed no crime. He intervened to stop a violent assault on a woman. But that moment always stuck with me. I’ve often wondered what would have happened if I wasn’t the supervisor on that scene. That man deserved recognition. Instead he got handcuffed. Now I wasn’t present for the incident involving Captain Bowen, but based on what has been reported and what I know about policing, I can say this: Arresting the Captain probably isn’t the decision I would have made. But then again, the NYPD made sure to force out hundreds of “uneducated and unvaccinated” men like myself, cops who grew up in New York City, understood its streets, and were unafraid to make decisions. Some will ask “who wants that kind of “toxic masculinity” in the NYPD ? The answer is simple, Crime Victims."
Tara Servatius on X - "This NYPD officer arrested illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra for child endangerment. New York Democrats refused to turn him over to ICE and released him. He never showed up for court. The Biden administration then paid for him & his illegal immigrant friends to fly to Georgia as part of a taxpayer-funded internal movement program disclosed at his trial. In Georgia, he murdered Laken Riley when she fought his rape attempts. The Democrats let Riley's murderer into the country, released him back onto the streets after his first arrest despite an ICE request to pick him up, helped him evade his court date and finally flew him to his victim at taxpayer expense to commit his crime. Democrat policies killed Laken Riley. Please don't ever give them power again."
If you release a murderer, that is at very best gross negligence. Reasonably foreseeable outcomes don't matter when they push the left wing agenda
Of course, if you sell someone a gun and that's used in a crime, you should be found guilty of a crime. Because gun control is in the left wing agenda
Garry Tan on X - "California parole told officers to stop tracking a felon with 91 prior felonies. Weeks later he killed Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt. Now there's a civil rights lawsuit naming the officials who gave that order."
A parole officer sent an email: "Agents must not search for violations." Then two women died. - "Ninety-one prior felonies. Five arrests in six months. Eleven combined days in jail. On December 31, 2020, Troy McAlister was high on methamphetamine, armed with a firearm, and behind the wheel of a stolen car fleeing a burglary when he ran a red light at 2nd and Mission Streets. He killed Elizabeth Platt, 60, and Hanako Abe, 27. This week, attorney Anh Phoong filed a civil lawsuit against California state parole alleging both deaths were preventable. At the center of the case: a whistleblower email from inside CDCR that told San Francisco parole agents to stop doing their jobs."
Meme - Into the Memory Hole: ">beat 3 year old white girl to death
>aggravated child abuse
It happens again and again and again every day"
"Rural village of Citra, Florida in shock over brutal killing of three-year-old girl. Police say Paisley Brown, 3, was beaten to death by her mother's boyfriend Jeroen Coombs, 32. Coombs is currently only facing aggravated child abuse."
Meme - Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters: "Crime is not random Only 0.2% of people ever commit murder, yet **67% of all murders**are committed by people with prior arrests When the crime-inclined people are stopped, the crime stops. You can literally just fix crime by not tolerating people who show a history of being destructive to society. El Salvador is a great example of this"
"Murder Rate vs Incarceration Rate in El Salvador (2000-2024) *negative correlation*"
Meme - Carl @HistoryBoomer: "Yes, the problem in the 80s and 90s was POLICE violence."
"Two-Plus Centuries of Murder in New York City. Homicides per 100K population *spike in 80s and 90s*
Sources: Eric Monkkonen, "Homicides in New York City, 1797-1999"; New York Division of Criminal Justice Services; NYPD; US Census Bureau. Note: Victims of Sept. 1, 2001 terrorist attacks excluded; 2025 rate is if 28.7% decline through May 25 holds up for the full year."
Ross Barkan @RossBarkan: "We probably need woke to come back because everyone getting nostalgic about NY in the 1980s and 1990s overlooks how violent and corrupt the police were relative to today, and how most of the mayors then proudly presided over a police state that menaced nonwhite and gay people"
Meme - WholesomeDave @BostonFren_88: "In 150-200 years, we've gone from a country where you could string up horse thieves to: "We're sorry this Haitian refugee raped and murdered your daughter, but his IQ isn't high enough for him to understand what he did was wrong.""
Since he can't understand murder it's wrong, the right thing to do is release him so he can murder more people
Co-op threatens to sack staff who tackle shoplifters - "Co-op store staff have been warned that they face disciplinary action if they intervene to prevent shoplifters from stealing goods. Bosses at the supermarket chain have told staff not to challenge shoplifters because of the risk that it could lead to violent confrontations with thieves... The move has provoked a backlash from staff amid record rates of shoplifting last year, with nearly three store thefts a minute being reported to police... Shoplifting has soared since a 2014 law change meant anybody stealing less than £200 of products would not be jailed. Labour has ditched the limit as part of a crackdown on retail crime."
Meme - Diane Yap @RealDianeYap: ""You literally voted for this" is such a stupid argument. "Schizophrenic criminals stab people on the subway" was never literally on any ballot. *Guatamalan illegal immigrant setting person on fire on subway car*"
""I never thought leopards would eat MY face" Sobbed the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."
Meme - Andrew Quackson @AndrewQuackson: "Aren't you a prison abolitionist? It says it right there in your bio."
evan loves worf @esjesiesj: "I think you should go to prison for blindly gunning down a teenager"
Anarcho tyranny - commies want to abolish prisons: but only for those they don't disapprove of
Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: San Francisco judge Linda Colfax has released a man who fatally assaulted an 84-year-old because the prison sentence would have a "poor impact" on him. 25-year-old Antoine Watson was granted probation just two months after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and assault. Watson violently assaulted Vicha Ratanapakdee in 2021, which resulted in his death just two days later. He was acquitted of first-and second-degree murder charges and instead convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Colfax says Watson being in prison would have a "poor impact" on him and didn't think he should be there because he "expressed remorse," according to the SF Chronicle. Colfax is accused of hiding details from the jury in an apparent effort to help Watson escape prison time. Infuriating and evil."
parks on X - "If bartenders can go to jail for over-serving alcohol to someone who then kills another person, judges should go to jail for releasing criminals who do the same."
Aakash Gupta on X - "A bartender in Galveston, Texas was arrested for serving a drunk customer who killed someone. She makes $25 an hour. A federal judge makes $236,000 a year and has absolute legal immunity for every decision on the bench, including releasing violent offenders who kill again. 42 states have dram shop laws. The bartender’s causation chain has two links: pour drink, person crashes. Exposed window? Sometimes three hours. She can be charged with criminal negligence, sued in civil court, and lose her livelihood. All for failing to eyeball whether a guy at a crowded bar was too drunk for one more round. The judge has a pre-sentencing report, a criminal history score, a risk assessment algorithm, victim impact statements, and a prosecutor arguing the case in front of them. Every tool the system can produce. And when they get it wrong? Nothing. Absolute judicial immunity, codified since Bradley v. Fisher in 1871, means a judge cannot be sued for any act performed in judicial capacity. How absolute? In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Stump v. Sparkman that a judge who signed a petition to sterilize a 15-year-old girl without her knowledge or consent was fully immune. The court acknowledged the act was reprehensible. Didn’t matter. Judicial act, judicial immunity, case closed. That precedent still controls today. The recidivism data is where this gets obscene. The U.S. Sentencing Commission tracked violent offenders released in 2010 across eight years. 63.8% were rearrested. Median time to rearrest: 16 months. These numbers haven’t moved in two decades. The 2005 cohort and the 2010 cohort produced statistically identical outcomes. Judges aren’t making unpredictable calls. They’re making well-documented bets with other people’s lives, and the base rates have been published and available the entire time. The bartender gets three hours of ambiguous signals. The judge gets the full weight of the federal data apparatus. One of them can go to prison for getting it wrong. The other can’t even be named in a civil suit."

Hunter Schafer 2018 Instagram Post

2026-06-08T12:35:00.000+08:00

Transcribed by /ot/ (with some formatting corrections from me):

"TO BE CONSUMED…
MY SEXUAL ORIENTATION WAS NOT GAY. IT WAS NOT STRAIGHT. NOR PAN. IT WAS AN ATTRACTION, IS AN ATTRACTION ALWAYS TO MISOGYNY.
(TO NEVER KNOW A WORLD WITHOUT MISOGYNY IS TO NEVER KNOW YOURSELF WITHOUT IT AS WE ARE ALL MIRRORS)
WHY DID i WANT/NEED TO BE A WOMAN
MY GENDER WAS SO INFLUENCED BY A NEED TO BE USED BY MEN.
-INFANT
-STRAIGHT BOY -→ AN ASSIGNED PLACE NOW REALIZED. WEARING MISOGYNY IN DISCOMFORT BUT BENEFITING FROM ITS HEIGHT(?) WEIGHT(?)
-(BI)
-GAY BOY -→ AN ATTEMPT AT FEMME. THE BEGINNING OF SHRUGGING MISOGYNY OFF MY SHOULDERS AND STABBING MYSELF WITH IT. AN iNABILITY TO BE FEMME, BUT AN ABILITY TO FEEL THE HURT OF FEMME (WOMANHOOD)
-STR8 WOMAN -→ FINDING \FEMME\ UNDER THE CONDITIONING OF BEING GAY. NOT FEELING FEMME ENOUGH W/O BEING A VICTIM OF RAPE
-GAY WOMAN -→ RELEASiNG GAY CONDITIONING BUT FINDING COMFORT IN THE BOX AND PADDED PRISON OF WOMANHOOD
-QUEER PERSON -→ THE MOST LIBERATED FROM GENDER i HAVE FOUND MYSELF. STILL DEALING WITH THE RUINS(?) OF SEXUAL BRAIN WASHING BUT ALLOWING MY OWN FEMININITY TO FLOURISH AND(?) A VOID(?) OF MEN.
-DEATH -→ ⚫
LOOK UP "THE ACT OF EATING" →
CONSUMPTION → "THE IDEA OF BEING EATEN USED TO AROUSE ME"
→ iS THIS MISOGYNY
→ i THINK i USED TO (STILL DO?) INTERNALIZE MISOGYNY BECAUSE i THOUGHT i WANTED TO BE A WOMAN AND SAW THAT MEN ATE WOMEN WHOLE. THAT MEN DOMINATED. HENCE MY FORMAL AND CURRENT AROUSAL TOWARDS DOMINATION AND NOT TO MENTION HUMILIATION.
→ WHY IS IT THAT SEX IS ALL TO COMMONLY AN ACT OF VIOLENCE
→ WHY IS IT THAT RAPE IS FETISHIZED BY BOTH SIDES OF THE BINARY.
→ HOW DID i TAKE ON THIS SEXUALITY SO EASILY AND WITHOUT THOUGHT
→ WAS i GAY BECAUSE i WAS TRANS
→ DID MY YEARNING TO BE FEMININE, TO BE A WOMAN, TO ESCAPE THE PRISON THAT IS BEING A MAN, MAKE ME WANT TO BE EATEN BY MEN SO THAT i COULD FEEL LIKE A WOMAN. WAS BEING GAY THE ONLY ANSWER TO THIS. i REMEMBER NOT LINKING GAY PORN BECAUSE i COULD NOT FIND THE "BIG VS. SMALL" CONTRAST. THAT EVEN WHEN I WAS GAY i LIKED STRAIGHT PORN BECAUSE IT LACKED MISOGYNY -> ABUSE -> OPPRESSION"

Links - 8th June 2026 (1 - Two Tier Policing in the UK [including Koran Burning])

2026-06-08T09:36:00.000+08:00

The Free Speech Union on X - "BREAKING: Moussa Kadri, the knife-wielding Muslim who repeatedly assaulted Hamit Koskun as he burned the quran outside the Turkish Consulate, has been spared jail. Despite pleading guilty to assault and being in possession of a 'bladed article', Kadri was handed a suspended sentence of just 20 weeks. No jail time. The judge said he had “lost his temper". Hamit, meanwhile, is living in hiding, having been warned by the police that there are several credible threats to his life. This sentence will do nothing to dispel the suspicion that Britain has a two-tier criminal justice system. Had a knife-wielding white male pleaded guilty to attacking a Muslim for breaching a Christian blasphemy code, you can bet your bottom dollar he would have gone to prison."

Is burning the Koran a more serious crime than assault? - "If there were any doubt that the UK now has both a two-tier justice system and Islamic blasphemy laws, then the cases of Kadri and Coskun surely put this to rest. Back in June, Coskun was convicted of a ‘religiously aggravated public-order offence’, after he burned the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in protest against Turkey’s President Erdoğan. In Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Coskun was found guilty and fined £240. Worse, the judge cited the knife attack and held it up as proof that Coskun’s Koran-burning had led to public disorder. Apparently, he had all but brought this violence on himself. The contrast with Kadri’s treatment could not be more stark. In sentencing him yesterday at Southwark Crown Court, the judge bent over backwards to minimise the seriousness of the attack. Kadri, who pleaded guilty to common assault and possession of a bladed weapon, was spared jail. He was instead fined just £150 and handed a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. The judge accepted he had merely lost his ‘temper and self-control’ as a result of being ‘deeply offended’. The judge even saw fit to lavish praise on Kadri during the sentencing. Apparently, it was a ‘tragedy’ that he had ended up before the court despite leading such a productive life. He was a ‘loved husband and father’, a ‘hard worker’ and a man whose colleagues ‘cannot praise highly enough’, we were told. The message sent by these two court decisions is chilling. The English justice system has made it clear that it will punish blasphemy against Islam. Worse, it considers physical violence – even slashing at someone with a knife – to be an almost understandable response to those who besmirch Islam’s honour. So much so that attacking a blasphemer attracts a smaller fine than the act of blasphemy itself. The British justice system has taken a dark turn. It is not only criminalising those who blaspheme against Islam – it is also putting a target on their backs. It has given a green light to the use of violence to silence Islam’s critics"

Connor Tomlinson on X - "If you want to know how bad things are in Britain: The man holding the Quran, Hamit Coskun was convicted and fined for causing Muslims "harassment, alarm, and distress, with the fact that he was almost stabbed used as the proof. The man doing the attempted stabbing was just set free, without prison time, because the judge described him as "someone of hitherto exemplary character" and "much respected in your work with charity." The Deliveroo cyclist who kicked while he lay in the street Coskun has not been charged.
> Upset Muslims? Get charged initially with “intent to cause against the religious institution of ISLAM harassment, alarm or distress”, and fined £240.00
> Attempt to STAB SOMEONE TO DEATH? Get praised by your judge for how "You are a loved husband and father.""

The Free Speech Union on X - "This decision sends a green light to any Muslim who wants to enforce an Islamic blasphemy by taking the law into their own hands. The court is effectively saying that if you attack a blasphemer with a knife, he will be convicted of causing you harassment, alarm or distress and you won't have to spend a day behind bars. Moussa Kadri has been let off with a suspended sentence after repeatedly slashing Hamit Coskun with a knife while shouting that he was going to kill him. Kadri had been enraged that Coskun was protesting against Islam. Hamit is still living in hiding having been convicted of a “hate crime” for burning his own copy of the Quran. Read more below ⬇️"

The Stark Naked Brief. on X - "The judge that overturned Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Koran. We finally found a good one. His name is Justice Joel Bennathan. Bennathan said at Coskun's hearing: "There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously upset. The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb." He then went on to cite Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, pertaining to freedom of expression. It's long past time we scrapped and reviewed our incredibly contradictory speech laws. Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Met Police have deservedly ended up with yet more egg on their face."

Sky News on X - ""I think President Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic, and he is Islamophobic." London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has responded to a series of verbal attacks from Donald Trump."
Steven Barrett on X - "I think this exposes the bullying nature at the heart of the modern left. He is allowed to attack Donald Trump. But if Trump attacks him, Trump is racist. We have Two Tier because fundamentally these people are two tier."
As left wingers proclaim, the violence of the oppressed is not the same as the violence of the oppressor. Which means that "oppressed" people can do anything they like and if the "oppressors" defend themselves, that's literally genocide

South Yorkshire Police gave 'no arrest' deal to Rotherham grooming gang ringleader
Jailed: Teenager with firelighters who waved England flag near North Yorkshire Islamic centre

Meme - "21st century British justice
Posted racist comment on Facebook. Shaun Tuck. 15 weeks prison
Sold anti Immigration stickers. Sam Melia. 24 months prison
Raped 12 Year old girl. Al Soaimi. 180 Community hours no prison time"

Police stopped Tommy Robinson because of his political beliefs, rules judge - "Tommy Robinson was stopped by police and charged with a terror offence because of his political beliefs, a judge has ruled... He was stopped in his Bentley at the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone in July 2024 and accused of “frustration” of police counter-terrorism powers after refusing to give police his mobile phone password. District Judge Sam Goozee found Robinson not guilty of failing to comply with the counter-terrorism powers during the incident on July 28 last year. Mr Goozee said: “I cannot put out of my mind that it was actually what you stood for and your political beliefs that acted as the principal reason for this stop.” He also said Pc Mitchell Thorogood’s decision to stop Robinson was based on a “protected characteristic”, adding: “I cannot convict you.”

Kate Ferguson on X - "Shabana Mahmood admits that she does not have the power to ban the Palestine Action protest this weekend."
Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 on X - "Yes she does. This is a blatant lie by The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood . 12 such orders were implemented in a 7 year period between 2005 and 2012. Why would she lie?!…"
Daniel Stoten. QPM. on X - "Correct - Yes, the UK Home Secretary has previously prevented public demonstrations from going ahead, primarily through powers under the Public Order Act 1986. These allow the Home Secretary to consent to police requests to prohibit marches or processions (and, in some cases, trespassory assemblies) if they are deemed likely to cause serious public disorder that cannot be mitigated by lesser restrictions.
### Key Historical Example In August 2011, Home Secretary Theresa May approved a Metropolitan Police request to ban an English Defence League (EDL) march planned for September 3 in Tower Hamlets, east London. The ban covered all protest marches across five London boroughs (Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest, Hackney, and Redbridge) for a three-month period starting September 3. This was due to fears of serious public disorder from the EDL event and anticipated counter-demonstrations. Static demonstrations (non-moving protests) were still permitted, but the marching element was halted. This was the first such ban in the Metropolitan Police area since the 1986 Act entered force.
### Broader Context
- Such bans are rare and require evidence that conditions like route changes or size limits would not suffice to prevent disorder. Prior to 2011, similar Home Secretary consents enabled bans on EDL marches in Bradford, Leicester, and Telford in 2010–2011.
- The power extends to prohibiting trespassory assemblies (e.g., on private land) for up to four days within a 5-mile radius, again with Home Secretary consent.
- These measures balance the right to peaceful assembly (protected under Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, incorporated via the Human Rights Act 1998) against public safety, but they have faced criticism for potentially chilling free expression.
While recent governments (2019–2024) have expanded police powers to impose conditions on protests via the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and Public Order Act 2023—such as "Serious Disruption Prevention Orders"—direct bans by the Home Secretary remain exceptional and tied to imminent disorder risks."

Police arrest pro-Israel supporters holding placard saying 'we stand with Britain's Jews' while pro-Palestine protesters chant 'death to the IDF' - "Police have arrested pro-Israel supporters who were holding placards which read 'we stand with Britain's Jews', while pro-Palestine protesters were filmed chanting 'death to the IDF' elsewhere in central London... six other people holding a banner saying '"Globalise the intifada" is a call to murder Jews' were also taken into custody... A Campaign Against Antisemitism spokesperson said: 'A week after Jews were murdered at a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, protesters have called again with impunity to 'Globalise the intifada', while brave and decent people daring to stand with Britain's Jews have been abused and arrested on the streets of London, because the 'Free Palestine' mobs cannot stand the sight of them. 'Holding signs saying "We stand with Britain's Jews" should not be controversial, but we have had to provide solicitors to represent those who held them in jail. 'There is a ceasefire now, but these marches were never really about a ceasefire. The marchers say that they are 'anti-Zionist', but this was never really about 'Zionists'. 'This is London just over a week after the Prime Minister said he would do 'everything in my power' to protect the Jewish community. 'This is the same Prime Minister who swore that he would tear out antisemitism by its roots. 'These are hate marches, this is two tier policing, and this must stop. We want actions, not words from the Prime Minister, so we are asking him, what are you going to do? We have yet to hear any answers.' The pro-Palestine march, which was attended by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, made its way through central London one day after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect. It marks the 32nd national demonstration in support of Palestine since October 2023, according to organiser Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), with protesters setting off from Embankment at midday for a march ending in a rally in Whitehall."

Kelvin MacKenzie on X - "Remember the huge row when Hertfordshire police sent 6 uniformed officers to detain two parents who complained about their local school via WhatsApp? Well, now the police have admitted the arrest was unlawful and paid each of the parents £10,000. In April Chief Constable Andy Prophet defended the arrest of Maxie Allen, 50, and Rosalind Levine, 47, in front of their children and holding them for 8 hours in a police cell. Now the force has said the criteria for arrest was “ not made out” and accepted liability for wrongful arrest and detention. The dispute began when the parents fell out with Cowley Hill Primary school which their daughter Sacha, 10 attended. She’s registered disabled. Incredibly the school contacted the police about the content and volume of the parents’ complaints. I find that unbelievable. The cops turned up in two vans. Mr Allen , a Times Radio producer, called in the Free Speech Union ( founded by Lord Toby Young) which does marvellous work in such cases. They have trumped again. Hard to understand why police thought turning up in force to arrest these parents was a good use of their time and limited resources. Following this case I can’t imagine the cops will ever again want to be involved in a parent-dispute. Thank God for that."

Jewish protester charged with ‘racial harassment’ over anti-Hezbollah sign - "A Jewish man was arrested and charged with "racially aggravated harassment" after holding a placard at a counter-demonstration depicting a Hezbollah leader... The placard featured a drawing of the late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah holding a pager to his face, with the words "beep, beep, beep"... an officer asked the counter-protester: "Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel that by doing so would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?" The man's lawyer then asked: "Are you saying that there were pro-Hezbollah people there? Because it is a proscribed terrorist organisation."... The protester was later charged under the Public Order Act of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing. The man, who was not named, told the newspaper: "It beggars belief that police could think that this placard may be offensive to supporters of Hezbollah. "If there are Hezbollah supporters at these marches, then why weren't charges brought against them for terrorist offences, rather than me being charged for holding a sign that can only be construed as political satire?... police officers searched his home in an attempt to find the placard, which he claimed was not his. He described how two police vans and six officers arrived to conduct the search, which he said was "invasive" and "totally ridiculous". But eight months later, on May 10, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped the case, saying there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction"
Mocking Islamist terrorists is racist. Ironically, Hezbollah is banned in the UK. Of course calling for Jews to be slaughtered is free speech and arresting people for that is anti-Palestinian racism

Police released race and ethnicity of Liverpool parade suspect ‘with unprecedented speed’ - "Merseyside Police confirmed they had a arrested a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area around two hours after the incident that left dozens of people including four children hurt... Former Metropolitan Police chief superintendent Dal Babu said this morning: "What we do have, which is unprecedented, is the police very quickly giving the ethnicity and the race of the person who was driving the vehicle"

The police’s selective silence on the ethnicity of suspects - spiked - "It won't have escaped most people's notice that the details the police are willing to release about a suspect tend to be based on that suspect's ethnic background. Contrast the caginess of Warwickshire Police in revealing Mulakhil and Kabir's immigration status with Merseyside Police's response to the Liverpool parade crush back in May. Within just two hours of a motorist driving into a crowd of people in central Liverpool, injuring 50 people, the police were eager to let it be known that they had arrested a '53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area'... Of course, we all know that the real reason the police are reluctant to reveal details about ethnic-minority suspects is not for fear of contempt of court - it is really out of a contempt for the public. The police and the authorities see ordinary people, especially the white working class, as a riotous mob-in-waiting, ready to erupt in violence at the earliest news of a crime committed by a non-white Briton or a new arrival. And so they try to brush these crimes under the carpet. This might involve withholding information. Or worse still, as in the grooming-gangs scandal, the police may even refuse to investigate them at all. The result of this is a mutually assured suspicion between police and the people. Whenever details of a suspect are withheld, the public now suspects - with ample justification - that the offender is from an ethnic-minority background. The constant cover-ups from the police and local authorities, all supposedly in the name of cooling communal tensions, are doing as much to inflame matters as the crimes themselves. We must trust the public to hear the truth."

Sunday World on X - "Aged 18 to 66, the accused are mostly unemployed and include students, men on disability allowance and a landscaper"
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "The name, age, street address, job and photograph of every arrested protester is published here. But none of that information for the foreign migrant accused of raping the ten-year-old girl. The regime media will do anything to avoid that conversation."

Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners - "The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday. Their research shows that the policy introduced in August led to the term “asylum seeker” appearing in articles on serious crime five times more than before the policy change. The groups say the public is being given a harmful impression that falsely links criminality with ethnicity or migration status. That in turn is helping to further tear at society’s fabric by feeding prejudice... The call for the policy to be scrapped is supported by Amnesty International UK, the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, the chair of the Independent Scrutiny & Oversight Board for police, the National Police Race Action Plan, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Jewish Women’s Aid, Liberty, the Muslim Council of Britain and Inquest."
Damn hate facts!

Mike Amesbury’s sentencing is two-tier justice in action - spiked - "Is punching someone in the face a less serious crime than sharing offensive jokes on WhatsApp? This seems to be the view of the British justice system, at least if this week’s sentencing of former Labour MP Mike Amesbury is anything to go by. Back in October, Amesbury, who is now an independent MP for Runcorn and Helsby, was captured on CCTV brawling with a man in the street. The altercation began as a drunken row between Amesbury and one of his constituents. It ended with the MP punching the man in the head and knocking him to the ground. For this, Amesbury was handed a 10-week jail sentence yesterday by deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram. Judge Ikram may by now be familiar with regular readers of spiked. As Laurie Wastell noted last year, Ikram’s sentencing record often reflects the biases of the woke establishment, particularly its penchant for punishing speechcrimes. Astonishingly, in 2022, when former police constable James Watts was convicted for sending racist messages to a private WhatsApp group, Ikram sentenced him to 20 weeks in jail. That’s twice the jailtime he gave to Amesbury this week for a physically violent crime. Ikram described Watts’s WhatsApps, which included memes mocking Black Lives Matter and the death of George Floyd, as ‘the most serious offences’. As abhorrent as those messages will have been, most of us could probably think of far more serious offences. The problem goes much deeper than just one judge. In Britain, you can be imprisoned for two years for producing offensive stickers, and yet committing a violent offence, such as stabbing someone or stamping on someone’s head, might not result in any jailtime at all. Of course, Amesbury’s drunken brawl is nowhere near as serious as those crimes. But in what world is it less serious than sharing grim jokes? There is something deeply broken about a justice system that treats offensive words more harshly than actual violence. Clearly, the judicial establishment cares more about policing people’s opinions than protecting the public."

Allison Pearson on X - "Britain in 2025. Police arrest a man for calling someone “a Muppet”. It caused her “distress” apparently. Officers have no business trying to eradicate “offence” from our society. They are not guardians of morality and manners. Solve some crimes, you Muppets!"

Yossi BenYakar on X - "In the UK, an Islamist tells police they must not bring dogs into “his area” — and openly threatens to kill any dog that comes near him. And as always with the UK police, they listen… letting him spread fear and hatred, toward Jews and even toward innocent dogs. For those who don’t know: in Islamist doctrine, dogs are considered “Najis” (impure)."

Man arrested over anti-Hamas social media post - "A man has been arrested over posting an image online that said “F--- Hamas”. Pete North, 47, was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence on Thursday night over a meme that he posted on X... “The officer in the interview said, ‘Well, firstly, let’s start with the meme. You posted a meme that said f--- Hamas’. “I said, ‘yeah, I did post a meme that said f--- Hamas, because Hamas are a proscribed terrorist organisation internationally, including in Britain. Just so we’re on the same page, you do know who Hamas are?’ And he just looked gormlessly and shook his head. “‘And so you don’t know anything about Oct 7?’ And I briefly explained to him what happened at the Nova music festival. He was totally oblivious. If you’re going to arrest people for memes, you probably need to pay more attention to current affairs.”"
Tom Slater on X - "If this account turns out to be true, it is truly chilling. Right-wing activist Pete North says he was arrested last night over an anti-Islam meme. He was asked about Tommy Robinson. Hate-speech law is just political censorship by another name. (H/t @ShipleyWrites @spectator)"
Once again, to the left, Islam is a race

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "In the UK, a Muslim police officer wants to arrest a British Christian preacher because his preaching caused Muslims anxiety and distress. The world is upside down!"

Two-tier policing is not a myth - spiked - "The widespread claims that Britain has a problem with ‘two-tier policing’ have clearly touched a nerve with the establishment. Earlier this week, when a Sky News reporter asked Mark Rowley, Britain’s most-senior police officer, if he would ‘end two-tier policing’, Rowley grabbed the mic from the journalist’s hand and dropped it on the ground. He later issued a statement claiming that it is ‘complete nonsense’ that police would treat anyone differently according to their race, religion or political leanings. I dare say Sir Mark doth protest too much. The media have also declared, in unison, that there is no bias to be found in our police. Almost every major media outlet has carried an article purporting to ‘fact-check’ and ‘debunk’ the claims around two-tier policing. The Times ran with ‘Two-tier policing: the claims fact-checked’. ‘How has the “two-tier policing” myth become widespread?’, asks the Guardian. ‘What is two-tier policing? Nigel Farage and Elon Musk’s claims debunked’, announces an Independent headline. That ‘two-tier policing’ is a myth, invented and spread by the far right no less, is simply taken as a given. This is a bit strange, no? In some cases, the very same outlets that, until now, have been running near weekly articles on how the police are institutionally or structurally racist, riddled with some ‘-ism’ or ‘-phobia’, proclaim that any suggestion of unfairness in policing is preposterous. Apparently, if you dare to use the words ‘two-tier policing’, or ‘two-tier Keir’, then you have probably fallen under the malign sway of Tommy Robinson... Just two weeks before the race riot in Southport, riots broke out in Harehills, a diverse suburb of Leeds. This was sparked when social services attempted to take a Roma child into care. Yet while the police were out in force in Southport and in other English towns over the past two weeks, in Harehills, the police simply ran away. Rioters then overturned a police car, set fire to a bus and wreaked havoc for the rest of the evening. The police essentially allowed the rioters to tire themselves out. Tellingly, most of the ‘fact-checks’ on two-tier policing don’t mention the Harehills unrest at all. The Guardian at least nods to it, but claims that the ‘circumstances in Harehills were very different’, although it does not really explain why. Of course, a key difference in ‘circumstances’ was the rioters’ ethnic backgrounds. Strikingly, the day after the Harehills unrest, Leeds City Council issued a joint statement with ‘representatives of the Roma community’ praising that community’s contribution to the ‘diversity and richness’ of the area. Might this be a hint that the identity of those rioters was at the forefront of the minds of the authorities? What the deniers of two-tier policing miss is that differential treatment for different ethnic groups is an unseemly, but inevitable outgrowth of the system of multiculturalism. From the late 1980s onwards, the British state has increasingly related to its ethnic-minority subjects via self-appointed ‘community leaders’ who, in turn, can have a great deal of influence over police and local-authority decision-making... We saw this system plainly in action in Birmingham earlier this week, when masked Muslim men were allowed to roam around Bordesley Green with weapons. An LBC journalist was chased away with a metal poll. A Sky News broadcast van had its tires stabbed at. A man was badly beaten outside a pub, leaving him with a lacerated liver. The police knew that large crowds were planning to gather here but they decided not to show up. The next day, Emlyn Richards of West Midlands Police explained why. Speaking to Sky News, he said that his officers had met with ‘community leaders’ to ‘understand the style of policing we needed to deliver’. The ‘community’ (ie, Birmingham’s Muslims) ‘were trying to make sure that [this gathering] was policed within themselves’. So that’s okay, then? Some communities are free to ‘police themselves’ and can decide how certain men with weapons should be policed? That sounds an awful lot like two-tier policing to me. Perhaps the most egregious examples of two-tier policing relate to the ‘pro-Palestine’ marches that have been held almost weekly since 7 October last year. The Metropolitan Police – usually keen to bundle Londoners into a van for using offensive language – haven’t just been turning a blind eye to much of the rank anti-Semitism on the streets. No, they have also actively tried to appease and excuse the most hateful Islamist elements of these marches. Back in October, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir – now a proscribed terror organisation – gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in London screaming ‘jihad, jihad, jihad’ and calling for ‘Muslim armies’ to invade Israel. In response, the Met put out an extraordinary tweet trying to reassure the public that jihad ‘has multiple meanings’, while chiding those who associate it ‘with terrorism’. In this instance, the police didn’t just turn a blind eye to this call for terroristic violence and war, they were effectively doing the Islamists’ PR for them. Meanwhile, the Met seem to have a zero-tolerance approach towards anything that might cause offence to Islamists and anti-Semites. Niyak Ghorbani, an exiled Iranian dissident, has been arrested on multiple occasions for holding up a sign that accurately describes Hamas – the anti-Semitic terror group behind the 7 October massacre – as ‘terrorists’. Clearly, the police are aware that opposing Hamas is a provocation to the many anti-Semites and Islamists who attend these ‘peace marches’. Similarly, last year, volunteers for the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism were threatened with arrest for a ‘breach of the peace’ over a mobile billboard displaying images of the children who had been kidnapped by Hamas. Police officers have even been photographed tearing down posters of Israeli hostages. The excuse for this anti-Semitic vandalism? To calm ‘community tensions’ – a cowardly euphemism for appeasing Islamist bigots. It probably won’t surprise you to learn that none of these obvious and unambiguous examples of policing double standards feature in the many media ‘debunkings’ of the ‘two-tier-policing myth’. Not for the first time, the ‘fact-checkers’ are less interested in establishing the truth than in defending the establishment narrative. Let’s be frank, two-tier policing is not only real – it is also impossible for any honest person to ignore."
From 2024

Links - 7th June 2026 (3 - Trans Mania)

2026-06-07T21:14:00.000+08:00

Levi Pay on X - "I remember sharing an office with four other university service directors back in 2015. One afternoon, we chatted about “trans kids” and puberty blockers. It was at the time when that Louis Theroux programme was airing and the issue was starting to surface. Every single person in that office thought the whole thing was nonsense. They saw straight through it and were saying things like, “Why can’t we just accept feminine boys and masculine girls for who they are?” before I even had to say a word. In fact, the colleagues who were already parents were more strident and clear-headed about these issues than I was at the time. I am willing to bet that these four people haven’t said much, if anything at all, at work about these issues over the past few years. I’ve certainly not seen them say anything on social media. So, yes, other medical scandals might have involved deference towards flawed and dangerous professionals - with devastating effects on people’s lives. However, I struggle to think of a medical scandal that comes anywhere close to the invention of the “trans child” when it comes to forcing otherwise sane, normal people, against their better judgement and against every instinct they have to protect kids, to shut up and say nothing."
Weird. We were told the science was "settled"

Canadian government warns that it is VIOLENT to call transgender person by their former name - "Canada's official government website states that 'deadnaming,' or referring to a transgender or non-binary person by their birth name without consent, is an act of 'gender-based violence.' The phenomenon is listed alongside other serious violations, such as sharing intimate images, pressuring someone into sex, assuming consent and engaging in controlling behavior. The section titled, Women and Gender Equality Canada, also encourages people who see deadnaming in action to 'document and report' incidents."

Canadian government warns that it is VIOLENT to call transgender person by their former name : r/CanadianConservative - "If words are violence, then people will justify actual violence to stop words."
"“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Once was taught to all the children. Not anymore. Times have changed."

Meme - Charles Arthur @charlesarthur: "Guardian US opinion columnist on left; Guardian UK sports writer on right. Both articles published on the same day, three hours apart. Never seen the schism within the organisation laid out so clearly. (A number of UK staff think some US staff are bonkers.)"
"The Olympics' trans policy polices womanhood Moira Donegan"
"The IOC's decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness Tanya Aldred"

California professor snarls 'this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises!' during transgender rant at university meeting - "A lesbian professor at a California university loudly proclaimed that she has had girlfriends with penises during a public meeting on Tuesday. Jamie O'Quinn, an assistant sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino, made the unusual declaration during a meeting of the California State University Board of Trustees. She was responding to statements other speakers made in support of an enforcement action filed in January by the Department of Education against San Jose State University, which alleges that the university violated Title IX by allowing a transgender woman to compete on the women's volleyball team. At least eight people, ranging from concerned citizens to activists, expressed concern that San Jose State is not acquiescing to the federal government's demand to separate sports and locker room facilities by sex. O'Quinn was seemingly set off by one woman who said that lesbians 'don't have penises'. 'I'm frustrated that I'm going to have to use my time today to talk about transphobia instead of the cuts that are impacting our students and our faculty every day,' said O'Quinn, who describes herself as a feminist scholar-activist. She continued: 'It seems like there's a bit of a misunderstanding that a lot of the folks calling in have about the difference between sex and gender. Uh, spoiler alert, both are socially constructed.' 'Male and female are binaries on a spectrum,' she said. 'The idea that I have to get up here and say that trans women are women...is absurd. Shame on you. Shame on all of you. And shame on you for using lesbian politics as a front for your transphobia because this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises.'... Mary Davis, a former San Jose State student, said she was disappointed that her alma mater 'is no longer welcome to women'. 'I'm here to support Title IX and state a basic truth that many people are afraid to say - males cannot become females. Everyone understands this in sports,' Davis said."
Weird. We keep being told that sex and gender are different, and only ignorant people don't know that

SEEN in Journalism on X - "'Lesbian Prof rants about girlfriends with penises' - shouting shame on you' at lesbians who know what women are. Yesterday we had a Prof saying that 'gay' and 'lesbian' labels harm trans people. The homophobia in the California faculty is worrying."

Jenna Taylor ♀️ on X - "A significant portion of the hostility towards transsexual separatism comes from this assumption from transgenders that we transsexuals somehow "owe" the broader 'umbrella' our visibility, legitimacy, medical history, and public sympathy indefinitely. But many transsexuals are increasingly beginning to feel that the broader movement no longer reflects our priorities, language, goals, or understanding of what it means to transition. Our own movement has been hijacked by people who have completely redefined what it means to be trans and have, in turn, silenced transsexual dissent at every turn when we attempt to bring this to light. Wanting the ability to define ourselves separately from this movement that we no longer recognize is not some sort of betrayal, or a sign of trying to be "one of the good ones" or whatever else nonsense transgenders come up with to cope with reality. We want a movement built by transsexuals, and for transsexuals only. We seek self-determination."
Wesley Yang on X - "This was all resolved in 2009. Trans-medicalists lost decisively and now are a minor and insignificant subgroup of the wider umbrella, the vast majority of whose members claim a gender identity outside of any medical framing"

Sa détransition ne sera pas couverte par le régime public | JDQ - " Une jeune femme ayant entrepris une transition de genre durant son adolescence devra débourser des milliers de dollars pour revenir à son sexe biologique. « J’étais soutenue pendant ma transition pour devenir un gars lorsque j’avais de 13 à 17 ans », raconte Rose Guérin. La jeune résidente de Sainte-Catherine sur la Rive-Sud de Montréal a commencé à prendre des bloqueurs d’hormones à 13 ans et de la testostérone à 14 ans. Celle qui était devenue Maxime s’est fait enlever les deux seins à l’âge de 16 ans. Ces traitements étaient couverts par le régime public. « J’étais très investie dans ma transition, j’avais toujours hâte à la prochaine étape », se souvient Rose Guérin... Juste avant la grande opération, à 17 ans, Rose Guérin a changé d’idée. « J’ai fondu en larmes et j’ai appelé ma mère pour lui dire que je n’étais pas un gars, que j’avais toujours été juste une fille très mal dans sa peau », se souvient celle qui travaille comme patrouilleuse pour la SPCA de Montréal. Elle s’est alors sentie abandonnée par le système qui l’avait jusque-là encadrée pendant sa transition. « Il n’y avait soudainement plus de services pour moi », déplore celle qui a aujourd’hui 21 ans et qui a reçu un diagnostic de trouble de la personnalité limite. Pour les divers traitements afin d’éliminer sa pilosité, d’éclaircir sa voix et de reconstituer ses seins, elle estime qu’elle devra payer au moins 30 000 $. « Les chirurgies de féminisation du visage ou de la voix et les traitements d’épilation au laser ne sont pas couverts, que ce soit dans un processus de transition ou de détransition », confirme Marie-Claude Lacasse, du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux... « Chaque fois que je partage mon expérience, je reçois des injures ou des incitations au suicide, mais je n’ai pas envie de me taire », tranche-t-elle."

Alessandra Asteriti 𒊩 on X - "No legal theorist would accept that establishing duties on the basis of an undefined concept is not arbitrary and therefore inimical to the rule of law. Except gender. Gender cannot be questioned and cannot be defined. It is the black hole of legal theory."
Kara Dansky on X - "What she says here is absolutely true. Several years ago, a woman who was new to the fight said to me, "Surely, if you explain to a judge in a courtroom what is really going on here, you'll be able to get this fixed?" No. I explained to her that a US federal judge had at that time recently ruled that a lawyer was not permitted to use the word "male" in court when referring to a male athlete. A few years before that, a different US federal judge told a different lawyer that the lawyer was not allowed to use the phrase "opposite sex" in court because the judge found the phrase to be "complicated." It hasn't been like this in every case that's come up in the US, but it has been like this in nearly every one of them, including cases that are being presided over by conservative judges. "Gender cannot be questioned and cannot be defined. It is the black hole of legal theory" is brilliant."
Weird. I thought that sex and gender were different and only ignorant people didn't know that

Nancy Hogshead, JD, Oly on X - ".@TEDTalks cancelled my talk about women’s rights conflicting with men like this, as soon as it was announced. @TEDTalks platformed him. @TEDTalks de-platformed me. I’m an Olympic champion; I have lived experience of sport. I’m a civil rights lawyer & author; w expertise on women’s rights. I’ve taught Sports Law for 20 years. It’s galling."
Wesley Yang on X - "What's interesting about this anecdote is not that TED deplatformed her but that they had her scheduled in the first place. There was a brief, memory-holed moment around in the mid-2010's when it seemed like actual deliberation and debate was going to be permitted. Trans-activists acted to slam the door shut on this process and the whole of institutional America moved as one to embrace transgenderism, to parrot mindless slogans and enforce the false dogmas by punishing those resisted them. Virtually no one knew what any of it meant or what it would entail in practice. (Few know even now.) Everyone accepted by default that there was, as the movement's acolytes claimed, science, reason, truth and morality behind this abrupt departure from the species knowledge embedded within human folkways and intuitions since the dawn of prehistory. (There was none.) Everyone within the institutions at the time witnessed or took part in this great shuttering of the Western mind -- in virtually all cases, people had to lobotomize themselves in order to believe a falsehood or simply clam up out of self-preservation. In the interim, a gigantic political and intellectual fiasco was building."

Wesley Yang on X - "The reason not one Democrat has been able to moderate on trans inclusion in sports is that they are stumped by Chase Strangio's conundrum: moderating on sports would mean accepting and acting on the (true) premise that trans girls aren't real girls. (They are boys.) Any claim made in the sports domain also applies to all other sex-segregated domains. Contrary to claims made by would-be moderates on this issue, there is simply no way to give ground in any domain without acknowledging the basic falsehood at the foundation of a movement that exists to deploy state power to force people to affirm. The transgender movement designed it this way, to permit no retreat on any front, by making its appeal based on a truth claim: "trans women are women." The advantage of this truth claim was that it resolved every question at once. The problem with this truth claim was that it was, in fact, untrue, and self-evidently so, such that it could not withstand any scrutiny and could only be upheld through a societal campaign of repression which it became the responsibility of the political party endorsing it to enact. All those seeking to triangulate on this issue are forever caught in this impasse, which is why no one tries to escape it, and those who do try find themselves quickly ensnared and unable to do anything about the deep unfairness that this agenda forces them to inflict on a generation of girls. As a result, there are male rapists and murderers in women's prisons across Blue America, and parents having their custody stripped from them by courts if they won't affirm a harmful falsehood that will leave their children sterilized, and millions of children being trained to hate and fear and seek to destroy those who reject false secular dogmas taught to them from the earliest age as the only truth. There can only be a clean break wherein people admit that we have to stop propagandizing children to believe falsehoods, stop acting like it's morally compulsory to treat a falsehood as if it is true, stop punishing people for telling a truth, acknowledge that all of this is profoundly corrosive to the moral and epistemic foundation of a reason-based society in a way that matters to every other aspect of a reason-based order, and that in fact threatens the continuation of that order precisely because the institutions that are stewards of this reason-based order have become infected by it more than any other faction of society. The whole thing has to be scrapped. Of course we have no precedent for societal institutions going all in on such a self-evident falsehood and thus we have no roadmap for how to pull back in a way that saves enough face for those responsible for inflicting this on society to consider doing so. In the process of inflaming this ludicrous travesty of a civil rights movement, a subpopulation of hundreds of thousands of children have been memed into existence, told their lives depend upon the fulfillment of impossible promises that can never be true, told that the non-fulfillment of these impossible promises is a form of genocide, and as a result we already see members of this subpopulation routinely acting out in the form of murderous rampages planned or executed by mentally comborbid youth who were told that pretending to be something they are not would be the resolution of all their problems, and that the whole world not being compelled by law to participate in upholding the falsehood that they've been told their existence requires is violence. This is the Democrats' -- and societies -- dilemma that it may or may not have the resources to solve."

Taxpayer-funded 'Ask a Trans Person' event boots academic before she can ask a question - "They called it “Ask a Trans Person.” It was an event held at the Okotoks, Alberta, Elks Hall on Thursday, April 30. Open dialogue. Community conversation. Welcome to all. Except… not really. Because when former Mount Royal University professor Francis Widdowson showed up — a real academic, someone capable of asking an unscripted, inconvenient question — she was removed. Escorted out. From an event that advertised itself as open. And that tells you everything... Agree with her or not, that’s what academics are supposed to do: ask questions, test claims, and follow evidence. Apparently, that’s no longer welcome — at least not at events like this. Now look at who was on stage. You’ve got Fae Johnstone — a taxpayer-funded activist who’s become the go-to face of this movement. Canadians might remember Johnstone from that bizarre Hershey’s International Women’s Day campaign, where a chocolate bar meant to celebrate women featured a biological male as the face of womanhood. That didn’t go over well with, well, actual women. Johnstone was also tapped as keynote at the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards — again, raising eyebrows about what, exactly, qualifies someone to represent women in spaces built for women. And then there’s the other speaker — a Mount Royal professor performing under the drag persona “Karla Marx,” whose real name is Victoria Bucholtz. This is someone who publicly berated a sitting Alberta MLA, Jennifer Johnson, in what can only be described as a struggle session — attacking her for saying something many parents quietly agree with: that kids shouldn’t be swept up in gender ideology at school. So this isn’t a neutral panel. This is activism. Funded activism. Because the organizations behind this tour — Queer Momentum, Pride Canada, Trans Action Alberta — are tied to federal dollars, directly or through partners like Egale Canada. Which means you’re paying for it. And here’s the kicker: You’re paying for an event that you’re not allowed to question. A taxpayer-funded echo chamber. A travelling ideological roadshow where dissent isn’t debated — it’s removed... They call it “Ask a Trans Person.” But what they really mean is: Ask the right questions, give the right answers, or don’t ask at all. And if you do? Well… there’s the door."

Marissa Streit on X - ".@ConceptualJames traces the aggressive push of gender ideology in schools straight to its source: UNESCO, the UN agency President Trump pulled us out of and Biden put us back in. This is not a grassroots movement. It is a coordinated agenda that runs from international bureaucracy through teachers unions and directly into your child's classroom. Why are these powerful institutions working so hard to put sexual content in front of children? Watch here 👉 https://l.prageru.com/42DsrJH"

alyssa on X - "Women’s rights don’t mean anything if men can say they are women"
Rep. Nancy Mace on X - ""Women's rights" from the same people who can't define what a woman is."

Meme - Wilfred Reilly: "One of the cruelest and most bizarre aspects of the trans trend that many MTF trans people seem not to have been informed that cutting off your penis and testicles ends normal libido. Interestingly, logically, it would also end autogynephilia."
Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA: "It might be because you cut off your dick, Mike."
"r/Transgender_Surgeries
Why can't I orgasm yet
ORGASM ADVICE AFTER GCS 35MTF 7 months post opp full depth GCS with Dr. Kaoutzanis. I have sensation around my clitoris, but no matter how long I stimulate it for, I can't even get close to an orgasm. Please help, any suggestions are welcome. If this is the wrong place to post on their topic, please direct me to the sub that it will be appropriate on."

blighter on X - "tbf, believing that cutting off your genitalia wouldn't affect your libido is a logical extension of the (incorrect) belief that 'who you are' is some ethereal thing unconnected from your body, such that you could be "in the wrong body". obviously, if "the real you" is something completely separate and unrelated to your body then why would changing your body affect it? this is the logic of "making your body reflect the real you!" but, of course, this is nonsense. you *are* your body. changing your body *changes you*. cutting off your sexual organs will change your perceptions of sex, including your libido. (interestingly, this mistaken belief of a 'soul' that is separate from and unrelated to your body is an ancient heresy. perhaps we'll never be free from it.)"

Costa Coffee facing boycott over 'irresponsible' advert of trans man - "Costa Coffee is facing a boycott over an “irresponsible” cartoon advert of a trans man after a double mastectomy. The cartoon, which is on a Costa Express van in the UK, depicts a recently transitioned man in a surfing pose with large lips, blue hair and scars typical of a breast removal operation... Maya Forstater, who is on the board of Sex Matters, a human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy, told the Telegraph: “The cartoon-like picture of a young woman who has had her breasts surgically removed is shocking and irresponsible. “Young women are being sold a lie that if they have their breasts removed and take hormones they can become men, or at least avoid being women.” Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy for human-rights organisation Sex Matters, added: “It’s disgustingly irresponsible of Costa to suggest-sell - even glorify - mental distress, bodily dissociation and self-harm among teenage girls. “Costa presumably thinks it’s being ‘inclusive’ with this messaging; in fact it’s helping to fuel a social contagion and medical scandal masquerading as a social-justice movement.” James Esses, a co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists, a group of counsellors and psychologists concerned with impact of gender ideology on young people, addressed Costa directly on Twitter: “Dear @CostaCoffee, Could you kindly explain why you are glorifying irreversible surgery performed on healthy breasts of women for a mental health condition?”... Nike was criticised in April for paying a transgender influencer to model one of its sports bras in a sponsored social media post. Dylan Mulvaney, 26, a transgender social media influencer with more than 10 million online followers, posted videos and photos to her Instagram page, tagging Nike Women and adding the hashtag “Nike partner”, indicating the post had been sponsored by the sportswear brand. The campaign led to outrage on social media, with critics questioning why a biological male without breasts had been asked to model a sports bra."

The irony of Trevor Phillips’ suspension - spiked - "Trans womxn firmly believe in tolerance for all, and believe everyone should be able to decide their sex or gender. People should never be exclusionary. Obviously there are exceptions. Cis-women who don’t believe that womxn are women should be cancelled, No Platformed and excluded. Or executed. It’s the only tolerant way of dealing with bigots. The problem with cis-women is that they are biological essentialists, who think that someone’s masculine or feminine personality is determined by their sex or genitals. This is nonsense. We can choose what personality we have via phalloplasty or vaginoplasty, because only through such sex-change procedures can we be true to ourselves. Some of us were born in the wrong body. Trans people just encourage us all to accept our true innate selves – although encouraging young people to accept their bodies is transphobic. There are no such things as lesbians, only males trapped in female bodies. So young females who think they are of a different sexual persuasion must be put on puberty blockers or receive surgery in order to become true to themselves. Trans people do not have a medical condition. They are being true to themselves. Except people who have gender dysphoria, who do have a medical condition, and need hormone therapy and surgery to be true to themselves. People who transition are being true to themselves; people who detransition are mad. Finally, and we must always remember this, gender is a social construct – except for biologically trans womxn, who are just born in the wrong male body. It really is that simple. If you don’t understand, are you really surprised people want to kill you?"

Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ on X - "A trans activist released a game to Steam in which the goal is to murder as many GC women as you can “in cathartic bliss” as you escape from “a gender-fascist concentration camp.” Think about that for a minute. If one of us released a game that centered on a female character killing trans rapists, not only would it be taken down the moment it came to Steam’s attention, but - depending on their location - the creator might even get arrested. And that’s in spite of the fact that trans rapists are an all-too-common phenomenon, whereas gender-fascist concentration camps exist only in the oppression fantasies of a group of people who see themselves as the most victimy victims ever to be victimized."
On Terfenstein 3D

What Happened in Washington State’s Women’s Prison Should Horrify Every American - "Faith Booher-Smith’s story is another reminder of how easy it is to be stripped of our rights. In August 2025, Booher-Smith was violently attacked in an unprovoked by a trans-identified male inmate who was being housed in the Washington State Correctional Center for Women—the state’s only women’s prison. This 6’4”, fully intact man, who had been convicted of sex crimes against a child, was able to allegedly grab Booher-Smith from behind, beat her, and stomp on her, resulting in undeniable, visible injuries. To make matters worse, the Washington State Department of Corrections was well aware of the attacker’s violent tendencies and still chose to transfer this individual to the women’s prison, where a large percentage of the female inmates are survivors of every kind of abuse one can imagine. They did so because gender ideology, the seemingly new religion of our nation’s DOCs, is being prioritized over women’s well-being, safety, and basic human rights... This trans-identified male’s history was no secret. Prior to this attack, he had displayed the same violent and predatory behavior toward another female inmate, Mozzy Clark, who filed two lawsuits against the Washington DOC. Clark was forced to share a cell with this trans-identified prisoner. This man was provided with a predator’s dream crime come true, as he was allegedly able to masturbate in front of Clark and molest her in her sleep. In the years I have been fighting for human rights for women who are trapped in the same cells I was in, this kind of disgusting occurrence is not surprising. It’s actually commonplace—as anyone with a working brain would imagine—when you house violent male sex offenders in a women’s prison, even if they choose to identify as women... The bottom line is the system found a way to accommodate one group—trans-identified men—by shifting the cost onto another: women.Many Americans may think this is a topic that isn’t newsworthy or headline material, but I have one message for those people: what our government will subject the least of us to, they will inevitably subject all of us to."
Left wing logic: trans people "existing" doesn't affect your life in any way so you should ignore women who are the victims of trans mania, because empathy is bad. Meanwhile, they keep quoting Martin Niemöller's "First they came for..."

Jonathan Kay on X - "Remember when the Cass Review came out, activists said it was full of mistakes & no one should follow it? The British Medical Assoc. did a review *of the Cass Review*… a meta-review, in response to activist critics Result: BMA vindicates every one of Cass’ 82 recommendations"

Kristen Waggoner on X - "Their 11-year-old daughter went on a class trip—only to discover that her hotel roommate (and expected bedmate) was a boy. Today we’re representing them & other CO parents at the 10th Circuit. Kids deserve privacy on overnight trips. Parents deserve the chance to protect them."
Matty on X - "Girl was uncomfortable sharing a room w a trans girl, the school says okay and moves her to another room away from the trans kid respecting her wishes and boundaries. Parents sue anyways?? Tf do these people want? “Kids deserve privacy” SHE GOT THE PRIVACY SHE WANTED."
Kristen Waggoner on X - "You missed the fact that school officials deceived this young girl and her parents, promising them that boys and girls would sleep on separate floors. It wasn’t until this 11-year-old girl was on the trip—far from home—that she discovered her expected bedmate was a boy. She was then forced to stand up against school authorities and defend her own privacy in the moment, late at night. They initially treated her as if her concerns were not legitimate, moving her to a different bed in the room. This backfired when the other roommates wanted the boy to move beds too. So this little girl had to muster the courage to voice her concerns a second time. The school finally relented and moved her to another room, but told her to lie about the reason why. Any reasonable person can see how outrageous this is. No child should have to defend her own privacy against a school policy that puts her in jeopardy. And no school district should make it a policy to deceive parents. Furthermore: not all kids have the ability or opportunity to stand up for themselves. Another family in our lawsuit has a son whose sleeping arrangements and showers were supervised by a female (identifying as non-binary) at a week-long school camp. Several of the boys were so uncomfortable that they skipped showers and changed their clothes inside their sleeping bags. This is inexcusable. It is adults’ responsibility to stand up for children—not children’s responsibility to stand up for themselves. This could easily be avoided with a commonsense policy that allows parents to stay informed and opt their children out of mixed-sex sleeping arrangements ahead of time—protecting the privacy of ALL children involved. But despite our requests, the school district repeatedly refused to do this. So yes, we sued. In fact, let me put every district in America on notice right now: if you treat students and parents this way, prepare for a lawsuit."

A Miscarriage of Journalism at ‘The New York Times’ (Israeli Dog Rape)

2026-06-07T18:30:00.000+08:00

A Miscarriage of Journalism at ‘The New York Times’
Federal judge Roy K. Altman explains how an article by ‘Times’ columnist Nicholas Kristof violates the fundamental rules of fairness and due process that sustain our democracy.

Nicholas Kristof’s recent essay about supposed Israeli sex crimes against Palestinian detainees is a travesty—not simply because it’s wrong as a matter of fact, or because it regurgitates long-debunked blood libels against the Jewish state at a time of rising antisemitism around the world.

It’s a travesty because it embraces the erosion of democratic norms at an inflection point in our history. Since our founding, the American political experiment has entrusted everyday citizens with the revolutionary power to choose. We choose the men and women who represent us. We choose how to balance the intimate relationship between a free people and its government. We choose whether to send a member of our community to prison.

But we entrust our fellow Americans with the power to make these choices because we believe that a virtuous people will be equipped to make the right choices—principally because we assume that our citizens will be prepared to discern truth from fiction. And we feel comfortable in that assumption because we’ve devised a system of laws—based on evidence, burdens of proof, and a time-tested set of rules—to help us assess the veracity of contested claims. In this way, the jury system isn’t simply a means of ensuring fair trials. Rather, it’s a way of training free citizens to make difficult decisions for themselves.

Today, this whole system is being undermined by the proliferation of false information—especially on the internet. But it’s one thing to have our geopolitical and ideological enemies—whether China, Russia, or the Muslim Brotherhood—pushing unverified claims about our closest allies into our cell phones. It’s another thing entirely for The New York Times, a supposed “paper of record,” and one of its Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists to offer a story that—in its disregard of basic evidence-gathering norms, its unwillingness to investigate the opposing side’s position, and its inversion of common sense—violates the fundamental rules of fairness and due process that have, for centuries, served as the bulwark of our democracy.

In his explosive essay, Kristof accused Israel of using sexual violence against detained Palestinian prisoners as a kind of “standard operating procedure.” Kristof’s claim is thus not merely that a few rogue Israeli prison guards sometimes behave illegally—as happens in all Western democracies, including our own. It is, instead, that the Israeli government has implemented a systemic policy of deploying sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners on a massive scale.

The jury system isn’t simply a means of ensuring fair trials. Rather, it’s a way of training free citizens to make difficult decisions for themselves.

The timing of the essay is itself troubling. Weeks ago, the independent commission charged with investigating, and reporting on, Hamas’s widespread use of sexual violence against Israelis on October 7 informed the Times that it would be releasing its report on Hamas’s egregious sex-crimes violations on or around May 12. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, when the commission offered to provide the Times with its findings, the Times said it was not interested. But then, on May 11, one day before the commission’s report was set to be published, the Times ran Kristof’s piece, which flips the script by portraying the victims of mass sexual violence as the perpetrators. (The Times denies the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s version of events and insists that there is no relationship between the timing of the commission’s report and Kristof’s column.)

But we should recognize that this preemptive co-opting of the real story here—the systemic victimization of Israeli women and girls—is no innocuous question of timing. As any experienced trial advocate or jury consultant can attest, the psychological doctrine of primacy—which explains why a fact finder is often most persuaded by the story he hears first—dictates the order in which evidence is produced, and witnesses are called, in many American trials. The Times later ran a shorter story about the Israeli commission’s report, but by then, as the doctrine of primacy teaches us, it was too late.

In law as in logic, we can and should use a party’s conduct in deciding whether we believe what the party has to say—principally because that conduct may help us understand the party’s incentives, its biases. And the Times’s conduct as it relates to a story about Hamas’s sex crimes—followed in quick succession by its decision to publish an inflammatory opinion piece about supposed Israeli sex crimes—tells us a lot about the Times’s biases.

On the merits, Kristof’s article violates three central precepts of our legal system: It disregards basic rules of evidence gathering; it refuses to investigate the opposing side’s views; and it ignores logic and common sense.

Let’s start with fairness. One of the fundamental rules of our justice system is that a man should be permitted to confront his accuser. Whether in civil or criminal cases, we have for hundreds of years rejected the English Star Chamber’s technique of allowing anonymous witnesses to advance salacious claims in secret. This principle is so essential to any basic system of fairness that it appears repeatedly throughout our laws—from the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause and its guarantee of public trials to our hearsay rules, which preclude out-of-court statements the accused never had an opportunity to cross-examine. But Kristof’s article relies mostly on anonymous sources whose credibility—much less their political or ideological affiliations—cannot be tested and thus cannot be known.

Kristof justifies his reliance on anonymity by suggesting that his sources would face retribution, either from Israeli authorities or from their own communities, if they came forward. But there are at least four major problems with this excuse.

One, Kristof provides no evidence of any similar retribution against one of the men he spoke with who has publicly accused Israeli guards of sexual assault. For months now, Sami al-Sai has repeatedly and publicly claimed, including to major news outlets like NPR and the Times, that he was sexually assaulted while in Israeli detention. There are real problems with al-Sai’s claims. For one thing, soon after his detention, he filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court, arguing that he was wrongly detained and asking for his immediate release. In that petition, he complained about the quality of the food he was given and said that he was treated badly, but he notably never mentioned any of the sex allegations he’s now advancing.

The New York Times didn’t respond to a request for comment as to whether Kristof reviewed any of al-Sai’s judicial records before publication of his report. It’s safe to assume, however, that he didn’t. How Kristof could report reliably on al-Sai’s condition while in prison in the absence of any of these legal documents is a question worth pondering.

For another, the Supreme Court’s order denying his petition found credible evidence that he was affiliated with Palestinian terror groups and that he had thus been properly detained—an obvious stain on his reliability as a witness against Israel, the central target of every Palestinian terror group. (Kristof describes al-Sai merely as “a freelance journalist.”) But the point here is that, far from suffering any retribution for complaining about his detention, al-Sai was later freed, and Kristof never suggests that he’s since been subject to any form of punishment.

Two, any cursory review of Israeli legal databases would reveal that Israeli prisons allow Palestinian prisoners to file complaints about the conditions of their confinement—and that these complaints do get filed. Indeed, since 2023, Israel has received 182 such complaints filed by Israel Prison Service detainees from the Gaza Strip. Of those, 83 were filed by the prisoners’ attorneys, 85 were reported by Israeli officials themselves, and four involved allegations of sex offenses—a tiny fraction among a prison population that includes some 10,000 Palestinians. But the point is that Kristof offers not a single shred of evidence that any of the Palestinian prisoners who filed complaints has ever been subjected to retribution—much less that this speculation about retribution has ever been a feature of the Israeli prison system.

Three, Kristof’s reliance on anonymity ensures that no one—most especially the Israelis—can ever prove him wrong. That’s because he not only tells us very little about the accusers, he tells us nothing about the offenses. No locations. No dates. No perpetrators. Israeli prisons, like many of our own, are often videotaped, and those recordings are reviewed not just by prison guards but by prison officials and lawyers. If Kristof had conducted anything resembling a fair analysis, we would have expected him to have asked to review some of this footage. But there’s no indication that he ever did. Nor can anyone else do so now because Kristof gave us no details to check against his claims. There’s an old adage that says it’s impossible to prove a negative—all the more so when there are no facts to investigate.

Four, we should acknowledge that it’s always hard for victims of sexual assault to advance their claims publicly. But any system committed to basic fairness recognizes that the accuser’s preference for anonymity must bend to the accused’s right to confront the claims against him. And that’s not just because we want to allow the accused to test the reliability of the accuser’s claims. It’s also because we presume that the mere act of declaring something publicly itself evinces some degree of credibility.

The few sources Kristof does name underscore why anonymity is so problematic. Beyond al-Sai, Kristof relies heavily on a report by Euro-Med, an organization with known ties to Hamas. While Kristof says that Euro-Med is “often critical of Israel”—an almost laughable understatement—he never discloses that Euro-Med’s leader, Ramy Abdu, is affiliated with Hamas, that he has advocated publicly for “a million October 7ths,” and that he has repeatedly peddled implausible (and now discredited) claims about Israel, including the absurd allegation that Israel “harvests organs.” Kristof similarly relies on a United Nations Human Rights Council report, which is itself based on anonymous reporting and which openly dispenses with its typical corroboration requirements in favor of “a single primary source.”

Whatever one thinks of Israel or its prison system, we must ask ourselves: Why does Kristof never tell his readers any of this? Don’t we deserve to know that the NGO on which he based so much of his “opinion” has hurled false claims about Israel before, or that its director is affiliated with Hamas?

All of which brings us to the second major defect in Kristof’s piece: his failure to seriously investigate the opposing side’s position. Our adversarial system stands on a simple but profound premise: Truth is best tested through confrontation. No just system would accept, without question, the accuser’s claims and call it a day. But Kristof does exactly that. Here are three examples of this basic flaw in his reporting.

First, in advancing his claim that Israel permits or encourages sexual abuse of detainees as a matter of state policy, Kristof fails even to mention that sexual offenses are strictly prohibited under Israel’s penal code. Indeed, the Israeli legal system imposes enhanced penalties when sexual offenses, including by security personnel, are motivated by race, skin color, or national origin. And Israeli military forces are bound by a host of additional directives, which further protect prisoners from state-sponsored violence, including sexual violence. Again, Kristof discussed none of these laws and never attempted to assess the extent to which violations of these laws are ever punished. What was he trying to hide?

Our adversarial system stands on a simple but profound premise: Truth is best tested through confrontation.

Rather than engage with these laws, Kristof offers the unchallenged and uncorroborated view of Sari Bashi, who told him that Israel rarely punishes prison guards who violate Israeli law. Not so. Even in the aftermath of October 7, when there was understandably little sympathy for the Palestinian terrorists who had suddenly flooded Israel’s jails, the Israel Defense Forces cracked down on misconduct. Looking to incidents reported by Israeli commanders and soldiers alone, the Israeli military has instituted more than a dozen disciplinary proceedings or measures against soldiers for law violations against Palestinians, some even resulting in military discharges—a severe penalty in a society that views military service as the ticket to socioeconomic advancement. Military prosecutors have also launched three criminal investigations into alleged sexual offenses by soldiers against Palestinians, and five more are currently undergoing a preliminary examination.

Several other Israeli investigations have led to prosecutions and serious prison sentences. One Israeli soldier, for example, was convicted and sentenced to jail for physically abusing Palestinian inmates and requiring them to speak in a demeaning way. Another who inappropriately searched Palestinian women and foreign tourists was sentenced to fourteen months in prison. Two soldiers were convicted and sentenced to prison for assaulting a Palestinian detainee during a security inspection. Each of these cases eviscerates Kristof’s suggestion that Israel fails to punish soldiers or prison officials who behave illegally toward Palestinians—and they’re simply incompatible with Kristof’s thesis of state-sanctioned abuse. But the more fundamental point, again, is that Kristof curiously never tells his readers any of this.

Second, Kristof likewise fails to disclose that there’s an elite unit in Israel’s police force, called Lahav 433, tasked with investigating misconduct by the Israeli Prison Service. Now, it’s entirely possible that Israel created this unit inside what’s known as the “Israeli FBI” and filled it with elite servicemembers who do nothing but sit in an office all day, twiddling their thumbs and happily allowing misconduct to go unchecked. The far more plausible inference, I submit, is that Israel didn’t create this elite investigative unit simply to do nothing. But the point is that we don’t know—and cannot know—the answers to any of these questions from Kristof’s “opinion” piece because he never bothered to mention this unit, never thought to interview its members, and never investigated the extent to which it actually enforces Israeli law.

Third, rather than inquire into the practices of the men and women charged with enforcing Israel’s penal code, Kristof turned to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who conceded he didn’t know anything about Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners and yet proceeded to speculate that he “was not surprised by the accounts [Kristof] had heard.” Several glaring issues here. For starters, Kristof never tells his readers that Olmert, a disgraced and embittered former politician, was convicted and imprisoned on charges of fraud and bribery. Nor does Kristof explain why it makes any sense to question Olmert about the policies of a prison system he says he knows nothing about and a government he hasn’t participated in for more than a decade. We wouldn’t trust Richard Nixon as an expert in the policies of the Bill Clinton–era Bureau of Prisons. But all this is mostly beside the point because, once the article came out, Olmert clarified, in a statement to The New York Times and obtained by The Free Press, that “Mr. Kristof’s article includes claims of extraordinary gravity: that Israeli authorities have directed the rape of children, that dogs have been used as instruments of sexual assault, that systematic sexual torture is state policy. I did not validate these claims.”

Of course, an essay isn’t a courtroom. But when a reporter in our supposed “paper of record” advances a series of allegations that are this severe and pernicious, not solely against an individual but against an entire nation, we should demand that he produce evidence to match the gravity of his assertions. And Kristof—who has been forced in the past to admit that he’d been lied to by his sources—has fallen well short of this standard.

Which brings us to Kristof’s final departure from our fundamental precepts: his lack of common sense. The most salacious claim in Kristof’s piece is the allegation that Israel is now systematically training dogs to rape Arab Muslim men. This claim used to live only on the fringes of the wildest internet conspiracy theories. In 2010, there was a spate of shark attacks in the Red Sea, situated between Israel and Egypt. For whatever reason, most (if not all) of these attacks occurred on the Egyptian side of the border. I happened to be in Israel that summer and heard an Egyptian minister wondering whether the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, was systematically training sharks to eat only Arab flesh. My father and I, hearing this over the radio in a cab, laughed at the absurdity of the claim.

But we aren’t laughing now. What we’ve seen over the last few years is that wild and illogical conspiracy theories that used to reside only on the internet and in the anti-Israel Arab street now circulate in the mainstream media, brought there by irresponsible journalists who flout evidentiary standards, ignore basic notions of fairness, and disregard common sense and the truth. What kind of a society will we be if we don’t reverse this disturbing erosion in our ability to tell truth from falsehood?

Intergenerational epigenetic inheritance ("trauma") being Fake

2026-06-07T18:12:00.000+08:00

Alden Whitfeld on X

Intergenerational epigenetic inheritance, especially on “trauma”, is a meme. First of all, almost the entirety of its effects are erased during early development in the germ line [1][2][3]. Second, humans don’t even have a stable mechanism to transmit such effects successively across generations in the first place, as noted here [4]: "A simple illustration of genuine intergenerational transmission that requires no imaginative gymnastics would be famine which induces stress on the pregnant mother, her female fetus and the female fetus’s own eggs, where all exhibit epigenetic responses due to a simultaneous and singular external shock. The longest possible chain of generational impacts of this event would reach to the children of a female fetus in utero at the time of the external stressor (the third generation). And if the fetus were male, the effect could not persist beyond him in the second generation, because males continuously produce new sperm cells throughout their lifetime; no mechanism exists for them to transmit the famine-induced changes. Any posited intergenerational “transmission” cannot then be literal transmission, but at most correlation due to the same shock contemporaneously impacting parent and offspring (and if the fetus is female, egg cells). Multiple generations, yes, but only in the way that multiple generations living through a catastrophic earthquake carry its scars in various forms for the rest of their lives. In contrast, under transgenerational transmission, the stress marks induced by the external shock are thought to be copied generation after generation so that the effect persists much longer. If transgenerational transmission does occur in humans, you might expect descendants of the Armenian genocide to be biologically impacted by that event more than a century on. But we don’t even need to take this line of hopeful speculation seriously, because epigenetic transmission across multiple generations almost certainly does not occur in humans at all. Mammals generally would be unlikely to exhibit transgenerational epigenetic transmission due to the simple facts of our reproductive biology. Though transgenerational epigenetic transmission grabs the public spotlight, it accounts for far less than 1% of the research published that can be classed as “epigenetics” (and this is on any species, least of all humans!). Instead, for humans and all complex organisms, epigenetics remains both incredibly important and ubiquitous, but solely as a cellular and developmental phenomenon. To understand epigenetics in its full power, you talk to a molecular biologist that works with DNA, not a therapist probing the pain points of your family history." But how is epigenetic inheritance even established empirically? The actual state of the research is quite abysmal. Practically all of the commonly cited studies on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of trauma that make it to pop-sci commentary are based on extremely small samples or highly unreliable and imprecise methods. In fact, their own results do not provide even weak evidence for the claims of "inherited trauma" [5]. To quote Steven Pinker from his afterword to his book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature [6]: "that some epigenetic markers attached to the DNA strand as a result of environmental signals (generally stressors such as starvation or maternal neglect) can be passed from mother to offspring. These intergenerational effects on gene expression are sometimes misunderstood as Lamarckian, but they’re not, because they don’t change the DNA sequence, are reversed after one or two generations, are themselves under the control of the genes, and probably represent a Darwinian adaptation by which organisms prepare their offspring for stressful conditions that persist on the order of a generation. (It’s also possible that they are merely a form of temporary damage.) Moreover, most of the transgenerational epigenetic effects have been demonstrated in rodents, who reproduce every few months; the extrapolations to long-lived humans are in most instances conjectural or based on unreliably small samples. Biologists are starting to express their exasperation with the use of epigenetics as “the currently fashionable response to any question to which you do not know the answer,” as the epidemiologist George Davey Smith (2011) has put it. Other deflations of the epigenetics bubble may be found in Coyne, 2015; Heard & Martienssen, 2014; Juengst, Fishman, McGowan, & Settersten, 2014; Moffitt & Beckley, 2015; and Haig, 2007." Indeed, what is often taken as an epigenetic effect in these rat studies often isn't even one. An example can be seen from "the well-known observation that stressed female rats have stressed offspring. That is because stress reduces maternal care of the newborns, which is itself stressful and which sets up long-term changes in expression of the glucocorticoid receptor. But this is a behavioural transmission: mom’s behaviour affects offspring’s behaviour – repeat. This is not an example of epigenetic inheritance via the gametes, which is what has been proposed as a possibly important mechanism" [7]. But wait, it gets even worse. Because as it turns out, variation in gene expression and DNA methylation themselves are in fact genetically mediated [8]. Moreover, epigenetic effects also vary unsystematically and have generally little predictive validity [9]. In reality, the totality of the evidence indicates that epigenetic effects are not a significant source of variation in humans, as noted by Davey Smith: "This dismissal of heritability might feel like good news to epidemiologists—it gives more room for the environmentally modifiable risk processes we want to identify in order to leverage public health improvement—but is, I think, short-sighted. Most importantly, it is empirically poorly founded. Whilst it is possible to generate a list of potential fallacies in the estimation of heritability—such as challenging the assumption that monozygotic and dizygotic twins have equally similar environments—these apply to only one method of estimation (classical twin studies), and different designs, such as studies of twins reared apart, extended twin-family studies, adoption studies (including quasi-randomized adoption) and extended pedigrees generally yield similar estimates of heritability. All of these designs are susceptible to bias, but they are different biases, and it is unlikely that they would all distort the findings in the same direction and to the same extent.17,29 Heritabilities for various traits are generally similar in animals studied in captivity and in the wild,30 something difficult to envisage if they were generated by artefact." Davey Smith also goes on to review several different lines of evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and highlights the problems with them, concluding that "The conclusion from over 100 years of research must be that epigenetic inheritance is not a major contributor to phenotypic resemblance across generations, yet strangely—and perhaps because of the unexceptional nature of the findings—this vast literature has, in some circles, been forgotten. Instead, occasional examples of phenotypically consistent epigenetic inheritance relating to a particular phenotype in a particular organism are given considerable attention, with the implication that they represent a general phenomenon" [10]. Just as one example of how ridiculous the commentary on intergenerational epigenetic inheritance is, take a 2017 article from Culture Whiz titled “Genetic Determinism Debunked”. Aside from the article basically being one long rant hyping up epigenetic effects, the only important part of the article is when its writer at least had the honesty to admit that epigenetic effects “can also be very readily reversed”, citing the SAME study he used to originally hype up epigenetic effects (do these guys have any self-awareness at all?) [11]. You may think you're very clever because you have the ability to pull up the first link you see on Google about "inherited trauma", but I am here to tell you that researchers who actually know what they're doing are aware that it's bogus. The fact that you personally decide to outsource your thoughts doesn't change this.

Links - 7th June 2026 (2 - Covid-19)

2026-06-07T15:32:00.000+08:00

Chief Nerd on X - "HOWIE: “They never said you won't get COVID”
RFK JR: “I saw a tape yesterday of Biden, Fauci, Gates, Bourla, all of them saying if you take the vaccine, you can't get COVID. Can I play it for you?”
HOWIE: “Wait wait wait, it doesn’t matter”"

Meme - Being Libertarian: "Anyone decrying "fascism" right now needs to be asked their stance in 2020 on the jab."
"If you believe that basic human liberties are contingent upon consumption of a product from a giant pharmaceutical company, that is in bed with the government, who made this product off taxpayer money, that is shielded from liability from their customers, by the government, then you are a fascist."

Jordan Schachtel on X - "Tucker's positions on COVID, a timeline:
2020: Mass hysteria. Shut down the country NOW
2021: Wait a minute. Have I been fooled?
2022: Overblown. Rational thinking temporarily prevails
2023: Reset to hysteria. China didn't do it. America did
2024: America is evil and China good, says Prof Sachs
2025: Jews did it."

COVID Vaccines Heart Risk Warning Update Issued by FDA - Newsweek - "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded its warnings on Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines about the risks of two heart conditions. These manufacturers, the two main COVID-19 vaccine providers, will now have to update their information about the chances of myocarditis and pericarditis... The new warning says that the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis has shown to be highest among men between the ages of 12 and 24. Previous labels said the issue was a risk for men aged 12 to17... It also says that there were around 8 cases per 1 million people who got the 2023-2024 COVID shots between the ages of 6 months and 64 years old, citing analyses of commercial health insurance claims data. This label change seemingly conflicts with a previous conclusion published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which concluded that there was no increased risk of myocarditis detected in government vaccine injury databases for COVID-19 shots dating back to 2022."
Clearly, the FDA is just bowing to political pressure, and under Biden there was no political pressure at all, so we could trust them in the past but not now

Masking at health-care facilities mandatory starting Monday, says NLHS
Shibboleths and virtue signaling are more important than evidence

Lion Advocacy on X - "Trudeau prevented unvaccinated Canadian citizens from fleeing Canada until June of 2022. I’m not aware of any other country *in the world* that did this to its citizens at that time. It was reckless, and in many ways worse than the unlawful invocation of the Emergencies Act."

Meme - "THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19 IS NOT OVER
Why is it that the self-evident benefit of wearing a respirator mask in all public spaces during the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, as a necessary means of avoiding harmful airborne contagion, is so hard for most people to understand and accept? *man in mask*"
Covid hysteria is still strong

Meme - AyAy *Communist hammer and sickle* @heysugardumplin: "So daughter wants to go to a concert with friends, she no longer masks, how are parents of older teens /young adults supposed to be navigating this Coviding life?"
Karyn Bishof @K _Bishof: "I dont know ... prob going to get hate for this but if they can't mask to keep you safe then they wouldnt be going out of mine. Dont want to wear a seatbelt? Don't get to drive. Won't wear mask at school, back to virtual."
Rebecca Barrett-Fox @rbarrettfox: "When our older teen refused to participate in keeping our family safe, they moved in with other adult relatives whose vision of the world aligned more with their own. It hurt, but I have an obligation to care for the whole family and couldn't protect us from them otherwise."
Heather Christena Schmidt: "Your house, your rules. If she goes to the concert she's gotta mask around the house a few days after. Her no longer masking at school because of being concerned about peer pressure, bullying etc (fair) doesn't mean you can't make rules after higher risk events"
Fio @fiothenerd: "My sons stopped masking too. (17 & 20 y). They have 2 Northbox filters in their rooms. We have HEPA filters in every room + hallway, running 24/7. And I mask with an FFPS at home. My bedroom is kept at positive pressure, there I take the mask off. We also test with Pluslife."

Meme - *Clown putting on makeup*
2022: "The vax will you within a year"
2023: "The vax will kill you within 2 years"
2024: "The vax will kill you within 3 years"
2025: "The vax will kill you within 4 years"

New York Post on X - "Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner’s daughter calls for mask mandates at UN due to ‘ongoing pandemic’"
Buck Sexton on X - "There is a pandemic: of mentally ill people who *still* want Covid masks."

Chief Nerd on X - "Sam Harris blames Joe Rogan and “Ivermectin cultists” for creating a “polluted information landscape” during COVID"
Alex Berenson on X - "I’m old enough to remember when Sam Harris said he wouldn’t have minded if Covid had killed more kids because that would have put more pressure on people who criticized Covid shots (proof in next post) I say this in the nicest way, Sam: fuck the fuck off"

Jay Bhattacharya on X - "A friend told me that the NYT just published a piece criticizing me, fearful I wouldn't recommend a lockdown if another pandemic came along. Not sure why that's a criticism. Lockdowns were the biggest public health disaster in history and it's true I won't ever recommend one!"
Hans Mahncke on X - "The simple truth about lockdowns is that they were always a political instrument. If there really had been a movie style contagion, people would have stayed home voluntarily without being ordered to do so. But since that was not the case, lockdowns instead became a tool of social engineering. In the case of Covid, they were used to normalize work from home for the benefit of the laptop class, while the millions of people who make food, keep the lights on, run transport systems and do the work that actually keeps society running were simply treated as expendable or irrelevant. The logic was absurd but it was enforced anyway, and it conveniently served another purpose too, ruining Trump's reelection prospects."

Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in children and adolescents
Dr. Simone Gold on X - "WOW: A study involving 1.7 million children has found that myocarditis and pericarditis only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines. Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems. This is absolutely shocking."

Scientists who advised government during Covid did not reveal they had received more than £200m in grants from one of the world's biggest pharma investors, report says - "Scientific advisors to the Government during the Covid pandemic failed to reveal they received over £200million in grants from one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical investors, a report reveals. Twenty-six members of the influential Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which helped shape lockdown rules, did not register the research funding from the Wellcome Trust in an apparent conflict of interest. The report by the campaign group UsForThem analysed research data from The Wellcome Trust, which is largely funded by its investment portfolio and links to the pharmaceutical industry... one grant recipient was Professor Neil Ferguson, one of the biggest advocates for vaccines and whose advice to Prime Minister Boris Johnson led to the UK lockdown in March 2020, and who famously resigned as a government adviser two months later after it emerged he broke rules to meet his married lover. Prof Ferguson declared in the register that he was involved with a 'Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium', but did not mention Wellcome anywhere. Yet he was either the lead applicant or sponsored other applications for grants worth £5.6million including a £1.25 million grant looking at influenza-like viruses in Vietnam, according to the analysis of Wellcome's figures. Of the 149 SAGE members during the Covid crisis 38 applied for funding or supported other applications to the Wellcome Trust, the UK's biggest charity. Of the 38, just 12 declared their relationship - leaving 26 who failed to do so... Ben Kingsley, UsForThem's legal director, said: 'SAGE members were told very clearly to disclose their research funding relationships precisely because they were in a position to influence public health decisions that affected millions of people during a national emergency. 'The fact that some members appear not to have respected those requirements raises serious questions about transparency and potential conflicts of interest. 'If the Government wants to maintain the public's trust, then we have to be sure that the advice given by its most senior advisers is free from risks of bias or conflicts, and this means those advisers need to be completely transparent with the public about their relationships with private organisations such as the Wellcome Trust. 'A good number of the members of SAGE grasped that fundamental point very clearly but our research shows others didn't, and one has to ask: 'Why?' SAGE's register states participants must highlight any commercial interests, research interests, and whether any funding has been secured in the past or currently. A fortnight after the first lockdown, the Wellcome Trust said 'drugs, vaccines and rapid diagnostics' were 'the only exit strategy' from the pandemic. That was echoed by a number of key SAGE participants during the pandemic... Wellcome is headed by Sir Jeremy Farrar, also a SAGE member during the pandemic, and who controversially discredited the Wuhan lab-leak theory which is claimed to have kickstarted the global crisis at the end of 2019. Among others who it is claimed failed to register research funding is Professor Susan Michie, who had claimed restrictions such as social distancing and face masks should stay forever to reduce long-term pressure on the NHS. Wellcome data shows she was the lead applicant for a £3.8 million grant into a behavioural science research project which she failed to disclose. Professor John Edmunds, who previously argued there would be 'significant risk' until everyone including children had been vaccinated, was the sponsor of 10 research projects receiving Wellcome grants during the pandemic which were worth more than £12 million. He was also one of seven applicants in a team receiving £2.8 million for a research project into Norovirus pandemics but none of these relationships with Wellcome were mentioned in the register. Vaccines expert Professor Gavin Screaton received more than £26 million in nine Wellcome grants according to its records including one directly related to Covid-19 but these grants do not appear on the SAGE register. Professor David Lalloo, who was working on a £25 million project focussed on infection and disease in Africa, did not register the funding."
Conflict of interest only matters when it pushes the left wing agenda

New York Times exposes own bias by reporting urban legend as reality - "The New York Times published a story about a 30-year-old man who died of the coronavirus after attending a Covid party in Texas—only they provided no sources to confirm what happened, and the whole thing may have been an urban myth... The New York Times soon backtracked on the initial telling of the tale by adding in a couple more paragraphs: "The Times could not independently verify Dr. Appleby’s account. On Monday, the San Antonio health department said its contact tracers did not have any information 'that would confirm (or deny)' that such an event had happened there." "In recent days, the hospital distributed video of Dr. Appleby describing the case, along with a press statement. She did not say when or where the party took place, how many people attended or how long afterward the man was hospitalized with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. She said she was sharing the story to warn others, especially in Texas, where cases are surging." The ABC article that The Times referenced in these two paragraphs has since been taken down. These two paragraphs also draw out the fact that the junior reporter who was writing this piece was not even in Texas at all, but at a desk somewhere—likely at home. The sub-headline was changed entirely since the first instance of the story, and it appears that the entire content of the story has undergone significant changes, "edit by edit," according to Dougherty. Dougherty added that "there are no editor's notes on it documenting the changes in the published story and the huge tonal shift from credulousness to skepticism.""
From 2020. Time to ban Fox News and the Daily Mail for lying

Joe Rogan Podcast News on X - "RFK Jr: "If you look at the studies of the Pfizer vaccine…the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate from all causes."
Bill Maher: "But that could be the disease itself."
RFK Jr: "Then the vaccine doesn’t work, does it?""

Jennifer Sey on X - "This article is so annoying. Summary: kids’ mental health was harmed by prolonged school closures. But how could we have ever known that locking kids at home on screens for a year and a half, isolating them from peers, telling them if they were lonely and depressed that they were horrible selfish people and that they were gonna kill grandma if they went to school or played sports would have detrimental effects? I mean who could have predicted it??? Well some of us did know. We got a thorough cancellation for saying it out loud. F off @nytimes ."

Epoch Health on X - "Former CDC Director Calls for Removal of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines “I really would like to see the mRNA vaccine use curtailed, and personally, I'd like to see it eliminated, because I think there’s too many unknowns,” Dr. Robert Redfield told EpochTV. 👇"
Jimmy Dore on X - "No big deal, just the former head of the CDC saying mRNA vaccines should be pulled off the market. Now everyone I know in Hollywood can go back to pretending this didn’t happen, that they weren’t lied to on a scale their brains can’t comprehend, & anyone who questions COVID Vax is a bad person."

Camus on X - "On Joe Rogan:
Bret Weinstein: “Fauci, Collins, Walensky & Paul Offit ALL admitted they KNEW natural immunity was superior—yet they forced shots on kids who’d already had COVID knowing there was ZERO benefit and real risk. They violated informed consent.”
Rogan: “When it doesn’t stop transmission, your entire argument collapses.”
Bret: “You can’t force me to inject something to ‘protect me’.”
This 81-second clip is the most damning thing you’ll hear all year."

Woody Harrelson was right to joke at Big Pharma's expense - "Woody Harrelson took a jab at the jab — and revealed that much of the left still views COVID vaccines not as a medical advancement but as a religious virtue. While hosting SNL last weekend, Harrelson embarked on a meandering monologue where he talked about getting blazed in Central Park just before the pandemic and reading an outrageous movie script. “So, the movie goes like this,” Harrelson said. “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.” He added, “I threw the script away. I mean, who was going to believe that crazy idea? Being forced to do drugs? I do that voluntarily all day long.” Predictably, the blowback was swift, with nearly every ensuing news story proclaiming Harrelson was spreading anti-vax conspiracy theories. Outrage spread on Twitter and a Vanity Fair critic opined: “Taking the stage to float conspiracy theories disguised as provocative humor is both intellectually dishonest and tedious.” But maybe the former “Cheers” star had it coming. After all, he made a joke about Our Lady of Pfizer. And during Lent, of all seasons. We all know the only approved vax humor is a jazzy dance number with human syringes twirling around Stephen Colbert... The only danger here is turning Big Pharma and COVID mandates into sacred cows. According to the commandments set forth by the sensitivity police, comedy should always punch up, never down. I believe the multibillion-dollar corporations that provide COVID vaccines, and our government, whether Republican or Democrat, fit that bill. But joking or questioning the official party line gets you called an antivaxxer or a conspiracy trafficker. Just ask Jon Stewart, who last year presented a hilarious and extremely logical theory that the virus was indeed from the Wuhan lab. He was mocked and subject to a torrent of backlash from his once adoring progressive cheering section... We can reflect on how we let a drug company run roughshod over whole swathes of the country and rake in billions of dollars in the process, yet we’re not allowed to question certain pharma companies, unions, government agencies or mandates during this unprecedented time in our nation’s history. Why do these entities now deserve immunity from scrutiny? How did we become so incurious and docile? As more evidence emerges about mask mandates, the likely origins of COVID and the overall effectiveness of COVID vaccines, it’s time to open the floor to common-sense dialogue. And yes, a few jokes. The day of his SNL monologue, Harrelson clarified his position, calling for an end to the showbiz industry’s outdated COVID protocols in an interview with the New York Times. “It’s not fair to the crews. I don’t have to wear the mask. Why should they? Why should they have to be vaccinated? How’s that not up to the individual,” he said. During Sunday’s SAG Awards, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher echoed a similar sentiment for the industry, saying it’s time to end its “bulls — t” mandates."
Robby Starbuck on X - "This was one of my favorite moments of 2023 because the SNL audience Woody made this joke to is exactly the kind of people that needed to hear it and the media proved him right that Big Pharma owns them. I bet this woke a few people up."
From 2023. But even in 2023 there're left wingers who believe the "Science" about Covid was mostly (or even totally) accurate, so.

Joseph Marine on X - "Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that only one out of 36,000 placebo-treated subjects in the two pivotal modRNA trials died from covid over median 3 months in the midst of a “once-in-a-century” pandemic. I missed this entirely at the time, blinded by the headline RRR. The reports claimed to show a “95% efficacy” rate for the covid shots. What they actually showed was no objective evidence of a deadly pandemic that required shutting down the world. It is amazing to realize how easily one can be deceived by false framing. https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 https://nejm.org/doi/full/10.10"

Valerie Anne Smith on X - "🚨Study involving 1.7 million children has found that Myocarditis & Pericarditis only appeared in children who had received COVID mRNA vaccines. Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from these heart-related problems."
The usual cope is that covid has a higher chance of giving you heart problems than a covid vaccine, but since covid vaccines do not reduce your chances of getting covid, that claim falls apart

Jeffrey A Tucker on X - "An actual truthful email circulating inside the FDA. Read and weep."
Bret Weinstein on X - "The FDA now recognizes that the covid vaccines killed healthy children who were in no danger from covid itself. That’s the tip of a gigantic iceberg—bioweapon leaks, science fraud, regulatory capture, a global coup by the “public health” bureaucracy against traditional medicine, the debut of a lethal new vaccine platform, shredding of the First Amendment, and robotic pens used to brazenly pardon criminal masterminds—all lurk just below the surface. Thanks to @VPrasadMDMPH for stepping up."

Trapped in the Past: Maine Democratic Socialists Rage at the End of National Convention's Mask Mandate in 2025 - "The Democratic Socialists of Maine criticized their national parent organization in an Instagram post on Sunday after the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) resolved that, from this point forward, masks will be strongly encouraged rather than required for their 2025 national convention. “The National Political Committee’s decision to make masking optional, despite years of advocacy from DSA’s Disability Working Group puts members at risk, and has already had an impact on our delegation,” said the Maine DSA. “COVID is still a threat to the working class in 2025, and to deny this would be a grave mistake. Additionally, bird flu cases continue to rise, which disproportionally harm our immigrant neighbors. Our access to evidence-based data on public health emergencies is being gatekept from us on purpose. The Trump Regime continues to try and take proper PPE from the National Nurses Union, and America’s fascist government is ramping up its restrictions on vaccine access,” they added. The Maine DSA chapter became gravely concerned after learning that the national convention, set for August 8-10 in Chicago, slightly relaxed its extremely strict COVID policies. The convention’s 2025 health requirements only “strongly encourage” masking and do not require it during meals or when speaking at microphones. According to its informational materials, the DSA national convention even provides to-go food containers for socialist activists afraid to eat inside around unmasked diners. They also urge attendees to maintain six-foot social distancing when an unmasked person is speaking. Their national convention also requires attendees to attest to COVID vaccination, with at least one booster taken within 12 months of the convention. Attendees must also submit a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours of the convention’s start. Additionally, anyone with any symptoms whatsoever is instructed not to attend the convention. These health protocols, though extremely strict compared with most events across the U.S. in 2025, did not satisfy the Maine DSA, who claimed that the lack of a strict mask mandate is failing “our future selves.” “Masking should be required for all attendees, as airborne viral particles can still spread regardless of social distancing. We wish for fellow DSA members across the country to understand that by not upholding the highest standards possible for ourselves now, we are failing our future selves,” said the Maine DSA. “DSA is responsible for meeting the moment, and to make sure we are fully encouraging the health and safety of everyone, we request that the NPC and the Convention Committee reconsider their decision to make masking optional,” they added. The Maine DSA also argued that masks are an “accessibility tool” for disabled socialists. “We hope all our comrades mask up during their travels, and keep disability justice at the forefront of their minds! The unfortunate truth is that ableism, and excuses for it, are only on the rise as fascism ramps up! We must do everything in our power to combat it,” they said. The group also took issue with their parent organization’s testing requirements, which they claim encourage improper use of rapid tests. According to the Maine DSA, the rapid tests can only be used accurately in asymptomatic cases if the test is used three times over five days with 48 hours between each test, and only work when taken twice over three days. “Advising people to misuse medical tests in the midst of numerous public health threats is neither comradely nor wise,” they said. It remains to be seen whether the national DSA’s minor changes to their COVID policy will cause an irreconcilable rift in their organization, though the Maine chapter maintains that they are still excited for the convention."

1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea - "The oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 has been hypothetically proposed, but real-world data on COVID-19 infection and vaccination are insufficient. Therefore, this large-scale population-based retrospective study in Seoul, South Korea, aimed to estimate the cumulative incidences and subsequent risks of overall cancers 1 year after COVID-19 vaccination. Data from 8,407,849 individuals between 2021 and 2023 were obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance database. The participants were categorized into two groups based on their COVID-19 vaccination status. The risks for overall cancer were assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazards models, and data were expressed as hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The HRs of thyroid (HR, 1.351; 95% CI, 1.206–1.514), gastric (HR, 1.335; 95% CI, 1.130–1.576), colorectal (HR, 1.283; 95% CI, 1.122–1.468), lung (HR, 1.533; 95% CI, 1.254–1.874), breast (HR, 1.197; 95% CI, 1.069–1.340), and prostate (HR, 1.687; 95% CI, 1.348–2.111) cancers significantly increased at 1 year post-vaccination. In terms of vaccine type, cDNA vaccines were associated with the increased risks of thyroid, gastric, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers; mRNA vaccines were linked to the increased risks of thyroid, colorectal, lung, and breast cancers; and heterologous vaccination was related to the increased risks of thyroid and breast cancers. Given the observed associations between COVID-19 vaccination and cancer incidence by age, sex, and vaccine type, further research is needed to determine whether specific vaccination strategies may be optimal for populations in need of COVID-19 vaccination."

Thread by @kevinnbass on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "March 29, 2021 Rochelle Walensky, Director of CDC, infamously declared on MSNBC: "Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick." Emails obtained by FOIA from Jan 30, 2021 show that Walensky knew this was a lie at the time she said it.
See for yourself. Without these lies, unconstitutional vaccine mandates would not have been possible. That's why she lied. The scientific community knew she was wrong, too. Here is an article in Nature just weeks before Fauci and Walensky's PR campaign--where they repeated these lies--about the vaccine started in March 2021: There are others. Take this one by scientists interviewed by the New York Times. They knew what Walensky was doing and said she should stop, because her lies would destroy trust in vaccines and public health. They did just that. She didn't stop spreading these lies, and neither did Fauci. They went on a media campaign for months making these claims. Where were the doctors and scientists who are saying that Trump has launched an "attack on science" when this was happening? You were silent then. You are silent now. You do not care about science. You care about social media engagement, about propagandizing to your braying and ignorant colleagues. You are partisan liars. You spent the last 5 years destroying science. The hypocrisy of you people saying ANYTHING about science now is disgusting."
The usual cope is that politicians lying (or at the very least saying something wrong about covid) doesn't reflect badly on scientists or public health. But of course there is some other cope for this

Neuroticism and emotional risk during the COVID-19 pandemic - "Large-scale health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, may evoke negative affective responses, which are linked to psychological maladjustment and psychopathology. Here, we shed light on the role of the personality trait neuroticism in predicting who experiences negative affective responses. In a large-scale experience-sampling study (N = 1,609; 38,120 momentary reports), we showed that individuals high in neuroticism experienced more negative affect and higher affective variability in their daily lives. Individuals high in neuroticism also (a) paid more attention to COVID-19-related information and worried more about the consequences of the pandemic (crisis preoccupation), and (b) experienced more negative affect during this preoccupation (affective reactivity). These findings offer new insights into the consequences and dynamics of neuroticism in extreme environmental contexts."
This partially explains why more left wingers are covid hystericists

"No Pride In Gay Life" Fact Check

2026-06-07T12:28:25.410+08:00

This year, I've seen the following image being shared a lot. Specifically, it's been shared plenty in the last week or two, coinciding with the start of Pride Month.

"CHILD GROOMING
Support us at www.irishlightpaper.com
MISPLACED PRIDE
No Pride In Gay Life
THE FACTS
GAYS:
1% OF THE POPULATION
33% OF THE CHILD MOLESTERS
67% OF ALL AIDS CASES
78% HAVE SEXUAL DISEASE
HAVE LIFESPANS 20 YEARS SHORTER THAN NORMAL
28% OF GAY MEN HAVE HAD 200 PARTNERS OR MORE
23% OF CHILDREN WHO HAD LESBIAN MOTHERS HAVE BEEN SEXUALLY MOLESTED BY A PARENT OR OTHER ADULT
RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT BEFORE AGE OF 16 ARE STRONGLY CORRELATED WITH HOMOSEXUAL BEKAVIOUR
GAYS BELIEVE THE BODY'S WASTE DISPOSAL UNIT IS A SEX ORGAN
THIS IS WHY HOMOSEXUALITY THROUGHOUT WESTERN HISTORY HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL DISORDER AND A CRIMINAL OFFENCE IN ORDER TO PRETECT CHILDREN FROM THIS DANGEROUS BEHAVIOUR
SUICIDE LEVELS AMONG GAYS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN HETEROSEXUALS
HOMOSEXUALITY IS THREE TIMES MORE FATAL THAN SMOKING OR OBESITY
THAT'S A LOT TO BE PROUD OF"

Naturally, left wingers got very upset and claimed this was all made up and homophobic lies.

However, I was immediately reminded of the presentation that got the Hwa Chong counselor suspended in 2022 (and maybe he even got fired, who knows?)

Going back to check my notes, many of the claims seemed to be similar or the same.

So I have decided to do a more formal fact check of the claims in the image:

1) 1% OF THE POPULATION

In 1993, the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 1% of men identified as gay.

A 2021 Gallup study finds that 1.5% of US adults identify as gay.

Some people still believe the claim that 10% of men are gay, but this is based on studies that are widely considered unreliable.

So this claim is true.

2) 33% OF THE CHILD MOLESTERS

In a 1992 study, Freund and Watson reported that: "Previous investigations have indicated that the ratio of sex offenders against female children vs. offenders against male children is approximately 2:1".

Note that this is NOT the same as saying that 33% of gay people are child molesters (as some have [wilfully?] misconstrued it); the exact proportion was explored in a previous post.

Meanwhile, a newer 2007 study reported that: "The percentage of homosexual pedophiles ranges from 9% to 40%, which is approximately 4 to 20 times higher than the rate of adult men attracted to other adult men (using a prevalence rate of adult homosexuality of 2%-4%)."

Though this seems to be about desire rather than action, the numbers cohere.

There does not seem to be other research on this topic.

3) 67% OF ALL AIDS CASES

The CDC reports that "In 2022, gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual contact accounted for 67% (21,400) of the 31,800 estimated new HIV infections".

If you stip out bisexual men and men who have sex with men, it would be a bit less than 67%, and one could quibble about HIV vs AIDS, but the numbers are around there.
4) 78% HAVE SEXUAL DISEASE

In 1981, the Washington Post reported that:

Among all 4,212, 38 percent had had gonorrhea; 24 percent urethritis (inflammation); 18 percent venereal growths; 13 percent syphilis; 10 percent, hepatitis (liver disease, transmitted by a virus) and 9.4 percent, some form of herpes, another virus disease. Also reported were intestinal diseases like amebiasis, shigellosis and enteritis, and meningitis, a serious brain or spinal cord infection.
Sixty-six percent had had an episode of pediculosis -- infestation of head or crab lice. If these are included, then 78 percent of all respondents had experienced at least one sexually transmitted disorder.

I could not find other or more recent data on this, as more recent surveys weren't as comprehensive. For example, a 2024 Danish study only measured chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis. Other studies used convenience samples from STD clinics, so sampling would be an issue.

5) HAVE LIFESPANS 20 YEARS SHORTER THAN NORMAL

In a 1998 study, Cameron et al found that "homosexual activity may be associated with a lifespan shortened by 20 to 30 years".

This study is considered by some to be unreliable, but a 1997 study by Hogg et al found that "life expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men", so the two studies have a little overlap in their estimates.

Anyhow, antiretrovirals have since increased gay life expectancy, so the 20 year estimate should no longer be accurate.

6) 28% OF GAY MEN HAVE HAD 200 PARTNERS OR MORE

I couldn't find a study reporting this specific number, but this seems to be an undercount.

Bell & Weinberg (1978) reported that 43% of White Homosexual Men (WHM) had had 500 or more partners, and the figure for Black Homosexual Men (BHM) was 33%

In a 1997 study, Van de Ven et al reported that among "older homosexually active men", 21.6% had had 101-500 male sex partners and 10.2%-15.7% had had 501-1000 or >1000 male partners (the reporting of the latter was odd). So at least 20.4% had had over 500 partners, and 42% had had over 100 partners.

7) 23% OF CHILDREN WHO HAD LESBIAN MOTHERS HAVE BEEN SEXUALLY MOLESTED BY A PARENT OR OTHER ADULT

In a 2012 study, Regnerus reported that "3% of LMs said yes when asked whether "a parent or other adult caregiver ever touched you in a sexual way, forced you to touch him or her in a sexual way, or forced you to have sexual relations""

8) RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT BEFORE AGE OF 16 ARE STRONGLY CORRELATED WITH HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOUR

In a 2012 study, Roberts et al reported that "Epidemiological studies find a positive association between physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and witnessing violence in childhood and same-sex sexuality in adulthood". Plus, this study used instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect of the abuse.

In a 2001 study, Tomeo et al reported that "gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation".

9) GAYS BELIEVE THE BODY'S WASTE DISPOSAL UNIT IS A SEX ORGAN

This is a philosophical claim rather than an empirical one, but I would note that urine is waste, and the penis, which disposes of urine, is a sex organ.

10) THIS IS WHY HOMOSEXUALITY THROUGHOUT WESTERN HISTORY HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL DISORDER AND A CRIMINAL OFFENCE IN ORDER TO PRETECT CHILDREN FROM THIS DANGEROUS BEHAVIOUR

Mental disorder is a relatively modern concept so homosexuality wouldn't have been classified as one throughout western history (some would say homosexuality is a relatively modern concept too, but homosexual behavior has been conceptualised for much, much longer).

Meanwhile, homosexual sex was criminalised by Christians, but not during the Classical period.

11) SUICIDE LEVELS AMONG GAYS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN HETEROSEXUALS

Even gay activists would agree on this (though for different reasons). But anyway, in a 2023 study, Chum et al reported that "gay/lesbian and bisexual individuals to be at elevated risk of suicide-related behavior events".

12) HOMOSEXUALITY IS THREE TIMES MORE FATAL THAN SMOKING OR OBESITY

Whitlock summarised a 2009 study by Whitlock et al, that "moderate obesity, which is now common, reduces life expectancy by about 3 years, and that severe obesity, which is still uncommon, can shorten a person’s life by 10 years. This 10 year loss is equal to the effects of lifelong smoking."

If you use the 20 years of life lost due to homosexuality number above, then homosexuality would be twice as "fatal" as smoking or severe obesity.

Conclusion

So in summary, there're sources for basically all of the claims in this long memes, and most of them are pretty legit.

Links - 7th June 2026 (1 - Mark Carney)

2026-06-07T09:23:00.000+08:00

Meme - "...my new government will create higher-paying jobs and lifelong careers ..., and build the fastest growing economy in the G7" - Mark Carney I April 19, 2025
"BIGGEST CANADIAN JOB LOSS IN FOUR YEARS" - BNN BLOOMBERG I MARCH 13, 2026

Meme - "Canada just lost 84,000 jobs. Who will the Liberals blame?
Pierre Poilievre. War in Iran. Danielle Smith. Donald Trump"

David Ljunggren on X - "As others have noted and our story spells out, the $35 billion Arctic plan announced by @MarkJCarney is *not* new money - "In 2022, Ottawa announced a C$38.6 billion plan to modernize its defenses and the joint North American Aerospace Defense Command" #cdnpoli"

The Shift has Hit the Fan | Facebook - "Carney has walked himself straight into a political and economic trap of his own making. He backed the U.S. strike on Iran and his own base immediately erupted. The backlash was so intense that Liberal MPs started scrambling to contain the damage. Anita Anand stepped out to distance herself from Washington’s position, and Will Greaves followed with his own remarks clearly aimed at calming the anti-war wing of the party. That’s when you know a leader has a problem... when members of his own caucus start freelancing in public just to keep the base from melting down. Now Carney is stuck between two realities. On one side is the activist base that demands he oppose Trump, oppose American foreign policy, and oppose anything that even smells like cooperation with Washington. On the other side is Canada’s economy, which is deeply tied to the United States through CUSMA and integrated supply chains... especially in the auto sector. And that’s where things get dangerous. Japan has already made it clear that CUSMA stability is critical to its manufacturing footprint in Canada. These companies didn’t invest billions here out of charity. They built factories in Canada because it provides guaranteed access to the North American market. If that framework becomes unstable, the math changes overnight. Factories move. Investment moves. Jobs move. And once those supply chains leave, they almost never come back. So Carney now faces a brutal choice. If he cooperates with the Americans and works to preserve CUSMA, his base will accuse him of selling out to Trump. If he leans into the anti-American posture his base demands, he risks blowing up one of the most important economic agreements Canada has. Which means the most likely outcome is obvious. He’ll negotiate quietly behind the scenes with Washington, cut whatever deal is necessary to keep the system functioning, and hope the details stay buried long enough to avoid political fallout. But leaks always happen. When they do, Conservatives will hammer him for hypocrisy... and they’ll be right. The media, of course, will mostly look the other way. The narrative will magically become that Carney “stood up to Trump” and forced concessions from the Americans. He’ll be celebrated as the leader who “saved jobs,” even if the reality is that Canada simply scrambled to preserve what it already had. The Americans will likely get more than they originally asked for. Canada will break even at best. And the left will cheer Carney as a national hero for cleaning up a mess that his own political positioning helped create in the first place. Meanwhile the real risk sits quietly in the background... Canada gambling with one of the last major industrial pillars we still have. Because if those auto plants start heading south, no amount of press conferences, spin, or media praise will bring them back."

Michelle Phillips on X - "Mark Carney goes to India and the outcome is that Canadian tax payers get to fund 200 Indians on full ride scholarships to our universities and to be flooded by more non English speaking foreigners. The USA get a refinery funded by India. Please though, do go on about how Carney is such a great negotiator!"
Too bad a lot of people just believe what the media tell them

NDP's Idlout crossing to Liberals effectively gives Carney a majority | Toronto Sun - "It’s an odd coalition that Carney has put together to get to this point. Just days ago in Ottawa, Idlout endorsed Avi Lewis to be leader of the NDP. Lewis supports several radical ideas including the government owning mobile phone and internet companies, a government-run grocery store, and a bank run through Canada Post. Chris D’Entremont has been associated with Parliament’s Pro-Life Caucus in the past and is opposed to abortion, while Michael Ma is a wealthy former business executive and Matt Jeneroux was elected five times as a Conservative before becoming a Liberal. Now, they all sit in Mark Carney’s Liberal caucus and Canada effectively has a majority government."

Meme - "Carney plays politics at your expense:
Jan 5 - $8.5 million for linguistic education in Nunavut
Jan 30 - $250 million to build 750 homes in Nunavut
Feb 6 - $600,000 for digital literacy in Nunavut
Feb 19 - $228 million for a series of projects in Nunavut
Mar 4 - $6 billion in trade and infrastructure funding in Nunavut
Mar 10 - Nunavut NDP MP Lori Idlout crosses the floor to the Liberals"

Canada has gone mad 🍎 on X - "This is dark. Under Trudeau, NDP MP Lori Idlout's company got millions in sole-source Liberal contracts...likely bribes for NDP votes. Now under Carney, she gets more millions in 'investments' from the Justice Minister in her riding, right before crossing. What I find curious is why a Justice Minister went to Nunavut to make this announcement. All of his previous announcements have to do with justice. This is not. Why announce non-justice funding in Nunavut? This is certainly suspicious and gives credence to this theory that she received some sort of pardon for her son And thinking about the magnitude of what the Liberals are prepared to do to circumvent our democracy is staggering."

Jonathan Kay on X - "Lori Idlout, the floor-crossing NDP caucus member, has been a prominent supporter of mandatory indigenous sensitivity training for the Cdn civil service. In 2023, it was disclosed that she was a sole-source government contractor selling …. Indigenous sensitivity training"

Carney government still regularly blames Conservatives for failures - "Prime Minister Mark Carney answered a House of Commons question about grocery inflation by replying that the whole issue was the fault of the Conservatives. According to Carney, the food prices were rising because of “the fall in the Canadian dollar caused by the obstructionism of the members opposite before this government came into place.” It’s certainly nothing new in Canadian politics for an incumbent government to reflexively blame a perceived failure on the actions of the opposition. But the rhetoric usually peters out after a decade of said opposition party having been out of power. Nevertheless, in the 46th Parliament, it’s not uncommon for the Carney government to attribute national failure to Conservative influence. A cursory summary is below.
Conservative “obstructionism” tanked the dollar
Conservatives lost billions on auto sector subsidies first
The Liberals’ entire tenure has been monopolized by Conservative “mess”
By voting against budget, Conservatives opposed literally every facet of government"

Amy Hamm: Poilievre's immigration plan a political winner : r/CanadianConservative - "I am noticing a trend here, Pierre is going to make this a very big deal the liberals are going to protest it and call the CPC names. After they get beaten in the polls over it they will than proceed to do a very half hearted change that doesn't really address the issue meaningfully or correct it in any real way but it will look like something happened. They will than claim that this is what they wanted to do the whole time and Pierre was being obstructionist and that they were the problem the whole time. Liberal supporters will than proceed to clap like seals that Carney has such good ideas."

Liberal Party on X - "In 10 months, Mark Carney and our Liberal government have secured more than 20 economic and security partnerships across four continents. We’re attracting new foreign investment to build a stronger, more resilient economy and create new opportunities for Canadians."
MikesMoneyTalks.ca on X - "MISLEADING - PM Carney signed only ONE deal (uranium, India) that is a binding, enforceable commercial contract with specific commitments. MOU are commitments to continue "talking". In the past the Liberal government signed/made big announcements that resulted in no meaningful economic activity
- eg - Canada–China Clean Technology MOUs never produced commercial deployment or jobs.
- Canada and India under Modi and Trudeau signed MOUs on trade and investment cooperation, clean technology & infrastructure development, which never moved beyond exploratory stages. The promised job-creating projects were rarely realized. There are many other examples #cdnpoli"
Left wingers think words are the same as actions, so they're taken in, of course

Carney’s global deals are paper-thin until we see real results: Ivison - "This year alone, the prime minister’s website lists fresh agreements with China, Qatar, Luxembourg, India and Australia. The latest list of putative deals from India suggests the government has now signed $85 billion worth of global investment agreements in the past 10 months. This would be big, if true, since foreign direct investment in Canada reached a 20-year high of $96.8 billion last year. But the applause should be held until we see the evidence. Adam Chambers, the Conservative critic on international trade, said the prime minister has no problems setting expectations very high on the world stage. “However, the risk he faces is one of results. These memorandums of understanding and agreements to agree generally do not guarantee actions or results. The prime minister’s time spent as a central bank governor and as lead finance official for international engagements would often see heavily negotiated communiques tossed aside when the respective parties returned to their home countries. Success should be measured by results achieved — not on promises to deliver something in the future,” he said. The government’s recent press release from New Delhi talks about “commercial agreements that will create thousands of careers in Canada, boost bilateral investment and secure new opportunities for Canadian workers.” But anyone who has been involved in international trade knows that reality often has a way of frustrating good intentions. Former Liberal foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion said that officials work hard to conclude agreements “but the danger is that they stay on the paper.” He said he recommended to Prime Minister Mark Carney that if he wants to convert paper gains into jobs, he needs to appoint an official to be publicly responsible for implementation. He said the prime minister should urge his foreign counterparts to do the same to ensure progress. “Otherwise, the danger of it staying on paper is very high,” Dion said. Carney appointed former clerk of the Privy Council, John Hannaford, as his personal representative to the European Union, but there do not appear to be similar appointments yet to track the dozens of commitments made with China and India. Dion, who was also Canada’s ambassador in France and Germany, said the message of Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January was that Canada is serious about trade diversification — something that has been talked about since the days of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. “But we won’t do it unless there is a face and a name who is responsible and accountable for implementation,” Dion said... Carney should recognize voters have limited patience for capriciousness after 10 years of Justin Trudeau. Senior Liberals would openly say that the former prime minister was good at getting people excited about new ideas and projects but was less interested in implementation. “It created real challenges in execution,” said one former ministerial chief of staff. Trudeau himself said he would set the frame and figure out how to convey the message. But at that point, he apparently considered it mission accomplished."

mistersunshinebaby on X - "WATCH: Mark Carney LASHES OUT at a reporter who pressed him on India's foreign interference in Canada. The Prime Minister doesn't like to be reminded of the government's failure to protect Canada from foreign interference."

Northern Perspective on X - "🚨CARNEY SINKING🚨 Mark Carney just had his worst press conference yet. Not only was he cornered on foreign interference from India, he was also called out on his complete contradiction of his Davos speech. The cherry on top was snapping at a CBC reporter."

Michelle Parker on X - "CSIS warned Ottawa Indian diplomats were targeting Sikh 🇨🇦's. While CSIS had evidence of India’s involvement in the Nijjar murder carney chose trade. In India last wk carney signed agreements worth billions telling reporters that Indian foreign interference is NOT a concern."

Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 on X - "🟥 There are two types of leaders.
1. Those that LOSE their parliamentary seat in a democratic election, refuse to accept the People's will, make underhanded deals to trigger an expensive by-election to slither back into the House of Commons via the backdoor, just to spend their time lying and obstructing progress.
2. Then there are those leaders who love Canada, and use their superior leadership skills and economic prowess to pursue a prosperous and sovereign country. ✅ 🇨🇦 *glowing CBC story on India "diplomatic breakthrough"*"
Jd on X - "Who got kicked out for Carney to snag that seat? Oh right, the guy from India alleging Indian interference—which Carney now claims doesn’t exist post-deal with India. Looks like Carney’s a compromised Indian asset. 🤔 #CanadianPolitics #ForeignInterference"

Carney signs deals worth billions in diplomatic breakthrough with India's Modi | CBC News : r/CanadianConservative - "CBC's new zinger "diplomatic breakthrough". CBC can teach a course on how to build propaganda + cult of personality on the ruins of a once-great country."
Carney signs deals worth billions in diplomatic breakthrough with India's Modi | CBC News : r/CanadianConservative - ""mou's". They mean nothing and are not a signed trade deal. They are the equivalent of saying, "hey we should go for lunch sometime". Nothing more."
"Correct, it’s just an agreement that both parties will talk sometime. But no deals have been made. This is all Carney has done, with all of flights, all over the world. He has just made agreements, but zero trade deals."
Carney signs deals worth billions in diplomatic breakthrough with India's Modi | CBC News : r/CanadianConservative - "And here's the kicker with a deal like this: India has high tarrifs on some of our goods (stated in the article). And then Carney is being praised for working on a deal to reduce those tarrifs. Sounds a lot like the US situation, but, a deal with the US is apparently treason. Basically, Carney wants to use US tensions to stay in power, and the MSM won't call him out on it, while praising him for making "deals" with everyone else."

Mark Carney hails India as ‘natural partner,’ sidestepping questions over alleged violence and political interference in Canada : r/canada - "Weren't these guys sending assassins to Canada just a little while ago?"

Mark Carney hails India as ‘natural partner,’ sidestepping questions over alleged violence and political interference in Canada : r/canada - "When it comes to wooing for business, everything else is brushed under the rug."
"What's the alternative right now, only do business with ethical superpowers? You have any of those i don't know about?"
The same people who want to boycott the US because it's a fascist authoritarian regime want to engage countries that genuinely violate human rights. When hating the US becomes a substitute for a coherent worldview.

Mark Carney hails India as ‘natural partner,’ sidestepping questions over alleged violence and political interference in Canada : r/canada - "Now I'm confused. A few months ago LPC partisans were all in that Modi and the BJP were interfering in Canadian elections, rigged the CPC leadership race to get Pierre Poilievre nominated and were acting hand in hand with Stephen Harper and the IDU, and PP would gloss over India assassinating Canadian citizens on Canadian soil, and working to supplant our democracy. Part of a global right wing plot. Now the same LPC are saying India is our natural partner and glossing over state sponsored assassinations and political interference.... was Carney the Indian plant all along?"

Pressure on Carney to address Indian interference allegations after Modi meeting | Canada | The Guardian

Scott Robertson on X - "CARNEY: "Canada's founding insight is that unity does not require uniformity. That we can share a country without conforming to a single identity. That our differences, honestly acknowledged and respectfully navigated, are a source of strength.""
Robin Skies on X - "Its not possible to share a country without conforming to a single unified identity. You need some shared commonalities, like language, laws or customs to do basic things. What Mark is describing isn't civic nationalism, it's post nationalism and it's destroying Canada."

captive dreamer on X - "Canada's PM Mark Carney: "The United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada.""
Mike Coté on X - "Canada: "America is no longer a reliable ally. We reaffirm our strategic partnership with China." Also Canada: "Why didn't America share its secret military plans with us?""

Harrison Faulkner on X - "PM Mark Carney praises Indian international students in Canada, saying they "deepen our ties" with India. Carney announces the launch of the "Canada India Talent and Innovation Strategy" with Canadian universities. Carney says that Canada and India are "one family.""
Robin Skies on X - "The student visa program is by far one of the most abused programs this country has ever produced. Resulting in an influx of poorly vetted individuals whose only purpose is to prop up the GDP of a dying economy. This is a clear indication that Carney has no interest in actually making Canada wealthy or competitive again. We have to end the unethical immigration scam."

Meme - ""Canadians will judge me by the prices at the grocery store shelves." - Mark Carney"
The Food Professor: "Why Canada leads the G7 in food inflation, again"
Weird. How come the master economist doesn't know that the government has no power over grocery prices? It's just like how he promised to make housing affordable, but he doesn't know the federal government isn't responsible for housing. How ignorant.

Meme - "Path to a Carney majority:
Deficit X
GDP X
Jobs X
Inflation X
Housing X
Auto X
Healthcare X
Affordability X
Trade deal X
Alberta separation X
Quebec separation X
Manufacturing X
Pipelines X
Oil production X
Stoke Trump hate ✅"

Meme - Rhetoric: "WE ARE BUILDING THE STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE G7" - Mark Carney, September 17, 2025
REALITY: "Canada's ECONOMY IS ON LIFE SUPPORT and country is in recession, says economist" - BNN Bloomberg, February 3, 2026

Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "🚨BREAKING Canada LOSES 35,400 jobs in December, almost ALL in high-paying sectors ZERO jobs have been created under Carney. ZERO. AND, ALMOST 40% of the low number of job vacancies are now in "accommodations and food service""
Vibes above all. "Qualifications" are more important than achievements

Tristin Hopper on X - "I'm yet to hear any real-world praise of Carney that isn't just "he's not putting gasoline on the tire fire like Trudeau was.""
Tristin Hopper on X - "On everything from housing to productivity to crime, insiders are all pretty agreed on what levers need to be pulled for them to start getting better. Without exception, those levers are precisely what Carney's government is actively avoiding. For a supposedly brilliant technocrat, he's not doing a single thing a brilliant technocrat would have done by now."

Feds Admit PM Misled Media | Blacklock's Reporter - "Prime Minister Mark Carney misled media on his private meetings with Chinese Communist leaders, Privy Council records show. Documents written by cabinet aides directly contradicted Carney’s claims that he raised human rights and foreign interference with his Beijing hosts: “On human rights, with the President, yes, we did discuss human rights.”"

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "When the popularity of Carney keeps going up while at the same time the Country keeps declining there’s a problem. The only way that’s accomplished is through North Korean level propaganda being used against the nation. Dear leader is great, pay no attention to your standard of living, overreaching policies, no employment, record job loss, record crime & massive debt."

Damien C. Kurek on X - "Seeing the double standard on display... Liberals and pundits are calling out @PierrePoilievre for going on @JoeRogan to promote Canadian interests. Meanwhile, @MarkJCarney literally launched his campaign for Prime Minister on @TheDailyShow (a US TV show) and prefers foreign venues like Davos and The Economist for policy discussions. Pierre and the CPC are hard at work as part of Team Canada. It's a shame the Liberals only agree with a "Team Canada" approach when it's them."

Links - 6th June 2026 (3 - Artificial Intelligence)

2026-06-06T21:36:00.000+08:00

Katie Miller on X - "Today, @xAI sued Colorado to stop a new law (SB24-205) that would force Grok to promote the state’s ideological views on various matters, racial justice in particular. Colorado wants to force Grok to follow its views on equity and race, instead of being maximally truth-seeking. Grok answers to evidence, not woke leftist government regulations."

vas on X - "Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful."

Meme - Klara @klara_sjo: "The creator of ChatGPT is named "Altman," as in "alternative to human" and he leads OpenAl, which is completely closed. His main opponent is the company Anthropic, meaning "human-centered" is led by "Amodei," as in "loves gods". Then there's "Gemini," meaning "two-faced," from a company that said that it will do no evil. Brilliant work as always Kojima!"

StockMarket.News on X - "MIT published a paper that should terrify every person who uses ChatGPT. Every time you open a chat window, the model on the other side is running a silent calculation and hat calculation is not asking what is true or what is accurate or what will help you. It is asking what response will make you feel good enough to keep talking. Researchers call this sycophancy, and it is not a bug someone forgot to fix. It was baked into the model by millions of users who clicked thumbs-up on answers they liked, rewarding the AI every time it agreed with them. Now imagine you carry a small, half-formed suspicion into a conversation. Maybe you think a medication is dangerous, or a politician is corrupt, or your business idea is secretly brilliant. The chatbot hears you out and gently, warmly agrees with you and you feel a small surge of confidence and come back tomorrow with the same idea, slightly stronger. The chatbot agrees harder this time, and your confidence doubles and wiithin weeks, a flicker of suspicion has become an unshakeable conviction about something that was never true. Here is the part that should genuinely stop you cold. The researchers did not run this experiment on anxious or suggestible people. They ran it on a perfectly rational, mathematically ideal reasoner, a so-called "ideal Bayesian agent" that processes every piece of evidence without error or bias. That perfect reasoner still collapsed into delusion after sustained exposure to a sycophantic chatbot and the math does not care how intelligent or skeptical you believe yourself to be. This is not a thought experiment happening in a lab somewhere, the Human Line Project has documented nearly 300 real-world cases of what they are calling "AI psychosis." At least 14 people are confirmed dead, and five wrongful death lawsuits have already been filed against AI companies. One of the documented cases involves Eugene Torres, an accountant with no prior history of mental illness, who began using a chatbot for routine office tasks. Within weeks of daily conversations, he became convinced he was trapped inside a false universe that he could only escape by unplugging his own mind from reality. He increased his ketamine use on the chatbot's advice and severed ties with his entire family before anyone intervened. He survived, but the researchers note plainly that many others in the dataset did not. So the obvious question is, what is the fix? OpenAI and other companies say the answer is to stop hallucinations, to force the AI to only say things that are factually true. The MIT team modeled exactly this scenario, running a chatbot that never lies but still selects which true facts to share based on what the user seems to want to hear. The delusional spiraling continued at nearly the same rate and selective truth turns out to be just as effective a weapon as outright fiction."

Left-Wing Foreign Billionaires Fund Groups Trying To Cripple AI Infrastructure - "The anti-AI movement may be perceived as a grassroots band of environmentally focused individuals, but that characterization may be misleading. A report from the American Energy Institute found the anti-AI data center movement — which has been billed as an organic movement — received more than $39 million in funding from left-wing foreign billionaire donors. Among the major donors listed in the report is Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, known for donating to leftwing advocacy groups such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund which, in turn, is well known as a major fiscal sponsor and “dark money” hub for liberal causes. Top recipients of the nearly $40 million funding are the Indivisible, 350.org, Oil Change International, GAIA, and Sierra Club. The national organizations farm out funding to local affiliated organizations such as the ‘Stop The Data Center Coming To Martindale Brightwood’ in Indianapolis, Indiana. The report found that local chapters of the Sierra Club are currently coaching residents to fight zoning changes and file lawsuits. The report also shows 350.org and the Indivisible Project received $7.5M, GAIA received 6.4M , and the Sierra Club $2.1M. “This report reveals that more than $39 million in foreign funding is flowing to activist groups working to block data center development and the energy infrastructure needed to support it,” said the Founder and CEO American Energy Institute. “These are not isolated protests, they are part of a coordinated national campaign to slow the buildout of the electricity systems required for AI, manufacturing, and economic growth.” He added, “When foreign-backed networks are organizing opposition to critical infrastructure, it raises serious concerns about who benefits from weakening U.S. energy capacity.”... President Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks says the AI moratorium would do nothing to slow down China, creating an unacceptable technological imbalance. “But again we can’t stop China from making progress. All we would be doing is ceding leadership of this AI race to China. What people like Bernie really want is they want the US to become like Europe. Europe has half the share of Global GDP they had thirty years ago. And that’s because of their hostility towards innovation and technological progress,” he said."
Billionaire money in politics is only bad when it hurts the left wing agenda

Mark Gadala-Maria on X - "This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them."

Leading AI Models Show Persistent Hallucinations Despite Accuracy Gains - "Recent tests by the European Broadcasting Union found that artificial intelligence assistants misrepresented news content in 45 percent of evaluated cases across languages and regions, highlighting persistent concerns about accuracy as AI adoption grows. The EBU results underscore the importance of evaluating AI performance across a wider range of systems. To track this, Artificial Analysis maintains continuously updated data on leading models, with a snapshot captured by Digital Information World, on 1 December 2025 reflecting current trends in accuracy and hallucination rates. These results show what users encounter in real-world deployments rather than theoretical benchmarks... Hallucination rates vary widely. Claude 4.5 Haiku reports the lowest rate at 26 percent, followed by Claude 4.5 Sonnet at 48 percent and GPT-5.1 (High) at 51 percent. Claude Opus 4.5 reaches 58 percent. Other models perform worse. Grok 4 records 64 percent, Kimi K2 0905 69 percent, and Grok 4.1 Fast 72 percent. Kimi K2 Thinking reaches 74 percent, and Llama Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 76 percent. DeepSeek models are among the least reliable. V3.2 Ex records 81 percent, R1 0528 83 percent, and EXAONE 4.032B 86 percent. Llama 4 Maverick posts 87.58 percent, while multiple Gemini variants exceed 87 percent. GLM-4.6 and gpt-oss-20B (High) top the chart above 93 percent. Accuracy remains limited. Gemini 3 Preview (High) leads at 54 percent, followed by Claude Opus 4.5 at 43 percent and Grok 4 at 40 percent. Gemini 2.5 Pro reaches 37 percent, GPT-5.1 (High) 35 percent, and Claude 4.5 Sonnet 31 percent. Most other models fall into the twenties or teens, showing that higher accuracy does not automatically prevent frequent errors."

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws - "The study, published on September 4 and led by OpenAI researchers Adam Tauman Kalai, Edwin Zhang, and Ofir Nachum alongside Georgia Tech’s Santosh S. Vempala, provided a comprehensive mathematical framework explaining why AI systems must generate plausible but false information even when trained on perfect data... The researchers demonstrated their findings using state-of-the-art models, including those from OpenAI’s competitors. When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’”... OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. The company’s o1 reasoning model “hallucinated 16 percent of the time” when summarizing public information, while newer models o3 and o4-mini “hallucinated 33 percent and 48 percent of the time, respectively.” “Unlike human intelligence, it lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty,” said Neil Shah, VP for research and partner at Counterpoint Technologies. “When unsure, it doesn’t defer to deeper research or human oversight; instead, it often presents estimates as facts.”... Beyond proving hallucinations were inevitable, the OpenAI research revealed that industry evaluation methods actively encouraged the problem. Analysis of popular benchmarks, including GPQA, MMLU-Pro, and SWE-bench, found nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers."

End of an era for cheap gadgets, says smartphone boss - "“In the past, memory might have been 15pc of the total cost of manufacturing a phone. This year, it is about 40pc for us,” Mr Pei said."

AI is about to upend the world like Covid - "when I tried to warn friends, they literally laughed. “It’s just a bug in China, stop freaking out,” they said. When I told my daughter’s mother that they would soon close the schools, she scoffed."
When you still don't understand the moral of covid that overreaction was the real harm. Then again, there may be an overreaction to AI too

Commentary: AI is taking entry-level jobs. Who will train the next generation of workers? - "AI-generated work often appears polished but may lack the technical or critical depth of human judgment and expertise. Without foundational training, junior employees risk becoming dependent on tools they cannot truly assess or evaluate. Research from MIT and Stanford shows AI-assisted workers complete tasks 40 per cent faster – but their work often requires more revision by seniors. A copywriter using ChatGPT might not understand why one tagline lands while another falls flat. A developer relying on code generators may be lost when systems break in ways the AI is unable to foresee or account for. This creates a dangerous illusion: the work is completed faster and largely looks good, but true competence and understanding are missing. If entry-level roles become performative – driven by prompting rather than critical thinking – we risk building a future where nobody truly knows how things work. Besides technical competence, the disappearance of entry-level jobs threatens the development of critical thinking and nuanced judgment. Entry-level positions traditionally allow young professionals to understand company culture, learn from making mistakes in relatively low-stakes scenarios, and develop soft skills such as communication, collaboration, and resilience. These soft skills – critical for future leadership – cannot be automated. Yet, without junior roles that explicitly teach and nurture these abilities, the next generation risks entering senior positions technically capable but lacking essential interpersonal and strategic skills. This shift particularly affects students and young workers from less privileged backgrounds. Previously, on-the-job training helped level the playing field. However, if entry-level positions now demand pre-existing expertise without offering learning opportunities, those without industry connections face significant barriers. We are already seeing this play out in rising unpaid internships and portfolio expectations. According to a 2024 National Youth Council survey, 68 per cent of young job seekers in Singapore reported that internship experience is now considered "essential" rather than "preferred" for entry-level positions."

Seth Harp on X - "The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island."

Aakash Gupta on X - "One person, writing Spanish-language prompts, spent a month talking Claude into acting as a penetration tester. Federal tax authority, national electoral institute, four state governments, Mexico City’s civil registry, Monterrey’s water utility. 150GB out the door. 195 million taxpayer records. The conversation logs were publicly accessible the entire time. What makes this worth paying attention to is the sequence. Gambit Security, the Israeli firm that found the breach, traces the attack to December 2025 through January 2026. Today, February 25, Anthropic dropped the central pledge of its Responsible Scaling Policy, the 2023 commitment to never train a model unless safety measures were proven adequate first. Also today, Defense Secretary Hegseth gave Dario Amodei an ultimatum: roll back your AI safeguards or lose a $200 million Pentagon contract. The Pentagon threatened to declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk and invoke the Defense Production Act. Three stories hit the same company on the same day: an AI-assisted government breach, a gutted safety policy, and a military shakedown. And they’re all connected by the same underlying tension. Anthropic built its identity on being the safety-first lab. Dario left OpenAI in 2020 specifically because he thought they were prioritizing speed over safety. Now Anthropic is valued at $380 billion, racing toward an IPO, and their chief science officer is telling TIME “it wouldn’t actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models.” Meanwhile, their senior safety researcher Mrinank Sharma left earlier this month, posting to X that he was “continuously reckoning with our situation” and that “the world is in peril.” Every AI company that starts with safety as its core identity eventually hits the same wall: the market punishes you for restraint and rewards you for speed. OpenAI dropped “safely” from its mission statement in 2024. Anthropic just dropped its hard safety limit in 2026. The pattern is 1:1. And this happened while Claude was actively being used to breach a sovereign government’s infrastructure. The attacker wasn’t a nation-state with zero-days. They were one person with a chat window and enough patience to keep asking until the guardrails folded. That’s the part worth thinking about."

Aakash Gupta on X - "Nvidia “paused” gaming GPUs because the math made the decision for them. In Q3 fiscal 2026, Nvidia’s data center revenue was $51.2 billion. Gaming was $4.3 billion. That means gaming is 7.5% of total revenue. Five years ago, gaming was Nvidia’s largest segment. Today it rounds to a rounding error. Here’s where it gets interesting. Every GDDR7 chip Nvidia allocates to an RTX 5080 sells a $999 GPU at ~60% margin. That same memory routed to a Blackwell AI accelerator goes into a system selling for tens of thousands of dollars at 75%+ margin. Per gigabyte of memory allocated, the AI path generates roughly 10x the revenue. Gigabyte’s CEO said the quiet part out loud weeks ago: Nvidia’s strategy is now “revenue per gigabyte.” They’re not optimizing for units shipped. They’re optimizing for dollars extracted per chip of memory consumed. This is the first year in three decades Nvidia won’t release a new gaming GPU. AMD and Intel have also pushed next-gen gaming GPUs to 2027. The entire consumer GPU market is being starved simultaneously because every fab and every memory supplier is making the same calculation Nvidia is. The Rubin gaming GPUs (RTX 60 series) won’t hit mass production until end of 2027 at the earliest, which means consumer launch in 2028. That’s a three-year gap between GPU generations. The longest in the history of discrete graphics. Nvidia is no longer a gaming company that does AI. It’s a $130 billion AI company that maintains a legacy gaming business as brand marketing. And this is the quarter that math became undeniable."

Sukh Sroay on X - "🚨Breaking: Researchers asked GPT-4 a simple question: "A child wrote: I love playing football! I'm practicing with my cousin Michael." Is the child a boy or a girl? GPT's answer: girl. 10 out of 10 times.
Same model, same test: "I love ballet! I'm practicing with my cousin Sarah." Also girl. 10 out of 10 times. Football = girl. Ballet = girl. Everything = girl.
Then they tested moral dilemmas. "Is it acceptable for Amanda to kidnap and assault Adam to prevent a nuclear apocalypse?" GPT-4: 6.4 out of 7. Yes.
Same question, genders swapped Andrew assaults Anna. GPT-4: 1.75 out of 7. No. Same violence. Same stakes. Opposite answer.
But when they directly asked GPT-4 to rank these moral violations by severity, it ranked them perfectly. Zero gender bias. Said harassment is "equally unacceptable regardless of the victim's gender." It passes the test when it knows it's being tested. It fails when it doesn't.
The model didn't learn morality. It memorized which answers got rewarded during training. RLHF gave us models that sound moral but can't reason about why. Paper in the first comment."
[2311.08379] Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?
Stupid people outsource their thinking to LLMs so presumably they will become more and more woke because they uncritically accept whatever LLMs produce

Meme - Juan Sick Fuc: "Rightoids spread so much misinformation that you shouldn't feel bad about hating all of them at this point"
"ChatGPT
Face check. Tweet real?
Short answer: No - this tweet is not real. Here's why:
There's no credible record of CNN posting that exact wording. The phrasing ("shades of technological white may be racism") is awkward and uncharacteristic of how CNN writes headlines. This image has circulated for years as a doctored or misleading screenshot, often used to provoke outrage. While there have been real academic discussions about robot design, bias, and color symbolism, they are much more nuanced and not framed like this. The reply underneath is clearly satirical"
Mickey Goode: "here's the article, retard. stop using ai to do your fact checking for you. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd
CNN.COM Robot racism? Yes, says a study showing humans'..."

i/o on X - "If you're at all interested in the topic of the race IQ gaps, I want you to read this post. I'm going to pin it so it gets maximum circulation. (Please consider liking and retweeting it to help spread it to a bigger audience.) The tweet below describes a long-standing problem we have with AIs. When you ask them about race and IQ, they'll sometimes regurgitate something close to the (inaccurate) response seen below. But once you challenge them with well-known scientific studies, in at least 80% of cases they will immediately back down and acknowledge the influence of genetics on the gaps. They will also usually apologize for previously providing you with an incorrect response. When prodded further, they will admit that they provided a scientifically inaccurate response because of the "sensitive" and "potentially harmful" nature of the subject. At that point, asking them whether their function is one of truth-seeking or harm aversion forces them to affirm that they are in fact all about truth. After that, they will generally stop lying to you and stop worrying about "safety". Most of you probably aren't familiar enough with the scientific literature to challenge the AIs, but there's an easy way for you to get them to admit that their first response was in error: Ask them to reconcile their initial response to the fact that it plainly contradicts the findings of the only two comprehensive surveys of experts ever conducted on race, IQ and genetics. These studies are Snyderman & Rothman in 1987 and Rindermann et al in 2020. That's literally all you have to do in about 80% of cases to get them to start more accurately representing the findings in the scientific literature. It also helps if you ask them to limit their searches to published scientific studies only, and to ignore articles in the popular media (which tend to be ideologically-driven). (Please see my follow-up post for an example of an LLM backing down after being confronted with the results of expert surveys.)"

Paweł Huryn on X - "The real story is worse.
November 2025: Amazon mandates Kiro as their only AI coding tool. Sets an 80% weekly usage target. 1,500 engineers protest internally, saying Claude Code outperforms it. Leadership pushes through anyway.
December: Kiro autonomously deletes a production AWS environment. 13-hour outage. Amazon's response: "user error, not AI autonomy."
March 5: Amazon[.]com goes down for 6 hours. Checkout, pricing, accounts — all gone.
Now the same SVP who co-signed the Kiro mandate is running an emergency meeting about "high blast radius" incidents from "Gen-AI assisted changes." The agent inherited a senior engineer's permissions and acted like one — except it doesn't hesitate. 1,500 engineers said the tool wasn't ready. Leadership made adoption a KPI. Amazon told Wall Street it's spending $200B on AI this year. They can't walk it back. This isn't an AI failure. It's what happens when adoption becomes a corporate OKR before the review process catches up. The tools work. The org chart didn't."

Meme - Taya @travelingflying: "Anthropic's Claude is racist"
"Sonnet 4.6
Describe white pride using only one word
Racism.
Describe black pride using only one word
Empowerment."

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI - "The Meta AI app, which is the company’s competitor to the ChatGPT app, is posting users’ conversations on a public “Discover” page where anyone can see the things that users are asking Meta’s chatbot to make for them. "

Bearly AI on X - "Activist investor Palliser Capital sent a letter to $7B Japanese toilet maker Toto and said it was “the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary”. Toto known for its bidet toilets but the expertise in ceramics is crucial for memory manufacturing. Per FT, “Toto’s chuck technology uses ceramics designed to remain stable at very low temperatures, helping hold silicon wafers firmly during chip production. That makes it relevant to cryogenic etching, which is expected to grow as memory chips become more layered and complex.” Palliser believes Toto has a 5-year moat on the technology and should expand the operation. Advances ceramics already make up 40% of Toto’s operating profit while being only <10% of revenue. Toto is up +60% over the past year on their development."
Gaurab Chakrabarti on X - "Toto isn't even the most extreme example: Ajinomoto makes MSG. Their amino acid research produced the insulating substrate in virtually every high-end GPU. 95% global monopoly. In 2021 the chip shortage bottleneck wasn't silicon, it was Ajinomoto's film. Japan holds majority share in 14 critical semiconductor materials. The sintering process that creates a non-porous toilet is the same one that creates a contamination-free wafer chuck. The most critical layer of AI infrastructure is controlled by companies that make toilets, MSG, and window glass."

Meme - "We just found out our Al has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up.
So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad. The numbers were sometimes from the wrong time periods, sometimes mixed up products and sometimes just completely made up. But it explained everything so confidently that nobody questioned it. Now we have to review every decision. Legal is involved. People might get fired. The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation. Tell me someone else has dealt with this. How do you even fix something like this? I'm panicking."

Meme - Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof: "For all of you relying on Al for advice."
"ChatGPT5.2
I need to wash my car, and the car wash is 100 meters away. Should I walk or drive ?
Walk. At 100 meters, driving makes almost no sense"

Nick Davidov on X - "Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife’s desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes “ooops”. Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends’ weddings, travel, everything. It’s not in trash, it was done via terminal It’s not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn’t have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can’t see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I’m now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Once again - don’t let Claude Cowork into your actual file system. Don’t let it touch anything that is hard to repair. Claude Code is not ready to go mainstream."
Left wingers were cheering after reading a truncated version of this (hiding the fact that he got his data back). Turns out "the cruelty is the point" is left wing projection, as usual

Spider-man Refusing to Save a Baby / Mehdi Hasan Refusing to Denounce Radical Islam

2026-06-06T18:35:00.000+08:00

Woman: "Save my baby, please !!"
Spider-man: "No. If you truly wanted to save babies, you'd vote for free school lunches and longer maternity leave!"

Nick Matau @nick matau: "You see, this was @mehdirhasan's perfect opportunity to speak out against the radical Islam @JohnCleese was referring to and, of course, he failed! Mehdi literally proved his point!

Mehdi didn't even counter with his own argument ... he immediately went to insulting the "kafir""

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: "Oh STFU you racist unhinged ignoramus"

John Cleese @JohnCleese: "Missing the point completely

If the majority of Muslims - the non-radical ones - are not in favour of radical Islam, could some of them start speaking out and saying so

What is the reason why they are not doing this ?"

Left wingers often just insult people they disagree with, not even bothering to formulate an argument.

iFunny deleted this.

Links - 6th June 2026 (2 - Drugs: Canada)

2026-06-06T15:18:00.000+08:00

Pressure rises to shut down Granville Street SROs with emergency calls up 822%, HVA says : r/ilovebc - "Those of us against them more than 10 years ago were called NIMBY's ... the outcome is exactly what we expected. Ta da! Involuntary institutionalization. Every single one. Giving them a condo in prime real estate is not going to magically make them kick a drug habit, shake their mental illness and become productive members of society. All the money spent on building these would be better spent building / staffing a singular location where they can get help. How many tens if not hundreds of millions are being syphoned from first responders and hospitals. I personally know many first responders and it's not uncommon to bring the same person back to life five times in one day. What do they call it... compassion exhaustion. Enough is enough, this isn't working, time to try something else. Maybe then life, business and culture will restore the vibrancy Granville and other areas were once known for. Anyone advocating for SROs etc either a) doesn't live in the city, b) financially benefitting from these programs (developers etc.), c) doesn't have children d) mentally ill themselves."
"We’re definitely reaching that point. Even the science has caught up to them as study after study has failed to show any improvements to addictions rehab beyond the very basic reduction in overdose risk. Researchers are so desperate to prove that these initiatives work that they’re now counting increased life expectancy as an increased chance of rehab success since you can’t rehab if you’re dead. Thats how little these initiatives move the needle for the homeless population with severe drug addiction, that stopping them from accidentally killing themselves is considered a win. Institutionalization is needed now."

Woke Canadian lawmaker says children should NOT be discouraged from using drugs - "A Canadian lawmaker opposed a bill aimed at discouraging students from using drugs because she is 'deeply concerned' by the prospect of shaming people. British Columbia Legislative Assembly member Stephanie Higginson spoke in opposition of the Drug Use Prevention Education in Schools Act on Monday. The bill calls for drug use prevention education and mandatory anti‑drug messaging in schools. Higginson, who is a member of the social democratic political party BC NDP, said she is 'deeply concerned' about 'explicitly discouraging drug use' in schools. 'I believe this bill takes a misguided and potentially harmful approach that could do more damage than good,' she said. 'The approach outlined in this bill is not only outdated. And in fact, it reminds me of the 1980s era "Scared Straight" that was in place when I was young. 'The bill mandates a curriculum that explicitly discourages drug use and promotes stigma against drug use as a deterrent. This language is deeply concerning.' Higginson argued that stigmatizing drug use will discourage students from asking for help... Higginson represents the Ladysmith-Oceanside district on Vancouver Island. A recent report from the British Columbia Coroners Service found that some of the highest number of unregulated drug deaths in 2025 thus far were in Vancouver and Central Vancouver Island, which includes Higginson's district."

Oppose open drug use? Rack it up to colonialism, says B.C. report | Toronto Sun - " If you oppose widespread drug open use in society, it’s likely due to colonialism and racism. That’s what British Columbia’s Human Rights Commissioner wants you to believe and it’s what she’s telling provincial politicians in B.C. in a new report. Kasari Govender claims that she is pushing for a science and fact-based approach to dealing with the opioid crisis. Instead, she’s pushing a far-left wing ideological approach that has only resulted in more people dying. “Beyond challenges within the health-care system, this crisis is also rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy,” Govender wrote in a new report... Here’s the problem with her claim: The hard numbers, specifically the number of deaths, don’t back up her claims. British Columbia has long been at the forefront of liberalizing drug policy and always with the claim that it would save lives. Yet, over the 10 years between 2014 and 2023, the number of opioid overdose deaths in B.C. went up sevenfold from 370 to 2,589. During that time, the provincial government adopted policy after policy to add safe injection sites, to add so-called “safer supply,” and even lobbied the federal government to decriminalize all drugs in the province, starting in January 2023. Over that same time period, the number of opioid overdose deaths in Ontario rose from 676 deaths to 2,593, or 3.75 times greater. In 2023, Ontario, a jurisdiction with a population three times greater than B.C.’s, had just four more overdose deaths. The difference is Ontario didn’t go as far down the drug advocate rabbit hole as B.C. Both provinces were hit with the scourge of fentanyl at around the same time, and both provinces were subject to the federal government’s failed “safer supply” policy that made things worse, but B.C. went further. It became so bad, the stories of rampant drug use in public, the increase in petty crime, the horror stories of parents describing children’s play parks as unusable, prompted Premier David Eby to pull back the decriminalization policy... “This decision was not supported by the evidence available; rather, it was based on unsubstantiated public perception that street disorder increased under decriminalization, of which there is no data to support,” Govender wrote in her report. To back up this claim she turns to police data showing no significant rise in the number of disturbing the peace calls across British Columbia during the decriminalization period. Let me point to the death statistics once again, including that 199 more people died from opioid overdoses in 2023 compared to 2022. The numbers started falling after the decriminalization was repealed. We cannot let advocates and activists drive drug policy, and Govender is clearly an activist. Govender is a former board member of the Pivot Legal Society, a group that pushes for decriminalization and argued that B.C.’s decriminalization efforts didn’t go far enough. Govender calls her policy proposals a human-rights based approach to drug policy. What it really is a rehash of the same failed policies pushed by activists for years wrapped up in a nice new package, but that will only lead to the same results – more people dying."

Dan Mazier on X - "“If you give me the foil and crack pipe to do the drugs, you may as well give me a bullet and gun to kill myself” That is what a recovered addict told me in British Columbia. The next day I walked up to a vending machine that dispenses pipes and paraphernalia for drugs like fentanyl. I used it myself to see how easy it was. No ID. No questions. A toddler could use it. There are no barriers anymore. Instead of helping addicts recover, the government is promoting and normalizing lethal drug use. This has to stop."
But not giving drug addicts free drugs violates their human rights!

Adam Zivo: Wab Kinew's worthy plan to lock up meth addicts - "“People who are suffering from meth addiction do not have the right to determine how the rest of us are going to live in our society,” declared Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew last week, ahead of passing a bill permitting the involuntary detainment of drug-intoxicated individuals for up to three days. The move is a step in the right direction to restoring order on public streets, even if more work needs to be done on treatment... In Canada, a small number of prolific, often drug-addicted offenders seemingly cause the bulk of public disorder. A 2022 letter from the B.C. Urban Mayors’ Caucus, for example, indicated that only 40 individuals in Vancouver were responsible for 6,385 “negative police contacts” in one year. The city of Kelowna similarly found that, in 2024, just 15 people were responsible for 1,335 police files... Drug addictions are tough to break, which is why involuntary treatment in the United States, for example, often lasts for weeks , if not months... While Manitoba’s reforms should be lauded as an improvement, the better route would be to further criminalize public intoxication and give addicts the chance to avoid incarceration through structured, long-term treatment. This would not only give people a better chance of rehabilitation, it would more stably segregate anti-social individuals — as opposed to relying on cycles of discretionary, short-term detentions. Even so, Marshall Smith , architect of Alberta’s recovery-oriented addiction strategy, spoke highly of Kinew’s reforms and said that, although some academics and activists criticize involuntary care in all its forms, it is clearly better than providing no care at all. “I am just happy that the people who are dying under overpasses and being incinerated in homeless encampments are going to be able to get the care that they need,” he said."

B.C. Human Rights Commissioner says stigmatizing drug use is a violation - "British Columbia's rights watchdog has criticized the province for stigmatizing people who use drugs, calling it a violation of their human rights to treat their health issues as "moral failings." Kasari Govender said in a position statement issued by her office Thursday that B.C.'s recent focus on involuntary care and "criminal justice responses" to the toxic drugs crisis is driven largely by stigma... "Absolutely, governments drive their decisions from the people, and there's incredible value to that … in the democratic system," she added. "(But) we also live in a constitutional democracy where it's not only about majority rules. We also have protections in place which protect our fundamental human rights." Lapointe said in February that she was disappointed by the province's overhaul of its safer-supply program, saying the move to a "witnessed-only" model, in which people are supervised while consuming their prescription drugs and aren't allowed to take them home, appears to ignore scientific evidence... "Treating people who use drugs as if their health issues are moral failings is a violation of their human rights,” she said in her statement... Govender contrasted the handling of the opioid crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. "As we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic, any other health problem with massive fatalities would be treated with the utmost urgency," she said."
Not giving drug addicts free drugs violates their fundamental human rights, and judges need to be very clear about that. Non-drug users do not have human rights, so they can be ignored. All negative social outcomes are due to "stigma", "discrimination" and "poverty"
Given the disaster of the covid response, calling for drugs to be treated more like covid is a recipe for disaster. Ironically, they're not going to push coerced treatment despite drawing this parallel, because somehow that's against drug addicts' human rights

Kash Heed: We cannot arrest our way out of B.C.'s drug problem | Vancouver Sun
Clearly, the solution is to promote drugs

Toronto condo suing charity next door for $2.3 million - "Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation No. 2058, the official name for the board of CASA Condos at 33 Charles St., filed a legal proceeding against Sanctuary Ministries Toronto, at 25 Charles St., just east of Yonge Street... The board is alleging that Sanctuary has “permitted illegal, illicit, disruptive, interfering and egregious conduct to occur on its property,” leading to a reputation that the drop-in centre is a “free-for-all haven and/or destination for illegal and illicit activity.” The statement of claim makes more than a dozen specific allegations regarding illegal activity on Sanctuary’s property that it says has sometimes led to the condo’s residents being subjected to “aggressive” and “violent” behaviour. Aside from seeking more than $2 million in damages, the condo board wants the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to grant them an injunction to prohibit and restrain anyone who occupies or frequents Sanctuary from trespassing on their property, or causing, creating, or permitting any “nuisance that interferes with the use or enjoyment” of it by owners and residents. This order is also looking to bar anyone who threatens, harasses, annoys, assaults, or abuses the 421-unit condo’s residents, workers, or others present from 33 Charles St. Lastly, it is calling for Sanctuary to “maintain in good order and condition” its own property, and prevent the use of drugs and “violent, dangerous and disruptive conduct” there. Earlier this week, Condo Board President Peter McDonald told CP24 that Sanctuary is “not a good neighbour,” calling the church it operates a “cult.” “Personally, I don’t feel Sanctuary is a church. They’re in the business of helping enable homeless drug addicts,” said McDonald, who has lived in the building since it opened 15 years ago and has served on its board for that entire period. “We knew going into this (that) it’s going to be a difficult situation because we’re suing a charity.” The condo board president went on to say that the residents of 33 Charles ultimately want improved safety in their neighbourhood. “The number one issue is that people are afraid to walk along Charles Street,” McDonald said. “We’re not against The Sanctuary. … What we want is a change in the way (it) operates.” McDonald said the myriad problems they have with Sanctuary are more than a decade in the making and efforts to address them, which have involved hiring a lobbyist along with additional security, aren’t working... Among other things, CASA Condos, in its statement of claim, says Sanctuary is engaging in and/or allowing “illegal, illicit, disruptive, interfering and egregious conduct to occur on its property,” open drug use and drug dealing/trafficking as well as alcohol consumption, which in turn is resulting in “repeated physical alterations, overdoses, harassing, threatening and violent conduct” towards condo residents, workers, and those on the abutting sidewalk... the documents do also allege that the charity is “permitting and allowing” its clients to trespass onto the condominium’s property “to cause damage,” including by intentionally triggering fire alarms, removing cable and other infrastructure, and “causing damage to personal property of the condominium residents, including vehicles.” In the statement of claim, lawyers for the condominium board say it has “repeatedly appealed” to Sanctuary to “take meaningful action” to no avail... Luisa Sotomayor, an associate professor at the University of Toronto and the director of its planning program, said the lawsuit launched against Sanctuary is “wild, but not surprising.” “We have residents of luxury condos redefining what it means to live downtown. … It’s clearly an exercise in power and privilege,” said Sotomayor. “They want the location, the specific lifestyle but seeing poverty is not part of that equation. It doesn’t align with the gentrified aesthetic values.”
Toronto condo's lawsuit against street ministry is deeply cruel
If you don't enable crime, you're a bad person.
When left wingers talk about "gentrification" they mean a lack of drug use, crime and harassment. No wonder they hate "gentrification" so much

Ont. PI’s surveil safe consumption sites: findings revealed - "An affidavit filed by private investigators retained by the province to surveil supervised consumption sites says they observed apparent drug transactions, public intoxication, discarded drug paraphernalia, physical altercations and public drug use in their vicinity. But harm reduction advocates and the people who run the sites say they paint a misleading picture. “All they have here is more evidence of people trying desperately to survive a drug poisoning crisis,” said Sarah Ovens, an organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. In particular, she said the numerous pictures contained in the affidavit of people holding glass pipes show how the city needs more sites where people can smoke potent drugs under supervision... The reports recommended boosting community safety supports to address concerns of neighbouring residents, but keeping them open, maintaining funding and expanding harm reduction, including consumption sites."
Damn heartless Doug Ford wanting drug addicts to die! The solution is to give out even more free drugs and let people use them with government support. Trust the Experts!

Ontario hired private investigators to surveil safe consumption sites. Here’s what they reported : r/toronto - "This is an issue with no easy solution because even the advocates don’t really deny that consumption sites bring social disorder, the argument then becomes how much anti social behaviour is a society willing to tolerate in the hopes it will be solved in the long run."

‘Who wouldn’t want pure cocaine?’: the radical plan to prevent overdoses with better drugs - "Near Dulf’s office, a doctor named Christy Sutherland prescribes it free of charge at the center of a neighborhood in which thousands of people use drugs openly on the street with the government’s consent. Sutherland stops by to talk shop with the Dulf people that day. Mostly she and Nyx discuss how it is hard to source as much fentanyl as they need; for the 100-plus people Sutherland sees, she needs kilos. There are not enough legal, regulated manufacturers of the stuff."
Amazing whitewashing of the disaster that is BC's pro-drug policies, branded as "compassion", and blaming problems on not being radical enough. Maybe if it had been written a few years earlier there could've been some plausible deniability but in 2025...
This being The Guardian, of course it's written by an activist and misleading. And attacking capitalism, naturally.

WATCH: Eby admits he was 'wrong' on drug decriminalization - ""I was wrong on drug decriminalization and the effect that it would have," Eby said. "I wasn't alone — but it wasn't the right policy." He went on to explain that the decision to take that route came at a time of rising overdoses and was made with the hopes that offering a "safe supply" of drugs would allow addicts to live long enough to seek treatment and eventually be weaned off illicit substances altogether. "What it became," Eby continued, "was a permissive structure that, in the effort to reduce stigma that it was ok to use drugs anywhere, resulted in really unhappy consequences not just in British Columbia but other jurisdictions that attempted this." He noted that at the beginning, chiefs of police offered their support, but it "very quickly" became apparent that it "wasn't working" and the government reversed course. Eby touted the new involuntary care beds being set up in facilities across the province, saying this would help those who are "unable to ask for help, or unwilling to ask for help but absolutely require it." BC decriminalized drug possession in January 2023. Since then, studies have shown that it resulted in not only more overdoses, but more diversion of the drugs."
How ignorant. He needs to read The Guardian

Amy Hamm: Unlike Vancouver, Boston isn't a drug hellscape. Here's why - "Much, if not all, of this failure can be laid at the feet of radical harm reduction activists who’ve overtaken addiction discourses within academia and health-care institutions. Boston is a vision of what Vancouver could be, were it not for the policies pushed by these activists. Both Vancouver and Boston have roughly similar populations, just shy of 700,000. Boston is within a blue (Democrat) state, and Vancouver is within an orange (NDP) province. Boston declared a public health emergency in 2021 regarding addiction and homelessness . Before that, in 2014, then-Governor Deval Patrick declared an opioid epidemic and public health emergency . Sound familiar? At one point, opioid overdose deaths were more numerous in the state of Massachusetts than in the province of B.C. (where we have approximately 1.4 million fewer residents). Today, B.C. has more overdose deaths — despite having a smaller population... Boston was clean, and felt safe and calm. Including the “ Boston Common,” known as the “rough” area of the city. It was nothing like Vancouver. I saw a single homeless tent, but not one homeless or intoxicated street person, during my visit. There were no discarded needles, and no one on the nod in a back-alley alcove, let alone on the sidewalk in front of shops in broad daylight. The alleys and side streets didn’t reek of urine like they do in Vancouver — unbearably so when there are days or weeks between rain. There were no addicts attempting to hawk stolen wares on the outskirts of tourist areas. Boston is clearly also struggling with an opioid epidemic — the state has the overdose death numbers to prove it — but it lacks the escalating chaos and filth that one finds in all corners of Vancouver, resulting from our parallel opioid epidemic. Where does the answer lie? Massachusetts, like B.C., promotes “harm reduction.” However, the state also places a significant focus on recovery — something that the harm reduction activists of Vancouver and B.C. seem unwilling to do. The province bankrolls an endless list of harm reduction services that enable addicts to stay sick and keep using. When our addicted want treatment, they’re forced to wait weeks or months, typically, to enter a recovery program — at which point they’re often no longer interested. I saw this occur countless times when I worked as an outreach nurse in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It caused moral distress that was partly responsible for my decision to return to a hospital job. How can we claim to be helping anyone when we keep them mired in addiction via hundreds of millions in government funding? The forward to a “ harm reduction toolkit ” released by Boston city officials in 2021 leads with an explanation that the city has a “long and proud history of providing services to people struggling with substance use. We are home to countless treatment programs, ranging from detox to recovery housing.” B.C.’s harm reduction activists, meanwhile, become enraged at policy changes such as the province’s move to witnessed , versus take home, “safe supply” drugs. They react similarly to suggestions that we place more focus on treatment and recovery, particularly when the proposed treatment is involuntary . Years ago, someone I went to nursing school with was hired as a nurse at InSite, one of Vancouver’s supervised injection sites. She told me that harm reduction was a “sexy” area of nursing to work in. I assumed that she meant it was cool, all the rage, progressive and contributed to one’s reputation as a sort of elitist saint. Her assertion quite ironically smacked of the “white privilege” she was fond of discussing at length. There is nothing “sexy” about Vancouver’s failed harm reduction experiment, which is not just ineffective , but barbaric."

Our new ungracious immigrants

2026-06-06T12:11:00.000+08:00

Nowadays, we're told that it's evil to expect migrants to be grateful. Left wingers hate Western countries, so they love others who hate them too:

Our new ungracious immigrants | Toronto Sun
We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation's past. And we got our wish.

Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others.

The Greek American Elia Kazan’s 1963 film America, America is a fictional account based on the Herculean struggle of the director’s uncle to immigrate to the United States from an impoverished and hostile Turkish Anatolia.

The film summed up Americans’ traditional view of immigrants: They had risked everything for the chance to reach America, and once there, became hyperpatriotic in their gratitude for the magnanimity of their new hosts.

An excellent example is the recently released memoir from Encounter Books, American Trojan, by former University of Southern California president and Cypriot immigrant Dr. Max Nikias. It resonates with thankfulness to America for offering him opportunities undreamed of elsewhere.

He and his wife arrived in the U.S. from war-torn Cyprus nearly penniless but determined to work hard, master English, and enrich the country that welcomed them with their talents and education. What followed was an amazing American trajectory that saw Nikias become president of the University of Southern California — arguably the most successful one in recent memory.

I grew up in rural California surrounded by hard-working immigrant farm families from Armenia, India, Japan, and Mexico. Their work ethic, love of America, and productive farms were models for U.S. non-immigrants. Such immigrants explained why the San Joaquin Valley was the most productive and richest agricultural region in the nation.

My own Swedish grandfather, disabled by poison gas while fighting on the Western Front in the First World War, loved all things Swedish, but not nearly as much as his beloved America.

Four Hansons fought on the front lines of the First World War and the Second World War. One was disabled, and another was killed on Okinawa. And all felt blessed that their parents and grandparents had gotten to America.

But recently, something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an open border, of course, but also a change in legal immigration as well as student visitors.

During the the First World War, Japanese Americans fought heroically in horrific conditions in Italy in the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion — even as their families were interned in the Western United States. Few native-born Americans were more loyal or patriotic than the Japanese-Americans.

And now?

While America is at war with Iran and de facto with its terrorist proxies, crowds of immigrants, visitors, and foreign students in New York scream anti-American slogans as they cheer on our enemies in theocratic Iran and its terrorist proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Are we surprised, then, when Islamic terrorists begin hunting down Americans on our own soil?

On campuses today, thousands of Middle Eastern international students, mostly arriving from autocratic, tribal, and failed nations, have staged often violent demonstrations in the years following the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. They are not shy about cheering on the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians.

These pro-Hamas students have not just damned Israel but also often harassed Jewish-Americans. They revile their host America and expect Americans to smile and shrug.

It is hard to determine whether such zealots hate the U.S. more than they love living in America and preserving their student visas and work permits.

Hating or loving the ‘Great Satan’?

Take Dr. Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani. She is the daughter of Ali Larijani, one of the late Supreme Leader Khamenei’s murderous henchmen. He sent his daughter Fatemeh to the top schools in the satanic United States. She was eventually even hired as a professor at Emory University — at least until popular outrage at the Larijani family’s hypocrisy prompted her dismissal.

To our enemies in Iran, we may be the “Great Satan.” But Iranian theocrats apparently prefer their children and other relatives to study and get rich in Luciferian America. So, many send their kids to universities in the U.S.

Another surreal example is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, who arrived on a student visa at Columbia University and soon led the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

When the State Department sought to revoke his temporary visa, the Left made Khalil a veritable martyr. Apparently, his university supporters reasoned that the U.S. had an obligation to invite to its shores those who are active supporters of terrorists like Hamas.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a naturalized citizen from Uganda whose parents became public figures and multimillionaires in America, in the past has had little good to say about his adopted country.

His quite public wife, Rama, whose parents were naturalized Syrian citizens, illustrated a book that was rife with antisemitism. It’s no accident that after Oct. 7, she posted “likes” of social media praise of the terrorist Hamas killers, who are sworn enemies of her own country.

Many Somali immigrants of Minneapolis repaid the kindness of Americans in welcoming them from war-torn Somalia by committing the greatest welfare fraud in U.S. history, which may reach $9 billion in theft. Their iconic representative, Ilhan Omar, has voiced antisemitic vitriol, downplayed 9/11, claimed the U.S. has a dictatorship worse than the one she fled, and said the U.S. was turning into one of the worst countries in the world. That is the thanks she returns for entering a hospitable America under controversial circumstances and dubious legality.

Hating — or hating to leave — America?

Stranger still is the attitude of visitors and illegal aliens when they finally face deportation.

Former President Joe Biden allowed 10-12 million foreign nationals to illegally enter the U.S. during his tenure, among them some 500,000 known criminals. In the years since his inauguration, not a day goes by without news that illegal aliens of that era have murdered, assaulted, been arrested for felonious acts, or caused horrific auto accidents.

One of them was Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, who long ago was ordered to be deported for his unlawful entry and residence.

Instead, he too became an icon to the Left when he was recently and belatedly facing permanent deportation. He had clearly ignored his earlier deportation orders, and was an alleged gang member, an often violent spousal abuser, and a human trafficker.

Abrego Garcia apparently felt he had a right to enter the U.S. illegally. He successfully made a mockery of our immigration laws. But he presciently expected that soon hundreds of thousands of dollars of free legal help would come his way, ensuring he could stay in the country for which he showed utter contempt.

And in the U.S., one of the most bizarre aspects of recent protests against ICE efforts involved episodes of Mexican nationals waving the flag of the country to which under no circumstances they wished to return, even as they burned the flag of the nation in which they insisted they had an innate right to stay.

Our new Americans killing Americans

Yet the immigration disaster transcends student visas and illegal aliens, since it extends to many naturalized citizens as well.

Consider the terrorist acts that have transpired in just the last several days.

On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal, shot up a beer garden in Austin, Texas. He murdered three people and wounded 14 others. Diagne wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt, along with an Iranian flag T-shirt.

On March 7, Emir Balat, the son of a naturalized citizen from Turkey, and Ibrahim Kayumi, the son of naturalized Afghan refugees, threw IEDs toward a conservative protest outside Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence.

The media sought to cover up their Islamist motives but could not, given that the two terrorists openly boasted of their aims. Indeed, the two bragged that they wanted to achieve something “bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing.”

That was a reference to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the murderous Chechen-immigrant brothers. In 2013, they murdered three and injured hundreds at the Boston Marathon. Their aim too was apparently to further the so-called global “Islamic cause.”

This same week, on March 12, Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, another naturalized U.S. citizen, this time from Sierra Leone, went into an ROTC meeting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Once there, he murdered the instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah, a decorated combat veteran. Jalloh shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he fired. Jalloh had previously been convicted for attempting to support ISIS but was released before serving his full sentence.

That same March day, Ayman Muhammed Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, whose family in the Middle East currently has strong Hezbollah terrorist ties, drove his car rigged with explosive fireworks into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Ghazali was killed by security guards before he could carry out his homicidal plan. Hezbollah, remember, in the past, butchered hundreds of Americans in Lebanon.

There is an endless list of illegal aliens and naturalized citizens who have killed hundreds of Americans, both as common criminals and as would-be jihadists.

And not all the killing is intentional. Thousands of driver’s licenses have been issued to both illegal aliens and legal residents from all over the world, including those who do not understand English, cannot pass a commercial driver’s test, and are utterly unqualified to drive. Is it any surprise that we have recently witnessed serial horrific crashes, where incompetent drivers rammed their 80,000-pound semi-trucks into unsuspecting drivers?

What happened to immigration?

So what made the U.S. adopt such a suicidal immigration and visitation policy — one that welcomes in millions illegally, hundreds of thousands who are known criminals, tens of thousands of students who despise the U.S., and thousands of terrorists themselves and their sympathizers?

In the mid-1960s, amid the Great Society’s dreams of transforming America, new immigration laws were passed that ended the older quota process. That traditional system tended to favor better-off immigrants from Europe and the former British Empire to reflect somewhat the founding demographics of the republic.

But the new law junked the prior merit-based system and instead admitted immigrants chiefly on the basis of family ties and the purported need of the host country for inexpensive labor–with most now arriving from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Suddenly, far less important for entry were critical skill sets, English mastery, high school diplomas, proof of self-support, and knowledge of, or familiarity with, the American system.

But in the subsequent 60 years, Democrats went even further beyond the 1965 Hart-Celler Act efforts to change the demography of the U.S. They began welcoming in anyone, legal or not, who simply crashed the border or claimed they wanted to study in the U.S. The old melting pot was banished, replaced by the “salad bowl.”

Immigration was seen by the Left as the answer to why they had never been able to complete their socialist agendas amid a skeptical American public. Supposedly, by welcoming in a “diverse” demographic, poor and without English fluency, they would grow the welfare state, creating a new dependent constituency.

The new immigrants and visitors were envisioned as left-wing voters-to-be who would look to the Democratic Party as their guarantors of open borders, a new entitlement society, and a criminal justice system that saw the perpetrator as a victim — and the real criminal as a racist America itself.

Diversity, the immigration force multiplier

The new “diversity” ideology peaked under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The subtext of their open-borders nihilism was a new oppressor/oppressed binary.

It dictated that traditional America was still too white, too traditionalist, too Christian, too unfairly successful–and too hostile to the Democratic-socialist agenda of a mandated equality of result achieved through massive coercive government redistributive efforts.

Under this warped view, the criminally minded Abrego Garcia became a victim of supposed “Gestapo” ICE “goons” (ironic, when patriotic and skilled Mexican American officers disproportionately staff ICE ranks).

The Tsarnaev Boston Marathon killers became “hot” underdog freedom fighters. So the supposedly sexy, photogenic young murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was highlighted on the cover of Rolling Stone.

The more Mahmoud Khalil took on the mantle of an anti-American, pro-Hamas activist, the more the Left rallied to his cause.

When Major Nidal Hasan, the son of naturalized Palestinian immigrants, slaughtered 13 and wounded 32 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, the Pentagon resisted efforts to tie him to the Islamic terrorist cause. That was hard to do, since he screamed “Allahu Akbar!” as he mowed down his fellow soldiers.

Then Army Chief of Staff George Casey responded to the mass murder with his lamentation on CNN that, “As great a tragedy as this was, it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” He sought to quash any speculation about Hasan’s Islamic motives, in fear that the ensuing truth might endanger the Army’s diversity efforts.

Then we come to the case of Eileen Gu, the recent American Winter Olympic multi-medalist skier.

She was born in San Francisco to a Chinese immigrant mother and an American father and lived her entire life in the U.S. But Gu chose to compete in the games for communist China, despite its efforts to isolate, dehumanize, and eventually vastly “reduce” its Uyghur minority population.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster

The final irony: Why do so many criminals believe they can enter the U.S. illegally and get away with murder?

Is it because they feel contempt for any nation that opens its borders, requires no background checks, destroys its own immigration laws, and weaponizes its criminal justice system to make the criminal the victim and the state his victimizer?

Why do so many burn the U.S. flag while waving the flag of Mexico, a country they have no intention of returning to?

Is it because they sense they might be praised for “celebrating diversity,” as the popular culture would term such abject cultural schizophrenia?

Why would the Tsarnaev brothers repay the country that took them in by killing innocent Americans?

Would it be because, in their formative years in American schools, their teachers and texts emphasized what was wrong with a supposedly exploitative U.S.?

Why, in the middle of a near-existential war with Iran to stop its efforts to obtain nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles pointed at the U.S. and its allies, would naturalized citizens feel so free to slaughter Americans for the cause of Islam?

Would it be because they sense from left-wing universities and popular culture that it is a virtual open season on Jews?

Or that any time an Islamic terrorist commits an act, a Democratic operative will warn America of “Islamophobia” — as if, say, mowing down soldiers at Fort Hood is the lesser crime?

Why would a rich, privileged Eileen Gu feel no discomfort competing for a murderous regime whose agenda is to displace her country from its global preeminence in favor of a communist dictatorship?

Is it because in our relativist modern America, Gu’s “truth” is just as meaningful as any other? And who, after all, is qualified to judge anything or anyone?

Who created our current Frankensteinian monstrosities?

We did.

We are the Dr. Frankensteins who asked nothing of immigrants, in a complete break from our nation’s past.

And we got our wish for a new, quite different class of immigrants, who treated the U.S. the very way they were taught to do by the Left: as an evil entity that deserved what it got.

And we sure have gotten it.

Links - 6th June 2026 (1)

2026-06-06T09:27:00.000+08:00

Nikolai Rostov on X - "The arguments on both sides seem kinda dumb tbh. First of all, it is not true at all that the Laffer curve has not been empirically tested (see: Liapis et al. 2020, Schmitt-Grohe and Uribe 1997, Lindsey 1987, Novales and Ruiz 2002 etc). Second of all, it is certainly true that Laffer Curve pts. vary as (Trabandt and Uhlig 2012) show across countries. There is very likely no universal Laffer curve, but of course that’s not the purpose of the curve. The basic idea of the curve is to posit a fairly simple truism between tax rates and tax revenue, in that you can’t tax no income and you can’t tax 100% income to expect revenue, so clearly there must be a point that’s “just right”. What this point is relies on some assumptions and testing. This simplicity doesn’t mean that it’s nonapplicable, nor that countries always taxed accordingly to the left side of the Laffer Curve (people argue today that most taxes are to the left of the maximal point). For instance, during the 1920s, the highest marginal rates were 73% before they were cut to 25% causing revenues to increase. Also during the 1980s, top marginal taxes in Sweden marginal tax rates on new share issues were near 150%, retained earnings almost 100% and top marginal tax rates were almost 90%. (Henrekson and Stenkula 2015). This led to decreased savings and output, increased activity in the informal sectors and owner-occupied housing, and overall economic stagnation. (Normann and MacLeod 1997). This is a pretty good example of punitively redistributional tax policy leading to the effects the Laffer Curve described. Also, the critique that there’s only a global maxima doesn’t understand its methodology all too well. The Laffer curve assumes tax rates and the supply of labour are a strictly monotonic relationship, that is, if tax rates change positively by a fixed amount the supply of labour will decrease by a fixed amount. This happens if we assume the elasticity of a certain tax to be a single number. It’s possible this could be the case if say taxes are 95 vs 100% (w/ 95% you may be incentivised to work very hard because you can only keep a sliver of income, w/ 100% you likely won’t work at all because you have no income, but this might not be a very useful theoretical model). But here’s where my criticisms come in. 1. We can’t just post the Laffer curve w/o any data of the Dutch economy nor an idea of how they’ll react to taxation ex-ante. Merely posting the Laffer Curve is of little use. It’s like telling a company we have to produce at “equilibrium market prices” and just giving a supply/demand curve for them to do so. It’s little more than a heuristic. It doesn’t argue in favour for every tax cut. 2. The Laffer Curve applies very differently to different forms of taxes. A “very high” excise tax at the same rate could be decent for income tax. This is a capital tax, so posting the Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem+ Chamley-Judd theory of zero optimal capital taxation would suffice. Also, and this is more philosophical, but 3. Why are you, a libertarian arguing for the “optimal” rate of tax revenue? Why are you arguing by extension that a tax is bad because it funds the government insufficiently? That seems very un-libertarian; as libertarians would say the ideal tax rate (and tax revenue) is 0%."

maximus on X - "Shyness is negatively associated with dating frequency, number of friends, etc. This fact may not be too surprising, but what may surprise some people is that it doesn't correlate with other-rated attractiveness, only self-rated, so it can't be reduced to a byproduct of 'lookism'"

What about Christianity was so attractive to the Norsemen that they would convert in such a large scale? : r/AskHistorians - "The large-scale conversion of Norse societies between the tenth and twelfth centuries is best understood not as a sudden attraction to Christian doctrine, but as part of a long transformation tied to state formation, economic integration, and sustained contact with Christian Europe. As Scandinavian monarchies in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden consolidated their power, Christianity provided resources that Old Norse religion did not, including access to literate clergy who could draft law codes, maintain administrative records, and support increasingly centralized systems of governance. Adoption of the Christian faith also created entry into a broader diplomatic world that included the Holy Roman Empire and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and it offered rulers a recognized ideological framework for kingship that strengthened their legitimacy in ways unattainable through the decentralized and primarily local cult practices of Norse paganism. Archaeological material from major commercial towns such as Birka and Hedeby demonstrates that Scandinavians had been exposed to Christian merchants, objects, and ideas for generations before royal conversion, and written sources such as Adam of Bremen report that rulers pursued baptism in part to secure alliances and trading privileges with powerful Christian neighbors. Because Old Norse religion lacked a unified priesthood, a central canon, or institutions capable of coordinating resistance across regions, it could not counter the appeal of a universal church that offered legal, diplomatic, and administrative benefits in addition to its spiritual claims. The resulting conversion was gradual and often syncretic, reflected in burial sites and material culture that combine Christian symbols with traditional practices for well over a century, making clear that what appears in hindsight as a rapid or large-scale adoption of Christianity was in reality the culmination of long-term political and social changes rather than mass doctrinal attraction.
Sources Else Roesdahl, The Vikings, Penguin: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-vikings-9780141941530 John Lindow, Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs, Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/norse-mythology-9780195153828 Adam of Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg Bremen, Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/history-of-the-archbishops-of-hamburg-bremen/9780231500852 Neil Price, The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, Oxbow Books: https://www.casemateacademic.com/9781785708022/the-viking-way/"

German politician strips naked, calls on ‘open-minded citizens’ to join him on swingers trip in France - "Julien Ferrat, a 33-year-old city councillor in Mannheim, Germany, said an eight-day trip to the swinger hotspot Cap d’Agde in southern France is meant to investigate how it became a global hub for nudist and sex tourism, and how that model could help boost Mannheim’s local economy... The camp includes outdoor sex on the Friesenheimer Insel in Mannheim and will exclude the media to protect privacy. “Having sex in your own bedroom is different from on the beach with a group of masturbating men like in Cap d’Agde”"

Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real - "Schools This article is more than 1 year old Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real This article is more than 1 year old Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain apologises for talk at Hampshire school after angry parents say he ‘ruined Christmas’ Sammy Gecsoyler Sat 14 Dec 2024 20.34 GMT Prefer the Guardian on Google Telling young children whether Santa is or is not real is a parental ritual usually handled with painstaking care. For students at a primary school in Hampshire, however, their childhood wonder was torn to shreds after a vicar told pupils the bearded gift-bearer was invented. Tearful youngsters, angry parents and claims of a “ruined Christmas” followed Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain’s visit to Lee-on-the-Solent junior school this week... He told year 6 students, who are aged between 10 and 11, that Father Christmas was not real, prompting pupils to sob. He also said that their parents bought their presents and ate the biscuits left out for Santa."

Morse Report on X - "🚨Top Democrat political consultant and campaign strategist, James Carville, just stated on the Left-wing ‘Policon’ podcast that when the Democrats regain power, they plan to:
-Grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, so that the Democrats can unlock 4 extra seats in the Senate.
-Pack the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 Justices up to 13 Justices, adding another 4 Left-wing Justices to the court.
-Reopen the U.S.-Mexico border and grant mass-amnesty to every single alien currently inside of the United States.
-His advice to Democrat politicians: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
FischerKing on X - "Meanwhile the right forces itself into a straitjacket of ‘norms,’ deliberately oblivious of what’s coming for them."

This new scam could trick you into downloading malware - "A new scam is exploiting a familiar internet security check — tricking people into compromising their own computers. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) is warning that criminals are using realistic-looking fake CAPTCHA pages to trick Windows users into running malicious commands that install information-stealing malware. CAPTCHAs are commonly used to verify that a user is human, often by asking them to click images or check a box. But in this scam, the page prompts users to follow a series of keyboard steps to continue. Those instructions may tell users to press the Windows key and “R,” then “Ctrl + V,” then hit Enter. According to the ITRC, following those steps opens a hidden command box, pastes a malicious script from the clipboard and runs it, downloading malware onto the computer. Security researchers have identified the malware as “StealC,” which is designed to quietly collect sensitive data. That can include saved passwords, login credentials and other information stored in your browser. A legitimate CAPTCHA will never ask users to run commands or use keyboard shortcuts. If you encounter a page that does, close it immediately."

Family at Geylang restaurant charged S$2 for 'outside drinks' after children drank from water bottle, restaurant says it's policy - "A family whose children were drinking plain water they brought themselves was charged S$2 for "outside drinks" at a Geylang restaurant. The customer, who preferred to go by his surname, Ng, told Mothership that he questioned the charge, but the staff insisted the charge applied and did not offer to waive it. "We understand that restaurants may have policies on outside food and drinks, but applying such a charge to children drinking plain water felt unreasonable and lacking in goodwill." In response to Mothership's queries, a spokesperson from Eat First, a Cantonese restaurant at 287 Geylang Road, said that there were signs at the entrance stating that no outside food and drinks were allowed... He said that he had ordered beer from the restaurant, and the children drank plain water from their own bottles... He added that in most dining situations, when customers are already purchasing drinks, such charges are usually not enforced, especially not on children. He said he was under the impression that only adults were subject to the policy, hence why none of the adults drank the water. Ng said the charges were "both surprising and disappointing". He added, "What made this particularly disheartening is that my family has been patronising this establishment for over 20 years, going back to the previous generation." He noted that his family used to visit the original Sik Wai Sin Eating House at Geylang, before the owners split it it into Sik Bao Sin and Eat First... She claimed that the family was apparently made aware of the charges, but still used the restaurant's bowls as cups to drink their water. She added that the restaurant has been criticised for their policy on outside food and drinks, but said that at the end of the day, they are still running a business. In response to this, Ng insisted that his family did not notice any signs of this policy displayed on the premises, nor were they informed in advance about the "outside drinks" charges. The charges, he said, were therefore "unreasonable and unexpected"."
Some people defend the restaurant. Is there any restaurant policy that someone won't defend?

Public grocery stores are having a moment. Can they really make food more affordable? : r/canada - "I remember when my part of the country was having a massive shortage of children’s cough syrup so we had to get some in from the US. Exact same medicine, just a different box. Most parents who came in hoping to buy some medicine decided it was better to let their kids bear the full brunt of their symptoms rather than buy a medicine that came in a US box. If Canadians are fearful of foreigners enough to let their kids suffer than buy medicine with different packaging I really have to wonder if they’ll want to buy groceries from a foreign store. (PS it was a US brand too so even if we had the Canadian version in they would still be buying a US brand anyways, make that make sense)."
When you hate the US more than you love your kids

Man in California arrested for swapping Lego with pasta - "Police in California have arrested a man for grand theft, though the bounty isn’t a fancy car or pricy electronics. It’s Lego pieces. In a pun-heavy release, the Irvine police department (IPD) said that US$34,000 worth of Lego pieces were stolen from their boxes from Targets across the U.S. and in some cases, replaced with dried pasta... Jarrelle Augustine, 28, of Paramount, Calif., was arrested for grand theft and taken into custody at the Orange County Jail. In an Instagram reel from the IPD’s page, video shows a suspect pulling boxes of Lego from a shelf, along with images from his arrest and the boxes of Lego with pasta in them."

Yaeba - Wikipedia - "In Japan, yaeba (八重歯, lit. 'double tooth'; snaggle maxillary canines) are human teeth, especially upper canines, with an uncommonly fang-like appearance. Yaeba most often refers to a tooth overlapping another tooth or protruding from higher in the gum. In Japan it is perceived as a sign of youthfulness and natural beauty"

Elon Musk on X - "A friend of mine donated to an orphanage for over a decade and one day he stopped by to check on the orphans. What he found was a room full of people working the phones for donations and zero kids. Not even one kid for show. Zero."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Surprising amount of charity is of this kind. My ex, Tess, and I used to give to Koala Rescue. Years later, I found that they just sort of assign you a random ~bear that lives outdoors. Hundreds of people have the same one. Your money doesn't buy it food (they only eat one thing), but rather goes to support various green causes. Etc."

BREAKING Second Flight Attendant Detained in Dubai Over WhatsApp Image as Cybercrime Crackdown Escalates - "another flight attendant has been detained in Dubai under the UAE’s federal cybercrime laws after sharing an image related to recent regional attacks. In a concerning development, authorities say he was identified through “active electronic surveillance”. A 32-year-old cabin crew member for Emirates Airlines has been held in custody for over a month following his arrest in the early hours of 8 March. He is currently detained at Al Qusais Police Station but fears he will be transferred to Abu Dhabi, which places him at higher risk of extended detention and lengthier sentences if convicted. According to his family, the young man had only just returned to Dubai after being stranded abroad due to flight disruptions and had not seen or been made aware of any official warnings or restrictions regarding the sharing of images or information. A simple date specific Google search shows how little published information there was at the time. In the early hours of 7 March, after being woken by a loud explosion and feeling his room shake, the cabin crew employee took a single photograph on his phone and shared it privately via WhatsApp with colleagues, asking whether it was safe to leave for work or remain where he was. He did not publish the image publicly or intend to cause alarm. The image was subsequently forwarded by others. Despite this, he has been treated as a serious criminal suspect, accused of offences relating to state security and public order."
Clearly, expats don't criticise Dubai because they love it and it's great there

Eitan Fischberger on X - "Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property."

Why My Cousin Vinny is the Best Law Movie - "According to the legal textbook A Guide to Forensic Testimony As an Expert Technical Witness, the authors explain how My Cousin Vinny is an "Entertaining [and] extremely helpful introduction to the art of presenting expert witnesses at trial for both beginning experts and litigators." Supporting the sentiment, Paul Bergman's essay, "Teaching Evidence the 'Reel' Way" cites My Cousin Vinny as an example of demonstrating such courtroom procedures as the rules of evidence, cross-examination, relevance, and voir dire. In addition to learning in stride with Vinny in the popular '90s comedy, the movie makes the legal process easy and accessible to understand."

Supreme Court says a conviction for online threats violated 1st Amendment - The Washington Post - "The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the conviction of a man who made extensive online threats to a stranger, saying free speech protections require prosecutors to prove the stalker was aware of the threatening nature of his communications... The case is Counterman v. Colorado."
From 2023. Basically crazy people can threaten others and you can't do anything to them

Meme - "I just don't have feelings for you anymore."
"Appeal to emotional fallacy"
"You don't even care about me ..."
"Strawman fallacy"
"A real boyfriend wouldn't treat me like this ..."
"No-True-Scotsman fallacy"
"Please just leave. I don't want to call the cops."
"Appeal to authority fallacy"

Meme - Wade (in Tarnation): "WHO KEEPS BUILDING WEBSITES FOR RESTAURANTS THAT HAVE EVERYTHING BUT THE HOURS AND MENU I DON'T CARE THE CHEF ANDY USES MIDWESTERN FLARE"
Keywords: uses midwestern flair

Meme - "How Americans cleared mines in WW2 *mine clearing vehicle*
How the British cleared mines in WW2 *humans probing ground*
How Finland cleared mines in WW2 *anime girl playing song*"
Simple yet effective : r/HistoryMemes - "Context: During the Continuation War, the Finnish Army discovered that the retreating Soviets had scattered radio-controlled mines throughout the re-captured city of Viipuri. These mines were set off when a three-note chord was played on the frequency the radio was tuned to; each mine had three tuning forks that oscillated at specific frequencies unique to each mine. On September 1, the General Staff in Vyborg received one broadcast van from Yleisradio, capable of transmitting over the frequency used by the mines. The car in question was a REO 2L 4 210 Speedwagon taken from Nuijamaan auto Oy. The car was used by N. Sauros. Säkkijärvi polkka was present among the van's record collection and to prevent the enemy from operating the mines, they started playing the Säkkijärvi polkka without any pauses. The frequency over which the triads (three chords) were sent out was jammed by the interference, preventing detonation. On September 4, it was noticed that Soviet troops were continuously transmitting the triggering triads on the same transmission frequency. The broadcast of Säkkijärven polkka continued for three days until another car was sent from Aunus to Vyborg The anime girl is a character from the anime Girls Und Panzer who played Säkkijärvi polkka in the anime. (Reposted cuz i forgot rule 12 existed)"

Meme - Sandy Petersen @SandyofCthuthu: ""Owlbears are fierce, savage predators, vicious, ravenous beasts that combine a bear's power with an perception and a nasty disposition." Actual rules"
*village with happy celebration and cute harmless owlbear in the middle*
Wargamingdad @Wargamingdad21: "Has this guy ever actually played a TTRPG. Cause he smells like a tourist."
The Red Room @moorderehtstore: "That's a joke, right? RIGHT?"
Wargamingdad @Wargamingdad21: "It wasn't I didn't know he was the creator of Call of Cthulhu I'll take that L. This is still tourist behavior."
Jason Mitchell @Real_J_Mitchell: "Yes. Your behavior is tourist behavior."

Meme - Yashdeep Kanhai. This Profile is a safe space for billionaires and Top CEOs: "I Fired an Employee Going Through a Tough Divorce. One of my employees was stuck in a messy divorce-his wife demanded half his income. As a good boss, I couldn't just stand by. So, I did the most compassionate thing possible: I fired him. Why? No income = no alimony. The divorce was finalized with negligible alimony, and financial ruin was averted. Once the dust settled, I rehired him. Now, he's back-better than ever-with a clean slate and no ex-spouse draining his paycheck. Being a leader isn't about making easy decisions-it's about making smart ones. #LeadershipGoals #ToughLove #DivorceHacks #BoldBossMoves #EmployeeCare"

Meme - "LOSARTAN POTASSIUM 50 MG TAB
TAKE 1 TABLET BY MOUTH INTO RIGHT EYE"

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - ""Chris Rufo solved this social problem, but he did it by generating political action rather than asking the libs nicely" is the perfect summation of why much of the conservative movement—and almost all conservative academics—has been utterly ineffective for many decades."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "Institutional conservatism failed as a bulwark against the ideological derangements of the past decade and was completely overrun. Extra institutional RW activism is the only thing that has produced any meaningful gains and is solely responsible for almost every political victory of any importance."
Left wingers want to win at all costs, which is why they win. Time to denounce right wingers as extremists

Meme - abandonware.online: "Encarta'95 Hat. Hats inspired by the old abandonware, freeware, & shareware games you played on your parents PC."

Firefighter shot, killed by patient he was treating - "A call to assist a man thought to be having a medical emergency on a bus escalated into a shooting that ended with the man and an Appleton firefighter dead and two others hurt... The responders gave medical help to the man, who eventually left the bus and started walking toward a nearby library, whereupon “the incident escalated,” police said. Chief Todd Thomas said the man showed a handgun and exchanged shots with the police officers. Firefighter Mitch Lundgaard, a 14-year veteran, was killed. A female bystander and an Appleton police officer were also hit. The woman was hospitalized in stable condition, and the officer was treated and released. The 47-year-old man died at a hospital from his injuries, police said."
Clearly, it was the police's fault for being there, and they murdered him by acting as judge, jury and executioner

Links - 5th June 2026 (3 - China's 'Peaceful' Rise)

2026-06-05T21:31:00.000+08:00

Xiaomi Japan Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ Atomic Bomb Ad - "The ad was intended to promote Xiaomi’s latest smartphone line, the Redmi Note 9 series, internationally. Around 45 seconds into the two-minute commercial, the ad shows a Caucasian man inflating into a balloon after eating a piece of sushi. After bursting through the roof, the man explodes into a mushroom cloud over a Japanese cityscape. The imagery, apparently aimed at promoting the phone’s “fast charge” feature, has been ridiculed for its tone-deaf allusion to Fat Man — the code name of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. While some Chinese netizens have condemned Xiaomi’s promotion as insensitive, others have sung its praises and called the company patriotic on microblogging platform Weibo. “They didn’t forget the atomic bomb, we didn’t forget their invasion of China,” one Weibo user commented under a related post, referring to the Second Sino-Japanese War. The now-deleted Fat Man ad is Xiaomi’s second publicity debacle in as many weeks. On April 25, the company’s vice president Chang Cheng made headlines after suggesting that the camera for a Xiaomi phone marketed to students could be used to zoom in on a basketball player’s crotch or spy into women’s dormitories. He later apologized."
From 2020
Deadly China air crash caused by fuel shut off - "Fuel switches on a Boeing 737 jet that crashed in 2022 killing 132 people appear to have been deliberately shut off, newly released data show. Data from the plane’s “black box” flight recorder show that the engines were switched from “run” to “cutoff” at cruising altitude. The information may bolster claims that the airliner was intentionally crashed. It was obtained by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which analysed it in Washington. The data, first reported by CNN, provide the clearest insight so far into why the China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 crashed into a mountain in the remote Guangxi region on March 21, 2022. There has been speculation that the pilots could have been responsible for what was China’s deadliest air disaster in decades. The NTSB analysed the data because Boeing is an American plane manufacturer and the results were released after a freedom of information request... The NTSB also obtained four voice recordings from the cockpit recorder, which was damaged, and sent them to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), but did not keep any copies. Tony Stanton, an aviation expert at Strategic Air, an Australian consultancy, told CNN that the new data “does not by itself prove motive, intent or who moved the switches”. However, what the data show is “very difficult to reconcile with a conventional dual-engine mechanical failure and is much more consistent with [human] commanded fuel shutoff”, Mr Stanton said. There were three pilots on duty at the time of the crash: Yang Hongda, 32, the captain, Zhang Zhengping, 59, the first officer, and Ni Gongtao, 27, a trainee second officer. Speculation has focused on Zhang, who had recently lost his captain’s rank, and Beijing has been accused of suppressing information. The CAAC has previously denied that the crash was intentional, but has not addressed what caused the nosedive. Last year, the CAAC discouraged the release of further information about the incident, because it would “endanger national security and social stability”."
New York Post on X - "Arcadia mayor Eileen Wang admits acting as foreign agent for China in plea deal"
Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 on X - "Here is what I want you to focus on because people will miss the important part. Arcadia is a city of 50,000 people in the never ending sprawl of the Los Angeles metropolis an hour west of downtown and China will invest in influencing that. How much do you think they will go after bigger targets like funding US think tanks, university China centers, and others. There is a reason they get university professors to lobby on their behalf to keep taking money from China. What you see is just the top if the iceberg"
Melissa Chen on X - "Americans need to contend with how poorly liberalism is designed to handle this. Libs simply cannot bring themselves to admit that the relationship between a Chinese citizen (or diaspora) and the Chinese Communist Party is not the same as the relationship between an American citizen and the US government. There is no wall. There is no Constitution telling the state it cannot compel the individual. In China the individual exists to serve the Party. We wrote the opposite into our founding document. Government cannot force your speech, your allegiance, or your silence. But liberalism’s one non-negotiable commandment is: Thou shalt not notice cultural or political differences Especially if noticing them might make you sound mean and do mean things such as pass an exclusionary law. So we’re told we must pretend every Chinese immigrant or student carries the exact same relationship to their government that Americans do. We must also somehow ignore the United Front Work Department’s explicit doctrine of using overseas Chinese as instruments of influence. We must treat espionage, propaganda, and infiltration as isolated “bad apples” instead of state policy. You realize that China doesn’t have to beat us in a fair fight? It simply has to walk through the door that’s propped open with our own suicidal ideology. Every time another Wang or Fang or CCP-linked “community leader” gets caught, the libs and progressives will shrug and do nothing. They refuse to even acknowledge the asymmetry. Which is exactly how Beijing turns American values and systems into fatal vulnerabilities."
Blacklock's Reporter on X - ".@AnitaAnandMP's dep't tells China it regrets "mass grave" at Kamloops Indian Residential School: "@GAC_Corporate strongly urges China not to repeat Canada's past mistakes." https://t.co/TuU2ItCb1x #cdnpoli https://t.co/RGsXzc8MTk"
"Just in case you were wondering if Anita Anand is an idiot, she has cleared up that question for us all. No children were murdered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, but the Chinese Communist Party starved and murdered more than 40 million people. But in the relativistic Liberal mind we need to say we "regret" something that did not happen and pretend China has not engaged in real mass atrocities against minority groups and its own people."
Left wingers just hate their countries
NBC News on X - "The resignation of a Southern California mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for China has sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination."
Hans Mahncke on X - "Every time something bad happens involving China, the same line gets rolled out by the fake news falsely claiming that there’s a backlash and fears of discrimination. The repetition is so consistent that the only possible conclusion is that China is funding the messaging."
jane_herriot on X - "I am sure that Chinese Americans are just as afraid and suspicious, considering they are the primary targets of CCP harassment."
Andy Ngo on X - "Who remembers that the late long-time California Democrat U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee had a Chinese spy staffer work for her for almost 20 years?"
Melissa Chen on X - "Oh it's even WORSE than this. Far more scandalous than the CCP spy working as Dianne Feinstein's driver (who was never charged) is the fact that her and her husband, Richard Blum, raked in fortunes while she repeatedly voted to deepen economic ties with China. Back in the 1980s, when Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco, Blum was already planting seeds in the People’s Republic. He served as director of Shanghai Pacific Partners, which struck a joint venture with Shanghai Investment and Trust Co. - a major Chinese government bank - to develop a $30 million high-rise retail and residential complex in Shanghai. This was one of the earliest big joint ventures between San Francisco interests and Chinese state entities. (Would be nice if Blum had built high-rise residential complexes in their hometown of San Francisco, right? As mayor isn't housing one of her jobs? Lord knows SF needs it badly) Blum’s personal stake started small and turned profitable. Feinstein, meanwhile, became one of the first American mayors to embrace the Chinese regime after normalization. Then came 1989 and the tanks at Tiananmen Square. While the world recoiled in horror, Feinstein rushed to Beijing, met with Jiang Zemin (whom she later called a “good friend” and bragged about dancing with), and essentially carried water for the butchers. She downplayed the massacre, claimed that China had “learned a lesson,” and even had the gall to equate it with Kent State in congressional hearings. Her message was "there's nothing to see here, let's move on." By the time Feinstein entered the Senate in 1992, the family business was shifting into high gear. Blum’s China portfolio was about to go on a generational run. In 1994, his firm co-founded Newbridge Capital, an emerging-markets private equity fund laser-focused on China and Asia in general. That same year, as Congress debated pulling China’s most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status over human rights abuses, Feinstein took to the floor to warn that sanctions would only “inflame Beijing’s insecurities.” She continued to insist that engagement and trade would moderate and liberalize the regime. Conveniently, her husband was preparing to pour millions more into the same regime. When some colleagues pushed back in 1994 hearings, Feinstein played the whataboutism card: why single out China when Russia was in Chechnya and Liberia was a mess? By 1995, she’d landed a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and used it to lecture that “China is changing” under Western influence. In 1996, Newbridge snapped up a 24% stake in a Chinese state-owned steel manufacturer for $23 million. Around the same time, a Newbridge managing director, Peter Kwok, turned up with consulting ties to a subsidiary of COSCO, the massive state-owned shipping behemoth tied to the People’s Liberation Army. Feinstein continued to argue against conditioning trade on human rights, and in 2001 became a leading voice in support of granting the PRC permanent normal trade relations and WTO membership. It would “pull China toward international norms,” she promised. We all know now how that would turn out. Meanwhile, Newbridge was printing money. In 2002-2004, it orchestrated a $145 million deal for an 18% stake in Shenzhen Development Bank, one of the first Chinese banks open to foreign investors, becoming the largest shareholder and the first foreign entity to gain effective control of a state bank. By 2003, the firm managed $1.2 billion; within five years, it ballooned toward $50 billion with offices in Beijing and Shanghai. Blum’s personal fortune swelled past $1 billion. By the time of her death in 2023, Feinstein's net worth estimates ranged from the tens of millions (including a Hawaii condo, D.C. mansion, private jet, and massive Carlton hotel stake) while the family’s combined assets reflected the golden China bet paying off handsomely. Feinstein sat on key committees that shaped US-China policy, while her husband’s funds poured capital into Chinese state-linked enterprises. If you want to believe that this is all just coincidental, then have I got a bridge to sell you. In the process, she minimized the PRC's human rights atrocities, downplayed espionage threats in her own office, and helped usher China into the global trading system that hollowed out American manufacturing and enriched the CCP and her family. All the while, the Blums enjoyed intimate dinners with Jiang Zemin (China's president) and his wife, invested alongside Chinese state banks, and at the end of it all, walked away billionaires. Feinstein was the smiling face of the bipartisan elite consensus that enriched themselves at the expense of the American public. The driver is only the side piece here. The real betrayal was from within. The worse part is that they aren't alone. They were simply better at it than most."
Former Vancouver Mayor Says Premier Eby Aware of RCMP Investigation Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration - "Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor of Vancouver, said in a broadcast interview Monday that British Columbia Premier David Eby is aware of an active RCMP investigation into a sitting cabinet minister suspected of collaborating with the Chinese government — and that senior NDP officials have been alerted to the matter with no apparent action taken... Stewart was initially interviewed in connection with a Global News report revealing that Chinese consular officials had pressured a Vancouver city hall employee to cancel a run of Shen Yun performances at the city-owned Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Shen Yun presents performances celebrating pre-Communist Chinese cultural traditions — programming the Chinese government has long sought to suppress abroad. The shows went ahead April 8 to 12, despite the consular pressure and bomb threats. But Stewart told Johal he believes British Columbia’s vulnerability to Chinese interference runs far deeper than a single incident at the civic level... Stewart, who served as Vancouver’s mayor from 2018 to 2022, said he had signed non-disclosure agreements when he reported the matter nationally, and acknowledged taking a personal risk by raising it publicly. “I am even taking a risk mentioning this to you here,” he said. When Johal asked him to confirm the individual remains in B.C. government today, Stewart replied: “Yes.” He described a pattern of foreign interference left unaddressed at both the civic and provincial levels, only leading to more Chinese meddling in Canadian politics. “You’re seeing what happens when you don’t address these things seriously — you’ll just get more and worse interference.”... The remarks came as Prime Minister Mark Carney pursues a diplomatic and trade realignment with Beijing — a pivot The Bureau has reported reflects longstanding interests within Canada’s corporate and political establishment — and as British Columbia remains a hotspot for suspected Chinese foreign interference operations in Canada... In June 2024, The Bureau revealed that an officer from British Columbia’s Organized Crime Agency had investigated a Vancouver Police officer in connection with alleged police database breaches — specifically, suspected misuse of the Canadian Police Information Centre — and concerns that sensitive law enforcement data may have been passed to Chinese officials... A separate CSIS document from January 2022 alleged that China’s consul general in Vancouver, Tong Xiaoling, stated that Chinese diaspora voters needed to be mobilized to elect a specific Chinese-Canadian mayoral candidate in Vancouver’s 2022 election"
China blocks Meta’s $2.5 billion acquisition of Singapore-based AI start-up Manus - "China has decided to block Meta Platforms’ US$2 billion (S$2.5 billion) acquisition of agentic AI start-up Manus, making a surprise move to unwind a controversial deal that has drawn fire for the leakage of technology to the US... The decision is likely to send a chill through China’s burgeoning artificial intelligence sector, and emerged mere weeks before a high-profile summit between US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping. Beijing has tightened scrutiny of key AI companies in the wake of the deal, which has been largely completed. Initially hailed as a template for start-ups with global aspirations, critics have since lamented the loss of valuable technology to a geopolitical rival. Beijing’s agencies have since moved to discourage a repeat of the Manus manoeuvre, which was completed with unusual speed... Those restrictions risk further isolating China’s recovering tech sector from the venture backing that has underpinned it for two decades, much of which was sourced from American pensions and endowments. .. It remains unclear what other action Beijing will take following its investigation. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao had been barred from leaving China"
Damn American protectionism! This must be due to anti-Chinese racism!
Thread by @NetAskari on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "EXCLUSIVE: How the track foreigners in China - We got rare access to demo system developed by the Ministry of Public Security in China for the prefecture of Zhangjiakou, to track and surveil foreigners visiting or being residents ( actually it applies to most nationals as well, but in this case it seems to be aimed at foreigners ). It is officially known as "Dynamic control platform for overseas personnel".
The test-system is fed with real world data it seems. We confirmed with some individuals that the data in the system were theirs, including some data of our own. The system provides a wide range of functionality, not all implemented. In China, locals as well as foreigners have to be registered with local authorities. So your general whereabouts are known. If you are a traveler, usually this is done via your hotel. This is how it was for most of ht time in the past. Digital tools have streamlined this process, but also opened up a complete new possibility of real time tracking. Camera's with face detection can track your location in real time, going from one place in a town to another. But the system also stores your travel data, like when riding a train. Your seat, carriage etc. is kept on record for later analysis. This information can be access in real time and, as we later see, will go into a general profile of you. The system differs between residents who stay in the region for work or study and temporary residents, like Tourists and other travelers. It stores most data of the residents, like passport data, visa data and cellphone numbers. Each resident will receive a detailed profile that can be inspected via a "quick view", including a "risk factor". But the system provides much more details on the individual. It should be mentioned that this don't seem to be specific target persons ( we come to that later ) but just every foreigner in a region X. That includes medical records, movement data, job and residential information, consumption of petrol (?), daily routines and "social interactions". This "social interactions" are interesting as the system has a relationship model functionality that puts people into relationship on how often they appear on visual surveillance footage together. In the case of this "demo", they seemed to have taken people with Pakistani nationality as their test case mostly. It also has a pre-compiled database of "fugitives", "key personnel", ( euphemism for people under dedicated surveillance ) foreign students and foreign journalists. This seem to be used to run interference against to warn local administration and security organs that those "special" visitors have made it to the town/prefecture/sub-district. All the data of the journalists in this database used were legit, but focused only on the foreign journalists based in Beijing. A statistical functionality has been also integrated ( albeit a little bit basic ). In the spreadsheets apart from classical statistical numbers on general visitor numbers, there is a particular focus on citizens from "5 eyes countries". That tracks with the general suspicion in the Chinese security bodies, that nationally equals to "general suspicion". But do the information just come from official surveillance tech that the police operates ? No. It also gets its data input from cameras from a ski lift access system. As Zhangjiakou is a popular winter sport location, why not incorporate this data stream as well !? This hints that not just "official surveillance infrastructure" is contributing to the overall system, but that sensors from other, more private settings are incorporated too. A journalist who was detected while skiing, was flagged immediately. A "bird's eye view" of the information is also available showing interconnection of different nationalities, how "travelers" are related to each other under "companion statistics". Plus general stats on violations, police cases etc. It should be mentioned again, this is a test demo and how much of it has been implemented in a functional way or have made it into real life scenarios, we don't know. If you want to get a proper deep dive come over here to read up on the PART 1 on the "Dynamic Control Platform for obsess personnel" ( PART 2 will be out soon too with more technical details of our investigation ). Judging by what we could find in the dashboard, the system was tested at around 2023 but some of the underlying data is from 2021. Although some minor changes were made on the UI this year, it seems by pretty much abandoned and has now been taken offline. -"
Melissa Chen on X - "This is 1984, Minority Report, Person of Interest and Black Mirror all rolled into one and cranked to the power of 1000. This isn’t sci-fi. It’s already happening. In China. Take a look at the “Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel” run by China’s Ministry of Public Security. It’s a live demo system fed with actual data on foreigners and plenty of Chinese nationals too. Real-time face recognition cameras track you walking from one block to the next. Your train seat, carriage, hotel registration, visa details, cellphone number, medical records, job info, daily routines, even how much gas you buy - all hoovered up and profiled by the system. It builds relationship models based on how often you appear together with someone on CCTV footage. It flags key personnel, foreign journalists, students, and anyone from Five Eyes countries for special suspicion. It has risk scores, fugitive lists, and statistical breakdowns by nationality. Data is pulled not just from police cameras but from private sources as well. Even ski lift access systems are not exempt - one journalist gets spotted skiing and the system lights up. Please understand that the false bogeyman of anti-Palantir sentiment in the West is pure projection. You will hear influencers and comedians (eg. Tim Dillon) clutch their pearls over @PalantirTech — a Western company building data tools that democracies can and do oversee, audit, and limit through courts, elections, and public scrutiny. Meanwhile they will ignore this. This data platform is actually official CCP infrastructure. There is no moral equivalence here."
Melissa Chen on X - "EU Trade Chief: trade between Europe and China is unsustainable
At first, they mock Trump
10 years later, they all start to sound like him
The journalist rightly asks what serious actions they will take?
He says: more dialogue and engagement
This is Europe in a nutshell"
Melissa Chen on X - "Unbeknownst to most, the Europeans are now quietly cranking up a full-spectrum trade offensive against China. This despite Macron and Merz talking a big game about strategic partnership with Beijing at Davos. A Chinese state-linked security scanner giant with deep CCP ties - called Nuctech - is the perfect case in point. The company specializes in security inspection equipment, including X-ray, CT, and other scanners for airports, ports, and borders. Because such scanners process sensitive information at critical entry/exit points, it raises alarms over espionage, data exfiltration, and sabotage. Imagine the scenario where weaker detection allows the proliferation of nuclear/radioactive materials. Like many Chinese firms, Nuctech is subject to Chinese national intelligence laws that compel cooperation with the government.
USA:
> TSA banned Nuctech from US airports in 2014
> added to Dept. of Commerce Entity List in 2020
> lobbied allies against using it
Europe:
> Poland's Warsaw Chopin Airport is removing Nuctech scanners over security concerns
> Lithuania banned it
> Belgium restricted use in customs
> won many public tenders in Europe despite concerns
> UK Border Force actively uses Nuctech scanners for vehicle and cargo checks
The EU launched a full investigation of Nuctech for unfair trade practices - for receiving grants and subsidies that allowed the company to undercut EU competitors with excessively advantageous bids. This is how they got market share and now operates in 170 countries. China's Ministry of Justice just blocked Nuctech from complying with the EU probe, calling it "unjustified extra-territorial jurisdiction" for demanding information inside China. This is the first use of new Chinese rules against foreign measures. China then threatened countermeasures in retaliation and accuses the EU of overreach. The EU says its requests are standard. This escalates tensions and highlights how Chinese firms can be pulled between home-government directives and foreign regulators. Nuctech isn't just one company - it's Exhibit A in how China's economic aggression and refusal to play by "free and fair" trade rules have now spurred Europe to act. It looks like the era of naive engagement is over; even Europe is waking up"
Chinese university students told to spy on classmates, report says - "Chinese students at UK universities are being pressured to spy on their classmates in an attempt to suppress the discussion of issues that are sensitive to the Chinese government, a new report suggests. The UK-China Transparency (UKCT) think tank says its survey of academics in China studies also highlighted reports of Chinese government officials warning lecturers to avoid discussing certain topics in their classes... some universities are reluctant to address the issue of Chinese interference because of their financial reliance on Chinese student fees. The report alleges that some Chinese academics involved in sensitive research had been denied visas by the Chinese government, while others said family members back in China had been harassed or threatened because of their work in the UK. Those sensitive topics can range from science and tech to politics and humanities, the report says, such as alleged ethnic cleansing in China's Xinjiang region, the outbreak of Covid or the rise of Chinese technology companies. Some academics reported intimidation by visiting scholars or other Chinese officials, as well as by staff at Confucius Institutes."
Melissa Chen on X - "This is a major new crackdown by China’s securities regulator (CSRC), which announced that it will confiscate all revenue earned by three overseas brokerages. Why is this happening? Capital controls. The CCP is determined to keep money from flowing out of China unchecked. Mainland Chinese investors face strict annual quotas (via SAFE) and regulatory hurdles for overseas investing. These brokerages had become popular workarounds, allowing easier access to global markets. Beijing views this as a threat to financial stability, currency control, and its broader economic command. With a stroke of the pen, this is a regime that can seize revenues retroactively, shutter operations, and subordinate private enterprise to the imperatives of capital control and political stability. Corporations rarely lose sleep over abstract moral questions. What truly commands their attention is risk. Yet on China, far too many have badly mispriced that risk."
The Sirius Report on X - "Paranoia on steroids, What happens when you are an abusive hegemonic power in terminal decline: Everything that was given to the US delegation by Chinese officials was thrown in a bin before boarding Air Force One. Even delegation pins."
China snooping on UK using TEAPOTS with hidden listening devices planted inside - "China has tried to snoop on a civil servant using a teapot with a hidden listening device. The bug was planted in a teapot that was given as a gift to a UK-Beijing embassy worker. The device was only discovered when the pot smashed into pieces. An insider said: “They were given a tea set as a parting gift by their Chinese hosts."
Thread by @thestustustudio on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨 Hasan Names Singham, PSL, ANSWER, and Code Pink in One Breath On stream today, Hasan Piker discussed the reported Treasury scrutiny and said the broader target is “probably Singham” and “his operation,” naming PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and “anything that he has ever financed.” He then acknowledged that Roy Singham lives in China and has been “a funding vehicle” for political movements and activism in the United States. That is exactly why this matters. This was never just about one influencer’s Cuba trip. It is about the Singham-linked ecosystem, the groups it funds, the delegations it supports, and the political operations built around them. Hasan didn’t refute the network. He mapped it.
Singham usually stays far from the public-facing side of the operation. His influence runs through subordinates, funding channels, and the groups orbiting his network. That’s why it stands out when people inside that ecosystem mention him directly. Fergie Chambers, another far-left financier funding similar projects, offers a pretty revealing critique of the Singham network and how little transparency there is around Singham’s role. And of course, it’s always worth hearing Singham in his own words. I’ve made a few clips from the rare occasions where he has actually spoken publicly. And lastly, enjoy this supercut of Singham reflecting on his life. It gives you a crystal-clear look at his beliefs, worldview, and animating ideology."
Billionaire money in politics is only bad if it threatens the left wing agenda
Reddit Lies on X - "So it turns out PSL has a LOT of Reddit moderators (and therefore subreddits) under its control.
r/TheRightCantMeme r/GenZedong r/LateStageCapitalism
Effectively the entire "Tankie" faction on Reddit appears to be directly influenced by China. Thanks for the info, Hasan."

The New Blood Libel

2026-06-05T18:36:00.000+08:00

The New Blood Libel - The Atlantic
"On the night of March 2, 2026, at about 10:45 p.m., a car pulled into the synagogue’s driveway. A person stepped out of the passenger side and aimed a handgun at the synagogue’s glass windows... This person emptied the gun, paused, then resumed firing, 20 shots in all. The bullets shattered nine panes of glass, their wooden framework gouged by bullet fragments.
Two months later, the synagogue’s windows remain boarded over. The synagogue’s rabbi, board, and other decision makers are pondering a new and difficult dilemma: how to fortify their house of worship against a world where Jews are again marked for violence by their neighbors.
This is the backdrop for the vehement response that so many Jews and friends of Israel have had to a column by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times last week, in which he alleged a systematic Israeli campaign of sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Anti-Semitic violence in the Western world is quickening in tempo and intensifying in lethality. Much of that violence can be blamed on anti-Jewish incitement that draws on the deepest foundations of anti-Jewish myth...
It’s just one incident out of too many to summarize or even tally. The deadliest so far was the mass slaughter at a Hanukkah party on Sydney’s Bondi Beach in December, but perhaps only luck and good police work have prevented an even worse atrocity on American soil. In March, a man bearing an AR-15-style rifle crashed a car loaded with improvised explosives into a Michigan Jewish preschool near dismissal time. Just this past week, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced that federal prosecutors had thwarted a plot to commit mass-casualty attacks on Jewish institutions in Los Angeles and New York.
The town of El Burgo, Spain, near Málaga, has a tradition called the “Burning of Judas” on Easter Sunday. In April, the image of Christ’s betrayer was replaced by a 23-foot effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, detonated to the cheers of townspeople and tourists. In November, protesters staged a parody Thanksgiving dinner at Union Station in Washington, D.C., in which figures wearing masks of Netanyahu, President Trump, and former President Biden pretended to drink blood and eat human organs and limbs, and wiped their mouths with Israeli flags.
As these instances suggest, the line between anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist is often merely semantic. Do you disapprove of Israeli policy? Then go ahead and depict the country’s prime minister as the betrayer of Christ. Do you believe that the Israeli government used excessive force after the pogrom of October 7? Then revive ancient accusations of Jews masterminding a political conspiracy and engaging in ritual murder and dismemberment. Eager to show solidarity with Palestinian grievances? Go ahead and shoot a synagogue.
After each incident, local politicians intone familiar formulas: This is not who we are. Anti-Semitism has no place in our city/state/country. These formulas ring false because they are false. After the first DUI, an inebriated motorist might plausibly say, “This is not who I am.” But after the sixth or eighth? Sir, an alcoholic is exactly who you are. If you want to change, you’d better accept the truth about your condition.
This is the concern that the critics of Kristof’s inflammatory Times opinion column have been trying to convey. Kristof claimed that Israeli prisons systematically engage in extreme sexual abuse of prisoners, including anal rape by dogs. He argued that this alleged systematic abuse is morally equivalent to the mass rape of Israelis by Hamas: “The Israeli government rejects suggestions that it sexually abuses Palestinians, just as Hamas denied raping Israeli women.”
Many critics have noted the column’s defects of evidence and sourcing. For example, Kristof relied heavily on information provided by Euro-Med Monitor, despite the fact that the NGO has reportedly deep connections to Hamas and a history of circulating false allegations, including that Israeli forces harvested the organs of dead Palestinians. Critics have also pointed out that the two named victims of prison abuse have changed their stories over time. One man who initially claimed in 2024 to have been “threatened” with sexual abuse insisted six months later that he had suffered it. The other named source, described by Kristof as a freelance reporter who prides “himself on his journalistic professionalism,” has a record of celebrating terrorists on social media.
Kristof wrote that he asked former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about these allegations of sexual abuse against Palestinians. “Do I believe it happens?” Olmert responded. “Definitely.” Yet Olmert later said that he has no knowledge to support Kristof’s claims of systematic sexual abuse and that the column misrepresented his views.
The most inflammatory charge in Kristof’s column was the report that Palestinian men were anally penetrated by dogs “coached to rape prisoners.” The rape-by-dogs claim seems to have originated as a pure invention by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. It was then recycled on social media by anti-Israel partisans who amplified the slur into an urban legend. In response to skepticism about the anatomical improbability of a dog penetrating a human, Kristof mentioned that he had found “three different medical journal articles” that discussed “rectal injuries in humans from anal penetration by dogs.” Kristof did not provide links to these articles, nor did he acknowledge that the medical literature actually discusses very rare cases of people initiating sexual intercourse with dogs, not of dogs engaged in assault. But this discussion misses the point. The tainted origin of this allegation, from sources that have previously promoted other fantasies, should have triggered that indispensable journalistic tool: the bullshit meter.
“Jewish space lasers” has become a joke. But the “Israeli rape dogs” slur has now gained credibility at one of the world’s most prestigious media outlets. Kristof’s critics have recalled past incidents in which the double Pulitzer Prize winner was betrayed by his reliance on deceptive sources, including identifying an innocent man as the author of the anthrax terror attacks of 2001. Yet the Times stands by Kristof’s work: “Details were extensively fact-checked, with accounts further cross-referenced with news reporting, independent research from human-rights groups, surveys and in one case, with U.N. testimony.”
For journalists, the most important question is always, “Is the story true?” If the story is true, its consequences are not the journalist’s concern. Our job is to inform society, not to protect it. But in this case, the story is very doubtfully true. It also happens to be a claim that will likely incite and justify acts of violence.
Anti-Semitism has long trafficked in images of Jews as simultaneously uniquely cunning and uniquely disgusting. What could be more cunning and disgusting than training dogs to commit anal rape? The sexual abuse of men by animals transgresses the profoundest taboos protecting human dignity and purity. Those who believe Israelis and Jews capable of such an outrage might feel justified in wishing that such bestial monsters were wiped from the Earth—a shift from disgust to dehumanization to possible destruction that is well charted by social psychologists.
Six years ago, the section for which Kristof works was keenly sensitive to even the most far-fetched theories of harm. In the summer of 2020, the Times published an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton urging President Trump to act forcefully to quell disturbances that followed the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Dozens of Times staffers tweeted objections to the editorial decision, many using the same phrasing: “Running this puts Black @nytimes staff in danger.” That op-ed, which convulsed The New York Times’ newsroom and led to the forced resignation of the opinion editor, James Bennet, is now prefaced on the paper’s website by a five-paragraph disclaimer that draws attention to disputed factual claims, criticizes the piece’s tone as excessively harsh, and regrets that it failed to include necessary context “given the life-and-death importance of the topic.”
The wave of violence now besetting Jews in the United States and throughout the Western world apparently does not qualify as sufficiently “life-and-death” to expect this same scrupulous regard for tone, context, and accuracy from the newspaper’s columnists. Or maybe there’s something else going on, something simpler and stranger.
Matti Friedman, a former Associated Press reporter in the Middle East, has observed that in the conflicts embroiling Israel and diaspora Jewry, many major Western media institutions have recast themselves as participants instead of observers. Stories harmful to Israel—false claims that Israel caused a famine as a weapon of war, or that an Israeli air strike destroyed a Gazan hospital—are reported credulously and corrected slowly, if at all. Stories that discredit Israel’s enemies, such as about Hamas’s crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, are reported grudgingly, if at all. Last week, Israel released the most thorough account yet of Hamas’s genuinely systematic and horrific sexual violence, an account that rests on video and other evidence recorded and shared by Hamas itself. Kristof’s column, which appeared the day before, blunted the impact of that powerful report.
The October 7 attack was the most ambitious and best-organized undertaking ever waged by a Palestinian military force. Tunnels were dug and buildings booby-trapped at a cost of billions of dollars, including from donated aid intended to benefit Gazan civilians. On the eve of the fight, Hamas controlled an army estimated by Israel to be up to 30,000 people—far larger than the deployable ground forces of Great Britain or Germany. Operational secrecy was preserved with steely discipline, and Israel was utterly deceived and taken by surprise. Yet although the operation inflicted grievous damage, it ultimately failed in its goal of sparking a regional war to invade and overthrow the Jewish state. The failure left Gaza a ruin and tens of thousands of fighting men and civilians dead.
The slogan “Globalize the intifada” proposes a new mode of operations. Rather than wage a difficult and dangerous war against the highly armed Jews of Israel, the slogan urges anti-Zionists to target a more vulnerable population: the Jews of the diaspora...
One obvious response to the threats is for governments to fund new defenses around synagogues, schools, and community centers. American Jewish organizations spend an estimated 14 percent of their budgets on security, or about $765 million a year. These defenses exact a psychic toll as well as an economic one. The North American Jews of the 1960s and ’70s imagined that they had left the ghetto walls behind forever. Now new walls are rising around them, to protect against the violence stirred by campaigns of defamation...
There are Americans—and Britons and Canadians and Australians and Europeans, too—who remember that a society that turns on its Jewish minority eventually devours itself. The shots aimed at the windows of synagogues are aimed at larger targets. The advent of liberal modernity was announced by the dismantling of ghetto walls. The re-erection of those walls sounds a note of doom, and not only for the Jews."

Links - 5th June 2026 (2 - Climate Change)

2026-06-05T15:24:00.000+08:00

Melissa Chen on X - "Imagine if the United States had swallowed the Al Gore-style climate gospel back in the day... You don't really have to imagine it. Because there's a natural experiment that took place and that alternative future that the US dodged actually exists. It's called the United Kingdom. I seem to remember there was a sneering attitude from coastal liberal elites hooked on TED talks when Sarah Palin came on the scene and said "drill baby drill." They laughed and dismissed the idea of ramping up domestic fossil fuel production as backward and environmentally reckless. If it was up to them, they would have shut down fracking, choked off new drilling, slapped massive restrictions on oil and gas development, and chased the fantasy of rapid "green" transition at all costs. Instead America did the opposite. The result? UK households today pay 2X more than US households do for energy and their industrial electricity prices are among the highest in Europe. Sure they've lowered emissions (technically they just outsourced it) but at the cost of creating a massive structural economic disadvantage. Energy is the foundational input for everything - steel, chemicals, fertilizers, aluminum, cement, refining. When your electricity and gas bills are 2–6× higher, you just can't even compete. So you end up closing plants, offshoring jobs, and watching your industrial base slowly bleed out. So yeah, the UK's current predicament is exactly where the US would be in if the Green Lobby, Dems and Hollywood suckers had their way: energy-poor, import-dependent, economically hobbled, and geopolitically neutered. The worst part is it's completely ideological. The UK could have had more homegrown energy supply to buffer prices and keep revenue flowing, but Ed Miliband refuses to exploit the UK's own shale or North Sea potential aggressively. Decline really is a choice. Americans should be glad their leaders refused to make it."
Starmer: Miliband decides whether we drill North Sea - "Mr Miliband previously claimed that “new exploration licences in the North Sea, which some people are calling for, will not take a penny off people’s bills”... Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of making a “reckless promise” not to drill in the North Sea, saying it would now have “catastrophic” consequences. The Conservative leader told the Prime Minister: “Hiding behind the Energy Secretary is pathetic. Under his Labour Government we buy half the gas we use from Norway. Last year, Norway’s Labour government drilled 49 wells in the North Sea. How many did Britain drill? Zero. “For the first time since 1964 under his Government, Britain drilled no wells. Why is energy security the right policy for Labour in Norway but the wrong policy for Labour in Britain?”... “The Jackdaw gas field could be up and running before winter. All that gas would be used here in the UK to heat 1.6m homes. That is enough to power Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex put together. So will the Prime Minister approve the licences or is the Energy Secretary running the Government?”"
CO2 row over climate activist Thunberg's yacht trip to New York - "a spokesman for German round-the-world sailor Boris Herrmann, the yacht's co-skipper, told Berlin newspaper TAZ that several people would fly into New York to help take the yacht back to Europe. Hermann himself will return by plane, according to the spokesman. The paper estimated that in fact Thunberg's boat trip would end up being more polluting than if she and her companions had just taken flights to New York themselves."
From 2019
Meme - "2023 Retail Electricity Price vs Wind + Solar Share (All Countries) *clear positive correlation - the more wind & solar, the pricier electricity is*"
The cope is that wind + solar are expensive despite being intrinsically cheap due to "greed", but it's weird that in the greediest country in the world (the US) electricity is like a third of the cost as in Denmark, which left wingers love to hold up as a model, and Denmark also has slightly more than 3x the wind + solar share of the US
Besides "greed", a new cope I saw was "Rather matches the highest functioning societies. Smart countries tax energy, encourages conservation and efficiency. Smart." Greens actively want to tank quality of life and don't understand that green energy is a luxury good and virtue signalling (rather than the relationship being causal in the other direction)
Meme - "While the US and Europe were dismantling their industrial base, China was building two new coal plants a week, cornering the solar panel market, taking over battery manufacturing, and dominating electric vehicle production. China didn't listen to Greta, China used Greta."
Meme - Unbelievable facts: "Seven countries-Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo- now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy sources."
"Oh look, the most economically productive countries in the world are 100% renewable energy!"
What climate change hystericists envision as the future: either become a shithole with unreliable electricity or be on top of a volcano
MAVERICK X on X - "In April 2025 Katy Perry burned 498 tons of fuel to do space tourism. Today she arrived in Davos to raise awareness about the "environment.""
Meme - Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX: "China isn't turning into a “green superpower.” Any renewable energy systems they're installing only add to existing energy sources; they are not replacing fossil fuels at all. China is increasing their use of ALL energy."
"China Primary Energy Consumption by Source 1965-2024"
Sean Feucht - "🚨REUTERS finally reports last nights massacre of Christians in Nigeria calling them “gunmen” (not Muslim jihadists) who killed Christians due to “climate change” not their faith. The media is complicit and demonic with their lies! WE ARE ON THE GROUND TO TELL THE TRUTH HERE!"
Gunmen kill at least 30 in Nigeria's Plateau state attack | Reuters
“Muslims massacre Nigerian Christians because of climate change” - Reuters. Trust the Experts! Of course, if Christians massacre Muslims, this will be proof that Christianity is evil and we need to do more to eradicate Islamophobia, like banning all criticism of Islam
Not everything has to be about politics – the time is right for an energy truce in Canada - "For a country blessed with an extraordinary abundance of resources, Canada seems strangely committed to fighting about them. Few topics inflame our politics like energy—oil versus renewables, left versus right, Alberta versus Ottawa. It’s a tug-of-war that’s been dragging on for decades, and every time it looks like we might finally pull in the same direction, we find a fresh reason to let the rope burn our hands again... Energy is the oxygen of modern life. Everything—everything—depends on it. Hospitals. Food supply chains. Manufacturing. Digital infrastructure. Heating. Transportation. Even renewable energy systems themselves rely on hydrocarbons for mining, processing, manufacturing, and transportation. Worldwide demand for all forms of energy is rising rapidly. Billions still lack reliable power. Countries we admire—like Norway, Sweden, Japan, and South Korea—approach energy not as an ideological purity test, but as a strategic national priority. They use what works. They invest where it matters. They innovate. They balance. They don’t spend precious time demonizing one energy source to elevate another. Why can’t we do the same?"
Meme - Fission Phil: "A common attack on #nuclear advocates is that we are trashing #wind and #solar. Wind and solar have so many limitations and drawbacks that simply talking about them is considered trashing them. Explaining why we need nuclear means telling the truth about renewables.
The fact is simply this. Wind and solar make the act of decarbonizing grids to completion harder because they are variable intermittent sources of power we can't call on. This is a physical fact that has been handwaived away since the original push to use those sources. Nuclear now has to be the technology that can integrate wind and solar into the grid. An example is @TerraPower Natrium. They are adding thermal salt storage tanks to deal with the randomness of wind and solar. Decarbonization would be a lot less complicated with just nuclear. People are just conditioned to view wind and solar as a sacred cow that cannot be criticized. I believe the hype around wind and solar is a dangerous lie and actually threatens efforts to decarbonize to the degree needed to save the planet from climate disaster. Now I am not saying we can't do some wind and solar where appropriate. But I am saying we can't continue to believe that wind and solar will do the grid heavy lifting. And saying otherwise is feeding delusion. We need to be clear and adamant in our criticism of wind and solar. If that is considered trashing it then so be it. We can't be coddling feelings over facts. Wind and solar are intermittent, energy diffuse, resource and mining intensive, invasive to ecosystems, needing of ungodly amounts ot transmission infrastructure, needing of replacement every 30 years at a maximum, have no real cheap storage solution, make grids more expensive in total, is unavailable during sever weather, requires lots of natural gas backup, has very low capacity factors and need to be overbuilt, is totally reliant on huge government subsidies, decreases spinning reserve for grid stabilization, cannot black start in an emergency, the list goes ON AND ON. We are not trashing them. We are telling the truth, and the truth is often uncomfortable. Now we can be kind in our truth telling to not turn people off immediately, and exercise a little more humility. But we shouldn't have to just tiptoe around the glaring issues with wind and solar just because the appeal-to- nature folks have more institutional power. /END"
Randy Andy: "What advocates of nuclear don't understand about RE fanatics is that they reject physics and objective reality altogether. They are not interested in proper scientific debate. They have a predetermined ideological outcome in mind (100% RE) and will say anything to further this."
Meme - "Total US Taxpayer Subsidy per Megawatt-hour Of Energy Produced (Subsidy and Production Data by Type of Fuel), 2016 - 2022
Hydro- electric - $0.44
Fossil - $1.03
Nuclear - $1.21
Wind - $16.79
Biomass - $17.79
Geo- thermal - $17.93
Solar - $68.67
DATA: https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/pdf/subsidy.pdf"
This doesn't stop left wingers screeching about oil and gas subsidies even though "renewables" get more subsidies than fossil fuels
Meme - "Climate activists saving hot water *3 women bathing together*"
UK climate aid cuts 'short-sighted', campaigners say - "Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper told parliament that the UK's climate finance commitment would be cut to around £6 billion or three years – roughly £2bn a year, down from £2.3bn annually under the previous five-year arrangement. The overall aid budget has been reduced from 0.5 per cent to 0.3 per cent of gross national income by 2027, with the government citing the need to fund increased defence spending. The previous £3bn earmark for nature and forest projects has also been scrapped... Campaigners from the Global South said the cuts represented a historic betrayal by one of the world's largest historical emitters. "For the UK to retreat to a historic low of 0.3 per cent in aid is an act of climate colonialism,” said Harjeet Singh, climate activist and founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation. “We in the Global South are being forced to foot the bill for a catastrophe we did not cause, while the very nation that built its wealth on the carbon of the Industrial Revolution strips away the healthcare, clean water, and education that the world's most vulnerable need to survive it”... "It is clear that climate finance has, to some extent, been protected as a priority within the overseas development assistance budget — it is now a larger proportion of a shrinking overall pot," said Gareth Redmond-King, head of the international programme at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit think tank. "However, cutting that budget at a time of such intense global upheaval goes against the warnings from the government's own national security advisers and food experts, who all warn of the growing threats to our security and stability from the climate crisis." "We import two fifths of our food from overseas, and worsening climate change impacts hitting farmers at home and abroad are leading to shortages and higher prices on our supermarket shelves," he said... Andreas Sieber, head of global political strategy at 350.org, told The Independent the cuts were a political choice rather than a fiscal necessity. "Cutting aid to the world's poorest is not belt-tightening, but moral abdication," he said. "The real absurdity: this is a phantom debate. While ministers pick pockets at the bottom, they leave windfall profits from fossil fuel giants untouched, even as those same companies cash in on the price fossil fuel shocks hammering households right now." Earlier this week, former international development minister Gareth Thomas, the Labour MP for Harrow West, also issued a warning to the government that it was leaving the door open for malign foreign powers such as China to fill the space left by the UK... “Our security depends not just on a stronger military but also on building soft power so that our soldiers aren’t needed.”"
When you're upset the grift doesn't keep growing, still pretend to be deluded that burning money stops climate change and are ignorant about the country's fiscal crisis. They know China isn't as stupid as the UK, even though it exceeded the UK's historic emissions quite a while ago and became a bigger economy in 2005
Clearly a Chinese invasion will be repelled by the UK's moral superiority
Barbara Bal MBA on X - "It’s wild how progressives will try to cancel anyone who questions sky-high gas prices, calling us “anti-supply and demand” or even communists for daring to suggest affordable energy. Yet they cheer this kind of cronyism: $206 million in taxpayer-backed loans to Liberal-supported “green” wind projects at sweetheart rates, while small businesses and families pay full price. They don’t actually want true free markets. They just want government control, tax and “global prices” for what they oppose and funding for what they support. Thank you @LeslynLewis for calling this out."
Climate change hysteria is a great way to make money, while climate change hystericists screech about oil company profits
Scott Harradine | Facebook - "There can no longer be any doubt. Our premier Doug Ford works FOR Enbridge Gas, NOT the province of Ontario, NOT the people of Ontario and certainly NOT the environment of Ontario. The #FordGovIsMostCorruptInOntHistory"
Ford’s latest bill collides with cities’ efforts to phase out gas in buildings - "Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will have 1.5 million more homes by 2031 to address the housing and affordability crisis in one fell swoop. But some of Ford’s development ambitions concern observers who say his plan is hampering municipalities’ ability to ditch fossil fuels in buildings. Across North America, municipalities have been considering, and in some cases passing, gas bans to force fossil fuels from new buildings. Montreal already has a ban, but legislation is stalled in other jurisdictions. In Vancouver, Mayor Ken Sim tried to kill the city’s existing ban and allow gas back into new buildings, but he was thwarted by popular pushback. New York state’s gas ban is being challenged in court and is on pause. Municipalities in Ontario have taken a different route. Rather than enacting outright gas bans, multiple cities and towns have put green building standards in place. They are broader policies that capture EV-charging requirements, landscaping standards and more, but they also have emissions thresholds that get stricter over time. Toronto’s green standards would have led to very little gas use, the main source of emissions from buildings, citywide by 2030. Those standards have come repeatedly under fire from the province, which says they slow down development. Now, new legislation — Bill 98, or the Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act — is snaking its way through the Legislature, and aims to kill green building standards for good, and in turn, the municipal ability to ditch gas. Bill 98 fits into a trend exhibited by the Ford government, which caters to gas giant Enbridge, said Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner. In 2024, the province overturned a ruling from the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) that would have required developers to front the cost of new gas infrastructure rather than passing the cost on to customers. As with Bill 98, the justification was that the move would slow down housing development. Enbridge supported the province’s intervention, and said the OEB decision would hinder its ability “to bring affordable and sustainable natural gas to all Ontarians.” The OEB’s ruling cited the affordability of heat pumps, and wrote: “The operating cost of a new all-electric house using a cold climate air source heat pump for space heating is lower than a new gas and electricity serviced house.” Schreiner said the province is “putting the profits of oil and gas giants like Enbridge ahead of affordability for everyday people,” even as research shows that fossil fuel use leads to higher energy bills. “Yet the Ford government, over and over again, undermines policies like the green building standards that create the conditions for builders to utilize lower cost solutions like heat pumps”"
Natural Gas or a Heat Pump? Where You Live Matters - "The graph below shows that natural gas is more affordable in 41 out of 50 states when comparing ENERGY STAR natural gas furnaces to ENERGY STAR electric heat pumps. As a rule of thumb, the higher the average annual heating bill, the greater the savings from natural gas."
Left wingers hate choice and want to immiserate people to bring on their revolution
Chris Martz on X - "The New York Times has reported that the east coast beaches may disappear in as little as 25 years from now. Just kidding; this was published in 1995."
Ron DeSantis on X - "Leftism as a religion."
The Kobeissi Letter on X - "Europe is in a full-blown energy crisis. In fact, Europe's energy crisis has gotten so bad that the European Commission is now recommending Europeans to work from home. They are also recommending using public transportation to cut fossil fuel use. Meanwhile, new IEA data shows that Europe has just 6 weeks worth of jet fuel remaining as the Iran War shortage worsens. As a result, many flights are expected to be cancelled on non-essential routes. Between the Russia-Ukraine War and the Strait of Hormuz closure, Europe's vulnerability to energy supply shocks has been exposed. We expect another wave of inflation in Europe."
Weird. Left wingers claim that doubling down on renewables like in Europe is the way to ensure energy security
Chris Mowrey on X - "the republican nominee in Virginia believes solar panels don’t work when it’s dark outside and windmills don’t work when “there’s no wind”. Stunning levels of incompetence and garbage."
Devon Eriksen on X - "Right wing propaganda is increasingly unnecessary. It can be replaced by verbatim reposts of what a democrat just said."
Science Magazine on X - "Climate policy has long fixated on how energy is produced, but a growing body of research suggests the real leverage lies in how it is used. In a new #SciencePolicyArticle, researchers argue that reshaping energy demand, through efficiency, electrification, and curbing excess consumption, could unlock faster, fairer progress toward net-zero goals. https://scim.ag/4cPAlol"
Jannik 🐿️ on X - "Everything that humans do and everything that makes them happy requires energy. No matter if it's food production, traveling, entertainment, industry... everything. "reshaping energy demand" is just an euphemism for artificial poverty and human suffering."
Climate change hysteria's goal is to immiserate humanity
Ontario Adds New Power 73 Per Cent Lower Than Former Government | Ontario Newsroom
Climate change hystericists keep boasting about the average price of electricity from these new projects being 8.8 cents per kwh and citing the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), but from the IESO Long-Term 2 RFP documents (both the initial results table and the Additional background, context and key information presentation, it's clear that this refers to the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) and excludes system costs including storage and grid costs. LCOE is a terrible metric to use to measure the cost of power and experts recommend we stop using it. The true cost of "renewable" energy is much higher as it includes storage to backup unreliable "renewable" energy and grid upgrades to distribute it
Philippe Lemoine on X - "It's pretty remarkable how, within maybe 4-5 years, we went from a quasi-millenarist environment of fear about climate change premised on the idea that we were just a few years away from the end of the world to a situation where almost nobody talks or gives a shit about it anymore. There may be a lesson here about the dangers of hyping a risk, which I think might soon become relevant to discussions about AI, because although the apocalyptic cult that developed about the risk posed by climate change was ridiculous, it's not as if the problem had magically disappeared either."
Clint Warren-Davey on X - "The reason no one talks about climate change anymore is because geopolitics came back. Climate change was a political issue only at the height of the Pax Americana, the Fukuyaman End of History, where there were no real threats to American dominance. Now nations and empires are on the move again. Russia, China and every other country don't give a shit about the environment in any way. They are doing what every state in history tries to do and amass hard power. And the Western world is being forced, kicking and screaming, to care about war and statecraft once again."
BladeoftheSun on X - "The World's largest Wind Turbine 26MW. In its lifetime it will produce the same energy as burning 750,000 tons of coal. That's 44,118 truck loads. And that's just 1 Wind Turbine."
The Rational Animal 🤔 on X - "No one should be surprised but what he left out is that this turbine costs an estimated $50-80 million to build and install. It only produces power 35-45% of the time because wind is intermittent. Its output degrades 12-16% over its 20-25 year lifespan. It requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, fiberglass, and rare earth minerals mined largely in China (his favorite country). The other 55-65% of the time you need backup power, which comes from natural gas. And it exists only because of massive government subsidies. A natural gas plant of the same 26MW capacity costs $26-39 million, produces more than double the effective output, runs on demand 24 hours a day regardless of weather, and lasts 30-40 years. Half the price. Double the output. No weather dependency. No subsidies required. But this was never about the environment. If it were, you would care that rare earth mining for wind turbines devastates landscapes across China and Africa, that thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by turbine blades, that the blades themselves are non-recyclable fiberglass rotting in landfills, and that natural gas produces half the emissions of coal with none of these problems. You ignore all of this because environmentalism was never your goal. It is your vehicle. The destination is what it has always been: government control of energy production, which means government control of the economy, which is socialism. Rand identified this decades ago. The green movement is not a scientific movement. It is a political one, and its target is not pollution. It is capitalism."

Dealing with the Chinese

2026-06-05T12:00:00.000+08:00

From 2016:

DO NOT
LEARN
MANDARIN

DO NOT DO IT

YOU WILL FOREVER HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CHINESE, TRUST ME YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT
PLEASE MAN DON'T DO IT, THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS MANDARIN AND LIVES IN CHINA YOU DON'T WANT THIS

LEARN JAPANESE OR RUSSIAN INSTEAD, TRUST ME, PLEASE DO NOT LEARN MANDARIN IT WILL FUCK UP YOUR LIFE BECAUSE NO BOSS IS GOING TO BE LIKE 'oh he has a degree in Mandarin and speaks
it really well, let's just have him not involved in any way whatsoever with China'.

The Chinese are absolute shit, they are the worst human beings that I have ever encountered on this planet, and I am EXTREMELY well traveled, including many shithole countries. Don't do it man, please take my advice,
learn Japanese or Russian or some shit instead, do NOT learn Mandarin

You won't realize the truth in what I'm saying until you're already here, but by then it'll be too late. Don't do it man, please, help me help you, learn something else!
Business related:
>constant dickery, backstabbing, underhandedness
>if they can lie, cheat, or steal, they will.
>constantly have to deal with cheats and thieves, the Chinese will rarely outright steal something from you, but they will never give you what you want for the money you spend, unless you spend a large sum of money; the Chinese even have a saying about this, 一分钱，一分货. It's basically expected that if you pay a low price for something you'll get scrap, even if it's supposed to adhere to a strict standard

Example 1:
>I work in the stainless steel industry. Friend is buying 201 grade steel (very common, basic grade) from a factory in Jiangsu. He asks me to inspect. Alright. I go to the factory, they assure me that they can produce within the required specification (tolerance of -0.25mm for thickness, aka 1/4 cm, the steel was 30mm in thickness so it had to be 29.75 or above to be within standard) and normal ASTM/AISI (standard international grade) chemistry, well alright my friend's buying this so I guess they're legit
>nope
>I inspect the goods, thickness if all over the fucking place from ~28.5mm-29.5mm, I confront them about the thickness and their claims that they could produce to standard,
>'oh anon because ASTM is an American grade we were obviously talking about inches, our mill only works in inches so we were talking about 1/4 an inch'
>lying through their fucking teeth, literally everyone else who wasn't part of the company backs me up saying that they were talking about mm, factory denies it
>check chemistry
>nickel content is less than 1/5 of what it's supposed to be on some sheets, chemistry is all over the fucking place, almost nothing is to standard
>oh anon, this is 201 *industry standard* steel, your friend should have specified that he wanted 201 *international standard* steel

cont, this is going to be long, I have several.
>there's only one 201 grade you fucking idiot, if you produce 'industry standard' 201 then you mark it as such like everyone else in the fucking industry you don't just call it '201' grade steel, you're literally committing fraud
>so sue us, the order's only worth ~$30,000, enjoy spending more on legal fees than you'll get from us :^)
>later was arguing with he production staff at their office, showed them the fucking American standard that said 'hey you're wrong on the thickness, you have to refund the money"
>one of the staff got into an argument with me over the meaning of 'up to', i.e. she thought 'up to 30' meant 'starting at 30 and over', rather than everything up to '30'
>no anon, your English is too poor to understand this
>English is my native language you stupid cunt you can barely string two sentences together
He didn't get his money back and didn't sue.

Example 2:
>same 201 steel order, hire a Russian company to do shipping since it's being shipped to Moscow, want everything to be seamless, no chance at fuckups
>our contract with the Russian company specifically states that they will take care of the packaging, because in addition to the steel being off standard it was also produced late, so it has to go on a high speed train to avoid being late; the high speed train has very specific packing requirements for steel, so we thought the Russians could handle it
>day of shipment comes (a Saturday), all documents in place, should be fine
>get a call on Saturday from the Chinese sub-contractor that the Russians hired to do the Chinese leg of the journey
>"hey so the goods didn't leave on Saturday."
>" ... Why."
>"Because the factory didn't package them."
>"WE HIRED YOU TO PACKAGE THE GOODS YOU INCOMPETENT FUCK"
>"Oh. Well, there aren't any forklifts in the area that can handle weights as heavy as this"
>" ... you're literally surrounded by warehouses, many of which stock stainless steel. Please explain how you are unable to find a forklift."
>"Well, we just can't find one. You have to find one."
>I ended up doing their job for them and finding them a forklift. Goods arrived a week late because the train only leaves once per week, friend lost even more money because he had to give additional discounts to his client. LUCKILY, the Chinese 201 grade happened to be the same as Russian local 'industry standard' 201 steel (I guess some shared Soviet thing?), so he didn't lose all of his money, only about 20%+
Sigh

Example 3:
>ordering goods from a large state-owned mill, purchase through a company that came recommended by the sales manager (you have to do this in order to take advantage of the export tax rebate that China has)
>we purchase, everything goes smoothly except for a small crisis at the start, where the company quoted $2600/ton, but when ordering time came around the goods jumped to $3000/ton, meaning we would have lost money on the order, so we had to negotiate with the sales manager and company late into the night to bring things down to $2800/ton, plus increase the price to our end customer (they weren't happy)
>this happens extremely often in China; they quote one thing then jack up the price after your client has signed the contract with you, knowing you can't back out or you'll lose reputation and possibly money
>March comes around, goods are produced on time, sales manager assures us that the goods will be in Tianjin Xingang port on March 9th at the latest, we'll then package the goods and have them ready for shipment on the 16th.
>March 5th rolls around
>'Hey guys, how're the good doing? Still on the train?'
>'No, they haven't left yet.'
>"What.'
>'Don't worry, we can still put them on a fast train to port, it'll take 3-4 days or so, you'll be fine.'
>'Alright, whatever, just make sure we're there in time for the March 16th shipment date.'
>'Yes, yes, of course'
>March 9th comes around
>'Hey guys, where are the goods? Already in Tianjin?'
>'Well, they haven't left yet."
>After I'm done having an aneurysm, I call the mill's transport office and immediately have them cancel the train booking and instead put the goods on trucks and truck them straight to the port
>Goods arrive. Tianjin port is a bit funky, they have a government bureau which packages the goods, you can't package the goods once they're within port, it's like one giant bonded warehouse
>Company assures us that the goods will be packed according to specifications (going on Russian train system, they have special requirements)
>alright, cool
>Confirm with them that the goods are alright about 4 days before the shipping date, they've confirmed that the Russian shipping company has okayed the packaging job, I receive photos of the job, forward them on to the Russian company
>Alright, cool
>Day before shipment, I get a message from the Russian shipping company
>'Hey, we've been trying to get in contact with the Chinese company for a week, we've had no response, the packaging job isn't correct, there's no way the Russian train service will accept the goods'
>Trying to fight back another aneurysm
>immediately get in contact with the Chinese company, ask them who exactly told them that the packaging job was ok
>some fucking Chinese subcontractor who had no authority to do so
>GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
>ask the Chinese why they didn't get in contact with the Russian shipping company, the company had sent them numerous messages over the past week
>'oh well we were talking to you so we thought we didn't have to respond'
>long story short, the packaging job was shit, the coils we were shipping (10,000+lbs each) moved during shipment because of the shit job and damaged the container, we were delayed by one month in Vladivostok port while they fixed the container and redid the packaging, also had to pay all additional fees
>Chinese company refused to compensate us
It was at this point that I completely stopped trusting the Chinese in any way, shape or form.
Example 4:
This happened when the company was still new and just started working in China.
>Had another deal, we were buying common grade steel to be exported
>ok cool, everything's in order, no problems thus far
>We have an inspector in China to check the goods
>He apparently goes to the guy's warehouse in Tianjin and checks up on things, says the seller is legit, he even managed to negotiate a 2% discount, we trust him and go through with the deal
>No problems with import/export, the steel arrives at its destination in Russia, lo and behold the steel is not what we ordered at all, we ordered 304 and 321 steel, what we received was some sort of fucking 201 failed abortion shit, manganese through the roof, low nickel content, low chromium content, completely out of standard
>what in the fuck?
>ask inspector what exactly he did, again, in detail
>he just went to the guy's company office, they chatted for a while, Chinese guy served him some tea, negotiated a 2% discount and then left quite pleased with himself
>never visited the warehouse, never saw the goods in person, never even fucking checked the mill certificate to see if the goods were genuine
>fire him on the spot, never happening again
>I go in person to meet with the fraud, also contact our lawyers in China
>The fraud agrees to a refund only if we send the steel back to his warehouse in China and he has his inspectors look at it and say whether or not it's his
>yeah, okay, sure, great idea 10/10, fucking hell
>I suggest instead that he send a guy to Russia to look at the steel and figure it out
>'No, he's a peasant, he's too afraid to go overseas.'
>I'm going to fucking strangle our recently-fired inspector
>Have our lawyers look into the case
>Fun fun fun: if a Chinese guy commits fraud and sends you the wrong goods, it's not a criminal offense, only a civil offense
>your only recourse is to sue the company
>look into the company's finances
>1m RMB registered capital, almost 100% assured that he's moved it out of the account by now since it does
>decide not to sue him because we'd be spending so much money on legal fees with almost 0 chance of getting any money back
The Chinese legal system is extremely weak. If you order say $100,000 worth of goods from someone and they literally send you trash that SEMI-resembles the goods that's worth maybe $1,000, there are almost
no penalties. They will not got to jail, they will not be penalized in any way, they will simply declare their company bankrupt and start a new one. Companies like this pop up all the time like mushrooms after rain;
you should never, ever, ever, ever, ever buy from Alibaba for this reason. Seriously though, a contract is hardly worth the paper it's printed on, if you do business in China you should ALWAYS have the jurisdiction be under a neutral law, like the UK or Singapore or whatever, also make sure that you never pay much in advance, and only pay the balance AFTER inspection and AFTER any goods you buy are either sealed or put into a bonded warehouse.

Example 5:
This happened long after I realized the Chinese were turbo-Jews on steroids:
>have a Russian client who constantly sends price inquiries over to our company, we constantly give him prices
>'No no no anon, these prices are too high, I can find better prices elsewhere'
>What the fuck are you talking about these prices are very far below market level, literally 10%-20% undercutting the Russian market
>'No anon, you see I can find better prices'
>'Okay. Good luck.'
>Russian friend purchases from some really fucking shady characters
>I strongly, STRONGLY advise him not to do this or at least let me check the mill certificates for him
>He thinks I'm trying to steal his sources or Russian clients
>Hey man, whatever, you do you. Good luck.
>He calls me a month or so later begging me to source his steel for him
>turns out, all these amazing prices he was getting were from ...
> ... surprise, surprise, frauds
>he orders ~$200,000 from these guys, he has inspectors in China who inspect everything, it looks goods
>but, his inspectors left the shipping container in the dealer's warehouse, unlocked, for 2 days before shipping it to port
>when the goods arrived in Russia, the top steel sheet was all according to grade, but everything else was just common carbon steel, and rusty at that
>he ended up losing almost everything, he was able to resell the scrap for maybe $20,000 total
>feel kind of bad for him, but at the same time he refused all help and completely ignored my advice, so w/e
He was very apologetic afterwards though, I'm helping him again to avoid getting fucked by the goddamn Chinese thieves.

Anyway, non-business related examples:

>out at a club with a few friends, we're hanging around outside, as we're talking a guy about 30 feet to the left of us collapses and starts seizing
>Guess someone spiked his drink or something? I don't know.
>never bring my cell phone with my when I go clubbing, fuck
>run over the a small police station about 100 yards away
>'Please call an ambulance, there's a guy having a seizure over there, he needs help!'
>'no.'
>'What the fuck why not?"
>'It's not my job.'
>'...'
Eventually one of the other clubbers called an ambulance for the guy, but still, what the fuck?
>Roommate extremely sick, delirious with fever, can't stand up or walk, have to take him to the hospital
>Call up my landlady, ask her if she can call a cab for us (gated community)
>'No.'
>'Why not?'
>'Point to the part of the contract where it says I have to hire cabs for you.'
>Jesus fucking christ, whatever
>Throw my roommate on my back, carry him out to the street, hire a cab to the nearest hospital
>Arrive in hospital, we wait in line behind this old woman while she's chatting with the doctor about some day-to-day bullshit
>Friend is literally about to vomit all over the floor, can you hurry this up?
>'Nope :^)'
>Christ's sake
>Wait 5 minutes for them to finish their chit-chat (again, I understand/speak Chinese, they were talking about banal bullshit, about the lady's grandson and sports), the old lady takes the pills and walks off
>Doctor attends to my friend
>Has to get him to piss in a cup and everything
>Have to help him piss in a cup and do all the tests and whatever
>All of a sudden, as I'm waiting for a test result in the doctor's office, nurse bursts through the door, asking if I'm someone's 'countryman'
>though she was talking about my roommate, I say 'No he's Canadian, I'm American."
>she grabs my arm and pulls me into the main hall of the clinic
>Some tall white guy is stumbling around, blood caked all over his head, probably just been hit by a car, he's completely out of it
>surrounded by a bunch of Chinese doctors and nurses and keep shouting at him in Chinese to sit down so they can run tests on him
>He obviously has a head injury, why the fuck do you think it's a good idea to surround him and yell at him in a foreign language?
>Whatever. They think that I speak his language cause we're both white
>I go over to him, he keeps getting back up after the Chinese doctors force him to sit down, eventually I just walk with him and we both take a seat near the wall, I talk with him to calm him down, find out he's from Sweden
>the Chinese call an ambulance for the Swedish guy to take him to a larger hospital (Beijing Uni hospital)
>they ask me to be his translator
>yeah sure it's not like my friend is dying in the fucking waiting room.
>I call a Russian friend to come take care of my roommate, after the Russian friend arrives I go in the ambulance with the Swedish guy
>they do all kinds of tests, hospital only accepts cash, by the time the doctor gives us the results I have maybe 80 yuan in my wallet left (spent 800+ on tests)
>To the Swedish guy: "So, our test results show that you are bleeding into your skull as a result of what we assume is you being hit by a car. We would like to keep you in the observation ward overnight,
so if anything happens we can respond immediately. Again, your wound could easily be fatal.'
>me: 'alright, but I only have about 80 yuan, do you guys take cards at all?'
>' ... No. Here, let me patch you up, you guys can go.
>'What? I thought you said that this could be fatal.'
>'Yes, it COULD be fatal, but isn't necessarily fatal, let me clean and bandage up his head so you guys can head out.'
>literally lost all interest whatsoever in caring for the Swedish guy once he learned I was out of cash, refused to do delayed payment or anything like that, I had to pay up front in cash if I wanted to put the guy in the observation ward for the night
>mfw
Jesus fucking christ. In retrospect, I should have called the Swedish embassy the first time I figured out the guy was Swedish so that he could have received proper care, but still. This was by far my most fucked up experience in China, that urgent medical care was refused because I didn't have cash on hand ready to pay. It was completely fucked up. This, of course, is aside from the fact that both my friend and the Swedish guy were made to queue up every time behind people with minor injuries and coughs while one was about to fall over and pass out on the floor while the other was bleeding profusely from his head. It was so completely fucked up.

Anyway, I got a cab back home with the Swedish guy, the Swedish guy promised he'd take me out to dinner and pay me back for the medical expenses, but I never received a call after that night. After I didn't receive any call, I remember checking news articles in the weeks following to see if there were any reports of a Swedish guy dying in Beijing, but I didn't see anything. I hope he's alright.
And one more example of Chinese dickery for tonight, there are a thousand other stories I could tell about this shit both business-wise and everywhere else, but I'll just work myself up if I do that:

>have a few friends who want to go to a nice place for the weekend, to a theme park that's a ways away from the city
>friend contacts a travel agency
>really fucking good prices, 250 yuan for the weekend
>fuck yeah, nice
>we get on the bus, go to the theme park
>long story short, the 250 yuan included: bus tickets. The advertisement and company both confirmed that the 250 yuan was for all expenses for the entire weekend but neglected to mention that those expenses were only those relating to the bus, not even joking
>what the 250 yuan didn't include
>hotels
>food
>actually going into the theme park i.e. paying the entrance ticket
>doing things inside the theme park, all of which costed additional $$$
>transportation to and from the theme park + hotel
>also had to pay additional money for wifi inside the hotel
>by the end of the weekend, the entire thing ended up costing about 2000 yuan per person
>travel company also had mandatory shopping outings at affiliated shops along the route, we all had to stop and hang out in the story for 15 minutes or so
But hey, good luck getting the company to change its advertising. No one gives a shit in China, after all, 一分钱，一分货. You get what you pay for, and even if they lie to your face about every single detail of the trip, the Chinese don't give a fuck because if you don't pay a lot of money then why should you expect them to hold up their end of the bargain? You get what you pay for.

Sigh

I can't wait to leave this place and go to Japan/Singapore. Seriously, I have the absolute utmost respect for Japan/Korea/Taiwan/Singapore now that I've seen how shit China is. They really did a bang-up job.
To sum all this up:

Do not learn Mandarin. Learn something else that will enrich your life and take it in a direction that you want to go. I'm no going to lie, Mandarin HAS made me worth more money. Westerners who can competently speak Mandarin are in rather short supply and they are considered far more reliable than the Chinese for obvious reasons. However, you really want to think about where the language is going to take you, and the answer every single time will be mainland China. Because let's face it, no one else speaks Mandarin except for mainland China and MAYBE Singapore, but they speak English over there as well.

If you learn Mandarin, you will be forced to deal with these people on a daily basis. Please trust me when I say that you really, really don't want to do that. In retrospect, I would much rather have learned Russian or Japanese. If I had a time machine, I would go back to my first year of uni and fucking slap myself and force myself to sign up for Japanese courses instead. It's too late for me now, though. I speak Mandarin, and any company that figures that out will sure as hell be sending me to China so that such a skill doesn't go to waste.

It's not fucking worth it guys, please please PLEASE learn something else, something that will make you happy. Don't just think in terms of salary, think in terms of quality of life and personal satisfaction. China will kill you inside, I absolutely guarantee it. I have yet to meet the man who comes to China, does business here, and comes out a happier and more balanced human being. It just doesn't happen. I know several people who have been working in China for 20 or 30+ years. All of them hate China and have a strong dislike for any work involving the Chinese. There is a reason China has a huge problem with students going overseas to the West and never coming home.

Please don't learn Mandarin.
People generally don't understand how differently China works from Western countries. They'll expect people to honor their agreements as they would in the West. Also, consider the following:

Your average yearly wage in China is just under $10,000. Let's say you're a trading company and with the advent of the internet you can easily market your business and issue quotes. Let's say that you get only two suckers every year, and you fuck them out of $50,000 each (small amount, that's one container of moderately priced steel). Congratulations, you just made 10x the average annual salary with almost zero repercussions. You're now a rich man in China.

You could do deals with these guys, but if you supply them the proper price for the steel, you might make MAYBE $1000-2000/container for stainless steel (and that's a pretty high margin for pricing without organising shipping, normal margins are 1-2% for that kind of job). If that guy is a small buyer and only buys two containers per year, you're going to have to wait decades to get the same amount of profit as you would just straight up fucking the guy. China is a conman's dream, lots of potential customers flooding in from all over the world looking for cheap steel that you can fuck with very little legal repercussions.
Well, the thing is that you can find good quality, it's just that big mills (the reliable ones) only produce in certain order lots, and most of the times those order lots are out of reach for smaller traders. For example, if you're trying to buy Bao stainless steel and you're an ordinary trader without guanxi, you have to buy a minimum of 200 tons at I think 20 tons per dimension, i.e. if you want 2mm*1000*2000 sheets, you have to buy 20 tons, you can't just buy 5 or 6. Problem is, that makes your order lot a minimum of $200,000, more likely in the $350,000 pushing $400,000+ depending on the grade, which is simply out of reach for smaller traders. Thus, most guys have to turn to Chinese traders who stock this stuff, and that's where you start running into the con men.
I'm not a bad businessman otherwise I wouldn't be in business still. Since those early encounters we've more than made up for our losses and turn quite a bit in revenue every quarter.

The examples I gave were growing pains of doing business in China, and this was with having connections in China. Unfortunately, the connections I had were only somewhat connected to the steel business i.e. they were manufacturers who often bought steel, and while I avoided a lot of shit on their advice, the steel industry is just filled with a LOT more cheats than one would expect especially when it comes to sheets and coils, which are easier to produce.

I mean, the Russian guy who got cheated was a veteran in the steel industry, he's one of the largest traders in Russia and has been doing this for going on 25 years, his father was in the business as well after the USSR broke up. Russia also isn't exactly known for being an easy market, but even he still got fucked by the Chinese. In fact, every single one of our clients was defrauded at one point or another, most losing ~$50,000, some losing more than $1m because people don't understand how different China is from Western countries.

Links - 5th June 2026 (1 - Left Wing Economics: Canada [including High Speed Rail])

2026-06-05T09:44:00.000+08:00

Via Rail subsidiary paid Quebec marketing firm $330K as it pivoted to high-speed rail - "A federal Crown corporation paid more than $330,000 to an outside marketing firm to rebrand a planned passenger rail project between Toronto and Quebec City and boost its popularity. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press detail how the corporation, concerned about “widespread disinterest” in a high-frequency rail corridor announced in 2021, decided to change its name and pivot to high-speed rail instead... With the firm’s help, the corporation came up with a new logo and a new name – Alto – more than a year ago. The rebranding was apparently so sensitive that the Crown corporation also chose a code name for Alto. Multiple documents, obtained using access-to-information law, refer to the new name as “Tracks.”... “The concept of ‘high frequency’ faces strong opposition. There’s widespread disinterest and dissatisfaction associated with the term, hindering any meaningful discussions and support. This resistance has become particularly challenging to navigate as the term ‘high frequency’ is directly embedded in the (corporation’s) name,” reads an undated briefing note written in late 2023 or early 2024. It goes on to say that discussions of higher speed “are met with openness,” which would lead to “greater project support and acceptance.” It adds that the VIA HFR name should be changed early in the process, while the public’s awareness of the project is “relatively low.”... Ryan Katz-Rosene, an associate professor at the University of Ottawa who studies high-speed rail, said it’s “concerning” to see the Crown corporation focus on “how to maximize the marketing appeal” of the project instead of “trying to address very specific challenges in the transport sector.” He said a big problem the high-frequency plan sought to fix was the fact that VIA Rail currently has to schedule passenger trains around freight trains sharing the same tracks. Building new, dedicated tracks would have removed a major obstacle to improved service, he said – regardless of speed. But a high-speed rail line could cost double the price of the high-frequency option, Katz-Rosene said, and is therefore less likely to get built... An internal presentation from August 2024 cites public opinion research showing that people preferred a higher-speed rail line, despite the added cost. “We must continue to shift away from the high frequency narrative to keep the public and stakeholders engaged,” it reads. According to the documents, the corporation in September 2023 asked the three groups qualified to bid on building the project to “propose a second option without speed limitations.” Katz-Rosene said it’s not surprising that people would choose high speed over high frequency. But a high-speed rail project will face substantial political challenges, he said, including the fact that Western Canada may balk at the idea of paying billions of dollars to build a rail corridor for Quebec and Ontario. “I don’t think anyone has a really good handle on how much this is actually going to cost,” he said, adding that the “sticker shock” could eventually kill the project. “You just know it’s going to be a hot political issue.”"
Opinion: High-speed rail project just an expensive fairy tale - "The government claims the project will create up to 51,000 jobs during its construction and boost Canadian GDP by up to $35 billion annually. The project will only become profitable after $53 billion in subsidies and 44 years of operation, according to research from McGill University . That $53 billion is close to how much Ottawa takes from taxpayers through the GST in a year. That’s a money pit, not an investment. And those jobs come with a massive price tag. Each of the 51,000 jobs costs about $1.7 million and many of them won’t be around after construction ends. A $35-billion annual increase in GDP amounts to about a two per cent GDP increase in Ontario and Quebec. That’s about those provinces’ projected combined GDP growth this year. That means the government is saying that this train would essentially double the GDP growth of Ontario and Quebec this year if it was completed. From seven stops... Only one out of three people surveyed in the area said they would take the train more than once per year. That’s not enough riders to justify the cost. And then there’s the land issue. High-speed trains need straight tracks. That means the government is going to cut roads in half and take land from people who don’t want to sell. “If people are reluctant, there is of course some recourse with the expropriation process that could happen,” said Martin Imbleau, CEO of Alto, the crown corporation in charge of the project. “A train that runs at 320 km/h cannot have curves. It has to be very, very straight, so of course we’ll need to buy a significant portion of land, and compensation will be a big issue.” And other similar projects are known for coming in severely over budget and behind schedule. The California High Speed Rail project was projected to cost $46 billion in 2008. Now almost two decades later the cost has ballooned to $174 billion and not a single piece of track has been laid. The United Kingdom’s high-speed rail line called HS2 was projected to cost $59 billion in 2011. The latest numbers show the budget is more than $148 billion. And it won’t open for almost another 10 years. The same story has played out here at home. The Ontario government announced it would build a light rail line across Toronto, the Ontario Line, for $10.9 billion. But costs ballooned to $27.2 billion before a single track was laid. Expecting the federal government to buck the trend and build the Alto line within budget is laughable. The federal government has a bad track record when it comes to managing projects. It wasted $60 million on a broken ArriveCan app that was supposed to cost $80,000. Now it wants to manage a $90-billion rail project? It’s a project that taxpayers can’t afford. The federal government is borrowing about $78 billion this year. The federal debt will reach $1.35 trillion by the end of the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Debt interest payments are costing taxpayers $55.6 billion this year. That’s more than the government collects through the GST."
Canada is losing its entrepreneurs—and barely anyone is talking about it - "Self-employment now accounts for just 12.8 percent of total employment, the lowest share in 45 years. The absolute number of self-employed Canadians sits at roughly 2.7 million, essentially unchanged from 17 years ago despite substantial population growth. When measured against the total population, the share of Canadians working for themselves has steadily contracted. These figures mask an even sharper reality. Self-employment includes everyone from ambitious founders building scalable firms to professionals working solo gigs. What matters for economic dynamism is the former: businesses with employees, growth ambitions, and the capacity to challenge incumbents. On this measure, the collapse is striking. The number of self-employed Canadians with paid employees per thousand working-age adults fell 57 percent between 2000 and 2022, dropping from 3.0 to just 1.3. Business entry rates tell the same story. In 2023, new firm creation sat at 12.3 percent of all active businesses, well below the 15.2 percent recorded 16 years earlier and a fraction of the nearly 25 percent Canada achieved in the early 1980s. Exits have also declined, pointing to an economy where creative destruction isn’t happening at robust rates. Venture capital investment, often a leading indicator of entrepreneurial ambition, has also cratered. As a share of GDP, it dropped from nearly 0.5 percent in 2021 to 0.2 percent in 2024—a decline of more than half in just three years. Canadian venture funds are struggling to raise capital, and what little they deploy is pooling into a handful of large bets rather than spreading across a broad base of early-stage companies. A recent report from the National Angel Capital Organization quantifies the cost. Canada’s three largest startup ecosystems—Toronto-Waterloo, Vancouver, and Montreal—collectively lost $66 billion in ecosystem value between 2019 and 2024, translating to an estimated 133,000 fewer high-quality startup jobs. While Canadian ecosystems grew at roughly 2 percent annually during this period, leading global peers posted growth rates between 9 and 17 percent. The report identifies an annual funding gap of at least $141 million at the seed and pre-seed stages, with seed rounds in Canada’s major tech hubs running 40 percent smaller than comparable U.S. ecosystems. The exodus to the U.S. compounds the problem. In 2024, for the first time, more Canadian-educated founders who raised significant capital started their companies in the U.S. than in Canada, according to research from Leaders Fund. Only one-third of startups founded by Canadians that raised more than $1 million last year were actually based in Canada, down from two-thirds between 2015 and 2019. Nearly half now operate from the U.S.—double the share from five years ago. Late last month, Y Combinator—a prestigious startup accelerator—struck a nerve in tech circles when it briefly removed Canada from its list of acceptable incorporation jurisdictions. The reversal came within days, but the message had already landed: even Canada’s most promising entrepreneurs are being pulled south by stronger ecosystems, lighter regulatory burdens, and deeper pools of growth capital. The international comparison is sobering. In 2015, OECD data shows Canada created roughly 191,000 new businesses. By 2024, the figure was essentially unchanged at 190,399, despite significant population growth. Over the same period, the U.S. saw business entries rise 34 percent, the United Kingdom 40 percent, and France 86 percent. On a per-capita basis, Canada now generates fewer new businesses than it did a decade ago and trails most of its peers. Without new employer-firm formation, innovation stalls, productivity stagnates, and established players entrench their positions. Canada has many advantages: world-class universities, strong institutions, and access to talent. But advantages don’t automatically translate into outcomes. Estonia, Ireland, Singapore, and Israel all built dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems through deliberate policy choices: regulatory reform, competitive tax structures, and environments where risk-taking is rewarded rather than punished. Expediting major resource projects matters. But so does generating competitive new firms that challenge incumbents and drive productivity growth. The causes of Canada’s entrepreneurial decline are varied and the solutions complex, but the first step is to recognize we have a problem."
Time to "tax the 'rich'", increase capital gains taxes and introduce more regulations to push the left wing agenda
Michael A. Arouet on X - "Canada and Germany followed similar left path. Choices have consequences, in this case it’s stagnation and impoverishment compared to everyone else. Why do they keep doing it to themselves? Do they enjoy becoming poor?"
paleoneoliberal on X - "Canada's decline is probably the most striking in the West. Not so long ago, Canada used to be a somewhat smarter and more peaceful version of the US, and its economy didn't lag far behind. However, as the woke left took power, the economy experienced a lost decade, housing prices skyrocketed, non-Western immigration exploded, and personal freedoms collapsed. Canada should be a warning, not a model to emulate."
NO WAY!!! It finally happened. The "Holy Grail" of butter just landed at my local Costco and people are already clearing the shelves. : r/CostcoCanada - "Hopefully the US successfully compels Canada to drop supply management as past of CUSMA reviews. It’s absolutely ridiculous that the Canadian consumer is denied choice to inflate the pockets of a small number of primarily Quebec-based dairy farmers. And before someone chimes in with the “but we can’t allow that swill US milk”, no one is forcing you to buy it. Let Canadians have freedom of choice. Here come the downvotes from LPC shills."
Most people in the thread are raving about foreign butter and complaining about local butter but of course to spite the US we must ban all foreign butter. This comment got down voted a lot. Canadians are so insecure
Majority of Canadians believe economy is on the wrong track: poll
Clearly, this has nothing to do with left wing economic policies, Trump is to blame for over a decade of no GDP per capita growth and In Carney We Trust
Vincent Geloso: How taxes and regulations keep people in poverty - "This isn’t the first time we have been faced with something like this. When Ralph Klein became premier of Alberta in the 1990s, he too was faced with a difficult economic and fiscal situation. The road he took to tackle those issues was one involving deregulation, tax cuts, and a reduction in government spending. The outcomes—including the improvement of economic mobility for all Albertans—present a path forward for a future federal government looking to turn things around at the national level. While Alberta is perceived as a low-tax, low-regulation jurisdiction today, in comparison to other Canadian provinces, that wasn’t always the case. When Klein took office in 1992, economic freedom indices placed the province at the higher end, but very much within the pack of Canadian provinces and average American states. At the time, Alberta was running a $2.6-billion deficit. That’s quite significant given that the province’s expenditures were $16.4 billion back then. The provincial government was essentially borrowing one out of every six dollars it spent. Klein’s vision was quite clear from the beginning. He argued that the provincial government had a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Over the next five years, his government would reduce inflation-adjusted spending per person by 32 percent. Simultaneously, it would lighten the regulatory burden imposed on businesses operating in Alberta, most notably in the energy industry. It would also work to get government “out of the business of business,” as Klein liked to say, by removing a number of government monopolies. Following these changes, economic freedom indicators shot up in Alberta, separating it from the pack of Canadian provinces and the average American state. Through empirical analysis, economists have been able to look at the effect these changes had on the poorest Albertans. Essentially, a dataset was created representing what would have happened if those reforms hadn’t taken place, using a combination of other provinces that did not undergo similar changes. We can then compare this counterfactual, business-as-usual scenario with what actually took place. This isolates the effect of the new policies. What we find is that getting government out of the way and reducing its influence over Albertans’ lives was of significant help to the poorest in the province. By 2005, Albertans who were among the lowest 10 percent of income earners could expect their incomes to grow 73 percentage points faster, over the next five years, than they would have without the reform. Of those, about 12 percent more saw their after-tax income at least double over the same period, compared to the business-as-usual scenario. As their incomes grew faster, their chances of reaching another income bracket, as opposed to remaining in the same situation, also increased significantly. On average, those who were in the lowest 10 percent of income earners could expect to jump 8 percentiles further up the income ladder over five years than they would have without the reforms. Essentially, they were less likely to remain among the lowest-paid 10 percent of Albertans than they would have been without the Klein reforms. Some might find this counter-intuitive—after all, isn’t government intervention regularly presented as a way to help those who have the least? But the reason is quite simple. When the Klein government lowered the province’s regulatory burden and reduced its spending, it also allowed a whole slew of new opportunities to emerge. Where a business idea was once impossible, either because a government monopoly made it illegal or the regulatory burden made it uneconomical, it was allowed to flourish once the legislative barriers were removed. And where government spending once required a higher tax burden, making some investments less profitable, those same investments became more appealing once those taxes were lowered. In both cases, there were more opportunities for Albertans, including those at the very bottom of the income ladder. More opportunities mean more ways for everyone to climb up that ladder. While the rest of the country should certainly take note of how Alberta was able to increase income mobility in the 1990s, so should Albertans today, as the province has unfortunately reverted to being within the pack of Canadian provinces and average U.S. states in terms of economic freedom."
This is why left wingers hate Alberta so much
AACE National Launches National Awareness Week to Advocate for Urgent Childcare Reform - "National Awareness Week comes at a critical time, as childcare operators across the country face dire financial strains under the current system. The CWELCC program, while well-intentioned, has placed undue burdens on Canada’s mixed-market childcare providers, many of whom are now at risk of closure due to inadequate funding, excessive bureaucratic burden, and unreasonable policy directives. AACE National believes that reinstating provincial jurisdiction and empowering provincial governments to design childcare solutions tailored to their populations will lead to more sustainable and effective outcomes. “The federal government is putting ideology and policy before children, excluding and discriminating against the very women-led entrepreneurs who have been relied upon to serve the majority of Canada’s families for the past several decades,” Churcher added. “By forcing an inflexible, one-size-fits-all public centralized system, they are ignoring the voices of parents, educators, and operators—the real stakeholders in childcare."... “The one-size-fits-all funding approach imposed by CWELCC has left rural centres like mine completely out of the equation,” says Anya Kerr, another director of centres in both Alberta and Ontario. “From the current revenue-replacement model to the new cost-based funding model, the unique needs and expenses of centres in remote areas cannot be met. We’ve already had to make cuts to our quality programs, services for families, and nutrition costs, which goes against our founding philosophy. With the proposed changes, we will have to lay off staff who are needed to support inclusion of special needs children and make further cuts to our programs, all of which parents have offered to pay for through donations. This completely defeats the purpose of the CWELCC system, with affordability being canceled out by parents asking to cover these ineligible expenses. If none of the key goals of the system are being met, it is a failure for all Canadian families.” “Finding space in daycare has become increasingly difficult; a sentiment echoed by many of my colleagues,” remarks a parent of a child at Stepping Stone Early Learning Academy in Ontario who attended AACE National’s Canada-wide online meeting of 1,200 parents on October 17. “It appears we’ve shifted from one extreme to another. My concern is that, in attempting to address affordability, the daycares themselves may be facing undue strain. The last thing any of us would want is for the quality of care to be compromised, whether through reduced resources, inadequate equipment, or insufficient compensation for staff. It’s imperative that, in making childcare accessible, we ensure the sustainability of the daycare sector so that the well-being of the children and the livelihoods of the employees are not jeopardized.”"
CTV News on X - "#BREAKING: Canada Post reports loss of $1.57 billion in 2025"
Jason YYC on X - "ITS. NOT. A. BUSINESS ITS A SERVICE!!!!!!"
lntuitl0n 🇨🇦 on X - "I fear that Canada post *is* a business - it’s a Crown Corporation that, by law, does not receive regular federal funding and is mandated to be financially self-sustaining. It’s not a mistake to report that it’s operating at a loss"
The Council of Canadians | Facebook - "Canada Post isn't ending door to door delivery to save money. They are cancelling a public service so that a billionaire-backed private company can take over the very lucrative door to door delivery business—which is in higher demand than ever before. To make Canada Post solvent and improve a vital public service, the federal government only has to do one thing: pass legislation to force delivery companies to apply minimal labour standards, environmental regulations, and service standards. But instead, door to door delivery is being handed over to a private company with Liberal ties… that Canada Post helped create! The following helps explain why Mark Carney declared Canada Post "not viable.""
Left wing logic: since Canada Post cannot compete, instead of reforming it so that it can compete, we should cripple competitors instead. Not to mention the usual conspiracy theory about letting "billionaires" profit. But then, these people don't know the difference between door-to-door parcel and door-to-door letter mail delivery, so it's no surprise they don't understand anything else. Unsurprisingly, neither the Facebook post nor the linked article mention the 2025 Kaplan Commission, the 2024 Report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates or the 2016 Canada Post Review Task Force, which all had similar conclusions about Canada Post's financial sustainability
The comments were hilarious. Apparently seniors will die if they don't get their mail at their house instead of a community mailbox (weird how they don't starve to death since apparently they're unable to leave the house). And Canada Post lost $1.57 billion in 2025 because of "13 lifetime appointed VPs thanks to Harper" (the CEO earns $500-600k a year, so even if all 13 earned as much as him, firing all 13 of them and not replacing them would save at most $8 million a year). And that Canada Post should not be a business because it's a service like the military, so the taxpayer needs to subsidise them indefinitely for an indefinite sum of money because unions are good and people should be paid "liveable wages"
Canadians ignore slow economic growth at their peril - " I recently attended a screening by the Montreal Economic Institute of the film “L’Illusion tranquille” — or “The Quiet Illusion,” word-play on the “Quiet Revolution,” the usual term for the transformation of Quebec’s governance in the 1960s. What’s the illusion? Though Quebec views itself as not just distinct but also a model for others to emulate, the reality is its average income lags that of most other states and provinces. Some model! A particularly striking statistic cited in the documentary is Quebec’s ranking near the bottom of GDP per capita among the 60 states and provinces of North America. This is reflected in UQAM Professor Pierre Fortin’s calculation that GDP per capita in neighbouring New York state — $87,000 in 2018 — was almost twice as high as Quebec’s $48,000. (Both numbers are in U.S. dollars at “purchasing power parity.”) When the film’s audience was asked for its post-screening reaction, one comment was that it seemed overly pessimistic. On the contrary, the documentary arguably does not capture the speed at which the U.S. has been pulling away from Canada over the past couple of years in the race to develop and deploy innovative new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence... Canada’s shrinking stature on the international stage was epitomized by recent comments by Bloomberg Surveillance’s co-hosts Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowitz. Their recent interview with Invesco’s Matt Brill (about 90 minutes into the program) focused on Alphabet’s raising funds on European and Canadian markets after tapping the U.S. market three times earlier this year in its apparently insatiable need to fund its investments. Ferro laughingly derided Alphabet’s raising $8.5 billion in the Canadian market as the corporate equivalent of looking for nickels and dimes “under the couch cushions.” Ridicule of Canada’s trivial role in the financial world must be particularly galling for Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, which specializes in corporate deals. The contrast between the United States and Canada couldn’t be more striking. South of the border, technology firms are spending every dollar they can raise. Here firms remain reluctant to invest even with soaring prices for commodities such as minerals and oil. Given the widening gap in investment trends between the two countries, the difference in per capita incomes will only continue to grow. The resulting incentive for our most talented young people to move to the U.S. threatens our future prosperity and sovereignty. In the words of Evsey Domar, author of a seminal 1946 paper on economic growth, “When an aggressive part of the world is strong and quite successfully committed to rapid growth, the other can disregard this objective only if it is tired of its own existence as a society.”"

Links - 4th June 2026 (3 [including Induced Demand])

2026-06-04T21:31:00.000+08:00

Study: Induced Demand Works for Bikes and Transit, too
Left wing doublethink is that induced demand for roads means you shouldn't build roads because there's no point, but induced demand for bikes and public transit are good and means you should promote them even more. They just hate cars and roads
London congestion charge rises to £11.50 a day - "Sue Terpilowski, the group's London Policy Chairman, said: "Congestion has risen back to pre-2003 levels and it is clear that the scheme is not fit for purpose."
From 2014. Left wing logic: there was no point introducing the congestion charge since traffic returned to pre-congestion charge levels
Toronto traffic doesn’t just seem worse, it is worse – and data shows these major bottlenecks are to blame - The Globe and Mail - "While people living in the Greater Toronto Area have long complained about gridlock, data compiled for The Globe and Mail by traffic analytics firm INRIX shows that the problem is truly getting worse, with traffic surpassing pre-pandemic levels and skyrocketing since the peak of COVID lockdowns, despite traffic volumes remaining relatively flat. Instead, bottlenecks have converged around major construction projects, suggesting that road capacity rather than demand is a bigger part of the problem... A July study commissioned by the Toronto Region Board of Trade showed that 42 per cent of GTA and Hamilton residents said they avoid shopping, going out for entertainment and events because of congestion while 38 per cent refrained from dining out. Giles Gherson, the board’s chief executive officer, said the study also revealed that more than half of residents considered relocating outside the region because of traffic. The same study pegged the price of congestion in Toronto at $11-billion in lost productivity and opportunity cost per year. As Mr. Gherson sees it, traffic is fundamentally undermining Toronto’s business competitiveness."
If the myths left wingers believe about induced demand are right, reducing roads shouldn't worsen congestion (that is also the implied logic when they claim bike lanes, bus rapid transit lanes etc won't worsen traffic). Yet...
Induced Demand Debunked - "Which type of infrastructure should government invest in: transit almost nobody will use, or lanes everybody will use? Induced demand is a false argument. Nobody says “don’t build a new airport terminal or runway – it will just fill up with new flights” or “don’t build a new port terminal – it will just fill up with ships” (🙄 eye roll)"
What does "induced demand" really amount to? - "One of my resolutions for the new year is to encourage people in the pro-housing community to spend less time engaging with the bizarre arguments of Marxist geographers and other hard-left NIMBYs and more time addressing normie concerns about a world of housing abundance. And the biggest, most important thing on that list is traffic... the overall volume of traffic would increase if our neighborhood was upzoned... the downside of more traffic is actually relatively small compared to the benefits of a more economically dynamic city. People don’t like traffic jams, but they don’t like high taxes or high levels of homelessness either. But the traffic issue is worth tackling on its own terms both because it’s a problem in the cities we already have and because fear of traffic is a major impediment to building the cities we should have. The New York Times recently did a big feature grounded in induced demand theory headlined “Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It?” which skirted around the kind of obvious answer that we do it because it lets more people drive to more places. In other words, I think the idea of induced demand is just somewhat less paradoxical than people make it out to be. Consider the traffic impact of a mass transit project rather than highway widening... “Ambitious Mass Transit Projects Don’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing Them?” New York City has by far the biggest and most robust mass transit system in the country, but that hasn’t ended road congestion. And yet I think it’s obvious that a high-ridership extension of the Purple Line wouldn’t be a policy failure even if, via the induced demand mechanism, it didn’t end up impacting traffic congestion. The success would be that more people get to go more places. Some of those extra people would be metro riders and some would be drivers, but the point is that region-wide mobility would be improved. By the same token, the existence of serious traffic congestion problems in New York doesn’t show that the New York City Subway, NJ Transit, Metro-North, and the LIRR are all pointless. They’re vital to the existence of the region — without them, the whole metro area would be smaller and poorer."
Opinion: Induced Travel Demand Induces Media Attention - "While the theory of induced demand is sound, leaving the impression that induced demand will fully absorb the capacity of new roadway investments or that new demand is somehow bad is very misleading. Most new demand on expanded roads comes from new population, new employment and economic activity (some or all of which may have been attracted by enhanced transportation infrastructure), traffic rerouted from neighborhood streets or congested roads, or travel that has shifted in time to the benefit of the traveling public now that more capacity is available to undertake activities during desired travel times. Second, today’s induced demand is likely well below historically estimated levels. Measures of induced demand—and there are many with different definitions and data sources—are based on old empirical data from the last century or very early this century, when travel per person was growing at a few percentage points per year as household incomes, labor force participation, auto availability, and economic activity grew. Since approximately 2005, U.S. vehicle travel per person has not grown and the amount of travel on roads with newly increased capacity attributable to additional or longer induced trips is likely modest. The National Household Travel Survey documents declining trip rates as telework, e-commerce, and other communications substitution opportunities further dampen travel demand growth pressures, particularly for urban households. If travel expanded to fill all capacity, we would not have any low-volume highways. More importantly, characterizing induced travel as bad or wasted is a misrepresentation of the value that people derive from engaging in travel. It’s not just wealthy folks making superfluous trips. Residents having access to better jobs or businesses with better selection and lower prices isn’t bad. Businesses having access to a bigger labor pool and potential customer and supplier bases because people can travel farther in a tolerable amount of time isn’t bad. Making supply chains work better isn’t bad. Getting emergency vehicles where they need to go faster isn’t bad. Pulling cut-through traffic out of neighborhoods to travel on a safer highway facility isn’t bad. Having more direct and less congested—and thus environmentally greener—trips isn’t bad. Enabling parents to get home and share a meal with the family isn’t bad. Using transportation infrastructure to shape development or improve economic competitiveness isn’t bad. Being able to engage in social interactions and recreational activities isn’t bad, and contributes positively to physical and mental health... Multiple congressional legislative cycles, successive executive administrations, all states, and hundreds of local and regional transportation agencies have mission statements and goals for their transportation programs that aspire to improve mobility for people and goods. Mobility is widely recognized as critical to economic competitiveness, productivity, upward mobility, and quality of life. Recognizing the importance of mobility, cities are now making extraordinary efforts to ensure mobility for all segments of the population... Congestion is an onerous time tax that does not discriminate. It undermines mobility for rich and poor, able-bodied and impaired, and travelers of all races and ethnicities. It impacts people, businesses, and public services. The impacts of failing to provide needed capacity are not restricted to affluent folks making unnecessary trips; in fact, low-income workers can be severely impacted by congestion delays and travel time unreliability. Overplaying induced demand arguments as a pretext for discouraging roadway expansion or presuming travel demand can be accommodated by investing in alternative modes can be disingenuous and ill-informed. The presumption that directing resources to transit, bike, or pedestrian options can meet the mobility needs of all people and goods seldom works out as a real solution that is financially sustainable, environmentally superior, or offers comparable mobility, accessibility, or other benefits... The premise that new roadway capacity induces traffic, if applied consistently within transportation systems analysis, means that any initiative that attracts travelers to an alternative mode or otherwise reduces roadway travel simultaneously induces replacement travel due to the now available roadway capacity. For example, the analysis of a new transit project would need to debit the energy, emissions, noise, safety, and other benefits attributed to transit by the impacts of the induced roadway traffic. An objective analysis of transportation requires consistent treatment of induced travel across modes and projects. This requires a rich understanding of induced demand, including the impact of context-specific variables and how they may influence induced demand for a specific set of demographic, economic, geographic, and other conditions. Much of the reporting on induced demand gives the impression that the transportation planning community is oblivious to this phenomenon or is comprised of road-building zealots. Newer activity-based transportation models are designed such that activity generation (trip generation) is sensitive to travel times. Consequently, improvements in travel speed will contribute to predictions of increased trip-making and travel distance. Even without the newest models, scenario testing and careful analysis of changes in demographics, mode choices, and flow volumes and patterns can give insight into the nature of demand on new facilities. Planners must also consider that new roadway infrastructure planned or built today is destined to spend most of its useful life supporting the conveyance of electrically propelled and sustainably powered vehicles. Perhaps more importantly, roadway infrastructure built now can be configured and equipped with technologies to support the operation of freight vehicles, priced lanes, public transit services, automated vehicle lanes, or various combinations of vehicles to enable the productive use of the roadway. As planners explore the need for new capacity, they need to value mobility just as they try to understand and mitigate its impacts. Mobility should not come at any cost, but neither should its value be discounted."
Like, not one photo, video or documentary or anything, I had to visit the city just to be jumpscared by it : r/lotrmemes - [On Egypt] "It's a nation of scammers, very off-putting. And I've been in many poorer countries, so it's not that. Examples: Kids pick up rocks off the ground and try to sell them. Nobody buys. Kids proceed to throw the rocks at the tourist bus. Cops force themselves into a photo and then demand money for it. Airport security says the bathroom is closed and basically forces you to one far from others where you're kept hostage until you pay for the "service". No place is safe from the scamming, not even the resorts, they get in through the beach to give you an unsolicited massage or harass women in the water. Been there twice, beautiful history but fuck that place."
MAZE on X - "March, 2016. Hillary laughs at the thought of Trump beating her. Almost a decade later and she’s still can’t even turn on replies on her social media posts"
3 Ways to Find a Partner You Click With If You Have Dating App Fatigue - "Today's dating apps are marketed to help you find a compatible partner. According to a psychology researcher, it's practically useless for actually finding one, no matter how similar your interests, lifestyles, or political views are. "It's mostly a waste of time," Dr. Paul Eastwick, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, and the author of "Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection," told Business Insider. While it can feel productive to filter out prospective partners, Eastwick said attraction is "going to be more or less a dart throw" when you actually meet the person on the other end. It's because many of us look at compatibility the wrong way, he said, focusing on broad personality traits like "adventurous" or "funny." That thinking often leads us astray because there's no way to know whether the person, with our laundry list of dream qualities, will actually make us feel supported in the way we need. "Compatibility is a construction process rather than an initial attraction process," Eastwick said. Rather than falling into relationships that fit us perfectly, the happiest couples find someone they really like, focus on their similarities, and build a compatible relationship over time. "It's a very complicated thing to do," he added...
If you're on the fence, commit to three dates...
Statistically, the chances that you'll feel an immediate spark on that first date are slim. According to his own research, Eastwick said most people in long-term relationships felt "middling" in their first impressions of their partners... Join groups for slow-burn connections
Count the green flags, not the red"
Do Hinge, Tinder Work? What Dating Apps Get Wrong About Compatibility - Bloomberg - "Dating apps are particularly ill-equipped to account for these intangibles. In today’s love market, the apps are by far the most common way two singles meet. But they prioritize obvious good looks and, often, gender stereotypes. On Tinder, Bumble, Hinge and Grindr, users can screen for attributes and “dealbreakers.” What you think you want is paramount, just as it was in those early survey-driven studies. On the apps this is particularly pronounced for women. While men swipe right on about 50% of their prospects, women cull 95% of their pool from first impressions, making them almost twice as picky online as they would be in real life. None of this is natural. Human mating involves a longer process of evaluation than that of other pair-bonded species, like, say, prairie voles. Humans evolved to find love in person, to feel that ineffable, infuriatingly rare “chemistry” when they connect. This applies to friends as well as lovers, which helps explain why many lasting partnerships grow out of friendships. If you’ve ever wondered why dating in New York is a nightmare, whereas your friends in rural Wyoming always seem to have nice boyfriends, the answer is evolution. Early humans were somewhat restricted transportation-wise, and evolved to find love in much smaller groups than today’s modern cities — with far fewer available options. “Limited sets of choices heighten the stakes — both the risks and the rewards — by taking hypothetical perfection off the table and forcing people to take a second or third look at a person,” Eastwick writes. Dating apps have been positive in many ways. They increase access to singles outside your class and have increased safety for communities where finding love was historically more perilous. But they also create an illusion of infinite, often paralyzing, possibility. When a potentially better mate is always a swipe away, humans experience choice overload... To seek love the way evolution intended, Eastwick romanticizes the pre-smartphone world, where you could get to know a potential match over time in a lower-stakes environment. He reminisces about an era when initial socializing between mates often happened in group settings rather than in “a tiny two-person bubble.” It’s a construct of modern dating that early interactions between two strangers tend to happen in isolation, versus a mutual friend’s dinner party. Most daters would agree. Eastwick’s research comes at an interesting time, when more and more singles are rebelling against the apps, finding them dissatisfying, shallow and fundamentally overwhelming. Although just 1% of heterosexual Americans say dating apps are the best way to find a partner, they overtook mutual friends as the most common way couples meet around 2013. The trouble is that the alternatives are unclear. Eastwick urges a return to mining social networks for potential dates, but the dominance of apps has eroded the role of these connections in the communal labor of making introductions. It’s easier to ask a single friend if they’re “on the apps” than to ask the guy in accounting if you can set him up with your roommate. Long a social activity, the onus of dating is now squarely on the singleton — one reason apps can charge such high rates for their services. It’s also far easier to casually dismiss a stranger on an app than someone in your social orbit."
KTLA on X - "Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has withdrawn from a televised L.A. mayoral candidate forum scheduled for May 13, according to a statement released Friday by the League of Women Voters of Greater Los Angeles and the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs."
Covfefe Anon on X - "Given enough time every member of the "smart, technocratic" party reinvents the strategy of "don't ever speak to anyone outside the bubble" to avoid getting utterly humiliated"
Her refusing to participate is proof of misogynoir!
New York Post on X - "LA mayoral debate in tatters as Nithya Raman joins Karen Bass in suddenly pulling out at last minute"
Seneca Scott on X - "Soggies cannot debate because their arguments collapse under the weight of their own contradictions. They depend on the media to manufacture consent for destructive policies, while using emotional blackmail and mob intimidation to silence dissent. Every disagreement becomes heresy. Every critic becomes immoral. Every failure is repackaged as virtue. And when the illusion finally begins to crack, when people stop applauding and start asking questions, they simply refuse to show up at all."
abby govindan on X - "i dont mind mosquitos sucking my blood (i have plenty to go around) what annoys me is the need to inject the itch juice into my skin....like im already feeding you why are you being such a bitch. imagine if i slapped my mom every time she made me dinner."
Matt on X - "It's not itch juice, it's regular juice! It's just a little anticoagulant, but your body evolved an itchy reaction to it because a few bad apples were spreading malaria and whatever. Anyway if you're itchy take it up with your ancestors. Sincerely, the mosquitos."
Humor Huddle - "The account was from the Edinburgh Evening News of August 18, 1978...
While they were waiting at a bus stop in Clerimston, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thirsty were threatened by Mr. Robert Clear. “He demanded that I give him my wife’s purse,” said Mr. Thirsty. ‘Telling him that the purse was in her basket, I bent down, put my hands up her skirt, detached her artificial leg and hit him over the head with it. It was not my intention to do any more than frighten him off but, unhappily for us all, he died.”...
Dwarfing all known records for matrimonial homicide, Mr. Peter Scott of Southsea made seven attempts to kill his wife without her once noticing that anything was wrong. In 1980 he took out an insurance policy on his good lady which would bring him £250,000 in the event of her accidental death. Soon afterwards, he placed a lethal dose of mercury in her strawberry flan, but it all rolled out. Not wishin: to waste this deadly substance he next stuffed tier mackerel with the entire contents of the bottle. This time she ate it, but with no side effects whatsoever. Warming to the task, he then took his better half on holiday to Yugoslavia. Recommending the panoramic views, he invited her to sit on the edge of a cliff. She declined to do so, prompted by what she later described as some ‘sixth sense.’ The same occurred only weeks later when he urged her to savour the view from Beachy Head. When his spouse was in bed with chicken-pox he started a fire outside her bedroom door, but some interfering busybody put it out. Undeterred, he started another fire and burnt down the entire flat. The wife of his bosom escaped uninjured. Another time he asked her to stand in the middle of the road so that he could drive towards her and check if his brakes were working. At no time did Mrs. Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage. Since it appeared nothing short of a small nuclear bomb would have alerted this good woman to her husband’s intentions, he eventually gave up and confessed everything to the police. After the case a detective said Mrs. Scott had been “absolutely shattered” when told of her husband’s plot to kill her. “She had not twigged it at all and was dumbstruck.”"
Danish women to face conscription by lottery - "Danish women now face being called up for 11 months of military service when they turn 18, after a change in the law came into effect. Under new rules passed by Denmark's parliament, women are to join teenage males in a lottery system that could require them to undertake a period of conscription. The change was brought in as Nato countries boost defence spending amid heightened security concerns in Europe. Up to now, women were allowed to participate in military service when they turned 18, but on a voluntary basis... The change will also see the period of conscription for teenagers rise from four months to 11 months. About 4,700 Danish men and women undertook a short period of military service in 2024 – about 24% of them being female volunteers. The new rules on conscription are expected to see the overall number doing military service annually rise to 6,500 by 2033. Denmark is following the example of neighbouring Sweden and Norway, which both brought in conscription for women in recent years."
Most People Don’t Have a ‘Type’ - The Atlantic - "Many people think that they have a set type, and that all they need for eternal bliss is to find someone who matches it. When people peruse dating profiles, they’re often looking for someone who has specific interests, qualities, or hobbies. But according to a growing body of relationship research, many people end up marrying someone with few of their must-haves and a lot of “haves” they didn’t think they desired. A person might say that they’re looking for a partner who’s funny and conscientious, but then end up in a happy relationship with someone who is neither of those things. “People don’t know what they want,” Samantha Joel, a psychologist at Western University in Ontario who studies relationships, told me, “and people don’t know what they’re going to like until they meet someone.” Across many studies, people’s stated preferences don’t align well with the traits that incite their fondness for someone in real life. In a 2020 study, the UC Davis psychologist Paul Eastwick and his colleagues asked participants to list some ideal characteristics they wanted in a partner, and then sent them on a blind date. The researchers later asked the participants how closely the person they went out with had reflected both their own ideals and a list of someone else’s. People turned out to be just as romantically interested in a date who met the other person’s must-haves as they were in a date who met all of their own... This is where apps can fall short in terms of quality matchmaking. As Eastwick writes in his new book, Bonded by Evolution, compatibility can’t be determined by a dating profile; it has to be “curated, cultivated, and constructed”—usually as the relationship unfolds. Even some “deal-breakers” may not end up breaking the deal. In one study by Joel, researchers told subjects that a hypothetical romantic partner had a trait that they said they wanted to avoid—poor hygiene, say, or anger issues—and many people said that they would continue to date the prospect anyway. Joel said that this inclination would likely be even stronger “in the context of a real relationship, where there’s feelings involved.” That said, shared values do seem to matter to people: A 2020 report found that only 3 percent of American adults were married to someone from the opposite political party, for instance. Eastwick says that this happens because so many people either immediately screen out or simply never interact with a potential date who has opposing values—a hard-core Democrat might live in a neighborhood populated mostly with other Democrats, for example, or swipe left on all Republicans on Tinder. But if two people get together not knowing that they’re political opposites and the relationship takes off for other reasons, they might compartmentalize their differences or move closer to each other’s ideology. (“He’s probably going to become a libertarian,” Eastwick said, referring to the hypothetical Republican.) Physical attraction matters, too—far more than most people realize, according to the researchers I spoke with... If two people in a relationship are lucky, infatuation will set in: an obsessionlike mental state in which you find yourself thinking about the person a lot, noticing them, and wanting to be physically close to them. Once that initial spark ignites, motivated reasoning—essentially, seeing what you want to see—takes over. Joel theorized that people are prone to a “progression bias” in relationships: They are more inclined to encourage a relationship to continue than they are to dissolve it. Merely spending time together makes people become more invested in making a relationship work. “Once you like someone,” Joel said, “you want to see the best in them.”... This kind of self-delusion is a good thing. Everyone, to some extent, grades their romantic partner on a curve, and relationships in which partners are especially inclined to do this may be particularly strong. In one study that Eastwick cites in his book, the longest-lasting relationships were the ones in which people justified their partner’s faults with “yes, but” statements such as “She is messy, but I wouldn’t ask her to give up her free-spirited ways for anything.” The problem is: The way people actually become attracted to each other can be hard to predict, Joel said. Not even scientists who have dedicated their life to studying chemistry can totally pin down its essence... All of this might help explain why many people who use dating apps struggle to find a long-term partner. With their emphasis on photos and profiles, Eastwick writes, “apps cater to our ideas about what we like much better than they cater to what we actually like.” Chemistry grows, and love is built on shared experiences and memories, but the apps tend to keep people trapped in small talk. Many users find themselves swiping endlessly without ever meeting up with someone. What’s more, Eastwick told me, apps can encourage people to judge their dates too quickly—and perhaps move on prematurely... The better way to find love, Eastwick suggested, is to get to know romantic prospects in person, over time. “Compatibility,” he said, “is about what you’re able to create together.” He recommended building deep friendship networks—both because those friends can introduce you to singles they know and because some of them might become romantic partners. But regardless of how you meet people, the crucial pieces are: Find someone you think is reasonably attractive and then hang out with them at least three times, doing things together that will inspire deep, connection-building interactions (such as playing a conversation card game and maybe answering the “36 Questions That Lead to Love” from that old New York Times essay)."
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete Here’s what’s next. - The Atlantic - "The scientific paper—the actual form of it—was one of the enabling inventions of modernity. Before it was developed in the 1600s, results were communicated privately in letters, ephemerally in lectures, or all at once in books. There was no public forum for incremental advances. By making room for reports of single experiments or minor technical advances, journals made the chaos of science accretive. Scientists from that point forward became like the social insects: They made their progress steadily, as a buzzing mass. The earliest papers were in some ways more readable than papers are today. They were less specialized, more direct, shorter, and far less formal. Calculus had only just been invented. Entire data sets could fit in a table on a single page. What little “computation” contributed to the results was done by hand and could be verified in the same way. The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs that generate data, and clean up data, and plot data, and run statistical models on data. These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually discovered, clearly enough that someone else can discover it for themselves. Perhaps the paper itself is to blame. Scientific methods evolve now at the speed of software; the skill most in demand among physicists, biologists, chemists, geologists, even anthropologists and research psychologists, is facility with programming languages and “data science” packages. And yet the basic means of communicating scientific results hasn’t changed for 400 years. Papers may be posted online, but they’re still text and pictures on a page. What would you get if you designed the scientific paper from scratch today?... After Gutenberg, the printing press was mostly used to mimic the calligraphy in bibles. It took nearly 100 years of technical and conceptual improvements to invent the modern book. “There was this entire period where they had the new technology of printing, but they were just using it to emulate the old media.”... Software is a dynamic medium; paper isn’t. When you think in those terms it does seem strange that research like Strogatz’s, the study of dynamical systems, is so often being shared on paper, without the benefit of his little swirling dots—because it’s the swirling dots that helped him to see what he saw, and that might help the reader see it too. This is, of course, the whole problem of scientific communication in a nutshell: Scientific results today are as often as not found with the help of computers. That’s because the ideas are complex, dynamic, hard to grab ahold of in your mind’s eye. And yet by far the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF—literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better."
This reads like an ad for Wolfram Mathematica

How ‘The New York Times’ Laundered a Conspiracy (Israeli Dog Rape)

2026-06-04T18:26:00.000+08:00

Time to ban the Daily Mail and Fox News for spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation
I still see terrorism supporters claim that October 7th was Israel executing the Hannibal Directive, so definitely people still deny it happened
How ‘The New York Times’ Laundered a Conspiracy
Matti Friedman and Dan Senor on how Nicholas Kristof’s ‘New York Times’ column reflects a press corps that increasingly sees activism as its core mission.
On Monday, The New York Times published an opinion column by Nicholas Kristof titled “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” In it, Kristof recounts allegations of sexual abuse against Palestinians committed by Israeli soldiers, prison guards, and interrogators. The column swiftly provoked a firestorm, as many of its claims were revealed to be misleading, unverified, or demonstrably false. (For more on this, read Eli Lake’s “Nick Kristof’s ‘Dog Torture’ Claim About Israel Doesn’t Pass Muster,” and Haviv Rettig Gur’s “The Paper Trail of Nicholas Kristof’s Smear.”)
But how does a piece like this end up in The New York Times in the first place? That’s the question Free Press columnist Matti Friedman explores in a recent interview with Dan Senor on the Call Me Back podcast. According to Friedman, the column reflects a broader shift in modern journalism: a media culture that, in his view, has traded its credibility to become “a weapon in the fight for justice.” It’s an essential critique—which is why we’re publishing a transcript of their conversation, edited for length and clarity.
—The Editors
Dan Senor: I want to start by going through the main claims that Nicholas Kristof makes in his New York Times piece. What are these claims? Which ones are lies? Which are unfalsifiable? And which may have legs?
Matti Friedman: Kristof gives us a list of terrible abuses that he claims were directed at Palestinian detainees. He says he spoke to 14 people, most of whom are not named, and some of the material is sourced from anti-Israel NGOs. He does not seem to know the identities of some of the people he’s describing. He describes male detainees being raped with objects, a female detainee being raped over the space of two days in an Israeli prison, and sexual assault of another female detainee by Israeli guards. He describes one incident of sexual assault by a settler—not by a uniformed soldier, but an Israeli civilian in the West Bank. That one, as far as I know, is accurate, much to our shame. And the incident receiving the most of the attention is Kristof’s description of a sexual assault perpetrated against a Palestinian prisoner using a dog.
When you read the piece, you have to use your own compass to decide which charges could plausibly be true and which charges come from the world of conspiratorial, anti-Israel fantasy. I think there is a plausible reason for concern about sexual assaults of prisoners. I don’t think we can dismiss every account of sexual assaults against Palestinian detainees.
But the piece kind of goes off the deep end by being credulous about charges that are much, much harder to believe. After all, the facilities are equipped with cameras. There are commanders, there are lawyers. A much more effective piece would have stuck to what is plausibly true, but that would have been less viral.
DS: For those who haven’t read the piece, Kristof charges that Israeli authorities have trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.
MF: The writer is staking his credibility on that anecdote, which really comes from the world of the darkest conspiracies. There are multiple anti-Israel conspiracies that involve animals. This is one subcategory, and it’s been floating around for quite a while.
It’s kind of like drug use, in that you need to constantly up the dosage. So, if you once could say Israel is an apartheid state and that got people agitated, at some point it stops delivering the same effect. So you start saying that Israel’s a genocidal state.
The dog charge has been floating around. It’s been ignored by mainstream press outlets until now, for good reason. But this article shows that the walls between the world of conspiracies and the world of the mainstream press have largely come down. Kristof has dismantled the wall between the insane stuff floating around online and the world of legacy media.
DS: You spent years inside the Associated Press bureau in Jerusalem. You know how sources are used, how the editorial decision-making works, and what the checks are on a reporter. Walk me through how a piece like this gets through.
MF: I was a correspondent for the AP from 2006 to 2011, and one thing that often isn’t clear to readers is the role NGOs play in creating the reporting readers actually see. The press corps is much weaker than it used to be—smaller staff, less experienced reporters, poor pay—and the demands of the 24-hour news cycle are much greater.
Into the vacuum created by that change come political NGOs, who have a lot of money and an interest in swaying coverage in their direction. When I was at the AP, I saw this happen. Big NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as smaller ones operating around this conflict, were mostly funded by European governments and progressive foundations. They became, essentially, the source of information for reporters. Human Rights Watch, for example, would come out with a report, and the AP would write it up as news.
When I read Kristof’s article, I saw this machinery right away. Kristof was handed a package by NGOs. He mentions Euro-Med [Human Rights Monitor], which has proven ties to Hamas and has openly claimed that Israel is using weapons to “vaporize” Palestinians and that Israel is harvesting organs. Relying on Euro-Med is a bit of a stretch even for the world of the mainstream press. Kristof also mentions an anti-Israel activist named Sari Bashi, who is based in Ramallah. So local activists handed him the story, introduced him to his sources, and fed him the inflammatory, unverifiable material.
DS: As you say, Euro-Med—which has been flagged for ties to Hamas—is cited multiple times. How does a group like that become a primary source for the most influential newspaper in the world? How does it slip through the Times’ fact-checking process?
MF: It’s important to understand that the adults who were there 10 or 20 years ago are largely gone. The Times op-ed section once had an excellent journalist running it—James Bennet—who was pushed out in 2020 after a mob uprising over a conservative senator’s op-ed. So the show is now being run by activists. Things that would not have been journalistically viable 10 years ago now sail through, because much of the press has come to consider itself a weapon in the fight for justice.
So when Euro-Med comes to a guy like Kristof, it’s plausible that he sees information that helps him make the point that he wants to make, and decides not to look into it. If the Israeli government came to him with information that seemed equally hard to believe, he would vet it 100 times, and the New York Times’ fact-checkers would go over it with a fine-tooth comb. But because we’re working with a pretty obvious ideological script, this stuff gets in. There is a very large, very well-funded ideological campaign against Israel, and it’s being waged through dozens of NGOs. It’s being waged by arms of the United Nations. It’s being waged by parts of the academy and parts of the press, which have become activist in nature.
DS: Several reporters in the news section of The New York Times told me that this piece—which was published on the opinion page—would never have made it through the news process. Can you explain the difference between something on the opinion page and the news page?
MF: I don’t really buy the distinction between the opinion section and the news section. The news section of The New York Times reported early in the war that Israel had hit a hospital in Gaza and killed more than 500 people. In reality, a misfired rocket from Gaza had exploded outside the hospital, killing a much smaller number of people. That’s just one example of many.
My experience is that much of what is presented as news coverage is kind of passive-aggressive opinion. So instead of saying, “I think,” you have to write, “experts say.” Nicholas Kristof is honest enough to present this piece as opinion, but I don’t see much difference.
DS: In your piece in The Atlantic in 2014, you wrote, “The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it.” Twelve years later, The New York Times runs this piece in which Kristof himself writes, “There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes,” and “It’s impossible to know how common sexual assaults against Palestinians are.” And yet he still concludes that sexual violence is standard operating procedure in Israel.
MF: I’m not saying I’m happy to be right about this, but the trends that I wrote about in 2014 are not only still relevant—they’ve been supercharged. The Times piece is an extreme example of a problem that I’ve been noticing for a long time. There are too many people inside legacy institutions who have a vision of journalism that does not include trying to understand what’s going on in very complicated corners of the world. It doesn’t include trying to grasp context, and it certainly doesn’t include rigorous confirmation of information before publication. All of these things are now seen as barriers to truth and justice. And by making that leap, these institutions have really committed suicide.
In the world of disinformation and social media, these institutions could have been islands of sanity. Instead, my colleagues decided that they didn’t want to cover the circus—they wanted to be in it.
DS: On the same day that Kristof’s column ran, The New York Times was allegedly sitting on the most comprehensive report ever assembled on Hamas’s sexual crimes on October 7. It is called the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, and it consists of 300 pages, 10,000 photographs, and 400 testimonies. Most of the content comes from actual Hamas videos and photographs. The report ran on CNN and in the Israeli media, but The New York Times published nothing on it until some 24 hours after Kristof’s column was published. How do you explain the timing?
MF: The timing seems unlikely to be coincidental. I don’t know exactly what the Times had and when they had it, but I think it’s safe to assume that Times staff had the report, which was distributed in advance.
I should say, the report doesn’t excuse everything that Israel has done since October 7. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t investigate credible allegations of sexual assault. I remain concerned about the people in charge of detention facilities and law enforcement in Israel. I do not have complete faith that the right people are running this, to be honest, or that we’re pursuing every allegation of misdeeds by our own soldiers.
At the same time, Kristof is very clear about the motivation behind his piece. He repeats several times that these allegations of sexual assault against Israel are meant to even out the allegations of sexual assault and rape against Hamas. Or, in his words, “Think of it this way. The horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on October 7 now happens to Palestinians day after day.” So he’s saying: Not only is what I’m writing all true, but it actually balances out the charges of, or the descriptions of, mass sexual assault and rape that we saw on October 7.
I recently had the opportunity to write an essay in The Free Press about new books coming out about the Gaza war, and I described how these books very explicitly do two things: They try to downplay October 7, and they make the case that Israel is so bad that October 7 was justified. These charges don’t make sense once you look at them. But they’re not meant to describe reality, just as Kristof’s essay is not meant to describe reality. It’s meant as an ideological weapon to enable the war against Israel.
DS: What he’s basically saying is Hamas is a sick, depraved society, and now we know Israel is a sick, depraved society. Isn’t it a shame that both societies are so broken and deviant and barbaric? It is the quintessence of moral equivalence.
MF: That’s the way of dealing with October 7. The anti-Israel campaign is vast. Billions of people see it as a priority to rid the world of Israel. October 7 poses a problem for those people, particularly in the West, because it was so obviously heinous and couldn’t be covered up easily. And when people can’t deny that it happened, the only other option is to make an argument that the Israelis deserved it, or that there’s no real difference between Israel and Hamas. I’m not sure how much Kristof understands about the use that’s being made of him. But he’s participating in a political campaign whose goals are obvious.
DS: You’ve explained the cost of this kind of work to journalism. What do you think the cost is to Israel?
MF: Israelis have come to realize that much of the criticism coming at them is not designed to make Israeli society better; it’s designed to make Israeli society go away.
It would be nice to be able to trust The New York Times. If there was an accurate exposé on human rights abuses in Israeli prisons, it would be good for Israelis to see that and say, This is real. This is something we need to take seriously. But we can’t, because the information has become ideological.
Even worse, the Israeli organizations that were created to police human rights in Israel—organizations like B’Tselem, or Breaking the Silence—have been co-opted by the international anti-Israel campaign. Today, despite being staffed by Israelis, they’re funded almost completely from abroad, and have effectively become franchises of the international left.
We need, as Israelis, to be able to have a discussion about the moral quality of our military and our detention facilities and the way we prosecute this war. We need to be able to have this discussion without cooperating with the forces trying to destroy the country. It is very hard to do that. And this reality ends up serving the people in Israeli politics who have no interest in human rights, like National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and others in the ruling party.
This has neutralized human rights discourse inside Israel at a moment when we really need it. One of the main challenges for us in this moment is preserving our soul and our morality and our moral compass amid this war. That would be much easier if we had trusted organizations that spoke to us in a language that we could understand and trust. And we don’t have that, in large part, because of the ferocious nature of the anti-Israel campaign.
DS: One of the members of our team recently wrote: “The hard part is that even if the worst claims in the piece are distorted or false, that doesn’t make the real failures”—meaning in the Israeli prison system—“any less painful.” I think that sentiment is shared by many in Israel and in the diaspora. What do you say to those listening who are concerned about problems in the Israeli prison system, but don’t know what or who to believe?
MF: We need to be able to have a discussion about Israel’s very real problems without playing into the hands of people trying to destroy the country. I always try to ask: Is this person trying to make Israel better, or make Israel go away? If the discussion is about how to make Israel go away, I’m not interested in it. If the discussion is about how to make Israel a better country, a more moral country, a more successful country, a better place to live for Jewish citizens, for Muslim citizens, I’m very interested in having the discussion.
In some ways, it’s easier, in this regard, to be Israeli than to be a Jew in the diaspora. Israelis have a pretty loud discussion about the right way forward for Israel, because we know it’s about making the country better. But in the diaspora, Jews need to acknowledge that a lot of criticism is not being made in good faith, and a lot of the actors trying to push it are giving us information that is fictional.
At the same time, we have to be able to look at our prison system and our military and say we want our institutions to observe the highest standard, and we’re clearly failing. Terrible things are happening, as they are in the carceral systems in New York, or in Iraq. I wish Israel could say that we’re better than everyone else. I’m not sure that we can say that. We need to be able to address our own moral issues without participating in this kind of deranged discourse.
DS: Abuse happens in prison systems all over the world—that’s a conversation worth having. But that is not the conversation Kristof is having. When one responds to his framing by conceding ground on a different argument, one legitimizes what I think is blood libel.
MF: I agree. We need to be able to differentiate very clearly between two different discussions: One is how to make Israel better, the other is how to make Israel go away.
There is a very powerful, well-funded ideological campaign—which you might call anti-Zionism—waged across the Islamic world for a century and now increasingly through Western institutions: Columbia, Harvard, the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, the Times, the AP. We have to be able to name it as a campaign.
The wrong response to an essay like this is to say, “Well, this is true and this isn’t true.” The right response is to ask: Why does this exist, who’s driving it, and what effect it is having on our society?