Mandarin XXX Keyword Spam

I saw a Twitter account with a hilariously inappropriate name (not to mention a ridiculously long one) spamming replies, and decided to translate them (with some help), partly for the benefit of someone who doesn't understand Mandarin:

"幼女厕拍抄底顶臀街射足交偷窥迷奸足控恋足偷拍幼幼呦呦处女丝袜捡尸走光强奸反差|乱伦监控街拍主播
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The Twitter name is a collection of sex-related Mandarin terms:

幼女 = young girl(s)
厕拍 = footage taken in the toilet (i.e. spycam)
抄底 = upskirt
顶臀 = the act of repeatingly bumping one's hardon against a woman's butt, usually in public transportation eg crowded trains/buses
街射 = sexually harassing a female in public until ejaculation, most commonly by bumping a woman's butt, but not necessarily just that. Can also refer to pervs spreading their semen in public areas eg handrails
足交 = footjob
偷窥 = peeping
迷奸 = raping using drugs/drug facilitated sexual assault
足控 = foot fetish
恋足 = foot fetish (this term is influenced by the Japanese equivalent)
偷拍 = spyshot
幼幼 = young girl(s)
呦呦 = young girl(s)
处女 = female virgin
丝袜 = silk stalkings
捡尸 = sex with passed out women (drugs or drink) you find in public places (Usually outside clubs/nightlife places)
走光 = zaogeng (being exposed in public but often )
强奸 = rape
反差 = contrast. Quiet-seeming girl who is wild during sex
乱伦 = incest
监控 = surveillance (CCTV/indoor camera footage of sex)
街拍 = snapshots of women in the street. street photography. not obscene but just taking candid photos/videos of pretty women
主播 = traditionally used to refer to news anchors, but in today's atmosphere can refer to a Twitch streamer, SNS (Social Network Star, a Korean term), OF girl, etc etc. Youtube doesn't count, usually livestreaming but not necessarily sexual in nature eg can just be games

Links - 28th September 2024 (Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Bernard-Henri Lévy: ‘Today’s woke thinking is straight-forward racism’ - "when the 75-year-old French philosopher describes the scene at what was left of the Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel on October 10 last year, his face empties of all expression... “I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies in my life,” stresses the Algerian-born war reporter and documentary-maker, in reference to the many war-torn lands he has visited over the past 40 years – from Bosnia, where he highlighted the concentration camps, to Afghanistan, where he was a French envoy in the aftermath of the war; from Libya, where Lévy met the rebels fighting against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime to Syria, Kurdistan, Nigeria and Rwanda... for the past year, the “rockstar” philosopher has been living in an undisclosed location under very heavy police protection, after intelligence officials discovered that a unit of the Quds Force – the special operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – had paid an Iranian drug dealer $150,000 to assassinate Lévy, who has been critical of the country’s leadership... the writer makes a philosophical distinction between events and “an Event” like October 7, that, he tells me today “changes not just the future but the past. Because it throws a new light on past events that we thought we understood. With Events like these, there’s a realisation not just that things will never be the same again, but that things were not what we thought they were before.”... “Hours after the attack,” he explains, “there were not only the ‘yes buts’ but actual, veritable explosions of joy. Professors at US universities with huge online followings recorded and broadcast messages of absolute joy. This, when the bodies of the dead had not even all been buried.” “Rarely has negationism functioned so well and so quickly,” he writes in the book, pointing out that even many of those who did offer early support began to fall away within the ensuing weeks and months. Ask Lévy whether six months on from the book’s publication in France, he still believes Israel’s response has been just, and he doesn’t have to think about it for a second: “Yes. I still don’t think the response has been disproportionate. I have been back to Israel several times since last October. I have done my job as a journalist.” When filming the liberation of Mosul in 2016, he says, “I saw what indiscriminate hits looked like, what the desire to destroy a place from top to toe looks like and let me tell you: that is not what is happening in Gaza.” He also stands by the assertion, in the book, that Israel “has done everything to avoid civilian casualties”. “Listen, one can always do better. But I’ve been covering wars for 40 years, and it’s the first time in my life that I’ve ever seen an army open up a corridor every day between 6am and noon in order to warn civilians that they are going to hit an area where they are. The Israeli army is the first army in the world that I have seen say: ‘We’re going to hit here – please move.’ That I’ve seen distribute flyers warning people, calling to warn people. Now, I’m not saying that it’s not a living nightmare [for those people]. It is.”... Lévy has known the Israeli prime minister for 30 years, and always been honest with him, he assures me. “But I cannot let people say that the hits are indiscriminate and targeting civilians, because that is wrong. And I cannot allow it to be said that there has been a genocide,” he says, echoing the chants of the students he accuses, among others, of “moral blindness” in the book, “because that is wrong.” It’s no surprise that woke culture comes in for a particular skewering from Lévy. After all, the eldest son of a wealthy Sephardic Jewish timber magnate – who was born in Béni Saf but moved to Paris when he was still a baby – was one of a group of young writers, the Nouveaux Philosophes, who broke with the fashionable Marxist dogmatism of the French left in the 1970s. At the elite École Normale Supérieure, Lévy was friends with Michel Foucault and taught by Jacques Derrida. Both philosophers’ theories have often mistakenly been blamed for the advent of “woke”, which enrages him. “Wokeism is an insult to the French theories these imbeciles think they’re adhering to,” he explodes when we move on to the virulent new strain of antisemitism woke theory has spawned. “Antisemitism is like a machine,” he tells me. “Like a magnet that, throughout history has been drawn to whatever happens to be around at the time that might help create a ‘valid’ argument. It’s all about fuelling the hate machine.” It does beggar belief that in 2024, when, as he says, “we have a whole apparatus and a whole language to show that all races should be respected, and that we should be protected from racism at all costs and provided with safe spaces, that thinking doesn’t apply to Jews.” “There’s a big difference between racism and antisemitism,” Lévy goes on. “Racism is about the hatred of the other for being too visible. That’s the crime, and the idiocy of racists – that you are too visible. But in the case of antisemitism, it’s exactly the reverse. The crime and idiocy of antisemites is in the thinking: ‘I hate you, because you’re too similar to me – because I can’t tell the difference between you and me.’” He falls silent a moment, then says: “Racism is horrific, to be clear. But I think that antisemitism is even more criminal, even more crazy. Because the principal activity of an antisemite, the crazy fantasy of the antisemite, is to rip off your mask, and expose you as Jewish.” “At the beginning of the woke movement,” he concedes, “there will probably have been an appetite for justice and equality – a desire to protect the weakest and so on. But as so often happens on the [extreme] Left, they then became racists and fascists, and today, woke thinking is straight-forward fascism.” It doesn’t help, he adds, that the kind of woke students inciting antisemitic hate or violence on campuses around the world “are basically bad students, with hopeless teachers. I am ready to tour US campuses tomorrow and talk to them all! I’ll talk to them about Foucault and Derrida – I’ll talk to them about identity politics.” I think of Lévy as fundamentally optimistic, so I’m surprised by his response when I ask whether the pendulum will swing back. “I’m not sure it will. I certainly don’t think it will go back soon. Quite the opposite, actually. I don’t think we’ve yet reached the climax of this delirium, and I’ll tell you why: there’s a real visceral pleasure behind wokeism, and it’s rare for humanity to give up on that level of pleasure. But it’s because we’re not at the end of this that we really need to fight it hell for leather.” Lévy was only 28 when he published Barbarism with a Human Face – an attack on Leftist mythology and its notion of an ideal society – and was hailed the new Camus. A series of best-selling books followed, which did nothing to temper the jealousy of less famous (and good-looking) intellectuals. Then there was Lévy’s family wealth, (when his father died, he sold off his company, Becob, for 750 million Francs to entrepreneur Francois Pinault), which has always been held against him."

A small gaggle of protestors (guess who) are blocking the EB Lakeshore lane at George St. Police in attendance, blocking the lane at Thomas : r/oakville - "Epic come back grown man! Attend some therapy racist"
"Pointing out that there was a protest blocking lanes and to avoid the area if you're driving due to traffic is racist? Didn't know I hated minorities due to trying to help people with diverted traffic but alright"
"Don’t you know whenever you disagree about the actions of a minority group it’s racist ?"

Thread by @RachelMoiselle on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I think the decision not to share the videos of the October 7th attacks publicly was a terrible decision made by Israel.  I do not think people comprehend the level of denial that I’ve experienced in Ireland.  At best, people just do not grasp the valence of brutality involved: the performative sadism and cruelty of the most bestial nature.  I know people disagree.  The primary argument I hear is that ‘we do not parade our slaughtered people in front of the world for their atrocity porn’.  This is one that I understand and empathise with fully. But this October 7th denial, which we saw unfold in real time, is only going to get worse as the months and years go on.  Despite my condemnation of Ireland’s antisemitism problem, I actually do hold faith in the goodness of the majority of my people.
I think if they truly knew the scale of brutality that occurred that day, they would not so prosaically consider it as ‘a tragic loss of life’.  I think if they truly comprehended the acts of atrocities that were committed, they wouldn’t be so tolerant of esteemed academics endorsing it. I think if they believed what happened that day, they would have more empathy.  The people I know who viewed the footage were traumatised to the point of getting physically ill.  I know that the majority of Irish people would not be so inhumane as to not have the same reaction.
Hamas committed acts so evil that the only way otherwise ‘good’ people rationalise tolerating their acquaintances/colleagues endorsing this ‘resistance’ is to deny or minimise their atrocities.  I think the videos should have been released. At the very least so that those who endorse-let alone celebrate-this evil couldn’t hide behind notions of ‘justice’.  The bourgeoisie who rationalise and pontificate about ‘context’ couldn’t frame themselves as enlightened.  The world would see them for what they are: monsters and morally bankrupt respectively."
This wouldn't make much of a difference, because the terrorist supporter cope is that the IDF killed everyone, and that Netanyahu "funded" Hamas so everything Hamas does is Israel's fault anyway

Andrew Fox on X - "Every single time a former military officer gets shown the IDF’s procedures and practices firsthand, they come away convinced. Every time.  Former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 4* General Sir John McColl KCB, CBE, DSO, KStJ, is the latest and by far the most senior to add his name to the list.  “Basing my views about the Israel-Hamas war on UK media coverage, I arrived in Israel critical and sceptical of their military operations… I came away from the trip satisfied that the IDF’s operations and rules of engagement were rigorous compared to the British Army and our western allies.”  If you don’t believe me, a random buckshee retired major; or @just_Liles , a random buckshee retired brigadier; or the High Level Military Group, a bunch of random buckshee general officers from the USA and numerous European countries; or @ChrisRyanMM , a random buckshee decorated SAS veteran… perhaps you will believe a man with a glittering career who achieved the very top rank in his profession.  None of us have any incentive to shit away our reputations on Israel’s behest. We’re simply seeing the reality and telling the truth as we see it.   Perhaps this will finally persuade people to ignore the sea of disinformation bullshit and listen to actual experts."
"Western" democracies need to be held to standards that no one can ever meet, and no one else is ever expected to meet, so they will keep losing. Ironically, double standards are usually considered racist

I fought in Iraq — I know Israel’s doing all it can to save civilians - "Last week I visited Israel with a team of military experts from six Nato countries to see for myself. As a career officer, I served for 38 years in the British Army and have been in combat in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, and I was deputy supreme allied commander of Nato. I have seen war and know how difficult it can be to minimise civilian casualties. But I also know how hard we worked to do just that with our soldiers’ clear rules of engagement. Mistakes were made, but thankfully they were few and far between.  Basing my views about the Israel-Hamas war on UK media coverage, I arrived in Israel critical and sceptical of their military operations... what we, military observers with decades of combined experience in leading Nato armies, were told and saw was the most complex and demanding operational environment any of us had come across, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. The IDF commanders explained that underneath Gaza they have discovered 125 miles of tunnels, but believe that there could be in excess of 310 miles. The areas they have cleared have tunnel shaft entrances in houses, in children’s bedrooms, mosques, schools and hospitals. The tunnels are used for fighters to move around the urban areas, appearing behind and on the flanks of troops. Suicide bombers are a constant threat. Many of the houses and tunnel entrances are booby-trapped and civilians are used as human shields.  It means that in the confusion, regrettably, errors will occur. But the real problem is whether soldiers’ rules of engagement adhere to the law of armed conflict, whether they are being applied strictly, and whether when mistakes occur they are investigated thoroughly. Our briefing from the independent military legal directorate laid out in detail the rules designed to protect civilian life. The procedures are at least as rigorous as those applied in the UK armed forces. In addition, the Israeli military carries out civilian evacuations of war zones, forgoing the element of surprise, to which it would be entitled in armed conflict.  Phone calls and text messages to Gazan residents, loudhailers, leaflet drops and “knocking” on the roofs of targeted buildings with small non-lethal munitions to warn of an imminent strike are part of the IDF’s tactics to minimise civilian casualties. Accompanying troops in Rafah we found that the rules of engagement were being adhered to rigorously and that a significant number of engagements were being aborted because the clearance of civilians could not be verified.  The level of casualties in Gaza is significant and will undoubtedly result in criticism of the IDF. The alternative is to clear the buildings by hand with the inevitable loss of life that would entail, especially as Hamas terrorists wait for IDF entry to set off lethal booby traps via remote detonators. Rebuilding Gaza will take an enormous international effort.  The IDF briefed us that 1,500 aid trucks were flowing into the Gaza Strip weekly and gave assurances that the quantity of food and medical supplies that they carry is sufficient to meet the needs of those displaced.  While it was not possible to verify these claims we did see a significant number of aid delivery trucks as we moved along the Philadelphi corridor near Rafah. We also saw drone video footage which appeared to show that some of the trucks entering Rafah and other towns were being intercepted at gunpoint by Hamas terrorists before reaching the refugees. The perspectives that we gained were as a result of a relatively short visit; they are not comprehensive or definitive. However, they do indicate that there is balance missing in the reporting of events in Gaza... I came away from the trip satisfied that the IDF’s operations and rules of engagement were rigorous compared to the British Army and our western allies.  War is terrible, but sometimes necessary. And Israeli soldiers are fighting in conditions of extraordinary complexity and risk. It’s time for the world to have its eyes opened to that."

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Pro-Palestine protesters in Melbourne surrounded two random street violinist performers and demanded they stop working. @HashTayeh accused them of supporting the killing of children and then members of the pro-Palestine crowd assaulted them and smashed their equipment."

Are mask ban laws about public safety or for lawmakers to quiet protesters? The controversies of face coverings outlined - "Backers of the efforts say the measures will increase public safety and protect minority communities from vigilante violence, but activists and legal experts tell The Independent the provisions could do the exact opposite: exposing protesters to potentially violent police interactions, threatening immunocompromised people, and silencing pro-Palestinian activism despite being ostensibly neutral... He noted how increasingly bold demonstrations from white supremacists in masks in recent years hasn’t triggered the same kind of mask crackdown as Israel-Palestine activism has."
Clearly, it's only proper civil disobedience if you hide your identity so you can destroy property and attack people and not get caught
What does it say about "pro-Palestinian activism" that they want to hide their identities?
Doxxing is only bad when it threatens the left wing agenda. These people cheered when Stonetoss got doxxed, despite not doing anything in the real world
If these activists are so terrified of covid, why are they putting themselves at risk by gathering in crowds with other activists?
Obviously "white supremacists" have been trying to shut down the world for the last year just like terrorism supporters

Pro-Palestinian activists charged with harassment while protesting Marc Miller - "The lawyer representing pro-Palestinian activists who are accused of criminally harassing federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the charges are an attempt to "criminalize free speech." Barbara Bedont says her three clients were protesting outside a Liberal byelection campaign office in Montreal's Verdun borough last week when they saw Miller and two of his employees in a car and confronted them, yelling messages such as “shame on you!” Mohanned Mansour, Samar Elkahlout and Wendy Ing were charged with criminal harassment and mischief for allegedly damaging the car Miller was in, and were given conditions Tuesday that include a requirement to stay at least 50 metres away from the minister and the two employees."
If you are against vandalism by activists supported by the left, this is a threat to free speech. But the "far right" needs to be jailed to protect society and politicians need to be protected from their "harassment"

Opinion: 23 years after the terrorist attacks that shook the world, the West has lost its way - "The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have been largely expunged from historical memory by an entire cohort of young adults too young, jaded or disinterested to remember or consider its import. But this lack of concern did not impede the TikTok generation from recently rediscovering and rehabilitating 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden as a clarion voice of truth and inspiration. The Canadian family members of 9/11 victims with whom we work were stunned to watch these young people, weaned ostensibly on a steady diet of diversity, equity and inclusion, deliver geopolitical soliloquies in praise of al-Qaida’s mastermind — a notorious jihadist, terrorist and proud murderer of innocents, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. These same 9/11 family members had watched in horror as another theatre of spectacular terrorist cruelty orchestrated by Hamas terrorists opened to the cheers of an international audience on October 7, 2023. The 10/7 attacks were then followed by the iconization of Hamas across the globe, which unleashed an unremitting torrent of antisemitism and anti-western hate that has tilted our world over the past 11 months. In the aftermath of the slaughter and sexual depravity committed last October, millions of people found clarity and validation for their support of Hamas in bin Laden’s violent extremist rhetoric against the West and the Jews, reflected in a 2002 missive he had written entitled “Letter to America.” The edification of a man who would have gladly incinerated them is symptomatic of a post-truth era in which so many card-carrying members of our me-too society betrayed the truths they had so passionately championed, unabashedly denying or applauding the sexual atrocities committed against Jews as legitimate acts of “resistance.” In some ways, 9/11 was a template enhanced and reapplied on 10/7. Both events stemmed from a common creed of Islamist extremism grounded in the ideological heritage of the Muslim Brotherhood; both received assistance from the Islamic regime in Iran; both events were greeted with applause if not celebration across the globe; both were ultimately recast by conspiracy theorists as fraudulent events or evils orchestrated by Jews; and both events involved the murder of citizens hailing from countries around the globe. Notably, the perpetrators in both cases were fuelled by an insatiable and genocidal antisemitism. The centrality of Jew-hatred in the thinking of bin Laden and the 9/11 al-Qaida terrorists is a common binding article of Islamist extremist faith, in which Jews are understood as the irredeemable, metaphysical source of all historical evil and corruption, whose destruction is essential to human salvation... KBG defector Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov predicted this phenomenon. In a 1984 interview, he revealed that a main focus of Russia’s KGB was ideological subversion and psychological warfare. According to Bezmenov, the plan was to transform the West from within: “This is about changing the perception of reality … to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their community, their country. It’s a great brainwashing process that is slow — to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, expose them to the ideology of your enemy.” The problem goes well beyond classical Soviet propaganda methodologies, which created the current templates of distortion still employed by totalitarians, antisemites and other purveyors of calumnies against western democratic values. The West has also welcomed Iranian, Chinese and Qatari money, malign influence and subversive narratives. Young people are encouraged to obsess over identity politics, real or contrived, and to marinate in grievance as some twisted form of aspirational personal growth. They are conditioned to be ashamed of liberal democratic traditions, and to focus on democracies as fatally and inherently flawed rather than works in progress that have made Canada and other western countries the envy of the millions of immigrants willing to do anything to join our ranks. There is a particular animus in this worldview that places Israel as the collective Jewish scapegoat, inherently guilty of all and any of humanity’s perceived sins. Western youth, including Canadians, are indoctrinated into the falsehood that tiny Israel, the only Jewish state, a democracy with an evolved judiciary and equal rights for citizens of all faiths that has made endless overtures for peace and co-existence with its neighbours, is worthy of more criticism than the regimes in China, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan combined. Israel is the only country whose right to exist is debated and whose destruction is so often demanded."

South African chief sheikh Riad Fataar proclaims: 'I Am Hamas!' - "Sheikh Riad Fataar, president of South Africa’s Muslim Judicial Council (MJC), expressed staunch support for Hamas... The MJC is regarded as the most influential Muslim organization in the Western Cape area... Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Warren Goldstein, commented on these remarks, adding: “This disturbing support for a brutal terror organization is not isolated to the MJC. It is part of a concerted effort to radicalize many stakeholders in South Africa, including the mainstream media, academia, and government. This radicalization takes the form of stigmatizing Israel by the false accusations of genocide and the moral equivalence between Hamas, a murderous terror organization, and Israel, a free democracy fighting for its life within the ethics of international law. “This campaign has been effective which is why the open support of Hamas by the MJC is only being raised as an issue by the Jewish Report. None of the other media consider it objectionable or even noteworthy. The MJC statement is also a timely reminder for law enforcement to investigate the allegations raised by global media on how funds raised by the MJC and others for Hamas, have been banked and transferred from South Africa via local banks to Hamas, an organization on global terror lists,” added the chief rabbi... “The ANC has proven once again its intentions to marginalise the South African Jewish community. The South African government is proving, once again, that they cannot be an honest broker for any kind of negotiated two-state solution, which is actually the official foreign policy position of the South African government. They cannot be trusted if one of the leading political parties in government, the ANC, sides with a terrorist organization whose very foundational genocidal charter calls for the elimination of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.”... Fataar’s stances were backed by the Western Cape branch of the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), which expressed solidarity with the sheikh against what they deemed “an unwarranted attack by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies”... Al-Quds Foundation’s youth group, Youth for Al-Quds, also supported Fataar’s statements, denouncing a critical article published in the South African Jewish Report, blaming “the Zionists” of “mislay(ing) the narrative around HAMAS” and adding: “We stand behind our honourable Sheikh Riad Fataar loudly and proudly… We are proud when we say, ‘YOU are HAMAS, I am HAMAS, WE are ALL HAMAS!”... South African banks provide platforms to fund Hamas through a network of several organizations and straw man groups linked to the Al-Quds Foundation, a front for Hamas designated as such by both the US and Israel. Hamas officials have also visited South Africa several times since at least 2016, and ANC leaders have been praising and endorsing the group repeatedly since the October 7 massacre and before."
Weird. I thought no one supports Hamas or terrorism
Clearly, South Africa is only pursuing the criminal case against Israel because they are concerned about "genocide"

LILLEY: NDP candidate campaigning under Palestinian flag should lose - "An election pamphlet being distributed right now features a Palestinian flag on the front, not a Canadian flag. On the back, the candidate in question promises to push for an immediate ceasefire and tells voters to “send a strong message to Ottawa to stop the genocide in Gaza.” Again, this was a piece of literature handed out in Canada, during a Canadian election to elect a member of Canada’s Parliament. No one is surprised that this flyer is being distributed by the NDP. Craig Sauve is the NDP candidate seeking to win the Montreal-area riding of LaSalle-Émard-Verdun in the Sept. 16 byelection. It’s an odd move by the NDP candidate. According to Statistics Canada, the area doesn’t have a very large Muslim or Arab population, coming in at 5,735 Muslims out of a population of 107,564 in the last census — that works out to 5.3%. The NDP is facing plenty of outrage online over the flyer, which is no surprise — you can find people online outraged that that sun rises in the morning. The party isn’t backing away from the flyer, in fact, they are defending it strongly and strangely... "It’s ludicrous to suggest that when a politician is seen with another flag it’s unCanadian, whether that’s the Ukrainian flag, Israeli flag, Palestinian flag or other nations.” A Maple Leaf next to the NDP logo superimposed over the Palestinian flag which is dominating the campaign literature doesn’t negate the fact that he’s campaigning for a seat in Canada’s Parliament with a foreign flag. It’s not just Sauve being seen with a foreign flag — he’s profiled under it, the foreign flag is at the top. Strangely, the NDP sent four photos to show that politicians are seen with foreign flags. One is Stephen Harper from his 2007 visit to Australia where he addressed their Parliament. Canada’s then Conservative prime minister is standing in front of a podium with Australia’s coat of arms on it and Australian flags behind him. In two others, Harper is featured in Hungary and the United States with their flags while visiting those countries after he left office. In the one photo of current Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, he’s seen standing on Parliament Hill this past winter with two men taking part in a rally to support Israel who are holding an Israeli flag. None of that is the same as campaigning for a seat in Canada’s Parliament under a foreign flag. The many Canadians of all political stripes who are offended by this are right to be so and to ask if the NDP will put Canada and Canadian interests first... They went on to attack Poilievre and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “We condemn Pierre Poilievre’s unconditional support for Benjamin Netanyahu’s push for war regardless of how many innocent Israeli and Palestinian people die. We condemn Justin Trudeau’s mealy-mouthed weak refusal to take action in support of a ceasefire and steps toward lasting peace.” About the only good thing in the statement and the flyer is that the NDP is calling for the hostages to be released. To claim this is about “Netanyahu’s push for war” without acknowledging Hamas started the war or calling for them to surrender shows where the NDP priorities are."
Openly proclaiming that another country is your priority is not a bad thing when it helps the left wing agenda

Meme - "*Kid with rifle and Palestinian flag popping out of car window* OUR PARENTS PREFER TO SACRIFICE US RATHER THAN RELEASING THE ISRAELIS WE KEEP IN OUR TUNNELS"

Blaire White Takes America Tour: Toronto - Event Recount

I was at the Toronto leg of the Blaire White Takes America Tour. It was in turns entertaining, enlightening, shocking and touching.

Here is an account of the evening, with light redaction due to privacy reasons (some people requested not to be on camera, so I've removed identifying details where applicable - it's unsurprising yet sad and telling that a few people needed anonymity despite not saying anything that should be controversial).

There weren't any protesters despite the accessibility of the venue. The security check was more thorough than average, though.

At the start of the event, the venue was about half full. Besides the chairs on the main floor, there were couches at the sides of the room.

I've seen a few people claim that Blaire uses a lot of filters to buff her appearance, but in real life she passes well.

The evening started with images of news articles and commentary on them.

First up was Kayla Lemieux. Blaire noted Canada was 1-2 years ahead of the US. A woman who knew someone who knew Kayla Lemieux said he was a troll. Someone mentioned some saga (involving a taser? It was an old story). Blaire noted you need to go to a sex shop to find such large breasts.

Blaire then talked about the P Diddy scandal - she said more Kamala endorsements would be coming because the FBI has dirt on them. And the P Diddy scandal took a while to come out because no one cares about male victims of sexual abuse. She said rap and hip hop were CIA creations to turn black men gay, and it hard to argue the contrary: who needs so many dildos?

Next was the New York father losing his kid to train mania - she's spoken to many autistic ex trans people and parents who've lost custody of their kids as long as the other parent buys into trans mania. So we must talk about autism more, so we understand how "autistic angels categorise gender" and we can avoid some of this. She loves talking to crowds like this because it proves people care and she's not crazy. The order these things go is the UK, then Canada, then the US.

She said half of the audience that night were queer, so such people needed to speak up. They're not Nazis (the Nazis are in Chicago).

The US has cultural trauma over the treatment of gay people, so this baggage carried over to trans mania. It was also laziness & US for-profit healthcare. She asked why trans mania was bigger in Canada, and most people blamed Trudeau. Most in the crowd said they didn't like him. But he's on his way out. She wasn't sure what she could say: there's no freedom of speech in Canada. We're more vulnerable here because that's not codified in law, and we don't have so many guns.

15 minutes in, it was time for Blaire to react to Woke TikToks.

She started off with various throwaway comments (some of which were quite petty, so I didn't bother noting them).

There was a clown with green hair and a white face calling conservatives weird (Ed: The image here is of the interviewer, not the interviewee). She pointed out that he looked like a serial killer. She pointed to 3 people in the audience with coloured hair and asked them to take it back. She herself used to have purple hair: she's good with it if you're not a commie.

Addendum: I found part of this interview on iFunny, from @conservative.latino

Next was a guy who takes pride in making people uncomfortable. He had colourful eyeshadow. He's not a trans person. Blaire commented that people don't want to assimilate: they just want to look aesthetically unpleasing to annoy people.

The following video was a black man promoting racial segregation in education. He claimed only black people can teach black history because white people suppress it. Blaire quipped that in the US, race is a sickness. Half of the US is arguing for racial segregation and this is seen as a virtuous position.

The last video was of a "folx therapist". She commented that these people are always ugly. When she films these TikTok reaction videos in private it takes a long time to finish, because she's always going wtf. She asked the crowd what's a "folx" - they use the term so much. She was being petty about the term but it still annoys her. She didn't know it was a gender neutral way to say "folks". She quipped that it's funny how often these people are therapists, but you'll come out of therapy with them with more problems.

26 minutes after the session started, it was Q&A time. She felt Toronto was a safer, nicer New York or LA. But she admitted she hadn't been to the slums yet.

Q1 (some redaction has been done here): This person requested not to be on camera. He was a train and transitioned 2 decades ago as a minor. at 14. It was not ideal, but it was a different time and you had to look for it back then.  He was from Europe. He said most people here are not trans - do you ever worry you'll be rounded up?

A1: White said she was not against all youth transition. She was 31, which was 61 in trans years. She has guns in Texas she doesn't worry, not like they'd do anything. There's too much truth when you look about what trans mania is doing to kids and women's sports. So it'll lapse. People are sick of this

Q1: He works for a certain employer, so he'll be fired if he talks about it. He lives stealth. How can he help?

A1: Have on the ground conversations in real life with people, not in public. Those who can do it in the public sphere need to. There'll be real questions asked in time. How did people not speak out?

Q1: I had surgery at a young age 17. It was a good choice for me, but not others necessarily

A1: I swear you won't be on the video 

Q2: This was a woman from Buffalo. There's a post about not letting politicians you don't know ruin your friendships. I do that unless they're dicks. Do you agree? How do you handle someone who says I can't be friends with you because of politics?

A2: "Fuck off bitch". This is one of the most common Q&As she gets. She'll never advocate cutting off family but you don't need such intolerant friends. It's not a loss but a gain to be cut off. She herself can be friends with people. There's a decent part of her audience who are libs (you might be surprised). It's hard when they laugh about Trump being shot.

Q2: I've friends who'll disown me about this.

A2: Maybe it'll make them second guess their positions because they're friends and can see that they disagree with them. I wish people didn't treat others as enemies. I feel bad (only for a moment) calling Kamala supporters retarded.

Q3: Touring the US, gave you found ??? [Ed: I didn't catch this]

A3: Head size. Wig doesn't fit.

Q3: How can I support trans issues to friends in there?

A3: Understand that it's nuanced. No one side has a monopoly on the truth. There're many opinions. There're many issues that the hearts and minds of the whole community don't agree on.

At this point, idiots near me in in the queue were talking very loudly (even after I shushed them), so it was hard to hear the Q&A.

Q4: I'm a CP [Ed: child porn] survivor. I see how you defend kids. Thank you. I went to a school 15 minutes from Kayla Lemieux. I was so embarrassed.

A4: The world knows you as a survivor.

Q4: What would you tell your old self about this journey?

A4: "Buckle up bitch". It's been 8 years. It's been insane. It's not all fun and games. Get ready for FBI visits and death threats. Don't take it personally.

Q5: Where I'm from it's hard to be gay. I'm from Colombia. I realised I was gay when I came to Canada. I hated school. There was outrageous content in school. I need to teach my family about gays. How do you help education about that?

A5: In the western world, people are disconnected with other countries' treatment of gay people. I saw a video asking where people think it's illegal to be gay. They really think it's worse to be gay in Florida than Iran, and that it's illegal to be gay in Florida. The content taught in school: crazy books, in elementary schools in the US. How to go on Grindr. Or worse, scat. This is in school and public libraries. It's good to teach acceptance, and to be kind. But that's not what's happening. Nefarious groups are pushing this. The world is run by pedophiles. People don't talk about it. Go back to early 2000s education!

Q5: I had a gay teacher. No one cheered him.

A5: Don't cheer. Treat gay people like normal people.

Q6: We have the same name. My last name is your first. Blaire is someone who projects. Thanks for inspiring people. People are afraid. You speak for people who need a voice. I found you by accident. People bring hate to you. You're not a victim. I love how you bring humour to it. It's not that bad. I brought my straight friend blind to this event. He's going through a divorce. Do you have any advice for him?

A6: I'm so sorry. There's chapters in life. No matter how bad it gets, life goes on. The most beautiful things come out of bad ones. That happened to me. I hope you find a hotter wife.

Q7. I've been watching you since 2016. Don't put me in the video because of my job. We can't own guns. Me and friends face harassment and stalking. I wish we had guns. We can't even have pepper spray. We have no true means of protection. How would you protect yourself without them? I didn't know pepper spray was illegal until something happened to my friend and I looked into it.

A7: Pepper spray is illegal? That's nefarious. Jujitsu?

Q8: I messaged you on Instagram earlier today. Puberty blockers are accessible to young kids in Canada. I feel they're too accessible. I'm a detransitioner. I was abused at the ages of 5 or 6. At 12 I thought I was trans. I had mental problems but it was normalised. It was okay to identify as male at 12. It shouldn't be. 

Buck Angel said being trans should be one's last resort. What do you think should be done to make puberty blockers less accessible? Canadian studies show there're kids prescribed puberty blockers after 1 visit, without any therapy.

A8: Thanks for being open. I talk about some of this on my channel. In person it's better. I support a ban on them for minors and regulating diagnosis of gender dysphoria. The criteria should apply to adults. I don't think 26 should be the minimum age for transition. You can die for your country at 18. The age of consent for sex is 16-18. 

These therapists are lazy and abusive. It's a band aid on something deeper. It used to be reported that a common side effect of child sex abuse is wanting to not be your gender. But now because of political correctness you can't say this. It's not true of everyone but it is of many. Encourage real conversations. It's about hearts and minds and not the law. See gay marriage. Culture changed and the understanding of issues changed, which led to it. Be brave and tell these stories.

Q8: Instead of 13 year olds getting double mastectomies, we need to make therapy more accessible. I didn't need a new wardrobe, or to chop off my hair. I just needed a good therapist. Not a band aid therapist. Transgenderism is a process.

A8: I see it as a last resort. Now it's the first resort. It's a lifestyle that doesn't work for many people. I don't talk about this much because I'm trying to save kids but it's hard to be trans.

Q9: How do I help you guys? I have an interview coming up but I'm afraid of copying you.

A9: Copy me. I want that. People copy my video format and I'm flattered. In 2016-7 I was the only one talking about this. Now I'm not.

Q9: Fake trans stuff has put me back in dysphoria. Thanks for making me confident and make me feel like a woman again. You brought me back. I wore a pretty dress to see you today.

A9: Thanks. This is why I do what I do.

Q10: I'm from the US: Rochester. I drove 3 hours to see you. I love to do it. I've been watching you for 2.5 years. I love your content. Thanks for standing up to the woke mob, and standing for truth. You have so much courage and fortitude. You inspire me to come forward. I used to be on the woke left. I recently left it. I'm a multimedia artist and photographer. I'm in college studying art. It's so hard to be right leaning.

A10: I thought you said white leaning.

Q10: I'd love to make art about these issues. What would you recommend about navigating an artistic space full of liberals and tackling issues?

A10: You'd be surprised: the right would welcome you. The left is powerful because of absorbing aspects of culture. You need to dive in and be brave. Set the frequency and have authenticity. This is not the best answer. It will be scary. I can promote you. Be brave. That's what art is and is supposed to be. People are sick of regurgitated bullshit in the arts.

Q10: I hold liberal views but at my core I am conservative. I want to unify people through art. I see nuances on both sides. A lot of people on both sides tell each other horrendous things.

A10: It's ugly. I appreciate people in art like Tom MacDonald. It's more important than what many political commentators do. I look forward to seeing your art .

Q11: For self defence in Canada, me and my friends carry coyote spray. A cop I asked says it's fine. Box cutters too.

I've been transitioning for 4 years. I'm 20. I had bottom surgery in march. I had top surgery at 18. There was an option for it to be secret (not to tell my parents). What's your opinion on that? Many 15-16 year olds do that.

A11: I've nothing against you. I hope you have a beautiful life. But it's dangerous to drug kids without parental consent. It's not sustainable and is a disaster. We fight against it. I don't doubt there're some exceptional individuals who know it's the right thing (to transition) but it's a roll of the dice for everyone else. There're more people sucked in than those it works out for.

Q11: It's crazy how Canada does this.

Q12: Who's the better Canadian export: Bieber or Drake?

A12: Justin Bieber. Poor him with Diddy. It happened to me. It's unhealthy for the human psyche. Drake is an asshole. I like Degrassi.

Q13: Regarding social contagion of transgenderism online, how do you address it without erasing trans people?

A13: Parents and responsibility. Control your kid's access to phones and the Internet. It's a depraved modern culture where kids have complete access to everything. Keep pushing back on these groups. Laugh them out of existence. They're anti-science. Kids might fall into my videos and find out about them.

Q14: There're 3 trans people in my year alone. I graduated from high school 2 years ago.

A14: It's crazy. In my day, in the 90s and 00s, I was the only gay person I knew. Now there're multiple trans people. It's social contagion. Send them a video of mine. At my last stop one parent said your content gave me my kid back. Thanks. My kid detransitioned because of you.

Q15: I transitioned in the early 2010s. I was sure of it then and was sure of it for a long time. One day I woke up at 28. It was totally unexpected but I realised I'd made a mistake. I didn't tell people I was born male for years. I was so much better and happier than other. You are similar. What would you do if you woke up one day and said I'm Robbie, not Blaire?

A15: Life is like that. I'm not omniscient. I've made the best of my life so far. I'm happy. We must increase education so fewer people end up like you. Don't just show positive stories like mine. It's a crazy disservice to paint a false picture.

Q15: I was happy for so long. I said I was a success case. My family used me to defend trans mania. Thinking of happiness as a final state is bad. Aren't authenticity or truth better?

A15: Take a 360 degree view. It's not just about trans. The narrative is the problem. There's life outside that. I don't know what I'd do. It's a bridge you'd cross if it comes to it. It's about information. What do you think would've stopped you from making what you see now as mistake?

Q15: The whole trans ideology not existing. Society not saying it's possible. When I was a young man I thought no gay man would want me.

Why would I want to live a lie? It's not just about happiness. I lacked meaning, truth and authenticity. Society doesn't value these things. Would you do everything all over again knowing what you do now?

A15: I'd live my life exactly the same way. I'm not God. I can't see the future. Even if I change my mind I know what has happened. I wouldn't be on tour with an audience without this. All things lead to a certain path. Transitioning for me helps me save others from making a mistake. If that's my cross to bear I will. Ed: This was very touching.

At this point maybe 3/4 of the room was full, excluding the couches at the side.

Q16: I worked for left wing politics for 8 years. I was cancelled for liking your show. I lost 2 careers and  $7,000 a month in income. I got called a Nazi. I'm trans.

Trans medicalism: do you see this as sociopolitical or medical?

A16: I see it as a medical disorder. I'll die on this hill. Saying it's sociopolitical reduces it. I knew I didn't fit into this world. You don't need to stigmatise it. Take anxiety and depression - lots of smart people with achievements have them. The higher your IQ the more mental illness you have. So don't be too ill or in hospital. Don't stigmatise it. Don't attach a value judgment to "wrong".

Q16: I'm happy I can publicly support you now I've lost my entire career.

Ed: This was pretty touching too.

Q17: Regarding self defence, I'm 90 lbs and 5 ft nothing. It's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Do what you need to do.

What's the biggest shift since you took estrogen?

A17: I love your doggy and the shoes.

It's hard to say. I've changed in ways I don't understand. My brain works differently now. I connect romantically and not sexually. It's made me more emphatic. I speak the language of emotion better. Feelings are a language too. I don't go "facts don't care about your feelings" anymore.

There're also physical changes. I understand some of what women go through even if it's not 100%. I see the world differently.

Q17: What's your favourite part of being a woman?

A17: Being perceived as a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm more comfortable with myself now.

Q18: Anti white rhetoric is so pervasive in today's society. I find it so weird. I'm many things: Native American, Nigerian, East Asian and European. You're mixed too. And I'm bi.

Today people are very mixed. We're intermingled. It's weird it's not common sense to see we're all so similar. It's a fact we're 99.9% the same. Regarding Candace and Social autopsy, would you be able to connect with Candace? You disagree on many things.

A18: We agree on a lot too. It was an ugly debate. But it was so long ago, so it's hard to be upset. A lot of what she says is crazy but I respect her bravery.

Anti white stuff is crazy. It's an over correction of racism. People don't see it happening for whatever reason. History will record this as a crazy time. You can say the craziest things about white people on TV. People can't assess what's happening in real time, only in hindsight. People email me and tell me their companies fire them for being white. It's okay to be white.

Q18: I'm half white. When I say I'm black I'm hired faster. Living in LA, I put down I was dating a trans person and I was multiracial and that's how I got a job. It's real. It's happening 

Q19 (some redaction has been done here): This person requested not to be in the video too. I came out a while back. I'm a liberal dream due to intersectionality.

Radical feminist punk bands. I find many libs I know, my friends: I don't hate them. They say very ignorant things, like one making remarks about me as a minority while being blonde haired and blue eyed. The same friend gave me wardrobe suggestions but when I rejected them, she called me a homophobe and made more ignorant remarks.

They're ignorant, and don't know what they're talking about.

They condemn Jordan Peterson. They call him anti woman, but can't say why. I listened to hours of him but couldn't find anything.

This is especially bad in the Toronto music scene. They're rich white kids. Anti capitalists living in fancy apartments their parents pay for. How do we educate them?

A19: They can never say why Jordan Peterson is a misogynist or provide a quote. That is done to me too.

They should go to therapy to work on self awareness and understanding and see another aspect. They're projecting and lack self awareness.

When you red pill people you get them to understand the lies they believe. Show black and white evidence. I show people clips that are not out of context. For example the lie about Trump saying there were very fine people on both sides. That creates a crack which only grows.

Q19: When I came out I watched LGBT content to feel better but it made me feel bad about myself. But I found you, Ariel and Red Colombo.

A19: There's a waning number of cool LGBT people but we're here.

The main session then ended (certain higher tier ticket holders had more activities, just like some did before the event), with Blaire thanking everyone for coming and being vulnerable on mike. She noted that not everyone is so honest.

Links - 26th September 2024 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

John Hudson on X - "Kamala Harris met with the co-founders of the Uncommitted movement who asked to meet with her about their request to halt weapons transfers to Israel to stop the carnage in Gaza “and she indicated she was open” to the meeting and introduced them to her staff, reports @EricaLG"
Cartright 🎗️ on X - "My entire community was raped, tortured and murdered on Oct 7th. And the world cheered. This isn't something that happened "over there" it's my real friends that were murdered that day. It's very likely my Kibbutz will not recover. It's gone forever. And the world cheered."

Meme - "fem-i-nist
noun
someone who supports HAMAS men raping, murdering, and kidnapping women for sport."

Meme - "If Hamas thinks this is a good deal, why don't you agree with Hamas?"
"This is your reminder that Hamas would rather sacrifice 15,000 children than release 200 hostages."

WARMINGTON: Prayer service on busy street not illegal - "“In Canada, no permit is required to hold a demonstration, as peaceful assembly and expression, including prayers, are protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Toronto Police spokesperson Stephanie Sayer said. Even, police say, if such a demonstration inconveniences other citizens by snarling traffic and delaying public transit. This was tested a week ago, around 6:45 p.m., on the west side of Dundas St. heading east near Yonge St. when dozens of people protesting in a downtown march in support of Palestine collectively prayed to Allah in what one Muslim worshipper on scene explained was the third prayer of the five prayer schedule called Asr – the one observed in the late afternoon. While Yonge-Dundas Square was a few hundred metres to the east and Nathan Phillips Square was one street south, a decision was made to pray as a group along the protest route. Some participants used prayer rugs and mats on the roadway and over the streetcar tracks while some prayed kneeling on Palestinian flags. Dozens of police officers stood guard on the same roadway during the prayers.  It appears traffic was stopped in both directions for safety reasons. There were no altercations and no charges were laid... If you were in a car, riding a bike or scooter, or on a bus or streetcar, there was nowhere to go from either direction. Yonge and Dundas, say witnesses, was shut down for up to 30 minutes for the prayer service and for the finale of the march, which wound up at the nearby public square....  Much has changed in the approach to policing since the G20 in 2010 where many were arrested for protesting, or when Adam Skelly was busted during the pandemic for his lockdown protest at his Adamson BBQ restaurant in 2020, or Christian Pastor David Lynn was charged with causing a disturbance for preaching to more than a dozen supporters near Church St. during Pride Month in 2019. Another incident last week where demonstrators protested the police shooting of an indigenous man found participants on the ramp of the Gardiner Expressway and even hitting cars with a protest sign.  In one encounter, a person in a truck allegedly took off and ran over two people. The driver was later arrested but so far has not been charged.  And no protesters have been charged. While there has been a zero-tolerance approach in the past, things are handled differently in 2024 – as we saw with the University of Toronto protest that went on for months."
Protest is only a protected right when it pushes the left wing agenda

Mayor Olivia Chow wearing Hijab did not deter Hamas backers - "Her thoughtful culturally sensitive gesture — despite not being in a mosque and in her own council chamber — was not good enough for these intruders. In fact, as the mayor was addressing the group, a woman appeared and loudly talked over her... Chow, who was hosting the event with Deputy Mayor Ausma Malik, explained she “called for a ceasefire” after the barbaric Oct. 7 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of 250 people, but was shouted down as the woman got even louder and angrier... While this group was calling for consequences for Israel, it seems they face no consequences.  This aggressive protest action against Toronto’s mayor, not in Nathan Phillips Square, but right in Toronto’s council chambers, is something no one else would get away with. Toronto Police say there is no investigation or charges pending. They referred any questions to City Hall security, but it’s clear in videos there was no security present. Meanwhile, people understand what would happen if any other group harassed the mayor or chanted Islamophobic slogans inside City Hall.   The Hate Crimes Unit would be on speed dial — and rightfully so. The public is confused when they see someone like Rebel journalist David Menzies arrested outside a King Edward Hotel protest for merely asking questions. It’s such a double standard and Hamas terror apologists know they can strike whenever, wherever and against whomever they choose — even the mayor or prime minister. After the Edmonton City Hall terror attack, one would expect Toronto to be more concerned.Reminding everyone that protesters also ruined Chow’s skating party, MP Kevin Vuong called it “appeasement.”... Bradford said the protesters feel invincible... Councillor James Pasternak added: “It seems in this city only the mobs have the right to assemble and have free speech, even though most of their gatherings are not Charter protected. They use these freedoms to shut down everyone else.”"

Meme - Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "Victoria Liang is one of the organisers of the “Free Palestine Printing” collective responsible for the sale of pro-Hamas merchandise in Melbourne.   She works for the Australian Department of Defence while selling merchandise promoting a banned terror organisation."

Pro-Palestine protesters tear down fence at Democratic convention center as thousands take to Chicago streets - "Medea Benjamin, who traveled to Chicago from Washington DC, with a women-led group of protesters calling for peace, said she was shocked that the Biden administration recently approved an additional $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel. “There’s an incredible discrepancy in what people are calling for in this country and what the administration is doing,” she told the AP ahead of the rally in Union Park. “We’re so disgusted by this.”"
I like how polls consistently show that the US population supports Israel. But of course when you're in a left wing echo chamber, facts don't matter

Ottawa Pride loses key allies over anti-Israel stance - "In the face of the growing fallout with previous boosters, Capital Pride said in a new statement Monday that it is committed to fostering “safe and inclusive spaces where everyone is welcomed.” “As a community facing rising levels of hate-motivated crimes, we know all too well how hate erodes our cohesion and security,” the organization said on its Instagram page. “Queer and trans people of all religions, including Jewish and Muslim folks, are an integral part of our local community. We reject any attempts to marginalize religious and cultural minority groups from the broader Pride movement.” Public Service Pride Network, a volunteer group of federal civil servants, also said it won’t have a presence in this year’s parade but will focus instead on “inclusive, safe and people-centred events.” The controversy is a microcosm of the tensions over Israel’s war on Hamas that have spilled into the LGBT community. In June, Toronto’s Pride Parade, the country’s largest, was abruptly halted mid-route after protesters with the Coalition Against Pinkwashing, a coalition of queer and trans activists from Palestinian solidarity groups, staged a sit-in on Yonge Street after Pride Toronto refused to meet over demands they divest from companies with ties to Israel. Anti-Israel activists have also disrupted Pride parades in New York City, Boston, Denver and Philadelphia. In Edmonton, Jewish groups have called for an end to federal funding for the Pride Centre of Edmonton over its social media postings. Three weeks after 1,200 people were killed in a surprise raid carried out by Hamas and other terror organizations, the Pride centre’s Instagram page posted, “We at PCE stand against apartheid, genocide, colonization and state violence.” Hamas, in its founding charter in 1988, calls for the destruction of Israel and is nakedly antisemitic."

Dahlia Kurtz: Police must start cracking down on hate rallies - "police should stop integrating Islamophobia into every mention of Jew-hate. For instance, when you send an officer into a temple, as Chief Myron Demkiw did to take his place at the Pride of Israel town hall on July 31, please do not have that officer stand in front of the Jewish community, in a synagogue that was vandalized at the hand of Jew-hate, and read off a piece of paper preaching about Islamophobia — repeatedly. I discovered a video of Chief Demkiw in a mosque in June. He wanted to assure the Muslim community that the police were doing everything they could to “return a sense of safety” in the face of “Islamophobic hate.” Do you think the chief spoke to them about Jew-hate, too?... I get it: you want to keep the population happy. But what population do you want to keep happy?"
Whataboutery and all lives matter are bad only when they hurt the left wing agenda

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Chicago — A person in black bloc holds a Nazi flag at the anti-Israel DNC protest in Union Park."
Nazi flags only disqualify you and the whole movement you support if that helps the left wing agenda

Meme - Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89: "Incredibly funny how this " THE DNC WOULDN'T LET A PALESTINIAN SPEAK" thing is based on like 15 delegates huddled in a parking lot trying to bully the DNC into letting someone speak at the convention while it is already going on and the DNC set the speaking schedule weeks ago"
Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald: "Uncommitted delegates preparing to make a “big” announcement. They’ve been wanting to hear if convention will allow a Palestinian-American to speak from the stage. Huddled together. Mood does not appear positive."
Muslims are not small enough of a minority

Mario Nawfal on X - "This is Gaza… When will this end?"
Eric Weinstein on X - "This is genuinely confusing to me. I know Mario and like him. Quite a bit. He has been princely and gracious to me as well.   I feel like I must not be getting something. Maybe rational Jews / Arabs who are *not* Israelis / Gazans nor Netanyahu/Sinwar supporters, need to sit down, break bread and clarify what they think war, Casus Belli, a people, genocide, surrender, resistance, etc are and then talk to their Israeli and Gazan counterparts in Israel and Gaza. Just a thought.   To answer Mario’s question directly, I would say “The instant Gazan Arabs want it to. It’s simply the consequence of declaring war through civilian atrocities to induce military conflict on your own people. To stop a war you started with massacres, you just surrender, return hostages and turn over your war criminals. You don’t further antagonize your enemy, rocket their cities and chant ‘From the River to the Sea!’ or “This is genocide.” which seem totally bizarre if you want to end what Hamas started.”  I’m not being sarcastic. I’m legitimately totally bewildered by the Gazan narrative. Japan ended WWIi. If the reponse to Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to chant “From California to Ann Arbor, we’ll slaughter you just like Pearl Harbor.” there would have been no end to the war.  And Japan is a pretty nice place today. Surrender stopped the destruction in Japan. Japanese people didn’t lose everything.   Can someone explain the “When will this end?” question in WWII terms?   Because I see the destruction in Gaza and of the horrors of war and it makes me sick to my stomach. The only difference is I see Sinwar ordering all the war on the menu for himself without regard to cost in human life and then sending the bill for his feast to another table which is, naturally, dumbfounded.   I just don’t get it. Obviously.   The war ends the hour Arabs stop chanting for for their enemy’s eradication, surrender, and turn over hostages and those masterminds who thought that slaughtering civilians was an excellent way to start a war.  This isn’t hard. This isn’t intractable. It’s war. It has known ways to end it.   Unless the masterminds want it to go on because they see themselves as actually winning what they really want.   But I digress…"

Protests block bus route : r/ottawa - "The entire rideau bus routes have been blocked because of the usual Palestine protests."
You only get your bank account frozen if you threaten the left wing agenda

Jewish groups concerned over Canada's screening of Gazan refugees - "With the Ahmed Eldidi case revealing gaping holes in the country’s immigration security backstop, a Canadian Jewish group is urging the government proceed cautiously as Canada prepares to welcome thousands of Gazan refugees... Eldidi — arrested with this son earlier this month in a foiled terror plot — passed nearly seven years of security screenings and background checks, despite his participation in a 2015 ISIS torture video.  With that in mind, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is calling on Immigration Minister Marc Miller to ensure security lapses are addressed as Canada prepares to accept as many as 5,000 refugees from Gaza,  “There were assurances of enhanced security screening in Cairo, and at the time we were reassuring the community there would be the due diligence we would expect the government to take,” said CIJA’s David Cooper.  “This incident with the father and son really galvanized and put concern into our minds about if screening is sufficient, in terms of screening out potential problem people.”  That’s especially a concern, Cooper said, as Canada only learned of the plan from French intelligence. Canada’s Gaza refugee plans triggered a July letter from United States Senators concerned Gazans with ties to terror would have easy access to the U.S.  “With little to no reliable records or background checks of these individuals from the Palestinian territories, these policies unlock opportunities for individuals with ties to terrorist groups to enter Canada, receive new forms of identification, and then try to enter the U.S. along the porous north border,” said the litter signed by six Senators.  Immigration chronologies show the elder Eldidi — an Egyptian national — was initially refused but then granted a visitor visa in late 2017/early 2018. Article content  Upon landing in Canada in Feb. 2018, Eldidi went through at least eight separate security and background screenings during his journey from refugee to Canadian citizen.  Eldidi’s citizenship was granted one month before France tipped CSIS off about the plot, and two months before he and his son were arrested in a Richmond Hill hotel room... Canada is experiencing an unprecedented spike in hate crimes and antisemitism since the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel, with anti-Israel extremists leading intimidation marches through Jewish neighbourhoods, or establishing anti-Israel encampments on school campuses." SHAPIRO: The evil of cowardice - "The Israeli military made a macabre and horrifying discovery: the slain bodies of six hostages taken by Hamas, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin. All six hostages had been shot point-blank in the head some 48-72 hours prior, presumably upon the approach of IDF soldiers; Hamas terrorists chose to murder the hostages they had held in terror tunnels for over 300 days rather than risk their liberation... It turned out that all the diplomatic overtures made by America — overtures largely accepted by the supposedly intransigent administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — meant nothing. As Netanyahu pointed out, “whoever murders hostages does not want a deal.” That was predictable enough, given the fact that Hamas’ chief goal is its own survival — a goal directly at odds with Israel’s necessary goal of extirpating Hamas. That is why Hamas has consistently declared for months that there would be no hostage release without a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, along with the discharge of hundreds of convicted terrorists and murderers. Anything less than survival for Hamas is a loss. Dead Palestinians help Hamas achieve its goal of pressuring Israel; dead hostages help Hamas achieve its goal of pressuring Israel. And yet the immediate response of America and Great Britain has been to push Israel into more concessions. Asked whether Netanyahu had done enough to secure the hostage release, President Joe Biden — fresh from the beach in Delaware — said “no.” That is obviously political madness; if the murder of hostages wins indulgences, surely Hamas has the incentive to murder more hostages. But it is, far more importantly, moral madness; handing a victory to the very monsters who currently hold toddlers and threaten to shoot them in the head is the essence of cowardice. It’s worse: it’s complicity in evil. The only possible moral frame in which Israel can be blamed for Hamas’ monstrousness is a relativistic one, in which barbaric evil can be projected onto the “root cause” of the West. There is a reason so much of the left views America’s loss of the Vietnam War as a victory, or sees the Afghanistan pullout as a triumph, ignoring the viciousness of the Viet Cong and the Taliban. In this view, the cruelty of the West’s enemies is merely a response to the West’s own cruelty — and the evidence of that proposition is the existence of our enemies. Were we kind, generous and tolerant, we would have no enemies, goes the logic — thus the presence of our enemies demonstrates how fatally flawed we are. This perverse philosophy gives ammunition to the world’s worst human beings. Depriving evil actors of agency means leaving them free to pursue their worse designs, secure in the knowledge that the more savagely they act, the more they will be excused for their cruelty. The West, in this view, can never triumph but through surrender. This philosophy will destroy the West from within as well as from without"
It's not so much relativism as blind and unthinking hatred of the West

Michael Higgins: Shame on Trudeau for wanting to give in to Hamas after executions - "Hamas just executed six hostages in cold blood apparently as a negotiation tactic. That’s not negotiation, that’s blackmail. It’s evil. It’s diabolic... As Gazans suffered because of the actions of their satanic Hamas overlords, it was Israel that was demonized by the world... after shooting the six hostages in the back of the head last week, Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that unless a deal was agreed the other hostages would be returned in coffins. After the executions, a Hollywood-style poster was released by Hamas showing a terrorist with a gun in the foreground behind a seated and dejected hostage. On the wall, a series of chalk mark lines were being scratched off, presumably indicating the number of hostages killed. These are killers who glory in what they do... Netanyahu pointed out the number of times Hamas had rejected efforts to agree a ceasefire and release hostages. On April 27, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Hamas to accept Israel’s “extraordinarily generous” offer of a ceasefire and hostage swap. On May 31, Israel agreed to a U.S. backed proposal for a ceasefire. On Aug. 16, Israel agreed to a U.S. “bridging proposal” and three days later Blinken urged Hamas to agree to the deal. On Aug. 28, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen said Israel was showing “seriousness” in the negotiations and a ceasefire was in the hands of Hamas. Days later, Hamas answered by executing six hostages. “And now after this we’re asked to show seriousness? We’re asked to make concessions? What message does this send Hamas? It says kill more hostages, murder more hostages, you’ll get more concessions,” said Netanyahu. “The pressure internationally must be directed at these killers, at Hamas. Not at Israel. We say yes, they say no all the time. But they also murder these people and now we need maximum pressure on Hamas.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed outrage at the executions but called on “leaders” to reach a deal to bring the rest of the hostages home. Which leaders? The Qassam Brigades henchmen literally holding guns at the heads of hostages? The Hamas terrorists still operating from tunnels in the Gaza Strip? Or the Iranian puppet masters? But the Hamas “leaders” are not reasonable people entering into good-faith negotiations. Execution is not a tactic used by partners who want peace. The only guarantee that can come from these negotiations with Hamas is that any deal, any ceasefire, will be breached by them as it has repeatedly in the past."
Clearly it's the fault of Israel and the "Zionists" because they "forced" Hamas to kill the hostages, and the terrorist supporters keep claiming it's Israel that's rejecting ceasefire proposals

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Far-left extremists stuck a severed, bloody pig’s head on a gate at @UBC along with a message demanding the abolishment of police. The claim of responsibility was posted by an extremist far-left pro-Gaza group on @instagram. Leftist supporters of the violent direct action only took issue with the use of the pig, which they say “died in slavery.”  In 2019, UBC cancelled my speaking event after violent threats from Antifa."

Wartime Poll: Results of an Opinion Poll Among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - "From October 31 to November 7, Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) surveyed 668 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, during the fourth week of the ongoing Gaza War...
• 98% stated that they will never forget and will never forgive what Israel did and is continuing to do during this war.
• 65% perceived the present war as a conflict targeting all Palestinians, while only 18% viewed it as a war between Israel and Hamas. Other respondents believed: it is a war between Israel and Muslims (5%); it is a war between Israel and Arabs (2%); or it is a conflict between the West and the Arab-Muslim world (10%).
• Reasons cited for the October 7 attacks included: responding to oppression, particularly attacks on Al Aqsa (35%), and addressing broader issues such as freeing Palestine, ending the occupation, and stopping settlements (33%). Breaking the blockade of Gaza was cited as the main reason by 21% of respondents.
• A small percentage (6%) reported that the main reasons behind the war are related to regional interests. This includes serving the interests of Iran (5%) and stopping the ongoing peace and normalization process with Israel (1%).
• As illustrated below, the majority of (59%) strongly supported or (16%) supported to some extent the October 7 attacks carried by the Hamas-led factions, while 16% supported to some extent. 11% reported that they neither supported nor opposed the attack, while 13% expressed opposition to the attacks. Strong support for the attacks was notably higher among Palestinians in the West Bank (68%) as compared to Gaza (47%)...
79% Of respondents expected that the end of the war will lead to the release of all Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails.
75% of respondents expected a victory in which Gaza repels the Israeli invasion."
Weird. We're told that most Palestinians want peace
No surprise that they're so deluded that they think they will win militarily, since they have constructed a whole worldview in which they are the victims

Exclusive | Rockefeller Brothers Fund funding Palestinian terror groups - "Pro-Palestinian groups such as those who spread hate at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting this week, have been lavishly funded by the Rockefeller family’s main charitable arm.  The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has links to two groups the Israeli government designated “terrorist organizations”...   Founded in 1940, the famous clan’s $1.3 billion fund — where Justin, Wyatt and David Rockefeller Jr. sit on the board of trustees — has shelled out more than $2.6 million since 2018 directly or indirectly to at least six anti-Israel organizations, several of which openly celebrated Hamas’ Oct 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish state.  Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, whose logo was affixed to an ad promoting Wednesday’s rally, is a “fiscally sponsored project” of the nonprofit Alliance for Global Justice.   In August 2022, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave the Alliance $100,000.  Israel designated Samidoun a terrorist organization in February 2021 and Germany banned it last month.  Samidoun, founded in 2011, condemned the United Kingdom in 2021 for classifying Hamas a terrorist organization, and cheered the Oct 7 terrorist incursion:...   “This is unfortunately a case of reaping what one sows. They were probably fine with these rabid, lefty groups, protesting other people,” said City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island). “The lesson we all can take from this is that the woke left isn’t our friend.”  The fund gave at least $490,000 for “general support” to the Jewish Voice for Peace, according to public grant disclosures on their website since 2019.   Despite its name, the group is a notorious anti-Israel organization and a front for mainstreaming antisemitic ideas, critics say.  A Grand Central demonstration organized by the group in October led to more than 300 arrests.  “Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism. JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.  The group has been banned by Columbia University for repeatedly holding “threatening” campus events, the school said last month. The fund has also donated at least $515,000 to the The Tides Center, earmarked specifically to support Palestine Legal, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group, records show. The nonprofit trumpeted the Oct 7 attacks as “one of the most significant acts of Palestinian resistance.”... The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also sent at least $710,000 to the Adalah Justice Project and $605,000 to the Middle East Policy Network (also known as Al-Shabaka).  Both organizations celebrated Hamas’ Oct 7 attacks in public statements."

David Collier on X - "On Oct 7 2023 Hamas carried out the largest single massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. While it was still going on - before 1pm on the 7th - the Palestine Solidarity Campaign was already organising a march to call for Israel's destruction. These people are partners of Hamas."

Women and Bad Advice

Rain Hope

I always get kicked out of women groups on Facebook cause some of y’all don’t have common or uncommon sense.

 

Group member : Hey y’all I need advice. My boyfriend doesn’t wanna marry me. We been together for 17 years. I helped him find a job. We have a child and I give him $175.62 towards his crack habit every month. He’s a great father and I really love him .. I don’t understand why he doesn’t want to get married. Any tips?

 

Me : Why you dating a crackhead?

 

Admins : Ramona Williams is banned now. We don’t judge here. If y’all don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it.

 

Me on a back up page : what is it about a crackhead that makes you think he should be your husband?

Admins : aLl vErsIonS oF Ramona Williams hAs BeEn bAnnED.

Links - 26th September 2024 (1)

The year is 3129 - 666 - Blog - Pravda - "The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites still left, their orbits decaying, dutifully relay the message. The automated „away from office“ response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it’s owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days. A pack of roombas, the local wind turbines giving out, search for the next functional docking station. A washing machine tweets: „anyone need to do a load 😏“ every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots. In North America, raccoons have entered the bronze age, while babboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the wind, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five. The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prohpet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. You decide to observe this decade’s event. Then you see him: Shia Lebouf He beckons you to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections."
Ironically, "End Stage Capitalism" stole this. And from the screenshot, seems to have cut off the last bit

Meme - "Urn only thing I have worth any money and I'm extremely poor
$250
Description: Contains ashes of my father need money to eat"

The Battle of Pelusium: A Victory Decided by Cats - "the Battle of Pelusium of 525 BCE. This engagement was the decisive clash between the Pharaoh Psametik III (526-525 BCE) and the Persian king Cambyses II (525-522 BCE), resulting in the first Persian conquest of Egypt. It has been suggested that the battle would have gone to the Persians regardless of the tactics used since Cambyses II was far more experienced in war than the young Pharaoh Psametik III. The victory, however, was due far more to Cambyses II's knowledge of Egyptian culture than his record as a field commander. The battle was won through a very unusual strategy on Cambyses II's part: the use of animals as hostages and, especially, cats. Cats were a popular pet in ancient Egypt and closely associated with the goddess Bastet (also known as Bast)... Among the many ways people could offend the goddess was to harm one of her cats. Cats were so highly regarded in ancient Egypt that the punishment for killing one was death, and as Herodotus reports, Egyptians caught in a burning building would save the cats before saving themselves or attempting to put out the fire. Herodotus says, further, "All the inmates of a house where a cat has died a natural death shave their eyebrows" as a sign of their grief, and cats were mummified with jewelry just as people were (Nardo, 96)... According to Herodotus, Cambyses II invaded Egypt after being insulted by Amasis. Cambyses II had written to Amasis asking for one of his daughters as a wife, but Amasis, not wishing to comply, sent the daughter of his predecessor Apries. The young woman was insulted by this decision - especially since it was a tradition that Egyptian women were not given to foreign kings - and when she arrived at Cambyses II's court, she revealed her true identity. Cambyses II accused Amasis of sending him a 'fake wife' and mobilized his troops for war. Whether this story is true, the Persians would have eventually attacked Egypt anyway... The 2nd-century CE writer Polyaenus describes Cambyses II's approach in his Strategems, which he wrote in the hopes of helping Marcus Aurelius and Verus in their campaigns. Polyaenus recounts how the Egyptians were successfully holding back the Persian advance when Cambyses II suddenly switched tactics. The Persian king, knowing the veneration the Egyptians held for cats, had the image of Bastet painted on his soldiers' shields and, further, "ranged before his front line dogs, sheep, cats, ibises and whatever other animals the Egyptians hold dear" (Polyaenus VII.9). The Egyptians under Psametik III, seeing their own beloved goddess on the shields of enemies, and fearing to fight lest they injure the animals being driven before the enemy, surrendered their position and took flight in a rout... It is said that Cambyses II, after the battle, hurled cats into the faces of the defeated Egyptians in scorn that they would surrender their country and their freedom fearing for the safety of common animals. It should be noted, however, that Herodotus' depiction of Cambyses II has been challenged. Cambyses II is often depicted as a brutal and careless monarch by the Greek writers who had no love for the Persians. Cambyses II is also said to have killed the sacred Apis bull and thrown its carcass into the street and also to have defiled and banned sacred rites and traditions throughout Egypt.  This claim is contradicted by reports of other writers, inscriptions, and artwork which shows Cambyses II's great appreciation for Egyptian culture and religion including his rebuilding of Memphis and its continuation as the capital of the Persian satrapy. The very fact that he used their values against them in battle attests to this admiration; he knew the Egyptians would respond exactly as they did because they could not do otherwise. They would have thought it better to surrender than betray their beliefs."

CBS Evening News on X - "With some parents using tablets as digital pacifiers to soothe their children, a new study finds preschoolers who spend 75 minutes or more in front of a screen showed increased anger and frustration as they got older, along with difficulties in regulating their emotions."
Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The study they're reporting on is not causally informative and does not indicate actual reasons to be concerned.  The reasons for this are very simple, as I'll show below.  🧵
First, sampling.  If I want to do a study on Holocaust survivors and I go and seek out people who survived it, I am looking for a select sample.  If, instead, I look in datasets that were sampled without respect to Holocaust survival and find survivors, my sample is nonselect. Why does this matter?  Select respondents differ from nonselect ones because they elect to be sampled or because I was able to find them by virtue of something that differentiates them from the population.  For example, my Holocaust survivors might be part of a support group. It might be that only the ones who suffer the most go to support groups. If I sample from the support group, I could contaminate my results because I'm sampling super-sufferers, not the norm.  That's actually a problem and I've pointed to it before.
The study CBS is referring to was based on a moderate-sized (n = 315 parents) convenience sample.  What happens when you use a large, population-representative sample to look at this screen time/tablets question?  Well, usually nothing more than chance:
Second, causality.  The study in question at best merely associated tablet use with outbursts of anger, it didn't provide meaningful causal evidence to explain this association. When the relationship screen time has with internalizing problems and attention problems has been looked at with genetic data, the whole relationship has been found to be due to genetic confounding.  Accordingly, to conclude anything about the causality of the relationship between table use or screen time or whatever and kids' behavioral problems, we need to do things differently: we need large, representative samples with causal designs. But wait, you might say: They had a random-intercepts cross-lagged panel model, so they could make causal inferences!  True, but the result is embarrassing, and especially so given the stronger literature on this finds nothing. They had two focal p-values: 0.045 and 0.040. p-values this marginal were almost-certainly not found by mistake. They represent p-hacking, and if you're willing to talk to the press about p-hacked findings, maybe we should question your other work too. Here's the study:  And an article on marginal p-values: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
To make the p-hacking clearer, consider what the authors discussed in the abstract versus the results.  They generally found nonsignificant paths, but only discussed the two significant ones. Unless they're proposing age alters the nature of the causal relationship, that's no good. The fact that they only talked about the p &;t; 0.05 results even though the others weren't distinguishable is just odd. It would be a weak result either way (especially for a reason I'm about to say), but the way they decided to write about this suggests they really wanted to get published, not to deliver the null they really found.  Also, unmentioned in the abstract: They had lots of attrition. 16% of the sample was lost by T2, and by T3, they had lost a third. Without imputation, that p = 0.04 is almost-certainly going >0.05, and it might even be >0.05 just using a different imputation method than FIML. After re-estimating the model from the correlation matrix, I can confidently say that the highlighted significant results (p = 0.04/0.045) are down to the use of FIML.  The method of p-hacking was easily identifiable.  Good job accepting this, @JAMAPediatrics! "

Meme - *Woman eating sushi* "Sushi isn't the only raw meat she's getting tonight"

Meme - "I once bought all the toys from Toy Story and then proceeded to cum all over Jessie's face. I, then, left the room satisfied in the knowledge that all of the other toys would be trying to comfort her but knowing they couldn't remove the cum to avoid suspicion."

theartsyreader on X - "I have come to the conclusion that buying books and reading them are actually two entirely different hobbies."

Meme - "My child is my WORLD ! Also you must be at least 6 feel tall and make 6 figures... *gorilla*"

North Hollywood Medical Center - Wikipedia - "The building was the filming location of the NBC/ABC sitcom Scrubs for the first eight seasons (2001 through 2009) of the show, where it was called Sacred Heart Hospital... The series' lead actor, Zach Braff, commented on DVD audio commentary that the hospital still received patients in the lobby asking for medical advice, believing the hospital was still running due to the ambulances parked as props outside. On another DVD commentary, Sarah Chalke recalled having a man and his wife show up looking for medical help. She remembered that the man's arm was bloody and there was nothing anybody could do except direct the couple to a real hospital."

Rationing in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia - "In December 1939, Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance of the University of Cambridge tested whether the United Kingdom could survive with only domestic food production if U-boats ended all imports. Using 1938 food production data, they fed themselves and other volunteers one egg, one pound (450 g) of meat and four ounces (110 g) of fish a week; one-quarter imperial pint (140 mL) of milk a day; four ounces (110 g) of margarine; and unlimited amounts of potatoes, vegetables and wholemeal bread. Two weeks of intensive outdoor exercise simulated the strenuous wartime physical work Britons would likely have to perform. The scientists found that the subjects' health and performance remained very good after three months; the only negative results were the increased time needed for meals to consume the necessary calories from bread and potatoes, and what they described as a "remarkable" increase in flatulence from the large amount of starch in the diet. The scientists also noted that their faeces had increased by 250% in volume. The results – kept secret until after the war – gave the government confidence that, if necessary, food could be distributed equally to all, including high-value war workers, without causing widespread health problems. Britons' actual wartime diet was never as severe as in the Cambridge study because imports from the United States avoided the U-boats, but rationing improved the health of British people; infant mortality declined and life expectancy rose, excluding deaths caused by hostilities. This was because it ensured that everyone had access to a varied diet with enough vitamins. Blackcurrant syrup and later American bottled orange juice was provided free for children under 2, and those under 5 and expectant mothers got subsidised milk. Consumption of fat and sugar declined while consumption of milk and fibre increased."

Meme - Roger Ebert @ebertchicago: "Cleavage. It speaks to us from the time before memory of love, comfort, warmth, softness and food. Cleavage. Oh yes. Cleavage."

Eating in the 50s - "1. Pasta was not eaten.
2. Curry was a surname.
3. A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
4. A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
5. Crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the Salton or not.
6. Rice was only eaten as a milk pudding.
7. A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
8. Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
9. Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.
10. Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.
11. Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold. Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
12. Fish didn't have fingers.
13. Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
14. None of us had ever heard of yogurt.
15. Healthy food consisted of anything edible.
16. People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
17. Indian restaurants were only found in India.
18. Cooking outside was called camping.
19. Seaweed was not a recognized food.
20."Kebab” was not even a word, never mind a food.
21 . Prunes were medicinal.
22. Surprisingly, muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.
23. Water came out of the tap. If someone had suggested bottling it; and charging more than petrol for it, they would have become a laughing stock!
24. And the things that we never ever had on our table in the 50s and 60s: elbows or phones!"
Ironically, someone posted this list with the comment "Make America Great Again". Ironic ignorance, given that the term "crisps" is not used in the US

Meme - "Muslims making fun of other religions/countries/genders
Muslims when you make fun of them"

Meme - Freo Central Convenience Store: "Hello customers! Our American inspired charcutery board is now back in stock! Perfect for date night, show your sweetie a tour of the USA with this classic compilation. *Mini pizza, dinosaur nuggets, curly fries, mozzarella sticks, pasta rings in tomato sauce, smiley faces, waffles, letter shapes*"

Meme - "I think a large frog was here maybe even a toad *marks on car from people having sex*"

Meme *Daily Struggle/Two Buttons*
"Allah's revelation cannot be corrupted"
"The bible is a previous revelation of Allah that has been corrupted"

Meme - "What's your dirty little secret?"
"My ex told me to drug her and do with her what I wanted... So I drugged her and played video games all night with friends. She still thinks I fucked her multiple times that night. Not my thing. But she wouldn't stop pestering me about it."

Meme - "Five Star Seafood Restaurant. 3.0 (1,043 Reviews)"

Meme - *Man tying up woman*
"When they bust out a leash and then you realize you're not going for a walk." *dog*

Meme - Elizabeth Herreid @eliz_herreid: "Once again pondering the viability of a bookstore in a town where everyone thinks reading is weird and the one book lover just takes things on extended loans without paying, and I've come to the conclusion--l'm sorry you guys-- that this was probably a money laundering operation. *Disney's Beauty and the Beast*"

Meme - "When someone with no Mutual friend tries to add you
Batman from Arkham City: Hugo Strange Trailer: who sent you?"

Meme - Muslim Woman in Hijab: "IN MY COUNTRY I AM FORCED TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT. HERE I'M FREE TO TALK TRASH ABOUT THIS COUNTRY IN HOPES IT CHANGES INTO A COUNTRY WHERE I'M FORCED TO KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT."

Paris Gun - Wikipedia - "As military weapons, the Paris Guns were not a great success: the payload was small, the barrel required frequent replacement, and the guns' accuracy was good enough for only city-sized targets. The German objective was to build a psychological weapon to attack the morale of the Parisians, not to destroy the city itself...   The distance was so far that the Coriolis effect—the rotation of the Earth—was substantial enough to affect trajectory calculations...   The shells were propelled at such a high velocity that each successive shot wore away a considerable amount of steel from the rifled bore. Each shell was sequentially numbered according to its increasing diameter, and had to be fired in numeric order, lest the projectile lodge in the bore and the gun explode. Also, when the shell was rammed into the gun, the chamber was precisely measured to determine the difference in its length: a few inches off would cause a great variance in the velocity, and with it, the range. Then, with the variance determined, the additional quantity of propellant was calculated, and its measure taken from a special car and added to the regular charge. After 65 rounds had been fired, each of progressively larger caliber to allow for wear, the barrel was sent back to Krupp and rebored with a new set of shells."

Meme - "Gender study when I was a kid *boy reading Playboy*"

IF EUROPEANS MADE STREET FOOD THE SAME WAY INDIANS DO. #streetfood #indianfood - YouTube

They Shot Each Other Down Then Depended On Each Other For Survival In The Norwegian Wilderness - "Into the White was a 2012 Norwegian film loosely based on real events from World War II’s Norwegian Campaign, when the Allies tried to keep the Germans from engulfing Norway in their quickly spreading military conquests.  The film is a fun and captivating dramatization of how the crews of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber and a British Blackburn Skua (which had shot down the German bomber and crash-landed soon after) survived in the remote Norwegian wilderness in late April 1940...   The Heinkel bomber flown by Lieutenant Horst Schopis was shot down by Captain R.T. Partridge and his radio operator R.S. Bostock in their Skua. Schopis’ tail gunner Hans Hauck was dead on impact, but Schopis, along with Unteroffizier Josef Auchtor and Feldwebel Karl-Heinz Strunk, the remaining survivors of his crew, now faced the vast, cold unknown.  They weren’t alone, however. Partridge and Bostock had crash-landed on a frozen lake not too far away after their engine failed.  The two crews were nearest to Grotli, Norway, but surrounded by mountains and lakes, and miles from any road.   While trying to bring his sputtering plane into a safe landing, Partridge spotted an old reindeer hunter’s cabin not too far away. They hiked there through the snow, only to soon be set upon by the German crew with pistols and knives at the ready.  Thinking quickly and trying to break down the language barrier in a mix of German and English, Partridge convinced the Germans that he and Bostock were survivors of a downed Vickers Wellington Bomber (and not the aces that had brought their plane down)... Many years later, in 1977, Schopis received a phone call from Partridge, and the two met as friends in their hometowns of Munich and London."

Platypus venom: painful, immediate, long-lasting, impervious to painkillers. - "As someone who doesn’t enjoy “long lasting excruciating pain that cannot be relieved with conventional painkillers,” I’d really regret petting a platypus. Especially a male platypus, in late winter, when there’s only one thing on his mind and, even worse, something nasty on his feet... in late winter: The males’ testes swell, they start fighting over the females, and when they fight, they wrap their legs around their opponent and viciously stab with those sharp spurs. With all the action, Home probably wouldn’t be able to see that the males are also injecting each other with venom. Venom made by their crural glands—a sweat gland co-opted by evolution that swells with about a teaspoon’s volume of venom during mating seasons. But even if he didn’t know about the venom, Home would still see the loser collapse, its limbs paralyzed, while the winner went off to be a lover. To Home’s relief, the loser would eventually recover and stagger (or more likely swim) off. And once mating season’s over, the lovers would go back to being eaters: Their testes go back to normal size, and their crural glands go dormant.  But what would happen if you provoked a randy male’s ire during mating season?   The good news: There’ve been no recorded human fatalities. But there’s also bad news: We know from a few case reports that the randy, angry male can drive his spurs into you so viciously that he’ll “require manual disengagement”—meaning you’ll have to yank his spurs out of your wounds. This would be rather difficult, as you would likely be distracted by pain that was “immediate, sustained, and devastating.” Not even morphine would work against it; the doctors would have to inject local anesthesia to make it stop. But that pain’s just the beginning: Soon you might become nauseated, suffer from cold sweats, and watch as the muscles wasted away in your hand. And if you’re like one unfortunate 57-year-old victim, your hand would stay weak and hypersensitive to pain for up to three months after your “spurring.”"

Xin Zhui's Lady Dai Mummy: The Best-Preserved Corpse In History - "Now more than 2,000 years old, Xin Zhui, also known as Lady Dai, is a mummified woman of China’s Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) who still has her own hair, is soft to the touch, and has ligaments that still bend, much like a living person. She is widely recognized as the best-preserved human mummy in history... When she was unearthed, she was revealed to have maintained the skin of a living person, still soft to the touch with moisture and elasticity. Her original hair was found to be in place, including that on her head and inside of her nostrils, as well as the eyebrows and lashes. Scientists were able to conduct an autopsy, during which they discovered that her 2,000-year-old body — she died in 163 BC — was in similar condition to that of a person who had just recently passed.  However, Xin Zhui’s preserved corpse immediately became compromised once the oxygen in the air touched her body, which caused her to begin deteriorating. Thus, the images of Xin Zhui that we have today don’t do the initial discovery justice. Furthermore, researchers found that all of her organs were intact and that her veins still housed type-A blood. These veins also showed clots, revealing her official cause of death: heart attack.  An array of additional ailments was also found throughout Xin Zhui’s body, including gallstones, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and liver disease. While examining Lady Dai, pathologists even found 138 undigested melon seeds in her stomach and intestines. As such seeds typically take one hour to digest, it was safe to assume that the melon was her last meal, eaten minutes before the heart attack that killed her."

Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "In an effort to fight oil well fires, Hungarian engineers recycled a Russian T-34 tank and replaced the gun turret with two Mig-21 jet engines. The team would inject water into the exhaust of the engines and literally blow an oil well fire out. They called the device Big Wind."

An outbreak of common colds at an Antarctic base after seventeen weeks of complete isolation - "Six of 12 men wintering at an isolated Antarctic base sequentially developed symptoms and signs of a common cold after 17 weeks of complete isolation. Examination of specimens taken from the men in relation to the outbreak has not revealed a causative agent."
And covid hystericists imagine that we could've stopped covid with a 2 week global lockdown

Meme - "Here is an actual photo of that pretty lady asking you to send her a friend request *Man manipulating multiple plugged in phones, with many more phones on in front of him, with another man to his left doing the same*"

Meme - "I'd really love to be ni**a"
"Why did you censor that?"
"Because ninjas are supposed to be secretive and mysterious"
"Oh yeah, that makes sense"

Meme - "I just wanna apologize to the people I called old at 30 when I was 18"

Meme - Book: "How To Beat Boredom"
Contents: "Pick fights with random internet strangers to pass the time."
Man: "Hell yea"

Bangkok - Cesspool of the Orient | Twilight 2000 Wiki | Fandom - ""Bangkok is the first adventure/campaign sourcebook written especially for the revised Twilight: 2000 game system. It presents players and referees with a totally new and different background against which to adventure: Thailand. Bangkok describes the geography, climate, peoples, and culture of Thailand, giving maps of the major cities, a rundown on the three main political factions, and complete organizational details of the various armies. From the opium warlords of the Golden Triangle to the 'sea gypsies' of the Gulf of Thailand, from the primitive hill tribes of the northeast to the sophisticated mercantile/criminal syndicates of Bangkok itself, each region of the country is fully described. Each section also includes a short folio-type adventure set in that part of the country."