Links - 13th November 2024 (1 - General Wokeness)

Peter MacKinnon: UBC's equity-centred strategic plan for arts an attack on academic freedom - "the University of British Columbia’s dean of arts was “thrilled” to present an interim report addressing the needs of her faculty’s future. It envisions an equity-centred plan and emphasizes themes including reconciliation and decolonization, justice, equity and inclusion. It denounces current evaluations of merit as outdated and ableist, foresees merit in alignment with decolonizing efforts, and urges that inclusion and equity practices must be integral to merit, promotion and tenure decisions. This is a political agenda, not an academic one. If implemented it would entrench a vision from which departure would not be tolerated; indeed assessment, merit, promotion and tenure would depend upon adherence to it. The agenda is incompatible with academic freedom... A pluralist society features many differences about what good public policy entails, and universities should accommodate debate on them without committing their names to a side or sides in the debate. It is worth emphasizing and re-emphasizing that universities are about teaching and research and the institutional policies and supports that allow them to flourish. Among them are institutional independence and neutrality, which enable them to transcend differences in order to maintain wide and nonpartisan public support. Our universities have fallen short here — sometimes issuing statements on issues of the day, sometimes siding, or appearing to side, with anti-Israeli protesters, and occasionally committing themselves on social justice issues. Into this mix comes the leadership of UBC’s arts faculty with the political agenda described here. Arts faculty members should say no to the plan, or the university’s senior administration should do so."

Antiracism: vague politics about an nearly indescribable thing - "The contemporary discourse of “antiracism” is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality—whether they should be broadly recognized as evidence of “racism”— over specifying the mechanisms that produce them or even the steps that can be taken to combat them. And, no, neither “overcoming racism” nor “rejecting whiteness” qualifies as such a step any more than does waiting for the “revolution” or urging God’s heavenly intervention. If organizing a rally against racism seems at present to be a more substantive political act than attending a prayer vigil for world peace, that’s only because contemporary antiracist activists understand themselves to be employing the same tactics and pursuing the same ends as their predecessors in the period of high insurgency in the struggle against racial segregation. This view, however, is mistaken. The postwar activism that reached its crescendo in the South as the “civil rights movement” wasn’t a movement against a generic “racism;” it was specifically and explicitly directed toward full citizenship rights for black Americans and against the system of racial segregation that defined a specific regime of explicitly racial subordination in the South. The 1940s March on Washington Movement was also directed against specific targets, like employment discrimination in defense production. Black Power era and post-Black Power era struggles similarly focused on combating specific inequalities and pursuing specific goals like the effective exercise of voting rights and specific programs of redistribution. Whether or not one considers those goals correct or appropriate, they were clear and strategic in a way that “antiracism” simply is not... Ironically, as the basis for a politics, antiracism seems to reflect, several generations downstream, the victory of the postwar psychologists in depoliticizing the critique of racial injustice by shifting its focus from the social structures that generate and reproduce racial inequality to an ultimately individual, and ahistorical, domain of “prejudice” or “intolerance.”... All too often, “racism” is the subject of sentences that imply intentional activity or is characterized as an autonomous “force.” In this kind of formulation, “racism,” a conceptual abstraction, is imagined as a material entity. Abstractions can be useful, but they shouldn’t be given independent life.  I can appreciate such formulations as transient political rhetoric; hyperbolic claims made in order to draw attention and galvanize opinion against some particular injustice. But as the basis for social interpretation, and particularly interpretation directed toward strategic political action, they are useless. Their principal function is to feel good and tastily righteous in the mouths of those who propound them. People do things that reproduce patterns of racialized inequality, sometimes with self-consciously bigoted motives, sometimes not. Properly speaking, however, “racism” itself doesn’t do anything more than the Easter Bunny does. Yes, racism exists, as a conceptual condensation of practices and ideas that reproduce, or seek to reproduce, hierarchy along lines defined by race. Apostles of antiracism  frequently can’t hear this sort of statement, because in their exceedingly simplistic version of the nexus of race and injustice there can be only the Manichean dichotomy of those who admit racism’s existence and those who deny it. There can be only Todd Gitlin (the sociologist and former SDS leader who has become, both fairly and as caricature, the symbol of a “class-first” line) and their own heroic, truth-telling selves, and whoever is not the latter must be the former. Thus the logic of straining to assign guilt by association substitutes for argument.
From 2009

hoe_math on X - "Leftoids will look you straight in the eye and say some shit like: "All the things you like are wrong because society brainwashed you. You should let ME brainwash you instead. Here's my degree in Gay Crying.""

Meme - "The Fantasy Racism In Baldur's Gate 3 Affected Me More Than I Thought It Would"
*laughs in 40k*

Meme - Smash JT: "PC mods working overtime to save gaming
*Mid woman* *Attractive woman*
*Gay couple* *Straight couple*
*Black woman with zipped up sweater* *White woman exposing cleavage with unzipped sweater*"

Meme - mbuya nehanda’s risen bones ⚱️ @sucolorfavorito: "i did a workshop last week w/ a group of yt queer organizers and i told them that their so called « activist fatigue » is b/c they don’t have an embodied liberation practice they can draw from since they spend more time appropriating the knowledge systems of non-yt people instead"
i/o @eyeslasho: "This "she/her embodied afro-feminist" is getting "exhausted" by all the "yt" activists who refuse to "transformatively" purge their violent whiteness ("terror" and "theft" and "barbarism") and accept their subordinate role in the liberation struggles of the "non-yt" oppressed. "I reminded them as we finished the workshop with my latinx indigena partner in praxis..."   I promise you that this is a real quote."
Ron Stauffer @ronstauffer: "Me: impossible. That is 100% fake.
She/Her:"
mbuya nehanda's risen bones: "To survive. This is where I draw the line. I reminded them as we finished the workshop with my latinx indigena partner in praxis that we are ancestors in training more than 500 years of collaborative efforts & praxis between our African & indigenous communities."

malmesburyman on X - "In 2020 my white wife was intensely pressured by her white friends to be woke, not vote Trump. A white girl she knew from high school and hadn’t seen in years even sent her menacing DMs for “being silent” about Floyd on insta. White women went nuts for woke, and men won’t forget."

Fact Checker Eric on X - "Dems: "omg maga men pressure their wives to vote the way they want."
Dems: "I'd absolutely divorce you if you vote for the person I don't like.""
Jakethecrazy🦬 on X - "Every argument boils down to “it’s ok when we do it.”"
Fact Checker Eric on X - "Yes. Every contradiction comes down to them arguing that their analysis of the situation must be accepted and people aren't allowed to have their own analysis."

Glenn Greenwald on X - "A @Slate writer is confounded that JD Vance's wife, Usha, doesn't divorce him. She cannot comprehend how a non-white woman could stay with a conservative. Her ultimate answer: she's just obedient to her husband and identifies with her white oppressor."
Sarah Haider 👾 on X - "Widely shared view on the left, sadly. Beyond the toxic approach to relationships, it actively encourages political division. Having people you love disagree with you is a powerful moderating force for both parties.
I’m lucky that I have many family members who 1) disagree with me 2) wouldn’t abandon me.   I wish I could say the same about friends, but I also understand that leftists are under immense social pressure to cut off non-leftists, and it’s quite hard to stand up against that."

Melissa Chen on X - "I have so much contempt for the way some liberal women view racial minorities and the institutions of marriage & family.   This piece in Slate about Usha Vance (JD Vance’s wife) is a remarkable window into this mindset.   They despise marriage as a pillar that upholds white heterosexual supremacy.   They view minority women as tokenized pawns, and they are completely entitled to our “allegiance.”  And because Usha Vance doesn’t contradict her husband’s politics, they must write long think pieces analyzing why.  Never do they consider that our cultures - east and south Asian - might be more conservative than theirs; never do they consider that we can arrive to our own political conclusions, that we have agency and autonomy.   And even in the off-chance where we disagreed ideologically, they can’t seem to fathom that we would never think of prioritizing politics over our husbands and family."

Alison Somin on X - "Conflicted about which part of Usha Vance Slate article is more objectively insane:
A) that people should feel allegiance to their race or sex over their spouses;
B) that South Asians benefit from race preferences in admissions in Georgetown"

Meme - Erica Ifill @wickdchiq: "White men really fucked up this world"
Eddie Bacon @EddieBacon9: ""white men really fucked up this world..."
She wrote.....
- In English, the language of the white man
- on a computer invented by white men
- on the Internet, invented by white men
- with energy developed by white men living in a country civilized by white men.
- The freedom, the laws, the culture, without which she is nothing, were created by white men.
The hair straightener that she uses every day to approximate the white ideal of beauty, on the other hand, was invented by a black person"

Jake 🇺🇸 on X - "Harvard prof finds that using "Latinx" causes Hispanics to shift their votes to Trump. Concludes that "gender-inclusive language" is nonetheless important and recommends "political education" in order to get Hispanics to support superfluous neologisms. Nothing wrong with academia at all!"

Thread by @mfrmarcel on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Why are Latinos voting for Trump? @asdurso and I explain part of the puzzle in a new working paper. We show Latinos have backlashed against Democratic politicians due to their usage of, and association with, the gender-inclusive group label "Latinx". "Latinx," a gender-inclusive phrase used to explicitly include gender minorities and broader LGBTQ+ community segments, has become increasingly salient over time: more internet search interest, academic/media usage, and, importantly, usage by Democratic Party politicians. We develop an Identity-Expansion-Backlash Theory and predict, the use of inclusive group labels may have limited electoral benefit while alienating group members predisposed against the inclusivity of the marginalized intra-group subset. We find evidence supporting the theory. Using several cross-sectional and panel datasets, we show opposition to “Latinx” is negatively associated with support for Democratic Party politicians. These associations are driven by conservative and anti-LGBTQ+ Latinos. Moreover, we use a large sample of Latinos surveyed after the 2020 election to show that Latinos living in areas where “Latinx” was more salient pre-election are more likely to switch their vote to Trump between 2016-2020. This association is driven by anti-gay Latinos. Finally, we use toplines and a pre-registered survey experiment to provide causal evidence that politicians who use "Latinx" (instead of "Latino") to refer to Latinos garner less support from segments of the Latino community who are predisposed against LGBTQ+ people. Amanda and I think we should still be using gender-inclusive language. The problem for Democrats is that segments of the Latino community that are queerphobic and would otherwise support them are less likely to do so if queerness is made salient through inclusive language. Ultimately, the solution to the problem we’ve diagnosed requires thinking beyond electoral politics, e.g. political education meant to root out queerphobia in Latino communities, a very difficult solution for social scientists to develop, evaluate, and put into practice."
Jesse Singal on X - "I don't mean this in a snarky way, but it's very interesting to me that a researcher can write a paper on a politically sensitive subject that comes to an 'inconvenient' conclusion, and then turn around and make a sweeping claim about a very large community with no evidence!"
I like how the prescription is mass social engineering

JohnMazing on X - "Remember when they used to claim they just want to be left alone to live their lives?"
Eric S. Raymond on X - "Yeah, I remember. I miss those days. I was a gay-rights supporter, back when the pitch was "we just want to be left alone to live our lives". For some of them, that was the truth. I have gay friends who are pretty normal, if one discounts what they like to do with their  genitals. I value them.  Unfortunately, normalizing homosexuality also enabled a lot of disgusting, perverted freaks who prey on children. I hate it that social conservatives turned out to be right about this."
Eric S. Raymond on X - "It turns out that "pervert" is a meaningful category, not just a prude hate-word.  This is one of the more disturbing things I've learned in this century. All sexual-targeting disorders are comorbid; having any one of them significantly increases the probability that you will also have others.  It is likely, though not yet established, that all sexual-targeting disorders are minor variations on a single minimal-brain-damage syndrome affecting the specific portion of the limbic system that does arousal and desire. The statistical correlations certainly seem to suggest this.  This is one of the things that libertarian me was extremely annoyed to discover social conservatives had been right about all along. The reasons for their beliefs were usually insane (as in, anyone who uses the word "God" in this context is insane) but the beliefs themselves were predictively sound.   Yes, if we let homosexuals fly their freak flag freely, a significant percentage of them *will* in fact come after your children. And they'll scream "bigot" if you try to stop them.   I was happier when I didn't know this."

Meme - Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1: "It's now considered "racism" to say that stopping theft is a bad thing...and the post claiming as much gets tens of millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes  You can't have a country when most of the population thinks laws exist only to be broken, and are supported in that delusion by a major political party  What you have then is South Africa, which is hell on earth for normal people  The South Africanization of America is plodding on"
Dene @DeneCymone: "White people really think God left them in charge omg"
non aesthet: "Man confronting shoplifters as they try to leave in Downey, California"

Meme - Wanjiru Njoya @WanjiruNjoya: "No one ever says black men are overrepresented in black countries or Indian men are overrepresented in Indian countries, etc  It's always "white men are overrepresented in white countries".  Where does the Christian Post want white men to go?"
Frank DeScushin @FrankDeScushin: "White men are recognizing the end goal of the crusade against white males is to wrest from them the societies white men built. They know they must pushback on that crusade now before it’s too late. To stifle that pushback, we get articles like this."
The Christian Post: "The strange emergence of the woke right. First, they, too, believe that modern American culture is constituted by a hierarchy of power. But straight white (Christian) men are not at the to this hierarchy. Rather, they are at the bottom As a result, some on the woke right openly call for white racial solidarity on behalf of white identity politics. This may seem strange given that white men are disproportionately overrepresented within the government, the corporate world, and academia and hold far more wealth than their non-white, female counterparts. Yet their belief makes sense given how they view power."
I've seen left wingers hate on the Christian Post. When you hate Christians so much you don't realise they can support your ideology...

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "America was built on the vision and ingenuity of its mostly-European settlers. It wasn't built on the unpaid labor of cotton and tobacco pickers or the retreats and defeats of primitive tribal groups. The only crime is that this obvious truth isn't supposed to be spoken."
🕊️historienne gauchère🌺 #FreeKashmir🍁 #OneKorea on X - "The United States was built on the dual genocides of Indigenous peoples & African slaves brought to the U.S. in chains. 🥀"

🕊️historienne gauchère🌺 #FreeKashmir🍁 #OneKorea on X - "The United States was built on the dual genocides of Indigenous peoples & African slaves brought to the U.S. in chains. 🥀"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Slavery produced about 6-9% of US GDP, by any standard measure, until it's end in 1865."

Strategist says Greens losing older millennial voters as MP vows to listen after Queensland election result : r/australian
Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather says party will have an 'honest look' at its policies after Queensland election - "the party has faced criticism that its state-level decline has been caused by the stance of federal MPs — particularly Mr Chandler-Mather — on issues such as housing, the conflict in the Middle East and support for the militant construction union CFMEU... Kos Samaras, Redbridge Group pollster, said the collapse of the Greens vote had also happened in the New South Wales local government election and recently in the ACT state election.  "What we're seeing, not just in Queensland, but across the country is this phenomenon which is they have an in-out problem," he said. "They're losing voters amongst older millennials and they seem to have deliberately embarked on a national strategy of trying to appeal to younger voters between 18 and 34 years old.  "That strategy is predicated on being a lot more radical in policy areas like foreign affairs and coming across as really, really aggressive towards the Labor party, and that kind of disenfranchises older progressives."... John Mickel, QUT adjunct associate professor and former Queensland Labor speaker, said the party has created a gap in its support base by moving away from traditional environmental policies... "These are people who will accept them on the environment but will not accept them on their extremism in relation to the Middle East, CFMEU and quite frankly some of the absurdities with their platform.  "They were saying no new coal and gas projects on one page, but on the next page promising to open up a state-owned mine [for critical minerals].  "Under any yard stick, in this election, they have failed and failed dismally.""
Even young people don't support the whole left wing agenda

Thread by @JohnDSailer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In 2022, a paper drawing from “critical whiteness studies" analyzed how "whiteness" shows up in Physics 101—concluding that, among other things, the use of whiteboards perpetuate whiteness in physics.  Here's what's crazy: this "research" was funded by the federal government. 🧵
But first: what's Critical Whiteness Studies?  Per the article, it's a research framework that starts with the assumption that omnipresent, invisible whiteness pervades our ordinary interactions and institutions to ensure "white dominance." It's a bold starting point—with more than a hint of racial animosity. Applied to physics, it gets weird.  The article finds that the values of "abstractness" and "disembodiment" in physics ("physics values") reify whiteness and reflect human domination and entitlement.  It goes on to declare that, yes, even whiteboards "play a role in reconstituting whiteness as social organization."  They do this by "collaborat[ing] with white organizational culture" where ideas gain value "when written down."  Again, this is funded by, well, you...
Look at the National Science Foundation's recent budget requests: The federal agency has spent a quarter-billion-dollars annually on it's "Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM."  That doesn't account for projects on race and equity funded by other division.  Thus, "Observing whiteness in introductory physics" was funded by the National Science Foundation. It was a part of a half million dollar project unpacking which "strategies, tools, and materials" contribute to marginalization. This sort of research is the most noticeable consequence of the NSF's now-well-documented push to fund social justice projects.  But, in my latest, I argue that it's not by any means the most consequential, and it's why I'm not at all convinced that "wokeness" has peaked."

Protestia on X - ""Shame on you and your daddy and your granddaddy and your great granddaddy and all the black women they raped." Pastor Charlie Dates blasts evangelicals for trying to tell them they should be voting for the GOP"
Wokal Distance on X - "What the left calls "Social Justice" largely proceeds through emotional appeals based on tribalism and blood guilt fueled by baseless accusations. It's evil."

Cardi B on X - "I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know not one thing about the American struggle…. PS fix my algorithm"
Kiwi Bear on X - "Immigrant parents. Given food, money, housing from citizens. Allowed to become rich and famous "System was set up against me""

gal debored on X - "I love the phrase “doing the work.” What is “the work?” Reading a book? Putting up a yard sign? Seeing a therapist? And how did “doing the work” become doing politics? And what are you working toward? Absolution? Good luck. Also: not politics."
Tyler Austin Harper on X - "We are in the middle of a resurgent New Age movement, and the do-the-work sloganeering and related anti-racist soul-searching are repackaged ideas from the 60s and 70s. My view is that the best way to understand wokeness is not as a religion but as a New Age therapeutic movement."

Kat Rosenfield on X - "I wrote an essay a few years ago about how wokeness is the new self-help, particularly in its appeal to upper middle class white women who *love* to pay to be told there’s something wrong with them"
Tyler Austin Harper on X - "My Lacanian reading is that people who love anti-racist self-flagellation are neurotics: “The true object sought out by the neurotic is a demand that he wants to be asked of him.” Being told how to fix your inner evil is preferable to uncertainty about who you are or how to live."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "The politics and gender of self-loathing among American adolescents."
"Self-Derogation (USA 12th Graders)
Liberal Girls, Liberal Boys, Conservative Girls, Conservative Boys"
The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs

i/o on X - "When a UK Labour Party member debating Christopher Hitchens in 2005 claimed that 9/11 was just comeuppance for Western imperialism (and received applause from the audience for his remark), Hitchens responded: "This is masochism but it is being offered to you by sadists.""
Left wingers just hate the West

Kathleen Stock on X - "I don't think I could be any more disgusted with tendency of many high-profile women to put on their best primary school teacher voices and usher through terrifyingly stupid, morally bankrupt policies under the guise of "kindness"."

Meme - Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley: "The hostility towards motherhood and children from the Left is palpable"
"The New York Times. Maternal Instinct Is a Myth That Men Created"
Left wing anti-natalism

Ann Sinnott on X - "'Scouts have been encouraged to use gender-neutral language & drop the terms “mum and dad”. Members have been encouraged to guide children through a card game called “Pronoun Pairs”, which has been devised as a way of teaching them about gender identity.'"
The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 on X - "One thing that I used to dismiss as a right wing conspiracy but now realize is absolutely correct was this idea that far left ideologies under the Marxist umbrella are primarily intended to destroy the family unit, ostensibly to make room for the State to take it's place. Once you realize it you see it everywhere."

Links - 12th November 2024 (2 - General Wokeness)

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "A French left-wing MP was arrested for buying 3-MMC, a designer drug, and stated that he was planning on using it during a chemsex orgy. His allies are saying that this enforcing the law on him is homophobic because chemsex orgies are part of LGBT culture."
Mathieu Guglielmino on X - "Tous ceux qui lui tombent dessus sont des imbéciles qui n'ont rien compris. Le chemsex est sûrement un des derniers endroits où la communauté LGBT peut se retrouver, apprendre, partager, dans un contexte intergénérationnel, là où l'hétérosexualité a détruit tous nos lieux. Qu'ils aillent se faire foutre ! Et courage à Andy, qu'il veuille arrêter, ou non."
I thought it was homophobic to say that queer people are sexual deviants

Diana S. Fleischman on X - "Becoming a mom has made me more conservative overall- I'm more safety conscious and have a stronger preference for similar people who are reliable and have good judgement. I like religious people and moms way more. I'm more ambivalent about immigration. I was very annoyed by antisocial behavior before but now I get livid and want people who scare my kids to suffer. But, I'm relieved that I've become no more paternalistic. I still think that if people want to kill themselves, see prostitutes, take heroin or dress as leather puppies in public, I don't really care. I'm somewhat more sympathetic to pro-life views, namely that people in a majority pro-life state should be able to make abortion illegal in their state. But I myself would still not make abortion illegal up to 18 weeks. I'm still not very worried about progressive teachers preaching their views to students, kids socially transitioning, or kids acquiring weird views from their peer group. I am much more heartbroken about children being bullied by other kids or being unable to learn because of a bad school environment. I have the somewhat unpopular view that people with children in foster care or active drug addictions should be given incentives to contraception, but I had that view before."
Why the left is anti-natalist

i/o on X - "I've long speculated that the "extremism" Elon Musk seeks is basically the 1990s Democratic Party: Controlled borders, pro-growth economy, balanced budgets, relative peace abroad, free speech, and public schools not teaching students to hate their country and race and sex."
wanye on X - "A critical aspect of my self-conception and a reason that most liberal insults don't affect me that much is that you're not going to gaslight me into thinking my beliefs, which resemble those of 90s Democrats, are "racist" or "fascist." I was alive. It wasn't that long ago."
The cope is that the world has "progressed", and that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice

Meme - Veronica @celestialbe1ng: "Not long ago, someone argued that progesterone, the hormone that skyrockets during pregnancy, can fix gayness (because being gay is a metabolic issue caused by your mother’s stressed state and inadequate progesterone during pregnancy), and I can’t stop thinking about it"
AF Post @AFpost: "Grimes says she became "way less gay" after pregnancy.  Follow: @AFpost"
Why are there so many "lesbians" who sleep with men, or even marry them?

Labour candidate told she was 'not a proper Muslim' because of western name - "A Labour candidate was told that she was not a proper Muslim because she had a Western first name, she has revealed.  Heather Iqbal was heavily defeated in Dewsbury and Batley by Iqbal Mohamed, after a campaign she said was characterised by “intimidation”.  Ms Iqbal said Mr Mohamed’s supporters chased her down the street and shouted that she was a “child murderer” and a “genocide agent”, while a loudspeaker van blared out the message that Labour was a Zionist party. In an interview with The Telegraph, Ms Iqbal revealed she had to stop taking her baby son out with her when she knocked on doors because of the heated nature of the campaign.  She said Muslim Labour members in Dewsbury were under huge pressure to quit the party because of its stance on Gaza, with their children bullied at school for having a parent in Labour. Her testimony provides a worrying insight into the kind of sectarian politics apparently on the rise in parts of the UK in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. The news came as Labour gathered for its annual conference. On Sunday, delegates had to pass a large and noisy group of pro-Palestinian activists to enter the venue... Ms Ramsay said she reported independent supporters to the police on three occasions. On one occasion, while a small group was canvassing in a Muslim area of Batley, an independent supporter ran up and “very aggressively shouted at us that we weren’t welcome in that area”.  “He collected leaflets from some of the doors that we had delivered to. He said it was an independent area; if we didn’t get out he would be calling people so that they would remove us.  “We were the genocidal party, we were responsible for the death of women and children. We were supporting the killing of babies, we were Zionist.” The police were called, but did not come.  Elsewhere in Batley, she said, Ms Iqbal was campaigning with members of her family and some other Muslim activists who had stuck with Labour.   “There was a man who was saying to them that they’re not good Muslims,” said Ms Ramsay. “If they’re Muslims they need to re-look at their faith because of the genocide. "
This is also why the left support fundamentalist, extremist Muslims and Islamists. To be an authentic Muslim, you can't be modern, integrated and/or liberal
Time to protect Muslims by cracking down on Islamophobia by jailing the "far right"

We Need to Talk About Gay Sex in Space
???

Meme - Cascadian Barbarian @CascadianDennis: "Ever notice how white people have been raising their kids to not see race, while everyone else has been raising their kids to hate them?"

Meme - "The Genecuck
Refuses to breed so his ideological enemies' children have a future
Sets himself on fire to raise awareness of a conflict no one cares about
Bicycle got stolen yesterday, but is okay with it because the robber was probably happier than he would be with a bike
Rushes to defend the honor of women who think he's kinda gross ant
Favorite insult is incel; has not had sex with a willing partner in 11 years.
Believes representation matters, unless you're white and male
Donated to Bernie Sanders twice"

i/o on X - "Only 3% of "progressive activists" are black. Except for the most conservative category in the US ("devoted conservatives"), progressives are the least racially diverse group in the country. And they are tied for being the richest.
Progressives remind me of Lenin's "vanguard of the proletariat" — affluent and privileged authoritarians that claim to speak for and act in the interests of the unenlightened unwashed masses."
Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape

Magills on X - "Jeff Bezos watched his ex wife blow a billion dollars of his fortune on Left Wing causes and did the funniest thing ever"
i/o on X - "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, nor like that of the ex-husband of the scorned woman when he sees that $357,000 of his ex-money got donated to the Queer Theater Ensemble of Omaha to stage a reimagining of Death of a Salesman in which Biff is a disabled Chicanx transwoman."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Psychology can't replicate its research findings largely because the field is contaminated by "social justice" and equalitarian concerns.  But its two most politically incorrect findings — IQ and stereotype accuracy — have no problem reliably and robustly replicating."
Charles @JiffjoffI: "Reminder that when the replication crisis came for psychology and almost washed away all of its empirical work - the most controversial / offensive work is what withstood the wave with robust results, large sample sizes and effects (intelligence research, stereotype accuracy)"
"1. Over 50 studies have now been performed assessing the accuracy of demographic, national, political, and other stereotypes.
2. Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology. Richard et al (2003) found that fewer than 5% of all effects in social psychology exceeded r's of .50. In contrast, nearly all consensual stereotype accuracy correlations and about half of all personal stereotype accuracy correlations exceed .50
3. The evidence from both experimental and naturalistic studies indicates that people apply their stereotypes when judging others approximately rationally. When individuating information is absent or ambiguous, stereotypes often influence person perception. When individuating information is clear and relevant, its effects are "massive" (Kunda & Thagard, 1996, yes, that is a direct quote, p. 292), and stereotype effects tend to be weak or nonexistent. This puts the lie to longstanding claims that "stereotypes lead people to ignore individual differences."
4. There are only a handful of studies that have examined whether the situations in which people rely on stereotypes when judging individuals increases or reduces person perception accuracy. Although those studies typically show that doing so increases person perception accuracy, there are too few to reach any general conclusion, Nonetheless, that body of research provides no support whatsoever for the common presumption that the ways and conditions under which people rely on stereotypes routinely reduces person perception accuracy."

Ayishat Akanbi on X - "It’s naive to think that you wouldn’t have taken part in historical atrocities once considered normal if you embrace all the trendy ideas of today."

Old lefties need to grow up - "On hearing this week that a purple-haired Extinction Rebellion activist (keen on vintage clothes and ‘fantastic sex’) had suggested that Baby Boomers should be ‘euthanised’ as revenge for their contributions to climate change, I expected the culprit to be the usual fresh-faced millennial who we’ve all become bored of being scolded by. But on seeing photographs of 59-year-old (only three years younger than me) Jessica Townsend, it all made even more recognisably ludicrous sense, despite her comment supposedly being a joke. (Would she have made it about any other group? No. Therefore it wasn’t a joke.) For she is one of the growing tribe of left-wing old people who identify as Forever Young... When men used to be accused of having the male menopause, we mocked them as sad old salary men, keen to get hold of the fast car and the foxy girlfriend after a lifetime of wage slavery – but lefties, bohos and artists are just as bad."

Venice Pride Festival vendor causes uproar over ‘icebreaker’ display - "A gay pride festival last weekend at a Venice city park is causing a firestorm after photos of a vendor’s booth showing openly displayed sex toys surfaced on a website and social media... “The City was very disappointed to learn that some of the actual event activities did not align with the approved event description. The City of Venice was not informed of and did not approve the details of these activities,” the statement said... Roger Capote, CAN’s vice president of marketing, also told ABC7 his organization did not know the event was being billed as “family friendly.” Had they known that, they would have brought a different activity to display."
How convenient

Meme - Evil (Political) Scientist @knrd_z: "Liberals are so smart they can't draw inferences from their own very simple bar charts-- the higher a field's intellectual floor the *more* conservative it is."
evan loves wort @esjesjesj: "Yeah this is because conservatives are legitimately dumber"
Elon Musk: "Wow "
Meme - The Rabbit Hole: "Democrats dominate academia"
"PROFESSORS ARE DEMOCRATS. Therefore, "experts" are Democrats too.
*Descending order of Democratic percentage* Communications Anthropology Religion English Sociology Art Music Theater Classics Geoscience Environmental Language Biology Philosophy History Psychology Poli Sci Computers Physics Mathematics Professional Economics Chemistry Engineering"
So if fewer black people go to university, this means that they "are legitimately dumber", right?

Wilfred Reilly on X - "There are people among us who "believe" that ~2pt political IQ gaps are the reason 100% of Anthropologists are Democrats."
All the evidence of discrimination against conservatives must be fake

Meme - Alexander @datepsych: "Also interesting in this chart - most psychologists of both sexes believe to some extent that:
1. Sex is binary.
2. Sexually coercive behavior is an evolved adaptation.
3. There are evolved psychological sex differences."
Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Contrary the the impression one gets, male academics are quite open to the possibility that genetics can contribute to racial IQ differences (in anonymous polls). There is a large gender gap, with female academics being far more skeptical."
"Supplemental Figure S1. Gender Differences in Taboo Beliefs Among Psychology Professors"

Meme - The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84: "Woke: White privilege causes the wage gap.
Feminists: Male privilege causes the wage gap.
Asian Women: What wage gap?"
"Median Weekly Earnings of Full-Time Workers Asian Women vs. White Men"

The Problem With 'Problematic' - The Atlantic - "Academics like me love to describe things as “problematic.” But what do we mean? We’re not saying that the thing in question is unsolvable or even difficult. We’re saying—or implying—that it is objectionable in some way, that it rests uneasily with our prior moral or political commitments... In principle, every usage of the term problematic should be followed by an explanation. Is the situation or person in question unjust, immoral, or unfair? Racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted? Wrongheaded, perhaps, or just plain wrong? All too often, the explanation never comes. Snark artists on Tumblr have parodied pretentious, pejorative uses of problematic for years. Yet today, they are as popular in mainstream publications as with professors. According to a recent article in Scientific American, JEDI is “problematic” as an acronym for “Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” initiatives because, among other issues, the Jedi protagonists in Star Wars employ “toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution.” Elsewhere, we’re told that the facial features of Bond villains are “problematic” because they cast aspersions on people with disfigurements, or that West Virginia’s long history with the coal industry is “problematic”—at least, according to members of the Rockefeller family. Which other academic buzzword can boast of going so decisively and pervasively mainstream?... We ultimately owe problematic, however, not to Foucault, but to his Marxist colleague Louis Althusser, for whom the phrase la problematique described a structured, theoretical system through which ideas are processed. Incidentally, Althusser also strangled his wife, Hélène Rytmann, to death in 1980. The fact that many who embrace his terminology today would now reflexively describe Althusser himself as “problematic”—instead of “misogynistic” or “violent”—illustrates how successfully the word has slipped the bonds of social theory to become an all-purpose term not of art but of opprobrium.  Problematic may have escaped the academy, but scholars and teachers still bear a lot of responsibility for its current use. Like any casual Twitter user, academics use problematic as an innuendo, or better yet, an “insinuendo.” Rhetorically, this usage divides our audiences between those who know already what our commitments are—in many cases because, on a politically homogeneous campus, they share them—and so are presumptively in the know about what we find objectionable. To this audience, problematic indicates where the problem is; they do not need to be told what it is... In effect, problematic communicates that those who don’t share our commitments at the outset are not worth arguing with, let alone persuading. It relies on a subtle sort of bullying in place of mutual justification. It excludes, rather than explains... Academics are also human beings, often with imposter syndrome, and we come to rely on words such as problematic precisely because they are vague enough to preempt objection. Students, especially, would rather agree with us than admit that they don’t understand what we mean.  In this way, problematic is highly efficient. But it is also disastrous for learning.  This is why I find the word problematic to be, well, problematic"

Edited for spelling mistake: Does anyone else feel left out by SCSU? They only seem to talk about Muslim, black, or Palestinian problems, I've never seen them venture far from these 3 focuses unless it's to appear like they support "equality". : r/UTSC - "the sooner people realize that SCSU’s version of equality is equality for their own only and not others, the sooner you’ll learn that they have very specific agendas. I have friends that wrote a group letter to SCSU a while back about the possibility of speaking out against asian hate and asian blaming for covid, not a single reply or acknowledgment. I have a friend who wrote an anonymous letter on addressing anti-semitic intimidation and again, silence. This group isnt after equality"
This is the Scarborough Campus Students' Union

John Tillman on X - "Everyone wonders why Kamala can’t answer questions confidently and coherently.   Meanwhile, Donald Trump and JD Vance do dozens and dozens of interviews, long form and short, riffing easily on a vast array of subjects.   But I know why:  She fails Because she has no core beliefs other than doctrinaire progressivism that she knows are out of step with voters.   Riffing on those beliefs will tick off some swaths of voters she needs.   So she is frozen and trying steer the verbiage.   Trump and Vance have a worldview well settled; they are confident in their beliefs and confident a majority of voters agree if they are well persuaded.   The two tickets are not the same."
Colin Wright on X - "Before I became publicly anti-woke, being part of the Left and in academia felt like being in a verbal prison. Social gatherings became tense, especially with new attendees, as everyone knew that uttering even a single word considered potentially insensitive could trigger a meltdown.  The more Kamala speaks, the likelier she is to stumble over one of the many invisible lexical tripwires that surround her. And when she does speak, her words must be carefully rehearsed, as deviating from the script could be extremely costly."
UniquelyDefined🦎 on X - "When I was a radical leftist I was constantly engaged in keeping up with the current language and popular views because it was necessary to keep signaling allegiance properly. At first I liked it because it felt like education, but over time it felt like indoctrination."
Colin Wright on X - ""At first I liked it because it felt like education, but over time it felt like indoctrination." This is an important point. The woke disguise their ideology as education. They present 100 "gender identities" or use clownfish and seahorses to discuss transgenderism in humans while pretending they're teaching biology.  Kids, and unfortunately many adults, can't tell the difference."

Philip Cross: Young people are embracing conservatism. What does that mean for the future? - "Rising support for conservative politicians and ideas among young people reflects several trends. Most obvious is that many reject the radical woke agenda espoused by a small but vocal minority. When confronted with the reality of an economy that is not generating the jobs, incomes and housing they desire, they prioritize results over ideology. That’s especially true for young people who came to Canada for economic reasons. Unfortunately, the importance young people put on results is driving many to question the usefulness of democracy. In his 2023 book The Fourth Turning Is Here , historian Neil Howe cites polls showing one in four young Americans would prefer a dictatorial president unconstrained by Congress, while only one in 10 Americans over 65 agrees. Howe’s analysis is based on the proposition that historical movements occur in cyclical ebbs and flows rather than straight lines. After a career spent studying business cycles, I find this argument intuitively appealing. There are regular cycles in financial markets and the economy, partly because long periods of prosperity and bullish financial conditions lull people into under-estimating the risks of a downturn. This complacency inevitably precipitates the sort of risky decisions that trigger a slump. As economist Hyman Minsky wrote, “Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure … Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer they are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.”"

Leonid Sirota: Defunding universities will not rid them of wokeism - "both the professor he focuses on and far too many others are activists who have, in Jerema’s words, thrown rigour “out the window.” Most Canadian law schools ― and there is little reason to think law schools are exceptional in this regard ― are monocultures. Many are open about imposing ideological litmus tests in hiring. Just this week, the University of British Columbia’s Peter A. Allard School of Law published a job posting that requires applicants to provide a “statement describing current and future commitments or interests related to equity, diversity and inclusion as well as decolonization.” Dissidents need not apply. I have faced this sort of ideological discrimination myself. There are many reasons why, despite being Canadian and focusing most of my academic writing on Canadian law, I teach constitutional law in the United Kingdom, but my failure to toe the progressive line is one of them. Never mind the many law schools where I simply have not bothered applying because, like UBC, they are explicit about their intention to discriminate. I have been questioned about my political opinions in a job interview ― at a law school in a province where discrimination on the basis political opinion is against the law. At a different law school, which did not bother interviewing me for a job I was thoroughly qualified for, a friendly insider told me that, “The winds in constitutional law blow in a different direction.” So I’m open to the view that Canadian academia is rotten to the core. I am also open to the view that higher education is simply something students should pay for themselves, without taxpayer support. There is a case for defunding the universities on libertarian principles. Good luck making it to middle-class parents who want the wealthy (who pay more tax than they) and the poor (whose children are less likely to attend university) to subsidize their offspring’s education."

Amy Hamm: Shut up, British Columbians: our province now has its very own Online Harms Act - "British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal (HRT) — the same forum that achieved international notoriety in 2019 for considering if the state should force women to handle male genitals against their will — is at it again. This time, the quasi-judicial body has ruled in its own favour that it has the authority to regulate the online speech of B.C. residents... Take activist group Lawyers Against Transphobia, who’ve asserted in a newly-published handbook on alleged — and wholly imagined, as far as I’m concerned — transphobia in B.C. schools that a “common transphobic belief” is that “there are only two sexes: male and female.” They go on to encourage any victims who land within earshot of a transphobic thought criminal espousing such basic scientific knowledge to lodge human rights tribunal complaints. It’s a rigged system. The activists in our province know full well that our provincial human rights tribunal is in ideological alignment with their fringe views. One of the intervenors in Neufeld’s case, for instance, was the province’s Human Rights Commissioner, Kasari Govender. She argued in favour of the tribunal increasing their powers: “The Tribunal’s decision… will help to ensure that many people in B.C. who have been targeted by online hate speech are able to access justice. As the Tribunal has acknowledged, the internet is a significant part of our daily lives and a medium where harmful content can spread quickly and with profound consequences. I am glad to see that complainants can rely on B.C.’s human rights law when discriminatory content is published online,” Govender said. No ruling has been made as to whether Neufeld’s online speech was discriminatory — but the commissioner, by all appearances, has suggested that a guilty verdict is the foregone conclusion. That is chilling, both of spines and speech. It’s obvious: Malicious and vexatious activists will use this new jurisdictional ruling to either intimidate or bludgeon political opponents into silence. It is an intolerable attack on the free speech of Canadians — and must be overturned. We already know that our human rights tribunals are staffed (primarily) by the remotest fanatics of the political left, and that they hold a proven track record of ideological bias. They’re likely salivating over the Neufeld ruling — like foxes granted managerial powers over a hen house. Notably, one of the tribunal members who issued this ruling included Devyn Cousineau, the same member who ruled on the infamous testicle waxing cases. Back then, Cousineau referred to transwomen having their male bits stripped of hair as “critical gender affirming care.”... Lawyer Lisa Bildy, who defends Canadians’ civil liberties, told me in an email interview that she is concerned that other provinces could enact legislation to follow in B.C.’s footsteps... "If we must have human rights tribunals at all, their jurisdiction should be limited to discriminatory acts in the provision of services, and not to speech. It is far too ripe for abuse”"
"Hate speech" is good when it pushes the left wing agenda, of course, like calling for the genocide of Jews, in which case free speech becomes sacrosanct

Trump Supporters / LBJ vs Trump / Trump is Hitler

"If Trump is the fear mongering evil man that the media is constantly telling us ..
Then why aren't his followers the ones killing cops, destroying property, looting stores and assaulting innocent bystanders?"

Trump with National Association of Black Journalists: "I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln ..."

Rachel Scott: "Even better than President Johnson, who signed the voting act?"

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. -LBJ

"I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -LBJ

"WELL
WELL
WELL

Trump and Hitler actually both drank water. Literally frightening that people will vote for this man. So dangerous."

Links - 12th November 2024 (1)

Meme - "Traditional: *Traditional Chinese character for love* I <3 you
Simplified: *Simplified Chinese character for love* Friendzoned"

Meme - "She's been in a coma and won't wake up"
"She's Italian right? I like to put hot water in the pot before boiling it then I snap my dried spaghetti in half before I put it in the pot"
*Wakes up*

Meme - "Saw this in a FB Group
I should be expecting a call from CPS soon. My son had one assignment and clearly he didn't understand it. Worst mom of the year goes to me. he really couldn't think of nothing positive #GrowingUpInTheHood"
"Sayings/phrases that were/are often repeated in your family
when we get in this store you better not touch anything
I brought you in this world and I could take you out
Imma give you sum to cry about"

Meme - "r/TrueOffMyChest
My coworker is a totally normal person and he fascinates me.
 He has no mental health problems like everyone else here and most of the other people in my life. He isn't on any meds, he's physically healthy. I've had to explain my panic attacks, anxiety, my meds, being overwhelmed by basically everything and so much more to him because he's never experienced/heard of them.  Almost everyone I know is a mess and the contrast between them, myself and him is amazing to me. It's like he's a machine.  Just some other things: He's never late to work, he doesn't over sleep, he doesn't have trouble sleeping.  He doesn't have meltdowns/tantrums/outbursts or shutdowns  He isn't allergic to anything and he has no food sensitivities, or at least none that he knows of.  He works out every day, either at home or the gym.  He has no chronic health issues  He doesn't get stuck or freeze or get trapped in a loop  He can drive without issue and knows how to get to where he wants to go without his phone. Detours don't cause him any issues.  If things don't go to plan or have to change or just fall apart he just adapts and moves on.  He can just talk to people, males, females, just casual conversation.  If a big choice has to be made he just makes it.  He does what he says he'll do when he says he'll do it the way he says he'll do it.  He can solve problems, there's no googling no looking it up, he just knows.  He doesn't keep his phone on him all day. He just puts it away and has no need to look at it.  He doesn't use social media, he doesn't follow it, he doesn't care about it."
This is probably a left winger

Meme - "And the award for the best sugar company name goes to ...
Daddy"

Meme - Lamar Jackson Stan Account @in_A_YamChele: "my nephew is 13 and starting to ask girls on dates. so he asked my brother what was the best way to ask a girl on a date and he told him to find something they were both interested in and ask if she wanted to do it. so my nephew asked the girl if she liked chicken nuggets."

Meme - "On this day Rebecca decided to start saving for a car
*Woman looking bemused as black guy gets blowjob in the bus row behind her*"

Meme - Hot Takes Nobody Asked For: "virginia heffernan is a journalist for wired."
Virginia Heffernan @page88: "There's something oily about describing your kids, every time, as "beautiful.""
Left wing anti-natalism strikes again
Her surname is Irish, so

Meme - "Scientists then: I can't wait for someone to try to disprove my findings
Scientists now: If you challenge anything I say than that's hate speech"

Meme - "19th century scientist: I must find the explanation for this phenomenon in order to truly understand Nature...
21st centurt scientist: I must get the result that fits my narrative so I can get my paper into Nature.."

Meme - Thought Police to Woman in House: "WE SAW YOUR MEME STEP OUTSIDE!"

Curator Finds Murphy Bed's Place in American History - "Inventor William Lawrence Murphy (1856-1957) began tinkering with hideaway beds while living in a one-room apartment in San Francisco in the late 19th century. He was falling for a young opera singer and courting customs at that time would not permit a lady to enter a gentleman's bedroom. But according to family legend, Murphy's limited finances and a strict moral code didn't spoil his chance at love. His invention allowed him to stow his bed in his closet, transforming his one-room apartment from a bedroom into a parlor.  The couple married in 1900."

Yakhchāls – Meybod, Iran - "Though they look like giant clay beehives, these structures in the deserts of Persia were used to make something much more needed and much harder to come by there than honey in ancient times: ice.  Yakhchāls, ancient evaporation coolers, came into being around 400 BC. The giant conical structures allowed ice to be made and collected during the colder months and used throughout the year for things like preserving food and making faloodeh, a traditional Persian frozen dessert made with thin noodles and semi-frozen syrup."

Meme - George RR Martin: "Gandalf should have stayed dead.."
Theoden: "When last I looked, Tolkien, not Martin was the author of LOTR..."

Throwback Thursday: No, expensive running shoes do not lead to 123% increase in injuries

8 years after declaring it took 'courage' to remove the iPhone's headphone jack, Apple has finally decided buttons and ports are cool again - "It took courage to release the MacBook Air, a computer so thin it could house only two USB ports. It took courage to remove the iPhone's multifunctional home button. It took courage to start selling Earpods that only worked with the iPhone's proprietary lightning cable once the headphone jack was gone, and it took even more courage to sell some pricey new Bluetooth headphones at the same time. It took courage to release a MacBook with a keyboard so bad it clearly played second fiddle to making the design just a touch thinner (and cost the company $50 million in a class action lawsuit). It took courage to finally update the iPhone to USB-C—and then saddle it with USB 2.0 transfer speeds from, literally, the year 2000.  But y'know, it also takes courage to admit when you're wrong. And while Apple didn't say it was wrong while unveiling its new iPhones this year—admitting you ever made a mistake with a past product is not a very Big Tech thing to do—that's actually the message I took away from Monday's iPhone 16 presentation"

Meme - Black man to boy on bike: "Hurry up son, the owner is coming"
bobthek: "Sorry I don't quite get the joke. Is the owner of the bike coming or the owner of the two?"

Why Fritted Glass Makes Buildings Even Better - "To make their designs more energy efficient, architects often use glass that is printed with a ceramic frit and fired into a permanent, opaque coating. Not only does fritted glass help reduce glare, cut cooling costs, and lower the danger to birds, it can also give the exterior a distinctive look with patterns ranging from simple shapes and gradients to intricate designs"

young tiempo on X - "Well my ex canceled the Spotify premium I was using which unfortunately means I am revoking her Dads access to my Disney +. Good guy. Hate to see him caught in the crossfire"

Meme - "3 stages of getting a back rub"
"This is nice."
"THERE'S A TONGUE IN MY ASS!"
"This is nice too."

A College Marching Band Apologized For Seemingly Forming Their Rival's Mascot Eating A Dick - "During a Kansas State football game against South Dakota on Saturday, the former school's marching band made a curious formation: It appeared like the University of Kansas's mascot, a Jayhawk, was eating what looked very much like a phallus."

Meme - Amy @starboots_: "looking for an app that stabilizes time- lapse videos and uh i would have maybe gone with a different name. and logo. and just everything"
"PRO LAPSE"

The Terrible Tale Of The Deadly Aldgate Pump - Living London History - "In 1860 the water was noted as tasting ‘bright, sparkling and cool, with an agreeable taste’.  What people did not realise was that the ‘agreeable’ taste was due to calcium from the bones of dead fellow Londoners! The underground stream, winding its way from Hampstead, had passed through, or near to, many graveyards… People drinking from the pump started dying. In fact hundreds died in what became known as the ‘Aldgate Pump epidemic’"

Actual Fact Bot: Revived | Facebook - "Deadpool forgetting his bag of weapons in a taxi in the final act of this film was the result of over $7 million dollars being cut from the movie’s budget right before the script was greenlighted, forcing the writers to trim down the b*mbastic action sequence."

Meme - Adam @adamthealright: "Leonardo DiCaprio and his girlfriend celebrating her 25th birthday" *Peter Griffin from Family Guy and Ariana Grande*

Meme - "WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT THEY ARE NOT "MILFS" ANYMORE, THEY ARE SIMPLY WOMEN YOUR OWN AGE. *Man in shower drinking Jack Daniel's*"

Meme - "When you see your girlfriend with some other guy, but you need to be calm because you're with your wife and kids"

How the CIA Trained Jim Carrey to Endure The Grinch 'Torture' - "Carrey said he felt ‘buried alive’ under mounds of green make-up and prosthetics: “The first day was eight-and-a-half hours and I went back to my trailer and put my leg through the wall.”  The actor was ready to quit when Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer (Apollo 13, Empire) made a call.  “One of the CIA people I’d talked to years before specialized in training US agents to survive torture if they were captured,” Grazer recalled in A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. “We had an actor being held prisoner by his costume - he was being tortured by his makeup.”"

Meme - "We were so poor growing up, my dad had to keep my sister pregnant so we could have fresh milk"

Man's Fake Optician's Letter 'From The NHS' Has Made A Lot Of People Laugh - "A freelance designer has sent the internet into fits of giggles after staging an optician's letter from the NHS in a gigantic font.  The letter reads: "Dear Mr Andrew Lang. Following your recent eye test we are writing to confirm your next appointment which is at: 12:45pm Tuesday 1 March 2016."  Andy Lang, 49, said the prank was inspired by an original letter which his colleague received inviting her to go for an eye test. The letter was printed with a "larger font than usual"."

Meme - "The most terrifying capability of the United States military remains to be the capacity to deploy a fully operational Burger King to any terrestrial theater of operations in under 24hrs"

Meme - "Hi ***, is this still available?"
"Yes it is"
"Awesome, would you take $100?"
"We're firm on the price"
"Alright then thanks"
"*** reduced the price to $100 for 9x12 Edmund Hillary nylon tent"
"Well well well"

There are more tigers in captivity in the US than in the wild - "The World Wildlife Fund estimates about 5,000 of the big cats live in captivity around the country, although animal welfare experts say precise numbers are hard to find. That’s compared to the roughly 3,900 wild tigers left in the world, experts estimate.  Most of the tigers in the US are held in backyards, breeding facilities and at small theme parks or roadside attractions, the WWF says. Only about 6% are at accredited zoos, the group says."

Should Your Web History Impact Your Credit Score? The IMF Thinks So - "However much the authors of this paper know about banking systems and finance, they're clearly not up to date on the latest in AI research. This is a bad idea in general, but it's a really terrible idea right now.   The first major problem with this proposal is there's no evidence AI is capable of this task or that it will be any time soon

‘The Big Lebowski’ Got to Use a Rolling Stone Song for Free Because They Insulted the Eagles - "The Big Lebowski famously plays a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers” over the closing credits – and it turns out they got to use the song for free.  The Coen brothers almost had to drop the song because they couldn’t afford the $150,000 licensing fee.  So T-Bone Burnett invited Stones manager Allen Klein to a special screening of the movie.  What convinced him to change his mind? When The Dude (Jeff Bridges) delivered the line “I hate the f***in’ Eagles, man!” Klein stood up and said “That’s it, you can have the song! That was beautiful!”"

Marloween on X - "Expecting Parents, PLEASE I beg you Please look at what your child's name will be spelled backwards. Sincerely, Marlana"

It doesn't matter where Brits keep their dryers. The point is they don't work (aka "One household staple sums up why Americans and Brits will never see the world the same way") - "Laundry is a hot topic right now in the UK.  Last week, a small war raged on Twitter over the class implications of the British habit of keeping laundry appliances in the kitchen... “He went through a rite of passage that every U.S. expat must endure: an encounter with the typical British combo washer-dryer,” Furseth writes. “It appears to be a stroke of genius until you realize that the dryer part doesn’t really work—and everyone who lives here knows this.”  This last sentence encapsulates what is, to me, a fundamental difference in the British and American psyches. The frustration an American feels upon removing a poorly washed, barely-dried load from his or her UK appliance isn’t really about the laundry at all. It’s about the tension between how each culture sees the world... Clothes come out damp. The end result is a flat with socks and undershirts dangling over bathtubs and radiators. Of course, there are worse ways to live. But—why? When a technological fix is available, why would anyone choose to live this way?  Home drying technologies have been slow to catch on in the UK. An estimated 85% of US households have a clothes dryer; only 56% of UK ones do... Electric tumble dryers were a fixture of middle-class US homes by the 1960s... To an American, this is baffling. Britain is not sunny Italy, where I’m guessing you can simply fling washed clothes onto the terrazza in the morning and they’re crisp by the end of your post-prandial nap. Britain is damp. It’s wet all the time... there is no place in a home of any size for a large appliance that doesn’t work.  This acceptance is at the heart of many American immigrants’ frustrations about life in the UK. And it highlights a fundamental cultural between the US and UK that I’d characterize, broadly, as a British inclination to accept things as they are, versus an American inclination to alter and change them. There is an Oscar Wilde short story called The Canterville Ghost about an American family that takes up residence in a haunted English manor. The (British) household workers insist that nothing can be done about the specter. But the Americans cheerfully eradicate the hauntings with a series of American consumer products: Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator for the ghost’s clanking chains, Doctor Dobell’s Tincture for his agonized screams, Pinkerton’s Champion Stain Remover and Paragon Detergent for blood stains he throws on the floor. To the disapproval of the staff and the great irritation of the ghost, a 300-year old poltergeist is quickly exterminated with cleaning products. This American bias toward change—newer, better, different—has fueled countless innovations. It has also fueled a culture of thoughtless consumerism... In contrast, in the outstanding book Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behavior, the anthropologist Kate Fox described such acceptance as a “quintessentially English” mindset: “a sense of passive, resigned acceptance, an acknowledgement that things will invariably go wrong, that life is full of little frustrations and difficulties … and that one must simply put up with it.”"

The quiet revolution: China’s millennial backlash - "Lu was circling around a problem: as an unmarried 30-year-old, she is seen by her parents and their contemporaries as a “leftover woman”. At the end of her speech, she presented a veiled request: “I am so grateful to you for not bothering my parents too much to ask when I am getting married.”  When she had confided in friends what she planned to say at the dinner, they did their best to dissuade her. She was hoping for the impossible: to convince her family she could be 30, single and happy. When Lu had discussed her ideas about the future before, her parents said she had been “poisoned by foreigners” while studying abroad. But she was determined to carve out a different life for herself.  Across China, millennials like her are committing small acts of rebellion. Society puts pressure on young people in China to find a good job, buy an apartment and get married — in that order, before the age of 30. But economic restructuring, soaring house prices and increasing numbers of students in higher education are making those goals harder for millennials than they were for their parents. At the same time, millennials have developed different visions of the “good life” to their parents. This generation wants something new from China, and in pursuing it they are changing China, too. A quiet revolution is under way. Behind a stall in Beijing’s central business district, a barista offers drinks with names such as “Can’t-Afford-To-Buy-A-House Iced Lemon Tea”. Another stall of the same chain sells “My Ex-Girlfriend’s Marrying Someone With Rich Parents Fruit Juice”. This is the brand Sang Tea (sang meaning “dejected, dispirited”) — a business that began in Shanghai last year, initially meant to be a temporary pop-up stall to mock the brand “Lucky Tea”, but whose dark comedy and deadpan presentation resounded with millennials, and prompted franchises to open across the country... For young men, owning a property is seen as a prerequisite for marriage, and it is said to be unlucky to give birth to a child while living in a rented flat... A study last year by real estate research company E-house China R&D Institute found that in Beijing the average tenant spends 58 per cent of their income on rent; in Shenzhen the figure is 54 per cent, and in Shanghai 48 per cent. By comparison, the UK’s Office for National Statistics reckons that as of 2016, the average rent-to-income ratio in London was 49 per cent. China’s millennials are starting to experience the economic precarity of their western peers... “Chinese parents are conservative: they want you to respect the plans they’ve made for you. My parents think I have no ideals,” she says. But then during her sick leave, she realised that as a young teenager, she had plenty of ideals — just not the ones her parents had hoped for... she worked as a waitress in Islington, north London, while doing design projects on the side. “It sounds silly, but it was then that I first realised being a waitress wasn’t humiliating,” she says, sitting in a sushi restaurant in Beijing while uniformed waitresses circle us. “If I had been a waitress in China, it would have been considered an ‘indecent’ job — all that education for nothing. But in that café in Islington, my colleagues were all really happy. They were all working evenings and being actors or scriptwriters in their spare time.”... Lu’s parents have not fully got the message, and are still trying to set her up on blind dates — the latest with a young employee at Beijing Capital Airport, whom they had thought eligible based on the criteria that “an airport won’t ever go out of business”."

Man SHITS in the janitors mopping bucket while he’s turned away… : r/ImTheMainCharacter

Jim Carrey - Wikipedia - "In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement, saying: "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." He said he would return if he were offered a script that he felt would be "really important for people to see". In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3."

Thread by @stat_sherpa on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Data Literacy Basics - Part 1. Below are five foundational concepts that EVERYONE should understand (in no particular order). Also, let me know what you would add.
1. Outliers rarely disprove trends. I see this a lot. People, when presented with a statistic, will often try and discredit it by bringing up edge cases, or outliers. The reality is data, in general, has natural variation, even within a distribution or trend.  We all know this. If I were to say “The average height for an American male is about 5 feet 9 inches,” but my friend chimed in with “That can’t be true! My uncle is 6 feet 8 inches,” you surely wouldn’t agree that single data point disproves my statistic. That's an easy example as we are all familiar with the height of people, but for data we aren’t accustomed with this becomes very important to keep in mind.
2. Correlation does not imply causation I’m sure we’ve all heard this ~1000 times, but for good reason. When you see variables, data points, trends, distributions, etc. that are related or move together, this doesn’t necessarily mean one is causing a direct change in the other(s). In general, causal analysis is difficult. There might be other variables not accounted for (called confounding variables) explaining the correlation.  Textbook example: When ice cream sales increase, drowning incidents also tend to increase. However, this does not mean that eating ice cream causes drowning or vice-versa. The real reason for this correlation is that both ice cream sales and drownings increase during the summer, where warmer weather is the underlying cause of both.  Additionally, a correlation could be a coincidence made to look strong through visualization, like the correlation between the consumption of margarine and the divorce rate in Maine.
3. Per capita Another one I see omitted frequently. Adjusting your numbers to be “per capita” is normalizing your metric to be averaged across individuals. This often allows you to compare averages without worrying much about differences in the number of individuals in the groups.  For example, if we want to understand GDP differences between two countries, just looking at the totals for each may be more of a function of population size than anything else. Dividing each countries respective GDP by the population (i.e. GPD per capita) is usually a better comparison. When in doubt, focus on per capita.
4. Means vs Medians Both are usually used for the same goal: understanding what a "typical" value in a dataset might look like. However, the calculations are very different even though I hear them used interchangeably.  The mean is simply the average value of the dataset. Sum everything up and divide by the number of data points (we’re just sticking with the arithmetic mean here). The big downfall with a mean is it’s heavily influenced by extreme outliers.  The median is simply the middle value of the dataset when ordered, therefore it avoids the outlier influence. If your data is relatively “normal” (balanced looking), either will work well. If your data is “skewed” (unbalanced looking), medians (or maybe even modes) might be a better representation of a typical value.
5. Sample size matters, but not as much as you might think Interestingly, this last one usually trips up people with some data literacy more than those starting from zero. One of the go-to questions for a study is “what was the sample size?” and if you’re asking that, you likely shouldn’t be worried about it. The reality is that you can get very close inferences of a large group (called a population) with a relatively small sample. Sample sizes hit diminishing returns very quick. There’s a lot of fun math as to how and why this is the case that us stats nerds use, but that’s beyond the scope of this.  What is infinitely more important than sample size, is good, representative sampling methods. I could write a whole thread on this (there are entire textbooks and courses on this topic), but just know that with proper sampling methods and study design, you can easily infer statistics about millions with a sample of a couple thousand.
These were just 5 basic ideas off the top of my head. There are more to cover in future posts. Let me know what you would add or expand on. In the future I might dive into more intermediate topics (hypothesis testing, regression analysis, model validation, etc.) occasionally if there’s interest."

Links - 11th November 2024 (2 - Migrants: Canada)

FIRST READING: Erin O'Toole warns of 'flirtatious' woman who may have been a Chinese spy - "So far in 2024, more than 13,000 foreign nationals who entered Canada on student visas have applied for asylum as refugee claimants. There’s a few reasons why it would be advantageous for a foreign student to do this: Refugee claimants can apply for work permits, their tuition often goes down and they’re immediately granted free health-care coverage. What’s more, if their visa is coming to an end, the refugee claimant backlog is currently so long that it would be at least two years before an immigration official even has a chance to see if they qualify as a refugee. This is why Immigration Minister Marc Miller is now accusing students of using the refugee system as a form of “backdoor entry into Canada.”"

Gad Saad on X - "Last night, my wife and I went for a walk post-dinner. As we approached a park, I counted that nearly 50% of the women in the park were veiled. Do people have a right to be concerned about the rapid Islamization of their societies or is this bigoted? Is it ok for millions of non-Muslims to say that they did not sign up to live in an Islamic society when they emigrated to the West or is this bigoted? Suicidal empathy kills. Suicidal empathy eradicates the natural instinct to protect one's culture, heritage, religion, family, etc. When you are suicidally empathetic, NOTHING is as important as being a "non-bigot.""

Natasha Montreal Live Free or Die on X - "I don't feel safe due to the mass importing of pre-civilisational barbarians from cultures which hate women, Christians, and Jews. My child and other children have been accosted at the local park which my property taxes pay for. I had a long conversation with a beat cop about the situation and he explained that the aggressive children are publicly housed immigrant teenies for gangs, that they are dangerous and effectively untouchable for political reasons, and that we should avoid them. So we no longer go to the local park. I am cat-called in front of my daughter. I have been jeered at by gangs of Arabic men-usually while alone or with other women, but even while being accompanied by men. I have been accosted by groups of sub-Saharan African and Arabic men in broad daylight.  Our politicians post about Islamophobia most days. When are our politicians and leaders going to talk about the rights and freedoms of Canadian women and our ability to walk around in our own country without being intimidated? I can't do all of the things that I used to do without being menaced by foreigners. So I no longer do them. While walking downtown a few weeks ago, a man who looked east African lunged towards me and threw a burning cigarette at me. These types of unpleasant events are now so frequent that I barely register them. I am startled and then I move on. I have modified my behaviour to protect myself because in Canada women are defenseless. We were always defenseless due to strict legal gun laws, but we used to live in a culturally cohesive, high trust society. We don't any more. So the questions become why don't we live in a high trust society, what has changed, and what do we do about it? Should I have to fear for my own safety due to the polite lies of post-nationalist kooks? Are we really expected to believe that Canada must import the criminal underclass from collapsed pre-civilisational nation states in order to survive as a country? Is anyone really still stupid enough to believe this? Is anyone still buying the economic argument which is a Keynesian economic argument predicated on Malthusian population growth? It doesn't stand up to basic scrutiny and doesn't allow for natural market corrections. When I tell people about the harassment I experience they sometimes deflect by saying that men in general harass women. But there has been no rise of men in general harassing me. There are no groups of Chinese or white guys harassing me. It's very specifically Arabic and sub-Saharan foreigners harassing me. But apparently it's xenophobic for women to tell the truth about these experiences and it is xenophobic for us to resist harassment. In the same way we are to accept males in private female spaces and sports if they claim to be a woman, we are to lie back and think of post-nationalist multiculturalism in the face of dangerous males. If you don't like being grabbed and jeered at by strangers, you're a bigot! Celebrate diversity!  It's long past time Canadians started telling the truth.  We need a complete moratorium on immigration."
Gad Saad on X - "Oh do you remember when I kept repeatedly warning you about Montreal for decades? It is going to get a lot worse. Completely self-inflicted due to parasitic suicidal empathy. It is "unkind" to protect Canadian women if these are being attacked, demeaned, and harassed by Noble People."

Hopeful immigrants to Canada are learning French after other paths to permanent residency prove difficult - The Globe and Mail - "“If you look at the data, French language skills outside of Quebec and New Brunswick are not very predictive of earnings, in large part because they’re not used,” said Mikal Skuterud, an economics professor at the University of Waterloo who was involved in the original construction of the points system.  “So the point is, we are no longer using skilled immigration system. We are using something else that’s not about prioritizing skill.”... Samuel Coeytaux, the director of the Ottawa branch of Alliance Française, said his organization has seen a significant increase in the number of people taking the TEF and TCF exams across Canada this year. The organization administered 3,681 exams last year but had already reached that total in the first six months of 2024.  Some clients registering for the exam, he said, don’t have a background in French – “people from countries not deemed francophone, like India, China and other countries in Latin America as well” – but they study the structure of the test and prepare well."

The Weekly Wrap: Immigration is the Trudeau government’s single biggest policy failure - The Hub - "Our self-image of Canada’s immigration system as being hyper-focused on skills and human capital is no longer supported by the evidence. Among the more than 470,000 newcomers who came through the permanent resident stream last year, only about 40 percent were selected according to economic criteria. The majority were the immediate family members of economic immigrants, family members of those who have already immigrated, or refugees.  And even that only tells part of the story. Non-permanent residents—including temporary foreign workers and international students—are now a bigger share of Canada’s annual population growth. In 2023 alone, nearly 805,000 non-permanent residents were added to the population. Sargent estimates that there are now 2.8 million non-permanent residents in the country—of which just under 2 million are entitled to work. What’s the upshot here? Less than half of those entering Canada’s much-vaunted permanent resident stream are being selected based on economic criteria and more than two-thirds of the total annual intake aren’t even entering as permanent residents. We increasingly have an immigration system that’s shifted away from the country’s long-term economic interests and towards temporary migration to fill low-skilled jobs and subsidize post-secondary institutions... Conservatives shouldn’t limit themselves to economic critiques here. They should be prepared to make values-based arguments too.  Large-scale temporary migration is incompatible with how conservatives think about society as a web of reciprocal relations between neighbours and family. The late British rabbi Jonathan Sacks frequently referred to society as a “home that we build together.” Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper used to describecitizenship ceremonies as “joining the Canadian family.”  These metaphors of family and home convey something much richer than a mere transactional relationship between migrants and a society in which the former sells his or her labour to the latter. They reflect a Burkean conception of society in which we’re equal parts of a multi-generational partnership. The Canadian family can and should welcome new people to join it. But it shouldn’t really be in the business of temporarily hiring people to do its landscaping or deliver its food or care for its children.  This richer, more textured understanding of immigration is reflected in Canada’s birth-on-soil policy. We grant citizenship based on birthright rather than blood because we envision making long-term commitments to newcomers and their families and expect them to make similar commitments to our society. It’s a vision of mutual obligation, not temporary expediency."

Meme - "r/kitchener
No, my 14 year old daughter doesn't want your number
Asking other parents here. Are you becoming alarmed at the number of adults approaching your teen children? I have a 14 year old daughter, who looks and dresses like a typical young teen, and the number of times she's approached in a week by men 40+ is starting to scare me. Example 1 : walking our dog, Iron Horse Trail. Aman stops her for directions and then asks her for her number. Asks if she has a boyfriend. Her response is a simple "no thank you" and keeps walking. Example 2: sitting on the lon to go to the mall with a friend, an adult man moves to sit right next to them from his original seat, and tries to engage in conversation, asking where they're going. Both occasions, this is a an adult male (different people) over the age of 40. I don't want to helicopter my teen, but Im starting to become nervous when she's walking alone, even during the day. What are other teen parents seeing / feeling?"
"Are these men from India by any chance? Just curious."
"Not here to make this political, but yes."

Lilley: Chants of 'death to Canada' cannot be accepted at rallies : r/canada - "Growing up in Iran, I vividly remember, starting at age 7 (grade 1) we had to line up at school, do some military style moves, then chant "Allahu Akbar, Khamenei is our supreme leader, death to America, death to Israel" followed by ~5 min of a volunteer student reading a passage from the Quran in Arabic (none of us understood what it says, of course). This went on until age 16.  It's terrifying to see how many 10s of thousands of islamists/jihadists that I ran away from have come to Canada and other Western countries.  A lot of us always laughed at school when our Quran/Religion teachers would say "Our goal is global domination and bringing jihad to all countries". We thought they are delusional. Turns out the West have accepted them with open arms.  Never forget, Christopher Hitchens warned you all about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EYg8Tgrh0o [1 min video]"
"Hey man. I also grew up in Iran and can confirm everything you're saying. This stuff boils my blood. My family didn't escape that situation to come here and make a home in order for these fuckers to follow us here."
Racism! Islamophobia!

Stephen Harper in 2015 debate: "Justin Trudeau will open the borders up and let in hundreds of thousands of people without security checks" : r/Canada_sub - "Trudeau: "Mr. Harper is just playing on your fears""
Plus, Trudeau repeatedly interrupted Harper. How rude.

Canadian woman claims Tim Hortons sacked her over criticising management for hiring only Indians, viral post sparks debate - "A Canadian woman’s claims against Tim Hortons have got the Internet talking. A viral X post suggests that the woman was allegedly sacked from the multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain after she raised her voice against its hiring practices, which she claimed favoured Indians.  The incident came to light amid ongoing debates about immigration policies in Canada.  According to the post by X handle @Klaus_Arminius, the woman called out the management for hiring only Indian immigrants. “This woman noticed Indian managers of Tim Hortons were hiring only other Indian immigrants; when she confronted the discriminatory hiring, she was fired,” said the post.  The viral post also has a snapshot of the woman sharing details about the incident. “Just got fired from Tim Hortons after 4 years. Just because I called out management for only hiring “Indians”. So now I’m exposing everything they make us hide,” the text on the snapshot said."
Clearly, it's racist to accuse non-white people of racial discrimination in hiring

Support for Immigration in Canada Plunges to Lowest in Decades - "Nearly six in 10 people now agree “there’s too much immigration to Canada,” according to the country’s longest-running survey on the topic by the Environics Institute. It’s the first time since 1998 that this view is held by a clear majority, and a stark shift from favorable opinion over the past two decades... Record population growth — comparable to adding all of San Diego’s residents to a country that’s slightly more populous than California in just over 12 months — exacerbated housing shortages, inflated rent prices, strained public services and pushed up the unemployment rate. These pressures threatened a long-held belief that mass immigration gives Canada an edge in a global race to replace aging workers."

Burger King wants a manager for $48K. Experts say foreign workers aren’t the answer - "A job listing at a Toronto-area Burger King has prompted observers and experts to wonder whether the temporary foreign workers program is being used to avoid paying higher salaries to Canadians. On Sept. 25, a Burger King in Mississauga, Ont., posted an opening for a restaurant manager position on the federal government’s online job bank. The post drew criticism from some social media users, who noted that underneath the posting, a banner reads, “This employer has applied for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to hire a foreign worker to fill labour or skills shortages on a temporary basis.”... The job comes with an annual salary offer of $48,000, which works out to be just under $25 an hour, with hours listed as “Day, Evening, Night, Weekend, Early Morning, Morning.” Global News asked Burger King whether they considered raising the advertised salary to attract more people for the role before applying for a LMIA. “The wage at which the job was posted is a competitive range amongst quick service restaurants in the Mississauga area, which is based on competitive data and the Franchisee’s experience in hiring in this market,” the spokesperson said in response. There’s nothing illegal about what Burger King is doing, and no rules are being broken. It comes amid growing scrutiny on the Temporary Foreign Worker program and growing concerns about whether access to less expensive labour through the program can hurt the potential for wage growth in communities... The posting on the job bank indicates that the Burger King salary is slightly higher than the median wage for similar positions across Canada, which is around $22 an hour... Christopher Worswick, an economist at Carleton University, said economists have been concerned that the temporary foreign workers program gives employers permission to rely on cheap labour. “In the absence of a temporary foreign worker program, normally the firm would have to decide to reapply or re-advertise at a higher wage, or maybe do something else, like hire a different type of worker, invest in new technology, capital equipment,” he said... Worswick said the reliance of employers on the program not only slows wage growth but can actually lower wages... Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC, said this was one of the reasons productivity in Canada was lagging. “We simply have too many workers working in low-paying industries. And if companies have an unlimited supply of very cheap labor, they will not invest in capital, they will not improve the productivity. And that’s one of the reasons why productivity in Canada is lagging behind,” Tal said... Matthew Green of the NDP proposed... “Workers should arrive with landed status, preventing exploitation and ensuring fair treatment. Temporary workers in Canada should be regularized, granting them the rights they deserve, which would stop employers from using the TFW program to suppress wages,” he said."
Clearly, if they are not tied to a specific employer, they won't increase the supply of labour in the labour market and won't reduce wages

Wesley Yang on X - "Canada has what @Noahpinion has called "the optimal immigration system" -- points based, carefully vetted. In theory, the closest thing to a free lunch that a modern economy can obtain. During the period of mass immigration under Trudeau's rule, per capita GDP declined, the health service cratered, housing prices skyrocketed, government debt exploded, inflation surged, the government bought off the media and became nakedly authoritarian in response to protest, invoking emergency powers unwarranted by the situation, and now 4 percent of all deaths are euthanasia enacted by state doctors."
Proof that open borders lead to prosperity

Debbie Bloodclot. on X - "The majority of beaches are closed in Ontario due to ecoli Thanks, disgusting beach shitters"
µicrocheap ✯ on X - "They can't clean the beach but they are going to fix the climate."
valhalla⚡️ on X - "Almost all of our lakes that people swim at are closed. And it's because the city people are coming here and shitting in the water. Wish I was joking"

Ontario resident goes viral after speaking out about immigrants pooping on the beach - "Videos from a Wasaga Beach resident in Ontario are being shared widely on social media after she accused immigrants, mainly from India, of defecating in holes on the beach and burying it.  Tiktoker “ItsNattylxnn2.0,” is a local in the Ontario resort town that boasts the world’s longest freshwater beach.  “Natty” went viral online after ranting about being unable to take her kids to the beach because visitors have been using it as a toilet.  She claimed to have discovered feces in spots where she witnessed Indian families digging and even setting up a tent over the hole for the day.  “It’s pre-planned, premeditated. They dig the hole. There are tents,…They pitch the tent; you think they’re going to change, but they’re not. They are using them as washrooms”...        “They did it off my backyard. There were three different families of maybe 25, 30 people that came for barbecues who would set up right on the fence of my backyard. I saw them digging the hole. I saw them placing a tent (over it). When they left, there was poop,” Natty said in another video.  Natty said the issue became noticeable after the COVID-19 lockdowns were lifted.  “People were coming to the beach, and the washrooms were closed. So they were making their washrooms,” she said in another video where she called those who did so selfish.   She has faced accusations of racism for her comments.  She responded to one TikTok user who called her a racist colonizer by saying she has a First Nations background.   “People are too scared to speak up because they think that it’s being racist. It’s not because if another white person was doing that, would you feel any type of way to tell them to ‘pull your pants up.’ ‘Don’t be doing that on a beach?’” she said. “This has nothing to do with targeting someone based on their skin colour and everything to do with protecting our beaches, our parks. These are places that everyone is supposed to be able to go to and enjoy.”"

Poop on the beach? Ontario mayor slams social media ‘misinformation’ - "Town of Wasaga Beach Mayor Brian Smith writes that the municipality has received “no evidence – from residents, visitors or the Ontario government – to verify that any undesirable, unsanitary behaviour has occurred on the beach areas that make up Wasaga Beach Provincial Park... In response to Global News inquiring if public defecation or urination on the sand has ever been an issue on Wasaga Beach’s beaches since 2020, a spokesperson with the town said “the answer is no.”... A ministry spokesperson said staff at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park “have not observed this behaviour during their regular patrols of the beachfront or in response to any complaints.””
‘I think it’s horrible’: Bad beach behaviour bedevilling Wasaga residents, mayor - "In 2020, in response to the practice of people setting up tents on the sand in order to use them as makeshift porta-potties, the Town of Wasaga Beach prohibited tents from having more than one opaque side, along with limiting the size of a shelter to 10 feet by 10 feet or smaller.  Brown said she wouldn’t have believed such a thing could happen had she not witnessed it herself."
Misinformation is whatever impedes the left wing agenda

Greater Vancouver Food Bank won’t serve first year international students - "A Greater Vancouver Food Bank policy prevents international students experiencing food insecurity during their first year in Canada from receiving free food while they adjust to an unfamiliar country and community.  Emma Nelson, communications manager at the GVFB, said in an email the policy exists because the federal government requires international students to have “substantial savings” before coming to Canada... Baljit Kamoh, the Vancouver regional director for the non-profit Khalsa Aid Canada, disagreed. She said international students need the most support when they first arrive in the country. “A lot of them don’t know the high cost of living on top of their international tuition fees, which is typically three to four times that of a citizen student,” she said... in 2022, post-secondary students overall made up 24 per cent of new GVFB registrants in the previous year and they expected that number to increase.  Dan Huang-Taylor, executive director of Food Banks BC, said that the proportion of B.C. post-secondary students visiting food banks more than doubled from 2019 to 2023.   Vancouver Coun. Adriane Carr called the GVFB’s policy “tragic” and added, “it’s really important that the students who come here to gain an education don’t starve as they do it.”"
Sounds like the minimum amount to have needs to be increased

Greater Vancouver Food Bank won’t serve first year international students : r/canada - "My Chinese-Canadian friends getting ostracized by the Chinese students in uni for being to stupid to use their cheating site was funny/sad. They were called 'banana' for 'acting white' when refusing to use one of the paid essay services."

Meme - r/CanadaMassImmigration: "I'm an international student that hates my own kind
A little about myself, I'm an Indian international student, moved to Montreal in Sep 2022. I always planned on moving away from the shithole that is India, a country where I never felt at home. This is a place where if you have some level of integrity to your character, you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. A country where lying, cheating and stealing is the way of life. With a crappy family to boot, I always wanted to move away and so I did. Got good grades during my undergrad, applied to master's program here, got in, packed my bags, didn't shed a single tear as that plane took off. Why Canada? It's a valid question. I moved because my sister, the only person in my life I could ever talk to about anything, moved here way back in the early 2010s. I knew what moving abroad entailed and I wanted to live somewhere I had a support system, even if it's just one person. I did everything right, focused on my master's because that's what I was here for, did my assignments with all the integrity, tried to improve myself with each passing day, worked a job only during the summer and that too just to fill in my time during the week, learned fluent French, assimilated.! wanted to add value to my skill set because I knew that a 23 year old with a master's degree and no professional experience needed skills to break into a job market. Cut to present day and I'm the most bitter about life I've ever been, no jobs, I wake up to a rejection every single day only to find out later that another Indian 20 years my senior got the job because he was willing to do it for less. I'm student still and regularly run into the most rude, disrespectful and mannered Indians at uni and they seem to be in the majority. I'm tired of the same shit here as back home because the entire reason I moved was to get away from that. They from cliques based on the fucking region they're from and it's only getting worse by the day. No assimilation, barely any skills, technical or communication. They cheat on their assignments all the time because how else would someone dumb as a bag of rocks get on the hardest courses. I'm tired of going to and etching an Indian ask a question only for it to either completely incoherent, irrelevant or the dumbest question known to mankind. And yet, everytime I open up LinkedIn, some random Indian is posting about their shiny new job at Bombardier or Airbus while I sit here with my mountain of rejections because I refuse to suck up to them. It's very true, they only hire their own kind. Been holding it in for a while, would love to get your thoughts on this"

Meme - Canadian Patriot @PPC4Liberty: "Wake up Canada"
Divyansh Gupta @divgupta48: "Wait for few more decades. Indians will have more population than canadians in canada. And then we will throw these canadians out of their own land"

Uber drivers protesting at Toronto Pearson Airport. They have completely BLOCKED access to Canada's busiest airport. Will Trudeau freeze their bank accounts like he did to the Freedom convoy truckers? : r/Canada_sub

kache on X - "I don't think we want Canada to be a cultural mosaic. We want it to be a melting pot. I don't like other cultures. Other cultures don't uphold trust. Some cultures lie, steal, and deceive. Some cultures are proud of getting away with fraud. Keep Canada Canadian"

Meme - 🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 @AreOhEssEyeEe: "I constantly see brand new "Canadians" driving around in Teslas and Mercedes while real Canadians struggle to put food on the table and make ends meet, and many are now homeless.  I've been wondering how they do that when most of them work at Tim Hortons.   Here's how. 👇"
"COSTI. To Whom It May Concern. I am writing on behalf of my client Mr. ***. Residents, who are financially assisted by the Federal Government of Canada under the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The length of the program is 12 months from the date of their arrival in Canada. Under the RAP program, the clients receive a monthly allowance of $1,899.41. To supplement their income, the clients are also entitled to a monthly earning of $949.70, under the Employment Incentive Policy of the RAP program. In addition, the clients are also eligible for the Child Tax Benefit, a monthly amount of approximately $1,800.00. The client is also eligible for a monthly allowance of $500.00 from RAP Housing-Top-Up allowance. The family also gets a start-up allowance of $8,326.14 for basic household needs, furniture, and clothing. After the program's termination, should ***'s family require any financial assistance, they are eligible for the Provincial Government's Financial Assistance Program until they become self-sufficient. If you require further information or have any questions, please feel free to give me call at ***. Thank you very much for your cooperation and assistance."
🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 @AreOhEssEyeEe: "Not only do these people get $5148.00 a month...  It's all tax free. 😡"
Weird. Left wingers keep insisting that migrants don't get free money

Contrarian on X - "🇨🇦So my Doctor told me the craziest immigration story.  Nigerian “engineer” flew here and immediately claimed asylum.  Gets $3100 a month.  Works for cash under the table.  My doctor asked are you not afraid of being deported?  He said thats the best part I already have a new name and documents ready to go so they pay for me to have a holiday then I just come back and do it again.  Yes this is real.  And I have one more story to tell in my next post."

Contrarian on X - "🇨🇦So my doctor has a small stand alone building as an office.  Reception told me that daily asylum seekers and immigrants are just showing up.  No call no appointment they just show up.  And often get angry when they are refused as my Dr does not take new patients.  Here is the wild part.  Talked to my doctor after and here is what he said…  He received a letter from “a health authority” saying if this happens he must see them. So they know it’s happening.  Of course he threw it in the garbage and said Im full what am I supposed to do stop caring for my long term patients to deal with them?  So Health Authorities are actively saying to Doctors you must see these asylum seekers and immigrants and for them to do that they would have to neglect their patients who have paid taxes in Canada their whole lives!  What do Canadians think about this?🤔"