Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 on X - "ADMIN POST. Yvette Cooper has just denied Sir David Amess' family a public inquiry into his horrific murder by Islamic terrorist Ali Harbi Ali in a church in 2021. Ali stabbed 69yr old Amess 21 times for "ISIS", again, he'd been in contact with prevent. Another cover up!"
The Little Guy That Beats the Market on X - "Come on Yvette, be honest with us. If this was a white nationalist who killed Sir David Amess, would we still be waiting for answers? The silence is deafening... and it's not just about justice for the family, but also about trust in our institutions."
Keir Starmer on X - "If something isn’t working, I roll up my sleeves and fix it. I will reshape the state to deliver security for working people."
Alex Armstrong on X - "You literally just declined to have a public inquiry into the murder of a Member of Parliament?"
Warspite 🇬🇧 on X - "Your entire career is as a lawyer, you have created nothing, repaired nothing, and never solved a problem in your entire professional life. You have lived on the taxpayer's largesse to the point you have your own Act of Parliament to protect your pension. You ARE the problem."
Wolf 🐺 on X - "Why don’t you “roll up your sleeves” and deport the monsters involved in the mass rape of British women and girls?"
Thread by @williameijer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Have we found the cause of Suicidal Empathy? Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, and altruism in women. In the West, evermore power is given to an increasingly self-loathing, selfless demographic. 🧵
This insight comes from a recent systematic review on the Gender Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies as well as 54 other studies. “Results indicate that those sex differences in negative emotions that are more prevalent or stronger in females [such as guilt and shame] are larger in countries with higher living conditions (p.20)." The same is true for altruism (p.14). The main explanation for this phenomenon is likely gene-environment correlation. rGE in 4 steps:
1. Genetic predispositions can be more fully expressed when environmental constraints are removed.
2. Different innate tendencies lead to creating and selecting different environments.
3. These environmental creations and choices then reinforce initial differences.
4. This creates feedback loops that amplify smaller initial differences.
Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet nurturing needs. The only thing worse than pain is meaningless pain. Wokism gave meaning to women’s psychological pain. “I feel guilt, sadness, shame, and anxiety because of the racist and patriarchal society I live in.” In the US (and likely the anglosphere), young liberal women are the most mentally ill demographic, by a large margin. This is both a cause and a symptom of Wokism. Guilt, shame, and altruism are the psychological foundations of Wokism. Tomorrow I will share a new, unifying, biopsychosocial model of Wokism."
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن on X - "I still pinch myself every single day when I remember that we live in a time where people genuinely believe jihadists want liberation."
Orphanage 'too white' for donations - "A Pretoria orphanage says it is no longer getting financial support from large companies as 70% of the children in its care are white. Elzane van der Merwe of the Jacaranda children’s home said: “The only answer that the children’s home is getting is: ‘Sorry, you don’t meet the criteria for 100% black economic empowerment (BEE),” reported Beeld. But Van der Merwe said the children’s home couldn’t choose which children to take in. “To us a child is a child. We don’t discriminate. Here we have 250 children between 18 months and 18 years that need care, regardless of race or gender.”"
From 2012. Damn white supremacy and structural racism!
Unreal Engine’s Metahuman Tool May Be Behind 'Man-Jaw' and the Growing Trend of Masculine Female Characters in Gaming - "A recently surfaced developer video is shedding new light on an issue that many gamers have noticed but few have fully understood—why do so many modern female characters in video games appear to have exaggerated masculine features like the dreaded squared off man-jaw? A game developer, speaking under anonymity, has provided evidence to YouTuber SmashJT that points to Unreal Engine’s Metahuman character creator as the source of the problem. The anonymous developer, who has shared video proof of their findings with SmashJT, highlights a significant flaw in the way Metahuman generates female character models. The tool, while groundbreaking in its level of detail, appears to create base models that lean toward androgyny, requiring extensive modification to achieve a traditionally feminine look. This revelation suggests that many studios relying on Metahuman may be inadvertently using these default templates without the necessary adjustments, resulting in masculine female characters that stand out in ways that players find distracting. The developer describes the process as an uphill battle for artists trying to create distinct and aesthetically appealing female protagonists. One of the most striking takeaways from the leaked video is the consistent structural patterns in Metahuman’s female base models. Features such as strong jawlines, broad facial proportions, and a lack of softer, traditionally feminine traits seem to be the default settings. This has led to a growing number of masculine female characters in modern games, raising concerns among players and artists alike. Beyond facial structure, the body proportions in Metahuman’s female models also raise questions. The developer notes that the default settings often produce characters with minimal curves, indistinct silhouettes, and proportions that deviate from what has historically been seen in stylized or idealized game design. This raises an important question: is this an unintended flaw in the technology, or is it part of a broader industry shift? Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine, has positioned itself as a leader in digital realism. If questioned, their likely response would suggest that these models are designed to reflect a more inclusive range of appearances. However, critics argue that this reasoning doesn’t hold up when considering how male characters still retain their broad shoulders, chiseled features, and athletic builds. If realism were truly the goal, why is the balance so skewed? It’s a concern that has fueled ongoing discussions about the increasing presence of masculine female characters in gaming. This issue extends beyond mere aesthetics. The way characters are designed influences how players connect with them, the types of stories that can be told, and the broader appeal of gaming itself... The gaming industry has long thrived on its ability to create visually distinct and engaging characters. If major development tools continue down a path where female character models start from an androgynous template, it could further shift the industry away from the artistic diversity that has traditionally been celebrated."
Weird. We're told that the uglification of female characters is a conspiracy theory
Paul on X - "Lol, okay. Americans go to another country and play with a wombat and people lose their mind about Americans but Mohammad can drive through a crowd of people and no one bats an eye about where that person came from."
i/o on X - "A year ago: Sonoma County declared racism a "public health crisis" because, it claimed, its black residents (1% of population) live to a mean of 71 years. But the county's own website and other sources state they live to a mean of 82 years — one year more than whites. An advocate for the resolution said, "These [racist] outcomes are the result of centuries of laws, policies, and systems that disadvantage people of color." Here are the average lifespans of Sonoma County residents by race:
Asians, 88 years Hispanic, 86 Black, 82 White, 81
So, if there's a racism-fueled "pubic health crisis" — and of course there isn't — it looks like whites are the victims of it."
Thread by @arcticinstincts on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I was rejected from woke PhD programs for my "un-PC" idea: ancient migrations can shape culture & psychology. So I proved it alone. My new peer-reviewed @APA paper shows East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia ~20000 yrs ago❄️ 📖 How so?🧵
On a hike in the Peruvian Andes, I met a Native American (NA) lady who had identical looks, gait, & vibes as my East Asian (EA) mom. Why? I later learned EAs & NAs share Siberian ancestry & had an epiphany. A hypothesis was born. What if EA psychology was also shaped by Siberia?
Out of Africa human migrations are used in bio/genetics (but not psych) to model adaptation to ancient environments, like lactose tolerance🥛, metabolism. My method reviews studies of local workers & indigenous ppl to see if local ecology induces/selects for specific psych traits. EAs mainly descend from Ancient Northern East Asians around the Ice Age, w cold adapted bio/genes: high epicanthic eyefolds, PAC glaucoma, long torso/short lower limbs🏋🏻♂️, lighter skin, EDAR V370A, LEPR, TRIB2, ABCC11, CGC-type, FADS, ADAM17 etc. But how about psych adaptations🤔?
Armed w @sci_hub_, I sifted 100s of obscure papers on Inuit (who share Siberian ancestry w EA) & polar workers🥶. I found despite EA psych/personality being on an extreme end of global spectrum, Inuit & successful polar staff have the same psych profile, personality, & worldviews. EAs & Inuit share traits of notably high emotional suppression, ingroup harmony & unassertiveness, indirectness, introversion, perseverance, self-consciousness, social sensitivity, risk aversion, visuospatial IQ, & worldviews. But does the Arctic cause this in polar workers? ❄️
Polar psychologists found the same traits to be adaptive & linked to success, & opposite traits to failure. The results are so consistent they've been refined into polar personnel selection criteria used in 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇳🇿🇩🇰🇳🇴 polar programs- mirroring ancient natural selection for traits. Thus Arcticism is a parsimonious theory for paleo-origins of general EA psych, before adding on later Holocene individualism effects of pastoralism🦌 on Mongols/Tibetans, & collectivism effects of agriculture🌾 on Han Chinese, Japanese, Koreans- leading to further local variation. Confucianism revived preexisting Zhou dynasty values, can't act as sudden cause of EA personality. 🍚Rice farming induces collectivism but can't extend to North China, Mongolia, Tibet, Manchuria, Inuit
Indian/N.Italian/Iranian/Malay rice farmers general psych differs from EA
Novel testable predictions- EAs will tolerate close quarters group confinement (igloos/tents) better & have more Arcticist traits vs other ancestry ppl, controlled for pastoralism: Mongols vs Cossacks, Berbers, Somalis- & rice farming: South🇨🇳/🇯🇵/🇰🇷 vs Indians, Malays, N.Italians. Are these traits genetic, epigenetic or cultural? It may a mix. Polar studies show selective pressures, but w/o future gene studies, we don't know. This paper can guide the difficult search for polygenic traits. East Asian parenting is known to transmit and enforce these traits
The well known distinctly EA combo of sociocultural problems (excessive conformity, emotional repression, death by overwork, shyness, image obsession, introversion, risk aversion, social sensitivity etc) may be mainly remnants of ancient Arcticism, & not Confucianism/agriculture.
Paper out soon on the effects of ancestral tropics and heat stress, and temperate habitats on other major ancestry folks
Perhaps humans do not perceive life & our modern world as it is, but rather as a cumulative reflection of all the diverse habitats our ancestors survived in...
I will be testing the foundations of other "unquestionable" ideologies & incumbent theories, and will release the earliest unpublished research, hypotheses, coauthor requests, and commentary on my new free substack Subscribe for early access!"
Damn structural racism, discrimination and stigma! Doesn't he know that Evolutionary Psychology is a pseudoscience?!
Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology - "This article explores the hypothesis that modern East Asian populations inherited and maintained extensive psychosocial adaptations to arctic environments from ancestral Ancient Northern East Asian populations, which inhabited arctic and subarctic Northeast Eurasia around the Last Glacial Maximum period of the Late Pleistocene, prior to back migrating southwards into East Asia in the Holocene. I present the first cross-psychology comparison between modern East Asian and Inuit populations, using the latter as a model for paleolithic Arctic populations. The comparison reveals that both East Asians and the Inuit exhibit notably high emotional control/suppression, ingroup harmony/cohesion and subdomain unassertiveness, indirectness, self and social consciousness, reserve/introversion, cautiousness, and perseverance/endurance. The same traits have been identified by decades of research in polar psychology (i.e., psychological research on workers, expeditioners, and military personnel living and working in the Arctic and Antarctic) as being adaptive for, or byproducts of, life in polar environments. I interpret this as indirect evidence supporting my hypothesis that the proposed Arcticist traits in modern East Asian and Inuit populations primarily represent adaptations to arctic climates, specifically for the adaptive challenges of highly interdependent survival in an extremely dangerous, unpredictable, and isolated environment, with frequent prolonged close-quarters group confinement, and exacerbated consequences for social devaluation/exclusion/expulsion. The article concludes with a reexamination of previous theories on the roots of East Asian psychology, mainly that of rice farming and Confucianism, in the light of my Arcticism theory."
Meghan Murphy on X - "The fundamental problem with progressivism—and I say this as someone who was a leftist for my entire life, until maybe five years ago—is that progressives want there to be a different reality than the one that is, and become angered when confronted with reality, and blame whoever is presenting that reality to them for being the perpetrator of whatever unpleasant or imperfect reality presented."
James Esses on X - "I regularly see institutional guidance instructing staff members not to eat or drink in the presence of colleagues fasting for Ramadan. Surely, respect for other’s religious practises doesn’t extend to pressurised compliance with the practises themselves?"
Incredible: Kyrsten Sinema Wakes Up and Shows No Mercy...to Democrats - "the federal government avoided a shutdown after passing a much-argued-over, President Donald Trump-endorsed continuing resolution. How we got there is the more interesting story, though. Because Republicans only have 53 votes in the Senate, they needed several Democrats to cross the aisle, which was a touch-and-go proposition for a while. Just days before the cloture vote (which takes the passage threshold from 60 votes to a simple majority for a Senate bill), even Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was signaling he wanted to shut the government down. Yet, in the end, he and a handful of others crossed over, citing that a shutdown would grant the White House even more power over the bureaucracies. Before that happened, though, many Democrats were demanding the filibuster be used to stop the CR. Why is that a problem? Because those same Democrats spent years calling the filibuster a "relic of Jim Crow," with some even coining the term "Jim Crow filibuster." They even made ending it a litmus test for their end. Enter former Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who was essentially booted from her own party for refusing to blow up the filibuster. The hypocrisy wasn't lost on her, and she woke up on Saturday morning and chose violence. To give some more context, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) once called the filibuster a "cherished relic of segregation." Barack Obama, while giving a eulogy, said that the filibuster was "another Jim Crow relic." Then-President Joe Biden concurred, saying that he agreed with Obama's assessment. I could go on for days with examples. The filibuster being "racist" was the talking point de jour right up until the moment Democrats thought it could benefit them again. Sinema deserves this victory lap. She took an incredible amount of abuse from the left, including being harassed in the bathroom by protesters, for not folding to the short-term gratification of ending the filibuster. Had that not happened, she'd likely still be in the Senate today, as now-Sen. Ruben Gallego (who beat Kari Lake in 2024) likely never would have gained traction."
Shakespeare's birthplace to be decolonised after 'white supremacy' fears - "The claims were made in a 2022 collaborative research project between the trust and Dr Helen Hopkins, an academic at the University of Birmingham. The research took issue with the trust’s quaint Stratford attractions, comprising the supposed childhood homes and shared family home of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, his wife, because the Bard was presented as a “universal” genius. This idea of Shakespeare’s universal genius “benefits the ideology of white European supremacy”, it was claimed. This is because it presents European culture as the world standard for high art, a standard which was pushed through “colonial inculcation” and the use of Shakespeare as a symbol of “British cultural superiority” and “Anglo-cultural supremacy”. Veneration of Shakespeare is therefore part of a “white Anglo-centric, Eurocentric, and increasingly ‘West-centric’ worldviews that continue to do harm in the world today”. The project recommended that Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust recognise that “the narrative of Shakespeare’s greatness has caused harm – through the epistemic violence”. The project also recommended that the trust present Shakespeare not as the “greatest”, but as “part of a community of equal and different writers and artists from around the world”. The trust then secured funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, an organisation that finances projects that boost diversity and inclusion, to help make the collection more international in its perspective. As part of its commitment to being more international in outlook, the trust has so far organised events celebrating Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, and a Romeo and Juliet-inspired Bollywood dance workshop. The trust will continue looking at updating the “current and future interpretation” of objects in its collection. It will also explore how objects could be used as the focus for new interpretations which tell more international stories, in order to appeal to a more diverse audience. It has additionally pledged to remove offensive language from its collections information, as part of a “long, thoughtful” process... The ongoing closing of sites linked to Shakespeare comes following a trend for more racially-focused criticis The Globe Theatre in London ran a series of seminars titled Anti-Racist Shakespeare which promoted scholarship focused on the idea of race in his plays. Academies taking part in the series made a number of claims, including that King Lear was about “whiteness”, and that the character of Prince Hamlet holds “racist” views of black people."
So much for good literature being universal
Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on X - "My feisty debate on @GBNews. We must not be embarrassed to assert the primacy of Western civilisation Africa didn't produce a Shakespeare because, of its 2000 languages, 80% have no written form Asians play European classical music, hold Shakespeare festivals and have national museums of Western art because they appreciate the depth and sophistication of European art forms. They do this whilst also being justifiably proud of the magnificent art, literature & music of Chinese, Japanese and Indian civilisation. This is what the anti-British ideologues who dominate our own cultural institutions cannot - or will not - grasp. They cannot stand that an Englishman is the greatest writer the world has ever produced. It sticks in their craw and they will do anything to diminish and downplay that achievement."
The world has romanticised autism – the reality can be very different - "“What frustrates me,” Agatha said, “is that the whole autism discourse is being dominated by the mild voice. And that is having real-world consequences for my child. It affects services and funding. A school for autism opened up nearby but they’ll only take children with a normal IQ who can meet the national curriculum. Increasingly, schools are only catering for the high functioning. Hospital waiting lists are too long. Children like Elijah are being neglected.” Fifty years ago, autism was said to affect four in 10,000 people, but today the worldwide average prevalence is one in 100. In 2023 in California, one in 22 eight-year-olds were said to be autistic. In the same year, diagnostic rates in Northern Ireland were put at one in 20 children. Between 1998 and 2018, autism diagnoses rose by 787 per cent in the UK. There have been other shifts too. Autism used to be thought of as a disorder of boys. In the 1980s, the male-to-female ratio was 4:1. That ratio is now 3:1 and rapidly approaching 2:1. The astonishing increases in the prevalence of the disorder are what has led to the concern for some that autism is now significantly overdiagnosed. Contributing to that concern is how difficult it has become to distinguish an autistic person from a non-autistic person. In 1943, autism was an infantile-onset disorder diagnosed in children who had profound social communication problems. I see many people with this level of autism disability in my clinical practice. Most cannot communicate verbally. They require assistance for every ordinary activity of daily living, such as dressing and bathing. Most need constant supervision to keep them safe. Contrast that with today’s growing autism community, which includes entrepreneur Elon Musk and actor Anthony Hopkins. However there are others who applaud the improved diagnosis rates and even say that underdiagnosis is ongoing, especially in females and adults. What is clear is that what autism looks like now is very different to what it looked like when first described. In 1943, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner published a detailed description of 11 children, eight boys and three girls, under his care who he believed had a unique medical disorder manifesting as an “extreme autistic aloneness”. The characteristic feature was a complete inability to relate in any ordinary way to others. People mattered as much to these children as bookshelves and filing cabinets. They related no better to their own family members and other children than they did to strangers. The children were rigid and obsessive and made monotonous noises and repetitive movements. My personal concern about the overdiagnosis trend in autism, is the effect that overdiagnosis seems to be having on the adults with severe autism like those I look after. Those severely disabled people who could not live in the world without support. They are now in a queue for resources alongside people with considerably fewer difficulties. My patients with severe autism are not represented on TikTok, where people celebrate their great relief at being diagnosed and call for affirmative diagnosis, and ask for words like “spectrum”, “disorder” and “impairment” to be removed from the language of autism. Those with the greatest need are becoming invisible. One 2023 study found that #Autism had attracted 11.5 billion views on TikTok. But of the top 133 most-viewed videos, only 27 per cent contained accurate information. The respected mainstream media in all forms is also guilty of creating a somewhat romanticised view of the disorder, presenting it as something that makes a person special rather than a developmental disorder that causes impairment. Remote diagnoses of autism are given to successful people with covetable careers and lives, even if those people have never publicly claimed to have a diagnosis, with philanthropist Bill Gates and director Tim Burton among them. Deceased figures have also been diagnosed in retrospect – Michelangelo, Charles Darwin, James Joyce and Albert Einstein. Celebrities make bold statements about neurodevelopment disorders without seeming to understand much about them. In 2018, singer Robbie Williams told a newspaper, “There’s something missing in me, I have big blind spots. Maybe Asperger’s or autism. I don’t know what spectrum I’m on – I’m on something.” The general public has also developed a very casual way of referring to people with mild social awkwardness as “on the spectrum”... Agatha’s worst fear is that he might be institutionalised if he cannot control his behaviour. Agatha and many parents of children with severe autism have grown concerned about how the current conversation around autism misrepresents the disorder and sidelines their children. “It’s a neurological disorder from birth. The public think they know what autism is by listening to the voices represented in the media. But these are people with a normal IQ, who are verbal, who have proper jobs, who can attend meetings or log on to Zoom. These mild and self-identified people have no concept of people like Elijah. They assume all autistic people are a bit like them, but Elijah is not like them except for some very small commonalities.”... Some autism activists criticise parents of non-verbal autistic children, like Agatha, for speaking for their children. They believe only autistic people can speak for autistic people. Strategies to help people like Elijah to control their behaviours have been called cruel on the basis that an autistic person should never be asked to change their autistic traits because that is like asking them to change their identity... “I needed to teach Elijah to tolerate sounds he couldn’t cope with, like babies crying. If I didn’t teach him that, I’d be narrowing his world. If I took the advice of people with mild autism on Twitter and on the radio, Elijah would end up in residential care with risperidone [a strong antipsychotic drug used to control aggressive behaviour in autism] being pumped into his veins and five people holding him down,” Agatha said. To keep Elijah safe, Agatha tells people he has the mental age of a four-year-old. She wants anybody caring for him to remember that he might look like a man but he still has the needs of a child. But in referring to her son in that way, she has been accused of infantilising him. “The way the mild and self-identified autism movement talks about autism feels to me as if they dislike intellectual disability. People don’t want to believe that their kid has a low IQ or is below average"
Damn RFK Jr!
Christina Buttons on X - "I was diagnosed with Asperger’s by a psychiatrist in 2019, and I share the concerns raised in this article. At the time, the diagnosis provided relief—it offered an explanation for the extreme difficulties I had faced in my youth. However, observing the online autism community quickly made me realize that the neurodiversity movement is creating more problems than it is solving. The “#actuallyautistic” activists attempt to dictate language, control what researchers are allowed to study, and divert resources away from those with severe impairments. They also bully anyone who refuses to adopt their ideology, including parents of severely disabled children. The 2013 decision to merge Asperger’s into the broader Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis was a grave mistake. I continued using the term Asperger’s to distinguish myself from those with profound autism, even though I was called a Nazi for it, because that distinction felt important. But today, I feel even less attached to the diagnosis. Autism is classified as a “neurodevelopmental disorder,” yet there is no objective test for it. Diagnosis is based entirely on behavioral criteria, leaving it open to subjective interpretation—which can explain why so many people “identify” with it today. I’m concerned not only about overdiagnosis but also about how neurodiversity activists encourage those who identify with the diagnosis to lean into dysfunction—insisting that society should accommodate them rather than encouraging them to accommodate themselves and work toward overcoming their challenges. Aside from my motor-balance issues, which I haven't found a solution for (I crash into walls every day), many of the struggles I faced in my youth and young adulthood have lessened because I put a lot of work into myself. My social difficulties, though still apparent, have improved with determination and experience. I worked hard to overcome rigid thinking. I carry sunglasses and earplugs with me wherever I go. I’m fortunate now to have designed a life that accommodates my sensory issues—I live in a quiet place and work from home. I've channeled my intense interests into a developing career that I'm proud of. It’s important to recognize that there is a strong incentive for people to gravitate toward a diagnosis that allows them to reframe their shortcomings as something beyond their control—because it makes them feel less responsible for their perceived failures. In doing so, many are surrendering their agency rather than trying to improve their circumstances."
Libs of TikTok on X - "MSNBC guest’s message to Americans who don’t want billions of their tax dollars going to Ukraine: “Ukranians are more American than we are.” What???"
Auron MacIntyre on X - "For the Democrats the only people who aren't American are actual Americans Illegal immigrants and Ukrainians are the real Americans, that's why the government steals your money and gives it to them You are the tax farm for "real Americans""
