Links - 26th April 2025 (2 - Diversity)

Thread by @Theswampmonitor on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨BREAKING: Gen. CQ Brown, who was just fired by President Trump & @PeteHegseth was the wokest Joint Chiefs chairman in American history.  He repeatedly preached and practiced racial discrimination.  Here is a thread of damning evidence. 🧵⬇️
On June 5, 2020, General Brown said:  “I’m thinking about how I can make improvements, personally, professional, and institutionally, so that all Airmen, both today and tomorrow, appreciate the value of diversity.”  PBS reported on July 28, 2021, that Gen. Brown had "diversifying" the Air Force as one of his top priorities as Air Force chief of staff.   In that same PBS broadcast, Gen. Brown stated that “the beauty of” George Floyd’s death was that it forced the Air Force to take a “hard look at ourselves” and that that the military needs to break up the “white boys club” and that the military needs to make sure that the military has a “diverse set of candidates.” Gen. Brown then advocated for checking the social media posts of potential Air Force recruits for "extremist tendencies." In a February 11, 2021, People Magazine interview, he stated that “we’ve got to closely manage our diverse populations…to make sure their development and opportunities aren’t happening by luck.”  He stated further that the Air Force needs to “tweak the screening process, so it’s not so reliant upon a paper test” when considering recruitment and promotion opportunities. In an interview with the Washington Post posted to YouTube on January 25, 2021, General Brown stated that:  "We gotta actually nudge and pull and actually purposely manage to ensure that we have diverse candidates" for leadership positions. Defense One reported in 2022 that Gen. Brown "leads a monthly inclusion council that’s become a place to 'ask some really hard questions.'”  Not only that, Gen. Brown is proud that he capped credits for flight experience in admissions for the express purpose of admitting more non-white pilots.  In an interview with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in November 2020, General Brown flatly said:  “I hire for diversity” and that “I purposely build my office, my front office, and my team with diverse” backgrounds.  Gen. Brown explicitly praises DEI, and states that:  "You can't let it just be happenstance that brings in diversity," and that the military should "identify diverse candidates and ensure that we are grooming them for opportunities.""

Errol Webber on X - "If Japan has taught us anything, it is that nuclear bombs are less destructive than diversity."

Maririn~ on X - "I've never seen a country that has young women be able to sleep outside at night without fear of being assaulted except for Japan"
Sólionath on X - "Cue the angry leftists talking about camera-shutter noise and bringing up a single crime from 36 years ago, while also defending the chemical castration of children."

Bernie on X - "DEI - Fun fact: The UK has the highest number of DEI roles relative to population size, in the WORLD! This is page 1 of public service advertised DEI roles today Estimated cost to the tax payer stands at £557 MILLION a year 🤡"

Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ on X - "The man is literally disabled and in a wheelchair. DEI is literally the reason the Capitol building is accessible to him."
wanye on X - "I told you, they’re going to try to rebrand DEI as generic liberalism, so now DEI is the Americans with Disabilities Act from nearly 40 years before anybody heard of DEI."

Meme - LearningTheLaw @Mangalawyer: ""Wow, that’s a nice, friendly, and wholesome developer team. It would be a shame if I targeted you just for being male and white. Embrace diversity, or we will make your life difficult""
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier: "It's pretty wild that in 2021 a new game studio still looks like this"

Crémieux on X - "The Biden administration harassed police and fire departments for asking their recruits to have a bare minimum level of literacy, numeracy, and physical aptitude.  Today, the DOJ has dismissed all of those cases with a clear message:  Competence is legal again."
i/o on X - "Here's the problem faced by cities: Only a small percentage of black applicants to these jobs will have even average intelligence (only 16% of US blacks have an IQ of 100 or above).  Prior to this century, many big city police and fire departments required applicants to take a cognitive test and score at least the IQ equivalent of a 105 or 110. But only 5% of blacks in the US have an IQ of at least 110, and those who do I assume would prefer a better-paying and safer line of work.  So what's a police department in a city with a substantial black population to do? Keep the tests and continue to overwhelmingly hire whites or throw the tests in the trash? Neither option seems all that great."
The people who mock the police for not wanting to hire people who are too smart also claim IQ tests are unreliable and racially biased

Thread by @JohnDSailer on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: Days after the 10/7 Hama attack, UC Davis professor Jemma Decristo posted threateningly (⬇️⬇️) about "zionist journalists."  It rightly sparked outrage. But an even bigger story is how Decristo was recruited to a tenure-track job at UC Davis in the first place 🧵
Today I’m introducing a series of investigations (@CityJournal) on the scholar-activist pipeline.  For years, universities, private foundations, and federal agencies have furnished a well-funded career pathway for scholar who hold an activist vision for higher education.  When Decristo expressed sympathy for overt violence, UC Davis’s chancellor publicly condemned the comments—saying they were inconsistent with the university's commitment to social justice.  But ironically, Decristo was hired precisely because of that commitment. Decristo, once described by UC Davis as a “scholar-artist-activist,” was recruited through the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP).  The program fast-tracks scholars showing a “commitment to diversity” into permanent faculty roles. A growing number of like-minded activists are following Decristo’s path.  This constellation of “pipeline programs” is intended to hire more minorities. In practice, it heavily favors academics who view their scholarship as an extension of a political agenda.
The programs raise obvious legal questions.  After President Trump’s executive order “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” many universities will likely reassess their pipeline initiatives to avoid federal scrutiny. The universities with the most influential programs, though, have framed them as race-neutral, selecting scholars based on their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.  So far, this has helped universities avoid legal scrutiny, but it creates other big issues.
This series is based on thousands of pages acquired through public records requests and interviews with more than a dozen scholars.  It explores what is perhaps the most popular pipeline program, responsible for Decristo’s professorship at UC Davis: the fellow-to-faculty model.  Usually, a postdoctoral fellowship is just a small step in a scholar’s career. After a fellowship ends, former postdocs apply to competitive positions on the open market.  The diversity-focused fellow-to-faculty model modifies this pathway:
1. Administrators select fellows with special attention to how they contribute to diversity.
2. Fellows are then heavily favored for—often guaranteed—tenure-track positions, bypassing a competitive search.
It’s a side-door into the faculty lounge.
The UC system’s President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP), which the university recently declared the “largest and most influential academic pipeline program of its kind in the nation,” serves as a blueprint for the rest of the country. At its inception in 1984, PPFP awarded postdocs only to women and minorities.  In 1996, when California voters banned affirmative action, identity-based criteria became unambiguously illegal, forcing the program to evolve. Here's the critical innovation. The UC system now seeks diversity by proxy.  A grant proposal I obtained describes how PPFP assesses “a candidate’s demonstrated contributions to diversity and equal opportunity,” rather than using race or sex.  This “innovative holistic selection process,” the proposal carefully points out, is “compliant with the current legal environment in California.” PPFP, notably, spearheaded the practice of “converting” its postdocs into tenure-track faculty positions.  The system established a hiring incentive, promising UC campuses cash for hiring former fellows, along with a special search waiver. Abigail Thompson, a professor of mathematics at UC Davis, was herself a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley in 1986. She is now critical of the program.  In 2019, Thompson published a piece in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, arguing against the use of mandatory diversity statements in faculty hiring.  “In reality it’s a political test, and it’s a political test with teeth,” Thompson wrote  When I spoke with Thompson, she pointed out how the program gives administrators an especially convenient tool for advancing their hiring priorities. “This is such a clever idea, really,” Thompson said.  “No one pays close attention to how these postdocs are hired.”  Perhaps because it’s so effective, the fellow-to-faculty model exploded throughout American higher education in the early 2010s, as universities around the country began ratcheting up their DEI efforts... Most remarkably, over the last five years, five percent of the tenure-track hires in the UC System were former president’s or chancellor’s postdoctoral fellows.  The programs thus provide a steady stream of scholars committed to activist disciplines like “critical refugee studies” and “queer of color critique.”  They raise serious questions about academic freedom, the role of outside funder, and the prospects for higher education reform.  When the dust settles from the battle over DEI, reformers will still have to contend with the way that universities have reshaped their basic mission through the construction of a scholar-activist pipeline."

Meme - @adorasroses: "They're gonna make Snape the bitter black dude jealous of a white man that feels possessive of a woman and bullied her kid because she didn't want him. Send the goddamn flood."
Film Updates: "Paapa Essiedu is nearing a deal to play Professor Severus Snape in the 'HARRY POTTER' HBO series."
Grievance mongers are never satisfied

Meme - Ryan Kinel - RK Outpost @KinelRyan: "I've actually read all of the books, unlike you, so I'll help you out. Snape is described several times as "pale", multiple times as having "pallid" and "sallow" skin, once as the "color of sour milk", and since even that isn't enough, it's described quite literally as "marble white" during his last confrontation with Voldemort in Deathly Hallows.  Hope that helps, you retarded fuck."
Ryan @RJC4500: "This is the exact description of Snape from the book “He has greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin.” None of that points to a specific race of a person"
Readers added context: "J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has drawn four illustrations of Severus Snape as a white man. In the 10th anniversary edition of the first book, she lists one of the illustrations of Snape "as [she] always saw him.""

Meme - "Do you mean to insult me, Ms. Granger?"
"No, Professor. It's just that it's been beeping all semester. It wouldn't even take magic to fi-"
"50 points from Gryffindor"
*chirp*

Meme - "All-girl Boy Scout troop starts in Ohio"
Joel Patrick: "Imagine if they had a club for girls...we could name it...wait for it...girl scouts."
How "inclusion" is used as a way to take over spaces. And since "minorities" need "safe spaces", "inclusion" only goes one way

Chris Parry on X - "This is appalling. Is it true that there is 'a 700-member Home Office Islamic Network', which works 'to promote the recruitment, retention and progression of Muslim staff in the Home Office'? If so, it's a blatant, systemic and deliberate breach of the Nolan Principles."
Jasmine 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 on X - "A family member worked for the home office in London. White male aged 48. A Muslim female manager took over. In 3 years she got rid of all white staff and all male staff. She just made their life hell, till they moved on. He was the last one to go."

Foreign Lessons in the Perils of DEI and Affirmative Action - WSJ - "The writer Christopher Caldwell calls the Trump administration’s assault on affirmative action “the most significant policy change of this century.” There are many reasons to hope that it succeeds. Group-based quotas, whether explicit or de facto, tend to breed resentment in those who feel unfairly excluded and self-doubt among beneficiaries, who wonder if their success is unearned. Amid intense technological competition with China, the U.S. must ensure that its universities and research labs can recruit the most talented people based on competence alone. Mr. Trump deserves credit for helping America dodge a bullet. As Thomas Sowell pointed out in his 2004 book, “Affirmative Action Around the World,” most countries first roll out preferences and quotas as a temporary expedient, but over time they “turn out not only to persist but to grow.” At some point, they become virtually impossible to extirpate... The details of affirmative-action policies in India, South Africa and Malaysia vary, but all have led to similar outcomes. Each of these countries faces a brain drain as some of its most talented and driven people head for the exits. A large chunk of Malaysia’s well-educated ethnic Chinese have settled in Singapore, Australia, the U.K. and North America. The ethnic Chinese proportion of Malaysia’s population has fallen from 38% in 1957 to 20% today. In the U.S., Silicon Valley is filled with Indian and South African engineers and tech entrepreneurs who see America—not the countries of their birth—as the promised land. In South Africa, infrastructure is crumbling and the unemployment rate for blacks was nearly 40% last year. Malaysia, despite its natural resources, trails neighboring (and brutally meritocratic) Singapore in per capita income. In a 2021 essay, University of Tasmania Professor James Chin wrote that Malaysia’s New Economic Policy has “poisoned ethnic and personal relations in a way that now defines the country’s polity and economy.” Mr. Trump may help the U.S. avoid a similar fate, and his actions are in keeping with the American spirit"

D.E.I. Statements Spark Debate at UCalifornia and Other Universities - The New York Times - "Yoel Inbar, a noted psychology professor at the University of Toronto, figured he might be teaching this fall at U.C.L.A... The university asked him to fill out the requisite papers, including a statement that affirmed his belief and work in diversity, equity and inclusion. He flew out and met with, among others, a faculty diversity committee and a group of graduate students.  Dr. Inbar figured all had gone well, that his work and liberal politics fit well with the university. Some faculty members, he said, had even advised him on house hunting.  But a few days later, the department chair emailed and told him that more than 50 graduate students had signed a letter strongly denouncing his candidacy. Why? In part, because on his podcast years earlier, he had opposed diversity statements — like the one he had just written. Not long after, the chair told Dr. Inbar that, with regret, U.C.L.A. could not offer him a job.  Diversity statements are a new flashpoint on campus, just as the Supreme Court has driven a stake through race-conscious admissions. Nearly half the large universities in America require that job applicants write such statements, part of the rapid growth in D.E.I. programs. Many University of California departments now require that faculty members seeking promotions and tenure also write such statements... “Professions of fealty to D.E.I. ideology are so ubiquitous as to be meaningless,” said Daniel Sargent, a professor of history and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. “We are institutionalizing a performative dishonesty.”... John D. Haltigan, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, filed a lawsuit in May against the University of California that said such a statement is a “functional loyalty oath” and would make his job application futile, violating his rights under the First Amendment. A decade ago, California university officials faced a conundrum.  A majority of its students were nonwhite, and officials wanted to recruit more Black and Latino professors. But California’s voters had banned affirmative action in 1996. So in 2016, at least five campuses — Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Riverside and Santa Cruz — decided their hiring committees could perform an initial screening of candidates based only on diversity statements.  Candidates who did not “look outstanding” on diversity, the vice provost at U.C. Davis instructed search committees, could not advance, no matter the quality of their academic research. Credentials and experience would be examined in a later round... By 2020, however, top officials at Berkeley concluded the hiring experiment had gone too far. That February, a vice provost sent a carefully worded letter to search committee chairs. Diversity statements, he wrote, should not be treated as a political litmus test or as the sole factor... These new expectations upended Dr. Inbar.  He favored affirmative action. But five years ago, he questioned diversity statements in a podcast — “Two Psychologists, Four Beers,” that he hosted with another academic. He described the statements as “value signaling” that required applicants to demonstrate allegiance to a particular set of liberal beliefs.  “It’s not clear that they lead to better results for underrepresented groups,” he said.  On another episode in 2022, he noted that a professional society of psychologists officially opposed a Georgia law banning abortion. He favors abortion rights but argued that professional associations represent members of many ideological shades and should avoid taking political stances.  All of this angered the graduate students. “His hiring would threaten ongoing efforts to protect and uplift individuals of marginalized backgrounds,” the students wrote. They argued he was not committed to a “safe, welcoming and inclusive environment.” The students sent the letter to the entire psychology faculty and posted it online.  Dr. Inbar’s research in moral intuition and judgment, the students added, lacked proper grounding in the progressive politics of identity... a professor in social psychology at U.C.L.A., Matthew Lieberman, noted in a Substack essay that Dr. Inbar’s credentials were easily “above threshold” for a hire... according to the faculty diversity work group at Santa Cruz. “Social justice activism in academia seeks to identify how systemic racism and implicit bias influence the topics we pursue, the research methods we use, the outlets in which we publish and the outcomes we observe.”... The entire process has long troubled a number of senior faculty members at Berkeley. “If you write: ‘I believe that everyone should be treated equally,’ you will be branded as a right winger,” Vinod Aggarwal, a political science professor at the university, said in an interview. “This is compelled speech, plain and simple.”  Professor Soucek, at Davis law school, said ideological diversity is not the point.  “It’s our job to make sure people of all identities flourish here,” he said. “It’s not our job to make sure that all viewpoints flourish.”"
From 2023. Why are "minorities" so fragile?
The faculty diversity work group openly proclaims political bias in academia, but of course only far right conspiracy theorists who spread misinformation claim that

Meme - Eyal Yakoby: "One of the leading voices of DEI is reposting a literal neo-Nazi. The horseshoe theory is true. The communists and fascists are aligned."
Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog: "As I've pointed out before, we hear more about Hitler than we hear about other genocidaires because he killed Europeans."
JonnyUtd: "They teach us that Hitler killed 6,000,000 Jews. But they don't teach that Churchill killed 3,000,000 in the Bengal Fan..."

Meme - @elonmusk: "Democrats are cruel"
Right Wing Cope @RightWingCope: "Hey @DOGE I have a DEl hire to report"
Readers added context: "D.J. Daniel is a 13 year old child with cancer. He was given an honorary title, he wasn't hired"

DEI: Why Australian workers are pushing back against workplace gender targets - "a legislative framework that includes mandatory reporting to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, the publication of employers’ gender pay gaps, and obligations on employers to take proactive steps to eliminate workplace sexual harassment means some experts believe a major Australian retreat from DEI is less likely... experts say Australian resistance to workplace diversity programs has been building for some time. Diversity Council of Australia research published last February found 7 per cent of Australian workers opposed or strongly opposed diversity and inclusion programs at work – up from 3 per cent in 2017. Ashley McGrath, chief executive of members organisation CEOs for Gender Equity, a WA-based charity that aims to accelerate progress towards gender equality by helping CEOs lead from the top, said employee resistance, typically from men, was the No. 1 barrier to progress across her member organisations. “It’s so prominent that we’ve decided to a have a CEO summit on it [in February],” Ms McGrath said. Resistance to DEI initiatives was increasing for several key reasons, she said. Programs had become more prominent and overt; companies had failed to bring men on the journey and convincingly explain the rationale; programs were often seen as a zero-sum game in which women gained all the benefits, and their broader benefits were ignored; and men who raised concerns often felt they were dismissed out of hand as bigots or misogynists... Chief Executive Women CEO Lisa Annese said the increased backlash was often based on misinformation and inaccurate assumptions, but it was an inevitable byproduct of “challenging the status quo”."
When they continue to bury their head in the sand, they will become more and more shocked and scandalised when their racism and sexism get rejected by more and more people

I started being picked last at school and learned an important lesson - "One of the first moments I truly understood how deeply ingrained ableism is in our society, even though I may not have had the language for it at the time, was when I returned to elementary school after those four months away. Before the accident I was an active kid taking ballet classes, diving lessons, and rock climbing at friends’ birthday parties. After my return though, my classmates would often pick me last for teams. I internalised the message that I was less capable, less worthy – a belief that would take years to unlearn... In dating, people admitted they weren’t comfortable being with someone disabled."
For the sake of inclusion, you need to pick weak candidates for teams and change your dating preferences

Colin Wright on X - "Democrats will have to come to terms with the fact that "DEI isn't effective at fighting racism" because DEI *is* racism.  Trying to fight racism with DEI is like trying to extinguish a fire with a flame thrower.  Dems want to be perceived as wanting to combat racism more than they actually want to combat racism. In reality, they are incapable of fighting racism because they don't even understand what racism is, which is evidenced by their belief that non-whites can't be racist.  This is the pinnacle of moral confusion.  Despite all the woke rhetoric around "anti-racism," the reality is clear: the Republican Party currently upholds the core principles of the Civil Rights Act, while the Democrats have not just abandoned them but have actively turned against them.  If a person truly cares about fighting racism, they would support the Republican Party. It’s not even close."

RAF facing pilot shortage after diversity scheme backfires - "The RAF is facing a pilot shortage after a diversity hiring scheme backfired.  An official document has revealed the Royal Air Force’s need for “a higher number of pilots in training”.  The Air Force is so short-staffed that candidates who were previously rejected are being urged to reapply, as well as older applicants who have experience in “flying-related roles”... The same scheme is open to weapons systems operators.  Mark Francois, the shadow Armed Forces minister, told the paper: “The RAF’s availability of combat pilots has been hit by a perfect storm: including woke manipulation of recruiting practices, the revival of civilian airlines post-Covid and technical issues with training aircraft, particularly engine reliability on the Hawk T2.  “All this really matters. If we are now going to see ‘jets in the sky’ defending any Ukrainian peace deal, then we need enough trained pilots to fly them.  “As we approach VE Day celebrations, it is worth remembering that the RAF never ran out of Spitfires or Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain, but we very nearly ran out of fighter pilots.”  The shortage comes after the RAF’s diversity drive was found to be unlawful to white male would-be recruits. Under Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston’s stewardship, the air force committed to having 40 per cent women and 20 per cent of personnel from ethnic minorities by 2030. During the drive, leaked emails showed air chiefs were told to stop choosing “useless white male pilots” in an attempt to improve diversity.  In 2023, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton apologised following an inquiry into the bias.  Sir Richard admitted that the force’s recruitment process had erroneously “fast-tracked” 161 enlisted aviators, who were either women or from ethnic minority backgrounds, into initial training before other candidates between 2020 and 2021. He acknowledged that the RAF conceded “some men experienced discrimination” as a result, citing a group of 31 individuals who likely missed the chance to qualify for a £5,000 joining bonus."
Don't these ignorant bigots know that diversity is about levelling the playing field and giving everyone who isn't a cis white straight man a chance, because without DEI minorities would never get in, and minorities who get in due to DEI are equally qualified?!

Colin Wright on X - "This is why I believe Democrats spilled their basket of already-picked moral fruit to pursue DEI. Essentially, most of the major civil rights battles had been won, and incremental gains don't produce the degree of catharsis leftists desire. So they inverted their morality."
The "myth" of the slippery slope strikes again

Meme - Brannon @brannon1776: "Western civilization depends on generations of hyper-competent white men who keep complex infrastructure systems running. right now these men are either:
1. retiring
2. getting fired for being white
3. not getting hired for being white
4. not getting into STEM programs for being white
the infrastructure you thought was reliable as the air you breath will begin failing because of this."
Of course, the "solution" will be even more diversity

Wall Street Apes on X - "James O’Keefe undercover footage: MGM Casino Marketing Director: ‘I'm not going to hire Whites” “No matter how great they [Whites] look on paper, they don't fit well with my team.” We need a federal investigation into MGM, this is racist and ILLEGAL"
Left wingers still mock claims that there's discrimination against white people. But at some people they know they're lying, which is why they get upset when presented with evidence

The Postmodern Misuse of Tolerance

The Postmodern Misuse of Tolerance

"people increasingly rely upon tolerance because other Enlightenment values such as reason, equality, and liberty have lost the power to inspire. 

For liberal societies beset by creeping anxieties about the value of their form of government, it is doubtful that this new emphasis on tolerance constitutes a net benefit. The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones. Many of the groups that claim diversity and tolerance as their guiding principles, combine it with a more-or-less explicit rejection of liberalism. The great danger is that, increasingly, attachment to liberalism and tolerance are seen as incompatible and mutually exclusive, and this conviction is the result of a radical change in the understanding of what tolerance means.

By its very nature, tolerance has an ambiguous status amongst liberal values. People with diverging lifestyles cannot live together unless they qualify their attachment to the particular with a corresponding commitment to the universal values that help unify the wider society in which they live. They can only do so if they believe that the institutions responsible for organising a society’s collective life benefit everyone. But, lately, wariness of moral judgment has come to outweigh the quest for rational principles of universal justice...

The mere fact of cohabitation doesn’t necessarily constitute an example of tolerance and people back then probably would not have understood it as such. This distinction is apparent from one of the most common examples of what people mistakenly call Ancient tolerance, the Islamic Caliphate of Córdoba. 

Jews and Christians were permitted to practice their faiths as Abrahamic ‘People of the Book’ by the Caliphs of Spain, but only so long as they acknowledged the ultimate truth of Islam by payment of tribute to the Caliph in the form of the jizya. This was not because faith was considered a matter of personal judgment, but because loyalty was better secured by fiscal and legal incentives than forcible conversion. But this did not make apostasy any more possible for a Muslim, nor did it affect the hostility of Sunni leaders towards Muslims of other sects, such as the Shia.

The notion of tolerance as the ability to set aside absolute moral standards and work out a collective path to coexistence began as a religious discussion. By the beginning of the 16^th century, the political model of the Christian Kingdom, conceived as a community of salvation, was splintering under the weight of theological disagreements...

Influential pre-Enlightenment thinkers such as Machiavelli and Hobbes who sought a means of making societies peaceful and coherent realised they could no longer rely on moral and religious doctrines. Firstly, because Christian morality had made political power weak and inefficient and, secondly, because the debates it had created were now the cause of disorder and division among its adherents. A new system of government thus had to be based on things which avoided the kinds of disagreement moral reflections could not overcome.

Whatever the basis of that new State, it needed to be neutral – that is, indifferent to moral questions, and to the conflicts they inevitably produced. It needed to shift its mission from a prescriptive definition of life (what the right life is) to the preservation of life, whatever that life may be and however it is lived. This led to the creation of a new distinction between morality and politics. But for that to happen, morality itself would need to be reshaped to accommodate that separation.

The separation of the good from the common good isn’t natural. From the point of view of the moral individual, tolerance is bound to appear as the acceptance of evil...

This division of morality and politics grew from the separation of Church and State. But religious freedom also provided a space for the development of other freedoms. Because the correct path to salvation no longer fell within the purview of State power and authority, it created space for what would soon become civil society...

For Burke, particularism need not be hermetic. On the contrary, his interest in the variety of human behaviours is a product of his concern for “original justice” or “natural law.” The error of the French revolutionaries, he argued, wasn’t to cherish universal values, but to behave towards their people as strangers, sharing nothing but the cold calculation of general and empty norms. There could be no government on the basis of instrumental reason alone, he went on, because self-interest can do nothing without trust, and there is no trust without love. And we do not love things because they are rational, but because they are our own.

Human societies cannot function properly if their individual constituents do not know one another. And they cannot know one another without sharing common objects of affection (territory, manners, language, images and so on). The universal principles that inform our institutions can only become efficient tools of government if we transform them into an extension of our own.

That, for Burke, is accomplished by shared identity, by common prejudices, without which reason would become either powerless or tyrannical. The principles of our government – liberty, equality, the rule of law, and so on – can only successfully organise and pacify our collective life if we accept them as a community, rather than as isolated ahistorical, self-interested individuals. State building is inseparable from nation building.

While appearing to speak in the name of liberal values and social norms, the rhetoric of tolerance is often used today by those who want to deny their universality.

Following the murder of 12 people at the offices of French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, an alarming number of people claimed that the magazine should have been sensitive to Islamist blasphemy doctrines. For these critics, individual liberty, freedom of expression, and even personal security from lethal violence, were subordinate to the need to respect cultural difference...

Postmodern tolerance is used as an instrument of confusion, in order to impose the recognition of difference on social agents using state power. The assumption behind this move is that society isn’t a realm of individual freedom, but a pyramid of domination which benefits an elite. In such a situation, equality of rights is threatening. To protect the oppressed it is not sufficient to grant them the right to express difference – the State needs to silence those deemed to be oppressors...

The implication behind this characteristically abstruse prose is that, without radical reform of language and culture, the oppressed will remain invisible and something less than human. Liberation requires, not only the rights to self-assertion (living one’s life as one sees fit) and self-expression (being one’s own representative) secured by liberal institutions, but also the adoption of new codes of speech and conduct by everyone else. Moreover, since oppression may be invisible to the oppressed, they need to be informed of their condition before committing to the struggle for emancipation. But informed by whom, if not those, like Butler, who already see democratic societies as systems of oppression?

Catholics and Protestants didn’t need to be told by academics that they were oppressed by one another. And the subsequent creation of the modern State didn’t require them to stop thinking of one another as heretics. Rather, it compelled them to put an end to sectarian violence as a means of punishing heresy. What Butler is asking of the alleged oppressor isn’t simply to refrain from violence, but to see in his opinions the cause of the another’s suffering. In this way, speech and opinion are redescribed as a kind of violence. Through the recognition of the oppressed identity, the oppressor admits to being the product, the agent, and the beneficiary of injustice, and acknowledges a debt to the oppressed. Instead of judging people regardless of identity, the State is consequently required to promote and protect some identities and condemn others.

This betrayal of the intended meaning of tolerance was made possible by a deliberate expansion of the definition of safety. Suddenly, tolerance was asked to encompass exactly was it was meant to exclude – beliefs individuals take to be moral wrongs on the basis of their own value judgments. The modern State was supposed to be concerned only with what people did, and not with what people thought or said. Its mission was to protect our physical safety and the security of our property, while leaving to individual judgment whether to agree or disagree with speech and opinions.

But by promoting a ‘performative’ conception of individual identity, ‘critical theorists’ and postmodern academics intend to blur that important distinction.

If who I am cannot be distinguished from who I say I am (e.g. the gender or the religion with which I identify) then people who disagree with me are a threat to my very existence. Worse, this asks – or, ideally, compels – the State to either accept all such claims, or to assess their sincerity or insincerity (for example regarding access to public bathrooms). Not only is this an impossible task, it is precisely the kind of task the modern State was designed to avoid.

This is why tolerance, rightly understood, cannot be the blind cultivation of difference... The rejection of political neutrality destroys the very basis on which tolerance was conceived and cultivated; not as something worth pursuing in itself, but as a value that can only be enjoyed in relation with others."

Links - 26th April 2025 (1 [including Free Speech in Europe])

Meme - Laurence Fox @LozzaFox: "Deal with it, Stasi scum.  Hurty feelings are not going to shut us up.  You are corrupt to the core @metpoliceuk    You have lost public confidence.  Now go and solve an actual crime, you bunch of whining twats."
Metropolitan Police: "We're aware of significant social media commentary. Some of the comments are personal and hurtful. This is unacceptable."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Being able to speak out against police behaviour is not only acceptable, it is crucial to a free society."

Polish MEP Faces Three Years in Prison for Liking a Tweet - "Patryk Jaki MEP (Law and Justice; PiS) is beginning his “special trial” in Poland, after ‘liking’ a Twitter post back in 2018 that showcased real security footage of migrant criminals.  Polish prosecutors requested a three-year prison sentence for this ‘hate crime,’ while leftists in the European Parliament began the procedure to strip Jaki of his diplomatic immunity for “inciting hatred against Muslim immigrants.” The trial of the co-chair of the European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) group comes against the backdrop of Polish PM Donald Tusk’s entire liberal government becoming the subject of an official probe over a suspected “coup d’etat” last week due to its blatant rule-of-law violations, such as ignoring high-level judicial rulings, taking over public institutions, and unlawfully persecuting the conservative opposition—something that Jaki’s case perfectly illustrates... In parallel, the Tusk government on Monday suspended Michał Ostrowski, the country’s deputy prosecutor general, for launching the “coup d’etat” investigation into its members, despite him acting at the request of the Constitutional Tribunal, Poland’s highest constitutional judicial body.  Ostrowski was relieved of his duties for at least six months, effective immediately, by Justice Minister Adam Bodnar, who’s also one of the key “suspects” in the investigation that is now also suspended. A separate investigation was launched against Ostrowski by the government-controlled national prosecutors for “the crime of abuse of power.”   Faced with rule-of-law abuse charges, there’s hardly a worse way to establish your innocence than firing and prosecuting the man tasked with investigating your crimes.  This latest political battle began in Poland last week after Bogdan Świeczkowski—president of the constitutional court—officially requested the probe into the government’s rule-of-law abuses, claiming that Tusk and his ministers, as well as other key political allies, were acting “in an organized criminal group,” with the aim of overthrowing the country’s constitutional order... Naturally, the European Union actively ignores—or worse, denies—what’s happening in Poland. Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen paid a friendly visit to Tusk, a long-time ally and key member of her European People’s Party (EPP) group, just a day after the investigation was charged. At the same time, the chairman of the European Parliament’s civil liberties (LIBE) committee Javier Zarzalejos (EPP) cut off the microphone of a Polish MEP for daring to raise the issue in Brussels at a meeting with Minister Bodnar, who was invited to talk about the rule of law."

Gabe on X - "Ursula describes free speech as a virus and censorship as its vaccine. Let it be clear that she, along with everyone else advocating for censorship, is the true virus plaguing Europe."

Meme - @LeighWolf: "JD Vance: "Europe does not accept free speech."
Europe: "The Vance speech is not acceptable."
Lol."
"NOW - German Defense Minister Pistorius, a member of the wing SPD party, reacts to VP Vance: "This is not acceptable.""

Off the Air: French State Shuts Down Right-Wing TV Channel - "The French Council of State has just confirmed its closure of the right-wing TV channel C8, setting a dangerous precedent of state censorship in the media. Protests are growing from public figures who are concerned about the increasing and institutionalised restrictions on freedom of expression... The president of the sovereignist movement Les Patriotes, Florian Philippot, made a link between this decision and the remarks of the American vice-president JD Vance on freedom of expression, which has been widely commented on and condemned in the French mainstream press. “Apart from that, the System tells us that JD Vance is talking nonsense about censorship and the collapse of freedom of expression!,” he noted ironically in a post on X."

Meme - Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan: "Hey @JDVance , I know you’re busy lecturing the Europeans on free speech, but have you seen this?"
Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo: "President Trump's decision to limit AP reporters' access is as much fight over the Gulf of America as it is a protest of what White House advisers say is years of liberal word choices that AP's influential stylebook has spread across mainstream media"
JD Vance @JDVance: "Yes dummy. I think there’s a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the WH press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views. The latter is a threat to free speech, the former is not. Hope that helps!"

Concerned Citizen on X - "Keir Starmer to JD Vance:- “I’m proud of the Free Speech we have in The UK”
Also the UK:- “I’ve got two Policemen at my house interrogating me over a conversation on Facebook”
“Malicious communications is something posted on an open forum that is deemed to be offensive”
“I need to interview you, over an allegation of something you put on Facebook - it’s a racist matter & malicious communications”"

Lois McLatchie Miller on X - "🚨🙏NEW: When asked if PRAYING BY WINDOW in your home could be a crime under the “buffer zones” law, Gillian Mackay MSP claims: “That depends on who’s passing the window”‼️🪟 The same politician has repeatedly claimed that JD Vance was LYING 👇"
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce on X - "So can we all accept the truth of what JD Vance was saying now? If, like the prophet Daniel from the Bible, you like to pray near the window, you could fall foul of buffer zones in Scotland."

ripx4nutmeg on X - "BBC News interviewed the home secretary about immigration. And, for some reason, a transvestite"

The BBC’s institutional arrogance is going to destroy it - "The BBC increasingly appears to be enduring a slow-motion collapse under the weight of market forces and its own hubris. It’s been another rough week for the Corporation, in particular being forced to apologise for broadcasting a documentary from Gaza starring the young son of a senior member of Hamas.  When you add recurring accusations of bias to its irresistible urge to preach – rather than entertain or inform, as it should – plus a succession of avoidable scandals, sometimes it almost feels like the BBC actually wants you to hate it... The day after the BBC’s apology on Wednesday, the world witnessed the grotesque carnival of Hamas parading dead hostages in black coffins.  A BBC breaking news bulletin reported this with a headline “Hamas says it did ‘everything in its power’ to keep the hostages alive”. Everything, that is, except kidnapping them in the first place. That was supported by three Hamas statements “as context”.  The BBC is an organisation whose obsession with “balance” has mutated from the admittedly tricky position of trying to pander to no one to barely disguised legitimisation of Iranian-backed terrorists. The documentary has since been removed from BBC iPlayer. But whatever the reason for the decision to broadcast Hamas propaganda – negligence or something more underhand – it reinforces all the worst suspicions about what is going on behind the scenes.  What defines the BBC is a culture of exceptionalism. The establishment of BBC Verify, for example, continues to confound rational thought. How can the BBC justify the expense of a 60-strong team of apparently investigative journalists whose jobs appear to be either stating the bloody obvious or reporting stories that regular BBC staff should be working on anyway? This week, BBC Verify analysed Donald Trump’s claim that Volodymyr Zelensky was an unelected dictator. Thanks for all the searing insight. It’s about as useful as last year’s calendar.  All this in the same week it was revealed Doctor Who was in trouble, with the last series’ ratings being the lowest since the data was first published in 2014. Amid accusations from Whovians that storylines have become increasingly gimmicky, it’s reported the incumbent Ncuti Gatwa is rumoured to be on the verge of quitting. Although Doctor Who has always been for children, it hasn’t always been childish and preachy. BBC outriders were quickly dispatched in its defence, along the lines of: “It’s the viewers on iPlayer that matter”, “It’s the under-35 audience we care about”, “Doctor Who has always been progressive”, reactions that showcase the paranoia of an institution in a permanent state of wagon-circling.  Doctor Who is the flagship of flagships. It promotes – and reflects – the values of the BBC at any given time. I don’t much care if it does the Wokey Cokey – the show has featured trans rights, “correct” pronouns and non-binary identity, while targeting anti-abortion campaigners and tackling ablest stereotypes by getting Dalek dictator Davros out of his “wheelchair”. But bludgeoning the audience with agendas is profoundly boring. It insults our intelligence and viewers will vote with their zappers. The BBC could do with appeasing those who actually pay the licence fee, rather than chasing those who never will. Gen Z has little to no emotional or material investment in it.  The lack of a commercial imperative in the BBC – so beneficial in the days of terrestrial broadcasting – has helped create an unwieldy, semi-religious institution ill-equipped for its current challenges. It is beholden to groupthink and orthodoxy on issues that do not match the evolving heterodoxy of the public, provoking persistent complaints about its portrayal of British history in its programming or colourblind casting of dramas purporting to be historically accurate. In these cases it isn’t the casting itself that offends, but the intention behind it. You feel like you are being bashed over the head. The BBC allowed Gary Lineker to effectively write his own code of conduct. The Proms are dumbed down every summer. There’s almost no arts coverage on its television channels at all. Radio 2 can’t seem to get anything right.  Last month it was accused of misrepresenting London-based production staff working on The Traitors as Scottish to meet its diversity quotas... the BBC’s insularity meant it could not police the conduct of its worst employees. The scandals it so cowardly failed to confront in-house are a litany of hubristic oversights: Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris and Huw Edwards being the very worst of a bad bunch that seems to grow by the year. The cumulative effect for audiences is alienation and disloyalty.  In some sense this is a tale as old as time. In 2016, the Commons select committee concluded that BBC internal culture was “bureaucratic, arrogant and introspective”... Sadly, it looks as if the challenge from streaming services and digital media is insurmountable, ever diminishing the public’s trust with young progressives increasingly seeing the BBC as too conservative and conservatives seeing it as too progressive.  The BBC is in a no-win situation, like a team lining up to face New Zealand’s All Blacks: if you mock the Haka, they accuse you of disrespect. If you ignore the Haka, they accuse you of disrespect. If you confront the Haka, they accuse you of disrespect. There seems no way out.  Even so, so many of the BBC’s long-term problems are of its own making"

Japanese researchers test drug to regrow teeth - "Unlike reptiles and fish, which usually replace their fangs on a regular basis, it is widely accepted that humans and most other mammals grow only two sets of teeth.  But hidden underneath people’s gums are the dormant buds of a third generation, according to Dr Katsu Takahashi, head of oral surgery at the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital in Osaka.  His team launched clinical trials at Kyoto University Hospital in October, administering an experimental medicine to adult test subjects that they noted has the potential to jump-start the growth of these concealed teeth."

Meme - "What's Better than a Loyal Woman? A Loyal Woman who Brings You New Women !"

Meme - "People that live in a touristy town that solely exists because of the revenue generated from tourism when they see a tourist in their town:"

Meme - "WARNING! All Facebook accounts are being hacked and cloned. To avoid this you must stand naked on your kitchen table, singing "I Will Survive", while doing the Macarena. Only then will Mark Zuckerberg travel down your chimney on a golden unicorn and present you with a special blue token to protect your account. Now send this to everyone on your contacts list, otherwise goblins will wee in your fridge."

Swedish man dies in South Korea after being denied urgent treatment at 21 hospitals - "A Swedish national suffering from necrosis died in South Korea due to sepsis after being denied urgent medical treatment by 21 hospitals.  The individual, 64, suffered from a severe case of necrosis that required immediate medical intervention when he was handed over to South Korean police by the Embassy of Sweden in Seoul in December, according to reports in local media.  In an exclusive interview with the Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo, Aron Park, the police lieutenant who cared for the Swedish man, said it took rejections by 21 hospitals in the country’s capital to find one willing to perform the surgery. Hospitals were reportedly reluctant to treat the individual due to his foreign nationality, the high cost of surgery, and concerns over reimbursement for his medical care. The newspaper also says the man’s sister, who lives in Sweden, declined to cover the expense.   Eventually, Hyuksin Seongmo Hospital in North Chungcheong Province, 86 km away from Seoul, agreed to perform the surgery seven days after Park began calling hospitals.  The hospital’s foundation covered the remaining costs of an approximate total of €10,000 for the surgery after the Swedish Embassy contributed €5,340.  Park, who helped the Swedish national using a translation app, expressed gratitude to the hospital that "did not turn away from the socially disadvantaged".  The hospital also stated that its decision was influenced by its commitment to helping vulnerable individuals during the holiday season... The Swedish national entered South Korea in April 2024 on a visa-free tourist status but was later indicted for drug possession and placed under a travel ban.  In his first trial, he was acquitted due to evidence suggesting that his involvement in the crime was unintentional and linked to mental illness. However, his case was under appeal at the time of his death."
Time to bash the US healthcare system again

'Hell Joseon' blues: young Koreans flee for a better life - ""Hell Joseon," a term used to describe Korea, has become a potent expression of the country's deep-seated inequalities and structural problems. The younger generation, in particular, feels a profound sense of disillusionment and despair about the future. This sentiment is starkly reflected in the nation's low birthrate. The challenging social environment — where it is almost inconceivable to consider having and raising children — leads young people to lose hope for their future, threatening the very foundation of the nation’s survival.  A film that vividly portrays this reality is "Because I hate Korea.” The movie follows Gyena, a young woman who decides to leave Korea for New Zealand in search of a better life, away from the harsh realities she faces at home. Gyena comes to see life in Korea as a source of despair rather than hope, feeling that it stifles her identity and happiness. Her decision is emblematic of a broader trend among young Koreans who are looking abroad for opportunities and a more promising future, reflecting the deep-rooted structural issues within Korean society... The "hateful" issues in Korean society are diverse and complex. One major problem is the rigidity of the labor market. Decent jobs are highly sought after but scarce, leading to intense competition. The pressure to accumulate qualifications and the excessive focus on academic credentials place immense stress on young people. Even after graduating from university, those who do not secure a regular job may be relegated to temporary or part-time work, which further undermines their quality of life. Consequently, it becomes challenging to achieve job security or to make long-term plans.  Additionally, the culture of hyper-competition erodes trust and solidarity among people. In a society where individuals are viewed as rivals rather than partners, and where exclusion and competition take precedence over cooperation, human relationships inevitably suffer. The younger generation, having been raised in this environment, often come to see each other as adversaries. This mindset fosters a vicious cycle of mistrust and anxiety, becoming pervasive throughout society. An even more pressing issue is the pervasive culture that equates money with everything. In a society where higher-paying jobs are valued over meaningful work, material success is often seen as the sole goal in life. This focus on economic achievement over human dignity contributes to widespread moral decay. As a result, young people are left with a profound sense of disillusionment, struggling to understand their true life goals amid a culture that prioritizes financial gain above all else."

South Korean man convicted for deliberately gaining weight to evade military service - "A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining more than 20 kilograms (44 pounds) to evade a tougher role in the country’s military conscription system... The Seoul Eastern District Court said it sentenced the man to one year in prison, suspended for two years, for violating the country’s military service act.  The court said an acquaintance of the man received a suspended 1-year prison term for aiding his crime... Each year, about 50-60 cases of dodging military duties have been reported, according to the Military Manpower Administration. It said common ways to evade military duties include gaining or losing weight excessively or men with health issues not taking necessary medical treatments before physical tests."

Meme - "To Do List:
1. Avenge the fam -
2. Mutha. Fuckin. HOE TIME
Chun Li in Street Fighter: "FINALLY, YOU CAN REST IN PEACE... AND I CAN GET BACK TO BEING A YOUNG, SINGLE GIRL."

Meme - Muslim Man: "The hijab is a choice, habibti. We are not an oppressive religion"
Muslim Woman: "I'll take mine off, then."
Muslim Man slapping Muslim Woman: "Don't you dare, bitch!"

Meme - "At no point could I anticipate what word was going to be next in this headline"
NME @NME: "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent beard shavings to Azealia Banks so she could make an amulet to protect him from ISIS"

KinMun Theodore Lee | Facebook - "Based on the flyers I receive, that one HDB flat in my block in November 2024 was sold by at least ten different property agents. Wah so talented, these agents."

🇺🇸 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 🇺🇸 on X - "There's an Italian restaurant in Rome, NY that plays Frank Sinatra very loudly on the street from 9am to 11pm every single day.  I once asked the owner why. He said:  "Sinatra is like poison to n____'s and junkies. They can't handle it. Keeps them off my block."  It felt like I'd taken a time machine to an ethnic America that no longer exists. He made his comment openly, and the other patrons all chuckled.  And it is especially eerie because the street is almost always completely dead and empty. You'll walk down the lifeless, rainy street, going by the boarded-up storefronts -- hearing "Fly Me to the Moon" blaring over a crackly set of outdoor speakers. The neon sign at the restaurant flickers. It's apocalyptic.  And invariably -- Rome's various "street people" are nowhere to be seen. The Fastrac gas station across the street (a former haunt for drug dealers and fiends) even closed down shortly after he started playing the music."

Meme - "it's like u knew exactly what to do. That tongue. Ur dick. I couldn't stop my legs from shaking. No one has ever made me cum before I didn't think I could. And my body count is 15+"
"Never? Not even with toys"
"NEVER. You had me shook. Shame I'm leaving foco"
"Can I screenshot this and put it on my tinder"
"YES. They need to know. Because you low-key ugly. But fuck soooo good"
"I'm weak"

Jada Pinkett Smith’s Grandma Taught Her About ‘Self-Pleasuring’ - "“My grandmother taught me about self-pleasuring because she wanted me to know that that pleasure was from me,” Pinkett Smith, 46, recalled to her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, and daughter, Willow Smith . “She didn’t want me to fall into the hands of a man — and if he gave me pleasure, to think that that was him. And she taught me at 9!”"

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌲 on X - "The idea that the British have no "culture" is because the entire world is our culture, like a fish in water you don't realise you are surrounded by it, so it doesn't stand out as others do: The entire world wears our national dress (the suit), the entire world uses our inventions, in fact you're reading this due to them right now (the internet, touchscreen, the telephone, the battery in your phone), British culture is creation, British culture is conquering those that are less developed and bringing them to our standard, for the betterment of the Earth, it is therefore superior to all."

Meme - Iamyesyouareno: "The Japanese have had enough of "tourists" disrespecting their culture so they're putting out these flyers. Impressive, very based."
"*No black man breakdancing* "NO CIRCUS PERFORMANCE HERE"
*monkeys making noise in train, disturbing fox* "Please care about people around you"

Carl's Jr. brings back bikini model ads - "In 2017, Carl's Jr. announced that they would no longer feature scantily clad models in its advertisements, instead focusing on food quality and an all-American image"

To anyone wondering if it's worth it to tear down fascist posters or whatever. I spent a few months last year engaged in silent... – @crowvaarts on Tumblr - "To anyone wondering if it's worth it to tear down fascist posters or whatever.  I spent a few months last year engaged in silent battle with another student at my school who was putting anti trans stickers up everywhere.  I had it down to a system where every night I would walk the five block radius they went up in, and tear down all the ones I could reach, and use a stick to put duct tape over the others.  Like, within hours of the stickers going up, I would have already purged the whole zone.  I knew the basic schedule of whoever put them up based on when and where the stickers appeared.  I probably could have found them in person if I'd wanted to.  And I told all my classmates and friends what the stickers looked like and got them to rip them down too.  And after a few months of this, the stickers slowed, and then stopped forever.  My point is, a lot of this fashy or right wing stuff is one local weirdo.  And if you pay attention, and do a little light organizing with your friends, you can basically make their efforts into a giant sisyphisean exercise in misery.  You control your streets!"
"Remember: It costs money to keep printing those stickers, but ripping them down is free."
Of course, if you tear down a left wing poster, it's a hate crime

Kirk Lubimov on X - "Unreal... Canadian tax payers have spent almost $14M to try and teach Muslims in Bangladesh not to marry kids. Didn't seem to have worked out..."
Time to "tax the rich" to pay for left wing social engineering

Meme - Authoritarian Left: "READS PROPAGANDA"
Authoritarian Right: "READS HISTORY"
Libertarian Left: "READS HARRY POTTER"
Libertarian Right: "READS THEORY"

Pregnant woman stabbed 14 times by pizza delivery driver over $2 tip: Police - "Osceola County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the Riviera Motel in Kissimmee, Florida, over reports of a home invasion and stabbing on Dec. 22, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by ABC News.  Arriving deputies located a victim, Melinda Irizarry, who was stabbed multiple times and was then transported to an area hospital... Authorities identified 22-year-old Brianna Alvelo as the delivery driver and suspect in the case, according to the affidavit."

Meme - "China pretending separate languages are dialects"
"The Balkans pretending dialects are separate languages"

Breast Milk Enjoyer 🥛 on X - "The dishwasher was a civilisation-ending innovation in Korea A culinary tradition using dozens of bowls - ensuring women were occupied all day cleaning - prevented feminist mental illness from taking root"

Meme - Tre Gee: "If you need #ChildSupport to pay your bills!!! You don't need custody"
Jay Willy: "I love paying my child support! Where else can I find a full time sitter with everything included for $400 a month while I'm out smashing everything getting spoiled and treated like a king! She can have $13 a day to get lost"

China Tourist Vows To Never Visit M'sia Again, Says It Has Few Chinese Signboards And Weird English Accent - "she attempted to get a refund but found no Mandarin-speaking staff to assist her.  Frustrated by what she felt was poor service, she reported the incident to the police, only to be told that it was not a matter they could address."

Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر on X - "Can’t make this up — antisemitic homophobic YouTuber from Egypt Ahmad Elbadawy, with one million subscribers, visited Israel a few years ago and made an entire video about how evil and dirty Israel is because there are pride flags everywhere and they support gay people. He called Tel Aviv the capital of “decadence and homosexuality” and even spoke about how it’s important to be in Israel (what he called Palestine) as an Arab because Arabs are going to take it over… (lol okay).  Fast forward to today. He visits Yemen and promptly gets arrested by the Houthis and deported back to Egypt because they saw a picture of him with the rainbow flag (in Tel Aviv) and thought he was promoting homosexuality.   😂 😂 😂 "

Meme - Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre: "You have the same political beliefs as BlackRock and Citibank"
Tom Morello @tmorello: "25 years ago today."
"Rage Against The Machine. The Battle of Los Angeles"

Links - 25th April 2025 (2 - Migrants: UK)

Homeless asylum seeker starved to death while 'dangling from skylight for six days' - "The lifeless body of Khaled Aribi, 32, an Algerian asylum seeker, was only discovered when a London estate agent entered the property for a viewing nearly a week after he became trapped... Toxicology results following tests on the asylum seeker's liver found traces of narcotics including cocaine and a psychiatric drug known as Pregabalin. The Algerian was described as having "no fixed abode", with police concluding he looking for shelter when broke into the Hatherley Road terrace. Police discovered CCTV footage of Mr Aribi climbing over the property's garden wall six days earlier."
Of course there were people who thought there was nothing wrong with breaking into someone else's property while on drugs Albanian criminal taunts taxpayers by touring London in £300,000 Rolls-Royce after making asylum claim that may take years to process - despite being kicked out of UK twice for burglary - "An Albanian burglar who claimed asylum to avoid deportation has taunted British taxpayers and the Home Office by filming himself cruising around London in a £300,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinan.  Gucci-wearing Dorian Puka, 28, has previously been jailed and deported twice for a string of burglaries in the UK... Despite being kicked out of the UK twice, Puka cannot be evicted from the country a third time until his latest asylum application is dealt with - and each one costs the taxpayer £12,000 on average.  Asylum seekers can also claim £49.18 a week of public cash in asylum support... It's not the first time Puka has taunted the British public on his TikTok account.  At the start of the year, he posted a video of himself welcoming in 2025 while smoking a shisha pipe in front of a belly dancer... In the same month, Puka also trolled Nigel Farage after posting a picture of himself raising a toast and tucking into a meal next to a doctored photo of the Reform UK leader.   Mr Farage labelled him 'a proper wrong'un' and said we are 'literally being walked all over' by the convicted criminal.  Puka has also previously shown off other luxury cars including a £75,000 Porsche Cayenne, a £130,000 Mercedes G-Wagon, £155,000 Bentley Bentayga, a £55,000 BMW X5, a £46,000 Mercedes AMG, and a £35,000 Jaguar XF.  Other social media posts showed him enjoying evenings at local shisha bars, treating relatives to high-end meals, and unboxing a brand-new Patek Philippe watch." Meme - Centre for Migration Control @migrationCtrl: "NEW: there are 40 nationalities that claim benefits at a greater rate than Brits.  Over 1m foreign born individuals claims some type of benefit, costing the UK at least £8bn per year. We need to scrap settled status and begin revoking it from individuals not making a positive contribution to Britain."
Benefit claims per 1,000: "Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Eritrea, Syria, Somalia, Iran, Morocco, Slovakia" Migrant crisis: More than 30,000 small boat migrants arrive in UK since Labour came to power in major blow to Keir Starmer's 'smash the gangs' pledge - "The grim milestone figure piles more pressure on the Prime Minister to bring in a deterrent scheme, like the previous Government’s Rwanda policy.  That plan to send small boat migrants to the East African nation for processing was scrapped by Sir Keir Starmer on his first day in office.  Sir Keir branded the Rwanda scheme a "Tory gimmick" and promised to introduce a law enforcement approach that would concentrate on going after the people smuggling gangs.  Labour created a Border Security Command and diverted millions of pounds, previously allocated for the Rwanda scheme, to the new Command. But maritime security sources have told GB News that law enforcement without a deterrent alongside is "doomed to failure."  One senior source said: "No one expected instant results from the push against the criminal gangs.  "But we're almost nine months down the track, and we'd certainly expect to see even a modest impact on gang activity by now. "Instead, what we're seeing is record numbers crossing the Channel, there's been no slowdown in small boat activity, quite the opposite."  So far this year, more than 6,100 Channel boat migrants have made the illegal journey to the UK.  That figure is 40 per cent up on the 4,306 who had crossed at the same point last year." Migrant Channel crossings hit RECORD HIGH for this year in damning development for Keir Starmer's 'smash the gangs' plan

Meme - Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes: "A perfect illustration of how a very small number of people are able to impose vast costs on society: if these numbers are correct, these four people have utterly wiped out the fiscal contributions of more than 32 non-retired households.   Bonus:"
"Until recently they were living at Wembley's Holiday Inn in north London, which has been completely booked by the Home Office for asylum seekers and is currently not accepting any customers. But they are now all residing together in a new home in Hemel Hempstead, where they have all been ordered to remain as a condition of bail. The 1,136 sq ft property, which has four bedrooms, an open plan ground floor and with 'luxurious' fitted kitchen with top-end appliances, was put up for sale for £575,000 in March 2023. It was sold in 2022 for £467,000 according to the Land Registry."
"Four asylum-seekers costing the taxpayer an estimated a year now living in a luxury home - and accused of faking their Afghan nationalities to get into the UK"

British Prime Minister Savages Conservative Party’s ‘Liberal’ Immigration Policies - "British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood in front of his official residence at 10 Downing Street last week to savage the immigration policies of his predecessors (and current opposition) in the Conservative Party, claiming that the former government used Brexit “to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders”. Although the subject was UK policies, Starmer’s complaints resonate on this side of the Atlantic, as well — and that’s likely not a coincidence...
'a failure on this scale isn’t just bad luck. It isn’t a global trend or taking your eye off the ball. No – this a different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident. Policies were reformed, deliberately to liberalise immigration.  Brexit was used for that purpose, to turn Britain into a one-nation experiment in open borders. Global Britain – remember that slogan, that is what they meant. A policy with no support.  Well that’s unforgivable. And mark my words – this government will turn the page.  That begins in the economy. Because you cannot separate this failure from their refusal to do the hard yards on skills, on welfare reform, on giving our young people opportunities, rather than the easy answers of looking overseas.  Because clearly – the vast majority of people who entered this country did so to plug gaps in our workforce, skills shortages across the country, which have left our economy hopelessly reliant on immigration. 2.8 million people out of work on long-term sickness – a problem ignored, left to fester. One in 8 young people not in employment or education or training. Sectors of our economy, like engineering, where apprenticeships have almost halved in the last decade, while visas have doubled.'"
Damn racist, xenophobic fascist!

Meme - David Algonquin @surplustakes: "Brief reminder that the argument over skilled migration is not that relevant in the UK context, where we have seen massive unskilled migration from India and Nigeria over the last two years - such that the average wage for those nationalities has fallen off a cliff."
"Median monthly earnings of 22- 40 year olds by nationality compared to UK nationals -UK -India -Nigeria"
David Algonquin on X - "This has been enabled mostly by a low skilled work visa route (social care) and the 'deliveroo' grad visa for post study menial work which has led to hugely increased take up of the cheapest 1 year university courses
Broadly speaking the former are the welfare recipients of the near future and the latter are the undocumented grey economy work force of the near future - until they are given an amnesty by a Labour government"
Clearly, discrimination against Indians and Nigerians increased

Romanian jailed for violent robbery can’t be deported under ECHR rules - "A Romanian jailed for seven years for a violent robbery has avoided deportation after claiming that it would breach his rights to a family life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).  Ionut-Mihai Sofroniei, 30, claimed that the Home Office’s attempt to remove him because of his criminality was a breach of his Article 8 family rights under the ECHR.  The former construction worker claimed he merited protection against deportation on the basis that he had lived in the UK for a decade, had married a Lithuanian in Britain and had a baby daughter by her.  In a move that strengthened his claim, Sofroniei also submitted an application for EU “settled status” in the UK the evening before his claim against deportation was heard by an immigration judge.  The application was outside the “grace” period but Sofroniei claimed he had been unable to lodge it earlier because he had been in custody... The case will intensify demands for the UK to quit the ECHR... It follows the Telegraph’s revelation of how a Turkish crime boss said to be one of Britain’s biggest drug dealers won his human rights battle against deportation.  The man, who was jailed for 16 years for plotting to supply heroin across the UK, won the right to remain on the basis that it would breach his human right to a family life even though he had an extra-marital affair with a woman in Turkey and had married her to “preserve her honour”.  The 70-year-old drug dealer, who was granted anonymity, also claimed that as an Alevi Kurd he would be persecuted if he was deported to Turkey even though the immigration tribunal was told he had returned to his homeland eight times since he came to Britain without facing any persecution."

Sam Ashworth-Hayes on X - "Since 2021, the UK has imported 144,000 low paid care workers. Many will soon be eligible for permanent residency. Each one that stays could cost as much as £421,000 net over their lifetimes. We're running out of time to fix a £61 billion mistake:
The lesson of history, over and over again, is that low skilled imported labour is cheap in the short term, and extremely expensive in the long run."
Britain is running out of time to fix its £61 billion immigration disaster
Clearly, the solution is to "tax" the "rich" ALAN MENDOZA: Importing naked hatred isn't the mark of a tolerant society. It's suicidal... - "Britain is a safe haven. We are the cradle of modern democracy, the bastion of equal justice and a secure home for people of all religions.  But successive governments have jeopardised all of our culture’s proudest achievements, and especially our great tradition of tolerance, through a border policy that amounts to an open door for illegal, undocumented migrants.  For decades, I have been among the many voices warning of the sheer lunacy of such an approach. Yet nothing has been done.  By allowing people to arrive here in their thousands every week, smuggled across the Channel in lorryloads or escorted in dinghies by Border Patrol boats, we risk destroying our cherished values – and more urgent still, we endanger all sorts of people who owe their lives to British freedoms.   We are importing naked hatred: hatred of Jews, of Christians, of gay people, of countless ethnic, religious and sexual minorities.  The front page of yesterday’s Mail On Sunday revealed the shocking case of a Palestinian man infamous for his murderous rants on social media who arrived illegally in the UK last week.  It is believed Mus’ab Abd al-Kareem al-Qassas, known as Abu Wadee, was rescued in the Channel from an overloaded inflatable boat, by the Border Force vessel BF Hurricane on Thursday.  Wadee uses social media intensively, venting his spleen on TikTok to his 2.5million followers as he calls for the mass murder of Jews. In one video last autumn, he prayed for their deaths: ‘Allah, kill them one by one... destroy them completely... make the earth fall from under their feet.’  He should have been arrested the instant Border Force officials laid hands on him. Yet the Home Office refuses to confirm whether this has happened – and Kent police say they have no record of his arrest.  It appears Wadee, a man with a record of violence against Israeli troops on the Gaza border, is at large in Britain. Given his stated intentions, he could even be planning an attack. This single instance has shone a spotlight on the dire failings of our border security services.   It is proof, if any were needed, that violent criminals and potential terrorists may be among the thousands of illegal immigrants arriving on our shores. Most of them will not be as vain and stupid as he is. They will not advertise their intentions to MI5 on social media. On the contrary, they will hide them until the last moment – as the 32-year-old  Emad Al-Swealmeen, an illegal immigrant from Iraq, did in 2021 when he attempted to bomb Liverpool Women’s Hospital, but was thwarted by a quick-thinking taxi driver. It should go without saying that not all illegal immigrants are potential terrorists. But since police and border officials have no means of keeping tabs on them – up to 1.2 million now living in the UK, according to Oxford University’s Migration Observatory – it’s impossible to know how many mean us harm, or where they are now." Sam Bidwell on X - "Fighting has broken out in Sheffield, with more than 200 people involved - over the issue of Eritrean independence. Are Yorkshiremen suddenly more passionate about East African geopolitics? Or have we imported ethnic conflicts from the rest of the world through mass migration?" Foreigners convicted of nearly a quarter of sex crimes - "Foreigners are convicted of up to a quarter of sex crimes, according to the first data analysis of its kind.  Data from the Ministry of Justice, obtained under freedom of information laws, show that 15 per cent of sexual offences, including rape, were accounted for by foreign nationals between 2021 and 2023.  A further eight per cent of convictions were recorded as unknown nationalities.  Those labelled “unknown” are likely to largely include non-British nationals, taking the total number likely to have been committed by foreigners up to 23 per cent.  This is despite census data showing foreign nationals make up just 9.3 per cent of the population. Two nationalities – Afghans and Eritreans – were more than 20 times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens, according to the data. Overall, foreign nationals were 71 per cent more likely than Britons to be responsible for sex crime convictions... The Telegraph has previously revealed foreign national arrest rates, but never before has there been data on the true rate of criminality based on convictions.  The only government data is on foreign prisoners and deportations by nationality, prompting allegations of “institutional cover-up” over migrant crime rates... foreign nationals accounted for between one in eight (12.5 per cent) and as many as one in six (16.4 per cent) of convictions in England and Wales.  Foreign nationals were 69 per cent more likely than the British population to be convicted for drug crime, and 25 per cent more likely for theft. For all crime types, they were 39 per cent more likely.  Immigration experts said a large number of those with “unknown” nationalities were likely be foreign nationals who have a smaller footprint on existing ID systems, or were charged remotely and will be more reluctant to provide information that could affect their immigration status.  The data place Albanians at the top of the nationality crime league table by conviction rate... Sixty-six nationalities have a higher conviction rate per 10,000 than Britons...
Right now, the country is having to spend half a billion pounds a year to accommodate 10,000 foreign nationals in British prisons. Many are calling for their deportation, but we should not stop with those incarcerated for their crimes. Any individual invited into our country who breaks our laws should be a candidate for removal.  The elephant in the room cannot be ignored any longer. Our streets are objectively less safe. People now report petty crime to their followers on social media rather than to the police, drug gangs operated with impunity, and you are probably more likely to see a weapon on the streets of London than you are a police officer.  For those still campaigning for looser migration policies, simply turning a blind eye to these facts and instead sheepishly muttering about the economic payoffs, or the virtues of diversity, no longer cuts it. These figures tell the tale of tens of thousands of upended lives; of hundreds of millions, if not billions, being drained from the British economy; and of the heartbreaking destruction of social capital that is needed for national flourishment."
Weird. Everyone Knows that immigrants commit fewer crimes than natives, so this must be misinformation Darren Grimes on X - "🚨 EXPOSED: Britain’s “skilled” visa scandal! Halal butchers and kebab shops issuing hundreds of visas—one butcher alone sponsoring 918 workers. How did fast-food joints and call centres become ‘essential’ industries? Our leaders have turned Britain into a visa mill while 1.7 million Brits remain unemployed.  Time to end this racket." Ian Miles Cheong on X - "Nigel Farage says it’s a political impossibility to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from the UK and even if it was possible he wouldn’t want to do it. Britain is finished."
Proof that Nigel Farage is a racist xenophobe Sophie Corcoran on X - "I think it is frankly absurd that I as a young woman live in a country where 1 in 4 sexual assaults are committed by immigrants and our politicians refuse to talk about it" Meme - Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh: "Only one person in Parliament is calling for deportations. With statistics like this you have to question in whose interest the other 649 MPs are serving."
"Which nationalities commit the most crime overall? Conviction rate in England and Wales by nationality per 10,000 population, 2021-2023 *15 countries with conviction rates 4.4-29.6x that of native Britons*" The British Patriot on X - "Penalty for illegal entry.
Singapore: 6 months jail.
Russia: 2 years in a hard labour camp.
Pakistan: 10 years jail.
India: 8 years jail.
North Korea: death.
Great Britain: free housing, health care, education, food,mobile phone, cash
Over 2000 illegals arrived since last week" People-smugglers tell migrants to ‘just wave at Britain’ for Channel rescue - "“One smuggler told me: ‘Once you cross over the water border to the English side, raise your arms and just wave at Britain for help,’” said Zafer, 45, a Turk trying to get to the UK. “‘Someone will come to rescue you.’ That’s what he told me,” he added." Deport Foreign Criminals on X - "This Boy was murdered for being white, he was small enough that if he had turned up here on a boat and said he was 12, he would’ve been believed. He was that small that two of the three stabs, went through his back and out his chest.   This Savage racist murder isn’t a one off, in Scotland they tortured a boy for hours , they cut his cock and balls off while he was still alive, then set him alight with petrol and watched him burn to death ! Kriss Donalds Crime, his only crime, was being white, he was a total stranger to them.   Both murders got far, far less attention than a possible Cousin terrorist getting a kick in the head, I say possible because how would the police know he wasn’t a terrorist until he was arrested?   Ross Parker, 17 years old and 5ft 5 tall, walking home with a female friend attacked and murdered for the crime of being white.   The trial judge concluded that they (3 Pakistani Men) had planned to find "a white male from the city to attack simply because he was white" in the context of "hostility on the part of some of the younger white residents against the Pakistani community".  They warned Parker he had "better start running", but then blocked his path and quickly sprayed him in the face with CS gas. He was punched in the stomach then stabbed three times from behind through the throat and chest with a foot-long hunting knife.  The knife penetrated completely through his body on two occasions and as he was lying on the ground he was repeatedly kicked and struck with a panel beater's hammer  No blanket news coverage for his death, no peerage for his mother, no Public Enquiry and all for exactly the same reason he was murdered, because he was white!  He is remembered locally with a plaque, a football game every year and a Facebook memorial Page" Migrant crisis: Ghanaian criminal deported from Britain 12 years ago wins right to RETURN to UK as he's 'depressed' living in his Muhammad Ibn Muneer is an American cleric. He has openly voiced his support for jihad, and has argued that Jews deserve "Allah's divine wrath". He has also justified stoning for adultery.  He carried out a UK speaking tour in February 2025, visiting Birmingham, Leeds, and London. homeland - "An immigration tribunal led by Judge Abid Mahmood ruled that Samuel Frimpong should be allowed to come back to Britain - despite having been jailed and deported in 2013 for attempting to "circumvent" the Home Office's leave to remain rules.  The judge said deporting him was an "unjustifiable interference" with his rights to a family life under article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights."
Adam Wren on X - "These are getting more and more ridiculous by the day. We’ve moved from judges ruling we can’t deport criminals to them ruling we have to import them" Meme - David Algonquin @surplustakes: "In defending their new sentencing guidelines, judges seem to be suggesting that immigration has rendered British society so culturally and morally illegible that dispensing justice now involves the commissioning of bespoke ethnographic research"
"In relation to cultural and faith minorities, the Equal Treatment Bench Book emphasises the need for judges to understand cultures and faith that may not be within their general experience. Where a judge or a magistrate is to sentence an offender from such a minority, it is necessary for the judge or magistrate to be fully informed about the background of the offender. Whether their culture or faith is of relevance to the sentencing exercise cannot be determined unless and until the sentencer has sufficient information."
Equality under the law is racist Hospital hired Indian ‘radiographer’ who couldn’t X-ray a foot - "Smitha Johny, an Indian national who claimed to have 23 years of experience in radiography on her CV, did not know “basic anatomy”, failed to identify a broken bone on a scan and had difficulty understanding English... she had actually worked on a hospital reception desk in India. The hearing was told Ms Johny applied to join the Health and Care Professions register in 2021 and on the form declared that her first language was English... Ms Johny told the tribunal the X-ray machines were different to those in India and alleged she had been “made to fail” so the hospital could take on other staff.  The tribunal heard that during her eight-week review, Mr Pinto presented himself as a patient having a hip X-ray, but Ms Johny pointed the machine towards his knee... Ms Johny failed her mandatory immediate life support course, designed to help medical professionals recognise cardiac arrest... The panel found Ms Johny had misrepresented her experience when applying for the job with Ramsay Healthcare and there was a “clear disconnect” between what she said she could do and her actual skill level.  However, they concluded that her actions were “naive” as opposed to dishonest and that the expectations were “very different” from the remote part of India where she had worked and, at some point, been trained in radiography.  In terms of her English skills, they found she had not misrepresented her ability by saying it was her first language but did note that her test score was below the level required for fluency. In deciding to suspend Ms Johny, the panel determined that her actions reflected a “lack of competency” rather than misconduct." Meme - Ashlea Simon: "make it make sense"
"You at the Airport *airport security*
Unknown Random Men at Dover *walking in*" Iranian man who raped lodger in London 'can't be deported in case he is persecuted in his homeland' - "Despite apparently lying about being a former employee of MI5, his appeal against deportation was successful... Immigration papers state he has never given 'any indication' of showing insight into the impact on his victim and he has not participated in any rehabilitation course... He also shared his fears of receiving the death penalty for his rape conviction if he returns to Iran.  The judge appeared to give some weight to a third reason given, which was his criticism of the Iranian regime.  In his ruling, judge John Keith said the man could remain in the UK due to the risk of persecution he faces." Update NEWS on X - "🇵🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Polish politician's words broke click records: The number of rape cases in the United Kingdom has increased sevenfold. Poland will never allow mass migration." UK spends £3.5bn on public services for migrants on benefits - "More than a million migrants who are claiming benefits in the UK are costing an additional £3.5 billion in public spending on infrastructure and public services, according to an analysis of official figures. The analysis of Department for Work and Pensions figures by the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) earlier this week estimated that about 1.2 million foreign nationals are claiming benefits. Research suggests that they received more than £7.5 billion in universal credit in 2023. A separate analysis by the anti-migration think tank, handed to The Times, has calculated the additional cost incurred by the UK taxpayer for providing the necessary housing, healthcare, education, public transport and other infrastructure to cater for them. The analysis is based on calculations published by the Office for Budget Responsibility last year. The budget watchdog for the first time published a breakdown of the costs and benefits of three different groups of migrants, finding that low-paid working-age migrants, defined as earning less than £25,000, have an average net cost to public finances of £3,000. The CMC has used this analysis to estimate that the cost of providing the additional public services and infrastructure for the 1.2 million migrants who receive benefits to be £3.5 billion. The true cost of providing the additional expenditure for low-paid migrants would be significantly higher as the 1.2 million only include those who receive benefits. In 2023 nearly 60 per cent of migrants who came to the UK were categorised as low-paid, earning less than £25,000... “Even the OBR concedes that low-wage migrants impose a fiscal burden on the UK at every stage of life. With many of our public services on the brink of collapse, and GDP per capita in free fall, public money should be spent on improving Brits’ wellbeing and quality of life, not papering over the cracks. “Hardworking men and women are facing an increasingly hostile tax regime simply to support the calamitous policy of mass migration.” David Atherton on X - "Meet Meet Mohammed al-Geni who has three wives & 11 children, living in Sheffield. He has not worked for two years. Don't be late for work tomorrow, they are relying upon you.
In another segment one of his wives lives abroad and he sends her money 💰   In Islam ☪️ you can have up to 4 wives.  The British legal system does not recognise Islamic marriages as bigamy is a criminal offence, but the state will pay welfare to multiple wives."