Links - 26th May 2025 (2 - Karmelo Anthony murder of Austin Metcalf)

End Wokeness on X - "SAY HIS NAME: Austin Metcalf (17) High achieving student, athlete, 4.0 GPA. KiIIed in cold bIood by Karmelo Anthony. Zero national outrage."
Xaviaer DuRousseau on X - "“If roles were reversed…” For what it’s worth—if the victim was ALSO black, then this would not have received ANY coverage/outrage.
Black on white crime: Internet noise
Black on black crime: crickets
White on black: board up your business
Black on Asian crime: It’s a Thursday"

Meme - Robert Bruchun: "Friends, let’s talk about why Karmelo Anthony is a true hero to our Black community! 🙌🏾💪🏾 From the halls of Frisco Centennial High to the hearts of everyone who knows him, Karmelo has shown us what dedication, leadership, and love for community really look like. ❤️‍🔥
Straight A student
Captain of the football team
Track star pushing past every finish line
Holding down two part‑time jobs while planning for college
That’s the kind of drive and ambition we NEED to celebrate! 🌟 When you see Karmelo, you see a young man whose work ethic is unmatched and whose dreams are as big as Texas itself. 🤠✨ His family moved from Baton Rouge to North Texas searching for better opportunities—and Karmelo seized every single one of them. 🙏🏾 He learned early what it means to hustle, to stay humble, and to lift up those around you. 👏🏾 💬 As a mentor to younger students, he’s always the first to show up—whether it’s sharing study tips at lunch 🤓📖 or teaching little ones the perfect start on the track. His encouragement has turned so many “I can’t” into “I will!” 🎯 When life threw its toughest challenge at him—facing a legal battle after that tragic night of April 2—Karmelo stood firm with honesty and courage. 🛡️ He cooperated fully, stood by his truth, and reminded us all that bravery isn’t only on the field. 🗣️⚖️
In just days, our community rallied around him:
Over $430,000 raised to make sure he gets the best defense
Organizations like Next Generation Action Network demanding his right to due process
Neighbors and friends sending messages of love, support, and faith
That outpouring reminds us that we don’t abandon our own when the stakes are highest. So let’s keep the energy going! Drop a to show your support. Share this post to spread the word. Let’s remind the world that when one young Black life is on the line, we ALL stand up. Karmelo Anthony—you inspire us with your resilience, your leadership, and your unwavering hope. Keep shining, brother, because you’re lighting the path for so many behind you. #JusticeForKarmelo #BlackExcellence #CommunityFirst #StandUp"
One of the countless examples of blacks treating him like a hero

Meme - The African American Community: "Free Karmelo Anthony"
Man to Rosa Parks: "You're in the wrong seat."
Austin Metcalf: "You're in the wrong seat."

Meme - Hystory Purpose: "Austin Metcalf and his twin brother was raised in a kkk family. You can clearly tell. Justice for Karmelo Anthony. Lock that animal azz twin of Austin up for bullying. They had no right to approach Karmelo with that entitled azz yt privilege behavior. Free Karmelo... Fuk Austin and his twin."

Meme I,Hypocrite: "Seen on a pro-black youtube channel discussin Karmelo Anthony"
@Typical.Anomaly: "Middle aged straight white dude here. If I were stupid, I might be MAGA. I'm smart, though, and I'm 100% with you."
@OliverStamnitz: "I still will never trust you reply"
@youtubeillegallydeletesace1525: *raised black fist*
@Shalom12Judah: "say it again!!"
A lot of black people just hate white people. But that doesn't stop the self-hating white people from indulging in their suicidal empathy

Meme - "how guys look defending a murderer just because he's the same color as you. *2 black men making out*"

Karmelo Anthony case shows that “black privilege” exists : r/TrueUnpopularOpinion - "I'm not black or white. I'm not even American actually.  The recent Karmelo Anthony case I think shows that black privilege is a thing. My opinions is that it exists. Period.  Karmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf with a knife for pushing him. What did he receive in return? Overwhelming support in the form of 500,000 dollars (which they're using to buy a mansion). He also got his bond reduced to 250k from 1 million even when prosecutors pointed out his history of incidents within the school.  I just think this is a bit baffling. Imagine if the races were swapped. I think a decent example, but not a direct comparisons, is the George Floyd situation. One person killed the other in what was an overuse of force. Derek Chauvin is in jail. Karmelo Anthony got house arrest, bond reduction and 500k"

Meme<.a> - Defiant L's @DefiantLs: "You don't hate the media enough."
NBC News @NBCNews: "A judge orders a white man to stand trial and face charges for shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who rang his doorbell after coming to the wrong address."
NBC News @NBCNews: "A high school student was charged with murder after Frisco, Texas, police said he fatally stabbed another student during a confrontation at a track meet Wednesday morning."

Meme - *Bike Fall Meme*
"BRINGS KNIFE TO TRACK MEET. ENTERS OTHERS TEAM TENT. REFUSES TO LEAVE WHEN ASKED. "TOUCH ME AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!"
"I WAS PROTECTING MYSELF""

Meme - "Hey man, you're in the wrong seat"
"I'm gonna fucking kill you"

Meme - "*Derek Chauvin* BAIL $1,000,000. RESTRAINING A SUSPECT WHO WAS HIGH ON DRUGS
*Karmelo Anthony* BAIL $250K. STABBING A TEEN DEATH AT A TRACK MEET.
BLACK PRIVILEGE"

Meme - WHEN A BLACK GUY IS SHOT REACHING FOR A COP'S GUN
Black Soyjak: "HE DINDU NUFFIN!"
WHEN A BLACK GUY KILLS A WHITE GUY IN COLD BLOOD
Black Soyjak: "He shouldn't have touched him."

Prello on X - "Don’t tell me you’re about school shootings when you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for someone who stabbed and killed a kid at school"

Common Sense Extremists on X - "“Karmelo Anthony’s family was renting the mansion BEFORE the murder he committed you bigot!!” Thank you for proving that “socioeconomic factors” are not what made him a violent animal…"

End Wokeness on X - "Kyle Rittenhouse:
-Shot rioters to save his life
-$2 million bond, not reduced
-86 days in pre-trail detention
Karmelo Anthony:
-Brought a knife to a track meet
-Got insulted, kiIIed someone
-Bond is reduced to $200k
-12 days in pretrial jail
-Buys new house"

Meme - "WHAT THE MEDIA REPORTS *Karmelo Anthony in suit and tie*
ACTUAL TRUTH WITHOUT NARRATIVE *Karmelo Anthony with gun and flipping the bird at camera*"

Etan Thomas on X - "“People out here asking why #KarmeloAnthony had a knife but had no problem with 17-year-old #KyleRittenhouse having an AR 15”"
Apparently a high school track meet is as dangerous as a BLM riot. Then again, with people like Karmelo Anthony there, it'd be no surprise if it were

Texas track meet stabbing: Suspect allegedly told police he was protecting himself - "Austin Metcalf, 17, an 11th grader at Frisco Memorial High School, died after police said another student stabbed him during an altercation in the bleachers at the meet. The suspect in the deadly stabbing -- Karmelo Anthony, a student at Frisco Centennial High School -- has been charged with first-degree murder, police said... Responding officers say they spoke to multiple witnesses, including one who reported that the altercation began after Metcalf told Anthony to move out from under their team's tent, according to the arrest report.  The witness reported that Anthony allegedly reached inside his bag and said, "Touch me and see what happens," according to the arrest report.  According to a witness, Metcalf grabbed Anthony to move him, and Anthony allegedly pulled out what the witness described as a black knife and "stabbed Austin once in the chest and then ran away," the arrest report stated.  An officer recovered a bloody knife in the bleachers, according to the report."

Paris The Icon on X - "Idk whats the story is with the Black Boy and the white boy but Im automatically on the Black boy side."
Damn racist white supremacists who always take white people's side!

Meme - Scott Greer 6'2" IQ187 @ScottMGreer: "Metcalf's father: "This has nothing to do with race"
The black community: "This is ALL ABOUT RACE"
Minister Dominique Alexander @nic...: "Karmelo Anthony is SAFE at home. This moment is a reminder that a community united can never be divided. The journey ahead is long, but today-we celebrate a victory for justice, for family, and for the power of people coming together to protect our youth.

Zay 🧟‍♂️ on X - "To my Black brothers and sisters, we need to talk 🗣️  A 17-year-old named Austin Metcalf lost his life and instead of looking at the facts, too many people are rushing to defend Karmelo Anthony simply because he’s Black. That’s not justice. That’s bias. And we have to hold each other accountable when we’re wrong, no matter what race we are.
Here’s what we know:
- Karmelo was in a tent that didn’t belong to him.
- Austin asked him to leave.
- Karmelo refused.
- A confrontation started.
- Reports say Karmelo said, “Touch me and see what happens,” then reached into his bag, pulled out a knife, and stabbed Austin in the heart.
- Karmelo later told officers: “I’m not alleged. I did it.”
Let’s clear up the misinformation:
- No, the boys didn’t know each other.
- No, there’s no proof Austin or his twin bullied him.
- No, Karmelo didn’t act in “self-defense”—he escalated it.
- No, this isn’t about race. It’s about taking someone’s life.
About the gun photos:
- A photo of Austin holding a rifle is from a legal hog hunting trip—completely normal in Texas.
- The photo of Karmelo holding an AK-47 (posted on Instagram) is the one people are now saying was an airsoft gun.
Even if that’s true, you can’t post pictures like that and then stab someone over a verbal argument, claiming “fear.” That doesn’t add up. What’s even more absurd is the comments saying that Karmelo was being “jumped”.
What’s most disappointing is the reaction online. I’ve seen people saying:
-“He’s being targeted because he’s Black.”
-“Austin shouldn’t have been there.”
-“It’s just because he’s white.”
No. He’s being talked about because he was killed. Because a 16-year-old pulled a knife and ended a life over ego. Not race. Not bullying. Not harassment. Ego
I’m not defending Austin because he’s white. I’m standing with truth. I’m standing with a grieving family who is now forced to watch their son’s name get dragged through the mud on social media while the person who stabbed him gets blind support based on identity politics.  To my people: we can’t keep doing this. We cannot keep blindly siding with someone just because they share our skin color. That is not strength. That’s weakness disguised as loyalty! 💯  This isn’t all of us—but it’s loud enough that it needs to be addressed.
I pray for the Metcalf family 🙏🏾 Should Austin have walked away? Maybe. Should he have been killed for it? Absolutely not.  Let’s do better. As people. As a community. And as a culture. Wrong is wrong. Right is right. Truth doesn’t come in colors. 🤝"

Evan Kilgore 🇺🇸 on X - "I don't say this lightly... But, as I'm reading the comments on the donations to Karmelo Anthony, I am realizing several things. Many Black Americans:
1.) Hate White people
2.) Love that a white boy was murdered
3.) Are totally void of morality
I don't think this is fixable."

Meme - Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored: "I am literally receiving death threats for doing my job as a journalist and releasing an arrest report.    This in particular destroys their narrative. If you attack a journalist for revealing the truth, you’re on the wrong side."
"Arrest Report. FRISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT
the victim, Austin and the suspect, who was later identfied as, Karmelo Arinony (b/m DOB ***) Anthony was from Centennial High School and was sitting under the Memorial High School tent. Austin had told Anthony that he needed to move out from under their team's tent and Anthony grabbed his bag, opened it and reached inside and proceeded to tell Austin, "Touch me and see what happens." No one really thought Anthony really had any weapons in his bag and Austin proceeded to touch Anthony and then Anthony told Austin to punch him and see what happens. A short time later, Austin grabbed Anthony to tell him to move and Anthony pulled out what *** recalled as a black knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest and then ran away. Austin began grabbing his chest and telling everyone to get help. *** advised he did not know Anthony's name but stated another Memorial Track member, E*** P*** was friends with Anthony and he could identify Anthony. *** described Anthony as a black male, skinny, with possibly a goatee, short puffy hair and wearing Centennial High School clothing. This concluded my contact with ***. I then was instructed to start a crime scene log. I retrieved a crime scene log from my patrol vehicle and began starting the crime scene log. I was later relieved by Ofc. Shalz who took over the crime scene log and cleared the scene. Nothing further. Attach to original report."
Journalists who do not push the left wing agenda don't count as journalists, of course

Sarah Fields on X - "Dominique Alexander, a felon who beat a baby to the point of brain injury and is acting as an advocate for Karmelo Anthony’s family, is angry that I exposed him for who he is: a grifting, racist pot-stirrer running a fraudulent organization.  He called me out by name during his press conference. He held up my posts, including Karmelo’s arrest report, which I obtained through a FOIA, and a post in which I was threatened (a strange choice to highlight), among others. He claimed my intent was to interfere with Karmelo’s family receiving assistance.  This man has placed a target on me and my family for reporting the truth and investigating him and his organization. This is who he is, and I will not be intimidated. I am no stranger to threats; I have received them nearly every hour for the last four days. It will likely get worse.  Please pray for my family."

CaptainSurf&Turf on X - "THE AUSTIN METCALF MURDER
Why does it sound like the parents were coached to sound cucked? Let me introduce you to the US DOJ’s CRS….
COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE
Our Mission. For over 60 years, CRS has been “America’s Peacemaker.” CRS responds to communities experiencing conflict and violence to help restore peaceful relations. Guided by federal laws establishing jurisdictions, CRS assists communities through facilitated dialogue, mediation, training, and consultation to overcome differences and build the skills needed to prevent future disputes. All CRS services are confidential and provided free of charge to the communities that voluntarily request or accept CRS’s assistance. CRS is not an investigatory or prosecutorial agency and has no law enforcement authority. CRS works with all parties to develop solutions to conflict and serves as a neutral, impartial party... The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, signed by President Obama, expanded the federal definition of hate crimes and increased funding for CRS to “prevent and respond to alleged violations” of this act that cause, threaten to cause, or attempt to cause bodily injury to persons protected by this statute."

This Is a Race Issue: the Community Relations Service Gaslights America about Anti-White Violence - "When I heard Austin Metcalf’s father talking about his son’s brutal murder and saying, quite calmly, that he had already forgiven his son’s killer—a black teenager—and didn’t want anybody to make the killing about race, a question entered my head. A familiar question. I’d asked it before, in similar circumstances, in the aftermath of other dreary murders of white people usually by black people. Did this man really mean what he was saying—or had he been told to say it?  But who would tell the father of a recently-murdered teenager to disavow a racial motive for his son’s killing, when the possibility was so blindingly obvious? Who would even have the power to do that?  Why?  The Community Relations Service (CRS), an organ of the Department of Justice—that’s who.  The how isn’t so clear—the Service is very shadowy, and we don’t have access to its interventions with grieving families of victims—but we know it does put pressure on people like Jeff Metcalf when their loved ones are killed. The why, at least, makes perfect sense. You only need eyes to see the huge edifice of anti-white prejudice that has been erected in recent years, across every area of public life in America, from the media and the workplace to the schools and universities and even the federal government. Anti-white racism has become a governing ideology and practice. Don’t misunderstand me: I’m not saying the Community Relations Service definitely has spoken to Jeff Metcalf. We don’t know. It’s entirely possible that Jeff Metcalf is any number of things that could make a man renounce the natural emotions of a father whose son has just been murdered: He could be a Christian who is deeply committed to the principle of forgiveness, who rejects the law of an eye for an eye; or he could be a terminal libtard whose brain has been so fried by the programming that his first instinct is to curry favour with other libtards—to look “progressive” and “good” on TV—rather than reach for his sword and bow like the rest of us.  Either one is possible, or both.  But that doesn’t change the fact the Community Relations Service actually exists and that it exists, in one of its major functions, to cover up racial violence against white people.  According to its own website, the CRS “serves as ‘America’s peacemaker’’ for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.”...   Verified instances of the Community Relations Service at work are hard to come by, but until not that long ago—around the time I started publishing articles about it, actually—the Service’s website listed the killing of Donald Giusti as a case study of what it does when serving as “America’s peacemaker.”  Donald Giusti was smashed over the head with a rock and stomped to death by a mob of Somalis in a park in Lewiston, Maine, six years ago. Tensions between immigrants and locals, mainly in the park, had been building for weeks before the murder. It was the local police chief who decided to call in the CRS, “to help ease racial tensions and strengthen community relations,” as the website put it.   An essential part of the “peacemaking” process was getting members of the victim’s family to make public statements calling for calm. Giusti’s uncle and sister were both wheeled out for the press. Both read from the same script...   But the CRS wasn’t finished there. It also intervened on the side of the man held responsible for landing the killing blow on Donald Giusti. Instead of being charged with murder, he was allowed to plead “no contest” to a reduced charge of criminal negligence. He was sentenced to just nine months in prison...   Here are some other recent cases where I think the ghostly hand of the CRS can be detected: the case of Aidan Clark, who was killed when a Haitian drove a minivan into a school bus in Springfield, Ohio (specifically, when the case was brought up in the recent election debate about Haitians in the Midwest); the case of Jonathan Lewis, a schoolboy who was kicked to death in an alleyway by a gang of black schoolboys in 2023; the case of Andy Probst, a former police chief who was deliberately run down and killed by two non-white teenagers on a joyride in a stolen car.  These are just three cases, but they all bear striking similarities. Look into them, look at the responses of the families, and you’ll see...   Don’t just disband it; although of course that should happen. We need to know more about the CRS too. We need to know how it worked—exactly how it pressured parents and loved ones to say the things they said, in opposition to all reason and sense—and we need to know exactly how many cases, which and where, the Service took on.  The public disavowal of racial motives in killings like Austin Metcalf’s has helped to create a two-tier system in which white Americans are effectively second-class citizens, unable to access truth and justice on equal terms. A two-tier system is a form of oppression and may be deliberately constructed. Aristotle knew this 2,000 years ago when he wrote the Politics and described the art of the tyrant, how he fosters discord and strife and prefers foreigners over his own people in order to maintain his rule.  Anti-white racism has been a buttress for American tyranny. The Community Relations Service has to go, regardless of whether or not it got to Jeff Metcalf."

Why we can't talk about black-on-white crime - "For the Justice Department's Community Relations Service, resolving conflict means never acknowledging black racism.  “I wish that my son was killed by a 60-year-old white man.”  Imagine saying those words as a father of a dead child... yet those were words uttered by Nathan Clark at a press conference on September 10. A little context: Nathan’s 11-year-old son Aiden was killed and dozens more children were injured when a Haitian drove a minivan into a school bus in Springfield, Ohio, last August.  Now that Haitian immigration to Springfield is a national issue, with lurid tales of domestic pets being caught and butchered for food, Nathan Clark wanted to set the record straight about the circumstances and meaning of his son’s death. I suppose he did that — but perhaps not in the way he thought he would... the nature of the statement and its targets — Donald Trump, JD Vance, MAGA, “misinformation,” and “hate” — suggest deliberate crafting and calculation, not the kind of lashing out you’d expect from a father driven mad by pain and loss.  It’s a totally politicized call for de-politicization... when a white person is the victim of a serious crime at the hands of a non-white person or persons, the CRS turns up and makes sure the victim and their loved ones don’t kick up a fuss and, most of all, don’t say anything inflammatory about the role of race in the crime...  Whether he was coached by the CRS or not, Nathan Clark didn’t speak out against the use of his son’s death for political gain. He did the opposite."

Judo Throw H1Bs into Glacial Crevasses on X - "DOJ “community relations service” on the chopping block now. Somebody in the White House has been quietly watching the Austin metcalf humiliation ritual"

Meme - F this imperialistic bs: "#freekarmeloanthony"
"Oh look. A black kid who's smaller than me. I'm gonna go bully him."
"Karmelo Anthony's pocket knife doing NOTHING WRONG"
A black person killing a white person is never in the wrong

Matt Walsh on X - "The people supporting Karmelo Anthony don’t really believe the bullshit that it was “self-defense.” They don’t care about that. When the video comes out proving that this was cold blooded homicide, it won’t matter. They’re happy that he killed a white kid. It’s that simple."

Meme - "High school track meet today *guy wearing chainmail under t-shirt*"

Meme - Ashanti Kopy Katzz Beene: "Y'all should have left that kid alone. What authority did y'all have to "make" him move. You have no idea what kinda day he already had. Sad situation. But that sense of entitlement cost him his life . Two lives ruined . Y'all could have minded your business and welcomed him. The kindness starts at home. And before you all start commenting. I stated facts . It could have been handled better. This was preventable on "BOTH" sides."

Muslims as Punishments for White Europeans / Palestinians and Jews after the Genocide / What Starvation Looks Like

iamyesyouareno @iamyesyouareno: "Aren’t these people a wonderful addition to Europe and Western civilization?   Prepare accordingly. They are going back."
"Whites are virus for planet But don't wory, when we change the EU demographic in long run, will eradicate every white, promise right wing and Left wing both will receive equal punishment from our Allah, for all the crime wites and jus did in hundreds of years #FreePalestine"

"Palestinians after the genocide: *exuberant, healthy, waving flags, cheering*
Jews after the genocide: *Skeletal, with shaved heads, somber*"

"What 'starvation' looks like in:
Sudan *skeletal child crawling*
Uganda *tiny emaciated child's hand in adult's*
India *skeletal children*
Gaza *fat teenager*"

Links - 26th May 2025 (1)

Power to Bharat's answer to If Jinnah saw Pakistan today, what would he think? - Quora - "We all know Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the father of Pakistan, but many may not know that neither he nor his descendants ever acquired Pakistani citizenship... Jinnah's only child, Dina Wadia, was born on August 15, 1919 in London. She chose to stay in India and later moved to the United States. Nusli Wadia, son of Neville and Dina Wadia, was born on February 15, 1944 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He is a famous Indian businessman and chairman of the Wadia Group. Nusli Wadia's wife Maureen Wadia holds Indian citizenship. Ness Wadia, born on May 30, 1971 in Mumbai, India, is the elder son of Nusli and Maureen Wadia. He is an Indian businessman and co-owner of the IPL team Kings XI Punjab. Jehangir Wadia, also known as Jeh Wadia, is the younger son of Nusli and Maureen Wadia. He is associated with the family business and has played an important role in the aviation industry as the managing director of GoAir. Jehangir Wadia holds Indian citizenship."

Muhammad Aamir Khokhar's answer to If Jinnah saw Pakistan today, what would he think? - Quora - ""You are free. You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan," Jinnah declared. "You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the state.""

Brat summer is over besties – it's time to visit Royal Armouries, says senior curator - "The Royal Armouries is the most "sigma day out in Leeds, no cap" - according to its senior curator. Mark Murray-Flutter and the Leeds' Royal Armouries Museum team had fun recording a Gen Z/alpha slang-inspired script promoting the museum that cares for one of the oldest and most extensive public collections of arms and armour in the world. It found an audience with the "letting Gen Z write the marketing script" clip going viral since its release last week, garnering millions of views across all social media platforms. "Slay, smol, the lion armour is serving main character energy, pop off queen and Henry VIII is the original rizzler", are some of the Gen Z phrases expertly reeled off by Mr Murray-Flutter."

Thread by @Russwarne on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Rosenhan's archives contradict the report of "On being sane in insane places," and his biographer does not think the study happened as described (and can only find 1 of 8 participants). Throw this one in the #psychology garbage heap. First the Stanford Prison Experiment and now this. What is it with Stanford social psychologists telling b.s. stories about their "experiments"? These are, at best, performance art. They should not be cited as science. #psychology More details of Rosenhan's work. The author suspects that some of the pseudo-patients in the study never existed. She also has proof that one person was dropped from the study because the data contradicted Rosenhan's thesis. #psychology When I teach about Zimbardo and Rosenhan in my replication crisis class next semester, I'm going to call it "Stanford Shenanigans.""

Meme - "妇产科 Gynecology & Obstetrics Dept
抢救室 Emengency Room
阴道镜检查宝 Cunt Examination
胎心监护室 Fetal Heart Custody
药流观察室 Observation Room
产科诊室 Obstetrics Consultation"

Meme - "English teachers (n.) People who put more thoughts into a novel than the original author ever did."

Meme - "Find a Guy that holds your arm, walks with you and opens the car door. *police arrest*"

Meme - Jonathon Catlin @planetdenken: "Turns out Germans don't really understand how bagels work"
Josiah @bed_jartlet98: "yeah and whose fault is that"

Police escort Gloucester mum off Ryanair flight after she is unable to pay for Pringles - "Officers escorted the 55-year-old off a Ryanair jet after she ate the crisps from the trolley before paying. Ann-Marie Murray ordered the Pringles, water and a cola on a flight from Tenerife to Bristol on March 28. The bill came to £7... "As crew looked to resolve the payment issue, this passenger proceeded to ignore crew instructions, consume the items prior to payment and subsequently became disruptive.""

Goldman Sachs Working Conditions Survey creates noise, Silver Lake backs legal-tech company Relativity - "There’s a pretty interesting 11-page presentation circulating online that reveals a new survey of junior bankers at Goldman Sachs. That being said, the survey includes just 13 analysts so is relatively small sample size in the big scheme of things. Here are a few findings from the “Working Conditions Survey” circulating online:
– On average, first year analysts are working over 95 hours per week and sleeping 5 hours per night
– 1st year analysts report that the stresses of work have been detrimental to both their mental and physical health
-All respondents feel as though work hours have negatively impacted their relationships with friends and/or family.
– The majority of 1st year analysts feel they have been the victim of workplace abuse and have or considered seeking help due to deteriorating mental health"
Mirrors: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3

Meme - "INVESTMENT BANKING. Goldman Sachs. Select Analyst Quotes"
"The sleep deprivation, the treatment by senior bankers, the mental and physical stress...I've been through foster care and this is arguably worse"
"I can't sleep anymore because my anxiety levels are through the roof"
"My body physically hurts all the time and mentally I'm in a really dark place"
"Being unemployed is less frightening to me than what my body might succumb to if I keep up this lifestyle"
"There was a point where I was not eating, showering or doing anything else other than working from morning until after midnight"
"I didn't come into this job expecting a 9am-5pm's, but I also didn't expect consistent 9am-5am's either"
"What is not ok to me is 110-120 hours over the course of a week! The math is simple, that leaves 4 hours a day for eating, sleeping, showering, bathroom and general transition time. This is beyond the level of 'hard-working', this, Is inhumane / abuse"

Rahim Mohamed: What South Korea can teach Canada about soft power
The equation of Korean government support for their popular culture and funding only the CBC is bizarre

Harry Potter and the limits of liberalism. : r/COMPLETEANARCHY - "It very neatly describes the way liberals see the world and political struggle. Lots of people complain about the anti-climatic ending, but really I don't think it could any other way. I'd like to imagine that there's some alternate universe where Rowling actually believed in something and Harry was actually built up as the anti-Voldemort he was only hinted as being in the beginning of the books. Where he's [sic] opposes all the many injustices of the wizarding world and determines to change their frequently backwards, insular, contradictory society for the better, and forms his own faction antithetical to the Death Eaters and when he finally has his showdown with Voldy, Harry surpasses by adopting new methods, breaking the rules and embracing change and the progression of history. While Voldemort clings to an idyllic imaging of the past and the greatest extent of his dreams is to become the self-appointed god of a eternally stagnant Neverland. Harry has embraced the possiblity of a shining future and so can overcome the self-imposed limits Voldemort could never cross, and Voldemort is ultimately defeated by this. But that would require a Harry that believed in something. and since Rowling is a liberal centrist Blairite that doesn't really believe in anything, Harry can't believe in anything. Harry lives in a world drought with conflict and injustice, a stratified class society, slavery of the sentient magical creatures, the absurd charade the wizarding world puts up to enforce their own self-segregation, a corrupted and bureaucracy-chocked government, rampant racism, so on and so forth. But Harry is little more than a passive observer for most of it, only the racism really bothers him (and then only racism towards half-bloods). In fact, when Hermione stands up against the slavery of elves, she's treated as some kind of ridiculous Soapbox Sadie. For opposing chattel slavery. In the end, the biggest force for change is Voldemort and Harry and friends only ever fight for the preservation and reproduction of the status quo. The very height of Harry's dreams is to join the aurors, a sort of wizard FBI and the ultimate defenders of the wizarding status quo. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are the big instigators of change and Harry never quite gets to Voldy's level. Harry doesn't even beat Voldemort, Voldemort accidentally kills himself because he violated some obscure technicality that causes one of his spells to bounce back at him. And this is really the struggle of liberals, they live in a world fraught with conflict, but aren't particularly bothered by any of it except those that threaten the multicultural pluralism. They see change, and the force behind that change, as a wholly negative phenomenon. Even then, they can only act within the legal and ideological framework of their society. So for instance, instead of organizing insurrectionary and disruptive activity against Trump and the far-right, all they can do is bang their drum about what a racist bigot he is and hope they can catch him violating some technicality that will allow them to have him impeached or at least destroy his political clout. It won't work, it will never work, but that is the limit of liberalism just as it was the limit of Harry Potter."
Apparently change for change's sake is good, and violence is good when it's directed against Trump and the "far right"

Meme - "Joe Rogan is like some barbarian Khan from the steppes that took an interest in intellectual things and his show is I basically him bringing slightly nervous scholars and magicians to come before him to explain how the world works "glasses man, you explain to Joe why sky big, and how tree grow but he will also believe almost anything you tell him, and only recently (in the past few years) does he clap back like Tiny hat man say otherwise, do you lie to Joe? Tiny hat man say fat not bad for you, that sugar is enemy, so which is truth? Joe thinks you are wrong" and people just nervously go oh oh ok h-Haha yah I guess so". Joe spend many moons on horseback and training with bow and sword, but joe also wonder why skyfire rise from mountains every morning, you will explain this to Joe.""
joerogan: "The most accurate description of my podcast I've ever read."

Man who had multiple child porn videos in phone given a month's jail - "The court heard that a friend had introduced Kolambage to Hindakumbure, who told the younger man that he had created a WhatsApp chat group with "many Sri Lankan people in it". Kolambage then joined the "Singapore Boys Wela group", which was created in 2019... He later told investigators he was "not really interested" in obscene videos involving underage subjects. Deputy Public Prosecutor Tessa Tan said: "The accused also admitted in the course of investigations that... although he had tried his best to delete 'underage obscene videos', he might have at (times) missed out on deleting them, as there were 'too many of such videos'." The DPP explained that Kolambage's WhatsApp setting was such that videos and photographs sent by other people would be automatically downloaded into his phone gallery. "Accordingly, obscene films and child abuse material shared by other participants (in the group) were also automatically downloaded into the accused's phone gallery," she added. Kolambage's offences came to light on Aug 6, 2020 when a foot patrol officer from the Public Transport Security Command saw him behaving suspiciously at Lavender MRT station around 1pm. The officer and his colleagues were conducting a check on Kolambage when they saw that the Sri Lankan had a group chat with a display picture showing silhouettes of a man and a woman engaging in what appeared to be a sexual act. They opened the chat, which had 256 participants, and saw that it had more than 6,000 media files. Officers arrested Kolambage and seized his mobile phone. Some of the files were later found to contain child pornography."
Reasons to turn off auto-download

10 Everyday Mysteries In Japan You've Wondered About, Explained - "1. Who’s the famous running man in Osaka?
2. Why do salarymen all dress the same?
3. Why can’t the shutter sound on Japanese phones be switched off?
4. Why do the Japanese eat KFC during Christmas?
5. Why are umbrellas mostly transparent in Japan?
6. Why do stone statues wear bibs and hats?
7. Why are the colours of conbini storefronts different in some prefectures?
8. Why is it so hard to find trash cans in Japan?
9. Why are disposable chopsticks so ubiquitous?
10. Why do locals sprinkle water on the streets?"

Meme - Randall Gore @jon_wunwun7: "It is tactically safer to say you don't believe in democracy and no one should be voting than to say women shouldn't be allowed to vote."

Andrew on X - "Today, @blueorigin took one giant step for mankind: They got 6 women ready to leave on time."

Meme - NewsDaily🪖🚨🪖 @XNews24_7: "Why did Blue Origin’s capsule return to Earth looking pristine, with NO re-entry burns? Unlike SpaceX’s Falcon Crew Dragon, which comes back scorched, Blue Origin’s New Shepard seems untouched! Is it a game-changing material or a clever trajectory trick? Let’s dive into the science and spark a debate! #SpaceRace #BlueOrigin #SpaceX"

Meme - "Katy Perry wore this $11 setting spray to 'lock in' her makeup for Blue Origin space flight: 'Truly held'"
Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: "Remember this post for whenever a female celeb complains about why they are asked ridiculous questions and are not taken seriously"

Tyler Fischer on X - "BREAKING: Jeff Bezos spends 50 million dollars to get 90 minute break from wife."

Meme - 2016: *Busty Scarlett Johansson*
2020: *Flat Scarlett Johansson*
Thanos: "Gone, reduced to atoms."

Meme - Dana Jenkins: "MY BABY HOME !! MY MF BABY !! MY BABY IS HOME !! LORD I THX U!!"
"Man charged with murder in deaths of mother, 15-year-old brother in Wilson, police say. On Tuesday, police identified the victims as 50-year-old Dana Vanessa Jenkins and a 15- year-old juvenile."

Meme - Democratic Party: "MAN, WE REALLY GOT OUR ASS KICKED LAST NOVEMBER. WE'LL NEED TO BE MORE VILE, CONDESCENDING AND OBNOXIOUS NEXT TIME. YES. YES. THAT'S IT"

Charlie Kirk on X - "The latest Yale Youth Poll confirms the trend we’ve seen at one campus after another: The youngest voters have turned sharply to the right. Yale found 22-29 year olds favored Democrats by ONLY 6.4 points. But kids of college age, 18-21, lean Republican by almost 12 (!!) The most dramatic generational political swing in history is unfolding before our eyes."

Associations between Total and Added Sugar Intake and Diabetes among Chinese Adults: The Role of Body Mass Index - "Sugar intake has been linked to the global rise in diabetes. However, the unique diabetogenic effect of sugar, independent of weight gain, remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the associations between total and added sugar intake and diabetes status, and to test whether the sugar–diabetes associations were moderated or mediated by the body mass index (BMI). We performed a nationwide cross-sectional study on 12,889 Chinese adults who were enrolled in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 2011. The data for the total and added sugar intake were measured using three consecutive 24 h recalls, and determined based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 28 (SR28), the Food Patterns Equivalents Database (FPED) 2015–2016, and the labeled ingredients and nutrient contents. A multivariable logistic regression model was used to analyze the associations between the total and added sugar intake and diabetes. A nutrient density model was used to adjust for the total energy intake. A mediation analysis for significant sugar–diabetes associations shown in multivariable logistic analysis (p < 0.05), and a subgroup analysis according to the BMI category were performed, to examine the mediating and moderating effects of the BMI on the sugar–diabetes association, respectively. We included 12,800 individuals, with a mean age of 50.5, in the final analysis. The means of the total and added sugar intake, total sugar (%E), and added sugar (%E) were 28.2 ± 0.2 g/d, 5.0 ± 0.1 g/d, 6.0 ± 0.0%, and 1.0 ± 0.0%, respectively. The overall prevalence of self-reported physician-diagnosed diabetes was 4.0%. A significant association between the total sugar intake and an increased risk of diabetes was found (odds ratio [OR] =1.008, 95% CI 1.001–1.016). The mediation analysis showed a significant mediation effect through the BMI of the effect of the total sugar on diabetes status (p < 0.001), where 11.7% (95% CI: 4.7–35.7%) of the effect of the total sugar on diabetes was mediated through the BMI. The total sugar intake had a significant direct effect on diabetes around the BMI (estimated coefficient = 0.0004, p < 0.001). The overall total-sugar-intake–diabetes association remained significant in normal-weight participants in the subgroup analysis (OR =1.012, 1.000–1.024). In conclusion, although the BMI moderated and mediated the association between the total sugar intake and diabetes, the total sugar still showed some unique weight-independent diabetogenic effects. Our findings call for efforts to prevent and control diabetes by reducing sugar intake, and losing weight appropriately."
Unsurprisingly, a lot of people claim there's no relationship between sugar intake and diabetes

Facebook - "Tianjin—China’s version of Florida, where the streets are full of fun"

Calm down, they haven't really built a nuclear power plant next to a spider farm - "The more excitable parts of the internet have recently been sharing the above image, which appears to show the humorous geographical juxtoposition of a spider farm and a nuclear power plant. Sadly for internet comedy, it is a big old FAKE. Those naughty, naughty photoshoppers have been at it again... As far as we can tell there aren't even any spider farms in the UK. There is one in Vermont, USA, where a man and his spiders make art out of webs. Also, those brown signs are only used for tourist attractions - which we're not sure that a nuclear power plant counts as."

Perma Banned | Facebook - "This just in... Western Genshin "fans", are threatening each other for playing Genshin. Because Genshin had a collab with McDonalds. Every day I keep finding ways to be amazed by Western Genshin "fans"."

Meme - "The perfect phonecase doesn't exis.. *Arnold Schwarzenegger firing rocket launcher with the rocket launcher being the phone cameras*"

All About Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Pizza - "Stuffed pizza is related to deep-dish pizza and also came about in Chicago, but the two should not be lumped together as "Chicago-style pizza.""

British Steel: Scunthorpe furnaces to close ending 150 years of UK production - "British Steel has announced plans to close its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, making Britain the only G7 country unable to manufacture its own steel. Jingye, the Chinese steel group that owns the plant, blamed Donald Trump as it announced plans to shut key operations, putting up to 2,700 jobs at risk... The closures signal the end of steel production in the UK after more than 150 years... Britain has been producing the alloy since the 1850s, with the metal playing a key role in the industrial revolution... British Steel’s decision will raise concerns about national security as ministers seek to ramp up domestic defence manufacturing. On Wednesday, Sarah Jones, the energy minister, told the business select committee: “There is a debate to be had about how we as a country define the importance of steel whether you’re talking about virgin steel making or steel more broadly. “There is a reason why Russia bombed all the blast furnaces in Ukraine pretty much straight away; because countries need steel not just for defence but to build the roads and the infrastructure.” Asked whether the UK needs virgin steel, she said: “Yes.” Ben Houchen, the Tees Valley mayor, warned Britain was “less safe” as a result of British Steel’s decision and claimed unions had “wrecked” efforts to rescue the blast furnaces by pushing their own “unworkable plan”... News of the closures at Scunthorpe comes hours after Jingye rejected an offer of £500m from the Government to help it switch to green energy. The Chinese steel group is understood to have told ministers it wanted £1bn to switch to electric arc furnaces, the net zero-friendly technology for recycling steel... The Scunthorpe plant’s blast furnaces have been earmarked for closure since 2023 after Rishi Sunak’s administration pushed for greener production in its quest to reach net zero."
Clearly, the rest of the G7 will soon be unable to make their own steel too
Time to "tax the rich" more to pay for disability benefits, double down on net zero and send more battalions of human rights lawyers to countries at war

Meme - "Africa's dependence on aid. Net official aid received as % of government expenditures, 2008"
"We sacrificed the stars for this."
Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog: "The total aid to Africa from 1960-2013 comes up to over $5 trillion or the equivalent of about 50 Marshall Plans."
Clearly, the reason Africa isn't succeeding is because of too little aid, and even more is needed

Man who didn’t want to look after girlfriend’s pet sent bomb threat to cruise she was on - "Joshua Lowe, from Michigan, admitted that he was annoyed that he had to watch pets while his partner and her family went on a Caribbean cruise, leading him to take drastic measures. Sending an email to Carnival Corp cruise lines, Mr Lowe casually wrote: “Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your sunrise cruise ship.”"

Meme - *Busty woman Karolina Isaza / karolove1 with '30' balloons*
"30"
"3000"
"30100"

Inaya Folarin Iman on X - "I've noticed a growth of *Western* Muslims criticising Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia for increased social liberalisation. It's clear that the new centre for ultraconservative, hardline Muslim thought will be in Europe in the coming decades."

Dan Burmawi on X - "Another example is a Christian family I knew who took their 14-year-old daughter to see a therapist, who happened to be Muslim. After a few months of sessions, they noticed that their daughter had started fasting during Ramadan. The parents reached out to me for help. I sat with the girl, and she told me that she believed her anxiety was healed by converting to Islam, because her therapist had told her that the Qur’an has magical healing powers. I’m not trying to make a blanket statement about every Muslim therapist. But based on my understanding of Islamic theology, and from firsthand experience, I can say this with confidence: there is very little chance a Muslim therapist would fully respect professional boundaries when their religion sees itself superior to scientific methods."

Shaun Maguire on X - "“The American empire must fall” — spoken in Dearborn, Michigan Americans need to understand how common these sentiments are within our own borders"

Jason C on X - "I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don’t understand or even realize exist."
Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "That old saw about how “good times make weak men” is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they’re too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse."
Such a stunning lack of self-awareness. Left wingers are the ones who keep wanting to destroy the status quo

Links - 25th May 2025 (2 - Left Wing Economics)

Amazon Defies ‘Economic Blackout’ As Sales Climb During Boycott - "Despite calls for an "economic blackout" targeting major retailers on Feb. 28, early data reveals Amazon sales actually increased during the boycott period. According to analytics from Momentum Commerce, Amazon's transactions rose 1% compared to typical Friday patterns, suggesting the boycott had limited impact on the e-commerce giant."

Meme - "Person A makes $25,000
Person B makes $50,000
INCOME GAP = $25,000
The economy grows. Now:
Person A makes $50,000
Person B makes $100,000
INCOME GAP = $50,000
Capitalist: Yay! We're all enjoying a higher standard of living together!
Socialist: Egads! The income gap has DOUBLED! We need to fix this!"

Fraser Institute News Release: The average Canadian family paid more in 2023 on taxes than it did on housing, food and clothing combined - "The average Canadian family spent 43.0 per cent of its income on taxes in 2023—more than housing, food and clothing costs combined, finds a new study published by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank."
The "rich" must pay more in taxes, so they pay their "fair share"

AT&T Is Stopping Its 5G Internet Air Service in NY Because of New Broadband Law - "A new broadband law is going into effect this week in New York state requiring internet provider to offer low-income residents access to monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps. As a response, AT&T has decided that it no longer plans to offer its 5G home internet in the Empire State... The new broadband law comes into effect after the federal Affordable Connectivity Program ran out of funds last year"
Clearly, the solution is to force them to sell the product

Meme - Jacobin @jacobin: "Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first- quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Walmart non-corporate Associates' average hourly wage is $17.50/hour with full-time benefits. Jacobin pays writers $0.07/word, so a Jacobin writer would have to write 250 words an hour continuously to make the same wage as a Walmart Associate, but without benefits."

KLEIN: Canada is digging its own grave: First stop, economic ruin - "Canada is at a breaking point, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. We have chased away industry, stifled our economy with reckless policies, and let ideology take priority over common sense. Now, we stand on the edge of a decision that will either set us on a path to recovery or push us further into economic decline. The choice is clear: We either reverse course or collapse under the weight of bad policy and political fantasy. We have allowed our leaders to dictate an energy and economic agenda that cripples our own industries while the biggest polluters in the world — China, India, and Russia — continue full steam ahead, laughing at our self-imposed restrictions. We have killed pipeline projects that could have provided secure, affordable energy to our own citizens and trading partners. We have burdened businesses with regulations and taxes that make it impossible to invest in our own country. We have turned our back on the resource wealth that built this nation. Now, we are expected to believe that more of the same will somehow fix the problem? It won’t. Since 2015, Canada has lost more than $225 billion in capital investment — money that could have created jobs, built infrastructure, and secured our future. Instead of addressing why businesses are leaving, our leaders have doubled down on anti-growth policies, making it harder for companies to operate. We’ve seen massive investments in the energy sector go elsewhere, not because Canada lacks resources but because we have made it clear that investment here isn’t welcome. Take our oil and gas industry — one of the cleanest and most ethical in the world. It has been vilified and squeezed, while foreign oil from dictatorships with no environmental standards continues to flow into our ports. It’s insanity. Natural gas, one of the cleanest and most efficient energy sources, is being demonized by activists who don’t seem to care that other nations are expanding their use of coal. Meanwhile, we get lectured on carbon footprints while countries like China build two new coal plants per week. Does anyone truly believe Canada’s tiny fraction of global emissions is the problem? This isn’t about the environment anymore — it’s about control. The same people who want to shut down the oil and gas industry refuse to acknowledge that wind and solar are unreliable without a massive, stable energy backup. Instead of investing in practical, balanced energy solutions, including nuclear and cleaner fossil fuel technologie, our government is obsessed with eliminating fossil fuels entirely — no matter the cost. Now, we are watching as Mark Carney prepares to take over the Liberal Party and push Canada even further down this dead-end road. His plan? Spend another $80 billion per year chasing climate perfectionism, all while the country’s economic foundation crumbles. Carney and his allies in Ottawa want you to believe this is an “opportunity.” In reality, it is an economic suicide mission. Other countries have already figured this out. The U.S., Germany, and Italy are reversing course, bringing back reliable energy sources and cutting back on their green policies that have failed. But Canada? We’re digging in deeper, ignoring the warning signs, and pretending that we are leading the world when in reality, we are falling behind. We are losing manufacturing because we made it too expensive to operate here. We are losing energy investment because we have strangled it with regulations. We are watching our national debt skyrocket because we spend billions on programs that do nothing to grow our economy. We have done this to ourselves. The solution is not complicated. We need to reverse the damaging policies that have driven businesses, jobs, and investment out of this country. That does not mean abandoning environmental responsibility — it means balancing it with economic survival. We need pipelines, natural gas, and responsible resource development. We need to support industries that provide jobs and generate revenue instead of punishing them with ever-increasing taxes and regulations. We need to encourage investment by making Canada competitive again, not by pushing businesses to the U.S. and beyond. Most importantly, we need leaders who put Canada first — not activists, global bureaucrats, or radical environmental groups. Real people, real businesses, and real workers need sensible policies. The country cannot survive on slogans and wishful thinking, it needs a functioning economy. This is not just about politics. This is about whether Canada can survive as a prosperous nation. If we continue down the current path, we will not recover."

I truly have lost all compassion for the clientele I work with. : r/confession - "I am a social worker of sorts, and I help people get ahead in life. Some people actually want to make a change in their lives and make things better, but I'm learning so much, that the majority of people do not. They would much rather suck the syatem dry then try to make a living for themselves. And it's getting really hard for me to even fake compassion for these people anymore. Oh. You're getting evicted...but you still have your medical marijuana cigarettes. And your beer ? Okay. You don't want to try to get a job because your goal is to get disability because your anxiety is just too much. Okay. Okay. You can't get hired anywhere but you were just offered two jobs and declined then because they were not right for you. Okay.  I still keep trying to encourage tho. I know there are people out there who want to change and will."
I truly have lost all compassion for the clientele I work with. : r/confession - "I ended a friendship with a lady because she couldn't afford to buy her son a birthday present. She was able to have a Mountain Dew every day and not run out of cigarettes. She could have gotten him something from Dollar General. Don't bother to get him anything. I went to the party just to give him my gift so he got something. Never spoke to her after that."
Heartless monster!
Lived experience is only important when it pushes the left wing agenda
I like how so many people call this compassion fatigue, rather than realising that "victim blaming" is not actually wrong

I truly have lost all compassion for the clientele I work with. : r/confession - "I had my eyes opened in college when I volunteered for a homeless shelter for a school project. Up until then, I bought the narrative that the homeless were just poor people trying to get by but who were down on their luck, etc. I was blown away when they opened the doors, offered people help finding an apartment, getting health insurance, finding a job, etc. and not one person moved- they all sat around watching tv . All the program volunteers were bustling around cleaning, offering them help, doing chores. I guess I naively assumed people went to the shelter TO access the resources to get out of homelessness, and at the very least the shelters could help them learn job skills by asking them to participate in activities like doing chores, preparing food, etc. Instead it was entirely service oriented going in one direction with a passive group of people who showed seemingly no agency towards improving their lives or station, and because it was voluntary participation, every one of them that I saw that day likely left in exactly the same situation they came in even though the resources were there. I reported back to my class that I found the experience strange, since I assumed almost anyone would take help to remove themselves from abject poverty, right? And being dismayed by it. The teacher seemed to want me to not have that be the takeaway, and made it seem like I should’ve seen this work being done as valuable and life changing, when in reality I just became aware that the problem was so much more severe and that just providing services cannot get people back on their feet if they’re the combination of completely unmotivated and passive to change their life situation combined with having no “rock bottom” so to speak that will convince them that living normally and doing work is better than the alternative. I can see how learned helplessness is a thing- I went through depression and as a young adult struggled finding work and was liable to give up as it being impossible and feeling defeated, but I can’t imagine someone else finding me a job, filling in paperwork, telling me exactly how and when to go to work, and then just not showing up or being unwilling to at least try. I don’t know how you fix that level of executive dysfunction frankly."

Jesse Kline: For the love of peat — how Liberals let moss block development of the 'oilsands of Ontario' - "Poilievre highlighted a story that should have sparked a modern-day gold rush. In 2007, prospectors found vast deposits of critical minerals — including chromite, which is used to produce stainless steel, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum — in a remote part of northern Ontario, about 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, that came to be known as the “ Ring of Fire .” Development of the area was initially supported by private industry, the federal Conservative government and even Ontario’s Liberal government. Dozens of companies began prospecting , tens of thousands of claims were made, billions of dollars’ worth of private investment was pledged, deals were struck with local Indigenous communities and private companies began exploring the possibility of building railways into the area. In 2013, then-Treasury Board president Tony Clement said the Ring of Fire had the same economic potential as the oilsands . The Ontario Chamber of Commerce later estimated that developing the area would create 5,500 jobs and generate $9 billion of economic activity in 10 years. But in 2015, the Liberals were elected, and they seemed to do everything in their power to stymie Canada’s natural resources industry, even though many of the minerals found in the Ring of Fire are essential to the production of electric vehicles and other green energy technologies. A few years after taking office, the Liberals passed the Impact Assessment Act (IAA), which made approving large natural resource projects next to impossible. In early 2020, at the height of the Indigenous-led protests against the Coastal GasLink pipeline through British Columbia, then-environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced a “regional assessment” of the Ring of Fire, at the request of a First Nation and two environmental lobbying groups. The federal government noted that regional assessments , which are conducted under the IAA, are intended to “go beyond project-focused impact assessments to understand the regional context and provide more comprehensive analyses” of the “cumulative effects” of the project. In layman’s terms, this translates to “mire natural resource projects in a bureaucratic bog.” Ironically, the bogs of the James Bay Lowlands, where the Ring of Fire rests, comprised one of the primary reasons Wilkinson chose for turning his back on the vast wealth that’s just sitting under the ground, waiting to be dug up. “There is a lot of that area that is peat,” Wilkinson, who had then moved to the natural resources portfolio, said... To further complicate the situation, at the same time, then-environment minister Steven Guilbeault launched yet another review process that he knew would take years to complete. This riled Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who complained that his government had already conducted similar environmental assessments and given them the go-ahead. Even back then, Ford recognized that we had to “get those critical minerals out of the ground as quickly as possible.” At the time, he cited the need for minerals to supply the electric vehicle and battery industries that the federal Liberals were sinking billions of taxpayer dollars into. Now, it would go a long way toward protecting our economy from U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war. But this is Canada, a country where nothing big ever gets done because governments, or the petty grievances of special interest groups, always get in the way. Right after Poilievre pledged to “green-light all federal permits for the Ring of Fire … within six months” and build a road connecting the site and northern Indigenous communities to Ontario’s highway network, Alvin Fiddler, grand chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, said the timeline was far too short and promised the plan would be met with “ fierce resistance .” This, despite the fact that a number of First Nations already have a vested financial interest in future mining operations — the chiefs of the Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations both hailed the Conservative leader’s announcement, saying it would bring “long-term economic opportunities” to the region — and Poilievre promised that further benefits would flow to Indigenous communities, including much-needed jobs, wealth and infrastructure. Developing the Ring of Fire is a win-win situation — for governments that will collect royalties, remote First Nations that have long complained about inadequate infrastructure and few economic prospects, and the Canadian economy as a whole, especially as we face a tariff-induced recession. If it continues to take 10 to 15 years to get a mining project approved in Ontario, as both industry and government say it currently does, this country will be unable to survive the coming economic storm. Poilievre is absolutely right that the federal government needs to ensure projects that are in Canada’s national interest get approved posthaste, and that they bring enough economic benefits to the First Nations that own the land to secure their buy-in. The only question for Canadians is: who do they trust to do this — the Tories, or the party that has done its utmost to hamper resource development and placate special interests over the past decade?"
Left wing economics: climate change hysteria means you must force people to use electric cars and renewable energy, but you can't mine the minerals needed for those things because they damage the environment. So just outsource everything to the third world, weakening your economy and endangering your supply chain, because out of sight, out of mind.

Doug Ford on X - "Team Canada is strong and united.  Today, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney  and Canada’s premiers agreed on the need to cut red tape and streamline approvals to get big things built faster, including unleashing the enormous economic potential of the Ring of Fire. The prime minister answered Ontario’s long-standing call and agreed to end needless duplication by recognizing provincial environmental assessment processes for nation-building projects. This will let us get shovels in the ground years sooner.  Business as usual is over. Let’s get building."
The environmentalists are going to be very upset

Meme - "r/DeepFuckingValue
Costco is quietly slashing prices. This feels wrong.
sus timing
Costco is quietly slashing prices. This feels wrong. I go to costco every week. it's probably the only thing i do consistently. i've been doing it for years, i know how the prices move. lately? everything's discounted. i'm not talking promo tags or little manufacturer markdowns - i mean whole shelves of items dropped 20-40%. across categories. not seasonal either. this isn't normal. prices are supposed to be going up with tariffs, inflation, shipping costs, whatever. instead they're dumping inventory. aggressively. either demand is collapsing or something upstream is forcing their hand. it just doesn't make sense. it feels off. maybe i'm overreacting, but i've never seen price drops like this since i started going. if this is what it looks like at costco - the most stable, boring, buy-in-bulk fortress of consumerism - then i don't really want to know what's coming next. maybe it's nothing. but probably not."

Damjan Cvetkov-Dimitrov | Facebook - ""I usually notice that most people who are vocal against car ownership, are vocal against marriage, raising children, owning a home, land etc. The basic denominator, it seems, is taking responsibility for things. Once one of these anti stances softens, the rest tend to follow. The cure, it seems, is learning to not fear responsibility, but rather to embrace it. It's a fringe thing to notice, and formulating it like this is bound to irk people the wrong way, but I'm seeing mounting anecdotal evidence that thins away as people age, or, more accurately, as they mature. Which, to my mind, confirms the intersection." -@Славко Дешиќ"

Kshama Sawant on X (2020) - "Our Tax Amazon movement has made history! Seattle City Council just voted to pass an Amazon Tax on the largest corporations to fund affordable housing & jobs, to begin to end racist gentrification. This is entirely because of the thousands of working people, unions, socialists!"
‘This is catastrophic’: Seattle payroll tax revenues $47M short as jobs leave city (2025) - "The payroll tax is levied on large corporations in the city, like Amazon and Expedia. Such a steep revenue forecast error suggests high-paying companies or their jobs are leaving the city... Even Harrell acknowledged, “This decrease in revenue is aligned with recent reports of major employers moving thousands of high-paying jobs out of Seattle to other cities in our region.”  “Large corporations should pay their fair share and we should be wary when they use job placements to avoid paying funding that our communities rely on, but we also must recognize businesses will make choices based on their bottom line,” Harrell wrote in his statement. “We need to design our tax policies with the full context of our economy and a comprehensive view that ensures we raise the revenue needed to support all of our residents in a progressive way, aligned with our values.”"
Clearly, we need more regulation to solve this, like forcing companies to stay in liberal cities, and forcing them to employ more workers than necessary

Thread by @jasonrantz on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There’s something funny about trying to turn your screw-up into a controversy about Trump. This is catastrophic! Seattle collected $47m fewer dollars from revenue than they thought — while already facing a deficit.  What people haven’t realized yet—but soon will—is that the sharp drop in payroll expense tax revenue means jobs are leaving Seattle. The whole point of the PET was to squeeze “free” money out of businesses because the city arrogantly assumed it held all the cards.  But what did PET actually do? It pushed Amazon jobs to Bellevue, kept employees working from home (and out of Seattle), and helped fuel layoffs at companies hit hardest by the tax—like Expedia.  The catastrophe isn't merely about this particular number. It's about what's going to happen next. And, naturally, Washington Democrats are taking this bad Seattle policy and bringing it statewide. Mayor Harrell acknowledges that big businesses are leaving. But the he offers a strategically naïve statement: "Large corporations should pay their fair share and we should be wary when they use job placements to avoid paying funding that our communities rely on, but we also must recognize businesses will make choices based on their bottom line."  Businesses pay far more than their fair share and offer Seattleites high salaries that the city uses on wasteful, ineffective programs. Harrell knows big business already pay "their fair share" but offers his silly quote to try to villainize them, while lionizing his own efforts to go after the businesses he pretends are greedy. But he's the greedy one: he wants more money that he didn't earn so he can continue to misspend it. And he'll target businesses as greedy or deceitful so it can help his re-election campaign."

Matthew Lau: Poilievre's sensible solution to Liberal daycare nightmare - "Statistics Canada reported at the end of 2023 there were 118,000 fewer children in child care across Canada relative to 2019, including declines in every province except New Brunswick. Meanwhile, of parents using child care, the proportion who reported difficulty finding it increased to 46.4 per cent from 36.4 per cent — again, with increased difficulty finding child care reported in every province. To make matters worse, other survey data suggest the poorest families are the ones with the most trouble finding child care. According to Poilievre, Canada has worse child care today because the Liberals’ national program has “shut down private daycares” that do not meet the government-knows-best model. On this, there is little disagreement. Last year, Andrea Hannen, executive director of the Association of Day Care Operators of Ontario, told the federal Standing Committee on the Status of Women that “child care entrepreneurs are being targeted for extinction through the nationalization of Canada’s child care sector.” The Association of Childcare Entrepreneurs similarly said in a recent news release that because of the federal program, child care centres are being forced to cut back on quality and private operators “are being pushed out, reducing parental choice.” The federal government’s anti-business, anti-choice bias is hurting private daycares and producing negative results all across the country... Municipal data confirm the negative effects of federal discrimination against the child care sector. Peel Region in Ontario reports that because of the federal cap on private for-profit access to its program, there are 1,460 private for-profit child care spaces on a waitlist in the region “while non-profit allocations remain underutilized.” As a letter last year from the Peel Region Chair to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities said , federal restrictions on private for-profit suppliers “are contributing to a shortage of available child-care spaces for children and families.” In Yukon, the territorial government has outpaced national child care space creation targets, but as think tank Cardus points out , it was “only able to do so by working outside the federal system, using territorial dollars to fund spaces for a broad age range of children and to fund for-profit facilities that the federal government shunned.” In Nova Scotia, the federal Liberal government announced in 2021 it wanted “a fully not-for-profit and publicly managed system” — so it is no surprise that within just a few years, over 1,000 spaces were lost in the province due to the closure of private sector daycares. Poilievre says he will honour current federal agreements with provinces, but “we’re going to give more freedom and flexibility to parents, providers, and provinces to support the child care of all the kids.” In other words, kids whose parents work night shifts or weekends, and so need different forms of child care than what the government prescribes, or whose parents opt for private child care or home-based care. “We should support all child care options by having more flexibility. Then parents can decide which child care options they favour,” Poilievre said."
It's almost like the goal is greater government control, not affordable childcare

Dustin Grage on X - "My state representative, @MarionONeill1, shares new data from the University of Minnesota:
• 2,100 of it’s employees make more than the governor.
• The 100th highest salary exceeds $350K per year.
How can anyone call this institution a “non-profit”?"
Left wingers claim churches can't be non-profit because some megachurch pastors get paid a lot. So...

Gas prices tumble across B.C. after carbon tax lifted in late-night legislative session
Sharp drop in gas prices across Ontario
A lot of left wingers were predicting that prices wouldn't drop, because greedy companies would keep them high. Even after they fell, some of them were crowing that they wouldn't

C40 Cities on X - "What is degrowth economics & how did a conversation with a loved one spark the creation of an alternative index to GDP? In this week’s episode of Cities 1.5, we speak to researcher @ANGELOSVARVARO1 & @SCI_JGlobal's director to answer these questions. 🎧"
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X - "They are still pushing degrowth, which is a Communist death cult ideology that's will only apply to the West, allowing the People's Republic of China to rise and take over."

Thread by @Will_Tanner_1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "When was the last time that England and her glorious Empire could have been saved from becoming a decaying, socialist hell?  Many say, incorrectly, either WWI, when the empire was exhausted, or WWII when it was bankrupted  The real answer is 1911, with the Parliament Bill🧵👇
The fight that led to the Parliament Bill began in 1909, with Winston Churchill's so-called People's Budget  By that point, Churchill had shifted to the Liberals from the Conservatives and was allied with Lloyd George to tax the landed elite into oblivion, despite his family being part of that elite.  The bill sparked a huge fight that culminated in England declaring war on its traditions and history in the name of socialism. The problem with the People's Budget was that it was the first overtly socialist law to come to England  In fact, it was entirely unprecedented and is known today as a "revolutionary concept" because it was expressly crafted to redistribute wealth, taxing landed wealth and income to fund welfare programs of the sort that have now bankrupted Britain  Because of its very nature, the bill was a shot across the bow of the landed elite, and fomented a great deal of social unrest and internal anger...
The Parliament Bill was really a turning point for the Empire. Even superficially, it marked England's shift from Victorian/Edwardian prosperity and preeminence to the long, bloody, painful decay of the 20th century. Within a few years, Lloyd George's government was sending England's best to die pointlessly in the fields of Flanders. As they bled out, the families of the Old Etonians who were killed en masse were taxed relentlessly to fund the war, and were financially bled out by endless income and death taxes, as Cannadine discussed in "The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy". But the bigger problem was the shift in mindset and policy that the bill marked. The social shift is what resulted near-immediately. Before the bill, the landed elite, both the gentry and the peerage, were widely honored and respected and seen as the goal state of anyone and everyone... After the bill, much of that disappeared. Estates were taxed at obscene rates, the Lords no longer had power, and global commercial interests won out over the internal landed, agricultural and industrial interest that profited from England-first policy. From then on, there was much more internal unrest and class warfare, whether in terms of taxation or national class war like the General Strike of the Interwar era... the transition from aristocratic government to bureaucratic government meant massive change in what was accepted... And, of course, there's the matter of private property. To a landed gentleman, property is sacrosanct because it is the basis of his life, wealth, and power; that same view generally imbues the classes under him, as they want to be like him. To the bureaucrat, however, private property is a threat. It's a basis for non-bureaucratic power, leads to anti-regulatory sentiment, and so on. So, it's attacked, whether through taxation like death duties, government fiat, or other devices. This happened in England under Attlee, who was elected in 1945 and quickly "nationalized" (stole) everything from railroads to coal mines while taxing agricultural estates out of existence. Harold Wilson picked up where he left off and further destroyed it...
So, before it you had a prosperous and free society led by those with a tradition of service, at little cost to the state, and a vast empire that supplied it with resources. After it, the bureaucrats quickly bankrupted the empire in WWI and II, taxed away its prosperity and gentlemen, and then gave the empire up because they didn't see the point of imperial splendor, glory, and paternalism"

Why I Am Not a PhD (in Literature)

We are still told that college is not about brainwashing, but students being exposed to new perspectives and realising that woke is right:

Why I Am Not a PhD
English departments teach theory, not literature.

I used to get into quarrels with my high school math teacher. Every morning, he would stroll into class with a stack of notebooks, a pack of chalk, and a jab at our school’s English department. As a future English major, I felt it was my duty to speak up.

The irony was that I had never particularly liked any of our English teachers. They did their part, but they always taught literature through overarching themes: “the failures of capitalism in The Great Gatsby” or “the proto-feminism of The Canterbury Tales.” I didn’t particularly care about such themes, and by the end of high school, I had grown increasingly skeptical of the way my teachers approached literature. Instead, I turned my sights on America’s liberal-arts university system, where I hoped to find a more open-minded environment. I dreamed of becoming an English professor.

When I got to Columbia University—one of the world’s leading institutions for English literary scholarship—my fascination with the literary world initially grew. In my freshman year, I sat around my dorm reciting poems to my peers and conjugating Latin verbs in preparation to read Virgil and Ovid. For a fleeting moment, I was enamored—I didn’t have to take a single math class, and my peers had heard of Dante.

So the C that I received on my first English paper was a blow. I sat in my professor’s office dumbfounded by his evaluation of my argument that, during times of loss, women in the Iliad found the most solace in their male counterparts. I had spent several days on the paper and wanted him to explain what was wrong with my argument. He glared at me.

“It is incorrect to argue that a patriarchal structure can benefit society’s women.”

Perplexed, I poured my ire into my next paper, where I argued something about subverting gender roles in The Oresteia. In contrast to my first paper, I threw this one together in about two hours. It received an A.

I knew from that moment that something was wrong at Columbia, too. At the very least I found myself wondering if I was just an outlier in the literary world. Coming from an immigrant background—with parents from the USSR who had suffered under socialism—it bothered me that Karl Marx seemed to feature on my English syllabi more frequently than Shakespeare or Milton. I was deeply convinced that literature was not a vehicle for social activism; rather, it was a unique window into human nature, tackling questions far more fundamental than political divisions. Yet not a single student or professor in my department seemed to welcome my perspective.

Two years later, I fancied myself a Shakespeare scholar and enrolled in a Shakespeare survey course. The professor was a recent hire with little teaching experience, but when she stood before the lecture hall, there was not a single cell phone or slumping senior in sight. She radiated platitudes and themes, spouted all the buzzwords—heteronormativity and racial politics—and put a leftist spin on every play. It all fed my appetite for absurdity until one day I found a messy scrawl at the top of my midterm exam: Don’t forget to mention queer desire in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

I wanted to know how we had ended up here and why.

Disheartened yet ambitious, I thought it would be fascinating to write my undergraduate thesis on Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy.” I was prepared to have my best year yet, immersed in a project I thought would not be tainted by the ideological bent I’d identified in the teachings of my professors.

Several weeks later, the department emailed me to call out my misogyny. My thesis would have challenged the feminist scholarship that enshrines Plath’s work, so of course I could not write it—and, by this time, I was too disheartened to come up with a proper response. Barred from the undergraduate thesis program, I enrolled in a masters program at Columbia in preparation for my upcoming PhD application cycle, but the environment remained the same: literature was open to interpretation, but only if the interpretation said something clever about oppression, societal injustice, or gender theory. I had figured out the themes I needed to use to succeed in literary study, but I was no longer studying literature.

Shortly after, I decided not to pursue a PhD.

It turned out that there were others who were similarly put off by this restrictive approach to literature. A fellow classmate, for instance, notoriously pushed back in The Columbia Spectator on a group of students’ call to dampen the Western focus of a core class called “The Masterpieces of Western Literature.” That earned a letter in response, also in The Spectator, claiming that the core curriculum “is indoctrination into white supremacy.” Instances like this demonstrate the power of a small yet vocal group of ideologues in the literary academy who seek to eradicate all viewpoints other than their own. 

It turned out that my high school math teacher was onto something. There is something wrong with people who study English—and I have since figured out that this is because they somehow never realize that they’re not actually studying literature. While I do not advocate for the complete erasure of literary theory from the academy, I believe that university English departments have drifted too far to one side and often invoke voices that have no place in literary study.

The purpose of literature is not to comment on the political dimension of a given social structure or to use language as a means of fighting for justice. Literature is a different activity. Its purpose is to offer universal observations about human nature. 

As academics across American college campuses continue to remove true literary scholarship from their programs, maybe it’s time for the rest of us to pick up a great work of literature and renew our allegiance to the humanistic tradition.

In the meantime, I’m proud to say I’m not a PhD.

 

  

Links - 25th May 2025 (1 - 'Indigenous' Peoples [including Maori Equal Rights Protest]

Why New Zealand is seeing mass protests over Māori rights - "Seymour‘s proposed law would set specific definitions of the treaty’s principles, and would apply them to all New Zealanders, not only to Māori. He says piecemeal construction of the treaty’s meaning has left a vacuum and has given Māori special treatment. His bill is widely opposed — by left- and right-wing former prime ministers, 40 of the country’s most senior lawyers, and thousands of Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders who are walking the length of the country in protest... Detractors say the bill threatens constitutional upheaval and would remove rights promised in the treaty that are now enshrined in law. Critics have also lambasted Seymour -– who is Māori -– for provoking backlash against Indigenous people."
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty - "New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people. Opposition party MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke began the traditional ceremonial group dance after being asked whether her party supported the bill... Under the proposed legislation, the treaty principles that would be defined in law are:
that the government has a right to govern and that parliament has the full right to make laws
that the rights of Māori are respected by the Crown
that everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection under it.
Act leader Seymour - who is also New Zealand's associate justice minister - argues that because the principles have never been properly defined legally, the courts "have been able to develop principles that have been used to justify actions that are contrary to the principle of equal rights". He says these include "ethnic quotas in public institutions" that go against the spirit of fairness for all New Zealanders."

National Conservative on X - "How many of you know what the Maori were actually protesting? This was in opposition to a bill by the Libertarian party that declares all races have equal rights in New Zealand. Maori activists see this as a threat to their government benefits."

tumi | she her they on X - [On the Haka in NZ Parliament] "Whites calling this "cringe" because they're mad they don't have culture."
Paul on X - "The reason they don't think White people have culture is because they are bathing in our culture. Tumi is speaking english, on a White made and owned social media site via a piece of technology also invented and made by a White guy. They don't see it because its all around"
A fish doesn't notice water

Fubadu on X - "As a Māori myself I see this behaviour & it's just outright embarrassing. Cringe level 1000. They are behaving like uncivilised cave people that have no place in parliament. No wonder the vast majority of Māori vote for someone else."

Woke Preacher Clips on X - "The reason she's ripping up this bill is because it states: "All New Zealanders are equal under the law with the same rights and duties." This is unacceptable to the Maori. Third-Wayists who whine about the Imago Dei every time a criminal gets handcuffed will have nothing to say"

La Comtesse de Monte Cristo on X - "One thing about the Maori: they will remind you that New Zealand is their land and they won’t negotiate on their freedom to cultural expression. Deal with it."
Bonchie on X - "It’s not their land. They showed up and massacred the original tribes and then bartered in severed human heads. They aren’t morally superior. They aren’t indigenous. They are cringe pagans who want their government benefits to keep flowing. That’s all any of this is about."

blighter on X - "important to remember that, while America is an illegitimate country sitting on stolen land stolen via vile genocide, New Zealand belongs to the Maori by ancient right of “they showed up 600 years ago and killed everyone already living there”"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "The Maori are just the people who conquered NZ before the whites. They ate the previous inhabitants: look up "Moriori barbecue (or genocide)." Great warriors, but one of the least inherently "sympathetic" human groups I can imagine."

Napoleon Bonaparte Appreciator on X - "Friendly reminder that Notre-Dame de Paris is older than the Maori presence on New Zealand."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "No one is "terrified" of Maori millionaires doing the dance they did before lost wars with the West. "Sick of this crap, and maybe about to start retaliating" is the phrase you are looking for."

Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "Either race is important or it’s not. The left has been trying for years to have it both ways and they allowed these attitudes to foster."
Drew Paviou @Drew...: "Blood and soil race nationalism but make it lefty coded"
Veronica Koman @Veronic...: "The sovereigns are sovereigning *Maori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performing Haka* *Lidia Thorpe (Australian Aboriginal senator) giving Black power salute as she calls Queen Elizabeht a coloniser*"
Basically, white people are evil

jerk on X - "I’m not saying no, but should government representatives really be doing a war dance meant to physically intimidate enemies while conducting official business? Not saying it wouldn’t be funny for a US congressman to show up with a cane as a throwback message to his opps, tho"
nobody on X - "All they succeeded in doing was delay the vote. They still lost, and this “protest” was probably a contributing factor."
plebe on X - "One of my best friends is a Māori living here for the past 24 years. He and another one did a haka at my wedding and even he says the bloodline is so thin that there literally isn’t a full blooded Māori in NZ. He looks Māori af and he’s a 1/16. All they have is the haka now."

New Zealand Parliament suspended after haka protest over Māori rights bill : r/anime_titties - "I don't think they need a haka to understand why quotas for minorities are a bad idea..."
"It’s not just quotas. It’s medical unis having a lower threshold for Maori and Pacifica. It’s those places being fully funded. It’s cultural reports being used by gangs to get out of jail. It’s a whole host of things that this Haka and circus in Parliament when people tried to discuss it will just polarise people even more."

New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment - "Three New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be the harshest ever penalty issued to parliamentarians... the privileges committee recommended suspending Ngarewa-Packer and Waititi for three weeks – an unprecedented penalty – and Maipi-Clarke for seven days, saying the trio’s actions could have intimidated other legislators and were in contempt of parliament. Haka have been performed in parliament in the past, including by Waititi, but the committee said the manner and timing of this haka, which interrupted other members’ ability to vote on the bill, was “a serious matter”... The report said it was unacceptable for Ngarewa-Packer to appear to simulate a firing a gun at another member of parliament with her hand"

Meme - Gabriel @gbrl_dick: "when you’re in a land acknowledgement competition and your opponent is an american living in berlin"
"We acknowledge the ancestral and traditional territories of the Semnones, Burgundians, Hevelli and Sprevane tribes who were the original Germanic and Slavic inhabitants of the lands which we currently call Berlin. We recognize that Berlin has been and continues to be the home of many different peoples from around the world At the same time, we recognized that not all peoples have been welcomed on the land and that acts of genocide have been perpetuated in the name of protecting the land. We seek to respect the land, the diversity of peoples, and the complex histories of Berlin as we engage in Future Monuments. Land acknowledgement"

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "In Canada performing the land acknowledgement is more important than updating the people on the status of two missing children."
Upstate Federalist on X - "Once you understand that they're a stand-in for an opening prayer, it makes more sense."
For some reason, they had to celebrate black people too

cbcwatcher on X - "Rosemary Barton peddles in misinformation about misinformation "Yes, there have been remains of indigenous children found in various places around the country which she misrepresented. " No there have not Rosie! Most Canadians had to find out from foreign journalists that no remains have been found"

Former residential school student debunks 'genocide' claims, recalls positive experience - "An Indigenous whistleblower shared his positive experience at a Residential school, debunking the claim that the schools abused and murdered their students.  In an April 5 interview with Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey, a Kamloops Band member and former Kamloops Indian Residential School student revealed that there was no “genocide” at the schools and many students benefited from the institution.  “A lot of the students were happy to be there,” the Band member, whose identity was kept anonymous, said. “They were away from abusive families, dysfunctional families, alcoholism. So, they were happy to be there.”  The former student revealed that he was treated well during his time at the residential schools in the 1970s. He also described the priests and nuns who ran the school as good people, referring to Father Noonan, the principal at the time, as “a real nice guy.”"
Time to jail this Denier!

B.C. court asked to order end of land acknowledgements at UBC - "A group of University of British Columbia professors, along with one former graduate student, wants the B.C. Supreme Court to order the school to stop declaring or acknowledging its campuses are on unceded Indigenous land.  “Many people find them uncontroversial, but land acknowledgements make a claim about who is sovereign on a particular territory, whether or not Canada is legitimately sovereign, and whether the land is stolen land,” said Josh Dehaas, a Calgary-based lawyer representing the petitioners.  Professors Andrew Irvine, Brad Epperly, Christopher Kam and Michael Treschow are the petitioners in the case, along with former graduate student Nathan Cockram... The petition, filed Monday in B.C. Supreme Court, cites a section of B.C.’s University Act, which states “a university must be non-sectarian and non-political in principal.”... The petition also takes issue with some of the university’s policies around diversity, equity and inclusion.  It seeks an order “prohibiting and restraining UBC from requiring expressions of agreement with, fidelity to or loyalty to diversity, equity and inclusion doctrines, or any other political beliefs, as a condition of applying for UBC faculty positions and/or as a condition of appointment as UBC faculty.”  Dehaas said his clients feel like the school is silencing them."

Thread by @preta_6 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The policy at @VCHhealthcare says that if 3 or more people are meeting, there must be a land acknowledgement performed first.  They made leadership attend training sessions so you could “personalize” the land acknowledgement you give at meetings. You had to find some way to relate your own life to the land acknowledgment you gave.  So this meant that you’d hear these forced, awkward, and barely sensical anecdotes included with the endless acknowledgments at the start of every meeting. Every high paid bureaucrat droning on about how they always think of indigenous persons when they drive past the Tim Hortons on Cambie street or some crap. It was bizarre and completely pointless. And has done exactly nothing to help indigenous persons.  I escaped a cult. Thousands of their staff feel the same as me but no one is going to say anything.  Might as well be me—since they fired me for knowing that humans do not change sex. Thinking about reporting the women who fired me to HR, because they did not perform a land acknowledgement before they did it "

How to I start a presentation without a land acknowledgement? : r/AskAcademia - "I recently moved to the United Kingdom from Australia. Previously I always started presentations with a land acknowledgement, partly because it was the norm and partly to make a point about how Australia had come to exist. I would always be able to relate this to what I was talking about or at the very least create a smooth change of subject. Now that I'm in the UK I need to give a presentation, but I don't know how to start it off.  How else do people start presentations"

Thread by @MungoManic on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This week, one of the most important fossils ever found in Australia (and perhaps the world) was taken to an undisclosed location, put in a hole and covered with dirt. WLH-50, the Garnpung Giant. I've spent hundreds of hours reading about this incredible cranium and scouring the corners of the internet for data and images. But I never got to see it in person, and now I never will. The huge cranium was 210mm long and on average 16mm thick. It had many archaic features including a continuous brow ridge. Unlike most Australian fossils the bone was completely replaced by silica. Much of the skull was missing, but here's my guess of what WLH-50 looked it:
Worse, WLH-50 was just one of 108 Pleistocene Australians being buried this week. Many likely contained DNA. There is so much we could have known about these mysterious people. Will the fossils be safe in the ground? No. The reconstructed specimens will fall apart, the fragments will be subject to hostile soil conditions, and eventually they’ll erode and be destroyed by the weather, just like the unexcavated fossils at Willandra Lakes"

Michael Westaway on X - "UNESCO are investigating now, and will likely request input from international experts in palaeoanthropology. This is a positive development"

Thread by @EB40988 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "If you are wondering why the Aboriginals don't like this, they claim to be the world's oldest continuous culture based on a cave painting (now lost), however they don't allow DNA testing of old fossils, why? They weren't the first ones here, just like the Maoi's... They killed the original inhabitants and settled in here, they hid this evidence as I'm sure they are afraid of being found out, they weren't around for 60,000 years and they were not living in harmony with each other, they are violent savages who commited genocide."

Mungo Manic on X - "150+ fossils from Willandra Lakes, Australia are in danger of being reburied. The oldest and most famous (WLH 3 aka Mungo Man) has already been destroyed As Michael says this is one of the most important collections of ancient human fossils anywhere in the world"
Mungo Manic on X - "Sadly, our petition was unsuccessful. The thousands of fossils from Willandra Lakes are being buried. The last ones will be underground by the end of next week Soon there'll be no Pleistocene human fossils left in Australia"
Peter Hague on X - "Scientific evidence is literally being destroyed in Australia because it threatens someone’s creation myth. An absolute travesty."
Science is dangerous when it threatens the left wing agenda

Alex Zoltan on X - "To celebrate Truth and Reconciliation Day I'm reposting a video of FN women kicking out a CBC reporter from their presser after the sycophant regime fellators tried simping for Justin Trudeau."
This is amazing. So many incoherent left wing buzzwords and so much anti-white racism on display

First Nations women ask a CBC reporter to leave their presser : r/Canada_sub - "That's because there is no consequences to doing this, progressives will agree with her and push for even more money / special rights / land back bullshit. We've essentially flipped the script, where it's no longer about fighting for equality for all, but rather handing over power and money to them willingly. It's completely illogical to be beholden to and insulted by people with no actual power, but here we are."
First Nations women ask a CBC reporter to leave their presser : r/Canada_sub - "I find it tragic how they keep referring to the missing and murdered native women, but will refuse to allow any « white » police services on their reservations to investigate these crimes.  They much rather use their heavily-corrupted « peacekeepers », who are there to protect the criminal activities of the hereditary chiefs and their entourage."

Meme - "Imagine being a Native American in 1492 and seeing this bizarre thing step off a ship *white faced European with wig*
Imagine being a Spaniard in 1518 and stepping off a ship to see this bizarre thing murder a child and eat their heart *Native warrior*"

They came fleeing communism. Now Canada’s expropriating their property - "Ahn Nguyen fled Vietnam with her parents when the communists took over in 1975. They lost their home and land but considered themselves fortunate to be able to start over again in Canada. She then met her husband, Tien, and 35 years ago the family began fishing for elvers — tiny translucent baby eels netted in Maritime rivers and shipped to Asia where they are grown for food... Ottawa has announced a “pilot project” that will take three-quarters of their quota, without compensating the Nguyens, and offer it to First Nations and to their own employees... “This is exactly what the communists did in 1975 — taking private property away. It’s nonsense,” said Anh Nguyen. “We fled our country thinking we had found freedom, equity and the rule of law. But I’m starting to have my doubts.” We are at the stage in the life of this government where it has run out of innovative ideas and is falling back on reflexive economic interventionism, a self-defeating policy that usually leaves things worse off than they were before. As Ludwig von Mises warned in his classic study, Bureaucracy, “they promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office… Common sense is needed to prevent man from falling prey to illusory fantasies and empty catchwords”. The minister’s idea that her new policy is going to spread prosperity up and down the East Coast is just such an illusory fantasy."

'It's just shocking': Liberal cabinet minister's shifting Indigenous identity scorned - "Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault says his shifting claims from being “non-status adoptive Cree” to recently stating his adoptive mother is “status Métis” are a “reflection of his family exploring their own history” and not him claiming Indigenous status... Boissonnault’s links to Indigenous identity are under scrutiny following revelations last week in National Post that a company he co-owned — Global Health Imports (GHI) — unsuccessfully bid on two federal contracts in 2020 while declaring itself to be “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal owned.” A federal program prioritizes suppliers that properly qualify as Indigenous-owned on some contracts. In reaction to the story, the Liberal MP and cabinet minister published a first statement Friday attempting to clarify his heritage. However, the statement raised eyebrows because it no longer made mention of the Cree heritage he had previously publicized, but instead noted members of his adopted family were “status Métis.”"

Trudeau minister Randy Boissonnault accused of 'fraud' and 'pretendianism' as calls to resign grow - "former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, an Indigenous MP who broke from the party, accused Boissonnault of playing a “shameful and extremely destructive” game of “ancestry wheel of fortune.” “A Prime Minister committed to true reconciliation would have removed Randy… from Cabinet long ago,” she wrote on social media . Conservative MPs have been calling for Boissonnault’s resignation after National Post revealed his company’s Indigenous claims."
No wonder left wingers hate the National Post so much. Inconvenient facts must be buried

Residential schools still thrive in the U.S. What they're doing will shock Canada - "“There are two dogs within me and I’m fighting both and they’re tearing me apart,” Old Elk says. “Being a Native person is the hardest thing. You’re expected to live two lives: this modern life and the Native life.” “Do you wish the white man had never come and you still lived with your traditions and the buffalo?” I ask. “I have a weak mind,” Bucky confesses. “I want to do the Native stuff. But I’ve got my Apple watch, my nice wedding ring. I’d rather be in a car going 80 miles an hour than on a horse going 30. “In modern times, if you’re not going to school, then you’re not getting a good job with the government, you’re not getting all of this stuff, all of these things . “I don’t want to look like a big fat white guy,” he says with a sigh. The corridors of St. Labre are lined with vivid paintings of muscular riflemen on lightning steeds, galloping to glory. Those days are long gone, replaced too often by indigence, diabetes, alcoholism, drug addiction, despair... “Even the other Indians discriminated against me because I am only three-fourths Indian. They started calling me vé’ho’á’e — ‘white woman.’ They even called me ‘Custer,’ and I don’t want to hear no excuses for him."

Thread by @eyeslasho on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "At a South African university, an argument is made to eliminate science from study (because it's a "product of Western modernity) and to "restart [it] from an African perspective."  What should be studied? The speaker suggests "black magic." When a "science person" objects, he is scolded by the organizer for "disrespecting the sacredness of this space," and asked to apologize, which he does. But that doesn't stop the scolding. Opinions can only be expressed under rules that appear to guide outcomes. The "black magic" advocate then adds that, despite the fact that she took some science in high school, she decided to not be on the science faculty because science stands in the way of "decolonization."  (Note: Africa was decolonized over 50 years ago.) The speaker then finds Newton problematic and implies that the only real way to understand gravity in science is "through an African perspective." She concludes: "Western knowledge is very pathetic to say the least," and universities should "do away with [Western] science entirely." Establishing strict rules for guiding parameters of discussion is something the activist left does everywhere. It's an admission that its ideas can't stand up under the scrutiny allowed in free and open discourse."
Woke 2020 - "Western Knowledge Is Pathetic To Say The Least" - YouTube

Norway Apologizes for Forced Assimilation of Sami and Other Minorities - The New York Times
This is fascinating. Norwegian people are no longer indigenous to Norway. Presumably to be indigenous you need to be backward