Links - 11th October 2025 (including Basic Income)

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "You missed the most obvious reason, which is that it would cost trillions of dollars a year, and you can't raise that amount of money from taxes without destroying the economy.
   we'll never know unless we actually try
Lots of trials have all show the same thing. You get some small benefits, but nothing proportionally to what you'd expect from spending that much money. The Gulf Oil nations basically are doing UBI already because all citizens are guaranteed a job with zero expectations. The result is that almost all real work ends up being done by foreigners. Many of these people have to live in slave like conditions because no citizens have to work these jobs themselves, so they would rather stretch the amount that free money can buy. This is only somewhat sustainable for these countries because they have have trillions in free money (fossil fuels) in the ground, but it would be impossible for a large diversified economy like the US."

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "Where do the taxes come from? You’ve already said we can all live off UBI.
   ”If everyone had money given to them they’d become lazy!” perfect, let them
What income are you taxing? The only money we have is from UBI. You’re going to take the UBI from us to give us the UBI? Is next month just deficit spending?"

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "If no one values it enough to pay you for it than no, they’re hobbies. I like playing video games it’s of no value to anyone except me. You should give an amount of your paycheck so I can dedicate myself to video games and excessive masterbaition"
CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "Because someone has to feed a lazy person.   Somebody has to work for people to survive-- distributing the work equally is the kindest and fairest way to do it (yes, we are not very good at this currently, but that doesn't mean we should make it worse).  If you lived in a house with two flatmates, and they 'choose' not to do the dishes, they have chosen for you to have to do it all, or otherwise that you should have no clean dishes whatsoever.  Likewise, if you say we should allow some people to just opt out of contributing to society solely because they choose not to, then you also are saying we should demand some people work twice as much to pick up the slack. It is cruel to expect anyone to be in the latter group."

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "I hated getting my baby teeth pulled out. I hated getting shots. Excercise can be exhausting and painful. Doesn’t mean people shouldn’t do these things.   Painful things can be good. And some pains prevent worse pains. Work sucks but feeling like a dependent or moocher can suck worse."

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "The problem I am seeing with your logic is that it’s simply not kind at all. Just because you haven’t thought through the consequences of this proposal, doesn’t mean it isn’t cruel, because it is.  This system has to be paid for, and even a paltry $500 per month balloons the federal budget to the point that we’d have to print so much money that inflation would completely cancel out the $500 increase in income.  It’s cruel to tell people “we will give you free money for simply existing” and then not also tell them “but this policy caused so much inflation that goods cost way more, plus we have to pay for this UBI so we are taxing you $800 so you can get your $500 payment back”  To answer why being lazy is bad. There simply is not enough automation for humanity to survive if everyone was lazy. Until there is, being lazy will be considered a bad thing."

CMV: I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the implementation of a UBI : r/changemyview - "I don't think you fully grasp how unpleasant some of the jobs are that are completely necessary for the maintenance of modern civilization. Why would anyone clean sewers if they were provided a livable wage to not work? UBI removes the incentive to work. Our society would fall apart if people didn't have to work.
Edit: also it IS well studied. Studies consistently show it reduces work incentive: https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/universal-basic-income-not-the-panacea-its-advertised"

Giving people money helped less than I thought it would - "Just give people money. It's the simple, brute-force solution to so many problems. In low-income countries, charities are sometimes measured against whether their interventions are better than simply giving people cash. Even in high-income countries like the U.S., when disaster strikes, often the best thing you can do is get money into the hands of affected people immediately. They know whether they should use it to buy gas, rent an Airbnb or fly to their cousin's house one state over.  So it wasn't that crazy to assume — particularly once promising pilots were released — that the same should be true for addressing chronic poverty in high-income countries. If you give a new mom a few hundred dollars a month or a homeless man one thousand dollars a month, that's gotta show up in the data, right?  Alas. A few years back we got really serious about studying cash transfers, and rigorous research began in cities all across America... Many of the studies are still ongoing, but, at this point, the results aren’t “uncertain.” They’re pretty consistent and very weird. Multiple large, high-quality randomized studies are finding that guaranteed income transfers do not appear to produce sustained improvements in mental health, stress levels, physical health, child development outcomes or employment. Treated participants do work a little less, but shockingly, this doesn’t correspond with either lower stress levels or higher overall reported life satisfaction. Homeless people, new mothers and low-income Americans all over the country received thousands of dollars. And it's practically invisible in the data. On so many important metrics, these people are statistically indistinguishable from those who did not receive this aid.  I cannot stress how shocking I find this and I want to be clear that this is not “we got some weak counterevidence.” These are careful, well-conducted studies. They are large enough to rule out even small positive effects and they are all very similar. This is an amount of evidence that in almost any other context we’d consider definitive. And yet, you'd be hard-pressed to hear about it in the media: “Overall, the larger and more credible studies in this space have tended to find worse effects, and yet the press seems to prefer to cover the small pilots that show positive impacts,” Eva Vivalt, a co-author of one recent OpenResearch study on guaranteed income in the U.S., told me.  The war on poverty is the unfinished business of American liberalism... Winning the war on poverty will require more than just transfers, it will require building and improving institutions that provide education, health care and housing... researchers did point out to me that some much more narrowly targeted cash programs that are currently underway were pulling their weight... While exciting big results from pilots tend to make headlines and travel quickly on social media, sobering results from RCTs generally don’t...  Perhaps the most egregious offender is the Denver Basic Income Project — the most bizarre set of findings I reviewed... One researcher said that the university press office seemed to lose interest in a press release about their paper once they learned it was a null result, saying that publication could affect support for public assistance programs... Among the many studies still underway, there are much more specific and targeted cash programs — say, aimed at pregnant women, people just leaving prison or those recovering from a major negative life shock — that look promising. If we hesitate to say what works and what doesn’t, money will be wasted on things that don’t work: money that could have gone where it would make a difference.
I still see left wingers claiming that the studies prove that universal basic income works. But their gospel is more money solves everything
Clearly, the problem was they didn't give them enough money

Thread by @LoganLancing on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In 1966, Richard Cloward & Frances Fox Piven published an article in The Nation magazine outlining a strategy to force the US government to create a basic universal income by overwhelming the welfare system.  🧵
They argued that forcing more people onto the welfare rolls would create such massive bureaucratic disruption and strain on local & state budgets that a national solution would be inevitable. They believed this strategy was more likely to succeed than previous efforts to mobilize the poor because it offered immediate economic benefits and did not require mass participation. They suggested this strategy could also help build political power in the ghetto by delivering millions of dollars to the masses, which could translate into political support for those who helped them. This strategy was the perfect wedge to help catalyze what Herbert Marcuse would later call the "Great Refusal" of the established order. Marcuse envisioned a total rejection of America's morality, culture, and Constitution.  Both Marcuse and Cloward & Piven recognized that the working-class was stabalized by advanced capitalist societies. Marcuse observed that the working class had become integrated into the system, adopting its values and resisting radical and revolutionary change. Cloward & Piven argued that their strategy could overcome the inertia of traditional movements by offering tangible economic rewards; a catalyst for a revolution that would start at the bottom and eventually break everything, including the counter-revolutionary working class. Marcuse described the "biological need for socialism" as a "new sensibility" to emerge among anyone who had a grievance with the status-quo. He suggested that this "new sensibility" had the potential to catalyze broader social change, even if it originated in minority groups, or "ghetto populations," as he called them. The Cloward-Piven strategy, by directly benefiting and empowering "ghetto populations," could contribute to the development of this "new sensibility." The promise of guaranteed "free money" could spark a sense of solidarity and radical consciousness - a "biological need for socialism" - potentially leading to a tangible revolution.
All of this is to say that communists and their allies have been trying to overwhelm the system by intentionally breaking things for a very long time.  The strategy is simple: overwhelm systems and break them. "Immiserate the workers" so they will demand socialism. Make people poor and miserable by intentionally breaking things. Then, those people will be more susceptible to giving up their Constitutionally protected rights for what they think is going to be a miracle cure.  It's never a miracle cure. It's always more poison."

Thread by @Athan_K on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yet another Universal Basic Income study was released just before the holidays.  While being given ~$500 per month in free money, participants only ended up $100 richer and smoked more cigarettes.  The full results are eye opening.
The study gave about $500 per month to 695 households over two years in Compton, California. Another 1,402 were designated as a control group. The findings:
“Receiving guaranteed income had no impact on the labor supply of full-time workers, but part-time workers had a lower labor market participation by 13 percentage points.”
“Income (excluding the transfer) was reduced by $333 per month on average relative to control households, and expenditures were reduced by $302 per month.”
“At the same time, average non-housing debt balances declined by $2,190 over 18 months relative to the control group, although the drop is not statistically significant.”
“We find a significant improvement in housing security, but no overall effects on indices of psychological and financial well-being.”
“The recipients of twice-monthly transfers were more likely to own a car, had lower credit card debt and greater food security than recipients of quarterly transfers, but otherwise transfer frequency had little impact.”
“In sum, the cash transfers have a strong positive impact on the index of housing security, but no clear impact on the indices of psychological well-being, financial security, or food security.”
“The list experiments show strong evidence of relative reductions in IPV, weak evidence of reduced alcohol consumption, and moderately strong evidence of relative increases in tobacco consumption.”"

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: 'Wakanda' inspired city in Africa, which was going to become the real-life version of the city from Black Panther, has officially been scrapped.    Phase one of the $6B futuristic 'Akon city' was set to open in 2026; however, only a single building was made.  Senegal granted singer Akon 136 acres to build the "smart city" back in 2020 to be a symbol for Africa's future.   Only a single building was built.   People living on the land were asked to move and promised they would receive money.  Akon has since been accused of "Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes" and that his "Wakanda" city was "likely a scam," according to his former business partner.   Now that the 'Wakanda' city is no more, the land will be used for a much smaller project, a $1.2B tourism development managed by Sapco."
Damn colonialism and white supremacy!

Owl of Athena 🇮🇱🎗️🐿️ on X = "Remember when I told you Sal Khan was evil? I didn't know the half of it! Meet the Civility Score, courtesy of Khan's "Dialogues." Get your kids used to having a social credit score, and make sure they understand their highest value should be the opinion of their peers! What could possibly go wrong?!"

Stop Killing Games - Wikipedia - "Stop Killing Games (SKG) is a consumer movement with the goal of preserving video games after they are taken offline. The movement was started in 2024 by Ross Scott after the shutdown of The Crew, a racing game that required a constant internet connection despite being mainly single-player. A central concern of the movement involves online-only games and downloadable content being listed on storefronts prominently as a purchase, instead of as a rent or lease, despite the possibility of access being remotely denied to the purchaser (without an expiration date at the time of purchase) by the publisher unilaterally. The movement quickly gathered popularity, being covered by various YouTubers and news outlets.  The movement has launched multiple government petitions, of which the most prominent is an European Citizens' Initiative named Stop Destroying Videogames... He is critical of online-only games being shut down, describing the practice as an "assault on both consumer rights and preservation of media" and comparing it to movie studios during the silent film era "burning their own films after they were done showing them to recover the silver content", while also pointing out that "most films of that era are gone forever.""
Dexerto on X - "Minecraft creator Notch responded to Pirate Software’s disapproval of the Stop Killing Games campaign "If buying a game is not a purchase, then pirating them is not theft""

Daniel Foubert 🇫🇷🇵🇱 on X - "I am a Western supremacist.  The West is the greatest and most advanced civilization that has ever existed. Everything we import is inferior.  From Greek philosophy to Enlightenment science, Western thinkers formalized logic, developed mathematics, and rejected appeals to custom or hierarchy as sources of truth. This rationalist tradition laid the groundwork for modern science, engineering, and governance.  Centering the individual rather than the group enabled the West to develop unique legal and political frameworks. Roman law introduced legal personhood; later, thinkers like Locke and Montesquieu advanced the idea of inherent rights. The result was the emergence of constitutional states, civil codes, and democratic institutions based on individual consent and accountability. The systematization of knowledge gave the West a long-term innovation advantage. Medieval universities, the printing revolution, and the scientific academies of the 17th and 18th centuries created a pipeline of cumulative learning. Peer review, replication, and classification (e.g., Linnaean taxonomy, periodic table) enabled continuous refinement across generations.  Scientific abstraction allowed nature to be modeled, predicted, and manipulated. From Galileo’s mechanics to Maxwell’s electromagnetism, from Pasteur’s microbiology to Crick and Watson’s discovery of DNA structure, the West turned observation into technology. These breakthroughs directly led to industrialization, modern medicine, and applied chemistry.  The codification of law into universal, abstract systems enabled scale. Roman law, canon law, the Napoleonic Code, and English common law introduced principles like equality before the law, contract enforcement, and property rights. These legal structures became essential for commerce, administration, and state formation across continents. Western empires imposed institutions rather than just extractive control. They introduced censuses, railway grids, modern bureaucracies, court systems, and educational models. These weren’t just instruments of dominance — they replaced pre-existing structures and left lasting administrative frameworks still visible in many postcolonial states.  Abstract finance made capital scalable and mobile. The Dutch and British pioneered joint-stock companies, stock exchanges, and marine insurance. The Industrial Revolution was fueled by these tools, which allowed unprecedented pooling of risk and investment. Central banking and credit markets followed, enabling global economic coordination.  Applying scientific knowledge to mechanical systems led to overwhelming technological supremacy. Western societies developed steam power, electrical grids, internal combustion engines, airplanes, rockets, and digital computers. These technologies transformed production, warfare, and daily life — with no comparable parallel elsewhere. Western languages became the default codes of global exchange. French ND then English dominated scientific publishing, aviation, diplomacy, and software protocols. This is not due to cultural preference, but because the West created the institutions — universities, regulatory agencies, technical standards — that defined modern professional and scientific activity.  The global adoption of Western models is what distinguishes it from all other civilizations. Its principles — legal uniformity, individual rights, institutional science, scalable finance — have been implemented worldwide. Even regimes opposed to the West use its tools to govern, trade, and wage war. No other civilization has achieved that level of structural universality."

bernoulli_defect on X - "The depths of Britain’s mismanagement can be seen in the fact that not only is it the poorest large Anglo-sphere nation, but it’s also the poorest Germanic, Norman, and Celtic(!) nation. Horrific.
Noticing this puts to rest all the imo very dangerous narratives of ‘colonial looting’ as an explanation for modern Britain’s wealth. It’s doing *worse* than comparable non-imperial nations, not better!"

Married man secretly wed again, got busted after second wife gave birth at hospital where first wife worked - "Vaithialingam Muthukumar, a 49-year-old Indian national, was sentenced to three months and three weeks' jail"
Too bad he didn't know about the loophole for polygny in Singapore

Why are Liberals the sorest winners ever? : r/CanadianConservative - "Maybe my sample size of Twitter/Reddit/Youtube/Tiktok is a poor sample size, but EVERY post is the same gleeful rubbing salt in the wound to conservative voters for having the audacity to vote wrong. And it's same insults every time
-Pierre lost because he wouldn't, or couldn't, get security clearance
-He was too divisive/negative
-He was too maga
-He has no experience
-lost his seat
-blew a 25 point lead
-He's the Stornoway squatter wasting money on a byelection to steal a seat
And like. The insults don't even make sense. I can refute all of them. See below comment."
The only thing worse than a sore loser is an ungracious winner

Cory Morgan on X - "The leftists howling about Pierre Poilievre parachuting into an Alberta seat were dead silent when NDP leader Naheed Nenshi parachuted into an Edmonton seat a few months ago."

Meme - "Alberta Dippers are crying
Cost for Battle River-Crowfoot by-election for Pierre Poilievre? $1.95 million.
That's $22.91 per voter in a riding that was already going to elect a Conservative no matter what Now here's what that money could've done instead:
1. Pay for 20-25 full-time nurses for a year in rural hospitals.
2. Fund a mobile mental health team across the riding.
3. Hire 80 classroom aides so kids with learning 'needs don't get left behind
4.Cover several rural school bus routes for a full year.
5. Build or refurbish 2-3 hockey arenas/community halls.
6. Give $25,000 grants to nearly 80 small 'businesses or farms.
But nope, all of it went so Poilievre could parachute into a "safe seat" and keep his job.
Funny how there's "never enough money" for health care, schools, or crumbling rural infrastructure... but there's always a blank cheque for political theatre."
"I'd gladly pay 23$ versus the 400$ I was paying monthly in carbon tax Imao. Sorry but 23$ is a drop in my the bucket compared to federal waste of tax payers money"
Of course, when it comes to things left wingers approve of like renaming Yonge-Dundas Square, the cost is nothing because the normal budget is so big

Alberta Dippers are crying : r/CanadianConservative - "Where are these people when the long ballot people waste tens of thousands of dollars in administration and paper costs to achieve nothing? They complain when democracy takes place and costs money, but not when attacks on democracy take place and cost money?  Where are they when tens of millions are sent to a place for aid, but everyone knows it will simply end up funding the terrorist regime's weaponry? That $150m could do a lot more for healthcare rather than to cause deaths, but the $2m for democracy is a problem?  These people are hypocritical, idiotic losers."
Alberta Dippers are crying : r/CanadianConservative - "But yet 214 candidates ran in this election that was going to elect a conservative anyways"
Alberta Dippers are crying : r/CanadianConservative - "I'm willing to bet that not one single of those Libtard or Dipper welfare and handout queens on r/alberta said a single word or raised a single objection when The Turd called the '21 election two years early at a cost of $650 million dollars."
"And, he called that election to thwart the SNC Laviland investigation. 2015 Harper bad, 2019 snc scandal, 2021 Manitoba Lab Leak, 2025 SDTC scandal , said orange man bad. They rule by fear. Justin was the puppet. Carney, is the architect. of, Canada's misfortunes."
Alberta Dippers are crying : r/CanadianConservative - "Since when can you build 2-3 hockey arenas or community centres for $2 million? 1960?? You couldn't build even one with that.  One of the newer Alberta arenas (Cenalta Centre, Medicine Hat) cost $80 million ten years ago, when our dollar was like 40% higher and prior to massive inflation."

Meme - "r/OLED_Gaming
Is this burn-in? How screwed am i? Got laid off and need to return this work laptop
*jerkmate*
I cant seem to get rid of this text no matter how many pixel refreshes i do, is this burn in?"
""Is oled right for my usecase? I goon for 14 hours a day at peak brightness""

Links - 10th October 2025 (Donald Trump: Crackdown on Crime)

Metropolis Sues Superman For Reducing Crime | Babylon Bee - "City leaders were outraged that the Last Son of Krypton had the audacity to take it upon himself to stop criminals in the middle of committing their brazen acts of lawlessness and protect the innocent citizens who were put in harm's way. "This is literal fascism. Restoring law, order, and safety will never be acceptable here," said Metropolis Mayor Bradford Sackett. "The criminal element is a long-revered part of the fabric of our city's culture and tradition, and we will not stand for someone from another planet coming here and making Metropolis safer for everyone. We have filed a lawsuit to hold Superman accountable for the harm he's doing by saving law-abiding citizens from harm." While most citizens felt the lawsuit was an egregious example of lawfare, one prominent Metropolis resident voiced strong support for it. "It's about time Superman was treated like the public menace he is," said businessman Lex Luthor in an OpEd article for The Daily Planet. "Superman's crime-fighting disproportionately affects Metropolans of color. I've been trying to warn everyone for years, but now it seems like they're finally taking action. If there is any justice, this city will remain a safe place for criminals and miscreants to terrorize, rob, and murder with impunity." At publishing time, the Democrat mayor of Gotham City had opened up his city to serve as a sanctuary for all Metropolis criminals seeking a place of refuge."

Meme - Micah Erfan @micah_erfan: "Any updates on this @thehill?"
"The Hill: "Kamala's newest lie: Trump will send the army after you" (@TheHilOpinion)"
"Guess she was campaigning to criminals. That definitely tracks."
Left wingers identify as criminals

A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit. - "The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed.   Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme. Djossou, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to "distort crime statistics" by "downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors, so that there will be 'fewer' felonies in the statistics." She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep them out of the crime stats the city reports to the public.   The lawsuit, as well as the city's decision to settle, calls into question the prevailing narrative presented in mainstream media outlets as President Donald Trump carries out a D.C. crime crackdown. The New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico have all cited data from the Metropolitan Police Department to contend that D.C. crime is low and Trump's crackdown is unnecessary. That coverage did not mention whistleblowers like Djossou, nor did it disclose that a D.C. police commander is currently on leave after the city's police union accused him of manipulating crime stats.   Though elements of Djossou's case have previously been reported, the settlement has not. Neither have several exhibits the legal proceedings brought to light, including a 2022 deposition of MPD commander Randy Griffin. At the time of the events in question, Griffin oversaw D.C's Fourth District in the northernmost part of the city. He confirmed in his deposition that he tasked a police captain, Franklin Porter, with finding "a solution for the theft problem, which was driving up the district's statistics" in April 2018. Porter's solution, devised alongside former MPD lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky, was to use the "Taking Property Without Right" (TPWOR) classification instead of "Shoplifting" or "Theft," Griffin confirmed in the deposition. Court records show that Zabavsky—currently serving a 48-month sentence for covering up an unrelated murder case—"acknowledged this was done because TPWOR reports are not tracked in the D.C. Crime Report." The plan later became the Fourth District's operating procedure. On March 12, 2019, MPD captain Sean Conboy sent an email to his officers in which he asked them to reclassify minor thefts as TPWOR offenses...   The department also had a policy of downgrading violent crimes, according to the lawsuit, with the report noting that Starr informed investigators that "managers at the district routinely changed felony classifications to misdemeanors."... Djossou reported one case in which a "female was cut (deep open flesh cut) on the side of her face with an unknown object, from her forehead to the bottom of her chin." While the responding officer had called in the crime as "Assault with a Dangerous Weapon" (ADW), the captain allegedly classified the offense as a "Sick person to the hospital." Djossou called Conboy, the captain who ordered officers to use the TPWOR strategy, about another case on Oct. 24, 2019. In this instance, an on-duty watch officer had downgraded an ADW to a "misdemeanor Simple Assault."  "I feel like they're downgrading classifications," said Djossou, according to an MPD transcript of the call. "[The assailant] strangled [the victim], he ended up throwing her over the couch. She had scratches on her neck, her shirt was ripped, and then he threw a knife in her direction close to her head, she moved out of the way."  Conboy played down the crime, the transcript reads, saying it only "tangentially involved a knife" because the "knife never made contact with the complainant."  Djossou responded that the knife only missed the victim because she "moved out of the way," to which Conboy asked whether Djossou would classify a thrown shoe as an ADW and said he did not "see any issues with the current classification."... The MPD is one of many police departments to be accused of misclassifying crimes in recent years. The Los Angeles Police Department in 2015 admitted to categorizing approximately 14,000 assaults as minor offenses between 2005 and 2012, decreasing the city's crime rate by 7 percent. The New York City Police Department acknowledged in 2012 that at least one precinct had systematically underreported crime and hundreds of retired officers said they knew of at least three instances in which the department had done so.  In April 2024, the New Orleans Police Department announced that it had underreported more than 400 rape cases and blamed technical issues in its record system.  In many cities, misrepresentation of statistics leads residents to believe decreases in crime occurred where none existed in reality. Columbus, Ohio, reported a drop in violent crime in 2013 and 2014, but in 2024, citizens learned that violent offenses had actually increased during that time."
So much for that "conspiracy theory"

My brush with death in DC - The Spectator World - "The two Metropolitan Police Department officers my 911 call summoned didn’t show up until a half-hour later, even though the nearest station was only a two-minute walk away. Gesturing toward my broken windshield, I asked them for confirmation of what I already knew had happened. Yes, my car had probably been shot with me in it, they agreed before informing me that all they could do was record the incident.   If I wanted, they said, I could ask nearby apartment buildings and businesses for security footage and report back to them. And then they were off; my ears were still ringing.   That was only the most notable of my many experiences with the post-Covid crime wave that made DC such an unsettling place to live during my two years in the district. There was also the time a man on a motorcycle swerved onto the sidewalk to stare me down as my fiancée hid behind me; the time her cousin was mugged; and the time my friend from college was killed in a hit-and-run. On our way home from the grocery store one afternoon, we observed a high school boy beating up a girl roughly his age as their presumed classmates looked on. I called the police and began loudly describing the situation as I approached the culprit and victim, causing all involved to flee. I sat outside for over an hour waiting for the cops to show. They never did...   Trump’s critics have portrayed his decision to take action in DC as a thinly-justified power grab. After only a little reflection, though, it’s hard to believe it took this long for a president to do something, anything, about its embarrassing state.  “But the murder and violent crime rates are down!” wailed America’s shameless progressive establishment on Monday. Yes, from the historic highs they reached in 2023. It’s only August and the district – which has a population of only a little over 700,000 –  has already seen 189 carjackings, 99 homicides, and 2,909 motor vehicle thefts this year. Last year, it had one of the highest murder rates of any major American city. Early Monday evening, just a few hours after Trump’s press conference, a man was shot and killed around the affluent Logan Circle neighborhood. During a visit back to the city last year, I walked to our favorite sushi restaurant near my fiancée’s old apartment to make it for happy hour. On the way back, I found a street I had used only an hour earlier had been shut down after a gunfight. Try – if you’re brave enough – walking around DC for a few hours and then uttering the words “this a safe, clean and pleasant place to live” without laughing or crying. You’d be lucky if you made it without coming across a crime scene – or becoming a crime statistic..   Should Trump have activated the National Guard? Could he have possibly used a lighter touch? Such questions pale in importance compared to this one: did something need to be done in the federal district to carry out government’s most basic mandate, the protection of its citizens?  The President answered, “Yes” yesterday. God bless him for it."

Trump’s DC takeover has exposed the derangement of his pro-crime critics - "Shots rang out again in Washington DC on Monday night, claiming the US capital’s 100th murder victim of 2025. Granted, that figure is slightly lower than the 112 Washingtonians estimated to have been slain in the city by about this time last year, but it is still high enough to blight it with one of America’s worst murder rates. In 2023, it was placed ahead of Bogota and other third-world capitals that DC liberals would likely consider dangerous hardship posts and altogether avoid.  But critics of Donald Trump’s decision to take over Washington’s police force and deploy federal agents and 800 National Guardsmen to the city certainly do not share the president’s view that they “will be so happy” now that someone is finally taking the problem seriously. Instead, they are succumbing to bouts of Trump Derangement Syndrome that are seriously challenging both logic and ideological consistency at what could be an important juncture in the restoration of responsible American law enforcement.  “Get lost”, posted Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, who falsely claimed Trump has “no basis” to take over DC law enforcement. Washington mayor Muriel Bowser described Trump’s move, which she nevertheless acknowledged is legal under Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973, as “unsettling and unprecedented”... Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s elected delegate to Congress, called Trump’s decision “an historic assault on DC home rule” and a “counterproductive, escalatory seizure of DC’s resources to use for purposes” that she claimed without evidence are “not supported by DC residents”. Ian Bremmer, an international relations analyst, took to X to float a conspiracy theory that Trump is “gradually normalising use of the National Guard in liberal cities,” in a manner that “paves the way for using the National Guard at a more strategically important time, say, during elections”. On and on the complaints have gone – with others suggesting that the president acted only because he knows he’s losing (despite Trump’s and his party’s relatively high poll ratings). Social media footage of a sparsely attended protest in downtown Washington organised by a group called “Refuse Fascism!” showed a small number of activists carrying signs declaring that “Trump Must Go Now”.  Trump’s opponents in the liberal media have taken particular comfort from recent statistical declines in some violent crime rates – imagining them to be the definitive proof that the president is motivated not by tackling criminality or cleaning up Washington DC, but by some sinister desire to augment his own power.  The general editorialising ignores, however, that Washington’s baseline of violent crimes is still intolerably high, that such crimes are regularly committed by teenagers who face relatively light sanctions even for murder, that DC laws and prosecutorial practice can be highly permissive toward criminals, that patterns of crime now affect the entire city rather than isolated areas, and that non-violent crimes – such as car theft – have not appreciably declined. Nor do they acknowledge what Trump has repeatedly identified as his larger goal, to turn America’s capital into a showplace. The combined effect of the Left’s hysteria at the president has to put them, once again, on the side of violent criminals, left arguing that either there is no serious crime problem in Washington DC (despite all the evidence to the contrary) or that there is a problem but that nothing much should be done about it.  From the reactions of the leaders of America’s fading progressive movement, one could easily deduce that they do not wish for the capital to be a showplace, or for Americans anywhere to feel confidence, pride, or patriotism in their national capital. After all, if their compatriots did feel that way, what use would they have for Democrats?"

Leading Report on X - "BREAKING: LA Mayor Karen Bass disapproves of President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., saying it mainly impacts “black and brown youth.”"
Isn't it racist to say that black and brown people are affected by a crackdown on crime?

Meme - "The Democrats are freaking out because Trump's law enforcement in DC will save more black lives than BLM ever did."

Rapid Response 47 on X - "🚨 MUST WATCH: "DRAMATIC REDUCTIONS IN CRIME" in D.C. "For the first time in a long time, D.C. has gone 7 days without a homicide — and that's not all... Carjackings are down 83%. Robberies are down 46%. Car thefts, down 21% — and overall violent crime is down 22%"

Bowser says federal police surge has reduced crime in DC, but ‘north star’ is protecting city’s autonomy - "The surge in federal law enforcement in Washington, DC, has “enhanced” the capacity of local police officers and led to fewer crimes, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said... polling has shown that DC residents feel less safe after the federal takeover. A Washington Post-Scar School poll released last week found that 79% of DC residents opposed Trump’s actions, with 65% saying that they don’t think the moves will reduce the amount of violent crime in the city."
Truthiness is more important than truth

Trump deploying National Guard to DC was the right call - "The White House’s fact sheet mentioned the recent high-profile fatal shootings of two Israeli Embassy staffers and a congressional intern, as well as a brutal assault on an administration staffer. But it could have cited many other heinous crimes, including attacks on members of Congress. The DC government has shown itself to be inept at addressing the situation or even acknowledging that there is a situation that needs to be addressed. In fact, it played a significant role in creating the current crime crisis. Its efforts to defund the Metropolitan Police Department have led to major staffing problems, with roughly 800 vacancies that have proved difficult to fill. In many respects, Trump’s federal “surge” is just making up for that deficiency and allowing armed police officers to spend more time in areas where the crime problem is particularly bad while federal officers assist them.  Critics claim that Trump lacks the authority to do this. But Washington is a federal enclave that gives the president and Congress plenary authority to act... Critics also claim that crime in Washington is at a 30-year low. Saying the crime situation here is the best it has been in 30 years is akin to saying my golf game is the best it has been in 30 years ‒ even if it's true, it's still deplorable. A DC police commander has been placed on leave and is under investigation in the manipulation of crime data to make it seem as though violent crime is dropping more precipitously than is actually the case. But the problem may be more widespread than just one rogue officer.  Gregg Pemberton, the chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police, said the claim that violent crime has dropped dramatically in the District of Columbia is “preposterous.”  Pemberton added: “When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” such as reporting a shooting or stabbing as an assault and a carjacking as a theft... DC still ranked near the top in terms of per capita homicide and violent crime rates for a major city.  Moreover, from 2009 to 2019, there were an average of 142 homicides per year (with a low of 88 in 2012 and a high of 166 in 2019) in Washington. That’s lower than the total in 2024. And the odds of a victim dying while being assaulted or robbed in the city has risen 341% since 2012."

Washington DC sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment - "The suit, filed by DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on Thursday, says that the deployment of troops is undermining the city's autonomy and hurting the local economy... "Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dangerous and harmful to the District and its residents""
Law enforcement is dangerous. Criminals are peaceful

CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "The National Guard cannot refuse a legal order from the President or Governor in control of them at that time…  If the Governor of your state calls up the National Guard, they are required by law to respond.  You’re asking the military to refuse civilian authority… that is INFINITELY more dangerous from the perspective of potential authoritarianism threatening democratic rule."

CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "You don't see how silly you look when you compare picking up trash to the mass extermination of the Jewish diaspora?  It make your whole skree look silly and out of touch. We have 0 people in extermination camps or in concentration camps. Zero ...   It is just a weird argument. Their job is to follow legal orders. You are complaining that they are following legal orders. If people stopped following legal orders, society would fall apart overnight. It is how a society works that we all follow the rules.  It actually disproves your theory. Nobody is refusing because the orders are legal. If asked to do something illegal, the large majority of guardsmen would refuse. The issue is they are not being asked to do anything illegal.  In LA, I would have been pumped to go protect the ICE agents, as any insurgency should be crushed before it spreads. Had people not attacked federal agents, the guard wouldn't have had a reason to be called up to defend the agents.  You are blaming the wrong people."
"I mean, fuck ICE too lol.  But my CMV wasn't ever about the legality or lack thereof. It was about how people like YOU are making people like me far more concerned about how much shit you are willing to let people do in the name of following orders, and your arguments are just reinforcing that."
"People like you are the reason we have to deploy the guard to keep order. As long as it is legal, I will support the guard. As long as ICE is enforcing the laws that Congress wrote, I will support ICE. It is why we have a functioning society."
"People like me? I'm a law abiding citizen with a clean record. People like me are good citizens. I'd argue being a good citizen involves questioning things, not just accepting every law and action.  But where you and I apparently differ is that for me, legality and morality are 2 very different things. You seem to think as long as it's legal, fuck morality. And that is... a choice."
Left wing logic: you should disobey a legal order if it threatens the left wing agenda

CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "It sounds like you are refusing to accept reality for ideological purposes. Increasing the presence of of law enforcement will undoubtedly decrease crime.  This is already working to a great degree in DC, where the mayor has agreed to work with the administration:  https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/us-news/dc-national-guard-has-order-extended-through-remainder-of-2025-officials/  No one should be good with death and mayhem because it fits your ideological worldview."
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "Leftist leaders have had ample time to reduce poverty in their cities. The people there are slaves to the hand-outs and it's only made the problem worse.  The real reason that people are pissed about Trump's actions is that THEY'RE WORKING. It turns out that the solution to deal with violent criminals is, in fact, FORCE!  Trump is proving this with real action and real numbers, and that's why leftist apologists are scrambling."
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "'Increasing the presence of of law enforcement will undoubtedly decrease crime.'
In the short term, yes. But that's a band-aid solution. It's not sustainable. The long-term solution to lowering crime is reducing poverty. But we both know this administration isn't looking long-term solutions. This is a power grab and a warning to Democratic strongholds."
"Short-term crime reduction is always preferable to short-term death and destruction."

Meme - r/libsofreddlit: "OMG look Trump is Turning DC into a Police State with Military Occupation!
Nevermind - This is what Democrats did for months during Bidens installation. Tall fences, barricades and a military occupation. Anyone speaking against was sent to concentration and re-education camps."

Links - 9th October 2025 (Indigenous Peoples: Canada)

Caroline Elliott: 🔔MAJOR BC LAND DEVELOPMENT: The Haida Nation is reporting that the BC Supreme Court has declared Aboriginal title over the entirety of Haida Gwaii, including private property. : r/ilovebc - "Haida Gwaii residents should stop paying property tax and see what happens "

Jamie Sarkonak: The National Film Board's race-based licensing regime - "In 2021, the National Film Board decided to become a political organization. It adopted a grand plan to hire based on identity, create new management roles focused on enforcing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), promote progressive concepts like intersectionality and reconstitute its policies around race. And reconstitute it did. That year, it began restricting the use of archival footage by race. As part of its DEI overhaul, the film board instituted an “Indigenous Content Moratorium,” halting the “licensing of archives, excerpts and photos portraying Indigenous participants to clients who do not self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis).” The policy, which the NFB described as “temporary,” applies to about 600 entries in the archive. An archive entry that contains mostly white people and only one Indigenous person would not be covered, however... The policy was designed by an organization called imagineNATIVE, an Indigenous film charity that holds an annual film festival, does screening tours and, mostly with money given to it by Netflix, sponsors professional development for its artists. The majority of its funding (59 per cent) came from government according to its latest charity filing, so it’s more accurately described as a shadow Crown corporation. In effect, every non-Indigenous Canadian is paying for this organization to lobby the film board, which they also pay for, to restrict content on the basis of race... This didn’t happen in a vacuum. Many corporate entities under the Department of Canadian Heritage umbrella have jumped on the systemic racism bandwagon and made DEI a big part of what they do. The Canadian Media Fund (CMF), which funds the production of drama, kids’ programming, documentaries and video games, was given a series of diversity quotas by the federal government a few years ago. Government-funded projects led by minorities were required to reach 45 per cent by 2024, and key creative positions were supposed to be 25 per cent staffed by minorities in that time as well. In addition, it brought in a “narrative positioning” policy banning anyone receiving CMF funding from making content about any minority unless they are part of that group, or have demonstrated “comprehensive measures” that their project will take to prevent harm to the group in question. Straight people can’t make documentaries about gay people, the able-bodied can’t make documentaries about those in wheelchairs and no racial group can make video games about anyone else — except white people, of course. Meanwhile, Parks Canada introduced an Indigenous stewardship policy last year that gives more power to First Nations over federal parklands. It’s vague and preachy, and seeing how poorly park-sharing has gone in British Columbia, with First Nations unlawfully seizing control of parklands without resistance from government, it’s a model with a poor track record. Then there’s the National Gallery of Canada, which in recent years has used the power of curation to make veiled accusations of racism against the Group of Seven. And the Canadian Council of the Arts, which openly claims to have gone on a diversity hiring spree in 2021. Telefilm Canada in 2022 brought in steep diversity quotas of 50 per cent for new hires and 30 per cent for those in management. It applies quotas to various programs it funds, requiring some projects to have a majority-Black production staff, and others to have a majority of non-white writers. The National Arts Centre, tasked with stewarding the performing arts, continues to host “Black Out” nights; the centre’s original intention back in 2023 was to restrict these by race, but after some public grilling it switched its stance to “everyone is welcome.” The National Film Board’s race-based content licensing policy is emblematic of the federal culture sphere. Once, the mission was to nurture cultural unity; now, maintaining division seems to be the goal. Normally, government entities are supposed to treat individual Canadians in a manner consistent with the Charter, which means race-based discrimination is off the table. However, because the Charter excuses discrimination when it’s done for an ameliorative purpose — that is, when it’s used to advance the interests of a minority group. The result? Exactly this: the open and jubilant denial of opportunity as revenge for the actions of long-dead men."
Film makers have a responsibility to increase indigenous representation. Since it's harder for them to do so now, they need to stop making films unless they're indigenous

First Nation says it was shortchanged by millions for land in 2002 settlement : r/ilovebc - "Lol ah natives complaining about a deal made in the past by historical standards getting ripped off by todays standards. A tale as old as time :)"

First Nation says it was shortchanged by millions for land in 2002 settlement : r/ilovebc - "Anyone who says this will ever end needs to get their head checked."
"As long as the sun shines, the grass grows, the money will flow.  It'll never end until we say enough."
"It will end when conservatives stop the land grab entirely as voters fear losing the rights to the home they paid 1.5m for."
"Who said it will end?  Reconciliation, by it's definition and mandate towards this subject in Canada, is conceptualized as without end.  Reconciliation was a misnomer to begin with as it implies an eventual outcome. The concept should instead be called "Fealty"."

Canadians want transparency of First Nations' finances: poll - "Most Canadians want the federal government to enforce laws requiring First Nations to publish their financial statements, a recent poll says.  According to polling firm Angus Reid Institute, 82 per cent of Canadians think Ottawa should require First Nation governments to report on how they spend public money — and that this requirement should be enforced. Among Indigenous survey respondents, 72 per cent said the same.   A federal law requiring First Nations to publish their financial statements — including chief and council salaries — was passed in 2013. Under the law, Ottawa could withhold money from First Nations that did not comply.  The federal government has not enforced the law since 2015.   But the law remains controversial. Some say it is crucial for keeping First Nations’ leadership accountable to members. Others say it reinforces stereotypes about First Nations being financially irresponsible...   In a statement to Canadian Affairs, a spokesperson for Indigenous Services Canada said that many Indigenous groups have told the government they want the law repealed...   The financial transparency act was “one of the best news for band members in Canada,” said Robert Louie, founder of the Band Members Alliance and Advocacy Association of Canada. The non-profit helps First Nation members who are seeking accountability from their chief and council.   Louie, a member of the Lower Kootenay First Nation in B.C., says he “was not surprised at all” that most First Nation members supported enforcing the law.   The law required First Nations to make their financial statements available to members upon request. First Nation members often struggle to get financial information from their governments, he says, including information about how federal money intended to help First Nations children is spent. Since the federal government stopped enforcing the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, First Nation members must try to enforce it, says Louie. Often, this only happens by taking the First Nation to court — an option most people find daunting, he says...   “If [First Nations governments] want to talk about being a government, they should act like a government,” said Louie.  But Daniel Sims, a professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, says many First Nations regard the law as an “intrusion” into their affairs that contradicts the idea that they should be treated as nations.   In his opinion, the law “is an example of government overreach.”...   In its statement to Canadian Affairs, Indigenous Services Canada confirmed that all First Nations that have federal funding agreements must provide audited financial statements to the federal government and to First Nation members.   “It is not the First Nations Financial Transparency Act that creates that obligation; the First Nations Financial Transparency Act simply introduced punitive measures for First Nations experiencing capacity gaps,” spokesperson Anispiragas Piragasanathar said in a statement... But the Angus Reid poll shows many First Nations members are not convinced things are improving. Only 54 per cent of First Nations respondents said they felt the overall situation of First Nations people in their province had improved during the past 10 to 15 years.   Louie says financial transparency of First Nations matters to all Canadians.   While many people think financial accountability for First Nations is “an internal issue” for First Nations to figure out, this ignores the power imbalance between chief and council and First Nation members, he says.   “Chief and council have all the resources, all the power,” he said."
The government should not be audited, or it spreads the stereotype that it's financially irresponsible. The solution is to give indigenous people (i.e. their governments) even more money
Weird how they must be treated as nations yet need so much money from outside

Norway House Chief and Council’s Remuneration and Expenses Over $1.65 Million in 2023/24 for an On Reserve Population of 6883 : r/Manitoba - ""No specific spending amounts were provided in the latest announcement, but Hajdu said the government has poured $8.8 billion into the principle since it was established in 2016."
I'm sorry, but over $900 million a year for nine years straight is still a STAGGERING amount of money.  Jordan's own father has criticized the program for being abused and badly managed.  https://globalnews.ca/news/10987773/jordan-river-andersons-family-meeting-status-jordans-principle/  "Last year, Deputy Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations Valerie Gideon sounded the alarm about some of the requests bogging down the system.  In an affidavit, she listed some of the requests for funding made through Jordan’s Principle, including for modelling headshots, a zip lining kit, trampoline, music lessons, private school tuition and uniforms, snowmobiles and gaming consoles.""

Canadians favour infrastructure projects over regional or Indigenous objections: Nanos : r/WildRoseCountry - "As they should, Canadas economic future is being burned away by a few whiny special interest groups  “I think what it shows is that there is a lack of understanding, writ large across the country, of the role Indigenous people play in the national economy,” said Mark Podlasly of the First Nations Major Projects Coalition (FNMPC). - Which is what exactly?"
"An albatross around it's neck?"
"Showing up with cameras and putting on some ridiculous song and dance everytime we try to do anything. All they want is a cheque. Its irritating and expensive to deal with this nonsense all the time."

Canadians favour infrastructure projects over regional or Indigenous objections: Nanos : r/WildRoseCountry - "If I were Russia or China I'd definitely be supporting FN efforts against these infrastructure projects."
"Or even American energy companies who benefit heavily when our oil can’t be marketed globally.  When most of our oil is forced to go to PADD 2 and PADD 3 that is a significant benefit to US incumbents.  See the WCS/WTI differential: https://economicdashboard.alberta.ca/dashboard/wcs-oil-price/"

Canadians favour infrastructure projects over regional or Indigenous objections: Nanos : r/WildRoseCountry - "all of these infrastructure/investment/development plans need to put to a referendum. if 6% of the national population is given the power to veto/dispute everything they dont like, then we do not live in a democracy."

'Nothing for us without us': AFN demands Yukon First Nations treated as equals in defence, security planning : r/InCanada - "Great! They’re gonna kick in funding? And land for bases? Join the ranks maybe?"

Is Canada really built on 'stolen' land? - "While the company wanted to trade and gain access to natural resources, the Natives wanted the goods and opportunities that the British brought — including blankets, weapons, wage-labour and medical services.  They also wanted security... all of them depended on slave-labour. Consequently, slave-raiding and war were endemic. The HBC, however, made it clear that it wouldn’t tolerate warfare on its doorstep. As a result, the Native peoples coveted the security and status that proximity to the company’s trading posts offered. And when the foreigners cleared and cultivated land, or mined coal, they had no complaint, for land and the black stuff weren’t what mattered most to them. Moreover, when they wanted to establish reservations, the company complied. It wasn’t until the HBC first offered compensation in the 1850s that the Natives began to demand it. After all, when one set of them seized from another what did matter — slaves — they weren’t in the habit of paying.  This reminds us that relations between colonizers and Indigenous peoples weren’t always characterized by conflict. In many cases, and for long periods, they co-operated to their mutual benefit. But it also shows us that the value of land differs not only between cultures, but over time. Even if it were true that, in the early 1800s, the territorial expansion of European settlement in British Columbia did deprive Indigenous peoples of their livelihood by trespassing on their fishing or hunting grounds, to surrender huge tracts of territory to them in 2025 is not to unravel history and restore the past. That’s because what mattered in the past was not land but subsistence. And British colonization replaced traditional means of subsistence with new alternatives — trading, farming and wage-earning. Now, through the Canadian state, it offers welfare payments, too.  In the early 21st century, control over land means something quite different from what it meant in 1800. Its value has changed. Then, it meant access to fishing or hunting grounds and thereby the means of survival. Now, it means the lucrative ownership of resources for exploitation or development, which the Vancouver islanders in the 19th century could not imagine and did not value. So, to grant “Native title” to Indigenous peoples today is not to uphold a historic legal right, for such a thing didn’t exist. Nor is it to restore things to where they were, replacing like with like. It’s to create a novel, unequal privilege."

Meme - r/worldnews: "Renewed calls for Catholic Church apology after mass grave of Indigenous children found in Canada" *68k upvotes*
r/worldnews: "No human remains found 2 years after claims of 'mass graves' in Canada"
"Not Appropriate"
"Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/worldnews" *1 upvote*

Blacklock's Reporter on X - "DOCUMENTS: $12M spent by @GcIndigenous to find purported 215 children's graves at Indian Residential School was instead spent on publicists & consultants with no graves found to date: 'We're trying to understand.'"
Jonathan Kay on X - "the “unmarked graves” social panic of 2021 keeps generating tragicomic subplots. None of those 215 claimed graves were found. But DEI grifters, lobbyists, political hacks (hi @MarcMillerVM) & academic “settlers on stolen land” (allo, Sean Carleton) all milked it for agitprop or $"
Obviously the problem is not enough money was spent

P.E.I. councillor punished for questioning Indigenous unmarked graves seeks judicial review - "Murray Harbour Coun. John Robertson claims fellow councillors exceeded their authority and violated his rights on Nov. 18, 2023, when they decided he had breached the council’s code of conduct... Robertson argues that he shouldn’t be punished for stating personal opinions that have nothing to do with his role as an elected member of council.  Between late September and early October last year, coinciding with the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the councillor displayed a sign on his property with the message, “Truth: mass grave hoax” and “Reconciliation: Redeem Sir John A.’s integrity.”"

Jonathan Kay on X - "nowhere in this disgraceful @smschwientek CBC hit job on @Dallas_Brodie, which purports to be about “residential school denialism,” does @smschwientek even pretend to address Brodie’s point, which is that those 215 supposed graves in Kamloops don’t exist"
Residential school denialism: what is it and how to recognize it | CBC News - ""I think it's important to define what residential school denialism is not, which is the denial of the system's existence or even that the system had some negative effects. We don't see a lot of that," said Carleton, who is also an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba.  Instead, he said, denialism is "a strategy to twist, downplay, misrepresent, minimize residential school truths in favour of more controversial opinions that the system was well-intentioned." He said denialism in all forms — whether talking about climate change or flat Earth conspiracies — is "an attempt to shake public confidence in something that we have consensus about."... Fraser said she sees denialism when people suggest the residential school system had good intentions, as well as when people question the motives of survivors who share their stories."
If you deny that the sun goes around the earth, you are a heretic
Everyone involved with the residential school system was an evil monster, and if you disagree, you are a denier. Indigenous people are sacred and cannot be questioned (but only if they push the left wing agenda)

Thread by @TristinHopper on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "On the issue of the Kamloops 215, all anyone has to do is say "okay, we overreacted to a radar survey, sparking a gross mischaracterization of what remains one of Canada's darkest hours." Slamming every critic as a "denier" is only making this worse. Everyone knows the survey didn't uncover graves. You can deal with this on its own terms, or allow the truth to be monopolized by the fringe. What's happening now is intensely damaging. To see so many institutions and voices lining up behind an obvious lie, and to do it literally in the service of "Truth and Reconciliation." There are voices in this country who want to convince us that it was a good thing to force thousands of children into violent, assimilationist boarding schools. With each day this charade continues, you're giving them the propaganda coup of a lifetime."

Trudeau gov’t to halt funds for ‘unmarked graves’ search after millions spent, no bodies found - "The Canadian federal government will be halting funding to a committee tasked with searching for “unmarked burials” near former residential schools after zero graves were discovered and millions of taxpayer dollars spent.  In a statement released last week, the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials said it was “extremely disappointed to learn that the Government of Canada has decided to discontinue funding to support their work to help Indigenous communities in their efforts to identify, locate and commemorate missing children.”... Canada’s Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations had already confirmed it spent millions searching for “unmarked graves” at a now-closed residential school, but that the search has turned up no human remains.   The initial funds budgeted in 2022 to aid in “locating burial sites linked to former Residential Schools” were already set to expire in 2025, with some $216.5 million having been spent.    A total of $7.9 million granted for fieldwork has resulted in no human remains having been found to date.    In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools.    As a result of the claims, since the spring of 2021, 112 churches, most of them Catholic, many of them on indigenous lands that serve the local population, have been burned to the ground, vandalized, or defiled in Canada...   The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation was more or less the reason there was a large international outcry in 2021 when it claimed it had found 215 “unmarked graves” of kids at the Kamloops Residential School. The claims of remains, however, were not backed by physical evidence but were rather disturbances in the soil picked up by ground-penetrating radar.     The First Nation now has changed its claim of 215 graves to 200 “potential burials.”     As reported by LifeSiteNews, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau as recently as June again falsely stated that “unmarked graves” were discovered at former residential schools...   While there were indeed some Catholics who committed serious abuses against native children, the unproved “mass graves” narrative has led to widespread anti-Catholic sentiment since 2021.    While some children did die at the once-mandatory boarding schools, evidence has revealed that many of the children tragically passed away because of unsanitary conditions due to the federal government, not the Catholic Church, failing to properly fund the system.       In October of 2024, retired Manitoba judge Brian Giesbrecht said Canadians are being “deliberately deceived by their own government” after blasting the Trudeau government for “actively pursuing” a policy that blames the Catholic Church for the unfounded “deaths and secret burials” of Indigenous children. "
Meghan Murphy on X - "Because there were no unmarked graves discovered. Once again, Canadians were bamboozled. Will they ever learn to stop trusting the government and media? And working themselves up into political tizzies designed to distract them from reality?"
Left wingers are still raging about "denialists", so this won't stop them

Mark Carney's Father and His Role in the Indigenous School System - "What these politicians didn’t seem to understand is the fact that since May 27, 2021, when the “215 at Kamloops” claim was made, nothing can be said publicly about the fact that the claim was false from the start. Or that honest discussion about residential schools is no longer possible in this country. If these subjects come up, a politician is best advised to mumble something about “reconciliation” and then quickly move on to another topic.  Other politicians have learned this lesson the hard way as well. In 2021 a brand new Conservative cabinet minister in Manitoba tried to say some rather innocuous things about residential schools. He said that while some students had bad experiences at the schools, the intention was to provide an education, and many former students reported positive experiences.  This was the truth — even the TRC Report has a chapter entitled “Warm Memories” that consists entirely of former students reporting their good experiences at residential schools. But Wab Kinew, the-then future Premier of Manitoba, was not interested in facts. He literally leaped to the stage and very publicly rebuked the startled minister.  Even the fact that this new cabinet minister is Métis didn’t save him. Kinew lit into him with the bogus claim that the stated purpose of residential schools was “to kill the Indian in the child.” The fact that it was an American who had never even visited Canada who made that statement in an entirely different context mattered not a whit. That cabinet minister was toast, while Kinew’s career soared.   And remember in 2008 when Pierre Poilievre was publicly scolded by PM Stephen Harper? Poilievre dared to opine that people who had been harmed at residential schools should be compensated, but those who had simply attended — many with good results — should not. His leader, Stephen Harper humiliated Poilievre for voicing this completely common sense opinion.  Poilievre was in the political doghouse for years, and never forgot this painful lesson. The fact that he was right and Harper was wrong didn’t matter. He should not have risked offending Indigenous sensibilities by speaking honestly. He learned his lesson. Poilievre has never publicly voiced common sense opinions on controversial Indigenous matters to this day.  Justin Trudeau never made such a mistake. He accomplished this, since 2015,  by giving the chiefs virtually everything they wanted, and never disagreeing with them on anything contentious.  It should be remembered that he not only accepted the Truth and Reconciliation Report in 2015  before he even read it, but agreed to implement all 94 Calls to Action without even having the costs of doing so assessed. Had he taken the time to do so he would have quickly concluded that what was basically a socialist’s wish list, that included items that had nothing to do with truth or reconciliation — such as additional funding for the CBC — would have bankrupted the country for a generation if all of them were implemented . But Trudeau never publicly  questioned any part of the TRC report, although he found ways to avoid implementing the most outrageously expensive and unworkable of the ‘Calls.’  And when the Kamloops claim was made on May 27, 2021, falsely claiming that an Indian band had found the remains of 215 Indigenous children, Trudeau not only immediately accepted the claim, but ordered that flags at federal buildings be flown at half mast not only across Canada, but across the world. He then — virtually inviting fraudulent claims — made $320,000,000 available to any Indigenous community that wanted to make a similar specious attack on the public purse.  To cap it all off, since 2015 Trudeau has spent more than three times as much public money on Indigenous matters as any previous Canadian prime minister, without achieving any notable results in the quality of life for the many members of the Indigenous underclass, and making  them even more dependent on the taxpayer than they already were. The massive debt with which Trudeau leaves Canada is based in large part on this enormous and wasteful spending on all things Indigenous...   Mark Carney knows a lot about this subject. He was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, a part of Canada which is heavily Indigenous. His father, Robert Carney, taught at schools there, and rose to become NWT’s Superintendent of School Programmes. He was intimately acquainted with education in the North.  In other words, Robert Carney was one of that very cadre of teachers and educators who are today accused by Indigenous activists of committing cultural genocide — or even actual genocide — against Indigenous children for attempting to provide them with an education at day and residential schools. But the reality is that Robert Carney — like the overwhelming majority of yesterday’s educators — was a conscientious teacher devoted to the education of Indigenous children."
Of course, left wingers will close two eyes. But if Carney were a non-left wing candidate... good luck to him

Links - 8th October 2025 (Trans Mania)

Thread by @BlanchardPhD on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Many people seem to think that heterosexual men are relatively recent arrivals to the ranks of biological males who go into public dressed as women or who present to gender identity clinics with the request for hormonal or surgical feminization. The available evidence indicates that the notion of heterosexual men as Johnny-come-latelies is not accurate. The purpose of this post is to present a few samples of such evidence.  In my opinion, nearly every man of the foregoing type is an autogynephile (AGP), that is, a man who has, or once had, a strong tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman. I will therefore refer to them simply as AGPs, even though the available objective evidence might simply be that they are heterosexual (or non-homosexual). The first publicized attempt at surgical sex reassignment was carried out on a previously married man named Einar Wegener. He was a Danish artist who had been married to another artist named Gerda Wegener. Wegener adopted the name Lili Elbe when he transitioned to the female role. Wegener/Elbe underwent surgery of an uncertain nature around 1930.  Wegener/Elbe was the subject of the 2015 movie, The Danish Girl. I believe that Wegener/Elbe was almost certainly an autogynephile, although this popular movie naturally did not stress that point. Typologies of male-to-female transsexualism (or lesser degrees of gender dysphoria) go back to at least 1918. All of the notable typologies include a heterosexual type or a transvestitic type. Thus, it is clear that clinical researchers have, for over a century, recognized a type of male-to-female transsexual that they alternatively designated as “heterosexual” or “transvestitic.” These are the type that I call AGP.  Clinicians’ common knowledge of AGP/hetero/nonhomo trans did not reach the general public. That is probably because the usual conduit for such information, reporters in the popular media, had no appetite to include it in their stories about transsexualism. By 1987, when I first attempted to quantify the matter, there were more heterosexual than homosexual males presenting at the gender clinic where I worked. Male-to-female transsexuals with admitted histories of fetishistic arousal had occasionally been approved for reassignment surgery from before I joined that clinic in 1980.  It is true that a few prominent psychoanalytic psychiatrists (who probably spent more time writing about gender patients than seeing them) had opined that patients who acknowledged even one episode of fetishistic arousal in their lives should be excluded from consideration for surgical sex reassignment. Although some psychiatrists paid lip service to this notion, it was possibly honored more often in the breach than in the observance, even going back to the 1970’s. Why do so many people think that AGP transsexuals are a recent phenomenon, and why do so few members of the general public have any awareness of them at all? The first reason is the strong tendency for gender-dysphoric AGPs to deny this phenomenon to themselves and to others. This point has frequently been discussed in my Twitter/X feed and I will not revisit it here.  The second reason has to do with the traditional media. Since the enormous news coverage of Christine Jorgensen’s surgery in 1952, reporters have covered stories about sex reassignment as tales of near-miraculous transformation and redemption, stories reminiscent of Cinderella or The Ugly Duckling. Reporters could easily have found out about APG transsexualism without even consulting the relevant literature; all they had to do was listen to a few experienced clinicians. Back in the days when sex reassignment was newsworthy in itself, I was interviewed multiple times on this topic. I was relatively naïve about the media, and I would try to explain about the different types of male-to-female transsexualism. One could see the reporter’s eyes glaze over. This was not what they wanted at all. There was no need to complicate the Cinderella story with tales of the pre-transformation Cinderella masturbating with panties snatched from the family laundry basket.  With the advent of the internet, the situation became somewhat different, because the average person now has access to unfiltered (or less filtered) information. Very few people, however, are going to randomly search for “types of transsexualism,” so awareness of AGP and AGP transsexualism still remains rare."

Thread by @jonkay on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "ICYMI: a renowned expert on evidence-based medicine at @McMasterU published data showing the low quality of research used to justify “gender-affirming” surgical disfigurements/drugs. So his colleagues forced him to recant & pledge allegiance to child-sterilizing policies
And yes, @McMasterU is the same university that encouraged a bizarre social panic in 2020, suggesting the psych dept was being run as a criminal sex ring. The school spent millions investigating it, destroyed multiple careers, & it was all nonsense"

Ginny Gentles on X - "When a mother of a 9-year-old girl attending swim lessons at an Arlington Public Schools high school pool complained about a naked man loitering in the locker room, school district staff said there was nothing they could do because he claimed he was a woman.  After @usedgov  investigated Arlington and four other Northern Virginia school districts, the Office for Civil Rights concluded that their policies allowing self-identification into sex-segregated spaces violate Title IX.  Arlington refuses to comply with Title IX and risks losing federal funding. District leaders and activists will claim victim status. They're wrong. The women and girls who were told they have to share locker rooms with this repeat sex offender are the victims."

Oppose Your Kids’ Gender Transition? Spain Wants You Behind Bars - "The bill, supported by all parliamentary groups except VOX (which voted against it) and the Navarrese People’s Union (UPN, which abstained), includes prison and disqualification penalties for parents, doctors, psychologists, or educators who do not support so-called “affirmative therapies.”...   One of the bill’s most controversial aspects is that it extends sanctions to parents or legal guardians themselves. They will be penalized if they “promote, consent to, or facilitate” any form of conversion therapy, even if they intend to protect the minor and avoid irreversible medical transition without proper psychological support... With this modification of the Penal Code, Spain has joined the ranks of countries with the most radical gender legislation. It distances itself from European models like Sweden or the UK, which have begun to slow down minors’ access to ‘transgender’ medical treatments. The measure could have a chilling effect on professional practice and freedom of conscience, establishing an ideological punishment regime against those who call for prudence, and poses a direct threat to parental authority"

John Kennedy on X - "Under President Biden, the NIH spent $120,000 on a grant to “develop 3D avatars that help people work through gender dysphoria.” Is that really more important than studying chronic lower respiratory disease?"

Gender-neutral pronouns banned in German civil service : r/europe_sub - "The Travel agent in the UK that my mother works for is currently being sued as a Man who identified as a Woman wanted to have on his travel documents that he was a female. Despite it saying on his passport that he is Male.  To start with most countries simply would not allow him access if the gender on his travel documents didn't match.  But he was also flying to Saudi Arabia"

Gender-neutral pronouns banned in German civil service - "It comes after Italy banned gender-neutral symbols in schools in a similar move last May, arguing that the practice undermined traditional and correct grammar... Ms Prien has previously called for an end to gender-neutral spellings in schools on similar grounds.  “Gender-sensitive language is important, but special characters such as asterisks, colons and underscores should not be taught and used in school,” she said.  Five regional governments in the German states — Bavaria, Saxony, Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein, and Saxony-Anhalt — have already banned the use of gender-neutral language in official documents."

Possum Reviews on X - "Remember when the third Fantastic Beasts movie got rid of Johnny Depp over accusations of violence against women, but then they kept Ezra Miller?"

Transgender Treatments Distort the Purpose of Medicine - WSJ - "The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical gender interventions for children, reflects a split in the Justices’ views of medicine: Is it about restoring patients’ health or satisfying their wants? The court held last week that the Tennessee law permissibly distinguished between different medical uses of puberty blockers and hormones for children. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that medical treatments are defined not only by the drug used but by the purpose for which it is prescribed. Administering testosterone to a boy with delayed puberty is categorically different from giving it to a girl. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the law impermissibly discriminates based on sex: “Male (but not female) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like boys, and female (but not male) adolescents can receive medicines that help them look like girls.” In her view, the goal of testosterone for boys and girls is the same: it helps them “look more masculine.” Behind the justices’ rift is a fundamental question: What is medicine for? In the traditional view, the purpose of treatment is the patient’s health—the well-working of the body. We don’t decide what health is. We observe health, recognize its goodness, and protect it. Yet the rise of the “patient autonomy” model in the 1960s and ’70s directed physicians to administer treatment at their patients’ behest. This model led to a consumerist approach to medicine, which sees physicians as “providers” instead of healers. Providers of services fulfill customers’ wishes, regardless of whether doing so restores or compromises patient health... Traditionally, medicine treats a mental disorder by helping the patient align perception with reality—like the reality of a healthy body. Medicalized gender transition turns this norm on its head, “affirming” the child’s disordered perception and treating his healthy body as a diseased one... medicine traditionally takes the well-working human body as its standard. Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out in his concurrence that giving testosterone to a girl induces a disease state, hyperandrogenism, which increases her risk of heart disease and characteristically renders her infertile. Justice Thomas’s concurrence aligns with longstanding principles of pediatric ethics that both doctors and parents have a fiduciary duty to promote children’s health-related interests. For pediatric patients, the ethical standard centers on their medical best interests, not their wish to suppress unwanted functions.  Medicalized gender transition has another glaring problem. Children can’t comprehend consequences such as sterilization or loss of sexual response. As Justice Thomas noted in his concurrence, members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health have admitted that discussing fertility preservation with a 14-year-old is like “talking to a blank wall.” This problem is compounded by the high prevalence of anxiety, depression and other mental disorders in these children. Gender clinicians also admit that treatment ends when the child no longer wants it—unlike how medicine handles genuinely necessary interventions. Front and center in the debate are the vulnerable children suffering from gender dysphoria. Their healthy bodies and future ability to experience sexual intimacy and have children are at stake, illustrated by stories of irreversible damage done to detransitioners—those who seek treatment and later regret it. The integrity of the medical profession is also at risk. This isn’t the first time vulnerable patients have been harmed by physicians to alleviate mental distress. In the 19th century, thousands of young women had their ovaries removed to treat “menstrual madness” and “lunacy.” Lobotomies were performed in the 20th century on people like Rosemary Kennedy, whose family was told she’d be calmer afterward. Today’s gender interventions for children are disturbingly similar. In trying to relieve mental suffering, they cause permanent harm. The Supreme Court was right to recognize this. It is past time for the medical profession to do the same."

Genevieve Gluck on X - "Transgender ideology is protected by mainstream media, the UN, the World Health Organization, the Open Society - and was ushered in by the American Psychiatric Association.  Nothing about transgenderism is grassroots, apart from the massive lobbying campaign undertaken by transvestites who sexually abused their wives.  Their campaign kicked off in the 1970's, and was immediately taken up as a cause célèbre by powerful institutions.  Transvestites organized multi-nationally in English speaking countries. They were backed by sexologists and psychiatrists, who were told, to the letter - according to a 1965 manual penned by sexologist John Oliven - to gaslight women into accepting a male sexual pathology as an innate identity.  Psychiatrists partnered with sexologists at that time and discouraged wives from divorcing husbands who abused them in fetishistic ways, mimicking BDSM pornographic content.  This idea and this movement was not created overnight, and for five decades was built up by elite institutions who sided with male fetishists before it became mainstream."

Genevieve Gluck on X - "A history lesson:  "The Journal of Male Feminism", originally titled "Hose and Heel", was published from 1980 with the explicit support of Paul Allen Walker, a gay man and early founder of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).  The origins of WPATH can be traced directly to the University of Minnesota. During the 1980's, transvestites would send their wives for re-education to sexology programs that groomed the women to accept their husbands' fetish.  The same sentiment behind "The Journal of Male Feminism" is what caused the creep into US universities' decision to promote gender identity ideology and rebrand "Women's Studies" to "Gender Studies", as the origin of so-called transgenderism came directly from sexology programs already embedded in those institutions - with universities in California and Minnesota serving as the hubs in the early days."

Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "This is the secretary of @vancouverpride , and basically the living embodiment of @ZivoAdam ’s argument about why LGB groups are trying to distance themselves from trans extremism"
Morgane Oger @MorganeOgerBC: "I guess @jk_rowling  won't be coming for dinner on Sena II then?  When should Canadians expect your eagerly-awaited departure, Robert?"
"Trans activist hailed by Justin Trudeau makes VERY sinister post about JK Rowling's yacht after tracking it"

Jill Foster on X - "Clive Lewis MP has over 1500 replies on his X post questioning the Supreme Court ruling.  Hundreds of women respectfully replied. He ignored them. Who DID he deign to reply to? A man who started his response with ‘FFS Clive…’ If women - of all political persuasions - can learn one thing from the gender ideology conversation it’s that men like Lewis really do not hear you or listen to you or even like you. Remember that at the ballot box."

Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "Actually, this religious cult-speak about injecting “lightness” into a sterilized child’s soul explains precisely why politicians *do* need to act. We don’t allow Jehovah’s Witnesses to reject life-saving paediatric blood transfusions, even if it makes them feel blessed by god"
"For the youth who do receive treatment, it's often transformational. Many have carried the fear of rejection and of no longer being loved. Being accepted for who they are is like lifting a weight off them. Their confidence grows and they move forward with a newfound sense of lightness. I have seen over and over again how young people thrive when they are able to live in their full identity."
The Globe and Mail @globeandmail: "Opinion: There's no place for politicians in the medical exam rooms of the nation"

Meme - Angry goose chasing Pride/Trans flag: "Why do you call it a "personal attack" when I tell you to just leave kids alone? Why the fuck is it an attack on you to be told to leave children alone?!?"

Meme - Delusional Takes @DelusionPosting: "PinkNews @PinkNews: Trans artist resells Harry Potter books with JK Rowling's name removed and it's genius"
ClayAnon @Clay_Anon: "This has been going on for a while. The irony, of course, is that changing the book's appearance doesn't actually change what's inside. Just like with trans people."

Fining nurse Amy Hamm $93,000 a grotesque attack on free speech - "These are worrying times for free speech in this country and it is not helped with the persecution of British Columbia nurse Amy Hamm by the province’s College of Nurses and Midwives. Hamm is the nurse who said sex is binary and also helped pay to put up a sign in Vancouver that declared, “I (heart) J K Rowling.” For these and similar crimes, Hamm has now been suspended from nursing for a month and ordered to pay the shocking and unjustified sum of $93,639.80 in legal costs. With its punitive disciplinary decision, the college appears to be saying that you can either shut up or suffer what amounts to a $93,000 fine for exercising your right to free speech. It is a chilling ruling but one that is not surprising given the increasing number of self-important, bloated, authoritarian organizations and professional bodies in Canada that think the Charter right to free speech and free expression is a mere whimsy. What really irked the college — and the very expensive witnesses they called — was that Hamm sometimes identified as a nurse when she used social media to expand on her mainstream views about sex, gender and women’s safe spaces. Hamm first got into trouble with the 2020 billboard supporting the Harry Potter author whose gender critical views have also come under fire. A complaint about the billboard started an investigation by the college’s inquiry committee which resulted in a ridiculous 332-page report about Hamm’s off-duty tweets, articles and other online musings... there was no “direct victim”; complainants were “ideological opponents”; no patients were involved and no trans-identified people came forward to provide evidence of harm. But none of that mattered. What mattered was only the “likelihood that trans-identified people would find her statements to be discriminatory and derogatory.” Thus Hamm was punished, not for any harm, but the risk of harm. It was similar reasoning that saw Christian singer Sean Feucht banned from so many Canadian venues — for safety reasons which were never detailed. Again, the same rationale — security issues — saw the Toronto International Film Festival pull the documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue about one family’s experience in Israel on October 7, 2023. (TIFF has now reversed course.) These things are happening, not because we have turned into a nation of “wee timorous beasties,” but because too many organizations have aggregated to themselves the power to decide what is acceptable or not for Canadians to watch, read and hear. The Hamm case is even more disconcerting when you consider the lengths a professional body will go to in terms of energy, resources, money and punishment dished out, to enforce its own particular censorious ideology. Hamm, a nurse for 13 years with an unblemished record, was terminated by Vancouver Coastal Health without severance after the guilty decision. She has not found another nursing job, writes some opinion columns (including for National Post) and is a single mother who receives no child support. Still, the disciplinary panel considered $93,000 in legal costs was not punitive. Who are they kidding? As noted by Hamm during the hearing, “a significant penalty would convey to professionals that they should not speak up on controversial matters based on conscience.” Part of the costs included $38,197.80 to pay for one of the College’s experts, Dr. Greta Bauer, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Western University, and the Sex and Gender Science Chair for the Canadian Institute of Health Information. It was this very expensive witness (whose fee was cut from $63,663 to $38K) who enlightened the college with profound insights that included: it was proper to call mothers “birthing people” because inclusivity was so important; who disagreed “that there are only two sexes” and that “humans cannot change their sex,” and who thought that Hamm was frivolous for saying, “I don’t think it’s possible for women to defend their legal rights, or even the definition of womanhood if anybody can say they’re a woman and it will be so.” Yet Hamm was only saying years ago what others, including the United Nations, are saying now. In a stunning report last month, Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, wrote a full-throated defence of biological sex... In punishing Hamm, the panel accepted she was sincere in her beliefs."

My girl was preyed on by trans paedo in supermarket toilet - ‘woman’ ruling is breath of fresh air - "Her daughter was only ten when she was pushed into a cubicle by 6ft 5in pervert Katie Dolatowski — who was born a boy named Lennon — and ordered to remove her trousers. The parent, 57, of Fife, spoke out after last week’s landmark judgement that “woman” is defined by biological sex. She told The Scottish Sun: “What a great result from the Supreme Court, a breath of fresh air that common sense has prevailed on this subject for once. "Why anyone thought it was ok, especially governments, to say a biological male who identifies as a female could access female toilets is beyond the comprehension of most people... The mother said the ruling would make women and girls, especially victims of domestic or sexual violence, feel less at risk. She added: “I hope women can feel slightly safer in their own private spaces, whether that is a bathroom or even a prison situation. Women fought too hard for rights to be disregarded.” Her daughter managed to lash out and flee Dolatowski’s attack at a Morrisons in Kirkcaldy in 2018. But the fiend avoided prison, despite also secretly filming another girl, then 12, on the toilet in an Asda in Dunfermline. The pervert was finally caged for 78 days in April 2023 for repeatedly defying court curfews. Dolatowski was sent to the all-male Low Moss jail in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow. It came following outrage that trans double rapist Isla Bryson, previously Adam Graham, was initially remanded in a women’s prison. The furore led to all criminals being jailed according to their birth sex. We told how the UK’s highest court ruled that trans women with self-ID certificates are not legally female in a defeat for SNP ministers to campaign group For Women Scotland."
This never happens. She's just a transphobic bigot

When Skeptics Get Sex Wrong: Debunking the Debunker - "I’ll let the PhD biologist Colin Wright explain:
When biologists say sex is binary, we’re not saying that every human who has ever existed or ever could potentially exist is unambiguously classifiable as 100% either male or female. What we mean when we talk about sex being binary is the fact that there are only two sexes because sexes are defined by the type of gamete your reproductive system is organized to produce. So someone who has ambiguous genitalia who is born without any gonads…that’s not a third sex because there isn’t a third type of gamete that this person has the reproductive capacity to produce. So this binary only refers to the fact that there are only two sexes. It doesn’t talk about whether everyone is classifiably male or female 100% of the time even though the overwhelming vast majority are.
On Dr Steven Novella's falling to trans mania and ignoring the biological definition of sex

Philosophy and the sex and gender debates | Maya Forstater - "I was pleased to find that Julian Baggini had written an article towards the end of last year asking “Is JK Rowling transphobic?” (Answer: no) He tells what happened when he invited a gender critical feminist (in fact, Kathleen Stock) to speak at a Royal Institute of Philosophy debate on diversity. He couldn’t find anyone from the other side of the trans debate to share a stage with “the TERF”.
   “If two philosophers cannot discuss these matters, then how can we ever expect anyone else to? If this debate can’t happen then how is any rational discourse possible? We might as well all go home and throw metaphorical Molotov cocktails at each other.”...
 We do not define “woman” as someone having “some combination of XX chromosomes, reproductive organs and hormones”, but as someone female (and adult and human). Female is defined by having the type of body with the potential to produce large gametes. Hormones, for example, change over a woman’s life.  You can refute the checklist approach by asking people. Going back to my tribunal, there was a long section of cross-examination where the counsel for the other side tried to get me to admit there was something wrong with my definition of woman, because some women (with so called intersex conditions) do not have XX chromosomes. No, I repeated several times. Its not chromosomes. It’s gametes.  You can refute the approach with science – for example hens are adult avian females – they don’t have XX chromosomes (they have ZW), roosters are adult avian males – they don’t have a penis. These features are not fundamental to maleness or femaleness. Asparagus plants are either male or female, but don’t have a womb, breasts, penis or a liking for Jimmy Choos (the female ones produce ovules which go onto become fruit, the male ones provide the pollen).  In humans a man who loses his penis is still a man, a woman who loses her uterus or breasts is still a woman, just as a person who loses a leg (or is born without one) is a full human being.    You can also refute this approach with armchair reasoning. If a woman told you that she has been trying to get pregnant but has found out that she does not have ovaries, you would sympathise with her, not do a mental calculation to count up whether she still has enough of the features of femalehood to be a woman. If a transwoman told you she had been trying to get pregnant but found out she does not have ovaries you would likely assume serious mental health issues... In trying to describe the gender critical position he ends up describing the modular “sex characteristics” approach of the Yogakarta +10 Principles – the manifesto of the movement which seeks to undermine sex based rights in favour of “gender identity”.  Law rightly says that biological essentialism about the sexes does not justify essentialism of social roles (‘women should be home-makers’, ‘women should be subservient’), but he falls into the trap of saying “‘man’ and ‘woman’ could lie on a spectrum with “intersex people” in the middle. As both scientists and people with ‘intersex’ conditions will tell you – sex is binary, not a spectrum and having an intersex condition (or disorder of sexual development, DSD) does not mean someone is not a man or a woman.  If you keep the gametes definition in focus then it becomes clear why the Kripean definition of sex does in fact rule out sex as a spectrum; there is no spectrum of gametes...   Stephen Law wrote a whole book “The War for Children’s Minds” about the risk of ideological authoritarianism in education, and children’s vulnerability to institutionalised psychologically manipulation.  Julian Baggini found that most female academic philosophers he spoke to agree with the “TERF” position but are too frightened to speak. This goes too for teachers, academics, clinicians, social workers, civil servants, managers in organisations, many journalists, people in the arts, media, publishing."