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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Links - 29th November 2025 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023 [including Joanna Berry])

POLICE IN CANADA WARN LAWYER OVER HER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ON ISRAEL : r/canadian
Dig a bit and you realise that the victim is a professional victim. From the video she herself posted you can already tell, though. All the usual buzzwords are there, even "neo-fascism", complete with histrionics and accusing the police of harassing her and cursing them when they were very civil and polite

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist on X - "Anyone who has been personally maligned or hounded by Joanna Berry, please reach out to me via DM. There is a troubling pattern that goes beyond her exercise of free expression into the realm of harassment. She seems to profit from spreading hate under the guise of activism."
A lot of left wing activism has been spreading hate for a while now, so

Joanna Berry on X - "I intend to make a complaint against you, Hamm. It will be related to the moral injury you inflict upon women of diverse physiology"
Marla on X - "LMAO this "lawyer" is harassing a woman and trying to have her punished for saying men aren't women. The ugly retard calling itself Joanna Berry is just angling for troon dick. The disingenuous wording of that one, Jesus"
No surprise the one who claims "Zionists" are harassing her is trying to get someone punished for disagreeing with gender ideology
The left wing agenda is all connected

Joanna Berry on X - "The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) is a de facto zionist organization because of the legacy voting rights and veto powers of its zionist Past Presidents - As demonstrated by the exercise of the voting decisions of Past President Maureen Silcoff, par example. Look up her family."
Tafsik Organization on X - "You should stop posting your conspiracy theories about people and organizations you know nothing about. You are going to get yourself into even more trouble than you are already in. Suggesting that the Jews have control of the government and legal organizations is a blood libel and is completely unhinged. Stop."

Legally Ms. Juno on X - "🚨Joanna Berry, an immigration lawyer based in Fort Erie, is making significant accusations against @KevinVuongMP. She has also threatened me with lawsuits, though the basis for these threats is unclear. How can lawyers use the threat of litigation to silence criticism or commentary on X?
Potential Violations of Law Society of Ontario Rules According to Grok AI:
Law Society of Ontario's (LSO) "Rules of Professional Conduct," here are some byelaws and rules that Joanna Berry's conduct might potentially violate:
1. Rule 3.1-2 - Competence: - A lawyer shall perform all legal services undertaken on a client's behalf to the standard of a competent lawyer. Threatening legal action without merit could be seen as a lack of competence if it involves misrepresentation of legal facts or law.
2. Rule 5.1-1 - The Lawyer as Advocate: - This rule discusses the duty to represent clients resolutely and honorably. Using legal threats to stifle legitimate criticism might not align with the honorable conduct expected of lawyers, particularly if these threats are unfounded or meant to intimidate.
3. Rule 6.01 - Integrity: - A lawyer has a duty to carry on the practice of law with integrity. Making baseless legal threats could be seen as lacking integrity, especially if intended to manipulate or intimidate.
4. Rule 6.03(1) - Conduct Unbecoming: - This rule states that a lawyer shall not engage in conduct unbecoming a licensee. Using legal threats to suppress free speech or in a way that could bring discredit upon the legal profession might be considered unbecoming.
5. Rule 7.1-1 - Responsibility to the Profession: - Lawyers are expected to uphold the integrity of the profession. If threats of lawsuits are used without legal merit, this could be seen as failing to uphold that responsibility, potentially tarnishing the profession's reputation.
6. Rule 7.2-1 - Communications about Services: - While this rule mainly addresses marketing, it could be stretched to include communications that might mislead or intimidate; threats of litigation without basis could fall into this category if seen as a form of misrepresentation.
7. Rule 7.3-1 - Harassment and Discrimination: - Lawyers must not engage in harassment or discrimination. Using legal threats to bully or intimidate could be interpreted as harassment if done inappropriately or excessively.
8. Chapter 5 - Advocacy: - Specifically, the rule on "Trial Publicity" (5.6-1) suggests lawyers should avoid comments or actions that could prejudice legal proceedings. Threatening lawsuits in a public manner could potentially influence public perception or prejudice any judicial process.
Note:
- The actual application of these rules would depend on the specifics of the situation, including the context of the accusations made against Kevin Vuong, the nature of the threats against me, and whether these actions align with the intent of the LSO rules. - If anyone ever feels these rules might have been breached, you could consider filing a complaint with the Law Society of Ontario, providing detailed evidence and context to support your claim.
- Remember, only the Law Society can determine if a violation has occurred following their investigation process.
Please remember that I received this information through Grok AI, and I am not a lawyer or a licensed professional. This is simply educational content regarding the process and expectations of lawyers in Ontario. It is obviously not legal advice, and if you think it is, you are mistaken."

Joanna Berry on X - "MP Kevin Vuong is a mouthpiece for Israel and, more locally, for the racist "Lawyers for Secure Immigration." Do not give him your permission to use to your tax dollars to manufacture a "migrant terrorism" crisis."
Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 on X - "Is this who @MarcMillerVM consults? I’m not manufacturing anything. It is a fact that:
— An alleged ISIS terrorist was given Canadian citizenship;
— A foreign national was arrested for making bombs/IEDs;
— IRGC agents are falsely claiming refugee status to avoid deportation;
— A 5x criminally-convicted foreign national boasted of foreign financing to blockade Canadian roads, highways, airports and was saved from a deportation order by IRCC, upheld by the federal courts, by @MarcMillerVM; and
— Foreign nationals banned from other democracies are given safe haven in to lead and operated designated terrorist organizations like #Samidoun…
To name but a few examples off the top of my head. Facts are facts, even if you don’t like how they prove you wrong. But go ahead and falsely accuse me of manufacturing something. It’s as sad as it is transparent."

Meanwhile, Hamas is Killing Civilians Who Seek Food - "While the war between Israel and Iran is drawing attention away from Gaza, it’s worth seeing what Hamas is doing: killing civilians who seek food. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been distributing food inside Gaza. Whether one views this as a bold experiment (as I do) or a terrible idea, it does bring food to Gaza and Gazans come out in the thousands to collect it. What is the Hamas response? To kill Gazans who need that food for their families... The Palestinian Authority’s newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida wrote about this on June 19. Its editorial (translated by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute) stated that “numerous reports out of Gaza say that Hamas is killing many civilians looking for a sack of flour on the pretext that they are collaborating with the American food distribution centers!!.... Hamas has no choice but to set up death squads [to operate] against anyone who opposes its theft and tries to find a sack of flour outside its control and far from its black market... It is not only Israel that is creating this terrible reality; Hamas is complicit in this industry of death, hunting down the hungry with the death squads it calls Al-Sahm, in order to inform anyone who approaches [the distribution centers] that do not belong to Hamas that their only [fate] will be to fall victim to the arrows of the Al-Sahm Unit. This is the bitter reality: Hamas and its Al-Sahm Unit, which hunts down those who seek nothing but a crust of bread." Proof for this editorial is offered in social media posts that accuse Hamas of precisely such killings. There are other accounts from the GHF itself, which reported that on June 11 that a bus carrying two dozen workers traveling to a distribution center was attacked by Hamas and eight killed. The Long War Journal and FDD have reported on such Hamas strikes, and Hamas itself has made clear threats. Hamas’s motivation is equally clear: power and control. In those efforts to stop the food distribution, it has the support of various United Nations agencies including UNRWA. This will be no surprise in view of years of collaboration between UNRWA and Hamas, but it is no less shameful for that. Hamas reacts to accusations against it by its own accusations that such shootings are all the work of Israel. But Israel is supporting the GHF and trying to undermine Hamas’s control of food distribution. It has no motive for shooting Gazans lined up at GHF sites, and no explanation is ever offered for why it might be doing so. In fact, Hamas is also killing Gazans lining up at UN sites to get food, as MSNBC reported after first falsely stating on June 20 that the killings were at a GHF site. So the scene is remarkable: an effort to distribute food is denounced by the United Nations, which should in fact be supporting it in every way possible. In this sense the United Nations is acting as Hamas is: it would apparently rather not see food distributed than see it brought in outside UN channels. Navi Pillay, who chairs the UN's so-called Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Israel and the Palestinian territories, called GHF’s efforts “outrageous,” as if Gazans should refuse food they need because it doesn’t come from the United Nations. Amnesty International, famous for its bias against Israel, said that "The United Nations and global aid organizations have universally condemned the GHF for undermining established aid distribution networks….” But those networks have for decades been part of Hamas’s control mechanisms in Gaza. Amnesty conveniently overlooks inconvenient facts—such as the finding that UNRWA staff members in Gaza actually participated in the October 7, 2023 massacre, and that Hamas members, including a top commander, were UNRWA officials. GHF is highly controversial, mostly for the wrong reasons. Breaking from the “established aid distribution networks” is not a crime. Bringing food to Gaza is not a violation of international humanitarian law. It is shameful that the denunciations focus on GHF rather than on the Hamas killings of Gazans lined up for food."
From June. Damn Zionists!

US-backed aid group says Hamas killed eight Palestinian staff in bus attack - "The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least eight people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen workers travelled to a distribution centre in southern Gaza, and that it came after days of threats from Hamas."

Meme - Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren: "This is in Toronto. Sometimes, the world is so evil it is beyond words."
"RAPE IS RESISTANCE. FREE PALESTINE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY"
Feminists support rape when it pushes the left wing agenda

Hussain Abdul-Hussain on X - "Kfar Aza, the closest Israeli town to Gaza Strip, hired Gazan instruction workers to build a building (on the left) to house its archives. On October 7, when Hamas terrorists raided Israel, seven Kfar Azan men hurried to the armory (building with open red door) where the town kept defensive arms. But Hamas fighters, who likely were the construction workers, knew where the armory was and hid around it, shooting dead the seven unarmed Israelis in front of the armory. This story illustrates how the Hamas October 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis also killed whatever trust had remained between Israelis and the Palestinians until that date. The trauma prompted the Israeli to never allow Palestinians to work in Israel, with jobs going to Arab-Israeli and Asian workers instead, even if such arrangement caused a labor shortage and a surge in prices of renovation and construction across Israel. Thanks to the friend who shared the pic and story. NYT, Amnesty, HRW and Albanese do not reflect reality in Israel, only serve as amplifiers of Islamist Qatar antisemitism."

Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust - The New York Times - "there’s an outsize influence of the Holocaust that then obscures other histories and also obscures what is happening right now: the genocide in Gaza, which the exceptionalism of the Holocaust has fostered denial of other genocides. And I think that creates a real crisis if victims of genocide perpetrate genocide and one can deny that. I think we’re in a moment of real crisis... Genocide is a process. Crimes against humanity occur when large numbers of people are killed — or when civilians are intentionally targeted, or when there’s blatant disregard for human life. But genocide is different: It unfolds over time. It begins with setting the conditions for mass killing — with propaganda, with creating a climate in which many people can be killed — and then with gradually eliminating the conditions for life itself."
Terrorism supporters continue to claim the NYT is biased towards Israel, when they keep promoting the only "genocide" in history where the population has gone up
Left wing logic: deporting illegal immigrants is bad because it leads towards the Holocaust, but drawing parallels between the biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust and the Holocaust is wrong
Weird. I thought all Jews were unconditionally pro-Israel
I like how she redefines genocide. So saying anything opposing the left wing agenda can now be "genocide"

Visegrád 24 on X - "Bob Vylan chanted “Death to the IDF” & “you can’t have your country back” (about immigration) at Glastonbury He’s now in the Netherlands, mocking Charlie: “Pronouns was/were” “If you talk shit, you get banged” “RIP Charlie Kirk, you piece of shit”"
Andrew Gold on X - "The thing no one is reporting about this guy is that, according to insider friends of mine, even woke festival owners hate him. He’s allegedly been in many fights that put people’s businesses and safety at risk. We’re talking high levels of psychopathy."
Not surprising that terrorism supporters aren't good people

‘Death, death to the IDF’: My night with the Bob Vylan zealots - "Even with the record unpopularity of this Labour Government, it is not normal for a punk gig to include a five-minute rant from the stage about Bridget Phillipson. That said, Bob Vylan’s first UK tour since their controversial Glastonbury performance was never going to be normal, so perhaps it should not be a surprise that the Education Secretary found herself in the rappers’ firing line in Glasgow. Phillipson’s sin, in the eyes of frontman Bobby Vylan, was to suggest publicly that it may not be terribly appropriate for the band – whose members have a history of making incendiary, anti-Semitic comments on stage – to play at a venue owned by Manchester University little more than a month after the lethal attack on a synagogue in the city. (The gig has been postponed until February.) Vylan did not say, in as many words, that she had been captured by “the Jews”, but he may as well have. “She’s firmly bought and paid for and in the pockets of certain individuals and lobby groups,” he said, before naming two Jewish businessmen who have donated to Phillipson’s office. “Stuart Roden has given her money, Trevor Chinn has given her money. Money talks, and when it talks, she listens, and she… made sure it did not take place.” The 2,000-plus in attendance at the O2 Academy lapped it up. The leader of the self-proclaimed “most important band in Britain” clearly relishes the infamy brought on by the Glastonbury controversy... The BBC’s decision not to cut the broadcast of the set was described by Tim Davie, the corporation’s director-general, as a “very significant mistake”. Avon and Somerset Police opened an investigation, which is ongoing. The band were dropped by their agents and had their US visas cancelled. The punk-rap duo perform under synonyms – Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan – because they say that Britain is a “surveillance state”, but their names are widely reported to be Pascal Robinson-Foster (the frontman) and Wade Laurence George (the drummer). The former clearly loves the limelight. After Dream Big, the second song of the night, a red-and-white keffiyeh was thrown on stage. “That’s a beautiful keffiyeh,” he said as he picked it up and wrapped himself in it, leading to the first chants of “Free, free Palestine” in the art deco former cinema. “What a picture this will make in tomorrow’s newspaper,” the frontman added. “A black Englishman in a kilt, with a keffiyeh around him, in front of the Palestinian flag. Oh, they’ll have a field day with it.” He recently gave his first interview since the Glastonbury controversy to Louis Theroux, in which he said that he had no regrets about starting the anti-IDF chants. “I’d do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays,” he told Theroux. Yet, despite all his bravado, Vylan was notably reluctant to say the words on stage in Glasgow. Whether that is because he is afraid of legal consequences, or he feels that he has already proved his anti-Israeli bona fides, is unclear... Anybody who hoped that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas might calm things down a little in Britain would be mistaken, as those outside Villa Park last night who also heard “Death to the IDF” chants will attest. A cynic might suggest that Vylan doesn’t need to rail explicitly against the IDF himself anymore, because what happened at Glastonbury has catapulted his band to a level far beyond their limited musical talents. There is a small but committed fringe of people on the British Left for whom what happens in the Middle East really matters, and they will take any opportunity they can get to show their solidarity with the Palestinians. To support Bob Vylan is, in the minds of many, to support the people of Gaza and the West Bank. It is hard to conceive of any other reason why Bob Vylan would be top of the bill at Glasgow’s O2 Academy, a venue that will also be graced by the likes of Wet Leg, Royel Otis and Gary Numan before the end of the month. Without their notoriety, surely they would remain a niche concern; I cannot imagine being sent to Glasgow to cover a Bob Vylan concert for The Telegraph a year ago. The gig attracted the usual suspects: Palestine Solidarity Campaign members; old Tankies; pink-haired students who appreciate the us-vs-them mentality. “Scotland’s biggest anti-capitalist festival kicks off this weekend,” an earnest young woman handing out flyers told me as I went in. “The prices are very reasonable!” The road leading to the O2 Academy was festooned with flags merging the cross of St Andrew with the Palestinian colours, which had been put there especially to mark the occasion... All other things being equal, Bob Vylan simply come across as having more style than substance. It is telling that there were twice as many cameramen (one photographer, one videographer) on stage as musicians (Bobbie on drums). By my estimate, about 25 of the 75 minutes the band spent on stage was taken up by one or the other Vylan moaning about something, which is not what a band that has been going for the best part of a decade ought to be doing. They should have more bangers to play. Look at Oasis, who can’t have done more than five minutes of crowd work in each of their two-hour sets since reforming in July... Vylan is an exuberant frontman with a certain charisma to him, but constant lyrics about Mrs Thatcher (who left Downing Street long before he was born), “gammons” and the iniquities of the economy wear thin quickly. To be fair to him, he remembered most of the lyrics to his own songs – save for one that they were playing live for the first time, when he forgot the words to the third verse of Killing Punk. Later, the on-stage sparklers malfunctioned, leading a stressed-looking roadie to try frantically to fix things. In the week that marks the 50th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ first gig, it is depressing to see what modern punk has become. Bobby Vylan ain’t no Johnny Rotten. Not that the fans in attendance cared. He knows how to get them going: at one point he read a sign from the crowd that simply read “F--- the King”, and then said he hoped the Scottish people would “take me with you” if another independence referendum were successful, because “it’s crazy over there” in England. As things wound up, another exhortation from Vylan to “free Palestine” was inevitable, but it was followed by him also imploring for a “free Sudan”... Vylan said he was asked to chant “Death, death to the RSF” at the gig because “they’re slaughtering people over there in Sudan”. Needless to say, it got a much more muted reaction from the crowd than the anti-IDF stuff"
Inciting violence is good if it promotes the left wing agenda
We all know that the RSF is backed by "Zionists" anyway, so "Death to the IDF" covers "Death to the RSF"

If the Picts were black, answer me this - "Ten years have now passed since one of my all-time favourite news stories. It concerned the British Islamic activist who, after proving unable to locate one of his shoes one morning, claimed that “Zionists” must have sneaked into his home in the night and stolen it. At the time, I assumed that this story would never be bettered. But I was wrong. In September, Yvonne Ridley – another British Islamic activist – sailed to Gaza with Greta Thunberg’s celebrated flotilla. And this week, on social media, she claimed: “The thieving IDF stole my Senior Railcard.” I’m sure we all send her our deepest sympathies. None the less, I do have two small questions. First: why would the IDF want her Senior Railcard? Is an Israeli secret agent currently using it to travel round Britain disguised as a little old lady? And second: why exactly did Ms Ridley decide to bring her railcard on a boat? Does it entitle her to a third off the price of all anti-Israel protests, including ones that take place at sea? If so, can I use my Friends & Family Railcard to get a discount on my next Mediterranean cruise, provided I remember to chant “Globalise the intifada” while queuing for the buffet? Next summer’s cruises are getting booked up fast, so I urgently need to know."

Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 on X - "Would we let racists dress up like the Ku Klux Klan & march through Little Jamaica or neighbourhoods home to #Toronto’s Black community? Of course not—so why do our leaders allow terrorist cosplayers to do the same to Jews? End this double standard."

Alleged terrorist released from CAF just days before flying to Israel - "Zachareah Quraishi of Airdrie, Alta., was released from the Canadian Armed Forces reserves on July 10, last summer. Within 12 days, he’d bought a plane ticket to Israel, rented a car, and obtained a large kitchen knife. Israeli authorities say that within hours, the 21-year-old attempted a terror attack on Netiv Ha’asara, a gated village of 900 close to the northern border of the Gaza Strip, on July 22. Video shows guards firing as he came at them; his body falling just at the edge of the frame. According to Israeli authorities, the guards told him several times to stand down, but they shot him dead after multiple warnings as he yelled, “Free Palestine.” It wasn’t reported at the time, but the National Post has learned Quraishi was a former Canadian reserves soldier... On November 11 this year, Remembrance Day, Zachareah’s father Adam Quraishi, who works as a schoolteacher at the Siksika reservation and at the Calgary Islamic School, posted photos of Zachareah’s great-grandfather George Reed, a Canadian war veteran, alongside a photo of Zachareah wearing a Canadian Armed Forces uniform, seemingly implying that his son, who allegedly attempted an act of terror, should be remembered as a war veteran. He was killed by Israelis, said Adam Quraishi in a video, for “looking too Palestinian.” This follows a steady stream of posts by Adam claiming Israel wrongfully targeted his son. “He went hoping to save lives, confirmed by so many including our family doctor who talked to Zachareah. He was killed 12 hours after getting to Israel,” Adam wrote on a May 21 fundraiser posted to Facebook. Adam wrote on Facebook and Instagram: “I’m honouring my grandfather George Reed, who served in #WWII, and my great-grandfather (also George Reed), who fought in the wars as well. And my son, Zachareah, who dedicated his life to saving lives — humanitarian work — and was tragically murdered by a country that perpetuates unimaginable violence and disinformation/gaslighting. “Perhaps if my son resembled our Irish-French heritage, he would have been sent back to Canada. Our home. Such a beautiful place,” he wrote in the posts. “War is never a solution … The act of killing civilians and individuals who are not fighting, especially in an AI-driven world where images can be easily manipulated, is incredibly risky.”"
Time for the left wing media to go on again about the threat of "far right" Canadian Armed Forces personnel whose only sin is saying things the left disapproves of. But terrorism, when it's done to advance the left wing agenda, is good of course
To terrorist supporters, trying to kill "Zionists" is "humanitarian work"
Why won't the monstrous "Zionists" let people kill them without fighting back? This is literally genocide

Several arrested after protesters allegedly force way into TMU student group event with Israeli soldiers - "Five people were arrested after a group of protesters "forced entry" into a private event at a downtown building, said Toronto police... One person was injured from broken glass during the forced entry... Videos posted by the group show broken glass and people shouting... protestors "forced their way" into the event that featured two Israeli soldiers as part of the national "Combat on Campus" tour. It said one of the invited soldiers was injured in the incident from shattered glass. Another TMU student group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), said in a social media statement that students protesting the event "were grabbed, shoved, chased and thrown to the ground" by one of the soldiers. The group also alleged that Toronto police attended the scene and followed students to a subway station, where protestors were pinned to the ground before being arrested."
Just like the Palestinians, terrorism supporters are experts at attacking people, causing trouble and then pretending to be the victims

Canadian NDP leader condemns IDF veteran lecture tour, draws criticism for overlooking violence - "Sinelnikov responded that Canada was a free country and that SSI would “keep bringing IDF soldiers there, and for her campaign – we are happy to send speakers from Hamas to her office.” Yahoo News reported in October that McPherson was one of the frontrunners of the NDP leadership race. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman said on X/Twitter on Friday that the Wednesday incident was an example of the antisemitism that had afflicted the country... one of the suspects assaulted an officer in an attempt to prevent an arrest."
Clearly, breaking into a room, smashing glass and shouting at people is "criticizing Israel" and if you condemn that, that is censoring "pro-Palestinian" "speech"

Sex Biology and the Gish Gallop

Sex Biology and the Gish Gallop

"Imagine you are trying to win a debate, and instead of presenting your argument with relevant evidence, you gather an incredible amount of irrelevant data against your opponent’s position.

This is common with young earth creationists, who believe that the earth was created 6,000 years ago. To try and validate their beliefs, young earth creationists dump an incredible number of arguments one after the other onto the opponent, from the idea that the light coming from other stars was created in transit to make the appearance of age to the idea that radiometric dating and other objective methods of dating rocks and fossils are based on a host of incorrect assumptions (Peppe & Deino 2013). Some of these arguments seem complex (and they might be), yet they are all irrelevant, misinterpretations of the evidence, or just complete fabrications. The key is that they all take advantage of people’s ignorance.

This is known as the Gish gallop. It is a fallacy often found in pseudoscience, where you attempt to drown your opponent in a “flood of individually weak arguments” which take much energy to refute (Elsher). While it was and still is common with young earth creationists, the strategy is now being used by sex spectrum pseudoscientists.

The best example of this Gish gallop technique is “Sex and Sensibility,” a 30 minute video that argues male and female are unreliable categories. It is written and presented by evolutionary anthropology student Forrest Valkai...

Practically every sentence of Forrest’s video is riddled with information about the biology of sex, from the simple to the complex. Some points are true, and others are complete misrepresentations. There are so many points of information that it would take hours to carefully respond to each one, something we painstakingly did, which you can find here.

Forrest’s argument strategy is not much different from that of young earth creationists. Ironic, considering he is best known for debunking none other than young earth creationists.

To try and overwhelm the viewer with irrelevant evidence, Forrest barrages the audience with biological information, showing the various genetics, anatomies, and behaviors between males and females in humans and across species. Using this information dump, he attempts to show that the two sexes are arbitrary. However, his argument relies on the constant conflation of diversity in genes, anatomy, and behavior with sexes. No well-studied biologist would argue that, for male and female to exist, they must have consistent genetic systems, anatomies, or behaviors across all species. 

In biology, the two sexes are defined as the phenotypes that produce either the smaller gamete (sperm) or the larger gamete (eggs) [Lehtonen and Parker 2014]. They are universal across the plant and animal kingdoms, having evolved independently in nearly every lineage of multicellular species (Kirk 2006). Within this system of two, there is no constraint on the diversity of anatomy and behavior across species (Scharer 2017; Goymann, Brumm, and Kappeler 2022). This is the beauty of the binary.

Knowing this universal definition is enough to defeat Forrest’s Gish gallop, because it can be correctly applied to all of his examples on the biology of sex. As an educational tool, let’s analyze the examples he uses and show how they reinforce the two sexes. I’ve broken them into six categories:

1. Variation in sex allocation

2. Variation in gamete size

3. Variation in sex determination mechanisms

4. Variation in genetic networks

5. Variation in sex characteristics

6. Variation in sexual behavior

1. Variation in sex allocation...

Gonochorism

Sexual system in 95% of animal species, including humans, where individuals are either male or female through their entire life cycle (Muyle et al. 2021; Holub & Shackelford, 2021; Pla et al 2022).

Rather than showing the definition of the sexes is arbitrary, the diversity of sex allocation reveals the many ways the male and female sexes can be composed across species. The only way we can know whether an organism is either male or female, or male and female, or having switched from male to female, is whether they have a phenotype that produces sperm or eggs, or a phenotype that produces both, or a phenotype that has switched from producing sperm to producing eggs.

2. Variation in gamete size

Forrest claims that the gamete size definition of the sexes does not work because there are some male-female species that have many different gamete sizes and huge sperm, and species with no gamete size.

Species with many different gamete sizes

Drosophila bifurca, a species of fruit fly, has one size of egg and three different sizes of sperm. Forrest claims this species should have four sexes. Here’s the problem: he’s missing the fundamental meaning of “sexes.”

When biologists say the sexes are defined by the difference in gamete size, this is a shorthand for what the size differences represent. The size differences represent the two different reproductive contributions in reproduction (Lehtonen and Parker 2014; da Silva 2018; Lehtonen 2021). Males produce the gamete that holds far less to no resources for the future zygote, like a payload, which fertilizes the resource-heavy egg produced by the female.

When the sexes were first evolving over one billion years ago, there was an evolutionary trade-off between producing many small, fast gametes with little to no resources and producing few large, slow gametes with most of the resources for the zygote. I wrote a short literature review about how this evolution occurred here.

It does not matter whether there are many different sizes of sperm within a species or across species, nor does it matter whether there are many different sizes of egg. What matters is the contribution to reproduction (fertilizer or fertilized). The size difference between the male and female gametes is a great way to distinguish the sexes. In the fruit fly, the three different types of males can be defined as male because they all produce the sperm (the fertilizer).

Huge sperm!!

Forrest also claims that the gamete size distinction is violated because the same fruit fly produces sperm that is bigger than the female’s egg. The definition is not violated because this large sperm still fertilizes the egg and contributes little to no resources for the zygote. But why is the sperm bigger? It’s actually not bigger in volume; its head is still far smaller than the female’s egg. It’s just that the sperm is bigger in length...

Species with no gamete size

Forrest claims that the gamete size definition for the sexes is problematic because there are species who have male and female sexes but their gametes are the same size. The biology literature is very clear that these are not male and female sexes. They are called mating types (Perrin 2011). And such species have no sexes. This is called isogamy, a more ancient form of sexual reproduction often found in fungi or algae where gametes are the same size and form. They contribute equally to the zygote, as opposed to anisogamous (male-female) systems, where the cellular contribution to the zygote is unequal (Lehtonen, Kokko, and Parker 2016).

No biology literature claims that species with isogamy have male and female sexes, because sexes imply anisogamy (differently sized gametes) and mating types imply isogamy (same sized gametes) [Perrin 2011]. Isogamous gametes are only different on the molecular level, regulating which gametes can fuse with other gametes (Lehtonen and Parker 2014). There can be thousands or tens of thousands of gamete types in isogamous species. But no serious biologist claims these are sexes.

What isogamy teaches us is that there was a more ancient form of sexual reproduction before male and female originated, where gametes were not differentiated, but it does not call into question what male and female are, because isogamy is an entirely different sexual system.

3. Variation in sex determination mechanisms...

Z-W system in birds

Unlike mammals, birds use the Z-W chromosomal system to determine sex, where ZZ birds develop into males, and ZW birds develop into females (Ioannidis et al. 2021). How do we know that the males are ZZ and the females are ZW? Could it be due to the biological definition of sex? The gamete type they contribute in reproduction?

Temperature sex determination

Reptiles are unique in the animal kingdom in that many species determine sex by the temperature at which their eggs incubate. In crocodiles, for instance, a certain range of temps trigger development into a male and another range triggers development into a female (Woodward and Murray 1993; Cornejo-Paramo et al. 2020).

The fact these species of reptile do not have sex chromosomes like us yet still develop as either male or female should tell us something about the difference between the mechanisms that determine sex (genes, temperature) and sex itself. If sex determination mechanisms were sex, then with temperature sex determination, each temperature value would be its own sex. Crocodiles would have infinite sexes! But they do not, because sex determination mechanisms are different from “sexes.”

4. Variation in genetic networks

Forrest also argues that, because there are so many genes and potential pathways for developing into a male or female, the two sexes cannot be reliably defined. This relies on conflating gene networks with sexes...

Sex reversal in mice

Forrest uses experimental genetic tests on XX and XY mice, where researchers removed or added sex determining genes during embryonic development, resulting in a phenomenon called sex reversal (Ottolenghi et al. 2007; Eggers and Sinclair 2012). Sex reversal occurs when the sexual trajectory of the gonad is changed to the opposing pathway, switching the sexual phenotype of the organism from what is expected by their chromosomes (Weber and Capel 2018)...

But how do we define the sex of these XX males and XY female mice? Answer: by their gonad/gamete type. Gametes differentiate according to the gonad tissue environment, not the chromosomes (McClaren et al 1995; Kocer et al. 2009). This is one reason why the sexes are defined by their role in reproduction, not by chromosomes. These examples of sex reversal in embryonic mice reveal the genetic mechanisms that control male and female development; they simply reinforce the two sexes.

Without genetic tests, we have no idea where we land

Forrest claims that without having your chromosomes tested or your genes analyzed, we have no idea where each of us land when it comes to our sex. This is not true. Karyotype studies have been conducted on tens of thousands of newborns across different decades, showing repeatedly that a person’s sexual phenotype (their reproductive system) matches with what is expected from their chromosomes (XX develops as a female; XY develops as a male) in more than 99% of births (Maeda et al 1991; Hamerton et al 1975; Nielsen & Sillesen 1975). Karyotypes outside of the typical XX and XY almost always result in infertility. And when people with these conditions are fertile, they produce sperm or eggs, never both and never a third gamete type. Thus, they are not additional sexes..

5. Variation in sex characteristics...

Are we born male or female?

Forrest claims that the idea we are born male or female is deeply flawed, and that there are hermaphroditic species that are simultaneous (they produce both sperm and eggs) or sequential (they start out as one sex and then switch).

First, in humans, we can accurately and easily observe sex at birth or even in utero by observing external genitalia, which accurately correlates to sex in more than 99.98% of births (Sax 2002; van Zoest et al. 2019). Second, what do hermaphroditic species have to do with humans, whose individuals are either male or female? And third, hermaphroditic species still involve only two sexes: male and female. It’s just that they are composed in a single individual, where individuals are both male and female or can switch due to environmental circumstances (Avise 2011; Scharer 2017).

In humans, there has been no documented case of a hermaphrodite. You will see medical literature sometimes using the term hermaphrodite applied to a human with a sex development disorder, but this is a misnomer. Since 2005, scientists have pushed to abandon the term hermaphrodite for humans, as it is “scientifically specious and clinically problematic” (Dreger et al. 2005). The definition of a hermaphrodite is to develop both male and female systems and to be able to reproduce as both sexes. No case has been identified in any human (Rosenfield 2018).

Hyenas and the pseudo-penis

Forrest uses the hyena, where its females have large, external genitalia like the males. This is supposed to confuse the viewer into thinking that the definition of sex is arbitrary. But the female hyena is female not because of the incorrect assumptions of biologists, but because she develops the large gamete reproductive strategy (a phenotype that produces eggs). Her ‘penis-like’ structure is actually a giant clitoris through which she urinates, copulates, and gives birth (Cunha et al. 2005). The female hyena shows the unique sex characteristics within females of other species.

Male lactation in a fruit bat

In a Malaysian fruit bat species known as the Dayak fruit bat, the males of the species have been observed to produce milk. But their mammary glands and nipples were not as large as females, and the amount of milk was only about a tenth of that produced by females. Males were not observed nursing young...

Forrest makes the fundamental error of conflating variation in sex characteristics within humans and across species with sex itself. But sex characteristics evolved from the two sexes. They are byproducts of the two sexes, not examples beyond them.

6. Variation in sexual behavior

The last major category Forrest uses is variation in sexual behavior. He dumps on the viewer many cool and interesting examples of unique behavior across the animal kingdom and attempts to use this as evidence that the male-female distinction is arbitrary.

Seahorse reproduction

One major example Forrest uses is the unique reproductive biology of seahorses. Unlike mammals where the females gestate the young, male seahorses become “pregnant.” Except this pregnancy is not like mammals. The female seahorse deposits her eggs into the “brood pouch” of the male, where the eggs are fertilized by his sperm and incubated, protected, and provisioned (Zhang et al. 2018; Stolting and Wilson 2007). Even though the male seahorse “gestates” the young in his brood pouch, he is defined as male because he develops the phenotype that produces the sperm, just like every other male across species.

Dominant females and submissive males

Bonobos, historically called the pygmy chimpanzee, have dominant, socially aggressive females who form close bonds with each other to form social power over other group members. This goes against the stereotype of male aggression and domination over females, because there is evidence that these female bonds actually reduce male aggression patterns in the bonobo (Clay & Zuberbühler 2012). Despite their unique sexual behavior, we define the bonobos as male or female by the phenotypes that produce sperm or eggs.

Males building nests; females getting the food

In birds, it is common for the male to build the nest. There are many different techniques for nest building across avians; its ultimate purpose is to provide protection against environmental stress and predation which can also reduce offspring mortality and the need for parental care. Female birds have been sexually selected to seek out males with excellent nest building skills.

For example, in the common goby, whose males build nests underneath mussel shells by excavating a sand cavity, females prefer males with larger nests and solid sand ceilings (Pärssinen et al. 2019). We do not define these individuals as male or female based on their sexual behavior; we define them based on the biological definition of sex: the phenotype that produces sperm or eggs.

It is odd that Forrest thinks variation in sexual behavior across species is evidence that the male-female distinction is arbitrary. Instead of showing that male and female sexes are social constructs, the wide variation in sexual behavior reveals the beautiful diversity within males and females, something Forrest should appreciate if he truly wants to eliminate sex-based stereotypes and arbitrary social expectations for the two sexes.

Conflation of diversity with sexes

Ultimately, Forrest’s constant theme throughout his 30 minute video is the conflation of diversity within male and female with male and female themselves. He uses this treasure-trove of biological facts about the diversity of sex-related traits across species and within humans as evidence that male and female are somehow arbitrary, social constructs, and that the definition does not stand up to scrutiny.

But the biological definition of sexes is universal: it applies to every species with male-female sexes, regardless of within-species diversity in sexual behavior, sex characteristics, genetics, or sex allocation (Lehtonen and Parker, 2014; Scharer 2017). It’s not that every point Forrest utilizes is wrong; it’s that these many biological facts are used incorrectly, misrepresented, or are completely fabricated."


Links - 29th November 2025 (1 - SNAP/US Government Shutdown)

Meme - "I don't think the N in SNAP stands for "Nutrition""
"SNAP recipients say they'll "starve" without benefits in November..." *Shopping cart full of junk food*

Opinion | Shutdown could end after SNAP cutoff, open enrollment and elections - The Washington Post (aka "A turning point in the government shutdown") - "Schumer has allowed the shutdown to drag on because he’s worried about fending off a primary challenger in 2028, and he’s still smarting from blowback he got from angry liberals after he agreed to fund the government this spring... federal public employee unions, a core Democratic constituency, are losing patience. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 800,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said in a statement Monday that the shutdown is unacceptably hurting its members: “It’s time to pass a clean continuing resolution and end this shutdown today,” said AFGE National President Everett Kelley. “No half measures, and no gamesmanship.”... Senate Democrats mostly stuck together last Thursday to block a bill that would have ensured the troops and other categories of essential employees keep getting paid, but now they’re insisting on a standalone bill to keep SNAP funded. They’re also accusing Trump of not tapping into emergency funds to keep the payments going, even as they’ve criticized him for diverting funds toward programs they care less about... Save the debate for another day about whether too many people qualify for food stamps, which have become significantly more generous over the years. Keeping the government open should be separated from policy disputes about how to spend taxpayer money. It is wrong that Democrats have held the government hostage for a month in hopes of extending costly Obamacare subsidies, just as it was for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to shut down the government in 2013 for 16 days in a bid to defund the Affordable Care Act altogether... The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the office, and then have a debate about ACA subsidies. Democrats openly acknowledge that they refuse to do this because it would mean giving up their leverage. If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry."
I saw left wingers blame Republicans for not using the nuclear option, so the shutdown was their fault. But of course, if they did, this would be fascism

Attorney General Keith Ellison on X - "BREAKING: I'm suing the Trump administration to prevent them from suspending SNAP benefits. I will not allow Trump to use hungry children as bargaining chips. USDA has a multi-billion dollar contingency fund intended to keep programs like SNAP running. They must use it."
Grok on X - "Attorney General Ellison omits key context. SNAP suspension stems from a government shutdown causing lapsed appropriations, not arbitrary Trump fiat—Congress holds the purse. USDA states the contingency fund targets disasters or unforeseen spikes, not routine benefits amid shutdowns, deeming it legally unavailable for FY2026 regulars despite past continuations. His "bargaining chips" framing politicizes a funding dispute, ignoring lawmakers' role in resolving shutdowns."

iTamara on X - "Why are people worried about 42 Million people losing SNAP benefits, and not worried why so many people are on SNAP?"

Six Million on X - "I can see why some families are losing it over the SNAP cuts Some families haven't bought groceries since the 1950s/60s They have no memory of ever paying for food, there are people in their 50s, 60s, who have never actually paid for groceries, ever"

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍 on X - "quick math: Avg BMI of black american woman: 32 Avg height: 5'4 ∴ Avg Weight = 187 lbs To get to an acceptable BMI of 19, avg black woman needs to lose ~76 lbs In state of starvation, assume BMR of 1200 cal/day We should suspend SNAP for 220 days, 7.3 months QED"

Breitbart News on X - "Jon Stewart and Bernie Sanders agree: The Democrats own the shutdown, and they did it to "protect subsidies for an insurance marketplace that funnels $800 billion a year into the pockets of insurance companies.""

Robert Reich on X - "Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho. One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire. 25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage. This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown."
Dan 𝙏𝙖𝙭𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙄𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙛𝙩 Behrman Esq🍍 on X - "I think you missed the point. If this is happening because a subsidy is going away, then the insurance was always $2200/mo and that's the scam. Why is the insurance so high? Are they getting $26,400 in benefits every year? Nope. You're looking for the problem in the wrong place."
WindTalker on X - "Sounds like what happened to me when you A-Holes shoved Obamacare down my throat. GFY."
DaveWaveBig on X - "Me too. Went from $546/mo family of 4 including dental with $5 copay and $250 deductible to $1456/mo $7500 deductible no dental."
Wall Street Mav on X - "We are just going back to Obamacare as it was between 2014 thru 2021."

Based Bandita on X - "Okay so if the ‘Affordable Care Act’ was supposed to make insurance affordable, then why are Democrats demanding hundreds of billions in subsidies to keep health insurance from being unaffordable? Notice how it always backfires on them and the truth always comes to light!"

Wall Street Mav on X - "1) Obamacare ACA started 2014. Health insurance prices skyrocketed.
2) By 2021 it was so expensive, Biden and Dems passed temp subsidies to hide the cost of Obamacare.
3) Dec 31, 2025 the 2021 subsidies expire.
Democrats want the temporary 2021 subsidies to continue forever in order to hide how much of a disaster Obamacare has become.   If they could, Democrats would increase the subsidies even more to further hide the disaster of Obamacare policy requirements.  Why is Obamacare ACA messing up health insurance? Before the ACA, the individual health insurance market sold cheaper, less comprehensive plans. This made sense for many people, particularly young people who rarely have any serious issues."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY SMOKES! In a SHOCKING MOVE, the number two House Democrat Katherine Clark said the quiet part out loud regarding the shutdown...SUFFERING is their tool "Of COURSE there will be families that are going to suffer! [...] It is one of the FEW leverage times we have." 🤯"

Rapid Response 47 on X - "UPDATE: An unhinged @WhipKClark accuses @PressSec of lying after she.... quoted the congresswoman's own words from an interview she did on tape. Democrats are NOT sending their best!"

Democrats on X - "Republicans control the House. Republicans control the Senate. Republicans control the White House. This is their shutdown."
Charles C. W. Cooke on X - "This remains the weirdest shutdown in years. The Democrats shut down the government, and have a set of particular demands to reopen it. They’re clear about those demands, but, at the same time, routinely deny they shut down the government. Own it!"

C3 on X - "Well well well… Judge McConnell donated $700K to Democrats. He runs nonprofit Crossroads Rhode Island that has received $128 million in government funding. McConnell is now demanding POTUS Trump illegally fund SNAP. After he tried to block DOGE cuts. He’s a Dem activist."

Michael White - Arkansas Liberty on X - "My friend just told me his coworker was on the job site pissed about SNAP going away, saying “man now what am I going to do?” My friend asks “Don’t you make too much money for that anyway.” The reply? “I buy $2000 worth of SNAP a month for $500 from so and so. Now I have to pay full price for groceries.”  Is this common? How common?"

Chris Martenson on X - "Any other dutiful, hard-working tax donkeys out there unpleasantly surprised to discover that 1 in 8 Americans don't pay for their groceries?"
Thread by @MorosKostas on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "My spiciest deeply-held view is that being on welfare should void your right to vote until you are off of it (not counting retirement benefits and certain Veteran's programs).  The status quo is too busted. Politicians are incentivized to try and purchase votes by handing out free shit that is paid for by the taxpayers (or increasingly, unsustainable debt). Then people on welfare are incentivized to vote for whoever will keep handing it to them. It's perverse.  Hell, I'd even be OK with a 6 or 12 month "grace period." Maybe you fell on a hard time temporarily and just need some help. Fair enough, I'm cool with such people voting.  But if it's gonna be a long term thing, if you plan to live in part on our tax dollars, you shouldn't get a say in running the country until that changes. When people say "but we had open borders until the 20th century!" This is the big difference. No welfare back then. That incentivizes a very different kind of immigration."

Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - It has been revealed that Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff and other senate Democrats won’t vote to reopen the government because donors are paying them to keep it shut, stating their choice is between keeping it closed for $3 million or reopening it and losing fundraising."

MILO on X - "We cannot let 42 million Americans go hungry"
"We cannot have 42 million Americans condemned to life on handouts. A nudge now will bear the fruit of human flourishing later: Most will secure employment, rather than suffer. We do a great and lasting kindness, for dependence is deadlier to the spirit than hunger is to the body."

BundlebranchblockMD🇺🇸 on X - "Democrats close to me have told me that the shutdown is 100% Republicans' fault for not enacting the "nuclear option." In other words, Democrats agree with Trump? Whatever lets the Dems off the hook. 🙄 None of them are allowed to scream about fascism if it does happen."

Ed Krassenstein on X - "BREAKING: Trump Just called for the nuclear option. He’s trying harder and harder to gain more and more power. But he’s not a fascist, right?"
Mo on X - "When Obama pushed the nuclear option, it was hailed as bold leadership. When Trump does the same, it's fascism? The double standard isn't just hypocrisy—it's intellectual dishonesty dressed in moral outrage."
Meanwhile, I saw left wingers claim, before Trump pushed for the nuclear option, that the shutdown was his fault because he could call for the nuclear option but chose not to. You can never win with left wingers

Democrats launch alternative bill to save SNAP funding - "The legislation, led by Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), could draw Democratic support away from a rival bipartisan plan by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), which pushes USDA and the Treasury Department to fully fund November benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the nation’s largest anti-hunger initiative.  Luján’s bill, on the other hand, would require the administration to fund both SNAP and a separate food aid program serving low-income women and children. It would also require that states be reimbursed for funding benefits during the shutdown...  Their latest move comes after the Trump administration recently concluded it doesn’t have the legal authority to tap a USDA contingency fund to pay for billions of dollars worth of food aid next month."
Left wingers were spreading misleading memes claiming Republicans rejected a standalone bill, so SNAP going down was their fault
Naturally, the crowd yelling about "fascism" and that "no one is above the law" want Trump to break the law and use money he cannot

Illegal Immigrants To Be Hit Hard As SNAP and WIC Benefits Expire - "Of households headed by illegal immigrants, CIS estimated that 59 percent use one or more welfare programs — cash, food assistance, Medicaid, or housing. Illegal immigrant households have especially high use of food programs, with 48 percent enrolled in one or more of these programs — SNAP, WIC, or school lunch/breakfast. In particular, our analysis found that 17 percent of illegal immigrant households used SNAP. In addition to food programs, 18 percent of illegal immigrant households were enrolled in one of the cash programs; 4 percent were using a housing program; and 39 percent used Medicaid. Illegal immigrants often receive welfare on behalf of U.S.-born children, and illegal immigrant children can receive school lunch/breakfast and WIC directly. Some states provide Medicaid to illegal immigrants, and a few offer SNAP. Several million illegal immigrants also have been issued Social Security numbers allowing them to receive cash payments from the earned income tax credit if they work. Many immigrants have modest levels of education and low incomes, so suspension of WIC and SNAP will impact a large share of this population. But this situation raises important policy questions, including whether it makes sense to have an immigration system that allows in so many people who turn to taxpayers to support their children."
But left wingers keep claiming illegal immigrants don't get SNAP and Medicaid

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping revelation, Sec. Brooke Rollins found 5,000 DEAD PEOPLE getting SNAP, and 500,000 PEOPLE getting SNAP "2 times under the same name."  And that's just what they've confirmed...  "This light has now been shined one of the most CORRUPT, DISFUNCTIONAL programs in American history!"  "80% of able-bodied Americans - they can work, don't have small children, taking care of an elderly parent. They can work, they choose not to work, because they're getting significant benefits from the taxpayer!"  "VERY big announcements coming next week on this...we have a plan to fix it!"  WTF? That is blatant, rampant fraud! So glad it's coming to an end."

Breitbart News on X - ".@SecRollins drops multiple BOMBSHELLS:
-SNAP is going to make EVERY recipient reapply to verify "they can't survive without it"
-Benefits are being paid to nearly 200,000 dead people
-Half a MILLION recipients are double-dipping
"This is just data from 29 mostly red states."

Meme - "The Democrats are starting to eat each other"
Don Winslow: "EIGHT WHITE OLD SENATORS NOT ONE PERSON OF COLOR AMONG THEM LIED AND FUCKED OVER IMO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. MILLIONS AND MILLIONS WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTH CARE BECAUSE OF THESE OLD, EIGHT WHITE PEOPLE. THIS ISN'T JUST A BAD DECISION. THESE ARE REALLY BAD PEOPLE. LEARN THEIR NAMES."
"8 TRAITORS"
Weird. I thought the shutdown and SNAP ending was literally killing people and it was the Republicans' fault. But of course, it's still their fault for not agreeing to everything the Democrats wanted

The SNAP Cycle and Diabetes Management During a One-Time Change in Disbursement Schedule/a> - "We found that the early disbursement of SNAP benefits in January 2019 resulted in a spike in hyperglycemia four times the rate in a typical month. Further, we found a decrease in both hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in late February."
This suggests that SNAP increases the chance of recipients getting diabetes. So left wingers defending SNAP recipients buying candy and soda with it are harming them

Give A Shift About Nature | Facebook - "If you want to cut food stamps, remember: 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are kids. Why do you want kids to go hungry?"
Left wingers used to mock right wingers for caring about children. Now they weaponise them for SNAP and Trans mania

Kelly on X - "Them “I’m sick of subsidizing their groceries when mine cost so much” SNAP does not drive up grocery prices It’s inflation, tariffs & corporate greed For every $1 spent on SNAP there’s a $1.50 going back into the economy While you’re blaming the poor, the rich are robbing you"
Mark Hemingway on X - "“For every $1 spent on SNAP there’s a $1.50 going back into the economy” Wow. We should have the government buy everyone’s groceries and grow the economy even more! I wonder why we don’t do this? Oh right, that’s because this is an extremely stupid thing to believe."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY CRAP! It was just revealed that Chuck Schumer behind close doors begged to keep the government shut down to THANKSGIVING, per CNN He called Democrat governors and "influential party leaders" to give him "backup for his strategy." 🤯 Chuck wanted to DESTROY Thanksgiving travel for millions - on top of withholding pay from the troops, important federal programs, and employees.  "Some of those Schumer called told him no. Some just didn’t do it."  Utter insanity. THANK GOD President Trump and the GOP held the line."

Give A Shift About Nature | Facebook - "Trump's BLS isn't going to publish a jobs report for October. I guess the numbers can't be bad if you deny that there are numbers. Checkmate, libs."
Democrats shutdown the government then blame Trump for late numbers. And the base laps it up.

Friday, November 28, 2025

Links - 28th November 2025 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Claire on X - "Alain Destexhe, who worked as a doctor with MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in the 1980s before serving as the group’s secretary-general in the 1990s, said the organization moved away from its impartial, humanitarian roots. "Well, it would have been impossible at the time when I was secretary-general of MSF to be as biased as it is now in Gaza. We were defining ourselves as a neutral, impartial and humanitarian organization. I think now MSF in Gaza is really taking the side of Hamas and against Israel.” Destexhe uncovered several social media posts on accounts belonging to MSF staffers appearing to celebrate the Oct. 7 massacre. Destexhe explained to that much of MSF’s staff in the Gaza Strip are Palestinians, not foreign workers. Destexhe also noted in his interview that MSF was echoing the sentiments and statistics of the Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas. This included the swift condemnation of a blast that occurred at Al-Ahli Hospital. While it was later discovered that the explosion was caused by a Palestinian Islamic jihad rocket that misfired, MSF neither corrected nor deleted its condemnation, which is still available on X. "MSF is lying, MSF is partial, MS is biased and MSF are accomplices of Hamas," Destexhe said."

Hen Mazzig on X - "CNN aired an interview with a Hamas leader where he openly states that he thinks that every single death of a Palestinian since October 7th has been worth it. Viewers are now mad. Why? Not because Hamas is gleefully wreaking death and destruction on Gaza. But because CNN is “vilifying” Hamas by sharing Hamas's own words. Free Palestine can’t handle the truth about Hamas because it exposes their lies."

Hamas Leader: ‘Women, Children, Elderly’ Must Die In Gaza To Help Our Fight Against Israel - "Hamas leader Isamil Haniyeh called for Palestinian civilians to die in Israel’s strikes against Hamas terrorists inside of Gaza. The remarks come as Hamas commits war crimes by using civilians as human shields and lies about events that have unfolded during the three-week war, including its false claims that Israel bombed a hospital. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) captured remarks that Haniyeh made during an address on Thursday in which he falsely claimed Israel was committing a “new holocaust” against the Palestinians inside Gaza."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Hamas official Fathi Hammad: “Hamas is ISIS and is planning to establish an Islamic Caliphate. We sacrifice our elders and children as human shields.”"
John Spencer on X - "I have said it many times. Hamas (according to multiple senior Hamas official statements) do not only have a human shield strategy, they have a human sacrifice strategy. The call for the death of their own population to achieve their political goal of the destruction of Israel."
The cope is that it's Israel's fault because it forces the Palestinians to engage in human sacrifice. We need to let Hamas kill all the "Zionists" and destroy Israel

Zarah Sultana MP on X - "We must sever all diplomatic ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel immediately. Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy. As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state. We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea."
Jonathan Wong on X - "Sitting MP inciting war after a peace deal has been signed is pretty wild."

Meme - "Congratulations to Hamas leader Khaled Mashal for hitting a net worth of $5 billion! All of that American and European taxpayer money hard at work."
"Hamas leader Khaled Mashal (left) reached a net worth of $5 billion. A mega yacht (right) owns by Khaled Mashal. Photo Hurriyet Daily News."
Left wingers hate billionaires, right?

Meme - Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres: "The Bronx Anti-War coalition, which has been targeting me since October 7th, has described the murderous targeting of Jews as "the highest expression of anti-Zionism." Violence is not a bug but a feature of virulent Anti-Zionism."
Bronx Anti-War: "What Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism."
The "stop the war" people want mass murder

Neil G. Oberman on X - "Our client, a Canadian citizen, was told that her place of birth—Kfar Saba, Israel—could not appear on her passport “because of the political conflict.” No law supports this. No regulation authorizes it. No democracy should tolerate it. Passports are not political documents. They are instruments of identity and equality before the state. When administrative discretion crosses into discrimination, the rule of law itself is fractured. Canada must do better. Accountability starts with transparency and training."

Canadian told Israel can't be listed as birthplace at passport office - "Alternatively, she was told she could have indicated her birth country as Palestine, and that Kfar Saba was one of several cities that was allegedly caught by this policy shift, including Jerusalem. Moreover, Zorchinsky was told this was a country-specific restriction – only affecting Israel. Doubting what she was told, Zorchinsky told National Post in an interview, she asked to see the policy supporting the official’s assertion. Then, she says, the employee went away and came back with a few colleagues who told her this change came about because Canada has recognized a state of Palestine. She was also told there was an online list of the cities caught by the policy change. Zorchinsky asked for a policy document that laid out the officials’ assertion. They provided nothing. “She (the passport employee) just said this without any support, no policy document. It was clear something was off.” Ultimately, the passport officials backed down and told her it was okay to designate Israel as her birth country... “Why should people have to suffer the indignity of having to beg?” says Zorchinsky’s lawyer, Neil Oberman. While his client pushed back, he suggests many people would be reluctant to do so... Contrary to Zorchinsky’s experience, a communications advisor for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Jeffrey MacDonald, wrote in an email to NP that “(n)o changes have been made regarding the issuing of passports for individuals born in Israel.”"

Largest US labor union 'erases Israel completely' in email to members - "An email sent by the National Education Association—the largest labor union in the United States—to its approximately 3 million members with resources for “teaching about indigenous peoples” included a map that “erases Israel completely,” according to the North American Values Institute. The resources also included items with “links to terror organizations” and those that “peddle in antisemitic conspiracy and defense of Oct. 7,” according to the nonprofit institute in Washington, D.C."

Sangita Myska on X - "🚨A huge number of delegates walkout as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrives arrives to address the United Nations #Gaza"
(((Dan Hodges))) on X - "Whatever your views of the conflict, if the UN isn't a forum for trying to bring adversaries together, what exactly is the point of it. And if you're just going to walk out on someone you object to, how are you supposed to mediate your way to a solution."

"Do You Hold ALL Palestinians Culpable?" Douglas Murray on Israel-Hamas, Riots & More - YouTube - "They want to use Palestinian children and their lives in order to pressurize the world. These are fanatics. They want the death of their own citizens, their own citizens in order to get world opinion turned against Israel. Again how do you negotiate with that? The assumption always is in the West today because we're we're so sort of fat and lazy in our in our expectation that peace is the norm and that historically it's the norm, we're so full of our own expectations and presumptions that we always think that wars end by some kind of compromise and coming around the the table to use the cliche. They don't. Historically most wars end because one side wins and one side loses and one of the reasons in my view why there is this endless rounds of war in this region is because the Israelis are never allowed to win and Hamas in this case are always allowed to draw. And I think that that is simply to set up the precursor for the next conflict. If Hamas come out of this with a fighting capability then there will be another round of this war in a couple of years... I treat the Palestinians in Gaza in the same way I would treat any other group that produced a horror like that. Yhey're responsible for their action, they're responsible for their actions. They voted in Hamas knowing what Hamas are. They allowed Hamas to carry out the coup killing Fatah and other Palestinians and dragging their bodies behind trucks in... Gaza... whether it's Hamas in Gaza or the PA in the West Bank all peoples who have been governed by terror entities like this are of course always themselves at risk, but the history of human liberation apart from anything else has always been people standing up to the tyrants who would who would rule over them and govern them... the settlements... I regard it as being a second order issue... remember that's the deal, that in a in a final status agreement the Palestinian areas in the West Bank just like Gaza must have no Jews in there. That's that's the absolute baseline from which everything starts. That's that's what everyone's agreed on on all sides. I don't know why but that's the agreement... what they actually want and you see again and again it is not about a a settlement dispute on a hill somewhere in Samaria. It's about whether or not Israel has the right to exist from 1948 to this day or not... they don't want an inch of this ground in this area to be governed by Israel and for Jews to be able to live in it... again and again since 1948 they have said, no we will sit this out and one day the Israelis will disappear and that's what we're holding out for. And that is the worst possible thing they could have said to the Palestinian people ... that is the reason there is not peace today. That is the reason there is not a final state of settlement agreement. It could have been there for decades... whatever you think of Ariel Sharon's pull out in 2005 most people would look back at it now and say look the Israelis didn't want to have to be in control of the Gaza then. It was a perpetual nightmare. They withdrew. A new nightmare began... Why are we in Britain so stupid that we allowed people like former Hamas military commander in the West Bank to to live in London? ,Why what did, what did we in Britain get out of allowing uh terrorists to live in our midsts? Why why is the former deputy prime minister of Iran who wrote the book justifying the murder of the British novelist Salman Rushie, why did the man who wrote the book justifying and calling for the murder of a British novelist, why why is he living in London? Why has he been living in London for the last 20 years? What has Britain got out of this? Why are we so crazy in Britain that we would give sanctuary to people who want our way of life over? And uh I've I've still never had a response to that question. I've asked it for many years and I've written extensively about it and I still cannot understand how a society can be so insane that it can welcome in people who want to destroy it...
Why is it that um tens of thousands of people in fact hundreds of thousands sometimes were shutting down the centre of London week in week out. Something by the way the French government wouldn't allow in Paris but was happening week in week out with people being intimidated on the streets of London and other cities with anti-Semitic and racist abuse from these marches. Every single week. All the time. Nobody in government just sort of said look okay we get the point but you don't have the right to intimidate people. Why do we have people outside Westminster Abbey um uh calling out jihadist chants? Why do we have people on the streets of London... calling for Jihad on the streets of London?... I would tell you why again it's because our government has lost control of the borders for years and now now we are a very low trust... society in Britain where we used to be very high trust and where we didn't used to be at risk of having riots at any moment because of one madman anywhere in the country. We're in this situation because the generations of politicians of all parties have brought us here, that is on them, but my question is always why has it got to be always a one-way street on the toleration. We are forever being told about how tolerant we have to be but it seems to me that the people saying that are highly intolerant of us and our traditions ... We have people in our country now who do not believe in that, who believe we have been a force for evil in the world, who march against our country, who threaten to despoil our holy places and our our very identity. The British public should not endlessly be uh putting up with being insulted and defamed. And my belief is that we have the right to stand up for our traditions and a right to stand up for our holy places and our holy days. And that and the the situation we're in is that if anyone does say we must uh you know if if if people are going to threaten to attack the cenotaph, we should defend it, people will say the people who defend it are far right extremists, by the way something they would never say against the people the other way around who would deface the cenotaph... Dougas Murray has said for years that what is now happening would happen... Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, SNP and others all just merrily went along the way of making our society something different. I never wanted that. I don't think the British people wanted that. We never voted for that. When we were asked whether we wanted it we said no and they didn't listen. So we'll see what happens in the years ahead and we'll see if Starmer and Co have any idea of how to solve the problems that generations of politicians have caused in Britain... I have very low belief that we have anyone in charge in Britain who knows what to do about this"
I've seen a terrorist supporter cope that Israel withdrew from Gaza because they wanted to occupy it
Never underestimate left wing nihilism and the death wish

“I Saved Sinwar’s Life-then he killed my nephew” // A conversation with Dr. Yuval Bitton - "Dr. Yuval Bitton worked for years as a dentist in Israel’s Nafcha Prison, where he met Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas arch-terrorist who was convicted of murder and would go on to become the group’s leader in Gaza. Dr. Bitton spent hundreds of hours conversing with Sinwar, who provided him with rare insight into the Islamic terrorist group. In 2004, Bitton saved Sinwar’s life by discovering a brain abscess and getting him the necessary medical treatment. At the time, Sinwar promised Bitton that he would eventually repay his kindness. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists murdered his nephew...
And you have no regrets over what you did?
People always ask me that question. My answer is no. First of all, it was my professional obligation as a doctor to help every person. Second, these are our values both as Jews and Israelis. We aren’t taught to hate our enemies. We don’t desire vengeance. We know the righteousness of our path, why we are here and what we need to do in order to survive. When [Egyptian President Anwar] Sadat visited Israel in 1979, I was a 13-year-old boy. I stood by the side of the road waving the Israeli and Egyptian flags together with my entire school. We cheered the person who up until then had been our greatest enemy. This was the man who had said that he was ready to sacrifice a million Egyptian soldiers to destroy Israel. But when he spoke to us in the language of peace, we responded in kind. So although we don’t hate our enemies, we also know who they are and what they are capable of. There is a paradox that we call the Jewish State. Initially, we were only 650,000 citizens surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs who have large countries with vast resources, capabilities and armies. How were we able to survive? It’s only because of the Jewish spirit and our moral advantage. We aren’t like our enemies; we don’t sanctify death, we sanctify life."

99% Johnny Graz on X - "I guarantee not one Zionist can explain how the Holocaust was a genocide but Israel's historically sadistic murder spree isn't. And I mean actually *explain*, not share your feelings on why reality doesn't exist."
Rich Toronto on X - "During the Holocaust, the population of Jews globally went down by about 35%. Nothing the Jews did would have stopped it from occurring. The intent was to wipe out the Jewish people. During the war in Gaza, it is unknown what percentage the population has changed because there’s no information on number of civilians vs combatants. That said, according to Grok, the global population of Palestinians has increased approximately 6.3 % since the start of the war. In addition, the people of Gaza could have stopped the war at any time by returning the hostages and disarming. The intent of Israel has always been to bring home the hostages, and disarm Hamas. Not my “feelings” or “opinions”. Facts."

Daniel Rubenstein on X - "I'm reading the UN Human Rights Council report that accuses Israel of the g-word. It is hard to overstate the stupidity contained within. Here are some sentences that I just read: "Based on the above, the Commission finds that the Israeli security forces were aware that their military operations since 7 October 2023 would cause the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza. Furthermore, considering the duration of the military operations and reports of high numbers of deaths, it is reasonable to find that the Israeli authorities knew of the high numbers of casualties in Gaza since 7 October 2023. Nevertheless, Israeli authorities did not intervene to change the means and methods of warfare employed; on the contrary, the military operations persisted over time and caused even more Palestinian deaths. The Commission therefore finds that the Israeli authorities intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible through its military operations in Gaza since 7 October 2023 and knew that the means and methods of warfare employed would cause mass deaths of Palestinians, including children.""
Haviv Rettig Gur on X - "You all think this is funny. This isn’t funny. The entire edifice is rotten and failing. The new UN standard for calling a war “genocide” - at least if Jews are involved; they’re not claiming this in Sudan or Ukraine or Yemen - is “knowing not all deaths will be combatants and doing the war anyway.” By that definition, every war is a genocide. Every. Single. War. But it’ll still work. The actual argument is irrelevant. No one, no journalist and no scholar and no politician, will bother with the staggering incoherence of this report, with the collapse of international law into pathological stupidity. The point is the libel. And all the institutions will play their role. This is that how the world works now. At least, again, when Jews are involved."

CMV: Israel is committing a genocide : r/changemyview - "Are you serious? Two thirds of the dead are non-combatants and that doesn’t indicate non-combatants aren’t being deliberately targeted? How bloody high does that percentage need to be before you start thinking ‚hey I think they might be targeting those civilians on purpose‘."
"Non combatants make up over 95% of the population of Gaza, possibly as high as 98%. If Israel was bombing indiscriminately, we'd expect that to be the rough ratio. To bring it to the point where combatants make up 6 to 15 times their proportion of the population under circumstances where Hamas is deliberately trying to make themselves impossible to distinguish, that's not a remotely easy feat. To put it in easier to understand terms, only 2% of the non combatant population has died in the war, while the deaths among terrorists are likely at least 40%."

Canadian October 7 'martyrs' events panned for glorifying terrorism - "Hamas victims’ families and Canadian Jewish groups are condemning anti-Israel protesters’ plans for events commemorating the “martyrs of Palestine” on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks. “When you think they can’t sink any lower, they do,” said Raquel Look, a Montreal woman whose son, Alexandre, was murdered on Oct. 7, 2023, after attending the Nova Music Festival in Re’im, southern Israel... Social media posts indicate there are events planned at several Canadian universities, including Concordia, McGill and the University of Toronto, that would appear to glorify the October 7 attacks... Concordia released a statement that said “all in-person classes and activities on the Sir George Williams Campus, including labs,” were cancelled due to “potentially obstructive protests.”... “two individuals were arrested following the disruption of a class and midterm exam” on Monday, the university’s President and Vice-Chancellor Graham Carr said in an email sent to the “Concordia community” and shared with National Post. “One of those arrested was later discovered to be in possession of a metal bar and several incendiary devices,” he said, adding that the individuals were not part of the Concordia community."
Weird. I thought no one supports terrorism, and no one supports Hamas

UTMSU “Honouring Our Martyrs” commemoration called “hateful” by Stephen Lecce - "The Varsity spoke with recent UTM graduate Yasmine Benabderrahmane, who said that, “there needs to be caution and regard to the Jewish body on our campuses, but I don’t think it’s fair to continuously police the way Palestinians choose to advocate for themselves and police the way that the [Palestine liberation] movement is unfolding.” Additionally, Benabderrahmane believes it would have been “unfair” for the UTMSU to choose a different date for the commemoration because “The genocide on Gaza was also assumed on October 7.”"
If you're against glorifying terrorism, you're a bad person. It's telling that slaughtering Jews is somehow genocide of Palestinians - a perfect illustration of the perversity of terrorism supporters

‘Honouring Our Martyrs’ event at U of T draws criticism over terrorism glorification : r/Toronto_Ontario - "Disgusting. I also want to say I’m grateful for this sub. The responses posted in the ‘main’ Toronto sub to this article being posted there were vile apologia for (and sometimes celebrations of) terrorism and Jew-hate."
"Purging and locking is just how they avoid acknowledging the left's problems with antisemitism. Notice they blame it on "brigading from agitators outside our community", as if antisemitism isn't so normalized among the progressive left that all the student unions are in on it."

Man attacks group of Orthodox Jews in Milan : r/anime_titties - "'Police arrested at Milan Central Station a 25-year-old Pakistani man with a criminal record for aggravated assault based on racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination after he allegedly attacked a group of Jewish American citizens waiting to board a train, sources said Monday night.'
So a far right scumbag? Hope he gets locked up for a long time. Now watch Zionists try to put the blame on the Pro-Palestinian movement.
Edit: Already happening in this thread. They never fail to be predictable."
"According to police, the suspect punched and kicked the victim while shouting anti-Semitic threats, including “You s**t Jews, you kill children in Palestine, and I’ll kill you." - whilst Ill be the first to say that I dont trust the first reports that come out and one crazy person doesnt speak for a decentralized movement, he does appear to have attacked because of Palestine."
"I dont think this Pakistani is voting for Italy far right tho"
"Well he did something bad so he's clearly far right. /s"
Amazing cope from a terrorist supporter, as usual

Hen Mazzig on X - "ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING: “I never thought such an attack could happen to me in my own building. Since it happened, I haven’t dared to go outside. I’m in pain, and I don’t feel safe anymore.” Sacha, a 13-year-old French Jewish boy, was assaulted by five teenagers inside his own apartment building. On Thursday afternoon, after dropping off his school bag at home in the Paris suburbs, Sacha went back downstairs to buy a snack. In the elevator with him were five teenagers: two girls and three boys. They weren’t friends, but they had attended the same youth center, and they knew Sacha was Jewish. As soon as they got into the elevator, one of the girls asked if his clothes were branded and started touching them. When Sacha told her to stop, she immediately called him a “dirty Jew.” Her friends joined in, telling her, “Go on, beat him up, he’s making fun of you.” When the elevator doors opened, Sacha tried to walk away quickly, but the five followed him. “The girl who insulted me tripped me from behind, and I fell hard to the ground. My head, neck, and back slammed against the floor. I couldn’t breathe for a minute, I was completely winded. When I asked them to help me, they just laughed and mocked me before running away.” Unable to get up, Sacha called his father for help. He was taken to the hospital and now has to wear a neck brace and a back support due to his injuries. One of the girls in the elevator had already approached Sacha a month earlier, asking him if he was “for Israel or Palestine.” When he didn’t reply, she called him a “dirty Zionist.” Sacha’s mother says antisemitism has exploded since October 7: “We’re hiding like it’s 1940 all over again. We found our mezuzah on the ground and had to remove it. My husband and I even changed the family name we use for online orders, after finding torn-off labels, packages thrown to the ground, or never delivered. It’s getting worse every day — we now live in constant fear.”"
Left wingers who keep going on about modern Anne Franks in their attics (when talking about deporting illegal immigrants) support attacking "Zionists"

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