Links - 5th December 2025 (1 - Left Wing Economics)

Jacobin on X - "Imagine a vampire came to the New World with Columbus in 1492. If he somehow managed to earn or steal the equivalent of $1 million 2025 US dollars every day, he wouldn't become a trillionaire until about 4232 — 2,740 years later.  Not even Dracula himself would be as effective a blood sucker as oligarchic trillionaires-to-be like Elon Musk."
Friend of the Talking Bird on X - "Flat Earthers have a better understanding of geography than socialists have of economics."
Epistemic Violence on X - "“if you stole continuously for five hundred years you wouldn’t be as wealthy as if you held a large stake in productive enterprises you built” that’s a pretty good reason to be a capitalist instead of a thief, thanks Jacobin!"
Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "Leftists mistake wealth creation for theft. In their zero-sum world, if Tesla didn’t exist, its billions would “belong” to the working class, never mind that it wouldn’t exist at all."
Ryan Palmer on X - "They also apparently have no concept of compounding or exponents."

wanye on X - "Leftism has nowhere to go but authoritarianism, because it demands that you ignore incentives and self interest, which no free humans will ever do. So they have no choice but to put more and more restrictions on your behavior, until finally you just don’t have a choice at all."

Meme - Putting Workers 1st: BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS: "Many people don't understand that wealth and money are finite. So people having billions and billions of it means your money is worth less AND there is less for you. Extreme wealth causes extreme poverty and it always will. Billionaires shouldn't exist."
Left winger have a zero sum mentality. They love the fixed pie fallacy. Ironic, since they claim rights are not like cake. When there's a much better case to be made that wealth is not like cake than rights

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
Clearly, they didn't get enough money and it was the fault of capitalism, and if you ask questions you're a bad person who wants people to die

Wall Street Mav on X - "Only in America can a kid wear $150 shoes, sip a $8 coffee, and post from a $1,200 phone about being oppressed and claiming capitalism has failed them."

MC Squared on X - "Many people are convinced they need a therapist, when in reality they might just need a new economic system, and an egalitarian society that offers hope and meaning to their life"
This helps explain why left wingers are mentally ill. The mentally ill look for someone and something to blame for their problems. But it's a self-reinforcing cycle. Hatred destroys the soul.

Meme - @Batman could just use his money to fix all the problems in Gotham! More social aid and investment would solve everything without violeuce!
He does do that. He literally does that all the time. Homeless shelters, reform initiatives for ex-Cons, youth programs, these are all things Bruce does to solve Gotham's underlying social issues. Try reading an actual comic book sometime."

Why do many westerners on reddit want to see the collapse of western civilization so bad? : r/stupidquestions - "I think this is largely lack of exposure and understanding of how things have been historically. To repurpose a quote from the great work One Piece 'Children who've never seen peace and children who've never seen war have different values', except we are also talking about things like starvation aswell.  There are still injustices in the world, and saying things are better than they were doesn't resolve this. However a total collapse situation isn't going to fix this."
"the mindset I have been seeing on reddit is that after the end of capitalism, everyone will be "free" with no elaboration, which sounds just like one of cults that promise eternal bliss"
"That's called "accelerationalism" Its a belief system you will find in people from across a variety of political stances.  The basic idea is they think "I cant wait for society to collapse, then MY ideology, the one correct belief system, will take over!"  Its a very self centered belief that you can find in left, right, and fringe political groups."
"It also shows a severe lack of a knowledge of history."
"True. It reminds me of people who dont understand logistics and seem to believe it is as simple as chucking stuff on a lorry and driving to a supermarket."
Why do many westerners on reddit want to see the collapse of western civilization so bad? : r/stupidquestions - "Exactly. I hate to be that guy but so many of these “anti-capitalists” think the fall of capitalism when result in them not working or working way less. In other words they are lazy. These people ignore the reality that stuff still has to happen. Food needs harvesting, machines need maintenance, infrastructure needs maintaining. We like electricity, plumbing, internet, etc. these things don’t magically appear. It takes people doing work to make it happen. Sometimes that work sucks or has to happen at inconvenient times. “Destroying” capitalism isn’t going to change that."
"You simply have to ask them what they will do when capitalism falls. "I will be growing my own potatoes and teaching poetry in the afternoon" No my dude you will be sent to the mines."

Meme - Nina Turner @ninaturner: "Yes, the person who makes the fries at McDonald's should be able to pay for housing, groceries, and other bills with their paycheck alone."
Major Swagger: "Then I wanna quit my job and make fries at McDonald's Waaaay less stressful"
anordinaryperson @GoodTimes2024: "If pay for work should be based on how stressful it is then CEOs need a pay cut in America because playing golf isn't stressful."

Meme - "GREAT IDEA FOR SOCIALISTS. THE ACTORS UNION WOULD BE THE PERFECT PLACE TO TRY SOCIALISM! AN ACTOR EARNING $20 MILLION COULD REDISTRIBUTE THEIR WEALTH TO GIVE HUNDREDS OF STRUGGLING ACTORS A LIVING WAGE. *Mark Ruffalo*"

Meme - Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo: "It's time for an economic revolution. Capitalism today is failing us, killing us, and robbing from our children's future."
Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff: "Agree, too many getting rich making movies. Entertainment should be free, a public good. No one should profit from it. That's exploitation. Entertainment is a human right. Let's create a Dept. of Entertainment to be the single provider. Equal pay for actors and postal workers!"

Meme - Jen Kiggans @JenKiggans: "Sunday afternoons are for grocery shopping at the commissary. So thankful to the Defense Commissary Agency for taking care of the military families and veterans in Hampton Roads and around the world (and I save an average of $2 $3 off my favorite Tillamook chocolate peanut"
More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS: "This Congresswoman is saving money at a government owned and operated grocery store."
Xavier Morocco @_Xavier_Morocco: "That isn't available to the public, charges a 5% surcharge on all purchases, and is expected to operate at a $26,000,000 loss in FY 2026."
Left wingers were claiming this showed Zohran Mamdani was right and when told it lost money saw no problem with that. They're really clueless

FischerKing on X - "The West has already conquered genuine poverty. Poor people have apartments, cars and flat screens. But what never goes away is envy, which is just rooted in human beings. UBI, even a really good UBI, will not solve this problem. And AI making everyone idle will magnify it."

Meme - Quokka: "I don't like economists"
Nicholas Decker...: "There is no statistically significant impact of income on crime. Criminality and poverty coexist because they are both caused by the same underlying traits. Giving poor people money will not make them any less violent."
"Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children"
Weird. I thought reality had a liberal bias
Clearly, they didn't receive enough money

RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS on X - "That economists are often the only social scientists willing to tell people uncomfortable truths is evidence in favor of the validity of their field."
wanye on X - "Quite a lot of the progressive worldview is just simply not true. One wonders what percentage of progressives are aware of this and still believe it anyway. That’s possible. There are aspects of progressivism that are based on a particular weighting of various trade-offs and that don’t really require that you believe things that simply aren’t true; but what is that — like, 5% of progressives?"

Meme - Crying Soyjak: "RAISE THE TAXES! INCREASE MINIMUM WAGES!"
Shocked Soyjak: "Why is everything so expensive?!"  

Rep. Dan Goldman on X - "If Starbucks can spend billions on buybacks and executive payouts, it can negotiate a fair contract with its workers. The “Red Cup Rebellion” is what happens when a company chooses to union-bust and retaliate against employees seeking a living wage and benefits.  I proudly joined the @Labor_Caucus in demanding Starbucks bargain in good faith."
Bad Hombre on X - "You’re literally the heir of Levi Strauss, which relocated production to sweatshops in Haiti and Honduras, screwing thousands of American workers, and then infamously got caught retaliating against and intimidating workers trying to unionize in those countries."

There is a fatal clash of two ideas at the heart of Western society - "It is the cost of eggs, not the appeasement of Russia, that is undermining the Trump White House and American voters are not shy about saying so. That is because they are unabashed in their belief that the American way of life is based on an abiding principle: that individuals have an inalienable right to improve their circumstances in life by their own efforts. If they find that their aspiration and determination are frustrated by things that are beyond their control like inflation or competition for jobs from illegal migrants, they expect the government to act effectively on those problems. Traditionally in the United States, it has been believed that this was what government was for: to remove obstacles to individual achievement and progress.  Much more recently the European model of state intervention and the creation of a welfare state which is designed to protect the disadvantaged and to care for those who, it is believed, cannot succeed on their own, has been brought into the US electoral arena. It is espoused by Left liberals like Bernie Sanders and the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, who have gained a hearing but whose ideas are still considered exotic and profoundly at odds with mainstream discourse. It is important to appreciate this because, paradoxically, it could help to illuminate the identity crisis that European democracies are undergoing. Americans who demand that the obstacles to individual success and personal advancement be removed – that it is, in fact, the most important function of government to remove them – do not see themselves as selfish or callous. On the contrary, they believe quite sincerely that they are upholding an important moral standard: individuals must fulfil their potential and make the effort to succeed as best they can in order to take responsibility for their own lives. Most importantly, to as great an extent as possible, they must see to it that their children will have greater opportunities for self-advancement than they did. That was, and still is, the great American promise.  But it is not only Americans who think this way. Large proportions of the populations, perhaps majorities, of almost all the European democracies believe it too. Self-determination, the right to make your own decisions and take control of your own fate, could be said to be the whole point of a free society. Whether they would say so explicitly or not, most people feel that they should be able to take decisions for themselves about their social and economic condition – and that they should be prepared to accept the consequences of those decisions. Indeed, they believe that it is the possible consequences – the risks – that may follow from those choices which are the only things that make people behave sensibly. It follows that they resent the idea that the state should support those who have made no effort to improve their lives.  They do not see this resentment as nasty or unkind. On the contrary, they regard it as a conscientious expression of concern for the longer term well-being of those who might be consigned to lifelong failure. This perfectly plausible moral view has been almost drowned out in European politics by generations of  class-based ideology. The very idea of a public morality based on individualism – generally termed “selfish individualism” – was attacked. Then there was the inviolable credo that those who appeared to fail, even if they refused to try, were not to blame. Their bad choices were determined by the misfortune of their circumstances which were out of their control.  In some cases, of course, this would be true – but as a general principle applied to the whole of a population it became an insidious vindictive force: all those who succeeded were guilty of stealing wealth and advantage from all those who failed. Allowing people to prosper and achieve the rewards of their own ingenuity or hard work could not be acceptable because their success created inequality and was, in effect, a form of theft from those who lacked those fortunate traits. The only decent political solution was to take some of that advantage away and hand it out to those who, through no fault of their own, had achieved less. Wealth redistribution or, as it came to be known, “social fairness”, relied on the idea that even your apparent virtues – self-reliance, responsible behaviour, determination – were actually unfair privileges.   If your actions are constructive and conducive to success, that is just the good luck with which you happened to be gifted at birth. The problem for contemporary democracy is that a great many people believe this too. In fact, it is probably the case that a majority of the populations of Western countries believe both of these arguments – that people should be rewarded for succeeding by their own efforts, and that they should be penalised by having to support those who have not made an effort. It has simply become impossible for societies to sustain this contradiction any longer."

Rob Moore on X - "Socialism is when you take £10,000 from one productive person who works & give £1,000 to 10 people who do not work, and then blame the one productive person for all the country’s problems so the 10 people will vote for you Then the productive people leave & the system implodes on itself"

John Rain on X - "Having antisocial behavior is influenced 41% by genetics, according to this study published in the Journal of Criminal Justice."
Proof that poverty causes crime

Billie Eilish's $11,500,000 donation sparks confusion - "While on stage accepting her award at the Wall Street Journal Innovator Awards, Billie, 23, took aim at the billionaires in the room. ‘If you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to some people that need it,’ the Birds of a Feather singer said. ‘Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but give your money away, shorties.’... However, backlash bubbled when fans noted that while Billie’s speech urged billionaires to give up their own wealth, the money didn’t appear to have come from her own funds. Billie’s net worth is an estimated $50million (£38million) for her music, brand deals, and other business ventures. Instead, it’s believed a large portion of the money came from fans willing to pay extra at her tour — which she did not mention in her speech... ‘Wait what 😭😭😭 she charged her fans extra and she is claiming it as a donation as if she made it from her own pocket and personal gain,’ imalltoowell wrote."
Like with Ms Rachel, literally 五十步笑百步

Sam Schulenberg on X - "Abundance is rejected by sections of both the DSA and the establishment left because it treats policy as a tool to deliver what people need (more homes, cheaper electricity) rather than a weapon in a performative class war or a spoils system for favored interests and industries."

50 Nerds of Grey | Facebook - ""I once saw someone use food stamps to buy..." Why are you watching what other people buy? 🤔 Normal people don't do that. Please be normal."
Of course, these are the same people who keep bitching about billionaires buying yachts

Evie ♡ on X - "if you believe that someone needs to work in order to not starve or freeze to death then you’re a horrible person. i don’t make the rules"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This guilting approach just doesn't work on me, personally, at all. I have no duty to give hostile strangers my resources, if they are ALSO so lazy and useless they might otherwise die."
To think we used to be told "the world doesn't owe you a living"

Seattle’s New Socialist Mayor Goes Full Communist, Says She Won’t Allow Private Grocery Stores To Close - "Democratic Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that she will not allow private grocery stores to close in a resurfaced video from September.  Wilson said during her mayoral run that corporate grocery chains should not be allowed to only sell food to those who can afford it and expressed support for a “public option,” meaning that government-run grocery stores would be established. Her proposal emerged at a time when Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani had promised to establish government-run grocery stores throughout the city.  “Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores that will leave behind food deserts,” Wilson said. “Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone, not just for those who can afford it. Food deserts are not natural, corporations create them when they abandon our communities.”"
Next step - nationalise them!

antifa🔻girlfriend on X - "boy i sure do love exiting subway stations through the emergency exit door! unfortunately i am a very slow walker and easily distracted so sometimes i look up from my phone and find that i’ve been holding the door open for a minute or more without even realizing it"
Daniel Trubman on X - ""More of the economy should be publicly owned" and "It's good to steal from publicly owned agencies" seem like obviously contradictory statements, but somehow it's the primary stance of a lot of DSA types? Sewer Socialists would hate these people."
keysmashbandit on X - "Literally why. Why. Why. Why. Why. It costs money to run the trains. They're good for everyone. Modern miracle. Under what leftist philosophy would you want to fare evade. I don't understand it."
wanye on X - "One thing you notice with communist types is that they experience a kind of mental anguish in regards to things most of us are fine with, like paying for things that they genuinely find useful and good. Like, when I pay my rent or my mortgage I feel fine about it. But they experience deep psychological torment.  They’re not faking it. You almost have to feel sorry for them that they’re so bothered by such ordinary aspects of life."
The left wing position is that these things should be tax-funded, but they have no answer to the death spiral where higher and higher taxes are imposed on fewer and fewer productive activities, since they want more of the economy to be public

Why do right wingers vote against their self-interest more than left-wingers? : r/AskSocialScience - "This isn't really answerable unless you clearly define what "one's self interest is."  If a left wing movie star votes for higher taxes, it's not in their immediate financial interest but might be in their long term financial interest or might be indirectly in their interest if it helps their community.  If a right wing business tycoon votes for lower taxes, it might be in order to give more money to charity to help their community or to hire more workers in their community, etc.  So what kind of interests are we talking about? Moral? Financial? Structural? Who are we talking about? The wealthy? The poor? Specific racial or ethnic groups? And are we talking about short term interests? Long term interests? Direct effects? Indirect effects?  Even getting much more specific like this, it would be hard to establish even your premise, but at least it would approach answerability. As a case in point, here's an attempt to analyze self interests by political party for just housing policies:  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/711717  If you even just read the abstract, you'll get the idea that decision making when voting is far more complicated than simply being for it against one's self interests."

Meme - Rock @TheCensoredRock: "Me going to work everyday and paying for my own shit doesn't make me "lucky""
Liberal Jane @liberaljanee: "You are not 'better' than someone on welfare - just *luckier*"
Left wingers don't believe the "oppressed" have agency

Craig Weiss on X - "imho, when you hit $1B+ net worth, you are morally obligated to serve the human race"
Bojan Tunguz on X - "imho, if your $1B+ net worth was achieved through a successful business, then you have already served the human race more impactfuly than the 99.9999% of all humans who have ever lived. and far, far more than all the petty grandstanders."

Wall Street Mav on X - "“ if you are getting 85% of your needs met through food stamps, Medicaid and rent subsidies, and then someone offered you a job for 40 hours per week…”  “ work 40 hours to get 100% or do nothing for 85%. People looked at that and said 85% is fine.”  “ and once people figured that out, there was no way to get them out of that.”"

Links - 4th December 2025 (2 - General Wokeness)

Brian Allen on X - "Gavin Newsom just said the quiet part out loud: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.” And he’s right. “Anti-woke” was never about ideas, it was a marketing campaign to sanitize racism, roll back progress, and make bigotry sound intellectual."
Michael Shermer on X - "This is grade A BS. “If you disagree with me you’re a racist” is not an argument. The vast majorities of Americans both liberal and conservative disagree with woke ideology. Why? Because its tenets are wrong, irrational and, ironically, racist (in judging people by skin color)."

Adrian Vermeule on X - "The tweet that confirms everything conservatives say about higher education:
“Challenges traditional norms” — c’mon you’ve been teaching the same tired “critical theory” for two generations now, that itself is the encrusted tradition"
John Carney on X - "meullarmine I call this a “mask of opposition.” Even when the entire university agrees with them, they claim they are challenging norms."
On the AAUP

Bernie on X - "🚨Absolutely OUTRAGEOUS scenes in Parliament. Tommy Robinson is called a Far right racist hate preacher. And Elon Must is compared to Putin as a National threat… because he’s paying his legal bills. A reminder, we pay the legal bills of thousands of illegal migrant criminals but not Tommy Robinsons."
Ironically, in the Tommy Robinson terrorism case she is talking about, he was acquitted and it was recognised that the police were politically persecuting him

Columbia Law School Tells Students To Avoid Offensive Terms Like 'Crazy Uncle' and 'Grandfathering' - "At a mandatory training for Columbia Law students, a vocally anti-Trump diversity consultant warned that the terms "crazy uncle" and "grandfathering" could be offensive and attacked President Donald Trump for complimenting the president of Liberia on his English, calling the comment a "microaggression."...   Facilitated by Marguerite Fletcher, a former corporate attorney at WilmerHale, the training was organized around a single "case study" in which a student complains that it is difficult to schedule events around Jewish holidays. In audio of the training, Fletcher—who has wished her clients a "HappyChrismaHanuKwanzakah"—described the complaint as a paradigmatic "microaggression" and encouraged students to list other examples.  When one student mentioned complimenting a foreign person’s English, Fletcher launched into a diatribe against Trump, who in July had praised Liberia’s president, Joseph Boakai, for speaking better English than his own cabinet.  "I know I shouldn't go political, but our president did that recently to an African president, [the] president of Liberia," Fletcher said. "‘You speak English better than the people in my office.’ Hmmm… yes, he does."  Elsewhere in the training, Fletcher argued that lawyers should avoid the term "grandfathering" because of its "racist origins" in the Jim Crow South. And she described how, at a "lawyer well-being group" in Massachusetts, she had been chided for using the term "crazy uncle" because it could stigmatize those with mental health issues...   The training at Columbia—where one student, Khymani James, infamously said that "Zionists deserve to die"—did not address the sort of comments that made Jewish students fear for their safety during the anti-Israel protests that prompted the Trump administration to freeze more than $400 million in grants and contracts to the university in March.  A Columbia Law School spokesman said the training was intended to fulfill the accreditation standards of the American Bar Association, which requires law schools to "provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism" at the start of their legal education... the session offers a window into how even schools seeking to appease the president have continued the DEI programs that he is attempting to destroy... she said that she doesn't alert men when they are entering women’s bathrooms, lest she inadvertently commit a microaggression against transgender people.  "If it was a man, then by saying something I would have helped a stranger avoid momentary embarrassment," she wrote. "However, if it was a woman, then I would have committed a textbook microaggression. The person was going about their day, and a total stranger made a comment that singled them out as different. Even if my intent was to be helpful, the impact would cause harm.""

Meme - Sall Grover @salltweets: "A actually marginalized or oppressed group cannot achieve anything like this. *whole street full of Trans Pride flags hanging*"

National pride is declining in America. And it's splitting by party lines, new Gallup polling shows - "“Each generation is less patriotic than the prior generation, and Gen Z is definitely much lower than anybody else,” said Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup. “But even among the older generations, we see that they’re less patriotic than the ones before them, and they’ve become less patriotic over time. That’s primarily driven by Democrats within those generations.”"
Insurrection Barbie on X - "92% of Republicans are proud to be Americans. 32% of democrats are proud to be Americans. Btw, Republicans were just as proud to be Americans under Obama. Those are some wild numbers."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Mark Seddon on X - "The hard Right in Britain will not be content until they have fermented rice riots in our country. The language here is extremist, inflammatory and written by an unapologetic apologist for Netanyahu and his band of zealots for an increasingly febrile & unhinged @Telegraph."
Ike Ijeh on X - "Islamists effectively banning Jews from Birmingham. Migrants stabbing people to death in Uxbridge & Manchester. Children raped en masse by Asian gangs. And still liberals cling to the fantasy of the "far-right" being to blame. Denial like this isn't just deluded, it's dangerous."
If you condemn Islamism you're "far right". Telling.

Sara Sharif: chances to prevent murder ‘lost to racial sensitivities’ - "Sara Sharif was murdered by her father and stepmother after a professional may have “feared causing offence” and failed to question why she was wearing a hijab that hid her injuries, a damning review has found. The report, commissioned by the Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership, found that “race was a bar to reporting possible child abuse” and “professionals never explored how [her Pakistani heritage] impacted on Sara”. The child safeguarding practice review found that professionals did not investigate why Sara began wearing a headscarf at the age of eight, despite it being “highly unusual for such a young child to decide to wear the hijab without either members of their family or peers doing the same”... In 2021, when Sara was eight, she began wearing a hijab to school. The head teacher was commended for asking the family about the change but was told that it was Sara’s choice after becoming interested in Pakistani culture after a family holiday. The review said: “We now know that the wearing of the hijab did, in the later period of Sara’s life, hide bruising and injuries to her face and head.”... In November 2022 an occupational therapist visited and “noted that Sara was the only person wearing a hijab but did not think this was unreasonable at the time, although she has reflected that she may have been reticent to talk about it for fear of causing offence”. Neighbours also told the review that they had been reluctant to report concerns because they “feared being branded as being racist, especially on social media”. The report said: “While understanding their point of view, this is concerning that race was a bar to reporting possible child abuse and it needs to be overcome.”"
Once again, wokeness kills

There must be a full reckoning for Sara Sharif - "Sara was known to social services from birth and had been taken into social care twice. Social workers had raised “significant concerns” that she was at risk of abuse. She went through three sets of family court hearings. Her father, despite facing numerous allegations of abuse and domestic violence, was awarded custody in 2019... The safeguarding review reached the conclusion that Sara’s death was not caused by “one specific malfunction within the safeguarding system”. This is clearly correct, but perhaps should go further. Sara’s death was caused by her father and stepmother: it was enabled by almost everyone she came into contact with. Rather than hiding behind institutional responsibility, individual decision-makers should reflect on their culpability."

Allie Beth Stuckey on X - "Yes, one of the arguments in my book is that toxic empathy - and one of its consequences, social justice - are the result of misplaced mothering. Many progressive women who don’t have children to love pour their affection into politics, pets, plants & professions. Progressive politics hoists up a victim that liberal women adopt as their imaginary child. That’s why they get so incredibly angry when you argue with them. It’s a perversion of the mama bear instinct."

Camus on X - "Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head: For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.  Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.  Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.  Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.   And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.  Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?  Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.  Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?  Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me."

Andrew Follett on X - "Cat Lady Thesis of politics remains undefeated. The altruism of women which should be directed towards their kids becomes pathological when they don't have them...and ends up directed towards govt approved victim groups who become a kind of surrogate kid.
Variety of reasons...
Anti-kid propaganda for decades
Difficulty in meeting people during the APPocalypse
Life starting after college, which reduces the amount of fertile time to have kids.
Etc."
classicalliberty on X - "And they get to rob white men to fund these programs, as a cherry on top."

Where did wokeness come from? - "It is often said that woke ideology is the expression and fulfilment of ‘cultural Marxism’. Many take issue with this claim and this phrase, not least those who are familiar with Karl Marx and his writings. They reply that he concerned himself foremost with economic matters, not those related to culture. If we can detect any connection between Marxism and the project of transforming a society’s attitudes and collective psychology it can probably be found in the work of the German intellectuals in and around the so-called Frankfurt School. They conceived of awakening the proletariat from its slumber, of developing class consciousness, as a cultural problem rather than a material, political task. Political scientist Eric Kaufmann also takes issue with the phrase ‘cultural Marxism’, preferring ‘cultural socialism’. In fact, in his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution, he takes issue with the entire idea that wokeness has its roots in Marxism or radical ideology. Sure, the broad creed that has broken into the mainstream over the past decade co-opted a lot of radical theory during its earlier development, including the thought of 1960s icons such as Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault – indeed, the latter bequeathed the theory of power being invisible and ubiquitous. But wokery, Kaufmann insists, is fundamentally a form of hyper-liberalism, an extreme egalitarianism. It is less a cast-iron ideology and more a soft religion. This explains why some of its claims can seem so bizarre – because that’s how the tenets of religions usually appear to outsiders and non-believers.  Kaufmann argues that hyper-liberalism had its roots in 1960s America. It was then that white, middle-class Americans first awoke to the grievous racial injustices embedded in society. There was a wider liberal shift in political attitudes that decade, but the issue of race came to dominate. From this point, a new secular credo developed, expanded and entrenched itself: the belief that minorities needed to be liberated. This began as an extension of a simple, classic liberal belief in equality, but over time it became warped. As this new religion evolved, so did certain key doctrines: that minorities, being perpetually downtrodden and sinned against, are morally superior by virtue of that fact; and that the majority, by extension, are inherently malevolent and culpable. As Kaufmann puts it: ‘Among egalitarian liberals, a pre-1965 cultural liberalism of rights and opportunities morphed into a post-1965 cultural socialism, powered by a progressive identity which seamlessly bridged the two mindsets through a “minorities good, majorities bad” set of affective attachments.’ Important, too, was the language and thinking of psychology and therapy. These helped shape the idea that minorities need protection from hurtful words that might cause trauma and damage to people’s self-esteem. Kaufmann calls this shift in the mid-1960s, from cultural liberalism to cultural socialism, ‘the big bang of our moral universe, from which taboos around sexism, homophobia, and transphobia were to later spring’. He continues: ‘While radical ideas like critical race theory or gender ideology have gained ground, they only succeeded because they resonated with an established left-liberal hypersensitivity around identity issues.’... Like other ideologies and religions, it has gradually become more extreme, with each devotee seeking to prove himself more pure and righteous than the next. Kaufmann shows convincingly how modern liberalism morphed into wokeness, capturing the institutions one by one: academia, schools, the public sector, museums, cinema, language and no doubt the world.  It’s here to stay, too, he says. As I write these words, two news stories suggest Kaufmann is right. In one, a British university is decolonising its course on Medieval history to excise the word ‘Anglo-Saxon’; in the other, the Bank of England is telling its staff to use ‘gender neutral’ pronouns when addressing colleagues. There may have been some pushback against this ideology in recent years, especially when it comes to trans. But Kaufmann is not persuaded that we are approaching the ‘end of woke’. He believes woke tenets are now firmly entrenched in our society, particularly in the minds of tomorrow’s rulers, educators, policymakers, advertising executives and so on. As a middle-aged man, Kaufmann seeks to put it as delicately as possible, but he cannot refrain ultimately from calling out those who he deemed to be the most fervent custodians of our new morality: namely, young, middle-class, highly educated women. He sees woke less as a coherent ideological system and more as an amorphous ‘caring’ credo (or ‘vibe’, as we might now say). He argues that this creed is spread and evangelised not from above, but horizontally by true believers who really think that they’re on the side of the angels. Converts to woke think likewise. ‘Incremental guilt and compassion, much more than envy or the desire to overthrow the existing order, have led us down this path’, he writes. ‘Left-liberal conviction, not cowardice, accounts for the power of cancel culture and critical race / gender ideology in organisations.’  Yet at the same time, he notes that the new ideology can connive and cajole when it needs to, through what Kaufmann calls a ‘velvet glove’ strategy. Today this often involves invoking the amenable-sounding trio of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ to conceal wokery’s iron fist of compelled speech, unreason and illiberalism...  That’s why overcoming woke will take far more than a few laws or a change of government. It will involve rethinking what we mean by ‘caring’ and ‘uncaring’. It will involve daring to be regarded in public as ‘bad people’. It will mean we cannot shy away from the culture war."
Classical Marxism has also been compared to a religion, so

Shane Gill | Facebook - "I rage against the culture of victimhood because it makes you less. It gives you every excuse for failure, every justification for mediocrity. And it takes away your power because if it’s never your fault, you can’t fix it. You become a passenger in your own life, staring at the road while some imaginary oppressor drives. I will never give that up. You’d have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. And even then I doubt you'll be able to.  I’ve got all the “victim points.” Minority. Terrible schooling. Broken home. Single parent household. Bullied in school. Terrible disciplinary record. Caned so many times in school it didn't even matter to me anymore. Almost expelled multiple times. In the modern victimhood mentality, society owes me. Owes me a hell of a lot.  Except it doesn’t.  The world never has, the world never will. And thank God for that. The world’s indifference is a gift. It forces you to own your life, to get going, to learn to fight for every inch without expecting anyone to hand it over. I’ve literally seen the reaction my refusal to play the victim "triggers." (see what I did there? Nudge nudge) I’ve been at dinner tables of western leftists, people who prattle on about systemic disadvantage, privilege, and oppression and all the buzzwords. They look at me and say, oh how hard your life must be as a minority. And  I say, “No, my life is amazing. I get more than I deserve.” Boom. It’s like a switch flips, and suddenly I’m not just wrong, I’m offensive. I'm a bad person. Me. A bad person. For telling the truth that flys in the face of their twisted racial fantasies. That left a mark. A permanent scar.  Nothing seems to enrage them more than a "person of colour" (see? I know the buzzwords too!) who won’t buy into their mental prison. They despise anyone who refuses to claim injury, anyone who refuses to beg for their dues, anyone who sees life as a challenge to master, not a debt to collect. Somehow they call that, I don't know, liberation or something. Ass backwards.  I’ve chosen accountability over entitlement. Strength over excuses. Action over complaint. When you refuse to see yourself as a victim, then you have the power to turn the situation around. It's in your hands and your hands alone.  This is my declaration: I will never, ever give up my power. I will never let anyone tell me that my struggles define me. The world doesn’t owe me shit, and I don’t need it to. If anything, I owe this world. I owe the multiple people that have been absolutely instrumental in me becoming the man I am. Best part? All the people that carried me, Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian. White. Why? Because they're good people. That's it. That's all it is. The colour of their skin never mattered.  If there's one takeaway I've learned from this, it's that you can't effect the world in a good way, when you're convinced everyone is out to get you. It's impossible. And it's no way to live."

@amuse on X - "GENOCIDE: When Democrats, like this Minnesota university professor say the United States must be “dismantled” and “decolonized” to save humanity, they are not speaking in metaphors. They mean it. This isn’t rhetorical flair. It’s a revolutionary premise rooted in postmodernism, Marxism, and racialized grievance politics, an explicit rejection of the American project and its founding ideals.  The Democrats want no America because America, at its best, represents the opposite of everything they believe: ordered liberty, personal responsibility, upward mobility, a colorblind justice system, and national sovereignty. These are not mere policy preferences, they are existential threats to the Marxist’s utopia.  We must reject the premise. America is not a colony. It is a nation born in revolution, tempered by civil war, expanded through hardship, and perfected, not by deconstruction, but by generation after generation striving toward its ideals. The Democrats who cry “decolonize” are not oppressed. They are pampered malcontents who drink lattes while posting manifestos from their iPhones, protected by rights they didn’t earn, in a country they detest but refuse to leave.  h/t @shaunmmaguire"
She says that "Palestine is the alternative path for native nations". Apparently 80 years of "genocide" with no end in sight is a good thing. She also calls Palestine "the tip of the spear", once again demonstrating how the left wing agenda is all connected (she evokes eco-extremism and goes on about how indigenous women are supposedly oppressed, blaming the "settler regime" for what is mostly the fault of indigenous men). This was after October 7th, and it's scary how mass murder energises the left - it reveals they want to kill all their opponents in their quest for "justice, equality and peace"

Meme - Endymion @EndymionYT: ">Be Angry Joe
>Mad Halo is used by conservatives
>Composer of series is conservative
>Games entire plot is a religious allegory
>Flood, Ark, Halo all Bible references
>Plot is defeating beings who invade & impose their religion & ways upon humanity against their will ( sound familiar? )
>Point of series goes over his head
These people are retarded guys"
Joe Vargas @AngryJoeShow: "FUCK ICE! and FUCK Donald Trump! Get the FUCK outta here with using HALO for your shitty dehumanizing police state Propaganda! No one thinks your shit is cool besides low IQ hur hur MAGA cult members on X. Half of which are bots. Yall gonna find out soon in the next Election!"
dhsgov and whitehouse: "DESTROY THE FLOOD. JOIN.ICE.GOV"

Meme - Kevster: "STAY AWAY FROM THE FRANCHISE I LOVE YOU FACIST PICE OF SHIT"
Frasier Payne: "What's the matter? Don't like when franchise is used to push an agenda?"
Halo: "Happy Pride Month.  Embrace love, diversity, and inclusion by equipping the Unity '24 armor coating, nameplate, and emblem in Halo Infinite this June. Let's stand together in honoring our LGBTQIA+ community and forging a future of unity and acceptance for all. #Pride2024"

Meme - Blue haired individual in pink cut out shorts and nothing else (not even shoes) to man holding cross with microphone and speaker: "STOP SHOVING YOUR BELIEFS Down EVERYONE'S THROAT!"
*Pride flag bench* *Pride flag crosswalk* *Topless interracial couple with one shoeless person making out in street* *Passed out drug addict holding onto rainbow bin* *Motorcycle with Pride flag licence plate* *Trans Pride Flag* *Love is Love sign* *porn shoot in apartment visible from outside* *Pride flag neon sign above door* *Woman with Pride flag skirt* *Shoeless druggie with needles sitting on sidewalk* *Pride flag mask abandoned on sidewalk* *Man naked except for underwear and red boots holding whip and chain with black man naked except for g-string, slippers and dog mask* *Dirty road with thong, bikini top, condom, shit and urine on it*

Meme - Socioeconomic factors forcing a black man to shoot a three year old girl"

If the Picts were black, answer me this - "A new children’s book about Scottish history portrays the ancient Picts as black. I must admit that I was somewhat surprised by this. Mainly because I’d always thought they were blue.  At any rate, the book apparently claims that Scotland has always been “multicultural and diverse”. If that’s the case, it will utterly revolutionise how we think about our history. Although not necessarily in ways that the book’s authors might expect.  For one thing, Left-wing politicians will have to stop lecturing everyone about the crucial historic importance of “the Windrush generation”. After all, if huge numbers of black people already lived in Britain – indeed, had already lived in Britain for thousands of years – the arrival of the Windrush was surely a complete non-event. In fact, when she docked at Tilbury in 1948, I don’t suppose anyone in this country even raised an eyebrow. “A few hundred immigrants from Jamaica? Big deal. Britain has always been multicultural and diverse. Especially Scotland. Did you know that Robert the Bruce was born in Trinidad, and William Wallace was a Zulu?”  In light of this transformative revelation about our island’s past, therefore, I expect the Government will be duly removing all public memorials to the now insignificant Windrush generation, and replacing them with enormous statues of black Picts. And possibly some Afghan Angles, Somali Saxons and Bangladeshi Celts.  In the meantime, I look forward to reading further unexpected insights into our distant ancestors. How many Iceni identified as non-binary? Was Stonehenge erected in memory of George Floyd? Did Neanderthals voice their concerns about climate change by drenching cave paintings in Heinz Cream of Tomato?  I can’t wait to find out."

Stigma is good, actually

Jen Gerson: Stigma is good, actually

"Sometimes writing columns about stuff that happens in this country is, if you’ll forgive the cliché, a little like shooting fish in a barrel. We’ve collectively normalized so much sincere and well-meaning insanity, that inevitably people in positions of power and authority are going to say things that sound indistinguishable from a carnival circus organ. And the only thing I have to do in response is to make note of how far out to sea on the tides of madness we’ve drifted.

Take B.C., for example; after years of experimentation with safer drug supply and decriminalization, even the NDP government has had to walk back its most liberal policies on this file. Initially, decriminalization was touted as a way to decrease “shame and stigma” around drug use. However, earlier this month, Premier David Eby admitted the attempt had resulted in utter failure. Decriminalization, for example, had created a “permissive structure” in which rampant and open drug use — and the attendant crime and social disorder — had become utterly normalized in sections of the province, and in particular, in Vancouver.

Of course, the usual progressive suspects are pushing back against Eby’s embrace of the patently obvious.

The province’s human rights watchdog, Kasari Govender, issued a statement last week accusing the province of the sin of stigmatization; the shift in focus toward involuntary care and criminal justice is a result of stigma — even to regard drug addiction as a “moral failing” is a violation of users’ human rights.

Personally, I think Eby is motivated by an electorate that would like the privilege of being able to walk through sections of Vancouver without the near certainty of having a knife waved in their face, but okay. Let’s go with Govender’s version. Let’s say an aversion to starting your day by picking up used needles from your front lawn, or a desire to avoid walking your kids through a heap of semi-conscious people, is best understood as “stigma.”

My response is: “Yeah, and?”

I don’t know why it so often falls to me to make the most obvious points here but, like, stigma is one of the chief tools human societies have used to police anti-social and harmful behaviours. Stigma and shame are among the most powerful weapons humans living in cooperative groups use to prevent destructive behaviour by both individuals and collectives. Stigma is core to how we function as social animals.

That’s not to say that “stigma” in and of itself is either good or bad. We have plenty of examples of humans stigmatizing the wrong things for the wrong reasons...

That doesn’t mean “stigma” can be eliminated from human society. Nor does it mean that we should try.

The people who drove cigarette smokers out of bars and insisted on printing packages with nasty images of blackened lungs ought to understand this. We’ve only recently undergone a generational project to use shame, stigma, and access barriers including consumption taxes to radically and successfully reduce the harmful behaviour of cigarette smoking.

This is good! We may never totally eliminate smoking, but we did a damn good job reducing the habit. It was a great victory for both individuals and society as a whole!

Yay us!

Yet, I’ll note, nobody is overdosing in a Vancouver Starbucks bathroom because he mainlined nicotine patches.

We stigmatize hard drug abuse because hard drug abuse is — wait for it — a bad thing that we should discourage people from doing. It deserves to be stigmatized. We should impose social penalties on drug abuse. We should punish people who flout laws, abuse drugs openly, threaten the general public, and behave in ways that are unequivocally regarded as scary and dickish.

We should also provide resources and offer compassion to help people get off drugs. Limitless grace ought to be extended to individuals trying to get clean, or to those attempting to manage their addictions in prosocial ways. Our moral duties cut in both directions.

But the stigma isn’t the problem here. The problem is meth. And fentanyl. It’s the drugs. The drugs are the problem.

Drug abuse is objectively harmful to both individuals who have lost control over their addictions, and to the communities and families around those individuals.

And, by the way, the people who advocate permissive harm reduction policies don’t have any problems using stigma or shame against the critics of those policies. They understand the use of stigma as a tool when it suits their preferred agenda. Stigma works, and they know it.

They’ve had no compunctions about shaming into silence those individuals, community associations, and businesses who objected to watching their neighbourhoods suffer the consequences of open drug trade, haphazardly discarded needles, and violence and public disorder — oftentimes openly accusing such critics of being indifferent to the very human suffering and death that their own permissive drug policies were actively normalizing and even abetting. All things that have absolutely occurred as a result of purportedly “evidence-based” agendas that supported the growth of Safe Consumption Sites and other similar harm reduction experiments.

These “evidence-based” studies — some of which are trumpeted and even written by activist groups like, say, the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) — promised safer communities and reduced drug deaths. These claims have collapsed on first contact with reality, a fact made impossible to ignore thanks to recent moves in Ontario to close particularly problematic safe consumption sites. After closing several sites, opioid overdose deaths actually declined; although this has been attributed to a change in the potency of the drug supply, it is nonetheless the opposite of what we would have expected to occur if the sites were as central to preventing overdose deaths as their advocates have claimed. This will be a hard data point to reconcile if the positive trend continues over time.

Hell, even NDP Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is not having it anymore. His province is passing a law to lock up intoxicated individuals for up to three days.

“The person who is too caught up in their addiction to be able to take care of themselves is no longer going to decide how safe the community is,” Kinew said. “Instead, the rest of the community is going to step up, get them the treatment they need.”

Wow. A commonsense statement. No doubt it will be treated as a profound violation of the rights of the differently intoxicated, brought down by the oppressive anti-euphoric elements of society. God help us when the Supreme Court weighs in.

That’s no joke. Remember, it was only 2011 when the Supreme Court ruled that the Vancouver Insite Safe Consumption Site had to be granted a criminal code exemption, paving the way for other sites across the country. It ruled that the exemption had to be granted to: “decrease the risk of death and disease, and [because] there is little or no evidence that it will have a negative impact on public safety.”

Lol...

Meanwhile, only 14 years have passed since that ruling, and we’ve now got a B.C. human rights commissioner essentially arguing that a shelter in which to shoot up or smoke meth without police attention or moral condemnation should be elevated to a “foundational human right.”

Hey, try this on, y’all: No, it shouldn’t. 

Look, this isn’t a question about the use of “stigma.” It’s a question about who gets stigmatized and why. I’m not totally opposed to all harm reduction measures, in theory. I can empathize with the argument that subjecting an individual to shame in response to his or her personal addiction is likely to further that addiction. I want humane off-ramps for these people. But for society as a whole, there’s a line between harm reduction and drug normalization; between grounded compassion and naive enabling. And I’m just not seeing great evidence that normalization of drug abuse is giving better results.

Further, we can talk about the human rights of hard drug users, but we have to consider the human rights of those who want to live in safe communities alongside those users as well. Right now, those rights are out of balance. Everyone who hasn’t replaced their eyes for marbles can see it — which is why the democratic machine is asserting its inevitable weight back toward sanity, even and especially among progressive politicians. 

And it’s not just Canada, either. Portland, Oregon recently voted to end its experiment with drug decriminalization. Similar rollbacks are in place in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Even Portugal, whose experiment in decriminalization and subsequent drop in heroin addiction has long been touted as a model for other Western nations — albeit one not successfully emulated — presents a much more complicated picture than what’s often publicized. That wasn’t just liberalization. It was a nose-to-tail effort to dry addicts out en masse, with the funding put in place to support the endeavour. Drugs are neither legal nor normal there; and drug addicts are incentivized via threat of fines to pursue comprehensive treatment and re-enter society as functioning members. I’m pretty sure even the Portuguese would blanch at the sight of DULF. 

If drug liberalization were working as well here as its advocates promised it would — if it were demonstrably and convincingly saving lives and if there really were no negative impact on public safety for communities at large — then there would be no political incentive to change course. That’s not how this is panning out. Instead, reality is asserting itself, quickly, and right across the political spectrum. This tells us something about the real impact of more than a decade of these policies, and that something can’t be reduced to “mean NIMBY stigma.” 

In a society that lost the will to speak openly and honestly about the real, obvious, and material consequences of its highly experimental drug policies amid an explosion of ever-more dangerous and pervasive drugs, we’ve shifted stigma away from open drug abuse and onto those who are opposed to open drug abuse. And in case anyone needs to hear this — she wrote, aiming a very large shotgun at a giant fish immobilized in a teeny, tiny barrel — that’s absolutely fucking insane.

Because, as we’ve seen, stigma works."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links - 4th December 2025 (1 - General Wokeness)

Mosque in uber-liberal London enclave bans all females over 12 from charity park run... so where are the howls of outrage from the Wokerati? - "The 5km event being held in an East London park today – which has been billed as 'inclusive' and 'family-friendly' – is open to men and boys of all ages, but organisers insist that female teenagers and women can be forbidden from joining in.  The fundraiser, called Muslim Charity Run and organised by East London Mosque, is being held in Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets... Baroness Shaista Gohir OBE, the chief executive of the Muslim Women's Network UK, said the East London Mosque, which is behind the event, was 'likely' in breach of the Equality Act.  And Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of feminist group Party Of Women, said: 'Banning women and girls over the age of 12 from a public charity event is plainly unlawful… and reinforces regressive sexist attitudes towards women's place in public life.   'No charity should be allowed to operate under a different set of rules because of religion or culture. Equality before the law must apply to everyone.'  The annual event, originally named Run 4 Your Mosque, has been held in Victoria Park since 2012 without drawing any public criticism of its anti-women policy.  But the MoS is aware of one woman, who goes by the name 'Farahyd89' on social media, who has repeatedly attempted to raise the issue with organisers... Mr Khan – who responded to Mr Trump by calling him 'Islamophobic' and 'racist' – last night did not respond to a request to comment on whether Muslim Charity Run's rules were acceptable... 'The East London Mosque Trust reports annual revenues exceeding £5 million, including £10,000 from the Government, and claims to spend much of this on education,training, social welfare and community cohesion.   'It raises serious questions about how much of their charitable activity may also breach the Equality Act... It is not the first time that the East London Mosque Trust, which had an income of £5,597,271 last year, has raised eyebrows.  In May it was given an official warning by the Charity Commission over a £1 million loss in funds."
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ on X - "When Trump blasted Sadiq Khan over London having Sharia laws, this is the kind of thing he meant. Allegedly an islamic "charity" banned women and girls over 12 from a "family friendly charity event" on religious grounds. This is like the Taliban. Any word from the mayor?"
Islamophobia!

Noa Hoffman on X - "The fact that a charity fun run in LONDON is banning women participating.... while women in Dubai can enjoy the wonderfulness of cocktails on the beach in a bikini... should give us all pause for thought about the state of extremism in Britain today"

Muslim women do not need saving, says female leader of mosque at centre of charity run row - "A female leader at a British mosque accused of excluding women from a charity run has said women in the community have a voice and do not “need saving” by critics who lack an understanding of Muslim values... The mosque said female attenders preferred to enter “women only” events, but on this occasion demand was too low to hold one.  It said the biggest issue facing Muslim women in the community was hate crime, which had intensified against the mosque since the run was reported. Emails the mosque received include diatribes such as “get with our laws or leave, you animals”, as well as messages of support. Sufia Alam, the head of programmes for East London Mosque, also runs its Maryam Centre for women’s worship and said no one from the congregation had complained.  “As a woman, it’s ridiculous that people think we need saving – people don’t really understand our religious values,” she said. Of the run, she said: “The format was designed for a specific community, taking into account that we wanted men and their children to participate. We did offer at the beginning to women, but I only got one or two. I can’t do a race with one or two women.  “We haven’t banned people – this is what the community wanted. We’ve got a congregation of 10,000 – they’d be up in arms if we had done something that was not proper. “Critics think they’re sticking up for women’s rights, but they’re dismissing that we have a voice and a choice in what we do. Nobody asked us; they just assumed we were banned … but women feel comfortable in a women’s space.”... Alam said she “worked every day” with women who were “worried they could not go for a walk without being attacked” because of hate crime... Shaista Gohir, the cross-bench peer and head of the Muslim Women’s Network, said: “The disproportionate attention given to this charity run reflects the levels of hatred towards Muslims in Britain and has nothing to do with genuine concern for Muslim women’s equality – an issue I deeply care about – leaving me in a difficult position on whether to comment without fuelling further hatred."
Isn't it Islamophobic to say that gender segregation is a Muslim value? Time to arrest her
Clearly, obsessing over hate crimes and making Muslim women paranoid is the way to a more just society

Majority of public ‘does not want’ Labour’s Islamophobia definition - "Only one fifth of the public backs creating either a new definition of Islamophobia or of anti-Muslim hate, according to the survey of 1,500 adults. Labour has tried to shift the emphasis of the definition from Islamophobia to “anti-Muslim hatred” in face of a major backlash, with critics having warned that it will threaten free speech... the survey by pollsters JL Partners found that around a third opposed both definitions and only a fifth supported either of them, indicating that any change in terminology will make no difference to public opinion."

Criticism of Islam is a protected belief, judge rules - "The view that Islam is problematic and should be criticised is a protected belief under equalities law, a judge has ruled.  Patrick Lee, 61, was found guilty of misconduct by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) last April over posts on X. After a four-year disciplinary process, he was banned from the professional body and ordered to pay nearly £23,000 in costs.  The trade body ruled that 42 of his posts that criticised Islam, including calling the Prophet Mohammed a “monster”, were “either offensive or inflammatory or both”, adding that 29 were “designed to demean or insult Muslims”.  But following an employment tribunal hearing, the actuary has won legal protection for his beliefs.  It is the first time a court has ruled that “Islam-critical” beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. Previous claimants had been told such views were not “worthy of respect in a democracy”.  The decision follows a 2021 ruling that Maya Forstater’s gender-critical beliefs were protected under the same law. Ms Forstater later won her discrimination claim and her case has reshaped public debate on gender ideology. Mr Lee, whose final hearing in February will decide whether his posts on X were an expression of his protected belief and whether the regulator discriminated against him, thinks his case could have a similar impact.  He told The Sunday Telegraph: “I hope that it will embolden other people to speak up, and it will stop employers and regulators from gagging people when they’re making valid criticisms of Islam.”  On Saturday night, Lord Young of Acton, the head of the Free Speech Union, said the decision was an “important victory”.  “This landmark judgment will make it much harder for the Government to roll out an official, state-approved definition of ‘Islamophobia’,” he said. Mr Lee, an atheist who has long criticised abuse carried out in the name of religion, argued that his view “that Islam, particularly in a traditional form – rather than a reformed, modernised, moderate and Westernised form – is problematic and deserving of criticism” qualified as a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act... He claimed that the cover-up of child sexual exploitation by Pakistani men in Rotherham showed the danger of avoiding scrutiny over cultural sensitivity concerns... Mr Lee submitted that his belief was based on “reasoned analysis rather than prejudice”, citing his record of charitable donations to causes helping predominantly Muslim communities, including around £30,000 to Iran Aid in the 1990s and early 2000s. More recently, he has donated to the UK charity Free From Fear, which assists Afghans fleeing the Taliban... his tweet included a Hadith passage apparently describing the Prophet ordering the mutilation and blinding of thieves left to die in the sun.  In his witness statement, Mr Lee cited figures from Winston Churchill to historian Tom Holland and Yasmine Mohammed, a Canadian human rights activist, to show his views were part of a “broader intellectual tradition of critically examining religious doctrines and their compatibility with democratic values”... Mr Lee countered that “in the absence of a blasphemy law, I do not understand on what basis my criticism of Islam cannot in a democracy be protected”.  He said that to suggest otherwise “would be advocating for a blasphemy law to protect Islam that does not exist, and which should not exist in a democracy”.  Mr Lee added: “Moreover, if someone described Christianity as ‘morally bankrupt’, a ‘dangerous cult’ and a ‘2000-year-old con trick’ or described Jesus Christ as a ‘monster’ then I doubt many in authority would bat an eyelid.”... Douglas Murray, an author whose books are also quoted in Mr Lee’s witness statement, welcomed the ruling: “If Mr Lee had made the same comments about a Jewish or Christian prophet, he would never have found himself in any trouble. In fact, he’d have probably been offered a book contract and a slot on Thought for the Day.  “But our society has lived for years with a de facto blasphemy law when it comes to Mohammed and the foundations of the Muslim faith.”"

Stereotyping Muslims as child groomers could fall foul of Islamophobia definition - "“Prejudicial” stereotyping or racialisation of Muslims designed to incite racial hatred is said to be one strand of a definition drawn up by a working group."

Wanjiru Njoya on X - "How does Nicole Hannah Jones not care that Mansa Musa was the greatest slaver of all time? The brazen hypocrisy surrounding slavery never ceases to amaze me. She wrote that whole NYT project about how America is guilty of slavery, but she venerates African slaver-kings."

Sarah Stock ✟ on X - "Some of the best, most loving people I know make the edgiest jokes and have the most controversial opinions. Some of the worst, most selfish people I know constantly pretend to be appalled at those jokes and opinions.  Everyone I know who does not actually care about others has the least transgressive political views because it benefits them. They’re willing to throw friends of 10+ years under the bus, not because they actually care about their views or the jokes they make but because they care about looking bad. No loyalty, no courage, and no original thoughts"

CaitlinSinclairTV on X - "Reminder: Trump picked Scott Bessent—highest-ranking openly gay official in U.S. history. Kamala skipped Buttigieg because he’s gay. Tell me again which party is “inclusive”?"
Lab-Man on X - "Yep. The big difference is that Trump picked Scott because he is competent, not because he is gay. Kamala got picked because she is a black woman not because she was competent. See the difference? We are not the same."
xjs007 on X - "The best part is I think Bessent is fantastic and I had no idea he was gay until someone else made that a discussion point today. I didn’t care before and still don’t care, he’s done a great job and that’s what matters."

Thread by @ArtemisConsort on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "A great explanation for white wokeness I heard: upper-middle-class whites desperately want to express sneering, classist contempt, and lower-class whites are the only socially acceptable target. In the past, these people would have been church ladies condemning rap and metal music, comic books, etc to set themselves apart. Now it’s Christians and conservatives, but the personality profile is basically the same."

Meme - "London looks like nazi germany, but gay. Sad *Tons of Trans Pride flags lined up in a row*"

Cash-strapped Labour council spends £35k on LGBT zebra crossings - "A debt-stricken Labour council spent £35k on rainbow road crossings.  Blackpool council installed the crossings in the colours of the Pride flag last year to celebrate “the long-established LGBTQ+ history and diversity” of the Lancashire seaside town.  But the Christian Legal Centre is considering bringing a legal challenge in the form of a judicial review to have the six crossings in Blackpool removed or redesigned, claiming they constitute a violation of political neutrality laws under the Local Government Act 1986.  The crossings cost £35,598.83 despite council debt currently running into hundreds of millions of pounds.  Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, told The Telegraph: “The council appears to be pursuing a politically correct agenda while essential public services are struggling for funding... Blackpool council cut almost £9m from its budget for the 2025-26 financial year.  The savings come mostly from adult social care and children’s services, while council tax bills also increased by 5 per cent, meaning residents living in an average band D property in Blackpool are paying £115 more this financial year."
The same left wingers who claim that wasting money on pushing the left wing agenda is not a problem because the amount is insgnificant compared to the budget, get very upset about CEO pay when it's a fraction of corporate revenue

Right Angle News Network on X - "BREAKING - Leftist journalists from Teen Vogue and Wired are being ruthlessly mocked after attempting to strong-arm their head of HR to reinstate dissolved departments focused on “climate” and “LGBT” justice, only to get fired themselves. These are who run the media."

Amala Ekpunobi on X - "Woke leftist complains about being laid off from Teen Vogue, but her speech inadvertently ends up explaining everything that was wrong with Teen Vogue."
Meme - "We all like to make jokes about these freaks getting fired but it's actually very very fucked up and weird that Teen Vogue, a literal fashion magazine for teenybopper girls to drool over pictures of Taylor Lautner, was transformed into a straight-up communist agitprop rag"
Lex Mcmennamin: "You may know me otherwise as Comrade Teen Vogue."

How To Sell Luxury Beliefs with Luxury Goods - "Comrades: Conde Nast is the agitprop slop factory for the limousine liberal longhouse literati... The core customer of Conde Nast is the AWFL PMC: Affluent White Female Liberal Professional Managerial Class. Their glossy magazines stroke the erogenous zones of vapid consoomerism, inane gossip, and solipsism. Articles promoting luxury beliefs are intermingled with ads promoting luxury goods. Vote blue, buy Gucci! Any heterodox reporting or quality writing is long gone. The perfect Conde Nast Resistance(TM) cover girl: AOC wearing a TAX THE RICH gown to Wintour’s exclusive Met Gala. She was fined $3,000 in ethics violations for failing to disclose that she was comped a $35,000 ticket. Conde Nast is normalizing socialism by making it look cool. If you consoom their goodthink, you are a hip commissar. Their recent covers would make Pravda blush... The Newhouse family has built out the entire propaganda stack. In 1964, they donated the founding gift for the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The school churns out 500 hacks every year. Many of these bootlicking striver “journalists” work at Conde Nast and other establishment hives to defend the good billionaires. Predictably, all Newhouse institutions continue to push DEI... In 2006, Conde Nast acquired Reddit to expand its digital presence and maintains a 30% ownership after a 2013 spin-out. Reddit is a hub of leftist domestic terror and censorship. While it clamps down on conservatives, it permits celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and calls for violence against Trump/ICE. Reddit’s founder Alexis Ohanian virtue signaled that his mother was an illegal. He is married to the wealthy athlete Serena Williams, who shrieked racism about cotton plants adorning her luxury hotel. They are Reddit brain in human form. Reddit is now the top source for AI LLMs - what could possibly go wrong? The best way to subvert subversion is to starve the human centipede of slop. End the mimetic cycle. Steer young women away from all Conde Nast rags. Vote with your wallet. Stop giving money to people who hate you. Support higher quality arts and culture:"
This explains Reddit's left wing bias

Cocaine trafficking sentence halved for Jamaican facing deportation - "Police caught Roosevelt Rush, a 32-year-old who was living in Brampton, with 55 grams of cocaine after he was released from custody on bail in December 2022 before sentencing took place for his fentanyl trafficking and gun convictions. The Ontario Court of Justice heard Rush was wearing a GPS monitoring device when authorities tracked him to Belleville, where he was caught with the cocaine...  The mitigating factors the judge mentioned include Rush’s guilty plea, his “sincere level of remorse,” his young age, his race and the likelihood the father of three will be deported.  “The social context evidence in the form (of) an Impact of Race and Cultural Assessment supports that Mr. Rush’s life choices and opportunities have been informed by systemic discrimination as has his engagement in the criminal justice system as a young Black man,” Horton said...  Rush’s “experiences as he attempted to earn an income to be able to survive are inextricably linked to his entity as a Black man within western culture,” said the decision, which notes “that for Black men in middle adulthood, their sense of manhood is often tied to their ability to fulfill roles such as provider, husband, father, employee and community member. However, they face systemic obstacles that hinder success in these roles. For instance, historically, they have earned below 75 per cent of white men’s wages.”  Men “of African descent are five times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts,” said the decision. “Black people now account for over nine per cent of federal inmates, while comprising only four per cent of the overall population,” said the decision...  Horton accepted that “Rush experienced systemic and personal discrimination as a Black man, and that this has certainly played a role in his criminality.”"

Kemi Badenoch: We must give the young a nation they’d be proud to fight for - "A nation is only a nation when people are prepared to defend it. And it is both tragic and concerning that many people in Britain today no longer feel that call.  Only 10 per cent of Britain’s 18- to 28-year-olds say they would fight for their country. And while it may be tempting to see this through the lens of entitlement – typical of a generation that doesn’t know how good they have it – I think it goes much deeper.  I’m sure many of you will have seen the heartbreaking interview this week of 100-year-old WW2 veteran Alec Penstone, saying that many of his friends who made the ultimate sacrifice all those years ago, wouldn’t think it was worth it if they saw Britain today.  Collectively, we are losing a sense of who we are and what we’re fighting for. We are suffering from a slow erosion of pride in our schools, our institutions, even parts of our media where the story of Britain is too often told through shame.  Why would young people want to fight for their country when they are told that where they come from is wicked? That their inheritance is racist. How many people now, when they think about Britain, picture this as the country that stood alone against Hitler, led the fight against Soviet tyranny and has a longer history of stability and democracy than any other major power? This is the country that spent a fortune to end slavery in the world. Our history is something to be proud of.  And to those in Britain who say it’s not their history, I say they don’t know the history of the Commonwealth.  The wars we remember were not won by Britain alone, but by troops across national and ethnic divides fighting side by side to defend liberty and democracy and oppose tyranny. There’s a reason Remembrance Day is a moment of collective reflection across 56 Commonwealth nations and beyond. More than 2.5 million Indian soldiers volunteered in the Second World War. The principal British-led force in the Pacific was one of the most remarkable multinational armies in history.  The Victoria Cross has been bestowed on heroes from Australia, Canada, Fiji, Grenada, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Nepal, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Tens of thousands sacrificed their lives or were injured while willingly serving Britain, prepared to make a shared sacrifice for our way of life. And they did so because they had a shared ideal. A sense of being part of something bigger than themselves.  When we forget about the sacrifices of those who came before us, we allow political agitators and revisionists with their false narratives to rewrite history; to present patriotism as divisive and to tarnish the peace, security and freedom for which so many fought.  We must combat this historical amnesia. When we remember the soldiers from across the Commonwealth who fought under one flag for the same cause, we see that loyalty to Britain is not limited by colour, faith or birthplace. Sense of duty transcends differences if you give people a clear enough picture of what they’re fighting for.  That is what we must do in Britain today. Because a nation is not a random collection of individuals doing their own thing with not much in common. It is, at its heart, a shared purpose. And why would you want to stand behind a purpose you’re told is wicked? Why would you want to integrate into a society which even its own institutions agree is shameful? We must end this sustained campaign of demoralisation by cultural and educational institutions.  Too often, this government does things that act against the creation of a single united nation and in favour of splintering into identity groups. We are told again and again that diversity is our strength, when in reality, the opposite is true. It is putting our differences aside and standing behind a shared national story which makes us stronger."

National Association of Scholars | Facebook - "BREAKING: Researchers ran 2,309 students through a structural oppression calculator and discovered: having parents who read books = problematic. This latest Groundbreaking Scholarship™ from the Journal of Diversity in Higher Ed explains that not being food insecure is actually a form of whiteness."
The mental health advantages of privilege: How whiteness and parents’ education protect students from food insecurity and psychological strain.

iamyesyouareno on X - ">claims whites are the most violent & oppressive group of people
>be confronted with the facts & statistics
>oh
>noooo not those statistics, you’re racist!
There’s no fixing this."

Meme - "Swedish Politician Who Fought for Equality and Open Borders Is Beheaded in Congo. Zaida Catalan was a Swedish Green Party politician who believed in open borders."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "Every left wing cause is basically "Hamas." I.e. - there exists a ~mutual-fault conflict between two groups of people - say Black criminals and cops - one of the groups is objectively much worse than the other......and libs cheer for the worse group (criminals, hobos, illegal aliens, foreign enemies, 4B feminists, Islamists, potnographers) because failure "must" be due to oppression."

How can Denmark afford everything that America can't? : r/AskEconomics - "To commentators, unsourced "the denmark welfare state is only possible because of cultural homogeneity" will be removed. Source here means "peer reviewed in reputable journal""
"Your comment demands peer reviewed papers that support the idea that more homogeneous states have a higher level of support for social programs and taxation. (You also use Wikipedia as one of your sources, which I don’t think meets your self imposed threshold of “reputable, peer reviewed journal… but I digress”"
Left wingers see no problem with isolated demands for rigor, because there is a high evidence threshold for "harmful" ideas. Naturally, this is one of the mods of the subreddit

Math teacher says he was called ‘ideologically violent’ for supporting standardized testing - "While studying at one of the “top” higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as “ideologically violent” for arguing in favor of standardized testing.  This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.   His book “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher,” written under the pen name “Yellow Heights,” raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.  “Unbalanced” was released on Amazon and recently won a Maxy Award, an honor for indie and self-published books...   “This book recounts his Kafkaesque experiences at education school, where he was labeled a white supremacist simply for asking questions,” according to the book’s Amazon page. “He shares firsthand accounts of teaching math at a public and a private school, offering a panoramic view of the issues surrounding wokeness, coddling, and the lack of accountability in education.”... Although he did not name the school, he said it was one of the top 10 education institutions in the U.S...   Once, he said he and a fellow classmate asked some “learning related questions” only to end up “being labeled white supremacists by the instructor and the students.”   In another case, after the George Floyd protests, he said one “very kind, very well intentioned teacher” encouraged the students to continue class after giving them about 20 minutes to mourn — “and she was attacked. She was accused of lacking empathy at all and she was made to cry.”  Another incident occurred when Yellow Heights defended standardized testing. “I didn’t say it’s perfect. I just said we probably need some objective assessment of learning outcomes and we can improve it rather than just say it’s … evil itself.”   In response, the author said he was called “ideologically violent.”  As for how he would like to change the education system, Yellow Heights said, “I see three main issues with education right now.”  “The first one is ideology…I learned very few things about how to teach, but every day I was taught how to be an equity teacher,” he told The Fix.  “The second one that I see is there…is almost a culture of fragility for students. It’s an imbalance between supporting students and also challenging them,” the author said, adding that teachers can become “afraid to challenge” students.  The third issue is “a lack of accountability” for “student learning outcomes.” Teachers assess students themselves but lack access to outside assessment, like standardized test scores or previous grades, he said...   On his decision to self-publish, he told The Fix: “The traditional publishers I contacted all turned me down. I understand…the industry is not doing well…[and] I have no prior credentials or experiences. Also, some seem to take issue with the topic I’m writing about. It’s rather sensitive.”...   The book was endorsed by two scholars—Sarah Williams who serves as director at Sophie Hicks Agency and is a faculty member of the Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford University, Exeter College, and Wenli Li, an economist and lecturer at Princeton University."
When left wingers talk about "violence", you can't take them seriously

Meme - Wilfred Reiley: @wil_da_beast630: "I think this was an incredibly minor backlash to 9/11. There was about one HC for ever five people burnt alive."
Rowan Fornow @rowanfornow: "hot take I think this was bad"
"Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Per Year 1998-2010 *spike in 2001 and somewhat numbers than in previous years after*"

Meme - Soyjak: "I dont understand how Black people can vote conservative"
Normal person: "And I don't understand how White people can vote liberal"
Soyjak: "That is so racist"
Normal person: "So you do know how you sound"

Links - 2nd December 2025 (2 - Migrants: USA [including Somalis, Dearborn])

Somalian deputy calls non-Somali-born Minnesotans ‘foreigners’ and vows to serve his people - "a sheriff speaking Somali appeared to prioritize his fellow East African-born locals in remarks that recently went viral.  Identified as Sheriff JJ in the video on North America Somali TV outside an event for Somalis in Minnesota, where Somali was spoken almost exclusively, the man’s remarks shared by Libs of TikTok suggested he was a “police officer for Somalians first in the U.S. and abroad.”   “As Somalian police officers, we work for you (Somalians) day and night, we stand for you and serve you,” read the translation appearing on the clip that Libs had shared from the account @Checkmatedsl, an independent journalist. “As you know, we came to this country as refugees. There were no Somalian police officers. So now that we have been hired, it means we are working for our own people (Somalians).”  The officer went on, “We understand the culture. We understand the language. We understand the way of life. That’s why we are different from foreigners or white officers.”  “We help bridge that gap,” he contended before going on to add, “And know this … every Somalian police officer, whether you’re in the homeland or abroad, works for you (Somalians).”  Having garnered more than 1.2 million views since Saturday, the clip was reminiscent of not only many Somali figures, both within and outside of Minnesota, but also of many radical foreign-born figures who’ve expressed little interest in assimilating into American culture.  In addition to reports that the outcome of the Minneapolis mayoral race reflected a feud between Somali clans, with Fateh seemingly pledging his loyalty to Somalia, Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D) was called out by the Department of Homeland Security after remarks included her referring to “our country of Somalia” viewed as similar to past remarks from Somali-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D).   Further, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara was made to walk back remarks about crimes committed by “groups of East African kids” coming from surrounding communities, which prompted a Change.org petition.  Meanwhile, President Trump announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Somalis in the program in Minnesota after allegations of fraud involving money laundering amounting to millions of taxpayer dollars potentially funneled to the terror group Al-Shabaab."

Libs of TikTok on X - "Minnesota Islamic Center writes a letter of support to ask the judge to go easy on a convicted Somalian child r*pist because of “the challenge of starting over in a new culture.” You cannot make this up"

arctotherium on X - "The reason Somalis have been so successful at fraud in Minnesota is very simple: they never call the cops on each other, no matter what. Zero sense that defrauding MN is a bad thing."
It's racist and ethnocentric to condemn this

Viral: Minneapolis Mayor Sends Message To Residents In Somali Language - "In the message, he wishes Somalis a happy Eid, the day that celebrates the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. In almost the same breath, he slams President Trump for putting a stay on travel from Somali, which is a failed state known for piracy and terror.  As a reminder, this is the most prominent national politician from Minnesota:
And the new Minnesota state flag looks like the flag of Somalia:
The transition from Minneapolis to Little Mogadishu is almost complete!"
Damn white replacement conspiracy theory!

End Wokeness on X - "BREAKING: MPD Police Chief O’Hara asks for forgiveness for exposing the reality of Somali criminal activity in Minneapolis"
Bonchie on X - "He literally has a Somalian translator while he apologizes for enforcing the law. This is  / X

Geiger Capital on X - "In 2023, Somalians in Minnesota sent back over $1.7 BILLION to their home country. More than the entire nation’s budget. At the same time, they are committing massive fraud via US taxpayer programs to fund it."

Speaker Mike Johnson on X - "The facts in this story are truly disgusting:  Millions in stolen Minnesota welfare dollars have been funneled to Al-Shabaab — an ISIS-aligned TERROR group.  This happened because Democrats built a system so loose, so corrupt, and so politically timid that fraudsters exploited it to bankroll terrorists abroad. This is a national security problem.   America deserves answers and accountability, NOW."

Crémieux on X - "Grifting is a big driver of the autism epidemic. Parents who get a diagnosis get services; clinics that diagnose get to bill. Communities like the Somali one in Minnesota have discovered how to game the system to the tune of tens of millions in autism services they don't need:"
This cannot be. Autism activists tell us that autism is never overdiagnosed, only underdiagnosed. The truth is that racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia are why one in 16 Somali kids in Minnesota are autistic

Afterlife Slave Collector on X - "“0.2% of Minnesota’s GDP has been sent to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab via Somalians diagnosing all their kids with autism and requesting AutismBux from the state and then just sending it to Al-Shabaab” is one of those statements that sounds like facebook slop but is 100% true"

Dustin Grage on X - "🚨 BREAKING: A judge in deep blue Hennepin County has OVERTURNED the guilty verdict of Abdifatah Yusuf after stealing $7.2M from taxpayers. The ruling could now open the door for other fraud convictions in Minnesota to be overturned. Jurors are shocked by the decision. WTF?"
Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 on X - "“Andrew, why did you leave Minnesota? You should stay and fix things. You are a coward!” Buddy, they caught Somalis red handed stealing millions from the taxpayers and leftoid judges just throw out their conviction. Short of Christmas Day 1989 in Romania, there is no fixing that place."

✨ CheckMate ✨Bilicsan 🌼💫 on X - "🚨 Ilhan Omar went into a full rage, lashing out after other Somalian clans refused to back her clansman, Fateh and instead voted for Jacob Frey, calling for rival clans to be expelled and pushed out, especially since they were translating her Somalian speaking videos to the American audience.  Minnesota politics are turning into a Somalian primitive clan war 🇸🇴"
Thread by @wokal_distance on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "People coming from third world nations to advanced western nations bring their ideas about of how society works with them.  So they don't see electoral politics as a tool for ensuring proper governance, they see it as a way to get goodies for their clan and win tribal conflicts
This isn't because those people are evil, stupid—it's because in third world nations the primary use of politics really is for winners to give goodies to their friends and settle scores with their enemies.  The competent management of infrastructure and services is secondary. So, rather then ask "how can I govern in a way that is best for the health of the nation as a whole, and whst is the best way to ensure competent management of the advanced systems that make society work?" The third worlder asks "how can I reward my friends and harm my enemies?" Again....  This is *NOT* how all politics can or should function, but it *IS* how third world politics actually functions in reality.  The result is that third world immigrants bring with them a conception of politics as "a tool to help my group and to hurt other groups"..... The conception of politics in western civilization is that politics is about ordered liberty and the common good; so the role of government according to western civilization is something like "keep peace, ensure justice, instill order, and protect freedom"  However....  That is a *western* way of thinking about government, that is not how government is thought about in other parts of the world.  So, when people from nations that reject the western conception of politics immigrate to western nations, they bring their political ideas with them... And then they immediately begin to enangage in the same ethnocentric clan politics they grew up with, rather than adopting the western conceotion of politics that accounts for the prosperity of their new nation (America, Canada, Britain, etc).  So...  Unless immigrants are deliberately, and thoroughly integrated into a western understanding of how politics works and the proper role and functioning of government, they will end up bringing with them the pathological forms of social and political engagement they grew up with. This is particularly true of immigrants that come from places with dysfunctional democracies, or where tribal conflict is the dominating feature of their politics.  Unless those people are told "that's not how we do things here," and get integrated into our way of thinking... They will bring "give goodies to my group and harm other groups" style politics to the west.
This is disasterous. Western democracies reject "friend/enemy" ethnocentric clan politics, and it is *BECAUSE* we reject friend/enemy group politics that western nations are succesful. Anyone who says "the central distinction of politics is between friends and enemies" is adopting the ethnocentric tribal politics of a dysfunctional third world democracy.  The Friend/enemy framework is the philosophy of Rwandan tribal warfare, not Western Civilization. The only way out of this is to reject friend/enemy politics as an anti-western ideas that is also anti-civilization, and to adopt an immigration policy that disallows the formation of ethnic enclaves large enough to enact ethno-tribal politcs. As such, western nations require a policy of border control that limits immigration and throughly integrates the immigrants western nations decide to let in.  Importing a sufficient number of third world immigrants and not integrating them means importing third world politics. This has nothing to do with genetics or race, it's a product of the fact that people who grow up in third world nations will understand politics through a third worls lens unless they are thoroughly integrated into a new culture and way of thinking.  That only happens if... The recieiving nation has an immigration policy that prevents the formation of large ethnic enclaves which allow immigrants to avoid having sufficient contact with the surrounding society. And that means limiting immigration and a policy of requiring integration... Into the broad (not particular, no forced religious conversions) political and social norms and values of the western societies these immigrants seek to join.  That's the only thing that works."

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Jacob Frey apparently beat Omar Fateh in Minneapolis by exploiting Somali clan divisions. Somali TikTok: “This guy is taking advantage of tribal politics we are too easy … This guy he understands how to divide our people.”"

Somalis in the USA: also not a success - "Western countries are experimenting with solutions to their population aging problem. For instance, one of the countries with the worst age pyramids is Germany... Since the welfare state is effectively a Ponzi scheme that requires a constant supply of younger and larger cohorts to pay for the older cohorts' welfare, this pyramid is extremely concerning. The largest cohorts of people (ages 55-64) are close to the end of their shift and will soon join the retirees. This means starkly increased healthcare costs in the next 10 years and lower taxes. The state then has a choice of what to do: cut welfare or increase taxes. Since voters love welfare states, taxes are likely to increase. USA, on the other hand, is doing relatively fine age-wise...  There are 2 reasons why USA does better. First, fertility has been much higher for decades... Unfortunately, USA is catching up, or rather down, to Germany. This probably has a lot to do with the decline in religiousness in this period... The other solution, if one cannot get citizens to reproduce their numbers (or refuse to try), is to import new people. Again, USA has a lot of immigration which helps it. Furthermore, a lot of immigration to the USA is elite migration, which is good for the economy, whereas immigration to Germany is largely "low skill" migration, which is a net cost to the economy.  Anyway, what I wanted to write about today is America's growing Muslim program. Although America doesn't really need to deliberately import low skill migrants to offset their aging population, they have decided to do so anyway. In particular, let's look at Somalis. The national IQ of Somalia is about 68, and the population is about 100% Muslim. Since low IQ and Islam are the best predictors of immigrants performing poorly in Western countries, let's look at whether America has been able to work some kind of magic. First, the numbers...  Somalis are curiously concentrated in 3 states, and about 40% of them live in Minnesota alone, so that's likely where the best social statistics can be found. As a comparison, here's the overall economic contribution of Somalis to the Danish economy, as estimated by the Danish government in 2023... Somalia is the worst performing group covered. Previously, the new arrivals from 'Syria' did worse, but they have been improving a bit as they learned how to live in Denmark. The average Somali costs the Danish government, and thus taxpayer, about 130k DKK per year, or about 18k USD per year. The lifetime cost is not calculated, but if they live about 75 years on average, it would be about 1.4 million USD per person (the calculation is more complicated in real life because the numbers above are not age corrected, but cover the population as it is today).  Has America been able to work any magic? A glance at newspapers suggest this is not the case... Somalis are the worst educated, lowest income, had the highest rate of poverty and being uninsured, and Somalia's economy runs on migrants sending welfare money back. Finally, they are very eager to gain US citizenship, gaining it at the highest rates. Not mentioned here is that they also reproduce fast... Their fertility rate was a staggering 5.2 children per woman, only beaten by the literal Amish and ultra-orthodox Jews.  Just as a comparison for the income number (household median), they are poorer than every other group listed on Wikipedia... Given all of these findings, it is no surprise that local politician Tim Walz is keen on importing more of them as part of "strong moral tradition"."

Wall Street Apes on X - "VoteVoter fraud case in Minnesota shows Somalian communities were targeted to register fake voters for Democrats ‌ “Fraudulent voter registration applications were submitted to election officials and offices in 13 Minnesota counties” ‌ This was funded by taxpayers ‌ “The two were paid by an unnamed foundation to help register voters” ‌ The foundation is tied to Somali nonprofits (which receive state grants for community engagement, including voter registration) ‌ They created fictitious identities, names, and addresses for hundreds of applications, submitted to election offices in 13 unnamed counties spanning urban and rural areas, including Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis and Ilhan Omar’s districtr fraud case in Minnesota shows Somalian communities were targeted to register fake voters for Democrats ‌ “Fraudulent voter registration applications were submitted to election officials and offices in 13 Minnesota counties” ‌ This was funded by taxpayers ‌ “The two were paid by an unnamed foundation to help register voters” ‌ The foundation is tied to Somali nonprofits (which receive state grants for community engagement, including voter registration) ‌ They created fictitious identities, names, and addresses for hundreds of applications, submitted to election offices in 13 unnamed counties spanning urban and rural areas, including Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis and Ilhan Omar’s district"

Batya Ungar-Sargon on X - "A group of Minnesota Somalis stealing tens of millions of dollars from American taxpayers told Minnesota's Dept. of Ed to pay up for their fake charity or they would call them racist in the media—and it worked. This whole story is utterly repulsive from start to finish."
Mike Benz on X - "So the Somalis threatened the local government agency they would call it racist if it didn’t give tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to their NGO scam, and the agency bent to the pressure afraid of being called racist if they didn’t fund fraud"

How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch - The New York Times - "Critics of the Walz administration say that the fraud persisted partly because state officials were fearful of alienating the Somali community in Minnesota... The episode has raised broader questions for some residents about the sustainability of Minnesota’s Scandinavian-modeled system of robust safety net programs bankrolled by high taxes. That system helped create an environment that drew immigrants to the state over many decades, including tens of thousands of Somali refugees after their country descended into civil war in the 1990s. “No one will support these programs if they continue to be riddled with fraud,” Joseph H. Thompson, the federal prosecutor who has overseen the fraud cases said in an interview. “We’re losing our way of life in Minnesota in a very real way.” The first public sign of a major problem in the state’s social services system came in 2022, when federal prosecutors began charging defendants in connection to a program aimed at feeding hungry children. Merrick B. Garland, attorney general during the Biden administration, called it the country’s largest pandemic relief fraud scheme. The prosecutors focused on a Minneapolis nonprofit organization called Feeding Our Future, which became a partner to dozens of local businesses that enrolled as feeding sites. State agencies reimbursed the group and its partners for invoices claiming to have fed tens of thousands of children. In reality, federal prosecutors said, most of the meals were nonexistent, and business owners spent the funds on luxury cars, houses and even real estate projects abroad. Behind the scenes, as federal investigators sifted through bank records and interviewed witnesses, they said they realized that the meals fraud was not an isolated incident. In September, prosecutors charged nine people in two new plots tied to public funds meant for those in need. In one case, hundreds of providers were reimbursed for assistance they claimed to have provided to people at risk for homelessness, though federal authorities said services weren’t provided. The program’s annual cost ballooned to more than $104 million last year, the authorities said, from a budgeted projection of $2.6 million when it began in 2020... In another program, aimed to provide therapy for autistic children, prosecutors said providers recruited children in Minneapolis’s Somali community, falsely certifying them as qualifying for autism treatment and paying their parents kickbacks for their cooperation... Ms. Hassan is of Somali ancestry, as are all but eight of the 86 people charged in the meals, housing and autism therapy fraud cases, according to prosecutors. A vast majority are American citizens, by birth or naturalization. Mr. Pacyga, who also has represented other defendants in the fraud cases, said that some involved became convinced that state agencies were tolerating, if not tacitly allowing, the fraud... Red flags in the meals program surfaced in the early months of the pandemic, but the money kept flowing... Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit group that was the largest provider in the pandemic program, responded with a warning. In an email, the group told the state agency that failing to promptly approve new applicants from “minority-owned businesses” would result in a lawsuit featuring accusations of racism that would be “sprawled across the news.” Feeding Our Future later sued the agency, which continued reimbursing claims and approving new sites in the months that followed... “There is a perception that forcefully tackling this issue might cause political backlash among the Somali community, which is a core voting bloc” for Democrats, said Mr. Magan, who is among the few prominent figures in the Somali community to speak about the fraud. As a trial in the meals fraud case was coming to a close last summer, an attempt to bribe a juror included an explicit insinuation about racism, prosecutors said. Several defendants in the trial were found to have arranged to send a bag containing $120,000 to a juror along with a note that read, “Why, why, why is it always people of color and immigrants prosecuted for the fault of other people?”... As pandemic assistance was disbursed, the state was also reeling from the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, he said. “This was a huge part of the problem,” Mr. Thompson said during an interview in the summer. “Allegations of racism can be a reputation or career killer.”... Ahmed Samatar, a professor at Macalester College who is a leading expert in Somali studies, said a reckoning over the fraud and its consequences for Minnesota was overdue. “American society and the denizens of the state of Minnesota have been extremely good to Somalis,” said Dr. Samatar, who is Somali American. Dr. Samatar said that Somali refugees who came to the United States after their country’s civil war were raised in a culture in which stealing from the country’s dysfunctional and corrupt government was widespread. Minnesota, he said, proved susceptible to rampant fraud because it is “so tolerant, so open and so geared toward keeping an eye on the weak.”"

Jacob Ben-David Linker 🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸✡️🇺🇸🕎🇺🇸 on X - "I like this explanation. Somalia was Communist from 1969 to 1991. Communism fosters dishonesty in people. In such societies, the honest person is a sucker."
Thread by @Chris_arnade on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There's a standard quip from third-world immigrants on why their country doesn't work but America does: "Back home, you have to bribe government to do their job. Here, the government fines you if you don't do yours properly." I don't think Americans understand just how pervasive, and debilitating, corruption is in 3rd world and how central "not being openly corrupt" is to a functional society. Walking through Kenya, and Uganda, I was constantly stopped by policemen, security guards, and people pretending to be either, and told I was breaking some made up law ( like vaping on the street) and that I needed to pay them an immediate fine, or they would drag me down to the station. It got to the point, after a few days, where I would just shoot them a bird and tell them to F-off. Not the official ones with uniforms and guns -- I would lie to them and say I worked for the US embassy and we needed to go there and deal with the issue. They always dropped it then. My favorite "grift" was in Nairobi, during a protest/riot -- right after the police came in and cleared up the downtown with tear gas, I went down and out to get food, and the head of the police unit who had cleared my block, really gregarious guy, stopped me, and told me a man like myself needed company, and that he had plenty of very young beautiful women who worked for him who he could send up to my room, for a fee of course, and when I politely declined he then said there was a riot tax and which I needed to pay him immedietly and that's when I pulled out the "I work for the US embassy" thing, and he dropped it. I was walking in Kampala with a local friend when four police on motorcycles approached us, and to my disappointment, my friend turned his back, wandered into a store and left me alone to deal with them -- I ended up talking to the police for about five minutes, who wanted $400 dollars, before I pulled the "Mzungu works for the US embassy" trick and they left me (us) alone, and when I went to my friend and said, "Why in the world did you leave me alone" he said, "I would have made it worse. I've got no power with them. They won't listen to me, and if I argue they will make my life miserable. You can stop them. I can't" which made complete sense"

Benny Johnson on X - "BREAKING: Over 400 Minnesota Department of Human Services employees have accused Gov. Tim Walz of ignoring widespread Somali community fraud warnings and retaliating against whistleblowers."

End Wokeness on X - "Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud to a resident: "You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe! Get out!" The resident opposed naming a street, in Dearborn, after pro-jihad Osama Siblani"a>
Common Sense Extremists on X - "We were told that we needed forever wars in the Middle East so that way “we didn’t have to fight them over here!!” But due to immigration and the mantra of “anyone can be an American!!” we are now fighting them over there AND fighting them over here."

End Wokeness on X - "Dearborn Mayor Hammoud: The entire point of America is not assimilating to culture and the language"
Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "This is such an absurd position. You don't have a cohesive country if there is no common language or culture. If you want to speak a specific language, exist in a specific culture - stay in a country that offers that. Don't move to mine and try to exist alongside it."

End Wokeness on X - ""Dearborn mosques blast call to prayer at 5 am on loudspeakers in the street, which is against city regulations" City council shrugs her off"

Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Christian protestors are being SURROUNDED by Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, who are screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR” We NEVER should’ve allowed it to get to this point. SEND THEM BACK!"

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 JUST IN: Things are getting TENSE between the Muslims and Christians in Dearborn, Michigan right now. The Muslims are hyperaggressive and it will only get worse. It was a BAD idea to let our country get invaded."
ثنا ابراهیمی | Sana Ebrahimi on X - "I was born Muslim, in a Muslim family, under a Muslim government. I will never move to a city where Muslims are the majority again. Once they become the majority, they don’t just live their beliefs, they start imposing them on everyone around them.  People don't realize that "expansion" and "dominance" are not fringe ideas in Islam, they’re baked into the ideology. Islam is not separable from politics or the state. The Prophet Mohammad's life, the Hadith that Muslims are told to model themselves after, includes around 80 wars.  Westerners are committing suicide by inviting this ideology into their institutions, their politics, and their offices and pretending it's just another private belief system. That is not how this works."

Time to deport her for Islamophobia. Clearly the Christians are to blame for provoking the Muslims

Nick shirley on X - "🚨 I asked American-Muslim men in Dearborn who they would support if America went to war against an Islamic nation, their response: “We would support our brothers in Iraq… we would not defend America” A Christian American steps in and says, “anybody who supports another nation needs to live in that nation” Is the enemy already inside?"
Time to jail that Muslim who claims Muslims need to support other Muslims against non-Muslims for promoting Islamophobia

David J Harris Jr. | Facebook - "🚨CHRISTIANS and Muslims are clashing in the streets of Dearborn, MI, which is now under majority Muslim control. The Christian group can be heard chanting, “Whose streets? OUR STREETS,” as they march. Meanwhile, some Muslims are calling for the Christian protestors to be “Charlie Kirked.”"

Governor JB Pritzker on X - "Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t respect the Constitution. But they’re learning that Illinois does not and will not bow under their tyranny."
Dapper Detective on X - "🚨BREAKING: An Illegal Alien from Venezuela being harbored by @GovPritzker was just arrested for committing 4 home invasion rapes, has been arrested 5 times since June while on pretrial release under JB Pritzker’s cashless bail system and then shielded from ICE deportation."
Arresting violent criminals is "tyranny

Former Soviet Union refugee in the US has been detained and is facing deportation to Ukraine | CNN (aka "He came to the US as a child refugee from the former Soviet Union. Now he’s a father facing deportation to Ukraine")
Homeland Security on X - "It’s alarming that @CNN  can ALWAYS be counted on to run cover for VIOLENT FELONS. Imagine if they showed the same care for American citizens.  On August 1, ICE arrested aggravated felon and illegal alien from Russia, Roman Antatolevich Surovtseva. Surovtseva has a final order of removal by an immigration judge from November 4, 2014.  His criminal history includes assault with a deadly weapon, multiple counts of burglary, multiple counts of carjacking, carjacking with a firearm, trespassing onto private property, multiple counts of taking a vehicle without owner consent, possession of a hypodermic needle/syringe, receiving stolen property, and multiple counts of conspiracy to commit a crime. He was a legal adult when he committed many of these felonies.   Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Stephen Miller ERUPTS on the revelation that 40% of rent-controlled NYC housing is occupied by MIGRANTS  "We bring in people from foreign countries, and then WE pay to lower the cost of THEIR housing? While people who were born here have to pay higher prices?"  "Think about that! 40% of rent-controlled properties lived in by people not BORN in the country? What kind of SYSTEM is this?!"  "When President Trump is reducing that migration, THAT is what's ultimately - with these other steps - bring down the cost of housing." @StephenM    This is BETRAYAL."

End Wokeness on X - "Biden-Harris sent forklifts to open the border when Texas built a razor wall. Never forget this treason:"
When you deliberately enable an invasion

Theo Wold on X - "The little girl who was killed earlier this week in Boise by an illegal alien was identified as Mora Gerety. She was just 8 years old. Zero stories in the New York Times. Zero stories in the Washington Post. Zero stories in the Associated Press. You'll see thousands of stories in the mainstream media about the evils of President Trump's deportations.  But not a single national outlet has covered the story of a family being separated forever by somebody who had no right to be in our country."

DHS accuses Duckworth staffer of impersonating attorney to help detained illegal immigrant - "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a member of Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office misrepresented himself as the attorney of a detained illegal immigrant to facilitate their release.  According to a letter sent Wednesday to Duckworth, D-Ill., U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons said the staffer told federal agents he was the attorney of Jose Ismeal Ayuzo Sandoval — a 40-year-old illegal immigrant previously deported four times to Mexico and who had a DUI conviction... "At approximately 1:29 p.m., an individual identified as Edward York, who according to publicly available information, is employed as a Constituent Outreach Coordinator for your Senate office, entered the field office lobby, and in a discussion with a federal officer, claimed to be Mr. Ayuzo’s attorney. Mr. York demanded to speak with his ‘client,’" the letter states.  "This staff member allegedly did so to gain access to the detainee and seek his release from custody, and he accomplished it by falsifying an official Department of Homeland Security (DHS) form."... ICE said it could not verify that York was an attorney.  The agency further became suspicious of the picture when they discovered a post to Facebook describing the incident. The post, put up by the Montgomery County Illinois Democrats’ page, described that a staffer had gone to a field office with a packet of documents and a release order with the intention of misrepresenting himself to law enforcement, the letter said."

The New Number Two on X - "Ohtani is an example of the benefits of allowing highly skilled legal immigration."
Ron DeSantis on X - "O-1 visas are nonimmigrant visas for people with extraordinary ability, like Shohei. Proponents of importing cheap labor try to characterize H1B visas in this way, but 80% of H1Bs are entry-level positions (and some even sport worthless degrees from diploma mills that manufacture bogus credentials)."

Meme - captive dreamer @avaricum777: "Will Stancil loves to claim people from El Salvador are "just as American as anyone else" and yet when it comes to someone he doesn't like on the internet, suddenly they're not "American." Suddenly borders exist again. How did I get this then, Will?"
"MARTIN
GEOFFREY TODD
Nationality: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"
will stancil @whstancil: "Also, YOU'RE CANADIAN, GEOFF"

Bummer: Chicago Is Broke From Taking Care Of All Those Illegals, So, They’re Laying Off Teachers : r/libsofreddit - "But how can this be? They keep telling me that illegal immigrants are a net positive in taxes paid... I'm shocked that CA, NYC, Chi are all multi billions in the red because of illegal immigrate welfare programs instead of swimming in the money  Ok, I'm not that shocked"

BLAIRE WHITE on X - "“Anybody who supports ICE would have snitched on Anne Frank!”, said the people who had a snitch hotline for people breathing fresh air in 2020."

Bill Melugin on X - "NEW: San Diego Democrat city councilman @SeanEloRivera calls ICE “terrorists” in an Instagram post, alleging they are committing “state-sponsored terrorism”, & urging the public to “fight back”. This, after @GovTimWalz & Congressman @danielsgoldman both called ICE the “Gestapo”."
Stephen Miller on X - "We are living in the age of leftwing domestic terrorism. They are openly encouraging violence against law enforcement to aid and abet the invasion of America."

Thomas Hern on X - "You guys keep calling them protests. These aren't protests, these are violent people. They're attacking law enforcement. They're attacking federal facilities."
"It's a disgrace we have a city essentially being occupied by left-wing radicals and the locals won't do anything"

Meme - John Joseph Lindsey @johnjlindsey: "Every single person in this photo can be charged and prosecuted by the Department of Justice under statutes used by Democrats against January 6th protesters. Do it. *LA riot Mexican flag-waving rioters*"