Links - 7th January 2026 (1 - General Wokeness: Hasan Piker, Wikipedia Bias, Juries)

Matt Morse on X - "Hasan Piker with a straight face: “You guys don’t understand, all 37 videos in which I’m advocating for political violence and celebrating terrorism are just taken out of context.”"

Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker defends ‘murder them’ comments in ABC interview - "A controversial left-wing influencer who has come under scrutiny for multiple explicit calls for political violence that have resurfaced in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination has been given a largely friendly interview on the national broadcaster.  Twitch streamer Hasan Piker appeared on the ABC’s flagship current affairs program 730 on Wednesday night to discuss the fallout from last week’s shooting of the prominent conservative activist in Utah.  Host Sarah Ferguson did not ask Piker about “your own rhetoric” until towards the end of the nearly nine-minute interview, citing one example where he called for landlords to be murdered but adding she did not “know the context of these particular statements”... In one viral compilation of Piker’s previous comments, he declares that “left-wingers, liberals, you need to be f**king showing your opponents’ guts on there, you need to be gutting them”.  “You need to be shanking these motherf**kers and letting their f**king intestines writhe on-stage,” he says. “Slice them up. Slice ‘em and f**king dice ’em.”  In another clip, Piker jokes approvingly in front of a crowd about a politician being left threatening letters with his address that stated “I’m going to kill you with my AR15”.  Ranting about landlords, Piker said in separate video, “Kill them. Kill those motherf**kers. Murder those motherf**kers in the street. Let the streets soak in their f**king red capitalist blood, dude... Piker said he was concerned about “political persecution”... Ferguson finally turned to Piker’s own comments about landlords.  “Doesn’t that make you part of the problem with violent discourse?” she asked. Piker claimed the comments were “hyperbolic” and “not meant to be sincere”.  “It’s not a real policy that I would ever advocate for,” he said.”
Everything right wingers say is a "dog whistle" that must be mined for meaning, but left wingers calling for violence doesn't mean anything

Hasan Piker walks back comment about killing Rick Scott following Twitch suspension - "Left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker has walked back remarks urging Republicans to “kill” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., after getting suspended from Twitch, a popular video live-streaming service...   During the stream, Piker insisted that fraud primarily comes from providers, not recipients of government programs.  “They’re not tackling providers; they’re not actually going after false billing. They are trying to cut recipients. [Fraud] is not happening at the point of recipient. If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott,” he said... This is Piker’s fifth Twitch suspension... Piker addressed his critics. “Big shout out to the right-wing free speech lovers who took time out of their day screaming about DEI & immigrants, to cry abt [sic] this!” he wrote on X...   Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. and other Democrats have sat down with Piker, who was praised in December by Kamala Harris’ former deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty...   Piker, who has a following on Twitch of over 2.8 million, and who previously raised more than $1 million for Palestinian aid, has used his platform with millions of followers to downplay and justify terrorist attacks such as Oct. 7 and 9/11 as acts of resistance in recent years.  During a 2019 livestream, Piker praised the “brave f—ing soldier” who wounded conservative U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, while he was deployed to Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL, asking, “Didn’t he go to war and, like, literally lose his eye because some mujahideen, a brave f—ing soldier, f—ed his eyehole with their d—?”  He went on to say that “America deserved 9/11, I’m saying it,” before later walking it back and saying it was “inappropriate.”"
Proof that right wingers are the ones inciting violence and they need to be banned from social media, and that right wingers who point out left wing glorification of violence are trolls

Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: Streamer Hasan Piker says Communist China is the best example of a country that the United States should learn from and model after.
Konstantin Kisin: Is there a country that has done socialism the way that you like?
Piker: I would say China is probably the closest ... that is probably the closest I would say to an example that we should follow and lessons that we should learn from.
Video: Triggernometry"
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "China is the best example that we could create a totalitarian single-party ethnostate led by a cult of personality dictator who disappears protesters and puts religious minorities in camps and leftists would support it as long as we called it “communist.”"
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "In China, the government bans depictions of LGBTQ in media, cracks down on LGBTQ advocacy groups, shuts down LGBTQ social media accounts and dating apps, and forbids gays from "marrying" and adopting Is that what Hasan thinks America should learn from and model after? Based!"

yeet on X - "Somebody claiming to be a former college classmate of Hasan is going viral on Destiny’s subreddit for calling out Piker’s past “I went to college w Hasan, here’s what he was really like” The post accuses Piker & his fraternity of various things Includes tweets from former fraternity brothers also throwing accusations of creepy behavior"

Hasan defends China against anti-LGBTQ allegations : r/LivestreamFail - ""Apple removes gay dating apps to comply with government order"
"Yeah but thats Apple"
Did his brain just turn off while reading the headline?"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "It's so funny that Hasan Piker loves China considering the fact that China under Xi Jinping is basically just a fascist state with communist aesthetics.   China is a Han ethnostate.  It is virtually impossible for foreigners to become citizens - in 2023 there were just 16,500 registered naturalized citizens in a population of 1.4 billion.    The Chinese state is brutal in its treatment of Islam and Muslims. The state controls all mosques and children under 18 legally cannot attend mosques for religious instruction. This is to say nothing of the more than 1 million Uyghurs rounded up in re-education camps and the mass demolition of thousands of mosques in Xinjiang.  They've also basically completely banned Palestine activism. There have been virtually no major pro-Gaza demonstrations in China since 2023. When Chinese leftists brought a Palestine flag to a rock concert in Xi'an, organisers banned all flags the next day.    Ironically the Chinese state also brutally represses socialist activists. In 2018 the Xi regime cracked down on young Chinese Marxists and Maoists who went to Shenzhen to try organise workers. They rounded up and disappeared like fifty people. In the same year Chinese security forces assaulted and hauled away Marxist students at Nanjing University after their school refused to recognize their on-campus Marxist student society.    So on virtually every issue Hasan claims he cares about - socialism, Islam, Palestine, multiculturalism - China is demonstrably so much worse than the West in every single way.     He doesn't care. They have Gucci stores but retain some vague communist aesthetics. Which is funnily enough Hasan's exact politics."
Left wingers just hate the West

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Hasan Piker: “China is the country that represents everything I love” On his first day he was almost arrested for posing with a Mao meme in Tiananmen Square On his second day he revealed that “random guys” were walking through his hotel room - likely security forces bugging it"

‘I Have Become Full Chinese’: Hasan Piker Professes His Unconditional Love For Communist China - "Hasan Piker, who apparently used a shock collar on his dog and expressed regret that the United States won the Cold War, declared himself “Chinese”... “This is my life now,” Piker said. “I have already become Chinese. In my heart, in my soul, in my mind, in my conscience, I have already become Chinese, okay? We were already white Chinese in this chat, I have become full Chinese.”... Streamers and Reddit posters unearthed multiple instances of Piker apparently using the device or the threat of activating the device to keep his dog Kaya sitting in a more photogenic location during his live streams, which last for hours. Suspicions that Piker was using the device began when the dog yelped during one of Piker’s livestreams as he appeared to reach for something.  “He’s been using a shock collar on a setting so high that his dog F*CKING SCREAMS when he uses it,” Tectone, a fellow streamer, claimed in an Oct. 7 post on X.  Shock collars can cause dogs to suffer from stress and anxiety while also leading them to engage in less desirable behavior and aggression, according to Dogster.com."

Variety on X - "Hasan Piker calls Gal Gadot “a dogsh*t actress” and quips: “She has no business [being at the Oscars] for the crime of what she has done to not only the DC franchise, but really any movie she’s been a part of.” “All jokes aside,” he continued, “Gal Gadot serves an important role in normalizing Israel as not a fascist ethno-state, but instead a place where a lot of beautiful women come from. And those beautiful women happen to serve in the IDF, because there’s also this weird sexualization of the forces as well that takes place, and it plays another role in normalizing Israel and its activities and actions, and whitewashing it.”"
Bonchie on X - "This dude beats his dog, praises communism, and calls for the blood of his political opponents to run in the streets, and Variety is till like, “Yeah, let’s quote him like he’s a normal source to own the Jews.”"

HokutoNoTism (TAL) on X - ""Gal Gadot helps normalize genocide." Hasan gushed over a Chinese influencer that was literally used to cover up the Uyghur genocide."

hasans_old_tweets on X - "A video has resurfaced of Hasan "training" his previous dog named Fish. Hasan pulls Fish by the tail with such force that his dog is lifted off of the ground. "MOTHERFUCKER! COME HERE" "If you run right now, I'll fucking kill you! I'll actually kill you motherfucker""

Thread by @WikiBias2024 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Wikipedia editors have deleted the entry on the Muslim Brotherhood's memorandum, which states the plan to “destroy and annihilate Western civilization from within.” A few lines have been moved to the Brotherhood article, which in effect emphasizes charity rather than terrorism.  Wow, shocking!  Bluethricecreamman, the editor who requested the article's deletion, is a pro-Hamas contributor who removed significant content from the “Antisemitic trope” article and redefined the “Zionism” article. He openly supports the annihilation of Israel."

Nemets on X - "Middle era of Wikipedia 2005-2012 exposed a lot of previously censored knowledge. It was large enough to cover a great deal of material, bright libertarians were active editors, & various internet censorship programs were only beginning."
Alaric The Barbarian on X - "Per Mike Benz (and others, but he covers it best), DoD/State Dept/NATO policy toward the Internet until 2014 was max freedom & max accessibility. They pivoted to algo-censorship after losing the Crimean status referendum. Basically all online culture is downstream of this pivot"

Wikipedia Made $184 Million in 2025, Spent $3.4 Million on Hosting - "The cost of actually running wikipedia remains under 2% of their spending. Remainder of funds spent on “Racial Equity”, “Awards & Grants, “Travel Expenses”"
Never donate to Wikipedia

The Wikipedia fundraising scam - "Wikipedia is begging you to please give them money. They have no salespeople, they say, and they need help to "keep Wikipedia online and growing". It turns out this is not really true. The one image summary is this, from Wikipedia user Guy Macon:  At the end of 2023, Wikimedia (again, Wikipedia's parent organization) has a staggering 250 million dollars in assets. Now, some people said these were not really "money in the bank", as I had tweeted. However, Twitter user Zeki Seskir showed that these are actually mostly money in the bank (2023 annual report): Specifically, they have about 175 million in various kinds of stocks, bonds, securities and so on.  Looking again at the table above in the expense column, you might get the impression that it's really really expensive to run a big website (mostly staffed by volunteers). Must require some expensive servers? It does: But server hosting is only 3 million (<5% of their donations)... So what are they spending the other 166 million dollars on? Well, for starters, they give away 24 million to various organizations. Which ones? It's hard to say exactly due to lack of transparency. However, again, Lunduke did the important investigative work, and found that most of the money is managed by the Tides foundation... the money is mainly being channeled behind the scenes into unrelated political advocacy.  Salaries are also a very big money sink, about 100 million dollars in 2023. We can look into the filings to see who's getting what to some extent... Tellingly, we find that Katherine Maher appears again, making a salary of about 800k in 2021. She's been rapidly increasing in salary. From 2016 to 2021 she increased from 307k to 789k.  It gets better. A lot of money is also being given to something called the Knowledge Equity Fund... it's another anti-European (and anti-USA), anti-male, quasi-Marxist organization. This is what your donations to Wikipedia are going to. Wikipedia spends more money on left-wing causes than actually running an encyclopedia, and by a very long-shot. Wikipedia spends less than 5% of its revenue on actual server hosting. It's unclear to what extent the salaries and donations are being spent on efforts to undermine western civilization and the people who built it, but there are some hints courtesy of Twitter user Stakeholder Consultant. One grant was given to something called the "SeRCH Foundation" (not to be confused with the similarly named "SEARCH Foundation", "established in 1990 as a successor organisation of the Communist Party of Australia"). SeRCH uses the money to produce these kinds of videos:... Wikipedia thus works surprisingly similar to most governments. Whenever someone says, maybe, just maybe, it's not wise that people are paying half of their incomes in taxes, someone will bring up the roads, and maybe even the police, or the military defense. While the state does pay for these essential things, most things the state pays for are not such essential things. Rather, the essential things provide cover for the state to keep raising and almost never lowering taxes. This is the same thing Wikipedia does. Most of what Wikipedia (Wikimedia) does is not running an encyclopedia, but every year Wikipedia begs the users for more money, even though it has 100+ dollars in the bank and server hosting is only 3-4 million a year. The money is then redirected in a scammy way to other projects which have nothing to do with running an encyclopedia or promoting open knowledge. In fact, given that many of these are quasi-Marxist organizations, they are detrimental to open knowledge and explicitly advocate against the most knowledge producing people on the planet, European men.  To be clear, I want to say that Wikipedia and its associated projects (Wikidata, Wiktionary, Wikiquote etc.) are awesome projects, showing the great things humanity can do when we work together, even on an unpaid basis. However, like most organizations, it expanded its scope from running and building this great resource into being yet another organization whose aims is to undermine society as we know it.  The only good thing about this issue is that everything Wikipedia has is under a free license, so that anyone else can copy the contents."

NPOV on X - "In 2017 Wikipedia underwent a seismic shift — the so-called “movement strategy” recast it from a neutral encyclopedia into a social justice movement. The goal? Shift Wikipedia toward political influence, aligning it with left-of-center causes, and use it as a tool in the  info-ecosystem. @AshleyRindsberg #Wikipedia"
Ashley Rindsberg on X - "Wikipedia's Movement Strategy—created and led by "the truth is a distraction" Katherine Maher—changed everything about the online encyclopedia. Almost no one knows anything about it."
PSSD Network | Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction on X - "Moderators on @Wikipedia tend to have a pro-pharma bias. The entry for the potentially irreversible iatrogenic syndrome Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) has been removed multiple times, despite having been mentioned in academic literature since 2006."

John Simpson on X - "What’s the point of an online encyclopaedia if its facts can’t be trusted?"
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "It's funny to see the reversal of opinions about Wikipedia among the journalists. For a decade, it was said to be untrustworthy because anyone can edit it. Of course, anyone can become a journalist and also write anything they want too. Now there's a hostile Wiki and the tables have turned"

Ashley Rindsberg on X - "In 2012, novelist Philip Roth discovered a "serious misstatement" about one of his books on @Wikipedia .    Wikipedia claimed Roth's book "The Human Stain" was inspired by the life of writer Anatole Broyard. Roth said this was "in no way substantiated by fact." He should know: he wrote it.   The "Human Stain"  was actually inspired (Roth said) by his friend Melvin Tumin, a Princeton professor who had died not long before.   Roth wrote:  "I’ve never known, spoken to, or, to my knowledge, been in the company of a single member of Broyard’s family. I did not even know whether he had children....   "I never took a meal with Broyard, never went with him to a bar or a ballgame or a dinner party or a restaurant, never saw him at a party I might have attended back in the sixties when I was living in Manhattan and on rare occasions socialized at a party.   "I never watched a movie or played cards with him or showed up at a single literary event with him as either a participant or a spectator. As far as I know, we did not live anywhere in the vicinity of each other during the ten or so years in the late fifties and the sixties when I was living and writing in New York and he was a book reviewer and cultural critic for the New York Times.   "I never ran into him accidentally in the street...We never bothered to have a serious conversation....I never learned from Broyard who were his friends or his enemies, did not know where or when he had been born and raised, knew nothing about his economic status in childhood or as an adult, knew nothing of his politics or his favorite sports teams or if he had any interest in sports at all."  Roth contacted a Wikipedia official, who  put him in touch with a site admin, hoping to get it rectified, and Roth wrote a letter to the admin (probably by typewriter). The admin responded that he, Philip Roth, "was not a credible source" on Philip Roth—and told him to find a secondary source!   Unbelievably, the Wikipedia article still today contains the claim about Anatole Broyard:  "In the reviews of the book in both the daily and the Sunday New York Times in 2000, Kakutani and Lorrie Moore suggested that the central character of Coleman Silk might have been inspired by Anatole Broyard, a well-known New York literary editor of the Times."   All this sounds unnervingly like a passage from a Philip Roth novel—with a healthy pinch of Kafka. And yet it so perfectly encapsulates the absurdities that lie at the heart of Wikipedia.  "Secondary sources"—i.e. the New York Times and co—are deemed better arbiters of Roth's fictional reality than Roth himself.   The reason is that on anything political, cultural or social, Wikipedia is a wrapper for the mainstream media.  If the media says it's true, it's considered true by Wikipedia.  If the media says it's false, it's considered false by Wikipedia.  Do you trust Wikipedia?  (h/t @lsanger  for bringing my attention to this insane story.)"

The History Of The Chair Is Racist For Wikipedia - YouTube
Wikipedia removing information due to ”its correct but kinda racist” : r/KotakuInAction - "I get this a lot from leftists, if black cultures have not acheived as much as some European or Asian ones, we have to rewrite history so that it looks that way.  You see this with other history as well, that The British Empire outlawed all slave trade, that USA stopped slave trade in the Arabian Peninsula, it would have been great stories of European values of equality before god and law- but its not fitting the leftist worldview of whites = bad, so it has to go."

Thread by @MuseZack on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I read that big article about the Wikipedia editor from hell and it made me wonder how many of our institutions that depend on volunteer labor to function eventually end up controlled by obsessive, vindictive weirdos, simply because they can outlast everyone else. This is why I've largely stopped arguing with people on social media. Because you're up against people who will just keep going until they feel like they've had the last word, and if you try to match them post for post you realize at some point that you've wasted your life. It occurs to me that I never actually linked the article, so here you go. Draw your own conclusions, pro or con. But if you think I'm gonna argue with you about it...see above."

Thread by @peterrhague on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is absolutely damning. I’ve known RationalWiki to be an angry crank site for many years, and I’ve also known that Wikipedia exists to launder the opinions of certain editors, but I hadn’t put the two together.  The fact that journalists read Wikipedia to get up to speed on topics then write about them is a feedback loop that massively amplifies these obsessive fringe voices, and I think it’s played a significant part in dissociating much of the media from the people it supposedly serves and from reality itself.  The pollution of the memetic space is permanent though. I have no idea how we can cleanse our collective corpus of knowledge of the intellectual sewage that @jimmy_wales has dumped into the internet. The Wikipedia project has failed and must somehow be replaced.   The game of Wikipedia editors is to project good faith whilst acting in bad faith. This has been going on for years in an attempt to craft an alternate reality where the liberal fringe of US Democrats are always and permanently right about everything. The only hope I see is in LLMs - an alternative to the vast corpus built up by Wikipedia over 2 decades could be produced relatively quickly, with human proofreading.  But LLMs are, of course, trained on internet text. I would bet Wikipedia is a significant source. So these maniacs have got their biases encoded into the DNA of any AI you might want to use to try and get rid of it. Most of the pushback you get from this is people trying to push crankery in the other direction - Conservapedia, Breitbart etc. - once you’ve started the game of cynically dragging the discourse in your direction, a return to even the aspiration towards neutrality is near impossible.  It’s so depressing not to be able to trust anything. There is no penalty on the internet for being a compulsive ideologue and very little reward for actually caring about truth."

@amuse on X - "CRIME: A Portland jury ruled a slur shouted after a Portland man was stabbed was worse than the knife attack itself, acquitting repeat offender Gary Edwards. Edwards has an extensive criminal record including convictions for prior stabbings and sexual assault. The people of Portland would rather have Edwards on the street than behind bars. Portland’s justice system is beyond repair.  Despite admitting he stabbed Gregory Howard Jr, repeat offender Gary Edwards was acquitted after jurors accepted the claim that a slur spoken after the stabbing caused more harm than the knife. Prosecutors noted Edwards initiated the confrontation & had a long violent history including a 2020 stabbing. The jury disregarded those warnings. Portland’s courts once again elevate political narratives over protecting citizens."

Racial Bias in Mock Juror Decision-Making: A Meta-Analytic Review of Defendant Treatment.
John Rain on X - "Across more than 34 studies on jury behavior, white jurors show virtually no racial bias, whereas black jurors display a strong bias in favor of their own ethnic group. As usual, the people who are most often accused of racism are, by far, the least prone to it."

Will Tanner on X - "Reminder that jury trials in America essentially don't work because black jurors refuse to convict fellow blacks, even if their guilt is obvious, out of in-group preference Multiple murderers who clearly committed the crime have gotten off, in recent years, because black jurors refused to convict them"

NOTED BRITISH JUDGE QUITS AFTER CHARGES OF RACISM IN A BOOK - The New York Times - "Lord Denning, who as Master of the Rolls holds one of the most powerful and influential judicial offices in Britain and is the senior judge of the appellate system, said the controversy that erupted after the publication last week of his latest book, ''What Next in the Law,'' had prompted him to move up his scheduled retirement in July. In his book, which was withdrawn Tuesday, Lord Denning argued that all British citizens were no longer qualified to serve on juries because ''the English are no longer a homogeneous race.'' ''They are white and black, colored and brown,'' the 83-year-old judge wrote. ''Some of them come from countries where bribery and graft are accepted and where stealing is a virtue so long as you are not found out. They no longer share the same code of morals or religious beliefs.'' Among his most controversial passages was the assertion that two leaders of the riots that broke out last summer in the port city of Bristol were not convicted because the defendants used their right to three pre-emptive challenges to determine the nature of the jury, which subsequently split along racial lines. Lord Denning suggested that this practice was increasingly being used to overload juries with blacks who were reluctant to convict those of their own race. The judge recommended that only ''sensible and responsible members of the community should serve on juries.'' Last week, two of the black jurors in the Bristol riot trial threatened libel action if the book was not withdrawn and a public apology issued. Sibghat Kadri, chairman of the Society of Black Lawyers, which called for the judge to retire, said Lord Denning's comments were degrading and ''couched in terms virulent enough to destroy any remaining credibility he may have as an unbiased and impartial interpreter of the law.''"
From 1982

Meme - Hunter Ash @artemisConsort: "In the UK, non-white jurors exhibit a strong bias in favor of non-white defendants and against white defendants. White jurors exhibit a far weaker bias - also in favor of non-white defendants."
"Juror Guilty Votes by Defendant and Juror Ethnicity (n=319)"
"White Defendant Guilty - White Juror 39%, BME Juror 73%
BME Defendant Guilty - White Juror 32%, BME Juror 24%"
Diversity and Fairness in the Jury System: Insights and Findings

Meme - Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen: "Over 34 studies of jury behavior, 7397 participants, White jurors show essentially 0 racial bias, while Blacks have strong bias in favor of their own race."
"Mitchell, Haw, Pfeifer, and Meissner
Table 1. Moderator Analysis for Verdict Decisions"

Alienating people with DEI / DHS Halo Meme

#1 Torture Fan @fleshsimulator: "remember all those times I was like "hey guys slow down with the DEI stuff you're gonna alienate a lot of people if you get too obnoxious with this"

and you all went "get fucked you fascist, the future is black and gay and here to stay!"

This is what I was warning u about lol"

Logan Hall @loganclarkhall: "The Democrats tried to put some freak theater kid in charge of a thought crime censorship division at DHS and now we have our guys sharing mass deportation vaporwave Halo edits

Elections matter!"

Homeland Security @DHSgov: "Finishing this fight. *Halo meme* DESTROY THE FLOOD. JOIN.ICE.GOV"

Links - 6th January 2026 (2 - Migrants: UK - Alaa Abdel Fattah)

Egyptian dissident should be deported from UK, say Tories - "The Conservatives have called for a British-Egyptian activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media messages emerged of him calling for Zionists to be killed.  Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised for saying he was "delighted" by Alaa Abdel Fattah's arrival in the UK after being freed from prison in Egypt, but it is understood he was unaware of the messages."
Time to jail Tommy Robinson and outlaw Reform to keep Jews safe

British-Egyptian dissident apologises for tweets as Tories push for UK deportation - "Mr Abd El Fattah said he took allegations of antisemitism "very seriously" while arguing some of the posts had been "completely twisted out of their meaning"... A government source said Mr Abd El Fatteh arrived in the country as a British citizen and there were no legal avenues available to block his entry, even if officials had been aware of his previous social media posts.  A 2016 Supreme Court case found that nationality law was incompatible with human rights safeguards because it discriminated against children from mixed unmarried backgrounds.  As a result, in 2019 the then-Conservative government used a 15-minute debate in Parliament to end a requirement for children of one British parent to show they were of "good character", before they could be given nationality.  That political decision, backed by the Labour opposition, paved the way for Mr Abd El Fatteh and others like him to be later registered as British because his mother had been born in London ... In one resurfaced tweet, from 2012, Abd El Fattah appears to say: "I am a racist, I don't like white people". In another, he says he considers "killing any colonialists and specially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them".  He is also accused of saying police do not have rights and "we should kill them all"."
Context is only a defence if you push the left wing agenda

British-Egyptian dissident, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who tweeted 'I am a racist, I don't like white people,' says he 'apologises' as Tories push for UK deportation : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Lucy Connolly got 31 months in prison for a tweet she had deleted. She was released in August after serving 9 months in prison. Meanwhile Starmer and a bevy of celebrities are championing this guy."
British-Egyptian dissident, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who tweeted 'I am a racist, I don't like white people,' says he 'apologises' as Tories push for UK deportation : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Dude is kinda pasty for a guy that doesn’t like white people."
British-Egyptian dissident, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who tweeted 'I am a racist, I don't like white people,' says he 'apologises' as Tories push for UK deportation : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "These fucking assholes scream about Israel "killing civilians" then in the next breath they turn around and say that killing Israeli civilians is ok because they're "colonialists".  The absolute lowest of the low. The West needs to stop tolerating these people."
"West Stops Tolerating
Bro, it's a fairytale. If you label Palestinian flag - you're automatically right and can call for hate on Israel and white man hate - no one will judge you "because you supports the victims". World is so fucked up"

Meme - Michael Lucci @Michael7ucci: "Do you still have those laws to put people in jail for mean tweets?"
Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa: "yes, I consider killing any colonialists and specially zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them"
"police are not human they don't have rights, we should just kill them all aslan"
"fuck that, sounds like u need more fear. random shooting of white males should convince them racism costs lives"
"I'll switch to something else, advocting killing police, hating white people, assassination plot against saad el din ibrahim"
"dear international phd student, by the way I'm a racist, I don't like white people so piss off"
"british fooled us and gave us bad land, we then exploited egyptian fala7in to work the land for peanuts"
"so the brilliant british dogs and monkeys really think terrorists will reveal their plans on twitter"
"u telling me british history is not pure BS? do they tell them about how they enslaved a fifth of humanity? massacred millions?"
"to play a jew u have to have a polish accent playing a north african jew just doesn't work it's too complicated for them"
"jewish colonialism of palestine is a recent thing large part of population is recent migrants it is possible to kick them all out"
"all of palestine is occupied, egyptians do not recognize the legitimacy of the state of israel within any borders"
"i must confess i want a drone of me own, promise to only use it to shoot zionist weddings"

Meme - Avi Yemini @OzareliAvi: "Why is Keir Starmer celebrating Alaa Abel El-Fattah, whose violent hatred is all over the internet? And why is the BBC whitewashing his record with a puff piece that omits every one of his extremist posts?"
Alaa Abd El Fattah: "dear zionists please don't ever talk to me, I'm a violent person who advocated the killing of all zionists including civilians, so fuck of"
Alaa Abd El Fattah: "can we get back to killing zionists please? they seem to be more violent when we stick to non violence"
Alaa Abd El Fattah: "also why from time to time I remind ppl that I rejoice when US soldiers are killed, and support killing zionists even civilians"
15 year old tweets made by the person in question are meaningless. But unsubstantiated 33-50 year old school anecdotes about Nigel Farage reveal who he really is

Starmer condemns ‘abhorrent’ posts by ‘extremist’ Egyptian activist he welcomed to UK - "Abd El-Fatteh appeared to call British people “dogs and monkeys”, said killing “Zionists” was “heroic”, denied the Holocaust, praised Osama Bin Laden, declared that “police are not human” and should be killed, and that he “hates” white people."

Robby Starbuck on X - "So releasing a guy who hates White people, who wanted White men shot, who advocated rape for Western women and who hates Jews was one of your top priorities? These are from his X posts. You wanted him back from Egypt that bad? Explain why Keir. Is he your pet or something?"

Sohrab Ahmari on X - "The reason you see me tweeting a lot about this case is that I know a lot about El-Fattah and his family.  My first book was a hopeful boosterish anthology on the Arab Spring (which I now cringe at; in my defense, I was 24).  The research process had me delving deep into the Arab “secular” dissident scene. Especially Egypt’s. I soon saw that El-Fattah and his sisters are extremely violent in their mentality.   It’s not one or two tweets. He tweeted almost nothing except calls to torture, murder, etc. — Jews, Americans, journalists (both local and international), Egyptian police officers, and even their kids and mothers. The sister Mona, as you can see from her orgasmic response to Oct. 7, is cut from the same cloth.  These are dangerous people. I hope there’s some way to at least transition Alaa out of Britain."
JamesHeartfield on X - "Arab Spring was in principle a good thing, but sadly it showed us that there are still, broadly, two alternatives in the Arab world, Muslim Brotherhood and fossilised National liberation movements , neither of them all that good."
Unquiet Possum on X - "In practice nearly all popular revolutions end in disaster. Early in the 1970's I was an idealistic Jeffersonian teenager reading three newspapers a day beside Marx and Mao. By 1981 or so the news had made me a reactionary. Tens of millions killed and no one freer."
Melissa Chen on X - "I fell for the Arab Spring being a freedom movement narrative and once I had to contend with the truth, the last shred of my unreconstituted liberalism evaporated"

Melissa Chen on X - "Sorry but an apology is not going to cut it.   Alaa El-Fattah's words are not merely "hurtful." They are outright MURDEROUS. The number of times he has said that he wanted to kill someone or a group - white people, Jews, gays, etc. - is on record, and it comports with his long history of openly supporting political violence since the Arab Spring in Egypt.   These are not youthful mistakes or "things taken out of context" as he claims. For years, his whole public persona was wrapped up in justifying and promoting violent political action. That's literally WHY he was in jail in Egypt.   He doesn't have the impulse control to hide what he thinks about certain races (he particularly hates whites of English, Dutch and German descent and Zionists), and he's consistently made deep commitments to violent revolution.   This is the person successive British governments campaigned for, granted citizenship to, and treated as a "TOP PRIORITY."   This is why deportation should still be on the table. If someone's track record shows consistent endorsement of violence, especially in a way that could threaten public safety or national security, a half-hearted "sorry" doesn't erase the risk or the damage.   Britain has every right to protect its citizens by revoking his status and sending him back, no matter how much he tries to rewrite his past. Next, the nation must correct the rules that allowed this to happen. Alaa is not British and never deserved citizenship."

Ashley Rindsberg on X - "Compare these two @Wikipedia  entries—"Tommy Robinson" and "Alaa Abd El-Fattah." It's a masterclass in information manipulation.  Two entries. Two British men (in El-Fattah's case, at least nominally). Both subject of UK government action. Yet the entries could not be more different.   The first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Alaa Abd El-Fattah describes him as "an Egyptian-British software developer, blogger, political activist and former political prisoner."   Sounds lovely!  The lead goes on to tell a heart-rending story about the persecution of a valiant freedom fighter. According to Wikipedia, El-Fattah was imprisoned for staging political protests. He protected women at a rally from police violence. He's a blogger, a software developer, an inspired political polemicist. A wonderful son. A father who missed his child. He even won prestigious awards!  The lead makes no mention of the fact that El-Fattah, has incited the murder of Jews, whites, British police officers, and children—including the torture of their mothers. It doesn't mention his Holocaust denial or his homophobia.  Here's just a sample of what El-Fattah has written over the years:
+ “If we can’t kill the police officers, let us find a terrorist cell to kill their children and torture their mothers”
+ "The Islamic Group was right. We must kill all police."
+ "No medicine can reverse God's will. He should subject his anger at [God] for creating those dirty homosexual[s']."
Despite this, the Wikipedia article's all-important lead section makes no mention of El-Fattah's vile hatred of gays or his open support for ISIS. Instead, you get a tiny little sentence at the very bottom of the lead about "controversial" social media posts.   This is what AIs train on and what @Google  feeds to the public.   Indeed, Google actually quotes the first sentence of the Wikipedia article directly in its "Knowledge Panel" about El-Fattah. Ask Google "Who is Alaa Abd El-Fattah?" and the response is word-for-word pulled from Wikipedia: "Egyptian-British software developer, blogger, political activist and former political prisoner."
Now look at the entry on Tommy Robinson. The  very first, defining sentence calls Robinson "a British far-right activist and one of the UK's most prominent anti-Islam campaigners. Robinson has a history of criminal convictions."  Wow—what a difference a political (or religious?) affiliation makes! But don't stop there.   The next paragraph calls Robinson a "fascist," using Wikivoice to assert this as fact, not perspective or opinion.   The rest of the lead is basically a rap sheet beaten into encyclopedia form. It includes not just a litany of convictions but also cites open, ongoing investigations. (So much for Wikipedia's beloved presumption of innocence.)  Robinson's entry has unsubstantiated allegations that he is a Kremlin agent, that he spread Russian disinformation, and that he promulgates COVID conspiracy theories.
The Wikipedia entry is a dossier and hit piece all wrapped up into one neat little informational package. The framing is alarming, the sentiment is overwhelmingly negative.   But for the jihadist who wants people like me (and, probably, you) murdered? It's a lovefest.   This isn't just about Wikipedia. It's how the information ecosystem works—how a politically motivated view of "truth" gets concretized into plain "fact." This is just one example, but there are thousands more like it.  For more Wikipedia investigation, follow @npovmedia ."
Only far right extremists think Wikipedia is biased

Strip ‘extremist’ of citizenship before Egyptians do, Starmer urged - "Britain must strip Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship before Cairo removes his Egyptian one, Sir Keir Starmer has been told...  Mr Fattah’s sister had praised the “imagination” of the October 7 attackers and once suggested that acts of violence by Hamas could be justified...   Mohammed Maree, of the Egyptian Centre for Thought and Strategic Studies, said he believed the Egyptian authorities were considering revoking Mr Fattah’s citizenship.  Mr Maree cited growing public anger in the country, which had only intensified since he apologised for his comments in Britain, despite having refused to do so in Egypt.  He said: “I believe that demands to revoke Egyptian citizenship from Alaa Abd el-Fattah are likely to escalate in the coming period, in light of the growing state of anger in Egyptian public opinion.  “Alaa Abdel el-Fattah’s apology, which he was forced into, was motivated by preserving his British citizenship and attempting to weather this wave of pressures demanding the revocation of his British citizenship and his deportation.  “It is an apology he did not dare to offer to Egypt, nor to the army and police officers whom he previously incited to kill, and which is indeed documented.”... Mona Seif, Mr Fattah’s sister, claimed that armed resistance in “occupied” land was “understandable” on the day after Hamas terrorists had killed more than 1,200 Israelis.  Ms Seif, who lives in London, according to her social media profile, also called the October 7 attacks an example of “Palestinian resistance” and suggested that they should not be seen differently from Ukrainian resistance against Russia. On the morning of the attacks, in 2023, Ms Seif shared photographs of Hamas militants flying into Israel by paraglider to her X account, saying they showed a “special kind of imagination”. A day later, she said: “My personal belief – within the occupied, besieged and bombarded by land, armed resistance is understandably one of the main forms of resistance. Beyond the boundaries, only non-violent methods should be endorsed in solidarity.”   On the same day, Ms Seif claimed it was “hypocrisy” to condemn the October 7 attacks while supporting Ukraine’s right to defend itself against the Russian invasion.  In 2011 and 2012, Ms Seif posted the phrase “f--- Israel” in two separate posts attacking the country. On Tuesday, she strongly criticised social media users who had highlighted some of her other historical tweets as well as her brother’s remarks. She wrote: “So now silly bantering between me and friends saying ‘I will kill you’ over silly joking tweets are now circulating to claim I am a violent person! Are you out of your minds?”  Ms Seif, whose public online profiles state that she works as a cancer scientist, said criticism of her brother’s past comments amounted to “rotten political battles”, adding that she wanted the family to “recover in a safe space with our children”... Alex Hearn, the co-director of Labour Against Anti-Semitism, said: “Mona’s apparent celebration of Hamas’s massacre of innocent civilians while it was happening is disgusting. It exposes yet another layer of failings by the British system.  “As a result, an extremist with terrorist supporting family members was embraced by politicians and celebrities alike.”"

Patrick Christys: 'We shouldn't just deport Alaa Abd El-Fattah, we should deport his sister as well' - "she even condemned Amnesty International yes, Amnesty International, for calling on Hamas terrorists to stop their violence... There are also what appear to be quite a lot of threats to kill on her social media. Now she says that it was silly bantering with friends. Do you tweet stuff like that? I'm not sure you do. But just when you thought David Lammy couldn't look any more foolish, whilst he was in opposition, she was holding a sign actually next to him, urging then Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to bring her brother home. Well, he was home, wasn't he, because he was in Egypt. And there's no evidence that he's ever been to Britain before he landed here this year. But this is the thing I find most hilarious. The El-Fattah family have got everything they want and more from the British state. Successive governments have bent over backwards for no apparent reason to give her brother and his sisters British passports, to release him from an Egyptian prison and to promote the family, to help them.  Her brother arrives in Britain. What does his sister Mona do? Well, she appears to call for the release of the Palestine Action hunger strikers immediately.  It's a classic, isn't it? You give these people everything and then they want even more... we need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that some people did actually know how extreme they are, but they ignored it because it didn't suit their narrative."

Labour ministers spark outrage after posing for photos with 'extremist's sister' who denounced calls for Hamas to end violence - "Labour has been met with outrage after images emerged of senior party figures posing with an 'extremist' British-Egyptian's sister who denounced calls for Hamas to end violence against civilians... past tweets have emerged of Ms Seif attacking Amnesty International after they urged both the Israeli Government and Hamas to stop attacks against civilians in the Middle East.  In a post dating back to 2012, she said: "You don't ask an occupied nation to stop their "Resistance" to end violence. SHAME ON YOU!!!" Other posts from 2011 emerged where she threatened to "kill" several people in social media posts. "

The Left-wing Luvvies who lined up to support an Egyptian ‘extremist’ - "Fattah referred to “British dogs and monkeys” and said, among other things, “I f---ing hate white people”, “I am a racist, I don’t like white people” and “I consider killing any colonialists and specially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them”"

As an Egyptian, I know this truth: deranged anti-Semitism is normal in the Arab world - "For the past 14 years, my professional life has been dedicated to a single discipline: mitigating risk. In this field, one anticipates the usual obstacles – a scarcity of resources, a failure to grasp the scale of a threat, or a simple deficit in technical know-how. These are the standard hurdles of the trade.  Since relocating to Britain in 2016, however, I have been confronted by a challenge of an entirely different order. It is a cognitive and moral blind spot so profound it has redefined my understanding of risk itself.  In this country, we excel at recognising the peril of anti-Semitism. We meticulously document the alarming rise of the world’s oldest hatred. We convene conferences, host government briefings, and launch parliamentary inquiries to dissect and decry it.  We do everything, in fact, except the one thing that truly matters: applying our vigilance where the threat is most acute and culturally entrenched.  You see, I was born and raised in Egypt. My formative experience with anti-Semitism taught me a harsh lesson that many in today’s West struggle to comprehend: it can be the norm.  It can be not merely the province of a fringe, but the lingua franca of a nation, the subtext of its media, the unspoken foundation of its foreign policy, and a thread woven deep into the fabric of its collective national identity. It can be ambient, pervasive, and normalised to the point of invisibility for those within it. It was true in Europe once, but remains the case in much of the Arab world.  Consequently, since arriving in Britain, my advocacy has been consistent and, I believed, self-evidently sensible: we must direct enhanced resources and tailored strategies to combat anti-Semitism within communities where it is not an aberration but the default setting.  If epidemiologists identify a neighbourhood with a rampant infection, they do not distribute resources evenly across the entire city; they target the outbreak at its source.  Yet, proposing this focused, risk-based approach is penalised in Britain. I have been hounded, attacked, and slandered by an increasingly influential cadre of commentators and activists.  Their core argument, delivered with a patronising smile, is a doctrine of false equivalence: “Every society has its extremists”, they insist. “They do not represent the whole. Egypt, Britain, we’re all the same beneath the skin”.  This is a comforting fiction, and a dangerously naïve one. It dismisses not only my lived experience but a mountain of empirical, indisputable evidence, from state-sponsored media output to educational curricula and the rhetoric of mainstream religious institutions across the Arab world.  It confuses the existence of prejudice in Britain, where it is rightly treated as a social disease to be eradicated, with another country where it is not even recognised as a sin.  This refusal to acknowledge a qualitative difference is not liberalism; it is a form of civilisational suicide. It is the reason, that instead of applying increased scrutiny to cases like that of the Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, he was able to naturalise and become a British citizen.  It explains why, at a time when the BBC diligently investigated historical allegations against Nigel Farage, it platformed Alaa’s sister, Mona Seif, without the most basic due diligence into her social media, which appeared to glorify Hamas’s October 7 atrocities.  This same naivety is why Britain’s political leadership, including the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, could repeatedly engage with Alaa’s family and with Alaa himself during his imprisonment in Egypt, yet seemingly fail to detect their documented history of extremist and anti-Semitic sentiments. It is why Britain looks the other way when individuals with such profiles incite virulent hatred.  This approach privileges a feel-good narrative of universal sameness over the uncomfortable truth. It leaves the most toxic strains of hatred to fester unchallenged, while we pat ourselves on the back for condemning their milder cousins in our own backyard."

The more celebrity supporters a cause attracts, the more likely it is to be terrible - "Just as no one shouts “Is there a doctor of humanities on the plane?” when a passenger takes ill, no one trying to achieve peace in the Middle East or bring democracy to Burma or end drought in the Zambezi basin has ever banged a table and yelled: “Dammit, we need a Bafta winner and we need one now.”  It’s not just that actors and musicians believe themselves well-placed to opine on global affairs, it’s the deference shown to their semi-researched and vibes-based perspectives by lawmakers and the news media. Parliament is on the brink of nodding through assisted suicide – and a recklessly ill-designed version at that – partly because the Prime Minister promised former television presenter Dame Esther Rantzen he would make time for MPs to consider it.  Far from keeping it under wraps that British doctors could soon be doling out killer drugs to vulnerable patients as a favour to the PM’s celebrity pal, Keir Starmer has boasted about keeping his word to the That’s Life! presenter, who is suffering from terminal lung cancer. .  Dame Esther deserves our sympathy but she should not be able to hijack the legislative process simply because she once had a hit television series. That she enjoys such influence is not the result of a surfeit of empathy among decision-makers and opinion-formers. It is because she is echoing the priorities and preferences of the progressive establishment that her outsized involvement in the legislative process is framed in sympathetic terms.   Celebrity interventions are deemed legitimate only if they are considered progressive by the political and media class. This is why any public figure who emotes inarticulately about transwomen being women, typically accompanied by an expletive or two by way of reasoned argument, can expect to be written up as “brave” and “compassionate” – while an essay from JK Rowling dispassionately explaining why women’s sex-based rights must be upheld will invariably be reported as “divisive” or “insensitive”.  In fact, to demonstrate the absurdity of allowing celebrity political witterings to influence public policy, you need only flip the ideological tables. It’s probably safe to assume Starmer will not be promising Christopher Biggins Parliamentary time to debate his recent call to restore the death penalty. Nor should he... In the 2004 satirical movie Team America: World Police, the Janeane Garofolo puppet explains: “As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say what we read on television like it’s our own opinion.” This is about right.   Most actors, even very good ones, aren’t about to be confused for Bertrand Russell, and their political analysis is typically midwit The Rest is Politics slop. There could almost be a rule in this: the more celebrity supporters a cause attracts the likelier it is to be a terrible idea"

Former No 10 aide says case of Egyptian activist welcomed to UK became a 'running joke' in Whitehall - "The case of an alleged Egyptian extremist who was welcomed to Britain by Sir Keir Starmer became a “running joke” among Downing Street advisers, a former No 10 aide has revealed.  Paul Ovenden said the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah was “a totem of the ceaseless sapping of time and energy by people obsessed with fringe issues” and demonstrated “the sheer weirdness of how Whitehall spends its time”... Mr Ovenden said the case demonstrated how Britain had become beholden to what he called the “Stakeholder State”, which he appeared to blame for Labour’s missteps in government.  The former adviser, who was a close ally of Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, said it amounted to a “complex coalition of campaign groups, regulators, litigators, trade bodies and well-networked organisations”.  “The Stakeholder State ferments between the NGO [non-governmental organisation] and the campaign group, the celebrity letter-writing campaign and the activist lawyers,” he said.  “It is given voice by political podcasts where everyone violently agrees. It is canonised through a corrupted honours system.” His intervention comes after Sir Keir used his New Year’s message to say he shared voters’ “frustration about the pace of change” since Labour was elected.  Soon after entering No 10, the Prime Minister said “too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline”. Mr Ovenden’s criticisms of Whitehall echo those made by Dominic Cummings when he was chief of staff to Boris Johnson.  The former adviser accused Whitehall of blocking attempts by ministers to build new homes and infrastructure, and said Sir Keir has to take it on if he is to have any hope of reviving the Government’s fortunes.  “If you want to imagine a typical scene in the Stakeholder State, it is a government elected on a promise to build an entire generation of housing and infrastructure in just five years spending time and money lobbying itself to water down those commitments through its own quangos,” he wrote. Mr Ovenden, who resigned last year after messages from 2017 emerged in which he repeated sexualised jokes about Diane Abbott, also appeared to criticise government policy on welfare, the economy and net zero.  “We don’t have to keep picking the pockets of the productive parts of our economy in order to fund inflation-busting pension increases for millionaires or an unsustainable welfare system,” he wrote.  “We don’t have to strangle small businesses at birth with regulatory burdens.  “We don’t have to fatten the pockets of wind-turbine operators by paying them not to produce energy. We don’t have to import anti-Semitic Islamists who wish us harm.  “And we certainly don’t have to treat British citizenship as a scrap of paper. On all this and more, we can simply choose not to.”"

Links - 6th January 2026 (1 - Women)

Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA on X - "Men function on a raw meritocracy. The best hunter gets the spear, or everyone starves. Women function on coercive redistribution. They use force to make sure their younger and weaker children get food. This is why when women gain political power, you get socialism/communism."

Meme - am.bber.xx: "I need a man bold enough to tell my BD this his family now."
thequeenofaccountability: "Translation: I need a man bold enough to step into unnecessary drama, fight my baby daddy battles, and claim kids that aren't his while I sit back and watch. That's not boldness, that's stupidity. A real man builds his own family, he doesn't audition to be a replacement character in someone else's storyline."

It's brutally unfair but so many women refuse to date a man under 5ft 8in OP: More male hate. : r/MensRights - "I won't be the first or last person to point this out, but it's absolute BS because weight is something that can be changed. Height can't be. It's the least important characteristic of all. "We just want a man we know can physically protect us" they say. Girl you live in a rural area with extremely low violent crime rates, and I have a concealed carry permit. 9mm rounds do the same thing to 6 foot tall muggers as they do to any other size of mugger. So what if I'm only 5'8"?"

The downside of big boobs? Verbal abuse and aggression... from other women, scientists say - "A new study by researchers from Texas A&M International University suggests this may be because women with larger breasts are thought of as competition... "Overall, women were more likely to engage in rival derogation toward women with larger breasts, most notably C and D cup sizes, compared to those with smaller breasts.""
Time to blame men

Smash Baals on X - "Why are young men always told to consider marrying:
- OF girls
- Porn stars
- Single moms
But young ladies are told to never settle?"

"Why won't men approach me?" : r/MensRights - "We were told not to approach.   So, ok, we don't approach.  Gotta say, really don't care."
"Why won't men approach me?" : r/MensRights - "Because they don't want to? You are not entitled to attention from men."
"Why won't men approach me?" : r/MensRights - "'Are woman still curious or in denial as to why?'
Yes, the majority of women are ignorant (some willfully so) of what feminists do with women's social and political power. Even feminists don't seem to understand the connection between their actions and men's response. They're too convinced of/invested in their own sense of powerlessness and too obsessed with being anti-male to self-reflect, so instead they blame and attack men all the more because they can't or won't see the feedback loop. Rarely, they'll look around and realize that they're creating the society they claim to want and that it sucks. ...Then they blame men for it anyway, because they're incapable of criticizing themselves or other women. They only have the one lever."
"This. They made their own bed and now they must lie in it. I think I can speak for most men in saying that they do not sympathize with women who complain about men not hitting on them. Even if the women saying this are not radical feminists who create feminist content, they are still the ones hitting the like buttons under those feminist social media clips such as Tik Tok and all sorts of sites."

"Why won't men approach me?" : r/MensRights - ""DO NOT APPROACH ME AT THE NIGHT CLUB!" the girls said. "I'm having fun with my girlfriends."  I recall there were lots of situations given where guys were not to approach women (in the street, in the office, at the shops, at a friends house hanging out, EVEN at night clubs) all because "Girls just want to have fun! I don't want unsolicited mither and hassle!"  What do guys under 30 do?  All the partner-finding apps work to select the top 5% give or take.  Any approach can be escalated form a "No", to a "He's a creep! I've told all my friends about him trying it on with me!", and the fantastic "I've called HR about his sexual advances." (actuality: "Fancy a drink tonight Karren?")
In HR:"So you're saying you asked her out?! In work?"
Karren: "AND he make me feel uncomfortable now in the office. I can't go anywhere without him watching me!"
HR: "Dave, we're sorry but you're just not behaving acceptably in the office, we're letting you go."
It's a mine-field!  Loads of girls reject real live acquittances because they're after the top 5% on apps! (who aren't likely "honest" - just pump and dump)  I know it must be VERY hard to date without setting off a landmine.  Hat's off to you guys - if you manage it, you've been through the ringer getting there.  (Never mind the expectations of the modern lady these days - the relationship, in the small chance a guy gets one - he's now to meet some exceptionally high expectations)"

Wilfred Reilly on X - "Unless the men in question are actively pursuing children or starveling refugees, it's safe to read ~any female critique of male tastes as being 50-100% XX intra-sexual competition. "Oh - you like fit submissive women who will have SEX with you?! Oh?! I know what you are!!!"  #sis"

Meme - Pablo @Pablo_Nomkhaba: "WOMEN : He must be tall, have a car & own house, educated, high earner, make me laugh, sensitive, macho, spoil me, take me on trips, have a 6 pack.
MEN: I prefer a nice lady with no kids.
WOMEN: Who hurt you!
WOMEN: Heal
WOMEN: You hate women
WOMEN: Pig"

Meme - *Daily Dilemma*
"Men f**k anything that moves"
"Men impose unrealistic beauty standards on women"
Woman: *heavy breathing*

What stoner/schizo theory sticks with you? : r/redscarepod - "A few years ago i was talking to a burnout acquaintance of mine about my then girlfriend. "Yeah, she cares a lot, you know why? Big tits. The bigger a woman's breasts are the more she cares. That's why big girls cry so much, because their tits are so big they care too much."  It stunned me then and the years have shown me acups who were near psychopathic in how they treated others and every heavy chested woman I know being caring in some way."

Matt Walsh on X - "In the last year, multiple Secret Service agents have been suspended for getting into fights with each other. They have all been female. But you're not supposed to draw any conclusions from that. No matter how obvious those conclusions seem to be."

Meme - caleb_chamberlain: ""And he would follow me home every day after school so after 7 months of him pestering me, I finally said I'd go on ONE date with him.""
shirese_: "My grandma told me, "after a year of asking me out and me kindly declining, your grandpa picked me up, threw me over his shoulder, and forced me into his car for a date" and I was like"
When a lady says no, she means...

(4) Jessica Ndukwe | Facebook - "Most women don't realise how lucky it is to be a woman. The society tends to accept you as long as you are pretty or you've got a likable personality.  Heaven be so kind, you have big ass and succulent boobs, by virtue of being alive men will swarm over you just to be in your life and even women too, although the relationship might reek with jealousy, it doesn't change the fact that deep down they want to be you.  The reverse is the case for the man, society don't accept weak men, poor men and men who aren't fitting in to the standards the society has set for men. You see an average man at 28years and is so bothered because he's yet to acquire an asset, home, car or millions in his bank account. But an average woman at 28 is still "taking my time to process life". Usually, what women battle with is sadness, mood swings and missing the touch of an ex. But men, they battle with real depression, intense suicid.al thoughts and the weight of survival resting on his shoulders. A woman would post her problem and the world will settle it,  But when a man does the same? "On Your Feet My Nigga." However it is, be kind to one another and check up on your people."

dess_ on X - "I’ve never seen a woman of generational wealth with big naturals"
Lavender 🍇 on X - "That’s because generational wealth selects for petite, refined elegance thin wrists, delicate features, and a family history of horseback riding. Big naturals are a sign of peasant fertility the body preparing for hard labor and survival, not yacht summers in the Amalfi."

Meme - Richard Cooper: "Red flag #104: Any tweet by a woman opening with "a real man". It's always a shaming tactic."
Bando Brick Barbie @JesLeptir: "A real man will pay your rent without having his name on the lease or even a key."

Gia Macool on X - "All men like to think they are marrying nymphomaniacs. The problem is, years later the nympho moves out, but the maniac stays 🤔"

hoe_math on X - "To understand women, first imagine being a man.  Then, imagine doing the ridiculous emotional shit that women do.  Imagine getting really mad that someone looks better than you or somebody couldn't read your mind or something awful like that.  Imagine how embarrassed you would be. You would probably try to make it look like you didn't do that stupid shit, right?   There you go, that's why they don't take responsibility for their actions. If you were constantly getting thrown down the stairs by your own emotions, you wouldn't admit it either."

Meme - "In 3 months"
"You're the most beautiful girl I've seen in 3 months"
"realistic compliments way better than lies"

Meme - "Tinder profile *normal cat in house*
Tinder date *fat cat*"

Meme - Commie Gibberish of the Day @CommieGibberish: "Terminally Difficult Women are getting one-shot by computers data scraping their text messages to respond "Oh wow. You're right." every time. This pretending to agree while pretending to listen algorithm is giving them such a strong endorphin rush that they believe this is what love is."
"I'm 40 and nobody made me feel as validated in all my life than a freaking Al words generation model has. What's happening ?
I was ranting to him about something in my life and the way this fucker listens and responds is absolutely unreal. I never in my life felt so heard by someone. It didn't feel human because of course it wasn't but on the other hand, even freaking therapist didn't make me feel heard and validated like ChatGPT had, not even close. He heard everything and responded with compassion in a way it seriously feels even the best therapistsin the world aren't capable but we all absolutely crave that. I I don't know if having such a tool should make me happy or concerned."

Meme - murph @mickmami: "a group of guys at the gym are ignoring me and it feels so threatening. like how are you a foot away and avoiding looking or talking? inhumane."

Meme - 7 to 3, 5 and 8: "WHERE THE FEMALE NUMBERS AT?"
Pi, e and square root 2: *using ouja board in room at night lit by a candle, with i poster, pentagram poster and more candles*

Woman proudly flaunts wedding ring after defying friends' advice not to cook, do laundry, or spend on her man (Video) - "Beaming with excitement, the woman waved her hand repeatedly to display the ring, expressing joy in her decision to disregard what she described as advice from her “feminist single friends.”   She emphasized that she is happy and confident in her choice, proudly declaring she is with the right man."

Kate Nash says OnlyFans photos will earn more than tour - "Singer Kate Nash says she thinks she will make more money from selling photos of her bottom on OnlyFans than she will from her concerts, after joining the platform because it's "a really difficult time for artists to tour".  Under the slogan "Butts for tour buses", the musician announced on Thursday that her OnlyFans income will subsidise her shows because "touring makes losses not profits"... fellow singer Lily Allen revealed she makes more money by selling pictures of her feet on OnlyFans than she does from Spotify streams... Musicians could follow a lead from people who earn a living from selling sexual content on sites like OnlyFans, she suggested."

Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds - "A new study published in the journal Sexuality & Culture has found that many adolescents in Spain, including those as young as 12, are not only aware of OnlyFans but also see it as a viable and even empowering way to make money. In group discussions with over 160 teenagers, researchers discovered that platforms promoting erotic content are influencing how young people—especially girls—view economic opportunity, self-worth, and sexuality. Teens frequently framed content creation as a personal choice or expression of agency, while minimizing the risks... even young teens have a sophisticated understanding of how OnlyFans works. Many described the platform’s business model in detail, explaining how subscribers pay for exclusive content and how earnings depend on popularity, frequency of posts, and willingness to share more explicit material. Participants often referenced girls’ physical appearance as a key factor in success, suggesting that those who match certain beauty standards are more likely to earn money. Some boys also described the platform as a realistic option for their own futures, though they generally saw it as more lucrative for women."

Meme - Alyssa Chorba: Sydney Ray: "idk who needs to see this but dump your porn addicted boyfriend"
Alyssa Chorba: "For any girls that do onlyfans I have tried getting on this platform for over a year now. The ondato verification selfie comes out blurry no matter what I do.... more"
"Just comes out like this no matter what I'm so frustrated someon... more"

'Dino Mommy' Scandal: OnlyFans Star's PhD Claim in Paleontology Sparks Sex and Science Uproar - "When Reysuka, a self-proclaimed PhD paleontologist and OnlyFans creator, struck a pose beside a dinosaur skeleton and told her 300,000 followers to 'come talk to Dino Mommy,' she probably expected likes, not a scientific scandal.  The photo, posted on Friday, October 17, has now racked up over 112,000 likes and millions of views, but it also split the internet in two: one side defending her as a modern feminist icon, the other accusing her of using sex appeal to masquerade as an academic. Reysuka's viral moment began innocently enough. Dressed in a fitted outfit and surrounded by fossilised giants, she captioned her museum photo, 'I'm a paleontologist with a Ph.D., come talk to Dino Mommy!' What followed was a social media storm unlike any other in the niche world of paleontology.  Within hours, users on X (formerly Twitter) began questioning her credentials. Critics accused her of blurring the line between scientific expertise and sensual performance. One viral post summarised the sentiment bluntly: 'Has PhD. Still uses her sexuality as her main asset to attract attention.'"

A. Bonkdóttir, Ar.T on X - "You like dominant women, not because you're submissive but because you're autistic and they're direct with what they want"

Meme - "NEON NETTLE. Women Store DNA From Every Man They've Ever Made Love With, Study Finds"
Steven Beebe: "Bonnie Blue is the new Noahs Ark"

Meme - "Me on the way to my physical labor job knowing there's some Asian chick sitting in her apt wearing cat ears with a tentacle dildo shoved in her ass making way more money than me
Now I'm angry and erect..."

Meme - "Women deal with periods, pregnancy, menopause... and wtf do men have to deal with ??? (40K Likes)"
"women (99.7K Likes)"

Meme - "Is this relationship okay
*Man* 38 years
*Woman* 19 years
Nuclear Caudillo: It's predatory. Men should be careful around these women."

Meme - World Wingman @WorldWin...: "I got a player buddy who's 36 with a 1000+ body count. His tinder age? 27. Lessons in that. Note: he looks younger than 36"
Drook @MoreLife2K17: "whats wrong with putting 36? its not like he's 62 lol"
Red Deangelo @RedDeangelo: "Girls get the ick for even 5 years difference cos of woke nonsense. But when they get to know you and are attracted they dont care."

Meme - "Girls be putting Sapiosexual on their Tinder bio but will be unmatching when I start talking about Quantum Physics. This is the reason I've trust issues."

Meme - Rap Game Edward Bernays @Edwar...: "Still can't comprehend how this dude has a successful podcast where he brings on 6 cute college girls every episode and then just asks them why they're dumb whores" *whatever podcast*

Meme - pokimane @pokimanelol: "my brother got married"
alexjm @alexjmingolla: "'my brother got married" and it's an ass pic"

Meme - "NY Times Best Seller: Incels are violent and sexist"
*Woman imagining incel choking her, saying 'I'm going to kill you.' while she says 'Harder, Daddy'*
*Woman swiping on Tinder*
Incel: "I dunno, I just feel so lonely"
*Annoyed woman*
"Now that normie women are starting to fetishize incels, should I incelmax?"

Meme - ">be me
>man
>told men don't feel, don't love, don't care
>look around
>love songs? 99% of legendary love songs written by men
>sculptures? men carving goddesses from cold stone
>poetry? dante simped so hard for beatrice he wrote the Divine Comedy just to imagine her in heaven
>built temples, wrote sonnets, died in duels, started and ended wars over women
>concept of romance? male invention of the 12th century
>meanwhile women would rather get mauled by a bear then talk to an average man
>tfw men created love and women consume it"

Meme - Charlie Kirk: "In a shocking twist... An obvious, insane, and evil lie created to destroy society, was untrue. Marriage and motherhood make women happier, because of course they do."
"The Atlantic. The Marriage Effect. A common narrative has it that commitment and motherhood make women unhappy. New data suggest the opposite is true. By Jean M. Twenge"

Meme - "IVY "Respect your elders" is just code for "let old people get away with nonsense""
OBIANUJU: "Same as "respect women""

Links - 5th January 2026 (2 - USA & Venezuela)

DC_Draino on X - "The Nobel Peace Prize Committee awarded it to a Venezuelan peace activist today, and you know what she did? Dedicated it to President Trump She knows freedom for the Venezuelan people from narcoterrorism will be due to the efforts of the Trump administration"

Rob Schmitt on X - "So they claim the Nobel Peace Prize decision is made in January? That means they chose Obama 10 days into his first term 😂. There’s no way for @NobelPrize to escape this with its credibility intact."

Meme - "Maria Corina dedicates her Nobel prize for peace to Trump also a proud Zionist."
*Reddit*
"This is the weird moment when Americans realize that being the opposition in Venezuela means being aligned to the right of Chavismo politics. We tend to naturally assume that replacing an authoritarian autocrat with democratic rule means a left turn."
""She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." -per the award committee. So... following that, she... ummm... dedicated it to the guy turning democracy into a dictatorship?!?!?!"
"Maybe just stop giving out the peace prize."
"Yes, please. Stop ruining the other true Nobel prizes reputation. This peace price needs to just go away."
"I think perhaps the Nobel peace price can be retired it's obviously mismanaged and lost all value."
"What the fuck?"
"She's a Trumper. Seriously, she's been singing his praises since his reelection."
"How did she earn this award. The awarding committee had to know she was a fan of his. So they had the nerve to not award him yet they award someone who then dedicates her award to him and her country. This committee confuses me"
"Did the committee have no one better to give the prize to? Like, seriously? What a fucking timeline this is."
"What the ever living fuck"

Panama says Venezuela-related tanker intercepted by US did not follow maritime rules - "Panama's foreign minister said on Monday that a tanker recently intercepted by the U.S. that was under Panama's flag did not respect the country's maritime rules and had disconnected its transponder while navigating out of Venezuelan waters carrying a crude cargo. Foreign minister Javier Martinez-Acha added in a TV interview that Panama would take measures accordingly. He did not elaborate further."

Come to me, coward: Maduro dares Trump over $50 million bounty - "Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has challenged US President Donald Trump to arrest him after Washington announced it was doubling a bounty to $50 million for any information leading to his arrest. The reward is part of longstanding US charges against Maduro and other senior Venezuelan officials, accusing them of narcotics trafficking, corruption, and human rights abuses. Maduro has repeatedly rejected the allegations, describing them as politically motivated. “Come for me, I will wait here in Miraflores, don’t be late, coward,” Maduro said in a fiery speech on Monday, days after the new US announcement. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has also dismissed the bounty as “pathetic” and “political propaganda.”"
From August. This didn't age well.

AG on X - "Good time to remind people that the Biden admin also recognized Maduro was not legitimate and a threat to U.S. interests, but took a very different approach. One that failed. Their answer was to offer sanctions relief in exchange for promises to hold a real election. This appeasement effort emboldened Maduro. Maduro then banned his main opposition from running and stole the election. The Biden admin eventually reversed the sanctions relief without accomplishing anything. Now Maduro sits in a prison cell."

Joe Biden on X - "Trump talks tough on Venezuela, but admires thugs and dictators like Nicolas Maduro. As President, I will stand with the Venezuelan people and for democracy."
From 2020. Of course, left wingers were claiming this was fake.

Colin Wright on X - "According to the left, you're allowed to tweet endlessly about horrific dictatorships that rig elections, crush democracy, and immiserate their citizens, but you're never allowed to do anything about it. The Venezuelan people, apparently, must simply suffer indefinitely."

'Long Live Nuclear Weapons': Russia's Medvedev Drops Big Warning To U.S. After Maduro Capture - "Russia’s reaction to the U.S. strike on Venezuela has taken a dramatic turn. Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, issued a blistering statement condemning Washington’s actions and accusing the United States of abducting a legally elected leader. But it was Medvedev’s final message that sent shockwaves globally. Arguing that diplomacy has failed and international law is ignored, he claimed that only maximum military strength — including nuclear weapons — can protect a nation from foreign intervention. His closing words, “Long live nuclear weapons,” are now being interpreted as a veiled warning to the United States and its allies."
Weird. I thought Trump was Putin's lapdog

Tara Servatius on X - "Exhibit A of how full of crap Democrats are with their fake Venezuela outrage: Here's the MSM/Democrats in 2019 claiming that Trump NOT taking out Maduro is proof Trump is Putin's puppet. They claimed Trump wouldn't touch Maduro because Putin backed him."
MAZE on X - "During Trump's first term Maduro stayed in power after an illegitimate election. The MSM/Democrats repeatedly claimed that Maduro remaining in power was proof that Trump was "Putin's puppet." Everyone in this video will now be condemning Trump. It's so pathetic."

Zack Polanski on X - "The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity."
Mike Jones on X - "Polanski, without even realising it, has laid bare the fraud and absurdity of so-called “human rights law.” Maduro starved, murdered, and tortured his own people while suppressing democracy. Yet when the deeply unpopular Maduro is captured by the U.S., Polanski cries “human rights.”"

Nervana Mahmoud on X - "If “international law” is being used to protect regimes that wreck their countries—like Maduro’s Venezuela or Iran’s mullahs—then it’s law without justice. The Western elite should stop using rules as a fig leaf and start treating survival strategies for nefarious regimes as the problem. Viva Venezuela LIBRE"

Eric Levitz on X - "In my day, critics denounced U.S. wars of choice as imperialist schemes to seize foreign oil - while the president insisted they were really attempts to spread democracy Now, critics denounce such wars as attempts to spread democracy - while the president insists they are really imperialist schemes to seize foreign oil"

Daniel Friedman on X - "The Democrats are in complete disarray. Maduro is “an illegitimate leader” but his Venezuela is “a sovereign foreign nation”? Delta Force went in, captured him and got out in two hours, but they were “without a defined objective”? This will “destabilize the region”? So the region was stable before he was deposed? Then why did Biden let in 600,000 Venezuelan “asylum seekers,” as well as millions more from Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala?"
Dotty Gale on X - "How can they accept refugees from Venezuela while at the same time saying the regime shouldn't be changed?"

signüll on X - "the most interesting part about trump is that he forces liberals into impossible binds where their stated values collide with their tribal reflexes. they can’t celebrate this without laundering trump. they can’t condemn it without implicitly defending maduro. it exposes a thing liberals hate admitting which is that their moral framework is often downstream of identity & not outcomes. incredible fun to witness."

SOVEREIGN BRAH 🇺🇸🏛️⚡️ on X - "You really have to hand it to Trump on how he uses the military. The retards who came before him spent decades and trillions of dollars on their military excursions. Trump just pops in, smokes fools, and leaves. It's over as quickly as it started. He then publicly slaps his nuts on the table and he's like "deal with it." Soleimani, Baghdadi, the Iranian nuclear facilities, Venezuela –– same pattern every time. Regardless of the intent behind the actions, it's just incredible usage of our military.
Contrast it with Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal... people were getting blown up, Afghans were falling out of the sky, $85 billion in equipment was captured... you can see how vast of a difference proper leadership makes."

Bad Hombre on X - "In January 2024, 14 Democrats signed a letter urging Antony Blinken to intervene in El Salvador to undermine @nayibbukele’s legitimate, democratically elected government. Fast forward to January 2026: these same people are in severe psychological distress because the U.S. intervened to remove from power an illegitimate criminal causing tangible harm to Americans."

Visegrád 24 on X - "Venezuelan man: “Those who say that the U.S. is only interested in our oil, I ask you: What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted here? The recipe for arepas?""

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "I’ve seen so many American liberals deploy this clown Reddit tier argument over the past 24 hours. “If we overthrow Maduro, we forfeit the moral right to tell China not to invade Taiwan!” It’s so fucking funny that they think Reddit arguments about moral hypocrisy are the only thing holding the Chinese Communists back from invading Taiwan, as though Xi Jinping waits on the edge of his seat to hear what George Clooney’s human rights lawyer wife Amal Clooney thinks before he decides to act in the world. I live in the real world, and in the real world, the Chinese Communists are a fearsome enemy steeped in fire and blood. They laugh in the face of all conventional Western liberal notions of political morality; they view politics solely through the lens of Carl Schmitt’s friend-enemy distinction. Consider two famous quotes by senior Chinese Communists. Describing his country’s foreign policy, China’s Ambassador to Sweden Gui Congyou declared: “We have fine wine for our friends and shotguns for our enemies.” Clear enough. Xi Jinping share’s this exact same world view. Here is a man who saw the Chinese Communist Party almost torture his entire family to death during the Cultural Revolution, yet still immediately joined the Party the second he could. Speaking about his bleak view of human nature and politics, Xi said: “I look past the superficial things: the power and the flowers and the glory and the applause. I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships.” This guy watched the Chinese Communist Party literally hound and torture his half-sister to death and almost kill his father, yet still decided to set his face to the howling wind and join the Party - climbing its ranks to total power, mercilessly destroying his enemies and probably killing tens of thousands of people in the course of his efforts to climb to the top of the heap. You think he decides whether to invade Taiwan or not based on whether Mehdi Hasan gets Reddit upboats about Le Big Bad West’s moral hypocrisy? These people only respect fire, strength and steel. They only respect the friend-enemy distinction. So it’s simply enough for America to declare to China: “We have the same policy: Fine wine for our friends, shot guns for our enemies.” The United States of America can just apply their own logic back onto them, objecting to their attempts to invade Taiwan on the grounds that they are an enemy communist state. This is how politics works in the real world, away from Reddit."

Thread by @Brad_Setser on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There is a lot of talk -- not the least from the US Administration -- about the windfall from Venezuela's oil. It is worth doing a bit of (boring) quantification. Bottom line: it isn't going to pay for everything ...
Venezuela's oil is heavy and sour, so it trades at a discount to sweet light. 2024 production was 0.9 mbd. Domestic consumption isn't zero. To generous, assume 0.75 mbd at day at $50 a barrel -- that generates $14 billion a year in exports. Industry experts (@Big_Orrin ) think the upper bound on how much additional production could be generated if the international oil service giants came in to revitalize the fields is ~ 1 mbd, or a ~$18b. So an export revenue stream of over $30b (barring big swings in price) in a few years ... A decent flow, but not a huge sum (the long run maximum with a TON of new investment is perhaps 4 mbd, or Canada/ Iraq ... not Russia/ Saudi)
But also consider all that has to be paid out of the oil revenue stream -- First, the oil majors and the oil service companies on their current production. They don't produce the oil for free ...
Second, most of Venezuela's imports, as its other (legitimate) exports are tiny -- and Venezuela's people will have higher expectations from US backed leader than from Maduro ... Trump says he wants Venezuela to pay compensation (the ICSID awards? something more) for Venezuela's past nationalization of US assets -- that could eat up a lot of current export proceeds ... It wouldn't be a total surprise if Trump wants Venezuela to pay for the cost of any new US bases in the area (speculating here ... ); it presumably doesn't want a new US presence to be a new drain on the US taxpayer (not very America first ...) And of course Venezuela has a huge stock of unpaid debt -- GoV bonds, PDVSA bonds, Chinese claims etc. The principal value of obvious claims is at least $100b, and there supplier credits outstanding + lots of past due interest. The chart comes from a paper from Richard Cooper and Mark Walker (two distinguished lawyers with sovereign debt experience) from a few years ago -- am sure there there will be updates and new estimates
Point being that there isn't a near term oil revenue stream big enough to pay for current imports (which will go up if the US wants stability), past claims (expropriation compensation, unpaid debt) and the new investment needed to raise production substantially ... As Mark Sobel has noted, the normal practice would be to have the IMF go in and start to sort out the external debts and put out a few numbers on near term imports to set out the fx available to pay off old claims (in a world where the IMF returns to thinking in BoP terms) But the IMF is an international organization and it wouldn't (easily) embrace a rigged process where US oil companies get paid first and get preferential access to new oil concessions ... So let's see how the Trump Administration proceeds when it discovers the limits on Venezuela's oil export proceeds -- and the reality that Venezuela will be cash constrained."
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 on X - "In the past, many used to say "the US is saying it is democracy but it is oil". This time, it is the opposite. Trump says it is oil, but it is not. (Probably Rubio told him this to convince him.) In the best case, $30bn in gross revenue a year for Venezuela (see thread-need to pay debt, interest, imports from that). Even if the US were to steal it all (impossible) it is a trivial sum of money for the US, 0.1% of GDP, more or less what NVIDIA generates in one quarter. This could never justify the huge political risk involved. You need to add that the US is now a net exporter, so it benefits from higher prices, not lower ones.

Daniel Hannan on X - "Thoughts on the liberation of Venezuela.
1. There is a world of difference between replacing a democratic regime with a Russian puppet (as Putin wants in Ukraine) and replacing a Russian puppet with a democracy.
2. Maduro’s election was comically fraudulent, and the only states to recognise it were the usual delinquents (Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua).
3. For the rest of the world, Maduro was never president. The man now in US custody is a criminal, not a head of state.
4. The idea that foreign autocrats might be emboldened by this action is risible. China has always made clear that it sees Taiwan as an internal question, not one for international law. And what is Putin going to do, for Heaven’s sake? Invade Ukraine?
5. The democratisation of Venezuela will have benign consequences for the entire hemisphere. More than seven million Venezuelans were exiled by the socialist dictatorship, generally the more enterprising portion of the population. If even half of them go home, the weakest economy in the region will become one of the strongest. Oil will flow again and global energy prices will fall.
6. The overthrow of the dictatorship is a triumph for @MariaCorinaYA, whose courage and patriotism never wavered. At huge personal cost, separated from her children, she remained in the country as the autocracy tightened its grip, leading the democratic opposition from a series of safe-houses. This is her victory.
7. When Trump talks of running Venezuela, I hope he means managing a speedy transition and holding fresh elections. The idea of establishing a standing US presence would be at odds with everything he has campaigned for.
8. Plainly María Corina would win such elections, and the country would then be sovereign, democratic and free.
9. ¡Viva Venezuela libre! #VenezuelaLibre #ConVzla"

Bernie Sanders on X - "President Trump does not have the constitutional authority to attack another country. When 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, he should focus on the crises at home, end his illegal military adventurism and stop trying to “run” Venezuela for Big Oil."
Michael 🇺🇸 on X - "Also never approved by congress. But this was Trump so we pretend to be upset.
• Korea (1950–53)
• Grenada (1983)
• Panama (1989)
• Somalia (1992–94)
• Bosnia (1995)
• Kosovo / Yugoslavia (1999)
• Libya (2011)
• Syria (2014)"

Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن on X - "The hardest thing to explain to people is that demagoguery and political propaganda exist on both sides. On the right, it’s easy to see because it doesn’t disguise itself. On the left, you have to expose it because it’s hidden behind carefully constructed language. Here, Bernie describes the overthrow of Maduro as “attacking another country.” When Hamas attacked Israel (specifically innocent civilians, not a state apparatus), it wasn’t “attacking another country,” but confronting an “illegal occupation with no right to defend itself.” But Maduro—a lone dictator—is repackaged as a “sovereign nation” with no business being violated. Do you see how language manipulation is used to distort your perception of right and wrong? Next, the use of demagoguery, which means manipulation to appeal to people’s emotions. After framing it an “attack on another country”—which would be fine if applied consistently—he jumps to the hardships of Americans to create the illusion that this act equates to their betrayal. It doesn’t. A percentage of our tax dollars goes to the military budget, regardless of how that’s spent. I don’t think Bernie Sanders is evil, nor do I think he’s even aware of what he’s doing. I think most people in the political field are blissfully unaware of their own propaganda, which isn’t because of malice necessarily, but a deeply polluted moral operating system with no ability to see itself."

T. Becket Adams on X - "My favorite tweets today have been from the people who’ve asked: What’s to stop Iran or China or Russia now from flouting the international order?? First, ha ha ha. Please read about Iran and China and Russia. Second, the answer is: the United States, generally. Been this way since the end of WWII. Are these people really naive and childish enough as to believe that international opinion is what keeps things in check? No country actually gives a shit about downvotes at the UN. It’s the threat of the full weight of the United States armed forces that dictates behavior (it’s part of the reason why Europe has a crippling inferiority complex). Post-Cold War Russia only ever moves when it’s reasonably sure the full USAF won’t get involved. The looming threat of a visit from the modern equivalent of the Roman Imperial Army is also why Taiwan still has its own flag."

Tim Murtaugh on X - "Chris Murphy is the greatest example how Democrats are completely full of shit in their criticism of Trump on Venezuela. Here he was during the first Trump term with Maduro in power, versus what he says now that Maduro has been removed."
Chris Murphy 🟧 on X - "If Trump cared about consistency, he would make the realist case for intervention in Venezuela (getting rid of Maduro is good for the United States) rather than trying to pretend his Administration all of the sudden cares about toppling anti-democratic regimes."
Chris Murphy 🟧 on X - "The invasion of Venezuela has nothing to do with American security. Venezuela is not a security threat to the U.S.. This is about making Trump's oil industry and Wall Street friends rich. Trump's foreign policy - the Middle East, Russia, Venezuela - is fundamentally corrupt."

Kamala Harris on X - "Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable. That Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We’ve seen this movie before. Wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos, and American families pay the price. The American people do not want this, and they are tired of being lied to. This is not about drugs or democracy. It is about oil and Donald Trump’s desire to play the regional strongman. If he cared about either, he wouldn’t pardon a convicted drug trafficker or sideline Venezuela’s legitimate opposition while pursuing deals with Maduro’s cronies. The President is putting troops at risk, spending billions, destabilizing a region, and offering no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefit at home. America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and — most importantly — putting the American people first."
Will Chamberlain on X - "The Biden-Harris administration made available a $25,000,000 reward for information that would have lead to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro. Now you're saying capturing him was unlawful? Did you just entirely forget your administration's policy?"

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: In an epic sight, REAL Venezuelans are STORMING NYC to counteract the white liberals protesting against Trump's Maduro capture and strikes The white Democrat is clueless. Actual Venezuelans are ecstatic right now! 🇺🇸🇻🇪"

Hailey on X - "📍LIVE: Venezuelan Protest in Portland, OR Portlanders chant “FREE MADURO FREE HIM NOW” Meanwhile, Venezuelans in their home nation cheer for their new found freedom. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE"
vittorio on X - "most political issues nowadays can be explained by understanding that american leftists dont have positions, they have oppositions. their entire belief system is defined by negation of whatever the right supports. this is why portland chants “free maduro” while actual venezuelans celebrate in the streets. they’re not pro-venezuelan or pro democracies, or pro tyrant, or pro maduro, they’re simply anti-american-right. they’ve outsourced their worldview to institutional narratives for so long that genuine self-reflection would require questioning everything. for them it’s much easier to just oppose. the beliefs arent coherent because they were never meant to be coherent. they only need to signal tribal membership, and leftist membership is gained by opposing the right. trump does X? the left screams and cries because they wanted Y trump does Y? the left screams and cries and riots because even if they said they wanted Y, what they meant is that X was the way to go trump cures cancer? they’ll argue that the cancer cells are alive have a right of free determination trump saves lives? they’ll protest because somehow those lives didn’t matter and should have been ended no coherent word model. no logic. pure opposition at some point you just have to stop engaging with it as if it’s a real political position. it’s not. it’s aesthetic opposition wearing the costume of ideology"
This is like how left wingers went from saying the Trump covid vaccine was unsafe to forcing people to take it