Links - 25th April 2026 (2 - Antifa)

Meme - James Morrow: ""The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.""
"The Nation: The Right Is Lying About Left Wing Violence. The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy - "antifa" - to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities
The Nation: Liberals Think Antifa Isn't Real. But It Is-and It Knows How to Win. To protect us all from the violence of the Trump administration, we must defend antifa."
With all the contradictory programming, it's no wonder left wingers are mentally ill

Andy Ngo on "X - "In the lawsuit against the President and U.S. government brought by the State of Oregon to stop troops from being sent to protect federal property, one of their exhibits sent to the court inadvertently reveals that Antifa have been coercing homeless people to join in rioting.  This is something I witnessed in 2020. They were given food and supplies as a reward for throwing rocks or explosives at the federal building in downtown Portland.  @PortlandPolice  Sgt. John Edwards wrote that the officer in charge of the area outside the ICE facility in early September documented that one elderly homeless man pleaded with police if he could pretend to rattle the gates at ICE so that Antifa would leave him and other homeless people alone.  Antifa groom homeless people to riot because it is of no consequence to them or their organized networks if those individuals are prosecuted.  The evidence also discusses violent Portland Antifa member Tracy Molina @KohzKah , who has repeatedly targeted me and was arrested around eight times in 2020 but never held accountable. When federal agents arrested her, she cut herself and then smeared blood all over her holding cell. http://ngocomment.com"

Meme - "These people don't even have a preschool level understanding of WWII. That's how blatantly stupid this is. Simple question to start with herr. Antifa is communist, how did Patton and Eisenhower feel about communism? Hint: they were not fans"
"MEET THE FOUNDERS OF ANTIFA. General Dwight D Eisenhower. General Patton. General Bradley"

Andy Ngo on X - "You may have seen a Portland Antifa rioter dressed in a cartoonish frog costume at the Portland anti-ICE riots. The man in that is a trans person named Seth D. Todd (b. May 2001).   Seth Todd is an Antifa anti-government violent extremist who uses the costume to make his comrades look less threatening on videos and photos. But he urges killings and murders, including calling for those who work for the U.S. government to be shot in the head. He identifies himself as a terrorist.  Mr Todd has an open federal case in Portland stemming from a criminal citation on July 8. He is not barred from being outside the ICE facility. He is regularly there, where he tries to help his comrades escape arrest."

Meme - "Antifa 'researcher' unmasked as Central Pacific ADL Regional Coordinator"
"ADL. HATE SYMBOL. Anti-Antifa Images. Hate on Display"
Being against violent Communists is "hate". A good reminder that left wingers can't be taken seriously when they go on about "hate"

FischerKing on X - "The FBI can invent a plot to ‘kidnap’ the governor of Michigan and get a bunch of down on their luck guys to go along with it and then prosecute them, but they can’t infiltrate a single Antifa cell and just start rolling up very eager terrorists who don’t need encouragement."

‘Anti-Greta’ activist flees Germany and seeks asylum in US - "A German political activist dubbed the “anti-Greta” has applied for asylum in the United States, claiming she is fleeing persecution in Europe.  Naomi Seibt, 25, is an outspoken critic of Germany’s main political parties and an ardent supporter of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).  Supporters have described her as the opposite of Swedish activist Greta Thunberg for her criticism of climate change initiatives and immigration.  Ms Seibt said she feared for her life after receiving death threats from Antifa.  She said the police did nothing when presented with proof that her life was in danger.  “It starts with Antifa, which is stronger in Germany than it is anywhere else in the world… I have received many death threats from Antifa. When I showed it to the police, they said they couldn’t do anything because I wasn’t raped or killed,” Ms Seibt said.  She claimed she had been watched by German intelligence for several years... she highlighted the case of Norbert Bolz, a mainstream political commentator whose home was recently searched by police over a 2024 social media post that contained a Nazi-era slogan.  Last week, officers arrived at Mr Bolz’s home and questioned him about the post that included the words “Deutschland erwache!” (“Germany, awake!”). The pundit, who has written for mainstream outlets including Welt, the sister publication of Politico, was not arrested. Ms Seibt also cited the case of her friend Aron Pielka, who she said was persecuted for his online views, including criticism of Islam on his satirical YouTube channel known as Shlomo Finkelstein... Ms Seibt said Mr Pielka was targeted by German intelligence for his political views and feared the same would happen to her if she returned home. She also said the death threats from Antifa had gone on for years... Asked if there was any irony in seeking asylum as a supporter of Trump and the AfD, both of whom take a hard line on immigration, she said: “The AfD is not against immigration at all, we just want immigration that goes through strict and rigorous controls.  “The initial problem was in 2015 when Angela Merkel opened the borders, many of them were Islamists, it’s just extremely dangerous to not even check who’s coming in. You can’t assume they are all good people. Any government has a duty to protect its own people first.”"

Meme - Hot Takes Nobody Asked For: "ah yes, because nothing screams fascism like saying "maybe don't abolish private property and centralize everything under one ruling party.""
Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social: "As always anti communism is just fascism."
This is a great admission that Antifa is Communist

Meme - Denver Antifa: "A few of us went to the mountains to train this afternoon. We will be ready to punch any Nazi that stands in our way!!! Here we are unmasked... What you going to do now??!?) #punchnazis #fucktrump #fightfacism #resist *weak-looking men*"

The Antifa thugs shame America - "If Rule 101 of writing a book is “Turn your phone off”, then rule 101 of publicising a book is “get it banned”. The rule was once again proven this week as Andy Ngo’s forthcoming work Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s radical plan to destroy America became the Number 1 bestselling book on Amazon US. That is, the number 1 bestselling book in the English-speaking book market. How did it happen?  Because as well as being contemptuous of the laws of American society, Antifa turn out to be ignorant of the rules of the publishing industry... Ngo is everything the progressive Left should be in favour of. The son of Vietnamese immigrants to America, he was raised in Portland and, while doing a Master’s degree at the local university, began his career at the student newspaper... as a person of colour, of immigrant heritage who happened to be gay, his politics and outlook on the world should have been ordained for him. The radical left clearly thought they should be able to speak for him, and yet they clearly did not. Ngo asserted the right — whatever his characteristics — to be allowed to think for himself and not to be told that he had to fall in line with some specific political project because of his background. In subsequent years, as he progressed with his journalistic career, Ngo was consistently not just treated differently but singled out for specific attack. As his reporting from his home town began to get noticed the radical Left tried exceptionally hard to take him out. Online campaigns increasingly influenced mainstream publications to claim that Ngo was in some ways a partisan, political actor, motivated by malice and bigotry. Since it is hard to portray a quiet gay member of an ethnic minority as some kind of alt-right, white nationalist they made the most extreme claims possible about him, following the tactic that if you make the most outlandish and damaging allegations about a person then some of it will stick. They partly proved the utility of that tactic. Antifa and their fellow travellers spent years claiming that Ngo was in league with the far-Right and that his presence reporting from demonstrations by “the Proud Boys” and other Right-wing groups was in fact proof that he was a member or supporter... They claimed that by identifying individuals who had been at protests, or who had been arrested, Ngo was “doxing” (releasing the home address or other personal details) of rioters. In fact, as so often, they were simply accusing an opponent of doing something that they were doing themselves... It was a campaign of harassment that the Portland authorities took no interest in. Even when Ngo was seriously attacked the same authorities could not rally themselves. When a journalist was assaulted and hospitalised in broad daylight — on camera — the Portland city politicians and police spent no time trying to identify what had happened or who might be culpable... elected officials and law enforcement took so little interest in the activities of far-Left militia groups that they allowed them to pick journalists off with impunity... while in Portland ahead of the US election I went on a tour of the Downtown area of the city with Ngo and was disgusted to see graffiti everywhere calling for his murder. “Kill Andy Ngo” was written in huge blood-red letters on the boarding of one of the endless number of buildings boarded up because of riots. The one remaining statue in the centre of town (a World War II memorial) was also plastered in graffiti attacking him. In most of the developed world, having your city daubed in graffiti calling for the murder of a journalist would be regarded as a matter of shame. In Portland the authorities clearly did not care, and none thought it worth acting on... Learning of the imminent publication of Ngo’s book they began a campaign to try to force bookstores in America not to stock Ngo’s book.  Their targets included Powell’s bookstore in Portland, where a group of Antifa protested this week, screaming at management and causing the bookstore to close as a safety precaution. The shop pleaded for mercy, insisting in a published statement that “This book will not be placed on our shelves… We will not promote it. That said, it will remain in our online catalog. We carry a lot of books we find abhorrent, as well as those that we treasure.” America’s fearless and impartial media covered this as well as can be expected.  In a report on the Portland bookstore protest ABC news wrote that “Author Andy Ngo is known for aggressively covering and video-recording demonstrators.” What is this “aggressive” coverage? How does it differ from ABC’s own brand of journalism?  Does ABC favour “mild” reporting or “milquetoast” video-recording of rioters? Apparently so. The “news organisation” continued: “In 2019, Ngo said he was targeted and suffered brain injuries when he was assaulted while covering protests in Portland.” What is this “said he was”? Either Ngo was assaulted and hospitalised or he wasn’t. It should not be hard for ABC to find this out for themselves. But in this and other ways, the effectiveness of Antifa’s tactics over recent years can be seen. Spread enough ordure around a figure, find people in the mainstream media sympathetic to some of your aims and intentions and you can subtly or not so subtly rewrite and reframe actual events and cast a victim as some type of sinister perpetrator... Attempts to ban books do not go down well in all quarters outside of Oregon, and ahead of its release next month UnMasked shot up the online bestseller lists"
From 2021. Of course, journalists who associate with Antifa are good people
Ironic. This was before "book banning" was supposed to be a bad thing

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "A far-left radical who has online posts suggesting support for Antifa extremism was outed by internet sleuths as a Secret Service agent. He deleted his account "endon40" after his identity and name was posted. The Secret Service agent is a fan of Portland Antifa propagandist and disinfo influencer Robert Evans. He posts regularly on Evans' subreddit. The agent says he feels dejected about the incoming Trump administration and would like to go work for the ACLU or SPLC.   One of the SPLC's staffers in Atlanta is a suspect in a RICO and domestic terrorism case involving violent attacks by Antifa-linked extremists."

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "Far-left domestic terrorism network It's Going Down is urging Antifa militants across the U.S. to gather before the transfer of power to Donald Trump in order to recruit, radicalize and train one another on how better to commit organized political violence in the next administration.   During the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots, @IGD_News  used Twitter to share extremist content and tactics for violence. After @elonmusk  took over, the network was banned, prompting leftist media to defend the group and attack Musk and myself."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Wheeler allowed Antifa mobs to take control of traffic intersections (where they extracted white passengers from their vehicles and assaulted them), conduct nightly attacks on federal buildings, routinely commit acts of vandalism, and so on — until they showed up at his doorstep."
PDX Gate @pdx_gate: "Ted Wheeler outgoing Portland Mayor, has some things to say on his way out... "It was hard to have my home fire bombed, to have my daughter threatened and chased to school to have my tire slashed, to have people standing in front of my house on some nights""

Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 on X - "My home state of Oregon — America's Antifa stronghold — has the highest per capita amount of registered s—x offenders, according to data published by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in 2019.   But, Oregon hides this information from the public. Only the highest-level offenders (level three) are named publicly online via the state registry. That number is only in the hundreds compared to the nearly 30,000 total s—x offenders in the state."

ANDY NGO REPORTS: Portland Antifa riot arrestee charged in child sex sting - "Aubrey Ryan Quinn-Ward, 25, was arrested on Sept. 2 in neighboring Washington County by deputies following an investigation into online pedophiles. Law enforcement posed as children on social media platforms in a child predator sting that also resulted in the arrests of four other men in the Portland area. Quinn-Ward allegedly traveled to meet a child for sex in a Beaverton parking lot but was instead arrested by law enforcement... On July 17, 2020, the 50th straight night of rioting, Quinn-Ward was among those arrested after rioters blocked exits and tried to set a federal courthouse and the Justice Center on fire. At the time, he was charged with felony rioting, escaping from police, resisting arrest, interfering with officers and disorderly conduct. His $36,500 bail was waived and he was quickly released. His case was dropped altogether by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office shortly later. Quinn-Ward returned to the nightly riots and he was arrested again at the 90th Antifa riot on Aug. 25, 2020. At the direct action attack that drew around 300 violent extremists, Antifa set multiple fires at the Portland Police Association union hall, prompting police to declare a riot as the fires risked spreading to the adjacent residential homes. Quinn-Ward was recorded on video at the time trying to escape from police on foot while masked before being taken to the ground. He was charged with felony rioting and various other misdemeanors but was again quickly released without bail. The case was dropped by district attorney Mike Schmidt... Aubrey Quinn-Ward was arrested again at a violent Portland Antifa riot and arson attack in August 2020... Before turning to Antifa, Quinn-Ward studied “ethnic studies” at the University of Oregon. According to his LinkedIn, he was once a canvasser for Bernie Sanders and now-Oregon Democrat governor Kate Brown. His Facebook, which has not been updated in years, is filled with posts supporting BLM causes. He also expressed support for violent group Rose City Antifa and Portland’s Resistance, the Antifa-linked group that organized the protest-turned-riots after Donald Trump won the election in 2016.  Far-left extremism may also run in his family. His former sister, now a trans brother, Callen Quinn-Ward, was also arrested at a violent Antifa riot in September 2020. His case was also quickly dropped by the district attorney's office. Callen Quinn-Ward, a trans brother of Aubrey Quinn-Ward, was also arrested at an Antifa riot in 2020"

Andy Ngo on X - "Antifa members and supporters traveled to Budapest to applaud Simeon Ravix Trux, a trans violent Antifa member from Germany being prosecuted over a hammer beating attack on unsuspecting victims in the Hungarian capital. Simeon goes by the alias “Maja.”"

Andy Ngo on X - "An Antifa group named the Portland People's Outreach Project has been terrorizing Portlanders by distributing needles and drug paraphernalia next to a school in NW Portland for months. This has attracted open drug abuse in the proximity of children. Students walking to and from school must move around needles discarded on the street.   The Portland People's Outreach Project, headed by extremist Michael Gilbert, believes that "recovery is a form of oppression." They attend all the Antifa anarchist fairs in the area to recruit militant "volunteers" for their project.   Local residents who dare to speak out have been intimidated and harassed by the masked militants. Some of them even showed up at a local woman's house, forcing her to call the police.  The incredible reporting by @PeteFerryman  was seen by the new Portland DA, Nathan Vasquez, who says he will work with @PortlandPolice  to prosecute those who deal drugs."

Meme - Masked Antifa member with baseball bat: "BASH THE FASH!"
Normal person thinking: "GOOD THING I'M NOT A FASCIST"
*Baseball bat about to hit normal person*

Andy Ngo on X - "Between the attempted bombing of the Tesla store in Loveland, Colo. and the firebombing and shooting of the Tesla in Salem, Ore., both apprehended suspects are trantifa activists: Justin Thomas Nelson aka "Lucy Grace Nelson" and Adam Matthew Lansky aka "Allison Tesla." This follows a recent assassination attempt of conservative politicians in D.C. by a trans suspect named Ryan Michael English aka "Riley English.""

Andy Ngo on X - "Violent Portland Antifa member Dajah Beck has launched a GoFundMe campaign to grift thousands from her gullible comrades again.   Beck gained infamy for being one of the Antifa militants injured when her comrades confronted a local resident angry about their street occupation in 2022. In the shootout, Beck was injured and received at least $30,000 from a GoFundMe at the time.  Then she sued the city of Portland @PortlandGov  over the shooting and received $25,000 in a cash settlement for reasons that are still unclear.    Now she's asking for more money, saying she has a pending application with the U.S. government to go on permanent disability benefits. In the meantime, she says she needs at least another $30,000 to "survive." Though she claims to be disabled, she's still involved in illegal direct actions. Last year, Beck was arrested at a street direct action in downtown.   If @SocialSecurity  has any sense and any commitment to ending waste, it would deny her application. Well enough to riot? Then you're well enough to work."

Andy Ngo on X - "Far-left extremists are fundraising for two Antifa radicals charged last year with more than a dozen counts, including racketeering and ecoterrorism offenses, for attacking a mink farm in Pennsylvania and releasing hundreds of animals.   Christopher Jacob Legere, a trans person also known as “Celeste,” and Cara Ashley Mitrano face up to 40 years in prison. When police executed a search warrant, they found the suspects with tools and anarchist propaganda. According to police, the suspects traveled from anarchist communes in Worcester, Mass., and one was allegedly promised $50,000 to come to Pennsylvania to release the mink.   The farm owner told police that 25 percent of the recovered mink would die of disease, while the rest will likely die of starvation, be killed on roadways, or by wild animals."

Mike Warner on X - "BREAKING: all the windows at the Multnomah County Elections Office in SE #Portland have been broken. An official tells me it appears someone threw rocks through the windows with glass covering sidewalks. No apparent damage inside, crews working on repairs #LiveOnK2"
Andy Ngo on X - "It was Antifa. They even left behind their propaganda messages and symbols, but I haven't seen local press reporting that out for some reason."

Andy Ngo on X - "Breaking: Antifa are trying to burn down the @UW campus as their occupation of the Engineering Building spirals out of control. The militants have effectively been given free reign. They're demanding the university end all relationship with Israel."
Andy Ngo on X - "Days after the violent Antifa attack at @UW that did over a million dollars in damage of science equipment, WA @GovBobFerguson and @MayorofSeattle have said nothing. In 2020, then-Gov. @JayInslee also ignored the violent CHAZ occupation as it broke out. They’re all Democrats."

Andy Ngo on X - "Antifa and extremist anarchist accounts are calling for their comrades to intimidate GA attorney general @ChrisCarr_Ga  and to descend on the Fulton County Courthouse to support their members who have been indicted on RICO, domestic terrorism and money laundering charges. It is one of the biggest cases by prosecutors to break up a violent international Antifa network in the U.S."

Rhein Amacher on X - "I confronted John Colin Hacker (@johnnthelefty ), a violent Antifa militant and the alleged getaway driver from Saturday’s unhinged anti-@ICEgov  riot in Portland.  He’s accused of helping at least one masked thug escape after brutally assaulting @hunnybadgermom  for simply filming them!  Follow @KatieDaviscourt , @camhigby  and @MrAndyNgo  for full coverage of Antifa’s latest cowardice!  #PortlandProtests #FreedomOfSpeech #ISupportICE"
Andy Ngo on X - "John Hacker violently attacked me in 2019 as I was walking down the stairs of a 24 Hour Fitness in Portland. He spreads lies about his targets to justify violence.   In 2024 he was convicted of beating a man outside a courthouse. Hacker hit the victim so hard he left a hole in the victim’s cheek. Blood spilled all over the street while Hacker tried escaping from the scene before being caught."

Andy Ngo on X - "After nearly two years, the first RICO trial for the Antifa militants arrested for alleged domestic terrorism related to the "Stop Cop City" terror movement is finally scheduled for July 7. Ayla King traveled from Massachusetts to Georgia to allegedly join the interstate and international violent mob that besieged the site of the then-under construction Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The rioters did not want police becoming better trained.  The terrorists caused over $10 million in damages, including arson on construction equipment and other acts of violent vandalism. The lead prosecutor has submitted an abundance of evidence, totaling over 57 gigabytes, to support the state's case. The case is being handled by @Georgia_AG ."

Many of the 2025 Portland Antifa riot arrestees were arrested at prior riots - "I went on Newsmax on June 21 to discuss the ongoing violent occupation of a Portland, Ore. neighborhood by Antifa. For over two weeks now, Antifa and far-left anti-government extremists have been attempting to violently besiege the local ICE facility to intimidate the U.S. government into stopping immigration enforcement.  At least 29 have been charged locally so far. Another 10 have been charged federally. Many of them are 2020 Antifa riot alumni who were never held to account."

Meme - "ANTIFA GIRLS *Jabba the Hutt*
ANTIFA GUYS *Salacious B. Crumb*"

Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane (Women and Wokeness)

vittorio on X: "Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane"

"Bill Ackman quote tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost doubled in 25 years... 

 

Women moved radically left. Men stayed roughly where they were.

 

'Why?'

 

Good question. Most answers I've seen are either tribal ("women are emotional") or surface-level ("social media bad"). Neither traces the actual mechanism.

 

Let me try...

 

We've been told for a decade that men are "radicalizing to the right" and that this is dangerous. The actual data shows the opposite. Men barely moved. Women moved 20+ points leftward.

 

The story we are told is exactly inverted from reality. And when female leftward movement does get discussed, it's framed as progress: "women becoming more educated, more independent, more enlightened"

 

They'll tell you the graph shows enlightenment and progress. Wrong.

 

The graph shows is capture.

Before getting into mechanism, something important: this pattern isn't only American. It's global.

 

The Financial Times documented it last year The gender ideology gap is widening across dozens of countries simultaneously. UK, Germany, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Poland, Brazil, Tunisia. Young women moving left on social issues, young men either stable or drifting right.

This matters because it rules out explanations specific to American politics. It's not Title IX policy. It's not

#MeToo. It's not the specific culture war of US campuses. Something bigger is happening, something that rolled out globally at roughly the same time.

 

South Korea is the extreme case. Young Korean men are now overwhelmingly conservative. Young Korean women are overwhelmingly progressive. The gap there is even wider than the US. Contributing factors include mandatory military service for men (18 months of your life the state takes, while women are exempt) and brutal economic competition. But the timing of divergence still tracks with smartphone adoption... 

Start with the biological hardware.

 

Women evolved in environments where social exclusion carried enormous survival costs. You can't hunt pregnant. You can't fight nursing. Survival required the tribe's acceptance: their protection, their food sharing, their tolerance of your temporary vulnerability. Millions of years of this and you get hardware that treats social rejection as serious threat.

 

Men faced different pressures. Hunting parties gone for days. Exploration. Combat. You had to tolerate being alone, disliked, outside the group for extended periods. Men who could handle temporary exclusion without falling apart had more options. More risk-taking, more independence, more ability to leave bad situations.

 

(Male status still mattered enormously for reproduction, low-status men had it rough. But men could recover from temporary exclusion in ways that were harder for pregnant or nursing women.)

 

This shows up in personality research. David Schmitt's work across 55 cultures found the same pattern everywhere: women average higher agreeableness, higher neuroticism (sensitivity to negative stimuli, including social rejection cues). Men average higher tolerance for disagreement and social conflict. The differences aren't huge but they're consistent across every culture studied.

 

Not better or worse. Different selection pressures, different adaptations.

 

But it means the same environment affects them differently. Consensus pressure hits harder for one group than the other.

Now look at what we built.

 

Social media is a consensus engine. You can see what everyone believes in real time. Disagreement is visible, measurable, and punishable at scale. The tribe used to be 150 people. Now it's everyone you've ever met plus a world of strangers watching.

 

And look at the timeline. Facebook launched in 2004 butwas college-only until 2006. The iPhone launched June 2007. Instagram in 2010. Suddenly social media was in your pocket and in your face, all day, every day.

Look at the graph again. Women were roughly stable through the early 2000s. The acceleration starts around 2007-2008. The curve steepens through the 2010s as smartphones became universal and platforms became more sophisticated. Women are by nature more liberal, but the radicalization coincides with the rise in smartphones adoption.

 

The machine turned on and the capture began.

 

The mental health collapse among teenage girls tracks almost perfectly with smartphone adoption, with stronger effects for girls than boys. The same vulnerability that made social exclusion more costly in ancestral environments made the new consensus engines more capturing.

 

This machine wasn't designed to capture women specifically. It was designed to capture attention. But it captures people more susceptible to consensus pressure more effectively. Women are more susceptible on average. So it captured them more.

 

Add a feedback loop: women complain more than men. Scroll any platform and it looks like women are suffering more. Institutions respond to this because visible distress creates liability, PR risk and regulatory pressure. In addition, women are weaker and inevitably seen as the victim in most scenarios. The institutional response is to make environments "safer". Which means removing conflict. Which means censoring disagreement. Which means the consensus strengthens.

 

The counterarguments get removed or deplatformed and the loop closes.

Universities flipped to 60% female while simultaneously becoming progressive monoculture. The institution young women trust most, during the years their worldview forms, feeds them a single ideology with no serious opposition.

 

FIRE's campus speech surveys show the pattern clearly: students self-censor, report fear of expressing views, cluster toward acceptable opinions. This isn't unique to women, but women are more embedded in higher education than men now, and the fields they dominate (humanities, social sciences, education, HR) are the most ideologically uniform.

 

Four years surrounded by peers who all believe the same thing. Professors who all believe the same thing. Reading lists pointing one direction. Disagreement is not even rare, it's socially punished. You learn to pattern-match the acceptable opinions and perform them.

 

Then they graduate into female-dominated fields: HR, media, education, healthcare, non-profits, where the monoculture continues. From 18 to 35, many women never encounter sustained disagreement from people they respect. The feedback loop never breaks.

 

Men took different paths. Trades. Engineering. Finance. Military. Fields where results matter more than consensus. Fields where disagreement is tolerated or even rewarded. The monoculture didn't capture them because they weren't in the institutions being captured. (mostly because they were kicked out of them, but that's a different piece)

 

Marriage collapsed. This probably matters more than people think.

 

Single women vote more left than married women. This is consistent across decades of exit polls. Part of this is likely economic: single women interact with government more as provider of services, married women interact with government more as taker of taxes. The incentives point different directions.

 

The marriage gap in voting is one of the most consistent predictors. And marriage rates have collapsed precisely during the period of divergence.

 

Men saw marriage collapse differently. Family courts. Child support. Alimony. The rational response was skepticism of expanding state power.

 

Same phenomenon, different positions in it, different political responses.

Algorithms optimize for engagement. Engagement means emotional response. Time on platform. Clicks. Shares. Comments.

 

Women respond more strongly to emotional content on average, they are more empathetic, they can be more easily manipulated with sad stories. That higher neuroticism again, higher sensitivity to negative stimuli. The machine learned this. It fed them content calibrated to their response patterns. Fear. Outrage. Moral panic. Stories about danger and injustice and threat and wars and "victims".

 

Men got different feeds because they responded to different triggers. The algorithm doesn't really have a gender agenda. It has an engagement agenda. But engagement looks different by demographic, so the feeds diverged.

 

Women ended up in information environments optimized for emotional activation. Men found alternatives: podcasts, forums, cars, wars, manosphere etc.

 

Feminism told women their instincts and biology were oppression and wrong. Wanting children was brainwashing. Wanting a provider husband was internalized misogyny. Their natural desires were false consciousness installed by patriarchy.   

 

Many believed it. Built lives around it. Career first. Independence. Freedom from traditional constraints.

 

Now they're 35, unmarried, measuring declining fertility against career achievements. And here's the trap: the sunk cost of admitting the ideology failed is enormous. You'd have to admit you wasted your fertile years on a lie. That the women who ignored the ideology and married young were right. That your mother was right.

 

I think this is why you see so little defection. Not because the ideology is true, but because the psychological cost of leaving is higher than the cost of staying. Easier to double down. Easier to believe the problem is that society hasn't changed enough yet.

I should be honest about something: men weren't immune to capture. They were captured differently.

Women got ideological conformity. Men got withdrawal. Porn. Video games. Gambling apps. Outrage content. The male capture wasn't "believe this or face social death." It was "here's an endless supply of dopamine so you never have to build anything real."

 

Different machines, different failure modes. Women got compliance. Men got passivity.

 

The male line on that graph staying flat through 2020 isn't necessarily health. It might just be a different kind of sickness, men checking out instead of being pulled in. Or it may be that everyone and everything moved more left and women moved lefter.

Here's the update: the male line isn't flat anymore.

 

Post-2024 data shows young men shifting right. Recent surveys all show the same thing. Young men are now actively moving more conservative.

 

My read: women got captured first because they were more susceptible to consensus pressure. The capture was fast (2007-2020). Men resisted longer because they were less susceptible and less embedded in captured institutions. But as the gap became visible and culturally salient, as "men are the problem" became explicit mainstream messaging, as men started being excluded from society because of lies, as masculinity, or the very thing that makes men men became toxic, men had to start counter-aligning.

 

The passivity is converting into opposition. The withdrawal is becoming active rejection.

 

This doesn't mean men are now "correct" or "free". It might just mean they're being captured by a different machine, one optimized for male grievance instead of female consensus. Andrew Tate didn't emerge from nowhere. Neither did the manosphere. Those are capture systems too, just targeting different psychological vulnerabilities...

Some people will say this is just education: women go to college more, college makes you liberal, simple as that. There's something to this. But it doesn't explain why the gap widened so sharply post-2007, or why it's happening in countries with very different education systems.

 

Some will say it's economic: young men are struggling, resentment makes you conservative. Also partially true. But male economic struggles predate the recent rightward shift, and the female leftward move happened during a period of rising female economic success.

 

Some will point to cultural figures: Tate for men, Taylor Swift for women. But these are symptoms, not causes. They filled niches the machines created. They didn't create the machines.

 

The multi-causal model fits better: biological substrate (differential sensitivity to consensus) + technological trigger (smartphones, algorithmic feeds) + institutional amplification (captured universities, female-dominated fields) + economic incentives (marriage collapse, state dependency) + ideological lock-in (sunk costs, social punishment for defection).

 

No single cause. A system of interlocking causes that happened to affect one gender faster and harder than the other.

If this model is right, some predictions follow.

 

The gap should be smaller in countries with later smartphone adoption or lower social media penetration. (This seems true: the divergence is less extreme in parts of Eastern Europe and much of Africa, though South Korea is a major exception due to other factors.)

 

The gap should narrow among women who have children, since parenthood breaks the institutional feedback loop and introduces competing priorities. (Exit polls consistently show this: mothers vote more conservative than childless women.)

 

The gap should continue widening until the machines are disrupted or the generations age out of them.

 

Here's the part I don't know how to solve: these systems are self-reinforcing. The institutions aren't going to reform themselves. The algorithms aren't going to stop optimizing. The ideology isn't going to admit failure. The male counter-capture isn't going to produce healthy outcomes either.

 

Some women will escape. The ones who have children often do since reality is a powerful solvent for ideology. The ones who build lives outside institutional capture sometimes do.

 

Some men will stop withdrawing or stop rage-scrolling. The ones who find something worth building. The ones who get tired of the simulation.

 

But the systems will keep running on everyone else...

 

The answer isn't "women are emotional" and it isn't "social media bad." The answer is that we built global-scale consensus engines and deployed them on a species with sexually dimorphic psychology. The machines captured the half more susceptible to consensus pressure. Then they started capturing the other half through different mechanisms.

 

We're watching the results in real time. Two failure modes. One graph. Both lines moving away from each other and away from anything healthy.

 

I don't know how this ends. I don't think anyone does. I don't think it will.

 

Both machines are still running."

Links - 25th April 2026 (1 - Iran War)

Joe Kent on X - "Upcoming negotiations will fail if we don’t restrain the Israelis & stop giving them access to our decision making.   The Israelis push for zero uranium enrichment because they know it’s a poison pill for Iran & will result in the war continuing.  Iran has committed to not developing or obtaining a nuclear weapon since 2003.   A deal can be reached about uranium enrichment lvls & monitoring - ending the war & opening the SOH.   This can only happen if we treat the Israelis like the junior partner & put our interests 1st."
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ on X - ""Iran has committed to not developing or obtaining a nuclear weapon since 2003" So your entire argument is based on the presumption that a fanatical islamic regime who hates you could never lie? What a relief that you're nowhere near the Trump admin anymore."
Persian Light on X - "Here’s the Iranian regime MP admitting that their intent was to build the bomb from DAY ONE, but they couldn’t keep it a secret."
Persian Light on X - "Never Trust a Mullah. Here’s their own MP straight-up admitting: "We wanted to build the bomb from day one."
This won't stop terrorism supporters, because they want to believe the lie

Dr. Eli David on X - "Araghchi, three weeks ago: “We have capped the range of our missiles to 2,000 km” 👇 Yesterday they fired at Diego Garcia, more than 4,000 km away from Iran. Now do: “We don't want to develop nuclear weapons” 🤡"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Steve Witkoff reveals what Iran told him behind closed doors. “The Iranians have the 'inalienable right to enrich.' Then we heard they possessed enough 60% enriched material, 460 kilograms, to make 11 atomic bombs.”"

Aimen Dean on X - "I genuinely don’t know whether to laugh or lose my mind anymore at this European hypocritical double standards.  When it comes to Vladimir Putin, suddenly it’s Churchillian resolve. No compromise. No dialogue. Arm Ukraine to the teeth, sanction everything that moves, wreck your own energy security if necessary - because tyranny must be confronted.  Fine. I actually respect the consistency of that … in isolation.  But then you turn around and lecture us - us - the Gulf monarchies, Jordan and Israel, about showing restraint with Tehran? About dialogue? About coexistence?  Are you serious?  For forty years - forty bloody years - this regime has been waging a shadow war across the region. Militias, proxies, sleeper cells, terror networks, destabilizing entire countries - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen - and threatening the Gulf monarchies, Jordan, and Israel nonstop.  This isn’t theoretical. This isn’t abstract. This is lived reality.  And yet here come Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, and the rest of the European choir, gently advising us to calm down, de-escalate, and - what was it again? - “give diplomacy a chance.”  Diplomacy with who, exactly? With a system that has built its entire regional strategy on plausible deniability and proxy terror violence?  You were willing to absorb inflation, energy shocks, and political backlash at home to confront Moscow. You made that choice. You said: this is the price of standing up to a tyrant.  So don’t come here and tell us - after decades of being on the receiving end - that we should just sit down, smile politely, and “coexist.”  Either you believe in confronting tyranny everywhere .. or you don’t.  Macron, Starmer, rest of EU leaders and top bureaucrats should just STFU and spare us the self righteous sanctimonious lectures!🤐🤫"

Gummi on X - "Trump is right when he says the Iran War is pretty much over, and it's because Iran has basically lost any and all leverage over the Strait of Hormuz (as well as its serious looming economic crisis).  There's a small (but bombshell) detail from the ceasefire negotiations in Islamabad that has been unreported by the MSM, but was just broken by @aimendean ...and it means that the war is probably done.  If you don't know who Aimen is, he's the most insightful and credible analyst of the Middle East I have found to date.  He reports that this emerged at the negotiations this weekend and I quote:  "The Saudis stood up for the whole GCC against this (Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz). And in fact, they threatened the Iranians that doing so would mean that we (the entire GCC) are not going to export a single drop of oil or LNG, forever, as long as you are in control of this. So technically, it's the GCC telling the world and especially the European Union that we're going to impose an embargo on the rest of the world if the rest of the world is not going to enforce international law when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz".  So the GCC is ready to take 22% of global oil and LNG offline...and not just what transits the Strait of Hormuz, but all energy production. This means that Iran has basically lost all the leverage it ever had with regards to the Strait of Hormuz.  This is why the US doesn't have to move a muscle to open the Strait and why Iran's rhetoric has become far softer in recent days. Nothing is guaranteed, but the Iranians have almost no cards at this point...which is why Trump is so confident that the Iran War is pretty much over.  The Europeans could learn a thing or two from the GCC"

M.A. Rothman | Facebook - "𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍’𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 — 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐇𝐄’𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐅𝐄 𝐈𝐅 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃
Zahra Ghanbari, captain of Iran’s national women’s football team with 𝟐𝟐 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐬, returned to Iran after the Asia Cup in Australia. State media called her return “𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤” — describing her as “𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥.” Iranian authorities gave assurances to the international community that she wouldn’t be penalized. Now she’s on a 𝟒𝟎𝟎-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 “𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲” 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 and every asset she owns has been confiscated. The backstory: During the Asia Cup, after U.S. and Israeli strikes k!lled Supreme Leader Khamenei, Iran’s women’s squad stood silent during their national anthem before a match with South Korea. Iranian media branded them “𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴.” One player’s mother sent a voice message: “𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘭𝘭 𝘬!𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶.” Australia offered asylum. President Trump warned they “𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘬!𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥” if they went back. Ghanbari went back anyway — trusting the regime’s word. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬."
They released them later so according to terrorism supporters there's nothing to worry about

Elder: America's accidental tragedy vs. Iran's deliberate atrocities - "The recent U.S. Tomahawk missile strike in Iran, which reportedly killed 170 school children, has ignited a firestorm of outrage from anti-war critics. Former Bill Clinton White House staffer Keith Boykin used the unintentional tragedy, under investigation by the Pentagon, to write off the three-week-old Iran war as “a disaster for the 170 school children” and “an unmitigated disaster for the world.” Apart from the estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Iranian protesters killed early this year, consider Iran’s intentional history of using its children during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War. To repel Saddam Hussein’s invasion, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini mobilized child soldiers — boys as young as nine or 12 — from poor families to serve as human minesweepers. Children were promised martyrdom and given “keys to paradise” to wear around their necks. Iranian commanders sent waves of them, often tying them together with ropes to prevent retreat. They marched onto minefields and detonated explosives with their bodies, clearing paths for tanks and adult troops. Estimates suggest as many as 500,000 children were used in this way, with tens of thousands blown to pieces or mowed down by Iraqi machine guns. Some sources suggest some 100,000 died to clear the field for tanks and soldiers. Survivors recount the horror of being bound together, facing withering fire, their small bodies exploding on mines. Iran’s leaders glorified it as a holy duty. The depravity is staggering. Iran treats its own children like disposable tools, exploiting their poverty and brainwashing them with visions of post-death paradise. What would Iran do with a nuclear bomb? Imagine the mullahs, who chant “Death to America” and fund proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, armed with nukes and missiles. They would not hesitate to threaten Israel, Saudi Arabia, Europe and America. Iran, since the start of this war, has launched strikes against over a dozen countries, including “neutral” Gulf states. Their proxy wars have already killed thousands. A nuclear Iran could kill millions. The regime’s history of terrorism, from the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing to plots against dissidents abroad, shows they’re not rational actors. Preventing that nightmare is why this war, however messy, is necessary. Appeasement, as with former president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, only emboldened them. Let’s not forget the civilian toll. During the Obama administration, drone strikes in places like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths, including children. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that between 300 and 800 civilians were killed in those covert operations (excluding active war zones like Syria and Afghanistan). The Obama administration itself acknowledged between 64 and 116 civilian deaths in non-battlefield strikes from 2009 to 2016, though critics argued the true number was far higher. As with the Tomahawk strike on the Iranian school, the strikes conducted under Obama were not a deliberate targeting of innocents. Those civilian deaths resulted from intelligence errors in remote, hard-to-verify areas. Where was the outrage from the anti-Iran war critics when Obama ordered the attacks that killed civilians and children? Where was the outrage over Iran’s intentional mass killings of its own people, including the use of children and human detonators? According to the 2013 book Double Down: Game Change 2012, Obama reportedly told senior aides, “Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was going to be a strong suit of mine.” It’s the kind of off-the-cuff remark that, if made by President Donald Trump, would be yet another addition of the ever-increasing list of “Why I hate Trump.” Yes, mourn the 170 children. Every innocent life lost is a tragedy. But the fury should be directed to Tehran. That regime has been at war against America for 47 years, including attacks on U.S. bases, killing American soldiers with IEDs with Iran’s fingerprints on them; nuclear sabre-rattling, and lethal regional aggression through its terror proxies. This is the real villain. America fights with rules and restraint. We are civilized. We regret mistakes that cause civilian deaths and show genuine contrition. Iran fights with fanaticism. It uses its own kids as shields and mine detectors. Iran must be stopped. Standing against Iran’s evil protects innocents everywhere. This includes Iran’s own oppressed people, as well as Americans who hate Trump."

‘We’re told that all the West does is evil – and all our enemies do is good’ - spiked - "Melanie Phillips: People in Israel, if they think about Britain at all, are astounded. To be blunt, they think Britain is finished. People in America think Britain is finished. They think it has been Islamised, that it no longer has any idea of what it is or what it should defend. They think it is no longer prepared to stand up for itself or the wider West. It’s over. That’s how they see it, and they’re not entirely wrong. You would have to be completely ignorant of what’s going on in the Middle East to think that this conflict with Iran is an unprovoked war. Or you would have to be so malevolently disposed towards Israel and America – which many people are – that nothing they do could be seen as anything other than wanton aggression. Both of these attitudes are clearly prevalent in Britain today... Several generations have grown up and been taught that the West is evil, racist, colonialist and oppressive, and that nothing it does is good. At the same time, they are taught that anything the developing world does – even if it is objectively bad – is somehow justified. This is the lens through which the world must be understood. Even on 7 October 2023, while Israelis were still being slaughtered in southern Israel by a Hamas-led mob, there were already ecstatic celebrations going on in the West in anticipation of Israel’s downfall. That same madness has continued and is now applied to the conflict with Iran...  The narrative the West accepts has not been spun by the mainstream media alone, but by the entire international humanitarian establishment, from transnational courts like the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice to major NGOs. And if the moral framework of the West is shaped by institutions that invert good and evil, then everything becomes reversed. Good is seen as bad, and bad as good. Victims are portrayed as aggressors, and aggressors as victims. Justice is redefined as injustice... [Rama] Duwaji is monstrous. Mamdani is monstrous. He uses Jews to divide the Jewish community of New York – many of whom, I’m afraid to say, voted for him in great numbers. Whether they’re having buyer’s remorse now, I’m not sure. I look at the behaviour of people in Britain and Australia and Canada, and you see the same contorted hatred of Jews. You think: what is going through their minds? Why do they hate Jews? Most of them have never met a Jew. They know nothing about Judaism. They know nothing about the Middle East or Israel. Yet they have been taught that this is what passes for conscience. They observe that their entire peer group thinks this, and a kind of mob hysteria takes over. I’ve read that something similar took hold among educated classes in the 1930s over Stalin. They thought Stalinism would bring about the brotherhood of man and a perfect society. They refused to hear about the millions being slaughtered, imprisoned and abused.  How does one account for this? How does one explain that so many in Germany supported Nazism? We can cite economic factors, the politics of the time, the aftermath of war – all valid reasons – but they don’t reach the heart of it. To me, this is very frightening. Despite living in what is supposed to be the most rational age ever known, we are witnessing a complete eclipse of reason. How can that be, when people are more educated than ever?... more people are noticing the alarming rise in anti-Semitism in Britain and across the West – largely because we’re seeing record numbers of antisemitic attacks. But I think it’s wrong to frame this simply as ‘a rise’ in anti-Jewish sentiment. This is something unprecedented. This is the normalisation of hatred of Jews, Israel and Zionism, turning them into social and political pariahs... Jews in Britain, America and Australia believed they were in countries where they were treated well, as equal citizens. They did not see themselves as having a problem. Then, suddenly – particularly in Australia, where the Jewish community had always felt very secure – they were confronted with something completely different. People they had known since childhood stopped speaking to them because of Palestine. People were asking them: ‘Why are you killing babies in Gaza?’ These are Western Jews being held responsible for what people perceive as Israel’s actions. Israel itself was being defamed with false accusations about war crimes, yes, but these were individuals. They were dealing with the consequences in their daily lives – at work, at university, in social settings. I spoke to a businesswoman in Australia who told me about a time she was negotiating a deal. Everything was proceeding normally, and suddenly the person she was negotiating with asked: ‘Why are you killing babies?’ She didn’t know what to do. This was a contract that mattered financially. Should she challenge the accusation and risk losing the deal? Should she try to reason with the person? Should she ignore it? In the end, she let it go. Again and again, I encountered Jews who were asking: ‘How should we respond?’ They don’t have the information. They don’t know the arguments. Even if they did, how do they defend themselves when confronted like that? How do they deal with friends, with colleagues? Most painful of all, how do you deal with a close family member who won’t speak to you any more?... what people are facing is not uniform. The terrible accusations – genocide, apartheid, killing babies – are similar, but the people making them come from different perspectives. They may be left-wing activists, right-wing critics, confused liberals, irreconcilable liberals, friends, family members or colleagues. Each requires a different response."

Pope Leo XIV on X - "God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples."
Cynical Publius on X - "So it was wrong to liberate Buchenwald?"
William Wolfe 🇺🇸 on X - "“God does not bless any conflict.” Has the…has the >Pope< ever read the Old Testament?"
William Wolfe 🇺🇸 on X - "“God does not bless any conflict.” Has the…has the >Pope< ever read the Old Testament?"
When your real religion is wokeness

Threads - "MAGA is claiming that the Pope is being "political." He's not being political, he's literally DOING HIS JOB. He's standing up for humanity based on Christ's teachings. It was MAGA that politicized Christianity. Don't confuse that."
It's only a violation of the separation of Church and State if it hurts the left wing agenda
Good luck if you're a pastor and you oppose abortion because it's your job

Jeremy Boreing on X - "Donald Trump has been a national politician for a decade. Anyone still reacting to the guy’s negotiating tactics and hyperbole with this sort of hysteria ten years in should be disqualified from political commentary.   If he nukes Tehran at 8pm, I’ll admit I’m the crazy one.   When he doesn’t, this crew will admit nothing and find some other comment to be scandalized by."
Left wingers are easily propagandised, think emotionally and have no grasp of history despite always invoking it

MAG🔫1775🇺🇸 on X - "U.S. Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) says she is introducing articles of impeachment against U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. So let me get this straight... Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari, whose both parents fled Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to escape that tyrannical, murderous regime, is now out here defending the same Iranian mullahs and trying to impeach Pete Hegseth for actually fighting them? Her parents risked everything to get away from the ayatollahs, the oppression, the executions, and the theocracy and now their daughter is siding with the very regime that forced them to run for their lives? If her parents are still alive, they must be absolutely mortified and embarrassed. This isn’t “progressive” foreign policy. This is a daughter betraying the very reason her family came to America in the first place."

bitchuneedsoap on X - "The left is conducting "Hands off Iran" protests. Meanwhile, the Iranian regime murdered 36,500+ protesters in 48 hours three weeks ago. They're protesting to protect a government that just slaughtered its own people for protesting. 🤡 🤡"
The Political Demon on X - "The people who opposed mass genocides are calling for America to not topple a man who order the killing of thousands of protesters. #USA #ForeignPolicy #Iran #Protests #HandsOffIran"

Brian Jacobson on X - "Iran: "I didn't think you had it in you."
US: "I'm your huckleberry."
Iran: "My fights not with you."
US: "I beg to differ. We started a game we never got to finish. Death to America, remember?"
Iran: "I was just fooling about."
US: "I wasn't.""

Mohammed bin Salman ‘secretly lobbied Trump to attack Iran’ - "Many Gulf states will not side with Israel – only Bahrain and the UAE have formal diplomatic ties – but they believe Iran is a destabilising force and a danger to the region... After attacks on the Saudi embassy in Tehran in 2016, the UAE in 2022, and Saudi Arabia in 2023, the UAE and Saudi Arabia cautiously rekindled ties to boycott Iran."
Clearly, Saudi Arabia is controlled by "Zionists", since we all know this is Israel's war

Cynical Publius on X - "RE: Islamic Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
I sense that too many Americans do not understand the public face-saving that is integral to Islamic culture in the Middle East and Central Asia.  I recall numerous times I dealt with government or military officials in the region where they let me know that what was being said publicly was in no way related to what was actually going on.  A leader or politician in these countries will never, ever publicly say the truth if the truth suggests weakness or vulnerability.  Never.  It just does not happen.  They will lie publicly with outrageous bombast, knowing full well that what they are saying is untrue, because their culture demands it.  Additionally, they respect the strongman.  The strongman who speaks with ferocity and then backs it up with deeds is always respected (or feared, depending on the situation).    These are vital concepts to understand when analyzing the public pronouncements of the Iranian regime and the Truth Social declarations  of President Trump.  The Iranians must save face no matter what.  Literally none of their public pronouncements can be trusted as being accurate or truthful.  At the same time, when Trump posts things like “ending a civilization,” he is NOT TALKING TO YOU.  He is talking to the mullahs in the only language they understand.  In fact, as the Democrat/Media Complex derides Trump as an idiot for such pronouncements, HE is the one who is culturally attuned in a very profound way that totally flies over the heads of his critics.  These are vital concepts that must be understood to accurately interpret the very public exchange of declarations between Trump and the mullahs."
Left wingers don't understand cultural differences though they keep boasting about encouraging diversity. If you take into account cultural differences (eg the pain chapter in the medical textbook), that's racist. So ultimately diversity is about people who look different who all think identically

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Why does the term “war crimes” only get thrown at Western countries? Iran has been exclusively launching cluster munitions at civilians in Israel and no media outlet seems to be saying “war crime.” Weird."
Only the West is capable of committing war crimes

Wretchard T. Cat | Facebook - "JD Vance says US-Iran talks have ended without a deal after 21 hours of negotiations. If there is no negotiated solution to the problem posed by the Islamic Republic in Southwest Asia, then to paraphrase Donald Trump, "a whole civilization could die". To be fair that dubious accomplishment was largely and accidentally accomplished by France in 1979 when it allowed Khomeini organize from its borders, resulting in the rise of the Islamic Republic that resulted in lasting damage to Iran's ancient civilization.    That ethnocide is described below. Khomeini  viewed Iran's pre-Islamic past (Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid empires; Zoroastrianism) as an era of darkness or barbarism, to be eclipsed by Islamic rule. Universities were shut down for over two years to create "healthy environments for teaching advanced Islamic sciences" by expelling professors, students, and curricula tainted by "Western" or pre-Islamic influences. Persian culture—music, dance, mixed-gender socializing, dogs (as pets), certain poetry, and storytelling—when they conflicted with strict Shia rules, was banned. Not content with wiping out the Persian culture, the austere cleric did a number on the Marxists. Between June 1981 and March 1982, one of the largest massacre of leftists in modern history occurred: thousands of leftists, socialists were killed. The regime saw atheistic Marxism and organized leftist opposition as existential threats incompatible with Shia theocracy. It used torture, forced confessions, show trials, and extra-judicial killings. The Iranian left—once a major revolutionary force—was largely annihilated inside Iran. But it didn't stop there. Iran’s strategy of treating Lebanon and Syria as expendable forward bases against Israel and Sunni powers delivered the former to Hezbollah and precipitated civil war in the latter from which it has yet to recover. Now with the defeat of Islamic Republic's proxies the locus of destruction has returned to Iran again. The beast of war is back in Persia. Unless the Islamic Republic becomes a normal country, forgoing nuclear weapons, thousands of missiles and commerce strangling policies it may be consumed by a civil war abetted by the US and Israel. Groups long oppressed, armed by the CIA and Mossad, and supported by the most advanced drones may rise and overthrow them. The end will be the same but the ruin will be greater. The most destructive conflicts in history are civil wars and the one threatening Iran is no exception. The most desirable solution is one where regime elements accept defeat and make common cause with dissident elements to facilitate a reasonably smooth transition to a new and more peaceful Iran. The virus unleashed from France in 1979 has run its course. It cannot continue exporting mayhem to the Gulf, the Levant and the Red sea. It cannot go on firing missiles at all and sundry. It cannot continue to throttle the commerce of the world. The record of the last 47 years is dolorous and unmistakable. But we should never forget its final victim will be the ancient civilization of Iran. Stop now, negotiate now before its too late."