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Thursday, November 12, 2026

Links - 12th November 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

Michigan Activists Lose Fight to Remove Display of 3 Wise Men From Public School Roof - "A Michigan school board decided on Monday to keep Christmas decorations on top of the elementary school’s roof despite activists claiming the display is too religious. The three wise men, a biblical reference to Jesus Christ’s birth, are displayed on Newaygo Elementary School’s roof. The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists argued the Christmas display went against the separation of church and state"
From 2018

Collin Rugg on X - "Ms. Rachel blasts a children's soccer league for "racism" after a child's parents claim the cops were called on him for being "too good" at soccer. The man who called the police is black. He called the police because the boy's parents were being disruptive. Is there a single hoax she won't believe?"
Of course, all the other shameless left wing and black grifters were jumping on the same bandwagon

Dan Burmawi on X - "The West Got the Islam Islamic Countries Restrict
About 16,000 jihadists from the Middle East and North Africa went to fight with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq. That region has about 414 million Muslims, 94 percent of its population. Western Europe, where Muslims number about 26 million, under 5 percent of the population, produced more than 5,000. That is one jihadist for every 25,000 or so Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa, and one for every 5,000 in Western Europe, more than four times the rate. The gap widens in individual countries. Belgium, with about 860,000 Muslims, produced roughly 500 jihadists, one for every 1,700. France, with 5.7 million Muslims, produced about 1,700, one for every 3,400. Indonesia, with about 239 million Muslims, produced about 600, one for every 400,000. Belgium’s rate is roughly two hundred times Indonesia’s. A study coordinated by Germany’s federal criminal police found that in 2025, 23.8 percent of Muslims in Germany called an Islamic theocracy the best form of government, up from 18.7 percent in 2021, and 25.1 percent put the rules of the Koran above German law. In France, 24 percent of Muslims told IFOP they sympathize with the Muslim Brotherhood, whose founder called restoring the caliphate an obligation on every Muslim. Muslims in the West are a small minority in rich, safe, free countries. Muslims in the Islamic world are the majority, and Islam runs their courts, their schools and their calendars. The second group should be the more militant one. The first is, by a wide margin. So what is happening? Why does Islam in the West, at a fraction of the numbers, produce more jihad per head than the Muslim world does?
For thirteen centuries Islam divided the world into the House of Islam and the House of War. Jihad was a divine duty of Muslims, led by the ruler. Peoples who surrendered paid the jizya and lived as dhimmis, and those who refused were fought. Jihad was the foreign policy doctrine of the Islamic Caliphate since the days of Muhammad. The last caliph to officially use this doctrine was Sultan Mehmed V, who in November 1914 proclaimed jihad against Britain, France and Russia and called on Muslims everywhere to rise. On March 3, 1924, Turkey abolished the caliphate, and the governments that subsequently took control of Muslim lands kept the shell while abandoning the doctrines. They did not retain jihad, dhimma, or the full application of sharia law. Yet these countries are called Islamic, while the thousands of Islamic groups that emerged after the caliphate’s fall to continue jihad until Allah’s rule is established over the entire earth were given a label of Western invention: “Islamism.” Under Muslim dictatorships, Islam is permitted where it serves the ruler and suppressed where it threatens him. The regime keeps the religious restrictions, the conservative customs and the demands for personal obedience. It allows Islam to govern people’s clothing, relationships and private conduct, but refuses to let an independent Islamic movement decide who has the right to rule. The ruler wants the population controlled by Islam without having his own authority challenged by it. That’s why those Muslim rulers can wage war against Islamic terrorism even though they are Muslims: because for these rulers, not for their people, trying to impose an Islamic political order is terrorism, and anyone among their people who says otherwise gets punished. Yet their people, just like the rulers themselves, know that establishing an Islamic political order is the heart of Islam, but they can’t say it openly out of fear. Those who try to accomplish it indirectly, like the Muslim Brotherhood, get banned, and those who try to establish it directly face war. Take the leash off and see what Muslims in the Islamic world will do. In Egypt, the moment the dictator fell in 2011, 13.2 million Egyptians voted for the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate in a country where elections were controlled by the army, the same army that removed the Muslim Brotherhood’s president a year later. When Assad’s authority collapsed across much of Syria, almost all those who could joined Islamic terrorist groups: hundreds of thousands of them, spread across more than a thousand units by 2014. The fall of Saddam showed the world what happens when Muslims are no longer suppressed by a dictator and get to choose which version of Islam they believe in. In Jordan, four members of parliament visited Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s family home after he was killed to mourn him and call him a martyr, while hundreds of mourners flocked to the tent. This was the man who had bombed three Amman hotels the year before and killed Jordanians. If it weren’t for fear, millions would have gone to mourn Zarqawi.
Islamism is simply Islam practiced in freedom.
In the West, Islam has room to pursue the political ambitions that Muslim dictators keep under lock and key. A movement banned in its country of origin can establish an organization in London, recruit followers, raise money and preach that Allah’s law must govern society. The ruler who would have jailed its leaders is gone. In his place stands a democracy that protects their right to organize, without examining what they are organizing to achieve... Twenty years ago, I remember Muslim families in the West returning to their home countries when their children reached adolescence because the parents feared what Western freedom would do to them."

Britons were black ‘before these isles were British’, says Horrible Histories - "Early Britons were black “before these isles were British”, BBC children’s series Horrible Histories will tell its younger viewers in its first ever episode dedicated to black history... One song will touch on Britain’s prehistoric population having dark skin “before these Isles were British”, in reference to the probable skin colour of the 10,000-year-old Cheddar Man remains... “When we started out we had no idea of the responsibility we would end up having. There is an onus on us to get it right.”... There was widespread anger last year at the lyrics which cited tea, sugar, cotton and even Queen Victoria as examples of supposedly “British things” that are “from abroad” or “frankly stolen”."
From 2021. If you push the left wing agenda, you're morally right even if factually wrong, which is all that matters

No, the first Britons were not ‘black’ - spiked - "The idea that the native inhabitants of a nation have some kind of mystical connection with the land is something usually associated with the ultra-nationalist far right. So why are self-professed anti-racists now trying to bring back this blood-and-soil mindset? Last month, the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) in Brixton, south London hosted an exhibition claiming that the first Britons were black. The Brilliant Black British History exhibition was based on the children’s book of the same name by Nigerian-born poet and author Atinuke. The exhibition, funded by both Lambeth Council and Arts Council England, made some truly astonishing claims. Visitors to the exhibit were told that ‘Britain was black for 7,000 years’ before white people arrived. Apparently, scientists have discovered that ‘the first migrants to Britain around 12,000 years ago had black skin’. This seems to be based on the contentious genetic study that claimed the Cheddar Man – the 10,000-year-old set of remains found in Somerset – was likely to have had ‘dark to black skin’. Of course, that would not have made the Cheddar Man ‘black’ in any meaningful sense. It would be ludicrous to suggest that the dark-skinned, blue-eyed people who inhabited most of western Europe 10,000 years ago had any concept at all of ‘blackness’. And it is even more ridiculous to suggest that the pigmentation of the Cheddar Man’s skin meant that he shared the same ethnicity as today’s Brits of African and Caribbean descent. Undeterred by these inconvenient facts, the exhibition goes on to claim that Emperor Septimius Severus, who died in York in the 3rd century AD, was ‘a black Roman ruler’. As it turns out, Severus was born in North Africa, a fact that has been taken to mean he was ‘black’. In fact, it is much more likely that Severus was of Italian and Middle Eastern descent. The curators make this mistake once again when they claim that a whopping 11 per cent of Roman York was black. This seems to come from a misunderstanding of a 2009 study, which found that one group of human remains in York was composed mainly of migrants from North Africa. Amazingly, the content of the BCA exhibition was actually a lot tamer than the children’s book it was based on. Atinuke’s Brilliant Black British History tells young readers that black people built Stonehenge, that ‘every single British person comes from a migrant’ and that Britain’s population was majority black for longer than it has been majority white. These claims are skewed, to say the least. But perhaps more importantly, most Brits wouldn’t care even if they did prove to be true... Regular Brits might not care about the skin colour of their ancient forebears, but our cultural institutions clearly do. The BCA is a charity supported by, among others, Lambeth Council, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the British Film Institute. Until 2021, it was even working with the Home Office. Our educational institutions also seem keen on peddling identitarian falsehoods. In December last year, it emerged that some schoolkids across the UK were being falsely taught that St Hadrian of Canterbury – an abbot living in 7th-century England – was black. He wasn’t. He was born in Libya and was probably of Berber descent. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the BBC has also got in on the action. Beloved kids’ series Horrible Histories recently came out with a song called ‘Been Here From the Start’. The lyrics imply that black people have always maintained a significant presence in Britain. The supposedly educational, non-fiction show omits the fact that this is patently untrue. This obsession with inventing an alternative black British history is deeply unhealthy for all of us. For starters, there are plenty of black Britons who really were black and who really did make significant contributions to our history. Making demonstrably false claims about black people being the true natives of the British Isles both ignores the real black figures of British history and revives some pretty ugly nativist notions. As an organisation that claims to dedicate itself to both education and anti-racism, the Black Cultural Archives should know better than to spread this kind of divisive nonsense."

The first Britons were Black, exhibition on diverse history claims - "In 2018, it was announced that a genetic study of Cheddar Man, the oldest set of human remains to have been found in Briton, suggested that “giveaway” genes meant he likely had blue eyes and a range of possible skin pigmentations from “dark to black”... But the leader of the genetic study, Susan Walsh, clarified that Cheddar Man’s appearance was uncertain, while a separate 2017 study from geneticist Sarah Tishkoff found that predicting likely pigmentation based on “giveaway” genes was inaccurate... Cambridge historian Professor David Abulafia said: “The Brixton expo is new to me but the tendentious tone seems to be exactly what I would expect. I am totally nonplussed by the obsession with the skin colour of people in Britain’s remote past. “They are unlikely to have existed and even if they did they didn’t pass on their dark skin to modern Britons. Most black Britons are ultimately of African descent. “Judging people by skin colour is racist and I don’t understand why anyone of any colour would think it is desirable. “And that applies to diatribes against ‘white males’ as well as against black or brown people. “The presence of a very small number of Africans in this country over the two millennia up to the 19th century is exaggerated out of all proportion. And most of these ‘Africans’ were from the north of the continent and white or light brown.”"

Ukpahiojo James on X - "“Religion was invented to control people.” You really think men invented a religion that tells them to love their enemies, forgive those who hurt them, and pray for those who persecute them? ๐Ÿค”"
John Wright on X - "“Religion was invented to control people.” Only people who want to control people recite this absurdity: Revolutionaries, Anarchists, and Marxists. Because empty men cannot envision any other motive for anything. Christianity is abolished the slave trade, humbled emperors, curtailed kings, forbade usury, sanctified monogamy, banished pederasty, bestiality, and other perversions. Not only does it NOT control people, it preaches self control, and opposes every force of tyranny external and internal, secular or spiritual."

Meme - Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk: "Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has responded to the unacceptable online abuse directed at a Met officer who received an award at yesterday's annual Police Federation Conference. PC Fiona Shaik Umar was recognised for the outstanding contribution she has made for women in policing."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "The vast majority of criticism was not because she is Muslim, but because she was not following very basic gun safety rules. Her finger was on the trigger and she pointed the barrel of the gun at a fellow officer."
Meme - "Women in Firearms Attachment *female police officer with finger on trigger, pointing gun at male colleague's thigh*"

Meme - jackie @SubccubusGirl: "i tried to donate blood today, i had an appointment, and they turned me away. apparently you still can’t donate blood if you’re on PrEP or had anal sex within 3 months? (both disqualified me) i thought they unbanned gays from donating? how is this not de facto discrimination?"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "US FDA blood donation guidelines apply the same individual risk-based questions to all donors regardless of orientation, deferring for recent anal sex with new/multiple partners or PrEP use to protect the blood supply as these can affect HIV detection."
Jail him for promoting homophobic stereotypes!

Meme - AG @AGHamilton29: "That awkward feeling where you’re a member of Congress parroting the same bogus talking points as neo-Nazis and they notice…"
Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes: "AOC is more America First than 99% of Republicans."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "An unspoken secret in Congress is that much of the reflexive, blind, unconditional vote support for nearly any Israeli gov action isn't from actual agreement..."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "You are a white supremacist and I want nothing to do with you nor the world you imagine. I believe in a multiracial democracy, one of economic rights, civil liberties, and that affirms the working class and the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people. These are not small differences. They are irreconcilable. White supremacy is a scourge and must be disavowed in all places."
As left wingers keep telling us, if a Nazi is at the table with 9 others, there're 10 Nazis at the table

Jacqueline Thomsen on X - "New: A lawyer’s misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown stemmed from a hearing during which she repeatedly directed racial insults at him, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg Law."
Mary Katharine Ham on X - "A judge bullies a lawyer she thinks is white, but is actually Latino, calling him a “chad” and “Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally.” The percentage of unhinged educated people one encounters these days is disconcerting. This account goes on and on. She doesn’t think she was out of line."

The Free Speech Union on X - "๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ BREAKING NEWS: Blasphemy law is back — but it only applies to Muslims. FSU member and retired police officer Stephen Gray was found guilty of being "grossly offensive", a criminal offence under s127 of the Communications Act 2003, for repeating a joke about Mohammed. Stephen reposted a message he saw on Facebook that said: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9 year old!” While giving evidence, Stephen explained that the post was a reference to the marriage between the Prophet Mohammed and Aisha — which was consummated when she was just nine years old, after he married her when she was six. Stephen said the post was intended to be satirical but he also hoped it would spark a serious debate: did that marriage, as recorded in the Hadiths, contribute to the acceptability of child marriage in Muslim countries? District Judge Steven Hood found the post to be “grossly offensive” and dismissed Stephen's defence that it was making a serious political point about the acceptability of child marriage. He found that the post was designed to be offensive and could not be making a serious point because it was light-hearted in nature. He concluded that a conviction would not amount to a disproportionate interference with Stephen’s right to freedom of expression. The Free Speech Union is helping Stephen appeal his conviction and has instructed a top criminal silk, John Beggs KC, to act for him. With your support, we hope to be able to pay for Stephen’s legal defence in the Crown Court and meet the costs of any further appeals. Please donate Stephen's crowdfunder in the link below. Earlier this year, the FSU paid for the defence of Hamit Coskun, who burnt a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. He was initially convicted, but we managed to get that conviction overturned on appeal. When the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) then tried to appeal the acquittal, we took them on and won again. More recently, the Free Speech Union threatened South Wales Police with legal action after it adopted a draconian version of the Government’s definition of anti-Muslim hostility, instructing officers to record any comment that went beyond “legitimate” discussion of Islam as a 'non-crime hate incident'. We won, and the force withdrew the guidance. Stephen’s case gives us another opportunity to reaffirm the principle that there is nothing illegal about criticising any religion, including Islam. It should not be a criminal offence to repost jokes about Islam that some Muslims find offensive. Read more below and please donate to our Crowdfunder ๐Ÿ‘‡"

Basil the Great on X - "๐ŸšจNEWS: It has been revealed that Dr Farah Ahmed of Cambridge University previously wrote an article in which she claimed: "Muslims should study engineering and computers 'to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate over all other" Is Cambridge going to fire her?"

The Food Professor on X - "The Canadian Press has seriously undermined its moral credibility. Using the September 11 attacks primarily as a vehicle for discussing Islamophobia demonstrates remarkably poor editorial judgment. Those attacks were perpetrated by 19 Islamist terrorists who murdered nearly 3,000 people, most of them Americans. For anyone old enough to remember September 11, the day remains profoundly painful and disturbing. Most of us remember exactly where we were when it happened. Anniversary coverage should focus first on the victims, the events themselves and how they changed the world forever—not subordinate that history to a contemporary political narrative. CP is not simply another newspaper: it is Canada’s national wire service. Its journalists produce stories that are distributed to subscribing newspapers, broadcasters and digital platforms across the country, where they may be published largely unchanged under a Canadian Press byline. That gives its editorial choices enormous reach. A questionable framing does not remain confined to one newsroom—it can be reproduced nationwide and presented as authoritative reporting. Canada faces a broader problem with the quality, balance and intellectual diversity of its media coverage. This may help explain the increasingly reflexive anti-Americanism shaping our public discourse. When a national wire service amplifies ideology instead of scrutinizing it, the effects reverberate throughout the entire media ecosystem. Informed debate suffers—and our democracy becomes more fragile by the day."

Brivael Le Pogam on X - "Here's how the system works. No conspiracy, no secret room. Something far more solid: a century of patience. It starts in an Italian prison. In the 1930s, Antonio Gramsci, locked up by Mussolini, tries to understand why the communist revolution failed in the West. The workers didn't follow. They were attached to their families, their faith, their homeland, their small property. His conclusion changed everything: you don't take power with rifles, you take it through culture. First you conquer the schools, the universities, the press, publishing, the theater. Once you control what people think, you don't need to seize the state. It falls on its own. In 1967, the German student leader Rudi Dutschke gave it a name: the long march through the institutions. In France, that march received a historic gift. At the Liberation, de Gaulle distrusted the communists. He refused them the Interior, Defense, and Foreign Affairs. He kept the sword but let the mind slip away. A commission chaired by two communists, Paul Langevin and then Henri Wallon, drew up the plan for France's postwar schools. The Communist Party presented itself as the party of the martyrs of the Resistance, and the intelligentsia fell in line: Sartre, Aragon, the journals, the publishing houses, the teachers' unions. The right kept the ministries, and the left took the minds. That was the founding mistake. People believed power lived in the state, when it actually lived in the heads of those who would run the state tomorrow. Then came May 68. From the intellectual ruins of that era, France gave the world Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, three brilliant minds who forged, in the elegance of our language, the weapon that would paralyze the West. Foucault taught that truth doesn't exist, only power relations disguised as knowledge. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning and that every reading is a betrayal. Deleuze taught that we should prefer desire to law, the nomad to the settler, becoming to being. Gramsci provided the strategy. French Theory provided the software. Those texts crossed the Atlantic. Yale, Berkeley, and Columbia absorbed them in the 80s, where they met American puritanism, its racial guilt, and its obsession with identity. Judith Butler read Foucault and invented performative gender. Edward Said read Foucault and invented postcolonialism. Then came intersectionality. The matrix was always the same: there is no truth, only power, so every hierarchy is suspect, every norm is violence, and every majority is guilty. The child of that marriage is called wokeism, and today it's coming back to us like a boomerang, in our own universities. Meanwhile, the infusion went on for forty years. A generation of professors trained a generation of journalists, judges, senior civil servants, and HR managers. Nobody needed to give orders. People came out of the same mold, hired those who thought like them, and pushed the others aside. That's what capturing an institution looks like: not a coup, but slow sedimentation. Above the nations, a structure was built that answers to no one. Europe, dreamed up as a common market among free peoples, became a machine for producing norms, directives, and regulations, far from voters, far from borders, far from reality. Today the loop is closed. In 2016, the Davos forum promoted a vision of 2030 summed up in one line: "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." It came from a former Danish socialist minister. In Brussels, they passed the DSA, which turns platforms into auxiliaries of censorship. For years they've been negotiating a regulation that would allow your private messages to be scanned. They're preparing a digital ID and a digital euro. Every time with a nice justification, and every time with a little less freedom. And who's at the controls? Look at the rรฉsumรฉs. Emmanuel Macron was a card-carrying member of the Socialist Party before becoming Franรงois Hollande's economy minister. Gabriel Attal was a Socialist Party activist for ten years and learned the trade in a socialist minister's office. They changed labels, not software. That software rests on one belief: human beings are interchangeable, and so are cultures. Mass immigration isn't a problem, then. It's a step toward a finally equal world. They don't understand that it's impossible by design. A culture doesn't vanish into a vacuum. When a civilization gives up on itself, another one, more sure of itself, takes its place. This left courted political Islam as an electoral base and an ally against "the system." But political Islam shares none of its dreams. It doesn't want an equal, borderless world. It has its own project. Those who thought they could use it will end up devoured by it. The craziest part is that there are hardly any true believers left. Inside these institutions, almost nobody sincerely believes in the project anymore. No small group is pulling the strings. There are incentives: thousands of people whose salaries, status, grants, and careers depend on keeping the fiction alive. Admitting they were wrong would cost them their position, their prestige, their standard of living. So they prefer the collective lie. They double down on what doesn't work, because admitting failure would cost them more than carrying on. It's that dumb. People who understood nothing about economics or human nature built a system that only holds as long as nobody looks at it. So here is the real fight of our time. It isn't left versus right. It's a simpler question: what world do we want? The first is a world of strong nations and strong cultures that respect each other because they know who they are. A world that welcomes people through assimilation, not dissolution. The second is a world of total dilution, where every culture melts into a tasteless mush with no memory and no roots. They sell it to you as diversity, but it's the opposite. Real diversity is different peoples remaining themselves. A world where everyone is the same, everywhere, isn't diverse. It's uniform. And a uniform world is the easiest one to control. For a century, this system seemed unstoppable. It held the schools, the press, the culture, and the institutions. It lacked one thing: someone powerful enough that he couldn't be bought, who decided to look and say what he saw. Elon Musk did it, and I have high hopes that he'll be the one to finish this project off. The lie had a century. The truth only needs a moment."

M.A. Rothman | Facebook - "๐๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐‚๐€๐Œ ๐€๐๐ƒ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐€๐”๐ƒ๐ˆ๐Ž ๐ƒ๐„๐Œ๐Ž๐‹๐ˆ๐’๐‡ ๐•๐ˆ๐‘๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐‹๐€๐ˆ๐Œ ๐๐Ž๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐„ ๐–๐„๐‘๐„ ๐‚๐€๐‹๐‹๐„๐ƒ ๐Ž๐ ๐“๐Ž๐ƒ๐ƒ๐‹๐„๐‘ ๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐๐„๐ˆ๐๐† “๐“๐Ž๐Ž ๐†๐Ž๐Ž๐ƒ”
Ms. Rachel told her millions of followers: ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต, ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ, ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ. Her post claimed police were called on a 3-year-old Black boy because he was too good at soccer. Former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III and attorney Ben Crump piled on. Griffin III wrote that ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐Ÿ‘-๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ-๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ๐จ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ was ridiculous, and also claimed the family had been escorted off the field with a trespass notice. Then the body cam footage and 911 audio came out. League director Thomas Hayes, who is also Black, told officers the parents were causing a disturbance and he wanted them removed. He said he had subbed the boy out so other kids could play, and that the boy was pushing other children. Hayes also said the boy was exceptionally talented and had scored plenty of goals. Winter Park police said the call was about the parents, and that ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ'๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต. They also said nobody was arrested, trespassed, or forced to leave the park. The boy's mother, Martasia Griffin, told officers on video: ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ'๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ'๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ. The league, i9 Sports, says it is reviewing the incident and has contacted the family. By then the outrage had already gone viral, built on a version of events that the police and the recordings ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ — ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐œ๐ค ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ž."
This doesn't deter all the disgusting grifters like Ms Rachel. But then, there is no left wing bandwagon she won't shamelessly jump on

Emmanuel Ruimy on X - "Il y a quand mรชme une diffรฉrence entre l'extrรชme droite et l'extrรชme gauche qui m'a toujours fascinรฉ.
L'extrรชme droite dit ce qu'elle est. Rรฉactionnaire, ultra-conservatrice ou xรฉnophobe : elle ne s'en cache absolument pas. Quand Zemmour dรฉclare qu'on ne peut pas รชtre franรงais en ayant un prรฉnom musulman, c'est choquant, mais au moins on sait ร  quoi s'en tenir.
L'extrรชme gauche, c'est l'inverse exact. Elle fait le contraire de ce qu'elle proclame.
- Elle se dit antifasciste. Et ce sont des miliciens cagoulรฉs, se rรฉclamant de l'antifascisme, qui sont aujourd'hui mis en examen pour avoir lynchรฉ ร  mort un jeune homme de 23 ans sur un trottoir de Lyon.
- Elle se dit anticonformiste. Mais elle vit dans des microcosmes sociaux trรจs fermรฉs, oรน l'on parle le mรชme langage codรฉ, et oรน le moindre รฉcart vous vaut l'exclusion.
- Elle se dit antiraciste, mais elle trie les gens en « racisรฉs » et en « blancs » et organise des rรฉunions interdites ร  certains selon leur origine.
- Elle se dit du cรดtรฉ du pluralisme et du contre-pouvoir. Mais elle bloque des confรฉrences, fait annuler des intervenants ร  l'universitรฉ, rรฉclame le boycott des mรฉdias qui lui dรฉplaisent, arrive ร  faire censurer un journaliste sur un mรฉdia de service public.
En rรฉsumรฉ, l'extrรชme droite dit ce qu'elle veut faire, l'extrรชme gauche fait le contraire de ce qu'elle veut dire."

NHS invites white staff to take £250 ‘disrupt racism’ course - "An NHS trust has suggested its white staff sign up to a “disrupt racism” course. Staff at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Swindon, Wiltshire, were sent a newsletter encouraging them to sign up to a programme for “white-identifying individuals” called From Allies to Disruptors. The course, from equality charity Brap, was one of a list of activities suggested to NHS staff for black history month. The letter says the £250 course, which involves six half-day online workshops and runs from November until April 2027, is designed for “individuals who are white and live in the world as white people”. “By understanding more about racialised dynamics, the programme will help you become a more confident disruptor of racism,” it says... Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, a director at Don’t Divide Us, a campaign group opposing racial identity politics, said it was “time to call enough on schemes like this”. She said: “It’s not only, or primarily, a question of wasted money and time; the embedded beliefs being promoted: that Britain is systemically and/or institutionally racist against black or brown ethnic minorities, and that white people need to be more effective ‘disruptors of racism’, actively sow grievance, division, entitlement and make solidarity more difficult.” “We need to be finding ways of building social bonds, not tearing them apart. No public institution should be outsourcing their moral responsibility – not to mention money – to address problems, where they exist and can be evidenced, to charities or companies who act in sectional rather than public interests,” Dr Cuthbert added."
Damn Tory underfunding destroying the NHS!

Xenophobia vs Cultural Appropriation

This famous essay was written in 1937 to mock American xenophobes. A century later, it is once again valuable to expose the vacuity of "cultural appropriation":

One Hundred Percent American

There can be no question about the average American’s Americanism or his desire to preserve this precious heritage at all costs. Nevertheless, some insidious foreign ideas have already wormed their way into his civilization without his realizing what was going on. Thus, dawn finds the unsuspecting patriot garbed in pajamas, a garment of East Indian origin; and lying in a bed built on a pattern which originated in either Persia or Asia Minor. He is muffled to the ears in un-American materials: cotton, first domesticated in India; linen, domesticated in the Middle East; wool from an animal native to Asia Minor; or silk whose uses were first discovered by the Chinese.

On awakening he glances at the clock, a medieval European invention, rises in haste, and goes to the bathroom. Here, if he stops to think about it, he must feel himself in the presence of a great American institution; he will have heard stories of both the quality and frequency of foreign plumbing and will know that in no other country does the average man or woman perform their ablutions in the midst of such splendor. But the insidious foreign influences pursue him even here. Glass was invented by the ancient Egyptians, the use of glazed tiles for floors and walls in the Middle East, porcelain in China, and the art of enameling on metal by Mediterranean artisans of the Bronze Age. Even his bathtub and toilet are but slightly modified copies of Roman originals. The only purely American contribution to the ensemble is the steam radiator, against which our patriot very briefly and unintentionally places his posterior.

Returning to the bedroom, the unconscious victim of un-American practices removes his clothes from a chair, invented in the Near East, and proceeds to dress. He puts on close-fitting tailored garments whose form derives from the skin clothing of the ancient nomads of the Asiatic steppes and fastens them with buttons whose prototypes appeared in Europe at the close of the Stone Age. He puts on his feet stiff coverings made from hide prepared by a process invented in ancient Egypt and cut to a pattern which can be traced back to ancient Greece and makes sure they are properly polished, also a Greek idea. Lastly, he ties about his neck a strip of bright-colored cloth, which is a vestigial survival of the shoulder shawls worn by seventeenth-century Croats. He gives himself a final appraisal in the mirror, an old Mediterranean invention and goes downstairs to breakfast.

Here a whole new series of foreign things confront him. His food and drink are placed before him in pottery vessels, the popular name of which – china – is sufficient evidence of their origin. His fork is a medieval Italian invention and his spoon a copy of a Roman original. He will usually begin his meal with coffee, an Abyssinian plant first discovered by Arabs. The American is quite likely to need it to dispel the morning after affects of over-indulgence in fermented drinks, invented in the Near East; or distilled ones, invented by the alchemists of medieval Europe.

If our patriot is old-fashioned enough to adhere to the so-called American breakfast, his coffee will be accompanied by an orange, or orange juice, domesticated in the Mediterranean region, a cantaloupe domesticated in Persia, or grapes domesticated in Asia Minor. From this he will go on to waffles, a Scandinavian invention, with plenty of butter, originally a Near-Eastern cosmetic.

Breakfast over, he sprints for his train – the train, not the sprinting, being an English invention. At the station, he pauses for a moment to buy a newspaper, paying for it with coins invented in ancient Lydia. Once on the train he settles back to inhale the fumes of a cigarette invented in Mexico, or a cigar invented in Brazil. Meanwhile, he reads the news of the day, imprinted in characters invented by the ancient Semites by a process invented in Germany upon a material invented in China. As he scans the latest editorial pointing out the dire results to our institutions of accepting foreign ideas, he will not fail to thank a Hebrew God in an Indo-European language that he is one hundred percent (decimal system invented by the Greeks) American (from Americus Vespucci, Italian geographer).

--- by Ralph Linton in The American Century (1937)

Links - 12th November 2026 (1 - Zohran Mamdani)

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "I am deeply saddened by the death of a New Yorker in City custody at a jail on Rikers Island early this morning. My thoughts are with his family and loved ones as they grieve this loss.  We do not yet know the cause of death, but we do know that too many New Yorkers have died on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction and its oversight partners will investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.   Our administration is fully committed to the critical work of creating better conditions in our city’s jail system and closing Rikers Island as quickly as possible."
Adam Milstein on X - "Mamdani didn't name Jose Miranda. He named his killer. A homeless parolee with 30 arrests who took a father from his two children with a meat cleaver. What kind of backwards world are we living in??"

Immigrant businesses who spoke out against Mamdani supermarkets say they're getting hit with NYC sanitation fines - "Members of an immigrant business group that has spoken out against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans for government-owned supermarkets lately have been getting slapped with fines from the city’s Sanitation Department — and some say it looks like a case of retaliation.  Diana Larrazabal, who owns flower and gift shop Aroma D’ Angel at 304 E. 116th St., said shops including hers in recent months have received a slew of citations from the New York City Department of Sanitation for garbage that isn’t even theirs.  Her flower and gift shop was dinged with fines three times this year — most recently for $350 in May. Many of her Spanish-speaking neighbors who are not bilingual lean on her to help them navigate the city’s red tape, she said, adding that they also are forking over hundreds of dollars in fines...   The coalition’s chairman, Frank Garcia, says the fines ramped up about two weeks ago when the group began pounding the pavement to speak with local business owners to get support for its suit. “When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that’s when the fines started,” Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. “The owners don’t speak English.”"

Exclusive | Mamdani accused of misusing NYC resources to boost Dems: ethics complaint - "Mayor Zohran Mamdani was slapped Tuesday with an ethics complaint from a watchdog group accusing him of misusing city resources to boost multiple Empire State Democrats, The Post has learned.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust urged the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board to launch a probe into Hizzoner’s endorsements of both Gov. Kathy Hochul’s re-election campaign and Lindsey Boylan’s failed bid for City Council...   The letter cited an advisory opinion from the board in 2009 advising Big Apple pols against using city resources to endorse candidates...   FACT noted that in all three instances, Mamdani stood behind the seal of New York City and that his team put transcripts of those press conferences on the city website. The watchdog is urging the board to “impose the proper penalties” on him. Mamdani’s predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, was hit with a $4,000 fine from the board in February after his staffers put multicolored whistles on reporters’ chairs during a press conference last year to jab at the harassment accusations against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo."

Farai Mazhindu on X - "The global left's obsession with turning a failing state into an ideological blueprint is the height of intellectual laziness and political delusion.  The fact that Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist politician from New York, looks at South Africa and sees a model to emulate proves just how detached Western progressive academics are from the brutal realities of African governance.  They treat lived economic tragedies as experimental playgrounds for their virtue signaling.  To look at South Africa and see an economic North Star requires a breathtaking level of willful blindness.   There is absolutely nothing good to copy from the South African reality.  The country is trapped in a low-growth loop, with astronomical unemployment rates and a completely suffocated private sector.  The municipal water networks are collapsing, and the national rail and logistics corridors are in shambles.  Law and order have effectively broken down, turning the country into one of the most violent, high-crime zones outside an active war theater.  Decades of porous borders and failed regional foreign policy have fueled explosive, unmanaged migration, sparking violent grassroots conflict.  Mamdani and the global left look at this smoking ruin and somehow see a progressive paradise, simply because the political rhetoric sounds nice in a Manhattan lecture hall.   The core defect of the socialist fantasy is that it is entirely obsessed with distributing wealth but utterly incapable of creating it. The strategy is always to "eat the rich" and penalize success. They overtax the productive middle class and the corporate sector to fund massive, unsustainable social grant systems.  When you destroy a business-friendly landscape, capital flees the country. Factories close. Intellectual property leaves. You cannot distribute wealth that has already fled the borders.  Once the rich are "eaten" and the business class is gone, the state is left with nothing but an impoverished population and a broken tax base. The "comrades" end up presiding over equalized misery rather than shared prosperity.  Western leftists like Mamdani love South Africa because they only engage with its symbols, the progressive constitution, the anti-apartheid history, the radical rhetoric of economic transformation.  They don't have to live with the rolling blackouts, the dry taps, or the fear of home invasions. They champion ideologies that kill production and development because they are completely insulated from the consequences of their own ideas.  Copying South Africa's current economic trajectory isn't a progressive strategy; it is a blueprint for national suicide."
Time to mock poor people for supposedly voting against their interests

Bring Your Crash Helmet to New York City - WSJ - "Walking or running in the Big Apple is becoming more perilous by the day as e-bikers and motor-scooters speed, ignore traffic signals, ride the wrong way on one-way streets or up on sidewalks and are otherwise reckless. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the self-styled man of the people, is looking the other way. He’s siding with delivery companies that prioritize rapid service over safety and resist accountability... “Micromobility”—people zipping around on small motorized vehicles—has brought challenges to traffic-law enforcement for years. But New York can’t seem to get its arms around the problem, and casualties are rising. There have been some 560 e-bike crashes in the city this year through the third week in July, up 28% from the same period last year. Add in scooters, and fatalities stand at 20, up from 13 last year. Survivors of accidents also pay a high cost. Doree Lewak, a contributing writer at the New York Post, has written about how, in 2019, she “was mowed down by a speeding food delivery worker—going the wrong direction on a one-way street and on the opposite side from the bike lane—on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, leaving me for dead.” For months, “it was difficult to speak, and the radiating pain was so intense that even modest movement—from laughing to getting dressed to turning on the shower—was wrenching,” she wrote. The e-bike problem got the attention of former mayor Eric Adams in 2025. He moved to regulate e-bikes, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s department began to issue criminal court summonses for reckless violations of traffic laws by their riders. She called the behavior “clearly unlawful, dangerous, and degrading of our collective quality of life in New York City.” But Mr. Mamdani, who took office in January, issued an executive order in March to the NYPD, putting an end to criminal summonses for e-bikers. His view seems to be that it’s cruel to hold bikers responsible when they break the law. Chaos in the streets has ensued. On July 7 a 43-year-old in the running lane on Central Park’s West Drive was rammed from behind by an e-biker traveling in the wrong direction. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and a broken elbow and needed three blood transfusions and skin grafts. A witness alleged that the e-bike rider tried to flee but was detained by horrified onlookers. No charges were filed."

Florida names Mamdani "Economic Developer of the Year" with giant billboard in Times Square

Mamdani's Rent Freeze Is Going As Well As Expected - "If only someone could have predicted that the guy who ran for office promising a city-wide rent freeze was going to make things worse. Wait, didn't lots of people predict this would not go well? Back in January, I wrote about how the rent freeze would lead to higher rents... LA, like New York, has rent control and it's difficult to build in the city. As a result rents are up and vacancy levels are low. San Diego has no rent control and streamlined building processes. As a result, San Diego is building new apartments like crazy."

NYC rents hit record high while Mamdani advances rent freeze agenda - "The citywide median asking rent reached $4,200 in June, up 5% from a year earlier and the highest recorded by StreetEasy since it began tracking the market in 2010. In Manhattan — the most densely populated NYC borough — the median cost of monthly rent climbed 5.1% to $4,965.  At the same time, apartments are becoming harder to find. The number of rentals available across the city fell 1.4% from a year ago, while Manhattan saw a 4.4% drop. It was even more dire for larger apartments in Manhattan, where the number of available two-bedroom units fell 9.3% and three-bedroom units dropped 11%.  Simply put, there are not enough apartment units to meet demand, and costs are reflecting that squeeze. The rental unit shortage presents an early test for Mamdani’s affordability agenda in New York.  While the socialist mayor has pledged to dramatically expand the city’s housing supply, his push to freeze rents on roughly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments has drawn warnings from economists who say the policy could discourage investment and make an already tight housing market even tighter.  Adam Lehodey of the Manhattan Institute told Fox News Digital that rent increases on rent-stabilized apartments have failed to keep pace with inflation for years, even as the costs of maintaining buildings have continued to rise. As a result, he said, "slowly but surely, landlords have less to invest in their properties."  He argued that this growing gap is leaving some building owners increasingly unable to cover basic operating expenses, which can lead to deferred maintenance and reduced investment in the city’s existing housing stock.  Lehodey also pointed to a second dynamic in the rent-stabilized market: tenants paying below-market rents have a strong incentive to stay in place, which reduces turnover and makes those apartments harder for prospective renters to find.  "People who are looking for apartments can't find apartments," Lehodey said. "People aren't giving them up, even if they have too much room." Other economists have sounded similar warnings, arguing that uncertainty surrounding Mamdani’s broader tax and regulatory agenda could also discourage the investment needed to expand the city’s housing supply.  "Merely the threat of a more hostile tax and regulatory environment has been enough to chill investment in New York City, and that’s already impacting prices," E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. "Builders and financiers aren’t going to start multi-year projects that might become unprofitable on Mamdani’s next whim."  Antoni previously told Fox News Digital that the problem goes beyond new construction, arguing that government limits on rents can reduce the number of apartments available and discourage investment in existing properties.  "Economists, whether they are on the right or on the left, essentially are in universal agreement, that when the government implements price controls in the rental market, you end up with housing shortages," Antoni said.  "And not only do you end up with fewer housing units available, but the quality of those units consistently goes down as well," he added."
Clearly, the solution is to confiscate housing!

Exclusive | Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655 per month - "The average price tag for a place to live just hit a jaw-dropping $6,655 a month, an all-time high, according to fresh data from Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group.  That’s a brutal 10% jump from a year ago, and real estate pros are pointing straight at Mayor Mamdani’s incoming rent freeze on stabilized units as one of the culprits, along with a looming pied-a-terre tax that brokers say is only going to squeeze the market harder. The pain is compounded by a record-low number of vacant apartments across the city, leaving desperate renters with almost nowhere to turn...   New York’s rental vacancy rate has cratered to just 1.49%, the tightest it’s been since 1968, and down from 1.57% previously. Experts consider anything under 5% a landlord’s market. This is far worse than that. Separately, state registration data self-reported by landlords shows about 57,000 rent-stabilized apartments sat empty citywide in 2025, roughly 5.6% of the regulated stock and up from 3.7% a decade earlier... Gary Malin, chief operating officer of The Corcoran Group, points the finger squarely at Albany and City Hall.  “Misguided New York City and State legislation, like ‘good cause’ eviction, the FARE act, and the 2019 rent laws, have in large part created this perfect storm for sky-high rents,” Malin told The Post. “These laws have curtailed the supply of rental housing. This has caused demand to build up to a boiling point and pricing for available apartments to reach all-time highs. Legislators seem to care more about optics versus the actual impact of their policies. Their initiatives may be well intentioned, but there’s been severe unintended consequences, and today’s apartment seekers are literally paying the price.” And the incoming rent freeze won’t be the relief tenants are hoping for, Malin warned, since landlords still have bills to pay.  “One thing is for certain, landlords’ costs will still go up regardless of the new rent freeze,” Malin said. “While the freeze may be good news for rent stabilized tenants, the bad news for market rate renters is that these increased expenses will likely be passed on to them, in the form of higher rents when it’s time to renew their lease.”  And brokers say that shift is already underway, well before the freeze officially kicks in on October 1. Landlords who know their rent-stabilized units are about to be locked in place are padding rents on their free-market apartments now to cover the gap.   He also sees the new pied-a-terre tax scaring off would-be buyers and pushing them straight into the already-slammed rental pool.  “The new pied-a-terre tax may have an impact on the rental market as well, especially at the high-end,” Malin said. “People who were in the market to purchase a part-time home in New York, may instead look to rent — to avoid the liability and hassle associated with the surcharge. In addition, current homeowners now faced with the tax may choose to sell their pied-a-terre and rent as an alternative. Overall, both new policies will likely cause additional demand to hit a rental market that’s already incredibly stressed.”   Douglas Elliman’s top-producing rental broker, Keyan Sanai, says it’s a collision of forces: high mortgage rates keeping buyers on the sidelines, a housing shortage that never gets fixed, and policy blunders piling on at the worst possible moment."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Yesterday, I gathered with residents at the Allama Iqbal Community Center’s Mela to commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day and honor the contributions Pakistani New Yorkers have made to our city. Today and everyday, we celebrate this community whose open arms, determination, and dreams for a better life have helped shape the city they call home."
Eylon Levy on X - "Zohran Mamdani: “I can’t support any state that privileges one religion.”
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Article 2: “Islam shall be the State religion of Pakistan.”"
One cope is that by attending, he wasn't supporting Pakistan, but his constituents who have ties to it. Yet, he skipped the Israel Day Parade, breaking a longstanding tradition, and there're a lot more New Yorkers with ties to Israel than Pakistan.

Brianna Wu | Facebook - "“Commemorate Pakistan’s Independence Day?” If you don’t like what happened in Israel in 1948, just wait until I tell you the details of what happened in India in 1947. Around 14 million people were displaced. Muslims fled India. Hindus and Sikhs fled Pakistan. About a million were killed in the massacres, and women were raped and abducted. What country shows the dangers of Islamism to its own citizens more clearly than Pakistan? India became a global superpower. Pakistan progressively Islamized its laws, persecuted religious minorities, empowered jihadist movements and somehow allowed Osama bin Laden to live for years beside its premier military academy. Mamdani treats the creation of Israel as a historic crime and the creation of Pakistan as something to commemorate? His Jew hatred shows in the double standard."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability. It leaves our workers unprotected and our streets less safe. It's time for a change.  I'm proud to support the Delivery Protection Act to crack down on exploitative subcontracting and build an economy that works for everyone."
Tweets from Zach Weinberg on X - "In two years, we'll wonder why Amazon delivery prices are up and service level is down and now only middle class and above can afford it. Same thing happening to Uber in NYC. Harming the poorest NY'ers who benefit from Amazon's incredible service."

End Wokeness on X - "I just found this clip of Zohran Mamdani on an Arab podcast, admitting that he fooled white liberals. Progressive ideology is just a tool. His real priority? "Identity""

@amuse on X - "SOCIALISM: Tracy Rosenthal hasn't paid rent on her $2,300/month apartment in almost six years. She's Zohran Mamdani's housing guru and author of "Abolish Rent". It turns out she's a trust fund baby whose daddy is a 4-time Grammy winner."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: A secret bot army boosting Mamdani on X appears to be operating from City Hall, according to an exclusive report. Cyber experts say they’re “100% sure” the IP addresses trace back there. So much of the DSA’s online support is astroturfed."

Flopping Aces on X - "There may be no more revealing line in the entire Mamdani story than this one:  “His security blanket is his phone and the dopamine from how many likes he gets on a post.”  That wasn’t some MAGA meme account. That was a Democratic operative describing New York City’s mayor. Another City Council member reportedly said Mamdani is so thin-skinned that he “reads everything.”  Imagine running America’s largest city while your emotional support device keeps buzzing in your pocket.  Crime? Housing? Taxes? Garbage?  Hold on, somebody ratioed the mayor.  According to the New York Post, Mamdani allegedly becomes particularly attentive when criticism starts generating bad press. Insiders say negative coverage or a critical social-media post can suddenly accomplish what unanswered calls, texts and emails apparently cannot: get City Hall’s attention. One operative said they respond when something reaches “crisis levels in the press.”  That’s not constituent services. That’s reputation-management Whac-A-Mole.  Then Councilwoman Virginia Maloney committed the unforgivable offense of tweeting “I know math is hard.” Sources say Mamdani contacted her afterward.  Somewhere, a notification appeared. Mayor Zoflake saw it. Dopamine levels crashed. Emergency meeting at Gracie Mansion.  This is the great irony of influencer politics: spend years teaching everyone that likes, shares, views and viral clips are evidence of your popularity, and eventually you start believing your own analytics dashboard.  But New York City isn’t TikTok. The electorate doesn’t come with a beauty filter.  And Staten Island proved the comment section occasionally shows up in person."

Exclusive | Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive' in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources - "Social media-savvy Mayor Zohran Mamdani is developing a reputation IRL as “thin-skinned” and hyper-sensitive to public criticism, despite hyping himself online as a smiling and unflappable politician, scores of insiders spilled to The Post.  Behind the scenes, Hizzoner huffily badgers critics who dare question him publicly, harbors petty grudges against prominent pols and often only responds to texts when he’s miffed about bad press, according to interviews with more than a dozen elected officials, consultants and other politicos.  “I see more and more he cannot handle criticism, but mainly from elected officials who he thinks he can push around,” one political consultant said...   His reputed simmering irritation recently boiled over after city Jewish leaders called on him to “stop fanning the flames of hatred” against Israel in the wake of an alleged antisemitic stabbing attack on the Upper West Side.  Sources said the mayor personally called at least one elected official who attended the news conference, complaining about being told to tone down his rhetoric — and upset that their exhortation was connected to his video branding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal,” which was posted days before the attack...   After taking office in January, Mamdani maintained his image-conscious ways by pouring $53 million into a new “Office of Mass Engagement,” an expansion of his already massive communications team that critics argue is a propaganda organ for City Hall.   He also regularly drops new videos, from an arguably ill-advised clip filmed outside billionaire hedge fund titan Ken Griffin’s $200 million condo to hype the DSA “tax the rich” agenda to a 13-minute documentary this week about tenants organizing against their do-nothing landlord.  Protecting the DSA movement’s burgeoning political power appears to be the source of much Mamdani touchiness, insiders said.   Another Democratic operative said Mamdani is “tough on staff,” often holding late-night meetings in Gracie Mansion with his DSA comrades.   “He’s the first DSA (mayor) so they have to show he can manage the city, and any time someone puts a dent in that it hurts their cause,” a government insider said.  But sources revealed that Mamdani also obsesses over even the potential for bad media coverage, such as when Queens Borough President Donovan Richards in July slammed the DSA as “white supremacy” in an X post.  Sources said Mamdani tried to nip a negative story in the bud by having a staffer reach out to Richards’ office to take down the post. Richards left the post up, leading to a Post story highlighting the rift between Mamdani’s largely lily-white DSA comrades and minority lawmakers such as the borough president. “He’s so thin-skinned and reads everything,” one City Council member said...   One Democratic insider said Mamdani treats those who cross him with a “cold demeanor,” terse in responses and not his usual smiling self. That’s a contrast to his usual smiley and affable public manner...   “He has been known to hold grudges against whoever challenges him or his positions for even some of the smallest of slights, and those people get sent to the back of the line unless he needs something.”   Some insiders did credit the youthful Mamdani, 34, for being engaged in backroom dealings and acknowledging his limits. The mayor carries himself with “humility,” a union source said.  “He asks lots of questions. Seeks to understand the issues he’s lacking familiarity with,” the source said.  “He does more listening than talking. That’s uncommon in the political realm.”... insiders said Mamdani is quickly showing himself to be even more sensitive to media coverage than his notoriously whiny groundhog-killing predecessor Bill de Blasio. Mamdani should focus on the job, rather than a “first-term council member tweeting” about him, snarked Fabien Levy, former Mayor Eric Adams’ chief mouthpiece.  “This administration is more on Twitter, Instagram or TikTok than probably any other politician in the county, but to steal an Eric Adams-ism: it’s not what’s in the tweets, it’s what’s in the streets,” Levy said."
Time to dismiss this as a hit job despite multiple sources and some bits praising him

Zohran Mamdani booed off stage at NYPD Night Out on Staten Island - "New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being mocked after many say he was humiliated by being booed off the stage while attending one of the city's biggest pro-police celebrations on Staten Island.  Mamdani attempted to address about 3,500 residents and families attending the New York Police Department’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime event on Tuesday. His remarks, however, lasted less than a minute as loud boos, jeers and chants of "get out of here" and "nobody wants you" drowned out his voice... Mamdani has faced criticism over his relationship with police dating back to his mayoral campaign, which was dogged by questions about his past support for defunding the police. After his election, critics renewed those attacks when his budget included cuts to police funding and canceled plans to hire 5,000 new NYPD officers.  He also took criticism for his handling of an incident in February in Washington Square Park, dubbed "Snowballgate," where a mob of roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with snowballs, leaving two officers injured.  Rather than condemning the assault, Mamdani appeared to downplay the violence, referring to the perpetrators as "kids" taking part in a snowball fight. Fox News Digital previously reported that local crime expert and Manhattan Institute fellow Rafael Mangual said, "Mamdani did not come out in support of the NYPD in that incident. Instead, he seemed to kind of brush it off and even refused to call for the prosecution of the perpetrators," adding that the actions of the mob clearly qualified as an assault against police officers."

Meme - Zeek Arkham ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ @ZeekArkham: "Dear Zohran,  This is why people don’t want you at the memorial.  Those people on 9/11 didn’t just “die.” They were murdered. Murdered by radical Islamists who committed an act of terrorism. Terrorism that you refuse to condemn. Terrorism where you’ve unapologetically stood with people who said these people deserved it.   Instead, you’ve made this event about your made up aunt. Instead, you and the rest of your DSA comrades have done everything in your power to shift the blame away from radical Islam. You acknowledge people died, but you won’t say why they died. Instead it’s “some people did something.”  You, and everyone who voted for you, disgust me. New York has forgotten. Shame. Zeek"
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani: "Nearly 3,000 New Yorkers died on 9/11; 22 years later, the death hasn't stopped.  We mourn our neighbors who died that day. The hundreds of thousands who died in the wars that followed. The unknown millions injured & displaced.  In their memory, we work toward a better world."

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Ridiculous Zuccs: Being Thin (Glorifying Obesity)


"The comment may contain something that could cause others to harm themselves.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
This goes against our Community Standards on suicide, self-injury and eating disorders."

You're only allowed to glorify obesity, not promote being thin (notice the comment is not about anorexia - just about eating less).

Of course, lots of people are still deluded into thinking that anorexia is a lot more harmful than obesity, even though this is demonstrably false; for example, anorexia is responsible for 10,2000 deaths a year, but obesity kills 3.7 million, which is 300 times more.

Links - 11th November 2026 (General Wokeness)

Basil the Great on X - "๐ŸšจNEWS: THIS MIGHT BE THE WOKEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD Glasgow Life has REMOVED the Egyptian Mummies on display at Kelvingrove Art Gallery because the deceased mummies DID NOT CONSENT to be on display. I wish I was joking. Absolutely true"

Max Klinger on X - [On the execution of Melika Azizi for dissent] "Let’s check in with leading ‘anti-racists’ and pro-Palestine activists, who spend their lives lecturing everyone else for ‘being on the wrong side of history’, to see how they’ve responded to the Iranian mullahs committing these unforgivable crimes.
Mothin Ali, deputy head of the Green Party: While she was awaiting her death sentence for blaspheming against Islam, he was giving speeches at large events surrounded by the flag of the jihadist regime that would murder her.
Jeremy Corbyn: Was literally paid to present propaganda on the Iranian state TV channel. He now builds a career labelling everyone else in society oppressors.
George Galloway: paid to present propaganda on Iranian TV channel.
Zack Polanski: has given multiple speeches to large crowds flying the flags of her killers
Bushra Shaikh: held up by channel 4 as a ‘moderate Muslim’ who would teach a lesson to any racist out there I - travelled to Iran while this woman was awaiting execution, praised the regime
I could go on. These people are massive, massive frauds."
Terrorism supporters want to destroy the West, after all

sim on X - ""Free Congo, Free Sudan, Free Syria, Free Palestine.""
ADONIS on X - "> be Congo
> colonisation ends
> immidiately descend into civil war
> every road, hospital & mine the Belgians built just sits there rotting
> no engineers left to run anything
> 70iq warlord Mobutu grabs the throne for 32 years
> steals billions
> Congo enters the deadliest African conflict
> drags another 9 countries in it
> 5 million people die
> world now needs cobalt for phones and cars
> kids go back to working in the mines
> militias & chinese run the mines together
> 7 million people get displaced
> country is ranked among the most corrupt countries on earth almost every single year since
“Free Congo” from what, from africans?"

Will Chamberlain on X - "Abdul El-Sayed wrote about the harms of Arab women dating White men in college. Zohran Mamdani wrote about his frustrations that white women were "impossible to talk to" because of his skin. Radical politics springing out of dating frustrations?"
Rob Henderson on X - "It is shocking how much of politics on both the left and the right come down to either frustrated desire for (or envy of) white women. Use this power wisely."

Richard “Beebo” Russell on X - "I’m going to let you in on a secret about rape that I learned while bouncing at 3 nightclubs concurrently for my entire undergrad. 500 nights at the club dealing with women and creeps have produced some insight. The first thing to understand is that 99% of date-rape cases are just patently false. Every weekend like clockwork a new tiny girl who hadn’t eaten all day would confidently down 5 shots of tequila then claim she was drugged once word got around that she shit herself in a cab, or fell asleep in a dumpster. I’ve lost count of how many of them were perplexed to report that their drug tests came back clean the next morning. BUT… In my 500 nights of service, I witnessed it happen for real, bill cosby style, twice. And in 100% of those cases it was a black or an Indian guy. The first was a guy named Sohil who had actually openly made some suspect remarks to people I knew. Why was nothing done? Because the concept was so completely alien to the white guys around him that they simply didn’t believe what they were hearing. It was exactly like the scene from American Psycho where he talks about a girls head on a stick as though it’s the punchline to a joke, and his friends just exchange a weird look and carry on. That’s how crazy the prospect of rape sounds to white guys, he might as well have said he had a head in his freezer. Ultimately, Sohil was caught trying to sneak into a drugged girl’s bedroom window after her roommates had shuttled her home for the night. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison. There was no international outrage, no big news articles, nothing. Just a post on Facebook shared between the bar staff. The second was a black guy from Martinique. He was a charming niggardly character who hung around the bars every weekend bumming cigarettes or making a few bucks selling fake cocaine. He lived in someone’s walk-in closet for $300 a month. He had rumours circulating about his predation, but nobody had anything concrete until he was finally caught inappropriately touching an incapacitated girl and force feeding her drugs. He was quickly and brutally sentenced to a swift release and a mild scolding from a social worker. He had successfully argued to the judge that people would kill him if he were sent back to Martinique, and was therefore let off with not even a slap on the wrist. The funniest part of this whole ordeal is that we have reason to suspect that he was a refugee in the first place because he had raped the wrong guy’s sister back home. You genuinely can’t make this shit up. Word got around to the bars, but this was back in the day. We didn’t have ID scanners, and hiring was a revolving door. Every Fortnite we’d have a new roster of Dianabol enthusiasts standing at the entrance letting groups of bombshells skip the line. It was impossible to entirely keep people out. And so within 2 months it happened again. Exactly the same as last time. And the black guy hit the judge with the exact same excuse. Luckily the judge finally came to his senses, and sent him back to a third world shithole. He has lived in Paris France ever since. I tell these stories because I’m at my whits end with headlines like the one I see below. At this point we’re so used to being gaslit that the omission of a description is as good as a 4K portrait. So I’ll do my small part to set record straight. It is never the white men."

The ‘homicidal empathy’ of the Islamo-left - spiked - "The concept of ‘suicidal empathy’ is having a moment right now. Coined by Gad Saad in his book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind, it’s defined by Wikipedia as ‘a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are destructive for the party that exhibits them’. We see it in Western countries, whose leaders tell their shivering populations that they’re not allowed to have cheap fossil fuels because of the polar bears. We see it in young liberal women, who would have a fit if a white man whistled at them, but bend over backwards to make men from rabidly misogynistic cultures welcome in their countries – and this despite the fact that we certainly don’t need to import sex offenders when we have enough of the homegrown kind. In extreme cases of this lunacy, we see alleged feminists voluntarily donning the hijab – the living shroud that so many brave Muslim-born women have been tortured and killed for trying to cast off. There was a shocking example of this in 2017 when Sweden’s self-proclaimed ‘first feminist government in the world’ donned hijabs and chadors on a trade visit to Tehran, in order to make themselves fit to be seen by the righteous Muslims of the Islamic Republic. They did this shortly after promising to promote a ‘gender-equality perspective’ internationally and adopt a ‘feminist foreign policy’, while ignoring the appeal by the Persian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad, who had specifically asked European female politicians to defy the hijab demands when visiting Iran. Also in 2017 there was the Washington ‘Women’s March’, which involved the grotesque spectacle of many non-Muslim women voluntarily hijabing-up. We certainly see a massive dose of suicidal empathy among the Islamo-left, from Queers for Palestine – often mocked as Turkeys for Christmas – to Owen Jones. Jones probably thinks that he’s so unique that he could sprout wings and fly if he got thrown off a Gazan roof by the local gay-haters. Do these fools honestly believe that the facts about Hamas hating homosexuals are Israeli propaganda? Or are they so bound up in The Wonder Of Me, so convinced of their exceptionalism, that they are as deluded as that strange girl on TikTok, who mused on how she would be treated if taken hostage by Hamas: ‘They would probably comfort me, make sure I had medical attention, make sure I was doing okay…’ The message is loud, clear and strikingly ignorant. Other women / gays / infidels may get raped and / or murdered, but those big angry men would see me as special. We assume that such people are simply thick, or perhaps suffering from extreme narcissistic exceptionalism. A lot of them are mad at their parents and are acting up or acting out. Is it performative social masochism, in which liberal young white folk seek to outdo each other as if in some silly and sinister sport? Or is this a double bluff – and is it actual masochism, of the kind which provides a sexual thrill? I first thought this back in 2020 when, at the hysterical height of the Black Lives Matter protests, we were treated to the online spectacle of white people – of both sexes, including police officers – kneeling before or kissing the boots of black men. As one wit commented beneath footage of a blond girl doing the latter: ‘I saw it on Pornhub – it gets better!’ The horror of white-on-black slavery might conceivably drive white folk to go too far in their attempts at recompense. But what explains the sight of non-Muslims cheerleading for, gushing over and generally be-clowning themselves vis-ร -vis our Islamic brethren? After all, the Muslim religion is the fastest-growing in the world – there are a whopping 53 Muslim-majority countries. Not only did Islam historically pursue empire-building (and the accompanying slavery), it also continues to do so in some cases. These people are not victims. But perhaps the claim of Muslim victimhood is exactly why a certain kind of mixed-up masochist is drawn to them? This is not a new thing; back in the 1970s, we had well-born white women who couldn’t get enough of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This song-of-the-desert sexual shtick goes right back to Rudolph Valentino’s 1921 film, The Sheik... Then of course there were the Fry’s Turkish Delight TV commercials, featuring tents, veiled women and hot men in turbans – ‘Full of Eastern Promise…’ went the tagline. Sadly, the ads did not survive beyond the 1980s, due to fears of cultural stereotyping. Blame for the demise of these commercials can fairly be laid at the door of two figures: Edward Said with his 1978 book, Orientalism, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, who came up with the idea of ‘othering’ in 1985... Is it beyond the realms of possibility that those women – and gay men – once attracted to the sexual clichรฉ of the sheikh might now be drawn to Islamism because it appeals to them in a less than wholesome manner? We’re not meant to say that things are sex-things now, even things which blatantly are. Cross-dressing. Men wearing huge prosthetic breasts. Dressing up as ‘leather pups’ and being taken out on a lead in public by a cruel-looking ‘owner’. But women write love letters to serial killers, so there’s no telling how murky things can get Down There, as my mum used to call it. If people want to make themselves into doormats for jihadis to wipe their feet on, that’s their business. But when you use the persecution and even killings of others as ammunition for your nasty little thrill, we move into the realms of not suicidal empathy, but of homicidal empathy. The term was originally coined to describe an irrational bias shown by juries towards violent suspects at the expense of a victim or a law enforcer. But we’ve seen it recently in the barely concealed sadistic revelling in anti-Semitism on the part of some of those on the left in this country. In France, where they always go further with these things, a popular song among the rioters and even the schoolchildren involved in the recent clashes has been ‘M*R*H’ by the rapper BORO700. The song, if it can be called that, name-checks the gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed three small Jewish children in 2012, and the Islamist slaughterers at the Bataclan in 2015. Was there ever a sicker contradiction? Sadistically glorying in the killing of others – yet masochistically wallowing in the destruction of one’s own civilisation. ‘Nothing human is alien to me’, said the Roman playwright Terence. Thankfully, some things are alien to those of us with one iota of decency, such as the pathological empathy – both suicidal and homicidal – now spreading like wildfire throughout the cities of the West."

The nonsense around human rights tribunals is even worse than you think | National Post - "When I became the Chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in 2014, I said some things I was not supposed to say. I made the observation that human rights tribunals had a bad reputation. This wasn’t received well. In my first Annual Report to Parliament, I asserted that “Discrimination is not widely accepted in Canada. It is not acceptable to most Canadians to even hear a suggestion of prohibited discrimination, let alone engage in it.” I still believe that remains true today. That’s not to say that no discrimination ever happens, and that is why human rights tribunals should exist. Like maintaining our good health, we need to remain vigilant to keep prohibited discrimination at bay. However, in that same report, I warned that our preservation relied on us making credible decisions. “We have a duty to make decisions that reflect broad Canadian values so that our work continues to be respected and valued.” Human rights tribunals were set up to keep discrimination cases outside of the courts, probably reflecting the idea that these matters were not as serious as criminality. The way the tribunals were originally set up supported the idea that complaints could be heard by a panel of non-lawyers over a few hours, decided upon quickly, and a decision rendered days later. Remedies could include an order to cease prohibited discrimination, pay restitution and perhaps a small penalty for injury to dignity. Now it takes years to get a case through the system. Most provinces have lifted damage limits, and awards in the tens of thousands of dollars for injury to dignity are routinely made. These same administrative tribunals have now been used to put forward class-action style cases resulting in massive awards, including one which led to a settlement negotiated by the government for a total sum of $23.3 billion. There have also been absurd cases, like the transgender woman who filed a complaint after being denied a scrotum waxing at various beauty salons. However, much of the human rights nonsense seldom makes the news. Many frivolous cases are settled at mediation where respondents are faced with paying money to make the complaint go away, or paying much more in legal costs to defend themselves at a hearing. Even if they win their case, they will rarely be able to recover any costs from the complainant. I mediated about 300 cases for the Canadian and B.C. human rights tribunals. At times I felt like an agent of a state-controlled extortion ring, persuading respondents to pay money to settle claims I knew they would never lose at a hearing. I kept track in my 12 years of doing this work. In my opinion, more than half of the complaints had no merit. There are so many cases that have strayed from what I referred to as broad Canadian values. There was the Ontario father who was told that discrimination laws don’t apply to his son because he is white. There have been hate speech cases which have imposed unclear rules about what you can and cannot say. Businesses have been fined tens of thousands of dollars because of pronoun disputes amongst their employees. The most recent controversy comes from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decision in B.C. Teachers Federation v. Neufeld. Barry Neufeld was an elected school trustee and a vocal online critic of the sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum — known as SOGI 123 — being provided to B.C.’s K-12 students since 2017. Neufeld’s online criticism resulted in the tribunal finding him guilty of hate speech and being ordered to pay $750,000 in damages for “injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect” to an entire class of people he didn’t directly work with or even know. Far from being a minor administrative matter designed to stay out of the courts, decisions like Neufeld suggest financial ruin could await anyone offending the Human Rights Code, just for doing something like challenging the accepted narrative on transgender issues. It always occurred to me, how many times do certain politicians need to hear about these types of cases, straying far away from broad Canadian values, before they get to a point where they say, enough is enough? It should not be surprising that recently in British Columbia, an opposition member of the legislature proposed a bill (entitled Human Rights Code Repeal Act) to entirely eliminate the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal and the B.C. Human Rights Commission. The first reading of the bill was supported by the Conservative caucus, including one candidate for leadership for the party. Other leadership candidates have not dared to say out loud that they wish to shut down the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, but their criticism of the Neufeld decision and others is starting to send the message that major reform, if not outright repeal, is on the horizon. Human rights adjudicators have an obligation to be neutral decision-makers, giving as much of a fair hearing to the respondent as the complainant. Their role is not that of an activist who wishes to push the progressive envelope. It is important that ordinary Canadians buy into and value our work. If we push too far, the day will come when the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater and the whole system will get tossed."

Tara Armstrong on X - "The Human Rights Tribunal exists to silence conservative speech and anti-woke opinions. Even its former chair is calling it a “state-controlled extortion ring.” The government shouldn’t be fining its citizens for offensive words. It’s time to abolish the HRT."

Tearing down B.C. Human Rights Tribunal should be only the start - "Luckily, the proposition to abolish the tribunal is not an extreme position. Saskatchewan abolished its human rights tribunal in 2011, placing the majority of case management with its human rights commission and sending cases that could not be settled to the Court of King’s Bench. B.C. has also made major reforms to its human rights regime in the past. In 1983, Premier Bill Bennett abolished the B.C. Human Rights Commission in a slash-and-burn move, part of a massive budget overhaul that found its employees on the streets the very same day. The Free Speech Union has been calling for these tribunals to be abolished for months... Mere weeks ago, the Canadian Constitution Foundation had a recent victory in defence of a realtor targeted by the B.C. Financial Services Authority for social media posts critiquing the closure of Joffre Lakes Provincial Park... A further move to protect the free expression of professionals would be the immediate repeal of Bill 36, the Health Professions and Occupations Act. The act exposes doctors to potential frivolous complaints, with broad prescriptions to mandate the implementation of vague anti-discrimination principles in order to “foster physically, culturally, socially, emotionally and spiritually safe practices.”... Since the 2023-24 school year, students must take mandatory Indigenous classes to get their high school diploma. One of the courses that can be taken to fulfil this requirement is “Indigenous Peoples 12,” in which one of the “Big Ideas” is how “through self-governance, leadership, and self-determination, B.C. First Peoples challenge and resist Canada’s ongoing colonialism.” Or take as another example, “English First Peoples 12,” which aims to teach an understanding that Indigenous “oral histories are valid evidence of ownership of the land within Canadian law.” We may be given a rare chance here to actually undertake transformative change. Let us not continue to teach our children that they live in a genocidal country, or that the biological reality of their sex is something to be questioned. Nine years ago, it was unimaginable that a doctor could be disciplined for refusing to administer an irreversible puberty blocker to a child. It was unthinkable that commenting on the issue could solicit name-calling, social ostracization and perpetual disciplinary action. We need to champion free speech and civil discourse here, and we must call upon a prospective B.C. Conservative government to make doing so a priority."

David Coletto on X - "NEW POLL: One in three Canadians says a strong leader who does not have to bother with Parliament and elections could be a good way to govern. Among Canadians under 30, that rises to 47%. The divide over democracy is increasingly generational."
Jason Kenney ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ on X - "This attitude, together with the declining attachment to Canada amongst Gen Z, is partly the result of shredding Canadian history and civics in our school curricula. How many of these young people who prefer a strong-man republic could write a paragraph accurately describing our constitutional monarchy rooted in the Westminster Parliamentary tradition? How many of them have been taught the fascinating story of the organic development of Parliamentary government over eight centuries? How many of them have been taught to be proud of having inherited one of the most stable, democratic systems of government in the world? A system that created the concept of the rule of law through the Magna Carta, the Common Law, habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious liberty, the abolition of slavery, etc.. How many of them have been taught anything memorable about the fight for responsible government in Canada, and how it is embodied in our Parliamentary institutions? Or the division of powers in our federal system? How many of them know that Canada is the fourth oldest continuous democratic state on Earth? Not only have they been denied this basic civic literacy that is a requisite for responsible citizenship, but they have been denied access to the poetry of patriotism: the old stories and heroes (including ordinary heroes like the voyageurs and pioneers,) that formed and transmitted pride in Canada for generations. Instead they are more likely to have been taught that Canada is a genocidal white settler society built on stolen land; that our British and French roots and institutions are the regrettable vestiges of Eurocentric colonialism; that our founders were nasty racists; and that we continue to be characterized by systemic racism. So is it any wonder that rather than embracing the customs and institutions that made Canada one of the most successful nations on Earth, the emerging generation prefers a strongman? This is the rotten fruit of the Canadian educational establishment having been dominated by Gramscians pumped out by OISE and adjacent institutions for decades."

Daniel Foubert ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น on X (Translated) - "YOUNG PEOPLE ARE PATHOLOGY.
1. We’ve produced a generation of people who have access to the entirety of human knowledge in their pocket, yet know absolutely nothing at the same time. They don’t know history, geography, economics, or their own country, but they have an opinion on EVERY topic. Back in the day, to be an ignoramus, you at least had to lack access to books. Today, ignorance requires active effort.
2. They don’t control their own emotions. Everything is “toxic,” “traumatic,” “problematic,” or “triggering.” Criticism becomes an attack. Discomfort becomes suffering. Failure becomes trauma. Instead of teaching a person to cope with reality, we’ve taught them to develop ever more sophisticated vocabulary for describing why reality should adapt to them.
3. They also can’t appreciate what they have. They live in one of the safest and richest periods in history, surrounded by technology their great-grandparents couldn’t even have dreamed of, yet they act as if they’ve been exiled to a salt mine in the 14th century. Warm housing, a full fridge, a smartphone, vacations, streaming, food delivery to the door—and a permanent sense of grievance.
4. They’re poorly raised. Not because they don’t know which fork to use for fish. Worse: they don’t understand that public space belongs to other people too. Blasting speakers on the bus, scootering through crowds of pedestrians, phone calls at the dinner table, screaming in public places. The world is a stage, they’re the main characters, and the rest of society needs to get out of the frame.
5. They can’t wait. They can’t be bored. They can’t sit for five minutes without stimulation. The phone has to be checked during meals, conversations, walks, work, and probably someday their own funeral. The generation with the greatest access to information in history has trained itself to have the attention span of a goldfish on amphetamines.
6. They can’t fix anything. They can’t build anything. Some can’t even cook five normal dinners, sew on a button, unclog a drain, or organize their own day without an app. But they know perfectly well how the entire society should be reorganized.
7. They have no patience for competence. They want results without practice, positions without hierarchy, money without experience, and authority without achievements. If someone’s been doing something for twenty years, they’re not an expert. They’re a “gatekeeper.”
8. They don’t understand money. Subscription here, delivery there, coffee for 25 zล‚, phone on installments, five apps deducting money from the account every month—and then the great economic discovery: YOU CAN’T SAVE.
9. They have no relationship to the past, because for them, the past starts roughly around 2016. Everything before that is either incomprehensible or morally suspect. A person without historical memory looks at institutions that have existed for centuries and, after fifteen seconds of reflection, declares that they’ve just figured out how to fix them.
10. They don’t even live in the same reality. The algorithm gives everyone their own private universe, private facts, private authorities, private outrage, and a private epidemic of a problem that a normal person has never even heard of. Then they log off the internet and are surprised that society didn’t read the same feed.
The most impressive thing, however, is the combination of all these traits. Never before has a human been able to know so little, be able to do so little, control themselves so poorly, and yet possess such unshakable conviction that it’s precisely HE who should be lecturing all previous generations of people on how the world should have been arranged."

Darya Safai MP on X (Translated) - "The Quran was sung during the opening of the academic year at the Catholic University of Leuven, a university with centuries-old roots in the Catholic tradition. They call this inclusivity. I call it cultural self-denial. The Quran is, for Muslims, the word of Allah. And in that same Quran are verses that prescribe or legitimize violence against unbelievers. That alone makes it outright problematic to use such texts as an intellectual or cultural opening for an academic ceremony, as if it were a universal symbol of tolerance. A university should not present religious texts uncritically as a symbol of inclusivity when parts of them directly clash with the principles of individual freedom, equality, and human rights. And no, the Catholic University of Leuven does not need to be "neutral." It is a Catholic university. It may be Catholic. It may express its Christian identity. There is nothing wrong with that. What *is* shameful is that a university with such a centuries-old Christian history seems to increasingly relativize its own identity and then puts forward the Quran as a sign of inclusivity. Europe has a Christian cultural heritage. We don't need to hide it away to be inclusive. Tolerance does not mean you have to accept everything uncritically. Inclusivity does not mean you have to erase your own identity. And respect for other religions does not mean you have to stay silent about ideas that fundamentally clash with our values. Those who constantly relativize their own culture create space for others to change it. This is not progress. This is cultural self-denial. @KU_Leuven"
Time to ban the Bible to prevent Theocracy

Will Tanner on X - "Never forget: Detroit was once known as the Paris of the Midwest. It was, per capita, the wealthiest city in America. It had thriving industry controlled by those who cared about and loved their city, and so they invested in it in incredible public buildings, such as the famously beautiful library. The workers had their neighborhoods in which they invested over generations, building social capital of the sort that makes life pleasant and worth living. And then it was destroyed. The Civil Rights Cultural Revolution brought with it out-of-control crime, rioting, and resultant white flight and blockbusting that ruined all of that. The neighborhoods and their social capital were wrecked, the factories left devoid of good men at the same time as union intransigence bit and globalization proved a siren song, and civilization collapsed. Now Detroit is a byword for dysfunction. The wages of equality are death"

The Decline of American Soft Power - "toxic identity politics trends, which have grown in the last few years, could cause the country’s soft power projection to take a major dive in the long-term... American success was so great that many foreign nations have gone to great lengths to emulate it. Over the last 70 years, countless countries have made genuine attempts to become liberal democracies, embrace capitalism, and join multinational institutions that the US is at the helm of. Most of this transition did not occur through military power or raw coercion. The very concept of the American dream—the belief that anyone can achieve a high level of success in a society that rewards hard work irrespective of a person’s social status—became an inspiration for millions of people around the world, who would make harsh journeys in hopes of attaining a lifestyle that could not be obtained elsewhere. Victorian-era Prime Minister William Gladstone said it best that “good government at home” is the first principle of a sound foreign policy. What has traditionally made countries like the US become powerful juggernauts on the world stage is a stable foundation at home. From a powerful economic base that allowed it to build a robust military machine to a stable federalist system that facilitated unprecedented jurisdictional competition, the US became the envy of the world by the middle of the 20th century up until the present... The growing embrace of wokism and other diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives presents a unique threat to the US both domestically and internationally. At its core, DEI is raw cronyism pure and simple. It’s all about rewarding jobs and benefits to people based on tribal grounds, with no consideration of merit. A country that wants to maintain its superpower status must be firing on all cylinders. When cronyism is embraced on a mass scale in both the private and public spheres, stagnation and decay begin to ensue. Moreover, the constant obsession about people’s race, gender, and lifestyle habits is not a sign of a healthy society. This type of internal tension will inevitably bleed into other facets of American public policy that foreign onlookers will be observing with interest, if not outright horror. In recent years, we’ve already seen some of America’s social ills gradually exported to foreign countries. For example, Japan saw its fair share of BLM protests in the summer of 2020. A bizarre scene to say the least for a homogenous country with no history of participating in the African slave trade. In France, a country that is no bastion of right-wing politics, political leaders have come out against the spread of wokism in various institutions. French President Emmanuel Macron lamented the penetration of American-style identity politics into France. In a similar vein, French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer had choice words about wokism and the toxic influence it has had on French institutions. Even the US's most ideologically aligned allies have limits when it comes to embracing its most controversial cultural trends. US foreign policy has turned increasingly ornery, as numerous diplomats have used their positions to lecture other countries about their social inadequacies as opposed to working with them in a constructive manner... most foreign nations want to deal with a normal country that’s not going to lecture them about racial justice or export its pathologies abroad. Instead, they want to do business or cooperate in practical matters concerning defense. Rival countries may also use unrest and constant bouts of social instability for propagandistic purposes and portray the US as a hub of instability."

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