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Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Links - 11th November 2026 (General Wokeness)

Basil the Great on X - "🚨NEWS: 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-à-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 cliché 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 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 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 🇵🇱🇱🇹 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 zł, 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."

Title IX and Trans Students / MTFs Listening to Women Pee

This was deleted by iFunny:


U.S. Department of Education @usedgov: "Fixed it for you."
"Education Department formally rescinds restores Title IX protections for LGBTQ students women"
The Hill @thehill: "Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students"

Uploading this pre-emptively as trans-related photos get blocked more (and at the time of post preparation I was still banned anyway):


Sarah @TheSarahThe: "Oh, please. Sitting in the stall listening to women pee because it's hot does NOT MEAN I'm a predator. FFS"
"Oh my god, I would NEVER rape someone [Ed: ?] Jesus Christ. I just like listening to them pee."
"I do like listening to women pee, though. For reals. It is so hot. Like SO hot. OMG"

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Links - 10th November 2026 (2 - University Majors)

Thread by @C_Harwick on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Even in school the math students tended to know more about the humanities than the humanities students."
"I believe this because based on assessments at my university, knowledge in every field has the same rank-order by major.  Finance students know the most, in every business field. Marketing students know the least in every field, including marketing.
This also seems like strong firsthand evidence of a signaling over a human capital theory of education. Interesting deep-dive into stratification by major. Apparently psych wasn't always the throwaway major.

Crémieux on X - "When it comes to cognitive tests, something like this is (almost) true! Let's look at some examples, old and new.  First, let's go back in time, to the long-forgotten year of 1952. Or really, 1946, since that's the year the sample was gathered in.  Wolfle & Oxtoby published an enlightening study on the distribution of ability of students specializing in different fields. Wolfle & Oxtoby gathered this data for the Commission on Human Resources and Advanced Training, since it was a topic of considerable interest at the time whether and how people who picked different majors differed in their abilities.  Let's take a look at their results:  You can see that, on top, there's a broad physical sciences category, followed by chemistry, then engineering. But then we have what some today might consider a shocker: psychology?!  Yes, in the past, psychology was a "smart" major. Psychology then was more biophysics: it was more generally focused on measurement and understanding the mind through things like reaction times and law-like behaviors, and it was far less "social". The field has changed. Nowadays, it's often a washout field. Consider the result reached by Yu, Kuncel & Sackett in 2020.   With a longitudinal sample that included nearly a million students at 249 colleges and universities, they observed that most students who majored in psychology didn't initially express an interest in the field. Instead, people who majored in psychology were often people with poor performance in some other area who then transferred into psychology from another major—and in particular, from STEM courses.  Now, contrarily, a considerable number of students who did initially express an interest in psychology filtered out of the discipline. These students were often higher-performers:   "Students with poorer performance in college often transfer into psychology from majors that may be perceived as difficult (e.g., science, technology, engineering, and math), whereas higher-performing students appear to leave psychology for these same majors, which may also be perceived as more lucrative."  But I digress. We're supposed to be talking intelligence-by-major, not how some majors end up with lower or higher levels of measured intelligence.   In Wolfle & Oxtoby's study, the physical sciences were above engineering were above humanities were above the biological sciences were above the social sciences were above business were above agriculture were above education.  Among 38,420 American college seniors assessed between 1951 and 1967, the order was the same using the Selective Service College Qualification Test:  In the Project Talent study, we observe a pretty similar pattern of differences:  In this diagram, verbal, spatial, and mathematical test results are given by the initials V, S, and M.   Engineers, physical scientists, mathematicians, and computer scientists performed admirably; humanities students performed much worse when it came to intelligence (general ability), and they managed to perform comparably or a bit better in verbal skills. Education majors did very badly. Also take notice of how the V, S, and M means relate differently in the smartest groups.   But the Project Talent sample was gathered from 440,000 American high schoolers in 1960. We need more recent data! Using the GRE between 2002 and 2005, we get the same result!  Average GRE mathematics and verbal scores were
- 594 for engineers
- 592 for physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists
- 561 for biological scientists
- 560 for the humanities
- 537 for artists
- 526 for social scientists
- 517 for business majors
- 492 for educators
The gaps between major categories grew considerably over time, as university educations in general became more selective while the content required to earn these majors didn't really drift, so selection among them became far more intense. Just look at the jumps between the hard majors (engineering, physics, mathematics, etc.), biology, and then the arts/social sciences/business, and finally, education.  Even more recently ,we have SAT mathematics and verbal results by intended major from 2014. The results are similar:  There's a consistent patterning of majors, with some changes over the past few decades that mostly have to do with gap sizes rather than ranks. Overall, the smartest kids are going into exactly the majors you'd intuitively think they would: the hard sciences and other financially lucrative majors.  I don't think this reality escapes anyone. People who are honest recognize that those in the "hard" subjects seem to be more capable in general than the people in easier subjects. But anyone looking at this clearly also recognizes this is down to selection that makes total sense for a market society. In fact, this may relate to another phenomenon people often find fascinating: the Flynn effect!  In a recent publication, Hermo et al. used Swedish administrative data and, using exams taken at military enlistment (there's a draft) and earnings records from the tax register, the relative returns to logical reasoning skills were observed to increase over time. The returns to logical reasoning skills increased relative to vocabulary knowledge. In Sweden, it's become more valuable to be better at logical reasoning than vocabulary, directly favoring smart people moving into STEM majors if they're motivated by money, as basically everyone is.  The changes in returns in this data were actually capable of explaining 37% of the measured increase in reasoning scores, as well as a concomitant decline in vocabulary knowledge. There was even evidence that parents and teachers responded to the labor market and placed greater emphasis on logical reasoning relative to vocabulary knowledge.  Let's imagine the cognitive abilities of teachers relate to the quality of their teaching and the impacts they can have on students. Places like Singapore and Finland seem to hold to this belief: they exclusively recruit teachers from the top 30% and 20% of test scorers, respectively. South Korea is even more extreme, recruiting only the top 5%! If these countries are right to do what they do (and the jury is out), the fact that the labor market strongly disincentivizes being a teacher could be a problem, not a source of mere fascination."

The End of the English Major | The New Yorker - "The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight. Records indicate that the number of graduated language and literature majors decreased by roughly half, as did the number of history majors. Women’s studies lost eighty per cent... For decades now, the cost of education has increased over all ahead of inflation. One theory has been that this pressure, plus the growing precariousness of the middle class, has played a role in driving students like him toward hard-skill majors. (English majors, on average, carry less debt than students in other fields, but they take longer to pay it down.)  For the decline at A.S.U. is not anomalous... During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. Humanities enrollment in the United States has declined over all by seventeen per cent, Townsend found. What’s going on? The trend mirrors a global one; four-fifths of countries in the Organization for Economic Coöperation reported falling humanities enrollments in the past decade... For decades, the average proportion of humanities students in every class hovered around fifteen per cent nationally, following the American economy up in boom times and down in bearish periods... Enrollment numbers of the past decade defy these trends, however. When the economy has looked up, humanities enrollments have continued falling. When the markets have wobbled, enrollments have tumbled even more. Today, the roller coaster is in free fall.
There're hints in the article of how the left's long march through the institutions and corruption of the humanities (e.g. Black artists, the canon and clay pigeons) could also be to blame, but this idea isn't really explored

Major Marriage Metrics: How Your Major Affects Your Marriage Rate - "If getting married sooner is your goal, aside from finding the right partner, consider majoring in education, boosting your income, and being a woman, as these factors have shown strong correlations with marriage rates."

The top 10 most-regretted college majors - "Journalism 87%
Sociology 72%
Liberal arts/general studies 72%
Communications 64%
Education 61%
Marketing management + research 60%
Medical/clinical assisting 58%
Political science + government 56%
Biology 52%
English language + literature 52%"

Philosophy Majors Beat Every Other Major On Critical Thinking Tests - "Prinzing and Vazquez compared how students performed when they entered college versus when they graduated, adjusting for differences in ability at the start.  The idea is simple: if philosophy students only looked better because they were already stronger thinkers, then accounting for those initial advantages should make them look ordinary. But if philosophy education itself provides benefits, philosophy majors should continue outperforming their peers even after those adjustments...   Students with stronger verbal abilities and greater intellectual curiosity were indeed more likely to major in philosophy, confirming that self-selection plays a role. A one standard deviation increase in SAT verbal scores corresponded to 57% greater odds of choosing philosophy as a major.  But even after adjusting for these baseline differences, philosophy majors still significantly outperformed students in other disciplines...   Philosophy majors also reported stronger intellectual habits during their senior year — such as curiosity, intellectual rigor, and open-mindedness — than non-philosophy majors, even after accounting for differences measured at the freshman year baseline.  When researchers ranked all 57 academic majors (with at least 200 students each) on five different measures, philosophy claimed the top spot on three: GRE verbal, LSAT, and intellectual habits. On open-mindedness, philosophy ranked sixth. On GRE quantitative reasoning, philosophy ranked 30th.  Mathematics and statistics majors dominated quantitative reasoning, but for skills involving language, logic, and habits of critical thought, philosophy was unmatched."
It's telling that TRAs are so upset at how "transphobic" philosophy is - it's harder to gaslight philosophers. Philosophy is also allegedly unwelcoming to women, but that may be a good thing.
The paper shows how people with different majors perform on the dimensions of LSAT, GRE Verbal, GRE Quantitative, Habits of Mind and Pluralistic Orientation

Are Recent College Graduates Finding Good Jobs? - "we find that recent graduates are increasingly working in low-wage jobs or working part-time... recent research has shown that graduating with a math or science major is more difficult than pursuing other fields of study... We characterize the labor market situation for recent college graduates by looking at three possible labor market outcomes for each graduate: unemployed, employed in a job where a bachelor’s degree is required, and employed in a job where a bachelor’s degree is not required. We then identify the share of recent college graduates in each of the thirteen majors that has experienced each of these outcomes (Chart 7). We find that unemployment rates across majors range from 3 percent to 8 percent. The two majors with the lowest unemployment rates are health majors, at 3 percent, and education majors, at just under 4 percent. Relatively low unemployment rates for these majors likely reflect the stability of the education and health sectors, which grew before, during, and after the Great Recession and thus have tended to provide a growing number of jobs during this period. At the other end of the spectrum, the unemployment rate for architecture and construction majors was 8 percent—a finding consistent with the lack of jobs in housing-related sectors of the economy following the housing bust. Liberal arts and social sciences majors also tended to have relatively high unemployment rates, at 7 to 8 percent. Chart 7 also identifies the share of recent college gradu- ates working in jobs where a bachelor’s degree is required and the share working in jobs where a bachelor’s degree is not required. For example, 75 percent of those with an engineering degree worked in a job that required a college degree. We find that majors providing technical training—that is, training that focuses on quantitative and analytical skills—had the highest shares of graduates working in jobs that require a degree; engi- neering and math and computers majors are cases in point. In addition, education and health majors also had high shares of workers employed in jobs that require a college degree, again likely reflecting the growth of these sectors in recent years. At the other end of the spectrum, leisure and hospitality was the major with the lowest share of graduates working in a job that required a degree. Although degree holders with this major experienced relatively low unemployment, only 33 percent were working in jobs that required a bachelor’s degree, while 63 percent worked in jobs that did not require this degree. It is likely that many of the jobs such graduates took were in the leisure and hospitality industry, and these jobs often do not require a bachelor’s degree. Similarly, only 38 percent of recent graduates with a technologies major— which provides practical training in fields such as electrical and mechanical repairs, radiology, and biological technolo- gies—were working in a job that required a bachelor’s degree. This finding may stem in part from the fact that many of the jobs for people with this type of training often require only an associate’s degree. In addition, many of the majors that provide general training—that is, training that is not occupation- specific or highly technical in nature—also ranked relatively low on this dimension. In particular, only 40 to 45 percent of recent college graduates majoring in communications, liberal arts, business, and social sciences were working in jobs that required a degree... An important caveat about this interpretation is that the links we show between college major, unemployment, and underemployment are not necessarily causal. That is, the data may in part reflect the fact that people can sort into majors based on their skill level, such that those with higher innate skills and abilities select majors that tend to have better labor market outcomes."

Meme - i/o @rational_wiki: "Unsurprisingly, conservativism is associated with majors that tend to be more practical, potentially lucrative, and are less subjective and idealistic than those associated with liberalism."
"Figure 4: Effects of College Majors on Political Ideology"

The toolbelt generation: Why teens are losing faith in college - "Junior Achievement and Citizen polled 1,000 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in July.  Roughly half, or 49%, believe a high school degree, trade program, two-year degree or other type of enrichment program is the highest level of education needed for their anticipated career path.  Even more, 56%, believe that real world and on-the-job experience is more beneficial than obtaining a higher education degree... Now, 86% of U.S. workers with education debt said their degree wasn’t worth the toll that student loans has had on their overall well-being. Further, 53% of workers said that knowing they would incur additional debt has prevented them from pursuing more education... Over 2012 to 2021, the number of registered apprentices rose 64%, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor, especially in industries such as construction, public administration and education.  From 2022 to 2023, alone, enrollment in vocational programs jumped 16%, the National Student Clearinghouse found.  A shortage of skilled tradespeople, due to experienced workers aging out of the field, is also boosting the number of job opportunities and pay... Federal data also shows that trade school students are more likely to be employed after school than their degree-seeking counterparts — and much more likely to work in a job related to their field of study."

Busting Bernie's BS

Bernie Sanders on X

We're told progressive ideas are "fringe." Really?

59% want Medicare for All
57% want a $20 minimum wage
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
63% want to pause AI development
66% want the wealthy to pay more into Social Security

Maybe it's the establishment that's out of touch. 

mike bski on X

Bernie.

A list of percentages is not a lesson plan.

I read your post. Then I read it again. Then I did what I do every single time a student hands me a lab report full of numbers: I looked for the source.

There isn't one.

No pollster. No date. No sample size. No margin of error. No question wording. Just five percentages floating in space like dust in a sunbeam, and a guy behind a desk telling us the "establishment" is out of touch. Senator, if one of my sophomores turned this in, I'd hand it back with one word written across the top in red: CITATION.

You're a weather report with no weather. A recipe with no ingredients. A lab report with a conclusion and no lab.

And before anything else, I have to talk about the poster.

Behind you, in your video, there's a red poster with a raised fist and the words "For the Many, Not the Few." Bernie, do you know where that slogan comes from? That was Jeremy Corbyn's campaign slogan for the British Labour Party in 2017. Corbyn ran on the exact same playbook you're running on right now. Nationalize this. Tax that. Free everything for everybody.

And then in 2019, British voters handed Labour its worst defeat since 1935.

So you hung the losing team's jersey on your wall and filmed a five-minute video in front of it about how popular your ideas are. That's like a guy giving a lecture on how to win at poker while sitting in front of a framed photo of his own repossessed truck. Bernie, your set decorator hates you.

Now. Let's talk about your polls.

"59% want Medicare for All."

Sure, Bernie. Ask people if they want free health care, and a lot of them say yes. Ask people if they want a free puppy, and you'll get the same kind of number. Then ask the follow-up question. The one you always leave out.

Back when the Kaiser Family Foundation polled this, support for Medicare for All was in the mid-50s. Then they told people it would eliminate private health insurance. Support dropped into the 30s. Then they told people it would require higher taxes. Support dropped into the 30s again. The second people heard what it actually COSTS them, the majority evaporated like a puddle in July.

That's not public opinion, Bernie. That's a sugar high. Everybody loves the cake until somebody hands them the bill for the bakery.

And here's my favorite part. If 59 percent of Americans want Medicare for All, why couldn't your own party pass it?

What's next, Democrats running the House, the Senate, AND the White House with a golden chance to pass Medicare for All... wait. I'm being told that happened in 2021 and 2022. It never even got a vote. Kamala Harris co-sponsored your Medicare for All bill back in 2019, then spent her 2024 campaign running away from it like it was on fire. Bernie, if your "popular" idea is so popular, why do the people in your own party treat it like a live grenade the second they have to put their names on a ballot?

You're a salesman bragging about how much everybody loves the free sample, while nobody ever buys the product.

"57% want a $20 minimum wage."

This one makes me mad, Bernie. Genuinely mad. Because I teach the kids this hurts.

Sixteen years old. Seventeen. No diploma yet. Nothing on the resume. Some of them have never lived in a house where an adult had a steady job. What they need more than anything in the world is a FIRST job. One manager willing to take a chance on them. One summer of showing up on time and learning how to deal with a cranky customer without quitting.

When the Congressional Budget Office looked at a $15 minimum wage back in 2019, it estimated about 1.3 million people would lose their jobs, and possibly as many as 3.7 million. Fifteen dollars. You want twenty.

Ask people "Do you want workers to make more money?" and of course they say yes. I say yes! Now ask them "Do you want 1.3 million fewer jobs, mostly for teenagers and people without a diploma?" Watch that 57 percent shrink faster than a cheap sweater in a hot dryer.

You're not raising that kid's wage, Bernie. You're locking the front door and hanging a sign on it that says "fairness." And then you're flying home on a chartered jet feeling good about yourself while my student sits on the curb wondering why nobody will hire him.

Quinn's Law Number Twenty-Four: every time a liberal tries to fix something, somebody somewhere loses their job. With your $20 minimum wage, that somebody is seventeen years old and sitting in the second row of my classroom.

"61% want a billionaire wealth tax."

Of course they do. It's a tax on somebody else. Ask 100 people if they want somebody ELSE to pay more, and you'll get a landslide every time. I could get 61 percent of people to vote for a tax on left-handed accordion players.

And we already know how wealth taxes end, because Europe ran the experiment. France had one, and money and wealthy people left in such numbers that Macron scrapped most of it in 2018. Sweden dumped theirs. Germany stopped collecting theirs. Norway's still got one, and wealthy Norwegians have been packing up for Switzerland. Your idea has been tried, Bernie. It has a return label on it in four languages.

"63% want to pause AI development."

Bernie, you posted that video on a phone, through a cell tower, onto servers in a data center, with captions running across the bottom of the screen that were very likely made with the same kind of technology you want to pause. You're using the internet to tell everybody the internet is too dangerous. That's like a guy driving to a rally to protest cars.

And while you "pause," China doesn't. China is building computing hubs as fast as they can pour concrete. Pausing AI in America doesn't stop AI. It just changes who's in charge of it. You're asking America to sit out the race and call it safety.

"66% want the wealthy to pay more into Social Security."

Okay, Bernie, let's talk about Social Security, since your party has been in charge of "protecting" it for my entire life.

The government's own Social Security trustees have been warning for years that the trust fund is headed for a cliff in the early 2030s, when benefits could get cut across the board if Congress does nothing. You've been in Congress since 1991. Thirty-five years. You've had decades to fix it. You've had a Democratic president, a Democratic House, and a Democratic Senate at the same time. And what did you do? Gave speeches. Wrote books. Posted polls.

That's not protecting Social Security, Bernie. That's standing on the dock waving at the Titanic.

Now. Let me name what you actually did in this post, because I teach this too.

It's called an appeal to popularity. Latin name, argumentum ad populum. "Lots of people believe it, so it must be right." It's one of the oldest fallacies in the book.

Do you know what else was popular once? Prohibition. So popular they put it in the Constitution. Fourteen years later they had to rip it back out because it was a disaster. Majorities have been wrong before, Bernie. Many, many times.

And that's exactly why the Founders built a constitutional republic, not a democracy. James Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 about majorities using their numbers to take the property of everybody else. He had a word for it. He called it a "wicked project." The Founders put up guardrails so that a poll, or a mob, or a mood, couldn't just vote away somebody else's paycheck because 61 percent of a survey thought it sounded nice.

The Constitution doesn't say "unless Bernie has a poll."

And let me show you how polls work, Senator. If I polled my classroom tomorrow, I already know exactly what I'd get:

100% of my students want no homework. 97% want pizza every Friday. 94% want school to start at 10 AM. 89% want their phones back during tests. And 100% want a "fair" grading system where my A students donate some of their points to the kids who skipped half the semester.
By your logic, Bernie, I'm "out of touch" for still giving a final exam.
That's Quinn's Law Number Nine: to a liberal, intentions are more significant than outcomes. The intention is "everybody gets free stuff." The outcome is a country that runs out of other people's money. Every poll in your post is the intention. Every single one leaves out the outcome.
And "maybe it's the establishment that's out of touch."
Bernie. Who do you think the establishment IS?

You've been in Congress since 1991. You've been in Washington longer than half the people reading this have been alive. You've had a Senate parking spot since before smartphones existed. You chaired the Budget Committee. You ARE the establishment, Senator. You're the furniture. You're the carpet. You're the slightly yellowed ceiling tile in the corner that nobody's replaced since the Clinton administration. You just keep talking like an outsider so nobody notices.

And the "fringe" label? Bernie, Republicans aren't the ones calling your ideas fringe. Your own party is. The Democrats who ran from Medicare for All. The ones who stripped the minimum wage out of the COVID bill. The ones who cleared the field for Hillary in 2016 and for Biden in 2020 and left you standing in the rain both times. You're not mad at the establishment, Bernie. You're mad at your own party, and you're taking it out on the rest of us.

So here's my standing offer, Senator, because I make it every time and you never take it. I keep hearing Democrats demand that "the wealthy pay more" while they ARE the wealthy. Three houses. $221,000 on chartered jets in one quarter of 2025. Millions in book money. So go first. File with the standard deduction only. No itemizing. Pay DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe. Post the return. Then, and only then, tell me what 66 percent of a poll thinks rich people should pay.

Quinn's Law Number Twenty-Five: liberals are great at giving away other people's money. Never their own.

You know what you are, Bernie? You're a carnival barker standing in front of a ride that's been shut down for safety violations, yelling about how much everybody loves roller coasters.

You're a toddler with a calculator. Lots of buttons pushed. No idea what any of the numbers mean.

You've got the economic instincts of a raccoon at a buffet. Grab everything, worry about who's paying later, and leave a mess for somebody else to clean up.

Your arguments are like a screen door in a hurricane. Lots of flapping. Zero protection.

You're a one-trick pony, and the trick is complaining.

You're so far behind the times, Senator, you think "streaming" is something that happens to a creek.

And if brains were taxed, Bernie, you'd finally be getting the refund you've always wanted.

But what do I know? I'm only a physics teacher who makes teenagers cite their sources, label their units, and finish the experiment before they announce the result, which is apparently three more steps than a 35-year senator takes before he hits post. 

 

 

Left wingers keep demanding more and more social spending, pretending that with just a bit more utopia will come. Luckily for them, most people have a short memory and are also taken in by simplistic left wing logic, so whenever they get what they demand, they just demand even more.

Links - 10th November 2026 (1 - Canadian Politics)

TOWN TALK (Aurora, ON) | Facebook - "Does no one else see the irony?  Not posting it here…edited….posted below as per someone’s request (end of edit) but the mayor’s lengthy post today that starts out by saying how residents are tired of the online personal attacks. Then the remainder of his post…is a personal attack on a candidate referring back to something from 16 years ago. You can’t make this stuff up."
On Tom Mrakas

Deputy mayor’s pals given huge DEI payday by city hall | Toronto Sun - "Toronto city hall has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to a DEI consulting firm with long, personal ties to both Olivia Chow’s most trusted staffer and one of her deputy mayors... Contracts, invoices and other documents, some obtained via freedom of information and some publicly available, show more than $500,000 in taxpayer money has been paid to Monumental Projects Inc. since 2022.  In the fall of that year, Ausma Malik was elected the councillor for Spadina-Fort York. Malik has personal relationships going back years with Monumental’s founders, Zahra Ebrahim and Kofi Hope.  Ebrahim and Hope are also listed as founding advisers by the political organization Progress Toronto. Despite that, Progress Toronto founder Michal Hay appears to have personally signed a Monumental Projects expense on behalf of Chow, while serving as chief of staff to the mayor in 2023. In a series of statements, city hall confirmed its contracts with Monumental “on two separate projects” in 2022, but did not acknowledge invoices dated from 2023 to 2025, when Chow and Malik were in power... Monumental defended its work but did not address questions about the founders’ ties to Malik and Chow... Representatives for Chow did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Progress Toronto.  Monumental was paid for DEI-related consulting work, including training, speaking and public engagement, involving a range of departments at city hall, from the parks division to housing and planning all the way to the mayor’s office.  Many of the contracts and invoices were provided to the Sun by the political advocacy group Integrity TO, which obtained them in a pair of freedom-of-information requests. That group was founded by Daniel Tate, a vocal critic of Chow and her allies on city council, who is running for council in a downtown ward next to Malik’s. One request contained two six-figure Monumental contracts, one of them a sole-source deal.  The sole-source contract was for the planning department, with a listed delivery date of April 2023, totalling $107,563. Monumental was tasked with revising the city’s “equity tool with a gender-specific lens to support and reinforce work on the making space tool kit.”... Another contract, dating from March 2022, was for $124,116.67. That bought five months of “public engagement services for the City of Toronto’s recognition review for the economic development and culture division,” with two options to renew for one month. Article content  Part of that so-called recognition review was city hall’s maligned initiative to rename public assets bearing the name of Henry Dundas. A list of invoices makes that plain, saying Monumental’s contract was for a “City of Toronto naming project.”... A search of the city’s bids portal found only one publicly posted contract won by Monumental: a 2022 public engagement deal for $121,970, which was the initial estimate for its naming project work. It’s unclear how many other deals were put through competitive processes and how many were simply offered to Monumental. It’s also possible that the records obtained by the Sun may account for individual payments more than once, given they come from an array of sources, or that other payments are unaccounted for. The Sun asked for definitive totals for payments to Monumental, both since its 2020 founding and since Malik won election in 2022, but city hall ignored that request. Article content  Whatever conflict-of-interest rules were followed, Ebrahim did publicly endorse Chow for mayor in 2023 and, just recently, Malik for re-election in Spadina-Fort York.  Malik’s ties to the Monumental founders go back far before her time in politics. A Toronto Star article from 2017 said she had met Hope “more than a decade” before that year, while fighting police policies in the wake of the Summer of the Gun."
This is why left wingers push DEI so much

Op-Ed: Progress Toronto is not progressive in the slightest - "I could have given him an earful about Mayor Olivia Chow’s puppeteers, whose main mission has been to get rid of conservatives on council by endorsing like-minded candidates and putting out mean-spirited attack literature and online propaganda that spreads untruths about candidates who might expose their radical agenda.  They have been on the scene since 2018 — created by activist Michal Hay, who later became Chow’s chief of staff.  They were largely responsible for putting Chow in office in the 2023 by-election, along with the progressive wing of council, such as Ausma Malik (I call them the Hamas caucus).  Progress Toronto is, in many ways, all that’s wrong with the city and its decline.  They claim to subsist on donations, but it’s dubious.  They targeted my former Toronto Sun colleague Anthony Furey with hate literature alleging he was far right and racist when he ran for council in Don Valley West in 2024.  The executive director, Saman Tabasinejad, subsequently gloated about it in a missive to its followers.  If we needed any proof of their mission to promote a radical left agenda, their 37-question survey to pick what they call “Progressive Champions” is indeed revealing.  They ask potential recruits to support throwing more money at Indigenous in Toronto, a mere .08% of the population. They push all kinds of protections for tenants, good or bad, and ask would-be candidates to vote to prevent ‘renovictions’ and do “everything in their power” to prop up affordable housing and create more expensive shelter spaces.  The Progress Toronto questionnaire asks that their recruits support the use of social workers instead of police in violent situations and overdoses on the TTC or on the city’s streets (a ridiculous concept!).  Not surprisingly, their recruits are asked to vote against any bylaw that restricts the “constitutional freedom” of Torontonians to protest (of course they’d be happy to let the terrorist sympathizers occupy our streets with impunity). They make it clear they want to hike the vacant home tax to 5% from 3% of the assessed value, bring outsourced services back in-house and expand safe injection services.  The Progress Toronto questionnaire makes their anti-policing, pro-chaos agenda very clear: Spend with impunity on social programs, eschew policies that improve law and order, protect drug addicts and violent protesters.  Mazri said when he filled out the questionnaire, it became very clear that they are an “ideological group” that wants candidates “they can steer.”  He said his mission is to focus on accountability, lowering property taxes and doing what’s right for his community — not serving a special interest group’s agenda.  ”They endorsed my opponent because they know (she Ala’a Adib) can be managed… they knew they couldn’t control me,” he said.  ”I refuse to be anyone’s puppet.”  Sadly, their puppet Olivia Chow has done just about everything they’d hoped she’d do and, in the process, has contributed to the city’s decline. With Brad Bradford gaining in the polls, Progress Toronto and its activist recruits have tried to fling as much dirt as they can before election day"

Duncan Dee 🇮🇱🇺🇦 on X - "Brad Bradford wants to be mayor for all Torontonians. He aims to fix transit, improve housing, and keep residents safe.  Olivia Chow wants to use the mayor’s office to engage in global conflicts and foreign affairs (a federal matter), divide Torontonians (a moral matter), and virtue-signal (a pointless matter).  Toronto voters should elect the person who actually wants to be the city’s mayor: to fix its problems, make it a better place to live and to unite the city.  Enough division. Enough talk.  Vote Brad Bradford.  Olivia out!"

Dmitry Broytman | Facebook - "We have municipal election in Toronto on October 26. Mayor and city councillor candidates just started to put up lawn signs, so I did some statistical observations while running today. Along my route I discovered 6 signs for Brad Bradford, 4 signs for Olivia Chow, and 3 signs for Slow Down.  My guess is the latter one is just an alias for Ms. Chow, because this city slowed down significantly under her watch: almost every time I take a subway—and the last time I experienced this was also today—the train would slow down or stop completely in the tunnel, and you hear the same mantra: medical emergency… works on track… police investigation… we apologize for the inconvenience… And you keep looking on your phone: will I be on time for my appointment or event. This is especially bizarre after visiting European cities with similar—in terms of lines and daily passengers—underground transit network like Budapest or Milan, where underground trains just follow schedule and are highly reliable. Why bike lane photos—another “slow down” thing—was running/walking along two bike lanes today for 5-10 minutes each. The first one was in a residential neighbourhood: two metres wide, taking probably a third of the road, and not a single bike on it, only me; the second one—on the photo—along Eglinton Avenue, taking significant part of the road again, and in 10 minutes you can count 150+ cars (it’s Sunday), 3 buses, and you already guessed… not a single bike but quite a few delivery motorcycles, and I doubt this kind of usage was on the minds of those who invented this “slow down traffic” scheme. My completely unscientific survey shows that “Slow Down” candidate currently has a lead but I hope very much that Mr. Bradford, representing dynamics, and change, and lower taxes, and safety, and just common sense will win.
Update. I wrote this half-serious but also tongue-in-cheek (Slow Down) post and never expected it to be read by more than a handful of my Facebook friends. Coming from work and seeing it getting more than 8,000 views and counting was quite a surprise. So I have to add a few words and photos.
1. I went through the comments and did my best to remove all the insults — not towards me, I do not care, but towards both candidates and other people who left comments here, as well as some of the comments provoking such behaviour. Might have missed something but did my best.
2. Some people somehow completely lack the sense of humour and seriously think I do not know the meaning of "Slow Down" signs or make electoral predictions by counting a dozen lawn signs.
3. Quite a few commented something along the lines: "Oh, it is not Olivia Chow's fault, she inherited problems from John Tory and Rob Ford". She has been the mayor for 3 years and 3 months: quite enough time to stop blaming her predecessors.
4. I attached a few additional photos to this post. This is Midtown Toronto near Yonge & Eglinton: some are from Yonge Street and most from my street. Just look at the state of the road. My street has been getting progressively worse throughout the last three years of Ms. Chow's tenure. This summer there happened to be a huge pothole in the middle of the street: they just put an orange cone in it, and it stayed like this for about three weeks until it was "repaired" — and the quality of this "repair" you can see in the photos. It is a disgrace.
5. Delivery motorcycles and electric bikes on the sidewalks and bike lanes, or moving in any direction across the road in a dangerous manner. Nobody enforces any rules on them.
6. Unfortunately, this city is dysfunctional in many ways, and we cannot allow 4 more years of the same. The only candidate representing this change is Mr. Bradford. And this change shouldn't stop with the mayor. Mr. Josh Matlow, hey, have a look at the photos, this is your constituency — hopefully not for long.
#toronto #torontoelection #ttc #bradbradford #oliviachow"

Meme - "IS THE MAYOR OF TORONTO INFLUENCED BY THE MULLAHS OF IRAN?
Iranian Canadian Congress. The ICC says Canada should remove the IRGC - the tyrannical dictatorship that mass murders its people - from the terrorist list
Saman Tabasimajad former ICC policy chair, Progress Toronto advisor, which runs Chow's campaign.
Saman Tabasimajad former ICC policy chair, now leads Progress Toronto, which runs Chow's campaign.
REJECT FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN TORONTO! TORONTONIANS DESERVE BETTER! VoteOutChow.com. DEMAND BETTER LEADERSHIP ON OCTOBER 26"

Meme - "Palestine House-Toronto: A Palestinian community organization founded by Amin El-Maoued. El-Maoued was recorded on video holding a megaphone chanting "Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Muhammed is returning." The organization has publicly endorsed Chow's re-election."

Reto Baumgartner | Facebook - "Well, the BC election is over, and judging by some people's reactions, you'd think the world just ended. 😂 I actually find the whole situation almost funny. Let's look at what happened. For nearly 10 years, BC has been under NDP leadership. During that time, homelessness, drug problems, affordability and public safety have become major concerns. In my opinion, the province has been heading in the wrong direction for far too long. And then we have David Eby. The BC Conservatives were having leadership problems. Their party was divided, their leader had just resigned, and they were trying to get themselves back together. So what does Eby do? He calls an election. Two years early! Now, there's an unwritten understanding in politics that you don't take advantage of another party going through a leadership transition. Apparently, that didn't matter much to him. And his reasoning for calling an early election? Donald Trump, economic uncertainty and needing a stronger mandate to get things done. Hang on a minute. 🤔 You already have a majority government, and you're telling people you need another election to get things done? Maybe, just maybe, the problem isn't your mandate. Maybe the problem is your leadership. Well, that gamble certainly didn't work out as planned. 😂 After years of controversies, growing problems and frustrated British Columbians, the people finally had their say. And what a message they sent! Now comes the part I find even more entertaining. Some people are already complaining about how terrible this new Conservative government is going to be. Really? The NDP had nearly a decade to show what they could do. Were the last 10 years really that wonderful that you're already convinced a new government will be worse? Here's a thought. How about we give Lorne Doerkson and his team a chance to actually govern before deciding they've failed? I'm not suggesting they'll get everything right. No government ever does. They should absolutely be held accountable for their decisions, just like every other government. At least give them the opportunity to prove themselves. Personally, I'm happy for the people of British Columbia. You have an opportunity for a fresh start, a different direction and hopefully a province that can thrive again. And here's the biggest lesson I take from this election. Politicians are elected to serve the people. They aren't entitled to stay in power, and having a majority doesn't mean voters owe you another one. David Eby took a gamble, thinking an early election was his opportunity. Turns out, it was an opportunity for the people of BC instead. Funny how that works. 😂"

Thread by @jonkay on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - ".@Dave_Eby was an unmitigated disaster for BC & for Canada. He embraced every destructive progressive policy fad—drug decrim, genderwang, unmarked-graves social panic—and it is a special treat to see his arrogant election gambit end with his humiliation
(In the great tradition of trash-heap BC progressives, Eby will now get a well-paid sinecure at SFU or UBC teaching one grad seminar a month on the underappreciated awesomeness of all his policies)
He’s also the only politician of any significance in Canada who spends his time blocking critics on Twitter "

Lindsay Shepherd on X - "The BC teachers union president issued this statement today 🥴  "I recognize that with the outcome of a Conservative government, many of us may be feeling disappointed, scared, or deeply concerned about what might come next.  I know these results may be particularly concerning for Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQIA+ members. You are not alone.""
Clearly only deluded right wing extremist conspiracy theories think that the teachers unions are politically biased

Kari Hollend-Wright | Facebook - "Dear progressive, left-leaning Toronto friends,  I say that as someone who used to consider myself one of you. In many ways, I still am. I believe in justice, equality, human rights, social services, women's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and protecting marginalized communities. I also believe that most decent people, on either side of the political aisle, care about these things. But here's where I seem to have lost my political home. Just because someone doesn't share every single one of your views doesn't mean you get to diminish their humanity. I believe in democracy. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in everyone's right to vote for the person they feel best represents their values and priorities. At the moment, I feel fairly politically homeless. I don't fit neatly into the boxes I'm apparently supposed to tick. So perhaps we can just file me under decent human being. Last night, Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford both demonstrated something I wish more people would learn from. They acknowledged one another with dignity and respect, despite their political differences. When Bradford acknowledged Chow, his supporters responded respectfully. When Chow mentioned Bradford, members of her crowd booed.  That contrast matters. And today, I saw a social media post attributed to a Canadian journalist and writer, someone whose work appears in mainstream publications,  suggesting that Brad Bradford should kill himself.  That is absolutely fucking disgraceful. And here's what I'm sick and tired of: the notion that identifying with progressive politics, social justice, or a marginalized community somehow grants you immunity from accountability. It doesn't. Your identity doesn't make you incapable of cruelty. Your politics don't automatically make you compassionate. And your belief that you're on the right side of history doesn't give you permission to dehumanize people who disagree with you. You don't get to be the bully and the victim whenever it suits you. We are constantly told that silence is complicity. That we are responsible for the company we keep. That we must call out hate, intolerance, and dangerous rhetoric wherever we see it. Fine. I agree. But those principles don't suddenly become optional when the behaviour comes from someone on your own side. You cannot demand accountability from the right while making excuses for cruelty, intimidation, and hypocrisy on the left. And when did "middle ground" get totally ruled out.  You cannot champion inclusion while deciding that certain people, communities, or political opponents are undeserving of your compassion. And you certainly cannot claim the moral high ground simply because you've memorized the language of social justice.   I voted for Olivia Chow in the last election. I believed in many of the things she stood for.  This time, I voted to replace her. Not because I suddenly stopped caring about affordability, housing, social services, or equality, but because my humanity, my community's safety, my children's safety and my sense of belonging in this city matter too. And to those who voted for her, I respect your democratic choice. I ask that you extend that same respect to people who voted differently. But supporting a leader doesn't mean giving that leader a free pass. If you believe in the values that brought you to the ballot box, you should be willing to hold your chosen leader accountable for upholding them for everyone. Not just the communities you identify with. Not just the people who agree with you. Not just when it's politically convenient. And Mayor Olivia Chow, that responsibility now belongs to you, too. You have been elected to represent an entire city, including those who didn't vote for you. I have spent my life standing up for people whose experiences are different from my own. I don't intend to stop. But I am exhausted by the expectation that compassion must flow in only one direction. If your humanity depends on someone's politics, religion, identity, or whether they voted the same way you did, then perhaps it's time to reconsider what you actually stand for. Because justice isn't justice when it's selective. Equality isn't equality when it comes with exceptions. And compassion isn't compassion when it's reserved for people you already agree with. Pick one. Either you believe in these values for everyone, or you don't. And if we're serious about making Toronto a safer, more inclusive city, then every single one of us has a responsibility to act like it."
Left wingers are full of hate as usual

Facebook - "And so begins the winter of British Columbia's discontent. BC just experienced what the US did in 2024. It's incredible the NDP learned nothing from that, instead following the Biden-Kamala model, loathsome-maxxing right into the abyss. And now, they've created another illustrative learning moment. The BCNDP have proven once again that trying to play progressive while still remaining the handmaiden of capitalism and neoliberal hegemony will always fail and alienate everybody, and in doing handed the province of my birth to trumpistic reaction. Sadness...but they had it coming. They crushed Appadurai and their own party democracy, they let militarized police go to town on the Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek protesters, and called an election in a fit of pique and cyncism. Eby's anti-leadership will be the stuff of legend. Marginally progressive public administration coupled with letting lumber companies aggressively mow down irreplaceable old growth makes you friends with no one. Reactionaries who make it their identity to cheer on clear cuts and spit on protesters aren't going to thank you.  AI-assisted right-wing cultural war brainrot has clearly seized large swathes of BC voters. They seem to have come out in droves simply out of contempt for the concept of progressivism, whatever that is meant to mean. It is pure reaction, primordial colonial white supremacy that condemns everything woke, rainbow, public, or indigenous, everything that isn't using power to punish, dominate, and exploit. Anti-science, anti-thought, anti-anything that counsels reflection or self-restraint. That is the essential character of the right-wing, that perpetual domination is the just order of the world. This is the Convoy-MAGA fascist blob, brought to us by capital, to aggressively assert the rights of power - the strong do what they will , and the weak suffer what they must - it's their fault for being weak anyways, right? Thus anti-everything, how dare anyone assert themselves, how dare the indigenous and the tree-huggers and the homeless and the transpeople exist at all, how dare temporary workers have healthcare, how dare immigrants vote, etc, etc.   Droves of people showed up for this. Their mobilization speaks to the hollowness at the core of "conservative" BC society, so lacking in identity they become defined as opposite, filled with contempt for whatever those dress-wearing *progressives* are doing, etc. There's nothing much new about any of that. What is new(er) is is the extent to which AI propaganda slop and social media manipulation can produce signal-boosting, constant repetition of vitriolic right-wing agitation, driving up outrage and turnout. That is the role of social media in reactionary politics. Filling all space with noise is what propaganda has always done, but social media AI slop is particularly good at it.  On the other side, those with enough internal dialogue to be immune to the above, once again learn how deadly inadequate everything is. Progressives are trapped in a system that actively militates against thoughtful, effective politics. But even without progressive vote splitting only ten or so ridings more would have gone orange, defeat still inevitable. Whatever the progressive project was, it has failed. A stunning case study. By calling the election, Eby alienated everyone, and gave the right-wing the perfect jump start ammunition to carry the momentum into a social-media fueled reactionary maelstrom - the decadent, deficit-happy lefties are at it again with a gratuitous election, wasting our money while blocking our precious precious oil, time to show them what real hard headed men can do, etc, etc. Outage begets engagement, and engagement begets advertiser revenue, so social media companies engineer the algorithm to reinforce the outrage and the biggotry that underlies it. It is an ugly cycle that utterly turfed Eby and will make all of BC suffer for his sins.  Indigenous peoples will no doubt return to their communities and territories and plan resistance on the ground where they live. I have no doubts that will be ugly as they face off against a government that has already stated their intention to "conquer". The same goes for any sort of ecological protest movement against the incoming clearcuts, pipelines, and terminals extravaganza. The left needs to rebuild from scratch. Surely over the incoming 4 years of fossil-fuelled austerity terror, something can be done, surely. The Con base is block of toxic reaction and petro-chauvinism, but it doesn't make up a majority, or even plurality, of people in rid8ngs that went blue. Younger workers at the ass end of a deeply precarious economy, rural communities that perhaps today are lost to the toxic minority can be won back after they're gutted and spitted by the new regime, their hospitals and schools closed while the oligarchs extend their private airports and their local poobah lackies build their 8 or 10 car garages, all fat from untendered contracts, unfunded tax cuts, and wholesale public giveaways. The deficit will be eye-watering, to be sure. But everywhere right now the narrative framing has been captured, or perhaps rather given, entirely to reactionaries. A lot of people, neither reactionary nor pleased with government, so alienated, thus barely showed up.  BC Greens and NDP need to decide what they are about and develop a modus vivendi. Against the fascist inferno, coherent left wing politics is a necessity. I know its a naive interpretation, but they both, in their essential character as social democratic and ecologist parties, are ultimately socialist, yeah? That private wealth is not the greatest good? And the right-wing is explicitly petro-chauvinist, burning fuel and consuming nature has become central to the "conservative" image, so its opposition must be ecologist. A non-ecologist leftwing is as useless and contradictory as pro-capitalist green (and not accusing current BCGreens to be guilty of the latter, to be clear). Establish some meaning in politics and vigorously defending it, would be welcome to all those who are lost. Signing a pact on electoral reform might also be a start. Once again though, unhinged electoralism has failed, and the left vanquished. They'll have a long time to pick through the ruins.  BC, and perhaps Canada as a whole, appear to be behind the American cycle. Corporate progressives of liberal and liberalish NDP flavors are making themselves rankly vulnerable to well-earned progressive apathy and maple maga flavoured outrage. Funny how that works out.  Attached: the conqueror, BC Con Mike Hicks, who won a progressive riding through vote splitting, sigh. Not that that actually matters, but it's still pretty cringe."
Left wing logic: the failure of far left policies means that they weren't far left enough and you need to double down

Crazy Rider Fan 🇨🇦 on X - "Canadas most woke, progressive and broken province just stunned the world by destroying the NDP (needles, drugs and poverty) party. British Columbia just annihilated David Eby and his NDP party by electing the first Conservative government in generations. This stunning victory proves a few things.
-David Eby is an idiot and so is anyone who voted for him.
-Progressives and leftists are willing to endure a horrendous amount of abuse and incompetence to defend their ideology before accepting and admitting to reality.
-Leftists and progressives do have a pain threshold.
-There were not enough immigrants, activists, criminals, communists and welfare recipients to overcome reality.
-Canadian politics is frustratingly schizophrenic. Trudeau and Carney did and continue to do to Canada what Eby did to BC. Yet Liberals are hailed as our saviours with a 3000% approval rating.
Something does not add up. Congratulations to BC for finally seeing the light. We have been pointing the flashlight at you for years. Welcome back "

Melanie Eresman on X - "I just saw a dispute between a “disabled trans” and an indigenous arguing about who has it worse now that the conservatives have won in BC. It’s like listening to satire but these humans are actually serious. What the fuck is wrong with people!!!!"

Mud-slinging Eby attempts to cancel his opposition | National Post - "As we wrap up a month of what has the potential to be one of the biggest missteps in British Columbia, or Canadian, political history, it bears examining whether David Eby’s attempt to position himself as a modern day Joseph McCarthy dedicated to rooting out thought criminals from his opposition will be ultimately effective. If Eby somehow pulls together a victory on Saturday, it will likely be a ringing endorsement that cancel culture is alive and well in Canada.  In a sort of pseudo-McCarthyist attempt, the B.C. NDP has gone full throttle since the writ was dropped with attempted cancellations and censorship of B.C. Conservative candidates and staffers. The predominant narrative put forward by the B.C. NDP is the message that there are dangerous extremists that might be sitting at Lorne Doerkson’s table should the B.C. Conservatives form government. So concerned are they with a litany of old Facebook comments, X reposts and offhand remarks that they have put together a handy who’s who: “Meet Lorne Doerkson’s Team.” Like a very dull and farfetched version of Guess Who, the website conveniently lists the purported offenders and offences. Since the campaign kickoff, the B.C. NDP has been committed to attempted cancellations and censorship of prospective B.C. Conservative MLAs. When asked whether British Columbians might look past controversial comments made by MLA candidates, Eby doubled down, stating “these views are relevant to voters as they consider who will best protect them and their family.”  But will this gamble pay off? While doubtless this strategy would have had a greater resonance during the 2020 “Summer of Love,” or the heyday of the “#MeToo” era, increasingly Canadians are fatigued with political correctness. A three-year-old Angus Reid poll found that over half of Canadians said the trend of cancelling public figures due to controversial statements suppresses free speech.  Since 2023, public attitudes towards cancelling have arguably gotten much less supportive. In a 2024 report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Canadians rejected cancel culture, agreeing with the statement “political correctness has gone too far” by a margin of 78-22. Cancel culture fatigue has seen the rehabilitation of many previously cast aside from society, even seeing figures like persona non grata Don Cherry appointed to the Order of Ontario with minimal pushback. Highlights from the final week of the campaign included attempting to cancel Lorne Doerkson for holding private fundraisers, and claiming that holding two private maximum-donor fundraisers at “swanky downtown Vancouver hotels” was a sign that a Conservative government would sell out to “private interests.” Not to be forgotten, Conservative candidate Heather Maahs has been one of Eby’s primary punching bags over the past days, with the NDP positioning Maahs as a dangerous homophobe who does not belong in the public sphere...  The NDP called for the removal of Powell River-Sunshine Coast candidate John Henderson for having a copy of Tom Flanagan’s “Grave Error” at work while he was the mayor of Sechelt. In the NDP’s framing, merely having the book and discussing it with some senior staffers meant Henderson “pushed” the book...  In the 30 days of the campaign, the B.C. NDP has devoted a significant portion of its energy to the attempted censorship and cancellation of Conservative candidates, primarily based on shaky foundations of old Facebook screenshots, X reposts and Instagram stories long since expired. The results on Saturday will likely prove an interesting indicator of whether the all bark, no bite strategy of censorship and cancellation remains an effective one in Canada. Is slinging mud an effective strategy or will the consequences of reckless, largely unsubstantiated character attacks manifest in the opposite result intended?  David Eby’s attempt to root out those he deems unacceptable from the B.C. Conservative ecosystem reeks of a McCarthyist ethos determined to police the bounds of discourse in a way that should send a shiver down the spine of anyone committed to free expression. Much like McCarthy, it’s doubtful that Eby has any real self-awareness of the shaky foundations many of his accusations rest upon, instead finding himself completely enveloped in his quest to root out any and all thought criminals from the B.C. Conservative tent. Playing on fear and resentment might have worked 10 years ago, but I would bet that such an approach, especially backed up with few successes and minimal policy prescriptions, will be soundly rejected at the polls."
That would explain the sudden activity among the NPCs just before the election

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