Links - 27th October 2026 (2)

India: Six Hindu Women Complain Against Muslim Man Over Stalking, Harassment and Pressure to Convert - "Six Hindu women working for private companies in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India, have approached the Amahiya police, accusing a man identified as Saif Pathan of repeatedly stalking and harassing them, and allegedly pressuring them to convert to Islam. The women submitted a complaint after, according to their allegations, Pathan continued approaching and following them, despite their repeated objections. Police subsequently registered a case and arrested Pathan, with a lower court sending him to jail."

Wall Street Apes on X - "This is important 🚨 Woman who left Islam says she goes to coffee shops in New York City and exposes they are giving out free Qurans to Americans to convert them to Islam. She has the Quran and shows it’s a heavily edited version that’s been “made for Western audiences” that literally lies about Islam and makes it much more appealing.
“The problem with this Quran is that it is meant to target a Western audience. And when you read through this Quran, it is heavily sanitized, and it has notes and commentaries that interpret verses, and it is like heavily, heavily sanitized. So when you're reading a problematic verse, it will interpret it the way it is not supposed to be interpreted, but it is targeting specifically a Western audience. So you as an American, when you pick up this copy and when you start reading it and when you start reading the notes, you will be shocked. You will be like, oh, I was wrong about Islam. This is actually a great religion. I didn't know that's what it meant. I was lied to”
But she explains how it’s written is all a lie and written as propaganda for Americans to convert to Islam
“When you are an average American who doesn't know anything about Islam or has never traveled to the Middle East, you are a target. If you pick up this book, if you go on ChatGPT, if you go even on TikTok and search these things, Islam is going to be painted in a completely different picture, in a completely different way. That's why there's so many people white people who are converting to Islam because they're not getting the full truth”
The differences are WILD. In this version of the Quran being given out in America they removed the part that lets men discipline women with physical force. It removed the part where it tells Muslims to kill nonbelievers. The jizya which is the nonbeliever tax in Islam, it’s framed as optional, which is a lie. The examples go on and on and I’ll include them at the end
They are mass indoctrinated Americans into Islam by giving them fake Quran books"

Dan Burmawi on X - "When I was about five or six years old, my uncle, who had never been religious and had lost all his wealth in a bad business deal in Kuwait after the Gulf War, decided to return to Allah and become a devout Muslim. I remember he went to Pakistan or Afghanistan for six months on a mission trip. When he came back, the first thing he did was drag our huge TV outside and throw it in the garbage and started taking me with him to the mosque five times a day. I grew up exposed to what was said inside the da’wah groups. My uncle was not a jihadi, but he was deeply involved in da’wah, Islamic evangelism. For years, I accompanied him during summers and weekends on mission trips across Jordan, visiting mosques around the country with other members of the da’wah movement. I still remember visiting Al-Hajar Mosque in the city of Zarqa, the same mosque of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, years before he became known. When I was eleven, my parents moved to another city, and I stopped going with my uncle. But when I was seventeen, the protests that erupted across the Islamic world after the Danish cartoons of Muhammad pulled me back to the mosque, and I spent another year with da’wah groups, until God miraculously changed my life and I converted to Christianity. Those years in the da’wah movement as a young kid gave me an exceptional ability to see through these people. The moment someone speaks, I can diagnose how infected he is with the spirit of jihad. I wish I could lend my eyes to Western governments so they could see how deeply their institutions have been infiltrated. The majority of those who present themselves as “moderate” or “normal” Muslims in Islamic organisations or Media, are on a mission. Once naturalized, they know exactly how to exploit the system to advance the goals of da'wah. And those who are running for public offices are very serious muslims who are on a mission to serve Islam by taking over the West."

WELT on X (Translated) - "Bus driver stops to pray – passengers have to wait for minutes"
Maral Salmassi on X (Translated) - "Interestingly, there was even a reverse case in Turkey, reported by The Guardian: A long-distance bus driver refused to stop for a passenger to pray. The bus company defended the decision by pointing out that the rights of the other passengers and the secular nature of public transport took precedence. Furthermore, Islamic law allows travelers to adjust the timing of their prayers or shorten them. So why are we seeing, of all places in the West, increasingly frequent public displays of prayer on streets, in squares, or even during work? Is it really just about piety here—or is it long since also about demonstrative appropriation of space?"
Time to condemn Turkey for Islamophobia!

Democrats Give Hitler Double the Favourability Republicans Do, YouGov Finds - "One in ten Democrats has a favourable opinion of Adolf Hitler, according to recently published YouGov polling data, making them twice as likely as Republicans to express a positive view of the Nazi dictator. The figures show that 6 per cent of Americans overall view Hitler favourably and 85 per cent unfavourably. Among Democrats, however, favourability rises to 10 per cent, compared with just 5 per cent among Republicans. The finding sits awkwardly alongside years of Democratic and anti-Trump rhetoric portraying President Donald Trump, MAGA Republicans and the broader American right as fascistic or comparable to the authoritarian movements of the 20th century. In October 2024, liberal historian Anne Applebaum wrote in The Atlantic that Trump’s references to ‘vermin’, ‘enemies within’ and immigrants ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country echoed the dehumanizing vocabulary employed under the regimes of 20th-century dictators such as Hitler or Stalin. The article itself was published under the headline ‘Trump Is Speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini’, which, in light of the recent findings, is rather ironic."
Ironic, since left wingers call everyone they disagree with a Nazi
The article compares Hitler's favorability among Democrats with Trump's a newer poll and concludes that they prefer Hitler to Trump, but it's better methodology to use the same study and there, they still dislike Trump less than Hitler (the seeming discrepancy is due to the Don't Knows).

Meme - Katie @KTqT_92: "bought lingerie to surprise my husband. walked into the bedroom and he said "come look at this" then showed me a guy pressure washing a pool that's been abandoned for 20 years"
Doug @D_Weld60: "Do you have a pic?"
Katie: "Of the lingerie?"
Doug: "Of the pool before he started."

Paweł Rutkiewicz 🇵🇱🇪🇺 on X (Translated) - "Some of the densest points from Die Linke's plan for Berlin:
-Police work replaced or supplemented with social work
-Permissible covering of faces during demonstrations and wearing of protective accessories
-Cessation of the constitutional protection office's activities as a secret service; Berlin would also apply in the Bundesrat for a ban on AfD activities
-Consistent rejection of requests for the deportation of foreign activists;
-Taking ownership of vacant properties by people who have lived in them for at least a year
-No fines for fare evasion (!)
-Pre-trial detention as an absolute exception, and detainees to receive minimum wage
-No one will be deported
-Berlin will establish its own migration policy
-State facilities for crack use will be designated (modeled on Switzerland)
-End of ID checks upon entry to swimming pools
-Berlin hospitals will not participate in war preparedness exercises; cooperation between Berlin schools and the Bundeswehr will be terminated
-No grades in schools until 9th grade.
Well, interesting what will come of this..."

Jason Locasale on X - "This story has the potential to completely upend the university system as we know it. Almost nobody is talking about it. A federal judge has allowed a fraud lawsuit against Harvard to proceed. The basic allegation is that researchers claimed in NIH grant proposals and progress reports that they were doing one thing while actually doing something else. If there is a legal basis for this type of lawsuit, the implications are enormous. Every scientist knows there is a difference between grantsmanship and science. Grant proposals and progress reports are packaged to fit the priorities and narratives most likely to receive funding. Once the grant is awarded, academics pursue work that is very different from what was written in the proposals and progress reports. If courts conclude that this practice constitutes fraud, the financial consequences for universities will be staggering. Research grants can make up more than half of university revenue especially in medical schools, and the damages dwarf anything seen in civil rights or EEOC litigation. If this legal theory succeeds, it will alter the course of academia."

Omid Djalili on X - "Astonishing and sickening. The world must keep asking whose side are progressives on? Fact that the regime in Iran has gone from “Death to America!” to “Vote Democrat” says so much about how disgraceful playing politics with the lives of innocent Iranians fighting for freedom is."

Michael Moore on X - "Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, a day reserved for Canadians to give thanks that they are not us."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Saint James Hartline on X - "I've been around the political world for a very long time. There are only three reasons a politician or a political candidate abruptly disappears for days without anyone knowing where they are at: They are either involved in a sexual affair, or they've been doing drugs or someone is blackmailing them/they are in a panic about very serious misconduct intel being leaked to the public and the press. Six Gender Jimmy Talarico has invested years and years obsessing over and promoting sex changes and transgenderism for little kids. Six Gender Jimmy Talarico is a middle-aged man who has never been married and for years has attended a perverse "church" that is a sexual predators paradise. Six Gender Jimmy Talarico's "church" is so perverse that it has filled its "church" library with sexually explict transgender and LGBTQ+ books, including a book called Gender Queer which includes illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, and a book called All Boys Aren't Blue which discusses anal rape and incest. Another book in the "church" library is Becoming Nicole which tells the story of a gender-confused teen boy who identifies as girl with the support of his family. Another book in the library at Six Gender Jimmy Talarico's "church" is called This Book is Gay, an instruction manual on LGBTQ+. Another book is called The Courage To Be Queer, written by an author who says that "God is Queer." How many young minors has Six Gender Jimmy Talarico discussed sexually explicit topics with over the last fiteen years? How many young minors has Six Gender Jimmy Talarico encouraged to be drag queens and transgender with or without the parents of those minors being aware of it? Someone has extremely damaging information on Six Gender Jimmy Talarico and his sudden disappearance from the campaign trail has all the hallmarks of a damage control operation where the public relations professionals and consultants tried to manipulate the public on his disappearance, believing that Talarico could hide out while his campaign staff kept his campaign running towards the finish line in November."

Zach Kraft on X - "More corruption from James Talarico. He wrote a bill requiring Texas schools to hire 200 DEI officers. The catch? He was being paid nearly six-figures by a DEI consulting agency who would be in line for $70 million worth of contracts to fill these jobs."

Profilo politics on X - "Two stories, one bodycam. Eryn Bonner, 21, an Arizona State cheerleader, says she was yelling “Let him go” while Tempe police arrested two men she was with outside CASA on Mill Avenue. An officer shoved her to the ground, pinned her on a police bike, and punched her. Her lawyer, Benjamin Taylor, says she never put hands on that officer, the cops were the aggressors, and she left with a black eye. Tempe police say she was not a bystander. Officers were already breaking up a sidewalk fight and arresting those two men. They say she was told more than once to get back, ignored it, pushed between them, and punched an officer in the head. The shove, the bike, and the strike came after that. The police union says the full bodycam backs the officers, not the lawyer. County prosecutors refused a felony. Tempe still charged her with misdemeanors: disorderly conduct and interfering with police. Her side starts at the punch. Their side starts at the commands she did not follow. Same tape."

Rothmus on X - "Chomsky wrote off a live genocide as a fabrication while the killing was still underway. In 1977, with Pol Pot still in power, he wrote in The Nation that refugee accounts of Khmer Rouge executions were fabrications built to discredit the left. Before the regime fell in 1979, about 1.7 million people, nearly a quarter of Cambodia, were dead from execution, starvation, and disease. After that, he and Edward Herman treated survivor testimony as inherently unreliable and blamed Western journalists for inflating the violence to justify American intervention. They accused François Ponchaud of revising his death toll upward for political effect. He denied it but Chomsky never retracted. When Vietnam’s invasion made the atrocities undeniable, he recast it as a methods critique. The 1977 piece had already used “fabrication” and “conscious restructuring of history” for the mainstream accounts. That same move is still the default on Xinjiang, Venezuela, and Cuba. The method outlived the dead."
Left wingers deny genocides they support and lie that everything they hate is genocide

Jay Van Bavel, PhD on X - "Liberals and conservatives behave differently in everyday life--conservatives seem to be out with others at lot more while liberals stay home and doomscroll. This study analyzed activity using smartphones to track college students and found that conservatives were more likely to be at parties, noisy places, fraternities and religious facilities. Liberals were at home, resting, doing chores, and browsing social media. This helps explain why conservatives are, on average, happier than liberals. The behavioral differences were small but robust, not accounted for by other plausible factors (e.g., demographics), and most pronounced in the leisure domain."
Clearly Conservatives are just in denial about not being as mentally ill as liberals and lying that they're happier even though the literature tells us being social makes you happier
Keywords: liberals are mentally ill, liberals are unhappy, left wingers are mentally ill, left wingers are unhappy

Duke Bakery goes viral for poop-looking bread, says jokes & memes boosted sales - "Duke Bakery posted a brown U-shaped ‘Chocola Cheese Bread’ on Instagram to mark the Chinese Valentine’s Day. “Celebrate love, connection, and the little moments that matter most,” wrote the bakery, which encouraged customers to indulge in its rich chocolate and creamy cheese loaf."

Russell T. Warne, PhD - Psychologist, author, and educator | Facebook - "Cousin marriage has known genetic consequences, but an interesting article discusses a major cultural downside: honor killings. 🗡️ An article in "Evolution and Human Behavior" explores how cousin marriage and inheritance practices contribute to the practice of "honor killings" of young women who violate cultural norms regarding freedom, dating, marriage, and sex. The authors identified 52 Muslim ethnic groups that varied in their approval of honor killings (from 0% approval among Karakalpaks, Circassians, and Balkarets to over 70% among the Pashtun; see 2nd image). They also measured each group's average value of "runs of homozygosity" (ROH) which is a genetic measure of how inbred a person is. Higher ROH numbers indicate that a person is descended from people who are more closely related, more recent in the family tree, and/or the product of more generations of relatives mating. The authors found that cultures with more inbreeding (i.e., higher ROH values) via cousin marriage were also more supportive of honor killings, especially with female victims (3rd image). What makes this more interesting is that the relationship is closely tied to the type of cousin marriage that is acceptable. Honor killings receive more approval in cultures where females are more often married to their father's brother's son than to other cousins or to more distant relatives. The authors argue that this is partially caused by female inheritance customs: in groups where females can inherit part of the family's wealth, encouraging (or forcing) marriage to a male relative keeps the wealth in the family. Violating that goal endangers the family's financial position, in addition to its honor. The relationship isn't just found across cultures: it's also found within them. INDIVIDUAL WOMEN in Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey were more likely to approve of honor killings and less likely to be employed outside of the home if their parents were cousins. Pakistan reverses this trend for reasons that are not clear (see fourth image). This is a fascinating article that combines genetics, anthropology, and psychology together to show how culture and biology interact to produce behaviors worth studying. From a practical stance, it gives a clue to how to end honor killings: banning cousin marriage."

Laos Travel Advice & Safety - "Intimate relationships between Lao citizens and foreigners who aren't married are illegal. This includes sexual relationships and living together. Marriages between Lao citizens and foreigners must be pre-approved. If you don't register a relationship, authorities could fine or jail you...
Speaking or publishing material critical of Laos is illegal...
Gambling is restricted and playing cards in public, even if no gambling is involved, may be illegal. Police and security guards may confiscate your cards and detain you for fines. Travellers have been fined heavily at public locations such as train stations for playing cards."
No wonder it's not a sex tourism/passportbro destination

The uncomfortable truth about ADHD diagnoses, according to a leading neurologist - "a long-awaited report confirmed that an unprecedented number of people are being told they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and that these diagnoses could, in many cases, be unnecessary. The 607-page government-commissioned review found that, while the nation’s children are experiencing high levels of psychological distress, unnecessary diagnosis could be harming a generation – defining children by what they cannot do and lowering ambitions. “Nobody in this report is claiming that people are not suffering,” says Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London and author of The Age of Diagnosis. “What they’re saying is that young people – in particular the 16-to-24-year-old age group – have difficulties.” The number in this age group who meet the criteria for a common mental disorder has increased from one in six to one in four, with experts noting that they are facing a “lack of hope”. “In some cases it is more harmful to treat those difficulties as medical and diagnose them,” she notes. “Perhaps if we supported people without diagnosis, we would have better results.” In her 35 years working as a doctor, she has seen how diagnosis can provide access to treatment and ultimately improve symptoms. But among her patients – many of whom are young adults in their 20s who have ADHD – “I see them getting labels that lead to other labels, and they’re not necessarily clinically better – or better in any meaningful way.” The upward trend in ADHD diagnoses started in the 1990s, after campaigns boosted awareness of the condition, she explains. “But something astronomical has happened since 2020, which is, diagnostic rates that had been rising steadily since the 90s began skyrocketing.” There are multiple reasons for this. Firstly, people have become obsessed with labels and celebrities have begun speaking about their diagnoses. “You often hear ‘I got my diagnosis, I felt validated, everything got better’. It’s presented as a door into a much easier world.” Social media, too, encourages people to medicalise completely normal traits. “We all lose our keys, we’re all disorganised, we all have bad days”, but these are referred to as signs of ADHD. “There’s a difference between having a few bad days and having bad days that are persistent enough and sustained enough to really affect your ability to function normally in life. I would really urge people to ignore everything they read on social media about mental health.” There’s also been a surge in private clinics, with patients forking out thousands of pounds for an assessment. GPs have raised the alarm over the unusually high number of positive diagnoses coming out of these clinics. The report recommends that adverts for these clinics – plastered across stations and buses offering next-day appointments – be banned, which Dr O’Sullivan welcomes. “Profiteering wasn’t the initial driver of all of this, but certainly a lot of people are making money out of the situation now.” Parents and young people are pursuing ADHD diagnoses in the belief that it will help. “We have a very loud public conversation that says if you get an ADHD diagnosis, then the world will accommodate you, your life will get easier and everything will be understood. We do not have research to back that up,” she says. There are, of course, cases when a diagnosis is required, such as a child with severe autism. “They could not be in school unless they had one-to-one support. They could not survive in classes unless they had differentiated lessons. “At the other end of the spectrum, you’ve got a child who struggles to finish their exam within the allotted time or struggles in a noisy environment. “There’s a very strong feeling among parents that their child will flourish if they get extra time in exams and if they get quiet rooms. The evidence for that is really lacking. I would have liked the report to interrogate that better.” She believes these interventions do more harm than good. “They don’t teach a child how to deal with the difficulties of having time constraints, how to work with people they don’t particularly like or work in environments that are difficult. “When that child, who has been accommodated up to that point, meets that first environment that will not change, they have not learnt the strategies to deal with that. “Every single diagnosis comes with a benefit to harm ratio,” she explains. “The benefit happens if you get a treatment that improves your symptoms, or support that makes your passage through life easier. “The harms of a mental health label or ADHD diagnosis and autism diagnosis in particular, is that it changes how you view yourself. It can reinforce symptoms. If you tell a 16-year-old that they cannot do something because their brain is wired in such a way to stop them being able to do it, how do they overcome that? That can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It can change their expectations of themselves and change other people’s expectations of them. “You need to decide, based on your level of difficulty or your child’s level of difficulty, what will you get from the diagnosis, and does that outweigh the harms of labelling your child as having a neurodevelopmentally disordered brain, which is what these diagnoses are.” In many cases, a diagnosis can close the door to a job. “I spoke to a small business owner recently. They had advertised a job and had a huge number of applicants. Approaching the interview process, a handful of young people said that they had ADHD or autism, and they needed special systems in place for the interview, they needed questions ahead of time, they needed extra time. “I don’t think we’re being honest with young people, because as soon as those people asked for special circumstances for the interview, they had talked themselves out of a job. A small business owner cannot be expected to adjust the work environment to suit every single individual. I think what we need to do is teach children to find the environment that’s right for them, rather than thinking that we can ask environments to change to suit every person. “I think we should be supporting people to live in a messy, difficult world where the environment isn’t always right, rather than changing the environment in school with no realistic hope of truly changing every environment for them going forward... “We’re setting our young people up for failure. We’re telling them: if you get this diagnosis, then the world will adjust to your needs, and then you will be able to move through life more easily.” What does this mean for people who suspect they have ADHD? “I would encourage them to understand that a diagnosis is not a panacea, and that a diagnosis can sometimes be quite a disabling thing,” Dr O’Sullivan says. She recommends making lifestyle changes. “Before you pursue a diagnosis, look at those structural things and ask, what can you change without a diagnosis? People might find that life gets easier just through those changes, and that pursuing a diagnosis isn’t strictly necessary.” And for worried parents? “We do not want to be diagnosing children with a brain disorder – which is a really huge thing to do – when actually all we need to do is make sure they have a stimulating environment, eating a healthy diet and that they’re expending their energy through things like exercise rather than spending lots of time on the phone and indoors. “This is a job for the psychology of a nation. At the moment, we have a mindset that diagnosing something as a medical problem is the best way to support people, and we have a mindset that too easily locates problems in the brains of our young people, rather than looking at the society in which we’re living and asking, ‘Is this a society that allows people to grow up healthy and happy?’"
Obviously, overdiagnosis is never an issue - only underdiagnosis. The UK needs to be praised for reducing the stigma surrounding ADHD and greedy small businesses need to be made to do the right thing by accommodating people with disabilities

Why Canadians don’t ride trains anymore - "riding trains — all else being equal — kind of sucked. It was far superior to what it replaced — walking or canoeing or riding a horse. But by modern standards it’s slow, uncomfortable and inconvenient. And it’s why, if you look at what caused Canadians to abandon rail travel en masse, the answer is that they usually did it as soon as they could afford to. They stopped riding trams as soon as they could afford cars, and they stopped riding intercity passenger rail as soon as they could afford airplane tickets. All of which was well-acknowledged at the time. Starting in 1959, the Government of Canada convened a royal commission to investigate why passenger rail ridership was dropping off a cliff. Representatives from the Canadian Pacific Railway showed up and told the commission that it was simple; nobody wanted to ride trains anymore. Quote, “with the increased use of automobiles, the convenience and frequency of bus travel, and technology in the air industry lowering the cost per seat-mile of air travel, it is impossible to forecast a resurgence of effective demand for rail passenger services,” they said. The main reason passenger rail continued at all is because this was when the government started subsidizing it. And it wasn’t just Canada. Australians experienced this trend. So did Americans. So did New Zealanders. Even in Europe, whose small size and high population density kept train travel popular, it’s the rare European rail network that isn’t smaller than it was before the advent of cars and air travel. Cars and planes mean less demand for trains. In population-dense Japan or Europe, that trend wasn’t enough to kill passenger rail. But in giant, sparsely populated countries like Canada — where the population is rich enough to afford alternatives — viable passenger rail didn’t stand a chance... if you think this is just an infrastructure issue, I’ll remind you that we’re shipping more freight by rail than ever before. So are the Americans. When passenger comfort and convenience isn’t at issue, this country loves trains. When it is at issue, the plane and car almost always win. In that sense, riding trains is no different than a lot of folksy, charming things we used to do, only to stop doing it the moment we could afford not to. A lot of Canadians may look back fondly on Blockbuster Video, for instance. Ignoring the fact that, much like railroads, there is a government subsidized version of Blockbuster Video that lives to this day in the form of DVD-lending public libraries. But here’s a guess you haven’t bothered going because the alternative is easier."
Left wingers want to force everyone to ride trains again, because they want people to be miserable like them

All The Things You Really Should Know About Thai Iced Tea - "The thing to know about Thai iced tea is that the version that you are probably familiar with — pinkish-orange and heavily spiced — is not exactly a quintessential Thai beverage. Like Chicken Tikka Masala or Egg Foo Young, the ubiquitous drink in Thai restaurants around the world is a culinary hybrid, intermixing a lowbrow Thai street tea with the western taste for sweetened and brightly colored iced beverages."

Prince Harry reveals he 'slipped into depression' after moving to Canada
At least he's not trashing his family anymore to get attention

Why hot drinks could raise your risk of cancer – and how to make sure they’re safe - "the tripling of risk seen in this study could represent hot drinks raising someone’s lifetime risk from 0.5 to 1.5 per cent, for instance – which still means nearly 99 people out of 100 will not get the cancer. This kind of study can only show a correlation between drink temperature and cancer, not that one causes the other. Something else could be causing both things; for instance, people with thicker skin lining the throat and oesophagus might tolerate hotter drinks as well as being more naturally predisposed to cancer, said Teh."

The Deconstruction of Western Game Development (RIP BioWare) (Get Woke, Go Broke)

SirD 🇺🇸 on X

The Deconstruction of Western Game Development (RIP BioWare)

I'm going to tell you guys a sad little story. It starts all the way back in 2011, and ends with the closure of one of the west's most beloved RPG developers: BioWare.

15 years ago, some weird shit started happening in game development. I'll skip the frivolous details and I won't bother naming names, it's already a long story, but essentially it involves certain left-wing activists campaigning for social justice.

 

You see, these activists noticed video games due to their surging popularity and cultural relevance, and boy let me tell you, they were not happy about this! "How dare these silly little games that men love have such a massive impact on our culture?! Are the video games influencing elections?!"

 

Once this was noticed, there was no turning back. These activists knew how important gaming was, and they also knew that nobody cared if they personally liked them or not. We can't have that! How non-inclusive..!

 

There was only one thing for them to do: change video games into something they could personally be proud of. So they got started by declaring various things about video games "problematic."

 

"Does this camera angle show up a woman's skirt? Why is it focused on this fictional character's scrumptious rump for more than 7.2 seconds? How absolutely and utterly objectifying! Does this game actually incentivize killing strippers and hiding it? Is this fictional character just a little too curvy and attractive? Are men having too much fun?! How many women have been told to 'get back in the kitchen' in a Call of Duty lobby? Wait a minute, there's only two black guys..?"

 

🤬😡🤬

 

Meanwhile, the west was being introduced to a little something called "cancel culture." You see, a lot of people had the audacity to publicly voice opinions that leftists weren't fond of. This was one of the most severe possible social crimes. If convicted, you could potentially face cry-bullying, friend-group ostracization, deplatforming, and in more severe cases... losing your job or being debanked.

 

Naturally, nobody wanted that. Some even feared "getting canceled" more than death itself, as evidenced by some rather tragic suicides. "If we are going to change video games, this is the perfect weapon for us to utilize," the aforementioned activists thought to themselves. But if they were going to pull this off: they needed to break out the big guns. A caped crusader so fearsome, that none would dare oppose them...

 

..Polygon and Kotaku.

 

Anyways, I promise I'm getting to the point. As activists started their campaign to "change video games," journalists everywhere rallied to their cause. You see, they were very angry at gamers after they had the audacity to call a woman a "whore" for... literally sleeping her way into the industry and publicly bullying her ex-boyfriend into suicide. From this point on, gamers were the enemy. Problematic bigots, and misogynists, oh my. 💫

 

The mission? Simple: bring social justice to video games at any cost, make the industry more politically correct and inclusive. Punish those brave enough to resist our efforts with left-wing cancel culture. Make video games more "diverse," aka more in line with our political ideology. There was just one problem: the gamers were starting to notice. 🫥

 

You may have heard of a little movement called "Gamergate." While you probably heard that this was little more than a white supremacist, anti-women hate campaign orchestrated by 4chan, the simple reality of this movement is that it was a collective of individuals from various cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds who all shared one thing in common: they actually liked video games and didn't want activists to bastardize and change them for political reasons.

The message of Gamergate was simple:

 

"If you allow these activists to politicize game development, it's going to lead to lesser quality products, and potentially the downfall of video games as we know them."

 

That's right. Fifteen years ago, those silly little bigots, aka "Gamergate 4chan trolls," (🥵) predicted...

 

..Dragon Age: The Veilguard!

 

It may sound like I'm joking, but I'm not. You see I was right there with Gamergate predicting the downfall of video games. I knew that games like 'Veilguard' would be the inevitable result of the left-wing politicization of game development. I tried to warn you, I really did... but so many of you simply refused to listen.

 

Yes, dear reader. You were so caught up in your Tumblr-tier performative social optics, that you ignored our warnings. You joined in with game journalists to write us off as bigots. You told us we were overreacting, that we didn't know what we were talking about, and that "the only reason we could possibly not want left-wing politics in game development is because we hate black people and wahmen."

 

You called us trolls, white supremacists, Nazis, white nationalists, alt-right, sexists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, gooners, incels," and every other name under the sun to discredit us as opposition: blindly taking the "activists" side. But you know what we didn't hear a lot of..? Arguments quantifying what, precisely, that we are wrong about. I distinctly remember there being an acute lack of those responses. I digress.

 

The problem with politicizing video games and their development is not a difficult concept. Time and development resources are finite. When you spend $500/hr on an "inclusivity consultant..." that is several thousands of dollars that you could've spent elsewhere, on something that actually matters to your players. When you hire activist game developers who ignore your player's preferences and/or create in spite of them, you're not going to have the most appealing product.

 

It's not rocket science:

 

When activists come along, look at the last twenty years of blockbuster success stories in gaming, then tell you "hey, um... actually... all of this is a problem, and if you do not change your problematic ways, me and my progressive friends will cause you... problems..." you're dealing with literal snake oil salesmen. Rather than hiring them, you should either tell them to fuck off, or just fucking run. But so many of you idiots made it a point to ignore our warnings and tell publishers, "this is actually what we want." So publishers listened. And then you got Veilguard.

 

Today, we learned that BioWare is shutting down. The end of an era. What was once one of the most beloved and celebrated RPG developers in the west, is now little more than a cautionary tale of what not to do in game development. And it all started fifteen years ago when those of you who took the activist's side ignored our warnings about the downsides of politicizing video game development.

I hate to say we told you so, but we told you so. We reeeally did warn you guys.

I'd ask you politely to actually learn something from this, but I never claimed you guys were smart, or honest. It's been fifteen years, and yet creators like @AngryJoeShow are still crashing out whenever we criticize something, while brilliantly ignoring the entire fucking point of our arguments. Who knew..? No... really! Who knew that politicization, censorship, sanitization, social justice, trigger warnings, inclusivity seminars, and zoom calls where game developers spend eleven minutes explaining their pronouns would be something of a problem in an industry that is supposed to be about interactive entertainment and fun?

 

Rest in Performative Left-Wing Social Optics, BioWare.

Links - 27th October 2026 (1 - South Africa)

RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS on X - "Boomer leftists continue to reference apartheid as if it was 1994 and 30 years of sordid South African history haven’t since occurred:"

RAMZPAUL on X - "Whites form their own town to escape the “kill the boer” threats. This town becomes an amazing clean, crime free place that everyone wants to live in. Blacks demand entry into the town despite controlling the rest of the country (which is a violent shithole.)"
Naturally, the Guardian was very upset that a documentary on this safe space for minorities went in with an open mind and didn't go in guns blazing condemning it and gave it 1/5 stars, without even mentioning how much South Africa discriminates against white people

Thread by @Will_Tanner_1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "This is why the powers that be absolutely despise Orania by the way.  It shows the way out of the current crime problem, so those relying on anarcho-tyranny to solidify their rule hate it more than you can imagine.  I'll explain more in the 🧵👇
For those who don't know, Orania, which @Volkstaat10 does a great job publicizing, is the Boer community in rural South Africa that serves as a safe haven of sorts from the anarcho-tyranny that is the rest of South Africa. It has its own currency, maintains Christian values, and generally serves as a way for those who wish to exit from South African society. It's much the same impulse, though even more total, as the one behind @extradeadjcb's @exit_org. Key to Orania's success is that it is Afrikaner only. The Afrikaners there do their own work, no maker how dirty, without relying on external, African labor. This is what their symbol, the child rolling up his sleeve, symbolizes. The result of that hard work is that they keep their community rooted in Afrikaner tradition and free of the caustic policies of South Africa generally, namely its DEI insanity. They can grow, work, and prosper without having affirmative action mongers shoving race communism down their throats. The other side of the Afrikaner-only coin is that the media frequently and unfairly slanders it as a "whites only" town in which racists...well it's not clear what exactly the hand-ringers thing is going on; as is evident from the pictures, all they're doing is building a nice community. But regardless of Oranians not presenting a threat to anyone or anything but the Rainbow Nation's post-1994 founding myth, the media, and critics smear it and try to get the government to destroy it. Orania is enshrined in the South African constitution, and so it's protected by that provision, but given the anarcho-tyranny present in the country, is probably more protected by South Africa's declining state capacity
What ties the whole project together is that Orania can, and does, defend itself.  For one, it screens residents, and even visitors, requiring guests to get permission to visit before they can do so. More than that, it can actually defend itself: the citizens of it are armed, trained, and united by the ties that bind to such an extent that they will defend it. Like America in its frontier days, the Oranians have guns, carry them, and are ready to use them. The result is a peaceful society with nearly non-existent crime, much unlike everywhere else in South Africa. The smears of Orania are absurd. For example, a black writer visited, was treated with kindness and hospitality, and then smeared the little community, titling his article, "Inside creepy ‘Whites Only’ village Orania with own currency and bizarre rules… including asking permission for visitors". He the article, he described the rules as "bizarre," saying, "The village has its own national holidays, its own currency - the Ora - and day-to-day life is governed by a bizarre set of rules including having to seek permission from the town council before receiving visitors." Hilariously, he also tried to dispute the fact that Orania has nearly no crime, claiming that merely the statistics were different. "Local estate agent Marli says business is booming as more Afrikans - who make up just four per cent of the population - seek a safe haven from South Africa's crime-ridden townships. The country has one of the highest crime rates in the world, with a murder rate of 45 per 100,000, compared to 6.3 in the US and under one per cent in the UK. While the community has often claimed to be "crime-free", this has been widely disputed by others who claim statistics are not gathered there as they would be in the rest of the country," he said. Whatever his ramblings, the truth is that Orania is quite safe and secure, which contrasts mightily with the horrific crime situation in South Africa generally. Particularly, it's very different from the general situation the Boer farmers find themselves in, where marauding gangs of thugs attack them near-daily and commit murder nearly weekly. Those farms are isolated, and so prey to attackers. Orania, by contrast, is a united community that, because of its numbers and shared purpose, is willing and able to defend itself. As "liberal democracy" rots every country that adopts it, turning everywhere into Zimbabwe, the world is a much, much more dangerous place. Further, it's getting more so every day. The solution to that, if one cares about his family, is to get them to a haven like Orania. Doing so might present temporary pain and annoyance, but is much better than seeing a child drowned in boiling water (a farm murder atrocity, as @k9_reaper noted in a recent podcast interview), out of an unwillingness to make a move. Further, in a time when all world differences and culture are being subsumed by globohomo's Marvel movies and rap "music," Orania has preserved historic Afriker culture. That is worth a great deal, and is something that more ought try to do"

Meme - "Africa when we send $5 Trillion. *zinc shacks*
Africa when we send 300k "colonizers". *City with rainbow, clean streets etc*"

Marino Linich on X - "Being a white South African farmer is, by far, the most dangerous occupation in the world, with a peak rate of 313 murders per 100,000 a year (0.313%).  At that rate, 3,130 per 100,000 (3.13%) would be killed over 10 years, and a constant hazard to age 80 implies about a 22% chance of being murdered."

Visegrád 24 on X - "South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has made it clear that the country will not abandon its radical anti-White policies known as “Black Economic Empowerment” (BEE).  “Those who say BEE and affirmative action must stop are just dreaming,” he said.  South Africa has strict laws that mandate discriminatory hiring practices.   A new law called the Employment Equity Amendment Act sets hiring targets for 2025–2030 across 18 economic sectors, with some workforce targets aiming for 90–96% of employees to come from groups excluding White men.  That means that if a company has more than 5% White men, it could face penalties of up to 10% of its income."
Will Tanner on X - "They'd rather the whole country implode than retreat even slightly from the race communist agenda. Such is always the case. They don't care if things get worse. They want things to get worse. That's how they inflict suffering on the supposed "oppressors". The only way to stop them is to destroy their system entirely, and replace it with what existed before the Great War: systems premised on excellence rather than equality"

Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "No one can fix South Africa because it’s filled with South Africans.  You can only blame Apartheid for so long before the excuse wears off.  Japan was firebombed into oblivion and nuked twice during World War II. South Korea was invaded by North Korea, militarily occupied, and had almost every square inch of the country bombed during the Korean War.  Look at where Japan and South Korea found themselves 32 years later in 1977 and 1984 respectively.   The fact that South Africa has become a de-developing developing country is not something you can pin on Apartheid any longer. The country is a failed state because the people inhabiting it are a failed people who clearly do not know how to build or even maintain anything great."

Kane 謝凱堯 on X - "Since 1994, South Africa has received over $26B in aid. For context, Japan received $2.2 billion in aid ($12B in 1994) after being firebombed and nuked twice in World War II."
Proof that apartheid was really that damaging and that the world needs to send them even more aid

Polymarket on X - "BREAKING: South African unemployment rate soars to 33.6%"
Common Sense Extremists on X - "When it was a “White supremacist” nation they were a nuclear power with a space program and performed the first heart transplant…"
Clear proof of how damaging apartheid was!

The South African Government Has Relinquished its Monopoly on - "The German sociologist Max Weber defined the state as a political institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force in order to maintain law and order within a given territory. This foundation for an ordered society is showing serious cracks in South Africa, but these cracks are being filled with a variety of non-governmental elements – good and bad.  Over the past 30 years, a power vacuum has emerged because the capacity of the African National Congress (ANC)-led government has declined in many respects. These include a collapse in service delivery, infrastructure maintenance, electricity and water supply, and policing.  The South African Police Service (SAPS) can no longer effectively carry out its constitutional mandate and primary function. According to a 2026 audit, only 44% of SAPS stations answer their telephones. In 2023 the Minister of Police confirmed that the SAPS had ignored more than 6.3 million calls for help over a period of three years. This figure represents more than 5 700 calls per day. In 2021, when the country suffered its worst wave of looting and riots since the end of apartheid – hundreds were killed and destruction totalled billions of rands – the SAPS proved woefully unprepared and overwhelmed. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is in a similar state of deterioration, having been drained and incapacitated by decades of neglect and mismanagement. More than 85% of its aircraft and fleet are out of action, while most of its budget is spent on salaries. SANDF soldiers have recently complained about a lack of combat boots, uniforms, medical supplies, and even starvation. Only three entities possess the resources and organisational capacity to fill the vacuum that is left by this crumbling state: the private sector, organised communities, and organised crime. It is therefore no wonder that all three are currently flourishing in South Africa.  The growth in the power and sophistication of organised crime under ANC rule is well documented. Almost every sector and industry in South Africa has been infiltrated by some form of organised crime syndicate, such as the construction, water, taxi, and hospital mafias. As recently emphasised again at the Madlanga Commission, South Africa ranks 7th out of 193 United Nations member states on the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime’s organised crime index. The country ranked 19th in 2021, when the first such index was published.  And just this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa said: “Organised crime is now the most immediate threat to our democracy, our society, and our economic development.”  For some, the distorted facade of order that organised crime creates in the communities it takes over is the best option, and sometimes the only one available. It usually takes the form of protection-money extortion, but it is preferred by some to the total lawlessness and anarchy that government collapse invites. No industry epitomises the private sector’s response to government collapse better than the country’s private security sector. Over the past 30 years, this sector has developed into one of the world’s leaders in size, innovation, scope, and competitiveness. This sector has experienced more than 400% growth in active workers since 1997, and an almost 86% increase in registered firms since 2014. In 1997 there were approximately 115 000 active private security personnel in South Africa. As of 2026, this number has risen significantly to over 600 000. The SAPS has roughly 148 000 sworn officers, while the military have roughly 69 000 active uniformed personnel. This means that private security personnel outnumber those of the SAPS and military combined by a factor of almost three.  South Africa's policing capacity has been eroded so severely that the SAPS was forced in June 2026 to enlist the assistance and resources of private security firms to help maintain law and order during nationwide protests against illegal immigration. In striking contrast to the 2021 riots, looting and destruction were largely contained during the 2026 protests. The last non-governmental entity that made notable progress in recent years in maintaining law and order is that of community safety structures. Since 2012 the civil rights organisation AfriForum has established 177 neighbourhood and farm watches that, at their own cost and risk, cover thousands of kilometres of patrols every month and achieve remarkable successes every week."
No wonder they are obsessed with Palestine, since that's the cause of hateful losers

Farai Mazhindu on X - "In South Africa, the ANC hands out a water tank during election season and calls it governance.  Thirty years in power, and the flagship achievement on the campaign trail is a plastic tank, not a functioning municipal water system, not fixed infrastructure, just a tank, wheeled out with cameras rolling and comrades smiling for the gallery.  This is what "service delivery" has been reduced to, a photo-op standing in for policy, a handout standing in for a plan. The taps have been dry for years. The pipes are corroded. The reservoirs are neglected. But none of that matters as long as there's a banner, a tank, and a chance to remind the community who to vote for in four weeks.  It's not development. It's a transaction dressed up as generosity, solve nothing, fix nothing, just show up with a tank and ask for another term."
Farai Mazhindu on X - "The Third World begins the exact moment a society alters its daily life to accommodate the failure of the state, rather than forcing the state to fix the failure.  It is defined by what the people learn to live with.  When a community accepts that municipal water will never run from the tap, and instead celebrates a plastic bulk water storage tank as a luxury, that is the Third World mindset.  When citizens buy private generators, dig private boreholes, hire private security, and pay private medical bills, all while continuing to pay taxes to a corrupt ruling elite, they are actively financing a Third World reality.  The infrastructure collapses because the public's threshold for outrage has collapsed. Mediocrity becomes the national baseline."

South Africa: The DEI Nation - "As planes fall apart in the air and on the tarmac while municipal water supplies become increasingly contaminated and everything that once used to function well now hardly works if it works at all, Americans are looking around and wondering to where all of this leads. What is life like when you can’t count on the cops showing up, the courts ruling impartially, the public services functioning as they’re supposed to, the electricity working when you flip a switch, supply lines functioning as designed, etc.? In other words, what is life like when a country goes not from Third World to First, as Lee Kuan Yew famously described Singapore, but rather from First World to Third?  Unfortunately, this problem has a precedent that shows exactly what happens: South Africa. Though it avoided most of the horrific genocides of European settlers that were inflicted upon much of the rest of post-colonial Africa, such as Rhodesia, the Congo, and Angola, its fate wasn’t much better. Now, it is the DEI nation... When South Africa got rid of apartheid, it received plaudits from around the world and was hailed as the “Rainbow Nation.” According to the powers that be, all of which were happy to see it shed its Boer control and hand over the reigns of government to anti-white fanatics, such as convicted terrorist Nelson Mandela, South Africa would move from being a civilized nation run by evildoers and “racists” to a bright land of opportunity run by the enlightened, formerly oppressed. The hugely successful “Invictus” movie pushed that message of supposed unity, and critics of the formerly mainly white South African security services cheered as the former “oppressors” were removed from their positions of power. But, far from being a Rainbow Nation with a pot of gold at the bottom of a kumbaya society, South Africa is now a living hell. Nothing works, violent crime is both rampant and often unpunished, the Boer farmers are being genocided by violent gangs, and once-thriving cities are now crime-ridden, mostly unoccupied slums... South Africa went all in on DEI policies and it is collapsing as a result. It has no doctors because those competent to be doctors are excluded from the university system on the basis of race. It refuses to punish crime, and so economic activity has all but ceased and many of those who would be its best and brightest are living in hellish slums or tuning out of society. The corrupt and incompetent are promoted while the competent can’t find work, so corruption is rampant and everything is falling apart. All that proponents of DEI in America demand has been tried in South Africa, and all that opponents of DEI in America claim will happen here has happened in South Africa. The only place that still functions is Orania, where the Boers are still in control and able to determine their own destinies instead of relying on a corrupt, affirmative-action government. The result of those policies can be seen in all aspects of life. The South African steel industry, which should be strong given the nation’s immense natural resources, has evaporated. The nation passed a law requiring compliance with “equity targets” for the business sector, and the business sector has collapsed. Meanwhile, even water access for farmers is meted out on the basis of race, and now the nation’s once famously efficient agricultural sector is struggling to produce enough food. South African Airways went all in on DEI, and now it’s fighting insolvency...   Success didn’t require the strictest apartheid laws, but it proved impossible to retain when South Africa ran in the opposite direction and embraced DEI. Now, the nation that used to provide food and electricity in abundance not only to its citizens but to the nearby nations is instead unable to produce either in needed quantities for itself. DEI did that, and it will do it to America if we let it. Sadly, America is following in the same dismal, DEI footsteps of South Africa."

Jacob Zuma under investigation for using hate speech - "Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, is under official investigation for using hate speech against a man who died 338 years ago.  Complaints have been lodged with a human rights watchdog after Zuma blamed South Africa’s ills on the country’s first white settler, Jan van Riebeeck, a Dutch administrator who opened the way for European colonisation.  “You must remember that a man called Jan van Riebeeck arrived here on 6 April 1652, and that was the start of the trouble in this country,” Zuma reportedly told a recent fundraising dinner in Cape Town. “What followed were numerous struggles and wars and deaths and the seizure of land and the deprivation of the indigenous peoples’ political and economic power.”  Van Riebeeck’s arrival “disrupted South Africa’s social cohesion, repressed people and caused wars”, he said...  Pieter Mulder, leader of the FF Plus, said Zuma was resorting to “scapegoat politics”. He told parliament on Wednesday: “The honourable president says a man called Jan van Riebeeck arrived here, and that was the start of problems in the country. I can prove the president is wrong. But what did he say in plain language? He said, when white people arrived here the trouble started.  “What is the understanding of ordinary ANC supporters? They understand that if one gets rid of the white man, all problems are solved. Get rid of the cockroaches and all problems go away.”...  Van Riebeeck, working for the Dutch East India Company, founded the settlement at the southern tip of Africa that became Cape Town. The day of his arrival used to be a public holiday known as Founder’s Day, but was abolished by the new democratic government in 1994. Van Riebeeck’s face also used to adorn the national currency, the rand, which now bears the image of the first black president, Nelson Mandela.  Dave Steward, the executive director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, wrote last month: “The anti-Jan van Riebeeck campaign is yet another example of the disturbing and increasingly overt anti-white posture of the president and the ANC. Indeed, the ANC’s core programme, its ‘national democratic revolution’, is the continuation and completion of its ‘liberation’ struggle against white South Africans whom it views as ‘antagonists’.”"
From 2015. Left wing ideology is about refusing to take responsibility and blaming others, especially the "powerful"

Morocco knocks South Africa off top spot as Africa’s leading industrial economy | Business Insider Africa - "While South Africa remains one of the continent’s biggest industrial powers, the report noted that the country has struggled with declining competitiveness in recent years...   The index assessed industrial development across 54 African countries between 2010 and 2024 and found that 41 countries improved their industrialisation scores, while Africa’s overall industrial performance rose by 6%."
Damn apartheid!

Craig Mokhiber on X - "The sight of the US President, who is actively helping to perpetrate an actual genocide in Palestine, sitting in the White House and shouting at the South African President about a non-existent genocide (made up in dark web chat rooms by racist, white supremacists still bitter about the end of apartheid), and all because South Africa had the courage to bring Trump’s Israeli collaborators to the World Court for its crimes, is truly extraordinary. The inmates are truly in charge of the asylum."
Terrorism supporters think you can't commit genocide on "white" people and that "white" people aren't allowed to defend themselves. Ironic that he can't see how some of the claims about "genocide" in Palestine would justify calling South Africa a genocide too

This account shows how South Africa has decayed in just a decade, and it's a warning to us all - "I've been seeing this account in my feeds for months, and there's a reason why. People are fascinated with the ruins of once-thriving civilizations. That's a timelapse of Booysens Train Station in Johannesburg from 2014 to 2025. Within 11 years, what was once a clean, functional rail station was stripped for parts and reclaimed by nature.  This is happening all over South Africa, and you can see it on Google Maps:.. After apartheid (segregation between whites and blacks) ended in the 1990s, South Africa had a short moment where it strove for equality as the standard of a new and brighter future.  Unfortunately, it fell prey to the same Marxist poison that claimed Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Robert Mugabe forced white farmers, who actually had the tools and training to work the land, to sell their farms to blacks, who didn't have the training, and thus the entire agricultural output of the country (ie, the ability to feed itself or profit off the land) disappeared overnight. The same cries about reparations, black solidarity, and stolen land that you might see today in Minneapolis were used to force whites out of every industry, and then the country entirely.  The result? Zimbabwe's economy collapsed by 2003 and it has become the butt-end of a joke about inflation. It is now a fractured husk of its former glory.  South Africa has taken a similar route, pushing racial quotas that actively discriminate against whites. Even worse, major political movements now call for the extermination of whites, and white farmers are being attacked by gangs every week. Many have died. Electrical grids now suffer routine power outages. Roads aren't being fixed. Trash is piling up. Criminals are stripping wires, rebar, and materials out of buildings for scrap. Water treatment plants are going offline and the government is struggling to find people qualified to maintain them. The entire country is collapsing back into the Stone Age. Just this week, there is a water crisis in the news. The government can't even guarantee water to the largest city!"
Time to blame Apartheid and/or white people

Threads - "South African leader says: "We have not called for killing off the whites FOR NOW" This was NEVER about equality. It’s a POWER GRAB fueled by RACIAL HATRED."

Libs of TikTok on X - "OMG Trump just played a compilation of South African leaders calling to kiII White people and steal their land in front of the President of South Africa’s face"
Left wing logic - random Israeli politicians (even nobodies) talking shit about Palestinians proves that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, but "Kill the Boer" is not about killing white people.
South Africa being anti-Israel is classic projection

Meme - Dr. Sara Browning @sararen21: "Pres, Trump played a video of South Africans chanting racist rhetoric about "shooting White people" and "cutting their throats" during a WH meeting with the country's president, Cyril Ramaphosa. Trump flipped through a stack of papers bearing the names + photos of White victims of violence.
Ramaphosa: "There's no genocide."
CNN: "Conspiracy theories."
NBC: "Baseless claims."
MSNBC: "False claims."
New York Times: "Debunked myths."
"If genocide is ultimately an act of erasure, denial is its final, comprehensive deed" - Serj Tankian"

Donald Trump For President | Facebook - "President Trump confronts South African President Ramaphosa about the atrocities taking place against Afrikaners:
President Donald Trump: "You do allow them to take land — and then when they take the land, they k*ll the white farmer, and when they k*ll the white farmer, nothing happens to them."
South African President Ramaphosa: "Let me clarify that because what you sow, the speeches that are being made, one, that is not government policy. We have a multi-party democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, political parties to adhere to various policies, and in many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy. Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying, even in the parliament. And there’s a small minority party, which is allowed to exist in terms of our constitution."
President Donald Trump: "But you do allow them to take land."
South African President Ramaphosa: "No, no, no, no. Nobody can take land."
President Donald Trump: "And then when they take the land, they k*ll the white farmer, and when they k*ll the white farmer, nothing happens to them."
South African President Ramaphosa: "No, no. There is crime in our country. People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people. The majority of them are black people. And we have now been utilising the...""

60 Minutes on X - "In May, Pres. Trump said “over a thousand” White farmers have been murdered in South Africa. He showed a video of what he said were crosses marking their burial sites. But when 60 Minutes traveled to the site, the crosses were gone. Anderson Cooper tracked down the farmer who placed them there."
RIP Charlie Kirk ✝️ (Jesse aka Darth Crypto) on X - "So they tried to turn this into a hit piece on Donald Trump because he used the term burial site instead of memorial and they went on to prove that white farmers are regularly being slaughtered so often that the guy needs to continuously bring out the crosses to repeat the same memorial process?  Holy hell. 😂"
Stephen Horn on X - "The fact that this farmer can rattle off three close personal friends who were murdered on their farms is all the evidence you need as to the severity of this problem I'm not sure I know a single person who has been murdered"

Meme - Ayn Randfontein @aynrandfontein: "Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. September 2009 - September 2025."
*Good condition* *Rundown*
Clearly this is due to apartheid

Meme - Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1: "It doesn't take long to go from First World to Third, a lesson that Mandela and his spiritual progeny forced the South Africans to learn.  Civilization is a precious and fragile thing. Race communism shatters it"
"Hillbrow 1970 *civilised* Hillbrow 2021 *falling apart with dirt on the streets and people sprawling*"

Meme - David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr: "🚨White babies on pitchforks and signs reading ‘Kill Whites’ seen at a protest in South Africa. This is being encouraged by the government!"

Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 on X - "South Africa has introduced a new category to geopolitics: a de-developing nation."
Will Tanner on X - "From First World to Third in one generation, all in the name of equality"

Links - 26th October 2026 (2)

Relentless busybody fines will radicalise us middle classes - "I’ve long nurtured an almost indecent attachment to the film Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas as William “D-Fens” Foster, a man on the edge of losing his sanity having already been fired from his job. There’s a finely orchestrated build-up of small irritations – log-jammed LA traffic, failed air-con, a store owner who won’t swap a note for change for a phone call and an attempted mugging – before a simmering Foster implodes. I should clarify that the character is no hero (his wife has left him – and for good reason), but rare is the human attempting modern life who doesn’t sometimes feel like going rogue with a rocket launcher.  My own mild-mannered husband flipped his “nuclear” switch this week and I almost hurled myself into the reinforced concrete silo with him. The trigger was two unexpected letters from Ulez penalty collectors, although my spouse hasn’t driven in central London for well over 15 years. He did, however, drive to the funeral of a dear friend of 50 years standing in Kent in August. The wake was in a country pub and afterwards he drove the widow and another guest back to the family home in Orpington, where he stayed the night before returning to Cambridge in a state of deep melancholy. The widow assured him that the Ulez charges did not apply to her neighbourhood. But my spouse had committed the grave sin of driving down Orpington’s Station Road. Not once, but twice. The letters both listed an utterly terrifying array of fines. My husband jabbed the figures at me. “Full amount £1,000, if paid within 14 days £500”, escalating to £1,500 in red ink. Or more. “I can’t pay this,” he gibbered, “I’m a pensioner. That’s a grand in total.”  “I’m so sorry,” he added. “But you’ll have to pay it.”  By that time, both of us were stressed out enough to run amok with a flamethrower. I dashed upstairs to email a friend who works on the outer fringes of the Greater London Authority: “How can this be just or right?” I fulminated. Which is when my husband came upstairs and said he’d read the whole three pages of tachycardia-inducing material and found the small print: the fines were £90 each if you paid early. Even so, £180 is still huge for an impecunious 73-year-old pensioner in a 22-year-old diesel Ford Focus – which was only liable because the meatheads of the Noughties’ Labour government told us diesel cars were better for the planet than petrol ones. “Appeal it, I said. “It’s easy to prove you were at the funeral and distracted by grief. Your civil record is clear and you only strayed inside the Ulez zone for a nanosecond.” Needless to say, my spouse’s pleading letter was flatly rejected. I had to dip into my “repairs account” because my husband is a good, caring and chivalrous man. I feel like sky-diving into City Hall and staging a Mothers for Justice-style tantrum with a custard gun. Nor is this the only unjust fine to hit my family this week. One of my sisters had an appointment at St Thomas’ Hospital. She’d had “a funny turn” earlier this summer and the medics wanted her to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours. She was standing outside by the kerb, fretting and pacing, as she’s also halfway through moving home (try finding an affordable room in London on a bar manager’s wage), when she dropped a cigarette butt. Only for one of the new stealth “enforcement officers” to sneak up and levy a £350 on-the-spot fine. She and I both loathe fag-ends and litter (we were trained to be Wombles by our mother) but if there’s one place I wouldn’t snitch on smokers it’s outside a hospital, where so many souls are at their wit’s end. Also, before you blame the “turn” on her smoking, she’s a gym bunny and a scan revealed her lungs are in rude health. But what truly enraged me about both these stories is the fact we apologised profusely and offered good excuses for moments of aberration. But no one gave a monkey’s, so we lost and paid up like the good, browbeaten, law-abiding citizens we are. (We also know they’ll send the bailiffs round if we protest.) We transferred our hard-earned cash to the bureaucratic blob, while puzzling why on earth we strive to keep our end of the civil compact. Every day you can see young men force their way through tube gates, or dash from shops, arms laden with stolen goods, while the police do zilch.  Meanwhile, two years ago, my sister was beaten to the ground and kicked in the head by a mob of feral teenage girls after dismounting from a bus near Victoria station. They appeared to take objection to her androgynous looks, yelling a homophobic slur. The bus driver watched and did nothing, ditto bystanders. She filed a crime report and, apart from a short phone conversation with a police operative weeks later… nada. For all we know, her funny turn could be linked to being booted in the head. This is surely the greatest scandal of our age: the complying, law-abiding and tax-paying are the ones who must pay for every tiny infraction, while those who savage the fabric of society stroll away from any consequences. And it is one which threatens to radicalise the middle classes, who are growing ever wearier of relentless busybody fines issued en masse while the country fractures and breaks.  It’s certainly a good thing the only rocket launcher I currently have access to is an ancient toy Second World War field gun, which fires matchsticks."
Anarcho-tyranny strikes again

Airline pilots must go. They’re just too dangerous to have aboard - "The technology for pilotless planes has been available for a long time. It’s not a matter of erratic deep neural networks (or “AI” as they are generally known): this is simple, reliable automation. The task of flying an aircraft, ironically, is easier to automate than driving a car. Large fleets of pilotless aircraft are already operated by various organisations. The technology is perfectly capable of taking off, flying somewhere and landing without any human input. Indeed, it’s relatively rare for most airliners of today to be directly controlled by the pilots. An airline pilot friend of mine has actually said to me: “An emergency isn’t really the time to be flying the plane.”  So, given that a solid majority of airliner crashes are caused by the pilots, and there is no actual need for them, it would seem pretty clear that we can hugely improve airline safety by simply not having airline pilots any more. There would surely still be some crashes, just not as many."

France’s youth are fuelling a Catholic revival - "Adult baptisms have more than tripled in a decade, from 4,124 in 2016 to 13,234 this year, with young adults driving the rise.  A record 21,386 adults and teenagers were due to be baptised at Easter, according to the French Catholic Church – 13,234 adults, up 28 per cent in a year, and 8,152 teenagers. Church leaders and historians say many seek community and meaning in an angst-ridden world and hope for guidance from the Pope. That partly explains Leo’s expected rock-star reception. Nearly 600,000 have registered for Saturday’s Mass at Place de la Concorde, where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were guillotined. A giant white canopy will mark the altar at the site along the Champs-Élysées.  That exceeds the 350,000 at John Paul II’s Le Bourget Mass in 1980 and is roughly twice the crowd of 260,000 for Benedict XVI at Les Invalides in 2008, although John Paul drew more than a million in 1997... The increase in young people wanting to be baptised shows a growing trend of Catholicism being consciously chosen rather than inherited.  In the early 1960s, 93 per cent of babies were baptised by three months. Today fewer than 20 per cent are baptised even by seven, said Guillaume Cuchet, a professor of contemporary history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.  “For a measure that survived the Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and two world wars, it has collapsed over the past 60 years,” the historian said.  Baptisms of children under seven fell from 380,000 in 2000 to around 150,000 in 2024.  But there has been a shift towards Catholicism among younger adults. A survey published by the French Catholic Church in March found that 40 per cent of those preparing for baptism had embarked on their spiritual journey following a difficult experience such as illness or bereavement, while 32 per cent reported a powerful spiritual experience.  “That shift from Catholicism passed down through generations to one based on personal commitment is probably something that interests the Pope,” said François Mabille, the director of the Geopolitical Observatory of Religion.  Philippe Portier, a sociologist of religion at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, said: “In a world in crisis, we need to find our bearings, and the Church can be one of those points of reference.”"

Sacred Mysteries: No bells, no horses for Christians living under Islamic rule - "People sometimes say or even write that Christians at odds with the Orthodoxy of Byzantium welcomed the sudden conquests in the Near East in the seventh century by mostly Arab Muslims. Using primary sources, the historian Sidney Griffith disproved this claim. “Christians of all communities unanimously regarded the conquest as a disaster,” he wrote in 2008.  That was in The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque, “a work without precedent or parallel” in the words of Prof Gabriel Said Reynolds of Notre Dame. Now Prof Griffith has died aged 87, after more than 50 years opening up a new perspective. “Western Christian thinkers engaged in interreligious dialogue with Muslims in the modern world,” he wrote, “have seldom if ever taken any useful cognisance of the intellectual history of the Christians who lived for centuries in the world of Islam and who wrote Christian philosophy and theology in Syriac and Arabic.” He changed that.  From the seventh to the 13th century a new cultural expression of Christian doctrine developed, in Arabic. The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque was the first book to study the cultural life of medieval Christians in the Islamic world.  Most Arabic sources, Christian or Muslim, divided Christians under Islamic rule into three main kinds, with separate ecclesiastical structures: “Melkites” (who followed the orthodoxy of the Council of Chalcedon), “Jacobites” (after the sixth-century Bishop Jacob Baradaeus, who protected Monophysite Christians), and “Nestorians” (East Syrian Christians accused of following the heresiarch Nestorius).  All varieties of Christian found their position increasingly precarious as their numbers dwindled. They lived as dhimmis – protected or tolerated as “People of the Book”, Jews and Christians who had received a partial revelation through the Torah (al-Tawrat) and the Gospel (al-Injil). They enjoyed not even second-class citizenship. A tax, jizya, had to be paid and there were laws on dress, on where dhimmis could live and how they could worship. New churches were forbidden and old ones could not be mended. Church bells must not be rung. Christians must not ride a horse.  But a Christian theological tradition in Syriac and Arabic emerged from the Greek tradition of the Church Fathers. It had as much claim to Apostolic status as that of the Latin West. Christian apologists writing in Arabic might even use Islamic terms, such as the “beautiful names” of God, to introduce a concept like that of the persons of the Trinity.   In the happiest circumstances of the 9th and 10th century, Christian scholars contributed to the intellectual scene in Baghdad alongside Muslims. Christian philosophers, in a tradition deriving from Alexandria, were at its centre. But Christian Arabic treatises also responded to Islam and rebutted the status of Mohammed as a prophet. They encouraged Christians to resist conversion to Islam, though it offered a gain in social standing.  Griffith wrote that “even the friendliest of Christian apologists” of the period saw no sense in calling Mohammed a prophet or calling the Koran divine revelation. He pointed out that Abraham was seen as a dividing point between Jews, Christians and Muslims, never as a sort of common ancestor, as implied by the present-day term “Abrahamic faiths”. He was a historian who favoured reality over wishful thinking."
Weird. We're told that Islam was very religiously tolerant

Polymarket on X - "BREAKING: American man accused of kidnapping Flock camera, "digitally waterboarding" it by subjecting it to 23,040 license plates per second via six 4K monitors rapidly flashing images of plates."

Allie ✞ on X - "The most frustrating part about modern discourse is that it appears to be a conflict of values, but it's mostly a conflict of information  Your cousin who's panicking about the Cornell 7 probably has no idea what she's talking about  Your friend saying Lindsay Clancy was framed legitimately believes that because she saw it from people she trusts  Your dad thinks you are evil for not opposing data centers because he truly believes they will turn the water brown  Most people these days have their outrage formed for them by an algorithm and do approximately zero research on top of that -- this happens on both sides, by the way  When you're talking with these people you will look like a monster to them because they think you have the same information they do: a college girl was drugged and raped, a mother was abused and framed for murder  The vast majority of people are unable to revisit the assumptions that led them there because that would be like a fish examining water  To them it is totally and completely true, which means any new information is only an attack  On a personal level, please avoid talking politics with people close to you who think this way. It will ruin your relationships"
This slightly misstates the problem - it's ostensibly a conflict of information, but that's driven by the conflict of values, i.e. motivated reasoning. That's how 2 people can read the exact same facts and come away understanding totally different things.

Whitman Republican Club denied affiliation — for being Republican - "Right in its student handbook, Whitman College specifically promises every student freedom of expression and association. So, when members of the Whitman Republican Club sought recognition to become a college-affiliated student organization, they had every reason to expect approval through the same review process as any other group.   Instead, the student senate unanimously rejected their application. 25-0.   Was it something they had done? Was it something they forgot? No, the record points somewhere else: It was what they believed... It’s not surprising that some or all of the senators found the club’s Republican views offensive. Virtually every viewpoint is offensive to someone. Whitman recognizes dozens of diverse groups on campus, many with missions or purposes that likely conflict with each other or the ASWC: Like Whitman’s affiliated Don’t Eat The Wheat group, who may have some conflicting values with the also-affiliated Cooking and Baking Club. But to deny one club based on its view threatens the same rights of all groups. If dissent leads to exclusion, what happens to any viewpoint that disagrees with the majority?   In the past, prohibitions on viewpoint discrimination have protected groups whose views were not popular when they sought to form campus organizations. For example, the principle of viewpoint neutrality protected chapters of LGBT organizations in Arkansas and New Hampshire in the 1970s and ’80s when student senates and university trustees refused to “support a homosexual group” or their expression, which was considered “shocking and offensive” at the time. Using only viewpoint-neutral criteria means that voices that may not be popular can still be heard."
Clearly, college campuses are liberal because all smart people are left wing

My favorite beverage is a 2,000-year-old energy drink from ancient Rome - "The Romans were famed for their innovations in military logistics, which allowed them to extend their territory from Rome and its immediate surrounds to the whole Mediterranean and ultimately, with the establishment of the Roman Empire, virtually all of western Eurasia. But an army can’t win if it’s thirsty. Enter posca. This blend of vinegar and water—and possibly salt, herbs, and other stuff—holds a special place in beverage history thanks to its role as the Gatorade of the Roman army."

Derek Thompson on X - "If you want to have a good time in life, I think you should believe in some conspiracy theories. They're fun. Life is about having fun.   But if you want to be right, you should probably have a reflexive aversion to every conspiracy theory you hear. It's not that they're all wrong. It's more that the vast vast vast majority of them are incredibly stupid and don't really survive three seconds' thought (see post below for why it makes no sense for Karen Bass to rig an election to help a stronger candidate against her). More broadly, conspiracy theories almost always assume the extraordinary competency of a shadowy group of elites who are very good at keeping a secret. Haven't the last few decades proved that elites aren't that competent? Everybody accusing Karen Bass of expertly rigging the LA election on Twitter right now also thinks she sucks as mayor. What are the odds that the politician you hate, who you think sucks at everything, is exclusively good at rigging electoral outcomes to make you personally upset?  There's more to life than being right, so feel free to ignore the second paragraph. But people interested in being right should be much more reflexively judgmental of conspiracy theories."
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 on X - "This is why you should only believe conspiracy theories which are
1) VERY fun
2) higher on plausibility
3) don’t make you change your life
For example Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son"

Meme - joann.blake: "If Democrats ever seize the reins again, the mandate is not healing it is eradication. Lawyer up. Court up. Charge every sycophant, every enabler, every provocateur who carried water, shuffled papers, or whispered obedience-every accomplice. No rest. No absolution. Because if you don't finish the job, the snake sheds its skin and comes back sleeker, meaner, and immune to the last dose."
pm512973: "And I'm curious, what would you charge a republican voter with? It's funny how you call Republicans fascists but yet your post is more fascist or Nazi like than anything Any Republican has ever said or done. And then of course, what happens if the courts decide that your proposal is unconstitutional? What will you do then?"
Meme - reiterpallasch199: "*weaponizes the justice system*
"No they're trying to weaponize the justice system!"
"When we're in charge we must weaponize the justice system!"
Fucking comic books have more nuanced villains than this"
Persecuting your political enemies to the ends of the earth is only an unacceptable violation of norms and dangerous authoritarianism when it threatens the left wing agenda

Meme - *Man smiling in bed with empty place and pillow*
Man waking up: "Cindy?... SHE LEFT ME. FOR REASONS BEYOND WHAT MY HEART CAN COMPREHEND, SHE LEFT ME."
Man hugging pillow: "LEFT ME WITH NOTHING BUT HER SMELL AND MEMORIES OF A LOVE AFFAIR SO CONSUMING, YET SO BRIEF..."
Annoyed woman in bed: "RELAX, ROB, WE DIDN'T PAY HER TO STAY THE WHOLE NIGHT."

Meme - Big Serge @witte_sergei: "Probably the worst thing about drones is that they are ruining the aesthetic quality of armored vehicles by forcing them to wear thick sheets of cable and caging. Once a noble beast, the tank now looks like an unkempt Pekingese."

Meme - Smiling woman with big cucumber measuring it with forearm: "WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING HUNGRY AND BEING HORNY? WHERE YOU PUT THE CUCUMBER"

Meme - "Dilbert Classic April 15, 2004"
Dilbert's Mom: "HAVE YOU MADE YOUR MOTHER PROUD BY BECOMING A MANAGER?"
Dilbert: "NO. HAVE YOU MADE YOUR SON PROUD BY HOSTING A COOKING SHOW ON TELEVISION? YOU COULD CALL THE SHOW "COOKING WITH TOO MUCH SALT.""
Dilbert's Mom: "HOW DID You GET THIS WAY?"

Meme - "Twonks"
Man: "WHAT'S YOUR RING SIZE?"
Woman: "OH MY GOD, WHY?"
Man: "NO REASON *looking at BUTT PLUGS*"
Reference to this

Meme - "Average modern leftist understanding of politics:
Socialism is when government does stuff I like.
Fascism is when government does stuff I don't like.
Capitalism is when rich people spend their money in a way I don't like"

Meme - "The Berenstain Bears: Papa Bear's Not-So-Happy Ending
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*2 kid bears looking puzzled while credit card bill is on table*
Asian woman bear to Papa Bear: "Ok, now turn over..."
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L. Wayne Mathison on X - "George Orwell, Thomas Sowell, Friedrich Hayek and Frédéric Bastiat give you four excellent tools for cutting through Canadian political language.
Orwell: Watch the words.
Sowell: Ignore intentions. Examine results and trade-offs.
Hayek: Be suspicious when politicians think they possess enough knowledge to manage millions of people’s decisions from the centre.
Bastiat: Look beyond what you can immediately see. Ask what the policy costs, what it prevents, and what would have happened otherwise.
Apply those four tests to Canadian politics.
“Affordability” can mean spending more government money, cutting a tax, sending you a cheque, controlling a price or subsidizing something.
Orwell asks: What does “affordability” actually mean here?
Sowell asks: Does the policy really make Canadians better off after all the costs are counted?
Hayek asks: How does Ottawa know the right price, subsidy, industry or investment for millions of different Canadians?
Bastiat asks: What don’t we see? What would taxpayers, businesses and families have done with that money instead?
“Investment” sounds better than “government spending. Fine. Investment in what? How much? Who decided? Who takes the loss if it fails?
“Compassion” describes an intention. It doesn’t tell you whether a program works.
“Fairness” sounds unquestionably good. But fairness to whom? Who pays more? Who receives more? What behaviour does the policy encourage?
“Common sense” is another slogan until somebody explains the actual policy. “Corporate greed” can describe genuine misconduct, but it can also become a convenient explanation that ignores taxes, regulation, wages, competition, monetary policy, supply constraints and government decisions. “Crisis” may describe a real emergency. It can also create the political urgency needed to push through measures that would receive much more scrutiny under ordinary circumstances. “Misinformation” should mean a factual claim that can be demonstrated to be false. It should never become shorthand for “an argument we don’t want to answer.” “Dangerous” tells you somebody wants you to fear an idea. Ask for the evidence.
And when somebody calls an argument “simplistic,” ask them to identify exactly what is wrong with it. Sometimes a simple argument is wrong. Sometimes the complicated language is there because the simple question is uncomfortable.
This applies to Liberals, Conservatives, New Democrats, premiers, bureaucracies, CBC, private media, corporations, unions and people on social media.
It also applies to the politicians you like. Especially the politicians you like. Strip away the language and ask:
What is actually being proposed? What will it cost? Who pays? Who benefits? What incentives does it create? What knowledge would government need to make this work? What consequences aren’t immediately visible? What would people have done with their own money and resources instead? What evidence says the policy works? What happens when it fails?
Orwell teaches you to examine the language. Sowell teaches you to examine incentives, trade-offs and consequences. Hayek teaches you the limits of centralized knowledge. Bastiat teaches you to look for the unseen cost.
Put all four together and you have a pretty good bullshit detector for Canadian politics."

Max 📟 on X - "Tucker Carlson: The government of the United Kingdom is punishing and prohibiting people and ideas it doesn't like. Russia's not doing that.
Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whaaaaaaat?"
Melissa Chen on X - "Tucker markets himself as "anti-war" in the US Any guess as to what happens to Russians who oppose war, just like he does? (None of this justifies the UK's increasingly Orwellian approach to speech but the idea that Russia is a paragon of free expression is laughable)"

Andy Ngo on X - "Update: A Portland, Ore. teen suspected of being a member of the "764" terror cult has been charged with domestic terrorism after a bioterrorism attack occurred at Benson High School—the school I went to.  On Sept. 8, an unnamed teen mixed dangerous chemicals in the cafeteria, causing severe injuries to himself and prompting a mass evacuation.   The 15-year-old has been charged at the state level with domestic terrorism, 12 counts of attempted m—rder and more.   The FBI has been assisting in the investigation. It found references to the "764" cult on devices belonging to the teen. The international p—dophile cult grooms and recruits youths into killing animals, making s—xual content and killing others. I recently reported on the decades-long sentencing of one of the cult's leaders, who is trans. There are members of this cult all over the world, and they've groomed multiple youths into carrying out m—rder-s—icides."

Meme - Kings of A&R: "Haiti's president demanded "respect" for his country, then drank water straight from an pitcher during his speech."

Meme - Hereward the Woke @BamaExpat: "Cambodians have a uniquely flat distribution of educational achievement. I wonder how that happ...oh."
Post-Menshevik @Fullantho: "TIL: Cambodia unique status in PISA"
"The smallest social gradient is found in Cambodia (mathematics 8 points, reading 4, science 4). In this country there is almost "ideal social equality": the performance difference between the upper and lower quarters of socioeconomic status amounts to only 21 points in mathematics and even only 8 and 9 points in reading and science, respectively. By comparison, in Germany the differences are 111, 112, and 121 points. The downside of "social equality": almost all Cambodian students learn virtually nothing. With competency scores of 336 in mathematics, 329 in reading, and 347 in science, Cambodia has the lowest performance level in all domains. In mathematics, 95.6 percent of students do not possess even the minimum competencies required for full participation in life in modern societies; in reading the figure is 97.1 percent and in science 96.2 percent-equality at the lowest possible level."
Left wingers are obsessed with equity, so this is their paradise

Letter: Conservatives aren’t less intelligent - "Singh cherry-picks a few studies, ignoring evidence against his conclusion. For example, Singh cites a study about verbal intelligence — which noticeably measures correlations with right-wing authoritarianism among children, not general conservatism among adults — neglecting to mention that a more recent study finds that those who identify as Republicans have higher verbal intelligence, greater probability knowledge and better question comprehension than Democrats. This study has been corroborated by the further finding that Republicans score between two and five IQ points higher than Democrats on verbal intelligence. Another study found that those who identified as center-right had the highest IQ, controlling for gender, age, education and income. Finally, a 2021 meta-analysis concluded that economic conservatives have higher cognitive ability. Nevertheless, it would be foolish and overconfident to assert based on these findings that Republicans are more intelligent than Democrats, and I don’t think that’s true either. Effects are small in either direction, and it is a notoriously flawed method to make causal inferences from correlations, yet this is exactly what Singh does."

Kaja Kallas on X - "The ICC is the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system. It prosecutes individuals responsible for the most serious crimes under international law. I have spoken with ICC President Tomoko Akane following the United States’ announced intention to impose sanctions. The six-month period before the measures take effect offers a window for dialogue. The EU has always supported the Court, and the EU has options to ensure that it can continue its vital work. Protecting the ICC remains an EU priority."
Ribeiro on X - "This is nonsense. The ICC did not go after Assad or the leaders of Saudi Arabia for their crimes in Syria and Yemen, respectively. It also did not go after the Chinese leaders for their crimes against the Uyghurs. It's a court that's targeting citizens of countries that have sound legal systems and, as such, should be reformed or dismantled."