Links - 14th May 2026 (2 - Feminism)

Meme - "*NPC Rey from Star Wars* Greetings! I am your current-year female protagonist
I'm 5'4", 112 lbs, not in particularly good shape for someone my size, but I can take on a room full of 6'6" 230 lbs guys with job titles like "Goon" and "Henchmen" with very little effort.
My personality is getting upset when men tell me I cant do something that would most likely end with me getting hurt or killed.
Enjoy my poorly written and poorly made movies and TV shows or you are a tiny dicked incel.
I project zero sexuality or femininity unless there's a mix-raced POC lesbian character and even then it'll be removed from the film in the Middle East and China."

DataRepublican (small r) on X - "UN Women almost certainly literally funds the Taliban. The US government gives about 18 million annually to UN Women, but private entities give an additional 27 million. Their top three private partners are the Gates Foundation, Open Society, and Ford Foundation. Afghanistan is one of their top expense countries, but Afghanistan's banking system is in collapse and it's reported NGOs can only operate there if they pay tax and duties to the Taliban."

Meme - "99% of Men
Protect Provide Sacrifice
1% of Men
Rape Abuse Murder
FEMINIST "MEN NEED TO STOP RAPING AND KILLING US!!!"
Plus, feminists promote pro-crime policies, which make women less safe. It's almost as if they want to endanger women to get more power

Meme - UN Women @UN_Women: "With active conflicts at its highest level since 1946, the role of women in peacebuilding is more important than ever. Alongside women on the ground, @UN Women is uplifting women's leadership to realize a peaceful world #ForAllWomenAndGirls, Learn more:
*women in full face veils*
WHEN WOMEN AD, PEACE FOLLOWS"
Abby Libby @abbythelibb_: "Was the photo choice supposed to be a woman who would be murdered by male family members if she tried to pursue leadership in her society?"

Meme - "*Boy playing in mud with worm* *Men building trebuchet in backyard and drinking beer with thumbs up*
*Old men on deck in chairs laughing* *Man having burnt BBQ*
THIS is boys will be boys."

WHO Is Falsifying the Truth about Women in Medical Research - "Feminists often achieve their goals by bending and subverting the truth. Sometimes their falsehoods are misrepresentations. Other times, the claims are outright untruths. A recent social media post by the World Health Organization falls in the latter category.  On March 8, the WHO issued a Twitter post featuring Dr. Gaya Gamhewage, a senior manager at the World Health Organization (1). She made this disturbing claim:  “Did you know? For decades, medical research and treatment plans have focused mainly on men, leaving women out of the picture.”  But Gamhewage’s claim is flatly untrue.  Since 1995, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has tracked the number of male and female participants in NIH-funded research. A recent study by James Nuzzo reveals that year after year, the number of females has exceeded the number of males. “Averaged over the 28-year period, females made up 58% of participants in NIH-funded research trials,” Nuzzo concludes (2).  This conclusion is affirmed by analyses of subsets of research studies:
A 1979 review of NIH-supported clinical trials revealed that 268 trials included both men and women, 12 studies were male-only, and 13 were only for women. (3)
A review of the MedLine database for the years 1966-1990 identified 753 studies involving men and 854 studies involving women (4).
A 2001 General Accounting Office report revealed, “GAO found that women were a majority of the clinical trial participants in the new drug applications (NDA) it examined.” (5)
Additional analyses reveal that funding for women’s health has never lagged, compared to men. Overall, 14% of the NIH research budget has been allocated to women’s health, while only 6% has gone for men’s health (6).  Despite this overwhelming evidence, activists like Gamhewage continue to make the claim that women were routinely excluded from or underrepresented in medical research, a wild statement that undermines the credibility of the entire WHO organization.  The fact is, it’s men, not women who have been shortchanged by the research enterprise. Dr. Gamhewage needs to retract her false assertion and set the record straight."
Another feminist myth debunked

Facebook - "For several decades, Australia introduced affirmative action measures designed to help girls and women overcome historical barriers. Those measures were explicitly framed as temporary. But temporary policies have quietly become permanent institutions, supported by billions of dollars of taxpayer funding and a large policy ecosystem that continues to frame women as disadvantaged, even as many of the most visible disparities now affect men and boys... Today we see:
• Boys falling behind girls across literacy, school completion, and university participation
• Men experiencing significantly shorter life expectancy
• Male suicide rates three to four times higher than female rates
• Vastly higher male workplace fatalities
• Major health disparities affecting men
• Limited services for male victims of violence and abuse
In this context, continuing a large taxpayer-funded “female advancement industry” without reassessment raises legitimate questions about fairness and public policy priorities."

Hunter Ash on X - "The two best predictors of educational success are IQ and conscientiousness. Men have a small advantage in IQ, and the two sexes have equal conscientiousness on average. Yet women are surpassing men in educational attainment. This should update us towards a view that the education system is biased towards women and girls."

Simone & Malcolm Collins on X - "Academia has been ignoring the fact that teachers discriminate AGAINST BOYS in EVERY subject, giving boys lower grades than girls when the gender of students is known.  From Victor Lavy's 2008 study "Do Gender Stereotypes Reduce Girls' or Boys' Human Capital Outcomes?  Evidence from a Natural Experiment" (Journal of Public Economics) -  Researchers in Israel compared blind-graded national exams (student names/gender were hidden) to regular teacher-graded exams, expecting to find a bias against girls.   Instead they found the opposite - consistent discrimination against boys across humanities and sciences.   Lavy admitted to being surprised by the results, but academia responded with silence.  There were no big follow-up studies, and no calls for reforms to remedy the discrimination against boys.  Findings like this, which reveal a systemic anti-male bias, often get buried because they contradict the feminist narrative.  Just one of many reasons to pull your boys out of the school system and homeschool!"

World Economic Forum on X - "#Women spend 25% more of their lives in poor health or with disabilities than men. The women’s #health gap means the global #economy is missing out on $1 trillion annually – and likely more:"
James L. Nuzzo, PhD on X - "A man who dies by suicide at age 28 doesn't live long enough to develop arthritis. Anyway, it's important to recognise what groups like the WEF and UN do. They continually portray men and women as combatants in a zero-sum game for health attention. This is why they continually ignore the sex difference in life expectancy and focus instead on quality of life and years of life in disability. In their minds, it's a battle of the sexes. So, they go with the data that favours attention to females. This is childish. There is no reason why sex differences in life expectancy cannot be acknowledged at the same time as sex differences in years in poor health/disability, etc. All of it is important, but to them, only half of it is important."

UF Researcher: Lesbians Encounter Same Problems As Married Women - "Lesbian couples face the same problems of domestic violence and unequal division of household chores that married heterosexual women do in their relationships, a new University of Florida study finds.  About 14 percent of 168 lesbians surveyed who were in committed relationships admitted they battered or were battered by their partners at least once a month, said Janis Weber, who did the research for her doctoral dissertation in sociology at UF. A similar number of women in heterosexual relationships suffer from domestic abuse, she said.  "The only difference between these women and their heterosexual counterparts is they feel completely ostracized from normal channels of help," Weber said. "If they call the police, the officer would likely laugh and say ‘Oh right, your girlfriend beat you up.' And they're persona non grata at shelters because these are usually battered spouse shelters."   The study of 84 lesbian couples found that lesbians who beat their partners fit the profile of heterosexuals who did so because they also abused their authority and tried to control their partners. The victims resembled their heterosexual counterparts in making excuses for the abuse or the abusive partner.  "That is completely consistent with ‘battered women syndrome,'" Weber said.  The study broke new ground in finding that lesbians have the same complaints as married women about the distribution of household chores, Weber said. Other researchers contend that lesbian couples share equally because, as women, they realize that household labor always has been associated with low status, she said. Only 17 percent of the couples in the UF study reported sharing equally in these tasks, which included preparing meals, washing dishes and taking out the garbage...   Generally, the woman who made less money in the relationship did the most work...   More than 80 percent of the women said they believed each partner did her fair share of housework, even though one of them really did much more"
Damn patriarchy!
Or, when chores are divided, women will always feel the division is unfair, because women are never happy

Meme - JACBailey @)JCBailey1: "UK Government: boys are going online and seeing so much misogyny, the manosphere is creating toxic masculinity and needs to be controlled! Meanwhile girls are going online and seeing this and no one says anything..."
Men Are Human @men_are_human: "Enjoy sipping box wine with your cats."
"The male loneliness epidemic is severe enough *woman kicking man*"
Tea cozy: "Women proudly hating men like this radicalized more men into misogyny than any red pilled manosphere content ever could"

What Is The Left Saying About Male Loneliness? - "The loneliness epidemic is a regular staple in today’s news cycle. And more often than not, the conversation is about men... While there’s a clear disparity in interest, survey results generally find that loneliness does not discriminate by sex. Men and women of all ages show similar levels of loneliness, while younger Americans report feeling more disconnected than older adults... Given the noise on the left, we decided to turn to BlueSky—a left-leaning, politically-engaged platform— to see what “the people” think about the issue... we found that posts pinning the blame on men, denying an epidemic exists, or suggesting that men “deserve it” (Category One) received the most likes and reposts, with satirical or ironic posts (Category Four) trailing in popularity"
Feminists just hate men

Researchers find reverse sexual double standard in sextech use - "A new study published in The Journal of Sex Research has found that men who use sexual technology are viewed with more disgust than women who engage in the same behaviors. The findings indicate a “reverse sexual double standard” in which men face harsher social penalties for using devices like sex toys, chatbots, and robots, particularly as the technology becomes more humanlike. This research suggests that deep-seated gender norms continue to influence how society perceives sexual expression and the integration of technology into intimate lives... While the use of vibrators by women has been largely normalized and framed as a tool for empowerment or sexual wellness, men’s use of similar devices often lacks the same social acceptance. Media depictions frequently portray men who use sex robots or dolls as socially isolated or unable to form human connections.  “Anecdotally, but also in research, discussions around using sexech tend to highlight vibrator use as a positive and empowering addition to female sexuality, while the use of devices designed for male anatomy (like sex dolls or Fleshlights) is more often viewed negatively or as unnecessary,” said study author Madison E. Williams, a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick and member of the Sex Meets Relationships Lab... Across the board, participants rated men who used sextech as more disgusting than women who used the same devices. This effect was consistent regardless of the participant’s own gender. Both men and women viewed male sextech users more negatively...   “Our findings suggest that men who use sex toys, exchange sexual messages with AI companions, or have sex with robots are perceived as more disgusting than women who engage in equivalent acts,” Williams told PsyPost. “This highlights a troubling double standard that penalizes men for using sexual devices, even though research has found they can offer both women and men similar sexual benefits.”"
Yet another sexual double standard feminists don't care about
Aka a woman with a vibrator is seen as empowered, but a man with a masturbator/pocket pussy is seen as creepy

Kinsey Institute researchers find fewer than half of women would date an adult virgin, compared to two-thirds of men who would : r/psychologyofsex - "Anecdotally, a lot of women will profess to a lack of desire in having to “teach” men how to have sex. Given that pleasure and orgasm are not guaranteed for women, it makes sense that they would place greater emphasis on performance and be less tolerant of a rookie than men. Women also express insecurities that an inexperienced man might experience FOMO, retroactive jealousy or resentment. Again plausible as later-in-life celibacy in men tends to be involuntary, as studies further down show. Social scientists offer an alternative explanation.  Theresa E. DiDonato, professor of psychology and the Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Graduate Programs at Loyola University Maryland, wrote in Psychology Today: “The information that a person had a small handful of prior partners might serve as a relationship-decision heuristic: if they had appealed to others, they might appeal to me. This is consistent with the idea of mate copying when one woman uses another's hard work vetting a particular guy as information that he's worth having a relationship with” (2023).  The idea is that beyond late adolescence and early adulthood, when men are expected to become sexually initiated, a man’s non-virgin status often serves as a shorthand cue for women that he is socially well-adjusted and sexually desirable."

Meme - "When I say "we still need feminism in our world" and someone responds "what rights do men have that women don't?" so i lowk just crash out"

Meme - Daddy's Girl: "All women deserve to voice their opinions!"
TradWife: "I have opinions that are different from the trendy popular opinions."
Crying and Upset Daddy's Girl: "Ew! Fascist pick me! We don't claim you!"

Possum Reviews on X - "I like how whether it's "us women have to wear makeup to live up to the impossible standards of men" or "us women wear makeup for ourselves, not to impress men" depends entirely one whichever argument is more convenient at the moment."

Fireman wrongly sacked after saying woman he rescued ‘looked haggard’ - "A fire

man was wrongly sacked after saying that a 30-year-old woman he rescued “looked haggard for her age”, a tribunal has ruled.  Pete Langton, a crew commander in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, was dismissed in 2023 after being reported for “misogyny” over the comments.  He was accused of having upset female colleagues with his comments on the woman’s appearance."

Ashley Zavala on X - "New: Dolores Huerta writes lengthy statement following @nytimes investigation into Cesar Chavez. Huerta says she had sexual encounters with Chavez resulting in 2 children. “I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement…”"

Jemele Hill on X - "Dolores Huerta chose to hide and suppress her own pain for the sake of the movement. She had to sit there as her (alleged) rapist was being glorified as a freedom fighter. I cannot imagine."
Lydia Polgreen on X - "I recently learned Jessica Mitford was raped by a black man during the civil rights movement (random dark alley assault) and she never reported it because it would have been a death sentence to her assailant. What women in movements suffer…"
Ceb K. on X - "Jessica Mitford helped the Communist Party produce an entirely fake wife for a black rapist on death row, to testify to his innocence. This was one of the key triggers of the civil rights movement, along with equally fake CPUSA pro-rape activism like the Scottsboro Boys case etc."
To feminists, pushing the left wing agenda is more important than women's rights

Brazil Senate Passes Bill (Dec 2025): Repeatedly Interrupting a Woman Can Now Be Criminalized as “Misogyny” – Up to 5 Years in Prison. : r/MensRights - "The Brazilian Senate just approved (December 2025) a bill that equates misogyny with racial injury (a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison). One of the explicit examples of “misogyny” in the approved text: repeatedly interrupting a woman with the intent to silence or discredit her (in debates, workplaces, or public spaces). A similar punishment already existed under the Political Gender Violence Law; now they are expanding the concept to everyday life. The bill now heads to the lower house (Chamber of Deputies). If it passes there and gets sanctioned, it becomes law.
Official link to the bill: https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2025/10/22/misoginia-deve-ser-tratada-como-crime-de-discriminacao-aprova-ccj
My opinion: In women's pursuit of more rights, they are unbalancing the scales and creating a dictatorship while segregating men."
Disagreeing with a woman out loud is misogyny and a crime

Meme - Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin: "I have had more than one male colleague sincerely ask whether a certain behavior is mansplaining. Since apparently this is hard to figure out, I made one of them a chart."
"Am I mansplaining?
Did she ask you to explain it? Yes. Not mansplaining
Do you have more relevant experience? Would most men with her education & experience already know this? Did you ask if she needed it explained? Yes, she said she did. Not mansplaining
No to the above: Probably or Definitely mansplaining/stop talking now"
Seb Dean @bigsebdean: "So, basically don't help people in case you offend them by trying to do a nice thing? #militant"
Basically, mansplaining is when a woman doesn't ask a man to explain something but he does anyway. Men are not allowed to disagree with women or to even speak when a woman is speaking (that is considered interrupting)

Max on X - "One of the most interesting things i’ve learned from this book so far is the topic of mansplaining, and how what women perceive as misogyny is actually the man being an egalitarian.  I’ll try to summarize.   From a high level: the feminine trusts the experts, while the masculine verifies them.   This means that among women when it comes to who gets to make the decision or pontificate on the topic, they try to figure out who knows the most about it and then they quietly listen and follow her advice.   While among men, when someone asserts themselves as an expert, the other men see this as a bid for power, and so they challenge them to make sure that they are genuinely an expert and deserving of their subordination to him on this topic.  So what happens is that women expect other people to not challenge them on the things they perceive themselves as the expert on. Say, if she is the project manager, everyone who is not the project manager should defer to her judgement.   But what happens when dealing with a man is that he challenges her, and the more she tries to say “erm sweety i’m the expert” the more he feels the need to challenge her.  What he wants and expects is that if she truly is the expert, she can show him how he is wrong and his idea is stupid and prove that she deserves the title of SME on this so that he can respect and trust her judgement.   However to her this offensive and rude. And furthermore, she doesn’t see him do this to the men so he must be questioning her or pontificating despite not knowing as much because she is a woman. But what’s actually the case is that he did do that to the men too, they just proved to him that they deserved the title and so he stopped. There is this introductory period of shit testing that the others passed.   But because no one has ever challenged her before, all the girlies just say “oh you’re so smart ms expert” she’s not experienced at fighting back. And so even when she does genuinely know more, she fumbles the shit test and loses his respect, making him more likely to challenge her in the future.  The most ironic bit here is that what she perceives of as misogyny is actually him being a radical egalitarian. Most men are brought up to treat a woman with kid gloves and not do this type of shit testing as hard as they do with men. But as we’ve dissolved these practices, more and more men are not seeing gender and do treat women like men and they get decried as sexist."
Gender equality is misogyny. Women want special treatment
This ties in to the left wing love of just "trusting" "experts"

Meme - "How feminists look at Sharia law countries that throw gay people off roofs and allow child marriage *loving look*"

︎ ︎venom on X - "Another day of feminists spreading fake news. Hedy Lamarr didn’t invent Wi-Fi.
> Hedy Lamarr, along with George Antheil, patented a radio-controlled torpedo system using frequency-hopping in 1942.
> The concept itself already existed in radio engineering decades earlier, with predecessors like Nikola Tesla’s 1898 radio-controlled boat patent, Hans von Baeyer’s 1919 work, and more.
> Their version used mechanical synchronization, Antheil’s area of expertise.
> Modern Wi-Fi was developed decades later through the IEEE 802.11 standards process, with key contributions from multiple engineers, including Dr. John O’Sullivan and his team in the 1990s.
But to promote feminist ideology, they call Hedy Lamarr the mother of Wi-Fi, while the men who really built it are forgotten."
Obsidian yogi on X - "We are just living in an era where men are being degraded just to promote women. It's very forceful at this point. Movies, shows, news, and history are all being made and altered to make women look smarter and stronger, while men do the heavy lifting."

California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Revives Aztec Religion

From 2021. Apparently the First Amendment only means schools can't sponsor Christian prayer. It doesn't mean students can't be made to worship other gods (while the indoctrination project has stalled... for now, the attempt is still very revealing).

 

California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Revives Aztec Religion | National Review
Apparently, for the sake of the state's schoolchildren, we need to set the record straight on the blood-soaked worship of ancient deities.

T he Board of Education in California recently voted unanimously to approve an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for use in all of the state’s public schools. As our editorial pointed out on the day the vote was taken, this curriculum is “probably the most radical, polemical, and ideologically loaded educational document ever offered up for public consideration in the free world.” It’s a purpose-built program of indoctrination into the worst kind of tribal politics — a project of social engineering designed to erase the unique personal distinctiveness of the human being and remake each of us into avatars of our immutable characteristics. The knowledge that entire generations of Californians will soon be catechized in the dogmas of such a bleak and thoroughly political gospel is almost too grievous to bear.

As I noted a few weeks ago, the most astonishing part of the curriculum is the section that deals with religion:

Students are to be taught that white Christian settlers committed “theocide” against indigenous tribes when they arrived in the New World by murdering Native American gods and replacing them with the Christian God. According to the curriculum, this replacement ushered in a regime defined by “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide,” and the “explicit erasure and replacement of holistic Indigeneity and humanity.” But all is not lost, we are told. For students will learn that they have the power and the responsibility to build a social order defined by “countergenocide,” which will eventually supplant the last vestiges of colonial Christianity and pave the way for the “regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity.”

The curriculum presents the pagan gods of the Aztec empire as worthier objects of study and veneration than Jesus of Nazareth. This presentation does not rest at the level of theory or academic inquiry. As Christopher F. Rufo has observed, teachers are encouraged by the authors of the curriculum to lead their students in an “ethnic studies community chant,” which takes the form of worship offered up to these deities:

Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka — whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism — asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”

Even a passing knowledge of Aztec history raises serious questions about this ritual (a passing knowledge of the First Amendment raises even more, but that’s a different matter). None, though, is more important than the question of what, precisely, has brought these deities back to life after so many centuries of slumber. Why do teachers and administrators in California want to revive these Aztec cults and set them favorably against Christianity?

We can’t ask this question properly — let alone answer it — without taking at least a cursory look at Aztec history and searching for the virtues that California’s Board of Education thinks it has found in the cults of these Mesoamerican deities.

The principal place of worship in the Aztec empire was the Templo Mayor in the city of Tenochtitlan, which was made up of twin pyramids, one dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun, and the other to Tlaloc, the god of rain. Like all the Aztec gods, Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc had an insatiable appetite for human sacrifice. The priests of Huitzilopochtli would appease their patron deity by laying out a sacrificial victim on a stone at the apex of the god’s pyramid, carving out said victim’s heart (while he or she was still alive), and then rolling the body down the side of the pyramid, at the base of which it was then dismembered and either disposed of or eaten. Post-conquest sources report that at the reconsecration of this pyramid in 1487, about 80,400 people were sacrificed in this way over the course of just four days. Even historians who regard this number as an exaggeration concede that the victim tally was probably still in the tens of thousands.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Tlaloc was an even less attractive figure. He had a particular predilection for the sacrifice of children. The remains of more than 40 boys and girls were discovered at the excavation site of the great pyramid, most bearing the marks of severe and prolonged torture. This was to be expected given that the Aztec pictorial codices that have come down to us invariably show the children crying before being sacrificed. The priests of Tlaloc believed the tears of innocent children to be particularly pleasing to the god, and they took great care to ensure that their little victims were crying before and throughout the ceremony so that the smoke of the sacrificial fire would carry their tears up to the god above at the moment of death. The ritual began with the bones of the children being broken, their hands or their feet burned, and carvings etched into their flesh. They were then paraded before the celebrants of the ritual while crying. Insufficient tears from the children were believed to result in insufficient rains for the crops that year, so no brutality was spared. At the end of it all, the mutilated victims were burned alive.

But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

Tezcatlipoca, who also makes an appearance in the new Californian catalogue of venerable deities, was thought to be the most powerful of the Aztec gods. He held sway over darkness, night, sorcery, and witchcraft. He also had it within his power to disrupt the social comity and felicity of the gods themselves and was, for that reason, particularly to be feared. He was worshipped with many different forms of sacrifice. One of these involved dressing the victim in splendid warrior regalia and then tying him to a stake or a wall. Aztec warriors would then “battle” with him in a mocking and derisory manner, drawing this ritual of humiliation and torture out so as to entertain the god and themselves for as long as possible.

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him. 

These are the deities to whom the Christian god owes theological reparations in the eyes of California’s education establishment. Italicized passages from the Christian scriptures have been interspersed above so that readers can judge for themselves which of the two religions is better characterized by “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide.” I have discussed just the three most prominent Aztec gods, but the reader inclined to follow up with his or her own research will find in the entire pantheon of Mesoamerican deities not a single redeemable characteristic.

It was long thought by historians of an anticolonial bent that the conquistadors greatly exaggerated their accounts of Aztec cruelty for polemical purposes. This is no longer the case. Ample documentary and archaeological evidence now exists showing that the Aztecs were as gratuitously cruel as the Spanish colonists originally reported them to be.

The question remains, then, as to why a cabal of social engineers in California want to present these religious beliefs in a positive light to American children. It’s certainly not because they think these gods and their human servants were morally impressive or humane in and of themselves. A few loons in the QAnon crowd might think so, but those in possession of their higher critical faculties would never even entertain the notion.

No, the real reason that the authors of California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum take a positive view of Aztec religion and a negative view of Christianity is because the Aztec gods lost the battle of religious orthodoxies and the New World and the Christian God won. It really is as simple as that.

In its most radical form, left-leaning social and historical analysis begins with the axiom that coercive and violent power is the only variable in human social arrangements. Life is conceived as a zero-sum competition between groups. All other factors that might be said to account for the disparities in success between these groups — in terms of human capital, material conditions, or governing ideas — are seen as elaborate veneers disguising the raw power-struggle of group conflict. This axiomatic starting point leads inevitably to the conclusion that the reigning social order achieved its dominance by oppressing the groups it is thought to have marginalized. This is why words like “dominance,” “oppression,” and “marginalization” have become commonplaces of our political lexicon.

The classical Marxist variation on this theme is, of course, an economic one: The story goes that the capitalists and the bourgeoisie have established and cemented the current global economic system by oppressing the proletariat. But a great deal of the post-1960s Left has supplemented Marx’s economic categories with a whole host of others: race, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, nationality, and so on. The great oppressor is no longer just the capitalist but the straight, white, imperialist, European, cisgender, Christian male capitalist. This is the innovation of intersectionality. Any advantage that people belonging to the dominant groups have gained over marginalized groups across the centuries is thought to be the result of a rigged social order. The advantages — or “privilege” — that the descendants of the historic oppressors enjoy are presented as ill-gotten gains.

Understood within this framework, the story of the Aztecs is a simple one. They were a Native American, non-Christian people who were conquered by European Christian imperialists. Their defeat at the hands of Western civilization, which has had the temerity and the wickedness to last as long as it has by oppressing the downtrodden of the Earth, is enough to endow their religious practices with a nobility and a virtue that is entirely separate from its content.

For the most extreme elements of the Left, the mere fact of being powerful or successful is incriminating. The mere fact of being the insurgent underdog is exonerating. Noam Chomsky’s long and ignominious tenure as useful idiot in chief to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and his concomitant downplaying of the killing fields is only one example of this. Another is the common idea that white people cannot be the victims of racism. Because white people have, according to many on the intersectional left, achieved hegemonic power in society through the use of violence, they cannot be deemed victims of racism in any sense unless and until people of color have exercised enough violence themselves to overturn the oppressive existing social order. Until that point, which is never concretely defined, a white person can have no legitimate complaint against a person of color. No room for historical complexity or attention to detail is allowed.

When John Locke pulled the disparate elements of classical liberalism together into a coherent philosophy, he did so not for the purpose of framing a government but for justifying revolution. Overthrow, rather than order, is the basic political instinct of liberalism, which is why, once the War of Independence was won, the Founding Fathers had to turn to classical republicanism for language suitable to framing a constitution. The zanier offshoots of liberalism’s wild-eyed cousin progressivism merely take this spirit of revolution to the nth degree. Gods of child sacrifice can be championed within this framework so long as they are insurgent gods; so long as they are underdogs sticking it to “the Man” — even when the Man is Jesus Christ himself.

The early Christians were of the view that the pagan gods were not necessarily unreal; rather, they were simply demons that human beings had been duped into worshipping as deities. This seems strange to us moderns, who are so reflexively suspicious of the supernatural. But the particular demands of the Aztec gods are, I think, depraved enough to cause even the most skeptical among us to consider for a moment that there might be more than material evils at work among us. Whether or not one takes a metaphysical or a metaphorical view of the matter, it cannot be denied that our social tendency to give the benefit of the doubt to defeated parties, to failed insurgents, has unleashed demonic forces into the world. Playing on that American tendency, Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRA, and other terrorist groups have drawn ill-informed support for their violent ends over the years. The authors of the new California curriculum are now exploiting precisely the same sympathy in the arena of education.

In many ways their curriculum is a lot like the stone altar that once stood at the top of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan. It’s at the apex of an ideological edifice that has taken decades, if not centuries, to construct. The values that it consecrates wouldn’t be tolerated without this edifice, which lends it legitimacy, authority, and respectability. And, most importantly and terribly of all, many of our children will be sacrificed on it if we accord the cult it serves more respect and more tolerance than it rightly deserves.    

Links - 14th May 2026 (1 - Migrants)

Meme - *Boardroom Meeting Suggestion* "I need suggestions how to stop these terrorist attacks!"
"More mosques?"
"Bow to Mecca?"
"Stop importing terrorists?"
*Last guy thrown out of window*

Half of all recent refugees in Australia are on welfare - "Half of all recent refugees who have settled permanently in Australia are on unemployment benefits, 44% can’t speak English, and one in five have a long-term health condition. According to official data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week, the cohort of asylum seekers – called “humanitarian migrants” by the ABS – who arrived since 2017 have had far worse settlement outcomes than previous streams."

Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost on X - "Larry Fink of Blackrock now says countries that avoided mass immigration will be better positioned for the future. Mass immigration was always a scam to destabilize the West, it’s why China admits almost zero refugees."

Stephen Miller on X - "Fake asylum claims for illegals is a multibillion industry funded by taxpayers (via NGOs). Virtually 100% of illegals arrested in the interior will file fake asylum claims. This in turn creates permanent employment and income for the left’s most extreme and radicalized attorneys."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "This IS just true. Anyone to know an immigration lawyer is aware of it. Proportionately speaking, virtually no one from Mexico, Costa Rica or Guatemala, Poland/East Europe, India, the DR, El Salvador under Bukele, Kenya, etc has an asylum claim in any real sense. There's no war in these legendary tourist destinations! These is economic migrants - and well coached ones at that :)."

Taya on X - "Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi caused a major stir in the National Diet during her policy speech by saying that encouraging people to have more children is the so

lution to Japan’s population decline. She also criticized foreigners who don’t respect Japanese cultural customs. Globalists were so upset they tried to interrupt her speech."

由仁アリン Arin Yuni on X - "THE LDP HAS WON ALL 30 DISTRICTS IN TOKYO!!!"
Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Thank you nuisance streamers and third world foreigners You have successfully radicalized all of Tokyo to become right-wing"

William Meijer on X - "In The Culture Transplant (2022), immigration economist @GarettJones has 5 predictions for the West if mass immigration from low-trust, poor countries were to continue:
1. The quality of government would fall; corruption would rise.
2. Social conflict would increase—and so would the risk of civil war.
3. Trust—and probably trustworthiness—toward strangers would decline.
4. Support would rise for higher minimum wages and laws making it harder to fire workers.
5. Innovation would decline overall, and since new innovations eventually spread across the entire planet, the entire planet would eventually lose out."

William Meijer on X - "Universalism, the psychological foundation of liberal democracy, is a trait not evenly distributed across the world and not easy to instill. If Universalists (green) unilaterally cooperate with Tribalists (orange), universalism, and the freedom, health, and wealth it creates, will cease to exist. The paradox of universalism is that it only works with universalists. The paradox of liberal democracy is that it cannot survive liberal immigration"

Inherited Trust and Growth - "This paper develops a new method to uncover the causal effect of trust on economic growth by focusing on the inherited component of trust and its time variation. We show that inherited trust of descendants of US immigrants is significantly influenced by the country of origin and the timing of arrival of their forebears. We thus use the inherited trust of descendants of US immigrants as a time-varying measure of inherited trust in their country of origin. This strategy allows to identify the sizeable causal impact of inherited trust on worldwide growth during the twentieth century by controlling for country fixed effects"

Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "Australia's far-left Race Discrimination Commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman denounced Australia as “STOLEN LAND" and said that he felt closer to Indian National Day than Australia Day. As an Australian I feel that his use of the term “stolen land” incites fear and hatred towards European Australians. We need to look at this as possible hate speech."
John Carter on X - "The implicit meaning of this framing is that Anglos stole the land so it's only fair for them to give hundreds of millions of Hindoids the opportunity to steal the land. Revealed preference demonstrates this. If he believes the land is stolen, and he believes theft is morally wrong, then he would not accept a salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Australian government (this is blood money), and he wouldn't live in Australia. Since he doesn't do either of those things, he either doesn't believe what he's saying, or he does but he doesn't think theft is bad, in which case he's simply trying to emotionally manipulate white Australians by using their own morality against them in order to guilt them into continuing to allow him and people like him to parasitize the Australian people."
John Carter on X - "It really cannot be emphasized enough how dishonest all of this is. America stole land from the natives, purchased some African farm equipment, and has always been a "nation of immigrants", therefore "open the borders and give us your country." Canada is built on stolen land, sent some kids to boarding school, and has also always been a "nation of immigrants", therefore "Let my people in, saar." Australia, same narrative as Canada. New Zealand, same as Australia. Britain did an imperialism, therefore "your country belongs to us now, saar." France, same as England. Spain, same as France. Ireland never had an empire and hasn't had slaves since the Viking Age, and indeed was itself colonized by England ... therefore Ireland must accept unlimited migration in solidarity with other post-colonial countries. Germany was too mean to Jews for a few years, therefore Germans must abolish themselves and give their country to North Africans. The only peoples the Swedes ever conquered or enslaved were neighbouring Europeans, but Sweden might have sold some iron that might have gotten used on some slave ships a few centuries ago, therefore must open its borders to Bomalians and give them all the rape toys they can penetrate. The justification differs, but the conclusion is always the same: open borders and ethnic replacement. The uniformity of the repugnant conclusion indicates that these narratives are formed by reasoning back from that tendentious repugnance, with the arguments tailored to national conditions using whatever specific historical circumstances are handy, with the intent of emotionally manipulating native populations into laying down their arms, foregoing resistance, and placidly accepting the loss of their countries to the hundreds of millions of third-worlders intent on flooding every developed white country on the planet. The people making these arguments don't believe a word that they say. Their seething resentment for Europeans is entirely real, but this is almost entirely an inferiority complex, humiliation at having been so easily conquered and then taught to eat and wipe with something other than their hands. They don't believe that slavery or conquest are wrong: if they did, they wouldn't still practice slavery, and they wouldn't be trying to conquer the West in the guise of beggars, by shamelessly playing to our pity and misplaced guilt. They say these things in order to trick you by playing on a conscience they don't have themselves. It's a sales tactic, and they're selling you annihilation."

Meme - Fat purple haired woman with glasses and star earrings: "Imagine liking quesadillas... and being against open borders."

Thread by @mikitaposts on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Restore Britain gets labeled right-wing even though their immigration policy is still significantly more open than China’s, the socialist country constantly glazed by Hasan Piker, where immigration (let alone citizenship) is nearly impossible to obtain for non-Chinese Frankly right-wing and left-wing are meaningless terms. You could get away with being far-right as long as you have leftist aesthetics If anything, all politics is downstream from whether you’re pro-West or anti-West. Everything else is just meaningless filler."
Left wingers just hate the West

Foreigner standing over female surfer sparks criticism - "A foreign man standing over a lone female surfer on a secluded Australian beach and wanting to sit next to her has sparked criticism of mass immigration. A woman who was passing by took a photo of the man, who is of Indian subcontinental appearance, as he spoke to the local at on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast earlier this summer. The bikini-clad surfer also filmed the interaction but later deleted it after social media users accused her of being racist, even though she did not say anything about the man’s background and only asked why he wanted to sit next to her while the whole beach was empty. The photo was sent to the surfer and later shared on Instagram, where many Aussies said it was disgraceful that the woman had been abused and blamed for sharing her experiences, and said there was a growing problem with recently arrived immigrants not understanding Australian beach culture... “Last summer I was sunbaking at Lorne Beach next to my family in a one-piece bathing suit, my straps were down but I wasn’t bare-chested and a north African elder man with other males walked right by me and stood next to me starring long enough for me to realise I was now suddenly laying in shade!” said another. “They made me feel like I was laying bare-chested. Really low-level uncivilised type of behaviour.” “It’s the beach, we’re red-blooded males. Window shopping is one thing. But you don’t stand over a woman or even stare and make her uncomfortable,” one man wrote."
auspill on X - "Crazy timing
> be Australian girl
> decide to go to surfing
> weather is amazing
> beach is completely empty
> perfect_day.jpeg
> finish your surf
> come ashore
> lie face down to tan
> lose track of time
> eventually look up to check phone
> some notifications
> wait what
> what is that
> spot a figure in the corner of your eye
> turn to see some Indian guy standing over you
> he’s in denim pants, dress shirt, shoes
> just staring at you
> no towel, no surfboard, nothing
> hope he’ll eventually leave, just go back on your phone
> he doesn’t move
> he keeps staring
> you start recording him
> hope a camera will make him back off
> he starts to sit next to you
> ask out loud why, of all the empty beach, he has to sit next to you
> get home and post the short video
> no slurs, no racial commentary
> video gets traction
> turns out a passerby woman saw the interaction and was disturbed
> they took a photo for your safety
> posted in community group
> they’re glad you’re safe
> start to think you did a good thing by sharing your video
> then the hate starts
> you’re accused of racism
> xenophobia
> paranoia
> bigotry
> “you’re overreacting”
> “this is why Australia is unwelcoming”
> replies keep coming
> it becomes too much
> delete your video
> want the whole thing to disappear
> start questioning if you overreacted
> two weeks later, February 2026
> you read a headline
> an Indian man was just found guilty of murdering a random Australian girl on another secluded Queensland beach
> it could’ve been you"

/pol/ - You know about 'Izzat', but are you familiar with the Indian concept of 'Jugaad'? - Politically Incorrect - 4chan - "You know about 'Izzat', but are you familiar with the Indian concept of 'Jugaad'?
'Jugaad' is the Indian term for "hacks to exploit the system" or the dishonest and deliberate bending of the rules and laws to one's favor. In India, such underhanded and self-serving behavior is celebrated, especially among the upper/middle classes. It can also mean "doing the bare minimum to get by" which is why Indian coding, craftsmanship, etc is so terrible. It often but not always is paired with the concept of 'dhandha', which Indians will often tell you is simply maintaining a small business or self-employment, but in reality refers to illicit practices and immoral occupations. Another concept to know is 'chori-chakari' which refers to repeated acts of petty thievery, such as taking food from food banks, which are acceptable within Indian culture."

Meme - सम्यक সম্যক @samyak128: "This is like the worst example of our Indian concept of "Jugaad" (dishonest conscious bending of the rules and laws to one's favor) coming up against institutions set up for only working with High Trust Societies. It honestly makes me ashamed to see this, because I can see this behavior in India as well, and it clearly doesn't change when large numbers of our people are transplanted into High Trust Societies. This is kind of thing that will slowly, but deeply create anti-India sentiment in these societies."
Cosmopolitan Reactionary @cosmorxn: "This is the queue for the University of Galway students’ union food pantry, where genuinely needy students can get some basics. The entire queue, as far as I can tell, is Indian. This erosion of social trust will eventually destroy the program."

Mohammed Hijab on X - "Muslim governments must choose either to unite and create a Muslim bloc or to remain slaves to the Epstein alliance. Russia and China are not coming to help."
Dan Burmawi on X - "I am sick of those “Western passport holders” whose loyalty is to the ummah, like Cenk Uygur, Bassem Youssef, Mehdi Hasan, Mohammed Hijab, and everyone like them. These people use “we” when talking about Americans or the British, while they have absolutely nothing to do with anything American or British. Their worldview is anti-West, their allegiance is to Islam, and they attach themselves parasitically to the useful idiots in the West to appear like normal Western dissidents, when in reality they are not."

Meme - Crying Brown Fat Woman: "PLEASE DON'T DEPORT ME TO A COUNTRY FILLED WITH PEOPLE LIKE ME. ANYTHING BUT THAT!"

robyn☦️ on X - "Tell her women are equal to men her entire life and then import millions of men from the third world who see her as inferior."

Meme - Severus Chud @SeverusChud: "Left winger logic is to blame White men for every societal ill whilst encouraging the importation of millions of strange foreign men who commit rape at massively higher per capita rates, then blame white men again."
Evie @EFCevie: "you do realise the uk is a patriarchal society right? so you're not wrong because white british men are the main perpetrators of sexual violence in this country but i have a feeling that's not what you were going for"

Meme - *Large group of migrants*
""Why am I poor?"
Price of labor (wages)
Quantity of labor (people)
IMMIGRATION *shifting the supply of labour far to the right*
Your paycheck (new market clearing point at a much lower wage)
Despite an increase in population, the demand curve doesnt shift much because third world living standards don't demand much; demand per capita decreases."

Gad Saad on X - "There are two battlefields: 1) the kinetic war against the West, which Islam cannot win; 2) the non-kinetic war against the West, which Islam is winning.
Islamic leaders, activists, politicians, and thinkers explained long ago that Islam will defeat the West in three ways:
1) by the womb of their women
2) via hijrah (migration), which the West is keen on helping via their orgiastic open borders policies
3) by using the West's miserable freedoms against us
They have screamed this repeatedly but we refuse to listen because of parasitic suicidal empathy."

China is in a fertility crisis worse than probably any country in the west by far, so why dont they accept millions of immigrants to compensate like the west does? : r/NoStupidQuestions

Paul on X - "🇮🇪🚨 This tactic of placing illegal migrants in Irish communities to establish "roots," then using that as a reason to block deportation, has been employed by the left, NGOs, and immigration lawyers for years. It does not work anymore. We need more deportations. Much more."

The Irish Political Analyst on X - "Ireland is now third only to Sweden and Germany in the EU in non-white population % aged 15-29. 10 years ago, we were in the bottom quartile in this metric. The post-Covid immigration wave in Ireland has probably been the fastest demographic change in international history in a country in peacetime."

Disclose.tv on X - "NEW - Ireland's President urges "global citizens" to acknowledge their "shared responsibility" to invoke St. Patrick’s spirit, by standing in solidarity with migrants and to recognise "the invaluable contributions" they make."
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "This is what end-stage liberalism looks like. Longhoused politicians lecturing the people they rule over that they have no home or identity of their own and must accept infinite immigrants from third-world nations that have nothing in common with their own country which no longer exists. This is what liberalism's "end of history" looks like. Only, history does not actually end. End-stage liberalism must necessarily give way to global South Africa or Rhodesia. Once you've fully dissolved the country and redefined the people to be "global citizens", what comes next is not fully automated luxury space communism but rather existential conflict. Because liberalism has already knocked out the load-bearing support structures of what was once a unified society, there's nothing left to hold the nation together aside from pure inertia that cannot sustain itself in the face of rival tribal groups who do not see each other as fellow "global citizens" but as hostile actors each seeking to take over the state to reward their own clan. Every attempt to bring all the peoples of the world together under one polity will inevitably produce the very existential political conflict that liberals dread."

Europa.com on X - "🇮🇪 Ireland's President makes migrant rights the focus of her St. Patrick's Day message: "The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions they have made to the countries they now call home." Follow: @europa"
Keith Woods on X - "This happens every year now -- diverse parades, focus on Irish emigration history, reframing Patrick's story as one of a "migrant" or "refugee." Even a national day to celebrate Irishness is now just another excuse for the state to promote mass immigration. It's all so tiresome."

Europa.com on X - "🇮🇪 Ireland's wealthiest resident has said the top priority for the Irish state should be to stamp out racism. In an interview with business lobby group IBEC, billionaire Denis O'Brien called on the business community to "stand up" to anti-immigration sentiment and celebrated racial diversity: “Unless we nip this in the bud it can be a very big problem for Ireland... look at the number of Indian CEOs in the tech bro community, all of them are investors in Ireland. If there is any shift in thinking that Ireland is a racist society it could be really, really serious and it’s something we need to stamp out immediately.” O'Brien has owned major or controlling shares in many major Irish and European media outlets, including Ireland's highest-circulation newspaper the Irish Independent, the UK's leading commercial news-talk radio brand LBC, and Ireland's most popular commercial radio station Today FM. Follow: @europa"
Keith Woods on X - "An actual material analysis by the left would show that business elites are universally the most pro-migration economic group, and the only native group to really benefit from mass-migration. Yet no matter how uniform their voice is in support of diversity, how much they promote anti-racist cosmopolitan values in their media, or how many migrants their parties import, the left will still insist on their pet conspiracy theory that the rich want us divided by race."
Left wingers are really easily manipulated. They want to spite billionaires - and they do it by pushing the billionaires' agenda

Links - 13th May 2026 (2)

RAF on ‘high alert’ to defend Falklands - "Britain is on “high alert” to defend the Falkland Islands, the head of the RAF has declared.  Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth insisted that protecting the British outpost in the South Atlantic was “non-negotiable”.  He said that the RAF was ready to step in at a “moment’s notice”, with fighter aircraft having been based there since the 1982 war.  His comments come amid fears that the US could back Argentina in its push for sovereignty after a leaked email from the Pentagon suggested the Trump administration could support Buenos Aires’ claim to the Falklands, which the Argentines call the Malvinas."
Left wingers hate Trump more than "colonialism", so
Given their performance in the Iran war, maybe Argentina will try its luck again

Sam Pratt on X - "Our recent PSPB paper showing that liberals and conservatives have different perceptions of victimhood (AoVs) is generating quite a bit of discussion on r/science. Short summary of the results (and 🔗 ) below 🧵"
Claire Lehmann on X - "Interesting. Progressives see vulnerability as group-based, whereas conservatives see vulnerability as more individualised"
Left wingers are collectivists and right wingers are individualist after all  

Meme - Daily Turkic @DailyTurkic: "Türkiye wants its stolen bronze horses back from Italy 🇮🇹
• In 1204, the Fourth Crusade looted Istanbul and took the bronze horses.
• Today, they stand on St. Mark's Basilica."
Readers added context: "Constantinople was the seat of the Byzantine Empire. i.e. The Eastern Roman Empire. i.e. Romans built these.  interesting sapling flatbill, guess where Rome is?"
Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos: "Italians stole the Horses of St. Mark from Constantinople in 1204, when the emperor was Alexios V Doukas of the Greek noble families Doukas-Angelos-Komnenos.  The Turks were eating with their feet then. You have created nothing. You live on Greek land showing off Greek artifacts"  

Meme - "White Guy: Can only breed with white women or else kids will look nothing like him.
Black Guy Chad: Can have kids who look like him with women of any race."

Meme - "Are scenes like this really necessary? Does seeing a girl's naked boobies really advance the plot in a meaninful way or add important character information?" *Monique Gabrielle in Evil Toons* Chinatown fruit stall altercation: Vendor claims tourists squeezed fruits and asked questions repeatedly - "A Chinatown fruit stall owner has spoken out after her encounter with an American tourist went viral, saying the group of tourists had stood at the stall for more than 10 minutes, asking questions and squeezing the fruits repeatedly... The stall owner added that the group repeatedly asked for prices. While attempting to pay, one of them revealed that she only had $2 in cash, and requested to pay in US dollars or by card.   She added that the tourists had asked if she could sell in smaller quantities, such as 200g of grapes instead of the standard 1kg.   “I felt they were deliberately trying to make things difficult and had no intention of buying,” the fruit stall vendor said."

Tourist criticized for saying 'if not for China, there's no Singapore' - "A female tourist has drawn heavy criticism after being filmed allegedly cutting in line at Universal Studios Singapore and declaring, "If not for China, there's no Singapore."" <

p>#trending: In viral video, man from China 'stunned' that S'poreans dislike being identified as Chinese; locals weigh in - "In multi-national, multi-racial Singapore, what does melding one’s nationality with o

ne’s ethnicity look like?  In a video posted on social media platform TikTok on Tuesday (May 7), user “The Singaporean Son” said that Singaporeans seem to have a strong disdain to being referred to as Chinese.  In the 36-second clip, the user, who implied he hails from mainland China, shared the observations he had made after moving to Singapore...   “They prefer to be called Singaporeans. With the passing of time, they have forgotten their culture and also their roots!”"

'Short-tempered and brusque': Chinese touri

st says Singapore service staff unfriendly compared to Malaysian counterparts - "We may be neighbours, but the service standards of staff in Singapore and Malaysia are worlds apart — or at least, that's what this Chinese tourist has claimed.  Content creator Teacher Gogo singled out Singaporean-Chinese service staff in particular for their less-than-friendly attitude, after most of them left him with a bad impression.  This is especially so in comparison with their Malaysian counterparts"
Ironic. In China...

Secretary-General's message on the

occasion of the beginning of Ramadan (UN, Antonio Guterres) - "every year I come away heartened by Ramadan’s spirit of peace and compassion."
Ramadan message from the Prime Minister - Emma Reynolds MP - (Keir Starmer) "In this holy month of fasting and reflection, I trust that you will experience the spiritual renewal associated with this time...  The emphasis on giving to charity by Muslims all year round – but in particular during Ramadan – is felt across our country.  Up and down the country, mosques, community centres and indeed other places of worship will open their doors, welcoming people from all faiths and none around the table for iftar, to share the spirit of Ramadan."
Someone claimed non-Muslim left wingers don't defend Islam. Not to mention Mark Carney's "Muslim values are Canadian values"

Dan Burmawi on X - "Here is why you shouldn’t trust Islamic sources in English, they whitewash what is written in Arabic.  Nor should you trust those who studied the Middle East or Islam in English, as they were taught using these whitewashed resources.  Last November, The Arab American News, which also publishes in Arabic as Alwatan, celebrated Muslim election victories with the assimilation-friendly phrase “HISTORIC ELECTIONS.”  In Arabic, it was فتوحات انتخابية, “Electoral Futuhat.”  Futuhat is not a neutral Arabic word for “victories.” It is the term Muslims have used for fourteen centuries to describe the Islamic military conquests that spread Islam from Arabia to Spain to India.  To the American public it projected integration. To the ummah it signaled triumph.  Just like the translation of the Quran, Hadith Books, Islamic history books, Al Jazeera’s news, political reports, and promises, it’s all lies and deception."

hoe_math = PsychoMath on X - "When they say "white people have no culture," what they mean by "culture" is "obnoxious behaviors and impulsive violence."  It's like when they say "spicy latina" or "fiery latina." Those words mean "poor impulse control."  That's what they think culture is! When you scream on the bus and stab people for stepping on your fresh jordans.  Ballet, symphony, poetry, tradition, architecture... those are not "culture." "Culture" is when "DEY WILDIN'""

Meme - Adrian Vermeute: "Left image : the self-conception of the liberal. Right image: the empirical reality (h/t @kevinnbass)."
"each member of a liberal polity must be free to devise and realize her own conception of the good life (in consultation, of course, with her community). Conservatism, which does not hesitate to impose a single vision on its adherents, is much easier to advertise-and aestheticize. The highly"
"There is more diversity of thought on the political Right than on the political Left. Although they pride themselves on open-mindedness, liberal thinking actually coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion, whereas as the Right diverges widely."
Left wingers endlessly police other people, so it's no surprise they all think the same way

Meme - "Who remembers watching these as kids?!?!
*Dragon Tales, Beyblade, Pokemon, Sheehan Backroom Casting Couch*"

Meme - "WHO ARE YOU, STRANGE TRAVELER?"
"I COME FROM THE FUTURE. IN THE FUTURE WE DEVELOP TIME TRAVEL, AND WE USE IT TO MAXIMIZE HISTORICAL HAPPINESS."
"SO YOU'VE COME TO STOP THE WICKED BARON FROM IMPALING ALL OF US?!"
"NAH. IF I STOP HIM, YOU STILL LIVE MARGINAL PEASANT LIVES. INSTEAD, I'M USING THIS NEURON-RESTRUCTURING BEAM TO MAKE IT SO ALL OF YOU LOVE GETTING IMPALED."
"BUT-"
*ZAAAAP*
"LATER..."
Impaled peasants: "HOORAY..."

Meme - Gaurav Kumar: "If you're having a bad day, just remember that Sydney Sweeney isn't hugging her knees. *Injured Sydney Sweeney in shower with big breasts*"

Meme - "the kind of cooperation I wanna see in congress *AI photo of busty AOC and Lauren Boebert in black lace lingerie exposing breasts*"

Wall Street Mav on X - "Americans dropped nukes on Japan twice and now they‘re best friends. Americans defended Europeans for free the past 80 years and they are the most ungrateful pricks imaginable. There is a lesson to be learned there."

Leslie Kajomovitz on X - "🧵The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the "Islamic Philanthropy Fund (IPF)," embedding doctrines into its operations. Backed by partners tied to Muslim Brotherhood networks, the fund integrates Zakat and Sadaqah, compliance with sharia law and fatwas into aid.   All while IOM, funded largely by Western taxpayers, supports an agency facilitating illegal migration into the very countries funding the agency."
Leslie Kajomovitz on X - "Did you know the United Nations has a roadmap to transform the entire organization into Sharia-compliant funding and projects across every single UN agency and body?  These are not individual agency initiatives. This comes from the very top of the organization as a global initiative. And because donations are not enough, they also want to tap into people’s accumulated wealth and property after they die as a source of “funding.”  In 2022, a roadmap document detailing how to transition the entire United Nations into Sharia-compliant programs and funding sources was presented. One of the goals is to “accumulate” wealth for the UN and its Sharia programs, including its Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and “the public good.”  The UN aims to tap into an estimated pool of money worth more than half a trillion per year, along with an estimated one trillion in already accumulated real estate, wealth, and assets. The goal is to accumulate and manage all that wealth under the principles of “the Holy Quran,” because, according to the document, there is a “paradigm with capitalism.”  Currently, four UN agencies (UNRWA, UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM) officially have Sharia-compliant frameworks and programs. A few other agencies, such as UNICEF, WFP, UN Women, UNDP, an

d others, are in the pilot stage. WHO is apparently in the initial stages of planning.   These Sharia-compliant programs inherently discriminate against non-Muslims. In addition, the UN has formed partnerships and MOUs with organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, which makes it even more problematic.  I repeat, I can trace this entire initiative back to at least 2015, when it was first presented to the UN General Assembly Fourth Committee (Decolonization). For ten years, the UN has been planning and building these mechanisms in the open, with member states receiving all the details about it, both in writing and in some cases as open debates, sessions, and meetings, but

nobody in our government thought this was outrageous and unacceptable?  Our taxes are being used to build a global communist sharia-compliant organization.   What is the next step? If you are not an Islamic country, we will have no vote & be mandated to pay jizya "contribution"?   The United Nations cannot be reformed."
Time to ban Christianity to prevent Theocracy

Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Researchers put together an incredible workplace wellness program that provided thousands of workers with paid time off to receive biometric health screening, health risk assessments, smoking cessation help, stress management, exercise, etc.  What did this do for their health?🧵
So, for starters, this program had a large sample and ran over multiple years.  Because of it, we have evidence on what people do with clinical health info, with exercise encouragement and advice, with nutritional knowledge, through peer effects, and so on.  Participants in the treatment group were prompted to participate with cash rewards ranging from $50 to $350.  Go to screening? Earn some money, help yourself by bolstering your knowledge about yourself and potentially improving your health.  What could be simpler?
The participants certainly seemed to think so.  The cash rewards did get more people into screenings and advising, and they even got some people moving more.  If estimates from earlier studies were to be believed, this effort should even do enough to save employers money! But that didn't work.  Average monthly medical spending didn't change when comparing the treatment to the control group.  In fact, this study stands out in the literature, as getting nulls across basically every outcome relevant to the employer.  Health and wellness incentives and opportunities did not make people less absent or medically costly, or much else (which we'll get to).
Before getting to other outcomes, we have to ask: Why trust this over other results? A few reasons:  For one, it was bigger than other studies in the experimental literature.  For two, it was preregistered, publicly archived, and independently analyzed by outside researchers. All of that on its own is really good. But what really takes the cake is that the prior literature was impacted by p-hacking and publication bias, whereas these researchers committed to publishing their results regardless.
Who do you trust more?  "We aren't financially conflicted and we'll publish regardless of what happens and of course we provide data and code."  or "p = 0.04, this program is life-changing (ignore my financial conflicts of interest :))"  I know my answer, you know my answer.
Now let's talk other outcomes.
Medical spending: not affected in total, admin-wise, drug-wise, office-wise, hospital-wise, or in terms of any utilization metric.
Employment and productivity: Didn't affect employee retention, salaries, promotions, sick leave, overtime, etc.
More employment and productivity: Didn't affect job satisfaction or feelings of productivity. BUT, did affect views about management priorities on health (increased) and the likelihood of engaging in a job search (increased).
That's backfiring, potentially.
Participants failed to increase their number of gym visits, didn't participate in the IL marathon, 10k, or 5k more often, despite smoking cessation advice and help they didn't smoke less, they didn't report better health, hell, they became (marginally-significantly) fatter! Across basically every metric, the results were null, null, and--my favorite--null.  And this is what we expect with credible intervention evaluations of high-quality samples. This is so common, in fact, that it's been dubbed the "Stainless Steel Law":
But the most amazing detail, in my opinion, is that this study went further:  It explained why prior observational work showed such large benefits for workplace wellness programs.  The reason is selection: health-conscious employees selected into the program and stuck with it!
These programs' effectiveness is a classic example of selection leading to results that simply cannot be trusted.  But... how?! Why?! After all, this program had all the ingredients that so many prominent people think will solve America's public health issues. The answer is that they misunderstand people.  Most people are lazy, commitment is hard
 My recommendation to ppl who haven't learned that is to do a clinical rotation or read abt the thousands of programs across America that have done food delivery coaching, etc., with no effect This leads me to something important:  Do you know why Ozempic works so well and has enjoyed such incredible popularity of late?  If you can understand these headlines, you'll get it. Ozempic makes it automatic to lose weight.  It takes out the effort, and people have an easier time doing more (in this case, work) than they do being asked to eat less or doing things that simultaneously bore and fatigue them (exercise) without a commitment mechanism like a boss.  For this reason, GLP-1RAs are going to decisively beat all efforts to advise people, to provide them with healthy food and instructions on how to prepare it, and all of that tried-and-true advice that's been around and in vogue for decades, but clearly hasn't worked. To top this all off, here's the result of a contemporaneous large, cluster-randomized controlled trial of workplace wellness programs at BJ's Wholesale Club.  Similar intervention, somewhat optimistic effects, and, once again, no results to show for it."

I changed a road sign to make my commute easier 13 years ago. : r/confession - "On my daily commute there was very inconvenient 'no right turn between 7am-9:30am' sign. I had to make the right turn abut 7:20am every day. For a long time I would just break the law and make my turn any way or go around if I thought there was too many people watching. But (maybe out of boredom) I did a bit of research and found the ticket for the illegal turn was more than buying a sign from the supplier that makes signs for our area and several other locations. So I ordered a new sign that was 'no right turn between 7:30am- 9:30am'. I figured it was a good investment. I went to the trouble of buying it through an alias and having it sent to a location that was not at all near to where I was. Real cloak and dagger stuff, but it was part of the fun.  Then in the middle of the night I went and removed two bolts and put up the new sign.  At first I was expecting for it to be removed or someone look into to it, but it is more than a decade later and no one ever noticed or changed it.  BTY, Yes I did think of just taking it down, but I figured that would be noticed by someone, and to be honest the whole scheme of getting a new one was part of the fun.
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Pakistan: some Christians denied aid unless they convert to Islam - "The head of an organization that combats anti-Christian persecution charges that some Pakistani Christian families are being denied flood aid unless they convert to Islam.  “Some Christian refugees are openly denied aid, while others are told to leave or convert to Islam,” said Carl Moeller, president and CEO of Open Doors USA. “You can imagine that terrible choice: either you abandon your faith or you cannot feed your child.”...   A Pakistani bishop said that the Church, in contrast, does not discriminate in assisting the victims of the worst flooding in the nation’s history.  “The tireless work of Caritas continues in all directions, in every diocese and without discrimination on the recipients,” said Bishop Max John Rodrigues of Hyderabad. “In the diocese, we help everyone. Many religious and Catholic volunteers are working in the area. I see a lot of solidarity: Muslims, Christians, and Hindus are united in suffering.  “As far as the aid brought by Islamic charity groups, they defend themselves by saying that according to their doctrine, the money from the zakhat (Islamic alms) should go only to Muslims,” he added. “We should keep in mind that in this country there is a general discrimination against minorities and the poorest workers. It is a widespread mentality which can also affect this tragedy. The fact that the rich are better off than the poor, having saved their own land, is a serious matter which the government must address.”"

Matthew Seedorff on X - "NEW: First look at the nearly $1 million restrooms at Runyon Canyon Park — 2 stalls, 2 fountains.  Some hikers call it “absurd.” Nithya Raman’s office says the grant-funded project is basic park infrastructure."
Chef Andrew Gruel on X - "The funny thing about government - they will overspend on everything, usually triple the price, BUT if you’re a caterer or restaurant, and you get an order from a government office, they always demand a discount because they have “no budget”. We’ve had a joke over the years about never catering for a government dept. because they rip you off. Sadly, many non profits are the same. I used to do free food for most then I saw so many of the orgs we gave free food to turned out to be shady or overpaying themselves."
Recliner on X - "Unfortunately this is true with a number of  “non profits”.  Entitlement and self righteousness has taken over the “management level” of many entities.  Rather then the old mindset of run it lean and efficient to help as many possible…the mission seems to be serve the staff and ego of leaders…regardless of effectiveness.  And the expenses and purchases of many, make corporate 500 convention excess look reasonable.  It is the one of the worse cultural shifts ever."

Meme - David Jensen: "My camera cost $5,000 and y'all want to shoot for $100-$300, This not a hobby"
Tylor Saunders: "My Uber driver's car cost $40,000. He drove me home for $12"
Why do creatives often have such big egos? Creative people seem to often be a certain type (similarly, people in advertising keep bitching about clients)

ActBlue Faces DOJ Investigation for Misleading Congress About Foreign Donation Vetting.
Mike Lee on X - "It has been obvious for years that the same crew who invented the Russiagate hoax are themselves dependent on foreign election interference."

Peter Schweizer on X - "NYTimes report on Dark Money in politics: "In the 2024 election cycle, over 40 percent of the nearly $2 billion raised by the largest Democratic super PACs came from entities that did not disclose their donors, according to the Times analysis. That was twice the rate of the largest Republican super PACs that cycle.""
DataRepublican (small r) on X - "As fun as it is to see ActBlue exposed, one must always ask the motives when legacy media seemingly puts crosshairs on its own.  It’s long been a goal of the “democracy” camp to overturn Citizens United and ban PAC money.   Here’s the catch: they want to replace it with union money and taxpayer-funded money schemes much like the NGO gaming of subsidized campaigns which allowed Mamdani to win in NYC. They more or less are moving towards a total monopoly on campaign funds for Democrats.   Yes, let’s enjoy the collapse of ActBlue. But beware."

German men need military permit for extended stays abroad - "It relates to a requirement for men between the ages of 18 and 45 to "obtain an approval from the relevant Bundeswehr Career Center if they wish to leave the Federal Republic of Germany for more than three months."  The Frankfurter Rundschau, which reported on the provision on Friday, said the rule would apply regardless of whether a German man "planned a semester of studying abroad, working in a foreign country or going on a backpacking trip around the world."   A Bundeswehr spokesperson confirmed the report, telling the DPA news agency that in the event of a war breaking out, the military needed to know how many men were living long-term outside the country.   While the law requires men to request the permit, the spokesperson clarified, it also obliges the military career center to issue it, if "no specific military service is expected during the period in question.”  "Since military service under current law is based exclusively on voluntary participation, such permissions must generally be granted,” the official added...   From mid-2027, all men turning 18 will also be required to appear for a fitness test to determine who could be drafted in the event of conflict — a highly controversial measure that has been slammed by critics as a first step towards full conscription."