Larry Sanger on X - "Hey @elonmusk, as a critical co-founder of Wikipedia, I find disturbing the influence that Wikipedia has over the Community Notes on X. Why not ask the people, “Should Wikipedia be banned as a usable source for Community Notes purposes on X? Vox populi, vox Dei.”... Somebody needs to tell the bots and the drunk people that *I know* Wikipedia has issues...I started telling the world about them back in 2004, and never stopped."
Jarvis on X - "What's the mood on Bluesky today?"
Stephen L. Miller on X - "Jimmy Fallon is a Nazi who needs to be assassinated by a firing squad."
Trump Tracker on X - "Who remembers when republicans used to mind their own business?"
Paul on X - "I was doing that until you turned the place I lived into Somalia."
M. Meyers on X - "I used to mind my own business, too, when it came to politics. Then, as a long-time preschool and kindergarten teacher, I needed to stand up and speak out when the Democrats started "transing" kids and putting deeply troubled students into our classrooms and calling it "inclusion.""
Collin Rugg on X - "Liberal creators are fuming that conservatives, specifically Charlie Kirk, are not fuming over South Park making fun of them.
> South Park makes fun of Charlie Kirk.
> Charlie Kirk laughs it off.
> The Left gets triggered that Charlie Kirk is not triggered.
Remarkable."
Meme - "Dailygondor
Why it's not quite the time to panic about the world of men falling to darkness
Marra Goldnuggetgobbler
How to think about increase of Orc raids, pillaged villages and why this may be good thing for you and your family, explained by experts
Frantic explosion of horizontal mobility is one of the biggest benefits of Orcishness
Orc raids may be a thing now and it's hard not to let a little bit of worry to creep in, but most deaths in Gondor occur due to stress, according to learned scholars, which means Orc raids are (statistically) safer than lifestyle choices"
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 on X - "The genetic distance between a wolf and a dog is smaller than the genetic distance between a sub-Saharan African and a western European. Feel free to ask your favorite LLM"
Tear gas, smashed windows, and a burning trash can at Montreal Rad Pride march - "Montreal police (SPVM) used tear gas on Rad Pride marchers as windows were smashed, and a garbage can was set on fire on Saturday night. The third annual event, billed as an “alternative pride event,” began at 9:30 p.m. at Place Émilie-Gamelin on the western edge of The Village in Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough. SPVM report that at around 9:50 p.m., participants started to walk towards Sainte-Catherine Street and were blocked by police. They then pushed against police and began throwing objects at officers, spokesperson Manuel Couture said. Police then used tear gas to disperse the crowd. A trash can was set on fire, and several windows of the National Bank on the corner of Saint-Hubert and Saint-Catherine streets were smashed... “Unlike the official marches supported by sponsors and monitored by the police, Rad Pride advocates a direct, community-based, and unregulated approach," Rad Pride said in a news release. “It follows in the tradition of the Stonewall riots and all radical queer resistance movements.” The Rad Pride call to march rejects “the corporate and state co-opting of queer struggles, wishing to celebrate a festive and radical pride rooted in revolt, memory, and solidarity.” Rad Pride says the official Pride organization only serves “the whitest, cis and most affluent” portion of the communities... “More and more people are taking a stand against co-optation and for a return to the militant roots of our history,” said trans activist Camille in the news release"
Naturally, left wingers claimed that it was the police's fault, even though they're basically branding this as a violent protest. From the video it seemed like it was a "pro-Palestinian" protest too, so violence was par for the course
Policing catcalls doesn't make women safer - "Undercover jogger – no, not the name of a character in Liam Neeson’s new The Naked Gun, but an actual police role announced earlier this week. Female officers in Surrey went out for a run aiming to ensnare cat callers from their vehicles and give them a good telling off. The pilot scheme has allegedly resulted in 18 arrests for harassment, sexual assault and theft. Catcalling may be unpleasant, but it’s not illegal. Of all the serious issues facing women that the police have hitherto failed to get to grips with – from shoddy rape reporting to the infamous failures relating to grooming gangs – catching catcallers is hardly high up on our list. I can’t believe I’m about to defend the right to catcall, but this all feels a bit like police overreach... the idea that there’s a clear and distinct line between wolf-whistling and rape is just nonsense, as if men simply slip from loutishness to extreme violence and all it takes is a few undercover officers to set them on the straight and narrow. The argument against is a little trickier to make, as women who aren’t that bothered by catcalling are often told they are simply cursed with internalised misogyny. But like all human sexual behaviour, catcalling has its grey areas. There is not much to be said for a man who thinks it’s okay to shout at a strange woman on her run, but if the context was switched to a boozy high street on a Friday night, both parties might feel differently about the interaction. To suggest that all unsolicited male attention is always bad is to pretend that men and women don’t sometimes indeed behave badly and – whisper it – enjoy it. But the better argument in favour of telling the police to leave us alone is that playing the knight in shining armour for women does more harm than good. When sexist men behave like pigs, they are not doing it in the hope of a date – no one could be that stupid. What they are doing is asserting their power and dominance over what they believe to be an afraid woman. This means that the only way to really fight back is for women to refuse to be painted as constantly in fear. The undercover jogger approach is safetyism writ large – the idea that women need someone watching over their shoulder in order to go about their daily lives. This not only infantilises us, it also cements the very sexist notion that these men tend to have: that we are damsels in distress... The most common crime affecting women, joggers, and indeed anyone at the moment, is theft. Getting a handle on that would make women’s lives a hell of a lot better – not least because we like to text and run."
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "Also Women: "Why don't men flirt with us anymore?""
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "Pedo gangs are left alone while so much energy is put into this and censoring the internet"
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "The United Kingdom, where the serious is taken trivially, and the trivial is taken seriously. Orwell would be aghast to see what its become."
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - "So, after they catch all the catcallers, the tv license dodgers, the butter knife carriers, and the offensive twitter posters, will they tackle the issue of rampant gangs dedicated to raping and sexually enslaving little girls? Or they are too busy for that?"
UK: Undercover police officers pose as joggers to crack down on men catcalling female runners. OP: The government and society appears to be at war with men and boys. : r/MensRights - ""'These behaviours may not be criminal offences in themselves, but they need to be addressed,' a spokesman for the force said about the patrols."
In other words, police officers are spending resources for something they can't do anything about."
Anarcho-tyranny strikes again
Liquid that ‘smelled like urine’ was thrown at Jewish groups in Montreal Pride parade : r/canada - "“racism just wasn’t a thing for most of my life” is a pretty bold statement that I’ve never heard from any Black, Indigenous, or other visibly non-white person of any age."
"Some non-White friends who went to university here said that about their time here and compared it very favourably to other countries they'd lived in (both western and non-western)"
Lilley - The Toronto Red Star found someone who has the last... | Facebook - "The Toronto Red Star found someone who has the last name Dundas but who isn't related to Henry Dundas whom everything is named for, to explain why she doesn't mind streets, subway stations, parks, roads and other public spaces being renamed. This is ridiculous."
As a Dundas myself I’m ok to rename Toronto’s Dundas station
Im starting to think the uglification of women in videogames is not part of some bigger conspiracy theory. : r/KotakuInAction - "Its just a natural outcome of more women in gaming studios. As we see with the whole Sydney Sweeney debacle, nobody fears attractive women more than ugly fat women. Ugly fat women get in studios and throw a panic attack and cry if any female character is attractive. Maybe its not blackrock after all. I think Blackrock is more responsible for raceswaps if anything. Anyways, in conclusion: not gatekeeping our hobbies was a huge mistake"
"While what you are saying is also true, there is evidence that it is enforced at a system level. See Microsoft."
"It was never a conspiracy theory and it is not exclusive to women. The uglification of people in media is a byproduct of the Marxist/modern feminist ideology that a certain segment people at these types of companies have been following for the better part of two decades. Being perceived as pretty means you're at the top of the Marxist paradigm oppressing the "ugly," and in order to achieve equity, you need to give the "ugly" more exposure, as they are perceived as a marginalized minority. There is also the factor that modern feminists HATE men and everything they like. The only real conspiracy regarding this subject matter, as they have not yet outright said this was the case, as far as I know, is that it was done to make [subject matter banned on this subreddit] feel more included. The good thing is that this type of stupid thinking is slowly being reversing back to normal, as companies lost a metric shit ton of money from putting ugly people in ads."
""You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge" - George Carlin"
"The uglification of women in video games is due to:
Ugly and/or fat women in the video games studios, and also the ones on social media complaining
Feminism
Misandry / man-hating
I would even say that it's not just the ugly fat women. Even average-looking or attractive women in the video games studios want to make female characters ugly. The main reason on why they do this is to take attractive female characters/women away from straight men, .i.e. misandry. That is and has always been their goal. It isn't and never was about "diversity" and "representation", otherwise we would get the hot, big-boobed blonde female character reappear due to this type of female character being underrepresented for over a decade in Western games."
"Actually 1, 2 and 3 are all the same thing. In a lot of ways, feminism is just a platform to artificially inflate fat/ugly women's status in the social chain so they can get access to chads. Dudes below that threshold are their trauma dumpster when they can't take up their issues with chads. All the misandrist venom is reserved only for men they see as beneath them, while they chase the Jeremy Meeks of this world."
"In my country, there is a TV show in the evening called Dancing with the Stars. It's basically ballroom dancing with celebrities paired up with real dancers. When the latin style dances are performed, the female dancers tend to be scantily-clad. There are always complaints from people (women) about this. But guess what? The same people complaining are always drooling over the male dancers (or if it's a tall handsome male celebrity) who are topless and with open shirts. It's the same s**tty double standards."
How did everyone change so much in such little time? : r/KotakuInAction - "I remember when movies like American pie, superbad and even sausage party as controversial as they were were classics people memed about and watched with their friends to have a laugh. I remember games like blood Rayne, wet and lollipop chainsaw being normal. I remember when anime like prison school, high school dxd and golden boy were beloved classics overwhelmingly. What the hell happened, where did all these people go? a few days ago i saw a short on the scene where sue storm goes naked in the fantastic 4 silver surfer movie. and i expected the comments to be nothing but jokes, you should've seen the horror i realized it was people virtue signaling about the directors kinks, objectification blah blah. It makes no sense that people change this drastically this quickly, r were people always prudes? I'm not even insinuating everything has to be sexual but when did everyone become a nun?"
"Social media has reached a critical mass of rewarding people for being the pettiest scumbags imaginable. It used to be said, "Different strokes for different folks." Not everyone has the same tastes, and that's fine. Now though we have a large number of terminally online people looking for the smallest thing to rag on, attract others to rage about that too, and then get it canceled. It gives such people a perverse sense of power to be able to use their social media accounts as virtual censors against anything they personally don't like. So either the entertainment has to be as bland as vanilla pudding, or it get verbally firebombed by social media addicts.
"Social media grandstanding/clout chasing/Puritanism has ruined the internet"
"For all their talk of 'respecting diversity', they are fanatically intolerant of anyone who's different to them"
"To them, "diversity" is quite literally only skin deep."
"The issue is, the very same people that complain and kick up a fit about things like the Sue Storm scene OP mentioned are typically the kinds of degenerates pushing their own kinks into the public square. What they deem "heteronormativity" Or as normal people would call it, normal, is what they view as problematic. While divergent fucked up degeneracy is pushed as some sort of universal good. Sexuality itself isn't being repressed by these people. Normal sexuality is, in favor of the degenerate."
How did everyone change so much in such little time? : r/KotakuInAction - " How did everyone change so much in such little time?
Feminism constantly peddling MeToo, 1-in-5/4/3/2, muh misogyny, objectification, "toxic masculinity", muh patriarchy, the dreaded "Male Gaze", men are bad, etc. all over the place for over a decade. It was always going to condition society into the cancer it is now.
were people always prudes?
No they were not and are still not now. The people you see complaining about Sue Storm in the movie only have an issue when it's nudity of women; they will praise and joke if it's nudity of men."
Donny's Doners London Fields apology statement after backlash - "Donny’s Doners, a new ‘DJ owned’, ‘neighbourhood’ kebab shop in Hackney’s London Fields, has released an apology after receiving major backlash to its premise and its prices – as criticism towards gentrification in London brands the entire premise as completely tone deaf. The backlash came hard to Donny’s Doners after its creator Simon – self described “white guy” – was branded tone deaf for opening the place in Hackney, an area already renowned for its authentic Turkish food and home to one of London’s largest Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot communities... Su sarcastically says “It’s really nice to have an authentic diner kebab shop, because they don’t really exist in London.” Louis joins the tone saying “it’s a gap in the market I guess. We just love Turkish food so much and there’s unfortunately a lack of that in the city. Why not use our DJ skills and social media prowess to give the people what they want.” It’s hilarious, you have to admit."
Of course, Turks who open kebab shops that are essentially identical to existing ones are performing a welcome service
Difficult exams are ‘discriminatory’, say junior lawyers
Thread by @CptHastings1916 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Of course exams are discriminatory, that is literally the purpose of them. It's amazing how people don't understand that learned professions are always going to need some form of quality control of their members. If you make it impossible to do that openly via rigorous meritocracy, you will instead get hidden, informal, secret judgements being made. The deeper problem here of course is the equality regime itself, the abolition of meaningful exams is simply the outworking of the logic behind the Equality Act and its whole family of legislation going back four or five decades. The students behind the demand are simply being consistent in following the principles they have been taught since they first started school. To steelman a bit here, the argument seems to be that the exams demand "cultural-social background knowledge" that not all students possess. But this seems like quite a big claim, & implausible on its face. I'd have to see some good clear examples before I believe it. I just find it very unlikely that in 2025 the questions on English solicitors' exams contain coded references that only privileged whites can reasonably be expected to understand. It fails the smell test as an assertion."
Daniel Hannan on X - "Talking to a group of pleasant, clever socialists last night, it hit me that the defining characteristic of the Left is not compassion; rather, it is the conviction that compassion is unique to their side, leading to a grotesque misunderstanding of what the other side thinks."
This is why they keep going on about "compassion", "empathy" and "kindness". But of course their idea of those things is weaponised and highly contingent
The left have so much empathy that they are unable to understand any other point of view
Meme - evan loves worf @esjesjesj: "So fascism"
Giga Based Dad: "My political views are whatever this is"
*White man and pregnant white woman on bed with 6 kids*
Left wingers like to claim that people's existence cannot be political, but white people existing is fascism
Meme - Lamar @E_Supreme: "Exactly why most people don't say pedo anymore , they just say white men."
Mostly Peaceful Memes: "Child Molestation by Race. Per Capita (Statutory Rape Discluded)."
"Non-Hispanic Whites (-22%), Blacks (+59%), Hispanics (+76%)"
"https://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rsorp94.pdf
https://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1130/p251130.pdf"
Mariah Huntley: "I'd love to know where these stats came from. Anybody can make a chart."
Machu Heyword: "My fav replies are those demanding "sources?!?" When it literally shows the source just below the graph. So, is it the "reading" part or the "comprehension" part for these people?
Andrew Fleischman on X - "The Roman empire literally had universal citizenship by the 3rd century AD, and emperors from Syria, Illyria, Iberia etc etc etc. The United States of America had universal manhood suffrage by the 1870's, open borders until 1880's. Imported 50 million people from 1870 to 1920."
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "It's funny how leftists will describe the Roman Empire as either fascist or a multicultural utopia depending on which supports their immediate rhetorical goal."
