This was previously in the October 2024 post, "2024 Biology Textbooks / Trans Women Are / June Is...", but got deleted.
I've no idea what the issue was, so I'm reposting them one at a time and masking as might be helpful. Hopefully fewer keywords clustering together helps too:
Way of the World
@wayotworld: "What do you notice about this picture?
Germany, Belgium, France: *white women mating with brown/black men*
*French textbook showing brown baby inside a white woman*"
Meme - "Teach your kids that cooking and cleaning are basic life skills. not gender roles"
"Same with paying bills"
Meme - "POV: what that one girl who posts yachts on her story sees every night *POV of the Penguin from Batman Returns mounting you*"
Cinema Solace on X - "Margot Robbie is rumored to play the lead in Luca Guadagnino’s “gender-swapped” ‘AMERICAN PSYCHO’ remake. (Source: https://t.co/pbnKU8dDep)"
Jarvis on X - "If AMERICAN PSYCHO featured a female lead they would just call it NORMAL WOMAN."
SonOfGrace on X - ""Controlling" - he wouldn't let you be a ho
"Verbally Abussive" - He enforced accountability
"Emotionally unavailable" - he wouldn't argue with her to satisfy her emotional stimulation needs
"We grew apart" - Her single friends convinced her to be a ho"
The Dark Triad personality: Attractiveness to women - "It has been suggested that the Dark Triad (DT) personality constellation is an evolved facilitator of men’s short-term mating strategies. However, previous studies have relied on self-report data to consider the sexual success of DT men. To explore the attractiveness of the DT personality to the other sex, 128 women rated created (male) characters designed to capture high DT facets of personality or a control personality. Physicality was held constant. Women rated the high DT character as significantly more attractive. Moreover, this greater attractiveness was not explained by correlated perceptions of Big 5 traits. These findings are considered in light of mating strategies, the evolutionary ‘arms race’ and individual differences."
Of course, men who don't denounce peer-reviewed research are incels
None of my Gen Z friends wear bras – why do midlifers think that’s so odd? - "British lingerie brand Dora Larsen has seen bra sales amongst 18 to 24-year-olds decrease by 10 per cent in the last two years. Founder Georgia Larsen finds Gen Z customers are drawn to less restrictive bralettes, inspiring her to explore different options for unwired support. More people are opting to conceal just their nipples rather than use the full coverage of a bra, as Boots sales of nipple covers and body tape have increased by over a third in the last six months... Going braless became fashionable during the ‘Free the Nipple’ movement of the early 2010s. ‘Free the Nipple’ is a feminist campaign that challenges censorship of the female nipple by encouraging women to exhibit their full boobs in public. Older generations are perhaps less well-informed on this (my mother incorrectly calls the movement “the freedom of the nipple”). Some businesses have even profited from this trend. Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand, Skims sells a £72 “nipple push-up bra,” which features a “built-in raised nipple detail for a perky, braless look.” The “pierced nipple push-up bra” goes one step further. It comes with a “removable nylon-coated nipple piercing for an unforgettable statement.”... Mr Debashis Ghosh, a consultant breast and oncoplastic durgeon at The London Clinic, says around one in three of the breast reductions he performs are for women who want to avoid bras altogether.""
Meme - "you know he's broke when he buys you water"
"you know you're broke when you depend on someone else to pay for your meal"
The Transformed Wife 🦋 on X - "We can talk all day that men should meet their wives’ emotional needs (difficult to even define) but if we simply mention wives meeting their husband’s sexual needs (easy to define), women go ballistic. Why is this?"
When you live in a misandristic society that prioritises women and their needs
Meme - "Leila 32
Looking for casual fwb. Open to a relationship but currently comfy being single as well. HSV2+ (no outbreaks in 2ish years; otherwise sti/std free [last test 3/4/25]) only free to hang if you believe in freeing Pal..."
The "Free Palestine" crowd
Boob jobs are shrinking - "After years of big boobs being the beauty standard, more women in Hollywood and beyond have decided the large breast implants they got for cosmetic reasons have lost their luster. Just last month, actress Alyssa Milano announced she was getting what’s commonly called an “explant,” ditching her breast implants and the emotional baggage associated with them. It’s tempting to celebrate a wave of celebrity explants as a trend toward body acceptance, but the boob job isn’t going anywhere. Breast augmentation remains one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries among American women, with about 300,000 performed yearly. But plastic surgeons say they’re seeing a steady rise in implant removals and smaller breast implants, a shift that mirrors broader cultural currents: the popularity of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, the allure of Pilates bodies and an aesthetic pendulum swinging toward smaller. As some women come to terms with the way beauty trends pushed them to make choices they now want reversed, plenty of others continue to choose surgery in pursuit of the perfect breasts — an ever-evolving standard. Right now, based on surgical requests, the standard is small... Victoria Beckham once denied rumors she had breast implants, but she recently joked in a Sun interview that her removed implants are probably “bobbing around in the Mediterranean sea.”... Beverly Hills surgeon Cat Begovic has seen a huge increase in women specifically asking for the fat transfer procedure over implants — which will give only a subtle increase in volume to the chest and at most will increase one’s breast by one cup size. “It’s something that I do all the time. I think probably in the last month I’ve done probably four fat transfers to the breast and they were all very fit, lean patients. They were extraordinarily happy just because they wanted to still be in the same bra size but just be a little more filled,” Begovic said."
Meme - Roro @Lerasko_: "We are SO sorry that the guys your age want us young girls. SO sorry." - 8/7/2015
Roro @Lerasko_: "hai kabi but as a 31 year old what are you doing dating a 22 year old?" - 14/05/2024
Meme - Dinho (Punished Venom Di...: "men, we have been outgooned"
Niche Gamer @nichegamer: "Chinese mobile otome game Love and Deepspace adds a build in period tracker, your love interests will react to your period. Details below."
STUNNER on X - "When you’re poor, women will say they’re unhappy because there’s no money. When you’re rich, they’ll say they’re unhappy because you don’t have enough time for them. When you make time, they’ll say you’re not making enough money and wasting time at home. When you have both money and time, they’ll say they’re unhappy because they “haven’t discovered themselves.” When you help them discover themselves, they’ll say they’re unhappy because they “need to find their identity.” For thousands of years, men have done everything possible for women…gave them rights, freedoms, custody of children, alimony, child support, lighter punishments, even no jail time for false allegations. And yet, this is the most unhappy generation of women to ever exist. At this point, it’s no longer about men…it’s simply their nature. They are, by default, unhappy people."
Meme - "Wife bought something on FB Marketplace but she's afraid she'll get kidnapped so she sends me to pick it up from a guy who's wife sent him because she's afraid to get kidnapped."
Meme - Paige @PeachCoffin: "If my friends made me be Mild I would fuck all their boyfriends" *girls dressed up as Taco Bell sauces*
Meme - "Every girl on tinder
*Weird ugly face* Must be over 6 foot, drive, be athletic and a 6 figure salary
*Pretty, made-up look* "Not on here often message me on instagram"
*Group of 3 girls with 1 fat girl* All her pictures are group photos. 87% chance it's the fat one
*Goth* Defiently into bdsm
*Belle Delphine with pink hair and cat ears on bed and smiling, looking up at camera* "Buy my premium snapchat"
*Raven hair with thick eyeliner* "Not here for hook ups" but will send nudes after 20 minutes
*Vaguely masculine girl* Just a dude with a gender bender filter
*Girl sipping from cup with headphones* Probably reads a book and likes art. That's it. That's her personality.
*Big ears and big glasses through filter* Some stupid hecking snapchat filter on every pic and her bio probably says "family first""
Meme - "Women's Fiction Is A Spectrum
MARGARET ATWOOD THE HANDMAID'S TALE. Breeding Property (Government)
Morning Glory Milking Farm. Breeding Property (Monster)"
Meme - Nat Sauer @natssauer: "the feminine urge to reply to a statistic generalization with an anecdotal counter example"
Allie Beth Stuckey: "I've seen a guy do this too though"
Meme - "Single moms with mixed kids trying to date again *cartoon blonde with black eye*
I am once again asking for your financial support."
Meme - camillaacutiexo: "MEN you should stop ignoring all the single moms out there. We are literally the missing piece of your "puzzle""
wolf_jeffery: "The men that ignore single moms are the same men those women ignored while they were getting pregnant by the wrong man, men without children should avoid single moms like the plague"
turner.the_burner: "The only missing piece of the puzzle is your child's real dad"
Meme - Failures Of Feminism: "Why can't women solve it? Why are yall expecting men to solve problems that affect women?"
Elisabeth Wykert: "If men got PCOS, it would be solved by now."
Meme - "My boyfriend trying to be supportive"
"my shawarma fell apart"
"Oh no
Are you solution oriented about it or in the feelings stage"
mads campbell on X - "spent my 20s saying no to perfectly good men who would’ve made great husbands. in my 30s, i think i’ll just say yes to the next one and stop fucking around"
'My boobs are so big I got banned from son's playgroup - other mums shame me' - "A fuming mum claims she's been booted out of her son's playgroup because her swimwear is causing offence with other parents. But she insists: "I shouldn't have to sacrifice being glamorous just because I have a child." Jodie Weston, known for her stints on Channel 5's Rich Kids Go Skint, Rich Holiday Poor Holiday and BBC's Eating with My Ex, says she gets "trolled" daily for her body shape."
〰 Just Linda 〰 on X - "Done with dating sites. I'm now focusing on pizza delivery guys because at least I know they have a job, a car, and pizza."
Diane Yap on X - "I would rather be a temporary fleshlight for a 9 or 10 than a permanent sex slave and housekeeper for a 5. I'm sure most women feel the same way."
STUNNER on X - "When a relationship ends, her family and friends will say, “It was his loss,” and focus only on what he did wrong. They rarely examine her role in the breakup or discuss how she could grow and become a better partner. As a result, she moves from relationship to relationship with no personal growth, convinced she simply hasn’t found the “right man” yet. She’s surrounded by people who coddle her, blame every failure on the man, and take no responsibility for the baggage or unresolved issues she brings into each new relationship. Many therapists also report that counseling continues smoothly as long as the man is positioned as the problem. But the moment the woman is asked to take responsibility as well, she suddenly stop attending therapy. Why? Because taking accountability challenges the narrative she was raised with and requires genuine self-reflection…something women hate doing."
Anti-Feminism Australia on X - "So I infiltrated a female expat group in Vietnam. Every second post is western women complaining about how hard dating is for them there. They all say how dating is impossible and how they can’t compete with local Vietnamese women because they are more beautiful and submissive. Most of them become so lonely that they end up leaving Vietnam because they can’t find any chads to date. They also talk about how dating there crushed their confidence. Now they know what dating is like for 95% of guys in the west and it seems they don’t like it. @IncelsCo @ThePassportBros"
big mf don ! on X - "body counts are so pointless bc I can lie to you rn and you’d never know.. then what?"
Dimitri🤩 on X - "Lying about who you slept with to gain sexual access to somebody you wouldn’t have if they knew the truth is the same thing as rape. You bitches think like rapists."
Meme - Haley Rochelle: ""You're a pick me!" says the same culture that traded purpose for validation and still can't find peace. Some of y'all confuse freedom with flaunting. There's nothing empowering about forgetting your worth."
OnlyFans girl in bikini: "YOU'RE A PICK ME!" *normal woman with kid covering his eyes*
Meme - dejdollaz_: "Men will invest $800 in a PSS before they invest $80 in therapy. That's the real poverty."
joeyswoll: "Really? During a month dedicated to men's mental health? Men will invest in what gives them PEACE. Therapy can be great for some but not everyone and it's a hell of a lot more than $80. Maybe playing a video game lets men shut the world and their problems off for a few hours so they can recharge. So what? You just have to judge and use it for rage bait to get clicks online? Your whole page is you putting men down. You even have a post up saying you're "working on" not hitting men?! Shame on you!"
Meme - ayencore: "Why do [some] men treat women they don't find attractive horribly?
i’ve always wanted to ask this question but i never really knew how to word it exactly, but why is it that [some] men don’t treat women they aren’t attracted to with respect? im not saying to fall at my feet or anything, but it’s a pattern i’ve noticed over the years where i’ll be treated almost as if im subhuman by men simply because they don’t find me conventionally attractive. is there a specific reason for this? & again, i don’t mean all men. i simply mean the ones that i’ve personally seen or experienced. also 18f if that counts towards the perspective since i know teenagers are harsh lol"
ayencore: "oh yeah definitely. i had a pretty rough experience w/ that firsthand when i struggled carrying 4 suitcases on my own (5'1 100Ibs btw), bruised up my while guys just watched me lol. they helped a girl wearing shorts that barely covered her ass carry her one bag though"
BraveStrategy: "Gotta be honest with you. They're not treating you subhuman. I was expecting that they're being verbally abusive or something, You're not entitled to them treating you like you're attractive. If they're going about their day and being respectful and uninterested and minding their own business, that's all you're entitled to. That's what men get all day long. You're being treated as an equal."
Naturally, he got downvoted to hell. If you support gender equality rather than female privilege, you're a terrible person
European Men Are So Much More Romantic Than American Men vs. American Women Studying In Europe Are Unbelievably Easy - The Onion - "Being European gives me a hell of an advantage. I’m not sure why, but there’s something about the accent that opens a lot of doors. All you have to do is go up to them, act a little shy and say, “Whould hyou like to go with me, Signorina, for a café?” I actually have to thicken up my accent a little, but they never, ever catch on. After a cheap coffee, which to them always tastes better than anything they’ve ever had, because they’re in Europe, it’s time to walk them. Now, all they know about Rome is what they’ve read in Let’s Go, so you can pretty much just make up a whole bunch of shit. It’s fun to see how much they’ll swallow: As long as I refer to Italy as “my homeland” and other Italians as “my people,” they’ll believe pretty much anything. I don’t know who most of the local statues are, so I tell the muffins they’re all great artists and poets and lovers. Once, just for the hell of it, I told a psychology major from the University of Maryland that a public staircase was part of the Spanish Steps, which she’d never even heard of. Another time, I told this blonde from Michigan State that the public library was the Parthenon, and she cooed like I’d just given her a diamond. For dinner, I usually take them to some cheap little hole in the wall, someplace deserted where not even the cops eat. American girls think candlelight means “romance,” not “deteriorating public utilities,” so they just poke their nipples through their J. Crew sweaters and never notice that there’s no electricity. Just as well, because Roman restaurants aren’t exactly the cleanest. After a bunch of fast-talk about the menu, I get them the special, which is usually some anonymous pasta with spinach and day-old shrimp, and whatever cheap, generic, Pope’s-blood chianti’s at the bottom of the list. By this time, they’re usually standing in a slippery little puddle. Going in for the kill, I walk them past one of Rome’s famous 2,000-year-old open cesspools. Then, as we open the door to my shitty efficiency, I kiss them on the eyelids so they don’t see the roaches, making sure the first thing they see is the strategically positioned artist’s easel I bought at some church sale. That’s usually all they need to see and, like clockwork, they fall backwards on my bed with their Birkenstocks in the air."
Meme - "Accurate representation of Conde Nast readers: *Woman at laptop at table, coiffured from waist up but wearing home shorts with unshaven legs and holding phone below laptop camera's view, with messy apartment, glass of alcohol in hand, cat at feet, cat in cage and wearing pink furry slippers*"
STUNNER on X - "What women call “mental load” and “emotional labor”is just self-created anxiety that they place on themselves by taking on more and more responsibility without being asked. Then that same woman turns around and presents this self-imposed stress as a form of sacrifice, using it to make their partner feel guilty as if they are doing everything alone in the relationship. A lot of the pressure comes from impulsive, non-essential tasks that don’t actually need to be done immediately or at all. But once the stress passes a personal threshold, it gets projected onto their husbands as if it is now their duty to absorb and fix it. What makes it more frustrating is the inconsistency. When they truly do not want to do something, they can clearly and forcefully say no. But when it is their own mind pushing them to overextend themselves, suddenly it becomes “mental load” and emotional labor that someone else is expected to manage. At that point, it is no longer responsibility, it becomes self-created pressure that is now affecting their mental health, and then their partner is blamed for not fixing it. Men are basically being blamed for an imaginary problem."
What Not to Say to Women Achieving Their Dreams - The Atlantic - "Picture this: You are scrolling through Facebook or Instagram and see that an acquaintance from college or high school has posted some news. We’ll call her Sheila. Sheila has made a documentary and it’s won an award at a film festival. You want to leave a note of congratulations of some kind so you quickly type out: “Amazing!!!”, or “Incredible!!,” or “Unreal!!.” And you move on with your day. Sheila looks at your comment, taps a little heart on it, smiles, and then tells the little voice in her head whispering Is it amazing? Or did I break my back on this film for years? to shut up because that kind of thinking is ungracious and you were just being nice and didn’t mean anything by it. And you probably didn’t. Or maybe you did. Maybe you never found Sheila that impressive or smart and are shocked at the gap between your recollection of her and this accomplishment. Or maybe you personally wouldn’t have the first idea of how to embark on a career like documentary filmmaking, and are genuinely awestruck that she’d figured it out. Or maybe you hadn’t seen Sheila in your feed for a while, had no clue she even made films, and so this was shocking news … to you. Or perhaps you just couldn’t think of any other word in the very quick moment between reading Sheila’s post and needing to respond to a Slack message or a request from your children."
This is why women and left wingers are unhappy
Meme - "no one talks about how painfully boring the "nice guy" is after surviving a toxic man."
Clearly, men need to do better
Meme - Daddy's Girl: "Be the kind of guy I want"
Normal man: "Alright, then"
Normal man: "Be the kind of woman I want"
Daddy's Girl: "OMG!! You misogynistic, patriarchal caveman!!"
Meme - "DREAMS AT 25
Woman clubbing with 2 friends taking wefie: No kids, no man, no problem. Just vibes and vacations!
REALITY AT 45
Woman with wine bottle and glass at laptop: Why are all the good men taken? I guess men just can't handle strong women..."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Perhaps THE most annoying thing about modern shit-libbery is this performative pretend horror at the violation of incredibly precise made-up "norms." "And HERE WE SEE a CBP agent displaying an unsheathed gun or bladed weapon while confronting a violent but unarmed protester. Is THAT OK with you?!!! Is Section 7.2634A a JOKE to you?!!!" Bruh. If this even needs to be said, it is not...legal for entire cities to say that they are "sanctuaries" from state immigration law or federal drug law. It is not legal to encourage millions of aliens to lie on asylum applications, cut off their ankle monitors, and walk into the heartland. The have-you-no-shame-sir noise is a gloss over a level of aggressive amorality sometimes surprising even to me."
Shadi Hamid on X - "I'd argue Gaza has at least some relevance for governing on the local and state level, whether it's in New York or elsewhere:"
RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS on X - "If mass immigration now means that local elections are going to be decided based on foreign policy issues like Gaza then I guess the white nationalists were correct all along"
Collin Rugg on X - "Group of white liberal women scream at a black ICE agent, call him a race traitor. "How does it feel to be a race traitor?" "You guys tried to detain your own person." "You have the reading level of a f*cking 8th grader." Yikes!"
Adam B. Coleman, Proud Father & Imperfect Man on X - "I've lived in 5 states, visited several more. Been around plenty of white people. The number of negative racial incidents I've had in decades I could count with one hand. Since 2021, I've lost count as to how many times a white leftist has called me a coon, nigger, house nigger"
How ICE’s use of tear gas in Minnesota causes serious harm - "The Jackson family was just trying to get home. Shawn and Destiny Jackson, both 26, loaded their six children into the family SUV the evening of Jan. 14 and drove them from their 11-year-old’s basketball game to Cub Foods in North Minneapolis to grab something for an easy dinner. They found their normal route home blocked by federal agents at Lyndale Avenue and 24th Avenue North. Shawn has lived in the neighborhood his whole life and tried cutting through a residential street, but found that blocked, too. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pursuing a Venezuelan man had just shot him in the leg. They were swarming the area, surrounding the home where the man had fled and facing off against a growing crowd of protesters."
Clearly, ICE should've let the protesters rescue the criminal and it's their fault for trying to disperse the crowd
Mario Nawfal on X - "🚨 🇺🇸 SHE LURED A MAN TO HIS DEATH FOR ROBBERY... NOW SHE'S THE FACE OF A $200K TEAR GAS HOAX
Destiny Jackson is actually Destiny Bradshaw, convicted in a deadly 2019 murder-robbery scheme. She catfished 21-year-old Malik Smith on Facebook posing as a marijuana seller to set him up. When his car door wouldn't open, her accomplice shot him in the back. Smith died. Bradshaw pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting. Now she's raising $200,000 claiming ICE tear-gassed her innocent family. Livestream footage shows her actively rioting while her children sat unattended in a vehicle. Source: Hennepin County Court Records / FOX9 / @CrimeWatchMpls"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The sex offenders aren't "invented." Here they are, below. Any half assed criminal records search in MN will pull them and what they did up. The government has named them online. ICE caught one today, I believe. The sole issue here is whether, at the exact time of the raid, they were still living off-lease or whatever at the location where (1) ICE was obviously told they were and (2) the DHS said in writing that they were. That random home-owners there were NOT rapists is just totally irrelevant. Painting the hunt for these very real, completely ID'd people as a government scam is - again - beyond bizarre...
Alice: I'm not going to argue with you all night. But, so far as I know, the ENTIRE claim the two sex offenders didn't live there off lease, didn't live there anymore, etc is 100% based upon this random Hmong family saying they didn't. DHS said in writing that they did, and apparently still does say this. Literally everyone ever to work in the law has seen 200 snitch tips like this. It took me a few minutes to pull up the backgrounds and crimes of these rapists, who are indeed from this section of this city. Allll this stuff is linked below, again. And, also - the entire reason this tough old guy was in the cold for a few minutes (cars have heat) is apparently just that he didn't show his ID to these agents and cooperate....maybe due to justifiable rage, and maybe for another reason. I find the presence of these foreign child rapists in the USA to be a much bigger issue than his admittedly rough treatment. And, I find this whole line of "Where is your SOUL?!!! Kids are in CAGES!!!" pseudo-rage over "ICE atrocities" - not so much from you, tbh - to be peak theater kid horseshit. Probably 80+% of those putting this routine on never spare a word for illegal alien crime, Black crime, protester behavior, the behavior of other federal agencies against conservative or even true-left protesters, etc. The transparently obvious reality is that they oppose deporting most aliens. I don't."
MRC STUDY: ABC, CBS, NBC Hammer ICE With 93% Negative Coverage - "Since the January 7 fatal shooting of left-wing agitator Renee Good by an ICE officer, Minneapolis has been gripped by riots, lawlessness, and escalating tensions between activists and federal law enforcement. Meanwhile, left-wing broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have spent more than two hours of airtime blaming the chaos on immigration officials. MRC analysts pored through every report about the situation in Minneapolis which aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News, from January 7 through January 17, 2026. We found a total of 121 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage devoted to the topic, of which a whopping 93 percent was negative toward federal immigration officials.
ABC, CBS, and NBC’s flagship evening newscasts all hammered ICE with more than 90% negative coverage (91% negative on ABC and NBC, 96% negative on CBS). Just 1.6% of of the Minneapolis-related coverage included any mention of the crimes committed by the illegal aliens whom ICE agents were there to apprehend to begin with. CBS never explicitly admitted that Nicole Good hit agent Jonathan Ross with her car moments before he fired at her. ABC and NBC did so only once each...
CBS’s framing of Renee Good’s death was particularly mendacious. While the network repeatedly played the footage from officer Ross’s phone which indisputably showed Good hitting him with her car, not one journalist ever stated as fact that Good’s vehicle had indeed struck Ross. Even anchor Tony Dokoupil only ever framed it as something the Trump administration was claiming. All three networks did mention that Ross reportedly had been sent to the hospital for internal bleeding after the incident. However, each did so only once."
Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 on X - "Border Patrol agents deploy tear gas, pepper spray, and green smoke after aggressive anti-ICE agitators throw drinks at them and continuously getting in their face after being shoved away I'm ok with this. Do it to all of them."
Matt Finkes on X - "This is what’s amazing to me. Protestors don’t have the right to do this. They don’t have the right to block traffic or impede law enforcement or “get in people’s faces” or be aggressive in any way. They don’t. No matter what some idiot on social media tells you. They have the right to peaceably assemble. That’s it."
Tim Carney on X - "One reason a brothel operated in my neighborhood for almost a year was a county prosecutor who refused to bring prosecutions that might have "immigration consequences." In other words, the pimp was a Chinese immigrant who could get deported, so they dropped the charges. Now her."
blighter on X - "obvious crimes are not prosecuted if prosecuting them might mean a criminal would get deported. and then we have people lecture us on how law-abiding immigrants are bc they are much less likely to be convicted of a crime. because they are not prosecuted explicitly bc they are immigrants."
Thread by @RealBenGeller on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨Just so you know where we are at: 2 NYPD Detectives were refused medical attention Sat night/Sun morning at NYU because the nurses & Dr's thought they were ICE. Huge debacle in the emergency room. Every single medical professional involved should have their licensure revoked. As a medical professional myself, this is an abomination. There must be accountability. They have all abandoned their oath. Remember when far left extremists were denying people access to restaurants or stores or medical care unless they had their vaccine? I didn’t forget. It’s happening again. Pay attention. CC: @elonmusk 🚨🚨MAJOR UPDATE: Multiple physicians of all specialties in New York have privately reached out to me & have filed complaints with @HealthNYGov & @CMSGov . NYU will NOT get away with this. @NYCMayor & @GovKathyHochul what say you? .@HealthNYGov removed themselves from the conversation. I wonder if they will retaliate & come for my licensure? Bring it on. I would love nothing more than to take DOH to Federal Court. Looks like NYS DOH stands with RN’s & MD’s refusing care to those they believe are ICE."
Detectives' Endowment Association on X - "Last week, two NYPD Detectives were mistreated while seeking medical attention at NYU Langone – Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being injured on duty during the arrest of a violent perpetrator. Upon arrival, they were met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy by hospital administrators. It is an outrage that any NYPD Detective injured in the line of duty should have to worry about being treated at any hospital in the city they protect. As nurses across the city strike over issues like workplace safety, treating Detectives poorly is not how to make hospitals safer. No one—especially Detectives injured in the line of duty—should face such treatment. The DEA is investigating this matter and will pursue all available remedies to ensure our members are treated with the dignity and respect they have earned."
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "Let's be clear about this -- hospital staff refused to treat plainclothes NYPD detectives injured in the line of duty. Not only that, these officers were treated with contempt completely outside ethical bounds for medical personnel. From what I understand, staff supposedly did this because they thought the NYPD officers might have been 'ICE agents' as if that is a valid excuse to refuse a patient. Let's be very clear about something -- when doctors and nurses and medical staff begin to refuse critical care over perceived political differences, we will have reached a breaking point in this country. If this behavior is allowed to continue, and is not met with swift condemnation and consequences by the mayor and government leadership of New York as well as medical licensing boards and the professional community at large, trust in the medical profession will be shattered beyond repair. Even during wartime, doctors and nurses were bound to treat the wounded of both sides. And they could be trusted to provide competent and compassionate care no matter who they were treating. It was, in fact, a badge of honor for the profession. If the medical profession has now abandoned that basic morality, and patients now have to worry about being refused treatment -- or worse -- because of political hostility from their own countrymen, then a rubicon has truly been crossed and there isn't much else to say. This is a disgrace, it is unacceptable, and it is indicative of the profound moral rot that progressive activism has brought into every corner of our civics. The left is taking us down a very dark path indeed."
Once again, left wingers politicise healthcare. Then when trust in the healthcare establishment falls, they blame their political opponents
‘No anaesthesia for MAGA’: Florida nurse refuses to treat Republicans, sparks calls for suspension - "A Florida nurse is going viral online for his recent post claiming he will not administer anaesthesia to MAGA members during any surgeries or procedures, leading to massive online backlash and calls for his suspension. Erik Martindale, a registered nurse in Florida took to Facebook to announce that he will not perform anaesthesia for any medical procedures for MAGA. The medical professional described it as his right and ethical oath, adding that he owns all of his businesses and can refuse anyone. In his post Martindale wrote, "I will not perform anaesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone!" while also sharing a close-up image of himself in his nurse uniform.The University of Miami graduate later removed the post from his account and went on to make another one claiming that his Facebook and Instagram accounts had been hacked. "My FB, FB Messenger and IG have been hacked," he wrote in a Facebook post. Medical professionals are expected to help treat all kinds of patients irrespective of their backgrounds and affiliations and are trusted to do so... This comes after Lexie Lawler, a Florida nurse was fired for posting a TikTok clip wishing serious injuries including a 4th degree tear to pregnant White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Calls for her suspension led to her termination from Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital."
Collin Rugg on X - "NEW: ICE agent in Minnesota goes off on people trying to impede an operation to arrest a child s*x offender in footage shared by @ScooterCasterNY.
Agent: “We're here to arrest a child s*x offender and you guys are out here honking.”
Woman: “Oh, no, we're press.”
Agent: “… We’re trying to arrest a child s*x offender. That's who you guys are protecting. Insane.”"
Arthur MacWaters on X - "This is legitimately shocking
1. vast majority of Americans (74%) support deporting illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes
2. in 2023 alone, 73k of those ICE arrested had prior convictions, including 4k sexual crimes, 1k homicides, 33k assaults
3. yet, people are rioting to block ICE from arresting literal pedophiles
The only explanation is that the legacy media campaign to villainize ICE and Trump... is working It's hard to imagine people feeling virtuous while defending literal pedophiles, but this is the case now. Nobody rioted against ICE in 2023. This is seriously messed up."
Left wingers love criminals. Left wingers also love illegal immigrants. Which is why they love illegal immigrants who are also criminals even more so
Drew Holden on X - "Another legacy media conspiracy: @washingtonpost alleges ICE used a 5-year-old kid as “bait” to arrest his father. Not until five paragraphs into the piece do they acknowledge what really happened: the child’s father, an illegal immigrant, abandoned him when he saw ICE."
Time to ban Fox News and the Daily Mail for lying
Ken Martin on X - "ICE detained a 5-year-old child in Minnesota to use as "bait." An innocent child. America, let this sink in. This is what the government is doing right in front of our eyes."
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on X - "You’re lying for clicks yet again. ICE did not, and has never, "used a child as bait." The child was ABANDONED. On January 20, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias an illegal alien from Ecuador who was RELEASED into the U.S. by the Biden administration. As agents approached the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, fled on foot — abandoning his child. For the child’s safety, one of our ICE officers remained with the child while the other officers apprehended Conejo Arias. Parents can take control of their departure and receive a free flight and $2,600 using the CBP Home app."
Meme - "ICE DETAINED A 5 YEAR OLD"
"BE HONEST"
"ICE IS TARGETING CHILDREN"
"BE HONEST"
"ICE LOOKED AFTER A CHILD WHEN HIS FATHER ABANDONED HIM"
"THANK YOU"
Bill Kristol on X - "Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there."
MAZE on X - "2014. Bill Kristol advocates for the deportation of migrant children. George Stephanopoulos says that Obama needs to send a message to migrants that they need to go back home. Even Ana Navarro was sort of reasonable back then. Strange times."
RealityFirst on X - "Should also be obvious that there is ICE in every state, but the "unrest" only happens in certain states where they refuse cooperation and have people actively interfering with law enforcement."
Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) on X - "Very interesting theory of American democracy. When the left wins an election, they get to do whatever while in power. If the right wins an election the left gets to riot against anything they dislike & the right has to do whatever the left wants to stop the rioting"
"Direct action" is how left wingers force through their agenda despite losing elections
Doreen Linder on X - "This gives Jussie Smollett vibes. There are no tears! Could not make it as an actress."
Doreen Linder on X - "Here is a video of Nasra Ahmed getting “brutalized” by ICE agents. First she did not mention how she spit at the agents. Then claimed she was thrown down by agents which is not in the video. She also said she was put in leg irons also not in the video as is clear when she is walking. Finally, Ahmed said she was taken from her home then she said was taken from in front a pharmacy."
Blake Neff on X - "Maine is a 90% white state, and only about 2% black. Yet somehow, from 2021 through 2024, at least 90% of new Medicaid agencies in Maine were created by people with African or Arabic names. They collected more than $190 million. What are the odds that even half of this is legitimate?"
Republicans against Trump on X - "Watch masked ICE agents chase a family through the snow, a mother desperately holding her baby in her arms. A terrified child records the scene while hiding in an upstairs room, looking out the window. What has America become?"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "A place where you might get arrested, and humanely deported to another country, for breaking the immigration laws? We do not have a "moral" duty to let 20+ million illegal aliens stay here because cops can be scary to criminals. This "Where is your SOUL, you MAN?!" shit is the stupidest and most annoying drivel in the world."
Blue Lives Matter on X - "STOP what you're doing - we have a pretty huge update and confession about this whole "Report ICE activity hotline" situation. By about 1am, we had reports come in from numerous states that there had been "incidents" at a number of biker bars last night. 🇺🇸 It turns out that "report ICE activity hotlines" had received "tips" about "off-duty ICE agents" drinking at dozens of bars. Those bars just so happened to be biker bars owned or frequented by individuals who haven't always been on the right side of the law. ICE protestors were alerted and given the addresses of these bars. According to friends of ours across the country, beta soy boy, gender-fluid communist Meal Team Sixers showed up with their "F-ICE" flags and tried barging into the bars. Except... there were no ICE agents drinking there. As a wise man once said... "now you's can't leave". To clarify, WE absolutely did NOT report those addresses to the "Report ICE activity hotlines". That's ridiculous, guys. What kind of people do you think we are? Nah. We simply provided the "Report ICE activity hotlines" to the good ole' boys that DRINK at those bars and asked them if they wanted to have a fun night. Hey leftists... we've been warning you... there would be a time when the people who just wanted to be left alone get off the sidelines. Keep going, children. We're in this for the long haul... and we're really, really good at it. If you have a phone or fingers to type... you can get in the fight and help protect ICE and law enforcement. Below you'll find the "report ICE activity" hotlines. Have fun and blast this thing all over the internet. @DHSgov @Sec_Noem @ICEgov @RealTomHoman @realDonaldTrump @CBP we've got your six. @elonmusk we’ve got more where this came from on #operationfakeout @EliCrane_CEO time to #SendTheSEALS"
Erikaaa on X - "CURRENT Minnesota State Representative, Brad Tabke, is in charge of one of the sign-up sheets for “ICE Watch” on Sign Up Genius. You can see his name at the top as the creator. 🤯"
Marie Oakes | Facebook - "Personally, I’m not surprised that two ICE protesters have died. I’m surprised it’s only been two. If you’ve been paying attention at all, you should be surprised too. Since the protests have started, law enforcement has been extremely restraint in their handling of these rabid protesters. The level of obstruction all over the country has been intense for months now. But clearly people are extremely unaware and uninformed. No surprise really."
You know it's a fascist dictatorship killing citizens when 2 citizens attack law enforcement and are killed in self-defense
The Moderate Case on X - "There were over 50 ICE shootings between 2015-2021. At least 50 people died in ICE detention under Obama. Obama deported over 3 million people. At least 55%, up to 84% were summary removals and non-judicial, meaning they did not see a judge or have a formal hearing. There were no riots or outrage. This is all manufactured by the media."
Jordan Rochon on X - "To easily sum up what is happening in Minnesota:
Tim Walz: "I want everyone to get in the faces of ICE agents and resist them."
Leftist: *gets into the faces of ICE agents with a gun... gets shot*
Tim Walz: "This is Donald Trump's fault! Get ICE out of here now." #USPoli"
||||| on X - "So the brilliant theory here is that ICE is some paramilitary fascist death squad with an amazing kill count of... 2? And not even the actual illegals? Just two random idiots with boomer capeshit fantasies that think fighting with cops is a good way to pass the time? Seriously?"
T.J. Moe on X - "The leftist playbook is to create chaos and violence so the right will conclude upholding the law and saving America is not worth it. They’re banking on manipulating your emotions. Don’t cave. Instead, we should double down. We are on a far more righteous path. Don’t forget it."
The full version of a clip shared by STUNNED @Cr7Godbrand:
trigger warning! Female CEO Tells Truth about feminist women in tech entryists
"Hi my name is Maema Wishova [sp]. I'd like to start with a short introduction about myself.
I'm a woman in IT, obviously. I'm a CEO of a quite profitable IT company. I'm a mother, as well, so you would say I went through quite a lot in the IT industry. So I have the experience and authority to talk about this topic.
Now what I want to say is that the whole talk about women in IT is usually a bad thing for us. Because basically what it says is, well it's okay to have lower income, it's okay to do, worse than boys in the IT industry because, well there's a world conspiracy against you, you know, people hate you, that's why. So that's why I'm against the whole talk.
Also I did some recruiting, because I have a company. And also I went to school that had like eight girls and 100 boys, so you know one quite used to being around a lot of boys.
The whole thing is, girls are usually quite lazy. They're just not that good programmers, sorry but that's true, honestly. They just don't want to get their hands dirty to do the job and when I tried to do some recruiting I intentionally wanted to recruit women and at the end I failed to do so, do you want to know why? Because most of those girls were usually just cheating, and they just, there were just not good programmers. At the end I had to recruit boys.
And that's why I think the whole talk about 'let's recruit more women' is bad, because at the end you're recruiting worse programmers. At the end your company is going to suffer, you gonna lose some money. I know it's trendy to talk about women in IT, but I think women should just start studying more and getting the job done. And I, honestly don't see girls staying up until late at their office and working that often. No. It's usually boys staying there. Why? I don't know.
So that's what I want to say, I think the whole lecture should be removed and I think it's just bullshit"
*Scattered applause that increases a bit*
Organiser [?] on stage: "Ok. Ok everyone has its own opinion I just want to say one thing, make one thing clear. The whole idea of this presentation is not the sentence: we should recruit more girls. No. We know there is an emerging ecosystem and each company should recruit the best program there. The whole idea of this kind of projects and communities is just to spread the word that hey, there is a project where you can really come and if you want to really learn, you can learn. Then, it is not our responsibility how people may want to just make use of what it's offered, we just want to make sure that there is people who are making a career here, they are overcoming the, err, *trails off*"
Related:
"In IT when CEOs use the terms “lazy” and “not willing to get their hands dirty” what they mean is the employee refuses to work 16 hour days for weeks at a time. Young male programmers are willing to work sweatshop hours because gaming has conditioned them. Young women have lives."
"You think the recent advancements in AI and Robotics, the innovations like at Tesla, Starlink and OpenAI were realised with people working 2 hours a day and posting Tik toks the rest of the hours? You know why you're tweeting is because Elon expelled a lot of women from X?"
Feminist logic: men earn more money because they work harder than women, so we need to level the playing field for women by stopping men from working hard.
Labour accused of 'scandalous attempt to subvert democracy' - "Four mayoral elections due to take place in May 2026 are set to be postponed by two years, Sky News understands. Elections for the new mayoralties of Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk will be pushed back until 2028... This is the second time elections are being delayed in these areas... The news has sparked accusations Labour are delaying the elections for political purposes. Reform UK's head of policy Zia Yusuf said: "This is a blatant attempt to stop big Reform wins next May. "It's an act of a desperate government who are clinging onto power by any means necessary. "Labour has proven time and time again that they're not beyond denying democracy to millions of people in order to maintain their cosy status quo."... The Liberal Democrats' local government spokesperson Zoe Franklin called the postponed elections "a disgrace"."
James Price on X - "Even for a Guardian column, this is an absurd spectacle. The brother of the man pushing the giveaway of the Chagos Islands, knighted for services to Tony Blair, saying that it’s Reform who are the threat to free elections and a free society. Not his beloved Labour Party which is scrapping jury trials, one of our most ancient liberties, or who are literally cancelling elections they know they will lose this May. Then it’s the usual smorgasbord of leftist platitudes: he accuses parties around the world of rigging elections, cites ‘the populist playbook’, betrays himself as being so America-brained that he can’t help but cite Democrats, including Stacey Abrams who refused to concede an election she lost and who has been mired in campaign finance scandals. And his other great solution? More and better TikTok videos. It’s honestly absurd that these great Labour minds have the intellectual depth of a Jaegerbomb but feel confident to spout these platitudes as if they are great maestros."
Happy new year — same unhappy old Keir Starmer - "Voter perceptions of the prime minister have curdled so badly that he begins 2026 with some of the worst personal approval scores on record. This has shifted the fevered speculation about his future from whether he can take Labour into the next election to how long it will be before he is forced aside. Sharon Graham, the leader of Unite, this week issued a warning in The Times to Labour backbenchers who might be tempted to think swapping Starmer for someone else could be a quick fix. The union boss is clear she thinks Starmer is toast. But her cheerless new year message is that it will take different policies, not just a different leader, to address Labour’s woes. Despite being Labour’s biggest union donor, Graham is no friend of the government. Elected in 2021 on a left-wing platform to replace the hardly moderate Len McCluskey, she has never refrained from criticising the government. Her prescription is that Labour should levy more taxes on the wealthy to spend more and invest in infrastructure, and clamp down on corporate profits: elements of a classically left agenda. She may control the purse strings but union leaders elected on low turnouts by declining memberships can hardly claim to represent the country’s workers. Yet Graham has put her finger on something fundamental. Starmer is a disastrously bad prime minister: not just because he is a terrible and inauthentic communicator but because there is no agenda to his government. He very clearly lacks any analysis of what has been going wrong in the UK and what he is going to do to address it. This was manifestly obvious from Labour’s 2024 election campaign. We live in the age of politicians offering quick-fix solutions to structural economic challenges, such as two decades of stagnating living standards, only to end up exposed when their solutions don’t work. First came the Tories with Brexit; then we got the ultimate centrist-dad pitch from Labour: vote for us because our competence will magically turn around Britain’s growth problems, generating the tax revenue we need to fix everything else and eliminating any painful trade-offs. It was only good enough to land Labour a victory because voters had had enough of the Conservatives. Unsurprisingly, the strategy has been no more effective than Brexit. And it has left Labour’s lack of a plan horribly exposed. Eighteen months after a general election, when voters do not sense things starting to get better, “we are the grown-ups who are good at this” starts to sound like a pitch ludicrously out of touch with reality. All that is left is a justifiable sense among voters that they have been duped yet again by a government generating communications debacle after communications debacle. Rachel Reeves’s budget was a political disaster because there was no governing philosophy driving it. Graham’s “rudderless” verdict starts to appear kind... A new prime minister would only be successful if they could articulate and deliver a coherent policy agenda for the country. Without that, the general funk associated with Starmer’s Labour would quickly envelop any politician, even one as charismatic as Wes Streeting, Andy Burnham or Angela Rayner. But there are several reasons why this will be tricky. It is harder to do this kind of long-term thinking in government than in opposition. A party holding a leadership contest in which candidates propose competing visions for the country while it is in government tends to look self-indulgent. There is the added complication that it is party members, not MPs, who get the ultimate say over who would be the next prime minister, and they sit well to the left of the median voter. Leadership contenders this time around won’t have the luxury Starmer had and squandered back in 2020 of four long years passing between his pitch to members and pitch to voters, giving him precious time to work out a plan. None of this is conducive to Labour being able to escape its Starmerite pall. The most likely outcome appears to be a superficial leadership contest between politicians ostensibly from different wings of the party, with slightly contrasting glosses on their campaigns, but who would not actually end up leading the country very differently from Starmer. If that happens, the best Labour could hope for is to scrape some sort of victory in 2029 to secure another five years of government in which they achieve less than they did this time round, before handing over the reins of power to someone else. This is the Starmer paradox. He will go down as the man who won a stonking landslide but who did not know what to do with it. The election victory he secured is completely eclipsed by the lack of thinking he did in opposition about Labour’s plan for government. There is a small chance a new leader could turn that around but all the institutional incentives in the party are set against it. The defining characteristic of Starmerism is its vacuousness and it is going to take the party a lot more than a leadership election to shed this aspect of his legacy."
Starmer is at war with British democracy - "It is, again, surely more than coincidental that those areas where delays are deemed necessary are those where a party threatening the Government is riding high in the polls. To have delayed scheduled elections on the grounds that a rival is likely to win would be outrageous behaviour utterly at odds with the fundamental principles of democracy. And it is extraordinary that we cannot say, with any degree of confidence, that it is not in fact government policy. After all, it would be in keeping with the assault on democracy being conducted by the Government with Sir Keir’s apparent approval. Justice Secretary David Lammy is attempting to push through the abolition of jury trials for all but the most serious offences, in the process ensuring that controversial free-speech issues will tend to be heard by judges who can be relied upon to adhere to the ruling ideology. The House of Lords, which is likely to object strenuously to these changes, is scheduled for “reforms” which seem likely to strengthen the Government’s hand in the upper chamber. Then, of course, there is the proposed roll-out of facial recognition technology linked to the passport database across the nation, the campaign to tie people to a central government digital ID, and the provisions of the online safety act which all but mandate verification of identity for anyone who wishes to seriously engage with political discourse. The principle that governments should avoid measures which autocratic regimes would dearly love to have in place remains a good one. Facial recognition technology on its own would give the state the power to track people about their business to an alarming degree; the use of digital IDs – quite possibly linked to bank, tax and employment records – would result in a full picture of daily lives. The British Government already has access to a formidable array of surveillance technologies under defined conditions. Allowing this to expand in unguarded fashion risks a repeat of previous scandals in which individual privacy is stripped away without adequate safeguards. It was only relatively recently that the Government lost a case in front of the European Court of Human Rights over GCHQ’s mass interception of communications. It is not beyond imagination that the introduction of these systems could result in individual level tracking which would similarly be open to abuse. Nor is it particularly hard to see how this could give the state levers with which to shut down dissent, or put pressure on critics of controversial policies. The potential for such misuse to further degrade Britain’s democracy is all too clear."
Labour plans to delay local elections illegitimate, says Electoral Commission - "Labour’s proposal to delay local elections is illegitimate, the head of the Electoral Commission has said. Vijay Rangarajan, the commission’s chief executive, said it did not think the Government’s justification was a “legitimate reason” for postponing ballots in 63 areas. The Government has been accused of trying to subvert democracy after announcing that ministers were considering delaying elections as part of sweeping plans to reorganise local government.
Out-of-touch voters must stop letting our poor Government down - "After East Germany’s communist regime found itself having to repel an uprising by more than a million citizens in 1953, the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote a short satirical poem, entitled Die Lösung – or, in English, The Solution. Supporters of the regime, it noted dryly, believed that “the people” had “squandered the confidence of the government”. In which case, the poem concluded, would it not make sense “for the government/ To dissolve the people/ And elect another?” It was hard to avoid recalling those immortal words while reading an article this week in the Financial Times, in which pollsters and other expert observers were asked how on earth our own Government has become so unprecedentedly despised. Indeed, Ipsos says that Sir Keir Starmer is now the most unpopular prime minister in the entire history of polling. According to one Labour ally, however, it’s really quite straightforward. The problem actually lies with the voters themselves. “The idea that Keir Starmer is worse than Boris Johnson or Liz Truss is nuts,” complained Tom Baldwin, who is a former Labour adviser, as well as Sir Keir’s biographer. “Something is going on with the electorate.” I don’t know whether Sir Keir himself shares this Brechtian analysis. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he did. It would certainly explain a lot. For example, it would explain why his Government is postponing so many local elections. Sir Keir is simply giving the electorate time to see the error of its ways. Voters will be permitted to vote again only when they’ve demonstrated that they are fit to do so. It would also explain why Sir Keir is granting the vote to 16-year-olds. Since adult voters have proven to be such a disappointment to him, he’s going to give children a go, to see whether they can do any better."
Reform won most council by-elections in 2025
Farage vows to restore law and order to London - "“In London, [crime] is the dominant issue. If you go to the outer doughnut, 80 per cent of police stations have closed since 2010 and there is a sense that the police are invisible in every way. “In inner London and spreading to the suburbs are issues like knife crime.” Crimes including phone thefts have surged in London,while a study by the capital city’s first independent victims’ commissioner found that just 40 per cent of crime was reported."
Ben Leo on X - "NEW: Starmer green-lights digital ID using illegal migrants as excuse First of all, you’re asking illegals to be honest and give correct information. Total charade. More importantly, they can stop the boats without digital ID. Trump did, overnight. Ask yourself why they don’t?"
Meme - "DIGITAL ID IS FOR YOUR SAFETY. NOTHING TO HIDE, NOTHING TO FEAR"
"STOP & SEARCH THE USUAL SUSPECTS. NOTHING TO HIDE, NOTHING TO FEAR"
Basil the Great on X - "10 Days ago Keir Starmer said Digital I.D was to stop illegal migrants. Now they openly say it will be used for:
Applying for Jobs
Your School Records
Paying for daycare
Collect your payslips
Birth Certificates
Claim Benefits
Apply for Nursery
Hackers will know everything"
Politics news: Britons sign petition demanding Digital ID referendum as fury grows at Keir Starmer’s push for ‘state control’ - "Polling suggests the British public would likely vote against Digital ID if a referendum was held today. More in Common found that 45 per cent of Britons oppose Digital ID, with just 32 per cent voicing support for the plan."
Vigne Kozacek on X - "Facts don't lie: Italy's mandatory ID cards haven't stopped the flood—67,000 small boat arrivals in 2024 alone. Meanwhile, the UK without them? Just 37,000. Digital IDs are a Trojan horse for surveillance, not security. Don't let them fool you into surrendering your freedoms. #StopTheBoats #NoDigitalID #Together"
Wide Awake Media on X - "Tony Blair on the incredible "benefits" of combining digital ID with facial recognition and AI. 😳 "Facial recognition can now spot suspects in real time from live video... [It] helps identify suspects quickly in busy places like train stations and events." "AI will go even further—spotting crime patterns, guiding patrols and streamlining decisions... This is where technology, like digital ID, becomes critical." "We can ensure that digital ID enhances rather than threatens personal privacy. The key is building trust and designing... systems that are... effective at combatting crime and making us all safer.""
Count Dankula on X - "The funniest thing about all of this is if you are the victim of a crime and you call the police, or even if you put the work in and track down the criminal yourself and call the police like "hey I found the guy I'm literally outside his house and I can literally see my stolen property through his window", the police STILL won't show up. Even when cops have a positive ID, CCTV footage, the guys name, address, everything, they don't show up. So trying to push the whole "this will help us identify suspects faster" bullshit doesn't wash when you already don't do anything after you identify suspects. We know what this is really for, and I wish Tony Blair, the phantom of the opera of British politics that he is, would just fuck off."
Newborn babies could be given Digital ID in 'deeply sinister' expansion of controversial Labour policy discussed in secret by ministers
Clearly, there's a huge problem with illegal immigrants pretending to be babies to work
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK
Joe Rich on X - "BREAKING: Labour Councillor Michael Situ, Southwark’s Cabinet Member for Housing who decided not to take any action against Rachel Reeves, has himself been forced to resign after being caught committing the same landlord licence ‘blunder’ (via @Telegraph)"
Moving Home with Charlie on X - "No. I don’t believe it. It’s a wind up. What?? The Councillor who let Reeves off for being an unlicensed landlord was, himself, an unlicensed landlord and has had to resign his position. Someone please make it stop!"
White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - The Atlantic - "The share of the typical white-collar workday spent in meetings has steadily increased for the past few decades, and it continues to grow by the year... In 2016, a small group of work researchers calculated that time spent in meetings had increased by 50 percent since the 1990s. “Collaboration is taking over the workplace,” they wrote in an article in Harvard Business Review. “Buried under an avalanche of requests for input or advice," some workers were spending so much time in meetings, taking calls, and combing through their inbox that their most “critical work” often had to wait until they were home. Wall-to-wall meetings from 9 to 5 were pushing any creative or individual work to some period after dinner. In 2022, Microsoft researchers published a study that anonymously tracked workers using the company’s software. They discovered that, in fact, a miniature workday was forming in the late evening. About one-third of the workers in their survey were as likely to work at 10 p.m. as they were at 8 a.m. The reason? When the pandemic sent knowledge workers home, official meetings replaced casual interactions and made it impossible for many people to get things done unless they found time to log back online after dinner. In further research, Microsoft has found that, since 2020, workers in their sample have tripled the time they spent in meetings. “I think we’ve hit the high point of max human inefficiency in white-collar work,” Jared Spataro, a vice president at Microsoft who focuses on artificial intelligence and work trends, told me. “It sometimes seems as if the modern worker spends more time talking about work than actually working.” If someone had to defend this meeting-industrial complex, they might point out that as an economy gets bigger and more complicated, it depends on bigger and more complicated organizations. As firms grow, they accumulate bureaucratic habits. Departments are born, and workers within those departments develop expertise and lingo that is alien to people just down the hall. Working across these divisions requires that people spend more time getting up to speed on what their colleagues are doing... recent cultural changes might be driving the surge in meeting times. “In the last few years, the business world has focused much more on inclusion and on letting more people’s voices be heard in decision-making,” he said. Inclusion can be a virtue, Spataro emphasized. But it can also be a cost. A business culture that allows more people to “say their piece” is, automatically, one that requires people to spend more time listening to other people talk. In some decisions, that might be appropriate. At extremes, an office that requests more input is an office where talking about work can intrude on efficient decision making... Perhaps the most common critique is that many meetings are theatrical presentations of information best conveyed in an email. The typical meeting is a leaky time suck, absorbing people’s attention in a way that cannot be fully measured by simply counting up the total number of hours blocked out for calls. On the front end, getting a hold of co-workers in an age of hybrid work—their location, their time zone, their schedule and availability, their preference for phone or Zoom or Teams or Skype—imposes a huge invisible “coordination tax,” even if the work never appears on somebody’s calendar. On the back end, every interruption to the workday leaves behind a wake of dead time. When you have to stop individual work—whether it’s writing a document, putting together a PowerPoint, or working in Excel—you experience switching costs as you move away from that activity to go into a meeting. Gloria Mark of UC Irvine has found that workers require an average of 25 minutes to return to their original task after an interruption. By this measure, a 30-minute meeting is, for the typical worker, best thought of as a one-hour detour. Altogether, the meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work. Last year, another Microsoft survey found that the typical worker using its software spent 57 percent of their time “communicating”—that is, in meetings, email, and chat—versus 43 percent of their time “creating” documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and the like. Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things."
JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 on X - "Canada Is Becoming a Nation Run by Criminals — For Criminals
There comes a moment when government waste stops looking like incompetence and begins to resemble treason. Canada has long passed that moment. What we are watching now is the systemic looting of a nation by the people sworn to serve it. Billions disappear with no oversight, no consequences, and not even the pretence of responsibility. From the WE Charity scandal, to the SNC-Lavalin affair, to the $50-billion Canada Infrastructure Bank that produced nothing, the pattern is unmistakable: Money flows out, friends benefit, nothing gets built, and nobody answers for any of it. And it’s only getting worse. Stellantis received the largest subsidy in Canadian history — and the minister who approved it didn’t even read the contract. Honda and Volkswagen secured major subsidies with broken oversight. Northvolt collapsed after being showered with taxpayer money. A new LNG megaproject — celebrated in Ottawa — will mostly create jobs in Korea and Japan while American firms profit. ArriveCan, a $54 million app that should have cost $80,000, funnelled money to a firm that admitted it didn’t even build the thing. And now Algoma Steel, fresh off a $500 million government package, is laying off a thousand workers. Former Saskatchewan public servant Joe Carson once found that about 40 percent of every tax dollar is wasted. Add corruption, political favours, and vote-buying, and the number approaches 70 or 80 percent. At that point, you don’t have a government. You have a cartel with a flag."
Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern? | The New Yorker - "In 2022, Jacinda Ardern, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, was approached by a stranger in an airport bathroom. Ardern was alone, washing her hands, when a middle-aged woman walked up to her at the sink. She stood uncomfortably close, Ardern recalls in her new memoir, “A Different Kind of Power”—“so close I could feel her heat against my cheek.” “I just wanted to say thank you,” the woman told her, with what Ardern describes as a “seething, non-specific rage.” “Thank you for ruining the country.” Outside New Zealand, Ardern is regarded very differently, as a liberal paragon among world leaders... it was the pandemic that crystallized an image of Ardern’s New Zealand as a quasi-fantastical place—the land that toxic populism forgot... Soon after Ardern left office, her party sustained an election loss described as a “bloodbath.” New Zealand is now led by a conservative coalition whose first Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, secured his position by appealing to anti-vaxxers and has compared Ardern’s government with Nazi Germany’s. Ardern herself has spent the past two years living in the United States, having become so polarizing that she has virtually vanished from public life in her home country. The tale of what it was like for Ardern to go from being adored to being reviled so quickly would have made for an unmissable book. That’s not the story she wanted to tell... The book doesn’t come close to explaining her country’s confounding transformation during the two years it was sealed off from the outside world, suspended in an increasingly claustrophobic COVID bubble... New Zealand’s size and isolation have long been the source of great pride and great insecurity. It’s a well-worn joke that Kiwis will seize the flimsiest chance to proclaim themselves “best in the world, per capita” at pretty much anything, perpetually thirsty for outsiders to notice that their tiny nation punches above its weight. After the lockdown ended, the country was jubilant. Perhaps, some mused, the same collaborative spirit could be harnessed to tackle other intractable problems, like a severe housing crisis and corrosive inequality. Others embraced the opportunity to explore their own country while it was emptied of international tourists. And then the mood began to curdle. The government obtained vaccines later than many other countries, largely owing to its COVID-free status. In early 2021, Kiwis enviously eyed images of vaccinated Americans and Europeans taking spring vacations in far-flung locales. Their own rollout wasn’t due to start for the general public until July. And since the government had never managed to meaningfully increase I.C.U. capacity, lockdowns remained the sole weapon against new outbreaks. When COVID escaped the quarantine system in August, 2020, and in February, 2021, brief lockdowns proved just as effective as the first. That changed with the more infectious Delta variant. After a single case was discovered in August, 2021, New Zealand went back into lockdown. For most of the country, it lasted three weeks. But in the largest city, Auckland, the lockdown dragged on for a hundred and seven days. By then, New Zealand had been cut off from the outside world for more than a year. The quarantine system had become increasingly overloaded, with thousands separated from spouses or children or unable to visit dying relatives. The country’s pandemic response no longer appeared to be world-leading. An upside-down narrative emerged, in which New Zealanders were trapped in a mode of draconian deprivation while all sensible nations had opened up and moved on... To speed up vaccinations, the government had imposed mandates covering forty per cent of workers. In December, 2021, the Auckland lockdown was lifted, and the country moved to a system that required digital vaccine passes to enter most indoor public places. Three-quarters of the population supported the mandates, according to polls, but they became more contentious when the unvaccinated found themselves unable to dine out with friends or get a haircut; several thousand lost their jobs because they refused to get vaccinated... On February 8, 2022, a convoy of vehicles descended on Wellington, inspired by the Canadian trucker protest that was then paralyzing Ottawa... The protesters represented a small portion of the population, but the discontent was mainstream. New Zealand, already an expensive place to live, was hit hard by rising inflation, the result of COVID spending and global events like the war in Ukraine. National, the country’s main conservative party, was able to tie the punishing cost of living into a larger narrative: that the border closure, lockdowns, and pandemic assistance had tanked the economy. A smaller populist party, New Zealand First, increased its following by courting vaccine skeptics. By January, 2023, Ardern’s net approval rating would fall to fifteen points, from an extraordinary peak of seventy-six in May, 2020... Ardern does not mention any of this. She leaves it to others to theorize about why the country turned on her, simply expressing a regretful wish for “a world where we saved lives and we brought everyone with us.”... It’s a strange irony that the result of New Zealand’s unique pandemic experience is a country beset by the same problems as those facing most other modern democracies: polarization, disinformation, declining trust in government."
This doesn't stop covid hystericists continuing to insist that Australia and New Zealand got things right during covid. Of course, the author needs to blame the Russians for the consequences of New Zealand's politicisation of covid (which curiously are similar worldwide).
"In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone,” argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire “woke” era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women...
This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before?
Possibly because, like most people, I think of feminization as something that happened in the past before I was born. When we think about women in the legal profession, for example, we think of the first woman to attend law school (1869), the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court (1880), or the first female Supreme Court Justice (1981).
A much more important tipping point is when law schools became majority female, which occurred in 2016, or when law firm associates became majority female, which occurred in 2023. When Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed to the high court, only 5 percent of judges were female. Today women are 33 percent of the judges in America and 63 percent of the judges appointed by President Joe Biden.
The same trajectory can be seen in many professions: a pioneering generation of women in the 1960s and ’70s; increasing female representation through the 1980s and ’90s; and gender parity finally arriving, at least in the younger cohorts, in the 2010s or 2020s. In 1974, only 10 percent of New York Times reporters were female. The New York Times staff became majority female in 2018 and today the female share is 55 percent.
Medical schools became majority female in 2019. Women became a majority of the college-educated workforce nationwide in 2019. Women became a majority of college instructors in 2023. Women are not yet a majority of the managers in America but they might be soon, as they are now 46 percent. So the timing fits. Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female.
The substance fits, too. Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition. Other writers who have proposed their own versions of the Great Feminization thesis, such as Noah Carl or Bo Winegard and Cory Clark, who looked at feminization’s effects on academia, offer survey data showing sex differences in political values. One survey, for example, found that 71 percent of men said protecting free speech was more important than preserving a cohesive society, and 59 percent of women said the opposite.
The most relevant differences are not about individuals but about groups...
The larger the group of people, the more likely it is to conform to statistical averages.
Female group dynamics favor consensus and cooperation. Men order each other around, but women can only suggest and persuade. Any criticism or negative sentiment, if it absolutely must be expressed, needs to be buried in layers of compliments. The outcome of a discussion is less important than the fact that a discussion was held and everyone participated in it. The most important sex difference in group dynamics is attitude to conflict. In short, men wage conflict openly while women covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies.
Bari Weiss, in her letter of resignation from The New York Times, described how colleagues referred to her in internal Slack messages as a racist, a Nazi, and a bigot and—this is the most feminine part—“colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers.” Weiss once asked a colleague at the Times opinion desk to get coffee with her. This journalist, a biracial woman who wrote frequently about race, refused to meet. This was a failure to meet the standards of basic professionalism, obviously. It was also very feminine.
Men tend to be better at compartmentalizing than women, and wokeness was in many ways a society-wide failure to compartmentalize. Traditionally, an individual doctor might have opinions on the political issues of the day but he would regard it as his professional duty to keep those opinions out of the examination room. Now that medicine has become more feminized, doctors wear pins and lanyards expressing views on controversial issues from gay rights to Gaza. They even bring the credibility of their profession to bear on political fads, as when doctors said Black Lives Matter protests could continue in violation of Covid lockdowns because racism was a public health emergency.
One book that helped me put the pieces together was Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes by psychology professor Joyce Benenson. She theorizes that men developed group dynamics optimized for war, while women developed group dynamics optimized for protecting their offspring. These habits, formed in the mists of prehistory, explain why experimenters in a modern psychology lab, in a study that Benenson cites, observed that a group of men given a task will “jockey for talking time, disagree loudly,” and then “cheerfully relay a solution to the experimenter.” A group of women given the same task will “politely inquire about one another’s personal backgrounds and relationships … accompanied by much eye contact, smiling, and turn-taking,” and pay “little attention to the task that the experimenter presented.”
The point of war is to settle disputes between two tribes, but it works only if peace is restored after the dispute is settled. Men therefore developed methods for reconciling with opponents and learning to live in peace with people they were fighting yesterday. Females, even in primate species, are slower to reconcile than males. That is because women’s conflicts were traditionally within the tribe over scarce resources, to be resolved not by open conflict but by covert competition with rivals, with no clear terminus.
All of these observations matched my observations of wokeness, but soon the happy thrill of discovering a new theory eventually gave way to a sinking feeling. If wokeness really is the result of the Great Feminization, then the eruption of insanity in 2020 was just a small taste of what the future holds. Imagine what will happen as the remaining men age out of these society-shaping professions and the younger, more feminized generations take full control.
The threat posed by wokeness can be large or small depending on the industry. It’s sad that English departments are all feminized now, but most people’s daily lives are unaffected by it. Other fields matter more. You might not be a journalist, but you live in a country where what gets written in The New York Times determines what is publicly accepted as the truth. If the Times becomes a place where in-group consensus can suppress unpopular facts (more so than it already does), that affects every citizen.
The field that frightens me most is the law. All of us depend on a functioning legal system, and, to be blunt, the rule of law will not survive the legal profession becoming majority female. The rule of law is not just about writing rules down. It means following them even when they yield an outcome that tugs at your heartstrings or runs contrary to your gut sense of which party is more sympathetic.
A feminized legal system might resemble the Title IX courts for sexual assault on college campuses established in 2011 under President Obama. These proceedings were governed by written rules and so technically could be said to operate under the rule of law. But they lacked many of the safeguards that our legal system holds sacred, such as the right to confront your accuser, the right to know what crime you are accused of, and the fundamental concept that guilt should depend on objective circumstances knowable by both parties, not in how one party feels about an act in retrospect. These protections were abolished because the people who made these rules sympathized with the accusers, who were mostly women, and not with the accused, who were mostly men.
These two approaches to the law clashed vividly in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The masculine position was that, if Christine Blasey Ford can’t provide any concrete evidence that she and Kavanaugh were ever in the same room together, her accusations of rape cannot be allowed to ruin his life. The feminine position was that her self-evident emotional response was itself a kind of credibility that the Senate committee must respect.
If the legal profession becomes majority female, I expect to see the ethos of Title IX tribunals and the Kavanaugh hearings spread. Judges will bend the rules for favored groups and enforce them rigorously on disfavored groups, as already occurs to a worrying extent. It was possible to believe back in 1970 that introducing women into the legal profession in large numbers would have only a minor effect. That belief is no longer sustainable. The changes will be massive.
Oddly enough, both sides of the political spectrum agree on what those changes will be. The only disagreement is over whether they will be a good thing or a bad thing. Dahlia Lithwick opens her book Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America with a scene from the Supreme Court in 2016 during oral arguments over a Texas abortion law. The three female justices, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan, “ignored the formal time limits, talking exuberantly over their male colleagues.” Lithwick celebrated this as “an explosion of bottled-up judicial girl power” that “afforded America a glimpse of what genuine gender parity or near parity might have meant for future women in powerful American legal institutions.”
Lithwick lauds women for their irreverent attitude to the law’s formalities, which, after all, originated in an era of oppression and white supremacy. “The American legal system was fundamentally a machine built to privilege propertied white men,” Lithwick writes. “But it’s the only thing going, and you work with what you have.” Those who view the law as a patriarchal relic can be expected to treat it instrumentally. If that ethos comes to prevail throughout our legal system, then the trappings will look the same, but a revolution will have occurred.
The Great Feminization is truly unprecedented. Other civilizations have given women the vote, granted them property rights, or let them inherit the thrones of empires. No civilization in human history has ever experimented with letting women control so many vital institutions of our society, from political parties to universities to our largest businesses. Even where women do not hold the top spots, women set the tone in these organizations, such that a male CEO must operate within the limits set by his human resources VP. We assume that these institutions will continue to function under these completely novel circumstances. But what are our grounds for that assumption?
The problem is not that women are less talented than men or even that female modes of interaction are inferior in any objective sense. The problem is that female modes of interaction are not well suited to accomplishing the goals of many major institutions. You can have an academia that is majority female, but it will be (as majority-female departments in today’s universities already are) oriented toward other goals than open debate and the unfettered pursuit of truth. And if your academia doesn’t pursue truth, what good is it? If your journalists aren’t prickly individualists who don’t mind alienating people, what good are they? If a business loses its swashbuckling spirit and becomes a feminized, inward-focused bureaucracy, will it not stagnate?
If the Great Feminization poses a threat to civilization, the question becomes whether there is anything we can do about it. The answer depends on why you think it occurred in the first place. There are many people who think the Great Feminization is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Women were finally given a chance to compete with men, and it turned out they were just better. That is why there are so many women in our newsrooms, running our political parties, and managing our corporations...
That is what feminists think happened, but they are wrong. Feminization is not an organic result of women outcompeting men. It is an artificial result of social engineering, and if we take our thumb off the scale it will collapse within a generation.
The most obvious thumb on the scale is anti-discrimination law. It is illegal to employ too few women at your company. If women are underrepresented, especially in your higher management, that is a lawsuit waiting to happen. As a result, employers give women jobs and promotions they would not otherwise have gotten simply in order to keep their numbers up.
It is rational for them to do this, because the consequences for failing to do so can be dire. Texaco, Goldman Sachs, Novartis, and Coca-Cola are among the companies that have paid nine-figure settlements in response to lawsuits alleging bias against women in hiring and promotions. No manager wants to be the person who cost his company $200 million in a gender discrimination lawsuit.
Anti-discrimination law requires that every workplace be feminized. A landmark case in 1991 found that pinup posters on the walls of a shipyard constituted a hostile environment for women, and that principle has grown to encompass many forms of masculine conduct. Dozens of Silicon Valley companies have been hit with lawsuits alleging “frat boy culture” or “toxic bro culture,” and a law firm specializing in these suits brags of settlements ranging from $450,000 to $8 million.
Women can sue their bosses for running a workplace that feels like a fraternity house, but men can’t sue when their workplace feels like a Montessori kindergarten. Naturally employers err on the side of making the office softer. So if women are thriving more in the modern workplace, is that really because they are outcompeting men? Or is it because the rules have been changed to favor them?
A lot can be inferred from the way that feminization tends to increase over time. Once institutions reach a 50–50 split, they tend to blow past gender parity and become more and more female. Since 2016, law schools have gotten a little bit more female every year; in 2024, they were 56 percent female. Psychology, once a predominantly male field, is now overwhelmingly female, with 75 percent of psychology doctorates going to women. Institutions seem to have a tipping point, after which they become more and more feminized.
That does not look like women outperforming men. It looks like women driving men away by imposing feminine norms on previously male institutions. What man wants to work in a field where his traits are not welcome? What self-respecting male graduate student would pursue a career in academia when his peers will ostracize him for stating his disagreements too bluntly or espousing a controversial opinion?...
Our window to do something about the Great Feminization is closing. There are leading indicators and lagging indicators of feminization, and we are currently at the in-between stage when law schools are majority female but the federal bench is still majority male. In a few decades, the gender shift will have reached its natural conclusion. Many people think wokeness is over, slain by the vibe shift, but if wokeness is the result of demographic feminization, then it will never be over as long as the demographics remain unchanged.
As a woman myself, I am grateful for the opportunities I have had to pursue a career in writing and editing. Thankfully, I don’t think solving the feminization problem requires us to shut any doors in women’s faces. We simply have to restore fair rules. Right now we have a nominally meritocratic system in which it is illegal for women to lose. Let’s make hiring meritocratic in substance and not just name, and we will see how it shakes out. Make it legal to have a masculine office culture again. Remove the HR lady’s veto power. I think people will be surprised to discover how much of our current feminization is attributable to institutional changes like the advent of HR, which were brought about by legal changes and which legal changes can reverse.
Because, after all, I am not just a woman. I am also someone with a lot of disagreeable opinions, who will find it hard to flourish if society becomes more conflict-averse and consensus-driven. I am the mother of sons, who will never reach their full potential if they have to grow up in a feminized world. I am—we all are—dependent on institutions like the legal system, scientific research, and democratic politics that support the American way of life, and we will all suffer if they cease to perform the tasks they were designed to do."
Sadly, most people have a pro-female bias, so it looks like Western society is doomed.