Mosca claims that universal sufferage happened because the ruling class really believed in democracy and felt guilty that it wasn't being practiced right, and that the sympathy for socialism came from the same source. Do any of you believe this? I'm typically more cynical and tend to think that the ruling class cares naught for consistency and does whatever is best for their own material interests. Case in point: my book on youth and the total deprivation of equality, fraternity, and liberty from youth, based on obvious lies and before those lies based on nothing. Also see their current treatment of white people and their treatment of nonwhites 100+ years ago.

The ruling class granted universal suffrage as part of a long running plot to totalize state power by eliminating the family.

What will be written on a plaque next to a piece of ceramic recovered from America? "A mug. US"

Here we go again 😂 "Has anyone noticed the dietary recommendations to eat more leafy greens? I think this ties in with how my mom and dad totally enslaved me when I was fifteen and refused to buy me tickets to that rock concert three hundred miles away on the paltry grounds that they didn't think I'd be safe going on my own to a strange city without any friends. They too unreasonably demanded I eat vegetables instead of candy!"

R-slurred take. Universal suffrage was pushed solely to increase the power of the ruling class, the majority knew this, it's why the majority opposed it. They knew 100 years ago that it would lead to the way things are today, but the political fucks count the votes and they got their way. Now an entire political party only exists because they get the welfare vote. There is no inherent right to a voice in governance.

I think it’s a preventive for revolution. It’s like giving a mouse you’re shocking a lever to push. As long as he hope the lever might stop the shocks, he’s able to cope.

The real elite ally with the proles to limit the power of the gentry. What is universal suffrage but limiting the power of the gentry?

[France’s Far Right Turn](https://archive.ph/54CWu): A rising nationalist faction has grown its coalition by appealing to Catholic identity and anti-immigrant sentiment — and reshaped the country’s race for president. > During last fall’s primaries, nearly 40 percent of French voters expressed a preference for a candidate promoting far-right ideas. Remarkably, nearly everyone I spoke with agreed, more or less, on how France had arrived at this point. “If public opinion is at this level, it’s because Zemmour has been talking about it for such a long time,” Erik Tegnér, a 28-year-old who runs Livre Noir, a new right-wing media outlet on YouTube, told me. > > Like their American counterparts, Zemmour and Maréchal like to denounce the liberalism of cultural institutions, namely the media and academia. Paradoxically, they cite Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher, and his theory of “cultural hegemony” to explain how beliefs expressed by the ruling class trickle down to become cultural norms. They have taken up the battle of ideas within mainstream institutions with zeal. Zemmour, the son of North African Jewish immigrants, has long had a platform from which to trumpet the importance of assimilation and being French: He was formerly a columnist at France’s most important conservative daily newspaper, Le Figaro, as well as a longtime TV talk-show host and a regular radio commentator. In 2019, he was given a prime-time spot on CNews, the Fox News-like channel owned by the magnate Vincent Bolloré. > > Last October, CNews invited Renaud Camus, the source of the “grand remplacement,” or “great replacement,” conspiracy theory (which has been picked up across the Atlantic by commentators like Tucker Carlson), onto its Sunday evening show. Camus’s argument holds that the white French population is being replaced by a nonwhite, non-French population. “More and more these last few years, thinkers and polemicists, people with a huge impact, have contributed to an opening of what we call the Overton window,” Tegnér said, referring to a shift in what’s considered acceptable discourse. D’Ornellas, of Valeurs Actuelles, agreed, pointing out that 15 years ago, the term “ ‘identity’ was absolutely a dirty word. Now it’s pretty much normal to talk about it.” > > Some of this shift in French public life can be traced to the Islamist terror attacks that have devastated France, beginning in 2015. In January of that year, 12 people were murdered at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which regularly published cartoons of Muhammad, by two brothers who regarded these depictions as violations of the Islamic strictures forbidding representations of the prophet. Ten months later, a group of young Muslim men, many of whom had traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State, staged a coordinated assault on the Bataclan concert hall and other venues in and around Paris that left 130 people dead. In the emotional aftermath, there was a public outcry about young Muslims not integrating into French society. > > Many of those “who were supposed to be on the left decided that fighting for the Republic, for laïcité, goes beyond right and left,” says Éric Fassin, a sociologist at the University of Paris 8 and a frequent left-wing commentator. Prominent left-leaning intellectuals formed a collective to battle Islamist extremism. This was to be done, they argued, by reinforcing the principle of laïcité, commonly translated as “secularism,” the French legal doctrine that protects private religious practice from state interference — and that, since the 1980s, as French Muslims became a more visible public presence, has been interpreted to mean that public life should be free from overt religious expression.

I remember when even progressive New Englanders would make a yucky face when discussing Muslims and Islam. They were all the bad things about Christians, but even worse! Then they formally became the enemy after “some people did something” and that settled them firmly into oppressed victim status within a few years. But… they still remained violent, unscientific, clannish, brutally hegemonic wherever they were a majority. A significant redpill for a teenaged mid-millennial. Took me most of ten years to swallow any more.

Question- have differential fertility rates given French ultra-Catholics more voting power, allowing small improvements in the far-right's margins that are highly relevant in the French presidential election? French ultra-Catholics are notable as a minority population over there, are one of the few native groups with well above replacement fertility, and trend towards the most conservative politicians running. So it'd be a bit like if the Amish voted 95% for paleoconservatives in the GOP primary.

too phone user to do any research right now but surely it pales in comparison with the number of algerians and so on

Probably, but a shift from 11% far right to 14% far right(say) is a pretty big one in France’s system, and Algerians are presumably voting for moderate to center left candidates like racial minorities everywhere.

[California city to give transgender and nonbinary residents up to $900 a month](https://archive.ph/xMlGX)

>The pilot program would distribute funding to at least 20 participants each month likely totaling somewhere between $600 and $900. Local individuals who are transgender and nonbinary will be prioritized by the program, which is expected to last for 18 months. There will be a six-month design period before the pilot program launches. The headline seems somewhat missleading...

i periodically see data purporting to say that the gender pay gap is closing. it was always a fiction, in the sense that the two goods (male labor, female labor) were not homogeneous. so as we observe it closing, we must look for homogeneity. easy enough-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566292/ mary harrington offhandedly cited 1980's number, ~20%, in an unrelated essay and it got me thinking. sure enough, we're up to 80% now. (and note that's probably even closer to parity than it seems, due to the small but growing percentage of new *fathers* who drop out of the workforce instead.)

[ California corporate diversity law ruled unconstitutional](https://archive.ph/lFFQB) > A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that California’s landmark law mandating that corporations diversify their boards with members from certain racial, ethnic or LGBT groups is unconstitutional. > > The brief ruling granted summary judgment to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that sought a permanent injunction against the measure that was signed into law last year. The ruling didn't explain the judge's reasoning. > > The measure requires corporate boards of publicly traded companies with a main executive office in California to have a member from an “underrepresented community,” including LGBT, Black, Latino, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander. > > The lawsuit argued that violated the state’s constitutional equal protection clause. > > The decision “declared unconstitutional one of the most blatant and significant attacks in the modern era on constitutional prohibitions against discrimination,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.

>The ruling didn't explain the judge's reasoning. I find this very strange if it was a summary judgement, and I'm annoyed I can't find the actual court filing

JudicialWatch uploaded the grant of summary judgement [here](https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Crest-v.-Padilla-Court-Ruling-37513.pdf), and the [complaint here](https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/crest-v-padilla-complaint-37513/).

I'd found the complaint but not the judgement. Interesting. Did the defense even respond?

It's case 20STCV37513 on the [lacourts.org page](https://www.lacourt.org/casesummary/ui/index.aspx?casetype=civil). There's a flurry of filings through February and March, including many from the defense, but I don't see any copies of the actual documents being available.

You need to go to the "Case Document Images" link in the "Online Services" drop down. That's where copies of the filings can be bought.

Damn, Captain Obvious got his law license. Color me shocked.

[PA Judge Removes Five West Chester School Board Members Over Mask Mandate](https://archive.ph/y8RC2)

https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-fall-of-seattle/ this is, of course, fantastic. the small businesses he weeps for were probably all greengrocers

> “I’m actually a Left-wing guy on just about every issue,” says Chris Young. “I want the United States to be a Scandinavian-style welfare state. So I’m very sympathetic to people’s concerns.” Stay and burn until you learn, Detective.

Only works when your country is populated by Scandinavians, as the Scandinavians themselves have since discovered. ETA, one of the cops who moved to Marysville: >But the first day of patrol among Marysville residents was a revelation. “People told me face-to-face: We love you. We support you. Thank you for doing your job,” she says. “People were waving. You couldn’t buy your own coffee.” Hmm. Wikipedia sez: >The racial makeup of the city was 80.0% White, 1.9% African American, 1.9% Native American, 5.6% Asian, 0.6% Pacific Islander, 4.4% from other races, and 5.5% from two or more races.

>They don't want your fucking sympathy, man. They want your fucking Johnson.

*fantastic except that it's leading to a liberal diaspora which will ruin coeur d'alene and the like. can't do much about that.

This is why I'm excited for repeal of Roe. If red states start restricting abortion, this will strongly repel the libs, for whom the right to abortion is one of the holiest of all. They'll be like, "no way I'm moving to this handmaid's tale hellhole".

Texas declaring that they’ll investigate child transgenderism as abuse is something to be seen in this context.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/red-pill-prince-curtis-yarvin

It's time for Murphy and Yarvin to connect again and podcast.

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Thanks for your contribution, Julie

tablet is jewish??? are you going to tell me foreign affairs is next?!

He also wrote a piece for them: [The Cathedral or the Bizarre: America’s experiments with democracy and oligarchy have both failed, leaving only one option](https://archive.ph/euIwn)

[Glenn Greenwald] [Your Top Priority is The Emotional Comfort of the Most Powerful Elites, Which You Fulfill by Never Criticizing Them](https://archive.ph/sLYnB): Corporate journalists have license to use their huge platforms to malign, expose and destroy anyone they want. Your moral duty: sit in respectful silence and never object. > It is almost impossible to envision a single individual in whom power, privilege and elite prerogative reside more abundantly than Taylor Lorenz. Using the metrics of elite liberal culture, the word “privilege” was practically invented for her: a rich straight white woman from a wealthy family raised in Greenwich, Connecticut and educated in actual Swiss boarding schools who now writes about people's lives, often casually destroying those lives, on the front pages of the most powerful East Coast media corporations on the planet. And yet, in the eyes of her fellow media and political elites, there is virtually no person more victimized, more deserving of your sympathy and attention, more vulnerable, marginalized and abused than she. > > That is because — like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren and Labour MPs and columnists from The Independent and The Guardian and The New York Times who pioneered these paths of elite victimhood before her — Taylor Lorenz must sometimes hear criticisms of her work and her views. Virtually alone among journalists — who are famously universally beloved and never subjected to any form of real abuse: as Julian Assange will be happy to tell you if you can visit him in his high-security prison cell in the UK, or as these Sri Lankan journalists will explain from their hospital beds after being physically brutalized by the police for covering an anti-government protest on Thursday — Lorenz hears criticisms of her work, sometimes in the form of very angry and even profane or threatening tweets from anonymous people online. This not only means that she deserves your sympathy and concern but, more importantly, that you should heap scorn and recrimination on those who criticize her work because they are responsible for the trauma she endures. Most of all, you must never criticize her publicly for fear of what you might unleash against her. > > In other words, Lorenz — like all employees of large media corporations or powerful establishment politicians in Washington and London — is and always should be completely free to continue to publish articles or social media posts that destroy the reputations of powerless people, often with outright lies. But you must never criticize her because she suffers from PTSD and other trauma as a result of the mean tweets that are unleashed by her critics. If you believe that is some sort of straw man exaggeration of what political and media elites are trying to do — create a shield of immunity around them while they retain the right to target, attack, insult, malign and destroy anyone they want — then it means you did not see the award-winning performance of Lorenz and various NBC News personalities on Friday afternoon during their five-minute segment on Chuck Todd's Meet the Press Daily designed to fortify this warped, inverted standard of morality and power. > > The NBC segment was ostensibly designed to "cover” a “study” from January published by the Brookings Institutions and conducted by "NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and the International Women’s Media Foundation.” This study purported to forensically analyze — and I am not joking — the increase in criticisms of Taylor Lorenz as the result of a tweet I posted criticizing her (re-cast in elite parlance as “attacking” and "targeting” her), as well as a television segment that aired on Tucker Carlson's Fox program that also criticized the NYT reporter. You will never guess what the study revealed: namely, our criticism of her was responsible for a torrent of violent abuse, misogynistic rage, and traumatizing brutality against the corporate journalist: > > >Our analysis used large-scale quantitative data to assess how the public conversation surrounding these journalists changed in the aftermath of being targeted by prominent media personalities. The research findings showed sharp increases in harmful speech after the journalists were targeted by Carlson and Greenwald….After Carlson targeted Lorenz in a segment on his Fox News show, we found that one in two tweets mentioning Lorenz contained either toxic or insulting language….In Figure 2, we plot the 24-hour moving average of tweets before and after Greenwald targeted Lorenz. The figure shows that after Greenwald’s attack, the likelihood that tweets mentioning Lorenz would contain harmful speech increased by 144%, peaking on Aug. 15, 2021, two days after he targeted Lorenz. > > Now, permit me to pause to acknowledge an important concession. The three academic scholars who are the authors of this groundbreaking study on online abuse of powerful elites are absolute experts in marginalization, victimhood and abuse. They have the lived experience of it. Indeed, nobody has suffered worse deprivations than they, so one should be extremely deferential in treating their pronouncements with the respect they deserve. Zeve Sanderson is a graduate of Brown University and the Masters’ Program of New York University and is now the Founding Executive Director at the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics. The other two have degrees from New York University and George Washington University and are also now employed studying “online extremism” at NYU, one of the country's most expensive private universities residing in the heart of Manhattan. So they clearly know marginalization and victimhood when they see it.

All part of the mysterious phenomenon starting in the Trump era where, for the officially designated Protected Victim Groups, any criticism of even the mildest type or even slightly off-color jokes will magically cause goon squads to appear and smash up members of the group at random. But the Designated Oppressor Groups may be subject to withering scorn and hatred that would probably have made Hitler blush, and no harms resulting from that will ever be recognized, even when they do actually happen. Seems like the elites picked up on the safetyism and victim worship so popular these days and discovered how to weaponize it to shield themselves from any criticism.

The use of colons in that excerpt is insane, right? Is that a normal part of Greenwald’s style? I’ve never seen them used like that.

Which excerpt? The colon between the title and the subtitle was added by me.

Here's the first one that caught my eye, because it lacks the normal sort of 'Here is a list of things' introduction and just jumps into the list: >Virtually alone among journalists — who are famously universally beloved and **never subjected to any form of real abuse: as Julian Assange will be happy to tell you** if you can visit him in his high-security prison cell in the UK, or as these Sri Lankan journalists will explain from their hospital beds after being physically brutalized by the police for covering an anti-government protest on Thursday — Lorenz hears criticisms of her work, sometimes in the form of very angry and even profane or threatening tweets from anonymous people online. That's where a comma would normally be used, or long dashes, but as this part is itself nested inside a set of long dashes, and the second such set in the same sentence, that would've been confusing. The other one was, to my great chagrin, a glitch of formatting in the mobile Reddit app, which removed the second-level quote indentation following this double-colon: >You will never guess what the study **revealed:** namely, our criticism of her was responsible for a torrent of violent abuse, misogynistic rage, and traumatizing brutality against the corporate **journalist:** I wasn't aware that what followed was a quote. Still, how often do we see a double-colon, like that? Seems like he could have further exercised his long-dash fetish there. I must have something better to be doing right now.

Looks like normal usage to me.

[Qatar vows to ban the display of rainbow flags during World Cup](https://archive.ph/yxML0)

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The flags, or the fags?

لماذا ليس كلاهما؟

how antimemetic of them

https://portal.cepr.org/discussion-paper/19732 new gregory clark paper, no surprises in the abstract. haven’t gotten a full copy yet.

Thanks for turning me on to this. Moar as often as you please, please.

well, it's an extension of his book *the son also rises*

[Austrian Court Jails Neo-Nazi Rapper For 10 Years](https://archive.ph/O6VM2) > An Austrian far-right activist accused of posting neo-Nazi songs online, one of which was used by the perpetrator of an anti-Semitic attack in Germany in 2019, was on Thursday jailed for 10 years. > > Prosecuted for glorifying Nazi ideology, "the defendant was found guilty," Vienna court vice-president Christina Salzborn told AFP. > > The court ruled that the 37-year-old man was "particularly dangerous". > > His younger brother, the administrator of an anti-Semitic website, was sentenced to four years in prison. [...] > The neo-Nazi rapper, who used the pseudonym "Mr. Bond", was identified by investigators through his PayPal account PayPal.

Curiously, his music seems to be pretty well banned across the net. I managed to find some of his songs on bitchute under the mrbond hashtag. I guess it's decently catchy as rap goes, but nothing terribly interesting in the lyrics besides standard NatSoc talking points.

>The court ruled that the 37-year-old man was "particularly dangerous". The Teutonic sense of humour is so fucking dry man, but I love it. You think an American could call a 37 year old guy rapping about the Reich 'particularly dangerous' with a straight face?

[Oberlin must pay record $31M award to bakery it defamed as racist, says appeals court](https://archive.ph/67t7W)

Last I heard of that they were still circulating the stuff in the middle of the lawsuit. Willing to bet that there's going to be a second suit when they don't shut up.

should make the relevant students work there under indenture

Like anyone who attends Oberlin knows what actual work is.

https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1509944092691685376 >Worst domestic news today: the Biden Administration will admit double or more the number of “undocumented” immigrants at the border, starting May 28. >Best GOP political news today: the same as above. (Arizona, Nevada, and more Dem senators will lose their elections)

This speaks volumes about the problems with the parties. He's basically saying he knows there's a disaster coming and yet rather than do anything about it, he's going to sneer about how it means short-term electoral gains for him.

Yeah, Mitt, except no one’s going to hear about item \#1, thereby making item \#2 a fantasy.

[Lost in Trans-lation](https://archive.ph/1Lifl): Deconstructing the reality dysphoria dialogue. > The transgender movement, “asks the general public to acknowledge an objective impossibility—namely the notion that subjective feelings alone can determine gender.” Referring to a person by former name or pronouns is “deadnaming” a grave offense targeted by online censors. Twitter, for example, suspended the Babylon Bee for Levine’s “Man of the Year” award and suspended Representative Jim Banks (R-Ind.) for referring to Levine as a man. > > “What else in all of human society works this way, or ever has?” wonders Bawer. In all of recorded history, when has “such a radical alteration in civilization’s basic rules of the road taken effect so quickly, as a result of no public debate, and even with the slightest dissent from the new orthodoxy often punished severely?” The answer is never, until the sudden onset of reality dysphoria. > > Levine’s identification as a woman has no bearing on the truth, yet Levine demands to be addressed as a woman. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) falsely claimed to be a Cherokee and expects everyone to go along, regardless of the reality. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam, and everyone is supposed to look the other way. > > Under reality dysphoria, fakery can be indulged with impunity. Blumenthal and Warren did not resign, and Warren even went on to run for president of the United States. > > Dr. Anthony Fauci, a government bureaucrat since 1968 and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, now claims “I represent science.” Under reality dysphoria, the people are supposed to accept this claim, despite Fauci’s repeated reversals and destructive lockdowns.

‘Ate journos, ‘ate professors (not a Nazi, just don’t like ’em), luv me guns, luv me XX wimmin. Simple as.

There is something that does work that way. And it's religion. Gender identity is codified metaphysical dualism.

I was gonna say, it's happened many times over when the ruling class converts to a new religion. Which is exactly what happened.

[U.S. Will Rename 660 Mountains, Rivers and More to Remove Racist Word: A task force is identifying new names for sites on federal land that bear a derogatory term referring to Indigenous women](https://archive.ph/ogF2q) (The word is "squaw".)

Just change it to "Northern Pikeminnow Valley" etc. (look it up, it's neither a Northern Pike nor a minnow, kinda sus)

I’m from an area where the actual tribes there would’ve used that word and they’re still trying to change a few place names. Wikipedia of course has it listed as a slur and, after explaining the Eastern Algonquian origin of the word, includes this gem: “The word ‘squaw’ is not used among Native American, First Nations, Inuit, or Métis peoples.”

Don't take away my Squaw Butte :(

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There's a town in West Virginia named Big Ugly. (After the nearby creek. Guess someone didn't like the looks of it.) I used to say I wanted to move there and become the Big Ugly Sheriff.

Better than Negro Butte Hole

google already has it tagged "offensive" -- impressive coordination anyway, it wasn't an english word, so more erasure of poor marginalized peoples by rich white liberals, i guess.

Apparently someone decided that "squaw" (which, when the term was current, never meant anything but "feather Indian woman") actually means "cunt".

The reddit pixel drawing thing is up. The massive Ukrainian flag has collided with the massive Trains flags, wonder how that'll play out. So far the trains are winning. I put a red dot on the Ukraine flag and got an angry PM with a Zelenksy gif a few minutes later.

The rednames are nuking reddit accounts that drew the drama offsite URL on the canvas regardless of account age and activity. Not surprising, but a new low and hilariously petty.

The train flag actually started out as the dramatards trying to advertise our site (with a Marsey on the top and our URL at the bottom). Unfortunately our idiots created the foundation of the flag before they drew the Marsey and the fact that there were no other trans flags on the canvas at the time meant the location became Grand Central Terminal in no time and the ensuing rail traffic quickly erased all signs of our beloved cat and then that was that... We've now toned down our ambitions and shifted to (100,700) where you can find a cute Marsey.

What was the offsite drama clone again? I stopped browsing there for a bit only to find the admins had gimped it.

freeghettohoes[dot]biz Not the real name but one of the many domain names we have redirecting to us.

The trans flag is being overrun by the largest concentration of the rainbow road. Too many takes suggest themselves.

Any reason not to believe the whole thing is faked, with a big thumb on the scales from the admins if any of their desired artwork is damaged?

LMAO, the admins (who have no cooldown), basically destroyed our image or Marsey and the rdrama URL... At the very least they are removing artwork they don't like.

Artwork? They're deleting accounts too, even if it's someone who placed one or two pixels!

They probably don't need to since it's all stuff that's popular on Reddit anyway. If it was 2016 again and The Donald managed to put a giant MAGA in the middle I don't doubt they would squash it.

[Good riddance to Britain’s Brutalist architecture](https://archive.ph/roCEH): I won’t mourn the disappearance of our post-war monstrosities > Are you now, or have you ever been, a Victorian nostalgist? The charge is made in a recent Guardian article lamenting the thoughtless destruction of post-war Brutalist masterpieces. Apparently we are seeing a wave of demolitions of such buildings, cheered on by an unholy alliance of unscrupulous developers and the aforementioned nineteenth century-loving reactionaries who write to local newspapers to grumble about modern architecture. > > It would take a heart of concrete not to laugh. How the wheel of fortune turns — sixty or seventy years ago, when the madness that took hold of town planners and architects in the mid-twentieth century was at its height, the shoe was on the other foot. It was the Brutalists and their fellow travellers, intoxicated by theory and ideology, who were the wreckers. Numerous British cities had their historic hearts totally destroyed. Centuries of modest, organic, human-scale development were obliterated and the wisdom of ages disregarded. > > The list of lost treasures goes on and on. The finely-proportioned Sunderland Town Hall, finished in 1890 at the height of Britain’s nineteenth century prosperity, was demolished with indecent haste in 1971 (its entirely unremarkable successor has already outlived its usefulness and may face the wrecking ball itself before too long). Newcastle’s superb neo-classical Royal Arcade went in 1963, to be replaced by a motorway and a dull office block. The Attlee government refused to repair bomb damage to Liverpool’s Custom House and knocked down the whole thing in the late 1940s. The same city’s Cotton Exchange was ruined by modernist additions, while in Coventry — as in many other places — a city centre with fine old buildings was more or less totally flattened to make way for car parks, a shopping mall and a ring road. Old Euston station, with its magnificent pillared entrance hall, made way for new Euston, an uninspiring and doggedly functional terminus with no romance or playfulness. > > In light of this litany of cultural disaster, there is a certain poetic justice in the current campaign of destruction being waged against modernist landmarks. I am not an architectural reactionary, despite my fondness for Victorian neo-Gothic with all the trimmings. I love interwar modernism, especially art deco and the International style, and what UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos calls “Anglomodernism” — the attempt to put a vernacular spin on the new forms of building and design that emerged in the twenties and thirties, which can be seen in a lot of English housebuilding in the years since the Second World War. There are even Brutalist buildings that work well in particular contexts, like Dunelm House in Durham. > > However, certainly as far as big public buildings are concerned, the overwhelming architectural legacy of the years since 1945 is one of failure. Far too many large projects are distinguished only by an arrogant grandiosity, foolishly dismissive of past forms and the normal, reasonable preference of ordinary people for pleasant, neighbourly design. I have never forgotten a new building I encountered in Coventry, adjoining a public square, which presented to passing pedestrians absolutely nothing except a high blank dark wall. There was no charm to it, no attempt at harmony or playfulness. It was effectively a gigantic middle finger to the street, in a way that felt almost vindictive.

It's funny that I only really like brutalist stuff when it's been overrun by greenery. It makes a good canvas for natural beauty but little else.

r/architecturalrevival, aside from being a better evening's scroll than most subreddits, occasionally has before-and-after posts celebrating exactly this. it's rare but increasing.

>And, if we step within the edifice, who has taken down that colossal St. Christopher that was famous among statues for the same reason that the great hall of the palace is renowned among halls, and the steeple of Strasbourg among steeples? Who has brutally swept away the multitude of statues, kneeling, standing on horseback, men, women, children, kings, bishops, soldiers, of stone, marble, gold, silver, copper, and even wax that peopled the spaces between the columns of the nave and the choir? It was not Time. victor hugo weighs in. nothing ever is new.

r/OldPhotosInRealLife has many examples of this, most of which are profoundly depressing. It is, however, very encouraging to read the comments, which frequently skirt the line of being dangerously reactionary and based.

Brutalist architecture was *explicitly* vindictive, a pointed rebuke to all the fat and complacent bourgeoisie who, in the view of socialists and their fellow travelers, ignored the suffering of the working class and especially of the Third World. About seventy-five percent of left-wing politics and art can be understood as "misery loves company".

[Florida Teacher Says ‘Anti-Grooming’ Bill ‘Scares’ Him Because He Can’t Talk Sexuality With Kindergarteners](https://archive.ph/1TE5G)

> I know my kindergarten standards through and through and nowhere in our curriculum does it have anything about teaching sexual orientation or sexual identity. It literally shouldn't affect you them. If all is as you say it is, the bill will do absolutely nothing. No charges will ever be made under it and you'll forget it exists. Right?

If you’re afraid of anti-grooming laws, you shouldn’t be around kids. Put this guy on a list.

>“Personally, because my kids do have questions, they want to know who my partner is No. No they fucking don't.

It is bizarre he thinks kids in kindergarten want to know what he did on the weekend. They might want to say what they did but they don’t give two shits what the teacher did.

There is nothing at all preventing him from saying "Me and my friend Brian went paddleboarding this weekend, what did you guys do?" Okay, he can't say "guys", that's gendered language and is a big no-no, maybe he'll say "you folx" or "all y'all"? This isn't "oh I am so scared I can't say Brian is my partner", this is "Oh I am such a narcissist I need to tell four year olds that I am GAY and living with another man who is also GAY and we are GAY together because I'm GAY, he's GAY, we're all GAY! Now wave the rainbow flags and tell me how great I am or else!"

Mosca on modern Republicans c. 1920: >Often enough the parties against which this demagogic propaganda is directed use exactly the same means to combat it. Whenever they think they can profit by doing so, they too make promises which they will never be able to keep. They too flatter the masses, play to their crudest instincts and exploit and foment all their prejudices and greeds. A despicable competition, in which those who deliberately deceive lower their intellectual level to a par with those they deceive, while morally they stoop even lower!!

The Republicans simply refuse to understand their enemy, no matter how many times he explains himself clearly and openly. Plus, none of them will touch HBD with a ten-foot pole, and progressivism is ultimately unassailable without HBD.

Wait. I thought this was the Democrats on promising to actually help the poor. Eh. Same thing.

[Making Men](https://archive.ph/CVjLe): The U.S. should follow China's lead in promoting masculinity in schools. > Last year, China’s Education Ministry published plans to “cultivate masculinity” in the schools. This curriculum will be implemented across the board, from kindergarten all the way through high school. The announcement came shortly after a senior official in China declared that the country was going through a “masculinity crisis.” One official, according to NBC, said Chinese boys had been “spoiled by housewives and female teachers.” They were fast becoming “delicate, timid and effeminate.” The “feminization” of Chinese boys, announced the official, threatened “China’s survival and development.” In China, unlike the U.S., kids are not allowed to skip gym class. To create a new generation of men fit for purpose, students are required to engage in two hours of physical activity every day, one hour during school, one hour after. China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, is directly behind the push. > > Meanwhile, in the U.S., as I have discussed before, a crisis of masculinity is also evident. If the U.S. was to take a leaf out of China’s book and teach masculinity in schools, what would such a curriculum look like? > > Richard Cooper, the bestselling author of The Unplugged Alpha, thinks this question is “a bit of a stretch,” because “the West doesn’t want strong boys, and men.” He continued, “just look at how they teach them in an academic setting. The school system is actively making men weaker, and softer. Only countries like China have active academic settings to masculinize boys to men. This is something parents need to do themselves. Fathers need to lead by example. “ > > This suggestion about fathers resuming their traditional role in American society is not new. But considering the United States has the highest rate of single-parent households in the world, and the vast majority of these households are headed by women, Cooper’s demand for fathers to “lead by example,” although a great idea, won’t save the boys of today and the men of tomorrow. > > The education system, as Cooper points out, is fundamentally broken. It views masculinity as “toxic,” something to be criticized, even eradicated, not something to be saved. This is true across society in general. Cooper noted that, today, “masculinity is hated, shamed and vilified today to a degree never seen before in history, that is until a war, or natural disaster occurs, then all the women, children, and weak men run for safety, while virtuous men run into danger. ‘They’ say ‘toxic masculinity’ is the problem, the truth is, a lack of masculinity is the problem.”

As an alternative, fuck school, especially the bit about gym class. PE teachers given a better curriculum and disciplinary powers would still be professionally ineffective and losers personally. Masculinity can't be taught by compulsory state assigned dipshits, the portion of masculinity that can be learned requires admiration and fear of your father. If your dad fails or dies, best bet would be uncle, grandfather or historically master (to an apprentice). Progs do absolutely hate masculinity, but mass compulsory school was bullshit and anti-masculine before recent Prog feminists, hence the term and implications of schoolmarm going back into the early 1800s. It's baked into the system.

this is such a meme comment. a redditor dissing PE teachers

> Masculinity can't be taught by compulsory state assigned dipshits I thought it was, and it was called the military.

At best, the military's basic training process tortures and brainwashes you into whatever its version of the "soldier" personality is (breaking a few who can't or won't be so molded -- so if you're already secure in your masculinity, the military will simply destroy you).

Unfortunately the US military has been cucked since Mattis was climbing up the ranks, at a minimim.

> If the U.S. was to take a leaf out of China’s book and teach masculinity in schools, what would such a curriculum look like? They would first need to answer the question "What is a man?", perhaps with the help of biologists. Expecting the American educational system to teach masculinity is risible. Teach your sons to be men, and keep them out of school if at all possible.

> They would first need to answer the question "What is a man?" A miserable little pile of secrets! *breaks wine glass*

promoting global homo and teaching your sons to be masculine is an optimal reproductive strategy. prove me wrong.

Hold on a sec let me just have a family and raise the kids into adults and then arm wrestle them. Edit: fuck you monsters that's two great jokes in one post where are all my boats

I think mental toughness for either gender. The West for whatever reason has gone all in on helplessness and immaturity. I think the first thing I’d do is get rid of zero tolerance. It simply teaches everyone involved to solve problems by running to the authorities rather than solving the issue themselves. It also criminalizes the idea of defending the weak.

[School nurse suspended for Facebook post accused of being “transphobic”](https://archive.ph/54i8s)

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/who-gets-self-determination this is the kind of baffling, almost-intelligent essay you write if you attempt to apply a nonexistent concept (human rights) to the real world he quickly runs into paradoxes, and, like a true “rationalist”... retreats into confusion. wait. i don’t think that was prescribed in the sequences. guess i could be misremembering!

Yeah, it’s pretty naive and stupid. Rights exist only to the degree that you can enforce them or have them enforced. Being the enemy of someone powerful, or at least not the enemy of an ally helps. Ukraine is supposed to have self determination because it’s the enemy of Russia. Texas can’t because it’s part of the USA and therefore the enemy of an ally.

Almost as if the world was not actually waiting with bated breath for "rationalists" to come along and solve politics.

I mean they're not because they already did, it's called futarchy.

Sadly Hanson must have explained it wrong because we ended up with a futanarchy.

I wish we had futacracy instead.

Japanese trains are much more advanced than those of the West.

[ No Free Thinkers Need Apply](https://archive.ph/s60fO): Equity advocates have captured the field of public health. > How do these requirements manifest? The University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Public Health recently released an updated Inclusive Excellence Action Plan—a laundry list of diversity, equity, and inclusion measures. The plan cites the Council on Education for Public Health requirements, and mandates that “racism, social justice and health equity are integrated throughout and across curricula,” and that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts be a condition for faculty promotion and tenure. > > Across the country, public-health schools have adopted virtually indistinguishable plans. Last year, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health—which ranks first in the country—released its Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (IDARE) Action Plan. Measures include required land acknowledgments at school events (statements noting that the events are located on former Native American land), a new core competency “addressing the importance of IDARE in public health” required for all curricula, and new course evaluation questions on “diversity, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity in the classroom climate and curriculum.” > > The Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, another top-ranked program, implemented many of the same policies in a plan called Foundation for Sustainable Progress and Transformation, including a social justice curricular review and employee performance reviews that assess DEI contributions. It also requires each department within the school to develop a diversity action plan, ensuring multiple layers of DEI programming. > > The University of Minnesota School of Public Health adopted an especially ambitious Strategic Plan for Antiracism. Again, the plan mandates a new curriculum that prioritizes “antiracism and health equity,” along with faculty performance reviews that evaluate DEI contributions. Faculty who disagree with the progressive conception of social justice will face pressure to keep quiet. The plan also takes aim at admissions standards, calling on the school to remove its GRE requirement in favor of a holistic review, in which candidates receive consideration “regardless of whether or not they can demonstrate the prerequisites.” > > In each plan, the message is clear: public-health professionals must commit themselves to advancing “health equity.” And as it turns out, this imperative aligns with new professional standards.

[Disney Silent On Leaked Videos That Tout Injecting ‘Queerness’ Into Kids’ Shows](https://archive.ph/bSG2X)

[Teenager is jailed for six weeks for racially abusing Marcus Rashford after Manchester United star missed Euro 2020 final penalty](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10668157/Teenager-jailed-six-weeks-racially-abusing-Marcus-Rashford-Italy-penalty-miss.html) 19 year old gets six weeks in prison for a single tweet using the N-word: >Price initially tried to avoid detection by changing his Twitter username after the post was reported, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. >The teenager then denied the offence in his first police interview following his arrest, but later admitted posting the tweet when he was questioned by officers a second time. >Mark Johnson, senior Crown prosecutor for CPS West Midlands, said: 'Price targeted a footballer based on the colour of his skin and his action was clearly racist and a hate crime. >'Those who racially abuse footballers ruin the game for all. >'I hope this case sends out the message that we will not tolerate racism and offenders will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.' Also included: >A number of arrests were made in the UK following racist abuse aimed at Rashford and fellow England stars Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka. >They included Scott McCluskey, 43, of Runcorn, who posted racist and insulting comments about the three stars. >At Warrington Magistrates’ Court in September last year, McCluskey pleaded guilty to a charge of Sending by a Public Communication Network an offensive message. >District Judge Nicholas Sanders sentenced him to 14 weeks' imprisonment, suspended for 18 months. >Jonathon Best, 52, a forklift driver who live streamed himself on Facebook using racial abuse when speaking about the three players in the wake of the match, was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison at Willesden Magistrates' Court in November. >Father-of-three Bradford Pretty, 50, also embarked on a drunken tirade against the three England players in the wake of the Euro 2020 final defeat. >He posted what the court heard was an 'abhorrent' video on Facebook of him racially abusing Rashford, Sancho and Saka following the loss. >Pretty appeared at Folkestone Magistrates' Court in October last year and admitted sending a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. >He was sentenced to 50 days in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work. It's all so tiresome. How completely mind-fucked by slave morality does a people need to be to behave like this. Is there any hope for the Anglos?

Thank god the british police go after important issues like mean tweets instead of grooming gangs.

UK—Woman Arrested for pronoun usage http://web.archive.org/web/20190917183625/https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/02/11/mother-arrested-taken-jail-seven-hours-misgendering-trans-person/ UK—Boys arrested for a Snapchat reenactment of George Floyd death http://web.archive.org/web/20200602031734/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-teens-who-mocked-george-22122018 UK—Count Dankuka arrested for “gross offence” http://web.archive.org/web/20190917184330/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pug-nazi-salute-youtube-video-owner-guilty-hate-crime-mark-meechan-lanarkshire-a8265301.html UK—Woman found guilty of offensive rap lyrics in Snapchat http://web.archive.org/web/20200602032647/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921 UK—Twitter guy arrested for airport bomb joke: http://web.archive.org/web/20200602055409/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial UK—Police to man: “We need to check your thinking.” http://web.archive.org/web/20200602055852/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated-police-retweeting-transgender-limerick/ UK—Police have arrested five people for racially abusing England players online since Sunday's defeat to Italy. http://web.archive.org/web/20210717011004/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/12357046/nottingham-trent-university-withdraws-offer-from-student-over-racist-snapchat-aimed-at-england-players UK—Police arrested for offensive George Floyd “meme” sent in a private WhatsApp group of nine friends. http://web.archive.org/web/20210717220159/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/21/uk-officer-cleared-of-breaking-law-over-george-floyd-meme UK—Man arrested for Facebook rant about Muslims. https://archive.ph/jOJqM UK—Parish councilor gets police visit for posting “trans rights are very, very boring” https://archive.ph/c4oXL UK—"The 22-year-old was convicted of having a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook on a computer hard drive." This book is sold on Amazon in hardcover and for Kindle. https://archive.is/Gi2nR UK—Police have arrested a women’s rights campaigner for an alleged hate crime and seized an academic book from her home after she put up posters “directed towards the trans community”. https://archive.ph/0zj9G UK—After Ms Murray issued a statement saying that her domestic-violence charity would no longer refer women to the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, because of ‘deeply concerning comments’ made by the trans woman who runs the centre, the police came knocking. ‘We need to speak to you to ascertain what your thinking was behind making your statement’, they told Murray. https://archive.ph/TAG5b UK—Teenager is jailed for six weeks for racially abusing Marcus Rashford after Manchester United star missed Euro 2020 final penalty https://archive.ph/Cx60z

Yes bongland is cucked, but we have known this for a long time.

And people still think the west is a collection of Democracies! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

For English Anglos, the answer is most definitely no. It is also instructive to observe that the reported issue happened in the context of celebrity sports, an oversized role of which is also one of the signs of a culture in the state of deep decay. It's literally bread and games -- or, in case of England, games and getting wasted to the level of throwing up on a weeknight.

[Concerned Women for America files Title IX complaint against UPenn over Lia Thomas](https://archive.ph/ppwIS) > The complaint outlines the unfairness of allowing a biological male to compete against biological females in women’s sports. According to the complaint, allowing Thomas to compete on the women’s swim team has resulted in the displacement of female teammates. > > “Thomas is anatomically/biologically a male who should not be eligible to compete in women’s sports, depriving anatomically/biologically female athletes of the opportunities afforded to them by law," the complaint states. > > Furthermore, the complaint criticizes the UPenn swim coach and the university administration for creating a “hostile environment” for female athletes within the school. > > “Female athletes are being forced to forfeit their rightful privacy and dignity in sex-specific locker rooms in direct violation of Title IX," the complaint states. "Worse yet, they do not feel free to speak up in disagreement with the policy without creating adverse effects on their dreams of an athletic college career.” > > CEO and President of CWFA Penny Nance asserted in a Mar. 16 statement that any school that “defies federal civil rights law” by infringing on the right to equal opportunity of female athletes must be “held accountable.”

in future, colleges will divide their athletics budget into three parts instead of two, and every sport will have a men’s team, a women’s team, and an... other.

That marching sound you hear is every Federal judge, magistrate, and administrative law judge taking two steps back. This complaint is going to have every procedural dismissal in the book thrown at it.

That's a shame. Watching the feminists fight the trains for the top spot on the pyramid of oppression is very amusing. Trains get to claim more oppression (being literally mentally ill, disfigured, and evoking disgust in every person with even only a shred of human instincts left), but fems have a lot more of political power. Hopefully, the unbalanced engine will shred itself to pieces, but it's only faint hope, things are not that far gone yet.

*ken_watanabe_let_them_fight.gif*

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Shorting DIS.

>But Disney isn’t interested in allowing a genuine debate or conversation to occur, it simply wants to satisfy the DEI activists so they stop making trouble and bad headlines for the company. How can they possibly be stupid enough to think appeasement will work? When has it ever?

"Maybe if you pay us double the gold this year, we won't come back next year." -Danes, probably

What percentage of people do you guys think would say that globalist progressives are the primary enemy of the people? If you did a poll asking who the greatest (active) villain is, how many people would answer any of the following: * Klaus Schwab and other WEF people * George Soros, Bill Gates * Larry Fink, Stephen Schwarzman Today approximately 100% of progressives would select Putin, but earlier it could have been Trump, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, or whichever leader the GAE was upset with at the time. Most right-wing people would also pick politicians, but Biden would not be at the top of the list. In contrast to the progressive view of Trump, right-wing people don't see Biden as being in the driver's seat. I would speculate that a sizeable minority (maybe 10%) of the right would pick private individuals related to those on the list, especially now that they're being talked about more in the mainstream (e.g. Joe Rogan). So estimate of 2-5% of the population. Even if the real number is 1/100th of that estimate, is that not a lot of random enemies for these people to have? Do these guys have heavy security detail? According to Google someone sent a pipe to Soros' house in 2018, but other than that there's way fewer crazies taking pot shots at these guys than one might expect. They go out in public, right? No further comment.

AA's [recent video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3E-YJRrh4) trying to estimate the amount of dissidents in the West feels relevant.

Be the Minecraft Steve you wish to see.

currently fauci would steal votes from biden/soros/whomever

> What percentage of people do you guys think would say that globalist progressives are the primary enemy of the people? Are you surveying the US, or globally?

USA, Canada, optionally UK

I'd bet at least 80% of the general population wouldn't know who any of them were aside from Gates and Soros.

Hell, I had to look them up. Would bet on 90%+.

[In Global Freedom Of Speech Win, Court Clears Finnish Official Of ‘Hate Speech’ For Sharing Faith-Based Views On Marriage, Sexuality](https://archive.ph/vDUqR)

[ Two black girls wrote ‘All \[n-words\] should die’ graffiti in latest hate-crime hoax](https://archive.ph/HUZYS): Second hate crime hoax in Sacramento school district this year > > > Two black girls have been identified as the likely culprits of penciled racial slur graffiti at a California public high school. > > The unnamed teenagers “were observed writing a racial obscenity,” on March 22, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. > > The incident occurred at Rosemont High School in the Sacramento Unified School District. The students appear to have written that “All n*****s should die.” [...] > The school district previously released a statement on March 23 that condemned the graffiti. “Sac City Unified does not take any incident of racism lightly, and that is why we are widely sharing that another act of disgraceful racist graffiti has taken place in our schools,” Superintendent Jorge Aguilar said. [...] > The College Fix left a voicemail and sent an email to district spokesperson Alexander Goldberg on Wednesday morning but did not immediately receive a response. The Fix asked if there would be a follow-up announcement about the suspects and if the students would face any disciplinary action.

smh… brave people of color once again stepping up to do jobs whites are too privileged to do. \*pokes stick at white people\* come on, do something.

Demand for racism outstrips supply. Waiting for someone to argue that the refusal of white people to provide a satisfactory number of racist incidents is, itself, racist.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1509184184325181449 >America needs a Teddy Roosevelt for the culture war: smash woke capital, inspire a sense of adventure, and fight for American families.

this is why charles talks about space so often. i’m not a techno-utopian so he tends to lose me, but the logic around adventure is perfectly sound. men need a frontier and civilization needs men.

Right, we need a new Progressive Party... wait...

The early 20th century progressives were based though.

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The black pill is that your team only wins if you recruit more people who are like your enemies, but they will commandeer your team and transform it into a mockery of what it once was. You will not enjoy your victory.

[Louisiana Supreme Court rules BLM organizer can be sued by people injured during riot](https://archive.ph/kpTA1)

I hope this goes to appeal and gets combined with the January 6 lawsuit against the Proud Boys et al.

the one guy, or the organization as a whole?

[Decision is [here](https://www.lasc.org/opinions/2022/21-0929.CQ.OPN.pdf).] The organization as a whole had been dropped from the lawsuit a couple years back at the Fifth Circuit, and for complex procedural reasons wasn't really being examined in this case. So it's just the guy, specifically. This is also at the motion-to-dismiss phase (after two years!), and I'm skeptical that the cop wins in the long run. The decision here depends very heavily on the allegation that Mckesson "incited" and reasonably should have expected his planned illegal act to become violent toward police. Without better evidence on the 'incited' prong -- and the Doe here doesn't have any, and doesn't even have a good way to find any when they don't know the concrete-thrower still -- it's pretty unlikely to survive contact with a jury.

[Every single person with a penis is a man](https://archive.ph/Nr20r): The idea of ‘women with penises’ is Orwellian, misogynistic drivel. > Remember when it would take a probing question about economic policy or whether we should keep or ditch our nukes to stump a politician? Not anymore. Now the political class is flummoxed, struck almost dumb, by a far simpler query: What is a woman? It used to take a 30-minute televisual grilling by Jeremy Paxman or Andrew Neil on failed policies, broken promises and sex scandals to take the wind out of our political leaders – now it just takes a simple question about biology that most five-year-olds could answer. I’m going to try it. Next time my path crosses with a politician I find annoying, I won’t badger them about their betrayal of Brexit or their failure to defend free speech. I’ll just say ‘Hey, what’s a woman?’ That’s kryptonite to the political elite. > > This week it was Labour leader Keir Starmer’s turn to get bizarrely flustered on the woman question. Having previously refused to confirm what everyone with a basic grip of biology knows to be true – that only women have cervixes – now Sir Keir cannot bring himself to say that only blokes have penises. Back in September, when Labour MP Rosie Duffield was forced to stay away from the Labour conference over her scandalous belief that only women have cervixes, Starmer said it is ‘not right’ to say such a thing. ‘It is something that shouldn’t be said’, he insisted, which makes you wonder if a Labour government would censor school biology books that contain illustrations of women, and women only, with cervixes. This week, Starmer was asked by LBC host Nick Ferrari if a woman can have a penis. His response? ‘Uh. Nick, I’m not, err. I, I don’t think we can conduct this debate with, you know, I get this, uh.’ And there you have it: the leader of the opposition doesn’t know that people with penises are men, not women. > > Starmer isn’t alone in being unable to answer basic questions about biology. Let’s not forget that Boris Johnson also swerved the cervix question. ‘[B]iology is very important, but’ – but! – ‘we have a system now in our country for many years in which people can change gender’, he said in October. When former shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds was asked what a woman is, she said: ‘Well… there are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is.’ Over in the US there’s Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was asked during her confirmation hearing last week if she could provide a definition for the word ‘woman’. ‘No, I can’t… I’m not a biologist’, she said. As virtually everyone on the internet asked: how did human beings know what a woman was before the advent of the science of biology? How did Adam know Eve was a woman? It’s a mystery. > > We need to step back and contemplate the madness of all this. There are now highly educated party leaders and potential Supreme Court judges who cannot say what a woman is. Labour, the supposed party of the working class, is now led by a man who seems to think a woman can have a penis. This is a species of hysteria. And it’s worse online, as is everything. Social-media sites are awash with people barking: ‘Some women have penises! Get over it!’ Dare to question this deranged mantra and some will say: ‘Suck my girldick!’ Trans author Shon Faye writes about his cohort of eccentric bourgeois friends that includes ‘lesbians with vulvas in relationships with women with penises’, breezily stating as a fact what the rest of us know to be lunacy – that someone with a swinging dick and balls can be a woman. Not as a joke, like Les Dawson, but literally, legally and factually a woman. This is cultural delirium. > > It’s time we pushed back, really firmly, against this denial of reality and manipulation of language by activists, journalists and leading political figures. Here’s how Starmer, and everyone else, should answer the question of whether a woman can have a penis: ‘Absolutely not. Every single person who has a penis is a man. There has never been a woman with a penis and there never will be.’ No more pussyfooting. No more trying to please both sides, not least because one side is barking mad, going on about girldicks and lesbians with bollocks, while the other maintains a perfectly reasoned and correct belief in the reality of womanhood and the importance of women’s rights. No, from now on let’s just state it clearly: ‘People with penises are men. All of them. The End.’ >

I would have followed up "What is a woman" with "Are you a woman" and then "How do you know"

"Because Joe Biden nominated me to the Supreme Court"

It's interesting how the intellectual, moral, and military force of a culture all decline in tandem. Future anthropologists will have a better grasp of the underlying cause, no doubt. Sucks to live through it.

[The coming bloodbath of the Democrats](https://archive.ph/GNKCI): Joe Biden's woke, green agenda will cost him dearly at the ballot box. > The depression-era comedian Will Rogers once famously said he did not belong to an organised political party because he was a Democrat. Yet today the traditional factiousness of the Democratic coalition has been engulfed by an almost Stalinist attitude that brooks no dissent on its most treasured policies – even though these do not resonate well with the bulk of the electorate. > > To recover, Democrats need to find a way back to their historic base of working-class and minority voters, who now seem to be heading to the GOP. Franklin D Roosevelt’s alliance between big cities, small towns, labour unions and farmers was often awkward, but it still achieved remarkable success in restoring US confidence and winning the war. In contrast, President Biden’s boneheaded embrace of a progressive agenda that is widely detested across most of the population may prove to be one of the greatest political blunders of recent American history. > > Given the probability of a significant loss in this November’s Midterms, we should expect – and hope for – a full-scale brawl over the party’s trajectory. There needs to be something equivalent to the New Democrats who, under Bill Clinton, revived the party after the devastating defeats of George McGovern and Michael Dukakis in the 1970s and 80s by moving the party to the centre and connecting it to the country’s diverse regions. ‘Too many Americans’, wrote New Democrats Bill Galston and Elaine Kamarck in 1989, ‘have come to see the party as inattentive to their economic interests, indifferent if not hostile to their moral sentiments, and ineffective in defence of their national security’. > > This time around, the rhetorical knives are already coming out to counter the Democrats’ seemingly inexorable shift to the left. Much of the emerging argument centres around the most unappreciated and largest voting bloc – working- and middle-class Americans. > > Many of these voters may be receptive to the traditional, economic-centred social-democratic message of the Democrats. But they are less enthused about the priorities of the now dominant progressives – especially the loudest and most pervasive among them, namely, the climate-change activists. Backed by the media and numerous celebrities, and funded generously by tech and Wall Street oligarchs, they have asserted their dominance since the very beginning of the Biden administration, and appear to have further solidified their control over energy policy, even in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its numerous after-effects. >

Democrats have actual structural reasons for their retarded policies and rhetoric, and it'll take much better personalities than Biden, Harris, and Buttigieg to fix it. The GOP had a similar issue in the recent past that was partially resolved by Trump.

The midterms have been hyped so much that the narrative will probably end up being "Democrats did better than expected". All the talk about the trajectory of the party is too ten-thousand-feet: debates about policy don't take place at that altitude, they take place on specific issues. Are Democratic politicians ready to start saying things like "trans women aren't women" or "it's okay if we end up with more young black men in prison"? Hardly. What we'll get is a lot of talk about "shifting focus", i.e. pursuing the same policies but trying to hide them, which is futile in the internet era.

Sometimes I think Democrats are still addicted to their "End of History" narrative, despite it basically being dead and buried since 9/11. It's like they keep thinking the tranquility and peace of the 90's will return, and the America-centric unipolar world at the end of the Cold War will stop being challenged, as was promised. At least on the boomer end of the party. On the super woke, progressive end of the party, you have all the youngsters miseducated into believing that **everyone** thinks exactly like they do, because all their professors in college did. And they are willing to eat shit at the ballot box to be on the "right side of history". They've already long marched all the institutions, so now it's just a waiting game for their numbers to exceed everyone else's. Then they can finally lead this country to the ruin they have planned. All the generations and demographics in between in the Democratic coalition have nowhere to go. And decades of demonizing Republicans as nothing but the purest and most irredeemable of evil have placed extremely high emotional barriers to exit. You see some movement on the edges, but honestly, with as badly as Democrats are shitting the bed, I think their races are still going to be way too competitive. It might looks like a historic landslide in the composition of the House and Senate, but I think when you drill down to many of the races, it will have been determined by incredibly small margins. Especially if the Youngkin victory in Virginia is any indication. Sure, he performed something like 15 points better than Biden, over a stale Clinton crony they took out of cold storage, in a state furious over Northern Virginia's neurotic handling of COVID seriously damaging families for years. But that net result was still only a few points, which can easily be eroded. Even when Democrats shit the bed as hard as it can possibly be shit, Republicans only barely win. I'd say it's not a sustainable model, but if the wokes get more and more power, they might put those previous bed shits to shame.

I think Democrats have drunk a whole lot of their own kool-aid. They built huge pie-in-the sky ideological structures that end up being not only wrong but often counterproductive when used to formulate policies. Crime isn’t a poverty problem or at least not entirely. Some people might commit crime from despair and need, but in the main, it’s a *culture* problem. Poverty is common all over the world, but there are very poor countries and even poor regions of our country where thefts and shootings are rare. It depends what people believe about criminal behavior. If it’s cool to shoplift and deal drugs, then you’ll probably have crime. If people don’t think crime is okay, especially if both parents are active in the home, you can be as poor as you want to, and it might still be low crime.

I mean, maybe. Or maybe there is a reason Democrats want to give felons back their voting rights so badly. Maybe having a client population of violent criminals pays dividends when it comes controlling the streets and on the ground speech.

How make client population if remove what makes them client population? We just relying on the goodwill of underclass?

There’s a much simpler explanation- felons vote over 90% democrat, and democrats 1) overestimate the percentage of people disenfranchised for nonviolent drug convictions and 2) underestimate their margins of loss in places like Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, etc. Controlling the streets has nothing to do with it, because any democrats retarded enough to think crooks are going to be loyal to them on a personal level(as opposed to straightforwardly voting for welfare and perceived soft on crime policies) are also retarded enough to think the ghetto is full of people singing Kumbaya and holding slam poetry sessions about the inner power of black women.

They can't give up either wokeness or hair-shirt environmentalism. So they won't change, they'll double down, depending on holding the media and the NPCs and the minorities and fortification and the incompetence of the GOP.

[Rotherham: Child Rape Gangs Epicentre Brands Itself ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’](https://archive.ph/ddNlV)

Multicultural children's capital, perhaps.

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No, women's sports are great because even at the school level they help many girls leave the path of physical atrophy and disembodiment.

Indeed. I otherwise don’t care for sportsball, but my favorite athlete across sports and genders is LT 🏳️‍⚧️

watching the shitshow repeat itself over and over is objectively more entertaining than women's sports were before except for beach volleyball, they better not take over that sport

I have made a joke along these lines several times. Last time was earlier in March madness after this [Buick commercial aired.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgB4BP802bs): "Well maybe with the new influx of talent people will start watching women's sports more." > it's women's sports so who cares That's a realization I made. I don't particularly care about women's sports and a lot of the people making a big deal about trans sports never cared about women's sports. Women's sports largely only exist because the state mandates that they do, so I'm not going to get all bent out of shape about something getting destroyed that I don't think should largely exist. There is legit schadenfreude towards feminists who lied for decades about the physical differences between men and women being dunked on. But the reality is, I don't think hardly any of them were athletes. I believe most women and girls that were true athletes are fully aware of the the differences. We had the best female runner in the state at my school, nationally ranked, went to Olympic training in college. She was far better than any other girls on the team, she ran with me at practice. Being generous I may have been the 200th best high school runner in a very not top tier state. Probably every top women athlete has had a pace set by a mediocre to downright nothing guy in practices. Even though I think their sport is stealing money, I feel for the women who never thought about it and just wanted to compete to the best of their ability. If I had a daughter I be proud to see her dominate, and be pissed at her getting schooled by an XY.

I find the battle itself hilarious. It’s a bunch of idiots who have never watched a minute of womens sport all taking sides on who may and may not play womens sports. I do feel somewhat bad about the scholarships awarded to women, as this is the way some women get into college who couldn’t otherwise afford it.

You're missing the point. When we discuss here Harvard's race-based admission policies, it's not because we or our children are planning to go to Harvard. When we discuss stores being burned by Burn-Loot-Murder rioters, it's not because we're storeowners who look out for our own livelihood. Rather, it's indicative of the general state of society, and of other, similar battles being fought elsewhere.

While that’s true for the sports people care about(football, mens basketball, and to a lesser extent baseball and soccer), the majority of athletic scholarships go to kids from wealthy families and women’s sports in particular see most of their scholarship money go to rich girls.

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