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Sep 14 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Last month, the governor of California said something that his entire party spent a decade exerting all its powers to prevent anyone from saying. Image
Why did the party exert s much energy preventing anyone from saying it?

Because once you hear it, the spell is broken.
You have to revisit the history of the Soviet Bloc, the Cultural Revolution in China, or North Korea to come up with brainwashing at this scale
Newsom was one of the arch-spellcasters. For more than a decade he rubberstamped a cascade of assaults on parental rights using the power of the school system and state bureaucracy to entrap children in harmful delusions and strip parents of their rights to protect their children.

And after an election loosens the party's grip on power, he blithely says the sentence that contains the skeleton key that will unravel the whole edifice of delusion and coercion

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Sep 14
There was always going to be a gender gotterdammerung and it’s only just getting started
By defining “misgendering” as a form of “violent erasure” of a self whose existence depends on the affirmation of others, the movement primed its adherents to treat any withholding of the movements demands as fascist, even genocidal, and to respond with due force.
The Democratic party that spent a decade feeding these delusions in an army of disturbed young people they pumped full of hormones now must choose whether it is prepared to wage the war and conduct the inquisition they promised they would wage on their behalf
Read 4 tweets
Sep 11
DC comics canceled a planned series authored by this trans-identified male author whose prior works includes a novel featuring the death of JK Rowling, murders of TERF's, and a killing executed by the removal of a black woman's womb while she is still conscious. Image
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Sep 11
I'm skeptical that the man who writes songs about his desire to see someone dead is the same man who actually commits the murder, but this is (one more piece of) evidence of the desire among trans activists to see those they deem their enemies murdered and their total lack of inhibition about it
"Trans activists who have published murderous fantasies about public figures" just doesn't narrow the category down very much
Read 5 tweets
Sep 10
Wondering if this piece is the first and only appearance of the term "Luigi Left" in the mainstream media?

It ran two days ago, was criticized by some as the ramblings of someone Too Online, but now it seems pretty timely.
"Why are you ranting about Luigi Mangione in a piece about 'abundance'??"

"Oh."
Read 8 tweets
Sep 8
1.) These are statistically rare events. There were 428 black-on-white stranger-on-stranger killings in 2019 -- 3 percent of all murders.

2.) They are far more common than the police killings of unarmed black men that became a national obsession in the 2010's. There were 12 killings of unarmed black men in 2019 as the Black Lives Matter movement ramped up to its crescendo.

A narrative can easily be fashioned online by exploiting the "availability heuristic" that causes the subconscious mind to confound the vividness and memorability of events for their incidence. That is what right wing accounts focusing on the black-on-white stranger killings are doing.

Which is of course what the whole of the media did from 2015-2020 for police killings of unarmed black men, culminating in a nationwide freakout that put American cities in flames and resulted in the deaths of 30 people.

This created a pent up interest in re-establishing the salience of 2.), the goal of which is not a nationwide street freakout but simply the changing of prosecutorial polices that allow the catch and release of repeat violent offenders.Image
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Yes, 30 deaths directly attributed to violence in the riots and the largest two year spike in murder deaths in American history resulting in thousands of excess deaths above the prior baseline as law enforcement was delegitimized for several years

Even amidst this spike, the rate remained lower than its peak in the 1990's, though, because crime had been so thoroughly reduced in the prior three decades (while instances of police violence had also declined drastically, a kind of public policy miracle nearly unprecedented in modern history)
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Sep 7
"When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom

Newsom articulates what will in the end prove to be the decisive fact about the trans rights movement: that trans rights and women's rights are zero sum -- to give to the former group is to take from the latter group.

"Marriage equality was about everyone's rights. Your marriage was not diminished because a couple that had been together 30 years got married and happened to be the same sex, but your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing for that limited spot."

Tremendous effort has been expended by the trans rights movement to deny this fundamental antagonism and keep it out of public circulation.

Newsom just put it out there.Image
"When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom
Newsom explains why he pivoted on trans inclusion in sports. (The actual reason is that polls shows it's an 80-20 issue with 67 percent of Democrats opposed.)

He does what Harris wasn't able to do on this or any other issue where she flip-flopped. He provides a largely dishonest, halfway credible sounding explanation of why he flipflopped.
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