My views update 3:

BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country. Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison. The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption. That means: • Every image scanned • Every message inspected • Every video analyzed All directly on your phone. Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data. Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes. In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach. Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device. Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.

The UK is drafting a law where every device will be monitored 24 hours a day by scanning your messages, photos, and videos before you even encrypt them. This law is the slippery slope of "Think of the Children" from last year. Every Government wants this. youtu.be/PKvLUJ-4r50

"Window of tolerance" is an important phrase in the context of fiction. It's one that I think a lot of you guys, especially westerners, don't fully understand or haven't put enough thought into. Essentially, there exists myriad things that we as humans aren't okay with. "Not okay" can range from a simple turn-off, to something that would literally be traumatizing to witness. To give an example: imagine if you witnessed someone, a real person, being beaten to death. For this example, let's say a young woman. This would be horrifying to witness and probably affect your mental health, right? It would be even worse if you weren't allowed to look away, right? So why, then, can we witness all manner of horrifying and atrocious acts in fiction and be completely unaffected by it? The reason is simple: our window of tolerance has been stretched to a massive degree, because we understand that the thing that we're seeing isn't real. It is well-known in psychology that humans are morbidly curious and thrill seeking, by nature. To be clear, "morbidly curious" means we are naturally prone to look into or observe things that are bad, dangerous, or unknown. Thrill seeking means a desire for "adventure," aka to have intense or complex experiences and do things that are risky. With all of this in mind, ask yourselves a question: If someone enjoys something in fiction, does that enjoyment carry over into real-life? If your answer is still "yes," you haven't been paying attention, as I just laid out, step-by-step, the psychology behind our ability to enjoy things that we otherwise *wouldn't* enjoy, in reality: >Our window of tolerance is stretched massively. >We are morbidly curious and desire to see things we know we shouldn't. >We get a thrill out of things that are unknown, taboo, or adventurous. >Therefore, we enjoy all manner of things in fiction, especially things we would not enjoy seeing in reality. I get it. We all have "embarrassing" fantasies that we'd be ashamed to admit or talk about. Or at least, most of us do; those of us who aren't boring. It's only natural that you don't wish to admit it to strangers on the internet... but if nothing else, do yourselves the service of being honest with yourself about it. We live in a world surrounded by humans who are morbidly curious about things, and we desire to explore these things through escapist fiction. "Storytelling" isn't just written words on paper, we experience storytelling everyday through our lived experiences. This is why even the most mundane of scenarios can be turned into a funny story. Fantasy is meant to amplify this, to allow us to experience things that we otherwise wouldn't. When you blur the lines between fantasy and reality and shackle yourselves to the limitations of daily life, your rid your fantasy of its charm and purpose. Yet we dance around these subjects, cowering away from the more "sensitive" or touchy elements of fantasy and fiction because we don't want to be judged by others. And you know what? That's perfectly fine. You don't have to expose yourself. But perpetuating the cycle that is needing our fiction picked apart, scrutinized, and approved by moral busybodies is endlessly frustrating and serves no one, least not yourselves. Let people enjoy their harmless escapist hobbies, and for fucks sake, have fun.

Millions have been displaced, famine is rampant, and war crimes are being committed daily. Yet so-called “human rights” activists in the West remain silent. Here’s what you need to know about the conflict tearing Sudan apart. 🧵 1/13

asmongold is making the same argument that Boomers made in order to justify banning violent video games first most normal people can differentiate between fiction/reality (if you can't this is literally psychosis) As someone with a baby-face I also find his stance insulting. Violent games don't cause real world violence just because violent people tend to be (and studies show this) more attracted to violent games, its literally the same thing with anime, lolita (and literally anything) just because people consume media doesn't mean that media causes crime or harm (actual ample evidence it reduces harm) that's like blaming guns (and wanting to ban guns) which given he's just repeating 70/80s Democrat Boomer talking points I have to conclude he probably does, it doesn't matter that people are less safe without guns and that this only helps criminals (who will still have guns) it doesn't matter to him because "muh feelings" triumph over reality. He'll deny a study that says he's wrong or change definitions/move the goal post to somehow prove he's right but he's not—he's not right, because his argument isn't rational its emotional, in fact you should very much question whether you are right if you feel good about it. (the truth is almost never something to feel good about) The Stellar Blade character is literally an adult and not a loli and even if she were I would say it really doesn't matter because its a video game who the hell cares, either you are a Freedom of Expression enjoyer or you don't believe (or deserve) it at all, there is ZERO inches to spare when it comes to censorship. I believe he said the voice doesn't match the face: I am going to guess that he has the English Version on—THE REASON THE VOICE DOESN'T MATCH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER FACE OR AGE, THE REASON IT DOESN'T MATCH IS BECAUSE ENGLISH DUBS ARE TERRIBLE AND THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE VA UNION WHICH HAS THE SAME WASHED UP 4-5 VOICE ACTORS WHO STEAL ALL THE JOBS AND SUCK ASS AT THEIR JOB AND THEY ALSO ACT AS A MINI MAFIA TO KEEP ACTUAL TALENT OR ANYONE GOOD RISE TO THE SCENE, THEY SUCK, I HATE THEM. This really is a "Western Dubs suck" issue and a "US VA Union sucks" issue more than anything, the rest is just people being emotional an irrational. I'll also say that its low key a self-report to even bring up the subject at all over an adult character BABY FACE HAVERS EXIST AND WE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS BLATENT FACE RACISM AND FACE HATE CRIMES to be levied against us. In short, people need to GET OVER THEMSELVES and just freaking chill, stop worrying about others goon or don't goon to as long as they aren't committed any crimes or harming anyone etc. I end this conversation by a dropping a hand grenade into the debate: WOMEN SHUT UP—I SAW THE BOOKS YOU GOON TO ON THE FEMALE BEST SELLER LIST FOR FEMALE AUTHORS—NONE OF YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT MEN'S HOBBIES VIDEO GAMES OR ANIME OR DRAWINGS OR ANYTHING AT ALL. Your boos mean nothing I've seen what makes you cheer.

What happens to a child taken from Ukraine? (1/12)

The controversy is actually simple to explain. It’s because feminists are jealous of natural beauty. They want us to either be attracted to ugly fat women or trans. If you like Asian women, you’re a pedo. If you like Blonde women it’s “the Jews will not replace us”. Even Black women HAVE to be ugly and fat to be femminist approved, otherwise it’s a slave fetish. (Their words) The reality? They are ugly as shit inside and outside, and thus see all forms of beauty as competition, and use any excuse possible to vilify you.

"Because people's attractions for fictional content on average follow their attractions in real life" No TF it doesn't ???

Nahh.. petite women gotta be some of the most oppressed people in the world because believe it or not, women can be short and petite without being a child

You want within game? okay dipshit let’s look within the game hmmm? whats this? her father personally shipping her with wise? hmmmm now what man would do that to their “child” if she wasn’t already an adult

A new law passed within the USA that will require platforms to estimate your age every 100 hours. The incentive is to collect more data about everyone, including kids. This is only happening in South Carolina, but will likely spread to other states. youtu.be/-Ew8GvgtaCc

Israel leads the world in innovation. Israel leads the world in medicine. Israel leads the world in cancer research. But there are some things that Israel is REALLY bad at. Let’s check out some of those things. So, Israel sucks at…

The government’s “social media ban” consultation is heavily loaded It asks children: What would you be doing if you weren’t using social media? Then the multiple-choice prompts are ALL positive! How about • depression • self-harm • drug use • crime? They seem intent on sweeping internet restrictions - and will use *this* as evidence?

I recently came back to HSR (stopped at the end of Penacony), it took me a month but I've officially caught up fully I've amassed quite the wealth

Go fuck yourselves all you weird ass Gachiakuta fans Kei is an awesome mangaka who was so kind and interacted with her fandom so much. But you weirdos all ruined it, with the constant harassing over gender/sexual stuff and stealing her art then calling it your own. Keep your trans bs to yourself and stop trying to force it on everyone else. Just because she disagreed with the things yall were pushing (Western fans as usual) doesn't make her a hater of it. Fucking hell I hate western fans so fucking much and this stupid bullshit being spread these days. Stop calling everything racist for fucks sakes too. My god you people are pathetic as fuck Fuck yall

The word “genocide” is too serious to be turned into a political slogan. Real genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, or the Holocaust meant systematic extermination, total destruction of civil society, mass starvation, death camps, and millions murdered with explicit state intent. Gaza is a brutal war started by Hamas on October 7 with the massacre, hostage-taking, and terrorist attacks against Israel. Urban warfare causes terrible civilian suffering and every innocent death is a tragedy. But tragedy and genocide are not automatically the same thing. If Israel’s goal was extermination: • why allow humanitarian aid? • why warn civilians before strikes? • why conduct dangerous ground operations instead of total bombardment? • why vaccinate and coordinate humanitarian corridors? Facts matter. Definitions matter. Truth matters The extreme left and Islamist propaganda networks weaponized the term “genocide” within days of October 7 to delegitimize Israel before the facts were even established. @gbsumudflotilla Support peace. Support truth. Reject terrorism and propaganda. Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn | Economist & Podcaster & author PaxEuropeana series of books on European future | Chairman of Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement for Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, Bosnia and EU | @GunterFehlinger | fehlinger.net

Why "genocide"? Because there is no word above it. The Genocide Convention of 1948 was specifically designed to be the apex offense. The one that triggers erga omnes obligations, meaning every state on Earth is legally permitted (and arguably required) to act. Any state can file at the ICJ. South Africa did. The case proceeds on its own logic regardless of merit, because the process itself is the weapon. This is why the word was chosen. It is the only one that: Suspends the right of self-defense. You can defend yourself against terror, against rockets, against an invasion. You cannot "defend yourself" against an accusation of genocide. Every military operation becomes prima facie illegitimate. Reverses the post-Holocaust moral order. Some will say that Israel exists because of the Holocaust. Calling Israel genocidal is not a critique. It is an inversion. It removes the moral foundation of the Jewish state from under its feet. That is the goal, not a side effect. No other word does this. "Apartheid" insulted Israel; "genocide" delegitimizes its existence. Captures Western elite imagination. The Holocaust is the central moral event of postwar Western liberalism. "Never again" is the only universally shared political slogan. Hijack that frame and you have already won the seminar, the editorial board, and the human rights org, before any facts are reviewed. Solves Hamas's strategic problem. Hamas cannot win militarily. It can only win by forcing external intervention to stop Israel before Hamas is destroyed. Only "genocide" creates the pressure necessary to halt a war mid-execution and grant the loser a survival clause. War crimes get you tribunals after the fact. Genocide gets you a ceasefire now. Aligns incentives across an otherwise incoherent coalition. Hamas wants survival. The PA wants relevance. Iran wants Israel weakened. Qatar wants leverage. Turkey wants Sunni leadership. South Africa wants soft power. Western progressives want moral clarity. Old-school antisemites want permission. One word, and only this word, gives all of them what they need at the same time. It is a Schelling point for a coalition that agrees on nothing else. That last point is the underrated one. "Genocide" is not just an accusation. It is a coordination device. It is the single word around which a globally fractured anti-Israel coalition can rally without having to agree on goals, tactics, or post-war visions. Drop the word and the coalition disintegrates into its mutually hostile parts within a week. But they will never drop it. They cannot afford to.

Unfortunately it’s not just Japanese artistic expression. Any artistic expression arbitrarily deemed “problematic” will be censored. We saw this with the Chinese game “Snowbreak” ❄️ which got censored thanks to the complaints of rabid feminists. We also saw the American game“Doki Doki Literature Club” 📖 get pulled from the Google Play Store (back in April I believe) for violating its terms of service regarding to the “depiction of sensitive themes.” Despite the fact that THE GAME IS OVER 8 YEARS OLD!! Then there’s the UK,🇬🇧 which is an absolute clown’s 🤡 world right when it comes to freedom of artistic expression. And the most awful part? It will only get worse if we don’t actively push back against it. Which is why we need to collectively come together NOW and actively cut off & cast aside all these bad actors who are trying to censor artistic expression. If we don’t, then we might end up with an entertainment landscape that makes the one in Shimoneta look lax by comparison. That’s what I think though. I’d be curious if anyone else has thoughts 💭 on the matter.

A lot of people look back at child labor emotionally instead of historically. The alternative for many families at the time often wasn’t “comfortable schooling and modern welfare.” It was extreme poverty, starvation, dangerous farm labor, disease, or entire families collapsing financially. As productivity, technology, wages, and living standards rose, child labor declined naturally because families could finally afford not to rely on it. Ironically, industrialization is what largely made widespread childhood education and modern expectations of childhood possible in the first place.

Taiwan makes almost 70% of the world’s semiconductors and more than 90% of the most advanced chips powering your phone, your car, and the AI race. If China controls Taiwan, the Communist Party gains leverage over the world’s most critical tech supply chain. That’s not just a threat to Taiwan’s 23 million people living in a thriving democracy — it’s a threat to global freedom, security, and the future itself.