It's so weird that Marxists think that economics determine politics & culture, but won on the cultural front and lost on the economic front... while right wingers think culture determines politics & economics, but won on the economic front and lost on culture. Everyone loses.

A Police returned a little girl back to her r@pists and said "have fun with her"

The victim testimony of 'Felicity' from the Rape Gang Inquiry is the most horrifying thing I’ve read in my life. She was 8 years old when it started… > First assaulted just after her 8th birthday, lured into a back room on the pretext of helping put up a shelf >Told she'd be "taken away" if she ever spoke, which was the start of years of rape and torture >Trafficked on to groups of older Muslim men, collected by taxi after school and on church nights >Forced to take part in the abuse of other children, used deliberately to "normalise" it and buy her silence >Groomed with a fake love story: told a man "adored" her, that marrying him was "God's plan," and that she had to convert to Islam >Handed a book on Islam by one of her abusers and told to learn it Then came the captivity: >Held in houses with an upstairs "punishment room" fitted with dog-crate enclosures >Watched a girl accused of going to police have a hot iron pressed into her back. That girl later died. Felicity saw her strangled >She and another girl, "Char," were both impregnated. Every pregnancy ended in miscarriage >Later told the men had killed Char and she would "never come back" >Saw a girl shot in front of her by a man she believed was a serving police officer >Threatened that she'd be "chopped up and fed to pigs" if she ever told It only escalated: >Loaded into a van in a crate with other girls, some trafficked in from abroad to be "sold," who spoke no English >Made to watch a girl be stabbed, beaten and set on fire for talking back to a buyer >Hung upside down by her feet, whipped and urinated on by a man who openly idolised Fred West >”Purchased" for a night and raped by numerous men while her main abuser sat and watched >Forced to witness a baby tortured with cigarettes and then killed, while its mother was made to watch And through all of it, no one believed her... >For years she was disbelieved and dismissed, she says, treated as though she was inventing what was being done to her >She had carried it almost entirely alone. Her statement to the Inquiry was the first time in her life she had ever been able to give a full account of what happened to her. No one before had ever properly listened >When she finally found the courage to report one of her abusers as an adult, at 27, she was not believed ...you don't understand SO SO SO many people need to be executed for this.

Your semiregular reminder that the left and right are both wrong on climate change, just in opposite directions The right denies what is happening. The left greatly exaggerates what is happening Technically the rights estimates for warming, sea rise etc. are closer to the truth

This guy turned out to be good I guess

Americans who complain about ties in football would never make it if they started caring about classical chess

This is legitimately sickening: > the sitting prime minister Keir Starmer presided over public prosecutions of thousands of rape cases > he let **13,000** suspected rape gang members and pedophiles off with **warning letters** > now that this information is blowing up on x, he is leading the charge to ban x I knew it was bad, I didn't know it was this bad It would be difficult to imagine a more evil and treasonous politician. This is movie-level evil.

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸: - Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans - Talking to strangers is normal here - My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store - Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane - You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it - High risk, high reward is real - Way more people are entrepreneurial - People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute - Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class - Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant - Cars. Enough said - Americans have perfected artificial sweets - There’s still more freedom here than in Europe - One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America - As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

The Browns right now with project quarterbacks

first round against the east and marner goes 0-0-0 in game 5 and 6, same as ever

They built this team on depth and role players rather than building around a core But more importantly management had the patience to trust the process even if it resulted in some bad luck and hardship along the way I hope the Leafs can learn a thing or two about this

Is Eric Tulsky the first Moneyball-type GM to win a championship? I don't think Howie Roseman counts because the Eagles aren't a financially disadvantaged organization. Unlike the Canes or As.

GOD HATES DONALD TRUMP AND THUS THE KNICKS CURSE BEGAN BUT THE DEVIL DID NOT EXPECT GODS MOST BELOVED CREATION TAYLOR SWIFT TO REBUKE AND CLEANSE ALL EVIL THAT WAS MANIFESTED IN THAT STADIUM! NEW YORK CITY OWES TAYLOR SWIFT SO MUCH

I started tweeting toward the middle of Trump's first term (from a now-deleted account), as the Great Awokening was reaching dizzying heights of nonsense. Almost all my tweets were connected to fighting its onslaught against speech and reason. My followers would ask me why I never expressed any opinions on politics. My answer was that my interest was only in the structures underneath and upstream from partisan politics. Because I never commented on politics and was staunchly anti-woke I think people just assumed I was a conservative. Of course I knew that Trump was an insecure pathological-lying mostly-inept chaotic retard, but I didn't think this really mattered in the scheme of things. What mattered were the structural deformities in American institutional life. Well, one day Trump said something stupid about COVID, and I posted a fairly mild but critical tweet about it. It might have been the first time I had ever mentioned him on Twitter. Within a few hours, I lost over 5,000 followers (at the time I only had around 40,000). An online mob hounded me for weeks. Someone tried to dox me. All because I had "betrayed" them. That's when it occurred to me that my girlfriend was right: Most people aren't like me. They prefer to operate in distinct tribal units that play out most conspicuously in partisan politics. In other words, politics really matters. So, I slowly started tweeting more about politics. (And of course kept on losing followers.)

It's interesting that the gap between the top 6 and everyone else is so large that you could remove Wimbledon from Federer, AO from Djokovic and RG from Nadal and the top 6 would remain the same (albeit different ordering)

It’s really simple. Modern society has made the “hard but good for you” things like having children increasingly difficult at the same time that it made “easy but bad for you things” like casual sex and tik tok increasingly easy. We effectively locked the water and broccoli in Fort Knox at the same time that we started offering free McDonalds and Coca Cola on every street corner. The results are predictable.

Just saw a traffic guard who was dressed like a soccer referee and instead of having a stop sign had an offside flag I don't know if that's a temporary uniform for the world cup or something

(looks cautiously over shoulder) The left-wing response of basically ignoring Platner's scandals is extremely understandable and, although I don't agree with it, it's hard to condemn without implicating Trump supporters as similarly morally ambivalent

The comments from women about this piece on male postpartum depression are brutal. It's interesting that progressive women who helped to popularize normalizing mental illness, want to gatekeep postpartum depression from men. The negative comments contain a kernel of truth though. Normalizing mental illness makes it more prevalent. The average person is not industrious. If you give many people a good excuse to not do their fair share or be resilient, they will take it. There are certainly more and more intense biological changes for women than for men pospartum and it’s also reasonable that women see normalizing male pospartum depression as a concept that will make their lives harder.

“Oh, you didn’t believe Christine Blasey-Ford, but you believe this?! Way to flip-flop!” Guys, we never said “believe all women.” We said take each case individually and judge their merits and probability. YOU said “believe all women.” You’re the hypocrites here.