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The REAL reason women earn less at work: Harvard professor says sex discrimination, gender bias or a glass ceiling aren't to blame

The gender pay gap is rooted in the issue of 'greedy jobs', rather than sex discrimination, gender bias or a glass ceiling, a Harvard economics professor has claimed.

Claudia Goldin, who taught Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, outlines her argument in her new book, Career & Family, which draws on research to show that highly-paid 'greedy jobs' in City law, banking and politics force women to choose between their careers and families once they become mothers.

The term 'greedy job' describes 'a certain type of "beck and call" job, which pays over the odds for extensive travel, unpredictable, inflexible hours and demanding client facetime,' The Times explains.

The prestige, selectivity and enormous pay checks make this type of job highly desirable for male and female graduates. However, once children come along, it becomes difficult for two parents to maintain their 'greedy' careers.

'Men and women have fairly equal pay trajectories until babies come along,' the article notes. 'Because women tend to marry men a little older, and so ahead of them on the pay scale, it is logical for the wife to step back.'

Goldin, who focuses on college-educated women, writes 'gender norms that we have inherited get reinforced in a host of ways to allot more of the childcare responsibilities to mothers, and more of the family care to grown daughters'.

It is still more common for women to make this compromise and step back from their 'greedy' careers than men.

Goldin notes gender pay gaps are not as pronounced across all industries. In careers that are less 'greedy', like dermatology, tech and veterinary science, mothers are more likely to progress in line with their male peers and earn a similar amount.

'So the devil is in the detail here,' Goldin told The Times. 'You really have to go occupation by occupation. And that’s the work that I've done, showing that there is a clear relationship between the occupational demands and the gender wage gaps.

'So, surprisingly, the occupations that had the smallest gaps are tech, engineering and others in science.'

Goldin also picks apart the other factors commonly blamed for the pay gap, including sex discrimination, gender bias and a glass ceiling, and notes the arguments are not supported by the data.

'Data now shows that true pay and employment discrimination, while they matter, are relatively small,' Goldin writes... 'So why do earnings differences persist when gender equality at works seems to finally be within our grasp, and at a time when more professions are open to women than ever before?

'Are women actually receiving lower pay for equal work? By and large, not so much anymore. Pay discrimination in terms of unequal earnings for the same work accounts for a small fraction of the total earnings gap. Today the problem is different.

'Some attribute the gender earnings gap to "occupational segregation" - the idea that women and men are self-selecting, or being railroaded into, certain professions that are stereotypically gendered (such as nurse versus doctor, teacher versus professor) and that those chosen professions pay differently.'

However this only accounts for 'at most a third of the difference in earnings between men and women'.

'Thus, we empirically know that the lion’s share of the pay gap comes from something else... We must give the problem a more accurate name: "greedy work".'

However there is a tentative silver lining: the pandemic has curbed the demands 'greedy' employers can put on their employees. This has coincided with an uptick in the number of women employed full-time.

It is too early to tell if the two are linked, but Goldin said she is 'cautiously optimistic about the effects of the pandemic on women’s careers'.

She added: 'It may have a silver lining in bringing down the price of flexibility, but only if we do not create a female enclave that works from home.

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Fed Chair Blows Up Biden's Argument Inflation Is 'Transitory'

For months, the Biden administration has been telling the American people that inflation and rapidly increasing prices on everyday items are "transitory" and temporary.

"The President would say we take the commitment, he takes the commitment of lowering costs for the American people very seriously. We, of course, have seen, and from outside experts, including the Federal Reserve, OECD, and others, that their expectation is that these inflation rises will be transitory, that they will come back down next year," Psaki told reporters in October.

But according to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who President Biden just nominated for another term, it's time to retire "transitory" from the conversation. In other words, inflation is here to stay and it's going to get worse.

Inflation was never temporary or transitory, but that didn't stop the Biden administration from claiming it was.

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Fauci claims societal safety trumps your individual rights

One of Fauci’s biggest policy blunders was his insistence on lockdowns. In the interview with Ted Koppel, Fauci said his first problem was when President Donald Trump pushed back against the tyrannical quarantines that eventually worked to devastate communities.

Fauci said, “I didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that was, except to put this misplaced perception about people’s individual right to make a decision that supersedes the societal safety.” The good doctor clearly doesn’t ascribe to the tenets of the U.S. Constitution.

The man America trusted for COVID advice turned out to be nothing more than a bullhorn for the Draconian liberal lockdowns. Dozens of states refused to exercise such tyranny over their citizens. The results from COVID were no worse.

In fact, in most instances, these states had far better COVID numbers than the Democrat parts of the country that exercised authoritarian controls. There is also the discussion of how each of these states fared economically and emotionally.

The truth is in the data. Each of the states, which left COVID choices and decisions to the people, like the constitution says they should, has thrived in comparison. There is also the underlying emotional devastation caused by excessive COVID mandates and policies.

Again, the proof is in the statistical data. Thousands of residents from liberal states have flocked to more conservative homes. This is because of the radical policies leveled by liberal politicians. The increase in mental health issues in heavily locked down states is also overwhelming.

However, it’s also because of the curtailment of their freedoms by these power-hungry, liberal tyrants. Anthony Fauci is an unelected bureaucrat who acted as if he was anointed the King of COVID. He was not. He is a tyrant

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Australia: Child murderers and serial killers could be denied parole for decades under new Queensland laws

Child murderers and serial killers serving life sentences could be denied any bid for parole for potentially decades under new laws passed in Queensland.

The laws will give the president of Parole Board Queensland the power to make a "restricted prisoner declaration", blocking certain inmates from obtaining parole for up to 10 years, with no limit on the number of bans made.

State parliament passed the legislation on Tuesday evening despite concerns from the legal community the parole board sat "behind closed doors" and the powers "should only be vested in a court".

Described as the "toughest" parole laws in the nation, the state government said the measures were designed to limit unnecessary trauma for victims' families and the community caused by regular parole applications.

Under the new framework, the president of the board, an independent body, will have the discretion to declare that specific inmates – those sentenced to life for multiple murders or for murdering a child – must not be considered for parole for up to 10 years.

In a statement, Police Minister Mark Ryan said the government had carefully considered the rights of everyone concerned and it made no apology for taking this course of action.

The legislation was tabled in September amid the latest parole application by convicted murderer Barrie John Watts, who killed 12-year-old Sian Kingi in 1987. His bid was ultimately refused in October.

LNP Member for Ninderry, Dan Purdie — a former police officer —tabled in parliament earlier this year a petition with more than 70,000 signatures calling for Watts to be kept behind bars.

"This legislation is the direct legacy of that journey," he said. "The Kingis' pain and suffering will never go away, nor will the Morcombes be spared the trauma of losing their son Daniel at the evil hands of Brett Cowan.

"At least now these two Sunshine Coast families, and indeed families of victims all over Queensland, can be assured that there will be a legislative pathway to keep convicted killers and multiple murderers from ever menacing the community again."

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Links - 1st December 2021 (2 - Anti-Asian Violence)

Meme - "the blacks: bLacK pEoPLe cAnt bE rAciSt bY dEfiNiTiOn the blacks again: rAciSt aGalnsT WHiTe pEoPle iS nOt rEaL
also the blacks: wE did nOtHiNg wRoNg fOr aSsULtiNg aSiAns aNd wE sHoUld sHuT dOWN aSiAn bUsiNeSs"

A New Radical Centrism on Twitter - "1/ Which racial group is proportionally most likely to commit hate crime? Blacks. Although you'll never hear about it in the mainstream media, this 12% of the population commits 24% of all hate crimes. Least likely? Asians (commit 1% of hate crimes)."

Mike Huckabee tweets anti-Asian "joke" as hate crime numbers, racist rhetoric rise - "Former Arkansas governor and long-ago presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, while trying to criticize companies that have objected to Georgia's new stringent voting law, joked that he now seeks to "identify as Chinese" in a tweet which was widely attacked as patently offensive to Asian-Americans. "I've decided to 'identify' as Chinese. Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my 'values' and I'll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to @MLB games. Ain't America great?" Huckabee tweeted on Saturday. The tweet was apparently meant as a dig at Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola and Major League Baseball after those entities expressed opposition to the new Georgia voting law, which seeks to make the voting process in the state more restrictive and is disproportionately likely to affect Blacks and Latinx voters. To put it mildly, Huckabee's gag didn't land well, attracting more than 60,000 comments, with many users calling out the former governor for constantly avowing his Christian faith yet espousing hateful anti-Asian rhetoric."
As usual, liberals are unable to distinguish race and nationality and call criticism of the CCP racist. Luckily there's still Russia who you can bash, since they're white

Of hate, crimes and hate crimes: Anti-Asian violence is not quite what city pols want it to be - "The subway attacker, who remained in the station and was promptly arrested, had been released last month after being charged with sexual abuse for allegedly touching a 68-year-old Asian woman’s leg. The Brooklyn attacker is “not racist” but off his meds and “on Pluto,” according to his siblings. The other two are still at large as I write this but it’s a safe bet that they’re also mentally ill, violently anti-social or both. If you listen to Mayor de Blasio or most of the politicians competing to replace him, you’d get the idea that the only thing we need to stop these attacks is to reject Donald Trump. And that the police are, if anything, part of the problem. After spa workers were massacred in Atlanta last month, I wrote about the double consciousness W.E.B. DuBois described more than a century ago and that East Asians are feeling now, “this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others (looking) on in amused contempt and pity.” Amid a wave of attacks targeting Orthodox Jews last year, I wrote about the doublethink from the city’s supposedly progressive pols who like to march against hate and Trump while pretending the Brooklyn Bridge in 2021 is the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. If they’re not offering answers to profound and difficult questions about treating people with mental illness and violent criminal records with human decency while also keeping everyone else here reasonably safe, then railing against white supremacy isn’t about dismantling systems of oppression so much as it is about dodging tough questions. Centuries of de jure and de facto racism help account for animosities between groups fighting for a piece of the pie, but the idea that we can’t do anything about, say, people who happen to be Black attacking Jews or Asians in New York City until we eliminate hate in America is just a fancy way of saying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Shrug! Refusing to acknowledge that, even out of real fears about ushering in more decades of destructive dragnet policing of Black neighborhoods, means ceding an obvious truth to the people who want to do exactly that... It’s not a coincidence that the two top candidates in the polls so far, Andrew Yang and Eric Adams, are the only leading ones talking about policing as anything more than a threat in its own right to public safety."
Of course liberals will still claim that it's only mental illness when it's white people

Facebook - "A Black Lives Matter activist from Seattle has been arrested for anti-Asian hate crimes. Christopher Hamner, 51, allegedly attacked three Asian-American women in two separate incidents last month. In the first, Hamner reportedly harassed and chased a mother and her children in south Seattle. Pamela Cole said she’d stopped at traffic lights while driving with her 10 and 5-year-old, when Hamner ‘made eye contact’ with her and stopped. She said he then ‘opened his door’ and started screaming, ‘F*** you, you Asian b****!’ He then began to charge at the family. On March 18, Hamner is accused of cutting off two other Asian women while driving in Beacon Hill, again shouting similar remarks to the earlier altercation. According to local media, he also charged at the women and threw a plastic object at their car. There are posts on a Facebook page that show Hamner at BLM protests last summer, as well as video from the CHOP protest zone. His lawyer argued he suffers from mental illness and said that he is a Navy veteran who works at the Seattle VA Medical Center."

Asian Dawn - Posts | Facebook - "One of thousands of examples. Many African-Americans on Twitter don't know how to read a simple statistical chart. They think the 0.1% Asian-on-Black crime is actually Black-on-Asian crime....."

Jack Posobiec on Twitter - "A South Asian immigrant was murdered in DC and the horrific video of the attack went viral yesterday Not one of the #StopAsianHate promoters even mentioned it, no major brands announced they were donating to his family’s fundraiser All bc it did not fit the narrative
Not even @Uber and it was their own driver"

Tariq Nasheed πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ on Twitter - "US Senate passes the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act today to give protections specifically to Asians. This bill will be enforced almost exclusively against BLACK PEOPLE, who are already suffering from systematic anti-Black racism from white supremacist and Asian culture."
When you admit that it's black people attacking Asians...

Meme - "ASIAN LIVES DON'T MATTER UNTILL BLACK LIVES MATTER
With the recent trend of Black on Asian violence in the United States, I think its a good idea to remind the Asian community that their lives wont matter until Black lives matter. WE ARE ALL EQUAL WE ARE ALL HUMAN"

Police: Michael Rhee Of Lake Forest Attacked Asian Woman, Believing She Was White, In Retaliation For Rise In Hate Crimes - "A Lake Forest man faces a hate crime charge after allegedly kidnapping an Asian woman, believing she was white, with the intent to sexually assault her. Michael Sangbong Rhee, 37, was arrested Thursday night at his home in Lake Forest. Irvine police say Rhee may have attacked a woman, believing she was white, in retaliation for the rise in hate crimes against Asian people."
Grievance mongering has very real consequences

Influencer and YouTuber Kaneesha Taughtu claims that Asian reporter Betty Yu is posting anti-Black propaganda for reporting Black on Asian crimes. She also claims that Asians "want to see" Black people be harmed. : RacismAgainstAsians

Meme - "Asians are staging attack videos, says Black woman in viral Twitter video "The punches aren't even landing," she said on her YouTube channel, Kaneesha Taughtu. "Asians want to harm Black Americans.""

Jeremy Lin, former NBA star, says he's been called 'coronavirus' on the court
He didn't name the culprits or he'd be accused of "anti-blackness"

Race and ethnicity in the NBA - Wikipedia - "According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2020 was composed of 74.2 percent black players, 16.9 percent white players, 2.2 percent Latino players of any race, and 0.4 percent Asian players"

Wilfred Reilly on Twitter - "The fact that a wave of Black-on-Asian crimes is being almost universally presented as "white supremacy" says all you really need to know about modern mainstream media.
(2) For those asking for examples - this isn't me exaggerating. A major Yahoo News piece describes the rally against "white nationalism" held in NYC following attacks on Asians. If you read through cases and suspects, there's just one problem..."
NPCs cannot process certain statements

Shemeka Michelle on Twitter - "Some Asians are disrespectful to Blk people. They come to America w/ a preconceived notion and seem to hv a hard time separating what’s real from TV. Not excusing violence towards them, just noting violence FROM them has been overlooked."
Victim blaming is good when you have a bigger "victim"
Replies: "What violence from asians? Examples? Are you going to go back to the 1990s for the Latasha Harlan’s case or?"
"I was taught to keep my hands to myself, no matter what someone said to me. I suspect this is not being taught anymore, particularly when words and inaction are characterized as violence. Disrespect is not violence and does not justify violence."
"Yep, if someone thinks I'm a thug and a thief, the most logical thing for me to do is to kick their ass and loot their store."
"Some Asians are disrespectful to Black people but no Black propel are disrespectful to anyone. Ever."

Opinion | What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America - The New York Times - "Some Asian-Americans were outraged by the violence and demanded justice, but since the perpetrators in these cases were Black, many others felt deeply uncomfortable with contributing to the criminalization of African-Americans. And here we come to the heart of the complexity of “speaking up” for Asian-Americans. Thanks to the “Model Minority” myth — popularized in 1966 by the sociologist William Petersen and later used as a direct counterpoint to the “welfare queen” stereotype applied to Black Americans — Asian-Americans have long been used by mainstream white culture to shame and drive a wedge against other minority groups."
The usual Jedi mind trick - when black people attack Asians, it's white people's fault

Critics fear NYPD Asian hate crime task force could have unintended consequences - "The New York Police Department's new anti-Asian hate crimes task force could inadvertently put Asian Americans in opposition to other communities of color, some activists fear... "I think it's hard for us to fundamentally reconcile that that entity is going to protect our community, when, oftentimes, violence against people of color is coming from law enforcement," said Kham Moua, head of the policy portfolio at the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization."
Tis better for 1,000 minorities to be shot by each other, than 1 is killed by police for attacking them

Dirty secret of black-on-Asian violence is out - "San Francisco's hidden truth is out. That's what community organizer Carol Mo calls the realization that Asian residents are being targeted for robberies, burglaries and intimidation by young black men... The recent incidents of black violence against Asians is the perfect opportunity to open a dialogue about racism. Instead, they are attempting to close the door. City officials, including the Police Department, say these assaults are part of a larger crime picture where gangs of kids take advantage of a vulnerable group of small stature. But Mo participated in a 2008 survey by the Police Department in which about 300 strong-arm robberies were analyzed. "In 85 percent of the physical assault crimes, the victims were Asian and the perpetrators were African American," she said... the Chinese community also needs to overcome its reticence to go to the police. They are only making themselves more vulnerable by being seen, as one officer put it, as "silent, vulnerable and unwilling to fight back.""

duzi on Twitter - "pls don't say #asianlivesmatter y'all are literally co-opting blm and it's anti-black"
"Solidarity". The definition of "anti-black" seem very broad

FBI — Offenders - "In 2018, race was reported for 6,266 known hate crime offenders. Of these offenders:
53.6 percent were White.
24.0 percent were Black or African American."
Damn white supremacy and Trump, making whites underrepresented in hate crimes and blacks overrepresented! And these statistics are stable across years, which just shows how insidious white supremacy is!

The Empire Express - Posts | Facebook - ""In New York City, black males commit 78% of all shootings. If you add Hispanic shootings to that, you get 98% of all shootings. Whites are 34% of the population... They commit under 2% of all shootings" - Heather Mac Donald"

Stop the white lies about anti-Asian hate crime - The Spectator - "Eighteen months ago, liberals attempted to link the spike in anti-Semitic hate crimes to white supremacist actions. New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and the ADL highlighted the activities of white supremacist groups in upstate New York, despite all of the assaults being in the New York City metropolitan area, overwhelmingly perpetrated by black men. This culminated with black men killing Jews in Jersey City and Monsey, New York. Attempts were then made to rationalize them away rather than focusing on the anti-Semitic beliefs of black-nationalist groups, including the Nation of Islam.The same dynamics seems to be unfolding with the current spike in anti-Asian hate crimes. In a New York Times article, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos argued that both the wave of anti-Asian and anti-Latino hate crimes reflect the racism of white Americans. He noted, ‘A common racist attack against the Latino community — and now increasingly, Asian Americans — is the demand, “Go back to your own country!”’ Nancy Pelosi also links this spike to white supremacist views.White supremacists should be vigorously combatted. However, most victimized groups live in central cities where there are few white supremacists. Members of the Asian, Latino and LGBTQ communities may have much more to fear from young alienated black men whose pent up anger spills over into destructive, violent behaviors.Using 2019 FBI statistics — the most recently available data — I computed black and white perpetrators of hate crimes as a percentage of men 18 to 44 years old in their populations. The black rate was 40 percent, 76 percent and 303 percent higher than the white rate for hate crimes against the Asian/Pacific Island, Latino and LGBTQ communities respectively. Even more troubling, black rates for hate-crime assaults were 94 percent higher while for property destruction and vandalism, they were 14 percent lower than white rates.Evidence from Los Angeles verifies the limited reach of white supremacist actions, particularly with regards to violent crimes and those perpetrated against Asian/Pacific Island, Latino, or LGBQT communities. Its Human Rights Commission found:‘After declining for two years, white supremacist crimes…accounted for 22 percent of all [2019] hate crimes. Seven out of 10 white supremacist crimes involved vandalism and more than half targeted persons from the Jewish community.’Disproportionate black behaviors extended to all violent crimes. For 2019, black arrests per male for murders and all violent crimes were, respectively, 4.94 and 2.73 times white arrests per male. And these numbers are before the unprecedented 2020 homicide spike... After studying Pittsburgh youth, Mark Berg noted, ‘[Many] decent youths adopted a violent public posture — even though it violated their own personal beliefs in conventional norms — in order to deter the aggressive overtures of other youths in their neighborhood.’... Even before the pandemic, there were a significant number of disconnected young black men. In 2018, 20.8 percent of black men aged 18 to 24 years old were neither at paid employment nor in school, more than double the white rate. Disconnected young people are about two-and-a-half times as likely to be living with family other than their parents and eight times as likely to be living alone as their more-connected peers. This is the population that is most at-risk of embracing a gun culture that victimizes other black Americans, as well as other groups.Unfortunately, social justice advocates rationalize away these anti-social behaviors for fear that any sustained campaign would only promote blaming-the-victim beliefs. Instead, they characterize these perpetrators as victims so that rather than penalizing them for their behaviors, restorative justice procedures are championed. And following this perspective, many cities have dramatically adjusted their classification of crimes. Felonies are reduced to misdemeanors, misdemeanors are reduced to fines. With too aggressive bail reform that includes those found with illegal weapons, and prison diversion programs — violent-prone youth are allowed to remain on the street even after repeat offenses. Most troubling, there is an unwillingness to combat family and school inadequacies that result in a large share of black 10-year-olds having significant academic and behavioral deficits. Without improving this situation, too many black boys will continue to enter high schools with significant shortcomings that lead them to end up in the disconnected population. Government must provide supportive resources for families, including visiting nursing programs and counseling services, and incorporate best practices that have enabled charter public schools to be much more effective than traditional public schools in educating poor black and Latino students. Only then can we limit the seeds of the violent behaviors that afflict many young black men."

Criminal Victimization, 2018 - "Based on victims’ perceptions of the offenders, the offender-to-population ratio shows that the percentage of violent incidents involving black offenders (22%) was 1.8 times the percentage of black persons (12%) in the population. In contrast, the percentage of violent incidents involving white (50%) or Hispanic (14%)offenders was about four-fifths (0.8 times) the percentage of whites (62%) or Hispanics (17%) in the population, and the percentage involving Asian offenders (2.5%) was about two-fifths (0.4 times) the percentage of Asians in the population (6%). The percentage of violent incidents involving offenders of other races (Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and persons of two or more races) was 3.8 times the percentage of those races in the population. The offender-to-victim ratio shows that the percentage of violent incidents involving black offenders (22%) was twice the percentage of incidents committed against black victims (11%). In contrast, the percentage of incidents involving Asian offenders (2.5%) was three-fifths (0.6 times) the percentage of incidents committed against Asian victims (4%)"
62% of violent crime against whites was by whites. 70% of violent crime against blacks was by blacks. 45.4% of violent crime against Hispanics was by Hispanics. For these races, a majority or at least plurality of the crime was intra-racial. For Asians, 24% of violent crime was by Asians, but 28% was by blacks. So clearly blacks are targeting Asians.

Anti-Asian hate crime jumps 1,900 percent - "According to NYPD data, hate crimes motivated by anti-Asian sentiment jumped by 1,900 percent in the last year — there was only one reported anti-Asian incident during all of 2019 compared to 20 in the first half of 2020"
There is a claim that there has been a 1,900% rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans in the US. This claim needs to be heavily qualified. Firstly, this is for New York City, so whether it can be generalised to the whole of the US is a very open question. More importantly, this "1900%" rise was a rise... from 1 to 20. In statistics we know that when base numbers are small, percentage changes are going to be misleading. Be that as it may, if you look at the NYPD data (Reports - Hate Crimes - NYPD), you can open "Complaints and Arrests Summary, Annual 2020", filter for bias motivation = Anti-Asian and look at the race of the arrestee. Out of the 20 arrestees, 11 are black, 2 are black hispanic, 5 are white hispanic and 2 are white

Hate Crimes Targeting Asian Americans Spiked by 150% in Major US Cities
This covers more cities than the NYC claim. Yet, the 150% is for "major cities", it's 150%... from 49 to 122, 28 of the 122 are from NYC (I've already analysed the NYC data above so all the pieces blaming "white supremacy" are just shitting on white people due to anti-white racism, as usual)
As usual people are trying to shill for the CCP
It is telling over 90% of the incidents were "verbal harassment and shunning". Shunning may be subjective and verbal harassment can be very minor.

NYPD: Per capita, blacks in NYC are 18.7 times as likely as Asians to be robbery suspects - "From NBC News, here is one of countless recent articles explaining that while, sure, it may look like most of the street violence against elderly Asians is perpetrated by blacks, but that’s just a stereotype, while Experts all agree the real enemy is, as always, White Supremacy."

How racism and white supremacy fueled a Black-Asian divide in America
I like how Vox's "evidence" is Trump's "racist" terms for covid, decades old policies and lots of hand waving. They also lie about how blacks aren't overrepresented in Anti-Asian crimes

Glenn Greenwald on Twitter - "Has anyone provided an iota of evidence that what is driving this horrific surge of anti-Asian violence is "white supremacist domestic terror"? That would require data showing who is primarily perpetrating the violence and with what motive. Where is that? Please look at how stupid and lowly so many liberals are now. If you ask for evidence to support sweeping but dubious claims about the cause of anti-Asian violence, they won't answer (their brains don't allow that). Instead, they'll call you racist: it's all they know how to do Here's a white historian who has a life where race plays no role other than to exploit it as a fun online toy to casually slander people as racists for refusing to endorse claims without evidence. Contempt is required for them and their tactics"

Thread by @MsMelChen on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "American media has never backed up this claim that the words and actions by the previous admin directly cause the "rising tide of hate crimes" against Asian Americans... Bear in mind that the FBI hasn't released its 2020 hate crime statistics broken down by ethnic group yet. But in its place, every article that remotely mentions the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes in the wake of covid19 has cited statistics from a group called "Stop AAPI Hate." Who are they and how did they collect this data is super relevant to this discussionThe Georgia massage parlor shooter brought a Bible with him to school every day and had developed a deep sense of 'shame' over his addiction to porn and sex which he sought treatment for in rehab, his friends and former roommates have revealed... His father is a youth minister and he is an enthusiastic member of a South Baptist church which, after the shootings, said it was 'heartbroken'. It has also been revealed that he sought treatment at Maverick Recovery, a treatment center in Atlanta, for sex addiction at the end of 2019 and early 2020.
The Stop AAPI Hate group appears to be founded by several progressive groups such as Chinese for Affirmative Action (!) & the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University.I can't find any funding information yet on GuideStar because it's a newlyestablished organization and they have yet to file any 990s.
The no. of incidents of anti-Asian discrimination documented across the U.S. by "Stop AAPI Hate" is indeed staggering - 1,843 as of May 2020.
But this number is actually based on self-reporting on the Stop AAPI Hateweb portal itself. According to a self-published report, the highest proportion of these cases are actually verbal harassment (69.3%) and shunning (22.4%).So there is EVERY reason to be skeptical about this number. I do not doubt that there is an increase in both violent andnon-violent discriminatory incidents against Asians which is terrible and must be opposed, but I marvel at the lack of skepticism journalists have when throwing around this statistic and directly implicating rhetoric as the reason why this is happening.
These cases are also mostly happening in the same major progressive cities like San Francisco and New York where there has been a major uptick in crime rates in general, so how much of it is ambient crime hasn't been delineated.
More troubling to me is how this conjecture has evolved from afigure published by a brand new organization whose data collection methods and standard for what constitutes a hate incident are dubious, to an actual UN report... It's the same statistic, from the same group. But the UN wrote up a report condemning "contemporary forms of racism, racial discriminationxenophobia and related intolerance" and basically parroted the figure and conclusion from the original Stop AAPI Hate report, in this UN Report.It cited nothing new and added nothing new. But it gave this statistic the imprimatur of the "United Nations" and media outlets then began citing it as a "UN Report." Insidious, right?...
Of course anti-Asian prejudice due to covid is wrong. But if the rates of bullying, harassment and hate crimes against Asians are misattributed to phrases andxenophobic sentiments (which could be construed to be hawkish approaches to China policy on the national security front), then we will not actually do anything to solve the problem.And besides, Trump has been out of office and no longer has any platform to broadcast his views,so why are so many eager to pin the current string of attacks on his rhetoric?And how curious is it that using race as a shield (btw China is NOT a race) only serves the CCP's interest to obfuscate the association between the virus and its origins in Wuhan?"

Opinion: Chinatown attacks won't divide Black and Asian communities - "Our Black and Asian communities have come together to push back against anti-Black and anti-Asian violence in recognition that all violence comes from the same root causes: white supremacy and capitalism... Our dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-fittest capitalist culture drives the hoarding of resources and thrives on taking advantage of others. Capitalism monetizes caging people while creating conditions that disenfranchise entire communities in order to cage more people. Why? So the system can reproduce itself — lather, rinse, repeat.This is what we mean when we say that all violence is state violence. When a young Black man in East Oakland is shot, as part of an underreported but disturbing rise in violent crimes impacting Black folks in Oakland this year, that is state violence. This violence is a byproduct of generations of stolen labor from Black communities through enslavement, of white supremacy enforced through Jim Crow, and of systematic disinvestment in and overpolicing of Black communities to create conditions of poverty."
From a member of the Oakland city council, no less

Apistevist on Twitter - "Remember! Speaking out about attacks on Asian elderly people is now considered "anti-Blackness." It's a form of "white supremacy," "white adjacency," or "yellow privilege.""
"So true. When people were talking about interracial violence last year, an Asian buddy of mine in NY shared a stat that Asians are 280x more likely to be victimized by blacks. And the wokest black guy I've known since college replied with just this: "anti-blackness.""

Are Asian-Americans the Next ‘Official’ Target? - "A Facebook post has resurfaced from Toronto-based Black Lives Matter co-founder Yusra Khogali stating white people are “sub-human” an“inferior race,” “recessive genetic defects,” and they should be “wiped out.” Asian-Americans have also been experiencing this type of Nazistic ideology from members of Black Lives Matter throughout the United States... Black Lives Matter supporters gathered in front of Fremont Mayor Lily Mei’s house to demand police defunding and chalked “Asian Silence is Violence” on the road in front of her house. Other cases involve Black Lives Matter supporters heckling and harassing an Asian-American reporter during a BLM rally in New York City back in late June. Let’s not forget the Black Lives Matter organizer, Devonere Johnson who was arrested in Madison, Wisconsin for allegedly blackmailing some Asian-owned businesses with the threat of violence and looting. Or the hundreds of Asian-owned businesses looted and destroyed by Black Lives Matter supporters throughout the United States. More and more incidents are popping up between Asian-Americans and members of Black Lives Matter. Some Asian-Americans explained to Asian Dawn they marched with Black Lives Matter but ended up leaving the movement because of the racism they faced. From “Eating dog” jokes to an Asian couple who stated “Some dudes kept hitting on my girl and kept asking her in front of me ‘He gotta small dick, huh? Girl, what’s up? What’s your name?’” The couple felt so uncomfortable, they ended up leaving the march."

Targeting Asians is Still Not Considered ‘Racist’ - "Many readers may recall multiple incidents involving a 23-year-old Ghanaian Samuel Opoku running around the campuses of the University of Toronto and York University dumping bucket loads of his feces onto five Asian people in three separate incidents back in November 2019. He was arrested later that month.Opoku admitted he specifically targeted Asians but was not charged with a hate crime... Global News obtained documents that showed Opoku was convicted of criminal harassment on March 8, 2017, however, he was given a suspended sentence and put on probation for two years. Canadian-Africans should be shown leniency after suffering hundreds of years of racial oppression."
The accusations of Asians as having "anti-blackness" seem to be projection

Black-on-Asian Crime Statistics By Justice Department - "Black-on-Asian crime is 280x more common than Asian-on-Black crime. These statistical trends have been common for over a decade and rising... In 2018, there were 182,230 reports of Asians being victims of violent crime. The race of the offenders against Asians is as follows: 24% White and 28% Black. With that said, the U.S. population is 62% Caucasian, so you would think Caucasians would be committing more violent crimes against Asians. The black population is 12%, Hispanics are 17%, and Asians are 6% of the U.S. population... Now, there are Asians who wrong African-Americans. According to the Justice Department Chart, Page 13, Asians violently offending African-Americans is less than 0.1% of the time. Caucasian-Americans violently attack African-Americans 11% of the time.What about Asian-on-Asian crime? Well, according to the chart because we deal with facts and statistics, rather than feelings, 76% of violent crimes against Asians were perpetrated by non-Asians. This makes Asians the most victimized race in America... Violent crimes committed by non-blacks toward African-Americans was 30%. Which means Black-on-Black violent crime is 70%. At the same time, 38% of all crimes against Caucasian-Americans was committed by non-Caucasians. Crimes against Latinos by non-Latinos were 55%."
Liberals who refuse to look at per capita rates to preserve their delusions can't claim that whites commit more anti-Asian crimes than blacks, so this shows that white people are evil. They need to look for some other fudge

READ MORE - Links - 1st December 2021 (2 - Anti-Asian Violence)

The Terry Pratchett theory of being poor

I see this quote being shared regularly:

"No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."

Of course, real life is more complicated than this cute story.

For example, more than one study has found that expensive cars are less reliable than cheaper ones. This could be because more expensive ones have more complex electronics which means more things to break down.

In a similar vein, one study found that price is not a good predictor of how durable clothes will be, especially when the price of the garments is low, and another found that cheap clothes last as long as - or longer than - designer ones.

Luxury clothes brands in China also were found to perform poorly in quality control (though this being China, maybe something else was goind on).

More broadly, price is often a poor indicator of product quality, like with wine and store-brand food and beverage products, cheaper running shoes are actually better-rated than more expensive ones and price not making a difference for audio cables.

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You... yes, you... can help save the world exactly by YOUR priorities! Oh, and those killing us with their passion.

On Giving Tuesday, take a glance at what might be the best way to leverage your power as a planetary citizen! Pick a problem you perceive desperately needs solving. Make a list of ten. There's a way to pool small amounts with millions of others who together hire pros to attack exactly your combination of concerns! 

Proxy Activism, the power of joining!


Have more than just a little? In the range of a dozen millions or so? Want to change the world more than most billionaires do? Then here's a way that a mere millionaire might change the whole world of philanthropy, forever!

And yes, I am talking about the one thing Vladimir Putin hates more than enlightenment, accountable law or the USA... NGOs or Non-Government Organizations. He - and his tool Fox News - rails against the very concept. A way that Western citizens can act outside of government to make the world better for all.

== Fear isn't the 'mind-killer." It's passion! ==


All right, I do return to this. But there is a common trait shared by all of those who are propelling us into civil war. Those who are tearing us apart with passion. 


As I said in the linked TEDdish talk, sanctimonious indignation is the mind poison shared far too widely across all spectra of politics and society, having very little to do with how justified (or not) your cause may be. It holds for to ALL of those who think it’s helpful to be “mad as hell!”  …. 


See: Is sanctimony an addictive disease?  


Okay yes, sure, there are good aspects to being passionate, especially in fighting against evil! We have the trait for good reasons. But it is all too easy for passion to become far more a mind-killer than mere fear.


I'm talking about when your passion takes over, blocking all ability to carefully evaluate your foes, especially their weaknesses, and thus you become less capable at defeating them. When feeling good about your righteousness becomes more important than achieving stated goals - that's sanctimony. When the voluptuous roar of your subjectivity makes you spurn (with malice) any application of objective reality.


When you are unable to recite the catechism of reasonableness: "I am at-most 90% right and my enemies are at-most 99% wrong." Which distills down to the sacred epigram of science: "I just might be mistaken."


== Where the mind-killer is most virulent ==


First, let’s address the by-far-worst infection: the entire Mad Right. Dig it, MAGAs and confederates and Fox-puppets: not one of your incantation memes would survive close, fact-based scrutiny and you know it. 


That is the definition of insanity. 


But far worse: your refusal to wager over your howl-memes is the very definition of dishonorable cowardice. Your dads and grampas would disown you, if they saw how all of you weasel, when dared to bet on your blowhard spews.


Many of your lie-memes are concocted in Kremlin basements (who else would want you screaming “deep state!” hatred at every single American fact-using profession, now including even the U.S. military officer corps?) Of course you must clutch all the lies passionately, because the slightest glimmer of reason will shatter them.


This means there are simply no sane American Republicans left. Even those who are calm-of-tone and who claim to regret Donald Trump are still complicit in their cult’s all-out War on Folks Who Know Stuff and against every single fact-using profession. There are no incantations or magic spells to cancel or excuse that crime.


(We’ll see in a matter of days whether an honest version of US conservatism still has a place in  American political life… manifest in Joe Manchin, if he comes through re: those vital bills, this month. If he does, then live with him, the way Lincoln and Grant accepted help from patriotic southerners who donned blue and fought for the Union. Grit… your… teeth and accept the miracle of a Democratic Senator from the reddest state in the nation, who ousted Moscow Mitch as majority leader and made Liz and Bernie committee chairs. That is... show some acceptance IF he eventually comes through. I guess we'll see.)


== Alas, there's plenty of crazy left-over to share around ==


Without any doubt - and with mountain ranges of proof - the monumental heap of treason and lunacy is on the entire mad right. But that does not mean they have a complete monopoly!


To the portion of the left that’s also so addicted to sanctimony that you harm the cause, please, I beg you to dig this. 


STRATEGICALLY we share goals: save the planet, increase justice & tolerance, invest in new generations, all that. (In fact, I've fought longer and harder for all those things - and more effectively - than almost any of those who keep carping me from that direction; bet on it?) 


We share overall goals and strategy. But your refusal to re-examine flawed TACTICS is a betrayal that all winning reform movements had to overcome. MLK, Gandhi, Frederick Douglass and so on spent half their time and energy on that, alas. And you who would piss on allies really, really, really need to read George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.


Think. Strategy and goals are sacred. Tactics - on the other hand - must be disposable/replaceable with new ones that work better. It's called agility and it is key to victory.

Fundamentally, it is BS that any criticism of flawed tactics is an 'attempt to undermine the cause.' That’s a flat out lie, as bad as any clutched by the right and it makes you more like them!


It is utterly proved that some of your sanctimony-propelled tactics harm the broad coalition - a majority of Americans(!) - who share your goals. Especially the reflex to diss allies and to refuse any credit to the two persons who are (at this moment) unambiguously your leaders, who need and deserve your passionate support. 


And yes, I mean Joe & Kamala. 


Your reflex to seach and sift and growl and dig for any excuse to hate them is why we lose. It's the same betrayal as in 1980, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2010 and 2016.  Only, if you try it this time, Stacey Abrams will come after you. With a stick.


== And yes, Maher is right ==


Indeed, while I disagree with him in many ways, that core truth about tactics is what Bill Maher has been saying, all along. And not just him, but also AOC, Stacey Abrams, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, Bernie and Liz, in their own ways. Tactics to help win in 2022 by TAKING TERRITORY away from the mad/treasonous/red/muscovite confederacy. 


And you won’t help that happen by screaming spittle in the faces of those you hope to convert.


Here’s the biggest one to fix. Cut down the obsession with SYMBOLISM! 


The entire mad right is obsessed with with symbol crap! Stop playing that mug’s game by going all sumo-grunt-shove with them over emblems. 


There are other battles - pragmatic fights - that matter far more for the planet and poor and justice, and every other good thing. Like winning.


== The Crux ==


Okay, don't leave with any impression I'm down with both-sides-ism!  While I finger-wagged at the most-fervid left, let's come full circle to recall who is far more wrong, strategically, morally, scientifically, factually and by any metric of decency or patriotism. 


I've said this before:


Yes, the FAR left CONTAINS some fact-allergic, troglodyte-screeching dogmatists who wage war on science and hate the American tradition of steady, pragmatic reform, and who would impose their prescribed morality on you.   

 

But today’s mad ENTIRE right CONSISTS of fact-allergic, troglodyte-screeching dogmatists who wage war on science and hate the American tradition of steady, pragmatic reform, and who would impose their prescribed morality on you.     

 

There is all the world’s difference between FAR and ENTIRE.  

As there is between CONTAINS and CONSISTS. 


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Links - 1st December 2021 (1)

Hello, Please Stop Man-Bashing My Husband As A Conversation Starter - "I’m packing my groceries at the supermarket, trading toddler war stories with the checkout lady, as my own son wails in his trolley seat, because I stopped him from upending a magazine display. But, when I let slip that my husband is cooking dinner tonight, the checkout lady makes this noise:
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA.” It’s a laugh, but one so loud and high and mocking that even my tantrumming son falls silent. “Oh, excuse me, is it his majesty’s annual turn to cook tonight?” The checkout lady hoots. “I hope you’ve got backup fishfingers! “Because they always ruin dinner, even when they’ve used every pan in the house. And do they wash up afterwards? Do they buggery. Hahahahaha.”"

Let children play! - "‘School almost “eliminates bullying” with breaktime ban on games.’ To me, this is like saying that getting rid of children’s play is a price worth paying if it means teachers can have a quiet life. It seems that in the view of Charlotte Whelan, the headteacher at Hackney New School, the elimination of children’s breaktime is a great pedagogic achievement. She said of her school experiment, where games are banned in breaktime, that ‘a school without bullying [might] sound like a utopia, but it is achievable’. I am a little suspicious of utopias, so I wasn’t surprised to discover that what certain school administrators describe as a utopia is actually a pretty dystopian situation in which children are not allowed to play spontaneously and freely with one another. Instead of the usual breaktime, where children are able to release their energy by running around and messing with each other, at Hackney New School the kids ‘participate in supervised quizzes, poetry recitals and other activities, including chess and choir clubs’. In other words, the pupils are subjected to an intensively structured regime of constant supervision by adults. Campaigners against bullying have long believed that the way to eliminate bullying is through more structured supervision of children’s lives. One of the supporters of banning old-style breaktime is Linda James, founder and chief executive of Bullies Out. She advocates ‘structured games, structured activities’, which she believes are better than allowing children to ‘wander… around aimlessly’. She warns that ‘unstructured games can sometimes lead to nasty comments, aggressive behaviour or children feeling left out’. James’ use of the term ‘unstructured games’ speaks to a hyper risk-averse mentality in the world of pedagogy today. There was a time when we simply said ‘play’ rather than using technical-sounding terms like ‘unstructured games’. What they call an ‘unstructured game’ is nothing more and nothing less than children playing with one another. From a technocratic perspective, it might look like children are ‘wandering around aimlessly’, but from the standpoint of common sense this is really kids messing about, exploring and probably getting into a bit of trouble. Precisely what childhood is about! Is it really worth trading off children’s freedom to play in exchange for the elimination of bullying? Real play – which is by definition unstructured – is an important part of child development. Children learn to test boundaries and to forge relationships through playing with each other. It is through independent play that they come to understand their own strengths and weaknesses. Through play, children develop a capacity for risk-taking, and an aspiration for freedom."

Why the Queen wears lime green for her most important occasions - "“She needs to stand out for people to be able to say ‘I saw the Queen’,” the Countess of Wessex said in the documentary The Queen at 90. “Don’t forget that when she turns up somewhere, the crowds are two, three, four, 10, 15 deep, and someone wants to be able to say they saw a bit of the queen’s hat as she went past.”... Though trends don’t play a part in the Queen’s fashion choices, it proves that she certainly has the power to influence them. In the wake of that appearance, high street retailer JD Williams reported that sales of neon clothing soared by 134 percent."

Meme - "In the middle ages, the "shrew's fiddle" was used to punish women who were caught bickering. The "double fiddle" attached two people together face-to-face, forcing them to talk to each other. They were not released until the argument had been resolved."

Phil Nobile Jr. on Twitter - "My niece wants to know: if she donates her hair to Locks of Love, and the recipient of her hair commits a crime and leaves hair at the crime scene, will her DNA be found all over the crime scene and thus incriminate her? She's 12."

Gad Saad on Twitter - "Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure."
"Sleeping with individuals other than one's spouse is monogamy. Sleeping with men when you are a man is heterosexuality. A penis is a type of vagina. Pregnancy is virginity. Virginity is promiscuity.
Language can be so liberating when we are unshackled by shared semantics."
"Exactly. Violent crime is climate change. Open borders is climate change. Defund the police is climate change. People menstruate is climate change. Voting fraud is climate change. [I'll retweet.]"

Sen. Gillibrand tried redefining "infrastructure" to justify Biden's $2 trillion spending spree and got absolutely ROASTED πŸ˜‚ - "Here, she's basically saying that "infrastructure" means whatever in the heck she wants it to mean to justify Biden spending trillions of dollars.... 'The border wall is actually infrastructure'"

Ted Cruz on Twitter - "Abortion is infrastructure. Gun control is infrastructure. Forced unionization is infrastructure. Whatever the Left wants is infrastructure. You know what’s not? Roads & bridges. ONLY 5% OF BIDEN’s “INFRASTRUCTURE” BILL IS ROADS & BRIDGES. 🀑🀑"

Pete Buttigieg says there is ‘racism physically built into’ America’s ailing infrastructure system

The Senate’s Infrastructure Bill Redefines ‘Broadband’ To Manufacture a Connectivity Crisis - "the new federal broadband rule is the equivalent of mandating that all homes have at least five bathrooms... Ironically, the change in definition might actually make it harder to close the so-called "digital divide." As Joan Marsh, a vice president at AT&T, pointed out in March when the present debate over broadband definitions was first ramping up, setting poor standards can result in "overbuilding" that prioritizes faster access for places with already-fast connections rather than reaching the hard-to-connect parts of the country"

What Is Infrastructure? It's A Gender Issue, For Starters - "Past infrastructure jobs have been men's jobs... "A lot of this is a big branding exercise," he said. "And if Biden can convince the American people that this actually is an infrastructure bill, its chances of passage are much higher simply because voters are overwhelmingly supportive of spending more money on infrastructure.""
Infrastructure is sexist! Time to tear it down!

Biden's $2T spending plan, billed as infrastructure bill, spends less than half on infrastructure - "less than $750 billion of the spending fits even a broad definition of infrastructure... "This plan is not about rebuilding America’s backbone. Less than 6% of this massive proposal goes to roads and bridges," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. "It would spend more money just on electric cars than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways combined."... "It's hugely ironic because the leading Democrats have bashed corporate welfare and corporate subsidies for years, and they always claim that Republicans do corporate subsidies," Edwards told Fox News. "But in fact, Biden would subsidize corporations hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars with this plan.""

United pledged to diversify its pilot pipeline. Conservative outrage followed. - The Washington Post - "Less than 20 percent of United Airlines’ pilots are women or people of color — a statistic the carrier wants to change. So United said last week that it had set a goal to train 5,000 new pilots, at least half of them women or people of color, at its new flight school over the next decade. In a statement, CEO Scott Kirby said those pilots would be guaranteed a job after completing the requirements of the airline’s pilot career development program, called Aviate."
Enough time has passed since Kara Hultgreen's crash for the lessons to have been forgotten
Of course, if a plane crashes due to inadequate training or talent it will be the fault of "white supremacy"

Allegations surface of inappropriate behaviour by former defence chief Jonathan Vance - "Canada’s top defence officials say they are troubled by allegations that former defence chief Jonathan Vance engaged in inappropriate behaviour with female subordinates... Vance took over as defence chief in July 2015, at which point the Canadian Armed Forces was struggling with allegations of having turned a blind eye toward sexual misconduct in the ranks. Vance’s first order as Canada’s top military commander was to launch an all-out effort against such inappropriate behaviour, which he continued to push during his five-plus years at the helm."
The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Meme - "Shrek Movies: Don't judge others by their appearance.
Also Shrek Movies: *laughs at Lord Farquaad*"

Sammy on Twitter - "Anarchism is anti Maoist
Anti Maoist is anti communist
Anti communist is pro fascist
Anarchism is pro fascist"
Tankie logic: anyone not a communist is a fascist

Apparently you can reheat pizza by turning your toaster on it’s side. : lifehacks
If anything spills...

Facebook - "Just a reminder that the 3 best-funded presidential campaigns in history combined for a grand total of winning an American Samoa primary and nothing else. Yet the far left keeps telling me Citizens United opened the door for corporations to buy elections."

irwin on Twitter - "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Gopher, Netscape with frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista, pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Gad Saad - Posts | Facebook - "Progressive epistemology of causality:
1) If a woman-led country fared comparatively well in the COVID crisis, this "proves" that women leaders are superior during a pandemic.
2) The number of US COVID deaths are strictly due to the incompetence of @realDonaldTrump.
3) If out of one hundred cities ranked on 10 metrics of misery, 99 have been governed by @TheDemocrats for the past 100 years, this proves nothing.
4) If the US had done well on COVID, this would be due to the policies of @BarackObama.
Any questions, bigots?
The mindset that I'm describing above is not restricted to a few undergraduate students who failed a critical thinking course. This is what most leading "intellectuals" have repeatedly argued. Professors are at times some of the dumbest people on earth."

Flag of Norway: the mother of all flags - "Well, if you type ‘mother of all flags’ into Google Images you’ll see many images of Norway’s flag with several other national flags marked out within it. These flags are: Indonesia, Poland, Malta GC, Finland, France, Netherlands and Thailand. Serbia & Montenegro is also there if you look at an old enough version – it would be directly underneath the Dutch flag on the image above. Also bear in mind that the Dutch flag is very similar to Luxembourg’s (and if you remove their coat of arms: Croatia and Paraguay) and Monaco’s is almost identical to Indonesia’s. In total that’s a minimum of nine current national flags which can be found within Norway’s."

D.Va's Thot Patrol - Posts | Facebook - "So Black Ops Cold War has caused a meltdown among Twitter losers for having an anti-communist premise. I'm not surprised at how pathetic these people are anymore." Apparently to the left, the video of Yuri Bezmenov warning of Communist infiltration is fake

Meme - "*picture of fish* Stage One: Initially, the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality.
*Baked fish filets* Stage Two: The sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality.
*Fish nuggets* Stage Three: The sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists.
*Swedish fish Oreos* Stage Four: The sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum."

Meme - "I will never forget the look on hillary's face when she went into the home of a working class family"

Let These Mermaids Touch Your Dick Maybe by Riverhouse Games - "This is a game about dick touching, maybe. I should make that clear up front. If you're not on board with telling the story of a bunch of mermaids maybe touching your dick this may not be the best game to play right now and if that's the case, that's totally chill. There's so many games out there to play that don't involve mermaids possibly touching your dick, find one of those and have a blast, friend.

Meme - To Aliens: "So why do you keep abducting and probing our people?"
"YOU SENT US UNSOLICITED NUDES, A MIX-TAPE, AND DIRECTIONS TO YOUR HOME..."

Teh Tarik carbonara pasta as a new food trend? It's more likely than you think.
Yet so many Malaysians got upset over crispy rendang

In Quebec, lock your car or face a fine - "Sgt. Martin Fournel said MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais police have received 271 reports in the last five years about thefts from vehicles parked near tourist or commercial areas. He said the fines are meant to prevent that. Between 2013 to 2018, officers have issued 458 fines to vehicle owners who left keys in the ignition, left their cars unlocked, or a combination of the two... MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais police have already earned a reputation for scanning parking lots for motorists who've failed to update their licence plate stickers."

Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French - "The newly crowned champion of French-language Scrabble, faced a unique challenge going into Monday's final in Louvain, Belgium. After all, he doesn't speak French. At all. Nigel Richards, of Christchurch, New Zealand, defeated a competitor from the French-speaking African nation of Gabon two games to none. Richards, who works as an engineer in Malaysia, is no stranger to the crossword board game. He was the world champion of English Scrabble in 2007 and 2011, won five U.S. national titles, and is considered one of the world's top players... His training involved memorizing the French Scrabble dictionary in about nine weeks."

Toucans are pretty weird, right? - "Toucans are pretty weird, right? I mean look at them, they’re all fucking beak. But they get weirder. Have you ever seen a toucan skull? I MEAN LOOK AT THIS THING THEIR BEAK IS TALLER THAN THEIR ENTIRE FUCKING SKULL"
"It gets worse: Without the added volume of feathers, a toucan’s beak is the size of the whole rest of its body put together. They are literally and without exaggeration 50% beak by volume."

Razor on Twitter - "The "Jesus Christ was a person of color lol" crowd suddenly very big on people from Syria being white."
On the Boulder shooter

Meme - "Can sex doll cook your meals? Can sex doll have your kids? Can sex doll wash your clothes? Can sex doll make your home? What's it? You'll are really triggered TBH ain't no sensible man that is buying that shit."
"So, cos of Sex Doll , y'all women suddenly think it's a woman's duty to cook, wash and take care of the home ?"

Daily Gondor - Posts | Facebook - "Barad-durFeed
Freedom of thought doesn't mean freedom from consequences
Some call it 'brutal repressions', but it’s a natural consequence of failing to conform
Every current (and future) servant of the Dark Lord enjoys nearly unlimited freedom of thought, as long as it's not not expressed in any way. Wrong facial expressions or, in some extreme cases, spoken words, can lead to just punishment. But how else can we eradicate orcophobia? Everyone must act as a willing and obedient servant to their overlords. It’s called basic decency, folks.
Trending now:
Saruman: 'extraordinarily disrespectful' to ask whether Uruk-hai violence has anything to do with murders in Gondor as (false) rumours claim"

Caleb Franz on Twitter - "US Internet Speeds 91% Faster in 2020 According to User Speed Tests"
"Is there anything more embarrassing than how wrong the Net Neutrality crowd was?"

James Christians on Twitter - "Tay K’s free. Why shouldn’t the Internet be? Twitter: $14.99/month Snapchat: $9.99/month Youtube: $19.99/month Netflix: $9.99/per movie Google: $1.99/per search If you don't want to pay extra for your favorite sites you need to be supporting #NetNeutrality"
From 2017

T@nkyes for successful rev0lut10ns | Facebook - "Yes, a Marxist-Leninist won in Peru
But he's a homophobe, so he's still trash and not a real comrade <3"
Ironic, given how Communism has historically punished deviants like homosexuals

Paul Watson quote - "Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet."
Time to eat bush meat like seafood!

WWE fan takes his date to Monday Night RAW as she prepared for night of passion - ""When the guy I was seeing texted me "Monday Night RAW? "So I planned for a night of intense pleasure but instead I ended up here..." Attaching an image of a live RAW event"

Gad Saad on Twitter - "One thing that I've noticed in academia (having been a professor for nearly 27 years) is the extent to which people now preface a question that they are about to pose. In my days, it was considered baptism by fire for the audience members to challenge your ideas in a frontal and forceful manner (without necessarily being rude or impolite). Now, audience members apologize for 30 minutes prior to asking a banal two-second question because bruh questions are violence. The tepid gentle diplomacy breeds intellectual weakness."

Sargon of Akkad - Posts | Facebook - "Leftists have a 26,000-strong group dedicated to humiliating the "gun girl" woman over some silly high-school embarrassment, and have the absolute gall to have "no bullying" as one of the rules. Your entire group is dedicated to bullying, you disgraceful hypocrites."
Just like the "be kind" people are usually savage beats, and anti-racists are the biggest racists

Meme - "Hi Betiful
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U R My Pussy Cat Dol!
Please Send Bobby for 34000 Rupees Maam
Bloody Slutwhore Father Fuck SEND NAKDE PIC Now I ASK MANY TIME?????
Please Send It Dying Frm Cancer Last Wish to See Ur Bob Then I Take Off Life Support So Can Die in Peace
Ok I Dead Now Fuck You Bich Bye Nevr Contact Me Again"

ʙᴇ ɒᴀʏ ᴅᴏ α΄„Κ€Ιͺᴍᴇ on Twitter - "did you call your boyfriend daddy because you knew he was going to leave you too or was that just a coincidence"

What is that "one thing" you did as a child that still gets brought up to this day? : AskReddit - "When I was 7 my neighbor had a heart attack. I felt like I could have helped prevent it because I had saw a commercial advertising bayer aspirin and how it kept your heart healthy or something. I thought the doctors didn’t know about this miracle drug. From that day on, I wrote down every medicine commercial with a brief description of what the medicine did. One day at dinner my brother was complaining his hands were dry and itchy. I ran to get my notepad and told him he should try vagisil."
"When I was a wee lad, my family and I were at a restaurant. We were waiting an unusually long amount of time for a server. I stood on my chair, slammed my fist into the table and exclaimed “They’re not helping us cuz we’re black!” We are not"
"My dad loves to tell this story about my sister: They were in line at a store and my sister who just learned nursery rhymes stands up in the cart and points to the very dark skinned lady at the register and starts singing "BA BA BLACK SHEEP" at the top of her lungs"
"When I was around 3-4 I used to try to seat people at restaurants. I also made my parents let me stand by the doors to the mall (with them right next to me) so I could welcome people to the mall. My mom brings it up WHENEVER she can."
"I used to jump on the ground sensors for automatic doors while someone was walking up to a store. I thought I was sparing them a huge burden."

Gingerswappingresponse - Posts | Facebook - "A black wife left her husband with 7kids because of their poor condition while a white woman, a tourist fall in love with him, married him and adopted the 7kids."
"Western women will either not date you for not owning a Mercedes or they’ll live in a fucking dirt hut for the virtue signaling clout. There’s no in between."

Meme - "When his height starts with 5'"
"When your weight starts with two hundred"
"@MeninistTweet thank you for ruining my life.
You should seriously feel like a piece of shit right"
Misogyny is holding women to the same standards as men - they can talk shit but no one can talk shit back

Meme - "Yer a WIZARD, Harry"
"I'm a wot?"
"A wizard gains magical power through training and study. A Warlock gains power through deals with supernctural beings. While a sorcerer has innate ability. Technically I'm a Sorcerer."
"Yer a nerd, Harry."

Unclaimed monies held by government agencies - "This register publishes unclaimed amounts with Singapore Public Sector agencies including Ministries, Organs of State and Statutory Boards. The public sector agencies holding on to these monies would very much like to return the monies to the rightful owners, but have not always been able to do so because they could not contact the owners despite repeated attempts to do so. The public sector agencies have already made reasonable efforts to refund the unclaimed monies. These efforts include sending reminder letters and checking with the relevant authorities for the official addresses of individuals or companies. If you have documentary proof that you are the rightful owner of the monies published, please approach the contact persons in the respective agencies."

Meme - "When You Tell Him Over the Phone That You're Built Like a Goddess but He Never Took Art History and Is in for a Shock
I Never Said *Which* Goddess"

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Groups - "The life cycle of groups:
"I'm gonna form a group to do good things."
"As the goodest of groups, we must make sure we do good things."
"We are the good group! We!"
"Things are good because we did them.""

Meme - "YOU HAVE "REALLY BAD ANXIETY' EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO CHEATING ON YOUR BOYFRIEND, DOING DRUGS AND POSTING LEWDS?"
"iTs hOW I COpe"

Meme - "Pride getting its own month
The other Six deadly sins"

Meme - "Neekolul @ @neekolul: $2,000,000 Apartment Tour (My New Apartment)"
"What happened to tax/eat the Rich?"
"2 million is not rich."
Rich is anyone richer than you

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