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Quite a few TSs do speak up, but the trans activists who doxx, harass & threaten women are even worse to transsexuals. TSs are called “truscum” by much of the modern trans community & vilified as traitors. They just want to live their lives & they get blowback from all sides.
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I am begging the French to be nationalistic. We must preserve this level of polite contempt.
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What they told us:
"Teen vaping is epidemic!"
Then teen vaping dropped 74%
"It's a gateway to smoking!"
Then teen smoking dropped 90%
"They target teens!"
Then teen use plummeted; adult use skyrocketed
"Nicotine is highly addictive!"
Then teen nicotine use dropped to a 50-yr low
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As teen nicotine vaping drops and evidence for adult product substitution grows, Anti-Tobacco and Nicotine Zealots (ANTZ) grow more desperate to get draconian sin taxes and bans in place before the public starts asking, "What, exactly, is the problem we're trying to solve?"
Youth vaping in Hawaii declined by 66% between 2019 and 2025, while #cigarette smoking among high school students reached its lowest recorded level. Meanwhile, more adults now report #vaping than smoking according to newly released #survey data.
thr101.org/post/hawaii-youth…
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In 12 days, we shall know whether or not the campaign of those attempting to excommunicate me from the politics of my town, for standing on the very principles which I was elected to uphold, succeeds.
I was elected, campaigning on a vision of a public government that works for its people. To protect equal rights under the law, and uphold the natural rights of humanity recognized in our constitution.
I was elected to participate in the everlasting battle between the public and private sector, on behalf of the public.
I was elected to assist in bringing about a legislative body which calmly, and carefully, enacts the legislation it advances in the process of becoming law.
Allowing self-ID as a matter of law, or a medical community captured by its corporate boards to carry out the destruction of a child’s endocrine system by attempting to prevent puberty - putting them on a path to life altering ‘surgery’ which would make Mengele giddy in the grave; is not what I was elected to do.
Circumventing the basic rights to due process, because some want to quickly satiate the entirely justified fear of gun violence in this country; is not what I was elected to do.
Forcing medical intervention onto people, by allowing the unelected agencies of our state to ignore the citizens’ right to know their full rights. Including to informed consent, is not what I was elected to do.
Attempting to paint me as an anti-vax, gun toting, bigoted, attention seeking show horse; is an effective election strategy.
Though none of it is true.
I may be cursed with the look of a Budweiser, but that doesn’t change the fact I’m work horse at heart.
Pushing people who have asked the questions I have out of the party, will leave it wholly unsuccessful in the long term. In this election; I’ve watched people gang up on anyone who dares suggest support for me online. I’ve seen them told to leave the party, to shut up, and I am unbelievably tired of such childish behavior displayed by adults. Yes, that’s politics. I know.
But I will continue to yearn for higher standards.
Having many great elders, with unparalleled wisdom around me; I know that it was not always this bad.
I choose to believe that it will not always be.
Whatever happens on November 3rd, this election serves as but one of many examples as to why Democrats aren’t systematically crushing the Republican Party right now.
Thanks for having me on to discuss some of this, Gracie. Be well.
A VERY candid conversation with
@jonahowheeler
#nhpolitics #graciegato #jonahwheeler #newhampshire #genderideology
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“Teen Vaping Is Falling in Pennsylvania...so why does the state still say it is skyrocketing” < Because tobacco controllers can’t stop lying? Via @RogerBate3 rogerbate.substack.com/p/tee…
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The Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial fights are almost always just “feelings” with a birth year attached
Every cohort got handed a different mess
None of them wrote the tax code, the zoning map, the student-loan rules, or the Social Security math
Washington did
And it still finds endless money for everything else under the sun
So why are we screaming at each other instead of demanding they stop screwing all of us?
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"Why do you care about the Boomers if you're not a Boomer?!"
Friendos, I care because I know what happened to the Kulaks.
A hundred years ago the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia didn't just target the Tsar, his family, and his officers. It went after *anybody* who smelled even a teensy bit wealthy. Especially the small but growing Russian middle class. Who were half a step out of serfdom because they'd managed to get a little land and therefore had a little capital.
The Bolsheviks hated the Kulaks even more than they hated the aristocracy, and the Kulaks were persecuted in their millions. Stripped of land. Sent to work camps. Or simply outright murdered by the NKVD, who were themselves the forerunners of the KGB.
You didn't have to be a Richie Rich to be labeled a Kulak. You simply had to be on the Reds' list as having property, therefore you were a traitor to the Soviet State.
So, when I see generational hatred directed against Boomers I know I am seeing the Kulakization of a class purely for the fact the Boomers are perceived as "haves" and angry Millennials and Gen Z perceive themselves as the "have nots" and people get themselves to a lather thinking maybe it's time for the "have nots" to settle the score.
A sentiment as old as recorded human civilization.
Except, it won't stop with Boomers. It never does. Who gets called a Kulak and why will be dumbed down again and again until it's Gen X, then Millennials, and then older Gen Z, and so forth.
This is the DSA's plan. Same as in any Marxist revolution. Turn the people who think they have little against those who are perceived to have much.
Notice that the DSA themselves—and their Big Corporate friends—will all remain affluent. Privileged. Set apart. They will only target the lower end of the Upper Middle, all of the Middle, and the upper end of the Lower classes. These will be the Kulaks. Until a permanent elite of AOC, Mamdani, et al., rule a sea of Lower class labor who have no ladders up, and are totally dependent on the caps-s State for food, housing, clothing, amenities, etc.. Ergo, America will be a nation of true Proles.
And any time the Proles begin to figure out they've been had—that the AOCs of the world have made it impossible to move up or get out—the DSA will crank up the alert siren against Kulaks all over again. New lists of enemies will be invented. As has happened in every single caps-s Statist collective of the past 150 years.
As Americans we have an opportunity to *not* do this.
But it has to start NOW. We *cannot* indulge in Kulakization.
Because you, friendo, are going to end up on the lists sooner or later. Even if you think you never will. Just give the DSA enough time. And no, the fact you were a good Party Man won't save you. The State is not a respecter of persons, comrade.
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I have been extremely happily married for 43 years to a woman who fit that description when I met her. But she was a standard academic leftist--not especially passionate about her beliefs--and neither of us wanted to argue about politics. True, the first evening she was in my apartment, she saw a book on the sofa by George Gilder. In the course of conversation she realized that not only was I reading it but I liked it, and she said to herself, "I can never have a serious relationship with this man." But she also concluded after being around me for a while that I wasn't a bad person despite my oddball views.
Demonstrating that you aren't a bad person is your main task (which will be easier if you aren't a bad person). But you can't do it directly, and you don't want to be defensive. Wait to break the shocking news until she asks what you're studying. Tell her straightforwardly, with lots of clear signs that you don't confuse your professional views with a moral crusade, nor do you think you are in full possession of the Truth. A little self-deprecation never hurt either. If she's truly open to being exposed to new thoughts, you'll probably get along fine.
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Being gay has so little to do with my life anymore. I live surrounded with family with my longtime companion of 25 years. We don't go to gay bars, or gay anything. We live in a family friendly community and are roundly accepted and treated like everyone else. Our life is virtually indistinguishable from an older heterosexual couple, minus the grandchildren, unfortunately.
I'm noticing my internal dialogue turning against the queer political project. It's an annoyance bordering on distaste. The weird part I'm starting to see them as 'the other'. They are conducting themselves under our name but are not serving our interests. We've been hijacked.
They are not serving gays and lesbians. They've even erased us and replaced us under a 'queer' umbrella, then put trans on an equal footing. This tiny minority took over our movement.
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This is not a photograph.
Every leaf and every reflection was put there by hand, in oil, by the Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted in 1894.
It is called Wooded path by a river, and it captures the hardest thing there is to paint: a forest in full sunlight. Light through trees never falls evenly. It scatters into countless flecks of brightness and shadow, a glow on one leaf, darkness on the next, a glint on the water that would vanish the moment a cloud passed. Get those even slightly wrong, and the whole thing collapses into a green blur.
Mønsted got every one of them right, and in doing so he captured something anyone who has stood alone in a wood will recognize immediately: that hush that falls over you, the sense of being completely at peace, and the feeling that the whole world has paused to breathe…
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I didn't realize this song went back to 1959. I remember the original. Radically different production.
youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34Dr…
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Victory (?)
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Despite all the money, advertisement, and establishment oomph behind this last minute campaign; the people prevailed.
We won this election by 19 votes.
The write-in candidate has now decided to seek to overturn the rulings of the town clerk of one of the district’s towns on a number of ballots through a recount.
The Secretary of State has set the date for Tuesday at 0900 at the State Archives building.
For now, I will walk proud of the Democrats in my district, knowing they stood up to the opaque politics of slander.
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Fabulists are always psychologically vulnerable or they wouldn't be fabulists. I've known a couple personally (both white women, one of them very young) and both, beneath a veneer of apparent narcissism, were damaged people who clearly felt they weren't and never would be good enough if the fabrications were stripped away.
Journalist Johann Hari survived plagiarism charges. Belle Gibson, of the fake brain tumour, the best-selling cookbook and the deal with Apple, is still alive and well. On the other hand, Brenda Leyland (another fabulist) killed herself rather than deal with the aftermath of exposure as an obsessive online persecutor of the McCann family.
If it's true Arday's stories about himself weren't challenged because Cambridge was excited to appoint a charismatic young black man, it's equally true that his blackness meant he became a lightning rod for discourse around DEI, and I don't doubt the weight of shame, and mockery and condemnation, even if a lot of it fell on Cambridge rather than Arday personally, seemed unsurvivable to him. He and Leyland both became unwilling, living symbols of something bigger than themselves: DEI taken to a ludicrous extreme and vicious online trolling.
I have some personal experience of becoming a dehumanised online punchbag. It takes a lot of psychological strength not to go under and when I heard that Arday was dead I felt utterly miserable.
I don't disagree that he'd never have found himself exposed in such a public way if he'd been challenged, kindly and privately, before he was given a highly-publicised professorship at what is supposed to be one of the world's best universities. However, saying that his promoters 'don't give a toss about him' seems extreme.