https://x.com/foxnews/ status/2110759745237774551?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Thursday, October 22, 2026
I Really Like Frankie, Musically And Othewise
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeuzPTtoOyI/?srtk=bTRqOWNwMXZqMWxm
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DekixAdo7za/
The France Thing Is No Big Deal
https://x.com/rickydoggin/status/2112558092961333396?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
So, France has all of the gun control laws that the ASPL want for the US, look how well that is working. Just as well as their immigration policies.
https://x.com/eyakoby/status/2112340768254038046?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
But, they're just students...
https://x.com/tomripley22/status/2112353204893565022?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Now London.
https://x.com/leekuanyimby/status/2112594925951070443?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
She's rioting for learing.
https://x.com/omarblooshiae/status/2112479010408
Hijacked.
https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/2112580311485931825?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"American-Egyptian activist Eman Mabrouk celebrates the riots in France: ''I think burn it all down, stop sucking European Master's dicks, liberation isn't going to be pretty, it's going to cost blood, it's going to cost lives.'' Really cool how this third world bio-weapon somehow gets a piece of paper calling her American even as she agitates for race war against white people. 70,000 Instagram likes! Also really fucking cool that so-called ''Australian'' citizen Dr. Mo Mustafa - widely known as the "Beast from the Middle East'' - collaborated with her on this Instagram reel. He calls himself an Australian for the benefits of the passport while endorsing videos like this which call for explicit race war against Europeans. Western immigration policy has been a catastrophe for decades, how the fuck did these people get passports when they hate us this much."
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112460445491618119?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"A Paris resident, Chloé, was cleaning her hallway after another raid on her home and commented on the government decision to impose a curfew: “No, they won’t lock us all up with a curfew. They’re animals. They’re breaking into our homes. I was with my 80-year-old neighbor; we thought we were going to die. They need to be shot.”"
https://x.com/abdullah_0mar/status/2112392095428403578?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Don't loot this store, it belongs to a Muslim woman."
https://x.com/marionawfal/status/2112485224982475257?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"She's a mother of 3 who lost everything, while chronically ill patients went without the medication they needed because the establishment's fridges were burnt. When she called the police, the cowards falsely said they COULDN'T help her."
https://x.com/TheFP/status/2112569941786558539?s=20
https://x.com/springfield1952/status/2112111102653804870?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"What we know: 1. She is a member of the French left-wing party and an activist, one of the biggest champions of opening up migration to North African peoples. 2. She owns a small chic boutique in a chic location; she stood in her shop in an attempt to save it from looting and theft, and told them that she is a famous activist. 3. She told them: I am so-and-so, the activist for asylum, I stand on your side, I have defended you and your access and stay in France; they spat on her, knocked her down, and kicked her with their feet—thankfully, she is still alive. 4. And they looted the entire shop, and in an instant she lost her lifelong struggle and work. She stood there stunned, unable to believe that these thieving, inciting, criminal, barbaric hordes are the ones she has defended her whole life, and for whom she has advocated to invade and destroy her country."
https://www.instagram.com/p/Deudo-6IaBn/?dlrf=Mzkxbm0xc2o4amJ3
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112824497648611575?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Liberal Idiocy
https://x.com/chuckrossdc/status/2113028048211652982?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
The idiocy from Flanagan just keeps growing, yet the ASPL morons will vote for her in droves.
https://x.com/hhsresponse/status/2112970599106744392?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
NY gets in on the fraud. Thanks DFL.
https://x.com/moredge_insight/status/2112525762947330085?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Her crime was that she wasn’t wearing a hijab. So a man violently beat her… and beat her… and beat her. All while other men formed a circle and just watched, as if it’s some kind of sick entertainment. Look at her face. The pain. The fear. This happens in every single country where Muslims live. And you almost never hear about it, because the left, Islam, and the media simply don’t care. Nobody wants to upset them by pointing out the basic reality that they are barbaric savages from the 7th century with no respect for human life."
This is exactly what the ASPL wants more of in the US with their unfettered immigration policies. Of course, the DFL politicians and other ASPL lemmings parrot the BS about the hijab being a choice and liberating. FWIW, I saw some Somali kids walking home from school the other day. The girl was all hijabed up from head to toe, the boys were wearing normal clothes, seems like that is hypocritical at a minimum. Women are treated like shit in Islam.
https://x.com/eyakoby/status/2112188358453571646?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
While the spotlight is on France, Christians are still being killed for their faith in Africa.
https://x.com/awakend_citizen/status/2112472000723898558?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Far-left student activist Laura extremely justifies France's riots and looting This proves how deranged far-left thinking is "You have something to lose—that's how privileged you are. But we who are out here protesting, we have nothing to lose" "Stores are important, right? Yeah, yeah, Foot Locker got looted, huh. But there's the reality that the people of France are actually suffering" The one who fired back was a female business owner who came to France from the Democratic Republic of Congo at age 9, and now employs 130 people "When I came to this country, I had to choose: resign myself to the situation in front of me, or stand up on my own" "This is my life, Laura. I have children too" "My employees are trembling in fear. What am I supposed to say to them?" Far-left folks who think that if your circumstances are tough, it's okay to destroy and loot what others have built through their work Versus a business owner who rose up through her own efforts from a painful situation and built wealth and jobs Which one is the right way to be human? It doesn't even bear thinking about "God helps those who help themselves" Those who claim "life is hard" but refuse to make an effort, blame their entire situation on others, and justify destruction and looting—all you far-left types with that mindset— will never be saved, not ever"
Left wing idiocy on parade. Not only are increased rapes a price to be paid willingly (https://afru.com/price-worth-paying-to-end-racism/), so is the destruction of successful immigrants.
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2112641191988830584?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Investigation finds Canadian Nationals who are Green Card holders that go into Washington State ARE BEING REGISTERED TO VOTE - This happens because Canadians go into the Washington state DMV to get licenses - There is NO CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION - They get automatically registered to vote vote when signing up and renewing their license - They then get mailed ballots The investigation also finds they are voting “Went into DMV and registered because there was no kind of questions on their citizenship, and they naively thought that they could do it, or they just received in the mail a voter registration card. After renewing their driver's license online, and lo and behold, they received in the mail a ballot” Just imagine how widespread this is in Democrat states. All these Democrat states that have automatic voter registration at the DMV without citizenship checks are definitely doing this. I bet their ballot harvesting the ballots too I looked into this and apparently most Democrat states just have a box to check for citizenship followed by no proof of any documentation States that do not require documentary proof of citizenship Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and DC."
https://x.com/brivael/status/2111425304950358448/photo/1
Billionaires funding conservatives and bad, but...
https://x.com/sanaeledene/status/2111530867260821596?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" "What Sharia law is coming out of a guy who likes Taylor Swift and wears tight black T-Shirt?" I can’t hold it in anymore. I practiced Islam. Studied it my entire life. Grew up in mosques listening to mullahs.
is the perfect example of Western stupidity on this. You have zero idea what Jihadists actually practice. You have no idea how they are taught to assimilate, lie, and blend into society just to advance the cause of Islam. Today Jihad is not only bombs. Jihad means “struggle.” (“My struggle” does that ring a bell, ?) One form of Jihad is cooperating with people you don’t agree with so you can accumulate power and spread your network like a spider web. This is exactly what people like El-Sayed and Mamdani are doing. A Jihadist in a suit and tie hands positions of power to those who share the ideology. He becomes a legislator and destroys your society brick by brick through laws, not bombs. Get off your high horse and learn what political Islam and Jihad actually look like. You sound incredibly ignorant. A tight black T-shirt and Taylor Swift is nothing. They’ll pole dance for you if that’s what it takes to get your vote and convince you they’re not jihadists."
BOT
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcPAHWfFYsJ/
I've been saying this for a while. The ASPL construct of trying to get groups that are diametrically opposed to each other into a big tent is insane.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DdxH61SzzRF/
Hypocrisy exposed.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DdzPnNYT0Dg/
The fact that the DFL thinks that they can control these nuts...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DexAGhVjDEm/?img_index=4&rpxt=d3k4bTNvajJheGVk
Good analysis of what will happen of the DSA gets power.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DevNArbgYpA/
This reminds of of the "Rape is a cost of doing business" article I posted a while back. (https://afru.com/price-worth-paying-to-end-racism/)
https://x.com/AsianDawn4/status/2112681171482181924?s=20
https://x.com/ninjanuity/status/2112688548205777244
"If you find yourself in the middle of a riot like this, and your "side" is burning down buildings... You are the "bad guys." You are the barbarians. "But muh free healthcare, muh free school!" You'll get neither, and you just alienated any moderate who might've been sympathetic to you."
We know who's side is the barbarians...
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112824497648611575?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
https://x.com/singh31919/status/2112193401315889654?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"After the beheading death sentence for a Bangladeshi couple in Saudi Arabia, their bodies have arrived in Bangladesh and been laid to rest with final rites. It has come to light that the couple had an 8-year-old daughter who is now orphaned. Now, Saudi Arabia has laid out the full sequence of events in the case of the death sentence for the Bangladeshi couple. A Bangladeshi couple—husband and wife—had gone to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah. In a Mecca mosque, they offered prayers, became overwhelmed with emotion, embraced each other, and kissed. And while doing all this, there were tears in their eyes—obviously, a dream had come true for them, arriving for Umrah. So they hadn't done it out of any indecency, but out of pure emotion. And a Pakistani filmed them and made the video go viral—and their heads were chopped off. This mindset—that God will get angry over two people kissing each other and be pleased by chopping off necks—is the biggest disease of extremism. On one hand, you say Islam is a religion of peace; on the other, a head is severed over a reel, a kiss? Is a Mecca mosque a place of worship or a slaughterhouse for your egos? If God is so weak that the love between two people defiles his mosque, then what kind of God is that? Why does God need your sword to protect himself? You didn't kill two people—you proved that your thinking is still stuck in the 7th-century desert. Where love is a sin and murder is justice. And then you say the world is Islamophobic—the world fears your actions like this, not your faith. A daughter is left orphaned, two families destroyed, and you thought you'd saved religion? You didn't save religion—you put your savagery on display."
https://x.com/kiyahwillis/status/2111638286443626601?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Students supported Mao Students supported Castro Students supported Khomeini Students supported Hitler Students supported Mussolini If find yourself blindly supporting every student lead movement, you’ll be wrong very often, in many eras, on many issues."
https://x.com/lucytcwife/status/2111493757308936552?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Dear lefties, are you going to call this lady of colour a racist or bigot for saying what we all think??"
Who Is The Oligarch
" Bernie Sanders finally admitted he's an oligarch.
He's in Duluth Saturday to "defeat the oligarchs" with Peggy Flanagan and Keith Ellison. So I checked the property records. The "oligarch" running against Peggy owns two homes. Bernie owns three. Pencils out.
Michele Tafoya is the Republican in that Senate race. Two documented homes: one in Edina, one in Florida.
Bernie Sanders, the socialist. Three homes: one in Burlington, a rowhouse in Washington, and a summer camp on Lake Champlain.
So the woman with two houses is the oligarch, and the man with three is "working people." That's like a frog calling you ugly. Somebody check on Karl Marx. He just rolled over in his grave.
Now the dictionary. Oligarchy means rule by the few. One hundred senators write the laws for about 340 million Americans. That IS the few.
Bernie has been one of them since 2007. Congress since 1991. Mayor of Burlington before that. He isn't fighting the oligarchy. He's the senior member. Slight oversight!
Count the faces on that poster and you get more than 75 years in elected office. Three career politicians on one stage, telling Duluth the problem is people who rule too long. Bless their hearts. You can lead a person to Congress, but you can't make them think.
And how does Bernie get to the oligarchy fight? Private jet. His campaign spent more than $550,000 on private jets in 2025, per FEC filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. Asked about it, he said he wasn't going to sit in a waiting line.
Neither do oligarchs, Bernie. That's the whole look. All hat and no cattle, and the hat flies private.
Then "stand up for working people." Feeding Our Future stole about $250 million meant to feed hungry Minnesota kids. Prosecutors called it the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the country. It happened while Peggy Flanagan was lieutenant governor. Some hogs get all four feet in the trough. Others just leave the barn door open and blame the hogs.
So here's my modest proposal: the House Count Rule. Any politician who says "oligarch" on a stage has to hold up one finger for every house he owns. Bernie goes first. It's just common sense.
Bernie, you are a snollygoster. That's a shrewd, unprincipled politician. Look it up, you've got three houses' worth of dictionaries. If brains were dynamite, you couldn't blow your nose, but you can sure blow $550,000 on jets.
But what do I know, I'm only a science teacher with one house, and I still have to mow it myself.
I once asked you to let my homeless student use one of those three houses. Still waiting.
This is much more about the idiocy of throwing out terms like oligarch to demonize your opponents and Sanders hypocrisy than anything else.
Media Bias
https://x.com/hikelikeme/status/2112996212597195022?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" I searched for this segment high and low—and finally found it. On Sunday, after the riots, France 2 aired a 12-minute report titled "In the Heart of the Violence" that showed, with very little narration—simply mesmerizing scenes of the great violence from Saturday's riots. I remember watching it riveted—like a war in real time. You see everything from every angle there: police charging and retreating, protest organizers handing out eye drops to people against tear gas, people breaking up "paving stones" to hurl at the cops, and vandalism, looting, arson, and also volunteer medics and firefighters and a band and that scum Mélenchon marching, reveling and delighted with his band of scoundrels. These are riveting television moments. I remember watching it and not understanding at that moment what I was watching. This is good television. Very good, actually. Well-edited. A rare document of a kind that's hard to see these days. In France, the news editions aren't an exhausting story of death porn and bereavement spread over two hours with ads like back home and endless smearing and spoon-feeding of narratives. 12 minutes of documentation, almost without narration, is something very unusual. A whole lot of real estate in a French edition that lasts only about half an hour. One of France's big workers' unions, the CGT, which is a kind of ultra-leftist "Histadrut." Together with another similar committee (CFDT), they were very outraged by the airing of this unconventional report. Because it shows there the true face of this "protest" without bullshit and without prettifying and without filters. Now they're demanding not only the firing of the veteran anchor—Laurent Delahousse—but the firing of the entire news team for this edition. You get it? **Workers' committees**, demanding that the managers of the French public channel—fire an entire team because they dared to produce a report not to their liking. A report in which, in most shots—the camera is completely passive and there's no taking of sides or mediation. This is the radical left standing on its hind legs against, well—reality itself and those who broadcast it. They call this report "propaganda." To this insane demand, Valerie Lerouge—the president of the journalists' union SNJ—joined in. For her, it's a matter of "total and uncontrollable deterioration." To the workers' committees and her, more voices of journalists and others from the left joined in holy outrage. The management of the public channel France 2 that aired this docu—hurried to issue a kind of "mea culpa"—a fairly panicked apology statement in which it regrets that the images weren't within a "broader context." Meaning that no one sat there and blabbered to the people watching this riveting document—what they should think or feel about it. I'll let you judge for yourselves. Lucky someone uploaded it to Twitter::
Watch the video.
The problem with Dan's response to this outrageous violence in repeating the student narrative is that it allows him to ignore the bigger picture. France has adopted virtually all of the social/immigration policies that the ASPL/DFL/DSA are advocating for. Yet, somehow those policies are not enough to satisfy the rioters. That Dan and the lemmings think that things will be different in the US, is insanity. Are there "students" among the rioters, yes. But it's clear that Muslim immigrants are a big part of the worst of it, and the "palestinian" flag is prominent.
But, what Dan chooses to ignore is that this is simply one more instance of left wing/progressive violence intended to push for some sociopolitical agenda. It's not "right wing" fascists, it's Dan's folx.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
What’s The Opposite Of Integrity?
“I'll answer your questions later, Craig, when I get around to it but given your serious reading comprehension problems, what good will it do if I answer them? You'll only fail to understand the answers.”
Dan
It’s been a week, Dan posts on FB, has plenty of comments in moderation here, and a few aborted, but no answer to the question he said he’d answer. I guess he theoretically could still answer the question and fulfill his obligation, but it seems unlikely that helll do so without being publicly shamed.
Maybe integrity and doing what you say you will do aren’t that important to some people.
Too bad any comment Dan makes here will stay in moderation because he’s too proud and arrogant to fulfill one simple request.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
A Win Condition
"Capitalism has a win condition. Socialism does not. Here's why, explained so simply a 10-year-old could get it. It starts with a book written in 1944 by an Austrian economist named Friedrich Hayek: The Road to Serfdom. Imagine a classroom of 30 kids. One day the teacher says: "From now on, I decide what everyone eats for lunch, which games you play at recess, and who sits next to whom. It's fairer that way." First problem: the teacher doesn't know what you like. You hate carrots. Your friend is allergic to peanuts. Lucas wants to play football, Emma wants to draw. 30 kids, 30 different wishes. Nobody can know all of that, not even the smartest teacher on Earth. Hayek called this the knowledge problem. The information needed to run an economy is scattered across millions of heads, and it can't be gathered in one office. Second problem: the kids start fighting. "Why does he get the window seat?" "Why football again?" Before, everyone just chose for themselves. Now every choice is a fight, because every choice is made for everyone. Third problem: the class can't agree on a plan, so someone says "we need one person in charge who just decides." This is Hayek's key insight. Planning doesn't fail because planners are evil. A plan needs everyone to agree on the same goals, and free people never agree on everything. So the plan needs force to work. Fourth problem, and it's the scariest one: who wants that job? The kind kid doesn't want it, because the kind kid doesn't want to force 29 people to eat carrots. The job attracts the one who likes giving orders and doesn't mind punishing those who disobey. Hayek wrote a whole chapter on this, called "Why the Worst Get on Top." It doesn't happen by accident. It happens by selection. Here's the trap. When the person who controls your lunch also controls your job, your home, your shop and your newspaper, they control your whole life. You can't say no, because there's nowhere else to go. Controlling the economy doesn't mean controlling one part of life. It means controlling the means to every goal you have. That's the road to serfdom. Nobody votes for a dictator. People vote for "someone should fix this," then for "give them more power to fix it," and one day they wake up with no one left to say no to. The USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. These are different countries with different cultures and languages, and the story has the same ending every time. When a script produces the same ending every time, it isn't bad luck. It's the script. Now capitalism. Back to the classroom. Instead of one teacher deciding everything, every kid can trade. You give me your carrots, I give you my apple, and we both walk away happier. Nobody needs to know what everyone wants, because prices do that job. A price is a message telling millions of strangers what's scarce and what's wanted, with no one in charge. That's the win condition. In capitalism, you get rich by making something other people freely choose to buy, so your success depends on serving others. In a planned system, you get ahead by pleasing whoever holds power. One rewards usefulness. The other rewards obedience. And this isn't theory. Two centuries ago, almost every human being was extremely poor. In 1990, about 38% of humanity still lived in extreme poverty. Today it's under 10%. More than a billion people escaped it in a single generation. It happened when China, India, Vietnam and South Korea opened up to markets, trade and private enterprise. The largest reduction in poverty in human history came from letting people trade. So why do so many people hate capitalism? Because what they hate usually isn't capitalism. They hate the bank that got bailed out with their taxes while they lost their house. They hate the giant company that writes the regulations so no startup can compete with it. They hate rent they can't afford because building new homes has been made nearly impossible. They hate the lobbyist who gets a subsidy while the small business owner drowns in paperwork. Look closely at each one, and you'll find a state handing out privileges. A bailout is not the market. The market would have let the bank fail. A regulation written by incumbents is not competition. It's protection from competition. None of this is capitalism. It's cronyism, which is what happens when businesses stop competing for customers and start competing for politicians. People see the symptom and blame the wrong cause. They say "capitalism failed" and ask for more state. That gives more power to the same people who created the problem, and it puts us right back on Hayek's road. The answer to bad capitalism isn't less freedom. It's less privilege. That means fewer bailouts, fewer protected incumbents, fewer permits, and more people allowed to build, compete and trade. Capitalism has a win condition: make things people want. Socialism has an end condition: someone has to be in charge. And history keeps showing us who ends up in that chair."
It's Not Immigrants, But It Is.
This thread is one that is full of videos that tell a pretty clear story. Choosing ignorance in this case is idiotic.
The "palestine flags" couldn't possibly be an indicator of the composition of most of the rioters and of the sympathies of the rest.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112455480656454005?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"A second or third-generation migrant from Africa explains why Chinese businesses are targeted by looters: “The Chinese living in France have become too wealthy. It's unfair”"
Let me get this straight. One group of immigrants feels entitled to destroy the businesses of another group of immigrants because the first group of immigrants has been successful and prosperous. But, no, it's not immigrants who are doing the rioting.
https://x.com/pippaisright/status/2112301451997225189?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Mohammad the security guard stops the music on the London public piano (Allah says music is Haram)"
https://x.com/buc97552/status/2112535128610353621?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Strange how, during the “protests” by disgruntled “French students”, some businesses were looted and destroyed, while others emerged miraculously untouched."
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2112200010146492818?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" A liberal Italian woman SCREAMS at police telling them they are being too mean to the 3rd world migrants. "What are you doing?! Why are you GRABBING them by force like that?" Seconds later, a rioter THROWS AN EXPLOSIVE at her and police. You cannot make this up."
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112579058248950201
"The Italian city of Bologna became a real war zone after devastating overnight riots by wild looters and radical leftists with Palestinian flags."
https://x.com/the_jefferymead/status/2112624563733590459?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" These people are dangerous to Western Civilization and our way of life. This is the primary reason why I talk about this. I do not want these type of people having any real level of influence in the United States."
https://x.com/ericmmatheny/status/2112489223727304769?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" It’s not a protest. It’s a conquest."
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2112469093882183755?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"A French woman says that the rioters and looters broke into her building and threatened her with rape while she was holding her child in her arms. “That’s collateral damage” responds the feminist activist Bettina Zourli who holds a Master’s in gender studies and focuses her work on gender norms, motherhood, reproductive rights, and voluntary childlessness (“childfree”) She describes herself as “feminist, childfree and Antifa” Zourli also says that all the stores getting looted also constitute a case of collateral damage and that the revolution, which she supports, must be violent. She has lectured in gender studies, including at the University of Lille and Université Rennes."
So, a feminist activist calls attempted rape "collateral damage". That's a great example of how good people really are.
BOT
https://www.instagram.com/reels/Det1wx3gXyQ/
The fact that Thunberg is some sort of progressive icon, is simply insane.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DerlzwNRuWp/
https://substack.com/home/post/p-736821
https://substack.com/home/post/p-217414650
https://substack.com/home/post/p-221167988
"It is unlikely that American liberals will draw the needed lessons from the French mayhem. The New York Times, which sets the table for the rest of the major media, barely hints at the underlying causes of the disorder. Everyday protestors, for instance, don’t use a battering ram to storm a nineteenth-century landmark and burn it to the ground."
" If the Times editors shied from the immigrant angle, they did acknowledge that French officials were placing the blame for the chaos “on a far-left party,” La France Insoumise (LFI)—France Unbowed. For the editors to use the term “far-left” is a rare concession, perhaps a way to distance the Times from the madness LFI has unleashed."
Even the NYT acknowledges that the carnage in France is the result of leftists. Given that 49% of Paris is composed of immigrants, it seems safe to conclude that immigrants are very much a part of this destruction.
"Knowing Saturday’s potential for violence, LFI still went ahead and promoted the protest. Like the RN, the party is actively gearing up for the May 2027 elections. Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his comrades have, to date, established exactly 1,069 “concrete measures” that it plans to implement immediately upon taking office. The featured measures include retirement at 60, a green regime, price controls, a solidarity tax on wealth, and a higher guaranteed minimum wage.
Strategically, the LSI homepage does not reflect its aggressively pro-migrant immigration policy. As to foreign policy, given that even its Communist allies have condemned LFI’s rhetoric on Jews, you can guess its position on Israel. The “common future” that the LSI promises might come soon. As the Times reports, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon, stands a chance of beating centrists to the runoff in next year’s presidential election to succeed President Emmanuel Macron.”"
"The largely peaceful protests of 2020. A warm-up for the protests of 2026?
One “conspiracy theory” traced to the American Right is that the 2020 George Floyd riots were orchestrated to enhance Democratic chances in November. In an extraordinary article published by Time magazine in February 2021, insider Molly Ball confirmed that the conspiracy was no mere theory. The organizers who led what she called “the racial-justice uprising” hoped to “harness its momentum for the election.” As Ball explained, rioting was the leverage leftists used to keep business interests in line. The summer’s chaos showed them what could happen if Trump won a contested election.
To make the decision easier for American liberals in 2020, Democrats chose to run an unthreatening front man. Come May, liberal French voters will have no easy out. Marine Le Pen is no Joe Biden. The LFI has already shown these well-meaning souls what could happen if they make the “wrong” decision. If American liberals are any model, few of them will."
https://substack.com/@zionismtoday/note/c-364850292
https://substack.com/@tantominchiata/note/c-361806739
https://agentmax.substack.com/p/tired-of-pretending-yet?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
https://spyridonandrews.substack.com/p/the-seattle-freeze?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
https://substack.com/home/post/p-220734587
https://furtherupfurtherin.substack.com/p/by-aslans-mane-a-defense-of-cs-lewis?r=28q7xt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
Poverty, Crime
https://x.com/brivael/status/2112199646361649397?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
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"You reduce crime by eliminating poverty."
This is one of the greatest intellectual confusions of our century. It sounds compassionate. It feels obvious. And the moment you actually test it, it falls apart.
Let's look at the data.
First, the correlation is real. Nobody serious denies that poorer areas have more crime. In Sweden, kids from the poorest 20% of families are about 7 times more likely to be convicted of a violent crime than kids from the richest 20%.
But correlation is not causation. So Swedish researchers did something brilliant: they compared siblings. Same parents, same home, same upbringing, but different family income at different points in their childhood, because parents' income moves over time.
Result, on more than 500,000 children (Sariaslan et al., British Journal of Psychiatry, 2014): once you account for what's shared inside the family, the effect of income on violent crime goes from 7x to nothing. The hazard ratio drops to 0.95. No effect.
Finland ran the same test on 650,000 people. Same result: the income-crime link disappears when you compare siblings.
What predicts crime isn't the bank balance. It's what travels inside families.
Second test: what happens when poverty spikes for everyone at once? 2008. US unemployment doubled from 5% to nearly 10%. 15% of Americans officially poor. If poverty creates crime, crime should have exploded. Instead it fell. Year after year. Robbery, the most "economic" crime of all, dropped 10% in 2010 alone. Criminologists literally said they were stumped. Same story in the Great Depression: 25% unemployment, and crime went down in many cities.
Third test: take families out of poverty and see. The US government ran a randomized lottery called Moving to Opportunity. Thousands of families in public housing got vouchers to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. For boys, violent arrests dropped at first, property crime arrests went up, and over time the effects faded. New zip code. Same behavior.
Fourth: the claim that police don't matter. This one is just false. Chalfin et al. (American Economic Review: Insights, 2022): each additional police officer prevents about 0.1 homicides. And per capita, the lives saved are twice as many among Black victims as among white victims. The people who suffer most from "police don't matter" are the poorest neighborhoods.
So what does predict crime? The Dunedin study followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32. Self-control measured between ages 3 and 11 predicted adult criminal convictions, even after controlling for social class and IQ (Moffitt et al., PNAS, 2011). Cognitive ability matters too: across 700,000 Swedish men, lower cognitive scores at 18 track with violent convictions, and the link barely moves when you control for childhood socioeconomic status (Frisell et al., 2012).
And here's the part nobody quotes: in Dunedin, kids whose self-control improved over time did better than predicted. Behavior can change. Which means responsibility is real.
Why does this matter? Because "poverty creates crime" isn't just wrong. It's toxic.
It turns criminals into victims. The man who robbed you becomes a symptom of "the system," and you, the real victim, become a footnote in someone else's narrative.
It merges two completely different things. "You're poor, we'll help you" is one policy. "You're poor and you committed a crime, so we'll excuse you" is another. Fusing them insults the millions of poor people who work, raise their kids, and never hurt anyone. The vast majority of poor people are not criminals. That alone kills the theory.
It removes responsibility. Build a political system on "your circumstances made you do it" and you destroy the one thing that actually changes behavior: the certainty that you own your choices. Every excuse the state manufactures is an incentive.
And it feeds the state forever. If every crime is a social failure, every crime justifies a new program, a new budget, a new agency. Crime becomes the business model of bureaucracy.
The alternative is simple and old.
A lighter state that protects instead of explains. The same rules for everyone, from the projects or from a gated community. Certain, swift punishment for anyone who commits a crime. And never, ever telling someone their crime was written in their social condition.
Treating someone as responsible is respecting them. Excusing someone because they're poor is the most condescending thing you can do to them."
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