All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
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Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
My open letter to @BCGreens leader Emily Lowan.
stuartparkersblog.substack.c…
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
creativity by definition is about tinkering at the edges, frontier-maxxing, venturing forth into the unknown
an LLM by definition is a line hugging the statistical mean
this is why "AI art" is an oxymoron
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
One of the great innovations of Twitter was that you could just talk to journos and political pundits.
Before Twitter you might have suspected they were retarded or captured but you couldn’t PROVE it.
With Twitter you could ask them questions that proved exactly what they were.
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
Things that are not genocide:
-- When a man seeks to join a woman's rugby team and is told he cannot join because he is a man but is eligible to join the team corresponding to his sex.
-- When a man is told he cannot use the ladies changing room but must use the changing room that corresponds to his sex.
-- When a male murderer who says he is a woman is told he must remain in a prison with other men rather than be transferred to a women's prison based on his claim to be a woman.
-- When the state declines to pay for a man's castration
-- When the state declines to pay for a man's mandibular reconstruction surgery.
-- When a passport or driver's license lists the material fact of a man's sex instead of his private reverie to be a woman
-- When a person remains free to refer to the material fact of a person's sex rather than being coerced by state power into joining in a person's attempted falsification of this fact
-- When a 9-year old child is judged ineligible to be prescribed an off-label cancer drug in order to freeze him in a pre-pubertal state so as to better mimic the appearance of a member of the opposite sex
Not only are none of these acts genocidal, none of them violate any right that any person has.
If they were granted, as they have been in many states, they would simply be discretionary entitlements being handed out by the state to a legally privileged caste of person at the expense of the rights of others.
Where they are being removed, it is simply a reversion to a status quo without a legally privileged caste being rewarded with special rights that come at the expense of the rights and finances of others.
Glad to clear this confusion up, guys -- I expect you will now desist from claiming that you are victims of a genocide when you are not victims of rights violation of any kind.
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
💯 Turns out the biggest balls in BC belong to three women.
Thank you @Dallas_Brodie, @DreaHumphrey and @KerryLynneFindl for having the courage to challenge the NDP’s sacred cows. DRIPA, women’s rights, free speech and all the other supposedly untouchable topics.
You took the heat and refused to shut up. 👏
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
He murdered one woman and assaulted another 15-year old girl, leaving her disabled for life. In combination with his Indigenous ancestry, this was a credential that trumped any other.
If you are surprised that a murder conviction would be a prestigious credential for an elite law school application, you don't understand today's progressivism.
Despite violating his parole conditions multiple times, including gathering phone numbers of women and hiding them from his overseers in a halfway house where he is permitted to live outside of prison while serving a life sentence, 120 McGill Law students signed a petition calling on the school to let him continue to study alongside them.
McGill’s law school receives roughly 1,500 applications for just 180 spots.
It gave one of those spots to a convicted murderer in his mid-60s, who will never pass the good character requirements to practice, and who violated his parole multiple times.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
How many Americans actually just straight-up starve to death?
In the latest data, from 2024, there were 22 cases.
And not even one of them was about poverty making it unaffordable to obtain food.
How many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck? How many are starving?
The answer to both questions is--despite what you might have heard from the news media--not many.
Link: cremieux.xyz/p/how-many-amer…
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
>be Lindsay
>successfully navigates Clinton, Bush, Obama, Tea party and MAGA era politics
>whole purpose in life is to glass the Middle East
>gayer than a $3 bill
>blows out hicklib backs for $120’s a go
>never admits it
>doesn’t elaborate
>dies
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
The Zizians, like many trans militants, believe it was “violence” if you didn’t use their pronouns, didn’t want them in your changing rooms, or opposed children being transitioned. Once you’ve been accused of “violence,” they believe the just course of action is your death.
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
Alberta has seen periods of rising separatist sentiment and western alienation in the past. What I watched this time was how our academic community addressed the phenomenon, in contrast to how academia approached it during its last “noisy wave” in the 1980s.
It really is a stark contrast and represents an indictment of the current state of intellectual curiosity in these publicly funded but ideologically captured institutions.
In 1982, Pratt and Stevenson assembled and edited a collection of essays, drawing on contributions from political scientists, journalists, and western activists, with the goal of understanding and explaining the phenomenon and offering insights and suggestions to strengthen the federation and build unity.
While any collection of essays brings forward different perspectives, the overall tenor and conclusion was that western alienation was structural, not emotional. It arose from underrepresentation in national institutions and limited influence over federal decision-making and participation in our national insitutions.
We saw an example of that last night on @CBC’s flagship show, @AtIssueCBC. Four panelists and a host, all living within the Montreal-to-Toronto hula hoop, serving up opinions for a Toronto-focused audience and offering “insight” into the referendum and polity without even bothering to platform a token Albertan or someone closer to the “hinterland.”
It was a small but telling demonstration of the very problem Pratt and Stevenson’s book identified and spoke to.
And they were the type of academics that would high-light that, regardless of their personal perspectives on the movement. They were true scholars observing and commenting favourably or unfavourably to one side or the other, but always true to the evidence.
As a whole, the book provided a useful assessment of the events and history that helped shape the analytical framework for the following 10 to 15 years precisely because it was above the fray and not partisan.
This time around, economists modelled the costs of separation, and that was helpful. But beyond that, we have not seen the same kind of dispassionate academic effort to understand and explain events objectively. Rather, the academic community kept score, immersed itself in partisan debates, and offered little of lasting value to the discussion. Certainly nothing prescriptive or analytical.
The contrast could not be greater.
I view that as a failure to meet the moment and serve the public and the community. In my opinion, it was a collective institutional failure.
[I am using Dr. Bratt’s post as it is an example of score keeping. But he had good company in this descriptive rather than broad analytical approach.]
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
The most heinous figures to emerge from all this foolishness are the telegenic bourgeois, fake-militants playing at revolution, like this girl pretending to have “nothing to lose” and being properly rebuked by an immigrant who simply wants to work hard and have a business.
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
The total unaccountability of Democrats and the press threatens the very fabric of a reality-based world in ways the most authoritarian rightwing President could not.
Unlike on the right, I don't see a single person in any position of power or authority trying to stop it.
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
Hey Alberta: It takes time to build a new country
Last night was an incredible opening shot! Imagine if @elonmusk quit after the 1st rocket exploded?
Federal response was based on fear
Ours is based on hope
plus we just doggy trained them to embrace direct democracy cutting out politicians entirely 😂
I love X because of posts like this. It’s unpublishable in book form. But it works on Twitter and I’m better off for having read it.
“The Simpsons” was a beloved animated sitcom that ran for ten legendary seasons and concluded in 1999. The show was celebrated for what was widely perceived as a near perfect run that wrapped before it wore out its concept and overstayed its welcome.
Creator Matt Groening and showrunner James L. Brooks famously decided to bring the show to a conclusion after experiencing the negative audience reaction to the season 9 episode “The Principal and the Pauper,” in which it was revealed that the school’s principal was actually an impostor who had stolen the real Seymour Skinner’s identity. Brooks did not want to sully the show’s legacy by doing a bunch of weird episodes as the franchise slid into mediocrity and cultural irrelevance, so the writers and cast decided instead to go out on top and end things on a high note.
However, because of its centrality in 90s pop culture, a long-running Internet joke is to pretend “The Simpsons” is still on the air, a premise that gets more absurd and deranged with each passing year. If this show were still producing new episodes, it would be in its 38th season now, and most of the voice cast would be in their 80s.
The joke is to imagine how distorted this charming show would have become if it had been stretched out to more than 800 episodes. Comedy posters on “weird Twitter” used to try to top each other by making up terrible ideas for what modern episodes of the show might be like.
For example, a viral 2012 tweet imagined an episode where Lady Gaga helps Lisa Simpson with her self esteem. In 2019, popular shitposter Megan Amram originated the premise of Bart Simpson becoming a men’s rights activist to protest a gender-swapped reboot of “Itchy and Scratchy.”
But perhaps the most elaborate Internet “Simpsons” joke was a 2017 YouTube mockumentary “The Problem With Apu,” in which the comedian Hari Kondabolu ironically pretended to be offended by the charming and innocuous convenience store owner character Apu.
Everyone thought this was hilarious, especially since the show had been off the air for nearly two decades when the mockumentary was released. So, Twitter ran with the joke by pretending to “cancel” Apu, and the viral gag memorably resulted in the character’s voice actor, Hank Azaria, recognizing the meme by promising never to perform the character again, which everybody thought was really funny since Azaria had been retired for years.
Now, nearly a decade later, fans are pretending that the show — which has now been off the air longer than most people tweeting about it have been alive— has brought back the “cancelled” character with a new racially-appropriate voice actor.
I actually don’t think this is that funny, and I kind of think the gag of pretending “The Simpsons” is still airing new episodes has overstayed its welcome, a mistake the actual show “The Simpsons” would never have made.
If you haven’t seen this 1990s classic, which — and I cannot emphasize this enough — ended after 10 seasons in 1999, you can watch all the episodes on Disney+ (except the one with Michael Jackson that got pulled from streaming).
Raoul_Duke_Nukem retweeted
7/ Racism, sexism & homophobia exist but are far less important factors in most people's hatred of each other than rivalry, antisocial behaviour, jealousy, cruelty, neglect & other interpersonal factors.
