Politics Discussion

China Uncensored:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqqj_zHJQZo

> Trudeau Won’t Admit China Is Committing Genocide

https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1365426190035550210

A man has threatened to murder, torture and rape a woman and has spied on her. The government claims he's mentally ill so they won't lock him up.

https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/1367153085768863746

Sarah Silverman turns against Dems:

https://americanupdate.com/politics-and-culture/sarah-silverman-turns-on-democrats-says-she-doesnt-want-to-be-associated-with-any-party/

NYC is becoming a police state

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-nypd-hateful-noncriminal-conduct

> "I also think even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it's NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they've done was very hurtful to another person and could have ever repeated lead to criminal charges, that's another important piece of the puzzle," de Blasio suggested.

> A reporter asked how the NYPD would become involved in noncriminal cases.

> "It's NYPD or could be other agencies as well. But NYPD is a great example. One of the things officers are trained to do is to give warnings. If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it's perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them, to say that was not appropriate," de Blasio said. "And if you did that on a higher level, that would be a crime."

> "And I think that has an educating impact on people. I think it has a sobering impact that we need. … By the way, if something might be a crime, if it's not 100 percent clear, the NYPD is going to investigate, I assure you, if an NYPD officer who calls you or shows up at your door to ask about something you did that makes people think twice," he continued.

the US Special Operations Command has hired its first "Chief of Diversity & Inclusion" and the person appears to be a left-wing partisan

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/03/27/us-special-operations-command-welcomes-aboard-its-new-chief-of-diversity-and-inclusion-who-compared-trump-to-hitler/

https://twitter.com/united/status/1379426304857141250 :

> Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color. Learn more and apply now: https://unitedaviate.com/aviate-program-career-paths/united-aviate-academy/

https://twitter.com/ip_guy_/status/1381651461428244480

says NYT Iran reporter regularly whitewashes Iranian regime with misinformation. she also uses a bot on Twitter to block anyone who mentions her name using the Persian language (doesn't matter at all what you say, just name and language) cuz she got complaints from actual Iranians pointing out her lies and she doesn't want to listen to or engage with the people of the country she reports on.

http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4811045&mc=144&forum_id=2

> name a random thing and i'll link you an article about it being racist

he followed through and provided many article links

Tim Pool video: Democrats And BLM Literally Defend Child Knife Fights In Order To Justify Abolishing Police

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A left-wing guy who likes civilization writes about horrible things going on in Portland:

https://unherd.com/2021/04/how-anarchists-captured-portland/

Basecamp announced a new policy today: "No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account". Wesley Yang commented about this on Twitter:

> Basecamp was reputed to be the most aggressively woke company in SV; really curious what it must have been like to induce this reversal -- no more political convos, no more committees: "Back to basics, back to individual responsibility, back to work" https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5 [screenshot of text below]

>> 1. No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account. Today's social and political waters are especially choppy. Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant. You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target. These are difficult enough waters to navigate in life, but significantly more so at work. It's become too much. It's a major distraction. It saps our energy, and redirects our dialog towards dark places. It's not healthy, it hasn't served us well. And we're done with it on our company Basecamp account where the work happens. People can take the conversations with willing co-workers to Signal, Whatsapp, or even a personal Basecamp account, but it can't happen where the work happens anymore. Update: David has shared some more details and more of the internal announcement on his HEY World blog.

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>> 2. No more paternalistic benefits. For years we've offered a fitness benefit, a wellness allowance, a farmer's market share, and continuing education allowances. They felt good at the time, but we've had a change of heart. It's none of our business what you do outside of work, and it's not Basecamp's place to encourage certain behaviors — regardless of good intention. By providing funds for certain things, we're getting too deep into nudging people's personal, individual choices. So we've ended these benefits, and, as compensation, paid every employee the full cash value of the benefits for this year. In addition, we recently introduced a 10% profit sharing plan to provide direct compensation that people can spend on whatever they'd like, privately, without company involvement or judgement.

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>> 3. No more committees. For nearly all of our 21 year existence, we were proudly committee-free. No big working groups making big decisions, or putting forward formalized, groupthink recommendations. No bureaucracy. But recently, a few sprung up. No longer. We're turning things back over to the person (or people) who were distinctly hired to make those decisions. The responsibility for DEI work returns to Andrea, our head of People Ops. The responsibility for negotiating use restrictions and moral quandaries returns to me and David. A long-standing group of managers called "Small Council" will disband — when we need advice or counsel we'll ask individuals with direct relevant experience rather than a pre-defined group at large. Back to basics, back to individual responsibility, back to work.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1386903154915258371

Victor Davis Hanson, The New Antiracism Is the Old Racism, *American Greatness* (April 25, 2021):

> So Elie Mystal writing in the Nation lectures the country that “White people haven’t improved; I’ve just been able to limit my exposure to them.”[...]

> Damon Young, a senior editor of The Root and an occasional New York Times contributor, adds, “Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people”

> Note the telltale verb “infests.”

> Substitute “Jewishness” for “whiteness,” and it would not be inflammatory to say that Young’s piece would have been normal fare for Der Stürmer circa 1935. Obviously, if whiteness is destroying all aspects of natural and human life, then what should be done about such an infestation—other than destroying the existential toxin’s source?

> Almost daily we read that requiring an ID to vote, in the manner of cashing a check, getting a vaccination, or boarding a flight, is white-perpetuated Jim Crow racism. The new farm bill will not allow strapped white farmers to apply for help. The city of Oakland will not extend aid to poor whites in a new pilot program. Note in the latter case there is no pretense of “white privilege” other than in minority-majority Oakland the absurd assumption that impoverished whites there are more privileged than poor nonwhites.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/does-ocean-acidification-alter-fish-behavior-fraud-allegations-create-sea-doubt

Studies saying that ocean acidification affects fish behaviour were fraudulent.