Kulturkampf

[DavidCroquet]

What a confusing way to frame the Tweet!

"The World's Fair! 🤩"

[...]

"A grim reminder of the dominance of western colonialism, white-dominated patriarichal systems and global genocide agains people of color."

[Uncle]

every time a gazan sees a food truck in downtown Toronto, they immediately flash back to the horrors of aid trucks which became targets of israeli violence

BAN FOOD TRUCKS NOW

[HaughtyFrank]

[simiansmarts]

Taylor Lorenz and Laura Loomer are the same person and you can’t tell me otherwise

[Nintex]

Eric Adams is a real oddball politician and I feel like his oddities are not covered by the press nearly enough for some strange reason.

Not all heroes wear capes some fly on Turkish airlines

[Alpacx]

every time a gazan sees a food truck in downtown Toronto, they immediately flash back to the horrors of aid trucks which became targets of israeli violence

BAN FOOD TRUCKS NOW

Don't give Toronto City Council any ideas.

[simiansmarts]

Did you know Joanne guest wrote for SpongeBob in the 90s?  
 

[Uncle]

Did you know Joanne guest wrote for SpongeBob in the 90s?  
 

listening to this now with the context of the last decade, it literally sounds like he's taunting them

[Uncle]

benji posted misinformation in this thread and used his privileged status as administrator to erase all evidence of it

[Potato]

You can't just piss all over the French language like that...

[benji]

It was an actual article from 2022 about the Gamercide:

France's language watchdog has told government officials to use French gaming terms instead of English ones.

The Académie Française says "jeu video de competition" should replace "e-sports", and "streamer" should become "joueur-animateur en direct".

France's culture ministry told the AFP news agency that Anglicisms were "a barrier to understanding".

But gamers have criticised the ban, with one calling it "completely pointless".

France regularly issues warnings of the "debasement" of its language through imported English words.

Other official translations include "jeu video en nuage" for "cloud gaming".

[benji]

[Uncle]

this is a month old, but interesting, but 8 hours long, but still interesting

https://www.ftc.gov/media/dangers-gender-affirming-care-minors



curious what benji thinks about whether they have any jurisdiction or responsibility here, or if this was just an empty rally

the FTC's argument is that they weigh in on things like literal snake oil salesmen misleading the public about their product, so why not people who have been sold a lie about the efficacy of gender-affirming care?

about 20 times during the event, they mention the phrase "would you rather have a dead son or a live daughter" and how that plays on the most core of a parent's fears to coerce them into one specific course of action

they have several "panels" but none of them are really panel discussions, they just each talk in turn at length and then are maybe asked one question before moving on to the next thing, it is really a series of individual speakers

I think it's largely partisan in terms of the speakers there, but in general I didn't get the impression that anyone was misrepresenting what's occurring or outright lying, though there was ONE crazy lady talking about how a bunch of doctors should be in prison...it's funny how you can tell these people from their tone and the theatrical way they conduct themselves

there was at least one confirmed token liberal/lesbian in Jamie Reed (at 5:45:40), a gender clinic whistleblower who just couldn't take what she was doing to kids anymore; her brief speech was about the other angle that gay people deserve to exist in their sex/gender and be gay, and how we're transing away the gay population

if you don't listen to anything else, the lady at 5:54:10 is entertaining, she seems naive and generally non-confrontational and tells her story about how she got swept up in all this stuff as a bit of an outsider, and accidentally asked The Forbidden Questions

the starting section is also worth listening to, some powerful stories form people harmed by transition or attempts at transitioning them, such as a detransitioner at 35:40

some of it might be intentional emotional manipulation but overall it feels like a fact-based and well-argued event

[Alpacx]

We're talkin 'bout cheek swabs.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

Not to mention defining and controlling sports.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

"We should have athletes take a cheek swab to ensure men aren't competing in women's sport."

"OMG YOU WANT TO SEE MY GENITALS?! WHY ARE YOU SO OBSSESSED WITH MY GENITALS?! HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND THINKING ABOUT THE GENITALS OF CHILDREN?! YOU'RE OBSSESSED WITH MY GENITALS AND CHILDREN'S GENITALS! GENITALS!"

Why don't they ever mention trans boys? Because for some completely mysterious reason females aren't taking spots from male competitors.

[benji]

[benji]

I had forgot that the famous interview was partly because she claimed Glenn was trying to get her killed:

also lmao at the text at the front of this video and in the description  

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"Obviously I'm a person of color, obviously that's a reference to a noose."

Anyway, related:

[Alpacx]

[benji]

[Polident]

Was Taylor ever decent at her job? Why do people give her chances?

I learned way later she was also the avocado toast retard. That was eight years ago.

[benji]

She's a huge networker, but she no longer works for anybody. If her Substack/YouTuber career doesn't make it she'll probably find her way back into somewhere. All her jobs are more like LARPs because she's from a fairly wealthy family, plus the NYT/WaPo were paying her over six figures a year.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

"Obviously I'm a person of color, obviously that's a reference to a noose."

Anyway, related:

I am not litigious by nature, but I do really hate Taylor Lorenz.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Alpacx]

Many such cases 

[HaughtyFrank]

[Alpacx]

[Potato]

Guys, it's a climate emergency!!!

I can be swayed!

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Pretty sure they're AI, but who cares...