Kulturkampf

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I may read her book now.

https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-book-tour-left-election-denialism.html

‘She’s the President. She Won.’ The “bluelulu” crowd at the first night of Kamala Harris’s book tour nearly convinced me the election was stolen.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I will never understand the India love for Israel. 

[Besticus Maximus]

I will never understand the India love for Israel. 

They were colonised by muslims for 800 years and are very touchy about it by and large

[Nintex]

I'll ask my Indian developer next time. He's doing a great job.

[Potato]

I will never understand the India love for Israel. 

It's the Aryan connection 

[HaughtyFrank]

Really makes you wonder how much of the Internet culture war is a India - Pakistan proxy war

[Polident]

At the rate things have been going, when they roll out quarantined internets by country, most people will welcome it.

[benji]

[Nintex]

Custers last stand on Atari was consensual

[Eric Cartman]

is it helpful in countering 'the narrative' that that festival crowd shot at the end looks suuuuuuuuuuuuuper upper middle class white american?

[HaughtyFrank]

Something I don't really understand about the literal "twitter police" in the UK is why they're straight up performing night raids over twitter posts. No one can tell me that this is an urgent arrest. No one can tell me that this isn't something that could be handled with a phone call or a letter. Instead they're dead set on making the UK look like a poor man's version of 1984 with some bumbling police man telling you that you "upset someone on the internet"

I guess it's good in some way since it's much more public and gets people talking about it but it's also just strangely incompetent to me

[Rendle]

You never hear about people tweeting "Fuck Israel. Fuck the IDF. Fuck Jews" being arrested either. Not that I think those people should be arrested for expressing a toxic opinion, but targetting a particular group and ignoring the other makes it an order of magnitude worse.

[benji]

Something I don't really understand about the literal "twitter police" in the UK is why they're straight up performing night raids over twitter posts. No one can tell me that this is an urgent arrest. No one can tell me that this isn't something that could be handled with a phone call or a letter. Instead they're dead set on making the UK look like a poor man's version of 1984 with some bumbling police man telling you that you "upset someone on the internet"

Don't worry, they're not the only country that does this against violent hate:
https://reduxx.info/maori-woman-facing-jail-time-after-being-reported-to-police-by-trans-activist-for-offensive-social-media-posts/

A Māori women’s rights advocate in New Zealand is facing prison time after being reported to police by a trans-identified male for her social media posts. Rex Landy, a member of Mana Wāhine Kōrero, was arrested in December of 2024 after being targeted by a trans activist who took issue with her online commentary.

The source of the complaints against Landy is a fantasy author named Daniel Johnston, a man who identifies as “female” and refers to himself by the name “Caitlin Spice.” Speaking to Reduxx, Landy explains that she first became aware of Johnston in 2019 after she discovered that he had participated in having Broadsheet, a women’s issues magazine, suspended on Facebook.

“All they had done was post some quotes of his where he said things like ‘I am a legal female’ and boasted about being able to use the women’s washrooms,” Landy says. “They had to fight to get their account back.”

Broadsheet had warned their readers about Johnston, noting that he “delights in taunting feminists who are defending women’s rights.”

While it is unclear when Johnston began to “identify” as a woman, he first started attracting attention on social media for making graphic posts about his vaginoplasty and use of women’s restrooms. On his now-deleted X (then Twitter), Johnston would frequently make comments about his post-surgical fluid leakage, dilation, and use of women’s menstrual products.



Johnston would gain popularity amongst his fellow trans activists, with many of his posts targeting women critical of gender ideology going viral in trans circles. On his social media, Johnston also spoke out against the existence of biological sex, insisting that humans can medically change their chromosomes, and fantasized about undergoing a uterus implant so that he might “give birth” to his own child.

I remember this incredible tweet, one of the first all-time trans Twitter classics I saw.  

Johnston filed a police report, complaining about social media posts Landy had made indirectly referencing him. In mid-2022, Landy received a phone call from police concerning Johnston’s report.

“The original complaint went through five sergeants,” Landy says, emphasizing the amount of police labor that went into handling Johnston’s grievance against her.

During the call, police advised Landy that she was required to refer to Johnston as a “woman” and respect his self-declared gender identity.

“They told me I had to stop saying what I was saying. I told them I’d take that into consideration, and I said ‘good day!’ The very next day I received a written warning in the post threatening that they had enough to charge me under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015.”

In September of 2024, Landy received a court order instructing her to remove all posts she had made directly or indirectly referencing Johnston. At the time, Landy was in the midst of a family tragedy and felt unable to put up a fight against the order.

“I went and I removed them all, or so I thought. I deleted my entire Gettr profile, and I searched my other accounts for wherever I had mentioned his name and deleted them. But I missed two by accident,” Landy says.

On December 18, 2024, police raided Landy’s home and arrested her.

“They said I had failed to comply with the order because I had missed those two posts. They took my laptops, cellphones, everything,” Landy recalls. She was taken to the station and formally charged with failing to obey a Harmful Digital Communications Act order.

On September 18, just one day before she was ordered to appear in court, Landy was hit with yet another count of failing to obey a Harmful Digital Communications Act order after Johnston told police that she had subtly referenced him during a past Facebook livestream – something she says is untrue.

While in court last week, Landy was told the prosecution was not willing to entertain diversion or discharge without conviction because of her beliefs.

“They said I was not eligible because I was in the ‘grip of an ideology’ and was ‘unlikely to change my mind,'” Landy explains, rejecting the premise that a belief in biological sex is ideological. “So this is an exercise in them trying to get me to change my mind.”

She is next expected to appear in court on December 16, and faces three months in jail or a $50,000 fine. Her current bail conditions include a ban on directly or indirectly contacting Johnston.

Landy is a member of Mana Wāhine Kōrero, an Indigenous women’s rights group active in criticizing the impact of gender ideology. The organization was founded by her sister, Di Landy, and Michelle Uriarau. On their website, the organization states that its mission “seeks to protect, preserve and uphold the mana of Wāhine, Tamariki and Māoritanga from 4th Industrial Revolution developments such as gender identity, transgenderism, transhumanism and dehumanisation which distorts and misrepresents our Reo, our Whakapapa, our Tikanga and our Tipuna.” The group’s name translates to Sovereign Women Speak.

“We are, as far as we know, the only Indigenous group fighting gender ideology today. We are engaged in a battle for our culture,” Landy says. “The rich Māori at the top, who claim to speak for all of us, are just grifters who go along with it. They say things like ‘we have transvestites in our culture, in our genealogy,’ and to them I say: If any man cut his dick off 200 years ago, he wouldn’t be my ancestor, would he?”

“In our culture, women are te whare tangata, which means the house of the ancestors. Only women give birth. Only women can do the karanga, only women can call out to the spirits. Māori know what a woman is.”

[benji]

Listening and learning:

[benji]

[benji]

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

 

[HaughtyFrank]

And while the UK keeps arresting people for tweets the charges against kneecap got thrown out because the guy in charge made an "error"

Police and prosecutors were one day too late in getting Attorney General’s approval for case against Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

wow, way to dismiss the very real impacts of differentiated socio-economic factors in the lives of intestinal mouse parasites. 

Ya'll ain't slick.

[Alpacx]

wow, way to dismiss the very real impacts of differentiated socio-economic factors in the lives of intestinal mouse parasites. 

Ya'll ain't slick.

"Parasites"? Nazi language much?

[HaughtyFrank]

[Uncle]

I short-circuited someone's brain once when I asked if people who identified as males should be allowed to use women's restrooms

like just a regular normal cis male who identified as male, should he be allowed in women's restrooms

the default instinct now is complete capitulation, to say that no one should be restricted from going anywhere regardless of how they look or identify

they got really angry with me because they realized how ridiculous their gut instincts had become on this subject, and said it sounded like a right wing talking point



what I'm saying is, I encourage others to ask this question

[Rendle]

Personally I don't think anyone should be able to get into the bathroom while i'm in there, and if they can then it's been designed wrong.

[Nintex]

Only soys chuds and women use bathrooms.

Real men, real men use the DUNE sandworm popcorn bucket 

[benji]

Personally I don't think anyone should be able to get into the bathroom while i'm in there, and if they can then it's been designed wrong.

[benji]

[Alpacx]

Remember when The Onion was funny?

[Rendle]

It used to counter-culture, now I feel like most people are sick of counter-culture because it feels preachy and hack and not subversive or shocking like it used to be.