These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right.’

These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right.’

An admission by leftie Jill Filipovic:

One of the things I’ve really changed my mind on is public order enforcement. I think a lot of liberals (like me) assumed people do things like turnstile-jumping were poor or just kids, but it seems like actually, a small number of people just do a lot of antisocial shit.

Coddled Affluent Professional:

These people will scream at you that you’re a moral leper, for years, decades even, right up to the millisecond they realize, ‘Gee, that’s actually right,’ at which point the belief instantaneously becomes reasonable to have.

Commenters:

I love how it’s always “I’ve changed my mind.” It’s never “I was wrong and my behavior was terrible.” …

Never an admission of the untold damage that they’ve done to the national fabric before coming around to the truth. …

And the funniest part is that they can go through this process innumerable times, but it won’t stop them from morally grandstanding on whichever liberal opinions they have remaining

Bo Winegrad:

Very difficult for egalitarians to accept that some humans are innately impulsive, manipulative, callous, violent. Criminals often are not innocent victims of society; they are wicked and were born that way. Civilization must protect itself from barbarism.

Very difficult for white middle class Westerners — especially those who went to university — to accept that people are not all the same, that rest of the world is not like WIERD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) people, that much of behavior is genetic (so importing people does not make them like us), and that most of the rest of the world are not empathetic to strangers and did not develop high trust societies.

We are the strange, successful minority.

Kendric Tonn:

You’ll miss the American, who deals sharply but cheats no one, who is tougher than the thugs and cleverer than the tricksters, who says “I can do it” when others shrug, and who respects learning but is suspicious of those claiming to be learned, when the last one dies.

Australian elites are eroding Australian values

Australian elites are eroding Australian values. By David Pearl, in The Australian.

Let’s consider the shocking and unexpected rise of antisemitism in this country since the slaughter of 1200 Jews by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

While this form of hatred has always been with us, before that day it was no more than a niche, underground phenomenon. You could find it in a handful of mosques in western Sydney, the odd elite university lecture theatre, and among local neo-Nazis, but virtually nowhere else.

Yet today, antisemitism has been mainstreamed and even glorified under the guise of hostility to Israel and Zionists.

Elite promotion of antisemitism:

Why? Because our local elites have looked the other way, and in some cases even promoted it, with our elite university vice-chancellors the worst culprits and few top people in corporate, public service or cultural circles bothering to speak up (until Bondi shamed a small number of them into action).

Nor has there been any leadership shown by our law enforcement officials and political leaders, with NSW Premier Chris Minns an honourable exception.

The pro-Palestinian demonstrations:

When I look at footage of the pro-Palestinian rallies, I don’t see any Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese or African faces. Nor do I see tradies or other working-class Australians.

Aside from the usual contingent of Muslim radicals, the vast majority appear to be white, upper-middle class university students – our future progressive elite. 

Our elites obviously hate us and our society:

The pernicious influence of local elites extends well beyond the rise of antisemitism.

For decades now, they have been peddling an imported, hateful progressive ideology that has eaten away at the foundations of our social cohesion and cultural inheritance. Our patriotism. Our sense of community. And our distinctive Australian creedal values.

They have assaulted the distinctive brand of Australian patriotism that emerged after World War 1 – less demonstrative and historically obsessed than that of Americans; less triumphalist than the British version. Instead, they teach our children that our history is shameful and something to apologise for.

They have undermined our sense of being a single, cohesive community — ethnically, racially and economically diverse, but all of us at heart Australians — by dividing us into a rigid hierarchy of identity groups with conflicting outlooks, ambitions and interests. ..

They sneer at and seek to undermine what I call the Australian creed – our instinctive egalitarianism and mateship, our love of freedom, our tolerance of difference, our respect for merit and character, and our healthy suspicion of authority.

In the interests of social justice, they tell us we must sacrifice our political freedoms; including the freedom of speech, the idea of equality before the law and (with the voice) equal democratic rights.

They started with feminism, then copied that success into forming many other identity groups. Now they are even importing new, incompatible identity groups, and they have abandoned assimilation.

Classic liberalism and individual responsibility is almost dead now. Our elites have returned us to the long tradition of tribal polics and groups. What a big step backward.

The big political achievement of the last few centuries, first in Britain then in Europe and North America, was to hold the individual above the group, to break away from tribal polics. This enabled the modern world. And now our midwit nincompoops are throwing it away.

Deeply frustrated at throwing away a beautiful country

Deeply frustrated at throwing away a beautiful country. By Alexandra Marshall.

For 200 years, our nation accelerated forward into one of the most extraordinary nations.

Then assimilation was replaced by mass migration and multiculturalism.

And now we are fighting — desperately — just to claw back the nation we had 30 years.

We’re not just going backwards, we’re being dragged towards a terrifying, foreign culture that treats women like property and freedom as a sin.

It is truly terrifying to watch your culture collapse to the applause of deranged activists.

And:

More than anything, I just want this barbaric foreign Middle Eastern politics OUT OF OUR COUNTRY AND OFF OUR STREETS.

Why do we have to put up with this?

Commenters:

The terrifying thing to me is that once it goes in our countries, it will never come back, and there is no place to run to….

I want the Australia back I grew up in. No one voted for this.

Our high-trust society is evaporating. So foreseeable, so foreseen. But no, the lefties wouldn’t listen, because facts are secondary to money, power, and appearing virtuous.

The demonstrators who don’t give a damn about rule of law

The demonstrators who don’t give a damn about rule of law. By Mick Keelty, former Australian Federal Police commissioner.

On December 20, 2023, Anthony Albanese delivered an address at the Sydney Town Hall … George Street was closed by the NSW Police Force while about 500 demonstrators did their best to drown out the Prime Minister’s address. …

It was clear that many had attended the demonstration not knowing what it was about. Some were climate activists from Extinction Rebellion, some were there to protest against the war in Gaza and others had come just to take part. …

Demonstrating to hurt people, rather than for a policy:

In Melbourne we witnessed something never before seen at any of the demonstrations I have experienced in almost 40 years of policing.

Demonstrations at the National Gallery of Victoria in July last year featured placards bearing the name of a prominent Jewish family and the chanting of their name in an attempt by demonstrators to eliminate any link between Jewish community philanthropy and the arts. To me, this was a watershed moment.

I had seen these demonstrations evolve into a lynch-mob mentality with a total misunderstanding of their purpose.

There was no longer a pro-Palestinian objective. Instead the protests had evolved to become “let’s attack any Jewish connection to our city of Melbourne, including our art gallery”.

Should have nipped them in the bud:

On Monday night in Sydney, we witnessed something that should not go unnoticed. I am not speaking about the footage of the police responding to demonstrators in the crowd.

I am referring to the fact that since 2023 we have allowed these demonstrations to go unchecked as the numbers and the impact grew.

When people join in great numbers with a common purpose, the group dynamics are almost impossible to manage. …

The law doesn’t apply to middle and upper class lefties, or to Muslims (notice that they were the only groups at the demonstrations). The justice system is administered by middle and upper class lefties, and Muslims are their mascots of the day — so the virtuous can distinguish themselves from normies, and run normy noses in it:

To the demonstrators the rule of law has become irrelevant. Negotiations on routes for demonstrations are ignored and seen as a sign of weakness by the organisers. …

 

 Reminder: it’s against the law to touch, obstruct, disobey and resist police who are exercising their lawful duty.

 

While the footage of a police officer punching a demonstrator is unfamiliar — and highly distressing — to most Australians, let’s not lose sight of how we got here. …

We won’t be able to arrest our way out of this situation. I cannot imagine how any police force will be able to manage a crowd of thousands chanting “From the river to the sea”. …

We should not lose sight of the fact that the footage from that demonstration in Sydney is precisely what Hamas and Hezbollah want to see.

That circuit-breaker must come from the national cabinet and it needs to happen soon.

Capital tax gain reform in Australia

Capital tax gain reform in Australia? By Judith Sloan in The Australian.

Plenty of countries do not tax capital gains. New Zealand doesn’t have one. Singapore doesn’t have one. It is highly concessional in the US. When the UK increased its rate of capital gains tax, the revenue raised fell significantly. Our current rate of capital gains tax is high by international standards. …

Increasing the tax burden on investors will, all things being equal, lead to lower investment. Investment is the basis of productivity improvement. …

The second point to note is that capital gains tax should only apply to real (after inflation) gains. This was the case from the start of our capital gains tax, although the clunky use of annual CPI adjustment was replaced by the simple discount of 50 per cent at the beginning of the century. (For a time, investors could choose between the two methods.) …

Our muddle-headed government of the envious:

It’s about intergenerational equity; it’s about the unfairness of the system; it’s about increasing the rate of home ownership. In other words, it’s the vibe, rather than the facts.

Treasury’s estimates of the cost of this discount are completely bonkers …

Taxation doesn’t have much effect on housing prices:

Rising house prices are a global phenomenon; the answer is unlikely to be just about arcane features of our tax system. It should also be noted that the capital gains tax and negative gearing arrangements have been in place much longer than the rapid rise in house prices.

Ask any sensible economist about dealing with housing affordability and the answer will always be the same: increase supply. And the need to increase supply is made more urgent when the population is growing strongly — because of immigration, in our case. …

The crucial challenge is to raise the rate of productivity growth:

Australia currently ranks 16 out of 24 advanced economies when it comes to the level of labour productivity.

How the Swedish are beating Muslim Crime Gangs

How the Swedish are beating Muslim Crime Gangs. By James Rothwell in The Telegraph.

Famed for its openness and slower pace of life, Sweden is one of the last places you might expect to see children being pulled off the streets and searched without a warrant, or having their phones spied on by detectives.

But after four years of gang violence that has seen children as young as 12 recruited on social media to carry out hit jobs against rival gangsters, police say it has become a grim but necessary reality.

In April 2024, Swedish police were handed sweeping new powers to tackle the rise of Middle Eastern drug syndicates that were grooming boys and girls into being “foot soldiers” by offering them up to 150,000 kroner (£12,500) per job.

Across Swedish cities, officers now have the power to stop and search people — including children — and vehicles without specific suspicion of a crime …

Children under the age of 15 can also be placed under phone and internet surveillance by police if they are suspected of serious crimes, such as being involved in gang assassinations or bomb making.

It’s working:

Two years on, the laws — which had prompted outcry amongst liberals — are working. Sweden has seen the biggest decline in gun violence since the crisis began in 2022, according to the latest data.

The number of shootings in Sweden fell by 63 per cent in 2025 with 147 last year compared to a peak of 390 in 2022, when narcotics gang Foxtrot began a major, deadly power struggle with its rivals

Murder and manslaughter rates have also fallen to their lowest level in a decade, in a country that recently suffered from the second-highest gun-related death rate in the European Union. …

Surprise success of the bleeding obvious — let the police do their job:

Arrests of senior Foxtrot members in the Middle East, anonymous witness testimonies and the lowering of the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 13 have also been credited with the major decline of shootings.

Yet it is the safe zones’ success that is perhaps the most surprising element of Sweden’s achievement, considering how grossly unpopular they were among campaigners and rights groups. Civil liberty campaigners had warned against the racial profiling of civilians, while the United Nations called the measures “repugnant and illegal”.

In virtually all cases, Sweden’s safe zones target neighbourhoods where residents come from a migration background, as this is the main recruiting pool for Foxtrot gangsters who seek out alienated youths who are easy to manipulate.

Under the new scheme, officers are allowed to pick out children based on clues that they might be involved in a gang, such as wearing clothing brands associated with that lifestyle. …

“Some were scared that it would be a form of discrimination, but what was interesting was that most of the people who live in these areas have a foreign background, and they responded positively to it,” Carin Götblad, a police chief in Stockholm, told The Telegraph.

Of course, this approach depends on having an honest police force.

hat-tip Stephen Neil

So Much of Liberalism Really is Them Pretending Not to Understand Things

So Much of Liberalism Really is Them Pretending Not to Understand Things. By John Hawkins.

“It’s amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.” — Millenial Woes.

Talking to liberals about political issues is nearly impossible, not just because they think disagreeing with them makes you de facto evil, but because they’re constantly feigning stupidity about so many things. Don’t get me wrong; liberals often truly believe completely ridiculous things, but they also frequently pretend not to understand the most basic concepts.

For example, on trans:

  • They pretend you can just change your sex at will.
  • They pretend not to comprehend that they’re encouraging kids to do this in schools.
  • They pretend that there’s no difference between letting a man or a woman share a female locker room, bathroom, a women’s shelter, or a prison.
  • They pretend there’s no physical difference between men and women, so it’s fine for men to compete in women’s athletics.

Everything about it is them pretending not to recognize things every child grasps about men and women.

They pretend not to understand what you’re talking about:

When you point out to liberals that defunding the police and allowing criminals to break the law endlessly without putting them in jail leads to a lot more crime, they pretend not to understand what you’re talking about. They don’t even say, “Why surely the guy who has been arrested 40 times is about to turn it around and become an upstanding citizen,” you just get a shoulder shrug, as if it’s something out of their control, like whether it rains or gets dark at night.

 

 

They are unable to perceive why white people don’t want to be discriminated against with DEI programs.

They can’t get why decent people wouldn’t want pervy drag queens reading to their kids.

They don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to block traffic, tear down statues, or deface art just because they feel like it. …

Try explaining your problem with the idea of manmade global warming, socialism, or the dangers of refusing to secure the border, and they just don’t get it. Somehow, they claim that they can’t understand what you mean.

Why they pretend:

How do you have a dialogue with people who behave like this? You don’t, which is exactly how they like it.

You see, these people have tied their whole identities to ideas they can’t intellectually defend. What happens if they have a real and honest debate? They’ll have to admit that the other side isn’t just evil; they’re actually right about a lot of things and have good points. Guess what happens if you’re a liberal and you admit that?

Well, the left is closer to a religion than an ideology these days, and if you stray from their doctrine, your friends and allies start treating you like a heretic. Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and JK Rowling could tell you all about it.

Governance and democracy are breaking down:

The problem with all of this is that it makes it impossible to simply talk our issues out. They don’t care about logic or who wins a debate; they just know what they know, and they find a way to not understand anything that contradicts what they know.

Facts are secondary to group interests, money for team-left, and virtue signaling.

The left has become psychotic and dangerous

The left has become psychotic and dangerous. By William Jacobson.

I think people underestimate how psychotic and dangerous the left has become, and not just at the national level.

I have “friends” from high school and college on FB posting about how Trump is going to cancel the midterms and worse. Mass psychosis. …

Danielle Jurinsky on a tantrum when they couldn’t get their way over others:

I run a business. A sports bar, JJ’s Place. Yesterday 80% of the bar wanted the Turning point halftime show. The rest wanted Bad Bunny. To accommodate I put the TV’s on half and half.

The 20% started [i.e. the leftists] canceling the orders, taking to social media calling me a racist, being disrespectful to my staff …. Mind you the 80% who wanted the Turning Point halftime show weren’t happy that Bad Bunny stayed on, but they didn’t leave me a bad review, take to social media, cancel their orders, or disrespect my staff.

Minneapolis yoga students berate instructors, demand they condemn ICE in wild video — and company caves. By Georgia Worrell in The New York Post.

Enraged spandex-clad customers at a Minneapolis CorePower Yoga studio berated staffers for being “complicit” in the federal immigration crackdown during a caught-on-camera clash last weekend — demanding that they immediately condemn ICE.

 

 

Video of the clash posted to social media by Heather Anderson, who claims to have been a regular at the location for nearly a decade, shows at least 13 women “spontaneously” facing off against two female staffers inside the studio’s lobby after a Sunday class let out.

In response to the incident, the Denver-based yoga chain banned Anderson — but otherwise caved to the mob and is putting up anti-ICE signs in its studios.

But then, says Tim Young:

The ugly hags that harassed the staff at the yoga studio are banned for life.

The studio changed it’s mind to stand by their staff, and cancelled the lefty customers instead. Give in to them once, and you invite being berated on issue after issue.

 

 

Our Australian lefties will follow suit. See those demonstrations against the Israeli President in Sydney yesterday? Violent and crazy.

I Come To Bury Howard

I Come To Bury Howard. By David Archibald.

Howard’s last dark deed, after he lost the September 2007 election, was to pass the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act. To put that in context, when he was a teenager Howard used to cross Sydney to sit at the knee of Sir Philip Baxter, former head of the Australian Energy Commission, and hear of the wonders of nuclear energy. As an elected politician, he became a one-man sleeper cell of nuclear advocacy.

In private conversations, Howard used to call global warming nonsense. Nevertheless, he worked towards bringing in a carbon tax. He wanted Australia to adopt nuclear energy. To force Australia to that result, he needed to make coal-fired power generation more expensive. He was being two-faced and too cute. The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act was the accounting basis for the tax. The idea was to bring it in, settle it down over a couple of years and then start taxing.

Some 1,000 Australian companies continue to report their carbon consumption under that act. The total cost of employing all the accountants for this may be of the order of $500 million per annum. All of which is wasted.

Read it all.

Cambridge University Erases Anglo-Saxons From History and Other News From the UK

Cambridge University Erases Anglo-Saxons From History and Other News From the UK. By Basil the Great.

Amelia wasn’t the only person created by the UK Government for their stupid game

There was also the Muslim counsellor you were forced to endure

Well she’s getting meme’d now

 

 

Keir Starmer says he wants to DIVERSIFY the Countryside

Amelia says keep the countryside British!

 

 

Mark W.:

Q: What is it that has driven the rise of the French far right in the past 20 years?

Michel Houellebecq: “Immigration, and also, the total scorn of the elites.”

 

Cambridge University Erases Anglo-Saxons From History

They hate us
These people want to destroy not just our country
But our entire history

They must be stopped

 

 

Feminist ideology on fertility is a fail

Feminist ideology on fertility is a fail. By Belle de Jour.

For reference, I’m a Gen Z girl living in a large coastal city in the United States. Most of the other girls my age that I know are not even in committed relationships, let alone married with a kid like me. A majority of them seem to languish in the depths of the dreaded ‘situationship’.

The wounds seem to be self-inflicted, though. Only about 45% of women in the USA aged 18 to 34 say that they want children, whereas just less than two-thirds of men that age do. Around 30% of Gen Z women specifically don’t want kids. Of the Gen Z girls that I know, those who do say they want kids are really vague about when they want that to happen. …

f you live on a farm, kids are cheap labor, so you have as many of them as you can. When a nation industrializes, people move to cities and live in apartments and work in factories. Children become expensive luxuries, so people naturally have fewer of them.

I think that he is broadly correct, but the picture is a bit more nuanced. There are certainly cultural factors at play. …

Dr. Henderson writes about “Girlboss Gatekeeping“, where encouraging other women to forgo having children and focus on their careers may be an evolutionary strategy to keep the number of children low so that there are more resources available for one’s own.

I can relate to this since when I was in college, everyone talked about what they wanted their careers to be, but it seemed almost verboten to mention starting a family. … Women who identify as conservative are more likely to desire or have children. …

I’ve come to realize that so many of the things that we were told or that I used to believe ended up being untrue. That people are born as a “blank slate”. That men and women are the same. That human beings, and by extension, societies are perfectible. That variation in outcomes must be the result of oppression.

If you had talked to me in college, I would have said that I had no interest in marriage or a family. I was all about my career. Things change, though. I met a guy, fell in love, got married, and soon enough, had a baby. I thought that dropping out of my PhD program would have felt more traumatic, but I actually didn’t stress about it all that much. I guess technically I’m on sabbatical, and I could go back eventually, but I probably won’t. I’ve come to realize that lack of ambition doesn’t make me a bad person. I simply have different priorities now. The fact that I’ll never have the word “doctor” in front of my name doesn’t sting that much. …

A brief return to the “girlboss gatekeeping” — I’m really glad my boss is a man. Indeed, I work in STEM, and the majority of people that I work with and in my field in general are men. Of course, things tend to get much shittier when women take them over.

A final thought on fertility has to do with the fact that for a significant portion of young women, it would be embarrassing to be a stay-at-home mom. Choosing motherhood many times means not choosing status. At least not in the way that current society defines it. If you’re wealthy and don’t have to work, then having lots of kids can be a flex, but most people aren’t in that situation. I don’t think that having working parents is bad for kids. In addition to my father working full time, my mother worked a full-time job throughout most of my childhood. It’s probably more important that kids grow up in an intact family with both a mother and a father in the household.

What has mass immigration ever done for us?

What has mass immigration ever done for us? By Jonatan Pallesen.

– “The raping?”

“What?”

– “The raping”

“Oh yeah yeah. They do rape an awful lot that’s true yes.”

– “And the welfare costs”

– “Oh yes the welfare costs, Reg. The unemployment benefits alone.”

“Ok, I will grant you the raping, and the welfare costs, are two bad things mass immigration have done for us.”

– “And the terrorism”

“Oh yeah obviously the terrorism. I mean the terrorism goes without saying. But apart from the raping, the welfare costs, and the terrorism…”

– “Violent crime”

– “Honor killings”

– “Car bombings

“Yeah, you are all right, fair enough.”

– “Burqas”

– [nodding among the group] “Yeah, that is something we’d really not miss if the immigrants left.”

– “Political support for bad economic policies.”

– “And it’s less safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.”

Ok, but apart from the raping, the welfare costs, the terrorism, the violent crime, the honor killings, the car bombings, the burqas, political support for bad economic policies and the unsafe streets, what bad has mass immigration ever done for us?

 

The taboo on studying race and intelligence drives hatred against white people

The taboo on studying race and intelligence drives hatred against white people. By Stefan Molyneux.

The taboo on studying race and intelligence is to inflame ethnic tensions and and drive hatred against white people for evolutionary differences that are no one’s fault at all.

If everyone’s the same, then different racial outcomes is evidence of racism. But if people are different, then the left is barking mad and dangerously wrecking society.

Comments:

The leftist order can’t coexist with the reality that there are biological differences between both races and individuals. It would force them to accept that there is a scientific basis for eugenics, and thus their secular devil, Hitler, wasn’t 100% wrong about everything. …

In the social sciences, there are probably no studies more consistent and repeatable than those that measure IQ by race. …

Mankinds gene pool is a vast tapestry with unique contrasts and capabilites (intelliectual and emotional) granted for each ethnic group and race it should be celebrated this diversity is great insurance policy for mankinds survival against a mass extinction event. …

[“Closing the gap”?] No one is allowed to say why the gap exists.

Support for market economics is rare; immigration from the third world smothers it

Support for market economics is rare; immigration from the third world smothers it. By Hunter Ash.

In humanity’s long past, socialism and sharing within the tribe was the norm. We are genetically socialist. Stagnation ruled until the agricultural revolution, which changed everything. With agriculture, natural selection favored societies with private property and the great motivation it provides to be industrious and inventive. We learned that the inequalities produced by private property and markets made us all wealthier and better off, and most of us learned to be relatively relaxed about it. In the last couple of centuries, we even broke through the Malthusian limit (at least for now).

But, like many other human traits, the genetic and cultural predisposition towards private property and market economics is not evenly distributed. It is really only strong among whites (and even then, apparently only half the population). It is patchy or almost non-existent elsewhere. So, what happens when mass immigration is inflicted on white societies, duh?

Many economists have a weird blindness to this: immigrants don’t just come and participate in our system. They also change the system.

All major immigrant groups favor more socialist policies than White Americans. Whatever marginal economic gains citizens enjoy from immigration would be totally dwarfed by the cost of enacting the policies immigrants say they support (on average).

Even when a particular group of first-gen immigrants is very anti-communist, like Cubans or Vietnamese, we see the second gen revert to socialism.

Support for market economies is extremely rare globally. If we lose power here, it’s a catastrophe.

Gorm the Young:

The reason the migrant generation ‘aren’t socialist’ it’s because they experienced it directly … their baseline genetics will always favor it because they aren’t W.E.I.R.D… hence the quick and immediate reversion to baseline.