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Guest post: Until the machine in which they’re a ghost gets unplugged by some janitor

Feb 25th, 2024 11:44 am | By

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on It’s a holy confusion.

Their dream is to achieve “immortality” by storing their consciousnesses in digital form, existing eternally as ghosts in the machine.

And if someone was an asshole in life, then they’ll be an asshole forever. Or at least until the machine in which they’re a ghost gets unplugged by some janitor.

Whether this sort of extreme transhumanism motivates any significant portion of Genderism’s supporters notwithstanding, a fundamental mind-body disconnect is shared between them.

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Godalmighty. What do they think would be the point without a body? I can’t imagine anything more horrendous.

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Heading for day zero

Feb 25th, 2024 10:24 am | By

A pin in the map of global climate disaster:

Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.

Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.

“Several neighborhoods have suffered from a lack of water for weeks, and there are still four months left for the rains to start,” said Christian

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Guard the opening

Feb 25th, 2024 10:09 am | By

American Taliban.

Yes it definitely shouldn’t be controversial to say that half of humanity = mere objects to be exchanged and used by the other half.… Read the rest



Same day

Feb 25th, 2024 7:14 am | By

Fred spots an own goal.

Lesbians MAY NOT exclude men who claim to be trans.

People who claim to be trans or non-binary MAY exclude all non-trans and non-non-binary people.

Thass eeequaliteee.… Read the rest



The historic unfairness

Feb 24th, 2024 2:49 pm | By

Oh look, he found a new low.

Former President Donald J. Trump, in a speech to a Black conservative group on Friday night, said he believed that the four criminal cases he is facing have earned him support from Black voters because they saw the historic unfairness of the justice system reflected in his legal woes.

Which historic unfairness of the justice system? The one that replaced slavery with bogus laws that enabled cops and prison officials to consign Black people to forced labor picking cotton or working in turpentine camps? How exactly is that similar to anything Donald Trump has come within a thousand miles of experiencing?

“I think that’s why the Black people are so much

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This girl can get out of the way and shut up

Feb 24th, 2024 2:25 pm | By

Aw yeah, textbook adding insult to injury.

https://twitter.com/GoldsmithsSU/status/1760280949336486290

Hahahahawhawhawheeheehee geddit? To celebrate This Girl Can we’re gonna share a man demonstrating that these girls can’t because he is pushing them aside and taking their place. Solidarity bitchezzzzz hahahahahahahahahaha… Read the rest



What should it be called?

Feb 24th, 2024 11:12 am | By

Is it racist?

Former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson has been suspended from the party after “refusing to apologise” for comments aimed at Sadiq Khan. The Conservative Ashfield MP told GB News on Friday “Islamists” had “got control” of the mayor of London. Responding on Saturday, Mr Khan described the remarks as “pouring fuel on the fire of anti-Muslim hatred”.

What should be said then?

Islamism and Islamists are real, and the words are not simply pejoratives or epithets. In a way they’re otiose, because Islam itself teaches that Islam should be in charge of everything including government, but in reality there are liberal Muslims who don’t think Islam should be in charge of everything including government. Some do, some … Read the rest



Any basis for a stay

Feb 24th, 2024 10:33 am | By

Trump is still struggling to avoid paying those overdue library book fines.

Donald Trump’s penalties in the New York civil fraud case for manipulating the value of his properties to obtain advantageous loan and insurance rates were formally set at more than $454m on Friday.

The judgment, which includes $354m in penalties plus $100m in pre-judgement interest following the three-month, non-jury trial that concluded on 16 February, will continue to accrue interest if the former president fails to pay.

In his ruling a week ago, Engoron has said the defendants had shown a “complete lack of contrition and remorse [which] borders on pathological” when he imposed the fine and banned Trump for three years, and his adult sons for

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Yo Doc, talk to the kids about your willy

Feb 24th, 2024 10:10 am | By

Erm…what?

A hospital is encouraging open conversations about sexuality with its staff members in the Paediatrics department? A hospital is encouraging staff members to start cozy chats about sex with child patients?

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Thumb on the scale much?

Feb 24th, 2024 4:08 am | By

Compare.

The BBC today:

US man guilty of killing transgender woman in gender identity hate crime first

A man has been found guilty of killing a transgender woman in the US’s first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity.

BBC yesterday:

Cat killer Scarlet Blake found guilty of murdering Jorge Martin Carreno

A woman obsessed with death who once livestreamed the killing of a cat has been found guilty of murdering a man.

When a trans woman is the victim his transitude is in the headline and the lede. When a trans woman is the perp his transitude is not in the headline or the lede.

This manipulative lying is shockingly bad journalism.… Read the rest



Something grim

Feb 23rd, 2024 11:23 am | By

This.

Indeed there is.

The Beeb, unlike the Guardian, does eventually admit that the guy is trans, but only very late in the piece (and everyone knows that most of us don’t read all the way to the end). Admitting the murderer is a man after many paragraphs of “she offered him a bottle of vodka before she led him towards the river” and the like is as minimal … Read the rest



Guest post: It’s a holy confusion

Feb 23rd, 2024 11:10 am | By

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Behold: an umbrella term.

“Breaking gender stereotypes” is the ultimate thought terminator for many.

Far too many people have been encouraged to just turn off their brains and feel the heavenly transcendence of the contradiction at the heart of gender identity ideology. It’s a holy confusion. Like the Trinity: how can three gods be one god at the very same time? That’s just it! They can’t! You can’t think your way through this; you just have to feeeeeeeel it.

Likewise with the conflation of sex and gender. How is reifying gender stereotypes breaking them down? How is obsessively promoting gender stereotypes erasing them? That’s just it! You can’t think you way though this.… Read the rest



Lying right in the headline

Feb 23rd, 2024 10:11 am | By

Another ratchet. It’s usual for the news media to admit they’re talking about a trans person at least once, isn’t it? As opposed to just straight-up leaving that little detail out when reporting on a gruesome murder by a revolting sadistic man?

Cat-killing woman guilty of murdering man as he walked home in Oxford

But he’s not a woman, he’s a trans woman. Yet the Guardian never once mentions that fact. Not once. Lie after lie after lie after lie.

A woman who livestreamed herself killing, dissecting and blending the body of a cat before months later brutally attacking a man and leaving him to drown to death in a river has been convicted of murder.

Scarlet Blake, 26,

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Legal protection from WHAT?

Feb 23rd, 2024 9:34 am | By

Oh good lord. Do play the clip to see reeking oozing entitlement in action. Large pallid man whose accent rivals that of Choss Windsor in poshitude bleats about being “misgendered” in court because listen here he’s not a “he” he’s nonbinareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Bonus: the “microaggression” ploy.

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Behold: an umbrella term

Feb 23rd, 2024 3:29 am | By

Oh good, even more nonsense to keep track of.

But what does gender expansive mean? According to national LGBTQ+ advocacy group PFLAG, it’s an umbrella term for individuals who don’t align with traditional gender categories, or who expand ideas of gender expression or identity.

“It might be used because someone has identities outside of what’s socially accepted,” said Mackenzie Harte, PFLAG’s manager of learning and inclusion, adding that the term is one they’ve increasingly heard used by parents and educators regarding to youth. “It’s where someone is not conforming to social ideas of what gender should be.”

Geddit? It means they’re special and rebelly and fascinating and original and above all better than you.

Gender expansive is not

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It was a secret

Feb 23rd, 2024 3:07 am | By

Britain’s only trans judge quits over fears of ‘politicising’ judiciary

A trans judge is someone who knows nothing about the law but identifies as a judge?

No, they mean a man who claims to be a woman.

Master Victoria McCloud, who transitioned from a man to a woman in the 1990s, warned the situation meant she is “now political every time I choose where to pee”.

Whereas before “the situation” he was free to violate women’s rights with impunity.

McCloud’s gender identity was kept private but became public knowledge after being published by a national newspaper.

Why was it kept private? How is that fair?

Referring to the rise of gender-critical campaigners, McCloud added “it has been open season on

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Very bad man

Feb 22nd, 2024 3:58 pm | By

Fairness? What’s that?

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Striking

Feb 22nd, 2024 3:03 pm | By
Striking

Why is Jonathan “India” Willoughby unaffectionately called Botox Chuckie?

Oh right.

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Non-binary and WEARING A FUCKING WIG

Feb 22nd, 2024 11:03 am | By

Sing it!

Alllllllll the attention.

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Guest post: What children of powerful people do

Feb 22nd, 2024 9:49 am | By

Originally a comment by Eava on All rotten.

Hunter Biden gets his share of blame for this, parlaying Daddy’s job into a fat salary for him.

This is what children of famous people do, opportunities find them.

George W. Bush had Saudi investors bail out failing businesses. He was majority owner of the Texas rangers and almost became the commissione of baseball. Jenna Bush is a talk show host with multiple book deals. Chelsea Clinton gets book deals. Andrew Cuomo got positions in the Clinton Administration. At the same time, these are people who are highly educated and steeped in the business/political world. Hunter wasn’t a strung out junkie when he was on the Burisma board.

He was a … Read the rest