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Happy to share the publication of my book BLINDSIGHT IS 2020 (Brownstone Institute), in print or e-book format. More deets in next tweets. 1/5 @jeffreytucker @jaybhattacharya @bell00david @FrijtersPaul @ZDoggMD @DrJuliePonesse @AaronKheriaty @bariweiss amazon.com/Blindsight-202…

@eachwayjase @zipclap2 @DrewHutton45645 Ya think?

@zipclap2 @DrewHutton45645 @GabrielleJBauer The left has probably changed from 40 years ago.

It is about time those of us in progressive politics owned up to our failures. ·       We argued for social justice for all and ended up arguing it should only be for a favoured few identity groups. ·       We argued for women’s rights and ended up arguing men could be women and could occupy women’s spaces. ·       We argued for same-sex marriage and ended up with saying there are no sex-based rights. ·       We argued for renewable energy and ended up allowing giant, multinational energy companies to bulldoze thousands of hectares of our precious, high biodiversity forests for wind farms. ·       We argued for free speech and ended up by practising cancel culture. ·       We argued for multiculturalism and ended up believing that criticism of the practices of a minority culture is, necessarily, racism. ·       We argued that imperialism should be combated and ended up believing only US imperialism causes authoritarianism and repression.

@AmyKosari @goddek @disclosetv Delulu much?

@goddek @disclosetv You are quite wrong. This war is a gift from God. He has blessed us by enabling us to participate in freeing the prisoners, the noble kings and kingmakers of Iran! It's proof that the Lord still loves us and is faithful.

JUST IN - Trump says if deal is not reached with Iran and Hormuz Strait opened, U.S. "will conclude our lovely 'stay' in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)."

@Electrolight18 @Handre You mean cooperation. Not the same thing.

@Handre Posted this on a platform built by hundreds of engineers working together as a team. Collectivism said you are welcome.

Collectivism is the enemy. Anyone prompting or spreading collectivist thought. That is your enemy. Not the guy who thinks Ayn Rand was better than Rothbard.

@mentorstrophy @Handre You’re talking about cooperation, and we certainly need that. What we don’t need is collectivist conformity and groupthink.

I reject the individualism/collectivism dichotomy. It's a spectrum. Humans are pack animals, and need each other for support, defense, etc. Some individual humans falsely believe that they don't really need the rest of the pack supplying them with defense, policing the streets, and manufacturing their food. Egomaniacs.

@rickjones98 @Notwokenow @AwakenedOutlaw A teen doesn’t have the maturity or brain development to make such a decision — just as they don’t have the maturity to make decisions about gender surgery.

Not all children are going to the future. Kids have every right just as adults to take the final sleep. If a teenager knows what they want and the government will provide it, I don’t see any issue. If the time comes where it’s forced at a random selection that might be something to push back against but now it is ok

According to @AwakenedOutlaw’s information, Canada is “studying” MAiD for children. Children. They want to euthanize CHILDREN. They call them “mature minors.” And PARENTS WOULD HAVE NO SAY. They would be EXCLUDED from the process. This is a half step from Hell.

Unfortunately, the government has passed Bill C-9, despite national outcry and efforts by the opposition and civil liberties groups like ours to see it scrapped or drastically amended. Some important amendments were made to the original draft—changes we proposed and supported—including keeping the requirement for Attorney General approval of hate crime charges and retaining the Supreme Court’s narrower definition of “hatred.” Still, the overall trend of this government is to exert increasing control over the feelings, beliefs and expression of Canadians. This is deeply concerning.

@ThomasWillett9 @mrstevenjones1 Disingenuous much?

Girls are being banned from Girlguides. Why? Because a small group of wealthy, well-connected transphobes decided to target children and make their lives a misery instead of focusing on real issues.

@DrSuneelDhand There are at least two of us.

Am I the only person in the wellness space who has absolutely ZERO interest in a wearable device?

@Colbie_72 @wokal_distance “In this house, we respect…”

@wokal_distance I can almost see the "I Voted" sticker...

I'm watching the Harry potter movies with my son, and I can't express to you the degree to which this woman is the perfect embodiment of the spirit which has infected our culture.

@wokal_distance @missmassform She makes me feel embarrassed for my sex.

@JanJekielek @erichhartmann I chafe against the generalization while recognizing there is some truth to it.

Psychological scientist J.D. Haltigan told me the feminine impulse to be empathetic has been weaponized. “We’ve come to basically hijack the feminine ethic of care.” “And if a society becomes completely feminine, all kinds of chaos will ensue.” “Because you don’t have any sort of rule-based, lawful, statistically-minded, quantitatively-focused orientation to why we have laws, why we have rules, why we need order, why we need immigration law, and so forth.” “Masculinity is what will track, personality-wise, with systemization, and femininity is sort of the analogy with empathization.” But this feminization has become dominant in many areas of society with major effects. @JDHaltigan

@tomboalogo @ClimateWarrior7 Waxing your balls is part of it

@ClimateWarrior7 Is he full moongender or waxing gibbous ?

My wife's boyfriend has been rushed to hospital for emergency gender confirmation surgery. Ze unexpectedly switched to moongender so zer body no longer matched zer identity. Without surgery ze would likely have killed zerself. These are the kinds of vital services the far-right want to cut.

@ClimateWarrior7 @DaunenJ I hope the zergery goes well.

@JustMyOpinionEU @ThePosieParker Ooh, the H-word.

@ThePosieParker So what you mean is, you’ve indoctrinated your young adult into adopting your own vile beliefs and are now upset that, quite rightly, the college are taking issue with hate speech being used on their premises. You should be ashamed at being filled with hate and have infected him.

My son just got a written warning from college for a private conversation discussing trans shit with friends. I reckon I’m about to go scorched earth on these twats.

@Medical_Nemesis “The right to be sick” is a great title.

I began writing this in October 2016 and picked it back up today six years ago. Acknowledging that we do get sick and die, something that government does not need to help us do, effectively makes pandemicking a physical impossibility. We can care for the sick and the dying.

@fantasticarg3 @aristomarinetti “Unpaid motherhood” doesn’t sit well with me. Being a mother is a great privilege that cannot be reduced to labor.

@aristomarinetti Men only worked hard to be rewarded with wages and leadership of the household. A far cry from what they demand of women: to sacrifice a lot more for unpaid motherhood , only to be punished with submission and not acknowledged as part of building the civilization.

“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.” ― Camille Paglia

@Rob_ThaBuilder Ditto.

It is interesting how when you realize the truth on one issue, it can change have ripple effects on many of your other positions on issues. Up until about 3-4 years ago, I held pretty consensus liberal beliefs on just about every issue. I was comfortable in my tribalism. The trans issue shattered that comfort and it was the first issue that I "broke" on. The cognitive dissonance between what I was expected believe and my own values was too great. I still consider myself left-of-centre (altho I describe myself more of a "classical liberal" and at the moment have more in common with a moderate righty than a standard lib) but once you get to that headspace, where you can full throatedly reject something on your own side, it completely opens your mind on many other, unrelated ones. I guess once you identify the flaw in thinking on one issue, its much easier to identify it on other ones. I now think DEI is the primary cause if racial division in our society, that immigration policy is absolutely insane, that abortion is a complex issue involving competing rights (altho im still pro-choice, im more of an anti-abortion pro choice, if tbat makes sense) etc etc. And without even realizjng when this happened, Im now firmly in favor of the death penalty. I do think it should be saved for cases where tbere us absolutely no doubt of guilt, no remorse and no possibility for rehabilitation, but society desperately needs it. When you remove the rose-colored liberal goggles, you realize that civilozation and social order is both precious a d fragile, and some ppl are just irredeemably evil, and their presence in our society will constantly undermine order and public trust. We dont often notice these shifts in our thinking happening in real time, but its interesting once in a while when you take stock of what your beliefs are and realize they've changed quite a bit without you even noticing.

@aseitzwald @ChristieSmythe More power to you! The life script requiring us to constantly “move up” is seriously fucked.

An objectively wild career move and one I couldn’t be happier with or prouder of. The world needs more local reporters more than it needs more national ones and even if I go back to national reporting one day, I’ll be a much better reporter for this experience.

@RosenvoldGeo @Peter_Samuel_SF Swallowing pride is not in Trump’s repertoire. Just saying.

You can almost feel the panic spreading. Trump has created a sinkhole that he can't get out of. The best solution is probably for Trump to cut his losses, swallow his pride and do a deal with the new Ayatollah. Guarantee that neither Israel or the US will attack Iran ever again and relieve some of the sanctions on Iran. It would be an enormous humiliation, but it's better than triggering a global recession over vanity.