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Burdock

@NoLieCipher

“Not an expert—just a voice that follows the money, questions the script, and slices through noise with the sharp edge of sarcasm.”

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BrickCenter@BrickCenter_·
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This security guard at 2AM went FULL nuclear, gold grill poppin, badge swingin like a pendulum, eyes wide as hell like he just hit a whole pack of that loud. Screamin bout kickin people off the land, royal battalions, and “who’s the Superman?” Then this nigga really said “Come at me Bro and I’ll take you ass out!” Bruh… we heard you. You ain’t talkin bout fightin. You out here in the parking lot at 2 in the mornin publicly announcing you wanna eat Trump’s ass out. Gold grill gleamin under them lights, badge flappin, eyes bugged, full meltdown, and your grand finale is “I’ll take you ass out.” Not “whoop yo ass.” Not “drag you.” Straight up take the ass out. This ain’t security work no more. This is a thirsty conspiracy theorist who just discovered politics and rimming in the same fever dream. Eyes wide cause the fantasy hit different. Yellin bout royal battalions while mentally already face-down ready to eat that ass out like it’s a midnight snack. “Who’s the Superman?” Nigga you ain’t Superman. You Supersucker, cape optional, tongue on standby. Next time you go nuclear at 2AM just say you gon beat the ass like a normal unhinged security guard. Cause right now the only thing you securin is a front-row seat to eat Trump’s ass out.
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
So this guy gets on there and says he’s gay. He doesn’t hate Muslims. He just wants to stop pretending. Fine. The surveys are real. Large majorities in a long list of Muslim-majority countries still back the death penalty for the same thing he is. That’s not a phobia. That’s a polling result. And the progressive crowd that will cancel a gay man for noticing it while staying quiet about the actual rooftops and nooses? That’s not allyship. That’s ranking the preferred victims. All of that part tracks. Then comes the rest of the routine we keep hearing. Everything is about them. Every boundary is oppression aimed at them. Every law that draws a line is some conspiracy to hold them down. That’s the self-centered part. The assumption that the entire legal system exists as a personal referendum on adult sexuality. It doesn’t. Most of those laws—the ones about what gets shown to kids, what gets taught before they can even spell the words, what ideas get pushed into heads that still believe in Santa—are not about you. They’re about the fact that children cannot comprehend adult sexual anything. Straight, gay, or the whole current catalog. Their brains are not finished. They don’t have the hardware yet. Protecting them from premature sexual concepts is not a hate crime against grown men who like other grown men. It’s the same basic adult responsibility that used to be obvious before everything got turned into an identity loyalty test. But the political version of gay keeps reading every limit as a personal slight. “This rule exists to suppress me.” No. This rule exists because eight-year-olds are not a focus group for your liberation narrative. The mosque that wants you dead is one problem. The campus that wants children recruited into the sermon is another. Both of them treat other people’s kids as props. One just does it with better hashtags. Normal people—gay or straight—already figured this out. Live your life. Keep the adult material in the adult section. Stop acting like every protective boundary was written as a love letter to your oppression. The laws aren’t holding you down. They’re holding the line for people who still need one.
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Normal Gay Psychiatrist
Normal Gay Psychiatrist@NormalGayPsych·
I’m gay. I don’t hate Muslims. I don’t want anyone’s rights taken away. But I’m done pretending. When surveys show large majorities in many Muslim-majority countries still support the death penalty for homosexuality… that’s not “phobia.” That’s reality. When progressive activists will cancel a gay person for noticing that, but stay silent about actual theocracies that throw us off roofs… that’s not “allyship.” That’s cowardice. Woke ideology tells me my sexuality is a political identity first and a personal reality second. It tells me I must celebrate every culture except the one that produced the liberal societies where I can actually live openly. I’m not “far-right” for wanting the same freedom in London or Toronto that I already have. I’m not a bigot for refusing to import the attitudes that would put me in a noose. Normal gay people exist. We just want to live our lives without the sermons — from either the mosque or the campus. Enough.
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American AF 🇺🇸@iAnonPatriot·
Transgenders are now BURNING Sophie Cunningham jerseys because she doesn’t support biological men in women’s sports.. 👀
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
Alan Ritchson. The man has a jaw you could use as a shelf. Good-looking in that big solid comic-book way that makes the camera love him and the shirt buttons fear for their lives. Perfect for Jack Reacher. The quiet competent giant who walks into a room and ends the problem without needing a second take. Then he opens his mouth on a podcast and the shelf collapses. He wants a life that feels meaningful. That means “speaking my truth.” Hollywood’s favorite phrase. The one that shows up right before someone starts yelling about politics with the precision of a sledgehammer swung at a housefly. “Speaking my truth” is what actors say when the real arguments run out and they still need the applause. It’s flexing for the mirror. The tirade is pure Reacher cosplay with the volume stuck on eleven. Epstein files. Pedophiles. Rapists. Nuclear codes. “Go to jail.” All of it delivered like a car alarm. He’s a Christian, he reminds us, right before the next round of “fuck” and “bitch.” The conscience shows up just long enough to wave. Then it sits back down so the performance can keep going. It’s not political analysis. It’s a man who spent years playing the tough guy on camera and decided the character should start doing press. Here’s the problem with actors and “truth.” Their job is to look convincing while saying lines someone else wrote. The jaw helps. The lighting helps. The script helps. Actually weighing evidence, telling accusation from proof, or noticing those same files have been a political football for years under multiple administrations? Optional. Intellect was never in the package. The brochure promised height, bone structure, and the ability to look dangerous while walking slowly. Everything else is improvisation. So he “speaks his truth.” Turns out it’s the same truth a thousand other celebrities have spoken when the cameras roll and the base needs feeding. Loud. Simple. Aimed at the safest target in the room. The meaningful life, it seems, needs a lot of yelling and very little homework. Nice jaw though. Really is. You could rest a coffee mug on it while he finishes the sentence.
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Oli London@OliLondonTV·
‘Reacher’ star Alan Ritchson speaks out after going on tirade against Trump over the Epstein Files. “I want to live a life that feels meaningful to me and I think that means speaking my truth.”
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
Ladies and gentlemen. This politician up in the North East, Kim McGuinness, the mayor. She posts about Pride. God, the heart is bursting. Full rainbow of emoji hearts. Pride is a celebration. Pride is a protest. Pride is about love and solidarity and belonging and it’s still very much needed. “I am and always will be a proud ally.” She marches with the celebrities. The soundtrack is fabulous. The North East is exactly about this. Thousands of people. Heart exploding out of the chest. Beautiful. Genuine emotion. You can feel the sincerity dripping off the screen. Now check the other holidays. St George’s Day. England’s own day. The flag emoji and four words: “Happy St George’s Day.” That’s it. No multi-paragraph manifesto. No “St George’s Day is a celebration. St George’s Day is a protest against forgetting who we are.” No “my heart was bursting as thousands waved the flag of the country that employs me.” Just the bare minimum. Drop the flag. Drop the words. Move on. Duty done. Christmas. She posts pictures of local trees. Nice trees. Operation Elf for the kids. “Happy Christmas Eve.” Sweet. Community-minded. But the heart stays firmly inside the ribcage. No declarations that Christmas is still very much needed. No “I am and always will be a proud ally to people who put up decorations and eat too much.” Just trees. Remembrance Sunday. She goes to the parade. She attends the service. She says the right respectful things about sacrifice and never taking it for granted. Honourable. Correct. Then she posts it like a civic obligation fulfilled. No rainbow of feelings. No “Remembrance is a protest.” The language stays in the sober box where it belongs. See the pattern? One set of parades gets the full emotional orchestra, the personal vows, the “this is what we are” rhetoric. The traditional ones get the polite nod, the calendar acknowledgement, the civic checkbox. It’s not that she hates Christmas or St George or the dead soldiers. The passion is rationed. It’s handed out according to the current approved hierarchy of feelings. Politicians don’t have beliefs. They have positions. And the positions come with volume controls. Crank it up to eleven when the approved identity parade rolls through town. Keep it at a respectful two when the old cultural ones show up. That way nobody can accuse you of being insufficiently enthusiastic about the new sacred cows, and nobody can accuse you of neglecting the old ones either. Perfect. Risk-free. Heart carefully regulated. The real tell is the language. When the heart “bursts,” you’re not describing an event. You’re performing allegiance. You’re telling the audience which team jersey you’re wearing this season. The volume difference between the Pride posts and the St George’s Day post is the sound of a politician who knows exactly which celebrations are career-enhancing and which ones are merely obligatory. That’s not solidarity. That’s selective volume. And selective volume just means the truth is optional, but the optics are mandatory.
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Kim McGuinness
Kim McGuinness@KiMcGuinness·
Pride is a celebration.❤️ Pride is a protest.🧡 Pride is about love and celebration and solidarity.💛 Pride is about showing that we all belong.💚 Pride is still very much needed.💙 I am and always will be a proud ally to our LGBTQ+ community and yesterday my heart was bursting as so many thousands of people marched in solidarity for Newcastle Pride. This is exactly what the North East is about. 💜 It was an honour to march with the fabulous Dane Kelly Holmes. And my word what a sound track Proud Northern Voices. 🏳️‍🌈
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
Ladies and gentlemen. I got a little story for you. Yesterday in London thousands of people showed up for Trans Pride. Beautiful day, I’m sure. Flags everywhere. Glitter in the air. The whole carnival. And what are they carrying? Signs. Big bold serious ones. One says “Transphobia is fascism.” Another says “End all borders and nations.” Hold on. Fascism? Fascism? You know what that word used to mean. Jackboots. Secret police. People vanishing in the night. Governments picking who gets to speak and who gets a bullet. These folks decided that if you don’t clap hard enough for their gender theory, that’s fascism. We’ve taken one of the most poisonous words of the twentieth century and turned it into a participation trophy for hurt feelings. Next week they’ll call forgetting someone’s preferred breakfast cereal ethnic cleansing. The language is dead. We killed it. We stuffed it full of new meanings until it blew apart and now we’re walking around in the mess pretending it’s progress. Then the borders thing. “End all borders and nations!” They’re shouting this in London. London. One of the most watched, regulated, passport-checked, camera-covered cities on the planet. They’re demanding the end of nations while the Metropolitan Police form a polite human fence around them so the wrong free-speechers don’t get close. The contradiction is thick enough to spread on toast. This isn’t liberation. It’s another interest group that figured out if you yell “fascist” loud enough, people back off and hand you the sidewalk. Pride used to mean not getting your ass kicked for who you sleep with. Now it’s about making everybody recite the latest rules or get called the moral twin of Mussolini. That’s not freedom. That’s the same old authoritarian itch in a rainbow wig demanding applause. Thousands of people. In a city of nine million you can always find thousands who think the highest courage is agreeing with the loudest voice online. The real miracle would be finding thousands who can define “woman” without a forty-page paper and a therapist on speed dial. So there they are, waving signs, feeling brave, feeling righteous. The rest of us hold the empty wrappers of words that used to mean something. Fascism. Borders. Nations. Reality. All of it open for rewrite every Tuesday if the feelings say so. That’s not a pride parade. That’s a language funeral with better lighting. And the corpse is still twitching.
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Andy Ngo
Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo·
London (July 25) — Thousands attended the Trans Pride event. They held signs declaring transphobia “fascism” and calling for the end of borders and nations.
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
Hey Brian. Yeah, you. The professional outrage merchant with that permanent look of a guy who just stepped in something and decided the rest of us caused it. “A car was just driven into a Pride parade in Berlin. Multiple people injured. What the hell is wrong with people?” That’s the best you got? “What the hell is wrong with people?” Like this is some cosmic mystery. Like the universe just randomly handed some asshole a steering wheel and a target. Meanwhile the actual story is sitting right there in black and white: 21-year-old German citizen of Lebanese descent, Abdul Ballout — Abdul B. if we’re being delicate — already convicted a couple months ago for preparing a serious violent act against the state, known Islamist connections, and he decides the Pride crowd looks like a good place to put the pedal down. And your big contribution is to stare at the wreckage and ask the ceiling what’s wrong with “people.” Not “what’s wrong with keeping the doors wide open to people from cultures that treat gay folks like something to be thrown off a roof.” Not “maybe the open-border fantasy has a body count.” No. Just vague, floating “people.” Because looking at the specific name, the specific record, and the specific ideology would require you to put down the moral selfie stick for five goddamn seconds. You’ve spent years treating anyone who noticed the pattern as a bigot. Borders are racist. Vetting is xenophobic. Pointing out that certain imported belief systems are violently allergic to rainbow flags is “Islamophobia.” And now the predictable happens again, and your response is the intellectual equivalent of a shrug followed by a lecture about kindness. Selective blindness isn’t compassion, Brian. It’s vanity with a Wi-Fi connection. You don’t get to demand the doors stay wide open, ignore the people walking through them with incompatible values, and then act shocked when the parade turns into a crime scene. That’s not empathy. That’s cosplay. And the people who paid for your little performance today weren’t the ones writing the tweets. Look at the name. Look at the prior conviction. Look at the ideology. Then maybe ask a better question than “what’s wrong with people.”
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Brian Krassenstein
Brian Krassenstein@krassenstein·
BREAKING: A Car was just driven into a Pride parade in Berlin, Germany. Multiple people injured. What the hell is wrong with people?
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
@GusSackoff @iAnonPatriot I think we train them to go to fluid sexuality and social display. we could train them to conform and adapt instead. it's learned.
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police.law.news@policelawnews·
Corey Ruiz: Attempted to break into parked cars, fled, resisted arrest & stabbed a cop⬇️ ➡️objectively - not “innocent”. •Making this police shooting all about herself…the narcissism is absurd.
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Ancestral humans faced recurrent intergroup conflict. Sexually dimorphic selection pressures produced domain-specific psychological mechanisms: a male warrior module oriented toward coalitional aggression and boundary defense, and a female threat-management suite calibrated to higher parental investment and lower physical formidability. When the in-group males returned victorious, female strategies centered on in-group redistribution, levirate remarriage, and kinship-based support—preserving inclusive fitness within the original deme. When the males lost, the payoff matrix flipped. Capture and reproductive absorption by the victorious out-group became the higher-probability route to survival and residual reproductive success. Selection therefore favored latent female mechanisms that facilitate rapid re-affiliation, elevated empathy, and reduced hostility toward the new dominant males once resistance was futile. Modern Western environments constitute a profound evolutionary mismatch. Low actual combat mortality, ideological suppression of realistic threat assessment, and status incentives for moral grandstanding allow these once-conditional accommodation circuits to hyper-activate in the absence of genuine defeat. The result is a maladaptive misfiring: empathy and affiliative effort directed toward demographically expanding, often culturally incompatible out-groups at the expense of the host population’s long-term fitness. That is the evolutionary substrate of what we now observe as suicidal empathy—an orgiastic, hyperactive deployment of an otherwise adaptive emotional system onto the wrong targets, in the wrong context, at the wrong magnitude. In short, an ancestral contingency strategy for post-defeat survival has been culturally decoupled from its original triggering conditions and is now running as a civilizational auto-immune disorder.
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Gad Saad
Gad Saad@GadSaad·
Ahmad attacks people at a Pride Parade because Islam. White liberal woman with aposematic hair coloring concludes white men are to blame. Suicidal Empathy is a fatal disease of the human spirit.
American AF 🇺🇸@iAnonPatriot

OMG. Liberal women are blaming “white men” for the Islamic extremist who ran over people at an LGBTQ parade in Berlin. “You’re not going to scapegoat the Muslim community like they’re the violent ones, when it’s actually you (white men).” Can’t make this sht up. 💀💀

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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
Nine years on, Europe has seen repeated Islamist attacks (vehicle rammings, stabbings, bombings), a measurable rise in home-grown radicalization, parallel societies in some cities, and polling that shows significant minorities in certain migrant communities holding views on apostasy, blasphemy, gender, and homosexuality that clash hard with liberal norms. Some of the loudest warnings have come from Arab and Muslim reformers who live with the ideology’s consequences daily and get tired of Westerners lecturing them about “nuance.”Whether the West is “too afraid to admit it” is the political argument. Large parts of the media, academia, and political class still treat the subject as radioactive — prioritizing the risk of being called bigoted over clear-eyed discussion of ideology, integration failures, and security data. That reluctance is exactly what bin Zayed was pointing at. The record since 2017 has not made his warning look foolish.
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Brigitte Gabriel@ACTBrigitte·
We were warned in 2017 by UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Keep putting political correctness over truth, keep pretending you understand Islam better than we do… and Europe (and the West) will start producing its own radicals and terrorists. Nine years later, look around. He was right. And the West is still too afraid to admit it.
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
It’s the classic celebrity move: declare the center of the solar system abolished, then keep living comfortably in the middle of it. She didn’t dismantle any hierarchy. She just announced that the hierarchy she’s currently benefiting from is imaginary, which is the safest possible form of rebellion when your next role is still dependent on people who believe in gravitySorry about that, something didn't go as planned. Please try again, and if you're still seeing this message, go ahead and restart the app.
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Oli London@OliLondonTV·
‘The Odyssey’ star Anne Hathaway goes viral in resurfaced video about ‘whiteness’ and LGBTQI+. “That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness. Transgender orbits around cisgender and all races orbit around whiteness and it is a myth…”
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“Religion of peace”? A curious phrase for a creed that advances one piece at a time—piece of the pavement, piece of the marketplace, piece of the very life of free men. Behold Berlin once more. Another Abdul of Middle Eastern origin, bound by Islamic ties, who turned a common vehicle into an instrument of slaughter. The police at last speak the plain truth, and still half the West affects astonishment, as though the pattern of these atrocities were some novel revelation rather than the grim continuity of two decades. They come not as friends. Friends do not seize the motor-car and drive it through the throng. Friends do not regard our open frontiers, our public bounty, and our interminable sermons on tolerance as an invitation to appropriate the dwellings, the stipends, the thoroughfares—and, when the hour is ripe, the women. This is no migration. It is invasion under the cloak of asylum. They speak of peace. Peace delivered in successive instalments: one Christmas market, one festive gathering, one crowded square. And when the blood has dried, the professional apologists emerge to declare that the true offence lies not in the deed but in the noticing of it. Colonialism, poverty, alienation—any pretext save the doctrine that manufactures these assassins with industrial regularity. They desire not to share the commonweal. They desire to possess it. They seek not to accommodate our ways but to subdue them, our laws, our daughters, and thereafter to brand as bigotry the simple act of bolting the gate. One piece at a time. And still we hold the portal wide and inquire whether they require assistance with their baggage.
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
“Religion of peace”? Sure. The kind that shows up one piece at a time—piece of your sidewalk, piece of your market, piece of your fucking skull. Berlin. Another Abdul. Middle Eastern. Islamic ties. Vehicle turned into a meat grinder. Police finally say it out loud and half the West still acts like they just discovered water is wet. Same script. Same body bags. Same chorus of “context” and “mental health” and “not the real Islam.” They don’t want friends. Friends don’t turn a truck into a weapon. Friends don’t look at your open borders, your free housing, your guilt-soaked welcome mat and think, “Excellent—we’ll take the apartments, the welfare, the streets, and while we’re at it we’ll help ourselves to the women.” That’s not immigration. That’s a home invasion with better branding. They call it peace. Peace that arrives in installments. One Christmas market. One parade. One crowded square. And every time the blood dries the same professional explainer crawls out to tell you the real problem is you for noticing the pattern. Colonialism. Poverty. Video games. Anything—literally anything—except the ideology that keeps producing these guys like a factory. They don’t want to share the neighborhood. They want the neighborhood. They don’t want to fuck with your culture. They want to fuck your culture, your laws, your daughters, and then sue you for Islamophobia when you lock the door. One piece at a time. And we’re still holding the door open and asking if they need help with the bags.
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Berlin police now say the fatal vehicle attacker has “ISLAMIC” TIES The man wanted is named "Abdul" and has Middle Eastern origin. Imagine that. The person who carried out another terror attack in Europe is an Islamist. GET ISLAM OUT OF THE WEST!
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
You don’t hate Kiss because the songs are simple. You hate Kiss because liking them would make you less special. So you stand there, arms crossed, listing every band that came after like you’re reading from the Book of Musical Absolution, while the rest of us are just trying to enjoy a dumb, loud, ridiculous rock show without a fucking dissertation attached.Kiss blows? Fine. You’re allowed to think that. But acting like the mere existence of later “serious” music is some kind of gotcha? That’s not criticism. That’s just a guy who needs to feel superior to a bunch of middle-aged men in spandex. And that, my friend, is the real comedy.
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Austrian_Art_Aficianado@AutumnRustics·
@NoLieCipher @ScottMGreer Auto tune didn’t arrive until over 30 years after Kiss’ heyday wtf are you talking about. You had 80s metal, 90s grunge and alternative, and the 2000s indie rock scene all after KISS before autotune. All those eras had great bands making great music, KISS absolutely blows.
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Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187
A band I can never understand the idolization for is KISS. You look up mediocre in the dictionary and you see KISS’s greatest hits. But Gen X rock fans are still obsessed with KISS. (Millennials and zoomers don’t seem as into KISS, unlike other classic rock bands) They are interesting in how they were more of a business than a band. Good marketing rather than good music sold their albums and they built an empire off the image.
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Exercises that ladies should take seriously in order to lose weight.
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Sarah Jane Baker, the self-castrating kidnapper who still can’t stop thinking about other people’s bodies. Born Alan, this walking cautionary tale spent his youth turning a family dispute into a 24-hour sadistic torture session that included forced sex acts, cigarette burns, and leaving the victim tied up to die. Then he tried to garrote a cellmate. Thirty years in men’s prisons later, he decides the real problem is his testicles, so he hacks them off with a razor in his cell like some DIY body-horror project. That’s not “gender affirming.” That’s a man so deep in his own head that mutilating himself became the next logical step after torturing people. Now he’s out, calling himself Sarah Jane, and the same guy who once forced oral sex at knifepoint is on stage at Trans Pride telling crowds to “punch TERFs in the fucking face.” A biological male with a documented history of sexualized violence against a teenager is lecturing women about violence while waving Antifa flags and hanging around signs that say “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS” next to photos of actual women. The projection is so loud it needs its own PA system. He’s not a brave survivor or some tragic figure. He’s a violent pervert who found a new costume and a new set of people to intimidate. The self-castration didn’t fix the impulse control or the taste for cruelty—it just gave him a new identity to hide behind while he keeps aiming his aggression at women who refuse to play along. Thirty years inside and the only thing that changed is the pronouns. The rest of the package is still the same dangerous, sexually charged mess it always was.
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Andy Ngo
Andy Ngo@MrAndyNgo·
Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker, who served years in prison for attempted m—rder and kidnapping and torture, was one of the speakers at the London Trans Pride today in Trafalgar Square. One of the trans activists held a sign declaring “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS” and the photo of @jk_rowling and the Queen. ngocomment.com
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This security guard just went FULL nuclear on Trump at 2AM 😭 Gold grill. Badge swinging. Eyes wide as hell. Screaming about kicking people off the land, royal battalions, and “who’s the Superman?” "Come at me Bro and I'll take you ass out!"
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Burdock@NoLieCipher·
DrBLK’s big brain thesis is that anyone treating the Civil Rights Movement / “I Have a Dream” as substantially about ending segregation and achieving integration is pushing a “fairytale.” According to him, the real point was cashing a constitutional/economic promissory note, structural redistribution of rights and power, and that desegregation (lunch counters, buses, schools) was merely a “short-term introductory step,” a “side quest,” or “exhaust” while the engine was full legal/economic overhaul. Integration imagery is just the sentimental byproduct that only becomes possible after the structural stuff. Here’s why this is a classic overcooked, selective, and ultimately hollow take: He treats “integration” and “desegregation” as if King rigidly sealed them in airtight boxes and the public fight over lunch counters was somehow secondary or almost a distraction. King did distinguish the terms in some writings (desegregation as removing legal barriers, integration as deeper positive community), but the entire mass movement, the marches, the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, Brown v. Board, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title II, etc., were fought precisely because forced racial separation was the concrete mechanism denying those constitutional rights. You don’t get to dismiss the battlefield as a mere “tactical means” when that battlefield was the enforcement of the legal equality he keeps quoting. Separating people by race in public life was the structural denial of citizenship. Pretending otherwise is like saying the goal of D-Day was abstract “liberation” and the actual beach landings were just a preliminary side quest. The promissory-note section is powerful and important—yes, King opened with it. But the claim that this somehow proves the speech (and movement) “was not about physical proximity or social integration” is pure special pleading. King spends the back half of the speech painting vivid pictures of little Black boys and girls joining hands with little white boys and girls, of former slaves and slave owners’ descendants sitting at the same table, of freedom ringing from every state. That wasn’t throwaway poetry or a mere consequence. It was the concrete vision of what fulfilled equality looked like in daily American life. Pretending the nearly three-minute “Dream” section is somehow subordinate to the check metaphor, or that people focusing on it are “sanitizing” King, is the real selective reading. King put both in the same speech for a reason. He leans hard on later King (Poor People’s Campaign, “Where Do We Go From Here,” economic justice, the “triple evils”) to argue the 1963 vision was always mainly about economic restructuring and that early desegregation wins were cheap and insufficient. Fair enough that King radicalized further and criticized the limits of formal equality without economic change. But that doesn’t retroactively rewrite 1963 or the primary legal goals of the movement that produced the CRA, VRA, and Fair Housing Act. Pointing out that de facto segregation and wealth gaps persist in 2026 is true and obvious—it does not prove that the legal dismantling of de jure segregation was somehow not the core objective or a massive achievement. It just means the work wasn’t finished. Conflating “the laws didn’t magically create utopia” with “therefore integration wasn’t really the point” is a category error dressed up as deep analysis. The whole performance is the classic move of someone who has read some King essays and decided the popular, mainstream understanding (yes, including the parts about kids holding hands and ending forced separation) is a naive “kumbaya festival” while his version is the pure structural one. In reality, King wanted both the legal/economic fulfillment and the lived integration. Treating them as opposing priorities, or claiming one cancels the other, is the actual oversimplification. The movement’s primary objective wasn’t abstract “constitutional overhaul” floating free of the concrete demand to stop segregating schools, buses, restaurants, and neighborhoods. Those were the constitutional rights in practice. So the “fairytale” accusation lands with a thud. The person he’s attacking wasn’t inventing a Disney version of history by noting that integration (ending segregation in public life) was central. DrBLK is the one doing the heavy lifting of reframing the most visible, hard-fought, and successful parts of the struggle as secondary so he can posture as the guy who alone grasps the “substantive context.” It’s not deeper history. It’s just more elaborate goalpost-moving with footnotes.
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TheArtisReport
TheArtisReport@GrandaddySpeak1·
Young folks, don’t get it twisted. Integration was never the main focus of the Civil Rights Movement. That’s the fairytale. The Movement was about Black folks getting our Constitutional Rights. Dr. King addressed this in the first part of his, “I Have a Dream” speech.
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