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@JamesMcDaniel @AlexBerenson @mattyglesias That inner Good German lives in everyone. Some people really thrive on the permission to let him out.

@Cernovich She's always been a private person and Donald's political journey has cost her great pain. Sometimes one can't endure even a little drop more of any of it.

A question for women only. (I mean it, will block any man who "chimes in.") Why do you think Melania made that statement on Epstein an hour ago?

@eugyppius1 Anyone here ever see that TV commercial showing a teacher snipping poor Pluto from a mobile of the solar system? Strangely poignant, it was.

in which europe is also assigned responsibility for the demotion of pluto to dwarf planet.

@TheAttagirls What happened to her daughter? Had she thrived after being abandoned by her mother after having been abandoned by her father?

Woman of the Day pioneering parachutist Georgia “Tiny" Broadwick, born OTD in 1893 in North Carolina, the first woman to jump from an airplane, the first woman to jump from a seaplane, and the inventor of the ripcord. The youngest of seven daughters and with a birth weight of just 3lbs, Tiny’s nickname was bestowed at an early age. In adulthood, she reached 4’8” and weighed just 85lbs. Her childhood was hard: working in the tobacco fields, married at 12, giving birth to a daughter at 13, abandoned by her husband, working long hours in a cotton mill by 15. That’s when she persuaded a neighbour to take her to Raleigh to see a travelling air show by The Broadwicks and Their Famous French Aeronauts who parachuted from a hot air balloon. “I was hellbound and determined to get in that act…When I saw that balloon go up and I gawked at it as it ascended into the heavens, I knew I'd never be the same…I pestered the balloonist to give me a ride. Best fun I had up to then was a-shinning up tall trees." The balloonist had also pioneered a parachute ready to be tried out. Tiny persuaded Charles Broadwick let her try, pointing out that a tiny, light person like herself was "just the type to drop from the balloon in the chute." She made her first parachute jump that day and landed in a blackberry bush. Did it stop her? It did not. Tiny, still only 15, left her daughter in the care of her parents and was adopted by the Broadwicks to make travel arrangements easier. Dressed in a silk dress with pink bows and promoted as The Doll Girl, “I toured the country with the carnival, making as many as three cutaways in one jump.” She had many close calls including landing on roofs, electrical wires, a moving train and on one occasion, getting caught in a windmill. She broke several bones in rough landings. In 1912, Tiny attended an air show at Domingus Field in California, met Orville Wright, and took her first airplane flight with aviation pioneer Glenn Martin, inventor off the trap seat and parachute. She knew a challenge, and an opportunity, when she saw one. On 21 June 1913 in Los Angeles, Tiny became the first woman to parachute from an airplane. When the biplane reached an altitude of 1,000 feet, she released the lever on her trap seat and dropped to earth. She opened her "life preserver" - as parachutes were called - and landed safely in a field of grain. A newspaper headline reported, "Girl Jumps From An Aeroplane And Lives." Martin felt parachutes would be useful to the military, so in 1914, Tiny demonstrated it to the rather reluctant US Army’s fledgling aeronautics corps. She made three successful jumps, but on her fourth one, the static line became entangled in the tail of the aircraft. She cut the line and pulled it while in free fall, thus manually opening her parachute and demonstrating that aircraft crew could safely leave a plane. That’s how the ripcord was born. The same year, she jumped from a hydroplane into Lake Michigan and became the first woman to parachute into a body of water. Tiny continued to travel and to parachute, including jumps in 1915 and 1916 at the San Diego World Fairs. She retired in 1916, but returned to the sky in 1920, retiring for good in 1922 because of ankle problems. By then she had an estimated 1,100 jumps to her credit. Despite not being a pilot, Tiny was one of the few women members of the Early Birds of Aviation, and during WW2, she visited military bases and talked to pilots and parachutists. “I'd take one of my old chutes along and compare it with the ones they were using. The boys would always tell me they'd never jump in anything like that. But I'd tell them it must have been OK: I'm still here." In 1964, Tiny’s parachute, handmade by Charles Broadwick from 100 yards of silk, was donated to the Smithsonian Air Museum. She died in 1978, aged 85.

@akabeth10 @wesyang It's called engendering one's own doom.

@redfoliot @wesyang So we deserve what's happening today? Gfy

"The result is I'm a 23-year old gay man who's never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in." Jonni Skinner tells the California legislature's judiciary committee how he was puberty blocked, dosed with estrogen and rendered anorgasmic as a minor by gender clinicians that never inquired into the source of his gender confusion as a child and instead put him on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalization. Full text of his comments below: "When I was young, I was a feminine child, and I discovered trans influencers online. They said: 'Change your body and your life gets better. Don't and it gets worse.' Or, as my doctors told my mom, I would commit suicide. The medical and mental health providers didn't bother to ask why I felt the way I did. They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones, arresting my puberty and messing with my development. The result is I'm a 23 year old gay man who's never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in. I was rendered anorgasmic because once you say you could be trans, that's a full stop -- no exploration as to why is allowed, even if you are struggling. The former president of WPATH, Dr Marcy Bowers, the California surgeon who had performed the surgery for Jazz Jennings at 17, admitted on video that puberty blockers, followed by cross sex hormones, results in no orgasms and stunted genitals. SB, 934 guarantees that more people will end up like me, the walking but wounded. I could have been spared all of this, if any of my therapists would have explored why I felt dysphoric. But they never did. They only led me to hate my body more. The Supreme Court just ruled in a rare bipartisan decision that laws like this are unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. This bill is an attempted workaround that will be used to silence therapists who could have helped me avoid the irreversible harms to my body and the loss of my sexual function as is the same for many others. So today, I ask you to extend some empathy to survivors like me and vote no for this bill."

@eugyppius1 Situation complicated by Israel domestically much crazier than it ever was. Haredis already lunatics but since '80s huge increase of Ukrainian & Russian Jewish both oligarch & lower class extr. dangerous ppl pushing Likud ever worser.

People are saying the US should try to rein in Israel before Israeli bombardment of Lebanon ruins the ceasefire, but the main thing Trump wanted from the ceasefire he hasn't gotten, so why should they care one way or the other, just pragmatically speaking?

Trump said the Iran ceasefire was conditional upon "the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz." On day 2 the Strait remains neither completely, nor immediately, nor safely opened, and nobody really thinks it will be

@7Stirling @LordMasterIvan Well, I fled where I was born and bred to live out my elderly years in this place and I'm glad of it nevertheless. Quite grateful God invented polyester fleece.

@redfoliot @LordMasterIvan The reason why I built a house on the south coast of England and take lots of holidays.

European summer

@eugyppius1 Well yes. Of course we do!

Someone sent me some YouTube interview yesterday with Niall Ferguson where Ferguson mentioned Schrödinger's ceasefire. People read eugyppius!

@7Stirling @LordMasterIvan Ha yes. Don't feel bad. I live in a place in the US where I often feel we have Scottish weather.

@LordMasterIvan Scottish summer........

@Theo_Chilton Ha yes exactly. The Glorious Persian Past Monarchist Fan Fiction Club are working their little fingers to the bone trying to obscure this inconvenient truth.

Here's the thing people need to understand about the Iranians. While the Persian people may be *historically* Indo-European, they are *spiritually* semitic. The past 1400 years of Islam have basically semiticised them to the point of no return. Essentially, Iranians today are basically spiritually/morally/psychologically indistinguishable from Arabs or Mizrahi Jews. Which makes it all the more ironic that the people supporting Iran think they are doing so because they're "opposing Israel and the Jews." Bro, you're literally just choosing a different team of "essential semites." This explains why the Iranians broke the ceasefire so quickly by bombing Kuwait this morning. See, Westerners - including both the Trump admin and most of the non-Nigerian, non-Pakistani - believe that ceasefires exist as a way for two belligerents to find middle ground, come to terms, etc. etc. Not so for middle easterners, who generally view cease fires only as breathing space to try to regather or reposition forces, etc. to continue a war from a more advantageous position. That's what the Irans believe themselves to have done here, it's why Israel and their Arab neighbours constantly make and break cease fires, and it's what semites have done historically for thousands of years. Iran breaking a ceasefire today is no different from the Kingdom of Hamath breaking a ceasefire with the Kingdom of Arvad three thousand years ago

@akabeth10 @wesyang Worst job I ever had was 40 yrs ago with an int'l women's org staffed almost entirely by lesbians and scathingly contemptuous of straight gals like me. Karma is ruthless.

I will never forgive this movement or the people who pushed it for trying to destroy the next generation of homosexuals, for all of the Jonni's. The new woke homophobia of the left needs to be widely reported and discussed a lot more. They never supported us out of real conviction or values, it was purely transactional. And now they have a new, shinier ticket into the Good Person club and don't care how it hurts gays and lesbians.

@Cernovich It's been a fiction for many years that Mormon-majority states are conservative and protective of traditional American values.

Mike Kennedy of Utah is leading the charge with amnesty pusher Maria Salazar, to destroy jobs for Americans. Richard McCormick of Georgia is also part of this plot.

@eugyppius1 You must always try to keep in mind (slimy sycophant alert!) that you are a natural gentleman and most other ppl are not. You will always be speaking in a different register.

Some of the people who have spent weeks lecturing me about how the Iran war was super necessary are now also assblasted when you point out that that the ceasefire is not going well. I guess if/when Trump resumes attacks they will reverse their opinions again.

@eugyppius1 "Vibrant" is the letter-conserving form of "obnoxious."

beware any ethnicity, subculture, race, neighbourhood etc that is described by mainstream discourse guardians as “vibrant”

“invaluable contributions” lol

@eugyppius1 Didn't we all need something hilarious this morning?

@eugyppius1 Well, politics is religion too.

The outpouring from MAGA accounts of unprovoked eurohate complete with standard enemy myths about the parasitic useless sponging sapping nature of longstanding Euro allies has been one of most bewildering and alienating things since I started posting.

@wesyang Reading Ernst Junger's accounts of his WWI service makes that starkly clear.

There's a case to be made that PTSD in soldiers isn't really about the horrors they witnessed (or perpetrated) but about the return to an anomic peacetime world after having tasted the terror and ecstasy of combat x.com/PedanticKilljo…

There are people for whom war is the most fun thing imaginable. It shouldn't surprise anyone that this would be so -- all one has to do is look at how young boys play. The admonition that the real thing is a horror and hell is true for most, but not for all.

@captive_dreamer He thought he was more important than he is; a common affliction. He's not crazy but spiteful and haunted by the stature of his father who clearly failed somewhat at parenting boys well.

Tucker went insane, seems pretty clear.

@captive_dreamer @KalenWallace2 @SethDillon Most accurate analysis anywhere.

@KalenWallace2 @SethDillon He was saved by his speech writers

Tucker now getting glowing reviews from Obama's speech writers:

@wesyang There is actually a different point no one is grappling with. The distinction is between healthy and sick. Straight and gay ppl can be healthy or sick. The artifice of "queerness" is purposefully to reject any concept of sickness, i.e. Scott Weiner's life's work.

Yes. Yes it does. That is indeed the whole point.

@wesyang Letting crazy ppl run things is always bad whether it's one's family or the state and everything in between. This has always been true.

When the ACLU's lead trans right litigator Chase Strangio tweeted a promise to stop the circulation of a book chronicling the online social contagion driving trans identification in young people, Strangio was being true to the intrinsic nature of the movement. The movement eschews deliberation and debate on principle because deliberation would instantly expose the reliance of the movement on an act of faith in a false claim that any bright nine-year old who hadn't been propagandized from the earliest age could dismantle in five minutes. The movement relied on state and societal coercion from the first instance to enforce a top-down astroturfed pseudo-consensus because it had no chance to compete in any arena where reason, logic, and evidence held sway. Do not listen to anyone purporting to critique the "strategic missteps" an otherwise righteous movement made on its path to claiming the arc of justice. The recourse to lies, bullying, skullduggery, medical and legal fraud, propagandizing children, campaigns of cancellation, and punishment of truth tellers was by far the best chance it had for success. A movement aimed at attempting to enshrine a falsehood as the only truth cannot withstand any world where free speech, open exchange, pluralism, liberalism, and democracy convert the will of the people into policy. It can only succeed by the systematic dismantling of all of the above, as it has moved to do wherever it obtains power. The fatal debility of the movement is that it is based on metaphysical propositions that 1.) aren't true and 2.) inflict massive risks, harms, cruelties, and absurdities on the whole population. It is not salvageable with better messaging, tactics, or strategy. It simply needs to be scrapped.