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🚨DISGUSTING: This is Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, Recorder of Cardiff. She sentenced ex-soldier Daffron Williams — a 41-year-old veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD — to two years in prison (half to be served in custody) for Facebook posts made in the tense days after the Southport child murders.
His posts referenced “civil war is here” and included anti-Islamic imagery. She acknowledged his military service, good character references, and mental health struggles… but still sent him to prison for words on the internet.
The same judge has also jailed others for social media posts in the post-riot crackdown, including 24-year-old David Morgan who received 20 months for tweets involving Nazi imagery and racist content.
Yet when Rees Newman — convicted of the historic rape of a girl under 14 — appeared before her for breaching his sex offender requirements, she suspended his two-month jail term, explicitly citing prison overcrowding.
A veteran with PTSD goes to prison for Facebook comments warning about cultural conflict.
A child rapist walks free because the jails are too full.
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1990s "heckin' good people" conservatism summed up in a post. Arrogant, insecure ressentiment, combined with fetishization of the proletariat lifestyle and progressive attitudes.
There are implicit assumptions here: having money makes you a good person, being racist makes you a bad person (of course, only if you're White). There is no quiet confidence that you're living the best way, there is loud, brash assurances that your lifestyle must be better. You're going to tell everyone the investment banker in the suit must be BAD AND RACIST (not to mention the extremely outdated stereotypes; investment bankers in suits doing deals are at least 20 years gone; the world of modern investment banking is nerdy Asian quants in t-shirts).
Note that at none of these 15 points does John ever actually stand up for his "Texas" culture; he stands up for second or third-order symbols. John does not say the F-150 is not good because it is a practical way to haul things around and cheap(ish) to fix, he says it's good because supposably the person driving it is richer than the person driving the Mercedes. Pure Ressentiment in the Nietzschean sense.
Things you learn in Texas:
1. The guy in the F-150 is worth a lot more than the dude in a Mercedes.
2. The small business owner from a state school is smarter than the majority of Ivy League grads.
3. There’s more racism in Connecticut country clubs than in rural honky-tonks.
4. Rednecks are more honorable than investment bankers.
5. The man who looks like he can’t afford the tab could buy the building.
6. They don’t ask for a deck before the meeting.
7. Prep school is where they send the problem kids.
8. If he’s wearing dusty boots, a 2XL Magellan shirt, a gold Rolex, and has a bulletproof case on his iPhone 12, you’ve already lost the negotiation.
9. “How’s business?” is a real question. “What do you do?” is a New York question.
10. Tips are bigger and egos are smaller.
11. A handshake still closes deals that a term sheet would kill.
12. The wealth is in real estate, oil, or a company nobody in Manhattan has ever heard of.
13. Your wife or daughter will never struggle finding help to change a tire.
14. Nobody asks where you went to college.
15. A weekend invitation to their ranch makes you part of the family.
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English version of "tsundere" is "tartheart." It rhymes, uses Old English roots (teart+heorte), and is similar to modern "sweetheart." You could also go "sourheart," but that seems more like an antonym to sweetheart.
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
‘Next stop, the gas chamber’: London bus adverts to be removed
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Anonymity, understandably, leads people to behave in more radical ways than they otherwise would.
On the one hand that's often the conscious intent of it, but it also subliminally influences people unintentionally, which is why masquerade balls had a certain reputation and why road rage leads to violent outbursts that people would never indulge in the case of foot traffic. It's also part of why X replies are so often snide, condescending or blatantly insulting.
In the case of online political discourse the predictable result is that people tend to adopt more extreme positions than they would under their real names, even if censorship and doxxing weren't issues.
Those extremist tendencies are, of course, exacerbated by the nature of social media algorithms, which reinforce priors and stifle inter-ideological exchange because everyone is being fed, almost exclusively, content from their own ideological camp.
All this creates irrational behaviors (as in road rage, masqueraded bacchanalian excess, or internet ad hominem) primarily because it removes a degree of feedback and renders a person immune to incremental consequences for his actions, i.e., it takes away error correction.
As long as the vast majority of our politics is conducted anonymously we'll be exempting ourselves from the error correction that naturally comes with having your reputation at stake when you make a statement - errors will therefore proliferate and we'll lose touch with what's truly politically possible.
It also invites leading a double life, where your political views are quarantined and expressed only behind a mask, while your everyday life bears no signature of your identitarian commitments. That kind of double life is not healthy and is psychologically unsustainable in the long run.
I don't suggest going public with all of your most extreme positions under your real name; that would be irresponsible. I do suggest engaging politically under your real name in much more moderate ways.
Keep your anon account and keep pushing the overton window. But also, start a totally separate account using your real name and engage in the discourse in a way that is as honest as you can manage without jeopardizing your livelihood or personal connections.
That would give you the error correction that we've been depriving ourselves of and it would force you to take a more realistic view of politics.
TLDR:
-Anon accounts lead to unrealistic LARPing and prevent us from correcting our errors, but are still useful in pushing the boundaries.
-Self doxxed accounts greatly limit what we're able to say, but force us to be more realistic politically.
-So you should do both; have an extremist anon account and a moderate doxxed account and push both as far to the right as prudence allows.
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What actually makes it high stakes is that a thousand year old civilisation is about to be washed away by a few decades of immigration for some unarticulated reason, everything else is a sideshow
What makes British politics so high stakes at the moment is the Right is systematically building the case to dismantle a large swathe of Britain’s welfare state non-pensioners.
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You need to be a genuine psychopath to think like this. Say what you want about the left, but at least the left has some *conception* of how society should be ordered.
'The most important thing is not the colour of the skin of the person living next to you, but how much you earn and keep'
Some brilliant contributions at our live event with the Young Conservatives yesterday discussing what the party needs to do to attract more young voters
🎧 Listen to the full episode now through the link in our bio
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
The absurdity of these books being considered banned when they’re extremely popular and sold everywhere is often commented on, but people fail to see just how malicious and subversive it is. The actual determination they use of what makes a book a “banned book” displays this.
A book is only considered banned by these people when it is rejected or removed from public school curriculum. That’s it. That’s the definition they use and why they sell all these “banned books” that are ultra popular.
It is considered a ban when the book is no longer purchased by your tax payer dollars and then distributed and mandated for your children to read and where they must complete assignments on said book in order to get passing grades. To say “no, I don’t think we should pay taxes so my kids can be made to read your gay race communist propaganda” is to, in their minds, ban the book.
Of course, this is absurd, none of these books are remotely banned, they’re widely available everywhere, it’s just saying we aren’t going to pay taxes for them and then force children to read it.
But the people who push this know it is absurd. This is an example of malicious tactics and manipulation. They call it banned to of course draw comparisons to some bonfires some Austrian painter put on in the 1930s, but it’s also to specifically hit the love of liberty which is intrinsic to Anglo-Protestant culture.
Sure, if you’re in the know you’re absurd, but this phrase was deliberately crafted to get those ignorant of it, who would normally say “why should my tax money go to force children to read your propaganda?” To instead say “why would anyone want to ban literature? They must fear what it has to say and be unable to compete against it!”
It really is as ingenious as it is insidious to push this, but you can learn a lot, especially in the importance and value of framing and understanding how to sway people.
Nearly 12,000 book bans took place in public schools over the past year, the highest level ever recorded.
New banned titles include:
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Sold by Patricia McCormick
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
My God we’re arresting children now
Boy, 15, held for burning woman with makeshift flame-thrower in riots trib.al/b2DS6zA
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The 15yo child in question assaulted a woman with a makeshift flamethrower, as the quoted tweet shows. This is a crime, therefore an arrest is warranted regardless of the age of the assailant.
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The only true power is violence. That's why Charlie Kirk got shot, and why a mob is able to do this. "Debate" is silly and pointless in the face of war.
STATEMENT FROM FREEDOM WATCH GB
Today, Freedom Watch GB founder Montgomery Toms and our team travelled to Bristol University to debate students and engage directly with people who disagree with us. We managed to hold one debate before being surrounded by a huge, organised mob. We were not surrounded by hundreds. We were surrounded by thousands!
Our tent was completely swarmed, our gazebo was ripped apart and collapsed, microphones and other equipment were stomped on, and one of our cameras was knocked over. Masked individuals were among those surrounding and obstructing our team, while our attempts to continue recording were constantly disrupted, making it extremely difficult to properly document the endless assaults.
The situation became so serious that the police closed off the road and brought in riot horses, yet despite the enormous crowd surrounding us, there was no effective dispersal and no meaningful effort to protect our team or our property. The police simply did not have the capacity to get us out while protecting us from the mob, leaving our team effectively trapped and forced to work out how to escape with our people and equipment. This is an extraordinary situation to find ourselves in while attempting to exercise the most basic democratic right: speaking to the public and debating political ideas.
We are not asking everyone to agree with Montgomery Toms or Freedom Watch GB. In fact, we actively encourage people to challenge us, criticise us and debate us. What is completely unacceptable is attempting to prevent those conversations from happening through intimidation, obstruction and the destruction or interference with our equipment. Students wanted to approach us, ask questions and debate. They were prevented from doing so by the atmosphere created around our team. That is not free speech. That is the suppression of free speech.
The events at Bristol demonstrate exactly why Freedom Watch GB exists. Political debate cannot be reserved for comfortable rooms where everyone already agrees. If our views are controversial, then challenge them. If our arguments are wrong, defeat them in debate. But do not send masked thugs to swarm people, destroy their equipment and intimidate members of the public into silence.
We have extensive footage from today and we will publish it. We will show what happened to our equipment, the scale of the crowd, the disruption to our filming and the response of the police. The public can then judge the events for themselves.
Freedom Watch GB will not be intimidated into silence. We will continue going into universities, we will continue debating students, and we will continue putting our arguments directly to the public. You can shout over us, surround us and attempt to shut us down, but you will not stop us from turning up.
We will keep debating. We will keep exposing what is happening. And we will keep fighting for freedom.
Freedom Watch GB
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Not even the worst of East Germany or USSR was *this* petty. Maybe under Mao's Cuktural Revolution?
They think of themselves as minor lords, ordering their troops to intimidate anyone who proffers even a minor insult.
🚨 Teenage Reform activist arrested after calling Tory councillor a “rent boy”
A 15-year-old schoolboy, Fraser, was woken by four police officers knocking at the door of his family home.
The previous day, Fraser, a committed Reform UK activist, had been campaigning for Nigel Farage in Clacton during the hastily called by-election.
But a handful of Facebook posts appear to have upset a Tory councillor on Wolverhampton City Council, who complained to the police.
In one post, Fraser criticised the councillor for wearing shorts and a T-shirt to a meeting. In another, after the councillor had worn a suit, Fraser remarked that he was thankfully not dressed like a “rent boy”.
West Midlands Police’s response was to send two police cars and four officers to the child’s home.
Fraser believes his arrest was politically motivated.
The police have revealed very little about why Fraser was arrested. In an email to his lawyer on 8 September, West Midlands Police wrote: “It is alleged that your client’s comments could be considered a hate crime offence…”
Officers searched Fraser in full view of his neighbours before placing him in a police car and taking him to the local station. There, he was searched a second time, put in a cell, and had his fingerprints, DNA and mugshot taken. His shoes were removed, and he was left alone in a “freezing cold cell” without his mother while he waited for a duty solicitor. Meanwhile, two officers searched his bedroom at home.
Celia Hibbert, Reform’s leader in Wolverhampton, contacted the Free Speech Union (FSU), which has taken up Fraser’s case and found him a lawyer. Fraser is considering suing West Midlands Police for wrongful arrest.
FSU Legal Officer Zahira Patel said:
“Four police officers arriving to arrest a 15-year-old boy over a political Facebook post is a shocking overreach. This is not an isolated overreaction. It fits a pattern we see again and again: politicians reporting online criticism to the police rather than answering it.
“For a child to be arrested at home, interrogated, stripped of his devices, left waiting weeks to learn his fate and investigated for a ‘hate crime’ is not proportionate policing of a minor. This investigation needs to end immediately.”
It is deeply Orwellian for an elected official to use the police to silence a child who mocked him.
Read more below 👇
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:
— The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’Humanité €6.5 million and Libération €6.3 million
— The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation
— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies
— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”
— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.
— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.
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— Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.
The media have spent the last decade demanding online censorship of right-wing populists to avoid "real-world harm." Now, they're promoting left-wing disinformation — including that migrant students are "deprived" — that's driving street violence.
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
Emmanuel Macron says American free speech is "the opposite of free speech." In his view, freedom only exists inside a "common framework" set by the state.
He compared posting an insult online to hitting someone in the street. Those are different things, because one is speech and the other is violence.
He wants people punished for posting "nonsense," with state-backed fact-checkers deciding what qualifies. He wants a verified identity behind every social media account. He has written to Ursula von der Leyen demanding the DSA be enforced "much faster, much more forcefully."
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Mafia tactics. This was meant as a warning to other restraunts.
'Antifa mob' smashes up Portland fine dining restaurant after staff served white supremacists for brunch trib.al/mGtmHpn
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
Es básicamente imposible que Lula gane en 2da vuelta porque todos los demás candidatos, a excepción de una, son de derecha. Perdimos a Brasil. El Escudo de las Américas ganó y veo más cercana la caída de Cuba. Se vienen tiempos de barbarie, despojo, devastación y ecocidios.
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I have *some* respect for a "ghost dance" where you try to replicate culture from earlier era and hope it works. However, you need to replicate a culture that worked in its time time. The Brits trained in "the classics" were the generation that oversaw the decline of the Empire.
Ok, this is incredible.
A new classical Catholic high school just opened in Fairfax County (St. Jerome Institute) — this is what a serious education looks like:
– Phones collected at the door
– Every class is a seminar discussion
– 15-20 students seated facing one another
– Art and music are required, NOT elective
– Math class teaches "the intrinsic beauty of math"
– Entire curriculum is integrated: philosophical and theological questioning in every class
And here's the literature section of the reading list:
9th grade (Exodus & Odyssey):
– Homer, Odyssey
– Genesis
– Plato, Euthyphro and Apology
– Virgil, Aeneid
– Exodus
– Beowulf
– Song of Roland
– Gospel of Luke
– Plato, Phaedo and Crito
– Acts of the Apostles
– Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
– Wilder, Our Town
10th grade (God & Nature):
– Creation myths
– Plato, Timaeus and Symposium
– Aristotle, De Anima
– Plotinus
– Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Bonaventure, Aquinas
– Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
– Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
– Descartes, Meditations
– Bacon, Newton, Darwin
– Berry, Wilder, Tolkien
– Tocqueville
– Benedict XVI
– Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
– Faulkner, The Bear
11th grade (God & the Human Person):
– Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
– Plato, Symposium
– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
– Augustine, Confessions
– Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and King Lear
– Hobbes, Leviathan
– Swift, A Modest Proposal
– Austen, Pride and Prejudice
– Shelley, Frankenstein
– Hopkins
– O’Connor
– Martin Luther King Jr.
– Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
– John Paul II
12th grade (God & Society):
– Plato, Republic
– Dante, The Divine Comedy
– Aristotle, Politics
– Augustine, City of God
– Aquinas, De Regno
– Natural and human law
– Machiavelli, Hobbes
– Locke, Rousseau
– Marx and Engels
– Dignitatis Humanae, Evangelium Vitae, Centesimus Annus
– John Courtney Murray
– Leviticus
– Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
– The Declaration of Independence
– The Constitution
– The Federalist Papers
"They gain an in-depth knowledge of Western civilization from Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem through England and the founding of our own country."
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Shogun (2024) is quite good, but it's striking that they did not use someone ethnically English as the main actor, especially because his English appearance is explicitly referenced. They picked a brownish Armenian, Cosmo Jarvis, then want us all to pretend he's lily-White, blonde, blue-eyed, and visibly distinct enough from the Portuguese for the story to work.
I can only assume the goal was to reinforce the "England was always diverse" falsehood. But this marks an interesting moment in time, because by like 2050, the narrative will likely be that Japan was always diverse and there will be Indian Samurai in every new production of a Sengoku-period historical drama.
So Shogun was made at a time when historical revisionism and racial erasure had hit England, but not Japan. Japan gets to be portrayed as a historical ethnos, but not the English (or Portugese, for that matter -- Tommy Bastow is ethnically English and Néstor Carbonell is Spanish). Every Japanese character is played by an ethnically Japanese actor, though; they at least have a tiny bit of respect there.
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TheShadowbanned retweeted
People talk about a sex drought but what we really have is a romantic wasteland where the foids have all been taught to hate the boys and the boys are trapped in a cycle of cold-blooded minmaxxing that makes them feel like reptilian sociopathic roboclowns when they actually succeed in obtaining sexual access to the foid herd. Like hyperpalatable junk food that tastes incredible but leaves you fundamentally unsatisfied due to the absence of anything recognisable as nutrition, the "sexual marketplace" is denuded of the actual romance that men yearn for.
Malfoid resonates so strongly because she represents the possibility of romance within the wasteland. She hates Potter, she can't stop thinking about him, she hounds him relentlessly. Potter is clueless, he thinks she really does hate him, not realizing she's subjecting him to the mother of all shit tests as she works through a turbulent, contradictory ball of emotional snakes born of impossibly high aristocratic standards, indoctrination to hate Potter and everything he represents, and a hidden fascination that she can't admit to herself yet cannot shake. Malfoid, the Bad Girl, is every girl, because the girls have been miseducated to be bad at being girls - competitive and antagonistic, driving away that which they most desire by attacking, mocking, humiliating, and undermining it, rendering themselves and everyone around them pointlessly miserable due to their misplaced loyalty to the dead hand of a death cult whose every promise is a lie born of hatred for them and for the people they truly love. Twisted and painful as this tsundere romance is, it is the only kind of romance that is possible, even in principle, within the wasteland. This gives Malfoid a powerful erotic charge that has nothing to do with "sex"; the story is entirely PG-13, but hit the pornographically jaded chuds between the eyes like a 2x4.
Writers looking to rebuild literary culture should ponder this. Romance is the most conspicuously missing element of life in the 21st century.
I think the Malfoid trend is insanely fascinating because it's a commentary about men today.
Malfoid was brought up from birth to hate everything about Harry, but despite everything in her corner of society pushing her to despise him and see Harry as a foe, she can't help but love him because he represents something her side of the wizarding world could never show her; honest love and a relationship not based on how useful someone is - which was one of the core themes of the books anyway.
For men, Malfoid represents pure love - something modern men yearn for - because she had to overcome her own prejudices to let herself love him, and that's a love a man can trust. She fought for him while he fought the world that tried to enslave her emotionally and even physically. It's an incredible love story based on collective fan fiction by MEN that went viral because men are just thirsty for honest, trustworthy love.
It's actually kind of heartbreaking when you think about it.
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