Freedom isn't free

not mean enough for the beehive

[Ryan Dally @Ryandally08]

🚨 BREAKING: The RBA just blew the lid off Anthony Albanese’s housing scam.

Secret documents prepared by bank experts for the May board meeting reveal the truth Albo didn’t want you to see:

Labor’s first term housing policy did nothing to boost supply.

Worse?

They actually DROVE UP prices.

While Australians are locked out of the market, the RBA notes Albo refused to touch the main lever causing the crisis: his reckless migration policy.

It wasn’t an accident.

It’s economic sabotage.

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

This small story in the Times summed up where the UK is today; Paul Edwards bought a copy of Mother and Baby magazine when his children were 18 months and 3 months in 2007.
It’s just arrived with an apology from Royal Mail for “any inconvenience.” Paul, 52, pointed out his kids had now left home.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Hamilton: "Estoy en contra de la desigualdad entre ricos y pobres".

Hamilton bajando de su yate en túnica y estrellando su Pagani Zonda exclusivo de 10 millones de dólares:

[GemmaTognini @GemmaTognini]

Appros of nothing - THIS 👇🏼

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?

[Freedom isn't free @FreeThinkingUK]

@matt_horncastle List MPs cannot be Cabinet Ministers. If your community doesn’t want you the country sure as hell doesn’t!

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“But what riles me about Gillard’s misogyny schtick is that she presided over the greatest act of legislative misogyny against women in this country we have ever seen when she gutted the sex discrimination act to completely removed our biological rights.”

This is 100% true.

[Freedom isn't free @FreeThinkingUK]

@aniobrien

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride.

This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP.

Inclusion! WOO! 🙄

The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life.

That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature.

And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement.

The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law.

Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together.

You know... Normal things.

The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included".

What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings.

Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work.

How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement?

Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes.

Somewhere along the way after the TQ+ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship.

The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all.

I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype.

If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this.

The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.

The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.

[Elliot Ikilei @ElliotIkilei]

From Phillip Conroy:

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

We have lost our moral compass.

We can no longer tell right from wrong.

Where this leaves our children, God only knows. 😳

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Do you want to know something interesting about the decision to remove Winston Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen from bank notes?

Savanta, a market research company, was chosen to run a focus group.

The result of that focus group is that Churchill was “divisive”, Turing “an imperialist” and Austen “contentious and not representative”.

Yet that focus group had only 119 people in it.

And only one person called Turing “imperialist”. Someone who probably did not even know that he was not only instrumental in the Allies winning WW2 but was a gay man who was chemically castrated to “cure him”.

Turing was left fat, flabby and so unhappy that he carefully injected cyanide into an apple and ate it. He was found with half the apple by his side.

The Bank of England claims that the focus group was only part of its decision and it ran a broader public inquiry that favoured animals and flowers. Who did they ask? Primary school kids?

[Julie Burchill @BoozeAndFagz]

I don’t need a lecture from my chocolate bar https://t.co/eIRT2LzP9h AND ME IN THE SPEC!

[Julie Burchill @BoozeAndFagz]

Russell T Davies is stuck in a purity spiral https://t.co/pvk86kmaBA via @UnHerd It's me in UNHERD!

[Todd Stephenson MP @toddmstephenson]

Very silly stuff by Rakesh Naidoo. In one fell swoop he’s destroyed his own credibility while reinforcing questions around trust and transparency in the Police.

https://t.co/YPYlDxsYm1

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.

[Freedom isn't free @FreeThinkingUK]

@OliLondonTV How to say I’m a twat without saying I’m a twat.

[Afghan Zoroastrian @AfgZoroastrian]

Japan and Germany were devastated during WW2.

Their children didn’t become terrorists.

Stop making excuses for your terrorists.

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

Spotted in Copacabana, NSW near Albo’s negatively geared cliff top mansion. 👏🏼😂

[Harry Brown @HazBrown1]

It's fucking tragic 🤦🏻‍♂️