Ian Gebbie

Engineer

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'He has a point, but he's too blunt.'

From the start, a key tactic of the gender identitarians has been linguistic prescription, and it's proved shockingly successful. Trans activists' shibboleths and euphemisms have been allowed to penetrate the upper echelons of our culture with devastating consequences to freedom of speech and belief. Huge swathes of liberal media, the arts, academia and publishing have thrown themselves with gusto into the defence of a quasi-religious belief causing provable real world harm, and in their arrogance they've been outraged when people they assumed were part of their In Group have refused to march meekly along in lock step.

Time and again, I've seen and heard well-educated people who consider themselves critical thinkers and bold truth-tellers squirm when put on the spot. 'Well, yes, maybe there's something in what you're saying, but it's hateful/provocative/rude not to use the approved language/pretend people can literally change sex/keep drawing attention to medical malpractice or opportunistic sexual predators. Why can't you be nice? Why won't you pretend? We thought you were one of us! Don't you realise we have sophisticated new words and phrases these days that obviate the necessity of thinking any of this through?'

As the vibe shifts, and a lot of people in the elite professions start trying to reposition themselves, the obvious place to start is, 'it's not that I couldn't see your point, but did you have to say it that way?' We dissenters were supposed to find a way of questioning the chemical castration of children while calling it 'gender affirming care.' We were meant to defend the rights of vulnerable women while also using female pronouns for male rapists. We should have found a way to discuss fairness for women and girls in sport, while pretending that the ineradicable physical advantage men have over women doesn't exist.

Either a man can be a woman, or he can't. Either women deserve rights, or they don't. Either there's a provable medical benefit to transitioning children, or there isn't. Either you're on the side of a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose falsehoods on society through the threat of ostracisation, shaming and violence, or you're not. The alternative to being 'blunt' - using accurate, factual language to describe what was going on - was to surrender freedom of speech and espouse ideological jargon that obfuscated the issues and the harms caused. We've always needed blunt people, but we need them most of all when being asked to bow down to a naked emperor.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

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[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@jacob_maroga What you say is correct, that solar farms need frequency from base generators. But is disengenous to suggest that renewables do not provide the additional energy input that Eskom is no longer able to provide.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@VillageGuluva These have made the freeways much safer and pleasant to drive on. It keeps the fools that think the verge is a lane from driving badly.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@JHBWater Burst pipe at 102 7th Avenue Fairlands.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@TheKiffness Equality of permission is the one freedom to pursue as it enables each individual to develop to their best potential.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@errolbsk We always hear everyone wants more employees but our government actively works against employers

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@TrentTelenko 2 ...Never recorded radio and never used a type writer :)

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@joelpollak @BreitbartNews Did anyone ask what colour the couch was that he brought back.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@DailyInvestorSA De Ruiter did exactly what was required. Identified the main issues and then started the process to address them. In doing so showed more courage than those before him.

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] "You cannot continue to drive on the right-hand lane when there are no cars on the Highway," Road Traffic Infringement Agency spokesperson Monde Mkalipi says motorists can be fined R1,000 for "obstructing" vehicles from passing while driving at low speed on the fast lane. #Newzroom405

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@SimplyMegszcpt There are a few such operations in the town of Geita just south of Lake Victoria

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@SimplyMegszcpt In SA because it is not addressed there is no environmental controls...look at illegal chrome mining in the steelpoort area, and then safety concerns with illegal gold mining on the Westwits line.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@SimplyMegszcpt It works well there, alongside large scale miners and allows broader access. But I agree ANC policy would get in the way here.

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

Taiwan is considering implementing restrictions on semiconductor chip exports to South Africa after the SA government formally notified Taiwan it will no longer recognise its diplomatic mission in Pretoria.

https://t.co/1FIaSVuhYG

[Jaco Kleynhans @JacoKleynhans]

Just some of the @Bidvest_Group companies that you can boycott today:

1. **Adcock Ingram**
2. **Bidvest Bank**
3. **Bidvest Protea Coin**
4. **Bidvest McCarthy**
5. **Waltons**
6. **Bidvest Steiner**
7. **Voltex**
8. **Bidvest Noonan**
9. **Plumblink**
10. **Bidvest International Logistics**

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@SimplyMegszcpt Fool, imagine he fit a live cable with a pick. All they had to do was disconnect at the supply substation or minisub, assuming that had been maintained and locked.

[Chris Yelland @chrisyelland]

Prof Jan Reynders, former Dean of Engineering and Head of the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at Wits University, and President of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineering (SAIEE), passed away on 16 April 2025. He made a huge contribution to South Africa, to the electrical engineering profession and to the many students and colleagues who passed through his department and faculty at Wits University. I have nothing but the very finest memories of Prof Jan Reynders as a professional, a scholar, a teacher and a friend. May his soul rest in peace.

[Ian Gebbie @IanGebbie]

@Bruceps Did you follow our currency at all? Voting of a VAT hike helped crash the JSE and weaken the rand. If you want to help stop a sovereign default vote for a budget that cuts expenditure.