I discuss stories (theme, motifs, "it's good/bad") on YouTube. I make a series for my brother Jamison, whose name you might have known if he were still with us.
Turns out I wasn't done with Oz Perkins. Roughed him up some last year after Longlegs, and now I've come back for more with @HardCutReviews for his latest movie Keeper. Link in the replies.
Whistleblowers in the NHS and at gender clinics have been trying to raise the alarm for a decade. There is no excuse for continuing to pretend that extremely vulnerable children haven't been irreparably harmed.
This is horrific. Autistic boy who needs a care worker to go everywhere with him,failed capacity tests and the @NHS STILL removed his genitals. People should be in prison.
1/ Adolescence. A Netflix drama with a fictional white boy.
Parliament debated it. Into every school within weeks. To teach boys about misogyny.
That was fiction. 🧵
If my son was murdered and the police watched over him, mocking him, whilst he bled to death I would have agreed to release the footage too. I would do so knowing, hoping, that everyone would be so shocked and disgusted that it would bring about change. I would welcome comments about the state of policing, which is why I would include them in my statement outside of the court, especially from leading political figures throughout the globe.
I think we all know why the footage is in the public domain and it’s not to encourage silence and inaction.
The family wanted us to see what happened to their dear boy.
I believe all lives matter. However…
What was done to Iryna Zarutska was beyond heartbreaking. Afterwards, the savage who stabbed her said “I got that white bitch.” Also, while she was bleeding out, the people around her did nothing.
What was done to Henry Nowak was legitimate injustice. The cops were way more afraid to be seen as racist than they were to enforce the law.
Besides, wearing this shirt would piss off the right people, so I think it’s funny.
Reason I don’t wear a Black Lives Matter shirt is because no one wearing that shirt would give a rat’s ass if my black conservatarian ass died. Speaks to a larger problem than just “black lives.”
It has never been officially acknowledged, but it is an open secret that the UK government sends its nudge unit to grieving families after tragedies like this. Their job is to warn the family they will be held responsible for any public reaction and to push statements about unity to shield the authorities.
In Henry Nowak's case, they clearly missed his godmother. She has spoken with raw honesty about the failures that cost her godson his life. Henry's sister Olivia has likewise shared and supported calls for real accountability instead of scripted silence.
A government that uses threats to manage and muzzle a family's grief has lost all moral authority.
For context, they interrupted a vigil for Henry Nowak, an 18 year old White boy murdered by a Sikh. They shouted over the three minute silence held for Henry. These people are evil scum, and we don’t hate the left nearly enough.
I don't agree with the notion that racism isn't a big deal, but my quibble with that throwaway line isn't a big deal. The spirit of this is correct; "social superweapon" is spot on. This hyperfixation on one type of moral failing is mostly posturing that only benefits bad people.
The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.
What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.
Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.
Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.
Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.
You missed the fact that school officials deceived this young girl and her parents, promising them that boys and girls would sleep on separate floors. It wasn’t until this 11-year-old girl was on the trip—far from home—that she discovered her expected bedmate was a boy.
She was then forced to stand up against school authorities and defend her own privacy in the moment, late at night. They initially treated her as if her concerns were not legitimate, moving her to a different bed in the room. This backfired when the other roommates wanted the boy to move beds too. So this little girl had to muster the courage to voice her concerns a second time. The school finally relented and moved her to another room, but told her to lie about the reason why.
Any reasonable person can see how outrageous this is. No child should have to defend her own privacy against a school policy that puts her in jeopardy. And no school district should make it a policy to deceive parents.
Furthermore: not all kids have the ability or opportunity to stand up for themselves. Another family in our lawsuit has a son whose sleeping arrangements and showers were supervised by a female (identifying as non-binary) at a week-long school camp. Several of the boys were so uncomfortable that they skipped showers and changed their clothes inside their sleeping bags.
This is inexcusable. It is adults’ responsibility to stand up for children—not children’s responsibility to stand up for themselves.
This could easily be avoided with a commonsense policy that allows parents to stay informed and opt their children out of mixed-sex sleeping arrangements ahead of time—protecting the privacy of ALL children involved. But despite our requests, the school district repeatedly refused to do this.
So yes, we sued. In fact, let me put every district in America on notice right now: if you treat students and parents this way, prepare for a lawsuit.
It’s so funny because this is exactly what Dems said would happen to conservatives: they’d become radicalized by the internet and act out violently.
They used that fear to justify the Censorship Industrial Complex.
Turns out it was libs who were having their brains 🧠 boiled.
@jk_rowling It's like we have to learn all over why we separated prisons by sex to begin with. Men are still men even if they really really like wearing stockings.
The Scottish government is responsible for this sexual assault. The Supreme Court has confirmed women’s right to single sex spaces, a ruling the SNP continues to flout. If the victim wishes to sue, https://t.co/iyohnrgVZN can assist with all costs.
@majuular I'm sorry. Pretty jazzed to hear that you were replaying Xenogears though. I'd like to do that one of these days.
Xenoblade 3, while not as ambitious, is sort of Tetsuya Takahashi trying Xenogears (specifically Xenogears) again. My game of 2022. Made me cry a whole lot (really).
I built https://t.co/R1jAMUfNTv — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities.
You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free.
I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded.
It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇
Numbers don't lie, but criminals do.
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@TrueTeller2024@Biotransgurl I’m so sorry that such a policy led to the loss of your lovely daughter. We will never forget what was done to parents like yourself who acted from a place of love, but were treated like criminals.
@majuular It represents your desire to meet society's expectations, do life a normal and expected way, and your frustration that no matter how badly you wish to give yourself over to a preprepared plan and walk the path others walk, your life is its own self-driving car.