Luke Willms

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan.

When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago.

So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care.

They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill.

So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people.

Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power.

It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.

[Luke Willms @Luke28282]

@WilliamCat29206 @BitPaine I see what you did there.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The other jurors have spent all week calling the lone male holdout an arrogant, uncooperative dummy who didn’t understand the law or follow the rules. Now we come to find out that they were talking about the only black guy in the room this whole time. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Luke Willms @Luke28282]

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[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

This is insane. A Toronto university teaching assistant publicly prayed for Jews to be slain “one by one” and for none to be spared.

The university fired him. The Muslim teaching assistant took the university to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, claiming that he was the victim of discrimination.

The tribunal awarded him $7,000 for injury to his “dignity, feelings and self-respect.” The adjudicator even characterized his prayer as a “human moment.”

To summarize Canada in 2026: calling for Jews to be murdered is a regrettable “human moment.” Being held accountable for those threats is a human rights violation.
https://t.co/7Ogofv2lRc

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The head of Mark Carney’s Investment Agency suddenly resigns days before hosting a supposedly massive Investment Summit.

Carney installs the very powerbroker whose company broke rules to take $200 million in taxpayers money and “supercharged” the opioid crisis that killed 50,000 Canadians.

The guy was the architect of the Century Initiative, which pushed for mass immigration that drove wages down, rent up, and corporate profits through the roof.

When will the media ask some serious questions about what the hell is going on here?

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

Happy Birthday to our last living signatory of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the former Premier of Newfoundland, the Honourable Brian Peckford!

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Just finished a call with the Prime Minister to discuss the tariff escalation.

My message: release the text of the rejected agreement, recall Parliament, and adopt an emergency Economic Action Plan to save jobs and lower costs for our people.

The plan should scrap gas taxes until Canada Day, have zero capital gains tax on reinvesting in Canada, end the industrial carbon tax, green -light the 500 projects waiting for federal permits, and have ZERO sales tax on Canadian-made cars.

As the U.S. hikes tariffs, we must lower taxes for Canadians.

Let’s all fight for our workers, our businesses, and our country.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Canadian here -- if you're curious as to "what is going ON with Canada"

I can tell you

Canada has an entire political class and media that is 100% dependent on fueling the war with the USA to survive.

Without this conflict, they only have a record of failure and propaganda

[Northern Perspective @NorthrnPrspectv]

🚨 CTV TARGETS INDEPENDENT MEDIA 🚨

CTV is demanding YouTube remove our video for using a short CTV clip that we criticized and commented on.

We are refusing to back down so CTV may have to take us to court.

Please share this. Independent media needs your help

@wyatt_claypool @mario4thenorth

[Jeff Evely - the Magnanimous GenX'er Male @JeffEvely]

Fauci admitted in texts that vaccination during early pregnancy would lead to more miscarriages, but he pushed it anyway.

Fauci received a blanket pardon from President Autopen. The following people did not:

Dr. Theresa Tam: “Everyone, including those who are planning a pregnancy, are pregnant, or breastfeeding should get #FullyVaccinated to help protect against #COVID19 and its complications.”

Dr. Bonnie Henry: "It is highly recommended that people who are pregnant get their vaccine.”

Dr. Deena Hinshaw: “If you are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or have recently delivered, please get both doses of COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible to offer you and your family the best protection possible.”

Dr. Robert Strang: “Certainly, NACI has been advising that pregnant women get their COVID-19 immunization. … Again, it’s important both for the mother and the baby that the mother has the protection of vaccination.”

Dr. Kieran Moore: “Getting vaccinated can protect you from infection and reduce the risk of severe disease and complications of pregnancy.”

Dr. Brent Roussin: “People who are pregnant or breastfeeding should receive the updated … COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Joss Reimer: "A vaccination should be a health-care priority throughout a pregnancy, because pregnant people are at an increased risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19.”

[Luke Willms @Luke28282]

@nipponsteel @newstart_2024 You’ve never had good potato salad!

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Shelly, I can’t seem to spot the increase in heatwaves on this chart.

Can you help me?

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

I taught my kids about democracy tonight by having them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order.

I then picked the movie and pizza because I'm the one with the money.

[Moose on the Loose @dsimieritsch]

Humiliation? You've done that to yourself.
You run a nothing story to smear Poilievre when Mark Carney has more conflicts of interest than any Canadian Prime Minister in history.
I've done more research on Mark Carney's conflicts of interest than your entire organization combined and I'm not even a journalist. I'm just a guy with a moose statue and a cat next to me on my desk.

[Pat Sajak @patsajak]

Now that I’ve been off TV for a while, I thought I could walk anonymously through a mall. It worked at first, but then someone yelled, “Hey, it’s Pat Sajak!” Then I was surrounded by people. “How are you?” “We miss you!” It was a bit of a circus. I’m almost sorry I yelled.

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

They lied about crime, about attempted arson, about disrespecting the War Memorial, about desecrating the Terry Fox statue, about truckers being rapists, about Russian interference, about foreign funding, about middle class Canadians being right wing terrorists, they lied about invoking the Emergencies Act, and the former Finance Minister/Deputy PM giggled like a school girl when she announced she was freezing bank accounts and canceling insurance without due process, parliamentary oversight, or an order from a judge.

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

My sentence will be served January 21, 2027 and then it’ll be back to court to start this process all over again. By the time this is over, if it ever truly is, the Ontario taxpayers will be on the hook for around $15M for the prosecution of our case alone.

The crown prosecutors are maintaining their pressure to have me imprisoned for 7 years, @ChrisBarber1975 for 8. They also desperately want those intimidation charges to stick.

Because I’m very, very scary and shouldn’t be allowed to roam the streets.

Anyways, I’m off to the food bank for my volunteer time….

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Option A: Control the productive activities of 6 billion people, 5.5 billion of whom you have no jurisdiction over

Option B: Buy a $300 device based on 125-year-old technology