MariaM

Advocate for Kindness & Respect for a better world for all. #HappyHealthy #Vegan #Anxiety #Meditation #WFPB #Exercise #Kindness #Respect

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Outrageous double-standard!

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

The tension is palpable...

[Melissa McIntosh MP @MGrahMcIntosh]

PM Albanese may think women’s rights are a “culture war,” but when I went on straight after him on ABC Patricia Karvelas, I made it clear - he’s picked a fight with more than 13m Australian women & girls who simply want safety & respect. That should 💯 be your priority PM.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Victimhood has become a moral currency.

We’ve built a culture that ranks people by oppression, then mistakes that ranking for understanding. But people aren’t categories. They’re individuals.

And once you lose that, you stop seeing what actually drives success and better outcomes in the real world and instead promote mediocrity and grievance-mongering.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?

We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:

The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.

That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.

[that stock chick @ausstockchick]

If you do one thing today. Watch this.

#auspol

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

If I’m quiet on here, it’s because I’m speechless. It’s because my mind is tying itself in knots trying to understand how an Iranian man is tortured to death over Starlink internet possession, and the world organizes itself to say, actually, the regime is not the problem. It’s Israel and all of its nine million civilians—Jews, Muslims, Arabs, Christians—that need to be eliminated for justice to come.

[MariaM @RiiMitchell]

@MaryKostakidis @AlboMP But no-one will be shocked at your position 🙄

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

Listen to this man!

[MariaM @RiiMitchell]

@dylanmallman 💯

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned.

“Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.”

Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s.

So, what happened?

Screens.

Dr. Jared Horvath explained:

“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.”

“So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).”

“If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school. And that’s across 80 countries.”

But screens aren’t just decimating learning and making new generations less intelligent than the ones before them.

They’re doing something far worse. And when you take a closer look, it isn’t pretty. 🧵

[MariaM @RiiMitchell]

@DrSuneelDhand So many conflicting opinions regarding this. Dr Valter Longo says you shouldn’t skip breakfast & has his ow studies over decades to support it. 🤷‍♀️

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

Erfan Soltani is set to be executed by the Iranian regime.
Please share his name.
Please speak about his case.
Please stand with the people of Iran.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Urgent: how to help save a young protester’s life.

I cannot believe how many years we’ve had to recycle this dystopian practice. God, when will it end? #ErfanSoltani

[Senator Matt Canavan @mattjcan]

This evening I have read the Government's proposed antisemitism, hate and extremism laws. The proposed laws are undemocratic, unconstitutional and so vague that they could easily be used to unjustly silence legitimate criticism of government policy.

I can not support these laws.

We do not need new laws like this to defeat the radical Islamist extremism that have killed Australians. We already have laws against inciting violence. They should be enforced.

These proposed laws were only released today and the Government plans to force them through Parliament in just a week. Labor is giving people just three days to comment on the laws. It is a mockery of our democratic process.

I have written an article for CQToday on why I oppose the laws. This would normally print on Saturday but I am publishing it below so people can read now because of the truncated legislative process.

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In 1950, the Menzies Government introduced laws to ban the Australian Communist Party. Prime Minister Menzies told the Parliament that communists must be banned because they had "perfected the technique" of "peace demonstrations ... not to promote peace but to prevent or impair defence preparations in the democracies."

The Parliament voted for the laws but the High Court struck them down as unconstitutional and the Australian Communist Party was allowed to continue.

Just like the 1950s, politicians are seeking to pass draconian and unconstitutional laws so they can be seen to be doing something about an ideological threat. The last few years have seen mass protests to "Free Palestine". Some of these protestors have expressed repulsive views. Some blame these protests for creating the fertile ground upon which the tragic Bondi attacks occurred.

Next week the Australian Parliament is being recalled to pass laws against "antisemitism, hate and extremism". Politicians are once again acting under the delusion that we can defeat ideas (even repulsive ones) by criminalising them. Just like the Menzies Government's attempts in the 1950s, it is the wrong approach.

The Government's laws provide unprecedented powers to the government to control the speech and communication of the Australian people. The laws define a "hate crime". A hate crime can be anything that causes, or would cause, "serious harm to a person" based on conduct that targeted a person's "race or national or ethnic origin".

Groups that are suspected of conducting such hate crimes can be banned.

People that "promote or incite hatred of another person ... because of [their] race, colour or national or ethnic origin" can face five years in jail if their speech causes someone "to be intimidated". The law says that it is "immaterial wheter ... the conduct actually results in any person feeling intimidated."

The proposed laws are so vague that a wide variety of legitimate political communication could be banned.

The current government is facing significant criticism of its immigration policies that have allowed 1.3 million migrants into Australia in just three years. I have argued that we should not take so many people in from countries that have different cultures and customs than us so quickly. We must make sure people that do move here adopt our values and lifestyles. Taking in so many people so quickly simply overwhelms our ability to assimilate people while maintaining a harmonious country.

My argument against mass migration could easily fall foul of the above definitions because what makes someone "intimidated" is left vague and undefined. The proposed laws provide no protections for political communication which is a right due to all Australians under the Australian Constitution.

These laws could easily become a trojan horse to silence criticism of politicians, not to protect people from hate. It should never be a crime in a democracy (let alone in Australia) to express hate towards politicians.

The laws also allow authorities to tap your phones if they suspect you of committing hate crimes. The laws are retrospective so that even things done before the laws come into effect can be deemed hate crimes.

The Australian Government would rely on an international agreement against racism as the basis on which it has the power to pass these laws.

Just because a politician says something is racist does not make it so. As Justice Fullagar said in striking down Menzies attempt to ban the Communist Party:

> A power to make laws with respect to lighthouses does not authorize the making of a law with respect to anything which is, in the opinion of the law-maker, a lighthouse.

The Government's proposed laws are not about outlawing hate against other persons, they are aimed at outlawing criticism of governments.

We defeated communism not by passing laws but by pointing out how silly a dictatorship of the proletariat was.

We should heed that lesson to defeat the radical Islamic ideology that inspired the murder of 15 innocent Jewish Australians last year. We already have laws that make it illegal to promote violence. They should be enforced instead of passing new laws that restrict the free speech of all Australians and not tackle the division that we have unnecessarily imported into Australia.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Go Iran!