"Puberty blockers for kids are medically necessary"
It lobotomizes them, by the way. Let me explain.
Sex hormones are critical for brain development during puberty.
The hypothalamus, amygdala, cortex, and everything that makes you "you" are all wired and sized under the influence of a prenatal testosterone surge (or lack thereof). This is why putting children on blockers makes their IQ drop and causes them to fall behind developmentally. The parts of the brain critical for emotional regulation, memory, and overall social stability are especially affected.
GnRH agonists (blockers) decrease amygdala and hippocampal volume. These changes can't be reversed. Interestingly, smaller amygdala volumes also appear in PTSD, depression, and anxiety disorders.
So they destroy a child's ability for emotional regulation and then blame people who are against it when they're neurotic or suicidal.
This is all on top of permanent infertility, as it's essentially chemical castration, and it leads to an inability to ever feel pleasure.
Puberty blockers are GnRH agonists/antagonists (Leuprolide/Lupron, triptorelin, goserelin). These are the same medications used for castrating sex offenders, for androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in prostate cancer patients, and for treating precocious puberty in children.
In both human and animal studies conducted on these other groups taking the exact same drugs, irreversible brain issues occurred, such as a large drop in IQ and an increased risk of dementia.
Here are some studies:
Three years after treatment, the group experienced a loss in both performance IQ and full-scale IQ, with a decline of 7 points in the latter. While the average loss of IQ points was 7, it is noteworthy that at least one patient in this study experienced a significant loss of 15 points or more.
In animal studies, the results indicate that treatment with a GnRH antagonist/agonist has a detrimental impact on learning and the development of social behaviors and responses to stress in mammals. In male sheep, impairments in spatial memory associated with the treatment were not fully reversed following discontinuation of treatment. Significant effects of treatment were also evident on measures of brain structure, including overall volume, functional connectivity, and neuronal density.
https://t.co/dVCURKGA4f
Fifty-eight men starting ADT versus 84 prostate cancer controls plus 88 healthy men. Formal cognitive testing showed ADT patients were 70% more likely to have cognitive impairment at 6 months and more than twice as likely at 12 months. Men on GnRH analogues with or without anti-androgens showed declines in verbal memory, visuospatial function, and executive function within months; ADT patients had clinically significant drops in at least one domain.
https://t.co/56rNavDwkH
ADT is linked to worse visuomotor and visuospatial performance, verbal and visual memory deficits, and increased dementia/Alzheimer's risk (1.5–2.5 times in some large cohorts).
https://t.co/MMYmpHogEy
What's especially cruel about the last part is that, because trans ideology is learned and not innate, they literally forget they were ever "trans" when they get dementia. There are cases of them screaming at nurses "What did you do to my body?!" because the dementia causes them to forget the reason they ever even mutilated themselves in the first place.
That's what you're dooming children to. Medically necessary my ass.
“I can’t breathe.”
Henry Nowak pleaded he had been stabbed by Vickrum Digwa, while officers failed to render care to the young Brit, as they cuffed his unconscious body for “racism.”
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In a shocking turn of events, Vickrum Digwa, the Sikh man who stabbed Henry Nowak, has received a sentence of 21 years to life.
Nowak was stabbed before Digwa accused him of racism to police, leading to police handcuffing Nowak, leaving him to die.
Public outrage led to a swift reversal and a judicial correction.
Digwa’s mother was convicted for aiding her son in concealing the weapon, hindering the investigation.
Public outrage has resulted in the reversal of UK cases as of late, with the public seemingly at a breaking point with recent turmoil and the treatment of immigrants at the expense of the native British.
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A German teenager posted a frustrated tweet cursing out Olaf Scholz while his 37.9 GB Fortnite update crawled along at 173 KB/s, a download that would have taken over 60 hours to complete.
The tweet had just 503 views.
German police later opened criminal proceedings against him for insulting a politician.
The case was dropped after he deleted the post.
A year later he posted the official letter.
“wHy aRe tHerE iNdiaNs In pOrTuGaL?!”
Because they are good slaves, you are not.
I hate essay-posting but allow me a rare indulgence:
To understand what is happening now, you need understand that this isn’t the first time it’s happened.
Why are there Indians in Kenya? Suriname? Fiji? Burma?
Because Indians have always been the preferred servile class of elites. The evidence for this goes back hundreds of years.
I’ve spoken about British colonial Burma before, and it is a great example of what this looks like.
Even after extensive efforts to bring them to heel, the majority of the Burmese ethnic groups were far too resistant to submit to the British empire to be reliable labor. They refused to abandon their culture and ways of life to be slave drones for British pocketbooks. So the Brits started importing Indians to be their colonial administrators, preferring them as labor because they were easier to control and satisfy.
By the 1940s, Indians made up almost 20% of the population of the entire country.
Another great historical example of this is Suriname - a small country in South America that had been under Dutch colonial rule for 300 years.
The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863, forcing colonial plantation owners to have to hire labor to do the work they had previously been using slaves for. But… they didn’t want to pay former slaves or Indigenous locals a living wage for the work.
So what did the Dutch elites do instead? Import Indians.
Today, Indians still make up 27% of the population. 27%. Of a tiny, obscure South American country.
We could basically go through the list of every country with a non-negligible Indian population and the theme would be consistent: They were brought there by elites who needed a submissive, easily exploitable labor pool when local labor asked for better living conditions or wages.
Why? Because Indians never did. They are a population that seems fully content with subjugation (even Marx noticed this).
So it’s easy to see why they were such an ideal population for the intensive global expansion era of colonial empires. And it’s even easier to see why they are perfect subjects for late capitalism now.
They are the culturally, psychologically, and physically ideal organism for the dominant system.
There’s 1.4 billion of them. They are deeply socially stratified and so expect and even enjoy inequality. Their cuisine is cheap, meat-free slop. They live amongst trash and filth with no qualms. They don’t care about the environment. Their reaction to death and abuse is blank-eyed indifference. They are physically and spiritually malleable. They not only adopt and internalize the demands of the dominant system as personal ambition, they believe this servitude makes them better than everyone else who hasn’t.
Absolutely IDEAL subjects.
You, on the other hand, are not the ideal subject.
You want to live in a high-trust society. You would shed tears if someone tried to cut down the apple tree you climbed as a child to build a data center. You want to see and experience beauty. You want your own space. You have an expectation that your living conditions will improve over time. You would not be content to live in a room with 10 other people, work 16 hours per day for pennies, and eat cheap slop.
You are a liability. Just like the Burmese and Surinamese slaves were.
And as we continue to crawl deeper into this late capitalist hellscape, you and your silly little needs will come into increasing conflict with those of the system.
Thus, you WILL be replaced by people far easier to control and far less concerned about their own welfare or the welfare of everyone and everything around them.
… Unless you do something about it. But the system has already locked-in that you won’t, and that you’ll just sort of fade into nothingness, distracted by meaningless comforts and terrified of the uncertainty of change.
So “why are Indians in [wherever]?”
Because you are about to not be.
It’s been 18 years since GTA IV was released. To celebrate, we’ll take a look at some of its hidden details and references to The Sopranos. The show was a major inspiration for this installment of Grand Theft Auto.
Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.
On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.
Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.