Rape is overwhelmingly a male-perpetrated crime. It isn't a migrant issue or an immigration issue.
It's a MALE violence issue. Most women are raped by men they know, not by some faceless group of foreigners.
Stop using rape to push an anti-immigrant agenda.
This black man came into Insomnia Cookies on Delmar blvd in St.Louis to get ice cream & the employee wouldn’t serve him & said they weren’t serving anymore after he watched them just serve people. He went outside & watched two white men go in & get served. She was fired. Racist?
"They became English the way everyone since has: by living here long enough for the name to stick to them."
This would torpedo his theology: that the 3rd World migrant who shows up on England's shores today by any means necessary is just as English as Shakespeare.
"If you have to say it, it probably isn't true", @Sargon_of_Akkad wrote, across five paragraphs spent saying it.
Englishness is a classic social construct. The Angles, Saxons, Britons, Danes and Normans came here speaking different languages and spent centuries killing one another. In 1002, in England, Æthelred ordered all the Danish men in his kingdom killed; in Oxford, Danish families ran into St Frideswide's church for refuge, and the church went up in flames and had to be rebuilt. Shortly afterwards a Dane, Cnut, took the English throne. In 1069, in the north, William's army ravaged the land from the Humber to the Tees, killing men, women and children and burning the crops. None of these people woke up one morning no longer Danish, Saxon or Briton and suddenly English by blood. They became English the way everyone since has: by living here long enough for the name to stick to them. Treating that as a fixed truth of nature, like the sun, is stupid.
"The tribe decides if you belong", he says. And it did. For 70 years the white English majority, the largest group in the country, voted in Labour and Tory governments, and those governments let in immigrants from the Empire and from all over the world, in full view of everyone. I'm pretty sure Benjamin's circus of clowns will answer: but they keep saying there's too much immigration. "Too much immigration" covers everything from no immigrants at all, to fewer, to the same people in different numbers, and election after election the majority picked the parties that kept the door open.
The tribe has ruled on Englishness too. In 2025, in England, YouGov surveyed white adults born in the UK. 84% said someone can be English whatever their ethnicity, and only 10% said you have to be white. Add English family heritage on top of being white and the figure drops to 9%. Benjamin's rule is backed by about one white English person in ten. The other nine have already decided who belongs here, and if Benjamin doesn't like it, tough: the tribe he claims to speak for has thrown his rule out.
English is an ethnicity and a national identity at once. Anyone born and raised in England who lives the life of its people and shares its culture is English, and can be English and something else at the same time, which is exactly what England was before it even had the name.
So how does Benjamin think it happened: on the day "England" came into being, the Britons, the Danes and the Saxons all got together and agreed to give up who they were?
@Th_Angelopoulos@Sargon_of_Akkad Even social constructs ultimately have limiting principles. Over time, all nationalities develop a profile of like individuals, and quantity becomes a quality all its own. Nothing can be entirely inclusive or exclusive.
The only counter-weight against the voluntaristic panopticon is a society where rule-of-law is absolute. The only reason why people's lives can be ruined like this is because the rules are different for each group.
The Ole Miss monkey noise scandal reveals how this country is a voluntaristic panopticon.
Everyone is worried about Flock and other government surveillance. But less concern is paid to how your fellow citizens spy on you. You can make a silly noise while drunk or use the wrong word in a text message on a plane and have your whole life ruined by another person recording you.
The "Karen" controversies were made possible by the voluntary panopticon. Getting into an argument with a protected class could now make you public enemy number one thanks to the smartphone.
We all seem to accept and even celebrate how your every move and word can be recorded without your permission--so long as it's a random citizen doing it and not the government.
Mass democracy only became possible because of the gun. Without an armed populace, governments trend back towards the mean, which is authoritarianism. Mass democracy also leads to tyranny, as we see in real time.
This is exactly right. It is possible to lead a moral, satisfying life under authoritarianism, bec if you stay out of politics, you have freedom. Not ideal, but workable. Under totalitarianism, much harder, because it expands the realm of the Political to encompass all of life.
In 2020 and 2026, things went horribly off the rails for the Trump admin. Under such conditions, elections don't turn out in your favor. This is such a simple, hard-fast rule in politics. MAGA literally beat itself in the head to believe otherwise.
A lot of people will settle into believing the election was stolen. This is a far grimmer outlook because it claims Democrats can easily win red states with a secret election stealing machine and there's no real solution to it. Hardly any of the stolen election posts even bother to offer measures to stop this phantom menace in the future.
But it's a far more comforting notion. If you believe it, you can also still believe the Silent Majority still overwhelmingly backs MAGA. And feeling good is more important than figuring out how to win in the future.
The level of passive-aggressive in America is just astounding. Parking in such a way on the street that other cars cannot park. Drivers taking their sweet time to leave while other cars are waiting for their spot. People go out of their way to inconvenience others.
🚨JUST IN: Husband says he “SNAPPED” and CHOKED his wife TO DEATH in front of their young child on the first night of a cruise
Susan Watford, 31, was found dead inside her cabin aboard the MSC Seascape on Sunday night...
...just hours after the ship left Galveston, Texas, for a weeklong cruise to Mexico and Honduras
Jason Leon Watford, 48, allegedly told FBI investigators that an argument broke out between them before he punched Susan in the face several times and choked her for four to five minutes
Their young child was inside the cabin during the killing but was not physically harmed and is now in the care of child protection agents
The cruise ship turned around and returned to Galveston early Monday, where Watford was taken off the ship in handcuffs
He has since been charged with murder
That a video of two White college students acting foolish is attracting a lion's den of outrage over a murder tells you everything about America 2026.
We're so far off a backlash it's best not to hold your breath. It'll get worse before it gets better.
🚨JUST IN: Husband says he “SNAPPED” and CHOKED his wife TO DEATH in front of their young child on the first night of a cruise
Susan Watford, 31, was found dead inside her cabin aboard the MSC Seascape on Sunday night...
...just hours after the ship left Galveston, Texas, for a weeklong cruise to Mexico and Honduras
Jason Leon Watford, 48, allegedly told FBI investigators that an argument broke out between them before he punched Susan in the face several times and choked her for four to five minutes
Their young child was inside the cabin during the killing but was not physically harmed and is now in the care of child protection agents
The cruise ship turned around and returned to Galveston early Monday, where Watford was taken off the ship in handcuffs
He has since been charged with murder
Well get ready for more. With the Left feeling the wind in its sails, they're going to look for the smallest excuse to ruin a White person's life or that of anyone who even looks at a black sideways and the media will provide the supply for America's insatiable racism demand.
The amount of outrage this story is generating is insane. Network TV is dedicated tons of airtime to the harmless antics of white coeds and pretending it's Mississippi Burning.
I'm not even sure this would've been national news during peak woke.
There's nothing more pathetic than blacks, black women especially. They literally got an apology. If blacks really are just our neighbors, if we're all on the same side, then they should've accepted the apology.
Instead, they milk it for sympathy and sticking it to Whitey.
The Ole Miss students who were allegedly "targets of a racial incident" were told immediately after the incident that it was not targeted and that it was done to four other doors.
"One girl was apologizing. She was like, I'm sorry, we did that to like 4 doors..."
One of the girls on the camera has apologized publicly and said she had "never met the women involved and was unaware of their race."
There's abundant evidence showing how black people make everyday living more difficult than necessary, turn the simplest of disputes into dangerous, often fatal encounters. Black people make high-trust living impossible.
But it's drunk White girls who trigger the moral panic.
@tschwartz09 We've been rapidly declining as a society for decades. Where have you been? And where was this outrage when it involved anyone other than a White person?
Every administration engages in corruption. But there's still a world of difference between the institutionalized corruption of the Democrats vs. the blunt, in-your-face corruption of Trump, which they don't even make an honest effort to hide.
Stupidity need not be rewarded.
You can falsely say Trump has done nothing on immigration, DEI, and a host of other issues and no one will care.
But if you point out the obvious corruption within the admin, you’ll suddenly turn guys into Trump defenders. Apparently people think pay-for-play, insider trading, and pardon selling make for great government.