Lee Risby 🎗️

You people don't deserve me

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Jordan Peterson read Stephen Fry's famous answer about God back to him, then asked him what holding it actually costs:

Fry once said that if he ever met God, he would ask about bone cancer in children.

Peterson brings it up, but not to attack it. He thinks the argument works.

Peterson: "Ivan wins the argument, but Alyosha is the better person."

Fry: "I don't believe there is such a being, but if there were, I would have many bones to pick with him."

Then Peterson turns it. The argument is powerful. The problem is where it takes you.

Peterson: "there's a direction that goes in that's nihilistic and resentful and vengeful and angry, and all understandable, but it doesn't look to me like there's anything good in it."

He says he tested it on himself.

Peterson: "I've had my reasons to be resentful and angry, especially recently, and because I'm suffering a lot of pain."

Peterson: "there was nothing in that that didn't make it worse, and that therefore that must be wrong, even though it's justifiable."

Fry's answer is that he was never angry to begin with.

Fry: "I'm not really resentful and angry about the fact that there's evil in the world. I'm sorrowful very often."

Fry: "most people are so good, so anxious to be good, are idiotically good."

Fry: "every time I go off to sleep I think, how did I screw up today, how can I be better tomorrow."

Then he challenges Peterson's phrase, a higher mode of being.

Fry: "show me someone who has a higher mode of existence than I do."

Peterson: "that higher mode of existence is what your conscience tortures you for not attaining."

Peterson: "you cannot create your own values. The values impose themselves on you independent of your will."

His evidence isn't scripture. It's juvenile rats.

Peterson: "if the big rat doesn't let the little rat win 30 percent of the time, the little rat will stop inviting him to play."

Reciprocity, before anyone believed anything.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Jordan Peterson: "If you're competent and silent you will be ignored."

"You might think well people should reward you because you're competent. And yes of course they should. But if you're competent and silent then you're just part of the background that's keeping everything functioning"

On why you cannot negotiate from a position of weakness:

"If you want to push your career forward you have to push it forward. You have to be competent and you have to be strategic"

"To be strategic when you negotiate for a new position or a new salary you have to be able to say if you don't give me what I want then something you don't like will happen to you"

"It's not a physical threat. It's that you have an option"

"You have your CV in order. You're educated and competent and desirable to people outside of your immediate job. You're willing to instantly put yourself on the job market"

"So that when you go talk to the person you're negotiating with you're credible"

On the one thing most people completely miss about negotiation:

"It's very seldom that you're talking to the person who's at the top of the pecking order. What you need to do is tell them a story that they can tell to their boss to make you not a problem"

"A good story is look we really need this person because they're hyper competent and they have a better offer"

"If you go in there with no power you're going to lose. Obviously"

He concludes with the one thing every competent person needs to hear:

"The first thing you need to know if you're going to negotiate is that you have to be able to say no. And what no means is that you're not going to do it"

[Sarah Abv @Sarahsa09309757]

Pauvre père brisé après la mort de son enfant à Gaza. Tellement submergé par le chagrin qu’il ne sait même plus s’il doit rire ou pleurer.

Heureusement pour lui, son fils a soudainement dû s’occuper d’un pied qui le démangeait et d’un geste maladroit avec sa main… ce qui l’a clairement ramené de l’au-delà.

Pendant la guerre à Gaza, des dizaines de vidéos de ce type étaient produites chaque jour pour les réseaux sociaux, afin que le monde entier crie au “génocide”.

[Lee Risby 🎗️ @GobbyPom]

@IanSZNian Zlatan

[Lee Risby 🎗️ @GobbyPom]

@2ETEKA Do you have a link for this podcast episode or is it just on X? I’ve had a scout around and can’t find it…

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

There is no clearer image of British politics than this: the camera shows you the man, the wider frame shows you the machine.

In Orwell’s Britain, the lie was printed. In ours, it is lit, framed and carefully edited.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

So I finally watched the majority of the interview between @zannymb and @elonmusk and here are just a few observations I have from that interview if anybody cares:

1. @zannymb, I say this with whatever respect is necessary, you’re absolutely delusional. I live in the UK. And to hear your comments denying the crime and corruption and the no-go areas and the two tier system employed by the police, government and media is astounding. Sex crimes and sexual violence and rape are far higher in the UK than the US. The real question is how you even try to play this down?

2. Far right is a misnomer. Sure there is a far right. Every country has a far right just as they have a far left. But the difference comes in that you and many other leftists label anyone and everyone who isn’t a hardcore socialist or liberal leftist as far right. In exactly the same way as you all falsely label what’s happened in Gaza as a genocide. The left exists on meaningless slogans. Zero critical thinking and this weird bubble of denial. The vast majority of British white people are simply British and white, not far right. We care for the country and don’t allow government and media to impose their views on what is so clearly visible and obvious to normal people. And I’m not British born. I see what’s happening objectively. Many British people look at me as a Jew. So what? But someone like Tommy Robinson isn’t trying to murder me or rape my daughter. Someone like Mohammed Hijab is. And yet you see Tommy as far right and Mohammed as the poor oppressed victim. It is so backwards and insane that it’s laughable.

3. As a very well educated and well read Jewish Israeli living in the UK, and as a British citizen, I see how the media lie. The media have been caught out lying so many times. Jeremy Bowens of the BBC completely making up the story of the hospital bombing in Gaza and then refusing to apologize for it. The BBC paying children of Hamas for a documentary that was so dishonest. The Guardian constantly lying. Hell, I struggle to remember when the media in the UK ever report the truth. The way the BBC edited footage of Trump on January 6. And then you dare to question Elon on influencing people against Europe?

4. Look at the protests in the UK. When Islamists and leftists marched in the hundreds of thousands weekly, there were constant calls for the genocide of Jews. That incitement led to the stabbing and shooting and cold blooded murder of British Jews. Yet you said nothing.

Contrast that with the freedom marches by those you call “far right”? British flags, families, calm, peaceful. And you all had to invent tension and stories to make out as if it were some Nazi rally. It’s that invention of lies that makes the media despicable. And I’m focused on you and the media here. Elon and others have their share of promoting and amplifying conspiracy theories and bullshit at times but on the topics discussed he was absolutely right. And to hear how easy it was for you, like second nature, to lie and gaslight and pretend it’s just simple ignorance was mind blowing.

You’re part of the problem, Zanny. Deny it all you wish, but your gaslighting and logical fallacies won’t work on me because I live in the UK and see it with my own eyes. My children are afraid in the UK. Do you care? Of course not. To you they’re just Jews. There is no evenhandedness with you. You take no responsibility or accountability. You simply point fingers to hide the truth of everything that’s wrong about the UK, Europe and the West. That makes you complicit, fully.

There are problems. Many of them. And at least Elon is trying to point many out and correct them. But you can’t fix something when all you do is deny it and blame somebody else for it. Elon may be famous, but he influences far fewer people than you give him credit for. Most of the time he simply shares other people’s opinions and views, rightly or wrongly. I’m not afraid to criticize him. But what you do is just evil.

[Lee Risby 🎗️ @GobbyPom]

@FootballTalkHQ I think Rooney's volley against Newcastle was better tbh...

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Before Windows95, before Oasis released Wonder Wall and before OJ Simpson faced trial, our new PM Andy Burnham had a job. He had a job as a journalist working for a little publishing company for 3 years.

This is the only job any of the new UK Government Cabinet has had.

Other than those three years, more than 30 years ago the entire cabinet has only ever worked in tax payer funded roles.

None of them have ever had to make a sale. None of them have been paid to pour a pint. None have felt a sick feeling about making payroll. None have been answerable to investors.

In the UK 50% of the jobs are small businesses and almost ALL of the jobs growth is small businesses. None of them has ever started, owned or run one. Wouldn’t it be nice if just one of them had some experience in making a small business profitably grow before having a crack at the 7th largest economy.

Imagine what it must feel like to KNOW that your wage is paid for by the tax-payer. Imagine the certainty and security working for a government that never fires anyone for anything. Imagine how it would feel knowing you could blow out a budget with no real consequences or you could completely screw up a project and nothing bad would happen. Imagine that level of insulation and comfort for decades.

I can’t. I’ve been in business for the last 25 years. If I don’t sell I don’t eat. If I screw up I face very real consequences very fast. Millions of small businesses are being asked to get out there and hire people and grow the economy by a team of people who’ve never had a proper job. Surely something isn’t right with that?

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🥊 Full scenes after final whistle.

@MickyJnr__ 🎥

[Brunte 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @Brunte84]

Since you mentioned Lady Thatcher, @andyburnham, here's a reminder of what she achieved 👇🏼

•⁠ ⁠Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%

•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)

•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)

•⁠ ⁠Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

•⁠ ⁠Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners

•⁠ ⁠Home ownership: 55% → 67%

•⁠ ⁠Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

•⁠ ⁠Foreign holidays: roughly doubled

•⁠ ⁠Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten

•⁠ ⁠Pensioners' average incomes: up around 30% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Infant mortality: down almost 40%

•⁠ ⁠Real GDP: up by almost a third

•⁠ ⁠GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s

•⁠ ⁠Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million

•⁠ ⁠Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon

•⁠ ⁠Britain became a net oil exporter

•⁠ ⁠London restored as the world's financial capital in 1986

•⁠ ⁠Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90

•⁠ ⁠National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%

•⁠ ⁠State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%

•⁠ ⁠The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

•⁠ ⁠Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms' rate: 42% → 25%

•⁠ ⁠Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms

•⁠ ⁠Higher rates of income tax: nine → one

•⁠ ⁠Death duties: fourteen rates → one

•⁠ ⁠Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

•⁠ ⁠40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector

•⁠ ⁠The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987

•⁠ ⁠British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)

•⁠ ⁠BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen

•⁠ ⁠"Tell Sid" broke the record again in 1986

•⁠ ⁠British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, "the world's favourite airline"

•⁠ ⁠The Channel Tunnel: launched — entirely privately financed

•⁠ ⁠The Falklands liberated in 74 days

•⁠ ⁠Backed Gorbachev early, stood with Reagan, and won the Cold War

•⁠ ⁠Three consecutive election victories and the longest-serving PM of the twentieth century ✌🏼🇬🇧

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[AIJAC @AIJAC_Update]

“I cannot be asked to choose between being a liberal and being a Zionist.”

Actress, author and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) rejects the false binary facing so many liberal Jews today.

Supporting Israel is not a betrayal of progressive values.

It is a belief in Jewish self-determination, dignity and survival.

And the obsessive hostility directed at Israel should make us all ask: why?

Mayim Bialik in conversation with @JonahPlatt on the @BeingJewishPod podcast.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson on why you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are:

1. The deepest lesson under the Buddha's enlightenment is not "deny the world." It is that you should never let what you are stop you from being what you could be. The material world only becomes worth abandoning if your attachment to it is making you less than you could become.

2. What you identify with determines what you become. If you identify with what you already are, clinging to order, you become a tyrant. If you identify with chaos, the opposite of order, you become nihilistic. Both are traps. The way through is to identify with neither.

3. Identify instead with the capacity to continually transcend what you are. Not with any fixed state, but with the process of becoming more. That single shift changes how you relate to everything, including your own failures.

4. Seeking out your own errors on purpose is what humility actually is. You put yourself in situations where you can discover where you are wrong, where your limits are, where there is not yet enough of you, ideally in a way that challenges you without knocking you out of the game.

5. But you can exhaust yourself fighting dragons. Challenge is necessary, but unlimited challenge burns you out. Peterson coached lawyers with infinite workloads who worked flat out and were destroying themselves, because there was always more work to do.

6. The counterintuitive fix was to work less and rest on a schedule. He had them block off four days every three months, planned so far ahead the calendar protected it. They tracked billable hours to test it, and the hours went up. You can have the vacation and the productivity at once.

7. You are not optimizing this week, you are building a 30-year career. The goal is a game you can play today and still play next month and next decade, one that does not make you bitter or worn to a frazzle. burn off a feather at a time instead of letting the whole thing burst into flames.

8. To be renewed, you have to drink the water of life, and water is chaos. It washes away too much order. Staying refreshed means taking on exactly the right amount of chaos to keep your garden nourished, no more and no less.

9. Meaning is the marker that you have the balance right. Peterson calls this one of the only ideas he has ever found that he believes to be rock solid. You can use your own sense of meaning to calibrate your progress through life.

10. It starts with two decisions. The first is a decision of love, that being is worthwhile, and you will work to better it. The second is a decision of truth, that you will play a straight game. Aim at the highest good you can currently conceive, and update it as you learn.

11. It is better to be engaged in a hard problem than to have no problem at all. You do not escape the problem of being. You find one worth solving and become so engaged that the engagement justifies the problem's existence. You get the problem and the solution at the same time.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I’ll never let the world forget how Palestinian terrorists from Gaza kidnapped this beautiful family, a mother and her two sons, and murdered them in a dark underground tunnel.

Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas.

I’ll never forget. I’ll never forgive.

[Lee Risby 🎗️ @GobbyPom]

@daniel122916 A wanker with a bad attitude who squandered God-given talent.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Flashback: Palestinian UN staffers were visibly traumatized during an emergency session at the Human Rights Council after Mosab Hassan Yousef destroyed their false victim narrative.
The UN and UNRWA never wanted to solve the Palestinian problem. They wanted to keep it alive forever — so they could continue receiving billions in donations and budgets every single year.

[Lee Risby 🎗️ @GobbyPom]

@delpieri @Galinho1953 I felt the exact same way - I was mesmerised by Zico, loved the guy.

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

We've been ruled by men who live by illusions:

—The illusion that you can spend money you haven't earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors;

—The illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by government decree like rabbits out of a hat;

—The illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than by hard work and satisfying your customers;

—The illusion that you can have freedom and enterprise without believing in free enterprise.

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Jordan Peterson on what to do when you don't know what you want from life:

1. Don't start with the big goal. you won't find it by staring at the horizon. look around you instead, at your direct sphere of influence, and fix the things that are obviously in need of repair. they're usually small.

2. clean your room. i know it turned into a joke online. it's harder than people think, and more useful too. the point isn't the tidy room. the point is you learn to tell chaos from order, and to act in a way that produces order.

3. ask yourself, don't tell yourself. instead of "do this," ask "what could i do today that i'd actually do, that makes tomorrow a little better than today?" it's usually some small thing, because you're not that disciplined. that's fine.

4. it'll be the toad. the thing you keep avoiding. the task that feels like a snake. that's the one. do it anyway.

5. then it compounds. you fix one thing, you get a bit stronger, the next day you take on something slightly bigger. compound interest. and at some point you stop just patching what's broken, and you catch a glimmer of something positive you could build. that's your vision. it shows up at the end, not the start.