PragmaticLibertarian

Cognitive Dissident, thinking at right angles to everyone else. Sometimes my thoughts don’t translate well into English.

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

The left/right political spectrum doesn’t model reality. What we observe is clusters of ideas; if you hold one idea in the cluster, you’re likely to hold others.

Currently in western countries, there are two major clusters, which I call the Left and the Normal People. You can probably identify the ideas in these two clusters. Note that what you would call Normal are those held by the vast majority of people until the last few decades.

These clusters aren’t stable: ideas become more or less popular and associated to others over time. White supremacy may be an example: widely held to some degree a century ago, it’s now an outlier. The inverse, white racial guilt, is a firm member of the Leftist cluster. This is why, although not all leftists are racist, most racists are leftist.

[Tyler @cillianblack]

The thing about the journey away from the left is that, it begins with you thinking, "actually, I'm not sure a lot of this really adds up or makes sense," then you move into "I've looked into this and my instincts were right, the logic just doesn't stack up," then you go into "I think I need to leave this cult, it's making me feel unclean," then you go into "I actually can't believe how I was ever a part of the left, it's ridiculous, flimsy, and kinda pathetic," then you go into "Christ, those people are insufferable, they use lies, bad faith, and manipulation endlessly, and they're so detached from reality and truth it's maddening," and then you go into "I don't just disagree with them, I can show categorically how they're fundamentally and objectively wrong about everything, all the time," then you go into "it's not just that they're wrong, it's that they're cruel, hostile, nasty, and deeply unpleasant," then you go into "they're not even human, they're fucking demonic and evil and it's fucking gross."

... in total I'd say that whole process takes about ten to fifteen years to fully mature.

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

@johnkonrad This saying seems like there’s a story behind it.

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

This demonstrates how the British police, once the most respected police force in the world, was corrupted by wokeness leading to atrocities like the Henry Nowak murder.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Peel's Founding Philosophy Has Guided British Policing For Two Centuries. We Have Spent Fifty Years Dismantling It.

In 1829 Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police on a founding philosophy that has guided British policing for nearly two centuries. That philosophy was later codified into nine principles known as the Peelian Principles and is still taught to every new recruit today. Those principles contain everything British policing needs to know about what went wrong on a Southampton street on December 4th 2025.

Principle two. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

Principle five. The police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.

Absolute impartial service to the law. Not racial equity. Not colour awareness. Not white privilege training. Not disproportionality monitoring. Not community sensitivity. Absolute impartial service to the law. Every person. Every community. Every accusation. The same standard. Without exception.

Principle seven. The police are the public and the public are the police. Not the police are the ethnic minority communities and the ethnic minority communities are the police. The public. All of them. Equally.

Principle nine. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it. Not the reduction of disproportionality in stop and search. Not the diversity of the workforce. Not the number of officers completing unconscious bias training. The absence of crime and disorder. That is the test.

Now place those principles alongside the documents governing Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary on the night Henry Nowak died.

The Hampshire Race Action Plan commits to pursuing offenders who cause harm to ethnic minority communities specifically. Not all communities. Ethnic minority communities specifically. The NPCC guidance tells officers that a commitment to racial equity does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind. The Metropolitan Police race action plan informs officers that neutrality is a myth and that their whiteness prevents impartiality. The Hampshire Inclusion Matters diversity course made nearly twenty percent of officers afraid they would be rejected for saying the wrong thing. The University of Reading noted that officers who did not respond well to the training may benefit from further intervention, monitoring or coaching.

Peel said absolute impartial service to the law. The Metropolitan Police said neutrality is a myth. Peel said the police are the public. The NPCC said the police cannot be colour blind. Peel said the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder. The College of Policing said the test is reducing disproportionality in the use of police powers against ethnic minorities.

These are not compatible frameworks. They are opposing philosophies. One treats every citizen as equal before the law. The other treats citizens differently according to their ethnicity and the accusations they make. One produced two centuries of policing by consent. The other produced the officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak.

Alexis Boon, the chief constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, described the national outcry as a furore that had been whipped up. He does not accept the term two tier policing.

Principle two. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

The public approval is gone. The respect has been lost. The chief constable who cannot see why has not read the principles he was taught on his first day.

The answer has been there since 1829. What changed was the decision to abandon it.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Peel's Founding Philosophy Has Guided British Policing For Two Centuries. We Have Spent Fifty Years Dismantling It.

In 1829 Sir Robert Peel established the Metropolitan Police on a founding philosophy that has guided British policing for nearly two centuries. That philosophy was later codified into nine principles known as the Peelian Principles and is still taught to every new recruit today. Those principles contain everything British policing needs to know about what went wrong on a Southampton street on December 4th 2025.

Principle two. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

Principle five. The police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law.

Absolute impartial service to the law. Not racial equity. Not colour awareness. Not white privilege training. Not disproportionality monitoring. Not community sensitivity. Absolute impartial service to the law. Every person. Every community. Every accusation. The same standard. Without exception.

Principle seven. The police are the public and the public are the police. Not the police are the ethnic minority communities and the ethnic minority communities are the police. The public. All of them. Equally.

Principle nine. The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it. Not the reduction of disproportionality in stop and search. Not the diversity of the workforce. Not the number of officers completing unconscious bias training. The absence of crime and disorder. That is the test.

Now place those principles alongside the documents governing Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary on the night Henry Nowak died.

The Hampshire Race Action Plan commits to pursuing offenders who cause harm to ethnic minority communities specifically. Not all communities. Ethnic minority communities specifically. The NPCC guidance tells officers that a commitment to racial equity does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind. The Metropolitan Police race action plan informs officers that neutrality is a myth and that their whiteness prevents impartiality. The Hampshire Inclusion Matters diversity course made nearly twenty percent of officers afraid they would be rejected for saying the wrong thing. The University of Reading noted that officers who did not respond well to the training may benefit from further intervention, monitoring or coaching.

Peel said absolute impartial service to the law. The Metropolitan Police said neutrality is a myth. Peel said the police are the public. The NPCC said the police cannot be colour blind. Peel said the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder. The College of Policing said the test is reducing disproportionality in the use of police powers against ethnic minorities.

These are not compatible frameworks. They are opposing philosophies. One treats every citizen as equal before the law. The other treats citizens differently according to their ethnicity and the accusations they make. One produced two centuries of policing by consent. The other produced the officers who handcuffed Henry Nowak.

Alexis Boon, the chief constable of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, described the national outcry as a furore that had been whipped up. He does not accept the term two tier policing.

Principle two. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect.

The public approval is gone. The respect has been lost. The chief constable who cannot see why has not read the principles he was taught on his first day.

The answer has been there since 1829. What changed was the decision to abandon it.

[Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci]

This week I came across the obituary of a photographer named David Plowden. I was unfamiliar with his work, but decided to browse his website after reading that he specialized in photos of trains and industry.

I’m not much of an art guy, but these photos are astonishing. (1/4)

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

@esrtweet @JesterJum That would have the unfortunate side effect of far fewer team meetings being called.

Wait a minute…

[Tess Summers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @tesssummers98]

Vivienne Robinson said she was mugged on her doorstep, “knocked unconscious and left for dead”. She claimed that when she questioned why the crime was not being investigated by the police, she was told it was because she had described her attacker as “black, possibly Asian”, a description that officers allegedly said “could be seen as racist”.
https://t.co/BVOqAnVVGb

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @doggintrump @grok I regularly work in Australian elections, 100% paper ballots, population 30M and using what you call Ranked Choice Voting, and we usually have results within hours after polls close. Then everything is recounted within a week to be sure.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

I have been wondering why so many asylum seekers seem to commit sexual assaults and other crimes. Now I know the answer.

In November 2025, a senior caseworker for the UK Home Office revealed that migrants accused of sexual offences and other crimes were still being granted asylum.

We have been led to believe that it was purely an oversight or a mistake that migrants responsible for sex crimes have been given asylum.

She explained that staff were under such pressure to approve asylum claims quickly that criminal records were largely ignored.

If a migrant had been accused of a sex offence (eg exposing himself to children) that would carry a sentence less than 12 months in prison if committed in the UK so the policy was to approve them.

The caseworker even gave an example: she rejected an asylum claim from an Afghan man who had repeatedly exposed himself to kids in a children’s play area.

The poor woman was disciplined for this. Without her coming forward we would not know what is happening behind closed doors.

This is definitive proof that the UK government does not care about women and children. It does not care if the people it brings into the country and gives asylum to are criminals. This is not a matter of people “slipping through the net”.

The government deliberately turns a blind eye to wrongdoing by the new arrivals.

We deserve better than this. Our daughters deserve better than this.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN was released 44 years ago today. Acclaimed as the best entry in the Star Trek film series, and featuring one of the biggest movie deaths, the story behind the scenes doesn’t believe in no-win scenarios…

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[Susie₿dds @SusieBdds]

Let me make sure I have this straight:

A dying 18 year old was handcuffed based on allegations that he was racist, but when he died in their custody the police never handcuffed the person who stabbed him to death?

[Dr. Calum Miller @DrCalumMiller]

I am a medical doctor and I can say clearly: this is not good enough.

Henry Nowak was murdered and the police let him die.

When someone tells you they've been stabbed and are struggling to breathe, unless they pose an obvious risk to your own life, you make sure they are OK before you do anything else.

You don't pause to think about whether they might be racist, or whether they could be making it up.

There must be justice for Henry.

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

I don’t think so, mate.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

I see that #TwoTierPolicing is the top trending item this morning.

Let's make this very simple — it does not exist in the UK.

It is a racist dog whistle invented by the far-right, Reform UK.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

A senior source within Hampshire Police has revealed that officers were encouraged to focus on how they could “do better by ethnic minorities”, while saying there was little emphasis on serving the whole community equally.

The force spent £860,000 on mandatory diversity training, with 6,250 officers completing courses covering unconscious bias, privilege, critical race theory and allyship.

Attendance was linked to pay progression.

The results of an internal staff survey are striking.

One in seven officers said they felt “controlled and pressured” into adopting the ideology being taught.

One in five said they were afraid of saying the wrong thing.

That fear of saying the wrong thing has repeatedly been raised in grooming gang inquiries as one of the reasons serious criminal behaviour was not challenged sooner.

Then there is the case of Henry Nowak.

Henry was stabbed multiple times in Southampton.

When officers arrived, they handcuffed him.

He later died from his injuries.

Three of the officers involved are still serving.

Hampshire Police has apologised.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating.

The University of Reading, which assessed the training programme, concluded that it was working.

Many people are now asking a simple question:

If officers are fearful of saying the wrong thing, are we creating a culture where fear replaces judgement when it matters most?

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

I don't think they were mate.

[Lord Mongrove @Bishop_Beesley]

When Blair changed the Police Oath many of us said that it was the thin edge of the wedge and an enabling act to shift the police from their traditional role of serving the law to serving the political class.

Sadly we were correct.

The news from Hampshire gets worse. An independent Polish specialist has reviewed Harry's post mortem report and concluded that death wasn't necessarily inevitable; and that the actions of the police may have contributed directly to his murder.

As yet no police officers have been arrested.

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

@kevinnbass This seems likely

[PragmaticLibertarian @parallel235]

Sharknado

[A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" @A10TheHog]

If the A-10 was nicknamed something besides Warthog, what would it be?