Peak Progressive

Moderate living in reality. "The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Albert Einstein

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

@ScannerNewsSTL @kirkwoodchamber awww, i love that tablecloth - what a great idea!

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

NEW: In 2024, Portland nearly doubled its spending on race-based homeless services.

But outcomes for homeless minorities got worse.

Rather than rethink its approach, Portland doubled down and argued that "lived experience" mattered just as much as measurable outcomes.🧵

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

Only a woman who grew up not understanding humanity and the dark reality of a significant percentage of the population could say something like that. Women have survival instincts customized to their own threats. But so do men. And that's something women don't seem to be aware of that they aren't aware of.

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

Whatever eats those mosquitoes and whatever eats the things that eat the mosquitos and so on and anything that grows in the areas where those things poop. I'm sure it all be fine. I'm sure Google did their diligence to test the long term cross-sectional impact just to make sure it isn't something that can affect human fertility down the line. I'm sure human fertility wasn't in the back of their minds either. Thank goodness Googles not woke or anything.

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

@RegularRuben @BullTheoryio Aww. This post is so cute it literally made me laugh out loud 🤣. That's right. If they say something, then it's true and we don't have to worry about it beyond that.

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

It's normal to not blame the murderer as much as the policy makers and enforcers. That's what we rely on institutions for: to create policy that minimizes harm and maximizes well-being of the individuals in society. If this was a one-off it wouldn't have caught everyone's attention. The point is that these things are becoming normalized due to the *awful* state of institutions there. Nobody serious thinks focusing on the murderers mother will change this ships direction & save the UK from the impending iceberg you're heading towards because the Captains of your ship are narcissistic advocacy minded sheltered retards who handed the keys over to people they don't even understand. They opened the gate and flooded in. Because *ofc* they did. "Empathy" from the heart isn't how you protect your values. You have to use one's brain and intuition too.

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

There was just an attempted cockpit breach on United 2005 from Chicago to Minneapolis. The plane diverted to Madison and has landed safely, but all other United flights are being warned to stay vigilant.

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

@grayphil27 @jk_rowling @IWF People who pretend they can't understand the actual issue here and make it about them are narcissistic. Your attitude is a red flag. This wasn't about your sister. But you don't have one ounce of empathy or understanding for the TRUE victims of a cult. Screw you.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Maryland police arrested 44-year-old Tshikundi Taty after discovering him disguised in a wig and posing as a woman in order to access women's gym locker rooms.

Investigators say he spent hours in health clubs, including OneLife Fitness in Germantown and Planet Fitness in White Oak, to secretly record women in the shower.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.

Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

Schoolchildren in the small community of Kevelaer, Germany, were given a class assignment asking them to simulate operating an "inclusive brothel."

The assignment, titled "Brothel for All," asked the children to consider how to meet diverse sexual needs.

https://t.co/ksaZRxuKbx

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

A lot of people have struggled to believe me when I say that the Australian Human Rights Commission is giving pregnancy protections in law to men who claim to be woman, because it’s so stupid it’s hard to believe anyone would say it.

Enjoy:

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

In the last 3 months, two senior Pride officers have been separately convicted of child sexual abuse offences and the founder of Belfast Pride has been unearthed as a paedophile

BBC News ignored all these stories, but has run 3 separate articles about Pride flags getting damaged

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

@mattyglesias This is how MSM journalists write all politicized articles. It's why the left looks so *obviously* right & the right looks like hateful buffoons. The MSM omits relevant details + writes in a very technical but misleading way to spin their readers into a daily rage.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

AUS: A trans-identified male convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman has avoided jail after violating his release conditions.

Mark Richard Lawrence, who now goes by the name Maryanne, has been described as a "sexually sadistic murder risk."

https://t.co/JXzZLmfwgX

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

@CookeIzzym @frankwrighter "The West is responsible for the barbarity in Afghanistan" this is so stupid. US soldiers tried to train Afghan soldiers how to defend themselves & their families & run their own country and all the Afghan soldiers wanted to do was get high and rape boys. LOOK IT UP

[Peak Progressive @peakprgressive]

This is the perfect example of leftist "thinking." They are so conditioned now that they jump over the cognitive process and straight to the conclusion that now just "snaps" into shape all by itself. A pattern the media conditioned in them: *all* problems = right wingers because they are [bigots/haters/greedy]. They dont even question if it adds up (spoiler: it obv doesn't, it's f-ing irrational propaganda so *ofc* it doesn't add up).

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

I’m glad you asked.

First of all, let’s outline the hallmarks of a social contagion event:

- A rapid exponential explosion in numbers.
- The sudden appearance of an entirely new patient group
- Adolescent girls mostly affected.
- Clusters of friends presenting with the same symptom/behaviour

All of these are present in the epidemic of young people identifying as trans in the 2010s.

Now, the way society normally responds to such events is with an immediate search for the trigger event and the vectors for the contagion.

For example, with the bulimia contagion of the 80s, the trigger was found to be media coverage of the disorder.

With the outbreak of anorexia in Hong Kong in the 90s, it was the sensational media coverage of a school girl who had collapsed and died on a busy street.

With TikTok tics in the 2010s, a young Tourettes sufferer’s YouTube channel was swiftly identified.

There are endless examples.

In those instances, clinicians didn’t wait around for decades for someone to conduct a reliable study showing that the event was a social contagion. They recognised all the hallmarks and acted. In the case of bulimia though, not nearly fast enough.

In the case of the trans contagion, all researchers had to do was take a glance at the cultural messaging of the era. The inflection point coincides precisely with the dawn of the trans rights movement, with media celebration of trans-identified public figures, and trans influencers proliferating rapidly on social media.

And those early YouTube influencers actually documented the social contagion on camera for all to see with the How I Knew I Was Trans genre of video — with each young person describing encountering a trans-identified person online and immediately recognising themselves in it and adopting the identity. That’s the social contagion in action.

We don’t need studies to show it’s a social contagion. We just need to open our eyes and look at the evidence that is, and always has been, all around us.

[Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt]

An Oregon father whose 5-year-old daughter was raped and killed by Dustin Wallace has published a heartbreaking video asking for help to prevent the release of his child's killer.

Tyler Dwight says Wallace, who received life in prison without parole, will likely be released after Democrats passed Bill 1008, which allows convicted inmates who committed crimes while under the age of 18 to have their sentences reduced.

Wallace murdered Sahara Dwight in 2010 when he was 16. His release hearing is scheduled for June 3.

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

Nearly $50 million has been budgeted for programs that appear to exclude white people entirely—for example, $1.5 million for a housing program that is "culturally specific to the Black/African American community."