Hierarchy

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@Micro2Macr0 Woo! Yes!

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

I WANT A PHYSICAL FUCKING MENU AT A RESTAURANT. NONE OF THIS QR CODE BULLSHIT

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Why would Gavin Newsom do a better job governing America with at best a narrowly Democratic House (and maybe a Republican Senate) than he did governing California with a supermajority of his own party in charge?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

🚩🚩🚩

[gon @chinesegon]

rich and chinese is the best way to live

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@GeromanAT Atleast this can be said in US. In Germany, for calling Merz something similar, cops will come for arrests.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@BenStiller He went full retard. Never go full retard.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American left does not exist.

The American right does not exist.

What exists is empire.

One wears rainbow pins.

The other wears crosses.

But both kneel to the same gods:

Profit.

War.

Control.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@Micro2Macr0 @RealPNavarro @elonmusk Well said.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

One thing that I learned after managing consumer products: never let a single crazy person upset you.

This lesson is probably useful in life generally.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@Noahpinion Nice article.The progressives were the cool guys of 2000s and early 2010s. The aftermath of cancel culture really hurt the reputation of the progressive brand to the point of being toxic. I hope they can come back to being pragmatic once again.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@Micro2Macr0 Rants and the R-rated commentary are half the reasons I watch you Jesse. This shit is gold! 🤣

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

I want to congratulate @MarkHalperin for hosting the greatest political show in the US @2waytvapp.

Incredible coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination with the most raw, profound discussion on the topic that could’ve possibly been done.

All-time great journalism.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@farzyness @2waytvapp Only place I get my news with minimal bias. @MarkHalperin does an amazing job.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@Micro2Macr0 Take care Jesse.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@AXChristoforou God Complex.

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@ZaidJilani Horrible

[Hierarchy @Rb0892]

@MichaelAArouet Many Germans still struggle from the Nazi past. It’s really sad.