Amz

insta: @theamyconnell
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adelaide

[viceroy gaga @viceroy_gaga]

Here’s the thing about Arday: he wasn’t a “real” academic fraudster. Of course, he committed extensive academic fraud, but it wasn’t his primary goal. He didn’t set out to be an academic superstar. I don’t believe he was even interested in politics. Arday didn’t crave intellectual glory, honor, or recognition.

Arday was primarily a Munchausen Syndrome case.

Pity was what he really wanted. He set out, with ruthless and single-minded persistence, to acquire the pity, condescending admiration, and doting care we reserve for the physically sick and infirm. And, it just so happened due to the ideological manias of our current historical epoch, that Western academic and media elites had boundless enthusiasm for providing it to him.

Across Arday’s speeches, lectures, interviews, TEDTalks, website, and ghostwritten autobiography, the fixation is with his own (allegedly) constantly broken and failing body. All of his stories, his lies, his “work” were nothing but shoddy vehicles to discuss his (purported) illnesses.

Including, but not limited to: severely nonverbally autistic as a kid; illiterate due to learning disabilities as a teen; epilepsy; testicular cancer; deaf in one ear; dyslexia; mini-stroke with memory loss; brain cancer; hit by a car; getting secretly beaten up; a months-long “locked-in syndrome” coma; something called “autistic burnout”; breaking his leg during a marathon but still completing it; and so on.

He didn’t care about racial politics beyond the perfunctory. Watch his lectures on “de-colonization”, anti-racism, or whiteness: listless and limp. He complains about racism, and demands change, but only in vague, general, and (most tellingly) rarely truly bitter terms.

Keep in mind, there are many in academia who are deeply hateful and venomous towards whites, who earnestly seek the complete dispossession and imposition of enormous suffering on us. Arday was happy to go along with these ideological fevers, but only insofar as they offered a potential chance to talk about physical fevers.

What’s the significance of this? Well, a lot, I think, but here are two things:

First, it’s incredibly diagnostic of what “Wokeness” really is. Arday wasn’t a black radical deeply acquainted with theory. He was a black man who wanted people to feel sorry for him. And THAT particular combination of traits was what was IRRESISTIBLE for those “at the top”. Relative to his actual abilities, Arday was probably the most accomplished person in academia ever, precisely BECAUSE he lucked out as a rare example of a black man with Munchausen Syndrome, a psychological disorder most common in white females. Thus, as a world-organizing system of thought, Wokeness is structurally oriented to maximally reward a Munchausen black guy who demands worshipful, reverent pity. Not real valiant struggle, not political vision, not even anti-white hatred, just the parasitical and pitiful. A black man who wanted your pity.

Second, it explains the ambivalent, or even fond (now with his passing, also mournful), reactions to Arday’s antics from “the right”, even from those most disposed to hate him. Many say that, due to the sheer scale and absurdity of his serial fabulating, it became amusing, surreal cheek: almost performance art. Others report complicated feelings of pity, and argue he deserves this pity, because “the system set him up”, or “the real racists are the ones who gave him a job he couldn’t do”.

But they’re misunderstanding their own reactions. The real reason it is difficult to truly hate Arday is because, even if you didn’t consciously realize it, on some subconscious level, we all recognize a Munchie. And we all intuitively understand the goal of the Munchie is not to rule over us, but to lie beneath. Even if you can recognize *logically* that Arday was a regime stooge, an ideological threat who objectively wielded power over you, it is very difficult *emotionally* to feel threatened by someone who wanted nothing but to be weak.

[Jekabadels ✙ @IacobRuthenicus]

The most well-known woman in human history happens to be the most well-behaved human being of all time.

[Olivia Maurel @maurel_olivia]

“I was not a miracle. I was a contract.”

I was born through surrogacy. This book tells the story too often missing from the debate: the child’s.

In Search of My Mother is finally available in English. 📖

Please repost, children deserve to be heard.

https://t.co/TiHjXMXFbk

[Amz @theamyconnell]

@gbrl_dick I just spent 10 days in Vietnam and my caffeine addiction is at an all time high since I left university

[Amz @theamyconnell]

@TessCosis @JoshuaGarfield I was on the Oxford tube a few weeks ago during the last heatwave, the aircon was crappy and the windows didn’t open. It was hotter inside the bus than outside and I arrived in Oxford drenched in sweat. Problem would have been entirely solved by open windows

[Amz @theamyconnell]

@StealerTime I went to a Lebanese supermarket in Australia and I couldn’t believe that they had Vimto because you generally can’t get it in Australia. The Lebanese girls told me they make it with ice and pine nuts, I told them about hot Vimto. Beautiful cultural exchange

[Amz @theamyconnell]

@discodivarry https://t.co/L0Ia3onVvB I have two in rear GA for less than FV

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

At around the time Epstein was arrested, Pornhub was found to be hosting (& monetising) footage of rapes, trafficking victims & CSAM. Victims begged to have content removed & were ignored. Eventually 90% of the site was taken down. Spare me your Epstein takes if you use porn.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

no one who believes this shit can ever explain why these “schizophrenic men” always seem to exclusively target the tiniest women in their proximity.

why don’t their “delusions” ever tell them to attack, say, a black man their own size

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

The horrific terrorist attack that took place in Manchester yesterday will have caused significant fear and concern in communities across the UK, including here in London.

Yet at a time when we want to be deploying every available officer to ensure the safety of those communities, we are instead having to plan for a gathering of more than 1,000 people in Trafalgar Square on Saturday in support of a terrorist organisation.

By choosing to encourage mass law breaking on this scale, Defend Our Juries are drawing resources away from the communities of London at a time when they are needed most.

We urge them to do the responsible thing and delay or cancel their plans.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The UK: where a comedy writer is met with armed police because he tweeted that if a man refuses to leave a woman-only space he should get kicked in the balls, and elected politician @IanRBristow is free to publicly tell a woman to shut the fuck up with a picture of a gun.

[Elly Arrow @EllyArrow]

You need to understand that if prostitution is decriminalised everything they managed to get Combs for (not nearly enough) would've been legal. In places like New Zealand, Belgium, etc it is legal to profit from the prostitution of others and "organize it" without overt violence.

[Isabel Brown @theisabelb]

I am ecstatic UPenn has woken up and stood by biology & truth, stripping Will “Lia” Thomas of his titles and honoring female athletes.

BUT… this insanity never should have happened in the first place.

Penises don’t belong in the women’s locker room, and men don’t belong on women’s podiums.

Beyond grateful tonight for people like @Riley_Gaines_, @PaulaYScanlan & more who had the courage to simply tell the truth when the world had lost its mind. Now, follow their example—may we never go back.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

🚨BREAKING🚨

UPenn has agreed to apologize to the female Division I swimmers who were forced to compete against Lia Thomas.

It has also committed to stripping Thomas of the titles and records he obtained while competing as a "woman," and will return them to female athletes.

Just hours ago, the US Department of Education announced that the following steps will be taken by UPenn to comply with Title IX:

- UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories;

- UPenn will issue a public statement to the University community stating that it will comply with Title IX, specifying that UPenn will not allow males to compete in female athletic programs or occupy Penn Athletics female intimate facilities;

- The statement will specify that UPenn will adopt biology-based definitions for the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trump’s Executive Orders "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism" and "Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports";

- UPenn will post the statement in a prominent location on its main website and on each of its websites for women’s athletics;

- UPenn will rescind any guidance which violated Title IX, remove or revise any internal and public-facing statements or documents that are inconsistent with Title IX, and notify all staff and women’s athletics of all such rescissions; and

- UPenn will send a personalized letter of apology to each impacted female swimmer.

This action followed an investigation by the Department’s Office for Civil Rights’ that found UPenn violated Title IX by allowing Lia Thomas to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only locker rooms.

[Dan Hitchens @ddhitchens]

M is for Mental Capacity Act.

The bill relies on it; but the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Psychiatrists say the MCA is the wrong tool to use. Amendments to tighten the capacity criterion were rejected.

@george_gillett writes powerfully about this: https://t.co/T3cfPdETV5

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Two Guardian headlines.

21 days apart.

Don’t ever let them say they’re not erasing the word ‘woman’.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We entrust the victims of the vile terrorist attack on the Greek Orthodox community of Mar Elias Church in Damascus to God’s mercy, and we offer our prayers for the wounded and their families. I say to the Christians of the Middle East: I am close to you! The whole Church is close to you! Let us not ignore #Syria, but continue to offer our support through gestures of solidarity and a renewed commitment to peace and reconciliation.

[Tameqqrant @tizemtmarxism]

"sex worker rights" is simply the leading contemporary smokescreen manufactured by ruling class narrative warfare for preserving the marketed, industrialized and globally organized sexual enslavement of girls and women under world imperialist patriarchy.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

I suffered with an eating disorder through my teenage years.

When I was 15, I spent over a month in hospital refusing to eat. I was on an IV drip, was a dangerously low weight, and my organs were on the brink of failing.

If I had the choice to die then, I would have taken it.

When you are as mentally ill as I was then, you will do everything in your power to convince those around you that you are well enough to make your own decisions.

When your organs are shutting down and every course of treatment has “failed” to fix you, death becomes an attractive option.

If I had been given the choice to die, I would’ve taken it — no questions asked.

And that’s why the Assisted Dying Bill terrifies me.

Because when you’re that mentally unwell, you don’t see hope. You see pain, and you want it to end.

You’ll do anything to convince the people around you that you’re “of sound mind.” You’ll say whatever it takes to be left alone. But behind those words is an illness doing the talking — not you.

If this bill had existed when I was 15, I might not be here. Not because it was the right choice, but because I was sick and exhausted and desperate. I didn’t need a legal route to die. I needed someone to fight for me when I couldn’t.

It tells people like the girl I was that death is the easiest option — to relieve your family, the NHS, and yourself of the burden of caring for you — instead of showing them that life can be worth the fight.

I survived. I got better.
But I may not have.

Not if the law had made dying seem easier than recovering. The Assisted Dying Bill doesn’t protect people like me. It writes us off.

“Assisted dying” is not dignity.
It’s abandonment dressed up as mercy.