Dear god elon musk has now tweeted agreeing the west is on the verge of civil war.
He agreed with this tweet from Gad Saad
For many years now, I have warned that the path that the West is taking will result in civil war. It might take 5 years, 50 years, or 100 years but it is inevitable. The West could have repeatedly resolved these issues peacefully but it refuses to auto-correct from its path of civilizational suicide. Many Western men who are currently asleep at the wheel will wake up, and realize that they don't like being pushed around in their homelands; they don't like their women attacked; they don't like their freedoms curtailed; they don't like their faiths disrespected. Once this happens, prepare for some gargantuan ugliness. Those who think that they are gaining inroads in the West will soon find out that not all Western men are invertebrate castrati. Save this tweet and never forget who warned you. 7:49 PM · Apr 23, 2024 · 2.9M Views
Civil war in the West, huh? The West isn't just one country. If you want to think of it as place that could have its own civil war, then it's already had several, including WW1 and WW2.
Musk doesn't mean civil war, though. He means race war.
That whole quote with its "civilizational suicide", "men asleep at the wheel", "don't like their faiths disrespected", "don't like being pushed around in their homelands", and not all men are invertebrate castrati, is textbook fascism.
If any government wanted to stand up to it, they'd ban this fucker somehow from finding an audience. But...no government does wish to stand up to it.
Scotland has a different legal system to the rest of GB.
The SNP want independence but are too lazy to do the work. They have powers to get justice for the postmasters. They should stop whining and get on with it!
Mr Yousaf has also confused Royal Mail with the Post Office🙄
4/ And here is the correspondence received by Humza Yousaf (when he was Cabinet Secretary for Justice) which Scot Gov was so reluctant to disclose in the first place.
5/ Which is interesting in light of his remarks today.
Humza Yousaf could have proactively chosen to do something about the Scottish convictions back in 2020.
And he cannot pretend to be unaware that the situation in Scotland was always separate to that in the rest of the UK.
Dear god elon musk has now tweeted agreeing the west is on the verge of civil war.
He agreed with this tweet from Gad Saad
For many years now, I have warned that the path that the West is taking will result in civil war. It might take 5 years, 50 years, or 100 years but it is inevitable. The West could have repeatedly resolved these issues peacefully but it refuses to auto-correct from its path of civilizational suicide. Many Western men who are currently asleep at the wheel will wake up, and realize that they don't like being pushed around in their homelands; they don't like their women attacked; they don't like their freedoms curtailed; they don't like their faiths disrespected. Once this happens, prepare for some gargantuan ugliness. Those who think that they are gaining inroads in the West will soon find out that not all Western men are invertebrate castrati. Save this tweet and never forget who warned you. 7:49 PM · Apr 23, 2024 · 2.9M Views
Civil war in the West, huh? The West isn't just one country. If you want to think of it as place that could have its own civil war, then it's already had several, including WW1 and WW2.
Musk doesn't mean civil war, though. He means race war.
That whole quote with its "civilizational suicide", "men asleep at the wheel", "don't like their faiths disrespected", "don't like being pushed around in their homelands", and not all men are invertebrate castrati, is textbook fascism.
If any government wanted to stand up to it, they'd ban this fucker somehow from finding an audience. But...no government does wish to stand up to it.
Musk has written of what he thinks is a push for "genocide of white people" in his native South Africa:
Brittany is great fun. I can see why you’d come here on holiday if you’re prepared to risk shit weather (I wouldn’t, if it was my only family holiday - it’s also quite pricey)
Observations: it can be very bleak. Rundown towns with dying industries. Rows of post covid shuttered shops (as bad as British towns for sure)
Bretons are short dark and hairy. Not tall red haired blonde Celts. But which is the true Celtic type?!
Cornouaille really is like Cornwall. Maybe not as intensely pretty in its best spots, but with a greater sense of space and urbanity
I have spent millions of days there over my life - haven’t done the part you are in. I Mostly go to Dinan, Dinard and St Malo in the north and La Baule in the south (it’s technically Loire Atlantique now but very much considered Breton).
Dinan is a beautiful medieval river port, Dinard is a very relaxed but actually v preppy/wealthy beach town which is packed with upper class frenchies in the summer, St Malo you probs know anyway and La Baule is very smart beach resort, very few Brits etc, wealthy French for the beaches and casino. Love them all whatever the weather tbh.
I don’t know them at all so Oooh
How exciting to have a whole new region of France to discover! I feel like I’m starting an unexpected and highly regarded new season of the Sopranos
I also need to get my arse to Carnac and might do it this summer as it looks bloody impressive - you will love it, bazillions of big carved stones.
Also if you are into spas they are big into their thalassotherapy spas on the coast in Brittany.
Small stones in Carnac, but many, many acres of them
It’s disappointing isn’t it? I got zero vibes from Carnac and I was super receptive
Try the Outer Hebrides. Or at any rate the Uists. There are prehistoric monuments dotted around but you need to tramp across the moors with compass and OS map to find them. Very rewarding when you do. Last time I did that the only company I had was a golden eagle. Its a remarkable landscape.
While I enjoy the reportage of Leon and Blanche Livermore and others sending words and pictures from around the globe - the paragraph above really made me lament the brevity of life and all the years of my youth when I could have been doing things like that, but didn't.
Raising 3 children in a stable relationship whilst doing a job of work which is productive and legal is a herculean achievement.
Indeed and that mirrors my wife and I relationship culminating in 3 weeks in 60 years of marriage (congratulations card from Charles and Carmilla in blue fountain pen ink confirmed by the Palace) 3 married children, 5 grandchildren, work since 17 in several jobs and founding a successful business before retiring at 65 in 2009
Both before and since worldwide travel from the Artic to the Antarctic and all places in between, but which now is over as my health crisis in October, which continues despite my pacemaker, ends all future travel but also the desire to travel
Always travel and do your bucket list as long as you can as you never know what is round the corner
At first it seems that there is so much joy and so much sadness in one post. But after a bit more thought, it's wisdom. Thank you Big G and I need to get my act together!
Senate passes Ukraine / Israel / Taiwan aid by 79-18 (3 abstentions)
Dems: 48-3 Reps: 31-15 (3 abstentions)
The three Democrats who voted against were: Sanders (Vermont), Welch (Vermont) and Merkley (Oregon).
Of the Republicans who voted against, most are predictable, but there are a couple of surprises: Marco Rubio (who clearly still nurses Presidential ambitions and is willing to upset Jewish voters for the "bigger picture") and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
Goodness, that brings back memories. My dad had one about that time, up in the Derby area. A big setup in his car that I was not allowed to touch under any circumstances. He must not have kept it too long though. I'll have to ask him about it.
The 2021 Census of England and Wales was one of the first in the world to ascertain the gender identity of an entire population. This article argues that its results are implausible with regard to geography, language, education, ethnicity, and religion. The results contradict data on referrals to gender clinics and signatures on a pro-transgender petition. The results are also internally inconsistent when the various categories of gender identity are correlated across localities, and when compared with sexual orientation. The spurious results were produced by a flawed question, which originated with a transgender campaigning organization. The question evidently confused a substantial number of respondents who erroneously declared their gender identity to differ from their natal sex. Confusion is manifested in the overrepresentation of people lacking English proficiency in the most suspect gender categories. These findings demonstrate how a faulty question can distort our apprehension of the social world.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
The "UN" is full of vested interests, lobby groups and brutal power politics.
It's not the nice international democratic rational body that everyone thinks it is.
In this case, it tells you it's worried Rwanda might work.
Rwanda won't work - the problem is that nothing is likely to stop the boats....
U.K. asylum clearing office in Calais? Or would those without genuine claims still try to cross?
The *only* asylum processing available would need to be overseas. So there's no way of claiming asylum from the UK.
But what if someone is legitimately in the UK and needs to claim asylum? An ambassador when there’s a military coup back home and the new regime want him dead, for example.
The endpoints of the LOESS smooth used on the graph are quite sensitive to new data coming in. So you often see them change quite a bit.
This is especially true with this type of data, where we have different players with different biases. Add a new YouGov poll to the graph and it will probably look quite different.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
The name that matters there is Kate Forbes. That is a declaration of war.
I find it interesting that her approach to winning the leadership is to be pretty confrontational. The SNP, since Sturgeon took over, has been wedded to a weird kind of authoritarian progressivism. Forbes is signalling she will have none of it and would kick the table over given a chance. There must be quite a hunt on in the SNP establishment for a credible Yousaf successor wedded to their orthodoxies. But is there one?
None apparent that is for sure, no-one yet shown they are not just there to make up the numbers.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
The name that matters there is Kate Forbes. That is a declaration of war.
I find it interesting that her approach to winning the leadership is to be pretty confrontational. The SNP, since Sturgeon took over, has been wedded to a weird kind of authoritarian progressivism. Forbes is signalling she will have none of it and would kick the table over given a chance. There must be quite a hunt on in the SNP establishment for a credible Yousaf successor wedded to their orthodoxies. But is there one?
Would the membership vote for another establishment successor? I would have thought they would want a change.
Scarcity of talent on show Red, she is only one that has actually put her head up, rest are docile sheep just taking the cash, SNP are dead at present. Perhaps once Mammy is in the pokey someone will appear.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
God willing you'll have many years from then on. The key challenge is to find reasons to do things rather than reasons not to do them.
Having watched my parent's generation it's dawned on me that age inclines you to say 'no, I can't be bothered'. Never mind 'Rage, Rage against the dying of the light', focus on 'Rage, Rage against not going on that flight'.
I'm not too bothered about seeing the world. But I want to explore the obscurer peaks of Scotland. I want to cycle the Hebrides. I want to walk the SW coast path. I want to use my body while I still can.
It's an interesting theme for those of us approaching retirement (and maybe others) - what do you really want to do most, things you've enjoyed up to now or things you've never done? Maybe there's a reason why you didn't do them and you wouldn't enjoy them that much? But not every pleasure is scalable. My father loved French literature and looked forward to having much more time for it, but after retirement recognised that you can't really read all day.
I'm incurious about the natural world and although I've travelled a lot I've no special desire to do more. Right now my free time is going entirely on Labour campaign management in my patch, organising canvass teams 3 times a week, coordinating work on leaflets, setting up phone banks, etc. - it's a niche pleasure but one I really enjoy and which I expect to help elect a Labour MP. But after the GE? Stand for the County Council next year? Write another book? Or, as you say, use my body while I can and go exploring? I genuinely don't know.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
Be careful of the graph on that page. The averaging method changes for the last couple of weeks which makes changes look more dramatic than they are. When more polls come in and the graph updates, the last bit of the average line changes, and almost always to make it show less of a change than before.
God willing you'll have many years from then on. The key challenge is to find reasons to do things rather than reasons not to do them.
Having watched my parent's generation it's dawned on me that age inclines you to say 'no, I can't be bothered'. Never mind 'Rage, Rage against the dying of the light', focus on 'Rage, Rage against not going on that flight'.
I'm not too bothered about seeing the world. But I want to explore the obscurer peaks of Scotland. I want to cycle the Hebrides. I want to walk the SW coast path. I want to use my body while I still can.
It's an interesting theme for those of us approaching retirement (and maybe others) - what do you really want to do most, things you've enjoyed up to now or things you've never done? Maybe there's a reason why you didn't do them and you wouldn't enjoy them that much? But not every pleasure is scalable. My father loved French literature and looked forward to having much more time for it, but after retirement recognised that you can't really read all day.
I'm incurious about the natural world and although I've travelled a lot I've no special desire to do more. Right now my free time is going entirely on Labour campaign management in my patch, organising canvass teams 3 times a week, coordinating work on leaflets, setting up phone banks, etc. - it's a niche pleasure but one I really enjoy and which I expect to help elect a Labour MP. But after the GE? Stand for the County Council next year? Write another book? Or, as you say, use my body while I can and go exploring? I genuinely don't know.
Yes, I agree. I have cut my hours and now part time, but plan to work to my pension age of 67.
I have travelled a lot in my life, and there are a number of places I want to get to still, mostly for wildlife and landscapes. On the other hand pottering about the Solent in a day sailer appeals, as does walking the coasts and hills of these Isles. I have a backlog of books to read, but agree that reading all day is no plan.
Travelling is fun, but it closes down other options. There is always an opportunity cost.
It's a very Reform type manifesto of mutually exclusive promises (lower taxes and higher spending).
Listening to Sunak yesterday and today he is clearly moving into election mode with the passing of the Rwanda Bill and the announcement in Warsaw of the increase in defence spending to 2.5% by 2030 which has apparently delighted his party
There was a Budget a month ago. Defence wasn't mentioned iirc.
And where is the spending review to provide the extra for defence.
Sunak is a joke.
You can say that but his defence commitment costing 75 billion to 2030 and his statement he is putting UK on a war footing will be popular with the conservative party and begs the question does Starmer match it and how
What does "putting the UK on a war footing" actually mean? Are we actually going to be fighting Russia, Iran or C hina anytime soon? Of course not but a little bit of fear helps keep the voters in line. I suspect the hope is all this defence investment will somehow lead to economic growth and prosperity. History shows us it can do for a while but eventually the music stops.
Sunak did say in his announcement that it would be investment in British jobs
Think, please think.
How much of it would be on British jobs? In what factories? What production lines active right now?
As opposed to industry elsewhere?
If the MoD pulled its head out of its arse and did something like order 500 Archer artillery systems, you’d get a factory to build them as part of the deal (made by a BAe subsidiary already).
I think a fair amount may be for some of the more inexpensive frigates that have been ummed and aahed about *, and to fill financial potholes ** in programmes for the army and RAF.
* We have a frigate factory in Glasgow, donnchaknow - nearly built.
The "UN" is full of vested interests, lobby groups and brutal power politics.
It's not the nice international democratic rational body that everyone thinks it is.
In this case, it tells you it's worried Rwanda might work.
Rwanda won't work - the problem is that nothing is likely to stop the boats....
U.K. asylum clearing office in Calais? Or would those without genuine claims still try to cross?
The *only* asylum processing available would need to be overseas. So there's no way of claiming asylum from the UK.
But what if someone is legitimately in the UK and needs to claim asylum? An ambassador when there’s a military coup back home and the new regime want him dead, for example.
They should open a centre on some far flung island and anyone not applying there should be deported immediately, these politician's are real clowns.
Between the Rwanda bill and defense spending announcement I feel ever more certain that we are heading into a summer GE. Finally something Farage and I agree on.
Borrowing more than expected and lower tax receipts in March, yet promises of more spending.
Promises of more spending when they have a 3% chance of being in power......
Whereas, whilst they are in power backing away from the already watered down renters reform bill.
No Fault eviction is nothing of the sort. It is the end of a contract.
If the landlord does not want to renew why should they ?
Renters are not being "kicked out of their homes", they are at the end of a contract. Why should they be entitled to remain in a property after that.
because they are literally being "kicked out of their homes"?
They aren't.
It is not their home, they are renting it.
The contract has ended. So be it. Or should the renter be compelled to remain if they want to leave ?
Hard to believe the halfwits that believe because they have a short term contract for someone else's property that it is their home and tehy are entitled to stay forever.
The "UN" is full of vested interests, lobby groups and brutal power politics.
It's not the nice international democratic rational body that everyone thinks it is.
In this case, it tells you it's worried Rwanda might work.
Rwanda won't work - the problem is that nothing is likely to stop the boats....
U.K. asylum clearing office in Calais? Or would those without genuine claims still try to cross?
The *only* asylum processing available would need to be overseas. So there's no way of claiming asylum from the UK.
But what if someone is legitimately in the UK and needs to claim asylum? An ambassador when there’s a military coup back home and the new regime want him dead, for example.
There’s always a way for governments to solve problems.
For example I was talking to someone who is running a project that could be meaningful to UK long term security. Outside my field so it was a general interest chat. I asked about a specific vulnerability - he just noted that I (and the rest of the public) have no idea about the resource's that governments have and the actions they take in private to protect against the most marginal risks
The 2021 Census of England and Wales was one of the first in the world to ascertain the gender identity of an entire population. This article argues that its results are implausible with regard to geography, language, education, ethnicity, and religion. The results contradict data on referrals to gender clinics and signatures on a pro-transgender petition. The results are also internally inconsistent when the various categories of gender identity are correlated across localities, and when compared with sexual orientation. The spurious results were produced by a flawed question, which originated with a transgender campaigning organization. The question evidently confused a substantial number of respondents who erroneously declared their gender identity to differ from their natal sex. Confusion is manifested in the overrepresentation of people lacking English proficiency in the most suspect gender categories. These findings demonstrate how a faulty question can distort our apprehension of the social world.
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Musk doesn't mean civil war, though. He means race war.
That whole quote with its "civilizational suicide", "men asleep at the wheel", "don't like their faiths disrespected", "don't like being pushed around in their homelands", and not all men are invertebrate castrati, is textbook fascism.
If any government wanted to stand up to it, they'd ban this fucker somehow from finding an audience. But...no government does wish to stand up to it.
Scotland has a different legal system to the rest of GB.
The SNP want independence but are too lazy to do the work. They have powers to get justice for the postmasters. They should stop whining and get on with it!
Mr Yousaf has also confused Royal Mail with the Post Office🙄
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1782815526894305487
Also:
https://x.com/staylorish/status/1782837263191203944
4/ And here is the correspondence received by Humza Yousaf (when he was Cabinet Secretary for Justice) which Scot Gov was so reluctant to disclose in the first place.
5/ Which is interesting in light of his remarks today.
Humza Yousaf could have proactively chosen to do something about the Scottish convictions back in 2020.
And he cannot pretend to be unaware that the situation in Scotland was always separate to that in the rest of the UK.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1686037774510497792
He's as far to the right as Anders Breivik.
By December 1978 there were 6,052 mobile car phones in use in the UK, with 3,264 of those in the London area.
https://sites.google.com/site/616cellnet/carphone-1981
Dems: 48-3
Reps: 31-15 (3 abstentions)
Of the Republicans who voted against, most are predictable, but there are a couple of surprises: Marco Rubio (who clearly still nurses Presidential ambitions and is willing to upset Jewish voters for the "bigger picture") and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380385241240441
Non-proficient English speakers five and a half times more likely to be trans - whodathunkit?
Still a bad idea.
This is especially true with this type of data, where we have different players with different biases. Add a new YouGov poll to the graph and it will probably look quite different.
So I think it's too early to tell.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/23/jeremy-hunt-tax-cuts-borrowing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68887629
If the landlord does not want to renew why should they ?
Renters are not being "kicked out of their homes", they are at the end of a contract. Why should they be entitled to remain in a property after that.
NEW THREAD
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1782977356673511441
I'm incurious about the natural world and although I've travelled a lot I've no special desire to do more. Right now my free time is going entirely on Labour campaign management in my patch, organising canvass teams 3 times a week, coordinating work on leaflets, setting up phone banks, etc. - it's a niche pleasure but one I really enjoy and which I expect to help elect a Labour MP. But after the GE? Stand for the County Council next year? Write another book? Or, as you say, use my body while I can and go exploring? I genuinely don't know.
It is not their home, they are renting it.
The contract has ended. So be it. Or should the renter be compelled to remain if they want to leave ?
I have travelled a lot in my life, and there are a number of places I want to get to still, mostly for wildlife and landscapes. On the other hand pottering about the Solent in a day sailer appeals, as does walking the coasts and hills of these Isles. I have a backlog of books to read, but agree that reading all day is no plan.
Travelling is fun, but it closes down other options. There is always an opportunity cost.
UK 54.0
USA 50.9
Germany 50.5
France 49.9
https://www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Release/PressReleases
Note the difference between 'everything is broken' UK and the 'wonder economy' USA.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz74yw87jygo
As with most such articles it hasn't mentioned that oldies have also received £500 or £600 winter fuel payment.
For example I was talking to someone who is running a project that could be meaningful to UK long term security. Outside my field so it was a general interest chat. I asked about a specific vulnerability - he just noted that I (and the rest of the public) have no idea about the resource's that governments have and the actions they take in private to protect against the most marginal risks