Clown World

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Beats me why we don't have this thread yet. We live in it every day. We can't escape, and there's seemingly nowhere to turn.

This isn't just about being woke, although this is woke-adjacent. This is more about the weirdness, the madness, the impossibly surreal and paradoxical. Clown World! The record levels of cringe that have taken hold of western society. Sometimes what we witness is just awful, tragic, at others, it's just frankly hilarious. I don't quite know where the line sits between them anymore.

Post your examples. I predict there will be no shortage of supply.

:laughs: :scared: :ranger: :loco: :noidea: :der:

To begin:
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[Mike]

Great thread Mark

There's no better example of this than police web cam videos. I spent a couple months binge watching these, and I never ceased to be astonished.

God bless these police officers. I have no idea how they do it.

This one stands out. I can't even really summarize it. There are no words:). 17 mins long:
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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Never forget!

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[rgray222]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aByvmWQ_460svav1.mp4

[Mari]

Hope I've done this right ( 'X' post from Telegram)
can I get this to automatically open without showing the other stuff?

https://t.me/ABridgen/1326






From Bill:
Unfortunately (as best I can see), that particular post will only display here if you have a Telegram account. (Some will display, but others won't)
:worried:

Thanks Bill, just seen the same video on YouTube, so here goes:

The British Bacon Offence helpine:


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RFCbb52ef-s

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Nose-ring (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?115313-The-Wokeness-Epidemic&p=1683281&viewfull=1#post1683281) detection confirmed.

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

The almost radioactive levels of narcissism these days is indicative and reflective of the sick society that produces these conditions. And social media is the foremost conveyance that allows these conditions to flourish.

Some of its effects you have to see to believe.

The Worst of Narcissists and #TRAGEDY
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[Tintin]

The almost radioactive levels of narcissism these days is indicative and reflective of the sick society that produces these conditions. And social media is the foremost conveyance that allows these conditions to flourish.

Some of its effects you have to see to believe.

The Worst of Narcissists and #TRAGEDY
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Good Lord :facepalm: That's some cringe....

Dante's 9th awaits, while I listen to Beethoven's 9th.

[Bruce G Charlton]

While I - of course - find the above posts entertaining; I have reservations about the "clown world" terminology.

Mainly because the motivations that drive those responsible for this stuff are purposively and strategically evil - not merely dumb or crazy.

(Dumb and crazy people will inevitably do good stuff by accident, "randomly; about as often as they do evil stuff; whereas the schemes, plans, and programs of Clown World are all in the direction of spiritual harm.)

It's good to laugh at evil, and They don't like it - so long as we have at the back of our minds that it is indeed, ultimately, evil that we are laughing at; and the dumb/ crazy characters in public view are merely dupes and minions.

So, for me it's demon world, rather than "clown" world.

[Bill Ryan]

So, for me it's demon world, rather than "clown" world.I do agree. :thumbsup:

(But just as a cultural reference, the thread title was — most probably! — tipping a hat to the daily final section of Alex Christoforou's news update videos (https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou/videos). In those, which have become very celebrated, He always presents a 5 minute 'Clown World' section, focused on sheer political ridiculousness, which he cloaks in comedy.)

[mountain_jim]

I admit to not finding time to post in this thread much in addition to the ones I focus on...

but the title also reminded me of an X account I keep up with, that is no doubt being well-monetized by sharing all the free content being generated by all these narcissists and clownish behaviors.

https://x.com/ClownWorld_

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1446932149148344320/1756384799/1080x360


@ClownWorld_
ClownWorld™ 🤡🌎 The freakshow is real. We just hit upload. DM for credit ✉️ | removal ❌ | business inquiries 👨‍💼💼

examples

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GzxC2LQXUAA5j__?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Open Minded Dude]

So, for me it's demon world, rather than "clown" world.I do agree. :thumbsup:

(But just as a cultural reference, the thread title was — most probably! — tipping a hat to the daily final section of Alex Christoforou's news update videos (https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou/videos). In those, which have become very celebrated, He always presents a 5 minute 'Clown World' section, focused on sheer political ridiculousness, which he cloaks in comedy.)

In Germany we have our own Clownworld Youtuber called 'Clownswelt'. He actually became famous even in the Mainstream because he was doxxed by a 'journalist' or 'entertainer' in his own show on national television claiming he was one of the YouTube far-right n#zis (which is nonsense of course). He's just a conservative.
In the end it was to his advantage: Clownswelt's subscriptions went up from 200K to almost 500K so it helped him a lot. You can also see him now 'in the open' on other channels discussing the issues which is always delightful.

For anyone who knows German (although there's subtitles available) I recommend his channel. His videos are really a good watch because 'Clowny' (as his fans also affectionately call him now) astutely debunks all the mainstream narratives in German state media (which we have to pay for!), and destroys all the puppets (mostly the MSM and some YT left-wing bloggers) who agitate against him but who have no argumentative substance whatsoever.
He is VERY (facts-)based and also a true rhethorical genius who also occasionally employs some good humour and sarcasm (it's about a Clownworld after all). Wish he would do English videos, I know most here would enjoy his stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/@Clownswelt/videos

Definitely one of my favourite channels on YouTube by now. :jester:

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I have questions.


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[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1963614510645706814

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Concerned Citizen

“People shouldn’t have to work to prove their value to you”


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Clown World ™ 🤡

@ClownWorld_
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[Open Minded Dude]

I still go to a lot of live rock concerts. Very fortunately - so far, fingers crossed - I did not have to witness something like this (although you sometimes happen to meet or see some 'clown' people indeed, but not like this one).

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[mountain_jim]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0EF6fXaEAAHs1A?format=jpg&name=900x900



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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

This clip qualifies as Clown World, but in a way that makes you smile. It's a guy poking fun at the world and living his best life. Worth a repost from the You must laugh at least once a day (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?74551-You-must-laugh-at-least-once-a-day) thread.

That 🐷 :lol:

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[mountain_jim]

This clip qualifies as Clown World, but in a way that makes you smile. It's a guy poking fun at the world and living his best life. Worth a repost from the You must laugh at least once a day (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?74551-You-must-laugh-at-least-once-a-day) thread.

That 🐷 :lol:

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But not also worth a repost in the Animals are Magical (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106567-Animals-are-Magical) thread? :lol: j/k

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/CLWNofficial/status/1964027984190538200

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[Raskolnikov]

This one throws a serious spanner in the works - a black man takes on full white body, dresses up like a redneck, and then goes to a Nascar event and even spits in front of a passing black man?!? Not quite Clown World but it's close. Start at 3:45 to see his performance.

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[rgray222]

Nebraska senator flips out debating ban on sex change surgeries for minors, screams 'we need trans people'

If you can watch all three minutes, you deserve a medal

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[Open Minded Dude]

Nebraska senator flips out debating ban on sex change surgeries for minors, screams 'we need trans people'

If you can watch all three minutes, you deserve a medal

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Very memeworthy, and 'musical', since its a kinda rhythmic/musical performance (I have to give her that!). Great basic material for more. I'm waiting especially for the music videow now, sth they did with e.g. Greta years ago:

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Or maybe it's case for Andre Antunes:

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What's the difference anyway?
'Give Him A Ticket!' - 'How Dare You?!' - 'We Need Trans People!'
= All clown world musical masterpieces!
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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

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[grapevine]

Rough Justice - oddly satisfying
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[rgray222]

Sometimes the clown world could use background music

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aRByOYj_460svav1.mp4

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Said of Charlie Kirk, if nothing else, politics notwithstanding, a deeply religious, Christian, pious man.

But according to this girl, "literally the devil sent from hell".

She's been so gaslit, so indoctrinated, her brain has turned into a Mobius Strip. Seated in nothing and going nowhere but around and around and around.


"Like literally Mr. Evil nazi like racist like Hitler, like he is literally super-villain level...literally the Devil sent from hell...the definition of an evil motherf*ker."

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Good grief, the values these poor kids are being raised with. :facepalm:

Disturbing on many levels.

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Shoe
@samosaur
The individual recording this is the spouse of Lieutenant Colonel Adam Cole who is assigned to Fort Carson.

I’m including a picture below.

[onawah]

Elementary level school children in public schools in China are being taught hate and violence in classrooms, and now this news is clear evidence that the CCP's China is the elite's blueprint for the West--it's just taking longer to manifest here.
Western minds are not as heavily programmed and propagandized as the Chinese, but the overall global agenda has the advantage now of nanotech dumbing people down exponentially, to speed up the agenda.


Good grief, the values these poor kids are being raised with. :facepalm:
Disturbing on many levels.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Why education is the way it is.

Teacher's Union boss Randi Weingarten promotes her new book: Why Fascists Fear Teachers

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Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist
@DeAngelisCorey
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Randi Weingarten just promoted her new book calling those on the side of parents "Fascists."

She's wearing a shirt that says "Protect Our Kids."

She thinks she owns your kids.

Wake up, parents.

Dismantle the teachers unions.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Why education is the way it is. Part 2.

aka.
"When it comes to Clown World, schools and Universities stand centre stage."

>> This is the most useless "qualification" ever.

Harvard University holds a Taylor Swift studies class - "Taylor Swift and Her World" - taught by Stephen Bur, transgender professor.

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

We should perhaps have a thread on political hypocrisy. We'd fill a hundred-plus pages in no time at all.

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Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
Tim Walz yesterday: “we have go to get back to decency.”

Tim Walz two weeks ago: Telling audience how excited he’d be to see Trump dead.


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[onawah]

Check this out (someone was thinking along the same lines, and I just posted it yesterday:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130394-Series-on-Most-Corrupt-Politicians&p=1685776&viewfull=1#post1685776


We should perhaps have a thread on political hypocrisy. We'd fill a hundred-plus pages in no time at all.


Walz deserves a spot there.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Deluded, deranged, or demonic? Who knows anymore.

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[wondering]

What fuels this rage and insanity? I think one would have to totally surround oneself with like minded others to be like this. 24 hours a day with no respite, just feeding the fires.. this has got to be mind control of some sort... terrifying.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

There is nothing they cannot twist to feed their hate-filled narrative. Confirmation bias on overdrive.

190k likes.

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[grapevine]

Parents left their daughter in an extremely hot place with no water for more than 24 hours
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Full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZ9c7hY8lE
Wonder whether these kids are better off in care or not, the system being like Russian Roulette. Such a sweet kid - your heart bleeds . . .

[Open Minded Dude]

Trump / Kennedy warn of Tylenol to cause autism in their babys if taken during pregnancy (There is even already a warning by the manufacturer not to take it during pregnancy for all kinds of health dangers!).

And of course: Pregnant liberal women take Tylenol on Social Media to protest Trump.

One comment reads 'They hate Trump more than they love their kids'.

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So if Trump tells them not to eat their own sh#t, will they ....?

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Trump / Kennedy warn of Tylenol to cause autism in their babys if taken during pregnancy (There is even already a warning by the manufacturer not to take it during pregnancy for all kinds of health dangers!).

And of course: Pregnant liberal women take Tylenol on Social Media to protest Trump.

One comment reads 'They hate Trump more than they love their kids'.

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So if Trump tells them not to eat their own sh#t, will they ....?

:facepalm:

New definitions of "stupid" are being written every day.

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American ER Nurse CONFIRMS there is a major spike in women being admitted to the ER “because they took too much Tylenol”

Liberals are poisoning themselves to protest autism findings

“This is actually f*cking happening”

“An ER nurse, and lately, there's been a spike of women coming in, especially women, coming in with poisoning because they took too much Tylenol or acetaminophen. So this is actually f*cking happening”

“These are adult women and they are now sending themselves to the emergency room... because they are taking too much Tylenol out of spite for Trump.”

[Open Minded Dude]

Good comment by Mr Walsh:

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[mountain_jim]

Trump / Kennedy warn of Tylenol to cause autism in their babys if taken during pregnancy (There is even already a warning by the manufacturer not to take it during pregnancy for all kinds of health dangers!).

And of course: Pregnant liberal women take Tylenol on Social Media to protest Trump.

One comment reads 'They hate Trump more than they love their kids'.

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So if Trump tells them not to eat their own sh#t, will they ....?

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now a meme



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[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1971202924517916782

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Catturd ™
@catturd2
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😂😂😂 you mean this dude doesn't have 368 billion?
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Florida Man tried to cash a check for 368 Billion Dollars got arrested for negotiating a worthless instrument.

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[Raskolnikov]

Trump / Kennedy warn of Tylenol to cause autism in their babys if taken during pregnancy (There is even already a warning by the manufacturer not to take it during pregnancy for all kinds of health dangers!).

And of course: Pregnant liberal women take Tylenol on Social Media to protest Trump.

One comment reads 'They hate Trump more than they love their kids'.

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So if Trump tells them not to eat their own sh#t, will they ....?

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now a meme



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G1poCYKXkAAwaNB?format=jpg&name=small

I see a way outta this mess:chuckle:

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[grapevine]

When I'm in trouble but AC/DC comes up

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Lucky . . .

[Bill Ryan]

The line between Clown World and Tragedy is wafer-thin. :flower:

The full text:
Pregnant liberal took so much Tylenol after hearing Donald Trump say it causes autism she’s now in the ICU and is going to die

Executive Director of American Frontline Nurses got a “very frantic call at 4am from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a ventilator in an ICU, because she was trying to prove that Tylenol doesn't cause autism because of what Trump said”

She’s going to die

“Whether or not you believe the Harvard study or not is not, not the issue here. The issue is that she's somewhere between 23 to 25 weeks and she overdosed on Tylenol, and she's going to die”

This video is INSANE



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[Bill Ryan]

The line between Clown World and Tragedy is wafer-thin. :flower:

The full text:
Pregnant liberal took so much Tylenol after hearing Donald Trump say it causes autism she’s now in the ICU and is going to dieAn update of sorts. Tim Pool reported on this, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qowjsGw-ijk) and said he couldn't be sure that the story was correct. But here was a YouTube comment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qowjsGw-ijk&lc=UgwSxrXCoDb1UCcYoOd4AaABAg):

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It's actually true Tim....and my sister who's a doctor said how her hospital has seen a sudden increase in poisonings from overdosing on Tylenol. They have 4 in critical condition, and another 5 struggling with overdose.

[grapevine]

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[rgray222]

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Not too long ago, just a few short years, we would've baulked at the world today. Thrown up our hands and doggedly refused to believe it. I think a part of us has become inured to the madness and grown to accept it as normal. Which is problematic when you think about it. It's how we got here in the first place! We mustn't lose touch with that which makes us whole, and sane, and never forget where we came from. The world before it was turned on its head.

Related:

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Canterbury Cathedral defiled and vandalised - by order of the Church.

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Nicholas Lissack
@NicholasLissack
The desecration of Canterbury Cathedral by the Church of England is modern Britain in one image.

Our most sacred ground, once the beating heart of English faith, now treated as a playground for cultural decay.

Shame on Sarah Mullally for defiling what generations held holy.

[grapevine]

Tommy Robinson uses his clout to save Christmas in the UK
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[grapevine]

How to get free drinks/food in the UK
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Isn't it about time this reprehensible behaviour was addressed? Would also like to know whether this is happening in other parts of the world other than the UK

[Open Minded Dude]

Tik Tok is actually online Clown World with another name.

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[Bill Ryan]

How to get free drinks/food in the UK
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Isn't it about time this reprehensible behaviour was addressed? Would also like to know whether this is happening in other parts of the world other than the UKThat's an interesting question. :flower: It's rampant in the US, because so many people just can't afford food for their families, even if they wish they could pay for things.

But so very interestingly, here in Ecuador I've never once heard of any shoplifting anywhere. The 'poorer' people (a) grow their own food, and/or (b) buy every kind of fresh fruit and veg at super-cheap roadside market stalls. No-one goes hungry here at all — not anyone. (And neither is there any homelessness, not a single person living 'on the streets'. But that's probably for another thread)

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[Alecs]

How to get free drinks/food in the UK
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Isn't it about time this reprehensible behaviour was addressed? Would also like to know whether this is happening in other parts of the world other than the UKThat's an interesting question. :flower: It's rampant in the US, because so many people just can't afford food for their families, even if they wish they could pay for things.

But so very interestingly, here in Ecuador I've never once heard of any shoplifting anywhere. The 'poorer' people (a) grow their own food, and/or (b) buy every kind of fresh fruit and veg at super-cheap roadside market stalls. No-one goes hungry here at all — not anyone. (And neither is there any homelessness, not a single person living 'on the streets'. But that's probably for another thread)

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No doubt, unfortunately. But also in the US there are numerous "soup kitchens" and "food pantries" where people who just can't afford food for their families can go, else arrange for delivery (in some cases).These are non-profit organizations that receive much donated food from average Americans, often through food drives held at work places, churches, etc. So, I suggest there's a choice.

I've occasionally seen shoplifting in grocery stores, and they're always individuals coming in to pick up lunch or dinner--a soda and a prepared meal. And then there's the rampant phenomena of youth gangs completely raiding convenience stores; they're not stealing bags of rice for their families.

My apology for replying as it's getting off topic.

[rgray222]

I think this certainly belongs here, but I find no humour in it, only sadness. Freedom of speech no longer resides in the UK. What next, if you call the PM a filthy incompetent bureaucrat? Should you be arrested? Apparently so..................

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[Bill Ryan]

Some readers may know or remember that a week ago the Netherlands used a highly obscure law to seize control of the Chinese chip-making company Nexperia, which was based there. Here's the BBC article about it:


Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgk21nng0vo)

But the Netherlands forgot that the chips themselves are made in China.

So the Chinese announced that they'll simply not export any of their chips to the Netherlands. None at all.

Now the Netherlands is seeking talks with the Chinese.

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Me yesterday: it can't get any worse.

Today:
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[grapevine]

Unforgivable lapses at Chester Hospital
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[Open Minded Dude]

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[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1980962777004208521

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“How do you feel being the most pierced Man in the World?”

[grapevine]

One in One out in reality is One in One back in again
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[Bill Ryan]

I think this is Clown World material. :worried: I know that videos like this are selectively edited, but even a few answers like these from what appear to be genuine students, maybe 17-19 years old, are really quite worrying — and maybe not a joke at all. :flower:

GEN Z CAN'T Answer BASIC Questions!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yt5f3EDU0g

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Wow...utterly shocking. Those questions would be insultingly easy for a ten year old (in my day). They probably know how many made-up genders there are, but can't tell you how many minutes are in an hour, weeks in a year, or dimes in a dollar, which even I, a non-American, knew at aged ten.

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[T Smith]

I think this is Clown World material. :worried: I know that videos like this are selectively edited, but even a few answers like these from what appear to be genuine students, maybe 17-19 years old, are really quite worrying — and maybe not a joke at all. :flower:

GEN Z CAN'T Answer BASIC Questions!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yt5f3EDU0g

This isn't even funny.

[norman]

I think this is Clown World material. :worried: I know that videos like this are selectively edited, but even a few answers like these from what appear to be genuine students, maybe 17-19 years old, are really quite worrying — and maybe not a joke at all. :flower:

GEN Z CAN'T Answer BASIC Questions!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yt5f3EDU0g

This isn't even funny.



A case for missionary schools in America ?



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[Bill Ryan]

I think this is Clown World material. :worried: I know that videos like this are selectively edited, but even a few answers like these from what appear to be genuine students, maybe 17-19 years old, are really quite worrying — and maybe not a joke at all. :flower:

GEN Z CAN'T Answer BASIC Questions!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yt5f3EDU0g

This isn't even funny.No, it's not. :flower:

I won't post links to his many other videos asking questions of students, but his video page is here (https://www.youtube.com/@kerongb/videos) if anyone wants to despair further about the US education system. (And I was wrong about their age. They're college students, not high school teens. Many of them will be as old as 22.)

Here are some of the questions he asks, which many young adults have no idea how to answer.

And these people vote. :facepalm:

How many years are in a millennium?
What direction does vertical go?
What percent is 6.2 out of 10?
Where are Dutch people from?
Which body of water separates Africa from Europe?
What is the chemical symbol for oxygen?
Which mountain range is Mount Everest in?
Who is our Commander-in-Chief?
Which ocean is between Australia and Africa?
How many ounces are in one pound?
What shape has five sides?
What is the past tense of "seek"?
What is three-quarters as a decimal?
What country is the Leaning Tower of Pisa in?
What country is the Eiffel Tower in?
What country is Alaska in?
Where is Russia on this map?
Where is China on this map?
...and, believe it or not:
If you were born eight years ago, how old would you be today?

There are many more, but I got too depressed to continue. :ROFL:

[Myristyl]

I got all the questions correct, phew!
I can't believe this is representative of all of gen z. How many did he have to ask before he found the 'dumbest' answers? Or am I being too optimistic?

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Another dummy. Apparently not a basic arithmetic question but a 'riddle' :noidea: that 76% of people fail at. 76%!

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https://x.com/SeniormanKelzz/status/1981253079463805097
S.M.K
@SeniormanKelzz
Do you know the answer to the riddle?

[rgray222]

At least one judge in Sweden has lost his/her mind and should be removed from office.

Migrant Avoids Deportation Because Rape of Swedish Girl Didn’t Last Long Enough

https://europeanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1024px-Swedish_police_car_with_lights_on-e1761225584400.jpg

The headline seems ridiculous, but it is true.

After arriving in Sweden as an asylum seeker when he was a minor, Eritrean migrant Yazied Mohamed raped Meya Åberg in September last year, when she was just 16 years old, while she was on her way back home from work.

According to the Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland, this attack was not “extremely serious”—and so does not warrant deportation—because of its “duration.” This prompted commentator Ian Miles Cheong to note that “the suffering of a 16 year old is now measured in minutes”—a sign of “how far the system has fallen.”

On the ‘seriousness’ of the crime, it is surely worth highlighting that Åberg, now 17, afterwards barely went to school for a year, is still haunted by nightmares and—in her own words—is “really scared to go out and walk by myself.

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https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/migrant-avoids-deportation-because-rape-of-swedish-girl-didnt-last-long-enough/

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

"Balenciaga’s ‘Destroyed’ line plays on anti-luxury aesthetics — turning distress and imperfection into status symbols. It’s part of a trend called ‘deconstruction fashion,’ where the idea challenges what we define as beauty or value in clothing"

Whenever I hear "challenge what we define as..." I take it to mean "corrupt and destroy a long-standing moral convention". To convince the sleepwalking masses that good is bad, and bad good, what is ugly is actually attractive, and disgusting agreeable. What critics hail as "daring" or "progressive" usually ends up being just another nail in the coffin of common decency. A subtle sleight of hand (alchemy) to shift the Overton Window another notch. All part of the satanic agenda.



@Rainmaker1973
The first batch of the DESTROYED model jacket sold by Balenciaga for $950 sold out in 24 hours.

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If the ancestors could see us now, they might just commit suicide immediately and abort the human race.

[White Cedar]

I got all the questions correct, phew!
I can't believe this is representative of all of gen z. How many did he have to ask before he found the 'dumbest' answers? Or am I being too optimistic?


They wen't to school, they did the tests.


This dosn't look to be just a lack of education, it looks to be the result of nano tech, fluoride, bromides, plastics, all those 5.000 different toxins that humans are exposed, teflon, heavy metals, smart dust, EMF, and stuff like that.


It's seems like something is tappering and dumbing down the brain and blocking stuff out, it's not possible to be in collage and not know how to calculate 3 x 3 or know other countries, we see countries in any tv show, movie, these people watch shows, the question seems to be something is simply hijacking their brain, that's my theory.


I forgot all those frequency weapons being broadcast along with 5G,4G and satelites + plus intense smart phone hooking.

[Raskolnikov]

Don't forget the Atrazine White Cedar. While I don't condone unwarranted or senseless police violence, this guy willingly returned to the protest after being removed once already. Wait for it...

-EipyVGQSZY

[grapevine]

The Dark Secrets Of The SS Richard Montgomery Shipwreck sitting in the Thames Estuary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQp0n8zuoC4&t=85

Interesting 10 minute video about the ss Richard Montgomery, which has sat on the sea bed in the Thames Estuary since 1946 because the government wouldnt pay for the safety of the operatives to make the ship and cargo safe. So talk about a sitting duck Successive governments haven't addressed the problem and now the condition of the boat and the bombs has deteriorated considerably.

"This is the story of a huge unexploded bomb. A shipwreck, sat on the sea bed at the mouth of the Thames Estuary with thousands of tonnes of TNT on board.

The SS Richard Montgomery is an American Liberty Ship that sank in WW2, taking unbelievable amount of explosives and munitions down with her. If the unexploded ordinance never explodes, then this is nothing more than an interesting anecdote for the thousands of people living in Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey.

But what if it does explode? A huge tsunami, a tidal wave, overpowering the Thames Barrier and heading straight for the UK's capital city, London. A disaster, just waiting to happen."

[Bill Ryan]

How to tell if an online comment is an AI bot:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/cupcake_recipe.jpg

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

(I found that on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg), which had the title: The Internet is Dying: AI, Bots, and The End of Human Content — something that's really not funny at all :worried:)

[Tintin]

How to tell if an online comment is an AI bot:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/cupcake_recipe.jpg

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

(I found that on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg), which had the title: The Internet is Dying: AI, Bots, and The End of Human Content — something that's really not funny at all :worried:)

..and here's another from Vanessa Wingårdh here:

ChatGPT Brain Rot Is Real (And Getting Worse)

6aVRQDKJ9Dg

Some of the examples will, well, fry your brain. Bill: it's a very very short segment but she shows an example where folks use ChatGPT for advice on which mountains to hike, without properly researching the terrain beforehand and turning up at snowy mountain areas....in sneakers :facepalm:

[Bill Ryan]

How to tell if an online comment is an AI bot:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Bill/cupcake_recipe.jpg

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

(I found that on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg), which had the title: The Internet is Dying: AI, Bots, and The End of Human Content — something that's really not funny at all :worried:)

..and here's another from Vanessa Wingårdh here:

ChatGPT Brain Rot Is Real (And Getting Worse)

6aVRQDKJ9Dg

Some of the examples will, well, fry your brain. Bill: it's a very very short segment but she shows an example where folks use ChatGPT for advice on which mountains to hike, without properly researching the terrain beforehand and turning up at snowy mountain areas....in sneakers :facepalm:Yes, this is happening more and more now. :facepalm:

I'll not post the whole article, but this was one example from a few weeks ago. Two young men from Saudi Arabia embarked on a 9 day trek in remote Krygyzstan, having never done anything like that before. They planned it all using AI. The experienced hiker who came to their aid said:
“They had these tents where they couldn’t stretch out, that you buy your kids when you’re going to go down to the beach. And that was a suggestion from AI."
When ChatGPT Plans Your Trek: A Cautionary Tale (https://explorersweb.com/when-chatgpt-plans-your-trek-a-cautionary-tale-from-kyrgyzstan/)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Architects should be held accountable for the monstrosities they force upon us. Look at this latest urban stain:

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https://x.com/createstreets/status/1985281205898498422
createstreets
@createstreets
This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....

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Infinitely superior:

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https://x.com/MatthewJDalby/status/1985457193869521128

[rgray222]

Architects should be held accountable for the monstrosities they force upon us. Look at this latest urban stain:



There is an intentional move afoot to make most Western architecture appear more repetitive, uniform, and bleak. The reason for this is an underlying ideological desire to align more closely with Marxism. They do not want capitalism to appear successful in any shape or form. They would deny this, but the architecture over the last 30+ years easily proves it to be true.

[Mari]

Architects should be held accountable for the monstrosities they force upon us. Look at this latest urban stain:



There is an intentional move afoot to make most Western architecture appear more repetitive, uniform, and bleak. The reason for this is an underlying ideological desire to align more closely with Marxism. They do not want capitalism to appear successful in any shape or form. They would deny this, but the architecture over the last 30+ years easily proves it to be true.

Yes, it all started in the 60's here in the UK, when beloved buildings were demolished, or land made available, to erect such monstrosities. A notable case in point is when they built the 'new' Royal Festival concert hall in London - a gigantic concrete brutalist bunker. There was a move, reported by the BBC (them again) years ago, to try to make 'Brutalism a desirable trope.
I don't do Royalty as such, but admired Charlie when he complained about a 'carbuncle on the face of a beloved friend' when describing a new build attached to a classic one, on the Thames (I orget which one)

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[Myristyl]

Architects should be held accountable for the monstrosities they force upon us. Look at this latest urban stain:



There is an intentional move afoot to make most Western architecture appear more repetitive, uniform, and bleak. The reason for this is an underlying ideological desire to align more closely with Marxism. They do not want capitalism to appear successful in any shape or form. They would deny this, but the architecture over the last 30+ years easily proves it to be true.

Yes, it all started in the 60's here in the UK, when beloved buildings were demolished, or land made available, to erect such monstrosities. A notable case in point is when they built the 'new' Royal Festival concert hall in London - a gigantic concrete brutalist bunker. There was a move, reported by the BBC (them again) years ago, to try to make 'Brutalism a desirable trope.
I don't do Royalty as such, but admired Charlie when he complained about a 'carbuncle on the face of a beloved friend' when describing a new build attached to a classic one, on the Thames (I orget which one)

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Was it this? https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2YCTHGF/the-national-theatre-in-london-a-modern-architectural-marvel-along-the-south-bank-of-the-river-thames-2YCTHGF.jpg

The National Theatre on the south bank. Truly hideous.

[Isserley]

Wow...utterly shocking. Those questions would be insultingly easy for a ten year old (in my day). They probably know how many made-up genders there are, but can't tell you how many minutes are in an hour, weeks in a year, or dimes in a dollar, which even I, a non-American, knew at aged ten.

https://media.tenor.com/nCRdouHUXKQAAAAM/rour-ridiculous-no.gif

Problem is they don't need to know that so they simply don't/can't remember.
Younger kids aren’t stupider than older generations. They are just overwhelmed with much more information at their fingertips than older generations could even dream of as a kid. No capacity left for unattractive info like simple math and basic geography.
I just hope they will survive, learn to have empathy and love.

100 years ago many kids didn't know how to write their name. They worked in a field and didn't care much for education.
Different times, different challenges.

[mountain_jim]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5EtJfrWYAEdo59?format=jpg&name=large



https://x.com/catturd2/status/1986478735470539122

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[norman]

I think this might belong here.

Every incentive there ever was to ditch petrol and diesel vehicles and get Electric Vehicles has gone up in smoke.

6IAzAwvj9ng

The UK government is desperate, to the point of blatant lying, to balance the books but won't consider that it's spending on stupid stuff ( like scamdemics, migrant accommodation and wars ) is the right way to do it.

[rgray222]

GQ interview with Sydney Sweeney

"I want to give you the opportunity to talk about it" Translation: "I want to give you the opportunity to apologize for your jeans ad" - She basically says when I have something to say I will let you know.


https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1mBOzR_460svav1.mp4

[Myristyl]

I think this might belong here.

Every incentive there ever was to ditch petrol and diesel vehicles and get Electric Vehicles has gone up in smoke.

6IAzAwvj9ng

The UK government is desperate, to the point of blatant lying, to balance the books but won't consider that it's spending on stupid stuff ( like scamdemics, migrant accommodation and wars ) is the right way to do it.

Nothing more or less than I expected. The speaker wonders why the state is doing this. A lot of people I know, including those who are not knowledgeable in alternative views, think they are doing it deliberately to crash the economy. I can't say for sure but I think it is only going to get worse as we approach 2030.

[rgray222]

Anyone feeling nostalgic for 2020?

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a87Qnr1_460svav1.mp4

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Belongs here. The absolute state of this world.

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https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1987560785116385686
BREAKING: President Trump just exposed the fact they destroyed 100,000 THOUSAND trees in the Amazon Rainforest to make way for left-wing environmentalists at the United Nations.

They are HYPOCRITES.

“They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four lane highway for Environmentalists to travel. It’s become a big scandal!”


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5Xaj4qasAArjIQ?format=jpg&name=small

[Raskolnikov]

Belongs here. The absolute state of this world.

1987560785116385686
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1987560785116385686

BREAKING: President Trump just exposed the fact they destroyed 100,000 THOUSAND trees in the Amazon Rainforest to make way for left-wing environmentalists at the United Nations.

They are HYPOCRITES.

“They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four lane highway for Environmentalists to travel. It’s become a big scandal!”


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5Xaj4qasAArjIQ?format=jpg&name=small

You are on a roll. Pair the above with the ostriches in Canada and this one:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5KAjxna4AAceKm?format=jpg&name=large


and it's really starting to feel like a bad James Bond film. Maybe stick to memes, at least we can laugh at those:chuckle:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.tenor.com%2Fimages%2F3a252577112d2f6e9803b19b98664fab%2Ftenor.gif%3Fitemid%3 D4414340&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=52b0757438d9043bf63eb97a48c3640a1f260ea4ccd9daf34c7af4e345214321

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Was it this? https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2YCTHGF/the-national-theatre-in-london-a-modern-architectural-marvel-along-the-south-bank-of-the-river-thames-2YCTHGF.jpg

The National Theatre on the south bank. Truly hideous.

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The deliberate uglification of the world to dumb down, if not crush, the human spirit.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5W5u9IWkAAz44k?format=jpg&name=medium

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5X5K5HbAAAUtTJ?format=jpg&name=medium

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Sunderland Town Hall
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Art Gallery of Alberta
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Edmonton Public Library
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Hamburg-Altona train station.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtQOAvTXMAAUx8B?format=jpg&name=medium

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The Natural History Museum, London
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5ZXljWXQAA6Zhq?format=jpg&name=900x900

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5YiS30XcAAVWNX?format=jpg&name=small

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Ancien Palais de Justice, Rennes
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Palais de Justice, Bordeaux
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[Raskolnikov]

Agreed, the uglification end of this disturbs me more than almost anything else, and that's saying something today. Somehow these unelected figureheads keep pushing this ungliness and death through. They have a way of placing their gatekeepers in key positions, I mean how do you pull off JFK and 911 and then classify it "for reasons of national security" (always a red flag) and seal it for the next 70 years so the culprits never face justice. It really is a big club, a secret handshake, a deal with the devil. Thanks for the updates.

[rgray222]

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aND8MbG_460svav1.mp4

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Never forget!

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https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1988907220046582200
Wide Awake Media
@wideawake_media
Are we really going to let all these people forget the horrific ways they treated the unvaccinated?

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Well that's novel. Any Scots care to comment? :hmm:

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https://x.com/MailOnlineScot/status/1989284875317191057
Scottish Daily Mail
@MailOnlineScot
Children's book portrays some Picts as black and claims ancient Scotland was 'multi-cultural and diverse'

Visit http://dailymail.co.uk/scotland

[rgray222]

A painting by John McNaughton (https://jonmcnaughton.com/) - You Are Fake News

https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-dcvfa4/products/3808/images/5200/You_Are_Fake_News_small__60378.1582058390.2000.2000.jpg?c=2

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Tesco afraid of 'causing offence' - except to its own customers.

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https://x.com/TheBritishIntel/status/1990101754424238521
British Intel
@TheBritishIntel
🚨🇬🇧 TESCO SCRUBS ‘CHRISTMAS’ OFF THE BOXES

Shoppers are furious after spotting Tesco quietly rebranding Christmas Trees as “Evergreen Trees” – all to avoid “offending” someone.

But who exactly is offended by Christmas in Britain?

🔴 Christmas erased from packaging
🔴 Corporate cowardice dressed up as “inclusivity”
🔴 Another British tradition watered down to appease the perpetually outraged
🔴 Yet every other culture gets full respect, naming, and celebration

Britain is a Christian country with Christian traditions.

[rgray222]

Honest to God, you just can't make this stuff up. Who better to advise on women than a biological man?

Massachusetts Governor Appoints ‘Trans’ Man To Women’s Commission

https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/583997800_10163148569197221_3905202031733046391_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=BWZ_lyygkdUQ7kNvwF_raSX&_nc_oc=AdkPU9j7o3MxbTL-8dV2UJkr8c3GM_vSZr6hxsMr5t_Eh196G3asgNrIeQQsYjou3PE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.xx&_nc_gid=fKMRwana1uHmsb_ga3YFOQ&oh=00_AfiiSgb7bwcXvr_bZgWM8SkRDO3e77NE-OgPlEhhumQj5w&oe=692191DE

Governor Maura Healey has appointed a biologically male transgender activist to the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, a state-run body presenting itself as a voice for women and girls.

The move has drawn withering criticism from faith-based groups that say the state is moving further away from recognizing biological reality.

Healey selected Giselle Byrd, a biological male who identifies as a woman, to serve as a commissioner. Byrd also works as executive director of the Theater Offensive in Boston, and has held roles in LGBTQ advocacy organizations. The commission announced the appointment in August alongside another Healey appointee.

Commission Chairwoman Mary-dith Tuitt praised the new commissioners.

“These leaders bring a fresh perspective to the work of the MCSW with a diverse range of personal and professional experience,” she said in a release, adding their involvement “will only enhance the commission’s ability to focus on our mission and agenda to impact change for all women and girls across the Commonwealth.”

The Massachusetts Family Institute, a family values public policy group, said the appointment shows how far state institutions have drifted from a basic understanding of womanhood.

“Maura Healey APPOINTS biological MAN to State Commissioner of prominent state-funded ‘women’s rights’ organization!” the group wrote in a Facebook post.

It argued this result “is the logical conclusion of feminism in Massachusetts society.”

https://www.offthepress.com/massachusetts-governor-appoints-trans-man-to-womens-commission/

[mountain_jim]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G6CUb9gWgAAECAj?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

'Believe all women', they said. Well, women are people, and people will lie.


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https://x.com/Raindropsmedia1/status/1989889969016512574
Rain Drops Media
@Raindropsmedia1
DoorDash driver Livie Rose Henderson, fired for falsely claiming sexual assault after filming a sleeping customer, has been arrested. She faces felony charges: unlawful surveillance for profit and disseminating private images. 😳

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https://x.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1990443356166422794

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

COSMIC-LEVEL Clown World.

Super Hyper Ultra S-Tier REEEEEE-t*rdation.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G6A0B9wXkAA3epm?format=jpg&name=900x900

It sounds like satire. It isn't.
The New York Post:
Parents should ask babies for ‘consent’ before changing their diapers (https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/lifestyle/parents-should-ask-babies-for-consent-before-changing-their-diapers-experts/)

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"dear, may I change your diaper/nappy?"

"gaga-googoo"

"Is that a yes, or a no?"

[mountain_jim]

^ beat you but thanks for the post including source link, which I did not :)

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

^ beat you but thanks for the post including source link, which I did not :)

So you did, how silly of me. Usually, I always click the First New Post button https://projectavalon.net/forum4/cpstyles/darkvision/buttons/firstnew.png when entering a thread. I should have seen your post, yet somehow didn't. Apologies!

[Mari]

Tesco afraid of 'causing offence' - except to its own customers.

1990101754424238521
https://x.com/TheBritishIntel/status/1990101754424238521
British Intel
@TheBritishIntel
🚨🇬🇧 TESCO SCRUBS ‘CHRISTMAS’ OFF THE BOXES

Shoppers are furious after spotting Tesco quietly rebranding Christmas Trees as “Evergreen Trees” – all to avoid “offending” someone.

But who exactly is offended by Christmas in Britain?

🔴 Christmas erased from packaging
🔴 Corporate cowardice dressed up as “inclusivity”
🔴 Another British tradition watered down to appease the perpetually outraged
🔴 Yet every other culture gets full respect, naming, and celebration

Britain is a Christian country with Christian traditions.


Christmas under Cromwell. At least he had the guts to ban it outright, no messing!
The ban remained in place for 13 years until 1600 when When King Charles II returned to power and one of his first acts was to repeal all the anti-Christmas legislation, helping foster his image as the “Merry Monarch”.

https://ials.sas.ac.uk/ials-blog/browse-past-posts/day-25-december-1647-christmas-was-cancelled

[mountain_jim]

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1991247136248238484?s=20

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Catturd ™
@catturd2
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Two different shoes too 😂

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I am Ken
@Ikennect
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What are the chances he remembers his password?🤣

[rgray222]

Irish police come to arrest this mans son, a teacher for refusing to use a student's THEY/THEM pronouns.

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a1m8MGD_460svav1.mp4

[Bill Ryan]

Mark has copyrighted that one with his 'clown show' thread:thumbsup:

Clown World, though I don't take credit for that at all. Who originally coined that phrase I've no idea, but it's perfectly apt! :beer:Alex Christoforou. :)

https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou/videosI realized I should have cited this:(!)

Clown World of the Year Awards - 2024


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wr1t4cod_I

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

I know from experience that personal initiative in the workplace gets you noticed, but not in the way you'd hope...

Ingenuity, gumption, creativity...no longer the recipe for success. Rules, regs and procedures rule the day. Using your own initiative, which might have earned a commendation in the past, can now in fact be frowned upon. Worst case, you'll be in for a trip to H.R. for an uncomfortable face-to-face.

Long story short:

Some years ago, when I was shift manager of the department at the airport where I work, we had an incident where one of my staff, a bus driver, got whacked in the head by a piece of equipment. It knocked him out cold on the ground. Instead of following "procedure" for a medical emergency -- requiring two separate phone calls to inform higher-ups (so they could make an informed decision) -- I dialled 999 immediately and called an ambulance. They were on the scene in less than 10mins. They treated his wound, brought him round, and whisked him off to hospital for a severe concussion. I was sternly reprimanded for my actions. I took matters into my own hands and ignored the 'chain-of-command'.

But I knew the chain-of-command procedure. After news of the incident bounced from dept to another, eventually it would trickle down to the on-site airport fire dept; they are first-aid trained, and are always called for a first response. With every second counting, I reckoned they weren't the quickest option. It might be five-plus minutes before they were even informed. So I made a decision and called in an ambulance from the outside. The suits at the top were not happy! They made that abundantly clear. And I definitely wasn't happy with the amount of paperwork I had to fill out afterwards to explain and justify my actions. I took it on the chin. I got the guy the help he needed in just ten minutes, and in the end, he came to my defence.

Anyway.

When I read the tweet below, it reminded me of this incident years ago. It's satire, mind, but it cleverly illustrates the dysfunctional culture of today's modern workplace.


Karen Resorcé
Yesterday I noticed the office printer was working perfectly, which raised my suspicion immediately.

I checked the logs and saw someone had cleared a paper jam at 3:12 p.m.

No ticket, no Slack, no communication.

Just silent action.

I asked the office if anyone had fixed it.

Everyone looked confused except one employee, who stared at his laptop a little too hard.

I pulled him aside afterward.

He admitted he unjammed it because “it was right there” and “took five seconds.”

I told him unilateral problem-solving disrupts our culture of collaboration and that he needed to go through the right channels if he wanted to take on a new project outside of his job description.

He said he didn’t realize fixing things was a chain-of-command issue.

I told him everything is a chain-of-command issue.

I wrote down “rogue operational autonomy” and locked the printer tray.

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[Tintin]

...and ignored the 'chain-of-command'.

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https://x.com/hr_unhinged/status/1993317503188029800


Well done, and you experienced, unfairly in my view, the results of not following orders and were duly reprimanded. This is the type of 'think' that infests more corporate type workplaces now.

They've become militarised; exactly the same mentality. We saw that on a more macro level during COVID; military PsyOps deployed, literally.

[Tintin]

This (https://x.com/JChimirie66677/status/1994043217688313871) :facepalm:


There's a madness gripping Britain, and it speaks in euphemisms. It talks about "inclusion", "respect", "modern terminology". But strip away the soft words and you find something far darker: a regime of linguistic obedience where a man's livelihood now hinges on whether he polices other people's speech. That is what happened to Simon Bailey, a fireman of nearly thirty years, hounded out of his job because he didn't bark at his colleagues for using a word that every Briton has used since childhood. This wasn't a dispute over language. It was the public shaming of a man who wouldn't bend the knee to the new faith.

The truth is stark. Bailey wasn't punished for wrongdoing. He was punished for failing to perform the role of political enforcer. The fire service didn't care about his record, his commendations, or the decades he spent running into burning buildings. They cared that he didn't act as a language warden for a set of rules that weren't even written down. In any sane country, a senior firefighter who risked his life for others would be treated with honour. In modern Britain, he is hauled before a tribunal because he didn't scold his men fast enough when someone said "fireman".

What makes this episode so revealing is how one person's sense of offence became the law of the land. A firefighter complains that the word is "outdated" and "sexist", and overnight her subjective feelings become organisational doctrine. No debate. No directive. No settled policy. Just a demand that everyone fall in line. And when Bailey didn't, when he refused to badger grown adults over a harmless word, the system moved with ruthless speed. He was humiliated, given a final written warning, and left to crumble under the weight of a process designed to break him. He became, in his own words, "a shell of himself" – and that was the point. Show trials aren't about guilt. They're about obedience.

What we see here is institutional cowardice dressed up as progress. Management didn't stand by their man. They threw him to the wolves to protect themselves from another headline, another tribunal, another activist grievance dressed as justice. They let a veteran fireman – someone who spent a lifetime protecting the public – become collateral damage in a culture that rewards outrage and punishes backbone. When the people who run your fire service are more frightened of hurt feelings than burning buildings, you know you're living in a country that has lost all sense of proportion.

And this is the real rot. Authority has been outsourced to activists. Acheson's ideology – grievance inflation, speech policing, the cult of permanent offence – is now the default setting of public institutions. Ordinary workers are forced to tiptoe through a moral minefield, knowing that one misplaced word can ruin them. Experience counts for nothing. Loyalty counts for nothing. Service counts for nothing. The only thing that matters is whether you obey the latest rules of ideological fashion, even if those rules shift week to week.

Simon Bailey didn't fail the fire service. The fire service failed him. And in doing so, it exposed something rotten at the heart of modern Britain: a country where the guardians of public life would rather crush a man of character than risk upsetting the commissars of language. A country where the word "fireman" is treated as a threat, but witch-hunts against decent people are applauded as courage.

This wasn't discipline. It was a purge. A warning to everyone who still believes in plain speech and common sense. Obey, or suffer. Conform, or be cast out. And unless this mindset is fought – openly, fearlessly, relentlessly – there will be many more Simon Baileys before this culture burns itself out.

"Simon Bailey didn't fail the fire service. The fire service failed him. And in doing so, it exposed something rotten at the heart of modern Britain"

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[Bill Ryan]

Well done, and you experienced, unfairly in my view, the results of not following orders and were duly reprimanded. An infinitely more dramatic example of this was that of Russian Air Force Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov), back in September 1983.

Petrov was the late night duty officer at one of the key Soviet nuclear early-warning systems. Suddenly, the system told him that a missile had been launched from the US, followed by five more.

He had almost no time at all to make a decision. His clear orders were to report an event like this to his superiors without delay so that Soviet missiles could be launched in immediate retaliation.

But he figured it had to be a false alarm — which it was. With only seconds to analyze what was happening, he judged that in a nuclear first strike from the US, many more missiles would be fired than just half a dozen. So he disobeyed his orders. It later became clear that the system had malfunctioned.

Petrov was later reprimanded for his failure to adhere to the very rigid chain of command at the time.

Years later, however, when the story of the incident became widely known, he received multiple international honors for his presence of mind and independent decision-making. He is also greatly honored in today's Russia.

Do see this Avalon thread:


Two men who saved the world (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111673-Two-men-who-saved-the-world)

(Petrov was not the only one. There was another Russian, Vasily Arkhipov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)), a submarine commander who acted similarly in October 1962 — and was even more severely reprimanded.)

Here's the 2013 documentary that was made about Stanislav Petrov:

The Man Who Saved The World


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1TO29RL0k

[Open Minded Dude]

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[Open Minded Dude]

The strongest woman of the World ... :facepalm:

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[Mark (Star Mariner)]

But he figured it had to be a false alarm — which it was. With only seconds to analyze what was happening, he judged that in a nuclear first strike from the US, many more missiles would be fired than just half a dozen. So he disobeyed his orders. It later became clear that the system had malfunctioned.

Did he have help? A question for another thread, and another time, but I've often wondered if Petrov -- though, all credit to him -- wasn't operating completely independently that day, that another force, from a higher realm, might have been whispering in his ear and guiding his hand toward the heroic action he took that day.

[Mari]

But he figured it had to be a false alarm — which it was. With only seconds to analyze what was happening, he judged that in a nuclear first strike from the US, many more missiles would be fired than just half a dozen. So he disobeyed his orders. It later became clear that the system had malfunctioned.

Did he have help? A question for another thread, and another time, but I've often wondered if Petrov -- though, all credit to him -- wasn't operating completely independently that day, that another force, from a higher realm, might have been whispering in his ear and guiding his hand toward the heroic action he took that day.


In my opinion, without a doubt.

[Mike]

This is remarkable. The highlights woven into this vid of college debates will floor you.

Debate is nearly dead in the universities, and in its place is this exceedingly bizarre performance art.

Just one more example how truth has been forsaken for performance, which is the essence of Clown World really.

Performance is the new authenticity in the eyes of the younger generations. It's what earns the most social credit. Authenticity has been neglected for so long now that it's not obvious to me that the actors even know they're acting anymore.

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[Tintin]

Another candidate (https://x.com/TheBritLad/status/1994500430089560185) for this thread........


🚨BREAKING: A man from North Yorkshire, Scarborough has been hit with a £2300 fine for raising British flags IN BRITAIN.

Meanwhile Palestine flags have been flying across the country for more than 12 months.

Britain has fallen.

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[wondering]

Hard to even grasp...🤯