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    This was published on The Moon of Alabama 3 days ago, an unusual departure for them: their content and focus is almost always on geopolitics, usually Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Palestine.
    Transgender - The Inability to Distinguish Facts from Wishes

    Matt Taibbi opines on the latest piece of transgender nonsense:

    The Dumbest Cover Story Ever - Racket News, Mar 13 2024
    New York Magazine's "Freedom of Sex" is the ultimate example of the lunatic nihilism that's consumed America's intellectual class
    New York Magazine has a new cover story, by the trans writer Andrea Long Chu: “The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.” A jeremiad in support of the idea that children must have absolute political agency, it makes the Unabomber manifesto read like a Shakespeare sonnet. The money passage:
    We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history.
    A lot of the piece is standard-issue woe-is-me ****-everything cartoon nihilism you’d hear from any laptop-class liberal arts product, arguing for a generalized smashing of the patriarchy, among other things by attacking the biological conspiracy to produce those units of material labor value known as babies. Complete abolition of norms would be an “impossible task,” Chu notes sadly, but that doesn’t preclude their “collective reimagining” by an alliance of intersectional victims working toward a Marxian paradise free of “oppressive systems,” which of course include the nuclear family.
    The nihilism Taibbi points to is also the major theme the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd takes on in his book "The Defeat of the West".

    From its New York Times review:

    This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat (archived) - New York Times, Mar 9 2024
    American leadership is failing: That is the argument of an eccentric new book that since January has stood near the top of France’s best-seller lists. It is called “La Défaite de l’Occident” (“The Defeat of the West”). Its author, Emmanuel Todd, is a celebrated historian and anthropologist who in 1976, in a book called “The Final Fall,” used infant-mortality statistics to predict that the Soviet Union was headed for collapse.
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    Mr. Todd is not a moralizer. But he insists that traditional cultures have a lot to fear from the West’s various progressive leanings and may resist allying themselves on foreign policy with those who espouse them. In a similar way, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s official atheism was a deal-breaker for many people who might otherwise have been well disposed toward Communism.
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    Mr. Todd does believe that certain of our values are “deeply negative.” He presents evidence that the West does not value the lives of its young. Infant mortality, the telltale metric that led him to predict the Soviet collapse half a century ago, is higher in Mr. Biden’s America (5.4 per thousand) than in Mr. Putin’s Russia — and three times higher than in the Japan of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. While Mr. Todd is, again, not judgmental on sexual matters, he is judgmental on intellectual ones. The inability to distinguish facts from wishes astounds him at every turn of the Ukraine war. The American hope early in the war that China might cooperate in a sanctions regime against Russia, thereby helping the United States refine a weapon that would one day be aimed at China itself, is, for Mr. Todd, a “delirium.”
    Back in January Todd expanded on the inability of distinguishing facts from fiction, which is also the basis of transgenderism, during an interview with Le Figaro. From its English translation:
    Q: Over time, haven't you become a bit of a reactionary? I was brought up by a grandmother who told me that, sexually speaking, all tastes are part of nature, and I'm faithful to my ancestors. So, LGB, welcome. For T, the trans issue is something else. The individuals concerned must of course be protected. But the fixation of the Western middle classes on this ultra-minority issue raises a sociological and historical question. To establish as a social horizon the idea that a man can really become a woman and a woman a man is to assert something that is biologically impossible, it is to deny the reality of the world, it is to assert the false.
    Trans ideology is therefore, in my opinion, one of the flags of this nihilism that now defines the West, this drive to destroy not just things and people but reality. But, once again, I am in no way overwhelmed here by indignation or emotion. This ideology exists and I have to integrate it into a historical model. In the age of the metaverse, I can't say whether my attachment to reality makes me a reactionary.
    The intentional denial of reality, as it is currently practiced in the West, is not a new phenomenon. It is the basis of neo-conservatism from where it has crept over to the progressive side.

    As Ron Susskind wrote in his portrait of the first years of the Bush junior presidency:

    Faith, Certainty And The Presidency Of George W. Bush (archived) - Ron Susskind / New York Times, Oct 17 2004
    The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
    Karl Rove, the Bush advisor Susskind had quoted, displayed the same lunatic nihilism that is represented by those who argue that children, teenagers or people generally should can freely chose their gender. It is an attempt of "creating other new realities". It represents a total denial of actual reality and of the common values derived from it. The Bush administration failed in its endeavor to create new realities in Iraq. The current regime in the West will fail likewise with regime change in Russia. So will others who deny realities.

    The author of the Todd book review, Christopher Caldwell, adds:
    Fighting a war based on values requires good values. At a bare minimum it requires an agreement on the values being spread, and the United States is further from such agreement than it has ever been in its history — further, even, than it was on the eve of the Civil War. At times it seems there are no national principles, only partisan ones, with each side convinced that the other is trying not just to run the government but also to capture the state.
    I see a very similar denial of reality, followed by nihilism and a lack of values, at the top of the current European leadership. The loss of the common view of things is splitting societies on both sides of the Atlantic.

    However, with regards to transgenderism, some sense of reality is still trying to survive:

    National Health Service England stops prescribing puberty blockers, citing 'not enough evidence' - USA Today. Mar 13 2024
    "We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of (puberty suppressing hormones) to make the treatment routinely available at this time," the publication by NHS England stated.
    Puberty is a natural process which often includes a temporary confusion about ones identity. Blocking a kids puberty to further some ephemeral confusion some may have during those time is in my view criminal.

    I even agree with Rishi Sunack on this:

    U.K. prime minister on gender: ‘A man is a man and a woman is a woman’ - Washington Post, Oct 5 2023
    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asserted his stance on gender identity in a speech Wednesday, stating it was “common sense” that “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” — a remark that sparked criticism from transgender rights activists and elicited fervent applause from attendees of the Conservative Party Conference.
    I see myself, just like Matt Taibbi seems to see himself, as a progressive striving for a society based on some form of socialism and justice.

    To then find myself on the same side of an issue as some staunch conservatives, and getting attacked for it, is mildly disturbing.

    Is it really impossible to be reality based and on the left side of things?

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    Is ‘common sense’ being ‘allowed’ via Tavistock manipulative now?? Whatever are they planning next??? Fed up with ‘woke’ crap. Just want to go home with friends and neighbours without all this divisive crap.
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    Is ‘common sense’ being ‘allowed’ via Tavistock manipulative now?? Whatever are they planning next??? Fed up with ‘woke’ crap. Just want to go home with friends and neighbours without all this divisive crap.
    I think the vast majority are fed up with the 'woke crap'...

    The Club of Rome appears to be the Globalist's premier Think Tank - so that's where the woke crap planning is taking place...

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    On their Strategy Page (link above) they say...'The vision of The Club of Rome is an interconnected world that has emerged from multiple emergencies with a new way of being human that promotes wellbeing for all in a healthier ecosystem.'

    Their ideas of a 'new way of being human' must involve the majority of future humans (excluding them or their families??) being transgender not Male or Female - why else push and relentlessly push for something that is completely over the top and thought by the VAST majority as bonkers - but they are convinced their targets of a sustainable (infertile?) population go hand in hand with the initial depopulation efforts -

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    When they say...'that promotes wellbeing for all in a healthier ecosystem.' in reality this means all the survivors of the depopulation agenda - the chosen Billion - the rest will be disposed of one way or another (if their plans are allowed to continue)...

    If you look at the Members Page the individuals there aren't foaming at the mouth evil and, in fact, look like shiney, nice, do-gooder types - but the results of their plans mirror the plans of Nazi Germany and their Death Camps.... many ie billions must die so someone has to kill them...then make sure not too many are born after that (hence the push for infertile transgenders?) they probably don't want to sully their thinking with the unpleasant details... like for example the death, injury + suffering from the jab - the gruesome reality of what the young people who surgically 'transition' go through...

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