For all new converts to the free speech cause…If you want to argue that a TV host shouldn’t be fired for his words, your case would be stronger if you hadn’t spent the last ten years cheering on the censorship of your political opponents and celebrating when they got murdered.
I agree with Bret Weinstein on the topic of Antifa. Weinstein:
I have no illusions about ANTIFA. They are a terrorist organization by any reasonable definition—they cultivate fear from which they derive power.BUT I don’t want ANTIFA declared a terrorist organization by the executive branch, because the post 9/11 definition of ‘terrorism’ isn’t reasonable at all. It is now a magic legal term loophole that, once applied, obliterates a person’s constitutional rights.
And the executive can apply it to anyone, with no court review. Don’t forget, the DHS declared mis, dis and malinformation terrorism during Covid. That’s mistakes, lies and truths-that-make-the-government-look-bad—all were declared terrorism, for a reason. The reason was to empower the government to do unconstitutional things to anyone who didn’t agree with their bullshit.
If we allow this toolkit to be used on ANTIFA, that legitimizes it. And next time it is likely to be pointed at us.
If anyone has doubts that Antif is a terrorist organization, take a look at the postings of Andy Ngo on X.
?Would you rather have a live daughter or a dead son? Transgender activists would ask this question to incentivize parents to provide "gender affirming care" to their sexually confused children.
But is it true that medical interventions reduce the number of suicides?
Consider this excerpt from "ACLU Attorney Confesses: Transgender-Suicide Claim is a Myth." Arguing before the Supreme Court, the ACLU's Chase Strangio concedes that suicide is “thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender-identifying people:
Unfortunately for Strangio, Justice Alito had done his homework. Citing the U.K.’s Cass Review, Alito observed that “there is no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce suicide.”Then came Strangio’s remarkable concession:
MR. STRANGIO: What I think that is referring to is there is no evidence in some—in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare and we’re talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don’t necessarily have completed suicides within them.
However, there are multiple studies, long-term longitudinal studies that do show that there is a reduction in—in suicidality . . .
Here, the ACLU’s star attorney on trans issues seems to be at odds with Solicitor General Prelogar, who had said that the “rates” of “suicide” among gender-dysphoric youth were “striking.” Strangio admits, under oath, that suicide is actually “rare,” and that the research purporting to demonstrate benefits from hormones concerns suicidality, not suicide. Strangio’s use of “admittedly” is also striking, as it suggests the attorney is aware that claims about suicide prevention through sex “change” are false.
This dispute has been simmering (outside of corporate news circles) for years. LGB is only one organzation, of course, and it doesn't speak for the many opinions held by many LGB folks out there. That said, this announce could inspire new, less ideological and more productive conversations.
Grok presents this background. .
This story has still not had proper exposure in the corporate press. Perhaps it never will. The following post is by Camus. It summarizes a conversation between Megyn Kelly and RFK, Jr:
Of all the COVID cover-ups, the February 1, 2020, teleconference may be the most damning.As revealed by Megyn Kelly and RFK Jr., when the world’s top virologists first saw the virus, their overwhelming consensus was that it was man-made. The notes from that call are clear.
Yet, just days later, that scientific consensus performed a miraculous 180. The lab-leak theory was suddenly denounced not just as wrong, but as racist.
Why the reversal? RFK Jr. connects the dots: Virtually every scientist on that call had a massive financial conflict of interest.
They were either:
• Directly doing work at the Wuhan Lab.
• Receiving tens of millions in grants from Tony Fauci’s NIH.
• Funded by the Wellcome Trust, an arm of Big Pharma.
Their reward for killing the lab-leak theory? Larger grants than ever before—some as high as $60 million.
They were paid to create a “scientific” orthodoxy that silenced all dissent, smearing questions as conspiracy theories.
The truth was suppressed not by science, but by a lucrative financial cartel. Follow the money.