Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

no no, they were chanting "free pale stein," they want a tankard of pale ale on the house

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[Ribosome]

American Medical Association and Plastic Surgeon's group retreat on gender affirming surgical care yesterday. 

Imane Khelif admits to having a Y chromosome. 

It's all falling apart.

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American Medical Association and Plastic Surgeon's group retreat on gender affirming surgical care yesterday. 

Imane Khelif admits to having a Y chromosome. 

It's all falling apart.

[wsippel]

Maybe he meant native Americans? Would that be better or worse..?

[filler]

he would have said indigenous american 

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

Can't even bash someone's head in with a hammer anymore, ugh we truly live under fascism 

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[HaughtyFrank]

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[DavidCroquet]

also applies to game industry employees.

[benji]

Two industries full of entitled overeducated idiots. Gaming has enough actual talent and autistic people that it's not constantly all of them at least. Journalism (especially corporate journalism) is full of little more than people who believe they're entitled to run the world just because they are themselves. Twitter, and now Bluesky, show how completely willingly people in that industry who know nothing believe they know everything and are entitled to opine on literally any subject without opposition.

As much as I condemn academia and you can find examples of it on those sites, it's not worse. Just the nature of specialized knowledge pursuit means most people, outside of English departments, recognize they literally don't know everything and can't master every topic by reading the first thing Google returns.

And it's funny I'm doing this now because this guy is a perfect example of academia's version:

Political economist • Assistant Professor at Cambridge • Book: The Future of the Factory • Newsletter: http://theglobalcurrents.com • Email: jlh202@cam.ac.uk

Yet he believes that it threatens democracy when the owner of a company lays people off. As I constantly reiterate because none of these people seem to know it, Bezos bought the WaPo from a billionaire. It's always in its famous era been owned by a billionaire. Has every lay off it's ever done been "destroying media they dislike"? 

Surely this guy does more to destroy large media by his "newsletter" which is published for free on Substack. He doesn't even seem to lock any articles behind a paywall, so you can read such enlightening fare as:

Economics has an elitism problem
A handful of elite universities control the discipline. That’s not excellence — it’s monopoly.

How economics lost its soul
Universities are training economists who can build models but don't understand the economy

Is this guy literally an idiot? I think it's plausible. Consider:

One the most fundamental critiques comes from scholars working to decolonize economics. In their 2025 book, “Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction”, Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar, and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven make the argument that mainstream economics is built on Eurocentric and colonial assumptions that render it “ill-equipped to tackle critical questions, such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, labour relations, and how structural power shapes economic outcomes.”

This goes beyond complaints about concentration or gatekeeping. It challenges the very foundations of how economics understands the world.

Here’s their core argument:

Decolonizing economics entails challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity that economists claim to speak from, while fostering alternative ways of understanding the economy that take seriously structural power relations and contemporary processes of economic development. Readers will come to understand the political stakes of decolonization and the wide range of scholarship that already exists that can help us grasp economics from non-Eurocentric perspectives.

The problem, as Dutt and her colleagues show, is that dominant economic theories emerged from specific historical contexts in Western Europe and North America. Yet they’re presented as universal truths applicable everywhere. This erases the diverse economic systems, practices, and forms of knowledge that exist in other parts of the world.

Think about the concepts economics takes for granted. What counts as “development”? What economic activities get measured and valued? The answers embedded in mainstream economics reflect Western historical experiences and priorities. They often marginalise or pathologize economic practices in formerly colonised regions.

The concentration of economic authority in elite Western institutions reinforces these biases. When most influential economists are trained at a handful of American and European universities, and when these same institutions control the discipline’s publication and reward structures, alternative perspectives struggle to gain recognition.

Indigenous economic knowledge? Non-Western theoretical frameworks? Insights from scholars in the Global South? They remain marginalised, dismissed as insufficiently “rigorous” or “scientific”— according to standards defined by the very institutions whose dominance is being challenged.

It's funny because a lot of the Twitter replies are just the usual blue checks yelling that this guy is a commie or whatever. Typically this is worth dismissing because it's just the right-wing slur. But no, Jostein literally is:

Pillar 1: Scale down ecologically harmful industries. This pillar emphasises the need to reduce production in sectors that are energy-intensive, resource-heavy, and socially unnecessary — for example, fossil fuels, industrial beef, fast fashion, and luxury goods. The goal is to directly reduce energy and material use while freeing up productive resources for socially and environmentally beneficial purposes. Tools include credit policy to restrict lending to harmful industries, consumer protection laws like ‘right to repair’, and targeted taxation on luxury and polluting products. This pillar repositions industrial policy to actively manage economic contraction in ecologically damaging areas, while remobilising and liberating resources towards a just and green transition.

Pillar 2: Organise production more around public benefit. The second pillar argues that production should be reorganised to prioritise public good over private profit. In the current system, the for-profit private sector largely controls investment and production, leading to overproduction of harmful goods and underproduction of socially necessary ones. Public financial instruments — such as state-led credit guidance and public investment — are key to ensuring that essential services like public transit, housing, and renewable energy are adequately provisioned. This pillar calls for stronger coordination across state policy levers and increased democratic control over economic planning, enabling societies to redirect efforts towards equitable and sustainable production.

Pillar 3: Global ecological justice. The final pillar addresses international inequality and the need for differentiated ecological responsibilities. High-income countries are primarily responsible for ecological breakdown and must reduce their resource and energy use. In contrast, lower-income countries require increased ‘ecological policy space’ to develop their economies and meet human needs. This entails allowing the Global South greater freedom to formulate industrial policy, receiving reparations or climate-related compensation from the North, and participating in a fairer global governance structure. Ultimately, this pillar promotes a just transition that empowers the South while holding the North accountable for historical and ongoing ecological exploitation.

Ironic isn't it that he writes about the need for kicking out Eurocentric economics and bitching about people studying models instead of economics, then he just goes for European straight white male Marx who built a model that doesn't work and has nothing to do with economics.

So the assumption about him is correct, he believes that everyone else has a duty to employ journalists even if they don't want to pay for their product. It's more democratic when your choices are forced on you, stop thinking with Eurocentric logic and understand the benefits of making decisions having decisions imposed on you based on incoherent nonsense.

[Nintex]

[HaughtyFrank]

If you watch that show and think "wow. Lots of stuff for pedos in there" you probably should get your hard drive checked

[benji]

Surely this guy does more to destroy large media by his "newsletter" which is published for free on Substack. 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

The chief executive of the Antisemitism Policy Trust, Danny Stone, said harmful online content often inspired real-life attacks.

As examples, Stone cited the racially motivated murder of 10 African Americans in Buffalo, New York, in 2022; a synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2018 in which 11 people were killed and the 2017 attack on a mosque in Finsbury Park, north London, in which one person was killed and several injured.

“People can be, and are, inspired by online harm to cause harm in real world,” he said. “The terrorist who attacked Heaton Park synagogue didn’t wake up one morning and decide to kill Jews; he will have been radicalised.

“Algorithmic prompts and the amplification of harmful materials is extremely serious. The Online Safety Act was supposed to address the illegal content but very little is being done about so-called legal but harmful content.”

[Uncle]

"so-called legal"

actually fucking legal

if it shouldn't be legal, then make a case against it wherever it's hosted and get it made illegal

if you realize this would make you a laughingstock, or that the same reasoning could be used against you someday, then shut the fuck up

[Potato]

If you watch that show and think "wow. Lots of stuff for pedos in there" you probably should get your hard drive checked

What in the actual fuck? 

Not watching that shit, but if you see a child actor interacting with adults and immediately think that's paedo service you belong on a watch list

[DavidCroquet]

If you watch that show and think "wow. Lots of stuff for pedos in there" you probably should get your hard drive checked

[Nintex]

No more woke olympics

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https://x.com/The_Faiz_Phase/status/1581558654847045632

[HaughtyFrank]

[filler]

chinese niggas got something to do with it? 

[Uncle]

what a shit joke/argument

men can't go into women's restrooms either, but it's a public toilet, who's going to stop them, who's going to enforce that?

oh gee, it seems we can now selectively enforce things when we think there's an increased risk of harm

[benji]

I don't know why it's such a difficult thing or why people on all sides act like we need new laws. It's trespassing. Men aren't allowed to use men's restrooms if the property owner tells them to leave, it's not an exception to trespassing.

The problem is that under the existing regime it would be discrimination against trans people to ask them to leave. It shouldn't be because people shouldn't be able to allege discrimination based on false claims. If Muslims, for example, were using your bathrooms for prayer you should be able to discriminate against them too.

Trespassing is enforced all the time. Trans people on social media are always like "I COULD BE ARRESTED FOR USING THE BATHROOM" and no, you'll be asked to leave. If you refuse, yes, you'll be arrested. That's how we enforce trespassing, the goal is stopping the trespass not racking up court time. You think that because you think using the law against people is how you win. That the law exists for you to use against people you hate.

[Nintex]

 sir we can't give people "the death penalty" and put their "heads on pikes" for using public toilets can we?

  THE GERMS ARE EVERYWHERE MIKE

[HaughtyFrank]

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