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A Palestinian activist living in Belfast says she believes she was kicked out of Sinn Féin over the party's softening stance on Palestine as they prepare for government, hosting several meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party over the past few years.
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Forwarded from Mark Collett
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- New Irish ‘hate crime’ laws set to kill free speech
- Mizzy plays the race card
- Transport for London excludes white job applicants
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- New Irish ‘hate crime’ laws set to kill free speech
- Mizzy plays the race card
- Transport for London excludes white job applicants
You can find tonight's episode of PWR LIVE on:
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MarkCollett:6/PWR211:c
DLIVE: https://dlive.tv/LauraTowler
Entropy: https://entropystream.live/app/markcollett
Forwarded from Joel Davis
It's great to see culture war boycotts succeed in the United States with Target now acquiescing to right-wing sensibilities. The strategy relies upon targeting one company at a time, and after collecting enough scalps eventually corporations will become afraid to push LGBT nonsense and offend their customers, shifting the overall culture rightward. It's early days but I am optimistic about the momentum conservative culture warriors have generated in the US. Intolerance is the foundation of social power, the more intolerant you are the more society must conform to your will. This Taleb article from 7 years ago on the power of intolerance is instructive here.
It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority.
The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in way not predicted by the components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. And interactions can obey very simple rules. The rule we discuss in this chapter is the minority rule.
The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly.
This example of complexity hit me, ironically, as I was attending the New England Complex Systems institute summer barbecue. As the hosts were setting up the table and unpacking the drinks, a friend who was observant and only ate Kosher dropped by to say hello. I offered him a glass of that type of yellow sugared water with citric acid people sometimes call lemonade, almost certain that he would reject it owing to his dietary laws. He didn’t. He drank the liquid called lemonade, and another Kosher person commented: “liquids around here are Kosher”. We looked at the carton container. There was a fine print: a tiny symbol, a U inside a circle, indicating that it was Kosher. The symbol will be detected by those who need to know and look for the minuscule print. As to others, like myself, I had been speaking prose all these years without knowing, drinking Kosher liquids without knowing they were Kosher liquids.
A strange idea hit me. The Kosher population represents less than three tenth of a percent of the residents of the United States. Yet, it appears that almost all drinks are Kosher. Why? Simply because going full Kosher allows the producer, grocer, restaurant, to not have to distinguish between Kosher and nonkosher for liquids, with special markers, separate aisles, separate inventories, different stocking sub-facilities. And the simple rule that changes the total is as follows:
A Kosher (or halal) eater will never eat nonkosher (or nonhalal) food , but a nonkosher eater isn’t banned from eating kosher.
The reason why LGBT bullshit could be pushed in the first place isn't that its widely popular, its that its supporters are enthusiastic meanwhile its opponents are largely passive. An active minority can impose its will on a passive majority - only if the Right learns to become active in opposition they can obstruct the normalisation of the minority's will. The tolerant will always lose, the only way to win is organised intolerance.
It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority.
The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in way not predicted by the components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. And interactions can obey very simple rules. The rule we discuss in this chapter is the minority rule.
The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly.
This example of complexity hit me, ironically, as I was attending the New England Complex Systems institute summer barbecue. As the hosts were setting up the table and unpacking the drinks, a friend who was observant and only ate Kosher dropped by to say hello. I offered him a glass of that type of yellow sugared water with citric acid people sometimes call lemonade, almost certain that he would reject it owing to his dietary laws. He didn’t. He drank the liquid called lemonade, and another Kosher person commented: “liquids around here are Kosher”. We looked at the carton container. There was a fine print: a tiny symbol, a U inside a circle, indicating that it was Kosher. The symbol will be detected by those who need to know and look for the minuscule print. As to others, like myself, I had been speaking prose all these years without knowing, drinking Kosher liquids without knowing they were Kosher liquids.
A strange idea hit me. The Kosher population represents less than three tenth of a percent of the residents of the United States. Yet, it appears that almost all drinks are Kosher. Why? Simply because going full Kosher allows the producer, grocer, restaurant, to not have to distinguish between Kosher and nonkosher for liquids, with special markers, separate aisles, separate inventories, different stocking sub-facilities. And the simple rule that changes the total is as follows:
A Kosher (or halal) eater will never eat nonkosher (or nonhalal) food , but a nonkosher eater isn’t banned from eating kosher.
The reason why LGBT bullshit could be pushed in the first place isn't that its widely popular, its that its supporters are enthusiastic meanwhile its opponents are largely passive. An active minority can impose its will on a passive majority - only if the Right learns to become active in opposition they can obstruct the normalisation of the minority's will. The tolerant will always lose, the only way to win is organised intolerance.
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
(Chapter from Skin in the Game)
Forwarded from Late Stage Ireland
We are the SUPER MAJORITY:
🔹 75 per cent of people think Ireland has taken too many refugees with only 19 per cent disagreeing and 6 per cent saying they did not know according to a new Red C poll.
🔹 Amongst Fianna Fáil supporters, the figure who believed we had taken too many was 74 per cent. The figure was 70 per cent for Fine Gael Supporters, 83 per cent for Sinn Féin supporters and 88 per cent for supporters of independents.
🔹 76 per cent of people also agreed with the statement “I can appreciate some of the anger people feel about asylum seekers being moved into their local area.” Around 21 per cent disagreed, and 3 per cent said they did not know.
🔹 55 per cent of people also said they would be concerned about asylum seekers being relocated to their local area, with 38 per cent disagreeing and 7 per cent saying they did not know.
🔗 archive.is/e4wOl
🔹 75 per cent of people think Ireland has taken too many refugees with only 19 per cent disagreeing and 6 per cent saying they did not know according to a new Red C poll.
🔹 Amongst Fianna Fáil supporters, the figure who believed we had taken too many was 74 per cent. The figure was 70 per cent for Fine Gael Supporters, 83 per cent for Sinn Féin supporters and 88 per cent for supporters of independents.
🔹 76 per cent of people also agreed with the statement “I can appreciate some of the anger people feel about asylum seekers being moved into their local area.” Around 21 per cent disagreed, and 3 per cent said they did not know.
🔹 55 per cent of people also said they would be concerned about asylum seekers being relocated to their local area, with 38 per cent disagreeing and 7 per cent saying they did not know.
🔗 archive.is/e4wOl
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Lindsey Graham: "The Russians are dying... It's the best money we've ever spent"
A study on mothers of boys with gender dysphoria found that 53% of these mothers met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2016237/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2016237/
Psychological studies on people requesting sex reassignment surgeries in Iran found that 81% of them had a personality disorder with 57% being clinical narcissists.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301205/
Forwarded from Joel Davis
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It's pretty hilarious that after waking up this morning to me ratioing him on twitter, the prime minister went on some radio program to bitch about being abused online 🤣
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Footage of gardaí breaking the Ballybrit protest this evening. Locals say they intend to protest tomorrow at 7pm.
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🔗 twitter.com
Forwarded from Joel Davis
Forwarded from Mark Collett
Nationalists have moved the Overton Window so far that our talking points are now being adopted by mainstream conservatives.
Never underestimate what a small number of highly motivated individuals can achieve.
Never underestimate what a small number of highly motivated individuals can achieve.
You see article after article like this, where leftists claim the "far right" are taking advantage of frustrated communities. When they have to explain why most people in Ireland agree with the "far right" sentiment that Ireland shouldn't take any more migrants, they always say it's some kind of mistaken outlet for their real concerns which have nothing to do with immigration:
"The people who are drawn to protests in Ireland against asylum seekers and refugees are mostly those who feel powerless and frustrated in their own lives and communities."
Maybe the people drawn to protests against asylum seekers just don't want busloads of economic migrants dropped into their communities? Shouldn't left-wing journalists who present as the voice of the people actually listen to their concerns instead of trying to make them fit into their Marxist assumptions about how working class people think?
It's ironic because later in the article Fintan writes:
"The far right simultaneously degrades and elevates its followers."
Isn't this exactly what left-wing journalists like Fintan do? He presents this idealised version of the working class as class-conscious, plucky, colour-blind folks who who are also so stupid and easily misled that they keep mistakenly blaming their economic problems on asylum seekers and falling for the tricks of the "far right". So much so that 3 in 4 people have now been tricked into holding far right views on immigration!
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/06/03/fintan-otoole-the-far-right-gives-power-to-the-most-obnoxious-little-gits/
"The people who are drawn to protests in Ireland against asylum seekers and refugees are mostly those who feel powerless and frustrated in their own lives and communities."
Maybe the people drawn to protests against asylum seekers just don't want busloads of economic migrants dropped into their communities? Shouldn't left-wing journalists who present as the voice of the people actually listen to their concerns instead of trying to make them fit into their Marxist assumptions about how working class people think?
It's ironic because later in the article Fintan writes:
"The far right simultaneously degrades and elevates its followers."
Isn't this exactly what left-wing journalists like Fintan do? He presents this idealised version of the working class as class-conscious, plucky, colour-blind folks who who are also so stupid and easily misled that they keep mistakenly blaming their economic problems on asylum seekers and falling for the tricks of the "far right". So much so that 3 in 4 people have now been tricked into holding far right views on immigration!
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/06/03/fintan-otoole-the-far-right-gives-power-to-the-most-obnoxious-little-gits/
The Irish Times
Fintan O’Toole: The far right gives power to the most obnoxious little gits
What would Irish politics really look like if a clever and magnetic leader were to emerge from the far right?