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There’s No Business Case for Steel
A Revolutionary Culture
South Africa made some strides in cleaning up rampant criminality when it hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2010 but that all seems to be a distant memory now. The reality is that the ANC is returning to its ideological roots, where anarchy and lawlessness play a role in cultivating the ground for a revolution that they hope to cash in on. The end goal: make society so chaotic that a traumatized citizenry will accept a dictatorship of the proletariat.
Security vans carrying money are rammed off busy daytime roads by deliberate attacks with vehicles, with guards set upon by heavily armed men who use bombs to blow open safes.
Robberies can last extended periods, with motorway traffic continuing normally on the other side of the road while gangs prime their explosives and rove about with automatic weapons, sometimes filmed by onlookers.
The murder rate fell in the years after the end of apartheid, reaching a low point around a decade ago. Since then, it has increased 77% to the current level – back to where it was 20 years ago.
Detection rates have fallen in tandem, down more than 60% since 2012, leading to the situation where so few murders are solved.
The Accessorising Didn’t Quite Do It
Man thinks his purse makes him a woman.
And so, you must accept and affirm his rejection of himself.
And It Will Be On The Test
No, don’t run away. She wants to tell you about herself.
“Charity”
Toronto Star- Heads of 17 Canadian environmental charities collecting major compensation packages
An analysis by The Canadian Press identified 17 charities whose top executive drew annual compensation that was in the $200,000 to $250,000 range or higher, according to filings with the federal government made in 2022 and 2023.
The review focused on organizations recognized by the Canada Revenue Agency as registered charities in the categories of “environment” and “animal protection,” which include several conservation organizations. The group of 17 with the highest salaries represents just over one per cent of all charities in those two categories.
But wait there’s more
The charity with the highest-paid executives was Ducks Unlimited Canada, based in Manitoba. Its 2023 declaration indicates that two people earned more than $350,000, three others received between $250,000 and $300,000, and four received compensation between $200,000 and $250,000. The organization has 565 full- and part-time employees. Governments contributed just over $27 million to Ducks Unlimited for its year ending March 31, 2023, and a quarter of its $140 million in revenue came from donations.
A Mystery For Our Times
Guardian columnist mystified by men not wearing skirts.
The Year Reheated
Or, “Twelve months of our betters being pretentious, neurotic, and perverse.”
A small taste:
Among the mighty titans encountered in November was a radical young lady named Margot, a “nutrition counsellor” who is “root-cause and system focussed,” and whose profound thoughts included “What do we eat during the revolution?” It turns out that you can’t agitate the proletariat without a solid meal plan. While her comrades “break capitalism” and “abolish” prison, Margot envisions herself “coaching people in how to eat from a revolutionary and resistance standpoint.” A task that involves instructing the little people on how to dry pepper seeds and how to wash foraged bin scraps in vinegar in order to remove any trace of those capitalist pesticides. The revolution, since you ask, will be fuelled by cashew milk and vegan pseudo-cheese. Because as capitalism is toppled, and amid the riots and burning cars, there will, it seems, be space for neurotic niche cuisine. Assuming, that is, that the proletariat are tempted by the prospect of economic ruin, roaming gangs of liberated rapists, and evenings spent washing other people’s bin contents.
G-String Blues
The Libranos: Money For Nothin
The Venezuela Effect: The secret to Trudeau’s hold on power is to flood the zone with so much incompetence and corruption that the nation surrenders in defeat.
Cabinet budgeted $37.4 million and spent a quarter of it on a gun buyback program without buying any guns, records show. Newly disclosed figures follow an internal Department of Public Safety report that warned the program was prone to “wasted time, energy and funds.”
Maybe If We Stood Further Back
“I wanted to make a work… about Britain for the British public.”
Our betters make art, get fat cheque.
Don’t All Rush At Once
Do you know of any “artists and visionaries,” or people “good at spreadsheets”? Because there may be a job going, come the revolution.
Can You Feel The Progress Yet?
On unmanning male heroes; on the sly malice of the activist class; on chronic tardiness as a progressive credential; and when a bewigged pervert takes an interest in the panties of schoolgirls, and progressive women rush to his defence.
The ‘M’ Word
On Britain’s NHS, where pretending is everything:
One might think that the employees having babies and therefore on maternity leave are, in fact, by definition, mothers. One might even think that a hospital, and a maternity hospital in particular, is a place where physical realities of this kind would be difficult to avoid.
Our Betters Make Plans
“What do we eat during the revolution?”
Turns out you can’t smash capitalism and agitate the proletariat without a solid meal plan.
Or Maybe You’re Just A Nasty, Spiteful Person
Curiously, given the stated importance of “sensitivity” and being mindful of what things might mean, we aren’t invited to ponder the kind of person who would resent someone else’s wedding photo. And then complain about it. Or whether such neurotic affectations, these unhappy mental habits, are something to be actively encouraged. In the name of progress. At a university.
When your Zoom-meeting décor is deemed oppressive. One of these.
I Know, Let’s All Pretend That Behaviour Doesn’t Matter
On crime, punishment, and the progressive flattening of values:
Flattening values, such that the criminal and their victims are somehow equal in moral worth, is a staple of progressive schtick. But it seems to me that the decision to try to steal someone’s dog is precisely how you know that that person’s wellbeing is of very low importance.
There follow some quite vivid examples of the schtick in question.
Her Brain Stole The Charity’s Money
When woke piety is tissue-thin camouflage for a shitty human being, part 4,022:
Ms Xahra Saleem, formerly Yvonne Maina, is the co-founder of the activist group All Black Lives Bristol, and was hailed by Rife magazine as one of Bristol’s “most influential under-30s.” Ms Saleem’s merry band of megaphone-waving statue-topplers have been the subject of endless gushing and deferential commentary, with the local university subsequently promising to “decolonise” All Of The Oppressive Things.
Discarded placards and assorted detritus from the group’s protests were fondled reverentially by staff of the local museum and stored for later worship as holy artefacts.
Alas, the reverence proved to be misplaced.
The Genitals Of Tomorrow
“Will technology give us options that are artistic and creative? Do we have to stick to penis and vagina norms? Can we have genitalia that look like flowers? Or abstract sculpture?”
It’s all very exciting, and just a little unhinged.
They Want You Dead
Financial Post- Worried about grocery prices? Wait till we get compulsory carbon accounting
Among other things, these standards mandate the use of intrusive, burdensome, and expensive CO2 emissions accounting across a company’s entire value chain. For grocery retailers this includes explaining and accounting for emissions in the production, transport, packaging, refrigeration, consumption and disposal of everything they sell. In other words, your grocery store will need to quantify all the emissions of that hamburger meat you bought: whether in producing it (including all steps from farm to processor), transporting it to the store, packaging and refrigerating it at the store, plus your travelling to and from the store, your refrigeration and eventually your cooking of the hamburger, and your disposal of the packaging and any waste of the food.
h/t Scott