Men. Brothers:

I absolutely, unreservedly support women in defending their sex-based rights to women-only spaces, services & opportunities for a host of reasons.

Among them:

1. If SOME males obtain the right to those things, on the basis of ‘self-identitifying’ 1/

as having a nebulous #genderidentity which functions as a magic key, then ALL males obtain the right, irrefutably. ALL men would acquire the right which we could choose to exercise or not. Like masters of everywhere & everything. No checks, no balances. Just our choices. 2/
If we are capable of empathy we will know that that’s an intolerable assault on the safety and dignity of women and girls. A sexual totalitarianism laid on top of the already deeply misogynistic cultures we have developed.

Do we have empathy enough with women to see this? 3/
2. The idea that only gentle, vulnerable, harmless males -whether they believe themselves to qualify as ‘women’ or not - would exercise that new universal right is so absurd as to not deserve consideration. History shows us why.

3. A let’s ask ourselves why some men are so 4/
Very keen to tell women to accept males in their spaces, services and opportunities. What are the motives? On the surface they are a desire for ‘kindness’, ‘acceptance’ - by women, toward men. Hmmm... So women are the nurse-class of humans, the sponges, the buffers?

Sexism 5/
Why don’t we think about how we men regulate our own spaces, rules of ‘manhood’, ‘masculinity’ & ‘maleness’? What is it that some of our brothers cannot bear to live in / as? Our suffocating expectations, demands, limitations, judgements? If someone wanted to leave your social 6/
group wouldn’t you be curious as to why? Or would you tell another social group that they should accept them ‘or else’? No reflection? No soul-searching? Just ‘good riddance’ & ‘let them in or face our wrath?’. Hmmm...

Maybe we find men performing ‘woman’ (femininity tropes) 7/
Threatening of our own sense of ‘man-ness’ - maybe it scares, confuses and disgusts us because it goes against our own socialization as males? Maybe that’s not something we want - or are able - to acknowledge? Easier to tell the women to accept them than we do that, right? 8/
That’s women’s work anyway, looking after us. Right?

4. Women need space away from the male gaze, respite from vulnerability, chance 2 relax, enjoy, organise, think, talk without us. We respect that - right? When I was younger I might have felt somehow rejected or slighted 9/
But we grow up & learn. Men who don’t accept boundaries are dangerous, regardless of whether those men are perpetrators or merely immature - cognitively & emotionally. The former enacts abuse, the latter facilitates it. The damage is the same.

There’s so much more to say... 10/

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this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.

let's look.


above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.

we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.

this is devastating to the case for NPI.


clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.

barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.

this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.

there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.

this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.

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Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+

It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+

My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.

But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+

Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+
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It relied on very little wind energy - that was the plan. It relied on a lot of natural gas - that was the plan. It relied on all of its nuclear energy - that was the plan. 2/x

There was enough natural gas, coal and nuclear capacity installed to survive this event - it was NOT "forced out" by the wind energy expansion. It was there. 3/x

Wind, natural gas, coal and nuclear plants all failed to deliver on their expectations for long periods of time. The biggest gap was in natural gas! The generators were there, but they were not able to deliver. 4/x

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