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CN Leak Reveals Plans For Scrapped Powerpuff Girls Z Adaptation

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A huge leak has hit Cartoon Network, and even now, people are sifting through it.

But one thing I’d like to bring attention to is that that the leaks contain internal materials related to Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, and apparently would’ve localized under the same name.

That’s right, there was an anime adaptation of the Powerpuff Girls. It debuted in Japan in 2006 on their own Cartoon Network, and it even had some anime stars working on it, including Emiri Katou as Hyper Blossom, and Ryusei Nakao as Kare (Him), who previously had voiced Frieza from Dragonball Z! What’s more, the henshin sequences in Powerpuff Girls Z (PPGZ) were planned out by the same talent as the ones who did the henshin sequences in Sailor Moon (a big deal, considering that these took up a bit of screen time). So they really brought on the star power for this one. And appropriately so, considering that PPGZ was intended to commemorate 50 years of Toei Animation.

PPGZ was originally announced in 2005, and here were some of the public promotional materials:

These characters look much different from the ones that ended up going into PPGZ. This is because it was originally planned for the girls to be High School students, rather than the Middle School students that they ended up becoming.

However, a lot of people suspected that it was a joke. Mostly because the studio went quiet on the projects for months afterwards. It didn’t help that the announcement was made on April 1st.

PPGZ made its debut on July 1, 2006, to mixed reception. The debut episode showed as the girls, who already had their superpowers, rescued kindergarten students from Mojo Jojo, who wanted to steal their snacks, or whatever. There was an ice cream break at some point, for whatever reason, which told us the viewer what the characters favorite ice cream flavors are, as if we cared. After this, the anime began telling us the girls’ origin story. In this adaptation, the three girls themselves are ordinary girls, named Momoko Akatsutsumi, Miyako Goutokuji, and Kaoru Matusbara. They gained the ability to transform into the Power Puff Girls Z after being hit by beams of light that were emitted when Professor Utonium destroyed an iceberg with a beam. However, the light beams also turned ordinary people in the setting of Tokyo City into monsters. So, PPGZ was a majou shoujo (magical girl) anime, except that one of the catchphrases of the anime was, “It’s not magic! It’s science!”

For those who stuck with the show, the episodes were basically hit-or-miss. There were long stretches of time in which episodes seemed to alternate between hit or miss, on a weekly basis. The anime wasn’t exceptionally good, but it was still enjoyable for its quirkiness.

As the recent leaks show, the anime was being prepared for a US release. It would’ve been appropriate, as the original Powerpuff Girls did originate in the States. There was even an English version which aired in places like Australia, so it’s not like there wasn’t a complete localized version, ready to go.

From what little I’ve seen of the English version (one episode), I think people would’ve been happier watching the Japanese version with subtitles. 2007 was the time of the initial anime boom in the west, but cringy localization efforts were still rampant.

But even though a localized version was ready to go, Cartoon Network didn’t air it in the US. And that’s disappointing, because I think that it would’ve been enjoyed, in spite of its flaws. But it seems like Cartoon Network would rather air a bunch of insipid Scooby Doo movies that nobody cares about.

People can speculate as to why Cartoon Network didn’t air PPGZ, even though it was ready to go. But I think there’s an aspect to this matter that isn’t being considered.

In the mid-2000s, anime was huge in the States. One would think that, because of this, CN would air an anime adaptation of what was one of their biggest hits. But, they didn’t. Because, when it comes down to it, CN didn’t much like anime. Sure, they had a Toonami programming block. But it’s easy to understand this block when you know that it acted as a sort of containment, and stuck to the mostly safe stuff. Stuff such as Sailor Moon, Card Captor Sakura (albeit briefly), Naruto, and heavily edited versions of One Piece and Dragonball Z. While these are hit anime, purists largely turned their noses up at them, a big reason being that they know what localization has done to these anime. At the time, unedited anime almost felt like contraband.

The fact is, western media companies like having control. And because anime is made all the way over in Japan, Cartoon Network had no control over its content.

Have you ever wished that you could make your own cartoon? If you’re an American, it’s probably not going to happen, unless you sign over creative control to whatever studio that will be producing it. Then, after that point, the studio will pretty much write your cartoon for you. And if you disagree with whatever it is that they decide to do with your characters, then they’ll probably just give you the boot, then either cancel your cartoon, or continue writing it in ways that are against your own wishes.

But in Japan, this problem is almost non-existent. In Japan, any creative work must be according to the wishes of the artist if it’s to be considered valid.

Some of the most successful anime are adaptations of manga (comics) that were highly successful. In that sense, the script is already written, and any adaptation is considered valid inasmuch as it’s consistent with the source material. The will of the artist is already expressed, and any animation studio that’s worth working with is going to produce an anime adaptation that’s consistent with the manga. And throughout the creative process, the author is the one who makes creative decisions.

There have been exceptions, but they usually don’t go well. A famous example was Dragonball GT, which was Toei’s attempt to fill in a certain number of remaining episodes after Dragonball Z had already concluded, so they attempted to come up with a story, themselves. Dragonball GT was universally panned, and since Dragonball Super was started, Dragonball author Akira Toriyama declared GT to be non-canon.

Ideally, the author should remain in creative control of his work. It’s the author’s vision, and the author should have the final say.

But CN doesn’t respect that, at all. They want to be the ones in control. If you’ve created characters that they want to air on TV, they want to take them right from you, to do with as they please.

To give you an idea of why you shouldn’t want that, here’s an example of the kind of dreck they already pinch out:

A lot has changed in the last couple decades. Now that ordinary people have creative tools at home, and the means to reach a potentially unlimited audience, people are finding out that we don’t need Cartoon Network for entertainment. Like many other media outlets, CN now has to compete with abundant, unlimited, and free.

If I wanted to write a comic, or make a cartoon, I can just do it. It would be some work, but it’s easier than it’s even been to do. And when I’m done, all I’d have to do is uploaded it, and let you either read or watch it. I don’t have to run it by any publisher, because the publisher would be me.

What’s more, Japanese producers no longer have to run anime through the likes of CN to get it to us. Through official outlets, it’s available for us to watch. And there’s nothing that CN can to do stop us from watching it.

And better still, it comes with no dubious agenda. Japanese anime is made for entertainment, not to push politics. Entertainment should be entertaining.

While I could leave it at that, I’ve got an opportunity to bring up something you might have tried to forget. There was a 2016 remake of the Powerpuff Girls.

They would’ve been better off just airing the PPGZ anime.

France has lost control of its migrants.

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Sometimes, someone asks a question with an answer that’s so obvious that you pause because you suspect that it’s a trick question.

The question is, what happens when a civilized society opens its borders to mass migration from a less civilized place in the world, where education is seldom guaranteed to any but the wealthy, the little education that there is comes with a flavor of religious extremism, and behaviors that we consider outrageously illegal might get a male offender a slap on the wrist (if that) and get a female offender death?

If you answered that we’d all get together for one big happy powwow of diversity, you’d be hilariously dead fucking wrong.

You might be thinking that that’s just one city block where a “fiery but mostly peaceful protest” got slightly out of hand.

Nope. It’s worse.

Multiple schools are among the structures which have been set ablaze after students protested budget cuts. The migrants, including second and third generation migrants, had their own idea on how to address understaffed and underfunded schools: by destroying those schools and whatever else they could get away with.

When fire trucks responded, they set fire to a fire truck, as well. The rioters even set fire to a fireman.

Historic schools were among the many destroyed, as was a new school named for Nelson Mandela. Did the protesters understand the obvious irony? Or did they not care?

The riots are not isolated to Paris, by the way. If you live in a major city in France, odds are, you’ve already seen smoke.

By the way, I’m grateful for the social media platform that we now know as X. If Twitter weren’t pulled from the hands of leftists, we’d only be seeing these events from the occluded lens of whatever bullshit spin that leftist old media would be applying.

Because X is in the hands of a free speech advocate, try as anyone might, no one could deny the widespread devastation of these riots, or the parties behind them.

What we are seeing in real time are the consequences of mass migration. And no one is going to come along and ban the citizen journalists who are pointing it out.

All it really takes is one European country to decide that it’s sick of this shit for all the rest of Europe to follow suit. For a long time, the left has been trying to trick people into thinking that they’re all alone in noticing that mass migration is self destruction.

The fact is, the western world has an excellent culture, and it’s worth preserving. And to the end of preserving it, we need to send the people who are corrosive to it back to their home countries. And there would be more work to do after that, especially concerning the traitors who brought us to this point.

I get the idea that France is going to be right-wing next year.

It’s another special one.

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I’ve heard it said that it’s always the ones you most expect. But sometimes, it’s the combination of what you’d expect that’s the most surprising.

Such is the case with Jonathan Kramer, an ISIS supporter from Butler County in Pennsylvania who plotted to poison synagogue food in an effort to wage war against “unbelievers”.

https://x.com/WPXI/status/2100251951577419871

And if Butler County sounds familiar, that would be the place where Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump, but failed.

So, he’s another failed terrorist. But if you would’ve guessed that he was a Reddit mod, there’s another square on your bingo card. But you might be surprised at which Reddit board he moderated. Or not.

It’s r/ppnojutsu (source). And if I were to guess what it was about just based on its name, it’s probably about adding male features to depictions of female characters.

What lends to this guess is what Reddit accounts he was connected to, which included u/i_love_femboys6969 and u/ILoveGayRobloxPorn (source), which were among those with which he shared extremist content.

If all he was was some guy who was into weird stuff, we wouldn’t have heard of him. But he went the terrorist route, so now we’re making fun of him.

But it’s easy to see a sort of dissonance between his interests and his Islamic ideology, considering how Islam regards the gays. I know that there are some who try to make the case that Islam isn’t against homosexuality, but try telling that to Muslims who throw gays off of buildings.

There’s also the fact that the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, touted the Torah, which contains the first five books of the Bible, and includes an injunction against homosexuality.

As it so happens, the Torah that Muhammad endorsed contained other teachings which conflicts with Islam, including a rejection of idolatry, which would include behaviors such as bowing towards a rock idol in prayer five times a day. That Muhammad touted the Torah, which is against some Islamic teachings, has resulted in what is today referred to as the Islamic Dilemma.

That people today are killing each other because of Islam, a religion that is easily demonstrably false, is just sad.

No word yet on a possible accomplice.

By the way, I first heard of this story from Not The Bee, a boomer news/humor site that shows how hip it is by using teh memez, but refuses to go anywhere near too much edge.

I bring this up because I refreshed this story on their page after it had been open in a tab for a while, and this replaced their embeds:

Monetizing content that they themselves did not produce, which includes the sources that they reference? Interesting move.

Maybe they should try putting their own words behind a paywall, and see whether anyone cares to pay up?

Gather around, The Atlantic is talking about how Democrats can be more manly.

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Okay, this is rich. The Atlantic published an article trying to sell the Democratic party as a place where manly men can belong.

And if you think I’m being overly sardonic in my use of the phrase, “manly men”, their article is literally titled, The Return of the Democratic Manly Man.

The splash image is that of an unshaven man in plaid whose default expression is a cold scowl, as seen through a rear view mirror with a fuzzy die, which does a lot to confirm the suspicion that leftism’s perspective of manliness as being insufferable hasn’t much changed.

Apparently manliness is when you always look ready to punch someone in the mouth.

Before getting into this, I’ll first state that my expectation is that leftism believes that manliness is when your purse is made of leather instead of linen. Also, I expect that they believe that manliness is expressed through what they eat, even though they make fun of where their food comes from, because living out real virtue is hard.

Now, for the opening.

Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland…

There it is. It didn’t take them long to get to the food. By the way, no, you don’t get to ruin the Reuben sandwich.

“There’s nothing wrong with being masculine,” Poindexter told me. It’s okay, he said, to be “a manly man.”

It’s okay to realize what the right has understood all along. Of course. But notice how, when a leftist says it, it’s considered a controversial statement that requires an explanation.

Poindexter’s own manliness credentials are fully in order.

“Hey guys, I’m manly. So you can totally believe what I have to say about manliness. Did I forget to say how manly I am, today?”

Does anyone really take this seriously?

The 46-year-old started working in a machine shop as a teenager and spent years hauling furniture across the country before finding stability as a union ironworker.

I’m going to risk sounding like a dick here, but when a forty-something says that they’ve “spent years” doing a real job that they started in their teens, this implied that they haven’t spent the whole two-and-a-half decades since their teens working. Maybe they did, but we know how this sounds, especially coming from someone left of center.

He drives a Ram Big Horn pickup truck and built, with his buddy turned campaign manager, a shed in his backyard.

“He’s so manly, because he bought a pickup truck, and he helped build a shed.”

Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with pickup trucks, or building a shed. But pointing to the truck as a credential is just pathetic. And men build sheds, not to impress people, but because it’s work to get done.

The article goes on to explain how the Democratic party has been failing among men (and at this point, it should be obvious that Democrats are The Atlantic’s intended audience), and how a candidate’s superficial show of manliness could somehow win a few over.

“It’s all vibes,” he said. “The Democrats have catered too much to, you know, the softer side,” he said. “We should be well-rounded people. We should be tough when we need to be. We should be soft when we need to be.”

There’s a reason why that kind of flexibility of mind is more characteristic of the right. It’s because the right knows that not every situation is the same, and some situations require a different paradigm.

The left, on the other hand, tends to attempt to resolve matters with a distinctly feminine approach. This is why the leftist state tends to focus more on providence on the part of the state to requite people’s needs, rather than any approach that might be economically expedient. It’s why the left tends to be more emotional in it’s language, calling it’s opponents fascists and Nazis, rather than describing them with values that they actually hold. Like women, leftists tend more towards the subject than the object.

See the part up above where Poindexter says “It’s all vibes,”? What that means is he doesn’t get it. When you’re a leader, there’s too much at stake to make decisions based on things like synchronicities, auras, astrological signs, feelings, or even vibes. Leaders should act on none of that bullshit. Real problems demand real perspective, and ascribing value to “vibes” is not it.

As the article continues into strategies for harvesting male votes for political influence, it should be evident that the likes of Poindexter and his fellow Democrats don’t have a sincere belief in the virtues of manliness, they simply see men as a demographic to win over in an effort to consolidate political power to themselves, and upon succeeding in this, they’ll no doubt go right back to pushing homosexuality onto our children and letting biological males compete in women’s sports, all while they can’t even explain what a woman is.

But in the meantime, they’re going to presume to tell us what manliness is.

A couple of months ago, I got a call from a party operative who pitched a story on the Democrats’ effort to “win back the manosphere.” The operative ran through a list of a half dozen candidates in key House districts who “are engaging culturally in male spaces”—a bit of gobbledygook that I took to mean “manly men,” or perhaps “guy’s guys,” but that also reflects the sort of anthropological distance that points to the depth of the party’s problem. After all, an ironworker probably wouldn’t describe himself as “engaging culturally in male spaces.”

A recurring theme of the article is that author Russell Berman speaks of manliness as being something that Democrats struggle to comprehend. Most men don’t see themselves as putting effort into “engaging culturally in male spaces.” It’s just something that they do. I don’t feel imposter syndrome every time I go to work. I imagine that that’s how it is with most people.

One thing that can be handed to the article is that it does mention the jobs of the Democrats who are attempting to win male votes, which is a nod to the tendency of men to ask each other what they do for a living, as our perspective of a person tends to be heavily influenced by their contributions to society. But in the context of this article, it comes off as tokenism.

By the way, if you’re unemployed and someone asks you what you do for a living, you can try calling yourself a Cyber-Simulated Warfare Specialist, and see how long it takes them to figure out that that means that you play video games. Marxist policies have made the economy rough; a sense of humor goes a long way.

The article mentions Graham Platner as an example of a manly candidate. You know, the guy who had a literal Nazi symbol tattooed right on his very chest.

I actually had no idea that the skull he was tattooed with was a Nazi symbol. But for as many times as I’ve been called a Nazi, I’m ignorant as to what their symbols are, aside from the obvious ones. But the left seems to know what they are.

You might remember the time when a Republican had a stage designed for him that was shaped like a Nazi glyph, but the Republican had no idea until it was pointed out to him. But, as it turns out, the stage was designed by a leftist who was a world-class troll.

At some point, I might just find a leftist to tell me just what all these symbols are.

I did a CTRL+F in the article just now, and found that Hasan Piker wasn’t even mentioned. That’s sad, considering how hard he tries. I guess you have to do better than being featured spread-eagle on the cover of GQ to be the left’s exemplar of manliness.

Centering a campaign on authenticity can fall flat in other ways. There’s nothing more cringey than a candidate trying too hard to be a man (or woman) of the people. “You really can’t fake it,”

As unintentionally funny as this article may be, that doesn’t mean that they can’t sometimes be right. Even if you struggle to explain what manliness is, most know it when they see it, and can generally see the difference between a uniform and a costume in that regard.

But, in the context of an article about political strategy, don’t their words sound like a confession? It’s already established that they author is writing about manliness as something that they struggle with. So then, what can they do about it besides fake it?

The article gives many examples of the left’s brushes with manliness, as well as failures. One would think that the article would get funnier at that point, but no. Much of its funniness was unintentional, and as it often goes with such articles, there came a point when it fizzled out.

The article subtly suggests what they really have to do in an effort to get more manliness on their side in just a little time:

“All I can do is what my life experience has shown me, just getting out and talking with folks—shaking a man’s hand, looking him in the eyes, and saying, ‘Hey, I want to fight for you. I don’t care if you’re Republican; I want to make sure you put food on the table for your family too.’”

“And,” Poindexter concluded, “I hope I can get through to enough of them to win.”

That is to look for manliness where it is: on the right. Sure, they can try to cultivate it among their own. But it’s an uphill battle, and they don’t have much time.

Much of the rest of the article is about Poindexter, but I don’t much care, so I’m going to skip.

As I pointed out already, manliness is something that’s difficult to explain, but a person tends to understand it when they see it. The left’s struggle with manliness comes from the fact that they have an intrinsic femininity in their nature, as I’ve also pointed out. And with the left seeing feminine traits as closer to the ideal in everyone, not just women, I don’t have much expectation that the left will solve their identity crisis any time soon. If most of them don’t even consider it a crisis, would they?

But if it’s baby steps they want, they can try maining as Zhongli in Genshin Impact.

While manliness can be difficult to explain, I can at least try. Manliness is not a style choice, nor is it the food you eat. And it’s certainly not a line of merchandise. Manliness has been cultivated through the ages based on what’s practical for survival on the part of men. That’s why it’s not going anywhere. Despite the efforts of any weirdos who attempt to redefine it, there will always be real virtue that is conductive to survival.

When you know this, it’s easy to see why true manliness tends towards success.

The left struggles when it comes to manliness, and it has been especially so since the left’s chique alliance with Marxism. Marxism appeals to the less successful among us, often by reason of a lack of virtue conductive to success. But, for one reason or another, they cannot comprehend their own shortcomings. Thus, to the have-nots, the haves are a mystery. And due to Marxism, the difference between them has been filled with resentment.

As long as the left has Marxism, it will always lack true virtue, and thus it will lack true manliness. If the left were to drop Marxism, they may gain the respect of some men, but it will lose the interest of the have-nots that they’ve worked so hard to court.

The reason why the left is not manly is because the left has deliberately courted the resentful failures, and in so doing, the manly have felt alienated by them. Thus, if one were to seek out those who are strong, tough, adaptable, and adroit, the productive and the problem solvers, one would find the lions share of them on the right. The few who would be on the left seem to understand how out of place that they themselves really are.

If the left were to become manly, they would become fundamentally different to the point of no longer resembling themselves as they are today. And if it weren’t for the political capital that might motivate them, probably none of them would want to do it.

The UK is not a safe country.

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If you’re currently visiting the UK, consider leaving, quick. If you’re planning a trip, consider canceling it. It’s not a safe country. Hasn’t been for decades. And things might get a little rough over there in the coming days.

British politician Rupert Lowe has just published The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://x.com/i/status/2066873370239537189

I didn’t read it, yet. But I did become aware of some of the data points. That alone had me depressed to the point that I didn’t want to do much of anything.

As many as 250,000 British girls were victimized. And that’s a conservative estimate. I was aware of the grooming gangs. I wasn’t aware that they were so pervasive.

The offenders were predominantly Muslim, and were heavily Pakistani. Around 90% of offenders were Muslim.

Law enforcement was lax in dealing with the problem, because they were afraid of being called ‘racist’. Social workers who reported abuses faced retaliation, from the state itself.

And there’s more. Much more. Just going by what I’ve heard, it just gets worse and worse.

I think that the UK is likely to riot. That’s one of the reasons why I say that the country isn’t safe. The Henry Nowak demonstrations are likely to be small compared to what’s to come.

The other reason why I say that the UK isn’t safe is because it’s own police force and government has been looking the other way as criminal migrants have been raping hundreds of thousands of their own daughters, and it’s been going on for decades. Does that sound like a safe place to be?

If the British aren’t angry at their own government, I’d lose a lot of respect for them.

It’s so much worse than we thought.

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In light of the guilty verdict of Vikrum Digwa, there has been interest in the release of the bodycam footage of the wrongful arrest of Henry Nowak.

Be ready to hear the British teen’s name a lot more. Because it’s worse than we thought. Much worse.

If one were to hear the events of the footage described to them, a person might think that they were hearing the plot of a Monty Python skit. A difference being that Monty Python would not have been so crass.

A British teenager had been stabbed multiple times by a Sikh, who was permitted to carry a blade contrary to British law by reason of religious exemption.

The Sikh and his family then called the police, and lied to them about the teen saying something racially insensitive about them, knowing that this was just what they had to say to get the police to side with them. The police, being hyper-trained to over-respond to racism, exhibited a callous disregard for the teen that was bleeding to death, expressing disbelief that the teen had been stabbed, even as he pleaded for help.

The police then cuffed the teen, even as the color drained from his hands due to blood loss, and the last words that he heard were his rights recited to him by a callously indifferent officer.

As though it couldn’t get any worse, outside the bodycam footage, the Sikh tortured and taunted the teen for 10 minutes, in recording that was so disturbing that it was not played in court. This was all over the teen asking whether the Sikh was a “bad man”, because he was carrying a knife contrary to British law, while being recorded. The teen had no idea that his close encounter with a different culture would play out with that culture proving just how incompatible it is with the civilized world.

The Sikh murderer and liar was eventually arrested for his crime, by the way. But he was not cuffed during his arrest. It might even be that the killer was not cuffed, at all. In fact, the killer and sadistic tormentor was allowed to get something to eat by the arresting officers, before he was taken to the station.

I did manage to learn some history, in spite of the efforts of the education system. Going on what I had learned, an event like this is absolutely unprecedented. Unless you can tell me of one point in history where an authority figure expressed such misplaced outgroup empathy that favored an invasive ethnic group at the expense of an indigenous person, with the authority figure belonging to the same indigenous group.

As far as I know, such treachery is absolutely unheard of.

In light of this travesty, the people of the UK started to protest, and they started to riot. Yes, really. Caucasian people actually found their nerve. During these events, among the slogans chanted by the demonstrators was “I can’t breathe”, which was among Henry Nowak’s last words.

If those words sound familiar, that’s because they were also among the last words of George Floyd, a drug addict who died of a drug overdose while being arrested for attempting to buy a banana with a counterfeit $20 bill. In spite of the exonerating evidence, the arresting officer continues to serve a prison sentence for the death of the drug addict, all because the legal hold he used looked mean.

The death of George Floyd resulted in riots across the US. But if the rioters were being completely honest, they did not care about George Floyd, they simply used a popular lie about his death as a pretext for the mayhem that they had an appetite for.

And for leftists the world over, it was a pretext for the performative self-flagellation that they themselves have an appetite for. Even those as far away as the UK took a knee in honor of the fallen career criminal.

During the demonstrations for Henry Nowak, the protestors demanded that the officers present take a knee for Nowak, just as officers had done for career criminal George Floyd. They did not do that. But what officers did do was attack protestors, which should not be a surprise, because attacking their own people is what they have been trained to do.

If one were to ask me what I think might happen next, I’d be honestly surprised that anyone would care, for one thing. If my prescience were better, I would have made some different choices.

But, to be honest, I really don’t know. Not only was the arrest footage bafflingly worse than I could have anticipated, it’s also a bit of a surprise that the British reacted as angrily as they did.

Because, when it comes down to it, they, like whites in general, are way too nice. The British are highly civilized. And when people are highly civil, less civilized people will view that as an invitation to push the limits of what they can get away with.

It’s an interesting thing that the British authorities have betrayed their own people in favor of foreign invaders, because the British used to punish treason as a capital offense. And it makes sense why they did. After all, if a person’s heart turned towards the destruction of their own people, whom they should naturally have affection for, then they have become so warped and defective that there is no expectation that they could ever be rehabilitated. What could society be expected to do with such a person? What value could come from a person so bereft of virtue?

But now, it would seem as though the British system has turned against the British people. It would seem as though the solution would be a reworking of British policing, which would ideally be performed in a non-belligerent manner. But with people as angry as they are, it might not happen that way. As civil as the British are, it would seem that they may have reached a breaking point.

Like I said, the British are civil, to the point that other people are too comfortable with pushing them to their limits. The dangerous thing about that is that, when it comes to nice people, those limits are not clearly defined, and when exceeded, the backlash tends to be intense.

The world is not ready for the angry British.

They literally want a concentration camp.

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Now’s a great time to see how the left is doing:

That far along, huh? I thought we had more time.

From San Antonio Current:

“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”

When someone says that that’s her intended policy, go ahead and believe her, because most people who fantasize about such things would usually keep it to themselves.

It’s already a massive red flag that a politician declares her policy positions via Instagram. And the fact that she refers to herself in the third person is characteristic of a random lunatic who raves at random pedestrians in a city square.

But all that is eclipsed by the fact that she wants to repurpose a government building into a concentration camp for imprisoning enforcers of immigration law, and those who believe Jews should have their own little country, while falsely accusing them of pedophilia as a pretext for having them neutered.

That sounds like the kind of thing that a shrill, college-aged leftist would pretend that Trump said, because they want to make him look as bad as possible, and has no motherfucking idea how to pull their punches to make a lie sound remotely believable.

But Maureen Galindo, a Democrat running for Congress, said it as her own policy position.

Over the past week, Galindo has accused her runoff opponent — former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia — of participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire zionist Jews.

She crazy. That’s end-stage TikTok brain rot. That’s the kind of shit where, once you believe it, the belief itself configures prions into your brain, and it’s just a matter of time until you lose all motor function, and die due to inability to sleep.

Even so, in comments to the Current and other media outlets, Galindo maintained she only has an issue with zionists, or those advocating for the existence of a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland, rather than Jews in general.

There it is. The classic leftist equivocation. This time, she’s trying to avoid being branded as “antisemitic”, because that’s a word which sounds bad, and is only for use against bad people. So she explains that she opposes something that Jews generally happen to desire. Then, when she does go after the Jews she hates, she can make the claim of not actually hating them.

If anyone falls for that, the world must be a confusing place for them.

Indeed, mainstream Democrats have drifted away from Galindo as she ramped up her rhetoric.

Please do. Because damn.

To give you an idea of just how far Maureen Galindo has gone, consider the fact that AOC thinks she has taken it too far:

Think about what it means when, next to Maureen Galindo, AOC sounds like the voice of reason.

If you don’t picture Maureen Galindo’s thinking taking root in American politics, consider the following:

Twenty-seven percent. That’s the percentage of Democrats who, when presented with an opportunity to vote for Maureen Galindo, decided to do so.

I’ve pointed out before that as leftists continue to lose the culture war, some of them will feel threatened, particularly the dead-enders who invested too much into their political ideology, and that they may interpret the changing flow of the era as a threat to respond to with violence.

The fact that the left is becoming increasingly extreme in their violence and their rhetoric goes to show that they’re not handling losing well.

Now, there’s a leftist running for office who is openly calling for a concentration camp with compulsory sterilization. And while it’s true that she’s being condemned, even within her own party, what’s concerning is that her rhetoric is not instantly disqualifying, and that she could come away with as much as 27% of her party’s vote where she was on the ballot, which is way too much.

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Game Journalists Aren’t the Real Problem, Anymore.

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There’s another gaming controversy involving game journalists, which is being treated as yet another attempt to relive GamerGate.

And while the GamerGate days may be fond memories for some people, if we’re being completely honest here, game journalists just aren’t taken seriously by anyone, anymore. They burned any trust that they had in the original GamerGate by siding against gamers themselves. And prior to that, they’ve long had the problem of pandering to advertisers.

In this connected age, when it comes to game opinions, people trust their peers more than game journos. I’d rather hear the opinions of my peers, whom I can relate to, rather than those of professional journalists who are acting on obvious incentives, and therefore cannot be trusted to be genuine.

But if I can thank game journalists for just one thing, it’s for demonstrating to many millions of gamers exactly why they cannot trust the press. They’ve played an unwitting role in the “gamer to right-wing pipeline”. And they’ve done it well.

Before moving on to what I see as the real problem, I’ll first acknowledge the current controversy. A droll nostalgia game has gotten a suspiciously high number of perfect review scores from various publications, in spite of the fact that gamers themselves aren’t impressed with it.

The game is called Mixtape, and it stars teenagers in a pseudo-90s cultural environment. I’ve heard that it largely attempts to pander to a sense of nostalgia, but instead alienates players who actually were teenagers during that same era. The gameplay, from what I’ve heard, makes the game sound like a movie with interactive segments, those being minigames with a lack of fail-states.

I didn’t play it, and I’m not interested.

The game sounds insipid, and demeaning to true 90s kids. But for some reason, one gaming publication after another has given the pile a perfect score. Scores which, by the way, are usually reserved for games considered revolutionary, or masterpieces.

But, I didn’t care. And I wouldn’t have even noticed what game journalists were up to, if my own peers didn’t point it out.

At this point, it’s taken for granted that game journalists are trash. It is what it is.

As I see it, the real problem that game communities face is clout farmers.

If you’re wondering what a clout farmer is, that would be someone who trashes on something on social media, with the intention of drawing attention to themselves. Such a person tends to manifest in gaming communities as someone who continually dumps on a game, usually a new or popular installment of a franchise, in an attempt to seem smart or discerning with how negative they could be about the game in question.

The low-IQ among us tends to leave likes on the edgy thing that shits on something people like. But if you were to visit the clout farmer’s profile, you’d find one post after another, shitting on fun games that people like. It’s quite possible that they don’t like anything. Or maybe they do. I certainly don’t want to scroll through an entire account’s raw sewage just to see whether they can say anything positive about anything.

If you call them out on it, they’ll just accuse you of being on some kind of “toxic positivity” brigade, because they don’t like when people like things.

This has gotten to be an issue within the Pokémon community, to the point that those who actually play the game have said that they enjoy the games more when they don’t interact with the community. If the clout farmers were actually trolls out to destroy the community, this would mean that they’re succeeding.

But we have a weapon, and it’s been in our hands, the whole time: you block the bullshitters.

If an obvious clout farmer appears on your feed, here’s what you do (on X):

  • Click the vertical ellipses in the upper-right corner of their post,
  • Then, click the option to mute their account. You may be asked to confirm.

That’s it. Repeat as more obvious clout farmers appear. Then, enjoy your improved fandom!

While it’s true that game journos are still adversarial towards the very people they claim to write for, people today generally know to ignore them. Case in point: They’re insistent that GamerGate was a misogynistic harassment campaign, but there’s a strong likelihood that you know that that’s not the case.

The reason why clout farmers are the bigger issue is that they’re a problem particular to social media, which is still relatively new. And because gamers still haven’t universally learned to recognize and deal with them, clout farmers still succeed in infiltrating and dragging down gaming communities.

But now that you know how to eliminate them from your feed, you can do your part to reduce their influence. After all, it’s attention they seek, and you can deny them yours.

A Mosque was attacked, this time.

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It can be called a switch, if you want. But it was really just a matter of time.

A mosque in San Diego was attacked by two gunmen. Five are confirmed dead, including one of the Mosque’s security personnel, and both gunmen. The gunmen were in their teens, they apparently ended their own lives, and it would seem the attack was racially motivated, judging by materials left by the gunmen.

I’m ready for this to be all that we hear about from the Islamic world for the next couple decades. They can’t take it anywhere close to how they dish it out.

The Islamic world is famous for its sectarian violence, whether it Muslims versus other religions, or it’s Muslims against other Muslims which they consider infidels over a microscopic difference in doctrine.

It’s gotten to the point that Muslims are the most distrusted group in the civilized world. And that’s a dubious honor that’s well earned, what with Muslims going on shooting rampages, driving cars into Christmas markets, executing African Christians, suicide bombing bus stations, committing random knife attacks, hijacking planes for use as projectiles, raping women and children when presented with the opportunity…

…and on, and on, and on…

…All while acting as though they’re better than everyone else, and entitled to everything, including the land in which they are guests.

If anyone or any group is going to be a constant belligerent, it’s to be expected that they’ll come to find pushback.

Muslims need to realize that their religion isn’t worth surrendering their souls to. Islam drains the joy out of life, and for all that trouble, it can’t truly offer salvation, anyway.

Christianity is far superior. Not only does it offer a more joyful life, Christians actually get saved. All of them.

And if Muslims are finally going to start facing what they’ve been continually dishing out, then that’s all the more reason to leave Muhammad’s religion in the dustbin.

Besides, Muhammad predicted that a day of doom would occur within 500 years of his death. It’s been over 1400 years. What are Muslims clinging to?

Another ironic story out of the UK

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The UK pretty much sucks when it comes to free speech. They just fail, over and over again.

Tapping the sign:

This time, a V-Tuber in the UK was arrested for possession of her own drawings.

Your imagination likely went to one of two places: cartoons of Muhammad, or drawings of naked people. It’s the latter.

UK based V-Tuber Mimi Yanagi issued a public statement on X, letting her following know that she was out on bail after having been arrested for possession of her own drawings. Her electronic devices were seized, including the ones she used as a professional V-Tuber. What’s more, as per her bail conditions, she was to use an approved handle, may only post SFW content, and must be transparent with her content.

Because it’s British police we’re talking about here, I don’t feel inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. They probably saw an opportunity to score some sweet loot, and Mimi is probably not going to see it again.

“A Go Pro? Little Harry always wanted to be a streamer! A £3500 gaming rig? Guess who’s not spending on Christmas presents this year? LED illuminated mouse and keyboard? Yoink! Why’d she have two monitors? Now she’s got naught!”

Allegedly, the drawings contained characters which Mimi herself imagined, had the appearance of being childlike, and were of the rule 34 variety. In the UK, such images are illegal to produce, distribute, or even possess, even if the characters depicted are clearly fictitious.

This is one of those matters where, if you have a free speech perspective, you choose your words with care if you’re trying to avoid looking like some kind of creep. But considering that the whole matter was victimless, to arrest anyone over it is silly. Even if the art in question inspires an ick vibe for most people, it’s still just drawings.

But there’s an irony to this that can be pointed out. And you probably know what it is.

The UK has a problem with migrant Islamic rape gangs. And British police have infamously been looking the other way, for fear of being called racist.

In the graphic below, two are pictured. One traumatized a real-life British 12-year-old. The other drew pictures for herself and perhaps for other adults who were minding their own business in their own homes.

Can you guess which one got off without consequences, and which one got the legal equivalent of a spear tackle followed by a jackhammer slam?

If the UK wants anyone to take them seriously, they’d leave the poor woman be, and give her back all her devices. She harmed no one.

Then, they’d go after all the Islamic migrants who actually are victimizing little girls. Based on their behavior, one might think British police care more about the non-existent plight of fictional girls, than that of real girls from among their own people.