Author: Blazingcatfur

Gentlemen, you may include me out. — Samuel Goldwyn

I declined an audition recently. The audition call was for an actor to play a senior gay man, a closeted gay man married to a lesbian who had children and grandchildren. They enthusiastically come out late in life, embracing their “queerness” in all its grotesque flamboyance. The role is a lead for a series of ten episodes. I am okay with playing a gay man on screen, provided I can play him straight. By that, I mean playing a man who is gay. I am uncomfortable playing a gay man as a caricature, even in jest.

The latest from Pongo.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Art"

What the Burning Man ‘emergency’ reveals about the class divide

How did a handful of rain-soaked hipsters command so much more attention than genuine disaster victims?

Finally, US president Joe Biden has found a crisis that actually interests him. A mass-emergency event has, perhaps for the first time in his presidency, managed to elicit a speedy response from the leader of the free world.

Was it a toxic train derailment that poisoned the water of a small blue-collar community? Er, no. Was it a raging fire that killed a still-unknown number of residents in a historical indigenous island community? Also no.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Elites vs. Populists"

Top scientist Patrick Brown says he deliberately OMITTED key fact in climate change piece he’s just had published in prestigious journal to ensure woke editors ran it – that 80% of wildfires are started by humans

A climate change scientist has claimed the world’s leading academic journals reject papers which don’t ‘support certain narratives’ about the issue and instead favor ‘distorted’ research which hypes up dangers rather than solutions.

Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and doctor of earth and climate sciences, said editors at Nature and Science – two of the most prestigious scientific journals – select ‘climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives’.

In an article for The Free Press, Brown likened the approach to the way ‘the press focus so intently on climate change as the root cause’ of wildfires, including the recent devastating fires in Hawaii. He pointed out research that said 80 percent of wildfires are ignited by humans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Woke"

Carson Jerema: Tamara Lich exposed the incompetence of the Canadian state

Tamara Lich, the Freedom Convoy leader whose trial begins this week, is no hero. She led a protest movement that illegally occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks, blocking access to roads and local businesses. Though largely nonviolent, the convoy was an extreme nuisance that went beyond the mere inconvenience expected of a large demonstration. But, if Lich is no hero, neither is she a terrorist, insurrectionist leader or fascist plotter, as so many of her critics in the media and the Liberal party desperately want her to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

Send illegal migrants to Islington – see how liberal opinion likes it then

Just when you think things cannot get any worse, illegal migration across the Channel now seems to have got so bad that the Government is relying on the weather to bring the numbers down.

Last Friday more than 800 illegal migrants successfully made the crossing. That was the highest daily total this year. But it also stood out in the stats because choppy waters had delayed crossings for a week, allowing some officials to pretend the problem was on the way to being solved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints

Why White Ethnics Left Newark

Newark 1967

Viciously maligned as racists since WWII, nobody bothered to ask working-class whites why they left the cities.

Against any reasonable expectation, America’s once-proud post–World War II suburbanization and middle-class expansion has become a critical flashpoint in our national politics. A generation of left-leaning scholars, major media (think the New York Times’s 1619 project), and antiracist activists have succeeded in establishing that era as one of profound black disfranchisement: As blacks began their second “Great Migration” out of the rural South around 1940, the federal government embarked on a massive suburbanization effort to benefit white people and isolate blacks, an effort that included highway construction, home mortgage insurance, and “redlining,” which effectively excluded blacks from homeownership and left them to pick through the rubble of rapidly deindustrializing urban places.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Urban Dystopia"

LIBS OF TIKTOK: The ADL tried to deplatform me on X after defaming me, and now Elon Musk plans to expose them

The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1910 with an explicit mission “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment for all,” but in recent years they have completely gone off the rails.

In recent years though, it seems the ADL simply attacks anyone who doesn’t go along with the far-left agenda. The ADL targeted me, a young conservative Jewish woman, for speaking out against wokeness, far-left indoctrination of children, and the medical mutilation of minors under the guise of gender ideology.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Defamation League

John Ivison: Steven Guilbeault opts for distortion over discernment

Liar.

The comments made last week by activist-turned-politician Steven Guilbeault about the need for a cap on oil and gas emissions suggest the environment minister has embraced his new vocation with enthusiasm.

Few things work as well for a Liberal MP as bashing Alberta, the equivalent of Mordor for many eastern progressives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Trial for ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers not about their political beliefs, Crown says

OTTAWA – “Freedom Convoy” organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are not on trial for their political beliefs, a Crown prosecutor told an Ottawa courtroom Tuesday.

Rather, they must answer to charges related to the means they used to achieve their goal.

Tim Radcliffe told the court the two organizers didn’t just “hold the line” during their illegal occupation of downtown Ottawa last year, they “crossed the line, and in so doing they committed multiple crimes.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent"

What the Left Did to Our Country

In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood.

With such support, between 2009-17, Barack Obama was empowered to transform the Democratic Party from its middle-class roots and class concerns into the party of the bicoastal rich and subsidized poor—obsessions with big money, race, a new intolerant green religion, and dividing the country into a binary of oppressors and oppressed.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, USA

The Misogyny Myth: Women aren’t discriminated against in twenty-first-century America—but men increasingly are.

Misogyny is supposedly rampant in modern society, but where, exactly, does it lurk? For decades, researchers have hunted for evidence of overt discrimination against women as well as subtler varieties, like “systemic sexism” or “implicit bias.” But instead of detecting misogyny, they keep spotting something else.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Progressive Paradise"

Cuba uncovers Russia-Ukraine war trafficking ring

The Cuban foreign ministry says it has uncovered a human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine.

It said that Cubans living in Russia and “even some in Cuba” had been “incorporated into the military forces taking part in the war in Ukraine”.

Cuba is a close ally of Russia, but it stressed in its statement “it does not form part of the conflict in Ukraine”.

There has not yet been a response from Russia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

How Terrorist Leaders, Backed by Iran, Exploit Palestinians

The leaders of Iran’s Palestinian terror proxies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), say they are “not afraid” of Israeli threats to assassinate them for their responsibility in the ongoing wave of terror attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

If the Hamas and PIJ leaders are not afraid of the threats, why are they taking extreme precautionary measures to avoid being killed by Israel? If they are not afraid of the threats, why have many of them evacuated their offices and gone into hiding? Why do the terror leaders seem so nervous about the possibility that they may be killed that they are threatening to retaliate against Israel if any one of them is targeted?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict