It's hard to overstate how important – and strategically brilliant – @jk_rowling's power move was today, a first-move checkmate that effectively
— The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 (@Rob_ThaBuilder) April 2, 2024
neutered Scotland's dangerous new #HateCrimeBill. By openly and unambiguously breaking this law – on a massive public platform – on… https://t.co/dWKhCSERud
H/t: Instapundit
…soldiers in Spain are starting to change their genders from male to female to earn benefits that are only available to females, according to a new report from the NY Post.
The benefits include higher pay and better sleeping quarters and the gender switch has been made possible due to the military’s honoring of a “self-identification law” which was put in place in 2023 to help transgender people.
H/t: Instapundit
America Enters the Samizdat Era – Matt Taibbi (Racket News)
The Internet, in other words, was being transformed from a system for exchanging forbidden or dissenting ideas, like Samizdat, to a system for imposing top-down control over information and narrative, a GozIzdat. Worse, while the Soviets had to rely on primitive surveillance technologies, like the mandatory registration of typewriters, the Internet offered breathtaking new surveillance capability, allowing authorities to detect thoughtcrime by algorithm and instantaneously disenfranchise those on the wrong side of the information paradigm, stripping them of the ability to raise money or conduct business or communicate at all.
H/t: Instapundit
Ace on the puritans belonging to “The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse”:
Humans are hard-wired to be religious. Just because there are some among us who have repudiated Christianity and other established religions, they still cannot escape the innate religiosity that is part of our existence. The left-wing belief that bad weather and natural disasters are caused by sinners in our midst is the most primitive of religious beliefs.
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When churches are strong and prominent in our culture, they provide so much more than just a place to worship. They also provide fellowship, music, art, structure, the fulfillment of volunteerism, a (semi-)controlled environment for adolescence, grief counseling, missionary work, and so much more.
But churches can also serve as a pressure relief valve for the fervor of those who are born to be moral busybodies.