Reposted, lest the slow hamsters dissuade people from wading through the last page:

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I for one laud the downticking function as one of the great examples of comedy value in this wide brown land.

Every one of them is a manifestation of cruel tears, expelled from the eye sockets of inadequates lacking the wherewithal to actually respond to, let alone rebut an argument or point of view.

Hot, salty tears, dripping from noses onto bowls of Doritos and/or servo microwave cheeseburgers strategically placed in front of keyboards across the nation.

‘Ooooh hoo hooo, I’ll show you. Have a downtick! See how it crushes you inside!’

Fairybread lightweights. Every time. Immensely amusing.

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calli, put that brilliant meme back up as well!

Katz, it is so good to hear you recognise the confused emotions that despicable Nazi activities can cause in retrospect when Jewish people are faced with confronting the social contagion and deep psychological ill that is anti-semitism.

Of course I recognise it. I’ve lived with it since I don’t know when. I once asked my elder brother if he could remember when he first knew about the Holocaust, because I couldn’t recall ever not knowing. Same for him. We also knew about the Holodomor and the Armenians and why the Holocaust was so different – the atlas and encyclopedia were on a shelf in reach of dinner table conversations. One side of the family is from a Polish Jewish convict arrived 1851, the other from a Carpathian mountain village arrived 1938.

Did someone mention “cute owls”?

Voila!

😀

‘Ooooh hoo hooo, I’ll show you. Have a downtick! See how it crushes you inside!’

I’m more curious about upticks. Why does one comment I posted, thinking it was profound, get fewer upticks than a brief offhand attempt at a parody. It makes me wonder about my assessment of my own comments, and that’s ok. Down ticks don’t matter.

Roger Rogerson. You wouldn’t trust that bastard, even after seven cremations.

This is utterly disgusting.

Normalise trauma to the point where individuals NOT being mutilated feel left out, rejected and DEMAND they be traumatised also. Then once you have consent, you change the boundaries.

Catharsis, Katz.

A profound statement requires thought. Sometimes a mere bop on the icon doesn’t convey an adequate response. And the blog moves like quicksilver, so once it’s moved on, the opportunity for reply disappears.

Glib, silly or funny stuff gets a tick because most of us want to feel good. Similarly a good rant will garner ticks because it expresses pent up emotions that the reader is experiencing but may feel unable or unwilling to convey.

I enjoy memes, making or reposting them, because they express often complex issues visually and hopefully entertainingly.

When Dover first introduced ups and downs, I gave him the Gladiator salute (yes I know, real gladiators never said it). It was obvious what would happen.

Did someone mention “cute owls”?

Voila!

A raw onion for the first to accurately pick which one of those three old biddies looks like Johanna. I go for the one on the left. There has to be a level of sheer meanness there.

None of the three look anything remotely like me. Not. At. All.

I do a much better close up than that.
One that could give those biddies at least thirty years.
😀

Steady on.

Do you really want to be associated with this sort of juvenile name-calling?

Uumm. Yes. Yes, on mature reflection, I do.

Of course I recognise it.

Thanks for the background extras, Katz.

Sadly, many others still need to be told. Haven’t lived long enough maybe.
Or haven’t been exposed to much history.

t’s now fashionable, as a strategic component to overturn traditional views of normal family and person, the bedrocks of civilisation.

Nicely put, Katz.

A raw onion for the first to accurately pick which one of those three old biddies looks like Johanna

Ah. Takes me back. Two elderly women sniping at each other, and both moving from third to fourth gear.

The best of times. The worst of times.

The pathology of dissent.

If you’re not prepared to go along with The New Normal, then you’re the one who is disturbed. Everyone else ‘gets it’ except for you. Change is a natural part of life. That’s how we improve; progress toward utopia.

By separating yourself from the herd (where others can see you), your mental aberration is a threat to the group’s cohesion. YOU are a threat. You are challenging the hierarchy, which cannot and will not, be tolerated.

By consensus, you have been declared an OUTSIDER, and all benefits of membership of the herd have been withdrawn.

We’ll be pointing out your isolation to the hunters.

Trump’s CBDC comments represent a pretty seismic development as it relates to the Info War, and they run in parallel with Chris Paul’s framing that Trump reflects the views of MAGA back at them as the War of Stories evolves.

I personally like to imagine Trump as the central pillar of the current sociopolitical Overton Window, with Anons and Truthers front-running that window to various degrees.

This creates an energizing feedback loop between Anons and Trump, as our ability to front-run topics and distill subject matter beyond the current scope of understanding of the Normie Layers of the Collective Mind grants Trump the ability to shift that central pillar (and thus, the Macro Overton Window at large) progressively forward in terms of disclosure and understanding.

This community understands the dangers CBDCs present; Trump is confirming them.

We also understand what true decentralization looks like, and I think Trump is prepping the Normie hivemind for those conversations.

HT Burning Bright

Katz, I have a comment in moderation about your Polish ancestor. Dunno why. The point was Poland wasn’t a state in the entire 19th century, yet your ancestor still considered himself Polish despite (probably) being born in England. How much do you know about him?

FMD Custard. I’ve been away for a while and I have no idea what you are on about. You sound like some recently retired general trying to sell himself to the media with inhouse jargon. I mean “Macro Overton Window at large”?????

Then again, perhaps I’m just an old fuddy-duddy not up with the hip terms.

Asked Chat GPT to translate custards epic for a target audience of 12 year old aussies:

Alright, let’s break down that text for a 12-year-old Australian:

“Trump’s CBDC comments represent a pretty seismic development as it relates to the Info War, and they run in parallel with Chris Paul’s framing that Trump reflects the views of MAGA back at them as the War of Stories evolves.”

Translation: Trump’s recent comments about CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) are a big deal in the Information War. It’s like he’s playing a part in a story, and his actions are connected to what Chris Paul thinks about the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement.

“I personally like to imagine Trump as the central pillar of the current sociopolitical Overton Window, with Anons and Truthers front-running that window to various degrees.”

Translation: I like to think of Trump as a key figure influencing current social and political opinions. People who go by the names Anons and Truthers are also playing a role in shaping these opinions.

“This creates an energizing feedback loop between Anons and Trump, as our ability to front-run topics and distill subject matter beyond the current scope of understanding of the Normie Layers of the Collective Mind grants Trump the ability to shift that central pillar (and thus, the Macro Overton Window at large) progressively forward in terms of disclosure and understanding.”

Translation: There’s a strong connection between Anons, who are internet users, and Trump. Our ability to bring up and simplify complex topics helps Trump move public opinion forward in a way that makes more information available to everyone.

“This community understands the dangers CBDCs present; Trump is confirming them.”

Translation: People in this group know about the risks of Central Bank Digital Currencies, and Trump is agreeing with those concerns.

“We also understand what true decentralization looks like, and I think Trump is prepping the Normie hivemind for those conversations.”

Translation: We also know what it means to have true decentralization (less control from one central authority), and I believe Trump is getting regular people ready to talk about these ideas.

I forgot to say hello and good evening.

“Likewise, I just ignore the downticks, people have a right to disagree with my opinions.”

Crossie,
same here, and with the occasional “mean girl” barbs. Water off a duck’s back. Words on a screen. I have had to fight for my life, hissing and spitting on a screen in the comfort of my lounge room doesn’t even raise a yawn.

It’s looking like the 2024 presidential election will result in the continuation and confirmation of the 3rd Trump term.

Inaugurated in January 2025!

Roger
Jan 19, 2024 9:19 PM
Setting aside my philosophical objections for the moment…

Is the surgery publicly funded?

Because that means limited resources will have been diverted from other surgical needs.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/transgender-surgery-application-medicare-benefits-schedule/103136928

The federal government will consider an application by the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) to add 21 Medicare items for gender-affirming surgeries, such as chest surgery and genital reconfiguration.

Such surgery is often performed on people experiencing gender incongruence or gender dysphoria, where individuals experience an incongruence between their experienced gender and assigned sex.

The ASPS’s application estimated that in 2023, more than 125,000 people would eligible for such surgeries — more than 47,000 of which would utilise the surgery in its first year under the scheme.

Unless you understand this you can’t get to the place I’m at.

Devolution.

Likewise, I just ignore the downticks, people have a right to disagree with my opinions.

They could show some respect by actively disgreeing. A negative tick as criticsim is far too ambiguous to waste time over.

I’m not at all convinced that those poor sickos who undergo a ‘transition ‘ live happy productive lives. I have heard that they too have a high suicide rate. I’d like to see the numbers.
It may be that it gives the poor buggers hope, a hope that is subsequently shown to be spurious.

JC

I asked, what were the suicide stats before it was forced onto front page news.
Almost 50%

Numbers have increased during the recent decade of intense publicity by one or two orders of magnitude (?). Has that altered the suicide rate?

PS – You specified adults – has the proportion of adult trans increased as much as (say) under 16s.

And why is it so difficult to purchase six finger gloves when the frequency of that anomoly in the population is similar.

DrBeauGan

Jan 19, 2024 9:40 PM
I’m not at all convinced that those poor sickos who undergo a ‘transition ‘ live happy productive lives. I have heard that they too have a high suicide rate. I’d like to see the numbers.
It may be that it gives the poor buggers hope, a hope that is subsequently shown to be spurious.

My understanding is that the majority of transitioners go through a “WTF have I done” phase and are – essentially – dumped by the deranged cultists who talked them into the surgery. I remember the quoted suicide rate post surgery of 50% but I don’t recall the time frame.
The only ‘winners’ in the entire sick episode appear to be the ones who have convinced the patients of the correctness of their decision to transition as it validates their feelings on the matter.
Kurt Schlicter in one of his books touched on this by the duped transitioners organising and getting revenge on the cultists. It’s not an improbable scenario as it looks. Paedophiles prey on innocent kids, completely ignoring those innocent and powerless kids can grow up into vengeful adults.

Rabz:

We’re not at Davros!

I wonder how much power those solar collectors are putting into the grid ?

I’m 50/50 now on whether the whole trans push in recent years started as an attempt to ‘normalise’ the issue to enable courageous and brave President Mike Obama. You just know they want that.

A study some months ago surprised researchers because it established much higher rates of XXY and XYY individuals than previously believed; though still very low rates overall. Those individuals are at much higher risk of experiencing gender dysphoria etc. The general opinion here seems to be that gender and sex are identical. I don’t share that view.

Sex DNA anomolies of XXY and XYY are completely unrelated to cultural gender feeling identity issues. The design purpose of strings of initials like LGBTwhatever are as political foils against normative heterosexuality. They’re not biological equivalences of L=G=B=T=whatever else is added. Discuss chromosomal aberations and emotional stereotyping of cultural sexual behaviors as completely separate topics.

but generally the surgery does provide benefits and reduces suicide risk.

Data required. Cohenites link does not provide it.

It is possible that surgery merely postpones the suicide. So some of the poor buggers figure that they really have turned into women and subsequently discover that they have done nothing of the kind.

Ah. Takes me back. Two elderly women sniping at each other, and both moving from third to fourth gear.

KD, the Queanbeyan Cow came in with a solid attack on me with no provocation.

And if Delta had any compassion she would support the issues I have had, and speak of here, with autism in my family. She writes about it, but I doubt if she understands much about it. Mrs Prissy Headmistress rides again there, big noting herself with sententiousness. I’ve dealt with worse in my long and busy career.

I think I can call the Israeli defense to terrorism re the QC. I. Will. Hit. Back.

Nothing to do with being elderly. You are probably elderly too, KD.

Oh, and I didn’t invent the term Queanbeyan Cow. Another female Cat whom I know personally, who knows my situation, and who has a very inventive vocabulary here, and who is much loved, uses that appelation for this particular psychotic drunk when she attacks me over my commentary about my experiences with autism. It’s not Cassie, btw, who would have every reason to also use this term.

QC it is. Until we see some sustained improvement.

Anyway

Thanks for all your interactions and good wishes.

I’ll leave it to JC to tell his false narrative at the end….

Good night.

You are probably elderly too, KD.

Ah, no. To teenagers, yes. But otherwise, generally not. If I worked at McDonald’s or EY, I would have 15 years or so left in the workforce.

Look, it’s faintly amusing. A Hatfield/McCoy thing. Anyone over 70 can realistically be described as elderly, and that’s just fact.

So – two elderly women sniping at each other. I’m not taking sides, it’s just funny.

Like something you’d see on an English sitcom in the 80s.

Katzenjammer
Jan 19, 2024 10:43 PM
A study some months ago surprised researchers because it established much higher rates of XXY and XYY individuals than previously believed; though still very low rates overall. Those individuals are at much higher risk of experiencing gender dysphoria etc. The general opinion here seems to be that gender and sex are identical. I don’t share that view.

Sex DNA anomolies of XXY and XYY are completely unrelated to cultural gender feeling identity issues. The design purpose of strings of initials like LGBTwhatever are as political foils against normative heterosexuality. They’re not biological equivalences of L=G=B=T=whatever else is added. Discuss chromosomal aberations and emotional stereotyping of cultural sexual behaviors as completely separate topics.

You completely missed the point which was about the biological reality reflected in human behavior. The weight of evidence points to genetics having effects on all behaviors. Twin studies reveal striking concordances. Given the abuse and demonization of the LGBTQi community by so many, especially religious organisations, they had to fight back. They are not demanding the ending of heterosexuality, they are demanding to be recognized as citizens. Of course they go too far but if they didn’t fight they would still be facing jail time and assault. The current cultural trend is just another transition, no need to turn into some huge cultural war that threatens heterosexuality.

The current cultural trend is just another transition, no need to turn into some huge cultural war that threatens heterosexuality.

In our schools and elsewhere they are having a good go at threatening heterosexuality. This is more than a plea for cultural acceptance of people at the margins, this is a full on putsch to put them in the cultural forefront and everyone else to make no waves.

This is a recipe for many ruined lives. Call it out now before it takes further hold.

Fluttering off now. Perchance to dream.

My first pronouncment as an Elder.

Be kind to Custard. We do not eat Custard.

Goodnight.

poor ol’ custards

Perhaps he’s just having a ‘larf.

Warren Mundine in the OZ.

NYUNGGAI WARREN MUNDINE
Ignorance the basis for poisonous prejudice
The attackers’ main target was Jews, but their victims included Christians, Muslims and Buddhists; Palestinians, Bedouins and foreign nationals from every continent including Thai farm workers and Tanzanian agricultural students. The barbarians laughed and celebrated their crimes; filmed their atrocities and posted evidence of them on the internet.

The blood was barely dry before demonstrations sprang up globally advocating genocide against Jews, including at the supposedly elite universities. The chant, “from the river to the sea” means the destruction of Israel and elimination of the Jews. At times this subtlety was abandoned with express calls to kill Jews and for jihad against Jews, including in Australia.
Many of these bigots, especially in the universities, are champions of inclusivity and diversity and hold particular regard for indigenous peoples – other than the Jews. They see Nazis everywhere – except when they join demonstrations with Nazi ideologies on full display.

Australia’s character as a successful multicultural, multifaith, multiracial nation where everyone is equal is under threat, with anti-Semitic incidents up by over 700 per cent. Australian Jews are living in fear.

How does a Middle Eastern conflict cause threats against fellow Australians? The answer is blatant anti-Semitism supported by lies and gaslighting that would make Goebbels blush.
These bigots claim Israel is a colonial state; the Jews are settlers who’ve stolen Palestinian land and refuse a Palestinian state. The opposite is true.

Jews are indigenous people of Israel and have lived there since before recorded history. In 700 to 600BC, their kingdoms were conquered; their homelands subject to repeated conquest and colonisation thereafter, including by the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Ottoman Empire.

The creation of the modern state of Israel was an act of decolonisation. Palestinians with unbroken ancestry in the region who identify as Arabs, do so because they’ve adopted the identity, language and, in many cases, religion of colonisers from the Arabian Peninsula more than 1000 miles away.

When their kingdoms fell, some Jews were forced into Europe, the wider Middle East and North Africa. This diaspora experienced ongoing persecution. Jews had lived in Algeria since around the 1st century AD, over 600 years before Algeria’s conquest by the Arabs. When it secured independence from France in 1962, one colonial power made way for another and Algeria again became an Arab state. But only Algerians with Muslim fathers or paternal grandfathers were granted citizenship, so its 140,000 Jews were forced out within a decade.

Around 900,000 Jews were driven out of countries across the Middle East and North Africa where they’d lived for millennia. None claim a right of return.

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the Jews’ traditional lands, by then known as Palestine, were administered by Britain. In 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration endorsing Palestine becoming a nation for Jews. In the face of Arab opposition, this promise wasn’t honoured for 30 years, by which time the plan had changed to partitioning Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Jews accepted this. Palestinians did not and the West Bank was annexed by Jordan, Gaza by Egypt.

On its creation in 1948, Israel was immediately invaded by Arab states. Those Palestinians who fled did so not as a precondition to Israel’s creation, but during that war. While there were a range of reasons some Palestinians left Israel, these reasons included getting out of the way of attacking Arab armies and being urged to leave by Arab leaders who believed Israel would be quickly defeated. It wasn’t.

During this and later wars, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt. Both rejected Israel’s offers to return captured territory in return for peace agreements. When Egypt later agreed to recognise Israel and enter a peace treaty, Israel handed it back the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt didn’t want Gaza back.

Arab states have gradually moved towards normalised relations with Israel. But Palestinian leaders remain defiant, refusing multiple offers of a Palestinian state. Because they oppose a two-state solution. They want one state, not being Israel.

Israel hasn’t occupied Gaza for nearly 20 years. Hamas has been in control, ruling through violence, fear and the indoctrination of children. Billions in aid has been spent, not on building prosperity or creating opportunities, but on weapons, tunnel construction and enriching Hamas’s leaders.

Hamas wants Israel destroyed. This isn’t a secret. It’s clearly stated in Hamas’s 1988 covenant and 2017 charter; manifestos riddled with anti-Semitic tropes, conspiracy theories and historical falsehoods. The covenant states: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” And: “Palestine is an Islamic Waqf (an endowment or Holy possession) land consecrated for Muslim generations until Judgment Day … This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Muslims have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations till the Day of Judgment.”

If you can’t imagine how people could commit the horrors of October 7, read those documents and find out.

We’ve seen the savagery humans are capable of in Rwanda, in the former Yugoslavia, during the Holocaust. Also a decade ago under the ISIS caliphate, with videos of people being beheaded and burned alive in cages, women and girls sold into sexual slavery and gay men thrown off rooftops.

October 7 wasn’t only an attack on Israel. It was also an attack on the civilised world.
All reasonable people, including Israel’s government and military, are concerned about the impact of this battle on Gazan civilians. History indicates it’s impossible to avoid civilian casualties when fighting monstrous regimes with no regard for human life.

An estimated 600,000 German civilians (including 76,000 children) died in Allied bombings during World War II. No one really knows how many civilians died in the defeat of ISIS. Up to 11,000 civilians, 10 times the official estimate, are believed killed in the battle for Mosul alone, but it’s hard to know how many were buried under the eight million tonnes of rubble. That’s just one city.

We don’t know the true number of Gazan civilian casualties because the figures are provided by Hamas, prolific liars who don’t distinguish between civilians and combatants. We do know casualties would be massively reduced if Hamas didn’t conduct itself from schools and hospitals or use Gazans as human shields.

We also know Israeli military action could be ended if Hamas returns the hostages and delivers up the October 7 attackers to face justice. But only Hamas has this within its power.

Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO DUniv (Hon. Causa) is director, Indigenous Forum, Centre for Independent Studies.