Back in 2018, a homeless shelter in California was sued by a group of homeless women who were sexually harassed at the shelter. One of the conditions of staying there is a daily shower which homeless women attend in groups. The shelter allowed a “trans woman” to join the showering. The “trans woman” then proceeded to harass the naked and terrified women. And they couldn’t refuse the shower altogether because then they’d be back on the street.
The homeless women lost their lawsuit on civil rights grounds. The shelter is legally obligated to accept men and let them into female showers at all times. Men have a civil right to force themselves into the presence of naked women. Women, on the other hand, have no civil right not to have men harass them and wave their penises at them. (Curiously, no “trans men” are eager to erupt into places filled with naked men. It’s a mystery how that works.)
This is why Christopher Caldwell says that we have turned the civil rights legislation into an alternative constitution and it made our original constitution quite irrelevant. It’s now all about who can wrangle out the most bizarre of “right” based on the most successful victimhood claims. And it’s all insanely fluid because exactly at the time when the homeless women were being harassed at the shelter, we were all being #MeTooted out of existence and daily heard claims of harassment that were nothing compared to the horror experienced by the homeless women.
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This is what is being done in Europe through EU legislation overriding national laws, and through recourse to the European Court of Human Rights. What’s the point of democracy if ultimately voters have no means of repealing measures that they find unappealing or wrong or undemocratic?
It’s a feature, not a bug. This explains why in many countries people root for criminals: where raw power is the determining feature, they get the satisfaction of seeing that the system is not rigged. He who is the strongest rules, without hiding behind the fig leaf of “the will of the people”.
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I’m hearing that far-left won the election in France. The Left triumphed in Great Britain, too. I believe this is all the answer we need. Europeans are choosing this. And quite eagerly.
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Labor won with 600,000 fewer votes than they got in their landmark defeat in 2019. Tories lost more than labor won.
I think the bigger story is that the center-right is dying everywhere. It is no longer sufficient to call yourself “right wing” and implement liberal policies when you get into power like the tories have done for the last 12 years with mass immigration, DEI, and covid madness. I for one welcome this development. Rightist positions are more popular than ever. Let’s see who has the courage to run on this platform.
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At least we know what exactly won in France:
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1810080190791647591?t=ktrQg18r5olWf8FMlb5bCg&s=19
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Civilizational suicide.
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Generally, you want to exclude the most dangerous people from power sharing, although you need to update your position to consider the current rather than historical threats.
In SA, candidates funded by Putin have been excluded from the coalition as well as those who sing songs about killing farmers.
Apart from that, it seems that the president has tried to include everybody, even if only in symbolic positions.
When it comes to the top jobs, the main priority would appear to be avoiding becoming Argentina and maintaining independence from the IMF.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-07-01-very-big-very-bloated-but-will-the-government-of-national-unity-cabinet-be-better/
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