The author of this article was Bush's speech writer famous for crafting the axis of evil

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/28/usa.iran

German Defense Minister Pistorius reacts to Vance's speech: "This is not acceptable." pic.twitter.com/LdVuLC6PbU

— AlexandruC4 (@AlexandruC4) February 14, 2025

Is this what cancel culture achieved : The Atlantic

Over the weekend, the artist and entrepreneur Kanye West, now known as Ye, let loose a blitzkrieg of appalling screeds to his 33 million followers on X. "IM A NAZI," he proclaimed. He reiterated his position that "SLAVERY WAS A CHOICE," contended that "JEWS WERE BETTER AS SLAVES YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR JEWS IN THEIR PLACE AND MAKE THEM INTO YOUR SLAVES," implied that domestic violence is a self-sacrificing form of love, and shared a screengrab tallying the sales receipts for a White Lives Matter T-shirt sold on his Yeezy website. By Monday, the only product for sale on the site was a white T-shirt adorned with a black swastika, and his X account had been deleted.

Remarkably, this was not the highest-stakes or most widely discussed racist controversy on that social-media platform during the same time frame. On Friday, Vice President J. D. Vance defended Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency office, who was revealed to have posted (pseudonymously), "I was racist before it was cool," "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," and "Normalize Indian hate."

When Ro Khanna, the Indian American representative from California, inquired of Vance—whose wife and children are of Indian descent—whether, "for the sake of both of our kids," he would ask Elez for an apology, Vance became apoplectic. Toward Khanna. "For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up," he fumed on X. "Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children."

Elez resigned from his post, and Musk asked his 217 million followers on X what they thought: Should he be reinstated? Almost 80 percent of those who replied said yes. Later that day, Musk confirmed that Elez would be "brought back" to DOGE. Not only was a self-professed racist like Elez not canceled—on the contrary, he was transformed overnight by some of the most powerful (and pugnacious) men in America into a national cause célèbre.

Incidentally, this was the same week that Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm, announced that it had hired Daniel Penny as "a Deal Partner" working on its "American Dynamism team." Penny, a former Marine, was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide after he held a mentally ill man in a choke hold on the subway, and the man died. In an internal memo reported by The New York Times, an Andreessen Horowitz partner praised him for showing "courage in a tough situation."

If a vogue for virtue signaling defined the 2010s and early 2020s, peaking in 2020 during the feverish summer of protest and pandemic—a period in which pronouns in bio, land acknowledgments, black squares, diversity statements, and countless other ethical performances became a form of social capital—something like the exact photonegative of that etiquette has set in now. The reassertion of brute reactionary power in the dual ascendancy of Donald Trump and Elon Musk has brought us to a cultural tipping point. Virtue be darned: Now we are living in an era of relentless, unapologetic vice signaling. Of all of Ye's deranged posts, one was particularly confusing. "DO YALL THINK I CAN TURN THE TIDE ON ALL THIS WOKE POLITICALLY CORRECT SHIT," he asked. Here it seemed the infamous trendsetter was decidedly behind the times.

After a decade and a half of progressive dominance over America's agenda-setting institutions—corporations, universities, media, museums—during which everyone was on the lookout for the scantest evidence of racism, sexism, xenophobia, transphobia, and every other interpersonal and systemic ill, it is not at all frivolous to ask what has been achieved. What, to put it bluntly, was all that cancel culture for?

If the genuine but ill-conceived goal was to create a kinder, friendlier, more inclusive and equitable world for all (often paradoxically by means of shaming, coercion, and intimidation), the real-world effect has been an abysmal rightward overcorrection in which norms of decency have been gleefully obliterated. We have not merely been delivered back to the pre-woke era of the early 2000s. Nor is what we're seeing some insubstantial vibe shift in manners and aesthetics, confined to the internet.

Consider: We had a #MeToo movement characterized by sometimes disproportionate reputational sacrifices; now we have a presidential Cabinet populated by men with credible sexual-assault accusations on their records. The stifling racist/anti-racist binary of the anti-racism movement has led to the wholesale dismantling of DEI initiatives in both the government and the private sector. The insistence that "no human is illegal" has ended with an unconstitutional attempt to retract birthright citizenship. And the push not just for tolerance but for the equivalence of trans athletes with cisgender athletes has culminated with the president banishing "gender ideology" and surrounding himself with a multiethnic crowd of beaming girls to sign the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order. On every single issue that mattered to them, progressives now find themselves in a weaker position than before.

In The Opium of the Intellectuals, the French sociologist Raymond Aron observed that utopian programs are "refuted not so much by their failure as by the successes they have achieved." In the blistering weeks since Trump's inauguration, we can say that this has been axiomatically true of the movement we look back on now as "wokeness."

!coons

Context

https://rdrama.net/post/325041/ewhore-has-a-marseywomanmoment2-and-decides

This greasy whore fricked 101 gross moids in a single day while her cuck bf cleaned up all the c*m. Now she's preggers!

This is a victory for feminism everywhere.

!chuds !BIPOCs would you?

The White House digital team deserves an award for what they have been pulling off. pic.twitter.com/zdkxMHsGy0

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 31, 2025

>400k views

>endless roasties complaining about abusive exes in the comments

>countless incels cope and rope posting

>America will never recover from this forbidden knowledge

Also lul

NEW NGO REPORT: After years on the run, the fugitive leader of the Trantifa terror cell linked to six violent deaths has finally been apprehended. Jack "Ziz" LaSota, Michelle Zajko & Daniel Blank were arrested in a forested area in western rural Maryland. https://t.co/TP4htslzR9

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 18, 2025

Im finding that very short-form stuff works better. Unfortunately all I have left is longer stuff.

recovered edgelords and others that almost fell down the rightoid pipeline, how did you escape it? Im curious

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 28, 2025

i actually talked and listened to girls

— space cadet🐝 (@neurodivergentastronaut) January 29, 2025

Funnily enough I joined the army and it changed my views on everything, now I’m a non-binary hoe

— GEHRMY (@Gehrman1987) January 29, 2025

'transed by the military' kinda goes hard as a backstory i wont lie....

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

i watched filthyfrank, idubbbz, pewdiepie, etc and never fell down any sort of right pipeline, which is weird cause ive seen a lot of ppl say theyre like “babys first right content”

— skibidi potty no egg 🍋🎰 (@honkedspleen) January 29, 2025

filthyfrank is one of those great satirical characters imo
too many dumbfricks laughed -with- this intentionally vile creature than -at- him like intended, which is why...

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

amazing friendship with trans man

— Zariah (@Zariahcat) January 28, 2025

Lmao imagine getting radicalized by Ben Shapiro tho:

My high school biology teacher explained how s*x and gender are different and I was like “oh that makes sense”

— Kasey 🚬🦈 (@sodastoque) January 29, 2025

my high school biology teacher once said "i have nothing against gays but i find it unnatural" (germany, btw)
lucky you lol

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

High school biology education is so often really failing the students. We need biology teachers to at least make one class to talk purely about how almost nothing is binary and about how beautifully messy biology is 😔

— Seviel (@Sumeru_Sevi) January 30, 2025

Thought everyone was joking, one day realized not everyone was

— Bored_FritzYT (@BoredFritz) January 29, 2025

You're a sp00k enabler. Should have fallen down the rightoid pipeline. You love sp00ks and you ought not to. Sp00ks don't like you - the rightoids are a bulwark against said sp00ks. Sp00ks will not show you the same respect you show them. Sp00ks will do sp00k things

— Orange_DYE (@OrangeDYE2) January 30, 2025

I'm actively fighting against falling down the pipeline so I occasionally say things that some people might find "edgy".

It's mainly because I tend to lean to the economic right, but for social issues I support progressivism.

— SpaceWalker (@SpaceWalkerReal) January 29, 2025

i think that a country that has to pay taxes and calls itself the "richest on earth" should also get something in return for said wealth, things that benefit everyone, like a functional public transport system and medicine, things declared as "radical, socialist" in the US

— ·ᛚᛐⲁ𝚌𝚑𝚒·ᛚᛐ𝚘𝚛𝚒· (@MachiToons) January 29, 2025

I started working full-time and didn't have enough time to watch hours and hours of youtube essays. So I just slowly drifted away from that ideology. I'm so glad I got out before TikTok was a thing because I know I would be cooked

— Culti (@CultiZk) January 29, 2025

I escaped it by going to college. Leaving my small town and actually experiencing life and other people from different backgrounds, I understood that empathy is better than being making edgy jokes. Getting to meet other people who are different from you teaches so much

— Sycamore’s Source (@sycamoressource) January 30, 2025

In high school the only kids who were kind to me were queer kids. So I started sitting at their table. I had already been repressing my own trans side for years and being around them let me break free and be more of myself.

— FemboyFishing🏳️‍⚧️🎣 (@FemboyYt) January 29, 2025

https://x.com/hontologies/status/1884807384805060618

I fell down the Anti-SJW pipeline cause of a bunch of YouTubers. I climbed out of after I found myself disagreeing with them more and more and hearing them just get meaner and more extreme over time until eventually I just kinda went "why tf am I watching this?"

— Zestful Maple (He, Him) 🏳️‍🌈 (@ZestfulM) January 29, 2025

I was very anti-woke starting in like 2013, 2014. It seemed illiberal, unfair, and anti-meritocratic. I never went full Trump but I certainly was anti-left.

I think some combination of AI progress, the political pendulum swinging, and a better understanding of how power is…

— noah (@nkreu113r) January 30, 2025

started seeing my mom differently in the eyes of mgtow and it hit me like a truck that i’m following something sinister

— str_br (@Teller038) January 29, 2025

!nonchuds

Really elucidating (and depressing) read, Matt Christman's fate really is a fitting metaphor for the dirtbag left. The movement ultimately went nowhere with all its personalities either fading into obscurity or chudding out like A+D, forever trapped in the mind prison of "what if Bernie got elected?"

The landlord stuff is especially depressing, it's pretty clear by now that leftism correlates heavily with personal and financial administrative incompetence, but the fact that these people make six figures a month and are still renting + faux seething about their landlord (clearly for their loser audience) in their 30s really boggles the mind.

I think in the end the dirtbag left, with it's airs of cold cynicism, realpolitik and class analysis will be remembered as naive and unsophisticated.

Wanna specify with this I'm absolutely not making fun of/gloating about Matt Christman here, I wouldn't wish anyone (especially with a family) to go through that.

Elon buying X so that he can algorithmically detect when any egirl announces she’s off birth control and start getting into her replies pic.twitter.com/OgTPXNKwFc

— Lee (Greater) (@shortmagsmle) February 15, 2025

The foid claims she had a kid with him

Worst part is r-slurred eastern Europeans saying the game is broken when they can literally just turn rollback off.

Canada becomes a US territory.

The tariffs end.

Federal taxes are scrapped.

We become US citizens & gain the US Constitution.

We can preserve Canada's history & the Canadian identity within the Union.

Just like how Texans or Floridians or Californians have a unique culture.

— Zachary Tisdale 🇨🇦 (@ztisdale) February 2, 2025

I think the Tariffs start on Tuesday, so the Canadians are mentally preparing for their surrender on Sunday

!crossword

We will work on this week's crosswords next Sunday in a special double edition. I will also (hopefully) have a surprise to announce at that time too

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