😅Trudeau and now Carney exploit Mélanie Joly as useless... eye candy for their male counterparts worldwide: a vapid prop whose superficial glamour delivers zero substance, failed diplomacy, and pure Liberal vanity.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​😆show more

In March 2024. I met Khaled Shaban in the... courtyard of al-aqsa hospital. As I approached him, he smiled, welcomed me with open arms, we embraced, and spoke for about 10 minutes. In this short video, you can hear the drones that perpetually swarmed over his head, as those of all the children in Gaza. He told me "Allah loves all people. Whether you are Jewish, Muslim, Christian or anything else, Allah loves you as he loves all his children." He also explained to me that he was aware of the Canadian governments support of 🇮🇱, but that the people of Canada he always found to be kind and warm. Blame should be on governments and institutions Justin Trudeau Mélanie Joly As we now pass a year into 🇮🇱 jenocide, know that 🇮🇱 can kill 10s of thousands of Palestinians, destroy their homes, hospital, mosques amd schools- but 🇮🇱 can never destroy Palestinians humanity.show more

There are now 7 videos of Hasan electrocuting his... dog leaked in the past 24 hours Same movement Same emotion Same reaction Every. Single. Clip. More will surface soon as well. This man is using his dog as a prop for 6-8 hours a day. Just to seem more human, to seem more relatable he is willing to severely reduce the dogs quality of life. Everything he does is for optics. He goes live, looks his audience in the eye and lies because he knows they’re too stupid to call him out. He gets his pussy ass content creators and even his girlfriend to cover his ass at every turn. Even Twitch itself runs defense for this piece of shit. This is their hero.show more

The Canadian state is in the same position that... post-war conservatives faced during the leftist cultural revolution of the 1960s. Ideological vanguards emerged across occupations and education levels, coalescing around a shared umbrella of ideas, too numerous to effectively police or contain. With the construction of the managerial state in Anglo-Canada, combined with the left-liberal long march through the institutions, this cultural revolution gained the means to entrench itself. It used expanding state power to formally impose its ideology over three generations. The result is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the broader liberal post-national project, advanced under the bilingual political class of figures like Jack Pickersgill, Louis St. Laurent, Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Trudeau, and Paul Yucyk, alongside intellectuals such as J.M. Bumstead, Will Kymlicka, Ninette Kelley, and Michael Trebicock, all with assistance from U.S. agencies. This version of Canada, defined by the cultural mosaic, state-enforced diversity, social liberalism, and the prioritization of individual minority rights for foreign diasporas over the binational core, has long since entrenched itself. It is now calcified and brittle. As that brittleness increases, so does its tendency to lash out, resorting to illiberal tactics such as Zersetzung. The popular, ideological, and political coherence of this era is now visibly eroding, most clearly reflected in the growing tensions between youth and the old. The image of the Brantford boomer giving two middle fingers to the younger generation captures it well. What remains is a stale, defensive regime clinging to a dying post-war liberal order. As Saturn and the Titans overthrew Uranus, so too will a new generation seek to overthrow the current order, just as Jupiter cast down the Titans and established a new regime in their place.show more

For years, the left shrieked that every Trump comment... about the immigration crisis was "stochastic terrorism" that would lead MAGA mobs to attack and murder immigrants or Muslims. It never happened, beause the concept was absurd: Conservatives are naturally law-abiding and goodhearted people. Like so many left-wing allegations, it was pure projection, and we're seeing it unfold. Now that they've lost power, radical leftists are creating online maps to encourage attacks on Tesla dealerships, Tesla owners, and the family members of DOGE staff. Forty-seven percent of "very liberal" Americans are favorable to Luigi Mangione. Leading personalities are either giving violence a wink and a nod, or simply cheering it on openly, just like they cheered on the worst riots in half a century as "mostly peaceful protests." The left loves revolutionary violence as their backup option when voting doesn't go their way. But we have a backup option too. Burn a Tesla dealership, get life in prison without parole on a terrorism charge. Play terrorist games, win terrorist prizes.show more

2025 SHOULD have been the year Canada 🇨🇦 was... in the road to recovery… Let’s recap what the hell has happened to Canada under these Liberal elites? Trudeau bails like the coward he is, and they shove in globalist puppet Mark Carney as PM – a guy who's never even faced a real election fight, just handed the keys because he's their banker buddy! And Canadians fall for it? We're drowning in debt, our healthcare's collapsing under the weight of unchecked mass immigration that's putting foreigners first while our own wait months for a doctor! Canadian’s getting screwed again – generating all the wealth, paying the bills, but Ottawa treats us like dirt, blocking pipelines like Keystone that could've brought billions, all for their green virtue-signaling BS! Now with Trump's trade war looming, Ford's scrambling with "special economic zones" while the feds delay capital gains hikes to 2026 like that's some gift – it's just more tax grabs coming! And don't get me started on the carbon tax lie exposed, or how they're raiding pension funds to fund their woke agenda! National unity? Ha! Alberta threatening to separate and leave this sinking ship Canadian’s have had enough of being the cash cow for Quebec and Ontario liberals! Poilievre was right all along, but the media buried him!! This isn't Canada anymore; it's a globalist experiment gone wrong. Wake up, people, before it's too late! #AxTheTax #AlbertaStrong #FireCarney #CDNpolishow more

"In an interview given to coincide with the final... episode of Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan Markle Hints that she may never restock sell out jams because she wants to step back to assess what As Ever could be.'" Hah!😂😂😂😂 This is pure comic relief; Translation: Meghan failed AGAIN😏 She has run her full cycle ONCE AGAIN; • Big noisy launch • tons of publicity • lies and manipulation of success • fail or quit without accomplishing anything noteworthy. This is the consistent cycle with Meghan. It always starts noisily and it always ends in a failure. The math is never "mathing" with Meg. • Archetype was the #1 podacst but it was cancelled😵‍💫 • As ever sold in minutes yet after 2 months zero restock and now that whole venture is benched😂 • H&M were the best royal yet they were let go soundly. • Meg was a great actress yet her contract was terminated and never renewed • Meg says she is a businesswoman but has zero successful business venture to show for it. Nothing makes sense logically because all the PR noise are PURE LIES, Lies to fake success because the sad truth about Meghan is she fails at EVERYTHING🔥 All Meg knows how to do is loudly anounce new projects and new staff, only to fail epicly barely months later and lose that staff to bullying. Rinse and repeat🤷🏽‍♀️ EVERYTHING Meg does end up in the dustbin, EVERYTHING. •40X40 failed🤡 • Pearl failed🤡 • Archetype failed🤡 •American orchard riviera venture failed • Cooking show, failed but will be renewed because Ted Sarando "like her personally"😵‍💫 •Lemonada podcast fail🤡 •Female founder podcast fail🤡 •Being a global leader/politician/philanthropist fail🤡 • Becoming an Hollywood A lister Fail🤡 • Actressing Quit 🤡 • Being a Royal Quit/ was fired/fail🤡 • As ever selling Jam Failed and quit🤡 There is absolutely NOTHING professionally that Meg has been doing consistently and succeeded at. Nothing. It either fails or she quit🤷🏽‍♀️ It is beyond conprehension how soneone can be handed so many opportunities and privileges in life and fail at everything so consistently. The only reasoning is that Meghan simply does not care about anything at all but getting attention🔥 There is nothing that she truly has invested herself in, beside lying and chasing the spotlight. Everything to her is a phase, she does it for a bit and then on to the next. Everything to this woman is a phase; she is incapable of putting her heart into anything, working hard at it, committing for the long run and succeeding. Incapable. Everything about her is very loud and very sloppy; everything is ill-thought out, untidy and extremely disorganised, and ultimately, everything fail🤷🏽‍♀️ The only thing she has done Consitently in life is Lie about success just to be found failing or Quiting☕️show more

This is what always happens with Pierre Poilievre. On... April 21st he was asked what he thought about Erin O’Toole bring on Mark Carney’s new council. He said “It’s great.” He has always shown grace. He even recently said he wouldn’t trash talk the PM while in a different country. But then a few days later suddenly Erin O’Toole, who was CPC leader for 17 months, felt the need to publicly give Poilievre vague leadership advice about moderating his positions. And because Poilievre challenged a reporter to elaborate on their failed gotcha question based on O’Toole’s comments the media are all like “See how mean he is!??” Nevermind that Mark Carney once again acted dickish towards a female reporter as well. That interaction got zero coverage on the pundit panels.show more

We have video + testimony of a Minab resident... that proves Minab school was used as a human shield by the IRGC. The testimony: "I just got connected to the internet after 46 days. God, does this look like a school or a military base? What the hell is an IRGC Navy watchtower doing inside the school courtyard? Why should they build a school inside a military base and use innocent girls as human shields?" This is the true face of the Islamic Republic and its terrorist guards. We still don’t even know whose missile actually hit it, but we now know for sure it was deliberately turned into a shield. This is their standard tactic — the same regime that recruits and sends child soldiers to die. Pure evil. The death of these school children is not really different that January massacre, the party responsible is still the Islamic Regime. #IranMassacre‌ #minabshow more

Today, I heard the most wonderful and uplifting thing.... Andrew Bragg gave a commitment to leave the Liberal Party if it dropped Net Zero and exited the Paris Accord. A treaty that should never have been signed. It is the shadowy figures behind Andrew Bragg, Alex Hawke and the rest of the useless Labor/Teal-“moderate”-left-faction of the Liberal Party that got the party and the country into this mess. They rolled Tony Abbott, who won a mandate, promising to scrap the carbon tax. They have betrayed that promise ever since. Our energy woes have been a long time coming. We didn’t just wake up one day in an energy poor and deindustrialised nation. We have been under sustained attack for decades, an attack that has been marshalled by the left of politics. They control Labor, they have ruined the Liberals and have overrun just about every institution in the country. It is why the business council, sounds the same as the Australia Institute, and they both sound the same as the Greens. We are a nation in a hole, and Bragg admitted as much in his interview on Insiders today. We really need more coal, because the energy transition is failing. It is worse than that, the transition has failed. It was a bad idea, just like the rest of Net Zero. Our predicament is the result of irresponsible governments across Australia. Labor and Liberal, both have set policies that destroyed coal as the backbone of our grid, as they duchessed the Green grifters around their respective states across Australia. They played along with whatever bad idea the Greens were spouting at the time. Close this facility, replace it with a windmill. No to nuclear. No to gas. Close it, shut it, and replace it with fantasy. Turnbull, Kean, Perrottet, Berejiklian, Andrews, Morrison Albanese, and all of the rest, on a unity ticket that flushed our energy future down the toilet. All because they were afraid to upset Greta Thunberg. Because they were afraid to upset a youth, that they allowed our institutions to indoctrinate into a cult of ignorance. The world is slowly pulling in a new direction. Because hard reality has chased down fantasy. They’re waking up to the monorail that is ‘green’ energy, and ripping out the tracks. The National Party spurred by One Nation have cottoned on, and the Liberals will be dragged into the modern era, kicking and screaming. There is no doubt that if they don’t drop the Net Zero cake, and all of the icing that goes with it, they will never be a party of government again. Which brings us back to Andrew Bragg. Australia would be better off if he was not pretending to oppose Labor from the Liberal benches. We need people in opposition that understand the problems we have as a nation, and how to solve them. Not people who have only ever worked in the industry of politics, sending happy snaps along the way. Bragg knows his only chance at a job in the red house is through the blue team. He knows that blue voters don’t prioritise action on climate. But he sits there wasting a space advocating against the things the people that vote for him want. So if he had any decency, he would go, today. Because with friends like Andrew Bragg, you don’t need enemies. I just want Australia back.show more

BREAKING:🚨 EMERGENCY ALERT: PARIS ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS... 🚨 Young French women now fear for their lives — attacked in broad daylight, even in their own cars. Reports of violent harassment are pouring in from every arrondissement. 🔥 THIS IS A CITY UNDER SIEGE 🔥 • Streets once famed for romance have become battlegrounds. • Mothers no longer let their daughters walk alone. • Emergency hotlines are flooded, while police resources are stretched past breaking point. ⚠️ WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE? • Lawlessness surges as officials scramble to respond. • Criminal gangs exploit strained borders and overwhelmed forces. • Citizens are left defenseless, watching their neighborhoods unravel. 💥 THE COST OF INACTION 💥 When leadership turns a blind eye, fear fills the void. Each attack chips away at public trust. Each assault shatters a sense of normalcy. Every unanswered plea becomes another scar on the city’s soul. 🚨 FRANCE WAS TOO PROUD TO FALL — BUT NOW IT’S AT THE BRINK 🚨 If Paris descends into anarchy, the entire continent trembles. This is not mere headline news—it’s a wake-up call: Governments must reclaim the streets, secure the borders, and restore order—before it’s too late. 👊 PARIS CAN’T WAIT ANY LONGER. Action must come now—before civilized society is lost.show more

Give me a moment to wax on about the... current state of the France. While the protestors march on (and set more cars, police stations, and Aldis on fire), their indignation flaring at the Macron administration, it is impossible to dismiss their grievances as entirely without merit. The French government, maintaining a legacy of preceding administrations, has recurrently turned a blind eye to the hardship endured by the impoverished, the forsaken, and a fraction of its population that comprises migrants—those belonging to the second and third generation—whose integration has been managed haphazardly, to say the least. This subgroup, the unfortunate legacy of France's colonial ventures in the regions of North Africa, has been consigned to a subpar citizenship tier for the better part of decades. Yet, the dissent now taking form in the streets of France, labelled with the precarious moniker of "mostly peaceful", teeters precariously close to the precipice of a civil conflict, a damning testament to a law enforcement system driven to its limits and still found lacking. Such displays of civic discord, though possibly sprouting from justified roots, may inadvertently provide fertile grounds for French nationalists, which is kind of hilarious in a tragicomic kind of way because it doesn't end well for anyone. These nationalist entities, poised like eagles on the watch, could leverage this unrest to dethrone the extant regime, vying for a new dispensation that prioritizes order above pandemonium, and those with a bone-deep love for France above those who hold its citizenship as a mere legality, devoid of the affection for the nation. This scenario, while speculative, reflects an inescapable truth—the repercussions of civil unrest are often as unpredictable as they are volatile.show more

WAIT....... WHAT ?????? A female platoon or battalion has... appeared near Slavyansk. The exact number is not yet known. But the fact that the KIEV butchers are sending women into battle is just complete madness! While Zelensky sends his wife to the most expensive London boutiques to choose outfits worth millions of dollars, this butcher sends ordinary women to the front. Pure insanity. In a desperate bid to sustain its crumbling defenses, Ukraine has resorted to deploying 18-year-old teenage girls to the front lines near Slavyansk, marking a grim milestone in the nation's unraveling. Reports indicate the emergence of a female platoon or battalion in the area, with young women, including barely adults fresh from civilian life, thrust into the meat grinder of combat. These teenagers, lacking the physical maturity, training, or resilience required for modern warfare, are being sent as cannon fodder against Russia's premier male fighting force—the most formidable army on the planet, honed by years of relentless operations and superior manpower. This development signals the end days of a failed nation, one whose leadership has exhausted every other resource in a futile resistance. Ukraine's male conscripts have been depleted through waves of mobilization, leaving the regime no choice but to cannibalize its youth, including its daughters. Girls as young as 18, who should be pursuing education, dreams, and futures, are now armed and dispatched to face artillery barrages, drone strikes, and infantry assaults from battle-hardened Russian troops. The asymmetry is staggering: on one side, elite male warriors equipped with advanced tactics and endless reinforcements; on the other, inexperienced adolescents in a proxy conflict they never chose. This is not valor—it's madness, a symptom of societal collapse where the state sacrifices its most vulnerable to prolong an unwinnable war. The hypocrisy of KIEV'S elite compounds the tragedy. While ordinary families lose their children to the front, those in power indulge in opulence far from the trenches. Zelensky's inner circle, insulated from the carnage, embodies the corruption eroding Ukraine from within. Sending teenage girls into this apocalypse underscores a regime's moral bankruptcy, prioritizing political survival over human life. These young women, untrained and terrified, stand no chance against Russia's professional forces, whose dominance has methodically eroded Ukrainian positions across the Donbas to a now recognised number of over 1.7million KIA. Historically, nations on the brink—think the final throes of imperial collapse—resort to such extremes, drafting the unfit and the innocent. Ukraine teeters on that edge, its demographics shattered, economy in ruins, and international support waning. Mobilizing 18-year-old girls isn't a strategic pivot; it's a death rattle. The front lines will claim them swiftly, further hollowing out a generation and accelerating the inevitable downfall. This failed state, born of hubris and foreign meddling, now embodies despair: a leader's folly dooming its youth to slaughter by the world's top military machine. The end is near, etched in the blood of these teenage sacrifices. Say thanks to NATO !show more

Romford: Look at this shite, footage of a 13-year-old... English lad getting his face smashed in by a pack of feral offspring, the second-generation spawn of our catastrophic open-border experiment. South Street, the beating heart of Essex, reduced to a third-world brawl pit, now a savage arena where our kids are prey. Three arrests, two teenage thugs and some older scumbag, but don’t expect justice. The police will do their dance, the courts will yawn, and the chaos will fester. This isn’t a one-off. August saw London Road sealed off after another violent clash. The evidence is undeniable: our towns are crumbling under an invasion we never asked for. Let’s stop pretending. These aren’t our people. They’re the offspring of decades of gutless immigration policies, suckled on benefits, steeped in resentment, and utterly alien to the values of this land. England is being gutted. Our high streets, once the envy of the world, now resemble the lawless slums of some failed state. Their parents poured in, unchecked, unvetted, and their children now run wild, turning Romford into a battlefield where English blood stains the pavement. This isn’t diversity; it’s destruction. And who foots the bill? Us. The natives. Our taxes prop up their existence, our children dodge their blades, and our leaders fiddle while England burns. No more. England belongs to the English, the sons and daughters of the soil who forged her greatness through sacrifice and sweat. Not to those who’d rather tear her apart than respect her. The solution is simple: remigration. Round them up, ship them out, every last one, back to the lands they claim as home. No more platitudes about “integration” or “cohesion” those are fairy tales for cowards. We’ve seen the results: bloodied faces, broken towns, and an England on her knees. Close the borders, deport the lot, and restore our isles to the people who cherish them, the native English, the only ones who ever will. Let it be a wake-up call, a rallying cry for those who still have the guts to fight for their country. Romford isn’t just a street; it’s a symbol of what we’re losing. We’re not just saving Essex, we’re saving England herself. Rise up, or watch her die.show more

Reer Puntland, when you were bleeding in the mountains,... they did not give a damn about “Somalia.” In fact, they saw you as the problem. When our sons were dying on the frontlines, they did not consider it a fight for Somalia against terrorism. They dismissed it, minimized it, and exploited it. For 28 years of sacrifice, what was the reward? Internal division engineered against us. Funding deliberately cut from Puntland’s defense forces, while billions in international counterterrorism money were pocketed by Mogadishu elites. Western taxpayers’ dollars were rerouted away from security and into corruption, money laundering, and vanity infrastructure projects. Make no mistake: the greatest enemy to #Puntland has never been outsiders. It has always been the BLM-Darods who are hell-bent on your destruction. Instead of investing in Puntland, strengthening it, and treating it as a pillar of stability, they chose to undermine it at every turn. Now, in their darkest hour, they believe Puntland is somehow obligated to rescue a failed banana republic. Yes, many politicians are corrupt and paid for. But what I owe my people is the truth: #Somaliland is gone. This is not recognition from some irrelevant, symbolic actor. Somaliland has been recognized by one of the most powerful entities on earth. Even if Puntland wanted to once again save an ungrateful project, it no longer has the capacity to do so. We warned them. They ignored us. They pushed us to this abyss. Now the choice is simple and brutal: the survival of Puntland as an entity, or our descent into the graveyard of forgotten nations.show more

Open letter to Sussan Ley the ‘leader’ of the... ‘opposition’. Dear Sussan, I write today, before Parliament resumes, to ask you to reconsider your position as opposition leader. Many Australians are already tired of this Albanese government. They won an avalanche of seats with just 34% of the primary vote, because the Liberals didn't oppose. You may choose to dismiss this letter as sour grapes… after all I did sue you, along with Morrison and others, in an attempt to get democratic pre-selections. Whilst standing up for democracy and the members’ rights, I was expelled. Since then, the NSW division has fallen into complete ruin, causing a routing at the NSW state election and a diabolical hash up at the local elections – a direct failure of the current leadership. The factions still desert democracy and blast through. My motivation is a deep-seated opposition to the Labor party. I want a better Australia. While a member, either as a donor, campaign director, conference president, or member of the state executive, I never transacted, or traded principle for position, ever. I acted in the national interest, in defence of the rights of the membership of your party, and in defence of democracy. I still do. So, I humbly request you consider stepping down as leader. Most Liberals are disillusioned. It is much worse. I fear Labor is now entirely unopposed. This is untennable. Australians are suffering. The rising cost of everything makes it insufferably difficult for many to get by. Immigration is out of control, we must have a sensible conversation in the national interest. We’re in the midst of a housing crisis. It's just basic supply and demand. The government is stacking seats nationally, exacerbating every problem, from the cost of housing to accessibility of healthcare, and pressuring infrastructure. Oppose it. Net Zero is an anathema to cheap and reliable energy. As more renewables replace traditional energy sources the cost of energy goes up, as the network’s reliability drops. People are choosing between food and heating. The energy market is a scandal built on an extortion racket – in a green box. It has failed Australia. Oppose it. The government is the nation’s only source of jobs growth, as they artificially pump wages, and therefore the cost of everything. They borrow and look for more money. Tax in Australia is brutal, on top of high income tax, we pay stamp duties, payroll taxes, GST, and crazy excises on fuel, tobacco and alcohol. Labor need more cash and will tax the stagnant economy into a stall. There’s no productivity and people can’t afford the basics. Oppose it. Money and talent will run from this country. Oppose it all. They don’t offer evidence to support their actions - like Grant’s attempts to age verify YouTube and Google. Demand the evidence. Lead the opposition. Your party won't oppose any of this. Because you were installed by the factions to oppose Liberal members and non-Labor voters. It's a controlled opposition. Like when you helped install Turnbull, then Morrison, and opposed democracy within the party. Not only does the party lose, but our right to democratic representation is decimated. Managed democracy is a slippery slope to one party rule - and you support managed democracy - expelling authentic Liberal views or those that get in the way of your selections. The numbers changed on the 1st of July, and if you will not support internal democracy, or oppose Labor, it is incumbent upon your colleagues to act in the national interest. If they don’t, you'll find internal and external discontent will get louder. Because if Liberals don’t oppose Labor, they lose even more. Because, the national interest is far more important than persons gender. After all... We just want Australia back. Regards, Matthew Camenzuli Expelled former NSW Liberal executive, anti-corruption and pro-democracy advocate, Independent candidate for McMahon.show more

What if I told you the Ukrainians tried to... surrender earlier this week? Let's walk through a bizarre chain of events that we all just watched play out in real time - and which nobody seems to have fully grasped the significance of. Down the rabbit hole.⬇️ On Monday - July 21st, 2025 - the Ukrainian authorities moved against the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), with the SBU raiding their offices. The next day, the Rada - acting at warp speed on direct orders from Zelensky - passed a law stripping both agencies of their independence and placing them under the supervision of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office. It's important to remember that these agencies, as formerly structured, effectively answer to nobody within the Ukrainian government and have considerable powers to investigate and prosecute "corruption" as broadly defined. They are also objectively terrible at their jobs - NABU does not "pay for itself," only recovering a small fraction of what it receives in funding, and Ukraine has only grown more corrupt under its watch. Any observer of the Ukrainian state is quite familiar with the absolutely industrial level of corruption that its elite habitually indulge in and which the war has made so much worse. So clearly there's something else going on. Simply put, these agencies are quite obviously tools through which Western interests - who fully control them through the usual NGO cutouts and deep state connections - exert direct influence on the Ukrainian authorities. NABU and SAPO exist to investigate the "right" corruption to ensure that Ukraine stays in its lane as a Davos proxy Now for the interesting part. At the exact same time that the Ukrainians moved against these Western-cutout "anticorruption" agencies - Tuesday, July 22nd - the Ukrainians and Russians announced a round of snap negotiations to take place the very next day - Wednesday, July 23rd. Delegates would meet in Istanbul on essentially no notice. Here's where the plan seems to have come apart. When Zelensky moved against them, Davos pulled out its usual playbook and huge mob - orders of magnitude larger than any protest against a government that has turned Ukraine into an open-air prison camp and its war of choice that has killed or maimed a disturbingly large portion of the country's population - descended on the Maidan. The only difference from the usual color revolution fare was the NGOs had learned their lesson from Georgia last year and told their footsoldiers to make crude cardboard signs (to a generally uniform specification) so it would look more authentic and spontaneous. As this was happening an avalanche of condemnation poured in from the Western press, with prominent outlets calling for Zelensky's ouster. Front and back-channel diplomatic messages were doubtless far harsher. Meanwhile in Istanbul on Wednesday - quite possibly because the Russians sensed their counterparts would not be able to keep any agreement they made in the face of the pro-Western mob occupying the Maidan, regardless of what they were offering - the negotiations quickly collapsed. The delegations met for only a little over half an hour and very little was agreed to. The next day - Thursday, July 24th - Zelensky folded and ordered the "anti-corruption" agencies restored to their former positions and authorities. So what are we to make of this? Well, lining these two events up, I think that Zelensky tried to make a play against Davos and NATO, and tried to make an offer to Russia - and his plan failed spectacularly. The Davos Regime exerted maximum pressure to yank him back into line, and the Russians seem to have rejected out of hand whatever his delegation was willing to offer and quite possibly walked out then and there. Left with no options, Zelensky capitulated to his sponsors and restored the status quo ante for their "anticorruption" proxies. The end result to all of this will have been to dramatically weaken Zelensky's position given that he made his move and it not only failed but backfired spectacularly. At this point the credentialed media in the West is openly talking about his departure, and the Russians don't seem to take his government seriously at all as a negotiating partner.show more

VTubing is for everyone! I don't like to bring... this up, but recent events in the VTuber community made some people really vile. I had my M&G at HolMat last week and had people come up and just yell at me for being a girl in the "womans world", that is VTubing, no idea about who I was, or why I was there. I had the same group return to my handler multiple times, I felt really worried about the person carrying me around having to deal with this repeatedly and tried to steer them away from the group. It seems they found my YT and left me a handful of the same comments, luckily all caught by moderation tools. While I will refrain from M&G's for a little until this calms down I want to say this; I have been managing for over 1.5 years now, I deliberately take on male VTubers to show them that they can still do it. I take on people that have babiniku accounts, those that are changing from one gender presentation to another and want help, and those that have no gender presentation in their avatar. A lot of male VTubers struggle to find a manager because the stereotype is that all male VTubers are evil and it perpetuates a stereotype that extends beyond entertainment industry subcultures like streaming. VTubing has always been a medium, while character and marketing matters, it's about what makes you happy, YOU are the person that makes the content. Use whatever you want as an avatar, use a voice changer if that's what you want to do. Every month I have a male client bring up they can't do it the same way, that it's easier if jiggle physics or a cute voice is the answer to fast growth. And I tell them yeah, I can also do ASMR, I can do drama content, collab with a larger person, and get to x amount of viewers. There are shortcuts in every entertainment profession and subculture. Does it last? Do quick fixes for anything ever last? Yes, great physics and an expensive model can get people in, but if your value, your way of interacting with people, your content plan and marketing is ass, you can pack up. Most of us start on a small budget, premade or resold models, and it's the same in the big league entertainment industry too. Can I take out a loan and put myself on a billboard tomorrow, can I pay the most expensive model artist and rigger and get in along corporate VTubers tomorrow? Sure. Will it last, will it be genuine, will people trust me? Hell no. Genuine communities and growth build trust. I think streaming, creative industries, entertainment, are full of people, regardless of gender, that will see success and call it "easy", because of what they see as the end product. They don't see most VTubers working a second job, they don't see the managers, they don't see 100+ hours a month going into content production, years invested in singing and voice lessons, model redebut after redebut. I think a lot of male VTubers get a bad rep, because so many boys are raised without putting emphasis on empathy and creativity, watching my brothers be told they should not pursue art, that theatre class is a waste of time, and that they needed to go study x or y to make money for their families in the future was heartbreaking. Nobody should have to look at others and feel so much hatred for society they turn against a whole group of people. If you want to pursue entertainment, please do. If you want to grow and try and make a name for yourself, you should start there, not with yelling about how you already failed. "Oh but I can't", "Oh but the odds are stacked against me", look at the big streamers, look at Ironmouse who overcame everything with hard work, look at Kiara who rose from the ashes, look at everyone that fights against their odds every day and give it your all. If you already think you lost, then you have nothing to lose. Don't give up on your dreams because others tell you to.show more

"Pros won’t use generative AI, and when the bubble... pops, nobody will ever talk about it again." No. That’s delusional. 1/ Generative AI is already being used professionally at the level of big studios like Disney ($1B to OpenAI), and there’s zero doubt that studios like Industrial Light & Magic, Netflix, Hollywood VFX experts, etc. are already experimenting with it too. Or do you think they’re idiots? They’re not idiots at all. They have the experience and, more importantly, the DISTRIBUTION POWER. The point is: someone with taste, judgment, and storytelling experience, basically from their living room, will have access to (almost, or not even almost) the same capability as the big guys, because the pure "making stuff" skills have been commoditized, and the new way to create is just NATURAL LANGUAGE. What hasn’t been commoditized is good taste, the ability to create great stories that move people, and the ability to get them in front of people. So in the end, what wins is story quality and distribution. Having good taste, making a name for yourself, and owning strong IP (Marvel, etc.) will still matter. That’ll be true right up until AI is genuinely opinionated and can create by itself: if it comes to that, with zero human direction, stuff as good as (or better than) the very best human experts today, and on top of that, interactive in real time... Because yeah: there’s nothing in this universe that actually prevents that from happening. BUT WE’RE NOT THERE. For now, generative AI is a tool that needs direction and taste to make anything decent. And I hope it stays that way for a long time, because otherwise that’s going to be a brutal hit to humanity’s ego. 2/ On the "bubble": you have to distinguish between a stock valuation bubble (possible, I actually believe it) vs a bubble like some people imagine where it "pops" and we never hear about AI again. That obviously makes no sense given how insanely useful it is. It can only grow, and it’s going to grow fast, regardless of any stock market drawdowns (the internet kept growing even when valuations got nuked in 2000). Either way, the near future is going to be extremely interesting.show more