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Suicidal empathy isn’t the core threat, it’s homicidal empathy. What we’re witnessing isn’t misguided kindness. It’s a ruthless, ideologically driven strategy of reproductive suppression and lineage destruction, fueled by feminist intrasexual competition. Certain strains of feminism don’t just compete with men, they indoctrinate women to sabotage their own fertility,...

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What if Wokeness isn’t just a sign of cultural collapse—but an evolutionary mechanism? In Woke Eugenics, we argue that what’s called “Woke” ideology—social justice, antiracism, transgenderism, radical feminism—isn’t simply madness. It’s a deeply Darwinian process. Beneath the surface, Wokeness functions as a form of unconscious negative selection. It disproportionately appeals to the genetically maladaptive: the low in intelligence, the highly neurotic, the physically unhealthy, the narcissistic, and the mentally disordered. And crucially—it encourages them to sterilise themselves. Through childlessness, gender confusion, “body positivity,” antinatalism, casual sex, and identity-based victimhood, Wokeness seduces the most evolutionarily vulnerable segments of the population into ideological self-destruction. They don’t reproduce. They don’t build families. They often don’t survive. Meanwhile, those immune to Wokeness—often traditional, religious, future-oriented, group-loyal individuals—are more likely to be genetically and psychologically healthy. They are the ones who marry, have children, and pass on their values. Wokeness, then, polarises society and accelerates the selective removal of its weakest links. You might hate Wokeness. You might see it as chaos. But what if that chaos is how nature does her housekeeping? This is not a collapse. It’s a filter. J.O.A. Rayner-Hilles and I lay out this thesis in detail in Woke Eugenics, and in the lecture linked below. If you’re willing to think evolutionarily—and ruthlessly—you may never see the modern world the same way again. Watch it.👇

Edward Dutton

133,326 views • 1 year ago

Feminism treats men as a problem, family as an obstacle, and motherhood as a prison. It hollowed out marriage, destabilized identity, fractured communities, and created a culture where men are either infantilized or demonized. It produced a generation that has no model for the complementary dance between men and women, no respect for the natural order, and no vocabulary for discussing virtues like sacrifice, leadership, or family loyalty without being accused of oppression. But it is a catastrophic mistake to romanticize Islam as the answer. Islam appears to offer clarity, structure, and order: defined gender roles, strong masculinity, modesty, family cohesion, and a rejection of the nihilistic confusion that dominates liberal culture. For people who feel betrayed by radical feminism, Islam looks like the promise of a world where men can be men, women can be women, and families regain their dignity. But this is an illusion. Islam is not the cure for Western decay. Islam is the opposite extreme, a system built on hierarchy enforced by fear, legalism, and theological supremacy. It is a rigid structure that suppresses women’s agency, inhibits intellectual growth, and governs relationships through coercion rather than maturity. Both, feminism and Islam, are driven by fear. Both fail to produce healthy, flourishing partnerships between men and women. Christian complementarity holds that men and women are equal in dignity, different in nature, and designed for a cooperative relationship that reflects balance, not rivalry. It does not erase the differences nor weaponize them. It does not make men tyrants nor women adversaries. It builds a moral ecology in which love, sacrifice, responsibility, and authority coexist without canceling one another. Christianity rejects the radical feminist myth that liberation requires abolishing the family, and it rejects the Islamic myth that stability requires suppressing women. It recognizes that order comes from harmony, not domination; from virtue, not coercion; from internal formation, not legal surveillance. This is why Western families, for centuries, produced stable societies. This is why Western institutions respected women without needing to imprison them behind veils or exclude them from public life. Christian complementarity treats men and women as partners in a shared moral project. Islam treats them as participants in a chain of command. Radical feminism sees them as enemies locked in perpetual conflict. Only Christianity offers the adult understanding: the sexes are interdependent, not interchangeable; equal, not identical; complementary, not competitive.

Dan Burmawi

13,200 views • 7 months ago

The mRNA COVID Vax & The Unfolding Fertility Catastrophe A stark analysis from Dr. Roger Hodkinson sheds light on what he describes as a catastrophic and unprecedented attack on human biology. According to data from a Pfizer clinical trial in Japan, obtained via freedom of information, the lipid nanoparticles from the COVID-19 vaccine do not remain at the injection site. Instead, they travel throughout the body, with the ovaries and adrenals identified as prime targets. The implications for female fertility are profound and potentially permanent. Unlike men who constantly produce new sperm, girls are born with all the eggs they will ever have. An immunological attack on these ovaries could deplete that finite reserve forever. This assault on reproductive organs is posited as a key accelerator of the already declining global fertility rates. While a downward trend existed pre-COVID, the mass administration of these vaccines to the majority of the world's population—including women of reproductive age—is seen as a pivotal event that will intensify this crisis. The consequence? Global population stabilization is over; contraction is imminent. Only Africa currently maintains a replacement rate above sustainability. The Western world, without immigration, faces a demographic collapse. This means a shrinking economic base, transformed societal values, and national decline. But the warning goes deeper. This is framed not just as a fertility crisis, but as a fundamental "attack on humanity." The potential for reverse transcription and permanent, unknown alterations to the human genome is raised as a staggering possibility. All of this, it is argued, was for a threat grossly overestimated. Pre-vaccine, there was no significant global excess mortality. The "pandemic" label is contested, with tragic spikes in mortality attributed to specific medical interventions (ventilators, remdesivir) rather than the virus itself. The life insurance industry's data is cited to support this claim. The conclusion is chilling: a global medical intervention, deployed under false pretenses, may have inflicted permanent damage on humanity's reproductive future and genetic integrity for a virus comparable to a "bad seasonal flu."

Camus

1,663,738 views • 9 months ago

This makes A LOT of sense. This explains why so many woman get manipulated into being liberals “George Orwell once wrote women are always and inevitably on the side of the state. He wasn't being misogynistic, he was making a psychological observation. In his view, women, particularly in their role as caregivers and moral enforcers, tend to prioritize safety and compassion over risk and freedom, and that instinct, while natural, is easily weaponized by totalitarian systems. When conformity is marketed as compassion, control is rebranded as care, the state taps into the feminine psyche to enforce ideological obedience. Now consider this: men will do almost anything to attract a mate, so when the state captures women through propaganda, redefining tyranny as empathy and compliance as virtue, men follow, especially those who can't compete in the traditional dating market, they feminize themselves and trade strength for submission. This is what evolutionary biologists call the sneaky f - strategy. Low status males mimicking feminine traits or moral positions in hopes of reproductive access. And while all of this unfolds, families disintegrate. Single motherhood, a top predictor of poverty and social dysfunction, becomes the norm. Children from single parent homes are far less likely to climb the economic ladder, and who steps in as provider and protector? Not the father, the state. But here's the kicker, the state is funded disproportionately by men, so rather than supporting the women they married and raised children with directly, men subsidize the state, which in turn provides for women through social programs. Why? Because women have been propagandized to see every relationship as a power dynamic, except one with the state, which is ironically the centralization of raw power. They've been told that to rely on a man is weakness, but to rely on a bureaucracy is empowerment. This is not progress. This is dependency with a new face. And both men and women are suffering. The childless middle aged woman and the incel are two sides of the same broken culture. A woman without her own child often directs her maternal instinct towards abstract causes, infantilizing minorities under the guise of social justice. What we are witnessing from psychologically unwell men and women is Nietzsche's concept of resentiment. Envy dressed up as morality. The strong became evil. The weak became good. Strength became tyranny. We now live in a pathologically soft society that sides even with those who harm it, where punishing crime feels unfair and victimhood is the highest virtue. Nietzsche called them the tarantulas, those who preach justice but act from bitterness. They don't want to uplift the weak, they want to drag down the strong. Orwell saw them too. Most middle aged socialists, while theoretically pining for a classist society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige. These bitter, well educated, and affluent types don't actually care about the downtrodden. They weaponize them. The real target is success, competence, independence, because those qualities expose their own inadequacies. But the answer to pathological femininity isn't pathological masculinity. It's not swinging the pendulum too far in the other direction. The answer is balance. Masculinity and femininity are not enemies. They're symbiotic. We've simply overcorrected. We escaped a world where masculinity once tyrannized femininity only to arrive in a world where femininity is tyrannizing masculinity. We are not oppressed by patriarchy, we are being suffocated by pathological softness, envy, and resentment. And unless we recognize this imbalance, the future will not be free. It will be emotionally manipulated, morally confused, and biologically unsustainable.”

Wall Street Apes

1,060,830 views • 1 year ago

Unchecked capitalism is the cause of the male loneliness epidemic and the radicalization of young men. Allow me to show my work. Capitalism is the best economic system in history, but it only works with guardrails. Strong unions, social safety nets, accessible housing and education, fair wages - these are all things America USED to have. It’s why families could survive on one income, and women who wanted to stay home could choose to. The days when men could work 40 hours at a blue collar job and support a family of four. That all changed with Reagan and supply side (AKA trickle down) economics. As things became more and more expensive, women were forced into the workforce. There was no other choice. I was a child during this transition. My mom WANTED to stay home with us. My family couldn’t afford it. I was part of the latchkey kid generation. But through the transition, men were still raised to believe that they were the breadwinner - that their only identity in life was to go to work and be a paycheck - and when rising costs and stagnant wages made that increasingly impossible, they automatically internalized that they were a failure. Enter the podcast bros. Instead of this being correctly labeled as society failing men AND families, they grifted on the idea that somehow women were to blame, and feminism was the devil. And while it’s true that women gained more freedom once they were able to get their own credit cards and apply for their own mortgages, it never meant that we stopped wanting love, children and families. But with the rise in popularity of the “blame women for everything” movement + the new freedoms, women did start to naturally shy away from traditional norms. Men hated us for not wanting them, then women hated men for not wanting women, and grifters capitalized on this growing divide by making content that has - quite honestly - RADICALIZED young men that they shouldn’t even try. Women are the enemy. They only want money. But since the world isn’t set up any longer for individual success, then it’s women’s fault, and everything sucks, and why even try? I’d be angry as fuck too. You want to un-radicalize young men? Bring back HOPE. Fix our system. Bring back our unions, bring back workers rights, provide education, support universal healthcare, build affordable housing. Let men and women BOTH know that they will have the tools to succeed in this country if they want to. Because no one has that now. The larger the gap grows, the more workers rights are stripped away in favor of corporate profits, the more hopeless we all become. Men shouldn’t be fighting to take away the rights of women - they should be fighting WITH US to restore opportunity for us ALL. This video touches on how the banner of “conservatism” has been a lie all along, and how “othering” has been so incredibly damaging to our country. STOP blaming us and JOIN us - because we ALL need our country back. Please excuse the frequent pauses, when I recorded this I had just been released from the hospital with pneumonia. 😬

Sara McGee for Texas HD 132

32,862 views • 10 months ago

💉 “We Cannot Afford to Trust the WHO Anymore” Dr. Wahome Ngare, a Kenyan obstetrician, has exposed what may be one of the darkest chapters in modern public health — a tetanus vaccination campaign secretly linked to fertility control research. “In 2014–2015, the WHO brought a tetanus eradication campaign to Kenya,” he revealed. “But the vaccine used was not ordinary — it was a fertility-regulating vaccine.” This formula, developed between 1972 and 1992, combined the tetanus toxoid with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) — the pregnancy hormone that sustains life in the womb. When injected, it trains the immune system to attack HCG, effectively rendering women infertile. Kenyan doctors, alarmed by what they saw, tested the vials and found trace amounts of HCG. “We were able to expose this,” Dr. Wahome said. “We even published a paper — it’s available for anyone to see.” Over the same period, the World Health Organization, UNFPA, and The Rockefeller Foundation funded “fertility-regulating vaccine” trials — research later supported by partners including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has heavily invested in reproductive and population control initiatives across the Global South. In 2017, WHO quietly declared Kenya “free of neonatal tetanus” and withdrew the campaign. But by then, thousands of women had already been injected. A 20-year fertility vaccine program, disguised as health care. Backed by global foundations under the banner of “public good.” Targeting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women. If this is true, it represents a calculated act of medical colonization. How many African women were sterilized without their consent? And how many more countries were used as silent test grounds? “We cannot afford to trust the WHO anymore.” — Dr. Wahome Ngare

Jim Ferguson

35,372 views • 8 months ago

BREAKING:🚨 ALBERTA HAS HAD ENOUGH — AND THE CRACKS IN CANADA ARE NOW VISIBLE 🚨 “For far too long we’ve been held hostage by the Ottawa elites — and it’s time for that relationship to end.” That wasn’t rhetoric. That was a declaration. Cameron Davies, leader of the Republican Party of Alberta, has said out loud what millions of Albertans have been thinking for years: This is no longer a federation. It’s an abusive arrangement. Alberta produces. Ottawa consumes. Oil. Timber. Energy. Revenue. And in return? • Punitive federal control • Rights stripped under emergency powers • Firearms confiscation • Policies written by coastal elites who don’t live Alberta’s reality • Taxation without fair representation Alberta is the engine of Canada — and it’s being treated like a colony. Davies put it plainly: “We pay the bills and we’re treated like second-class citizens.” Two votes in Alberta carrying the same weight as one elsewhere. Federal programs funded by Alberta’s resources. Cultural values overridden by a government that no longer represents them. And now the line has been crossed. This isn’t just about economics. It’s about identity. Faith. Family. Freedom. While Ottawa embraces euthanasia over healthcare… While veterans are asked if they’ve “considered dying”… While basic self-defence is criminalised… Alberta is saying: No more. This is why independence is no longer fringe. It’s organised. It’s political. And it’s gaining momentum. Davies laid out the formula: Two ingredients. That’s it. • The will of the people • International recognition Albertans will vote. And when they do, they will demand recognition as a sovereign republic. And here’s the part Ottawa fears most: If Alberta goes — Saskatchewan follows. If both go — Canada collapses as we know it. This isn’t noise. This is tectonic movement. Empires don’t fall all at once. They fracture — starting with the producers. Alberta isn’t asking anymore. It’s preparing to leave. Carl Higbie Cameron Davies

Jim Ferguson

384,313 views • 7 months ago

It may be difficult for people today to grasp this, given the widespread emasculation brought about by progressive liberalism: the male ego reached its highest level of differentiation among White men, who transcended the dominance of the Great Mother archetype. For most of human history, in hunting-gathering societies, small scale farming villages, and even the earliest civilizations, men remained subordinate to fertility goddesses and, therefore, to the nurturing yet devouring forces of the collective unconscious. However, starting with the horse-riding, protein-rich dairy diet and dynamic pastoralism of the Indo-Europeans, White men began to create their own sky gods and move away from the fertility goddesses. They transformed their mythical origins into heroic narratives of male achievement, in which the masculine ego confronts and overcomes the "dragon" or Terrible Mother, and establishes patriarchal structures, rationality, and a stable ego. The emergence of male rationality, individuality, and a higher form of consciousness, came out of the Homeric warrior culture of ancient Greece, with its Olympian pantheon. This development served as the essential precondition for the far greater achievements of European men throughout history, as conquerors, builders of the greatest empires, the explorers and discovers of the Earth, and modernizers of the world. If one wishes to understand why Muslim men, African men, Indians, and Semites have historically depended on White civilization, the benevolence of White men, for their sustenance and advancement, the explanation lies in the fact that their male ego has remained relatively submerged in the collective psyche through "participation mystique." This is why the intellectual consciousness of non-White men has remained comparatively weak, prelogical, and instinct-driven, with their libido trapped in the primordial, demonic layers of the unconscious rather than being mobilized for masculine ego separation and heroism. As you can see in this video, the group dominates, treating the individual merely as an organ within a larger body. Matriarchal elements still prevail, emotionality and ecstatic abandon, which hinder full male ego emancipation and the development of the "higher masculinity" required for free will and self-determining reason. Be warned: liberalism, in its final progressive phase, is rapidly deflating and degrading the White male ego under the maternal grip of feminism. This regression, combined with large scale racial intermingling with non-Whites, will ultimately destroy the very foundation of the White male ego.
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It may be difficult for people today to grasp this, given the widespread emasculation brought about by progressive liberalism: the male ego reached its highest level of differentiation among White men, who transcended the dominance of the Great Mother archetype. For most of human history, in hunting-gathering societies, small scale farming villages, and even the earliest civilizations, men remained subordinate to fertility goddesses and, therefore, to the nurturing yet devouring forces of the collective unconscious. However, starting with the horse-riding, protein-rich dairy diet and dynamic pastoralism of the Indo-Europeans, White men began to create their own sky gods and move away from the fertility goddesses. They transformed their mythical origins into heroic narratives of male achievement, in which the masculine ego confronts and overcomes the "dragon" or Terrible Mother, and establishes patriarchal structures, rationality, and a stable ego. The emergence of male rationality, individuality, and a higher form of consciousness, came out of the Homeric warrior culture of ancient Greece, with its Olympian pantheon. This development served as the essential precondition for the far greater achievements of European men throughout history, as conquerors, builders of the greatest empires, the explorers and discovers of the Earth, and modernizers of the world. If one wishes to understand why Muslim men, African men, Indians, and Semites have historically depended on White civilization, the benevolence of White men, for their sustenance and advancement, the explanation lies in the fact that their male ego has remained relatively submerged in the collective psyche through "participation mystique." This is why the intellectual consciousness of non-White men has remained comparatively weak, prelogical, and instinct-driven, with their libido trapped in the primordial, demonic layers of the unconscious rather than being mobilized for masculine ego separation and heroism. As you can see in this video, the group dominates, treating the individual merely as an organ within a larger body. Matriarchal elements still prevail, emotionality and ecstatic abandon, which hinder full male ego emancipation and the development of the "higher masculinity" required for free will and self-determining reason. Be warned: liberalism, in its final progressive phase, is rapidly deflating and degrading the White male ego under the maternal grip of feminism. This regression, combined with large scale racial intermingling with non-Whites, will ultimately destroy the very foundation of the White male ego.

Dr. Ricardo Duchesne

19,446 views • 4 months ago

Muslim children around the world are being indoctrinated by religious leaders and their families to despise and attack non-Muslims, particularly Jews and Hindus. Despite Muslims having 57 nations, they are enraged that Jews have Israel and Hindus have India. This hatred isn’t just a surface-level grievance—it’s deeply embedded in Islamic teachings that vilify these groups at their very core. Every day, Jews and Hindus are violently attacked by jihadis, while their communities openly celebrate these acts of terror. Islam, through its doctrine, teaches its followers to loathe non-Muslims, with Jews and Hindus singled out as primary targets. Hindus, more than any other group, know this threat intimately. For centuries, they’ve endured Islamic invasions, massacres, and forced conversions. Today, they stand as some of the strongest allies to the Jewish people, fully aware of the dangers of unchecked Islamic hatred. Muslim children are being raised to hate and kill, glorifying terrorism in mosques and schools where martyrs like Hezbollah and Hamas are hailed as heroes. In this society, hatred isn’t just accepted—it’s encouraged and rewarded. From their earliest years, children are taught to despise Jews and Hindus, spreading this venom through both religious teachings and the education system. The celebration of terrorist attacks is normalized, and these murders are hailed as the purest fulfillment of Islamic doctrine. A society that glorifies violence, and seeks domination through Sharia, will only achieve "peace" when the entire world submits to its brutal rule. This fight isn't just against a few terrorists—it’s against an entire system that breeds and indoctrinates future generations into a cycle of hatred and jihad. If we fail to confront the real root cause—Islam itself—we are abandoning both Jews and Hindus, and any hope for a non-Islamic future.

Amy Mek

74,211 views • 1 year ago

one thing you need to keep in mind about women is that their IQs converge FAR more onto the mean than men's this is why women with extremely midwit and shallow thoughts walka round and parade themselves like they are some sort of 140 IQ cerebrally gifted philosopher queen with a depth and profoundity that the average person just can't possibly in their mind come close to... it's because as far as statistics go, they practically are! for a woman at least. if they are even on the upper end of midwittery they are basically a genius from a statistical perspective, though not in practical terms. they are as rare as a male genius is amongst women, and because they frame their perception of their own intelligence primarily around other women who they interact with, they develop this inflated ego and perception of their own intellect this is why you get stupid broads posting dumb shit like this and not realizing how retarded they sound. this for the thoughtslop it is probably still takes at least a bit higher IQ than 100 to string together, there are some shallow connections of thought being made, enough to intellectually posture and faintly recreate the prose of speech one would find in the actual intelligent people she is trying to verbally replicate as far as women goes, it takes so many standard deviations above the mean to even reach this level that she may as well think herself a genius. any difference in how her thoughts come out compared to men of an equally rare level of intellect she will chalk up to a difference in how men and women think; the men just don't "get it" and if it pisses them off she's probably triggering some insecurity they have or they're just dumb misogynists writing her off in reality she's actually just not that smart! she is at a rare level of intellect — for a WOMAN — but this is only scratching the surface of true intelligence in nominal terms! i liken it to a female powerlifter, who weighing 49kg manages to blow everyone's minds bench pressing 115kg. "wow, this girl is gifted..." and then an average male gym-goer can go ahead and take her bench press max off of the rack after she's done and bang out a set of bicep curls. her IQ in and of itself as an objective meaure is not actually very high, she is just standing out in a league of her own. and that league is the little leagues genuinely intelligent women do exist, but they are astronomically rare and the overwhelming majority of women are complete midwits so a woman stepping into the room with 120 IQ is baically like encountering nikola tesla for them. once we all accept this as a society we can all stop taking them so seriously and start removing them from positions of institutional power which require actual thinking skills
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one thing you need to keep in mind about women is that their IQs converge FAR more onto the mean than men's this is why women with extremely midwit and shallow thoughts walka round and parade themselves like they are some sort of 140 IQ cerebrally gifted philosopher queen with a depth and profoundity that the average person just can't possibly in their mind come close to... it's because as far as statistics go, they practically are! for a woman at least. if they are even on the upper end of midwittery they are basically a genius from a statistical perspective, though not in practical terms. they are as rare as a male genius is amongst women, and because they frame their perception of their own intelligence primarily around other women who they interact with, they develop this inflated ego and perception of their own intellect this is why you get stupid broads posting dumb shit like this and not realizing how retarded they sound. this for the thoughtslop it is probably still takes at least a bit higher IQ than 100 to string together, there are some shallow connections of thought being made, enough to intellectually posture and faintly recreate the prose of speech one would find in the actual intelligent people she is trying to verbally replicate as far as women goes, it takes so many standard deviations above the mean to even reach this level that she may as well think herself a genius. any difference in how her thoughts come out compared to men of an equally rare level of intellect she will chalk up to a difference in how men and women think; the men just don't "get it" and if it pisses them off she's probably triggering some insecurity they have or they're just dumb misogynists writing her off in reality she's actually just not that smart! she is at a rare level of intellect — for a WOMAN — but this is only scratching the surface of true intelligence in nominal terms! i liken it to a female powerlifter, who weighing 49kg manages to blow everyone's minds bench pressing 115kg. "wow, this girl is gifted..." and then an average male gym-goer can go ahead and take her bench press max off of the rack after she's done and bang out a set of bicep curls. her IQ in and of itself as an objective meaure is not actually very high, she is just standing out in a league of her own. and that league is the little leagues genuinely intelligent women do exist, but they are astronomically rare and the overwhelming majority of women are complete midwits so a woman stepping into the room with 120 IQ is baically like encountering nikola tesla for them. once we all accept this as a society we can all stop taking them so seriously and start removing them from positions of institutional power which require actual thinking skills

𝖒𝖔𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖌

1,470,912 views • 1 month ago

It’s amazing some men just don’t get they are part of the problem!! Instead of admitting your misogyny and being accountable for making women feel unsafe you rather double down and get worse. Not maybe looking at what causes women to feel this way, self reflection. You rather double down and blame women for your terrible behavior. What’s the #1 thing men are scared of when they go to jail? Sexual abuse, so if you as a man are scare of other men how the fuck do you think we feel?! And I swear any asshole that comments it’s not all men, YOU ARE THE FUCKING PROBLEM!! Any man who say that is probably the exact guy we are talking about! Look at all the laws that are being formed against women BY MEN!! Even sexual assault is being soften. The young women growing up now don’t stand a chance!! And it’s so annoying cause it’s just another excuse for men not to take accountability for their bullshit!! Instead of looking at themselves and asking what part of the problem they are. Do they need to change some things about themselves. No it’s easier for men to just keep lashing out at women. Not taking a second to think “what have I done to make women feel unsafe. You just get defensive and make it WORSE!! With no regard on changing your behavior. You have taken women’s rights and continue to push us into a corner of your control. How long do you think we will let this happen?! And for the women who fight against yourself, well, have the life you deserve. You are very stupid to think this won’t involve you too. #taketheplankoutofyourowneyefirst

Leslie Jones 🦋

221,289 views • 2 years ago

In other real news: Turkish actor Burak Özçivit has just landed in Erbil, where he enjoys popularity and is attending a number of public events. Over the past decade, visits by Turkish soap opera stars to the Kurdistan Region have become increasingly common. We’re sharing this for a reason: popular culture is a powerful force in shaping identity. Turkish television dramas—and Turkish pop culture more broadly—have had a profound influence on the Kurdistan Region, particularly in Erbil and Duhok. This influence has not only been widespread but also actively encouraged and supported by the KDP and its affiliated companies, which dominate the cultural and media landscape in those areas. To offer a small, subtle example among many: weddings today often incorporate practices popularized by Turkish soap operas—such as the ritual of tying a ribbon between the bride’s and groom’s rings and cutting it with scissors. This custom, while traditional in Turkey, was not historically part of local Kurdish wedding practices and has only become common in recent years due to the cultural influence of Turkish media. The recent wave of jingoistic outrage from pro-KDP circles on social media—such as the attacks directed at us simply for reporting facts some prefer to ignore—serves as a reminder that these voices do not reflect the realities on the ground. Their goal is to deflect, distort, and pressure us to frame events according to their narrative rather than the truth. This misrepresentation misleads both non-Kurdish observers and experts who rely on accurate information to understand developments in the region. Needless to say, we won’t be deterred or swayed. But it’s important to note that these coordinated attempts to distort reality—and to psychologically pressure or manipulate independent voices—are themselves part of the bigger picture. Highlighting these dynamics isn’t a side note; it’s central to understanding the full scope of how certain actors, particularly those aligned with the KDP mindset, operate. Their strategy isn’t just about shaping narratives—it’s about creating a controlled environment where only one version of reality is allowed to exist. Exposing that is just as critical as reporting on the facts on the ground.

Kurdistan Watch

33,323 views • 1 year ago