Points of view come into focus

We have had some examples of irony in the news lately.

Bernie Sanders demands Nexstar air Jimmy Kimmel while denouncing 'political pressure' on TV stations

Someone isn't paying attention to his own words here.

Blast from the past: Poor Bernie,

You don't have to be a conservative to be silenced by The Left.

Gender and Gender Roles

David Thompson: If You Notice Our Dishonesty, We Will Punish You

A man in Switzerland is facing 10 days in prison after refusing to pay a fine for an “offensive” social media post. Emanuel Brünisholz, a wind instrument repairman from Burgdorf, was convicted under anti-discrimination laws for making a statement emphasising skeletal evidence of binary sex.

Brünisholz’s ordeal began in December of 2022 when he responded to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner. In his comment, Brünisholz wrote: “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”

That would be a brave stance to take here in the USA, too. His statements attracted activists who brought legal actions.

Don't talk back, citizen. Cross-dressing men are women.

With magic woman bones.

Much more at the link.

More from David Thompson: Where perversity is status

Academia's Clown Quarter, I mean:

Marriage fundamentalism” advances “white supremacy,” according to a George Mason University professor. “I theorise that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of white heteropatriarchal supremacy,” Professor Bethany Letiecq wrote in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

The meaning of the term “marriage fundamentalism,” a term used repeatedly, isn’t made entirely clear, and its allegedly racist and life-crushing particulars are, inevitably, “hidden,” “invisible,” and conveniently vague – despite the loudly announced use of “an intersectional lens.” But it seems to mean something like the tendency of many adults to see marriage as of mutual benefit and an optimal way to raise children. . .

From the comments:

EmC replies, tersely,

That.

Well, if little Don’t-Know-Who-My-Dad-Is is starting fires at school and looks destined for a life of delinquency and crime, this is not obviously the fault of the happily married Mr and Mrs Jefferson and their two non-fire-starting children. And no amount of chest-puffing about “heteropatriarchy,” “unequal power relations” and “white supremacy” seems likely to alter that fact.

A child in an unstable home and consequently on an unhappy trajectory may have things to grumble about, in between the brawling and disruption, and starting fires in the toilets. But those grumbles have little to do with other people’s parents making better choices. The grumbling, it seems to me, should probably be directed closer to home.

FredTheFourth adds,

Shades of the argument, a couple of years ago, that parents who read to their young children were giving them an unfair advantage over children whose parents did not.

Some people still value marriage:

Men calling their GF their wife to see their reaction 😆 so cute pic.twitter.com/DoYvPskJ5D

— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) September 26, 2025

Retribution is wrong?

The self-righteous theme of the Left this week, I think.

Trump indictments: Not selective prosecutions. Great days for America.

Comey indictment: Selective prosecution. Horrendous day for America.

It's almost funny at this point. pic.twitter.com/e7JMOd1fgc

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 26, 2025

I think people don’t realize the scale of the misdeeds involved in Russiagate. It would be criminal if Trump allowed intelligence/enforcement agencies to get away with what they did. https://t.co/BsrhMrg37U

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) September 27, 2025

Don't mess things up, kids:

>210k followers
>0 (zero) engagement prior to September 10th

America didn't know they needed this particular conservatwink *at all* until the day Charlie Kirk was shot

& now he's on a ten city tour in his private jet https://t.co/9Jn4eGnVNz pic.twitter.com/UTmhwrb1hi

— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) September 27, 2025

Weekend Musings

Best Tucker video ever pic.twitter.com/SFNh2fe6hz

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 26, 2025

Oddments for the weekend, including a launderette drama; a brief history of prison breaks; some unrequested motion; and the "dynamic authenticity" of Mr William Shatner. Link in reply. pic.twitter.com/KfcrUBoKvQ

— David Thompson (@ThompsonItIsHe) September 26, 2025

This video with - Gad Saad interviewing VDH may be too long to view until you are ready to relax this weekend, but you might want to check out VDH's "Why I Don't Like Trump" Game at about 57 minutes.

Conversation starts at about two minutes.

First topic: The Miracle of Greece

VDH discusses many factors which went into the development of the civilization of the Greek city-states. Among them: philosophers and leaders also worked in the physical world, unlike most of our Ruling Class today. There were fewer specialists. The intellectual classes were not separate from people of action.

Reflections on MAGA

20 minutes - VDH, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Gad Saad and leaving academia. Related video, Jordan Peterson

34 minutes - tragic heroes

38 minutes Saad and VDH - archetypes in history, no political correctness
Saad has a book coming out which will touch on some of these themes. What he can and cannot say. Greeks used stereotypes.

The challenge to the Western paradigm is success. Germanic nihilists took clues from some Greek philosophers.

43 minutes - Saad talks to former supermodel. Get comfortable with reality. Dowry means that older women in Greece are richer than men in their 50s.

57 minutes: VDH's "Why I Don't Like Trump" Game

1hour 07 minutes Biden was always mean

Harris . . . .

Does VDH have regrets? You might be surprised.

Reading in American History: Publius as a public writer

John Hinderaker: The Week In Pictures: Seashells Redux Edition

It was quite a week. The biggest story was the indictment of James Comey, about which I have reservations. But the indictment was a boon to memesters, who recalled Comey’s earlier art project featuring seashells.

Much more happened, too. The Trump administration adopted recommendations by the Harvard School of Public Health on the use of Tylenol by pregnant women, which were immediately denounced by leftists, even though it turned out that the manufacturer of Tylenol said the same thing. Jimmy Kimmel returned to television and garnered massive ratings in his first show back, mainly due to people tuning in to see whether he would apologize. He didn’t.

Donald Trump visited the United Nations, only to be greeted with mechanical malfunctions.

And left-wing violence continued apace, with yet more victims and with zero sign of remorse from liberal leaders.

So here we go with The Week In Pictures, Seashells Redux Edition:

Music

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Last week's thread, September 20 How did the center-left decide it wanted THESE heroes?

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