Diana West’s new book link, and several items indicative of the communist revolution moving from covert to overt across the West: Links 1 for April 8, 2025

Before I get going on today’s list of data points on the nature of political reality today and at this point, the stage of the communist revolution each polity is at at [Spoiler: the UK wins again] a word about Diana West’s new book.

Diana West has just released a new book of essays called, “Wake Up and Smell the Culture“. I have just started it, so no review yet. That will have to wait till the weather is good enough to get away from a home full of nagging tasks and work to do and find a patio somewhere. But I did start it and can already say that it is a very enjoyable read and well worth the gamble for those not familiar with Diana’s work. And those that are should just order it.

1. This first item is Interesting for a few reasons. One of which, is that J. K. Rowling is holding the line on the men in women’s sports issue. That is nice to see. Second, the trans dialectic to obliterate women as a thing, with sports being the aspect that gets most of the attention; this is a good example and thirdly, that a girl who was replaced for a boy on a school ski team was told by a school official that her shirt, which read “Save Girls Sportsr” was akin to wearing a Swastika in front of Jews and would face disciplinary action if she wore it again. I have to say, that is my favorite example of the dialec at work so far this morning. But the day is young. Still, it’s a good one!

I really don’t need to say the following but sometimes my hands take over if I look away for a minute. Saying that wearing a shirt that says: “Save Girls Sports”  is akin to the systematic enslavement, humiliation, torture and ultimately attempted genocide of an entire identifiable group is akin to not wanting to save a place for women on a women’s ski team is an astonishing example of the tactic of intellectual slight of hand. One that we call here, the fallacy of swapping levels of abstraction. For example: A crater on the moon is the same as a hotel room at the Plaza hotel in NY because people could die in either place. A T shirt which asks to restore a basic right based on biology and only implies the rejection of a group, a group who’s entire raison d’être itself on an intersectional attack against women via sports, is an equivalent to a shirt with a symbol demanding the total subjugation of an entire planet to a Marxism variation along with total extermination of a number of groups of people, based on a wide variety of factors from biology to belief to sexual proclivities, would be risible if it wasn’t from an authority which would carry real consequences for the young lady should she disobey.

My advice to her would be to make a new shirt that says: “GIRLS SPORTS MATTERS”. She would still get in trouble, but they would not be able to explain why.

Oh look, another of those things that never happen has happened again. https://t.co/fTEwtKAMLx

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 7, 2025

Here is one I meant to put on yesterday’s list but it fits better here anyway.

On both items, leftists are in the thread doing critical theory attacks, calling everyone a nazi or bigot who believes in objective reality. Or, demanding we see a girl when a boy simply claims he is a girl.

But in the photo above, we see two men that beat every woman in pool at a pro level to compete against each other. So one may think men might have an advantage over women in pool at the elite level. Now I am not a biologist. But it seems to me that if we accept evolution as a thing, and if men used to hunt for food for say, the last 250,000 years by hitting a game animal with a pointed stick, it might go aways towards making him a better pool player.

2. Once again, the UK takes the cup for best example of a communist nation:

3. Randy Hillier managed to get his charges dropped on appeal

“The law that restricted people from going outside, and meeting with like-minded people is invalid”.

Ok I have to parse that a little. The law was never to do that. It was always only to prevent people from meeting with like minded people who opposed state narratives. BLM marches, rallies, riots and any other pro-narrative events took place daily with less than zero consequences. Trudeau himself went and took a knee at a massive BLM protest in Ottawa that took over a lot of downtown. I was there. I heard the cheering from huge crowds on the hill as he did so. The thing is, we at this site feel the difference between restoring a republic style nation-state and a tyrannical one like North Korea or Great Britain (albeit a nascent one) is nearly entirely about understanding this. The law is not equal, but a dialectical tool to enforce state narratives, whatever they may be, and however they may change from moment to moment. In fact it is not law at all. Randy and a few other people have managed to find vestigial judges, or perhaps judges willing to use vestigial rule of law to make determinations. But the trend is extremely clear. You can break very serious criminal laws and not be held to any kind of account if it is for the revolution as we saw with the BLM riots, CHAZ and so on. But minor, and even invented infractions of some arcane law, or the catchall of “mischief” will be used against you if you defy a state narrative from a position of any kind of authority like Randy, or publicly enough like some of the Freedom Convoy protestors.

4. Was planning to make this video of an interview with Ben Bankas, a post-script sort of thing. Bankas in his act BTW, is dangerously funny. Dangerous in that if you catch his live show, you might find that for extended periods you can’t breathe because you’re laughing so hard. So asthmatics, bring your inhalers.  But there is enough value in this interview to be worthy of a main item on its own. In particular, some of his observations about Canada’s communist broadcasting network, CBC are quite revealing. Things not generally known about for instance, how they operate more or less like Facebook, owning all material you make in conjunction with them and for which they may not pay you. But there is a lot more value here. Ben exposes some of the more pernicious anti-American propaganda being circulated via MSM and social media about crossing the border which needs to be heard, as well as the harassment he faced by state agents doing comedy during the illegal Covid measures.

5. As Stephen said: The communist revolution is moving from covert to overt:

German journalist sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme poking fun at the the Interior Minister’s lack of commitment to free speech

David Bendels, the chief editor of the AfD-adjacent Deutschland Kurier, has been threatened with prison time and sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme. It is the harshest sentence ever handed down to a journalist for a speech crime in the Federal Republic of Germany.

This is the illegal tweet, which Bendels posted via the official Deutschland Kurier X account on 28 February 2024:

It shows German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding a sign that has been manipulated to read “I hate freedom of speech!”1 Bendels posted the image to satirise Faeser’s disturbing plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of political dissidents in Germany, which she had announced at a press conference a few weeks earlier.

Please click through to read the rest at Eugyppius’ most excellent substack.

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