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I honestly think these loons would kill Kellie Jay and JK Rowling if they got the chance. The only plus is that they've shown themselves for the violent, deranged misogynistic extremists that they are. They call no longer claim victimhood with any semblance of legitimacy. As always happens with narcisstic abusers, the mask has slipped.

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Yes, the poor 'victims' who go around beating people up and intimidating peaceful women don't quite convince any longer.

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Thank you! There is an attempt on Mumsnet to keep a record of the speeches "Down Under" and to discuss them, although the trolls have been out in force trying to put a stop to it. TRAs and "Socialist Feminists" making common cause against KJK again, with other women being collateral damage as usual.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4769956-women-speaking-let-women-speak-australia-nz-tour

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How many of those "socialist feminists" have unearned income?

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I'd love to know which billionaire who hates Western society is paying them all.

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Jennifer Bilek would pinpoint the pritzkers, strykers, big pharma and the wef

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I keep yapping about it, but I'm reading an entire book (2 volumes) about what billionaires are running our countries. It's a lot more than a handful, and they are truly evil. You can find some of what Whitney Webb has written on the internet; she did a four-part series on Epstein et al which became the basis for One Nation Under Blackmail.

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No idea but a lot of them seem to have more money than sense.

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What a horror show in NZ but the positive that may come out of it, is that it seems to be rallying the troops, and it should, I hope, peak more people. Barry Wall’s video is brilliant as is the Spectator article. The likes of Billy Bragg and the politicians in Australia have a lot to answer for.

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Bragg happily defames ordinary women as Nazis on Twitter. Will he now condemn actual fascistic behaviour? I doubt it.

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He’s been horrific, unbelievable in inciting violence against KJK, and despite the kickback, all he’s done is double down on his misogyny. What the hell has happened to the left? It’s like a mind virus has infected them…. and I speak as a lifelong leftie.

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The misogyny hivemind. It really is something to behold.

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I always think that’s such an insulting expression for bees which are brilliant creatures. How about ‘zombie mind’ , after all they do seem to be brain dead.

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I hadn't thought about it that way. You're right, I like zombie mind or the Borg as a suitable replacement :)

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The Misogyny Collective? As in the Borg.

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You must assimilate? Or was it “we will assimilate you”

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"Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated"

Amounts to the same thing

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These "leftists" were never left, they were just LARPing as leftists. They have no critical analysis, no vision for a better society, no genuine politics. And they are not only doing a service to the state by supporting this trans garbage, they are also helping out by people associating leftist politics with fascistic behavior and thoughts.

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Years ago I read an older woman questioning a young "feminist" about what she had actually done to help women. That query infuriated the young blogger. We can all be sure that these blackshirts have done nothing meaningful to help anyone.

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It was when I finally saw that leftist philosophy never encourages free will and thought and has always led to oppression and compulsion of action and thought that after a lifetime I left the left.

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Too many jabs

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Agree fully re Barry's video. He led me to watch the salt mine march from Gandhi again!

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He always seems to nail it at the right moment. His video on the Time to Think publication was compelling too. If I was a gay man I’d be fully on board with his call for action. Let’s hope something comes of it.

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Your substack is excellent, full of useful info and comment.

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Thanks v much. Glad you enjoy it :)

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I'm with Barry (EDI Jester). We gay men need to get off our backsides some more, organise properly and help. Seeing the complicity of those with influence in the endangerment of Kellie-Jay and the other brave women this week has chilled me to the bone.

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You’re right Tom. In Glasgow there were a satisfying number of men at her rally and it does make a difference. It also makes a difference when the police do a good job as they did on George Square, Glasgow. The NZ police were nowhere to be seen until the shot hit the fan.

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I heard her talking about cancelling Wellington once they’d fought their way to the car. The security guard was saying they wouldn’t be able to manage it. And how can they if the police don’t get their arses into gear. They would probably need extra staff from neighbouring towns and the bulkiest set of men they could find. All their rugby players.

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We stood with you - and continue to.. yes we need your voices and support

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You did, bless you. Some of us haven't forgotten.

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Add Australia & NZ to list of countries where women's rights go to die.

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As my daughter said to me today - Aus and NZ are way behind the UK and especially Scotland in waking up to this shit show. They don’t often get the chance to strut their stuff on a world stage. Well have at it because you look like a backward child from two generations ago. Go ahead and tolerate this dross and you might as well walk all the way back to the Stone Age.

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Fewer people here so it looks like we haven’t woken up but we have. Across the world there is almost nowhere where women’s rights are protected

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Email sent by my nephew in NZ.

You'll “be happy to know that although Keen didn't get to speak, the actions of the rainbow community exposed the underbelly kiwis have not seen before. Most are shocked and disgusted. As far as public opinion goes, they seem to have shot themselves in the foot.

Many are also qustioning the inaction of the police and the action of MPs along with the media.

There will also be political fallout due to this mob and the MPs supporting them. Seems support for the Greens and the left in general is going to drop. People are pissed off.”

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Yes I was told on YouTube that there were mps speaking at the event after they’d mobbed the women and Kellie-Jay. I can’t understand why they thought this would be a good idea?

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The spin in this New Zealand ‘news’ article is off the charts crazy-making. Spin. Gaslight. More dizzying spin — so bloody obvious for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. “Anti-trans activist” instead of women’s and children’s rights activist. “Escorted out” instead of forced out by a vicious mob of deranged people. “Pro-trans supporters” instead of anti-women and anti-children supporters. “An angry crowd” instead of a deranged mob. “Tension between the groups began to boil over” — here we have the inevitable false equivalence of “both sides”. ... “every side of the barricade had collapsed” — more false equivalence -- as if the violence stemmed from both LetWomenSpeak and the counter 'protest'. Also, note the passive voice of the barricades “had collapsed” instead of direct acknowledgement of mob violence against the safeguarding of a peaceful group. “The crowd slowly pressed forward” — sounds almost peaceful doesn’t it? Like a Victorian flower pressing hobbyist’s gentle activity. “Fights continued to break out in the crowd” — more false equivalence — fights and violence and hatred were on one side only. KJK almost lost her life, as did her some of her supporters, but you’d never know it from this article. Free speech was beaten down by ‘gender’ fascists but you’d never know it from this article. New Zealanders were awakened to the dangers of ‘gender’ ideological fascism — but you’d never know it from this article. Captured media around the world has fuelled the longevity of this mass psychosis that brings with it nothing but suffering — top to bottom psychic and physical suffering. But wait. Here’s something reassuring. This New Zealand publication reminds us that “Every day, 365-a-year, we deliver news like this, free from political influence, unchecked rumours and clickbait.” Pheww. Now we can all sleep at night.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300839091/antitrans-activist-posie-parker-escorted-out-of-auckland-rally-hit-by-soup

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I’ve spent far too long on YouTube today answering ignorant kiwi comments about this event. I know it’s generally better not to bother but I couldn’t help it.

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One woman was claiming they had enough mana wahine on their whenua and didn’t need any foreigners interfering, and I told her they needed a kick up the backside then, because they’ve allowed a destructive movement to go quite a long way on their whenua. I don’t even know how many people I answered. A lot.

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Keep going, keep at it and thank you. That's the underlying added layer of combustible shit that's made these events explosive - it's being seen as a territorial and national pride thing to get her and 'outsiders' off 'our' turf. When the politicians have been doing their best to libel and lie, threatening KJK before she stepped foot there, this was ready to pop. It's shocked me to see Govt Ministers yelling and insulting in such a whipped up, nonsensical way. Then the very bizarre statements saying it's only love, acceptance and inclusion for the trans rights activists ('everyone') there. They looked like an insane, vicious, out of control mob to me. It's been hard to watch footage. In crowds like that it's how people are crushed to death. Then the online bunch are saying she 'deserved' it.

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I can’t believe the press called her a nazi in all seriousness. I saw a clip on lotus eaters and it was obvious they had nothing on her. The claim she was making a nazi salute on one of her videos, but with her hand pixelated so you couldn’t see what she was doing was particularly surreal. I know everyone’s press are hiding truths right now, but that was a straightforward invention.

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Me neither. It's been relentless though, and I was shocked at the constant framing of her and this as 'anti-trans' rather than women's rights. It's simple and effective and we see through it. I'm taking all this in with half an eye and only dipping my toe in. Actual nazis, neo-nazis and fascists must be laughing their heads off (those that aren't closely related to all the police officers mysteriously failing to act). They walked right in after all and those in official uniform waved them through. We're heading for an international cooling of relations the way this keeps going - press and politicians are acting recklessly. It's bananas. Meanwhile...

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Yes. I think the nazi theme is a red herring. I didn’t know Australians and kiwis had such a strong belief in them.

I can’t imagine the dissonance people are living with over there. It must be a permanent headache.

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Sadly it's become a useful motif and shorthand. I think its entire resurgence as a term is due to its more recent online coinage/usage. Its popularity online now seems to have leaked into the small minds of politicians who are tubthumping. Those using these terms are clueless and happy in their stark ignorance. Some countries use it with much more and legally codified caution due to the utter devastation caused for their home populations. Not sure how many of those 'counter-' or 'counter-counter-protestors' fought in or experienced WW2. Bit like the UK with imagined pasts and attacking anyone for it.

I said I couldn't believe how we are being attacked and how back to front this all now is at one event and someone responded with her own family history. Those were the words of a woman whose family were killed in the Holocaust and they've stayed with me. These people doing this are not well. I wanted to weep at how mad it all is and we are lurching about unpicking lessons from history. Calling anyone jewish a nazi heralds a particular form of ignorance and cruelty.

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attest to the permanent headache.

I'm a supporter of KJK who went to 2 #StandingForWomen and spoke at the first one.

I come on at 23.05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDSe3ot5EmE&t=2174s&ab_channel=Kellie-JayKeen

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Very few of us are anti trans as such. We're opposed to violent trans activists who are using this divisive movement to undermine the rights women have slowly established over the last century. Genuine trans people who have lived quietly amongst us for a long time recoil in horror at what is being done in their name. I suppose that subtle point is too hard for the dumb media to understand.

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I just feel extremely suspicious at this point.

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You can see the truth about that particular sleight of hand (so to say) here:

https://archive.is/D6oVr

This isn't journalism. It's blatant propaganda.

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They are the genderborg or now trans terrorists imho

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KJK - Gay Men Must Speak and Stand Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QfI9L6ElM&t=1s

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A complaint has been made by the British High Commission about the demonisation of one of our British citizens in Australia. I want the same done in NZ. They put her life in danger and the lives of other women. I lived in NZ in the sixties and this ideological underbelly of thuggery is not what I remember. Jacinda, Nicola and Justin Trudeau - what have you done? What have you idiotic liberals done to societies which functioned within the law for generations. This is despicable.

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I was there in the eighties and nineties, and to be honest I think there was ideological thinking creeping in then. It was mainly to do with race at the time.

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I visited family and friends in 1998 Emma and they told me politics had changed but I didn’t see it then - other fish to fry. They were right and I was wrong.

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Apparently in the 70s there was a big activist movement. It was supposed to be a pushback on racism against Maori people. I arrived in the mid eighties and there was a tension there that I think affected all of us. In the late nineties a kiwi woman said to me it was the backlash, and they just had to put up with it. I think it needed open discussion.

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Me too.

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Saw it this morning. I saw the livestream last night and woke up with pretty strong anxiety. Barry’s video helped.

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Me too. I couldn't sleep waiting for news. Then Rukshan tweeted

https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1639524324972597254

"Well we have our answer. Posie Parker is headed back to the UK as it turns out NZ Police refuses to guarantee the safety of a women’s rights rally, so much for liberal western democracies. Shameful all around, from the hateful attacks on the women to the spineless authorities in NZ."

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Ok. No free speech in NZ then. Is Rukshan in Australia?

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Yes, there's more footage on his YT channel

https://www.youtube.com/@therealrukshan/videos

and Avi interviewed her in Oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmFDjUTLChk

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I complained to the Guardian about their biased and ill informed article. I don't expect a reply but if you don't differentiate between opinion and fact then you have a nerve writing an article for a paper without saying it is opinion and not much else .

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Where is Guardian HQ these days? We need a protest outside, reverse some of the skewed optics they've been projecting (better not pre-warn Owen and his goons though).

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I am sure as so many other people I was so angry watching Kellie Jay and the women in Auckland suffer humiliation and abuse in such a vile cowardly manner.

The mob, the captured were not just angry they were venomous at Kellie Jay but many more people remain free, not captured by this insane gender ideology and they, are even angrier and will no longer tolerate this outrage. They are angry at the injustice, angry, at the unfairness, angry at the politicians for allowing this to manifest. Politicians who allow big men to stop tiny women from speaking, who allow them to threaten women, to be violent towards women, to be intimidating, towards women, brave tiny women who are just standing up for the hard won rights of women. Politicians and the media who support this nasty pernicious ideology they must now be called out by their electorate and supporters, they must be faced with the reality that half their voting population or viewers, are women, adult human females and they need to acknowledge that simple and ancient biological fact. They need to start protecting their citizens from both physical,and psychological harm. I am sickened by those cowards and bullies of the mob, but they will never be capable of stopping those courageous women and supportive men from protecting and upholding women’s rights. However frightening and shocking it must have been for those who attended, , it was most definitely a success for it has opened up to the light a very ugly, malignant part of society that exists in New Zealand and other parts of the Western societies. And it’s exposure will, as the silent find their voices give rise to its withering away and then the healing can begin ❤️‍🩹

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Much of NZ media and many NZ politicians are gleeful and proud of what happened. The NZ pubic are being lied to but when the lie is finally revealed for what it is, I hope the public give them the same treatment that Posie received.

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Thank you for presenting an alternative to The Guardian's disgraceful version of this incident.

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Melbourne was a "pleasant day out" compared with what happened in Auckland yesterday. It was a disgraceful display of violence that was not only condoned and sanctioned, but REQUESTED by NZ politicians including MPs and mayors. It's been obvious for a long time that NZ media is captured; there was not a single broadcaster who talked about KJK as anything other than "the anti-trans agitator". The general public would have no way of knowing that she is a women's rights advocate and pushes for child safeguarding. The older man interviewed on TV after she had left the venue offered up a "people should be able to live how they want to". Because there are no journalists in NZ anymore, he was not asked if this included child sterilisation and indoctrinating children through public schools. When sex ID becomes the law here later this year and shit starts happening, maybe then people will understand what women who are trying to speak were prevented from saying in Auckland and Wellington.

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Me, my husband & hopefully therefore many others .. are more determined than ever to attend a Let Women Speak event. We’ve got to show up for her. It’s hard for parents to do it but we really need to back her up.

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Thanks Graham. I'm New Zealand woman who was at the Auckland event, and all I can say is, I'm deeply ashamed to be a Kiwi today.

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Don't be ashamed , you should be proud that you were there for KJK and all the women . Well done!

Dusty

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love and hugs sister. Thanks

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Thanks very much for this. it is extraordinary how once respectable broadsheets and media are just trotting out total falsehoods and lies which anyone who studies the images and video footage available can immediately see is not true.

I have recovered from being stunned by everything and am posting tonight.

Keep up the great work, Terven!

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Brilliant article by Brendan O Neill in the Spectator. He gets it. Posie never loses. She’s shown them for what they are.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-shameful-persecution-of-posie-parker-in-new-zealand/

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The spite and vindictiveness in the face of this shocking event is displayed in Willoughby’s Twitter account. What is wrong with these fetishists? We don’t care if they dress up like Widow Twanky but they are dangerous.

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That article was so well written it was just excellent

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Thanks for the link. I hope he is right when he suggests the witches might win.

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We must win. Posie has the right attitude. Failure is not an option. I saw a comment by a man to Willoughby on Twitter “you are a one generation species”. That is how it must be. We care about family, our children and women in general. These narcissists and nihilists cannot be allowed to become powerful. In Scotland we have begun pulling this edifice down and although there is much to do we will not stop,

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"You are a one generation species" is BRILLIANT.

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