We have now had the third significant school shooting by a trans shooter (the other were Madison, Wisconsin, and Nashville, Tennessee), with many smaller violent acts by trans individuals. The Left immediately came out condemning not only guns, but prayer. A few nut-cases even tried to blame Trump and White Supremacy. Rosie O\u2019Donnell said, \u201cWhat do you know, it was a white guy, a republican, MAGA person.\u201d She later, sort of, apologized for this statement, by saying, \u201cI assumed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard, you know, feelings of\u2026 You know, NRA-loving kind of gun people.\u201d\u00a0 Well, it is at least clear where her bigotry comes from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elected officials like the Mayor in Minneapolis seem more interested in protecting their status as a Trans Sanctuary than in protecting Catholic kids. They had no idea of the motive, but were insistent that this should not change their Trans Sanctuary policies. Meanwhile, other Democrats, such as Mamdani, want to expand Tans policies, such as the so-called \u201cGender Affirming\u201d care. In Temecula, California, near where we lived, the school board wanted to require either a religious or mental health exemption if a girl did not want to change in front of a male. Both of these would go on their records and could adversly affect them. At least after testimony from two eighth-grade girls and many parents, they tabled the measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overt discrimination against Christians is increasing, and like antisemitism, it is coming from the Left. George Yancey, professor of sociology at Baylor University, found that Americans, in general, dislike conservative Christians even more than Muslims. He also found in a survey of academics that \u201chalf would be less willing to hire a fundamentalist, and almost two in five would be less willing to hire an evangelical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three school shootings by trans people are not aberrations. Acts of violence against Christians and churches are growing as well. In one report, from May 2020 to November 2022, there were 230 attacks on Catholic Churches in 39 states. Many churches now have armed guards. Two years ago, Gov Walz was warned by Catholic leaders about this increasing threat to safety, but did nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Affirming children\u2019s mental illness causes harm. This is just common sense. Should we treat a bulimic girl by affirming her view that she is too fat, as she starves herself to death? Of course not. Any ambiguity in the science has long since disappeared. Great Britain recently ended Trans surgery on children because it is barbaric and does not help. But the Left here puts ideology over science and common sense. They still are fighting to continue to mutilate children. Affirming mental illness does not help; it harms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On a different note, we got shadow-banned. Our series on Gaming and IT had a first day that was close to, if not our best ever. Our views were significantly larger than our average, and we had more new subscribers the first day than any of our other videos over their entire run. Again, that was just the first day. Most of our videos are released on Tuesday, and they build with the best numbers on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet, the views for this video dropped drastically, virtually to zero. We wondered what happened. Then part two was released, and it was one of our lowest views ever. After a few days, we only have 13 views and four likes, most from the first day. When we checked the analytics, we had a fantastic click-through rate, 25%. A good one is 2-3. The problem was impressions: how many people saw the image of the video so they could click through? They are not showing it to anyone; they were shadow-banning us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? The video was about troubles in the gaming industry, which we generalized to the IT industry. We see the problems as consolidation and companies putting profit over customer service. While we cited X-Box laying off 9,000 and closing studios to introduce the \u201cTrouble in gaming,\u201d we did not focus on any company but talked in general terms. Controversial, perhaps, but worthy of censorship? Sadly, there is not much we can do about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what will democracy look like in 10 years when a few mega IT companies control virtually all communications in the country? They could shadow ban anything they do not like and, with AI, could do so. This is why I recommended Zuboff\u2019s book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, a few years back. If you have not read it yet, you should. We will probably do a video on this, but it will likely be shadow-banned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n