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His black and white range of clothes, which include hoodies, T-shirts, shorts, tank tops, leggings, caps and bike shorts, has been called out online for its use of a Gothic-style font that is close to the one used by white nationalists. It’s also similar to the Fraktur fonts, which were used in Nazi Germany most prominently on the cover of Hitler’s Mein Kampf book.

“Hmm unfortunately the merch looks aggressively racist,” wrote one commentator on Twitter, while another wrote: “Jesus. When I think of typefaces white people should avoid, anything remotely calligraphic/blackletter looking pops immediately to mind, especially if it’s going to include the word ‘White’.” While on Hanks’s official Instagram a user said: “Proud Boys are gonna buy these tf up.” The Proud Boys are a far-right US group and in September fashion line Fred Perry withdrew their polo shirts which had been adopted by them.

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We have the technology.

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“When you experience racism, you can feel shame,” the website read. “You may wish that you weren’t Asian, but remember that your ancestors likely went through similar or even worse incidents.”

One Harvard student, Matteo Wong, took to Twitter to express his frustration with the school’s response to the increase in racism against Asian Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic and the mass shooting that took place in Atlanta earlier this month, which left eight dead—among them six Asian women.

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The mother of Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse claims attorney Lin Wood kept him in jail for months in order to protect him from what he feared would be a post-election breakdown of society.

Wendy Rittenhouse, whose 18-year-old son is charged with two counts of murder in connection to the shootings at a Black Lives Matter protest in August 2020, claimed Wood thought he would be safer at an Illinois youth facility because “Armageddon” was approaching.

Can’t say he’s wrong.

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It’s powered by nuclear waste, but still safe for humans.

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Like in the US, the debate on whether hydroponic grown vegetables can be classified as organic is ongoing in Europe. That’s partly because of the surcharges organically certified produce yields, but there’s more. Growing hydroponically is truly sustainable, industry suppliers and growers say. “There are wonderful sustainable initiatives, they are just not organic,” is the answer of the organic industry.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an ‘organic industry’.

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A father-to-be was killed in February after a gender reveal device exploded as he was assembling it. A “smoke generating pyrotechnic device” used for a gender reveal party in 2020 caused a wildfire in California.

‘What gender is your child’?

‘Orphan.’

ZMan counts the beans.

The lesson of the last half century is one the monetarists learned from the battles over the gold standard. If the ruler is so corrupt you need hard money to control him, your ruler is corrupt enough to find a way around the limits of hard money. It turns out our rulers are more than capable of conniving around every limit put before them. They have reached levels of corruption that were though impossible half a century ago. The display being put on now suggest they are just getting warmed up.

This rather shabby track record should raise a question. That is, is the field of economics just pseudoscientific nonsense? It has lots of complexity and lots of very clever solutions to the complex problems it unearths, but outside of the most basic of concepts like supply and demand, economics is not very useful. In all of the important things, it turns out to be wrong. Astrologers have a better record than economists, because they know they are grifters, not scientists.

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I was raised Christian and the more I’ve thought about it, the more curious something about my upbringing seems. My church was constantly denying it was ‘religious’. By any objective social-scientific measures, the community was decidedly religious. Maybe we weren’t that organized (there was no website), but we recited historic creeds, we submitted to the authority of a sacred text and we practiced ancient rituals. We identified with the worldwide institutional expression of the body of Christ, yet we still liked to say we weren’t ‘religious’. Throughout my childhood I was reminded in sermon after sermon that we were ‘Spiritual but not Religious’.

Salad-bar Christianity in all its apathy.

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Anyone even vaguely familiar with the controversy over the ‘OK’ symbol will knowhow ridiculous this is. For one thing, the identification of that gesture with white supremacy was originally a hoax perpetrated by 4chan, the image board website, to troll social-justice warriors and liberal journalists. For another, Isidorou was photographed committing this sin in February 2017, before the hoax had gained any traction. It wasn’t listed as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League until 2019, the same year as the New Zealand massacre referred to by the reporter. To accuse someone of a hate crime made up by a bunch of sophomoric pranksters is one thing. But to accuse them of it before the prank had landed must be some kind of record as the most feeble grounds for canceling someone in the history of cancel culture.

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The United States Government has taken note of the ongoing slaughter in the jihad that is currently being waged in northern Mozambique. It appears the East African country can expect a bout of nation-building, courtesy of Uncle Sam.