Category Archives: True Scotsmen (and WOMEN!)

J.K. Rowling has some “fine”* friends…

…who apparently have no qualms about exposing their shortcomings to kids in an effort to, uh, “protect women and girls”: Thankfully, this “radical feminist”* weirdo’s “stand”* was all for naught. The trans equality bill she was trying to stop, officially … Continue reading

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The UK is a transphobic hellhole

Transgender YouTuber Keffals exposes the slippery, skeevy horrors currently plaguing trans people who have the misfortune to be living and struggling in the UK, particularly post-Brexit: Of course, “Gender Exploratory Therapy” is nothing of the sort. It’s the old anti-gay … Continue reading

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Quotable: Kiefer Sutherland’s clapback to Doug Ford

This ought to teach Dougie not to compare himself to an actually great Canadian. In fact, Tommy Douglas is the Greatest Canadian. And he won that title not by championing cutbacks (and breaks for the ultra-rich), but by making medicare … Continue reading

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Merry Xmas. Would you care for some genderbread cookies?

Tucker Fucking Carlson sure would. So much so that he dedicated an entire segment of his (shit)show — and an “expert”! — to them: Watch out, Scotland, there’s a floppy-haired shitgibbon coming for your genderless gingerbread people! But don’t worry. … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: Come in, come out of the rain

Since it’s kind of a damp, foggy, calm-before-the-ice-storm moment, ‘scuse me while I kick the sky: Step on up. And CRANK it.

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Quotable: Brian Bilston on national identities

And in light of the latest mass shooting and the political inaction that’s bound to follow, those final two lines are the kicker.

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Quotable: Robert Burns on women’s rights

More relevant now than ever. Happy Robert Burns Night, all bards and Scotsfolks!

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Scotland gets its own PSUV

A united left party for Scotland? Och aye: The new electoral pact, anchored around the Scottish Socialist Party and the grassroots Scottish Left Project, will meet representatives of Greece’s ruling party Syriza in Edinburgh today, as well as members of … Continue reading

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