Todd's Mischief Blog

~~~ Real Antifa has never been tried. ~~~ In retrospect, anti-vape was a dry run for c19 insofar as “We don’t have 100% of the science so we should just ignore the 95% we do have.” ~~~ Government is going to take over healthcare and monitor what you eat, yet continue to subsidize sugar and HFCS. Because government. ~~~ You might not like it, but this is what nature healing looks like: ~~~ “Talking points” means “true, but not useful to my side.” ~~~ I liked Grogu better when he was known as Baby Yoda. ~~~ This is so obvious once somebody actually says it. When the formal government defers to institutions that are formally outside the government, it leaks power into them and makes them de facto state agencies.  ~~~ Democrats: *cause inflation* Media: “Consumer spending is up!” ~~~ There are dichotomies and then there are false-dichotomies. ~~~ Imagine a cult that does not believe in a god but does believe in the devil. Now think about NeverTrump and stop imagining. ~~~ ...

One of the more pernicious ways that the press and the left (but I repeat myself) promote their worldview by making everything seem worse than it actually is. They paint everything within a narrative of oppressed classes being systematically persecuted and hunted by the oppressor class, facts be damned. One version of this narrative that pops up with annual regularity is the story that trans people are being killed at "epidemic" rates. The only trouble is, it just isn't so.  OBVIOUS DISCLAIMER: Every death is tragic and every murderer should be punished. This narrative caught my attention for the first time about four years ago, and I dug into it using the most recent data available from 2015. I found conclusively that, contrary to the narrative, being trans is one of the safest demographics to be when it comes to homicide. Here are images of my notes from that time (sources appear at the end of the article): Apparently, no journalist is interested in digging into t...