Opinions, art, debate
This is our only alternative to Trump: a regime where we will have to allow sex offenders with a long criminal history to prey on women in toilets because they’ll claim that they are diverse and non-binary:
Yes, Trump is wildly imperfect. But it’s not between him and perfection. It’s between him and whatever Melbourne is.
This is a reminder that children should not be watching YouTube videos:
Or any other short-form videos. Or any AI slop. The only foundational principle for picking activities for a child should be “how is this good for the child?” No other consideration should be in play.
Adults shouldn’t be watching AI slop either. There are tons of great books, wonderful music, intelligent podcasts. There’s no need to consume garbage.
He didn’t, though. Look at his efforts to reward Russia with lifting sanctions in response to the overwhelming intel that Russia is helping Iran in the war. What kind of a neocon champions subservience to Russia?
I think it would be helpful at this point to abandon the outdated terminology about neocons and observe that this is something different. I’ve not found a coherent explanation of what’s happening that would take all of it into account. The US is fighting on both sides of the war in Iran. We are not fighting to win. That’s the only conclusion that accounts for all the facts. Beyond this, I’ve currently got nothing. But it’s more than most people are saying.
What class were they taking? I’m desperate to find out what subject attracts such impressive students.
We went to Michaels to buy some balloons and got stuck in line at the register behind a group of meth addicts. They had black teeth, their body parts were falling out of skimpy clothing, and they were acting very erratically. One woman was stuffing her face with cotton candy, opening her mouth so wide I was afraid her jaw would pop.
“Now I understand why you keep saying drugs are terrible,” Klara said when we left.
I feel terrible for these people. The way the women looked, it was clear that they make the money for their habit by prostituting themselves.
Hot on the heels of Edward McLaren’s Bothelford’s Gone, here’s another right-wing novel about the destruction of the Western civilization through mass migration.
A fussy liberal lady in NYC takes in a Honduran migrant to assert her leftist virtue to a right-wing pundit ex-husband and an anti-immigrant incel son. The migrant moves a bunch of gangsters into the Boomer activist’s expensive house and gives her a taste of reality. What follows is a domination ritual which the well-meaning and naive liberal lady brought upon herself because of her wide-eyed naiveté of a lefty do-gooder.
Shriver mocks Boomer cluelessness viciously. Zoomer helplessness gets its fair share of mockery as well. She’s not a great artist but you don’t need to try hard to portray the toxic empathy of women who use saccharine racial justice projects to plaster over the failures of their ruined marriages.
The rejection of leftism has gone mainstream, my friends. This is excellent news. Please read the novel and recommend it to others. A Better Life should be a movie or a TV series but there needs to be a production company that won’t weasel off and turn Honduran gangsters into evil Germans or Brits.
At the gym, there’s a stand with small compartments at the entrance into the the weights and equipment room.
Everybody drops their stuff there before going on to exercise. Handbags, wallets, car keys. There are no locks because they aren’t necessary.
Respect for property doesn’t exist in isolation. Gym visitors are polite and respectful with each other. Nobody stares, nobody comments at other people’s performance. People take turns and wipe down equipment after each use. Nobody talks on the phone or listens to music without headphones. Women are completely safe from grabbing or lewd comments.
This is American culture. This is not the human default. It’s the opposite of human default. A very large number of cultural operations carried out across the span of many generations brought about this result.
Unfortunately, this culture comes with a built-in weak point where it’s likely to break down. This weak point is an effect of precisely the trust and the kindness that I described above. People leave their wallets out in the open because they assume everybody is equally honest and kind. They extend this assumptions to the entirety of humanity and backwards in history, assuming it’s the human default.
This is shocking consistency:
I feel strangely proud of being so predictable.
The Bank of England will replace images of the country’s great men—Wellington, Churchill, etc—on its new banknotes with pictures of wildlife because it’s impossible to find any important figures who are not “exclusionary” or “divisive.”
A collective agreement on a roster of historic figures who symbolize the greatest achievements and the best qualities of a nation is one of the most basic attributes of a nation-state. The new banknotes will symbolize the end of Britain as a nation.
This is me in first grade:
We had to wear these white collars to school every day. Imagine keeping them clean and starched in Soviet conditions. In the photo, I’m wearing a festive day school uniform but the white collars had to be worn daily.
Clarissa's Blog 