Yes, the election results are bad. Now the Dems will get extremely angry because they always get livid when they win, organize witch hunts, and give themselves over to bouts of extreme hysteria. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Everybody will get tired of watching the grim Dems wallow, and Republicans will win again in 2 years.
Congratulations, Floridians! You got yourselves another Republican governor. Also, the horrible Angie Nixon was defeated in Florida.
My own state is no use to anybody but Florida is showing up great in the election.
Latest Subway Takes: “My take is that white people should stop having weddings and stop having children.”
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and Zohran have all gone on Subway Takes before. It’s a hugely popular mainstream left wing Instagram account with millions of followers.https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2117510229990539540?a=Bxx7g8palP7ZBNO4lpg&s=19
This is the #1 thing I hold against liberals (leftists, whatever). They broke the unspoken pact of all normal people that it’s not ok to insult people based on their race. They made it not only acceptable but praiseworthy to insult white people at work, in the MSM press, in scholarly studies. They made it dangerous for us to refuse to be vilified on racial grounds and to refuse to vilify ourselves.
Yes, there were always people of all races who seethed with racial resentment. But the social compact, the foundation of our social order was that such behavior was marginalized. You didn’t erupt with racial insults at a work meeting at a public university. You didn’t openly single people out based on race. You didn’t say at a big meeting at work to a round of applause that you want whites to disappear from campus.
The previous social order is destroyed. It’s gone forever, but at least we can try to not make things worse. Democrats will make it worse. It’s not a thing for them. It’s the thing. It’s their foundation. Their core belief.
I can’t walk from the entrance to my building to my office without seeing the word womxn three times. If I decide to pass by the new chair’s office, I will see it four times. What a great achievement for feminism that even the name of our sex is now verboten. We went from being the second sex to being the sex that cannot be named.
This doesn’t mean that men are privileged. Men are not mentioned at all. There are no awards for men’s excellence, or even mxn’s excellence. That’s not even a thing.
It’s a sign of a sucky marriage that the dad is so excluded from parenting and the mom is not trying to integrate him. Aside from that, the childish affect in an adult man and a father (“obsessed, made-up rules, fiercely against it, we left anyway”) is very unappealing. He keeps battling his own mommy in the person of his wife, and this is very tiresome.
Our child is in bed at 7:30 on school nights and 8:30 on weekends. This is not for us because, at this age, she can play by herself and does not need to be entertained by us all the time. It’s for her. When she doesn’t get enough sleep, she’s cranky, tired, and unhappy. Before I had a child, I didn’t understand this either, but how it is humanly possible to be a parent and not have figured this out is mystifying.
I feel unmatched levels of disgust for people who use the expression “breath play.” If you engage in a practice, you should be able to name it without hiding behind this infantilizing lisping.
Whittaker Chambers wrote this in 1952:
They were widely known in the Communist Party for their inviolable prudery which was, in fact, chiefly their way of living uncontaminated by that steaming emotional jungle in which the [Communist] Party had raised promiscuity to a Marxist principle.
– Witness
I highly recommend this book. It’s fascinating.
At academic conferences, we always organize an activity called a CV clinic. Professors help graduate students who are going on the job market to revise their CVs to make them more employable. These events used to be very popular. We would have students line up to get help with their job application portfolios. At one of the conferences, we had to introduce an appointment system so that the graduate students who wanted help wouldn’t have to wait in line for an hour.
After COVID, this all dried up completely. We still organize CV clinics and sit there for hours alone, reading or working on our research, because nobody comes. The job market did not improve. If anything, it has gotten worse. But the prospective applicants stopped seeking help. When I volunteer for these CV clinics, I mark them in my calendar as writing time because I know that nobody will come.
This observation bears out in other aspects of academic life as well. I have offered help to get published in a journal or an edited volume. I have offered to help job seekers revise their articles for publication, but nobody ever takes me up on these offers anymore. The last time somebody did was in 2019, right before COVID hit.
My own academic career was literally saved by a senior colleague who mentored me and explained what I was doing wrong and why I couldn’t get published. I wanted to pay it forward and transmit this knowledge now that I am a senior academic. My university instituted a program where it would actually pay extra to senior academics to mentor tenure-track colleagues so that they would be able to present a successful tenure case. I didn’t manage even to get as far as convincing the two people I was mentoring to send me their CVs because they couldn’t find the time to do that. The university still paid me, but I stepped down from the program after one year because I feel uncomfortable getting paid for the work I don’t do.
I’m old enough to know that this wasn’t always like this. And it’s not simply my own experience. Last year, there were six of us manning the CV clinic. I asked the other five people how many students showed up to seek help with their CVs. The answer was one. In the three days of the conference, one person actually came by to seek help. Every professor at the CV clinic stated that this was a dramatic change from only a few years ago.
I have finally figured it out. I am not an Illinoisan. I’m a Missourian. Every time I see one of those maps on social media that show the most beloved dish, beverage, slang word, event, etc., in each state, I don’t even recognize the ones chosen for Illinois.
For food, Illinois is supposed to be into something called deep-dish pizza. But we don’t have that around where I live. To the contrary, our famous local pizza is very thin-crust. The famous Missouri dishes, such as toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake, are the ones I know.
Everybody around here says “soda.” I’ve never even met a person who would say “pop.” We love Fitz’s root beer.
I keep seeing on these food and beverage state maps that the most disgusting thing in Missouri is supposed to be Provel cheese. I love Provel cheese and find it puzzling why anybody would complain about it.
I’m Missouri all the way.
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The people of Spain are engaged in a collective exercise in self-numbing, where they’re trying to convince themselves that a world without jobs is the optimal one. It’s easier to come across a giraffe in Spain than a full-time, well-paid, permanent job. People are trying to talk themselves into accepting their post-work reality.
As a result, any random novel one picks up from the recent bestseller list is likely to advance the idea that having a well-paid, comfortable office job is terrible. People who still, by some miracle, happen to have jobs should liberate themselves from this terrible burden. Those who have been trying to make ends meet through a patchwork of badly paid part-time gigs and small welfare payments should consider themselves extremely lucky, because not having a job makes them better-quality humans.
It’s gotten to the point that this is the only kind of novel one reads because that’s all there is. El aire quema by Mónica González Inés it’s about a woman who has a great job, but having a job and enjoying work is the worst thing that a female character in today’s Spanish literature can be. Lúa Cruz is extremely unpleasant, and her life in a beautiful new house with a husband and a child, an excellent income, recognition, prestige, and expensive business trips is portrayed as pure horror. The novel clearly aims to make middle-aged women who have no jobs, barely any income, no family, and who live with roommates in crappy rented apartments at the age of 38 feel superior, precisely by virtue of never being able to enjoy everything that Lúa has.
This subgenre is the opposite of Soviet literature, where people were supposed to derive enormous enjoyment from work, and they lived for their jobs. The Soviet literature in question was, of course, manipulative and aimed at inspiring people to donate free labor to the state. But the post-work literature that is currently so popular in Spain is equality manipulative. And honestly, it’s a lot more depressing than anything, than Stakhanovite novels in the USSR. It keeps beating people over the head with the idea that working is terrible, having a job is an unbearable imposition, having children is an even worse one, and the only desirable state for a human being is to do nothing except scroll social media.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
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I hope you’re right!
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