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Exhibit #5302 that liberals do not understand conservatives:

No, we don’t believe this because we’re not morons. Barry’s profound desire to see us as morons stems from his smugness and lack of curiosity.

We don’t all have the same opportunities. My opportunity to star in the NBA was always completely non-existent. My child’s opportunity to become a reader with a vast vocabulary was always sky high, given that both of her parents have Ph.D.s and write books.

What we do believe is that giving everybody identical opportunities, let alone guaranteeing similar outcomes, is an impossibility. Since we have the capacity of learning and retaining information about the past, we have also observed that every effort to engineer similar opportunities/outcomes for everyone has invariably resulted in a massacre.

There are billions of people living on this planet. Consequently, the mix of the good and the bad things that your specific existence entails is not going to be the best or the worst in the world. Some things are going to be easier, and others are going to be harder. Conservatives are not the abnormal ones for reacting to this simple fact of life with calm acceptance. Our reaction is mature and adult. Feeling constantly inflamed that other people were more advantageously situated by the circumstances of their birth is immature and pre-adolescent.

As promised, I keep trying to improve the new template. Here is what I’ve done so far:

1. I have expanded the list of recent comments to 40.
2. I have added the number of comments on each post. I confess that it does look a little clunky, and I will keep trying to improve it, but at least there is a number of comments right now.
4. I have changed the font away from the atrocious sans serif.

I’m slowly figuring out how to introduce at least some changes to this template. Please let me know what else needs to be done.

USA Today invokes Emmett Till in column about Caitlin Clark flopping

Nancy Armour wrote a column about Caitlin Clark complaining too much about officiating but took it in an unbelievable direction.

https://awfulannouncing.com/wnba/usa-today-invokes-emmett-till-in-column-about-caitlin-clark-flopping.html

Liberals can’t help themselves. In an article about women’s basketball, they somehow find an occasion to reference Emmett Till, who, as far as I know, was most definitely not a female basketball player.

At this point, liberals might suspect that it’s time to stop, but they can’t. They have become prisoners of the bad habits they indulged in for many years.

This doesn’t work with people who are not fighting for material considerations, and people almost never fight for material considerations.

We’ve seen the exact same problem with both the Biden and the Trump administrations being utterly unable to comprehend the nature of Russia’s war against Ukraine and Ukraine’s response. Both administrations have tried to explain the war in the terms that they understand, but those terms are completely alien to the people whose behavior they were trying to analyze. The two administrations were different in that they applied a different set of terms to explain the Russia-Ukraine war. But both were completely wrong, as we have seen time and again.

Now the Trump administration is doing the same regarding Iran. This is the “replaceable widget” theory of the mind that I keep talking about. People never manage to liberate themselves from the need to project their own way of being onto other cultures, nations, and historical eras. The biggest (and also the hardest to access) opportunity for personal development is to understand that the architecture of other people’s minds can be completely different from our own.

I urgently need a cat hack to stop my cat rubbing against my legs. She seems to think I find this practice very enjoyable and literally persecutes me with her efforts to do it.

Does anybody know how I communicate to her that I’d rather she abstain from this behavior? Also, why do cats do it? Does anybody know what the evolutionary reason behind it is?

In an utterly unrelated aside, changing the blog template also changed the appearance of what the posts look like while I write them in the app. The change made the process enormously easier. I have no idea how the two things are even connected, but I promise that they will keep working on the new template with the goal of changing the font and adding the number of comments to posts. WordPress has made the editing of templates very hard. It’s currently at the level of what the internet was like in 1996. To get this new template to work at the level of what you are seeing right now took me an hour and a half yesterday. I recognize that it’s imperfect, and I will continue working on it.

Please let me know what to do about the cat, though. Since we’ve been away, she became extremely clingy and wants to be glued to me all day.

We have a huge crisis of masculinity on our hands:

Yesterday we dropped my 5 year old daughter off at some summer day camp thing for children. She’s going for a few hours every day this week.

She came home telling us she had a wonderful time except for one part.  Some boy kept following her around, being mean to her, and TOUCHING her butt. She told me she told him to stop and move away from him but he grabbed her and pulled her back and continued to touch her against her will. She told me she could point the boy out and described him as a little boy her size with brown skin.

Now I get to deal with the nightmare of many California parents. Some shit culture that doesn’t respect women has invaded the area I reside in and  has now affected my daughters life.

This is how I’ve chosen to handle it today.

In about 2 hours I’m dropping her off again. We will be informing the adult staff about yesterday’s incident.

I told my daughter that telling the adults PROBABLY won’t fix the situation. I know the kind of adults that pervades California. Weak ineffectual pathetic bottom feeders who are more concerned about social correctness than my daughters safety.

I told my daughter if that boy touches her again today after we’ve let the adults know that she has my permission and every right to break that little boy’s arm. Keylock, kimura, arm bar. Her choice. This seemed to calm all her little fears. Shes trained for this. I’m raising my daughters to fix their own problems, not be victims. If this is the first arm she collects, so be it.

https://x.com/i/status/2079567084976259418

The guy’s X handle is Vikingr1776. He describes himself as “a Christian Viking.” And he proudly posts the story of how his five-year-old daughter was sexually molested at camp, and he sent her back there with advice to pick up a fight with a boy. A Viking, indeed. Ooh, scary and ferocious. A true lion among men.

My Dad was disabled. He had a lifelong physical disability. He never worked out or anything like that because that was physically impossible for him. His handwriting was crap because he had difficulty holding a pen. Once, two teenage boys were mean to me in the courtyard. It wasn’t even anything sexualized. But my father, whom I had never known to raise his voice before or after, came out of the house, grabbed these boys, and forced them to crawl on the ground, kiss my shoes, and beg for my forgiveness. They had to do it for a while before he relented and let them go.

Before anybody mentions California, this was the USSR, and my father was a Jew, so any encounter with the authorities was not going to end well for him.

All that the pussy viking from the OP needed to do was simply not send the little girl back to that stupid camp. He has a stay-at-home wife. There is zero urgency for the child to be at camp at all. Yet instead of finding a way of entertaining her at home, he teaches the child to pick fights with boys, which is a terrible idea for obvious reasons.

“Weak, ineffective and pathetic bottom feeders.” Indeed.

In left (or progressive or modernist) culture, a closed door is, by definition, an intolerable provocation to the human spirit. To open—and keep open—all existing doors is a categorical imperative, even if they open directly onto the tracks of a moving train.

Jean-Claude Michéa.

The quote couldn’t be more apt to what I discussed in the previous post. But it’s also relevant to the post about the 5-year boyfriend. The people who defend him might think they are on the right, but their guiding philosophy is profoundly leftist. They don’t understand the crucial importance of a firmly closed door. The concept doesn’t even occur to them. They believe that fluid lifestyles are the norm and keep feeling shocked by the consequences of the fluidity that they promote.

This is extraordinary:

Megan Rapinoe claims banning transgender males from women’s sports is an “attack on women.”

“It’s an attack on women in society.”

https://x.com/i/status/2079814482969453020

The only reason why Rapinoe has an athletic career is that men’s and women’s team exist and don’t play against each other. She would not have a job if the boundaries between men’s and women’s sports weren’t strict and impermeable. But then she says these things, and I think she’s completely sincere. The human capacity to hide from reality is limitless.

Forget Rapinoe. This is a widespread phenomenon among academics whose 2-days-a-week full-time jobs are only possible for as long as nations exist. Yet they do everything to argue themselves out of existence. I’ve never been able to understand this. I’ve asked this question many times. But nobody says anything. They make faces at me but there’s never a reply. 

I have received complaints from readers that the blog organization has become weird. One person says that the posts no longer appear in chronological order. Another pointed out that if you are not signed in, some posts are not even visible to you.

I want to reassure everybody that this is not happening in response to anything I did. I didn’t change anything. I didn’t introduce any new settings. I’m doing exactly what I’ve always done. WordPress routinely has these moments of strange experimentation where they mess up a well-functioning system in order to justify the existence of their team of employees.

This is very annoying. I hope it goes back to normal soon. I have been wondering why some good posts receive no comments, and now I realize that people are probably not even seeing them. The logic behind the suppression of some posts by WordPress is completely incomprehensible. I haven’t added any tags to posts in a very long time, so it’s not that. If anybody observes any logic behind this madness, please let me know.

The French philosopher Jean-Claude Michéa says that the goal of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s was “the abolition of all cultural obstacles to the unimpeded reign of economic relations.” What is the sexual revolution, after all, if not the belief that people can be reduced to objects of consumption to be used and discarded at whim?

Michéa says that once we repudiate the “obligations associated with family, group membership and linguistic, moral, and cultural heritage”, the promised utopia of complete freedom does not arrive. Instead, we become subjects to the “tyranny of the unconscious.” We turn into the slaves of the desires we cannot even articulate.