Retirement Benefits

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If I retire at the earliest possible date, which would be when I turn 55, my monthly retirement payment will be $3,860.

This is for a job where I only began working at the age of 33. I mean, I won’t say no to the money but isn’t it weird to expect a public education system to produce this outcome in perpetuity? Shouldn’t people work for a bit more than 22 years to get retirement? Or at least past 60? We aren’t working in the salt mines, so the job is neither physically demanding nor onerous.

I’m not turning 55 or planning to retire at all for the foreseeable future. I had to contact the retirement people for paperwork purposes and used the opportunity to have them calculate my benefits just out of curiosity.

The West Formula

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The following components went into the creation of the miracle of the Western civilization:

  1. The understanding that God is one;
  2. The admiration for the powers of the human intellect and the habit of introspection that ancient Greeks discovered;
  3. The knowledge that in the beginning was the Word;
  4. The realization that the kingdom of God is within you.

When these things come together, you have the Western civilization. Science, art, medicine, technology, rights, literary criticism, high-trust societies of complete strangers, universities, nuclear family, representative democracy. They all come out of this mix.

I Know Leftists

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OK, who told you, my friends, and did it before anybody else that Tucker is a Berkeley leftist?

Now that’s he’s come out as an anti-colonialist, I rest my case.

If there’s one thing I know besides the uses of the subjunctive in Spanish and what to read, it’s leftists. Because they are everywhere in the places where I apply my mastery of Spanish subjunctive and my knowledge of literature. It would be strange if I didn’t recognize the little coocoos. What Tucker says in this video is verbatim what I heard from my Communist professor (literally, he was a proud member of the Communist Party of Spain) on September 11, 2001. The Communist professor and Tucker are also in complete agreement on Russia. And China. And I could go on.

I’ll do my “I told you so” dance in the morning because I don’t want to spook the cat at this late hour.

What You Want Is What You Have

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No, they wouldn’t. People who want to move, move. What people say is no indication of anything other than that at this particular moment they felt like saying it for whatever reason.

Only the results matter. What you want is what you have. I want to learn German, so I work on it every single day. If you want to learn German but you aren’t learning it, you don’t really want to learn German.

Barely Acceptable Gifts

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I’m very sad for people who sincerely fail to realize how off-putting they are. “The bare minimum that is acceptable” reeks of pouty, perennially aggrieved womanhood. Everything around you dies, flowers don’t bloom, milk goes sour, and gifts dry up.

People don’t give gifts because they’ve been presented with lists of barely acceptable minimums but because it brings them joy. Gift giving is extremely enjoyable. Unless you make it unenjoyable following the recipe provided by this poster.

Social Occasions

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N announced that he wants to become more sociable to practice for his job interview and is willing to accompany me to social occasions.

“Which social occasions?” I asked. “I don’t have any social occasions beyond the coffee hour at church.”

“Well, we went to that party, remember?”

“Which party?”

“I don’t know. But it was a nice party. There were people.”

“What was the occasion?”

“How should I know? There were those gay dudes.”

“Ah! The 2023 Chairs’ retreat at the Dean’s house?”

“If you say so. We could go to that one again.”

Class Warfare

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Undermining family is class warfare. Divorce is wealth transfer. Protracted singledom is wealth transfer. The freedom to keep swiping for fresh partners is freedom to be poor. Wealth begins when you stop swiping.

Different Approaches

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In related news, when we came into the church today, we saw four young people, 3 men and 1 woman, who came for the very first time, and the priest was doing welcome prayers over them at the entrance. The popadia (the priest’s wife) was in tears, it was so touching.

What I’m saying is true for both religion and education. Young people don’t want to be pandered to. The priest says that the young catechumens all want serious theology.

On the level of simple logic, it’s got to be obvious that if somebody made a choice to go to church instead of hanging out at home with a dildo, they are looking for something that’s not a dildo. So what’s the point of running after them with dildos when they get enough of that in every other area of life?

Ice Age

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Just fuck off at this point really, you know? I have no idea what glitched to send the prediction machine from overheating to overfreezing but nobody cares any more. Let’s move on.

Same People

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What I find very entertaining it’s that these are the same people who keep saying that Republicans want to bring Handmaid’s Tale to life.