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I agree w/ Hillary, it’s time to elect a woman for President. But I want that President to reflect the values of being a mother. #MothersDay
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) May 8, 2016
OK, is that the Jill Stein people are planning to vote for? Because that’s some really vicious sexist assholery.
What a stupid freak, seriously.
The fame and profits of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is not letting Scandinavian authors rest, and a male duo writing under the pseudonym Erik Axl Sund produced a 3,000-page trilogy they clearly hope will get as many sales. The Crow Girl is the first ridiculously bad novel in the series.
These two male writers clearly revel in imagery of female degradation and spin out one scene of rape, torture and abuse of women and girls after another for 750 excruciating pages. I’m a huge fan of Law & Order: SVU, so I’m not squeamish. But these writers derive such obvious pleasure from describing victimization of girls and women that I can’t imagine any psychologically healthy person not being repelled by the book.
Aside from this, the only curious thing about the novel is the depiction of Sweden. In this book, Sweden is a country with a non-existent welfare state, great poverty, extreme sexism, crowds of unaccounted for immigrants wandering all over the place, and sky-high crime rates. It looks like the authors’ two favorite hobbies are fantasizing about child rape and feeling sorry for themselves.
My sister saw people carrying the Soviet flag in Montréal today. She booed them loudly.
Our grandfather was a hero of WWII but Putinoids have appropriated the victory in WWII so loudly and obnoxiously that we don’t even feel like celebrating this year. These idiots are plastering WWII-related imagery on everything, from slippers
to cars
to unsuspecting infants:
Of course, nobody who is not an idiot wants to be part of this insanity.
Obama bashed Bernie supporters in a commencement speech:
You can be completely right, and you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. And if you don’t get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that’s never been the source of our progress. That’s how we cheat ourselves of progress.
Wow, that’s harsh. But now we all know for certain whose side he’s on.
It’s weird that people complain simultaneously that immigrants take away their jobs and that they don’t speak English well enough. Do they realize that if immigrants follow their suggestion and become fluent English speakers they will squeeze them out not only from minimum-wage jobs in construction and hospitality but also from middle management, sales, office jobs, etc? The only logical position for somebody who is afraid of José Gutiérrez displacing him from his job is to pray that José speak as little English as possible. Or learn from José, if one is evolved enough to do something actively rather than whine.
Hispanic culture is enormously better at fostering human connections than Anglo culture. That’s why even poor Hispanics live longer than poor non-Hispanics in this country. In any job where it’s important for people to converse and relate, a Spanish-speaker is better by default. And a smart person who comes from a less communicationally gifted culture thanks God for the existence of Spanish-speakers in close proximity and learns from them. Which is precisely what I did. And now I know how to charm and get people to like me even though by nature I’m as unsocial as is humanly possible.
I wish people just stopped moaning about how the cruel universe has not made everything extremely simple for them and learned to turn things to their advantage. Instead of bellyaching about Hispanic immigrants, borrow their sociability skills and add them to your unparalleled Anglo capacity for hard-work, perseverance, and sense of responsibility, and you will be impossible to beat on the job market anywhere in the world.
P.S. Finished the post, went to my blogroll, and the very first thing I found was this very typical post where a person struggles at an incredible length with an extremely trivial issue in the realm of interpersonal communications. And it is only one of a million such posts. The author is originally from my culture, and you can see what it means to be from a culture that is not communicationally gifted, to put it mildly.
What a pathetic, disgraceful spectacle. A bunch of angry brats are upset that mean Mommy wouldn’t let kindly, white-haired Santa bring them gifts.
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