It’s very important that there are more men in teaching. Klara’s two main teachers in camp are young men, and it’s a completely different energy than that of women teachers. Different games, different ways of relating to each other. A lot of ribbing, a lot of daring. It’s great even for girls to have this kind of teaching. For boys, it is indispensable.
Author: Clarissa
No Shared Definitions
The naked, shameless neoliberalism of this:
Neoliberals like Obama have the same definition for many things, including citizenship and sex. They define a concept as absolutely anything except the actual thing. This “every way of being American” that Obama references excludes the only actual way of being American.
Reality is diluted into volitional content. Once there are no shared definitions of even the most basic things, our common public space becomes a war zone where people with the most power get to impose their definitions on everybody else.
People support this setup because, against all evidence, they believe that their faction will be able to bully everybody into adopting their definitions.
Red Herring
Forget farms. This is all a distraction, a red herring. We all saw many reports of large groups of migrants, brought into small towns in Ohio, Alabama, Pennsylvania, etc in 2023-24. They were not working on farms. These were people receiving government assistance and living in government-provided housing. Have they been returned home?
The conversation keeps slipping towards migrants who have been in the US for quadrizillion years and have jobs. This is a manipulative trick. We need to talk about the people brought in last Fall. They are not picking any crops. Where are they and what is the impediment to asking them to leave?
Doing Less with Less
I have received an invitation to the following conference:
Announcing the 2nd Annual Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium, “Doing Less with Less, Effectively”
I am not going to participate, obviously, but the cult of austerity has become comical.
Well, at least the organizers have recognized that “online teaching” tends towards doing less and less.
Panicky
JD Vance is clearly panicking as his chances for a presidency are being erased:
I don’t like him so I don’t care but it’s funny how the poor dude is jumping up and down like a trained seal in this long and confused tweet.
Went Downhill
OK, I’m willing to accept the working hypothesis advanced by Omar that things went downhill in this country after she showed up. I definitely feel the decline every time I hear her screeching voice.
Principles
This is from last night in Kyiv:
No, I’m not in favor of preventative bombings of sleeping people because you don’t like their regime. I’m not on the side of this no matter where it happens.
Preventative
It would be really bizarre if I, of all people, suddenly supported preventative invasions and regime-change-motivated bombings of peaceful cities. It would truly be the definition of hypocrisy.
Positive Message of the Day
Well, at least Canada is even more stupid:
That’s my positive message of the day, my friends. It’s downhill from here.
A Harsh Cope
The cope is so harsh, I actually feel bad for both these dudes:
The evidence that Trump knows what he’s doing and has been very proactive in this situation is overwhelming but yes, let’s totally hide from reality. It’s worked so well so far.
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