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I talked a woman out of an abortion once. I never met her. She was a blog reader. And I actually convinced her to have the baby. She sent me pictures. It’s a little girl.
I cried like a beluga the whole time I was corresponding with her. She had an appointment for the abortion. Everybody she knew was pressuring her to abort.
I’m really proud of this.
Honestly, getting very tired of the ceaseless prattle about the Middle East.
As for the actual Russian war, if this readout is correct, Trump conceded everything that Russia wants and got absolutely nothing in return. This is Trump’s first-term kind of ineptitude. Why it’s not possible to let Europeans deal with it and concentrate on domestic affairs has not been explained. The kind of a “deal” where the US facilitates that there’s no damage done to the Russian oil industry is no deal at all.
This is sad ineptitude and lack of seriousness.
This is verbatim the argument that Putin made 20 years ago. We have seen where this mentality led. You want the same crap in Australia? Why?
My mother is preparing for a very serious oncological surgery today. I called her, and she’s very chirpy.
“They just weighed me,” she said excitedly, “and I lost 8 kgs. And I didn’t even have to do anything!”
Women are such women. It’s really cute and gives me hope that if she can still care about losing weight, the surgery will be fine.
If you speak Russian, do yourself a solid and go read the replies under this tweet featuring a “social ad” in Russian subway:
I wept with laughter, and now my face is swollen and I’m hiccuping. People give the wittiest, most entertaining explanations of what the picture means.
This is completely apolitical and simply very funny.
I knew in early January of 2020 that COVID was leaked from a lab and wrote it on this blog. It is not my responsibility or my job to know. But I knew. So I have no compassion for people who pretend to be shocked by the realization that the official COVID narrative stank of lying.
Canadians are about to step into it hard:
Honestly, Canadians, can you find nothing better than a mini-Musk with his own messed-up child? At least, our Musk is the original. Yours will be a pale copy.
Yes, it’s a mystery why men in girls’ changing rooms and women’s jails aren’t wildly popular. And why calling everyone a racist isn’t driving favorability ratings. And why eliminating borders isn’t hugely attractive.
All Democrats do is name-calling and guilt-tripping. That it’s not attracting crowds of supporters isn’t as shocking as we are told to believe.
Those 29% who are still supportive are probably in a drug-induced stupor or completely disengaged. Give them some time to catch on, and Dem favorability will drop to single digits.
P.S. Just saw this:
Strange that this kind of thing isn’t attracting large majorities. Just incomprehensible.
If you want a nice, gossipy autobiographical book, I recommend At Home in the World. If you want a major tear-jerker that will make you appreciate life, read The Best of Us. I haven’t read anything she published since 2016 because it sounds like pure propaganda, and what’s the point? But these two autobiographical books are lots of fun.
Once citizenship loses all meaning, there won’t be any rights any more, for anybody. Is that clear or do I need to explain this again? This is very, very important. Nothing is probably quite as important, so let’s stay with it for a moment.
There are no abstract “human rights” floating in the air. That’s a myth, a rhetorical device. The only real rights are the ones your nation-state is willing to guarantee to you as a citizen. Once the distinctions between citizen and non-citizen are eroded, it doesn’t mean everybody gets more rights. It means everybody gets fewer. The form of statehood that perceives every citizen as endowed with rights just for existing is very recent. It’s a historical anomaly. It’s not a naturally occurring phenomenon, just like good roads and clean streets aren’t. It can go away very easily.
Now is a very good time to get our emotions under control and concentrate on how we preserve this unique and fragile state form. Talking about “human rights” at this point is almost as embarrassing as using the phrase “global citizen.” The nation-state is wounded. We have turned away from it and put it on the brink of going out of existence. It might still be not too late to undo the damage. We should concentrate on that, on asking ourselves what do we give in exchange for unprecedented rights and unprecedented standard of living to this form of statehood. What do we give to our nation-state that a different form of statehood couldn’t easily coerce out of us while offering nothing in return?
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