This is another problem with democracy. It doesn’t pay to have a long-term vision. Doing things today that are oriented towards anything beyond the next election, which is always a few months away, makes no sense.

As a result, nothing stands between the love of “societal disruption” by people like Pichai and all the rest of us. Politicians are chasing the happy pill that will bring instant gratification, and future be damned. This is why no political force in the country has even attempted to take a position regarding AI. Politicians will do so when it’s too late. Then they’ll run around like headless chickens, promising harebrained schemes to solve everything in one fell swoop. And will end up solving nothing.

One of the reasons we can’t have nice things (guardrails on discourse) is because people like this will always abuse them as a weapon against every conservative thought that gives them the vapors. There is no comparison between Fuentes’ views and the considered thoughts of a guy… https://t.co/S1ShvmYVK5

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) December 3, 2025

Sure there’s no comparison. Fuentes is Socrates in comparison with these Heritage hacks. They can all stick their considered thoughts, with the piss-poor results those thoughts brought us, very deep into their anal cavities.

I despise this whole “guardrails on discourse” crowd. They’ve been pearl-clutching, denouncing, condemning, disavowing and repudiating for weeks while everything is falling apart around them.

The imagined community of a nation needs a story of itself that is positive and inspiring. Look at the American story. The Pilgrims, the frontiersmen, the Wild West. We achieved, we built, we overcame. That’s a great, positive story. And look at the results. Excellent results.

Unfortunately, Latin American countries locked into a miserable narrative of themselves. We were conquered, genocided, victimized. The results match the narrative. And it’s dumb because the Latin American “we” is not the indigenous “we.” It’s the mestizo “we”. Latin American “we” of necessity includes Spaniards because Latin America speaks Spanish. But that is not reflected in the national narratives where the “we” is always an utterly vanquished, robbed and immiserated victim suffering at the hands of Spaniards first and Americans forever after.

This is why it’s important to have good, high-quality elites. Who else is going to create the shared story of the nation, which is always a complicated process involving many people and occupying a long stretch of time? The Latin American elites have failed abysmally. They continue failing because they are still pursuing the victimhood angle.

Historically very recently in Great Britain people were arrested for being gay. Today, a woman is charged for using the word “faggot” in a private communication without any reference to anybody’s sexuality. This happened within a blink of an eye. From one extreme, it went to another.

I have a very sincere question to people who support censorship. How do you know that tomorrow your beliefs, which are completely normal and run of the mill today, won’t be declared chargeable offenses? How do you know that this morning you didn’t send a text message or write anything on social media that tomorrow will be used to deprive you of your livelihood and even freedom? What gives you this complete certainty that it won’t touch you?

This is not a rhetorical question. We’ve seen this happen to so many people so many times. Old statements that at the time they were made were considered normal and acceptable are used to destroy people today. Why wouldn’t it happen to you? What is the mechanism you use to reassure yourself that you will be immune?

Finally, finally, finally, I have found a great history book on the founding of Mexico. I can use it as a textbook. This is excellent.

What I want is a book that avoids the extremes of “Spaniards were evil genocidal maniacs who evilly genocided sweet little Indians” (because it’s moronic crap) and “sweet little Spaniards peacefully and sweetly brought the light of culture to evil savages who were evilly genociding other savages” (because it’s also moronic crap). But all that’s on offer is one of these two dumb narratives.

I kept looking for an author who likes being Mexican, you know? Somebody who writes from the perspective of not hating his country and endlessly bemoaning its existence. Somebody who could explain that Mexico is great, and the components that went into its creation are great. Somebody who would zing and zang with patriotic enthusiasm for Mexico. Which is a crucial characteristic in a national historian. How did it happen that historians tend to burn with love for every country except their own? It’s weird.

In any case, I finally found a patriotic author in Juan Miguel Zunzunegui. I listened to his book The Day After the Conquest on Audible, and he reads it himself. You can hear in his voice how much he loves Mexico and how cool he finds it. Zunzunegui explains that Mexico was born from the encounter of the majestic Spanish culture and the fascinating indigenous cultures. Mexicans were not conquered by Spaniards. Mexicans came into existence from the meeting between Spaniards and Indians. 99% of people who defeated the mexicas (later renamed into Aztecs) in Tenochtitlan were indigenous. They were led by Hernán Cortés in a revolutionary struggle to liberate themselves. They were not victims but victors.

The narrative that Spaniards showed up, raped everybody in sight, and Mexicans are very sad today and have a lot of crime because they are sad over all those rapes 500 years ago is stupid and needs to go. I shit you not, that’s the Nobel Prize winning theory that dominates the official Mexican story of Mexican identity. No wonder Mexico isn’t achieving much with such a story of its own origin. If you tell yourself every day that your existence is a great misfortune and a crime, what positive outcomes can you expect? Look at Mexico today and you’ll see your answer.

I’m very psyched about this author. He’s just so very rare because it’s been impossible to find a historian of Mexico who doesn’t shit either on the Spanish or on the indigenous side of the Mexican equation. And it’s so dumb. Whatever happened in 1521, isn’t the way to go kind of just embrace it? Especially since you are very clearly a result of it?

Zunzunegui has many more books on Audible, and I want to see what else he’s written.

Kushner and Witkoff traveled to Moscow and very predictably got no results.

I would much rather not be embarrassed by some dude who’s a presidential relative with zero knowledge of anything and even less trust from the American people representing our country abroad. I think this is not too much to ask.

This Kushner fellow is a blight on the second Trump administration, just as he was on the first.

Witkoff sucks absolute ass, too.

Please, somebody, link to some good news for a change.

Ain’t democracy great? No jury trials, people arrested for saying mean words in private conversations, parties banned, political candidates imprisoned, deeply unpopular policies forcibly inflicted on citizens. Truly, a system that should be preserved at all costs.

JUST IN: Instagram orders employees to be back in office 5 days per week

— Kalshi (@Kalshi) December 1, 2025

I haven’t taken as much flak for anything as for my insistence that people who expect to get full-time salaries should actually show up at work. Before COVID, this was a very uncontroversial idea. But then a massive regression into a childish state happened to many people.

Which daily habit do you find bizarre in other people?

I find it very strange when people wear footwear in their own house. It’s an eccentricity I can’t explain. At home, I’m always in a dress and barefoot.

N, on the other hand, always wears his Special Slippers at home.

All three headlines one after another are making a big, of unintentional, point:

I remember how a Commie professor in Canada was trying to convince me that the USSR had a high standard of living and true equality. Bannon sounds exactly like that.

It’s sad when people depart from reality and engage in an intense dialogue with their own fantasies.