order your groceries. saves an extra 1-2 hours a week. compounded, thats 50-100 hours a year. a whole week work of work you gain. i promise that time is more important then the $10 delivery fee

— zek (@zekramu) September 4, 2025

This is, of course, a completely neoliberal sentiment. The entire tweet is an exemplary emanation of a neoliberalized subjectivity.

However.

This gentleman is not doing neoliberalism right. If you are going to do it, you need to do it correctly. Or you’ll end up on Ambien + shrooms + a battery of antidepressants.

A neoliberal is, at the same time, a manager and the worker whom this manager manages. He’s the field he tills. The resource he cultivates. A field needs to lie fallow on regular occasions. The split psyche has to be tended to daily to mend the rift.

You are a shit manager if you drive your human resource like a plantation overseer. Especially since you are stuck with this human resource for life. Can’t fire him, can’t swap him out for another.

A good neoliberal doesn’t work all, or even most of, the time. He has a battery of unproductive hobbies. He is into charity, mentorship, spiritual stuff, psychological support. Time spent shopping for groceries, cooking, learning to play the violin, visiting the lonely elderly, etc is not wasted but invested into the inner wholeness of the human resource that is the self. Work is not the goal. It’s the by-product of a lifelong tending to the self.

A four-year-old child was allegedly raped and given an STD by a man who is a career criminal. . . “Mr. Jelks, we have arrested six times over the past six years,” Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse said. “He has everything from firearm charges to domestic violence battery, violation of protective orders, and is currently on probation.”. . .

In June 2024, he was arrested for Illegal possession of a stolen firearm, possession of a firearm or carrying of a concealed weapon by a person convicted of certain felonies, resisting an officer, and battery of a dating partner. For those charges, his bond was set at $15,000, and a probation hold was put into place. . . He was released on parole on June 26, 2025.

On August 1, weeks after his latest release, investigators said he raped a four-year-old and gave her Chlamydia.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wafb.com/2025/09/05/i-team-suspect-accused-raping-4-year-old-was-released-prison-weeks-ago/

Something is extremely wrong with our criminal justice system. Career criminals get caught and almost immediately released, so they proceed to commit even worse crimes.

We need a federal 3-strikes law, like they used to have in California. Most violent crime is recidivist. After the third felony, criminals should automatically get a life sentence. We will avoid a gigantic number of violent crimes if this simple and well-tested practice is adopted. There’s no reason not to do it. You can find an extraordinary number of these crimes where the perpetrator was just released on bond, probation, or even without any limitations at all.

Actually, I mocked him for his appearance and voice but he turned out to be a lot better than I expected. The banning of petroleum-based food dyes and the efforts to remove ultra-processed foods from school lunches, in particular, are great policies. So is the effort to remove poisons like soda from SNAP benefits.

In short, he’s turning out much better than I thought. I haven’t been following closely, though. In any case, he can’t be any worse than the people before him who caused everything we are experiencing, right? Any change is bound to be better at this point.

I have no idea why it is so but today I received the largest number of emails, text messages and phone calls than at any other point in my life. I haven’t finished any of the urgent things at work. The two editors-in-chief of my journal are MIA. Angry authors demand answers, so I’ll have to take over these colleagues’ roles tomorrow. A faculty member had a student leave her flute behind in his classroom, and somehow it’s my problem. Another faculty has a spat with her landlord. Another had a household accident. Klara ate my brain out with a tiny tea spoon for hours. We went to the orthodontist, and the wait was enormous, the office hot, and messages kept coming, making my devices ping, vibrate, and buzz like they were in their death throes. At home, I tried to boil eggs but forgot about them for an hour with predictable results.

The day had started well. I have a new cute dress, and I wore it with my artsy Colombian boots. Did some good writing. The lecture went well. But then I came across a colleague who is misery personified and his cosmic unhappiness hit me like a tidal wave. That’s when the insanity began.

On the positive side, I managed to avoid inflicting any physical harm on myself which always happens when I’m overwhelmed.

Dude, please, I beg you. You are giving us all a bad name. Please, try to concentrate. Nobody said that drug dealers don’t deserve due process. That’s an atrocious idea.

If you try really hard, I’m sure you can figure out what was actually said. People will think we are actually stupid if you keep this on. Have some cultural pride, at least.

We gave literal Nazi death camp operators due process at Nuremberg. https://t.co/MXVechWKFj

— Rep. Tony Lovasco (MO-64 Emeritus) (@tonylovasco) September 7, 2025

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to your attention the bombing of Dresden, the most due-processy event in the history of due process.

It almost as if something important took place between the bombing of Dresden and the Nuremberg trials. Something that might have been called “an unconditional surrender.”

We have people in office who are Candace Owens-style morons. She’s also very upset by the bombing of Dresden because – you guessed it – there was no due process.

What I find striking about this image is that it mocks the conventional liberalism of the West.

The killer has never known hardship or war. He has no recent cultural memory of communism or forced famines and poverty.

Unlike her, he isn't a refugee; he's a pampered pet from a… pic.twitter.com/Eo3aejRQDW

— Morgoth (@MorgothsReview) September 8, 2025

This is a good point. If anybody is justified in running around with a knife, it’s a young person from a war-torn country, displaced, and exposed to the stories of the most horrific atrocities visited on her countrymen in the past three years. In all probability, Iryna’s ancestors were serfs, bought and sold, and only liberated in 1861. Since then, what have Iryna’s ancestors and she herself experienced? Ethnic cleansing, totalitarianism, Holodomor, and invasions. But instead of running around murdering people, Iryna sat there quietly with her phone, not bothering anybody.

Some historical misfortunes seem to cause no antisocial behavior while others, in spite of being much less recent, do.

Back in 2012, my takes on the Michael Brown murder were completely off. I apologized for them here on the blog in 2019. This is not an excuse but I sincerely couldn’t believe Brown would lunge at an armed police officer. I feel stupid now but even Matt Walsh recognized recently that he found it hard to believe back then.

After seeing all of the dashcam footage of many such cases, we now all know that it does happen. It’s been eye-opening for many people. Almost weekly, there are cases where we can see footage of exactly this kind of thing happening. We should all be grateful that now police are equipped with cameras and we’ve become immune to the Michael Brown type of hoaxes.

J.D. Vance's mother was a drug addict and dealer. Opioids. She stole the drugs from the hospital and I am sure ruined at least a few lives along with hers and J.D.'s. She was also given due process and not summarily executed.

— TheRealThelmaJohnson (@TheRealThelmaJ1) September 7, 2025

She is a US citizen on US soil. How can there be “due process” to people who are not bound by the US Constitution? It’s perfectly fine to be against the bombing of the TDA boat. But it’s not ok to repeat “rights” and “due process” like a parrot without a shred of understanding of what these words mean.

Can anybody explain this viral video to me?

Dad was able to get a HR ball for his son but a Karen in the section was not gonna let him keep it
pic.twitter.com/kly0opM6aM

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 6, 2025

I must lack cultural competence to understand it. Why was the woman so desperate to get the ball? White middle-aged women are usually terrified of public unpleasantness. This must have been really important to her if she went over to get the ball away from a child. But why? I understand that sports fans want these balls. I tried to imagine an equivalent situation for myself. Let’s say there’s a limited number of volumes of a heretofore unpublished novel by Rafael Chirbes. I’d want one pretty desperately. I can enjoy it far more than any child. But would I go badger a boy and his dad to get one away from him? Not a chance.

This must be something cultural for me to have absolutely no read on the situation.