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The bad news is: there are 140 million of them, just as crazy as their leader.
The good news is: ————–
The largest country on Earth is armed to the teeth including with nukes and is in the grip of a terrible rage. It doesn’t want money, trade deals, or anything that anybody has to give.
We always have to live in reality and not fantasy. This is reality, and nobody has any answer to the problem. Pretending such an answer exists is magical thinking.
We watched the last episode of a TV series where a tiny, skinny woman physically fought a ripped, much larger man for a significant period of time and did not lose.
I have no idea why this kind of fantasy scenario is so beloved in film and on TV. In real life, that woman would last exactly a second and a half against a man seriously interested in taking her out.
Viewers who grow up watching this stuff sincerely don’t understand the difference in the upper body strength between men and women. It’s impossible to explain to them why men on women’s sports team are a horrible idea. They sincerely wonder why a rape victim just lay there instead of doing what every female character in every movie does and pummel the assailant. They don’t understand history or the extreme value and preciousness of civilization where women live peacefully and unmolested.
We went to one of those children attraction events that in Europe we call Luna Park.
All of the children are white, and all the workers are Guatemalan, which does feel a little weird but OK, that’s not the point.
Klara started playing a game where you throw darts at balloons to win prizes. She missed several times, and I said, “wow, you throw like a girl.”
She got so mad at my comment that she hit the target 7 times in a row and won the grand prize. I truly know how to motivate the young generation.
“Do you want to go on the upside down ride?” I asked.
“Have you considered how that will mess up my hair?” Klara asked venomously.
I thought it was an article on intermittent fasting and thought that it must be a total hoax given the results for this poor woman:
Jokes aside, who will not be sorry to see MSM go?
Isn’t it lovely that President Trump is so dedicated to Israel, he’d dismantle Harvard to please it?
This sort of loyalty is truly rare.
I’m being sarcastic, just in case.
And look at their respective birth rates.
Yes, it’s crucial to withdraw from Trump supporters the welcoming environment they have enjoyed on US campuses so far. Only until Trump backs down from whatevs the new grievance is, of course. After that, the friendly, open-minded interactions can resume. MAGA hats will fill classrooms on par with BLM tees all over again.
Economics has nothing to do with birth rates in the very limited sense of money payments being useless in motivating births. But it has everything to do with bringing to life neoliberal subjectivities that are intensely consumerism and narcissistic.
Capital needs fewer people. It needs people who aren’t tied down with obligations. It needs us to be a raging maw of desire whose primary libidinal object is the self. A person who says “I don’t want to have children because they will prevent me from going to the movies whenever I feel like it” privileges unbridled consumerism over any other consideration. This person is concentrated on what she can ingest over what she can create. And yes, at its root, this is a function of the neoliberal economy.
A while ago, we talked about a woman who doesn’t want children because she wants to make shakshuka in the morning instead of tending to a child’s needs. This is an example of the need to ingest being put ahead of the need to bring forth. All she will produce is literal excrement and digital excrement in the form of photos of the shakshuka she’ll post online.
We are not doing anybody any favors by conceptualizing everything in the neoliberal language of choice. Choices people make, especially on such a massive level, are a result of objective conditions. That’s what we need to look at if we are to reach any understanding beyond platitudes.
Now, who’s eager to read Neoliberal Love where I talk about this at great length?
It’s honestly impossible to decipher leftist language:
How can you pass down something you don’t own?
“I’m trying to pass down my neighbor’s truck but it’s difficult.”
Ya think? What if people start passing down your belongings? How will that go over?
The main issue for the Left is not a lack of paid influencers. It’s the terrible vacuity at the heart of its understanding of what a human being is.
They have rejected genetics. Once you say things like “assigned male or female at birth”, you have thrown this entire branch of science out of the window. They have no answer for why Eritrea is Eritrea and Sweden is Sweden. They have no explanation for why Eriteans in Sweden are still very much Eriteans. No explanation for why decades of fussing around with racial differences in all sorts of outcomes only made the gaps worse.
The movement has become intellectually impoverished to the point where it can process basic science (e.g. viral transmission). All it has is word games. We’ve spent days hearing an endless vapid discussion of what’s a genocide and what isn’t. People see a video of a stadium chanting “kill the farmer” and it disturbs them. You can’t dispel that disturbance by arguing over definitions. You need a clear explanation of why you think that’s acceptable when if there were a stadium full of whites chanting “kill the blacks”, you would not think that acceptable.
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