Everybody’s piling on this dude but he’s only observing a physiological reality. Men don’t automatically bond with their babies like women do because men don’t carry them inside their bodies. Women have a 40-week advantage to get to know their babies, build a relationship with them, adapt to their life cycles. Men don’t have that. They often don’t have anything like the powerful release of hormones that women experience when giving birth. Every woman who has given birth knows what it feels like. It’s a transformational experience.

After a baby is born, women derive an enormous amount of tactile contact from their relationship with the baby. The father, in the meantime, has his tactile needs that used to be satisfied by his wife largely unmet. What would we have him do? Breastfeed? Quit his job and cuddle the baby all day? Some people are more tactile than others. What if a dude is very tactile and suddenly his only source of tactile comfort has gone away? What is he supposed to do?

The guy who posted the question was called every name in the book but he was only saying what many people know. The male and the female experience of early parenthood is completely different. We are doing ourselves no favors by pretending that it isn’t happening.

How is it going, people in Florida? Does anybody have an update?

Very worried over here.

We should ask why support for the October 7th massacre has been so much higher in Canada, the UK, and Australia than in the United States. https://t.co/2qvye9rDcL

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@Noahpinion) October 8, 2024

Yes, what a mystery. How could we ever figure it out?

If you are so angry, maybe you need the facts? Most all of US aid to Ukraine is spent in the US. The biggest militayr aid part is "back-filling' – which is really buying new and improved stuff using an acocunting offset for the value of the twenty-year old stuff we donate.

Maybe… https://t.co/zgJuDQBgLC

— Randy Mott (@randymot4) October 8, 2024

It’s impossible to explain how the economy works to overheated prattlers like this woman. They are used and abused by every slick operator in sight and they get angrier and angrier because the world is too complicated for their intellectual capabilities.

This is the great flaw of democracy. The masses need to be reassured and made to feel important. It’s like driving a car in very bad traffic with a wailing toddler in the back seat.

I don’t know, at least neoliberalism teaches the fans of this screamy “Tony” a lesson about what they should concentrate their attention on. Maybe neoliberalism is better and we should just accept it.

I saw this post because it mentions Ukraine but the actual issue is not the point. My social media in 2020 were filled by identical shouty Tonys who were convinced they would die on the spot if everybody didn’t remain locked down indefinitely. These are all manifestations of the same phenomenon. The world is complicated, and people freak out because they don’t have the intelligence to process it. Before, they had God and knew they didn’t need to understand everything. But now they have appointed themselves God, and the responsibility is overwhelming them.

Here’s more proof on a completely different topic:

Since there is no God, the only explanation is that the hurricane must have been caused by people’s actions. Be it global warming or evil globalists changing weather, it doesn’t matter.

Democracy without God means these Taras and Tonys get to keep us all hostage to their anxiety. So maybe it is doomed since we’ve ditched one of its main pillars of support.

I know! A few years ago, I posted photos of her on my FB page, and people who know me in RL accepted them as pictures of me.

I mean, come the bloody ef on, if I do my hair like this, it’s totally me:

I almost started to believe I’d had a previous life but then I tried reading Kristin Lavransdattir, and realized that if I’d possessed a literary gift in a preceding existence, that’s not a book I would have written.

It is kind of weird to know there was somebody looking like me, living in Norway, of all places. I’ve always had deeply loving feelings towards Norway, so there’s got to be something there.

"But the numbers did quadruple."

When a broadcast journalist pushes back against a politician's lies, it is a powerful thing.

You can see the fear in Kamala Harris' eyes when she realizes this CBS journalist is not going to fall for her gaslighting 👀pic.twitter.com/1WkHvXRlpt

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 8, 2024

I didn’t see any fear in Harris’s eyes but good for him that he tried to press her for a serious response. That’s a good journalist. It’s kind of shocking that such journalists still exist.

If only we had journalists capable of referring to that “bipartisan immigration reform bill” Harris keeps referencing as what it is, a large-scale amnesty for illegal immigrants, the likes of which we haven’t seen since 1984.

We have a huge problem with being utterly incapable of getting out the message and constantly falling for the Dems’ manipulations that have us fight on their completely dishonest terrain.

Shut down the entitlement state & you solve most of the immigration problem right there. We need to man up & fix the root cause that draws migrants here in the first place: the welfare state. But no one seems to want to say that part out loud, because too many native-born…

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) October 8, 2024

This is a typical neoliberal sleight of hand. We are told that it’s our fault that these neoliberal policies are inflicted on us. If we didn’t expect the nation-state to provide welfare, the narrative goes, that would somehow strengthen the nation-state. We are too spoiled, too flawed, too demanding. If we were more neoliberal (more self-reliant, individualistic, healthier, always young) and less in need of a nation-state, that would bring back the nation-state. The nation-state is supposed to come back as soon as we stop needing it.

I guess that’s why we are seeing these crowds of migrants crossing the border consist of old people, folks in wheelchairs, and mothers with droves of small children. Miles of footage of migrant crowds, and not a young, healthy male in sight. We should give up our disability and old age protections, and immediately all these infirm elderly migrants will immediately skedaddle back home.

Ramaswamy’s position is an extension of “let’s defund the police to reduce crime.” Policing is the number one welfare guarantee of the nation-state. Strangely, defunding police didn’t produce the desired result. But why should we learn anything from that experiment and stop to ponder different models of statehood? No, let’s do more of the same and expect a different result.

Instead of telling us that we deserve mass migration because we are too flawed, politicians could propose to eliminate the adjudication of illegal immigrant cases on the territory of the US. But, once again, nobody is even hinting that this is possible.

I don’t know if dating in one’s mid-thirties is truly as grim as this murder mystery portrays, but if it’s even 10% as dire, I’m very sorry for the people who have to undergo it.

Sydney, a 34-year-old accountant, is desperate to get married. She reminded me of the old Soviet joke where a man strikes up a conversation with two women at a village dance.

“Where do you work?” one woman asks.

“Nowhere yet,” the man replies. “I’ve only just been released from jail where I served a 15-year term for murdering and dismembering my wife.”

The woman’s eyes light up.

“He’s single!” she whispers excitedly to her friend.

Sydney and her friends are at that level of desperation. She’d disregard every warning sign as long as there’s a sliver of hope for a relationship. This leads her straight into a serial killer’s orbit but the murders are not as scary as the vagaries of single life.

A very enjoyable book but only if you are safely and comfortably married. Otherwise, I don’t recommend, even though the mystery plotting is pretty solid.

I’m scouring the schedule of my upcoming conference for chunks of time when I’ll be able to be on my own.

I’m on the executive board, and this means that aloneness will only be possible if I let one group of people assume that I’m with another group and vice versa.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind people. I’m very prepared to do my duty and be around them. I just don’t get why they are so into clustering together all the time and making noises at each other.

The best moments at a conference are when I’m alone in my room. God, I love that.

BREAKING: Almost two-thirds of registered voters believe that all illegal migrants should be deported, according to a Marist poll.

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) October 6, 2024

Yeah, so what? Even if Trump wins, the best we can hope for is a half-hearted attempt to remove some of those who are here legally on the TPS visas. The courts will strike it down because TPS is legal, and we will be told, yet again, that “oopsie, we tried, but see, it’s the Swamp”, etc. But we’ll have our cat memes, so let’s pretend that’s a huge win.

Nobody cares what we want because we aren’t making them care.