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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.
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.
It’s a mystery why. A mystery, I’m telling you. Aside from sky-high prices, failed promises on immigration, zero promised legislation, and a weak foreign policy, everything is fantastic. Voters should be chomping at the bit for more of this awesomeness, amirite?
I’m not Catholic so I don’t follow much. I have a vague feeling that the current Pope is better than the previous one. But maybe it’s because he’s American, and I have more faith in American Catholics than Argentinean because the Argentinean ones tend to be Commie types.
Do we have any Catholics here who have a better insight? I’m very persuadable on this or any other Pope because what do I know about what’s good for Catholics?
It looks like the Putin-owned presidential candidate in Honduras, Rixi Moncada, is not going to win the election. This is good news. If Honduras falls to the baddies, that would not be great. It’s now between the centrist and the right-winger, both of whom are unimpressive, but at least the worst danger is behind us.
In the meantime, Great Britain is abolishing jury trials for a variety of offences:
In an attempt to tackle a record backlog of 80,000 cases, Mr Lammy will on Tuesday … set out the Government’s … plans to scrap the right to jury trial for defendants facing offences likely to result in prison sentences of under five years.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/30/cutting-jury-trials-will-undermine-free-speech/
This means that the people arrested for speech acts will most likely be imprisoned. Please observe how this is formulated as a result of austerity. There’s no money for jury trials, there’s a large backlog, this is a necessary measure, etc. Civil rights are abolished under the pretext of money shortages. Meaning that money shortages are very convenient.
Yes. Ukrainians and Americans are united in their desire to have the US distance itself from this war. Just kind of go away and concentrate on American stuff. There might even be a name for this attitude, such as, dare I suggest, America First.
Why we are not getting what both Americans and Ukrainians overwhelmingly prefer is… kind of obvious but I’ll let everybody draw their own conclusions.
What many people don’t understand (because we have propaganda instead of news) is that Zelensky was elected in 2019 because he was pro-Russian and wanted to appease Russia. His electoral slogan was, “to end the war, we need to stop shooting.” That’s why I didn’t support him and detested him all through the years 2018-2022. He was tying himself into knots to be nice to Putin. He disarmed, cut the army’s budget, went hard pro-Russian.
It was only when the bombs started dropping on Kyiv on February 24, 2022 that Zelensky figured out that no amount of friendly gestures can prevent Russia from invading. Because the invasion isn’t happening in response to external stimuli. It was and continues to be driven by purely internal needs.
This is why Trump’s peacemaking efforts are failing so spectacularly. He doesn’t have anything that Russia wants. There’s nothing he can offer to get them to agree to peace. Trump is doing exactly what Zelensky did before 2022. And getting the same results.
Now ask yourself why you’ve never heard any of what I’m saying in all the years of the war. The answer is that there’s nothing but propaganda both on the left and the right. As I keep saying, the only difference between this news space and the one we had in late USSR is that Soviet people weren’t nearly as gullible and didn’t believe their propaganda as eagerly.
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