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I’ve been trying to get the washer/dryer work but all it ever does is wash. It’s on the third round of washing the next load. I’ll end up with very, very clean clothes. If they survive all the washing, that is.
I’ve used AI, I’ve used YouTube videos but the bloody thing only wants to wash.
My talk on neoliberal womanhood was very successful. It went particularly well with younger women. They followed me out, eager to shake my hand, hug me, and share their stories.
“What you said about the life of no kids, no family, no stability but a lot of sexual freedom, hit me right in the heart,” one woman said. “We keep hearing that this is the good life. You can move around and collect liaisons. But it doesn’t feel good. It feels like I’m wasting my life.”
I don’t even have to prepare my talks but just show up and say, “something is wrong with the system where women can’t have all the children they want”, and then shut up and collect applause and devotion from the female audience. That this is perceived as a revolutionary statement that everybody has been waiting for tells us everything about how neoliberalism is working out for young people.
We are about to see a generation of massively pissed off thirty and forty-year-olds who have had it with this meaningless freedom to remain lonely and always on the move.
I’ve been asked to comment on Helen Andrews’ essay “The Great Feminization”. The essay is cute and nicely written but it’s a failure because the author does exactly what she decries.
Here’s an example. We recently talked here on the blog about how land acknowledgements in Canada morphed into homeowners being told that their homes don’t belong to them. Andrews would explain the land acknowledgements as a result of a feminized culture that privileges compassion and emotionality over rational, cold calculation. And yes, speech codes, land acknowledgements, pronouns and the rest of the woke culture can, indeed, seem like a manifestation of a soft, feminine concern for feelings. But that’s all pretense. The actual purpose of all this is not emotional. It’s purely economic. The goal is to destroy the middle class with its homeownership and its reliance on good, stable jobs.
Remember COVID lockdowns? They were posotioned as stemming from emotional concerns. “Don’t you care about grandma?” was their most popular justification. But the reality was that the lockdowns allowed for a large-scale transfer of the market share previously held by small businesses to big business. Walmart and Amazon gained a huge share of the market. Public funds were channelled into COVID mitigation, creating massive inflation and further impoverishing the middle class.
The same goes for the justice system that releases violent criminals. The argument is that poor criminals, they are suffering from “mental illness”, they grew up in poverty, poor little victims. But the reality is that there is no real compassion behind this. The goal is, as always, to use these criminals to hammer the middle class over the head, both literally and metaphorically. Displacement, fear, and uncertainty create excellent opportunities to strip the middle class of its savings and property.
The reason why I don’t like Andrews’ essay is that it drowns these economic considerations in an ocean of saccharine emotionality. “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” always attracts interest. Gender wars are fun. Men accuse women, women accuse men, women accuse each other of being incorrect women, men do the same to each other. Behind all this enjoyable upheaval hides the cold, indifferent fact that we are all getting poorer. Our lives are getting less comfortable. We are pushed out of our neighborhoods. We have to pay privately for things that are supposed to be covered by taxes. This isn’t happening because anybody is too compassionate or soft. It’s happening because it’s profitable for a small oligarchy.
Andrews’ essay is a huge missed opportunity to speak of all this. Of course, if she did talk about it, she would get a lot fewer clicks. Like any good neoliberal, she milks the emotionality of men and women for cold, hard profit.
Words cannot express the degree to which I’ve had it with these stupid media and their moronic headlines.
Something unprecedented happened in the recent phone call between Putin and Trump. Putin offered to relinquish two of the regions which he not only already occupied but for which he modified the Russian Constitution. He never offered anything like this before. It’s an enormous concession for him.
Now, the interesting question is why he’s suddenly so amenable. The Russian summer offensive failed badly. Russia sustained catastrophic losses with almost no territorial gain within the last year. These are WWI type losses with no gain. 40% of Russia’s oil industry has been destroyed by Ukrainian drones. There are long lines at the gas stations across the country. Young people are singing “fuck you, warmongering monsters” in the streets of St Petersburg. Putin is growing desperate.
These are the actual news and not what Trump did or didn’t toss. I’m so tired of the Trump obsession because it has stolen what little brain matter people had. It’s impossible to find an analysis of the situation anywhere because every journalist in existence is making everything about Trump.
Well, boundaries mean precisely compromise, communication, and letting people have their space. And therapy teaches you how to do these exact three things. It’s a difference in terminology but the substance is the same.
Half a million views on a panicky engagement-bait post with zero substance.
The Canadian province of British Columbia is informing home owners that they don’t have the right to their homes because the land was recently adjudicated as belonging to a tribe:
The purpose of land acknowledgements have become clear.
Today, Duolingo regaled me with a story in which a woman spontaneously and casually changes her sexual orientation and becomes a lesbian.
Can anybody imagine a Duolingo story where a woman becomes straight because she meets the right guy?
Of course not.
It always works in only one direction.
No, it can’t. Nobody pays to get PhDs in this country. People get paid to get PhDs.
Of course, that these women lie is obvious given their profession but I’ve seen normal people repeat this myth, too. Nobody got into gigantic debt to get a PhD in Basket Weaving. That does not exist.
People don’t know how things in their own country work. “Graduate schools will collapse without international students paying for their PhDs”. Dude, you are so off, you are falling behind the horizon.
The only good thing about Mamdani is that he doesn’t believe in any of the stuff he says. He is happy to have found the perfect way to scam the perennially unpaired who channel their cosmic frustration with life into political slogans. He is a rich dude who wants to be even richer and is milking the marks because he can.
Since he doesn’t believe any of the ideas he expresses, he’ll be more interested in photo-ops, chasing after desperate 35-year-old tail, and getting even richer to prove things to mommy than in “reforms.”
This way, he won’t do as much damage as an honest fanatic would.
Decarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of killing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska back in late August, was scheduled to have a Rule 24 court hearing on Thursday, Oct. 16. A Rule 24 hearing is for the state to determine whether or not they would pursue the death penalty.
Court documents said that the hearing has now been pushed back until April 2026.
Dude’s going to be released in a few years R this pace. And everybody will have moved on and forgotten because there will be so many more of such murders that it’s impossible to keep track.
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