I have no idea why people are obsessed with regime change like it’s something bad. Is it because of Iraq and Libya? But those are savages, of course they messed it up.

Look at the 15 republics of the USSR, though. Look at the Warsaw Pact countries. They all experienced dramatic regime change far beyond Iraq. And it was fantastic. Or is there anybody here who wishes the USSR continued until now?

Germany regime-changed in 1945 and turned into a wonderful, civilized country. Even Mexico pulled off an excellent regime change in 1910, although being Mexico and all it did take 20 years and a civil war to make it stick. Spain regime-changed beautifully in 1975. The US achieved one of the most remarkable regime changes in history in 1776.

I don’t think that we should invade anybody to effect regime change. I’m against people invading other people. But that’s why I say I’m against invasions. I don’t say I’m against regime change. Because that’s a weird and random thing to oppose. Do you believe that people should be stuck for eternity in a regime that doesn’t work for them? Why? Because of one situational fail in one stupid Iraq?

Honestly, it’s not even the belief itself that annoys me but people’s eagerness to repeat these fake expressions without even trying to ask what they mean. I despise the use of verbal clichés.

By the way, after a welcome and happy pause, we are back to DEI full-speed, taking up exactly where we stopped a few months ago. I was at a meeting yesterday, and it was the summer of 2020 all over again. Every sentence for the first 30 minutes had the word “diverse” in it.

I don’t know what signals the administration received, first, to put the sloganeering on pause, and then to resume it but it works like a well-oiled machine.

The new hiring guidelines demand that we ask each candidate if they would like to meet with “minoritized faculty.”

You get it, right? Minoritized means somebody did it to them. We aren’t allowed to hire. The whole point of a two-hour training on the new hiring guidelines is to guilt-trip minoritizers for minoritizing the poor minoritized.

It never ends.

Marriage, for the most part, doesn't make your life easier at all – it introduces many challenges. "Trad" posters telling you to get married and have family are asking you to assume a burden and give up much. Only you can decide if this tradeoff is worth it.

— captive dreamer (@avaricum777) August 13, 2025

Because of getting married I gave up my habit of eating masses of raw onion and garlic.

Everything else was a win.

People aren’t doing marriage right if it’s such a challenging burden. It’s supposed to be fun, enjoyable, sexy. Having a partner in life should definitely make it easier. Emotionally, financially, and in every way. Marriage is a lifelong dialogue that often requires no words. To know that if things get tough, there’s somebody who will step in and carry your load without you having to ask really helps.

How was she “groomed” if she was 22? Is there any cutoff age for being groomed? Are you still groomed at 40? 50?

University of Toronto is looking for a mature scholar in a field they invented two minutes ago:

They do it all the time. Every year I wait for the hiring cycle to see what new fad UofT us embracing this year.

Back in the USSR, we had a living room curtain that cost 1,000 roubles. That was what my father made in 9 months before taxes. There are other Soviet people on the blog, and they’ll confirm that it was an insane amount to pay for a curtain. We lived on the first floor, and this ugly-ass expensive bitch was completely transparent. And window shades were not an existing concept.

At the same time, we were so poor that I would spend the whole day in my school uniform because there was nothing to change into. My shoes were always 2-3 sizes too small, and I still remember how much it hurt. Still, it could have been worse. My little cousin (a boy), the only son of a math teacher and a dentist, had to wear hand-me-down underwear from his female cousins, the poor dude. Imagine changing for phys ed with other boys while sporting pink panties with butterflies. Ain’t socialism great?*

In any case, my point is that poor people have the strangest priorities, and you won’t understand unless you’ve experienced it.

*The cousin is now a trader in the Cayman Islands and making a packet. IQ is decisive unless you are held back by socialism.

I’m not looking forward to Trump meeting “Putin” in Alaska because I don’t want the president of my country to be publicly mocked by a stand-in for a two-bit pedo loser. Trump doesn’t remotely understand what he’s dealing with and will get publicly shat on.

Remember when Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin? It’s not humanly possible to be kinder and more subservient than Tucker was in that interview. What he did was the equivalent of when a dog turns on his back and waves his paws in the air. And Putin responded to that by mocking Carlson for having applied to and being rejected by the CIA.

Because that’s the whole point. Humiliating Americans is the big prize for Putin’s only audience, which is the Russian people.

We need healthy Humanities like never before. We need the kind of Humanities that haven’t pissed away all credibility on nutty causes and can explain about cultural differences in a way that people would listen.

We have many serious domestic issues. We need a president who concentrates on them instead of trudging to Alaska to get humiliated for zero gain.

A Yale Professor says “it is the humanities that have sinned,” and so they should be separated from the sciences.

“I am confident I can make my most persuasive case for a university of science, engineering, and medicine, if the humanities are not housed under my roof.” pic.twitter.com/0adC97KEIK

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) August 12, 2025

Yes, medical schools have retained their non-ideological purity. It’s not like they have advocated for child mutilation and regaled us with the idea that infectious diseases don’t spread during ideologically acceptable large gatherings.

Sciences have also remained unaffected and haven’t decolonized math and argued that it’s racist to say that 2+2=4.

And engineering didn’t fight tooth and claw to retain its numerous “women in Engineering” and “POC in Engineering” scholarships and awards.

There are 42m Americans on EBT.
That equates to 12.3% of the population.

EBT is such a popular program because ‘free’ lobster, steak, energy drinks, and candy, are very attractive offers.

If we did away with EBT and set up food centers that only handed out necessities like rice, corn flakes, milk, and ground beef, there would be a line of only 8 people.

Cornflakes are not necessities. They are absolute garbage. People who are this preachy should be a bit more careful with what they say.