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Slavoj Zizek agrees with Curtis Yarvin:

Zizek on Curtis Yarvin *sniffs* pic.twitter.com/CQwaJgwPoD

— pak (@notsashapak) November 4, 2025

They are both right. What we call democracy is meaningless because the press is dishonest and spreads politically biased lies. The cultural apparatuses are completely ideologically captured and aren’t performing their functions. Politicians can’t afford to have a long-term vision because they need to please the lowest common denominator voters with fantasies and unrealistic promises.

What we get as a result of all this is oligarchy dressed up as democracy. The only part of it that is democratic is the effort to coddle and please the most undisciplined, dumb and emotional among us. What Yarvin proposes is telling this part of the population to get shafted and let people who aren’t low-IQ emotional wrecks steer society.

The biggest objection to Yarvin’s proposal is that there’s no way to ensure that the oligarchy that will come to power as a result will, indeed, be responsible and will act for the common good. However, the democratic oligarchy we currently have definitely isn’t responsible and isn’t acting for the common good.

There’s a funny social media scandal about several journalists and politicians (Keith Olbermann, Ryan Lizza, RFK, some weirdo politician from South Carolina) who were all passing around some hooker and imagining that they were in a relationship with her.

Middle age hits people hard if they don’t manage to stabilize their personal life before it comes.

I highly recommend the Netflix cartoon film In Your Dreams to people with children. It’s a very nice children’s movie that promotes the following ideas:

1. When parents fight, children suffer. Strong marriages and a normal, good family life are the most important things.
2. Reality is more important than fantasy. No matter how attractive fantasy is, you must remain grounded in reality.
3. Life isn’t supposed to be perfect or problem-free. Problems are normal, disagreements are normal. But love between siblings and parents and children can overcome great hardships.

A very wholesome, utterly unobjectionable movie. I particularly loved that the importance of reality was at the heart of the plot. If you want a children’s movie with a conservative sensibility, this one is perfect.

Did you know that at some Florida universities faculty and staff are obligated to take flu shots?

I’ve never seen anything of the kind. Flu shots seem kind of random.

I fear to ask if COVID is considered a type of flu.

DHS statement to FOX via @TriciaOhio:

“Not only was Akhror Bozorov—a wanted terrorist—RELEASED into the country by the Biden administration, but he was he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. This should go without saying, but terrorist illegal aliens should not be operating 18-wheelers on America’s highways.”

Not only did this wanted terrorist get a driver’s license, he got Real ID:

I don’t have one because it’s very hard to get. How come criminal illegals are handed out Real IDs? The dude is an open jihadi. Is there a reason why such efforts were made to give him the only form of ID besides a passport that gets you on a commercial flight?

I’ll give you an interesting set of stats.

Of divorced women over 45, only 15% say they want to remarry.

37% of them do remarry.

What people want is more fluid than they want to admit.

— Bob Smith (@BobSmit8931950) November 16, 2025

Yeah, because if you say that yes, you want to remarry, what if you jinx it? Or what if you don’t meet anybody and end up feeling like a loser? It’s easier to pretend that you are not interested and then position yourself as somebody who unwillingly gave in to the pleas of desperate suitors. It’s a much better look than confessing to spending years desperately trying to scare up a new husband. That’s exactly what I did between marriages. 

What people say they want is an indication of absolutely nothing whatsoever except that, at this particular moment, they felt like saying it.  This is why I could never understand this whole branch of sociology that conducts questionnaires and then draws conclusions based on what people said like it’s indicative of reality.

Words are not reality. Words people say about themselves are definitely not reality.

Idk who needs to hear this, but my best marriage advice is to just pick up his socks off the floor because you love him and want to do good to him and stop losing your mind over things that are so easily solved.

— 🔥Potluck Lauren🔥 (@PotluckLauren) November 15, 2025

This is very mysterious. Why are they on the floor? Is it a cultural thing?

My mother grew up in a small village, six children in the family, the father disabled from the war and not earning much, no indoor plumbing, got up before dawn to feed the animals and clean out the barn. But they had extremely high hygiene standards. The bedding was always crisply white which in those conditions was a bloody miracle. Grandpa checked the cleanliness of surfaces with white handkerchief. Somebody leaving socks on the floor would have led to months of soul-searching.

In my father’s educated city family, it would be equally unlikely to encounter such a scene. Somebody would have definitely written sarcastic poetry if that happened.

Cultural differences are very interesting to me.

Would you try this?

In the very near future, you’ll be able to have a conversation with an AI version of yourself that looks and sounds exactly like you. It will be like talking to a clone of yourself on FaceTime. It’s impossible to overstate just how much severe mental illness this will cause, and…

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) November 16, 2025

I wouldn’t. Not for any principled reason but because it’s boring.

I agree with Matt, though, that for people without a strong sense of self and those with narcissistic injuries this will be both irresistible and damaging.

AI will mean more stratification and more people trapped in a favela of body and mind.

A very flawed person can create amazing art, generate crucial ideas, and do something very worthwhile for others.

Conversely, all art, ideas, and worthwhile things were created by very flawed people.

Because all people are flawed.

I can’t believe some moron journalist pestered Trump with questions about the Tucker – Fuentes interview. Seriously, a podcast interview from all that time ago is so urgently important?

I’m disappointed in people.