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How does this guy think we all kept our jobs throughout the George Floyd era?
I’m a great pleasure to have over even though the best part of any social occasion for me is the knowledge that it eventually ends. But turning every gathering into an opportunity to rant about how you despise everybody who departs from your political beliefs even by a tiny bit isn’t a conservative hobby. It’s what the left always does.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this story (again) but I’m not sure it will be helpful since I’m somewhat eccentric.
N was a long-time reader on a forum where I posted a lot. He loved what I had to say, and when he ended up in the same town for an internship, he suggested that we meet so that I can share my insights into professional realization. I almost didn’t go because I don’t like Russian people. But in the end I did go and the moment I saw him through the window of a Starbucks, I knew that my train had arrived. I had a group of admirers back then, and when I got home after that meeting at Starbucks, I called all of them and explained that I was no longer available for anything.
N and I went on an official date a couple of days later. It was our first and last date. At the beginning of the date, he declared that he was interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with me. At the end of the date, I invited him to come over, which is unheard of for me. I detest having people in my space. He came to my place, and we started living together. There was no actual dating after that. We lived together first at my place, then at his, and so on, until we got married 1,5 years later.
This is all mega cute but not helpful to anybody else because he and I are both very strange people and clearly made for each other in our strangeness.
First of all, this is mega ugly. Also, yes, it’s a brilliant idea to have a robot spy on you in bed. In addition, I don’t want anyone who isn’t legally married to me to touch my underwear and have any interaction with it at all.
Are people that lazy that they’d sacrifice privacy and beauty to … this?
With all due respect, I read your question right after seeing this:
The dude isn’t just any sex offender. His offense is specifically sexual abuse of children.
I find it hard to muster much enthusiasm for a discussion of wiggle room in rare, marginal cases when we haven’t found a mechanism to prevent convicted pedos from adopting babies.
The conjunction of dating apps and Vemno created a new form of dating fraud. Two people connect on a dating app, they really hit it off, things are going fantastic, and they finally decide to meet. The dude says, “Look, there’s this really cool musical / opera / ballet / museum exhibit / contemporary dance performance, etc. What a great venue for our first date since we both love musicals / opera / ballet / museum exhibits / contemporary dance performances. Only, do you mind, because it’s our first date, and the tickets are kind of expensive, do you mind if we split the cost?”
The woman feels too shy to say she wants the dude to pay, so she agrees.
“That’s great,” says the dude. “OK, I bought the tickets! You can Venmo me your half of the price right now.”
With the use of AI, this gets mass-marketed in a major way.
Ukrainian hackers have conducted the largest (so far) cyber attack on the Russian passenger airline Aeroflot. This is the message they left:
The words on top mean, “Good morning, Russcist [as in, Russo-fascist] Pederation [as in Federation of Pederasty].”
This is true in the sense that the Humanities train and organize the brain so that it can have sublime experiences.
A sublime experience is when you derive non-physical pleasure from things that do not involve your self. When you enjoy the fan because it makes you cooler, that’s not sublime. It’s self-referential and also physical. But when you experience intense pleasure from observing the simple geometric lines against the white ceiling, that’s sublime.
However, the Humanities education alone isn’t enough to fill your life with sublime experiences derived from all sorts of things, from complex, like art, to simple, like the one in the photo. You also need what is clumsily called mental health. You need a mind that is not chaotic and not filled with suppurating pustules that make it impossible to leave aside the preoccupation with the self and get libidinally invested into things that are completely outside yourself.
One of the clearest symptoms of your mental health improving is that all of a sudden you start noticing the beauty of the things around you and you gasp with intense physical pleasure derived from often seemingly insignificant things like the view of the ceiling fan from a certain angle. But yes, you also need to have your brain trained on aesthetic experiences.
The reason why Russia is able to continue the war against Ukraine is not that Trump is a Russian spy, as leftist prattlers think. And it’s not that Ukraine doesn’t want peace, as their rightist counterparts believe.
The real reason is that Russia’s warmongering has been aggressively and consistently funded by the EU. Europe has been buying enormous quantities of Russian oil and natural gas while sending large yet still smaller quantities to help Ukraine. So basically, the EU has been funding both sides of the largest European war in decades. Nobody is conspiring to make that happen on purpose. It’s simply what the EU is like.
Well, it looks like Trump finally found a way to have the EU buy US oil instead of the Russian. That the war was allowed to go for 3,5 years without anybody doing this shocks every sensibility.
By the way, in the early stages of the war, the EU did try to end its dependency on Russian natural gas and begged Canada to sell theirs to Europe. Trudeau said “there’s no business case for it” because he was suddenly very into business. The EU had to go back to Russia for its energy needs, and the war continued.
Later, Mike Johnson begged Biden to let US producers to sell oil to the EU. Biden refused. The EU had to go back to Russia for its energy needs, and the war. . . yes, it continued. So let’s not blame the EU alone for this. Europeans spent years trying to solve the problem, and nobody wanted to assist them.
This is truly a great achievement for Trump and an excellent deal for both the US and the EU. Very impressive.
I’m shocked, veritably shocked that somebody actually has something true to say about dating:
Every species has mating rituals. If those rituals are not disrupted, they will mate. If they are disrupted, they will not mate.
This is why a cattery run by a middle aged housewife in her own home can breed Occicats, Russian Blues, or Bengals, but the best zoos in the world can’t make two pandas into three pandas.
The basic mating ritual of human beings does not begin with a man cold approaching a strange woman.
It begins with a woman covertly signalling a willingness to be approached, either to a specific man, or in general. Only then is the man supposed to respond with an overt approach.
And the most important part:
Women want men they like to approach them, but they have no idea that it’s their responsibility to make this happen.
https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1949169427062173810?t=dsORlSSLX9vXo2pigzu56g&s=19
Another problem is that many people are deeply dishonest with themselves about what it is they want to be approached for. Almost the entirety of #MeToo was the product of this dishonesty.
I can’t stop before exploring every aspect of an issue, which is why I read the book that inspired Candace Owens’ series about Brigitte Macron. I was hoping that Xavier Poussard would not suffer from the same degree of retardation as Candace and could at least explain what inspires the conspiracy.
On the positive side, Poussard is not a clinical moron. The English translation of the book (created by AI) does often make him sound like one but he’s not. At least, he doesn’t believe that Marie-Claude is a suspicious name, which is a welcome development.
Still, the conspiracists have absolutely nothing. They believe that the person we see on TV as Brigitte Macron is actually her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneau. The problem with this belief is that Jean-Michel Trogneau is currently living under his own name at his regular address. He is pushing eighty, so he’s retired but he appears in public. There’s video footage of him at both of Macron’s inaugurations, being chatted up and hugged by Macron.
The other problem is that it’s impossible to deny that Brigitte was a real person at least until her thirties. Her life is documented, and she gave birth to three children who are now adults. The conspiracists have no explanation for what they believe happened to the real Brigitte. For the brother to have taken her place, she must have willingly relinquished her children to him. And the children had to agree. The conspiracists aren’t even trying to explain this away.
In short, both the stupid Candace and the somewhat less unintelligent Poussard can’t make their own conspiracy sound plausible. The book is not a complete waste of time, though. It gives a glimpse into the origins of the conspiracy when Poussard lists the leading figures of the political left in France.
Monsieur Such and Such, advocate for open borders, refugee rights, and the return of jihadis. Convictions for incest and child pornography.
Monsieur This and That, defender of LGBT rights, open borders, women’s rights. Five arrests for child rape, child trafficking, pedophilia.
Monsieur Here and There, advocate for transgender youth, UBI, open borders. Convictions for child pornography, accusations of pedophilia and torture of children.
It goes on and on and on. The sheer number of pedophilia scandals that have plagued French politics for 30 years is quite stunning. Time and again, the French courts find that an 11-year-old child consented to sex with an adult.
So when Brigitte Macron gets slobbered over by the press for raping her 14-year-old student, for some people it’s intolerable but they don’t know how to make that point. It’s become normalized that even 11-year-olds want and aggressively seek out sex with adults. It’s not enough to say “she had sex with a child.” Nobody cares about such things any more. And people who still care don’t know how to explain even to themselves why they do. So they start to exaggerate. “She’s not only a pedo but a fraud. She stole her sister’s identity. She’s a he. She’s lying about everything.” If Poussard could make people care about pedophilia, I don’t think he’d ever have gotten into the conspiracy part.
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