Global Shanty Town

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There have been countless little streams, murders, rapes, forced confinements, kidnappings… and all this relentless determination to harm, to trouble, to ruin life, which has transformed one of Earth’s most peaceful and civilized countries,
Great Britain, and with it so many others in Europe—Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany—into chaotic assortments of untidy and dilapidated wastelands, brutish and ultraviolent, which everyday put us on notice, in public transportation, in hospitals, in schools, in the street, as to their status as pioneering
outposts of the global shanty town.

Renaud Camus, The Deep Murmur

Paris burned last night. People burned today in Boulder, Colorado. The global shanty town will only be possible when everybody who remembers the old life, the rights, the culture, the standard of living—all that inconvenient, high-maintenance stuff—goes away.

My Feed

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It really is quite a feeling to scroll through my X feed where half of the posts are about the brilliant Ukrainian drone operation and the other half is about Glenn Greenwald’s licking of spit from a gay prostitute’s foot.

The Famous Ukrainian Sense of Humor

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The reason why the strategic operation for the destruction of Russian military air bases was carried out today is that June 1 is the International Day for Protection of Children. The destroyed bombers have been murdering Ukrainian children for over three years.

In addition, the name of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine who planned the operation is Vasyl Malyuk. In Ukrainian, Malyuk means “child.”

Here’s his photo:

P.S. Turns out in Russia June 1 is the day of the Military Aviation Industry. This just can’t be beat.

A Military Op for the Ages

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41 Russian strategic bomber was destroyed today deep in Russia by Ukrainian drones. The operation took 1,5 years to plan and coordinate and is the first in the world of this kind.

The loss of the bombers is an irreparable blow to the Russian air fleet because these aircrafts are no longer manufactured. They are too complex and there’s no capacity in Russia to make any new ones after the Soviet-era supply of the planes is exhausted.

History of Warfare

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The history of warfare is being rewritten on this day:

Extraordinary precision, unimaginable coordination and effectiveness. And no civilian casualties.

I stand in awe.

P.S. Five air bases by the most recent count. Russians are so inept that they haven’t managed even to turn on the siren alarm at one of them.

Dark Magic

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This is causing me physical pain:

People, what are you doing, people? I can’t even watch the clip to the end.

Sheltered

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People don’t remotely understand civilizational differences. They are extremely sheltered and unaware of how easy it is to crumple and throw away the civilizational achievements that make this shelterdness possible.

Godlike Choices

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On the subject of Glenn Greenwald’s sex tapes (which, by the way, he shared widely of his own free will), you can see people battle the very natural ick his behavior causes them because it conflicts with the neoliberal dogma.

But shouldn’t he be free to do whatever he chooses?

Consenting adults, so it must be good.

How would you feel if your sex life…

There’s terror in the thought that we could pass moral judgment because everything is supposed to be equal to everything else. Life is not a continuum but a collection of discrete segments that have no impact on each other. Every one of these segments is a trip to a supermarket filled with choices that are all equal in value and have no impact on anything else. There’s no sin, no evil worse than assigning a value and a consequence to the choices. They are godlike in their infallibility. You make choices so you can make more choices.

What’s Not a Marriage

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This segment from the Matt Walsh Show features a clip from a podcast where Michelle Obama openly and simple-mindedly confesses that she was jealous of the attention her husband was receiving as president:

A marriage of this kind is not a marriage at all. The spouses have not melded into seeing themselves as an entity with joint interests and a shared emotional space. The best thing about a marriage, the togetherness, the wordless dialogue that never ceases isn’t here at all.

Of course, anybody can have mean, uncharitable feelings. You work on them, and that’s personal growth. But Michelle Obama clearly believes that envying her husband’s success is a normal thing. She’s not delivering the story as a narrative of a terrible personal flaw of hers that she battled and overcame. She is, instead, advertise this envious, begrudging attitude as a positive personal attribute.

I couldn’t care less about the success of the Obamas’ marriage. What bothers me is that both marriage and child-rearing have been emptied of all good content and turned into some sort of painful drudgery. And people don’t even realize what is wrong. They think marriage and children are causing unhappiness when what they see isn’t even a marriage on any meaningful sense. Relating to your husband like a sorority sister you are competing with is not a marriage.

Palantir

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Palantir has secured over $113 million in federal contracts since Trump took office, with ongoing talks to expand its technology to the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, according to six government officials and Palantir employees.

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I told you, folks, that JD Vance is not on our side and you didn’t believe me.

“But he says all the correct words!”

Yes, because words are all that matters. Enjoy the surveillance regime.