Clarissa's Blog

So, Canadians, are you ready for another lockdown? Maybe get up to three years locked indoors this time around.

The reason why Americans decided that they won the Cold War is that their leadership’s brains were infected with Marxism.

The central idea of Marxism is that economic considerations are the most important. Capital – das Kapital – is at the bottom of everything. Your manner of relating to property and means of production defines everything about you. This means that the concept of “cultural Marxism” was invented by somebody who is a brainless twat but whatever. Marx believed that culture is the superstructure and the economy is the basis. In simple terms, culture will be whatever is convenient to the capital.

In reality, Marx was wrong. The economic system of a country is just that, its economic system. It can make people happy or miserable but it has no impact on a country’s political system or international activities. In simpler terms, a sick murderous fuck remains a sick murderous fuck whether he’s rich or poor. No change in economic circumstances can transform him into anything other than a sick murderous fuck.

When the USSR changed its system of property management, US leadership decided that the sick murderous fuck would suddenly become sweet, kind, and normal. This is a typical Marxist mistake. It is at the core of open border policies because the theory is that if you place people from chaotic miserable societies in a rich country and ply them with cash handouts, they’ll magically stop being chaotic and creating misery. It doesn’t work either on a geopolitical or on an individual level.

Veller says that Russia is incapable of civilizational advances (a point that I’ve also made for years) and, as a result, will always be at war with the West. Or whomever has civilization if the West self-destructs, I want to add.

Only the extraordinary hubris of Western leaders convinces them, time and again, that Russia’s drive towards eternal war can be changed or softened by acting sweetly towards it.

One of the chapters in Veller’s novel is a monologue that Lenin addresses to Trump, teaching him how to carry out a real MAGA revolution (the novel was published in 2022). It’s so funny, I had to stop the car (I’m listening on Audible) to avoid crashing because tears of laughter were blinding me.

The novel is, of course, very postmodernist. Anything that is literature in Russian is this way. Between 1935 and 1985, it was impossible to publish anything in Russian that wasn’t social realist. As a result, you can’t write anything realist in the language and not sound like a Soviet apologist. I’m often annoyed with postmodernist literature but I don’t mind Veller’s postmodernism.

It’s really funny that he created a truly American novel with a deep understanding of American culture but who will be his audience? He’s a Russian-language author and can’t become anything else at his age.

On the day of the Canadian election, Trump continues to campaign aggressively for the Liberals:

Words cannot describe how annoying this is. We had a guaranteed conservative victory until Trump decided to interfere. This is beyond self-defeating and dumb.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a MAGA novel? Real literature, big ideas, deep philosophical stuff, a devastating story, characters that grab you by the heart. A true American epic that would show why the fire burns so hot at the core of the right-wing revolution.

Well, I have good news. That novel exists.

I also have bad news. You can’t read it because it wasn’t written in English.

The novel I’m talking about is titled An Island for Whites and its author is Mikhail Veller. He is a very well-known Russian-language writer. He is also very MAGA. Obviously, he doesn’t live in Russia anymore because he’s considered a foreign agent there. The novel came out in 2022. It’s 900 pages long, and it tries to answer the question of why the Western civilization is self-destructing with great determination.

As I read the novel, it became clear why nothing like it can be written in English. There are no longer words, sentence structures or similar depths of honesty. Maybe one day they’ll come back but for now the title of the great American MAGA novel goes to An Island for Whites.

Is there anybody on here who will vote Liberal in the Canadian election?

I personally don’t know anybody and would like to broaden my horizons.

What I’m trying to say here is that the average American’s perception of and (lack of) attraction to walkable urban spaces exists in a context. And our built environment has been a reaction to that context. https://t.co/y9Dw9gVlMv

— wanye (@wanyeburkett) April 27, 2025

This is one of those unmentionable topics in the US that confuse a newcomer to no end. Nobody speaks about the reasons for the car culture and everybody’s preference to live in a small town 30 miles away from any city center. Nobody mentions the purpose behind the absence of public transportation from cities to suburbs or of sidewalks.

The moment you figure it out you become a real American. Then it’s your turn never to say what the purpose is and pretend that you hate all this when it’s the only thing that gives you your safe, lovely, paradisiacal existence.

Scammers enroll AI bots in online courses in community colleges in order to claim financial aid.

As a result, 25% of applicants to community colleges in California are now bots.

Will this finally put an end to the entire concept of online courses? Especially at community colleges where students (I mean actual human students) are signally unable to learn anything without being physically present in a classroom.

My Duolingo app tells me that the most popular Duolingo language in Sweden is … Swedish.

In somewhat related news, out of the 8 international students on my campus who had their visas revoked, 7 already have them back.