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I don’t know about “everything” because that’s a little grandiose but this is the perfect writing strategy. As I always say, don’t sit down to write a book. Sit down to write one sentence about a very specific thing.

US and Canada have the same obligations to all their citizens and vice versa. It would be bizarre to assign any moral value to groups of citizens based on how their ancestors ended up in the area where the nation-state eventually formed.

So the answer is, if they are citizens and enjoy the rights of citizenship, then that’s it. Nothing else is due.

I’m kind of surprised by the question because it’s hard to imagine an alternative position.

Today I found out that N and I will both probably lose our jobs soon and I also dropped a tray with 30 cupcakes, so you can imagine the mess, but I don’t care because my kid turned 9 today, and nothing matters if you have a kid.

Absolutely nothing but joy have I gotten from this child. She’s everything that’s good in life.

As for jobs, neoliberalism, fluidity, we all know how it goes. Only people who are completely out of the loop expect something different.

Have you seen the TikTok videos of what construction workers bring to lunch? The Mexicans all have pozole, tacos, real food and eat together while the white guys sit alone eating white bread “sandwiches” and prepackaged little Debbies.

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 11, 2025

I also eat lunch very much alone because I work with people and it gets tiresome. Eating with co-workers is like continuing to work even on my break, so I understand these white construction workers.

I don’t know what “little Debbies” are but sandwiches sound less disgusting than tacos to me. I’d eat sandwiches over tacos or pozole. I get what point the author is trying to make but Mexicans don’t eat healthy. Their obesity rates are worse than the US.

So remember the neoliberal administrator at my school I’ve been talking about for several years? Because that’s when he was hired, several years ago. For these several years, we’ve been discussing his austerity measures and neoliberal lunacy with colleagues.

Today, I was out and met a colleague. “Have you heard that loon’s latest?” I asked. “He’s turning our university into an expensive community college.”

“This is the new normal of the Trump administration!” the colleague exclaimed.

I stared in confusion.

“Why the Trump administration?” I asked. “This dude is a far-left BLM hire who came on-board in 2021.”

“Yeah, but the Trump election made everything completely crazy!”

Strangely, the only person I end up being in agreement with and vice versa during faculty meetings is our wokest professor. We have the worst round of austerity so far coming up. Departments will be closed, tenured people fired, Humanities completely eviscerated. And the only two people who had something of value to say at the meeting today were me and the BLM dude. Everybody else was in the “these are such important measures and I’d accept them if they came accompanied by praise for how hard I’ve worked” mode.

What is this, the horseshoe theory? Far left and far right being kind of the same? The dude and I are political opposites but on practical matters we are scarily in sync.

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My daughter is so American it’s funny. For her birthday, she doesn’t want a party. Instead, she wants me to take her and her best friend to the mall, and then zip lining, and then laser tag, bowling and the arcade. And the menu will consist of pizza, Mac and cheese, and dot ice cream.

This is dot ice cream, in case you aren’t local:

NYC Democrats are trying to pass a measure to allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. They propose that anybody who has resided in the city for over a month should be able to vote.

“In five City Council districts, non-U.S. citizens make up about a third of the adult population,” attorneys for the city’s lawmaking body wrote in a legal filing. . . Most estimates suggest the new law would make an additional 800,000 people eligible to vote. Not all of them would register, but even if a fraction do, that’s still a major expansion of the electorate.

This is a nifty trick. Flood the city (county, state, etc) with foreigners and then argue that the sheer number of them means citizenship should be abandoned as a functioning concept.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1888860932492624014?t=r4ikYksq6qkJ2D3mG23pJA&s=19

This is exactly what I was told by the administrators at my school: there’s no federal funding for anything that’s not BLM. It wasn’t even DEI. It was specifically BLM.