I spent years snipping out Russian flags from our flag display, but the little bitch always comes back.
I have to climb up on chairs and perform feats of acrobatic prowess to remove the nasty thing.
Was it Veller?
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Continue reading →: More about AfD
One of the times I was in Germany, there was a big manifestation going on next to my hotel. The organizers of my event were reluctant to answer questions about the manifestation. Finally, when I said that I was going to walk over to the gathering and check it out for myself, they explained that it was a Nazi parade and I shouldn’t go.
“Real Nazis?” I asked. “There are that many of them? How come?”
After a lot of wrangling, I managed to drag it out of the organizers that this was an AfD rally. It looked like even pronouncing the name of the party was painful to these three wonderful German academics.
This was in the fall of 2019, and I’m thinking, if you really believe that AfD are Nazis, wouldn’t you do something to weaken their prospects? If a return of Nazism is at stake, why wouldn’t you just close the borders already, develop nuclear power, and start deporting migrant criminals? Either you don’t really think that AfD are Nazis, or you don’t consider Nazism to be all that bad.
As for the fact that AfD is financed by Putin, well, who isn’t? Have you heard of Gerhard Schröder? He is SPD. He was very openly and massively financed by Putin. Or take Angela Merkel. I don’t know if she received Russian payments or not, but a more viciously pro-Russian bitch you can’t dream to find.
So yes, absolutely AfD and Marine Le Pen and the Catalonian separatists are financed by Russia. And absolutely, the point is to divide and conquer. But whose fault is it that the good, intelligent, well-meaning people of Europe, who are, of course, a vast majority, aren’t managing to get their crap together?
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Continue reading →: More Great News
I can’t imagine anybody thinking that this isn’t great. Very, very positive developments.
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Continue reading →: Regional Accents
On the positive side, I understand Weidel’s German enormously better than I understand Merz. Do they have different regional accents? Does anybody know?
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Continue reading →: AfD’s Success
I don’t have much of an opinion on AfD’s successes in Germany. Of course, people are tired of mass migration and are looking for somebody who would put an end to this horror show. Unfortunately, I don’t think that Weidel is that person. Nothing about her is remotely conservative.
I have no idea at this point what would be a good path forward for Germany. I’m much more optimistic for Spain.
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Continue reading →: The Stupidity of Gender Wars
People are freaking out about this because they are not extremely smart, to put it mildly:
This is an effect of deportations. The Trump administration is delivering on its immigration promises. But people are so invested into ridiculous gender wars that they are incapable of figuring it out. They look at a piece of excellent news and wail to the skies because they’re so blinded by irrational emotion that they can’t understand what the news is actually about.
There is a male equivalent of Lindsey Clancy’s supporters. They feel robbed, wounded, and persecuted by women, just like the Clancy women, feel robbed, abused, and persecuted by men.
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Continue reading →: Small Diner Trends
A small local diner, not a chain, charges between $90 and $100 for a standard breakfast for two. Coffee, eggs, breakfast, toast, hash browns. It is also the first local establishment that uses AI imagery in advertisement.
I shared these observations with somebody I know, and he says that this is a growing trend: massively overpriced local restaurants and stores with AI advertisement. In short, these places show their contempt for the customers in several different ways at once.
Breakfast used to be my favorite restaurant meal, but at this point, the prices make no sense. I have to refuse hash browns and toast for health reasons, and the price ends up being something like $10 per egg.
The diner in question is posting pitiful screeds on social media, berating the local residents for abandoning the diner and causing a sad situation where its employees can’t afford to put food on their own tables. I feel bad for the diner and its workers, and I don’t want this local landmark to go out of business, but I can’t justify these prices.
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Continue reading →: Cooking Adventures
I’ve been cooking since morning to distract myself. Made vegetable ragout (asparagus, broccoli, mushrooms, and carrots in a cumin tadka sauce), two kinds of kotlety, mashed potatoes, and a raspberry/cherry pie.
We don’t have that many eaters, so I probably should stop at this point.
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Continue reading →: 13
Today is a harsh day because my son would be turning 13 if he survived. But Klara has a new hobby of making pens. I bought her a kit of supplies, which arrived at 6:45 am, and now she’s very happy and telling me I’m the best mommy ever, and that helps.
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Continue reading →: From Manson to Clancy
There is a clear line from the Manson murders to Lindsay Clancy. The female murderers in the Manson case did not get off but were given lighter sentences and then were coddled and lionized in prison, while a dude who wasn’t even at the scene of the crime was punished much more harshly.
I have zero sympathy for Charles Manson. He was a nasty, scuzzy piece of trash. But the women who killed Sharon Tate and the other victims were completely guilty of those murders. All of this incredible rubbish about brainwashing and mind control is the equivalent of today’s debates about how Clancy did it because she was let down by the universe.
Identical arguments were rolled out during the Manson trial and the Clancy trial. “The women are not guilty of this murder because they didn’t commit another murder before committing this particular murder. She was a beauty queen before becoming a killer. She was a good mom.” Nobody ever applies these arguments to men.
The underlying idea is that women cannot be violent unless some man broke them in one way or another. Mind control, drugs, brainwashing, pills, all sorts of excuses are invented because people can’t get it through their heads that women can be just as violent as men.
This is why getting attached to a narrative of sex-based differences in behavior is dangerous. It’s so cute, haha. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, until you can’t put a mass murderer in jail because everybody took this narrative seriously. People have heard their whole lives that women think and act in a way that is so dramatically not like men’s that they sincerely don’t understand why they should apply the same legal standard to men and women in court.
The same people who are complaining about the verdict contribute to it daily by supporting this utterly moronic, socially destructive “men are from Mars” mentality.
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