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Yes, that’s exactly how it was explained to us in the USSR. I’ve been in that “same place” that the Soviet Union constructed for us and can report that it really sucks.
The idea that equal outcomes are either possible or desirable is so obviously stupid and so many people have been sacrificed to this unreachable lunacy that it beggars belief the US presidential candidate is still prattling about it cheerfully.
A graduate student from the English Department came by today to tell me that she recently came over from her country, she hates it here, but it would really help if I could give her a scholarship or a stipend.
I asked if she was looking for a job, thinking maybe it was a language barrier that made her request sound so bizarre.
No, she said. Not a job. She had no time for a job. But she was feeling so bad and hating it here so much. If she had a stipend that would help.
Of course, I said no. This is not even our student. And I don’t have a budget I could throw around on a whim. Why she thought to hit me up for money, I don’t know. Maybe she goes door-to-door. And yes, I checked. She really is a newly admitted graduate student.
I’m not too surprised because I’ve had this exact experience with graduate students from her culture doing the “I’m so sad and hate it here, now give me stuff” thing.
In a way, I do envy the people who are experiencing tribal joys around the election. To go into raptures over a candidate together with everybody “on your side” must be pleasant.
But then I think nah, I’d rather have my brain all to myself and enjoy it in a lonesome fashion.
Don’t get me wrong, I could be plenty tribal. Just not over the choices we’ve been given.
My mother is one of 6 daughters in her family. Four of the 6 married Ukrainian and Russian alcoholics. One married a Ukrainian dentist and another a Jewish linguist.
I’ll let you guess whose children are now a stock trader, a professor, and a CEO and whose… are not.
I also have to mention that 5 of the 6 husbands were total shit, and again, let you guess which one wasn’t.
Kyiv finally learned something and didn’t inform the White House about its plans for the Kursk operation. As a result, nobody warned Russians and they are completely unprepared.
Only took 2,5 years to figure out that the WH is deeply uninterested in Ukraine’s success, and that’s putting it very mildly.
But yeah, a sensational operation, still ongoing, and a great time for more operations like this while Biden is MIA, Harris is distracted, and the entire Dem machine is occupied with something else.
I looked at his website, and he’s absolutely terrible on issues. But maybe a tad less terrible than Ilhan Omar?
What’s going on in Minnesota that it’s like this?
Who needs a platform when you’ve got social media fabrications, right?
The real danger to democracy is in letting the bottom quintile control the narrative on everything and in everybody being too chicken to avoid pandering to the intellectually challenged crowd.
The goal is to hoodwink us into voting for a dude who is a far-left extremist, holding views that most of the people in this country find too radical:
In 2023, Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz supported and the Minnesota legislature passed the following legislation:
— All limits on abortion at any stage of pregnancy were repealed, as were laws requiring doctors to treat infants born alive after an abortion. References to “women” in the new laws were replaced with “pregnant people”.
— Minnesota declared itself a “refuge” for transgender surgeries and therapies for minors. Gender surgery will now to be publicly funded.
— Public and charter schools are mandated to teach “ethnic studies,” and school boards are instructed to adopt “antiracist” curricula and teach “the history of the genocide of Indigenous Peoples.”
— Drivers’ licenses and state-funded health care are now available for illegal immigrants.
— Private religious colleges are forbidden to “require a faith statement” from enrolling students.
— Convicted felons now have the right to vote before completing parole or probation.Minnesota’s Lurch to the Hard Left
This is way scarier than “Project 2025” but the media will cover for Harris and Walz, gaslighting us with a lie that they are moderate.
I was just thinking about Cori Bush yesterday when I was driving on a highway in Missouri – my first time driving on a highway since the injury – and there was this very bumpy stretch of the road over which there stood a billboard saying, “Cori Bush voted against fixing this road.”
I found that to be a very effective political ad.
It’s good she’s been primaried.
So do you know the new term for layoffs?
Subtractive change.
And if you are against layoffs or eliminating tenure lines, that means you are “guilty of systemic bias against subtractive change.”
This terminology was invented in academia, so it will take a little bit of time to become widespread.
Austerity has found a new disguise.
I chose Operation Jacknap as my true-crime read of the year because it inspired Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s wonderful novel Long Island Compromise. I’m really glad I read it because Teich’s story, set in 1974, could have happened last week, it’s so contemporary.
Teich, a successful Jewish businessman, was kidnapped by an anti-semitic, Palestine-loving, anti-capitalist proto-BLMster. It was called something else back then but all the slogans are identical. The kidnapper kept screeching about “fascist capitalists” and claiming that he couldn’t find justice in the legal system of the US because he felt persecuted for being black. Then, as now, proto-BLMsters fell in love with totalitarian dictatorships and wrote bad poetry to justify their Jew-hatred.
What’s different is that back then the FBI was on the side of the victims. Today, they would have probably tried to jail Teich for tempting the kidnapper into brutalizing him or being a white supremacist by identifying a black criminal.
This stupid game keeps getting replayed, and we can’t get out of this cycle. One can’t be fully American, it seems, without being deeply attached to the race issue, and I know I’ll never be able to get interested.
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