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Exactly. And it’s not a country because countries, in the sense we understand the word, only exist in the nation-state context. Russia is showing us what the future looks like if we don’t stop the collapse of the nation-state.

Ukraine is showing us how to stop that collapse.

Now is the time to choose.

Today we received a survey asking us what furnishings would induce us to use the library more often. Because apparently people go to libraries for furnishings.

There were zero questions (and I mean, none, not one) about what books or movies we would like to see at the library. Please don’t assume that books were addressed in other surveys. As I wrote before, our library got rid of books a while ago and is now buying up these stupid furnishings – sofas, armchairs, bean bags, settees – to fill the space from which books were banished.

Contrary to expectations, this didn’t attract more people to the library, so librarians are now trying to figure out how to improve the furnishings. The library is turning into a museum of fussy furniture but the poor buggers aren’t getting it.

The people who voted for Trump’s impeachment are just as eager to distract the public with arrant silliness as those who are proposing to vote to expunge the impeachment.

The supporters of both groups of legislators keep talking about “the national divorce” but they are in fact closer than Siamese twins. Both groups are infantile, easily excitable, easily duped and very ineffective.

Why, why would anybody do that to a beautiful man? I hope it’s not real.

My sister has this kind of a semitic nose, and she loves it, and everybody who sees her loves it. Semitic noses are great.

The problem is never in a nose, people. It’s always 100% in the head.

N has a favorite journalist who publishes half of his material in Ukrainian and half in Russian. Of course, the best and freshest material appears in Ukrainian first. N is eager to find out what the journalist has to say, and as a result, his Ukrainian is improving by leaps and bounds.

In Quebec they went the opposite way. Instead of creating great content in French that people would be desperate to access, they are trying to coerce people into speaking the language through control and harassment.

Language is like nothing else. It comes through love or it doesn’t. I crossed an ocean and changed my life completely to become a Spanish speaker out of love. And stopped being a French-speaker in a Francophone country because my love was spat at.

Ukraine managed to recover Ukrainian as a widely spoken language within a generation precisely because there was no coercion. It became a language that young people find cool to speak. The best music groups are performing in Ukrainian. The coolest influencers speak it.

Quebec effed it up royally, in my opinion. The only way to promote a language is what’s been done in Ukraine.

We had a movement in the US, one that was successful, was achieving goals. And then it collapsed and turned into an embarrassing joke because of a half-baked psy-op. It’s such a waste.

But why was the struggle against open borders and neoliberalism abandoned so easily in favor of childish fantasies about devolutions and global cabals led by the Rothschilds?

Because the happy pill mentality has conquered both the left and the right. Translunatics, BLMers and MAGAs are exactly the same. They are all into easy solutions and anti-hard work. They fantasize about magical pills that will solve everything and abandon the field of real action to people who despise them and who taught them to be dependent on the happy pill in the first place.

I had this dream where I was hiring somebody to teach Spanish, and she had three eyes.

Usually in a dream I know immediately when it’s not real when something very abnormal happens.

But the 3-eyed Spanish instructor gave me no pause because I expect every weirdness from fellow teachers.

By the way, I’m extremely disturbed by eye abnormalities. Klara has to warn me about any posters or toys from The Minions because they freak me out.

And Russians are back to their regularly scheduled programming:

Can you guess what these Russian women are doing?

They are expressing their support of Putin.

Why dressed like this? Why in such strange poses? And why only women?

An enormous part of the the pro-war ecstasy in Russia is coming from not-so-young women who dress up and heavily eroticize the whole thing. The word cringe doesn’t begin to describe it.

Another huge part of the support comes from the teenagers. They get together at cool live music dance clubs and chant war slogans.

I don’t know which group is more disturbing to be honest.

Central Americans are still at it, as I explained in a recent post on Bukelization which nobody noticed because Russians were being nutso-cray-cray again. Can anybody blame me for abandoning the writing of a book on Central America and switching to one about Ukraine? Central America will be exactly where it is decades from now, so that book will never age. It can totally wait.