A little daily reminder for those who massively enjoy being incredible dupes:

A little daily reminder for those who massively enjoy being incredible dupes:

High-quality women always get high-quality admirers. My Ukrainian instructor has already acquired an American admirer who’s courting her in the sweetest, most old-fashioned way imaginable.
And guess what? She found a way to communicate to him that he’s a lovely person but she has a boyfriend back in Ukraine whom she loves to distraction. As a result, the admirer and she continue working together at the lab in peace and friendship.
No whining, no complaints, no feeling “unsafe”, no drama. It’s clearly very doable. These are young people in their early twenties, and they are managing it.
So there are going to be 4 chapters in the new book.
1. Neoliberal Man
2. Neoliberal Woman
3. Neoliberal Loneliness
4. Neoliberal Togetherness
Each chapter will have one novel from Spain and one from Latin America (Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and El Salvador). I found novels that are so in-sync for each chapter that it’s scary.
This one will be in English, so everybody can read it. Prepare for a lot of musings on love, family, and sex in times of neoliberalism.
The entirely manufactured migrant crisis is useful in many different ways.
Migrants are easily exploitable labor that won’t ask for much, try to organize or defend its rights. They can be used as a cudgel to beat down the legal labor force that expects to be treated fairly and needs to be brought down a few pegs.
Migrants ensure higher levels of criminality, disorder and mayhem, keeping the rest of the population distracted and cowered by fear. As a result, citizens won’t try to organize and defend their rights because they’ll be distracted by fear and the daily worsening of their standard of living.
Migrants strain the welfare system, which justifies removing welfare protections. “It’s not us who are doing it! It’s all because of the migrants!” People easily forget that the welfare state began to fold up long before the manufactured migrant crisis.
And it’s also extremely convenient for the citizens themselves because migration lets them slobber all over the public space, exhibiting their sublime sensitivity and heightened emotionality.
In return for all the great reading and viewing recommendations I have received over the years from people on this blog, I want to recommend a Netflix docu-series Bad Vegan.
It’s about a very pretty, very lonely young woman called Sarma who opened a mega successful raw-food vegan restaurant in NYC. It was part of the new-agey start-uppy culture of people who think that they can transcend their humanity (and make a lot of money) by tinkering with their minds and bodies.
But in reality, Sarma only wanted a big, strong guy to marry her and protect her from problems. Life tends to be cruel to people who aren’t honest with themselves, and this story led to very weird places.
Netflix docu-series have gotten a bad rap because of the garbagey Making a Murderer but this is nothing like that, I promise. It’s funny but at the same time, seeing how far wealthy, fancy people are going with their belief in magic and all that is disturbing.

But hey, what’s a bunch of dead black people if well-to-do whites got to feel edgy and youthful during the riots?
It’s interesting to observe how the public opinion is being acclimated to the idea that nothing will be done about migration yet again.
“Why does our government care more about protecting Ukraine’s border than protecting our Southern border?” the paid shills for unchecked migration keep saying.
The idea they aim to transmit is that nothing will be done about migration because all the money that could have gone to solving that problem went to Ukraine. That huge, huge money needed to stop migration. Of course, there’s never any explanation of why the huge, huge money wasn’t spent on stopping migration in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and so on into infinity. If there’s a way to stop migration with money, why wasn’t that done in all the years before Ukraine got itself invaded and took all that money away?
In the meantime, nothing that could really stop migration is even being suggested. But that isn’t the fault of our rotten politicians. No, they are desperate to solve the problem. They were on the verge of solving it. Eager and willing! If it weren’t for that pesky Ukraine that took all the money, they would have totally done it.
Let’s go vote for them some more.
The famous Ukraine aid over which there’s been incessant bickering in the Senate constitutes under 0,3 % of the total US budget.
The specific amount of aid over which the bickering is happening would finance the US government expenditures for 27 minutes.
It’s an absolute non-issue in economic terms. So ask yourself, why is such a puny, insignificant amount provoking so much rhetoric from people who readily signed off on gargantuan sums to all sorts of special interests? Might this be precisely because they signed off on those gargantuan sums?
Of course, the people who are capable of understanding this already have. And the eager fools who take the moaning of JD Vance and Co seriously don’t have the brain power to understand what I’m talking about. They probably think this is a post about Ukraine instead of their eternal, sad gullibility.
The new world order has no place for nation-states, families, national languages or cultures. It aspires to see everywhere the same smooth plane of the global market without limits, where men are stateless consumers, English-speaking and rootless, passive and undifferentiated, neutered, unisex and lacking in agency.
Diego Fusaro, The New Erotic Order
I took Klara to what supposed to be a Fall festival in a local park but it turned out that this was a “diversity, equity and inclusion event” where people set up booths to advertise their paraphilias. It was painfully boring because all they had were tracts titled “Why Pronouns Matter” and books like “Gender Fluidity Explained”.
The event was somewhat enlivened by a Christian couple that brought a pet goat and let the kids pet it while handing out their own tracts.
This is what I always observe in these woke gatherings. The organizers don’t think that they need to attract people, get them interested. They don’t work for it. The privilege of listening to them preach is supposed to be the reward.
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Thank you for sharing your observations.
Hmmm, I wonder if it might not only be it’s self-anointed elites ;-D
Hmmm the ability to be able to edit was part of that better era ;-D
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