My very very dear friend is friends with the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince. He introduced me to the author which was very cool because Abad Faciolince is pretty much the only famous Latin American writer who supports Ukraine. He was almost killed in a Russian airstrike when he was visiting Ukraine, and now he wrote a book about it.

I asked don Héctor why Latin Americans were so Putinoid. He said, “in Latin America, being pro-Ukraine means being right-wing. And for a Latin American intellectual being considered right-wing is the kiss of death.”

He told us that when he was trying to tell his friends in Latin America, highly educated, supposedly intellectual people, about his near-death experience in Ukraine, their reaction was very crazy.

“We were having a coffee at a pizzeria in Kramatorsk,” he would say, “and Russians hit us with an Iskander missile. Civilians! Parents with children. Old people. We were targeted for no reason.”

“No,” people would tell him, “there was a NATO headquarters on the second floor of that pizzeria.”

“There was no second floor,” the writer would try to explain. “It was a one-storey building.”

But when were Putinoids ever able to listen to reason? These are Putinoid leftists, so they are double the stupid.

In Abad Faciolince’s new book about Ukraine, I actually know most of the characters. In person. This is weird because I’m a hermit and try very hard not to know anybody.

You know what I don’t like? When you support people in a cause that is not yours but that you want to promote for absolutely no reason other than kindness and compassion, and people start getting picky and pouty. You used the wrong word, you spelled something incorrectly, don’t you know that this is not the right way to speak about the cause? Don’t you realize that you are harming the cause by not using the precise terminology approved by the in-crowd? Don’t you know that it’s well-meaning people like you who cause the most harm?

I’m not going to say which specific two causes I have in mind but this is such a pig-headed way of going about it. If people want to help when they don’t have to, shut your cake hole and be grateful. Or at least don’t scare them away with your intransigence. Nobody owes you anything.

I understand that it’s impossible to lash out against people who never showed up to stand with you because they are not there. But hitting those who did show up to let off some steam is not good.

Take it in the spirit in which it was offered, is always a great way to go about it. If people reach out in kindness, that should be enough.

What I can’t get over is how Italy, a country that produced the leading thinkers of today, manages to put out such abysmally low level of scholarship. I listened today to a long talk by a chirpy young scholar who thinks that Bauman discussed liquid identity as something positive and liberating. When I asked a question about this, I don’t think she even understood it.

The whole talk could have been given in 2005. Online feminism is going to change the world for the better! Fluid identities are the best! We should always be ready to change because that helps women fight against patriarchal societies! Slutwalks are true activism! And then, utterly incongruously, there’s a lot of antisemitism and we have to battle it! How slutwalks will defeat antisemitism remained unexplored.

I listened with gritted teeth and wasn’t going to say anything but when she took Bauman’s name in vain to support these childish ideas, I couldn’t take it any longer.

This is going to get Tucker in Trouble 👀

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Why wasn’t I immune, then? I got it twice, pre- and post-vax, both times very severe. I have two friends, both 100% Ashkenazi Jews, both got it. One almost died, it was so bad. She’s fit but older.

I don’t know anybody who hasn’t had it at least once at this point. The severity of symptoms invariably depends on age, weight, and overall health. COVID is here for good, and it’s an additional reason for people to lose weight and work out. N who is in perfect physical shape also had it at least twice and experienced exactly zero symptoms.

Conferences organized by Germans and by Italians are so different as to constitute experiences of an entirely different order. Germans create a community at their conferences, a mini Volk that is bound together by commonality and emotional investment. By the end of the conference, everybody is best friends forever and ever.

Nobody else is good at this but Italians are even less so than everybody else. Wonderful people but Volksgeist is not their thing. I’m loving it in Spain but I miss my German conference organizers like crazy.

Erasmus is a program where young people in the European Union get scholarships to study for a year in a different European country. The goal is to make European youth better acquainted with each other.

But guess what? The EU decided to open the program to Africa and the Middle East. Because everything should help the ultimate goal of bringing more Africans and Middle Easterners to Europe. They could open it to North Americans, Australians, South Americans. But no, these are all unimportant and undesirable. It’s got to be Africa and the Middle East.

The EU was a gigantic mistake. All it does is strongarm countries to open their borders to the most unassimilable migrants in existence. EU enthusiasts always bring up Erasmus as a justification for the union’s existence bit now even the Erasmus will be done for.

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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 20, 2025

I want to assure my readers that I have never and will never use AI to write my posts either. Everything you see here is completely human, natural and sincere. I would never betray my readers by feeding them AI slop. There are people who have been coming here for over a decade. I’d have to be a sociopath to spit in their faces by posting AI writing.

The only reason I write is because it gives me pleasure to discuss things with my readers. I switched off monetization on the blog a long time ago because people said they were getting ugly ads. Putting out more content and getting more engagement brings me zero profit.

We are getting into an era where trust is going to be more important than ever. A lot of stuff on social media is already AI-generated. You get burned a couple of times and realize that it only makes sense to read people you’ve known for a long time and can trust. I feel great anger when I waste a couple of minutes reading a post only to realize it’s fake. Let’s all stay human and normal and prune our sources from any trace of AI.

I’ve been trying to get the washer/dryer work but all it ever does is wash. It’s on the third round of washing the next load. I’ll end up with very, very clean clothes. If they survive all the washing, that is.

I’ve used AI, I’ve used YouTube videos but the bloody thing only wants to wash.

My talk on neoliberal womanhood was very successful. It went particularly well with younger women. They followed me out, eager to shake my hand, hug me, and share their stories.

“What you said about the life of no kids, no family, no stability but a lot of sexual freedom, hit me right in the heart,” one woman said. “We keep hearing that this is the good life. You can move around and collect liaisons. But it doesn’t feel good. It feels like I’m wasting my life.”

I don’t even have to prepare my talks but just show up and say, “something is wrong with the system where women can’t have all the children they want”, and then shut up and collect applause and devotion from the female audience. That this is perceived as a revolutionary statement that everybody has been waiting for tells us everything about how neoliberalism is working out for young people.

We are about to see a generation of massively pissed off thirty and forty-year-olds who have had it with this meaningless freedom to remain lonely and always on the move.

I’ve been asked to comment on Helen Andrews’ essay “The Great Feminization”. The essay is cute and nicely written but it’s a failure because the author does exactly what she decries.

Here’s an example. We recently talked here on the blog about how land acknowledgements in Canada morphed into homeowners being told that their homes don’t belong to them. Andrews would explain the land acknowledgements as a result of a feminized culture that privileges compassion and emotionality over rational, cold calculation. And yes, speech codes, land acknowledgements, pronouns and the rest of the woke culture can, indeed, seem like a manifestation of a soft, feminine concern for feelings. But that’s all pretense. The actual purpose of all this is not emotional. It’s purely economic. The goal is to destroy the middle class with its homeownership and its reliance on good, stable jobs.

Remember COVID lockdowns? They were posotioned as stemming from emotional concerns. “Don’t you care about grandma?” was their most popular justification. But the reality was that the lockdowns allowed for a large-scale transfer of the market share previously held by small businesses to big business. Walmart and Amazon gained a huge share of the market. Public funds were channelled into COVID mitigation, creating massive inflation and further impoverishing the middle class.

The same goes for the justice system that releases violent criminals. The argument is that poor criminals, they are suffering from “mental illness”, they grew up in poverty, poor little victims. But the reality is that there is no real compassion behind this. The goal is, as always, to use these criminals to hammer the middle class over the head, both literally and metaphorically. Displacement, fear, and uncertainty create excellent opportunities to strip the middle class of its savings and property.

The reason why I don’t like Andrews’ essay is that it drowns these economic considerations in an ocean of saccharine emotionality. “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus” always attracts interest. Gender wars are fun. Men accuse women, women accuse men, women accuse each other of being incorrect women, men do the same to each other. Behind all this enjoyable upheaval hides the cold, indifferent fact that we are all getting poorer. Our lives are getting less comfortable. We are pushed out of our neighborhoods. We have to pay privately for things that are supposed to be covered by taxes. This isn’t happening because anybody is too compassionate or soft. It’s happening because it’s profitable for a small oligarchy.

Andrews’ essay is a huge missed opportunity to speak of all this. Of course, if she did talk about it, she would get a lot fewer clicks. Like any good neoliberal, she milks the emotionality of men and women for cold, hard profit.