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Folks, here’s a really funny, very well-written article. The author is probably one of those pronoun-listing AOC supporters but he’s talented.

Here’s an example of what happened to the gigantically popular anti-austerity movements.

In Spain, there was a massive protest movement against austerity. People congregated in plazas by the million and refused to leave. A new political party was created and immediately gained gigantic popularity. Huge electoral success. Immense bipartisan support. Yippee. This was all in 2011-12.

Then, as if by magic, the anti-austerity party rebranded and came out as a neoliberal party interested in nothing but identity politics. Women with penises, open borders, toppling statues, hunting imaginary fascists, that sort of thing. Of course, voters noticed and the former anti-austerity party collapsed in the polls. A far-right party (something unimaginable in Spain as recently as 2014) sprang up and started doing amazingly well at the polls because it’s at least pushing back against mutilating kids to please women with penises. Nobody speaks about austerity any more, of course.

Austerity used to be of interest. Millions of young people in different countries protested against it. And then ta da! Social media explode, everybody gets glued to a smartphone, all mentions of austerity evaporate, and instead mentions of racismracismracism explode.

Amazon and Netflix aren’t promoting books and videos about poverty, inequality, neoliberalism, austerity, or anything of the kind. Instead, they plaster one’s screen with anti-racist babies and all that silliness. Because “anti-racism” is not endangering their profit streams. To the contrary, it helps the bottom line.

All of these people who are loudly debating CRT in schools, where were they when millions of kids were deprived of schools and forced to stare at screens? That’s more damaging to kids than decades of CRT conditioning. Why did nobody care? When education money was diverted from actual education and handed over to Microsoft and Google? Which, by the way, is textbook austerity. Where are the discussions of how money is being diverted from medical services and given to telemedicine companies or Pfizer/Moderna? That’s austerity, but even the word is now forgotten.

Oh, and I didn’t even mention being denied access to education unless you get vaccinated for an illness that doesn’t threaten you. Where is a protest against the deaths and heart attacks of young people caused by COVID “vaccines”? The only people who are talking about it are, once again, the same old Gen X and boomer oldsters. The young people are accepting it all with the patience of sheep because Facebook didn’t tell them they need to be upset.

They come out in droves to support BLM in countries with no black population. But something that directly affects them – nope. Not at all.

The anti-lockdown crowd is all 40+-years-old. That is, the generation that isn’t suffering that badly from the lockdowns. It’s easier to find an 88-year-old who is passionately against the lockdowns than an 18yo or 28yo.

The anti-CRT crowd is all oldsters. Sometimes, a crazy mom drags out some poor 8yo and forces the kid to recite something for the crowd but other than that it’s all middle-aged people. Where are the actual 18-year-olds who are being told that being black makes them pathetic losers who’ll never amount to anything?

Where are the young people who are – I’m not even saying protesting but at least having some reaction to being so obviously and cynically duped about college loan forgiveness? Where are the young people speaking out against being priced out of real estate by Blackrock and Co? The only folks who have a problem with it already have houses that are mostly paid off.

I’ll tell you where they are. Watch the cartoon I posted last night. That’s where they are. They are glued to their devices, awaiting the orders from some rich bastard to join some neoliberal BLM or climate shock troop.

So please don’t tell me that the destruction of human subjectivity by surveillance capitalism is not a big deal. It’s a very, very big deal. We are soon not going to have any people capable of questioning anything that the owners of social media companies want them to believe.

A great cartoon, friends. Please watch.

https://twitter.com/mandystadt/status/1409194649399414787?s=19

Whenever a new Disney movie for the 3-9-year-old crowd is released, leftist commentators go nuts, insisting that any friendship between same-sex characters means they are gay. It happened with Frozen 2, Raya, and now Luca. Even when characters are clearly little children, this madness still happens.

The neoliberal left (which is a tautology because there’s no other kind) doesn’t believe in friendship. If people are nice to each other, the left feels puzzled and uncomfortable. Why are they nice? What do they want? What’s the value they are trying to squeeze out of the interaction?

Has anybody read Shuggie Bain? The Booker Prize winner? Is it any good? Should I read it?

I’m a person with a reading list from here to eternity, so I have to pick wisely.

It’s good that my husband is not suspicious because that confession lasted a very long time. A more suspicious man might wonder what kind of sins I have that require such a long enumeration. In reality, though, the priest and I got into a theological debate over the need to read the Old Testament.

Klara: “Mommy, I told you, I only wear drop waist dresses. Do you know what that means?”

Me: “No, but I have a feeling you can teach me.”

Where do they learn this stuff, seriously?

Klara says two girls at her preschool have daddies who aren’t living with them.

The Christian school she’s attending for kindergarten can’t start soon enough.