Two Too Many Fronts

If Ukraine falls, another 35 million people will become Russiaโ€™s slaves, and these slaves will be flung against Poland and the rest of East Europe in the next war.

He’s wrong about a lot of crap, but Noah Smith understands very well what’s about to happen in Eastern Europe if Ukraine ends up losing the war. And in fact, the above is exactly what will happen.

We should stop Russia now so we’re not fighting China and Russia in 2032. Fuck that noise.

The Mustache on Her

The Republicans’ idea of equality is everyone is equal as long as you’re white, male, kind of dumb, and drive a big, useless truck and bang on about how you like to run people over and that commie bike riders and pedestrians should get the hell out of the way.

The Democrats’ idea of equality is that how you behave and what you do in the world don’t really matter, as long as you speak the right words and are a good PMC bagholder. To them, a female Hitler would be a great example of an equitable outcome.

It Did Exist

Bull-fucking-shit. My maternal grandfather did this in the 1950s. It was incredibly common. He grew up a sharecropper in rural Georgia in the 1930s and early 1940s, so it was not like he was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. And he supported a family of four on a single salary while taking nice vacations, had multiple cars, and other luxuries. He did things that are impossible now for most people earning two salaries.

This is a retcon to get you to believe that there was never general prosperity (especially if you were white). When in fact, there very much was.

Flirty

Men who gave up dating and opted for a foreign wife through an agency, help me understand why.

You don’t have to use an agency. Just go somewhere and meet people. Not everywhere is like the US.

Why you would do such a thing: American women have extremely insane expectations that only 1% (or fewer) of men meet. Even in countries that are roughly as rich as the US, this level of absurd expectation inflation is simply not true. Basically any dating market in any non-Muslim country is better than the US. For men, anyway.

Something very, very wrong has occurred in the psyche of American women and it’s worth spending a lot of time and money to get away from that to find something better when you want a decent partner. Or even something short term, for that matter.

If I were not with my amazing partner and if I wanted to seriously date, I’d spend six months in Greece, Portugal, Norway, Italy, Croatia, etc. No fucking way would I even attempt here after what social media has done to women in the US. It has just destroyed them.

Even when I was in the UK recently, women were much more approachable (and approaching) than the US. I had 5 or 6 women in age range from 20-55 flirt with me quite obviously there. Admittedly, that sort of thing happens to me more everywhere since I got a lot hotter, but there it was very blatant. It helped that I was hanging out with an extremely attractive extrovert who talks to anyone and everyone around her, of course, but even apart from that it would’ve been easier there for me to partner up.

And it’s even better/easier in other countries as compared to the UK.

If you’re an American man and you want to meet someone worth your time, your absolute best bet is to get the hell away from American women at all costs.

Lope Lope

Now that I ‘m officially a homeowner, this neighborhood better stay exactly like it was when I moved in! I’m the last valid resident and anyone after me is a damn interloper! No one better even move a blade of grass or build anything anywhere where I can see it. Because that’d be wrong and infringe on my rights to live in stasis like in some crappy sf show.

If I even hear a rumor of someone unauthorized so much as walking through these environs, I’ll run them over with my F-250 in self defense. There is no reason for anyone to be in this neighborhood unapproved when they simply could be somewhere else.

(This is a parody of the Boomer NIMBY mentality. I’ve not become Kevin Drum all of the sudden, whose whole political outlook hinges solely on what any policy or politician might do to his house price. Frankly, I do not give a single fuck about my house price.)