Be thankful for the mediocre. For without them, we could not be glorious.
Day: November 16, 2025, 7:26 PM
Losing Time
The definitional example of modern leftist behavior might be Hamas starting/re-starting a big war, with a massacre, and then issuing daily press releases describing that war as a "genocide" against them.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) November 16, 2025
Hamas: *Start a big-ass war with brutal civilian slaughter and mass rape*
Israel: Ok, you want a war, here you go.
Hamas: *Starts losing badly* Owie, it’s a genocide! A genocide because Israel won’t stop killing fake reporters and winning.
Sucks to lose, doesn’t it?
Zoom Out
This is one of the most insane imaginable examples of Z-llennial "triplicate consent" culture.
This woman came upon a passed out, potentially dying man – with his pants down – while on a food delivery run. Her response was to record him and claim "sexual assault." https://t.co/YUAh3Fzpn2
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) November 16, 2025
Goddamn, Gen Z is fucked.
If that’s “sexual assault” than I’ve been sexually assaulted by women 12,563 times and by men 5,981 times. (It’s not sexual assault.)
Trusted
If you understand just one thing about Muslim / African mass immigration, understand this.
If we really want it, we have to adjust all our societal structures to a lower trust mode. https://t.co/t7SOQL90Ye
— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen) November 16, 2025
That’s true. It’s already moving that direction. It’ll get worse. Mass immigration is not compatible with high trust, especially from clan-based and tribal-based cultures. And Muslims will destroy your civilization altogether.
Plagues and Pledges
The Covidian religion is still clinging on.
I thought at the time that the pandemic would spawn a religious event (the Black Plague did too), but it hasn’t been quite as large as I expected. However, the Covidian disciples are really quite crazy in a wacky way — only wacky because, luckily, they have no power. If they had any, they’d be terrifying.
War and Chaos
Impossible to understand our moment in history without grasping that for many people reality is increasingly a marginal phenomenon that happens around the edges of screen time. https://t.co/tcBdOdSfbk
— James Marriott (@j_amesmarriott) November 16, 2025
If people have told you this doesn’t matter: they’re wrong. It does. There’s been a categorical change in humanity’s relation to the world of the actual. The consequences are hitting hard now. This also happened after the advent of the printing press. And it took hundreds of years to work out, along with much chaos, destruction and war.
Jewels and Niles
This is the most 1985 thing ever. I remember when this video came on MTV 10 times a day. If you’re wondering why Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito and Michael Douglas are, anomalously, backup singers, the song was in the movie the Jewel of the Nile; it’s a promo for that film.
You know, at the time, I never really saw the appeal of Kathleen Turner. The big-haired blonde look is just not my thing. But she has a very fun personality in that video and looks quite nice in that white tux, I have to admit.
This feels like 1985 felt. Understandably. But it’s more “of the era” than most. It has the casual zaniness. The sense of fun that’s missing now. And no Instagram face. I wouldn’t go back; around 1985 is when my life started to get extremely shitty. But it feels like such a foreign land now.
Club Divide
I went to the book club. There were way too many people to have a good discussion. As I pretty much expected, I was the only dude. Men don’t read anymore. It’s become completely feminine-coded. Weird.
The facilitator (who was very good) said there were 10 different book clubs at that location before Covid and now there’s only one. That demonstrates how much sociability has declined since that time. Afterward, I suggested that it’d be worth dividing into separate meet-ups again as 20+ people is too many for an in-person book club. She agreed but said staffing was now an issue.
I’ll go to the next meeting, but mainly because it’s a book I intended to read anyway. After that, not sure. This group was not very intellectual and I think I need that to have a good time.
Pentagon Creating Amazon-Like Shopping Portal For Counter-Drone Equipment.
Post-apocalyptic life in American health care.
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing. This was always inevitable.
The Disguised Return of The EU’s Private Message Scanning Plot.
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies. Indeed. The lunch ladies were better to me than most of my teachers.