An absolutely shocking number of people on the left and the right have trouble accepting that two things can be true at the same time.

A lot of solutions to societal problems that smart people propose would only work if the average IQ were around 115. Since it’s not, and that most of the left doesn’t even believe in IQ despite its blatant reality, their proposed societal interventions are non-starters.

And so much is then doomed to fail due to the unrecognized cognitive gap.

Spool up the CRISPR! We’re doing some eugenics.

Women who say they are “reclaiming their body” by getting a bunch of hideous tattoos is like “reclaiming” a city by bombing it to rubble then dumping a bunch of trash in it.

It’s not even the real explanation, but it’s the one they wish to believe about themselves. And it’s absurd.

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism.

This is all true, and terrible (though leans into prudery too much for me), but what is omitted is that feminists greatly overplayed their hand so there was a backlash. Insisting that women are not fully adult until 25, 30, even 40+ years old while men are full adults at 14-ish did them no favors. And believing as well as acting like that all men are crazed rapists while all women are innocent angelic beings also contributed.

And just as much, the issue became wrapped up in women’s intense intrasexual competition so they began accusing adult men dating very much adult women of “pedophilia” if the woman in question were a second younger, skinnier or shorter than the accuser¹. No, it’s not “grooming” if a woman is fully adult and fully participating in the relationship, even if there is an age gap. Jesus Christ.

Solnit has always been kind of anti-sex, and that shows here too. She just hides it well behind a curtain of, “What about the children?” And much of what she writes about is disturbing, to be clear. I have no idea why adult men want to be with actual children. But insisting against all evidence that women have no accountability and no responsibility because they are children until 40+ doesn’t sound correct to most people. That’s because it’s fucking insane.

So most people reject it. As they should. And that’s one of the reasons feminism is failing.

1. Remember the woman who claimed that any man who dated a woman under 5’7″ was a pedophile? I do. And guess what? The woman claiming that was, wait for it, 5’7″. Shocker, I know. By the by, around 70% of US adult women are under that height.

Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.)

The usual clownishness from that shit site.

This is political, as all such things like this inevitably are. The reality is we could go to Mars in 10-12 years and set up a small colony if we threw a trillion dollars at it. This idiot just dislikes Musk and since he’s associated with Mars aspirations, worthless crap like this dribbles out from the intellectually challenged.

Superconductors are irrelevant and aren’t magic, so who gives a damn.

Fusion power is probably possible and if we crack it, great. If not, also who cares. We already have the sun.

New physics? Maybe, maybe not. We’d do better applying the physics we already know about.

Asteroid mining is not really needed but if it were, we could do it. At the moment it’s pointless.

And airships are also a big who gives a crap.

This reminds me of reading articles from around 1900 or so that talked about how heavier-than-air flight was impossible and that no one would ever travel that way. They also made a lot of other extremely-confident extremely-wrong predictions about things that would “never happen.”

Worthless.

The decisive war for the 21st century is in the hearts and minds of the developed world's elites. Specifically, the war in esoteric values, worldview, and aesthetics—a war hardly fought. Our civilization is falling apart because we are literally too uncool to deserve the stars.

— Marko Jukic (@mmjukic) September 9, 2025

“Too uncool to deserve the stars.” Dang, that hits hard. Degrowther nonsense really does have us puling like an infant after someone takes its binky away.

Even easy things are now claimed to be “nerd fantasy” by people whose greatest fantasy is snarfing another doughnut. Fucking Christ, we deserve to lose.

Vladimir Putin’s dangerous drone probe is a moment of truth for NATO. Poland’s prime minister warns of “open conflict” with Russia.

All the good little liberals said this would “never happen” and there was “no reason” to increase defense spending.

You mean…they were smoking all the available crack rocks? Huh. Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia will attempt to roll across Poland in 2-5 years.

People incorrectly claim the degrowther movement has no political influence. In reality, though, degrowthers are everywhere. Most people in fact now are degrowth. We’ve collectively given up any vision of progress, of improvement, of collective organization to achieve societal benefits. It’s not the left or the right alone. Both sides are about making life worse in their own dipshitty ways.

If your energy use over time doesn’t look like China’s, you’re fucking up (and the US’s is about as depressing as the EU’s.):

Degrowthers are making everything worse. We should be building so much and burning up so much energy that the sun’s like, “Damn.” But no chance of that anytime soon as clowns are in charge of the circus.