Author: Jim

politics

Ever faster movement left

Weasel zippers reports some tweets: Now, not only can free speech get you fired, supporting, people’s right to free speech behind closed doors with the blinds drawn, while piously deploring what they say, can get you fired. Observe that Josh Olin did not take the horribly extreme ultra ultra far right neo nazi position that people …

politics

ESR moves ever leftwards

Esr has to move ever leftwards, or else suffer persecution, and to prove himself sufficiently left, has to enthusiastically support the ever greater persecution of his fellow leftists. Thus each leftist has to move further left, and has to support the persecution of his fellow leftists even more than he did last year. This is …

war

Shooting Gennady Kernes

The Ukraine, like most of the former communist lands, experienced a five finger conversion to capitalism. State assets mysteriously wound up in the hands of some individuals. Gennady Kernes was prominent among those individuals. In the Ukraine the new plutocrats have proven less competent at utilizing assets than stealing them. Ukraine lacks law, tradition, and …

economics

Technological decline

If we cannot build high buildings any more, progressives say we are now so sophisticated that we are now superior to status competition based on giant penis substitutes, and status competition based on having a higher corner office than the other business executives. If high art is an aids infested trannie projectile vomiting over the …

culture

Joo talk

I regard all religions as at best useful pretenses that provide divine authority for ancient truths, sensible collective behavior, and sensible individual behavior, at worst as memetic diseases, and am apt to give advice to the religious on the basis of what would make a useful pretense.  Such advice is not always enthusiastically received. I …

party politics

The American right is deader than God

In the last presidential election, nominated governor Romneycare In the election before that, nominated Senator McCain-Feingold The current huge increase in government expenditures and substantial increase in taxes reflects a bipartisan budget that your Tea Party congressman voted for – which means that your tea party congressman voted to fund Obamacare. And, very shortly after the …

culture

Raising fertility

Singapore has terminal fertility – a fertility rate so low that it is likely to end Singapore. Smart people go to Singapore, and just do not reproduce. Black hole dysgenesis. The Singaporean government has issued a bunch of laws and incentives intended to raise fertility, with rather small effect. Similarly, the emperor Augustus, noticing that …

war

Ukraine government fades

Government is a shared pretense. We imagine governments into existence. Blatant puppetry can puncture the illusion. The NY Times tells us One of the armored columns stopped when a crowd of people, many of whom were drinking or yelling taunts, gathered on the road before them. Later in the day its commander agreed to hand …

culture

On the attack on Sunshine Mary

Some boring people are attacking Sunshine Mary in particular and the entire Manosphere in general. According to Matt Forney, Sunshine Mary said various things about her own life and activities, and the truth is various other things. I am a big fan of Sunshine Mary and yet don’t remember her saying most of those things, …