Naturally the world press attempted to frame this as Trump taking a humiliating beating like an errant schoolboy. But … But the frame fell off with Trudeau’s eyebrows. Trump targeted Trudeau in particular, not because of anything he said, that was just an excuse, but because the Canadian economy is the most vulnerable to a tariff war with the United States. The fake eyebrows were a visible manifestation of less visible weakness. A weak country produces, and is produced by, …
Jordan Peterson, controlled opposition
Jordan Peterson is on our side of the Culture War: anti-political correctness anti-identity politics biological sex roles and traditional gender roles meritocracy and meritocratic hierarchy personal freedom and responsibility angers our enemies But this man is not an ally. The enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. It is good that my enemy’s enemy is successful against my enemy, but much though I wish my enemy’s enemy was my friend and ally, I don’t get to choose. Jordan …
Baking a gay marriage cake
The supreme court has rolled back the decision that forced a particular baker to bake a particular gay marriage cake. But has done nothing in general about the rules that pressure everyone else to piously give service to gay marriage, that require ever other baker to bake a gay wedding cake. The reason for undoing that particular decision is that the human rights commission was openly and enthusiastically delighting in mockery and sacrilege and openly expressed the intent to humiliate …
The drift to civil war
Whichever outcome happens, Trump in prison or the swamp in prison, as leftism keeps getting lefter the stakes just keep getting higher, and the processes for seizing the stakes are losing legitimacy. When things are falling apart, the first guy to escalate tends to win, and the first guy to escalate to naked violence is likely to win. The deep state, the swamp, figured that they would illegally hound the Trump campaign, and something was bound to turn up that …
We are all white supremacists now
Obama promised a post racial America. We elected Obama so that we could once and for all cleanse ourselves from the guilt for our racial sins. Obama running for election spoke of the “nation’s original sin of slavery,†in the celebrated “A More Perfect Union†speech on race.but promised redemption. Elect Obama, and your sins will be forgiven. Shortly after election, we discovered that our original sins were irredeemable, we are all guilty, we all must be punished with hellfire …
“The intellectual Dark Web†– and Jordan Peterson
Yesterday, Saturday, I was shopping at the farmers market, and at one of the stalls my girlfriend asked if we should buy some choko, and I said “You are in charge, you decide”, meaning she was in charge of cooking and the kitchen. Whereupon the stall holder, a late twenties white male small scale farmer selling his own produce or his family’s produce, said “Hey don’t say that. They might start believing it!†“Don’t worry, I beat her regularlyâ€, I said. …
Inclusivity codes of conduct
When an open source software project adopts a “code of conduct†it slowly dies. Bugs don’t get fixed, new features break stuff, and it is unable to accommodate updates and changes in the environment. Over time, it gradually suffers bitrot – unchanging and unchangeable assumptions in a changing world, combined with “fixes†that introduce new bugs, and confusing new misfeatures that irritate old users, never quite work as they were supposed to, and are an obstacle to new users. And …
Who gets sex
The simplistic account is that eighty percent of women are having sex, and twenty percent of men are having sex – a hell of a lot of sex. It kind of feels as if it is true, it is emotionally true, but it is not literally true. The number of men and women getting sex is not hugely different. More woman are having sex than men, and substantially more women are having regular sex with a regular partner than men …
John Bolton wants war
John Bolton’s plan for denuclearizing Korea: “We have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003, 2004,†Hmm, how did that work out of Gaddaffi? In 2011 February Gaddafi gives up weapons of mass destruction. Then Obama, or rather a presidency that Obama was unable to control, immediately launched a color revolution, which failed horribly. The State Department then had Gaddafi murdered in a US air strike in on the 2011 October 20th. But the State Department is still …
Science and Christianity
You always have a state religion. If your state religion is easily falsified by the empirical facts of this world, then your state religion is going to be inherently hostile to science, technology, and industry. So, if your state religion proclaims “all men are created equal”, you have a problem. And not long after that, your state religion is proclaiming all sorts of remarkable things, most recently Global Anthropogenic Catastrophic Warming. Regardless of whether this doctrine is true or false …