I'm a liiittle bit hungover, so nothing new or shocking to say, other than to wish everyone reading a happy New Year and a great 2026!
(And especially to those accused of being insane, deranged, 'off his / her meds', low IQ / low status / whatever, and all the other shaming terms-- don't feel bad, don't let it get to you, take it as a compliment and a sign of being honest and sane!)
We can't do much to prevent the hard times that are certainly coming, but we *can* still be nice and kind and polite to one another-- and hopefully there will be more of that in 2026, rather than resignation, cynicism, rage / anger, snark, and doomerism, which there's already more than enough of anyways.
In terms of New Year's resolutions, I promised that I would shift the focus in a newer direction.
The aim is to write in a more neutral / academic tone, instead of shit-slinging, lecturing, etc. Ideally the topics will be newer ones, but I might go over some of the same-old same-old ones, only trying to present my views in an objective and convincing way, so that I don't have to constantly return to them.
There are also niche or more obscure areas I want go into, related to art / aesthetics, and there are some things I want to say which are very obvious, but which I still think are worth saying.
My goal is for this to be a kind of personal outlet, less sensational than other news or media places, and more for things which would not be allowed or would be heavily discouraged elsewhere.
I'll update more in the comments over the next few days, but for now, I wish everyone a great 2026!
I also wanted to post a link to a very interesting podcast, for anyone interested in populist left-wing economics + moderate / liberal-ish social views.
ReplyDeleteThis one is on the financialization of the American economy, and its consequences, commenting on a book by Michael Hudson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwKWFjiQu5k&t=1374s
And here is another one on drug legalization:
https://rocinante.podbean.com/e/episode-38-the-fix-nixon-was-right/
It's nice to listen to people discussing the actual state of the economy in the real world, rather than the completely delusional libertarian slop that is still put out there, and it's also nice to listen to people that are open and sincere (most of the time, at least) and not completely closed-off, smug, contemptuous, and ironic.
ReplyDeleteWe don't even realize-- those of us who are guilty of being 'normies' and low status low IQ inferiors-- the level of disrespect that we put up with, coming from the elite class. Not just in terms of the disastrous and falling standard of living or the joke economy, but even in the total refusal to offer real explanations, in a tone that is sincere and respectful of the public.
It's just endless smug contempt, a kind of inside joke for them, where they pretend to explain things while really obfuscating and rationalizing widespread betrayal, corruption, greed, and evil. It's anti-social, and an abdication of the role of an expert before the public.
Back before 2020, this was happening but somewhat hidden or masked, but now they no longer bother pretending that they have any respect for those who are inferior to them (in their eyes).
Ironically enough, now that their whole lives essentially revolve around jerking themselves off for how amazing they are (by virtue of their fake college credentials, or passively inherited genes / IQ scores / etc), really all they do is fail and fail harder-- disastrous Ls in Afghanistan and Iraq (and now Yemen and Ukraine), collapsing the entire economy in 2008 and now endless inflation post-2020, pushing fake useless and super-expensive technology onto the public despite widespread skepticism / hostility (AI, COVID vaccines), and so on and so forth.
And all while the badass LARPing and delusions of grandeur have only gone through the roof, when they should be apologizing for their endless failures-- the whole thing is just pathetic.
In a serious society, actually sincere and intelligent and curious and respectful people would be the experts / explaining class, not these evil BS-vendors we're stuck with.
As for Venezuela, they have captured Maduro-- but don't equate that with "regime change", let alone controlling the oil or actually running Venezuela. They just they kidnapped their leader.
ReplyDeleteVery dumb people in the Pentagon (the majority of them) and their similarly retarded neocon buddies have been doing regime change operations for the last 30 years, in a number of countries, but the funny thing about them is that they almost never actually *change* the regime, let alone result in taking control of the targed society. It's just an obsession with punishing, killing, removing, etc a specific individual, and equating that with winning the war or taking control.
It's like the Great Man theory of history, on steroids.
So for example, they got rid of Saddam and destroyed his regime in Iraq quite successfully-- did that result in taking over Iraq, and getting all that oil? No, it just blew the whole thing up, the country dissolved into regional factions / various religious militias, and the Pentagon never managed to put the pieces back together, and now their big rival Iran is in control of things.
Killing Gadaffi in Libya had a similar outcome-- the nation plunged into anarchy, for no real gain.
Removing Assad in Syria in order to put Al Qaeda / ISIS in charge is the one example where this seems to have "worked", but it's a very tenuous stability, with various revolts and different countries like Turkey, Israel, etc moving in, which means it's highly doubtful that it will last in the long run.
Assassinating the various leaders of Hezbollah (Nasrallah is the latest, but they got another back in the 90s) did nothing to stop them from taking over Lebanon, forcing the Israelis out of Southern Lebanon in 2000, thwarting various invasions in 2006 and 2024, and now even shutting down the Israeli economy / society in Northern Israel and forcing legions of them to abandon that territory. If anything, it's helped them become more unified.
The same logic has held in Yemen and Afghanistan, even if the assassinations didn't reach quite that same level of targeting the head of state-- still an eventual defeat for the American military on both fronts.
It comes down to the level of unity among the elites of that particular society. If they're fragmented and weak, then they will dissolve into an anarchic civil war, in which case a neighboring nation or possibly the cartels may wind up controlling Venezuela, similar to Iraq, Libya, etc. if they're not fragmented and weak, then they simply resume their anti-American efforts, possibly with more intensity than before, but just with a different person in charge-- as has happened in Lebanon, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc.
So I wouldn't expect massive changes in Venezuela, let alone them "running Venezuela"-- pure and total delusion, and again how did that work out everywhere else? Pure hype.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that is clear is that the Pax Americana is totally over, collapsed on both sides, finished, etc. Not that I bought into the "rules-based order" or whatever, but even the fiction and pretense of it has been now totally thrown out the window and abandoned, which will in turn have 2nd-order effects (which may not be visible now, but will start showing up in the next 5-10 yrs).
Namely the other nations are going to start acting more openly against American interests in their regions, now that the "rules-based" side of the "order" is clearly just an unhinged, sociopathic, insane, untrustworthy, and delusional revenge-fantasy power-tripping schizo, closer to a crazy school shooter on various drugs than some kind of sober neutral arbiter of higher moral laws and stability, order, etc.
Just because most of them (like Iran, China, Russia) are currently run by mild-mannered Boomers who believe in not rocking the boat too much wrt to the US, does not mean that will last forever-- it's just that the changes will take awhile to show up, since they're being registered and internalized by the younger under-40 generations, who are not in charge now but will be in the future.
And finally, look at which nation these sociopaths are NOT messing with, whether murdering civilians or kidnapping / assassinating leaders?
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea.
What do they have, that the others don't?
Ditching any concept of fairness, legality, etc will have serious consequences, one of which is incentivizing the very behavior that these morons claim to be against-- but then, neocons have never been very good at thinking through the consequences of their actions.
What posts am I going to write next?
ReplyDelete-I want to go back to vegan vs carnivore diets, this time presenting the evidence in a more organized way-- before I leave the topic for good.
I'll go over the historical evidence against veganism, as well as some data I've downloaded regarding food consumption here in America.
-Economics, not the fake slop stuff, but looking at the collapse of American manufacturing & innovation, the rise of the service-sector, its consequences, etc. GDP (how much of it is a scam), the real estate / stock market bubble, and so on.
-Aesthetics posting, eventually. I already talked about movies a little bit.
-And getting off Twitter, in the long run. I like a horror movie where you escape from some torture-room to a place you think is safe, and right when you start to relax... you find the exact same diseased rotten evil thing you ran away from in the first place, only hiding behind a new costume-- awful. Plus I only find myself getting more angry and irritated the more I use it, all the more reason to quit.
I was thinking about this the other day, to add on to that post about Bannon + Chomsky: it makes sense that another iconic duo for the current era would be Trump and Mamdani.
ReplyDeleteSure they both *seem* to have nothing in common, be fierce enemies, opposite sides, etc which is why it was shocking for the political-media class to see them laugh and be all buddy-buddy... but in reality they *are* very similar: both are LARPers and actors, playing the role of radical change, while really representing the new iteration of neocon-neolib globalism, only adapted to the new environment dominated by Millennials (and to a lesser extent Gen-X & Zoomers) now that Boomers, Boomer media, and Boomer obsessions are starting to fade away.
Trump is as everyone knows by now just Reagan / Bush / Lindsey Graham 2.0, with more 'fuck around, find out' beard guy poser attitude + edgy racism— meanwhile the immigrants are still being imported, and even at higher rates to make up for the collapsing economy. The globalist interventions are being ramped up, more so than ever. And not a single protectionist or America 1st (meaning benefiting the American people) has been implemented, just lame economic wars against CHYNA, crypto / AI scams, and other anti-American policies.
And Mamdami is really another Obama, where they expect super gullible people to think that unusual skin color / race / ethnicity and edgy socialist memes = unusual, disruptive, radical policies. Meanwhile he's just a generic scammer / huckster, and his role will to be serve as stooge for the big banks, NGOs, and the massive useless credential class, so they can push whatever anti-working class policies allow them to collect free easy money-- the fact that he's a foreigner means he's even more vulnerable to being pushed around by established political interests, if anything, and therefore has *less* leeway to push back even on basic things. (And of course the very idea of being a socialist IN NEW YORK LOL.)