Thoughts on privilege
If there’s one topic that gives the right conniptions, it’s privilege, Makes sense really. The politics of selfishness and ego seem to appear in practice as varations on the theme…
Every threat is existential, every enemy is Hitler
‘Rivlin took issue with his idol Menachem Begin’s justification for the 1982 war in Lebanon, which was to “prevent another Treblinka.” He said that such an approach consigns the justification…
I did a shit thing today because I have longstanding anger management issues
2 June. I was in a KFC drivethru earlier today. I was ravenous. I have a tenth of my original stomach because Johnson and Johnson reduce governments to wholly-owned subsidiaries…
Barry from Burrumbeet meets his maker
Barry from Burrumbeet was surviving the identity disturbance and dissociation hole characteristic of Complex PTSD and worked a job. Barry from Burrumbeet had discovered the hard way that political hierarchies…
It’s better to be thought of as incompetent than evil
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/04/politics/trump-iowa-rally-antisemitic-term
The freedom of the individual vs autocracy
The ethical norms around the concept of individual freedom were perhaps best articulated by the liberal German philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt, who argued that Whatever does not spring from a…
Sky News, what’s not to love
Are you hysterial about lefties right now, Sky News? Not projecting but. Paranoid conniptions about heinous Sharia law taking over because halal food manufacturers get the same certification as manufacturers…