278. I refuse to address burrito discourse

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> Mr. Babylon Bee declared food’s not too expensive—you just don’t know how to cook. Skill issue: He feeds his six kids homemade burritos for less than $20. It’s microwaved Panda Express discourse. Bootstraps. Boomerslop. We’re sure it’ll play well come election season. Everyone was talking about it, but nobody could even muster a funny response to this. We is tiredt.

> The backstory on the guy who harrassed Shiloh Hendrix at the playground is wild, and makes you wonder how many of these guys are just walking around.

The police picked up a 16 yr old girl that was kidnapped by Omar (the guy Shiloh Hendrix insulted) and his brother at a gas station. They raped her for two days. She was found "sleep-deprived, dehydrated, and had not eaten recently" according to the nurse that examined her.

They found her glasses in their trailer. She identified them perfectly in a lineup.

Then, in the middle of the case, prosecutors discretely dropped charges with no explanation and no oversight. "In the interest of justice," they said.

> Either tech guru Paul Graham is lying about his high-IQ Indian friend, or is so gullible that he believed his Indian friend’s lie.

You know what? Let’s figure out who he is. There cannot be THAT many people connected to Paul Graham who are old enough to have taken the SAT in 1983 and who came from humble beginnings in India

> Connor Tomlinson shares his experience at the hands of Yookay socialized medicine. A total nightmare, but he’s not an isolated incident.

My wife just spent four hours waiting in Urgent Care at the nearest hospital, on the advice of the NHS Maternity Service, because she's showing signs of preeclampsia. Can lead to fatal blood clots. She's a high-risk pregnancy.

Seen by an African nurse who barely speaks English, and makes multiple spellings errors in her notes and hospital letter.

After four hours of waiting, she's seen by a doctor — who tells her to make her own way to another hospital to wait in the Accident & Emergency department to get tested there instead.

Comes home and calls the hospital, who transfers her to a maternity service, also staffed by an African woman with an indecipherable accent, totally indifferent to the urgency of the situation. Tells her to come into the hospital and wait.

> mitochondrialeve brings up a point about homesteading we hadn’t considered before about how harsh frontiers create libtarded women.

The inverse of the urban IQ shredder, rural living is the family shredder. There's good reason why the American frontier states were the first to legalize abortion and women's suffrage. Their women were forced to masculinize or simply be killed by the cruelty of nature.

> X is rife with foreign influence ops. Probably not just X, if you know what I mean.

This account is spreading slander about the president of the United States to the tune of millions of views, tens of thousands of bookmarks, likes and reposts. Has 45K followers, an American name, Vote Blue profile pic, “Democracy deserves better” in the bio. And just got verified in March of this year after being active for 14 years, has undergone three username changes, and the cherry on top is located in North Africa.

> NYC’s mayor is charming, but not charismatic.

Zohran is not charismatic, what people mistake as charisma in him is anti-charisma and indicative of a deep and profound cultural rot. Finding him charismatic is akin to finding a sex-doll beautiful, it shows you have no sense of a sacred concept once thought to be a universal human experience. A sex doll can be hot, and can even be styled and positioned to make for a gorgeous photo- but it can never be beautiful, as an object or as a person.

True charisma is largely dead and has been replaced with the grotesque anti-charisma Zohran perfectly embodies. We recently saw a great example of genuine charisma in Erling Holland. Holland obviously has a rich and peaceful inner life, respect for something outside of himself, and an unmatched sense of discipline. He oozes virtue despite being extremely humble and low key. He is aspirational lightness, his mere existence inspires awe across the globe.

> Spencer Klavan saw an episode of Roseanne and was scandalized that there are families out there who speak to each other like that. Good reminder for those of us who grew up in yelly screamy households to Break The Cycle. A bit precious, but you know he’s right.

The signature, the defining privilege of my life is having grown up in a home where it was unthinkable for mom and dad to talk to each other in this way or anything approaching it. Nothing else really comes close. You just cannot overestimate the value of going through life with the knowledge that it is possible—even in anger, even in passion—to restrain yourself by force of love.

> Daniel Friedman recounts a story of Hollywood woke excess.

In the finale episode, She-Hulk breaks the fourth wall of her show, climbs through the Disney+ UI and confronts a robot named K.E.V.I.N. that has been controlling her life. Feige allowed this, but Gao wanted to put a baseball cap on the robot like the one Feige wears, and that was a bridge too far for him. According to an interview Gao gave The Hollywood Reporter, she threatened to resign if the robot could not wear the hat, and Feige immediately accepted her resignation. A visual designer managed to mediate the dispute by incorporating a “hat-like element” into the robot’s design.

> Area man recognizes a foidly inconsistency.

the woman is going through something like a "holy identity change," a beautiful metamorphosis from maiden to mother, an experience rich and natural and sacred, meanwhile the man and his feelings are considered like a spoiled little boy whose toy was taken away, a little shithead stomping his foot because his wife doesn't care about being hot, his needs considered shallow and vaguely threatening

> Is capitalism communism? Covfefe Anon explains.

"Capitalism" is long dead - killed by managerialism when the managerial class gained class consciousness and realized they could take ownership of corporations without having formal ownership

Managerialism got utterly wrecked by progressivism because they undermined the moral legitimacy of their own position

Managerialists were predators of capitalists who thought they could undermine the moral order when it favored them but then didn't do the second order thinking of what would protect them from people who undermined them in turn

> Jacob Urowsky is back with a tale of woe.

Then one day, Letitia checks dads bank statements. Old dog zigged when he shoulda zagged and now he owes the state 70mil. Dad panics, starts draining college funds, selling ponies to the glue factory. You ever seen someone drown? The water turns you into an animal. It isn't you that dies, it's a convulsing worm, a snake with its tail trapped under a shovel waiting for the boot. You'd wish for your own mother to take your place. Flooded with dopamine like a consecration from God as your wish is granted. Bad way to go.

And the 🏆Thread of the Week🏆 award goes to…

> Kryptogal (Kate, if you like) ranted righteously about how her lawyer job sucks now because she spends all her time responding to the LLM slop her clients send her. Have to imagine this sort of thing is afflicting every industry involving knowledge work right about now. Claude says I shouldn’t have to pay you so much. Claude says you should be able to fix it. Claude says I should get a discount. Claude says I could sue you.

I actually mostly liked my job - or at least, liked it enough, for the compensation - for the past 19 years, all the way up til this year. Claude makes me want to shoot myself in the head. I now have to spend hours almost every day explaining to clients why what Claude told them is wrong and/or completely unreasonable and make it even less likely they’ll close their deal or settle their dispute. They are paying me by the hour to explain to them why the list of irrelevant and context-less bullshit Claude gave them is wrong. For some reason, Claude repeatedly does not understand certain things and makes the same goddamn mistakes and sends people people on the same futile quests, every time…

I’m sure Claude is great when used for something other than trying to argue with someone else’s Claude. It’s complete shit for adversarial situations and will just dispute itself over endless pointless details for infinity. Literally the worst year of my life, entirely bc of AI and how much it has fucked my job. Not bc it cuts down my work, it has not. I’m on track to make more $$ this year than I ever have. All for bullshit hours doing “work” that never should have happened, responding to people’s five pages of bullshit Claude output.

> Matthew J. Peterson finally dropped some context about his new project FORUM, an events and media platform for the Right. Invite only, for now.

> NYC bodegas and smoke shops are all letting customers buy booze and drugs with they EBT cards.

> Beni and Basil interview a bunch of PrEPped up homosexuals about their medical dependencies.

> Jared Taylor characterizes the huwhite cause as on the precipice. Some big wins, but big challenges ahead.

> Darryl Cooper does Tucker, discussing Iran and the situation in Spain.

> Auguste Meyrat and Copernican discuss the invasion of Ceuta, Spain.

> Myth of the 20th Century sets the record straight on the Crusades.

> Russell Walter and Derek Suszko have a rapid-fire discussion about what aristocracy was and is.

> Imperial Twilight covers an under-discussed event with big implications for Current Year: The Amerasia Affair.

> J. Burden spits hot fire while breaking down an interview between Jeremy Boreing and Rod Dreher.

> Russell Walter psychoanalyzes the chud archetype, an Ignatius Reilly of the digital age.

Chudjak habitually refers to other people as ‘NPCs,’ ‘normies,’ ‘normgroids,’ ‘goyim,’ and ‘employim’. This dehumanising language implies that other people have no inner life—that they are mindless automatons. But perhaps this says more about Chudjak than other people. Perhaps they come across as two-dimensional, not because they are, but because he lacks the cognitive empathy required to perceive their interiority.

> Nathan Pinkoski observed the migrant invasion in Ceuta and compares it with Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints. The result of EU weakness and fecklessness, not a managerial failure.

None of these material explanations grasp the post-2015 realities of mass migration. The Camp of the Saints helps us see that at the root of the crisis is not a material question but a spiritual sickness. While Europe’s elites congratulate themselves on their pursuit of moral purity, the burden and cost for that worldview is shuffled off onto others. And the laws that could defend the real needs of Europe’s cities and communities go unpassed.

> For MAMA, Joe Garza visits the worst place in the U.S., which is like that because Los Angeles chooses to keep it that way.

Those Operation Healthy Streets signs are more than pitch-black irony at work. They’re a perverse symbol of how L.A. leaders work: throw money at the problem, then look away and tell citizens that “these things take time.” When they get called out, just point the finger at the red tape (that they themselves created), and pass the buck one step further down the road. And the worst part is that this institutionalized apathy is contagious. Chaos has a design all its own.

> Conundrum Cluster is back with another of his trademark jeremiads, this time casting his unflinching judgement on click- and clout-hungry right-wing influencers who compulsively rush to spread panic and demoralization before considering all the facts.

I do not meet anyone in real life who is pro-Israel or supports the Iran War. I am not worried about these views achieving widespread popularity in the near- or long-term. I do meet people all the time who repeat the same lies that these online figures push: That Trump’s domestic achievements are not real and that there is no difference between the major political parties. I am worried about these views becoming popular because it’s obvious the conclusions that one would reach from them: That you shouldn’t vote for Republicans in the upcoming elections.

> Scott Greer responds to Jared Taylor’s invitation to embrace the hoe-scaring label of huwhite nationalist. Geer argues that we’re well on our way to transforming mainstream conservatism to fight anti-white policies. Why cast ourselves to the margins?

While Mr. Taylor acknowledges the good things the Trump administration has done, he claims they may mean nothing because Democrats could reverse them. That may be true, but that’s politics. Like in war, advances in politics can be reversed. That’s why it requires participants to constantly fight to achieve their goals. Saying the Trump admin’s achievements are worthless because of their reversibility is like saying it’s pointless for a general to fight the battle because he could lose the next one. No one knows what will happen in the future, and the admin’s achievements set a precedent for what future Republican administrations can and will do. That’s a far greater achievement than current white nationalist activism. A few hundred guys marching around in masks for an hour doesn’t change anything.

> At The Spectator, Peachy Keenan gives an inside POV on the ongoing collapse of Hollywood filmmaking as we know it. Audiences have moved on and the people running things keep making the same mistakes.

A longtime creative executive at a large Hollywood production company broke it down for me. “Here’s the biggest problem, and I see it and hear it literally on a daily basis,” she said. “Most of the agents, managers, studio and network execs are liberal, ultra-woke LGBTQ types, and enormous nerds. In every meeting, everything is gay or BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, People of Color]. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills sometimes. They have absolutely awful taste, so when it comes time to push new projects, they make the worst picks. If Schwarzenegger or Stallone came around today, none of their classic 1980s movies would ever get made. Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan is a complete anomaly. Not because there aren’t others like him out there, but because in today’s Hollywood there’s almost a zero percent chance they’ll get a shot.”

> Rohan Ghostwind takes on our favorite libtard writer.

As Freddie himself points out, what we need and don’t get is fractal. That means it’s scale-free; no matter where you are on that fractal, you feel like an insignificant little dot. And yet, people will look at you and your insignificant dot-ishness and think that the simple acknowledgement of having had sex that one time is the greatest flex in the world.

> Celina101 provides a fascinating history of the DSA and how it’s evolved over time to embrace full communism.

The 2025 convention, held weeks after Mamdani’s primary victory, confirmed the new dispensation, the left retained its majority, with one sympathetic tally putting explicitly communist-aligned caucuses at a narrow absolute majority of NPC seats, and then the delegates repealed the democratic-centralism ban. Red Star’s literature had described the old clause as a relic of DSA’s anti-communist origins, the Marxist Unity Group openly advocates what it calls the true meaning of democratic centralism, in which members may dissent publicly but must accept and help implement majority decisions. The founders’ firewall against Leninist organisation was voted out of existence, democratically, by a membership that no longer saw the point of it.

> Sanjana Friedman observes that the Silicon Valley fear of tech “taking our jerbs” is already here: have these San Franciscans looked around?

There are lots of familiar AI dystopia tropes here: the “zombies” are blissed out and wire-headed (as humans might become if they offload all their work onto machines); the endgame of AI research is immanentizing a perverse eschaton; and the barrier between the two spheres is vanishingly thin. As the protagonist tells us at the outset: “To get to the campus, I have to walk past the fentanyl zombies.” In the real world, the condition of an anxious engineer is nothing like that of a homeless addict on the verge of death. But there is a sense, in this story and in the permanent underclass meme, that the misery on our streets might be evidence, or a portent, of coming doom.

> Missed this one when it came out at the end of June. Notes from the Under Dog L. chronicles a woman’s decades-long white flight.

“The Oakland Tax” is a meiotic phrase that downplays the chronic crime problem in Oakland. Jane Doe, the protagonist of this tale of white flight learned it after telling a friend of the 5th break-in to her car. “Well,” the friend chirped, “that’s the Oakland Tax!”

It basically means you have to put up with a certain level of crime that will NEVER get policed and the (black) perps will never be caught and put in jail. I didn’t even report most of the crimes that happened to me living in Oakland for 20 years, and there were many. Ranging from mugging, car break ins, car theft (twice), assault, vandalism, and harassment/threats. No reason to report them if the police department never followed up. They made crime legal when they passed that law that said no crimes less than $1000 would be prosecuted.

> Neema Parvini says the future of the right in the UK is British MAGA, as its right wing factions merge.

In America, the original MAGA movement was absorbed into the Republican Party. The energy of the base was harnessed, the personnel were rotated, the red lines on foreign policy and elite interests remained intact, and the whole apparatus continued to serve the same underlying order. Britain is now undergoing the same process at an accelerated pace because the margins are tighter and the left is already consolidating. The media ecosystem owned by the Murdochs and Marshalls has long preferred a single compliant right that can win elections and then govern within acceptable limits. They are receiving exactly that. The online right that once imagined itself a disruptive force will find its spokesmen elevated into the family of faces – GB News panels, newspaper columns, perhaps even safe seats – while the underlying policies remain continuous with the previous consensus.

> Stone Age Herbalist meditates on hunger and shares some truly chilling stories about what happens to people when they get hungry enough.

First-person testimony from these famines, sieges, droughts, wars and even controlled experiments all point towards the same end: sustained hunger dismantles personhood itself, collapsing all thought, all morality, memory, sexuality and familial feeling down to one absolute overwhelming drive, before it finally kills. The well-fed have always found the sight of the starving to be utterly unbearable, and observers across cultures and times describe how only a thin veneer separates the full from the dying. Civilisation can only be built and maintained within this narrow margin.

> Natasha Burge explains the “medieval girl summer” trend. It’s more than just escapism. It’s a longing for a world that meant something. Its romanticism resurfaces when our fake and gay world becomes more than we can bear.

Having stripped the world of transcendence, we find ourselves surrounded by unprecedented material abundance yet haunted by the persistent feeling that something essential has been lost. And so we wander a secular wasteland yearning for something that can no longer be named, our hearts stricken with a homesick longing to inhabit a world charged with meaning. And that longing is not moving in only one direction… Maybe the current trend of “medieval girl summer” is one small tendril of viriditas, that radiant vitality generated by a God who delights in speaking through the ordinary things of this world, left like a cosmic breadcrumb trail to guide all wandering hearts back to Himself.

> You’ve heard by now about that fraud academic in Britain who plagiarized all his papers and sensationalized his life story. J’accuse reminds us that it’s a mistake to focus solely on this one character, he’s far from alone, and the rot is systemic. The author proscribes nationalizing the universities and shutting down almost all of them.

It is psychologically comforting to believe that these institutions will suffer from reputational damage if they continue with their DEI practices, but the institutional prestige of Oxbridge/Harvard is not going to change in our shared lifetimes. People who graduate from these Universities will continue to filter into the most influential and important jobs. It is not simply enough to point and laugh as Woke seizes control of these organs and uses their credibility to sanctify their political projects. You cannot work your way around it by setting up ‘parallel institutions’ like the University of Buckingham. You will not stop the anti-meritocratic discrimination against white/male/posh in both undergraduate admissions and academic postings without personnel changes and redirection of anti-discrimination law.

> Christopher F. Rufo has been churning out exposées on various elements of Californian institutional failure, and now he uncovers a failure to meet what must be the lowest bar possible: rat infestation.

Since 2009, the number of flea-borne typhus cases in L.A. has increased by a staggering 2,300 percent. Last year, the county recorded more cases than at any point in its history. Some patients have died. Behind the scenes, the authorities responsible for protecting the public admit that they lack the resources they need to get the situation under control. The rats, meantime, spread disease in predictable ways. They feed on trash, fleas feed on those rats, and the infected fleas bite people, who in turn suffer anything from a mild illness treatable with antibiotics to a sickness that ends in death.

> Pimlico Journal investigates the Home Office’s RICU and discovers a sophisticated propaganda machine that borrows counter-jihad tactics to control the British population in the wake of immigrant violence.

As the relationship soured the police’s tools became cruder — they ‘were told we couldn’t say anything’ until ‘sentencing had been done’ because of the risk of contempt of court. Emma described this as ‘the managing down bit from the police — you know you cannot, you must not say this’. Officers even tried to ‘manage’ the families’ ‘victim impact statements’ — even demanding to ‘see them all in advance’, telling them that ‘you’re not allowed to say anything…too contentious about the verdict’. Emma told me they ‘were made to feel’ that if they didn’t comply with the ‘guide’ which the police provided their victim impact statements might not be allowed at all. Emma also said she was left with the very clear impression that they weren’t allowed to say anything suggesting they ‘didn’t agree with the process’.

> As demographics shift, Civil Rights favoritism has hardened into open race communism. Helen Andrews tracks this shift and makes the bold claim that the only solution is to completely bring the dysfunctional Civil Rights era to a close. Equality under the law or racial spoils system forever. This is, after all, what “woke” was really all about.”

“Wokeness” is the term most people have settled on, for lack of a better one. They have even picked it up in France, “le wokisme.” The main problem with the term is that it sounds frivolous. It makes you think of gender studies professors. But the phenomenon was not frivolous. The goal of wokeness was not gender-neutral bathrooms. It was the redistribution of money and power from disfavored groups to favored groups…

“Communism” makes people think of gulags and the midnight knock on the door. But for most of its existence, the Soviet empire was a fairly normal place to live. Its uniqueness lay in the way it put Marxism-Leninism at the center of society and judged every program, event, or phenomenon by whether it advanced its particular notion of progress. Race has come to play a similar role in the United States.

> At the Old Glory Club, Patrician West gives a fresh take on globohomo.

A people becomes an audience. A civilization becomes content. A tradition becomes a lifestyle option. A nation becomes a jurisdiction where consumers happen to sleep. And if the world ends up eating the same food, speaking the same corporate English, watching the same shows, repeating the same therapeutic political slogans, and ordering the same plastic objects from the same platforms, the managerial liberal looks out across the wreckage and calls it understanding. He sees peace. I see surrender with better branding.

> stephanie wakefield tracks the shift from climate hysteria to AI hysteria. The AI apocalypse is almost here, but it’s not an existential battle of man vs. machine. Rather a question of which men will the machines will imitate.

Like climate panic, AI panic is not detached from real dislocations (Are humans losing contact with themselves, one another, the real? Is this the end of the image? Am I joining the permanent underclass?). Yet these conditions, perhaps already realities, predate AI and do not originate in it. Just as climate discourse expanded from real environmental questions into a broader moral-political formation, AI safety discourse is beginning to do the same. Building on real risks (a Pentagon hack, a giant privacy breach), it further casts AI as an existential threat to humanity and, speaking in humanity’s name, from this position advances claims about the human and the conditions under which both man and machine should develop.

> Isaac Simpson read Hunter Biden’s memoir and finds self-aggrandizing faux-humility.

It is here that the tragedy of Hunter Biden becomes most apparent. The only begotten son of the super strong patriarch didn’t even have the strength to save himself. From his brother’s widow to Rhea to rehab to the DNC—he was always monitored, taken care of, controlled. So of course his worldview, like so many other liberal elites, is anchored not in religion, not in freedom, not even really in progress, but in naïveté. They want to be led around by the nose. They want to be taken advantage of by criminals, because criminals take control…

The people controlling Hunter want to draw a parallel between him and Fuentes, both to elevate Hunter in the hopes of him becoming an influencer, and in order to couple political rebellion with degeneracy. But does Hunter really care about this project? Not at all. He’s letting himself be used, just as he has been his entire life, by people who he’s never had the courage to confront. Ironically, his father also ended up as a puppet in the end.

> OK OK one more Odyssey review. How can we deprive you of BAP’s take?

There are just a few scenes on Odysseus’ exotic travels where Nolan is obviously truly enjoying himself, but he cuts it short just as it gets good. The Cyclops scene is almost perfect and the best of any on film so far. That’s what’s frustrating, because this could have been a great movie…all he had to do is just more of that. On two occasions, in the run-up to the events in the Cyclops cave, and in the ascent to Circe’s house, Nolan shows his special taste for Mediterranean biome and mystery feel, which he’s obviously relishing as something new for him on film…he should have just gone with this. Unfortunately instead of continuing to do what he likes and what he’s good at, Nolan kills these instincts in himself, doesn’t linger on such scenes…he denies himself and the audience this pleasure in order to inform you that he’s Really Concerned about Certain Serious and Political things in our world, and also that he’s very sensitive to the dignities of his wife and daughter. You can see him on several occasions caught up in his own orgasm-denial.

> Grayson Quay has an alternative idea for Elon, who wants to do a better Odyssey adaptation.

Fortunately, there’s a far better candidate for an Elon-funded, Mel-directed, swords-and-sandals epic poem adaptation: Virgil’s “Aeneid.” This masterpiece, written soon after Rome transitioned from republic to empire, follows a band of Trojans who escape the fall of their city, wander the Mediterranean for years, fight to win a new homeland in Italy, and fulfill their destiny by becoming the forefathers of Rome.

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