Lord, not another Monday. Not today. Just… NO. Seriously. I’ve had enough of this Monday crap, and mine hasn’t even started yet. In fact, this whole week is going to SUCK for me, because I have a week-long strategic management workshop coming up, and those things are EXHAUSTING. I’ll be catatonic by Friday evening, and (hopefully) paralysed with drink by about 10pm.
But, we carry on regardless, simply because there’s not much use in bitching about what you can’t change. That, of course, is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer exists – to make everyone’s lives a bit easier.
Unfortunately, it IS Monday, and this Monday, we kind of need to start on a bit of a downer, because this is the Monday right after the clocks turned back an hour. (Well, they did Over Here – I dunno about Over There, though.) This is nice because you got an extra hour of sleep on Sunday, but it’s terrible because it now means that you wake up and go to work when it’s dark, and you get home when it’s dark. So the whole day just kind of… sucks.
So we’ll start on an appropriately downbeat note with a very interesting and fascinating documentary and explanatory film from Mentour Pilot about the details behind the crash that killed off the Concorde:
That whole thing is well worth watching. There is no hyperbole or nonsense in any of it – the guy who narrates it is a really-for-real pilot, and he goes through all of the evidence gathered in the wake of the crash very calmly, analytically, and smoothly, to paint a vivid picture of the series of errors and problems that resulted in the crash.
The lesson to take away from it all is that serious and fatal accidents rarely “just happen”. In aviation in particular, they usually take place after a long and compounding series of mistakes, errors of judgement, and failures of protocol that snowball over time and result in a horrific incident. That is certainly the case in this situation.
You can never fully anticipate all of the failure points in any system. But when you follow proper procedure carefully and consistently, then you radically reduce the incidence of serious failures resulting in disability and death. True safety is the product of conscientiousness, adherence to protocol, and deep respect for the limits of engineering.
His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, gave a fantastic interview with Judge Jeanine:
I think that his views on the Coof and the Not-Vaxx are WAY off – the mRNA gene therapies have already proven to be BY FAR the most dangerous of their kind, and they need to be stopped immediately. But I give the God-Emperor FULL credit for his handling of the Scamdemic. He reacted with limited information. He moved quickly, firmly, and decisively. And he definitely stopped the full movement of virus through the country.
What happened after that? Well, US case numbers exploded – but that wasn’t his doing. The NIH and CDC adopted genuinely idiotic standards of measurement, ensuring that anyone who died with COVID, was counted as someone who died FROM COVID. The real death counts from COVID, WORLDWIDE, are a tiny fraction of what has been recorded thus far (over 5 million deaths so far – I’ll bet it’s barely one tenth of that number in reality).
The Coof was not the God-Emperor’s fault. It was China’s, and they have been desperately scrambling ever since to cover that shit up – as the Chinese ALWAYS do. It was also very clearly a manufactured crisis, and always has been – everything that we have learned about it in the past 18 months has shown this. The whole thing was weaponised against the God-Emperor by the Deep State – successfully – as a cover to allow them to steal the election in the most outrageous display of fraudulence that we’ve ever seen in a Western nation.
This is the kind of shit that you see in banana republics, not in the USA.
The God-Emperor’s failures, though, are enormous, and he has rightly paid the price for them. He did not dismantle the Big Tech monopolies – barely made any effort to do so, in fact. He did not protect or stand up for his supporters after the Jan 6 not-riot – many of whom continue to rot in prison MORE THAN 10 MONTHS after their blatantly political arrests, on completely phoney charges. And his treatment of Russia was a major foreign policy failure – he had the right idea to try to work with the Neo-Tsar, but he was clearly misled badly by the remaining neoclowns in his advisory circle.
He might have a chance to put all of this right in 2024. But I expect the Daemoncrats to do their absolute damnedest to steal both the 2022 and 2024 elections. They already know how to, after all, and they got away with it once before. They have the support of the entire Deep State Swamp behind them.
Americans never really knew what one-party rule was like until now. I did, since I grew up under it. But I never expected the people of the Land of the Free (*barely contained sarcastic guffaws*) to be comfortable with it.
#BasedTucker is based:
Let’s dive straight into the good stuff that our friend, The Male Brain, has sent over. We start with some great motivational words from John Stossel:
It’s Okay To Be Smart (very true, and an interesting title for a YOOTOOBZ channel) explains why sand dunes exist:
The Food Theorists ask whether you can actually trust the (bottled) water that you’re buying in a store:
Dude who makes that video is very plainly gayer than springtime and doesn’t know how to STFU. But he does raise some good points.
Larry the Stormtrooper shows off the results of his target practice:
(OK, rant time)
Interestingly, there is a huge problem with the whole “Imperial Stormtrooper School of Shooting” meme. If you actually watch the original STAR WARS IV: A New Hope (or just STAR WARS, as it was called when it was originally released in 1977), you’ll hear Obi-Wan Kenobi talking about how the placements of the blast-points on the Jawa Sandcrawler could not have been manufactured by the Tusken Raiders – “only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise”.
In fact, the Empire trained stormtroopers (and Clone Troopers before them) with a brutal regime that dehumanised them and made them highly efficient killing machines. There is an extreme incongruity between what the STAR WARS films (well, at least the first and third ones) suggest, and what should have been portrayed. The filmmakers did that in order to make the plucky Rebels look better and make the plot stick together.
On the other hand, STAR WARS V: The Empire Strikes Back depicts the “stormies” rather more accurately, especially in the Hoth base assault scenes.
(End of rant)
Mark Dice is greatly amused by the way that the Leftists are totally losing their minds over #BasedTucker‘s upcoming Tucker Carlson Originals documentary about the Jan 6 not-riot:
Dave from Blue Collar Logic tackles the silliness of teaching so-called “systemic racism” in schools:
Y’know what, there are, in fact, sections of American society that ARE systemically racist.
Most of those sections are Black, Hispanic, Jewish, and Asian. And that’s just the harsh truth.
Whites are the LEAST racist people anywhere in America – based on both personal experience, and actual data. Meanwhile, Asians and Jews systematically hire their own kind over Whites – just look what happens when Indians get into positions of corporate power and start hiring their own, according to their caste system. Hispanics hate Blacks at a level that most Whites simply don’t understand – witness the 40-year-long race war between the two in Los Angeles, which Blacks have been losing for years. And witness what happens when Koreans and Chinese find themselves locked out of Ivy League schools due to preferential bias in the admissions process.
“Systemic racism” is nothing more than an attempt to stop rational thought, and it is effective among Boomers and, to some extent, Gen-Xers. It is highly effective among Shrillennials, because they are stupid. But its overuse has led to a significant drop-off in effectiveness among younger generations. The day will come when screams of “RAAAAAYYYYYCISSSST!!!” will no longer be effective – and when that happens, look out, because that is the point when the knives and guns will come out, and The Purge will look like a satirical comedy based on true events.
Jason Siler notes the sheer hypocrisy of both Odumbass the Lightworker and his BFF, “The Boss”:
I used to like Springsteen’s music, at least from the Born in the USA era. These days… not so much. He’s a pretentious, sanctimonious, annoying windbag – like most of his generation.
Bill Whittle‘s optimism about America is refreshing, if perhaps not entirely warranted:
Paul Ramsey examines the terrible tragedy that took place on the set of that Alec Baldwin film:
There is a lot of blame to go around in that shooting. And while Alec Baldwin was almost certainly not directly responsible for shooting Halyna Hutchins, he bears some responsibility as a producer for letting people on that set get away with extraordinarily unsafe practices.
Col. Jeff Cooper’s four rules of proper gun safety are a complete circle of protection. If you obey all of them, you simply CANNOT shoot anyone, even by accident. Every NRA instructor teaches them – obsessively. I speak from experience, having undergone that training. Guns are completely safe IF AND ONLY IF you obey those rules – which are not difficult to follow.
The lesson to take away from all of this is that gun safety is YOUR responsibility, personally, no matter where you are or what you do.
PJW‘s latest instalment in his “shithole cities” series is a real laugh riot:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey examines a supplement called quercetin:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and his French pipe-smoking friend Odon Lafontaine continue to unpack the utterly cock-eyed way in which the early Izzlamists blatantly ripped off Christian lectionaries to construct the Koran:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and his good friend, Mel from Sneaker’s Corner, dissect the major problems with the Izzlamist narrative:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined interviews Eric Metaxas about his new book:
I listened to the full interview – it’s very good, and it barely scratches the surface of the issues involved. The reality is that atheism is dying, because its arguments are utterly futile in the face of the overwhelming evidence in favour of a Creator that sits outside of His Creation.
Dennis Prager the Neo-Palestinian has some very interesting thoughts to share about how the Left works (warning – significant Neo-Palestinianisms involved):
For all that Mr. Prager is, indeed, a Neo-Palestinian, and therefore elides over certain aspects of the truth, I do respect him for being willing to stand up to the Left and its endless stupidity. I wish he would stop trying to lie about the huge differences between Talmudic (i.e. post-Babylonian Exile) Judaism and Christianity, though. The two are NOT compatible, AT ALL. That is exactly why His Hugeness had to send the Big Cheese Himself down to Earth to sort out that particular mess.
An honest Jew would admit those differences and move on. Dennis Prager and Li’l Benny Shapiru are NOT honest Jews, not about that.
China Uncensored peels back the covers on the horrifying reality of organ harvesting in the Middle Kingdom:
DON’T get sick in China. Seriously. Just don’t.
America Uncovered notes that police everywhere in the USSA are resisting the not-vaxx mandates:
Jared Taylor from American Renaissance is quite amused by the fact that artificial intelligence, which is basically data-driven, sees race when people are desperately trying not to:
Terrence Popp offers his signature take on the way that women continue to blame men for their OWN stupidity:
Continuing on that same theme – here’s Joker from Better Bachelor, breaking down the unbelievable idiocies of women in the modern dating and marriage markets:
Midnight’s Edge investigates the latest developments coming out of the House of the Devil Mouse, especially with respect to Indy 5, which promises to be a woke disaster (and yes, that’s redundant):
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock does his best Q Anon impersonation by looking at the possibility that Gina Carano is coming back to STAR WARS:
Gary from Nerdrotic is quite curious as to why all of the movie critics suddenly seem to hate The Eternals:
It is, indeed, curious. Something funny is happening behind the scenes. This is a movie literally MADE for the wokerati. And the wokerati hate it. So what’s going on?
We’ll find out soon enough.
The Drinker looks into the very troubled history of the awful CW series that we all love to hate:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is a video from Astrum about the biggest storms ever seen in the Solar System:
Your long read of the week is from our good friend, The Male Brain, via our other good friend, Aaron Clarey aka Captain Capitalism:
The current assumption or “prevailing thought” within the Red Pill community is that deep down inside women want men. But due to feminist/leftist indoctrination they receive from 5 until death, women are somehow “tricked” into spending their fertile years eschewing men, and instead pursue soulless education and careers. Furthermore, capitalism, advances in technology, and democracy have afforded women careers, as well as a welfare state, eliminating their dependence upon men. This means all relationships between men and women are now voluntary, instead of compelled, technically “freeing” women from men. But without men these poor women forgo true love and meaning in life, throwing their fertility and beauty away on careers and leftist political causes, dying angry old spinsters with cats and $250,000 in student loans for their masters in social work degrees in the end. We try to stop them, warn them, and convince them to return to traditionalism, but our care and concern are met with accusations of patriarchy and sexism instead. And thus we all conclude…
“Whamen, ammirite?”
But come on a journey with me, if you will, and assume what feminists say is true. That women are not, in fact, being naively duped by the promises of careerism, corporatism, and a welfare state. That women are not, in fact, after a night of night-clubbing crying into their box of wine at night, pining for a man. But instead, women not only don’t need men….but really don’t want them either.
It takes a bit of removing human emotion from yourself, but look at some statistics and facts as if you were an alien from outer space looking down at society.
First there is perhaps the most modern metric of women’s interest in men – online dating analytics. Joker at Better Bachelor did a decent break down of the numbers, but the short version is that women only swipe right on 1 in every 100 men. And out of that 1%, only 1 in 100 do they ever go on a date or have relations with. I don’t know about you, but if I was an actuarial alien looking down on Earth, I would view a 1 in 10,000 event as pretty convincing proof women don’t really like men.
Second, if Tinder is too modern an example, perhaps the genetic history of the human race may convince you. Based on a DNA study conducted at the University of Arizona, only 5.9% of males reproduced, while nearly every female did. Admittedly, many men died in earlier times, many men were enslaved, and powerful men had concubines and harems. But even accounting for that, more modern times (1,000 years ago) show only 1 in 5 men got to pass on their genes. Again, most women seem to not like most men.
Third, online dating data and DNA are marred with their own inherent problems, but simply polling young women about their life priorities is a much more direct and accurate way to gauge their interest in men. And while there are many studies/polls, this general one from CNBC show men are fourth on the list behind career, education, and financial stability (aka – paying off her student loans). Even kids don’t come into play until 7th place, and this was for women between 30 and 45. If men are 4th on the list when women are squarely mid-life/half-dead AND your youth and beauty is the only thing the counterparty is really interested in, it speaks volumes how little genuine interest women have in men.
Fourth, disparate sex drives and prostitution.
A common canard you’ll hear from posers in the Red Pill community is that “women like sex just as much as men” – translation “I have so much sex because I’m so alpha brah!!!”
That is such a blatant lie I have to laugh every time I hear it. Because if women liked sex just as much as men, we would overpopulate and destroy humankind in about a generation. Additionally, the fact prostitution only goes one way for 99.9% of all transactions, is proof women do NOT like sex or men ANYWHERE NEAR as much as men like sex/women. And while methodologies are a little fuzzy on how precisely to measure men’s versus women’s sex drives, a rough average of 9 to 1 is good enough for ballpark standards. That 9 to 1, can be flipped to a 1 to 9 proximate of women’s fractional interest in men.
Linkage is good for you:
- The Western world is collapsing before our eyes, and is lashing out in its death-throes at the thriving and expanding cultures of Russia and China;
- Intriguingly, though, it looks like China is actually going through its own rather odd energy crisis – possibly spurred on by Emperor Xi’s insistence on obeying “climate change” mandates, which is just plain weird;
- The Russian central bank appears to be one of the very few anywhere that still believes in hard money – and it’s led by a woman, no less, which is really impressive;
- As I pointed out in my last podcast, Russia is indeed evolving into the bastion of moderate Western Christian conservatism, as the West itself rapidly loses its mind;
- Pat “Mr. Paleoconservative” Buchanan asks whether Poland can continue to be within the EU, given that the Euzis seem absolutely intent on punishing it for being, well, Poland;
- Indeed, the Euzis are intent on a real showdown with the Poles, which is likely to go very, very badly for them – all those Pollack jokes having hard heads exist for a reason, after all;
- Even the US Army’s own internal checks reveal that it is simply not ready to fight a war, which comes as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention of late;
- And speaking of military disasters, Raytheon, which owns Pratt & Whitney, which in turn makes the jet engines for the F-35, reckons that the Air Force will NOT be able to afford the full-fat versions of their engines for the Turducken Plane fleet;
- In non-military aviation news, Boeing is slowly – very slowly – developing its next “clean-sheet” aircraft, currently known as the 797/NMA, which should be quite interesting whenever it finally crystallises into something real;
- The Coof has now evolved a strain that defeats ALL known vaccines (except maybe the Russian Sputnik V one), which I’m sure is highly reassuring for everyone who got the mRNA gene-therapies in the mistaken belief that it would protect them;
- Our friend Aaron Clarey had a great piece up this week about how it is now the perfect time to “Go Galt” – I talked about this in my second-to-last podcast, in which I discuss how to do so in a Christian and ethical way;
- Here’s your “We Are Doomed” moment of the week – an influenza, I mean, influencer, posed and preened in front of her father’s COFFIN, and rightly got hammered on social media for it;
- So you think you’ve had some bad dates? This woman’s story about meeting a bloke who seemed perfect, but turned out to be a freakin’ lunatic – because he took her to meet his mother, in her grave – is the date horror story to end them all;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- If you apply Hanlon’s Razor to this story about how Google Maps has “mysteriously” caused an entire island to disappear, it’s most likely due to stupidity, not malice;
- As Captain Capitalism pointed out above, people are “Going Galt” in ever greater numbers, and this is not in the least bit surprising, nor should it be – even the mainstream presstitutes are finally admitting this;
- Here’s a story that proves, yet again, that The Babylon Bee prints all the best news before it ever happens – the best bits of the American national anthem are to be removed in order to comply with not-vaxx mandates;
- And here’s another one that proves how accurate the Bee really is – NASCAR races shall soon need to be suspended because of insanely high gas(oline) prices;
- The CEO of The Babylon Bee once said that it’s getting harder by the day to make fun of the news, because so much of it is so ridiculous – so here’s a piece that helps you understand whether you accidentally tuned into a Christian film;
- Everyone says that Canada is incredibly boring (it’s not), but there are times when they can come up with some serious Days of Our Lives-level shit, like when the CEO of Rogers found out that his CFO wanted to oust him via butt-dial;
The Neo-Tsar is incredulous about the sheer idiocy of some of the claims surrounding Russia’s energy exports:
History lessons of the week, courtesy of Dawn Pine – and this earthquake, by the way, happened on Nov. 1:
Your Great Man of the Week was suggested this week by The Male Brain – and is none other than Alfred Wegener, the man behind the theory of continental drift:
ElAnalistaDeBits compares the campaign trailers for HALO Infinite from last year, versus this year:
343i definitely did the right thing in taking an extra year to update and improve the game before releasing it.
And now let’s watch Mint Blitz do what he does better than anyone else:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Related – let’s drool over some hypercar porn by watching the mindboggling Bugatti Chiron Super Sport doing… well, this:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pics, guns, girls:
















The next few memes will tickle dog-lovers everywhere:


Y’all remember how we completely lost our minds when Michael Vick got done for making bets on dog-fights, or something like that? He went to jail and lost large parts of his career.
Fauci did a hell of a lot worse. Doesn’t that merit something truly horrible? Like, I dunno, being hung, drawn, and quartered in public?


Alec Baldwin isn’t getting any respite for killing a woman (even if it was accidental):



More of Trump:



And actually, the Russians are a LOT milder about it. I know. I was in Moscow a couple of years ago when they had HUGE protests about changes to their pension laws. The gubmint there didn’t do anything to stop them.



The brilliance and wisdom of Dr. Thomas Sowell has rarely been matched, and never been exceeded:

Headlines of the week indicate that Floriduh Man met Missouri Woman and weird shit happened:

… no words.
Your “Otherwise Known as Burger King Whoppers” moment of the week:

Your “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” moment of the week:

Your “Saving the Bacon” moment of the week:

Your “Talking Turkeys” moment of the week:

Your “We’re All Completely F***ed” moments of the week:


Your “Scamdemic is Scam” moment of the week:

Your… y’know what, I got nothin‘ here:

Your “THIS MADNESS MUST STOP” moment of the week:



That’s actually absolutely true. George Lucas was pretty blatant about ripping off Dune, and he admitted as much.


Now this next one is both hysterically funny, and really mean:

This, on the other hand, is just WRONG:

Why Vegans Suck:



I leave it to our Israeli friend to confirm whether this is true:











Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
Gym beast props this week go to Ed Coan, a true legend of powerlifting:
Our boy Dom Mazzetti is finally back, sort of, with a video explaining, in his particular style, what a bad gym looks like:
YooTOOBer Josh Brett unpacks the dark reality behind some of the unbelievable (literally) physiques in Hollyweird:
If you look behind the transformations of men like Christian Bale, Henry Cavill, and maybe even Ben Affleck, the amount of muscle that they packed on quickly is actually pretty believable. Bale had 6 months to put on nearly 80lbs for Batman Begins – and he actually overshot the mark, to the point where the production crew tittered about whether they were filming “Batman”, or Fatman. Henry Cavill’s musculature for The Witcher and Man of Steel is pretty normal given that he is doing heavy compound lifts, including deadlifts and back squats, to do it. And even Ben Affleck got swole, without looking shredded. I can believe those transformations.
I can’t believe the kind of stuff that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson or Zac Efron can do on, supposedly, nothing much more than hard work and steamed chicken. Those physiques look like they had some serious “help”.
Lawrence Kenshin breaks down, in brilliant style, one of the greatest muay thai knockouts we’ve ever seen:
Giorgio Petrosyan is, indeed, one of the greatest kickboxers of all time – if not the greatest. He isn’t flashy, he doesn’t pull off crazy spinning jumping techniques – he simply executes the absolute basics PERFECTLY. That is why he has a record of – and I’m not making this up – 104 wins with 41 (T)KOs, 3 losses (including the one to Superbon), and 2 draws.
(I am unable to confirm whether Petrosyan was drugged or had his gloves tampered with in those two losses, as Lawrence Kenshin asserts. It is a possibility, but as far as I can tell, his KO loss to Andy Ristie was legitimate, while his decision loss to Petchmorakot Petchyindee was highly controversial.)
But Superbon Banchamek was trained by none other than the walking embodiment of Death made flesh, the Buakawminator. And Buakaw is one of just TWO men ever to fight “The Doctor” to a standstill.
That should tell you just how good Superbon is – and how good he could become.
MixedMollyWhoppery gets deeply philosophical about the umpteenth latest Jonny “Bones” Jones scandal:
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster has no patience whatsoever for the idea that Fedor Emelianenko would have been “average” in today’s UFC:
He’s right. “The Last Emperor” was, and remains, one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time. He would not have been “average”. He would have been a champion in today’s light heavyweight division, because of his pace, pressure, stamina, and extraordinary grappling skills.
And, by the way, his name is NOT “Faydorrrr”. It’s FYODOR. His name is spelled Фёдор Владимирович Емельяненко, so the way that EVERY Westerner pronounces his Romanised name is simply wrong.
In fact, the way people pronounce his last name is wrong too – the stress is on the “ya” sound.
So the way to pronounce his full name is:
“FYOdor YemyelYAnyenko”
Get it right, dammit.
Jesus loves knockouts:
#MetalImpaler
Ah, we come to it at last – the great Instathot of our time. Or, y’know, of this particular day, which is about all we can ask for, really, given that it’s Monday and we’ve all got a severe case of the blues.
This week’s specimen is from the Land Down Under, where LITERALLY EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES, including the women!!!. (And it’s a country that has turned itself, quite happily mind you, into the world’s largest open-air prison.)
Her name is Victoria Turner, age 25. She is rather… pneumatic for a girl her age (or, really, any age), and she has a pretty epic case of RBF. Apparently she studied law in university, and she’s a vegan – these two factors likely explain that RBF. All in all, she strongly reminds me of a pissed-off over-inflated Barbie. I do not know anything much else about her, but bear in mind that thots gonna thot, so draw your own conclusions, really.
OK, you lazy bums, back to work. It’s gonna be a long day for me – actually, it’s gonna be a long WEEK, due to this workshop that I’m attending – so if I can’t skive off work, neither should you lot.







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[b]RE Stormtrooper Precision: [/b]
There’s an opportunity to view Ben Kenobi’s comment “Only imperial…” as the result of his hermitage in the desert. During the Clone wars and the ROTS era he was familiar with the prime clones from Jango Fett, the ones most like their archetype and reliable soldiers, although they age at 2x speed and would quickly reach the end of their service life. In the Clone Wars series by FIloni, there’s chatter on Kamino to start season 3 about running out of genetic material, the ‘Bad’Batch’ line of stories stems from these shortages.
By the time of ANH, the new stormtroopers are conscripts and third or fourth deviation clones who will obey but are far from Jango Fett. Kenobi has been out of commission for these two decades, and in any event, is an old man relying on his formative year anchors for what frames reality. Like a boomer who can’t let go of the SOVIET RED MENACE concept for Russia today.
For all the efficiency of the empire on Hoth, you can explain that by the presence of Vader on the ground with them and the 501st being good under his watch.
The garrison on Endor very clearly was inept, but in the traditional EU of Zahn, it is explained by the collapse of the battle mind that Palpatine was running until Luke wrecked the party. This head cannon holds up much better than the Kathleen Kennedy disasters.
[b]Re Long Read of the Week from Captain Capitalism:[/b]
This was a good one, I went and found the original post. The premise question ‘Do women really want men?’ is top-shelf.
From the conclusion of his long yet compelling essay:
“Because for all the feminist propaganda that women don’t need…or want…men, most women I would surmise do want children. But nearly none of them will be willing to settle for anything less than near-perfect. And with the historic human race track record of only 6% of men passing their genetics onto the next generation, we may see a reversion back to that norm. And whereas today the norm is monogamy (ehhhh….sorta), we can already see pressures, trends, and even technology moving to polygamy where an elite 6% group of men impregnate nearly all the women.”
Big Bear, Vox and Didact have said it well in the past: The only foundation of a strong and prospering civilization is the Christian Family: One man, one woman, lots of progeny discipled for Christ.
There is good data that consistent devotion in the Christian faith makes a man or woman more likely to marry and much more likely to stay married over time.
https://ifstudies.org/blog/regular-church-attenders-marry-more-and-divorce-less-than-their-less-devout-peers
What drives Capt. Capitalism into the fatalism at the end of his piece is three-fold:
1. Linear trend forecasting. That which is happening will continue to happen. Societies don’t work this way.
2. Reckoning with Jesus and/or a crashing reality changes people. We’re due for another reformation/great-awakening/fourth turning this decade.
3. The future belongs to those who show up for it. These trends are not new and the rotten fruit the boomers started don’t have the same number of children as the BASED-TRADs repopulating the landscape.
[b]Re Buakaw:[/b]
In USA Basketball, there’s never been a Michael Jordan and probably won’t be another. Oft imitated but never duplicated, he’s the type of player that everything in the game revolved around so long as he was playing.
But when he left to go and coach, there’s no protégé nor team success to follow. His fire was internal and self-driven…but not transferable. Great pitchers are like this too, Nolan Ryan didn’t replicate after decades of greatness. Both of these men failed out of high school teams and then re-took the place with vengeance.
So I’m amazed Buakaw replicated his success with Banchamek, even down to close quarters roundhouse/rib crackers. Great video breakdown on an unbelievable accomplishment. I wonder if there’s a difference in mental development from the western individual success model (even in a team sport) compared to the eastern community success model (even in a solo sport)
Israeli friend approving.
Translation in Israel sucks.
Best case: “The killing fields” was translated into “Tears of silence”.
Oh man.