So much for that weekend, then. It came, it went, it sucked – at least, it did where I was, because it was cold, foggy, wet, and just plain… disgusting. The worst part, of course, was that it was just a taster for the worst day of the week – MONDAY.
Fortunately, for such things, we have the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer. It cannot destroy a bad weekend, but it can make a Monday just that slightly little bit less miserable.
This week, we kick off with an interesting video from a fascinating series called Soft White Underbelly. There is quite a story behind this particular EWCHOOB channel, and its publisher, Mark White Laita, which you can go lookup if you have the time and inclination. There is a fair amount of controversy around it as well, for reasons that I cannot be arsed to get into at the moment. This interview, though, is genuinely very good, even if it is on the subject of marriage from a secular perspective:
And more of that:
Plus:
Here is another one from the same series that I also quite liked, which talks about how relationships continuously fail due to the extreme power of psychological trauma, and how therapy is generally pretty useless at healing those problems:
And finally, here is one from an Eastern Orthodox perspective that goes into the genuine Christian reason for marriage:
There is more of that down below. If you want to get married, understand that you must do so ONLY AFTER you, AND YOUR POTENTIAL SPOUSE, do the very hard work required to become adults, with the foundation of your marriage being Jesus Christ Himself.
Marriage, as it is understood today, is an extremely toxic blend of Man, Woman, and State. This is doomed to fail, every single time. What marriage used to be, was a union of Man, Woman, and God. Only if we return to that approach, do we have even the slightest hope of preserving civilisation.
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Linkage is good for you:
- Timofey Bordachyev analyses the Neo-Tsar’s recent speech at Valdai as a mirror held up to the West;
- Vasily Kashin points out that the 404 War is one the West can’t win, can’t end, and yet can’t afford;
- Vitalyi Ryumshin reckons Drumpf’s (quite ridiculous) attempt at acting like Patton actually disguises a much deeper shift in US policy;
- Fyodor Lukyanov argues the West needs to confront the harsh reality of its own decline, and the sooner, the better;
- Georgiy Berezovskiy tries to figure out what the heck this nonsense around the Nobel Peace Prize is all about;
- Farhad Ibragimov writes up a long piece on the importance of the recent CIS meeting in Dushanbe, which moves the organisation right out of its old post-Soviet patterns;
- Bob Bishop pulls the covers off the Israeli influencer operation in the USA;
- The F-35 has proven to be a giant boondoggle for the US Navy, to the point where it cannot afford to replace its F/A-18 Super Hornets;
- Meanwhile, the Limeys are insisting on pushing for more F-35s, despite the sheer uselessness of the damn things;
- The US Navy has floated the latest Virginia-class submarine, which is still, amusingly, well behind the Russian Yasen-M-class in terms of its capabilities;
- The UK government apparently hired the same accountants as Enron did to audit its own books, “conveniently” finding an extra £3B somewhere;
- Ye Greateste Livinge Englishmane offers his usual trenchant thoughts on the NHS, Queer Stormer, and the fustercluck that is modren Britain;
- Some mad geniuses decided to recode SQLite – an excellent lightweight database – in Rust, to address some longstanding deficiencies;
- Abominable Intelligence is proving to be a boon to managers, and a bane to entry-level workers;
- For those wondering if black holes exist – apparently they do, and they can orbit each other;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Qatar Airlines is getting sued by the family of a vegetablist who died after choking on a non-veg meal, which has to be some kind of world record for irony;
- The Neanderthals might have been even more intelligent and capable than we know;
- If you’ve ever tried to walk through NYFC for any distance, you know how hard it is, so imagine walking the WHOLE DAMN THING without taking the subway;
- If you want to be happy, try making a “reverse bucket list” of stuff that you once wanted, but no longer care about;
- Smartphones are specifically designed to keep you addicted and wanting ever more scrolling and notifications – they would legally be classified as drugs if you could powder them;
- The recent silver rush is rather interesting and has some curious historical parallels to the last major attempt to corner that market;
- If you thought airline travel was miserable already, another budget airline now wants to charge you if you want a reclining seat on its Boeing-737 flights;
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We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
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Gingervitis Injections
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
We’re going all-in on some classic REBELLION this week, because their “History of the Vikings” trilogy is amazing:
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And here are your Instathots to get the week off to a sufficiently silly start. First up, Maja Kruse Frank from Denmark:
Next, Bandi Julia from Hungary:
And finally, a Russian cosplayer and PR0N actress (no point sugar-coating such things) from Yekaterinburg, Mordor:
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most of modern Divorce problems are yet another outgrowth of Marxism / Feminism. into the early 1900s, women COULD NOT file for divorce. divorce was exclusively the decision of the husband. which, of itself, eliminates the +70% of divorces initiated by the wife.
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the children defaulted to the husband if the marriage ended. because, you know, single fathers are almost as good at rearing children while single mothers almost always fvck their children up.
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and this was the way things were done almost everywhere throughout the history of the planet. right up until we turned into Modren Audiences and evolved past the archaic way those primitives ( our great grandparents ) did things.
Default father custody was also rooted in contract law. As this classic article states, “the contract of marriage is, in every sense, the contract of a woman selling children to a man.”
https://masculineprinciple.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-fraud-of-modern-marriage.html
“almost as good at rearing children as married couples”
I gotta admit, I understand the ‘marriage is a minefield’ crowd, my first marriage sucked and was a painful mistake.
But my second marriage has lasted 30 years and will probably last 30 more. So I don’t buy into the MGTOW bullshit, and never have. What I do buy is that there is an entire generation of meek, weak, and terrified men that eat too much soy and are terrified of getting punched in the face.
Once you learn to enjoy fighting, even if you lose, the rest of your life gets a lot easier. Once you learn the difference between a real woman and a disposable whore, your life is a lot more rewarding.
There have always been disposable whores, and there always will be. The trick is to weather the storm and laugh at the wastes of skin.
Mrs. Badger reached out to me a while back, expressing her gratitude and good wishes in relation to some of the stuff you got from my writing. She comes across as a lovely woman – warm, kind, and charming. My compliments to you both for doing exceptionally well in the marriage department.
Yeah, she told me she did that when I had my stroke… I was a bit surprised, but she knows I pay close attention like clockwork twice a week, and have for a very long time. I appreciated her reaching out to say what I would have said if I weren’t unconscious.
I just wish that there were some way I could help other men be similarly rewarded, but any advice I could offer would be hollow, shallow, and ultimately pointless, like telling men to look for a four-leaf clover on a mountain. The only advice I could offer would be to seek out that four-leaf clover, and what to look for… and to be honest, all men already do. I was only fortunate because of timing, as I was getting divorced at the same time she was from an abusive husband, and the timing clicked.
The only true advice I can offer is don’t marry a stupid, selfish woman, and that is utterly obvious, and find a way that you can spend a lot of valuable time together (In this case, we were both superhero RPG gamers and clicked over a character death, and still regularly entertain each other by running games for each other in preference to many other leisure activities). But that is not advice that can be replicated.
I wish I had more useful advice than ‘don’t marry a stupid bitch’ but… that’s it.
The best solution gentlemen (if you have the wherewithal for it) is to copy our rich (minus the perversion). Make lots of money, put said money in a non-revocable trust (i.e. family court can’t touch it directly), and then (and only then) consider marriage.
Bonus points if you leave the USA/West and marry a barely legal woman, besides making out like a bandit (and living like a king) you will be able to troll feminists and conservacucks on any social media platform you fancy.
Thanks for the ginger eye candy, us pumpkin pounders appreciate it! (Look it up.)
This video will come in handy since I kicked off my divorce a few months ago. Won’t get into too much detail since it’s ongoing, but things had been going downhill for a while and I finally decided to do something about instead of accepting my fate. I’ll report back once it’s final.
Modern marriage IMHO is nothing but a trap for men. It’s like sticking your head into a guillotine and handing your wife the rope, since she can now call in the state to dispossess you of half of everything if you so much as look at her the wrong way, vs. NOT being married where she has no such power over you.
Mr. Badger looks to have found a keeper, but they’re vanishingly rare these days. As Aaron Clarey says, nearly all modern women want to get married and have children. Almost none have any interest in being wives or mothers.
Whenever it comes up in conversations with women, I always ask: 1) in the year 2025, what do I get from being married that I can’t get from being single, and 2) what problem does getting married solve for me?
Being devout is no charm against divorce. My ex was devout as ever, still filed and practically ghosted me. Didn’t listen to me, didn’t listen to one of our priests that tried 3 times to talk her out of it. It’s been two years, I still have no explanation other than bullshit women’s boilerplate. I met her for the first time a few weeks back to exchange some stuff. Turns out she was moving, which is what caused her to reach out.
I was saddened and worried by what I saw. She looked far older. Has put on weight. Didn’t seem focused. I reckoned she was on an antidepressant. Those make you unfocused and gain weight. Did for me, so I assumed that was what the deal was.
Last weekend I was visiting my daughter and asked how her mom was, because when we met I left sad (for her) and worried.
I like those manosphere videos. Some of the yentas that ditch their man and find out life is now harder are really funny. Who doesn’t like a good dose of schadenfreude. But what she told me was worse than any of those. She’s had a bad year. Stress at work, knee and wrist surgeries among other miseries. My daughter wants her to quit her stressful job.
She can’t. Neither can I, really. All her planning pre divorce was to work until her boss retired. She doesn’t want to work for the new owner. But now, she can’t.
For middle aged women, think about that. There’ll be no two retirement incomes with a paid off house. There isn’t anyone around to help you to the toilet when your knee has been repaired. No one to buy and cook food, clean the house, walk the dog. You have to now pay for that. Your job sucks? at that age, you need to think twice. You can’t say screw it and take a break while the husband covers expenses.
It’s a shame. Sad to see. I saw a funny clip on Taylor the Fiend where a woman said these women need to watch out. They may want to get rid of the husband, but rest assured he’s a dream man to other women out there. He’ll find one fast.
FWIW, I’m happy. I have a new woman, and new life. My expenses are such that I can work for a third the money and be just fine. After my Daughter gave me an update, her husband said “Wow, you really got the better end of that deal!”
probably the most important “marriage counseling” that a Christian could get would be this:
Caesar has no law requiring you to have a marriage certificate.
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and civil marriage has no relation to Biblical marriage, neither in it’s principles nor in it’s establishment or in it’s canceling. whatever relation that there used to be has been completely destroyed now that the civil practice has been extended to same sex couples.
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so why should a Christian concern himself with the opinion of the princes of this world as to whether or not he is “married”? better by far to instruct yourself in the Biblical principles of what, exactly, constitutes marriage before the Lord.