we don't have to choose narratives. rats are both intelligent mammals, and filthy vermin. both things are true.
unfortunately.
i truly hope that i don't have to do that again.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
this is good for everybody, except maybe syria. but you have to go through syria on your way from lebanon to iraq.
i'm not exactly trying to minimize the issue. it's a lot of displaced people. but the fact is that these are mostly syrians.
lebanon has sheltered an absurd number of syrian and palestinian refugees, and it looks good on the generosity of the lebanese people, but lebanon cannot absorb them. they cannot stay there.
i had to kill a rat this morning. unfortunately.
i did everything i could to chase them out and i think most of them left. that was probably the last one, or at least the last one down here.
i had glue traps around the water heater that were intended as a barrier, but it got stuck in one. i haven't taken a good look yet (i want to wait for the area to dry), but it looks like it got it's tail stuck in one glue trap, freaked out and then fell right into a second one, trying to escape the first. it was laying right down in the trap.
i heard something scratching around near the door and thought something was trying to get in, but i opened the door and saw it lying right in the glue trap.
so, i could have let it die a slow death and potentially get eaten alive. instead, i broke it's back with a broom and, when i realized that didn't kill it, smashed it's head in with a hammer.
that killed it.
so, it was sentenced to death on one count of being a rat.
i didn't want to have to do that and i hope i don't have to do it again but the rat came back. the very next day. the rat came back. see, i thought it was a goner, but the rat came back.
let this be a lesson to all you other rats around here.
but i think the rest of them are dead or gone. there's a few in the wall, i think, i'll have to open it up to get them out soon enough.
there's not much that canada can or should do in iran. canada doesn't have the technology, and to the extent that soldiers are required, the americans should expect the gulf countries themselves to provide them.
but i've been clear that canada should be sending trainers to lebanon to help assist in building an anti-terrorist force that can succeed in wiping out hezbollah. that's something we have expertise in and should be actively doing.
let europe take note that our current prime minister has personal ties to europe that are uncharacteristic of the vast majority of canadians, and that they should not expect his personal interest in europe as an individual to outlast his tenure in government, which will likely be brief.
the next canadian government will most certainly be more washington-facing, and that shift will be seen as a course correction that should be very long term and very drastic.
canada's involvement in ukraine has been a disaster and a mistake and we should be trying to get out and will be trying to get out sooner than later.
i want to repeat that: the american occupation of germany must not end anytime soon.
but eastern europe should be completely cut off from us military aid.
eastern europe is of no strategic value to the united states whatsoever and not a single penny or a single drop of blood should be expended on it.
let the russians spend the next 50 years reconquering it, if they insist. this is of no interest to the united states, and of no interest to canada.
i certainly hope that the americans, at least, stop sending money to fight an unjust and immoral war in ukraine, after this.
why should the united states continue to position missile defense systems in the baltics, for example?
the us should maintain a large occupation force in germany, and otherwise begin to withdraw from europe.
the president wants to eliminate income taxes and replace them with tariff revenues. it's a tax shift from income to consumption - highly regressive and broadly economically stupid according to most economists, but massively beneficial to the ultra-rich.
for that reason, these kinds of discussions will not be on the table. donald trump does not care about bringing back manufacturing jobs, he cares about reducing income taxes.
it is extremely unlikely that this policy will outlast donald trump. we will need to have this discussion when trump is gone, which will be soon, but which is not now.
it's consequently not clear what the purpose of mr polievre's announcement is, other than to try to confuse union voters with false promises and illusory policies.
these discussions will be necessary...with the next administration. right now, canada has to wait, and should probably avoid renegotiating nafta altogether, until a new administration comes in. this administration is not interested in trade or in jobs, it's interested in replacing income taxes with import taxes.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
the assemblies were not unlawful. in principle, pro-palestinian and even anti-israeli protests are protected by free speech laws, and it doesn't matter if you're offended or think they're retards.
the problem with this particular event - and it has a history of this - is that it attracts actual nazis seeking literal acts of genocide and violence.
it's a nazi parade. that's not hyperbolic, it's the literal truth.
canada is not the united states and our laws are not the same. we don't allow the incitement of violence against identifiable groups, because that's how fascism starts. these laws are rarely to never enforced, but this quds day bullshit is exactly what they were written to prevent.
the police need to make some arrests, here. clearly. it may only result in summary charges, but the point is to identify who these people are and ensure the police have a record of them, not to throw them in a cell.
Monday, March 16, 2026
see, my position is that the fact that the americans are allowing the iranians to continue to use the strait of hormuz, and want to open it rather than blockade it, indicates the americans are not really serious and are not using the full force of military power available to them, because it's not really their intent, and never was.
i told you at the start that i supported doing this viciously and swiftly without mercy or possibility of compromise, and i didn't support trying to create leverage for negotiations or otherwise fucking around.
they actually blockaded venezuela, but they are not blockading iran.
my proposal is as follows:
(1) if the americans are serious, they will blockade the strait of hormuz and sink or capture any iranian vessel transiting it. the desire to open the strait rather than close it suggests that they aren't serious.
(2) there needs to be a ground invasion on the southern coast of iran. it should not use european soldiers, it should use arab soldiers.
(3) the punishment enacted on iran for it's behaviour should be the permanent loss of coastal territory and the loss of the area called baluchistan, which has a muslim and pakistani popuation, via annexation by the uae.
(4) the kurds should ignore washington and just seek to peel off the areas of kurdistan, luristan, gilakistan, mazandaranistan and some of the other iranian-speaking secular regions.
(5) the azeris have their own self interest and are on their own. they aren't anarchists, and they're smelly turks. i have less solidarity for them. but they will do something. what isn't clear, and i don't have that knowledge, as i'm not interested. they may want to build some kind of coalition with azerbaijan, which would be up to them. i would be more interested in protecting the armenians. connecting the two segments of azerbaijan via iran could solve some problems..
(6) the israelis need to step it up by focusing on serious targets. if i was picking targets, i would be trying to decapitate the iranian deep state, which includes the clerics, the judiciary and the "guardian council" and "council of experts", in addition to the irgc. wiping out executive decision makers, who are nominally elected, will have little effect if the unelected councils remain in place. it's the unelected decision makers that need to be evaporated. if this was a norse saga, the usurping king would invite everybody to a party, get them drunk and burn the house down. i don't know where they meet, but it can and should be targeted. this is what they have not done yet and will do if they are serious. if they don't do this, it won't work; the councils will just pick new executives. the councils need to be eliminated in order for this to work.
(7) what europe, and perhaps canada, should actually do is focus on training lebanese security forces to wipe out hezbollah. this is a more traditional anti-terrorist operation, and it could potentially minimize harm done in lebanon. some displacement of the non-lebanese muslim population is required in the south of lebanon, but it doesn't have to be in body bags, they can be deported.
china and europe should not send ships to open the straits. that does not help topple the government in iran, it just keeps it in place so that don coyote can make a sneaky deal for the oil.
the guardian in the uk is unfortunately identifying itself as a mouthpiece of the far right and should be appropriately censured for it. the opinions it is printing as of late are worthy of publication in a reboot of völkischer beobachter, but deeply anti-western and deeply illiberal in content and scope.
they are becoming a national embarrassment and should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
it's interesting.
the name jew, as everybody knows, comes from jerusalem, but that seems to be an addition to the city's name which was anciently ursalem or rusalem. the ur part of this seems to be of importance.
the hebrew legend is of course that abraham came from sumeria and while this is difficult to impossible to corroborate the ur part of jerusalem does seem to actually be sumerian, rather than semitic. that seems to be correct.
the best we can do with archaeology is point out that something happened after cyrus. there may or may not have been an assyrian destruction horizon. it's not entirely clear. but something happened with the persians, and the people that we call the jews after about -550 showed up with them, from iraq, under heavy zoroastrian religious influence, and apparently adopting phoenician language when they got there.
what exactly happened to the sumerians is a really foundational question because we know now that they were so important. they weren't semites - they weren't babylonians, assyrians or arabs. they weren't elamites or any of the early indo-european groups. they seem to have come from the caucasus mountains, where kartvelian and armenian people live today.
and they may have kind of become jews, sort of, in a way we don't really understand. that seems to be what happened to them, somehow.
so, the caramel shit is like a yellow custard. it's actually kind of bland, as custard tends to be, which is surprising because it smelled very strong. alas. i would not suggest trying to use this as caramel milk mix after all.
the cookies ended up having too much chocolate, so i had to eat them with a fork, and then they froze to the plate, so i scraped them off into the custard. i now have yellow custard with crumbled peanut butter and chocolate-butterscotch chip cookies with caramel topping, which is also pretty good.
i used the rest of the chips up in the second bowl of custard.
is this a dessert? i found it contained enough calories to be a meal. i won't eat anything else today.
that gets one of the last more abstract items out of the cupboard. i still have a lot of cans of soup, tomato sauce, canned tomatoes, crackers, oxo cubes and tamarind sauce that can be used in the other things i've mentioned but only the hot and sour soup, and the broccoli soup, which i think is going to be a normal addition to my diet, is extra to my regular meal cycle. i've really managed to eat through just about all of it.
for context, i had three food bank runs - one in may, one in august and one in october. i went to three places each time. i am trying very hard to make sure i actually eat everything, no matter how outside my normal diet it might be. somebody gave me free food when i needed it. i appreciate that and i'm going to fucking eat it. all of it. some of this stuff is from august of last year, but what's left is mostly canned items from last october, and it will disappear as i catch up on the salads.
particularly annoying is when you see these far right protesters repeating iranian or hamas propaganda and calling themselves socialists.
there is nothing socialist about ethnic nationalism. that is the definition of far right extremism.
it is extremely important that actual leftists confront these people when you see them on the ground and tell them they are not socialists and don't represent the left, but are fascist foot soldiers advancing the politics of the far right. at best these are progressives/conservatives, but most of them are open fucking nazis.
no leftist would support these far right islamist political organizations on the grounds that they are vehicles for ethnic nationalism. that makes no sense at all.
we need to take our streets back and chase these fascist scumbags polluting them back into the gutter where they belong.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
the police will only attack you in canada if you're a socialist.
if you're a right-wing protester, they'll bring you coffee and want to hang out.
it's an embarrassing problem that needs to be addressed by more aggressive political oversight. there needs to be a lot of fired police officers in ontario.
we saw this weekend that the toronto police force is full of nazi thugs that will stand and watch right-wing nazi protesters engage in an obvious vicious hate march, without intervening in the slightest. these nazi officers are refusing to enforce the law, because they are in agreement with the nazi protesters. it's that simple.
we already knew that, in canada - that there's a serious problem with the police force being infiltrated by the far right.
and we've known for many years that there is no rule of law in canada, that the parliament will pass laws, and that neither the police nor the courts will enforce them.
as i've stated a few times, it's relatively clear that trump wants to negotiate and what he wants to negotiate is american dominance into the iranian oil market. this is the problem. it's the source of restraint and why it's taking so long. trump doesn't want to pull the trigger because he wants to take control. the mistake he's making is treating iran like a rational actor when it isn't one, which should be abundantly clear. the iranians are repeatedly attacking multiple entities that could completely wipe them out, with little regard to consequence, because they think that everything is determined by their make believe, imaginary god. if trump would give up on his delusion about "making a deal" and just wipe them out, this would be over by now. but he probably wouldn't have done it in the first place if he didn't intend to get an agreement in the end.
socialists and other leftists on the ground seeking regime change and revolutionary overthrow need to look beyond the united states and work to tear down the regime without them. this is regrettable as the americans remain the most powerful force on the planet, but's trump intentions are clear enough. if the iranian left wants to salvage this, it need to get out in front of the us military, and not wait for it to show up.
now, some people might argue that the united states doesn't need iranian oil, but this is a foolish argument. oil is a non-renewable resource. it doesn't matter how much oil the united states has today, it will eventually run out and, when it does, it will need to look elsewhere. it is in america's strategic interest to control as much foreign oil as possible and dump it all into it's petroleum reserves for later. controlling middle eastern oil is not about today, it's about tomorrow.
the trump administration believes that the world will be running on oil for the next several decades. i certainly hope they are wrong, and think the evidence suggests that they are wrong, but that is what they think. on some level, though, they might be right. the united states, and the united states alone, may continue to run on oil for decades to come, while the rest of the world moves past it. in fact, the middle east may find itself in the awkward situation relatively soon where the united states is it's only remaining major market.
the united states clearly thinks controlling oil is a strategic necessity and it thinks that because, at least right now, it has no intention of transitioning to clean energy. so it wants a friendly regime in iran that will send them the oil instead of to china. that's the point.
socialists on the ground should not care what trump's lame duck plans are, they should take advantage of the situation to dismantle the worst fascist theocracy on the planet and replace it with a mandate from the masses.
yeah. i made the caramel jello with soy milk, but it looks like it is setting fine, it's just taking a little longer. it's something like caramel pie filling but a little creamier. apparently, it's actually french. i don't think this will need the sauce, which i'll use for the cookies.
the cookie recipe is not going to be very complex. it's a package of mix that you add water and margarine to. i'm going to add the chocolate and butterscotch chips, bake for ten minutes and then add the caramel sauce when it's done. that's it.
one of the last food bank items was a package of peanut butter cookie mix, along with some kind of caramel sauce. i'm not sure exactly what the caramel thing is. it looks like some kind of caramel jello. it has arabic writing on it. there are instructions.
but i suspect i'm going to use the caramel sauce for the peanut butter cookies, instead.
i've also purchased dark chocolate and butter scotch baking chips to put in the cookie dough, so these are going to be peanut butter chocolate-butterscotch chip cookies with caramel topping. and i'm gong to make these things tonight.
the idea that the kurds are being asked to fight america's wars and being drawn into a conflict that isn't theirs, and of which they have a high likelihood of being abandoned, is a false narrative. closer to the truth is that america (with israel) is fighting kurdistan's war for it. the uprisings over the last several decades have all been fundamentally kurdish uprisings. the kurds have been targeted by successive regimes in tehran, and other iranian centres, for centuries. they have immense self-interest in toppling this regime, which is the point. i would not have proposed the idea if it were not in their interest.
there are some things to take note of in the analysis.
the kurds are often presented in western media as a stateless people seeking a state and that is not correct. the kurdish culture is one of a few remaining cultures where statelessness is a way of life, which is the reason they keep generating the interests of anarchists. western (or eastern) anarchist theorists grappling with ways to get out of capitalism should avoid applying their ideas to what is a largely agrarian tribal population. the kurds are not anarchists in a western theoretic or academic sense, but they do live an indigenous way of life that closely approximates the ideas expounded on in academic anarchist literature. the academics try to get empirical studies from the kurds to see if their ideas are usable or not. but the point i'm making is that the idea that the kurds actually want a westphalian nation-state is a misconception. the kurds are stateless and want to remain stateless, and for that reason they seek arrangements with the surrounding countries to allow them to maintain their stateless autonomy. for obvious reasons, none of the states in the surrounding areas can quite deal with them or know what to do with them; they will neither secede nor assimilate. they want to remain in the country, without participating in it. the turks and iranians see them as a threat to turkish and iranian identity (although they are iranians and not turks) while the religious arab states see them as a threat to islam, because they at best follow a syncretic version of islam and in truth are really no muslims at all, as most iranians are not. iranians are on average not any more religious than any other white european people, which is what they largely actually are.
to that end, it's worth pointing out that the ethnic divisions in iran are something that the kurds are aware of. the kurds are not likely to try to conquer the arab or indian parts of the iranian geopolitical space but rather to restrict themselves to the iranian plateau and the areas of iran that are inhabited by iranian speakers, which is the north and central parts. there is a slice of iran that is arab and a slice of iran that is indian or pakistani. the kurds will not want anything to do with conquering or governing these regions.
in the end, the kurdish goal will not be to conquer territory, to establish a state or to take over tehran, but to retreat back to the mountains. their goal will be a constitutional framework that allows for kurdish sovereignty in iran, not a kurdish state separate from iran. they value their statelessness. they don't want a state. thus, some commentators will argue that the kurds have been betrayed or taken advantage of, but the question before them is whether they can get the agreements they want, and not whether they can capture territory or build industry. in that sense, they are happy to be "betrayed" and they want to be "abandoned". they want the centralized states to fuck off and leave them alone.
it is consequently true that the kurds are an incomplete solution to regime change in iran, but that's not important in supporting it. as the kurds do not want to govern iran, the collapse of the iranian state in the kurdish regions, and the regions close to the kurdish regions, has no real or direct relevance on the iranian regime, except to act as a catalyst for a further uprising. the point is for the kurds to act as inspiration and perhaps as allies for the other ethnic iranian groups to tear down a government that is largely seen as enforcing arabic colonization on them.
conversely, the regime is likely to find itself with a lingering support base in the arabic provinces of the southwest of the country, and the kurds are likely to seek avoiding getting into that fight. if iran collapses altogether, those areas may even find themselves governed by baghdad.
so, there's certain subtleties with the kurds that our media doesn't seem to understand well. the idea that we're taking advantage of them or abandoning them is not quite right, as what they actually want is isolation and stateless sovereignty. it is true that america has had some leaders that don't quite respect them, but it has really never been true that the americans have turned against them, in a way that is important to them, which is why they keep coming back. they are not naive about shifting alliances. they live in a reality where friendship is always tenuous and alliances are always shifting. western analysts may see something wrong with america's shifting priorities, but that is just real life to indigenous peoples, and has been for thousands of years.
if the kurds do launch an offensive, be rest assured that they will be seeking their own objectives and acting out of their own agency and in their own self-interest. they are not a pawn to be moved around on the board but a queen parked in the middle of it, controlling movement in every direction.
that being said, i want to point out that the iranians have fired at both turkey and at nato assets on cyprus. there are grounds to invoke article 5, although it doesn't appear like that's being taken seriously right now.
the iranian state cannot be reasoned with, it must be destroyed. i would support invoking article 5.
it's actually rather clear that what trump is trying to articulate in his call for other powers to escort their own damned traffic through the strait of hormuz is that it's not america's responsibility to protect non-american ships from attack by iran. trump isn't asking for help in controlling the straits, he's pointing out that it's not america's fucking problem if iran shoots at you, and america isn't going to get bogged down protecting global shipping.
he's right. if the british want to protect their interests, let them do that themselves. why should america do that?
personally, i would rather see the world avoid the straits. don't send your warships there to protect your merchant vessels, reroute them. and let the gulf countries figure out on their own that they have to fight these guys the easy way or the hard way. then, let iran suffer the consequences of blockading itself.
no effort should be put into escorting vessels. effort should be put into sending troops, including local troops from close countries, to control the straits and into dismantling iran's missile capabilities. iran should be permanently driven from the coast, which should be annexed by the uae or oman, as a consequence and as punishment.
iran,
this is how you're going to do this. listen up. get ready.
what you're going to do is have the most barn-storming, zoroaster-channeling, rebirthing, sun-worshipping nowruz in iranian history. you are going to wake the sun up with a bang. and the regime will crumble.
hurry along now. get to it.
time is of the essence.
what is incitement of hatred in canada?
Public incitement of hatred
319 (1) Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Wilful promotion of hatred
(2) Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Wilful promotion of antisemitism
(2.1) Everyone who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust
(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Defences
(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(a) if he establishes that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, he intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.
Defences — subsection (2.1)
(3.1) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2.1)
(a) if they establish that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, they expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds they believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, they intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of antisemitism toward Jews.
Forfeiture
(4) If a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1), (2) or (2.1) or section 318, anything by means of or in relation to which the offence was committed, on such conviction, may, in addition to any other punishment imposed, be ordered by the presiding provincial court judge or judge to be forfeited to Her Majesty in right of the province in which that person is convicted, for disposal as the Attorney General may direct.
Exemption from seizure of communication facilities
(5) Subsections 199(6) and (7) apply, with any modifications that the circumstances require, to subsection (1), (2) or (2.1) or section 318.
Consent
(6) No proceeding for an offence under subsection (2) or (2.1) shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General.
i saw several signs in the paper held by participants in the anti-israel hate march that clearly qualify as public incitement to hatred and it seems as though there were no elated arrests. these laws exist and are not being enforced.
it would appear as though the police require better training to help them better identify incitement to hatred and make more arrests.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
with that point in mind, it's instructive to understand the amount of capitalist support that hitler received, with the intent of sending him to fight the soviets. that was the point - the germans were supposed to be a proxy to fight the russians with. by extension, it's important to understand that the reason the americans had to get involved in the first place was to stop the russians from winning. there is good evidence explaining that japan was nuked to keep the russians out.
it follows that the question as to what side the united states actually entered the war on has never been entirely clear. they seem to have been more interested in containing the russians than fighting the axis powers.
one may honestly point out that the allies seemed more like an axis of a few major powers, and the axis seemed more like a lot of allied nations. that observation would be underlying the semantic shift in the colloquial use of the term, but it's still masking the basic point, which is that it looks more like the uk (and canada) lost the war and joined the axis powers than that the allies actually won. what the uk media calls the allies today is the axis powers, plus the uk (and canada) and they are fighting the old allied powers, minus the uk (and canada).
this is a map of the world in 1941, before the united states entered the war:
the blue and the red are the allies. the map doesn't include the united states because they hadn't declared war yet and i'm trying to avoid involving the pile of latin american states that entered the war with the united states. nor does it include the chinese opposition, except for the little dot, because china was in very bad shape at the time.
the blue and the red are the allies. the map doesn't include the united states because they hadn't declared war yet and i'm trying to avoid involving the pile of latin american states that entered the war with the united states. nor does it include the chinese opposition, except for the little dot, because china was in very bad shape at the time.
the black is the axis. it does not include spain or turkey, who were technically "neutral" but both functionally aligned with germany. the swedes were not able to truly maintain neutrality, either. nor does it include iran, which was invaded by britain to prevent it from aligning with germany, or the various "arab opposition groups", which were all aligned with the nazis. the saudis are best understood as an arab opposition group, in context. technically, saudi arabia was also under british occupation (following world war one). ukraine was aligned with the nazis as well, but that's difficult to describe in a map like this.
i really don't like the uk media's use of the term "allies".
the way the uk media uses the term "allies" includes spain, germany, italy, finland, ukraine, japan and many countries that were occupied by the axis powers during the second world war, and yet excludes the russians and the chinese, who were by far the two most important members of the allied powers, excluding the united states.
if you want to hold to world war two language, and i'd suggest you should probably drop it altogether, it would be most accurate to decide that the uk (and, with it, canada) has since joined the axis powers and refer to this alliance as the axis and not as the allies.
as it is, the way the uk media uses the term is right out of orwell's darkest fantasies.
skeptics have been arguing for years that climate change is really just the enso (el nino) and you're being led around by your nose. but a predicted outcome of global warming was increased ocean temperatures and what's been happening over the last ten years or so is that global warming is actually breaking the enso. this is creating repeatably wrong weather forecasts, as much of the meteorological profession bought into the fad, right as it was collapsing itself. the models are way too enso-heavy.
where i am, the increasingly warm atlantic is increasingly affecting the temperature in the east of north america in ways that really are not supposed to happen, as it breaks the direction of the earth's spin. but it's happening. thermodynamics are pretty fundamental. if you needed reminding, there you have it. nobody knows if it's a permanent change or not but, right now, those hot atlantic temperatures are drowning the east in humidity and el nino is almost irrelevant, as it's coming out in the wash of broader sea temperature rises.
there's lots of other things happening, but our climate is becoming dominated by the atlantic, and that's not just climate change. it breaks the way that the climate is supposed to work, which clearly needs some more work to understand right. and the meteorologists are resisting this and doubling down, which is giving us bad forecasts.
it looks like an early spring here in detroit.
Friday, March 13, 2026
i don't think the canadian government should be trying to stop any quds day marches in canada.
first, i think it's important that these people identify themselves because, second, much of what would go on would credibly fall under behaviour considered to be hate speech in canada. arrests could and in fact probably should be made.
to be prosecuted for hate speech in canada, what you need to have done is incite hatred in a public space in a way that is legitimately political. they won't prosecute private communication, and i think they shouldn't. the law is intended to criminalize hate speech that has political intent, rather than just as somebody's opinion.
canada is about as lenient as it gets when it comes to speech rights, but this is the perfect example of the kind of speech that is in fact prohibited by law in canada and which canadians do not and should not tolerate.
so, they should let them march and prepare to make hate speech arrests and put organizers in jail.
the religious are moaning and whining about iranian followers getting bombed during their al quds ceremony, where the state whips the sheeple up into a frenzy, to go out and yell anti-semitic and anti-american chants.
in fact, nothing could be more appropriate than getting bombed by israel, as you are running through the streets chanting "death to israel". it serves them fucking right. it's a little bit of justice being served.
i've been calling iran a fascist state and people don't seem to be able to believe it or something. if you want to see just how much of a nazi society iran really is, go find some footage of one of these demonstrations. it looks like germany in the late 30s.
so, let's bring up the old cliche - if you could go back in time and bomb an ss march, would you do it?
you need to really see any level of tolerance to this regime at all through the proper filters. it really exposes a lot of biases, and it doesn't look good on people.
while i don't have a lot of sympathy for carbon users, and am not very interested in gas prices, i do want to point out that the cause and effect of price hikes is being a little smudged, and that you're mostly actually just getting ripped off by greedy assholes who are really just using the war as a convenient excuse to price gouge.
there should be laws put in place that prevent hiking prices during wars, but you'd have to get somebody to declare war first.
the lebanese parliament has taken a position that essentially relegates themselves to a dhimmi group in the arab league. they just want to pay the mob bosses to leave them alone. this is a historical position, as lebanon has lived under muslim rule for centuries. the lebanese are used to this. but it's not acceptable; it's a cop-out.
if lebanon wants to be a country, it needs to have a monopoly on violence in it's own borders.
if it refuses to do that, it can't be a country and will need to be partitioned. the time for holding on to empty rhetoric about "territorial integrity" is past. a country that cannot defend itself is not sustainable and cannot exist.
if canada wants to actually help, it should be sending soldiers to lebanon to train the military. at the end of the day, it is the lebanese that will need to stop paying the jizya, take up arms and defeat hezbollah, or we will need to stop pretending that lebanon is a country, and do away with it.
if canada wants to help, it has the expertise to help train the lebanese. that is what they need. not food.
canada is the pathetic sick man of the oecd, writing checks for charitable donations across the world to generate respect and seek influence, and getting nothing but contempt in return.
there's lots of wealth in this world. the world doesn't need wealth. it needs leadership. we don't have it.
they don't need our money. we need our money.
i don't think that sending $40 million in aid to lebanon is very high impact, especially if it's for food. they're not experiencing a famine in lebanon and the people being moved out are not being blockaded. rather, this is the kind of stupid, self-serving philanthropy intended for domestic audiences to feel good about themselves that has given canada a low level of global respect. it does nothing to address any issue of substance or concern about iranian terrorist proxies in the region and the money will in all likelihood just end up stolen by corrupt elements of the organized crime networks in the region.
that money would have been better distributed to build housing for refugees in canada.
but, if the canadian government wants to do something in the world instead of something here, which i may strongly suggest it should reanalyze it's priorities around, it should be sending resources to help fight the terrorist networks, not basically funneling them money.
lebanon certainly has some problems, but they don't need food. they need guns to fight off hezbollah with.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
i was thinking as i was eating a salad that i can be fucking sarcastic in my foreign policy proposals. proposing a blockade of iran and telling the iranians to suffer the consequence of shitting in their own bed for shooting at ships is pretty vicious, really. it's sort of sadistic. but, sadism is one of the most blunt forms of comedy, because it is so absurd. really awful forms of punishment have a deep level of comedic value to them, which is really what i'm going for.
you'll have to forgive me. i don't watch tv. so, maybe i'm summarizing something that already exists, in which case i apologize. but there should be a resultant tv show called sarcastic dad that is about taking cruel and unusual punishment to it's logical conclusion in extremely dark comedy. these little fucking punks are going to get what's coming to 'em in the most ironic way possible, with flair and with shock value.
it would get cancelled, but that would just be the aura of it.
a lot of people, including myself, were loudly in support of regime change in iran way back in 2003, even as we were arguing against invading iraq. a lot of us have held these opposing positions the whole fucking time.
i would have preferred for the united states to have done this through the un. but so be it. the un is broken.
it's funny how everyone that supported iraq is opposed to iran, and everybody that opposed iraq supports iran. it doesn't mean anything on it's face, but it's true.
while a lot of former iraq supporters are going to claim they learned something, the reality is that they clearly didn't. even if they don't realize it, the difference is in the nature of the regime and the nature of the opposition to it.
iraq was a secular regime and iran is a theocracy. that's the difference.
the americans are focusing on destroying iran's more conventional war machines, which is a necessary but not a sufficient condition to dismantle the state. they are not killing enough clerics, enough judges or enough of the deep state, and it's clear enough this won't work unless they refocus on wiping out the ruling class and the state's institutions, along with the weapons.
winner: russian and chinese weapons manufacturers.
loser: american taxpayers
the americans clearly should have ensured they had control of the gulf before they started bombing. it's not america's responsibility to govern iran, but it is their responsibility to make coherent war plans. historically, the americans have had naval dominance over this waterway and the idea that iran could unilaterally close it would be absurd on it's face.
it's not that anything really changed. the united states still has naval dominance, but they appear to have allowed the iranians to put mines in the straits due to not foreseeing it happening. i warned you when this started that the obliteration would have to be complete and immediate, or it would open up opportunities to get in. anything iranian operating in the gulf should have been immediately bombed; it seems like it wasn't. the iranians themselves will suffer the most from this, so i can see how it didn't seem like a real threat, but somebody dropped the ball at centcom in not being aggressive enough. now, this is going to require clearing, which is going to take some time. further, mine-cleaning ships are not exactly military vessels, and they would be vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
this doesn't change any balance of power, it just creates annoyances and slows things down. it's a demonstration of incompetence by centcom that they let the inferior iranians mine the straits they have naval dominance over, right under their noses. it's an annoyance that's going to cost time and money to address.
that means that demining will have to wait, and there's no really easy way to make the straits usable again in the short run, even if they can send marines in to control the straits, which they should be doing.
i actually think they should do the opposite - they should blockade it and even mine the opening themselves, to prevent anything from getting in and out. demining will legitimately need to wait until moogabooga is eliminated and replaced with a democratically elected leader and iran will need to suffer the consequences of shitting in it's own bed.
on first glance, i would consider an israeli annexation of southern lebanon to be a little over the line. that's too far.
however, some things have to be acknowledged.
- lebanon is a failed state
- lebanon is unable to stop hezbollah
- the muslim colonization of southern lebanon is unsustainable
- israel has suffered terribly from the oct 7th massacre, and some increase in territory is morally justified as a reward for that suffering
when you put all of those things together, israel's need to take control of this territory and the region's need to decolonize it of recent islamization in the face of the collapse of the federal authority actually make the idea fairly reasonable.
however, israel should be making an attempt to get the people out of lebanon, and not just pushing them north. the people being driven out of southern lebanon right now are overwhelmingly not lebanese, but mostly syrian or palestinian. a better destination for the shiites, which is most of them, is iraq. israel should help get them there.
the guy going to the game on the tunnel bus is going to park downtown, pay parking, have a beer downtown, get something to eat, have a beer when he gets back, etc. you take away the bus, he either stays at home or just takes a cab right through downtown without stopping.
it was the dumbest economic decision imaginable.
i also want to point out that the people on the bus pay taxes, too. for them, the bus is a service and taking it away is taking away a service they were paying for with their taxes, in order to pay for stupid christmas festivals and whatever else that they would largely not give a fuck about. did any regular tunnel bus riders get a tax rebate in return for the service that was taken from them? no - those taxes were rerouted towards other things, and most of those other things are bullshit. now, they're still paying taxes, but they lost this service they used.
it's not like windsor has alternatives to the events that the tunnel bus serviced. the logic that the bus is taking money out of the city is deeply flawed; the bus was taking money into the city by increasing foot traffic into it. canceling the bus is redirecting the money elsewhere.
i don't give a fuck about sports and think competition is barbaric. however, a large number of people would take the tunnel bus over to see hockey, football, baseball or basketball games. i may be mistaken, but i don't think there's an nhl or nfl team in windsor. going to a minor hockey league game is not a comparable product.
i go over strictly to see concerts and i don't even go to the big shows. detroit is still a large market. so, i could go see a band like pearl jam in detroit, or see a pearl jam cover band in windsor. pearl jam's not coming to windsor. it's not comparable.
for me, though, i don't even go to the big shows, i go to the underground parties. in the summer, detroit usually has a party going until 7:00 am. in windsor, everything closes at midnight, nowadays. you can't even find a venue open until 2:30 anymore.
so, this idea that windsor is competing with detroit is deeply wrong. windsor is simply not competing with detroit, and there's simply no way to get people that want to go to a game or a show or a party to spend that money here instead. if the mayor of windsor wasn't a retard, he'd be trying to capture some of the multiplier effect of people coming through town to spend money in detroit. instead, he's sending them to lasalle or sandwich to spend that money there, instead.
worse is this idea that cancelling the tunnel bus is going to coerce me to spend more money in canada. wrong.
the more correct way to think of it is that the tunnel bus was drawing me into the downtown core on days i wouldn't have otherwise gone downtown at all. i may have taken a few shots before i left, or otherwise spent money downtown on my way to and from the bus. cancelling the bus means i'll spend less money downtown because i have less reason to go downtown, and sending me on a detour to the new bridge is going to see me spend more money in lasalle or sandwichtown, instead. the new bridge is going to shift the centre of the city away from ouellette and to the southwest. in 20 years, we may call this area lasalle-windsor, or go back to calling it sandwich.
it's maybe not realized, although i don't know how people could miss it, that the reason downtown windsor shifted from sandwich town to ouellette in the first place was because the tunnel and the tunnel bus was there. you cancel or shift or undo that and you cancel or shift or undo downtown, because the major reason people go to downtown windsor is to go back and forth from detroit.
the problem with mayor dilbert is that he's a dork-ass family values conservative loser. we need somebody that's more interested in individual rights and less interested in family values and sees the priority in funding things like the tunnel bus, while slashing funding for stupid christmas bullshit.
from what i can tell, the decision to cancel the tunnel bus was broadly unpopular. we'll have to see if it's career ending and if it's a big enough issue to overturn city council, if we can find some candidates willing to put it on the ballot.
i'm hoping that they eventually sell the ambassador bridge to some government, who turns it into a walking bridge.
i'm a five minute walk from the bus station to go under the tunnel, a ten minute bicycle ride from the old bridge (which i've never been on) and at least a 20 minute ride to the new bridge. i don't know exactly how i'm going to access the bridge with a bicycle yet and that will determine the amount of time it takes to get across. then, when i am across, it's a twenty minute ride back to woodward. so, this might end up being an hour detour into town and i might find myself willing to pay to take the bus over, if i had the option, and then bike back around whenever i'm done - at 2:00 am, 4:00 am, 7:00 am, whenever.
i will not have to wait for the tunnel bus at the diner anymore, which often added an extra $10 to the trip, on it's own, and forced me to plan for overnight parties, even if i wasn't totally into them.
if they turn the old bridge into a pedestrian link, it will cut 10-15 minutes of bicycling, in either direction.
i may eventually just move closer to the new bridge, and i tried to do that last fall, but i wasn't able to find the kind of place i wanted to, and moved downtown instead. i like the new place. there's some issues but i hope they work out. if they don't, i'll have to see if i can maybe even buy a small house near the bridge.
unfortunately, i don't think i currently have the choice to pay $5 to bring my bike across from downtown and then bike around the long way to get home, like i used to. the city took that away. i would hope it's a ballot issue in the next city election.
i can come up with a million better ways to save money than cutting the tunnel bus. the city just wasted millions of dollars on a useless skating rink, and wastes millions of dollars every year on stupid christmas lights. these are things that could and should be cut in order to bring back the tunnel bus, which was a major benefit to living here that is far more valuable than stupid christmas lights.
this is deeply undemocratic, and consistent with the government's broad behaviour, including it's foreign policy. this government has demonstrated a broad level of contempt for the concept of democracy, both at home and abroad.
it's up to voters in toronto to make sure that the liberals lose these elections.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
i think that the americans have not sufficiently targeted the irgc or the iranian judiciary and need to escalate to get it done.
if they don't succeed in collapsing the state, i'll have to agree that this was a waste of money, self-defeating and pointless. it will make the americans look weak at a time when they need to demonstrate a show of hegemony but it will be due to a lack of political will rather than a lack of ability.
and, what to say of western democracies rushing to release oil reserves rather than move towards renewable energy sources and carbon transition? pathetic. i have no sympathy whatsoever for people bitching and complaining about the price of gas. there's an easy solution: stop burning carbon.
so, i mean, this is a shit show, and the media is just shitting on the shit show with a shit narrative advancing a shit worldview. it's shit all around, from every angle, from every source.
lebanon is a religious federation. it's constitution requires a specific proportion of christians, muslims and druze. the mass movement of muslims into the country (mostly from syria) in recent decades has upset that equilibrium and destabilized the political system. the country has already collapsed from the weight of this mass muslim migration.
they will have to go.
if you were to tell trudeau or freeland that people around the world don't respect them - don't respect their ability, their intelligence, their competence - they'd be likely to give you a pile of steaming bullshit about "dignity", and that's at the core of the problem. the entitlement that rich liberals feel for respect is a deplorable personality trait, and the american right is correct to spit in their face for it. you are not born entitled of respect in this world. respect is something that you earn, and if you don't earn it, you don't deserve it.
canada needs to stop bitching about dignity and start behaving in a way that commands more respect, and that begins by analyzing it's politics, to ensure it's not supporting fascist dictatorships and providing proper support to groups that are fighting to dismantle them.
in the short run, canada should understand that it is not commanding respect because it hasn't behaved in a way that is worthy of it.
no more aristocrats in the pmo. that's the lesson.
it's going to take time to rebuild our standing in the world.
mark carney claims that canada will not be involved in the liberation of iran from islamist barbarism, but it supports the process from the sidelines.
while the definition of 'involved' may be of some importance in understanding exactly what that means, all evidence in front of us is in line with this claim. this does not appear to be a nato operation and none of the nato countries, or contractors within them, seem to be invited to participate in the process. this appears to be a joint us-israel operation, with necessary logistic support from regional actors. neither the british nor the french were invited to take part in the operation, either. given the central role of the israelis, and israel's contempt for the carney government, i see little reason to expect that canada will be invited to participate, or that canadian firms will be allowed to bid on contracts. the government may be framing the issue as some kind of moral decision, but the blunt reality is pretty clearly that canada was not invited to participate and that there is no reason to expect that canada will be invited to participate in the near future, without a drastic change in the direction of the canadian government.
i would certainly not characterize that reality as beneficial to canada, to canadians or to canadian capital seeking to invest at home or abroad and powerful interests in canada may have something to say about this, as they appear to in france and britain. further, you'd have to have a pretty warped concept of morality to support sending massive amounts of ammunition to fight a war of attrition in ukraine, and not support a clear war of liberation in iran. the liberation of iran is an infinitely more morally grounded mission than the forcible ukrainian occupation of the novorossiya/donbas region of southern russia, which has been fighting a lengthy war of succession against kiev. if anything, the canadian government is demonstrating a unified doctrine that it opposes the principle of self-determination, because it thinks history is over, and the geopolitical map of the world is permanently set. holding to this extremely conservative worldview is going to backfire against canada, as nobody else has it; it sounds like splendid isolation, and that's what's going to happen if we stick to it.
canada's non-invitation to this particular action may not be particularly upsetting to many canadians, which i find disappointing. canadians should be in solidarity with iranians seeking to overthrow their fascist government and happy to participate in any action leading to that outcome. the canada that i grew up in would adopt a liberal internationalist position and have solidarity for iranian self-determination, not retreat to isolation and right-wing non-interventionism. but i see that many canadians are confused by the geographical proximity of iran to iraq and, due to their own ignorance of history, are allowing themselves to be easily misinformed in conflating the two very different countries with each other. the fact that so many canadians get their information from bad sources like twitter and facebook is not helpful. it is a trivial example, but jon stewart's dusting off of the mess'o'potamia meme, despite the fact that iran is simply not in any historical definition of mesopotamia at all but is a completely different geographical area with an entirely different ethnic group that speaks an entirely different language, is instructive of that confusion. it didn't bother many people. it's close enough, and people just don't want to educate themselves. it's easier to make dumb, ignorant and/or misinformed assumptions.
however, canada's non-invitation is also coming directly off of our snub of the gaza reconstruction process. there's a direction things are moving in, and it's towards canada getting cut out and canadian capital getting cut out. further, whether we participate in this action or not, it is unquestionably in our national interest that the united states demonstrate it is able to conduct this kind of operation, after the logistical failures in iraq. many naysayers and pessimists will point to iraq as a mistake being repeated and while i think this is ignorant and wrong, it's actually not the point. the point is that the united states, as the continuing unchallenged hegemonic power, needs to demonstrate to the world that it can learn from the mistakes it made in iraq by doing the job right this time. the israelis have demonstrated a higher level of competence in this regard but the americans need to be the ones showing the world they can do this right after all and that iraq was a blip rather than the establishment of a norm. i do not share the delusions of sovereignty held by my government; i understand that canadian security is dependent on america's ability to project power, and i don't fear that but seek to influence it.
the reasons the united states is bombing iran are dubious, but regime change in iran is a goal worth supporting and the kind of action that a good police man would carry out, if it had unlimited power. i believe canada's role should be to influence the united states through soft power and, to that extent, it should be to encourage it to carry out more revolutionary acts, and not less.
canada currently has no influence in washington at all and is not invited to anything. we don't get the memos. they don't respect our opinions. they don't ask; they're not interested, they don't care. this is the legacy of justin trudeau's focus on identity politics, and mark carney is not the right person to correct the problem. so, when carney says we're not involved, it is believable, because they don't respect us. they don't want us to be involved; they wouldn't call us as they don't see us as partners. we're cut out. this should cause us to question if we're moving in the right direction, and seek a course correction that is intended to restore the level of canadian influence that existed in washington in the post-war period.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
i'm really annoyed that i still cannot get a picture of jesse jackson's grave. i want to post it here with the ironic caption "common ground". but nobody will upload the jpg.
when gorbachev died, i couldn't believe my good fortune - it was open casket. but it took a while for me to get that picture of putin standing over the casket, so that i could scrawl glasnost in graffiti on the back.
it didn't take this long.
i will post it when i find it, i'm just worried i'm going to forget about it.
Monday, March 9, 2026
what's going on with me and my actual life? there have been no concert reviews here in years.
it seems like folk music became very popular after the pandemic. there's some logic in this. i'm not going to write an essay, but i don't want to pretend i don't get it. the borders shut down. they shuttered virtually all of the venues here for years. it opened up a vacuum, and this is the kind of thing that folk music is good at walking into as it creates a sense of "community". i think the reality is that this is a lot of bullshit, and drinking friends are not real friends (i've had too many...they surprise you periodically, but they don't give a fuck in the end), but it seems real enough in the absence of meaning, in the futility of existence, and i have no real prerogative to shatter the desperate delusions of people that have nothing else to live for. it's a closed loop, but it can sustain itself in the short run, until people start leaving and/or dying or more vibrant art starts to bomb it's way in. then, when real art needs a place to exist, you get the problem of trying to get rid of the folkies to open up space, and venues that are on your side or opposed to you. the folkies are like the kurds - they have no friends but the gutters. they always lose. but they never disappear.
my basic position is that folk music is boring and sucks, so it's a process of trying to find ways around it just for my own entertainment value and the maximization of my own self-interest and own utility function. i don't want to go to your folk show because i don't like folk music. it's kind of that simple. sorry. art scenes don't elevate themselves to folk scenes, they cave in and collapse into them. when all that is left is folk, your scene has hit rock bottom and needs to rebuild from scratch. but that also means trying to navigate around the 80s rock losers, who will invariably present themselves as the natural alternative, and are even worse. the dead dichotomy between boring 60s folk and cliched 80s rock is emblematic of the death of contemporary western culture and it's time capsuling in reagan v clinton. and, sure - you'd might as well just get a falafel and go to the festival at the mosque, instead. the messaging is borderline barbaric, and the politics are horrendous, but at least you're learning something about the world as it exists today, rather than getting lost in reliving the retro scenes of the past.
since we got unstuck in time in the 90s, art scenes everywhere have been fleeting, they come and go in short bursts. they're extremely fragile and subject to political whims and economic destruction, to inflation, to demographic shifts, to gentrification and to everything else in the ether. we can build temporary autonomous zones, and expect them to collapse.
detroit-windsor was actually doing pretty well until early 2020. the pandemic utterly annihilated the art scene here, and now all that is left is that boring dead dichotomy - 60s v 80s. death. emptiness. in windsor, the retro 60s folkies will always defeat the retro 80s rock losers. it's a union town. the hippies never died out, but they're at their end of life. and, then all that's left are the arabs, and whatever underground can eke itself out of the ooze.
my pandemic is just ending now, this spring. no shit. i had a false start in 2023, but my house got bought by these disgusting lesbians from toronto. i remain convinced that the sick lesbian perverts wanted to fuck the barbie doll tranny, and were shattered when i shaved my head in protest. in response, they tried to steal my gear and give it to some no-talent losers and failed. they tried to drug me with testosterone to actualize their creepy queer fantasies and failed. i had to lock myself inside for two two years, i move thrice to escape them and it cost me thousands of dollars that the broken court system has to this point failed to properly compensate me with. so i lost three further years on top of the three years lost in the pandemic.
this spring, everything is finally resolving itself. i have a new place that is way better. my financial situation is improving. my hormones are correcting and turning over. my hair has grown back. i'm almost ready to go.
what have i missed, since 2023, if not since 2020? the answer is not much, but folk. everywhere you look, it's folk; there's some 80 retro losers around still, and the arabs are more numerous than ever, but the local white culture is exclusively folk, now. everything else is gone - left, migrated, bankrupted, given up. venues are gone. people have left. it's a wasteland of apparent artistic emptiness that i'm going to have to rediscover from scratch and learn to renavigate. everything is gone. everything is new.
i know i missed some shows in detroit from 2020-2023 because the border was closed. i missed squarepusher, i missed son lux. that's the tip of it. but i had no option; there was no way to get back and forth. biden only re-opened the border in 2023, and i went over once in may, but then was forced to lock myself inside until march, 2025 due to the aggressive investors buying my rental and the vacancy rate n windsor being 0.5%. there was nowhere for rent at all, letalone anywhere to move that i could afford. i have spent the last year trying to rebuild, and twice evaded homelessness by a week via the seat of my pants, but they cancelled the tunnel bus, so i had no (affordable) way to detroit, anyways. i can't spend $200 crossing the border for a few hours of partying. that makes no sense for me to do.
in that time frame, promoters have disappeared and venues have closed and if i missed anything since 2023, i don't even know for sure what it was. all i can find in windsor is folk, which i think is boring and sucks. i've looked. unable to cross since they shut down the tunnel bus, i was actually largely unable to find much of anything worth going to in windsor. i skipped something here and there. there was a rave at the airport, apparently. i've largely been out of touch.
but i actually don't think i've missed so much.
i actually think the scene is d-e-d.
we're going to remember the 2020s as a lost decade, culturally. we didn't lose the 2020s because we were forced to by science, but because we decided to destroy our own economy. this self-inflicted wound will have consequences.
as it is, this region now has to rebuild, and it is different than it has been in previous eras. both detroit and toronto have historically been fertile artistic centres and what makes these cities - along with chicago, montreal, new york and seattle - different than los angeles has been the underground. detroit and toronto have not always been the center of mainstream north american society, but they have always maintained booming undergrounds - jazz, techno, punk, experimental, progressive/alternative, psychedelic, etc. you expect this here.
it's gone.
it must return and, when it does, it will need to reflect the demographic changes in the region. and this is a race against time. we need to westernize the immigrants before they despotize us.
so, i'm expecting to emerge like a phoenix this spring, but i'm walking into what is now a dead culture. detroit has nicer buildings than it used to, but that's a bad thing in terms of venues. the carnage is immense. i will document it as best as i can.
and as for windsor?
come to windsor.
book a show.
we need it.
right now, there's nothing here but a boring folk scene that i have no interest in except to continue to evade it.
it's almost summer here today. it's too bad i'm trapped in boring as fuck canada.
i live in the canadian suburb of detroit, but my idiot mayor cancelled the tunnel bus over. i don't have a car, but i shouldn't be driving in detroit, given why i'm going there, anyways. i used to take my bicycle over. am i supposed to stay here and get drunk in a bar in windsor and just stare at the wall? this city is boring as fuck. there's nothing worthwhile to do here, unless you're from the middle east.
so, i sure hope that bridge is open soon, so that i can bicycle over and go dancing in detroit again. it's been too long.
i hope that the tunnel bus is a ballot issue in our next city elections.
i don't accept the concept of a "supreme leader", or think some council somewhere has the right to make executive decisions. that's the fucking point. so, i don't accept the legitimacy of this moogabooga whatever as "supreme leader".
i don't have a plan. it's not up for the west to write a plan.
only the iranian people, through a legitimate democratic process, can determine their own system of government, and it's up to them to write their own fucking plan. when they have elected a leader, they can let us know. kurdish fighters are the most organized group for this purpose but they are not the only one.
no form of non-democratic governance is to be considered legitimate.
moogabooga should already be dead, but they should kill him instantly, and should kill any undemocratic replacement chosen for him. they should not negotiate. they should not try to make a deal. but, it is clear that they are doing that and want that outcome, and i don't support that process, that negotiation or that potential negotiated outcome.
i told you i support a revolution in iran ending with a secular, socialist, representative government and i meant that. i would not stop bombing until the obstructions are removed and the iranians are self-organizing, but i am not representing the same interests as the military forces that are in motion.
khalistani extremists are responsible for the worst act of terrorism in camadian history, the 1985 air india bombing. yet, they continue to maintain politically protected status in canada, by abusing minority rights status.
in canada, sikhs are a more elite group and more powerful force than jews are. they have a stranglehold on all three national parties.
and they get away with shit like this because of it.
i believe i met this person. i don't remember where or when.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
we're not bringing back the cold war and we're not going to live in a multi-faith society. those are failed ideas that the world is not bringing back. the generation that lived those ideas needs to just fucking die off and go away already.
we are going to continue on the march to militant global atheism, and a post-cultural, socialist globalist order.
all religions will be destroyed in the process.
all of these retarded baby boomers that want to bring back the cold war need to go fuck themselves and just go get mass assisted suicide already. we're overdue for the die off. hurry the fuck up and keel over.
russia is not our enemy.
our enemy is islam.
keep up with the fucking times, you useless old men.
the tactic i supported in iran was not to kill a few figureheads in a show of force to set an example and bully them around but to completely obliterate the entire fascist regime with the intent of creating a revolution by necessity, and the united states has to this point not carried through with that. the fact that the son of mr khamenei was not killed in the first wave of strikes in the first place is a failure of tolerance. this will not succeed if key members of the regime are allowed to survive in order to "make a deal", it has to be merciless and total, with the intent of wiping them off the map and forcing them to start from scratch.
to adopt a quote: the united states is the worst country in the world, except for all of those other countries in the rest of the world, which are way worse.
canadians made quite the effort to get full independence from europe, and we succeeded when we ratified our constitution for the first time, in 1982.
i am not interested in turning the clocks back. i would prefer to dissolve confederation altogether. ontario's future is in a new great lakes confederation, not in a return to european colonialism.
in that sense, i am in agreement with the monroe doctrine: europe has no place in the americas of the future. that is, i will choose to align with groups in this hemisphere to expel the europeans, and not with europeans to pick a fight with the americans.
but canada is very much the last colonial state and a substantive proportion of the people that live here continue to act like it.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
in all seriousness, if this pezeshkian guy is walking into the power vacuum, that would be a tremendous modernizing step forward. there should not be another "supreme leader" or another guardian council or any of that bullshit. they have an elected leader. the process is imperfect, but where isn't it?
this is not ideal. the state needs to be destroyed and rebuilt, and this will happen in the long run, regardless.
in the short run, the best thing that could happen would be for the elected representatives to do away with the theocracy by acting as caretakers.
i actually don't think kristi noem should be forced to answer questions about who she's fucking at a senate hearing. that's not relevant. those senators should be ashamed of themselves, and i hope they face the wrath of their voters for it.
the democratic caucus will just need to wait for the secretary to release the footage via pornhub or onlyfans or however they do it nowadays (i actually have no idea) like everybody else.
Friday, March 6, 2026
Thursday, March 5, 2026
yeah, i'd actually like to supplement my cereal a little with some oatmeal and an apple, but the backwards, depressing and dystopic reality in 2026 is that i can't find any oatmeal with any kind of vitamin added to it because the oligopoly has removed it, because we made it voluntary.
our stupidity will have limits that we will need to push back against to stop our society from collapsing.
mandatory food fortification is one of them.
i was doing some grocery shopping online today and stopped to look up some instant oatmeal. instant oatmeal is not a part of my normal diet, but it's a regular part of food bank pickups, and i got used to eating it last year. i've long been aware that fortified cereal is the only feasible way for me to get key minerals, and picked out vector and all bran (two of the more fortified brands) for that reason. the instant oatmeals have substantive amounts of iron and b vitamins.
or so i thought, and until recently.
after looking into it, i just learned that quaker oats has caved to public pressure in removing "weird chemicals" from it's oatmeal. apparently, a concerned group of millennials took a good look at the ingredient list, couldn't pronounce any of it and demanded quaker oats remove these weird chemicals.
the weird chemicals were fortified vitamins.
quaker oats has completely defortitifed it's products due to public pressure.
now, this is particularly egregious due the fact that the purpose of grains is fortification. "whole grains" are mostly a scam because you can't really digest most of them. fortified cereals solved a wide variety of health issues in north america, including widespread vitamin deficiencies. this is going to literally render large swaths of the continent retarded if it isn't addressed.
cereal fortification apparently became voluntary at some point relatively recently. it was never voluntary before; these were mandatory public health requirements, to ensure poor kids were getting enough brain development not to be potentially violent, at the least.
if these stupid milennials didn't understand the ingredients, quaker oats certainly did, and it should be publicly condemned for such a cynical reaction.
we need an immediate return to mandatory fortification requirements, clearly.
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