baghdad is basically built on top of babylon (after it was renamed a few times in between by greeks and persians), which is very old, but the city has been destroyed and rebuilt a dozen times.

the most recent city was rebuilt after the year 1300.

this is a newer city than rome, constantinople, london, paris or even berlin.

you'll often hear people from the middle east say stupid things like that their culture is 7000 years old. 

that's wrong - it's ignorant and it's false.

there were no arabs anywhere outside of the desert until about the year 700 and the society they built on the top of the roman-persian wars and the devastation of the plague was wiped out by the mongols and the turks.

the current civilization in the middle east is barely 100 years old. it cannot be traced back before the first word war.

the area has a history of repeated collapse because their religion is horrifically destructive. i don't know if it's cultural or genetic, but religion constantly destroys everything in the region, and the current period will be no different.

the reality is that no society or culture in the region has lasted more than 200 years since the fall of the sumerians. it's been constant war over god ever since, and they've been constantly targeted by outsiders and wiped out because they've constantly been arrogant shitheads to everybody else, which is no less true now than ever.

if the americans got up and left, they'd be killing each other again in five minutes.

the societies with the brightest futures are the ones in temperate climates, like russia.

the gcc has a few years of oil left and a dwindling customer base at that. it's already a desert, but it's becoming uninhabitable. if living in that region hasn't already been like living in hell for the last 1300 years, it's going to be a hell on earth soon enough.

if there was a god, it would wipe these people out. that they haven't been wiped out yet is proof that there is no god.

but it is fitting and appropriate that the gcc will suffer some of the most powerful effects of climate change, to the point that the region is uninhabitable. they are going to starve to death, and die of dehydration, and the world will not help them - the world should not help them.

when they're out of oil, the americans will pull out and let them kill each other, or bomb a few of them back into the sand they recently came from.

they have no future. their civilizational collapse and complete destruction is imminent - they've got 25 years, max, before they completely collapse. it will be a good day in the history of the world when they're gone.

the article describes indonesia as a democracy.

that's hilarious.

indonesia is one the most brutally repressive theocracies in the world, with no concept of human rights, and an economy built on literal child slavery.

it's a society that god would smite from the face of the earth with a nuclear blast, if god wasn't a foolish figment of our primitive imagination.

further, they're sitting on an important trade route.

there will be a war there at some point in the not distant future, and i will be on the side that seeks to destroy them.

these are the enemies of western civilization, of democracy and of human rights, and we are going to be at war with them in the near future, as the clash of civilizations plays out.

the united states is extremely likely to fight a war against indonesia in the next 50 years and will be almost certain to fight a war against the gcc in the next 20 years.

the americans really shouldn't give a fuck what the repressive muslim regimes in the world think. they're going away. they'll be gone, soon.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/embassy-cables-detail-how-iran-war-is-hurting-the-us-abroad-00877205

yeah, there's something i don't want to know about going on up there.

i made the right choice to keep the doors shut until tomorrow at the earliest, maybe monday or tuesday.

they cannot be on the property past tomorrow. i need to get a handle on the surroundings after that and make some choices.

i think it sounds like it's going to be the immigrant family on the main floor, which i believe found itself addicted to meth sold by the evicted tenant, that's going to take the brunt of this. i suspect they spent rent money on drugs. they don't know their legal rights. but that's the game - you get them hooked, then you get them in debt in order to turn them into slaves. that's how drug commerce works. it's chemical-induced dependence slavery, and one of the prime economic values is in the slaves it creates.

there's nothing i can do except wait.

canada is cool if you're a banker. i guess.

this is not what canada wants right now and will not help us adjust to the future. this is either a four year economic plan or a five year economic plan (i spent years asking conservatives if the economic action plan was a four or five year plan and they never answered me so i still don't know) to compete under american hegemony, in a time frame where we should be rapidly nationalizing and onshoring. canada should be using tools like the bank of canada to ensure our productive capacity is canadian owned, not encouraging investment by shady actors in europe or the middle east, which are likely to find themselves enmeshed in the growing world war.

increasing foreign investment is not cool and is not in canada's self-interest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/armstrong-invest-in-canada-summit-carney-9.7166810

i'm hearing complaints from local indigenous groups that the gordie howe bridge is an example of cultural appropriation and should be renamed the hello gordie bridge instead.

i was joking. this is satire.

i mean, i'm half serious.

but don't take me fucking seriously.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/hegseth-compares-trump-hating-reporters-to-enemies-of-jesus/