“All [young people in America] know that a lot more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis. And I tell them what Arafat walked away from, and they, like, can’t believe it,” said the former commander-in-chief.

in fact, they've been conditioned to accept that outcome as the eventual terms of peace.

when young people say they're in solidarity with palestine, what they mean is they support oslo, they support camp david. they think that's what "palestine" wants.

....because they get information from tv shows, or from social media. they don't read books.

it's an early sign of idiocracy.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-clinton-young-americans-shocked-to-learn-arafat-turned-down-palestinian-state/

was clinton's proposal reasonable?

sure.

would clinton's proposal have been in the self-interest of most "palestinians"?

yes.

but they didn't support it. and by standing in front of an audience and repeating support for clintonian proposals in historical israel in 2026, you are not standing in solidarity with any muslim group in the region, you are articulating a now very dated american policy proposal that they have firmly and repeatedly rejected.

conversely, if you are standing in front of an audience and legitimately standing in solidarity with the muslim political entities in historical israel, you are necessarily calling for the end of israel. that's what they are fighting for. that's what solidarity means. 

which is it?

it's the former, in 99% of situations, and the actual issue is that the performer doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about, not that they're politically aligned with hamas. they're not politically aligned or in solidarity with anybody except themselves, and the irony would be that they'd be enforcing a colonial model on a muslim population that is resistant to it, and is only really supported by liberal jews.

they're in solidarity with noam chomsky and norman finkelstein and naomi klein (abstractly if not actually), not with any contemporary muslim entity in historical israel.

there has never been any organized "palestinian" political movement that has ever accepted the existence of israel. every single muslim political entity in historical israel since 1948 has firmly rejected the existence of an israeli state and argued for a single muslim state in historical israel, to be populated almost entirely by indigenous hebrews who have been converted to islam in the last 300 years, and mostly in the last 150 years.

it's ok if you support that. i would disagree with you, but you have the right to reject the existence of israel, if you were honest about it and fully understood what you were claiming to be in solidarity with.

but, unfortunately, almost nobody in the west understands what they are saying when they repeat these slogans and when challenged on the point they universally expose that they are supporting the clintonian model that had absolutely zero support from muslims in the 90s and has absolutely zero support from muslims today.

white people need to drop the support for clintonian solutions. he was a well educated, smooth talking failure, and all he's taught us since is that he was a bigger creep than we thought he was. let's move on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1nlbqvx/why_was_the_2000_statehood_offer_unacceptable_to/

it would seem as though the individual really means to talk about a free irelend rather than a "free palestine".

as is the case, generally, when entitled, rich white people talk about this issue, they don't represent the viewpoints of actual people living in historical israel - not the converted hebrews, certainly, who overwhelmingly support driving israel into the ocean. there is essentially nobody in the region, which is roughly the size of new jersey, that wants two states.

new jersey is pretty small. a lot of people in new jersey would rather join new york. could you imagine splitting new jersey not just into two states but into two countries? ignoring the logistical problems on the ground - there is no infrastructure in which to build a state with - the amount of space being talked about doesn't seem to really be well understood when rich white people run their mouths off about it. for that reason, there is some logic in the reality that nobody supports two states. the area is arguably too small for one state, whatever the religion.

the clintonian solution worked in ireland, but ireland isn't israel. the indigenous hebrew population in historical israel is not very similar to the indigenous celtic population in ireland. clinton's solution to the problem in the area has proved resilient amongst entitled white people, and remains popular in the west thirty years on, but it was rejected by the "palestinians" at the time and it remains rejected by the "palestinians" today.

if macklemore speaks for anybody, he speaks for a disappearing and aging class of liberal american jews, not for "palestinians" (hebrews converted to islam by arabic colonialism, and mostly only actually over the last 150 years) living in historical israel.

that said, i don't think it's helpful to ban musicians and i would not ban the person from performing at my venue, if i owned one. i might seek an audience and try to talk some sense into him and correct him on points he's wrong about, instead. the united states once was a historical bright point of debate and free discourse. problems are not resolved via censorship.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sheeran-macklemore-tour-9.7345034

i don't think that an elite female athlete, if hired as a spokesperson for the gambling company, would succeed in selling a lot of product to the demographic being targeted to buy it.

there would really seem to be some entitlement issues at play.

and ms. sweeney has no responsibility to give the slightest fuck about them.

ms. sweeney is a model. maybe she's also a bad actress, but she's not an athlete. 

she's selling a gambling product to the kind of older men that also buy pornography and/or go to strip clubs. the demographic that is being targeted tends to like thin blonde women with large breasts, and tends to have little to no interest in women's sports.

the typical target audience for the ad would be perfectly represented by the now historical television character of al bundy.

she doesn't have a responsibility to represent female athletes and the suggestion that she does isn't fair to her or what her job is, here. the criticism from female athletes has no relevance whatsoever to her job as a model in the ad and is in truth outright absurd.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-sports-ad-9.7342823

this is from june.

i finished in the bedroom in early july and sealed up most of the laundry a little after that, with a blog post on july 31st, but i didn't do a second update video in late july. i had issues with my vacuum and did some work in the front instead. there are videos made that were intended for my landlord but they won't be uploaded to this playlist.

i think i should have done a video at that time, but i've also been mostly naked inside for months and i was waiting to finish things that took longer than intended. i ultimately think i forgot or otherwise put it off and never got back to it.

what i describe in the update vid is pretty different from what i did.

i'm going to do another steam mop run in the very front of the bathroom tonight or tomorrow morning (i'm not paying electrical but it's cheaper over night) and will make a combined update video, split into two, once i decide how to best clothes myself in the short run.

it's going to be quite the long term project but i have the shelf and floor space dedicated to it in this apartment. 

there are two lists of books that i'm going to be filling in, slowly:

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/dgdgkdhldfjlfdhla/readbutunowned

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/dgdgkdhldfjlfdhla/booksthatdisappeared

both of those lists are partial right now and will continue to get filled out as i sort through essays i wrote and course syllabi over many years. another source of texts will be this blog which, if printed, would come in several thousand page volumes and is going to take a while to organize into a linear order. i've posted several lengthy research projects to this site that have involved reading quite a few online texts.

i was not able to get a list of books checked out at carleton because the server for the library crashed between 2013 and the time i asked, which i think was 2019ish. they lost all of the data before the crash. my records are incomplete. i checked at least 1000 books out of the library, and that doesn't include the ones i read in the library and never took home.

this will never be comprehensive but i'm aiming for 80% of a total read list.

i just bought the scarlet letter and the island of dr moreau, both for less than $10. at $20/month for now, and maybe $50/month when i'm done buying furniture, it will slowly rebuild, but i also need to direct it towards texts for the journal project, first.

the cds will fill in soon, too.

i'm currently scouring old drives for signs of a book list from 2002/2003 or from 2011, which are key maximal points. i currently only have two versions of one book list, from 2005/2006, and it's missing a huge amount of texts. i am sure these lists existed, but i'm having trouble locating one.

trump just appears to be annoyed by the suggestion that he has to act quickly in the middle east. he wants to demonstrate control by taking his time, but it's blown up in his face.

the lesson is that you need to act swiftly and decisively in this region. you cannot dither. you cannot meander. you cannot fuck around.

had they swiftly taken the iranian state out, a lot of these problems would have been resolved. had they been more aggressive with the houthis, it would have made a difference. and etc.

my body had a hard hiccup on thursday afternoon. i don't know exactly what happened yet, but i was drugged - hard - at some point, either via some ingredient of the pasta i ate on wednesday afternoon/thursday morning or via somebody getting in here and drugging me while asleep. 

there were unusual marks on my thigh and on my chin but i don't know if they're symptoms or causes. i'm leaning towards the former.

as was the case previously, it's not ambiguous. i resisted it at first, but it's clear i was drugged hard on thursday and may have been drugged with weaker doses a few times leading up to thursday, in amounts that were less clear and not very effective. but what happened on thursday was clear. activity picked up heavily after an extremely disappointing order by an extremely ignorant adjudicator at the ltb in early august, who was not able to read a graph. i'm certain it's the same people, who have followed me here.

if this ends in violence, the court will have to own up to it's series of blatantly ignorant mistakes. i give no credit to the opposing arguments. i'm dealing with overtly discriminatory judges that appear to have been put in place on purpose. the result is a court system with no credibility, and that deserves no respect and no deference.

i was sleeping with my windows open because it was nice out and i like sleeping with the windows open when it's nice out. i sealed all of the screens up early in the summer and actually put chain locks on the windows in the bedroom. somebody could get through these if they were insistent but i would be able to tell if they did. as there's no signs of entry, i don't think anybody actually got through the windows and inside the apartment. however, i've been noticing for a while that there's signs of somebody coming up towards the window in terms of garbage left outside it and other things of the sort. i do remember waking up with something on my cheek and not being convinced it was saliva, but not being sure quite what to do. 

i think they might have sprayed something through the window. it's not the first time i've thought that, either. yes, they are apparently that pitiful and that pathetic. and i don't fully understand what they want. 

this is partly why i sealed the laundry up on saturday, although i don't think that's the entrance point. there's no sign of entry through there. there was sign of entry through the side, previously, but hasn't been for a while.

when they manage to get something into my system, it will clear within 6-12 hours. it's a very short, intense, annoying feeling of being high on something i don't want to be on and don't enjoy being on, but my kidneys will clear it out almost immediately. this is the point they don't seem to understand. they think they're curing me of something and that they're going to clear a pathogen if they force me to take the right "medicine". they don't understand that i'm castrated and that my body removes injected testosterone as a foreign substance, because that is what it is. while the drugs clear fast, the side effects can linger for a variable period that depends on how intense the drugging was. as of monday morning, i felt the remaining side effects had lifted and cleared and i was feeling and looking relatively normal again. the intensity and briefness of the effect, combined with my medical history, makes it clear that i'm being drugged.

however, the drugging on thursday was heavy - heavier than it's been in over a year - and i subsequently had to spend the weekend in the bathroom washing off the side effects, which are best described as vicious acne. it's brutal zits. i don't get it. i don't understand what they're trying to do. my weight has fluctuated in confusing ways, as well. but the over-riding direction is that i'm losing weight and this is what will determine outcomes regardless of the drugs, which are frustrating and annoying but of minimal actual consequence. the acne will have an even more minimal effect once i get that extra little bit of weight off.

i've been hovering around 135 since i bought some fruit at the end of august. fruit clears so fast that i wasn't as interested in the algorithm and was eating through it quickly to stop it from rotting in the fridge. i didn't lose weight over the last two weeks, but didn't gain any either. i'm still at 135. that should start falling again this week as i shift to salsa and bring in the minimum meals.

for obvious reasons, i need to prevent them from getting in here again. the weather is cooling, so the windows should mostly be closed. i don't see how else they could get in, or how else they could spray me from outside. i don't see any other signs of entry.

after sealing it up on saturday, i spent sunday cleaning the laundry and doing a general monthly clean (a little late) in the laundry (including doing laundry), the bathroom and kitchen. i set up the new shop vac that came in on the 21st on saturday morning for the first time (because i was working outside for the last week of august and rebuilding the reference library shelf for the first week of september) and it's actually a lot more powerful than the one that exploded a few weeks ago and really picked up a lot of the dirt. i also ran my new combo spin  scrubber / steam mop for the first time this morning and it's certainly helping get the rest of the dirt off. 

it's truly hard to get your head around just how dirty this place was when i moved in. it's like 150 years old and it's been updated but it hasn't been cleaned well in probably 30 years and it had rodents, roaches, ants and anything else you could imagine. now it's totally gone.

the decrease in temperature outside has my high lumen led lights running at full power again. this, combined with the three prong attack of the new shop vac, the usb spin scrubber for tighter spaces and the spin scrubber / steam mop has the place feeling truly clean for the first time since i moved in last year.

this is tedious stuff, but it means that i'm back where i started when i made those rooms of the house videos, and that there will be a few more videos uploaded soon to explain the progress i've made in those two rooms, particularly. there's been progress in other rooms, too, but we're going through the space in order, and the kitchen is the next space to finish up, as i put aside cash over the next four months for the rdsp.

while it would not be very likely that ai is going to go rogue and kill us all (i'll state again that the issue being brought up is not an ai transcending it's programming, it's a programming error that nobody wants to admit. it's easily fixable. the ai did not disobey it's programming. the ai did what it was told.), it is in the realm of plausibility that a shift towards fascism/feudalism as a result of automation, if we fail to build the right political movement to direct the shift in the mode of production towards communism, might result in a capitalist overclass that wants to just wipe the excess proletariat out. that is, if the capitalists don't need the workers anymore, they might decide the world has too many useless eaters in it and just wipe the bulk of the proletariat out. the result may be a large reduction of the population, rather than extinction. i could make up numbers. 70%. 80%.

while that would result in a lot of dead people, everybody dies anyways, and it would not be a bad thing overall if it leads to a better life for the survivors. no, i'm not volunteering. but i'm not interested in religious ideologies like the sanctity of life. it may be a necessary step to maintain sustainability and stop producing so much pollution.

and it would, by definition, end capitalism, as there would be no more proletariat left to steal labour from.

because they're all dead.

the most serious concern to human life on this planet is carbon emissions, not ai or automation, and every second spent worrying about ai is a second that is wasted on not worrying about climate change.

but automation may lead to conditions that reduce emissions and i would ultimately support that, albeit in the most humane way it can be done. i'm not much interested in a dictatorship of the proletariat, either, i just want the abolition of coerced labour (wage/chattel slavery) and the abolition of inequality/class. the fascist approach of just shooting everybody is less desirable but is better than the status quo of runaway population growth, in the long run. that's not sustainable.

i would prefer something like mass sterilization. but wealth redistribution and education for women, together, seem to minimize growth rates on their own, without the need to carry out the procedures.

that being said...

the current population of the earth is far too high. the immense amount of global over-population on this planet is the primary cause of runaway carbon emissions, climate change, deforestation, food insecurity, pandemics and a spate of other interrelated problems. to maintain a sustainable population, and a free society where we have food security and enough resources for everybody to live freely, we need to cut our population at least in half and then severely curtail population growth. i am in favour of a global population between 1 and 2 billion people.

these luddite fake leftist idiots are not allies of communism, they are enemies of it, and they will unfortunately need to be fought against - perhaps violently - to institute the revolution in the mode of production brought on by the shift to automaton through ai.