The real question

 

If evolution is true, why are there still humans?

Worse than normal

 

At least they weren´t Turbo Normies!

This TikTok situation is amazing, I mean I learn new words all the time. The latest is "Turbonormie" or "Turbo Normie". It seems to mean the same thing as "NPC". Here is Urban Dictionary: 

>>>A Normie who is even more stupid than a normal normie. Turbo normies have little-to-no critical thinking skills and will do whatever the mainstream media tell them to. They do not have opinions of their own, only what the television or newspaper tells them. The only thing worse than a turbo normie is an uber-normie.>>>

The point being that TikTok users are said "Turbo Normies". Funny, I assumed TikTok users were a bit strange, I mean *I* don´t use TikTok do I now, but it seems I haven´t been around Normies for a very very long time...

Countdown

 

- Where´s the path to Washington DC? 
 I don´t want to miss the inauguration for the world!

The inauguration of Donald Trump as POTUS is set to happen tomorrow. Let´s see if I got this about right...

Trump promised the Israeli lobby 110% support for Israel´s war in Gaza. Instead, they got a ceasefire agreement which doesn´t seem to dislodge Hamas. 

Trump promised opponents of immigration mass deportations. Instead, they will get more speedy deportations of criminal immigrants only, plus continued legal guest worker immigration.

Trump promised (I think) a TikTok ban. Instead, he is now trying to save TikTok from *Biden´s* ban?!

Trump promised the crypto-Russian lobby to end the war in Ukraine in one day (sic). Instead, he now says it may take six months. One of his associates call on Ukraine to conscript more soldiers, another says he wants more sanctions on Russia.

Trump promised the Alt Right to pardon those who participated in J6. Now, Vance is saying that only those who didn´t participate in violent acts will be pardoned.

Trump was widely believed to oppose Mike Johnson and favor Matt Gaetz. Now, Gaetz has left the building, while Johnson is still House Speaker! 

However, before even taking office, Trump and/or his associates have triggered real or potential diplomatic rows with the following nations: Denmark, Canada, the United Kingdom, Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras. Note that three of these are close US allies and members of NATO!

Not sure if this counts as real change we can believe in, but I suppose we´ll see.

At least we got more free speech on Facebook, so we can call him out on it, if that´s what we want to do...

Well, I think.   

  

Normie genocide

 

People on X who support the TikTok ban call it "Normie genocide" or "Midwit Holocaust". Here is one contribution: "I was against the TikTok ban, but seeing all these normies freak out has made me totally change my mind. Go Biden!"

It seems Dark Brandon went out with a bang, after all.  

Sveket från Hanna Fahl

 

Hanna Fahl (!) om Neil Gaiman. Har egentligen aldrig brytt mig om Gaiman tidigare, antagligen för att jag i det stora hela inte läser fantasy och gothic horror. Insåg dock att jag faktiskt hört talas om "Coraline" tidigare och även funderade på att köpa boken mest för att kolla vad det var. Och ja, det är tydligen Gaiman som skrivit den.

En annan sak jag reagerat på är den påstådda kopplingen mellan Gaiman och scientologerna, som dock aldrig nämnts i svenska medier. Gaiman själv säger sig inte ha sådana (förutom att hans föräldrar tillhörde den kontroversiella gruppen), medan andra hävdar motsatsen. 

Mycket rykten om stödköp av Gaimans romaner från scientologicenter, fejkade recensioner på olika sajter skrivna av scientologer, etc. Man undrar förstås också om hans världsbild är präglad av scientologi? Gotisk skräck verkar dock inte riktigt vara Hubbards grej...

Det finns förresten kritiker av Gaiman som hävdar att han plagierat sitt magnum opus "The Sandman" från en kvinnlig författare! Se den andra länken (på engelska). Den går till en blogg på allra yttersta högerkanten som refererar ett Facebook-inlägg. Har dock inte tillgång till Facebook, så ni får hålla till godo med denna länk.     

Det är en uråldrig historia

"Considerable disdain for him"

2025 mindset

 

The whole TikTok refugee thing is "so 2025", and we´re not even a month into the new year yet. So TikTok users - who presumably deny that the Chinese ownership of TikTok is a national security threat - respond to the American ban on the app by migrating to a heavily censored China app named after Chairman Mao´s Red Book which actually may be a real security threat?!

I know this isn´t really a joke (cyber surveillence and ditto terrorism are a thing) but I can´t help laughing. Note also the bizarre irony that it was Biden who banned the app (you know, the POTUS referred to as "China Joe" by Trump supporters), while Trump is trying to save it?! Presumably, because one of the *American* owners gave a hefty campaign contribution to the very same Donald.

RedNote, by contrast, seems entirely owned and controlled by some mainland ChiCom front operation. The end of the world has never been more fun to watch!

Americans get first taste of Chinese censorship

US TikTok addicts flock to "Little Red Book"

Called it

 

-TCO´s? Here in Maine?!
Surely, you´re joking?!

Years ago, I argued with a left-wing radical who called for the legalization of "soft drugs" (marijuana). His argument was that legalizing it would be a blow to the crime gangs currently in control of the international drug trade. I argued that the crime gangs would simply take over the *legal* trade, too! 

We now have the receipts. 

Maine admits licensing transnational criminal organizations to grow marijuana 

Förmedling

 

Lars Borgnäs förmedlar sig till juristkårens förhandenvarande medvetande. Jag vet inte om huvudproblemet med den nuvarande kampanjen är att den utsår misstro mot "rättsstaten", men man kanske måste skriva så för att få en debattartikel publicerad i Dagens Juridik? Har länkat tidigare till en längre artikel av samma skribent.   

"SVT göder misstro mot rättsstaten"

Dark Flow

 

It´s becoming increasingly obvious (to this blogger at any rate) that the scientists don´t really know shit about the origins or real make-up of the universe. It´s hypotheses at best, speculations at worst (and most).

So why have we been led to believe otherwise, in countless of books and documentaries, written by the scientists themselves? I mean, it´s almost as if the scientists are the New Priesthood of Modernity.

Oh, that´s why. 

It´s myth (almost) all the way down. Well, at least we can be sure of one thing: our ancestors really were a bunch of ape-men. For whatever reason, cosmological hubris was a succesful survival strategy among australopiths on the East African savannahs 3 million years ago. 

Or maybe that´s just another myth...

Ingen aning

 

Jag, begrundandes mitt bloggande

Har ingen aning om hur mitt bloggande kommer att utvecklas under 2025. Det känns som att jag behöver något slags nyorientering, men jag har ingen aning om vad det skulle kunna vara för något...

Känner mig lite som en Tiktok-flykting, faktiskt.