Liverpool football club are in dire straits.

 As a diehard Liverpool fan this kills me to say it but we look terrible at present. This from a comment I wrote on an Anfield Agenda youtube video.

My biggest concern, as Craig (owner of the channel) indicated several weeks ago, centers around the dressing room environment. It looks fractured. The players clearly didn't respond to Slot's half-time talk v City or Forest in a meaningful manner. If slot has lost the dressing room then he has to go. If the players still resperct he then at least you have something to build on. The chief problem on the field though is the defence. It is an absolute shambles. We have conceded two or more goals in 8 of the 12 league fixtures. If Slot cannot fix this ny returning to the basics ASAP he will have to go.

I also wrote this elsewhere.

Liverpool's defence lacks a sense of urgency. They almost appear at times to play at a testimonial pace and I say this as a diehard Liverpool fan. Forest on the other handed defended as though their lives were on the line. No chemistry in the back four as is the case with the rest of the team.

Antisemitic tunnel vision

In 2024 the US Federal budget stood at $6750 billion. Aid to Israel was 3.3 billion of which well over $2 billion had to be spent in the US (on American military items). Therefore the aid to Israel makes up less than 0.05% of the US Federal budget. But hey, according to some it is the Israel lobby that has the greatest impact on the US

Reflections XXIII - Saturday musings

Chinese leadership is loyal to the party not the state and even less so to the people. The party is the God. Western observers rarely understand this which explains the shock it sensed with the Tiananmen Square Massacre and before that the Cultural Revolution.

We need to articulate and celebrate Western exceptionalism for it has been leading driver in the advancement of science, commerce, the legal system and the war against poverty.

Great societies need people of vision. Inventions don’t matter much if you don’t have people with clear ideas who can utilize them with efficacy.. A competitive free market selects for such vision.

We can be certain of change but not certain of the direction of change.

If Japan can turn its falling birth rate around without the destructive resort to mass immigration it will emerge once again as a force to be reckoned with. A leader who prioritizes this will become the saviour of the nation. The same is true of South Korea.

Taking comfort in lies seems to be a unique human trait. So is parroting those lies.

Nick Fuentes is not a troll. He is far worse than that.

A recurring thought.............Nick Fuentes is not trolling and he knows how to build a base. He genuinely believes what he says and will not budge. Jews to him are detestable as they represent the establishment in his warped worldview. Dave Smith tried to push him to modify his rhetoric and he point blanc told him that it will never happen.

In short Fuentes is extremely dangerous. He is the right wing mirror image of ANTIFA and is as anti-Liberal as you can get. His growth on the political front will not portend well for society. Tough times ahead.

Reflections XXXII - Saturday Sumizing

 

The most common mistake in science is to confuse a scientific model with the real itself. This is the main pitfall of digitized thinking.

Alternative histories are fun to play around with but can only be taken so far as no progressions are linear, unforeseen events are ever present and pathways of alternatives are constantly emerging.

Europe is struggling right now to age with dignity. Its moral soul is being picked apart by both internal and external forces.

An assured way to kill a society is to dominate the politics with an overriding sense of guilt. It is such a poison that is killing the west.

Most people don’t know the facts what they subscribe to is cultivated version of the facts.

One rarely gains anything from a formal debate. This is understandable as it prejudices rhetorical victory over meaningful understanding of truth.

Nations decline when they fail to appreciate the many downsides of Empire. Limitations exit for a reason.

Materialism is ultimately grounded in the very concept of lack of meaning which explains why its unfulfilling Physicality which defines much of science is bounded.

On Ukraine v Russia

I am not pro-Ukraine or pro-Russia. I am pro-West. Jews have been at the receiving end of Ukrainian nationalism which was particularly virulent during WWII. The horrors of Babi Yar (and Banderism) sickens me. However the Ukraine is a sovereign nation and I cannot pretend to ignore that. What Russia did in invading the country was wrong. 

Did the west make a mistake in expanding NATO? Yes and no. I think the desire was to avoid the same mistake that allowed an Iron curtain to descend over Eastern Europe following World War II. However I can see why the Russians don't like this. Yes the Zelensky regime is corrupt but so is the Russian. I am not a fan of Zelensky personally but Putin is more of a global threat. Russia and before that the Soviet Union has been undermining the US for many decades now. 

Duganism is now the latest incarnation of the threat. Conservatives falling for Putin as he puts on an 'anti-Woke' face ought to be careful. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. People should stop being so easily duped by words.

GOP is tearing itself apart.

If the GOP doesn't get its house in order for 2028 it will lose the Independent voter and with that the Presidency, Senate and House. Vance looks to be the likely candidate but on the national level every election comes down to a tightrope walk in key swing states. The only positive is that the Dems aren't doing themselves a favour by their march leftward. US Firsters are biggest gift to the Dem Party.