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To assess governance in developed liberal democracies, you need to ask ‘Compared to what?’ Third World democracies and semi-democracies are comically governed, with politicians rarely s…| SovietMen
Left Vs Right As Bickering Backseat Kids And like bickering couples and backseat kids, stuck together in a society but eager to takedown their rival, left and right have been getting very good at figuring out what will bother the other side, especially the more numerous and powerful moderates on the other side. People often […]| SovietMen
I know a guy who has reached the age of 61 and recently married a woman, so he’s starting to think about achieving financial stability. Up to now he just has some cash saved in bank accounts, no investments as such, because something something Aristotle. With a BA in Philosophy and many years experience as […]| SovietMen
Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say Multiple sources including a Trump administration official have revealed to The Grayzone that Kirk personally visited Trump inside the White House to lobby him against attacking Iran. Trump “roared” at Kirk, one said, and shut down the conversation. Don’t Be the Guy Someone’s […]| SovietMen
Power is like heroin. One little bit and you’re hooked. For some people, at least. We can grasp how dictators go mad – the paranoia, the real and deadly threats posed by enemies, the lack of honest feedback, the lady bodyguards with benefits, the obsequiousness from everyone around. What amuses me more is those people […]| SovietMen
I was once a member of a mainstream political party. Why? I don’t know. I was young, open to new things. I wasn’t rusted on to this particular party. I was actually further left than th…| SovietMen
So … is AI writing any good? …. PART 2! Below are 8 pieces of flash fiction, all of them ~350 words. All of them were written to the prompt: “write a piece of fiction based on ‘a demon'” – for the AI there were additional very brief suggestions concerning tone &/or setting to generate […]| SovietMen
Every so often, a newspaper runs a sob story about prison conditions. The reader wonders what exactly the dissatisfied crim did to get there, and the writer never tells us. Thus it is with this article: Shocking new claims about lockdowns, suicide attempts and ‘green water’ at Melbourne prison Ashleigh Chapman is pacing back and […]| SovietMen
Daniel Andrews [remember him?] is under fire for his appearance alongside dictators and autocrats in China The question nearly everyone — Labor friend or foe — is asking is, why would Daniel Andrew…| SovietMen
The trouble with people living in WEIRD countries is, we don’t know how WEIRD we are. WEIRD stands for Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. Many countries have some of the…| SovietMen
Imagine the home of a middle-class family in a Third World country. Their high-volume karaoke suddenly stalls and mum checks the laptop. Correctly, she starts deleting some of the dozens of video f…| SovietMen
YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality Something seemed off in one of his recent posts, but he could barely tell the difference. “I thought, ‘am just I imagining things?'” It turns out, he wasn’t. In recent months, YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people’s videos […]| SovietMen
Do you think you’re right about everything? Of course, my reader is too smart to fall for that. Nobody’s right about everything and to say otherwise is hubris. One ought to be open-mind…| SovietMen
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.Elbert Hubbard Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.Confucius I …| SovietMen
Aboriginal group claims legalising pepper spray will deepen racial divide The NT government this week announced a 12-month trial allowing members of the public to carry low-percentage Oleoresin Cap…| SovietMen
Some readers take umbrage at my criticism of American leaders, so please take heart at how much worse ours are in Australia. Being an island nation dependent on international trade, Australia’…| SovietMen
The kerfuffle about the statistics lady sacking reminds me: Trump is not very smart. He has a genius in some areas – his tweets are works of art – but overall he’s unread, incurio…| SovietMen
Understanding The Blob Imagine if the Church of Scientology had infiltrated the government. Members got positions in the administrative state and the political system. They then directed money to o…| SovietMen
I’ve been thinking for some time that Trump reminds me of someone, and no, not the failed artist. But who? The other day, it came to me:| SovietMen
