Sirens are screaming and the fires are howling, so it's like every other night then.

Just a note, I think socialism/marxism/liberalism/leftism/etc. are all the same thing, they're just not definable enough, basically because the advocates constantly insist on changing things, even their own definitions of themselves.  For the time being, I'm going with "socialism" as the most accurate term although I'll use the others on occasion just because it gets boring otherwise.

Anti-individualism" would probably be the most accurate way to describe them but that's a bit awkward.

I'm not saying my examples/excuses are good but they are what I've been going with.

Collectivism - to collect, a collection, it leaves out who's doing the collecting or why.

Leftism - if the French revolutionaries (or whoever came up with it) had been sitting in a different part of the room, it would be 'rightism' or 'middle-ism'?  And it leaves out whoever's not 'one of them' even as they pretend to be working for 'everybody.'

Marxism - this didn't come from Marx, no one even heard of the guy until long after he'd died.

Liberalism - 'liber' is 'to free' which they don't do unless it's a way they approve of (like self-identifying as a female with a penis).

Socialism - uh, well, it does require everyone as a group, no getting away from that.  It's why I've picked it as the best term so far.

It is basically feudalism, that's effectively what the people who pretend to believe in freedom want to return to but it's not remotely equivalent in any real sense. We really have no clue what life was like during feudalism where even the rich and powerful may only take a bath once a year and almost nobody posted on Facebook. That's why I'm trying to define that intellectual elitism, which makes 'socialism' or 'collectivism' the best terms I've found so far.

□ [“China, Russia and Iran Sending Warships for a Joint Exercise in the Middle East"]

Iran's been there for a few thousand years, Russia's been there for centuries and China's been moving in for a while.  And we have... that guy.

Americans may not pay much attention to geopolitics but we know what old senile people look like and how they quickly get worse.  It doesn't help when his handlers have to rush out and claim he didn't actually say what he clearly said to the press, on camera and everything.  And he's supposed to handle China, Russia and Iran?

The same media was thrilled at how Biden babbled for a whole hour and fifty minutes last week.  Russia and co. are obviously going to be afraid of him now!!!

□ [“Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: The US Must Get Out of All Former Soviet States and Promise Unambiguously To Cede Them to Russia"]

Or not.  France is so confident in Biden that they want separate talks with Russia, US not allowed.  They're so scared of Biden's permission for a "minor incursion" in Ukraine that they're retreating through the entire Soviet Empire and Eastern Europe.  What, does France not see who benefits from that?  Look at all the money Hunter Biden gets, isn't that worth anything?

I should add, I'm not following some of these stories but it's starting to look like the media is outright making up whatever it wants.  There's the issue I posted yesterday about the Supreme Court but there are a few others, pretending the economy is working.

Federal District Judge Blocks Biden’s Last Vaccine Mandate on Federal Employees
January 21, 2022

Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Violated A Stock Disclosure Law Nine Times Last Year
January 20, 2022

TSA Allows Illegal Aliens to Board Plane Using Criminal Arrest Warrant as Form of ID
January 20, 2022

Howard Stern Rips Unvaccinated Americans: ‘In My America,’ All Hospitals Would Be Closed To You — ‘Go Home And Die’
January 20, 2022

Ireland to Scrap Nearly All Covid Restrictions While Joe Biden and Democrats in the US Push For More Covid Tyranny
January 21, 2022

“We Dont Want Two States. We Want ’48” – Pro-Palestine Group At Arizona State University Calls For The Invasion Of Israel
January 21, 2022

□ [“Meatloaf Passes Away – Rocked the World with 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights' in 1977"]

The bat has gone back to hell.  At least now he can work with Jim Steinman again.  I wonder if the last thing he saw was his heart still beating, still beating, breaking out of his body and flying away...

So another one is gone.  

Meatloaf, rock'n'roll singer, age 74
January 21, 2022