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Apparently China is interested in setting up a base for its warships inSolomon Islands? Which are in the Pacific? According to Australians with heads made entirely out of the dog food that is easily mistaken for luncheon meat the Pacific is Australia’s backyard. Last time I checked a backyard was an area of open space at the rear of a dwelling, both the dwelling and the open space bounded by a fence. This is the classic Australian suburban set up, or it used to be until Australians realised they could sell their backyard for insane amounts of money to the entire generation desperate enough to build a house with no backyard. No outside area. So, just literally living in a box then. Sounds awesome. When I was a child, I would play in the backyard of whatever house we lived in this month. Well, I would sit under a tree reading a book in the cold of winter until I became extraordinarily ill. I was a bookworm. I hate Australia, torch the suburbs. Australia is a nation that sees nearby natio...

The war in Ukraine continues. I didn't believe there was going be an invasion. Then I thought it was going to be over in a few days. A month in, keeping track of reality has become a real difficulty. I saw dozens of videos of people wrapped in packing tape, tied to lampposts, but I don't know who's doing it, or why, or when it happened. Sadists are having a field day under the cover of wartime nationalism. I watched a Danish documentary about soldiers going to Afghanistan, because I thought it might help me think through what is happening. At one point they commit a war crime. Having thrown a grenade at people who were shooting at them from a ditch, they enter the ditch and machine gun the severely wounded survivors. A soldier later comments, “Well, if you're not here, you don't understand what it's like.”  And something clicked for me. This is something I've heard so many times, as a civilian, from people who've committed atrocities. You weren't the...

In the midst of climate catastrophe, Earth’s most famous handful of sausage meat, Elon Musk, reckons there needs to be a vastly increased output of fossil fuels in the cursed places where liberal democracy is practised. Let’s pretend for a moment he’s anything other than a rich kid who operates according to the epiphanies he experiences when he takes designer hallucinogens. His reasoning is that the free world needs to free itself of any reliance on fuel supplied by our naughty enemies that we worked closely with during the War on Terror. I don’t expect this tripper to have a normal understanding of anything, but even for Mr Novelty Flamethrower this thinking is unusually broken. As with many others, war fear has caused irreversible shrinkage of his already dangerously undersized brain. These techno champs never understand what needs to happen. What needs to happen is an honest negotiation with the Russian leadership that results in the end of hostilities. The problem with negotiations...

  Some unexpected news, an exchange of thousands of nuclear missiles between the USA and Russia would probably be fine. So there it is, the worst thing anyone has ever said. According to my new favourite people, concerns about nuclear war are lies invented by hysterics as a cowardly excuse to abandon Ukraine to it’s fate. One moment, I need to crank up some brutal metal to help me survive this devastating journey through internet god emperor logic. Ah yes, the crushing riffage of Hate Eternal, formed 1997 in St Petersburg, Florida. To continue despite wanting to lie face down, what are these cranium warriors synapsing about? According to people who type things that make my eyes bulge uncomfortably, there are many myths about how nuclear weapons work. One is that they destroy “everything”. These staunch champions point to photos of Hiroshima that show some buildings kind of sort of still standing. There’s nothing alive in the buildings, they have no windows or doors, but bricks are ...