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Trump 2.0 - quick takes on domestic issues

After taking a look at how Trump senselessly ended Pax Americana, undermined the most successful military alliance in history, eliminated American soft power, and gave a lifeline to the enemies of the United States when they seemed to be on the brink of collapse, all that in just 2 weeks, let's see what's happening inside the US.A lot of Americans think that although things are going bad, all the...
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Trump 2.0 - quick takes

Time to take a quick stock of the Trump 2.0 so far. I have no stomach to sweat out some not-so-clunky prose on this dismal subject, so I will just iterate through a couple of points. Starting with the geopolitical ones.Tariff war against Canada and Mexico. It's an easy one to be wise about because it happened already. Trump threatened with tariffs, Canada (I suppose Mexico as well) answered with their...
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Can I call them Nazis?

A conversation is effectively finished once a Nazi or Hitler comparison is made.- Godwin's lawI always found Godwin's law pretentious bullshit on some visceral level, without ever consciously articulating exactly why. It's definitely not Godwin's fault, as the quote above is not from him. It is a twisted version of his original observation and thus mistakenly attributed to him. The real one, as I...

Election 2024 - after the results

Peter: This is the trouble with the public, they're fucking horrible!Emma: Peter, you can't say the public are fucking horrible.Peter: Yes, I can, I've met them.- The Thick of It (20...
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US election 2024 prediction

Okay, let's get it out of my system. What's going to happen on November 5 and shortly after?I'm in a state of cognitive dissonance simultaneously holding three different mental models in my head.The Rational IgnorantWhen sliding into the first one, I'm sure anyone who claims to know who will win the 2024 presidential election is full of it. American politics is effectively a two-party system with...

The History of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

The term "martial arts" appeared in the Western consciousness around a century ago, when Japanese jiu-jitsu (which bore very little resemblance to today's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) made its first inroads into the world outside Eastern Asia. President Teddy Roosevelt was an avid sportsman, who trained in...
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