This will be the last show of the year. This is one of the slowest times of the year for site traffic and show listening. Unlike the filthy degenerates on the other side, our people are out and about with family and friends this time of year. It’s also a good time for me to do some hardware upgrades I’ve been planning. The day job is a bit slower this time of year, so I take the time to clean up lingering items on the list. Normal production will resume after the New Year.
I’m taking the opportunity to knock one thing off the list and that is to catch up on all outstanding correspondence. All the stuff I wanted to use in the show has been used and I only have a few items left in the inbox. One of the things on my next year list is to come up with a better system for handling correspondence. I let this stuff build up and then it is a gargantuan task. I wind up responding to people weeks and maybe months after they sent their initial e-mail. I need a better system.
This is also the time of year when people think about personal goals and projects for the coming year. I’m no different. I’m not into resolutions, but I use this time of year to think about what I can do to make the coming year a little better. In the past, this has been when I have plotted career changes and moving. This year I will be thinking about the latter, as my time here in Lagos is coming to a close. I’m not sure where I will be heading, but I will be looking for less colorful environs.
That is, of course, something we have to consider when moving. It’s not just the diversity at the moment, but the possibility of diversity in the future. These days, whole towns are destroyed by developers, building garbage housing and then adding “affordable housing” to please the local pols. Your nice little town can quickly become a sterile development full of strangers, with a dollop of diversity. All of us are being forced to plan defensively in our careers and our living spaces.
Of course, if any of the anti-white bigots on stage last night at the Democrat debate win in 2020, there will be no place to hide. As we’re seeing in Virginia, the pogroms will begin as soon as they are in office. I had originally thought about moving back to Virginia, but the madness going on there now eliminates the Old Dominion from my list of places to live. The way things are headed, I’m going to end up as Jeremiah Johnson, living up above the tree line to avoid the madness.
This week I have the usual variety of items in the now standard format. Spreaker has the full show. I am up on Google Play now, so the Android commies can take me along when out disrespecting the country. I am on iTunes, which means the Apple Nazis can listen to me on their Hitler phones. The anarchists can catch me on iHeart Radio. YouTube also has the full podcast. Of course, there is a download link below.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- 00:00 Opening
- 03:30 Dissident Religion
- 05:30 Boomers & Zoomers
- 15:00 I Disavow RamZPaul
- 19:00 Civil War Books
- 22:30 Embrace Your Role
- 30:00 More Libertarians
- 35:30 Requests
- 42:00 Impeachment
- 47:30 Privacy
- 49:00 Boston
- 50:00 Thank You
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Merry Christmas, Z-man. And the same to fellow commenters.
Same to you, and to all our friends (even when we have spats.) Health and happiness to everybody!
Yeah, merry Christmas to this (sometimes) merry band of dissidents.
Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you, Z-Man, and to the best, most articulate, and enjoyable-to-read commenters on the internet. Thank you for providing a “safe space” in this bizarro world in which we find ourselves.
I agree that this blog has one of the best comment sections. I’ve often told others about it, specifically that the comments are remarkably troll-free even though there’s little or no moderation. Though I read the blog daily, I rarely comment because I usually don’t have much to add. Mostly just enjoy reading the comments of others.
The “gold standard” comments section for a long time was Takimag. The place was just firing on all cylinders most of the time. They eventually shut it down because, reasons. Z’s blog comments is scratching that itch pretty well these days.
I loved Tak’s comments but it could be troll heavy at times and I’m guessing it just got to be too much to babysit. The fix, I would think, would be to just allow subscribers/donors to comment, but I’m guessing that’s much easier said than done (or to Z’s point, it just kills off the comments because no one to any large extent will do that).
But how would we give our down-voting muscles exercise if not for Tiny Duck and xis “socks?” Merry Christmas Tiny!
One of our astute commenters here said the other day the news that the Ground Zero mosque is on again no longer bothered him like it did the first time. What a big smack of reality, right across the face. He’s right! I was outraged before, incredulous, full of indignation. How dare they do that to my country! What a change I’ve undergone in 18 years. What the hell difference will one more mosque make now? ‘My’ country is long gone. Actually, my country is being conceived gradually in places like this comment thread, and I hope to live to… Read more »
Doc, the good things aren’t eroding away, they’re just moving away. You & yours are welcome to join Us & help keep western civilization alive regardess of its zip code. North America’s a big place.
Yeah but we get to start over and figure it out for ourselves instead of inheriting it. Maybe we get to be founders. That’s exciting.
Thank you, dear Z Man. Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas and best wishes to you and all commenters here for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! So grateful for your miraculous mind and noble heart. May God protect and guide you always. Thank you!
Thank you and Amen Dear Lady…May you and your family be blessed as well…
You too, sweetheart, my heart and spirit are with you and your efforts! God bless you and all here. Merry Christmas!
Likewise. Or as the locals used to say (but in a different spirit) “same to you!”
Merry Christmas Z man and a merry Christmas to all your readers.
OT: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/475333-iowa-man-sentenced-to-16-years-for-hate-crime-after-setting-pride-flag 16 years for burning a piece of cloth. You can burn the American Flag w/ impunity it is a protected act under the 1st amendment. By all indications this was not a ‘nice’ guy he was a typical low IQ squatemalan import. But this just shows you the anarcho-tyranny in effect. You can murder people and walk after a few years but if you offend the top tiers of the victim totem pole, a dark dungeon for you. I said mean words to a dark fella once. I needed several (read: many) years in prison to think about… Read more »
Related: NYC Thought Crime Division activated and nabs its first catch. Precrime! Keeping you safe from badthink citizen! The so called Racially Ethnically Motivated Extremism Unit (REME) collared a guy for posting on reddit. You ARE being watched so be damn careful what you say in this totalitarian police state these days. Notice that this entire division is basically tasked with arresting white males. Since anyone else would be a protected victim class, and thus not targeted by the ‘racially and ethnically motivated’. This is the precursor to what you will see nationwide should the power drunk Commie Leftists seize… Read more »
Dumb thing about that was, the sentence was tripled for a third felony….would like to know how burning the gay flag got to be a felony.
When Obama was elected, we entered Reconstruction, Part 2. And this time, ALL the states will be affected.
You seem to forget Reconstruction failed and led to a 100 year blacklash of segregation.
But as the Jew Eric Foner said, “Reconstruction was never really tried.” So here we are again. And believe me, lefty is REALLY trying now.
It’s part 3 (if you consider the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 part 2.) We’ve had the looting of the gov’t, now were just waiting on the loyalty oaths.
Merry Christmas to Z and Z readers! Wow..will have withdrawals and facial tics waiting for your thoughts, seeking inspiration from the writing muse of 2020 to fire up the analysis of the world in the new year. Z….just once come out West, see different towns, and move away from the population density of the Peoples Republic of the East Coast. Links below for Cedar City and New Harmony, Utah, just 15 minutes from Cedar City and smaller town. Lots of Tech geeks and IT guys here. A mile high plus 500 feet, and a lot less snow than Northern Utah… Read more »
I’ve talked on this blog that I am thinking about a long term plan involving WY or MT. UT has appeal to me as well. And let’s get this straight… long term, we’re taking all three of those states (plus Western Canada) with us in our future country. The Left can have their beaches, but I’ll be damned if they take our mountains. One thing that pushes me in the WY direction over the other options is simply the absence of a state income tax. A state income tax would be a tough pill to swallow. To be precise, I… Read more »
Wind, Isolation, Harder to fit in unless you have roots there, smaller job opportunities if your not in the oil and gas business, the best places are really expensive since they have filled up with Rich people to name a few…
The wind blows like a sonofabitch and you’ll walk all bent over!
The appeal of mostly Mormon is most people are completely over the top crazy nuts about Mormons. The Boomer friend in the Bay Area thinks they have devil fangs and the Book of Mormon is apostasy. She’s kinda Lutheran nuts, and I don’t poke the Badger. So lots of folks avoid Utah. Ha! Let ’em. So they came to Jesus another way. I don’t give a rat’s tushie. I came from Commie parents so multiple roads to Jesus is fine with me. Just teach your kids good values. Are Mormons herd animals? Sure…and so are lots of folks…including the left.… Read more »
Not sure about individual mormons, but their church leadership is totally cucked. The nonwhite community is where they see their future growth coming from.
WY is on my short list as well – White, cold, low population, low density, low taxes, Western frontier attitude. I’m already telling Californians how much it sucks, nothing to do, last year’s movies at the theater, bad cell coverage, ruled by toothless Klansmen etc…
Keeping Californians out is critical to preserving the White way of life. Just ask CO, TX, OR and WA, among many others.
NV has fallen due to the same problem plaguing Mountain Western states in general, and Wyoming in particular — rural counties with small populations; a few, popular population centers. In NV, LV was flooded with immigrants during the great influx of late 80s, 90s and into the first decade of the 21st Cent. Middle American states emptied their displaced populations (off-shoring? all those other things that benefited our elites and ruling class) into the Clark County pleasure machine to fill the critical jobs in casinos as dealers and porters. Californians moved in in droves. “Hispanic” population in NV runs over… Read more »
Jeff Flake, Mike Lee, and Mitt Romney are all the “Mormon pioneer stock” I can stand. I’m staying the hell out of Utah. thank you.
McCain was up to his neck in Ukrainian corruption and it looks like he dragged Lindsey Graham along in on some of the shenanigans. That’s why Graham won’t hold hearings – when they start naming names, his will be one of them.
Anyone who is employing a bunch of “brown” people is simply not part of our thing. This alleged “businessman” is getting subsidized help. He makes money under-paying brown people who then mooch off the state in many various ways. The guy who wrote this letter needs to re-think his situation. I agree we shouldn’t go broke trying to build a better future, but we also cannot build a better future financing our enemies. If he were not underpaying and being subsidized, he wouldn’t be employing these people. If you are paying a market wage, by definition, local whites and even… Read more »
Asking a man to quit his job or close his business because he was just red pilled is asking a lot.
True. But hell’s bells, Z. Our own kids are locked out of the property market. They can’t afford homes or the families to put in them. Largely because they are locked out of the job market. We are importing an underclass and giving them our kids’ jobs. They are the kind of jobs our kids need to learn and grow Back when I was hiring, and could get away with it I didn’t screw around. If it had brown skin, or couldn’t speak English fluently and well – their resumes went into File 13. Sure, it was racist as hell… Read more »
TT – there’s a spectrum of response depending on each guy’s individual circumstances. It doesn’t hurt to remind people that they need to practice what they preach but trying to draw black-and-white lines like “you’re either with us or against us” is not a good idea. I don’t want to leave guys out in the cold because they won’t go full-bore. Guys who don’t want to go all-in with us can still provide support, financially and otherwise. From an opsec and vetting standpoint, you obviously have to gauge a guy’s level of commitment from a more hardcore perspective, but in… Read more »
I imagine there are quite a few on our side that have “transgressed” before the Red Pill. It’s a powerful thing – an awakening, an enlightenment – and once you have taken it, you really can’t go back. There are certainly some white guys on our side who have relationships with non-white people that they can’t just toss away because they read the savage truth of Z-Man et al. What if you started reading Islamic material and then came to the conclusion that it was the Truth and the Way, and then jettisoned all of your non-Muzzie relationships and went… Read more »
The letter-writer complaining about Boomers (letter #2?) is wrong about one thing: that Boomers vote for the Left. They clearly break Right even though they have Normie ideas. Millennials are the ones populating the HR departments and heading up Silicon Valley leftist dens. If only Millennials and GenZ voted, Hillary or Bernie would be president and Liz Warren and a couple more lefties would already be on the Court. Not that it necessarily matters much. Zoomers might be different but it’s hard to tell. Sure, they’ve got the Groypers but those constitute a small minority. Is there any hard data… Read more »
Boomers are all over the place. They are certainly more conservative than their parent who elected FDR 4 times.
Some blustering online aside, my understanding is that each successive generation (Zoomers included) is further left than the previous. This isn’t just self-identification by party or ideology, but also from asking specific “issue” questions like support for gay marriage and so on. However, my understanding is that most of these differences turn out to simply reflect the different demographics (i..e race/ethnicity) of each generation. Zoomers are (overall) far less white than previous generations, QED. The degree to which Zoomers are white vs. non-white is, however, very state-dependent. From this alone, it is likely that big political realignments among the states… Read more »
Zero Hedge posted the age-based voting patterns in the recent U.K. election. The older folks all voted Tory and the younger people all voted Labour.
I look at femmed Millennials and their stupid pipe-stem pants, Bozo The Clown shoes, their pointy “Our Gang” haircuts and I just laugh. They are going to be so screwed.
So far zoomers resemble millennials: increased Left and Right participation at the cost of the center.
Boomers didn’t vote for the 89th Congress (the one in session in 1965)! The federal election age was not reduced to 18 until 1970 or 71. In 1964, the election that decided the 89th Democrat Congress, the oldest boomer was only 19 and the vast majority were under 18. The thing Gen-X most has going for it is it is largely not a real generation in that very few Xers think of themselves as gen-x and even fewer think it means anything. We didn’t march in any major protest movement or even really have a defining event. The main thing… Read more »
It bothers me that the people over at the blog where everyone is “high IQ” and “alt-right” can’t do math. They blame boomers for the horrible legislation on the 1960s and the boomers were not able to vote.
I get that the idiots need a scapegoat and the older people are always fun to hate on, but could we at least get the arithmetic right?
Look guys, your pity party about “Oh woe, we poor boomers are unfairly attacked” just doesn’t cut it. I’m a damn boomer (1958) and I am well aware of the differences between the early and later boomers, and who voted when, but it doesn’t matter. It’s NOT all about YOU. If you cannot accept a legitimate criticism of a large group for general shared characteristics without taking it personally, you are the problem. My husband and I are not wealthy and don’t take vacations and wish we had more to give to our sons, but every damned Christmas letter we… Read more »
3g – perfect response. Boomers who bitch about XYZ criticism in petulant snarky tones are only confirming it. Every generation has a cohort that sucks and Boomers have a very large suck-fraction. We shouldn’t have to NABALT every comment to protect the delicate among them.
Again, do the math, learn the statistics. The majority of wealth (80%) in this country lies within the top 10% of the population. Fine, that’s fairly common when the middle class is lacking, but top heavy for a stable/just society and a backward progression from the last century. Those feeling the pinch rightfully point such out. Boomers and any other generation ignore this at their peril. And of course, it does not help that we import millions and millions more folk to expand and populate an ever growing base of have nots. However, that 10% of the population is *not*… Read more »
Spot on. If I read Z correctly, his point was two things can be simultaneously true, in this case Boomers as a whole suck and they also are necessary allies in the fight for white survival. Some of the most based people I know are Boomers who were forcibly bussed to predominantly black schools. They thought blacks were like Link on the “Mod Squad” and found out that D.W. Griffith was closer to the truth. This is the minority, though, and most are doing exactly as you described here. Whoever first made the observation that the reverse mortgage is the… Read more »
Also helpful not to alienate our own kind because of what year they were born in. The assumption of privilege and power is inane.
Most of us boomers simply watched what was going on, back in the day, with various levels of disgust. Just because things appeared in Life magazine didn’t make them mainstream. The most mainstream of all of it were cocaine and pot in the late ‘70s, said to be non-addictive, and they supposedly loosened up the wimmens for frolicking. The Woodstock, rock music stuff wasn’t much if you got away from the college campus.
Correct. I didn’t catch any of the demographic goodies the kids think that I did. Up here, when I turned 18 youth unemployment was 37%. The kids don’t understand the demographic or the times. The leading edge boomers did well for themselves by selling out the trailing edge and the younger generations. Fact is I got the same raw deal they are getting today. The people they want to hang for their grievances are knocking on death’s door anyways. Some are aready running around in Velcro shoes and squishy diapers, or in assisted living complexes. They’ll be dropping like flies… Read more »
I’m still struck by the lack of fight their parents put up to school “integration”, what kind of message did that send? I mean, these were people who actually killed people on the battlefield and when it came time to defend their kids they rolled over.
If you grew up urban or suburban, could be. If you grew up small-town, it wasn’t an issue….more like reading about outlaws like John Dillinger and thinking, Gee, can’t imagine what that would be like… Literally could not imagine—wasn’t even a factor except in urban areas, and America wasn’t very urban back then. Except for a piece in LIFE now and then, you knew nothing about it as a kid. Always hard for people who haven’t been there in mid-century America to understand how little a factor vibrancy was in the average person’s life. Heh, some day it’ll be “Gee,… Read more »
“Of course, if any of the anti-white bigots on stage last night at the Democrat debate win in 2020, there will be no place to hide.” Regardless of who wins, there will be places we can go, because we’re going to find them, hide them, and even become them. Making your people your place and home is a Tribe-tested strategy and unlike the Tribe, people actually want us for neighbors. We bring upstanding lifestyles, beautiful women, handsome men and skills & attitude that make communities better. They bring…. Well, we know what (((they))) bring. I’m spending some time this Yule… Read more »
You really should look at the Bitterroot Valley when you are making your decision Brother…I would be happy to have you as a neighbor…
I will be flying out in the early spring sometime to Wyoming and taking a look at your area as well, perhaps a little later in the spring. I have no dependents or obligations and am trying to find a way out of the situation I’m in. The problem is getting employers to consider me from 2000 miles away — there are two steps to this process, and it seems like they both have to be done at once. I don’t come from any wealth and don’t have the material resources to live without work for any appreciable period of… Read more »
What do want to do for work Brother and maybe I can point you in a direction…
Been there. Hot at the time. Beautiful Lake Como and the snow capped view. Wonderful. Had a cousin move there recently. Will try and pass through in August. CA native.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone here. I learn much, and am informed of tons of stuff, crazy and good, in here. To everyone, thanks a lot for that, and thanks to the blog owner for keeping this watering hole of sanity open, and watering it too.
Same to you, friend.
I think you are right about maintaining your anonymity, and pushing back on the accusations of ‘jargon’. There are some right of centre sites and they speak in their own language. You are also right about emphatic or foul language. I struggle with that and admire your restraint. I hope you’re right and I’m wrong but I don’t think this is going to be a “long fight.” I can see it blowing up in our faces sooner rather than later. We’ve thrown out religion and our morals and ethics with it. White women are encouraged to make war on their… Read more »
I agree with John Smith about staying anonymous and jargon. I like that Z Man has his other life. We need the guys like Sailer and Taylor who are out there in public discourse and make their living at it, but Z Man brings something else to the table because he has one foot in both worlds. For a movement to happen, we are going to need leaders like Z Man who are making a living in regular life while building a movement in online or behind-the-scenes life. I have been a reader of Sailer and Vdare sites for years,… Read more »
Merry Christmas all. As a present, this essay by the guy who coined the term is most interesting. “What’s Paleo, and What’s Not” https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2019/December/43/12/magazine/article/10847261/ by Paul Gottfried “Paleoconservatism was the last recognizably rightist form of the conservative movement, if we exclude some Alt-Right bloggers who, although occasionally worth reading, hardly form a coherent movement. It was precisely this rightist gestalt that has made the paleoconservatives and their efforts to represent the Old Right so profoundly distasteful to Conservatism, Inc.” We can call the “dissident right” anything we wish, but we really need to know what it stands for other than… Read more »
I give PG his due for sticking to his guns and standing an increasingly lonely post but I have to push back on him regarding paleoconservatism being the “last recognizable rightist” movement vs. Our Thing today. PG is simply defining “rightist” as paleoconservatism and saying No True Scotsman deviates from paleoconservatism. I’d respectfully challenge the professor to provide us with a definition of “paleoconservatism” that is any more succinct, objectively-grounded or readily understandable than any description of the alt or dissident Right of today. It’s going to be some combination of Russell Kirk’s 10 points, Burkean arglebargle and the usual… Read more »
He wrote in the article: “Admittedly, paleos have expressed views over the years that have raised my own eyebrows.” So yes, it was not perfect and he acknowledged that. The only ultra-right wing ideology that has satisfied me over the decades is the market anarchy of the Rothbard/Hoppe type. I can not see a nation-State ever defending the interests of my people (my nation). Governance yes, a State no. If the USA State did not fight my people at every step, we could cleanse our lands of our enemies. But that is not going to happen just because we “get… Read more »
Rothbard-Hoppe-style libertarianism is the best kind, but it still has serious limitations. Check out Z’s past posts and pods – he talks about Hoppe at length in one of them. If you approach these theorists like I do with Objectivism and harvest their good ideas while rejecting the meta-structure, they’re useful. I don’t buy into An-Cap because the difference between market-anarchic “government” and a formal “state” is merely semantic. Hoppe has recognized that some level of collective coercion is necessary to respond to NAP violations, etc… That’s a state, albeit on a micro-scale. Scale always matters and that’s a better… Read more »
Making a second trip to Tennessee this weekend in order to look at properties for our future resettlement. Now I read where the Governor of Tennessee is bypassing the legislature in order to allow “refugee” resettlement in the state. Lawsuits to follow.
I may have to reconsider my future homestead site due to this insanity. I guess that it is better that this crap has reared its ugly head before I bought property.
Drawing board, here I come once again.
It is an example of the incurable insanity of these people. By any definition, we have no refugees in the Western hemisphere. The normal handling of refugees is to settle them temporarily in an area as close to heir hoe as possible. America, therefore, should receive zero refugees. Of course, these people are not refugees. They are just migrants. Our rulers have simply taken to calling them refugees so the white replacement project sounds like charity, rather than genocide.
“The modern definition of ‘refugee’ is someone who wants to live somewhere else. Keep taking them in and soon enough the refugee is you.”
…Internet
A refugee is not “someone who wants to live somewhere else.” A refugee is a darkie who wants to live with the nice white people, far far away from their fellow darkies. Of course, the math makes it impossible for supply of white people to ever satisfy demand of begging, mooching, wheedling, grifting darkies.
Sailer mentions this re: School “desegregation/integration” as it currently stands in LAUSD.
Back in the early 70s, when this specific insanity was a hot-button, LA’s school district was still over 50% white. Now it’s under 10%. There’s just too few white kids to scatter about to be meaningful.
The Kindergarten I attended 55 years ago was around 2/3 white, 1/3 Mexican. It is now 98% “Hispanic”.
https://www.greatschools.org/california/oxnard/7671-Mckinna-Elementary-School/#Students
Refugees were always supposed to be temporary, and return to their homes after the situation in their countries stabilized. That ended about the time that the resettlement agencies became big businesses in their own right. (Depopulating churches and Jewish agencies promoted it.)
A good friend came to same conclusion as you regarding the volunteer state. He has turned his eye towards Montana and South Dakota. I know nothing of those, and have just began considering WV for my tactical withdrawal from the ruins.
If I were forced to leave the rural South(not likely)I would look at parts of Oklahoma and Nebraska as my redoubt.
Don’t do Nebraska. Rapid City, SD, is a far better choice.
MT is nice, but you have to deal with drugged out natives in the larger cities, and housing is higher. Stay away from Missoula and Bozeman (refugee settlements around Missoula and Helena, and costs in Bozeman+Nutty Californians).
Yeah, it really does seem like the Californians, and Seattle-ites are settling in and starting to ruin Montana. I moved here a few years ago from Central Oregon because that state has finally gone over for good (although there are still some decent areas out east). They’re like a locust swarm.
I knew a guy, a senior executive at a large firm, who quit and moved to South Dakota. He was in his fifties at the time. This was twenty years ago. I asked him about it and he looked at me as said, “It is too cold to get this vibrant there.” I almost blew a funny fuse.
Funny, but sadly wrong. Minneapolis is easily as cold as Moscow. (Seriously, look it up.) Yet, there they are.
Citizen – cold weather goes a long way but cold shoulders go further. If Igboo and Samjit found it harder to get jobs, didn’t have gibs and were treated as unwanted outsiders everywhere they went, Old Man Winter’s magic would be much more effective. Upper MW’ers are too damned nice for their own good. Cold climate is part of our defense in depth but a soft culture with gibs makes it a Maginot Line.
Agreed. I’ve never met a people so desperate to be liked and approved of by the rest of the country than Minnesotans. I have no idea why they cared so much about it.
Consider Rapid City or one of the small towns in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Rapid is a nice (very) small city. Lot of things to do in town and all the outdoor activity you could want.
Black Hills area is great…when the tourists go home.
Looking for the best place to run to…. sounds like a plan!
This is exactly the kind of retardation we don’t need. You cannot run. Moving doesn’t work when you are being targeted. This stuff is not a natural disaster. It’s more akin to a foreign air-force bombing us. Running away will not help.
Easy to say when you don’t live around 80 per cent vibrants. You need to come get you some and then tell me to stay put.
Yours follow you eventually. You probably don’t see it but those of us in the erstwhile hinterlands do. Whites with the city accents move in, you have about a decade.
There used to be this thing called home. People stayed there, often over generations. They loved it and took care of it. Now where you live is just another product to be used up and thrown out. Gee I wonder why is everything going to crap?
Painter – that’s what we’re looking to rebuild. We can’t do that in places like LA and Chicago. We’re already past the “everything is going to crap” stage and working for what comes next. We have to build new communities that generations can love and take care of.
I know. I get frustrated with the moving about, not least because my home was one of the places people moved to. Many of the people I grew up with have moved on because the whole process just spreads the mess. The colonists could’ve said ‘America is great, except for these Indians who want to kill us— we’d better find somewhere else to live.’ But they wanted a home here, so they toughed it out, fought for it. They had it much harder than we do. Fact: Americans are losing America because we don’t want it as much as the… Read more »
There is something to be said for demographic sorting though. Allowing for political take-over at low levels first and working up. The precedent being established of state defiance of federal law is already being repeated over 2a issue in county/state power contests. If there is any line in the sand it’s probably 2a. We all know we have to be armed in anticipation of that day when pickup trucks full of dindoos waving weapons pull down our street.
Before they blew it and were condemned by God to be scattered around the globe, the ancient Israelites held property within families, with debt forgiveness every 7 years when the land would be fallow prior to being worked again and debt would be forgiven. This ensured the people would be unstressed by usury and the threat of losing their property, which stayed in their family. Even if they had to lose their property within those 7 years, it would revert back to the family in the jubilee year. This was done to ensure a content, unstressed people. We know how… Read more »
Preach. Men need to man up and women need to stop emasculating them.
Look at what 2 thousand years of itinerancy has done to the Jews. We’re becoming like them. They’re lucky to have Israel and wise to be protecting it. They’ve been given a second chance. We’re giving our country away. Will we get another shot at it?
Thanks, Ursula. Jubilee inhibits exploitation of borrowers through enormous, forever debts. Enormous, forever debts fund a lot of pension plans and personal bank accounts. Which means that jubilee is a non-starter. Personal bank accounts and pension plans are deemed more important than community strength and personal financial health amongst the borrowing class.
it is likely that the Jubilee will come in the form of a runaway inflation or a deflationary collapse. I’ve been waiting for it for 30 years, some people for longer. 😡 You can look to Weimar Germany for an inflationary scenario. It led to the rise of a man named Hitler. You may have heard of him. The rest of the West had a huge deflation. We were not jubilant about that Jubilee. 😶
TT: Says the deer proudly standing alone in the headlights?
Standing still when you are being targeted doesn’t work. When “foreign air forces” are bombing your cities, do you go to the country, the bomb shelter, or stay home to prove how tough you are?
How is it better strategy to remain scattered among our enemies with no infrastructure or organization, bitching on the internet?
What’s your plan of action if we follow your lead and stay in the cities?
There is a difference between running and a strategic retreat. If Our Guys coordinate and figure out where we can go, then we can rebuild. There is no glory in fighting it out as the last white guy in Compton or Newark.
That’s the problem for all of us. Maybe someday, someone will explain Zio-cuckness to the US citizenry who pays for it with debt while their own go without. That’ll be interesting.
Ziocuck.
I like that term.
Ziocuckiness. Ziocucked.
I’ll have to start throwing that word around a little and see if it starts pissing people off.
I’m an intelligent man, but I must confess these abbreviations have me stumped. If I send a donation will I receive a glossary? 😯
Once enough boomers die it’ll start sorting itself out. Don’t want to see them go, but they are getting old. Younger people see things differently.
My parents are boomers. I love them and I’m not looking forward to life without them around. I hope they live to be 100. But there are certain topics it’s not worth discussing with them. Boomers got some big time post-WWII programming. They’re either going to get it on their own or nature will take the course it takes on all of us.
Believe me, there are plenty of boomers (like me) who are woke and have been for decades, and I know plenty of others who are as well. My sons (3, ages 38 -18) are all woke because all their lives i’ve pointed reality out to them.
It is a pity that you are so narrow minded.
Consider the Ozarks.
Seconded
Shhhh…. (Naw, we need the good people.And we, ourselves, took demographics carefully under consideration when we decided to reunite with our non-coastal roots several years back.)
Donny. Easter TN is high on our radar for relo, too. Other than that idiot Gov’s moves, the state gets many high marks. I’ve taken note of the blue elements of course, but there seem to be many of our people there. Note that several eastern counties have already declared themselves as 2A sanctuaries.
The state of cties like Memphis demoralizes some Whites but it makes others angry. There’s a lot more to TN than Memphis and Nashville. The Appalachian states are going to be part of our network, lots of Our Guys there.
Merry Christmas to the Z man and all the followers and contributors to this board!
The Z Mans writing and podcasts and the overall content here are a tremendous asset.
To many more coming our way in 2020!
lewisburg wv area is super nice. East tenn is unique too. Both have a medical schools, which is a important consideration. The problem with getting old in the sticks is poor medical care availability. Appalachia has a spooky backward reputation, which i like to spread. But the fact is that the people are the sweetest you will likely find on earth. Still poz around but it is only skin-of-teeth deep. Nebraska and the Dakotas are pleasant but 8 months of hard winter is too much. Been fishing in the bitter-root, beautiful, but i hear it gets cold up there too.
Oh definitely gets cold but very little wind which you get in the plains states and WY and Western MT…Its more of a dry cold also which is more tolerable…I have been all over this country and will say I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else… Something about it just brings a peace to your mind…
The whole insider language thing is weird. I have a relative who is a crazy, postmenopausal, childless cat lady whose only issue is abortion and has given money to the Church of Satan because the Church of Satan is very pro-choice. Shocker I know! Anyway, I used the term ‘virtue signaling’ to her one day and she did not know what it meant and had never heard the term before. So weird to me. Obviously we never ever ever talk politics.
Men are from Mars, Liberals are from some s***hole.
That would be Uranus.
Sorry, I can resist anything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
One online virtue signaling commenter declared he was sick of the term but of course it never ocurred to him to stop signaling so I offered him virtue sniveling instead.
Why is it that so many childless and/or menopausal cat ladies are so bent on abortion?
All those bitter pussy hat types. It always comes down to their ladybits. Bits that nobody really wants to grab and wombs that will never give life – yet their biggest concern is making sure young women can rip life from their own on demand.
Leftism really is a death cult.
Because they are witches that want to kill all the children. Turns out fairy tales are real
“Her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.” Dahl was a prophet. He also got physiognomy right on the nose too. “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.”
New Year’s resolution for the right: be less pessimistic.
Gotta admit, though, this last year was jet fuel for pessimism.
How have I passed 35 years old and never have heard that Pogues’ Christmas Song? My life was missing a something very important. Merry Christmas, Z, and everyone.
Poleaxed me there at the end with The Pogues, you bastard.
Merry Christmas!
Religion – I’ve been thinking on that topic. If “we” or “our thing” was ever to gain control, we would be looking for glue to hold together our new society and resist all the crap that has destroyed our current system. I don’t believe in forced religion but we would need something. I might suggest making it expressly Christian. Atheist and Jews only tolerated if they behave (don’t subvert and undermine). Muslims sent back to where they came from. I just not sure “white” or “western” is anywhere close to enough.
If let Jews stick around, you’ll have the same problems again as soon as the people involved in the Great Revolution died off. Your great grandkids would end up in the same boat as we are now.
The Jews have a homeland. Let them live there and wish them well.
Christianity as presently conceived is a backdoor for subversion of our people’s interests to (((priestly sophists))). The Christian faith as historically practiced wasn’t universalist, it was tribal and parochial, particularly after the Reformation when ethnic and national divisions were reflected in sectarianism. I’ve done some commenting against E. Michael Jones over at Unz lately railing against his idea of “Catholic Identity” being superior to ethnic/racial identity. TradCath supremacists have loyalties higher than their kin and tribe which can be subverted and directed against the people. Religion is a critical element of Euro-Western-White identity but it can’t be the dominant element… Read more »
Its almost like you want people to render unto Cesar that which is Cesar’s. The universalists always seem to forget that part.
The Zman may be moving away from Lagos? He should consider New Hampshire. Yes, it’s filled with libertarians because of the Free State Project, but that’s a feature not a bug: We share much in common despite how much we make fun of them. Why move to live in a place Zman says is filled with “pasty white people”? Here’s a short video explaining why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=Pt5OFdIhaBA&feature=emb_logo. For a more in-depth explanation, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3436&v=vxCNeK97_C8&feature=emb_title. FYI.
I used to live in New Hampshire. Manchester to be exact. I liked it quite a bit. The trouble is housing costs are too high. That’s why I’m looking into PA and WV. Lots of cheap old houses. I want a fixer-upper.
Have you narrowed your search to a particular area of WV? Also, what do you make of the various issues of mineral and timber rights sold off? I ask because I am also looking for a relocation.
The Harper’s Ferry area is drawing a lot of “our guys” so that’s one option. I’ve fished there and million times and like it. From what I gather, it is not quite developer proof, but it is unfriendly to that sort of subversion.
Harper’s Ferry is a good choice. Neighboring Charles Town is starting to sprawl due to the casino, but Harper’s Ferry is still reasonably unmolested.
Shepherdstown is nice. College towns generally are. Of course, you’ll be surrounded by people who work at the college, i.e. nut bags, but it’s not Harvard so maybe they’re not so bad. Though small, Emmitsburg is also possible. A bit run down but in white way.
Years ago I did a series of road trips on a Civil War theme after watching the Ken Burns documentary. Harpers Ferry has always remained in my memory as a beautiful place. Good luck !
Two words: Ala bama.
I grew up in Alabama (LA, to be more precise) and most of my family are still there. I love it, but damn, it’s hard to find a place more vibrant. On the other hand, it seems that most people tend to live pretty peacefully together as long as you are away from the cities.
I live in NW Montana now and quite like it. Of course, the outdoor activities can’t be beat and there is very little diversity. Gotta like winter though.
BTP and Outdoorspro, What do you think about Montgomery area? If you had a good job prospect in Montgomery, what surrounding area would you go assuming you had a young family?
Montgomery is a challenge, Couch. Like Birmingham, only more so. Here’s what I mean. Take one of the better public schools ( https://www.greatschools.org/alabama/montgomery/1115-Forest-Avenue-Elementary-School/#Race_ethnicity*Test_scores*Overview ). It’s an elementary school near ASU, so it’s presumably filled with the children of university workers, but is’t still 1/3 vibrant. I’ve driven through the area immediately next to the university and it’s the real deal. My guess is you can send your kids to a good elementary school, but that you then have to pay for private school. It is south Alabama, so even a good public school will have vibrancy. Look up Spain Park,… Read more »
Thanks BTP, great info. Montgomery makes sense for me in several ways but not sure if it is the right move for me right now. Will need to see how things line up, trying to figure how hard to push for it. Currently have the kids in Catholic school and that would probably be the way I would go in Montgomery. The city is so vibrant though…I’d really like to move to somewhere where I know I can find a community of “Our Guys” as Z Man calls them.
Two words : No Thanks…26%
I like that idea and may be emulating it soon too.
Just how handy are you? And FWIW, Manchester is no longer NH. (I’m sure you have a gander at the Union Leader every now and again.) It’s basically “Lawrence North.” Not that Nashua is any better. . .
Portsmouth and the surrounding area are still worth checking out.
This topic would make a great day piece or power hour topic. .
WV frequently shows very poorly in states ranked by fiscal strength, and they fought on the side of the enemy in the war of northern aggression. Every state along the path of ‘the great migration’ has a Lagos of its own.
Most of the best states are very cold. Hoth anyone?
KC, I agree 110%. Given the transportable nature of a lot of work these days, Our Guys ought to be thinking about what locations best fit us, rather than continuing to put up with wherever fate or chance might have temporarily located us. The urge to find and relocate to a suitable community gets stronger every month, but I’m outside of the States these days and can’t just jump on the bike for a grand tour of possible relocation sites. It would be awesome to see the Zman put the power of the Z community (!) to work identifying six… Read more »
There are fixer-uppers in NH, I assure you (gotta get outside the urban areas though). The thing about PA and WV is that the winters are sufficiently mild (or insufficiently severe) that vibrancy isn’t much discouraged. The winters of northern New England do. Plus, in NH a bloc of rightists+libertarians in the state legislature often controls the outcome on important issues (including notably taxes, business regulation,and 2nd Amendment, property and privacy rights).
I always used to think cold weather discouraged vibrancy but look at Minnesota and Maine, and their Somalians.
communities were purposefully begun there and of course, like draws like
https://www.unz.com/isteve/moynihan-on-moynihans-law-of-the-canadian-border/ (Remember, this was spoken by a Democrat. To this day he still hasn’t been burned in effigy.) This law isn’t what it used to be. Every principle has a half-life. When conditions change enough people begin to change with them. At least when it comes to thinking about race. Brexit will happen. Trump was elected and he will win the vast majority of the white vote next year. All of this in spite of the 24/7 condemnation of both. The continent is more organized than us. Some countries in Western Europe will have white interest governments within the next… Read more »
YY – exactly. Even for those who aren’t able to move or those who want to stay inside the Hive and throw sand in the gears, now is the time to start planning exit strategies, hard or soft. What to do if you get doxxed, or just fed up with the poz. Even for guys on the north side of fifty, spending the final half of your years among allies and friends who are building a future is a helluva lot better than just watching it all burn by yourself. You can always keep one foot in the urbs and… Read more »
Regarding the 2008-2016 contrast you mention: The rural Whites/City Whites mismatch in racial awareness is in the process of reversing due to survivorship bias, as urban whites with “high disgust levels” (to coin a phrase) have been fleeing from the vibrancy, leaving only the true-believing fraction behind. Back when neighborhood diversity was novel – outside the South at least, it was true that those in closest proximity to it were the first to be hurled into the harsh world of race realism. As things steadily worsened, only committed liberals became capable the cognitive dissonance necessary for living with the chaos.… Read more »
One of our great strengths us we’re a Federation, in many ways this is a power struggle of centralization. The globalists in DC are fighting a losing battle of centralization, doing damage, creating dramas and spectacle but the damage is limited even when pervasive. A danger of Federations however Is in civil war they become many civil wars, politics becomes local and deadly. See 30 years war. Be warned chaos is the enemy’s way of war, beware of disunity and squabbling when the moment comes. See here Virginia; over gun laws. Now to be clear I want the legislature to… Read more »
You can move to Sussex County,NJ
The latest 2d amendment sanctuary polity.
This is a development, NJ very Blue.
https://www.njherald.com/news/20191220/sussex-borough-declares-support-for-2nd-amendment?template=ampart
Watch the rust belt and a few northeastern states turn red. Hell maybe all of them eventually. Been saying it for a while, wasn’t convinced myself. But it’s starting to look like it’s coming. On the other hand, I think the south will turn blue because of immigration and all the libs moving down. The northern progs are committing political suicide, so the Dems will have to adopt a Dixie flavor or go extinct. The electoral map seems to be reverting to its antebellum state.
Except many places that are already deep red cannot escape the gravitational pull of the gas giants their states. Look at a county by county map of New York or Illinois in the 2016 presidential election. They’re almost solid red but the cities have veto power over Jesusland.
You never know. It wasn’t that long ago CA and NY were voting Republican.
“But the cities” – that’s really the issue, isn’t it? The cities seem to be overwhelmingly blue no matter where you go. But – I’m sure – seeing as how I know people who live in Boston , which is always painted as a blue hive – that not everybody there is a blue hive drone. The Democrats own the cities and definitely have a majority – but that doesn’t mean that all the people who vote are Dems – and it also doesn’t say much about the mentality of all those people who simply just don’t vote. I’m old… Read more »
This is something even a lot of people here don’t get and I’m glad someone brought it up. It’s always good to hear from someone who remembers the Boston busing uprising too. I’m a little younger than Z and I was hanging around suburban Baltimore in the early 90s. Even that area was mostly Dem at the time but in the NE the Dems strength in areas like that was largely a hold-over from the Union movement. More and more union guys have realized that while neither party really likes them, the Dems actively want them dead. There’s also always… Read more »
Ballot Box; Legitmacy
Cartridge Box: Force, real power
Lunch Box: cities can be blockaded, and starved, thirsted into submission. Especially these idiots.
This. The push for city and county consolidations from the Sixties onward was the Left’s acknowledgment of and defense against this reality. Some of these consolidated cities and counties could break apart again before it happens to states as a whole. Affirmatively Further Fair Housing is analogous to the intent behind mass migration: to dilute the voting blocs of majority white areas. Marion County (Indy) and Davidson County (Nashville) are good candidates for the first metropolitan areas to revert to the old city and county models although the courts will be used to thwart the attempts. It happened with Boston… Read more »
One of the best posts I’ve seen on here.
KGB – separating the cities fromt the countryside is one of the big battlefronts for Our Thing. There are all sorts of issues that divide the two lifestyles that are convergent with Our Issues but don’t require Hatethink-level commitment. We need to work on widening these divisions and making them more explicit and political. The history of successful dissident movements is full of examples where activists operated with the sympathy of the countryside and provinces – China, Ireland, Vietnam and Afghanistan to mention a few.
Ah
But we have the C box and the lunch box if the ballot box fails. All 3 are desirable.
The Gas Giants are just that by the way – all gas. They don’t follow up with confiscations because they can’t. So With firearms Non- compliance has turned into open defiance. By the way this may be “it” – the fissure we split over.
We won’t know till it happens.
But its promising.
The results from Britain are interesting in this regard. Lots of industrial towns that never, ever, voted Tory went Tory this time. Working class whites there may have figured it out. Could something similar happen this time in the U.S.? A Sailer strategy accidentally stumbled upon by Trump?
The white working class in America figured it out.
Nice. I live in neighboring Warren County which will probably do something similar.
I thought Warren County was the county of Hope. Wasn’t it Warren County locals who shut down a trans library reading? Seriously, the Irish and Italians of NJ should really should be able to rise up out of the Democrat grip and vote the state red one more time before it fades forever to minority majority.
Z was asked about his view of the role of religion in our movement. My answer is that any religion that meets these requirements is fine:
* Does not desire to import non-whites, no matter how devout, high quality, persecuted, or deserving they may be
* Does not object to strict immigration laws that are rigorously enforced
* Does not object to incentivizing non-whites who are already here to emigrate
* Does not seek to win converts by force or intimidation
In re: * Does not desire to import non-whites, no matter how devout, high quality, persecuted, or deserving they may be That does it right there, for me. You (and yours) can take your Rassenwissen (along with your SS lightning bolts) and stick it right where the sun doesn’t shine. This is why I cannot, and will not ever be, a “white nationalist” or a “white identitarian.” This is the difference between patriotism and nationalism. Patriotism is “love of one’s own.” This is honorable, and a part of what makes us fully human. Nationalism, on the other hand, is “hatred… Read more »
Separation does not imply supremacy or hatred.
What is the lesson of the Babel story to you?
A developer told me HUD gives cheap 30 year loans if you add affordable housing(apartments) to the mix. He said without the cheap loans he wouldn’t have much profit. Local politicians and locals hate apartments, so the developer puts in an assisted care facility, because that counts as apartments, and renames apartments “flats”
Hard to lose money as a developer, it’s so subsidized. I have very little respect for the lot. Redevelopment is ok, but new construction gets me fired up. What a waste of space.
Some blue states have laws on the books from 15, 20 years ago that are now being used by developers to ram office buildings, restaurants, and luxury apartments into towns under the guise of providing “affordable housing.” If a town’s “housing stock” has less than a certain percentage of “affordable” domiciles (10%, usually) then developers can use that law to bypass local zoning and environmental regulations entirely, and essentially do what they want, wherever they want — so long as they set aside a % of units in the new buildings for affordable housing, typically on the top floor, toward… Read more »
The biggest scam is 40B (MA) where dev’s get to circumvent local zoning density and environmental permitting laws if they’re building housing for families who make less than 80% of the median household income. (A certain percentage of housing must be reserved for “low income.”) E.g., a local “gold coast” town has a median household income of $108K. Qualifying income is now $86K. Who is that really meant to help?
“Flats” v. “apartments” is a regional thing. Just like “theatre” v. “theater” or “centre” v. center. In NE the legacy British/French spellings persist. (Some towns still have Feoffees.) 🙂
In the end our most successful course may be to make HUD loans et al our machine. Better WWC down on luck as neighbors than vibrancy.!
Interesting take on intergenerational warfare among whites. I would add an observation or two. Among the minority of Boomers long redpilled on race, a common denominator appears to be exposure to diversity through forcible school integration, workplace interactions, and/or changed housing patterns. Whether they identified as such or not, they often became paleocons and many joined the Buchanan Brigades. They still make references to their insipid cultural touchstones but they harbor few illusions about vibrancy. The Left, of course, has poor impulse control and bared its fangs perhaps a bit too soon and spilled the beans about its genocidal plans.… Read more »
Exposure. That has so much (everything) to do with it….thanks for that bottom-line summing up.
Christmas music https://youtu.be/HGyz1S7pijI
Enjoy!
Alert! Alert! (taps helmet) Brothers and Sisters, Dave Collum has posted his annual “Year in Review.” Part 1: https://www.peakprosperity.com/2019-year-in-review-part-1/#introduction and Part 2: https://www.peakprosperity.com/2019-year-in-review-part2/#epstein Criticism; Snark; Despair; and Hilarity in equal measures.
I usually wait for Dave Barry’s for a good laugh. His gift guide is up too: https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article238277728.html
More pushback ; GOP state rep Shea refuses to back down or resign after being named as part of armed standoff at Malheur Park.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/475592-gop-state-lawmaker-refuses-to-resign-after-report-finds-he-participated?amp
If it comes to blows: In every Blue enclave we have a 5th column of ravenous zombies, led by two invincible Commanders never defeated in siege; General Hunger and General Thirst.
The 5th column being our enemies themselves.
Starve The Beasts. Literally,
Law enforcement today has article on Lyft being woke is going broke- Lyft is against 2d amendment.
Two points; one is the police are very pro 2d A, this not news.
Two: I am wondering if being woke is business necessity for the Broke, Lyft hasn’t turned a profit and has little hope of ever getting to profit. Being woke may be necessary to keep the lights on.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/company-takes-a-public-stand-against-the-second-amendment-now-theyre-going-broke/
Zman, move to Japan and you’d have access to pro-level bike repair and maintenance, free of charge. No joke. Feel like I have to say something nice, can’t make donations to my favorite podcasts this month 🙁
Nice to hear you got support in the enemy camps of east and west coast strongholds. The left knows they’re starting to lose control and they reek of desperation. They’re batshit crazy and on full display for all to see !
Thank you for all you do and much success in 2020
For all the talk about donations you can’t even be bothered to setup up simple bitcoin wallet.
I believe bitcoin is a complex psy-op.
Write about why you believe that. The problem with crypto for the foreseeable future is that it eventually has to be converted to dollars and that’s a choke point available to the government.
Why does anybody believe that something that has a unique digital identifier – is untraceable?
If you believe that – then Bitcoin is a dummy test, that you just failed.
While there is no perfectly anonymous system, the creator of Bitcoin, known as Satoshi, has billions of dollars of Bitcoin held in that blockchain and has not been identified in 10 years.
There are obviously many great motivations to find him. He designed one of the most amazing logical systems of all time and he is a billionaire, on paper anyway. Yet no one can find him.
I know, I was just testing you.
Not sure if it’s a psy-op, but I ran across a large quantity of douchebags when I dabbled in Bitcoin a few years back. First off – the concept that you’re somehow going to keep your money from the government – when you convert it into a hashtag is just laughable. You’re going to throw your money around on the internet – by converting into digital form – with a unique identifier? and the government isn’t going to be able to track that? That sounds like a brilliant idea!! I ran a Bitcoin mining setup for a while as well,… Read more »
Bitcoin & crypto in general have their place in any dissdent’s toolbox. In the internet age every new tech gets hijacked by hype-men babbling about “transformative” effects, singularities, game-changers etc… The Bitcoin “community” has boiled a lot of these guys off. Crypto isn’t going to replace cash and it’s not bulletproof privacy-wise but if you appreciate its limitations it’s useful.
I’m going to guess a lot of us on here don’t play with cryptocurrency. That’s a different subset of people, not likely to cotton to places like this. There are outliers, sure, but by and large, why spend the time for so little reward? I’d guess Z knows his audience.
Crypto is for anonymity above all and you pay a lot of premiums for it – transaction fees and price volatility as well as obvious chances for fraud/theft – the degree to which you are protected from bad operators is generally inverse to the real anonymity you enjoy. It has its uses but I’m not surprised that many guys even in Our Thing haven’t bought in.
I doubt there’s a big risk difference on either end between sending Z cash in an envelope without a return address and crypto unless you are sending heavy $$$.
What did it for me was the Israeli-American kid responsible for the thousands of threats in the US and elsewhere in 2017. Not one single article mentioned his Bitcoin holdings or who was funding him and from where. It was all treated as a local issue by an (18 yr old) autistic kid who just happened to have a quarter-million in Bitcoin.