A popular way to understand the problems of the present is to compare current times to the past. It is popular to say there is nothing new under the sun. That is certainly true regarding the human condition. The mix of people changes over time, but the types of people are fairly fixed. What changes is material progress. There are new things, and those new things are often very important. Those new things create new challenges for those old ways of thinking and acting.
For example, advances in weaponry changed how people related to the people in charge of their society. The crossbow suddenly made it very easy for one man to kill another man from a distance. Even a farmer could quickly learn to use the weapon and be deadly accurate with it. The traditional bow required training and was not as accurate as the new weapon. Suddenly, an angry peasant could take out the king, which changed how the king looked at the peasants.
An example in our age is how technology has made it nearly impossible to know who is making the laws. We have a labyrinth of laws regarding immigration, but no one knows who offered up these laws or when many were created. Exactly no one has ever heard their congressman or senator promise them to increase immigration from Somalia, but it happened. Someone in the law-making system tucked that provision into a bill that no one read, and we suddenly have infinite Somalis.
The truth is, the reason we have the open borders system we have is that a million rats in the system have been gnawing away at the borders for generations. A defense bill will have tucked within in it an obscure passage that removes some provision of a previous bill on immigration. In the farm bill some other gremlin will slip in a provision that replaces that one removed in the defense bill. The old bill that became law years ago is still there but amended over time to be the opposite.
The irony of this is that the argument in favor of liberal democracy is that it opens the law-making process to the public. Laws are proposed in a public forum by legislators, who are elected by the people. Those laws are then debated and voted on by those representatives of the people. If the people do not like how their representative voted they can vote him out of office. Unlike palace intrigue and laws passed by the whims of a king or dictator, it is all out in the open.
This would certainly be true a century ago. The reason is the bills were written by hand and read out loud. Legislators had private correspondence, but it was also written by hand and carried by horse. The only way to conduct business in a parliamentary body was in person and out loud. It also meant the bills were short, as no one was going to write a 6,000-page bill by hand. An American could sit in the gallery and literally watch the laws be written and debated in the Congress.
Today, we have no idea who is writing the bills. There is a vague sense that it is the army of squires in Washington, taking dictation from monied interests. The names of these people are unknown to us. In fact, they are unknown to the legislators who vote on the bills presented to them. None of the bills passed by Congress are read by the men and women voting on them. They simply get an executive summary and calls from their donors as to how they are supposed to vote.
It is not just law making where we see the democratic process overwhelmed by the technological progress of this age. Here is an example from the courts. A century ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment protections only apply to your immediate dwelling. They do not extend to your land. At the time, this meant that the government could walk onto your land and look around for crime. They could not go into your house, but they could walk all around it.
At the time, this seemed perfectly reasonable. You can’t reasonably ask someone to not look at something in plain sight. Modern technology, however, has now taken this bit of common sense and turned it into another tool of the police state. The government can install cameras on your property and record your comings and goings. A century ago, this outcome was impossible to imagine, so no one imagined it. Technology does not just make dreams come true. It makes the unimaginable into reality.
Here is the thing. We have no idea who decided that the court permitted this new intrusion on our privacy. Clearly, the court did not say it is okay for the government to install cameras on your property. Someone in the system looked for a way to do this and found that court ruling. No one knows who that person is because it is probably a collection of people. Like the rats eating away at the border, these rats gnaw away at other aspects of civil society.
A reason America is in crisis is that no one knows who is responsible. The left-wing rioters we saw in the summer were not acting irrationally. Sure, they were mostly rental mobs, but let us suppose they were motivated by legitimate grievances. Where can they go with them? To whom would they make their appeal? The Right is now facing the same dilemma. Where do they go for a redress of their grievances? Who can they blame for the censorship regime we have now?
Since aggrieved citizens cannot put a name to the problem, they are left with attacking the system itself. Technology plus liberal democracy has ended up with a war between the system and the people. Technology has made the democratic process a black box that even the legislators do not understand. It is a system in which no one is responsible for anything, so the system itself becomes responsible. The only option for the disgruntled is to smash the system.
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And why not smash the system? What legitimacy does it have? We just watched the spectacle of a more than 5000 page bill introduced and passed in a couple days. How could the interests of the people possibly be represented by such a farce? The fact that people do not realize that was a far worse desecration of the halls of Congress than the brief, frustrated scuffle on Jan. 6 makes me want to weep.
Reforming the system at this point would be like retrofitting a stagecoach for UPS deliveries.
reforming the system might not even be worth it, i look at highly developed singapore and i see 1.14 births per woman, technology drains the vitality out of its people, yeah, they have zero crime, strong economy and good schools, but the strict corporate rules, the cameras, the robotic lifestyle leads to suicide. People and especially kids kill themselves like crazy over there, all due to techno democracy.
Reform is definitely not worth it. It’s possible, even feasible, but the needs of society and the way it functions now means that starting from scratch is most likely more cost- and time-effective. I just hope the new system bans advertising and ends limited liability.
Reform cannot work. All reform will do is set the clock back 20 years or some other number of years. Because the problem is not the system. The system is fine. The problem is the people in power. I heard someone the other day say that no set of rules will restrain evil people. Evil people will always find a way to lawyer the rules to do whatever they want. The Constitution specifically prevents the government from banning arms and we have entire classes of people who cannot own firearms and entire classes of firearms that cannot be owned by… Read more »
Rules don’t exist to restrain evil, they exist for the retribution of evil. They form a framework for the process of soberly determining guilt (mens rea) or innocence fairly and accurately, and meting out effective retribution. Obviously, no system is corruption-proof, but some systems are better at determination and retribution than others.
I don’t mean criminal law. I mean rules meant to restrain and constrain our rulers.
I’d add the crazy cost of living and island fever as factors contributing to unhappiness in Singapore.
“Reforming the system at this point would be like retrofitting a stagecoach for UPS deliveries.”
More like retrofitting it for space flight.
And why not smash the system? What legitimacy does it have?
Mostly because they have the guns. Which is all the legitimacy anyone ever needed. Killing this beast will require a thousand cuts. Confronting it head on is a suicide mission.
Agreed. There’s a reason why the U.S. won the first Gulf War but will lose this time around in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Whites might consider studying the Troubles in Ireland or the way Muslims carve out their neighborhoods in Europe today.
The next war will be won by the side willing to grind it out day after day. It won’t be heroic. It’ll be messy and dirty.
I can now understand why the Taliban is willing to die for their way of life, and why our own soldiers are increasingly unwilling to.
current leaders don’t really get war, the reason alexander, romans, muslims and mongols were successful at conquering was cause the soldiers were promised booty and sex slaves, who da heck wants to go to war to bring women and homosexuals freedom and democracy. Also, they were allowed to wipe out people back then.
That shit might’ve worked in the past when europe was much more technologically developed than the rest of the world, but those days are long gone.
About ten years go in a neighboring town from where I lived one of your classic good-ole boys joined the military because is ‘was the right thing to do’.
He was killed in action, and practically the whole town went to the funeral.
That patriotic sentiment in small town Americana of just a decade ago is already almost extinguished.
but, muh constitution? Muh rule of law?
haha, I’ve always wanted to say that…
Very true and very wise. Many of us now know WHAT the problem is, and more will awaken as real hardship spreads throughout the land. The near-term task is to educate others on HOW best to solve the problem. Education and training are vital at this stage. No military sends raw recruits directly into battle. There is always a boot camp, at minimum.
The biggest cut would be to encourage massive amounts of deficit spending. Demand massive bailouts for everyone and lots of stimulus checks. Heck, UBI would be good too. Once debt levels are high enough, bond issuance becomes impossible and the government’s choices are severe austerity (bankruptcy) or currency devaluation. At that point it’s done.
Today the halls of Congress are lined with armed Guard troops, most of whom look to be young White men. We are so fooked.
I’d say it’s because they claim the monopoly on violence and the majority of the populace still assent to that idea.
Can you desecrate a whorehouse?
In fact, Ashli Babbitt consecrated that ground, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what is said there, but it can never forget what she did there. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Wow, that should drive the leftists crazy. Using Lincoln to eulogize Ashli Babbitt.
I second that. The challenge is how, no longer whether, to smash the system. We don’t know how robust it is.
Technology has made the democratic process a black box that even the legislators do not understand.
Wait until whites figure out that not only is the democratic process a black box but that they’re even shut out of the democratic process itself. It’s one thing to have your own elected representatives not doing what you want; it’s quite another to have representatives who hate you voting for black box legislation.
The system will have no moral authority over whites. What’s more, whites will have no hope of ever gaining back control of the system. That’s when things get interesting.
It’s sad to see so many normiecon and Christian whites thinking that voting harder for blue (Conservative party) means they will get change.
It got us nothing before; now it’s clearly a fraud anyways, as they can stuff the ballots.
Unfortunately whites are so clueless that poverty and disenfranchisement might be the only slap hard enough to make them wake up.
And smashed it needs to be. Someone somewhere once said the average person may break several “laws” a day just going around and minding their own business. There are probably, literally millions of laws and regulations on the books that have accumulated over time. The depth, breadth and myriad is most likely unfathomable. It ALL needs to be smashed, incinerated and restarted from square one.
We are all guilty at all times of committing some crime or another. And most people know this.
In the past, this wasn’t a big deal because the govt wasn’t out to get us. As the Left solidifies control and begins to arbitrarily start destroying white lives, this “guilty at all times” situation will become much more serious.
“show me the man, I’ll show you the crime”
That’s where the boot on the face comes in.
I think many previously law abiding whites are learning a little bit about committing crimes with the new China flu restrictions. Only the true lunatics are following them closely.
Maybe we can apply it to “other things”. But on the other side we are now truly guilty at all times, how many of us even know every China flu rule and reg.
It started with the tax code, actually. It was made so complex anyone likely could be charged with tax evasion even with the best accountant on earth. The USA has been a police state a long time. The emergence of the surveillance state along with political prisoners has just forced more people to realize it.
A brilliant point. I have spent much time trying to understand some aspects of the UK’s tax system, and I thought exactly as you did: if I was in charge, and I didn’t like someone, this would be a great pretext to charge them with something.
Thanks. The cliché here used to be the feds were not able to nail Al Capone for muder but got him for tax evasion. People who mouthed that didn’t think through the implications.
Complex regulations of life and business have eclipsed the tax codes now as ways to criminalize people. Even best faith efforts will not avoid violations of law.
And the income tax codes lead us directly to the Interstate Commerce Clause and its abuses: the regulation of all human activity.
With an income tax, the citizen was under scrutiny and control, instead of kapitalists as before.
I’ve heard that literally no one knows how many federal laws and regulations exist. But really, does “the law” even matter any more?
GOod point, its to act unilaterally, or tyrannically, this mass of paperwork allows them to do just that. Then, after they railroad someone, or re-settle 10K El Salvadorians, they hire a legion of scribes to dig up the “law” that allowed them to do what they want.
At taxpayers expense.
we should all use this time to disengage if you haven’t already. Do not watch their stupid blm league and other pro and college sports, their insipid anti-white tv shows, movies, and commercials. By all means stay out of the cities (or move if you live in one now – that includes you, Z) and try to keep your trade and dealings and relations as close to home as possible. We need to all lay low and be the sleeping giant that we collectively are. This is what they fear. They fear that tipping point, they fear our awakening. That’s… Read more »
The system they sold to their supporters cannot possibly work. In fact, their own voters are leaving the cities and states where it has been tried. They will either have to double down causing pain for everyone or they will have to renege on their program which will piss off their true believers. Regardless, their will be a honeymoon but it will be short lived. BLM is already complaining about being thrown under the bus.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
This is a trick used by tyrannical regimes. First, they make everything illegal. Then, when they come after you, they can point to the law. When they let their friends off, they can point to prosecutorial discretion.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BUOP1BWLWXUD&d
That book speaks quite a bit about this. (Yes I linked to Amazon, a whole other topic…)
Also, the #2 best seller on Amazon right now is 1984. LOL! Better late than never or sad and too little too late? Why the f-ck is normie always 10 years behind the curve at a minimum? It is incredibly frustrating. The writing has been on the wall for a LONG time. Too busy grilling & chilling & sportballing I suppose…
Speaking as a former Normie, we’re fighting generations of indoctrination. Z is right that it takes people time to reach our side of the great divide.
Also, there are a lot of gatekeepers out there to misdirect us. Even some 90% on our side – such as Sailer – give hope to transforming Normies that there’s still a chance to talk/vote our way out.
It’s hard to realize how bad things are and what’s needed to be done.
grillin’ and chillin’! Hehe…
Darkness at Noon would be a better purchase at this point for them.
Library or buy used books instead and don’t use Amazon. There are alternatives. Thriftbooks.com. Free shipping when you spend $10.00.
Added bonus from buying used books, you are not (directly) sending money to global publishing companies (who hate you).
“the average person may break several “laws” a day just going around and minding their own business.”
I broke the law by celebrating Christmas with my family. A fitting end to Year 2020.
If you think National Socialism and Communism died ugly, wait until you see how Liberal Democracy dies. Something tells me it’s going to give it’s competitors a run for their money when it comes to body counts.
Communism actually died with a whimper. Once all the old Leninists and Maoists died off the nations that they were in, they switched to something else. Now the death of the monarchies was ugly and is probably closer to our situation as well.
Communism didn’t die, it just underwent a reorganization to implement a new business strategy to enhance shareholder value and give stakeholders a voice.
Mark Steyn pointed out it took 4 years to end 500 years of Westphalian empires: WW1.
I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that 2020 will be looked back at as the “good year” compared to what’s coming this spring and summer and the following years. God help us!
It all depends on how much energy the angry MAGA right still has. Have they gotten snakebitten from the Capitol rush? I know protests at all 50 state capitals is being planned…will these be a show of force, or will they be a clown show? Will there be false flags or bad actors planted? If so, will the legitimate angry MAGA right keep up the pressure despite the inevitable state & media hammer brought down on them? If the angry MAGA right fizzles out, then 2021 will be calm. We’ll have more liberal authoritarianism for sure, but no real resistance… Read more »
Biden is openly discriminating agains Whites in government loans, while simultaneously saying its time to unite and heal. How could people not continue to be enraged…?
“Whites, unite with us when we kill you for America” Biden 2021
“Calm down long enough for us to finish the job of replacing you and the West”
I will continue to be enraged, but one man can’t fight city hall alone
I, for one, am feelin’ the healin’!
Declaring the majority of the country to be domestic terrorists under the coming Anti-Patriot Act? Now that’s Unity!
My anecdotal experience has been mixed. Some are angry at the protestors because they still think the left can be reasoned with and others, from unusual places were surprised it took this long. Millions of dissidents were created whether they show up next week or not. I think the rallies next week will be a litmus test to see how cowed the normiecons are.
I dont’ see the “thats not who we are,” or the ” we condemn all forms of violence” being viable for the right.
We are in open war with a hostile enemy. We need to stop acting as if we are arguing with a family member. We are fighting for our lives!
My immediate response to the first “that’s not who we are” I read, I think it was Don Jr., was “No, that’s exactly who we are. The kind of people who cross a frozen river at night on Christmas Day to kill you in your sleep.”
Hopefully there’s still enough of that spirit buried in us.
Once Trump is gone, things likely will calm down. As Covid vaccines get distributed, people will start going back to normal as well. Finally, the economy will continue to improve, although probably slower than expected but still getting better. So, yeah, 2021 could be fairly calm. But the seeds of future problems will be sewn. The Left will open the border, start the process of writing Hate Crime legislation, which will be coupled with 2nd Amendment restrictions, creating housing programs to give blacks houses in white neighborhoods, etc. The overt anti-white agenda will start to get put in place. Then,… Read more »
I feel that the pandemic is not going to come to a close. I think the tyranny will be ramped up.
Why go to so much trouble just to go back to normal quickly?
No sign of an end date, or end plan, is there? No one influential has said word one of a wrap up of this nonsense.
People still wear their stupid masks!
They can reduce the number of cycles in the PCR tests in order to reduce the number of “new cases”, thereby claiming a victory for the new administration.
There’s always time for more pandemics when needed.
Dude the lock downs are not going away. The Left now has a tool to control the people that is unparalleled And when has the Left cared about the economy? They are quite content in wrecking it if you had bothered to pay attention to what has happened over the last 9 months Sure if you’re some drone in a office, life is fine. But for those in the service industry and small businesses they are getting bent over. Commercial real estate is in bad way and no signs of it getting better. You don’t even notice the precedents that… Read more »
MAGA could actually use some BRAINS.
Those planned state rallies are federal honey pots designed to sucker in MAGA types to discredit the movement and id potential leaders among the MAGA peeps and neutralize them.
I agree. Stay home and deny them any legitimacy.
I was watching CNN reinforce the lede planted by the FBI of “50 state capitals.” They were showing the few rowdies on the Capitol, with “THIS IS A DRILL” strangely pasted across the top. No headlines beyond Drudge, so I listened to radio for the latest, and found the Left powerhouses, Tom Hartmann (former SDS, 60s radical) and Joe Madison (BLM) also repeating the lede, “we’ve got to shoot first- Trumplicans are threatening our Republic!” They want the threat of a war. Rumour is that the National Guard will have live fire rounds for the duration of the ‘national emergency’… Read more »
“You must pass the bill to find out what’s in it,” as the lady said.
Technology plus liberal democracy has ended up with a war between the system and the people.
But some technologies empowers the people more than they do the system. This, for instance, was the case with typeset print, without which neither the Reformation nor the French Revolution would have happened.
The Internet is typeset on quatum stereoids, The Internet is on the side of the people and The Internet will prevail, just like the typeset press did.
Maybe. But the Internet also allows rulers to monitor their people in a way they never could in the past.
True.
But the internet works both ways, as opposed to the Television Age, where the cameras only pointed in one direction. We see their hypocrisy now, their shallowness and their evil, and we see their agenda.
It used to work both ways. But the tech overlords have armies of SJWs pouring through every corner of the internet, scrubbing and deplatforming everything in their wake.
Good. They’re getting rid of the grifters and the deadwood, people who rail against tech monopoly from their pulpits on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
The demand for right-wing political conversations is only going to grow in the future and where’s a market, there’s a supply.
They tried the same with the printshops in 16th and 17th Europe but when every blacksmith can set up his own shop, you can’t stop the tide, as the greatest Danish king of all times noted.
Google, Apple, Amazon, FB, Twitter, GoDaddy, major banks and a handful of others can choke off just about anything from our side. Not to mention the ISP companies that are still allowing our content. I’m sure you are correct that supply will follow demand, but I just don’t see how at this point. Hopefully it’s water flowing downstream, that always finds its way somehow. Perhaps the more effective they are now, the harder the blowback will be. They are crating a vacuum, and we know what nature thinks of that.
For what it’s worth, most all of my Hate Twatter feeds are still pumpin’ and pissed. The race is on.
We know how the equipment works, as well as they do. Such knowledge cannot be cancelled or deplatformed.
They need us, still. Biggest white pill of the day.
White Serf Slowdown!
(I’m not going to drop this copypasta in the top level, but here is my modest proposal to fix the legislative process and have every politician out in the street yelling, selling pencils from a paper cup; all neat and legal within the current constitutional and legal framework of most Western countries.) 1) You establish a political party, get elected to the legislature. 2) You establish a website where every item on the legislative agenda is put to a vote among the party members – comments enabled, of course. The result of this vote is transferred proportionally to your members… Read more »
It would be like social media, only upvoting or downvoting would actually make a difference.
I had a similar idea although not quite as detailed as yours. Mine was simply that each bill was placed on the website of the parliamentarian and if over a certain % of constituents voted in the ‘constituency informal referendum’ – say 25%, the majority hold sway. If less then 25% the MP votes as he/she sees fit. I prefer your version though. I also had an idea re funding. No MP receives a salary or expenses to run their office but gets crowd funded by the constituency. There is a cap of say £500/year/constituent. The same for the party,… Read more »
We’re on the exact same page! That takes the parties out of the grip of donors (unions for Labour and wealthy elites for Conservatives). It forces the parties to work for their voters. Precisely! It’s no use bribing a guy if he could lose all his power the next day. And here’s how we get the vote, in my model: our party representatives – those guys we physically elect to the legislature – are basically just votebots doing as the website consensus tells them to. Everyone could do it, as long as you can operate a smart phone. So we… Read more »
I have sermonized about this for more than a decade, and I’m always surprised that people don’t seem to see the potential.
Nice. Damian for Master-at-Arms!
Add in automatic length and sunset limits, and I vote King Krull for a constitutional monarchy.
Who says we can’t come up with a better offer, eh. Kudos to the King!
No, thanks.
slow clapping my friend, slow clapping!
What’s interesting in this day and age is a complete lack of any effort to reform the system from within. In other ages even Louis 16 and Nicholas 2 tried their hand at salvaging their doomed systems.
Do you think? Thats encouraging… However, don’t you think the technology is there to have info on everyone? And know their whereabouts? Even listen to their conversations and video record them?
it almost seems like the interweb is beter for the tyrants, than for (holding my nose) democracy….
<i>However, don’t you think the technology is there to have info on everyone? And know their whereabouts? Even listen to their conversations and video record them?</i>
The key word is “everyone”. It goes for the elite too.
And the internet brought Trump to the White House, so there’s that.
It also took him out of the White House!
Lack of internet took him out.
That’s why the 1st is the basis of liberty, not the 2nd. There’s a reason they’re put in that order.
Lack of internet took him out.
Even if Trump legitimately lost the election, his political career is a testimony to the power of The Internet. They threw everything at him and still he nearly won.
Imagine what the world would look like, if we’d had a level playing field.
good point
good point, and reason to beleive theres a lot of more or less, like minded crackers out there
Transparency. No “national security” or “private business” escape hatches while in office.
No Secrets- if “we” are going to kill somebody over there, I want them to know it, and for us to give the o.k.
All a pipe dream, but still
True – it was stated – but that was not a lady
Honestly I’ve been one of those who have thought and talked about the bad times coming but in the back of my mind I really didn’t think it would. Reality has reared it’s ugly head and put me back in my place and honestly the coming storm looks to make last centuries atrocities look like a boy scout get together.
Let this cup pass from me
Everyone has their moment of fear. Gather your resources, friends and wits about you, Brother. The worst may befall you. We all suffer death in this place one way or another. It is, ultimately, how we bear it that solely counts.
Good advice. Thank you sir.
Now that that realization has arrived, your obligation to yourself is to act. And not rashly, but intelligently. Chances are that both your mind and body are not yet well prepared to face the new future. Start there. Go dark, get fit, and start cogitating about how best to exert yourself in the coming months. You still control your mind and body. Hone those assets into something formidable.
An important reminder! Don’t worry about scale (of your influence, response, or actions against you) but instead focus on what you control right now. Don’t forget to stop funding those that want to enslave you (Pretty much the Fortune 500 brands).
To continue with that: Used to be when the king’s son shat his reputation – the parties involved could be quietly bought off, intimidated, or eliminated and the whole thing hushed up. Today we see Biden’s crackheaded son snorting coke off a 14 year old prostitute’s ass on video. We see Tyrone and Laquisha flipping votes during the electoral counts. We see Mitt cucking to his neoliberal masters in real-time. We have Hillary’s emails. The ruling class can no longer deal under the table, or in the back room behind closed doors. Regardless of their political stripe, the servants will… Read more »
The powers that be, who were funding Facebook and Google with billions of dollars of venture capital cash, only thought that a left wing revolution would emerge from this. They never anticipated the level of transparency we see now and even then it’s almost opaque. We’re likely only seeing 1% at best of all the awful stuff going on. As neoliberalism marches forward, they need to return to old media opacity. The 2020s are all about stuffing the genie back in the bottle while thrashing the peasantry for being so curious. The good old days of low literacy while priests… Read more »
Yep. Our rulers want to go back to social arrangements similar to feudal times. A large middle class is a nightmare for these people. It’s dangerous and uppity.
A large middle class is what got us here though.
Without going into whether tech/social media works for the State or the State works for tech/social media (more likely), it seems the deplatforming is precisely due to the concern the rot no longer can be concealed. And, in fact, the rot will not be concealed. Samizdat will emerge. The fools didn’t realize samizdat via Parler and so forth was their best bet because it could be monitored.
The cracks in the empire are widening, hence the increased police state measures. The rest of the world is horrified, and should be. We should be as well, but also elated.
I wonder though. I closed my Bookface account back in 2006. Never signed up for Twatter… but got directed there by the links from time to time… how efficient is their censorship anyways? I actually saw plenty of crime-think going on, myself. These guys obviously can’t regulate their own platforms all that efficiently…
Torba over at Gab is getting so swamped with new arrivals that he can’t keep up. The Streisand Effect is only amplifying the signal.
There’s going to be lots of sport and merriment in the days ahead, bought and paid for by the shitlibs…
As with so many institutions, representative government breaks down once it reaches a certain level of size and complexity. The most raw power I’ve ever experienced was as a lobbyist to the state legislature. Zman is spot on. We wrote the bills and shopped them to pliable staff members, who are the folks that really sell the idea to the elected and their constituents. The electeds are driven by two needs: funds for reelection and approval from the voters, which in practice means avoiding disapproval. You may have promised voters gold, but you spend your time polishing turds and touting… Read more »
I’ve seen Congress from the inside. It acts the same way. Lobbyists write sections of the bill. Staff decide whether to pitch it to the rep or senator.
Later, staff and rep/senator go to work as lobbyists. Rinse and repeat.
So its been “fascist” (corporate and government) for a long time.
Exactly no one has ever heard their congressman or senator promise them to increase immigration from Somalia, but it happened. Someone in the law-making system tucked that provision into a bill that no one read, and we suddenly have infinite Somalis.
I wonder at the behest of who was this written, such a mistery
“Huzzah, we have achieved INFINITE SOMALIS!!”
“My god man…we wanted INFINITE SALAMIS! You’ve doomed us all!!!”
Its a great point. It makes the world america by principle.
Someone.. ?? The CIA After our involvement in Vietnam, we saw an uptick of Vietnamese immigrating to the USA. After Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s, coupled with the CIA clandestinely fighting there, we saw an uptick of Afghanis immigrating to the USA. After Black Hawk Down, we saw an uptick in Somalis immigrating to the USA. In each case (there are many others) the CIA is helping their foreign allies come to the USA. How do you think Ilhan Omar, the daughter of a warlord, got here? If a few bad apples manage to sneak in at the same… Read more »
what? who?
No one knows who that person is because it is probably a collection of people. This is very astute. Excellent post. I think it allows a lot of people to make decisions that don’t SEEM nefarious when they are making them, but combined with dozens or even hundred of other little decisions, it creates something that no one understands. I think the real result, is lawlessness. Can someone really violate an immigration law? But their are some people that are responsible. The SCOTUS is responsible for a lot, and we can point to those people. Casey vs Planned Parenthood, stuff… Read more »
Reminds me of the metaphor by Maurice Barcheche: “The anarchic freedom of democracy does not just permit the diversion of the popular will and its exploitation for private interests, it has still more serious consequences. It opens life on all sides to every inundation, to every miasma, to every foul wind, without barriers to decadence, exploitation, and above all mediocrity. It makes us live on a steppe that everyone can invade. There is a word for purely negative order: the defense of freedom. But this freedom is like a drug you try once, it is a chrism one receives, and… Read more »
Disneyland is now a mass liquidation site straight out of Logan’s Run or Soylent Green:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/disneyland-becomes-mass-vaccination-super-site
Probably how new Disney characters will be created – just don’t know the form when the “vaccine” really kicks in – it’ll be a surprise.
I believe there are multiple variants.
Some cause sterility, some cause terminal cancer, some cause a cytokine storm, and some cause wasting autoimmune disorders.
Disney not content to corrupt only minds goes for the twofer. I have no sympathy for whatever happens to anyone who voluntarily submits to this.
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Fight fire with fire.
New Skills & Habits (Cont)
Casual reconnaissance is your friend. Stroll through your town or city and observe carefully. Use what you know and add the new observations to your knowledge base. Memorize only and share nothing. Take occasional road trips and visit places of interest. Be a tourist or combine work and hobby. Study paper maps in your spare time. The library is a great source of augmenting information. Visit and learn. And do so solely in the first person, avoid internet searches like it was immediate death.
Normally The Federalist is worthless, but this report is a small bit of evidence of normies crossing over to the other side. A lawyer and his wife relocate from Austin, Texas to Maryville, TN thinking they are moving to an area safe from progressive madness. They quickly realize progressives control the local Presbyterian college and have infiltrated institutions throughout the county. The locals are too complacent to do anything about it because they think showing up and voting Republican takes care of their problems. People are waking up, but it may already be too late.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/13/leftists-are-colonizing-red-towns-like-mine-and-local-republicans-are-clueless/
theres the problem: local College.
The town is also within commuting distance from Knoxville. I don’t know the area, but I am sure that doesn’t help.
Technology has made the tax code incomprehensible as well. Congress can add as many complex provisions as it wishes, because most people, and every corporation, has software to fill out their returns. No one knows the details of their return. I have a friend who still tries to do his taxes with paper and a pen. He has a rental property, so the complexity is absurd. Last year I had to file an amended return for him (using TurboTax, of course) because he inevitably made some mistakes.
In fact, Ashli Babbitt consecrated that ground, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what is said there, but it can never forget what she did there. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Someone said something similar to that +/- 150 years ago. Ironically, it is still remembered.
Remains to be seen if Ms. Babbit is remembered 15 weeks, or months hence.
The right wing naturally wants hierarchy, and a leader in the public who is responsible. Modern democracy wants the opposite, and will actively purge any movement around a leader. All of our laws are written in such a way that anyone who brings the attention of the State or corporations on them is going to have a bad time. The only control on the surveillance state is to act in a way as to not bring their attention upon you. Slip stuff in while prowling in the shadows. Do based things with plausible deniability. If rats want to act this… Read more »
Speaking of using technology on the masses, the Stalin Junior Dating League will also flip on you if you aren’t wearing appropriate State Approved Garb on Tinder, Bumble, etc. https://www.thelily.com/one-way-women-in-dc-are-identifying-pro-trump-rioters-dating-apps/?tid=recommended_by_lily Lefty White Women are by far the most dangerous thing for us because of their protected status and willingness to conform at all costs. They are literally calling the FBI on random men on Tinder, etc. that is so surreal I can barely conceptualize it. Orwell nailed this 100% about the young women being the ‘largest of slogan swallowers and rooting out of unorthodoxy’. Herding animals don’t know any other… Read more »
There was an article that reported on a guy who said he was getting an insane amount of requests on a dating app since he was pictured storming the Capitol.
Rest assured, even most of the women calling the FBI are turned on by stuff like that.
And their absolute ruthlessness and vindictiveness. There goes your White ethno-state
“The only option for the disgruntled is to smash the system.”
And when you take away all the legal options, the only ones left are extra-legal. The fools in the Ruling Class have ordered up one hell of a mess for themselves.
Great essay.
The question becomes what is the answer and the next step?
I think we all here are thinking and looking for that and I hope those ideas that succeed come from this forum. It’s entirely possible and likely 50 years from now our descendants can read the Z blog and see the beginning of the new age.
Then there were the Bush-Clinton wars in Somalia that wrecked the country 25-30 years ago. Who authorized that?
The globalist elites felt that they got a black eye from doing nothing in Rwanda. No one actually in America cared all that much, but I guess it’s hard to carry on being the world’s policeman if elites sit on the sidelines while some African dump goes to hell and a couple hundred thousand (black) people are slaughtered. With that in the back of their mind, the images of starving kids in Somalia gave them a cause with which they could find forgiveness for their imagined sins. The fact that we probably killed more people than we saved is not… Read more »
If you look at any bill’s statement of purpose, you will always find the term “… and for other things”, which allows a bill to be applied for reasons other than specifically prescribed.
Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a giant question-beg that has done incalculable damage to our education system, but he’s got a point for all that. Every paradigm works until the “contradictions” pile up to the point where it’s unworkable, after which the entire system MUST collapse. Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomers don’t merely disagree; they literally can’t understand each other, and since the former owe their entire position within the system to the old paradigm, they defend it to the death…
look at the SoS
seems like the left is doing a good job of smashing the system all on their own. these klowns have proven they cannot govern, so look for lots of finger pointing and internecine fighting, as it all grinds to a halt. one thing that will be fun is watching the covidians keep the pandemic thing going when the progs want to move past it.
Spot on. Mu nieces husband is a lobbyist for a certain special interest group here in CA and has written bills that were signed into law. The assemblymen and state senators had no input, they just voted on said bill. From what I’ve been told is that most bills are now written by lobbyists and the pols just rubber stamp them. Look at the PATRIOT ACT, it was already written and ready to go before 9/11. NAFTA was never read by it’s supporters but was still voted into law. Oh yeah there was no debate on it either/ Clinton “fast… Read more »
Wow!
I remember Al Gore and Larry King ganging up on Perot in a NAFTA debate on Larry King Live in the fall of 93. Back in those days it was fashionable for regular conservatives to be pro free trade and pro NAFTA since they didn’t realize they were being mercilessly hosed by it yet.
I disagree. That is the difference between influence and power. If Congress were properly motivated, they could put a stop to this over night. The President could put a stop to a lot of this over night. The donors phoning in their favors are just that, looking for favors from the people with power. People are not yet desperate enough to hold these people accountable. But they have names, they have addresses, they have children, they have wives and husbands and they live among us. Maybe in a different part of town, but they still live among us. The rot… Read more »
Happy New Year to our comrades in the USSA.
When Angela Merkel (and other European leaders) make public statements that they find it “problematic” that Trump’s Twitter and online social media accounts have been permanently suspended, you know your country has serious problems.
Forget about 1984, you’re just days away from 1938.
I heard a podcast last night that mentioned a conspiracy theory that the titanic was deliberately sunk to kill off a bunch of rich guys so that the federal income tax could be started without the opposition of the rich guys killed off, or something like that. I’m now starting to believe crazy crap like that.
I think you’ve put the cart before the horse a bit in your example from the courts. The way the system has worked is that the government can do pretty much anything it chooses, and only after the fact can the courts say “you can’t do that.” In the past the various government agencies would have been leery of being slapped down by the courts so the various heads of agencies would be reluctant to take a course that was debatable. Now, all bets are off, the agencies see the people as the problem and consequently will do anything the… Read more »
The big problem is a government that’s too big to properly manage and fund. We now have a population of what? 330 million? Who knows, since citizenship is handed out like Coscto samples (at least pre-mask era). Every new census creates more populated districts, with one rep representing hundreds of thousands now (over 700k and soon to climb). But it gets worse than that. The population, for many years now, has been bribed with its own money to STFU. Liz Cheney is a perfect example as she perches herself on a at-large Wyoming district. If you’ve seen a picture of… Read more »
Modern communication is the biggest chink in their armor. They need it to maintain legitimacy and they really need the lucre it produces. And yet, it seems that without a drop of blood shed, it’s one thing we could kick out from under them. The elites may have redundancy and firewalls built into their systems but if the firehose of globohomo propaganda somehow gets shut off from the greater public, their grip on us weakens considerably. Would your local school board have closed schools in the last 12 months if its members weren’t watching panic porn every night on the… Read more »
We also have the problem that, to use your example of the cameras on your property, even if you found said cameras and even if you complained, it’s all an elaborate byzantine process that would take years and years to resolve and practically unlimited amounts of money. You would have to somehow sue for relief. Given that every government office is peopled by vast numbers of functionaries and every topic takes several approvals and committees and suchlike, you basically only have rights insofar as nobody has chosen to violate them yet. If your rights are violated, good luck getting anyone… Read more »
Pelosi announces Fang-Fang Swalwell as House Impeachment manager:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-names-eric-swalwell-house-impeachment-manager
They’re telling us who’s really in charge and rubbing our noses in it.
The terrible, terrible optics of all those pictures of hundreds of troops sleeping on the floor of the Capitol, during impeachment is something. I can only imagine what a Soviet military parade the inaugural will look like. Whatever damaging optics a cave man at the Speakers chair were, it really did cause unforced errors in its wake. It just goes to show, sometimes a protest done right, while superficially achieving nothing, causes hundreds of unforced errors in overreaction. Saul Alinsky would nod his head in agreement.
The usual suspects attempting to end the electoral college:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dem-lawmaker-introduces-resolution-abolish-electoral-college-how-would-it-be-done
” Clearly, the court did not say it is okay for the government to install cameras on your property. Someone in the system looked for a way to do this and found that court ruling. No one knows who that person is because it is probably a collection of people.” There is a people dwelling among us, who supply most of our lawyers, judges, and increasingly politcians (Ossoff in GA, Cohen of TN who just introduced a bill to abolish the EC), and who are especially talented at sniffing out, or creating, loopholes in the “penumbras and emanations” of laws and… Read more »