Note: The Monday Taki post is up. After sending it off I thought about the idea of world building, so I addressed than a bit today. The Sunday podcast is up behind the green door and it is mostly about the usual stuff.
The old paleo-conservative gag about the demand for Nazis exceeding the available supply has become something of an iron law of the universe. Each generation discovers that the American Left is obsessed with fascists, white supremacists, the Klan and so on, despite these things no longer being real. Other than some cartoonish play-acting by those desperate for attention, these things are no longer real. They certainly play no role in politics or the general culture.
The lack of supply, however, has been no deterrence, especially now that the internet allows people to create these reality from thin air. The intensively on-line far-left invests all of its time finding someone they can label as the bogeyman or one the many members of the bogeyman army. The Antifa subculture, for example, is organized around the hunt for fascists and white supremacists. They spend all day looking for new baddies and obsessing over the prior baddies.
This being America, this means there is a subgenre of fringe-left media that caters to this subculture with ghost stories about Nazis. Hoffer said that all mass movements in America become a corporation, a racket or a business. The world of on-line hate-hunters is a racket that supplies world building materials to the intensively on-line Left so they can maintain their fantasy space. The witch hunters need witches, so there are people supplying them with witches.
This obsession with imaginary fascists is written off as the work of the mentally unstable, which is true, but it is more than that. What these people are doing is world-building within the alternative reality of their own creation. They live in a reality that says they are the guardians of the future utopia, keeping the world safe from its enemies, which come in many styles and guises. In order to keep this fantasy going, they have to find characters that fit the role of the villain.
In a way, this subculture has become something like the massive on-line role playing games that sprang up a dozen years ago. People can join, but they have to assume a character and then join a band on-line. This band is a set of social media accounts that support one another in their imaginary struggle. Doxing is both a weapon and a world building tool. The revelation of someone in league with the Dark One helps perpetuate the fantasy by supplying social proof to the members.
This is why these people look so outlandishly weird when they turn up in public to riot with other fantasy groups or hold what amounts to a street convention. They take their on-line character out into the real world, but the real world does not have these sorts of people or the bogeymen they are chasing. Antifa, BLM, furries, cosplayers, the alt-right and so on are normal in the alternative reality of their subculture, because the rules of that subculture have been created to normalize this stuff.
That is how to view the now defunct alt-right. Like the intensely on-line far-left, the alt-right formed up on-line as a form of escapism. They quickly became a foil for the intensely on-line far-left, because the interaction with that subculture shaped them into the much needed opponent. The intensely on-line libertarians became intensely on-line fascists because that gave them an enemy, the intensely on-line antifascists, who were happy to have the new villain in their version of reality.
It is not just the intensely on-line far-left that lives in an alternative reality. The anti-Trump movement quickly evolved into an alternative reality. Of course, its was the existing alternative realties of neoconservatives, the intensely on-line far-left and others that coalesced around this new boss introduced to the game. Trump allowed these alternative realties to align against a commonly imagined enemy. It is why they cannot stop talking about him, even after he has been defeated.
Eric Hoffer famously said that mass movements can survive without a god but they must always have a devil. This seems to be true of these alternative realities that are shaping the reality of the modern age. The inherent conflict with reality is masked by the obsession with imaginary adversaries. This has now become a form of world building where the players invest their time inventing new bosses to fight, always based on the general archetype required of their alternative reality.
While this phenomenon is mostly a product of the internet, it is jumping from the virtual into the physical world. The ridiculous Spotify story is a good example. The people running this company are responding to a fictional controversy, when they could easily ignore it. This is because many of the people who work at the firm are also deep into one of these alternative realities where Joe Rogan is the devil. In other words, the alterative realty is spilling into the reality of the CEO.
Of course, the people occupying the C-suites at these companies are not exactly living in reality either. Theirs is a world that is as alien to the daily reality of normal people as the reality of the intensely on-line far-left. In their world, the gesture counts for more than an action. If the Spotify CEO were to tell these loons to bleep-off, that would be viewed as a bad gesture in his reality. It would suggest he is not sensitive to their perspectives and in that reality, insensitivity is a mortal sin.
Much like the intensely on-line far-left, our ruling class is now increasingly occupied with world building in order to make their reality more realistic. The Covid panic is a great example, where a whole industry grew up to feed materials to the world builders of this fantasy game of pandemic. A bizarre aspect of the mass media age is that the ruling class now has an unquenchable thirst for crises. In the absence of real problems, they busy themselves creating them.
Of course, there are real problems, but those problems are boring. Like the kid who has played the game so many times he no longer finds it interesting, the ruling elite no longer has an interest in fixing roads or addressing the issues of society. As Pete Buttigieg made clear the other day, fixing potholes is boring. Instead, he will focus on make traffic fatalities more equitable. This new quest will allow him to have much more fun and feel much more important.
Diverging realities is not exactly new. The French Revolution featured at least two alternative realities. There was the reality of the Old Regime that had lost contact with reality in the late middle-ages. Then there was the new reality of the radicals, forming up in salons and public houses. When the reality of the Old Regime was no longer sustainable in the face of reality, it collapsed. Into the void rushed the new false reality of the Jacobins, which soon foundered on reality.
What is unique about this age is both the novelty of these alternative realities and the proliferation of them on-line. America is becoming a balkanized collection of alternative realties increasingly disconnected from actual reality. The tech giants are now promising to strap VR goggles on every face, which will only accelerate this phenomenon. Instead of people taking soma and living in a dream state, the drug of this brave new world will be the virtual reality and the world building it requires.
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The demand for weirdos who want to play at being the Elite’s toys seems to be in rapid decline, not that it was ever numerous and after C-Ville dissidents learned to avoid these idiots and politely tell them when they show up uninvited “Put your tiki torch where the sun doesn’t shine.” without doing the Lefts work of denunciation for them. The funny thing is there are real Nazis out there who believe much of what is in Mein Kamph and believe that a tweaked version, usually including room for the church and private organizations of Democratic Workers Socialism or… Read more »
Late to the party today but I did get to listen to Friday’s podcast however. My ears really perked up when I came to understand you were advocating restoring freedom of thought and expression and institutional observation of due process. I assume you take this position partly because that’s the ideal we grew up with along with your explicit justification that it would be important to the contemporary public, at least the public we care about in this little corner of the web. I don’t see how that position can be supported by the behavior of the contemporary public which… Read more »
Late to the party today but I did get to listen to Friday’s podcast however. My ears really perked up when I came to understand you were advocating restoring freedom of thought and expression and institutional observation of due process. I assume you take this position partly because that’s the ideal we grew up with along with your explicit justification that it would be important to the contemporary public, at least the public we care about in this little corner of the web. I don’t see how that position can be supported by the behavior of the contemporary public which… Read more »
And it helps to have a future-leaning book like Revelations. Something that describes the utopia to be born when all the dark baddies are banished from our world. Expect wokeism to get a Future Textbook like the Jehovah’s Witnesses magazines that describes our great future.
Soma. Always was a metaphor from the start. Maybe the most perfect one for the realities of the human condition.
Trudeau reality:
“Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau
Officiel du gouvernement – Canada
I want to be very clear: We’re not intimidated by those who hurl abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless. We won’t give in to those who fly racist flags. And we won’t cave to those who engage in vandalism, or dishonour the memory of our veterans.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/31/canadian-prime-minister-accuses-protesting-truck-drivers-of-stealing-food-from-homeless-people-while-flying-racist-flags/#more-226464
I’ll tell you what, when my liberal, Trudeau-admiring, Canadian wife starts to make fun of him, something might possibly be happening.
We’ll see, I guess.
World building would be at least acceptable if the world-builders did not have exclusive class control over everything. That is why Joe Rogan is getting booted off Spotify. The CEO wants money but the investors want Twitter likes. Guess who has more heft, Larry Fink of Blackrock or the CEO? Rogan will get cancelled. Chelsea Clinton has called for Substack to be cancelled. Calling it the home of grifters. Yes Dept. of Irony, but she’s Chelsea Clinton. Her mom is the next President. So yes Substack will be cancelled. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch played a transgender “Its Pat” type in Zoolander… Read more »
Trudeau doubled down today – called us people who deface statues, harass homeless people and wave hate flags lol. Oh well, we are still right downtown and honking.
https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/01/https-westernstandardonline-com-2022-01-update-convoy-to-coutts-border-for-cross-border-blockade/
Looks like a blockade has started in both directions at the Alberta – Montana border crossing.
Right now, like KGB below, I need a Canadian flag lol Hang in there, don’t cave!! Right now, the image of freedom is a fed up Canuck in his truck!
Mine’s waving beautifully from my porch. It actually looked nice as I was driving up the block after work today.
I was talking to a DR friend in Chicago today and he too could only say, “I didn’t think the Canucks had it in them.”
“I didn’t think the Canucks had it in them.”
Yeah I know exactly what your friend meant lol Isn’t it crazy?? haha This world is really upside down. I’m a fan of Canuck truckers now haha Never gave them much thought before now lol
Bunch of hosers (99% white crowd) repeating over and over how non-racist they are while terrorizing white libs by honking and revving their engines for 18 hours a day. White libs crying on Reddit demanding genocide of the honkers. HONK HONK clown world has arrived. In all seriousness though, it’s a good start but this pressure needs to be sustained for a long time and ramped up before we can say anything. Even best case, vax mandates go away “for now” and they continue our genocide through open borders while we grill. Not blackpilling, this protest is funny as hell… Read more »
“In order to free oneself from the forces of darkness, the heart must be kept under control.” Ernst Junger
Z Man’s article begins with his usual dismissal of fascism, which is a common theme for him. He says that there are no fascists, and if there are any, they’re weirdo losers. Sincere question, admittedly somewhat off topic: Given the world that most of us who comment on this website want to create, what other means are there to achieve this goal besides fascism? Defining “fascism” as just a partnership between the state and corporations misses the heart of matter. Fascism is a government with an explicit mandate to defend a specific ethnic group. While fascism may not be our… Read more »
Traditionalism would be a good start. Things started going seriously downhill when women got the ‘right’ to vote, and protected by law from the consequences of what they voted for. Our ancestors were not heartless and mean. They understood their women, they understood the nature of the black man and structured their laws around a reality that actually existed.
Thanks Glen. But how is traditionalism achieved when most of the population in the country (or countries, Canadian brother) isn’t interested in traditionalism?
It seems there must be some imposition.
My temperament would prefer traditionalism to fascism, but I don’t see how we got the former without the latter.
This is the paradox: the existing system must go, but then an alternative must be pitched as a selling point to possible adherents. As Z has noted, by about any measure we currently live under a fascist regime, just that no one can see it since they never expected fascism to be used to enforce an ideology of absolute debauchery.
Truth is though, the alternate system matters less than who is in it. It’s just that fascism has less of the stink of failure than the competing ideals, to some people at least.
Under the present political umbrella there can be no traditionalism. The country is entirely lost to us. We must create a separatist state whose bedrock is white traditionalism. And we must establish safeguards to ensure that what happened to America could never happen in our new nation.
Our esteemed blog host has a turn of phrase that I really like. Paraphrasing: “Reality is that which remains despite your refusal to believe in it…” All these other alternate realities only exist because we live in an era of artificial prosperity. Without that… all these artificial realities will crumble away… or become prohibitively expensive for dirt people and cloud people. There is only one reality and ithe longer it is denied, the more punishing will be the circumstances when it reasserts itself. No fascism required, really. It’d be in everyone’s best interest at that point to reinstate merit based… Read more »
As woke has gotten more crazy and more evil I too have had enormous problems with the conditioned response ‘but fascism is always the worst’. But I would never, ever use the word ‘fascism’ to describe our side. It evokes strong negative emotions, even in me. In Normie it’s a deal breaker. Plus, it failed. Which is not to suggest I like all their ideas, and even less with the North of the Alps version. Use whatever makes sense from whatever political program or historical source you can find. And call it whatever you want. But don’t ever call it… Read more »
My respected Moran writes:
‘but fascism is always the worst’. But I would never, ever use the word ‘fascism’ to describe our side. It evokes strong negative emotions, even in me.
Lord, I’ve got my work cut out for me with you guys. This is like when Jared Taylor stopped using the clear and description term “White Nationalism” for the vague “White Advocacy.”
Seriously, leaving semantic trickery aside, what other options do we have?
Hehe sorry man. But seriously, words evoke emotions. If it is hard for me to not cringe at the word ‘fascism’ I just think normies, the ppl we really need to get hold of, they’re gonna hang up right away w that word. Imagine you had THE program to save the Heritage West ready to go, now you just needed your army of revolutionaries. Why call it the least appetizing word? It wouldn’t be their program to the letter anyway, we’d probably want to skip the ‘let’s invade Russia and colonize Africa’ parts. And we’d probably want to skip the… Read more »
I like calling it “Israel Style Omni-Nationalism”.
A safe space for every race.
A homeland for every people.
TRUE diversity means preserving people groups and traditions, just as we preserve historic neighborhoods and wildlife reserves.
Nobody can argue with such nice things, now, can they?
During the AFC Championship game, to start off (I had it on as background while doing some chores) the microphone of the singer performing the National Anthem cut out for most of the song. The crowd just picked the song up and sang it. Spontaneously. So I would posit traditional Patriotism, national feeling, intense regional localism, and sense of pride and belonging to region and country. This leaves someone who moved here from Pakistan or Chad last week, and that’s ok. Its not meant for them. But I would say, its a start, as it sits where people live and… Read more »
I know you are not a disinformation agent but this topic and your responses in this thread strike me as you temporarily playing the role. You choose both Fascism and White Nationalism as the hills we should all die on, really? They are absolute poison in almost any capacity you would utter them and can be cloaked in clever euphemism quite easily so why the hard-on to utterly destroy any traction a movement may get? Were you the dude at the Unite the Right rally waving around the newly pressed NatSoc flag too? They both evoke revulsion across most of… Read more »
Line is definitely neither sabotaging nor disinforming. I agree w the specific criticisms of using a word like ‘fascism’ you mention. It would be self-defeating, we agree there. And ultimately we want to build a society where whites can live in freedom and security, unlike now. But TBH I think you’re misreading him completely. We are being replaced in our home countries. We are being subjected to Maoist shame sessions or whatever they were called, humiliated and too many actually raped, attacked and killed. My impression is Line F-ing fed up with tiptoeing on leftist egg shields and being afraid… Read more »
The n-word is also the most accurate descriptor for joggers, but we don’t use it because it’s the magic word that turns everyone against whoever uses it. Say European traditionalism, or European ethno-nationalism, but don’t say “white” or anything that has to do with mustache guy.
Good to see you referencing “When Prophecy Fails.” I also recommend Crane Brinton’s “Anatomy of Revolution” with its notion that the Reign of Terror or Great Purge cannot last because people eventually demand to return to normal life.
And don’t forget Curtis Yarvin: “there is no politics without an enemy.”
If you quote Moldbug, you aren’t tall enough for this ride.
Line: I was out most of the day, busy with other things, so I’m just now reading the thread. Sorry I wasn’t around to support you earlier. Unfortunately, there are quite a lot here who just aren’t ready to acknowledge what sort of government will be necessary in establishing any sort of ethnostate when things collapse. For all that Zman writes about the failures of democracy, too many here cannot truly conceive of any authoritarian alternative without bleating about muh freedom. I still think the Covington books accurately describe what will be necessary to recondition a White populace that has… Read more »
Line: I was out most of the day, busy with other things, so I’m just now reading the thread. Sorry I wasn’t around to support you earlier. Unfortunately, there are quite a lot here who just aren’t ready to acknowledge what sort of government will be necessary in establishing any sort of ethnostate when things collapse. For all that Zman writes about the failures of democracy, too many here cannot truly conceive of any authoritarian alternative without bleating about muh freedom. I still think the Covington books accurately describe what will be necessary to recondition a White populace that has… Read more »
Larry Auster was always better than Moldbug. One of his last posts before dying is essentially “Moldbug wrote this 10,000 word post about me. He is a terrible writer and I have no idea what he is talking about”.
[…] ZMan points out some inconvenient truth. […]
The oddest thing about all this is that people have been taught to fear or denigrate reality. Somehow or other a real-life experience isn’t quite as fulfilling as an online one. I suppose that’s why these people seem to stay so angry. They know it’s just a simulacrum, and when it’s pointed out to them it removes some of the high they get from it. It’s sad really
They suddenly care about the sanctity of statues. The Canadian media is outraged that the protesters in Ottawa draped a statue with the flag, and an end mandates sign. A sure fed was spotted pretty early on in Saturday’s events. Solo guy in some sort of camo outfit, face covered with a plastic looking mask, walking briskly through the jovial crowd with his battle flag and suddenly gone, but not before a photo op or three. Now, I, like others on this site, love me a rebel flag now and then. However, in Canada, the symbol is practically poison, and… Read more »
I was going to ask what was up with that. I “get” the rebel battle flag in the states since there’s a lot going on culturally and politically with that flag specific to the U.S. When I saw some shots of it in Canada I thought it just seemed…weird.
Not weird, just inevitable. Probably some CSIS or RCMP/GRC “contractor” trawling for the benefit of the Trudeaupian media and their Eastern Canadian audience. However, in this scenario, the Poison Saltires have been drowned in a sea of red and white–with the royal blue and fleur de lis interspersed, along with other Provincial flags–even the old Red Ensign here and there
Were you there?
Never seen such patriotism (see my comment down below). Huge event for Canada. I love to see the unity between all the provinces. Enough white vs. white infighting.
As an American who’s lived in Canada and married Canadian, one thing I know for sure is that Canadians a fiercely patriotic. It’s for sure a different kind of patriotism than you generally see in the US, but it is there.
I’ve always respected them for it.
Canada’s old flag was gorgeous and should have been retained.
Justin Trudeau’s remarks today were startlingly mendacious. He all but described the protests as being something out of Triumph of the Will.
Either he’s incredibly vindictive and willing to violently subjugate heritage (white) Canadians or else lives in a fantasy world and is actually unaware of what’s going on in his nation’s capital. Whichever it is, he damn near came close to directly saying to millions of the people whom he pretends to rule, “I hate you and I want you dead.” For a Francophone, he doesn’t appear to have learned a thing about the causes of the French Revolution.
He’s a ridiculous creature, and now his appearance is also taking a hit. The soyboy looked puffy and 10 years older during his speech from the ‘secret location’.
LMAO, I forgot the Butt-in-gieg “paternity leave” in the middle of a crisis last year. It is surreal from every point of view. Two males decide to “have a baby”, one of them is in charge (in theory) of important stuff, but he leaves his job a few weeks to nurse the baby (?!?!) So anyways I imagined this farce was going to be exploited as how good a father (mother? theyther?) he was and the leftie press was going to gush about how cute is baby butti. But the thing was so ridiculous that they did not try to… Read more »
Pete Buttigieg wearing that fake set of plastic tits around his neck so he could “nurse” his baby just confirmed to me that this country deserves everything it has coming to it.
America is a sick, degenerate insane asylum. The sooner it collapses and dies the better for everyone.
I’ve heretofore been against a “burn it down”/”let it collapse” approach, but it’s only prudent to have an evacuation plan–not to mention cash and a change of underwear.
What sort of demon subverts the natural instincts of an innocent newborn in order to play out their own perverted fantasy?
The bonding instinct with the mother this act is twisting is disgusting.
from Pauls letter to the romans, ch 1 : 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and… Read more »
from Pauls letter to the romans, ch 1 : 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and… Read more »
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is… Read more »
A long time ago I got addicted to one of those MMORPGs, as one does. I found the game very immersive on its own, even to the point that I would often dream about it and felt a real loyalty to my clan and concern about the broader events in the game. There was a certain kind of player in that game who wasn’t satisfied with the level of immersion and tried to make it deeper by “role playing” even inside the simulation. i.e, they would make up stuff about their avatars and their back stories and run around chasing… Read more »
As I understannd it, LARPing is a real hobby. Admittedly I heard of it in an old cartoon called King of the Hil but didn’t make the connectionl. Hank’s son fell in with some nerds who threw twnnis balls at each other.
Hank had the best statement on modern child rearing. He was looking at Bobby with dismay, and he says to Peggy, “Somewhere along the way we forgot to teach Bobby shame.” Greatest “don’t do as I did” line on parenting, ever.
“Peggy, I’m trying to prevent an outbreak here, and you wanna drive the monkey to the airport.”
In context this may be the best joke I’ve ever heard on television.
“They live in a reality that says they are the guardians of the future utopia, keeping the world safe from its enemies, which come in many styles and guises. In order to keep this fantasy going, they have to find characters that fit the role of the villain.” Well, in many respects, utopia is already here for the brain addled and inferior minds that prop up the narrative. It’s just that it has to be consequently tweaked because of the human factor. You know, the factor that says that humans can fuck-up anything. Even utopia. This is also proof that… Read more »
Well, the US is currently in a UN security council debate with Russia and the Senate is talking about, “the Mother of All Sanctions,” against Russia.
They might just get their world-destroying wish.
Some Dem twat on Fox said, “I have vaccinated friends who caught covid, and then took Ivermectin.
It made they even sicker! They almost died!!”
This, after 80 years and 4 1/2 billion doses of safe usage.
Natural liars. They will say anything, any fookin’ thing, to “win” the moral high ground.
Better Than You No Matter What.
I’m of the opinion that the only reason the left wins is because they have the unlimited money and propaganda printing presses of the oligarchs behind them. Their ideas are complete crap and so are they.
from Pauls letter to the romans, ch 1 : 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and… Read more »
from Pauls letter to the romans, ch 1 : 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and… Read more »
from Pauls letter to the romans, ch 1 : 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and… Read more »
sorry for the duplication , i struggled to get this in for some reason .
One thing I recall from reading about the French Revolution is the attempted escape to the Swiss border of King Louis and Marie Antoinette on the flight to Varennes that was one bad decision after another. These people were supposed to blend with the peasants on their way out of town. They totally misjudged the loyalty of the country people. It was literally an alien class of people descending on villages in the middle of the night. The detachment of the ruling class is just as evident today. And that includes Canada. The optics of Trudeau splitting in the middle… Read more »
I think the elite “detachment” is mostly a pose. Because it’s not real. They can’t escape the homeless, the grime, the garbage in the major cities. They have to drive through it everyday. They KNOW what it is to be “normal,” theirs is just a conceit where they can PRETEND to not know. What makes it even more preposterous and fake and ghey Something along these lines I noticed when I first moved to Los Angeles. At that time, if you were white and professional you wanted to be in the conejo valley, which is calabasas and a few other… Read more »
“They are going to quickly learn that a million in the bank and a few million in home equity doesn’t get them diddly squat. Especially now with places like Florida seeing their home prices go through the roof. These bougie people are going to be whacked hard by reality. The cries when they realize they were never as rich as they pretended and they end up sitting at the same restaurants as the electricians.” Well put, and even worse from their perspective, they are starting around the margins to have to live among the vibrants they laud. You once wrote… Read more »
As a resident of the People’s Republic of Clownifornia, I fear that many will escape without learning their lessons. Almost all of the libtarded boomers of my acquaintance have already cashed out and have fled to Colorado and Oregon, maddeningly destroying those states and making it unaffordable for younger generations. I wish there was a way to force them to STAY in their Shithole Utopia and live with the consequences of their choices.
I think the elite “detachment” is mostly a pose. Because it’s not real. They can’t escape the homeless, the grime, the garbage in the major cities. They have to drive through it everyday. You misunderstand. I’ve spent a lot of time in various Brazilian cities. Many of them have enclaves of great opulence within sight of dirty peasant favelas (slum neighborhoods). They’re unbelievable. Nothing in the US compares, not the worst parts of Detroit or Gary. You wouldn’t believe humans actually live in them. I wouldn’t keep my goats in one of those favelas. A notch above the favelas are… Read more »
Alternate Reality Anecdote– One of Z’s neighbors who I know is a late middle (late 50s) unmarried lefty. She lives in one of the most dangerous cities on the planet, Baltimore, MD. She laments how ‘unsafe’ things are around her now and people only a few places removed from herself she knows have been attacked and even killed in seemingly random acts of violence. (“Gang Initiations” is how her sh1tlib mine squares this when it is in fact simply TNB.) So you’d think she would look at the soft on crime black dems who stand up this entire edifice? Wrong!… Read more »
What makes it even more idiotic is the true feelings Jewish people have for blacks. I have worked with enough and have been close to enough of them to know how they feel about black people. They don’t seem to have any qualms about pretending to love them in public while in private wanting nothing to do with them. It’s the stupid white LIbs who don’t have the ability to differentiate between and separate public pieties and personal feelings. Probably why they are truly going nuts because it has created internal conflict and a schizoid personality with no way of… Read more »
I think you are onto something here, too. The tension between pious catechisms about race and the reality of race tortures them. The move toward censorship is a failing effort to keep reality at bay.
The other group you mentioned has used blacks as weapons against racial competitors.
Yup. They call them ‘schwarzes’ and other worse things in the privacy of their kosher dens. Their children attend all white hebrew schools. No longer. Our ‘fellow whites’ need to be FORCED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE. They need DIVERSITY in their schools. They need DIVERSITY in their all-jewish neighborhoods. They need to live cheek to jowel with the diversity they so admire in public.
Reminds me of a phone video taken of one of the islamic terror shootings (can’t remember which – they all blur into one).
Two guys hiding under a table and one says something about fucking muslims. The other guy starts to go off on him about racism.
It was not a joke – this is during an actual mass shooting event.
#as you point out for large number of these people event heir own death will not dislodge the mind worms in their brain.
Reminds me of one of my favorite stories about how hysterical society is about racism, w apologies to those who may have read it before. Jeffrey Dahmer, convicted of serial murder and cannibalism, once pointed out in an interview from prison that ‘he was not a racist.’ The man’s victims included blacks and Asians. You are convicted of cannibalistic serial murder. Without access to nuclear weapons or a way to hack Wall Street and blow up the economy with the click of a mouse, I would really have to tax the imagination to think of a way to do worse… Read more »
Only its not racism is it? (whatever that word means)
Its criticism or noticing, or denial of want of any non white by anyone white.
Its refusal to sacrifice your own home, children and culture to an invasion.
Its a linguistic muzzle with the same purpose as the medical muzzles.
Turn a whole culture into emasculated pathetic slaves who refuse to even lift their gaze to the tyranny that is dominating them.
Nothing there I disagree with
For the legislature watchers. Its looking like 2022 will be an event horizon year like1998 for Democrats. A faction of the House democrats could expire. The last of the Dixiecrats (Tom Bevill and Sonny Montgomery) retired in 1998 and closed the door on a political tradition that dated back almost two centuries. Jim Cooper. The last White southern conservative Democrat in the house, is retiring due to Republican redistricting. But he might not be the last disappeared. With Collin Peterson defeated in 2018 and Ron Kind retiring, that leaves Jared Golden as the last conservative democrat in the house. And… Read more »
And while they ignore reality, reality doesn’t ignore them. That major bridge in Pittsburgh had been unsafe for years – fully rusted out beams, etc, and was ignored by the bureaucracy and politicos in favor of false reality.
Even better, IF the press is to be believed, the money earmarked to fix the bridge went to bike lanes and green energy programs.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4033758/posts
Again, I say IF as the source of that claim is a Tweet. But if it is true, it’s a perfect example of Z’s point.
It would be wonderful indeed if attorneys acting for people injured in the collapse were able to find this to be true in the course of discovery. And further, if these decisions to postpone desperately needed repairs could be assigned to specific individuals. Suing the pants off of the city, while also personally destroying the authorities at fault. Then, after that, that insurers of the city were to drastically raise the premiums for their liability insurance.
All it needed was a couple speed cameras.
Just ask Mayor Pete.
“Left is obsessed with fascists, white supremacists, the Klan and so on, despite these things no longer being real.”
Let me throw something out there: those things were never “real.” Not real in the sense of the narrative we’ve all grown up with.
They were simply normal/traditional people who the Left decided to smear and destroy. Those words are simply used to label a normal person a subhuman who opposes against the madness and tyranny of the Left.
I think the truth is somewhere inbetween their narrative image and them just being ‘normal people fed up.’ Fascism had real problems and while the German version went sadistic and evil, the original Italian version had problems with matching ambitions to military objectives (ultimately so did the German version of course). But they may have been a sadly terribly misguided attempt to address some very real problems. And those problems are the same ones now threatening to engulf and swallow us. At least that’s my current thinking; not that we need fascism but that fascism was not the original evil.… Read more »
Would like to see why this was downvoted, genuinely feel like I’m missing something.
Franco’s fascist vision seems more workable and relatable, it did stand the test of time better than his competitors, but all aspiring fascists fantasize about Nazi Moon bases instead of the hard working reality of living in a two and half world nation.
Look around. It’s democracy thats gone satanic and evil.
” If the Spotify CEO were to tell these loons to bleep-off, that would be viewed as a bad gesture in his reality. It would suggest he is not sensitive to their perspectives and in that reality, insensitivity is a mortal sin.” If Spotify management had an ounce of sense, they would use this opportunity of the SJWs identifying themselves and fire them and have them escorted out of the building. Responding to them in any way other than viciousness and pink slips is begging for a new round of complaints. They smell blood in the water. I’m an old… Read more »
My kids and I have been reading about the muckrakers who exposed the dismal conditions of the tenements. Nothing of this sort of journalism could exist today. The blatant corruption of our elites is in our faces and yet it’s likely just the tip of the iceberg. The plight of poor Appalachians and poor White Americans is utterly ignored. In many cases, it is celebrated. They have been exporting their jobs, destroying their livelihoods, and pumping them full of OxyContin. They have been teaching their kids to despise their Whiteness/heritage and to become homo trannies with 49 genders. They have… Read more »
“Do our rulers truly believe in magic dirt theory?”
Probably some do; some don’t. But that’s not the point.
We are now living in a James Bond movie because there really *is* a cabal of evil people trying to take over the world. And the only thing standing between them and their mad goal is the white population of the US. And not even all of them.
Anyway, white America has gotta go. That’s what it’s all about.
Its definitely interesting how some people cannot wrap their minds around the fact Bond Villains are actually real and living among (above) us. Easier to focus on a virus because they’ve been sick before and understand the concept more concretely I suppose.
The Bond Villains realized that illness was the one boogeyman that could still spook a godless, secular, materialist society.
Sort of with a leg in both camps I try to oppose ‘glory hogging’ from either Europeans (‘we have a deeper culture blah blah blah’ while sniffing their 74 varieties of cheeses to go with their 73 genders) or Americans (‘Murica ONLY country that can stop evil’) at the expense of the other. So I don’t think it is true or fair to say that white Americans are the ONLY ones standing in their way. Of late Canadian truckers have shown a spunkiness I do not normally associate with the Great White North (apologies to all Canadians here) but am… Read more »
The elite is extensively using sophistry to confuse everything. They ARE celebrating the decay of rural white communities, they ARE persecuting whites, the ARE leading policies that WILL end in white minority status, they are selectively enforcing the laws that makes it highly dangerous for whites to defend themselves. The other day I saw a youtube video of Hitler’s plans for the eastern territories if he had won the war. Most Poles, Russians, Ukraineans etc would be starved to death or just have their jobs, land taken, inferior status, discouraged from reproducing, slowly removed from the land between Germany and… Read more »
The YouTube user Endeavour put out a video this weekend very relevant to your post. You might want to check it out, it’s called Liberalism Will Not Save You. He discusses the Genocide problem and how the elite are never going to apply rights or the law to themselves. He uses the Nuremberg trials as an example. The Nazis were charged with “crimes against the peace” for invading neutral countries, but completely ignored the Allies doing the same thing, like with the Winter War in Finland. The military almost certainly knew of the Polish executions done by the Soviets (which… Read more »
Thanks, will check out that video. Using the genocide word is not to appeal to ‘them’, the elite, but to discredit them as evil beyond the pale and thereby delegitimize their rule. It is a very small step in an attempt to help undermine them. And if we win we will need ex post facto laws (laws that work back in time) even though they are repugnant in normal jurisprudence. But necessary on the scale of crimes against mankind.
Well, usually when people talk about White genocide, they appeal to the definition as laid out by the UN.
Also, I get that you’re not a liberal appealing to liberalism. His/my point is liberalism is a sham. They were always selectively enforcing “the law” His example of using the Nuremberg trials drives that point home. They were trying the Nazis for stuff they themselves did.
BTW, besides that one video, his channel is excellent. He’s a reformed Canadian bugman.
The Japanese also pushed the field of biological and chemical warfare ahead quite a bit. There’s that. Quite a few Germans were kept out of the Nuremberg sham for their expertise and the actual trial was a horse and poney show for the people too big to simply disappear.
The leaders of Japanese Water Purification Unit 731, which performed multiple human vivisections, may have gotten even better deals than the Operation Paperclip gang.
Most Poles, Russians, Ukraineans etc would be starved to death or just have their jobs, land taken, inferior status, discouraged from reproducing, slowly removed from the land between Germany and the Urals. Quite specifically, one tenth of the Ukranians would be allowed to remain, working as serfs and only educated enough to “write their own names, read road signs and count to 100.” This is what modern Nazi nostalgics often forget: yes, they DID have genocidal plans in mind. And this was not just a few loose thought jutted down in a diary, it was also what the Germans had… Read more »
That is indeed what modern Nazi nostalgics forget or ignore. But more to the point, how is that different in outcome for Ukranians from what the elites of the West are doing to whites today? Sure, firing squads may be faster than open immigration and CRT but they lead to the same outcome for the recipient population do they not?
We are too conditioned to being decent and reasonable and using moderate language to adequately describe the truly historical and truly monstrous events taking place before us.
We don’t know what the outcome of the current race war will be yet, but I’m fairly certain it would not involve keeping a few million whites along for serfs, that’d be too dangerous. The similarity is that they will be pushed back this time too, and the guilty will face a kangaroo court before we hang them. It’s going to be a long war but I believe we’re starting to see the end of the beginning. Trump was a warning shot from Normie, like Brexit and the European nat-pop surge. Politics is moving quickly these years: just remember where… Read more »
Well, I agree the situation in the tenements was terrible, but (((Riis))), the one I am familiar with, had his own agenda.
My apologies – Riis was not (((Riis)))
This use of the word ‘reality’ irks me because it adds to the confusion. This might get a little tedious but strikes me as important: As a first assumption if not axiom of modern Western thought, there is an objective, observable or deducible reality. To establish and delineate this is the fundamental objective and purpose of science as done correctly. There may be reality not accessible to science but the assumption is that that is primarily a matter of technology. There may also be areas where this (physically true) reality becomes fuzzy. Famously this happens with the Heisenberg principle, less… Read more »
” I am sure they are updating the definitions in the American Psychiatric Association in a way that would shock even Stalin” Tangential, but the APA lost roughly half its membership a few years back when the updated DSM discovered new mental illnesses that correspond with every crime: shoplifters suffer from a new psychosis they discovered that applies only to them, for example. Something similar happened to the ABA about twenty years ago when it decided to take political stands in favor of affirmative action rather than discuss the legal problems with it. The Woke Revolution has been wildly successful… Read more »
The only thing surprising there is that so many psychiatrists had the backbone to not go along with this. Medicine is one field hard-struck by postmodernism, no doubt about it. And this WILL lead, actually is already leading, to decreased life expectancies. Such a F-ing mess!!!
” … we should invite the ‘wokeist’ of the bunch to prove that gravity is just a ‘social construct’, from the top of the Empire State Building.”
Wow. I’d stand in line for that!
I am sure they are updating the definitions in the American Psychiatric Association in a way that would shock even Stalin
Those definitions were already compromised, I’m told. Apparently, there’s a footnote saying that you’re not insane if you talk to your invisible friend, provided that friend is Jesus.
Religion is outside of what science can handle. In their concrete form they make many claims that are verifiably untrue such as the age of the world etc. But in their two most important traits they do not. Their explanation for the beginning of the universe, or reality in the above sense, is something outside the reaches of science. And when prescribing moral codes they are dealing in what are logical opinions and not facts. Opinions do not have objectively correct or incorrect answers, that why they are different from factual claims. Down the list is that religions are interpretations… Read more »
Their explanation for the beginning of the universe, or reality in the above sense, is something outside the reaches of science.
You just argued, rather eloquently, that we should not give up the right to an empirical reality. “Outside the reaches of science”, is essentially what degenerates argue when they say gender is not about sex or that math is racist.
Shooting from the hip as my comments here tend to be, I may be making mistakes I have to walk back. But, the difference between woke claims and (some) religious claims are that we know woke claims are wrong. We also know some religious claims are wrong. But we do not know the origins of this universe or if there are others (‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ translated to terms a quantum astronomer could understand could be something like ‘two parallel universes, one very pleasant, the other very much not’.) There’s a heck of a difference between saying ‘genders are fluid and… Read more »
The elite is extensively using sophistry to confuse everything.
So do Christians, apparently.
The arguments against religion can be stated in a few sentences, the arguments against atheism need to be served up with a boatload of philosophical gravy to hide the meat and potatoes: Blind faith.
And no, I don’t proselytize (often) because I don’t believe I’ve ever converted a single Christian. But I claim the right to put down a marker from time.
TBH, I feel I haven’t been entirely honest with you. I am not particularly religious myself, although I can at moments of strong emotions, good or bad, feel a religious impulse of sorts. I don’t begrudge you that you are a little miffed, I was admittedly teasing you. But I am absolutely logically correct in distinguishing between statements we can easily verify or disprove from statements to which we do not know the answer. Just because we do not know the origin of the universe that does not mean I do not know how many genders mammals have. This is… Read more »
I’m not miffed, I brought the subject up myself after all, and atheism is not something I care or think a lot about one way or another. The reason I’m not engaging with your argument is to tell the truth, that I’m knackered and not up to the full twelve rounds that such discussions usually go. But just one parting shot before I go to bed and ignore your reply: atheism kills culture. And that is an empirical claim. That may be so but it’s beside the point. I couldn’t choose not to be an atheist even if I believed… Read more »
If it is true, and as I say there is empiricism to suggest it is, you could perhaps not promote it then? Just a thought 🙂
If it is true, and as I say there is empiricism to suggest it is, you could perhaps not promote it then? Well, for one thing I don’t believe it’s true. On a societal level, religiosity is inversely correlated with just about every parameter we measure civilization on: crime, violence, education, income, corruption etc. How religion acts on the personal level is of course a bit harder to measure. Judging by the people I’ve met personally, I’ve seen no big difference between atheists and Christians. The reason I’m NOT promoting atheism is: a) I never converted anyone, b) I have… Read more »
Yeah, I like (the possibly incorrect) term “observable reality” as compared “alternative reality”. I was gritting my teeth reading today’s Z-man missive.
OT (but semi related) field report from the Freedom Convoy 2022 (Canadian Trucker Strike). This has been an incredibly whitepilling weekend. Amazing turnout, great energy, great community spirit. They are staying through the week, with the stated intent of not leaving until all COVID mandates are lifted. I predicted a while back that it would just be some Boomers making noise for a while then leaving. The bulk of the truckers and supporters are still there today on Monday morning. They said they’re not leaving. We’ll see. Some good things: – Incredible turnout. Thousands of people, hundreds of semi trucks.… Read more »
Another down side: lots of Back the Blue bootlicking shit. People are saying the cops are on our side. They’re fistbumping them, thanking them for their “service”, etc. They’re in for a rude awakening when the cops eventually fuck everyone over as usual.
Cops aren’t necessarily pro Vax but they’re always on their own side. Globohomo pays their salary.
I figure the cops are going around on foot gathering as much licensing and registration information as possible for later issuance of fines, suspension of licenses, canceled registrations, etc.
Not much to be done about that at this point, I just hope the truckers are ready to face that eventuality.
Just ask the Jan 6 forgotten souls in the gulag.
The cops are on their own side.
But the smart ones figure out which way the winds blowing pretty quick.
The cops are on their own side.
But the smart ones figure out which way the winds blowing pretty quick.
I’ve been watching livestreams and compilation videos for a week now and much of what you report tracks well with footage from the ground. The normie-instinct to hug a minority is on full display and makes me question the wherewithal of the protestors, but this appears to be an exclusively white protest, so the opportunities to virtue signal are almost non-existent. I saw a clip on CTV with the mayor of Ottawa. He was near tears because protestors had draped a Canadian flag over a Terry Fox statue. On Youtube the video clip was titled “Protestors deface statue”. It’s astounding… Read more »
Weird stuff, right? Whites have to hug a minority every time they stand up for themselves. Almost like begging for permission.
The Canadian Truck Convoy, and Trudeau fleeing like a silly rabbit, is actually very white-pilling yes. Concrete walls around the White House, Canadian PM fleeing, we are not exactly up against Stalin or other tough guys, are we? They are incredibly afraid and cowardly.
Hopefully they learn the right lesson, which is policing is based on voluntary compliance. Once a certain number is reached, the authority’s only choice is EXTREME force. They probably won’t send a bunch of armed thugs in to start shooting. But if they did, what would “normie” do? Surely the press could not help but show the videos. How would normie react to seeing truckers and other reputable people being gunned down by the state? I saw a headline the other day saying the convoy for this protest was 75 km long. At 53ft per truck average, that is about… Read more »
Somebody calling himself “Keenan Bexte” says the truckers have enough cash to stay in front of Parliament for 2 to 4 years. Not sure what he means by that. Paying fines, perhaps?
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1487876770158235653
Convoys now also in Europe and Australia.
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/
Farmers are blocking US-Canada border crossing points:
https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/01/https-westernstandardonline-com-2022-01-update-convoy-to-coutts-border-for-cross-border-blockade/
Great to see Canadians standing up! Of course that homo Troodoo fled the scene lol.
He genuinely presents as a mincing kiddie-diddler.
One of the funniest but perhaps true accounts that I read of why older liberal leaning Canadians like Justin Trudeau so much is because they see Trudeau as an idealized version of themselves when they were young- ambitious, virile, and super progressive politically.
And by picking Justin in an election, these older Canadians are casting a metavote, a collective expression what 20th century progressive optimistic Canada ought to have been, idealized in one man.
In a cruel twist of irony, computer-based simulation of societal & cultural trends has been a mature science for about three decades now and the best of these models are generating predictions that are being validated in real time. Kinda of scary in that as we devolve into a metaverse societal simulation, the only real tool we have for forecasting where this leads is simulation modeling. So where are we headed? For most of our history, our ancestors evolved in a natural environment of hardship & existential threat, and this gauntlet took us to the top of the life pyramid.… Read more »
The future belongs to those who will kill for it.
Re: modeling, I’ve long suspected there’s quite a bit influencing events involved. Not talking observer effect hocus pocus, either. To build an accurate model you need an understanding of the rules, the internal logic, or whatever you want to call it, of whatever system. If power is the ability to impose one’s will, and knowledge is power, the implications are potentially enormous. Whether consciously or not, I think nerds see it this way. Hence the preoccupation with hoovering up data, the delusions of apotheosis via tech, the metaverse proto-matrix, etc. Outsmart God, become gods lol. But seriously, there’s something ancient… Read more »
I always think of the duality of materialism and idealism (I am using it in the sense of opposite of physicalism) as best illustrated by the Sistine Chapel. The Enlightenment, with State of Nature/ Social Contract, Natural Philosophy, Malthusian, Adam Smith, Marx, all those characters, all espouse a material view of the world to one extent or another. However, it always leads to the recreation of a new religion and idealism. I think of the Creation of Adam: here is supposedly a work showcasing reverence for God. The irony is 1) God is designed after Zeus (how heathen can you… Read more »
its satanic. see ” book of revelations” romans chapter 1. wer are right there now. i have no doubt the PTB on top are real Satanists.
“Eric Hoffer famously said that mass movements can survive without a god but they must always have a devil.” Trump was and is the Emmanuel Goldstein for the Left’s 24 Hours of Hate. And it shows as people seal themselves in their perfectly hermetically closed bubbles, they cannot possibly believe there are other opinions or attitudes out there. “Hillary was going to WIN damnit! Everyone I know was going to vote for her! She MUST have been cheated!” It’s like your post a while back on Electric Cars: “I don’t care that electric cars don’t meet most people’s needs and… Read more »
The problem with VR is even when they advertise it, they can’t help but make it look dystopian. Notice the part with the lady in VR, ignoring her significant other eating breakfast next to her. Even for the extremely online, there’s something very unsettling about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmrozxDGtVU
There is also a significant percentage of the population that gets motion sickness at your typical 3-D shooter on your standard screen.
Today’s VR doesn’t look much better than what was available in the ’90s.
They tried having a rave in Metaverse. It sucked.
https://youtu.be/XkwQ6EjLdMQ
Talk about missing the point.
Second Life has been around for close to twenty years. It has a following, but for most people, the novelty wears off and they drop it, because it is not unreal enough for them. Like so much of what comes out of Silicon Valley now, the Metaverse is just a reboot of an old idea with some new marketing and gadgets.
Wrong YouTube link, hold the Whammyburger!
Here is the correct one:
https://youtu.be/ETRZPxbQfMs
Holy smokes, that’s lame.
What sort of bugmen live such interesting and cowardly lives that this is an appealing substitute?
The same bugman coders that are feverishly working to deliver the IoC, the Internet of Camps.
You have got to be kidding me.
Nice job! They couldn’t even give the avitars LEGS! 🤦♂️
How can you miss the fact people stand upright on limbs that end in feet?!?
You fail, and fail BIGLY guys.
Right?
Avatars without legs immediately up the creep factor.
Nevermind the PS2 tier graphics.
And the goggles.
The goggles didn’t look cool in the 90s.
They’ll never look cool.
Late to state but VR/3D has a built in issue where in it requires twice the processing power as regular old visuals, since it’s rendered twice, thus the graphics will always look (much) worse than the regular ol’ TV graphics rendered with the same hardware. I think hardware manufacturers believe that we’re closing in on a singularity where all hardware will render so well that the quality differentiation will be undetectable, but, we’ve been waiting a while for that. (There is also the “nausea” factor as that is also “built-in” due to practically unavoidable render lag. I guess I could… Read more »
Augmented reality will condition normal people to this sort of thing. Remember “Google Glass”? How much it was hated? How everyone was hostile to a perceived loss of privacy with a camera on them constantly? That’s long gone. “Apple Glass” with AR is coming; fitness apps, navigation tools, messaging, instant picture/video taking….people are going to eat this up….we’ve been doing it on smart phones for a decade, and this just makes it easier. This will be the normalizing people will need to get into the VR headset, as will streamlining the actual hardware and software for the vertigo. Personally, I’m… Read more »
“Of course, there are real problems, but those problems are boring.” Many of those real problems, particularly the societal and cultural, are irreparable. This drives the demand for pseudo-problems, which can be remedied with pseudo-fixes and realities. The evil economic and public oppression of the White working class, very much a real thing in recent decades, requires the pseudo-reality that they are evil, and by implication, deserve to be hounded to extinction. China’s eclipse of the United States, either pending or already here, requires a demon to be conjured and Vladimir Putin is the designated devil. Otherwise, the people in… Read more »
Speaking of China, Poso (controlled op/limited hangout, I know) has a pretty good opinion piece that we were sold to China and the upcoming Olympics are Xi’s imperial coronation:
https://www.newsweek.com/this-years-olympics-will-double-xi-jinpings-coronation-opinion-1673952
That’s quite good. Frankly, the PRC his paydirt when grifting trash like Biden and McConnell and Cook and Bezos achieved prominence and showed profound willingness to shake their moneymakers for bribe money.
Xi should publicly announce he intends to maintain good relations with his vassal, the United States, and welcome it to the Greater Economic Prosperity Hemisphere. Of course, as a student of history, Xi has both a revulsion and appreciation of what the Japanese did in Manchuria and is implementing his version here via bribery and biological warfare.
Utter separation from physical reality – or the constraints of thermodynamics or genetics – is the hallmark of today’s Elite. Pete Buttigieg, the Sec of Transportation, is the pluperfect example: he goes on paternity/maternity leave to “nurse” with a manboob while ships pile up in the offing outside the port of LA and the shelves go bare in American groceries. Veblen observed in The Theory of the Leisure Class that the elite eschewing of physical labor drove fashion for centuries. This phenomenon maps perfectly onto today’s VR-based Elite, except they now eschew physical reality in its entirety! The insides of… Read more »
> a dude with a full ball sac in a dress is a “woman”; an guy with a manboob is on paternity leave; ships unload themselves; we can run a modern economy on unicorn urine and wind energy, etc. The old emperor had no clothes but the new emperor insists he’s a woman. A cousin came out as a lesbian and got “married” to a bulldyke. Got lots of lectures from people about ‘leaving open communication’ and ‘compassion’. Screw that. They’re out of my life. We don’t associate with them for the same reason we don’t associate with the schizophrenic… Read more »
I said that to my 78 year old mother the other day, regarding the freak on Jeopardy. If he showed up on the show dressed like a rabbit and insisted he actually was a rabbit, we’d say he’s mentally ill (for the time being, at least). The same holds true if he came out wearing a diaper and sucking a binkie and insisted he’s really 6 months old. But if he puts on a dress and lipstick and says he’s a woman now, everyone has to play along. He should be under the care of a qualified professionals not on… Read more »
That ship has sailed. I saw a clip of a school board meeting, I think in Northern Virginia, where a mother was complaining that the school had litter boxes in the bathrooms for kids who identified as cats. It sounded like they dress up like cats and the school tolerates it.
In the blind pig finds an acorn category, I actually found an excellent piece on freaking National Review about this phenomenon, Michael Brendan Doughtery’s THE NEW WHITE FLIGHT. It is now behind a paywall because it was one of those rare NR pieces worth reading not due to the parody value. Doughtery essentially posits the White Upper Middle Class, the elite adjacent and sometimes the actual elite, are tFUBAR (true) and are responsible for the madness gripping the United States. I certainly would not spend a cent on behalf of NR, but if that piece gets flushed out for free… Read more »
Michael Brendan Doughtery?
The uncuckening must be happening at breakneck speed if a guy like that is starting to see the light.
I read it twice before it went behind the paywall precisely because it was unbelievable. Again, the comments were hilarious: either cucks outraged, outraged that such appeared (one actually whined the Kevin Williamson “gets it”), and a surprising number who agreed and even went so far as to rightly blame women for most of it.
Def upvote for…
The Uncuckening!
Some in that space read dissident content, but most refer their reality.
At the moment it’s there for the reading:
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/02/07/the-new-white-flight/
Thanks! Again, it is hard to believe that was on National Review. I noticed the later comments started to agree with the writer. Is the insanity now too much even for cucks to gloss over? I doubt it but here’s to hoping.
meh, tdlr: white mandarins are race traitors.
Here is a non=paywall version:https://archive.is/QANvd
Thanks. While the article has milquetoast, signature National Review low points, it is hard to believe it published this:
” In a strange way, our radicals are institutionalists.
And what is the quality of these institutions? Cutthroat and luxurious.”
This is the polar opposite of NR’s routine pablum.
Spotify signs Rogan to a $100M or so contract, then still manages to kowtow to an extent to a couple of irrelevant old goat hippies. Neither Young or Mitchell were all that great in their prime and as for now, the vast majority could give a s*** what they think or have to say about anything. It’d be so refreshing for a CEO or politician to just say F off to some of these whiny assed bastards, but good luck with that happening anytime soon. Our reality is obviously not theirs.
The best meme I’ve seen on Spotify and Neil Young is:
People under 30 Years Old: Who is Neil Young?
People 30 – 60 Years Old: Wait, Neil Young is still alive?
People over 60 Years Old: What the F–k is Spotify?!?
They should have released the total number of times any song in Young’s entire catalog has been streamed on Spotify. I doubt it equals the total from Rogan’s worst single podcast.
Old Neil missed a key point of ultimatums:
You don’t make one unless you’re prepared to lose and walk away.
So I guess we can say I’ve seen the Neil and the damage done. 😏
I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.
I’m pretty sure Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band that ended in 1977, routinely crushes that caterwauling old asshole’s popularity on Spotify or any other platform today.
Young is such a stud that he initially blamed his wife for what happened. That’s Boomerism writ large.
What I find amusing about the Neil Young controversy is I was sure he was dead. When I saw the initial story, I thought it was some sort of publicity stunt. Maybe have a computer generated version of him condemn Joe Rogan. Then I saw a recent photo and he looks like he did twenty years ago, like a homeless guy on his last legs. Wow.
I should be beyond surprise, but Young’s a guy who played guitar on “For What It’s Worth”, who wrote “Ohio”, and now he’s a goose-stepping foot soldier for the oligarchy? It must have been a lot more fun to be a hippie rabble rouser before the left took control of every institution in the world.
In a way it makes perfect sense: the oligarchs attained power and want to keep it. The Rogan thing has really pissed off Millennials and Zoomers I know. That’s anecdote but it is a good guess it is a common response.
This was really stupid on their part. Some fossilized Tribal writer at NYT penned a piece lauding Young. Her fading relevance and gasping Boomerism almost rivaled Young’s tone-deafness. TPTB really need a better squadron of whores.
Come on, watching old ’60s hippies shill for big pharma and big government is something just amazing to see.
It’s right up there with seeing the Pepe honk honk meme come to life. We are truly living in prophetic times
That is another interesting aspect to this. You have people on-line, claiming to be communists, while operating freely on corporate platforms, often subsidized by billionaires. The typical Antifa protest has most of them livestreaming each other using their iPhones and carrying their Apple laptop in a fashionable backpack. Corporate communism is now a thing that seems real to people.
Antifa terrorist Linwood Michael Kaine is the son of Senator Tim Kaine and was reared in a life of luxury. Sixty years ago hippies would have called him, with justification, a “pig.” Now they laud him.
Kaine is the rule and not the exception.
Nah, 50-60 years ago most of the hippies were from comfortable middle or upper class families, too. The more things change….
The hippies of any note were always children of rank.
You only think it was otherwise because the media painted it thus. Lets take Neil Young, as he is on topic, his mother was a “Daughter of the American Revolution”.
There are multitudes of other examples.
The later working class hippies were just there to fund the drug pushing from the same people.
One should not confuse media fiction with reality.
It’s all one manufactured “crisis” after another. Covid, Ukraine, story-of-the-day Spotify crap, etc. to keep the proles distracted. Meanwhile, the ultra rich take their inflated stock gains and cheap money to buy up all the real assets left. So they can rent them back to the dirt people at a tidy profit. Package them up in huge batches of CDO’s so they can never lose, instantly becoming “too big to fail” with the taxpayer on the hook. Forget neo-feudalism; the “You’ll own nothing and be happy” crowd is crowing from the rooftops that you WILL be their serfs, and you’d… Read more »
I guess the free world he was rocking in doesn’t apply to bad thing podcasters?!!!
Reagan famously observed: “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.” This is clearly not true, for if aliens were to land, they would be the ultimate “other” and thus the beau ideal of the left’s constituency. But let’s say the aliens were an obvious existential threat, that they exsanguinated our brains through the tops of our heads through proboscises. Might the left finally admit that this “other” was a bit too other? I could see them saying that because of the proliferation of satellites in space/planting… Read more »
I’m not sure I want to lump all of this at the feet of the Left. You see this on the civi-nat Right as well. Here is something on the civ-nat site Conservative Treehouse. Note the use of the phrase “color revolution”. It is going to become another moral signifier for these people, like “crony capitalism” or “deep state”. Soon the phrase “color revolution” will just mean “bad people”.
The term “Color Revolution” actually minimizes what Graham is doing here: trying to feather his nest with a proxy war against Russia (all neocons are on this crazy train). It has been interesting that the populations of both America and Europe are so bitterly opposed to this proxy war against Russia. Hell, even Ukraine is telling the Biden Administration this is psychotic. The scariest part is Graham even could be elected to a school board let alone the Senate, although he is far from an outlier in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body and Whorehouse. A war with Russia might be… Read more »
You can go ahead and lump in a large amount of normiecons in with the left, or, to paraphrase the old chestnut, the shadow that follows the left. Some will “break the conditioning,” to quote even-tempered stoic philosopher Alex Jones, while others won’t. I watched a football game with some normies yesterday, and while the adpersons are obviously saving their big ammo for the Super Bowl (weird, mixed race people with orange spirochete hair and freckles) there was enough nonsense in the playoff for all of the normies to share their honest opinion about the weirdness of it all. They… Read more »
Once upon a time, the term “color revolution” was a closely held internal reference used almost exclusively within CIA field OPs divisions. It somehow got expropriated about a half dozen years ago (probably by a retired spook) and soon became fashionable jargon within the DC cocktail circuit. Now every wannabe black OP LARPer uses it like gang motto. How far we have fallen.
I was going to mention that the on-ine clique for Trump is about as isolated and delusional as the anti-Trump online clique. I saw some news about a big rally he had in Texas and all I could think was “who is still showing up to see this clown??”. I suppose the attendees are affirming their own online reality.