Managerial Polyarchy

One of the on again, off again debates on this side of the divide is about what to call the current system and how we got to this point. The old language is either inadequate or loaded with moral connotations. Calling the Biden people fascist is not entirely wrong, but not entirely accurate either. That and the word fascist comes with so much baggage that its descriptive value is completely lost.

The same can be said for words like communist and authoritarian. Even the term managerialism has been abused to the point where it often just means “bad” rather than a specific sort of organizational outlook. One of the weird parts about being trapped in the 20th century, as is the case with the West, is we are left to use moral language that no longer works in this century.

The term “Biological Leninism” is a good example. While the NRx people have accurately described some aspects of the current system, this is mostly an accident of trying to jam the current system into old models. The term itself is just a way to anathematize the current ideology by associating it with an ideology of the last century which is universally reviled.

What needs doing is a fresh look at the 20th century from an objective, historical perspective that avoids the old moral language. How did liberal democracy evolve into this strange elite ideology? Clearly, we no longer live in liberal democracies and our ruling classes no longer subscribe to the morality of liberal democracy. The question is, what is this ideology and how did it evolve?


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Contents

  • What is Going On?
  • Our Democracy!
  • Robert Dahl
  • Polyarchy
  • Managerialism
  • Managerial Polyarchy
  • The System

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fakeemail
fakeemail
1 year ago

How about Virus Regime?

trackback
1 year ago

[…] post by Z-Man usefully illustrates why he, and all the other secular commentators, are now past their use dates. Because they are totally blind to the moral and religious elements of the observable globalism vs […]

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

“frens”

Like Agent Mulder’s poster says, I want to believe in Elon:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1634723111642750976

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
1 year ago

The bigger deal with that tweet is exactly “frens” which is a well known 4Chan meme. Expect sputtering lefty outrage soon about Elon ’embracing White Supremacist Memes”. Or whatever retarded shit NPCs will come up with to point & shriek which is all they are programmed to do.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Apex Predator
1 year ago

> “The bigger deal with that tweet is exactly “frens”

Weird. Just now I surfed to that tweet, via a link from Anonymous Conservative, and I had exactly the same reaction when I saw “frens”.

Also, Elons’s bestie, Peter Thiel, “miraculously” withdrew all of his money from SVB just prior to the collapse.

It all feels very strangely “Q”-ish to me.

Maybe the Oligarchs and the Moguls decided to toss a few W’s to Team Amurrikkkuh in order to postpone the great reckoning by a few years?

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Bourbon
1 year ago

The theory I’ve heard is that the Bolshies realize they need YTs to fight in WW3 so they are going to tap the brakes on the Woke stuff until they can get YTs in the field.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Apex Predator
1 year ago

Kinda off topic, but kinda not off topic: Rush Limbaugh’s literal WH0RE of an ex-wife just sold his pride & joy for $155M. https://tinyurl.com/2p9hvnc4 Rush was a Boomer who really would have profited from learning Game Theory and embracing White Fertility. Rush didn’t eat the seed corn because he never harvested any corn in the first place. He died childless [after having worked his way through different four wives], and now the better of a billion dollars is being transferred to a roastie old Palm Beach party s1ut who will likely snort it all right up her nose. Roasties gonna… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Bourbon
1 year ago

It’s hard to come up with reasons not to sell a house that somebody is willing to pay $155 million for

He could have been sterile. Seems the most likely explanation for remaining childless through four marriages.

His family was very well connected before he ever became a radio success. So I wonder how organic it was. I never got the appeal myself, but then there are a lot of popular things I was never real big on, so I’m not the best barometer

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Apex Predator
1 year ago

He’s made Twitter a wholly owned subsidiary of the ADL, so they’ll take him out back, punch him in the kidneys, and shove him back out with tears in his eyes.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
1 year ago

the recent collapse of SVB is a perfect example of the limits of “mangerialism”; it doesn’t scale. I would refer the people here to the classic book “The Mythical Man Month” for a detailed description of why. As the management task grows larger, more and more time is spent on co-ordination efforts. The growth in the latter is not linear, it is exponential. Eventually adding more people to the effort actually reduces the overall output. Modern technology helps somewhat, but there are hard limits to how big a domain centralized control can handle. Ironically, the federal system was better at… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  karl von hungus
1 year ago

The microscopically granular level of cenralized control they are salivating over is not possible without infinite energy.

That said, it is disturbing how long Ukraine has managed to defy the assault on its infrastructure with its, “Diia,” digital services app, the model for which Powers is trying to export to other countries like Georgia and Ecuador.

“Diia,” is a Ukrainian acronym that literally translates to, “The State & I.”

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  karl von hungus
1 year ago

A New York bank that catered to crypto companies, Signature, was shuttered today. The Sunday closing likely was to forestall a run, although it might boomerang across other banks in the morning. I’ve noticed obviously planted stories this weekend that claimed rural and small banks are most at risk although it appears the large urban ones that cater to the tech sector are, for now, those taking the hit. I believe another cryto-centric bank went tits up last week. Somewhere Sam Bankman Fried rolls on his piles of cash and laughs, and the FedGov “regulators” shred documents. State banks are… Read more »

Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
1 year ago

I think that you nailed it in the podcast: We live in the Permission Society.

We need permission from the managerial class and their blue-haired minions to do anything.

Libdis
Libdis
1 year ago

I agree the system is broken, but my thought is it’s broken because the culture is broken. Or perhaps better said, the culture no longer exists. Western European culture as we have know it in is dead. Wiped out. Overrun with the new cultures of atheists, LGBTABC, minorities and a myriad of other special interests. And there is no going back. There simply are not enough white people from an historically based European Christian background to ever bring it back. We can talk about replacing the system until we are totally obliterated, we will never replace it. We need to… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Listening to the show this week one gets the sense of bureaucrats, or apparatchiks, or managerial class, who are collectively if not individually all powerful. And in various places, parts of corporate America, state and local governments, that’s probably more or less true. We have spent time before talking about how media messaging very quickly makes it clear to clouds what positions they are supposed to adopt. Everyone, dirt or cloud, knows what the dirt position and the cloud position is on a given issue. So there’s a very real sense in which these bureaucrats get their marching orders every… Read more »

JerseyJeffersonian
JerseyJeffersonian
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Yes, that amendment, smuggled in as an anti-corruption measure, was instead one of the crucial nails needed to nail shut the coffin of the Republic. Motto of the Centralizers: Always Be Working

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Jeffrey Zoar: “What can they give him that he doesn’t already have?”

The gift of NOT assassinating him?

https://tinyurl.com/4bva7ddc

https://tinyurl.com/4rwfaat5

Buster
Buster
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Fridays, March 10, audio prodcast links, no longer work for FireFox browser on my desktop PC w/ windows OS. All previous weeks podcast still work on desktop podcast for Windows OS. I like to use Firefox, as it has an add-on, that can work with my Surfshark VPN. Thus I can have just one of my browsers run through my pay-VPN. All my political-economic web-surfing, I try to use VPNs.

On my Android phone (Samsung, 1 year old), this weeks March-10 audio podcast does work OK, using Opera browser (I like it for its free VPN)

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

“In the federal government I would never discount the power of the Permanent Senator.”

I would never discount the power of the donors who fund the senator. It’s the donors who direct the uniparty and who almost always get what they want on the issues that matter to them, like massive immigration, protection of Israel, and suppression of white populism. The donors mostly control the media and the education that dictates the morality of the functionaries of the deep state.

Dinodoxy
Dinodoxy
1 year ago

I offer three terms of America’s political system.

Dumbocracy – rule of by and for morons.
Its clowns all the way down.

Liberal theocracy – rule by liberal clerisy.
Liberalism is a religion. And our political system exists to implement that religion.

Pharmo-fascism. Everything within the the therapeutic state, nothing outside it, nothing against pfizer.

TomA
TomA
1 year ago

Managerialism is a psychological infection that permeates DC and wields enormous influence and power from behind the walls of the Citadel. It exists because the evolutionary selection process has been perverted by easy money flowing like water to jackals feasting at the public trough. It will not end until the money tap is shut off by either economic collapse or revolution. If you prefer the collapse option, stand aside and watch, but do so from a distance and with resources stockpiled enabling you to weather the fall. If you prefer to be proactive, then do so from within the fog… Read more »

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  TomA
1 year ago

TomA: “It exists because the evolutionary selection process has been perverted by easy money flowing like water to jackals feasting at the public trough.” I would urge you not to exclude [from your thinking] the spectre of accelerated Assortative Mating [made possible by modern transportation & communication systems & co-edumakashunal institutions of higher indoctrination] causing a rapid & accelerating increase in the births of elitist children with ever more powerful genes for Passive Aggression, Psychopathy and Sadism. tl;dr == Spend some time thinking about what it might mean if social darwinism forces [upon genetic darwinism] our elites to become inherently… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Bourbon
1 year ago

You’re the first person I’ve seen posit that as the “Great Filter”

BigJimSportCamper
BigJimSportCamper
Reply to  TomA
1 year ago

“The goal should be to start the stampede, not surmount the parapets.”

Exhibit A: Ray Epps.

Bilejones
Member
1 year ago

On a favorite topic of Z-man, Libertarians, this piece at LRC looks at when you just have to use force,

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/03/bionic-mosquito/paper-thin-libertarians/

WhereAreTheVikings
WhereAreTheVikings
Reply to  Bilejones
1 year ago

Some of the libertarians are starting to get it. Even Lew Rockwell supported Trump in 2016.

UsNthem
UsNthem
1 year ago

I guess we’re all part of the virus the administrative/bureaucratic/regulatory blob is either trying to control or eradicate. At this point, they’re in the “take a couple of aspirin and call me in the morning” stage, so I imagine more intensive therapies will be attempted down the road. However, I think they’ll find their immunity is shot and the treatments far too late to save the patient…

Whiskey
Whiskey
1 year ago

There is some dim notion in the media / managerial class that current managers are steering straight towards a forever war with China that will not work out well. Ed Luce (moonbat liberal) of all people in the FT was cautiously advising that China will not fall after “containment” and will still be there, as it is a nation not an ideology as the USSR was. What is happening is that the universalism of Managerialism, combined with status seeking in a secular religion is creating a reverse Cultural Revolution. Instead of the masses for whom Communism had not worked out… Read more »

Whiskey
Whiskey
Reply to  Whiskey
1 year ago

Oops this me Whiskey. Not sure why my name did not take.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Whiskey
1 year ago

would never have guessed.

kvh kvh kvh kvh

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  Whiskey
1 year ago

Put more water in it.

Crinkle Fries
Crinkle Fries
Reply to  Whiskey
1 year ago

“Massive Reparations ($20 million each for each black person) paid for by a Whites only tax. If the tax, likely quite high, cannot be paid then Military service either in work camps or the Ukraine front. Demotion and pay cuts or firing for White military, police, and feds to meet promotion and pay raises for blacks. Mandatory gay sex for straights. Mandatory kiddie diddling by trannies at every school. Mass arrests by the FBI of Catholics at Mass, and anti-fa under FBI protection invading and beating, desecrating, and otherwise attacking Catholics, their churches, etc. With parishioners arrested for fighting back… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Crinkle Fries
1 year ago

This is just Whiskey talking. Most of the time it doesn’t make sense, so one skips over it and moves on. For example, a million x’s a million is a trillion. There are at least 50M Blacks here eligible for reparations. To give them all just one million dollars is 50T. The entire net worth of the USA probably doesn’t equal that. But not to be outdone, Whiskey talks of 20M per Black. That’s the net worth of the planet I suspect. 😉

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

Exactly. Using Whiskey as a typical representative of the Right is every bit as ludicrious as one of Whiskey’s posts.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

But no one can make hyperbolic blackpilling nearly as much fun as Whiskey does!

Fakeemail
Fakeemail
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

Whiskey still right that women hate, hate, HATE beta males, tho.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

Fakeemail: “Whiskey still right that women hate, hate, HATE beta males, tho.”

Over at PA World & Times, “(Nameless)” has an absolutely hilarious subthread concerning a new employee at work who “mentions how her husband, ‘has a room at home dedicated to star wars lego,’ as she gives u prolonged eye contact”.

I burst out laughing when I read that.

Poor poor fella.

Still laughing.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

Our inability to pay is no obstacle. Granted, it will probably just be a grift like free education and maybe a set of gold teeth and nice rims along with tax breaks. We will never get an honest accounting anyway. Reparations was always a very fringe idea until the last 10 years. Now we have set up various reparations study commissions in various places across the US. Our ability to pay them notwithstanding, we’re probably getting reparations. If we get reparations, they will be on top of all the benefits they enjoy now. It won’t be a one and done… Read more »

Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

The real purpose of reparations is not restitution for slavery/Jim Crow era injustices or an equal playing field for the black underclass. It’s now almost entirely about humiliation of and retribution against the (mostly white working and middle class) Dirt People.

Whiskey
Whiskey
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

Their feelings don’t care about your math. Right now there is a big anti-fa battle against the Atlanta police. You’d expect the Feds to have busted it before it began, since ol poopin Joe is in nominal charge. But oh no, those crazies are at it every night. Again, look at Disney. Look at Warner-Discovery. They can’t change, they won’t change, because even organizational survival is less than the approval of other managers. Bob Iger cares very much about what other top managers say and think about him — he’s not about to stop the woke, though he will fire… Read more »

Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

The white Americans will pay every black American 20 million in dollars — Zimbabwean dollars.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Crinkle Fries
1 year ago

whiskey is our very own jim cramer.

Pozymandias
Reply to  Crinkle Fries
1 year ago

As Compsci points out, this is Whiskey posting here. I don’t recognize your name so maybe you’re new. Whiskey’s posts are always like this. There’s a kernel of sometimes keen observations surrounded by some, shall we say, really really implausible speculations. And yes, some of his stuff does read like Right wing cuck-porn.

Whiskey
Whiskey
Reply to  Crinkle Fries
1 year ago

I am sure there are plans for this by the Chinese. The Japanese Imperial Intelligence basically supported the Moorish Temple and later Nation of Islam until 1941. There were Harlem Nazis. The Soviets supported and provided assistance to the Black Panthers, Symbionese Liberation Army, and others. America’s weak point has always been its worship of black as holy racial redeemers and its very nasty class warfare among Whites. They are pushing on an open door and its merely the re-application of Cloward-Piven and the various Color Revolutions the US sponsors around the globe right back at us. The way Patton… Read more »

Lanky
Lanky
Reply to  Whiskey
1 year ago

‘Fang Fang’
Now THAT’S what you call a ‘sleeper agent’.

RealityRules
RealityRules
1 year ago

Absolute totalitarianism is what you describe. They want to manage and regulate thought and speech in order to exercise absolute control. The HR and DIE commissars exist to initialize the process. It is now becoming codified in law. Having your property destroyed by flooding in Texas? If you want to be eligible for federal aid, you must sign and agree to never boycott Israel. Israel owns you by virtue of you accessing your own tax money and having a natural disaster befall you. That is evil. The government will mandate that you meet emissions regulations. Do you want government funds… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  RealityRules
1 year ago

Indeed, totalitarianism is the word. It was right in front of us the whole time.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

or perhaps “techtalitarianism”

Epaminondas
Member
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

I like the term “Mandarinism”. After all, that’s what bureaucrats really are.

tashtego
Member
1 year ago

What to call the hostile alien occupation government in our world wide malthusian death spiral? An idiocracy of degenerates supported largely by employing a kind of ideological toxoplasmosis causing their host populations to hasten their own destruction. The purpose of labeling it would be to frame its moral standing in the common consciousness rather than providing an accurate and succinct descriptor, though having those properties would help it catch on. The Slave Masters comes to mind.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

Managerialism is fine for things you can effectively and objectively measure, control and systematize. Watching a car being built on an assembly line even in the 1930s is nothing short of amazing. Every option is at the station at the exact moment the proper car comes into the workstation. Or in the modern sense, managing a 10k mile long chain of logistics spanning multiple countries for a just in time manufacturer or distribution hub. This is the lure of managerialism. Take that same philosophy and try and manage a forest and all the flora and fauna therein. 5 years of… Read more »

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

No, no, the Talmudvision tells me that every Pruitt-Igoe in the country is filled with food trucks, non-threatening joggers walking their toy dogs over to their white girlfriend’s place, live music, and street festivals.

Actually, the other day I was waiting for a red light in a position that allowed me to see about two dozen residences in a local project (populated by blacks when I was young but now completely full of Hispanics) and every damn one of them had the upstairs windows thrown open in 20 degree weather. How long to sing this song?

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  KGB
1 year ago

Hell, I lived in a close housing situation when young and the thing I remember was the oder of food preparation constantly waifing through the building floor by floor. It gave me a phobia of sorts. I’d keep a window open too. 🙂

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  KGB
1 year ago

“Talmudvision” Z has such a creative audience. I love it. This is one I gotta file away for later use.

Remember, it’s not just free rent. The utilities are subsidized as well. I just paid a 400 Dollar gas bill despite the billing period being well above average temperature.

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

That’s the point I’m getting at. Every one of these barnacles is getting their heat comped, and they set their thermostats so that their living rooms feel like they did on a July afternoon back home.

One of the first attacks on whitey after the civil rights/war on poverty regime was fully instituted was to ostracize and call “racist” anyone who questioned the, invariably black, welfare mamas that suddenly sprang up everywhere. It set the stage for denying visible reality in so many other facets of life.

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

BTW, “talmudvision” is a term I first saw at ModernHeretic3000’s page. He had a true gift for words and his site is sorely missed.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  KGB
1 year ago

Well, when your diet is 75% refried beans…

imbroglio
imbroglio
1 year ago

I’m still puzzled that Shumer felt the need publicly to threaten Fox. Tucker’s audience consists of those who don’t believe the government’s J6 narrative. Those who do believe it won’t see the tapes anyway. And few care enough about the the J6’ers to do more than grumble.

If the ruling elite needn’t bother about public opinion, why the threat? If the ruling elite cares about public opinion that has no practical power, again, why the threat?

This bears further commentary.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  imbroglio
1 year ago

J6 scared them. Not because of what it was, but because of what it could have been. It’s not complicated, it’s plain old fear.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  imbroglio
1 year ago

The existence of any disobedience anywhere enrages and baffles them, partly because they’re sadistic idiots, and partly because they truly believe that people having other, unapproved ideas about anything is impossible—unless those ideas are instilled in them by a rival power: Russia, Trump, Tucker, Orban, Musk, etc. So any dissidence from the official story of Q Shaman *really is* Tucker’s doing. No other leader, not even Trump, has publicly contradicted it. Tens of thousands of us watched his silly adventure on live streams as it happened, but the 1/6 committee TV show should have washed those images out of our… Read more »

Dan Doffs
Dan Doffs
Reply to  Hemid
1 year ago

Tucker said in Fox emails that he thinks Trump is ‘demonic’. Discuss.

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  Dan Doffs
1 year ago

Great question, Dan. I hope others weigh in.

Tucker’s populism seems sincere. I don’t think he’s putting on an act to please his audience, like I used to suspect sometimes about Hannity.

Perhaps he wants Trumpism without Trump?

However, if Tucker believes that Biden won the election, then doesn’t “populism” take on the meaning of making policies that serve the interests of the majority population of progressives and non-whites?

I understand that one has to say “populism” in public, but I hope that many will say “pro-traditional white people” in private.

whatever2020
whatever2020
Member
1 year ago

A podcast on the anatomy of managerialism has been at the top of my wish list. The applied tenets of managerialism, in all its smarmy, saccharine, corrosive, and ultimately intentionally harmful glory is the facet of globohomo that I get subjected to in my little corner of the world and existence. In all its blob-like global expansiveness and all its bizarre (actually crazy) aspects, managerialism is its particular concretely formed kaleidoscope pattern (out of very many such patterns, too many to count) that is so often right in my face, up close and personal. I utterly despise it. I’m greatly… Read more »

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  whatever2020
1 year ago

Fake expertise. Real expertise produces huge factories producing goods at prices hard to believe. Just look at all the so-called experts droning on about LGBTQIP. All of them fall under the rainbow umbrella. All of the so-called “research” which they claim to understand as “experts” is all done by their LGBTQIP people in the academy. So they put out fake research, the “experts” cite this fake research as justification for the policy. next thing you know we have mothers holding their toddlers up in their air with dollars bills in their hand giving the Dollars to the drag performers in… Read more »

Frip
Member
1 year ago

I have a cold. Does anyone remember the feel-better cocktail that Z recommended a few years ago?

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Frip
1 year ago

In Lagos, the drink of choice is Robitussin, Arizona Watermelon Juice, and Skittles.

Mow Noname
Mow Noname
Reply to  KGB
1 year ago

.. but make sure to be on the lookout for “white hispanics” when shopping for said ingredients…

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
1 year ago

I’ll call it homoculture.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
1 year ago

When Dahl employed the world “polyarchy” it probably was accurate. The Latin “poly,” or “many,” has the indicia of “liberal democracy” as it implies widespread participation (note: I’m not making an argument for liberal democracy here, just responding to the podcast). The social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties extended the franchise and brought into the system more people who could participate and have at least a modicum of input into how it operated. In the United States this deviated from what had gone on since at least the Civil War, which was raw oligarchy. Power was in the hands… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

The system we have now is inseparable from the unprecedented technological means for “thought leadership,” brainwashing, mind virus, surveillance, and coercion available to the rulers of today. Thus, whatever we call it, the word tech ought to be in the name somewhere.

Back Away Slowly
Back Away Slowly
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

The word Z is looking for is, “Semitism”.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Yes. And something I only implied but did not explicitly state is that the tech largely has been turned against White scapegoats on behalf of the hostile elites. Technology has laid the foundation for potentially the most fully totalitarian system ever realized, and its White heritage population serves as its primary target.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

You bring up an excellent point. Everyone is carrying around a personal tracker, a listening device and video camera on them when moving around in public. YET, they cannot (or will not) solve the most basic crime like a smash-and-grab at Target. If you’re an enemy of the state, they can produce video from the minute you leave your house to the time you get to your destination with hardly any gaps in the video. Despite all the advances in technology and surveillance, I just read the nationwide closure rate for murder is at 50%, the lowest ever since keep… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
1 year ago

It has become a legitimate question how, with all this surveillance, an illegal drug market still exists

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

Techno tyranny? Did 1984 have a term for their surveillance state?

After the stolen election of 2020, i saw on the street signs a very provocative flier: the American flag with a QR code substituted in the blue space of the stars.

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  fakeemail
1 year ago

Someone will come up with the proper term. As close as I can get is “techtarianism,” but that assumes a lot and falls short.

The QR code flag is brilliant.

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

Yes, it’s quite a potent symbol of the inhumanity we’re under. And it bespeak the ultimate goal of everyone being chipped; ie mark of the beast.

Right after the election, zuck put out a video of him on a hover sailboat holding the American flag. Talk about signalling what he did and rubbing it in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPVhr2Gd1M

KGB
KGB
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

It’s striking in that Zuck and his ilk would have despised the American flag during the Bush years but now, as has so often been pointed out, they’ve captured the institution of “America” and are wearing its skin suit as a trophy.

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

There’s a belief on the high-minded left (maybe on the right too) that if they just pull in more voters the oligarchy will be defeated. This has led to them scraping the bottom of the barrel and pulling in felons and non-citizens. Yes, some/most have intentions less pure than that when it comes to voting, but the sentiment is the same: a belief that they can defeat their enemy through the voting box.

Pozymandias
Reply to  Jack Dobson
1 year ago

I’d question the central role of the 60s upheavals in bringing more people into the franchise. Certainly in the South, the legal changes associated with the civil rights movement got more Blacks to the polls but the most radical extension of the franchise was female suffrage and that happened around 1920. There were certainly those who had predicted at that time that female suffrage would usher in, within a few years, everything from outright Bolshevism to miscegenation so complete that all the races would blend into a yellow-brown mulatto people. Of course this didn’t happen. That doesn’t mean those changes… Read more »

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
1 year ago

Ahhhhhhhhh. Another fine show and spot on as usual, Z! Ya can’t tell where you’re going if ya don’t know how you got here… What you call ‘managerialism’ is now congruent with ‘HR fattyism”, “Semitism” “Nigolatrism” and a few other distasteful and unsavoury hateful “-isms” I suppose. And yet… it’s incomplete. To be viable, the managerial class has to appeal to people on some level… and I don’t see that. Maybe it is because I am white, male, and old … but others are beginning to see it too. Clearly, the wrong people are in charge, and equally clearly… someone… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Glenfilthie
1 year ago

Musk may or may not have turned twitter around ideologically, but financially there is still a long road ahead. Perhaps he will find a way for the taxpayer to subsidize him like his other businesses, he’s very skilled at that. So that the regime can maintain its stranglehold on what information is allowed to propagate, while he and the deplorables he has allowed back on the platform get to make their rebellious sounding tweets to give it all a veneer of free speech.

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
1 year ago

In fact, that might be part of his plan – giving them a little taste of what could happen.

“Look, if you don’t subsidize me, I’ll just let the truth run wild,”

c matt
c matt
1 year ago

Problem with fascism as a term is that it describes a system, not necessarily any particular set of substantive policy prescriptions, but the policy prescriptions of past fascist systems inevitably get lumped in. Similar to dictatorship, tyranny, etc. Our current system could well be described as fascist (merging of state with private industry so that there is nothing either doesn’t control). The question is, to what end? The symbiotic reinforcement of wokeness is a perfect example.

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
Reply to  c matt
1 year ago

Some systems are inherently unstable, C. Were it not for the fact that generations of Marxism, Feminism, and Equality have driven entire communities and generations insane… I don’t think the current order would have lasted as long as it did. It is running on impulse and momentum… and the forces driving it forward are on the wane. It’s something that we on the Dissident Right all too often fail to see. On the other side of the Great Divide, the lesbians are now at war with the trannies and pedos. The vibrants are now starting to go after each other… Read more »

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Glenfilthie
1 year ago

“the lesbians are now at war with the trannies and pedos. The vibrants are now starting to go after each other as often as they do with Whitey. People are seeing and noticing the joos and actively naming them and calling them out on it – often other leftists and perverts are the ones doing it.” Short term that is more of a feature than a bug in that the chaos and division diverts attention and helps hold power, but I agree that long term it will not hold. The system and its polities are now fragmenting and separating as… Read more »

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  Glenfilthie
1 year ago

Managerialism might get the point across though to the working schulbs: how would you go about firing their boss at work and hiring a new one? Yeah if they and their coworkers stuff the “suggestion” box with demands that he be fired, maybe, eventually something might happen in a few years, but in all likelihood nothing would happen, even at a union shop.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
1 year ago

I have yet to confect an appellation for the current ideology that satisfies me, but I know the ideology springs from poststructuralism (or postmodernism), and that its key applied point is anti-white racism. The former facilitates the latter. This ideology’s emphasis on race, its acceptance of capitalism, and its fusion of corporations with central government really does smack of facism, but is not entirely coterminous. And certainly, facism wasn’t rooted in postmodernism, although Nietzsche was admired by the fascists and was a forerunner to postmodernism. I think the biggest difference between the current ideology and fascism is out-and-out race hatred.… Read more »

WCiv911
WCiv911
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

The extinction of the white race is a means to an end, not an end in itself. The real goal is the creation of a totalitarian state, and whites stand in the way. They would be just as satisfied if we were all sent off to colonize Mars.

Diversity is just another tactic to dilute whiteness. Why? Because darker people are superior? No. Because the achievement of their goal requires the elimination of whites. The hatred for white people is being ginned up in order to create a more docile population to rule over.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  WCiv911
1 year ago

You’re under the illusion that totalitarianism and the destruction of the white race are distinct objectives. They are not. The elites seek both. But whereas you think the second objective is a means to the first, I believe the creation of a totalitarian state is a tool for subjugating or eliminating whites. The thirst for absolute power is as old as human history. What’s new here is essentially a host people hellbent on destroying their own kind. Sure, the Finkels and Hutus are critical to eliminating whites, but it is the 35% or more of whites pushing this with the… Read more »

WCiv911
WCiv911
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

The extinction of the majority of white people, the hoi polloi particularly, is a precondition for the achievement of the totalitarian state, ironically to be ruled by white elites, some Jewish.

No other reason makes as much sense. Revenge for the holocaust? Too much white success? Jealousy? Darwinian competition? I don’t get it.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  WCiv911
1 year ago

When you said “too much white success,” you got pretty close to the mark. What we’re dealing with here is egalitarianism gone hypertrophic and metastatic. And when one group, namely whites, utterly dominate every other group on the planet combined (Joe Sobran wrote memorably about this), sacred egalitarianism is put to the lie. That cannot stand. White people cannot carry on as a living, breathing nullification of the egalitarian fantasy. They must, therefore, be destroyed.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  WCiv911
1 year ago

WCiv911: “Darwinian competition?”

There’s certainly a very powerful Darwinian element at work here, although it tends to be more of a meta-Darwinism [on the order of entire cultures & civilizations], rather than a micro-local dog-eat-dog Darwinism.

And while “Darwinism” can account for the Psychopathy of it, “Darwinism” is at a complete loss when it comes to explaining the Sadism of it, and especially the sheer unadulterated bliss which accompanies the Sadism.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

> “The current ideology is flatly genocidal, whereas classical fascism was not.” I.e. Whites will not be afforded swimming pools & bands and orchestras & labor and delivery suites in the camps… =============== BTW, we might be making a turrible categorical error here if we conflate or confuse “Ideology” with “Psychological Warfare Campaign”. What we [Heritage Amurrrikkkun Christians] are confronting is a mass hysteria [on the part of White Sh!tlibs] driven by relentless psychological conditioning [courtesy of the Bronze Age Death Cult which owns all the media outlets]. We’ve been so overwhelmed by so many different psy-ops for so long… Read more »

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Bourbon
1 year ago

Maybe I should say, “Industrialism versus Luddism”.

Bourbon
Bourbon
Reply to  Bourbon
1 year ago

The more I think about it, the more I feel like our fundamental problem is precisely that we are sending Ideologies [i.e. “Reason”] out onto the battlefield to enter into mortal combat with Psychological Warfare Campaigns [i.e. “Emotion”], which is a lose-lose-lose proposition for us.

BTW, that’s why Memes serve us so extraordinarily well – because Memes allow us to fight Emotion with Emotion.

The simple phrase, “It’s Okay to be White,” is more potent than the combined power of a million different variations on “Supply Side Economics”.

Pozymandias
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

It’s interesting to note that the Nazis started out mainly seeing the Jews as a nuisance. They were just in the way and the initial plan was to simply get them out of the way. This is why the Nazis were actually working with Zionists in some cases. They would have been happy to just shuffle the Jews off to Palestine or someplace else. The prime focus was on building the great Aryan thousand-year Reich. You could make a case that the Nazis became more overtly genocidal as the war dragged on and building the glorious Aryan paradise seemed to… Read more »

Jack Dobson
Jack Dobson
Reply to  Pozymandias
1 year ago

I would like to upvote this to infinity. Yes, the transition from hostility to an attempt at White genocide is well underway. I point out from time to time there is a great sorting underway, which itself is a prelude to fragmentation and dissolution. The Woke Empire obviously knows this; an animating reason for the open border is to try to flood these self-segregating areas with foot soldiers. Over time that will not work because with or without the assistance of Texas and Florida governors, the immivaders will gravitate to urban centers that are both sanctuary cities and benefit cash… Read more »

fakeemail
fakeemail
1 year ago

I conceive of it plainly as Satanism. Oh, it can be called globalism, godlessness, relativism, marxism, kakistocracy, matriarchy, sexual dystopia, idiocracy, and anti-white genocide. But none of these terms quite capture the spirit of what I feel is really going on. Everything good and pure has been subverted in the most sickening and violent ways possible. As Paul Harvey used to say, “If I were the devil. . .” ” How did liberal democracy evolve into this strange elite ideology?” I submit there was no evolution. This madness is what “liberal democracy” has always been. We’ve simply reached the demographic… Read more »

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  fakeemail
1 year ago

Forgot Sam Francis’ potent “Anarchy Tyranny.” Anarchy for the criminals and tyranny for the decent and law abiding.

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  fakeemail
1 year ago

correction: “Anarcho-Tyranny”

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  fakeemail
1 year ago

This is why I don’t hesitate (anymore) to call them what they are, evil or even demonic or Satanic. There is a reason their European brethren designed the EU building to look like the Tower of Babel painting or their satanic ritual when opening a new tunnel. They call good evil and evil good. The “far” right is loaded with secular people who shy away from this language. I myself am pretty secular. But we must always remember we are in a fight with evil. They are not good men who have a difference in visions or a different method… Read more »

btp
Member
Reply to  fakeemail
1 year ago

It didn’t start in the ’60s. It is baked in to the American project from its beginning. We can’t go back to a better Constitution because the Constitution is the problem.

Dan Doffs
Dan Doffs
Reply to  fakeemail
1 year ago

It’s distressing to see that Tucker actually referred to Trump as a “demonic” influence in his Fox emails. Tucker professes religiosity so that word was deliberate on his part.

Interested Reader
Interested Reader
1 year ago

The window dressing of the various ideologies have changed from the past but the actual driving forces seem to be the same. Biological Leninism seems to be an attempt to succinctly describe what motivates and powers left wing movements in the modern era. But it’s really the same thing across time. Maladjusted, envious, deformed (mentally and physically) people, angry that there are people who are smarter, kinder, prettier, and happier than they are. They want to knock those people down by flipping the normal hierarchy upside down and put people like them in charge. The left simply wants to grow… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Interested Reader
1 year ago

Good point. This ideology’s constituents really are a coalition of fruits, freaks, felons and freeloaders. The worst shall be first.

Steve
Steve
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
1 year ago

Well played alliteration!

Philly Cheeze
Philly Cheeze
Reply to  Interested Reader
1 year ago

An updated take on bio-Leninism comes from Edward Dutton, who termed some of the rulers, and almost all of the most fervent followers as ‘spiteful mutants’.

tl;dr instead of disappearing as failed genetic mutations, the worst of our society survived and thrived in 20th century and now are destroying everything good in the world.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61385213

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Philly Cheeze
1 year ago

To be fair, it was Micheal Woodley—who worked with Dutton—that first used the term “spiteful mutants”. Dutton used to give credit when he was still working with Woodley, but since has simply dropped citation—which is fine.

Auld Mark
Auld Mark
Reply to  Compsci
1 year ago

I miss Woodley, shows not quite the same without him.

Tarl Cabot
Tarl Cabot
1 year ago

Haven’t listened yet, but strictly speaking, Corporatism best describes the current system. However when most people hear that term they put too much emphasis on private companies, and not enough on public institutions and NGOs.

For that reason I prefer Syndicalism, with the aforementioned institutions filling the traditional role of trade unions, in that they all in effect represent the constituent interests of their diverse memberships.

Also, since they basically operate as crime syndicates, the term is dually descriptive.

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Tarl Cabot
1 year ago

Two wolves (business and government) and a sheep (the people) deciding what’s for lunch.

3g4me
3g4me
1 year ago

As both Zman’s writing and so many excellent comments note, the Enlightenment perverted the entire concept of man and human agency. And that belief – that nothing biological or theological or governmental – could or should ordain basic aspects of human life – is deeply, corrosively rooted. No question that the Frankfurt School, for its own nefarious purposes, helped further the idea of human equality and blank slate-ism, but the roots of that dangerous fallacy can be traced much further back. And women – being the less rational and more emotional of the sexes, as well as physically weaker –… Read more »

Horace
Horace
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

“It will take more than a mere change of government to return the masses to understanding and accepting their biological reality.”

That’s why I say “collapse is the cure.” I have a family member with one of those odious entitled Planned Parenthood “WE WON’T GO BACK!” bumper stickers. They fear that those like me would roll the clock back 60 years. It’s been years since I thought that. We should be shooting for a thousand and accept nothing less than 500.

ray
ray
1 year ago

Most of the modern West is a kleptocratic/cryptocratic matriarchy, especially the Anglo nations. How the nations got there has been laboriously documented elsewhere on the internet. Some of it authored by yrs. trooly. Ultimately its roots are in Eden with the Original Rebellion against God. The woman sought Equality with God and leadership over the man. The man obeyed the woman instead of obeying God (‘listened to the voice of the woman’). God’s response was to give the man and the woman exactly what they wanted until it ran out their ears and seeped from their pores. And here we… Read more »

Evil Sandmich
Evil Sandmich
Reply to  ray
1 year ago

Z used the term “gynocracy” in the past. For as bad (maybe) as a “matriarchy” would be it would still have it’s basis for governance in their own people and their future; the window for damage would be much more narrow.

ArthurinCali
ArthurinCali
1 year ago

This story out of the LA Times correlates to Zman and the subject of democracy. This entire article boils down to the media showing displeasure with ONE County out of 58 in California actually practicing democratic self-rule.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-09/qanon-shasta-california-dominion-lindell

Summary: “Democracy and its process is good and pure, but not when the ‘wrong’ people are democratically put in power.”

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  ArthurinCali
1 year ago

With these people, it really is all about the end, not the means, regardless of what they say.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  ArthurinCali
1 year ago

“ Democracy and its process is good and pure, but not when the ‘wrong’ people are democratically put in power.”

But that’s precisely what “democracies” do! A bit of a tautology here.

Perhaps we change the wording a bit: “Democracy and its process is good and pure, but not when the ‘all’ people are democratically allowed ‘sufferage’”

Wrongthink Criminal
Wrongthink Criminal
1 year ago

Disagreed with the last paragraph, this is liberal democracy and what liberal democracy has always been. The only real difference is that initially the elites were better people, now they are not. America was born from an English monarchy, separated into an aristocratic republic, degraded into liberal democracy, now it suffers for its want of a monarchy. Just because the actors behind liberal democracy are not good people doesn’t make it any less liberal and democratic. Just like having an evil king doesn’t make it any less of a monarchy. You can be liberal to praise God or liberal to… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Wrongthink Criminal
1 year ago

Wrongthink Criminal: Excellent first three paragraphs – you are totally correct on America’s origins and the usefulness (or not) of different government systems. And yes, the quality and nature of the people determine whether or not a particular system ‘works.’ I cannot agree, however, with your latter three paragraphs. A more benign authoritarian leader (one biologically related to those over whom he rules)? I’m fine with that. A nation cannot well function with a multitude of conflicting and competing voices (a la AINO for over 150 years). But a king, and hereditary rule? No thank you. There comes a point… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  3g4me
1 year ago

The King does not have to be hereditary, only selected for the position—not necessarily born into it. Many societies had this form, where the current King named his “Crown Prince”. Of course, this begs the question of what happens when the current King has a “blind eye” toward his half-wit son. Those cases were often avoided by having the new Crown Price effectively vetoed by the nobility that supported the King.

btp
Member
Reply to  Wrongthink Criminal
1 year ago

Could not possibly agree more. There’s no going back to some better form of the Constitution, but the new thing could be a restoration of a very old thing.

Also critical: the observation that monarchies can sometime regenerate, whole other forms can only degenerate. I think that is the meta-fact underneath all the rest.

btp
Member
Reply to  thezman
1 year ago

I think the present is very easily stuffed into some past model: degenerate democracy degenerates democratically. Happens all the time. Happens every time, really.

And the solution – if one is to be found – is always the same: restore hierarchy. That’s why there is no going back to some earlier version of the Constitution, such would just be rewinding the clock to a less debauched part of the timeline to no real affect.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Wrongthink Criminal
1 year ago

Every corporation, state government, municipal government, federal bureaucracy, university, and county school system now has a DIE department and an ESG department governing their personnel and operations, whereas just a handful of years ago few if any of them did. The key point is that this did not happen through legislation or referendum or any particular executive order or any other such liberal democratic process. It was a result of some other unnamed system, which clearly exists, but which we cannot call liberal democracy.

Eloi
Eloi
1 year ago

The written introduction to the podcast reminds me of “Words and Behavior” by Orwell. The loss of meaning is the loss of thought.

Eloi
Eloi
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

Examine the word “dignity.” Coming from Latin via the French, it used to signal acceptance (as in respect and responsibility) in accordance with rank – worthiness, in both senses (being worthy and justifying that worth). Just examine dignity now – some term used to remember not to be racist by undermining the inherent dignity of some non-white hue. Insanity. The perversion of language perverts thought, and vice versa.

Panzernutter
Panzernutter
1 year ago

The Jew-Anon shamans father is Shlomo mostofsky a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge. He got eight months for his cosplay antics. Very interesting https://nypost.com/2022/05/09/caveman-rioter-aaron-mostofsky-gets-eight-months-in-prison-for-storming-the-capitol/

Dinodoxy
Dinodoxy
1 year ago

The ideology is the logical evolution of the liberal-enlightenment philosophy that first developed in the 19th century and displaced Christianity sometime in the 19th century as the dominate religion. By the end of the 20th it had almost completely displaced christianity from the western world. The central beliefs of the philosophy-religion is that humans are capable of omniscience, can control physical reality through knowledge and will, and create a perfect world by doing so. Broadly speaking it believes that humanity is god. Not just collectively, but individually too. Every man can be god. Transsexualism is just the latest manifestation –… Read more »

Eloi
Eloi
Reply to  Dinodoxy
1 year ago

I would go further back to the Renaissance. Human agency is the essence of humanism. Humanism may have started out trying to untangle doctrinal perversion from God, but the results were preordained. The Sistine Chapel ceiling literally makes God in our own image – the inversion of Biblical text.

Andrew
Andrew
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

God made himself in Man’s image. That was the point of Christ, the word made flesh.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

You probably mean God made Man is His image.

Eloi
Eloi
Reply to  Andrew
1 year ago

Genesis 1:27. Further, what does that have to do with my point about the Renaissance crafting God into human form based on Greek paganism – the natural conclusion of Humanism? Where does the Bible say God made himself in Man’s image? Doesn’t that seem foolish?

c matt
c matt
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

Not just in his image, but the Word actually became flesh and dwelt among us.

Greek paganism was the epitome of art crafting the human form. It is only proper that the Renaissance artists start with the best man had to offer and complement (complete it) with uniting it to man’s divine source. You an Iconoclast or something?

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

For starters, Genesis 1:26

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

Hit Post too soon.

Did God make himself? Can God make himself? If so, did he make himself a bearded European man? I feel we’re going too deep here.

Eloi
Eloi
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

And my point, again, is that Humanism produced the audacity to paint God. And, yes, I do not worship pictures – kinda graven images hangup

ray
ray
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

Yup. Take a look at the ceiling of the Capitol Rotunda if you want a good look at humans becoming God/gods. By the way, Lockdown D.C. was dedicated to the ‘goddess’ Columbia (Liberty, Libertas, Isis, Asherah, etc.) It is her District. When men meet in ‘congress’ to make decisions, they are engaging in ‘relations’ with that goddess. Most of the Jamestown honchos and other Continental aristocrats that began America were not Christians. The Founders, e.g., were Deists or neo-babylonians. When you welcome all religions, you embrace no religion. The U.S. we now see — the pagan-feminist-progressive polity — was always… Read more »

Dinodoxy
Dinodoxy
Reply to  ray
1 year ago

Never seen the Mural on the rotunda before.
Googled it and

Holy Crap!
Washington is seated center evocative of God. Surrounded by mythic women.

With recognizable pagan gods on a lower level.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Eloi
1 year ago

Well, hell–why not take it all the way back to Protagoras, then? “Man is the measure of all things.”

btp
Member
Reply to  Dinodoxy
1 year ago

It is the development of the liberal Enlightenment – it’s what had to happen once those idea took root. If you’re looking for a date, the 19th century is much too late. Probably, the English revolutions of the 17th century are also too late. But, even if that’s too late, that revolution contains the seed of everything we see now. The psychotic Puritans brought their disease to America, and literally everything that has happened since is the spread of their disease. This is why we can’t “go back” to some better form of the Constitution. The Constitution is the problem,… Read more »

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  btp
1 year ago

When does the calendar start?

Mow Noname
Mow Noname
Reply to  Paintersforms
1 year ago

May I propose “Year Zero”? It worked for Pol Pot. The Cambodians don’t even have to wear prescription eyeglasses any more.

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  Dinodoxy
1 year ago

“Ye shall be as gods. . .” sayeth the Serpent.

theRussians
theRussians
Member
1 year ago

I’ve sadly come to a similar conclusion recently when I started substituting in the word “sodomy” whenever I see the word “democracy”. Funniest realization is that the more the word is used, the better the substitution works. Also, the senate “questioning” of Matt Taibbi is in fact, almost entirely an ad-hominem “attack”. The whole use of words, well, it just ain’t what it used to be.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  theRussians
1 year ago

Sodomy Dies in Darkness

BigJimSportCamper
BigJimSportCamper
Reply to  Marko
1 year ago

I would say ‘thrives’ rather than dies.

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