"A criticism of centralization presupposes that decentralization is a good thing. But why is that?"
If there is one author I wish my comrades would read it is Donald Livingston. He informs my thinking about the current nationalist populist wave deeply.
@RyLiberty
@sneako
I remember a black rap producer speaking to our conservative group at university a couple decades ago.
He was puzzled why gangster rap got such a huge push.
He made it clear that this did NOT come from the blacks in the business.
"Someday America will not be a white, Christian country. Then we'll be safe."
– Abe Foxman, ADL
Paul Gottfried on why you're a "Nazi" and so mass immigration must continue.
Great to be travelling through the densely populated full south east where there’s definitely not space to build new houses or new towns for young people to live.
“Oh we used to laugh at those corny communist propaganda posters. We are western, we are liberal, we are free, we would never fall for such obviously manipulative drivel.”
– Morgoth
My friend
@OGRolandRat
thinks there is hope for Europe and none for the US.
@TheWorthyHouse
, conversely, thinks Europe done but there is a future for the US.
I am announcing the RadLib Position:
We will save both Europe and the US.
This is not a prediction. This is a command.
For 50 years, we've had a legal choice over who to love. For a decade, we've had a legal choice over who we can marry. I'm calling for a Parliamentary inquiry & free vote on assisted dying.
Read my piece with my constituent, David Minns, in The Express👇
This map shows states whose Governors issued the Joint Statement Supporting Texas’ Constitutional Right to Self-Defense.
Link to the statement follows…
My moment came in Rome.
I had studied Latin for years. I translated letters from fathers to their sons.
It hit hard to stand in the ruins of the Forum.
I thought “In bustling Rome, would they have imagined that goats would be grazing here someday?”
We can lose it all.
"it is very common... to refer to ‘Nazi’ warships, ‘Nazi’ aircraft and ‘Nazi’ soldiers, rather than using the more accurate word ‘German’.
“The soldiers and forces of the USSR... are interestingly seldom if ever referred to as ‘Communist’ troops"
–
@ClarkeMicah
, Phoney Victory
Random critic of homeschooling: "How do you socialize?"
Our 17yo daughter: "I'm talking to you right now."
Funniest response she's gotten: "Well, but… It might not happen again!"
(She further comments that another response would be: "You're an adult out of school. How do you
See those pieces sticking out to the sides of this boar-hunting spearhead?
That’s to keep the impaled boar from pushing up the spear and attacking you.
Our 18yo daughter left her purse on the front seat of my car while we went in to get donuts on the way to church.
An eyewitness saw two men in hoodies pull up and smash in the window.
Only her phone was found.
An expensive lesson on living in a low trust society!
With Trump reinstated, I feel like I’m the main winner in all this.
I don’t care what his TruthSocial contract says, Trump will not be able to resist this megaphone.
So he’ll be back.
And hilarity will ensue.
And that’s all I want.
Vancouver has an estimated 500K-800K empty bedrooms — at least 1 in 5 — in the midst of a housing crisis.
Here’s a map of them (darker = more empty). Our markets are failing to allocate housing to serve families' needs. Shifting taxes to land addresses this fundamentally.
This is what hit me so hard when I first walked among Roman ruins after spending years translating Latin. I’m sure, with the Forum buzzing with activity, that it seemed like Rome would be there forever.
But we really can lose it all.
Read the short thread from
@spandrell4
…
People really thing that things will sort themselves out and in 100 years all European nations will still be around. No, nations go extinct *all the time*. Celts used to rule all Europe from Ireland to Thracia. Romans and Germans destroyed them.
Brilliant. He just turned the 2024 election into a prisoner's dilemma game for election fortificationists. If they all do what they did in 2020 then they might all be safe. But if anyone defects…
CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential
“The political prosecution of dissidents by the Democratic establishment is not a violation of norms, it is the establishment of new norms.”
@AuronMacintyre
on democracy reaching its final stage in the US.
ADL recently published a study to help bots identify "far right" people by their language.
So they needed a control group. Who did they choose to represent normal people?
Redditors.
I'm not making this up.
😂
I’m not allying with either side.
My stance:
1. I will not cheer for another war for Israel.
2. I will not support the genocide in Gaza.
3. I will not be manipulated by name calling (Third Worldist, etc.)
Didn’t work on me in 2003. Isn’t going to work this time.
Shared this with 18yo daughter. Her comment:
“I’m amazed at the things I hear my female peers say about children, and how disgusted they are with the idea of pregnancy and motherhood.”
The reason people aren’t having kids is not because of tax credits, it’s because men have been stripped of all authority in their marriage and women are trained to see children as a burden.
Even though this is a good policy, it doesn’t actually address the issue.
This was one of my earliest breaks from “boomer truth”.
I was at the Mises Institute listening to Ralph Raico make these very points about nuking Japan.
One aged boomer got up and stalked out.
I realized that I had been fed lies.
Japan was militarily defeated, though. It was only our unprecedented demand for total unconditional surrender that put us in position to choose between invading or nuking the home islands. Their navy was sunk, their air force was destroyed, their manpower was decimated, they’d
“…her role in shaping U.S. policy around the world under six presidents and 10 secretaries of state.”
Horrifying career of non-stop evil.
She’s only 62. So even though this is being announced as a retirement, I wouldn’t assume she’s done getting people killed.
"Kentler's goal [in promoting pedophilic guardianship] was to develop a child-rearing philosophy for a new kind of German man. Sexual liberation, he wrote, was the best way to "prevent another Auschwitz.""
–
@BDSixsmith
Link...
Showed our teens The Matrix (1999).
18yo daughter argued persuasively that The Truman Show (1998) is a much better film.
Neo's life is dreary. Leaving the Matrix is an adventure.
But Truman finding out his life is an illusion is heartbreaking. He has been betrayed.
Wow! I knew about three “you're living in an illusion” films in about the same year, I didn’t know Truman Show was that same time. The tally so far:
1998:
• Dark City
• The Truman Show
1999:
• The Matrix
• The Thirteenth Floor
Why this cluster of films at that time?
Biden has often bragged about being the architect of the Patriot Act. He'd written the original text years earlier for a bill that was rejected due to civil rights concerns, then 9/11 happened and they rolled it out with astonishing speed.
"The ones who are emotionally committed to it, the true warmongers... I know all of them, and I can say this about them: Not one of them has a normal sex life."
– Tucker Carlson
🤣
‘Another tactic, taken directly from rule 13 in Rules for Radicals, was labeling those who disagree with leftist ideology as hateful bigots standing in the way of progress…a tactic which would help usher in the polarized politics we see today.’
My wife couldn’t sleep last night and heard what sounded like chanting outside.
She went out at 01:00 and found that the ducks were all quacking in unison.
Is it normal for ducks to form cults?
"these men soon find that to achieve their aims they would need reforms so extreme that revolution and maybe even civil war would be inevitable. So they give up, and the process then continues until the next crisis. But it doesn't end and can't end, until it all ends."
– BAP
I can prove to you,
@OGRolandRat
, that students today are smarter than back in the 1940s.
“Reports from Harvard and Yale reveal that about 80% of students at both institutions receive As, with mean GPAs reaching 3.7 at Yale and 3.8 at Harvard.”
Link…
A phenomenon known as "white fortressing" is driving movements to form new cities and secede from majority-nonwhite regions in the US South, write
@Luisa_Godinez_P
and
@BrianDSmedley
Nothing personal, Ms. Owens.
My Dad literally worked on the Apollo 11 mission.
I remember bringing his NASA plaque to show-and-tell when I was a kid in the 1970s as part of a presentation on the moon.
(A pretty cool presentation actually.)
We’re all sick. And I’m quite displeased with the sentencing of Sam Melia in England. But here’s something that brightened our day!
Two kids were born here last night!
Congrats to our 18yo daughter who has been working towards this day for three years.
I’m really looking forward to the sequel to this article where they explain how they saved democracy again by removing the guy they put in the first time they saved democracy.
Rule by experts started at least a century ago. We have all been inculcated into this since we were young.
So even those who think of themselves as “based and red-pilled” must destroy their inner boomer.
Pro-tip for those who live in both the corporate world and the dissident right space…
“NTD” in a chat during a virtual meeting is NOT a misspelling of TND. Do not correct their spelling!
Need
To
Drop
"The empire hates Assange because he punches holes in their ability to control the narrative, and thus control the public, and they have silenced him to deprive him of the ability to control his own narrative about himself."
@caitoz
on the silencing.
“the message sent was unmistakable: If you kill Christian children, we will shower your preferred group with money and attention."
@AuronMacintyre
on a new level of darkness.
@DougMackeyCase
@bronzeagemantis
I’m reminded of Days of Rage where he noted that the (mostly Jewish) Weather Underground wished they were Black Panthers.
Best response I’ve seen to the “line go up” bean counters of the IMF (or whichever “multilateral institution” it was ).
Really worth your time.
7 1/2 minutes.
“Yes, de jure, an adult exposing themselves to a minor is a crime that places them on the sex offender registry. But, de facto, there is a protected class who are celebrated by our ruling elites for doing exactly that.”
@AuronMacintyre
on anarchotyranny.
Jesus taught that sometimes dialogue is a trap.
Remember his shocking response to Peter trying to talk him out of going to the cross:
"Get thee behind me, Satan."
Sometimes that is the right response.
And never forget the second part of "pearls before swine"!
Strange how native birth rate is treated as an independent variable separate from immigration.
Housing costs go up, crime goes up, homogenous culture destroyed… Native family formation falls off a cliff…
The proposed fix is more mass immigration which causes… 🔃
I continue to hear from small businesses (informal conversations) that they are struggling to hire/retain.
Younger guys in particular quit once they realize that, say, working on a loading dock is long hours & hard work.
They also consider themselves too good for manual labor.
1. “Love your neighbor” for me means loving my fellow Americans. They are my neighbors.
2. We will not save the third world by moving billions here. We’ll just re-create the third world.
3. Besides, the whole point of mission work is to save peoples, not destroy them.
So…
all women should grow their hair out to ridiculous pinterest rapunzelmaxxing length at least once in their lives. we’re historically v lucky to live in a time that permits this kind of impractical aesthetic indulgence, would be a shame not to take advantage of it