I rather like how this article ends. The answer to our current woes is basically to go through the stages of grief, accept the US as we knew it has passed, and move on to build your own life. That’s the essential part. LIVE! Don’t doom on the Internet for fun. LIVE YOUR LIFE! Learn some skills and do something fun. I took up gardening in the last couple months, helping some of my fellow parishioners with a garden plot they started this year. It’s been great! If your world is getting smaller, if you care more about the politics of your hometown, county, and state more than the federal level, you’re doing something right and you should *keep* doing it.
And when reality rolls up, if you’ve been doing it right and caring more about your community than far away federal politics, then you can repel those invaders and defend what’s rightfully yours.
A.) If we’ve learned anything in the last 30-40 years it’s that you can have all the nukes, air power, and artillery you want and you can still lose. Just ask the Taliban. They ran around with Toyotas scraped together from spare parts, duct tape, and prayers armed with 30 year old Soviet surplus, and they still won in the end. Wunderwaffen only get you so far. Belief in your own cause takes you the rest of the way. The Taliban believed in their cause. The United States didn’t.
B.) So what do you want to do then? Start an armed revolution against the government? I see that you’re all but advocating for violence with all your “fight or die” comments in this comments section. Didn’t you just get done telling me it was useless to defend my town and state because the Feds have artillery and nukes? Wtf makes you think you and your based Vet friends will do any better right now? You don’t have an army, or nukes, or artillery or air power. You’re not in any better of a position than I am, and you know it.
C.) Deflection implies I’m avoiding something. I’m not. Fighting the government is a useless gesture. Secession is a useless gesture. Doing *anything* violent is a useless gesture because we are not in a position to fight. We’re not physically, mentally, or spiritual strong enough, nor is it even wise to fight now. Prudence is a great virtue, and right now fighting a war when we have almost zero chance of winning is the definition of stupidity and imprudence.
There is a time and place to pick up arms and defend what’s yours. Now is not that time, and it will not be that time for a while into the future. If you want to play Weekend Warrior with your “based” Vet friends, go right on ahead. Just make sure your ultimately futile guerrilla war doesn’t destroy the lives of everyone else around you.
The Biden admin and the Harris campaign have really pulled the veil back and revealed that the people making the real decisions don't need or want competent leadership figures that need to be convinced or fooled. They want sockpuppets who read the teleprompter and sign the executive orders, regulations, and legislation they're told to sign.
This is why I advocate against armed rebellions. They've game-planned against that, and the elected officials are easily replaceable plug and play automatons. (That's also why there's such a concerted effort to glorify "respectable" Republicans like John McCain, George W Bush, and Mitt Romney: they're controlled opposition that concedes to the desires of the ruling class with only mild pushback and they want Republicans to go back to accepting the leadership of those mediocre fuckers)
The billionaire and multi-millionaire donor class that's really calling the shots, funding the activists, etc., play a lot of golf, love going to the beach, and like to throw parties where they're lounging on the decks of their yachts. They spend a lot of time stationary out in the open with plenty of clear sightlines within 200-500 yards of solid cover. You know, so you can, uhm, take photos with a long-range lens, naturally.
It was never the time to fight and never will be, so select choice 2 for yourself, and everyone who heeds this advice is dead too.
Being in a position to fight is a matter of will and judgement, when marked for an ongoing extinction judgement says fight.
And your point about the Taliban is well taken, you apparently don’t believe enough.
“Fighting the government is a useless gesture. Secession is a useless gesture. Doing *anything* violent is a useless gesture because we are not in a position to fight. “
So … useless. Yes. Useless.
You are useless.
Why mention the Taliban who faced the same odds, far worse actually, then deny your own premise?
Your day will never come, but that means it’s over for your bloodline.
A.) “Being in a position to fight is a matter of will and judgement.” Yes, and I’ve judged that now is not the time to fight because the government isn’t directly threatening my life, my family, or my community. This is not an abstract “oh they’re importing millions of migrants into the community” (though that’s bad) kind of threat. This is “the government is knocking down my door to take me behind the shed and shoot me like a dog” kind of threat. That’s “ongoing extinction” in my opinion. I will take every other feasible road before I choose to fight the government because revolution is generally evil. I’m a Catholic. We do not believe in revolution, which is why I don’t believe in fighting the state right now. The only allowable circumstance for violence is in self defense, and the government is not threatening nor in the active process of kicking down my door and killing me and my family.
B.) I mention the Taliban to point out that yes, I can feasibly defend my community if I so choose. The USG is not an all powerful entity which can smite me if it so chooses. In fact, the USG and its military seems to be a behemoth growing more incompetent by the day. I just don’t believe it is time to fight, as I said in part A. LARP all you want about how you’re the based, gigachad revolutionary and I’m “useless” and “will be the end of my bloodline”. When the cards are down on the table, what makes you think the USG won’t go and shoot your family if you start a guerrilla war?
The taliban only won because we weren't allowed to fight them in any meaningful capacity. The moment we become the Taliban is the moment you see nuclear weapons deployed against the American Populace (White People.)
Nothing can ever be done; the only thing that could possibly be done is to force Israel to Nuke The World with the Samson Option so that nothing else lives so that nothing else ever happens again.
Honestly, continuing down this same path of degeneracy, incompetence and corruption for decades more sounds worse than "random violence and gruesome massacres occurring at unpredictable intervals".
Lol. Not according to DNA, history, fossil record, the sniper who shot Trumps sniper dead, the Afghans and Iraqis who hung in there fighting until we left, Erik Prinz, Musk’s actual Rabbi that let him get away with buying Twitter) and the major investments and alliances of Andersson Horowitz, including Anduril and Palmer Lucky.
Let’s also remember how we got this American Continent and American Empire.
It’s absurd to try and disclaim priors with the moment in front of us and all other choices eliminated.
It’s the same choice always;
Fight
Or
Die.
If you die fighting by the way the value of your kin and offspring are noted and they are spared,
Real barrier here is a collective action problem. Dissatisfaction with the regime is extremely widespread, but the dissidents come in all stripes and flavors, from far left communist types who are upset that Biden doesn't hate Israel enough, over to far-right fedposters like yourself. If everyone that hated the regime could actually band together and engage in organized violence as a single faction, well yeah, we could have a new regime in no time at all. But they can't, there are no institutions or connections that would allow them to bind together in such a way. This is one big reason why the regime always seeks to undermine any institutions outside of itself.
If action can't be taken collectively, in an organized fashion, as a coherent entity with clear goals and an established hierarchy, then it's useless or even counter-productive (see: Jan 6).
I don't agree that the only options in this world are open calls to violence, complete silence, or "demoralizing." If that's your viewpoint, then carry on I suppose.
It will add to the casualties later 🤣 because of the little extra bit of hesitation inflicted.
It may even affect the ultimate outcome to the design of lay down and die, which is certainly what’s happening.
I’m sure the Stonehenge males said the same when the
IndoEuropeans rolled in about 2300 BC. I’m pretty sure the IE weren’t interested in disclaimers either.
The eternal fate of men is fight or go extinct and justly.
I’m simply pointing out that fact.
We can say fact by all of history, our fossil record, DNA and current events.
What I could pretend I don’t understand is why all the difficulties and problems must be constantly explained unless one wants the opposition to our extinction to remain inert, which of course it is… inert.
But of course I understand.
It does us no good however.
The complaint about Trump is correct, he can’t say “shoot” even to say “shoot back.”
Do vote for him, it’s a harmless pastime, voting.
I’m trying to well perhaps increase chances of survival by explaining our clear choice and clear and present Doom.
This is rebuked by you.
Very well. I explained.
What then are you accomplishing or aiming at here?
I am not looking for Trump to solve anything at this point. If he does that’s just gravy. No, Trump is far more important than that. He is, and still remains our most powerful weapon. He’s our wunderwaffe. He drives the people who are involved is some very sinister shit crazy.
The people that hate him hate us. It’s a simple calculation actually. He is a distraction and a prime agitator of psychotics. Have never seen anyone have such an ability to cause so much angst lol.
If you get a chance to throw a Molotov cocktail into your enemies house you fucking do it. Many so called strategists out there who can’t even understand this. You would do well not to listen to them anymore.
This seems like a critical juncture in our history. This election is front and center. It is the battleground which will shape our future. I have concerns that things could go really bad. You should all be somewhat prepared for tough times.
Remember, “they” were NOT just trying to assassinate the man. What they really wanted was to have it on video and in photos. The goal was to end the Popular uprising once and for all. Blaming Iran or another scapegoat would have given the architects enough plausible deniability with the masses. Any uprising would have been crushed swiftly I am sorry to report.
It was a good plan. I believe they might’ve pulled it off had it been successful. Obviously it very nearly was. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
What I see from the Dems and the system is a collapse, a bankruptcy.
That’s real, and could be reversed but by none I see.
I don’t think they can crush a revolt that gets going, no people that will shoot. Look at Crooks, he’s no Oswald. Whatever Oswald version one believes, Crooks is a step down, in fact several.
But I don’t think a revolt is possible or likely today, what I see is the Democratic Party in dissolution, and there’s no replacement. Certainly not GOP.
Donald Trump feeds people the copium that if they vote hard enough then things happen. If your desire is to blow up the system, Harris is the better choice. A Trump victory allows the kabuki theater to continue. Without Orange Man to distract them, more people begin to notice that the emperor has no clothes.
He's not really a wild card though--he was already president once. There's not much reason to believe a second trump term will differ much from the first.
My stance is that JD Vance, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel are much better with management of personnel, which is Trump's biggest shortcoming. His first administration was crippled by constant delays and bureaucratic mutiny by government personnel. Someone like Elon Musk could be brought in to fire huge portions of the permanent bureaucracy, and to bring in thousands of alternative staff.
A paradigm shift will require people to decide that voting doesn't matter and/or elections are illegitimate. To be fair, Trump has done some amount of work to push people in that direction, but then he circled back around to "and the way to fix it is to vote for me even harder this time."
As you have noted there is no means of changing things via armed revolution. In fact there has been no such revolution in a first world country since WW2 (and even Hitler needed to get elected first).
Even the collapse of the Soviet Union came from one group of elites favoring democracy, not an uprising of the people.
The government has a monopoly on force and can impose whatever terms it wants. There is no way of living a private life in the modern world if a determined government does not wish you to do so.
Leftists properly view politics as war by other means. The right has made great strides in catching up to this over the past decade, but there's still a long ways to go. If Trump was actually going to go into office and govern with that mindset--with the specific and primary goal to hurt enemies and reward friends in an ideologically motivated fashion--I'd be more likely to endorse voting for him. The evidence suggests that this is not what will happen. His first term was mostly neocon governance while saying dumb stuff on Twitter, feeding tons of people the illusion that they had somehow accomplished something by voting for him.
Again, if the goal is a paradigm shift (mindset shift from "just vote harder" to "this is war by other means"), a Harris victory does more to move the needle in that direction than another dead-end Trump term. If the goal is just to stay within the current paradigm but maybe slow down its progression a bit, then sure, a Trump victory accomplishes that much. The problem I have is that most people seem to view voting for Trump as accomplishing the former without understanding that it's really the latter. I would prefer that they be forced to confront harsh reality rather than fed a comforting lie.
An analogy would be continuing to enable an alcoholic's addiction versus forcing him to get sober. The latter will make him furious and distressed in the short term, but it's the only way that he ever gets better in the long term.
I don't see how Trump losing causes a "paradigm shift". Trump lost in 2020 and it did nothing. The people who want to "move on from Trump" largely oppose everything you believe in. You'll probably just get a Haley type in 2028 if he losses, and along the way you will also get four more years of legislative, institutional, immigration, and judicial leftist entrenchment.
What is your casual chain a logic where a Trump loss leads to your preferred outcome. To me this feels like the Stalin telling the KPD not to cooperate with the SPD because electing the fascists will finally pit the liberal democracies against each other and usher in the real revolution.
There is no future, no riding it out, no building. Under One Party Democrat rule, there will be mass famine due to incompetence and spiteful policies, leading to mass violence. Or we can have mass famine and mass violence due to intentionally starting warfare. There will be death and war either way, the question is how old you will be when it happens and how many Somalis and Hondurans will be coming to rape your culdesac.
I don’t believe taxation or inflation (but I repeat myself) get too bad until this 2032 debt default. When I say “too bad” I mean bad enough that the widely-available material comfort finally and rapidly disappears. When common people feel like they have nothing left to lose anymore, that’s when things start to get really volatile. Crime will skyrocket and tyranny will get much worse. You need to be building your lifeboat for this moment, and forming your fellowships, and becoming adept at avoiding the eye of Sauron, because he WILL come to confiscate any property he can. The ponzi scheme ends like Bolshevism does: liquidation.
We've had what, like 9% inflation? Even if we say those figures are rigged and double it to 20%, that's worse than usual by US standards, but by no means is it *bad* if you look at what goes down in other places. True hyperinflation is many, many times worse than this.
1.) I never said we are (currently) experiencing hyperinflation.
2.) Prices have increased around 30-50% in grocery stores and regarding real prices in many industries.
3.) Interest rates have been suppressed for an almost 15 year period in order to hide the fake debt-based economy's stagnation.
4.) 9 percent inflation is a fake number.
5.) "The Federal Reserve printed approximately $3.3 trillion in 2020 alone, which, according to City AM, equates to one-fifth of all US dollars in circulation in the same year."
It’s not nearly as bad as it can be. Interest payments will soon exceed tax receipts, and they will need to print just to meet those obligations, which compounds the interest payments themselves, which causes more printing, which…
My original comment was in response to your concluding statement, where you suggested that we have some time until the situation changes dramatically. I offered one feasible timeline where the inflation picture gets a lot worse. I’m agreeing with you, “it can always get worse”, but you seemed to dismiss my original comment by suggesting it was already really bad. But it’s not really bad “enough” yet to trigger the “dramatic change” you alluded to.
To be precise, I believe in John Michael Greer's theory of catabolic collapse, which is that the bureaucracy exists to create excess complexity which they can use to extract parasitic rents on the dwindling productive segments of the economy. Then periodically that excess complexity gets shed and financial problems occur, many of the former elites are socially and financially demoted. Then things seem to get better for a while without the burden of supporting the same number of parasites as before. Then the remaining parasites start to build out complexity again, which causes another cycle of financial problems and the shedding of excess complexity.
I believe we are currently living in the aftermath of one of those financial problems followed by the shedding of significant elites, and that things will seem to get better for a while or for the situation to stabilize into a sort of stagnant mediocrity, but that at 2030-2032 this pattern will be interrupted by a major financial debt crisis related to Boomer retirements, pensions, and medical demands.
Then someone else, who understands how useless the American male is does it,
What is to be done, what must be done, what will be done, and of course they’re already here - does it IndoEuropean 2300 BC Style, and we (or you) with perfect justice and dire necessity go the way of the EEF /Stonehenge men.
Extinction for the men,
Half the females continue
The winners get the women.
“He doesn’t know what to do.”
Yes he does, he just wants someone else to do it…
LMAO 🤣
C’mon
You know there’s 14+ million vets like me, and millions more of male family members, right?
But don’t worry, we’re sitting pat.
We’re fine.
Lol
Absurd.
It doesn’t have to be said or written, but ruling it out after laying out in ad nauseaum detail nothing else will work?
Cmon man.
Even that senility patient in Chief has a better grip on reality.
No legal disclaimer works in the absence of Laws.
Stop.
It is horrible, and it has begun.
It doesn’t get better for absurd distancing at the penultimate moment of truth?
Penultimate as in next to last.
To end on a positive note, a Russian military Commander who looks to be late 20s says the best fighters are 50 year old Miners, or 45-50 factory workers.
This isn’t at all contradicted by any other data or information, indeed not since WW1.
Some people are still inured to hardship and committed to results.
I feel like I'm privileged that my wife comes from an eastern European country that isn't trying to commit cultural and economic suicide.
If things keep getting worse here, we'll sell our house and cars and move back to her homeland and accept a reduced lifestyle in exchange for an environment where we can raise our two sons to be men without having to be constantly vigilant that the popular culture and school system is encouraging them to be anything but straight and masculine.
Voting harder is silly. Republicans only get to vote once.
The real work is to get other people to vote the correct way. That is, convince liberal populists to realize that the Democratic Party has become the party of bureaucracy and Wall St. and that Trump, for all his bad manners, is a populist, not a conservative.
"This is, in my opinion, a particular problem with the anon alt-right (or whatever we want to call them): absolute certainty about things they don’t know, can’t know, and that no one knows.
Not that I can rule out the possible existence of a far-sighted statesman out there who sees the situation with perfect clarity and will emerge to lead us out of the darkness and into the promised land. But if that person exists, I have no idea who he is and have never come across his writings."
I can't believe Michael Anton would say this about me
You sir I think would enjoy this. It’s Rudyard Lynch. He’s only 23 and might be the smartest son of a bitch on the planet. He seems to have read every book of non fiction out there. It’s a very enlightened discussion (all 2.5 hours). He even mentions his friend named Miles shortly after the 2hr 10min mark. That kid also 23 seems like a hoot.
To be honest I am still blown away by this video. It’s quite the oddity. Don’t expect to hear a 23yr old talk like this 🤷♂️
I rather like how this article ends. The answer to our current woes is basically to go through the stages of grief, accept the US as we knew it has passed, and move on to build your own life. That’s the essential part. LIVE! Don’t doom on the Internet for fun. LIVE YOUR LIFE! Learn some skills and do something fun. I took up gardening in the last couple months, helping some of my fellow parishioners with a garden plot they started this year. It’s been great! If your world is getting smaller, if you care more about the politics of your hometown, county, and state more than the federal level, you’re doing something right and you should *keep* doing it.
Until reality rolls up and says nice garden, house, family, daughters you got there…
And when reality rolls up, if you’ve been doing it right and caring more about your community than far away federal politics, then you can repel those invaders and defend what’s rightfully yours.
That’s one big local community.
Hopefully with its own nuclear weapons?
Air? Artillery? At least a few Brigades (4400 each)? Logistics?
But that’s not the point.
The point is “he doesn’t know what to do” - oh yes he does.
Do what needs to be done or it’s done to you, en masse.
Yes one should take care of one’s local community, however that is a deflection, Seneca.
Any other deflections?
It’s a spiritual battle, etc?
Raise kids? To what end?
Cannon fodder in their time but not our own?
A.) If we’ve learned anything in the last 30-40 years it’s that you can have all the nukes, air power, and artillery you want and you can still lose. Just ask the Taliban. They ran around with Toyotas scraped together from spare parts, duct tape, and prayers armed with 30 year old Soviet surplus, and they still won in the end. Wunderwaffen only get you so far. Belief in your own cause takes you the rest of the way. The Taliban believed in their cause. The United States didn’t.
B.) So what do you want to do then? Start an armed revolution against the government? I see that you’re all but advocating for violence with all your “fight or die” comments in this comments section. Didn’t you just get done telling me it was useless to defend my town and state because the Feds have artillery and nukes? Wtf makes you think you and your based Vet friends will do any better right now? You don’t have an army, or nukes, or artillery or air power. You’re not in any better of a position than I am, and you know it.
C.) Deflection implies I’m avoiding something. I’m not. Fighting the government is a useless gesture. Secession is a useless gesture. Doing *anything* violent is a useless gesture because we are not in a position to fight. We’re not physically, mentally, or spiritual strong enough, nor is it even wise to fight now. Prudence is a great virtue, and right now fighting a war when we have almost zero chance of winning is the definition of stupidity and imprudence.
There is a time and place to pick up arms and defend what’s yours. Now is not that time, and it will not be that time for a while into the future. If you want to play Weekend Warrior with your “based” Vet friends, go right on ahead. Just make sure your ultimately futile guerrilla war doesn’t destroy the lives of everyone else around you.
He's a good guy, we're all patriots who dream of working towards the kind of nation we want to live in.
And yes I mostly agree with you Seneca
Yes well, this good guy dreams will gain us nothing.
The answers remain the same.
Fight or extinction.
Cheers
I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think patriots advocate for blowing up your country in a guerrilla war.
The Biden admin and the Harris campaign have really pulled the veil back and revealed that the people making the real decisions don't need or want competent leadership figures that need to be convinced or fooled. They want sockpuppets who read the teleprompter and sign the executive orders, regulations, and legislation they're told to sign.
This is why I advocate against armed rebellions. They've game-planned against that, and the elected officials are easily replaceable plug and play automatons. (That's also why there's such a concerted effort to glorify "respectable" Republicans like John McCain, George W Bush, and Mitt Romney: they're controlled opposition that concedes to the desires of the ruling class with only mild pushback and they want Republicans to go back to accepting the leadership of those mediocre fuckers)
The billionaire and multi-millionaire donor class that's really calling the shots, funding the activists, etc., play a lot of golf, love going to the beach, and like to throw parties where they're lounging on the decks of their yachts. They spend a lot of time stationary out in the open with plenty of clear sightlines within 200-500 yards of solid cover. You know, so you can, uhm, take photos with a long-range lens, naturally.
Fine. Don’t revolt.
I certainly won’t.
😂
It was never the time to fight and never will be, so select choice 2 for yourself, and everyone who heeds this advice is dead too.
Being in a position to fight is a matter of will and judgement, when marked for an ongoing extinction judgement says fight.
And your point about the Taliban is well taken, you apparently don’t believe enough.
“Fighting the government is a useless gesture. Secession is a useless gesture. Doing *anything* violent is a useless gesture because we are not in a position to fight. “
So … useless. Yes. Useless.
You are useless.
Why mention the Taliban who faced the same odds, far worse actually, then deny your own premise?
Your day will never come, but that means it’s over for your bloodline.
That’s natural law.
Cheers
A.) “Being in a position to fight is a matter of will and judgement.” Yes, and I’ve judged that now is not the time to fight because the government isn’t directly threatening my life, my family, or my community. This is not an abstract “oh they’re importing millions of migrants into the community” (though that’s bad) kind of threat. This is “the government is knocking down my door to take me behind the shed and shoot me like a dog” kind of threat. That’s “ongoing extinction” in my opinion. I will take every other feasible road before I choose to fight the government because revolution is generally evil. I’m a Catholic. We do not believe in revolution, which is why I don’t believe in fighting the state right now. The only allowable circumstance for violence is in self defense, and the government is not threatening nor in the active process of kicking down my door and killing me and my family.
B.) I mention the Taliban to point out that yes, I can feasibly defend my community if I so choose. The USG is not an all powerful entity which can smite me if it so chooses. In fact, the USG and its military seems to be a behemoth growing more incompetent by the day. I just don’t believe it is time to fight, as I said in part A. LARP all you want about how you’re the based, gigachad revolutionary and I’m “useless” and “will be the end of my bloodline”. When the cards are down on the table, what makes you think the USG won’t go and shoot your family if you start a guerrilla war?
The taliban only won because we weren't allowed to fight them in any meaningful capacity. The moment we become the Taliban is the moment you see nuclear weapons deployed against the American Populace (White People.)
Nothing can ever be done; the only thing that could possibly be done is to force Israel to Nuke The World with the Samson Option so that nothing else lives so that nothing else ever happens again.
You. Hope. Too. Much. Federal politics will just decree that your local community gets JDAMd and Drone Striked.
Thanks I appreciate that analysis, it's insightful
Sigh. Let me review my recent
“Investment Portfolio” purchases.
Not ammo (have enough).
Nope. Transfusion kits and Vampire Blood Bags. 💼
Now don’t worry about me kiddies, I’m waiting for in progress to even put boots on lol.
Y’all don’t have to worry about Vets or Rednexx doing something
…(to upset 401K Fantasy Folios or New Zealand hideaways etc)…
>>> You should worry that we aren’t and won’t. <<<
Because that is the actual situation now, and a real worry.
Honestly, continuing down this same path of degeneracy, incompetence and corruption for decades more sounds worse than "random violence and gruesome massacres occurring at unpredictable intervals".
It really do be like that sometimes
“So, violence is not the answer.”
Lol. Not according to DNA, history, fossil record, the sniper who shot Trumps sniper dead, the Afghans and Iraqis who hung in there fighting until we left, Erik Prinz, Musk’s actual Rabbi that let him get away with buying Twitter) and the major investments and alliances of Andersson Horowitz, including Anduril and Palmer Lucky.
Let’s also remember how we got this American Continent and American Empire.
It’s absurd to try and disclaim priors with the moment in front of us and all other choices eliminated.
It’s the same choice always;
Fight
Or
Die.
If you die fighting by the way the value of your kin and offspring are noted and they are spared,
that’s tomorrow’s soldier.
This is eternal; Fight or Extinction.
Good points
Real barrier here is a collective action problem. Dissatisfaction with the regime is extremely widespread, but the dissidents come in all stripes and flavors, from far left communist types who are upset that Biden doesn't hate Israel enough, over to far-right fedposters like yourself. If everyone that hated the regime could actually band together and engage in organized violence as a single faction, well yeah, we could have a new regime in no time at all. But they can't, there are no institutions or connections that would allow them to bind together in such a way. This is one big reason why the regime always seeks to undermine any institutions outside of itself.
If action can't be taken collectively, in an organized fashion, as a coherent entity with clear goals and an established hierarchy, then it's useless or even counter-productive (see: Jan 6).
I didn't Fedpoast in this essay
Yea I'm replying to this commenter not your essay here.
Then silence is best.
Lol.
As opposed to openly fedposting? Well, yes, I'd say so.
Then lead in being silent, instead of demoralizing.
Who’s the Fed here?
I don't agree that the only options in this world are open calls to violence, complete silence, or "demoralizing." If that's your viewpoint, then carry on I suppose.
Continue to demoralize!
It will add to the casualties later 🤣 because of the little extra bit of hesitation inflicted.
It may even affect the ultimate outcome to the design of lay down and die, which is certainly what’s happening.
I’m sure the Stonehenge males said the same when the
IndoEuropeans rolled in about 2300 BC. I’m pretty sure the IE weren’t interested in disclaimers either.
The eternal fate of men is fight or go extinct and justly.
I’m simply pointing out that fact.
We can say fact by all of history, our fossil record, DNA and current events.
What I could pretend I don’t understand is why all the difficulties and problems must be constantly explained unless one wants the opposition to our extinction to remain inert, which of course it is… inert.
But of course I understand.
It does us no good however.
The complaint about Trump is correct, he can’t say “shoot” even to say “shoot back.”
Do vote for him, it’s a harmless pastime, voting.
I’m trying to well perhaps increase chances of survival by explaining our clear choice and clear and present Doom.
This is rebuked by you.
Very well. I explained.
What then are you accomplishing or aiming at here?
It's only extinction, because any attempt to fight just gets hit with Samson.
There Is No Light.
That’s cheerful.
Get used to it. There is nothing else; only Eternal Misery.
I am not looking for Trump to solve anything at this point. If he does that’s just gravy. No, Trump is far more important than that. He is, and still remains our most powerful weapon. He’s our wunderwaffe. He drives the people who are involved is some very sinister shit crazy.
The people that hate him hate us. It’s a simple calculation actually. He is a distraction and a prime agitator of psychotics. Have never seen anyone have such an ability to cause so much angst lol.
If you get a chance to throw a Molotov cocktail into your enemies house you fucking do it. Many so called strategists out there who can’t even understand this. You would do well not to listen to them anymore.
This seems like a critical juncture in our history. This election is front and center. It is the battleground which will shape our future. I have concerns that things could go really bad. You should all be somewhat prepared for tough times.
Remember, “they” were NOT just trying to assassinate the man. What they really wanted was to have it on video and in photos. The goal was to end the Popular uprising once and for all. Blaming Iran or another scapegoat would have given the architects enough plausible deniability with the masses. Any uprising would have been crushed swiftly I am sorry to report.
It was a good plan. I believe they might’ve pulled it off had it been successful. Obviously it very nearly was. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
Agreed.
What I see from the Dems and the system is a collapse, a bankruptcy.
That’s real, and could be reversed but by none I see.
I don’t think they can crush a revolt that gets going, no people that will shoot. Look at Crooks, he’s no Oswald. Whatever Oswald version one believes, Crooks is a step down, in fact several.
But I don’t think a revolt is possible or likely today, what I see is the Democratic Party in dissolution, and there’s no replacement. Certainly not GOP.
Donald Trump feeds people the copium that if they vote hard enough then things happen. If your desire is to blow up the system, Harris is the better choice. A Trump victory allows the kabuki theater to continue. Without Orange Man to distract them, more people begin to notice that the emperor has no clothes.
All I said was he is a Wild Card. If you can’t at least figure that out what good are you.
He's not trying to be rude he's just being a little critical unintentionally I think
He's not really a wild card though--he was already president once. There's not much reason to believe a second trump term will differ much from the first.
I disagree but you're welcome to your opinion
My stance is that JD Vance, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel are much better with management of personnel, which is Trump's biggest shortcoming. His first administration was crippled by constant delays and bureaucratic mutiny by government personnel. Someone like Elon Musk could be brought in to fire huge portions of the permanent bureaucracy, and to bring in thousands of alternative staff.
If this actually happens I will gladly admit that I was wrong.
Making things worse just makes them worse.
“When things are bad enough everyone will join my revolution” is true copium.
A paradigm shift will require people to decide that voting doesn't matter and/or elections are illegitimate. To be fair, Trump has done some amount of work to push people in that direction, but then he circled back around to "and the way to fix it is to vote for me even harder this time."
How so?
As you have noted there is no means of changing things via armed revolution. In fact there has been no such revolution in a first world country since WW2 (and even Hitler needed to get elected first).
Even the collapse of the Soviet Union came from one group of elites favoring democracy, not an uprising of the people.
The government has a monopoly on force and can impose whatever terms it wants. There is no way of living a private life in the modern world if a determined government does not wish you to do so.
Leftists properly view politics as war by other means. The right has made great strides in catching up to this over the past decade, but there's still a long ways to go. If Trump was actually going to go into office and govern with that mindset--with the specific and primary goal to hurt enemies and reward friends in an ideologically motivated fashion--I'd be more likely to endorse voting for him. The evidence suggests that this is not what will happen. His first term was mostly neocon governance while saying dumb stuff on Twitter, feeding tons of people the illusion that they had somehow accomplished something by voting for him.
Again, if the goal is a paradigm shift (mindset shift from "just vote harder" to "this is war by other means"), a Harris victory does more to move the needle in that direction than another dead-end Trump term. If the goal is just to stay within the current paradigm but maybe slow down its progression a bit, then sure, a Trump victory accomplishes that much. The problem I have is that most people seem to view voting for Trump as accomplishing the former without understanding that it's really the latter. I would prefer that they be forced to confront harsh reality rather than fed a comforting lie.
An analogy would be continuing to enable an alcoholic's addiction versus forcing him to get sober. The latter will make him furious and distressed in the short term, but it's the only way that he ever gets better in the long term.
I don't see how Trump losing causes a "paradigm shift". Trump lost in 2020 and it did nothing. The people who want to "move on from Trump" largely oppose everything you believe in. You'll probably just get a Haley type in 2028 if he losses, and along the way you will also get four more years of legislative, institutional, immigration, and judicial leftist entrenchment.
What is your casual chain a logic where a Trump loss leads to your preferred outcome. To me this feels like the Stalin telling the KPD not to cooperate with the SPD because electing the fascists will finally pit the liberal democracies against each other and usher in the real revolution.
There is no future, no riding it out, no building. Under One Party Democrat rule, there will be mass famine due to incompetence and spiteful policies, leading to mass violence. Or we can have mass famine and mass violence due to intentionally starting warfare. There will be death and war either way, the question is how old you will be when it happens and how many Somalis and Hondurans will be coming to rape your culdesac.
Cool well I disagree but I see where you're coming from
You might be right and Im pretty dramatic tbh
No worries brother, it's all love to you
Well the Democratic Party is in slow but accelerating dissolution.
No replacement.
As nearly all government is local, county, State this will largely cushion the shock.
I don’t believe taxation or inflation (but I repeat myself) get too bad until this 2032 debt default. When I say “too bad” I mean bad enough that the widely-available material comfort finally and rapidly disappears. When common people feel like they have nothing left to lose anymore, that’s when things start to get really volatile. Crime will skyrocket and tyranny will get much worse. You need to be building your lifeboat for this moment, and forming your fellowships, and becoming adept at avoiding the eye of Sauron, because he WILL come to confiscate any property he can. The ponzi scheme ends like Bolshevism does: liquidation.
Inflation is already bad bro
We've had what, like 9% inflation? Even if we say those figures are rigged and double it to 20%, that's worse than usual by US standards, but by no means is it *bad* if you look at what goes down in other places. True hyperinflation is many, many times worse than this.
1.) I never said we are (currently) experiencing hyperinflation.
2.) Prices have increased around 30-50% in grocery stores and regarding real prices in many industries.
3.) Interest rates have been suppressed for an almost 15 year period in order to hide the fake debt-based economy's stagnation.
4.) 9 percent inflation is a fake number.
5.) "The Federal Reserve printed approximately $3.3 trillion in 2020 alone, which, according to City AM, equates to one-fifth of all US dollars in circulation in the same year."
https://www.depledgeswm.com/depledge/the-us-printed-more-than-3-trillion-in-2020-alone-heres-why-it-matters-today/
It’s not nearly as bad as it can be. Interest payments will soon exceed tax receipts, and they will need to print just to meet those obligations, which compounds the interest payments themselves, which causes more printing, which…
Nikolas, I specifically said in this essay, "no matter how bad life seems, it can always get worse. "
My original comment was in response to your concluding statement, where you suggested that we have some time until the situation changes dramatically. I offered one feasible timeline where the inflation picture gets a lot worse. I’m agreeing with you, “it can always get worse”, but you seemed to dismiss my original comment by suggesting it was already really bad. But it’s not really bad “enough” yet to trigger the “dramatic change” you alluded to.
To be precise, I believe in John Michael Greer's theory of catabolic collapse, which is that the bureaucracy exists to create excess complexity which they can use to extract parasitic rents on the dwindling productive segments of the economy. Then periodically that excess complexity gets shed and financial problems occur, many of the former elites are socially and financially demoted. Then things seem to get better for a while without the burden of supporting the same number of parasites as before. Then the remaining parasites start to build out complexity again, which causes another cycle of financial problems and the shedding of excess complexity.
I believe we are currently living in the aftermath of one of those financial problems followed by the shedding of significant elites, and that things will seem to get better for a while or for the situation to stabilize into a sort of stagnant mediocrity, but that at 2030-2032 this pattern will be interrupted by a major financial debt crisis related to Boomer retirements, pensions, and medical demands.
This is a brilliant piece. Unfortunately, I have to agree with most of it.
kek, I know the feeling
“He doesn’t know what to do.”
Yes he does.
As a younger man LL did it.
As bad as …. Lol.
Lmao.
Ok, too bad.
Then someone else, who understands how useless the American male is does it,
What is to be done, what must be done, what will be done, and of course they’re already here - does it IndoEuropean 2300 BC Style, and we (or you) with perfect justice and dire necessity go the way of the EEF /Stonehenge men.
Extinction for the men,
Half the females continue
The winners get the women.
“He doesn’t know what to do.”
Yes he does, he just wants someone else to do it…
LMAO 🤣
C’mon
You know there’s 14+ million vets like me, and millions more of male family members, right?
But don’t worry, we’re sitting pat.
We’re fine.
Lol
Absurd.
It doesn’t have to be said or written, but ruling it out after laying out in ad nauseaum detail nothing else will work?
Cmon man.
Even that senility patient in Chief has a better grip on reality.
No legal disclaimer works in the absence of Laws.
Stop.
It is horrible, and it has begun.
It doesn’t get better for absurd distancing at the penultimate moment of truth?
Penultimate as in next to last.
To end on a positive note, a Russian military Commander who looks to be late 20s says the best fighters are 50 year old Miners, or 45-50 factory workers.
This isn’t at all contradicted by any other data or information, indeed not since WW1.
Some people are still inured to hardship and committed to results.
Excellent insight and writing. MORE Billionaire Psycho. Yours is one of the best substacks.
Thanks bro I appreciate the encouragement
I feel like I'm privileged that my wife comes from an eastern European country that isn't trying to commit cultural and economic suicide.
If things keep getting worse here, we'll sell our house and cars and move back to her homeland and accept a reduced lifestyle in exchange for an environment where we can raise our two sons to be men without having to be constantly vigilant that the popular culture and school system is encouraging them to be anything but straight and masculine.
Ok. Bye 👋🏻
His sons will never be men here. Not in this disgusting environment.
Yes and they can remain forever in another nation.
Self Exile when there’s trouble must be one way.
As if it will work there?
Perhaps.
To flee from Trannies, cowards and Karens, AOC isn’t an honorable retreat.
Exile must be one way.
Voting harder is silly. Republicans only get to vote once.
The real work is to get other people to vote the correct way. That is, convince liberal populists to realize that the Democratic Party has become the party of bureaucracy and Wall St. and that Trump, for all his bad manners, is a populist, not a conservative.
RFK Jr. getting on the Trump team is a really big deal. Need to get more Democrats and Democrat leaners to see what RFK Jr. now sees. Talking points here: https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/how-to-win-in-2024
After the election, get back to building your fortunes and parallel institutions. We need to play both the short and the long game.
I wrote very much along the same lines this morning.
and this message is the one that has hope.
great article and truly dead on
https://fatherofzoomers.substack.com/p/labor-day?r=jejuu
People think it’s impossible to eradicate the 19th amendment, but it’s not
I hear a lot of people talking about it now because this feminism experiment has been ruining the world a little by little
30% of people are just hangers on that will vote anyway the wind blows
If we get enough people, they will vote for us
We will just need momentum
You Hope Too Much.
"This is, in my opinion, a particular problem with the anon alt-right (or whatever we want to call them): absolute certainty about things they don’t know, can’t know, and that no one knows.
Not that I can rule out the possible existence of a far-sighted statesman out there who sees the situation with perfect clarity and will emerge to lead us out of the darkness and into the promised land. But if that person exists, I have no idea who he is and have never come across his writings."
I can't believe Michael Anton would say this about me
hahaha good to hear from you bro
yes a hideous snub!
The digital Prophet of the quantified ocean has spoken.
Brezhnen, when did you come back to the internet?
Nah
You sir I think would enjoy this. It’s Rudyard Lynch. He’s only 23 and might be the smartest son of a bitch on the planet. He seems to have read every book of non fiction out there. It’s a very enlightened discussion (all 2.5 hours). He even mentions his friend named Miles shortly after the 2hr 10min mark. That kid also 23 seems like a hoot.
To be honest I am still blown away by this video. It’s quite the oddity. Don’t expect to hear a 23yr old talk like this 🤷♂️
https://youtu.be/5PLjdCZ_Zxs?si=M1WbFbjd4prZz6cU
Nah, Rudy is a cucked out Doolittle Cultist who thinks that there may be a Propertarian solution without a shooting war.
Was just getting started on him. He’s gotta good grip on shit for such a young age. His knowledge of history and literature are astounding to me.