If we can grasp that those being killed are being killed because they are enemies of the state, then the logical thing for us to ask ourselves is this: is there any chance that we or anyone we care about could ever under any circumstances be considered an enemy of the state? That question should not be very difficult to answer.
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Before I was banned, many accused me of being some kind of stooge, purposefully pushing outrageous speech in a way that would justify censorship. I considered it, of course. As one does when he is accused of such things. However, I ultimately decided that it was necessary for someone to push the envelope on freedom of speech in order to demonstrate whether it was actually something that existed in real life. It turned out that no, it did not, and it was only a few short years before everyone found that out.

With the anti-ICE protesters, it’s a bit different and a bit the same. The feds need outrageous people to attack them in order for them to justify implementing these new standards of murdering people who resist whatever it is they are doing. I have zero doubt that the feds themselves are the ones organizing these groups to attack, and I resent the fact that people on the right are acting as though “the left” is a serious ideological movement.

I keep telling people this is predictive programming, getting us ready for the loving conscription squads which are coming soon to a theater near you.

An extraordinarily good essay / book review. The authors make a habit of doing so, and are worth subscribing to.

The same way the most energy dense fuel (uranium) did.

The perennial problem of empires. Basically the same problem as the Russians and Americans. Everyone pretends there is no problem until stuff like the battle of the Java Sea or the SMO happens. The question here is whether the Chinese military purges here are what you expect - further cementing corruption - or actually rooting out the rot. I suppose we'll find out when Taiwan finally kicks off.

Rulemaking is already braindead, so it'll be hard to tell any difference.

It will of course fail and be a massive giveaway to currency speculators, as always happens. The Japanese get to enjoy another 1/3 of their living standard being lopped off.

Hiring connected people, as is always the case with the Just Us system. Good on him. Propublica, so as you might expect it's dripping with performative cruelty towards taxpayer scum.

The fun part is that this panopticon already exists, they just poke a million little holes in it for protected interests and will not stop doing so anytime soon.

Great article from a Canadian in the COVID days, guy is clear thinking on their politics in general. If you don't see politics as the competition of rent-seeking gangs, you are just a schmuck. His point that the only way to avoid becoming a failed state is finding some way to politically integrate the underworld into the elite is the most important part. It's why Mexico and Brazil remain basket cases versus the US which chooses amnesty and looking the other way every single time. Of course in the long run every state that chooses this collapses due to rent-seeking hoods pressing the "bust out" button on the fiscus, but the state is not a fundamentally stable organization.

“We believe the suit has no merit,” a bank spokesperson said. “JPMC does not close accounts for political or religious reasons. We do close accounts because they create legal or regulatory risk for the company.”

Fish: what's water?

Stockman on the moronic agitation against Greenland. It's so obviously retarded that it is hard to conclude the whole affair is anything but smokescreen for other nefarious activity.

Striker on the Venezuela situation. The bit about the Deltas that did the op themselves being a Drug cartel tells you essentially what's actually going on.

The primary threat here is that it's been used as an excuse to sieze Russian shipping. In one case (supposedly?) doing so when actively escorted by .ru warships, which if true, is an incredible humiliation that will have unpredictable consequences.

I've been considering throwing the fucking phone in the woods for some time now, and this will be the last straw that forces me onto SIP devices fully.

Certainly the sort of diplomatic coup I would expect in the escalating trade war. The Chinese need an advanced economy to partner with, and the Japanese need cheaper goods. DC bozos are truly delusional if they didn't think this was going to happen.
UPDATE: The Japanese spurned their hand, and instead saw an opportunity to reclaim Taiwan. They have subsequently issued them a Guarantee. Seeing all this, and the hostility from DC, the Koreans called up Beijing. Good news for Korean peace, but a Third Sino-Japanese war seems to be in the cards at some point now.

Same reason the Afghan war was a scam. The only people willing to be Uncle Sam's dogs are sociopathic drug dealing warlords. Which is a good description of a lot of local PDs, so I understand the authors' concern with this particular practice coming home sooner rather than later.

Peering into Goonworld’s darkest corners has convinced me that what we are dealing with here may well be a structural flaw of networked communication itself. Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults? I find it hard to imagine. In the case of the gooners, one can hope—and in more cheerful moments, I do think it’s possible—that sustained overexposure to porn will dampen the medium’s effectiveness as a numbing agent.

Just like "alternative" medicine, people wouldn't pursue substitutes if the genuine article worked. Meanwhile the endless drive to turn society into a prison continues, and all we can do is smear shit on the walls of the cell.

Echoing earlier sentiments by Tone Vays and others.

Promising to drive his chainsaw through the corrupt practices supporting this type of heist, he did the opposite: he followed the heist script to the letter, but with a chainsaw as its new logo.

Just a side note here: Fuentes refers to his “groypers” as “Elite Human Capital.”

We're at the "nationalization" stage, and will most likely proceed to crippling embargoes. The spiral of coercions on the way to war continues.

"Don't be evil" nigga your whole business model is defrauding ad buyers. This, but the whole economy, in fact. Probably half our output is just deadweight loss to these scams.

Gall's law pretty much describes the situation to a T

On how Vitalism has no life in it. Probably the most important essay of the year, if not in many years. Both the right and left are falling victim to this nihilism, and Christ is the only path out of tartarus for our society.

I understand why the young are so jaded and sick of no action, and see a return to Monke as the only way to get un-stuck. Gall's Law.

They go too far. They do not realize just how hard so many of us have worked just to get to the point they can even see the rot. There exist simple systems that work which aren't a return to Hades.

Forgive them lord, they do not know what they do.

Inflation, combined with regulatory flat-out preventing the buildout of Nuclear. Things will get better if the Nuclear push by the administration works.

On the rise of assassinations as a political means. This is mostly due to both our government and Israel's being a mafia; hitting people isn't thought about twice by such organizations.