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.

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.

This phenomenon also exists within the federal bureaucracy itself. Managerialism is uniquely vulnerable to being conquered by ethnic mafias, thanks to the state's ruthless suppression of aboveground institutions lest they become a competing power-center.

On the insane corruption of Israel/Palestine. The Israeli regime itself is acephalous thanks to its gangster cordyception finally becoming fatal. About the only thing left to happen now is national suicide for everyone involved.

The fundamental problem is that neither side has any prospect ever of being actually sovereign, even if their wildest dreams came true. As such the only thing left to do is steal. Everyone of good moral character should just leave.

Neat technique. Perhaps less ionizing methods of propulsion are possible, but possibly not.

Nothing can be fixed so long as the inflationists remain in the drivers' seat. In particular at minute 26 he points out the root cause of most of the rot of our institutions. Because we can't just accumulate over our lifetimes, we have to be absentee company owners. This is the actual root cause of the culture of "organized irresponsibility" which has poisoned every single institution in society.

Wearing a rainbow wig and being a clown does not make one immune to color revolution

Yet another poorly analogized science journalism article. If you want to sell the idea, you have to explain Gravity and Weather as being the same exact thing. High pressure (entropy) tends towards low pressure. This naturally attracts and repels other high/low pressure systems based on their direction of spin. Think of gears engaging or not. Cyclones and Anticyclones; the cogs in the machine of creation.

Big T says 2 weeks, Hersh says this weekend. While the timing is ultimately irrelevant, this seems likely to happen, as the (corrupt, self-interested) motivation is the same as the Iraq and anti-daesh intervention; to steal oil and enrich a few Israeli firms our elites are balls deep in alongside our defense industry. We're also due another war (US goes in on average every 6 years).

If the theory from this book is ultimately correct, I would suspect the same forces remain at work. My prediction for such a scenario is that we'll go for a civil-war causing regime change operation with revanchist ethnic Azeris expanding the oil theft about Tabriz. This will enrich the Turks & Azeris enough to go along.

This will torch the MAGA movement entirely, and we'll get neoliberal regimes until the ship fully goes under.

It remains a very real question whether full on regime change is actually logistically possible for the US to pull off. The possibility that this turns into a real debacle is nonzero.

UPDATE: Signs the Euros are onboard. I presume they think this might ameliorate the fuel shortages caused by the war with Russia. They're suckers if they believe this. Of course, many of their elites are also engaged in shady dealings in Cyprus and Israel.

UPDATE 2: Things seem to have blown over, thankfully. However things have flared back up with the Houthis in the gulf, and so has the Israeli war with Hezbollah. This calm could very well be temporary.

So far Newsom has acquitted himself well. Playing the face to DJT's heel here is in fact exactly what the country needs. The question of the "broader" lost cause (whither centralization) is still very much alive, regardless of whether the narrow cause of Secession ultimately prevails. Both the pernicious influence of CA on DC and vice versa need to be drastically reduced.

What is good about him is the recognition that as a good leader there is no such thing as "not my job", and focusing on personal dignity when fighting a lost cause.

What's bad is his blindness thanks to being "the manager". His corn-pone is dependent on not realizing that excessive centralization has made every other manager totally unaccountable & uninvested in long-term success, so the principal-agent problem is eating the country alive. He doesn't even realize his compulsion for taking on more responsibility is the true source of the problem.

Of course, immediately gets to experience serious threats to their personal safety. Perhaps this will make them realize "what time it is" and that you won't break the leftist hydra's money machine without literally cracking skulls of these gangsters.

Apes with machineguns. The Pakis once again prove to be more competent, but that's not saying much, considering the Indian forces are little more competent than the average African warlord army.

UPDATE: this obviously has cooled off, making this yet again performative electioneering by both sides. Endemic corruption remains the saving grace and damning force of the subcontinent.

Horrifying read. If you didn't think "peter power armor" was the future, disabuse yourself of that notion right now.