That an agency like the CRS existed for so long is stunning and shocking--and I didn't think I could be shocked anymore by what my government did. This revelation also explains a lot of what I have witnessed in the media and film/television industry over the last few decades.
A case that stands out is the kidnap and brutal murder of Mollie Tibbits in Iowa by a Mexican Illegal. The cruelty of the murder is horrific. The terrifying and painful death of a beautiful young woman. And I will never forget what Mollie's father told the media.
'The Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as Iowans. As far as I'm concerned, they're Iowans with better food'. He denounced those who 'appropriate Mollie's soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist'.
O_O
Who are the true racists here?
There is a brutal war being waged by groups of people dependent on welfare and government employment, paid for by the very taxpayers who are being brutally raped, tortured, and murdered by the people that live off of them. It's beggars belief. But here we are.
I'm sure this is going on in most, if not all Western countries.
The West has a choice: breakup or breakdown. At this point, I would choose a total MAD MAX style collapse over the status quo. I no longer care. At least in a breakdown scenario, the playing field would be levelled.
Yeah I remember Tibbets. It's a perfect example of the gaslighting the CRS engaged in. Even at the time, people were shocked at this guy appearing to choose burritos over blood.
I would absolutely LOVE to know what transpired when the CRS knocked on his door.
If these people ever came to my house I would violate whatever two party consent laws, go to jail, whatever. I would pretend to go along as far into the process as possible, record the entire thing and leak that shit 20 places on the internet, to news, whatever, all simultaneously
People need to know that it is all a lie upheld only by raw coercion and blackmail
I get the sentiment and maybe you could. I think most people are not so hardcore, and the CRS was probably very skilled at couching threats as compassionate warnings etc. Hard for people to resist that...
Apparently, they had decades to practice and refine their "art." I thought I knew at least a little bit about Civil Rights law (hmm, why do I automatically capitalize?), but had never heard of CRS until last year, online.
It seems to me that they don't co-opt or coerce the victims (Consider Erika Kirk's forgiveness statement. I would bet the farm that CRS didn't get to her. Rather, she was driven by her faith to do what was obviously a very difficult thing for her.) as much as they control LE communication about the crimes. This takes a lot less staff input and affects the general public who tend to trust local LE. Why local LE lets themselves be used in this way is beyond me. Perhaps money? Pretty sure it was CRS that suppressed information about the Las Vegas massacre. To what purpose, I don't know but I assume that behind that was some sort of government malfeasance. The local Sheriff who got rewarded by being elected governor had to have some clue.
Also, after decades of this, someone like Mrs. Kirk is surely affected by all the supposedly forgiving families who have gone before. Who wants to be the first one to come to the microphone and say, "I want bloody vengeance and I don't care who knows it"?
Most of us probably think we would say that. But then we would have the media at our door for weeks or months, asking how it feels to be so un-Christian and hateful, using us as the poster-child for all the -isms, and implicitly giving the tribe of the killer open season to come after us. When someone's reeling from a tragedy, it's not hard to see them choosing just to make all that go away. And here are Experts to tell you how to do that, and you've seen how well it's worked for others.
I don't know. She started by saying that Charlie's mission was to save lost young men like the one that killed him, then went on with the forgiveness statement. She was clearly struggling to get it out. It may be as you say or it may be an internal struggle between rage and faith. Faith is the better choice though not the most common one. It may also be a desire to continue his mission. Not sure what Jesus would do but the Catholic church is quite clear that repentance must precede forgiveness. Generally speaking, that is. During the Crusades, those who took the cross were preemptively forgiven for any sins they had committed or might commit in the future.
I don't really disagree. Mrs. Kirk may be a naturally forgiving soul with a strong faith and a mission. She was also speaking at her husband's funeral, so there's that context.
But I also think we've all been influenced by the pattern of events like these, and media propaganda in general, to think that immediate, unconditional forgiveness is the *baseline* Christian response to being attacked, and anything else would be entirely un-Christian. That's probably made the CRS's job easier over the years, as each family they encounter has already seen other families "rise above" vengeance.
John Paul II famously forgiving his would-be assassin set that standard too, and I doubt the CRS had to work on him. And maybe that *should* be the ideal (though traditionally things like repentance and restitution are involved). But most of us would fall short of it without some arm-twisting.
Joel P, I am the rarest of the rare, an Anglo Ontarian who is an ardent Quebec separatist. In this I am alone. Why: because I am certain that Canada needs be wound down, it cannot be reformed or even mildly diverted. The path we are on is so evil that only destruction can free us and create space for a new world. Phoenix needs the ash heap of destruction to be unleashed otherwise it is imprisonment. Canada is on course for a totalitarian future. Kill it.
I have always supported secession. I hope that Canada, Europe, and the United States breakup. We have to save Western civilization by separating from those who wish only to do us harm.
I’m going to say it slightly differently, although I completely agree with you. You see I think the people are all mixed together so you can’t get away from them. What the break up of Canada USA and Europe does is rob them of their power base - which is so dangerous - because they are fully in charge. They own the means of cultural production - schools and media - and control all the institutions. The only way to thwart them is to collapse the whole thing. I am aware that there’s a possibility that my prescription will make things worse. I’m willing to take that chance. I’m pretty old and I don’t have kids.
Not to cast shade on the indefatigable work of the esteemed Mr. Parvini- who last I checked was trying to rehabilitate the public image of Joe Stalin, for some reason*- but I'm a little skeptical about how much the CRS really budged the needle here?
I haven't read America's Peacemakers, but is an agency with a budget of 24 million dollars and about 50 staff going to have a major effect on race relations in a country where JC helpfully points out there are half a million violent black-on-white crime incidents per year? I'd have to imagine their attentions get stretched pretty thin.
* which is a shame, since I agree with everything he had to say about Madonna
If the CRS primarily leveraged the media, say, by threatening broadcast licenses if they don’t get these sorts of “I forgive the kid who stabbed my son in the chest for ‘laying hands upon his body’”, that would be one hell of a force multiplier.
They don’t necessarily need to go to families themselves.
I lost my X account during the H1B chimpout. I’m doing my part
As for the poastocracy phenomenon, it is also global. One of the funniest moments of my entire life was when I made a viral quote tweet of an image of a Black Russian soldier calling him Giorgi Fentanylovich Floydsky because of a striking resemblance, and then Lord Miles tweeted a clip from some middle eastern tv station of them circling his nose and mouth and questioning whether it was George Floyd. It was surreal. I basically caused a Memri TV meme to be created. It then went on to turn into a whole subgenre of George Droid Putin memes
I almost included an anecdote from earlier in the year in which Billionaire Psycho and I started joking about issuing Letters of Marque to militarized REITs in order to clean out the inner cities, which was followed by Mike Lee posting repeatedly over the next several months about using Letters of Marque to go after the cartels. I dug a bit deeper and it turned out he'd mentioned it a few times before, so couldn't claim he got the idea from us, but it still looks like our injection of the idea into the memeplex might have encouraged him to start going hard on the idea.
Letters of Marque used to restore law/order/consequences to American cities .. hmm.. could also be used to support invasion of British Isles and Europe.
Ragnar Danneskjöld in Atlas Shrugged didn't need Letters of Marque to excuse his piracy.
A threat that few people seem to notice is from [international] corporations,. And if Zionists and other Sects of Synagogue of Satan were already was
They are formed in Hell, a Shadow Dragon that solidify instantly with a signature. instantly It has more Personhood rights then all the unborn world-wide, complete with a legal Shield of immunity.
Comparative Power: The top 3 U.S. corporations (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil) each report profits exceeding $80 billion annually. This surpasses the GDP of over 140 UN member nations. If “money is speech,” then these corporations wield political power exceeding entire countries.
I expect that at some point not too many years that Corporations can have International Nationhood status, and the UN will want and need Corporate 'Letter of
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Perhaps I'm predisposed to the frame of the re-emergence of pre-enlightenment forms of social organization and thought through recency bias, having finally read Harrington's King and the Swarm, or perhaps the map games have finally gotten to me and I'm way out on a limb here, but the relation between Trump et al and the poaster-kin reminds me of a modern re-emergence of the Third Estate, with the 2nd and 1st being The Silicon Nobility and Ecclesiarchy of the Chosenest people, rank ordered to the observer's taste. One can argue our pre-internet Democracy played the same game, but the active component of the Poasters as participants does seem to make an important difference.
I must say I'm rather partial to the idea of the admin using the base as a bellows to direct some much needed wind in their sails as they normalize necessary but harsher actions in current-year-ville. The hot air from enraged influencers and blown gaskets is vital for charting courses less travelled.
One the one hand, aside from being a useful cope in the face of relentless doomerism dispensed like skittles every passing second we don't breathe the sweet air of based world, it seems a necessary element of support for an insurgent administration that still very much rides the line between strength and weakness like a chiaroscuro painting.
Capitol Hill is much more /our guy/ coded than ever before, but that's to say it is still a den of vipers filled with loyalists of a dying order bitterly entrenched in their holdouts as their age comes kicking and screaming to its ugly end. the online base of support provides ideological and legitimating fuel for those on the administrative front to continue their bureaucratic fight, and those in ICE teams to continue their increasingly kinetic one.
I quipped at one point, but very much believe, that Trump is, and must act like, a war time president. His war is cold, domestic, and institutional rather than explicitly hot and foreign (god willing I don't have to add yet), but in attempting to bring actual change, he enters into the realm of real politics. The flak to his ear and Charlie's neck merely reinforce that they're right over the target.
On the other hand, the dragging of those vipers, and their supporters, by their hair kicking and screaming to the 21st century is definitionally hoe-scaring behavior. Though I too would love to feed the inner lion, to go full patriots in control mode, with the little dark age edits playing while we bring Jin-Roh flavored kickass to those sniveling Antifa demons in dem strongholds nationwide, a bazillion deported on week one etc., there is prudence in gradualism, in looking the moderate as the overton window shifts to flood the zone with "X is the moderate position."
As has been noted elsewhere, poasters haven't just replaced the media in policy influencing, they've replaced narrative and discourse formation as well. The cycle of "attempt in good faith to solve deep problem, run up against ne'erdowell obstruction, discourse turns hard against ne'erdowells, the people cry out for harsh justice, admin lurches half a standard deviation towards harsh justice, repeat" isn't quite clockwork, but its mighty fine to see in action. Still waiting for the Jacksonian hammer to drop on the judiciary, but its entirely possible it will occur piecemeal in tandem alongside Antifa's dismantling.
Absolutely fantastic comment. Sorry it's late and I am too tired to respond intelligently, but this was great. Agree with everything you wrote (and enjoyed the style too).
Thats high praise coming from a writer as accomplished as yourself, thanks. Luckily Substack isn't one of those places where comments go anywhere after a while, so if there's anything in that spiel worth responding to intelligently later to then I'm all ears. Regardless thanks for putting out such excellent work, makes long shifts at work disappear when there's something enlightening to process in the meantime.
Ben Stein wrote a column after the OJ Simpson verdict in Los Angeles. He wrote that white people would 'riot' they way white people do: they would leave. They would simply move away from places like LA where their lives were endangered. That is euphemistically called 'white flight'.
And they take the taxbase with them.
Good people usually don't fight back--They leave.
Ancient Rome did not so much FALL as it IMPLODED. Barbarian tribes were allowed to settle in the empire and they began to degrade it immediately.
White people are the taxbase. POCs (from an article I read in 2015) take out $14-$18 dollars for every one dollar they pay in taxes (I don't know what the numbers are today--the US government usually neglects to count illegals). White people got back pennies on the dollar. (No surprise there.)
The POCs talk about 'taking over' America. They can't. They can't even run their own homelands even with billions in Western aid. The POCs are not 'taking over' America. They are destroying it.
And millions of white Americans are 'rioting'. They have left the US.
not sure about the historical part, but you're absolutely correct about the modern situation. The problem however is that the leftists have centralized so much power at the Fed level, with so much financial control over the states, that there is no place left safe. The retreating army has their back to the cliffs now.
> "Ancient Rome did not so much FALL as it IMPLODED. Barbarian tribes were allowed to settle in the empire and they began to degrade it immediately."
Yeah... I'm not sure Rome is the best analog here. There are plenty of testimonies to late Roman culture being a festering hive of backstabbing, venality and self-indulgence crippled by dysgenic collapse, whereas the 'barbarians' came from dependable vitalistic honour cultures and if anything fulfilled a restorative function when they finally took over management. As with the GAE, the Empire primarily died from within and left a chaotic power vacuum for others to occupy.
> "The POCs talk about 'taking over' America. They can't. They can't even run their own homelands even with billions in Western aid. The POCs are not 'taking over' America. They are destroying it."
You're right that POCs are fighting for an impossible objective, but the issue of western aid is a red herring, IMO. (The global north is actually a net extractor of wealth from the global south when you tot up aid and remittances and then subtract capital flight and debt repayments, though either way it's only 1-2% of GDP and I don't think this accounts for much of their lag in development.)
I don't think 90-IQ populations are ever going to have equivalent living standards to white/asian countries, but it's worth remembering there has been enormous economic progress across the LatAM/MENA/African/South-Asian world over the past century, much of it facilitated by the GAE's free trade guarantees. The elephant curve had upsides too.
I've lived in several 3rd world countries, and until the Chinese showed up and started building debt trap infrastructure (for use by Chinese colonists) after 2000, everyone in those countries talked about how great things were in the 1950s.
The commodities boom benefits the elites. When countries talk about how 'they have raised people from poverty' they usually mean people now own a bicycle, a battery operated radio, and a new tin roof for their shack. I've have visited 'middle class areas' in 3rd world countries that have electricity (sometimes) but no running water or a single flushing toilet.
Don't confuse pre-fab office buildings and apartments in Africa (mostly filled with Chinese colonists or corrupt elites) as real progress. 3rd world capitals are surrounded by squalid slums.
Yes, IQ matters, so does culture, especially if it is a culture of violence and corruption with little impulse control.
I don't recall claiming that IQ didn't matter, and that in no way negates my point. The Pinkerites are correct about this- relative per-capita income has increased enormously for most of the world's poor over the past 50 years, and this is backed up by a wealth of statistics related to lifespan, infant mortality, literacy rates and disease prevalance. It isn't just "the elites" benefitting from commodity booms.
Western backed NGOS and the United Nations (paid for by, guess who?) get the credit for this, not wonderful 3rd world governments.
Yes, I guess if you were a hunter-gatherer in Africa 50 years ago, your income has gone up 10,000%. And they are still poor and the population has grown exponentially. And the country is unable to feed itself and is running out of water and totally dependent on food aid from the collapsing West.
And if you had to live like the 'new middle class' over there, you would hang yourself.
> "Western backed NGOS and the UNited Nations (paid for, guess who?) get the credit for this, not wondefful 3rd world governments"
Again, you're ignoring my point. The global north is actually a net financial drain on the global south so far as the net effect of the WEF, IMF and NGO agencies are concerned. Even if you set that aside, total foreign aid to Sub-Saharan Africa per year is something like 50 billion dollars, or ~2% of their GDP. This idea that the average black African is subsisting entirely on the teat of western charity is a total fantasy.
(I do think the global north has enabled enormous growth in the global south by opening trade opportunities and making medical/manufacturing tech accessible, but the vast majority of said tech is bought and paid for by private citizens on their own dollar, or by third-world governments. White/asian altruism is not the primary driver of this growth, and if it were, we'd be spending far more on GiveWell and far less on housing refugees who leech off first-world welfare states.)
And America has become decadent and....tolerant and apathetic , too.
But not everyone.
A new Byzantium is in the making. A lot of people fled to Byzantium as ancient Rome collapsed. That will happen again.
As for the 'honor culture'...they were thugs who destroyed an advanced Roman civilization with advanced engineering and architecture that the barbarians couldn't maintain--sound familiar?
And what came after the fall of Rome to the 'dependable vitalistic honour cultures'?
> "As for the 'honor culture'...they were thugs who destroyed an advanced Roman civilization with advanced engineering and architecture that the barbarians couldn't maintain--sound familiar?"
Roman standards for art and engineering were already declining before the somewhat-euphemistic "migration period" came into full swing, and you can compare the typical conduct of the Praetorian and Varangian Guard. It's practically a meme.
Rome, the city, became a wasteland. Rome, the Empire did a lot better. The East was quite prosperous until the coming of the Arabs. Same thing in Spain, which was a kingdom of the Visigoths until overrun by Arabs leading Berbers. The barbarians that crushed the Western Empire were mostly Christianized (Arian, not Trinitarian) by the time they did so.
> "Yes, Rome was in decline, but flooding it with low grade foreigners made a renaissance impossible"
I'm pointing that there's no good evidence the foreigners flooding 4th-century Rome were particularly low-grade, so far as genetic potential was concerned. (Northern Europe turned out to be perfectly capable of sustaining civilisation ten centuries later.) That's why it's not a good analogy.
Agencies like the CRS are precisely why people point out “crisis actors.” Some of the people seen on video might not be actors, but are actually regular people who have been coerced into doing and saying things they otherwise wouldn’t say.
Others (those seen in multiple videos) are/were likely employed by CRS. That would explain them popping and being recorded at multiple tragedies.
The sheer fact that there was/is a government agency tasked specifically with making sure that a false narrative is pushed after someone has been murdered, or some tragic event has taken place – that’s just bizarre!
Makes me think of the guy from “Close Encounters of The Third Kind.” Remember the psyop to clear the area around Devil’s Mountain.
“What I need is something so scary — that it will clear 300 square-miles of every living Christian soul.”
I love your work. You are plainly super smart and have wisdom to perceive reality. I know how this sounds but I will say it anyway.
You have indicated you are not Christian but you should be. You deserve to be. Seek Christ. Listen to Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Repeatedly. Embrace the culture and belief that created such art. Cathedrals, paintings, sculptures, it came from God. Not an accident. Not a coincidence. Centuries of painstaking effort to recognize the Almighty.
I love Beethoven as well. I would pick Beethoven as the greatest composer, based on body of work. But Bach transcends, because he channels the Almighty. Please consider my advice. I understand that many are not open to it. Which sort of explains Calvinism. I am very sympathetic to those who don’t have the “God gene”. Seems unfair.
I'd like to respond to this critique on my own behalf: I don't identify as a Christian although I do attend a Christian church semi-regularly (solely for the purposes of community). My problem with Christianity isn't its moral framework, but rather the poverty of its symbol set.
I wish there were some variant of Christianity that encompassed the symbolic richness of, say, Greek, Roman, or Germanic mythology, while preserving the Christian moral core (and I guess some of its ultimately middle-eastern mythology, which, tbh, doesn't really resonate with me).
The Catholic Church comes close with its pantheon of saints, but unfortunately Catholicism is tainted by the corrupt Vatican. And, equally unfortunately, the only serious modern voice given to ancient pagan archetypes are Wiccans and their ilk, who are obviously satanic. Tolkien (and to some extent CS Lewis) did a decent job of blending Christianity with European mythology, but nobody has carried those ideas forward into serious religious practice (and I'm not sure anyone really should).
The point being: God delegates spheres of life and being to various lesser entities (call them angels or saints if you will), and often times it is easier to interact with a lesser being that personifies a specific quality of God. Protestant Christianity leaves it all up to Jesus, and I think that's too much to bear: not for one-third of the tripartite God, but rather for the human psyche that often needs something less abstract.
As always on this topic, you are speaking my language. My Old Testament is the mythic tradition of Europe; my saints are the heroes; my guardian angels are the gods. In principle I have no objection to folding this into Christianity, which is powerful magic in its own right. But of course this would be a new religion ... One of which Lewis and Tolkien are the prophets.
I've seen a lot of seekers of truth find their way to the Truth. It's where that search inevitably leads. I'm one of them. It's very interesting how many of the people I read / watch in these circles (the RP/ DR) do the same - sooner or later - over the last decade. Not all, but most (so far).
Fun post - thanks for writing it. I'm old enough that it still seems weird to see the VP engaging with anons; perhaps if I was younger it would seem more natural. It's certainly welcome.
To build on your thoughts a bit: this seems to be mostly an executive branch phenomenon. Congress has a few poasters but most members remain low profile. I don't know why this is, but I'll speculate that it's mostly old age (they've been raised in the mediacracy), and that over the next decade we'll see legislators entering the fray as well. Should be interesting.
And then there's the judicial branch. I really want Clarence Thomas to have an anon account. Someone needs to make that happen.
I believe this is correct. Congress is inherently more conservative. That will change in time, more ourguys will get in. But for now, the incumbency rate is very high.
Age may be part, but most of congress are functional drunks and are too busy attending fundraising cocktail parties by lobbyists. Meanwhile the youthful poasters don't vote, so why bother? I think there is a difference when you only have to communicate with one district or state versus the entire country. You see those with national aspirations tending to post more.
Well, I learned a new word today: "meatspace." Bwa Ha! I am old, why bother to sugar coat it, so this an other terms are not common to me. But, thanks to authors such a JC I manage to learn new things.
To be clear, you all can blame me as a "boomer" for whatever you want. But I am not going anywhere, I am still here in meatspace, and tentatively online too. My X posts are typically inane and silly, and yet I manage to garner a like or two from people whose writing/substack/posts I admire and follow.
Where is this going, old fool? Simple - I vote, including 3x for DJT. Do I angst occasionally over the administration's actions? Sure, I believe in rational skepticism. However, exposure to JC, Raw Egg Nationalist, Zero HP Lovecraft, Captive Dreamer, Solionath, et al., provides perspective/info and I can apply these to my skepticism and personal views.
I am easy to ignore, but as JC suggests, there may be a lot of similar minds out there, please do not just dismiss us too quickly.
And, may I say, I am so inane and silly that I count as a highlight that once, and only once each, REN and even Bronze Age Pervert have nodded my way with a "like" for my reply posts.
I will plug along, have my fun, and most importantly, continue to pay attention every day to as much of what is happening as I possibly can. It may not be much, but I hope it helps. I love my family, and my country. Best wishes to all.
1) If the poastocracy is to become legitimised, there will have to be scrutiny of some kind regarding algorithms that govern what can be seen, what is hidden and what is pushed. A corporation with the power to dictate what a policymaker can and cannot view on their feed is an affront to the poastocracy and must be subject to transparency/legal stricture.
2) The poastocracy only cuts in one direction. The Left, being decoupled from all transcendental values such as truth, beauty and goodness, are unable to engage with reality. They can only operate within the frame of the Narrative, and as such require direction from their masters before any action. The ability of the Right to decentralise stems from the engagement with transcendental truths and remain reality-coherent. This scales to faiths, as faiths vary in their adherence to the fabric of reality. The most adherent is always going to be the most agile.
I find it very interesting that the left has completely failed to learn how to operate in this environment. There's no a priori reason why this should be so, aside from the incompatibility of left ideology with candour and humour of course. The left can't meme, and the left can't give up control to the necessary degree...
I suspect the problem of adapting to the new space properly is analogous to the "innovator's dilemma" issue. When you are advantaged in one area, you don't want to disrupt your own situation. They completely control the prior media formats and therefore naturally lag in adapting to disruptive social media.
Yes, this is an astute observation. They're structurally disadvantaged in the new media environment. All of their command and control systems interfere with adoption of new tactics.
The West is being destroyed by pathological altruism.
Europeans are the only ethnic group which is not alllowed to express pride in itself; it is only allowed to express remorse or disdain for its past. Europeans are the only ethnic group which is not allowed to protect or defend itself. We are not even allowed to survive.
How do you expect to survive in a world where your enemies openly proclaim that you-- 'the colonizers'-- deserve to die?
That an agency like the CRS existed for so long is stunning and shocking--and I didn't think I could be shocked anymore by what my government did. This revelation also explains a lot of what I have witnessed in the media and film/television industry over the last few decades.
A case that stands out is the kidnap and brutal murder of Mollie Tibbits in Iowa by a Mexican Illegal. The cruelty of the murder is horrific. The terrifying and painful death of a beautiful young woman. And I will never forget what Mollie's father told the media.
'The Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as Iowans. As far as I'm concerned, they're Iowans with better food'. He denounced those who 'appropriate Mollie's soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist'.
O_O
Who are the true racists here?
There is a brutal war being waged by groups of people dependent on welfare and government employment, paid for by the very taxpayers who are being brutally raped, tortured, and murdered by the people that live off of them. It's beggars belief. But here we are.
I'm sure this is going on in most, if not all Western countries.
The West has a choice: breakup or breakdown. At this point, I would choose a total MAD MAX style collapse over the status quo. I no longer care. At least in a breakdown scenario, the playing field would be levelled.
Yeah I remember Tibbets. It's a perfect example of the gaslighting the CRS engaged in. Even at the time, people were shocked at this guy appearing to choose burritos over blood.
I would absolutely LOVE to know what transpired when the CRS knocked on his door.
If these people ever came to my house I would violate whatever two party consent laws, go to jail, whatever. I would pretend to go along as far into the process as possible, record the entire thing and leak that shit 20 places on the internet, to news, whatever, all simultaneously
People need to know that it is all a lie upheld only by raw coercion and blackmail
I get the sentiment and maybe you could. I think most people are not so hardcore, and the CRS was probably very skilled at couching threats as compassionate warnings etc. Hard for people to resist that...
Apparently, they had decades to practice and refine their "art." I thought I knew at least a little bit about Civil Rights law (hmm, why do I automatically capitalize?), but had never heard of CRS until last year, online.
It seems to me that they don't co-opt or coerce the victims (Consider Erika Kirk's forgiveness statement. I would bet the farm that CRS didn't get to her. Rather, she was driven by her faith to do what was obviously a very difficult thing for her.) as much as they control LE communication about the crimes. This takes a lot less staff input and affects the general public who tend to trust local LE. Why local LE lets themselves be used in this way is beyond me. Perhaps money? Pretty sure it was CRS that suppressed information about the Las Vegas massacre. To what purpose, I don't know but I assume that behind that was some sort of government malfeasance. The local Sheriff who got rewarded by being elected governor had to have some clue.
Undoubtedly they would coordinate with LE, too.
Also, after decades of this, someone like Mrs. Kirk is surely affected by all the supposedly forgiving families who have gone before. Who wants to be the first one to come to the microphone and say, "I want bloody vengeance and I don't care who knows it"?
Most of us probably think we would say that. But then we would have the media at our door for weeks or months, asking how it feels to be so un-Christian and hateful, using us as the poster-child for all the -isms, and implicitly giving the tribe of the killer open season to come after us. When someone's reeling from a tragedy, it's not hard to see them choosing just to make all that go away. And here are Experts to tell you how to do that, and you've seen how well it's worked for others.
I don't know. She started by saying that Charlie's mission was to save lost young men like the one that killed him, then went on with the forgiveness statement. She was clearly struggling to get it out. It may be as you say or it may be an internal struggle between rage and faith. Faith is the better choice though not the most common one. It may also be a desire to continue his mission. Not sure what Jesus would do but the Catholic church is quite clear that repentance must precede forgiveness. Generally speaking, that is. During the Crusades, those who took the cross were preemptively forgiven for any sins they had committed or might commit in the future.
I don't really disagree. Mrs. Kirk may be a naturally forgiving soul with a strong faith and a mission. She was also speaking at her husband's funeral, so there's that context.
But I also think we've all been influenced by the pattern of events like these, and media propaganda in general, to think that immediate, unconditional forgiveness is the *baseline* Christian response to being attacked, and anything else would be entirely un-Christian. That's probably made the CRS's job easier over the years, as each family they encounter has already seen other families "rise above" vengeance.
John Paul II famously forgiving his would-be assassin set that standard too, and I doubt the CRS had to work on him. And maybe that *should* be the ideal (though traditionally things like repentance and restitution are involved). But most of us would fall short of it without some arm-twisting.
It's open season on us.
Joel P, I am the rarest of the rare, an Anglo Ontarian who is an ardent Quebec separatist. In this I am alone. Why: because I am certain that Canada needs be wound down, it cannot be reformed or even mildly diverted. The path we are on is so evil that only destruction can free us and create space for a new world. Phoenix needs the ash heap of destruction to be unleashed otherwise it is imprisonment. Canada is on course for a totalitarian future. Kill it.
I have always supported secession. I hope that Canada, Europe, and the United States breakup. We have to save Western civilization by separating from those who wish only to do us harm.
I’m going to say it slightly differently, although I completely agree with you. You see I think the people are all mixed together so you can’t get away from them. What the break up of Canada USA and Europe does is rob them of their power base - which is so dangerous - because they are fully in charge. They own the means of cultural production - schools and media - and control all the institutions. The only way to thwart them is to collapse the whole thing. I am aware that there’s a possibility that my prescription will make things worse. I’m willing to take that chance. I’m pretty old and I don’t have kids.
The trajectory of oblivion for us and ours is not as bad as what total collapse would mean, for them.
We have agency.
Never forget that.
True. That’s like the pilot ejecting from the fighter plane they call it committing suicide to save your life. lol.
Not to cast shade on the indefatigable work of the esteemed Mr. Parvini- who last I checked was trying to rehabilitate the public image of Joe Stalin, for some reason*- but I'm a little skeptical about how much the CRS really budged the needle here?
I haven't read America's Peacemakers, but is an agency with a budget of 24 million dollars and about 50 staff going to have a major effect on race relations in a country where JC helpfully points out there are half a million violent black-on-white crime incidents per year? I'd have to imagine their attentions get stretched pretty thin.
* which is a shame, since I agree with everything he had to say about Madonna
There were over 100 staff: 50 was the 2025 number.
That's certainly sufficient to intervene in the most shocking cases of black on white violence to ensure the victims don't say anything untoward.
If the CRS primarily leveraged the media, say, by threatening broadcast licenses if they don’t get these sorts of “I forgive the kid who stabbed my son in the chest for ‘laying hands upon his body’”, that would be one hell of a force multiplier.
They don’t necessarily need to go to families themselves.
That was indeed one of their tactics.
"If the CRS primarily leveraged the media...
They don’t necessarily need to go to families themselves."
Why wouldn't they do both? In fact, that IS what they do.
This is what is meant by Full Spectrum Dominance.
If one has an insatiable lust for power and all the money in the world, Full Spectrum Dominance isn't a good idea, it's an absolute necessity.
probably the hardest working part of government though, lol
Here is a good deep dive on the CRS from a good analyst (who is especially well known for RussiaGate analysis) with extra deets: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2013/07/17/federally-approved-doj-crs-extortion-dream-defenders-and-thomas-battles-turn-justice-into-just-us/
Excellent, thank you.
This guy just doesn’t miss
The Poastifada has been globalized.
I'm stealing that.
Delighted to contribute 🦅
I lost my X account during the H1B chimpout. I’m doing my part
As for the poastocracy phenomenon, it is also global. One of the funniest moments of my entire life was when I made a viral quote tweet of an image of a Black Russian soldier calling him Giorgi Fentanylovich Floydsky because of a striking resemblance, and then Lord Miles tweeted a clip from some middle eastern tv station of them circling his nose and mouth and questioning whether it was George Floyd. It was surreal. I basically caused a Memri TV meme to be created. It then went on to turn into a whole subgenre of George Droid Putin memes
Patriot. Thank you for your service.
That is also absolutely hilarious.
I almost included an anecdote from earlier in the year in which Billionaire Psycho and I started joking about issuing Letters of Marque to militarized REITs in order to clean out the inner cities, which was followed by Mike Lee posting repeatedly over the next several months about using Letters of Marque to go after the cartels. I dug a bit deeper and it turned out he'd mentioned it a few times before, so couldn't claim he got the idea from us, but it still looks like our injection of the idea into the memeplex might have encouraged him to start going hard on the idea.
Letters of Marque used to restore law/order/consequences to American cities .. hmm.. could also be used to support invasion of British Isles and Europe.
Ragnar Danneskjöld in Atlas Shrugged didn't need Letters of Marque to excuse his piracy.
Without Letters of Marque, one is a pirate, not a privateer, and therefore hostis humani generis. Not optimal.
A threat that few people seem to notice is from [international] corporations,. And if Zionists and other Sects of Synagogue of Satan were already was
They are formed in Hell, a Shadow Dragon that solidify instantly with a signature. instantly It has more Personhood rights then all the unborn world-wide, complete with a legal Shield of immunity.
Comparative Power: The top 3 U.S. corporations (e.g., Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil) each report profits exceeding $80 billion annually. This surpasses the GDP of over 140 UN member nations. If “money is speech,” then these corporations wield political power exceeding entire countries.
I expect that at some point not too many years that Corporations can have International Nationhood status, and the UN will want and need Corporate 'Letter of
Imagine if the soul-dead 'Image of God' putrid rotteddotted mutilated mutilaiImage of isreally
The black Russian soldier was perhaps an AI creation. Remember the images of black Waffen SS produced by one of the AI platforms.
It wasn’t. I work with AI, I know how to spot AI gen
Perhaps I'm predisposed to the frame of the re-emergence of pre-enlightenment forms of social organization and thought through recency bias, having finally read Harrington's King and the Swarm, or perhaps the map games have finally gotten to me and I'm way out on a limb here, but the relation between Trump et al and the poaster-kin reminds me of a modern re-emergence of the Third Estate, with the 2nd and 1st being The Silicon Nobility and Ecclesiarchy of the Chosenest people, rank ordered to the observer's taste. One can argue our pre-internet Democracy played the same game, but the active component of the Poasters as participants does seem to make an important difference.
I must say I'm rather partial to the idea of the admin using the base as a bellows to direct some much needed wind in their sails as they normalize necessary but harsher actions in current-year-ville. The hot air from enraged influencers and blown gaskets is vital for charting courses less travelled.
One the one hand, aside from being a useful cope in the face of relentless doomerism dispensed like skittles every passing second we don't breathe the sweet air of based world, it seems a necessary element of support for an insurgent administration that still very much rides the line between strength and weakness like a chiaroscuro painting.
Capitol Hill is much more /our guy/ coded than ever before, but that's to say it is still a den of vipers filled with loyalists of a dying order bitterly entrenched in their holdouts as their age comes kicking and screaming to its ugly end. the online base of support provides ideological and legitimating fuel for those on the administrative front to continue their bureaucratic fight, and those in ICE teams to continue their increasingly kinetic one.
I quipped at one point, but very much believe, that Trump is, and must act like, a war time president. His war is cold, domestic, and institutional rather than explicitly hot and foreign (god willing I don't have to add yet), but in attempting to bring actual change, he enters into the realm of real politics. The flak to his ear and Charlie's neck merely reinforce that they're right over the target.
On the other hand, the dragging of those vipers, and their supporters, by their hair kicking and screaming to the 21st century is definitionally hoe-scaring behavior. Though I too would love to feed the inner lion, to go full patriots in control mode, with the little dark age edits playing while we bring Jin-Roh flavored kickass to those sniveling Antifa demons in dem strongholds nationwide, a bazillion deported on week one etc., there is prudence in gradualism, in looking the moderate as the overton window shifts to flood the zone with "X is the moderate position."
As has been noted elsewhere, poasters haven't just replaced the media in policy influencing, they've replaced narrative and discourse formation as well. The cycle of "attempt in good faith to solve deep problem, run up against ne'erdowell obstruction, discourse turns hard against ne'erdowells, the people cry out for harsh justice, admin lurches half a standard deviation towards harsh justice, repeat" isn't quite clockwork, but its mighty fine to see in action. Still waiting for the Jacksonian hammer to drop on the judiciary, but its entirely possible it will occur piecemeal in tandem alongside Antifa's dismantling.
Absolutely fantastic comment. Sorry it's late and I am too tired to respond intelligently, but this was great. Agree with everything you wrote (and enjoyed the style too).
Thats high praise coming from a writer as accomplished as yourself, thanks. Luckily Substack isn't one of those places where comments go anywhere after a while, so if there's anything in that spiel worth responding to intelligently later to then I'm all ears. Regardless thanks for putting out such excellent work, makes long shifts at work disappear when there's something enlightening to process in the meantime.
great comment
DHS / ICE are MAGA Gendarmerie and America’s Gendarmerie .
Overdue and vitally essential response in kind. They may have their galaxy of Alphabet soup so must have 🧊
Also quite ready for a fight… and building.
Step up and if it’s a sacrifice then sacrifice
(I did for 2 decades).
Moreover every family needs a son in ICE or the military now, and ICE is the organization at present for the war, er law enforcement campaign at home.
Trump is a Builder.
He’s building an Arm…
A burgeoning and growing National Law Enforcement organization to defend America.
Exactly correct. DHS and ICE are being set up as the paramilitary arm of MAGA.
The Homeland Defender is past engaging - it’s enlisting the public.
The Left did the same for a century with public and Foundation money.
Yep.
I'm looking forward to deputized militias with Letters of Marque.
Could call this whole thing "Stepping Through the Looking Glass" or "With John Carter on Mars"
The Left built a constellation of alphabet agencies and de facto militias largely in secret, MAGA builds in the open with the people’s support.
Related; the side that has trust has an immense advantage in America.
The Left doesn’t, they can’t even trust themselves.
"Can you hear the Rubicon? Is only a small stream"
I don't believe those White on black/hispanic statistic are accurate.
Neither do I.
I doubt the reverse is accurate as well, probably understated.
We can't live like this.
Ben Stein wrote a column after the OJ Simpson verdict in Los Angeles. He wrote that white people would 'riot' they way white people do: they would leave. They would simply move away from places like LA where their lives were endangered. That is euphemistically called 'white flight'.
And they take the taxbase with them.
Good people usually don't fight back--They leave.
Ancient Rome did not so much FALL as it IMPLODED. Barbarian tribes were allowed to settle in the empire and they began to degrade it immediately.
White people are the taxbase. POCs (from an article I read in 2015) take out $14-$18 dollars for every one dollar they pay in taxes (I don't know what the numbers are today--the US government usually neglects to count illegals). White people got back pennies on the dollar. (No surprise there.)
The POCs talk about 'taking over' America. They can't. They can't even run their own homelands even with billions in Western aid. The POCs are not 'taking over' America. They are destroying it.
And millions of white Americans are 'rioting'. They have left the US.
Rome did not so much collapse as implode.
Think about that.
not sure about the historical part, but you're absolutely correct about the modern situation. The problem however is that the leftists have centralized so much power at the Fed level, with so much financial control over the states, that there is no place left safe. The retreating army has their back to the cliffs now.
> "Ancient Rome did not so much FALL as it IMPLODED. Barbarian tribes were allowed to settle in the empire and they began to degrade it immediately."
Yeah... I'm not sure Rome is the best analog here. There are plenty of testimonies to late Roman culture being a festering hive of backstabbing, venality and self-indulgence crippled by dysgenic collapse, whereas the 'barbarians' came from dependable vitalistic honour cultures and if anything fulfilled a restorative function when they finally took over management. As with the GAE, the Empire primarily died from within and left a chaotic power vacuum for others to occupy.
> "The POCs talk about 'taking over' America. They can't. They can't even run their own homelands even with billions in Western aid. The POCs are not 'taking over' America. They are destroying it."
You're right that POCs are fighting for an impossible objective, but the issue of western aid is a red herring, IMO. (The global north is actually a net extractor of wealth from the global south when you tot up aid and remittances and then subtract capital flight and debt repayments, though either way it's only 1-2% of GDP and I don't think this accounts for much of their lag in development.)
I don't think 90-IQ populations are ever going to have equivalent living standards to white/asian countries, but it's worth remembering there has been enormous economic progress across the LatAM/MENA/African/South-Asian world over the past century, much of it facilitated by the GAE's free trade guarantees. The elephant curve had upsides too.
I've lived in several 3rd world countries, and until the Chinese showed up and started building debt trap infrastructure (for use by Chinese colonists) after 2000, everyone in those countries talked about how great things were in the 1950s.
The commodities boom benefits the elites. When countries talk about how 'they have raised people from poverty' they usually mean people now own a bicycle, a battery operated radio, and a new tin roof for their shack. I've have visited 'middle class areas' in 3rd world countries that have electricity (sometimes) but no running water or a single flushing toilet.
Don't confuse pre-fab office buildings and apartments in Africa (mostly filled with Chinese colonists or corrupt elites) as real progress. 3rd world capitals are surrounded by squalid slums.
Yes, IQ matters, so does culture, especially if it is a culture of violence and corruption with little impulse control.
I don't recall claiming that IQ didn't matter, and that in no way negates my point. The Pinkerites are correct about this- relative per-capita income has increased enormously for most of the world's poor over the past 50 years, and this is backed up by a wealth of statistics related to lifespan, infant mortality, literacy rates and disease prevalance. It isn't just "the elites" benefitting from commodity booms.
Western backed NGOS and the United Nations (paid for by, guess who?) get the credit for this, not wonderful 3rd world governments.
Yes, I guess if you were a hunter-gatherer in Africa 50 years ago, your income has gone up 10,000%. And they are still poor and the population has grown exponentially. And the country is unable to feed itself and is running out of water and totally dependent on food aid from the collapsing West.
And if you had to live like the 'new middle class' over there, you would hang yourself.
> "Western backed NGOS and the UNited Nations (paid for, guess who?) get the credit for this, not wondefful 3rd world governments"
Again, you're ignoring my point. The global north is actually a net financial drain on the global south so far as the net effect of the WEF, IMF and NGO agencies are concerned. Even if you set that aside, total foreign aid to Sub-Saharan Africa per year is something like 50 billion dollars, or ~2% of their GDP. This idea that the average black African is subsisting entirely on the teat of western charity is a total fantasy.
(I do think the global north has enabled enormous growth in the global south by opening trade opportunities and making medical/manufacturing tech accessible, but the vast majority of said tech is bought and paid for by private citizens on their own dollar, or by third-world governments. White/asian altruism is not the primary driver of this growth, and if it were, we'd be spending far more on GiveWell and far less on housing refugees who leech off first-world welfare states.)
You are using George Soros talking points.
And America has become decadent and....tolerant and apathetic , too.
But not everyone.
A new Byzantium is in the making. A lot of people fled to Byzantium as ancient Rome collapsed. That will happen again.
As for the 'honor culture'...they were thugs who destroyed an advanced Roman civilization with advanced engineering and architecture that the barbarians couldn't maintain--sound familiar?
And what came after the fall of Rome to the 'dependable vitalistic honour cultures'?
The dark ages.
> "As for the 'honor culture'...they were thugs who destroyed an advanced Roman civilization with advanced engineering and architecture that the barbarians couldn't maintain--sound familiar?"
Roman standards for art and engineering were already declining before the somewhat-euphemistic "migration period" came into full swing, and you can compare the typical conduct of the Praetorian and Varangian Guard. It's practically a meme.
No. Rome went from a city of one million to a wasteland.
Yes, Rome was in decline, but flooding it with low grade foreigners made a renaissance impossible.
I refuse to give up and become Mexico. If you love tacos and cheap beer, move to Mexico (if you don't live there already.)
It's defeatist like you that have caused a lot of this decline.
Rome, the city, became a wasteland. Rome, the Empire did a lot better. The East was quite prosperous until the coming of the Arabs. Same thing in Spain, which was a kingdom of the Visigoths until overrun by Arabs leading Berbers. The barbarians that crushed the Western Empire were mostly Christianized (Arian, not Trinitarian) by the time they did so.
Yes, I mentioned Byzantium elsewhere on the thread.
The East was wrecked by the Asiatics, eventually falling to the Turks in 1453; a thousand years (or so) after the fall of Rome.
Mexicans are Christians. I won't give up my country to them.
My point: I'm going to fight and pushback, If most choose to give up, I'll sail for Byzantium.
> "Yes, Rome was in decline, but flooding it with low grade foreigners made a renaissance impossible"
I'm pointing that there's no good evidence the foreigners flooding 4th-century Rome were particularly low-grade, so far as genetic potential was concerned. (Northern Europe turned out to be perfectly capable of sustaining civilisation ten centuries later.) That's why it's not a good analogy.
It's a good analogy. But, I agree that the DNA of Northern Europeans is better than what we have been getting lately.
Agencies like the CRS are precisely why people point out “crisis actors.” Some of the people seen on video might not be actors, but are actually regular people who have been coerced into doing and saying things they otherwise wouldn’t say.
Others (those seen in multiple videos) are/were likely employed by CRS. That would explain them popping and being recorded at multiple tragedies.
The sheer fact that there was/is a government agency tasked specifically with making sure that a false narrative is pushed after someone has been murdered, or some tragic event has taken place – that’s just bizarre!
Makes me think of the guy from “Close Encounters of The Third Kind.” Remember the psyop to clear the area around Devil’s Mountain.
“What I need is something so scary — that it will clear 300 square-miles of every living Christian soul.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDRhg4rSgJI
This is a very interesting point. Though I suspect the responsible agencies are even more secretive than the CRS...
I love your work. You are plainly super smart and have wisdom to perceive reality. I know how this sounds but I will say it anyway.
You have indicated you are not Christian but you should be. You deserve to be. Seek Christ. Listen to Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Repeatedly. Embrace the culture and belief that created such art. Cathedrals, paintings, sculptures, it came from God. Not an accident. Not a coincidence. Centuries of painstaking effort to recognize the Almighty.
I'm more of a Beethoven guy tbh
J. S. Bach master race here. Disdain_for_plebs.jpg
Son Seals.
Wait, what? This isn't about Chicago Blues? Other types of music...? Classical? Chicago Blues is classic, just listen to Son Seals.
Peter Schickele.
Mozart guy here.
I love Beethoven as well. I would pick Beethoven as the greatest composer, based on body of work. But Bach transcends, because he channels the Almighty. Please consider my advice. I understand that many are not open to it. Which sort of explains Calvinism. I am very sympathetic to those who don’t have the “God gene”. Seems unfair.
I'd like to respond to this critique on my own behalf: I don't identify as a Christian although I do attend a Christian church semi-regularly (solely for the purposes of community). My problem with Christianity isn't its moral framework, but rather the poverty of its symbol set.
I wish there were some variant of Christianity that encompassed the symbolic richness of, say, Greek, Roman, or Germanic mythology, while preserving the Christian moral core (and I guess some of its ultimately middle-eastern mythology, which, tbh, doesn't really resonate with me).
The Catholic Church comes close with its pantheon of saints, but unfortunately Catholicism is tainted by the corrupt Vatican. And, equally unfortunately, the only serious modern voice given to ancient pagan archetypes are Wiccans and their ilk, who are obviously satanic. Tolkien (and to some extent CS Lewis) did a decent job of blending Christianity with European mythology, but nobody has carried those ideas forward into serious religious practice (and I'm not sure anyone really should).
The point being: God delegates spheres of life and being to various lesser entities (call them angels or saints if you will), and often times it is easier to interact with a lesser being that personifies a specific quality of God. Protestant Christianity leaves it all up to Jesus, and I think that's too much to bear: not for one-third of the tripartite God, but rather for the human psyche that often needs something less abstract.
As always on this topic, you are speaking my language. My Old Testament is the mythic tradition of Europe; my saints are the heroes; my guardian angels are the gods. In principle I have no objection to folding this into Christianity, which is powerful magic in its own right. But of course this would be a new religion ... One of which Lewis and Tolkien are the prophets.
The Christian religion built the culture you value. Not a coincidence.
I've seen a lot of seekers of truth find their way to the Truth. It's where that search inevitably leads. I'm one of them. It's very interesting how many of the people I read / watch in these circles (the RP/ DR) do the same - sooner or later - over the last decade. Not all, but most (so far).
Fun post - thanks for writing it. I'm old enough that it still seems weird to see the VP engaging with anons; perhaps if I was younger it would seem more natural. It's certainly welcome.
To build on your thoughts a bit: this seems to be mostly an executive branch phenomenon. Congress has a few poasters but most members remain low profile. I don't know why this is, but I'll speculate that it's mostly old age (they've been raised in the mediacracy), and that over the next decade we'll see legislators entering the fray as well. Should be interesting.
And then there's the judicial branch. I really want Clarence Thomas to have an anon account. Someone needs to make that happen.
I believe this is correct. Congress is inherently more conservative. That will change in time, more ourguys will get in. But for now, the incumbency rate is very high.
Age may be part, but most of congress are functional drunks and are too busy attending fundraising cocktail parties by lobbyists. Meanwhile the youthful poasters don't vote, so why bother? I think there is a difference when you only have to communicate with one district or state versus the entire country. You see those with national aspirations tending to post more.
💯
I'm pretty sure the current push for AI is largely the result of the overlords realizing they need to de-fang poastocracy.
ABC.
Always Be Chimping.....
Well, I learned a new word today: "meatspace." Bwa Ha! I am old, why bother to sugar coat it, so this an other terms are not common to me. But, thanks to authors such a JC I manage to learn new things.
To be clear, you all can blame me as a "boomer" for whatever you want. But I am not going anywhere, I am still here in meatspace, and tentatively online too. My X posts are typically inane and silly, and yet I manage to garner a like or two from people whose writing/substack/posts I admire and follow.
Where is this going, old fool? Simple - I vote, including 3x for DJT. Do I angst occasionally over the administration's actions? Sure, I believe in rational skepticism. However, exposure to JC, Raw Egg Nationalist, Zero HP Lovecraft, Captive Dreamer, Solionath, et al., provides perspective/info and I can apply these to my skepticism and personal views.
I am easy to ignore, but as JC suggests, there may be a lot of similar minds out there, please do not just dismiss us too quickly.
And, may I say, I am so inane and silly that I count as a highlight that once, and only once each, REN and even Bronze Age Pervert have nodded my way with a "like" for my reply posts.
I will plug along, have my fun, and most importantly, continue to pay attention every day to as much of what is happening as I possibly can. It may not be much, but I hope it helps. I love my family, and my country. Best wishes to all.
"I did not say I knew BAP! I said he once liked one of my posts!"
Gladiator reference btw, I'm not making fun of you at all: I totally know that feel.
Honestly if you're plugged in enough to even know who those personalities are, you're light years ahead of most boomers, my friend.
And it's all about having fun. Happy warriors...
1) If the poastocracy is to become legitimised, there will have to be scrutiny of some kind regarding algorithms that govern what can be seen, what is hidden and what is pushed. A corporation with the power to dictate what a policymaker can and cannot view on their feed is an affront to the poastocracy and must be subject to transparency/legal stricture.
2) The poastocracy only cuts in one direction. The Left, being decoupled from all transcendental values such as truth, beauty and goodness, are unable to engage with reality. They can only operate within the frame of the Narrative, and as such require direction from their masters before any action. The ability of the Right to decentralise stems from the engagement with transcendental truths and remain reality-coherent. This scales to faiths, as faiths vary in their adherence to the fabric of reality. The most adherent is always going to be the most agile.
Algo transparency is important, I agree.
I find it very interesting that the left has completely failed to learn how to operate in this environment. There's no a priori reason why this should be so, aside from the incompatibility of left ideology with candour and humour of course. The left can't meme, and the left can't give up control to the necessary degree...
I suspect the problem of adapting to the new space properly is analogous to the "innovator's dilemma" issue. When you are advantaged in one area, you don't want to disrupt your own situation. They completely control the prior media formats and therefore naturally lag in adapting to disruptive social media.
Yes, this is an astute observation. They're structurally disadvantaged in the new media environment. All of their command and control systems interfere with adoption of new tactics.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Th1T8MR6NKI&si=kcT4bku9scJ7KOr7
An old video that is relevant to this discussion.
The West is being destroyed by pathological altruism.
Europeans are the only ethnic group which is not alllowed to express pride in itself; it is only allowed to express remorse or disdain for its past. Europeans are the only ethnic group which is not allowed to protect or defend itself. We are not even allowed to survive.
How do you expect to survive in a world where your enemies openly proclaim that you-- 'the colonizers'-- deserve to die?
Thank you for the video! Very, very worth the time to watch.