Tag: From rights to duties
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Are they learning yet?
I decided to peek at TheFederalist to see if the “conservatives” are starting to learn anything. They are at least noticing that Repooflicans are not serving ordinary people. This podcast shows a nascent understanding without discarding most of the biases that will prevent a more mature understanding. They think Woke/ESG started in the universities. It […]
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Getters again
Earlier I diagnosed APs and fake movements by their focus on relatively trivial problems. A more refined version is appearing in two current movements. It’s the old getter or sacrificial lamb routine. In the movement against the “virus” holocaust, most of the activists started out opposing the entire demonic monstrosity. After RFK Jr got into […]
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Year-end shit
Not in a mood for a year-end or Xmas piece. I’ll repeat 2020’s piece, which still holds true, then add one vaguely quasi-semi-hemi-demi-positivishesque note. = = = = = START REPRINT: Guess I should continue the habit of doing a year-end dump. Not worth it this time. 2020 needs to be thrown away and skipped, […]
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Data web returns to data web
The “rights” fans are getting all excited over the non-revealing “revelation” that FBI controls media. Time for a reprint from April of this year. = = = = = START REPRINT: Secrecy and censorship are the defaults. We don’t have the choice of escaping censorship. Given this CONSTANT, there are two interesting VARIABLES, a political […]
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Nice exception
One of the neighbors always puts up a complex light and sound Xmas display. As I walked past it yesterday it was chiming Rudolph. I’m always bitching about the cruel jokes of Cinderella and Ugly Duckling. Attractive people bamboozle unpopular people into wasting their lives in futile pursuit of unachievable goals. Rudolph is an admirable […]
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Clarifying thought
Not related to anything current, just a clarifying thought, a new angle on a familiar subject. One of my Thiel Questions is: If you want to leave a legacy, don’t copyright your work. This runs counter to everything you normally read about copyright. Clarifier: Everything you normally read is based on the faulty assumption that […]
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Cruel joke
Taibbi and Kirn are talking about the Nevada “election”, where counting seems to be sloppy in favor of the house. Kirn says that no casino would allow sloppy counting, so why should the state’s “elections” allow sloppy counting? He’s implying that casinos and “elections” are opposite. Casinos are meant to be rigged while “elections” are […]
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Who’s more effectively paranoid?
I’m looking at two strings of comments at Substack. First Justin Hart asking for guesses about WHY the “virus” hoaxocaust needed to happen in 2020, as opposed to any other time. Second, the responses to Taibbi’s funny drinking game on last night’s “election”. I used to wonder about the WHY question, and finally settled on […]
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Reprint on jail and jobs
First written 11/1/17, linked in previous item, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: An article in Aeon starts with an excellent and evocative question: Should life in jail be worse than outside, on principle? Author Chris Barker is a prof at a small POST-Christian college (Methodist) in Winfield. You don’t see […]
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Montessori
I’ve been bemoaning the lack of school-based training and entertainment-based training about scams and swindles. Experience is the ONLY teacher, but there are two ways to acquire experience. Ideally a training experience should put you through most of the real situation without danger to your life or wealth. Whether intentionally or not, the DAO swindle […]
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We need a Foy Rebellion
Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary men after WW2. France implemented a similar IMPERATIVE after it recovered from the 1789 revolution, which turned its demonic vision of “science” into a god of war and torture. France returned to a strictly practical and concrete way of life, with careful regard for the […]
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Just a rehash
I haven’t hit this theme lately. Time for a rehash. Free speech is a fake issue. Freedom is the goal of criminals and psychopaths. Normal people want to live a normal life and do useful work. Normal people want to be PROTECTED FROM THE FREEDOM-LOVING DEMONS. Freedom really means I win, you die. The high-status […]
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Reparations for Hessian Genocide!!!!!
Via LiveScience, archeologists in New Jersey have found a mass grave with 17 Hessian mercenaries who were fighting for the Brits in 1776. We need to pay reparations to the Duchy of Hesse! Now! Find the descendants of Ernst Ludwig, the last official Grand Duke of Hesse, and make them whole!!! Probably a few trillion […]
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Islands
Kirn is active tonight! No man is an island, but perhaps ten thousand people can be an island, and society can be a chain or network of connected yet still largely self-sufficient islands. This ever- enlarging, ever-consolidating pyramidal model is showing its age. = = = = = START REPRINT: Hawala or scrip is the […]
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Possible answer
Convective thought, triggered by the ascendance of Sunak as Boris’s replacement. Fact 1: In the last 10 years, immigrants from India have been filling the elite slots that were formerly held by Anglos and Jews. This is happening in NYC banking, in Silicon Valley tech, and in some parts of academia. Now the new elites […]
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