Tag: Machiavelli
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More things I learned from others
Recently I gathered up five learnings acquired from others. It’s time to add one more, which isn’t especially recent but was missed in the previous listing. = = = = = START REHASH: Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these facts on my own, and I’m grateful to…
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Should have written here
Another thought that I should have written here first. On Substack somebody posted a description of the Piven-Cloward strategy for overwhelming a government with demands, lawsuits, and immigrants. I’ve seen this many times, but for some reason the style of this description evoked a new thought. New thought 1: This is simply what happens to…
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You first, asshole.
Listening again to Spencer Cox of the Niceness Initiative. He says the governors all get along fine. We’ve heard recently that the Supreme Black-robed Demons get along fine. That’s the problem, not the solution. The inner party gets along. When they decide to imprison and strangle the peasants, they all move together in perfect unison.…
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How do these myths start?
Compact has a good article on Trudeau’s absolute tyranny, which was aided AS ALWAYS by the media. Compact’s writers grasp HARDASS REALITY better than most, which is why I pay for a subscription. I won’t pay anyone who can’t see beyond the standard myths. In this article one of the standard myths creeps in, perhaps…
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Still scratching
Still trying to scratch the itch of the Niceness Crusade by Cox and Moore. Coming at it from a different angle: If niceness is a product, what’s the use case? Why would people want to buy niceness as a component of politics? Normal people don’t need to buy civility as a component of ordinary life.…
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Should have written it here.
Somebody on substack was noting that Putin is a far better player of international chess than our leaders. I agreed and added this comment, which I really should have written here first. = = = = = Putin has a head start. Russians understand us better than we understand them. Russians also understand us better…
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More passionate truth
More passionate truth from Jeffrey Tucker: = = = = = START QUOTE: The signers of the original Yale letter were hardly the only ones. Academics, think tankers, authors, and major public pundits all over the world changed suddenly. Those who should have opposed lockdowns switched to favor them once every major nation in the…
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Futilation
RFK is a Gaian. That’s all he is. He’s managed to sucker in a large part of the anti-tyrants by focusing on the “poisons” in vax. This intentionally distracts from the far larger purposes of the genocide, and turns the anti-tyrants into Gaian activists. Gaia and “virus” are two closely related projects by the same…
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Palace revolt?
= = = = = START MACHIAVELLI: To arrive at this position depends not entirely on worth or entirely on fortune, but rather on cunning assisted by fortune. One attains it by help of popular favour or by the favour of the aristocracy. The worst that a prince has to expect from a hostile people…
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Full intelligence achieved!
Headline: A.I apocalypse: Terrifying study simulated what artificial intelligence would do in five military conflict scenarios… and it chose WAR 100% of the time AI has achieved full humanity! It chooses exactly the same thing human rulers choose in every situation! If a computer system chose peace in any circumstance it would be considered dangerously…
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Taibbi is an aspectless idiot
One headline is enough: The Fix is In. Taibbi constantly plays the fake surprise game, pretending that journalism used to be honest and politics used to be honest. Now the Horrible Other Party has turned everything sour, but we can restore the old pristine state of integrity by “electing” My Wonderful Party. 2/3 of the…
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Reprint on original sin
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Basic generality: All factions of Deepstate are blackmailers. Blackmailer is another name for secret-keeper. Any profession that has the habit of confidentiality will end up blackmailing and destroying normal people if it’s not rigidly constrained. The first Deepstate was Rome. Priests hear…
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Useful insider view
Erik Larson writes from an insider view, noting that the latest style of AI has turned into a total juggernaut with no questioners. Before the recent inflection point of 2014, he saw quite a few doubters inside the establishment. Now, thanks to the Tech Tyrants with their social algorithms, everyone is Moving Together In The…
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Honest goal
I’m tired of supporting activists who claim to be “holding power accountable” or “speaking truth to power” or “changing the world”. Machiavelli tells us that none of those events ever happen. Until now, Jeffrey Tucker’s Brownstone outfit was claiming to cause change in the circles of power, but never showing any real change. Now Jeffrey…
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Who’s really Informed?
Random pointless rant. It’s been clear for a LONG time that the “informed citizen” myth is just a sales pitch for Deepstate propaganda. We’re supposed to pay attention to the mainstream media and attend college so we can be “enlightened informed citizens who are capable of participating intelligently in elections”. This nonsense runs deep on…
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