This an ad for a worthy cause.
https://www.givesendgo.com/GDEF6
This relief fund is being organised by Carson Ford Brooks, who, unlike most people involved in Hurricane Helene relief solicitations has no history of grifting, so when he says
“We are internally fundraising for our own travel, lodging, and food expenses. We are bringing our own equipment. Absolutely ALL of the funds received will go directly toward supplies for the victims and fuel to operate equipment.”
It is probably true.
Fema has pissed away all its money on illegal immigrants, which is probably a good thing because its previous responses to disasters have been hostile to the victims of disaster, and even more hostile to anyone who was prepared for disaster, or providing more useful assistance than Fema. Their primary objective appears to be to move people from areas that vote Republican, to areas that vote Democrat by overwhelming margins, and to reduce everyone to dependency upon the government. In the floods of Hurricane Helene, seem to be more interested in land seizures than providing food and clean drinking water.
Fema is however vitally concerned that faith based shelters might misgender transwomen.
This is typical of any welfare state, that Government agencies end up being hostile to anything useful actually getting done other than procedures on paper.
Even when somebody like Trump wants to get something done, he faces the hoops, procedures and legal hurdles.
The bureaucracy is in charge, but nobody is responsible. Papers get pushed around but nothing gets done. When somebody active and willing to get things done, especially useful things accomplished, the bureaucracy gets protective and bitchy and puts hurdles and sometimes impossible hoops to jump along the way.
Having a demonic state religion just amplifies these effects up from mere hoops and hurdles, to active and sometimes violent hostility.
U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b
A completely unforseen attack! The innocent feds innocently inserting very secure backdoors into everything as policy was very rudely taken advantage of by the dastardly CCP! Surely the only reasonable response is to stand up a committee to discuss the brazen dastardliness and rudeness of the CCP, any other measures related to not allowing any random fed agency to willy nilly insert backdoors at all levels of the communication chain would clearly not help and only enable terrorism.
They crucified George W. Clinton Obama Bush for this during Hurricane Katrina. But I guess Kuntmala gets a free pass.
I got family in the region. It’s really bad. Both the damage and the federal response.
By many accounts FEMA is outright blocking/confiscating aid. Surprised Jim didn’t write more on that.
The federal government is now staffed from top to bottom with people who hate everything and everyone. You always recruit from the state religion, and the state religion has gone demonic.
The only cure is to install a new, saner, state religion — full on reaction.
Right now there is a massive preference cascade for Thermidor. The boomers in today’s Thermidor want to roll stuff back to the leftism of their youth. The younger elements of Thermidor are rather confused. Neither is going to work, but they plan to give it a try. If they follow through, things will get interesting. Thermidor is unstable. It breaks right, left, or to Caesar.
Also North Carolina is a close swing state that always narrowly Republican (not that much fraud) the coastal areas are cucked the interior is Trump country. So they figure if nobody can vote in Western NC…
Yes. The friend-enemy distinction.
All this facefag talk about “failure” to help people is driving me absolutely fucking crazy.
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I simply do not know why Republicans ignore the cities.
Republicans do not ignore cities. The problem has been Democrats flooding cities with a vote bank living on welfare, crime, and useless government employment. In the big blue cities you will find vast numbers on the government payroll to produce various public goods, which they conspicuously fail to produce. They are employed to vote, not work.
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Those are not public goods. A public good is public if it is impossible or counterproductive to charge for access to it.
Lot of mud being slung back and forth over ongoing events.
On one hand you have lots of people being angry over army brigades not being deployed for disaster relief.
On the other hand you have people saying the reason they aren’t being deployed is because accepting army resources is a legalistic poison pill that comes with the string of the permanent government assuming federal control over proceedings; and federal control over proceedings generally means shitting all over everything, as in Katrina.
The classic choice between malice and incompetence. Honestly, the latter is probably better in the long term.
I haven’t seen any of that. I’ve seen the right upset about FEMA confiscating donations, blocking volunteers, failure to rescue specific victims, and general uselessness of FEMA themselves. I’ve seen comparisons to the one time check survivors will get to the monthly checks immigrants get. I’ve seen the alt right upset about soldiers being denied passes to go home because they’re being staged for deployment to the middle east.
But I haven’t seen anybody debating army brigades on libertarian or federalist grounds. For one thing, fedgov is currently asserting (not competently exercising) federal control over proceedings.
I have seen army deployment contrasted to past foreign disaster relief. But I haven’t seen it from anyone who’s not already more concerned about the blocking of
This is in fact the only retarded post I’ve ever seen from Pseudo. Most charitably, we follow very different commenters. Actually entirely possible in itself, but I can’t see what’s to be gained from following anyone who seriously asserts that fedgov through FEMA is not currently asserting control over proceedings but would if and only if they sent in national guard or army. There’s a more true and more rhetorically valuable argument being made by multiple commenters; why skip over that to focus on a tea-sippers’ theoretical argument?
Of course fedgov is going to act like they are in charge regardless.
The story FEMA is telling is that they ‘can’t help’ because the governor won’t let them. In all likelihood ‘wont let us help’ means not agreeing to egregious violation of sovereignty, and which lack of agreement is going to be ignored regardless, but not without also punishing the recalcitrant for their temerity as well.
No one is listening to what Fema is saying, because they know it is lies and spin.
“No one is listening to what Fema is saying, because they know it is lies and spin.”
Earlier this week a bunch of us were working hard on a local effort to collect and ship supplies up to NC, and I can attest that no one involved had a shred of respect for FEMA. All they do is interfere and grandstand. The real Emergency Management Administration is us.
I think the exchange between Musk and Pete Buttbandit perfectly encapsulated the whole business.
Man: our efforts to land help are being blocked
GAE Apparatchik 1: that’s super weird all authorized help is allowed did you check in through the proper channels?
Man: I’m calling and noone’s picking up
Peanut Gallery: by ‘authorized help’ they mean nobody outside of Buttigieg’s Bath House
GAE Apparatchik 2: were they trying to land in (((unsafe locations)))?
What can you say? Our most current of years never fails to deliver more new and exciting forms of coordination failure.
Scott Alexander would say multi-polar traps, which is technically true in a descriptive sense – and also safely depersonalized; “I am not responsible, it’s just the game”. From whence adaptive convergence on situationally contingent and mutually reinforcing layers of calumny? That doesn’t happen without a seed of evil to animate it.
If you ever find yourself having to judge between malice or incompetence, pick both.
Years ago, the behavior of Fema was plausibly describable as self interested evil. These days, looks more like demonic evil — willingness to suffer considerable harm provided others are harmed even more.
Scott Anderson’s “multi polar trap” takes evil off the table as an issue.
It was primarily an argument against libertarianism, which in our day and age has become irrelevant: “Just bake the cake why don’t you”. Libertarianism died, like Christianity, of hostile entryism, but Christianity is better at rising from the dead.
I have a better argument against libertarianism. Holy war is coming. Those who do not sign up with a King will be ruled by those who do.
His argument against libertarianism rests on externalities. But, as David Friedman points out, there are endless shades of gray between a negative externality, aggression, and war. If negative goods, harms, are on the table “give me that good thing or I will inflict that bad thing upon you”, and negative goods are always on the table, then this necessarily leads to state formation, as people gang up for the capability to inflict the largest harm possible.
The priesthood constructs consensus on what is aggression, and should be met with proportionately greater harm, and what is a right that other people just have to put up with. The Sovereign lays down his interpretation of that consensus, and enforces it. We are always ruled by priests or warriors, and usually some mixture of both.
You have far too much faith in our government. You are assuming that there is some elaborately convoluted ingenious sense in which Butgeig is technically telling the truth. A simpler explanation is that he is just lying barefaced yet again.
Think about how this looks to normie: Normie sees headline “Buttgeig refutes Musk’s misinformation”. Normie thinks to himself that of course Buttgeig is going to say that, so is at least a little bit suspicious that Buttgeig is just lying. Then normie sees reports from the field that Fema is doing what it does best: Make a bad situation worse. Normie concludes Buttgeig is just lying. Normie is right.
Certainly.
Where is this reading otherwise coming from? Was calumny a too high falutin’ synonym for lies on top of lies?
If the government were trying hard to rescue people, they would be trumpeting their acts, and even if those acts weren’t effective they would be trumpeting their attempts. Saving people from natural disasters is the most basic way any government establishes its legitimacy. They are not trumpeting their acts, even ineffective acts, they are trying to persuade you that the apparent lack of action doesn’t reflect their malice, isn’t their fault, but that isn’t what you would see if they were trying.
Any Amerikaners on the continent not already convinced that their colonial occupiers hate them and want them to die can’t be convinced; or rather are part of the problem and not the final solution.
Of course it’s one thing to say and to know in an intellectual sense – the cracks in the regimentation of public discourse vis-a-vis messaging are growing significant – but it’s another thing to truly internalize that truth in their hearts; that which can be seen by whether they act like people who know they are living in a world where that is the truth.
The obvious solution to the hurricane disaster would be for the governor to declare himself commander-in-chief of the disaster effort and call the other governors to second their national guard under his command.
Much rumor, rumbling and grumbling of What Time It Is; but nothing doing until Caesars who Know What Time It Is make moves to take up the mandate of heaven.
After being shot at twice by the presidency, Trump still has normality bias. Don Junior and Vance considerably less so.
It is apparent that though Trump is a merchant and deal maker, he has the warrior spirit. But normality bias leads him to suppose he can make a deal.