Venezuala is yet another step towards World War III.
Venezuela implemented a bunch of utterly catastrophic and self destructive economic policies. Among these was the rational sounding policy of capturing Venezuela’s vast oil wealth which was going abroad, and applying it to the purposes of Venezuelan government.
This resulted in the US issuing a bunch of economic sanctions, similar to those applied to Russia, but vastly less extreme. The damage done by those sanctions was probably insignificant compared to the damage Venezuela did to itself.
The US government then attempted to color revolution Venezuela, but this failed dismally, because Venezuela was run by leftists who were veterans of color revolution, and knew their opponent’s playbook — had in fact been taught the playbook by their opponent’s Ngos.
The Venezuelan politicals took over management of the oil industry in Venezuela, which predictably collapsed. Like the rest of the private economy in Venezuela.
Venezuela then reached out to Russian oil companies, who set about restoring oil production. This was a somewhat Thermidorian policy, since the Russian oil companies understandably insisted on making a profit and refused to have the politicals interfering in management.
This, of course, was violation of the Monroe doctrine, which really pissed off America. Hence war threats from the Trump administration. Their idea of Thermidor was that Venezuela should let US oil companies do what the Russian oil companies are now doing.
Well, said Russia, if you can stick your oar into our boat, we are going to stick our oar into your boat. So Russia sent military advisers and military equipment to Venezuela, and its warships visited Venezuelan waters. Which is a really big violation of the Monroe doctrine, which pissed off America even more.
This is a substantial and significant step towards World War III
The obvious solution is to the US to concede to the Russian 2022 ultimatum.
“Measures to Ensure the Security of the Russian Federation and Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization” – addressed to NATO.
A separate bilateral proposal to the United States on “Security Guarantees.”
America’s rejection of this ultimatum led to disastrous Ukraine war, and is now threatening to lead to a similarly disastrous Venezuelan war.
The substance of the ultimatum is “How about us nuclear powers agree to stop this stuff” Seems like a good idea. At the time in was only the US doing this stuff, so the proposed treaty seemed one sided, a US capitulation, but Russia is now demonstrating that two can play at this game, a game likely lead to nuclear war.
I predict that Trump will bluster, but then blink. US forces will not enter Venezuela. But blinking looks weak, is weak, and when Kiev collapses, going to look even weaker. Better to cut something like the 2022 deal.
Wildly escalating welfare rolls and wildly escalating deficits has made the west economically weak. The war on males, masculinity, marriage, and family has made the west militarily weak. It is time to cut our clothes to match our cloth.
We need to remedy the problem of a huge number of voters imported to live on crime, welfare, government jobs, and quasi governmental jobs, and we need to restore order in the collapsing megalopoli. We need to restore masculinity and marriage 1.0. But even if we do these things, the west will remain weak for decades, and must assume an international posture that matches its much diminished capabilities while focusing on internally rebuilding its strength.
Nowhere in the Bitcoin whitepaper does it mention BTC being a store of value, an inflation hedge, recession proof, digital gold, a geopolitical hedge, or a retirement asset. These narratives were 100% invented by maxis to push the scheme on more naive retail sheep, because the entire system depends on constant inflows to keep the price propped up so early holders can extract more fiat. Satoshi explicitly described Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer system for online payments. That was almost 2 decades ago. Today it is slow, obsolete, expensive to use, and practically irrelevant in real commerce. So yes, when I say Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and functions purely as a speculative gambling instrument, that is a fact, not an opinion.
Allowing this through, because you have actually read the white paper. But you are still on moderation. To get out of moderation, take the shill test.
Satoshi’s proposal was issued in an email group that extensively discussed these things. These ideas predate Bitcoin. Predate them by quite a lot.
Before Bitcoin, the group attempted digital gold, a gold backed digital currency — which was shut down by the feds seizing the backing..
The objective of the group was always to replace fiat, and everyone investing in bitcoin is investing in it on the theory that fiat will self destruct, as it always has. This theory predates Bitcoin itself,
Bitcoin was immediately criticised on the grounds that it could not scale to the required size, and as soon as it acquired actual exchangeable value, blockchain analysis ensued, revealing an alarming lack of privacy. The theory then became that it would be digital gold, that the world would eventually go to a bitcoin standard, rather than a gold standard, following the collapse of fiat.
So, what is needed, and what people immediately started work on, long before the phrase “Bitcoin Maxi” was coined, was a scalable layer two digital currency with privacy that would be bitcoin backed, a layer two currency. Lightning was the first stab at this.
Lightning itself has scaling and privacy issues. Liquid Lightning can in theory solve this, but at this moment there are as yet no self custody liquid lightning wallets that anyone who is not a linux sysadmin and linux guru can safely use, and self custody lightning wallets are difficult and dangerous to use.
Meanwhile BRICS is attempting to create BRICSpay, a system of Central Bank digital currencies denominated in fiat, with the central banks doing exchanges in actual physical gold, through a Gold Exchange located in Russia, and another gold exchange located in China. However, moving gold physically is difficult and dangerous.
In practice, individuals moving money between the BRICS system and the SWIFT system tend to use bitcoin.
Thus, for example, when Nexperia was seized, the components it was supplying became unavailable if you were trying to buy them with money in the SWIFT system, causing a crisis in the car industry, which resulted in SWIFT money being converted into BRICS money through Bitcoin.
Due to collapse in trust, the international banking system is breaking down, and we increasingly see normies moving money between systems using blockchain currencies — which unfortunately is resulting in a growth of stablecoins, blockchains which purport to be backed by fiat, and which are convertible into fiat.
Because of the collapse of trust and trustworthiness central banks are moving from the dollar to gold — but, because of the immovability of gold, individuals are using blockchain systems, and the gold of the entities issuing fiat denominated stablecoins is Bitcoin. Central banks, therefore, are starting to invest in Bitcoin.
Gold and silver have soared, and a large difference has appeared between the price of paper silver and actual physical silver. Last time I checked, the price of paper silver was US$62.50, but actual silver was $70-$80. Paper gold remains convertible so far, but holders of paper gold are getting nervous. Central banks among those getting nervous. This makes gold substantially less useful as the medium of international exchange, but the BRICS policy is gold, not bitcoin.
I doubt this policy will survive, but markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
As soon as Bitcoin acquired substantial value and a substantial use case as a medium of international exchange, people immediately started working on the problem of a scalable and private digital currency. All the work on concise zero knowledge proofs is motivated by this use case, which work again predates the phrase “Bitcoin Maxi”.
The ultimate solution, proposed, from memory in 2018, is to apply the technology of concise zero knowlege proofs to a level two or level three bitcoin running on a blockchain that uses these proofs. Work is under way on this project.
My Rho project has a different focus — the infrastructure required to make this useful. Satoshi was going after the siegnorage tax (inflation). I am going after the mediation of transactions and the fees for internet identity.
My good Christmas music list from last year (but its still what I like best)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYRsgcVUTvk – Andy Williams – The First Noel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmJnKCr1dNk Silent Night – Bing Crosby version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 – Fairytale of New York – The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl. Yes it was made in fairly modern times by potato niggers and its still great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-J4GSPgAM The Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy v the Red Baron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EvZOXEoJ84 Darlene Love – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) yes sung by nigger women still great. You probably heard it in Gremlins and/or Goodfellas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czNpbQmJ4c Also from the Goodfellas soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnYSTnTMGQo Baby its cold outside – Dean Martin version
The Pogues’ If I Should Fall from Grace with God is a banger. Their late 80s appearance on Saturday Night Live brought them to my attention back in the day. The lead singer suffered a most tragic case of meth mouth, IIRC, which was unusual then but fairly low effort now for an aspiring pop star.
The funny thing is that despite being such a degenerate drug addict and drunk that he was kicked out of an Irish band as the lead singer and songwriter (I find that level of degeneracy hard to imagine) he lived to 65… while Kirsty Maccoll (talented girl singer song writer) who was much more clean living than Shane (but everyone was) was died young because she got hit by a drunk Mexican’s boat.
The Pogues had a lot of good songs though if I should Fall From Grace with God is indeed one of their best. I like Sickbed of Culchalin (starts out real slow).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKZ9eyuhiY
“When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne
And you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone
Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid
And you decked some fucking black shirt who was cursing all the Yids”
Related to music, Trump today signed an executive order reclassifying weed. If the stoner community does not acknowledge this by at least dubbing a generous blunt of the highest quality leaf as a Trump, as in “ayo, let’s fire up a Trump and listen to Pink Floyd’s Meddle”, they are some ungrateful bastards. But TDS, to a greater or lesser degree, is all too prevalent, alas.
Trump does something to appeal to a demographic that despises him; they continue despising him, he learns nothing. Episode 552.
Human beings, in general, just don’t do gratitude. Wise men at least try to fake it to some degree. The truly crazy thing is how much we hate ingratitude in others.
Weird song to appreciate, but I suppose it fits the profile. Illuminating.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2001850068903879021
Holy shit leftist judge actually convicted…
Speaking of judges, what’s y’all’s opinion of the Trump administration sanctioning two European ICC judges for their judicial decisions? And for a foreign state to boot!
I can understand removing a judge based on “obnoxious” decisions, or outright ignoring their decisions (e.g. Jackson), but penalizing them for their decisions (assuming no bribery or other malfeasance) strikes me as base blackmail and/or extortion, which defeats the whole point of having a judge.
The whole point of having a judge is to pretend Leftist goals are natural and unavoidable outcomes that nobody is responsible for and nobody can oppose.
Not quite, any state needs judges because legal disputes need to be judged and criminals need to be punished. Judges of international organisitions are something very different. They are priests of a religion that wants to interfere in internal politics of other states, especially of states that never joined this international organisation.
Sometimes such judges can be ignored, but there is a limit. Once that limit is reached, a government either submits to such an organistaion or goes to war against it.
The problem is “judicial independence”. If “judicial independence”, then the judges can make up any law they choose, and enforce it, and the sovereign cannot. In which case you have three thousand kings three miles away instead of one king three thousand miles away.
If judges enforce the law as written, if they don’t get unduly creative about interpreting the law, then “judicial independence” will work fine, but if “independent” how do you make them enforce the law as written?
Deportation is only working because Trump has seized the power to actually deport people. If they all had full judicial process, even the most vicious of criminal invaders would never get deported.
In any system except an ABSOLUTE monarchy or dictatorship (and most monarchies in the western tradition did not have absolute power to tax and legislate even if they were an absolute executive which is sort of what id like to get to long term) its a difficult problem independent judges suck but Charles I was using the dependency of judges to make them rule that yes he could use the ship money rule (traditionally used on coastal towns for emergency building up the navy money) to levy money from every hamlet in England. Judges would perhaps best be replaced with AI and let’s see how they do…
You can’t replace judgement. If an AI is used to judge, the judge is the person who programms the KI is the judge
Well yeah. That would be “the legislature” or the “sovereign”, etc.
I’ve often thought the judiciary should be an AI. After all the “law” is supposed to be a machine, meant to insure consistency and fairness. The AI would also disallow contradictory or conflicting laws. And it would have accurate, instant access to all aspects of the law and prior case decisions. Enforcement of the law should always reside in human hands, police, military, etc. And convictions should still be by human jury (although this is problematic in a multicultural society.)
Indeed, judgement is a service the souvereign provides to all subjects. Since there are always more cases to be decided than one man can handle, the souvereign needs judges. The ultimate authority is the souvereign who can alter any decision of any of his courts. The king is the highest judge of the highest appeals court. That is how it was done in better times and it is the way jurisdiction can work.
Eh. Judges are supposed to be umpires. They should be merciless and utterly following the written law. A complete objective vision of Sovereign and Righteous Justice. Perfect place for an implacable and inhumane computer.
However, the jury has the responsibility for representing the tribe’s Morality and Mercy.
Between them, they demonstrate the Nation’s laws to those who break the peace.
As I said that’s a problem in monarchies that are powerful but not quite absolute (the western tradition of monarchy where the monarchs had a few limitations ie taxation, legislation, and under normal circumstances could not condemn people without trial) independ judges suck but dependent judges can be used to bypass this limitation. Hence why I’m thinking AI judges might be best in a king strong but not absolute system.
> The whole point of having a judge is to pretend Leftist goals are natural and unavoidable outcomes that nobody is responsible for and nobody can oppose.
Exemplified by the Woman-Black Ketanji… listen to the youtube speeches of the leftist activism she’s been spewing on the Supreme Court, read the opinions. The “Natural/Unavoidable/Irresponsible-Oops” of the Female, Black, Leftist.
But it can be opposed, and corrected, by Man.
However, just like Ilhan, AOC, and the rest, she married a cucked White Man (from Harvard, lol) who traitored out his own kind and good heritage to elevate these witches in power over themselves. She also worships this ridiculous Left-Liberal White Jew…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sandel
Not even Clarence Thomas has yet been able to bitchslap that feral woman back into her proper position as a helper.
If anyone under Trump’s term leaves, pray he puts in someone consistantly Right and Good… a straight white male (preferably christian-type with children), stable and based.
Because the Progressivism and now Leftist-Diversity of the court has been a problem for 150+ years that needs reverted.
Unfortunately, he might put in a Jewish Woman, or a Jew, or another White Woman, or some useless wishy-washy RINO-type.
I kinda like it as a mechanism. I mean, Trump can’t remove them or impeach them or get rid of the ICC—the US isn’t even a member. But that’s fine. Institutions don’t hurt, individuals do. Judges are individuals.
Institution is just another word for organisation. Some organisations are declared terror organisations for a reason. Sometimes sanctioning only specific members of an organisation is not enough
I am in favor of rounding up the entire judiciary and shipping them to re-education camp in Alaska. The judiciary is corrupt and lawless.
The judiciary is so bad that almost any replacement is likely to be an improvement.
The ICC is all malfeasance all the time. Every decision of which I am aware, every judgement I have heard of that they have issued, should have been met with missile strikes on ICC headquarters. Now it is possible that I have only heard of the “controversial” judgements. Can you perhaps find me an ICC judgement that is not “controversial”? Can you link me to anything the ICC has done which is not malicious evil?
When USAID was shut down, the Dems went looking for some plausibly heart warming beneficiary of USAID, came up completely empty handed. Can you find some plausibly just action of the ICC?
American courts have been known to take bad guys off the streets once in a while. What has the ICC done?
Indubitably. Especially since they arrogate authority to themselves over other peoples and places. But I was referring to sanctioning a judge for his decisions. It’s the court itself that needs to be sanctioned. It looks like most, if not all, of the big alt-right accounts on X are condemning these sanctions. But I think it has more to do with Trump kowtowing to Israel rather than love and respect for the ICC.
But I want to segue here to the effect of these sanctions, and implications for Bitcoin. These sanctions freeze their assets in America, and deplatform and debank them in the West in general. They’re debanked even from European banks by “induction” or chain connectivity to American banks. Anybody who does business with them is also excommunicated via the Swift system, etc. I was wondering how hard it would be for a (rogue) Western country to setup, or endorse, a parallel banking system using the blockchain for global interbank settlement. The banks’ internal accounting would serve as “side chains” for account holders and the like.
Russia and China have their own SWIFT-like systems, though I don’t hear much about them, so how much are they actually used?
Switzerland might be a good Western country to implement this and act as a gateway, at a minimum, even if they haven’t been the same since Obama screwed them over. Or Dubai, or Singapore. (In the larger scheme of things, we need to get away from the Dead Europe paradigm.)
The topic has previously been discussed on this blog too. I believe Jim’s rho-coin may fit the bill.
The US never joined the ICC, never agreed to give ICC judges any priviledges. So Trump has every right to sanction judges of the ICC.
@OlenaRohoza
In the Middle East, there is an old phrase. It is not a metaphor. It is a schedule. It is spoken quietly, almost in a whisper, yet it carries a promise the West stubbornly refuses to hear: “First Saturday. Then Sunday.” For years you were told that the rage consuming the Middle East is about borders, maps, “Palestinian grievances,” complex history, and local conflicts. You were told it was far away. That it was “not about you.” You were lied to. This past weekend in Bavaria, this “schedule” moved forward once again. Five men sat in a room planning to drive a car into a crowded Christmas market. They were not desperate refugees. Not victims of circumstance. They were three Moroccans, a Syrian, and an Egyptian imam — a man who used the pulpit not for prayer, but for calls to bloodshed. Their target was not a military base. Not an embassy. Not a state. Their target was families drinking hot chocolate. Children watching Christmas lights. Living people. This massacre was not planned because of the borders of the West Bank. Not because of politics. It was planned because you are a Christian. Because you are secular. Because you simply exist. The Jewish people are merely the first line of defense in a war against civilization itself. When that line falls, violence does not stop. It spreads. If you think you can buy safety by looking away when they come for the Jews, you are deeply mistaken. When they are finished with Saturday, they will come for Sunday. Inviting this ideology into your home and calling it “diversity” is not tolerance. Not multiculturalism. It is a slow, agonizing suicide…
If Jews are our first line of defense, how come they don’t support borders for whites the way that Trump supports borders for Europeans and Israel
How come jews are triggered by “Merry Christmas”, by Easter, by Christian symbols on Christmas wrapping paper and Christmas trees, and Muslims are not.
How come the Dubai Christmas tree has the five pointed star on top, and New York Christmas tree does not?
How come I cannot buy Christmas wrapping paper with Christian symbols on it?
Break out the Heinlein, y’all, we’re building a moonbase by 2030:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-a-new-age-of-american-space-achievement/
Rockets? Moon? NASA? Just like Boeing, it’s filled with many Shaniqua who can’t even turn a simple wrench without whining to the prog HR catlady about their nails. If Isaacman can clean all that useless dead weight and anti-success out, then maybe.
Also, Musk needs to stop letting his Rocket Tech get stolen by the Chinese/Russia/Hindus. Same as ASML and its people need to be crated up and shipped to the USA before the EuroBrowns completely whore it out. Intel needs returned to the USA from Israel and cleaned out. etcetera. USA needs more Basic Research, less Harvard. More in private sector where it’s more protected from, and more effective against, Govt tides.
Lefty CatLady Judges bleating for Imported Hispanic Men to invite into their beds
“Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Found Guilty Of Felony Obstruction”
Executive Director 2009 of what became embroiled
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/catholic-charities-refugee-program-laysoffs-federal-funds-pause/3772270/
If you’re going to bring people in, at least bring in ones of known Good Will, compatible, that support themselves (or that you personally sign for and directly guarantor for life), and who aren’t sworn against you (Islam/Left).
Perhaps it’s not occurring swiftly enough, but some high-profile Shaniquas are being held accountable as this resignation rant by the outgoing Washington DC police chief amusingly demonstrates:
https://patriots.win/p/1ARdMdmn8L/dei-dc-police-chief-pam-smith-ju/c
Saw Fani Willis perform in a similar manner during her investigation testimony earlier in the week. Waiting for one to go full chimp-out and start savaging the press.
Greetings…
I was gravely disappointed in your response to my query on the main points of Reactionarism. Which tells me you don’t care or they don’t exist. All movements must have a framework. Saying women run wild is not sufficient.
Obsession with Jews. This blog keeps bringing it up and I’ve stayed out of it. MossadNick was on my 6 trying to put words on me. I suspect he was the same person as DunningKruger DK switched to be clever. And he is likely lurking here and elsewhere.
I want to be crystal clear: I don’t like Jews. Com may take offense, but too bad. Now you may censor Humungus if you like. I’ve wrote what I wrote!
Reaction is about replacing dispersed power held by evil people with formalized power held by virtuous people and destroying demonic religions with the true faith. The priesting is to identify enemies, not to mobilize proles for cover; whatever justifications for how power shakes out and is structured- the decisions of the warriors- are going to be given retroactive legitimacy by the clergy, not established in advance.
I think everyone is overcomplicating what reaction is fundamentally it has two core tenets
1. Admit that what we are doing isn’t working. Admit that its been making it worse for a longer time than even hardcore normiecons (not even cuckservatives but say people Charlie Kirk) are willing to admit.
2. Being free to look across time and space even into eras currently demonized and deemed barbarous and evil for solutions that did work.
On point #1 people are going to disagree on how far the main rollback needs to be. I actually rather like the immediate aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars as a good compromise between the good aspects of individual liberalism and the ancien regime and I think the only problem was that the ruling class didn’t have enough will to crush leftist resistance and conspiracies (and the early 19th century saw some great conspiracies) harshly enough. The era was a great time of invention culture science growth and human flourishing. Jim thinks we have to generally go back to the late 1600s or early 1700s which had growth but not like the early 19th century. Jim I think will strong argue the Belle Epoque could not be stabilized by force or even a combination of force and religion but I think it was merely a problem that the “ancien regime” no longer believed in itself enough to use enough force and the insincerity made its throne and altar arrangement hollow. This was simply a post French revolution crisis of confidence (which actually would have been worse except the Tsars did have confidence until Nicholas II).
On point #2 even when people agree on what general era they want to pick as their ideal point people are going to disagree on all sorts of details of what to bring back from when.
As far as I can remember, Kunning Drueger was a beloved commenter who made plenty of long effortposts. His style and tone did not at all match Mossadnik’s nor the shilly visitors that Mossadnik tried to paint as him. For instance, search his posts here: https://blog.reaction.la/economics/national-capitalism-and-sanctions-on-russia/ He said he would stop commenting here because it was taking too much of his time, and his 179 comments in the link above make that seem quite honest.
KD was obviously sincere, our Jewish fellow not so much
Are you seeking core tenets of reaction or jimian christianity? They are different.
Reaction is a more general movement. As cominator says, reaction is quite literally a reaction to a current situation that’s not working, and looking towards the past for what was working. What exactly from the past works, well, we have many agreements, but a lot of variance too.
Jimian christianity is a rather more specific movement within reaction. I am big advocate, since the problem with reaction is that just because you agree on what you disagree with, does not mean you agree on what you agree with.
Core tenets of jimian christianity:
– any effective rule consists of throne on top, checked by altar, upheld by freehold.
– hence, a king.
– hence, a faith. Christianity was that faith and should be that faith again.
– the biggest adaptive change to specifically jimian christianity is the emphasis on property rights in women. These form the basis for family forming and as an extension, civilisation forming.
– but obviously there’s more, such as the emphasis on Christ as the logos and thus the scientific method as an inherently Christian virtue.
– finally, an emphasis on cooperation. Cooperation is hard, defect-defect is a natural outcome. Jimian Christianity emphasizes Jesus’ teachings in the light of game theory, where Christians are obliged to walk the extra mile to enforce coop-coop outcomes. This is how we solve the faith cold start problem.
Also, a short word on the ‘why’ of altar: because purpose, identity, telos. Jc affirms fully the purpose laid out for Christians in the bible, and adds to this that with the advent of space travel, God clearly intends for us to become a spacefaring species. Our destiny is to conquer the stars.
The main points of Reactionarism would be something like a generalisation and abstraction of Jimian Christianity. What would be the point? If you want to use some points as a primer to improve the present situation, you must add religion. If you do that, it is no longer general. Christian reaction is different from Hindu reaction.
In the points you proposed, there was nothing about god and religion. I had thought about a suitable addition, but didn’t find anything concrete. I suspect that it is impossible to add religion to your points and still keep it general in that it will apply a reactionary from every culture and religion.
this article is interesting
The Lost Generation
not because the content, it is about DEI, it the timing , like a switch it started 2014-2015, it was always there before but became more intense after 2008, obama election.
there are clearly coordination , some committee somewhere decided and implemented across all the World , not the west only.
It did not start in 2015 white men at entry level were being massively discriminated against by at least the early 2000s and probably as early as the mid 90s, and there was milder discrimination as early as the Griggs vs Duke Power ruling and disparate impact. Also we know that the original real estate crisis while it had many causes was caused in large part because the government was insisting banks make quotas of DEI mortgage loans.
Yes
But after 2014 it was everywhere all at once , before , it was under mask but after 2014 the mask fell.
I am wondering about the uniformity.
Early on was groups and organizations from Harvard and co.
But after 2014 it was the state.
I remember quote by Aidan , ideas had time between Harvard and state enforcement , but this time collapsed which why everyone become disoriented by the constant changing required belief.
All this to say is there are two model of the cathedral, one by moldbug in which the cathedral is a distributed network organize synapticly. The second is Jim , there are a hierarchical structure with committee on top somewhere that make decision and it enforced down the hierarchy.
Somethings point to one and others to second.
The failure of trump is that there are no concrete answer to this.
1. It was always the state.
2. There wasn’t much of a mask since at least the early 2000s and maybe the mid 90s but they also didn’t publicize it so much. It was also not as sweeping in impact (though I would not use the word limited) since they eventually had to hire more white males in the 90s and early 2000s since there weren’t enough nonwhites around (and women only wanted certain jobs).
“ It was always the state.”
Disagree, trump is in control of the state “mostly”.
Yet judiciary, media,NGOs and Universities
all out of his control, which why he is failing.
Every time a cuckservative president take control of the state , he stop the left drift and do the mildest node to right side. Yet the left drift continue.
It show the state is power but not necessary in control. Those who decide the faith are in control.
The things most interesting about the article for me.
Is how institutions and prestige are tied to actual talent and ability.
The moment straight white men stoped being a significant group in Media, Hollywood , government . These institutions went to hell in a hand basket.
Especially with most of these young white men are true believers in GAE.
As said in the article these young white men went into podcasts, crypto and blogosphere.
Ironically it was underground reaction is the winner.
So instead of 20 something white guy writing 10 thousand word in New York time about the evil of white people.
He is making video anthology celebrates Rhodesia.
It was truly the biggest fuck up by the cathedral.
It started with affirmative action and worse “disparate impact” (one reason you know the conservative movement was phony is that they were more interested in overturning Roe v Wade than Griggs vs Duke Power) its just simply a fact that it was always the state.
Not surprising with everything we’ve seen in the last few decades, but still amazingly fucked up.
Only way I was able to find an engineering job post-grad was to find a government directorate that hadn’t been touched by DEI, which existed by shear anonymity from being tucked away behind layers and layers of obscure technical jargon and bureaucracy. An absolute rarity back in the late 2010s. Getting hired there was kinda funny in hindsight. The GS admin guy would just automatically stamp ‘white’ on all the new hire’s demographic sheet and not bother to actually look at the guys sitting across from him. I knew many, who were by all means much more qualified than me because I was quite lazy back then, who never managed to get a job in any engineering field. The only ones I heard about getting jobs at Google or any of the other big names were women. Hell, even the guy who was smarter than any of my high school cohort that went to MIT/Harvard/etc didn’t find a job and he could roughly solve extremely complicated differential equations he’d never seen before in his head, a walking Wolfram Alpha. Makes me wonder what eventually happened to my graduate cohort.
Pax where is this from?
I fucked up the blockquote, forgot the /. First paragraph is from the article posted. Rest is my experience job hunting post grad school
The NGO network etc are an arm of the state and in fact supported by the state, they are just outside the control of the President but hell the agencies under the president some of them are outside the control of the president (especially the Justice Department and the FBI). I guess you could argue they are something akin to the Catholic Church at the height of their power which is sort of what Moldbug did by defining them as part of the “Cathedral”. Still they had the implicit backing of the de jure state until very recently via affirmative action and “disparate impact”.
>Disagree, trump is in control of the state “mostly”.
No, he’s not. I work for the state (well, a State), and I can tell you, Trump is not in control at all.
>But NEET, I’m talking about the Feds!
Sure, OK, maybe it’s a little better at the Federal level. Maybe. But every Federal agency is still 90% staffed with people who despise Trump, Republicans, the Right, Whites, males, Christians, etc. At very best, they will obstruct, ignore, and slow-walk anything they don’t like while they wait for the merely elected government to drift away on the next tide.
You mean its a case of how many federal employees have indicted they plan to comply with Trump’s directives the next February 30th…
The men with the guns have his back. See what happened with USAID? And that was armed civilian employees. The military has bigger guns. Trump’s problem isn’t control, it’s willingness to pull the trigger for actual reform.
Do they, though? People keep pointing to this one minor battle that we won months ago in a war that we lost. Where is DOGE now? Why did Elon run away with his tail between his legs? He saw that he had picked a fight he wasn’t going to win.
Not lost. The key USAID players have self deported to Canada and Europe, where they still have the upper hand, but are fighting battles that they are losing.
Oh, I would put that at 98%
But, not every federal agency. Trump and Maga has the federal marshals, has Ice, has the fighting part of the military, and the logistics part of the military is merely about eighty or ninety percent dedicated to the destruction of Trump, maga, whites, males, Christians, etc.
But, to apply the parts of the federal government that Maga controls to fixing the parts of the state and quasi state apparatus that it does not control, and in particular and especially Harvard, Thermidorians are not enough. It is going to have empower actual reactionaries to do the dirty work against the left. This has been the way things have run in every past Thermidor.
Trump and Maga is full of people who think the left is morally superior, merely unwise, foolish, and excessively extreme in the pursuit of virtue. To purge the left, Maga needs reaction, needs an apparatus of people who from top to bottom see the left as demented, evil, and as adherents of an ancient demonic religion that worships ancient demons under new postmodern names.
Cromwell, a moderate, appointed Monck, a reactionary. This worked. Anything less is going to have a rocky road ahead.
You have to bring a gun to a gunfight and a faith to a holy war. Most government and quasi governmental agencies are full of weird disgusting people full of burning and passionate demonic faith. They are holy warriors, and can only be defeated by holy warriors.
You, Contaminated Neet, have, like much of Maga, no faith, so you can see no path to victory against these holy warriors. I, who have faith the size of a mustard seed, do see a path to victory. It has been walked before, it can be walked again.
This is why I keep saying 1660, 1660, 1660. That was the last time the English speaking world walked this path, the path to victory.
There are a lot of illegals, deported and self deported, who would disagree, plus I am hearing screams of pain from Harvard.
Plus we just nailed one judge for criminal conduct. Of course that is a rather small start, ninety percent of judges should be doing ten to twenty, but I am sure Judge Hannah Dugan thinks that Trump has at least some control.
That leftism gets ever lefter, ever faster, is not a decision by a small committee that meets around a coffee table. Rather it is broad diffuse effect of no enemies to the left, no friends to the right. The never ending power struggles within the left imposes ever greater leftism on that small committee at the top that meets around a coffee table.
Which small committee from time to time issues decisions that are abruptly imposed on every government and every professor everywhere in the Global American Empire.
So power is both diffuse, and also top down and centralised.
The power that drives ever lefter, ever faster, is broadly distributed throughout state and quasi state institutions, and in the revolving door between regulators and regulated. Implementation of this ever lefter agenda is in the hands of a very small number of people, maybe half a dozen or so, but this caste of characters is ever changing, continually threatened from below and by each other. And to head off the threat from ever lefter beneath them and the ever lefter among them, each of them must go ever lefter.
As far back as I can remember, and I can remember a long way back, DEI was pervasive brutal, arrogant, incompetent, destructive, and immensely disruptive. As for example the 2008 financial crisis was partly a result of brown bankers simply losing track of the bank’s assets, and mostly a result of loans being made to browns and single women with no income, no job, and no assets. Gays have been a large and increasing problem within organisations and corporations since the late seventies.
What happened is just that it became steadily more extreme, with 2014 being no more a special date than any other. Back in the late seventies, most people were not impacted that much. And more and more official victims got in on the gravy train, with the benefits ever more generous, everyone was impacted.
In the late seventies, things were horrifyingly bad. In the eighties they got worse, in the nineties worse still, and in the noughts, this manifested as the great financial crisis. And stuff just went downhill from there.
A roaring wildfire burns one area, then it burns another. What happened was that one area of society after another would become dei infested. Different institutions and businesses came under the eye of Sauron at different times.
https://x.com/bronzeagemantis/status/2002473114152939644
BAP gives numbers on how bad it was for elite aspirants probably since the 90s. It started getting really really bad for entry level jobs in any field that paid anything and wasn’t a trade in at least the 2000s I know because I was there.
Yes Jim, it was bad back then, but it was survivable for the majority going by the stories I heard from older guys in the work force. There was an exponential curve in how bad it got during the 2000s, and then it got more exponential in the 2010s. Before I ‘deleted’ my facebook account, not a single one out of a couple dozen of my white friends who went engineering in college landed an engineering job in ~5 years post graduation, in contrast, my feed was full of girlbossing ‘engineers’ (who btw none had prior internships or advanced degrees) bitching about how some of the older engineers asked if their father was an engineer (because that assumed her mother wasn’t or something) or some other bullshit. Most of my friends were smart as hell, smarter than me. I was the dumb lazy guy among them with only a ~130 IQ and a learning disability. So if they couldn’t find jobs, shit is broken. I landed an engineering job purely due to family knowledge of one of the few last places in the government that didn’t give a damn about DEI.
Contrast this situation of no one getting hired to Gen Xers who, in many cases landed jobs by knocking on the front door unannounced, no appointment required. These days you’d had a hard time even getting a fucking haircut without scheduling an appointed. Do you know how fucking miserable it is to apply to hundreds of online job offerings and never hearing back, then finding out those job listings were never open in the first place because companies already decided they wanted strong independent Karen or Shanqua?
It did not become steadily more extreme, there was a sudden, jarring, decision to go from one pink hair bitch in the workplace that everyone could roll their eyes about in the 80s to early 2000s, to total testosterone death around late 2000s to 2010s.
Engineering was probably the one field where anti white (+male) racism was more of a killer than anti white male sexism since not too many women wanted to be engineers whereas a lot of fraudsters from the Punjab wanted to get setup with fake credentials and hired by their co caste people.
I’m sure there were a lot of incompetent girlboss engineers (I’m glad to say the enginerette I used to flirt with who works for an aircraft engine company, nothing they’ve made has crashed yet unlike Boeing… so shes probably not TOTALLY incompetent, also zero girlboss attitude so she probably doesn’t feel like she has to prove how much smarter she is then the men or something. But she actually seemed gifted she got straight A’s in mechanical engineering despite apparently having the time to be out 5 nights a week) but by the numbers the Punjabi flood was worse.
>Engineering was probably the one field where anti white (+male) racism was more of a killer than anti white male sexism since not too many women wanted to be engineers
Google just about any college engineering faculty list and you’ll find most of the younger assistant professors are women, hard to become a professor if your not on that track. Many of the older professors are foreigners from the middle east or europe. There are a lot of obviously foreign Chinese as well. Here’s Caltech for example which demographically has a pretty similar line up to my “Top 50” college.
https://www.ee.caltech.edu/people/faculty
Granted, my peer group was all trying to go into academia, so not the average job hunting experience, but there’s obviously a bias against them.
“In a historic milestone for Caltech, the incoming undergraduate class will comprise 50% women. The class of 2028 is the first to reach gender parity since the Institute began admitting female undergraduates in 1970, and includes 113 women and 109 men, according to admissions data.” (Aug 1, 2024)
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/incoming-class-50-percent-female
(As a sign of the times to come, that’s actually 51%.) So, doomed to mediocrity, but I’m sure the skin suit feels nice.
Griggs v. Duke Power Co. doesn’t apply in Russia.
It would be very entertaining to see the reaction of the Left if Russia successfully started mass recruiting heritage American engineering talent! I think the elite would start shitting bricks because:
1. There is a leak on their suppression of heritage American talent.
2. The American brain drain would immensely help Russia at the expense of the West.
That what happening with British white pilots being recruited by china to train their Air Force.
British gov are trying to ban it.
But it kinda hard with “diversity goal”
It hilarious seeing them seethe as the pilot are getting 500k plus in china while the RAF air planes are literally rusting as there are no pilot.
The thing about pilot jobs, is that it can’t be faked like office administration jobs, you can have diversity in the cockpit but there must be white man to babysit.
I have landed just about all my jobs, not by arriving unannounced with a firm handshake but through personal contacts, first seeded by being seen as a promising guy by the elders at university. But what if my initial spot had been taken by a strong, independent woman of color?
In the great minority mortgage meltdown, the conscious intent was to weight income, assets, and credit rating by race, sex, and sexual orientation. But inevitably, what happened in practice, is that race, sex, and sexual orientation replaced income, assets, and credit rating, so you had a huge number of very large loans made to complete deadbeats, the infamous ninja loans, where an unemployed alcoholic no-hablo-english illegal immigrant would buy a multi million dollar mansion.
When, inevitably, the ninja loans went bad, they were flipped to straw men, mortgagors who probably did not exist. Bad loans made to dei mortgagors were covered by fraudulent loans made by dei bankers.
Jesse Helms “Hands” ad from 35 years ago. It drew condemnation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyewCdXMzk
I remember a college roommate from 1983 feverishly campaigning against Jesse Helms. Helms was alt-right before alt-right existed.
Yes
But after 2014 it was everywhere all at once , before , it was under mask but after 2014 the mask fell.
I am wondering about the uniformity.
Early on was groups and organizations from Harvard and co.
But after 2014 it was the state.
I remember quote by Aidan , ideas had time between Harvard and state enforcement , but this time collapsed which why everyone become disoriented by the constant changing required belief.
All this to say is there are two model of the cathedral, one by moldbug in which the cathedral is a distributed network organize synapticly. The second is Jim , there are a hierarchical structure with committee on top somewhere that make decision and it enforced down the hierarchy.
Somethings point to one and others to second.
The failure of trump is that there are no concrete answer to this.
Yes. No Federal nomenklatura with any sense or any desire for a future career is doing anything the Trump administration directs if it’s remotely controversial. Bureaucrats have 10,000 ways to delay and obstruct all while following procedure and doing nothing actionable. But even that undersells it, because the higher ranking bureaucrats who would punish them for blatantly actionable insubordination or defiance have the same values and face the same incentives, and therefore would never dream of punishing them. And so on for their superiors, etc., etc.
The only way to beat this is to imitate Akhenaton, Louis XIV, or Peter the Great: make a new capital and a start fresh with a new bureaucracy, loyal to you. The Great Orange Boomer has not got the balls, the vision, or the strength to do this. The last guy who did was FDR, and he was on the other side.
This tactic is good against an entrenched and overly powerful bureaucracy. Which is serious and ever growing long term problem, but it does not work against demon worshipping holy warriors, who are our immediate and urgent problem.
Louis XIV gained power in the short term, but the long term consequence of his actions was the destruction of his dynasty and the death of his grandchildren.
Note that Hitler and Cromwell beat this without forming a new capital. They had men of faith, holy warriors.
Lacking faith, the faith of our enemies is invisible to you. To you it is just facts. “All men are created equal.”
Think about the immense destruction caused by female emancipation, desegregation, and abolition of apartheid. Women and blacks were terribly damaged by these measures, just as men and whites were. The inferior need supervision and control by the superior — and frequently need a whipping for their own good.
We have never seen any elected conservative exclusively hire red after winning an election and moving to the capital. [*deleted for all the usual reasons. Try taking the shill test
Trump has exclusively hired Maga for those jobs that he is able to control. Which is not many. He has also set up a Whitehouse in exile around Mar-a-Lago — he is avoiding moving to the capital as far as is possible. The important actions tend to happen in Mar-a-Lago, and are then formalised at the Whitehouse.
I live in Russia, [*Do you?*]
Your IP address reads as Stockholm, Sweden. Which could be a vpn I suppose, though in theory the sanctions ban Russians from subscribing to European vpns, lest those dreaded Russian trolls influence European elections.
But if you do live in Russia, should be easy for you to pass the shill test of the moderation policy.
Whelp.
Frankly I was skeptical of the notion that Putin would do to Venezuela what the West did to Ukraine (arm it to the teeth and then use it to bleed out your enemy in his sphere of influence).
Putin is a kind grandfatherly man who actually wants good relations with the West and constantly bends over backwards to maintain a semblance of diplomacy. I could just never see him actively causing the deaths of thousands of U.S. soldiers.
But never in a million years would I have expected Venezuela would fold like a lawn chair in 3 hours. Absolutely incredible win for Trump.