Electoral politics is dead, though its corpse will continue to be paraded about for a considerable time. It will not be revived for a very long time, for a live Republic requires a virtuous elite, and creating a virtuous elite is a project that requires a virtuous King, and a few generations.
I hoped and prayed that Trump would retain power – either as president, or as leader of the resistance, and I lost several bets that he would. Also my investments were to some extent premised on him retaining power.
On the other hand, I have also been making preparation for a more complete disappearance, and so far, it looks like that may not be needed for a while.
I have for decades predicted war, democide, or genocide around 2026 or so, and have never shifted in that prediction. On the whole, things seem to be moving as expected, at about the rate expected. Trump retaining power might have eventually caused me to change that prediction, but a lot more would have had to happen following him retaining power for me to change that prediction. It took Augustus Caesar a decade or so after becoming dictator to sort things out in Rome, and he had death squads and an army at his back. Had Trump successfully performed the coup or started the civil war that I expected, it would have been only the small beginning of what is needed to reverse the decline.
When a holiness spiral goes this far, it takes a lot to stop it. And the further it goes, the more it takes. And even after it is stopped, you still have a big problem, as Sulla had a big problem, and Augustus Caesar continued to have big problems, because you have a degenerate elite, as Russia had after communism collapsed.
I am not necessarily predicting armed conflict in 2026 or so to be the end of our troubles – it could well be the beginning of the end of our troubles, but it could be the beginning of even greater unpleasantness to come, the start of a long dark age for the white race, which is likely to be a long dark age for all races.
Trump is delusionally attempting to appease his enemies. He should be running away. A Trump restoration could only happen after the pattern of the Rwandan genocide, when the exiles returned to conquer a grotesquely dysfunctional and murderous government. And, on January the sixth, Trump revealed himself as not the man for that. He could still become the man for that, but every time he opens his mouth, this looks less and less likely.
In the near future, we can expect the deep state to struggle with the radical left for power. (The Republican party will lose all relevance) Everyone, including the radical left expects the deep state to win and restore normality, but this is normalcy bias. The establishment left lacks cohesion, so each member of the establishment left will try to make his own deal with the radical left at the expense of the rest of the establishment left.
We are now in a situation paralleling the overthrow of Czar and the overthrow of King Louis the sixteenth. The deep state expected to continue governing Russia and France, without the inconvenience of a King bothering them, but was soon in for a big surprise.
Everyone in the deep state thinks that with the democratically elected president out of the way, they will be running the country, but there are far too many of them, they are all going to cut a deal with the radical left, and they are all going to find themselves with the short end of the stick in their deals.
Eventually the leftism spiral will be ended by a Napoleon or a Stalin. If we are lucky a Cromwell. Then leftism will slowly empty out for lack of new applecarts to knock over. At which point an alternative religion will gain mass traction. And that new religion will need to ready itself for eventually becoming the state religion, as progressivism is now the state religion.
The time for electoral politics is over, and the time for an alternative mass religion is not yet. It will likely take quite some time before our enemies have finished destroying each other, so what do we do in preparation for our enemies to destroy each other?
We preserve the truth of Gnon in preparation for the day where it is possible to compete with the state religion, which will become possible only after it empties out of genuine zeal and faith, which is not going to happen until a Stalin restrains it from knocking over any more applecarts, or all applecarts are utterly destroyed.
The time for an advocacy movement is not yet. We are an analysis movement – Trumpism was an advocacy movement, and I had high hopes, but it was crushed, and anything slightly resembling it will be crushed harder.
The time for advocacy will be when leftism empties out, which is not going to happen with applecarts falling over everywhere.
Our key issue is patriarchy, and each of us should promote it at the individual level, by being alpha in our interactions with women, and by telling our women that this is God’s will, and by approving or disapproving of individual associates according to whether their conduct undermines or supports their family and our own.
Some time ago I was at a party, and my host had failed his wife’s shit test, and was angry and despondent. I said “Why don’t you just tell her to do it your wayâ€, to which he despondently replied that it was over and settled. “It is doneâ€. He is blue pilled, and I doubt a lecture on Game, Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, and Evolutionary Psychology would have gone down well, even had I been sober enough to give it, and he sober enough to understand it, which we probably were not. So I just said “A man should be King under his own roofâ€, and moved on, letting the matter drop. A few minutes thereafter, he passed the shit test with flying colors, his wife eager to please. Perhaps it was that I simply simply rejected the false and evil morality that was poisoning his will and this gave him the strength to do what was right. The left pretends that everyone agrees with their anger and lies, and people believe it, believe that everyone agrees, because no public doubt is permitted, but if one man does what is right, good, and true, and will say to his friends that it is right, good, and true, people that are hurting from the conflict between leftism and reality can feel it in their hearts.
The state has so many evil laws, that it is generally unable to enforce them against those who live according to the will of Gnon, and are confident in the righteousness of so doing.
Leftism is getting brittle, because the ever greater gap between leftist doctrine and people’s lived experience is hurting people. But the child who cries the that emperor has no clothes is not going to cause leftism to fall over as long as fresh applecarts remain for leftism to knock over. It is not public advocacy time yet.
We also need to address the namefag problem and the destruction of the market economy using cryptographic means. Bitcoin was huge step in the direction of fixing the market economy, making possible transactions that are increasingly obstructed by laws and regulation.
There were many attempts on cypherpunks to address the increasing dysfunction of money and accounting. They failed until Satoshi created bitcoin. Digital gold failed because the government simply seized the backing. Bitcoin was successful, but it is a prototype that is prematurely being used as the final system.
We need to build the technology for a semi underground market economy and name system. Satoshi’s blockchain, namecoin’s blockchain, and the Jitsi name system are prototypes for what is needed.
Nothing that matters has changed in social technology, with the big and important exception of double entry accounting and corporate form that it made possible.
I expect that the blockchain and triple entry cryptographically signed accounting will also make an advance in social technology possible, changes that the ICO prefigures, but right now our problems are with social technology that has not advanced since the time of Greece and Rome. Building the things that make new social technologies possible are a step towards the recovery of old social technologies.
When the time is ripe, we will need to reboot systems that are very old, and have been broken. At the same time, while waiting for the conditions that will make a reboot possible, we need to work on the social technologies of the future. Which is corporations as sidechains on the blockchain, for these technologies will make it possible to preserve truth, technology, and the market economic order through what may be well be a very long dark age.
We preserver reality, truth, and respect for Gnon, and attempt to preserve the market economy underground.
We are in an environment that is not only hostile to the vast majority of men having sex, and hostile to all men having children, but also hostile to the market economy. Vox Day’s corporate cancer is devouring the market economy. Corporations are being repurposed from producing value to producing holiness.
We are now using white designed but East Asian built cpus, because corporate cancer has devoured our fabs, and are likely to soon be using Chinese designed CPUs. People are starting to use the Exynos SoC, which is a Samsung design built in a Samsung fab for a Samsung built and designed CPU, and the Media Tec chips, which are designed and built in Taiwan. If I was building a home security system today, it would be running on Taiwanese designed and built CPUs and SoCs.
White people lost the fabs to corporate cancer, and are starting to lose the software, chip design and chip architecture. To resist this trend while the very holy progressives are still in charge of the state religion, we need separation of information and state – which is part of the same program as the faith of Gnon, for the faith of Gnon requires us to protect the truth from a state and state religion that is hostile to truth.
While our ultimate goal is a state and state religion that enforces truth and truthfulness, as Charles the Second’s men at arms protected the Royal Society from Puritan attempts to forcibly deplatform them, for the duration our goal is agorist, to build social media platforms, economic platforms and market platforms that are not state controlled, as the Royal Society existed underground during puritan rule as the Invisible College. Agorism has no answer to large scale organized violence, and neither did the Invisible College, but after the Restoration, the Invisible College became the state sponsored Royal Society.
I may be blogging less for a while, because I am working on the design document of a very large project, and a very small foundation stone of actual software for that project.
Nice post, Jim.
Do you suppose Bitcoin is long-term fixable through the normal course of Core development? If not, then through a hard fork? Or will it take a new coin?
Bitcoin is totally fixable.
Trouble is, the miners have the power, and represent a concentrated interest block that has the wrong incentives for reform. For example, anything that improves bitcoins ability to handle large numbers of transactions has the short term effect of diminishing their revenue.
And moving from proof of work to proof of stake ends the miners. Ends mining revenues.
I don’t see what miners could do if Core developers eventually decided to cut them out. It’s not as if they can threaten to stop mining the proof of stake chain. Some companies that run exchanges also run mines, so I guess those could boycott a proof of stake fork.
But it doesn’t seem like miners have much leverage over the devs themselves. Core devs will tend to be big holders / early adopters, so their incentives are in the right place and they can’t really be bought off. Maybe there is a distant risk of miner-funded entryist developers, but they aren’t getting the commit bit anytime soon. There’s also the risk of violence / intimidation, but at least some Core devs are anons.
I worry more that Core devs will reject proof of stake out of complacency, or because of its associations with gay Ethereum. “Bitcoin maximalism” is a bit of an orthodoxy on some technical points–attitudes towards proof of stake negative / skeptical among that group. E.g. the article on Bitcoin wiki says “Proof of Stake alone is considered to an unworkable consensus mechanism.”
The mechanisms I have seen proposed are indeed unworkable, and too clever by half, but seems to me that my solution should work.
I was struggling for a long time, when I was thinking in terms of the blockchain. Every solution just got more complicated till it broke. But the blockchain has inherent scaling problems, which are linked to the same problems as make proof of stake difficult. The solution to blockchain scaling problems is the blockdag, and when figuring out how to do consensus on the blockdag in a way that does not allow the peers to scam the clients, the solution to all three problems just seemed obvious. Proof of stake on the blockdag is a lot cleaner and more direct than proof of work on the blockdag. Or at least my solution seems to me a lot cleaner and more direct than the proof of work blockdag algorithms I have seen. But, on the other hand, I have yet to run a test to see how fast convergence to consensus happens. Seems to me it should happen fast, but maybe I am being unduly optimistic.
Ethereum has only about 2% of its market cap staked. It is not a good comparison for Jim’s coin because with Jim’s coin the stake is based on unspent transaction outputs and hence 100% of the market cap is staked at all times.
https://beaconscan.com/
The participation rate for Ethereum hovers mostly around 99% for staked coins. There are penalties for those who stake but fail to vote in a timely manner and incentives for voting so we would expect this rate to be high.
Jimcoin does not yet exist, and will not be called jimcoin.
But, apart from those minor details, you got it right.
This structure means we lose bitcoins pseudonymity, since the blockdag inherently records the peer through which the client injected the transaction, but bitcoin’s pseudonymity does not work anyway – you need other measures to make your pseudonymity effective such as the lightning network done right, on transaction architecture correctly designed to support it.
The peers do not exactly vote. Rather, when a peer injects a block of transactions from his clients into the blockdag, his selection of a peer to exchange information with, and which peer comes first in the resulting two peer block, is a vote on the total order of all transactions.
For the prospective PoS blockdag coin, will transactions be cryptographically tied to peers?
Merkle tree immutably proves which peer injected which transaction, but transactions generally originate from clients of peers. A client could inject a transaction by bitmessage, rendering himself totally untraceable to the peer, but blockchain analysis demonstrates this does not in fact do much good, since the blockchain shows the money flow.
Anonymity on the blockchain can be done (Monaro, Zcash), but it worsens the scaling problem, and the crisis of scaling is upon us.
We need to accomplish pseudonymity by other means – such as a lightning network done right.
A lightning network done right is equivalent to full reserve correspondence banking, which mingles many small frequent transactions off blockchain into a few large infrequent transactions on the blockchain. And done right, it should mean that every throwaway identity can be a full reserve correspondence bank, and no one except his immediate counterparties knows about it.
What stops a well-connected and high-bandwidth peer from publishing the transaction of a smaller peer and taking some of his transaction ordering power?
Each block usually links not to the previous block, but to two previous blocks. In principle can be more than two, but my current design is at most two, because three blocks is a lot more complicated. And each of those blocks link to two more.
In the course of gossiping blocks and transactions around, the blockdag gossips a consensus on total order.
A peer could defect during a gossip event, and make use of the information without producing the jointly signed block that a gossip event should produce, but this would be apparent to the other peer, who probably would not talk to him any more.
Aborting a gossip event is not a Byzantine failure, but using the information obtained from an incomplete gossip event is indicative of Byzantine defection, and lots of other Byzantine defections are possible.
In Practical Byzantine Fault tolerant consensus, a small number of Byzantine failures have no effect. It takes coordinated Byzantine failure of one third or more of the weight of stake to change the outcome.
My consensus algorithm, however, is probabilistic, so a small amount of Byzantine failure will have a small but nonzero effect, and coordinated Byzantine defection by one third or more will have a controlling effect. Most Byzantine failures leave an immutable record in the blockdag of all honest peers, so peers that engage in Byzantine failure can get blackballed, and those failures that do not leave an immutable record, nonetheless are visible to the peer interacting with the peer that engages in Byzantine failure. If honest peers decline to create gossip events with peers that engage in Byzantine failure, the amount of Byzantine defection should remain small.
If the gossip event does produce a jointly signed block, then the total history of all the gossip events that both peers participated in, and the total history of the peers that each peer gossiped with, gets locked into the hash of that block. Byzantine failures generally get immutably recorded.
The generals problem is that you have a bunch of generals communicating by unreliable messenger, and some of the messages get lost, and they want to agree on a consensus that they all attack or all retreat, for if some attack and some retreat, the result is likely to be bad.
The Byzantine Generals problem is that not only could messages be unreliable, but also the generals: During the last days of Byzantium, generals tended to be more interested in grabbing the throne than in winning battles, so a general might send one general a message that he was retreating, and everyone agreed that retreat was in order, and another general a message that he was attacking, and everyone agreed that attack was in order, so that a large part of the army would get slaughtered, making it easier for him to grab the throne.
So Byzantine defection involves sending information to one peer that is inconsistent with the information you sent to another peer.
And, since everything is signed, and the merkle dag renders everything immutable, each peer can analyze the blockdag to detect past Byzantine defections. Which will not stop them from having undesirable effects, but should keep the number of Byzantine defectors down.
Getting back to your question: Suppose one peer produces a history in which he introduced a transaction, and another peer produces a history in which he introduced that transaction.
The general rule is that when the total consensus is constructed, the first block in the total order wins. So if one peer has gossiped around the transactions a bit, he will be first in total order.
Which means that a peer might want to manipulate the consensus on total order to put himself first.
But if he was correctly performing gossip transactions, and learned of those transactions through a gossip interaction, the blockdag will not put him first, since order is depth first.
And, if he was incorrectly performing gossip transactions, well, he could put himself first, but the blockdag will show he was incorrectly performing gossip transactions.
If he aborts the gossip interaction after learning useful information, the blockdag will not show this, but the other peer will know. If a peer only performs gossip interactions with other peers that correctly perform the protocol, it usually be the first in the total order to introduce these transactions, even if other peers that it does not directly interact with perform incorrectly.
If it is serious money, the client whose money it is might do something about it, by injecting another transaction spending that unspent transaction output.
So yes, it is a potential problem. But chances are it will not be a big problem, and if it is a problem, there are things that could be done about it.
No algorithm will work if there is a substantial amount of defection from the algorithm. It can be proven that one third coordinated defection can beat any consensus algorithm. The important thing is that a small amount of defection cannot produce large benefits to the defector, that the incentives are against defection.
What is a two peer block?
(The voting mechanism I was considering had each block linking back to a few previous blocks with the order of links determining the voting preference, but each block would be created by a single peer only meaning there would be no two-way exchange of information when creating a block.)
Should not the two blocks that the new block links back to, and the order of the links, be the vote on the total order of transactions?
>A man should be King under his own roof
Wise words.
>In the near future, we can expect the deep state to struggle with the radical left for power
I don’t see it. Radical left has no resources or capacity to organize without support of deep state. No reason to think that foreigners would pick up the bill. No one in deep state has any incentive to defect and join them except in attempt to use cancel tactics against personal enemies, which only work if rest of deep state allows them to. The “struggle” would be akin to a stray dog barking in demand that it be let indoors outside the home of a deaf person.
I wish for something to happen as much as anyone and perhaps I overestimate their intelligence, but this grift has been running longer than I’ve been alive.
Of which each person in the deep state has a large supply.
The historical precedent is that normalcy bias always leads to the deep state expecting that they will continue to rule, and they don’t.
Maybe it will be different this time around, but I am inclined to bet on things continuing to unfold on the same pattern as all the previous times around.
You are thinking that deep state stooges are content in their current position, that their faction has “won” against the Trumpists, and therefore they no longer need to use the radical left as a weapon. This does appear true in the short term, but eventually they will see opportunities to attack each other. And they will be financing/directing/publicly supporting antifa in order to seize such opportunities.
How long this period of contentedness will last is difficult to judge. I think we can look at which direction the virus nonsense heads to give us a good idea of how much is left on the clock. If virus hysteria ramps up even higher, not much time. If it cools off, much more time. It will be a strong indicator of the consensus among them regarding whether or not it is acceptable to continue knocking over applecarts at such a rate. There must be many of them who wish to stop with the senseless ritual in order to enjoy simpler things again, and so would seek to “defeat” the virus as soon as possible, rather than continue on the current path.
The early signs I’m seeing now is they wish to back off on covid hysteria. Alot of cities are announcing indoor dining can re-open for instance. And high priest Fauci himself said cases seem to leveling off (or something similar).
The order went out to restore normality at least for now. They’ve been banning Antifa groups off of twitter and even places like Seattle are promising to actually enforce the law against Antifa.
Biden also said recently, “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic”, which seems to imply no more aggressive lockdowns.
They’re still worried about a military coup, which is influencing them to not completely fuck the country up, yet. Have to get the military good and purged first. They really do want normality to return so they can continue looting. We’ll see the pressure really ramp up with Trump’s impeachment trial. They absolutely need either the Republicans or Trump himself to say the election wasn’t rigged in order to establish legitimacy.
Trump’s going to die either way in the end but maybe he can find some balls and tell the truth at the trial.
Yes that’s true. I guess the Trump show isn’t quite over yet.
Based on Trump’s current behavior, I’d say he’ll cave after making a deal with them, which of course the Dems won’t honor.
Probably why they put off the trial for so long so they can negotiate with Trump. And what if Trump refuses to acquiesce? What is the significance to that (besides just pissing them off)?
If you’re going to die, best not to die like a coward. One can become a Martyr that way. No one reveres a dead coward.
I’m pretty sure the delay is to give the FBI time to force the GOP to falsely confess the election wasn’t rigged and to force them to vote to impeach. They may also get some rioters to similarly falsely confess. DC runs on blackmail and one does not get to be a Senator without something they can use to maximum effect. Of course republican who votes to impeach is going to end up not winning shit in 2022 which will make a good excuse for the massive nation wide fraud the Dems will push in 2022.
Dems: The GOP lost everywhere because republicans didn’t vote for them because they were upset about impeachment!
I searched for “JimCoin” on CoinMarketCap and nothing showed up. I’ll try again in the morning.
JimCoin is not going to show up any time soon. (And it will not be called Jimcoin)
First thing needed is a replacement of QUIC (which is TCP/SSL) that creates a secure connection network between two Zooko identities, and I don’t have that, and will not have it for a while.
To attack and replace the existing cryptocurrency exchanges, and to act as a powerbase from which to attack social media, and to eventually attack and replace the stock exchanges, a crypto currency needs to support namecoins. Which Jitsi and namecoin already do great, but they fail to do anything about TCP, which means in practice they are not challenges to TCP/SSL, nor Cloudfare DDoS protection, and thus not challenges to the existing name systems (registered corporations, the CAs, and DNS)
We need to start with a strike against TCP/SSL/CAs/DNS, because going to need that in order to go after the big money. The big money being ICOs and exchanges.
Any organization that has a certificate authority in its pocket can perform a man in the middle attack on an SSL connection, but that is just the moral justification for replacing SSL/CA/DNS. The big reason for replacing TCP/SSL/CA/DNS system because there is money in it. A great deal of money.
The trouble with an ICO (initial coin offering), is that the issuer has no obligation to do anything other than take the money and run. We are moving to an economy where much of the value is in “goodwillâ€, “goodwill†being names with reputations and relationships. The blockchain (or blockdag, since blockdags theoretically have better scaling than blockchains) could be used to render this value liquid in IPOs by having both names and money on the blockchain.
Atomic transactions between blockchains, plus names on the blockchain with money, a replacement for TCP/SSL/CAs/DNS could support sovereign corporations on the blockchain, so that an ICO could be an IPO (Initial Public Offering). If the blockchain is a name service as well as a money service, it could give the investors ownership of the name. The owners of examplecorp shares get to designate board.examplecorp, and the board gets to designate the public key of CEO@examplecorp from time to time, thus rendering the value of a name potentially liquid.
If a name is controlled by a Schnorr signature over an elliptic field of prime order, such as Ristretto25519, the secret key can be a distributed threshold key generated by John Canny and Stephen Sorkin’s Practical Large-scale Distributed Key Generation, and the resulting signature is just like any signature controlled by a single person, but it is controlled by a secret that distributed over a large number of people such that a majority of those people have to cooperate to sign something. If we use Schnorr signatures and Ristretto25519, we get the capacity for groups of people to form corporate entities without having to put any additional cleverness into the blockchain. (Though we would have put a lot of additional cleverness and a lot of work into the systems for signing things. My current code and current UI only allows stuff to be signed by a single entity with a single secret.)
Cryptocurrency exchanges are run by crooks, and are full of crooks each trying to scam all the other crooks.
If you don’t know who the pigeon is, you are the pigeon.
A healthy cryptocurrency market needs to leave the cryptocurrency exchanges behind, replacing them with atomic blockchain transactions between separate blockchains. The Cryptocurrency exchanges are dangerously centralized, and linked to a corruptly regulated finance and accounting system, which corruption we saw with Great Minority Mortgage Meltdown and the Mortgage backed Security market from 2005 November to 2007, and saw with MF Global. Jon Corzine did worse than embezzle client funds. He embezzled client funds legally.
Demand for crypto currencies is driven in substantial part by the fact that recent regulations have cheerfully set aside laws on fiduciary duty that are millenia old. The exchanges cheerfully adhere to such regulations as they find dangerously convenient, while taking advantage of cryptocurrency to avoid those regulations that they find inconvenient.
The banks, the stock exchanges, and the big accounting firms are regulated agencies whose regulators are in their pocket. The crypto currency exchanges are semi regulated, taking advantage of regulations written for those who have regulators in their pocket.
The cryptocurrency market needs to get rid of exchanges, starting with cryptocurrency exchanges, and proceeding eventually to get rid of stock exchanges.
An exchange exists to provide an escrow that faithfully observes its fiduciary duty. And there have been a great many recent examples of such entities getting up to no good, and in the case of the mortgage backed security market, up to no good with enormous amounts of money.
A cryptocurrency with a name system could eat their lunch, greatly enriching its founders in the process.
Thus, secure and efficient communication between Zooko identities comes first, and then cryptocoins on top of that.
I would be doing cryptocoins first if my model was to create yet another altcoin and get rich quick selling it on the cryptocurrency exchanges like everyone else, but I want to destroy them and eat their lunch, not get some of their leavings. I want it all. They are bad people, and most of the CAs are bad people.
Why would you want to attack and replace the stock exchanges?
Based.
Whoa. Now that is ambition. I love it!
What about decentralized exchanges that run on smart contracts, like Uniswap? I know it’s limited to tokens issued to a single Layer 1 (Ethereum), but they can do a lot. I don’t see the advantage in each SovCorp having a different blockchain.
A fork of Ethereum with a secure net protocol and zero-knowledge privacy built in could have legs.
A lot of things could have legs.
I see a new world opening up, like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes he stared at the Pacific – and all his men looked at each other with a wild surmise, silent, upon a peak in Darien.
The blockchain is a computer tool to mediate human consensus. It makes new forms of large scale cooperation possible, that we have not yet imagined or experienced.
Scriptless scripts, which require the use of Schnorr signatures over group of prime order, and the blockdag, have possibilities as yet unplumbed. Any crypto currency not using Schnorr signatures is obsolete, and needs to change.
I would repeat my question about the stock exchanges, they seem to be one of the few things in the Western World that still functions and in fact (since commissions have disappeared) one of the few things that functions better than it did in the past?
What is your objection to them, or do you just want share prices to be denominated in crypto?
The stock exchanges trading in shares and share options are in themselves working quite well, but publicly traded companies are required to follow Sox accounting, which means that everyone is flying blind.
The foundation of the corporate fom is double entry accounting, and Sox is termites in the foundations.
Not for long. They are threatening to de-list companies that don’t meet diversity requirements on their boards.
As much as I normally hate diversity you don’t want cohesion on a board since the board is supposed to be the watchdog for shareholders and they aren’t really supposed to be each others best friends. Putting someone on boards who screws up cohesion might be a good thing. When boards and senior management can trust and cooperate each other they tend to rob shareholders.
You really want people on a board to dislike and distrust each other.
Affirmative Action is never a good thing.
Observed behavior is that the board seves the shareholders if they are big shareholders or in the pocket of a big shareholder.
Diversities are there to rob the company blind and destroy it, not because they are not white males, but because they are not shareholders.
Jim quite correct but the worst situation is if they are not a big shareholder (or effectively under the control of them, I’ve unfortunately seen companies where a big shareholder it was a hedge fund did not actually look after the board or the senior management despite horrible behaviour) and they are a cohesive gang.
Its better (when the board is not so effectively under shareholder control) if they don’t trust each other very much.
ðŸ‘ðŸ‘👠“You don’t want most of it, you want all of it!” A man after my taste, as always.
Jim, thank you for sketching this out.
In my estimation a big problem with TCP is that it is conducive to the leftist mob mounting DDOS attacks, and that the infrastructure needed to combat those attacks is necessarily centralized and therefore subject to state and quasi-state pressure. Are you thinking primarily of this, or of other problems?
About replacements for TCP, you may have already considered and/or decided against these, but on the off chance you are not already familiar with them, you might like to look into using UDP with fountain codes in general and maybe specifically this page on Raptor codes and RFC 6330.
I don’t see the relevance of Raptor codes to DDoS restance.
Seems to me that for DDoS resistance, you need an adjustable pow handshake as the initial step of the connection handshake.
So how would you implement DDoS resistance?
I don’t see the relevance of Raptor codes to DDoS resistance.
Sorry I was unclear! Neither do I. I wish I knew how to implement DDoS resistance, but I don’t. I was just thinking that on an unreliable channel prone to deletions (like UDP), Raptor codes are appealing because you need fewer retransmissions.
for DDoS resistance, you need an adjustable pow handshake as the initial step of the connection handshake.
I had not worked that out on my own, but it seems abundantly clear now that you have said so. That happens with a lot of things you write and makes me grateful for your posts.
I’m not an expert, and I think the first problem to consider is to get the overall architecture right, but for a server perhaps you could require an expensive one-sided computation a la bcrypt to connect (over UDP), and blacklist IPs or clients that fail this test for a day or so. The challenge would have to be provided out of band to minimize server work. (Perhaps even as a TXT record in DNS?)
Depending on if the sessions are long-lived, you could add some extra bells and whistles, like having everyone switch IP/port every now and then, and blacklist those who got through but still seem iffy. Or just to shed traffic.
Cloudflare uses (on the HTTP level) browser fingerprinting and a drawn-out captcha procedure.
I suppose you will additionally have to be ready to handle multi-Gbps garbage traffic to resist DDoS.
Perfect resistance to DDOS can be achieved by turning off the Internet.
The Internet, as everyone knows, is a portal to Hell. We will close the portal.
This achieves the following concrete objectives:
1. DDOS becomes impossible.
2. Big Tech summarily destroyed.
3. Payment processors annihilated; mass return to cash, a.k.a. real money.
4. Local economies become viable again.
5. Electronic surveillance becomes several orders of magnitude more costly and difficult.
6. Propaganda regime cut at the knees, reduced back to television, if that.
7. People go outside, know their neighbors’ names.
8. The Mark of the Beast will once more be a distant prophecy, with no practical technological substrate which to undergird it.
9. Alex Jones gets a well-deserved sabbatical-vacation from nearly three decades of being right about everything.
10. Local radio and local newspapers become viable businesses once more.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
Vote for me in 2024.
Nuts
An argument against the internet and the evils of technology can be made. From a distance seems like the Amish are making that argument fairly well.
If you have to choose between your kids sitting on social media all day versus them playing in the garden all day, the choice seems obvious.
But the internet in itself is not bad. It is powerful, can be used for good or bad. Internet has been a saving experience for me. And if you enjoy the things you do, you’ll naturally avoid social media, because most people on there are unhappy and you’ll feel them drag you down. That’s been my experience at least.
At the end of the day, the Amish will be steamrolled by any opposition that uses tanks instead of horses. And so it will be with internet-people versus non-internet people.
Alf, pretty sure I lost my bet with you. I was expecting the situation to limp along for a fair bit longer, but present circumstances look none too promising.
Yes I meant to ask. Strictly speaking you can wait four more years, but yea… I don’t mind taking the W as is 🙃 I’ll shoot a mail.
>6. Propaganda regime cut at the knees, reduced back to television, if that.
The internet in fact was a major factor in fragmenting the nigh univocality of the previous propaganda regime, made possible through the innovation of central broadcasting media.
Everything that has happened since has been efforts to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak, and cooption of the most popular platform providers (eg, ‘social media’ sites) has gone far in putting band-aids back over the fissures, but never the less, they happened in the first place. Exempli gratia, this blog you just posted than in now being phenomena that exist.
So I have very little knowledge of crypto and blockchain concepts, but I’ve spent the day studying them as they are the future probably regardless of the reactionary movement and it certainly is a more productive endeavor than continuing to listen to pundits. I’m still having a difficult time processing what you meant by this post, jim, but from what I gather, you’re proposing essentially a decentralized, automated public name registry system that essentially functions as a stock exchange using blockchain/blockDAG to record transactions. Is this correct?
I can certainly see the advantage if so, but can only see it solving one of many problems faced by startups run by our guys.
It is not only our startups that are facing these problems.
It’s every business everywhere in the american hegemony.
Of course, I was simply referring to the extra problems we may have on top of that, such as being unable to obtain credit because of ideologically opposed lenders. If Trump can’t even hold his bank accounts, that has dark portents for the rest of us.
It is good to have a public trading system separate from NASDAQ and NYSE’s gay requirements for a company to be listed, but what incentives do the actual investors have for using this? I would expect the relative lack of curation to make investors consider such a system overall more risky, especially considering the type of company that would need to use such a system over a regular stock exchange.
A lot of money has been raised in ICOs, because Sox has killed off IPOs.
They don’t have an alternative.
And triple entry accounting is way more credible than Sox accounting.
(Triple entry accounting is double entry accounting with signed and blockchained immutable journals.)
If people invest in crypto ICOs, they will be a lot more willing to invest in crypto IPOs.
A corporation on the blockchain needs both proofs of stake and triple entry accounting, though triple entry accounting can wait.
I have asked you before some examples of why SOX sucks, I wanted to compare it to European accounting standards. I was thinking, what can be so hard, if you can track the numbers in the books back to invoices issued by your vendors or yourself, the tax man will not really find many angles to screw you. The main issue with that is that numbers trackable back to invoices suck at providing information for actually managing the business. They are purely a tax man shield. So the internal information is provided by management accounting, management reporting etc.
Anyway, taking this hint I went googling for SOX and IPOs. Hm. Apparently it isn’t really about accounting in the sense I would use that word. Apparently it means a lot of internal audits, including things like HR audits, not strictly accounting ones, and one site says the cost of internal audits, the internal cost of compliance is on the avereage $800K a year for a company of 1-3 “unique locations”, whatever that means. Throw in external costs and it means a small company going public is looking at $1M compliance costs a year. Is that the main issue?
That is what is stopping IPOs.
But it is not the main issue.
The main issue is that SOX is increasingly detached from reality, making fraud legal and truth illegal.
In place of accountants tracking the movement of value and the creation of value, accountants are conducting holy talmudic rituals before people are permitted to move or create value.
Which holy rituals are not only expensive, inconvenient, and disruptive, but fail to track the creation and movement of value. Not only is the accounting that goes into having an IPO expensive and inconvenient, it also fails to accurately report the value created by business or the movement of value between entities.
The background of SOX is Enron. Enron was in the business of buying stuff on credit, and selling it for cash, while losing money on each deal. Its accounts were technically truthful, but misleading, reporting a massive but nonexistent profit.
A bunch of accounting students went over its books with a fine tooth comb, reported what it was up to, all the people it was buying stuff from started demanding cash on the barrelhead, and Enron vanished in a puff of smoke.
Which is accounting working as designed. Enron’s books were accurate but misleading. Because it kept accurate books misleadingly captioned, it got caught.
So we got a law that was theoretically intended to stop accountants from getting creative. But the actual effect of the law was to turn accountants into holy priests, which has the effect that they are being less and less and less accountants.
Sox was a major contributing factor to MF Global and the Great Mortgage Minority Meltdown. In the aftermath of the Great Mortgage Minority Meltdown, it turned out that no one knew who had the rights to foreclose on which houses, that the records of who owned what rights over what houses just had not in fact been kept. Similarly in the liquidation of MF Global. The books that exposed Enron just are not being kept any more, except management keeps them privately and semi illegally.
The holy rituals are the internal audits? But I would like to have something like a raw example instead of your analysis, because I would be curious to compare it with EU practice. I have found a software called https://www.auditboard.com/
Hm. A risk heatmap, with an impact/likelihood graph. That actually looks like something useful, like a software company thinking “What is the likelihood and possible impact if our competitors implement this sexy, much-awaited feature before we do?” But that is not accounting and really weird why it would have anything to do with accounting regulation compliance.
Yet they describe the workstream as operations audit -> risk oversight -> compliance -> SOX.
Moldbug seems to think that when the time comes, a new elite faction will be able to cooperate enough to assist the future monarch take power. Did Stalin, Napoleon, and Cromwell have a faction of the elite helping them this way? Or did they take power simply by themselves and the army?
Either a General Suharto in a few years, using an existing organization, or a Corporal Adolf in a few decades, building his own organization.
Those are the ideal scenarios of course.
Hitler had massive elite support and sympathy from the beginning. Not all of them supported Hitler but the entire German elite en masse hated the communists and hated the Republic.
This is a commie myth. The commies want to play down the equalist and left wing character of National Socialism.
The German Chamber of manufacturers did not see any difference between the commies and the Nazis. As Orwell observed, anyone who thought there was much difference between the commies and the Nazis was a commie or a Nazi.
Elite support for Nazis was small, and was roughly equal to elite support for commies. Members of the elite double crossed each other by backing commies or Nazis or both simultaneously. They hated the Republic because it empowered commies and Nazis.
I didn’t say he had the support of ALL the elite but there was a very strong pro Nazi elite faction going back to the early 1920s.
Hitler had leftist sympathies on many (but not all) issues but Hitler politically very much tried to appear somehow both ultra left wing and ultra right wing at the same time. He would assure the SA he was ultra left wing and the old monarchist elites and german farmers he was ultra right wing…
This is even inherent in the name of the Nazi party… the National Socialist German Workers Party…
The Nazis did not believe in joint stock companies, but they did believe in human inequality, including within nations and races.
The Nazis did not strongly believe in ownership, but did believe in hierarchy meaning both power and responsibility, something that is can only be achieved by ownership even if it be called something else.
I would not lump them with communists. Though their practical effect on incumbent business owners was indeed similar, and with some of the negative consequences for all of society.
The Nazis were vague about most points of economics as some nazis were far left and some nazis were far right and Hitler early on tried to appeal to both, Hitler early on had to back the former but as his position became stronger he shifted policy back to the latter (which he personally sympathized with). They did not abolish stock companies but they weakened shareholders and forced companies to follow the leader principle… which tended to not be good if the leader wasn’t a shareholder.
Indeed, but this also is not a contradiction, of the fact that the good corporal did so build an organization.
As has been observed in the past, one of Hitler’s greatest assets was the ability to have a hitlerist be put in charge of every club, association, and organization in the land.
And where did all of that manpower come from? From how every bernd who felt like he wanted to do something for the Fatherland had a clear obvious pathway for realizing that desire to contribute; sign up with The Party.
Trump’s great problem – perhaps his greatest problem – is that he didn’t have that. There was no ‘Republican Guard’ an isolated but patriotic amerikaner could sign up with, and from which Trump could draw personnel to take responsibility over things. All he could draw on were people that already existed in the previous system; and naturally, the selection criteria for existence in those systems would not select for the kind of folk someone like Trump could count on.
Yes, Trump desperately needed what Hitler had. Trump needed an army of deplorables. He needed to mobilize and organize the people who showed up at his rallies to do more than mere electoral politics.
He had sign up sheets, but the sign up sheets were a dead end to being called on for contributions and door knocking. A waste of time and money. He went along with a policy of keeping those people away from where they were actually needed.
Looking back, I think Trump himself is to blame for this. I’d like to draw some other conclusion like “the system wouldn’t let him”, but at some point I ended up on one of his distribution lists – no idea how or why – and got hundreds of messages with nothing but sleazy donation soliciting. This wasn’t some unknown grifter trying to make money off of Trump’s movement, it was the real thing, sent from donaldtrump.com and linking to his evergreen campaign site.
The thing I noticed about the solicitations back then was the cringe and scummy tone, implying that forking over $20 would make you a member of some exclusive club and give you exclusive access. But the thing I really notice about them now is what’s missing: where’s the recruiting? Where are the job opportunities? Where are the volunteer opportunities? Where’s the referral program? Where the hell did he think he was going to get personnel from, if not the millions of supporters who ended up on that distribution list?
I have messages here about an “Election Defense Fund”. What good was money going to do? Where are the messages asking for lawyers and ex-cops and citizen journalists and so on, before the election when it might have mattered? And I know people who went to his rallies and they don’t recall any of this type of recruitment there either.
Which leaves us with one of three very uncomfortable conclusions:
1. He was never serious, not at any time during the last 4 years, or he was some kind of plant. (I still find this extremely hard to believe, but it’s a plausible and logically-consistent explanation that’s also hard to disprove.)
2. He knew the fix was in for the 2020 election, but didn’t care, and just wanted to milk the election year for all the donations he could squeeze out.
3. He knew the fix was in for the 2020 election, and honestly believed that grossly outmoded fundraising and advertising models were going to save the day – after he himself defeated those models in 2016.
These are all very black-pilled perspectives, but none of the other explanations that I’ve seen can adequately account for the fact that he never made any serious attempt to recruit from the gigantic Trumpist talent pool available to him. It defies reason, and it means things were never quite as they appeared.
A very valid point. I remember the euphoria of 2016, when Trump had set up a website where people could upload resumes in the expectation of serving/volunteering in the incoming administration. Roosh and co were even recommending people to sign up for it and make a difference. It came to naught and the website and data were somehow “lost” later. That should’ve been a massive red flag. Hindsight is 20/20.
All subjects of the polygon are conditioned from birth to follow the kabuki theater; shall we call it ‘normacy’, even?
It really is a neat trick. Any of those whose instincts might tell them that things are not quite right are allowed – nay, encouraged even! – to ‘do something about it’… and the forms of those ‘somethings’ they are encouraged to do are, of course, only those things that can never actually pose a threat to our synagogites, that do not actually produce power.
Thus, canalizing, as far as it goes, any incipient forces of order into fruitless surrogate activities, managed by the ranks of professional loserdom.
Like the metaphor goes, the giant elephant that grew up tied to a post, can never quite seem to realize it could simply pull it out of the ground.
As has been evinced, even folk like Trump, who one might think should be able to get it, even if only through the force of circumstance, are not wholly unblinkered by those old ruts, worn into the back of the mind.
Trump thought he could take over the GOP as an outsider, merely by popular support, and its existing members and power structure would become loyal to him. He spent a large amount of effort appeasing the GOP establishment over four years and really thought, irrationally, they would come to his aid at the end and fight for him.
Instead, they fled the field like the Scottish nobles turning on William Wallace against the King.
I really don’t see how he could have been successful unless he built his own party from the ground up like the Nazi party. What he was attempting would be the equivalent of Hitler joining a mainstream party instead of starting his own.
Jim and I like talking about Sulla the man who did what Trump could and would not.
Now on Sulla’s grave he requested the epitaph read “No better friend, no worse enemy”. Ie Sulla rewarded his friends and punished his enemies.
Trump’s policies were good, his economic thinking was good, his charisma was good… but he did not reward his friends and punish his enemies he often did the opposite.
The original sins were not forcing Paul Ryan out as speaker (and demanding he furthermore be blacklisted from any future lobbying jobs) and allowing Flynn’s enemies to railroad him.
You cannot build up a faction that way when people think its more profitable to be your enemy (or at best a fake friend) than your friend.
Yes I agree. In hindsight, what he really needed was a hostile takeover of the GOP, beginning with an aggressive purge of all Never-Trumpers instead of trying to win them over by “proving” he wasn’t so bad.
Should be an object lesson for votefags and people who advocate “infiltrating” progressive-controlled organizations. Never mind trying to influence from an entry-level or middle-management position, even if you make it to the very top you’ll just be quarantined, ignored and stabbed in the back.
And if starting a new party is effectively impossible (Tweetmerica is not Weimar Germany), and taking over a major party is effectively impossible, then there never was and never will be any solution based on voting or democracy. And that means Yarvin is right, we are better off with everyone knowing that America is a one-party state, because that will allow normalfags to start imagining non-democratic solutions, and more importantly, allow emerging Cromwell- and Stalin-like figures to acknowledge that since they clearly have no viable enemies to their right, their real enemies must be to their left.
Trump took all of the goodwill that came from the Democrats stealing the election and pissed it up against the wall over about six weeks.
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Great post. I disagree, however, with your statement that “Trumpism … was destroyed.” I voted for Trump twice and have no regrets, but Trumpism wasn’t destroyed so much as it was neglected and even sabotaged by Trump himself.
Nobody forced Trump to let Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell take the lead in 2017. Nobody forced Trump, who supposedly loved to tell people “You’re fired!,” to retain hundreds if not thousands of Obama holdovers who undercut him at every opportunity. Nobody forced Trump to surround himself with grifters and mediocrities. Nobody forced Trump to go golfing while Stacey Abrams & Co. were openly plotting to steal the election.
Trumpism is alive and well, as we saw on Jan. 6. Trumpism just needs a much more competent version of Trump.
The time for politics is over. We need a Napoleon or a Stalin to put a stop to leftism using lethal violence with legitimate authority behind him. Trump couldn’t do that, so we wait for someone who can.
That doesn’t make any sense. How would a Napoleon or Stalin have “legitimate authority” if not via politics — i.e., via popular support of a huge segment of the country?
It’s not even clear that we need a Napoleon or Stalin with a huge army. Every third person in a group these days is an informant. It seems like this is a time for lone wolves.
Heh, you still thinks that Popular Sovereignty is a real thing. If Popular Sovereignty was real, Joe Biden would be sitting a jail cell right now. Power comes the “Barrel of a Gun” and group cohesion from Religion and belief.
Everyone in the country knew the Dems were going to cheat and Trump went golfing instead of working to stop it. I don’t understand why so many people are black pilling because of Trump’s incompetence, which we all knew about from the beginning.
Regardless, if the Deep State has even half as much power as you seem to believe, there will never be a Napoleon or Stalin because he’ll be deplatformed and then disappeared before anyone knows who he is.
What we need are dozens of neighborhood Napoleons and Stalins.
The deep state doesn’t have cohesion. They were able to cohere around expelling the Proles and getting rid of Trump but with that threat largely gone, they’ll focus on fighting each other now. One of those Generals who just helped install Harris as President might soon before the person taking over someday. Such in the nature of things.
You’re arguing that the leaderless right could take up people power and overthrow the government, a ludicrous idea. Every peasant revolt in history failed save one in China where things had become very bad indeed. One needs elites and an army to win a war and the right has neither. Building one while the FBI and every other organ of state power is looking for such organization forming is nuts. The Deep state doesn’t agree on much, but what they do agree on is crushing the proles and any sign of prole power.
Both Napoleon and Stalin helped bring their radical factions into power and later took over the state when things getting more and more insane. Such people are by nature on the inside of the Deep state/leftist factions.
Trump relied on the courts dispensing justice and the DOJ to stop it. They failed to do so because both sided with the coup. Even Cesar died from normality bias when he failed to have armed men by his side in the Senate.
You contradict yourself in almost every sentence, so I have no idea what you’re arguing or proposing.
The Deep State conspired against Trump but somehow a Napoleon or Stalin might slip through unnoticed? We need an army but if we try to organize we’ll be doomed by informants? We can’t rely on politics or elections but we need to “bring [our] radical factions into power”?
American conservatives are armed to the teeth and just overran the U.S. Capitol without weapons. Imagine what they could do in Sacramento or Albany or Lansing or Springfield.
Enough with the doom and gloom. Leftists are a bunch of unarmed, weak degenerates who only have power over people who surrender. We’re not a bunch of unarmed Venezuelans.
They’d be gunned down by automatic weapons fire. The right is not the left and such mob actions just result in dead rightists or the Reichstag fire type event that was the storming of the capital.
You glow in the dark.
@Starman, time for the Shill test for this guy.
And imagine the entire US military/security state using maximum violence to put it down in an hour or two. See Ruby Ridge and the Waco Seige. Violence is not an option for us right now because we have no institutional support. None. So we wait for a Napoleon or Stalin to emerge (someone in the military right now) to put a stop to the insanity and we align with them when the time presents itself.
I believe it is you who is contradicting yourself, and out of contact with reality.
“American conservatives” “overran” the Capitol “without weapons” because they were allowed to do so. Several of them actually did have weapons, and in any case the police made no effort to stop them. 2-3 weeks of postmortem analysis converges pretty strongly on the whole episode being a false flag, or at least a deliberate trap.
A Stalin would, in fact, rise through the ranks unnoticed, because Stalin was a street thug, which is why several have pointed out that our version of a Stalin would likely have an Antifa background. A Napoleon would bide his time until ready to mount a full-scale assault, which is exactly the opposite of Trump and so many “American Conservatives” running off their mouths, issuing stern warnings to the left, rambling various formulations of “this time they’ve gone too far”, crying or cracking lame jokes about hypocrisy, and pointing to the vast array of guns that they’d never even dream of using without very clear and unambiguous instructions from a legitimate authority figure.
To say “leftists are unarmed” requires you to assume that “leftists” are merely the assorted rabble of Antifa and BLM, and not the actual ruling government that controls the FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, thousands of local sheriffs and police commissioners and DAs, and apparently the National Guard and most of the armed forces. It makes no difference if the individual officers hate their masters as long as they’re still willing to follow their orders, and it has now been conclusively shown that yes, they are. Plus, even the rabble is increasingly arming up, as late 2020 saw a number of cop killings and literal executions of Trump supporters on the street.
I think that in 10 or 20 years from now, looking back from a historical perspective, we will be saying that empty bluster killed the Amerikaner as a class. An entire class of individuals who have never had the balls to actually take power, and if a few of them did have the balls then they were too politically ignorant and strategically incompetent to use them properly, but despite having no balls and no strategy, just could not shut the hell up with their advocacy and drawing genocidal anger from the left.
Try to imagine yourself as a slave owner presiding over some 100 slaves, and about half a dozen nincompoops always seem to be trying to foment rebellion, telling the others that they’re unappreciated, working too hard, ruled over by degenerate aliens. Well, it’s true, but so what? From the point of view of the slave, it’s not right, it’s not fair, it’s not just. And from the point of view of the master, there’s nothing worse than an uppity slave, and it’s best to deal with them post-haste, preferably by making an example of them for any others inclined to be uppity.
We are subjects, not citizens. Certainly much better off than prototypical slaves, but with about the same amount of political power. It is the lot of the peasant to occasionally live under corrupt, degenerate and tyrannical regimes. There may not be a lot of good options for him, but indulging in delusions of grandeur has got to be one of the worst options.
Popular support for the communists was insignificant.
The Kadets were roughly equivalent to moderate Democrats and could not wiin a fair election. You think the commies could?
If I am following, Namefagcoin and cryptocorporations are also a slippery slope towards having a number of one’s assets, employment history and trades publicly checkable, at least what one chooses to show. Replaces and upgrades both financial and social credit checks. Easy system to catch on universally, particularly in areas where trust is scarce
The “Radical Left” (Antifa, BLM) has no mind of its own.
They are the equivalent of mangy stray dogs, only powerful in great numbers and coordinated by the “Establishment Left” (the Bureaucracy, Corporations, the Media, Hollywood).
Every single one of their “leaders” is on the Establishment payroll and highly replaceable, and they will be replaced just like when radical leftists start talking in negative terms about, say, the state of Israel.
What may happen, though, is that some people in the bottom rung of the Establishment Left will use ever crazier leftism holy points to try to snatch positions from their superiors, Cultural Revolution-style. And maybe snatch the control of the Radical Left from them and unleash them to their advantage.
Were Marat and the Enragés on Establishment payroll? You are thinking in the right direction that everything is directed by elites, but you are wrong in thinking everything is directed by *those* elites. In an unstable, dysfunctional state every firebrand speaker or writer who can sic an angry mob on whomever he wants to *becomes* one of the elites, one of the power players.
Remember the very basic thing that Leftists crave power not for Leftists in general but personally for themselves. They are an infighty bunch. So powerful servants often break free from their masters. The Cathedral itself is nothing but a bunch of propagandists, like journalists and educators, who broke free from serving Roosevelt when he died and decided to just serve themselves, becoming the deep state because they are telling the career civil servants what to do. Similarly, rabble-rousers easily break free from control too, why would they obey orders when they can just get their bosses be attacked by an angry mob? Sort of think like Bane in the Batman movie.
Marat was not the equivalent of a drug-addled Antifa or a 75 IQ jogger; he was a smart, ambitious, wealthy man (wealthy enough to fund his own periodical) with friends in high places such as the Royal Academy artist Angelica Kauffman, and patrons such as the Marquis de l’Aubespine.
His modern equivalent would be a blue-check journo with an Ivy League education and a trust fund. He was a “bottom rung of the Establishment Left”, following my own comment.
Your comment is completely right, though. Mine simply wanted to emphasize the three categories of leftists; the top rung of the Establishment Left (high-rank politicians and woke capital businessmen), the bottom rung (minor politicians, journos, HR people), and the mindless hordes of the “Radical Left” (Antifa, BLM)
The MAGA’s had their Charlottesville. IRL is through. If Trump had to lose “electorallyâ€, and then “legally†as well, all the way through the GOP and the Supreme Court, then best that he did so in the most public, brutal and unfair way imaginable.
“So it’s like that is it?â€
We weren’t supposed to see the rot so soon and so quickly. Can you even remember 2015? Legitimacy shred successful, straight through the Supreme Court. Maybe that’s all we could have ever gotten from him. Let him be a martyr to this revelation. It’s a lot.
Now Jim shows de way out. No grifts left. Fall back, stay out of sight, keep your mouths shut electronically, let them eat each other, and get to work on these foundations of the next age, understanding why they — and only they — can possibly work.
Between Jim’s IT skills and BAP’s pectoral muscles, we (if you’ll allow a “weâ€) are the only ones left showing a light at the end of the tunnel. That’s big. Even Alex Jones threw in the towel.
To be 30 years younger and 30 points smarter. Sigh. But what else is new.
“the radical left expects the deep state to win” – I don’t understand this part, Jim. Are they sort of pessimistic these days, not triumphant? For them, the deep state is the puppet of capitalists. That is textbook Marxist theory. So are they thinking cool, the fascists are defeated, but now it is gonna be a hard fight against the capitalists and their deep state puppets now?
More or less.
My back of envelope analysis on the deep state vs. the radleft. The deep state are those who have power, influence. The radleft are those who do not, but have another kind of power at their hands, street violence. The deepstaters might live in guarded communities, but not in an entirely hermetic bubble, any NYT editor going out to lunch from work can be attacked. This is why they have to make their personal deals.
For the deep state, power comes from pushing change. Change – opposed change – is only possible via power, push for change and if you succeed, you automatically get power. For example, push for some kind of change in carbon emissions.
This is when a third player, megacorp comes into the picture. If pushing for less carbon emissions means they have to install very costly filters, they will not like it. If pushing for less carbon emissions means they can sell a bunch of green products to the government, they will like that. If it was only the deep state vs. megacorp, they could have a chance for bribing them into the kinds of changes they like.
The radleft generally does not want that, they tend to hate megacorp and tend to prevent such deals. But they hate megacorp less than they hate the white working class.
The net outcome is that the radleft and the deep state will generally team up against megacorp, and megacorp will suffer, but they will also team up with the deep state and the megacorp all three together against the white working class, who will suffer more.
Just about the only thing the white working class and their sympathizers can do is to maybe try to drive a wedge between the radleft and megacorp, with the deepstaters kind of paralyzed in the middle. Sadly even this would not help much, it would merely result in occasionally distracting the radleft-deepstate team from kicking the white working class into kicking megacorp a bit more often.
The radleft can call you racist on the internet so that HR finds it on Google.
They can call you homophonic for having your kids in a private school that Still Bitterly Refuses to facilitate progressively mandatory anal sex experience awareness programs.
They can look up your license number, ambush you at the grocery store parking lot and ask you on Twitter-can why you said “nigger†once, or else hand over $500 right now and maybe they won’t come back next month. I remember some negroes doing that during the BLM panic of 2020 and their Karen victims having absolute terror conniptions.
It’s street violence, but 21st century style that won’t get them arrested, because the cops can’t confront them either. Badge numbers.
We’ll need burkas.
Yes, that was another part of my assessment. The radleft absolutely is stupid, and its capacity to commit violence is largely in the hands of low IQ black thugs, who are nigh worshipped by the whites involved at the behest of deep state. As it is racist to not let said low IQ blacks be in charge, radleft will continue to neuter its own capacity to do anything without deep state. And deep state will continue this psyop and misdirect any aggression towards itself. Even with Obama in power, these idiots were convinced of “systemic oppression” and “implicit biases.” Their anger will continue to revolve around ordinary white people and Trump rather than anyone with actual power.
Is Monero or other “privacy coins” a step in the right direction?
The Rooster Prophet has elsewhere answered this question: No.
Monero very good step, but does not scale. As a coin becomes successful and hits scaling problems, fewer people are peers and more people are clients. And Monero client wallets are not a step in the right direction.
Monero scales worse than bitcoin, and was designed on the premise that everyone is a peer. But if you have serious money in Monero, you are probably keeping it in a hardware client wallet.
Crypto currency is eating the world financial system, so our most urgent priority is a cryptocurrency that seven billion people can use to buy a lollipop. And we have to think about privacy that seven billion people can use.
But a Monero hardware client wallet that injects Monero transactions through your Monero peer works.
Too bad the feds destroyed the Liberty Dollar. Nice coins and some nice looking currency. Of course, most people are too stupid to realize the money system is the biggest issue working against them after taxation.
Hi Jim,
I know this is off-topic but please hear me out. I don’t know anywhere else I can find more logical audience than here.
Basically as new father I’m wondering should I follow the vaccination schedule or not.
I see the schedule and they are planning 7 shots in month-2 which I find disturbing. My son had his Hepatitis B shot (right after birth) and BCG last week, each shot will be followed by intense crying for no reason for 4 days and hard time sleeping at night.
Seeing how much he was in pain after single I’m not sure if his body can handle multiple shots at once.
You don’t know me from Adam, so feel free to ignore. I live in a circle of trad red-pilled Christian large families. Lots and lots of children. I also work with data for a living and have no illusions about sample size. BUT you can spot the children who get the full list of shots. Most families pick and choose based on anecdotal evidence of safety, moral convictions with regard to aborted fetal cells used in production, and risk of the ailment. Most also delay the mmr, if they get it, because it makes void autistic when they get it as babies. Well, maybe it does. Who knows. We get tetanus and a full mmr, but don’t start the mmr until they are speaking English, for instance. Good data is just not our there for vaccines, and it seems like a lot of money people have their thumbs on the scale. There is definitely something wrong with the tonnage of shots, based on my anecdotal observations. At least limit it to one per visit, skip the ones for ailments your baby is unlikely to get, and wait a couple years on the mmr.
Vox pointed out that in Europe, the American vaccine schedule would look to be mad. They do them later and more spread out, from what he said. I would look into how Europe and Asia do their vaccinations, to compare them. Pick the safest countries, i.e not Germany or China, and see how their doctors do things.
It is clear that we are over vaccinating.
When vaccines came in against smallpox and polio, it was right to cut a few corners in manufacturing the vaccine, right to pressure or compel everyone to get vaccinated.
But every state program tends to grow, and grow, and grow, and become counterproductive. And we have now reached the point where vaccination has become radically counterproductive, is killing old people and harming children.
Thanks Jim for the platform.
I’m now convinced that I should be cautious against vaccine.
I’ll make huge spacing between shots and decline optional vaccines like flu vaccine.
I shall tell you what I did for my sons:
Refused Hep B on day one. No shot until month 12 which was DTaP except I requested DT without P. MMR at 24 months. No boosters. No other shots. Two shots total. I would have included polio if I lived in a country where cases were still extant.
I consider vaccinations proven tech (see polio and tb), but research does not support CDC schedule and you can see divergent opinion across countries.
It’s rather obvious now with coronahoax that these institutions are political and subject to moneypower, but I will admit this was not obvious to me when my first son was born 12 years ago. Rather, like you, something was off to me about frequency so quickly after birth which led to my skepticism and eventual refusal to follow the guidelines.
I wish I had had a group of men that I trusted back then for council, but the one bit of data that sealed it for me was seeing the difference in vax schedule in other countries. If nothing else this ought to dent the imprimatur upon which your pediatrician is pushing the CDC moneypower accelerated vax schedule and allow you to comfortably follow a different path.
With a new son tomorrow, would you do it the same way again
Funny that you ask as I have a girl due early April.
Yes, I will do it the same way.
To be a little more specific, I will get the Tenivac DT and the ProQuad MMR.
I can’t say that I remember if these were the same manufactures as the first few time, but I just took a look at the ingredients list and they look up to snuff.
I wish I could remember all the details, but with each of my three kids we spaced the shots out dramatically. There were a couple of shots that, exceptionally, we let be given together (for reasons that the pediatrician, who was on our side, proposed at the time, like I think one of them not eliciting too much immune response) but for the vast majority we waited at least two weeks, usually more like a month, in between shots. The MMR and varicella (chickenpox) shots we delayed until the kids were over three. I explained to the pediatrician that I didn’t believe there had been any studies done to validate giving kids so many shots at once, and he concurred that in his opinion, the schedule had been concocted for dysfunctional people who rarely got their kids to the doctor. If your pediatrician is not willing to work with you on this, get a different one.
I have a young relative who has peanut and nut allergies that will kill him if he accidentally eats any peanuts or most other nuts. I’m pretty certain that this came from vaccinations. I think maybe if you wait until they are a little older some of the possible negative side effects can be avoided.
I’ve been thinking a long time about the raspberry pi ($35 base model) as a sort of federated system of infrastructure. I have used them myself for years. Freedom Box (https://www.freedombox.org/) system on top of raspberry pi is along those lines for less technical folks. Voice chat. Self-hosted blogging and websites. Tiny RSS Reader. Search. Matrix Synapse for encrypted texting and emailing. Self-hosted email exposed as TOR service. Wiki. Libre office online for shared document editing. Self-hosted, patriarchy-managed Mastodon as social network. Self-hosted nextcloud for video conferencing, file sharing.
Not really, no, The vectors of Leftist attack now include DDoS protection (which is essential for any public-facing device, and even DNS, which is fundamental to self-hosting. Even if you manage to score a static IP and configure all your communication to use that, it still leaves you vulnerable to your ISP.
Anything that happened to the Daily Stormer can and absolutely will happen to you, if you manage to gain any traction. If you don not plan on gaining any e-notoriety/traction, a standard wordpress blog/Yahoo mail may suffice.
The problem with “encrypted” communication is not that the “encryption” will be broken, but rather that your group will be infiltrated by agents provocateurs who will post “bomb making” recipes, and your whole group will be imprisoned, or worse, as a result.
I have some faith in Tor, as anything that must resist Chinese hackers must also necessarily resist FiveEyes, but that isn’t a given.
DDoS is one of the reasons why any fix must start not with a crypto coin, but with a replacement for TCP.
To fix the economic order, have to fix corporate cancer. Any corporate entity that resists this is going to come under DDoS.
Can someone shed any light on this?
Scott Adams (yeah, yeah, but stay with on this) was chipper as he ever was right after the 2021 New Year, telling his listeners about “The Revenge of the Nerds” and how “Trump just won the election.”
Short version of the story 1) Scott claimed that there were witnesses to computer logs showing Mr. Trump’s vote totals counting down and 2) there was no prompt “debunking” of the claims from the Left. In the manner of the courtroom saying “Untruthful in one thing, untrustworthy in every thing” he was assuring his YouTube listeners that if not the legendary Kraken, that his was a serious deal.
His YouTube chat from 3 days ago has him assuring his audience “Not by any means a transparent election procedurally, all of the the claims of fraud have been ‘debunked'” in some manner or another.
What happened to “Trump just won”? If Mr. Adams was going to change his opinion, and if he falls short of being persuasive, and he considers himself a genius of persuasion, what changed? I would have been reassured the Scott Adams was “legit” was if he said, “Remember how I told you about Trump just won the election? It turns out that, and you don’t have to agree with me on this, the claim of computer logs where Trump’s vote totals counted downward has been debunked.”
Now I know that Mr. Adams has a high opinion of himself in the opinion of many around here, but I gotta know, and I don’t want to sit through 20 hours of his v-blog posts on YouTube to find out. Has there been any response, a credible “debunking” or note, to the claim of President Trump’s vote totals counting downward? Or has the claim of downward trending vote tallies gone down the Memory Hole?
Thanks!
Scott Adams is a name fag. Nothing’s been debunked. Scott Adams is changing his tune so he doesn’t get canceled. Speaking about evidence of fraud is no longer in the Overton Window and doing so is likely to get you canceled.
Correct. Though with election fraud you’re likely to lose your job, revenue streams and then Antifa will show up at your front door if you continue to speak the truth. With a legitimate government, nothing is more dangerous than telling the truth about it’s lack of legitimacy.
*illegitimate government
So I guess I will regard that as a Kent Brockman,
“One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.”
We’ll see a real test of this shortly when the GOP votes to impeach Trump for incitement based on saying there was election fraud. The GOP will be finished a political party, but they’ll get to keep on living for now. Trump might even say he was lying in a lame attempt to save his life.
Adams has been almost right from the start prefacing all his shows and articles with something like: “I am being blackmailed to disavow Trump, so in no way you should take the following presentation to be in support of Trump (wink wink, nudge nudge)”. Later, he started mentioning that since he added the disclaimer, the death threats stopped. Teachable moment. Sincerity apparently wasn’t required. It’s his creative way of dealing with the namefag problem, while also teaching people about the namefag problem at the same time.
Which is now handy, because unlike us idiots who were pro-Trump until the very end, Scott over there has it on video that he has been disavowing Trump every day since 2015.
Perhaps under this new regime, he judges he has to start sounding more sincere, and you will have to learn to listen for the implied meaning, or “read between the lines”, as they used to say during the Soviet times.
Considering current events, every married man will be getting big “shit tests”, from wives over next month.
Random women in their social circle will be “shit testing” stronger men in their community, too.
Not sure why this is. Just feel that. In my balls.
@Jim, You keep mentioning Joseph Stalin as if he were a good guy.
Wasn’t he one of the Jews that helped genocide 66 million Christians in Russia?
Yes, but he stopped the genocide. He ended the holiness spiral that was heading into Pol Pot territory.
Also he was not a jew, anyone who thinks Stalin was a jew is crazier than those who believe in unironic lizard people and at least as crazy as those who believe the moon landing was fake.
Heh, when Khrushchev took a dump on Stalin in his not-so-secret Secret Speech, Georgia halfway revolted and Georgian truck drivers had put Stalin pictures on their windshields. “Good or bad, ourguy!” Despite that Stalin became far more a Russian nationalist than a Georgian nationalist. Nevermind. “Ourguy!”
Joseph Stalin was a bad man indeed, by right wing standards. But I guess, when Leftism is so far gone, barring a miracle only a fellow Leftist with a sufficient personally loyal following and ruthlessness can halt the spiral at some point. The longer the spiral goes on, the worse the “Stalin” will be. That Stalin murdered left-wingers who were further left of him does not mean that Stalin himself was not left wing or evil. He was just less insane than those to his Left.
That is why Jim wanted the spiral to end soon, either by a civil war or through a strong leader, relatively less left wing than Stalin (somebody like Cromwell).
Stalin’s an interesting figure. He’s said to have told Mao not kill his best farmers, which means he probably learned from the mass murder of the Kulaks and the resulting famine.
Since we are talking IT here…, can anybody give me an advice? I would like to get into IT. What programming language or technology or other skills should I learn? What is currently in demand? Or will be in demand soon? And is well-paid.
I don’t know whether a good answer to that really exists. The first question is understanding the deep essential logic of a profession vs. its accidental recent technological features. Essence vs. accident, you really do need these Aristotelean concepts. There are people out there who really can just follow tutorials on building some PHP-SQL-Angular.js website i.e. the accidental features, and can infer the deep logic, the essence of the profession from it. And there are other people who if they try that they will only ever be monkeys randomly doing stuff they do not understand. These people do need formal instruction in the deep logic, essence of things. Are your pattern recognition skills good enough to recognize the essence behind the accidentals?
A much better question is what could you do wherever you live that someone from Bangalore cannot do much cheaper remotely? Beyond the IQ advantage, which white people on the average have but I don’t know if you do personally have over the best people in Bangalore, there is a cultural advantage in understanding what people want and how in your location.
I can tell you this: I know two construction companies in Vienna, Austria, who even have the same main customer, and yet they do not speak the same language, do not use the same words for the same concepts, documents, processes! So even someone local or more or less local who even has experience in local construction industry has a problem talking with them about their software requirements. He can still misunderstand requirements. Someone from Bangalore would be utterly hopeless at it. This is cultural advantage.
Quite similarly, the aesthetics of a website, if a customer just says “make it simple, classy and elegant”, mean different things in Denmark and in Greece! If the web designer is not local, the customer has to define things exactly and he does not like that, or even cannot do that because he lacks that knowledge, hence local advantage.
So you start locally. Figure out requirements nobody who is not there would understand. Look up what kinds of technologies are used for something like that.
Start with Java, or anything. This isn’t that hard. Yes happens, at some point, and at every other point it’s just no. Noz all the way down.
The real problems aren’t can you not go write up a fun story where at some point someone says yes. But are you smart enough, and then do you care enough to do it?
The short answer is: Java for stuffy corporate crud, Python for research positions, C++ for any serious systems work.
The right answer is: it makes very little difference, because a few weeks or months of familiarity with one tool of a trade does not equal proficiency or talent at that trade. You may as well ask which brushes and paints you should pick up to become a renowned artist, or what power tools you should buy to become a master carpenter.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to learn a new skill or trade; millions of people do so every day. However, the questions people usually ask and should ask at the beginner stage are “where can I learn about this?” and “what are some beginner-level projects I could try out?”, not “how do I min-max this to get the most job offers and the highest pay.” The latter is a question for experts who already understand the trade. You almost never hear beginners asking this question about other trades, either – for some reason IT/programming is a magnet for them, which is probably why this exact question has been banned on most of their forums and Q&A sites.
If you’d asked “what language is easiest for beginners to learn”, that would be more relevant to your situation and maybe elicit a few good answers.
not “how do I min-max this to get the most job offers and the highest pay.â€
Thank you for the answer. I believe trying to get max benefit for min effort is a natural and necessary attribute of a good engineer.
I worked part time as an Oracle programmer when I was a student. I know what the IT jobs are about. I believe I am smart enough to learn anything. I just don’t want to waste time on some technology that is going out of fashion. And I hope to jump on a popular bandwagon.
Does anybody know which corporate IT system is now trendy? I know SAP used to be hot years ago. But what is now?
jim, what do you think of Moldbug’s Bitzion proposal?
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/bitzion-how-bitcoin-becomes-a-state
You cannot be a sovereign corporation unless you’re a corporation.
And you are not a corporation unless you have proof of stake.
And there are major political and technological obstacles against any of the existing major crypto currencies becoming proof of stake.
>I hoped and prayed that Trump would retain power
Who do you pray to, serious question? Do you get on your knees?
Or is just a throwaway phrase you guys use?
On my knees.
I find it as hard to believe you to be a Christian as I find it hard to believe you are a right winger.
Don’t worry their are Christians left, though the only one I know is my own brother. Can two make a tribe?
I turned him from progism when his wife was going to leave him and he was distraught. I told him, “when she gets home throw her down and fuck her”. He looked at me with that horrible confusion of crime stop. But he did. He did.
Well we might not agree to give you all our apples but, alas the world is still incoming. We still have to heal from it. Theirs still a chance yet!
Just ask, what does the chance mean?
Rejoice!
Yes, I’m sure your brother’s reaction was “Fuck my wife? That’s just crazy enough to work!” and then his marriage was saved. Most husbands and in particular most Christian husbands would never even think about the possibility of fucking their wives, were it not for helpful siblings and buddies like yourself.
Your little story has all the credibility of a Woke 8-Year-Old tweet.
I also observe that you are trying to affect a tone that is folksy, aloof, arrogant and gen-Z memespeak all at the same time, a tone that is very off-putting and obviously inauthentic. People notice these things. What you’re doing is the textual equivalent of speaking with a horribly fake foreign accent.
I read nothing from his posts but absolute mockery. He is trying to make fun of us.
“I also observe that you are trying to affect a tone that is folksy, aloof, arrogant and gen-Z memespeak all at the same time,”
Good observations. I would speculate that he is not a native English speaker, else he would know how hollow his verbiage is.
Take the affirmation, and then I will discuss faith with you.
Are you aware of the many people (including most all jews who believe that Yahshua is a messiah AND the son of God) that are known mostly as Messianic Hebrews.
Millions of them. Tend to be hardcore rightists, keep the laws of God, all the good stuff.
But they don’t believe Yahshua (Jesus) is God, or that there is a trinity, because of scriptures, rather than roman proclamations, when they hijacked the faith, banned sabbath, killed sabbath-keepers etc.
I just wondered if you are aware of them? And why you cling to a failed model? The roman empire died long ago, it ain’t coming back. Christianity is cucked to hell. Good, it’s false.
You can’t be ignorant of the unitarian view, yet you act like a scalded cat every time someone mentions it. WHy? Are you afraid of truth, are yoi afraid that scriptures don’t show a line of evidence for trinity? Are you working for Rome?
What is it?
Not seeing these Messianic Hebrews. Not aware of them. Maybe they exist but are lying low.
What I do see is is Unitarians and Socinians, who tend to be very bad people.
The Unitarian Church is composed of evil people who predate on other people’s children and destroy other people’s lives. They celebrate drag queen story hour in place of Christmas.
My problem on this blog is Christian entryists, people who say “hail fellow Christian, I am more Christian than thou, and you are not Christian enough, and by the way Christianity rightly understood points the way to progressivism and Marxism, which is a superior version of what Jesus was ignorantly groping towards.”
If these Messianic Hebrews do not call themselves Christians, I am fine with them, just as I am fine with old type Hindus and blood and soil Buddhists. Blood and soil Buddhism is good for Burma and Thailand, and old type Hinduism is good for India.
But people who call themselves Christian, and are not, are bad people who have been doing very bad things for two millennia.
That’s cool then, as I am not christian, but a messianic Hebrew. A very cursory websearch will show anyone that it is a real thing, with millions of faithful families. We are strict at adhering to scriptures, strict at keeping out traditions, so we go down like a tonne of bricks in mainstream organised religions, whether christian or judaism or muslims.
I think most are lying low, some are on twitter and other platforms, but are largely ignored or attacked by christians especially. Messianic Hebrews see what is coming down the road, and warn about it, I write a lot, and am very active online. Mostly a futile effort for now, but I will be victorious, we will be victorious. I will become very well-known in due course. Men, like those who frequent this blog, are likely to rally behind me, the enemy will hate me, but will be unable to stop me.
In the early days of my faith, a few years back, I used to call myself a christian, before I realised it was full of tradition and was entirely cucked. Now I call myself a servant of God, grafted in to Israel through the blood of His son and messiah Yahshua (Romans 11). But Messianic Hebrew is more concise.
Do you mind if I post in my own name and include a link to my messianic website in future? It is important, to win the battle ahead, that we don’t cower behind online anonymity, I fear only God, not any men. So, my name is Gary Morgan, and I live in a village in Devon, England, called Sparkwell. I will share my website in future posts, if allowed. Any Feds want to risk a visit here, they are very welcome.
For a flavour of my thoughts, as you guys focus on the women issue, here is something I wrote about women in my nation a few years ago.
https://www.2malachi.com/daughters-of-eve/
It affirms that women should be tightly controlled by men, either father, brothers, or husbands, and marriage is permissible as soon as a woman becomes fertile. Get them breeding and content with a strong man, who rules his home under God’s rules, and women will be happy and useful.
Levi and Simeon were real men of faith, their deception of the men of Schecem, who defiled their virgin sister Dinah, was counted as righteousness by God, because God hates the man who defiles a virgin (if the virgin is not complicit, see Deuteronomy 22 for the rules).
‘Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.’
We need to defend our women, on pain on death, from Jeremy Meeks. And we need to punish the women for whoredom too, if they whore it around before marriage, and the husband finds out they are not a virgin, as no bleeding when the hymen is broken and so no cloth of virginity, the woman must be stoned to death, outside the door of her father, to shame the father for his lack of control, and to put the evil whoredom out of the nation. (Deuteronomy 22:13-20).
These are the ways of God and the ways of messianic Hebrews, and these are the ways to defeat the enemy. We do not add to, nor subtract from, the laws God gave to Moses. No holiness spiralling allowed, nor any backsliding into sin, sin being transgression of God’s laws.
We defeat the enemy by obeying God, and getting Him on our side as He promises (Deut 28 and Leviticus 26, blessings sections), with Him blessing a nation, an obedient faithful nation, the enemy is powerless. We may have to give our life to defeat the enemy, but our faith allows us to do this with the promise of eternal victory. We do not fear men, full stop. We delight in the fear of God, and in His eternal promises.
If this sort of faith and rule of law is attractive to readers here, I will continue to comment. If it isn’t, you’re on your own, and doomed. There is no need to re-invent the wheel in matters of faith, just use the wheel given to us to stay on the narrow path.
“We defeat the enemy by obeying God and getting him on our side as He promises (Deut. 28 and Leviticus 26)”
You’ve completely misunderstood the Bible. You receive favor from God only if you keep the Law with no failure or intermission. “For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide in all the things written in the book of the law and do them.” Now it is evident that no man is justified before God by the law; for “He who through faith is righteous shall live.” But the law does not rest on faith, for “He who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree”–that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” Gal. 3:10-15
If you accomplish the law, you receive God’s favor through it. But Paul makes it clear that no one receives God’s favor that way. It is only received through faith in Christ.
The process is faith in God, belief in His resurrected son, baptism. That’s the justification phase, wholly dependent on faith, everyone baptised is a sinner, and most are ignorant at that point of the laws of God.
Jesus did redeem us from the curse of the law (said curse being death, as no one could keep them). How did he do that? He fulfilled the new covenant, Jeremiah 31:31-33, through his blood, so that the laws could be written in our hearts, and we got the holy spirit also through his blood, to teach us and to help us defeat the devil. 1 John 3:
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears,a we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. 3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
4Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
7Little children,d let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.e 8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
I was not addressing the point you raise at all though in my comment, i was addressing God’s promises to a nation, and of course there are also curses for the nations that turn away from Him (like England has).
For national victory, eternal victory, the nation MUST obey God’s laws, as Deut 28 and Leviticus 26 make clear. If you want to be a part of a nation that ignores God’s laws, wholesale, go live in America, or UK, or France, or China…or any of them these days. See how you like it.
A few chapters to read that utterly smash the idea that God’s laws are somehow optional: Ezekiel 18, the two I already quoted above, Hebrews 6 & 10, 1st John Chapters 2-4, 2 Thes 2. Or go and read the ‘Righteousness’ section at my site.
All are crystal clear, as was Jesus, that only the righteous enter the kingdom. I will give one of his quotes to close:
‘Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’
23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’’
Only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.
Give me an amen to the Lord’s words brother, and go in peace and onward to righteous victory. Otherwise, don’t bother me again, thanks.
You write a whole lot of Hat, but not a whole lot on how your Cowboy goes out to rope cattle.
You choose how to run your ranch, God just gives us His rules, and tells us what we will get through obedience or disobedience.
Go find a few men who want to obey Him (including you of course), get some land, make a covenant with God, and go and conquer canaan. It’s not complicated.
Except, you won’t find the few men, currently, and you can’t be arsed to obey His laws yourself.
So, sort yourself out cowboy, cos them’s the rules.
But of course, that is what someone who wants to be cagey about the payload he wants to deliver would say wouldn’t it? Long on thumping what you call The Law, short on elucidation of what exactly you mean that to entail.
See? What im saying is in this dovetail there’s been a whole lot of “greetings fellow rightist, i see that you’re pretty holy; i daresay im pretty holy myself; in fact, i daresay im even holier than you are.” But you know im just reserving judgement until I see the real payloads start dropping. What does Gary Morgan’s faith look like, walking, talking, and acting out in the wild? By their fruits you shall know them, as im sure you know.
>short on elucidation of what exactly you mean that to entail.
See Malachi 4:4, that is the law. The only aspects that no longer apply are sin offerings (as Jesus paid the price once and for all) and certain temple-specific laws.
As Jesus told us, not a jot nor tittle of the law shall pass til heaven and earth have passed and everything has been fulfilled.
You can read my very long story at my website, my tests of faith, how I live, what I do, my beliefs, that is my ministry. I do not want to regurgitate all of that here, it’s a very long story. Go read it, if you want. I spend c. 30-40 hours a week working on my ministry, I took the Nazarite vow, I devoted my life to God.
You can safely assume that every law of God that applies to me, I obey, and that nothing whatsoever is added to the law by me. I can do this through the blood of christ, through the holy spirit, through my faith, it is not difficult, it is easy. As scriptures tells us:
‘By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome, 4because everyone born of God overcomes the world.’
Now, you and your kind may find it very difficult, and therefore may dislike the fact that I find it not burdensome. You may not believe me, even though scriptures tells you it is easy. It is very easy, piece of cake.
Tough shit, I d not give a fuck what you think, you’re a constantinian, I am a messianic Hebrew. I am not here for you, I hate you, rome is dead and cucked, has been for fucking ages. Rome is for boy abusers.
I am here for guys like Alf and Pooch, who need a priest to follow, a man with no fear, who knows 100% he is protected by God, and will be victorious over the enemy.
Nuts
The legalism problem started long before the time of Jesus, started in second temple times.
Legalism led to bad conduct, and the crucifixion swept aside the letter of the ever elaborated law for the spirit of the law.
Consider for example the rules on contamination by blood. Legalistic and pointless.
We see all references to people being contaminated by blood in first temple times are obviously references to spiritual and metaphorical blood, the kind that Lady Macbeth was trying unsuccessfully to wash off. For example “Their blood is on their own heads”, “covered in blood”.
But shortly after the time of Jesus, the Jews were reluctant to walk on someone else’s ground in sandaled feet because he had spilled the blood of chickens upon it. They rioted, the Roman cops came out to quell the riot, and they got themselves covered in the blood of a Roman cop who was attempting to enforce a necessary and right Roman law on property rights impartially on Jews and Greeks alike.
And because the Jews were so damned self righteous about this incident, it eventually led to war with Rome and the exile.
It was divinely prophesied that they would get exiled when the failed to follow God’s commandments, and when they were so very legalistically scrupulous about the blood of a chicken spilled on ground they claimed as a right of way, they were violating the commandments on coveting, theft, and murder, using the letter of the law to kill the spirit. Whited Sepulchers. So the spirit of the law returned in person to reprimand their legalism.
They continued to holiness spiral legalism, and got exiled. The letter of the law leads to death.
Messianic Hebrews just follow scriptures Jim, and the law, the spirit of the law, as best we can in these pagan times. No judaistic fence laws, nothing added, nothing taken away, precisely as God and Jesus commanded.
if you think that’s nuts, that’s your prerogative, but that’s our way.
I dgaf what the jews did in rome 2,000 years ago, they always had invented traditions, fence laws, and they still do, they still serve their father the devil, as they did then. They are not my people.
However, I am not a judaist, as I said, nothing like it. A friend told me he thought he had broken the sabbath because he bought a homeless man a meal in a cafe, I told him not to be stupid, that’s exactly what Jesus showed us we can do on a sabbath, when it is lawful to do good. But we don’t ignore the sabbath, we remember it, as commanded, because it is made for man, and because rest is good for us.
Malachi is scripture, but he was the last of the second temple prophets. The Christian judgment on the law is that at some ill defined point not very long after the ten commandments the law became unacceptably legalistic – the Dark Enlightenment says holiness spiraled.
Seems to me the law as interpreted and applied in the time of King Solomon was pretty good, but gradually became worse and worse, being whited sepulchers in the time of Jesus. Which is not that long after Malachi. And was war not long after that.
You agree that the law as interpreted and applied by modern Jews is legalistic nonsense.
So when did the rot set in, and did it set in abruptly, or slowly and imperceptibly over millenia, and then faster and faster?
Not really asking for a memoir friend, rather, noting that, since we’re all friends here, right? we can usually skip the whole personal puffing up process, and go strait to the fruits, right?
You’re posting here, so clearly there are things you ostensibly want people to hear you talk about, points you want to impress, right? If we say The Law is important, you won’t find anyone here who disagrees with those words; but what is it exactly that is evoked in this or that man’s mind by those words? If you don’t have anything more to say besides the standing on ceremony itself, that gap is never bridged.
Indeed, a lack of clear bridge over that gap often specifically being what is desired by the subversive, to cloak their intentions.
If I post something here, naturally it would be because I want to talk about something that relates to where im putting it. It could be a small aside, or a large dissertation, but the main point is that all of it will usually be something intended to have implications on praxis. That is to say, any one particular moment being a teachable moment on how Divine Law may apply in that moment. That is what i mean when i say ‘what does the faith look like out in the wild’, those payloads that reveal themselves when rubber meets the road, in each and any and all instances.
@Gary Morgan
“As Jesus told us, not a jot nor tittle of the law shall pass til heaven and earth have passed and everything has been fulfilled.”
Yes, and as Jesus told us, the Law has been fulfilled. “It is finished.” “Christ is the end of the Law that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.” (Rom. 10) “Through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Gal. 2:19-20)
It would be impossible for us to die to the law unless the law had been brought to an end–but it has in the death of Christ. A Christian dies with Christ to the law and receives a new life.
Besides this, if as you say, everything except sin offerings are still in force, you are still not keeping the law. There is still the necessity of the incense, thank offerings, peace offerings. There needs to be a temple and a priesthood, there needs to be the holy anointing oil. You are breaking all those laws.
Not to mention the reality that you still get angry, have lustful thoughts, and sin with your lips, and thereby break the Law (Matt 5-6). The Law is spiritual and must be fulfilled not only outwardly but in the heart. You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ. But your attitude toward the law is symptomatic of having the wrong God, since you deny that Jesus was with the Father in the beginning (John 1).
No one can actually keep second temple law, absent the particular social and political organization of the time of the second temple.
So you immediately have to face the reality that any specific legalistic formulation of the law is particular to a particular time and place, and indeed a particular race and ethnicity – so regardless of theology, the Christian formulation (spirit of the law) is the only one that is practical.
@ Gary
But we don’t ignore the sabbath, we remember it, as commanded, because it is made for man, and because rest is good for us.
Colossians 2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Ebionites (Greek: Ἐβιωναῖοι, Ebionaioi, derived from Hebrew ××‘×™×•× ×™×‎ ebyonim, ebionim, meaning ‘the poor’ or ‘poor ones’) as a term refers to a Jewish Christian sect who were vegetarians, viewed poverty as holy, believed in ritual ablutions, and rejected animal sacrifices.[1] They existed during the early centuries of the Common Era.[2] The Ebionites embracing an adoptionist christology, thus understanding Jesus of Nazareth as a mere man who, by virtue of his righteousness, was chosen by God to be the last true prophet who heralds the coming Kingdom of God on Earth. A majority of the Ebionites rejected as heresies the proto-orthodox Christian beliefs in Jesus’s divinity and virgin birth.[3] They maintained that Jesus was the natural son of Joseph and Mary who became the Messiah because he obeyed the Jewish law.[1]
Accordingly, the Ebionites insisted on the necessity of following the Written Law of Moses alone (without the Oral Law); used one, some or all of the Jewish–Christian gospels, such as the Gospel of the Ebionites, as additional scripture to the Hebrew Bible; and revered James the Just as an exemplar of righteousness and the true successor to Jesus (rather than Peter), while rejecting Paul as a false apostle and an apostate from the Law.[4][5][6]
@clovis
So, I will address your points, knowing that you will never agree with me, because God doesn’t want you to see truth, He wants you to burn, and you will. But for babes in faith, I will answer.
It is not the will of God that just about everyone burns.
It is the will of Gnon that we will fill the stars and subdue them.
And wearing tassels and giving money to far away strangers who live in places you could not find on a map is not going to have that effect. The law as interpreted by your faith, fails to give effect to the clear intent of the law.
These laws that you advocate are quite obviously particular to a particular place, time, and social organization, a time long past and a place vanished, and fail to address the issues that this blog is about.
The spirit of the law is universal to all places and times, and in each place and time must be given effect by sovereign, society, church, and family, in ways particular to that place and time.
@Pseudo-chrystom,
No, we are not all friends here.[rest deleted]
Sorry Gary, my blog is not the place for lengthy tracts from a hostile religion.
You are posting far too much, and the material is off topic.
The will of Gnon is that all races, but particularly the white race shall reproduce in cooperate/cooperate equilibrium.
And to reproduce in cooperate/cooperate equilibrium, women need to be compelled to stick with the first man they have sex with, and he with her. Which means the female sexual and reproductive services have to be male property.
Other aspects of the will of Gnon are considerably less important in these times, and I am very sure that it is not the will of Gnon that you give a large amount of money to strangers in far away places that you could not find on a map. Charity begins at home, and a good man is man who does right to friends and family.
You are posting voluminously claims about the will of Gnon that are off topic and unlikely to be believed here. Or anywhere. And most of your claims about the will of Gnon are clearly false. I would debate them if significant numbers of people believed them, but most of your claims have no traction, no widespread support, thus are a waste of space to discuss on this blog.
At least up until a certain age I would strongly argue the girls father should be able to veto the girls first lover as an unsuitable husband. Some men want virgin girls but plenty just wouldn’t care very much particularly if the girl is very attractive.
I was simply answering questions from others, including you.
You’ll allow christians, muslims, hindus, judaist, but not messianic hebrews.
So be it.
Hindus and Muslims have been commenting on topic.
They have not been posting lengthy evangelical tracts.
Your blog is renowned for massive off-topic threads.
I will comment occasionally, with a Messianic Hebrew viewpoint, when appropriate. Fee free to silently delete them, if you do that a few times, I won’t waste any more time, like the fucking hour I did today answering people’s questions, which you wouldn’t let through. Incredible. Silently delete this one if you want. You are leading these men to their deaths. You will answer for it. At my hand. Mark my words.
Is it?
I think it generally keeps to topic, and when it does not I crack down
Give me some examples of off topic threads – they don’t come to my mind. Perhaps I ignored them.
The issue of the spirit of the law versus the letter of the law was decisively dealt with by Paul, who was confronted with the problem of institutionalizing the Church for the ages among the gentiles.
You are ditching the book of John, and the entire rest of the New Testament that follows John. Common sense and the verdict of history is that this is a really bad idea. There is a pile of law in the old testament, such as tassels, that is transparently silly when transplanted to a different place and time, and a pile of law, such as the laws on blood contamination, that are clearly intended as a particular material way, particular to a particular place and time, of materially honoring a universal spiritual law. People in the old testament were clearly not much worried about literally getting contaminated by literal material blood, but rather by spiritual and metaphorical blood, the blood that Lady Macbeth was unsuccessfully trying to wash off with material water, the blood that the Jews copiously spilled in a foolish and wicked effort to avoid minute and microscopic contamination by material chicken blood.
And there is a pile of personal hygiene laws and public health laws that relate to the public health problems, the diseases and sources of contamination, that they had then, which are different from the ones we have now. Do you observe old testament law on contamination of building interiors by mold, or do you grab a bottle of Windex mold spray?
No one in practice observes Old Testament law, because much of it is just too silly in a different time and place.
Exactly so. And this is how, on the one hand, Saint Vincent of Lerins tells us “All possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all,” and on the other hand, Saint Ambrose fasted on Saturdays when in Rome, but not when at home in Milan, leading to the proper context for understanding the saying, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
I think Gary Morgan is Glosoli with yet another pseudonym.
You jelly that Jim’s popular in all the ways you are not, Gary? It’s ok. Your site looks nice.
Look, glosoli is back yet again.
“Consider for example the rules on contamination by blood. Legalistic and pointless.”
Outside of the Talmud. The Mosaic Law was meant for ritual purity to render the Israelite fit to dwell in the presence of the Glory of God in the Tabernacle:
https://www.tektonics.org/af/cleanman.php
It is also a form of infectious disease control of course.
It Symbolically provides an Island of Order in a Sea of Chaos by establishing and keeping boundaries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDDDS3Q2XxU
Watch this video by Jonathan Pageau. It provides good explanation for this.
This lays the ground work for the coming of the Logos in the Flesh.
I must warn you not too put too much trust/assets into btc.
Crypto chains themselves are amazing technologies.
But by themselves it’s just glorified accounting ledger.
Without being backed by real power they are just toys/manipulation and speculation instruments
Btc very likely just another honey trap which will spring shut sooner or later. Along and inline with great financial reset plans
Don’t play speculation money game against big power and money
You will lose.
Invest in yourself, your family and your community
I have been playing the speculation game against big power and money all my life and mostly winning. Big power and money has superior ability to predict outcomes because they control outcomes. Except when they do not. And with crypto currency, it is apparent that they do not.
And when they are unable to control outcomes, which is frequently, they lie and cheat and get away with it, as with the Mortgage Backed Security market from 2005 November to 2007. But though they can cheat and get away with it, they cannot cheat without being noticed. It was striking that in Mortgage Backed Security market from 2005 November to 2007, the speculators were for the most part not cheated, because we knew what was going on. And active investors, people who controlled their own money, were for the most part not cheated. The victims were not speculators or active investors, but those who had an agent hired by an agent hired by an agent controlling their money. Their agents turned a blind eye to the lying and cheating that everyone knew was happening, but no one could speak of, but no one else did. Everyone spoke as if nothing fraudulent was happening, but remarkably few people acted as if nothing fraudulent was happening.
There is a great deal of fraud and cheating going on the crypto currency exchanges, and the solution to that is to swiftly move the secrets controlling value to your own hardware.
Which again, just about everyone does.
Why don’t you just allow my comment for posterity Jim?
I did learn a great deal from following you for a long time. And if you’re right, and I do wish you’re so, I do, allow it in my space. I’ll think about it *if you’re right*
Their is nothing else left. But my gnon, libertardians. No matter what, you’ll go to your death bed clinging to the prog. You just can’t let it go can you?
Jim, praise gnon. Hear his bells among nations as they sing in one voice at night. Praise unto you! Thank you! You have taught me so much! A true patriarch among men! A man who passes his knowledge to the youth, yet I’m an old man now in my forties. A very old man I am. Thank you for all you have done. Praise unto you my wife and my children know your name.
My wife tells me, “did Jim make a new post”?
Alas, but rejoice!
I am not allowing your comments, because they do not sound sincere to me – you are posting stuff from the frame that you are a Christian lecturing us on Christianity, and it does not sound Christian, and posting stuff from the frame that you are on our side, and agree with our politics, and it does not sound like you are on our side and agree with our politics.
I welcome debate with those who disagree with me. I don’t welcome “hail fellow peasant” rhetorical manipulative tactics.
Trotsky, a failed urban Jewish money lender, told the peasants he was a fellow peasant and on their side. And proceeded to murder vast numbers of peasants.
I welcome debate and disagreement, but you are not debating, but rather trying to engage in emotional manipulation and pressure, particularly in your “hail fellow Christian posts”, which seem to me to be influenced by literal or metaphorical demons.
You are trying to shame people into agreeing with your position, rather than laying out evidence and argument.
Thus for example, calling Alex crazy presupposes that everyone knows that crypto currency is not an effective countermeasure against power. I welcome informed debate on this issue, but mere confident assertion is just going to be silently deleted.
What makes you one of the founders of the red pill? I was following the founders from the beginning.
You use our shibboleths in ways that suggest a failure to understand their meaning and the theory behind them. And you use commie shibboleths correctly.
I can speak commie, I can speak Christian, I can speak red pill, and I can speak dark enlightenment. You speak Christian poorly, Red pill strangely, Dark Enlightenment very strangely, and commie just fine.
I sometimes wonder who exactly was (or were) the founder(s) of the Red Pill. NRx theory largely rests on Moldbug, but I know he was not “the” founder, so to speak. Neither was Roissy the ur-PUA, in fact he may have been inspired to start a blog by Roosh, who, in turn, was after, or a contemporary of, Strauss. I sometimes feel that what we now call the “Red Pill” is a fundamentally different beast from what we (or at least I) used to call the Red Pill back in Roosh’s glory days.
It started with the nature of women, that I know from personal experience and by lurking on teh interwebs, but when did the whole thing come together, and who was the one who did it? Who brought Roissy and Kevin MacDonald and Anglin on the same page? And how the fuck did the Jew Moldbug get wrapped up in this lol? (I think Yarvin ponders this too!)
For a long time there were a bunch of blogs and videos on how to seduce women. De Angelo was the first to rediscover some understanding, but he was still full of crap. Then Mystery.
Neil Strauss published a book summarizing the wisdom of numberless anon’s
But the people posting did not understand why what they were doing worked. Their prescriptions worked, but seemingly made no sense. The breakthrough was the integration of Game, Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory, and Evolutionary Psychology. To which I credit Roissy, minion of Satan, who, unlike his master, speaks truth. But the understanding and integration started well before Roissy. Roosh was aware of the integration early on, but failed to focus on it.
My contribution is to place Game Theory and Evolutionary in a moral frame, and lately in a divinely ordained moral frame, and apply this frame to Game. Players and bitches is defect/defect equilibrium, and in the modern world you are always starting out in defect/defect equilibrium. Marriage 1.0 is cooperate/cooperate equilibrium. The only way to start out cooperate/cooperate equilibrium is to acquire a wife from a patriarch with whom your patriarch is in cooperate/cooperate equilibrium, which is not possible in the modern world.
So you have to be a player, and have to tame a bitch.
Kevin Macdonald is not part of the redpill in fact anyone who brings him up you can probably assume is not redpilled.
Kevin Macdonald’s basically list every bad thing he can find a jewish person ever did and concludes its all the jews and also that leftism is some jewish evolutionary strategy.
He ignores many things… above all that progressive jews don’t marry jews and don’t reproduce when they do.
I agree it was Roissy brought it all together. He was a very insightful and witty writer who wasn’t selling anything besides the truth. His commenters were also amazing. It took the left a long time to censor people like Roissy back then. Today they’re gone in a flash and we’re mostly left with people trying to make a buck off of horny young men.
Also Rollo Tomassi’s book Rational Male and his blog, and the Red Pill subreddit. The Red Pill subreddit was the first I saw using the term “Red Pill†to describe female sexual nature.
Red pill subreddit has, of course, been destroyed, and is dead under progressive shills.
The red pill is massively politically incorrect, and in the Gnon compliant form, even more politically incorrect.
I don’t quite understand why you claim red pill reddit is “destroyed” when I still see politically incorrect content there under quarantine. What is the difference between the old red pill reddit and now?
Possibly your idea of politically incorrect content may differ from my own. Quote or link a recent sample.
“Look For Compliance from Women, Not Indicators of Attraction”
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/kwasig/look_for_compliance_from_women_not_indicators_of/
“Why Players Get Laid”
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/kzd8sh/why_players_get_laid/
“Enjoy Your Turn”
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/ky3jzq/enjoy_your_turn/
One difference I see between the red pill reddit and your version is the ownership of women by patriarchs, but I don’t think even the old reddit had that kind of content having always been a congregation of players.
I’m also interested in how exactly the shills are attacking the red pill reddit, would be interesting if I could see those methods at play once I know them
The quarantine requires an email address, and I expect that that email address is promptly added to our enemies monitoring list with a red flag attached. Looks like a honeypot.
Post some samples of the honey.
I haven’t been to the TRP subreddit in years but I noticed some sidebar material posts disappeared as time went on. I don’t remember which ones or why. There still seemed to be good content on there as of a few years ago even if most of the focus was plate spinning and being a player.
If I had to guess, the Cathedral has mostly no problem in men engaging in sexual defect/defect with women, but converting to a cooperate/cooperate dynamic via Jimian patriarchal ownership is going to get you targeted for shilling.
You can create a reddit account without typing a real email address into the box. The address does not need to be verified or receive an email successfully. I make an account every so often to shitpost, with a username something like 234u2i34i23uuih234 and an email something like 2u3n4ui2342b@gmail.com. The email address I post with on your blog also does not exist, and I think it would be silly for me to use a real one.
Also it appears the email address verification is only required if using “new” reddit. If you replace “www” in the link with “old”, email is not asked for, and you can view without signing in to an account at all.
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/kwasig/look_for_compliance_from_women_not_indicators_of/
Pale pink rather than red.
Neglects to inform the player that the non compliant women are looking for a man who can and will successfully demand compliance.
Neglects to inform the player that the compliant women are going to give you a tough shit test sooner or later. If you are looking for women who will not shit test you, you will be looking for a mighty long time.
Someone said it took them a long time to censor Roissy. I think that’s probably because they didn’t understand him, and I continue to think that the reason why Jim isn’t censored is because they don’t understand Jim.
@clovis
Could be. Liberalism is based on the idea that human nature is “good” or at least can be shaped into being something “good”. Thus, to the liberal, bigots make special exceptions to this universal rule. People are “good”, excepts blacks, except women, except gays. That is the worldview they expect.
When they do not get it, they are really confused. “Are you telling me you are not trying to be a good person?” No, in the way you would mean it, I am not. “WTF.”
I am a good person. Liberals are bad people.
Thus, for example, the Global Warmism conspiracy revealed in the climategate files was motivated by the desire to harm people so that they could sell Carbon Indulgences. The more pain and suffering inflicted by the priesthood on the laity, the more that Papal Indulgences are in demand. Drag Queen story hour is motivated by the desire to have sex with small boys.
Liberal goodness consists of having ever better intentions to help far away strangers, as justification for causing harm to people close to them.
You’re accepting what liberals say while ignoring what they actually do. They want mercy for hardened criminals murdering people while people exercising self defense, they want put to death like Kyle Ritterhouse.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Liberals are evil people who pretend to be good.
Jim, Ace
There is the evil liberals on top, and there is a lot of naive deluded people on the bottom who are duped by them. When arguing online or occasionally cautiously IRL, I tend to meet the second type. Who seem to be really dumb enough to believe letting hardened criminals out of prison will work out because if you are nice to people they will be nice in return and not commit crimes anymore, or more like they are simply irresponsible enough to not think about consequences, because for virtue-signalling, good intentions suffice.
Although they are rapidly turning into willfully malicious, because the circle of people they consider “Nazis” is rapidly increasing, so it is rapidly turning into actually wanting the hardened criminal to hurt people.
But I remember a lot of arguments with the second type in the near past where it was really like a bunch of irresponsible idiots not recognizing or not caring the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I mean they seemed to be really living the illusion. For example SlateStarCodex commenters in its heyday. Grew up in the suburbian bubble where no one was violent, and generally played nice with people, they seemed to be really thinking that is just how all human nature works and “bigots” are just making a special exemption for certain groups.
The near-far model is pretty good. Human nature means most people most of the time were entirely okay with hurting the far. Naive idiots do not recognize it. They think people are basically good in the sense neither wanting to hurt near nor far. And then when their near people are hurting th far, or even just hurting them back, they notice it, because it happens near, and condemn it, because it does not live up to their moral standards. They think only those people near are such amoral to hurt the far, the far must be nice people who are just defending themselves, so they block efforts of the near to hurt the far, and thus end up helping the far to hurt the near. As the near are more and more desperate to defend themselves, thus more and more desperate to hurt the far, naive idiots consider the near more and more vicious, eventually spiralling into considering all the near Nazi kulaks and killing them all.
Top liberals are evil, but many low ranking ones, many everyday people are simply just this deluded, they think people are good enough to not want to hurt the far and that is the accepted moral standard, they notice the near hurting the far or being engaged in mutual hurt because it is happening near, they think the near is evil but the far is normal i.e. not wanting to hurt their own far, and thus they turn against the near.
This is what I meant liberals will not understand discussions like here, because I think our basic model is accepting normal people are okay with hurting the far. For a liberal, the idea of racist bigotry means assuming white people are never okay with hurting the far, nor the near, nor anyone, but black people are okay with hurting the far. But because this is not our view, they do not understand it.
The top libs are clearly evil, very much like how Jim described, but I do not get into debates with the top. I get into debates with everyday people deluded by the top libs.
There is a remarkably good correlation between someone caring deeply about far away strangers in places he could not find on a map, and that person being willing to casually harm friends and family.
Leftism is cheap virtue signaling. Which correlates closely with failure to perform expensive virtues.
Leftists tend to be personally and individually dangerous, untrustworthy, and treacherous, because they adhere to a concept of virtue that you can be a good person, while being a bad person to friends and family.
When the Pope was taxed on priests in the Vatican having sex with each other in a great big pile, he replied “Global Warming”. Leftism is, in practice, excuses for bad conduct.
When Scott Alexander’s social circle double crossed each other in the events leading to Kathy Forth’s suicide, it was because one needs to be sympathetic and understanding to traumatized and disturbed women.
And Kathy Forth was plenty traumatized and disturbed. But she was traumatized and disturbed not by rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, but by the fact that having hit the wall, she was no longer getting any rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. She needed a spanking. She wanted a spanking. She told us so in her suicide letter. And instead Scott Alexander and friends enabled her wicked and destructive conduct at the expense of each other.
Progs and commies are evil people from top to bottom.
New agey type leftists are often genuinely good people with naive delusions. And you can often educate them into not believing said delusions anymore.
@jim
“Which correlates closely with failure to perform expensive virtues.”
Yes, absolutely. Sins of ommission: cowardice, laziness, not doing the hard and good thing. It is different from sins of commission: conscious malice. Wait. Am I defending libs now? I did not even intend that, my point was that someone who thinks human nature is so that people do not even want to harm the far will not understand these discussions. How did I end up defending libs?
I think I have frame this sub-discussion entirely wrongly and it made it unproductive. I framed it as libs, and libs means really everybody from Soros and Harris down to any of their voters. That was stupid.
So for example in their case there is really a case of duper and duped. I looked up Ace’s reference and it seems to have been Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón + Soros of whom David Cole wrote he did not tell his voters that he is gonna do this. They got duped.
But yet, this is not really what I meant. George Gascón is obviously evil and his voters are obviously lowbrow fools, I meant the idealist type I have met on SSC.
Again, I just did not frame this subdiscussion properly. The “idealists” around Scott Alexander committed a sin of ommission, of lazy cowardice, not a sin of commission, willing malice. The Pope did.
This is not the right frame and I must apologize for creating an unproductive subdiscussion. There are really multiple different categories of people, not just “libs”.
Personal experience: The idealism you meet in SSC, when you meet it in real life people, those people are unreliable, and apt to do bad things.
These “idealists” subscribe to a concept of virtue that enables them to be extremely virtuous without the potential inconvenience of doing right to friends, family, employers, employees, or customers.
The “effective altruists” neglected to inquire whether the money they were quite genuinely sending to Africa was helping people or killing people.
The most infamous example of this was “We are the world, we are the children”, where they funded the cattle trucks that the government that created the famine was using to ship people to death camps.
The effective altruist movement signaled virtue by sending money to Africa, but they displayed a total lack of interest in whether their money was actually doing good. Which means that when you actually interact with an “effective altruist” who is quite genuinely sending money to Africa, he is likely to knife you in the back.
Jim, do you have a link to Kathy Forth’s suicide letter?
Obviously, wanting to be spanked is female desire to submit but progs refuse to believe the obvious, so they pass it off as a ‘kink’ – totally cool and acceptable – but with no mechanism.
“Some women, for absolutely no reason, want a sexual experience of being physically forced to submit but we must not interpret this to mean that women want to be physically forced into submission!”
The blue pill Victorians would have said that these women were ‘fallen’ or corrupted by evil men, which at least provides a mechanism. The progressive view on sexuality reminds me of the progressive view on evolution. There’s a vast spectrum of different sexualities and races but without any reason. None are different in any meaningful manner.
The extreme submission fantasies (not that women in the past didn’t have them but they weren’t as common or as extreme) so common in many modern women is a direct result of progressive society indoctrinating women (and women are on the surface more malleable because of their herd instinct) contrary to their natures and setting up a reinforcing social structure contrary to their natures.
@jim
You should make an article containing and further exploring the ontology of leftist ethics explained in these few posts of yours. This is the kind of wisdom I come for and everyone should be reading, simply amazing. Never ceases to amaze me the ease with which you put into simple words many of my instinctual thoughts and perfectly describe leftism. I dare say, if you wrote a book on the subject or a compilation of your philosophical gold nuggets it’d be history important grade.
It’d definitely be a book every child should read before reaching the age of 12 to avoid huge huge trouble in their lives, meaning of life stuff, or at least, get through life successfully.
I would also like to see a post on leftist ethics. How much can you trust someone who is a leftist? What if they have a seemingly normal family life and basic decency? Is there a certain threshold of leftism that negates all of that? Can a true blue prog be trusted in any capacity? This is an urgent issue for many of us…
The thing is, leftists tend not to have a normal family.
I know, Jim. This is not new, even Rousseau, who was leftist but hated the cosmopolitan philosophes, said that those Frenchmen who were overly worried about the suffering of the Tartars used it as an excuse to not care about their neighbors. And the pattern was the same as today, loving the far was strangely about loving far thugs, not decent people far away. The Tartars spent centuries “harvesting the steppe”, selling kidnapped Slav slaves to Ottomans, which is where the word slave comes from, and no one cared in France, but when the Tzar got fed up and tore them a new one, suddenly the philosophes got worried about all that cruelty and inhumanity. WTF. The real joke is that the Tzars methods worked so well at making the Tartars docile that now there are Russian writers arguing they are a good example today, of how Muslims and Christians can live “together” in peace – but let’s not get into that now, because “together” actually means “under the thumb of Christians” etc. etc.
So it is known. Still, what I am talking about exists, and is big. You know how this argument is going on for centuries, leftists talk about some big utopia where everybody will voluntarily work for the common good and conservatives say it is not compatible with human nature. And yes of course it is merely propaganda for knocking over applecarts, and when they win the workers do not find themselves voluntarily working for the common good, but they find themselves enserfed to harsh masters. Yet, this language is basically the common language of modernity, this propaganda is sort of the basis of the public language of modernity, one bunch of people claiming they have good intentions and another bunch of people saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is the language libs speak, even if it is just propaganda.
Alrenous had a good point that the fossils of old power grabs stay in the public discourse, in the public mind:
“These centuries have seen innumerable self-serving political campaigns, waged and won using ever advancing sophistry. These politicians are seen as heroes by their duped victims, as they embody an ideal sophistication to aspire to, and each victorious manipulative lie is seen as a worthy ideal.
The truth is what it is, but a lie can be designed for marketability; to go down easy and smooth, to fit existing misconceptions. Each new avaricious politician sees a much easier path in expanding old lies rather than attempting to fight them.
The result is that by now, the average voter’s head is stuffed to bursting with the fossils of past power grabs. Almost everything they say or do that has any political relevance whatsoever is the echo of some dead politician’s clarion call to serve his interests over their own.”
All I am saying libs do not understand discussions outside this lingo, outside the language centered around the fossils of the propaganda of past power grabs.
Another thing. Since Katy Forth was mentioned, I have re-read her suicide letter. I am not sure I understand it, it is full of hamstering of the highest grade, the hamster running on IV meth and IQ-boosters, the bolts and nuts coming off the hamster wheel. But my impression is that some PUA’s have a tendency to do “hit and run dominance” instead of owning women and that was the core issue. “If I cannot have my body, nobody will have it.” The issue is more like nobody was having it and keeping, rather the “hit and run dominance” was that they treated her body as public property instead of homesteading and owning her.
She fantasized about becoming someone’s property.
All her life she banged men out of her league. Of course the highest alpha a chick can bang is higher than the highest alpha who would stick around. And then she hit the wall, and no one who she considered in her league would bang her.
So she started making false charges of rape and sexual harassment at all and sundry – females misbehave as a generic shit test, to smoke the alpha out of the woodwork. In the ancestral environment, the reaction would have been “Whose woman is this”. And upon identifying someone arguably in authority over this misbehaving woman, he would be told to take care of the problem.
In the ancestral environment, intolerable misconduct and causing a nuisance to men was a way of getting rid of unwanted freedom – and it is clear her freedom was unwanted.
In the ancestral environment, the reaction would have been “Whose woman is thisâ€.
Who bitch this is? Who bitch this is?
Jim, four years ago I was banned for starting an obvious truth. Women do as they are told.
Women do as they are told. Truth that no lies, no tales, no things will ever change. Women, obey. Women do as they are told. Want a woman to obey? Tell. Magic.
No they don’t.
I hear an incel speaking.
Women always shit test you.
And that shit test is apt to be disobeying you on something important in ways stupid and self destructive.
Which is why no startup with mixed sex founders ever succeeds.
They want to lose. They want to be made to obey. Which is why they are apt to disobey when it is vitally important that they do the obviously correct thing.
But they don’t obey easily, because they are looking, and continue to look, for a man who can make them obey. And they will disobey you on something where it is obviously important for their own good that they obey you because they are looking for a man who will command them to do what they know they should do, and are looking for a man who can make that command stick.
Left voters are half the population and human nature is strong. There are plenty who have a family that is apparently normal. At least without any gross obvious dysfunction. In the same hypocritical way they live in all white suburbs they also have traditional family structures
At any rate the left that has generational wealth seems to know how to maintain a traditional family, at least outwardly, probably because they understand you can’t maintain generational wealth and power without it.
Even the big exchanges? The big US exchanges are regulated by USG, which is a big problem, but I didn’t think fraud was a problem. What about the big Chinese exchanges?
The big exchanges are not likely to do a Mount Gox tomorrow morning, so they are reasonably safe to purchase crypto currency.
But they are scamming people who attempt to speculate in crypto currency, by falsifying history and prices.
@jim
I’m setting up my bitcoin wallet for just-in-case. So I’ll try the big exchanges. My cryptocurrency knowledge isn’t very good, so I’m mostly listening here in the comment section and also to my close friends who are familiar with it.
People have been saying this about cryptocurrencies since a full BTC cost $1. What makes your humdrum analysis any more intelligent or timely than theirs?
What trustworthy exchange (without KYC) is there to buy Monero with BTC/USDT?
I don’t think you are a literal shill in the sense that someone is paying you to say this stuff, though I am not altogether sure that you are not. Likely you are echoing what you have heard shills say.
Alex was asking a reasonable and realistic question, which deserves a reasonable and realistic answer. KYC and exchange fraud can readily be avoided, and is being avoided on a mass scale by hundreds of millions of people. Probably by most of the commenters posting.
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There is much to criticize about existing crypto currency, and I welcome informed debate by people who understand crypto currency, economics, money, and incentives.
Not going to discuss crypto currency with you.
Bisq software currently works well for amounts from about 0.005 BTC to its maximum of 2 BTC. If you have more than 2 BTC then do multiple transactions. I have seen someone trade 75 BTC over the space of a few days there.
Fees are 0.1% for market makers and 0.7% for takers, plus the BTC block mining fee. Smaller trades will incur a higher % fee, because the mining fee is fixed, and because there is a minimum trading fee. If you trade a lot you can get around 50% discount by using their colored BTC token, called BSQ.
The software uses TOR for connecting to both with Bisq peers and with BTC nodes. It works on Windows, Debian, Fedora, and some other platforms. Debian works well.
Risks are backdoors and software bugs. There have been both in the past but as of v1.5.4 it is rather well behaved. In the case of a recent bug some people had deposits locked up but got them back in all cases. A hack of a vulnerability in April 2020 cost 3 BTC and 4000 XMR but the victims were apparently repaid from the board.
Assuming the software is honest, the way it works is:
1. the maker publishes his deposit (for monero sellers) or deposit + exchange amount (for monero buyers) as a BTC transaction
2. the taker publishes his deposit or deposit + exchange amount (seller or buyer respectively)
3. the maker + taker publish a 2 of 2 multisig with combined exchange + 2 * deposit
4. the monero seller (either maker or taker) sends the monero and provides proof
5. the multisig pays out the deposit + exchange to the monero seller and the deposit to the monero buyer
Because of the way the transactions are programmed (the multisig has a 1 week timelock spend to a board-controlled arbitration account if both parties disagree in a dispute) and because of the governance and high fees they rake in, you should get your money back if something goes wrong wrong. My take on governance is that 0.8% of every exchange is a very fat goose that no sane person would kill, but I could be wrong.
Monero exchanage is low risk because spends can be proven with the address, amount, transaction hash (txid) and transaction private key (txkey). The worst that can happen is that your funds will be locked up for a week and this is apparently rare. I have not had a dispute in a few tens of transactions.
USD exchange is higher risk and account ageing restrictions reflect this.
The single point that a government might attack is the board, or the developer. This could affect transactions that go to arbitration, or could force a backdoor. Use the usual precaution of not having too much BTC held with the software or in any one place. There is the option of using the Bisq included wallet or an external wallet. This mitigates software risk considerably.
How do you buy BTC for USD? Once you link your USD account to the software, isn’t KYC as good as done? Govt can trace your BTC to the linked KYC-compliant USD account, can’t it?
There are a multitude of ways of unlinking your BTC. Trading them for XMR was just discussed in the comments.
And, of course, it is increasingly possible to buy BTC from friends, family, and friends of friends.
And there are ways of buying BTC from strangers without KYC.
Trouble is that every time you spend some BTC, your change is relinked, and when you spend unlinked with linked, they both get linked, and you have more linked change.
There are wallets that help you track the linkage, or you can track it manually. You should do both. Always use coin control.
Since bitcoin is heavily criminalized at your location, I would recommend Specter desktop with a hardware wallet. You should also run a full peer in a dedicated machine for specter to use. From time to time, backup a full copy of the blockchain onto a USB drive. If you have a substantial amount of crypto currency, specter desktop, full peer, and hardware wallet is the way to go, but start playing around with just a software wallet.
Isn’t it too late to even consider this if you haven’t already purchased bitcoin?
Why.
Not following your reasoning?
Because I never bought bitcoin because by the time I heard about everyone making money on it I figured it was too late. And when I read the discussion above I wouldn’t have enough confidence to buy it and assume that I would know how to keep myself anonymous and not just end up losing the money.
Back when one BTC was worth a dollar, everyone figured it was too late.
Cryptocurrency will replace fiat currency. It will not necessarily be Bitcoin that replaces it, for Bitcoin is hitting its scaling limits hard, but it is still very early days for crypto currency.
And, of course, the crypto currency market is full of scams and scammers and crypto currencies fluctuate wildly.
Bet on the lightning network. I have been, and continue to be, extremely critical of the lightning network, but if they get their act together, a lightning network done right could eat the world financial system.
thanks, I could use financial advice
Thank you for this post, this is exactly what I was looking for. My mistake was to assume that I was confined to the traditional centralized exchanges just because BTC and XMR don’t share a blockchain.
That is not Christianity.
I haven’t made many posts for a great many years. Since I was one of the founders of the red pill that I lost since I’m a simple man.
And I’m a simple man. I’ll just go back to my life with my patriarchy I made in my life I made and laugh and dance with my children. I’m not even sure how to share how simple it is. Yet I do try.
You are not one of the founders of the red pill, and the man you depict yourself as being would not use words like “dialectic”.
I am silently deleting your comments, because you are arguing not from facts or evidence, but from who you supposedly are.
You don’t sound like the person you supposedly are, and even if you were that person (what makes you one of the founders of the red pill), I don’t want that form of debate on my blog.
I understand. During my time when I was very active online I reached the conclusion that only rhetoric works. I’m reaching the conclusion that it doesn’t work at all. I don’t know what works. Dialectic? You can’t reason someone out of a belief they were never reasoned into. Leadership? I don’t want followers I want a king in every house.
I think our biggest beef is usury and money working for you. I think men need to turn away from this sterility, as money is sterile even if you fool yourself into thinking somehow you’ve created a way for money to work for you, and turn to something fertile. More of something sterile won’t make it fertile. Even more of it?
Men need to build real wealth and hold on to it. To protect it. This is illegal now so all men must become outlaws. And all men must become kings.
Allowing this through because it is an important debate.
You are giving us the commie version of the Christian ban on usury. Though you are probably not a communist, you have been reading the writings
When the Christians declared money to be sterile they were not banning profit. They were banning profit made by exploiting the short time preference of foolish people.
The rule is that you cannot charge interest against the person, only against productive property. So instead of investing in other people’s weakness, you invest in other people’s strength. You can make an interest bearing loan against cattle, for the cattle produce more cattle. You can make an interest bearing loan against a house, because a house produces shelter. The house is not sterile. You can make an interest bearing loan for business expansion. You cannot make an interest bearing loan against tomorrow’s paycheck so that the borrower can party today.
I am preparing, but have not entirely finished, a post on usury: https://reaction.la/security/usury.html
I’ll read this tomorrow, when I can give it the attention required
Heh, they’re going to make it illegal to for anyone to publish anything that might make the public believe that elections are rigged:
https://patriots.win/p/11SJxqJtDh/-democrats-introduce-their-first/
Jim isn’t wrong, elections are all going to be rigged now in every state at every level. Voting is over even in the Redest of Red States.
I think it is a good time to talk priorities. Jim, one characteristic of your worldview is that I think you seem to say that the woman question has absolutel No. 1 priority, because it is equivalent to the eugenic fertility or white fertility question, and that has absolute No.1 priority. And thus it has a higher priority than the race question, immigration question, capitalism/socialism question gay question and so on. Correct so far?
Everything is now going towards the shitter in the US and as a consequence in the empire as well. Jim, let’s take this hypothetical question, suppose a supernatural force asks you to choose one of them and he will magically fix it, and I think you would choose the woman / eugenic-white fertility question. He just magics white women to be submissive and only to white men so they pop out five kids each. Meanwhile, the economy is still going towards Venezula, immigration will still be much higher, thus “race relations” kinds of problems will still increase, I mean basically crime, gays still gonna be triumpant and so on.
Yet, I think you would choose this rather than any of the alternatives, like the supernatural force stopping immigration, or making all blacks infertile, or making all blacks docile, or moving the economy towards 19th century capitalism, or banning the gay. Correct?
If yes, I woul dlike to ask exactly why?
This is not a purely theoretical / hypothetical question. It is practical: all those other countries who still have a shred of sovereignty left and a shred of basedness left, which compromises should they take and which not? Thinking Poland/Hungary but also others. Suppose the Cathedral forces them to legalize gaymarriage, give quota scholarships to gypsies and liberate women even more. Sounds like to me you would recommend them to fight the latest and make a compromise in the first two if they have to. So this is what I am trying to figure out with this hypothetical question. Basically: what is the hill to die on for them and why is it the woman / fertility question.
I’d like to exclude one aspect: the WQ is No. 1 because it is the hardest. Yes, it is the hardest, but that is not what it makes it No. 1.
It is the hardest, because you can be redpilled about women if you are just chasing sloots, you can even be redpilled about women when married, but here is the real solar plexus punch: how is a man gonna be redpilled about his mother? Calling a mans mother a whore is a fighting word. Thinking women are sloots when uncontrolled and then thinking well his mother was back then in the sixties, seventies not very much controlled, is something a man really does NOT want to think about. It is really the ultimate crimethink, which draws the hardest attempts to hamster a crimestop, because it is not a crimethink that liberals labelled so but something very, very deep and old. A man really does absolutely not want to think about his mother in the framework that she was maybe a plate spun by alphas. He will use every possible excuse to avoid thinking so.
Which results in making it very hard to think redpilled about women.
But that is not this difficulty that makes the WQ the No. 1 but its relationship with (eugenic) fertility, so the big question is why (eugenic) fertility is No. 1.
My mother married when she was quite young, so I’m reasonably confident that she was not a whore. If yours went to college and then married well into her twenties, then I’m sorry to say she may have been a whore at one point. But whoredom is generally for unowned women, and once she was married, and probably some time beforehand, I assume she became owned and stopped being a whore.
Surely you must be able to imagine your dad, or someone’s dad, chasing pussy, so why not the converse? Your parents had to fuck in order for you to be born. That means both of them had sexual desires.
You’re commanded to honor thy mother and father, but that doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to think rationally about them. And if you can’t think rationally about your parents, whose sex lives are in many cases over and done with, how are you possibly going to think rationally about your wife, who might be weighing your masculinity against other men right now, or your daughter who’s in her sexual prime and getting tingles from drug dealers and broke musicians?
We’ve heard all these excuses before. You have to deal with it at some point, every man has to deal with it, otherwise civilization dies a quick and fiery death.
I’ve never found this hard. Growing up I watched plenty of cheating by mothers of my friends and I saw how unhappy my mother was with my father acting like a beta bitch. Did she cheat on him? No idea. At some point when I was 11 or so my mother spontaneously decided to put my father in charge and deferred to him on the basis of her Christian faith. She was much happier after that. My dad still failed shit tests but there were fewer of them with the proper roles backing him up.
Today she’s pretty influenced by this women are equal to men sort of propaganda and gets very upset when I say things like that’s women’s work, but her actual relationship with my father is very traditional, as is my sister’s relationship with her husband. Women need alpha men to own them and with those alpha men owning them in the now illegal marriage 1.0 slutting around is much less of an issue.
A bigger issues for families that I saw as a kid and even more so today is the boys being shunted asides to promote the girls. A good friend of mine watched his parents pay for and push his sister all the way through a PHD program. She’s now a childless PHD holding bitter women who’s child bearing years are over. It’s high status to push girls into sluthood and gene shredding directions and Christen families do it by the bucket load while leaving their sons without the proper pushes to make them into strong men.
That is a massive issue in the west as well. Families just give up on sons at a young age or try to turn them into girls. In turn they pump up the egos of girls and try to turn them into boys. And everyone is clueless where all these tranny wannabes, soy boys, feminazis and other assorted freaks come from.
Paradoxically enough, in the coming deregulated sexual marketplace, categories such as “whore” will become less and less strong, and therefore less difficult to accept.
“Yes, my mother fucked around when young, so what?”
It is like homosexuality, almost nobody bats an eyelid in the West about it.
People, particularly those online, are way less naive now. The have seen it all. I doubt some normal kid living in Middle America in the 1970s knew about fisting or orgies or the like.
I think you reactionaries underestimate the resilience of ‘clownworld’. People adapt to almost everything given enough time.
We have had many clownworld episodes in many times and places over the last few thousand years.
It has not been at all resilient.
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Suones,
Seems like Indian (Hindi) media is also getting pozzed and becoming more left winged with feminism. I was a bit shocked tbh but guess the foreign funded NGOs and western educated Indians are make a big impact “to spread their knowledge”.
I was watching Indian Idol today and they did a profile on a female pilot and how she was such a huge model for female empowerment. They also have this coffee commercial where the mother asks her daughter, “so you have been married for 3yrs any news? The daughter replies back saying “ya I’m such a strong independent women and I founded a startup”.
Dear John,
Hindi media has been pozzed from the start, i.e., 1947. Feminism has been alive in India since the 1930s at least. Its spread in the middle class has been astonishingly slow, if anything, to the great chagrin of various NGOs. Even the “Hindi” language is a Leftist creation, just as “Urdu” language is a Baphometan mirage. Old liberals consider the language as “Hindi/Urdu,” but not the newer Progs.
Big leadership in Indian prog movements is taken by adharmi Brahmins (of course), of whom “Pandit” Jawaharlal Nehru was a shining example. Prog Hindus are called “secular” in India.
You’re a braver soul than I, my friend. 😂
All TV, most movies, and even the commercials are pozzed. Our media march ten years behind Harvard, so right now we’re seeing Feminism, but sodomites and tranners aren’t far behind. But we have two silver linings: 1) the vast majority of Indian women have proven extremely resistant to feminism, for some reason. Even direct transfer of money to women by Govt mostly results in the man of the house getting hold of the money and managing it as he sees fit, and media attempts to “expose” it only result in non-co-operation by the alleged “victim” wife, and 2) Feminism is the first line of Leftist attack; if that is defeated, the whole “Leftist Revolution” thing never happens.
Am I hopeful? No. There is never hope in the proles, who are only slightly better than animals, and Indian elite fertility is rapidly declining. But I can’t help but fight. Modi is merely a speed-bump on the Leftist journey in the long term. But Moloch will have to face Sri Kalki avatar at some point, and I believe that Dharma will prevail.
To fix fertility, the magical supernatural force would have to install patriarchy. Patriarchs and their manly sons would in due course, perhaps generations, fix all the other problems.
There is an very strong correlation between failure to protect private male ownership of female sexuality, and failure to protect private property in land. Every home needs a wife and a garden. If no wife, no interest in a home and garden, and politics will create a landless, fatherless mob, living in little boxes, and elites will use that mob to destroy each other.
Jim, have you done any thinking about why Jacob was a quiet man and hung around the tents and his mother, and Esau who was manly as hell, and yet God chose Jacob? Also Jacob grasped his brother’s heel in the womb and behaved in every way like a beta. And yet by the end of the story Jacob has sort of become manly in that he has four wives and is able to manage a huge household. But the point of the story seems to be that God did not choose the alpha, but the weaker man. And that seems to be a recurring theme throughout the Bible.
Esau in the chapter after selling/despising his birthright, goes and marries women of ANOTHER RACE. The proof of this is that when Issac (his father) needs a woman for marriage, he needs a servant to be sent to another land to find one, since the women in the area are not acceptable.
“Liberal Christians” despise any interpretation that says “Race mixing = Bad”. The fact that there are groups of women that the Anceint Israelites are to not touch/take for themselves, but other groups are fine, suggests that race was a core factor.
But to round it off, I wouldn’t want a race mixed heir, and I don’t think God wants that either based on all the issues that race mixed people have.
This is another hard teaching of GNON. Civilisation is actually built by beta men. What kind of person do you think invented the telephone or computer or the Internet? Patriarchy and enforced monogamy does not primarily benefit the rootless Alpha — he takes what he wants anyway. Patriarchal structures serve to ensure beta reproduction, that is the driver of society — creating mid-level soldiers, businessmen, farmers, professionals, traders, basically the huge bulk of taxpayers.
A wise man once told me that PUAs tend to be so vitriolic because they’re almost always “reformed betas” — natural alphas have no need for PUA.
When the Supreme Alpha GNON anoints his earthly representative Alpha God-Emperor, it becomes the latter’s duty to ensure beta-male happiness and high fertility. This is the key indicator that made Aryan society different from Semites: every head of a family has absolute power over his land and descendants, and said power is backed up by the Emperor’s soldiers and Apollo’s priests. That’s what makes the Patriarch attractive to women, even though he is simply a good managerial beta.
A society that has many competing alphas prowling around like wolves will turn into a society like, well, wolves — which is fine for a nomadic existence, but miserable and in no way fit to reach the stars, let alone subdue them.
Dharma Shastras teach us a parable where a neophyte is asked to identify which man is the most “holy” from among a self-mortifying ascetic, a wise Brahmin, a great King, a thief and a family man. When the neophyte (obviously) picks the hermit, the Master corrects him and points out that all of the above are actually carried on the shoulders of the family man. The ascetic and Brahmin live on alms, King on taxes, and thief on stolen goods, but all of these are generated by the family man, so he’s the one most holy and most likely to obtain divine favour. This anecdote stuck with me as a beautiful episode to raise the status of beta males, and all of this is of course backed by Sri Vishnu Himself and enforced by His agent the King.
This is not such a hard teaching. One cannot just fit men into two categories, for example, Vox Day uses a five-level hierarchy. And if a natural alpha means someone who would not be squeamish about gutting someone with a knife and might actually enjoy it, then I think most men here are one level lower than that and happy being so, perhaps LARPing alpha for the girls but not really wanting to be that. Because one level lower is indeed the stuff civilization is made of. This does not make one a wimp – that’s what the other three levels are for.
This meme needs to die.
Why lol?
Does anyone on this blog support the use of the term God-Emperor?
I like the meme but not for Trump anymore…
I could forgive Trump most of his faults, I could even forgive him for losing in the end, but I can’t forgive him fleeing the field in terror on January 6th.
Men should stand by their king, but not if their king won’t stand by them.
It probably was fools gold to even use the term to begin. In hindsight, Trump was destined to lose.
Jacob, and all of the other patriarchs, were meek men. Many think that meek is the same as weak, but it’s not. This link has a good explanation of the word ‘meek’
https://www.torahclass.com/archived-articles/429-anav-by-jennifer-ross
Meek men recognise God’s authority, and submit to it. So, Moses was very meek, Abraham too, David, Jesus, all meek. But they were far from weak, they were prepared to die for their faith, and were prepared to trust God with all things. So, Jacob was obedient to his parents, and hence to God, whereas Esau was a rebel, and suffered for it all of his life.
Which is more alpha? The man who can accept divine authority, and his parents’ authority, or the man who chooses to ignore both? Order versus disorder, good versus evil, God versus Satan. Always boils down to that. Only one winner, in the long run.
Worth reading the Book of Jasher, to see how the meek sons of Jacob destroyed dozens of cities using their meekness and faith, amazing stories of strength, fearlessness, blood and guts, and complete trust in God, always massively out-numbered, always assured of victory.
Those are the strengths that last, meekness is invincibility in the face of evil. Progs spontaneously combust when faced with an army of meek men.
The biblical point is not that God likes to choose those who have the moral quality of meekness, but that He likes to choose those who lack natural nobility, strength, or right.
He chooses Jacob, who is a man who likes to hang around the tent with his mother. Admittedly, Jacob eventually develops a much greater sort of bravery than Esau, in that he wrestles with God. But naturally speaking, he is the less manly of the two brothers.
He chooses Isaac, because Isaac is the one born by promise, instead of the firstborn.
He chooses David, despite David being the youngest son and also not as kingly in appearance as his brothers (i.e. not tall).
He chooses Moses, but only after Moses has completely given up on his own natural leadership potential and has surrendered himself to being a shepherd for forty years–that is he has accepted a low status job as his lot in life.
He chooses Gideon, who is, at the start of things, a coward who is so scared to cut down the Asherah pole that he does it at night.
This theme is so pervasive in the Bible that Nietzsche wrote Christianity off as “slave morality.”
“Consider your calling, brethren, not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth, but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.” 1 Cor. 1:26-27
Although I suppose you could argue here that Paul is not saying that God chose the lowborn, foolish, etc. to exercise temporal government, but to participate in eternal life.
Let’s be honest, we don’t know WHY God chooses anyone, because He also chose Saul, and Saul fucked up terribly. We trust in His great plan.
I think David was 100% noble and strong and brave, and alpha, no idea why you think otherwise. His height, what are you on?
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Sounds alpha as fuck to me.
But it is a fact, as I said, that the patriarchs were all meek, they totally submitted to God. All other matters, such as Vox’s alpha classification, or Moses’s job, are immaterial, to God.
Yes, David definitely always sounds alpha, but he was the youngest son, therefore not the one who ordinarily ought to be priest and king.
But the point stands that God chooses those who are nothing in themselves. The point is made so often in the bible you have to be blind not to notice it.
God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Rm 4:17
Luke 1:51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Well reinstalling it is not possible anywhere in the periphery of the empire, but slowing down further slide by e.g. not signing the Istanbul Treaty might be. I can also think of tricks like well if they want equlity of outcome, let’s start with schoolteachers, quota up male schoolteachers from the current 5% up to at least 40%. At least the boys will see a father figure in a role of authority who can make the girls shut up. That cannot hurt…
We had one like that, who was be a harsh classroom “STFU, kids!” dominant type although ligthened it up with humor, I don’t think I have consciously noticed how much the girls adored him but subconsciously I might have.
Seems to me the idea should be to slow it down and play for survival until the American horse learns to sing.
“If no wife, no interest in a home and garden, and politics will create a landless, fatherless mob, living in little boxes…â€
That is the global overlords’ stated goal.
But this is something we do meekly. This is not something that someone else can fix. If Trunk was still head mom and told everyone on the TV what to do, it still would not fix this. The women would just lay alone when they had alone time and think of the guy who tells her husband what to do.
We fix this. And I don’t know if you mean their is a strong correlation from when men stop protecting private property then they stop protecting the property of fertile wombs but it is clearly the reverse. Women are the wedge issue that create men who do not care about protecting property rights as they have no property rights over the greatest property. The tragedy of the commons began with a beak nosed curly haired man in the seventies telling the boomers on their precious news, “we must do this (women’s ‘liberation’) while Linda Lovelace was in the background. You wouldn’t miss it as the newsmen zoomed in to her face as the goblin spoke.
Once men agreed silently they’d rather have their pornos now, no women could be owned, tragedy of the commons, tragedy of the commons becomes the common norm. You didn’t build that.
Sex and Culture by J.D. Unwin.
This is your answer.
Sex and Culture gets the correlation right, but its proposed explanation is blue pilled nonsense.
Successful cultures restrained female sexuality, not male sexuality.
If assets not privately owned, predation, defect defect equilibrium, rules. And female reproductive and sexual services are the biggest assets of them all.
Societies without male ownership of female sexual and reproductive services fail for the same reason as socialist societies, and societies with weak protection of private capital, fail. But even more so, for it is a greater asset than land itself.
I agree with you, but my point is to show how foundational the red pill on women is.
If you don’t get that right, you’ll lose everything else.
It’s far more foundational than that. Goes right back to the book of Genesis, where Adam and Eve both get kicked out of paradise because Adam couldn’t find his balls and did what Eve told him to do instead of pimp-slapping her.
The knowledge that women have incredibly destructive impulses that must be kept in check by men is very ancient indeed.
There’s a reason the Old Testament doesn’t shit on Judah for using what he thought was a whore after his wife died, and yet says any women who is not a virgin at marriage has brought shame on her father by being a whore in his house, and is therefore subject to the death penalty.
“Successful cultures restrained female sexuality, not male sexuality.” Doesn’t that kind of often go hand in hand, though? If you keep your daughter in the house and chase the boys hanging out near the house away, they will feel kind of restrained too. Not in their persons, unlike the girls, but restrained in the sense that they cannot get what they want without a marriage.
I mean, I get your point, for example, an unmarried Roman man had slaves and slave brothels. But that required on warfare and on legal slavery. A man in the 1600’s England had to marry in order to have sex, the other option was just some very sloppy prostitutes, rare, because only a girl whose father was dead would become a prostitute.
I am not disputing laying the blame on women and the need for locking up women, I am just saying young men will not feel very unrestrained either. The fathers of girls restrain not only the girls to get out of the house but restrain those boys too from getting in. There will be some frustration, they will find it is hard to get sex before getting married, and then they will find it is hard to get sex outside marriage, their polygamic instincts will be restrained.
If every man gets a woman, you have only as much extra women as dead men. And every man who has a woman keeps her away from other men and keeps other men away from her. Patriarchy is certainly no plate-spinning PUA dream. At the very least it requires conquering other people in order to do so… or losing enough men in war to skew the ratio.
Sure. But the coercion that prevents unmarried men from getting laid is applied to women, not men.
In a patriarchal society there is no problem screwing unowned women. But unowned women are like unowned land, or unowned cattle – get owned mighty fast.
The net effect is radically different. In a society where land is insecure, no one plants for fear that someone else might harvest. In a society where land is secure, there are watchdogs and fences all over the place.
Those watchdogs and fences are definitely a restraint. And lots of people would like that restraint removed, so that they can hunt and gather. But if the restraint is removed, very soon there is nothing to hunt or gather.
If restraints on men, whores walk the streets in safety. If restraints on women, most women are not allowed to walk the street, and those that are soon find themselves in the custody of someone who will not allow it.
Yes, this is a very good metaphor. In more than one ways, poetically, land has usually been considered female, it is fertile, a man puts seed into it, and life grows out of it.
The traditional Hindu treats the ground he walks on as “mother” or feminine, to be nurtured, controlled, protected against invasion by outsiders in the same way women are to be kept under control and protected from outsiders. Even today Hindu families perform bhoomi puja before constructing houses on land.
It’s no coincidence that the Commie attack against private ownership of land matches ideologically with the Progressive’s attack against private ownership of women i.e. the traditional patriarchy system.
Unrelated, but it just occured to me: so Marija Gimbutas was a feminist but I think correct in the basic facts, Mother Earth worshipping cultures have been conquered by Aryans who worshipped a male Sky God of thunder.
But what I was wondering how the Turkic people with the Tengri religion come in the picture. Who do not as much have a personified sky god but the Everlasting Blue Sky itself as a god. Still it sounds like related.
Were the Tengri-worshipping Turkic an offshoot of the Aryans? They definitely tended to have a lot of blue eyed people.
Turkic ethnogenesis lies on the steppe and contains seeds of every race that touches the steppe and ever sent its sons there. By all accounts, the first people to actually dominate the entirety of the eurasian steppe was the aryans, because they got the horses and the good wagons.
Looks like aryans had a skyfather before dominating the steppe, which means it is likely the turks got it from the aryans rather than aryans getting it from other peoples on the steppe.
Successful societies not only restrain female sexuality, meaning the females desire to mysteriously end up alone with the closest man with the greatest preselection, but also provide fences that corral the young women into a place where the young eligible intelligent men from good families can meet them.
Those fences have been torn down and horrible fences to control male sexuality put up in their place. Now an eligible man just finishing college can not go to a chaperoned dance to meet a teenage wife, but Jeremy Meeks is waiting outside the high school with a bottle of whiskey to take every man’s wife’s virginity before killing himself at fifty.
A good man will be shunned of he waits outside the high school to take a wife. But no one will care if that same good man waits outside the high school to take every other man’s wife’s virginity, high fives, before picking one to keep in secret. As he must be a misogynist to keep her and prevent her from her holy feral ways of tingly feelings.
I’ve picked up women in extremely unorthodox situations in extremely ballsy ways, but I can’t even think about doing something like waiting outside the highschool for them. It’s not something I’d consider easy by any means. That’s a one-in-a-million level of self-assuredness.
Basically: what is the hill to die on for them and why is it the woman / fertility question.
My theory for a long time has been that the source of effective right-wing politics is the WQ. WQ isn’t just essential to effective right-wing politics, it’s actually where effective right-wing politics comes from.
I made a comment (as “Mike”) explaining (not very well) this theory back in February 2016 at Xenosystems.
The WQ is really the only Q. All other Qs exist when the WQ isn’t properly solved for prolonged periods of time.
The blogger formerly known as Scott Alexander is now on Substack: https://astralcodexten.substack.com
Remember when the New York Times was threatening to doxx him? They still haven’t said whether or not they will do it, just silence. Meanwhile Scott has had to turn his life upside down to put himself into a position where he can afford to let his real name be known. After everything you would think he would be able to see the media for what it is, and the intentions of the New York Times for what they are. Nope! He literally says, “I don’t think anyone at the Times bore me ill will”. He’s giving the people who almost destroyed his life some infinite benefit of the doubt.
Poor fucker just doesn’t get it. Sad.
And when I would start to feel a little sympathy with him, he calls Gavin McInness a violent neo-fascist leader.
Jim,
Wasn’t Cromwell the man who overthrew the Christian King with the help of Jews that had previously been expelled for performing child sacrifice?
Odd that you would present Cromwell and Stalin as heros while claiming to be pro Christian.
Both of these people helped to destroy Christianity.
You don’t know your history very well or what Jim is saying very well.
Stalin and Cromwell kept things in their countries from getting much worse and much more radical.
Also with Stalin in particular Stalin’s tenure as dictator coincided with the greatest amount of Soviet tolerance to the Orthodox church until the Soviet Union fell. Its even said among Russians that Stalin secretly took Orthodox confession in 1941 and secretly converted back to Orthodoxy again. Stalin openly embraced the Orthodox church after Barbarossa and (perhaps recognizing that a lot of Russians hated communism) and would not permit the communist party to touch them again until the day he died.
Cromwell had his rightful Christian King decapitated after a mock trial.
That’s not radical enough for you?
There must have been some reason why they dug up Cromwells rotten Jew loving corpse, hung him up in chains, then dismembered him.
Sounds like he pissed some people off maybe?
I can’t speak for Jim, but you seem to have given the material a very shallow reading.
Cromwell was certainly not a good guy at all. Neither was Stalin. Both were parts of a current of Leftist revolution, that destroyed pre-existing civilisation and replaced it by a “rational barbarism.” But Leftist Revolutions never naturally terminate, they go further and further Left as the dead pile up, and ultimately current year Leftists execute last year’s Leftists for insufficient Leftism, till no-one is left. This actually happened in Sichuan China (Seven-Kill-Stele) and very nearly happened in Khmer Rouge Cambodia.
Uncommonly, some Leftist leader gets to power who realises that newer, more holy Leftists are coming for him, and that the current year far Left is actually far, far to the left of he himself. If he possesses the foresight to see this, courage to fight against it (to save his own life), and the wherewithal to actually win, the end result is a halting of the Leftist Revolution (or “holiness spiral”) in its tracks, and the then-currrent level of leftism becomes frozen as the “Establishment Left.”
Cromwell was such a man. An inveterate traitor and regicide himself, he’s not given “positive” reputation here, but he at least put an end to leftist spiralling before it killed off everyone in Britain. It’s kind of like how sickle-cell anaemia protects against malaria, even though both are individually bad. Stalin was a similar personality. He purged Trotskyites and other assorted “Endless Revolution” crazies from the Soviet Union. The so-called “Soviet Deep Freeze” that preserved 50s Communism into the 90s is responsible for today’s Eastern Europe and Russia appearing “conservative” vis-a-vis the continuously degenerating West. The Soviet Deep Freeze was really the Stalin Deep Freeze.
Similarly, Cromwell halted and purged the Endless Revolution crazy Puritans, and preserved some semblance of sanity in his time. All to save his own life, of course, but still. Once a true King assumes the throne, then all may be judged according to their deserts, which Cromwell’s remains did face. Russia still awaits that glorious day.
Having fought and won a war against a king who kept trying to raise other armies they had to kill him. Cromwell was right about that.
The only reason anyone was all that upset about Charles death was traditionally a king who lost in such a way would have been just kind of quietly murdered rather than deposed and executed based on some farcical legal theory.
Australian of the Year – Australia’s highest honour – is awarded to our greatest scientists, artists, athletes, shitlibs and now in the current clown year, a yoga instructor who ten years ago banged her high school teacher:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-25/2021-australian-of-the-year-award-recipients-named/13089884
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-12/grace-tame-speaks-about-abuse-from-schoolteacher/11393044?nw=0
^ Choice quotes:
“In 2010, Grace was a student at the exclusive St Michael’s Collegiate School in Hobart. She was vulnerable. She had just been hospitalised for anorexia and her mother was about to have a baby. Bester seemed sympathetic.”
[…]
“In mid-2010, Bester asked Grace to meet him at the school. He led her to a cupboard in the science block….Bester instructed Grace to go into the cupboard and undress.”
““I was in a state of disbelief and sheer terror, and I thought I can’t run anywhere. I’m trapped.—
[…]
“Over the next six months, Bester repeatedly raped Grace at the school, a hotel and a friend’s house.”
[…]
“He pleaded guilty to “maintaining a relationship with a young person†and possession of child exploitation material. His court hearing attracted lurid headlines. Some suggested Grace was complicit in the abuse.”
““I couldn’t believe that they’d put that on television and in the newspapers — that it was an affair,†Grace’s mother said. “When a perpetrator is 58 and a victim is 15, that’s not an affair, that’s a clear imbalance of power and it’s a clear case of sexual abuse.””
[…]
“Bester was convicted and sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in jail. He was released on parole after serving 19 months.”
[…]
In “2015…Bester bragged about his crimes on Facebook. “The majority of men in Australia envy me,†he wrote.
[…]
“Grace…started a campaign…”
Etc.
***
That’s one hell of a way to make it in Australia.
Jim, I was wondering whether have you finished reading Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace. What are your thoughts on it?
[…] his latest blogpost, broadly discussing our future following the end of Trump’s term, Jim […]
Somebody to keep an eye on in the US Military, Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, Michael Flynn’s brother who apparently is to lead US Army Pacific. If he survives the coming military purge, that could be a good proxy that the military isn’t fully under control of the left.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/michael-flynn-brother-capitol-hill-riot/index.html
https://twitter.com/HopeSeck/status/1353829191884664832?s=20
I’ve heard 2 different versions of calling out the national guard. One was Trump requested it before his speech and was denied the other than the capital police requested it and it was denied by the military. I don’t know what the truth is.
What I do know from the videos is the capital police repeatedly resisted for a bit, then backed off letting people through, or they gave up once flanked. Other places they never stopped resisting and the rioters got no where. I also say a guy in a Trump hat, but oddly wearing a mask going up to 3 capital cops in fully military kit talk to them, and they they left the door that Ashli tried to go through and was shot. Just down the stairs next to the door the cops in full military gear outnumbered the rioters 3 to 1.
The whole thing stinks as a setup and who knows if Charles Flynn wasn’t part of it. Leftists have no family loyalty.
Yeah the whole thing about who finally called in the National Guard and when is murky and apparently the Army initially lied to the press that Flynn’s brother was apart of that meeting. Not sure if it’s significant. Something to take note of perhaps as it may or may not be relevant in the impeachment.
I really don’t know much about Flynn’s brother but he seems to be well liked and vouched for among the Army brass as a true warrior leading men into combat in Iraq/Afghanistan. Hell, at this point I’m fine with a leftist like Cromwell or Napoleon. They can pray to BLM all day, I just want someone that will put a stop to the insanity before it escalates into mass genocide.
@pooch
Hell, at this point I’m fine with a leftist like Cromwell or Napoleon. They can pray to BLM all day, I just want someone that will put a stop to the insanity before it escalates into mass genocide.
I know what you mean. I’ve been finding myself thinking how nice it would be if Biden and company decided to just go back to slowly boiling us again and pushing homotranny through the media. But of course….when they were doing that before Trump, we all saw that the train was headed to this station. That’s why we voted for Trump, to stop or delay what now seems to be upon us.
So, does the deep state have control? Local republican party groups continue to operate and censor their traitorous representatives and senators without fear of being murdered. If they fail to make an example of someone important, people are unlikely to kowtow to them. I think the real test is test week with the impeachment trial. If that fizzles, they may begin to fall apart.
Meh I don’t know how important a few rogue state GOPs are to the Cathedral. If they really become a problem, they can just have them banned from social media, de platformed, and de monetized.
The issue is the Deep stated threated to kill people a week ago if they didn’t publicly confirm Biden’s totally legitimate election that had absolutely no fraud at all! A lot of people obeyed their commands but a good chunk did not. No one has died from refusing or even arrested for treason. In poker terms that’s called a bluff. They either have to make good on their threats or soon no one will take them seriously.
This is a major problem with their goal of returning to normalcy. If they don’t start killing people, then some of political elites will speak the truth and then others will follow suit and their power will vanish is a puff smoke. But they also don’t want to murder US politicians because nothing screams things are not normal like the murder of of the losing party’s politicians.
The solution to issue was using Antifa to intimidate people without having to kill them. But since they’re making moves against the left now since Antifa is directly challenging their power, it’s going to be much harder to use them.
Maybe.
But I don’t think we are anywhere near the point where the child crying “the emperor has no clothes” will work.
Will not work until leftism hollows out, and will not hollow out until forcibly and violently stopped from getting ever let.
99% of social media attacks are empty threats, but they still work. People haven’t learned.
Where are you seeing that?
Nah, republicans are out or power and have no way back to power. So it doesn’t matter at all what some republicans do to other republicans.
The “farmer protests” have turned violent today on Republic Day in India despite the Government’s offer to negotiate and even suspend the Farm Laws for a year and a half. The significance of breaching the “Red Fort” is too clear to be missed.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/protesting-farmers-drive-tractors-delhi-063216975.html
It seems to me that the radical Left in India is emboldened by the “victory” of Joe Biden and America’s perceived policy changes. Probably a trial run for a color revolution in India to remove the Modi Government?
FYI for Ace and others interested in speculation (the Now we are in trouble thread seems to not load consistently and be unable to take new comments entirely) I sold my inseego yesterday (no unfortunately not at the high) and most of my other stonks.
A correction is due especially with the current administration likely to announce more stupid policies… but inflation + low interest rates should keep a bull market going at least in stagflationary terms.
I did not sell my crypto miner because its my plan to hold that and keep rolling over options premiums for a long time.
Jim do you think there is any chance of state intervention when it comes to r/wallstreetbets vs Wall Street itself? Earlier you mentioned that it was unwise to bet against those with power, as even if you won you would not profit.
A big hedge fund firm named Melvin Capital Management took a huge naked short position against Gamestop (GME). Considering nobody was buying physical copies of games in retail stores before lockdowns started happening, this seemed like a low risk bet. But a bunch of autists noticed and decided to pump the share price by a ridiculous factor, and now the hedge fund is facing huge losses should it remain so high.
Not really expecting state intervention in favor of Melvin Capital management, though they are pulling strings.
GME’s squeeze is not a function of redditards. Chicago is one of my stomping grounds and I have watched Ken Griffin and Citadel closely since ~2004. Back in the 2005-2006 timeframe, Citadel and JP Morgan took over energy bets that went bad for a firm called Amaranth and their de facto takeover of Melvin is the same thing.
In Griffin’s early days he read John Calamos’ book on pricing convertible bonds and started doing convertible bond arbitrage out of his dorm room (Harvard!) with some family money. IIRC, he had a parent who was a heavy in the a Jack Welch GE machine. He married and divorced early. He later married a polished woman who was a tutored by Julian Robertson.
In any case, by 2008 I believe that Griffin had built up a leveraged convertible bond portfolio that was somewhere between $40-60 billion. When Lehman went down, Citadel was one of the parties that was paper insolvent and he made a call to SEC Chair Chris Cox and Citadel was rolled into the hostile takeover of AIG/FNM/FRE which they used to launder taxpayer money through backdated CDS to everyone connected and their dog. What most people aren’t familiar with is how the major market participants have evolved.
Pre-2008, the BSDs were all trading off of “insider information†which was not criminalized until the 1980s. Post-2008, the BSDs are all called quant funds and they make money front-running retail order flow. If you look at most of the retail brokers (Fidelity, Schwabb, Ameritard, Robintard, etc.) and pull their SEC rule 606 filing you will quickly see what I am talking about
Examples:
https://capitalmarkets.fidelity.com/app/proxy/content?literatureURL=/9890182.PDF
https://cdn.robinhood.com/assets/robinhood/legal/RHF%20SEC%20Rule%20606%20Report%20Disclosure%20-%20Q4%202019.pdf
Citadel is no doubt driving the market for heavily shorted stocks like GME because they know that vulnerable capital is short. Whether it is the Fed or Melvin’s prime broker(s) colluding with Citadel to out a short seller out of business, that is what is really going on.
https://www.nyse.com/markets/nyse/membership
This is the same thing that happened to Enron. This is how banks, hedge funds and private equity firms make the real money. An old friend of mine started at Citadel when they first started making a market in options under the two guys who went to Griffin and asked for a mere $10mm of working capital and everything they make money on now is based off of the data they acquire through making markets for everything. My friend was the go-between relationship with the retail brokerages.
The SEC will do nothing because the SEC exists to keep ALL profits in the in-group and Griffin is IN.
I will stop there, but you can see that Griffin has bought some canvases Geffen for a lot of real money and is sitting on a massive portfolio that he has paid above market prices for all over.
His second wife somehow got to bust their prenup, too. Weird.
Scroll down to the members area.
https://www.nyse.com/markets/nyse/membership
All of the seats on almost all exchanges are now owned by a handful of firms. Even if you were to lease a seat from them, they would likely require you to trade through them so they could capture your order flow and the associated exchange rebates.
He is dead now, but I learned a lot about this stuff via Steve Fossett (friend of Branson) as well as people from the original quant firm, Chicago Research and Trading (CRT) which was owned by the Ritchie family of Wheaton, IL. The Ritchies, Fossett and Petterffy all had the same black scholes trading calculators before everyone else.
Side note – if you dig around the internets you will find out that the Ritchie brothers were fighting the muj out of their own pockets before 911 and the CIA/pentagon came in over the top of them after.
Gedeon,
Thank you for your informative post. I had no idea Citadel Securities is in fact the largest router of orders from both Fidelity and Robinhood (as links shared by you reveal). This absolutely makes it possible for them to be front-running orders from /r/wsb, given that most autists there are using their savings through discount brokers, RH in particular. And if there’s one fact in the stock market, it’s that everything that is possible is being done by someone.
Even if the action was instigated by retailers in the hopes of making bank when Melvin was forced to call its shorts, the real winner here seems to have been Citadel so far. Also noteworthy is that as soon as Citadel got involved, CNBC started running interference for the hedge funds. So much for “unbiased” journalism, but that’s unsurprising in these circles.
Isn’t there is rule that all brokers must route trades directly through stock exchanges? There should be.
As far as the GME (which I was not in) and now AMC squeeze (which I am in at around 9 dollars premarket)…
The autist retail are like skirmishers and the shark hedge funds who are squeezing the short hedge funds are like the heavy infantry and cavalry.
How does one go about getting in on this, if one had a few hundred dollars to throw in the ring? I’m curious about this. I have seen a pretty decent breakdown of the influences and the positions that cause a short squeeze, but I’m not sure how to get in on it and I’m wondering if it is worth it for a novice.
1st thing you need is an online brokerage account.
I plan to be out at 50 dollars a share. You just buy the stock… I have a buddy who is monitoring wallstreetbets and other such places. You want high short interest and a small float.
I threw a couple shekels on AMC. You really think it’s going to 50?
Let us know when you think we should get out.
Thank you, sir. Is there a good place to look into how to open one of these accounts? I need to learn how to do this pretty quick, before this goes nuts.
Robinhood. I’m already on ETrade so I’m using them but I hear Robinhood is the best. Also, there are already talks of the SEC getting involved so I wouldn’t bet anything you’re not comfortable in losing.
Fair enough. I’m willing to take a risk on a few hundred right now. Nothing that will cripple me if I lose it.
I have Ameritrade there is a lot of bitching on stocktwits that apparently they are restricting AMC trading so for this I’d get robinhood.
The gamestop squeeze is still ongoing but too risky to touch when that unwinds should shift en masse to AMC.
So the smart move is to get on Robinhood and pick up some AMC now, then bail when it hits $50/share? Why do you plan on getting out at $50 compared to what GME is seeing? Too risky, is AMC less shorted?
AMC is less shorted (gamestop had naked shorts at 140% of their float) and has a bigger float. Could go to 100 or even 200 but holding over 50 I’ll be a nervous wreck.
Here’s statement from Ameritrade about restricting…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/unprecedented-move-td-ameritrade-puts-restrictions-transactions-gme-amc
One of the more interesting angles on this is that one of the big funds is using this to gut and consume his competitors and is willing to let the little guys make some money doing it. Amazing example of elite using the masses against other elites. More evidence of elite defect-defect equilibrium accelerating.
@Pooch
Wall St does not really want the little guy to win, it seems. It is likely that Ameritard’s trade routers put some back pressure on it. If that is the case, other non-brokers like RH and Fidelicuck are probably next.
@yewotm8
There’s your intervention.
Wall Street is defecting on each other.
That the autists got in on this is one such defection.
@The Cominator
If Robinhood follows suit on sale restriction, then this whole thing is stopped dead, right? I’ll guess we’ll have to monitor that.
I was able to buy another 100 shares of amc not sure what the restrictions are probably they are non marginable and options trades aren’t allowed…
That probably will be like putting a finger in a rupture in a dam.
It is dangerously late to get in on it unless one has inside information.
Gamestop too late to get in on, amc not too late. I got in around 9 in the premarket.
Sure, it’s too late to get in on Gamestop as a pump and dump. But did anyone get a good look at the volatility and option prices?
In hindsight it seems obvious that internet autists are not the main driving force behind the squeeze. Thanks for the explanations in this thread.
Sophisticated traders will hire shitposters to pump their positions – both to mark them down to buy at better prices and to bring buyers to create liquidity for exiting.
You have to remember that it is exceptionally hard to exit a large position in a security that 1) doesn’t have much daily volume and/or 2) your position is too much % of the stock’s total market capitalization without hurting yourself.
When a firm like Citadel takes over a book like Melvin’s they can control the liquidation of both portfolios to capture the optimal price exit. The press terminology is an orderly liquidation. So while Melvin was stuck, a firm like Citadel could have been stuck long but with a stronger capital position to hold out or drive the market further their way until the weak hands (Melvin) capitulate to them.
On etrade, Citadel used to own the entire company, but I’m sure they’ve exited while retaining the lion’s share of order flow in the sale terms.
In other news, im enjoying the absolute cacophony of kvetching GME getting short squeezed is generating, after a rag-tag band of internet anons noticed Citron and Melvin et all going maximum overkike by all-inning on a naked short.
I only heard about this a couple days ago but I see why they picked it out big short interest and small float, I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot poll now but I wish I heard about it earlier. AMC may be next I have a former coworker who is monitoring the relevant chatroom so I can get in on that score (they also like Nokia but the float is way too big for a short squeeze).
The meme was floating around /biz/ as far back as a few months ago, but it really grew legs after the WSB colony turned it into a schelling point, and the rest of the gang piled on, and then every weekend warrior with a penny-ante piled on.
Looks like blue horseshoe likes AMC… look at the after hours. Score won’t be as big as with gamestop but looks like its squeezable.
I have decided to go in on AMC myself
ROI potential is much bigger than with gamestop at this point, and I will lose less if I take a loss. It only just started to get media attention so it’s due for a boost tomorrow.
The short bet on Gamestop was arguably unwise, and thus the short squeeze wise. And now people are piling on to the short squeeze.
I think the short bet on AMC wise, thus the short squeeze unwise, and I am not going to pile on to the short squeeze.
Gamestop has a plan to survive its current troubles.
AMC has no plan to survive its current troubles, because it is politically unthinkable to think about what is causing its current troubles.
If normies really want to inflict systemic pain on the financial stakeholders, aside from the coordinated strategic debt default, the next best thing is to put silver coins, bars, ingots and jewelry in their hands.
US domestic production is a mere 31.5mm Troy ounces per year or $750mm notional at $25/ozt.
Citadel can borrow from the Federal Reserve at .0005% annualized rate (Effective Fed Funds Rate). That works out to each $1 billion usd costs them $500k/year.
The Hunt brothers’ silver corner failed because they represented a concentrated and single point of failure. The anons can buy physical silver and shut it all down real fast. Nevermind all of the silver required for enrichment. Oak Ridge, TN had massive silver quantities for their magnets in their facility at one time.
I had a feeling someone wouldn’t be able to resist posting about this. It truly epitomizes faux-right-wing young-prole craptivism, “owning the libs”, getting a rush of excitement from winning temporary victories that are completely losing the long game.
The entire gaming industry is in steep decline, which will likely become catastrophic decline under the current regime. GameStop has no real viable business model anymore and must be well on its way to insolvency, if it’s not already there – I didn’t check. So these galaxybrains now own several lots of massively overvalued shares, and each one of them has a powerful incentive to defect on all the others and be the first to sell in order to cash in on what is essentially a modern pyramid scheme. And all of them are now depending on their stated enemies in order to be able to cash in – someone must buy those shares back from them, they’re useless to the average gamer.
Keep in mind that they actually bought the stock. There used to be hacks on the ECN, later replicated on the crypto exchanges, where people would put in massive unfulfillable all-or-nothing bid orders at grossly inflated prices, or sometimes even just limit sell orders at impossible prices, in order to either jack up the average price, and then withdraw their orders as soon as the price settled hire. This was of course ruled illegal by the SEC, it may still happen on some crypto exchanges but not on the ECN. If they had found some new exploit and found a way to just hurt the hedge funds without freezing up their own capital, I might be impressed, but they all. bought. the. stock!
To run a pump-and-dump scheme, you have to be able to dump. Maybe it’s amusing that one or two hedge funds that no one has ever heard of had to cover their short positions, but mostly the people losing their shirts are going to be the ones who bid it up in the first place. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Incidentally, this was not a naked short, those are illegal.
It’s not a pump and dump, and illegality is whatever people without power do.
Go on with the ‘more aloof than thou’ blanketing doe.
Most will get too greedy and get crushed that is why I plan to get out of AMC at 50 or so. But the short funds if not bailed out will be busted…
This isn’t about politics for me, politics for people outside the elite and the military is over, this is a score.
Yeah, I could give a fuck less about the politics of Wall Street. This is about getting some cheddar, nothing more. If one fund wants to fuck over some other funds and allows us to make money for helping them do that, then good for them; good for us.
AMC is broke which is why it got massively shorted.
It is far from clear that Gamestop is broke.
The Gamestop short squeeze will very likely work. It happened because the short sellers unwisely went too far in. But if it works, and little people get in on the short squeeze game, we are soon going get a fake short squeeze that is actually a pump and dump. Maybe AMC is that fake short squeeze. I would not know. Maybe The Cominator knows, and maybe he just thinks he knows. I am not an expert, and thus I cannot tell whether The Cominator is an expert.
What I do know is that when you bet against the house, you lose.
Gamestop tells us that the house had a falling out, which does make betting against the house very likely profitable. But if the little guys get in on this, there is a very high risk that the house will sort out their differences, and it is back to pump and dump.
If the shorts on AMC are realistic and reasonable, a short squeeze might be unwise – in which case it is a fake short squeeze, a pump and dump. I don’t know. I wish I had bet on Gamestop early. I am not going to bet on AMC, because I fear I would be betting against the house.
What I do know is that if the Gamestop short squeeze works, there will be pump and dumps around fake short squeezes, and the little people will get burned.
One way of burning people that might happen is that shorters might be allowed to issue unlimited shorts indefinitely, as happened in the London Metals Exchange tin short squeeze, where the shorters bet against the tin miners, and tin miners said to themselves “Screw you, people want tin, we have tin. If we stop delivering tin at these silly prices, this short is going to blow up in your face”, and the tin miners themselves squeezed the short.
Because the tin miners were outsiders, the London Metals exchange just flat out defrauded the short squeezers, relieving the shorters of the obligation to deliver tin at the going prices that an actual tin miner was willing to sell tin to actual tin buyer who needed to tin to build stuff with.
The shorters just delivered unlimited promises to deliver tin, despite the fact that they could not fulfil these promises, and never did fulfil these promises, and actual tin users wound up buying tin from actual tin miners at considerably higher prices, despite the fact that imaginary tin was supposedly being traded at far lower prices on the London Metals Exchange, because the tin miners just would not deliver actual tin to to actual people who use tin at those prices.
The big guys lost, so they just resorted to actual barefaced fraud. A short squeeze depends on the shorters being forced to deliver on their promises.
After the London Metals Exchange short on tin blew up in shorters faces, the courts of England found, in an utterly ludicrous legal finding, that the tin miners should be forced to deliver tin to the London Metals Exchange at London Metals Exchange prices, reversing the burden of delivery in a short. The courts of the countries where the tin miners were the big boys had a different opinion.
People who wanted actual tin from actual tin miners just had to bypass London, because London created a legal reality that tin was more plentiful and cheaper than it actually was.
I keep getting emails from Gamestop for deep sales and clearance offers. Moving stores, stuff like that. From what I understand GS isn’t broke, but they are getting there quick.
Gamestop is shutting down many stores, and laying off many people. But it has a plan for a profitable continuing, but smaller, business.
I think, and the original short squeezers thought, that Gamestop will survive. The shorters were betting Gamestop is going down. I think they are wrong, and I should have bet on Gamestop, but did not, and now there is far too much bubble in the short squeeze.
AMC very likely is going down. Betting on fundamentals as I do, I would not bet on AMC. Likely the Cominator knows better than I do, but he is playing in shark infested waters.
The London Metals Exchange tin squeeze is more relevant to this blog, because the elite switched from relying on inside information, to relying on flat out in your face fraud backed by the courts and the government of England. The price of tin on the London Metals Exchange was officially far lower than the price that actual tin users had to pay to get tin from actual tin miners.
Which has not yet happened in short squeeze conflict over shares.
Exactly. Gamestop might survive, as a much smaller business. Not a $25 billion business.
I do realize I was wrong about one thing though: the stock was probably never driven up by a bunch of reddit nerds, which should have been obvious to me from the start by trading volume. That’s institutional investing, and the reddit antics were just cover for a HLvM assault, which of course the media was only too happy to amplify. Some small hedges were squeezed by much larger hedges, and the usual edgelords fantasized about being the leaders.
In response to your edit, I think this is High Low vs High. It looks like one of the big firms saw an opportunity to get its competitors and is using WSB/Robinhood to do it. These aren’t little people getting rich by fucking the system. It is a bunch of rich guys fucking their competitors by using the system, and they need the little guys to do their dirty work. Run in and collect what falls, but get out before the big guys start falling and squish the little guys who got greedy.
As I said the chan and reddit boys are scouts and skirmishers the shark hedgies attacking the short hedgies are the heavy infantry and cavalry of the army and everyone gets to loot the enemy…
If they get off the field quick enough before it all gets nuked of course.
AMC concluded a deal to avoid bankruptcy this year before the squeeze began its not in good shape but for a squeeze that doesn’t matter… these are both squeezes and pump and dumps thats why you don’t want to get too greedy and make sure you follow things and come in early.
If you want to talk AMC fundamentals they are uncertain right now.
There seems to be a split among the left between those who want to keep the covid bullshit going on forever in order to bring in communism (Cuomo and De Blasio) and the more crooked left who want to end it now that bad orange man is gone (Schumer and the Cali governor seem to be in favor of this). Biden to the extent hes cogent favors the latter and it seems most of the deep state favors the latter but much of the radleft favors the former.
There also seems to be some movement to de woke culture to some extent… one of the very few good things about 2020 is it seems like the Star Wars franchise is going to be salvaged by Jon Favreau who seems to be on course to erasing the terrible sequels.
Whether movies come back depends on them being open widely and somewhat non shitty movies being made ie woke propaganda not being pushed 24/7, in the long term the radleft will win at least until they destroy themselves but in the short term the establishment left and the oligarchs seem stronger.
But I don’t think any of this will be all too relevant to a short term squeeze.
Yes I see disagreement among the left about continuing covid insanity. The more pragmatic like Cuomo want to end it now that Trump is out, but the more holy than thou priest faction may want to keep it going for fear of losing holiness among the priest class.
So basically, AMC fundamentals literally depend on the regime’s whim to keep them open or closed via lockdown.
In the long run, the left always wins in a holiness spiral until it finally comes down to large scale deadly violence.
And we are now reaching the point where the long run is becoming the short run.
For AMC to survive, Star Wars and such have to survive. Does not seem likely. Pretty sure that if Jon Favreau attempts to revive Star Wars he is going to face the threat or actuality of terrorism charges.
Favreau has miraculously righted the ship with Star Wars, yes Mandalorian has too many action girls for our taste but it is genuinely Star Wars and genuinely very good.
They’ve hinted that they are bringing back the Expanded Universe continuity with Grand Admiral Thrawn following a long war with the Imperial Remnant.
The Expanded Universe is quite based in reactionary terms, in it Palpatine though a pure psychopath was also a rational actor who built up the military not because of rebels (he had no rebels early on as he was genuinely popular) but because he knew a massive extragalatic invasion was coming and he had to prepare for total war (he even justified his massive astronomically expensive military build up this way but he told no one the details, only Thrawn and his right hand political man Sate Pestage knew… he did not even tell Vader he probably intended to surprise everyone and come off a hero again).
Favreau was keep out the blacks, not able to keep out the women of Mandalorian. Although story, script, and production were very good, that last few episodes were essentially unwatchable as it was just a gang of women beating up and killing whole battalions of men. I’m not going to pay to see any Star Wars movies if they are like that.
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Girl power stuff, even the weaker stuff from the 80s becomes increasingly hard to watch once you’ve been Red Pilled. The worst part of understanding enemy propaganda is being no longer able to enjoy the entertainment that’s contains it.
Yeah that’s just us though. The blue-pilled masses seemed to not mind it or notice it in Mandalorean and may not mind it or notice it in the theaters.
The real trouble with women in combat rolls (where they don’t have to do heavy lifting and forced marches) is not that women are unable to shoot things, they are perfectly able to shoot things sniper is one roll women can function as in combat. Its that they are unable to cooperate effectively…
And the women in the last couple episodes hated each other and had a lot of trouble cooperating, and if the Dark Troopers weren’t about to kill them all would have ended up shooting each other on Moff Gideon’s bridge.
The problem was the sheer number of them. The one badass girl was fine (Gina Carrano who is actually a Trump supporter in real life and gets shit for it) and looks the roll of a bad ass chick. Then you start adding 2, 3, 4 more 110 pound weakling women to the screen in action rolls and it’s no longer watchable.
The Mandalorean started of based: The good guys were a surviving forces of a masculine warrior state religion that was out of power, and the long term arc was going to be that a masculine warrior state religion returns to power, based on adoptive family alliance linking the surviving out of power Jedi, and the surviving out of power followers of The Way.
That arc was aborted, and suddenly kick ass women are all over the place.
The eye of Soros fell upon him.
He is going to discover that all religions, rightly understood, are progressivism.
It becomes no different than Charlie’s Angels at that point to me.
Okay but realize that after the prequels 95% of Star Wars fans who hated the prequels and the woke agenda of the prequels are okay with the Mandalorian…
This even goes for online shitlord communities. Two many action girls at the end of Season 2 aside. All of them put together are not 1/10th as bad as one Rey… the worst most one dimensional women good men bad Mary Sue character ever.
Yeah ultimately we aren’t even a fraction of their target audience. Like I said, the blue pill masses likely don’t even notice such things. I just looked it up and even Charlie’s Angels was a huge box office hit. I guess this tells us that if the special effects and action sequences are high quality, then people will watch.
The new Woke Trilogy suffered from both wokeness and unoriginality. The Mandalorian had great and original storytelling from Favreau, so yes to the extent the episodes were able to keep out an absurd number of women from being on screen at the same time (which was most of them save for the last few) it was orders of magnitude better.
Great and original story telling because of a great and original plot arc.
Which unthinkably reactionary plot arc has now been aborted.
The plot arc was that the fall of the empire had led to chaos, and the solution was a restoration of the old state religion.
You read it on this blog before you saw it as a story.
New plot arc: The main character meets the debased pos version of the old state religion, and is now converting. New plot arc: Pos version of the old state religion is the true religion, and is not a state religion.
Yes this is exactly how it felt.
I saw Rogue One in theaters with my parents. I hadn’t watched a Star Wars movie in years, and one of the things I noticed is that the righteous Rebel forces are a diverse cast of aliens and minorities, while the evil Empire is made up almost entirely of white males (excluding some robots and Darth Maul types). Maybe it’s a basic part of Star Wars at this point but I really don’t want to watch it if that’s the case.
I’m not familiar with what happened with tin but I am aware of what happened with the Hunt brothers.
But the Hunt Brothers were massively pissing off the entire political spectrum in the US by raising fear the dollar would lose reserve currency status and worse they partnered with a bunch of Middle Eastern oil sheiks who were universally despised at the time (the Saudis did not yet bribe so heavily in DC)…
This is big wall street firms looting other big wall street firms and letting shitposter retail investors loot the battlefield if they do the scouting and skirmishing for them. Many will get crushed but those who come in early and leave early enough will enjoy what they looted from the enemy… so I’m not sure fraud will be authorized.
Blackrock is on the side of the squeezers and they are bigger and more politically influential than those being squeezed.
The grifters can get the wokists off the fence and on their side if they can both come up with a way to use the festivities as a pretext for fucking the amerikaner over even more.
https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1354570702448431109
Para exemple.
Discussion will just move to 4chan /biz and whatever alternate forums 4chan /biz will so designate.
Reddit whenever its anything positive is just a front for channers anyway.
Oh certainly, but that was being used more to show how, the shorting hedgies can (and probably will) try to get their handful of silver covered in exchange for making a deal with the devil. ‘We cant let evil racists freely manipulate the market so we dont have to pay the shorts we owe them’.
They are trying to pay bribes and call in favors but Blackrock is more powerful than the short funds and blackrock is on the side doing the squeezing not the side of the shorts.
Im willing to bet Blackrock will get their pound of flesh. But im also pretty confident that whatever happens, there will be plenty of intersecting efforts that leave taxpayers holding most of the bag in the end anyways.
@Theshadowedknight …
So you don’t have a trading account, have never done this before (so have no idea what the hell you’re doing), likely have barely two nickles to scratch together — but you’re going to make cheddar, a killing, piling into a short squeeze story that’s already plastered all over the MSM? ‘Cause Cominator says so.
Fresh meat.
Sit this one out. You missed it.
Get set up for the next one, or the “come what may.”
The market will still be here for you tomorrow — and the next day.
Patience.
You’ve got plenty of time to learn painful lessons about how to lose tons of money in a blink of an eye.
I said to go in last night and got in at 9ish premarket this will still run for a bit. BlackRock knows what they are doing.
Indeed.
Jim’s is now the place on the internet to get minute-by-minute hot stock trading tips from The Cominator.
There really is nothing left to talk about.
The war is over and we lost… discussing politics now is futile and depressing…
Certainly making our way while we still can and potentially fleeing is a good topic of discussion.
Who the fuck are you? I don’t know you, but I know Cominator, and he has a long history of pretty good calls when everyone was against him. I trust him a lot more than you. Besides that, you missed the point of the post you quoted. Scare tactics, cheap rhetorical tactics, and lame attempts at disqualification. You sound like a shill.
Besides, one of the drivers of this is responsible for trading for Robinhood. If Robinhood goes down, you get out because that means the big boys are leaving the field. You don’t want to be out on the field alone when the response comes, and Robinhood is down, which means I was never able to make it in.
I have no money in, but the basic theory of a short squeeze is not rocket science. All I was wondering was how to actually purchase some of the stocks. Since I can’t get in and one of my warning flags went up, I’m not even going to try any further. I’m out before I even made it in, so I lose nothing and learn something. That’s a pretty good ROI.
Robin hood is down…
Link? The Ameritrade restrictions seem to effect margin and options trading they aren’t preventing you from buying it you just need cash.
No link, just that people are reporting issues getting into Robinhood and it won’t let me in. It seems like a broad attack on the retail investor, which means it’s time to bug out.
Ameritrade had login trouble early I know personally someone was able to sign up for robinhood tonight. Probably volume disruption…
In a naked short, the short seller sells stocks he borrowed, or stocks he “borrowed” without bothering to tell the party he borrowed from, or stocks that just flat out do not exist, intending to make a purchase of stocks before he has to deliver.
It becomes apparent that an enormous number of Gamestop shares that just flat out do not exist have been sold.
Well, what happens if an enormous number continue to be sold, without actual deliveries?
The events on the London Metals exchange answered that question.
They did restrict on robinhood…
Yeah, and as soon as I realized it wasn’t just an overload error, I tapped out. So I never got to get in this, but I see the issue.
Best part about this is the absolute collapse of regime legitimacy. The news is basically screaming, “Won’t anyone think of the billionaire hedge fund managers!” Then changing the rules to keep the poors out of the game. It’s so blatant and crooked and every time they try to explain it it only makes it look worse.
Can’t buy or sell AMC on Etrade. We’re fucked now Com.
Holding keeps them in the jam. If you want to sell, the other retail platforms will let you sell, just not buy.
I’m not selling my AMC yet for that reason…
I didn’t bet the farm and got in as low as the 9s so I feel no compulsion…
If you have gamestop though I’d advise you to get the fuck out… AMC could drop 50% in short order but gamestop could drop 90%…
RH does not seem to be making a difference. There’s more buy orders than sell orders, apparently. Unfortunately I got in EoD yesterday, so I stand to lose a lot more than Cominator by selling now. I’ll wait and see if I can break even. Prices still seem high for the short volume that’s due tomorrow according to what I’ve been told, so I’m not giving up.
Good rule of thumb– if you are reading about an investment opportunity on the news, it is no longer an investment opportunity.
Also, if you have a job, you are not an investor. Job is an acronym for investors that means ‘Just Over Broke.’ Act accordingly.
What he said.
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Not going to debate you on the value of liquidity.
Caught a whiff of this story: rando Jew run hedge fund tries to short sell Gamestop for fun and profit. Clever goyim on Riddit catch scoop and beat them to the swindle. Jews say oy gevalt to big gov with hat in hand.
Unfortunately for the tax payer, hedge fund will be bailed out at taxpayer expense.
One clever goy converted 55k to over a mill.
Bet they close the loop on this. Don’t expect to see it happen again.
Gamestop is still going to go out of business because they are crap.
It’s a cool story, it just isn’t the real story. The real story is that very big and extremely evil hedge funds saw that smaller and less evil hedge funds had entered into some risky positions and put the screws to them using retail-investment shills as a front and media PR shills to run a good cover story.
I doubt very much that any retail investor converted $55k to over $1M – would have had to buy at the very bottom and sell at the very top, and having such perfect timing would imply that they were in on the scam and not really a retail investor at all. Certainly I can believe that a number of investors rode the wave to a five-bagger or even ten-bagger, but 20x would not only have required both perfect timing and extreme persistence during the few hours when all of the major retail traders were effectively being DDoSed and couldn’t even process logins, never mind trades.
I would bet that a few hundred or thousand retail investors made huge profits on small bets (say, turning $2k into $10k), a much smaller number made larger bets (perhaps profiting as much as $100-$200k), and the overwhelming majority either already lost money or are going to lose money by buying during or after the squeeze and being greedy. That’s what always happens. You guys are acting like this is some crazy new thing, but I’ve seen hundreds of squeezes and bubbles like this one, the only difference is that some stupid edgelords are taking credit for it and the media is capitalizing on the opportunity to hide the hand of institutional investors whom 15 years ago everyone knew were pulling the strings.
It is likely that a quite large number of retail investors bought near the bottom. That Gamestop had been shorted excessively became widely known before it rose substantially.
Naked shorting is evil. Big shorters are always politically well connected, or think they are politically well connected (they may be in for a surprise as politics accelerates) and in a big squeeze, are apt to welsh on their bets. In the great London Metal Exchange tin short, they not only welshed on their bets but the short squeezers that were under London jurisdiction were found guilty by the courts.
Big shorts are always politically well connected, because the only way to do a big short is naked, and naked shorts are too dangerous unless you are sufficiently well connected that you can get away with welshing on your bet.
Should a man acquire and live in a house before having a wife and children?
The latter is much more essential than the former obviously. But the former makes the latter a lot easier.
Having the ability to say ‘lets go back to my place’ greatly aids in the object of knocking your chick up. But don’t let that stop you from doing it anyways when you can make the chance, and building your nest to support it afterwards.
All you need is privacy and a horizontal surface.
Once a chick goes behind closed doors with someone she perceives as alpha, bang will ensue, even if neither of them intend it, and neither of them expect it.
It is like you are on diet, and there is a bag of potato crisps sitting on the couch. Pretty soon that bag will be empty.
The house and garden facilitates a lifestyle where the same thing is less likely to happen all over again. Hence of limited value until a woman is tamed. Maybe my next post is going to be on mate guarding.
About the mate guarding post: please, do it. I am sure it will be insightful and it is a tricky subject.
It’s not necessary before you acquire the female but you should have your own place rent or own. No room mates if you can help it.
I have my own apartment without roommates, and yes it’s definitely easier to get laid like that, and easier to focus while working, plus I just prefer having control over one tiny part of the world instead of sharing and negotiating with a roommate.
I was thinking about Jim’s comment: “If no wife, no interest in a home and garden, and politics will create a landless, fatherless mob, living in little boxes, and elites will use that mob to destroy each other.”
I realized I’m part of the landless mob living in little boxes. And maybe it’d be better to be somewhere more rural, with land and a house, and not having to deal with the vibrancy and noise and crowds of the city, and the sharing of common space and sound with the apartment neighbors. Even if no wife and children.
But then again without a wife and children, not much desire to keep up the place, and not as advantageous to be more socially isolated.
I’d say getting out of the cities is a good idea regardless, as a BLM mob could spring up at any point which the local authorities are not likely to be interested in putting down. The advantage of being in the cities is access to women but nowadays women who live in cities are likely to have high notch counts and be brainwashed with shitlib ideology plus you’re dealing with dumb covid laws. Not much upside.
If I were a young single man looking for a wife I’d find a nice suburb outside of a city. Going rural into the country may leave you too isolated to find suitable wife prospects. Being in a suburb is a nice balance. Maybe find a girl living with her parents, or through a local church, you’ll have places to take her and also you can go into the city if you need to.
You don’t necessarily need a house. An apartment in the suburbs is just as suitable.
Just as suitable, indeed more suitable, for banging unowned women, but less suitable if you want ownership of the woman.
In defect/defect equilibrium, more useful than a house. But if you think you have successfully brought an end to defect/defect equilibrium, a house is better for keeping it ended.
Right. A house is going to be required to keep her owned after finding the female to own. Howver, during the female acquisition phase, apartment complexes have some advantages like pools, recreation areas, tennis courts, etc that may come in handy and are just fun ways to meet people. You’ll have the advantage of less upkeep like mowing and raking leaves and such but generally apartment complexes in the suburb still give you decent living space compared to the cramped cities.
If you see yourself living in that area long term even after finding a wife maybe it makes sense to buy a house instead throwing money away on rent. There’s many factors and it comes down to a personal decision I guess and what you like.
Thank you.
It’s morally illegal to go take very young women under the prog fertility cult everyone belongs too. But they are the easiest women to take. You’ll need good game to tame a feral girl but the reward is a young wife who can bear you many children. Find ways to meet very young women.
I personally feel conflicted about this.
I bought a house when I was 24 y.o. before being married and moved to work in other locations. Paid the house at 26 y.o.. The house is fairly cheap and my salary is very high so I can take very short mortgage. The house seems perfect at that time: it’s still within metro area and the commute is manageable.
I can tell you this much from experience:
a. Condition and expectation changes. What seems like a perfect house from bachelor point view might feel inadequate after being married. What seems like big house for bachelor suddenly feels cramped for a family with 1 children.
b. If you are young, there is good chance you’ll move around for job. I bought the house is great metro city (most of good jobs are in that city) and suddenly my company transferred me to middle of plantation. I paid off the house only to lived in it a few months.
c. Having mortgage sometimes can become anxiety. It can come suddenly “what if I’m suddenly unemployed” something like that. It’s not pleasant and I don’t plan having another debt in the future.
But then again housing prices tend to move faster than salary increase (though I’m not sure in this Rona time). And fucking is a lot easier in own place (also can confirmed from personal experience)
In a patriarchy yes. As her father has ownership over his future children. Now? A house is meaningless, so if it suites you to do so. But it will not help you to learn game. And it is all game. Anyone who tells you looks, money, status, is full of shit. It’s all game, all the rest of it LMS only serves to lessen the shit tests that you have to pass anyway.
Focus on game. To learn it make wins in your life and their are much cheaper wins than home ownership. These wins will give you confidence that you can parlay into action. To start I do, and I do, believe it is best to pick from the trash. Go for single moms and know they are utter trash, they will have no father. Use them to learn game. I have no idea the state of the red pill today, from what I knew it is looking pretty bad. So take it on yourself. Meet many low quality woman and bang, use, test ideas, try out the hardest asshole game you can imagine and double down the next time.
Learn from each interaction. Then when you finally understand that women are wandering sluts, objects, property, who have a personality but who can only react, to you, and to other men, hypoagents, then when you know how to handle your property, take a young one and make babies.
Then buy a house for your children and tell her she’s lucky she gets to live in it.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-24/newsom-cancels-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order
https://recallgavin2020.com/
The left are now open that the China Flu is only front take down Trump. Now that orange man is gone and dementia biden is in place, China Flu is suddenly gone and lockdown is no more.
But to see by doing this the left/deep state is already losing control on masses as soon as they are in power, it’s hilarious. They immediately make 2 new enemies (A) the useful idiots who genuinely thinks we need constant lockdown and (B) people who were immediately screwed by biden.
I know Jim wrote that holiness spiral will move faster and faster, but I never thought it will spiral this fast. It’s not even a week and they are already losing control.
No they are divided on the Rona. There is a faction that wants eternal Rona in order to destroy capitalism and all social cohesion and venues forever outside non approved channels.
That’s my take as well. The cohesion of the deep state collapse as soon as a Military coup didn’t materialize.
What military coup?
The one they had 25,000 troops at the Capitol to prevent.
Colour revolution in Thailand will probably heat up now…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/king-of-thailand-reportedly-accused-of-breaking-sisters-ankles-after-she-questions-plan-to-name-second-queen
Ricky Vaughan has been arrested for shitposting. Media is all fire and brimstone over it. “Election interference” they’re calling it.
That didn’t take long.
Well we are all thought criminals now. Jim readers i think should spare the obvious comments of “bu bu bu the left does it too” and instead merely take heed of the ratchet clicking along.
Ever accelerating Leftism.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/anthropologist-a-l-kroeber-franz-boass-first-ph-d-student-is-un-named-by-berkeley/
Something I hoped for back in 2012 when everyone was expecting transaction fees/time to be soon solved was that I would be able to play any obscure and abandoned old videogame and instantly fill it up with a crowd of people by paying them a few cents each for a 5-10minute round, there would be an open market, and of course one could make his money back by playing other obscure and abandoned games that someone else wanted to fill. I imagined similar arrangements taking place inside virtual worlds generally. People were speculating about building different virtual worlds with the currency directly consisting of real crypto
The point is, there are probably all kinds of ideas, perhaps revolutionary ideas, which would become possible if large scale microtransactions were easy to do, but which have simply never materialized because the tech was not there. Everyone used to expect bitcoin to solve the technical hurdle, it just never manifested. Old forum archives probably have a lot of potential ideas hidden away. The best ones have probably not yet even been discovered. They would have been abandoned as people realized that bitcoin was not going to be fixed. The assumption was that the technical people would have a good incentive to solve it. Interesting that this turned out to not really be the case.
Another idea was a private road, true ancap style, automatically charging each car a couple of pence to go down it. Or consider an ancap bridge or an ancap park or an ancap nature trail
It is would be a great thing if we could buy an icecream with crypto the way we can with Apple Pay and tapping our phone, but the smaller the transactions and higher the volume, the more new ideas which become easily implementable, moreso if these accounts were tied to a social credit identity
If scalable crypto was made, it would only take one park bench on private land with raisable and lowerable spikes to attract a lot of publicity. Impractical to do with bitcoin, while Apple would ban the payment system or the app for interfering with the rights of the homeless, even though it would not exactly be illegal. Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see illegal activities (tax avoidance) be made easier without the inconvenience and cost of handling physical cash, but there is a broad grey area of ideas which are nothing more than politically incorrect, that I am excited about discovering
I like physical cash and the abolition of physical cash will be horrible for freedom…
With existing crypto solutions, it would be horrible for freedom.
I intend a future where everyone has on their phone a program that enables to the phone to be used as a debit card that works as swiss numbered bank accounts used to work, and cash consists of plastic coins that contain a chip that contains a secret that was generated by the coin when it was charged with crypto, and can only be banked (added to the balance on your phone) by ripping the tab off the coin.
But that is a long way down the road, and states want a future where:
He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Six hundred and sixty six was the Greco Roman phrase for a very long number.
States are winning – and will continue to win as leftism accelerates. But they are destroying the corporate form in the process, and the economy rests on the corporate form.
This provides opportunity to move shareholding to blockchain and accounting to triple entry accounting in competition with state regulated accounting, which will build a counter society in the shadows, which counter society can take over when leftism collapses as it always does, as the invisible college became the Royal Society.
You will still need a very long number, quite a lot of very long numbers, but they will not be the number of the beast – they will be the numbers of people you have accounts with, and will not all be connected to your tax file number and state assigned identity.
First step: Scaling and proof of stake. Next step, lightning network done right, so that everyone is his own full reserve correspondence bank. Third step, triple entry accounting. Then we have one sovereign corporation. Fourth step, sidechains so that we have many, many, sovereign corporations.
If things go all the way to Pol Pot and Szechuan province, those corporations will have assassin drones and heavily armed flash mobs.
I never thought shareholding and trading needed to be moved to the blockchain…
Until what they pulled today. Apparently Robin Hood not only restricted trading in AMC and GME but sold people out of their positions…
If we still had real law that would be the basis for a helluva lawsuit.
They sold people out? Ooh, shit. Their position must be weaker than I thought.
I saw a screenshot it could have just been people who held it on margin for all I know though (which they are allowed to do).
Nope, reporting is more than just margin sales are being sold out. If you have it, and you are up, get the fuck out now.
Unless you have a broker that you think you can trust. The big boys consolidated their gains and the cavalry is quitting the field.
“Hard to “HODL†if the brokerage sells them out from under you.”
Big naked shorts are always done by people with the power to cheat and lie when things go bad, and the courts will find in their favor and declare the short squeezers to be committing fraud – and these days, probably fraud and terrorism.
It is likely to wind up like the November the fourth election and the London Metals Exchange.
This started out as an off topic thread, but is now converging to topic.
You’re right. Looks like SEC wants Robinhood customer data now.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1354900707443400706?s=20
Precisely. If you got in early enough and the powerful were still fighting it out and got out as soon as buying was restricted, you might be OK. Other than that, you are playing against the house, and the house always wins.
Cohen etc must have bribed big to get the trading platform halt.
The rumors are either that high level WH staff called the CEOs of these platforms asking for trading halts or that Yellen herself did this. I would have figured that they would have acted through the intermediaries of the SEC or treasury department.
I downloaded a stock app and it took me several pages of declarations with “nigger†in all fields before I made it in and deposited fifty pounds. I dread to think what it is like for normies who deal with enough volume to declare this stuff. Using crypto and TOR to funnel their predictions seems is surely their God-given right
don’t forget the people in Crimea and Tunisia who cannot use PayPal, stonks, or anything.
In Tunisia, a simple business such as “import clothes†is impossible, as a few wealthy families control the limited number of licenses. The remaining whitish minority watch their homes crumble, occasionally outright burned down by Arab riots. A major component of its strangulation relates to currency controls, and it seems like good crypto
would alleviate their situation to some degree, even before the collapse in the west.
Here’s the screenshot…
https://twitter.com/555Sunny/status/1354854993946406917?s=20
I love how Elon Musk is egging this one lolol…
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354890601649610753?s=20
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1354891972406865922?s=20
If this were a normal time selling shares people have (outside of a margin call) automatically would be an open and shut lawsuit especially selling them at a loss.
But I suspect such lawsuits will be treated like the lawsuits against Biden’s election theft.
Yeah, I have some friends that want to stay in thinking they are going to make money. I fucking warned them. Hard to “HODL” if the brokerage sells them out from under you.
Com you still holding AMC?
I suspect the Biz crowd will try again tommorow using ameritrade (where you can still buy it) and other off robinhood platforms which still allow buying and drive it to 15…
But after that I’m out. I’m willing to risk it falling to 5 or 6.
Yeah Etrade removed the lock so maybe they’ll try that.
Ted Cruz and AOC getting together to bitch about it probably eased up some of the pressure brought on by Cohen’s bought off pet regulators…
I don’t think he can cover his entire position today either at these prices…
So I suspect I’ll be able to get at 14 or 15 with a profit but not what I should have made. Because a lot of the biz crowd is HODLing as tsk says, and thus I should still be able to make a profit (I did not bet the farm and thus can afford a loss) but not the kind of profit I was once looking at.
They probably never “really” had them to begin with, in the sense of “taking delivery”, in the sense that the naked short seller was not able to deliver. These were “virtual shares” LOL
“Six hundred and sixty six was the Greco Roman phrase for a very long number.”
How come? Why is a very long number the number of the name of the beast?
Most people are beasts. Goyim. They don’t think and can’t think. They act as they feel. Do as though wilt. Act as you feel. It’s all time preference.
Imagine the ability to think a generation or more ahead.
They wear the mark of the beast, who does as it wilst, as they do it.
But let’s give you a number. Without the number do you do as you will, or still do as you feel? Who even knows.
Jim called it, the FAA revoked Starships permit right before SN9’s test flight because they don’t feel the StarShip is “safe enough”. Guess they need fire those White and Asians guys to make it safe.
Wow Biden’s clique is rapidly fucking up everything…
Maybe it will go rapid enough to provoke a coup… what they pulled with the gamestop short squeeze and AMC is very very unpopular and blatantly corrupt (nobody likes hedge funds and everyone liked that a bunch of shitlords were taking them to the cleaners).
I fear that they will use this to rapidly justify removing Biden using him as the scapegoat and installing Cameltoe though.
Wow it’s only Biden’s first week. Can’t wait to find out what else is in store.
They have no choice. The AOC/Bernie socialists, whose home base also is Reddit, are using the Gamestop event to outleft them.
Coup seems unlikely right now. If the Military purge is ineffective and once economy really starts to bite the families of heavy hitters… then we’ll see. I doubt Obama 2.0 clique will reward the military the way Venezuela did to keep them loyal.
This week feels really like the leftist holiness spiral is gaining momentum much faster. It is starting to get scary.
Maybe, but it seems like they are tipping their hand so much that they’re liable to wake people up.
Wake up about what? The system has been rigged for decades. We all know it. Why do you think Trump won twice?
What is going is since the deep state has rendered the right powerless and now the left is taking up the same rigging issue that the populist right took up. Their ranks will swell as desperate people who are out of work, unable to feed their families, and young men looking for power and pussy join their ranks. All while the FBI ignores them in favor of chasing the right to death.
I thought that too, but I feel more hopeful today. The USSR ultimately collapsed because nobody believed in the state ideology anymore, not even the party members. And nobody believes the state ideology here either; nobody believes in globohomo, not even the regime. They are playing this very poorly right now by openly acting like a police state. It’s not clear to me that they really have the power to make this work; they were acting afraid of the national guard they called in as a show of force. I know that the Bolsheviks didn’t really have that many people and didn’t have the support of the majority of the country but were able to rule with fear, and it could go the same way here, but is it really certain? I don’t think so. I think the military could still turn against them, or some capable leaders arise to mount a resistance.
At this point the historical pattern is that after the sovereign wimps out, the military don’t do anything until far too late.
The left moves vigorously to purge them, and in the end it is a left wing military man, Cromwell or Stalin who ends it.
In Rome they attempted to purge Sulla, and he was not impressed, but he had his own independent power base, the army outside Rome, and his own independent sources of revenue and supply, extorted from the Kings he was subduing. We don’t have a Sulla – and indeed the re-organization of the British army that started after the Crimean was in large part intended to make a Sulla impossible, by centralizing logistics in London. Socialist logistics is militarily ineffective, but protects against the military doing what Cromwell and Sulla did.
Trump was the last thing between us and the deluge, and on January the sixth he wimped out.
We need to follow the tactics of the invisible college, until the leftist spiral is halted by left on left violence, and then wait for leftism to gradually hollow out.
The invisible college is fine, but the more pressing problem is how to avoid the fate of the kulaks.
Neither invisble college nor blockchain would have helped the kulaks.
With luck, a Cromwell.
The deep state is getting nervous.
What makes you think that the deep state is getting nervous?
They are moving in the open. Blatant moves to show off power are a sign of weakness.
To clarify, blatant displays of force are a sign of weakness when you are in power. having to flex your muscle and clench the iron fist shows that things aren’t working. When you are out of power, a show of strength indicates strength.
We have walked this path many times before.
What this mean R7?
Yeah, I’m getting in on this one, motherfucker. Where’s your fucking livestream now? You wanted to shit on all of us, and we called it.
In the immortal words of me: I. TOLD. YOU. SO!
Pooch and others still interested, I sold my AMC for 12.50 in the after hours for now…
So I DID end up with a profit despite this crap, just not NEARLY what I should have made. For baboontycoon who bought late and others I’m sorry… I did not suspect this kind of corrupt intervention would come this QUICKLY.
Reckon it’s over then? I’m debating whether or not to get out now
The announcement of RH reopening trades tomorrow has me cautiously optimistic, along with the news of the 44m stock dump issued at $13.41 (which wouldn’t cover my losses but would reduce them substantially)
I do not know 100%, the government may take its thumb off the scale on this one because its got people on both the far holy left and the right wing remnant raising a stink and its very very unpopular. People loved that a bunch of ordinary internet shitlords were ripping off a bunch of naked short hedge fund echoes.
But even if they do the squeeze is not going to be what it was as they depend on full confidence and consistent momentum… I was expecting 50 to 100 35 at the very lowest. Now you’ll be lucky if you get 20.
Yes, I mostly agree. I’m just looking to break even or at least not lose much. If it peaks at $15, I’ll still be in the red, but I can deal with it
It’s not even a question. Get out, get out now. The hammer is about to fall, and you don’t want to be under it. If RH is opening stocks, that means the hedge funds, Wall Street, and the White House have given them the all clear, and anyone still in is going to get fucked. No lube, no cuddling, not even a reacharound. Just bend you over a barrel and pipe you until you can’t walk.
Webull had blocked things until an hour before close and its only risen since then. Don’t assume that all of these people are acting in concert or else this whole happening wouldn’t have begun in the first place. Make no mistake, we are along for the ride here. WSB and /biz/ are the public faces of something else going on, whatever it may be.
Anyway, the news that RH was reopening was what caused part of the current spike to begin with, and since RH is the platform WSB has been recommending up until today, the retail investors that were following them are going to be able to use it.
GME up 75% in after hours lmao
Kicking myself for missing it. It was crashing seconds before close and I pressed the submit button a second too late
If you put in a limit you’r broker might allow AH trading for next time.
Not sure there will be a next time, I am already sweating bullets over AMC. I’ve been using
TDA and I could have limit bought for AH trading, but it had been crashing by the second and I wanted to see if I could Market buy at the bottom since I didn’t know how low it would get or how quickly it would get there
TD A allows you to sell AH just specify extended hours PM and you need to use limits. If you have a standing sell order cancel it 1st.
You were able to sell in afterhours? It’s going up now I might just hold it and see what happens tomorrow. Don’t worry about it. I only put 1-2% of my holdings on it. I was well aware of the risk, especially after Jim outlined them. Not a big loss for me.
I would be careful because of the legal exposure. The SEC is looking to make examples if the reporting is to be believed. Not a good look for Biden for the stock market to go to shit right after he gets in, so whoever is running the show needs to put the little people in their place.
I believe they’ll go after normie Trump supporters eventually but its going to be absurd if they bust everyone who shows a profit in AMC or gamestop now especially since this is one of the few issues both extremes agree on…
I’m not an insider…
I’m not a public figure…
WTF are they going to arrest me for if they come after me it’ll be for political charges for some made up bullshit not for this. I’d love to see them try to prosecute me for this in front of a Florida jury.
Your Jury would consist of 8 sheboons and 4 Tryvons.
Who would love that I ripped off a bunch of hedge fund echoes up in New York.
Ha that’s the one time where that would be a favorable jury.
In the London Metals Exchange meltdown they went after the assets of British normies who had joined the miners short squeeze on tin, and tried to go after the assets of foreign normies.
But in this meltdown, the deep state is going to run into trouble from the far left, and the far left will probably win, so the risk is less.
In the London Metals Exchange meltdown, the speculators felt that the miners had far too much tin in stock, which they would have to sell eventually, so naked short sold vast amounts of imaginary tin at unreasonably low prices. To which the miners and the makers of tin cans, reasonably enough, responded “Let us see your tin. We want some actual tin. At this price, our stockpiles could do with some more tin.”
And everyone, seeing the speculators in trouble, piled on, just as people piled on to the Gamestop short squeeze.
But selling imaginary tin requires power. And power can rob or imprison people who call out a naked short. And it did.
The narratives are inchoate and still congealing. My favorite Absolutely Current Year one so far though is ‘we need to make outsider trading illegal’.
If they do make an example it’ll be people with scores who go in on GME early, not us. And likely it’ll be RH users who RH then just turns their customer data over to the feds.
When I saw 12.30 in the AH I thought too good to be true after what they did today and bailed and got filled at 12.50…
So I can’t be too unhappy in the scheme of things but I’m pissed that I was cheated out of a really big score. I rarely do long positions less than 10% of my account so I did not bet the farm on AMC but it wasn’t totally insignificant either.
Mr. Cominator:
“… not NEARLY what I should have made.”
should have made? — if not for “this crap”?
So a moral universe has suddenly emerged, ya know with laws and shit?
Am I reading that correctly?
Wow.
Okay.
Enlightening.
What are you talking about now…
I meant of course if the government didn’t intervene for these bastards.
“… if the government didn’t intervene …”?
didn’t intervenne? — ya know, like stealing a fucking presidential and senate runoff election?
Shocked, shocked I say!
Elaboration …
By “if the government didn’t intervene,” you mean the very same government that unleashed corona chan insanity, stole the presidency and senate, still imposes a face-diaper mandate, requires now a positive covid19 test to fly airline-style into and potentially around the U.S., threates muh vaccines, etc.?
That government — you want that governmentto step aside, not interfere, let you reap the harvest of your short-squeeze major score?
Naked shorts are, in practice, evil deeds by evil people, and they deserve what they get.
But the state protects them from getting what they deserve.
What has been happening is that the shorters “borrowed” stocks from hodlers, and did not return them, and now the brokers are telling the hodler “sorry, we sold your stocks out from underneath you”.
The vast majority of naked shorting is done by people who are in a position to shaft someone else should the short blow up.
Your contributions to this blog are worthless.
As you predicted, Jim, they’re going after SpaceX, but probably sooner than we all thought. How dare the one company actually advancing science and engineering exist?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/doj-investigating-spacex-after-hiring-discrimination-complaint-.html
Hopefully Musk has sufficient racism to, after he is forced to hire incompetents, completely ignore their attempted contributions to spaceflight and extraterrestrial colonization.
This is actually kind of shocking. I had thought the only reason SpaceX was even solvent was because of federal funding, so one would think they’d have already had to deal with such things. I have only seen one Tesla car in the wild in my entire life. I guess Trump really had been keeping it at bay
More like SpaceX is keeping NASA in space. They’re 2/3s the costs of their competitors and those competitors get extra federal funding while their rockets seldom work right.
Every other house here has a tesla. They drive too fast in the neighborhood. We’ve got kids playing people need to slow down. I wouldn’t buy one it’s not a good family investment. I got the wife a nice Toyota minivan. Since she’s big with another child I’ve been looking at full size vans but they look poorly made
Still, a suburban looks even worse.
Jim, how the hell did you predict this so well? Right down to the flight range officer.
Far be it from Jim to toot his own Horn or take credit for what he gets right, so I’ll do it for him.
It is Jim’s ability to predict accurately that makes him the leader of the reaction. Without that stellar ability to predict accurately, he would just be another entertaining and articulate writer. It is the combination of accurate prediction, humor, entertaining writing and articulation that makes Jim such a Juggernaut, such a force to reckon with. It’s why, we hungrily read up whatever he writes. It’s why the more we read Jim, the more we want to read him.
The ability to predict is the Key. Everything else flows from that. No one else i know has it. Guys like Scott Adams get one lucky prediction right and we never hear the end of it for 4 years. Jim consistently gets them right and we rarely hear an “I told you so”
The only prediction that Jim got wrong was, the trump Autocoup and all the coup related stuff which many of us thought was too ambitious anyway. But I guess Jim was getting so bored of getting them right so often that he wanted to challenge himself and really push the envelope with that coup business. Like Mel Gibson in Maverick, Jim really wanted to predict something fancy. And I have to say that like Germany in the two world wars he almost won. I would never have predicted the capitol storming.
To be fair Jim never predicted a Trump autocoup, he only said the time was approaching where he would need to autocoup or lose and that’s exactly what happened.
In the early days of the Trump administration he predicted multiple autocoups, all of which failed to come to pass. He became more careful as time went on. I think the fundamental error of Jim’s predictions with Trump and his administration was mind reading. He read Trump’s and Barr’s minds as though they knew the score and were “our” guys, just as the left read their minds and decided that Trump was reactionary/facists/Nazis. Both predictions were way off.
Since it’s not possible to read people’s minds this is a pretty common problem to fall into, and it’s something I fell into as well. The best you can do with people is observe their actions, and make future predictions based on that and in Trump’s case, he was very far from reactionary. For instance, he failed to ban critical race theory until the last minute despite it’s very broad unpopularity. A reactionary Trump would have banned it day 2 of his administration.
I don’t think it’s possible to accurately to read someone’s mind without personal knowledge of them. Predicting group behavior is quite possible. Predicting what an individual actually believes at their core? Quite a bit harder.
In the end, as much as I hate to say it since I found B to be the most annoying and duplicitous commenter ever to post here, B was right about Trump, he’s a Bozo. I suspect B knew people who’d personally interacted with Trump and understood him.
Ace,
I would not give B any credit whatsoever. B’s prediction of Trump doing nothing is pure normality bias and nothing else. It’s like predicting in 2000 that the next POTUS would be either a republican or a democrat. Trump is NOT a bozo. He just lost his nerve and faced with the overwhelming power of the Deep state, he blinked. Most men would. David almost always blinks when confronted with Goliath. The one time he does not, we remember it down the ages. You should not shame a man for not measuring up to that one incident that happened thousands of years ago and never after.
A prediction gets more credit if it is unlikely to happen and happens anyway. Predictions of the type B made is just one level of difficulty greater than predicting that the sun is likely to rise in a south easterly direction tomorrow in NYC. No credit for that.
But had the AutoCoup prediction actually materialized, because of the sheer unlikelihood of it, I would have gone out in search of Jim to deliver me salvation and show me the light. That prediction was insanely ambitious. That’s a pure Jim Vs Jim thing. 2017 Jim wanting to go one-up (N-up) on pre-2017 Jim.
“I would not give B any credit whatsoever. B’s prediction of Trump doing nothing is pure normality bias and nothing else.”
Normality bias is usually correct, but when it’s wrong it is spectacularly wrong.
Certainly.
Just as one should not be congratulated for winning at Russian roulette, getting a prediction right based on normality bias is no big deal. There is no comparison between “B” and Jim.
Pooch, Looky here. This was the first post talking about the Autocoup
https://blog.reaction.la/politics/the-likely-shape-of-a-trump-autocoup/
There is a lot of Autocoup and coup related stuff in comments sections of several following posts as well
Oh yeah Jim and others here have been talking about it for years, but I wouldn’t say it was a prediction any of us were willing to bet are lives on that Trump would save us. Jim has been telling us to prepare for all eventualities.
Obviously, no sane predictor will bet 100% on any of his predictions, least of all Jim.
There are two ways to interpret the autocoup prediction
1. More than 50% probability which we disagreed with
2. More than the chance indicated by normality bias, which we all agreed with.
It seemed Jim was really predicting 1. If he predicted 2., hell, that’s barely a prediction. So we went with 1.
But I still have to give it to Jim. The events of jan 6 proved that the probability of a coup was way more than what normality bias would indicate. In fact had Trump not lost his nerve, failing to emulate David from millennia before, we might have had the coup and I might have fainted from disbelief.
Jim did get it wrong, but not by a whole lot. On a very bold prediction, no less.
I apologize in advance for what is probably a stupid question, but can anyone tell me anything about these: https://hive.io/ https://twetch.app/welcome
The first one has “blockchain” in the title, so I figured one of you would know something about it and could advise whether it is to be avoided.
Hive
https://hive.io/whitepaper.pdf
https://cryptobriefing.com/what-are-steem-hive-comparison-both-decentralized-content-blockchains/
https://steem.com/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
https://steemkr.com/steemit/@aggroed/a-brief-history-of-the-ninja-mine
Hive is a hard fork of Steem. Steem is a social media blockchain platform in which people can tip for content they liked. Hive also supports digital apps with data held on its blockchain.
The reason given for the fork was the amount of centralization in the Steem coin. Devs and Steem Inc owned something like 70% of the market cap. This wasn’t a problem until TRON bought up the developer stake and allegedly started using it badly.
In my opinion the Hive white paper has more buzzwords and is more hyped than the Steem whitepaper. Any coin calling itself the future of web 3.0 needs details for the autists. Faith must be accompanied by works.
The main difference I can see between the Hive and Steem is that Steem voting power is based on a separate token, so it has what would be Class A and Class B shares in a normal corporate structure, whereas Hive voting power is based on staked Hive coins.
You should follow The Cominator’s advice about management ownership. If the developers jumped ship then a coin will probably die. On the other hand, Hive seems to be supported by its user base so that could be a positive.
I don’t get involved with anything unless I can use it. The One Coin (Bitcoin at the moment) is a hedge against inflation with the added benefit that it does not exist in a physical form that someone can physically take from you. Monero is useful for private transactions and obscuring ownership of Bitcoin. The blockdag, proof of stake, natively lightning network-supporting coin that Jim is proposing aims to replace Bitcoin as the One Coin.
The briefing article says that some apps have moved off Steem and onto Hive. This suggests that the developers of these apps believe that Hive is more useful than Steem.
Since a certain number of transactions on Hive are free, perhaps you could try posting a few comments using it, or interacting with some content producers.
Hive market cap: $57m
Steem market cap: $72m
Hive consensus details
Delegated Proof of Stake. Staked for 13 week periods. Ability to make transactions related to amount staked. Replenish 20% of Resource Credits each 24 hours. You can increase the replenishment level by borrowing Hive Power from another user.
Block producers are chosen by staked coins. Clients can stake their coins with a prospective producer. The top 20 prospects are chosen to make blocks, with any others in line as backups if one of the 20 fails. The top 20 get equal chances to make blocks.
So the right to make blocks depends on your stake, but your stake only says whether you get a seat at the table, whereas once you are at the table you are equal to everyone else at the table. Block making is not in direct proportion to weight of stake. Given the history of the coin they probably did this to limit the impact of large holders.
The white paper does not go into the voting method in detail, nor does it go into the block making schedule in detail. It is not immediately clear whether block production and block signing are two different roles. This lack of detail on what is generally the most complex part of the any proof of stake scheme is not reassuring.
Hive claims to scale but it uses fixed rate blocks in a blockchain. This implies that any scaling must come from the block size.
The original Steem white paper claims 10,000 transactions per second.
Hive uses blockchain, not blockdag. It is not immediately clear how they maintain a blockchain with peers chaining to different peers at three blocks per second while accounting for network delay, nor is it clear how the network decides when a peer has missed its chance to make a block. These are concerns of blockchain only and do not affect blockdag.
Twetch
https://twetch.app/welcome
More buzzwords. Its main interface is a phone app but it promises censorship resistance. We here know then that this must be a lie.
There is no white paper and no detail at all. The social media listed for it are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Linkedin. We can be pretty sure what will happen the first time one of its users says something the uniparty doesn’t like.
It looks like a horrendous scam. Or maybe a way for thots to milk simps. Either way it is up to no good.
This Game Stop thing just has to be some kind of Group Psychology and/or Game Theory teachable moment.
Something about the amateur minting of unauthorized gray market Schelling points. Or something.
Sock it to me.
Read The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon. I was reading it as this thing unfolded. Basically mass delusion/hive mind created by the crowd. Plus all the red pills throughout the book (published in 1895) are refreshing. Talks about women being extremely poor witnesses in court and racial differences in crowds
It also describes the idiocy of democracy and the fall of the aristocracy.
Thanks for the tip, looks very interesting.