Eetan
2d ago
Eetan
3d ago
False flags all seem to be so poorly executed that they don't achieve anything for the "team" attempting them.
{insert famous airplane picture}
Obviously, well executed false flags are not recognized as so.
What is significant that people arranging these stunts have no idea how IRL violence looks like, that their knowledge comes exclusively from movies (or fetish porn).
And they are supremely confident in their knowledge and do not bother with research (it is easy now watch real footage of people beaten/killed on the streets from comfort of your living room).
Eetan
3d ago
If such unlikely situation happened, I would go to Hague to clear my name. After few years in comfy United Nations prison, I would show I never participated in any genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity.
There are many rightful complaints against ICC, major is very slow procedure, but no one seriously claimed that any person, of rather short list so far found guilty by ICC was wrongfully convicted.
(i am not aware that any person blacklisted by US received any sort of trial)
Eetan
3d ago
Another case of culture war cancellation dropped, this time somewhat more important than the usual cases.
The case of Nicolas Guillou, French judge at the ICC, cancelled by Marco Rubio personally.
If your French is not sufficient, here is Xitter summary.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
Can it happen to you?
Not in this way, not even the most IRL important mottizen is worthy of Marco's personal attention.
If it happens, it will happen because AI analyzed your online activity and decided it crossed a threshold of dangerous nihilist extremism (and you could do about it just as much as Nicolas Guillou, this means nothing at all.)
Eetan
3d ago
The reality is that men are fairly expendable. Society can afford for 30% of young men to die in the trenches and recover fairly quickly
This is how things might have worked for stone age tribes, but this is definitely not how things are working in modern world (counting modern as 19th century upwards).
In modern world, war widows just stay single for life. France never recovered from WWI. East European Slavic countries never recovered from WWII either (even Stalin did not dare to introduce polygamy and order war veterans to take another wife).
Eetan
3d ago
Eh, if you believe in the Jersey Devil, conspiracies come along with it.
This sort of chap?
It depends on your explanation for Jersey Devil.
If you think it is unknown, but natural animal that must eat, sleep, poop and die, then you must have explanation why no devil lairs, feces or remains have been found, and conspiracy by authorities who are deliberately hiding the remains is most plausible one.
This is official tinfoil hat explanation for Bigfoot - the feds in black helicopters arrive and seize any sasquatch remains only evidence left are redneck tales told around campfire.
If you see it as literal devil from hell or other supernatural entity, no cooperation of earthly mortal authorities is necessary.
Eetan
12d ago
We are retvrning 1500 years back. Mere ability to read, write and do basic arithmetic will again make you a superman seen by superstitious populace as wizard. Onwards to 6th century, bring back Dark Ages!
Eetan
12d ago
In particular, I see the key difference as somewhere between pre-modern state projects like, say, King Zhao of Qin ordering the construction of the Dūjiāngyàn irrigation and flood control project (around 256 BC, and still in use today!), and the sort of "High Modernist" technocratic projects discussed in James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State. Something like "ivory-tower Scientific Expertise" versus "ground-level metis."
Ancient megaprojects were not designed by peasants "on the ground", but by most experienced mathematicians and engineers of the time, with top tier technological and scientific expertise that was available.
The peasants had as much say in the whole process as peasants today. The Grand Canal is going to run over your farm? Tough luck.
Eetan
12d ago
The official, top expert approved line is "bodily autonomy above all else"
This is why medical profession advocates for legalizing all drugs, free market in human organs, end of conscription (in countries where it is applicable), legal dueling and gladiator fights among consenting adults and absolutely opposes any proposals for compulsory vaccination.
Eetan
12d ago
I'm not seeing it. For one, I've never heard anyone argue fornthe pro-trans position in those terms, so even if such people exist, they're a tiny minority.
This is the official, top expert approved line. Why you think "sex change" is obsolete bigoted term and gender affirming treatment is the proper terminology now?
Because the real gender was always deep down there, in soul that got stuck by mistake in wrong body, and must be affirmed by hacking and chopping the body until it conforms to the soul (just like statue was always inside the boulder, and the sculptor just gets it out).
Eetan
13d ago
Am I missing something essential about how this is supposed to work?
You are supposed to dispose of your desktop computer and do everything on your phone. Age of computer is over, modern youff computer skills make average boomer look like hacker wizard.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Eetan
13d ago
Just curious, when was the last documented case of someone dying of starvation due to poverty in United States?
Pure starvation for economic reason, as "cannot afford enough calories to stay alive", not mentally ill people, drug addicts who forgot to eat, children starved by their parents, people stuck in place with no exit or lost in the wild etc.
Eetan
1mo ago
The motte is Marxists caring about culture, which obviously they have done throughout history. The Soviet Union is just one famous example.
Yes, Soviet Union cared about culture a lot, by promoting classical literature, art, music, opera and ballet to the masses (even when the masses were not interested and would prefer pop music, comic books and cowboy and gangster movies). Marxist-Leninist line always was that feudal and capitalist culture is great and belongs to working class, what was wrong with it was that the oppressors kept it only for themselves.
Eetan
1mo ago
Within the next two generations, Israel will be significantly larger than today, both in population and land area.
Israeli population growth shows no sign of abating, and, while the world is transfixed to Gaza, ancient biblical land of Bashan is now in the play.
Judea and Samaria and faith accompli, Bashan (and Gilead, when something happens in Jordan) are the next steps. Handmaid Tale fandom could rejoice, their fantasy could soon become real.
Eetan
1mo ago
It was in that spirit, that the ardent young Marxist, Éva Izsák, could be persuaded that it was her duty to kill herself for the sake of the cause.
Grim story. Now, let me add the necessary context to understand it, and it would be time and place where it happened.
It was late 1944 in Nazi occupied Hungary.
In this context, choosing to join underground resistance group was choosing to die for the cause, soon and often in rather unpleasant way, and it was clear to everyone.
Nothing "marxist" or "materialist" about this particular case, staunch Christian anticommunist Polish resistance would also execute their members at the slight suspicion they are compromised and endanger the group as a whole. These are rules of actual guerilla resistance against serious and determined enemy.
Eetan
1mo ago
Can someone please steel-man the American system of making individual citizens responsible for filing their taxes
MODE OF STEEL ON
In a free democratic republic, citizens should be aware about the true cost of state, and if they think it is too high, they should organize and vote for smaller and leaner government.
MODE OF STEEL OFF
Yea, it looks, walks and talks like mob extortion, but, unlike most parts of the system, can be steel manned. Not that it was ever deliberately designed for this reason.
Eetan
1mo ago
The killing themselves really gives me the spooks. No matter how I try I just can't imagine myself in that person's skull.
For me, it is the exact opposite. I just can't imagine myself committing long list of felonies and capital crimes, and then just ... give up, surrender to face rest of my life in American torture hell prisons.
Eetan
1mo ago
The vast majority of the MK ULTRA program files were destroyed and never released or leaked, so it’s hard to say. There were probably multiple types of techniques tested, and any that were successful were probably spun off into their own programs. In tinfoil hat circles I’ve heard of successor programs called MK NAOMI and MK MONARCH.
The short list of the programs is here.
I suspect some of the techniques of MK ULTRA or other similar programs ended up in mass media. In a democracy, being able to manipulate a huge number of people a small degree could be very useful.
What the professionals were looking for were not better marketing, advertising and PR technologies, not better interrogation and torture methods. By "mind control" they meant actual mind control from pulp science fiction of the time - methods of deleting and rewriting human memory like one deletes magnetic tape, reprogramming human mind like one programs electronic computer, marvel of this age. For some reason, they felt this is the thing Free World(TM) needs to defend freedom and fight communism.
So far, there is no sign it is possible, no sign that anyone in the world has such capability. It would be truly nightmarish world if it was real, world where killing is obsolete, world where they (for value of "they" you fear and hate the most) instead of cutting your head just stick you into machine, and it will turn you into one of "them".
Eetan
2mo ago
Again, he used a gun. It may be difficult for me to get across to a genuine Red Triber how alien that is to a Blue worldview.
Yes, worldwiew of ordinary Clinton and Biden voting normie with "in this house we believe" sign. The shooter was not one of these people and was not interested in "blue company".
Once you go far enough left, once you cross the threshold, you get to hate liberals and love guns as much as any MAGA hat wearing redneck.
Eetan
2mo ago
I'm sure he would have been identified eventually, but on the other hand he had sufficient leeway if he didn't confess/brag to probably get out of the country without anybody raising him.
Get out where?
If you look at succesful escapees from highest profile manhunt, the secret is to have friends/family in third world country who will hide you (while the authorities are not looking very hard).
If you are Diego Robles, your chances are good. If your name is James Robinson, forget it.
Eetan
2mo ago
How many Muslims that moved to Europe converted to Christianity, vs. how many Christian Europeans lost their faith within the same timeline?
Europe ceased to be Christian in traditional sense long before modern Muslim immigration began.
The question you need to ask is: how many Muslims assimilated into modern Western godless materialist life, vs how many Muslims reacted to living in unbeliever land by becoming more strict and fundamentalist?
(native European conversion to Islam is, so far, demographically insignificant. Michel Houellebecq utopia is far away.)
The issue is that not only is the creed not enforced, being active hostility to it is allowed, and often encouraged
The creed is very much enforced and resistance was not tolerated until very recently. See that even as recent refugee from war zone, you have no choice than to actively affirm the creed to be accepted by society.
Eetan
2mo ago
Are you looking for a complete creed and list of enforcement mechanisms? If so, I'll concede that I haven't thought that deeply about it. But as a summary, I'd say, "I'm imperfect, so I'll just go with whatever the pope wants." (See also: Edict of Thessalonica)
Yes, you need to think deeply about it. Who is the Pope (or Council, if you happen to be Conciliarist) who gets to decide what the Creed is?
When the Creed changes, what should happen to Americans who do not get along fast enough, and to Americans who actively reject it?
Eetan
2mo ago
As a side note on the child porn, let me ask a conspiratorial question: Without any opinion on this particular case, given the level of tech access of government agencies and corporations, what are the odds that nobody is putting child porn files onto the devices of people they want to discredit?
Remember Stephen Paddock, current solo mass shooting world record holder? And remember his brother, who, by coincidence, happened to possess indecent images of children (until he hadn't).
Eetan
2mo ago
The average Gazan's life would improve immensely if they just complied and stopped fucking with Israel.
Too late for this. Israel moved on and lost any interest in improving Palestinian quality of life. The plan for Gazans is to leave or die. And since Gazans have nowhere to go...
It is not hard to understand. "Modal Christians" of pre modern trad age were not theologians, but illiterate peasants who never heard about any "creeds" and practiced their faith mixed with various village traditions and superstitions (often extremely unchristian).
Unless you are descended from unbroken line of scholars (it there ever was such thing in the West), your ancestors were not studying works of Saint Thomas, your ancestors were doing rituals to protect themselves from elves, goblins and leprechauns and were venerating saintly dog to help their sick children.
This is how real trad life looked like, and it is irretrievably lost.
(it was more tenacious you would expect. Cult of Saint Guinefort outlived French kingdom, two empires and three republics, all efforts of church and school failed to uproot it, and succumbed only to electric power, radio and television).
See also this old twitter thread with rather downer description of East European trad village (seen then as most Christian part of the world).
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