Form: Short Note

  • Evidence from Ukraine

    (FB 1541697548 Timestamp) Roman trained groups in the woods in Ukraine on weekends and people paid, around $75 for it. He wrote the training plan for the ukrainian volunteers. It spread across the country in a few weeks. The State Dept asked him to stop. Men came out of the woodwork to fight. Especially from the western part of the country. They formed militias with different ‘philosophes’ (degrees of aggression really). They raided military depots, banks, hardware stores — everything for supplies. They paid for some of their own supplies. People organized donations to buy them others. Regular Military worked with them and sold arms. The Russians supplied arms, money, and heavy weapons – and intel. Men need simple basics. Most importantly not to shoot each other. But that said, military trains men to patrol and hold ground and doctrine for guerillas is the OPPOSITE. So it is easier to train the four basic disciplines of riflemen than it is to train groups to select, survey, plan, strike, and retreat as guerillas. What we saw in ukraine as small groups of men take initiative, without telling others what they were doing, and making those raids and returning with high kill counts, but always at the risk of friendly fire. But that is because the area of conflict in the Donbas is quite small. America is huge, and “Deplatforming Cities” (ie: ending their supply lines) and removing selected academics, media, public intellectuals, politicians, and bureaucrats, and keeping the cash machines empty, the power out, water off, data down, gasoline out, food out, requires local or roaming groups to operate very differently from foot soldiers. I understand how ISIS, the IRA and the Marxists did it. American’s wont follow the Arab Spring model. Heterogeneity prevents it. What we CAN count on is filling the streets. but as the IRA(small), marxists (medium), and ISIS (large), with arab spring (masses) all conducted their revolutions fairly consistently by making the territory ungovernable. All that is necessary is to generate demand for settlement on STATED TERMS where the terms burn the state, not the military or the people. This will happen principally because there are enough men who WANT it to happen.

  • Do They Operate in Reciprocity

    (FB 1541795636 Timestamp) by John Mark One of the things that has helped me the most about Curt’s work is simply thinking in terms of “do they (whatever group) steal or not”. In other words, do they operate in reciprocity (natural law) or not. E.g. as Curt says, it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s rule of law (reciprocity, natural law, no theft) vs absence of it (corruption, parasitism, theft). (Rough not exact paraphrase) So many of the labels/terms people use are poorly defined or have different meanings depending on the speaker (often purposefully so, as a means of deceit/theft).

  • I am not trying to be scary

    (FB 1541794132 Timestamp) I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to think that this coming revolution will be fought as the civil rights movements and the french-revolution through the 20th century movements have been fought. Those were fights of classes using gunpowder against people. The current era is all against all, eroding the economy and infrastructure, and letting the ‘population load’ of modernity crash into chaos. I mean, look at history, but, the reason the chinese ended up with 100x the fatalities in war was population load.

  • (FB 1541770222 Timestamp) THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORD Hmmmm. Mao racked up 70m, Sta

    (FB 1541770222 Timestamp) THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORD Hmmmm. Mao racked up 70m, Stalin 20m, Hitler 12m, and Pol Pot at least 2m, Napoleon, Caesar, and Alexander at least 1m, each. I mean, the Chinese and the Mongols are the world masters of death tolls. With the Muslim conquest and destruction of every civilization of the ancient world EXCEPT the Chinese and to a lesser extent, the Indian. They racked up a Billion (yeah, billion), or so close to it, that it’s a rounding error. And to make a fair comparison between the Muslim conquest and the Jewish conquest under Marxism, the Marxists cumulatively got to 100m. So the Semites, between the Jews (100M), and the Muslims (1B) seem to be the most successful at the decimation of peoples. Again, we learn the lesson from the Chinese: ‘wall off the barbarians, and keep them out’. ergo, wall the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bosphorus, the Caucus Mountains, and the Ural Mountains, and contain the ‘stans, Mongolians and Chinese to their positions. Now, Romans did a sizable job, but the consequence of the dispersal catastrophic. (See image below). The only restitution being restoring the homeland (done) and repatriating the descendants (yet to be done). By comparison, Anglos are lightweights. With the War of the Roses at 40k, 25k in the Revolutionary War. 500K in the Civil War. So, you know 30m (10%) is sort of the minimum with 100m a more proportional goal. LIST OF WARS BY DEATH TOLL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

  • Do They Operate in Reciprocity

    (FB 1541795636 Timestamp) by John Mark One of the things that has helped me the most about Curt’s work is simply thinking in terms of “do they (whatever group) steal or not”. In other words, do they operate in reciprocity (natural law) or not. E.g. as Curt says, it’s not capitalism vs socialism, it’s rule of law (reciprocity, natural law, no theft) vs absence of it (corruption, parasitism, theft). (Rough not exact paraphrase) So many of the labels/terms people use are poorly defined or have different meanings depending on the speaker (often purposefully so, as a means of deceit/theft).

  • I am not trying to be scary

    (FB 1541794132 Timestamp) I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to think that this coming revolution will be fought as the civil rights movements and the french-revolution through the 20th century movements have been fought. Those were fights of classes using gunpowder against people. The current era is all against all, eroding the economy and infrastructure, and letting the ‘population load’ of modernity crash into chaos. I mean, look at history, but, the reason the chinese ended up with 100x the fatalities in war was population load.

  • (FB 1541770222 Timestamp) THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORD Hmmmm. Mao racked up 70m, Sta

    (FB 1541770222 Timestamp) THE REVOLUTIONARY RECORD Hmmmm. Mao racked up 70m, Stalin 20m, Hitler 12m, and Pol Pot at least 2m, Napoleon, Caesar, and Alexander at least 1m, each. I mean, the Chinese and the Mongols are the world masters of death tolls. With the Muslim conquest and destruction of every civilization of the ancient world EXCEPT the Chinese and to a lesser extent, the Indian. They racked up a Billion (yeah, billion), or so close to it, that it’s a rounding error. And to make a fair comparison between the Muslim conquest and the Jewish conquest under Marxism, the Marxists cumulatively got to 100m. So the Semites, between the Jews (100M), and the Muslims (1B) seem to be the most successful at the decimation of peoples. Again, we learn the lesson from the Chinese: ‘wall off the barbarians, and keep them out’. ergo, wall the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bosphorus, the Caucus Mountains, and the Ural Mountains, and contain the ‘stans, Mongolians and Chinese to their positions. Now, Romans did a sizable job, but the consequence of the dispersal catastrophic. (See image below). The only restitution being restoring the homeland (done) and repatriating the descendants (yet to be done). By comparison, Anglos are lightweights. With the War of the Roses at 40k, 25k in the Revolutionary War. 500K in the Civil War. So, you know 30m (10%) is sort of the minimum with 100m a more proportional goal. LIST OF WARS BY DEATH TOLL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll

  • So, when I want to buy a company…

    (FB 1541855892 Timestamp) So, when I want to buy a company, I raid it’s second tier staff first. Then have the purchasing, marketing, and sales people spread rumors of trouble. Gossip spreads like mad. There are always people that are looking for the next step up. Give it to them. Use the intel. Raid. Establish Relations. Buy the Company. You would think it wouldn’t work, but it depends on how you handle it. The principle problem organizations face is that very few people in any organization provide the talent that maintains competitive positioning. Talented people want to work for smart people who they can learn from, and achieve more by working for or with. If you catch those people, then the people who worked for and with them follow. Then the customers follow, then the company can be acquired at a discount. I have done this so many times that I can’t remember. I have built my companies largely through organic growth not acquisition, but I have built the staff largely through key recruiting and acquisition – because talent follows talent.

  • So, when I want to buy a company…

    (FB 1541855892 Timestamp) So, when I want to buy a company, I raid it’s second tier staff first. Then have the purchasing, marketing, and sales people spread rumors of trouble. Gossip spreads like mad. There are always people that are looking for the next step up. Give it to them. Use the intel. Raid. Establish Relations. Buy the Company. You would think it wouldn’t work, but it depends on how you handle it. The principle problem organizations face is that very few people in any organization provide the talent that maintains competitive positioning. Talented people want to work for smart people who they can learn from, and achieve more by working for or with. If you catch those people, then the people who worked for and with them follow. Then the customers follow, then the company can be acquired at a discount. I have done this so many times that I can’t remember. I have built my companies largely through organic growth not acquisition, but I have built the staff largely through key recruiting and acquisition – because talent follows talent.

  • The First Principles

    (FB 1541903425 Timestamp) THE FIRST PRINCIPLES Once you understand that we are “The People of The Law” and that “Truth is enough” and “Via Negativa” produces markets that calculate what a man cannot reason, the rest will fall into place. It is simply difficult to acquire those three cognitive habits.