(FB 1548948034 Timestamp) IQ AND WHY SMART PEOPLE AREN’T OFTEN RICH (from elsewhere)(archive) (or “wealth is a middle class occupation”) I think Molyneux did a pretty good job. Here is what I said in response to Taleb: —(a) g measures what we attempt to measure (b) chance of success corresponds to a distribution of traits, (c) plus the utility of those traits, in service of the population under the bell curve within 1 SD.— Which is the only answer that matters, and is something we have known for decades – it’s covered in the Millionaire Mind books and related research. But to an economists it’s fairly obvious. Smart folk don’t amass money that often because we already HAVE an asset. Smart people don’t need anything else to compete. They don’t need anything else to signal with. (I mean, ask andy how easy it is to intimidate, humiliate, or shut down the average person (idiot)) In fact, if you are very intelligent the skill we must learn is now NOT to make people feel stupid, humiliated, or shut down. So a little more color on the subject: People most likely to gain wealth are in the middle and upper middle classes. People least likely to gain wealth are in the lower classes. Our ‘aristocracy’ today tends to consist of relatively invisible academic financial and political families, rather than wealth for this reason. We live in a middle class VISIBLE world but with an INVISIBLE aristocracy. Why? Because you need to (a) be interested in (and not bored by) something (b) there are some number of people interested in, and (c) most people that you can serve are in the middle 2/3 of the curve. So knowing those OPERATIONAL RULES we would expect shortage at the bottom, a steep climb to 2/3, and shortage at the top. Which is what Taleb’s chart shows us. I mean, smart people have MANY, MANY Possible ways of being ‘successful’ (subjectively). For example: I can tell fairly easily that Andy Curzon and Noam Chomsky, or that category of people who can read anything and speak nine or ten languages – all have higher IQ’s than I do. And I can enumerate what each can do that is superior. My particular thing is that I don’t make mistakes, at the cost of limited lateral associations. I remember pretty much everything at the cost of short term memory. And I have trouble with more than one project at a time. But I will absolutely figure out any problem period, … given time to figure it out on my terms. These are not positive academic traits (rate of learning unrelated things, making one an exceptional manager, executive in every field), they are very positive lifetime traits (getting comparative advantage ‘right’ in high risk propositions.) So, for example, as Higgs (Higgs boson) said “I would never get hired by a university today because I work slowly”. And we are creating a large number of ‘sufficiently successful’ college graduates that find safety in jobs that are extra market (which is why you used to go to college – to find income outside of market forces – particularly government, law, medicine, and teaching). So Taleb’s observation is statistically truth and operationally false. Which is pretty much what I try to teach people: any claim that cannot be stated in operational language, is an act of fraud. So for example, no matter what I did,assuming we both invested in it, Andy would defeat me at chess (permutations of states), and Chomsky can give a long running detailed explanation of phenomenon without hesitation in search of words or phrasing (depth (or durability of short term memory) of ‘narrator, observer, searcher’ abilities – which is something that fascinates me). Because while I can undrestand it and imagine doing it I can’t do it – at least for any length of time – long enough time to complete with people like Andy, Chomsky, and say Stephen Fry is someone who comes to mind because of his lateral thinking ability. But here is the thing. Smart people (and I know very many of them) EXIT THE MARKET and live ‘normie lives’ because everything they can possibly want is obtainable under ‘normie’ conditions, an they can devote their spare time to their interests.
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(FB 1548905811 Timestamp) by John Mark The only thing I’d clarify about this is that there are a couple areas where the Left has been operating in reality better than the Right. So:
- Copy the Left’s tactic of gossip rally ridicule shame? No. Maybe to help win an election as a short-term play to buy us time, but not as a long-term solution. (The solution is outlaw pollution of the informational commons with lies.)
Copy the Left’s understanding that identity politics wins, and that racial identity is a more powerful petsuasive force for most people (especially nonwhites) than any political ideology or set of ideas? Yes. The Right has tried to be race-blind with disastrous consequences. The Left’s reality-based success with this (colonize us with nonwhites & play identity politics with them) fools many right-wingers, because the Left lies about race, but their actions & strategy are more in line with reality in this area than the Right’s have been. We must learn from them in this area. (Race matters in political persuasion for nonwhites, more than anything else. We must deal with this reality.)
The Left understands that it is all about holding the reins of power, not about “principle” or teaching people. Whoever makes the rules, rules. Whoever makes the rules, gets what they want. They go straight for the jugular: power. Without regard for anything else. Meanwhile, the Right has been trying to “be principled” and teach people (to explain/educate our way to victory). This is a mistake – truth matters not unless truth-enforcers have power and make the rules. Principles mean nothing without the power to enforce them. The Right must learn from the Left in this area.
The Left knows how to be intolerant, to punish its enemies swiftly and harshly. Certain parts of the Right have tried to embrace tolerance (libertarians, classical liberals), with the predictable result that classical liberals and libertarians have zero power. The Right must learn from the Left in this area.
What confuses the Right is that everything that comes out of the Left’s mouth is a lie. Their communication is all gossip rally ridicule shame (feminine). And we rightly say, “That is not us.” But then we look around and say, “Why do they have all the institutional power?” Well, because their actions (strategy/tactics) have been more in line with reality than the Right’s.
So yes, the alt-right’s “let’s do ridicule better than the Left” is not our long-term answer. But we must recognize the areas where the Left has operated in reality better than we have, and course correct. Without losing our essence (truth).
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(FB 1549551931 Timestamp) —“The problem with Singapore is that it is, like many other big cities, an IQ shredder. It attracts the highly intelligent and buries them in dead-end careers that depress their fertility. Their genes aren’t passed on. “— Nikola Dzhilvidzhiev Let the underclasses have their “Islands” (ghettos) and the upper the territories. It’s not complicated. The cities are just plantations of the modern era.
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(FB 1549551931 Timestamp) —“The problem with Singapore is that it is, like many other big cities, an IQ shredder. It attracts the highly intelligent and buries them in dead-end careers that depress their fertility. Their genes aren’t passed on. “— Nikola Dzhilvidzhiev Let the underclasses have their “Islands” (ghettos) and the upper the territories. It’s not complicated. The cities are just plantations of the modern era.
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(FB 1549746742 Timestamp) THE GREAT LIE OF THE 20TH CENTURY IT’S NOT CAPITALISM VS SOCIALISM but RULE OF LAW, MARKETS FOR CLASSES, and NATIONALISM of EUROPEANS VS RULE BY AUTHORITARIAN DISCRETION, MONOPOLY, and INTERNATIONALISM of MIDDLE EASTERNERS. (Simple rules for moral people, and simple rule for immoral people.) —“I think the issue could largely be the hierarchy of what we value. Rather than seeing capitalism as the best way to improve the material well-being of people, it became the goal itself. So, whereas before, the focus of life was family, faith, and folk (and the method by which you took care of your family was economic system), capitalism became the goal (“greed is good” rather than the more neutral “everyone operates in their self-interest” of Locke and Smith), and family, faith, and folk became secondary, tertiary, or a non factor. Communism is an evil, possibly the greatest evil to ever gain traction, but it’s not an evil because of the market conditions.”—Ethan Trice Yeah. well who invented the term ‘capitalism’ and who advances it rather than rule of law?
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(FB 1549746742 Timestamp) THE GREAT LIE OF THE 20TH CENTURY IT’S NOT CAPITALISM VS SOCIALISM but RULE OF LAW, MARKETS FOR CLASSES, and NATIONALISM of EUROPEANS VS RULE BY AUTHORITARIAN DISCRETION, MONOPOLY, and INTERNATIONALISM of MIDDLE EASTERNERS. (Simple rules for moral people, and simple rule for immoral people.) —“I think the issue could largely be the hierarchy of what we value. Rather than seeing capitalism as the best way to improve the material well-being of people, it became the goal itself. So, whereas before, the focus of life was family, faith, and folk (and the method by which you took care of your family was economic system), capitalism became the goal (“greed is good” rather than the more neutral “everyone operates in their self-interest” of Locke and Smith), and family, faith, and folk became secondary, tertiary, or a non factor. Communism is an evil, possibly the greatest evil to ever gain traction, but it’s not an evil because of the market conditions.”—Ethan Trice Yeah. well who invented the term ‘capitalism’ and who advances it rather than rule of law?
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(FB 1549744661 Timestamp) —“Instead of teaching us to provide for ourselves, boomers gave us a dystopian multiracial nightmare, crippling debt, crushing anomie, political powerlessness and much more. But hey, we should be grateful because we have i-phones, right?”— Victor Blanc
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(FB 1549744661 Timestamp) —“Instead of teaching us to provide for ourselves, boomers gave us a dystopian multiracial nightmare, crippling debt, crushing anomie, political powerlessness and much more. But hey, we should be grateful because we have i-phones, right?”— Victor Blanc
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(FB 1549742098 Timestamp) THE IRRELEVANCE OF THE DESPERATE FOR RELEVANCE I’m not listed anywhere by anyone in any canon, registry, article, or map as ‘alt right’. I didn’t want to be associated with the alt right. I tried the moniker New Right but Paul Joseph Watson started using it, and I hadn’t TM’d it so I lost that one. I can sympathize with the alt right as a movement of justifiably dissatisfied young men, copying Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and making use of new technology to achieve against the left with the interet what the left achieved with media against the rest of us. And I’m “On The Right” in the sense that I’m a conservative libertarian (sovereignty, and private property) – which makes me a rule-of-law rightist rather than an authoritarian or religious rightist. In my ideal world we have a rule of law by natural law, an independent judiciary, an hereditary monarchy, professional ministers, some set of class based houses of veto allocated by random selection, and something that would look very much like intolerant nationalism in the interwar french and german model. If that sounds like fascism, it’s simply extremely intolerant anglo monarchy under rule of law. John Mark has made us very popular very fast. Faster than we had ever imagined. Because his message sells, and he’s a hell of a smart guy, with media ready personality, and quality writer and producer. People of good character sell by their nature. People of poor character do not sell because of their nature. John is a man of good character and his message sells accordingly. ATTENTION DEFICIT DESPERATION DISORDER The current round of criticism is driven by Josh Jeppeson (Imperius) > Dylan Thomas (TruDilTom) and Dylan’s cohost (I won’t name) > Richard (Dicky) Spencer. Josh recruited Moritz Bierling, [name removed] and Joel Davis from my followers. Young smart guys with great promise but lacking skin in the game (family, career, biz) a need for aesthetics – which means “secular religious zeal”. And some of these folks attempted to stir conflict with me and those people who work with me. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ABOUT YOUNG SMART MEN Those without agency or responsibility in a sphere of influence(family, social, economic, political, military) generate demand for authority whether intelligent or dim, knowledgeable or ignorant. And they do so by means that they can participate in: sophism, supernatural sophism, economic sophism and pseudoscience and political pseudoscience and sophism. Because passion (emotion), persuasion(sophism), and pretense of knowledge, is all that they have to work with. And as with any market product ‘there is a sucker born every minute’ for every grammar of advocacy and persuasion. Each of us demonstrates a moral intuition a grammar of advocacy, argument, and resistance, and these demonstrations reflect our sexual, social, economic, political, and military market value. In other words, our moral intuitions reflect our reproductive strategies; our method of argument reflect those reproductive strategies. Each of us demonstrates at every single moment our sexual social economic, political, and military value with every expression gesture, display, dress, word, and deed – with humans working very hard to signal falsehoods: children their value in association, and women notoriously their youth, and men notoriously their future potential to the pack. So as a result we see the dim pursue religion, the less dim secular spiritualism or the occult, the less dim framing and sophism, the less dim pseudoscience. But those with agency, in a sphere of influence, with assets, relations, knowledge, and experience, simply use truth and utility, and rather than inspire, or persuade, they provide rational incentives for possible practical means of operating the familial, social, economic, political, and military order. Everything you want to know about an individual can be determined by his means of advocacy, argument, and resistance. Grammars of argument, just like vocabulary, are insights into the operations of the human mind. And there exist a limited number of NON CORRESPONDENT grammars to work with just as there are a limited number of personality traits. Megan Usui was an insider advising and promoting me. Unfortunately she was backchannel working with Jeppeson – I love her but good intentioned people are easily fooled. I think they concocted some idea of uniting the hard right. Of “bringing us all together”. Something ‘undesirable’. But Jeppeson is a sociopath and coat-tail rider. He tried to do something himself and couldn’t’. Tried to ride my coattails. And yes, I’m too tolerant of human pound puppies, but you know, after the tenth rage-quit and death threat, even the most tolerant of people disconnect and keep you at arm’s length. Megan worked up the meeting in NY with me Duchesne and Macdonald. Jeppeson spent the entire summer trying to convince megan that I couldn’t do it for some reason and that he should instead. (laughable.) Then another death threat, this time in public, on voice chat. I threatened to turn him into cops. It worked and he got quiet for a bit. Spencer is desperate for relevance, and the rest of the ‘leadership’ so to speak has simply ignored him. However, we are the rising stars and will be able to reach far larger numbers than the ‘alt right’, because we are selling a portfolio of solutions that will produce right, libertarian, and centrist ends, at the sole expense of the very bottom and very top – and natural incentives and pressures will do the rest. The secret to collapsing a dam or a fortress wall, is to weaken it and let the natural gravity of the environment do the work for you as a consequence. A good way of capturing attention is to undermine the competition. This is the strategy of female proxy for violence: undermining. Women gossip, shame, ridicule, rally,moralize (“GSRRM”), and they do so to hold back competitors rather than to to provide opportunities superior to those of competitors. Evidence suggests that the origin of language has as much to do with GSSRM to control alphas and redistribute control of reproduction as it does for hunters to communicate – when hunting is an almost entirely silent occupation. (The counter is that whenever GSSRM is used against you, retaliate with it, then repeat the central point. Use each volley GSSRM as a means of promoting your central point and thesis, and simply wear out the other party’s reliance on GSSRM. Over time people learn that GSSRM “hats are empty” so to speak. This takes patience but it always succeeds.) Dylan seemed interested in P, but I’m guessing was pursued Jeppson, who then rode Dylan’s coattails and rage crashed their group at some point but I don’t know if he still does. He’s riding Richards coattails now, and Jeppeson’s a lot smarter than Spencer. (God knows Spencer’s not smart enough to comprehend my work. What did he accomplish other than being the poster child for what NOT to do?) So Richard makes a good sock puppet for Jeppeson who is hoping to make Spencer relevant again. Despite the fact that Richard is selling inspiration to empty halls and was only relevant as a whipping boy for the press. Jeppeson and Dylan were pitching a somewhat novel version authoritarian postmodernism by combining a bit of pseudoscience and sophism. (Like Derrida, social construction, and therefore authoritarianism.) And it’s going nowhere for obvious reasons. But there are suckers born every minute and suckers for sophism are everywhere, just as suckers for passion, supernaturalism and pseudoscience are everywhere. So these guys, who have never accomplished anything in life – not even so much as a family, career, or small business but have grandiose visions of themselves and their understanding of the world (despite lack of evidence) are merely pursuing self interest – not our group interests. In this sense, in hindsight I almost wish the deplatforming was more successful so that bad I deas could not be funded so easily by donations from those susceptible to each non-correspondent grammar of persuasion. And so between two sock puppets and a sociopath we undrestand the scramble for relevance – the desperate cries for attention. GOING MAINSTREAM We (our folks) have tried the direct message (constitutional change desirable by the majority of our people) with the only method anyone thinks will work (mass resistance, uprising, or conflict) and given that the people are frustrated, they are buying the message because of it. They’re buying it because It isn’t a message about ‘follow me’. Or a message of handwaving. It’s a message that we have the power to alter the course of events if we choose, and we have an actionable plan of change that will restore our laboring working and middle classes at the expense of the financial, media, and political classes, and end the redistribution of our reproduction to invaders. Now this might not work. But it is the only deal on the table at the moment that isn’t evangelism, hand waving, woo, or unmarketable – and it’s certainly open to improvement and revision. LEAVE THEM BEHIND The irrelevant get left behind, because they deserve to be. But we should not expect the irrelevant to continue to disappear without desperately trying to preserve the attention they garner. One bad apple spoils the whole movement. Richard is irrelevant and poisonous to our success, and Jeppeson is just sociopath and cancer and always has been. The rest are probably well intentioned cerebral young men without any agency or experience seeking ideals as substitute for sphere of influence (family, business etc). “CLEAN OUR HOUSE FIRST” (so to speak) -Curt Doolittle
-The Propertarian Institute
People Mentioned in this post: – Richard Spencer – Josh Jeppeson (alias Josh Jeppson, “imperius”) – Dylan Thomas (TruDilTom) – Joel Davis ( Joel Davis )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1549742098 Timestamp) THE IRRELEVANCE OF THE DESPERATE FOR RELEVANCE I’m not listed anywhere by anyone in any canon, registry, article, or map as ‘alt right’. I didn’t want to be associated with the alt right. I tried the moniker New Right but Paul Joseph Watson started using it, and I hadn’t TM’d it so I lost that one. I can sympathize with the alt right as a movement of justifiably dissatisfied young men, copying Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and making use of new technology to achieve against the left with the interet what the left achieved with media against the rest of us. And I’m “On The Right” in the sense that I’m a conservative libertarian (sovereignty, and private property) – which makes me a rule-of-law rightist rather than an authoritarian or religious rightist. In my ideal world we have a rule of law by natural law, an independent judiciary, an hereditary monarchy, professional ministers, some set of class based houses of veto allocated by random selection, and something that would look very much like intolerant nationalism in the interwar french and german model. If that sounds like fascism, it’s simply extremely intolerant anglo monarchy under rule of law. John Mark has made us very popular very fast. Faster than we had ever imagined. Because his message sells, and he’s a hell of a smart guy, with media ready personality, and quality writer and producer. People of good character sell by their nature. People of poor character do not sell because of their nature. John is a man of good character and his message sells accordingly. ATTENTION DEFICIT DESPERATION DISORDER The current round of criticism is driven by Josh Jeppeson (Imperius) > Dylan Thomas (TruDilTom) and Dylan’s cohost (I won’t name) > Richard (Dicky) Spencer. Josh recruited Moritz Bierling, [name removed] and Joel Davis from my followers. Young smart guys with great promise but lacking skin in the game (family, career, biz) a need for aesthetics – which means “secular religious zeal”. And some of these folks attempted to stir conflict with me and those people who work with me. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ABOUT YOUNG SMART MEN Those without agency or responsibility in a sphere of influence(family, social, economic, political, military) generate demand for authority whether intelligent or dim, knowledgeable or ignorant. And they do so by means that they can participate in: sophism, supernatural sophism, economic sophism and pseudoscience and political pseudoscience and sophism. Because passion (emotion), persuasion(sophism), and pretense of knowledge, is all that they have to work with. And as with any market product ‘there is a sucker born every minute’ for every grammar of advocacy and persuasion. Each of us demonstrates a moral intuition a grammar of advocacy, argument, and resistance, and these demonstrations reflect our sexual, social, economic, political, and military market value. In other words, our moral intuitions reflect our reproductive strategies; our method of argument reflect those reproductive strategies. Each of us demonstrates at every single moment our sexual social economic, political, and military value with every expression gesture, display, dress, word, and deed – with humans working very hard to signal falsehoods: children their value in association, and women notoriously their youth, and men notoriously their future potential to the pack. So as a result we see the dim pursue religion, the less dim secular spiritualism or the occult, the less dim framing and sophism, the less dim pseudoscience. But those with agency, in a sphere of influence, with assets, relations, knowledge, and experience, simply use truth and utility, and rather than inspire, or persuade, they provide rational incentives for possible practical means of operating the familial, social, economic, political, and military order. Everything you want to know about an individual can be determined by his means of advocacy, argument, and resistance. Grammars of argument, just like vocabulary, are insights into the operations of the human mind. And there exist a limited number of NON CORRESPONDENT grammars to work with just as there are a limited number of personality traits. Megan Usui was an insider advising and promoting me. Unfortunately she was backchannel working with Jeppeson – I love her but good intentioned people are easily fooled. I think they concocted some idea of uniting the hard right. Of “bringing us all together”. Something ‘undesirable’. But Jeppeson is a sociopath and coat-tail rider. He tried to do something himself and couldn’t’. Tried to ride my coattails. And yes, I’m too tolerant of human pound puppies, but you know, after the tenth rage-quit and death threat, even the most tolerant of people disconnect and keep you at arm’s length. Megan worked up the meeting in NY with me Duchesne and Macdonald. Jeppeson spent the entire summer trying to convince megan that I couldn’t do it for some reason and that he should instead. (laughable.) Then another death threat, this time in public, on voice chat. I threatened to turn him into cops. It worked and he got quiet for a bit. Spencer is desperate for relevance, and the rest of the ‘leadership’ so to speak has simply ignored him. However, we are the rising stars and will be able to reach far larger numbers than the ‘alt right’, because we are selling a portfolio of solutions that will produce right, libertarian, and centrist ends, at the sole expense of the very bottom and very top – and natural incentives and pressures will do the rest. The secret to collapsing a dam or a fortress wall, is to weaken it and let the natural gravity of the environment do the work for you as a consequence. A good way of capturing attention is to undermine the competition. This is the strategy of female proxy for violence: undermining. Women gossip, shame, ridicule, rally,moralize (“GSRRM”), and they do so to hold back competitors rather than to to provide opportunities superior to those of competitors. Evidence suggests that the origin of language has as much to do with GSSRM to control alphas and redistribute control of reproduction as it does for hunters to communicate – when hunting is an almost entirely silent occupation. (The counter is that whenever GSSRM is used against you, retaliate with it, then repeat the central point. Use each volley GSSRM as a means of promoting your central point and thesis, and simply wear out the other party’s reliance on GSSRM. Over time people learn that GSSRM “hats are empty” so to speak. This takes patience but it always succeeds.) Dylan seemed interested in P, but I’m guessing was pursued Jeppson, who then rode Dylan’s coattails and rage crashed their group at some point but I don’t know if he still does. He’s riding Richards coattails now, and Jeppeson’s a lot smarter than Spencer. (God knows Spencer’s not smart enough to comprehend my work. What did he accomplish other than being the poster child for what NOT to do?) So Richard makes a good sock puppet for Jeppeson who is hoping to make Spencer relevant again. Despite the fact that Richard is selling inspiration to empty halls and was only relevant as a whipping boy for the press. Jeppeson and Dylan were pitching a somewhat novel version authoritarian postmodernism by combining a bit of pseudoscience and sophism. (Like Derrida, social construction, and therefore authoritarianism.) And it’s going nowhere for obvious reasons. But there are suckers born every minute and suckers for sophism are everywhere, just as suckers for passion, supernaturalism and pseudoscience are everywhere. So these guys, who have never accomplished anything in life – not even so much as a family, career, or small business but have grandiose visions of themselves and their understanding of the world (despite lack of evidence) are merely pursuing self interest – not our group interests. In this sense, in hindsight I almost wish the deplatforming was more successful so that bad I deas could not be funded so easily by donations from those susceptible to each non-correspondent grammar of persuasion. And so between two sock puppets and a sociopath we undrestand the scramble for relevance – the desperate cries for attention. GOING MAINSTREAM We (our folks) have tried the direct message (constitutional change desirable by the majority of our people) with the only method anyone thinks will work (mass resistance, uprising, or conflict) and given that the people are frustrated, they are buying the message because of it. They’re buying it because It isn’t a message about ‘follow me’. Or a message of handwaving. It’s a message that we have the power to alter the course of events if we choose, and we have an actionable plan of change that will restore our laboring working and middle classes at the expense of the financial, media, and political classes, and end the redistribution of our reproduction to invaders. Now this might not work. But it is the only deal on the table at the moment that isn’t evangelism, hand waving, woo, or unmarketable – and it’s certainly open to improvement and revision. LEAVE THEM BEHIND The irrelevant get left behind, because they deserve to be. But we should not expect the irrelevant to continue to disappear without desperately trying to preserve the attention they garner. One bad apple spoils the whole movement. Richard is irrelevant and poisonous to our success, and Jeppeson is just sociopath and cancer and always has been. The rest are probably well intentioned cerebral young men without any agency or experience seeking ideals as substitute for sphere of influence (family, business etc). “CLEAN OUR HOUSE FIRST” (so to speak) -Curt Doolittle
-The Propertarian Institute
People Mentioned in this post: – Richard Spencer – Josh Jeppeson (alias Josh Jeppson, “imperius”) – Dylan Thomas (TruDilTom) – Joel Davis ( Joel Davis )