1) It limits the ability of the state to perform it’s primary function of insurer of last resort.
2) Is subjects the people to economic competition that they cannot recover from.
3) It provides the financial sector with unearned income by forcing the people to borrow from them.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 18:54:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253034387320590348
Reply addressees: @judicialist
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253034039637880832
HOW IT BEGINS (important)
By James Dmitro Makienko
This is exactly how Arab Spring started nearly ten years ago – and Maria’s father predicted it ten years before it happened – looking at the dynamic of unemployment among young men in middle eastern countries.
When young men have no opportunities in economic, intellectual or sexual marketplaces they take their talents to the marketplace of violence. It is a high-risk – high reward (or rate of return) enterprise.
They form packs to see if they can equalize, distribute and reduce high risk (i.e learn basic squad tactics).
Then it scales. Squads -> platoons -> companies -> battalions -> regiments -> brigades(or divisions) – > corps -> armies -> state.
They keep using violence to get returns while there is an economic incentive for them to do so, or until they meet far greater violence that they cannot easily overcome.
And this is how the new elite eventually emerges. Through their merit of how they balance violence, economics and scalability.Updated Apr 22, 2020, 5:33 PM
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 17:33:00 UTC
It’s one of if not my most favorite novels. Its genius, and it took six years to research and write so it should be (about the same as a PhD.) I love his anti government sentiments.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 17:18:20 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253010261033865220
Reply addressees: @DarkHor80884493
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1253006510227144711
—“Once you see that extending tolerance to immoral political behavior is ITSELF immoral, you can’t un-see it.”—Michael Churchill
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 14:19:00 UTC
WHERE DOES THE PROPERTARIAN PARTY FIT INTO THE PROPERTARIAN MOVEMENT?
By Nathen
I have been thinking about where this political party fits into the movement as a whole quote a bit recently. P is fundamentally an intellectual, not political movement, but it has profound political ramifications. I consider myself a Newb so take this for what it’s worth, but my observation is that Curt Doolittle is focusing primarily on developing leaders and teachers who can spread and grow this next intellectual revolution.
While leaders like John Mark (who provided my introduction to P through his Youtube videos), ITV, Brandon Hayes, Bill Joslin and Noah Revoy are sharing the intellectual and political ideas of P with many people, there is not, as far as I know, a grassroots, boots-on-the-ground organization yet. In my opinion, this is the purpose of the Propertarian Party.
While the internet is an incredible tool for sharing information and connecting people, we are hardwired for face-to-face interaction. If our goal is to enact real change, it must happen in meatspace, not in the electronic ether. While display and word can happen electronically, these must eventually be translated into deed. Deeds require hands and muscles and sweat and blood. If we talk but do not act, we are useless and have no place in the Pack.
The effectiveness of political parties is in being able to look your neighbor in the eye and speak to him about how your political ideas can improve his life. Face-to-face communication is visceral, not just intellectual. People can experience your conviction, or lack thereof, much more completely. Consider the possibilities of setting up a table at a gun show (once we start having them again). Having the opportunity to meet dozens, if not hundreds of like-minded people from your area and talk to them about the solutions that P offers. People are familiar and comfortable with political parties. This may make us more approachable. The Party may also be a good vehicle for fund-raising.
Another consideration is what happens after we achieve victory (we will) and the Propertarian Constitution, or as I think of it, the Revitalized US Constitution is enacted? How will these 1000 Aristocracies bloom? Having multiple local Propertarian Party organizations already in place will make the transition quicker and more focused. It all comes down to Boots On The Ground.
This Group is a great way to start the process, but ultimately it is each of our responsibility to begin talking to people in our communities and introducing them to Propertarianism. The Propertarian Party is a vehicle to make it easier to start that conversation, but WE must be it’s advocates. We must each be willing to speak the difficult and uncomfortable truths directly to another person knowing we may anger or offend them and that we may get yelled at or even physically assaulted.
Are you ready and willing to stand in front of another man and speak the truth he needs to hear even if it upsets him? Are you ready to deal with GSRRM right in your face? I am. Do you have the courage to stand up in front of a group of strangers and tell the truth regardless of cost? I do. I will.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 14:16:00 UTC
THE STEPS
by Herod Bedford
Everything is political for the left. They took over the democrat party. The left is either defeated politically or militarily, or both. The first political step is to get P in the Republican party platform and recruit P candidates for office including judges. Then academia and media.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 14:15:00 UTC
THE POINT OF DEMARCATION IS INDIVIDUAL VS POLITICAL
There are good people in every group. There are bad people in every group. What matters is whether the good or the bad people in every group advance their, and their group’s interest to integrate into our natural law – or whether they resist integration in to our Natural law; or use resistance movements to seek bribes to conform to our natural law; or seek parasitism by taking advantage of our vulnerability – our tolerance – under our natural law. Our Natural Law is empirical and it tells us we aren’t intolerant enough. If it’s interpersonal then exhaust tolerance (christianity). If it’s political then zero tolerance (Doolittle). It’s not a difficult disambiguation, demarcation, distinction, difference. 😉 Be intolerant. Otherwise you’re committing fraud by not paying to cost of maintaining the commons, under pretense your convenience is a conviction. It’s not. It’s fraud. Be intolerant.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-22 14:15:00 UTC
WHAT IS THAT SHIFT IN THE FORCE SO TO SPEAK?
Ok. I can feel ‘a disturbance in the force’ so to speak. What shift is it that I feel going on in the public? Exhaustion with the virus event? What’s going on?
-RESPONSES-
—“Threefold exhaustion most people couldn’t keep up with one facet. The medical face of the virus itself, the economic face of job security, and the conspiratorial face of the sinister mysteries”—Micah Pezdirtz
BThat’s it.
Let me see if I can elaborate:
1 – The people are addicted to the gated institutional narratives like cows being fed daily lots of hay and corn. They can’t step on the paddle and get their dose of the illusion of running with the herd.
2 – With multiple competing narratives, and exhaustion from all of them, they have lost incentive to do anything other than look elsewhere.
3 – With time at home and limited hyper-consumption they have time for direct experience and self reflection, and as a consequence they are ‘waking up’ to being in the MOUSE UTOPIA.
Because that’s what’s been done to them.
–BY JOHN MARK–
By John Mark
Yes.
1. Normies experiencing loss of trust in authority/”safe” leaders/narratives. “How did it all go so horribly wrong?” Surveys show the left is more afraid of both virus & unemployment. The “blame Trump” narrative still brings the left some comfort (like a kid’s favorite blanket), but fact is the lefty cities are getting hardest hit & they can’t exactly feel their lefty leaders are doing great.
2. Raw fear/negative emotion opens the door for people to learn/change their minds in a way they will never do outside such a situation. Case in point: 80% of Americans now view immigration as a threat. (That was not the case, not even close, a few months ago.)
3. The virtue-signal economy collapsed overnight. The entire signaling value of “I love nonwhites, foreigners & immigrants” collapsed completely. China is a crappy place, interactions with & reliance on 3rd world low-trust shitholes have terrible consequences. Even MSM is writing articles on forcing China to pay reparations. The virtue-signalers now have no other way to signal other than to wear masks and report their neighbors for going outside. Which is way more annoying and obviously tyrannical than saying you love immigrants. The virtue-signalers are lost.
Do not underestimate the importance of this point. The human accounting system is *status* and cheap virtue-signaling is the easiest way to raise one’s self-sense of status, and one’s status in the eyes of other shallow ignoramuses, who far outnumber truth-speakers (cuz of ’65 immigration act & 19th amendment). These people have had their entire *status* economy collapse. Think of how we feel – “We’ve been so right all along and everyone is having to kinda admit it, and all sorts of things we wanted for decades are happening!” – but in reverse…”Everything I’ve ever said/signaled I believe & support is falling apart”. And imagine being a low-agency normie or lefty, not accustomed to self-reflection or truth-seeking, possibly never having considered changing your mind on anything important, experiencing this. They feel *lost*. No ability to just follow the herd headlong, thoughtlessly, anymore. Like one of us right wing family men losing our wife & kids. No compass. Now *add* the real economy collapsing.
4. Because lefty political leaders & grassroots just do “oppose Trump” like programmed robots, this leaves the door wide open for Trump to completely OWN the optimism/hope/”let’s re-open the economy” angle. My guess is he’s seeing more & more data come out that tons of people have it & never have symptoms which means the death rate is way lower than originally thought (just as was caught on White House hot muc today), and he’s making a calculated bet that re-opening the economy will not cause a disasterous level of virus cases/deaths. The left’s leaders are stuck being the negative bad news bearers that everyone hopes are wrong. The lefties now are in a position where they hope he’s right, and may have to admit he’s right about re-opening the economy, and already kinda have to admit he’s been right about trade and immigration. Very tough on their psyches. My wife also points out that with the daily press conferences many normies/lefties are seeing him directly, repeatedly, rather than thru the filter of lefty/normie news sources, and for some this is changing their view of him.
5. As Micah & Curt pointed out, far less distraction. No sportsball. Celebrities seen as out of touch, provoking anger & jealousy quarantined in their expansive mansions with pool etc while millions are stuck in apartments, homes, crowded with kids, etc.
6. People spending way more time with spouse, kids, homeschooling, etc. Along with the whole situation highlighting “what’s really important”.
All this is results in MASSIVE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.
And feeling LOST. A result that then follows for many, is a significant amount of mind-changing and attitude/priority-shifting for NPCs/normies most of whom have *never* gone through it before. (Most of us on the Smart Right have gone thru it multiple times in our lives, of our own volition, as we learn.)
I mean, the data shows it. Compare attitudes on immigration before and after. Huge shift.
I’m not saying the lefties are all gonna start voting right wing now. But they are reeling. The normies are shifting more right/nationalist out of sheer brick wall of reality slamming the world. Institutional trust is lower than ever (in modern America). Weimar was emerging anyway, now virus (regardless of its actual seriousness as a disease, the govt reaction was very severe, making it a very serious situation). Our leadership’s handling once again ludicrously bad & out of touch & corrupt – “trillions for bankers, $1200 for you!” along with congress shoving pork into it etc. Maddening to normies who normally don’t care much or pay attention.
Opportunity.
Been slammed at work having to work a ton of extra hrs, but hopefully I can get a video out on it soon.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-21 20:13:00 UTC
WRONG CENTURY MARK: THE OPPOSITE. End immigration. Reduce NA population by 100M, wall in cities as city states, favelas, ghettos, and end the collapse of north american one urban disaster at a time.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-21 13:52:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1252596173203963905
Reply addressees: @pmarca
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1251648508655923200
Next podcast is…. Everything there is to know about law and government.
Source date (UTC): 2020-04-21 12:34:00 UTC