Watching the system collapse was not on my bingo card, but here we are. "By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
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I'm not married to my opinions. I throw them out here to see if someone can convince me otherwise. If they can show me I'm wrong, I update my opinion. In some cases, I'm really hoping someone will show me I'm wrong, because there are things I don't want to be right about.
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"Pouring boiling water on someone trying to steal things is much worse than actually stealing things."
It's not.
"So you value things over people's lives?"
No. You value things over people's lives. That thing you want to steal wasn't given; it was earned. It was worked for. By stealing, you are stealing their life and their work.
"Louis Vuitton can afford to lose some purses."
Well no, but even so, you can't eat a purse, and you are, in fact, stealing the livelihood of the workers who work in that shop. You're stealing money from the building manager who makes sure the building is in working order.
The thing you're stealing is more than just an object. You're stealing someone's time and life. That is why property can be and should be defended to the extent that the defender is comfortable with, whether that is boiling water or a 9mm handgun. The defender is not the one putting the thief's life in danger. The thief is.
Recently I watched some comedy skits from the 70s. In one of them, Peter Sellers was acting very gay and swishy, and the audience was laughing like crazy. It took me a minute to realize that his acting gay actually was the joke --that's why audience was laughing. Back then, there was something surprising and out of place about a man acting gay, and that's why it was funny. And that's when I understood for the first time that men acting gay is totally commonplace right now, not out of place at all.
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“your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief's. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn't know any better. But for you to have one was terrorism.”
—Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
I think what he did was disgusting too, but I do have to wonder what the reaction would have been in Vivek was white instead of Indian.
Let's be clear about this:
The disgust with Vivek isn't just an internal "Oh sh*t, how did I end up supporting this total scumbag?" internal Republican Party fuckup.
It's playing out in a campaign with national visibility, in a country with a growing number of dependents; and also a growing number of Democrats who are starting to see the point of populism & getting fatigued with mass immigration.
Ok, so let's forget that a lot of us - well maybe just me - went & read his campaign book in early 2023, and posted sections of it crapping on Americans, portraying the Hindu caste system as an improvement over Christian America, and selling Global Indian "upper caste" Brahmins as born to rule from America.
Most people missed that - I already said "Told you so, please listen next time" - over Xmas 2024. I reposted things like his 2024 Foreign Policy position to Offshore All Military Manufacturing To India, and start a war with China.
And that matters because by Xmas 2024 Trump & the Republican Party watched everyone who had missed this react in complete shock when Vivek rolled onto Twitter to spatter their timelines with Hatred of Americans & Ethno-Supremacist remarks about Upper Caste Indian-Americans.
Their reaction? They chose to endorse him to run for Governor of Ohio. And kept him as a key representative of “Libertarian Conservatism” and help him build a new ethno-religious wing of the party.
Remember, this is a guy who was invited to join the race, and give Blaze, CPAC, NatCon, & Convention speeches throwing cold water on Populism - even taking digs at his buddy Vance - and sell things like "Hinduism is a monotheist religion on par with Christianity", and "America's Populists are not the future, 'Libertarian Conservatism' and Mass Immigration are the future". He loudly declared "The Republican Party has a legal immigration issue - and I'm going to take that on, we need lots more legal immigration; people like my parents from India".
What is stunning is how many people not only ignored all this & delusionally continued to platform him, but that they continued to do so even when he crashed out even worse in 2025.
This is what Vivek does. He can't help it. He hasn't assimilated. He just gets frustrated that he just take over America because he's our born ethno-superior globalist scammer, and about once a year crashes out and spreads hate.
Every single Indian complaining about how unpopular Indians have become, and what a huge backlash they are facing need look no further than Vivek. He has single-handedly done more damage in this respect than any other human on the planet by orders of magnitude. And yes, I also warned my Indian friends about this all the way back in 2023: I DM-ed some and tweeted at others: "Please, for your own sake, do not go all in on Vivek; you will regret it. This is going to be a disaster. Read the guy's book & you'll get it."
Now look at where we are - because Trump didn't want to tell Vivek (& frankly Amnesty Warmonger H1B-Pumper Rubio) to politely f*ck off after the lost; Bigly.
Look folks - these are not grassroots leads of some sort of Republican Party blocs or wings. They are 100% Platformed Lobbyists.
But now these guys have, excuse me but, taken a huge dump all over the Republican platform & reputation. All in 1 day.
Stop to ask yourself - What does this tell Independents and any Democrats starting to take a hard look at Populism about the Republican Party?
And in general, looking at the whole voting population, how wise and deserving does the Republican Party appear to be - in continually platforming & endorsing Vivek in the face of these egregiously anti-American and culturally horrifically immoral attacks & scams?
I don't want to have to post a page from Ramaswamy's 2023 Campaign book on here every quarter - noting how far he takes these things; how extremely anti-American and un-assimilated he is. How he literally wrote in print that Hindu Caste Brahmins (upper caste by birth) should be regarded as at the level of an implementation of classic Western Platonic Republic philosopher-kings.
The Republican party greenlit all of this. They literally refused to distance themselves from Vivek, much less punish or un-endorse him for openly suggesting that Americans don’t really deserve a place in their own country or their own job markets.
What in the Lord's Name are we doing here, folks? Wake up.
Honestly, it is NOT TOO LATE to investigate Vivek & his colluding family for their Pharma scamming. Instead the Republican Party is celebrating Anti-Competitive Mass Fraud as a valid path to the Oligarchic success and our highest public office.
How did that work out? Well, today he felt emboldened enough to express some even more extremely non-Western, un-Christian, & anti-American “cultural traditions” about rape.
Let's be frank about this: at this point, Vivek is the Ethno-Hindutva radical version of a candidate who supports Sharia & FGM in the name of “Conservative Libertarian DEI”.
The Republican Party has platformed and defended him publicly all the way through all of this. Who do you now think his actions and antics reflect on? Which organizations have embraced him, and absorbed this into their reputations?
I suggest @realDonaldTrump, @VP Vance, and the Republican Party take action to Remove Vivek Ramaswamy from the Republican Party; and in the meanwhile remove & reverse all official endorsements, and apologize for their bad judgement in backing such an awful candidate & horrible person.
Anything less is going to hit very hard. If they choose Vivek, they shall pay for it dearly; and regret it deeply.
That is The Message.
And you do not have 24 hours to think it over.
You have time to pray, and then you are called upon to act.
And I just want to say, this isn't unusual at all. I have had the exact type of conversation with multiple family members. They can't actually think of what Trump has done or said that is so incredibly terrible.
I'm so disappointed in my Church hierarchy.
In light of recent episodes of violence, the Church in France is calling for a response to the anxiety expressed by young people and those who feel marginalized or left behind, with the Archbishop of Tours advocating for restoring democratic dialogue through intermediary institutions.
vaticannews.va/en/world/news…
Stella C. retweeted
"I don't think it's going to get any easier."
One of the most raw and vulnerable conversations I've ever had...
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Capitalism has a win condition. Socialism does not.
Here's why, explained so simply a 10-year-old could get it. It starts with a book written in 1944 by an Austrian economist named Friedrich Hayek: The Road to Serfdom.
Imagine a classroom of 30 kids. One day the teacher says: "From now on, I decide what everyone eats for lunch, which games you play at recess, and who sits next to whom. It's fairer that way."
First problem: the teacher doesn't know what you like. You hate carrots. Your friend is allergic to peanuts. Lucas wants to play football, Emma wants to draw. 30 kids, 30 different wishes. Nobody can know all of that, not even the smartest teacher on Earth. Hayek called this the knowledge problem. The information needed to run an economy is scattered across millions of heads, and it can't be gathered in one office.
Second problem: the kids start fighting. "Why does he get the window seat?" "Why football again?" Before, everyone just chose for themselves. Now every choice is a fight, because every choice is made for everyone.
Third problem: the class can't agree on a plan, so someone says "we need one person in charge who just decides." This is Hayek's key insight. Planning doesn't fail because planners are evil. A plan needs everyone to agree on the same goals, and free people never agree on everything. So the plan needs force to work.
Fourth problem, and it's the scariest one: who wants that job? The kind kid doesn't want it, because the kind kid doesn't want to force 29 people to eat carrots. The job attracts the one who likes giving orders and doesn't mind punishing those who disobey. Hayek wrote a whole chapter on this, called "Why the Worst Get on Top." It doesn't happen by accident. It happens by selection.
Here's the trap. When the person who controls your lunch also controls your job, your home, your shop and your newspaper, they control your whole life. You can't say no, because there's nowhere else to go. Controlling the economy doesn't mean controlling one part of life. It means controlling the means to every goal you have.
That's the road to serfdom. Nobody votes for a dictator. People vote for "someone should fix this," then for "give them more power to fix it," and one day they wake up with no one left to say no to.
The USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. These are different countries with different cultures and languages, and the story has the same ending every time. When a script produces the same ending every time, it isn't bad luck. It's the script.
Now capitalism. Back to the classroom. Instead of one teacher deciding everything, every kid can trade. You give me your carrots, I give you my apple, and we both walk away happier. Nobody needs to know what everyone wants, because prices do that job. A price is a message telling millions of strangers what's scarce and what's wanted, with no one in charge.
That's the win condition. In capitalism, you get rich by making something other people freely choose to buy, so your success depends on serving others. In a planned system, you get ahead by pleasing whoever holds power. One rewards usefulness. The other rewards obedience.
And this isn't theory. Two centuries ago, almost every human being was extremely poor. In 1990, about 38% of humanity still lived in extreme poverty. Today it's under 10%. More than a billion people escaped it in a single generation. It happened when China, India, Vietnam and South Korea opened up to markets, trade and private enterprise. The largest reduction in poverty in human history came from letting people trade.
So why do so many people hate capitalism?
Because what they hate usually isn't capitalism.
They hate the bank that got bailed out with their taxes while they lost their house. They hate the giant company that writes the regulations so no startup can compete with it. They hate rent they can't afford because building new homes has been made nearly impossible. They hate the lobbyist who gets a subsidy while the small business owner drowns in paperwork.
Look closely at each one, and you'll find a state handing out privileges. A bailout is not the market. The market would have let the bank fail. A regulation written by incumbents is not competition. It's protection from competition. None of this is capitalism. It's cronyism, which is what happens when businesses stop competing for customers and start competing for politicians.
People see the symptom and blame the wrong cause. They say "capitalism failed" and ask for more state. That gives more power to the same people who created the problem, and it puts us right back on Hayek's road.
The answer to bad capitalism isn't less freedom. It's less privilege. That means fewer bailouts, fewer protected incumbents, fewer permits, and more people allowed to build, compete and trade.
Capitalism has a win condition: make things people want. Socialism has an end condition: someone has to be in charge. And history keeps showing us who ends up in that chair.
I wrote this 14 months ago -- seems very relevant to what's going on right now in Europe.
Yesterday, we visited Limone sul Garda, a beautiful touristy village on the shores of Lake Garda. We were at the beach talking to some people we had met, and I noticed an elderly German couple sitting on a bench near us, with an African man standing there talking to them. Except, he wasn't just talking to them -- he was standing over them, putting his face extremely close up to the old man's face, with his arm positioned over and behind him. His face did not look casual or happy, not even interested. His face was filled with malice. Physically, he was practically covering him with his body.
I looked at the faces of the Germans. The man was listening, smiling and nodding. He saw me looking at him, and gave no outward sign of distress. The women was watching them speak, but also she gave no sign of distress. But it wasn't normal. No one speaks to someone else like that -- standing over someone who is sitting, and putting their face extremely close to their face, unsmiling. And he never took his eyes off of the man -- he didn't look around or relax his gaze, smile, move his head, nothing. Just stayed intently focused on him in an abnormal and menacing way.
It was bizarre and I was worried about them, so I got closer and closer and did not take my eyes off the African. He finally looked at me, and I asked him, in Italian, "What are you doing?" I knew he could become violent, based on how he was acting, that he could try to hurt me, but I also couldn't let him do anything to those old people. His eyes were almost blank - he saw me, but nothing changed at all about his expression. He just looked right through me, then looked back at the German man again.
The German woman then came up to me and said, almost in a quiet panic, "It is okay, they are having a conversation about dogs, he wants a dog like your dog. They are talking about dogs." I told her, "Okay, but it's not normal to get so close to someone's face like that." She ignored that, and said urgently, "He wants to know about your dog, what kind of dog is your dog?" I told her, then just accepted there was nothing I could do, and slowly walked toward my family and gathered them to go. In a few moments I saw them walking off, and was relieved that I didn't see the African guy anywhere.
I'm pretty sure this is one reason why northern Europe is in the deep shit it is in...because these "68ers" ("Boomers", in American) are so terrified of being "racist" that they have lost all sense of self-preservation, the normal survival instincts that should kick in when someone is acting in a threatening or bizarre way.
I'm getting whiplash from the DARVO
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📍Lecco, Italy
After announcements by foreign looters that they were going to strike the city, local patriots rallied to defend it.
The "corageous" rioters did not even have the courage to show up.
This is the third time today I've seen "It's really that simple" after a moronic or questionable statement about other people's motivations.
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He is justifying the beheading of a married couple because the husband kissed the wife on the forehead in a mosque. People like this should never, ever be allowed in our societies. Keep them out.
There is some kind of mental instability field around James Lindsay, and it engulfs both the people who love him and the people who hate him. It's too bad that what started out as very helpful in-depth looks into the philosophical underpinnings of the left has become some kind of mental asylum ranting circle.
