The right has a problem with the friend enemy distinction. Most don't understand they are already engaged in unrestricted warfare with enemies both foreign and domestic.
I'm not going because I'm still not convinced this is going to be anything but a big Trump rally. I'm not going down there to participate in a black-pill fest, either.
I'm building up my wealth for as long as possible until we get rocked through a depression and sent exploding through runaway inflation. I'm in a bit of a precarious situation as it is, so I'm not risking anything until I see real commitment from the right wing populists.
Does the right never learn from the past? Does the right just blindly assume that they can wage a cultural war on the center and the left, while still using their facilities?
Most of the right are normies and even non-threatening Christians. They don't understand that they committed to a revolution by accident. I don't blame them for being confused, but someone's gotta teach them some awareness.
I'm in a similar situation as you where I've basically gotten my "fuck you money" and am in somewhat of a holding pattern as I look at my options and figure out my next move.
The point of wealth as I see it is to be able to afford options. For example the middle of the country is full of "towns" which are little more than a church, a post office, a school, and a general store. They don't have much in the way of an economy, but if you already have your wealth and have little/no need to work it's an option that's available to you that doesn't require living in a cabin in the woods.
Another option is to maximize your ability to be mobile, so living on an RV or boat (or shipping container, which from what I've seen looks as depressing as it sounds).
The most frustrating thing about the blackpillers isn't their belief that there's no political solution to our problems but that they so rarely talk about what their proposed solutions are and (most importantly) how to implement them. Instead they spend all their time dismissively talking about politics.
Well, there's a difference between caution and black pilling.
I've been saving up my money in metals. I do not actually believe we are looking at an oncoming 50 years of explicit white racial discrimination generally. The collapse of the institutions isn't a problem if you are outside of them.
I've been basically expecting this collapse since early 2018 so I got a job in 2019 and have been keeping myself out of most of these institutions. Instead, we need to focus on building our own.
What's the point? Ha! Every black-pill opinion has the wrong attitude. This is where the fun begins. The greatest gains are made at the absolute bottom. We're on our way to the best part. A real fundamental change in, well, everything. And, frankly, I don't think it's going to be for the worse at the end of all this.
And, frankly, I don't think it's going to be for the worse at the end of all this.
How could it possibly?
I've been saving up my money in metals.
Steel, brass, aluminum, and lead, yes. Me too.
This is where the fun begins.
Yeah, I'm not sure clearing houses like we did in Iraq, in our own neighborhoods, is going to qualify as fun, and knowing that we'll be on the receiving end of it as well shouldn't have anyone walking on sunshine.
This is exactly why I'm blackpilled. I've already looked at my future, and it doesn't exist. There's a big gaping hole where my education used to be. I was denied access to grad school for physics even though my grades in undergrad were excellent.
I have no future, so all I can do is be hopeful that the day shit starts going down for real is within my lifetime. The only thing staying my hand is that I have to take care of my mom. Once she finally passes, I don't know what I'll do, but its not going to be anything good.
I don't think so. I'm certainly somewhere "on the right", but I wouldn't consider myself a populist. I'm too unpopular and won't cater to most Trump-Left policies or Right-Authoritarian policies. I'm not going to support protectionism, and protectionism always has some amount of popular support.
My complaint is that I'd go a lot further in tearing apart the government's regulatory system as it stands because most of those jobs were intentionally disincentive from working in the US, and government agents were actively supporting Chinese interests. Trump did engage in protectionism, but the real damage he did to China came from not supporting them so thoroughly.
Again, the government system incentivized China taking all available manufacturing jobs. Trump disincentivized it. My argument would be be break the restrictions and regulations that form protectoinism within the US so that there would be a larger profit incentive for manufacturing to function in the US. Incentivizing China intentionally and immediately kills manufacturing in America. Disincentivizing China only hurts manufacturing in the long run. The correct answer is to incentivize manufacturing in the US by allowing it to function in a free market where the government doesn't take their shit.
It's kinda like this argument about the stimulus checks. The Democrats want to strengthen the lockdown and give out a pittance of people's money back. Trump wants to give more of people's money back. I want to end the lock down and stop stealing people's money. To me, that's way better than taking their money and giving some of it back to them... but it starts out with me saying "I'm not giving you any money".
Which, if you think about it, is exactly how the Dems hit Trump on his tax cut. The Dems screamed that Trump had caused people's Tax returns to either not go up, or even go down. Yes: because he withheld less of their income from them. Some voters got confused because their return went down, but they kept $50 more with every paycheck. Their feedback mechanism was being intentionally confused by the state. That's why I object to Tax Returns altogether. If you had to pay the feds all of your taxes, all at once, on April 15th, you'd be screaming "taxation is theft!" too. You would sit there and think: "I'm not paying Barack Obama $10,000!"
Populism is just a slur used on democracy when the public doesn't vote the way the ruling class like.
Market signals are necessary for an economy to function but protectionism doesn't erase those signals. At worst it can keep bad businesses afloat when better ones could do better with their market share. But do you think America could outdo China when China is communist and protectionist? China's cheating.
Ehhh. You may be right, but I'd just call it whatever happens to be very well received by the majority of the masses.
Market signals are necessary for an economy to function but protectionism doesn't erase those signals.
It very much does this. Fundamentally, that's the purpose. Protectionism exists to prevent those signals from arriving, and for the consequences of those signals to be borne out only in the future.
At worst it can keep bad businesses afloat when better ones could do better with their market share.
It can go a lot worse than that too. It can intentionally cartelize an industry to the point where all competition is stifled, all companies are extensions of government make work programs, and then the industry dies and doesn't recover due to a final bust in the market and burdensome regulations that prevent all future growth. This is basically what happened to Wales' coal miners.
But do you think America could outdo China when China is communist and protectionist? China's cheating.
Hell yes, absolutely, we could smoke the absolute fucking shit out of them. They are wildly inefficient by their very nature and have no ability to capitalize on the market in the same way that we do. They will always remain susceptible to extreme busts, and all booms must be created by extracting wealth. They have no ability to have a normal functioning economy, and any success they do have is basically because the party decreed it necessary while everyone else suffers.
The Soviet Union had a similar disastrous economy on it's hands (but the Chinese were smart enough to introduce FEZ's in order to have price discovery, where the Soviets had almost nothing). The Soviet Economy was so shit that it can be argued that they never recovered from WW2, and worse, they never actually recovered from WW1. What we saw of progress came from developments stolen from the west, or the government siphoning more and more money from other sectors to boost a specific industry or sector.
We have a far better and more diverse & adaptable economy. Honestly, I think the American economy may be stronger than I thought, because the Covid Lockdowns could have nearly destroyed us just from the initial shutdowns. I'm not saying we're properly recovering, but we aren't dead yet. That's actually stronger than I expected.
This sort of thing is what kills me about the bread and butter conservatives, they are just so clueless and naive. They always act so surprised when the left does shit like this.
I'm thinking this is largely due to boomers running the right, they are impossible to motivate and impossible to redpill. Every last positive step forward on the right has been with the younger crowd, especially zoomers. They're especially redpilled on race issues.
I think that's because deep down the boomers still believe in the institutions and bureaucracy. They may complain about individuals, but they don't support disbanding the FBI or the Justice Department. They know Israel is our greatest ally and nothing can convince them otherwise. They know racism is the greatest sin, and will abandon every principle and liberty to avoid being called a racist.
I think that's why Q appealed to them so strongly. Yes, all the institutions have been subverted, but the good guys are stronger and if you just follow the Q's Clues, we will win somehow without getting our hands dirty.
Once Trump isn't president anymore, twitter is going to permanently ban him. If he isn't also arrested first thing by Biden, his pull with people is going to drop off a cliff when he gets banned, and he's never going to get anyone's attention again.
The right has a problem with the friend enemy distinction. Most don't understand they are already engaged in unrestricted warfare with enemies both foreign and domestic.
Sign in as a communist.
Tell them directly you're here to praise Stalin and hang landlords. Immediate vacancies in commie DC. ;')
Sure, cause they're the saviors of the universe. Not the retarded youth I see. What a massively ignorant perspective.
I'm not going because I'm still not convinced this is going to be anything but a big Trump rally. I'm not going down there to participate in a black-pill fest, either.
I'm building up my wealth for as long as possible until we get rocked through a depression and sent exploding through runaway inflation. I'm in a bit of a precarious situation as it is, so I'm not risking anything until I see real commitment from the right wing populists.
Most of the right are normies and even non-threatening Christians. They don't understand that they committed to a revolution by accident. I don't blame them for being confused, but someone's gotta teach them some awareness.
I'm in a similar situation as you where I've basically gotten my "fuck you money" and am in somewhat of a holding pattern as I look at my options and figure out my next move.
The point of wealth as I see it is to be able to afford options. For example the middle of the country is full of "towns" which are little more than a church, a post office, a school, and a general store. They don't have much in the way of an economy, but if you already have your wealth and have little/no need to work it's an option that's available to you that doesn't require living in a cabin in the woods.
Another option is to maximize your ability to be mobile, so living on an RV or boat (or shipping container, which from what I've seen looks as depressing as it sounds).
The most frustrating thing about the blackpillers isn't their belief that there's no political solution to our problems but that they so rarely talk about what their proposed solutions are and (most importantly) how to implement them. Instead they spend all their time dismissively talking about politics.
Well, there's a difference between caution and black pilling.
I've been saving up my money in metals. I do not actually believe we are looking at an oncoming 50 years of explicit white racial discrimination generally. The collapse of the institutions isn't a problem if you are outside of them.
I've been basically expecting this collapse since early 2018 so I got a job in 2019 and have been keeping myself out of most of these institutions. Instead, we need to focus on building our own.
What's the point? Ha! Every black-pill opinion has the wrong attitude. This is where the fun begins. The greatest gains are made at the absolute bottom. We're on our way to the best part. A real fundamental change in, well, everything. And, frankly, I don't think it's going to be for the worse at the end of all this.
How could it possibly?
Steel, brass, aluminum, and lead, yes. Me too.
Yeah, I'm not sure clearing houses like we did in Iraq, in our own neighborhoods, is going to qualify as fun, and knowing that we'll be on the receiving end of it as well shouldn't have anyone walking on sunshine.
This is exactly why I'm blackpilled. I've already looked at my future, and it doesn't exist. There's a big gaping hole where my education used to be. I was denied access to grad school for physics even though my grades in undergrad were excellent.
I have no future, so all I can do is be hopeful that the day shit starts going down for real is within my lifetime. The only thing staying my hand is that I have to take care of my mom. Once she finally passes, I don't know what I'll do, but its not going to be anything good.
Do you consider yourself a right wing populist? If so, you're proving yourself correct.
I don't think so. I'm certainly somewhere "on the right", but I wouldn't consider myself a populist. I'm too unpopular and won't cater to most Trump-Left policies or Right-Authoritarian policies. I'm not going to support protectionism, and protectionism always has some amount of popular support.
Would it be protectionism for America to bring American jobs back to America and way from China?
Yes.
Again, that's why I'm not a populist.
My complaint is that I'd go a lot further in tearing apart the government's regulatory system as it stands because most of those jobs were intentionally disincentive from working in the US, and government agents were actively supporting Chinese interests. Trump did engage in protectionism, but the real damage he did to China came from not supporting them so thoroughly.
Again, the government system incentivized China taking all available manufacturing jobs. Trump disincentivized it. My argument would be be break the restrictions and regulations that form protectoinism within the US so that there would be a larger profit incentive for manufacturing to function in the US. Incentivizing China intentionally and immediately kills manufacturing in America. Disincentivizing China only hurts manufacturing in the long run. The correct answer is to incentivize manufacturing in the US by allowing it to function in a free market where the government doesn't take their shit.
It's kinda like this argument about the stimulus checks. The Democrats want to strengthen the lockdown and give out a pittance of people's money back. Trump wants to give more of people's money back. I want to end the lock down and stop stealing people's money. To me, that's way better than taking their money and giving some of it back to them... but it starts out with me saying "I'm not giving you any money".
Which, if you think about it, is exactly how the Dems hit Trump on his tax cut. The Dems screamed that Trump had caused people's Tax returns to either not go up, or even go down. Yes: because he withheld less of their income from them. Some voters got confused because their return went down, but they kept $50 more with every paycheck. Their feedback mechanism was being intentionally confused by the state. That's why I object to Tax Returns altogether. If you had to pay the feds all of your taxes, all at once, on April 15th, you'd be screaming "taxation is theft!" too. You would sit there and think: "I'm not paying Barack Obama $10,000!"
I'm not a populist, because I think you need negative feedback. Protectionism intentionally stops negative feedback, even if you really should have it. It's like being unable to feel pain. If you can't feel pain, you might not realize when you've been set on fire.
Populism is just a slur used on democracy when the public doesn't vote the way the ruling class like.
Market signals are necessary for an economy to function but protectionism doesn't erase those signals. At worst it can keep bad businesses afloat when better ones could do better with their market share. But do you think America could outdo China when China is communist and protectionist? China's cheating.
Ehhh. You may be right, but I'd just call it whatever happens to be very well received by the majority of the masses.
It very much does this. Fundamentally, that's the purpose. Protectionism exists to prevent those signals from arriving, and for the consequences of those signals to be borne out only in the future.
It can go a lot worse than that too. It can intentionally cartelize an industry to the point where all competition is stifled, all companies are extensions of government make work programs, and then the industry dies and doesn't recover due to a final bust in the market and burdensome regulations that prevent all future growth. This is basically what happened to Wales' coal miners.
Hell yes, absolutely, we could smoke the absolute fucking shit out of them. They are wildly inefficient by their very nature and have no ability to capitalize on the market in the same way that we do. They will always remain susceptible to extreme busts, and all booms must be created by extracting wealth. They have no ability to have a normal functioning economy, and any success they do have is basically because the party decreed it necessary while everyone else suffers.
The Soviet Union had a similar disastrous economy on it's hands (but the Chinese were smart enough to introduce FEZ's in order to have price discovery, where the Soviets had almost nothing). The Soviet Economy was so shit that it can be argued that they never recovered from WW2, and worse, they never actually recovered from WW1. What we saw of progress came from developments stolen from the west, or the government siphoning more and more money from other sectors to boost a specific industry or sector.
We have a far better and more diverse & adaptable economy. Honestly, I think the American economy may be stronger than I thought, because the Covid Lockdowns could have nearly destroyed us just from the initial shutdowns. I'm not saying we're properly recovering, but we aren't dead yet. That's actually stronger than I expected.
This sort of thing is what kills me about the bread and butter conservatives, they are just so clueless and naive. They always act so surprised when the left does shit like this.
I'm thinking this is largely due to boomers running the right, they are impossible to motivate and impossible to redpill. Every last positive step forward on the right has been with the younger crowd, especially zoomers. They're especially redpilled on race issues.
I think that's because deep down the boomers still believe in the institutions and bureaucracy. They may complain about individuals, but they don't support disbanding the FBI or the Justice Department. They know Israel is our greatest ally and nothing can convince them otherwise. They know racism is the greatest sin, and will abandon every principle and liberty to avoid being called a racist.
I think that's why Q appealed to them so strongly. Yes, all the institutions have been subverted, but the good guys are stronger and if you just follow the Q's Clues, we will win somehow without getting our hands dirty.
In fairness, that is quickly becoming a 'dangerous' form of Civil Disobedience.
Not being redpilled enough about communist scum.
That's not really the same thing. Trump pretty much has to use Twitter.
Once Trump isn't president anymore, twitter is going to permanently ban him. If he isn't also arrested first thing by Biden, his pull with people is going to drop off a cliff when he gets banned, and he's never going to get anyone's attention again.
Hell, I bet that twitter will ban trump under election fraud claims if he manages to beat the election sabotage and win.