“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
That very quote is kinda what solidified my thought process, and frankly the Soviets didn't even have it as good as we have now to at least explain part of their inaction.
After all, history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme, and what's one of the most common rhymes of impending totalitarianism?
'The people should have done something when the movement was nothing, but now that it's something they won't. They'll continue to do nothing when that movement now something, is stamping down hard on their throat.'
If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I get where he's coming from but he's underselling the fear that people have of strength. You turn them back for one night, then what? When they come back with twice the number? When they pick you off one at a time trying to leave to buy bread? Seriously, then what?
Most people are crippled by the phrase "then what?" Because nobody wants to say what happens next: you're going to live a very short and bloody life.
You'd hope that you'd put the fear in the enforcers enough that they wouldn't bother. However, their own pride and their own anger at being bested, humiliated, struck out against can lead to aggravated retaliation. Tit for tat, until either one side gives or both are bloodied beyond recovery.
However, spooking the enforcers isn't a complete impossibility. Effective local organization plus the realization that an assault isn't worth the cost can lead to a favorable outcome for the defenders.
There are effective no-go zones in every Western country, enclaves of the ungovernable, for whom authority doesn't dare tread, except in the most egregious of scenarios. They're always united by a sense of community, and a sense that the greater authority doesn't apply to them.
We very well may be finding more people adhering to that philosophy as it becomes ever clearer how self-serving our representative class has become among the populace.
Yeah but you need a community that will back you up instead of throw you to the wolves and as you may have noticed everyone is completely atomized in the modern era.
Solzhenitsyn was invited to speak to Harvard and was promptly ignored. In a way, it supports Yockey's and Dougan's idea that the Russians are better heirs to western civilization.
Solzhenitsyn eventually returned to Russia in his last years, he left America and went home. I don't think western philosophy really appreciates the deep draw and meaning of -Home- people are indelibly attached to it.
So did Andrei Sakharov after many years of exile, he went back to Russia too; he went home.
They both died in Russia. The very place that persecuted them and drove them out /but it was home and their souls belonged there.
it supports Yockey's and Dougan's idea that the Russians are better heirs to western civilization.
Anyone is a better heir to Western civilization, as the total mess in Western Europe and America cannot be called 'civilization' in any meaningful sense.
Every now and then, I see a police car with rainbow flag painted on its side.
When I go to buy food, I see a rainbow flags in front of every store.
When the city council sends me a letter detailing upcoming changes to the taxes I'll be paying them for the privilege of existing in the city of my birth, I see a rainbow arching over the their logo.
When I look at the internet, I can expect to see a rainbow flag on almost any corporate logo I can think of.
That rainbow is EVERYWHERE, and it's in the hands of people with power and money.
I feel like a Jew in early 30's Germany, watching Swastikas appear on anything and everything around them. Every warning light in my brain is lit up and telling me to get out of this place before shit hits the fan, but there is nowhere I can go.
Nigga when this is over there won't be a civilization left to save. Just be thankful you got to live a good life while your wife's children got stuck with the fucking Orwell/Huxley dystopia.
We've traveled a good bit and lived abroad; I stand by the belief that plumbing is what makes America great and I have said it many times. The US has the world's best plumbing and sanitary water delivery systems.
The right blackpill me way more than the left ever could. There's way too many slower learners, who still play on the defensive, and never accept the basic truth that we need to accept: that all leftist orthodoxy must be rejected if we're to have any chance of winning the war. Nothing should ever been done on their terms, we should never give credence to their language, we shouldn't be countering their baseless attacks either as it also gives them credence. The right simply has too many half in the door members, who are essentially still luke warm liberals regardless of what they call themselves. The radical left can't be fought with moderate leftism, or even classical liberalism, it needs to be fought with traditionalism.
You can take steps without painting a target on yourself.
The first thing you can do is prepare yourself. Then if you are prepared you teach others how to be prepared. You build relationships with your neighbors and community so if you do get targeted they will through the lies that will be told about you.
I'm not getting on a high horse either because I'm failing as well, but I'm slowly working on it. Its all we can do as individuals.
The man who was in the best position to do something, with the best reason to do something, did nothing. If you can't rely on a Republican President to have your back when insurrectionists are burning American cities, you need a Republican President like Tom Cotton who will.
No Republican is a solution to the situation we now face. Not a single one of them. Abandon the idea that your salvation will come through the Republican Party.
It's so easy for them to brush away grassroots groups under the label of extremist or seditious militia. A regular guy working out of a house to find like minds is an easy target. FBI, ATF, and SWAT raids happen every day, and you only hear about the worst of the worst or what they want you to hear.
"Just another redneck militia plotting something impossible, good thing they're gone, someone would have been hurt. They're too stupid to survive, thinking they could pull that off."
Known faces with big followings rising up is the only insulating way to organize. Attack one group and you incite the whole movement, take out the leader and you make a martyr, take out all at once and you have another Waco. None are good optics for them.
I don't like the mindset of this being a waiting game and things will start to turn around if we just sit on our hands for a few years as things get even worse than they already are as our enemies solidify their power.
As long as the economy is decent, you're not going to get people off their hands. By all means, prepare for when people are receptive, but comfortable people are complacent. It's basic human nature.
So what's the gameplan if they're able to maintain the economy throughout all of this? Just go "oh well, guess things didn't get bad enough to warrant a response". I could envision a scenario where the power brokers could manage to keep enough bread and circuses going that no one ever reaches that level of sufficient discomfort and that's what truly terrifies me: that people might never reach a point where they feel a response is warranted.
“Look, your generous overlords have provided you your shared living pod, your nutri-bugs, and your mandated edutainment modules. Enjoy owning nothing with your numb existence, serf.”
There might be... probably will be a huge economic crash to start as the dollar plummets; however, the minders will quickly swoop in with their promises of state-sponsored salvation, and the helpless masses, already weak and compliant due to the personal weakness promoted by civilization, will scream for that “boon”.
I sure hope my predictions are too outlandish to come true, but we did go from “let us have gay weddings” to “suck the girl dick biggot” awful fast...
It's just human nature. Look at just how much shit had to happen to lead up to the French Revolution. Takes a long time for that much water to boil over.
They don't need to execute you in the streets. They have nothing to gain from it. They already remove your free speech rights, deny you employment, and commit every sort of outrage imaginable.
Why deny themselves the tax revenue that they then use to keep their boots on your neck?
A growing number of people are making earnest efforts towards establishing parallel services, the start of a parallel society.
Without careful direction and a notable-but-controlled amount of force, the inevitable collapse will lead to Balkanization, not reunification under the banner of globalist collectivism.
The problem for the leftist is they’re not known for subtlety, and they’re accelerating far too quickly. They’re already killing the US military, and even stupid little shit like firing Gina Carano is making more and more people aware of Leftist stupidity.
Honestly, the biggest threat to Leftism is Leftism, and it always has been.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
That very quote is kinda what solidified my thought process, and frankly the Soviets didn't even have it as good as we have now to at least explain part of their inaction.
After all, history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme, and what's one of the most common rhymes of impending totalitarianism?
'The people should have done something when the movement was nothing, but now that it's something they won't. They'll continue to do nothing when that movement now something, is stamping down hard on their throat.'
I get where he's coming from but he's underselling the fear that people have of strength. You turn them back for one night, then what? When they come back with twice the number? When they pick you off one at a time trying to leave to buy bread? Seriously, then what?
Most people are crippled by the phrase "then what?" Because nobody wants to say what happens next: you're going to live a very short and bloody life.
You'd hope that you'd put the fear in the enforcers enough that they wouldn't bother. However, their own pride and their own anger at being bested, humiliated, struck out against can lead to aggravated retaliation. Tit for tat, until either one side gives or both are bloodied beyond recovery.
However, spooking the enforcers isn't a complete impossibility. Effective local organization plus the realization that an assault isn't worth the cost can lead to a favorable outcome for the defenders.
There are effective no-go zones in every Western country, enclaves of the ungovernable, for whom authority doesn't dare tread, except in the most egregious of scenarios. They're always united by a sense of community, and a sense that the greater authority doesn't apply to them.
We very well may be finding more people adhering to that philosophy as it becomes ever clearer how self-serving our representative class has become among the populace.
The point is if everyone did it they wouldn't have twice the number to come back with. The state never has numbers on their side.
Yeah but you need a community that will back you up instead of throw you to the wolves and as you may have noticed everyone is completely atomized in the modern era.
Solzhenitsyn was invited to speak to Harvard and was promptly ignored. In a way, it supports Yockey's and Dougan's idea that the Russians are better heirs to western civilization.
The only people who deserve civilization are those who fight for it.
If every generation had their trial to earn their place among stability, we wouldn't have nearly as many issues as we do.
Entitlement is the sweetest poison anyone can offer.
Solzhenitsyn eventually returned to Russia in his last years, he left America and went home. I don't think western philosophy really appreciates the deep draw and meaning of -Home- people are indelibly attached to it.
So did Andrei Sakharov after many years of exile, he went back to Russia too; he went home.
They both died in Russia. The very place that persecuted them and drove them out /but it was home and their souls belonged there.
True story.
Anyone is a better heir to Western civilization, as the total mess in Western Europe and America cannot be called 'civilization' in any meaningful sense.
Every now and then, I see a police car with rainbow flag painted on its side.
When I go to buy food, I see a rainbow flags in front of every store.
When the city council sends me a letter detailing upcoming changes to the taxes I'll be paying them for the privilege of existing in the city of my birth, I see a rainbow arching over the their logo.
When I look at the internet, I can expect to see a rainbow flag on almost any corporate logo I can think of.
That rainbow is EVERYWHERE, and it's in the hands of people with power and money.
I feel like a Jew in early 30's Germany, watching Swastikas appear on anything and everything around them. Every warning light in my brain is lit up and telling me to get out of this place before shit hits the fan, but there is nowhere I can go.
It's because of the insidiousness of what that Rainbow truly represents.
Notice how every color doesn't blend, but instead stays inside its own perfect little curved row? Separate but equal. Barriers to divide the masses...
It's the perfect symbol of Marxist diversionary tactics, sold as a symbol of equality and love to the smoothbrains.
Am boomer. I really resent these kinds of assumptions about who I am and what I think.
Because I agree with none of this socialist garbage.
You may be a boomer, but, if you're here, you aren't a boomercon. Plan trusters are boomercons.
I am so here ;^
Didn't do anything to stop it though, did you?
When you manage to save civilization single-handedly, I will be the first to congratulate you.
Nigga when this is over there won't be a civilization left to save. Just be thankful you got to live a good life while your wife's children got stuck with the fucking Orwell/Huxley dystopia.
We've traveled a good bit and lived abroad; I stand by the belief that plumbing is what makes America great and I have said it many times. The US has the world's best plumbing and sanitary water delivery systems.
Plumbing is the key to civilizational success.
and is extremely difficult to secure
The right blackpill me way more than the left ever could. There's way too many slower learners, who still play on the defensive, and never accept the basic truth that we need to accept: that all leftist orthodoxy must be rejected if we're to have any chance of winning the war. Nothing should ever been done on their terms, we should never give credence to their language, we shouldn't be countering their baseless attacks either as it also gives them credence. The right simply has too many half in the door members, who are essentially still luke warm liberals regardless of what they call themselves. The radical left can't be fought with moderate leftism, or even classical liberalism, it needs to be fought with traditionalism.
How are you organizing to make it happen?
If you arent then what is stopping you?
Probably the same thing that stops so many of us.
Not that we're afraid to lose everything to try and stop this.
But that no one else will join us if we do.
You can take steps without painting a target on yourself.
The first thing you can do is prepare yourself. Then if you are prepared you teach others how to be prepared. You build relationships with your neighbors and community so if you do get targeted they will through the lies that will be told about you.
I'm not getting on a high horse either because I'm failing as well, but I'm slowly working on it. Its all we can do as individuals.
The man who was in the best position to do something, with the best reason to do something, did nothing. If you can't rely on a Republican President to have your back when insurrectionists are burning American cities, you need a Republican President like Tom Cotton who will.
No Republican is a solution to the situation we now face. Not a single one of them. Abandon the idea that your salvation will come through the Republican Party.
It's so easy for them to brush away grassroots groups under the label of extremist or seditious militia. A regular guy working out of a house to find like minds is an easy target. FBI, ATF, and SWAT raids happen every day, and you only hear about the worst of the worst or what they want you to hear.
"Just another redneck militia plotting something impossible, good thing they're gone, someone would have been hurt. They're too stupid to survive, thinking they could pull that off."
Known faces with big followings rising up is the only insulating way to organize. Attack one group and you incite the whole movement, take out the leader and you make a martyr, take out all at once and you have another Waco. None are good optics for them.
I think we're about 1928 right now. Shit'll change soon enough.
I don't like the mindset of this being a waiting game and things will start to turn around if we just sit on our hands for a few years as things get even worse than they already are as our enemies solidify their power.
As long as the economy is decent, you're not going to get people off their hands. By all means, prepare for when people are receptive, but comfortable people are complacent. It's basic human nature.
So what's the gameplan if they're able to maintain the economy throughout all of this? Just go "oh well, guess things didn't get bad enough to warrant a response". I could envision a scenario where the power brokers could manage to keep enough bread and circuses going that no one ever reaches that level of sufficient discomfort and that's what truly terrifies me: that people might never reach a point where they feel a response is warranted.
That’s the plan, hoss.
“Look, your generous overlords have provided you your shared living pod, your nutri-bugs, and your mandated edutainment modules. Enjoy owning nothing with your numb existence, serf.”
There might be... probably will be a huge economic crash to start as the dollar plummets; however, the minders will quickly swoop in with their promises of state-sponsored salvation, and the helpless masses, already weak and compliant due to the personal weakness promoted by civilization, will scream for that “boon”.
I sure hope my predictions are too outlandish to come true, but we did go from “let us have gay weddings” to “suck the girl dick biggot” awful fast...
If they find an alchemy that successfully replaces productivity with "money printer go brrr", then yeah?
I don't believe it's possible. The easy times are about to end. If I'm wrong, I'm kind of okay with that.
It's just human nature. Look at just how much shit had to happen to lead up to the French Revolution. Takes a long time for that much water to boil over.
If anything, we will find out soon enough if there are any still deserving of the title "Patriot".
They don't need to execute you in the streets. They have nothing to gain from it. They already remove your free speech rights, deny you employment, and commit every sort of outrage imaginable.
Why deny themselves the tax revenue that they then use to keep their boots on your neck?
Why? Look at alt-tech.
A growing number of people are making earnest efforts towards establishing parallel services, the start of a parallel society.
Without careful direction and a notable-but-controlled amount of force, the inevitable collapse will lead to Balkanization, not reunification under the banner of globalist collectivism.
The problem for the leftist is they’re not known for subtlety, and they’re accelerating far too quickly. They’re already killing the US military, and even stupid little shit like firing Gina Carano is making more and more people aware of Leftist stupidity.
Honestly, the biggest threat to Leftism is Leftism, and it always has been.
Its a big mistake not having dozens of leaders to go and follow. Now all we do is accuse each other of being a glowie and nothing will happen.
It took over 15 years for nazi Germany to rise and fall. We are on year 1
That's optimistic. It took 84 years for the Soviet Union.
Don't be so dramatic.. No one is coming for you, you're not worth the effort
Me, alone? Of course not.
Us? Those who defy them? Yes.