Materialism’s End

Note: Tonight at 8:45 PM EDT I will be on a Twitter Space with Paul Kersey, Peter Brimelow, Harrison Smith, Dan Lyman and Jared Taylor. The topic will be how best to remove the alien invaders.


There is a famous movie line that says, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The line does not originate with the film but much earlier, most likely by Charles Baudelaire. In the 19th century, the line turns up a lot and was used to mean that people often stand by and do nothing when terrible things are happening because they fail to appreciate the great struggle with evil that must define life when one acknowledges the existence of it.

Something similar persists to this day with something we can pin on Karl Marx and others regarding the nature of human society. Marx argued that oppression and inequality were the result of economic relations. Therefore, if you want to get a society free of oppression, then you need to get the economic relations right. Later, libertarians took up the same claim but arrived at a different path to liberation. Ever since, the West has been sure that nothing exists other than economics.

The story of the last century or so in the West has been the spread of materialism as the defining feature of Western thought. Getting the economics right has been the center of all political debate. The left-right axis found new poles with socialism on the left and libertarianism on the right. One side sees equality as the equal distribution of goods, while the other side sees it as the equal distribution of liberty. Both assume that once the economics are right, paradise must naturally follow.

The reason for the “cultural revolution” of the last decade or so is that a portion of the left began to see the error in this view. In the middle of the last century, they embraced the claim that Marxism failed because people were incapable of transcending their cultural conditioning. Therefore, the inevitable progress toward egalitarianism can only happen when the cultural restraints are removed. That required taking control of the centers of cultural production.

This is why the leftists in this age are perfectly comfortable working for wealthy oligarchs or even being oligarchs. They deliberately entered corporate life as they saw corporations as a center of cultural production. Similarly, they entered and then took over the vast, sprawling networks of the administrative state and then the managerialism system that directs it. All the people and things the left supposedly hated were turned into tools to bring about the revolution.

Ironically, that project is foundering for the same reason that its predecessors persisted long after reality made clear that Marx was wrong. The public embrace of economics as the standard against which everything is measured meant that the cultural revolution would be measured against its practical utility. The escapist phrase, “go woke, go broke” was factually incorrect, but it had a kernel of truth. In a purely materialist age, culture takes a back seat to the price of eggs.

The corrosive power of materialism is clear in the ongoing destruction of college sports where “reform” is about getting the money right. The reason college athletics is a thing at all is tradition, but everyone involved is willing to throw tradition into the furnace if it helps fire the economics. Everyone is sure that all they need to do is get the economics of the sport right and everything will follow. No amount of evidence will convince them that some things are too important for the marketplace.

You see it with libertarian cranks over the immigration bill. The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is in trouble because weirdos like Rand Paul are able to rally the clown horn gang to oppose it on money grounds. Rand Paul is literally making the argument that your society is only worth saving at the right price. It is a great example of the expression, “A man who puts a price on everything values nothing.” This is the life motto of all those who embrace materialism.

The people siding with Rand Paul are psychologically incapable of understanding why a people can survive bankruptcy but not demographic replacement. For them, the holy crusade is to get the economics right. Their version of the egalitarian paradise may be different than that of the Marxists, but it is just as powerful. For them, the imagined Hell is the long promised fiscal collapse, whatever that means. Staving that off is the purpose of their life, so they cannot be persuaded.

Therein lies the small bit of good news. There is a growing number of people who see that there are some things too important to subject to the marketplace. This is the dissident view, which is the old conservative view. It is the very heart of the left-right concept that has haunted the West for centuries. The left says the truth lies with the people, while the right says it lies outside the people. For today’s dissident, the truth stands in judgement of the marketplace, not the other way around.

All the evidence tells us that material prosperity, the key to the materialist worldview, is not the roots of a healthy society. Instead, it is one of its flowers. In the West, we have reached material prosperity, but all of the measures of happiness are in decline, with some in rapid decline. The demographic collapse that comes with material superabundance is not a problem to be managed, but a warning that the logical end of materialism is death. We used to know this.

Again, there are signs that this old knowledge is not dead and buried, but simply in hibernation and now starting to spring forth. You see it in the hostility to the libertarian cranks on social media. You see it in the jeering at socialist cranks. Safety first commentators like Matt Walsh and Charlie Kirk are now repeating dissident things that used to be disqualifying for them. Perhaps in the end, the last materialist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.


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RealityRules
RealityRules
3 days ago

The speed and distance that Kirk and Walsh are covering these days are impressive. What we may be witnessing there is the strength of the survival instinct. They are young enough to see themselves in 40 years time, and it is a very dark place to see themselves inhabiting. Will the survival instinct awaken in enough of us in time? The real issue is if it will awaken in those in power who can harness the energy of the American and Occidental awakening. Otherwise it is energy that just dissipates with no avenue of expression. The LA situation is a… Read more »

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

Excellent.

ray
ray
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

‘He isn’t going to be running to Mars.’

No he is not.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

Why not? We have plenty of super-mathmeticians, if only we’d stop oppressing them. It’s like a vast, untapped resource!

(I know they’re real, just waiting to be unleashed. I see them in every commercial.)

Xman
Xman
Reply to  Alzaebo
3 days ago

Black women will colonize Mars, LOL

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Xman
3 days ago

And rename it Mar’Sque’esha…

Pozymandias
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
3 days ago

No, like everything else Blacks take over it’ll be renamed MLK. In this case, planet Mars Luther King.

ray
ray
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
3 days ago

Mars-a-Lago.

ray
ray
Reply to  Alzaebo
3 days ago

Mars doesn’t want him.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

“Will the survival instinct awaken in enough of us in time?” Again, the Black Pill. Is it not already too late for the demographic solution to be tried? This country is destined to be one of minorities fighting for supremacy, or at least a greater part of the spoils of the past generation’s efforts. That cannot be changed. We see no place on earth countries—where there is a mixture of races/ethnics/cultures in which one is decidedly superior/prosperous to the other—where there is not conflict among them. Often, violent conflict. This conflict is only ameliorated through separation. India after independence is… Read more »

Tars Tarkas
Member
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

Any future where separation is possible also holds the possibility of deportation.
Even now, if we just enforced the damned law, self deportation would be huge.

They will never let us run to our own region of the US. Ain’t gonna happen. Deportation would be easier. Even if they did, the same thing that happens in South Africa would happen there. They would want outside labor to do certain jobs. I’ve heard that most of the farm murders were inside jobs committed by employees because the White farmer would never think of hiring White help.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
3 days ago

They will never let us run to our own region of the US. Ain’t gonna happen. Deportation would be easier. “

I hear ya, but deportation only addresses part of the problem—the most recent part to boot. It can’t produce a a White ethnostate. It never could for at least 150+ years. The reason, Blacks.

14% of the population and 50-60% of the crime and ensuing social pathologies. Separation, as remote a proposition as it mays seem, is the only answer.

Tars Tarkas
Member
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

I agree. That’s why I said we would end up suffering the same problem as South Africa.

Blacks are precisely the reason a White ethno-region is highly unlikely at least in the near term future. The elites, including White elites worship blacks.

But perfect is the enemy of the good. Getting rid of millions of foreigners acting as a 5th column/agitators in our country is good.

Pozymandias
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
3 days ago

In any war, and this is an existential war, some things are valuable simply because they waste the enemy’s time and resources. We also need to do whatever little things we can to encourage self-deportation. One fairly obvious thing that I haven’t heard about yet is a campaign to get suburban and rural people to boycott any landscaping company that hires illegals. For the sake of simplicity we can just go with the idea that any 4’8″ guy with brown skin is probably an illegal while a 6′ White kid in a ballcap probably isn’t. This also helps start a… Read more »

Til
Til
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
3 days ago

That’s a full on lie

Ben the Layabout
Ben the Layabout
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

A second, somewhat messier option exists 😈

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Ben the Layabout
3 days ago

Yep, but that will set the stage for another White guilt trip and ensuing rebound in numbers and reparations. Sigh….

GreatLakesSpacePort
GreatLakesSpacePort
Reply to  Ben the Layabout
3 days ago

Some of our own will sabotage the excercisors of said option. The other side has a say how events play out. Not all of them are daft. They can build a nucleus and fight unless we get them early. I don’t want to sit here and do nothing but likewise I don’t want to waste my energy on failure. I was standing in line at the local Walgreens tonight. A black lady had to explain to her two rambuncious sons why they didn’t need to buy sunscreen sitting there in the impulsive purchase bins. Her boys are literate, soft-spoken types.… Read more »

Rented mule
Rented mule
Reply to  Ben the Layabout
2 days ago

It is the ineveitable option
As old as humanity itself
Todays tower of bable cannot willnot endure.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

Yes. Balkanization is inevitable and even happening around the margins now. The Mexican nationalist nature of the unfolding immigration riots in LA foreshadows what is ahead. I increasingly like our odds, which surprises me.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

This is the battle right here. We still have numeric superiority, but it is the closing window of opportunity. A low agency people see events as happening to them and destiny to be fore-ordained. A high agency people see events as unfolding and presenting opportunity to use their force of will to create and control their destiny. The Trump presidency is an opportunity for the latter. He holds the office and the power. His base, we dissidents, have the power to bolster him. Black Pilled: A person who opens their eyes to reality but who lacks agency and thus gives… Read more »

Templar
Templar
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

Black Pilled: A person who opens their eyes to reality but who lacks agency and thus gives in to despair and capitulates.

An excellent definition.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

If the maintenance of AINO is your holy grail, then downing a bottle of black tablets makes sense. However, if you think in terms of alternative political arrangements, pills of varying hues are more in order.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
3 days ago

Agreed. There is no saving AINO as a whole; nor would I want to. It would be lovely to have a regional White nation, but the earth’s self-appointed ‘healers’ (i.e. agitators) would never countenance that. It’s why Harold Covington envisioned such a nation that would be eternally vigilant by necessity, and constantly under threat by outside agitation. It would also require civil and manual labor by all citizens, to prevent the hiring of outsiders and alien races and all the evils they entail. I question whether there remains a sufficient remnant of Whites capable of such resolve.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

The solution would to make whiteness the new polity’s foundational charter. In other words, if you’re not white then your presence in Whiteland is illegal. We could work out the details of punishments, but they would certainly be severe, and for any whites who abetted the presence of non-whites, it would be terminal.

Pozymandias
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

If there aren’t enough Whites who will stay vigilant there’s no point in trying to do anything. The problem is that the current generations of Whites, particularly the older ones, got the idea that civic duty meant voting every so often and keeping the commies at bay. Then there weren’t even commies to keep out. This is related to the idea that everything is, or should be, some kind of transaction. I put in my little bit of token effort and then I just have to abide by whatever happens in “the process” that follows. It’s this attitude that gives… Read more »

GenghisKhan
GenghisKhan
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

The problem is that inevitably you will end up with some Whites who can’t resist either outsourcing or importing labor to reduce labor costs. A successful White nation would indeed have to be a small one, where large scale organizations cannot exist, such that the elite become detached from the people.

george 1
george 1
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

The Tech Bros may not be able to escape to Mars but they can sure as heck put in place a control grid that will eventually enslave us all.

Ask Mr. Zionist Peter Thiel.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  george 1
3 days ago

And the world shall be ruled from the throne in Jerusalem.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

Right on! I have often conducted informal polls of random people in restaurants with a simple question–which decade, from the ’50s to the ’90s, would you rather live in? The ’50s wins overwhelmingly for one simple reason…in the ’50s, we had tremendous community with people always willing to help their neighbors, traditional good schools, and the richest man in our suburb lived with the rest of us, with a slightly bigger house… A McDonals owner in our village built a large, garish house in a pricier suburb…but his wife and daughter refused to move into it, and stayed in the… Read more »

ray
ray
Reply to  pyrrhus
3 days ago

‘in the ’50s, we had tremendous community with people always willing to help their neighbors, traditional good schools, and the richest man in our suburb lived with the rest of us, with a slightly bigger house…’

It was that way in my mid-size CA town also. But at popular level, that was a masculine and Christian nation. Most persons belonged to extended families who lived in the same town.

Now, no. It’s a feminist, secular-atheist, atomized country.

GenghisKhan
GenghisKhan
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

Elon Musk is basically a Brahmin (Hindu uppercaste) with white skin.

He has the odiousness and toxicity of a Hindu who has perfected the art of weaseling his way into every hierarchy and rising to the top.

He will realistically never give up on his deep desire to maximize wealth through the import of millions of H1B indentured servants.

The dude, like a Hindu, turns every place he touches into a shithole.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
3 days ago

I don’t know whether this is absolutely correct but let’s hope so! Culture indeed is infinitely more important than wealth. A healthy society neglects neither but at the end of the day, as you point out, realizes culture is the more important of the two. It certainly does seem that libertarianism has imploded. Paul and Massie are both highly intelligent idiots who never let necessity and the public good get in the way of their ideological fanaticism. After years of dazzling the masses with their brilliance to such a degree their blatantly moronic beliefs were ignored, they seemingly collapsed overnight.… Read more »

Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

The Cultural Marxists and libertarians are two sides of the same coin. They are both blank slaters who believe that humans are interchangeable lumps of clay that can be molded into whatever shape they want via culture for the Marxist or economic incentives for the libertarians.

Neither believes in racial differences. Even more importantly, neither can conceive of the notion that individuals might feel a bond with their race and work together with their people to protect and promote their race. Both are inhuman.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

Yes. Libertarian Dictionary: Human n. – A perfectly rational economic calculator who is born into and lives in the world alone. The calculation mechanism must be incentivized by the threat of total privation in order to pursue its best individual interests. Society n. – A collection of economic calculators bound together by making the best economic decisions for themselves. Each individual calculator doing what is best for himself makes the entire society better off, because that is perfectly rational. Principle n. – A means and/or excuse to never take action or defend the things that are most valuable according to… Read more »

Pozymandias
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

We could add this to the Marxist dictionary too

Libertarian n. – A person whose belief in “free movement of people” and the immorality of things like immigration and minimum wage law causes him to support the importation of masses of inferior people who will immediately (with guidance from us, of course) begin using the political process to dispossess and rob people like the Libertarian.

Redpill Boomer
Redpill Boomer
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

I totally agree that most libertarians are blank-slaters; I certainly was in my LP activist days. On the other hand, nothing in Austrian economic theory requires that viewpoint. Rand certainly understood the differences, even if she never explicitly said so. There are no African, Arabic, or Asian surnames among the heroes of Atlas Shrugged. The problem was, as Z correctly states, the libertarian notion that economics is the ONLY thing that matters. What does prosperity matter if we can’t preserve our civilization and heritage for our children and grand-children?

old geezer
old geezer
Reply to  Redpill Boomer
3 days ago

i seem to recall a copper company that ran into a little trouble later in the book. some sort of latin name, but i could be mistaken. he was my favorite character : )

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  old geezer
3 days ago

Yep, there was a famous Chilean who owned a large copper mine in Chile.

ArthurinCali
3 days ago

One thought experiment is if America goes through another Great Depression (2.0? 3?), what effects would that have on the current state of mass legal/illegal immigration? Picture the stark conditions and austerity that would occur and who would still be in the country 5-10 years later. Once the benefits and perks dried up, most would waste no time going back to their home countries. We’d find out rather quickly who is an actual American.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  ArthurinCali
3 days ago

I’ve had this very discussion with others. The consensus seems to be that it would require economic catastrophe to encourage the invaders to leave on their own volition. The Left wants to milk the Heritage population to prop up their alien clients, but my guess is that would not pan out as planned. The Tech Bros, among others, have belatedly realized they are not immune from the milking machine, either. That explains much of the shift.

Citizen of a Silly Country
Citizen of a Silly Country
Reply to  ArthurinCali
3 days ago

No chance. A white country in depression is far better than African or Central American countries at any point.

Don’t wait for some economic crash to make the fantasy of non-whites leaving the US. It won’t happen.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

Yes. When people talk about “remigration,” they need to accept it will require force and violence. I don’t know who correctly decided to start with violent felons being the first deported, but the Left and Libertarian Right defending them has helped make the moral case for throwing out more sympathetic economic cases, who are the vast majority.

Felix Krull
Member
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

Especially as a depression in Whiteworld would be amplified in Brownworld. We might see soup kitchens and bread lines, but they’d have cannibalism.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Felix Krull
3 days ago

but they’d have cannibalism.”

Ah, reversion to the mean strikes again…

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Felix Krull
3 days ago

They’d be just as likely to be better organized than Whites (plenty of Latino and Somali and Cambodian gangs here) and they’d come take over the soup kitchens and/or demand protection money. People are so naive; they’re not all as stupid as joggers and they are already criminally organized nationwide.

Tom K
Tom K
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

Give the immigrunts their own depression. Raise the tax on remittances to punitive levels. Then they will leave. For the most part there will be no need for drama. If the princess who runs Mexico doesnt like it, tough titties. As for the heritage noble savages within our borders, there are remedies for their presence as well, different but just as effective.

Chris
Chris
Reply to  Tom K
3 days ago

The work of Dr. Wouter Basson would work nicely here. Is there a microbiologist amongst us?

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

I concur, but it is a widespread and persistent fantasy, unfortunately. And one based on a purely materialist view. Yes, the aliens are here for your stuff, but also your wives and daughters, and the society only Whites seem able to build. The Han want Whites’ creativity and ideas and (former) stability. The Koreans here didn’t come fleeing domestic ‘repression,’ they came for MONEY. And the only reason they were allowed to take to the rooftops in the LA riots was because they were/are/always will be nonwhite. Any White who had tried to organize an armed defense of property would… Read more »

Pozymandias
Reply to  Citizen of a Silly Country
3 days ago

Exactly, living on welfare and food stamps in some shithole neighborhood in CA or even someplace cold and nasty like Boston, is preferable to living in a house made of literal cardboard without indoor plumbing, air conditioning, or anything but rats to eat in Latin America. Now if you’re going to suppose that the economy is so bad that welfare and other gibs have stopped then yes, the incentive to come or to stay is mostly gone. If anything, though, a real hardcore depression would turn a lot of fair-weather libertarians into raving Bolsheviks with the people voting for even… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Pozymandias
3 days ago

If the economy is that bad there won’t be any transport to home, and they aren’t walking through a potential war zone either.

Easier to stay racially organized in a place you know, and make raids on the neighbors to take their stuff. We’ll be back to the age of tribes in nothing flat.

Barnard
Barnard
Reply to  ArthurinCali
3 days ago

Would they leave? The United States is not going to have an economic depression in a vacuum. I would assume the impact on Latin America would be stark, especially considering how much of those economies is now dependent on remittances from the U.S. I think most would attempt to squat where they are even in depressed conditions rather than return to the home country.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Barnard
3 days ago

The only way I see they self-deport is if (a) there is a credible threat of violence if they do not and/or (b) they face civil forfeiture. There have been threats of the latter but it would have to an imminent reality to work.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  ArthurinCali
3 days ago

Diversity only works when there’s prosperity. When there’s little prosperity, at best we get Yugoslavia and at the worst we get Rwanda.

I hope that many people are coming to terms with the fact that if our economy is to fail, better to live with fellow ethnics than diversity plus the longhouse.

We are in a giant neoliberal prison, and prison social structures are going to apply.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Marko
3 days ago

Diversity only works when there’s prosperity.”

I tend to disagree. It seems so, but that accepts that the gifts of “prosperity” are distributed “equally”. This is never the case because the people are different and worse, races are inherently different. One race outpaces the other and more of the resulting “prosperity” falls to such. Prosperity will for a while mask the animosity and jealousy that arises from the inferior race(s), but sooner or later such comes to the forefront. The result is conflict.

And here we are today.

Maxda
Maxda
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

That statement gives it away. As soon as there is a crisis, diversity will fracture society beyond repair.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

Indeed. Diversity is simply an active volcano. It erupts periodically, and material deprivation need not be the catalyst.

RealityRules
RealityRules
Reply to  ArthurinCali
3 days ago

It will only happen if the money is taken away before such a scenario occurs. I think and I fear that the future is an informal but de-facto sorting. Mayorkas and Krugman know this and thus the hurry to flood every nook and cranny of America and England with aliens. The will and agency of the Historic American Nation is going to be tested when it becomes apparent that a clear and hold approach may be necessary to establishing and maintaining outposts of America. One critical piece will not just be the will and physical capability of such redoubts. It… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  RealityRules
3 days ago

So I asked the gal in Utah where all the Samoan weed gangs were.
(Their missionaries to Hawaii had sparked a huge influx of primo Kona in the 70s.)

She told me they couldn’t make any money in Deseret, so they left.

I guess Mormon kids would rather shag the wife than get high.
I also guess because the wife isn’t trained to dump the man and kids for a closetful of shoes.

(p.s.- all that has changed now because the Church got the word, diversity is good. Somehow, good looks really trashy and rude.)

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3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Alzaebo
3 days ago

The Mormons shat where they eat, and enthusiastically married off their blonde daughters to mestizos and Samoans. The die is cast for them, just as it is for all other AINO Whites – demographic swamping and mystery meat.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

I never thought of that. LDS missionaries got experience traveling the world, but they brought the world home with them.

My Comment
My Comment
Reply to  ArthurinCali
3 days ago

An economic collapse won’t make America worse than India, Mexico or Somalia. Most of them will stay unless kicked out.

Bruno the Arrogant
Bruno the Arrogant
3 days ago

I’ve learned to be suspicious whenever I hear an economic argument made in favor of anything at all. Nobody ever made an economic argument in favor of chocolate ice cream, puppies or Taylor Swift tickets, which seem to be things people actually want. The only time the economic arguments get trotted out is when somebody is trying to lube up a dildo to shove up our asses. Even the dumbest salesman knows if he wants to make a sale, he has to convince you the product is good for you. When he has to tell you it’s “good for the… Read more »

Zulu Juliet
Zulu Juliet
Reply to  Bruno the Arrogant
3 days ago

It’s that month. Some people don’t require an economic argument for having a dildo shove up their ass.

Mycale
Mycale
3 days ago

I’ll defend Rand Paul on one thing, which I don’t want to do, but it’s necessary. He made the point that according to the Trump admin, the border is already closed. This was a point frequently made by Republicans during the “bipartisan bill” debate. The President already has enormous border powers. Mayorkas just chose to fling open the border instead. If anything that stupid bill made the President’s power weaker, not stronger, which was the point. For heaven’s sake, the Brandon cabal was literally flying people into the USA from foreign countries – a wall isn’t going to stop that.… Read more »

ray
ray
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

The selection of college football by our host as symbolic of decline into decadence and materialism is perfect. Started out a bunch of young college doods roughhousing, as they tended to do, and grew organically. Roughhousing now is probably illegal for boys. In the Fifties and Sixties, the sport still was largely innocent and guarded its amateur status strictly. Sure, some of the biggest stars got perks from local businessmen and boosters, but it was a far cry from the paid professionalization of college football now extant. If you could find a bookie, mebbe you laid a little bet. Now,… Read more »

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Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

It’s worse than professional football because these guys are just pay for play mercs. This past offseason, a brownoid who played for the University of Tennessee left because they didn’t want to give him a raise, but another team snatched him immediately. He wasn’t even that good. And yes the gambling thing, isn’t this libertarian ideology run amok? “If people want to bet on sports, who are we to say they shouldn’t?” So now there is a huge rise in gambling debt, broke young men are enriching the Adelsons and Wynns of the world, every commercial break has 5000 ads… Read more »

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Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

“…people want to bet on sports, who are we to say they shouldn’t?”

Don’t blame the Libertarians. Blame the local, State, and Federal government who discovered you can legalize evil and make money off of such activity to boot. Name one of these legalized “evils” that does not take a cut of the proceeds ostensibly through a “sin tax”.

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

I’ll blame the libertarians for giving ideological cover for these evil governments. The most common two arguments I heard when DUDE WEED was being legalized was the libertarian “freedom” argument AND the “we can tax it” argument. The fact that a huge chunk of this tax money gets funneled into programs that are (poorly) designed to mitigate the harms of the stuff being taxed never really gets discussed.

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Ben the Layabout
Ben the Layabout
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

One ironic side effect of legalizing Indian hemp was that even in the states where it is legal it is so heavily taxed there’s still a thriving black market in weed, presumably because it’s cheaper.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Ben the Layabout
3 days ago

As a law enforcement official I know well put it, “We simply made a narcotics offense into a tax-avoidance offense.”

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

I can say that I’ve *never* heard a Libertarian argument for any of these evils and I’ve lived through their creation. For example, legalized gambling here was sold as “increasing” funds to education and therefore a greater good than that the evil of families becoming poorer due to participating in these type of activities. Of course, even then this argument was shown false by researchers who showed that the legislatures in these new “gambling” States reduced their budget allocations to public education by the amount of new revenue provided by legalized gambling. It took about 5 years, but after such… Read more »

mmack
mmack
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

In the Fifties and Sixties, the sport still was largely innocent and guarded its amateur status strictly.  Oh you sweet summer child: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNY_point-shaving_scandal The CCNY point-shaving scandal of 1951 was a college basketball point-shaving gambling scandal which revealed widespread bribery and match fixing involving major colleges and universities both in and around New York City, particularly at the Madison Square Garden. While the public scandal officially involved at least seven American colleges and universities (with one university having a player retroactively participating in the event during this time after initially being missed during the original investigation period) the scandal has… Read more »

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  mmack
3 days ago

Colleges were paying players and keeping them eligible with fake grades and fake classes in the 1800s. There are at least couple of good books about this, but the titles escape me at the moment.

ray
ray
Reply to  mmack
3 days ago

Sure if you want to cherrypick, there is an element of corruption in almost all organized activities, including your local church. And yes, including football. However, I had a close childhood friend who went on to play at UCLA and then with the Falcons. He played for the LOVE OF THE GAME which you seem assured never existed, and yes, also for the scholarship (he was quite intelligent and graduated in Kinesiology). This was in the early-Seventies. They got per diem and so forth, but PAYOLA WAS NOT COMMON AT COLLEGES FOR MOST PLAYERS. As I mentioned above, yes the… Read more »

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Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  thezman
3 days ago

Point taken – but would any law stop the next Mayorkas from flinging it open again? This is part of the problem with “democratic” governance. Even if the OBBB made all of Mayorkas’ actions explicitly illegal, as we saw with the student loan debt fiasco, they’ll just figure out another way to do it. They know nobody will stop them and unlike Trump, they can shut down Congress-allocated funds and programs without any rapid judicial pushback (because the judiciary mostly agrees with them).

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Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

The United States, particularly, is utterly lawless and has been for most of its existence. Force and raw power are all that matter in such a system.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Jack Dodson
3 days ago

It had been “happily” lawless until the police forces became militarized, our governments grew exponentially, and surveillance became omnipresent.

Prior to the 1980s, you could get away with a lot of shit. Even if you did, there was vigilante justice, and the vigilantes could get away with a lot of shit. Nowadays, if an immigrants rapes your daughter, and you kill him, YOU go to jail.

george 1
george 1
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

If we were a country of laws enacted to benefit our people Zionists like Mayorkas would be serving a life sentence or executed. Since we are ruled by foreigners who actually desire our destruction we have what we have.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  george 1
3 days ago

If we were an ethnocracy nobody would have heard of Mayorkas.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

All the officials involved with such authority are subject to impeachment, yet “crickets”. It’s not that we need more laws—Ayn Rand has a famous soliloquy on this exact subject—it’s that we are a lawless country.

NIdahoOrthodox
NIdahoOrthodox
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

We need a Sulla.

Redpill Boomer
Redpill Boomer
Reply to  thezman
3 days ago

Chambers’s observations about Ayn Rand were largely accurate. But I can’t say I buy the notion that “open borders” is Paul’s motivation here. We’re in real danger of Weimar-style inflation.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Redpill Boomer
3 days ago

The hell with Weimar style inflation, how about Argentina’s inflation in the first month of Javier Mile’s taking office—25%, year over year in one month! Remember Biden’s 9%? I sure do. Rand Paul as far as I’ve ever heard from his mouth has never made a Libertarian argument for a balanced budget. Rather, he pointed out the fact that the purported savings from DOGE has been completely *spent* in this new budget. He has a point. Trump has a point as well. Trump thinks he can juice the economy and grow out of the deficit. Pick your poison.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  thezman
3 days ago

For my second Black Pill of the day, I’d remind folk that the open vs closed border issue is perhaps not even half the problem. These folk become citizens and through “chain migration” will sponsor many more times their numbers as immigrants.

Outdoorspro
Outdoorspro
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

I got a good lesson in “chain migration” from a good friend in the State Dept. For example, say you have a family that was allowed to immigrate from Pakistan. In a few years, they are able to get citizenship. Then, they are able to sponsor more family members, even some extended family. In another few years, the cycle repeats. In decade or so (sometimes less), an entire village, because they are all “related”, has immigrated over. This will include all the self-sustaining social structures and values. No assimilation necessary.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Outdoorspro
3 days ago

Yep. Chain migration was “sold” as a decent exception so that children could import and take care of their elderly parents and families—like wife and children—could be reunited. All disingenuous BS.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  thezman
3 days ago

Is Rand Paul pro immigration?

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

We know that the Brandon admin flew in at least 400,000 illegal aliens, at taxpayer expense, because they admitted that. We can assume the real number is larger. The mind boggles that not a single court case has been brought against them over this, ever, by anyone, even though this was blatantly illegal. When Trump tries to expel one single wog, the court filings are fast and furious, the judges eager to act. You even get a senator going to drink margaritas with him. Among all the regime lawlessness, this one stands out to me the most, yet seems to… Read more »

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BigJimSportCamper
BigJimSportCamper
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

“To serve and protect…our pensions”.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

“…not a single active DHS or ICE agent refused, quit, or even spoke up.”

To whom is your first duty, the State or your family? There you have your answer.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

It should have been the same thing (in any healthy society). Service to the family should have served the state, and vice versa. Somewhere along the way, the two became at odds. Wonder why that happened…..

ray
ray
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

To whom is your first duty, your family or God? I inquire especially of the DODOs.

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Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

The fed right is pushing the line that the events in Los Angeles are a “distraction” from “Epstein,” by which they mean Elon’s claim that Trump is a child rapist. (“That’s not what he said!” You’re not smart, nerds.) It’s not working. First, the obvious: Invasion/replacement has been so successful that normal people’s lives are dominated by it. Every “But what about—!” gets interrupted by a Mexican stealing their phone. More importantly—daily black pill—what people want from Epstein™ (the story) is amnesty for our enemies: Our elite are against us because Jews tricked them into raping kids on film and… Read more »

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

Well said. And no one seems to wonder how many of the womyn and mestizos in the California National Guard and Marines Trump has sent into LA actually sympathize with the insurrectionists. Trump bit off more than he can chew by going into CA, when he could/should have focused on many other states. This ends badly, whether he capitulates (which I expect) or not.

rasqball
rasqball
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

Sportsball is systmically and THOROUGHLY phaque n’ gaye, and had been for some time…and that includes the collegiates AND the trannified ladies’ pastimes.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Mycale
3 days ago

That the perfect is the enemy of the good is an axiom few people, and none who rule sportsball, can grasp.

baffled goodwiller
baffled goodwiller
3 days ago

My thoughts on Universal Basic Income. Even if every human in the world had an equal share of income paid them without having to labor, there would still be strife, envy and resentment, because not all groups are equal in their desires. Blacks would use their payments for drugs, guns, fancy cars, clothes, tickets to sports events, and still, no matter how much they were paid, would loot, burn, rape and kill themselves and others, then whine and complain that they were still being oppressed-it’s never enough. Whites would collaborate and use their amassed or donated portions of funds to… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  baffled goodwiller
3 days ago

“Blacks would use their payments for drugs, guns, fancy cars, clothes, tickets to sports events…” Human nature of course…particular proclivities centered around race. Anyway, I’d say we already *have* UBI. 100 years ago, there was no welfare. Today it is everywhere in many forms. That I maintain *is* UBI. I for example get SSI, and no I get (actuarily) more than I paid in. That’s UBI. I get Medicare—that’s UBI. When I was younger, I went to public school free. That’s UBI. What folks want is more UBI. Money with no strings attached *and* their current welfare bene’s to boot.… Read more »

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Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

Indeed, UBI, like “reparations,” has been around for a long time, in many forms, by many names.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

Agreed, but you will never convince Boomers that Social Security and Medicare isn’t “their” money. It’s all their money, technically, and the feds take it all as a tax – as the Supremes ruled in their ‘wisdom.’ They all get more than they paid in and feel they deserve it because they ‘earned it.’

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  baffled goodwiller
3 days ago

Negroes won’t even tip. They’re dam’ sure not going to use any money to build a library or an animal shelter.

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
3 days ago

History is full of great ironies. It turns out that the terminal point of the Commies’ “long march through the institutions” is where the institutions themselves start collapsing. Consent and Legitimacy are ineffable; once undermined, forces get unleashed that are very hard to control. There’s no New York Stock Exchange symbol for Consent or Legitimacy. They don’t trade every day. But they’re more valuable than Amazon or Exxon. For whatever reason, Libertarians and Leftists don’t understand this.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Captain Willard
3 days ago

Libertarians and leftists suffer a combination of infantilism and fanaticism. They can’t understand consent and legitimacy matter more than their deranged beliefs because in their minds that is not possible. Reality is overwhelming theory and they will be the last to know

Epaminondas
Member
3 days ago

The saddest part of the collapse into materialism of college sports is to watch the fan base collapse into the void with it. Fans are like addicts who get an annual hit, except the dosage has now been raised…again.

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Marko
Marko
Reply to  Epaminondas
3 days ago

It’s only sports betting that’s keeping the leagues alive. And maybe teevee revenues.
Oldsters are watching teevee. Young people are betting.
Watching for the fun of it, or tradition, is collapsing.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Epaminondas
3 days ago

Addicts is right. Back in the 80s when very rich MLB and NFL players went on strike seemingly every other year, the media would interview fans who claimed univocally that they would never return to the ball parks and stadiums. Ha ha. Yeah right.

They’re hopeless junkies who never matured psychologically beyond the age of 16.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
3 days ago

I cut all emotional ties with my favorite NFL team when I was convinced they threw a game. (I’m still convinced they threw it). It was a clean break, surprising even myself. Never looked back. Never felt anything for them since. I couldn’t have guessed it would be so easy.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

It is a surprisingly easy for certain folk. I grew up a hardcore Dallas Cowboys fan. My dad used to entertain his buddies by having me recite the Cowboys’ two-deep when I was four years old. But, along about 1995, I got so sick of reading about this Cowboy or that being busted for this felony or that, and owner Jerry Jones excusing them in this way or that, that I told the Cowboys to fuck off and haven’t watched one of their games since. Abandonment of the NFL soon followed. And my Sundays have been much better in consequence.

Zulu Juliet
Zulu Juliet
3 days ago

All the evidence tells us that material prosperity, the key to the materialist worldview, is not the roots of a healthy society.”

I made a joke to a Serbian about life under Tito and the Commies. He was not amused and told me life was a lot better back then before globalism and the EU. He had a country and a community and a culture. He said it with irrefutable conviction.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Zulu Juliet
3 days ago

The one guy from that part of the world who I had a conversation about it with, I think he was from Kosovo, had nothing but praise for Tito. Which surprised me at the time, I was much younger, hadn’t crossed the great divide yet, and hadn’t expected that kind of praise for a “commie.”

Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton
3 days ago

Thankfully, I live in a rural part of the US that is still about 80% White. When the Covid lockdowns started people were rushing to the stores to stock up. 2 weeks in you could still get bread and toilet paper, but then waves of vans full of more diverse folk from larger cities (Detroit, Cleveland, some 6-7 hours away) started raiding our Wal-marts and grocery stores. The place was picked bare and would not be restocked for months. That was just 5 years ago, but bears remembering. Last summer I took a business trip with some colleagues to a… Read more »

Thomas Mcleod
Thomas Mcleod
3 days ago

“destruction of college sports where “reform” is about getting the money right”. I had a conversation with the old man this morning about the “threat” from the left to cancel the 2028 LA Olympics because…Trump / Hitler. The conversation was…” who cares, they’re all professional athletes anyway”. He had a coworker that competed in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics (javelin). An engineer during the week and track events on the weekend. Now that is interesting.

mmack
mmack
Reply to  Thomas Mcleod
3 days ago

My feelings are while I mightn’t like where college sports (football and basketball) are headed (I agree with others on this thread about the crassness of the gambling ads and paying students), let’s not be naive about why many “student” athletes are in school. They ain’t curing cancer, finding new sub-atomic particles, or becoming a surgeon. They are there to play sports and hopefully get recruited to a professional team. They’re making millions (heck, perhaps even billions) for the Ol’ Alma Mater, why not let them dip their beaks? Admit what you are and let’s get it over with. Give… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  mmack
3 days ago

You’re making the materialist argument, i.e. that it is filthy lucre uber alles. There was a time when loyalty to coach and teammates, desire for an education, love of school/fans/traditions, etc., and the thirst for winning championships, were legitimate factors among college players. Now it’s strictly sacks of gold straight down the line, and I abominate that mentality.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Thomas Mcleod
3 days ago

Quite an insightful thought from this gentleman. The Olympics is a farce. A commercial enterprise funded by the taxpayers for the benefit of a few. As I read, this “grift” is being recognized and most countries no longer contend to host the Olympics. So much so, the Olympic committee is running scared.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

It still won’t die. It serves the globalists’ purpose and facilitates spectacles they put on, as they did in London, to demonstrate clearly whom they serve, and then demand you believe what they say rather than your lying eyes.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

The plandemic showed us that the circuses must go on, no matter what

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

Ironically, the 1984 LA Olympics are regularly hailed for being one of the few profitable iterations of the Games.

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  Thomas Mcleod
3 days ago

I can see a disrupted Olympics as beneficial, actually.

“Who cares?”

The pigs for whom the spectacle is conducted, that’s who. The actual .02 percent, those folks, care a lot. It is more than entertainment for them; they let the rabble watch as a way to flex. Ozymandias in summer-friendly white shorts and shoes lets you look upon his performers, peasants! Interrupting their javelin-throwin’ minstrel show is to be encouraged.

Mr. Invisible
Mr. Invisible
3 days ago

Marx argued that oppression and inequality were the result of economic relations. It’s actually the means of production (the material implements of our time, our technology) that serve as the base, and social and cultural relations (oppression, inequality) are the superstructure built upon it. Social relations (social mores, religion, law, sexual attitudes) are the result of the dominant means of production of one’s time, and serve those means. To an extent, he was right. Look at the way that social relations have changed as a result of computers and now smartphones. Sexual relationships among young people revolve around Tinder and… Read more »

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Alzaebo
Alzaebo
3 days ago

Huh, that’s weird. Apparently riots and burning houses are going on in Ireland too, something to do with immigration and diversity. I guess materialism ended over there as well.

p.s., multiple events staged in Florida (and probably nationwide) for next weekend.
Organized, of course, by the Usual Suspects, but then you knew that already.

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Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
Reply to  Alzaebo
3 days ago

The Mexican government might have as much or more to do with this as the usual suspects

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Alzaebo
3 days ago

I called the sheriff of the next county over and the police in the city (30 miles away) where they’ve scheduled ‘festivities’ for Saturday. Neither seemed to have a clue nor a care. Never even seems to have occurred to them that outside ‘agitators’ and demonstrators may be brought in to block roads or wreak mayhem.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

3g4me-

They have far more important things to do, like monitoring their pension balances and real estate portfolio.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
3 days ago

In all honesty, I don’t think that’s the case where we now live. I just don’t think local officials have truly come to terms with how many out-of-staters have moved in and supplemented/replaced the locals in that small city, and all the typical leftist habits and beliefs they’ve brought with them. Yeah, I know plenty from CA/NY/IL may call themselves conservatives, but they are all utter cucks when it comes to race/genetics/culture. They’re all busy clearing forest to build golf-course communities, bringing in brown people to build their suburban-style mcmansions in the country, and trying to get locals to spend… Read more »

Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson
Reply to  3g4me
3 days ago

The white sorting disrupts the lives of locals to a degree that cannot be overemphasized. They almost always try to elbow their way into local affairs and politics; a popular bumper sticker in the South after the first wave read “I DON’T CARE HOW YOU DID IT UP NORTH.” In their own way, albeit with far less likely violence, the locusts often are just as destructive to the social fabric as the vibrants.

TomA
TomA
3 days ago

One of my dissident slogans is “the collapse is the cure.” I say this, not as a fan of doom, but because it’s the only feasible macro-phenomenon that can restart our ancestral immune response to societal disease. Civility is killing us in slow motion because it inhibits the culling that is necessary to rid our DNA of dysfunctional genes. It’s not possible to talk your way to DNA enhancement, and neither debate nor analysis has any influence on natural evolution.The culling is coming whether we like it or not.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  TomA
3 days ago

And long overdue.

Tired Citizen
Tired Citizen
Reply to  TomA
3 days ago

Like I always say. Wake me up when the “you know what starts”. As far as I’m
concerned, there is no other solution and there hasn’t been for a long time.

GenghisKhan
GenghisKhan
Reply to  TomA
3 days ago

I blame modern healthcare for keeping the worst people alive.

If the healthcare system collapses, a lot of the leeches would just die. The panicked reaction to Covid-19 really demonstrated how many people would not have existed in previous eras.

I hear white men are actively discriminated against in med school applications. Good, let people experience the vibrancy of diversity when it comes to the health. Basically, if you’re healthy, you’ll be fine as you won’t have to go to the hospital. If you’re unhealthy, oh well…

Tars Tarkas
Member
3 days ago

I read last week that a lot of the money in the BBB allocated for ICE is to give bonuses for existing ICE employees, not to hire more ICE agents or increase ICE’s deportation capacity.
This is clownworld and you cannot believe anything they say about how the bill is going to make more deportations happen faster.

eugene
eugene
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
3 days ago

Trump is deporting fewer people than Biden.

The focus on the closed southern border is interesting when you understand illegals come through airports, via student visas , as tourists etc

Then there’s the legal migrants who are going to be imported at record rates by Trump.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  thezman
3 days ago

But he’s not wrong on the numbers who come on various types of non-immigrant visas via air, and just never leave. Accounts for millions of them, and more every day. We have never had a system to track purported ‘visitors’ who actually leave and go home.

eugene
eugene
Reply to  thezman
3 days ago

I mean, you might be right about the virtue of government workers now that Trump is president but Trump’s numbers are not close to being good enough to substantively reverse the demographic reality.

If you look at the record of countries who successfully cleared out foreigners it was done through mass deportations and, yes, self-deportations but still a lot of forced deportations.Pakistan’s recent eviction of Afghanistanis is instructive.

I looked for the official stats for self-deportations and Fox News relates DHS numbers of 5,000 a month. Not good enough, not even close.

Jeffrey Zoar
Jeffrey Zoar
3 days ago

I’d like to be able to see more people waking up to the reality of the GR as a cause for hope, but instead I see it as evidence that the GR is so far along, basically a fait accompli at this point, that even idiots can no longer deny it. One can cling to the hope for mass deportations, but they needed to begin yesterday. 10 years ago. The demographic future of this land was decided with finality in the 2020 “election.” Which some of us did predict and say so at the time, but somehow it wasn’t a… Read more »

My Comment
My Comment
3 days ago

Libertarians just want lower taxes and to be able to smoke dope. Nothing else matters including beauty, community, or culture. Conservatives have been no better. They have the souls of accountants. The right is growing as conservatives become right wingers.

el_baboso
el_baboso
3 days ago

We win and get a more traditional culture back or a more traditional culture wins.

Either way, turbo capitalism goes away. In the second case, turbo capitalism is replaced by turbo favela.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
3 days ago

An excellent article. Bottom line, living in an overwhelmingly white nabe with no negroes is, for me, worth a 20-percent pay cut. Likewise, there may not be any amount of money that would compel me to live in a Hutu hood for a whole year. At the subsistence level, of course, materialism is prime. But as one ascends beyond subsistence, materialism matters less and culture/demographics/aesthetics matters more. And right now, almost everybody living in the West does so far above the subsistence level. In conjunction with this prosperity is demographic collapse, and that is why so many white people are… Read more »

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Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
3 days ago

“…20-percent pay cut…”

Most likely a one sided monetary equation. One has to consider/compute the reduced costs for living away from the “ferals”. Lower insurance, lower taxes, better government, better schools, etc. Your 20% will quickly disappear in real terms.

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Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

Yes. And while the lower insurance premiums and taxes would be welcome, it is the less quantifiable benefits–better schools, government, etc.–that are the key. Human existence has needs be evaluated holistically. The materialistic approach is astigmatic.

GenghisKhan
GenghisKhan
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
3 days ago

Dismantle the healthcare system.

The violence of the ferals becomes a smaller issue if they simply die from self-inflicted violence instead of being kept alive by the healthcare system.

I once saw an ER physican from South Chicago talk about how ennervated he was that most of his patients were young black men with gunshot wounds. Dude had zero self-awareness in regards to realizing he was keeping them alive, so they could go and cause more problems.

Dutchboy
Dutchboy
3 days ago

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Matthew 6:33

ray
ray
Reply to  Dutchboy
3 days ago

That is a fit motto for a real nation.

ray
ray
3 days ago

That is a fine essay. Understand exactly where you are. Where you were set down in the universe, and why. Our American disease of covetousness is not called ‘paterialism’ and there is a reason for that. The male is the spiritual pole; the female is the material pole. We are spiritual beings wearing material bodies. If you are male, you are immersed — par-boiled, as it were — in a MAterial world which, if you truly are a son of Father, you will find hostile, alien, false, and thoroughly feminine. It ain’t just Michael who’s a stranger in a strange… Read more »

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

I’ll say, “I read ZMAN!”

ray
ray
Reply to  fakeemail
3 days ago

Why not, joking aside? Why should the testimony here carry any less weight in heaven than that of a monk in his cave, or a pastor in his church? We are instructed Biblically to fight spiritual war with ‘our testimony’, along with the Blood of Christ and our fearlessness. ‘And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death’ (Revelation 12:11) Now that, Donald, is REAL winning. You fight a spiritual war with spiritual tools. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word… Read more »

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fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

Yes, you are quite correct. My personal history of being red-pilled was a baptismal like experience that changed my life, no doubt about it. My little personal part of the spiritual war.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

Anti-life as fuck, upvoted for upright and unapologetic honesty.

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G Lordon Giddy
G Lordon Giddy
3 days ago

Good essay.

Zfan
Zfan
Reply to  G Lordon Giddy
3 days ago

“Perhaps in the end, the last materialist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” — with a cherry on top!

Vizzini
Member
3 days ago

Good essay, but it doesn’t address one important factor: the Devil exists.

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
3 days ago

Materialism, yes, but also idealism. Insanity is just as much a problem as slobbery. We need the will. Balance things out. Cosmic RPS, not lurching back and forth.

There’s no argument for things like tradition without acknowledging that they represent some fundamental principle. Otherwise they’re superstition or backwards. That’s where the work needs to be imo.

Tim Gilley
Tim Gilley
2 days ago

I may have heard this from Zee… The transactionalist prioritizes the transaction, $$, above all else. A special condition of materialism.

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Major Hoople
Major Hoople
Member
3 days ago

Listened to a bit of the X space discussion and have the same reaction as last several times: Wish the host would not try to dominate the discussion so much and would let a conversation develop between the guests.

Ben the Layabout
Ben the Layabout
3 days ago

Marx, Lenin et al were not entirely wrong. Severian who post(ed) here is an historian. By his account (I hope I am not misquoting him), Marxism is substantially correct about the problems but horribly wrong in proposed solutions. An example I would assume would be something like: certainly in the 19th century the robber baron industrialist that owned the widget factory paid his laborers the least he could get away with, probably barely enough to keep them alive. Come the revolution, the Evil Capitalist certainly lost all his property and very likely his freedom and his life. The former widget… Read more »

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Ben the Layabout
3 days ago

Evil greedy capitalists and totalitarian dictators aside for the moment, the fundamental problem with Marxism as adopted by the Soviets was “equalitarianism” with a slight variation from today’s “equitists” (is that a word?). The Soviet’s praised/rewarded the worker/laborer above all others in their society. This created all sorts of absurd renumeration structures—such as a bulldozer operator receiving the same wages as a neurosurgeon. No modern society can thrive without acknowledging that some in the labor force are more important than others. Such put a drag or cap on Soviet technological progress and produced a society always playing catch up with… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Compsci
3 days ago

For all of communism’s allegedly “scientific” approach to economics, its command economies were fundamentally irrational–based upon emotion and sentiment rather than fact and empiricism–and that’s why they were unable to compete with the capitalist models.

GenghisKhan
GenghisKhan
Reply to  Ben the Layabout
3 days ago

The problem dealing with the inequality between the capitalist and the laborer is that there have often been too many people in the labor class. It is why Elon Musk is freaking out about fertility rates right now. Fewer people everywhere means fewer people in the labor force, which means wages have to go up.

The Plague in Europe demonstrated this. As long as labor keeps overproducing its own supply, capital will keep being able to pay a pittance to labor. Unions mimick the right solution (limitation of supply of labor) artificially.

Redpill Boomer
Redpill Boomer
3 days ago

Are you saying that all that spending in the BBB is necessary and good? It’s the waste that has the libertarians up in arms and rightfully so. We need those DOGE cuts!

Mr. Generic
Mr. Generic
Reply to  Redpill Boomer
3 days ago

Yes. It is imperative we leave a balanced budget behind for the Indians, Somalis, and Squatamalans that replace us. The Founding Fathers would be proud of our fine stewardship.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Redpill Boomer
2 days ago

Why are you defending the BBB? Does it do anything about immigration? If not, there is no reason to defend it.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

This is the solution to the migrant problem

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253421

You guys whinge on and on about how “materialism” is bad and about regulating peoples’ social lives when the real solution is simple and can be implemented within a month if Trump had balls.

We don’t have to throw out freedom and materialism. All we have to do is to enforce 8 USC 1324 and 1326.

CT Ginger
CT Ginger
3 days ago

Both assume that once the economics are right, paradise must naturally follow.” Sorry but that is pretty much completely wrong and, as a main strut of your central premise, your argument fails. No libertarian I ever knew expects paradise on earth. We rightly and happily will settle for simply a cessation of the constant trampling on our natural rights. That’s enough to expect from those around us, I need no paradise.

Mr. Invisible
Mr. Invisible
Reply to  CT Ginger
3 days ago

I think that expecting such a thing counts as fantastical, paradisaical thinking. You can’t “settle” for a cessation of other people trampling on your rights unless you are prepared to fight for them, not argue at Libertarian conventions about them. It’s not a college classroom out there. Life is war, not a textbook where you point out to the barbarian, “hey, look at what Rothbard wrote here, doesn’t it make sense to you?”

fakeemail
fakeemail
Reply to  Mr. Invisible
3 days ago

So this. Life is defined by CONSTANT struggle and conflict in any situation or milieu.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  fakeemail
3 days ago

Not just struggle but suffering. To love is to suffer. To not love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To live is to suffer. It is the lot of humanity. You’ve just got to take the bad with the good and make the best of it all.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Mr. Invisible
3 days ago

Oh! You think we libertarians are too pussy to defend ourselves. Do you really want to test this proposition?

ray
ray
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

Yes.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

Heh. I gotta admire Ray’s pugnacity.

Mycale
Mycale
Reply to  CT Ginger
3 days ago

Like Pete Quinones frequently says, “just end the state bro”

The power exists, someone will use it, the question is are they your friend or are they your enemy.

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Casimir
Casimir
Reply to  CT Ginger
3 days ago

“We rightly and happily will settle for simply a cessation of the constant trampling on our natural rights”

You pussies won’t do a damn thing. You will continue to be trampled and deservedly so. What’s a natural right? Do you think those rights exist outside of White Civilization? Maybe if you complain more you’ll get your rights back. At first I didn’t understand Z Man’s intense loathing of libertarians…now I’m right there with him. You’re nothing but a bunch of nebbish dolts, completely brainwashed and useless. The NAP is revoked now, what are you cowards going to hide behind instead?

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Casimir
3 days ago

Hey now, Casimir, no reason to hold back. Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

GenghisKhan
GenghisKhan
Reply to  CT Ginger
3 days ago

There are no such things as natural rights.

You got human rights, which are a social construct.
You got societal responsibilities, which are a social construct.
You got natural rewards, which in your case is most likely dying from weakness.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

Rand Paul is right about the bill. The national debt is the biggest problem we face, plain and simple. The demographic issue is nothing more than effective enforcement of immigration law: 8 USC 1324. The reason why we have declining health even though we have material prosperity is due to the medical holocaust. RFK Jr. is tackling this one. Enforcement of 15 USC Chapter 1 would drop medical costs 80% within a matter of months. It would also help end the medical holocaust because it would put an end to a lot of the bogus treatments that do not work.… Read more »

Bitter reactionary
Bitter reactionary
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

The debt is a trivial concern compared to the demographic disaster, the horror of which is approaching Lovecraftian levels. Once the genetic stock is destroyed it can’t recover for thousands, perhaps 10s of thousands, of years. Life extension won’t look so great when you’ll be spending the next 500 years cheek-by-jowel with Somalis and Hatians and sundry other… people. Everyone worries about a replay of the Weimar hyperinflation, but that event in no way resembles our current situation here. But for sake of argument let’s say it would be the same. So what? The disaster cleared the way to destroy… Read more »

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Bitter reactionary
3 days ago

I just said that I am not open-borders. I also said the most effective way to end the migration problem is enforcement of 8 USC 1324, and it can be done administratively. No act of congress needed.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324

What part of what I said before do you not get?

Bitter Reactionary
Bitter Reactionary
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
2 days ago

I don’t think I accused you of being for open-borders. Your comment said the budget problem is indisputably the biggest issue. I disagree. I think it is less serious than the immivasion. I think the right has been both exaggerating the severity of the debt problem and misunderstanding its systemic causes. MMT is abused to justify a lot of bad behavior, but the mechanics of money’s creation, destruction, and use are reasonably described by that school of thought. The curse of ‘reserve currency’status compounds the complexity of the problem. You may be quite right about “enforcement of 8 USC 1324″… Read more »

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Bitter reactionary
3 days ago

I’m with you guys on the immigration issue. What the hell else do you want from me?

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

I looked up both guys referenced in here. Charly Kirk is good. Charly Kirk is essentially libertarian in my book. The only policy differences is immigration and abortion. I agree with him on the immigration issue but disagree with him on abortion (I’m pro-choice). Matt Walsh is very good at taking on the woke madness. I’ve come to appreciate him on this. But he seems to have this obsession with the notion that everyone should get married and have kids. This is a non-sense. Plenty of people choose not to have kids and live perfectly fulfilling lives. It should be… Read more »

Casimir
Casimir
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

“The reality is people like to get laid and don’t want to have kids”

Yes, accept the tenets of sexual liberation and anti-natalism, bestowed on us by our greatest enemy who wants us wiped off the planet. Just accept all the culture destroying rot of the last century. There’s nothing we can do, it’s just reality now! Libertarians will be first against the wall.

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Casimir
3 days ago

You really need to give up your obsession with other people’s private acts. Its not good for your mental health.

Casimir
Casimir
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

Wow, you really got me with that limp-wristed, feminine retort which only tangentially addresses my issue. Not surprising, that same enemy gave you the horrible ideologies of libertarianism and individualism that you seem so intent on defending. And the feigned concern for my mental health…I’d bet you go to therapy!

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Casimir
3 days ago

Hahaha!

Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  Casimir
2 days ago

We’re sick of the leftist authoritarianism. What we’re seeing right now is the rejection of it. What on Earth makes you think we’re about to put up with rightwing authoritarianism?

ray
ray
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
3 days ago

‘(I’m pro-choice)’

Then you are on the side of the enemies of God and country. You and yours are the excuse our demonic rulers are ‘replacing’ us with invaders. Your women are all ‘pro-choice’.

And I especially loathe how you people make torturing and murdering kids in the womb a ‘positive’ event. With your fembot ‘pro-choice’ bullshit, like you’re heroes or something.

Get lost, lady.

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Abelard Lindsey
Abelard Lindsey
Reply to  ray
3 days ago

To be honest, other than immigration, I’m not sure you guys have that much to worry about. As i said before, enforcement of 8 USC 1324 (if Trump had the balls to do it) would resolve the illegal immigration issue in a matter of MONTHS. This article ought to make your day. I certainly found it reassuring: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-class-of-2026 It suggests that technology and free markets (that pesky thing you don’t like) ought to end a lot of the destructive institutions in our society through natural attrition. Then you guys can create your own institutions and we can create ours to… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
2 days ago

I’m sorry, Abelard, but hitting upvote gives a downvote on several of your comments

Last edited 2 days ago by Alzaebo
ray
ray
Reply to  Alzaebo
2 days ago

Yeah the vote thing can be a little glitchy.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Abelard Lindsey
2 days ago

Thank you for this gem. Such rich history!
I’d love to see what the Zman makes of such fine work.

The Class of 2026
AI is doing to the universities what Gutenberg did to the monasteries
Our own university system is on the cusp of a similar collapse.