Posts tagged "politics"
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Accelerationist Ambivalence
Listening to Steve Bannon coping with the increasing ineptitude of the Trump Regime is fun, but I actually like Steve Bannon. I like his approach. He’s a tactician. He knows his Sun Tzu. Moreso, I like that he’s an Accelerationist. It’s easy to shout ‘burn down the old temples’. As much as I cheer on people like Bannon, I also realize that there are problems with Accelerationism. It’s complicated. We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. Let me explain.
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Epstein and Disinformation
The 'current thing' is the Epstein cover-up. President Trump seemed swampy by saying recently that there was nothing more of interest. It was apparently all just about some "creep" and his creepy fetish. For the Populist champion, this was about as unpopulist as one could get. Regardless of whether Trump is a Populist or not (I believe he's a Neoliberal), being unpopulist at this stage of history is extremely unpopular. Trump and his relevant staff of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have been pilloried by the public and they deserve it in my opinion. However, we live in a time of confusion and disinformation. It's hard to know the probably-true from the almost-certainly-false. Governments put out false or irrelevant information to fog up the windows. Other nefarious actors add their own bad air. Being 'informed' is not enough. I want to outline my thought process. I want to show how I steer a path to reasonable conclusions.
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Feeding The Dragon With Laws
If I say the word ‘empire’, what do you picture? Maybe it’s some Roman soldiers marching along a muddy road, looking strangely out of place in their Mediterranean mini-skirts. Maybe it’s a couple of ‘Ruperts'1 wearing those beige, nob-end helmets, sipping G&Ts in a tent. Maybe it’s an American aircraft carrier with a fighter-jet taking off. What would be in the minds of those agents of empire? "Just doing my job." The banality of evil. Imperialism makes compliance seem normal. That's not the worst of it. It also has a few ways to use the non-compliers' tactics against them. I want to show you a certain way that Lefties in particular boost the strength of empires.
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The Coming Crypto Crisis Opportunity
I want to get ahead of this one. I suspect a plan is being rolled out. A recent article in the Financial Times alerted me to it. The plan is to coordinate media to blame crypto for the next big crash. I also think a big crash is closer than we think.
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Trick For Finding Pressure Points
On the battlefield of politics, there are some flags worth fighting over; taxation, for example. Most flags we toil so hard to gain, however, are fake. I mean that our rulers bastardize certain issues and use them to divide us. I’ve found an easy way to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
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Why I write A Blog
I remember one time, one early evening, I happened to be looking at my deck when a big longhorn beetle landed and rolled on its back. I set it right, but it immediately unset itself. Lying there, walking to nowhere, it was as if whatever tiny soul it had was reliving the thing that made it feel most free. An hour later, its legs were now moving in slow motion. Death was close. I went away for a while, and when I came back, the first ants had appeared. Scavenger bitches! It wasn’t dead yet!1 Half an hour later (or so), I checked again and there was a swarm of ants trying to move the corpse. When I went to bed they were still working. The next morning there was nothing there. A writer should have a question that has stalked him like Death his whole life.
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