Lords and Peasants

This is why Peter Thiel hates competition. Like many techbros, he wants to be a feudal lord. Democracy is of course the mortal enemy of both feudalists and capitalists because it gives people the power to limit the wealth and power of individuals so they cannot make everyone their serfs.

Comments On Frum

Every day America is shredded a little more and will take far more to rebuild than to tear down…at some point the cancer will end any hope of a return to any form of functioning democracy.

@Mulchavelli
3 days ago
DOGE did achieve their goals just not their stated goals. The goal was to steal all of our data for monetary gain and to destroy people’s lives, and they were successful at that.

@2639tjw
3 days ago
Modern conservatism (free trade, etc.) had one fatal flaw and that was the mythology of trickle down economics. Like somehow “greed is good” was going to produce anything other than greed. Well .. it didn’t.

@goodun2974
3 days ago
Conservatism actively worked against the idea of a “commons”; it’s “every man for himself”, except with certain groups and classes being favored.

@SailorGerry
3 days ago
Here’s what the economist John Kenneth Galbraith (served as one JFK’s economic advisors) said about ‘trickle-down theory’ (aka ‘Reaganomics’):”If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to feed the sparrows”.

@goodun2974
3 days ago
​ @SailorGerry , also from JKG: “the modern conservative is engaged in man’s oldest exercise in moral philosophy, that is, a moral excuse for selfishness”. And from Frank Wilhoit: “conservatism consists of but one abiding principle: there must be an ingroup whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside an outgroup whom the law binds but does not protect “.

@jhbange
3 days ago (edited)
Indeed, trickle down was already based on a falsehood, that the rich spending money puts money in the pockets of middle and lower income people. But on top of that, it’s based on a much larger misconception, that perpetual economic growth is achievable. The notion is a throwback to a colonial-era mindset that was at the time accurate: you can grow the economic pie by expanding into new unexplored territories. We do not have any unexplored territories in the world anymore. The resource pie is FACTUALLY finite. Economics is, at this point, largely a zero-sum game. Shifting assets to the ultra wealthy means less for everyone else, and this is blatantly obvious. They use this money to “invest” in things like real estate, buying housing and turning it into rental property. This is LITERALLY rent-seeking behavior, which is universally understood to be a purely extractive activity by an unnecessary middleman that makes the world that much worse.

@gking407
1 day ago (edited)
@delta5297 Edmund Burke in the late 1700s got frightened and alarmed when French commoners dared to revolt against their morbidly wealthy queen Marie Antoinette while they were starving. Instead of siding with the citizens Burke decided they were all idiots who needed to know their place. Hence the roots of Conservatism were established.

A Fundamental Disconnection

Billionaires are threat to humanity and must be taxed and regulated into oblivion or we have no future. “Rich”, as in owning a house or two and cars and maybe a boat or a plane is fine. Super-rich is demonic. The central question in democracy is how much of the money an individual makes do we allow them to keep so they do not destroy democracy. The central fact of democracy is the only reason anyone owns anything is because the rest of us let them. The central purpose of democracy is to limit individual power to protect the collective.

They Are So Happy Now

8 years ago in Charlottesville Unite the Right brought white supremacy into the national spotlight. Yesterday an Afghan Refugee shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington D.C. Separating the rhetoric from the reality and tracking the actual threat is not going to happen. The real threat is white supremacists infiltrating our own government.

As I have said several times, Trump could live to 90 like Castro and hold on to power until his last breath. Nothing of America will be left.

Regarding Jan 6: “I had a failure of imagination back then, but my imagination is working fine now, and I am not going to make the same mistake.”

The Munich Parallel

We are now on the side of Russia. China is watching. In 1938 we were isolationist and now in 2025 we are on the wrong side. We failed as a democracy on election night and we are failing to stop a repeat of fascism that will likely kill billions instead of the millions of World War Two.

Complicated Personal Behavior (with a 14 year old)

Fascism….sexual exploitation….oligarchy. We do what we have done for millennia. That world of ghosts still governs ours. Admit the truth and help change this world into something better or your life is a waste.

They Ate Everything

8:45 Joy nails it. Watch this. Understand. If We the People do not get it….the Fascists are going to kill billions. It is actually worse than Joy says at 21:30. They want a white planet with all non-whites, Jews, progressives, and useless eaters exterminated, leaving under a billion whites to breed their best. Their ultimate solution to all problems on Earth, and their version of the second coming. And they will try and murder seven and a half billion people to make it happen. Believe it.