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The opportunists do a lot of damage. People think the time (and money) invested into them will generate political results. People like James Lindsay prevent rightward movement by holding up the long dead corpse of classical liberalism, for one example. (Now I'm inspired to make a meme.)

The Q thing was weird. I couldn't buy into it because it felt so fake. A lot of intelligent people were sucked into it. I don't even want to criticize the believers harshly. They did dig up a lot of dirt, but connecting dots is a messy process for the best investigators.

The 'Red Wave' was obviously the GOP playing make-believe. I was skeptical at the time, but it really was a compelling narrative. Thing is, there really should have been a red wave. There was no reason for Republicans to lose any race that mattered during midterms. Except one. They never intended to win, and they advance messaged to voters "WE TRIED OUR BEST GUYS". No mercy whatsoever to the GOP elite, especially the lizards in DC.

I've already prepared for the collapse of our economy and social structure.

We've been waiting for a few generations now. I recently came to believe that they can, through some techniques I don't know of, keep the economy on life support for an unnaturally long time. People assume that their taxes pay for everything USGov does. It ain't so. Your taxes aren't even enough to pay the interest on the debt by now.

To be clear, I strongly approve of any White man preparing for economic/social turbulence. It just might be a mistake to assume it will happen in your own lifetime. My father though it would come in the 1980s, having seen the persecution of Nixon and devastation of Carter. Then Regan made it seem like everything was getting fixed up, and Clinton continued the stage magic.

We've been doing politics wrong, because we haven't been thinking about it correctly. There's a reason I call myself rightist now, It was necessary for me to drop liberal, conservative, and libertarian. I think there's something that all these traditions have in common, but I'm reluctant to name it. Seems very likely that most people have a different ... experience.

The opportunists do a lot of damage. People think the time (and money) invested into them will generate political results. People like James Lindsay prevent rightward movement by holding up the long dead corpse of classical liberalism, for one example. (Now I'm inspired to make a meme.) The Q thing was weird. I couldn't buy into it because it felt so fake. A lot of intelligent people were sucked into it. I don't even want to criticize the believers harshly. They did dig up a lot of dirt, but connecting dots is a messy process for the best investigators. The 'Red Wave' was obviously the GOP playing make-believe. I was skeptical at the time, but it really was a compelling narrative. Thing is, there really should have been a red wave. There was no reason for Republicans to lose any race that mattered during midterms. Except one. They never intended to win, and they advance messaged to voters "WE TRIED OUR BEST GUYS". No mercy whatsoever to the GOP elite, especially the lizards in DC. > I've already prepared for the collapse of our economy and social structure. We've been waiting for a few generations now. I recently came to believe that they can, through some techniques I don't know of, keep the economy on life support for an unnaturally long time. People assume that their taxes pay for everything USGov does. It ain't so. Your taxes aren't even enough to pay the interest on the debt by now. To be clear, I strongly approve of any White man preparing for economic/social turbulence. It just might be a mistake to assume it will happen in your own lifetime. My father though it would come in the 1980s, having seen the persecution of Nixon and devastation of Carter. Then Regan made it seem like everything was getting fixed up, and Clinton continued the stage magic. We've been doing politics wrong, because we haven't been thinking about it correctly. There's a reason I call myself rightist now, It was necessary for me to drop liberal, conservative, and libertarian. I think there's something that all these traditions have in common, but I'm reluctant to name it. Seems very likely that most people have a different ... experience.

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