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Jul 18

Something I've noticed, publicly traded companies will sometimes paint themselves into a corner for a few years, padding their numbers to tread water at a longer term cost.

Then the CEO will parachute out, they'll appoint a female CEO. They'll say it's historic and diverse and evidence that the company is "forward thinking" or something.

Then she'll spin for a few quarters, not really changing or accomplishing anything. Gets defensive when problems are brought to her, almost completely preoccupied with making herself feel like some in-charge girlboss for her brief moment in the sun.

Then it'll all come crashing down, the earnings reports will be absolute ass, the stock price will dip badly enough to be worth articles and mentions on financial websites. Anyone trying to get accountability from the new CEO gets called a sexist, because it isn't her fault.

And it really isn't her fault, it's a series of bad decisions that she was chosen to be the face of after the fact. What is her fault is a lack of competence or understanding to actually do anything about the problems. But she can't say that, so everyone mad about it is a sexist instead.

It diffuses and disperses the blame, she'll get parachuted out at a less expensive rate than the standard, but she'll take it because it's not like she ever belonged in that chair anyway. The ego of the board for their bad decisions gets preserved, and some new dude will be found to clean up the mess the hard way.

Citi, Yahoo, Reddit, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, and so many more. It's such a pattern that over the years I really perk up and notice it.

Nobody wants to be confronted with blame for failure so they use some woman as a shield and call detractors sexist.

They'll put Kamala in, Biden will step down. They'll say "Don't believe your lying eyes, this is historic! The first female president, and she's brown!" and they will shuffle her off into a closet somewhere for a few months while she signs off on decisions made by apparatchiks.

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@Aristos_Revenge

Jul 17

"Imagine if the roles were reversed"

The left imposed a punitive social regime over the last 20 years in particular, because it works. Just one of their punitive enforcers in your workplace makes the entire organization turn into a constrained environment, where they can say whatever they want, and everyone not on their side cannot. It doesn't have to be a manager, it could be the janitor, and HR laws almost always ensure you've got at least one of these people bumping around like a subtle cultural commissariat.

Punitive systems work. They only begin to fail when they reach a certain degree of irrationality, or when juxtaposed with a similarly empowered system that is more rational than the old one. They don't have to actually like the system or its rules, it is the irrationality that matters.

Being canceled or tut tutted at for pointing out basic realities is irrational. Time has made this system more irrational to the point where expecting people to show up to work on time is racist, stopping crime is racist, being a nationalist flag waver for countries you don't belong to is encouraged if it fits the foreign policy platform of the DC Consensus, but is absolutely verboten if it's your own nation. Statues of historical figures that built societies and institutions are cast down in favor of lionized junkies, criminals, and activists who never built anything. Criticizing this is also punished, and is also irrational.

If I had to argue what *one thing* unites everyone on the right, it is the anxiety and disgust brought on by this irrational punitive system. We *should* be united on the subject of replacing it with a punitive system that is similarly punitive, but utterly rational, and in our favor, not theirs.

Because the MKULTRA tier faction of Current Thing psychosis respecters have created an existential conflict where the loser suffers Reconstruction 2.0. We didn't choose those terms, they did that for us, but we need to be willing to actually win, and that means implementing a rational social standard that has punitive boundaries, albeit one that is actually rational and predictable so it can be willingly avoided.

And it is not irrational to apply this to the lowest rungs of society, to include shitlib old ladies at home depot. In fact, I would argue it *must* apply to them, because the scale of our society is too large to wade through it moderating who is important enough to deserve punishment. Going after apparatchiks and pundits and people in important positions is surgical, tactical work in winning this.

Establishing boundaries and constraints on behavior at the broad spectrum level is strategic. Establishing rational boundaries on behavior that are punitive in nature towards this cancerous psychological frame that infests our society is arguably one of the *most* important goals for the right. It is the definition of "winning" because every society has some form of punitive constraints, and whoever chooses the terms of that system rules that society.

We need to be the ones to do it, because we know what the other side has in store for us if we lack the will to do so, because they don't.

Everything inside the boundaries of the punitive system that rules society is effectively "the overton window" and we need to control what that is, or else people who want you dead will do it for you. This should be obvious by now, to everyone.

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@Aristos_Revenge

Jul 9

So the power is back up after Hurricane Beryl punched our ticket here in Houston. As always, like with the 3 day freeze etc, I'll do a post mortem of social observations in a mass power outage situation and the gear that was the best for quality of life stuff: 🧵

The social aspects of power outages are very fascinating if you've got the presence of mind to pay attention. Watching American society adapt to no internet or media. There are stages of cope that at this point, I can confidently measure.

The first few hours, most people stay in their homes in a state of puzzlement, thinking "maybe it'll come back up soon". They eventually decide that isn't the case, and the unprepared will try to hit any stores that might still be open for the essentials.

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@Aristos_Revenge

Jul 8

I'm surprised I've never seen the prepper circuit give the sage advice of "Airbnb is how you shop for homes you know are vacant that aren't registered in your name" in case of shtf.

Hell, go stay in one for a weekend and you'll know where they leave the keys.

The boomer yuppie who rents out that nice lakeside cabin probably never lives there themselves and isn't even close, but you could always use property records to figure out who the owner is and see where their primary residence in. Good candidate is an out of state owner.

(I meant boomer/yuppie, not boomer yuppie)

But a lot of these sight unseen rentals have the keys located on site under a flower pot or welcome mat or some other obvious spot. Can rent it for a night and find out if you have to..

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@Aristos_Revenge

Jun 28

-Biden craters debate
-DNC not in lockstep denial for once
-Chevron deference overturned
-DOJ loses case against J6ers on a key charge
-Trump picking his VP today
-Sobe in glass bottles coming back

WAGMI

That last one actually isn't true yet but if we think it dream it do it maybe it can be true once again

Oh and Assange is being freed

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@Aristos_Revenge

Jun 18

This is why H1B's need to go too. My Costco was built a few years ago, and the first year or two it was all very obviously people nearby like myself. Now it's all "high caste" immigrants and feels like the UN.

Memorial City Mall in Houston and the Houston Premium Outlets are almost entirely foreigners shopping for designer brands. I do not like being the only white guy in an upscale business in my country.

I live in a nice suburb that is mostly white and conservative with good schools and I did that on purpose, but I feel as if venturing more than 2 or 3 miles away to any major business instantly puts me in the minority, and I am nowhere near the urban core of the city. I'm on the outskirts. Probably gonna move this year.

I know that there are a ton of people who feel this way and feel either scared to talk about it or like its rude, but we shouldn't feel like minorities in our own country. It is perfectly ok to feel anger/annoyance/anxiety over this, even when the foreigners present are law abiding.

And you can imagine if this happened in any non-white nation, if it was suddenly full of weird mystery meat people that didn't have any link to the people or the culture or the land and the locals were suddenly outnumbered, that they would be alarmed and angry.

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