In almost all situations in which you are offered the choice between money and power, you should choose money.
This is only because in most cases the power is illusory, and in most of the rest it is just plain evil. But—
History is made of the exceptions: the difference between Caesar and Crassus.
Caesar knew that all power is from God. Crassus invaded Babylon to make money
No one can look at our country with a straight face and say, here is a city on a hill, whose light shall not be hid, which hath chosen God over Mammon.
No, they’d get to “hath” and break out laughing
Let it not be said that America needed a Caesar and God sent us a Crassus. Okay, let it be said. Actually he sent not one Crassus, but a score.
When just one Caesar would do. But did we deserve one lol
This platform could easily have been turned into the collective brain of the next century. That’s what managing it for power would have meant.
Manage it for money, and you get AI slop pornbots and pictures of Eve Jobs
Ironically, power is always the best way to make money. In the long run. Easier to turn swords into gold than gold into swords. But you gotta be patient.
Crassus wasn’t. He went east for gold. He got it. The Persians got him, melted a pitcher and poured it down his throat
Prosecuting every last American Crassus will be top of the agenda as soon as the Democrats get the White House back. They’ll put their best people on it.
A vast army of second-raters will be trying everyone who served in or even advised the Trump admin
And since Crassus gonna Crassus, they’ll be paying their own legal bills. Ask Doug Mackey how that went.
And there was only one of him. Next time, there will be hundreds.
We know how to scale money. They know how to scale power
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Using nonlethal munitions to brawl with these people is EXACTLY what they want. It will make their numbers grow week after week. It will make their dicks, for those possessing that organ, hard as tire irons.
Here’s why they’re not being rounded up & processed: cowardice. Thread
If you arrest and don’t prosecute, that’s another lose.
They emerge grinning. They’re martyrs, like Jesus, but if Pilate had handed down a really stiff sentence like 30 days of probation and a 1000 shekel fine (instantly paid by some rich disciple)
If you arrest and do prosecute, great! You could win. In theory. In practice, you’re going to lose, and lose bigly.
Let’s say you want to throw them in a J6 oubliette, solitary confinement for years without trial on the heinous charge of Aggravated First Degree Trespassing. Ok
It is so difficult to process the difference in orders of magnitude between the power of the left and the “power” of the right, even in office, that the pinpricks of the right are easy to paint as gigantic and unprecedented.
That’s why big things are easier than small things
You simply can’t compare “Trump made a comment about a comedian who put a straight-faced lie about murder on the air” to “the Biden administration ordered the systemic censorship of social media.”
If we ramped our power up 100x, anyone could see that theirs was still 10x greater
The right is still fatally in love with its just world fallacy, its nudges, its tipping points. Just gotta get America back on track! Another speech will do it! A big rally in a stadium! Everyone feels so good! We forgive our enemies! Jesus
Oh, we’re doing something. We’re getting a bunch of dickwads fired.
That’s great, especially when it lets us point out “cancel culture” was treating any evidence of dissent as if it was a sociopathic celebration of murder.
But it’s still a fundamentally rhetorical act
Though an action, it is still in the sandbox of conversation. And it displays a rowdy instinct for personalization that can have only one source. In America, the fundamentally leftist nation, all we can do is inverse Alinskyism.
Everyone should read Bryan Burroughs’ Days of Rage and remind themselves that 50 years ago, in America, hippies were setting off like a bomb a day.
This didn’t end because the hippies lost. It didn’t end because they mellowed out. It ended because they won
Our universities became hippie universities. Our kindergartens became hippie kindergartens. Our government became a hippie government and even learned to wage hippie war. Which involves a lot of JAG hippie commissars and doesn’t work very well.
Woke is just John Lennon hippieism
Violence is the root of all legitimate power. While the deepest root of power in 2025 is 1945, the “mostly nonviolent” 1960s cement and reinforce this legacy.
This is why Bill Ayers, Barack Obama’s (apparent) mentor, had “no regrets for a love of explosives” on 9/11/2001
The Institute for Effective Democracy (IED) is a new nonprofit which builds open-source software that helps voters take back control of their governments.
This app, “Ulysses,” (after President Grant) could in theory be used anywhere in the world. Its first use case is the US
How can we make democracy more effective?
Democracy meqns the voters control the government. The more power the voters have, the more democratic the country.
But the voters don’t have infinite energy. The more efficiently we use their energy, the more effective our democracy
But the US is an indirect democracy. The voters don’t control the government at all. They elect representatives.
So there are two links in the power chain. A: how much do the voters control their representatives? B: how much do their representatives control the government?
What you are really asking the anon right to do is “read the room,” certainly always a professional necessity in any patrolled space. The admin is a patrolled space, and it has to be.
But as they say: you can read the room, or you can lead the room
This is the second time we’ve seen the anon right really move the creaky old needle of the “national conversation.”
The first time was Haitians eating cats, and it just might have won the election