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Dec 13 7 tweets 2 min read
Women can't be witchers for the same reason they can't be space marines and no retcon of this is to be accepted There is that underlying subversive "vibe" that shows a certain degree of intent from the writers in the trailer. They show you.

Ciri being a witcher is a disregard for canon in the name of having a female protagonist. But the plot of the trailer itself gives it away, it's meant to send a retarded message of "women are to be sacrificed by men" in a perversion of the old folk tale of the princess being sacrificed to the dragon, and the fact that when Ciri kills the monster she comes back to find the villagers killed the girl anyway because by damn they're gonna sacrifice that woman whether it makes sense or not, shows that somewhere in CD Projekt is a wine aunt or hateful uggo troon who is making key story decisions.
Dec 9 15 tweets 4 min read
Amazon review of Industrial Society and its future, written by the alleged United Healthcare CEO shooter Image His account on here is @PepMangione Image
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Dec 3 6 tweets 5 min read
I think such things are real, but I don't think they have anything to do with them rising to power. They rise to power because of cabal theory: (Bit of a long post here, but hopefully of interest)

Normies don't network, not really, not with the enthusiasm of a cabal. People form powerful networks when they have something in common. Engaging in the taboo leads to secretive groups of people with a common interest, the more taboo, the more exclusive the cabal.

Normal people and bonds of social adjacency cast too wide a net. You can't extend a positive bias with anywhere near enough focus to your ethnos/nationality/geography/faith to move the needle easily in the direction of a chosen characteristic.

An innocent group of hobbyists can be a cabal of sorts, people who are friends lend each other mutual aid/network. But benign things like hobbies don't lend themselves to the type of thinking that makes for a cabal most of the time. Lifestyles do, the taboo or illegal does most of all, because it's an interest in something that can't be shared with the vast majority of people. It is exclusive.

This is why you have gay mafias taking over institutions and corporations while your local HAM radio club is just a bunch of dudes. A group surrounding a hobby usually stays limited to merely a focus on the hobby at hand. They talk about radios, and adjacent topics, then go back to their lives.

A cabal of people with an interest in something that involves the political implies a need or desire for power to advance it. Your local neighborhood of sodomites gossips together, hangs out together, gets each other jobs and promotions.

But more than anything, the type of thinking that the well-off engage in creates them. There is a different mode of thinking to the business owner or the wealthy investor or salesman compared to the wagie on a salary. For the former, time is money. People in this strata of life have a propensity to not waste their time on relationships that don't advance their goals or career, because they have a large incentive to use their time to make more money.

So the country club of well-off men talk shop and network to advance each others goals. That's a cabal too. But the group of wealthy people with a taboo interest they can't talk about with most of the population advances the most.

Secrecy and exclusivity is baked in because of the taboo. So when powerful people with a lifestyle/taboo extend a bias towards other people in the same category, those lesser people become powerful too because of the preference. The sweet spot for a cabal is the social scale larger than friendship, but smaller than ethnicity/nationality/geography.

Lets take the California National Guard for example, when I was in, the leadership core was largely composed of the same extended group of swingers. This is network of military officers gave the extended swinger network preferential treatment due to social proximity, and eventually filled up the ranks.

Then a long chain of scandals and retirements weakened the power of that group, and now it's an extended network of homosexuals and fag hags that rushed to fill the vacuum and run things over there now.

Or the problem the Catholic Church has had with gay priests. They all have a secret they can't talk about with anyone but each other, thus they have a level of social intimacy and preference for one another over regular members of the Church, which makes that group difficult to ever root out entirely.

The world largely moves to the tune of small social groups of well resourced people who have a baked in incentive to give each other preferential treatment within a given milieu and pretend it's not happening. I think a big part of why things have begun to swing the "right" way, is because through pure accidental entropy, anons came about and are a cabal of our own.

If the recipe for a good cabal culture is secrecy+exclusivity+resources/influence, all in the correct amounts, anons did it.

And like any cabal it attracts similar personalities with similar interests into one place where they can network with an in-group. The reason that anons aren't quite like these other cabals based around fetishes is because our "taboo" is impolite truth, and the truth is always a better backstop that is easier to defend and justify.

The irrational and punitive system put in place by liberalism largely necessitated being anonymous if you wanted to speak impolite truths without retaliation.

It's the right level of secrecy, but it's different than theirs. Instead of relying on others to keep your secrets, which breeds mutual dependency and lockstep action to protect each other, anons keep their own secrets. Combine the lack of that dependency with the disagreeableness to value the impolite truth and we have the infighting that we are accustomed to.

Resources is just coming with time. As anons are from all sorts of walks of life, and the general unifying principles are the pursuit of the truth for fun and satisfaction, coupled with a disagreeable autodidactic intellect. This is a rare combination in society that is its own form of exclusivity(less so these days as impolite truths become less taboo)
Nov 2 17 tweets 8 min read
There's a very fundamental reorganization planned for the Air Force, and anyone familiar with the USAF status quo can see it for what it is, reading the tea leaves and seeing war is coming.

Lets talk about the CSAFs writeup on "Great Power Competition" or "GPC" 🧵 Image First of all, the sources I'm looking at can be found in full at the below link, under the documents tab. This comes from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. I don't know if other components are undergoing similar restructuring or not.

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Oct 24 6 tweets 2 min read
Do they actually outperform or do they just immediately start hiring their coethnics until they have a ton of influence in an organization and push everyone else out to make room?

In my tech sector work I've never been wowed by an Indian or Chinese national literally ever. In fact the hallmark to working with these people is where they cut their responsibilities into little slivers and they will ask for your "help" on regularly until you notice you're teaching them how to do their job because their resume is a paper tiger.
Oct 22 20 tweets 6 min read
In light of rumors that Kamala screamed at her campaign manager over the Molly Shannon SNL skit flub during the Al Smith dinner, lets talk a bit about Julie Chavez Rodriguez, manager of the Harris Campaign: 🧵 Image
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To start off with, her only interesting quality, and the only reason she's gotten anywhere in life, is that she is latino labor activist Cesar Chavez' granddaughter. The irony of this, is that Chavez' entire struggle was defined by being against illegal migration. Image
Oct 8 20 tweets 8 min read
"Dark MAGA" has been a magnum opus tier experiment in timeline hyperstition, I'll explain the background on where the phrase came from in a short thread here: 🧵 Image In January of 22' someone in a GC made a joke that a picture of Yugi from Yugi-oh was "Dark MAGA" and we all started riffing on it in other group chats with photoshopped pictures of "gothic" Donald Trump and silly joke posts about what exactly "Dark MAGA" was as opposed to MAGA. Image
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Oct 2 11 tweets 2 min read
You know, people him and haw and dodge and talk about immigration in abstractions like legal and illegal, criminal and law abiding, and it frustrates me.

Simply put, I don't want to be surrounded by foreigners with alien and unpredictable values, worldviews, and allegiances. I just don't want to be around these people, I especially do not want them to outnumber me at Costco or whatever. I want to live in a nation, where the people I'm surrounded by have a similar frame of reference for how they see the world. *That* is a culture, a nation, a people.
Sep 30 6 tweets 3 min read
Biden is technically the president but doesn't act like it.

Kamala wants to be the president, but can't even be a competent Vice President.

Trump walks around like he's *still* the president, performs the duties expected of one, and over half the nation treats him like he is.


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Even the media still talk about Trump like he's the president. It's hilarious and baffling. Nobody cares what Biden is up to beyond asking "Do we actually have a president right now?"

Nobody actually *likes* Harris, they can only *hate* Trump.
Sep 26 13 tweets 3 min read
I really hate the compromise that suburbs represent, but not for the reasons "Public Transit Enthusiasts" do. I'm going to talk a bit about my old neighborhood when I was in high school, and what we can learn from it when it comes to subdivision design. 🧵 Image After my dad died when I was in middle school, my mom trekked us across the state to stay with my grandma for a few months. I started high school in her district, at a pretty decent high school. About halfway through the year, my mom bought a house in a neighborhood 3 miles away.
Aug 20 8 tweets 3 min read
One of the biggest solutions needed for domestic failings in America is a way to bifurcate society between high and low time preference people.

For those unfamiliar, low time = long term planning mindset, high time = short term present thinking.

The low time preference human capital needs to be properly resourced to maintain and innovate on the complex systems our civilization requires without being molested by the high time preference crowd, which would be perfectly content to live in an endless loop of bing bing wahoo pachinko parlour of constant stimulation.

A big part of the problem is that all of the gatekeeping mechanisms that enforced this have been corrupted, and so have a ton of the people on the other side of them. The attention span of the entire nation is like 4 days, those with low time preference are under constant stress because they don't live optimally under those conditions.

So the low time preference gatekeepers have turned into hedonistic perverted midwits which keep the people who need to be in these positions outside the gates, stuck in high time world under a blanket of anxiety.

And now increasingly extreme measures are being taken to keep the non midwit LTP crowd from getting any closer to the levers that make things run, presumably out of insecurity by the pozzed that they'll be made irrelevant or kicked out into HTP world themselves.

The end result is that you've got a lot of smart people just kind of withering and trying to get by in levels of society they aren't optimally designed for, when they should be doing things like maintaining these complex systems. Instead our bridges are crumbling, our grid is vulnerable, our security apparatus is spending all its time looking inward to terrorize the populace.

We've hit an almost unrecoverable critical mass of unworthy apparatchiks trying to fake it till they make it in these positions, too busy being enamored with status games and their world of emperors with no clothes to actually be competent at their jobs. We're finally starting to *really* feel the debt being incurred by their lack of productivity.

Meanwhile the human capital that should be in those positions diligently working are being kept out, and at best they are running businesses or doing important things that are outside of the gatekeeping apparatus and away from the levers of power, or at worst dying deaths of despair. I'm 35 now, and I've been around long enough to learn from some really smart people who were dithering about online. You can learn more from random dedicated strangers on the internet than you can from the leading experts of those same fields according to academia.
Aug 19 4 tweets 2 min read
Has anyone else noticed just massively illogical demographic change in their own neighborhoods and adjacent areas in just the last 2 years in particular?

I'm trying to imagine the mechanics of how that even works, and the only way this feels possible is if blackrock et al going this hard into assets also includes some kind of government program subsidizing rent for immigrants in these homes.

Suddenly lots of signs "For Lease" in my area, which is/was a predominantly white suburb far flung from the city core. It's not even the blacks or hispanics born here or even illegal indios who are crowding us out, it's arabs, africans, asians, indians, that very obviously didn't grow up here.

I just can't imagine the mechanics involved that can even allow this much change to happen in 2 years without massive subsidization and private capital buying every home here they could get their hands on to lease to them. Where have the homeowners gone? The issue is everybody I know has been experiencing something similar no matter where they are, in my case I moved to my neighborhood about 10 years ago and bought my first house, and it was about 80 percent white. Feels like it's half that now and it's foreign born replacing us.
Aug 4 6 tweets 2 min read
I think part of the reason we can get chimpouts like this in the UK and Ireland is because room temperature IQ browns murdering people with knives is a relatively new phenomenon.

The US is so used to black people doing that same shit to us we're desensitized to it.

This creature stole a baby boy out of a crib next to his sleeping brother, sodomized him and stabbed him to death. Ruled incompetent to stand trial for mental health reasons.dallasnews.com/news/courts/20…
Jul 26 21 tweets 7 min read
Lets talk about a bizarre murder with an even more bizarre conclusion from Kamala Harris when she was the Attorney General of CA.

Lets talk, about the Coronado Mansion Mystery. 🧵 Image It's 2011, in Coronado, CA (San Diego). Pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai lives with his girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, and his son Max (6 years old).

Max would somehow fall over the stairwell handrail in the Shacknai mansion, severely injuring him. Image
Jul 18 9 tweets 3 min read
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.Image 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.
Jul 17 14 tweets 5 min read
"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.
Jul 9 24 tweets 6 min read
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: 🧵 Image 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.
Jul 8 5 tweets 2 min read
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.
Jun 28 4 tweets 1 min read
-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 Image
Jun 18 4 tweets 2 min read
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.
Jun 13 7 tweets 2 min read
Do you have the self awareness to realize that perhaps *you* are acting like "the girl" in this scenario?

You were going on and on about people "taking up space" in this scene that you learned about maybe a year ago, and then immediately started taking swipes at Sol Brah, one of the most inoffensive and well liked people in the sphere, for no apparent reason. All the people you keep subtweeting as "post left subversives" are people who have been here much longer than you. People who have built more than you. I tried to politely nudge you about this when you were lashing out at guys like Sol Brah and it must have gone over your head.