The Manipulation Problem - a 🧵

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any and all other factors combined. Any contrary opinion is suicidally wishful thinking at its worst. Societies that forget this basic truth always pay for it with their lives and freedoms." - E.M. Burlingame "Bankrupt regimes, when they can no longer govern through consent or competence, resort to the dark arts of deception and manipulation, fostering violence as a smokescreen to conceal their malevolence, cruelty, corruption and ineptitude, seeking always to cling to power through enslavement, murder, genocide and near total chaos." - E.M. Burlingame

The Transition Problem - a 🧵

"They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet." - Saul Alinsky / Rules for Radicals The following are seven examples from history in which a defeated political party began an insurgency within their country leading to violence:

Peaceful Transition of Power - a 🧵

John F. Kennedy made the statement, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable," during a speech at the White House on March 13, 1962, known as the "Address on the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress." Historical Context of JFK's Speech:

Timeframe: The early 1960s was a period marked by the Cold War, with tensions between the United States (individual sovereignty) and the Soviet Union (slavery to the State) at a high. Latin America was a significant arena for this ideological battle.

The Mob State Problem - a 🧵 (Final)

"History tells of fallen Mob States, not a one of which willingly surrendered their slaves and power; instead, crumbling only when the ground beneath them shook with the force of slave revolt, revolution, or external conquest." - E.M. Burlingame

The Mob State Problem - a 🧵 (3rd of 4)

The aversion to Princes, is a manufactured thing, manufactured in men by the very Mob State has, over the past four hundred years, so come to utterly and totally enslave men, women and children in ways no Prince could ever have imagined, much less would have ever allowed their People to so be. The Kennedys and other elite figures threatened the mafia and paid with their lives for trying to prevent the rise of the Mob State, from the late 1950s into the late 1960s:

The Mob State Problem - a 🧵(buckle up, it's a long one)

The intricate dance of governments, Wall Street, and organized crime over the past century isn't merely about collaboration or competition; it's a testament to their deep interweaving, where the lines blur, creating a tapestry of power and profit that operates beyond the reach of common law and oversight. A relationship has evolved, becoming so sophisticated that it's impossible to distinguish where one entity ends and the other begins, each playing its role in a complex game of influence, control, and economic supremacy.

The Praetorian Problem – a 🧵
The Praetorian Problem isn’t merely historical. It’s once more a very real threat to Western Civilization. It’s the security state, individuals, entities and institutions, having once again attained near absolute political, martial and economic power. Power they’ll never give up willingly. Praetorians, who, as history’s shown, are bound by no moral constraints related to abandoning, overthrowing and killing leaders and people from the least to the greatest halls of power. How the Praetorian Guard ruled Rome for three centuries:

- The Praetorians leveraged their unique position as the emperor's bodyguards to influence policy, assassinate rulers and leaders they disliked or who wouldn’t defend and expand their power, and to install new emperors and leaders of their choosing.

- As the only armed force within Rome itself, as the only sanctioned intelligence and security forces for the emperors, military leaders and governors, the Praetorian Guard held unmatched military power in all the capitals and military camps of the Roman Empire, allowing them to act as the powerbrokers and kingmakers and to intimidate virtually all political actors.

- The Praetorian's dual role as both protectors and ever-present threats to the emperor, military and many other imperial leaders, gave them unprecedented access and bargaining power, enabling them to extract concessions and accumulate immense wealth, influence and real power over time.

The Liar Problem - a 🧵

The human brain processes language through a complex network of interconnected regions, primarily in the left hemisphere, including Broca's area for speech production, Wernicke's area for comprehension, and other areas in the temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes for various linguistic functions. This distributed language network engages in continuous prediction, contextual interpretation, and integration of semantic, syntactic, and prosodic information, allowing for the rapid and efficient processing of spoken and written language.

The Peer Problem – a 🧵

Only the weak, bluff. Only those who live in protected classes – sheltered worlds – believe they can bluff their way past reality. Only those who’ve never paid the price required to sustain civilization, the horrors of personally breaking and taking human lives, believe in bluffs. Real power NEVER bluffs! Witness the shocked look on the face of an insane woman and/or a weak male who’ve been antagonizing a fight, when they get punched in the face. The look on onlookers faces as they watch power drop the antagonizer to the ground unconscious with a single blow.

Their entire reality collapses and shifts in an instant. When the bluff fails and the eternal real, strength and power, asserts itself.

The Elite Problem – a 🧵

You believe yourselves safe within the hardened, comfortable and well-stocked walls of your “fortresses”. You believe the enemy will come at you in one-off, ill-conceived and conducted physical assaults. You believe your enemy is out there, some other, not already within, and your own. You believe the regime, its rapacious behemoth bureaucracy, is still owned by you. You believe anything and everything can be bought. Far more dangerous still, you believe mercenaries – security guards – will lay down their lives and those of their families for you, merely for a handsome paycheck.
And you’re doomed by this very thinking! "For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day." – JFK, Speech on Secret Societies, 27 April 1961 - Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City

The Slavery Problem – a 🧵

"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine our Constitution from a co-ordinate of a general and special government to a general supreme one alone." - Thomas Jefferson POWER | Doctrine | The Eternal War is a deadly and destructive ideological conflict fought over the concept of whether or not the individual should or should not be forced to serve others.

The Citizen Problem - a 🧵

"A regime concerned with its native citizens, always brings in foreign peoples and mercenaries to fill the ranks of the military and to contract to. This so as to overcome the aversion a native people have to killing their own. It's an ancient knowing and model followed. Often this includes bringing in criminal elements to unleash hell, be death squads which are extralegal."

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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ― Frederick Douglass

The United States of America isn’t modern Rome, it’s modern Byzantium! - a🧵

The division of the Roman Empire into the Eastern (Byzantium) and Western Roman Empire is the most direct and critically important example for the splitting of the British Empire into the Eastern British Empire and the Western British Empire (United States) and for what now is occurring across much of the world. The once great Eastern British Empire centered in London is now in full decline while the Western British Empire centered in Washington D.C., should it survive the current crisis, is poised to continue for another thousand years. The Roman Empire, which at its height controlled vast territories across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) in 285 AD under Emperor Diocletian. This division was formalized in 395 AD when Emperor Theodosius I divided the empire between his two sons. The Western Roman Empire, centered in Rome, fell in 476 AD, while the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), centered in Constantinople, went on and continued to exist for another thousand years, until 1453.

The Hypergamy Problem – a 🧵

Hypergamy refers to the act or practice of marrying or forming a sexual relationship with a person of a higher socioeconomic or social class or with higher sexual capital than oneself. It’s associated with the concept of dating or marrying up. Friends ruined men making them believe men need to be kind, weak, and emasculated barely functional idiot children who bumble through life the best they can until a woman, who’s exhausted every other option finally settles and chooses them, if she chooses them.

The Cognitive Problem – a 🧵

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” Joseph Story, Commentaries on The Constitution of the United States, 1873 "The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses." – Aristotle, Metaphysics (Book 1, Part 1)

The Intelligence Problem - a 🧵

"The end of the Soviet Union was one of the most unexpected and monumental events of the 20th century. It was a surprise to the world, including to the intelligence agencies of the major powers." - Richard Ned Lebow, political scientist and author. The French Revolution was a surprise to the rulers and the nobility of France because they did not believe that the people could rise against them and that they were invincible. They were blind to the sufferings and discontent of the people, and they did not realize the strength of the revolutionary ideas that were spreading among the people.

In Memoriam - a 🧵

Men, and shield maidens, this weekend we honor our dead, the fallen. Those who took our place with their lives. If I know you, and I do, having spent half my life in uniform, and all my life in service. You're half or full already into a proper drunk, and the pain's hitting you. The darkness is reaching for you with the fingers of inescapable guilt and loss.

Know this... Our fellows, they did not lay down their lives so we would go on and deny ourselves love and living. Not a one would wish for us to stop being alive, so very alive, in their name. In fact, this would and does only dishonor the life they lived fully and the sacrifice they made willingly, knowingly.

The Self-Rule Problem – a 🧵(a long one)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. – John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1623 Definitions of self-rule.
- Government of a political unit by its own people.

- Synonyms: self-determination, self-government.

- Types: sovereignty. government free from external control.

The Cowardice Problem - a 🧵

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. - Frank Herbert - God Emperor of Dune - 1981 Nothing makes us more uncomfortable than fear. And we have so many fears: fear of pain, disease, injury, failure, not being accepted, missing an opportunity, and being scammed, to name a few. Fear invokes the flight or fight system, and our first reaction is often to flee back to our comfort zone. If we don’t know the way back, we are likely to follow whoever shows us a path.
- Robert Evans Wilson Jr. - Psychology Today - 2009 | The Most Powerful Motivator - How fear is etched into our brains.

The Government Problem - a 🧵

What is essential to the idea of a slave? We primarily think of him as one who is owned by another. To be more than nominal, however, the ownership must be shown by control of the slave's actions-a control which is habitually for the benefit of the controller. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy another's desires.
- Herbert Spencer, The Coming Slavery - Man Versus the State - The Atlantic, 1851 The relation admits of sundry gradations. Remembering that originally the slave is a prisoner whose life is at the mercy of his captor, it suffices here to note that there is a harsh form of slavery in which, treated as an animal, he has to expend his entire effort for his owner's advantage.

The Community Problem - a 🧵

In times of severe threat and crisis, whether from a steady decline in the capacities of government, from well funded and supported civil unrest, or civil war, from a foreign war at home and/or from hostile domestic government(s), the entire modern way of war is undone. The modern way of war presupposes massive manufacturing, logistics and funding, replaceable everything, to include personnel, sourcing of skilled individuals from many different communities and populations...unrestricted freedom of movement - unhindered logistics... To say nothing of the heavy reliance on expensive and difficult to operate, maintain and slow to replace complex warfighting and warfare systems with components sourced from many different communities.