“the strategy of deliberately constructing a parallel state from the ground up”
This is exactly like the approach in proper anarchism, except they would say building the new “society” within the shell of the old, given that the state per se is understood as an apparatus of violence. Of course, there’s also a strong resonance here with Havel’s ideas about resistance.
Glad to hear the conference was able to be held. I’m sitting here watching Jeopardy & there’s a guy on named Jeff who named his son Ignatius because his favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces! Also said he & his wife like Iggy Pop & they’re Catholic & like St Ignatius Loyola. I’m rooting for him!
>>>Conservatism has become mostly about whiners and grifters
I think that this describes what is the Elites’ approved, ostensible leftism and liberalism are. Actually, I should say that about most of the political class and the system of NGOs supporting it regardless of whatever the stated ideologies are.
Much as corporations make their money, not by providing a better or less expensive product or service, but by stock buybacks and selling off bits the business until it’s all gone down while lying cheating all the while. All for the immediate cash that they can steal. Investment, research, training employees, paying for better employees or better products are all ignored.
The various organizations in politics, education, the old line charities like the Red Cross and perhaps even in religion are all the same: the management want to make money and to perdition with anything or anyone else and regardless of the stated purpose of the organization. When everything from the mayor’s office to the local sewage plant to my college diploma to my soul are all up for sale to the highest (corporate) bidder, how can anything work? I should just have the winning bidders tattoo their advertising on my body. Maybe I can get something to help pay for my ever increasing food, rent, and power.
No, we don’t have liberal or conservative parties, we have money making grifts; it’s turtles all the way down.
‘Canceled’ for Protesting Cancel Culture, Europe’s Right-Wingers Rejoice
This might be a world record for most concentrated lies in a single headline, coming from our Paper of Record.
"Cancelled"? Showing up to a conference to find it ringed by police and the govt attempting to shut it down (in real time) is to "cancelled" what an amputation is to wart removal. This was by no means any type of "cancelling" but a direct governmental assault on the rights of free speech, thought and assembly (things liberals used to defend);
"for Protesting Cancel Culture"? Is this what Conservatism (in all its flavors) looks like in the minds of our Brahmin Left? Just another round of Culture War dodgeball? So I guess "cancel culture" is real now, after a decade of liberals gaslighting about it and saying it was just a fever dream of Fox News?
"Europe’s Right-Wingers"? Does everyone opposed to Social Justice Inc. have to be right-wing? No more libertarians, classic liberals, skeptics etc? Everyone has to wear the same label so the readership will be made aware of the moral pollution here and know to hold their noses and ears? This is how free thought and fair-play discourse die.
"Rejoice"? To be locked inside or outside a venue you traveled to and to protest is to "Rejoice"? So the liberals get caught with their hands in Orwell's cookie jar and the lesson here is how happy it makes conservatives? This alone shows you how embarrassingly infantile our discourse has become—if those evil NatCons are rejoicing, it only proves how right we were all along!
The liberal class imagines themselves locked in a Holy War against a whole army of "far right" extremists, nationalists, Deplorables etc, but the truth is no one has inflicted any wounds as devastating as the ones they've inflicted upon themselves. Almost 10 years after the Orange One came down his golden escalator and the tantrum is not close to ending. In their desperate quest to destroy all their enemies the one thing that will be definitely destroyed is the MSM's claims of credibility, veracity, authority. May the roof come down on their heads as soon as possible...
I wish the American Solidarity Party would strategize along the lines of N.S. Lyons' advice. If they could do it without losing their ethos, that would be SO good.
Even though I questioned Hazony's sincerity being that he self identifies as a Jewish Nationalist (that is to say, a Zionist) from a nation that has benefited greatly to it's relationship with, let's just call it "The Empire" (that is the the Global Machine of theTransatlanticist Elites who created Israel in the first place), I maintain an open mind. I have much respect for Viktor Orban, he's basically the best in the West right now. I'm glad it looks like Slovakia is taking Orban's independent stance now too albeit from the populist left (unfortunately the Globalists are back in power in Poland and are looking to punish the Catholic Nationalist/Populists who dared to challenge their stranglehold. The Law& Justice Party can blame themselves for that for embroiling Poland in the Ukraine War).
I'll tell you how to beat The Empire. You become completely self sufficient, self sustaining and thus independent of The Empire. Whatever you rely on the Empire for (be it electricity, petrol, money, water, food, etc.) then they have power and control over you. To beat the Empire you have to think and act like a rebel in occupied territory. Yes creating parallel institutions (even underground if need be) is a necessity. Access to food and water is a necessity. You can't beat the Empire at it's own game. That's why I've come to the conclusion that we can go through the machinations of elections and support "the best candidate" even though year after year it becomes more evident that the Regime wins no matter who you vote for. I'm starting to suspect they (The Regime of The Empire) might have even gotten to Trump. The Regime itself isn't monolithic. As I said yesterday they are neither left nor right. They will and have used anybody that they can coerce, blackmail or bribe to do their bidding. That's why I'm starting to believe anything short of revolution at this point is absolutely futile because any movement you start The Regime will infiltrate, corrupt and co-opt.
" They are encouraging Ukraine to fight a war that it can’t win." - this could have been said about Britain in 1939.
Otherwise, I am - somewhat - heartened by the legal victory and that the meeting was 'allowed' to go on. Only somewhat of course because what the city and mayor have been doing is ridiculous. And the liberal media, at home and abroad, is a farce.
Even though I questioned Hazony's sincerity being that he self identifies as a Jewish Nationalist (that is to say, a Zionist) from a nation that has benefited greatly to it's relationship with, let's just call it "The Empire" (that is the the Global Machine of theTransatlanticist Elites who created Israel in the first place), I maintain an open mind. I have much respect for Viktor Orban, he's basically the best in the West right now. I'm glad it looks like Slovakia is taking Orban's independent stance now too albeit from the populist left (unfortunately the Globalists are back in power in Poland and are looking to punish the Catholic Nationalist/Populists who dared to challenge their stranglehold. The Law& Justice Party can blame themselves for that for embroiling Poland in the Ukraine War).
I'll tell you how to beat The Empire. You become completely self sufficient, self sustaining and thus independent of The Empire. Whatever you rely on the Empire for (be it electricity, petrol, money, water, food, etc.) then they have power and control over you. To beat the Empire you have to think and act like a rebel in occupied territory. Yes creating parallel institutions (even underground if need be) is a necessity. Access to food and water is a necessity. You can't beat the Empire at it's own game. That's why I've come to the conclusion that we can go through the machinations of elections and support "the best candidate" even though year after year it becomes more evident that the Regime wins no matter who you vote for. I'm starting to suspect they (The Regime of The Empire) might have even gotten to Trump. The Regime itself isn't monolithic. As I said yesterday they are neither left nor right. They will and have used anybody that they can coerce, blackmail or bribe to do their bidding. That's why I'm starting to believe anything short of revolution at this point is absolutely futile because any movement you start The Regime will infiltrate, corrupt and co-opt.
It's good to hear that the conference went on as scheduled but the fact that Belgian's Supreme Court had to overturn the original decision to shut it down does not really instill much confidence.
Makes me wonder if the powers that be in Belgium and EU were smart enough to realise this was enough of an “own goal” as Farage put it, that they needed to expedite the court case to limit the political damage.
Hey! Today, you rock!
Long made it last!
The Guardian is far left, expect nothing but trouble from them. They’ve always been like that.
“the strategy of deliberately constructing a parallel state from the ground up”
This is exactly like the approach in proper anarchism, except they would say building the new “society” within the shell of the old, given that the state per se is understood as an apparatus of violence. Of course, there’s also a strong resonance here with Havel’s ideas about resistance.
Amen, Rod, blessings to my heart to hear this. Still praying for your friend, in Jesus's name.
Glad to hear the conference was able to be held. I’m sitting here watching Jeopardy & there’s a guy on named Jeff who named his son Ignatius because his favorite book is A Confederacy of Dunces! Also said he & his wife like Iggy Pop & they’re Catholic & like St Ignatius Loyola. I’m rooting for him!
I read this and it made my head hurt...
>>>Conservatism has become mostly about whiners and grifters
I think that this describes what is the Elites’ approved, ostensible leftism and liberalism are. Actually, I should say that about most of the political class and the system of NGOs supporting it regardless of whatever the stated ideologies are.
Much as corporations make their money, not by providing a better or less expensive product or service, but by stock buybacks and selling off bits the business until it’s all gone down while lying cheating all the while. All for the immediate cash that they can steal. Investment, research, training employees, paying for better employees or better products are all ignored.
The various organizations in politics, education, the old line charities like the Red Cross and perhaps even in religion are all the same: the management want to make money and to perdition with anything or anyone else and regardless of the stated purpose of the organization. When everything from the mayor’s office to the local sewage plant to my college diploma to my soul are all up for sale to the highest (corporate) bidder, how can anything work? I should just have the winning bidders tattoo their advertising on my body. Maybe I can get something to help pay for my ever increasing food, rent, and power.
No, we don’t have liberal or conservative parties, we have money making grifts; it’s turtles all the way down.
‘Canceled’ for Protesting Cancel Culture, Europe’s Right-Wingers Rejoice
This might be a world record for most concentrated lies in a single headline, coming from our Paper of Record.
"Cancelled"? Showing up to a conference to find it ringed by police and the govt attempting to shut it down (in real time) is to "cancelled" what an amputation is to wart removal. This was by no means any type of "cancelling" but a direct governmental assault on the rights of free speech, thought and assembly (things liberals used to defend);
"for Protesting Cancel Culture"? Is this what Conservatism (in all its flavors) looks like in the minds of our Brahmin Left? Just another round of Culture War dodgeball? So I guess "cancel culture" is real now, after a decade of liberals gaslighting about it and saying it was just a fever dream of Fox News?
"Europe’s Right-Wingers"? Does everyone opposed to Social Justice Inc. have to be right-wing? No more libertarians, classic liberals, skeptics etc? Everyone has to wear the same label so the readership will be made aware of the moral pollution here and know to hold their noses and ears? This is how free thought and fair-play discourse die.
"Rejoice"? To be locked inside or outside a venue you traveled to and to protest is to "Rejoice"? So the liberals get caught with their hands in Orwell's cookie jar and the lesson here is how happy it makes conservatives? This alone shows you how embarrassingly infantile our discourse has become—if those evil NatCons are rejoicing, it only proves how right we were all along!
The liberal class imagines themselves locked in a Holy War against a whole army of "far right" extremists, nationalists, Deplorables etc, but the truth is no one has inflicted any wounds as devastating as the ones they've inflicted upon themselves. Almost 10 years after the Orange One came down his golden escalator and the tantrum is not close to ending. In their desperate quest to destroy all their enemies the one thing that will be definitely destroyed is the MSM's claims of credibility, veracity, authority. May the roof come down on their heads as soon as possible...
I wish the American Solidarity Party would strategize along the lines of N.S. Lyons' advice. If they could do it without losing their ethos, that would be SO good.
Dana
Even though I questioned Hazony's sincerity being that he self identifies as a Jewish Nationalist (that is to say, a Zionist) from a nation that has benefited greatly to it's relationship with, let's just call it "The Empire" (that is the the Global Machine of theTransatlanticist Elites who created Israel in the first place), I maintain an open mind. I have much respect for Viktor Orban, he's basically the best in the West right now. I'm glad it looks like Slovakia is taking Orban's independent stance now too albeit from the populist left (unfortunately the Globalists are back in power in Poland and are looking to punish the Catholic Nationalist/Populists who dared to challenge their stranglehold. The Law& Justice Party can blame themselves for that for embroiling Poland in the Ukraine War).
I'll tell you how to beat The Empire. You become completely self sufficient, self sustaining and thus independent of The Empire. Whatever you rely on the Empire for (be it electricity, petrol, money, water, food, etc.) then they have power and control over you. To beat the Empire you have to think and act like a rebel in occupied territory. Yes creating parallel institutions (even underground if need be) is a necessity. Access to food and water is a necessity. You can't beat the Empire at it's own game. That's why I've come to the conclusion that we can go through the machinations of elections and support "the best candidate" even though year after year it becomes more evident that the Regime wins no matter who you vote for. I'm starting to suspect they (The Regime of The Empire) might have even gotten to Trump. The Regime itself isn't monolithic. As I said yesterday they are neither left nor right. They will and have used anybody that they can coerce, blackmail or bribe to do their bidding. That's why I'm starting to believe anything short of revolution at this point is absolutely futile because any movement you start The Regime will infiltrate, corrupt and co-opt.
Don't suppose there's a transcript of Lyons' speech anywhere? I've been interested in prefigurative politics for some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics
" They are encouraging Ukraine to fight a war that it can’t win." - this could have been said about Britain in 1939.
Otherwise, I am - somewhat - heartened by the legal victory and that the meeting was 'allowed' to go on. Only somewhat of course because what the city and mayor have been doing is ridiculous. And the liberal media, at home and abroad, is a farce.
Even though I questioned Hazony's sincerity being that he self identifies as a Jewish Nationalist (that is to say, a Zionist) from a nation that has benefited greatly to it's relationship with, let's just call it "The Empire" (that is the the Global Machine of theTransatlanticist Elites who created Israel in the first place), I maintain an open mind. I have much respect for Viktor Orban, he's basically the best in the West right now. I'm glad it looks like Slovakia is taking Orban's independent stance now too albeit from the populist left (unfortunately the Globalists are back in power in Poland and are looking to punish the Catholic Nationalist/Populists who dared to challenge their stranglehold. The Law& Justice Party can blame themselves for that for embroiling Poland in the Ukraine War).
I'll tell you how to beat The Empire. You become completely self sufficient, self sustaining and thus independent of The Empire. Whatever you rely on the Empire for (be it electricity, petrol, money, water, food, etc.) then they have power and control over you. To beat the Empire you have to think and act like a rebel in occupied territory. Yes creating parallel institutions (even underground if need be) is a necessity. Access to food and water is a necessity. You can't beat the Empire at it's own game. That's why I've come to the conclusion that we can go through the machinations of elections and support "the best candidate" even though year after year it becomes more evident that the Regime wins no matter who you vote for. I'm starting to suspect they (The Regime of The Empire) might have even gotten to Trump. The Regime itself isn't monolithic. As I said yesterday they are neither left nor right. They will and have used anybody that they can coerce, blackmail or bribe to do their bidding. That's why I'm starting to believe anything short of revolution at this point is absolutely futile because any movement you start The Regime will infiltrate, corrupt and co-opt.
Rod, as a guy about your age who is losing his hair, I gotta say that I love your hair.
It's good to hear that the conference went on as scheduled but the fact that Belgian's Supreme Court had to overturn the original decision to shut it down does not really instill much confidence.
Makes me wonder if the powers that be in Belgium and EU were smart enough to realise this was enough of an “own goal” as Farage put it, that they needed to expedite the court case to limit the political damage.