People who don't live in reality until reality comes for them are not people you want to follow if survival is important to you - Me I don’t care what books you’ve read. I bet I’ve read them all and most likely before many of you. If your answer to the man-made horrors we’re currently experiencing is to prattle on about some ideal world you want to live in, you’re useless to humanity.
Yes! It has become clear that there is no such thing as "playing dirty". So many "Libertarians" want to "keep their hands clean", but this is akin to stepping into a boxing ring and crying about getting punched. That is how the game is played! If you want to engage in that game with the intention of "winning", you must play with the same ruthlessness that your opponents will. There's no shame in it. This is no violation of the NAP. That concept is just a tool used by our opponents to keep us from attempting to defend ourselves in THEIR system.
What yanks my root is the complete refusal to openly declare an enemy, by name or affiliation. They’re intellectual cowards, adrift on a sea of the prepackaged ideas of others.
Pitch MAGA outreach to a Mises caucus member and watch them recoil in purist horror. The fact is we all became defacto MAGA the second elites decided we were all domestic terror threats, like it or not. Meanwhile, more people, millions of people, are hearing a modified version of the Ron Paul message from guys like Steve Bannon on a daily basis. The difference is when Bannon says we need to end the fed, close the bases, end the wars, cut ties with the UN/NATO, wall off the border, dissolve the FBI/CIA/NSA/DOE/ATF/IRS etc. people actually know who he is, and right or wrong, respect what he says. Heise = King Nerd, protector of ideological purity, defender of obscure concepts. They talk of outreach and forming issue coalitions til blue in the face, yet there’s this one, glaringly obvious opening staring back at them, but it’s too icky with low-brow deplorables to to involve the ideologues. How is this different than Sarwark? Messaging? 😂 What a fucking joke. I’m ashamed at having ever been involved.
All of their supposed morality is based upon situations in which they’ll never actually be involved. Yet when there’s a clear, bright shining path forward, most lolberts would prefer to live in abstraction than confront the enemy because their supposed, completely situational morality might be violated.
Regarding your comments on the game of politics:
Yes! It has become clear that there is no such thing as "playing dirty". So many "Libertarians" want to "keep their hands clean", but this is akin to stepping into a boxing ring and crying about getting punched. That is how the game is played! If you want to engage in that game with the intention of "winning", you must play with the same ruthlessness that your opponents will. There's no shame in it. This is no violation of the NAP. That concept is just a tool used by our opponents to keep us from attempting to defend ourselves in THEIR system.
What yanks my root is the complete refusal to openly declare an enemy, by name or affiliation. They’re intellectual cowards, adrift on a sea of the prepackaged ideas of others.
Pitch MAGA outreach to a Mises caucus member and watch them recoil in purist horror. The fact is we all became defacto MAGA the second elites decided we were all domestic terror threats, like it or not. Meanwhile, more people, millions of people, are hearing a modified version of the Ron Paul message from guys like Steve Bannon on a daily basis. The difference is when Bannon says we need to end the fed, close the bases, end the wars, cut ties with the UN/NATO, wall off the border, dissolve the FBI/CIA/NSA/DOE/ATF/IRS etc. people actually know who he is, and right or wrong, respect what he says. Heise = King Nerd, protector of ideological purity, defender of obscure concepts. They talk of outreach and forming issue coalitions til blue in the face, yet there’s this one, glaringly obvious opening staring back at them, but it’s too icky with low-brow deplorables to to involve the ideologues. How is this different than Sarwark? Messaging? 😂 What a fucking joke. I’m ashamed at having ever been involved.
All of their supposed morality is based upon situations in which they’ll never actually be involved. Yet when there’s a clear, bright shining path forward, most lolberts would prefer to live in abstraction than confront the enemy because their supposed, completely situational morality might be violated.