The most hopeful thing I’ve seen recently, which is still not nearly enough, is the willingness of certain governors to simply refuse to follow federal orders.
Not that the same issues with the federal government don’t also exist at the state level.
A petition to proclaim all state governors as independent sovereigns would be an option, though probably not a realistic one. Seems like more and more people are getting comfortable with secession from both red and blue states.
Would it “work”? Hard to define what we mean by that but elevating a subordinate organization to a sovereign one has worked before.
Some would point out our collective lack of virtue that would make this pointless in the American context, but it’s also hard to imagine that all 50 of the resulting states would be just as bad or worse than America as a single state.
Seems like more trad “exit” rhetoric. Are governors powerful on their own? Only a little. Respected? No. Immune to the press? No. Singularly capable of influencing our military? Ultimately unknown, but probably not.
States are mostly outdated institutions anyway. Nobody is attached to them like during the Civil War; all culture in America is divided by city, urban-rural location or to a lesser extent the region. We on the right mostly care because of historical nostalgia and the role they seemingly play in our national elections, showing up as “red” or “blue” on our maps and all that. The future is the metastatizing federal government and even if that ended, city/local governance is a better fit for the modern era.
> States are mostly outdated institutions anyway. Nobody is attached to them
True but irrelevant. State governments are the power centers most separable from USG that control the largest organized groups of armed men-- state cops and (in the past and perhaps again in the future) National Guardsmen. So as unlikely a choice as they may seem for the devolution of sovereignty, I would bet on them by default. I doubt whether many in Minsk thought the Belarusian SSR was anything more than a legal fiction in 1990, but it still ended up sovereign.
This is in the Wiki for “Florida Highway Patrol” (footnote numbers removed): “As of 2004, the FHP had 1,654 full-time, sworn personnel. This was about 10 full-time troopers for every 100,000 residents, one of the lowest ratios in the country. The FHP's website stated in 2021 that the agency was authorized for a total of 2,475 full-time employees (1,946 sworn and 529 non-sworn).”
This is in the Wiki for “Miami Police Department” (footnote numbers removed): “MPD is composed of more than 70 organizational elements, including a full-time SWAT team, Bomb Squad, Mounted Patrol, Marine Patrol, Aviation Unit, Gang Unit, Police Athletic League Detail, Crime Gun Intelligence Center, and a Real Time Crime Center. With 1371 full-time sworn positions and more than 400 civilian positions.”
So there are more Florida State troopers than Miami cops, but not a lot more, and the Miami cops sound a lot scarier. I looked up how many NYS troopers are, and the answer that I saw on top of the menu was 5,000 in 2018; in the same year there were 38,422 NYC cops.
So it looks as though States can’t presently force cities to do things by threatening violence. Perhaps, though, States could quickly recruit and arm large numbers of country lads for deployment against cities.
Are most people wearing devil-worship masks in Florida and Texas? Is there a de facto warpslime-mandate in those states as there is in New York? I don't know, but if the answers to these questions is "no" then governors make a significant difference.
And there's stuff at a lower level too, as you suggest -- California sheriffs refusing to enforce devil-worship mandates.
Opposing devil-worship isn't "trad" -- it's recognition of natural law.
It seems only the Left is engaged in co-opting any banner with which the right has traction. I therefore suggest that we call ourselves "New Progressives" or some such thing. We therefore gain cachet AND confuse their messaging. Thoughts?
As a fellow traveller child of the left, I've always been a fan of Chomsky's linguistics. And the linguistic pwnage of both the East Coast school and the grilling class itself is one of the largest challenges.
Simply put, "conservatism" is an atrocious identity. Not the ideas per se, but the phrase itself implies protecting something that is long gone. There is little left to conserve. While there may be periods we'd wish to revisit, our memory of these eras is a grainy snapshot that hides the same leftward drift.
Also progress is good. Sure it's nice to have better material standards, but progress can also be religious, social, familial, all the nice things the right wants. To the extent that these things exist and have sprouts of cultural relevency, they are new. Progress!
But these sprouts of relevence make the East Coast school uncomfortable, due to the implicit linguistic conflation with progress and progressivism. As long as progressives maintain their linguistic framing hegemony, this dynamic will persist.
Yes, they're pissing on your boots and telling you its raining. It does not follow that actual rain contains uric acid, nor that it springs from the progressives' source.
So where we're at is that an app for summoning the dictator is being developed, and meanwhile Curtis and his inner circle are busy working out the design that they'll submit to the dictator once he's been summoned.
Singapore health-technocrats are maskers. They serve Satan. Maskers serve Satan. Health-technocrats serve Satan. Technocrats who are not health-technocrats but assist health-technocrats serve Satan.
A+, dinosaur sticker! Though this piece is interesting, it seems that the Trump Presidency was the way to Reset, though we did not realize the depth and treachery (see Biden Afghanistan betrayal) of the Leftist Democrats. I got a jolt at the phrase, American Kulaks. Organizing disorder versus creating order is accurate because it is always easier to destroy down than to build up. What about the problem that Leftist success is not building up, it is destroying the good things that we had? The Leftist Dictator wears no clothes except in the minds of Leftists.
Why did you vote for Biden? This is why I am confused as to whether Curtis Yarvin is writing to help Conservatives save the nation or cause jamming confusion. When the Left get so much progress by yelling the loudest, why is it useless for the Right to yell loudly? Before the current Biden Dictatorship, we still had access to some public microphones, no more.
A quarter of the comments prior to this one (which I write because I'm bored and haven't conversed with anyone other than check-out girls in grocery stores for several days) consist in brief appreciations of the host's homo-sodomy humor.
How can I contact Yarvin directly? I'd like to ask him about his commentary on staying away from dissident bad boys and how this can actually be done. In all seriousness though.
You can reply to the email in which he sends you the text of his latest post. My own experience suggests that he at least skims these replies, because he sent me brief responses a couple of times.
Don't stay away from dissident bad boys. They need love just like anybody else.
The most hopeful thing I’ve seen recently, which is still not nearly enough, is the willingness of certain governors to simply refuse to follow federal orders.
Not that the same issues with the federal government don’t also exist at the state level.
A petition to proclaim all state governors as independent sovereigns would be an option, though probably not a realistic one. Seems like more and more people are getting comfortable with secession from both red and blue states.
Would it “work”? Hard to define what we mean by that but elevating a subordinate organization to a sovereign one has worked before.
Some would point out our collective lack of virtue that would make this pointless in the American context, but it’s also hard to imagine that all 50 of the resulting states would be just as bad or worse than America as a single state.
A pipe dream, but fun to imagine.
Seems like more trad “exit” rhetoric. Are governors powerful on their own? Only a little. Respected? No. Immune to the press? No. Singularly capable of influencing our military? Ultimately unknown, but probably not.
States are mostly outdated institutions anyway. Nobody is attached to them like during the Civil War; all culture in America is divided by city, urban-rural location or to a lesser extent the region. We on the right mostly care because of historical nostalgia and the role they seemingly play in our national elections, showing up as “red” or “blue” on our maps and all that. The future is the metastatizing federal government and even if that ended, city/local governance is a better fit for the modern era.
> States are mostly outdated institutions anyway. Nobody is attached to them
True but irrelevant. State governments are the power centers most separable from USG that control the largest organized groups of armed men-- state cops and (in the past and perhaps again in the future) National Guardsmen. So as unlikely a choice as they may seem for the devolution of sovereignty, I would bet on them by default. I doubt whether many in Minsk thought the Belarusian SSR was anything more than a legal fiction in 1990, but it still ended up sovereign.
This is in the Wiki for “Florida Highway Patrol” (footnote numbers removed): “As of 2004, the FHP had 1,654 full-time, sworn personnel. This was about 10 full-time troopers for every 100,000 residents, one of the lowest ratios in the country. The FHP's website stated in 2021 that the agency was authorized for a total of 2,475 full-time employees (1,946 sworn and 529 non-sworn).”
This is in the Wiki for “Miami Police Department” (footnote numbers removed): “MPD is composed of more than 70 organizational elements, including a full-time SWAT team, Bomb Squad, Mounted Patrol, Marine Patrol, Aviation Unit, Gang Unit, Police Athletic League Detail, Crime Gun Intelligence Center, and a Real Time Crime Center. With 1371 full-time sworn positions and more than 400 civilian positions.”
So there are more Florida State troopers than Miami cops, but not a lot more, and the Miami cops sound a lot scarier. I looked up how many NYS troopers are, and the answer that I saw on top of the menu was 5,000 in 2018; in the same year there were 38,422 NYC cops.
So it looks as though States can’t presently force cities to do things by threatening violence. Perhaps, though, States could quickly recruit and arm large numbers of country lads for deployment against cities.
Are most people wearing devil-worship masks in Florida and Texas? Is there a de facto warpslime-mandate in those states as there is in New York? I don't know, but if the answers to these questions is "no" then governors make a significant difference.
And there's stuff at a lower level too, as you suggest -- California sheriffs refusing to enforce devil-worship mandates.
Opposing devil-worship isn't "trad" -- it's recognition of natural law.
It seems only the Left is engaged in co-opting any banner with which the right has traction. I therefore suggest that we call ourselves "New Progressives" or some such thing. We therefore gain cachet AND confuse their messaging. Thoughts?
Alt-Center
Extreme Federalism
As a fellow traveller child of the left, I've always been a fan of Chomsky's linguistics. And the linguistic pwnage of both the East Coast school and the grilling class itself is one of the largest challenges.
Simply put, "conservatism" is an atrocious identity. Not the ideas per se, but the phrase itself implies protecting something that is long gone. There is little left to conserve. While there may be periods we'd wish to revisit, our memory of these eras is a grainy snapshot that hides the same leftward drift.
Also progress is good. Sure it's nice to have better material standards, but progress can also be religious, social, familial, all the nice things the right wants. To the extent that these things exist and have sprouts of cultural relevency, they are new. Progress!
But these sprouts of relevence make the East Coast school uncomfortable, due to the implicit linguistic conflation with progress and progressivism. As long as progressives maintain their linguistic framing hegemony, this dynamic will persist.
Yes, they're pissing on your boots and telling you its raining. It does not follow that actual rain contains uric acid, nor that it springs from the progressives' source.
'NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T HECKIN WAKE UP WHEN I'M PUTTING MY PP IN YOUR BOOTYRINO, THAT'S GOSHD*RN COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY!!!'
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/896/003/a1e.png
So where we're at is that an app for summoning the dictator is being developed, and meanwhile Curtis and his inner circle are busy working out the design that they'll submit to the dictator once he's been summoned.
Are we not men? We are Devo!
Ideas for Day 1 agenda:
- Import Singaporean technocrats to run the healthcare system
- Full voucher system for schools/homeschool co-ops
- Hand over all land use zoning authority to Wrath of Gnon
Singapore health-technocrats are maskers. They serve Satan. Maskers serve Satan. Health-technocrats serve Satan. Technocrats who are not health-technocrats but assist health-technocrats serve Satan.
A+, dinosaur sticker! Though this piece is interesting, it seems that the Trump Presidency was the way to Reset, though we did not realize the depth and treachery (see Biden Afghanistan betrayal) of the Leftist Democrats. I got a jolt at the phrase, American Kulaks. Organizing disorder versus creating order is accurate because it is always easier to destroy down than to build up. What about the problem that Leftist success is not building up, it is destroying the good things that we had? The Leftist Dictator wears no clothes except in the minds of Leftists.
Why did you vote for Biden? This is why I am confused as to whether Curtis Yarvin is writing to help Conservatives save the nation or cause jamming confusion. When the Left get so much progress by yelling the loudest, why is it useless for the Right to yell loudly? Before the current Biden Dictatorship, we still had access to some public microphones, no more.
A quarter of the comments prior to this one (which I write because I'm bored and haven't conversed with anyone other than check-out girls in grocery stores for several days) consist in brief appreciations of the host's homo-sodomy humor.
Gay Rear
How can I contact Yarvin directly? I'd like to ask him about his commentary on staying away from dissident bad boys and how this can actually be done. In all seriousness though.
You can reply to the email in which he sends you the text of his latest post. My own experience suggests that he at least skims these replies, because he sent me brief responses a couple of times.
Don't stay away from dissident bad boys. They need love just like anybody else.
I wonder how the future will look upon the Gay-Incubus Theory