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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.

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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.

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'NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T HECKIN WAKE UP WHEN I'M PUTTING MY PP IN YOUR BOOTYRINO, THAT'S GOSHD*RN COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY!!!'

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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.

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Are we not men? We are Devo!

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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

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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.

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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.

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Gay Rear

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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.

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I wonder how the future will look upon the Gay-Incubus Theory

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