thanks Yodl, will keep railing until there's a reckoning, and if there is no reckoning, I’ll just keep railing forever. View quoted note →

Socialists and grifters have a common belief that there is no such thing as ill-gotten gains, as all-gains are ill-gotten and therefore it's fair game to seize (socialists) or scam (grifters.) The notion someone *earned* money by providing value is anathema to both world views. If someone earned money, then you have no right to take if from them. If earning money is possible, then scamming is an unethical choice, not just part of the "game." The common denominator is a deep cynicism about humanity. Grifters and socialists don't believe in themselves, and they project that worldview onto society at large, try to drag it down to their level.

Sam Altman’s name is the first I’ve come across where you can spell “Satan” using its letters *in order*. Put differently, subtract m a l m, and Sam Altman = Satan. I’m sure it’s nothing. View quoted note →

Bought an apple, didn’t notice it had a wormhole. Tried to cut around it but was rotten to the core.

Trump is a fascinating character in that his superpower is also his attack surface. The superpower being a total lack of shame. I don’t mean this as good or bad, just as an apparent fact. He cares a lot what people think of him, but not like most people due to fear or being shamed. Such a character is uniquely positioned to challenge unitparty dominance in the digital age. Virtually anyone else would have folded under the constant 24/7 (mostly false) attacks on his character. No one can stand to be called Hitler and racist and fascist 100x per day and go about his business undaunted. That’s why he won. Twice. (Probably three times.) But this lack of shame is also a huge attack surface because he’s also the only person who can boast about virtually anything and everything without conscience. The turnout at his inauguration, the economy, the stock market, international relations, his golf game, whatever — he can openly brag about it in a way that educated people find gauche and distasteful — something about which they would feel ashamed. Accordingly it’s very easy to paint him as this pig of a character, a buffoon, a sociopath. It’s easy to convince people he’s a rapist, he was involved with Epstein (seems like he was one of the few that called him out.) People see someone with this quality, and it triggers them because a sense of shame, for better or worse, has been beaten into them their entire lives. Again, this is not to praise or condemn Trump, who has done good and bad things IMO, only an observation of the phenomenon of him. I don’t think there’s ever been a politician quite like him.

*”It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market... Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon”* View quoted note →

I knew we’d take 95 back no problem.

Biggest takeaway from 2025 is the truth will not be forthcoming from outside oneself. That the desire for a revelation must be turned inward only.

Twitter is noise from the zeitgeist. If you work hard enough you can discern some signal from it. But it's woefully inefficient.

to the extent your thoughts come from various forms of modern media they should probably be ignored

People vote for a candidate, but to the extent that candidate countervails what the power centers want, they install malware of sorts, strategically placed people to thwart the agenda of the voters. If the malware does its job partially, you will have only part of the agenda achieved. If it does the job totally, you will never know whether the candidate himself was in on it from the beginning. Maybe the only way to overcome this is for a candidate to purport to do the bidding of the power centers but secretly subvert them, i.e., to pitch compliance but radically diverge once elected, but without ever announcing it. This is such a tough needle to thread it virtually never happens -- such a leader would have to be so awake that no amount of contact with the system could corrupt him. Chances are he'd probably be crucified.

nicotine is great when you run into it, but a curse to have on demand

Don’t fall for the narrative. But also don’t fall for the counter narrative. Stay frosty af with respect to what you read, especially if it comes from a source that has already lied.

New Podcast excerpt: Full podcast: https://rumble.com/v71n608-see-ball-hit-ball.html

Don’t know if this is true, but found it plausible and interesting: Link to the full (long) post here: https://x.com/EvanWritesOnX/status/1883736169156125111?s=20 Seems plausible that those who escape the dominant narrative run into the arms of the awaiting counter-narrative. This take (again, could be wrong) is neither.

Had a dream I was walking with an old friend, now estranged, and we were looking up at the sky, noticed there were two moons, one a crescent, one full. The full one was rotating and as it did, it showed the oceans and continents of earth. And somehow we knew that as earth was revealed on that moon, it meant the end of the earth we were on. My friend started running, but I just relaxed down into the ground, there was nothing we could do.

When you have a teenager, your choices are (1) frequent conflict; or (2) become enlightened.

Started raining as I was walking back from the track today, didn’t have my raincoat, considered taking the metro, but decided to *weather* it.

The reason you don't steal from people is not because it’s "wrong" but because if you steal from people, you consent to being stolen from, i.e., you do not really believe in property rights. If that’s the world you want to live in, then go ahead and steal. Sounds like a living hell to me. The reason you don’t judge individuals by their ancestry or race, i.e., the reason you don’t want to be a racist, is not because “racism is bad” or some liberal will call you a “racist.” They will fucking call you that anyway, so who cares? The reason is you don’t consent to others judging you if someone of your ancestry over whom you have no control does something bad. This does not mean other people won’t try to steal from your or judge you for being white or black or whatever you are. It just means you don’t CONSENT to it. You think it’s unjust, it’s bullshit, it’s weak-minded cope. So if a white person advocates for race-based evaluation of individuals, you are consenting to “white guilt” or “white privilege” and all the anti-white propaganda that’s now deemed “turnabout is fair play” by academia and the corporate media. You consent to it. You own it.

A “racist” is someone winning an argument with a liberal, but a racist is someone who evaluates individuals not by their own deeds but the deeds of others with whom they share some ancestry. The former you can ignore, the latter is a type of collectivist whose views are antithetical to freedom and prosperity. For if someone can be classified and judged by the deeds of others, so can you. View quoted note →