In its purest form, virtue signaling:signals one’s tribal loyaltysignals one’s tribal pridesignals one’s conformity to tribal cultureasserts that those outside the tribe are bad/inferiorpretends to try to change the minds in other tribespretends to help one’s tribe but is actually safe, meaningless, ineffective, and devoid of couragefeels goodVirtue signaling is thus an act of pure […]
Continue readingOne does not kill the king by fighting his pawns—One kills the king by killing the king.
Continue readingMany like to cite the success of Americans in 1776, but it wouldn’t be like it was in 1776.
Continue readingA prerequisite for … anything … is to fix one’s health–as fast as possible.
Continue readingUK asks everyone to become the worst version of themselves and commit atrocities by reporting everyday activities.
Continue readingThe pain of reading about the murder of 500,000 children (an a medal being given to one who justified it) is necessary if more of us are to understand how the world really works.
Continue readingIt is significantly more divisive and dishonest than most of the propaganda on TV, and so when the players tip their hand as blatantly as this, it has the kind of shock value that can be used to wake people up to how the world really works.
Continue readingThe unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates A real person is strengthened by duress. There is nothing on the mountain top you didn’t take up there with you. —Robert M. Pirsig
Continue readingTo rise to the top in a cronyist system is a disgrace—To rise to the top in a free system is a virtue. Few things are more debilitating than a small but adequate stipend. Power tends to corrupt—Absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. —Lord Acton The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is that good people do […]
Continue readingNever doubt the power of one person to change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. A coward dies a thousand deaths—a hero dies but once. —Shakespeare How can one die better, than facing fearful odds, for the future of our children, and their freedom from our gods. Sacrifice by the valiant is greatness—sacrifice […]
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