All the problems of "capitalism" identified by Leftists are really problems of industrial society as a whole, and these problems can be somewhat mitigated by things that preserve community and foster unity and pro-social behavior (religion, nationalism, traditional culture, etc.), all of which Leftists explicitly want to destroy.

Leftists just complain that they aren't the ones in the driving seat, and then tell everyone that if they were in the driving seat, they would create an even more pervasive, totalitarian, and centralized version of industrial society and then destroy all of the things that made society tolerable in the first place.

I’ve recently moved to a place where one is likelier to find Ukrainians than Russians, and so the running gag of me being mistaken (well… not really) for a Russian has been put on hold, and now people assume I’m Ukrainian.
I’ve found that this is mildly offensive, not because I dislike Ukrainians, but because I resent the implication that I, a fighting-age, able-bodied man, would leave my country at a time when it is at war. It is a kind of insult against my honor as a man.

If you ever see typos in my posts, just remember that 99% of the time I’m writing and editing my Telegram posts from a tiny iPhone, often while multitasking. One of these days I need to get a larger phone.

Cheddar Man.

There’s no hope for the Chinese that suddenly cry for freedom, they don’t care about freedom until it’s too late, because freedom isn’t something they intrinsically value the way Europeans innately do. Their reward: more covid lockdowns in 2022 with drones flying around, reminding them on loudspeakers that the freedom to even open their windows is a liability. This is what certain people are calling a “based and illiberal” country.

https://mobile.twitter.com/aliceysu/status/1511558828802068481

“You want to open your window while the state drone tells you to keep it shut? What are you mate, an individualist libertarian or something? Freedom is for liberals mate.”

https://news.1rj.ru/str/hapaperspective/5808

The problem for many Nationalists is that they think entirely in the abstract. One is either a Based Statist or a Lolbertarian with nothing in between and no real-world basis for their beliefs, and their fetishism for an authoritarian State simply ignores what the State is actually enforcing.

First and foremost I am a Naturalist, that is that I believe in a natural, biocentric and organic world independent of myself, which has existed long before me and will exist long after me. Maybe I was raised on too much David Attenborough as a child. My opposition to many things in modern politics are born out of the belief that they are simply unnatural and thereby morally evil on that basis alone. Can you imagine any other animal having an identity crisis and cutting off its genitals? No, it has to survive and reproduce, it doesn't have the luxury for such naval gazing and frivolous nonsense. For the most part I see human consciousness as a mistake because of how much we can think ourselves against our own natural inclinations and instincts.

The idea of 'Freedom' in this sense is not a political value or a matter of choice, but a state of being in accordance with one's own nature. The State has a duty to be as concurrent (within reason) with Nature as possible, not against it, otherwise it will inevitably collapse. Having a drone tell you "Please comply with Covid restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing" is not a matter of Freedom for Freedom's sake, but a matter of this being just absolutely evil and unnatural. Its being Liberal or Illiberal is irrelevant here.

This brings me onto the metaphysics of all this. The division appears to be between Platonism and Nominalism; the former is the idea that there exist absolute, universal and ideal 'forms' of all things, and particulars in the word are instances of these ideal forms (they exemplify their qualities); the latter, however, rejects universal and abstract ideals, particulars exist in the world before any of their qualities and we identify and associate them after.

This can be seen in Semiogogue's model of language, where a world of signs (physical indicators of meaning) exist in the world before language, the particulars in the world precede the spoken language which describes it. Another example is in Mike's advocation for Irrationalism, that is that the world functions in a way that is not inherently rational, and indeed the natural world precedes the rationality imposed upon it by the human world.

The particular always precedes the abstract, just as the particular circumstances of the world precede how they are understood politically. Authoritarian power is an abstract ideal, and I would wager that abstract-thinking Nationalists are on the side of Plato. Authoritarian power is not "based", nor is freedom "liberal" without any concrete reference to the physical world which ought precede it.

In short: go outside and touch some grass.

ADL employees working overtime these days

Some people within the Dissident Right could best be described as pets that just want a new owner.

I think too many people misunderstood my previous post. Here’s my point: what all of us in the DR are essentially complaining about, when you boil it down, is that the world is not how we want it to be, we also have a strong vision of how it should be. The problem is that quite a number of people within the DR, despite being hyper opinionated like everyone else here, don’t actually want to have much power to change anything, they don’t want to have a say, just an opinion. And to top it of, they barely understand the importance of having rights (power) that could allow them to meaningfully resist and depose bad leadership — bad leadership is the inevitable and repeating problem we’ve been dealing with for a very long time, it’s a pattern in history. These DR people I’m talking about are way too opinionated to be seeing themselves as followers in need of a better leader — real followers aren’t people with strong political opinions, that’s what makes them followers, they don’t ask for better leaders, they follow. All these pontifications about “good leadership” within the DR never materialize into anything because, ironically, it requires having power and leadership qualities to fix. Since we don’t come from the ruling class, I’m here talking about having more rights and more power to give us some leverage against them, but some of you guys just think, “well having rights seems alright, but you know, what we really should focus on is better leaders, here’s how that leader should be...” Do you not see the contradiction in this whole sentiment? It’s a circular problem — “I don’t care about rights, I just want a better leader... oh shit, the guy that said he was going to be a better leader lied again, I better talk about good leadership more, that’ll fix things this time.”

We should stop seeing ourselves as followers in need of better leaders to save us, because that’s just a helpless puppy-dog-cry for help. Most of us aren’t true followers (NPCs) to begin with, that’s why we’re here.

EDIT: Leaders = Rulers.

Sad whiny puppies that want a new owner: the Dissident Right today in a nutshell. “So what if I get declawed, I’m not using my claws for anything right now. Besides, I want a new owner that’ll protect me and gives me lots of treats.”

”Every comfort must be paid for. The condition of the domesticated animal drags behind it the condition of the slaughterhouse animal.”
– Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage

The ruling class wants UBI because it gives them more control by making people helplessly dependent on the system. It’s cattle feed for cattle.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/hapaperspective/5817

Imagine you’re a farmer raising cattle, what would you do? How would you deal with various problems? What would you want from your farm/cattle? That’s how you put yourself in the shoes of the ruling class to understand some of the WHY and HOW behind their decision to support things like diversity, chipping away at your rights, population control and UBI.

An old but still very relevant Devon Stack video.

https://youtu.be/tl0Bo4GKQ-U

So I'm browsing the internet for a new hand plane and I see this picture for a high end model. Yeah, right. What's our curious carpenter Ahmaud Arbery building for us today?