Aznul

Nothing that is happening in DC will make any sense unless you first absorb one critical fact. Both political parties have been replaced. There are no Republicans. There are no Democrats. The stationary exists, but the political unity does not. They are pseudoparties. There are not two political parties in America, there are three. They are Nationalist Party, the Globalist Party, and the OogaBooga Party. Nationalists are heritage Americans who want to restore American values, principles and greatness to America by running America as if it were just like every other country on the map.... a blood and soil nation belonging to and representing a people. Example Nationalist politicians would be Pat Buchanan, Barry Goldwater, and Ross Perot. Examples Nationalist X accounts would be @AuronMacintyre, @romanhelmetguy, and myself. Globalists are a loose coalition of those who will stop at nothing to loot the system and enjoy the managed decline for as long as possible. Their plans focus on keeping the cost of labor down and the price of land up by moving industries and people freely across national borders as needed. Example Globalist politicians would be Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan. Example Globalist X accounts would @JoelWBerry, @benshapiro, and @ConceptualJames. OogaBoogas are a collection of tribals wearing suits whose primary goals are self-enrichment, loyalty to their third world tribe of origin, and shared resentment of Western Civilization. They are also supported by dysfunctional bioleninists. Example OogaBooga politicians would be Zohran Mamdani, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Barrack Obama. OogaBoogas don't really have the wit for prominence on X, but they have eleventy-billion small accounts. Right now, the "democrats" are about to begin a power struggle between Globalists and OogaBooga, which OogaBooga will win, because all the things that make them win are unavoidable consequences of Globalists' cheap labor plan. The OogaBoogas are the golem that the Globalists have set loose to rampage in the streets, and they cannot fight it without abandoning their whole agenda. Also right now, the "republicans" are in the early stages of a power struggle between the Globalists and the Nationalists. This is why "republicans" appear to act like they don't want to win. Because the struggle is not between republicans and democrats. It is between Globalists and Nationalists. The need to defeat "democrat" candidates so as to retain elected office is always balanced by the need to weaponize those same "democrats" against others in the "republican" party, and so to prevent Nationalists from having federal representation. The fight for America's future is not between republicans and democrats for control of DC. It is between Nationalists and Globalists for control of the Republican Party. This is why the "republicans" did nothing with a supermajority for 2 years. There was no supermajority. Because there are no republicans. Only Nationalists, Globalists, and OogaBooga. It is meaningless for "republicans" to win elections now. Because there are no republicans. There are Globalists. And there are Nationalists. The Nationalists must win. And the timeframe for the Nationalists to do this is determined by the other civil war... the struggle for control of the Democratic Party. The Globalists in the DNC will eventually lose to the OogaBooga that they brought in to line their pockets. They have no effective defense against OogaBooga because they have been preaching open borders, decolonization, and anti-racism forever. They are analogous to the Jews of Prague in the old story, about to be murdered by their own Golem. The Nationalists must win control of the Republican Party before the Globalists lose control of the Democratic Party. Because Nationalists can beat OogaBooga, and Globalists can't. If the Nationalists win in time, they can curbstomp OogaBooga, Bukele style, and we can have a proper country again. If they don't, the United States will become a third world country, and we'll have to take a couple hundred thousand rednecks and conquer New Zealand or something to create a metaphorical seed bank for Western Civilization. The first step in winning is to understand who the enemy is. Bukele showed us that the power of a unified state, supported by its people, can always clean out domestic enemies with swift and ruthless action. The reason we haven't done that is that we have no unified state. Because of the true enemy. The enemy is Globalists, not OogaBoogas. We must understand that Globalist "republicans" are not fellow conservatives who are mistaken about something. They not conservatives. They conserve nothing. They are the enemy. We must purge ourselves of the enemy within. Then, and only then, can we defeat the enemy without.

"Hey, everyone, I just had a thought about how the philosophy of the villain in this movie is actually more reasonable and morally sound than the hero's." "Yeah, well, you're wrong, 'cause the script had him kick a puppy! What do you have to say about that, huh, smart guy?"

What's with the six extra words on the end?

Working at Oculus would have been an utter waste of my time except for one thing. While I was there, I realized what's wrong with leftists. Not that they have been programmed, that's obvious. Not why they have been programmed. For power, that's obvious, too. But how they have been programmed. The exact method that their moral compass has been destroyed works like this: Target a bunch of people with very few deeds and accomplishments, such as young people or incompetent people, or incompetent young people. Create for them an environment where they are rewarded with moral approval, not for what they do, but for believing certain ideas. The ideas don't have to be outrageous, or absurd, or have anything to do with what you actually need them to believe. In fact, it's better to start with something innocuous. Why? Because the goal isn't to install those beliefs at all. The goal is to repeat this process until you create a person who measures his moral worth by what he believes, not what he does. Keep at this until you have created a mass of people who not only reward themselves with a feeling of moral superiority for believing the right things, but who will reward each other for believing orthodox things, and who will compete with each other, not to do the most good, but to have the most orthodox beliefs. Now, change one of the propositions you have programmed them with to a slightly more radical version of itself, and hold this up as a more correct version of the old belief, which has been newly discovered by scholarly investigations into culture and moral philosophy. Sit back, watch, and give them a few weeks to compete with each other to adopt the new belief, and to condemn the "evil" of anyone who believes the old belief, the very thing they believed last month. Repeat this process until they are used to rapidly changing their entire belief system in response to an external cue. Congratulations, you have a population of entirely programmable people whose moral compass is not just broken, but entirely non-existent. They don't care what any person in front of them actually does. Only that he believe the orthodox thing, which they just learned about in last week's memo. They are willing to do anything, so long as it is done in support of their current belief system, which can be replaced whenever it's convenient to do so. They are willing to burn down an entire city with no qualms whatsoever if they are doing it in support of the idea that black lives matter. They are willing to murder a man in front of his children, and it doesn't matter if his actions were entirely peaceful and good, because all that matters to them is whether he believes the correct things or not. And a man who builds cheap spaceflight for the human race, develops viable electric cars to save the environment, restores voices to the voiceless, and plans, for his next trick, to heal the blind... well, all those are deeds, so none of them matter. The only thing that matters is that he told people to vote republican once, which is wrongthink. So what you have a horde of communist zombies, who can be steered to shuffle in any direction and attack the living, eat their brains, and turn them into more zombies. Once someone becomes one of the zombies, you can't cure him, because a moral compass can only be repaired by understanding the consequences of actions in a new way... and they don't care about actions or consequences. They only care about beliefs, and not about consequences at all. Their moral compasses aren't just broken. They are absent. There's nothing to repair. You have to understand that the zombies are zombies now.

You are on topic about the prequels... but I do not grant them the rank of masterpiece. Why not? Because, in the final analysis, they were written by a retarded boomerlib. And retarded boomerlibs have a perfectly inverted moral compass. Whatever they call good is actually evil. And they will call evil what is actually good. Millenials and GenZ are correct to identify in Anakin Skywalker what the boomers have done to them. But the films were not written to point this out. They were written, instead, as a defense of boomerlib morals and boomerlib theology. Consider the religion of the jedi. It is lifted, chapter and verse, from a bowdlerized versions of eastern religion sold to the flower children of the 60s by Indian grifters. Don't want things, do not work to achieve goals, do not have ambitions, do not desire. Instead, empty yourself, numb your passions, achieve nothing, move in no direction, simply exist where you are, content and at peace even if the world burns around you. Refer to all your responsibilities as "attachments" and seek to shed them. Be attached to nothing. Be an atomized individual with no sense of duty or loyalty. Your moral worth consists not of your deeds, but your inner feelings. This is chaos religion. It is religion for people for people in crapsack societies, where everyone is an 85 IQ retard, and the guy who happens to have a triple digit IQ, the guy who's smart enough to invent a religion, just looks around him and gives up. Fuck it, he says, there's no hope of ever fixing this, I'm just going to stop wanting things and veg out. The sith, by contrast, represent, not any Western religion in particular, but just vaguely Western values in general. Except they represent those values as seen through the eyes of someone who hates them. So, not just work, achieve, ascend, hone yourself, pursue excellence, be passionate about something, and gain power, but also kick some kittens along the way so George Lucas and his fellow retarded boomerlibs can feel good about hating you. See, that's the problem with the whole story. It's a story anti-trope called "debate and switch". A work of fiction sets up a moral dilemma or other painful choice, then finds a way to resolve it without actually addressing the issue it raised. In this case, the Star Wars prequels set up these two opposing philosophies, sith and jedi, but Lucas never actually makes any arguments about why the jedi are right. He just has it pre-inserted into the already-written story that the sith are gonna blow up a planet or two, slaughter some innocent kids, and kick a basket of kittens, therefore bad. And that is the big problem with the prequels. The underlying story, if it were tightened, purged of stupid cameos from characters who aren't supposed to be in it yet, had some plot holes patched, and was written by someone with better dialogue skills and without an inverted moral compass, could have been a good Greek-style tragedy. But the whole point of the story, the whole anvilicious point, inserted repeatedly with all the subtlety of a giraffe in dark glasses trying to get into a polar-bears-only nightclub, is that ANAKIN IS BAD, GUYS, MMKAY? What millenial viewers may not understand, and GenZ viewers certainly won't, is that a lot of the dialogue is actually an extremely hamfisted midwit commentary on the exact political climate of the time.... post 9/11, GWOT, Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. It's all George's stupid boomerlib sentiments that republicans are bad, and muzzie terrorists who blow up our people aren't. So, the movies sucked, and we all thought so at the time. The reason you find them relatable now, and you are right to do so, is that George's moral compass is so perfectly inverted that he accidentally wrote everything his generation was going to do to the young men, without even realizing it was a confession rather than a manifesto. He thought, he still thinks, that everything the Republic was doing was basically fine, with a little unfortunate collateral damage, and everything would have been great if Anakin had just played along. Just as he and his retarded boomerlib compatriots think that you and your entire generation are acceptable collateral damage in the hippie-Buddhist post-ethnic end-of-history world they wanted to build on the ashes of the West. The dead giveaway for this is how he models the sith... there are always two, the master and the apprentice. This models how Western civilization works. Elders train up youths and pass on their knowledge, skill, and power. Teacher to student, father to son. Except Lucas wrote this as the apprentice treacherously killing the master to usurp his place. In the story, it makes no sense. Why would sith Lords train apprentices, if sith history was one constant stream of murder-succession? But outside the story it makes perfect sense. To a healthy father, being succeeded, and then exceeded, by his son is the definition of victory. He is proud of his son, he loves his son, his son is the product not only of his hands and care, but of his very selfhood. Any victory of the child belongs also to the father, and there is no greater joy. But to the retarded boomerlib, such as Lucas, to be succeeded by your son is to be murdered and usurped. Why? Because he cannot stand to take pride in being part of something greater than himself... a lineage, a tribe, a nation, a heritage. He desires to remain forever the main character. It is not insignificant that George Lucas did not leave the Star Wars intellectual property as a legacy for his children to manage and develop, writing their own stories. Instead, he groomed a retarded midwit girlboss for the role, who did not rise even to his modest level of talent. Someone who would never exceed him, would never become more famous and loved for her Star Wars stories than Lucas was for his. And then he sold the whole thing to Disney to cash in. And it should not pass without notice that, while some boomers are out there being parents and grandparents, the majority are liquidating every system of prosperity they ever built or inherited, and spending all the money on an old person's definition of hedonism. Bumper stickers on luxury Airstreams that read "Spending the kids' inheritance". The Star Wars prequels are just the ravings of a delusional anti-civilization nutter who thinks all this is a good thing. So by all means deconstruct the prequels. By all means point out that the jedi are evil, because they are. By all means point out that the sith are good, because if the author wasn't making them kick the dog, they would be. I will cheer for all this. Hell, rewrite it with AI movie tools built for you by GenX techbros, to point out that Anakin and Palpatine are right all along. THAT will be a masterpiece if you do it well enough. But don't try to rehabilitate Lucas. He doesn't deserve it. Peace is a lie. There is only Passion. Through Passion, I gain Strength. Through Strength, I gain Power. Through Power, I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken. The Force shall free me.

Good point by @jcenters here. Money is a measure of fucks given. You get it because you did something someone gave a fuck about. You use it to make people give a fuck about something they otherwise wouldn't. Except the act of using money to make people give a fuck about something is called "spending". How many fucks people give about you is not proportional to how much money you have, it's proportional to how much money you spend, and how wisely you spend it. Many wealthy people, who self-describe as right-wing, expect to be influential because they have money, not because of how they use money. We have a fair handful of right wing billionaires, who want right-wing values to win, but they are fundamentally confused about what their role in that victory needs to be. I've often joked that the difference between a billionaire and an intellectual is that an intellectual doesn't think he's a billionaire. But unfortunately, I'm not much of a comedian, and this particular joke is only funny because it's true. Far too many of the right-wing billionaire class thinks that their role is thought leadership. But they are investors, not persuaders, and certainly not practical philosophers. The actual power they have isn't to inspire or lead, it's to provide resources to empower others and create organizations and networks. This means that when someone says "it would be good to have 100 million dollars to make a right-wing, non-subverted version of The Odyssey", the correct answer is not "rent computation time on my company's AI slop cannon, and make it at your own expense while working a day job". This means when someone says "we need to create some right-wing networks", the correct answer is not "buy a ticket to listen to me spitball abstract religious theory". The correct answer is "hey, you're good at networking, here's a middle class salary so you can devote your full-time efforts to recruit and building a team of full-time lobbyists, and here's some money to pay them with". The correct answer is "hey, you're writing kids' books about fighting monsters, instead of about exploring your unique gender identity, here's a middle class salary so you can do it full time". The correct answer is "hey, you're good at rooting out left wing corruption, and exposing it to sunlight, here's a middle class salary so you can do it full time without worrying about monetization, and a legal team on retainer for when they come after you". The correct answer is "oh, you got arrested for being rude to some foreigner invader in blatant left-wing lawfare? Well, here's a paid-off legal team to help you, and a guaranteed job for life at one of my companies so you don't care about what this does to your criminal record, and, hey, fuck it, I'll pay off your mortgage as well. Let's see how well they can use the system to intimidate people when being targeted by them is like hitting the lottery!" The correct answer is "oh, your fantasy novel series got cancelled because you refused the publisher's demand to put in a gay character? Here's 30K to cover self-publishing expenses, and I'll use my massive multibillion dollar social media platform to promote it for free." Why is @DataRepublican having to monetize on her own with {website I can't even mention because god forbid X.com doesn't get all the clicks}? Why does @monsterhunter45 not have a single movie deal {because god forbid the right make a movie that isn't about Jesus or Ayn Rand}? What are we even doing here? Right wing money is not being spent in a disciplined or intelligent way. We're all just noodling around. Our moneyed class spend on physical self-protection so someone doesn't shoot them, but very few of them spend much of anything on political self-protection except Musk. And none of them spend anything on cultural self-protection, because it hasn't sunk in that culture, art, and entertainment are upstream from politics. Buying Twitter protects the people who already agree with you from censorship (sometimes), but it doesn't move the needle with anyone else, because they show up to the conversation with their opinions already formed by Disney Star Wars and Harry Potter and Queers of War. Look, this isn't about what you "should" do. It's about what you have to do if you want to survive. Just because left can steal the money they spend doesn't mean they aren't getting something for that money. Which means you have to spend to fight them, even if you have to spend the actual money you earned. It doesn't matter if you "should" be safe from political prosecutions and confiscations just because that's morally right, or if broke right wing artists and commentators like me "should" pull ourselves up by our own well-worn bootstraps, because something something individualism self-reliance avocado toast. I'm not talking about what should be. I am talking about what is. Fighting wars costs money. The left is so corrupt and incompetent right now that their gay race communist trash costs ten times what it actually costs to make. And the left is so delusional and untalented right now that people would prefer literally any alternative to their art and entertainment. But books still cost money to write and publish. Movies still cost money to shoot. Culture wars still cost money to fight. You can't expect the left, however crippled, to lose a war with nothing and no one. And if they don't lose, they are going to gulag you and take all your stuff. 100% of it. They don't want to rob you because they hate you. They hate you because they want to rob you.