Oddbean

Eric S. Raymond is an open source legend, author of the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”. Attached is his opinion on the US elections which I consider very valuable. by @esrtweet I hear Kamala Harris has conceded. For just a moment, I'm going to abandon the high-decoupling rationalist stance I normally post from and talk about what I personally wanted from this election and now hope I might get. For me, a good outcome in this election meant not Trump winning, but his enemies losing. I'm not MAGA, and not a tribal conservative of either the old-school or new-school kind. I'm a libertarian, and have some serious differences with substance with Trump and his partisans. Also I have never much liked Trump as a person. He's vulgar and under-controlled; he talks and postures too much and, I think the charge that he's a narcissist has some weight. But...he chooses his enemies well. I will also admit that I think better of Trump now than I did three months ago. He has demonstrated literal courage under fire, which is an important quality in a man who may need to make life or death decisions about the fate of a nation. I went to see him speak, and I saw a man much calmer and more together than I was expecting. But I'm not really posting about Trump today, and the only other thing I'm going to say about him is that his most valuable quality is that he enrages evil people into unmasking themselves. I have believed for decades that the central problem of American politics is defeating the Gramscian long march through our institutions. Covert and not-so-covert Marxists have waged a remarkably successful memetic war. it has many manifestations - blatant bias in the mainstream media, welfare statism, DEI, climate alarmism, transgender ideology, open borders - but the goal is always the same. To cripple and destroy the Main Enemy, the United States of America and everyone in it who loves liberty. Trump's victory is the worst defeat of the Gramscians in my lifetime. They went all-in with an unprecedented campaign of lies, vitriol, hate propaganda, lawfare, and election rigging. He beat them anyway, and for that he has my respect. What I want from the immediate aftermath of the election is to rejoice in their agonized screaming. What I want from Trump and Republican control of both houses is follow-through: 1. Impose election security measures so we can't be frauded again. 2. Abolition of every federal firearms law and regulation, including the disbandment of the ATF. We must restore the proper Constitutional order in which the government is frightened of the people, not the reverse. 3. Massive cuts in the reach and power of the administrative state. No unelected bureaucrat should ever have the power to effectively make law. 4. A concerted and conscious attempt to drive the Communists and Communist tools out from everywhere that they have burrowed into our institutions, perhaps starting with the complete defunding of any educational institution that harbors academic Marxists. Yes, I know, many of these people don't know they're Communist tools. I'm past caring. I've been ready to throw them out of helicopters with my own hands since about 2014, hoping against hope that something would happen to make that kind of violence unnecessary. Now, maybe, we have a path to defeating them peacefully. I'm not sure Trump fully understands this necessity himself, but there are people close to him - notably Elon Musk and Ron Paul - who I'm pretty sure do. The first thing we need to do is be able to name the enemy. Conservatives have been cowards about this ever since the Army-McCarthy hearings a few years before I was born. They became afraid to speak about or explicitly oppose Communist infiltration, and we have been paying an increasing price for that cowardice through my entire lifetime. Conservatives? MAGA people? If you really want to make America great again, make defeat of the Gramscians your cause. Name the enemy. Expose them. Defeat them. They have crippled, divided, and corrupted us for far too long. It's time to take our country back.

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Wise words. It is about time to reclaim the Western World from socialists agenda. We’ve been through that. It does not work FFS unless one wants to destroy the state. People learn, slowly, not everyone but some learn eventually. Life teaches them on sad examples. I was blind for a long time. Even such a stupid monkey as me can learn so I still have a hope for humanity. Good luck to America. Hope Europe also follows.

Thanks for this. A new political paradigm is happening. Trump has harnessed the frustration of people who feel the system is working against them and not for them or with them. His extreme first hand experiences as the target of all the infiltrated institutions only steels his resolve to deliver on his promises. He has the no longer silent majority and independent content producers, the home schoolers, the independent health/medical practitioners and others on his side and they have awakened the increasingly greater part of society. America is reinventing itself again. Bullish on 🇺🇸!✌️

>“We must restore the proper Constitutional order in which the government is frightened of the people, not the reverse.” This guy gets it. I advocate for guillotines (#BBTG) because my country has been disarmed, but we’ve got Bunnings Hardware stores all over the place - if we want to put the fear of god in to those who govern it’s going to have to be with 200 year old blueprints to lop off some heads. Because if we are to have a government, if that is something people are going to accept, then it’s members MUST be scared shitless that if they go too far the people whom they govern will come and take their heads. Without this as a pre-requisite, they will inevitably go too far. And once they go too far once without rediscovering the reality of flesh and bone, what is to stop them from going too far again? Nothing. We’re literally decades into this now, maybe a century even. All that time politicians do shit that should have seen them strung up from lamp posts to have their insides beaten out of them like piñatas, but they managed to insulate themselves so well that they have effectively become untouchable. Becoming untouchable made them think they could touch anything they want. That’s why so many pedos and degenerate pieces of shit occupy positions of power. They’re easier to control for the moneyed powers and once they get there, they’re insulated from reprisal from their victims. This concept makes many people uncomfortable. They don’t want to live in a violent society. Well no-one does! But if there is to be violence, then it must be directed at those who have the capability to direct the most violence upon others because as we’ve seen they will abuse the shit out of that power if left unchecked. The world will not heal, will not be stable, until power comes with consequences.

Trump went after "the deep state" his 1st game in office. Whatever he names these commies I'm pretty sure that 75% of the country will just assume they are the exact same untouchables that he had no luck with then.

Trump did not go after the deep state - he thought he could influence them and win them over. He was wrong - let’s see if he gets it the second time. He has 6 months to truly drain the swamp - if he does not, he never got it. Regardless, #Bitcoin will fix this but will take more time and pain. Not to say it won’t be tough either way.

There need to be a special department for this type of fucking work, @Snowden Targeting doesn’t fit the need here https://image.nostr.build/4588a9c1b2a53df8b4b2f5c7c93ac69ba78d0a810f937b61141c5211e228eec2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/81c6f3f1df624bae28dd4e26329ae30a53c27562307d8ebc19802fe3711ef5c1.jpg

This has been my life's mission since having a child in 1993, holding her in my arms while watching children burn a few hundred miles north of me in Waco (no Texans, you aren't safe). This is a very serious spiritual war (hat tip @Bugle_News). I've "lost" 1 child to this WAR and on the verge of losing another. Play your "who's the statist" game all you want (hell yeah! expose them) but we have one chance here. Join in or get out of the way. Posses your tools with the values you believe in.