Cracks in Anti-Woke Alliance, New Countries in the Digital Cloud?, Sri Lanka Collapses, EU Economies Down On Their Knees, When Birds Migrated to the Moon
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Jul 16, 2022·edited Jul 16, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
More cracks in the alliance:
- Elon vs Trump (I heavily dislike both)
- Yarvin vs normie masses (told them to submit to the Dark Elves and stop struggling lmao)
Personally I think that the abortion ruling was a tactical mistake, but I do understand that the SC is not something anyone owns and works in its own way. If it was me, I'd have absolutely went after Gender first, and enshrined biological sex as the important, legal category that matters, and then go after everything affirmative action. Abortion feels more like something tailored for religious conservatives, I guess the side effect is that it inconveniences women a bit, and women tend to lean shitlib, but overall, as a medic, I'm moderate on the issue and don't really understand what's the huge fuss about it, nor why conservatives think a pre-embrio clump of cells is life, or progressives feeling entitled to own the chuds by murdering fully healthy, viable fetuses with nervous and cardiac activity.
Instead of winners and losers in reality, everyone is miserable in imagination. Pour fentanyl in the water supply and everyone scutters around walking dead style. The 80 yr transformation from one regime to the next is the current moment and while cons are debating silly things like what is a woman, the left aka the power centers are already codifying their liberal hellscape into hegemonic monopoly. Conservatism is the sucker bet. Keep harping on this and that and then suddenly question why all your money is gone. Sorry, you can have a free meal for the night for your troubles but thanks for your life's savings
So the guys in the network state expect to live virtually in their online state whilst also absorbing the resources of the real state, including the infrastructure that allows them to be online? Do they expect police protection? To use the roads, the hospitals?
As for them all congregating in one city, and taking over, in that unlikely event they will pretty soon realise that they need nurses, plumbers, shop keepers, police, etc etc etc. They already have that ratio of nerds to normals in Silicon Valley. In any case moving somewhere and taking over isn’t an online community anymore, and if it ever did happen it would last one generation, two max, until everybody dies out from lack of reproduction.
"There is a noticeable growing resistance to woke culture, but until it begins to impact the bottom line in Corporate America, it’s place is secure. If it loses its position, the USA will default back to pre-woke liberalism, thus satisfying the disaffected liberal, exemplified by what is known as the Barstool Conservative."
Very astute observation, Niccolo. There is no constituency of any significance within Corporate America that supports the policies needed to realise the aims of 'common good' conservatism: economic policies designed to foster family formation or family maintenance (paid maternity leave, high real wages, enhanced employment security).
The trads assume that public policy and transfer payments can rebuild the family structures of the mid-twentieth century and appear to believe that this can happen by an act of collective will via the ballot box. Yet business has no interest in preserving any inherited forms of social or cultural life and would be actively hostile to the emergence of any serious political force that might express such an interest with any sincerity.
'Barstool conservatives' are closer to the centre of political gravity than the trads.
I personally think Barstool guy is just pissed off that his sex life might be hampered if his partners can’t get abortions. But the truth of the matter is they’ll always be able to get abortions, unless he sleeps with someone from Mississippi who has an irregular menstrual cycle. Even then they’ll always have access to abortifacients.
Anyway, I loved your article. So many good thoughts and explanations. I find the two parties have changed dramatically over recent years. Today the left is the party of rich elites, and the right is the party of the working class. I’m talking about the voters of the parties not the leaders. The leaders are all about the elites, on both sides of the aisle.
I've only browsed the first section of The Network State, but one thing stood out immediately - it's all about the rootless cosmopolitans. No mention of families, no mention of the working classes, etc.
Maybe there's something later, but, quite honestly, I strongly doubt it.
Deeds are not words, speech is not power. There is no alliance because it has no power.
These are commentators.
Not political actors, politics is power.
The UnWoke Alliance- doesn’t exist except for TALK and writing, blogging, tweeting and has absolutely no power. Portnoy and Rogan and the rest have
NO POWER. Look at the profiles of the SCOTUS and their immediate retainers- “no Twitter presence “ will immediately pop up. Probably not on Facebook or TikTok either...
The SCOTUS does have power and the SCOTUS did the deed, even if it’s devolving power to the States.
As for Corporate America’s bottom line you Sir overrate and misunderstand corporate America and the limits of money- however worry not, the Originalists thought of that too;
Which is why they’ve backed the Federalists for generations.
RTL and Trads wanted Roe gone,
Corporations want...Chevron deference gone, see ABC of SCOTUS.
Roe was always a litmus test for Activist Regulation/Anti-Business if pro-Roe, if anti-Roe then pro business and less activist regulations. As readers of your blog should know the Courts and not the legislature/Congress are the real means of redress in real life. So SCOTUS having breached the gate of
Roe-stantinople 😉
Now floods the sacred shaking Potomac Citadel with more social conservative decisions ...but business will want to see some Chevron Defilement or Chevron Disrespect...this fits in with all of it, undoing or weakening Chevron returns lawmaking matters to Congress (to their stupefied horror no doubt).
The non Catholic appeal of Originalists is to they who want Constitutional government and this Court has thrown down the Holiest of Holies ...
> Do take note they threw out NYCs 109 year old pistol permit laws aka big 2A win first .
There are 2 right wing groups in America who fight and win; Gun owners and Christians.
And now to the states; where there are actual RW organizations and alliances for both guns and pro-life.
The online alliance of degeneracy , yesterday’s liberals and media attention grabbers is irrelevant- anyone who has power shuns the media, anyone seeking the media has no power.
Especially enjoyed the write up on portnoy and abortion issue. I have always been, and remain, pro-choice, but there’s a truly Tone deaf, single-issue focus - which your write up addresses- that astounds me. To hear people howling and crying about the invasion of our medical privacy after the Covid lockdowns and mandates makes me ashamed to be in any political alliance with them. Not to mention the also completely hypocritical insistence that abortion rights remain untouched by federalism when so many other parts of the health care and hospital systems are completely, even historically, regional. Cf, Mayo system and recent Hulu series “dopesick”. Whatever the answer, these so called responses don’t help one bit. Thanks. I look forward to this weekly feature.
Network states are very similar to the social architecture Neal Stephenson depicted in Snow Crash and The Diamond Age: distributed governance corporations with holdings in cities all over the world, providing services such as housing, security, education, and so on to neighborhoods that operated as outposts. It's sort of like a state made entirely of embassies. In Snow Crash they're shown as being purely commercial in character. In The Diamond Age, they've evolved to take on ideological dimensions, with each network state adopting a culture, philosophy of life, laws, and fashions.
It's not necessarily as crazy as it sounds. Traditional states aren't thrilled about ceding sovereignty over pockets of real estate and ending up with moth-eaten territories, but money and power are their own arguments. The economic activity generated by distributed states, and their ability to leverage technology to do quite a bit of damage if they choose, enables them to carve out territory for themselves; nor does it hurt that life as a citizen of such a group is far better than life outside of one, since those groups provide services, as well as a sense of tribal belonging, far more effectively than traditional territorial states are capable of.
In the real world, additional examples of this kind of thing are the New Hampshire Free State project, and some town in the Midwest that got entirely taken over by a radical church. Historically, the Puritans of New England, as well as the Amish, fit. In fact, especially the Amish. I suppose the globalist miasma is itself a version of this, although not yet formalized.
Jul 16, 2022·edited Jul 17, 2022Liked by Niccolo Soldo
I don't buy that to be united on one issue you have to be united on all issues. I think this thinking is a result of the US two party system. Politically in the US we are forced to this binary simplification, but the fight against wokeism is not only a political one.
Our European policy is strategic competence and strategic depth.
Europe Is now utterly ours as much or more than 1945.
The trade with China and so China buying Europe has now been eliminated.
Russia as counterweight to America is now impossible.
America now has Strategic Depth via Western and Central Europe.
If there’s foreign war it largely happens in Europe.
If there’s 🇺🇸 domestic war the Ruling Elites have Strategic Depth with Europe being a base, USA has the same relationship with Canada (Canada is now our Denmark, just as Denmark has long been Germany’s property upon demand).
Strategy remains a core Anglo-American competence.
Strategy is not the battlefield, that is tactics. The Doom of Ukraine is irrelevant, Ukraine is simply vehicle.
Poland is next.
Poland will be partioned again by the end of this matter.
As far as any profit for LNG and the rest from Europe...the people doing this use money for payoffs, they aren’t motivated by payoffs.
The love or envy of money isn’t even evil it’s autistic.
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More cracks in the alliance:
- Elon vs Trump (I heavily dislike both)
- Yarvin vs normie masses (told them to submit to the Dark Elves and stop struggling lmao)
Personally I think that the abortion ruling was a tactical mistake, but I do understand that the SC is not something anyone owns and works in its own way. If it was me, I'd have absolutely went after Gender first, and enshrined biological sex as the important, legal category that matters, and then go after everything affirmative action. Abortion feels more like something tailored for religious conservatives, I guess the side effect is that it inconveniences women a bit, and women tend to lean shitlib, but overall, as a medic, I'm moderate on the issue and don't really understand what's the huge fuss about it, nor why conservatives think a pre-embrio clump of cells is life, or progressives feeling entitled to own the chuds by murdering fully healthy, viable fetuses with nervous and cardiac activity.
Settle down, both of y'all.
Instead of winners and losers in reality, everyone is miserable in imagination. Pour fentanyl in the water supply and everyone scutters around walking dead style. The 80 yr transformation from one regime to the next is the current moment and while cons are debating silly things like what is a woman, the left aka the power centers are already codifying their liberal hellscape into hegemonic monopoly. Conservatism is the sucker bet. Keep harping on this and that and then suddenly question why all your money is gone. Sorry, you can have a free meal for the night for your troubles but thanks for your life's savings
So the guys in the network state expect to live virtually in their online state whilst also absorbing the resources of the real state, including the infrastructure that allows them to be online? Do they expect police protection? To use the roads, the hospitals?
As for them all congregating in one city, and taking over, in that unlikely event they will pretty soon realise that they need nurses, plumbers, shop keepers, police, etc etc etc. They already have that ratio of nerds to normals in Silicon Valley. In any case moving somewhere and taking over isn’t an online community anymore, and if it ever did happen it would last one generation, two max, until everybody dies out from lack of reproduction.
In other news: my very, very old friend 2cb (Second City Bureaucrat) has started up his own Substack - https://secondcitybureaucrat.substack.com/
From the site:
"This is 2cb's Weekly Touchbase, a newsletter about Group narcissism, professionalism, jurisprudence."
"There is a noticeable growing resistance to woke culture, but until it begins to impact the bottom line in Corporate America, it’s place is secure. If it loses its position, the USA will default back to pre-woke liberalism, thus satisfying the disaffected liberal, exemplified by what is known as the Barstool Conservative."
Very astute observation, Niccolo. There is no constituency of any significance within Corporate America that supports the policies needed to realise the aims of 'common good' conservatism: economic policies designed to foster family formation or family maintenance (paid maternity leave, high real wages, enhanced employment security).
The trads assume that public policy and transfer payments can rebuild the family structures of the mid-twentieth century and appear to believe that this can happen by an act of collective will via the ballot box. Yet business has no interest in preserving any inherited forms of social or cultural life and would be actively hostile to the emergence of any serious political force that might express such an interest with any sincerity.
'Barstool conservatives' are closer to the centre of political gravity than the trads.
I personally think Barstool guy is just pissed off that his sex life might be hampered if his partners can’t get abortions. But the truth of the matter is they’ll always be able to get abortions, unless he sleeps with someone from Mississippi who has an irregular menstrual cycle. Even then they’ll always have access to abortifacients.
Anyway, I loved your article. So many good thoughts and explanations. I find the two parties have changed dramatically over recent years. Today the left is the party of rich elites, and the right is the party of the working class. I’m talking about the voters of the parties not the leaders. The leaders are all about the elites, on both sides of the aisle.
I've only browsed the first section of The Network State, but one thing stood out immediately - it's all about the rootless cosmopolitans. No mention of families, no mention of the working classes, etc.
Maybe there's something later, but, quite honestly, I strongly doubt it.
Deeds are not words, speech is not power. There is no alliance because it has no power.
These are commentators.
Not political actors, politics is power.
The UnWoke Alliance- doesn’t exist except for TALK and writing, blogging, tweeting and has absolutely no power. Portnoy and Rogan and the rest have
NO POWER. Look at the profiles of the SCOTUS and their immediate retainers- “no Twitter presence “ will immediately pop up. Probably not on Facebook or TikTok either...
The SCOTUS does have power and the SCOTUS did the deed, even if it’s devolving power to the States.
As for Corporate America’s bottom line you Sir overrate and misunderstand corporate America and the limits of money- however worry not, the Originalists thought of that too;
Which is why they’ve backed the Federalists for generations.
RTL and Trads wanted Roe gone,
Corporations want...Chevron deference gone, see ABC of SCOTUS.
Roe was always a litmus test for Activist Regulation/Anti-Business if pro-Roe, if anti-Roe then pro business and less activist regulations. As readers of your blog should know the Courts and not the legislature/Congress are the real means of redress in real life. So SCOTUS having breached the gate of
Roe-stantinople 😉
Now floods the sacred shaking Potomac Citadel with more social conservative decisions ...but business will want to see some Chevron Defilement or Chevron Disrespect...this fits in with all of it, undoing or weakening Chevron returns lawmaking matters to Congress (to their stupefied horror no doubt).
The non Catholic appeal of Originalists is to they who want Constitutional government and this Court has thrown down the Holiest of Holies ...
> Do take note they threw out NYCs 109 year old pistol permit laws aka big 2A win first .
There are 2 right wing groups in America who fight and win; Gun owners and Christians.
And now to the states; where there are actual RW organizations and alliances for both guns and pro-life.
The online alliance of degeneracy , yesterday’s liberals and media attention grabbers is irrelevant- anyone who has power shuns the media, anyone seeking the media has no power.
So its noise, no current of power:
You've been gone from twitter for a while. Do you have a Telegram channel?
Especially enjoyed the write up on portnoy and abortion issue. I have always been, and remain, pro-choice, but there’s a truly Tone deaf, single-issue focus - which your write up addresses- that astounds me. To hear people howling and crying about the invasion of our medical privacy after the Covid lockdowns and mandates makes me ashamed to be in any political alliance with them. Not to mention the also completely hypocritical insistence that abortion rights remain untouched by federalism when so many other parts of the health care and hospital systems are completely, even historically, regional. Cf, Mayo system and recent Hulu series “dopesick”. Whatever the answer, these so called responses don’t help one bit. Thanks. I look forward to this weekly feature.
“Coinbase’s former CTO”
Next scam in process
Network states are very similar to the social architecture Neal Stephenson depicted in Snow Crash and The Diamond Age: distributed governance corporations with holdings in cities all over the world, providing services such as housing, security, education, and so on to neighborhoods that operated as outposts. It's sort of like a state made entirely of embassies. In Snow Crash they're shown as being purely commercial in character. In The Diamond Age, they've evolved to take on ideological dimensions, with each network state adopting a culture, philosophy of life, laws, and fashions.
It's not necessarily as crazy as it sounds. Traditional states aren't thrilled about ceding sovereignty over pockets of real estate and ending up with moth-eaten territories, but money and power are their own arguments. The economic activity generated by distributed states, and their ability to leverage technology to do quite a bit of damage if they choose, enables them to carve out territory for themselves; nor does it hurt that life as a citizen of such a group is far better than life outside of one, since those groups provide services, as well as a sense of tribal belonging, far more effectively than traditional territorial states are capable of.
In the real world, additional examples of this kind of thing are the New Hampshire Free State project, and some town in the Midwest that got entirely taken over by a radical church. Historically, the Puritans of New England, as well as the Amish, fit. In fact, especially the Amish. I suppose the globalist miasma is itself a version of this, although not yet formalized.
I don't buy that to be united on one issue you have to be united on all issues. I think this thinking is a result of the US two party system. Politically in the US we are forced to this binary simplification, but the fight against wokeism is not only a political one.
Europe.
Europe is cold and hungry again.
Our European policy is strategic competence and strategic depth.
Europe Is now utterly ours as much or more than 1945.
The trade with China and so China buying Europe has now been eliminated.
Russia as counterweight to America is now impossible.
America now has Strategic Depth via Western and Central Europe.
If there’s foreign war it largely happens in Europe.
If there’s 🇺🇸 domestic war the Ruling Elites have Strategic Depth with Europe being a base, USA has the same relationship with Canada (Canada is now our Denmark, just as Denmark has long been Germany’s property upon demand).
Strategy remains a core Anglo-American competence.
Strategy is not the battlefield, that is tactics. The Doom of Ukraine is irrelevant, Ukraine is simply vehicle.
Poland is next.
Poland will be partioned again by the end of this matter.
As far as any profit for LNG and the rest from Europe...the people doing this use money for payoffs, they aren’t motivated by payoffs.
The love or envy of money isn’t even evil it’s autistic.
Misses the entire point in politics.