G. Gordon Diddy

same writer

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

Really good interview on the neo-morality (without realizing it) One general point, which applies to the content here, but also beyond it, is the extent to which Americans of all backgrounds and positions in society are running away: away from other Americans, away from the US as it currently exists. Zoomer men want to run away from zoomer women; older women want to run away from older men; Democrats want to run away from a racist, sexist, nakedly capitalist US; MAGA wants to run away from America as an economic zone; the professional class wants to run away from the chuds; that the economy is fake, broken, and too expensive is consensus; China is soon to take over, or maybe has already won; the olds are exploiting the young; AI will doom us all; white identitarians believe they are exploited by minorities; progressives believe the country structurally privileges whites; feminists think it’s patriarchal; the manosphere thinks men are the exploited gender No one, it seems, wants to defends the US as it currently exists, and that includes - maybe especially includes - the elite, who all believe one or more versions of the above This is unique in the American experience; there’s never been a time in our history when *no one* could summon the will to defend the currently established order. That is inherently unstable, and contributes substantially to the present political uncertainty and sense of general unseriousness ————— I’ll also note that no one in the interview mentions the obvious about older female-younger male relationships, which is that they are almost by definition non-generative. In contrast, Older male-younger female can produce lots of children. So the extent to which the reverse becomes more common will by definition further suppress the birth rate.

Economists like property taxes because it makes every single person a "slave" who must constantly earn a wage or be cast out onto the street. Prevents ever attaining a feeling of "security" which might allow "leisure." That is what they don't want you to ever have.

Why is it difficult (yet necessary) to root out Hezbollah and destroy its terrorist infrastructure, stockpiles, and means of movement? Because this is what they’ve built: sophisticated tunnels - with lighting, comms, and rail transport - drilled through solid rock as deep as 20 stories below the surface. This tunnel near Shtula under the Israel-Lebanon border (aka right under the UN’s nose) was discovered and sealed by the IDF during Operation Northern Shield.

Yud on how many of us he would sacrifice for his beliefs: “There should be enough survivors on Earth in close contact to form a viable reproductive population, with room to spare, and they should have a sustainable food supply. So long as that's true, there's still a chance of reaching the stars someday.”