phillip

Blindly preserving the state will always ensue in the death of a people. The state is fixing, calcifying, and order-imposing, whereas a living people is only ever underway, caught between the beginning and end of transformation. A people is constant only in its becoming, a state becomes in its constancy. We read the existence of peoples, nationals, back upon the many tribes of Europe, under the idea of the state, and the idea of the state under the contemporary conception of the nation-state. So a people is not only un-identical with itself in the past and future, but also in the present. The imposition of the state inhibits the development of a people such that it may organize and congeal into a discrete formation. Within this crystalline and quasi-artificial formation of ‘state,’ a people may come to apprehend itself in law, and even mistake itself for the image apprehended. The state, in naming and making explicit, crystallizes invisible tradition into visible institution and law that ‘citizens’ can touch and grab hold of. While this evolution compels a people to self-consciousness, it divides a people from itself as the cause and end of this transformation. Where law is no longer internal to a people, it must be imposed from without, so the state arrives to aid in a problem of its own making. But so as to not appear as a hostile foreigner, it makes itself familiar. The nation-state is a composite between the dynamic, pre-reflective becoming of a people and the static, objective quality of self-recognition. A nation-state must stabilize the movement of a people without grinding it to a halt. The formation of a people requires a state, for a people comes to see itself as a people under the guidance of law. But in order to naturalize what is only half-natural, the nation state must deploy violence. In this endeavor, the state is always eventually felled by the means of its establishment, where upon a multitude of people scatter out from underneath its corpse.

No state has a right to exist. States emerge … they divide … they disappear. Did Czechoslovakia have a “right to exist”? To claim that any state has a “right to exist” is to freeze the status quo in a kind of sacred slumber, to deny the history of the state and foreclose future transformation. States emerge when an entity gains a monopoly on violence over a territory and population. The state proves itself to be a state through violent confrontation with competing entities or the natural elements. The only rights a state has are those it gives to itself by virtue of being a state, namely the right to punish and kill its internal population and the right to attack and destroy other states. A state is not a social insurance system, a holding company, or a garden club. A state should not be confused with a nation. In turn, entities that did not emerge as states, and do not possess a state’s right to violence, should not be confused with states. All other discussions about a state’s “right to exist” are equivalent to discussions about the “right to exist” of Santa Claus.

@RichardBSpencer State=Apollo Nation=Dionysius

This is really one of the worst things I’ve ever seen I’m speechless

@aidannonx Category error to say he “betrayed” us, but the Supreme Court isn’t going to reverse precedent dating back to 1844

@philliplede When birthright citizenship is ended will you say Trump betrayed us or screwed us?

It’s not that you’ve been betrayed by Trump; you made a deal, in your head, with a man who doesn’t exist. If you buy a car from a used-car salesman and later realize he sold you a broken transmission, he didn’t “betray” you, he duped you. You got duped. He never committed not to cheat you; you just unthinkingly assumed he wasn’t going to. It’s like going to a loan shark expecting to speedily pay off the interest. The fault is not on the loan shark for acting as a loan shark, but you for failing to identify him as one.

@aidannonx The ignition still has to work.

@philliplede This is a horrible misrepresentation of the many good things Trump has actually done and planned to do There’s plenty of stuff he’s flip flopped on and failed to do or done that people disagreed with but this framing ignores that

It’s seems Ben is the consistent albatross around the Daily Wire’s neck.

Up to 15 years in prison for a 2 year age gap btw.

Definitely one of the funniest boomer statements of all time.

Clav breathes in and Tim Pool’s beanie-toupe is vacuumed from his chalky skull

From Trump’s vantage, he is genuine; he doesn’t intend to lie either—he’s simply employing tried-and-true sales tactics, waiting for the other party to negotiate. This is inconceivable to most of us because we operate with a sense of naive earnestness. The “form of life” we inhabit conditions us to conceive honesty as ‘simple immutability’; not so for NYC real estate developers, reality-show hosts, and politicians—Trump being all three simultaneously.

Massie v. Gallrein

Unfortunately they aren’t old enough to vote.

He literally wants to build Third World NATO.

If Kirk was still alive and opposed the Iran War, Trump would be attacking him on Truth Social right now.

It’s only been 2 weeks

Prof. Jiang, who is definitely not a CCP asset, tells Tucker Carlson that the US should give up its role as world ‘hegemon’ and attempt an equal ‘partnership’ with China and Russia. Of course, China and Russia won’t attempt to take America’s perch because great powers are famously altruistic and never act in their self interest when their enemy relents.

Things are going great