How I Mine for Fish?

On Sherman-Posting One must note a sudden dearth of posts featuring one General William Tecumseh Sherman, especially odd given that the question of states in insurrection against the federal government has become more, and not less, salient. Of course, those "who know", understand, at least instinctually, why this has come to pass, but I believe it worthwhile to consider the oddities which both brought, diminished, and might resurrect this trend. First, one must understand "who was Sherman?" Here, the answers answers split along three major cultural rivers: 1. The general American educational understanding - Sherman was a competent Union general in the Civil War who did vast damage to the Confederacy 2. The specifically aggrieved Southern memory - for a significant but culturally receded portion of the South, this man is the embodiment of the horrors of war inflicted upon them, a Bloody Banastre Tarleton of a war which the oldest person you know may have known someone who survived 3. The Meme - this was the man who made George (read: generic white Christian men - aka those in #2 above, aka fascists) howl, remembered not for his accomplishments but for how he And it was the meme that was spread, not the history. The history would make a terrible fit for those who most posted his image. Let's take a cursory review of Sherman. (I highly recommend reading more, as he is a fascinating character.) Despite his fearsome memetic reputation, an actual analysis of his words and deeds reveals a deeply pragmatic soldier with a stony disposition. Before the war, he argued against secession, arguing not on moral lines but on accurate and foreboding predictions of how it would play out and fail. During the war, he fought ably in battles, then unleashed his famous March through Georgia, bringing the ravages of war to the Confederate heartland. At the end of the war, he offered a generous peace to the Confederate armies, receiving censure for his leniency. Throughout, the story that emerges is not that of a braggart, proud of the horrors unleashed, but of a grim realist. His most famous quote, "War is hell" drives this home. (Those familiar with Appalachia can hear in those words the flinty accent of the hills and hollers, an echo of a man who recognizes hell and can deliver it when asked. So do not ask.) This archetype of a warrior is not reserved to Sherman, and neither is it originated or terminated with him. What makes Sherman interesting are two points: his position at the dawn of modern war, and his self-awareness towards it. What Sherman did to Georgia is an ancient thing. An army on the forage, having broken from the front lines, has gained access to the enemy's rear and has set upon him to deprive him of the means of making war. What happens next would be understandable to every general in the Greek or Persian army. In more modern times, this manner of wrath is dealt dispassionately. Instead of a cavalry commander loosing his men to burn and loot, the decisions were reached by men with slide rules under technical terms such as "strategic bombing". Further still, computer simulations enabled targeteers to mathematically work out exactly how many nuclear weapons would be required to reduce the productive capacity (read: functional human civilization) below necessary thresholds. Sherman is interesting because he recognized what he needed to do, but he did not take to it as a bandit, but as an duty. The bloody job needed doing, and he did it well. Sherman did not enjoy his work, but he took pride in his success, as this brought a swifter end to the horror he so clearly understood. Here, I will let the man speak for himself: "I confess, without shame, I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation." Sherman would not have Sherman-posted to gloat, but he would have done so to warn the damn fools not to open a door that cannot close without uncounted stacked corpses.

@UsingLyft The GOP has never held a shutdown like this. The Dems are deliberately creating misery in order to protect their illegals.

The fact we have a party willing to shut the government down over the existence of immigration enforcement should be getting everyone’s attention right now. Nothing else matters nearly as much as this problem right here. This is not ok

The appeal of polyamory, for many journalists, lies in the thought of having more than one guaranteed reader. x.com/KeithNHumphrey…

@Howlingmutant0 It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't at the funeral.

Getting nude in front of a woman for the first time and making the “Whelp! This is me!” face and being asked to leave

@xenocosmography "I hate the left because they've flooded my home with hostile foreigners." "I hate the Jews because they support the left who are importing hostile foreigners." "Let's team up with the left and the hostile foreigners to own the Jews." ... SOMETHING BROKE IN THIS LOGIC CHAIN

Groyper types do in fact think ICE patriots are agents of ZOG. We're living in incredible times. x.com/AeonAnimus/sta…

@ChristianHeiens Wait until they start saying that your 2am anime dubs are now under threat. What then?

Good thing I never go outside.

@chrisbrunet The parties that would fund the protests are aligned on getting us into this. Only once it has been securely locked in as a quagmire will one side performatively begin to protest. But until it's "Trump's war" well and truly, they'll grease the skids.

why aren’t there any protests over the war in Iran? I would like to attend one I remember a million protests over Iraq

@RobProvince Definitions have a vector. We'll rediscover the old one.

Didn’t we redefine what a recession is?

@gorilla_rape This needs to be stopped.

this would be a disaster everyone needs to call their reps NOW and demand not only this not pass , but trump needs to sign an executive order ending OPT this is just a hand out to colleges to scrape money from indians who use our education system as a way into the USA

Impossible to overstate how significant it is that a presidential administration would even pursue this, much less be successful in it. This is why despite my objections to the Iran War, I am not going to launch into despair over Trump or attack him over anything and everything. He is doing objectively good things that would have never happened otherwise in his absence. Yes, I am in disappointed in many ways, but no amount of disappointment would ever result in me saying "Guess I have to vote for Gavin Newsom now."

On the SAVE Act: "There's no argument that you shouldn't do this." Indeed. Yet still the Senate Uniparty is proving intransigent, refusing to pass a reasonable law requiring photo ID and proof of citizenship They'd do well to learn from Tiberius Gracchus and his land law, along with how the Senate's unjust obstreperousness destroyed Rome To understand the similarity, it’s first necessary to understand the Rome of the day, a period that begins with the end of the Punic Wars. With those three great victories, the second of which was crushing and the third of which settled the score for all time, came the devolution of the old Rome For one, the carnage of the wars wreaked great havoc on Rome’s yeoman population. The wars took place before the Marian reforms, and so only those with the landed wealth to arm themselves were enrolled in the legions. Off marched Rome’s yeomen farmers as legionaries, and they perished in the tens of thousands. Disaster followed disaster for them as Hannibal ravaged the Italian countryside. Though the Republic was victorious in the end, her fields were drenched with the blood of her yeoman armies. Also, even those who survived were away for years at a time, and so their fields lay fallow for years, and they were ruined. For years, they had been away, and in their absence, much of the land wasn’t farmed, so they lost everything. But as the yeomen suffered, the oligarchs prospered. With the final defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War and Rome’s simultaneous conquering of Macedonia, innumerable throngs of slaves flowed into Italy, brought by conquering generals and bought up by oligarchs who wanted them to farm estates. Along with them came a stunning amount of wealth. It was monetary riches to a degree previously unseen by the formerly austere Romans. The result was that the oligarchs used their newfound wealth to buy the land of fallen legionnaires and their newly bought slaves to farm it, turning what was a system of small farms and responsible landowners into a collection of dispossessed urban poor and vast latifundia owned by the oligarchs and farmed by slaves.... Plutarch, describing what resulted in his Life of Tiberius Gracchus, wrote, “Afterwards the rich men of the neighbourhood contrived to get these lands again into their possession, under other people's names, and at last would not stick to claim most of them publicly in their own. The poor, who were thus deprived of their farms, were no longer either ready, as they had formerly been, to serve in war or careful in the education of their children; insomuch that in a short time there were comparatively few freemen remaining in all Italy, which swarmed with workhouses full of foreign-born slaves. These the rich men employed in cultivating their ground of which they dispossessed the citizens.” Further, describing how Tiberius came to his determination to reform the system, come what may, Plutarch recorded, “[W]hen Tiberius went through Tuscany to Numantia, and found the country almost depopulated, there being hardly any free husbandmen or shepherds, but for the most part only barbarian, imported slaves, he then first conceived the course of policy which in the sequel proved so fatal to his family. Though it is also most certain that the people themselves chiefly excited his zeal and determination in the prosecution of it, by setting up writings upon the porches, walls, and monuments, calling upon him to reinstate the poor citizens in their former possessions." Rome had been overtaken by oligarchs and their imported slaves... And so Tiberius Gracchus ran as tribune, was elected, and tried passing a land law that would restore stolen public land to veterans It was, as Plutarch records, an extremely moderate law. “Never did any law appear more moderate and gentle, especially being enacted against such great oppression and avarice," he said. But still the oligarchs remained intransigent, and set themselves against Tiberius: "But though this reformation was managed with so much tenderness that, all the former transactions being passed over, the people were only thankful to prevent abuses of the like nature for the future, yet, on the other hand, the moneyed men, and those of great estates, were exasperated, through their covetous feelings against the law itself, and against the lawgiver, through anger and party-spirit. They therefore endeavoured to seduce the people, declaring that Tiberius was designing a general redivision of lands, to overthrow the government, and cut all things into confusion.” The Senate refused to pass the just and moderate law that would have restored Rome's yeomen to some measure of dignity and prosperity after all the exactions they had suffered on the campaign trail. They were intransigent and wouldn't do it. Yet further, they saw Tiberius as their enemy and set themselves against him personally And so, after much political fighting and maneuvering, the Senate killed Tiberius. Then, when his brother Gaius picked up the bloody torch of liberty, they killed him too The lesson wasn't lost on the Roman people: the oligarchs were unwilling to compromise in the slightest. The Senate would not engage in just and needed reform if doing so was against its financial interests So the people took the matter into their own hands, violence began, and the Republic eventually ended First came Marius and Sulla. Then Caesar and Pompey. Then Augustus. Most of those who had long composed the Senate died in all this fighting and all the proscriptions The Senate, in trying to preserve its ill-gotten gains, ended up losing everything, including its ancient blood

@hirot1954 @HashimotoKotoe And the US respects nations that have fought well, fought hard, and can now move forward as friends.

@HashimotoKotoe 日本は米国とガチで戦った稀な国だ。真珠湾攻撃は日本海軍が世界で初めて空母打撃群を運用した戦いで、目覚ましい戦果を上げた。実戦で空母打撃群を運用したことのある国は日本と米国ぐらいだ。

トランプ大統領の真珠湾攻撃発言（イラン攻撃は真珠湾同様にとの意）が米国内で批判されていますが（日本の助けを必要とするときに何煽ってんだ？等）、私たち日本人から言うと我が皇軍の戦術を米大統領に踏襲して頂き光栄なんですよね。

@ThomBrady5 How else do we justify importing infinity cheap workers?

wow it's almost like the unemployment number is completely fake

@eugyppius1 This is mainly site dynamics. The algo feeds sharp, punchy engagement (attacks). This means the average Ameribro encounters mostly Euro seething, while the Eurobro encounters mostly Ami dipshittery. Both sides can reliably say they're just responding. /Shrug

inb4 “but you Euros hated us first”: This is not true and most of you have no idea what Euros think about much of anything, you’re engaged with a cartoon fantasy of the continent. The European political class and the American political class share a general contempt for the rabble (ie, us) on both sides of the Atlantic, and there is a classic ‘small country effect’ whereby European nations try to out-moral (i.e., out-shitlib) the Americans, which the American prog left uses to push their agenda in turn. I obviously hate these dynamics and find them retarded but Euros aren’t remotely your enemies.

MAGA accounts on here routinely express more hatred, rejection, and vilification of Europeans than they do of their country’s genuine geopolitical rivals and enemies. It’s amazing but true.

@MorgothsReview @MavenPolitic Degrowth and anti-civilization, usually. Otherwise, they'd be for nuclear power, not against.

@MavenPolitic What are their real goals?

More people would have bought into the green energy stuff if it were framed as a pragmatic nationalist solution to energy vulnerability rather than cow farts, end of the world melting ice-cap woke mumbo jumbo.

@WhitePapersPol Assimilation is still occurring, but in reverse. Identities are carved out of "American" and those of foreign extraction move towards them. Why wouldn't they? Every advantage flows away from heritage America.

Reminder that post-1965 immigrant integration is a myth. In 2013 roughly 23% of Hispanics identified as American. In 2020 this had fallen to 14%. It has fallen among 2nd and 3rd gen migrants as well. The immigrant descended populations have become too large to integration.

@ChristianHeiens Couldn't be Conrad. It didn't get bungled.

If Franz Ferdinand were killed today, a significant chunk of X would believe it was an inside job conducted by Conrad von Hötzendorf and Franz Joseph.

@woke8yearold Or just different incentives. Looking for reasons to avoid the hard work domestically, but committed to the cause internationally.

The people that really piss me off see the ones who wanted to back off immigration enforcement because of lib screaming but are plan trusters for the war Utterly useless idiots

This is a wildly optimistic view of the future. Allow me to give a much more sober minded prediction on what will occur should we be crushed in 2028: What will immediately happen first on the Republican/Right wing side of the aisle is that the still existent Establishment will immediately swing leftward. They will blame MAGA for being far too right wing, too extremist, and attempt to get back to fiscal conservatism, small government, and family values, dropping all pushes for immigration restrictions or fighting for White Americans, or Christianity which seeks to assert itself in the public sphere. Anyone who is connected with this or with MAGA will be systematically purged from all levers of power, every position possible, and they will be replaced as much as they can be by the Brilyn Hollyhands of the world, alongside a massive DEI push to get every single non-White and/or female possible who is even slightly in their favor to fill every possible position they can in an attempt to win back minority voters whom they will blame MAGA for chasing away, and whom they will assert are natural conservatives. Essentially, almost everyone to the right of Lindsay Graham will get fully assaulted by a resurgent Neocon wing. The Neocon wing will win, as they have vastly more money, more power, and are better at playing politics than you or I or most like us. It doesn’t end there. On the left wing Democrat side, as they take power, they will push for three things first and foremost. First, increased immigration and amnesty. They will likely create a program to deliberately find and bring back virtually everyone deported and hand them citizenship immediately as reparations for the human rights abuses they underwent from ICE. More amnesty will come under the same justification. Refugees will be let in enmasse. It will put what the Biden admin did to shame. Overnight, irreparable demographic transformation of the population. It does not end there, as secondly they will ensure Democracy reigns supreme. In order to most effectively utilize this new citizen base to get them to vote, measures will be taken to encourage electoral participation. They will likely make Election Day a holiday to increase voter turnout as an example. This will make it so there is a snowballs chance in hell of ever dethroning them in an election and they will secure permanent presidential victory alongside an unbeatable supermajority in all houses. And even still, they will do more. Because they will weaponize every aspect of the judicial system and the weight of the government on you, on me, on everyone who exists who even remotely poses a threat. Look at what happened to VDare. Now apply that nationwide. The IRS is going to audit and scrutinize everyone on the right. The FBI is going to investigate and embed themselves and arrest as many as they can. By 2032, MAGA, America First, and NXR for that matter will be a distant memory. You will have been sued out of existence, your entire website and operation deplatformed from everything, and more than likely, antifascists have firebombed your home or otherwise threatened or harmed you and your family because their networks now have tacit support from the state to do so through their robust support network of NGOs and judicial apparatus which will decline to prosecute or give slaps on the wrist for doing so. This is what is most likely to occur, because if the enemy is even half competent they will do all of that and more. You are right in one aspect though Joel. The best way to avoid all of this is by ensuring that Republicans do not lose in 2028, because even a government that will do literally nothing is far preferential to our enemies ruling over us.

@bumbadum14 Mandate of heaven has been powerful so far. Bismarck had a different formula for God's favor, but it also applies.

Everyone in their heart of hearts believed Trump is a miracle worker.

@realannapaulina Based?