The most clownish of the church intruders got arrested.

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Remember the rioters who entered a church last week, and proceeded to disrupt services with social media mindrot inanities? A third one of them was arrested.

The other two I didn’t comment on, because they were pretty much nobodies as far as I could tell. This will probably be as famous as they’ll ever be. Putting Don Lemon aside, the one who was just arrested would have been the one I was most interested in seeing face the consequences.

The offender is William Kelly, a self-professed combat veteran who has made it his mission to pick on Christians, probably because it’s easier to scrape up some amount of empty bravado when the target is the religion with the least potential for violent retaliation.

You might remember that he was the one who recorded what was probably the most well-known video of the incident, and being so sure of himself that he at one point put his own face in the frame:

In the video, William Kelly belligerently confronted worshippers who had assembled in the church, on the suspicion that the pastor was an ICE agent. Whether this was true or not, this behavior was not justified.

The incident resulted in the following image trending, which depicted a visibly distraught child who was at the church during the incident being comforted by his parents:

Since then, Kelly learned that the DOJ was investigating the incident. Kelly then followed up by saying that he was at the church during the intrusion, and challenged US Attorney General Pam Bondi to arrest him. How that’s supposed to help him, I don’t know. I imagine that he believes he’s playing 4D chess while the rest of us are playing Backgammon, or something.

If you’re being investigated for committing a crime, it’s usually counterproductive to go on main and confess to the crime. Not that I’m a lawyer, or anything. If firing your mouth off and confessing on social media is supposed to be a genius move, please explain it to me like I’m five in the comment section. It’s complicated, I’m sure.

I mean, if you’re going to steal an iPhone from Walmart, would you record video of yourself doing it, and upload it to social media? Then, when Walmart replies saying that they’re investigating the incident, would you dare the police to arrest you? I’d imagine that most people would recognize the obvious stupidity every step of the way.

But in the happy magical world of William Kelly, I imagine that acting like the poster child for Oppositional Defiant Disorder is supposed to make a fascist authoritarian system of white supremacists immediately yield by reason of the sound waves he emits.

By the way, Kelly’s beanie is almost as stupid as the brain it’s wrapped around. It says, “F*CK TRUMP”, as though he wants you to know just how edgy he is for making such a daring statement in this current political climate. But when he intrudes into a church while yelling, the obvious expletive is obscured for the benefit of the children in attendance. The very same children that he otherwise makes uncomfortable to the point of crying. Because he’s willing to draw the line somewhere.

Well, now he’s been charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, and is going to go through the federal system, famous for a conviction rate as high as 99%. Of course, his confession isn’t going to help him.

Perhaps he can get a new beanie that reads, “F*CKED AROUND FOUND OUT”.

Imagine being a hot dog, and that face is the last thing you see.

One thing that repeatedly comes up when discussing this guy was the idea that, while he was in the Army from 2007 to 2011, he was an HR Specialist who never saw combat contrary to his claim, and received an “other than honorable” discharge for bad conduct. Considering what we’ve seen out of William Kelly lately, this is believable, but believable doesn’t mean true.

While digging around, I found this reply on X from someone who claimed to have known him:

Transcript:

We were 1-25SBCT… I can’t for the life of me remember our commanders name :-/ .

But I won’t pretend he was some morally superior dude or anything. He got drunk and did drugs like a lot of people, and just didn’t get caught. He stole one of my best friends girl and married her.

I kept in contact with him for years, and I watched him slowly get radicalized by the media once Trump went into office in 2016.

His trajectory wasn’t unforeseeable. But he also was a good soldier. There is no black/white good/bad when it comes to people. You can’t simultaneously think murder is bad, but think governments can’t extend a license which makes murder morally excusable. He was a kid who joined the infantry because he, like many others, wanted to kill people and serve his country. He was an adrenaline junkie. He got exposed to a bunch of stuff in the military that certainly changed his personality and his adjustment afterwards.

I’ve seen people call him a lot of names and shit, and I’m not excusing his antagonistic behavior. But I will absolutely step in to defend his honor against being accused of Stolen Valor.

When it comes to matters like this, the truth is already a handful. If someone could back up the claim that he was discharged for bad behavior, that might help.

Notice the part where the poster says that Kelly slowly got “radicalized by the media once Trump went into office in 2016.” Many such cases.

As we’ve often seen, the left-wing radicalization pipeline has lead to someone doing something stupid, and becoming a laughingstock from sea to shining sea. And in some cases, people become so mentally damaged that they’re able to justify doing something as outrageous as what William Kelly has done.

The Tragedy of Alex Pretti Shows Us What Can Happen When Your Mind Is Hacked

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The situation discussed here is of a recent event, and new facts about it are still coming to light. When it comes to matters such as this, I usually like to wait a few days so that more can be said for certain.

But the incident surrounding Alex Pretti, and how he threw his life away while making believe that he’s resisting the oppressive, evil government fascist authoritarians Hitler Hitler etc., while in reality was fighting armed federal agents whose job was to play a part in sending certain people home, brought something to mind that I’ve wanted to bring attention to for a little while.

And it’s possible that I may have discussed it already. But because it’s still relevant, it seems expedient to bring it up again.

People speak of their hard drives or their bank accounts as though they were the last frontier in hacking. And people encrypt their web traffic, and sometimes use VPNs, all in an effort to try to keep nosy people from monitoring their web activities.

While cybersecurity is still important in this connected world, there’s something far more important to you that can very much be hacked: your mind.

The fact is, in the current digital landscape, you are your greatest vulnerability. It’s the whole reason why the scam industry is currently booming. After all, why attempt to brute force a password with guessing software when accounts are just going to get locked, and an email notification is going to be sent with N attempts, when you can just call someone up and trick them into sharing their password? Or, by performing wrench attacks?

And if you haven’t heard of wrench attacks, it basically involves kidnapping someone and threatening them, such as with a wrench, until they give up their password. It’s a low-tech way of going about things, but that’s what some criminals are turning to.

Or there’s social engineering, where hackers trick people into giving up information in ways that seems harmless. Like with X posts that say, “Your superhero name is the name of the street you grew up on, followed by the name of your first pet.” Some people will leave a comment, not being aware that they just gave away the answer to two common bank account security questions. Or they’ll say “The month you were born on determines which Pokémon is going to be your friend.” And people answer, not being aware that they’ve made it far easier to determine their birthday.

But it gets far more nefarious, because the internet can be used to manipulate you. As I like pointing out, much of the internet is about getting other people to do things.

It wasn’t in a vacuum that Alex Pretti decided to go out one day, while armed, to a demonstration where he would violently confront federal officers. The decision to do this was a consequence of the influences that led up to him making that decision.

That was not a smart choice. In fact, it was among the stupidest choices that anyone could possibly make. Let’s be realistic here: what was it that anyone who fights an armed federal officer hopes to achieve? That they’ll just back down and go, “Alright, we’re done sending these people back to their home country.” That’s a fantasy. And so is the idea that if you start fighting them, they’ll just yield to your strength. You might succeed in killing one or two if you take them by surprise, but the thing is, they are heavily armed and in great numbers, and will just keep coming. And in the long run, after the sad dope who attempted to fight them is dead or detained, the federal officers will just become more determined, especially if armed forces were to come in and force the state of Minnesota to comply in the same way that the other 49 states are.

Any realistic outcome would have been pretty bad for Alex Pretti, including the way that things ended for him. He’s dead. That’s one less vantage point through which the universe is experienced, and the many billions of bacteria in his body that counted on him to survive just became homeless.

But for the psychological manipulators that influenced him to make his final mistake, whether it was a sweet deal will depend on what they were ultimately trying to achieve. But considering that the outcome what something that could be reasonably expected, it’s likely that they got what they wanted.

Someone paid with their life. His death was useful to them. They knew the potential optics that such a death could generate. They knew that legacy media, which is still read by aging boomers all over the country, would do the job of making his death as useful to their cause as possible. They knew that public figures that politically aligned with them, such as mayors and governors, would give speeches. Some of which were probably had such a speech mostly ready to go, in anticipation of this possibility. Which would explain just how stiff and unemotive that they sounded as they rushed to deliver their judgement in mere hours, before all the facts came to light. And would go to show just how little they really care about the foot soldiers who would die to further their political agenda.

By the way, this tragedy was preventable. All that really needed to happen to prevent a death like that of Alex Pretti was for the protestors to just stay home. All that would happen if ICE agents were unresisted is that illegal immigrants would be sent home. That’s it. It’s not worth resisting them, and facing the federal felony charge that would come with doing so. And it’s not worth threatening them and risking getting killed.

Alex Pretti’s death was at the hands of a federal officer. Whether justified or not, it’s difficult to say at this point. The matter wasn’t like that concerning Renee Good, where the protestor was clearly at fault. It was a chaotic moment, where there’s a high potential for anyone involved to make a stupid decision.

However, we can learn a lot about the inputs that increase the possibility of tragedies such as the one involving Alex Pretti’s death. Not knowing all the details, I’ll instead get into hypotheticals, and substitute in a fictional character, Greg.

It’s the year 2017. Greg watches old media. Old media is firing off their bullshit cannon about the Russia collusion hoax, and Greg starts believing that President Trump is a threat to democracy. The psychological destruction begins.

Greg’s political involvement continues in the capacity of an observer. Involvement to him means receiving updates from legacy media sources, overlooking that they’ve been coopted by his new tribe and therefore cannot be counted on to be impartial, and networking with like-minded people on social media. As this happens, psychological operations recode his thinking.

As significant events occur, they are presented to Greg through the occluded lens of the bias of his faction. The coronavirus pandemic. The January 6 capital protest. Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The October 7th massacre. The attempted assassination of Trump. Trump’s reelection. There’s something interesting that occurs with people in cults, which also seems to occur when people are in political factions. When people are sufficiently indoctrinated, they will begin interpreting events consistently with their faction, independent of their spin. At this point, the psychological damage is extensive, and reversal usually involves removing the person from the faction. This can be tricky, as the faction understands the psychology of the brainwashed, by reason of the fact that they were the ones to cultivate it.

Getting to this point can take years. Or it can just take months. Or it can happen much sooner, depending on factors such as how much a person like Greg is willing to deep-dive on topics, or just how effectively they could play to his psychology using things such as emotionally-charged language or appeals to an underdeveloped sense of justice, or to idealism.

But what matters to the mental hackers is getting him there. Once Greg’s mind is sufficiently hacked, there is greater potential for him to respond to language that inspires fanaticism. One person could say that the way to deal with Nazis is to attack them. Another person could say that their political opponents are Nazis. These separate statements are made by different people, but have the high potential to be sewn together to create a permission for himself to attack his political opponents. Another leftist might say that it’s okay to bring a gun to a protest, whether that’s true or not. If Greg does this, it creates another avenue through which he could perform violence that he might even feel justified in committing.

The radicalizing language is combined with increasing the methods and avenues through which Greg could act unwisely. And through it all, the radicalizers who have been manipulating him could maintain plausible deniability, claiming that they never actually put him up to it.

And when the time comes that someone does commit violence, it doesn’t have to be Greg who commits it. It could instead be any of the many millions of leftists who have been radicalized with psychological operations. But it was Greg. And he ended up paying for his foolishness with his life. Long before it happened, his mind was already being systematically destroyed. He could have been recovered at any point before he died. But not after.

The legacy media will, for a moment, prop Greg up as an unfortunate victim and hero for his cause. The very same legacy media that played a role in his radicalization and psychological destruction. His story will be used to radicalize people who, like Greg, are vulnerable to psychological manipulation. The process continues, and more people will end up dying to further a cause which, let’s be honest here, is not worth dying to further.

In the case of Alex Pretti, he was so mentally destroyed that he was willing to attack federal officers in an attempt to preserve a fraud that benefitted illegal immigrants at the expense of American citizens (his own kind), and galvanized the political influence of the Democrat party.

So effective is the left-wing radicalization pipeline. And considering how effective it has been at turning ordinary people into violent foot soldiers for leftism, do you really think that Democrats will make it stop? I don’t, considering that they perceive benefit from it, and can simply distance themselves from elements that are more difficult to defend.

And through it all, Democrats will speak as though it’s their political opponents who need to turn down the temperature. They speak as though they don’t benefit from the left-wing radicalization pipeline which is psychologically manipulating people into committing crimes and throwing their lives away.

The fact is, Alex Pretti didn’t have to die. Not just because the federal officer didn’t need to pull the trigger, whether he had to or not. He didn’t have to die because his attack against federal officers didn’t have to happen. But it did, and he threw his life away for massive fraud, and for amazingly corrupt people to hold on to power.

I really wish that there was an easy solution to this problem. There are a few things I can point out that can help.

  • Recognize that corporate news outlets are not your friends. They do have a bias, and the way the business works make it nearly impossible for them to not have a bias and survive long-term.
  • Become acutely aware of psychological manipulation, whether it’s in legacy media or social media. Take notice of emotionally-charged language and appeals to a sense of justice, since such language tends to come from someone who is attempting to direct you to a conclusion.
  • Watch for signs that information is being omitted. For example, if you see a video of a violent act on social media, and the video begins with the violent act, the events that led up to it was omitted, which can include other violent acts. The “victim” might not actually be a victim, at all!
  • If it becomes easy to commit a violent act at a protest, it’s probably because you’re being manipulated into doing someone else’s dirty work. Like someone handing someone else a “firecracker”, and asking them to throw it. They themselves aren’t doing it because they know it’s a bad idea!

But when it comes down to it, we don’t really have an obvious way to prevent psychologically vulnerable people from being vulnerable. And it’s not usually obvious who they are. It’s part of the reason why I believe that stupidity is dangerous. It can manifest in many ways, including in ways that are tragic.

A quick way to make the anti-ICE protests stop.

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I was listening to Asmongold, as is the habit of many a based Chad, when I heard him share an idea. It’s a great idea, so I thought I’d pass it along.

He said that if any one of the anti-ICE protestors attempts to obstruct the arrest of an illegal immigrant who committed a crime, they should be charged as accessories to that same crime.

Some of them committed murder. Some of them committed child rape. The prospect of being charged as accessories to those crimes would make the number of anti-ICE protestors drop like a brick.

Just picture it:

ACCESSORY TO CHILD RAPE. FELONY.

Unhireable. Undateable. Permanently placed on a list of creepy people, which anyone can use to find their address and photo by using their smartphone.

That’s what those protestors are setting themselves up for when they go out with their stupid whistles and block traffic.

The shoe fits. Time to make them wear it.

This is infuriating.

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We knew that they had it in them. But they finally succeeded in suffocating that last trace of inhibition that was keeping them from acting on it.

Yesterday, mobs of leftists entered a church, disrupting services that were in progress, and they proceeded to spout leftist brainrot.

If you’re up for being infuriated, there’s video. Which a leftist took, because he was proud of what he did.

Because they possessed no sense of sanctity, the leftists thought nothing of disrupting a church service in progress with their loud, misinformed inanities. And, lacking normal compassion, they thought nothing of terrifying the children and the women who were in attendance.

In fact, they seemed to possess absolutely no capacity for comprehending just how bad the optics of their outrageous act would be. Did they really think that this brazen act of sacrilege would endear themselves to anyone? Was I supposed to see children in obvious fear, as these hooligans, whose ideology has a extant record of violence on the streets, intrudes upon a group of people who mind their own business in their lives, as they are worshipping?

And more infuriating still, these people without any sense of sanctity believe that they are in a position to tell someone that they are not a true Christian, and to lecture them as to what true Christianity is about. Which, according to them, centers perfectly around the mindrot activism which has destroyed their own temperance and better judgment.

By the way, if someone is trying to hold your beliefs against you by telling you what they should be, it’s valid to ask whether they actually believe what they’re saying. Because if not, then they are probably just trying to manipulate you.

When someone without any beliefs tries telling you what your beliefs are, they tend to be very wrong. And they probably can’t even relate to having strong convictions.

While I could easily say that their behavior was disgusting, I wish I could just as easily say that it was surprising. Leftists tend to have little respect for Christianity, so it’s not much of a shock that they would cross the line that the ones who interrupted a church service did.

So, what was their pretext for doing this? They believed that the pastor was an ICE agent. As you might have guessed, the incident took place in the current leftist cesspit of the US, Minnesota.

That’s right: The people who have demonstrated themselves to be impious freaks are, once again, the ones who are fighting so that people who shouldn’t even be in this country can continue stealing value from those who pay too much in taxes to begin with.

While the minds of the leftists are clearly psychologically damaged, it remains that they got the idea to do this from somewhere. It wouldn’t surprise me if the idea came from some foreign asset, or it was the latest consequence of social media manipulation. Remember that much of the internet is about convincing other people to do things.

Whatever the cause, I really don’t know where things go from here. If this matter deescalates, it would probably be because the attention would later pivot to some other issue with the potential to psy-op leftists into being dangerous fanatics.

But then, the underlying problem still wouldn’t be addressed. The left seems to be tending more and more towards violent extremism. And as time goes on, it seems as though there are fewer and fewer boundaries that they’ll be willing to respect.

They certainly wouldn’t benefit from the civil war that they seem to want. Maybe they will change their minds once they see the shelves completely bare, and be without electricity or internet for weeks at a time. They always did suck at comprehending the consequences of their own choices.

She just can’t bring herself to tell the truth.

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There are signs that we should all be on the lookout for that we should start looking for a different doctor. One is if the doctor is obese. That’s a classic red flag. Another is if they discourage a generic medication that is exactly the same as a name brand medication that they favor, and the office is packed with literature for that same brand.

Here’s a hypothetical scenario: Suppose a doctor referred you to either a gynecologist or a urologist. They referred you to the wrong one (the two are gender-specific), so you ask the doctor whether they know the difference between men and women. The doctor gets evasive, and refuses to answer the question.

Would you trust that doctor? The answer is “no”. Of course you wouldn’t. That’s the only correct answer.

Sadly, some doctors are left-wing cultists. One such example is Dr. Verma, who spent five minutes on the Senate floor evading the question of whether men can get pregnant:

Senator Hawley: “The goal is just the truth. So, can men get pregnant?”
Dr. Verma: “Again, the reason I paused there is because I’m not really sure of the goal of the question…”
Hawley: “The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics. So, let’s just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?”
Verma: “I take care of people with many identities, but, uh…”
Hawley: “Can men get pregnant?”
Vermin: “I take care of many women who can get pregnant, I do take care of many people that don’t identify as women…”
Hawley: “Can men get pregnant?”

And so on for minutes.

Conservatives have been asking leftists to identify the difference between men and women for years, and leftists still haven’t come up with an answer. Even after all this time, the best that they can come up with is to get evasive.

It’s kind of like if roaches developed the atomic bomb. It’s like a weapon that only affects one side, while the other is immune. When deployed, one side is unaffected by the fallout, while the other can do nothing more than seek shelter, and not come out for weeks.

The problem with leftists is that they’re in a cult. And it’s a cult with a strict blasphemy code. The moment that they say anything that has any potential to be interpreted as wrongthink, even accidentally, they get excoriated by their coreligionists. Even if they profusely apologize for years on end, they are never fully forgiven.

They put on the veneer of intellectualism, but they are not empiricists. The moment that you present them with a demonstrable, observable reality that goes contrary to one of their core doctrines, they do anything to avoid telling us what the rest of us see.

Not because they would have to admit that they were wrong, though it may be true that their personal pride would not permit this. It’s because they would be sentenced to many, many lashes by their own peers if they were to say the wrong thing, and may face being defrocked.

While we may laugh at their stupidity, what’s sobering about this is that leftists like Dr. Verma are still in a position where they can have an impact on the way people live. Any power that they have should be taken from them, and they should be reduced to the social pariahs that they should have been regarded as to begin with.

Muslims are saying that Christmas is a pagan holiday. Read about how badly they messed up.

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Muslims are taking to Christmas markets and social media with the claim that Christmas is a pagan holiday. This was a claim that has been made by some evangelicals in the hopes that Christianity would take a form that they imagine is closer to what was observed by early Christianity. However, Muslims have a different motive, and that’s that they’d get more people breaking the second commandment by bowing to an idol five times a day.

But they messed up. Hard. And I’ll explain why.

To get right to it, it’s because I actually believed that. For years. You’d have to mess up pretty hard when the argument you make results in dissuading someone who initially believed the claim. All they really had to do was keep their mouths shut, but instead they rolled the dice, and got a critical miss.

While I could get into why I believed that Christmas is a religion with pagan origins, what it basically came down to was accepting a claim that was made without researching the matter as well as I might have guessed. I was wrong. But on the bright side, my desire for understanding the truth of the matter would eventually lead to me finding it.

I’m guessing that, for many people, part of the appeal to believing such a thing would be similar to what gave gnosticism it’s appeal. Basically, it’s the belief a person would have that they’re special for accepting certain special knowledge that most people don’t seem aware of, and that being closer to a perceived truth makes one better off than other people. Also, there’s the edge that comes with the idea that an established church is hiding a tremendous scandalous secret, coupled with how special one feels when they learn something by using the internet.

But for me, I was mainly motivated by a desire to know the truth. And I can admit that I was wrong because I don’t take myself too seriously.

The main claim made by those saying that Christmas is a pagan holiday is that Christmas falls on the same day as at least one pagan holiday, such as Saturnalia and Sol Invictus. Some also try to point to similarities between how Christmas is observed and how those pagan holidays were observed.

(Note: The correct name of one of these pagan holidays is “Day of Sol Invictus”, and is often incorrectly shortened to “Sol Invictus”, the name and title of the deity of the cult of Sol. If this article uses the term “Sol Invictus” to refer to an observance, it’s for convenience, and because that’s a popular use of the term, not because I think it’s correct.)

The problem is that the people who say these things are big on claims, but short on verifiable and extant historical sources. A lot of what they have to say sounds like it would make a great comic book, though.

For example, if you were to ask 20 different such people for an account about Nimrod, you’d get 30 different accounts. As much as I want to believe that Shem tore Nimrod to pieces and sent a different chunk of him to a different city in the ancient world, the truth of the matter is probably nowhere close to as metal.

For historical claims, it’s generally better to look for impartial historical sources. People tend to trust church websites, particularly members of the church that made a website, because they tend to be less critical of claims made by their own church. Many such websites have already decided on a conclusion, and what they present tends to be post-hoc justification.

Before going further, it helps to accept that there’s such a thing as a coincidence. Pagans had numerous holidays throughout the year. For one of them to be observed on the same day as Christians observe something is not definitive proof of appropriation of a pagan holiday in some effort to make Christianity more appealing to pagan Europe. Considering that most people perceive coincidences which they understand to be meaningless all the time, we should be able to comprehend this.

First, let’s talk about how the date of December 25th was decided upon as the likely date of Christ’s birth. It was due to a belief shared among early Christians that prophets died on the same month and day as they were conceived. They also believed that Christ was crucified on March 25th. Nine months after that would be December 25th.

At worst, that would just be an incorrect guess. I’ve actually heard the case made for Christ being born early in the Autumn.

By the way, the idea that prophets died on the same month and day as they were conceived originated with Rabbinic Judaism. So if you like celebrating Christmas on December 25th, thank a Jew.

Now for the idea that Saturnalia was on December 25th. It’s wrong. Simply wrong.

Every historical writing going back to around the time of the 1st century which gave a date for Saturnalia gave the date as December 17th. Not the 25th, the 17th. Saturnalia was often celebrated as one day, but was sometimes extended to multiple days. At its longest, Saturnalia was observed for 7 days. In which case, the latest that Saturnalia ended was the 23rd.

Saturnalia was never observed on December 25th. And considering that this is the main claim made by those insisting that Christmas is a pagan holiday, they’re off to a bad start.

Next is the claim that Christmas was observed on the same day as “Sol Invictus”. While it’s true that it was, the oldest record indicating an observance of Christmas by Christians predated any observance of Sol Invictus. The cult of Sol Invictus arrived on the scene after Christianity did, as evidenced by the fact that Christianity has far older writings. If any of the two parties had plagiarized the other, then it was the cult of Sol Invictus which stole ideas from Christianity. It would seem as though much of the cult was a blatant knock-off of Christianity.

The claim is also sometimes made that Christmas has similarities to Saturnalia. Many such claims seems to come from the imaginations of the people making them, or are just regurgitated from those whom they mistakenly trusted.

Saturnalia was observed by turning social norms on their head, such as by placing slaves in the seat of the head of household, and were waited on by the master of the house, and people typically reveled while drunk. Sound like Christmas? No? That’s because it wasn’t Christmas.

Oftentimes, the trappings associated with Christmas are said to be of pagan origin. Many such claims have no historical backing. But in many cases, the trappings originated in European folk customs which which probably never had anything to do with honoring any pagan deity.

The biggest potential issue as I see it would seem to be Santa Claus. But mainly because I see him as a figure of Catholic origin, and I’m not Catholic. Much of how he’s used today is pretty ridiculous, what with the sleigh pulled by reindeer, and the workshop staffed by elves. But it’s not pagan.

If someone wants to try to make Christmas out to be a holiday with pagan origins, they tend to be heavy on claims and light on historical connections. In the case of the odd Muslim who insists that Christmas is a pagan holiday, it could be that they actually believe that, even if wrongly. But there’s a likelihood that what they’re doing is engaging in a cynical attempt to destroy a religion that’s different from their own, and bring other people into their performative ritualistic misery.

Now, if you want to know what really is pagan, look into the Islamic observances of the Hajj and Ramadan, which actually are observances that are pagan in origin. Pagans observed both these observances before Islam was an idea in Muhammad’s head. Just be warned that, if you look into it, you might have a really, really difficult time finding impartial sources. Islam by it’s nature inspires strong reaction, whether for or against. What’s more, in the current academic environment, researchers are strongly hesitant to publish anything that has any potential to get them thousands of death threats from irate Muslims.

Of course, when it comes to criticism of Muhammad and Islam, people are going to be far more interested in topics like his mass homicide of Jews, his encounter with the men of Al-Zutt, and the many, many passages throughout the official Islamic materials, such as the Quran, which advocate for things like violence, racism, slavery, and many other topics. Then there’s how suspicious it is that a man claimed to be a prophet who didn’t perform miracles.

But as for Muslims’ claim that Christmas is a pagan holiday, after trying to convince people that it’s the case, someone who believed that changed his mind, realizing that it’s not true. They goofed pretty hard.

Late Stage Taxation

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Lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about Mike Judge, and how it seems as though he was trying to warn us.

You’ve probably heard of the nineties film, Idiocracy. To summarize: a man was deemed to be completely average. Most relevant to the plot, he had average intelligence. He was then cryogenically suspended for 500 years.

At the time he was released, every other person on earth was so stupid that he was easily the world’s smartest man. It was to the point that people thought that the right way to hydrate the ground for agriculture was with sports drinks, resulting in a famine because they were salting the ground.

The popular notion about natural selection is that it’s survival of the fittest. But that’s actually not true. In reality, it’s survival of the most adapted. And this is still relevant for humans, because a major shift in society brings with it a shift in selection pressures.

Society is in trouble today, for a reason similar to how people ended up stupid in Idiocracy. In current society, selection pressures favor the stupid.

Consider how intelligent people start a family. First, they prepare. They build a career by seeking an education, putting together a resume, then cultivating years of professional experience. They build credit, and look for a home and a car, and in many other ways prepare themselves. It takes years, but they eventually consider themselves viable for the dating market, into which they start to dip their toes. A problem with this approach is that it pisses away some of the most fertile years of one’s life, so by the time they consider themselves ready, they’re probably only going to have a few children, assuming they succeed in finding someone.

Stupid people don’t worry about any of that stuff. They have sex because there’s pleasure involved, then deal with the consequences, ready or not.

As you read through all this, you’re probably wondering what this has to do with the title. How does this relate to late stage taxation?

One thing I learned about people and myself from video games is that people act based on incentive, even if the playstyle results in an experience that’s different from what the game developers intended.

Someone playing Pokémon Gold might want a shiny legendary Pokémon. They might save in front of the Pokémon and soft reset until it appears as a shiny, then go to the frustrating task of trying to catch it, assuming they wouldn’t just huck a valuable Master Ball at it.

They could go to that trouble. Or they could catch an ordinary version of that legendary, arrange a box in a certain way, then use arbitrary code execution to make it shiny, possibly saving many hours.

The incentive is to try to obtain what’s desirable in little time, even if it means that the game is being played differently from how the developers intended.

This holds true in life, as well. When you account for incentives, people become a lot more predictable.

The political class is one example. If an incentive exists for them to pursue a certain policy, they can be counted on to pursue that policy. They might do this even if the result is a society with undesirable selection pressures, especially if they can avoid the brunt of those consequences.

For a politician, the incentive lies with whatever gets them more votes. This is easy to accomplish with entitlement programs. For one thing, the people who act on incentive to accept these programs are also incentivized to vote for the politician who enabled them.

What’s more, it’s a snap for that politician to maintain good optics with such a show of altruism. Of course, it’s not true altruism because it’s being funded through the coercion that is taxation, taking from those who actually produced value. However, there are multiple layers of abstraction separating the coercion from the false altruism, allowing everyone involved to maintain plausible deniability.

This is all pretty bad. But it gets worse. There are three parties with an incentive to increase entitlement programs further, as well as the number of people on the government dole:

  • Politicians, because they recognize that if people have an incentive to vote for them (free stuff), they’ll do so, cementing more power around those politicians,
  • The bureaucratic state, because as more people are getting free stuff, there will be more money to scrape away to pay those who manage it, and
  • Ordinary people, because they’d be getting more and more free stuff, without having to pay for it.

In fact, someone is paying for it: the productive class. Their incentive is to resist this massive theft. But as the political class have more and more people legally bribed, the productive class can do less and less about it.

And as the incentive to join the productive class dwindles, fewer people will want to join it. But as this happens, less is produced. Thus, there is less value to extract from the few left who are actually producing it.

As working Americans’ paychecks are being taxed into a black hole, they’re being convinced that they didn’t start a family when they wanted to due to a failure on their part.

All this is a recipe for a collapse of a society, which is the expected outcome as this continues.

As the birth rates of native populations collapses, politicians don’t take accountability for their contributions to the problem. That is not where their incentives lie. Rather, their incentive is to further expand their political power by replacing the native population with a migrant population, whose loyalty can be bought with value extracted from the already distressed native population.

Thus, the productive class who are already heavily taxed have a far more backbreaking burden placed upon them.

We already have a publicized example of what can happen when such corruption reaches an advanced state: the recently publicized Minnesota Somali entitlement scams. As was famously exposed by a citizen journalist, entire buildings had numerous empty daycare and Medicare offices, which weren’t doing much of anything, and all refused to assist the journalist in their respective alleged professional capacities. All while still accepting millions of dollars in funding taken from taxpayers.

One of which, famously, misspelled the word “Learning” on its sign.

This brought national attention to how funds are being misallocated in Minnesota. Minnesota governor Tim Walz dropped out of the race for reelection shortly afterwards, which wasn’t great optics for him.

To think that guy could have been the Vice President of the United States.

While the whole matter got widespread attention on social media, and action has been taken concerning this massive fraud, we’d be dreaming if we thought that something similar wasn’t happening all over the country, and not necessarily involving the same ethnic group.

In fact, this can be stated with almost complete confidence. Why? Because the leftist establishment involved with the Somali daycare fraud were acting on incentive, and the incentives to try something similar exists elsewhere, too. And when it comes to incentive, people are predictable.

I’ve mentioned intelligence and Somalis in the same article, I suppose I can give my opinion of Somali intelligence, seeing as it’s topical. Personally, I don’t see it as being as relevant as people make it out to be. After all, fraud is fraud, regardless of the intelligence of the person who commits it.

When I heard it said that the average IQ of a Somalian is 67, I was skeptical. After all, this is over two standard deviations below the mean, and well below the point where a person is too low to be allowed in the US armed forces. This is because it’s prohibitively difficult to train such a person to the point that they can carry out their duties autonomously.

Just imagine the implications for such a person if they were to attempt to enter the workforce. What is society supposed to do with such a person? It seems much of us have decided to grant them the means to live in relative comfort.

Even if one were to accept that intelligence has a genetic component, which seems to be the case, that there would be an entire country of people where most are low IQ to the point of being handicapped is a stretch to accept.

But it seems as though, whatever the intelligence of Somalis happens to be, this intelligence isn’t what was considered when the administrative state decided to use them as a pretext for extracting more wealth from productive Americans, or when Democrats decided to attempt to exploit them for votes, building power for themselves. But those same Somalis are predictable if they decided to move somewhere where they’d be given plenty of money, even if they accomplished nothing.

To be honest, I care less about the stupidity of Somalis than I do about the stupidity of Americans. And considering that there are Americans who are not only okay with the fraud, but are committing the felony of obstructing federal officers because they want it to continue, I imagine that our ancestors in their mud huts would wonder where things went wrong.

But tell them how selection pressures in late stage taxation favors the stupid, they’d probably wonder why anyone would allow matters to get to this point.

Is this game for real?

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As an American, I’m so glad that we won our independence from the Brits. Not that I have anything against them today, but they’ve got a serious problem.

The British are in late-stage taxation. I’ll explain what I mean by that later in the article.

Before we celebrate too hard, we should know that we have a similar problem, even if we’re taking the first small steps towards doing something about it.

The British government has funded a pro-immigration video game, developed by Shout Out UK. But just because they made a video game doesn’t mean that they know how.

The game is called Pathways, and it’s a choose-your-own adventure. Already off to a bad start, because the whole reason we like video games is because they are interactive. Pathways is basically one of those turn-to-page-56 books, except on a glowing display screen, and somehow more on-the-rails.

Pathways stars a protagonist named Charlie, and players decide whether Charlie is a boy or a girl. This choice is ignored for the rest of the game as Charlie is referred to with they/them pronouns, which probably works as a metaphor for the kind of sterility that has become too common in modernity.

The game is pretty much a few short scenarios where the player makes choices for Charlie based on the information presented. Some choices are considered right, while the other choices result in brief scolding by the game, or somesuch. Whatever the choice, the game continues just the same.

In one scenario, Charlie is presented with information, and one of the selections is for Charlie to do his own research. The game considers this to be a wrong choice. Remember, this game was made by people who don’t trust you to think for yourself. They want you to dismiss anything that might challenge the official narrative out-of-hand, like an obedient little automaton.

Okay then, let’s get into everyone’s favorite character in this game. One scenario introduces Charlie to an anti-immigration activist named Amelia. She’s a cute goth e-girl who is pleasant to Charlie throughout their interactions. One choice the player can make for Charlie has him meeting up with her at a rally.

Because this game was made by globalist twits, it seems that the thinking is that “boy meets cute girl and then they go somewhere together, presumably getting in a snog sesh” would be a less preferable outcome. The game has designated the choice to meet up with her as a “wrong” choice.

If you expected the internet to embrace Amelia and make lots of fan art of her, then you know the internet. Because that’s exactly what happened.

Have Shout Out UK even played Super Mario Brothers? It’s a game where an everyman tradesman whose name is Italian for “manly” defeats a magical turtle dragon and rescues a high-status woman who appreciates his efforts. That’s a male fantasy, and gamers embraced it.

For a protagonist to fight back against an invasion and an oppressive government, and win a cute girl while doing it, would make an awesome video game, and I’d buy it for days. Especially if you get to blow stuff up.

Okay, late-stage taxation. I said I’d explain it. Basically, the government has discovered that it can actually make plenty of money just by having more government programs to justify increasing taxes to fund them. And the fastest way to do that is by putting more people on the government dole.

Some amount of tax money goes to people who don’t produce value, and a huge chunk of it is scraped away by those who perform the administrative task of allocating it. As more people join this non-productive class of worthless eaters, more money enters the stream, which means more money for administrative clerks.

As the process continues, more and more value is extracted from the people who produce it.

Speeding up this process is unchecked mass migration, which is a dream come true for worthless government bureaucrats, as it means a pretext for extracting yet more value from the productive. And when these migrants get the opportunity to vote, they are expected to vote in line with their incentives, which is for the extraction of value which favors them to continue. Because the political establishment that favors this benefits from it, there’s no expectation that they’ll put a stop to it. And as their political power increases, the likelihood that anyone could overcome them dwindles.

It’s as though the brain that is the UK government has a protein that folded in on itself. As the condition progresses, their brain stops working properly, and the expectation is that they’ll soon die.

But, it gets worse. Most of the migrants are Islamic. They are famous for discouraging the pursuit of anything outside their own religion, and multiplying out of control.

Knowing all this, it’s easy to see that Brits who oppose mass migration are actually fighting to save the UK.

The establishment prions of the UK have made a video game in a sad effort to trick kids into keeping their value-extraction scam alive. And we know why they’re going this far. They’re scared. Younger people are figuring out what’s going on, and they are fighting for their own future.

The kids are turning more to the right. Establishment leftists are scared to death that they’ll have to let go of the power that they’ve held for so long, and that they might be held accountable once the boomers have aged out of voting.

This image is fanart, and not from the game.

The UK government funded an anti-extremist video game, and ended up with a white supremacist dating sim. What a time to be alive!

Iran is boogalooing.

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Now, why isn’t old media covering this? I thought that they liked uprisings! I thought that they liked revolutions! For a long time, I was thinking that protesters doing stuff was what they were into! Why aren’t they interested, this time?

Things started popping off in Iran late in December. It’s been escalating since, and at this point, it seems as though the uprising is almost certain to be successful.

If your source of information is the Beavis and Butthead box, then you’re probably only just now hearing about this. And you were probably told that the motivation for the uprising is economic in nature. The people in old media are still in character. In their thinking, there’s nothing worse than not being rich. Of course that’s the sensibility that they’re going to project onto the people of Iran.

In reality, that’s only part of the motivation. In late December, months after the IRGC (Iran’s Islamist regime) failed war against Israel in which Israel dominated Iran’s air space, and months after their nuclear ambitions were destroyed by the US, Iran’s currency collapsed. It was so bad that if you had one American dollar, then you were a millionaire in Iran’s currency. Naturally, the merchants went out to protest.

But then, something interesting happened. Or, more like, something didn’t happen. The IRCG broke character. They didn’t immediately respond with a brutal crackdown. So, the protests continued the next day. And so on for days afterwards, except the protests got bigger. And still no answer from the IRGC.

As this was going on, the IRGC publicly declared their intention to war against Israel. Yeah, the same Israel that they couldn’t beat before. Except this time, while totally unable to keep a growing uprising under control.

As it so happens, the Iranian people had more problems with the IRCG than just that the currency collapsed. They wanted the Ayatollah gone. And they were sick of Islam. So much so that they started burning Mosques.

And now I think I have a guess as to why legacy news outlets don’t want to report on this. Being co-opted by leftism, they’ve staked their pride on Islam being a wonderful religion that no one could possibly refuse. Leftism has stupidly decided on Islam as what they’d prop up to maintain a veneer of tolerance, and now, every time that Islam acts like Islam, they have to do damage control. But now, after decades of experience with the Ayatollahs, Iranians have decided that they’ve had enough.

One thing to know about the Iranians is that they’ve been controlled by relatively few fanatics for decades. The Iranians are among the world’s most intelligent people, and Islamic fundamentalism is well outside the character of the typical Iranian. Even in recent years, Iranians have been shedding themselves of Islam. Just in the last couple decades, the number of Mosques in Iran has been reduced by about half. Currently, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran, and it could be the country’s dominant religion by 2050.

It can also be pointed out that Iranians want the return of their king. The name of their crown prince, Pahlavi, was actually illegal to even mention under the Ayatollahs. The punishment for doing so was death.

Also, leading up to the riots, Iran has been running out of water. It was to the point that the capital had just about no water. I’m not sure how this issue will be handled after the IRGC is overthrown.

At this point, the protests are a nightly occurrence, and have engulfed every major Iranian city, including the capital, Tehran. It would seem as though the IRGC has completely lost control.

But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t trying. As of this writing, the internet in Iran is shut down, including for the IRGC. All that’s left is Elon Musk’s Starlink, which is in the hands of relatively few Iranians, and a limited intranet that’s mainly only used by the IRGC.

What’s more, the IRGC’s armed forces have begun opening fire on the protesters. This doesn’t seem to deter the protesters, who still have been showing up in massive numbers. There doesn’t seem to be any reliable counts for death toll, but I’ve heard numbers ranging from dozens to over a thousand.

IRGC leadership has announced their intention to execute anyone who has protested against them. Which is remarkably stupid. For one thing, because that’s an immense number of people. The logistics behind detaining huge percentages of the populations of entire cities would seem well beyond the means of a regime whose currency has just collapsed. But also because, in saying as much, they’ve given everyone who has protested so far another reason to dig their heels in.

Forgiveness isn’t just something that sounds nice, it gives someone an incentive to possibly come around to your own side. If someone were to tell me that I’d be their enemy forever, and nothing would change that, then what reason would I have to attempt to reconcile myself to them?

But it doesn’t seem like the IRGC will be able to carry out their threat against their own people. Not only are the protests so huge and so widespread that it seems nearly impossible for the regime to overcome them, the leadership, including the Ayatollah himself, is in hiding.

If the Ayatollah knows that his time is almost up, it might be that his heart is set on trying to cause as much damage as he can on the way out. Thus, his announced intention of going to war against Israel and the United States. It might be his intention to fire off one last volley of missiles before things end for him.

Here in the USA, we have a saying: Don’t let your mouth write checks that your ass can’t cash.

But, war or no war, it seems as though it’s over for the IRGC. The Ayatollah has already publicly announced his intention of leaving Iran, which doesn’t suggest that he has much under control. And as time goes on, he seems to be running out of opportunity to leave. It might even be that there’s currently no safe way for him to leave the country.

I think we’re seeing history being made. Not only are a people unshackling themselves of a despot, it’s an Islamic despot. Islam has some of the strictest mechanisms of control which have ever been developed. Since Islam’s inception in Muhammad’s diseased mind, there might not have been any nations which have succeeded in unshackling themselves of Islam without external intervention.

Which is why it would be awesome to see the Iranians pull it off without another country getting involved. Sure, I’d like to see the US get involved if that was necessary to guarantee the uprising’s success, and to prevent more bloodshed than necessary. If the Iranians accomplished it on their own, then the hope that many around the world could have in casting off the shackles of ancient Bedouin mysticism would be tremendous. But so would the knowledge that a strong ally might have your back. So, in either case, there’s something great to come away with.

If you’re interested in following developments with the Iranian uprising, you might like Tousi TV. He’s an Iranian living in the UK who wants to see the IRGC fall, and has been livestreaming with updates. He’s got his bias on the matter, but he’s honest about it.

What a decade it’s been so far this year!