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

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 do.

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 was 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 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 cannons 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. He also networks 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 the problem that is the left-wing radicalization pipeline. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Late Stage Taxation

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?

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!

Another gullible person just died.

Another FAFO happened. People are banging pots and pans together, giving those of us who like making fun of how ridiculous people can be plenty of material to work with.

What went down is that a woman was killed in Minnesota while resisting ICE officers. Her final mistake was accelerating towards an officer in her vehicle, ignoring repeated instruction to leave the vehicle. Recognizing this act of aggression as an attack with a 2-ton weapon, which was exactly what it was, the officer that was struck made it so that she’d never make another mistake.

And now, here we are, with millions of people who hate America and advocate for the rape of America telling you not to believe your lying eyes, because we have video of the incident from multiple different angles.

I’ll say first that nothing about this incident should really change your opinion of illegal immigration, whether you’re for it or against it. This incident pretty much came down to someone escalating matters beyond her ability to manage, then leaving the rest of us with a lesson to learn. A lesson that she herself doesn’t benefit from, because now she’s gone.

It’s wise to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.

The attacker was identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. As is often the case when it comes to infamous criminals, her name is forfeit, and I get to give her a new one. Her new name is Renee Bad. She’s not around to enjoy it, so whether she would is irrelevant.

The 2:00 PM video from the post below is likely the one that you saw first, especially if you’re one of the few who are still informed by television.

The part that’s hyper-analyzed would be the 9 to 12 second portion, which shows that a federal agent was in front of the vehicle when Renee Bad shifted from reverse to forward (as indicated by the lights on her car changing), and she accelerated forward as the federal agent was still in front of her vehicle. The agent responded to this aggression by firing his pistol at the attacker.

Renee wasn’t using her head before, and now she definitely isn’t.

As we have seen in the last few days, leftists saw the video above, and saw something entirely different. In their thinking, the ICE agent was the clear aggressor, senselessly firing on a woman who was doing nothing wrong. Though we have the clear, plain video evidence, leftists still insist on their own manufactured reality, making this another case study in leftism being a carefully constructed denial of reality, a cult wherein each of the adherents prove their devotion to the ideology with how starkly they can deny the clear, plain evidence.

Again, nothing about this incident should have any bearing on policy regarding illegal immigration, other than in regards to the safety of agents carrying out their duties in an environment where they can be interfered with by violent cretins seeking social media headpats. The real problem is that protestors are becoming increasingly violent and then proceeding to play victim when facing the consequences for their own unwise behavior. Much of their behavior can likely be explained by them acting out encouraged by inflammatory rhetoric from social media influencers and those in the protestors’ online social circles. A stunted capacity for understanding right from wrong would easily explain the rest.

Much of online activism on the left comes down to trying to get other people to do things.

If you’re among the many who liked to lie to yourself about the video above, then the video below made it far more difficult for you to deceive yourself. It’s cell phone video from the ICE agent who was struck by the vehicle.

Prior to her decision to attack the ICE agent, Renee Bad was ordered to leave the vehicle by the officers a total of three times. At that point, it was already a non-compliance issue. Renee should not have been in her vehicle at the point that she decided to attack.

The video, taken from the perspective of the officer who was attacked, shows that he was in front of the vehicle at the point that Renee decided to accelerate. What’s more, you can hear a loud “thud” at the moment the vehicle collided with the agent.

There’s simply no room for denial.

But what I’d like to call attention to is the expression on Renee’s face right before she decided to accelerate towards the officer. The following image was taken from about 39 seconds into the video:

She’s looking right at the officer she was about to attempt to run down. And she had a big smile. She knew what she was about to do.

People have spoken of Renee Bad’s death as a tragedy. As I see it, the real tragedy occurred well before she decided that she’d be an activist instead of a mother that day. Over the course of an unknown amount of time, Renee was subjected to algorithmic manipulation and psychological operation which were so extensive, so corrosive and destructive, that it was able to override her better judgement. So effective was the emotionally loaded language, the one-sided arguments, and the deception that she was presented with, that she became a willing soldier for a people who weren’t her own, ready to literally fight in a war to continue a fraud that stole billions from people who actually were her own.

All this despite there being no benefit to her in persevering, whatsoever.

Some deaths are a tragedy. But sometimes, the world really is better off without certain people. And Renee was clearly one of those people. After all, what exactly was society supposed to do with someone who decided that, instead of caring for her family on a given day, she’d instead obstruct federal officers with a big smile, with apparently nothing to gain in so doing? And what kind of a future can a person be expected to have if they would decide that, instead of complying with law enforcement, she’d instead decide to attempt vehicular assault against them?

Could Renee have been redeemed? I don’t know. But if a person attacks a person who’s armed, especially if it’s law enforcement, with potentially lethal force, I doubt that redemption would be on that person’s mind.

I think it’s reasonable to guess that if she had survived that encounter, her life would have ended due to the consequences of a different unwise choice that she’d have made. With some people, it’s just a matter of time.

Speculation aside, Renee Bad is gone, now. The world has become slightly less stupid.

We should be angry right now.

Be you.

No criminal record.
STEM major, because that seemed like the smart guy thing to do.
Graduated with honors.
Employed at production facility for a few years.
Makes just a couple more dollars per hour than someone who stocks grocery shelves nearby.
Goes home to a one-bedroom apartment in a car with mechanical problems.
Hasn’t been in a relationship in about a decade.
Tired of the same struggle meal that was had a few days in a row.
As far as you can tell, you did everything right.
The people on TV, social media, and in movies tell you that it’s somehow your fault, and that you deserve it, somehow.

Be Homer Simpson in the mid-nineties.

No college education.
Is a lowly nuclear power technician.
Has a wife and three children.
Lives in a house in a nice suburb, even the baby has her own bedroom.
Can afford to go on vacation three times a year.
Can buy new stuff like a grill anytime he wants.
Doesn’t seem to do anything right.
The entire point of his sitcom is that he’s a lower-middle-class loser.

Be some rando Somalian.

No education, period.
Goes to country that’s a better place because it’s not run like the shithole he’s from.
Rape was literally legal in his home country just five years ago.
Contributes literally nothing to society. Average IQ beneath legal threshold for being considered disabled.
Is paid millions of dollars by the government just for repeatedly showing up to an empty building with a misspelled day care sign.
Has a sports car and lives in a large lake front property.
His fraud is exposed, but there are Americans who are actually okay with it, for some reason.

I think it’s time we started having a conversation about what’s wrong with society.

TWAT News: CNN and gambling.

CNN is already famous for its journalistic integrity, so it’s natural to expect it to partner with prediction market website Kalshi.

If Kalshi sounds somewhat familiar, it’s probably because you’ve heard the name in passing when Polymarket was discussed.

Here’s Kalshi’s partnership announcement on X:

I like the term “prediction market”, by the way, because it’s a more Orwellian way of saying “gambling”.

Which I think gives us a pretty good understanding of how things are going for CNN after the abject failure of their streaming platform. They’re now partnering up with a gambling website.

Except, instead of a game of cards, the bets are on outcomes of current events such as elections. Which has lots of potential for a conflict of interest when you understand that CNN might report on an outcome that doesn’t fit the official narrative when there’s piles of their viewers’ money at stake.

We’re talking about the kind of people who went to school for years to become journalists only to end up writing articles like the kind touting cuckolding, if you’d trust their financial advise, you were probably going to lose that money somehow, anyway.

In case you’re wondering which of the two is on the bottom in the relationship, here’s a video of CNN with a scrolling Kalshi prediction tracker:

Simply pathetic.

At this point, it’s a valid question: Who the hell still watches CNN? My guess is that it’s the same credulous dimwits who heard the Russian collusion hoax, the Storm Daniels hush money story, and the Sandman defamation, and believed the people on their television screens without even the slightest trace of inquiry.

And now, CNN wants them to become addicted to gambling so they don’t lose the viewers that they have left.

Here’s the best take on this matter that I’ve seen that wasn’t one of my own:

Which gets me suspicious that insider trading may have just evolved into a form that gets around the law, at least for the time being.

But CNN has just partnered with a gambling website. That Was Actually The News.