We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.
The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.
Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").
Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.
And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.
I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.
Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.
Communism, in a nutshell.
Monday: Thune called everyone flooding his office a “paid influencer ecosystem.”
Tuesday: Elon posted his number to 200 million people.
Today: Thune hit the Senate floor calling Dems’ “Jim Crow 2.0” framing “deeply irresponsible” — an insult to those who actually lived through that era.
He still won’t kill the filibuster to pass the bill he calls “commonsense.”
Insults the voters. Delivers the speech. Kills the bill.
Every single time.
SAVE ACT: Once Senators return from their long weekend Leader Thune will hold a performative vote that he knows that won't pass. Instead of forcing Democrats to actually filibuster or change the cloture rules he's going to be able to pretend like he has actually done his job. Democrats will be able to claim (correctly) that they didn't vote against the Save America Act but instead voted against closing debate. Republicans will be able to claim they voted for the act while actually voting to close debate on the act. Both sides get to claim they did something that never happened - the act was never given an up or down vote itself. Instead the senate will have just argued about procedural nonsense. Also, this performative vote will take time, time that could have been spent restoring pay for the thousands of federal workers who haven't been paid in a month.
Senator Sanders, @BernieSanders you have been in Congress for over 34 years, screaming about greed and inequality the entire time, yet the federal budget has not been balanced once on your watch. Not once. You and your colleagues have racked up trillions in deficits year after year, with spending exploding on waste, fraud, and duplication. The GAO says hundreds of billions vanish annually into improper payments alone. You never demand real cuts, never force accountability, never get your own house in order. Instead, you point fingers at billionaires and demand brand new taxes on the tiny group that actually creates wealth.
Why should Americans trust you with even more money when you have proven utterly irresponsible with the record $5 trillion plus we already hand you every year? Private innovators like those you demonize allocate capital with ruthless efficiency, building companies that employ millions and solve problems. Government under your leadership is the worst steward imaginable: bloated, wasteful, and addicted to spending it does not have.
Until you balance the budget, eliminate the fraud, cut the bloat, and show you can responsibly manage what we already give you, you have zero business asking for another dime from anyone, especially not through a failed wealth tax that every serious country has abandoned.
Your post is not leadership; it is deflection. You have had decades to fix government inefficiency and failed. America deserves better than endless excuses and new taxes to fund the same irresponsibility.
Prove you are a good steward first, Senator. Then, and only then, come talk about “fair share.” We are waiting.
leftism is a memetic parasite optimized for host sterilization. every core tenet leads to the same endpoint: you don’t reproduce
equality - no hierarchy means no selection for excellence, no reason to strive, no family formation incentive.
sexual liberation - commodified dopamine hits replacing pair bonding. celebrate barrenness as “freedom”
identity ideology - fragment the self into a thousand genders, none of which have (or can have) children.
destroy the nuclear family - the one structure that actually transmits values and creates future humans.
delay reproduction for career - until the eggs are dead and the window is closed.
follow the tenets fully and you disappear.
40% fertility vs 71% is extinction math, 3 generations of true believers and the bloodline end
but the thing about death cults is that the successful ones adapt. if your ideology sterilizes its hosts, you cant spread through inheritance and you have to spread through infection.
and you cant infect adults since their immune system is developed, their priors are set.
you need children.
you need them young, before their parents can transmit their values and before the immune system forms.
this is why they need the schools and media (not want, need). it’s the only reproduction strategy available.
this is why parents aren’t told when their child changes pronouns. why therapists are legally required to “affirm” and legally prohibited from informing. why homeschooling is treated as extremism and investigated like abuse. why “parental rights” became a far-right dogwhistle. why every disney movie now features parents as the villains and the institution as the liberator. why family is depicted as oppression and escape from family as heroism. why they lowered the age of medical consent. why they want your kids online, unsupervised, as early as possible.
the parasite can’t reproduce, it can only recruit. and recruitment requires access to hosts before they’re immunized.
every leftist memeplex that didn’t prioritize youth capture already went extinct. what you’re seeing is survivorship bias. the ones that remain are the ones that figured out how to parasitize the reproductive capacity of their outgroup.
you’re watching natural selection for memetic parasitism in real time.
and they need your kids to survive
RE: Fraud in Minnesota
I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe.
I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests.
Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.)
The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe?
Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe.
Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA!
So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily.
Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host.
So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.
David Friedberg: The Founding Fathers would be really saddened at the state of America and the reliance on government for handouts and control
“You know, we read this excerpt from these two Thomas Jefferson letters and you can read a lot of these, just ask Gemini to tell you about some of the things that the Founding Fathers wrote.”
“And if you spend time with them and translate them into modern English … there is so much of the principles of the founding fathers that are lost in how we are kind of devolving into this organizational system where the government is, everything in our lives, everything in our country.”
“The individual liberties are being taken from us.”
“And I don't mean taken from us in a sense that they're being seized.”
“We're voting for a government that dictates our lives, that controls what we eat, how we eat, how we live, how we get paid, our checks.”
“I think the majority of Americans today live on checks from the government through the government, and I think that the Founding Fathers would have been really saddened at the state.”
Leftists use pathos to override logos in order to push their activism. The “pity play” is a common form of this. It disarms you by flooding you with pity, guilt, & moral urgency so your judgment and discernment never gets a chance.
Cue the crying child, or the one-sided history. Then comes the demand: accept the leftist moral frame and the activism that follows.
If you resist, the label is not just an insult. It’s a social activation switch, greenlighting attacks on you: “racist,” “hateful.” The point is to mobilize bystanders, raise the social cost of saying no, and make you the example so others learn that compliance is the price of staying “decent.”
Democrats must never gain power again
Mike Benz exposes Joe Biden’s Justice Department send a memo to all banks saying “The Justice Department would take legal action against any bank who refused loans to illegal immigrants”
Mike Benz “Hunter Biden actually owns 10% of a company called Eplata, which is a micro financing loan company for illegal immigrants coming up through the southern border.”
“At the same time, the Biden Administration Justice Department put out a notice telling the banks that they would, that the Justice Department would take legal action against any bank who refused loans to illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the first son is, has an equity investment in a company that profits off those very loans”
Georgia: More Affidavits
"Many of the boxes of ballots had voted 100% for Biden and 0% for Trump. The ballots appeared perfectly filled out as if they had been pre-printed with the presidential candidate selected. They did not look like a person had filled this out at home."