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If a government really wanted to run a large-scale influence campaign, it wouldn’t need MKUltra, poisoned water supplies, or turning people gay through tick bites.
All it would need is an army of bots across social media platforms that engage with, promote, and follow people saying the things it wants amplified. The moment those creators start saying something else? Their engagement suddenly falls off a cliff.
The interesting part is that you don’t even need to directly pay most people. You might seed a few accounts, but the real strategy would be having automated systems constantly search for people already saying what you want said, then aggressively boost them.
Over time, that creates a powerful incentive structure. People notice which opinions get attention, followers, and social status, and they naturally begin gravitating toward those positions. The behavior becomes self-reinforcing. What started as artificial amplification eventually looks like a genuine grassroots movement because real people have joined it.
It doesn’t even have to be a centralized conspiracy. The mechanism itself is enough. Visibility creates incentives, incentives shape behavior, and behavior influences culture.
The most interesting part is that if such a campaign became successful enough, being exposed might not even matter. Once an idea is popular, embedded, and supported by real people, the revelation that it was initially amplified by bots or coordinated promotion often changes very little. People simply continue supporting it because it has taken on a life of its own.
Why do you have the right to say whatever you want?
Where does it come from?
Can words actually be considered violence?
It’s been weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination and questions like this are still splitting the country.
But there’s an even deeper divide here than I think most people realize.
Because it brings up a question at the core of our system of government:
What is the foundation that all rights rest upon?
And here’s an argument I haven’t heard being argued anywhere else.
But it’s something that philosophers like John Locke, Murray Rothbard, and even the Founding Fathers understood very well:
Property Rights Are The Essential Right
In fact, in my view they are the only fundamental right there is.
You see, there is no such thing as a “human right” floating out there on its own.
Think about it:
- The “right to life”?
That’s just the right to have your body – your property – remain unviolated.
- The “right to free speech”?
That’s the right to use your voice – your property – to express yourself.
- Even the “right to bear arms”?
That’s the right to own and use weapons – your property – to defend your body and home.
Every real right ultimately boils down to property rights.
That means every violation of rights are actually violations of property rights.
Just like any other property, your right to use it ends the moment you cross into someone else’s.
As the saying goes – your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
I have the right to swing my fist anywhere I want.
But the second it connects with your face, I’ve crossed the line.
Up until that moment, I was using my property – my body – as I pleased.
The instant I struck you, I violated your property – your body.
The same thing applies to free speech.
If I shout “fire” in a crowded theater and there really is a fire, I’ve helped people protect their property – their lives.
But if I shout “fire” and there’s no fire?
I’ve committed fraud.
I’ve stolen the show from the audience, and I may have damaged the theater owner’s business (their property).
This means the line in the sand isn’t some vague debate about which words are too mean or too offensive.
The line is simple: have you violated someone else’s property rights?
And this is exactly why the whole idea of “incitement of violence” falls apart.
Because once you accept that rights are property rights, the distinction is clear:
Words cannot be violence.
Only actions can be.
If someone hears a speech, reads a tweet, or sits in a crowd and then chooses to hurt another person – that choice is theirs and theirs alone.
They chose to violate someone else’s property – their body or possessions.
To shift the blame onto the speaker is to pretend words have some kind of mystical “mind control” power.
But that doesn’t exist. People remain responsible for their own actions.
The moment we start treating words as violence, we erase personal responsibility and hand the state a blank check to police speech (just look at what’s happening in the U.K. right now).
And when that happens, no property is truly safe – not your body, not your voice, not your home.
That’s why the Founding Fathers placed such a heavy emphasis on property.
James Madison said that protection of property rights was one of the only reasons for a government to exist…
“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated. The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.”
-James Madison
John Adams believed that "property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.”
And Gouverneur Morris, a member of the Convention of 1787, said that:
“Life and liberty are generally said to be more valuable than property. An accurate view of the matter, however, would nevertheless prove that property is the main object of society.”
-Gouverneur Morris
The Founders understood very well that property rights are the cornerstone of every other liberty…
Which is why I believe they would have been disgusted by the state of our nation today.
The slow erosion of our foundational right
Since the New Deal and the “constitutional revolution”, America has strayed further and further from what the Founders intended.
The Supreme Court has permitted government actions that would have horrified them:
- Farmers banned from growing wheat on their own land for their own families (Wickard v. Filburn).
- Citizens forced to obtain licenses just to work in occupations that pose no risk to public health or safety (Ferguson v. Skrupa).
- Homes seized under eminent domain and handed to another private owner, simply because the state claimed the new use might generate more tax revenue (Kelo v. City of New London).
Now people want to control what we do with our voices? Our words?
California's Senate introduced a bill (SB 771) which will target platforms that “amplify” hate speech (whatever that means) with $1 million fines per infraction.
That bill is sitting on Gavin Newsom’s desk as we speak.
Just in August this year, the White House announced it would “prosecute” citizens for burning the American flag – partially on the grounds that such expression “may incite violence.”
And even though they danced around what that means - and exactly what would be prosecuted in the executive order - the implication was clear…
Don’t do it, or else.
Our right to our own voice - our ability to express ourselves - is our most foundational property right of all.
Because it’s the exercise of this right that makes us individuals.
It’s what makes us human.
As economist Murray Rothbard put it:
"If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, interchangeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who, indeed, would care if they lived or died? The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness — the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable — that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for a free society… Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human."
-Murray Rothbard
That’s why it’s impossible to accept any idea that words can be violence.
As Murray Rothbard said… We need our words in order that we may fully be human.
Until next time,
Joe Brown
I watched a man throw his Bronze Star in the trash.
It was 2019. Vietnam vet. Hands shaking from decades of bourbon and nightmares.
"This damn thing," he said, "reminds me of the worst thing I ever did."
I asked what he meant. His eyes went hollow.
"Kid stepped on a mine. Couldn't have been more than 16. Viet Cong, but still... just a kid. I was supposed to feel proud. They pinned this on me for 'heroic action under fire.' But all I see when I look at it is that boy's face."
He'd been carrying that shame for 50 years.
Here's what I told him—and what I'm telling you:
Your worst moment doesn't get to write your story.
Your abuse doesn't define you.
Your addiction doesn't define you.
Your divorce doesn't define you.
Your failures, your shame, your darkest secrets—they're not your identity.
The nail prints in His hands are.
The spear wound in His side is.
You're not what happened TO you. You're what HE did FOR you.
But here's where most Christians get it backwards...
They think identity in Christ means pretending the bad stuff never happened. They put on their Sunday smile and act like they've never been broken.
That's not biblical. That's pathetic.
Look at David—adulterer and murderer. God called him "a man after my own heart."
Look at Paul—terrorist who murdered Christians.
Christ called him to write half the New Testament.
Look at Peter—coward who denied Jesus three times when it mattered most. Jesus made him the rock on which He'd build His church.
The gospel isn't about perfect people. It's about redeemed ones.
That Bronze Star-throwing veteran? I picked it out of the trash. Handed it back to him.
"This medal," I said, "doesn't represent what you did wrong. It represents what you did right in an impossible situation. And even if it didn't—even if this was a participation trophy from hell itself—it still wouldn't define you."
"What defines you is what happened 2,000 years ago on a cross outside Jerusalem. What defines you is an empty tomb. What defines you is the moment the Son of God looked at all your shame and said, 'I'll take that.'"
He cried. First time in decades, he told me later.
Here's what the enemy doesn't want you to understand:
Every time you let your past define you, you're calling God a liar.
Every time you introduce yourself by your trauma, you're saying Christ's sacrifice wasn't enough.
Every time you live in shame instead of freedom, you're giving glory to your pain instead of your Savior.
That's not humility. That's rebellion.
Romans 8:1 doesn't stutter: "There is therefore now NO condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
Not "some condemnation." Not "condemnation on the weekends." Not "condemnation when you really screw up."
NO condemnation.
Period. Full stop. End of discussion.
Your identity isn't:
"I'm the woman who was abused"
"I'm the man who struggled with addiction"
"I'm the person whose marriage fell apart"
Your identity IS:
"I am chosen" (1 Peter 2:9)
"I am more than a conqueror" (Romans 8:37)
"I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14)
The difference between those two lists?
The first one makes you a victim.
The second one makes you dangerous.
And that's exactly what God intended.
He didn't rescue you so you could spend the rest of your life talking about the pit. He rescued you so you could pull other people out of theirs.
He didn't heal you so you could nurse your wounds forever. He healed you so you could become a healer.
He didn't set you free so you could keep living like you're still in chains. He set you free so you could break other people's chains too.
That veteran? He started volunteering at the VA hospital three months later.
Why? Because he finally understood: His pain had a purpose. His scars had a story. His shame had been transformed into strength.
Not because he denied what happened to him.
But because he refused to let what happened to him define him.
There's a reason the enemy wants you focused on your past:
A person who knows who they are in Christ is unstoppable.
They can't be shamed into silence.
They can't be guilt-tripped into inaction.
They can't be intimidated into hiding.
They know their worth isn't based on their performance.
Their value isn't determined by their past.
Their identity isn't up for debate.
It was settled at Calvary.
So stop letting your trauma be your testimony.
Start letting your triumph be your testimony.
Stop introducing yourself by your wounds. Start introducing yourself by your victories.
Stop living like a victim. Start living like the overcomer you are.
The cross didn't just save you FROM something. It saved you FOR something.
What's that something?
To be His hands and feet in a broken world.
To be His voice to the voiceless.
To be His light in the darkness.
You can't do that if you're still hiding in shame.
You can't do that if you're still defined by your past.
You can't do that if you're still living like you're not enough.
Because you ARE enough.
Not because of what you've done.
But because of what He's done.
The nail prints in His hands prove it.
The spear wound in His side seals it.
The empty tomb declares it.
You are not what happened TO you. You are what HE did FOR you.
And what He did for you changes everything.
Who needs this reminder today? Drop a 🙏 if this hit different.
And if God is stirring something in your heart, don't keep it to yourself—share this with someone who needs to remember who they really are.
Because the world has enough victims. What it needs are more overcomers.
Strong men stood down. So weak men stood up and thought themselves strong because strong men stood down.
Boomers, your Social Security is already gone. You voted for gov’t policies that drained it to bail out your houses, stocks, and vacations. In fact you spent $36T more than you ever paid in. Now you demand the young give you even more, shamelessly declaring, “It’s my money!”
Sad truth right here.👇🏼
This is how a two-state solution can happen and the usa is at the heart of it all do not attempt to split Israel it will not end pretty.
US AND ISRAEL WEIGH A FUTURE FOR THE GAZA STRIP WITHOUT HAMAS (Bloomberg)
(Full article below in first reply)
U.S. and Israeli officials looking to the future of the Gaza Strip after dislodging Hamas have begun discussing possibilities, including potentially installing an interim government backed by the United Nations and with the involvement of Arab governments, people familiar with US government deliberations said.
The discussions are still at an early stage and hinge on developments yet to unfold, not least of which would be success in an Israeli ground assault, according to the people, who asked not to be identified detailing private deliberations. And any such possibility would need buy-in from Arab nations around the region, which is by no means certain.
Israeli officials have said repeatedly that they don’t intend to occupy Gaza, but they’ve also said that continued rule by Hamas is unacceptable after the Oct. 7 attack in which the group killed 1,400 Israelis and took 200 people hostage.
The challenge of achieving both of those objectives has helped fuel US worries that Israel hasn’t given sufficient thought to what comes after a ground assault. The US is also worried that a Gaza attack with no clear objective beyond ousting Hamas could fan the conflict into a regional war.
The Artificial Womb:
From the time a person leaves its mother's womb, its every effort is directed towards building, maintaining, and withdrawing into artificial wombs, various sorts of substitute protective devices or shells.
The objective of these artificial wombs is to provide a stable environment for both stable and unstable activity; to provide a shelter for the evolutionary processes of growth and maturity - i.e., survival; to provide security for freedom and to provide defensive protection for offensive activity.
This is equally true of both the general public and the elite. However, there is a definite difference in the way each of these classes go about the solution of problems.
The Political Structure of a Nation - Dependency:
The primary reason why the individual citizens of a country create a political structure is a subconscious wish or desire to perpetuate their own dependency relationship of childhood. Simply put, they want a human god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat
them on the head, kiss their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies, tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be alright when they wake up in the morning.
This public demand is incredible, so the human god, the politician, meets incredibility with incredibility by promising the world and delivering nothing. So who is the bigger liar? the public? or the "godfather"?
This public behavior is surrender born of fear, laziness, and expediency. It is the basis of the welfare state as a strategic weapon, useful against a disgusting public.
Action/Offense:
Most people want to be able to subdue and/or kill other human beings which disturb their daily lives, but they do not want to have to cope with the moral and religious issues which such an overt act on their part might raise. Therefore, they assign the dirty work to others (including their own children) so as to keep the blood off their hands. They rave about the humane treatment of animals and then sit down to a delicious hamburger from a whitewashed slaughterhouse down the street and out of sight. But even more hypocritical, they pay taxes to finance a professional association of hit men collectively called politicians, and then complain about corruption in government.
Responsibility:
Again, most people want to be free to do the things (to explore, etc.) but they are afraid to fail. The fear of failure is manifested in irresponsibility, and especially in delegating those
personal responsibilities to others where success is uncertain or carries possible or created liabilities (law), which the person is not prepared to accept. They want authority (root
word - "author"), but they will not accept responsibility or liability. So they hire politicians to face reality for them.
Summary:
The people hire the politicians so that the people can:
(1) obtain security without managing it.
(2) obtain action without thinking about it.
(3) inflict theft, injury, and death upon others without having to contemplate either life or death.
(4) avoid responsibility for their own intentions.
(5) obtain the benefits of reality and science without exerting themselves in the discipline of facing or learning either of these things.
They give the politicians the power to create and manage a war machine:
(1) provide for the survival of the nation/womb.
(2) prevent encroachment of anything upon the nation/womb.
(3) destroy the enemy who threatens the nation/womb.
(4) destroy those citizens of their own country who do not conform for the sake of stability of the nation/womb.
Politicians hold many quasi-military jobs, the lowest being the police which are soldiers, the attorneys and C.P.A.s next who are spies and saboteurs (licensed), and the judges who shout orders and run the closed union military shop for whatever the market will bear. The generals are industrialists. The "presidential" level of commander-in-chief is shared by the international bankers.
The people know that they have created this farce and financed it with their own taxes (consent), but they would rather knuckle under than be the hypocrite.
Thus, a nation becomes divided into two very distinct parts, a docile sub-nation [great silent majority] and a political sub-nation. The political sub-nation remains attached to the docile sub-nation, tolerates it, and leaches its substance until it grows strong enough to detach itself and then devour its parent.
System Analysis:
In order to make meaningful computerized economic decisions about war, the primary economic flywheel, it is necessary to assign concrete logistical values to each element of the war structure - personnel and material alike.
This process begins with a clear and candid description of the subsystems of such a structure.
The Draft (As military service):
Few efforts of human behavior modification are more remarkable or more effective than that of the socio-military institution known as the draft. A primary purpose of a draft or other such institution is to instill, by intimidation, in the young males of a society the uncritical conviction that the government is omnipotent. He is soon taught that a prayer is slow to reverse what a bullet can do in an instant. Thus, a man trained in a religious environment for eighteen years of his life can, by this instrument of the government, be broken down, be purged of his fantasies and delusions in a matter of mere months. Once that conviction is instilled, all else becomes easy to instill.
Even more interesting is the process by which a young man's parents, who purportedly love him, can be induced to send him off to war to his death. Although the scope of this work will not allow this matter to be expanded in full detail, nevertheless, a coarse overview will be possible and can serve to reveal those factors which must be included in some numerical form in a computer analysis of social and war systems.
We begin with a tentative definition of the draft:
The draft (selective service, etc.) is an institution of compulsory collective sacrifice and slavery, devised by the middle-aged and elderly for the purpose of pressing the young into doing the public dirty work. It further serves to make the youth as guilty
as the elders, thus making criticism of the elders by the youth less likely
(Generational Stabilizer). It is marketed and sold to the public under the label of
"patriotic = national" service.
Once a candid economic definition of the draft is achieved, that definition is used to outline the boundaries of a structure called a Human Value System, which in turn is translated into the terms of game theory. The value of such a slave laborer is given in a Table of Human Values, a table broken down into categories by intellect, experience, post-service job demand, etc.
Some of these categories are ordinary and can be tentatively evaluated in terms of the value of certain jobs for which a known fee exists. Some jobs are harder to value because they are unique to the demands of social subversion, for an extreme example: the value of a mother's instruction to her daughter, causing that daughter to put certain behavioral demands upon a future husband ten or fifteen years.
hence; thus, by suppressing his resistance to a perversion of a government, making it easier for a banking cartel to buy the State of New York in, say, twenty years.
Such a problem leans heavily upon the observations and data of wartime espionage and many types of psychological testing. But crude mathematical models (algorithms, etc.) can be devised, if not to predict, at least to predeterminate these events with maximum certainty. What does not exist by natural cooperation is thus enhanced by calculated compulsion. Human beings are machines, levers which may be grasped and turned, and there is little real difference between automating a society and automating a shoe factory.
These derived values are variable. (It is necessary to use a current Table of Human Values for computer analysis.) These values are given in true measure rather than U.S. dollars, since the latter is unstable, being presently inflated beyond the production of national goods and services so as to give the economy a false kinetic energy ("paper" inductance).
The silver value is stable, it being possible to buy the same amount with a gram of silver today as it could be bought in 1920. Human value measured in silver units changes slightly due to changes in production technology.
Enforcement:
Factor I:
As in every social system approach, stability is achieved only by understanding and accounting for human nature (action/reaction patterns). A failure to do so can be, and usually is, disastrous.
As in other human social schemes, one form or another of intimidation (or
incentive) is essential to the success of the draft. Physical principles of action and reaction must be applied to both internal and external subsystems.
To secure the draft, individual brainwashing/programming and both the family unit and the peer group must be engaged and brought under control.
Factor II - Father
The man of the household must be housebroken to ensure that junior will grow up with the right social training and attitudes. The advertising media,
etc., are engaged to see to it that father-to-be is pussy-whipped before or
by the time he is married. He is taught that he either conforms to the social
notch cut out for him or his sex life will be hobbled and his tender
companionship will be zero. He is made to see that women demand security more than logical, principled, or honorable behavior.
By the time his son must go to war, father (with jelly for a backbone) will
slam a gun into junior's hand before father will risk the censure of his
peers, or make a hypocrite of himself by crossing the investment he has in his own personal opinion or self-esteem. Junior will go to war or father
will be embarrassed. So junior will go to war, the true purpose not withstanding.
Factor III - Mother:
The female element of human society is ruled by emotion first and logic second. In the battle between logic and imagination, imagination always wins, fantasy prevails, maternal instinct dominates so that the child comes
first and the future comes second. A woman with a newborn baby is too
starry-eyed to see a wealthy man's cannon fodder or a cheap source of
slave labor. A woman must, however, be conditioned to accept the transition to "reality" when it comes, or sooner.
As the transition becomes more difficult to manage, the family unit must
be carefully disintegrated, and state-controlled public education and state operated child-care centers must be become more common and legally enforced so as to begin the detachment of the child from the mother and father at an earlier age. Inoculation of behavioral drugs [Ritalin] can speed the transition for the child (mandatory). Caution: A woman's impulsive anger can override her fear. An irate woman's power must never be underestimated, and her power over a pussy-whipped husband must likewise never be underestimated. It got women the vote in 1920.
Factor IV - Junior:
The emotional pressure for self-preservation during the time of war and
the self-serving attitude of the common herd that have an option to avoid the battlefield - if junior can be persuaded to go - is all of the pressure
finally necessary to propel Johnny off to war. Their quiet blackmailings of
him are the threats: "No sacrifice, no friends; no glory, no girlfriends."
Factor V - Sister:
And what about junior's sister? She is given all the good things of life by her father, and taught to expect the same from her future husband regardless of the price.
Factor VI - Cattle:
Those who will not use their brains are no better off than those who have no brains, and so this mindless school of jelly-fish, father, mother, son, and daughter, become useful beasts of burden or trainers of the same.
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He came one as a lamb, the next time he will be a lion.
And I forgot to mention that somewhere in the middle of everything a possible attack on French bases in Algeria and cousin nato in Russia to fall into war.
A thought on how things might go 8/4/23 12.59pm
1. Israel Iran and Hezbollah get in to a war with each other causing the the Strait of
Hermos to be close to put pressure on Israel and the us.
4. Which causes New Madrid San Andreas and the East Coast fault lines to go off with at least an 8.0 as reparations for splitting Israel two.
Peculiar way to multiply in seconds
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@VincentCrypt46 I can say it is a fun game if you like taking down pedophiles
@JournalDiana11 @TBlanch7828 To make entry directly into the tunnels I when I myself gain entry the dream ends.
@JournalDiana11 @TBlanch7828 Now for a more modern one me and a small team are in an Asian Nation near a brick building the dream starts off with me and this team getting into a firefight the firefight ends we decided to dangerous to enter the front so we move down to another building
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