Fritz

Father. Husband. Truth Seeker. Engineer and Builder. You are where your attention is found.

[Julius Ruechel @JuliusRuechel]

By the time Rome fell, only those who still benefited from the politically-enabled system of plunder still had the will to defend their country. To everyone else, the idea of Rome was dead.

Now consider Canada in 2025. When Chandra Arya tried to run for the Liberal Party leadership (before the party booted him for unexplained reasons), we mocked him for failing to recognize the importance of language to the Quebecois. But revisit his observation for a moment (see link below) because it contains another deeper truth:

"it's not the language that matters, it's what is it that they [the federal govt] delivers to them."

https://t.co/9WwY9zQczD

While language and culture are central to what it means to be Quebecois, Chandra Arya's statement is actually a shockingly candid observation about what Canada has come to represent to a very large number of people.

In short, post-national Canada has reduced itself to a system that delivers goodies and opportunities.

It doesn't inspire -- it redistributes.

It doesn't defend our rights equally -- it treats our rights as conditional privileges, to be granted or withdrawn on a whim.

It doesn't create an equal playing field -- it insulates many from free market competition and divvies out protectionism as a strategic method of buying voter loyalty from special interest groups.

It no longer offers its citizens an open door to opportunities achievable through hard work -- today those doors are jealously guarded and require endless permission slips, even as the opportunities behind those doors are suffocated with endless regulation, and require jumping though endless hoops before the real work can even begin.

It doesn't empower us to build and innovate -- it turns us all against one another as we grovel at the feet of our govt in a never-ending competition over the spoils of taxation, regulatory privileges, and subsidized economic opportunities.

It doesn't uphold the law -- it enables corruption and theft on a colossal scale, right in our faces, while pretending that they don't exist.

In short, govt in 🇨🇦 today is little more than France's 17th century Sun King divvying out privileges to his preferred loyalists as they competed for his favors at the Palace of Versailles.

But it wasn't always this way in Canada, which is why there's such a dramatic generational split when it comes to support for the idea of the 51st state.

Support is highest among the younger generations (according to Ipsos, 43% of Canadians aged 18-34 support becoming the 51st state). https://t.co/hfTtSaXaKi
They sense what Canada has become and see clearly that a lifetime of hard work may no longer even net them ownership of their own homes. Canada has broken its intergenerational social contract with them, and they are choosing accordingly.

But for many older Canadians, Canada was once a place where they could build something for their families purely as a consequence of their own initiative and hard work -- in other words, it represented an idea about freedom. Different from the USA, but freedom nonetheless. And so, our flag meant something because living beneath it meant that a man could spend most of his life building a life for his family with barely any interaction with any govt agent. Not anymore.

While Canada was deeply flawed in those days too with many episodes of blatant predatory govt behaviour, Canada nevertheless was a place where many hardworking citizens were able to make something with their own sweat and blood without having to grovel at the feet of an endless line of bureaucrats and politicians to make their lives happen.

Furthermore, the leadership classes weren't going out of their way to place petty obstacles in their citizens' way while openly plundering them at every turn to use that plunder to buy themselves a coalition of loyal supporters. But today that is very much the case as Canada transforms itself into little more than a stereotypical banana republic that plunders some to buy the loyalty of others.

Many of those who thrived in those earlier eras simply do not see that the Canada they continue to hold in their hearts has long since morphed into something entirely different, and that we've long since passed the point where we can simply "vote for the other guy" to get back to what it once was.

Canada was frequently predatory in those earlier eras too, but it wasn't always this openly and obscenely predatory.

Individual regions, like Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland, and many indigenous peoples did fall prey to disastrous govt-led social engineering efforts during our country's history, and many of those citizens went through hell at their govt's hands.

(if you have a moment, read up on the dirty tricks the govt used to forcibly "found" the town of Grise Fiord in 1953 to establish Canada's claim over the high arctic as an example of Canada's habit of using its citizens as pawns for its own self-serving purposes). https://t.co/fTplRyzOAx

But it wasn't everyone all at once, from coast to coast to coast. The humiliation and hardships suffered by some were often largely hidden from the view of everyone else. Which is why the "idea of Canada" and pride for its flag endured.

But once you begin to grovel for the privilege of a successful life, even if you succeed you still know in your soul that you have merely become a serf in someone else' golden bird cage. That is the dividing line between the idea of freedom versus being bound by a govt yoke. That's the deal killer that rotted out the idea that once served as the soul of our nation.

And so, especially among the older generations, the memory of the "idea of Canadian freedom" still holds strong because at one point in their life Canada truly did represent that freedom to many in that generation.

Compounding the factors fueling support for the 51st state is that those who have been steamrolled, whether via regulation, via Covid tyranny, via equalization, and so on, all feel a deep sense of betrayal.

For us, we once believed in the idea of Canada and had pride in our flag, our anthem, our country, and the sense of liberty that we thought these things represented.

But today that feeling has been replaced by a sense of betrayal that cuts to the bone, not only because our political classes have openly betrayed that idea, but especially because so many of our fellow citizens not only went along with the tyranny and the plunder but even actively cheered it on and even showered us with tribal hatred when we tried to protest.

Today we know what the involuntary citizens of Grise Fiord must have felt in their hearts. Today we know that we are not one national family -- family doesn't do that to one another.

We now know that the Canadian dream that's being "delivered" is first "acquired" at someone else's expense. That goes against every ounce of the idea that we once thought Canada represented.

Quite frankly, if a nation is a kind of larger family, we feel betrayed by that family and don't feel safe within that national family anymore. It feels more like we are living in an "eye-for-an-eye", "everyone for themselves" kind of system that is permanently re-writing the rules for the benefit of its privileged loyalists. It feels a bit like living amongst an atomized mass of rabid hyenas, all snarling and competing for their master to throw them a bone.

Chandra Arya put words to the idea of what Canada has become, not because he wanted to fix it, but because he was offering himself to serve as a more benevolent gold-giver at the heart of that system in order to try to "deliver" what people want.

He effectively said the quiet part out loud. He wasn't ashamed of it. I did not sense ill will. It's just that, for those who have bought into the post-national socialist vision of Canada that began in the 1970s under Trudeau Sr. and peaked under Trudeau Jr. today, "delivering" is truly all that Canada is about. He is not alone in that belief. Far too many see Canada in the same way.

This is what a country becomes when it loses its soul and merely becomes a postal address.

We have become a redistributionist (a.k.a. socialist) system in which everyone is permanently caught up in the great game of petitioning the "king" for privileges. The Palace of Versailles 2.0.

That, at its core, is the betrayal of the idea that Canada once represented. And the fact that so many other Canadians are okay with this redistributionist post-national Canada is perhaps the greatest betrayal of all.

As the emperors of yesteryear once learned to their detriment as invading barbarians were massing outside the gates, there comes a point when those inside are willing to welcome the barbarians as liberators to save them from the plunderers inside. It takes a lot more than improving GDP numbers to revive the idea of Rome in the human heart once a nation has turned to plundering its fellow citizens.

To inspire the heart, a nation must first prove itself to be a family worthy of defending.

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[Fritz @RealFritz]

@KEriksenV2 When will people start to understand that Bernier is the same as Tucker and Megyn Kelly. Kicked out of the current system to set up a new boundary for the Overton window.

When someone sets up a true system of information that exposes it all, I’ll have a little more faith.

[Mike Farwell @farwell_WR]

I watched the Waterloo Region District School Board meeting on Monday in hopes of learning more about the mysterious and sudden dismissal of Director of Education, jeewan chanicka. The Board didn't address the issue at all. But I did find a few interesting things on my own... 🧵

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

🔥THE CANADIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOLES OUT $102B PER YEAR (1/4 OF THE TOTAL BUDGET)

IN A OPAQUE SLUSH FUND TITLED "OTHER TRANSFER PAYMENTS"

This money is TAX-FREE, and only 1 list exists online....and its hard to find.

Heres where the money is going .....BUCKLE UP... a 🧵

[Fritz @RealFritz]

Jay-Z dropping now is to distract from Syria

[Mr. Sausage @MrSausageGet]

I want Trump to be the real deal as much as anyone. I have THREE kids to raise in this hellhole.

But, I'm also addicted to calling it like I see it. I am hyper critical and hyper analytical, which is both a strength and a weakness.

I don't care about followers. I make like 40 bucks a month off of this account. I despise social media. I had no social media presence until November 2020. I have a great career. I only engage for my kids. I love this country, but I hate what it has become.

I've poured 20-40 hours per week, in addition to my full-time career, into this for 4 years now. Since 2020 was stolen. I was neck deep in grassroots engagement for election integrity and covid tyranny in multiple states for nearly 3 years. I desire nothing except for my kids and grandkids to grow up free.

I am a conservative. I used to be independent, then a Trump Republican, now I despise our entire apparatus and both parties. I know there are some good Republicans, but not many. Dems are communists. I understand all of this.

I am saying right now, since I call it like I see it, something is off. With everything. Trump included.

I want to be wrong, believe me. I could be, I don't profess to be perfect. But I see a neutered Trump, a treasonous government on both sides and an advancing New World Order.

[Waterloo Region Record @WR_Record]

Jeewan chanicka is out as director of the Waterloo Region District School Board, according to an internal email. https://t.co/n8D4Lsml7l

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

There has been a gradual funneling of everyone into viewing the oracle of information as the Internet, rather than their own intuition. The locus of control has shifted to outside of oneself. This allows people to be controlled.

Information is control. When you control the information that is given, you create the context. When you create the context, you can predict the behaviors, and when you predict the behaviors, you can control the outcomes.

We see now in real time the editing of information on a mass scale. When the media, wikipedia, and whoever else hosts information, all agree to a narrative in ONE moment *SNAP* they can rewrite history. Right now they are erasing all mentions of Kamala as border czar or that she was voted "most liberal". This is a tiny fractal of what is happening on a daily basis.

People may make noise in the short term and complain -- but eventually people forget, they move on, and ultimately, a new generation is born into the new context, and they only know what they see, they don't know the truth that was altered.

By this logic, who knows what the truth originally was, that even we don't know today, the antiquity truth.

We're in an age of information warfare.

Look at the AI companies censoring and skewing the results of queries, forbidding certain information, lying overtly about other things, under the guise of "safety".

We don't have a solution, for as long as we are a society, we will have information, and people will control that information, and control the context.

Scary, right?

As we become more interconnected, we become more lied to and more programmable. The opposite is things become more chaotic, but more free and intuitive.

We don't have a solution -- just musing publicly if anyone feels inspired to chime in and pontificate with us.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@AshaLogos We need to outright train a model on historical works or at least fine tune a model. RAG and Graph RAG can be helpful also if the historical works are on hand.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC Also notice how I am asking the questions and you are implying that I need to make an effort for my kids and their grandchildren. Or you imply that I have embarrassed myself.

We are here for discussion, right?

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC Why don’t you want to set me straight, give me a link, something?

I’ve voted green and I’ve been on the other side. But I’ve lived much more life now and I see that all the doomsday predications have not come true. I also see how corrupt our institutions and media are.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC Feel free to give it your best shot.

What makes changing global climate different now than when it happened over and over again in the past?

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC Our most immediate environment if you will

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC Yes, currently I see the “Climate Change” agenda as propaganda. An invisible, undefeatable enemy.

With that said, I am always open to new sources of information to consider.

Wish we would wake up and start measuring what is running through our bodies.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC Let’s go back to the early 1900s and have climate change bonds and y’all can let people really understand how much of their money is being wasted on the unmeasurable boogeyman.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@nickcapra_gpc @AislinnClancyKC lol, so we are just going to cherry pick data and make proclaimations?

The young kids must be pretty gullible to believe that we didn’t have severe weather 20 years ago, eh?

Anything for a bigger government and more inflation.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@JustinTrudeau Barf

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@EvaVlaar Perhaps because you are brand new to Catholicism, you are not fully aware of how the Roman Catholic Church prevented its people from thinking for themselves during the Covid nightmare. Wow. Gotta say I’m disappointed.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@unspinthespina1 My feeling has been that we would have to educate children from a young age about the challenges of narrative.

We need a way more psychology taught to our kids.

[Fritz @RealFritz]

@unspinthespina1 2/ I’ve always wondered why our information was not more akin to something a corporation would use to acheive goals.

Dashboards, graphs. Something to follow and refer back to.

Maybe like 538 before it was taken over by propaganda.