Whether you are genuinely curious or if you are playing dumb to troll does not matter. Either way what I will say will help you understand.
Libertarians have strong intuition. There are those who navigate inside the system able to intuitively assert libertarian ideas, still retain their status and reputation, within the language game of "the system."
The other kind of libertarian is the outsider. The person whose intuition drove them out of the tribe where they walked the deserts of isolation. Being forced to confront their desire to be understood by the tribe. After enough of this isolation, they have their "vision" and come back to the agora to engage with the tribe to speak to their new insights.
Their intuition has been built up, and their confidence is from sheer self-resilience. The issue though is this kind of libertarian does not use the lexicon of the "system". They are not anti-social, but their way of communication is not normative to bureaucrats and "reasonable" company.
Two strong sources of intuition that lead to two kinds of libertarians.
The reason why a number of libertarians rejected you is because many libertarians were rejected by the tribe because of covid. You however did not understand that many of these people had now formed a new lexicon to operate outside of the propaganda and abuses of covid.
They were exiled to the desert and came back with a intuition that you could not resonate with because you still used rhetoric that appealed to the system you prided yourself on navigating and coming to terms with. Other libertarians heard your rhetoric and at best assumed you were naive and at worst deceptive. Despite your intentions you did not sound like someone who understood what people went through with covid.
Obama's sudden rise meant every person who desired power started mimicking him. When I went to work in DC I was surprised at how many people tried to sound like Obama. His oratory skills were top notch for bureaucrats and navigating the system. It was almost entrancing to them. You have a similar delivery, again intentional or not, just like the way Obama talks. Not being direct enough. To worried about being mean and end up not saying anything meaningful. Obama was very good at talking for a long time without saying anything of substance. So when people say you sounded like Obama they literally mean it.
Many libertarians (and the American populace as a whole) just got their ass handed to them from covid and were immediately suspicious of anyone who essentially talked like Obama. Because it was those types who condoned Covid lockdowns and assumed would repeat the same mistakes. Cato did this and didn't say shit on Covid and now they are a laughingstock.
The reason I can say this so confidently is because I have been on both sides of this. I worked in DC as a libertarian and could talk the talk, but just barely. I was direct enough being in IT that it pissed a lot of "reasonable" people off because I wasn't as invested into trying to get power. I didn't sound like or try to sound like Obama essentially. I wasn't playing pretend at the same level everyone else was.
Then some of the people I consider friends in the fight for liberty isolate and ostracize me when I criticized woke back in 2014. Turned on a dime on me. Tom Palmer accused me of being a Russian agent after I pointed out the stupidity of the allegations of Russian Collusion and hackers getting into Podesta emails. I actually work in IT and knew wtf I was talking about. I politely rejected Palmers assertions and he accused me of being a Russian agent.
I also got isolated during covid lockdown and had my life ruined. The place I was glad to be a part of Cato excused covid policies and vaccines. One of my heroes David Boaz couldn't have any courage to do what was right. At this point I had shed my beltway libertarian skin and was no longer disappointed by being rejected by the beltway. I was thanking God he made me look like that much of a crazy asshole to these people and not cunning enough I couldn't find success in DC.
The reason why I noticed the language of the bureaucrat was essentially trying to sound like Obama is because I took speech and oratory classes to overcome a speech impediment. I perceive speech on a level most people do not because their ability to talk comes naturally to them and I had to put intention behind mine. I can tell in a few minutes if someone took speech classes and if they are acting because of this. I was very aware of the techniques Obama used. Just about everyone in DC I ran into had decided to do the same. Felt like DC was Obama Cult city. I was surprised how many were not aware they did this. They simply mimicked because they wanted authority and the top authority was Obama. Obama being such a hypnotist turned DC into a house of mirrors.
Again whether you were deceptive or not does not matter. I'm explaining casualty and how I see it. I'm one of the few libertarians that has seen both sides of the libertarian fence.
As much as you disagree with Trump you cannot deny his brazen New York accent and direct nature was completely opposite of Obama. People who voted for Trump, conservative libertarian or even some democrats, did not want to vote for anyone that sounded like Obama, literally and figurately. Anyone who sounded like that asshole was immediately suspect of being a creature of the system that exiled them and has alienated them. You, by sounding like Obama rhetorically, shot yourself in the foot. It didn't matter what your ideas were, how reasonable or intuitive they were. You literally sounded like Obama.
The picture in this post I took is the day Soros came to speak at Cato. He is a fan of Hayek supposedly and this event was to honor Hayek. I was outside smoking a cigarette and Soros was heading back to the hotel after the event. A woman smoking a cigarette with me threw her cigarette to the ground and she whipped out a recorder saying she was from the New York Times. Soros stopped to listen to her question. Her question? What Soros thought about Trump running for president. Soros flew into a rage and almost backhanded this woman until his Mossad security guard shoo'd her away. I had seen hours of interviews with Soros. He has a reputation for staying cool, but hearing Trump's name made him fly into a rage. This was 2011.
This rivalry between Soros and Trump has gone back years. Trump knew exactly how to counter people that sounded like Obama and it was because they were trained by Soros. In 2011 I saw with my own eyes a glimpse of this bitter rivalry. Soros, a man who was directly asked about his role in selling out Jews and how this made him rich, which he answered without any emotion, couldn't control himself when hearing Trump's name.
Why do I type this all up? I really wish libertarians of all stripes could get along. But because of our high intuitions that made us libertarians, we can smell bullshit artists in our day-to-day life. It made us survive the bureaucracy. So when getting into the marketplace of ideas, we find like-minded people through the lexicon they use. These lexicons and language games is essentially what each flavor of libertarianism is. You being a "centrist" did not matter because you sounded like Obama. In response the "reasonable" libertarians are responding to Trump fans with the desire to "purge" them. Diving into desires for revenge and getting even.
I say all this so you libertarians would get over yourselves and get along. Many of you largely agree with each other, but because how you trained your strong intuitions is so different you guys are paranoid of each other. You shouldn't of been a centrist. You should of abandoned the left/right paradigm. You should have been creative. You should have been a storyteller.
Knowledge is power is storytelling.
Also fuck George Soros.
Its woke vs woke.
The woke whose modus operandi is reason and the woke whose modus operandi is manifestation.
Woke being the belief that knowledge is virtuous in of itself. That it is not simply a means to virtue, that knowledge and it's "possession" is inherently virtuous.
The fascists are "manifesting" the purification of corruption caused by what they call liberalism. Its really egalitarianism and Marxism, but the occult esotericism of getting even/equal to God is inherently assumed in fascism to. They want Marxism without the degeneracy.
They are manifesting by way or reading older texts and thinking "really hard" on the notions of purity. It doesn't have to be racist or anything. They want to purify the human collective like purifying the substance of a potion. Marxism makes the potion still and fascism purifies it.
In psychological terms they are responding to dark side of ego with what they think is the "light side".
This back and forth of ego is what drives this madness. Both sides leading the charge are zionists and postliberals all advocating for their different alchemy to stir the potion. Both sides claiming to be the true followers of Christ and other forms of Truth™. They do this because their knowledge grants them the virtue. When the possession of knowledge is considered virtuous the flip side is the possession of ignorance becomes a sin.
When Marxism inevitably fails and the inevitable reaction is to purge it of corruption. Corruption on a individual level being "sin", the qualification to be purged always falls back to "ignorance". The line between ignorance and innocence becomes indistinguishable.
Leading to the same reason why Marxism and Fascism commits genocides and what makes them woke. The "possession" of knowledge. This action/reaction cycle goes by many names of course and the incentives is never ideals. It boils down to ego. The desire to get even to get revenge against God and him burdening with ignorance and freewill. The desire to control others freewill is a deep hatred for the freewill they have in themselves.
I know you may not understand this because you were seduced by ego to justify the slaughter of Gazan citizens and other innocents. It doesnt matter if it classifies as a genocide. What I just outlined is the same justification throughout history how the innocent people get killed in the tug of war both sides of woke engages in. To be like Christ and reject Satan is to reject ego and to reject the desire to get even or revenge with God.
What are they planning and how long have they been planning it? Why does one get the feeling their plans don’t involve popular support or consent of the governed? Why do some of them on X promise they will kill me once they take power?
The Colville reservation I live near by definitely fits the bill. It really does depend on the reservation. Each on operates differently. There are ones where everything is decided by comittee, even changes to your personal property. Obviously those would be a headache. Maybe if the proposal includes building a casino ontop of the datacenter? Lol
@IPostAndGhost Yes! Although the main issue is their infrastructure is shit. The roads affects the integrity of the servers. When I worked for Amazon they repaved numerous roads because the potholes would shake the servers and the card and motherboards inside shaving metal off contacts.
@RoodBoiBased By "libertarian" I mean those who operate from a presumption of liberty rather than permission, so individualist anarchists are included. I am an anarchist as well.
@RoodBoiBased Yep most libertarians are. They are intuitively aware of who, what and why they are the way they are. Becomes pretty difficult to be defined by others who try to be subversive and underhanded.
This works really well if the person is in the discussion to win as a game. They are ego driven and chasing a carrot of being the "reasonable" one. You feed them a carrot so they get infront of your stick. This only works if your intentions are true and theirs is not. The best thing anyone can do is figure out as fast as possible if someone is genuine in their views or if they have those views as a means for domination. Once you realize they don't examine their own desires you can lead them by the nose and disarm them before they realize it has happened.
The Federal government exists to protect its dominion. A system is designed to do what it does, right? So why would they insist on humiliating conservatives and libertarians for the past 50 years? One word.
Militias.
The Federal government tells you who they consider their biggest threats, but they "conceal" this information in their white papers. Consistently the number one cited domestic threat the government has been worried about is not anti-fa, eco-terrorists, religious extremists or even Communists. It has been consistently militias. They don't announce themselves like the others. Its why the FBI and other agencies focus so intently on them.
They need anti-fa and the left to create the dialectics and distract the people from realizing the power ultimately lies with them. Fancy letterheads, ornate symbols and beautiful buildings do not constitute a government or even power.
The Trump government could have used Charlie Kirk’s assassination to annihilate antifa, the Far Left and kneecap the DSA.
Now, the same Leftist garbage that openly celebrated his horrific murder will be the sole beneficiaries since Kirk was eliminated & the Right devoured itself
First time in a month the smoke has cleared from the skies and I was able to finally take a breath of fresh air. And then the rain has come to wash away the ash and dust to rejuvenate the landscape.
Today is a good day.
Its masonic theater. The most caustic, arrogant and ethnocentric ones are promoted as a catalyst and irritant then made out to be representive of the whole. They function as a lighting rod to stand as tall as possible and catch people's gaze as it attracts kinetic energy to be then funneled down into the foundations. All the while people remained focused on the steeple and not the structure as a whole. As above, so below. They want people focused on the "frontlines" and not the king observing the field from the back. This has been a unspoke agreement since the construction of the first temple.
A lot of it has to do I think with people not used to managing firms or being in jobs where they have seen the difference between compliance and custom.
You see this in the opposite direction where people believe free market means no regulations at all as if private trade associations and other nonprofits don't exist for private businesses to find and develop standards and customs.
Conservatives lack intuition and its why they rely on things needing to be explicitly spelled out for them with reasoning. Liberals have a lot of passion but hardly any intuition because they lack reason.
Libertarians understand passion and reason fuel intuition. You got to have your reasons and your determination.
This is why conservatives are such blowhards. Any time one of their own stick their neck out there and it isn't "perfect" they jump down their necks and call them retarded. Never missing an opportunity to show how superior they are to everyone else. Leftists may irrationally hate hierarchies, but conservarives worship them like they're mana from the heavens. This insistence to mock, humiliate and ridicule for mistakes or even a healthy skepticism is conservatives' Achilles heel.
I'm glad she made the mistake because she inadvertently shown how many conservatives are into politics to justify wanting to feel superior and not actually solve problems.
The real culprit behind all of this is the insistence of state secrets and the government's unilateral claim to lie and decieve it's own people. Conservatives without any self awareness or self examination support this foolishness.
OUR GREATEST AUTIST DataRepublican, a DOW employee is accusing the state department of trying to “entrap” her by providing an exclusive scoop of a story.
After DataRepublican had her tism fit, the State Dept. then publicized the information themselves (because it wasn’t entrapment).
Of all the things the admin and its people can be accused of in term of failure, the most guilty accusation is TERRIBLE judgement i hiring and trusting autistic and uncommitted freaks like this.