Steve Smith

Make convenient assumptions, and ignore enough data, then you can prove anything. Opinions mine. No DMs.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

Republicans could have 65% of voters on their side, without that much work, if they could get good at constructing a popular platform, and stuck with it. Instead, they have 35% of voters, and so must use scare tactics, shaming, and other psyops to win, which only works half time.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

I agree with all assertions made here for countering authoritarianism, though I would agree more with “second” if it rejected groupism outright: groups do nothing; only individuals can act. I am not responsible for actions of others, especially those I was unable to prevent.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Machiavelli understood a profound truth about human subjugation: men are rarely destroyed by sudden, violent assaults. They are systematically dismantled by what they tolerate over time. Modern leftism operates as a psychological apparatus designed to force individual surrender through quiet endurance. Most policy, cultural campaign, and moral lectures relies on nine distinct mechanisms of political manipulation. Leftists rely entirely on your compliance, expecting you to negotiate away your sovereignty to keep the peace. Ending this compliance requires recognizing these nine levers for what they truly represent and dismantling them with cold, calculated precision.

Do not tolerate the following:

First, consider the weaponized moral debt. Leftist architects reach into history or public spending to claim you owe permanent obedience for modern infrastructure or social safety nets. They present a receipt for benefits you never individually requested, demanding political compliance as interest. A real benefit is granted and released. Leftist social contracts are designed to keep you perpetually indebted to the state. Reclaim your ground with calm clarity: express gratitude for civilization while delivering an absolute refusal to yield your individual rights.

Second, examine the frozen version of reality. Leftist moralizers perpetually anchor their opponents to past errors or historical transgressions. They drag out old mistakes because controlling a frozen, guilty caricature remains far easier than debating a thriving, sovereign citizen. Cancel culture relies entirely on this mechanism. Machiavelli recognized that those seeking dominance keep a man chained to his worst moment to prevent his ascension. Decline the outdated role completely. Declare that the past is settled and remain firmly rooted in your present power.

Third, observe the endless ranking system. Leftism relies on intersectionality to construct a perpetual scoreboard of grievance and privilege. You are continuously measured against moving standards designed to ensure you always come up short. This endless comparison represents raw power dynamics disguised as equity. The finish line moves the moment you approach it, guaranteeing endless psychological submission. Step off their track entirely. Refuse to compete in a race you never agreed to run.

(Note: Intersectionality is the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. So, in short, they use these things to divide us so simply don't take part in their games)

Fourth, confront unasked volunteering. Collectivists routinely pledge your labor, income, and future to ideological projects without your consent. They spend national resources on grand utopian schemes and label you selfish if you decline to foot the bill. Machiavelli noted that authority begins with complete control over one's own assets. When the regime commits your wealth and legacy without asking, return the obligation directly to them. State clearly that you were never consulted, rendering you unable to comply.

Fifth, expose institutional triangulation. Regime media and academic elites insert themselves directly between citizens, controlling information flow and editing truth to provoke division. By shaping every message before it reaches the public, they maintain absolute narrative authority. Cut through the middleman entirely. Ignore regime curators and engage directly with reality and your fellow citizens at the source.

Sixth, witness the punishment of individual achievement. The leftist apparatus becomes perceptibly colder whenever an individual excels independently of state reliance. Excellence, wealth creation, and traditional success threaten a system built on collective dependency. Leftist culture demands that you shrink your success to avoid offending the mediocre. Machiavelli observed that envy is the ultimate political driver among the stagnant. Refuse to perform smallness. Allow your success to exist at its full magnitude and let their envy remain their burden.

Seventh, dismantle the rewritten story. Leftism relies heavily on Orwellian historical revisionism, demanding that you deny basic biology, economic realities, and lived history to maintain ideological harmony. They force a false narrative onto reality and label you radical for trusting your own intellect. Hold your version of reality quietly and firmly without seeking their approval.

Eighth, reject the override emergency. The Left thrives on perpetual, manufactured crises, ranging from climate panic to engineered social emergencies. These crises arrive precisely when public resistance grows, forcing immediate surrender of rights under the guise of urgent necessity. Machiavelli understood that tyrants manufacture threats to extract power that citizens would never surrender in peaceful times. Separate real challenges from regime leverage tactics. Address genuine issues while keeping your political boundaries strictly intact.

Ninth, annihilate the core delusion of collective ownership. Underneath all eight tactics lies a single foundational belief: the leftist state believes it owns you. They believe your time, labor, legacy, and mind belong to the collective. Every tyrannical policy stems from this denial of individual sovereignty. Machiavelli drew a sharp line between a subject and a free man. A subject permits others to govern his life, whereas a free man claims absolute authority over his own destiny. Revoke their claim completely. Make your choices without asking permission, act as an independent sovereign, and force the regime to face an unyielding individual.

The entire architecture of leftist control hinges on a single, fragile assumption: your continued submission through guilt, habit, or fear. The moment you stand firm, reject their manufactured debts, and honor your own intellect, their authority dissolves into irrelevance. Power belongs exclusively to those bold enough to claim it. Stop asking for permission from a system that views you as property. Stand as an unyielding, sovereign force, and watch their entire illusion crumble.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@BurgessOwens Whoever talked you into voting for the NDAA with section 219 did you a disservice. Yes, it is common for LDS to be pro-Israel, but 219 is not in the best interests of your constituents, especially the people who elected you and others who voted for NDAA with section 219.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@RS613506 @johnbind2 Is this use of the word “decolonization” the most blatant redefining of a word since I stopped being a Native American between the ages of 5 and 10. Utter nonsense!!! More Leftist word games from suicidal Westerners and their willing accomplices

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@RyanSaavedra @contrarian4data How about doing something about the Islamic invasion of the United States, Tim. Propose an amendment to the constitution that only allows freedom of religion for individuals and religions that internationally support near universal freedom of religion

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@JennPellegrino @jazeemom @elonmusk Maybe she fantasizes about getting gang … ummm … tickled

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@cb_doge @contrarian4data What we need is 100% sponsored immigration where bonded sponsors band together to sponsor an immigrant individual or family. If they sponsor a criminal they pay an appropriate fine or get appropriate jail time. They pay for ALL of what the immigrants can’t pay for themselves.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

Yes, but Ukraine is a special case: they are next to Russia

[barbedwire @barb74206]

@Rothmus Didn’t the same thing happen in supposed democratic Ukraine? 🤔

[305Votes @305Votes]

@Rothmus You can’t blame socialism any more than you can blame wearing blue. It’s authoritarianism that Ortega practices. He calls his regime socialist but that’s just to give it a veneer of idealism. It is just authoritarian.

[Bonnie S 🇺🇸✝️❤️🐶 @BonnieS21912114]

@Rothmus

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@realMaalouf A phobia is an irrational fear.

Despite what some Muslims say, not fearing Islam generally is irrational.

Consequently, there cannot possibly be such a condition that is properly called Islamophobia.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@Rothmus True intellectuals use mental tools for thinking and problem solving with improved results as the intended end and ultimately only measure of the value of the tools. False intellectuals don’t care about results; for them the (sadly unattainable) ends justify the horrendous means.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@Alt_Azn Lefties are always looking for the next “victim” to “rescue”. 250 years ago, the victim to rescue constituted 90% of the population. Now the next victim to “rescue” are less than 1% of the population.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@Alt_Azn Far Lefties don’t actually want to lift anyone out of poverty, including themselves. They declare themselves “good” because of their beliefs, not because of what they do. After becoming rich enough to help others, they still do nothing but point at those who are richer than they.

[Eric C @Ericwc07]

@realMaalouf

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@DavidAsmanfox Notice the Socialist concern is with return, with success, not the gouging of customers by a monopoly, not the abuse of power by the rich.

The 70s sang said, “Tax rich, feed the poor, tillthere are no rich, no more.” Shouldn’t the words say, “ til there are no poor no more”?

[J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 @JDHaltigan]

But, as Lasch reminded us, there is a threshold to pluralism; a point at which it becomes pluralist fantasy. You need authoritative, binding limits. Otherwise, you have a crisis of meaning & orientation.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@Lily4Liberty @Judie09302915 Communist wannabes will do anything to believe they are one of the “good” people out to achieve the “greater good”, including unspeakable evil over and over, until they are one one the most evil devils to walk the earth, or until the evil they are promulgating is turned on them.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

Communism is an 15th century solution to a 17th century problem written by a 19th century hypocrite of the worst sort, who wanted a forced utopia without paying any of the price, personally.

[Logan Lancing @LoganLancing]

One of the hardest videos on the internet. I wrote it because too many of you love communism "done right." It can never be done "right." It's the abolition of self. Suicide.

Not opinion. Never trust a communist.

[Steve Smith @courage2hear]

@Rothmus Around 1985, after hearing an argument about who was more evil, Stalin, or Hitler, at a picnic table outside the student union at SJSU, I began a decades long search that led me toward libertarianism, that taught me Left versus Right is a false dichotomy.

Now post-libertarian.

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

It’s difficult to fathom that we went along with govt labeling people and jobs “essential” or “non-essential,” as if the trajectory of Covid would change because the virus would understand some jobs were “essential.”
Just like the virus would supposedly travel 5’11” and then suddenly drop to the ground so as not to infect someone standing exactly 6’ away.
Same with being convinced or forced to get an experimental medicine that didn’t do what they promised (prevent infection, spread, or illness), but caused plenty of side effects known and still unknown.
Same with being prevented from getting the treatments and health care that we and some of our doctors recommend.
Meantime, Dr. Fauci, Nancy Pelosi, and so many others exempted themselves from the rules and showed they didn’t believe any of what they were forcing the peasants to do.
Classic Let Them Eat Cake.
In retrospect, what could we the people have done about all of it, considering the great control they had over our jobs, censorship/media, access to health care, travel, education, and most everything else?
Surely people who grouped together to oppose in a meaningful way would have been jailed or worse.
We haven’t even held the medical associations and establishment accountable for going along with and letting this nightmare happen.
Individual doctors spoke out and broke away at great personal peril, but the core system remains intact today.