Dan Black

Freedom fighter, America first, Liberty lover, Sigma

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

And then Congress passed the "Victory Tax" in 1942, which levied a 5% tax, and payroll withholding began. It was repealed in 1944 but withholding continued. People unwittingly volunteered... https://t.co/iwFBIx6dDJ

[Handre @Handre]

Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.

The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.

Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.

The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.

After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.

Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

@KennyCarmody Thank you, Kenny!

[leggytubby @Leggytubby]

@KarolineGosling

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

@msmaureen90 @KarolineGosling Because she lives in whacked-out Germany, where all the women are powerful, and the men are feminine.

[Karoline Gosling @KarolineGosling]

Women were meant to be submissive, feminine and pretty.

Women were never meant to accept feminism

It is an evil, family and nation destroying movement

Most women would rather marry a misogynist, than a male feminist

Feminism makes women unbearable, egotistical & masculine

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

@KennyCarmody Think for yourself. Specifically. ...Not as a member of the in-group or the out-group. As the individual person that only you are.

ALWAYS think for yourself. God gave each of us a brain with the power to reason. He expects us to use it. He didn't give sheep or cattle that power.

[Kenny Carmody @KennyCarmody]

Dr. Jordan Peterson’s most consistent target is the collective that absorbs the individual.

Not community, which he values and defends. But the ideological collective that demands the subordination of individual perception, individual conscience, and individual judgment to the group’s preferred framework.

His argument is both psychological and civilizational.

Psychologically: the individual who dissolves into the collective has not found belonging. They have escaped the burden of genuine individuality, the responsibility of forming their own views, carrying their own conscience, and being accountable for their own actions, into the relief of the group identity that carries all of it for them.

Civilizationally: the collective organized around a shared framework rather than genuine inquiry produces not truth but consensus. And consensus that cannot be challenged from within eventually becomes the instrument of the power structure that benefits from it.

The pandemic created multiple collectives. The compliant majority was the most visible. But the medical freedom collective, the COVID accountability collective, the health freedom collective, these are collectives too. With their own framework. Their own insiders and outsiders. Their own positions that cannot be questioned without social cost.

The individual who joins the freedom collective and ceases to think independently has not escaped the pandemic’s central psychological trap.

They have replicated it.

Peterson’s demand is the one that no collective can accommodate without dissolving.

Think for yourself. Specifically. About this specific question. With this specific evidence. Not as a member of the in-group or the out-group. As the individual person that only you are.

That is harder than joining the collective. It offers less warmth. Less certainty. Less belonging.
It is the only thing that produces genuine understanding.

And genuine understanding is the only foundation on which anything worth building can be built.

@jordanbpeterson

[Rebecca Mistereggen @RMistereggen]

Suicidal empathy isn’t the core threat, it’s homicidal empathy.

What we’re witnessing isn’t misguided kindness. It’s a ruthless, ideologically driven strategy of reproductive suppression and lineage destruction, fueled by feminist intrasexual competition. Certain strains of feminism don’t just compete with men, they indoctrinate women to sabotage their own fertility, demonize traditional family structures, and actively undermine the reproductive success of rival women and lineages. The result is civilizational self-harm dressed as empowerment.

If you watch only one thing this week, watch Hannah Spier’s interview with evolutionary psychologist Dr. Dani Sulikowski.

It’s brilliant, unflinching, and genuinely terrifying. Sulikowski lays out how modern feminism functions as an intrasexual competitive strategy, one that suppresses motherhood, distorts mating preferences, and accelerates fertility collapse under the banner of “equality.”

Feminism, in this form, has proven every bit as destructive to human flourishing and societal stability as Marxism. Both ideologies weaponize grievance, promise utopia, and deliver demographic and cultural ruin.

@hannahspierMD

[Karoline Gosling @KarolineGosling]

If women were never given the right to vote

The world would be in a much better place

Societies in the West would not have fallen

Satanic ideas like abortion, feminism, and LGBTQ would never have been tolerated.

And Christianity would be stronger today.

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

@browt1971 That's exactly what it was all about from the beginning. But the evil cabal didn't figure on 20% of the world's population being smart enough to resist the all-out campaign to coerce people to commit suicide, destroy their health, or corrupt their DNA.

[Tracy smith @browt1971]

In my opinion, this is what it was all about from the beginning. It’s heartbreaking to look back at how divided people became. As a frontline healthcare worker, I always believed the information would come to light over time.

Those of us who chose not to take the experimental COVID shot stood by our decision despite the criticism. Whatever your view, personal medical choices should be respected, not met with pressure, censorship, or division.

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

@WhiteBabyFac

[White Baby Factory @WhiteBabyFac]

One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a wife is to nag and criticize your husband. Men do not respond well to being told what to do. If anything it makes them want to do the opposite of what you're demanding.

If you want your husband to make positive changes - instead of focusing on his flaws and criticizing him - show him that you're willing to change for the better.

Do your best to fulfill your duties as a wife - keeping the house clean, taking care of the kids, waking up with the baby overnight, cooking for the family, and doing what he asks of you without arguing.

Make his life easier so he has the time and energy to focus on making the kinds of changes you'd like to see.

Maybe you've been telling him he needs to find ways to earn more money, eat healthier, exercise more, or spend more quality time with the kids.

Instead of trying to nag him into submission over these things, show him that you're willing to put in the work to make his life better so he'll want to do what he can to become a better husband and father out of a sense of gratitude - not because he's been browbeaten by constant nagging.

[Dan Black @Libfyter]

@Generalmark01 Exactly! But we know that feminism is designed to destroy the family, and it's doing a damn good job of it.

[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

Men aren’t “inherently advantaged” when they make up the vast majority of workplace deaths, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. Then blaming and shaming men for systemic failures in education, media, health and economic policy only deepens the crisis. Healthy men strengthen families, communities, and nations, so let’s make supporting our men a top priority.

[General Mark 👮🏾‍♂️ @Generalmark01]

Modern feminism celebrates female CEOs but shames stay-at-home mothers. If the movement was truly about choice, both paths would receive equal applause. The silence around domestic women reveals the ideology’s real agenda.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Property tax is theft too.

[Karoline Gosling @KarolineGosling]

we women need to learn how to become appealing to men again, we seem to have forgotten how to do so

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”

— Thomas Sowell