Imagine you're a rancher with cattle. It's 2 AM, the dogs are barking. You look outside and see people trying to load your cattle into a stock trailer. You don't recognize them. The police are far away and may not show. What would you do?
@DaggerAndBullet@Byronnn6 The sword is an extension of the arm, and therefore the self. There is a deeply ingrained sacredness to a sword that enhances the focus of the meditation. The sword embodies the sanctity of nobility and the warrior spirit.
@WatcherontheWeb Also, these grant writers can clue you in on low interest (sometimes no interest) loans you can get from other organizations, not just state or federal government.
@WatcherontheWeb There are people who research and write grants for a living. If you go this route and get funding, a lot of the grant writing costs can be applied to the grant. It's worth looking in to.
Two important things here.
First, IQ is mostly inherited. That does leave a certain amount of wiggle room that can be affected by bad diet, abuse and trauma. These have been endemic in the past 50 years.
Second, IQ is like a tool. It's good to have the very best tools, but if you don't know how to use them, they can become counterproductive. A person who has a chainsaw but doesn't know how to use it will likely hurt himself or others.
This is even moreso with IQ. Learning critical thinking is important for the intelligent person, but these days they're taught to stay within certain propaganda guardrails (academia, major media, etc) and taught that their intellect is superior to those who believe otherwise. Thus, when faced with facts that contradict their narrative, they discount it as opinion because they haven't the context to examine it critically. In this case, it turns into "well, I'm smarter than them, so what I believe must be the truth." and "whoever disagrees with me must be stupid because I'm smart."
The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works.
When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on.
Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths.
Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana.
It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable.
Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help.
Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys.
Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept.
In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't.
You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions.
But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher.
Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person.
This has already happened.
Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity.
You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together.
The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart.
He thinks they sound crazy.
@EMBurlingame Havamal 76 -77, my friend. A journey costs both on the road and at home.
Beautifully written.
I followed a different path but some of the costs were similar. I called old friends and realized very quickly that we had nothing left in common.
๐จ TODAY the EU Migration Pact takes into effect on all 27 member states!
Expect a HUGE surge of Migrants.
The law allows for faster asylum and border procedures. Earlier 'worker rights' after just 6 months of processing.
Migrants are to be relocated across Europe to NOT overload frontline states. With โฌ20,000 fines per migrant if NOT done so.
I just want to protect my daughters.
I want them to walk through the city dressed how they want, laughing, with their friends. Like girls in Japan have for a thousand years.
I want to die knowing my granddaughters will still be safe in a park.
That's it. That's the whole project.
@DolioJ They go after the weak and vulnerable.
We need to be aware and defend those who are so attacked. Keep your head on a well greased swivel, they'll blind side you, too.
If destroying the demon who would rape my daughter makes me a "racist," then that word has been reborn with sacred meaning.
It now stands equal to "God," "saint," "justice," and "protector of the innocent."
If I am too weak to destroy that demon myself, the savior who rises to do it in my place will become a god in the afterlife. Every blessing will be his.
We are still living in the dark medieval age โ where governments, politicians, police, and courts actively help those who rape and murder our families.
Future historians will look back at the 2020s and record it as:
The decade of collective madness.
An age of darkness rivaling the witch hunts.
What we must do โ right now โ is for every decent person on this earth to unite with full strength.
So that when our children open their history books, they will instead read:
"The 2030s: Humanity regained its sanity."
"Peace finally returned to human life."
@FenixAmmunition@Ammoascurrency If the knife was a kitchen knife, could we argue that his intent was to chop vegetables? What a bunch of retards. He brought a knife to a track meet. His intention was to stab someone. It doesn't matter what kind of knife it was.
This is the natural order. Efforts to disarm the people are never for the safety of the people, but for the safety of those who have derived power without the ability to enforce it.
The right of the people to be armed is the only true democracy.
The message of a protest is "we don't like this".
The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".
People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.
They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.
If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.
And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.
Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.
Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.
(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)
When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.
And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.
This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".
They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.
This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.
A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.
A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.
@RupertLowe10 But what if I do want to sell arms to a people who so desperately need arms to defend themselves against an immigrant population who rape and murder without consequence? The law needs to allow people to defend themselves against criminals who wish to do them harm.