…There is one key difference between the attempted race riots of 2020 and the protests for Palestine of today: the protests for Palestine are actually threatening to the powers that be.
We marched in a loop across campus. We went from the student union, to the historic district, to the library, and back to the student union. Overall I’d say we covered about a mile of ground. We had supporters. There’s a large Arab population close to campus, and we’d see Arab guys roll down the windows of their cars and cheer for us. It felt nice to have some people on our side. The trouble that showed up took the form of a small group of nasally enhanced individuals wearing sunglasses who joined our march when we reached the historic district. This group was composed of a bunch of creeps wearing dark clothes and ballcaps, who would slink into the crowd and attempt to covertly take photos of the marchers with phone cameras up their sleeve. I asked my lanky comrade about these freaks, and he told me the ADL hires people, usually Hillel students, to monitor student social media related to Palestine. These losers go to all SJP marches, and they try to dox students that go to them. Completely covering my face and body wasn’t overkill at all. They also try to bait people into losing their cool and punching them, catching assault charges. Little digs to try and ruin the lives of anyone standing against them.
…When we got back to the student union, still eyeing the Dodge Charger, the loud blonde girl spoke up. “That’s a cop no doubt!” She said, a little too loud. “Let’s throw bricks at it!” Her behavior was cartoonish. She was acting in a bizarrely scripted fashion, like a parody of an antifa thug. None of her words felt organic or genuine. If anyone was a fed at that march, it was her. I stayed far away. I walked home as discreetly as possible, thinking about what I saw.
I had a few takeaways from this experience. For one, I was shocked by the amount of effort, time, and money being put into ruining the lives of college students by organizations like the ADL and Uncle Sam. If I hadn’t seen for myself groups of shady thugs trying to get photos of and pick fights with students who have the nerve to stand up to the American Empire, I wouldn’t have believed it if you told me. Especially due to the small scale of this protest. We never left campus, and the crowd was small, especially compared to previous marches, which went directly to the state capitol building. But the powers that be decided that this goofy little crowd was a threat. This group of awkward college students and aging boomers is of top priority for the state. Not murderers, not robbers, but a bunch of kids trying to pass calculus. Really makes you think.
This is a good read. It’s about a small, college protest. I doubt it reveals America’s death throes because I don’t think we’re anywhere near dead, but it does reveal a cultural fissure and maybe a significant denouement of Jewish Supremacism, which has always been willfully paranoid and petty; with very dark undertones of very real violence supported by mountains of corrupt cash and noxious infiltration into the federal government. ABN
I am not anti-trans except when it is taught to children or children are encouraged to ‘become’ trans. I am not convinced trans is a mental illness, especially when it is held lightly, but I am convinced it is a mental illness and a legal travesty to require others to accept it. If a man wants to dress and act like a woman, he will be accepted as a woman if he is a good actor, or he will be accepted among others who know his preferences and are fine with indulging him. Same for women who want to dress and act like men. I am completely fine with that.
From a Buddhist POV, no one should take their identity so seriously they actually believe it is a basis of reality. Buddhism is more or less against all strenuous identity beliefs, and definitely against them when they are clung to. For example, Buddhism does not generally use the word soul, but if someone wants to use the word and believe they have a soul, Buddhism is fine with that philosophically as long this soul is an entity subject to change.
The cultural talk on sexual orientation over the past few decades has done some good and some bad. Buddhism is the Middle Way; so when adults are using drugs or surgeries on children because ‘they are in the wrong body’, they have strayed very far from the Middle Way and have fallen into a deep and destructive delusion which brings great harm to themselves and even worse harm to the children.
When anyone learns anything valuable about themselves from conversations on sexual orientation, that’s good. For Buddhists, it’s still best to keep in mind that information like that is good when it’s good and harmful when it is not good. Like all things in life, most of us most of the time know when a desire or belief is excessive. Excess is a good way to measure your distance from the Middle Way. ABN
In a brief order made in the early hours of Saturday, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove the Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center ‘until further order of this court.’
Two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented.
The high court acted in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
The Supreme Court said earlier this month that deportations could proceed only if those about to be removed had a chance to argue their case in court and were given ‘a reasonable time’ to contest their pending removals.
Disabuse yourself of theoretical niceties and consider: the left illegitimately under Biden used tax money to entice and pay for tens of millions of illegal migrants to enter USA. Trump, a center right president, tries to correct the Biden administration’s treasonous crime and deport a small number of the now tens of millions of illegal aliens residing in USA (and often being paid to stay here with taxpayer funds). What does SCOTUS do? It requires each potential deportee ‘about to be removed to have a chance to argue their case in court and be given “a reasonable time” to contest their pending removals’.
This ruling violates all proportion (crime versus remedy) and all pragmatics. I want neither the left nor the right but the right is almost always a reaction to leftist excesses and is almost always much milder than the left. Being milder is one reason the right often loses. The pragmatic and proportional consequences of court decisions that stall reasonable legal deportations at the individual level while allowing illegal importations in the tens of millions is glaringly obvious.
The punishment must fit the crime: Many in the Biden admin should be prosecuted for treason. The legal remedy must fit the crime: The people they illegally trafficked into USA must be sent home promptly. Correct and proper legal rulings are always based on pragmatics like this.
The words left and right have been mind-controlled into near meaninglessness. By right, I mean governments like Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Israel. What Trump is doing is far less ‘rightist’ than anything any of those governments would do. And this shows our court system, like everything else in USA, is infested with leftist parasites who are bent on destroying not only USA but the entire West. Any country or civilization so weak and paralyzed by disproportionate legalism is doomed to failure OR a much stronger rightist response. Neither of those choices is good, but the right is still better. SCOTUS is clearly compromised by fear, blackmail, bribery or ideological stupidity. Only one or two of them are ideologically stupid, imo. ABN
FIML is both a practice and a theory. The practice is roughly described here and in other posts on this website.
The theory states (also roughly) that successful practice of FIML will:
Greatly improve communication between participating partners
Greatly reduce or eliminate mistaken interpretations (neuroses) between partners
Give partners insights into the dynamic structures of their personalities
Lead to much greater appreciation of the dynamic linguistic/communicative nature of the personality
These results are achieved because:
FIML practice is based on real data agreed upon by both partners
FIML practice stops neurotic responses before they get out of control
FIML practice allows both partners to understand each other’s neuroses while eliminating them
FIML practice establishes a shared objective standard between partners
This standard can be checked, confirmed, changed, or upgraded as often as is needed
FIML practice will also:
Show partners how their personalities function while alone and together
Lead to a much greater appreciation of how mistaken interpretations that occur at discreet times can and often do lead to (or reveal) ongoing mistaken interpretations (neuroses)
FIML practice eliminates neuroses because it shows individuals, through real data, that their (neurotic) interpretation(s) of their partner are mistaken. This reduction of neurosis between partners probably will be generalizable to other situations and people, thus resulting a less neurotic individual overall.
Neurosis is defined here to mean a mistaken interpretation or an ongoing mistaken interpretation.
The theory of FIML can be falsified or shown to be wrong by having a reasonably large number of suitable people learn FIML practice, do it and fail to gain the aforementioned results.
FIML practice will not be suitable for everyone. It requires that partners have a strong interest in each other; a strong sense of caring for each other; an interest in language and communication; the ability to see themselves objectively; the ability to view their use of language objectively; fairly good self-control; enough time to do the practice regularly.
In mathematics, a ‘computation’ is the process of performing mathematical operations on one or more inputs to produce a desired output. A problem in analyzing human psychology arises when we understand that human psychology cannot be reduced computationally. The ‘computational irreducibility’ of human psychology does not mean, however, that there is no way to probe it and understand it. In the following essay, I show how FIML practice can greatly enhance our understanding of our own psychologies and, by extension, the psychologies of others.
Rather than rely on tautological data extractions or vague theories about human psychology, FIML focuses on small interpersonal exchanges that can be objectively agreed upon by at least two people. These small exchanges correspond to what Wolfram calls ‘specific little pieces of computational reducibility’. When we repeatedly view our psychologies from the point of view of specific little pieces of computational reducibility, we begin amassing a profoundly telling collection of very good data that shows how we really think, speak, and act.
FIML is a method of inquiry that deals with the computational irreducibility of humans. It does this by isolating small incidents and asking questions about them. These small incidents are the “little pieces of computational reducibility” that Stephan Wolfram remarks on at 42.22 in this video. Here is the full quote:
One of the necessary consequences of computational irreducibility is within a computationally irreducible system there will always be an infinite number of specific little pieces of computational reducibility that you can find.
This is exactly what FIML practice does again and again—it finds “specific little pieces of computational reducibility” and learns all it can about them.
In FIML practice, two humans in real-time, real-world situations agree to isolate and focus on one “specific little piece of computational reducibility” and from that gain a deeper understanding of the whole “computationally irreducible system”, which is them.
When two humans do this hundreds of times, their grasp and appreciation of the “computationally irreducible system” which is them, both together and individually, increases dramatically. This growing grasp and understanding of their shared computationally irreducible system upgrades or replaces most previously learned cognitive categories about their lives, or psychologies, or how they think about themselves or other humans.
By focusing on many small bits of communicative information, FIML partners improve all aspects of their human minds.
I do not believe any computer will ever be able to do FIML. Robots and brain scans may help with it but they will not be able to replace it. In the not too distant future, FIML may be the only profound thing humans will both need to and be able to do on their own without the use of AI. To understand ourselves deeply and enjoy being human, we will have to do FIML. In this sense, FIML may be our most important human answer to the AI civilization growing around us. ABN
It is a tell. The tell is the top perp is a top parasite who has taught the art of parasitism to many others to conceal its own role while also using others to help it reach its goal — total annihilation of Western civilization. My sense is the absolute cause of this is sexual jealousy, followed by all other kinds of envy and jealousy. Alongside that are the other raging traits of all parasitic cultures — hatred of the host, glee in destroying the host and feeding on their wealth, in humiliating them, in killing and torturing them, in fucking their women. I am not going to say I am certain Jewish Supremists are the core of this attack and its leaders, nor am I going to say Carlson is suggesting they are the core, but who is it if not them? The royal families of Europe are sometimes mentioned as suspects, but it’s a weak case. Other ethnic and woke parasites who are running rampant with the core parasites have similar motives as the core group, including root sexual jealousy, but no history or ability to organize on their own. China is an exception and they do appear to have partnered with any anti-Western parasite who will take them, including Mexican cartels, but this is fairly recent history. China is formidable and deeply involved, but its ties to US parasites point mainly to the same core group or groups. ABN
UPDATED: All American laws are ultimately pragmatic. This includes SCOTUS rulings on the Constitution as well as district prosecutors deciding how to work a case. Legal pragmatics include ethics and precedents, while also recognizing the urgency of, say, removing millions of illegal immigrants in USA. The legal remedy in this case properly must fit the crime, which was treasonous importation of millions of illegals. Sending a plane-load of violent illegals to El Salvador was a pragmatic decision as it removed some of the worst and also sends a strong message to others of their ilk to get out of the country. It’s a pragmatic application of the law. ‘Legal’ objections to it are absurd in the face of the massive offense (treason) and massive harm (tens of millions of illegals ushered in to USA under Biden). Below is an illustration of the problem. ABN
‘The best way to do it to say they’re lying, here’s the truth’ — Rubio on confronting the EU and UK on their censorship and phony ‘misinformation’ prosecutions. He makes very strong statements about protecting ordinary Americans from censorship at home and abroad. This is Rubio at his best. I hope he keeps going and delivers, which I believe he will. ABN
‘Mainstream newspapers and mainstream media report things as fact that are completely not true. Our approach to that is not to shut them down, not fine them. Our approach is to say they’re lying, here’s the truth.’ — Marco Rubio
I get this sense from what he has done and said as well. He’s smart and will be a great ally if that is what he wants to be. In politics you want smart people who pursue good policies, nothing more or less. ABN
Apparently the Q-anon ‘plan’ was never to root out the Deep State by preprogramming the population with lavish Biden Constitutional offenses; it was instead, to preprogram the population with lavish Biden Constitutional offenses to accept even worse Constitutional offenses under Trump. Trust the Plan was actually Trust the Reverse Plan; or more precisely, the Obverse Plan. Looks that way to me, at this point. Remember, Jewish Supremists saying nasty crazy stuff is nothing new. And so far, student visas are being revoked only for ‘making a ruckus’ and thus violating the terms of their privileged visas, according to Rubio. ABN
President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to St Petersburg (interesting venue), and spent approximately 5 hours in discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top two advisors. This was Witkoff’s third direct face-to-face meeting with President Putin.
First, President Putin would never give this much time to a non-principal in any geopolitical conversation, unless Putin felt he was directly talking to the principal through the voice in front of him. In essence, Trump has told Putin that Witkoff is his mouth and ears, Putin responds accordingly. When Putin speaks to Witkoff he is speaking to Trump, and when Putin hears from Witkoff he is hearing from Trump.
Following the five-hour meeting with President Putin, Witkoff appears on Fox News so that Sean Hannity can tell Witkoff what his meeting with Putin really means. Hannity is not only insufferable, at this point in time he is best considered a confidential human source, ¹acting on behalf of the CIA who influence him. WATCH:
Within the brief moments provided by Hannity for Witkoff to speak, the envoy of President Trump noted both Putin and Trump understand the core issues and are aligned to solve the problem despite the CIA and SSCI efforts to keep wedging them apart. Additionally, Trump and Putin see a future where geopolitical and economic alignment can be very beneficial for both Russia and the United States; they just need to find a way to navigate the complex politics on the U.S/NATO side of the mess.
President Putin does not want an alignment with Chinese President Xi Jinping, it’s not a natural fit for Russia to be strategically networking with China. Put a simpler way, Putin really doesn’t like Chairman Xi because Russia values brutal honesty in relationships, not the Beijing cunningness, ulterior motives and manipulative self-interest.
President Trump and President Putin can be natural allies. Both leaders have the same basic national security worldview and on an economic front Putin would rather have financial ties to the West than the East.
However, the broader CIA apparatus is not going to give up power or control to President Trump without a fight. Recently the CIA operated rotor wing (helicopter) drones to attack Moscow in order to provoke a useful response from Putin. Despite the efforts of Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, both the CIA and State Dept embeds are operating to maintain their control in Ukraine.
Russia is a major part of the West. There is no other more natural ally to Europe and the collective West than Russia. Putin has always seen it this way. The question is who controls the CIA, thus causing them to work against this alliance. Who started and is prolonging the Ukraine War? Ukraine is what Russia would look like today had Putin not gained control. There is a large component of Jewish Supremacism showing through wide cracks in American and European policies toward Russia. The collective West, minus Russia, clearly wants and has stated many times that they are working to break Russia into a bunch of small nations that can be easily controlled. The deepest question is who controls the collective West, which probably means who controls the CIA? Does Trump know? I doubt it. Are Jewish Supremacists in control of the CIA? Do they themselves even know? The puzzle of who has ultimate control within a top secret and extremely powerful organization (the CIA) illustrates that even the most powerful people in the world may not, and probably do not, know who is at the top. In fact, even the top person may not be sure he is at the top. This is the basis of KOBK game theory, which is always the bottom line of world history. As for Jewish Supremists: if they are the top controllers within the CIA and thus the collective West, why are they so obstreperous about it? Are they neurotic hegemons of the world or are they ‘mere’ nervous fronts for the real hegemon we cannot see? ABN
How does this same religion not only not oppose mass illegal immigration but actually supports and funds it? Mass illegal immigration without question causes increased crime, including murders of innocents. Moreover, mass migration in the numbers we are seeing throughout the West is causing civilizational murder. I believe their answer will be it’s God’s will that mass illegal immigration is happening; and thus the Church approves of Catholic immigration ‘charities’ that openly fund mass illegal immigration. Abrahamic religions and sects all have the same flaw — rigid adherence to supposed sacred texts with greatly varying interpretations of those texts and their applications. ABN
Has anyone else noticed that Bessent has a slightly halting way of speaking? He is clearly a super-smart person but seems to have a slight speech impediment dealing with breathing or throat discoordination. This is absolutely not meant as a criticism or insult. I am just curious. Personally, I love almost all kinds of speech and am almost never bothered by any speech weirdness. Honesty is the best form of all speech and there is nothing better. So a learned articulate liar, in my view, is a much worse speaker than an honest though halting and uneducated speaker. ABN
As Palantir continues to expand its reach, concerns about its role in facilitating targeted killings and oppressive surveillance grow. The company’s collaborations with military agencies, especially in Israel, have raised alarms about its technology being used for extrajudicial actions that contradict international humanitarian laws. Observers fear that Palantir’s capabilities could enable governments to monitor, control, and eliminate opposition movements, both domestically and internationally. The author argues that the ongoing partnership between Palantir and powerful governmental entities signifies a shift towards a more authoritarian model of governance, where technology serves not just to enhance security but to maintain the status quo and suppress dissent. The discussion surrounding Palantir encapsulates broader fears about the intersection of technology, surveillance, and power in modern society, making it a focal point for debates on civil liberties and the future of democracy.
Spying on everyone and killing anyone you deem to be a threat for whatever reason you like is the ultimate Kill-Or-Be-Killed (KOBK) move. This is where we are headed.
KOBK game theory is primarily a military game theory. It covers the psychology, morality, aims, and methods of players who are involved in any sort of power struggle. Its main premise is that players in KOBK conflicts, by definition, do not know for certain how powerful they are vis-a-vis their adversaries or how powerful their adversaries are. Moreover they do not know for certain the aims, motivations, and/or methods of their adversaries.
These conditions force all adversaries to kill-or-be-killed. They must kill their adversary or be killed by them. Kill does not necessarily mean death. It just means to render their adversary provably powerless. Joe Biden was ousted as a presidential candidate against his will. In the KOBK sense, he was ‘killed’.
The more paranoid and crazy the KOBK players are, the more dangerous they are to themselves and others. The linked article above claims: ‘Alex Karp, Thiel’s partner, is first and foremost, an anti-White Zionist and Leftist whose contempt for humanity and dissent knows no bounds’. If true, Karp’s aggressive stance will stimulate rival KOBK players to equal levels of fanaticism. Jewish Supremacism, which Karp appears to be embody and support is especially dangerous for its cultish practice of actual violence against all enemies, both real and imagined. ABN
Everything we see unfolding, from the Tech Bro alignment with Trump, to the network of influence after the election, to the selection and advisement of specific individuals to join the administration, all the way to the first-round expose’ of USAID, should be looked upon with a background forecast.
(1) gaining access to govt data was the goal; (2) monetizing the system with proprietary AI contracts (vis-a-vis Palantir) is the benefit; (3) however, a national security justified surveillance state is going to be the outcome.
As people are shocked at the USAID spending scandal unfolding, I would posit the USAID silo was chosen first for DOGE exploration specifically because the subsequent outrage would gain the highest amount of public support for the pending solution. It’s the pending solution to the crisis that we should be very focused on.
Their solution will never be about US, it will always be about THEM; what’s in their best interests. That’s their focus, not us, them.
Failing to STOP after crisis in the past always ended up with acceptance of their solution. Now we take off our shoes at the airport, go through body scans, accept pat-downs, wear masks, accept sketchy vaccines, click yes on 5,000-word terms of service for privacy statements we never read, align ourselves with Real ID, and generally accept the all-encompassing surveillance state; none of which is grounded upon liberty or freedom. It’s all based on govt control.
Yes, as poked by Musk the govt is in crisis, and just as sure as you are reading this the administrators within govt already have the solution ready to roll.
“We will use advanced technology and non-partisan AI programming, to make the government more efficient and ensure this level of corruption and wasteful spending never happens again.” That’s the selling point.
Every dollar will be tracked, monitored and oversight will be transparent and available for everyone to see. Just ignore the part where the same efficiency system is monitoring your real ID, connecting your personage to the new govt and private sector interfaces, and click “I agree” on your next federal tax filing.
Trust us Comrade citizen, the new technologically advanced DODGE approved govt system cares about responsible stewardship and you. Swear.”
I honestly do not see any way out of this. The tech is too powerful and easy to implement. The dystopian side of this is a horror show. The utopian side might be good, even very good — no crime, smooth bureaucracy, better information everywhere. It looks like a reverse-Q plot. Robots doing all the work. Some hope may be higher IQs through digital babies leading to elites becoming bored with cruelty. Having total verifiable control of everyone is the ultimate KOBK move. KOBK has always ruled the earth. There is no reason to believe it will stop now. Can the same tech further evolved produce a wise hegemon, a benevolent dictator? ABN
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