"The democratic process" in modern times should be understood as a kind of sports league. Very interesting, dramatic and entertaining, but ultimately the real power is with those that own the promotion.

This is legitimately sickening: > the sitting prime minister Keir Starmer presided over public prosecutions of thousands of rape cases > he let **13,000** suspected rape gang members and pedophiles off with **warning letters** > now that this information is blowing up on x, he is leading the charge to ban x I knew it was bad, I didn't know it was this bad It would be difficult to imagine a more evil and treasonous politician. This is movie-level evil.

The thing with "they want to abolish online anonimity" is that they can already track you down fairly easily. Often without any effort, just a little broader database lookup. This is something the German X users know very well. What's happening is that they want you to shut up.

I don't mean to sound hysterical, but it's exceedingly obvious that the social media ban, the PA proscription, and the assisted dying bill are all unified moves by a government with no intention of bettering people's lives, only snuffing out dissent.

There was, actually, a war. It wasn't fought with ordinary weapons, though. Someone who skillfully fights with deception went and won while most were asleep.

What some people call "Third Worldism" is actually the only rational ideological stance for anyone anywhere unless you belong to a very specific set of oligarchic familial clans, you really don't benefit from these families victory anywhere. There is no "West", or "First World", there is occupied economic zones, largely not for you who might be reading this, there is no "American Nation" in any real terms, there is an economic zone with some carve outs for specific ethnic subcultures allowed a sandbox based on their utility for the regime ruling this place.

Carl Jung, an underrated take on the fall of Rome

Semiperiodic reminder that every single account with a blue checkmark shared his banking information with an Israeli payment processor.

This man is going to jail. If he's lucky. It's not somthing I'm celebrating (quite to the contrary), just a prediction.

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In any given country there are a multitude of government units managing perception of all sorts of things, not only horrific crimes performed by immigrants. The propaganda machine is a big industry and is highly organized.

History teaches that you can just do things.

The Borg has decided that assisted dying will be the law. So now it's just a matter of manufacturing the political chain of decisions for it, so when it comes into place it has the necessary "legitimacy".

Elle Reeve spent years befriending dissidents, gaining their trust and personal secrets and then published every humiliating detail about them for Simon & Schuster. Media access is a weapon, and any dissident who talks to reporters deserves what they get.

No image has ever better captured our sense of cultural exhaustion, our sense that it's all been done before, than this one:

IMO democracy is a way to generate legitimacy for oligarch rule. It substitutes repressive violence by the psyop (so it's not entirely pointless). It depends crucially on the ability to control the flow of information to constituents and thus was very rare before mass media.

Exactly, why argue your case on the merits if you can just low-key blackmail?

What if they knew?

The law abiding British people, and Europeans & Americans as well, have been put into an almost impossible position by ideological bureaucrats over the past 29 years. The only way out is difficult.

Semiperiodic reminder that the downside of living in a high trust society is that you are surrounded by very gullible people.