participant-3927, 4:37 PM, September 29
As I keep saying, things are not going get better, and I’m saying these things to hopefully get people into action. Here’s what Leonard Peikoff writes in “DIM Hypothesis” in which he predicted, in year 2013, that USA is going to become a religious totalitarianism:
“RELIGIOUS TOTALITARIANISM IN America—that is my prediction.
“God is dead,” said Nietzsche in the nineteenth century. To which a recent book title gives the twenty-first-century reply: God Is Back.”
“… one cannot, as we know, predict or even delimit the trigger(s) that could be decisive once the groundwork has been laid. The final straw could come from anywhere.”
“I do not write my final book as Cassandra preaching resignation before the Apocalypse.
The high probability of a monstrous evil should not induce paralysis in those who see it coming. It should lead not to the end of action, but to the beginning. It is a paradox, but still a truth: The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents—the more it should strengthen their passion to defend themselves and their values against the approaching onslaught, even when the odds of their failure are high, so long as there is still a chance of success.
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“To win the battle for America will not be possible much longer.”
participant-3927, 4:06 AM, October 2
Tyranny is here: you just don’t know it yet.
participant-2294, 12:39 PM, October 2
Culturally, Trump is positive. Rand would have supported him for the same reasons she supported McCarthy
participant-4603, 3:33 PM, October 2
He has helped steer America’s culture to right of centre. It is a more capitalist climate in some ways.
participant-3927, 3:37 PM, October 2
No, it’s Facism, a variant of statism
participant-6456, 3:38 PM, October 2
Who is in Singapore?
participant-2294, 4:36 PM, October 2
Fascism isn’t a thing in contemporary politics
participant-3927, 4:57 PM, October 2
By Fascism I mean:
Fascism is: “a governmental system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.), emphasizing an aggressive nationalism.”
participant-2294, 5:00 PM, October 2
Is there opposition under Trump? Yes, therefore there is no fascism in contemporary American politics
participant-3927, 5:53 PM, October 2
You are stuck on formalism. The country has shifted not to capitalism, but towards fascism.
participant-3927, 7:44 PM, October 2
It wasn’t, but it was better than now
participant-2294, 7:46 PM, October 2
Damn, I always thought the message wouldn’t send before the countdown 😂
participant-2294, 7:52 PM, October 2
Naw. Even though I’m against his H-1B reform, culturally the country is more pro-capitalist. The priority, when choosing the lesser evil, is to choose the figure that inspires the most confidence in capitalism and respect for the image of the USA
participant-2294, 7:56 PM, October 2
Anyway, let’s stop using the term “fascism” to describe nationalist or conservative groups, since the historical fascists used to kill their opponents
participant-3927, 2:24 PM, October 4
Objectivists define and sometimes redefine terms to remove package deals in common usage of terms. The killing of opponents is not essential characteristic of fascism, but a degree of implementation. In Russia there’s also fascism, and opponents are thrown out of windows. In USA, on Jan 6, the crowd chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” and it would have done it if Mike Pence was in the Capitol building. Cable ties were found in the ravaged room. And Trump has pardoned the rioters, which are now acting as ICE masked men..
participant-3927, 2:32 PM, October 4
Now, here’s what he writes last week on HBL forum:
“There is nothing in either the “Woke Left” or in MAGA that is not directly traceable to the mass disminding of Americans in schools operating under the world’s worst anti-philosophy of miseducation. And it can only get worse, as the fraction of Americans disminded by US schools rises, and the immigration of non-disminded intellectual workers is restricted beyond even the mindless limits already in force.”
“Every American I respect is looking into options for a second citizenship, preferably in a country that is not currently in one or another of the world’s declared and undeclared wars.”
“To name the mythological source, of the high calendar in Atlas, from ancient Judean mythology, the writing is on the wall, and America’s remaining days may already be numbered.”
participant-3927, 2:35 PM, October 4
I don’t believe conspiracy theories.
participant-3927, 2:36 PM, October 4
I deny that, yes.
participant-3927, 2:37 PM, October 4
Do you still remember the term WYSIWYG? It was popular 20 years ago, and meant “What You See is What You Get,” referring to Windows.
participant-3927, 2:38 PM, October 4
In politics all that matters is what people do and say in public. The back-room deals do not matter.
participant-3927, 2:39 PM, October 4
And I deleted your message about open call to murder. This is beyond the pale on this channel.
participant-3927, 2:41 PM, October 4
I have been focusing on IT / coding lately, so didn’t write in this channel much. Still busy with it.
participant-3927, 2:42 PM, October 4
Yes on all counts.
participant-3927, 2:44 PM, October 4
Then you have to leave this channel
participant-2294, 5:31 PM, October 4
It’s a fact that many of them were FBI agents
participant-2294, 5:36 PM, October 4
A quarrel between government employees isn’t even comparable to the trails of destruction left by black bloc riots…
