Many things about mercantilism were never properly refuted. We are currently rediscovering the uses of tariffs. In our lifetime we will also rediscover the uses of royal monopolies— maybe after the examples of Chinese SOEs.

Does anyone know where I can get this for a reasonable price?

I’ve only had occasion to do this a few times but it seems to stun them for 2 seconds.

I know a guy that works management for UPS that believes the entire mail system would collapse without Haitian immigrants. I asked him, “How would UPS operate if we didn’t have Haitian immigrants?” He literally said, “But we do have Haitian immigrants.”

You're 20 years old and your uncle is Hitler. Your uncle and his friends take power, and you're invited to join. You dabble but no thanks. Your uncle is deposed pretty quick, then your philosophy teacher is killed for his dangerously high power level. You crash out and hit the

I’m begging all retards across the world to stop getting their politics from capeshit.

People on Threads are still just screenshotting X and reposting it over there for content. Wild.

I used to think “vibe shift” was out of touch tpot language. maybe some tism parsing of social phenomena. But I’m realizing “vibe shift” is just how NPCs describe the feeling of downloading the newest party line update. New vibe, so exciting, etc. They don’t get it.

This is a quote by christian abbot Arnaud Amalric who led the massacre at Béziers in 1209. Crusaders asked how to tell which locals were heretic Cathars. His answer is on the flag below.

White people don’t even like Fuentes. He nails the “concealing infiltrators” part of being a Trojan horse. Not so much the “getting into Troy” part. If Fuentes has value for the right, it’s his role of selecting “controlled opposition”. Everyone he supports, flops hard.

Marxists have to invent increasingly more arcane, Heliocentric models of power to explain why the revolution hasn’t come yet. ITT: “Humanism was a marginal position, actually.”

Where is this happening? People talk about it all the time but maybe I live under a rock because I have never seen anything about such a neighborhood, such a purchase, such a concomitant increase in rent, etc.

Aasimov joined MENSA and was horrified to discover that poor people, Republicans, and religious people could have high IQs too.

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Knew it.

In “Meditations on Moloch” (2014), Scott Alexander argued that only global totalitarianism can stop Moloch (economic suffering). In 2025 Peter Thiel argued the same but said “Anti-Christ” instead of “Moloch.” Libtards think Scott Alexander is a genius & Peter Thiel is a moron.

Leftism has benefited from a popular misunderstanding of genetics as depicted in Star Trek, where DNA is like a set of computer instructions that direct exact outcomes in specific contexts. The effect of this is we constantly see arguments like "basketball is socially

Yesterday my daughter came into this world. 8lbs 13.5oz. I’m a father of two now.

Never forget what they did to that one black Harvard professor who reported that police brutality was a meme - 2 years after his draft paper they buckbroke him, got him to resign from professional orgs, etc