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In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament. Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves. You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death. This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes. He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

All who seek political power view human life as expendable. The only difference between ideologies is where they draw the line.

I ditched my smart watch and replaced it with a mechanical watch. I have a twenty-year-old car. I don’t have a television. I installed @GrapheneOS on my phone. I use @signalapp, @ProtonVPN, and @brave.

✅ Don’t use a smart TV ✅ Use @GrapheneOS ✅ Use @ProtonVPN ✅ Don’t use a smart vacuum ✅ Don’t use a smart toothbrush ✅ Don’t use the ISP router ✅ Use @ZorinOS ✅ Get an old car or @slateauto ✅ Don’t use a smart refrigerator ✅ Flock cameras contain valuable metals

“The real action is in the enemy's reaction.” — Saul Alinsky Provocation: Military intervention in foreign countries. Reaction: Terrorist attacks. Provocation: Terrorist attacks. Reaction: Military intervention in foreign countries.

Stop paying taxes and men with guns show up to throw you in a cage. Resist being thrown in a cage and the men with guns shoot you. The only difference between the state collecting taxes and the mafia collecting protection money is that the mafia doesn't pretend it's a good thing.

Both theft and extortion are ex post facto slavery. Regardless of whether taxation is theft or extortion, taxation is always slavery.

Facts: 1. Collectivism rots the brain. 2. Collectivism is taught at government schools. 3. School attendance is mandatory. 4. Nine out of ten people attend government schools. 5. The purpose of a system is what it does.

The Venn diagram of state power and corruption is a circle.

The age-gating and enshittification of social media is taking away the ability to organise against tyranny. The age-gating and enshittification of entertainment is taking away an escape from dealing with the fact that there are fewer ways to organise against tyranny.

You heard that Juan Perón destroyed Argentina's economy, but what actually happened? Perón nationalized Argentina's central bank in March 1946 and handed price-setting power over beef and wheat exports to a state agency called IAPI. That single move strangled the two industries that fed the country. IAPI bought grain from farmers at prices it set, then sold that grain on world markets at actual prices, pocketing the spread. Farmers received roughly half the international price for wheat throughout the late 1940s. They responded the only rational way: they planted less. Cattle ranchers faced identical incentives and reduced their herds. Argentina's beef exports fell from 400,000 tons in 1946 to under 200,000 tons by 1952. The central bank nationalization meant Perón controlled credit allocation directly. He flooded industry with cheap loans while agriculture starved of capital. Foreign exchange reserves accumulated before 1946 were gone by 1952. The price signal is the only tool an economy has to communicate scarcity and opportunity across millions of producers simultaneously. Suppress that signal in two of your most productive sectors and output collapses. By 1955, when the military removed Perón, Argentina's share of world wheat trade had collapsed from a dominant position to near irrelevance. A country that once fed Europe had engineered its own agricultural decline through deliberate, economically illiterate, socialist policy.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Google products are spyware disguised as utilities.

The self-medication hypothesis proposes that drug use is a corrective of brain maldevelopment caused by childhood trauma. Evidence shows a high correlation between adverse childhood experiences and problems later in life.

Large corporations suffer from the same problem that governments do: Bureaucracy. It's a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. This is because departments are like fiefdoms ruled by dragons, jealously guarding their hoard of knowledge and power.

Brave and Librewolf have been known as the best browsers for privacy for a while. I use Brave for a few reasons: Ease of updates, rapid development, better rendering engine, and fewer political entanglements. I'm hoping @ladybirdbrowser can serve as a replacement when released.