Kim Du Toit is originally from South Africa and wrote an great essay on the place. “Let Africa Sink”. Given how hard we are screwing up the Western World while they destroy the last agricultural outpost in Africa, I doubt there is a choice.http://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/#more-1592

We’ve done a better job discouraging cigarette smoking (still legal) than we have keeping people off of drugs. It’s one of the few subjects which I generally agree with Reason. What swung me was seeing the costs of drug enforcement.Massive federal and state enforcement agencies. Huge infringements on our rights to investigate and enforce laws against drugs. Mexico is now a failed narco-state. And my brother-in-law’s nephew is dead.The kid got hooked on pain-killers after an injury. Then was cut-off from pain-killers because of government rules. So he moved on to harder stuff, got clean and relapsed a few times. Got back into it and bought a stronger batch – and died.Sure people used to get hooked on opium and laudanum and will if the stuff is legalized. The difference to me is that pharmacists, not gangsters sold it. And cops weren’t breaking down doors and shooting people because of it.

“Whiteness” and “White Privilege” are just substitutes. What they are really fighting against is Western Civilization. I mentally do the substitution when I hear this nonsense.

I think I fully tapped out on the libertarian viewpoint (at least on drug legalization) when I read of a heated exchange between a sheriff of a small Appalachian town wiped out by Oxy and Roxies, and some scumbag lobbyist for the Sacklers/Purdue pharma. This bug man was lecturing the rural sheriff about the free market and the sheriff interrupted him, “Your free market is killing my community.” Some people have the iron will to resist all temptation, some are basically human jellyfish, and the rest are somewhere in between. Limiting access and socially sanctioning things that can kill people is a good idea, as a general rule. I don’t want to live in a world (or at least a community) where some abstract “principal” allows a company to bribe doctors into saying something’s not harmful, and then chastises people who get addicted and die as making the wrong personal choice. Incidentally the DEA has wide latitude in shaping policy with lobbyists on how much of a schedule ii drug gets produced per year. They could choke off supply at the source, quite easily, but they won’t, because they want millions of pills on the street to make it easier for them to seem like they’re heroes when they catch dealers further down the food-chain with thousands of pills. You’d be surprised, incidentally, how many cops and doctors are pill heads, or maybe not.Re: Marijuana legalization, it’s a classic case of what the Derb calls “Narrative Collision.” All these “green” growers know damn well how growing marijuana leeches minerals, consumes tons of energy when grown hydroponically and wrecks water tables when grown outdoors, and they don’t care (it’s a lot worse than your lawnmower). Also, you have to apply Moore’s Law of Exponential Growth to marijuana cultivation, because every two or three years someone makes a much stronger strain (for which no experimental data is available). We’re to the point where these mad scientists are basically creating smoke-able schizophrenia and a hallucinogen that has nothing to do with your daddy’s weed.

I agree with your assessment of western women. Somebody (maybe a red-pill place like Heartiste) once said that feminism is just the world’s biggest shit test. (and we’re failing) I was in a mixed gender unit in the Marines for a while (hated it – much preferred my time in Infantry and Armor units). Despite (or because of) all the coddling, the women Marines always seemed to find important office work, or became the safety vehicle drivers whenever we marched with combat gear or did any kind of strenuous training. It was a joke that nobody called them on.

YES. “Connections” is brilliant, as are the two sequel series and “The Day the Universe Changed.” Everything documentary that followed owes its existence to James Burke. Should be required viewing (as should “Yes, Minister,” for those unfamiliar with the way the political class is united against the rest of us).

“Normative”. One of those words that pepper the abstracts which you read. The ruling elites in my yut made sure to impress me with the evidence that Warren Harding was a moron, the proof being that he coined a word–“Normalcy”.

“Connections” – I LOVED that show. You can still see it on you-tube, I think

Nudging. You mentioned the universality of French law. Ernst Zundel, after being prosecuted in Canada twice for “Holocaust Denial” in that country, then his home. Was extradited to Germany and jailed for the same instance iin a foreign country. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ernst-zundel-deported-from-canada-on-holocaust-denial-charges-dies-at-78/article35892595/ I blame the joos. You’ll probably put it down to coincidence.

The coup against the American People has no shame.https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/976584904304668673.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFAj9fwFG8

Z Man, I’m glad I’m not a Libertarian. As much as I enjoyed the thrashing you gave Matt Welch and his crew, it was hard not to have some sympathy for him for how badly you beat him. I had to look away.

Enjoyed the podcast Z, surprised that you haven’t heard of Spandrell’s Bloody Shovel blog. Then again us fan boys need to remember that you’re entered to time off. Two of his best posts from my perspective are as followshttps://www.google.ie/amp/s/bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/the-spectre-of-nationalism/amp/https://www.google.ie/amp/s/bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/biological-leninism/amp/The spectre of nationalism is interesting as it captures the attitude of official Ireland towards the EU perfectly, as if it is a benign deity. Similar to the inner/outer US parties embrace of the proposition nation nonsense. Both positions are slowly but increasingly coming under assault by the younger native generationa. Just hope it’s not too late and that my two young kids will still have a world with working plumbing to look forward to.

That shotgun hobo idea is ridiculous, especially when just dressing them up like cops works much better!

will you comment on this #QAnon conspiracy nonsense? It’s running rampant on social media right now…as far as I can tell, it’s based on some postings by QAnon in the last few months that predict some sort of deliberate collapse of the economy engineered by trump, who will then use the army to build the wall…Qanon theorists (who are all MAGA trump personality cult adherents), believe that Qanon is some insider who is leaking this info out to us and that the omnibus bill is just trump playing 4d chess…

Your understanding of libertarian thought is so ignorant that it’s appalling you even feel the need to have an opinion on it. Your view of libertarian thought is the same shit tier level of the right stuff feds. America isn’t and never will be a homogeneous society and yet you shit on the only way out which is total decentralization which is mind you the original intent of the American project itself. You’re totally locked arms with the smug liberal in that you have all the answers and are unwilling to let the pieces fall where they may. Reason Magazine is akin to what the Neo-Cons are to paleo-conservatism yet you have no issue summing up all of Libertarian thought as Reason.com. I’d like to think that you were more intelligent than that but obviously you’re not. It’s tragic i even have to comment on this because it’s so self evident that it’s like telling a retard the sky is blue.