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HONKY FOOD 2

As I said yesterday, I could be wrong on the general trend of food prices rising.  I just doubt it.  The only reason I throw the caveat in is because between store competition, selling below cost as Loss Leaders, rising interest rates effecting old acquisition loans and corporate desperation over financial markets, there is a LOT of noise out there that could be queering my analysis.  So, let me put it this way.  While prices might not rise as I’m forecasting, what prices probably WON’T do is decrease further.  Prices on White Foods are artificially low.  Buy now.

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You know that 3.5 cent rimfire ammunition you just bought?  My guess is that it was at or below cost.  If you wait for it to go down again in price, I would probably call you a damn fool.  You buy it NOW, because life offers few guarantees ( although two are death and taxes and inflation is a tax ).  Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.  Buy on the dip ( NOT on Bitcoin, you sorry specimen of a minion! ).  If Wal-Mart is giving away White Food, striking at Kroger at a vulnerable moment trying to lure away business, BUY!

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Remember awhile ago, when I was yelling at you at the top of my lungs to run down to Kroger and buy up cans of shortening ( a bit after I had yelled at you to buy their generic SPAM )?  They were some ridiculously low price like $2.  That was a clearance sale.  What is Kroger oil now?  Something like $4.  Wal-Mart is still at $3.  Selling below cost is as fragile and unsustainable of a trend as that Kroger clearance sale was.  Buy the holy living crap out of honky foods-NOW!

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You might have my attitude on a lot of sales.  As in, no big deal.  I don’t need that much and I’m not spending that much extra per year.  If you eat chili once a month, a case sale taking cans from $1.36 down to .99cents might not be a powerful motivator, even if that is a huge savings.  So if sugar is regularly $1.79 and Wally sells it for $1.39, since you don’t use much you fail to be impressed.  If you use two bags a year, you save under a buck stocking up.  This is understandable since you can only overstock so much.

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But how much White Food do you really think you’ll stock?  Even if you have a ton of wheat ( literally ), you need a LOT less white flour than that.  You are only using white foods as SUPPLEMENTS, not as substitutions, if you are smart.  You cannot suddenly shift the family to an all whole wheat diet, so you start out with more white than wheat and slowly reverse that.  But we are not just talking about the collapse here.  Most likely there will be a period of extreme decline where you live off of more storage foods, but not exclusively. 

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A lot of your white foods can be in the regular pantry.  That is where most of my noodles and all of my oatmeal are.  The Mac & Cheese only takes up half of one shelf, since I only store about thirty boxes ( we only eat a few a year ), as one For Instance.  But sugar?  I have totes and plastic bottles everywhere in the basement.  No idea how much, either.  Perhaps 250 pounds?  Maybe more.  I know of one tote with fifty pounds and probably four buckets for another hundred, but I’m unsure how many two liter bottles or old coffee cans.

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Hey, what can I say?  I single mindedly stock one item until I stop panicking.  My point is that I probably go overboard and it still doesn’t take all that much in containers or space.  I like the 18 gallon totes.  Wally USED to sell them for $4, then $5, but lately I’ve only seen the affordable ones as 15 gallons.  Don’t use those for 25 bags in storage.  There isn’t enough room for four bags, at 25 pounds each.  With the 18 gallon totes four bags, 100 pounds, fits in nicely.  I don’t have bug issues.

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Your mileage might vary, being in a wetter and hotter climate.  Then your storage costs go up.  That is why I stock much more sugar than white flour.  First, I don’t need to mix any with my whole wheat ( just enough to “train” the NOL to eat wheat ) and second, white flour is “poofy”.  Sugar stores far more compactly.  So I need less containers.  I also will be using more sugar than white flour, since I have a LOT of coffee and with my heartburn I need sugar in it.  Plus, it helps in wheat recipes.

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As I said, this is condiment food.  All white foods have All Calories, No Nutrition.  Empty calories.  You don’t want to JUST eat them, but rather use them to increase your calorie count with real food.  The example I like to use is that if you cannot find whole wheat locally and must buy it from Wally, it is very expensive ( although not as bad as mail order ).  So you buy white flour to replace a lot of whole wheat.  $1 a pound whole kernel wheat and 27 cent white flour combined 50/50 is more affordable.

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White rice is empty calories.  The beans you eat with it are the only nutrition.  The rice are just calories.  Pasta?  Empty calories.  If you aren’t eating all that nasty fresh tomato sauce and zucchini and other slop Lucifer cursed the Wops with, you are in trouble with your diet.  I wouldn’t eat shortening at all, unless forced to under extreme poverty.  That crap works post-apocalypse only because NO fat is less healthy than eating the shortening, and it has a very long shelf life ( do NOT store lard, even though it is hydrogenated.  It barely squeaks out a five year shelf life ).

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White Foods should only comprise as much of your diet as you are forced to accept if you cannot get real food.  The Ornamentals get away with it as they eat plenty of fresh veggies.  You got away with eating all that Ramen in college only because of youth, SOME other types of food and perhaps all that yeast in beer J.  But it will probably comprise more of your diet, shortly, as the economy worsens.  You might as well buy it while it is so cheap.

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Here is a short video on bay leaves and other plants to keep pests away from food:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oadsj1PSpxY

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HONKY FOOD

I keep wanting to talk about the White Foods again ( white flour, white rice, white flour pasta, white potato starch, white sugar and white shortening ).  I don’t REALLY have much more to say on it that could by any stretch of the imagination be considered new, exciting or worth sending a link to your friend ( you know, the usual, talking about how I am as a god and my wisdom must be hastily chiseled in stone so as not to lose it to the sands of time ).  But now is a critical time for pricing, so I shall proceed despite the cat calls.

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I’m not like certain people living in Idaho that are running for Congress and have 37 web sites, each with like 72 pop-up video ads per page that lists every single news headline as proof that We Are All Going To Die Tomorrow ( I won’t mention any names-cough, cough, The Economic Collapse cough, cough ).  Just because more puppies are in the county animal shelter does NOT mean that is a sign from Baby Jesus the rapture is about to start.  But speaking of my Dawg, he must be experiencing some kind of anal leakage over the aforementioned site.

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So, yes, doom right around the corner and all that, blah, blah.  Sure, the stock market COULD be imploding, but it did that at the beginning of the year.  We COULD start an Ice Age in two years, but they did say that in the 1970’s.  Nostradamus COULD be right this time, but I saw the movie in theaters ( the one with Orson Wells ) as a kid, it scared the crap out of me, and nothing happened.  We COULD have the system finally collapse any day, but that day could be tomorrow OR a tomorrow ten years from now.

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I don’t think now is a great time to run out and procure more food stocks for any of the normal Panicked Prepper reasons.  I already know the sky is falling, but I also know you cannot time the event.  I can give you 472 reasons to panic, and you should be, but no reasons why I can time the final curtain better than anyone else.  I didn’t think we would recover from the severe weather nearly a decade ago, with all the crop failures, but we did, thankfully.

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But, again, Trends.  You can only profit if you are the first one in or out.  I’m seeing a trend with food increasing in price.  And you can surely see the trend in overpopulation ( hell, let in a few more Caravans Of Diversity, why don’t you? ).  And the fracking fuel industry is facing increasing interest rates as well as everyone else ( like the precious metal producers ).  My timing could very well be off, but to me this seems like a good time to bet on beating the trend in inflation, especially food.

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They were practically giving away food for the last year.  Perhaps two ( you know how it is, you age and time speeds up exponentially ).  You KNOW that cannot continue.  And what can’t, won’t.  My guess is that since the Federal Reserve started raising rates, more and more businesses have had to cut prices to attract business, or they would have already gone OUT of business.  And with the stock market bubble, they would sometimes sell BELOW cost to jack up their stock price so they could cash out as they bankrupted the company.  As interest goes up quarterly, more businesses fail.

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I just read the perfect analogy ( sorry, original content dude, I can’t remember where I saw you ).  An adjustable rate mortgage.  You only assume the debt because the interest is so low.  Then, when the interest is raised, you quickly lose the house.  That is our entire economy, right there.  The adjustable rate is unaffordable.  And while Bezos can in theory sell at no profit for twenty years, very few other companies can get away with that.  Amazon stocks rose DESPITE the promise of no profits.  Anyone else doing it goes bankrupt.  And are.

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My favorite grocery store, Kroger, has seen prices rising.  I’m sure it was just coincidence, but that started right about the time after they remodeled.  I know it cost Albertson’s over a million just to PARTIALLY remodel ONE store ( Albertson’s is a cruel joke, having been acquired and mergered so often their prices are about at industry record highs ).  So I’m paying for the cost of that every time I buy groceries, which does NOT please me.  Then, another coincidence, as Kroger’s prices are going up, Wally starts going DOWN ( on commodity items only ).  But this isn’t your trend.

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Well, it is the trend of competition and eventual bankruptcy in an oversaturated market, but that is a decades long trend ( most grocery stores make the profit in the luxury items like cut fruit bowls, the deli meals and etc. ).  As far as general food prices, I don’t base that on those two stores dueling it out.  I still shop Kroger for being Less Evil than Wal-Mart, but I do cherry-pick Wal-Mart for the super low deals ( they rape you on Dorito’s-which I can’t eat any more-and sell seemingly below cost on the White Foods ).

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I’m not looking at the White Foods for the food price trend.  When they go on case sale prices or holiday sale, it is usually only a 5-10% discount.  I think those commodities are as close to no profit as possible ( which is why I think Wally sells below cost.  Kroger is cheaper in most other foods-or, they were-yet Wally is like 25% under in the flour and sugar and shortening and etc. ).  But all of the rest of the foods IN GENERAL seem to be increasing in price.  Not counting meat, because of the recent glut, but all the Value Added foods.

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Whole kernel wheat is going down in price ( and it shouldn’t, with recent weather events-telling me of lowered consumer demand which forces prices down anyway ), as is flour.  Bread is going UP.  Perhaps not the 99 cent loaf which can be pumped with water and sawdust, but a generally healthy loaf of bread.  Crackers are going up.  Pasta is its own dynamic due to the different type of wheat ( with a bit of shortage from Italy in supply added to the equation ).  Nothing drastic, just a reversal.

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Food is not like oil, per se.  It usually doesn’t sharply rise, as a whole.  Individual items may, but not across the board except such as say when oil jumps in price so much it effects transportation and processing beyond what can be absorbed.  But in general, firms have contracted prices out into the future, to smooth down cost fluctuations.  There is a time delay in retail prices, up or down.  So if we are seeing a general trend UP, those are just preliminary.  They are baby steps.  The big price swings are not yet reflected.  Sure, I could be wrong.

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But if I am, does it matter?  White Foods have an almost indefinite shelf life.  At a minimum, you get at least five years before the taste is effected, and they last far longer than that, still being edible.  If you panic now to avoid the rush, and buy now, you most likely avoid inflation.  If prices go lower, you just buy more.  If they rise, you beat the trend ( this is applicable to EVERY prepper item, say guns and ammo ).  I see prices starting to rise in food.  If it is a long term trend, you’ll be happy you acted today.

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I’m way over on word count and haven’t finished on this subject, nor even got into storage, so obviously this continues tomorrow.

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MILITARIZED POLICE 2

When you have a four foot tall fence, you keep out MOST trespassers.  When you have a flimsy lock on the door, MOST people will not break in ( yes, I understand this is NOT as true as it once was, as more citizens arm themselves and that dampens violent crime but channels criminals into property crime.  But it is still MOSTLY true ).  The fence and the lock keep honest people honest.  It is the same principle with law enforcement.  They are not there to stop criminals.  They can’t.  They are there to keep more people from BECOMING criminals.

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Without the police, crime would increase.  Of course, more police do not lower crime.  And since it is getter more and more expensive to field police, it is probably a good thing more of them being bureaucrats and less street patrols doesn’t hurt much.  The yes, the overpaid vice pigs ( anti-prostitution or anti-drug ) are worthless and get more funding, cutting into effective policing, but again, that is a system wide problem.  A lot of local police activity is orchestrated by the Federales, so place the blame where it belongs.  You pay taxes to the State Police to enforcing fed speeding laws.

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But let us focus on simply enforcing the peace ( most laws are NOT enforced, just the ones returning the most profit.  So mostly the police presence itself MOSTLY keeps the peace.  Mostly.  It is relative.  Keep in mind that ALL organizations with monopolies are overpriced and underperforming today.  The Po-Po are no different ).  The amount of crime is dependent on socio-economic factors, not the levels of law enforcement.  In a homogenous culture with a decent economy, the people mostly police themselves with LEO’s only needed as a Final Arbitrator Enforcer. 

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In a crappy economy with all sectors of society clashing, a society in decline, even the National Guard constantly patrolling will make little difference in crime.  Curfews and liberal levels of allowed force will not make much difference ( look how much crime takes place in the totally controlled atmospheres of prisons ).  The Macro Trend is bad.  Police are increasingly out of control, as is crime.  One is related to another.  Higher concentrations of people are far more dangerous NOW, not just as the Lights Go Out.  The police naturally are far more agitated and violent.  You would be too.

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And you cannot say, “well, that is their job” and expect them to benignly accept far higher levels of risk.  How often do you try to do other peoples jobs?  Do you Monday Morning Quarterback the waitress in the restaurant?  “Why is she taking so long?  Why isn’t she hurrying more?” and etcetera.  Do you know HOW she does her job?  If not, how can you judge what is a good or a bad performance?  It is the same with the police.  If you don’t know how they do their jobs, how can you judge?  Think about it.

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How many people get lippy with the police? “I gots my rights!”.  People seem to confuse the police with lawyers and judges.  The police don’t make the bullcrap laws, they enforce them.  Granted, a lot are far too rigorous enforcing them, but every organization, from High School to the corporate offices, are full of incompetent idiots.  Do you hate ALL your teachers because only a few actually taught you anything?  Of course not.  Or, you hate the SYSTEM that forced you to go to school, not the actual teachers that were trying to do some good.

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Don’t hate the phone operator because that companies CEO dry humped you on the product. Habeeb wasn’t responsible for quality control.  The waitress is not at fault when the owner won’t hire enough cooks.  And cops?  They must perform threat assessments.  That is a large part of their job.  If you come across as a screaming yelling wrongfully treated banshee, you will illicit zero sympathy.  Rather, the officer will respond with force.  They have no choice.  You might think it is a simple conflict over power ( “respect my a-thor-i-ti!” ), and you would be correct.  But for the wrong reason.

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Look at your life’s Chain Of Command.  The wife is in charge.  If you cede ANY power to the kids, anarchy trumps.  The boss is in charge.  If you refuse to do his stupid crap that makes things worse, you are no longer in that chain of command.  The police are there to enforce the chain of command, to make sure you do the stupid crap that will make things worse.  It doesn’t matter WHAT the stupid crap is.  It doesn’t matter if the wife should pick up her own mess, she is in charge and if she says “pick up my crap”, that is what you do. 

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With the police, as with the wife or the boss, you are supposed to do what you are told.  Period.  When you passively aggressively show signs of NOT doing as you are told, you are treated as if you had actually refused.  That is how my 70 something year old 100 pound stepmother landed on top of a coffee table with severe flesh injuries on one arm.  She got lippy.  And you know, I felt absolutely no sympathy.  Some young musclehead buck weighing 200 pounds planted her ass after she refused to comply.

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Was a little old grandma a threat?  Of course not.  The threat is that if you do NOT enforce compliance, someone down the road will THEN become a threat ( the nurse that treated my stepmom was angry over the level of force.  Yet, she would fire instantly anyone screwing up  medications for a patient, as that behavior could not be tolerated as a safety risk.  She didn’t see the irony, I imagine ).  Your wife and your boss OVER compensate when you refuse to comply.  So do the police.  Is a SWAT raid over a dozen unpaid parking tickets excessive?  Of course it is.  But that is not the point.  The point is COMPLIENCE. 

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Why are cops so laid back in rural counties?  Why are large urban area cops such dicks?  Population density and integration into the community, or lack thereof.  When a cop knows everyone, he knows who is trouble and who is not. He doesn’t have to treat everyone as a stranger who is an unknown risk.  That used to be why beat cops on foot assigned to one area were so effective even in the big city, or why you used to be required to live in the area you patrolled.  And cops who are dicks when they don’t have to be? 

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There will always be cops like that.  Because they were not adequately screened before hiring.  They lack confidence and hence overcompensate.  You can’t “stand on your rights”.  You can only comply and act humble and subservient.  If you don’t, well, I guess I won’t feel too sorry for you after you get face planted on something hard, a complete shift worth of cops dogpiling you.  If lucky, you are ONLY taz’ed.  They are a tribe, and they rely on each other for protection.  Of COURSE they side with each other.  Duh.  Talk about lack of situational awareness.

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MILITARIZED POLICE

The comments section was alive with talk of Clyde Dallas ( the poacher that killed two Federales back in the day ) and so I thought I’d cover the subject of “militarized police”.  There is a tendency for survivalists to lean a bit towards Libertarianism, and as a result Dallas is usually viewed as a folk hero.  I don’t view him as one, nor as a villain.  I’m not sure why we are expected to choose sides.  I admire the Hell out of him for being able to walk with those size brass balls, and that is enough to judge the man.

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Libertarianism is a noble philosophy.  But that is all it is, and I really hate philosophy ( other than from Nietzsche who not only kicked ass but who also might have had a better mustache than even Stalin which is saying a heck of a lot ).  Most of its followers are so busy trying to be a noble god amongst men that they lose sight of day to day reality.  “Why, I’ve got my guns and I’ll protect myself and I don’t need no stinking law dawgs to protect me!”.  Well, ya kinda do.

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What protects the banks giving loans to the gun company so they can manufacture your gun?  And what protects patents so a company can stay profitable?  And what makes the cost of securing the gun factory so low you can afford that gun?  Government.  Now, to be fair, most Libertarians do acknowledge the need for limited government, in theory.  But in practice, they come off like a bunch of Anarchists thinking ZERO government is possible.  I’m sure you’ve heard of the “zero gov” website, and similar ones.  “You can’t be a little bit pregnant or a little bit free”. 

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Here is a good time to remind you of a previous topic, The Strong Man argument.  A female, to avoid unpleasantness such as rape, murder or enslavement, grants exclusive mating/reproductive rights to a strong man who protects her.  In effect, shorn of all pretext or bullcrap, she foregoes an amount of freedom for protection.  You do the exact same thing joining a tribe.  On occasion your life must be placed in danger, as a fighter, so that most times you stay safe.  Your odds of death are less in a group, so fighting becomes safer than avoidance or fleeing alone ( I speak historically, not through a PA paradigm ).

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As a citizen in a nation state, you trade some of your earnings ( some of your time ) for protection.  As centralization always has efficiencies you cannot match individually, you are paying less for monopolies and force or defense is no different.  Stop stroking the plastic stock of your poodle shooter and murmuring “wolverines!”, because while you are busy up in the hills being an Army Of One, you cannot earn a living down in town.  Your effective tax rate as a citizen was 30%.  As a “freeman” it becomes 100%, due to lost wages ( also, you have no customers if they are all enemy casualties ).

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Certainly, a “rifle behind every blade of grass” is THE most effective way to defend a nation, cheaply.  But remember how those rifles were produced in the first place.  And I don’t think a private navy is going to protect overseas shipping to get iron ore to your local gun factory.  Ever since the Agricultural Revolution, government has been a necessary evil.  If you don’t have a Strong Man to protect you, you are dead.  So SOME freedom curtailed to that strong man is an unfortunate necessity.

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And just as your group needs a national government, so too does it need law enforcement.  The reason that hunter gatherer tribes ( even if they engage in agriculture such as in New Guinea, rather than hunting, they are still at a hunter/gatherer tribal level of governance ) engage in so much warfare ( every other or third year compared to a nations average of from every ten to twenty years ) is because no one holds a monopoly on arbitration, backed by force.  They use warfare as a substitute for police and courts.  And while true nations have no centralized authority over them, it is too costly to resort to warfare usually.

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If a bunch of Podunk tribes cannot settle disputes amongst themselves so instead resort to wars ( border disputes, trespassing on hunting grounds, failure of restitution of a Brides Price, unauthorized skirmish, etc. ), what do you think a bunch of Anarchist Yahoo’s are going to be doing when they get pissed off over imagined or real slights?  Without a peace officer enabled with a monopoly on force to keep people from fighting, all you get is unending conflict.  Even in a tribe, a council of elders comprises a peace officer function.

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When you were a child, “wait until your father gets home” was a threat to call Johnny Law if you didn’t comply with orders.  If you had a brother, all that fighting between you was to see who got dominance over the other, thus who enforced their own dictates.  Anarchists are like Politically Correct Leftist Hooers in this regard, trying to deny biology.  And it seems a lot of commentary on Clyde Dallas was firmly siding AGAINST biology.  Evil FedGov Cops Have No Right To Attack Our Hero!  A rallying cry to freedom!

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That right there?  Philosophy divorced from reality.  Don’t get me wrong. I don’t care for FLEAS ( Federal Law Enforcement Agent’S ).  They are never much better than bully boys which do not enforce the peace but rather enforce federal monopoly rule ( and yes, technically, I was a FLEA ).  I respect Peace Officers, not Monopoly Enforcers.  But that said, you don’t get to pick the laws you want enforced.  You can certainly break the law, if you wish.  A lot of laws are unjust.  The draft, drug prohibition.  But at the same time, you cannot take the governments protection and then scream Abuse Of Freedom when they enforce their laws.

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Of course, this opens up a whole can of worms.  Civil disobedience is certainly a valid tactic.  But while you smoking a doob is fine, what about those Hippie monkey molesters running an Underground Railroad for illegal immigrants because they want Open Borders?  How can you say one is harmless and the other harmful?  In the end, that is what ignoring the law can cause.  Foreign invasion and a conquered nation.  Not JUST legalized marijuana.  It isn’t quite so cut and dried, is it? 

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On the one hand, respect for the law can only occur in a homogenous justly ruled group.  On the other hand, too much anarchy leads to outsiders gaining control because law and order broke down.  No one wants to be ruled with an iron fist but too much individual freedom is just as dangerous ( we all hate Federal dictates, yet California acting as a Sanctuary State, ignoring federal border controls,  opens the floodgates to White Genocide ).  On the other, other hand, ignoring Federal gun control laws, AND state laws, restores individual freedom.  It isn’t infringing individual freedom, but strengthening it.

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Yet, that is illegal.  So is drug use, even though the State has no moral authority to make such laws ( just as it has none to enslave men for military service to grow or protect an empire ).  Where can you draw the line between Good Of Society and Good Of The Individual?  It isn’t just black and white.  While an argument can be made against militarized police, because that is less Land Of The Free and more Muzzie Religious Police, you could also argue FOR them, because everyone is ignoring the laws they don’t care for.

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Okay, this isn’t really as much rocket science as I make it out to be.  The nation has lost its Moral Authority once it turned against its citizens ( we could argue about when that was, but not that it happened already ).  You are not thus honor bound to respect its laws.  But I would like to look at things more from a law enforcement view, tomorrow.

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A lot of political correctness is just stupid crap, like girls pretending they are as strong and macho as men.  I actually think that is funny, because two seconds after Lights Out, any dumb ass thinking this is so ( unfortunately, also including female warrior’s squad mates, the poor bastards ) is going to get a big dingus flattening as they step on their own junk, hard.  I look forward to the festivities.  But some of it is so insidiously underhanded and hidden you have to beware you don’t get caught up in the Darwin Awards.

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We all know Participation Awards are stupid.  The only good teacher is pain, and as soon as you remove that you learn all the wrong lessons.  But what if the ripple effects of that concept are far less easy to actually discern?  A literal Participation Award is just that, a ribbon or sparkly unicorn device that rewards you just for showing up, inhaler in hand, cheering from the sidelines as your team is soundly defeated.  But isn’t MOST of our lives now a sort of Participation Reward?  Yes, girls and OtherColors get them routinely, rewarded for shooting out of the Money Hole.

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Just for breathing, they are rewarded.  Here, Chesty, have money for your gender.  Here, Toby, have a job shuffling paper.  Don’t worry about filing wrong, we have another diversity hire to check you.  If SHE screws it up, people will just blame the Mumbai Hotline.  We all know and hate those people ( a minion just mentioned the Super Size redneck gal working at the utility company.  One can’t help but flash to The Cleveland Show from the Seth Universe ).  Or, at least we are jealous.  But aren’t we all just a LITTLE bit doing the same?

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Just for being red blooded ‘Murican’s, to a large degree we are rewarded and given a Lazy Sod Coupon Book to redeem throughout life.  Few people have to actually work all that hard, if they don’t want to.  They aren’t exactly rewarded, but they certainly are not punished, which through most of history was reward enough itself.  And I’m not JUST talking about welfare.  If you are willing to forego the two necessities that define ‘Muricanism, a car and debt, you are half way to barely doing any work to STILL have surplus after the bare necessities, without ANY welfare. 

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I’m certainly not complaining, you understand.  Who the heck wants to work themselves into an early grave, for the sole benefit of others, usually Blue Blood inbred asswhores?  Nobody, duh!  The only thing that concerns me is if we blind ourselves to the fact that our trophy is not earned.  I am certainly NOT saying I want to return to The Great Depression, where folks got to starve since they couldn’t work, after the central bank killed he economy ( they were not LITERALLY starved, but rather got just little enough something else killed them in their weakened state ).

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ANY tribe, from a nomad band to a nation or empire, has Non-Producers.  Children and old bastards come to mind, or even breeders in between litters.  They all contribute in one way or another, but only so many can produce food or protect it.  If you want a society that punished non-production, you soon run into negative issues.  You can solve the free rider issue without throwing the baby out with the bath water.  Of course, right now, we are all merely Oil Consumers and actually produce nothing, even if we work hard.  This leads to delusions of production.

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A lawyer shuffles papers and polishes his dildo to a legalistic high sheen, right before he uses it to rectally violate others.  An engineer takes the legal papers and then produces a resource heavy monument to further consumption ( such as a highway bridge ).  I’m not denigrating anyone ( well, the lawyer ) or their efforts.  I’m merely suggesting we aren’t really producing as much as consuming.  Just because you “officially” for a paycheck consume, how much different are you from the unpaid consumer?  Of course effort should be rewarded.  But I speak of sustainability.

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Look at this Big Picture.  Running UP the slope of empire, you are producing resources for the tribe.  Granted, that is through theft, but that is just how us naked apes roll.  But running DOWN the right side of the bell curve, we are all just fighting each other to eat a shrinking pie.  No one produces anything.  They cannot, in a devolution.  You need growing resources to produce.  Less resources just mean an embarrassing catfight over less and less.  But nobody can stop the bread and circuses, can they?  Those with MORE of the pie must share or immediately be deposed.

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Before we Peak Empire’d, we were given a trophy for an accident of birth.  Since then, more and more of us have been given a lifetime Circus Pass, having no clue that our fall from grace isn’t as bad as we think.  Being kicked out of the middle class just means you have to accept 80% less luxury, but are also able to just work 20% for it.  It really is a good deal if you think about it ( the people complaining about lack of healthy food and a lack of a car are really themselves usually at fault for trying to continue to live at middle class levels ).

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So, really, we are still being rewarded just for showing up to the party, even though we THINK we have it so bad.  Even at 13% of the energy we had at the true birth of the Oil Age, we are STILL living like kings compared to most through history.  Hell, we are doing better than most of the globe right now!  Even those of us “on the margins socioeconomically”.  I don’t say this to belittle those in dire straights, because hardship is ALWAYS based on YOUR reality, not others. 

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I’m just pointing out we have a long way to fall, and you have zero clue.  Since you really don’t know life and death competition, since all your life everyone got Participation Trophies, you think that is normal.  Even as we hurl towards the abyss, you still have surplus to play at this survivalist game.  You pat yourself on the back.  I’m a hard worker!  I earned my FLIR scope and MRE cases.  Well, sure.  No one says you are lazy.  But if you didn’t wallow in this monopoly control of surplus, you wouldn’t be able to have your toys no matter how hard you worked.

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In the end, I think the PC Bad Habit of handing out Participation Trophies is little more that everyone’s bad habit brought to its logical conclusion.  The façade stripped away.  We used to pretend only some of us worked hard at consuming oil.  How nobody has to do anything to play.  We started to believe our own bullcrap.  NOT cool!  Beware this mindset as we prepare to lose that 13% surplus.

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PARTICIPATION TROPHY

The last twenty plus years have been an insane roller coaster ride.  If my theory that the economic decline has lasted fifty years is correct, Peak Iron Ore in the late 50’s triggering an economic contraction that set off the cultural change in the 60’s, we could postulate that the Tech Wreck of the late 90’s took all our negative economic and cultural aspects and duct taped a booster rocket to their ass and pulled the detonator.  Has ANYTHING good happened in the last two decades?  A global war and an easy money stimulus merely made the dips far more damaging.

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This article is on one of the cultural minutia, but let me briefly cover the economics.  The 90’s were our last HEALTHY economic boom ( as opposed to central bank stimulus ), as we semi-colonized Russia and sucked the Siberian tit of oil.  There was also deep drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico, but like Alaska this too had largely been exploited already ( today, Alaskan oil is a mere trickle.  I’m surprised the spice still flows from there ).  But Siberia was the last Easy Conventional oil ( Saudi is no longer Easy Conventional, and has not been for some time ).

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Either the oil started running out or all the profits had just been plowed into the new technology sector and caused a bubble that popped ( and THEN the easy oil stopped after that ), and we never really had a traditionally strong economy since then.  Greenspan, a one trick pony that should be burned in effigy rather than lauded, just threw extra money at the problem and by importing extra Mexican labor and going from traditional construction to plastic material, we blew a bubble in real estate as the cost of building decreased.

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I think there is a correlation between economics and culture, for the most part.  When things are going gangbusters we get too much of a good thing ( such as consumerism ) and when things go bad we get more negative aspects such as redistribution schemes ( no fault divorce, Social Security ) that take bad ideas and make them phenomenally wretched trends that take on a life of their own.  And the last twenty years of economic problems have given Political Correctness steroids.  Look back on the 80’s movies-do you see a Battle Of The Sexes?  No. 

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The 80’s saw credit creation coupled to Alaskan and Saudi oil ( sorry, it had nothing to do with Reagan’s economic policies or appointees, which only worked because they were backed by extra energy ).  So why was the culture change in the equally oil rich 90’s ( except towards the end )?  Despite how much I harp on oil, nothing ever only has just one cause.  The PC trends had already been in place, and the 90’s saw a lot of spawn of hippie scum coming of age.  A lot of immigrants were already on generation two. 

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But that was merely the catalyst to allow Political Correctness to be more than a simple Bad Idea.  What fertilized this pile of crap to grow?  I can only speculate, but I think the economic growth of the decade generated so much surplus that the Divorce Tax exploded in popularity.  Most guys, even at entry level jobs, had good enough wages that the gals could profitably separate and be rewarded for it.  This really was a time of full employment.  But then, as the economy imploded, that huge trend continued because of NEED rather than simply GREED.

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What better way to continue in the lifestyle you deserve and are accustomed to than to have two incomes AND child support or alimony checks coming in?  Or, if your new boyfriend just sleeps over a few times a week rather than lives with you, you get to be A Strong And Independent Woman ( albeit on the gov teat ).  With this economic boost, women naturally flocked to the ticket window for a ride on the gravy train.  When you throw money at a problem, you get a heck of a lot more of that same problem.  PC was firmly cemented in place.

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The race component of Political Correctness is also just as easy to pinpoint.  Rodney King riots was the booster shot to the ‘60’s Negro Riots, when we started bribing them to stop trying to burn down the whole damn place.  And as far as the Mexicans, the 90’s were the demographic tripping point.  With enough employment and numbers, suddenly Latino’s had the economic power to reinforce all those negative trends such as wide open borders ( they only needed to relax the Cali border, as once in they moved to every other state ).

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Obammy The Wonder Half Breed Muslim did NOT start all these PC problems.  They started by the end of the 90’s.  White House Negro merely goosed existing issues.  Blacks were already uppity.  Bitches already thought they owned the place.  Mexicans were already breeding out Whites.  White Males were already losing jobs hand over fist.  We had lost the culture war after forty years of being hamstrung by our females, so OBVIOUSLY the losers lost the jobs.  The only amazing thing is how many of us are still allowed to work.  Sure, we can only work 2/3’s the amount of time we used to.

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Over fifty, or before a masters ( of nothing ) degree, we are pretty much relegated to the military or early forced retirement, compared to the old age 25-65 career.  And, more than likely our wages are garnished if we wish to have children.  So we are really only making half what we used to, which closely follows our population numbers ( we went from 80% of the economy, when females were helping rather than hindering, to 30%, all alone ).  Can you now understand how much economic power we have lost, and why it is impossible to regain it? 

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When you have cultural trends AND demographics against you, it is pretty much Game Over, Man.  Why do you think survivalism is so popular with older White males?  It is to a large degree Wishful Thinking and Hopeful Fantasy that this whole rotten edifice crumbles and we are allowed to smite our invaders and enemies and ravage their women.  That doesn’t mean things aren’t collapsing because only an idiot thinks they are not.  It just explains a large part of what motivates us.  And I don’t think there is anything wrong with it.  Men should be warriors, and not the cubicle kind.

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