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Peter Thiel Proletarian
The Book of Revelation is sort of like a game of blackjack.
Julia Schiwal
29 minutes ago12 min read
Art Beyond the Honesty Cage: A Few Thoughts for Lomez
In 1964, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky published the novel Hard to Be a God, which was later adapted into a black-and-white film by Aleksei German and released to critical acclaim in 2013. Hard to Be a God, both the book and film, follow Anton, also known as Don Rumata of Estor, an undercover operative from future Earth sent to the alien planet of Arkanar...
Julia Schiwal
4 days ago13 min read
De-Escalation Through Strength: Trump Must Invoke the Insurrection Act
Not invoking the Insurrection Act is an irresponsible mistake that will allow obstruction to continue, leading to unnecessary death and violence, and inflaming tensions.
Julia Schiwal
Jan 265 min read
Conspiracies and the Competency Crisis: The Kirk Assassination with Toby Houchens
10,000 hours of ‘whodunit’ content. No major reports on the obvious: a lethally outdated model dominates an unregulated profession, failing Trump twice, and getting Charlie Kirk killed. This is how incompetence, not conspiracy, is changing American history.
Julia Schiwal
Dec 17, 202521 min read
James Fishback Says Florida Is Not an Economic Zone. Can This Message Take Him to the Governor’s Seat?
His platform: zero foreign lobbyist money, total cancellation of H-1B visas at the state level, no data centers, and no homes owned by Blackstone. On the surface, this might sound like a grab-bag of slopulist sentiment, but there might be more than meets the eye.
Julia Schiwal
Nov 29, 202525 min read
The Case for Fishback
Nearly 40 young men, nearly all white, have killed themselves as a result of Nigerian cyber criminals running a sextortion racket . They have killed more Americans than ISIS. This affects very few people. Normal Americans are suffering from many small issues, little gaps in the social contract that globalization’s vicious children are prying further apart. One reflection of this is the wide popularity of the “Nick 30 ans ” meme, originally from France and adopted across the W
Julia Schiwal
Nov 29, 202513 min read
Gottfried on Groypers: A Review of The Essential Paul Gottfried
A doorway is defined in Jewish law as a side post and something that goes across it. Many American cities have an “eruv,” a wire tied from pole to pole that stretches around the city. The purpose of the eruv is to allow some Jews to carry items outside of their homes on Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Symbolically, this represents the extension of private space in the public square. The United States and the United Kingdom are the only countries on Earth outside of Israel that h
Julia Schiwal
Nov 12, 20259 min read
Will Trump Become Joe Biden?
Trump may be edging towards Biden's mistake.
Julia Schiwal
Nov 7, 20256 min read
USCIS: Do Not Reform H-1B
The fundamental problem is this: each time USCIS publishes a reform, lawyers in Singapore, San Francisco, Beijing, and Hyderabad leap into action alongside a black market of labor traffickers to find ways to game the system.
Julia Schiwal
Oct 21, 202512 min read
Imagining a Right Institution
“We should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left. We need a de-Ba’athification program... my strategy is, de-institutionalize the left, re-institutionalize the right.” - J.D. Vance MEA CULPA In the auspicious year of 1984, the United States Congress established the United States Institute of Peace. President Ronald Reagan approved the establishment of the USIP, sponsored in Congress by Senators Mark Hatfield and Spark Matsunaga. Hatfield and Matsun
Julia Schiwal
Oct 7, 202515 min read
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