Josephus / Josephus is on Nostr

American Nationalist, rational empiricist, closed borders conservative.

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2026-09-15 00:59:38 UTC

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2026-09-15 00:23:49 UTC

"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."
--Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers

2026-09-14 10:37:33 UTC

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3 "bots" now. Or maybe you're full of yourself and can't even have the respect to acknowledge that differing opinions =/= bot? Keep ignoring the sacred cow.

2026-09-14 10:35:18 UTC

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The boomers made it an unquestionable sacred cow. But agreed that it extends well beyond that in the past. And boy do people need to study French revolution philosophy more. The French revolution was the beginning of leftism (including the term "left" used to describe it) and the classical liberalism that generated libertarianism was its equivalent formed in england during the glorious revolution. Not enough people realize where these things come from.

2026-09-13 22:06:14 UTC

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Yep. Cantillion effect at its finest. The problem is that tariffs don't work to protect local business if you are the fiat reserve currency. There is a reason why early America used them and post-fiat America stopped doing so.
If you are the reserve currency, you WANT the world to have your money to buffer the value of your currency. No one wants or will spend what they cannot have. That's the reason the bureaucracy is addicted to throwing US money to every ridiculous cause you can think of across the world. It doesn't matter if the cause is gender studies in Pakistan, the point is to give Pakistan USD so that they have some to spend on oil, thereby helping buffer the value of that USD.
That's the point that trump is either unable to understand or selecting to ignore.

2026-09-13 21:48:55 UTC

Look... The gov returning some of my money that they stole from me last tax season and asking me to be grateful again...
#nevent1q…275k

2026-09-13 21:23:25 UTC

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That looks amazing. And very nice of your guests to leave some for you.

2026-09-13 20:17:19 UTC

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Seriously? I don't want to hear another nostrich talking about X/Twitter being an echo chamber when this is how people here want to react to different perspectives.
Apparently any point not towing your line means it's a bot? Great nuance. I've found the sacred cow here: the blank slate.

2026-09-12 02:50:14 UTC

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If you don't see the comment about privilege, your question turns into "which gen do you agree with" rather than "which is most privileged"...

2026-09-11 21:28:40 UTC

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I was literally just having a conversation about performative virtue signaling on the part of women the other day and some people really showed their true colors in the comments.
The best one was the one that willfully did the below meme intentionally as an act of passive-aggressive sarcasm... In response to someone else's accusation that women are petty.
Thanks for being more honest about it at least. I wish it was so easy for the rest of us. There was no pursuading or combatting the women in our neighborhood. Beating them to the objective was our only option... And thank heavens we succeeded.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/9eef88e4129c7416af4e76c5fd7b73e46fa1d2946d608472989944d80e4755e0.jpeg

2026-09-10 23:34:40 UTC

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Best comment.

2026-09-08 23:19:56 UTC

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That is a terrible analogy.
The people going through the McDonald's drive-thru are not unaware of the existence of grocery stores and cooking.
The people on X largely ARE unaware of nostr.
Throwing, drive through food in someone's face is not going to convince them to go to a grocery store. Linking your nostr account to an X account might convince somebody to use nostr. I have convinced at least two people this way before I got banned.

2026-09-06 19:48:11 UTC

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Those are centralized platforms though. But I know what you mean.

2026-08-30 17:52:01 UTC

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Is primal really the source of all the spam?