“Last week, another mentally ill individual chose to be an evil loser and shot into a church full of children, killing two and injuring many more. The usual anti-gun voices immediately blamed guns and all the gun owners who didn’t commit murder. They never place blame on the evil loser because that doesn’t fit the agenda. Dancing in the blood of innocents is their only play, and they are experts at it. … everyone has the right to fight back if someone decides to use their tools to harm the innocent. Background checks and all other anti-weapon rules violate this right, making it safer for evil losers to commit atrocities without facing the possibility that someone may have the means to stop them before they do what they intend.” (09/03/25)
“Earth is going to hit ‘peak population’ before the end of this century. Within 25 years, most of the world’s developed nations will be facing sharp population declines, with shrinking pools of young people working to support an ever-aging population. The reason is not famine, war, or pestilence. We did this to ourselves, by creating a set of draconian solutions to a problem that didn’t even exist. Fear has always been the best tool for social control, and the fear of humanity was deployed by generations of ‘thinkers’ on the control-obsessed left.” (09/03/25)
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“We seem to need some kind of an explanation of why so many of us bend over backwards to defend systems that intentionally harm us. Why do exploited people so often become defenders of their own exploitation? The ideas of System Justification Theory (SJT) attempt to confront this paradox of consent and to help us understand how our deep desires for stability and meaning are actively manipulated to keep us docile. SJT has some clear implications for those interested in a free, equal world without needless suffering.” (09/03/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the International Criminal Court for allegedly ordering his drug-war goons to kill accused drug-war offenders on sight …. That’s what Trump just did. He ordered his military drug-war goons to blow a boat out of the water that was traveling in international waters near Venezuela, killing, Trump proudly claimed, eleven people in the process. No stopping of the boat to search it. No arrests. No grand-jury indictments. No trials in federal district court. None of that. … In my opinion, that’s just murder, pure and simple.” (09/03/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza. From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way.” (09/01/25)
“It is fashionable to ‘prayer shame’ those who offer ‘thoughts and prayers’ as a response to violence. Public response to the gun violence at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is an example. If you did not deliver an angry diatribe against gun ownership, your failure to fall in line with the politically correct position is taken as evidence that you condone violence or don’t feel tragedy deeply. Words are often inadequate. After a recent family hike during which the signs of fall were unmistakable, we felt the poignancy of the seasonal changes. Can that poignancy be expressed easily in words? Of course not, but penetrating feelings remain.” (09/03/25)
“Occasionally, I use a grocery delivery service—not always, and not for every item. In a vacuum, one might think that having someone else take the time to gather grocery items for me and bring those items to my house seems clearly advantageous. So why don’t I always use this service? A few ideas from economics help explain why.” (09/03/25)
“When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water: The more they drink, the thirstier they get. Roman proverbs say that the more money a rich man has, the more driven and addicted he becomes to accumulating even more money. Wealth addiction is at the root of giant private prison corporations’ domination of the US government as communities take a back seat to the need for private profit. Many government leaders from both political parties share the same ‘profits over people’ ideology. The industry is preparing for explosive growth. On recent earnings calls, CoreCivic executives announced plans to triple the number of beds in their facilities within a few months. That would mean an additional $1.5 billion in revenue for the corporation, more than doubling its annual earnings.” (09/03/25)
Source: Niskanen Center
by Jenny Williams & Donald Weatherburn
“After a long period of steady decline, the U.S. imprisonment rate rose by 2 percent between 2021 and 2022. In Maine, Connecticut, Kentucky, Rhode Island, North Dakota, Minnesota, Tennessee, Colorado, and Montana, the increase in prisoner numbers exceeded 6 percent. Mississippi’s prison population over this period grew by almost 15 percent. This is enormously expensive. The cost of imprisonment in the U.S. amounts to more than $80 billion per annum — money that could otherwise be spent on imperatives like public infrastructure, education, and healthcare. … The appeal of electronic monitoring is that it provides a low-cost means of depriving offenders of their liberty and monitoring their movements.” (09/03/25)
“The Left [sic] wants to change America. Duh. I’m not talking about technological changes here. We’d all like to see improvements in technology, science, and medicine make life easier and healthier for all. But that has nothing to do with the eternal principles of virtue, morality, righteousness, or love thy neighbor as thyself. Those principles can, and should, apply as much in an industrial society as they do in an agricultural one. Industry and technology don’t justify murder, theft, adultery, etc. Virtuous principles are eternal and apply in whatever age man finds himself. But industrial ‘progress’ is not what the Left means by ‘progress.’ The main thing the Left wants is power. They want godless tyranny, not virtuous freedom to dominate and to rule. That’s the America they envision, one where, as in previous and current leftist societies, they dictate what the rest of us can and cannot say and do.” (09/03/25)
