Monthly Archives: June 2023

On SCOTUS striking down stuff

Plenty of people in the media and on Twitter are bemoating that the SCOTUS is busy striking down current Administration acts, apparently ignorant that they are doing so for good reason.

There are ways where you get stuff done in a society, without passing legislation:

It’s called either “dictatorship” or “lawlessness”, and unless you like pain, suffering and things falling apart in various ways, neither thing is something you want for yourself or others.

The administration’s activities are struck down because they are unlawful, they know it full well, but they are trying to sell them to you still, because they want your vote. (Nancy Pelosi has said as much on her own accord. Biden also said so himself while on the campaign trail in 2019).

The tide of Capitalism

The eventual extreme of current-day capitalism staying its course is that everything – absolutely everything in human life – becomes a commodity up for trade. Have Facebook’s unrestrained piecemeal sales of your most private data not yet woken you up to this?

Many people both right and center keep bemoaning the undesirability of any and all socialism, but really, you should question what hope you have in this world of not being turned into a canned product, if there is /no socialism whatsoever/ to stem the flood of commodification?

Sankte Hans, the 23rd of June

Today, Denmark celebrates the marking of Midsummer under the local name and tradition of Skt. Hans. Unfortunately, the countryside is too dry to celebrate with the usual bonfires due to the fire hazard, so the celebrations are more “relaxed” for many. Few or no bonfires in any case.

I am happy to say that I’ve managed to reclaim my old domain Liberterran.org which I gave up on some years back – the ones that snatched it up have released it, so back into my fold it goes, albeit with /some/ changes to its original Paleo-liberal/Individualist-anarchist ideology. :o)

Happy Midsummer, all!

Reminder in re Freedom of Speech

I’ll have you commit to mind, that the people who are dismissive or unsupportive of the freedom of speech and freedom of expression of others, rarely have anything of import or insight to say.

Was everything regarding statecraft and jurisprudence up to these people, liberal democracy would collapse into belligerent recriminations and violence in a year.