Recent content by LordsFire

If lockdowns are not going to work on vulnerable people because they don't live in bubbles, how the heck are they supposed to work on everybody else, who also do not live in bubbles? If the basic issue is that people are incapable of following basic public health instructions, why are you in...

Are you actually reading what I'm writing? Of course the disease was real, but the response was absurd. Never before in history has there been a lockdown like there was for Covid, and it wasn't even effective. It was used as a political tool; a practical medical measure would have been...

...You mean do things like push fear over an epidemic to absurd ends, so that they can shut down the whole economy and wreck lives in order to justify mass mail-in voting? You mean like impeach a president on fabricated charge repeatedly? You mean like conspire to conduct groundless...

...Democrats are willing to constantly, perpetually upset the status quo, so long as it gives them more power and destroys people they hate, IE those who would keep power away from them, or remind them that they are, in fact, evil.

Go look further back in the thread, or look through the news. These weren't just empty claims made by posters here, it was specific commitments made by specific people in positions to do so, like heads of banks, Saudi royalty, etc, and the people posting in-thread included links showing such.

As memey as this is, the correct framing is: "When a burglar breaks into my house, it means they value my stuff more than their life." Don't let the leftists get away with sneakily sliding in the implicit assumption that when someone breaks in, you *know* that they are 'just' there for your stuff.

On the contrary, this is exactly what the left has signed up for, again and again. They keep giving the shocked Pikachu face when the promised chocolate sundae turns out to be a turd sandwich, but then go right on and ignore the right when we warn them that yes, the next chocolate sundae is not...

At the absolute minimum there was a huge communication failure. More likely, there are at least some people being protected. It's almost certain that Trump himself isn't on 'the list,' because if he was, the Biiden administration would have put that out, at a minimum as a desperation move as...

And again, the sheer degree of your ignorance shows itself. It isn't a few generals, it's the officer in charge of the armory, in charge of the third shift watch on the ship's bridge, a single engineer placed to 'accidentally' bork up a missile cruiser's drive shaft, etc, etc. Your sheer...

So you're going to pay all of your soldiers millions? Or do you think the enemy tries to bribe every single one of your soldiers, rather than focus a large amount of wealth on subverting a key few?

I am impressed. The level of your willful blindness is even greater than I had thought. If your soldiers are loyal only to their paycheck, then when someone offers them a bigger paycheck, especially a much bigger paycheck, they will betray you. Funny how nations that actually do what you are...

Getting a system where productive work and investment being rational actions requires strong moral character. Morally corrupt social leaders and government officials guarantee that the only way to get ahead is to be corrupt yourself, because if you don't become part of the network of bribery and...

Real life is not an RTS video game where having the best macro just makes you win. Having the best macro is a phenomenal advantage that you want to have if you at all can, but if you sacrifice too much to support it, you're going to have things such as rampant crime, corruption, and eventually...

And as always, the solution to strengthening the economy is mostly around removing absurd regulatory barriers and cutting taxes. Plenty you can do to strengthen the economy without having large quantities of legal migration driving down wages, much less illegal migration.

Of course it's trustworthy! If true, it vindicates many of Iconoclast's most dearly-held beliefs, so that means it must be trustworthy, doesn't it?