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This pfp I have is the flag of Appalachia. I was born here in Pennsylvania on the Kittatinny Ridge. I was potty trained in an outhouse took my first steps chasing chickens. I am Italian of decent. My people organized the unions that fought for better pay n conditions for the coal miners and steel workers of Appalachia. We came from the Appenine mountains in the old world.

We are deep in these mountains raising our children trying to preserve the warrior culture we found when we arrived. We felt at home here because we are like all mountain people warriors. The public school system have been trying to push the consumerist goyslop ridden office drone lifestyle onto our kids. I have personally been pushing for an autonomy for Appalachia. It's hard though because the programming goes deep. Not sure what to do.

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Oct 16Liked by Theophilus Chilton

"For many folks, Hanlon’s Razor has been doing a lot of heavy lifting."

IMO, Hanlon's Razor is a CIA PSYOP, identical to "conspiracy theory".

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Oct 16Liked by Theophilus Chilton

The only essay I have yet written at Substack outlines how Hanlon's Razor is a logical fallacy. It's yet another appeal to simplicity, and complexity (or lack thereof) has nothing to do with the likelihood of any particular conclusion being the correct one. The correct conclusion is the one backed by the evidence.

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Exactly. I only mention Hanlon's Razor because a lot of folks have been trying to fall back on it. Personally, I tend to assume that the government is acting maliciously unless proven otherwise.

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Always attribute to malice what has been going on too long to be explained as incompetence.

Also, Robert Heinlein was decades before Hanlon saying the same thing.

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They will prevail. The “govment” is now so heavy that the gravitational pull is creating a mass that is irreversible, sucking everything in its universe into the preverbial black hole. Those outside this constellation of horribles will carry on, the AWFUL’s and their castrated husbands and their 1.75 children of white suburbia…???? Well they ain’t looking so good..they are finished, they just don’t know it yet. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

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19th century European romanticism idolized the folk. For example the Grimm brothers went around collecting peasant stories. America doesn’t have a multigenerational peasantry, so for intellectuals Appalachia kind of fills in.

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The need to push ever harder on the now-veritable-myth of election integrity is the legitimacy issue you mention. If this mythology cannot be sustained, the regime truly loses its legitimacy, since in the US, it has never claimed to come from anywhere else (e.g., no kingly right related to inheritance, no 'Mandate of Heaven', etc.)

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America First Means Hawaii, Iowa, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina Before Ukraine and Gaza https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/america-first-means-hawaii-iowa-texas

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They won't , because if they had any motivation to, they would have already. Your nation is lost. Irretrievable.

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I feel like heritage doesn’t actually play much of a role in character formation unless it’s directly influencing your life, or if you make a conscious decision to retrieve it. You basically are whatever your living ancestors are. So if grandpa fucks up and sets his posterity on a negative spiral, it doesn’t matter how many generations preceding him were upstanding virtuous men (and vice versa)

If ethnogenesis is real, are the people who have been emasculated by FDR onward even the same people as those Scots-Irish frontiersmen?

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