I have spent my life in the areas the elite never go. From south side Chicago, to Eastern New Mexico, and now Iowa, places where if one of he Uplifted show up, it is because of engine trouble.
However, they are buying up HUGE tracts of farm land. Our food supply is now in their tender hands, and they don't like meat.
But take heart brothers and sisters! These same places are the ones that still have a strong degree of freedom and authority issues of the "you can make all the rules want, I don't have to follow them."
Your SFR/social credit scenario is kind of the missing piece of what James Howard Kunstler rhapsodized with his "New Urbanism" back in the late 'oughts (maybe he still does, but I couldn't be bothered with his broken-record squawking any longer). Everyone would give up their "puerile notions of liberty" and their "Happy Motoring" (Kunstler hates cars and suburbs the way we hate the Uplifted) and move into "livable, walkable, bikeable" communities.
Essentially they'd be Bauhaus blocks with gingerbread trim and latte stands. I used to argue back that sooner or later the gingerbread would start to weather and the latte stands would close down, and what would remain would be Cabrini-Green with better marketing.
"American Exceptionalism is our Last Best Weapon" Wait, wait, what was our 3rd, 5th, and 6th-best weapons? I was doodling in my notebook and wasn't paying attention as usual.
My thought on the corporations taking over (and being taken over) is we have to counter infiltrate. Organize with like minded, freedom and traditional American values holding fellows and buy in. Bloc vote your interests on the board and stymie or remove the people and groups trying to shove this down our throats. It's not quick, easy, or simple but it's what the other side is doing and we can't keep giving ground or failing to show up. Wrangle a few normies in if you can, they don't pay attention and they're not especially bright but they have numbers and you need that in a system like ours. Victory is possible, America came in late to both World Wars but if you are dedicated and focused you can retake ground and win.
Concerning the buying up of real-estate, I'm a bit puzzled, as what it reeks of is the current practice of industries getting government to cede them control of entire swaths of the economy, at the expense of other industries. The first example would be Obamacare, which mandated that people spend exorbitant amounts of money on healthcare, at the expense of other industries...and the latest is housing/rental, where costs are being pushed up, at the expense of other industries.
To that end, with what Blackrock is spending on houses, hijacking the housing/rental industry, to where does this end? We're facing skyrocketing inflation, but we're somehow supposed to have a perpetual, endless stream of money to buy all the other things that have shot up in price, AND spend an insane amount of cash on rentals as well?
I have spent my life in the areas the elite never go. From south side Chicago, to Eastern New Mexico, and now Iowa, places where if one of he Uplifted show up, it is because of engine trouble.
However, they are buying up HUGE tracts of farm land. Our food supply is now in their tender hands, and they don't like meat.
But take heart brothers and sisters! These same places are the ones that still have a strong degree of freedom and authority issues of the "you can make all the rules want, I don't have to follow them."
Your SFR/social credit scenario is kind of the missing piece of what James Howard Kunstler rhapsodized with his "New Urbanism" back in the late 'oughts (maybe he still does, but I couldn't be bothered with his broken-record squawking any longer). Everyone would give up their "puerile notions of liberty" and their "Happy Motoring" (Kunstler hates cars and suburbs the way we hate the Uplifted) and move into "livable, walkable, bikeable" communities.
Essentially they'd be Bauhaus blocks with gingerbread trim and latte stands. I used to argue back that sooner or later the gingerbread would start to weather and the latte stands would close down, and what would remain would be Cabrini-Green with better marketing.
Oh, and I was in Vegas last in December of 2019 for work. Enjoyed a burger, watched the water show, and drove to Arizona.
Odd vibe. Not one I liked. Stayed one night on Tropicana Ave (best Hampton Inn I have EVER stayed in) and felt like I was camping in Gomora
"American Exceptionalism is our Last Best Weapon" Wait, wait, what was our 3rd, 5th, and 6th-best weapons? I was doodling in my notebook and wasn't paying attention as usual.
My thought on the corporations taking over (and being taken over) is we have to counter infiltrate. Organize with like minded, freedom and traditional American values holding fellows and buy in. Bloc vote your interests on the board and stymie or remove the people and groups trying to shove this down our throats. It's not quick, easy, or simple but it's what the other side is doing and we can't keep giving ground or failing to show up. Wrangle a few normies in if you can, they don't pay attention and they're not especially bright but they have numbers and you need that in a system like ours. Victory is possible, America came in late to both World Wars but if you are dedicated and focused you can retake ground and win.
Concerning the buying up of real-estate, I'm a bit puzzled, as what it reeks of is the current practice of industries getting government to cede them control of entire swaths of the economy, at the expense of other industries. The first example would be Obamacare, which mandated that people spend exorbitant amounts of money on healthcare, at the expense of other industries...and the latest is housing/rental, where costs are being pushed up, at the expense of other industries.
To that end, with what Blackrock is spending on houses, hijacking the housing/rental industry, to where does this end? We're facing skyrocketing inflation, but we're somehow supposed to have a perpetual, endless stream of money to buy all the other things that have shot up in price, AND spend an insane amount of cash on rentals as well?