Hyenas, Hydras, and Hilarity Ensues
Add some color to your revolution
UPDATE 11JUN25: completely forgot to mention Leo XIV showing his true colors, not to mention his organization operating some of the most active NGOs trafficking humans across borders.
Somewhere in my vast collection of digital media, I have a group of books I’ve carried around for decades now: The Poor Man’s James Bond, and The Anarchist’s Cookbook. Be careful with the latter. I’m of the opinion that the FBI published it in the early 1970s, for reasons only the FBI knows. I think a number of the recipes are deliberately incomplete or incorrect to provide entertainment for investigators cleaning up the messes.
That said, since the early days of the Marxist/Socialist movements in the 1920s, and well into the Weather Underground, SLA and similar groups of the 1960s and 1970s, rich privileged trust-funded kids have been the primary drivers behind these groups. Like mafia bosses, the rich kids kept the dirty work at arm’s length, legitimizing themselves behind charitable and non-governmental organizations.
These little sweethearts converted universities into revolutionary think tanks and recruiting stations. They parleyed their exclusive degrees and pedigrees into high-level jobs, where they could influence hiring, investment, legal and political cronyism, and essentially steer society to favor themselves.
These little privileged darlings built up networks of taxpayer-funded operations, using corporate cut-outs and special grant writing circles. For instance, a group ostensibly promoting 2SLGBTIA+ interests would hang a shingle in Ghana, apply for a multi-million dollar grant to liberate non-existent queers in Ghana, then launder the funds through a web of interrelated “service” organizations into a global slush fund to be used for disruptive activities we might generally call “color revolutions”.
Another example? Do you really think that superhero movies with wall-to-wall Marxist ideology messaging and laughable special effects costs $400 million to produce? Certainly not. Vast amounts of money are being paid to animation farms in Myanmar, Vietnam and the Philippines, where just pennies are spent on actual product, while the rest is funnelled through various layers of entities and into the global slush funds.
To what end, I hear the astute reader ask? Every instance of Socialism that has ever arisen involves authoritarian control over society, a small inner circle of super-elites who own and control everything, and the power of life and death over everything these pathetic shrivelled individuals survey.
When it comes to media circuses like the Los Angeles riots (most recent edition), folks need to realize these are not organic populist events. They are carefully planned around some trigger event (immigration raid), with the media pumping out pre-arranged messages, trained agitators bused in and paid, integrated with at least some aspects of local power structures (mayor, police, governor, etc.), complete with pre-arranged Kodak moments to get dramatic images of “the Great Struggle” against oppression.
None of it, at any level, location, or participation, is real in any way shape or form. It is all staged to support a narrative of underprivileged masses being abused and hounded by an authoritarian State. In reality, it is the authoritarians and the privileged few who are running the scam to promote themselves as the solution to the problem they created, thus channelling ultimate power to themselves.
But why, the clever reader asks. Because when you are a privileged spawn, who has everything handed to them—including wealth and privilege—life is pretty boring without some big challenge, like taking over the world, to play with.
This may seem overly simplistic, even stupid, but observe history. It is always the children of privilege who are the greatest tyrants. Oh sure, some dynasties manage to produce a sense of noblesse oblige, but for the most part, the spawn prefer to amass power and wealth for its own sake, like collecting stamps or glass figurines. For them, the wealth and power are meaningless trinkets, whose accumulation only represents abstractions like money and control.
You and I are nothing but status markers to be collected and stored in a warped game of global Monopoly.
Coming back to where we started, every tactic you see used in the various riots and revolutions have been published for decades in the aforementioned books. Every motive has been known since ancient times. The NGOs and corporate cut-outs are simply puppetry and shadows. There is nothing new, only rediscovery.
We owe these people nothing, and they have earned nothing from us. We have no obligation to them, and they certainly and obviously feel no obligation to us. What they really need is to be taken behind the barn and given a good switching. In fact, the worst punishment they could possibly receive is to be irrelevant and ignored.
Suppose Bill Gates flew into town and no one greeted him, no one took his calls, and no one cared if he lived or died. Suppose the same thing happened to the Soros clan, or the Schwabs, or the Rockefellers. Suppose they woke up one day and all their wealth and power couldn’t get them a cut in line at the donut shop?
We have the power to change the world by simply changing what we care about and pay attention to. That may seem ridiculously simplistic, but when you start thinking about it, it really is that easy.
Stop giving those people our power, and they will have none to use against us.
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Though a bit plodding in places, The Riot Club (2014) is probably one of the better dramatizations of today’s screed. The world really is nothing more than a bunch of bored rich kids playing with daddy’s empire.
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You say it exactly as I have preached it to my circle of family and friends for several years. If the majority stopped paying attention to these people and instead told them to go jump in the lake, they would have no power.
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