The Smart Libertarian doesn’t think voting matters. The Smart Libertarian realizes that the politic is just a TV show, with replaceable, disposable figureheads who take the fall for the failures of the actual power structures within a country. The Smart Libertarian realizes that voting is a sham, and politics almost literally does not matter. The Smart Libertarian realizes that the ritual of voting is one we undertake to instill an illusion of choice once every four years, to make the peasants think they have a say, to keep them from revolting. …

The scientific inclusion of deeply left wing thinkers in the far right YouTube ideological bubble signifies not a rise of the right, but a fundamental change in the political axes themselves, and portends even deeper change in the cultural outlook for the 21st century.

To explain why, we need to look at media echo chambers, behavioral indoctrination paths, the culture war, The Singularity, and the meaning of God in the networked superorganism into which humankind is transforming. We will need to reference a lot of prior HWFO work, and go pretty futurist and pretty weird. If that’s your thing, read on. …

Sit with me while I spin a captivating yarn of true love, Covid-19 masks, and international terrorism that spans two decades. This yarn will incorporate dramatic historical events, cutting edge medical science, proletariat freakoutery, media bias, social media “fact checker” tampering, social superoganismic behavior, and brand-new additions to the English language itself, such as “superorganismic.” And by the time we’re done with this yarn, you may finally be privy to my personal headspace on masks, which is that mask mandates as currently implemented do almost literally nothing against Covid-19, but we should all wear them anyway.

The yarn begins when I kissed my late wife at the threshold, on the winter solstice of 2001. …

This is a screenshot from a Facebook discussion I was in, in early October. Annotated.

Enough said about that.

New Material

Quitting drinking for a bit has led to insomnia, and insomnia leads to articles, so everyone wins.

The current media melee revolves around election fraud and Biden’s Covid plans. On election fraud, I find it highly likely that there was some fraud somewhere, but intensely unlikely it could have possibly changed the result of the presidential election. Put simply, you’d have to have an operation much larger than 20,000 votes worth of fraud to have stolen it. Orders of magnitude larger. Biden is president, we all should accept that as quickly as possible, although rooting out fraud is good for its own sake. …

Governor Andrew Cuomo kicked a hornet’s nest three days ago when he said that it was “good news /bad news” that Pfizer had developed a vaccine for Covid-19, because it was going to be released before Joe Biden was president.

Here’s the video:

Here’s a complete transcript:

STEPHANOPOULOS: “Let’s talk about that now with New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. Governor Cuomo, thanks for coming back again this morning. We were talking yesterday about the importance of vaccine distribution in the next two months. What do you make of this news?”

CUOMO: “Well, it’s good news/bad news. The good news is the Pfizer tests look good and we’ll have a vaccine shortly. The bad news is that it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan. The vaccine plan is very important and it’s probably the most ambitious undertaking since Covid began. Just to put it in focus, we did 10 million Covid tests in this nation over seven months scrambling doing everything we can. We now have to do 330 million vaccinations, maybe twice, my state does more testing than any state in the United States. We did 12 million tests. We have to do 20 million vaccines. And the Trump Administration is rolling out the vaccination plan and I believe it’s flawed. I believe it learns nothing from the past. They’re basically going to have the private providers do it and that’s going to leave out all sorts of communities that were left out the first time when Covid ravaged them.” …

I voted.

I’m not telling you who I voted for, but it wasn’t Biden.

Unlike basically everyone, I don’t really care who won, nor do I really care what happens with the court cases and election fraud accusations that are going on right now. As someone who doesn’t care, I figured it might be instructive for folks who do care who wins to get an outside perspective on the case that the election was stolen. So if do you care who won, this article is for you.

Time Honored Tradition

Bitching about losing and claiming an election is illegitimate and suing and recounting and re-recounting and involving the courts in the election process is a bipartisan time honored American tradition, and was going to happen this cycle no matter who won. It happened last election cycle, it happened in 2000, it happened other times too. Just let it happen. …

As promised in prior newsletters, I haven’t had much time to write anything in the past month because I’ve been settling my family in a new home with a pool, a barn, a chicken coop, and neighbors who have horses. That’s been nice, and fun, and has kept be busy pounding through a professional backlog.

But, there’s this election thing.

And, well, I had to write something. Sticking tightly within the gun policy wheelhouse, I worked with the rest of the Open Source Defense folks to put this out, which is very very long, but worth reading, and worth sharing, particularly to (A) any new gun owners you know, to get them up to speed, and (B) anyone who tells you that Biden doesn’t want to take your guns away. …

I was recently afforded the amazing opportunity to get paid to ditch Facebook.

This is an opportunity I literally could not pass up.

I’d read about this before in the news, and figured it was some sort of scam, and then they (I guess?) randomly selected me to invite me to the study, so I accepted. In order to participate, they poll you about your political opinions, turn your Facebook off, and then poll you again later. It could be that the thing is an honest way to see how Facebook exposure impacts political opinions in the run up to the election. It could also be an evil scheme to target independents and libertarian thinkers to prevent them from influencing others in the final months. But I literally don’t care, I’d probably sell my vote if I was allowed to do so, considering the politicians all sell their votes once they’re elected anyway, so I jumped at the opportunity. …