Cold Day in da Yoop today, eh

Went out and looked at a house for someone today. 4BR, 2 story, 2Bath, 1.5 acres. $60k. Overall great condition . Life can still be affordable.

Getting groceries while I'm out here. Nice little area.

Give me back my snowman emoji!

I have thought about it, and we will temporarily allow two types of reactions that ultimately do amount to basically the same thing. What this is an analogy for is an incredibly deep and esoteric mystery; I fear that nobody here will be able to figure it out.

Cthulhu may swim slowly.... But he always swims towards the UP

I'll rag on Houghton, but at least they are able to identify that two negros buying lots of lottery tickets with a credit card count as "suspicious."

The Daily Poor has no enemies

The Daily Poor has no enemies aside from Satan and his minions

The Daily Poor has no enemies aside from Satan and his minions and Bob's Red Mill

Talked to a young (3rd grade) writing student's Mom earlier. She said something like, "it's funny how different your writing assignment was from his work in school this week."

Turns out, while I had given him a fairly bland Thanksgiving writing assignment in which he was to write about what he was thankful for, his school, down in the land of trolls, had him write an essay about how he was sorry for genociding the Injuns or something.

Remember that this is a large part of the leftward mechanism in this country. The universities are always filled to the brim with leftists of the most extreme sort. One might think this matters little or fail to see the relevance; "what does that have to do with the grade school assignment, Professor Poor?" asks the curious Poorcel who's a bit new to the camp, and still learning the basics. Of course, it's not like my 3rd grade student is learning from a lib college professor.... However, just about any profession that is seriously involved with manufacturing public opinion educating the public, be it grade school teachers or journalists, has to go through a college training program in which they have to spend years being indoctrinated by those professorial leftists. Result: the infection spreads. The professors will move farther to the left, and the cycle will repeat with a sort of generational lag.

Even if you win elections, you won't make a serious impact in the long term until, I don't know, you have tanks on Harvard Yard or something. Was that in Trump's platform? I would be lying if I said I bothered to look.

Froot Loops went with natural coloring for a time and consumers complained about the dull color. Go figure

One important thing to keep in mind is that having a gift does not automatically mean that you are in some way superior to other people. It means that you have greater potential than average, this is true. But such potential also comes with a flip side, where you have more room to go wrong, more room to err, more room to commit evil.

Commentary from Auron MacIntyre:

Charity is not a universal value throughout history and the idea of giving to those outside your kin is mostly a Christian one. At one point charity was a very personal affair, you gave directly to those in need or to an organization to which you were an active participant like a church.

The gift was particular to your community and you knew the people it helped. As society scaled up and massified this work was mostly handed over to large bureaucratic institutions which were no longer accountable to specific individuals or communities. People who wanted to feel good about fulfilling the Christian impulse for charitable giving but could not be bothered to actually participate in a community with those in need could instead donate to a third party who would touch the unclean for them.

This separation between the giver, the organization, and the community it served introduced the principle-agent problem and made these organizations subject to Robert Conquest's second and third laws. Without direct individual or community accountability the power stored in these organizations both monetarily and in social credit was up for grabs.

The intermediaries managing these organizations became less and less interested in the stated purpose of the institutions and instead became obsessed with growing the power and size of the charity, which in turn increased their own power and importance.

The best way for these managers to grow their prestige and influence was to align themselves with the direction of the political zeitgeist. By linking themselves to the state, charities could become large beneficiaries of taxpayer funds when their allies were in power and havens for personnel and policy when their enemies won elections. These non-profits could also wield their power to circumvent constitutional restrictions on formal government branches. When their friends in government needed to push for censorship in social media but were restricted by the first amendment, they could instead funnel massive amounts of money into non-profits who would apply the pressure for them, all while maintaining the moral shield of charity.

Thus non-profit charities became an integral part of the regime while maintaining the moral and legal protections their status afforded. The artificial separation of the public and private sectors that has been erected in the American consciousness also allowed them to act as an arm of the state without constitutional restrictions. This is how the Total State is born. Managers assemble power across public and private institutions which they network to circumvent the ideas of limited government and checks and balances. The personal becomes the political because every private institution is in actuality a vehicle for tyrannical state power.

When you see Mackenzie Scott donate $640 million she is not giving it to the needy, she is giving it to the regime. She is pledging her support to the Total State.

Two average concentration camp members

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for my family; for living in God's country, the beautiful UP; for all our needs having been fulfilled; for the ability to learn and grow; in this online space, for the many friendships I've developed here on Telegram, for the members of my secret book club, who are some of the realest niggas I know, for all of you here who read and engage with the nonsense I post and make the chat a great place to be; and for the Lord, who makes all of this possible, who is responsible for all the good in my life.

... Wat?