Ownership is to be understood as a hierarchical chain. If your model is just "this is mine," you're missing the bigger picture. This channel is mine. But in a higher sense, it belongs to the supreme French homosexual Du Rove, who can shut it down if he so pleases.

Your son's room is his... at least in a sense. He can do what he wants with it! If he wants to decorate his room with sodomy flags, he can!

But in an even higher sense, it is yours. You own the house, and so have an even higher authority over his room than he does. If you say "no sodomy flags!" your rule supercedes his choice.

But in an even higher sense, your house is owned by USG. It can take your home whenever it wants; you only own it because it allows you to, because it has declared that it has endorsed and will protect your ownership. You own your home through it. If the government declares that you must allow your son to decorate his room with flags of sodomy, then its rule supercedes yours, and the flags go up.

And at the highest level of ownership, we find God, who has ultimate sovereignty over all. All on Earth belongs to Him. Everything the state owns: His. Everything you own: His. Everything your son owns: His. And while He grants temporary and limited ownership over His property, He expects that property to be cared for, and those who fail in this responsibility will be rightly condemned for it.

A line from Epictetus comes to mind:

Never say about anything, "I’ve lost it," but rather, "I’ve given it back." Your son has died? He has been given back. Your wife has died? She has been given back. "My farm has been taken from me." Well, that too has been given back. "Yes, but the man who took it is a rogue." What does it matter to you through what person the one who gave it to you demanded it back? So long as he entrusts it to you, take care of it as something that isn’t your own, as travellers treat an inn.

One of the important moments in the decline of the west occurred in England in 1607, when Edward Coke declared that the King is subject to the law. Once this poison was imbibed, it was truly over for England.

No food stamps today... Guess we go hungry this month.

Please definitely don't send more hate messages that include a small donation to help me put food on the table.

Pretty interesting critique of current right wing strategy, with labeling antifa as a terrorist organization as an example, including what real execution of power against Antifa might look like.

Curtis harshly condemns the Revised Standard Version of the Bible.

1. Constantly interrupting.
2. Confusing being loud for being right.
3. Laughing off serious topics.
4. Only surrounding themselves with 'yes' people.
5. Never admitting when they're confused.
6. Thinking being busy equates to productivity.
7. Quoting things they've never actually read.
8. Believing every headline they read.
9. Making instant assumptions.
10. Refusing to ask questions.
11. Avoiding books entirely.

Wow, I exhibit ALL OF THESE. Ahahaha. That's pretty awesome. As Plato said, "I'm the wisest because I know I'm the dumbest." Can't wait for the comments to tell me how right I am.

Excellent talk on the Civil War.

The naivety on display here is something else.

Yeah, man, we're America, the great nation! We have, like, the Constitution, the greatest foundational document ever written! Once the truth comes out, things will get better!

They could just buy a modern house, but instead they feel the need to buy something better and destroy it.

GUYS I'M GONNA NEED AN EARLY LIFE CHECK ON THIS YARVIN GUY!