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Last May, I wrote an essay entitled “Weaponizing Money.” In it, I argue that racially conscious whites should act with urgency when it comes to money, and earn as much of it as possible. I dispel any notion that this is selling out — as long as the money can somehow contribute to the cause and not a person’s expensive lifestyle. I also argue that it is possible to make a lot of money and still be passionate about what you do. Any white person supporting white advocacy should, at a minimum, accustom themselves to living as cheaply as is reasonably possible and being as generous as reasonably possible.
This was more of a high-concept article which, beyond suggesting a general form of lawfare against our enemies, was short on actual ideas. How does one (or many) weaponize their money? I was hoping that some of our people who understand finance would read the article and come up with ideas of their own.
Well, the events of the past couple of weeks involving GameStop have shown that some of our people have come up with a way to weaponize money (whether or not they had read my article remains to be seen). Karl Thorburn offers a great rundown of the events. The TV Guide summary goes as follows:
Decentralized white investors buy stock in gaming company after mostly Jewish hedge funds had shorted it. The whites refuse to sell. The Jews lose billions.
Now, as far as I understand it, this was more like an encounter battle than a planned attack. In military parlance, encounter battles occur when opposing armies are unaware of their proximity to each other until it’s too late not to engage in battle. In this case, the white investors, who were part of a Reddit community, first saw that GameStop might have been a good bet. But after they realized that they were spoiling a rather foolhardy short set up by hedge funds like Melvin Capital, they pounced, gobbling up as many shares as they could just to watch the hedge funds suffer. It was pure spite, and it was beautiful.
Now, what if the next time something like this happens, it’s not an encounter battle but a deliberate ambush? What if we had a handful of knowledgeable people working together whose very purpose is to ruthlessly yet legally target vulnerable enemy actors one at a time? What if such people had a decent-sized war chest at their disposal as well a thousand or so dedicated supporters willing to part with a few bucks every month just to keep the operation going?
Wouldn’t that be something.
I cannot say I know a whole lot about the stock market, but it seems reasonable to presume that if something like the GameStop short squeeze could happen at the spur of the moment, then something similar could happen by design. Why not?
And if there is no good reason why not, then I cannot see any reason why market-savvy dissidents should not organize to make the world of finance less lucrative for our enemies. Perhaps some of our more well-known dissidents can establish a network for these people and help them raise money. That is, weaponized money — money invested with the primary purpose not of enriching ourselves but of harming our adversaries. How many people reading this article would be willing to part with $100 per month if it would help push Democrat Party billionaire donors towards bankruptcy?
This seems to be a better alternative than litigation. Litigation, as we all know, relies on judges. And judges, as we all know, are members of the elite and are corruptible. The fact the Supreme Court, with three Trump appointees, refused to even hear President Trump’s case while he was still in office should shatter whatever faith we had left in our judiciary. But if that isn’t enough, consider the following:
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As much as I am rooting for Glen Allen and his suit against the Southern Poverty Law Center, I am not exactly hopeful that he will prevail. His suit is extremely expensive, his enemies are much better funded than he is, and they know how to drag the process out indefinitely. It’s already been over two years since Allen filed suit, and the process is still ongoing.
Most convincingly for me, however, was Jared Taylor’s tactical retreat in his recent lawsuit against Twitter. In December 2017, Twitter had permanently banned his and American Renaissance’s Twitter accounts without warning or explanation. Taylor then took Twitter to court, claiming censorship and violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL). Despite having gained the sympathy of Judge Harold Kahn in the Superior Court of California, who initially ordered the case to proceed, an unusual tactic employed by Twitter forced Kahn to throw the suit out.
What then happened baffled both our legal team and Judge Kahn. Ordinarily, when a judge orders a case to move forward, the defendant — in this case, Twitter — has no choice but to fight it out. If it loses, it can appeal. Instead, Twitter petitioned the California Court of Appeal for a writ of mandate and immediate review, something so unusual it left even our appellate practice lawyers scratching their heads. Twitter claimed that, win or lose, merely to have to face a suit of this kind would cause it irreparable damage. Twitter persuaded Facebook, Google, Reddit, Snap (Snapchat), TripAdvisor, Yelp, and others to file a joint brief, agreeing with Twitter that letting our suit go forward would “open a Pandora’s box of litigation burdens and claims of liability against providers.”
The California Court of Appeal didn’t even give our lawyers a chance to reply. It issued a ruling “commanding” Judge Kahn to reverse his original finding that we had a valid case against Twitter based on California’s Unfair Competition Law. When a superior court orders a trial judge to reverse himself, he doesn’t have much choice, and Judge Kahn did as he was told. Our lawyers asked him to reconsider, but on March 8, 2019, he issued his final ruling, in which he threw out our UCL grounds for suing Twitter.
So, basically, the California Court of Appeal sacrificed truth and justice because Big Tech told them to. If the Taylor suit had continued, it would have unleashed so much litigation against Big Tech that soon there would have been no more Big Tech. They are guilty, after all. On an even playing field against someone like Jared Taylor, they would lose. But, oligarchs being oligarchs, they manipulated the courts to protect their interests.
Not that we should completely abandon people like Glen Allen and others who are suing evil institutions like the SPLC. But why should dissidents throw good money after bad when the judicial system is so clearly rigged against us?
The stock market, on the other hand, is more like the Wild West — it’s further removed from the black-robed mafia of our judiciary, and whoever has a quick draw will likely draw blood. Yes, our elites can change the rules to suit them when it suits them, but this will force them to scramble and could make the system more unwieldly and less profitable for our enemies. Further, by being entirely invested in the stock market, they have a lot more to lose than we do. All of this we could exploit if we work together.
One final thought about weaponizing money — it’s not a new thing. Jews have been doing it for centuries. What was known as the kahal in Eastern Europe around two hundred years ago was a formal Jewish sub-government, through which Jews could govern their affairs beyond the reaches of gentile state control. This included separate courts, laws, and tax collection. Most notoriously, however, the kahal was the weapon Jews employed to ensure economic dominance over gentiles — to ruin their gentile competitors, essentially. The kahal collected communal funds from individual Jews, and then would use these funds to support Jewish merchants as they were attempting to undersell their gentile counterparts. These gentiles, of course, had no such advantage and would soon be run out of business. [1]
When this sort of thing happens often enough, and over a long enough period of time, it should come as no surprise to find Jews dominating many financial institutions today, including the stock market.
I understand that this is an insidious and dishonorable form of warfare. Sides are not wearing uniforms and declaring themselves for this nation or that. Men are not contesting a piece of land like proper soldiers. This kind of fighting is not honest. It’s akin to slipping poison into an enemy’s coffee rather than challenging him to a duel. But this is the war the Jews have been waging for a very long time, and they are quite good at it. Their success proves it.
Sadly, the only way for whites to be able to resist and ultimately regain control over our own nations is by beating the Jews at their own game. We need to join forces, get organized, and weaponize our money.
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[1] I have two sources regarding this nefarious use of the kahal.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries (London: Black House Publishing, 2015), p. 165 (Emphasis added):
IV. Plans to ruin a Romanian merchant.
1. Flanking the Romanian either with one or two Jewish merchants.
2. Selling merchandise below cost, the loss being made up by special funds given by the Kahal. This is how Romanian merchants were ruined one by one.
To these can be added:
(a) The commercial superiority of the Jew, resulting from a commercial practice much older than that of the Romanian.
(b) The Jew’s superiority competing under the Kahal’s protection. The Romanian enjoys no protection from the Romanian state but only miseries imposed by the local authorities corrupted by the Jews. The Romanian does not fight the next door Jew but the Kahal, and that is why one readily understands that the individual will be crushed if he fights the coalition.[/ind]
John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 3 (Emphasis added):
Another recurrent theme in Russian discussions was the supposed continuation of this formal communal leadership, the kahal, abolished in 1844, as an illegal underground structure. Judeophobe commentators claimed that Jews raised petty trade, middleman activity, usury and tavern-keeping, seen as quintessentially parasitic forms of living at the expense of others, to art forms. In this perspective, it was the mutual support provided by the kahal that ensured that Jews were more than a match for any competitor, even the arch-exploiter of the Russian village, the kulak.
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The left is convinced that judges can never be wrong, because they are only interpreting the law. And those who don’t follow a left wing interpretation are interpreting it wrong. It’s insane to believe these people are infallible. I had this argument with a professor years ago, and it struck me how unwilling people are to believe that judges can be wrong, especially Supreme Court judges. So many avenues to power are lost because of one main problem: the education system is a den of traitorous vipers, that churns out fifth column after fifth column into society. If at all possible, Whites need to home school their children. Weaponize your money, and weaponize the education system against itself. Also, good old-fashioned boycotts never hurt. I would say give no money to churches that are enslaved to Israel worship. A person who isn’t indoctrinated from a young age at their church to believe that Israel and jews must be protected at all costs is much more likely to question why the U.S. government props up Israel, and also why a people who control so many levers of power need to be “protected”.
Quite. In the nineteen-sixties young comedians would satirise out of touch judges. But now the judiciary is dominated by progressives, jurists such as the late Ruth Bader-Ginsburg can be promoted into secular saints.
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Consider consumer credit to be a vice, a vice that one does not practice. Pay cash or do without.
Thank you for naming names and explicitly framing this article as such. Your reference to and notes on the Kahal are much appreciated.
For those of you who have never searched for or even given a thought to personal finance and/or the stock market as it relates to you, start with something like “Personal Finance for Dummies” by Eric Tyson (on Amazon, etc.) and its accompanying titles with more detail. Or go to thrift shops and search for such titles. You must start somewhere. I’m a book fanatic, but I suppose all this introductory info is online as well. Start today and don’t put it off; the new administration in this country, which is ‘not friendly’ to us is running full-blast ahead with the bit in its mouth. Our old-fashioned peaceful protests are not working anymore, and certainly not our Charlottesville or WDC Capitol antics are never, EVER to be repeated. So go underground and start digging for gold. And keep in touch, but do remember that probably the ACLU, JDL, etc., keep a close watch on us — so actually we are each on our own. But we definitely have a focus now.
Whatever you do, don’t get involved in any kind of stock market games.
The game is rigged, and only a fool plays a rigged game with his own money. The banks aren’t going to be beaten by a couple of autistic nerds by moving numbers into right places. Stop indulging in such fantasies. The nerds won’t change the world, never have, and never will. Nobody will change the world in fact. We do not fight for a future for nerds, but for a future for men. All these kinds of fantastical pseudo-dark-web cultish futile rebellions were kind of prankish in the 2016, and they sure made a lot of satisfying headlines (the media whipping up the panic for their own aims, not ours), but now it’s time to live up to the seriousness of the moment that we are facing. Cut the jokes and stop giggling and fooling around and making headlines, or else join the ranks with Richard Spencer.
Do you have any examples about how we should be moving forward ?
At the day’s end many of the Reddit guys incurred losses because their broker Robin Hood was indirectly tied to the hedge funds and after a certain point simply refused to execute further buy orders for GameStop shares. Still, it was satsifying to see the big ((players)) mess their diapers for several days.
What exactly is your idea for helping our readers to gain some financial knowledge and learn how to handle money in order to save enough to maybe get married to a nice lady, buy a house for her and the 3+ children they ought to be having to increase our happy gang and still have enough left over to finance a cruel old age that looms for us all. Oh, and also bring down the Jewish Cabal that runs the planet, and also finance our work here at CC?
Learning the ‘ins and outs’ of the stock market can indeed help increase your monetary ‘take’. It is true that just saving money is wonderful, but it won’t finance your bigger dreams. I made ‘the stock market’ my ‘hobby’ at about age 40, and I’ve made some money and lost some money, but overall, I am richer than I would have been by just saving. Please don’t discourage people from learning about how the world of finance works. I’d be one unhappy old lady if I didn’t have my stock market knowledge here in my old age. I place a couple bets a week (day-trading) and earn a little on the side to supplement SS, Sometimes, a lot more than a little.
So, I am not criticizing you for warning younger people not to hook all their dreams to ‘The Big Kill’ in the stock market, but I really ask what do you suggest we do to at least keep CC afloat and make life better financially for our readers .
Limit credit, support White owned and operated business. Don’t eat at non-White restaurants. Home school. Those with the funds, consider helping White students with trades and those who could be potential leaders in communities through their study of politics or law. Don’t give to non-White charities or churches who support Israel. Encourage trading skills instead of money. Develop White communities and sporting groups for support and exchanges of ideas. Don’t sell properties to non-Whites in majority White communities.
Just a few off the top of my head, I’m sure other readers have many more. I enjoyed both essays on Weaponizing Money.
All your suggestions are good, Stephen Phillips.
When you see a pro-White advocate under a new attack, donate to them while you are still angry about it. It often isn’t wise or even possible to make a serious donation at an unplanned moment, so make a token donation when that’s the case. Just increase by one the number of people that the pro-White advocate can see standing up for them, and making a material contribution.
As with your suggestions, and those of the excellent Spencer Quinn, the primary benefit is to our fellow Whites, and there is a secondary benefit to ourselves. We should try to become people of a better type: the type that stands up for our race with practical action whenever our White brothers and sisters are attacked.
As Whites in an anti-White social order, we can develop too much learned helplessness, and too much paralysis by analysis. We need more heart, more spirit, more thumos.
Money is an ideal tool to change how we act habitually and thus to mend our characters. Using money strategically is a small, safe, useful thing that can begin at any time and can be done repeatedly. A training tool with these characteristics is not to be slighted.
“Any white person supporting white advocacy should, at a minimum, accustom themselves to living as cheaply as is reasonably possible and being as generous as reasonably possible.”
Golden words.
“We need to join forces, get organized, and weaponize our money.”
Golden words.
To be clear, I am advocating the strategic, pro-White use of money as a tool for moral self-improvement, but I am not doing so in the spirit of Jordan Peterson, who might suggest that every time you see your fellow Whites attacked and your blood rises and you want to act you would do better to divert your potential energy into cleaning your room instead. I want the opposite of the endlessly self-grooming, self-preening “individualist” who scorns “tribalism.” I want us Whites to use money (even in token amounts) as a tool to take baby steps toward a more Spartan attitude. That is, one habitually strengthens oneself as an individual, in order to become a worthwhile contributor to group action, which should serve the survival and the flourishing of our race.
“… I want the opposite of the endlessly self-grooming, self-preening “individualist” who scorns “tribalism.”
Indeed. Jordan Peterson is a false prophet who I liken to jewish money changers. Additionally, I am wary of someone with a history of mental illness and drug addiction advocating self reliance. He has nothing to offer.
This is a great list and a wonderful starting point. Especially helping White students study personal finance, which is only taught in about 30% -40% of our schools; and helping White students to become community leaders, and guiding them to careers in law, political science, and I would add banking and finance. All this helps break up the lock-hold the Jewish crews have on banking world-wide. I also am especially concerned about the immense amounts of American money going to churches and other NGO’s and Non-Profit charities that try to save the whole Third World — ‘all the poor starving children’ and ‘the sad oppressed people’. There is no end to them, and even our piles of money can’t bail them out. Our own people are suffering while our charitable gift money goes flying overseas! Just because some White people are vastly rich, doesn’t mean the rest of us are. But this list in the post above is a good beginning to turn this tide in our favor!
I’m an agnostic, but I was raised firmly Christian. I strongly believe that, even for Christians, the very most ethical thing to do with one’s money is first, to use it to breed more whites (ie, have more children than you might think you can afford), and second, to support only prowhite causes (whatever aids in white preservation that is not fundamentally evil according to correct Christian moral theology, not contemporary Luciferian PC crap calling itself “Christian”). Until the churches have been ideologically disinfected, they should not be supported.
This was an interesting article with a number of original angles. I read that Mormons in the west used to form syndicates and buy up land to outcompete non Mormon farmers. This behavior led to the religious conflict and massacres that happened.
I have a feeling if you tried to organize anything like that the sec and fbi shock troops would quickly round you up like Martha Stewart and that other kid.
A couple of ideas worth exploring – an ethno-coin and an asset-backed currency. For an ethno-coin to work, you need a community of users, but with whites increasingly marginalized and locked out of the economy, it is feasible for such an innovation to emerge from necessity. An ethno-coin could be distributed as a shareholder’s dividend (linked to the number of ethny using it), but the algorithms necessary to avoid inflation could be challenging to devise. The asset backing an asset-backed currency could be energy-generation, computing power, farm produce (number of cows, chickens, gallons of milk, bushels of wheat, etc), or any other public good directly linked to the real economy. Energy would be the obvious base unit for any asset-backed currency.
All other projects in the Wall Street economy are speculative, and while I agree they can be weaponized, we would be wise to first build real infrastructure and create things of intrinsic value.
The idea of “ethnocoin” is quite interesting, but it leaves me with so many questions. For one it presumes whites or just ethnically aware whites not losing access to crypto or full on draconian internet access regulation which I would not take entirely for granted. If recent months have taught us anything, it should show that nothing is off the table in the effort to eradicate our ethnie.
Bypassing that, would this coin only be exchangeable in our ethnic group? Should it me limited to the ‘racially aware/ethnically positive’ or otherwise? Or would it otherwise somehow be linked to the etnic group by being based on assets we hold/produce/yield a return for us?
Bottom line, I’m asking what is this concept? Have you thought more about it or has anyone issued a paper considering such a thing?
I am seating with deep sense of disbelief the JOURNALISTS seat back in gross indifference almost unbelivable amnesia. CNN NYTimes, Waspost…one day report that one of the Capitol Guards was bludgeon to death with a fire extinguisher by a Trump suppoted. NOW it has been stablish tatvthe guard few hours after the Capitol Event was fine and healthy..the guard even called his relatives..on his cell phone. In other words the socalled news meadia were LYING FABRICATIN A FICTIONAL PHONY FAKE STORY as many other stories…and at thaat very minute ALL journalists with any self respect, with any dignity, ethical ounces left in them should just go on a STRIKE WALK OUT, QUIT EN MASS before their capitalists financiers destroy their profession irrevocably…
Another excellent article Mr. Quinn.
Like you and probably 95% of the dissident right, I was thrilled to see the short squeeze pulled off by the buyers of GameStop. This was truly beating the Jews at their own game. To make an analogy with basketball, it was like the movie “Hoosiers” where a tiny white school in rural Indiana won the state championship beating the march larger high school with lots of blacks. The movie was based on a true story. It really happened. I just wonder if anybody knows who these short squeezers are and if they are white nationalists. If they are, I hope they give money to dissident right causes like Glenn Allen.
Beautiful. Came here to search for this type of material and there you are waiting in the second post.
I’ve decided to take advantage of an opportunity to add a specialization in finance to my skillset, so I will have more and deeper drops in the coming months and years. A random comment well before gme woke me up to the necessary elements of preserving and increasing value for our people.
Without money or other means of exchange of our own, all the most beautiful arguments, poetry, and everything else can easily come to naught. All the infighting, infiltration and dysfunction in the DR, the mass censorship and the entrapment ops finally rattled something in my brain. We need to take serious actions to preserve our ability to keep fighting. Even if it ends up a losing war of attrition, we better damn sure make it drawn out and costly; and take every advantage to get upset wins. No more mr. Nice guy or playing with one arm tied behind our backs. This is no longer and never was a demonstration game or a volley for serve. It is all out and relentless war on everything that makes life worth living and ultimately our very existence and liberty.
What I would add to the above at this time – bear in mind skills, family, community relationships as a nonmonetary way of storing value. The more valuable skills you have, the more it is counterproductive for an enemy to simply take you out. They will want to coopt or own you first, which can buy you the most valuable asset – time. Likewise with these other nonmonetary assets. My biggest gripe with so many eceleb DR “leaders” is how their narcissism or subversive activities make them destructive to building connections. It’s so counterproductive as to make many of them virtually radioactive.
As for financial stores of value, there are nany things I’m reading, but even with the best science, the future is still subject to chaos and unpredictability. Maybe google/fb et als prediction markets really work, in which case we are all well and truly up the proverbial brown creek without a paddle.
Other than that, I would underline what others have said about Wall Street and fiat looking very risky. I can’t tell for sure if precious metals or crypto will hold up better in what’s coming, so I advise people to hold both to the extent they can and favor what they feel comfortable with once they’ve reached a threshold. Have means of defense and gather means of production in you family/groups skills as much as possible.
Have a reasonably light footprint, be ready to move, live frugally, eat well, stay in shape, learn to manage your emotions healthily, and never stop learning. See you on the barricades!
This was an excellent post, but not necessarily or primarily for its suggestions re the stock market. Being one of the last old time value investors, I’m not as successful as many of late (eg, I don’t see the value in things like Facebook and Twitter, and thus have missed out on many gains). Nor am I really qualified to figure out how to weaponize money via the market. I bet it could be done in many ways, but to do so without throwing a lot away would require a greater knowledge of both markets and especially securities law (and its loopholes) than I possess.
For me, the real importance of this post was twofold. First, it is an example of thinking, or attempting to think, creatively, “outside the box”, about our core plight, which is that our people are being systematically, well, conquered. White Americans (and whites worldwide) are being dispossessed of our sources of power (and thus of collective survival), and then incrementally stripped of our rights, liberties, property, independence, and, finally, cultural and genetic future. Given that it’s our minds not bodies which have been conquered (though our bodies are being slowly conquered, too; I only mean that we are losers in the racial struggle for power and survival because we have been morally duped into acquiescing in self-destructive policies, as opposed to having been militarily defeated, which was the traditional route to a people’s enslavement and/or extinction), we have no clear field of fire before us. Therefore, we must think relentlessly creatively; we must be ever ready to open up new nodes of war, to make war in places hitherto not thought of as arenas of conflict. Quinn gets this.
Second, and relatedly, this post brings home the point that we are defending against not only a new kind of war, one utilizing mostly everything *but* guns and bombs, but also a “vernichtungskrieg” – a war of total annihilation. I suspect this is unprecedented in history (I cannot conceive an historical analogy). We are facing a total (full-spectrum) non-military war of total annihilation. Every aspect of our society has been, is being, or probably will be weaponized against us, and the goal of this war is our enslavement or extinction. Therefore – and this is what I really like about what this post implies – we the victims and defenders must, corollarily, also seek to weaponize everything present to us. We must search for weapons in tools, systems, relations, organizations, in every nook and cranny of the totality of society in all its forms. The classical liberal-constitutionalist in me dislikes saying so, but we must totally politicize (racialize) every aspect of our lives, and seek to understand the racial-power-potential of everything which influences or contributes to human existence. Only by doing so, can we hope to develop the new weapons we will need to survive the accelerating evolutionary bottleneck our race is already starting to pass through.
This is a very interesting essay this morning from Amren with the last paragraph somewhat similar in substance to this thread.
“The best way to break the hold of universities is to stop attending them. Starve them of the money and attendance they need. Businesses should stop weighing university degrees so heavily when they hire people and instead give technical interviews and skills tests. People go to college — and take on huge debts — because they don’t see an alternative. We have to walk away from established institutions and build alternatives. Instead of a university, build a private technical library. Value your “old-school” employees, and train promising workers, even in academics. Find a retired or “cancelled” professor to help homeschool your children. Invest in research and development yourselves, the way patrons of old did. View science and mathematics the way we view art — as part of our culture that needs protecting and preserving.”
“Squeezed to Zero: How the Woke and the Chinese are Destroying Academic Mathematics” by Thomas Anderson, American Renaissance, February 13, 2020
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/02/squeezed-to-zero-how-the-woke-and-the-chinese-are-destroying-academic-mathematics/
Lord Shang, that all makes good sense and you explained it clearly.
This isn’t a fight that we wanted but it’s the fight that we are in. We have to embrace it. The only alternative is horrible extinction.
It is rather incredible how the Chinese are using the exact same despicable method (kahal) to undermine the White man. They’ve learnt well.
For how long are we going to be so naiv that we expect honourable behaviour from non-whites? For how long are we going to compete with people who cheats?
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