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Janice Dyson and John McAfee
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In case you haven’t heard the news, John McAfee has reportedly committed suicide in his cell in a Barcelona jail on June 23, 2021. He had been imprisoned there since October of 2020. His imprisonment sadly prevented him from fulfilling his pledge to “eat his own dick” if Bitcoin didn’t hit $1 million before the end of 2020. He had claimed repeatedly on Twitter that he was happy and wasn’t entertaining thoughts of killing himself. And nobody believes he killed himself.
A lot of people think McAfee was awesome for snorting bath salts, banging hookers, marrying a black hooker, and living in international waters in order to evade capture by the American government. A minority believes he was an obscene degenerate for the very same reasons. I’ve seen memes calling him the ultimate boomer: make a shit ton of money on vaporware, live in a tropical location, marry a nonwhite hooker, do drugs, have no children (despite the claim of having 47 illegitimate children), and kick off a conspiracy theory with his dying breath. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about what he was. Personally, I had no strong opinion of the guy one way or the other. I caught his 2016 run for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, just as I was evolving out of libertarianism and I considered him a wacky distraction from the main event of that season. He moved in and out of my view since then, pledging to eat his dick if Bitcoin didn’t reach $1 million by the end of 2020, failing to eat his dick when Bitcoin didn’t reach $1 million at the end of 2020, giving some good tips about cybersecurity, talking about shoving his arm up women’s asses (I’m not linking to that, do your own damn research), and generally providing a mixture of entertaining, useful, and downright disgusting stories.
Now, on to the main issue. Did John McAfee kill himself? That’s a good question, but sadly, I cannot give you an answer. On the one hand, John McAfee was an insane drug user who’d suddenly been thrown in prison after a lifetime of indulgence. On the other hand, he did say he had no intention of killing himself and seemed to activate some sort of deadhand post on Instagram, which was an image of the letter Q. Oh, I think you can see where this is going. Some people have drawn parallels to the case of Jeffrey Epstein. There’s supposed to be some super-secret info contained in that Instagram post that people more technical than me are unraveling as we speak, and we’ll see what data it unveils, but allow me, if you will, to use this moment to delve into the nature of the conspiracy theory as understood in American (and therefore global) culture in the past 70 years.
The standard notion of the conspiracy theory is that there’s a conspiracy, usually at a high or possibly at the highest levels of government, to commit, facilitate, or cover up malfeasance of some sort. The ur-example, and the one that probably spawned the conspiracy theory as a cultural trope, is the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Just as Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself, so was JFK not shot by a lone gunman, and only with knowledge of the government could the true nature of the JFK assassination be hidden from the public. So, the assumption is that the government, or more often, actors within the government, are skulking around in the dark, destroying evidence, intimidating, bribing or liquidating witnesses, running disinformation campaigns, setting up patsies to inevitably fail in their investigations, everything to keep the truth hidden from the general public.
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Now, I’m pretty sure that malicious actors in government have been up to no end of shady business they mean to keep concealed from the public, but baked into this now-standard conspiracy narrative is the notion that if the facts of the conspiracy were to ever reach the public, there’d be a great uproar, and the bad guys would be caught, tried, if not by the public, then at least by good guys in the government who are themselves being duped, intimidated, etc. And so, the conspiracy theorist will look for evidence, which evidence he will present to the public, to the authorities, to anyone, so that action might be taken against the conspirators. When one goes down the conspiracy rabbit hole, one expects it to have a definite end.
Now given that we’re all inheritors of the culture of the past 70 years, many of our own woes have been interpreted through this framework of government spooks skulking around, working in the shadows to effectuate the things we don’t like. Racial replacement of white people? Legalization of crime for nonwhites? The Great Reset? Green New Deal? It’s all shadowy g-men and Deep State operatives who’ve somehow infiltrated the institutions of power and are projecting their terrible will from behind the shadows. But allow me to present an alternative hypothesis on just how malfeasance is achieved.
What if government malfeasance doesn’t rely on covering up, distorting, or presenting false facts to the public, or at least doesn’t solely rely on such distortions, but rather, relies on distorting the processes by which people think so that no skullduggery would be necessary to conceal malfeasance? Malfeasance would simply be done in the open and the people could be conditioned to ignore it, or even love it. All of the malfeasance that has caused the problems facing us as people in the modern world have been performed in the open. The 1965 immigration act? Completely open. BLM, civil rights, and critical race theory? Completely open. Carbon emissions legislation and propaganda? Completely open. No shadowy figures, no wheeling and dealing, just respectable politicians, civil servants, journalists, scientists going about the business of abolishing white people in the light of the midday sun while white people look on and cheer them on, because they’ve been shorn of the tools necessary to detect such malfeasance. Our problem as Dissident Rightists isn’t that we lack the data to prove that white people are racially replaced, or that races commit crimes at different rates, or even that there’s a concerted push to legalize crime for nonwhites — even the least erudite man can rattle out these facts. Our problem is that other people, whom we sometimes derisively call normies, lack the intellectual framework with which to process these facts as if there has been an inhibitor chip inserted into their heads to stop bad thoughts. Or maybe they were born with this chip and our enemy has merely input the current definitions of bad thoughts.
And what if there is secret malfeasance and it is uncovered? Yeah, sure, Epstein didn’t kill himself. Nobody in their right mind believes that Epstein killed himself. The people know. What of it? They’ve conveniently blocked out the part where he was gathering and cultivating kompromat on behalf of the Mossad. But even if they haven’t, what tangible political gain has been made of this monumental drop in public trust? Is there even a path towards political gain from the public knowledge that Epstein didn’t kill himself? The fact of the matter is that the drop in public trust doesn’t bother the enemy, so long as the public doesn’t trust anyone else either, which lack of trust they can ensure by unleashing infiltrators and controlled opposition which will serve to discredit all genuine opposition. And even then, the enemy completely controls the governments of the west and even more importantly, the framework people use to think. Even people who imagine themselves to be opponents of the current regime are playing out its worn-out scenarios and functioning within its permitted oppositional roles. So, in light of all that, does it matter whether John McAfee killed himself?
It’s probably going to be a good conversation starter in the next month or so. You can probably use talk of McAfee’s purported suicide as a first measure of how “with it” someone is, as a safe overture before turning the conversation to more controversial subjects. But as for the act itself, or any super-secret data the man himself might have uncovered, whether his suicide is related to the building collapse in Florida or other happenings? At this point, our enemy doesn’t even need to conceal their outright crimes, let alone their shenanigans and malfeasances. They set the narrative and it doesn’t matter that you disagree with it — it is the official truth and you lack the conceptual tools to even begin doubting it, but if you do, you’ll be cast into the outer darkness, where the racists live.
The silver lining, of course, is that over here in the land of the racists, we are working on developing just the kind of conceptual framework you need to think in ways the enemy dislikes.
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There are some truly outstanding points that you’ve made, Nick, and I hope that you refine this essay and develop so that it lives beyond the immediate context of John MacAfee. Your observation that conspiracy theories are predicated on the notion that a heroic revelation of The Truth, in and of itself, will change Everything, is spot on, as is the corollary that, well, that really doesn’t seem the case. Moreover, as you note, the things that really matter — the genocidal pedagogy directed against Our People — is happening in plain view; we simply have not been able to mount an effective response. I hope that we can overcome that laryngitis, through time is short.
If you’re interested, you can start by reading my previous essays on Peak Redpill and It’s a Hit, but the deconstruction of the “hidden secrets” type of dissent is a constant theme in my writing.
On a similar note, despite his faults, I think Tucker Carlson does a great job of skating on thin ice to let a larger audience become aware of what really goes on behind closed doors. …
“Tucker confirms NSA is monitoring ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ in hopes of canceling it” (https://video.foxnews.com/v/6261469587001#sp=show-clips)
This has the potential to wake even more Whites up.
Meanwhile, INVASION continues as third world flood into our homelands. The numbers show that Canada will b the first European homeland to become a minority – Canada will b the 1st third-world country in the 1st world. Congratulations Canada! Well done! USA will b second. Unless we wake up.
I think it is too late, as a nation, for us to “wake up” for the very reasons Mr. Jeelvy writes in this article. We will not ever see another free or fair election in a national level and they’ll get to the states soon enough. On the other hand, we are here at CC and more are coming. I see many individuals waking up, but the machine is in charge now. Best to buy ammo and get right with God.
Fact: there is no political solution.
Fact: the Second Amendment is to protect us from government; our governments have been treasonous ones for allowing the decades long INVASION.
“A free people ought not only be armed …”. George Washington.
We could end this INVASION by tomorrow afternoon if WE wanted to as a collective. And, continue w/the reclamation of our homeland. Escaping to Idaho is just buying us some time.
Today brings another for your rather overstuffed “mere coincidence, goyim” file:
“The new figures narrows Adams’ lead over former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia to just 51.9% (368,898) to 48.9% (352,990) – while there are still 100,000 absentee ballots which need to be processed, and could tip Garcia over the top.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ny-mayoral-candidate-eric-adams-demands-explanation-over-irregularities-after-board
Nothing to see here.
“The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. …”
George Carlin
They may as well have said he died from a dirty prison computer virus that traveled from his old fashioned windows 98 mouse up his arm and into his brain where my dude kept getting error messages and offers to clean his brain of all malware if he’d only just provide his credit card number. I don’t know if ever did or not but obviously he never got the infected files out and now he’s a corpse on which strange speculations are being made. Poor guy.
It broaches the spirit of this article to mention that McAfee was into the fake moon landing thing. This is one of those rare conspiracy theories so poorly supported that looking over the “evidence” only makes you doubt the intellectual capacity and basic common sense of its adherence.
I no longer believe a single freaking word uttered by our federal government, retroactive to the mid 1800’s. It is actually easy to conceive that they literally never, ever tell the truth about anything, up to and including the moon landing.
“….[W]e are working on developing just the kind of conceptual framework you need to think in ways the enemy dislikes.”
In my case, I’d say, “In ways the enemies (plural) cannot understand.”
Not too long ago, I came to realize that our non-white enemies here in the U.S. cannot understand that whites can love, and love deeply. Everything’s about THEM in their minds, and we must hate because that’s what whites do: we hate everybody else. Apparently, that’s our reason d’etre, or should be. They cannot understand that in my mind, everything is about who and what I love, not who I am supposed to hate.
At some point, recently, I began to appreciate how much I love my people, history, and culture—much more than I could ever hate them to the degree that they desire I hate them (so they feel justified in injuring or eliminating us). I can (and do) resent them, but I couldn’t hate them to the point of hurting or even killing them just for the pleasure of it. I am not of barbarian stock.
But….when you love someone or something, you will fight to protect. Tooth and nail. Oh hell, yes.
It’s not so much they dislike this, or disapprove of it, or find it unsettling (that whites could love their own more than they could hate the enemies). They don’t get it. It doesn’t compute. We’re not supposed to be able to love. Blacks and Jews keep telling us how defective we are; we’re subhumans. Not that there is anything wrong with hating, when the object of hate is correctly judged and specifically aimed. But to hate is not why I breathe.
So, when the first white man fires in return on the battlefield, in the upcoming uncivil war, he should first say, “I don’t do this just because I hate you, but because I love my family and kin, and you are hurting them.” Boom, and blow the other guy away. Let the enemy go to his death knowing it was out of love, not hate, you lying son of a bitch. (Or, maybe send him a polite text message before you blow him away on the battlefield. Despite what the movies tell us, no one has time for witty ripostes on the battlefield! No, there is no time for Saint Crispin stylin’ speechifying, either. And the battlefield will probably be on Main Street, U.S.A., next to your local mall where you shopped for Vans as a kid but your kids can’t because the Mexicans took it over and it isn’t safe to shop for Vans–or food–now, or maybe it will be in front of the lot where the local history museum used to stand but not anymore because it was burned down by BLM or Antifa or who knows and who cares now, they did us a favor on that one because it was an ugly building designed by a contemptuous Jew–as most modern museums are–and we can rebuild it in Neoclassical style and that’s something to look forward to after the dust settles. In fact, I would like to see a Vans shop in Neoclassical style, that would be good for the kids! They can take great pride in their culture as they walk in and they can have a little bit of fun on foot as they walk out. Bright days ahead.)
Obviously, I have love of kin–and Tom Wolfe–on my mind right now. Look how Mr. Jeelvy’s essay on McAfee inspired me.
Speaking of Mr. Jeelvy’s essay, I don’t know what to believe about McAfee’s death, even in the context of everything going in. I just know that it smells rotten to the core. That may be because he was such a disagreeable and disreputable character. In time, a lot of facts will come out about many things, including this. Anyway, we know more of this kind of thing is coming, don’t we? Well, I do. I can see convenient deaths (suicides, murders, plane crashes, car crashes, even public executions) coming down the pike on a more regular basis. As Mr. Jeelvy noted, after Epstein, apparently it’s ok to do this in the open now. Such contempt. Almost as bad as the buildings.
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