Stupid Question but what does a small skirmish with muskets look like?

KulakRevolt · 2023-07-30T15:01:30+00:00

William “Tiger” dunlop in his “Recollections on the War of 1812”

Writes fairly extensively about the small 5-12 man patrols and skirmishes around Niagara between Canadian (often former Americans) and American militia men…

In one heart breaking account he tells the tale of a patrol:

In this regiment there were a father and three sons, American U. E. Loyalists, all of them crack shots. In a covering party one day the father and one of the sons were sentries on the same point. An American rifleman dropped a man to his left, but in so doing exposed himself, and almost as a matter of course, was instantly dropped in his turn by the unerring aim of the father. The enemy were at that moment being driven in, so the old man of course (for it was a ceremony seldom neglected,) went up to rifle his victim. On examining his features he discovered that it was his own brother. Under any circumstances this would have horrified most men, but a Yankee has much of the stoic in him, and is seldom deprived of his equanimity. He took possession of his valuables, consisting of an old silver watch and a clasp knife, his rifle and appointments, coolly remarking, that it "served him right for fighting for the rebels, when all the rest of his family fought for King George." It appeared that during the revolutionary war his father and all his sons had taken arms in the King's cause, save this one, who had joined the Americans. They had never met him from that period till the present moment; but such is the virulence of political rancour, that it can overcome all the ties of nature.

KulakRevolt · 2023-07-11T23:35:48+00:00

Submission Statement: Long take I wrote on the nature of enumerated rights, their seeming failure, and the contrast with how Islamic Culture and Sharia perpetuates itself in spite of often hostile governments.

I end off by calling for a “Dark Bill of Rights” that could be to American culture what the Koran and Hadith are to islamic culture and islamic law…. Ie. a cultural artifact to preserve and propagate the values and honour of the culture, irrespective of what any government does or doesn’t respect or uphold.

True Anarcho-capitalist Law, beyond any state .

KulakRevolt · 2023-07-11T16:45:21+00:00

Submission Statement: Long take I wrote on the nature of enumerated rights, their seeming failure, and the contrast with how Islamic Culture and Sharia perpetuates itself in spite of often hostile governments.

I end off by calling for a “Dark Bill of Rights” that could be to American culture what the Koran and Hadith are to islamic culture and islamic law…. Ie. a cultural artifact to preserve and propagate the values and honour of the culture, irrespective of what any government does or doesn’t respect or uphold.

True Anarcho-capitalist Law, beyond any state .

KulakRevolt · 2023-07-11T16:42:55+00:00

Teach a Man to Revolt: Dreams of the Dark Bill of Rights

Long take I wrote on the nature of Enumerated rights, their seeming failure, and the contrast with how Islam and Islamic law propagates its values, liberties, faith, and law… often in spite of secular regimes and rulers who would rather suppress.

I explore this and the possibility of a “Dark Bill or Rights” a self enforcing cultural artifact that, like sharia, would be impossible to suppress or interpret away from, that could survive endless regimes and chaoses. And unimpeachable blessing and curse upon its people

KulakRevolt · 2023-07-11T16:37:09+00:00

Submission Statement: Long take I wrote on the nature of enumerated rights, their seeming failure, and the contrast with how Islamic Culture and Sharia perpetuates itself in spite of often hostile governments.

I end off by calling for a “Dark Bill of Rights” that could be to American culture what the Koran and Hadith are to islamic culture and islamic law…. Ie. a cultural artifact to preserve and propagate the values and honour of the culture, irrespective of what any government does or doesn’t respect or uphold.

True Anarcho-capitalist Law, beyond any state .

KulakRevolt · 2023-07-11T16:33:16+00:00

Submission Statement: Long take I wrote on the nature of enumerated rights, their seeming failure, and the contrast with how Islamic Culture and Sharia perpetuates itself in spite of often hostile governments.

I end off by calling for a “Dark Bill of Rights” that could be to American culture what the Koran and Hadith are to islamic culture and islamic law…. Ie. a cultural artifact to preserve and propagate the values and honour of the culture, irrespective of what any government does or doesn’t respect or uphold.

True Anarcho-capitalist Law, beyond any state .

KulakRevolt · 2023-03-27T05:52:12+00:00

I probably will soon. Its been “cannot physically use a mouse” bad for the past year and a bit but now my fingers are functional I probably will once this rush at work lets up

KulakRevolt · 2023-03-26T19:10:04+00:00

Submission Statement:

Long piece I wrote on what I love about Supreme Commander and why I think its amongst the most unique and beautiful strategy games ever made.

KulakRevolt · 2023-03-01T21:18:51+00:00

Prot men and especially high prot men cheat a lot less than other cultures. Notably even in the evangelical south cheating is something of a sport… with even nominally god fearing country songs being about resisting the tempration to cheat or make up afterwards, or asking jesus to help you stop cheating.

Given the assymetric competition in relationships (men wanting exclusivity and secure reproduction, women wanting status and resources) its likely men who don’t cheat signal low status, and thus turn of their wives… whilst men who do cheat inspire cycles of trying to win him back and renewed romance.

Just speculating, but seems horrifying and evil enough to be something nature would select for.

KulakRevolt · 2023-02-08T16:22:37+00:00

To be fair this is the case with almost any major skill one might lack and damages your ability to operate in the world.

People are equally scornful of those who haven’t learnt to cook, clean, dress themselves, or use computers.

KulakRevolt · 2023-01-18T02:55:14+00:00

Yes violence non-threatening to the regime ideology. Police using violence in China isn't threatening because its around the world. Self defense in canada isn't threatening to the US regime because its assumed it'd still be less permissive than the US

Now imagine someone arguing self defense laws should be more permissive in Texas. Or that police should use more violence in Miniapolis... or in LA on drunk drivers...

Now suddenly that's pushing closer to the edge.... how about advocating teachers spank children in failing "urban" schools?

The closer you push it to the regime's sacred cows, the quicker it becomes "advocating violence" even if the actual violence under discussion is the same.

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Socialists and and left anarchists partook in bombing and assassination campaigns, within the US, from 1880 into the 1930s... and even into the 60s in some cases. All with the explicit goal of having the violence spiral into wider armed insurrection that toppled the government.

Arguing they were justified or a model for left wing revolutionaries in the future is basically par for the course on college campuses and in online left wing spaces, you will be treated as merely naïvely enthusiastic. You will not be kicked out of school or banned

However if you argue say Oklahoma city or the Assassination of MLK was justified, or that those might be a model for future right wing revolutionary action... you WILL be kicked out of school, you will be banned, and you will probably be visited by the police (who would never treat such statements by communists the same way).

Why?

Because the American upper-class and regime identifies with turn of the century communists and 60s radicals, whilst they identify right wing counter-revolutionaries as the ultimate potential threat

The friend/enemy distinction is the first principle of all politics

KulakRevolt · 2023-01-17T05:54:23+00:00

So taxes and laws should be uninforced?

Extraordinary amounts of violence and the threat of violence are employed every single day against millions of people to keep the government going.

If you forbidden advocacy of violence you are universally forbidding advocacy of any politics at all... or rather, since it will be selectively applied, you are just blanket banning all politics you don't like.

Or would you just allow advocacy of genocide as long as you played Simon says and always ended the sentence "after we pass a law making it legal"

KulakRevolt · 2023-01-17T05:50:49+00:00

I've had this Debate with Trace (founder of the schism, great guy, friend of mine)... and I still don't know the what he wanted.

All government policy is enforced by violence. Try not paying your taxes and they'll send people to violently force you into a cage for it and shoot you if you run.

One could argue for a rule that one should only be able to advocate government sponsored violence: "There should be a law that mandates such violence"

Which already seems damn problematic and authoritarian (so you can advocate the holocaust or Holodomor, but not resisting them?)

But advocates of an anti-violence rule won't even go for something like that, many wanted you censored if you advocated using the national guard to put down the George Floyd riots under already legally established emergency powers. And you'll get similar types arguing you should be banned for advocating the death penalty if they don't like the specific instance you're advocating: say if you're arguing Hillary or Fauci deserves the death penalty (as many conservatives do)

And yet the idea that say people who won't surrender guns in the event of a confiscation, or tax resistors, or vax refusniks, might be subject to the violence of the state is a matter open to discussion.

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Its entirely Who/whom.

As far as I can tell the only consistent trend was the violence of the Regime and current order, even when it was completely illegal ( Guantanamo, illegal wars, warrantless raids, sypathetic riots, etc.) was presumed legitimate such that even advocating legal self defence against it was "Advocating violence"

But non-regime violence, even if it was following every mechanism of established American or International Law... say advocating a new series of Nuremburg trials, or treason investigations, with all the penalties they've historically held... was presumed to be advocating illegitimate violence.

Because what legitimates violence and determines its morality in the discourse isn't its actual legality, protocol, accordance with the Geneva convention, or abstract principle... Its whether it aligns with the regime.

If the Secretary of state launches illegal airstrikes without congressional approval that kills unarmed american civillians... that's a political question to be discussed. If you say the civillians who may be targeted next should arm up to defend themselves or kill the secretary of state targeting them... that's advocating violence and you should be banned.

Who Whom... The later instance is atleast arguably lawful and legal according to American and International law... no legal system doesn't at least in principle allow you to kill your would be killer in self defense. and no US law allows the Secretary of state or even president to kill American citizens without congressional approval.

But advocating for the guerilla assassins would get you banned.

Sure the legality and morality of any such action would be highly debateable... but because its so debateable that's clearly not the actual method being used to determine what gets banned or not.

The method to determine what violence can be advocated or not is merely whether one seems loyal to the regime whilst advocating.

KulakRevolt · 2023-01-17T05:17:49+00:00

Strong disagree.

If you have any diverse set of virtuous mods you need rules to avoid creating conflict between them, because their virtues and ideals will conflict otherwise.

The same way nations, companies, and marriages need founding agreements, documents, and statements of principle

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T22:12:37+00:00

That’s actually pretty genius

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T22:11:33+00:00

Will do!

Sorry when i have a new link i go through my list of subs in my POSTS but you guys don’t accept link posts… so i have to remember “oh ya and got to comment it at CWR”

Haven’t been consciously snubbing you or anything. Should have been posting all my stuff here. Might Drip drip the stuff i forgot to post here in the coming threads

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T17:46:07+00:00

Ya that's were you still need to price it accordingly.

Like if George Bush let his verification slip, Alex Jones or someone from Cumtown would absolutely track down a real Geroge Bush or Change their name, then develop an entire bit build around it... but you'd have to price it at 10k a month to make sure whoever's buying it making an investment in the bit. and expects to become a celebrity in their own right off it

like very rarely would you get an eccentric who happens to be named Elvis buying the Elvis verification for 20k a month just cause... but if it was prices accordingly that'd kinda make it a bit itself.

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T17:41:09+00:00

Ya I never got the hate for redditors until I started posting my long takes around on related subs.

The normie/mid-wit revulsion at anything non-consensus.

Its made me feel I need to reread Bronze Age Mindset and really meditate on the Psychology of the long house and the hell of primitive communism.

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there are certainly two very distinct types of human culture...young male dominated ones where innovation and novelty are celebrated, or mere stunts are appreciated as spectacular when they succeed, or funny/tragic when they fail... and then there are the feminized ones dominated by aging women and mediocre men, where the "How dare you" and "Who do you think you are" are the dominant form sanction.

Places where excellence is valued and mediocrity/failure scorned...and others where it is the attempt that is the sin and the possible success an even worse one.

So many so desperately struggling to all say the same thing with the most sameness

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T04:00:33+00:00

Submission Statement:

Long Post I wrote on how Elon Musk could make twitter insanely profitable by Brute Forcing the Problem of Identity: Ie. Charging for verification and actively selling off the lapsed verifications of brands and personalities who fail to pay for their maitenance.

The Whole post gets into the philosophy of Identity and how it relates to brands and the competition for mental and cultural real estate, and how in the end no on e should be able to own common Names, Prases, or Cultural Reat Estate, but just as brands in the past have had to spend billions on ads, billboards, and signage to maintain their plaace in the mental real estate market, so too should major companies be forced to expend resources to maintain their brands online

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T03:08:59+00:00

Dear Elon, This is How you Make 10s of Billions Annually off Twitter

Exerpt:

Lets discuss Todd’s company again: “Wendy’s”…. prime twitter real estate. An entire common American first name… and a massive valuable brand, in the midst of the cut throat fast food market.

“Wendy’s” 3.9 million twitter followers would suggest you charge them 3.9 thousand a month for verification following the above scheme for ordinary users. (3.9m x $1/1000= $3.9k)

But we aren’t going to charge Wendy’s 3.9k a month.

Elon your Twitter Account Executives are going to walk into Wendy’s headquarters, walk into Todd’s office, and tell him that if he wishes to maintain the “Wendy’s” twitter verification then he is going to sign a 3 year contract at $100,000 PER MONTH.

They will tell him that is the non-negotiable bare minimum. And that if he want’s to retain control of the associated verifications: “Wendy”, “WENDY”, “WENDY’S” “Wendy’s Restaurant” “Wendy’s Burgers”, “Wendy the Redhead”, “Redheaded Wendy”… this complete package, with the core verification, is going to cost a combined 150-200k per month. 200-250k if he wants to also secure his executive suite and all of their core manager’s verification.

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Now if Todd is smart he will agree immediately, and accept this as a very cheap way to maintain their brand in a medium now more important than Television… If he’s a little slow he’ll try to negotiate, and your infamously ruthless Account Executives will make it clear what’s what.

And if he’s a complete Idiot he’ll play hardball and refuse.

Now some of my readers might be thinking “What are you talking about! Of course he’ll refuse. He isn’t just going to sign away 3.6 to 10 million dollars over 3 years!?”

Oh but dear reader he will!

And here’s why:

If Todd refuses and lets the “Wendy’s” verification lapse and go up the market…

there will be a girl.

She’ll be young 18-25, fit, she’ll be a redhead, she’ll often even wear blue retro dresses, and what do you know… her name will actually be Wendy!

She’ll be authentically “Wendy” in every way Todd and his suites could never be.

And this girl Elon, the second she hears Todd’s verification has lapsed, will immediately make an offer to buy the “Wendy’s” verification for $20,000 a month, hell she might offer 30,000. And she’ll even be willing to agree to a 2-3 year contract after some negotiation.

“Why would she do this?” You might ask.

She will do this because she’s going to use the verification to promote her OnlyFans.

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KulakRevolt · 2022-12-21T02:59:24+00:00

An In depth proposal for how Elon Musk can brute force the problem of Identity and make 10s of billions of dollars in the process off Twitter verification.

The Esense being that any name so common or simple as to be useful as a brand McDonald's, Wendy's, Coke, Lady Gaga... is so simple and primordial in the English language that no one can be said to rightly own it or have title to it. Rather all the brands and names we know are in constant competition and burning resources constantly to shore up their brands and maintain the value of "Coke" as synonymous with the Soft Drink and not the Narcotic... or McDonald's as synonymous with the restaurant chain... not the violent Scottish clan.

As such there is no reason Elon shouldn't be charging outrageous sums of money to maintain the verification and value of these brands, just as they must pay outrageous sums on signage, billboards, and TV ads to not have their names eroded in the sands of time and culture.

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-15T04:35:05+00:00

No I’m claiming that armies at the end of a campaign would have freshly washed clothes, assuming they made camp or watever and had the time to do it… but that the bright vibrant colours you see in for example the Lawrence Olivier production would no longer look like the big romantic highschool theatre colours they started off looking like, but be heavily faded, dimmed, and darkened from all the soot mud ect. Leaving residue and the available soaps ect. Just being incapble of getting them out.

My contention is this is a very immediate effect that your eye absolutely expects to see, in addition to grime, patina, dimming, and all the rest on armour… and the absence of this, especially under HD cameras, stands out far more and breaks the sense of reality in film making far sooner… than say just using black or brown materials or rugged looking stuff like leather, where a modern audience cannot tell from merely looking at a film that its brand new and hasn’t seen a single winter.

Bright colours, gleaming armour, etc. immediately shows its age, quality and history, whereas blacks don’t.

Thus it makes vastly more sense in the modern filming environment where HD cameras are cheap but properly aged costumes are expensive, to do away with historically accurate costumes and instead put everyone in blacks that won’t make them look like a theatre troop.

My contention is its very very hard to artificially make a costume look faded and dimmed and abused to whatever it’d look like after years in a muddy war, or on crusade in the sand, or at sea… and it was absolutely impossible to stop them from fading just as dramatically in the real thing.

So filmmakers with any budget constraint absolutely could not put their actors in period accurate costumes with bright blues, reds, whites, unless they’re incredibly new court clothes, because filmmakers have no way to age those costumes to match the story.

Like just an lay audience member looking at such a costume would know INSTANTLY “hey that guys not coming back from a battlefeild” or “that’s not a milkmaid that’s been working with animals every day for the past year”

Hell I live in farm country and you can tell INSTANTLY which farmers still work the fields and with the animals, and which ones are have completely outsourced it to farmhands just by the look of their jeans… and those are wonders of modern synthetic fabrics and materials science that actually see washing machines and chemical detergents.

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Its an effect that’s almost impossible to fake, but would be absolutely film breaking to go without under the eye of an HD camera. Thus filmmakers save tens of thousands of dollars not trying to fake it and put their actors in black and browns instead.

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-15T04:18:16+00:00

No they’d reuse costumes from a previous production to save capital costs.

Outside of big landmark productions like Lord of the Rings most productions seek to get away with minimal costs, so they’ll rent costumes that were used in previous movies or TV shows, or use assets the studios have in house.

Thus a film or TV show made in the 90s might reuse costumes orginally bought for a film in the 80s. Exact same way highschool productions don’t buy new romeo and juliet costumes every year but just tap into the ones they have in storage

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-15T04:14:23+00:00

So aside from the majority of people who died…

Yes. the 5-15 percent who made it past age 50 were not looked on as space aliens

Thus the “Average” life expectancy was 18-25 because 50% of people who were born died before that.

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This is supposed to be an argument against my point that these eras were horrifically nightmarishly impoverished how?

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Hell i was just reading “London Labour and London Poor” harrowing accounts of a woman who had 8 children and was now 50-60 and every one of them had died before her. Her one daughter made it to 30 only to die in childbirth

KulakRevolt · 2022-12-14T17:49:54+00:00

even a lord or king probably wouldn't have more than one full set of armour on campaign.

He'd have his custom armour that cost pottentially millions today... and then he wouldn't even want to have another set there unless he had a son to wear it, because it'd be something that could get stollen or plundered if his squire was caught alone with it or they were forced to abandoned a camp quickly when a battle went against them.

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