Almost as if when they target you it’s because you’re on the right track.
In a blatant display of anti-Catholic tyranny, a Madrid Catholic man, José Andrés Calderón, was recently fined €3,600 by the Spanish government for praying the rosary publicly. Calderón is accused of “disobedience and resistance to authority” during political protests in January. He maintains his innocence, stating that his involvement was limited to the prayer gatherings. This came after a large demonstration of resistance to the prohibition of publicly praying the Rosary that was imposed for late November 2023, as we reported on our November 30th Weekly News Roundup.
In an article for ACI Prensa, it is reported that:
“According to the reports of the National Police, on which the fines are based, those three days it was Calderón and those who have accompanied him in praying the Holy Rosary for more than six months who “proceeded to block traffic on the street and the surrounding areas, after the police had told them that it could not be done.”
This incident should be a wake-up call for Catholics. It shows that in today’s secular and Liberal society, even the act of praying the Rosary is seen as a challenge to the liberal status quo. Devotion to Christ the King and the Queen of Heaven inherently rejects the prevailing anti-Christian agenda, making our faith a public form of resistance.
As the shadows of secularism encroach ever further, we must have brave Catholics rise to the challenge and refuse to give in to tyrannical attitudes that attempts to quiet our religion. Let every Rosary prayed be a testament to our unwavering faith and a defiance of those who seek to silence us. Stand firm, Catholics of Spain, and let your voices in prayer be a declaration that we will not yield to tyranny.
The tree of woe has one of the most interesting articles or blogs I have read in probably a decade. It is really good, and although a little long, and using a few technical terms I had not come across before, and while also a little bit theoretical, it is nevertheless one of the best pieces I have read in a long time, simply because he explains things so clearly that I would have struggled to explain in such an easily digestible fashion.
In essence he explains the various dynamics of how a successful rebellion to any tyrannical system, or really any system, is constructed. It is interesting because he provides concrete examples and some historical context too. But what I found quite fascinating is that I came to the same generic conclusions long ago, although my own explanation is a lot cruder (lower resolution if you like) but also a lot simpler to grasp at a baseline level, and it is this:
A group that removes infiltrators with absolute rigour and has a pretty difficult threshold to entry in terms of infiltration, and that has the ability and capacity to go and “convert” strangers to its group rules, all other things being equal, in due course will either be completely destroyed due to no one joining it, or grow to its maximum potential and remain stable once a large enough population to make itself-sustaining is reached.
If the group is also non aggressive as its default setting, it will tend to not attract too many attacks by similarly peaceful groups, and if the response to attacks is a ferocious, instant, counter that is also quite lasting in time, any group that is not overwhelmingly larger will tend to leave such a group alone.
Well. Guess what.
Sedevacantist Catholic communities are all of these things naturally. And they happen to be growing fast too.
I had not considered things in the way that the Tree of Woe guy* did, but given that his presentation makes sense, as does mine, it is always pleasant when a completely different baseline approach to a problem comes to the same conclusion. It is generally an indication you are on the right track and modelling reality relatively accurately.
So… in short, if you want to be part of the Resistance, you really need to become a proper Catholic and join a community of people that are too. Which is why I have started the process here three years ago.
Think about it:
It’s going to be pretty hard if not almost impossible to keep up the pretence of Sedevacantist Catholicism if you actually not one, in a community of people who are.
As a rule, Sedes will not start an argument or fight, and are essentially peaceful by nature. IF however, they are wronged, the tendency leans towards Just War, Crusades and Inquisitions. In the modern day this generally does not devolve to massive war parties going out to fight, it tends to lean towards ostracism of infiltrators or bad actors, relentless countering to any enemy attacks (which being as they are generally not physically violent in nature, are responded to proportionally) and if it does get to extremes, Catholic fighters/soldiers/warriors have absolutely no problem with doing what is necessary without hesitation. In fact, protecting oneself and innocents is a duty for a Catholic man, dogmatically.
The number of people it takes to make a stable community is really quite low. At a gathering not too long ago, three Sede women (among which my wife) lined up for a group photo and there were 15 children there. Another group in another continent has 19 children from 4 women. Get ten such women in a community and you are going to have around 50 other humans being born to them. At least, because none of the 3 women I know have yet reached menopause. Imagine a village or area that has 100 such women and think about the numbers of hardcore Catholics you will produce in a few generations.
Catholics (real ones, i.e. Sedevacantists) are the only ones reproducing at well over replacement numbers (see my previous post on this topic.)
And for all the reasons mentioned in that previous post, no, Protestant “communities” will not be able to muster the same kind of cohesion or numbers. So… if you really mean to make a difference, you may want to start working on why Catholicism is actually the only Christianity that ever did exist, and is the only one that is in fact the Church Jesus wanted to exist on Earth.
*Which, if I read that post right, might be Alexander Macris, since he is supposedly some scary Alt-Right guy. Or whatever. The term Alt-Right was invented by foppish glowie Dick Dispenser as I call him (Richard Spencer) and was retarded from the start, given its origins. But since nowadays stating simple facts like that men cannot ever be pregnant, is apparently equivalent to being Hitler (except you know, the Nazis were National SOCIALISTS, so it’s a bit of a stretch, since, if they even had gas chambers for such things, the Nazis would probably have gassed you if you said men could get pregnant back then, I mean, they certainly burnt the books about trannification and so on, but I digress).
** Oh and Cold Fury and Western Rifle Shooters Association have both been picking up some of my posts, so thanks for that, since I am dismally bad at promoting myself even when it’s a skill I should try and learn one day.
There has been quite a bit of talk by the usual talking heads from the mass media (who one must ignore totally and forever) but also by several “respected” alternative media channels as to what the changes in Russian military and security heads actually mean.
I have not bothered to comment because it is quite clear most of these people haven’t got a clue and are guesstimating by consuming all sorts of voluminous data points before they come to conclusions that begin to approach the usual “2+2 = purple” results.
The only one that has actually done some decent legwork and presented his case properly is Edward Slavsquat, here, though I don’t read him much and several of his other takes were meh, as far as I am concerned, but this one was decent.
If you want to avoid a long (but good) read, let me give you the TL;DR version:
Putin is simply doing what he has done his entire career. For the first 20 years or more it was mostly a game of avoiding pit traps, dead ends, and enemies, steadily and very patiently climbing the ladder of power until he managed to get to the top, then the change to a swift reduction in those enemies was executed at lightning speed in political terms, which is still a game of patience and careful calculation in real-time.
Once he had removed the worst threats he then set about improving things on a grander level, and genuinely trying to make things better for the common man too. Which inevitably means rooting out corruption. And by “rooting out corruption” I don’t mean making everyone as clean as a disinfected whistle, I mean ensuring that the people put in positions of government power are first of all effective at their given tasks, whatever these are, and secondly that whatever they get up to, the damage/theft/problems they create are essentially minor or relatively irrelevant in the greater scheme of things.
Shoigu was a dinosaur with the flexibility and imagination of an oil tanker, and regardless of if he was personally deeply corrupt or not, various of his underlings obviously were enriching themselves at the expense of the citizenry, which is why they have been arrested. Even if Shoigu were himself perfectly innocent of any wrongdoing, his having permitted such things to happen under his rule, whether by participation, laziness or stupidity, is enough to ensure he is put out to pasture at the very least, which is what has happened.
Putin is not going to change tack either. He has put people in place around him that generally are capable of streamlining and increasing efficiency, and it is an interminable, truly endless process in politics, which is why I have always understood that being “the big boss”, the “leader” chieftain, etc. is really a vicious pain in the ass and it does not generally interest me, nor has it ever. HOWEVER, if you get a guy with the kind of Sigma traits Vladimir Putin clearly has to become invested in running a country, then what the man has done is pretty much a classic path you can expect.
It is rare for a man of that psychology to get interested in leadership in my experience, they tend to be far more prone to wanting to be left alone to do what they want, how they want, when they want. Piss one off enough by preventing him to live that way, however, and you are going to have a formidable enemy on your hands that will be relentless until you and your obstacles have been swept away.
Personally I think it’s more than that which drives Putin. Some peculiarity of character that has made the game of politics attractive and interesting to him, quite aside from the individual perks of power he may get out of it, as I’m certain these are not primary motivators for him. It is a good thing that at all levels of examination one cares to look at, as a general overview, he seems to be genuinely concerned with providing an overall better situation for his citizens. While this may not ultimately be his true driving force, it is at the very least an effect of his peculiar character. Which is a lot more that can be said for pretty much almost every single politician in the West.
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We have reached peak magical thinking, exceeded only by the levels of degeneracy exhibited by the gay politicians.
This pretty much sums it up.
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By G | 19 May 2024 | Posted in Social Commentary