Examples gross as Earth

"To find Quarrel in a Straw"

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Now whether it be
Bestial oblivion or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th’ event
(A thought which, quartered, hath but one part
wisdom
And ever three parts coward), I do not know
Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,”
Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
To do ’t. Examples gross as Earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such mass and charge,
Led by a delicate and tender prince,
Whose spirit with divine ambition puffed
Makes mouths at the invisible event,
Exposing what is mortal and unsure
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honor’s at the stake. How stand I, then,
That have a father killed, a mother stained,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep, while to my shame I see
The imminent death of twenty thousand men
That for a fantasy and trick of fame
Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
Which is not tomb enough and continent
To hide the slain? O, from this time forth
My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!

-Hamlet Act 4, Scene 4

We have witnessed a lot in the past 3 years. Well over 500,000 dead in bloody conflict over the decisive question of whether one should be ruled by a man named Vladimir or a man named Volodymyr. 60,000 to 400,000 dead over Gaza! a plot so small that were it a US park no hiker could get lost in it, for from ANY POINT less than an hour hike east or west would immediately bring one to its edge, and a two hour’s hike would be sufficient to cross it side to side at it’s widest. And even if one were maximally wrong headed, a 4 hour afternoon might let one walk diagonally from the extreme southwest corner to the north-eastern limit… That if one left after lunch they’d have an hour to chat with the their north-easternmost relation before dinner…

For such things have years of brutal urban conflict been fought… the sleepless nights and smell of burnt flesh and starvation of child, man, and beast become common. That girls yet in swaddling clothes have been subjected by the hundred to amputation without anesthetic, such as soldiers endured on Napoleonic battlefields and Royal Navy Ships of the 18th and 19th century.

“Even for an eggshell.”

For the most worthless spec of middle-eastern real-estate trapped between the two worst Neighbors one could possibly imagine, tenanted by some of the poorest most obstinate people to grace the earth in any age… For such have billions of dollars and the prestige of empire and an almost irreplaceable armament stockpiles been drawn dangerously low. For THIS has all the sacred narratives of an 80 year old world order been lain bare as lies, confabulations, and selective hypocrisies. FOR THIS has “THE END OF HISTORY” been called off and the great wheel of fate begun turning anew.

Rota Fortunae “I Shall Reign, I Reign, I Reigned, I have No Kingdom.”

So what is your Excuse?

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There is one Axiom that has informed almost all my moral thought… One principle that has been true, from the very foundation of my bones and echoed down from ancestors on multiple sides of my family.

The Rebels were right.

This maps onto a few different conflicts… The Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 strikes closest to home… I have a deep sympathy for the American South… The French revolution, The Decemberists, and atleast the February revolution in Russia (the revolution of sane statesmen against the Tsar’s suicidal mismanagement)…

That ultimately any legitimacy of the state, or consent of the governed is RIGHTLY withdrawn by force of arms and the will to commit the violence back to the state that it commits on its citizens, its justification found merely in the existence of such arms and will. That the second any man takes up arms against the state he is right and can only suffer the tragedy of failing to free himself, or the folly of unworthiness, but not be shown to be in the wrong in any moral or political sense.

That the nobility and freedom of spirit and will it takes to rebel and take up arms against the state that wrongs you is everywhere and always beautiful, pure, and honorable, and politically legitimate as a categorical matter of political philosophy.

That the personal pride and dignity which would will and kill so as not to be ruled by men you despise is noble, and not some psychological aberration for priests to insult, school marms to correct, or psychologists to medicate.

Sic Semper Tyrannis.
“Thus always to tyrants”.
Every One. Every Time.

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The The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, John Trumbull, 1786.

The ultimate test of this however is the American Revolution. But not for the reason you may think.

70,000 American Patriots died in the War of Independence… with an Additional 2000 French Dead, 6000 British dead, and 7000 German Mercenaries killed…

This represents 85,000, immediately killed in the war or dead of disease in the conditions of British prison ships out of a 1780s population of 2.8 million.

3% of the pre-war population.

And that’s before we consider the the 130,000 Americans killed in the Smallpox epidemic of the same period which was spread by the war and greatly exasperated by conditions of blockade and resultant malnutrition…

For a total dead of disease, deprivation, and combat of 178,800–223,800 total dead of roughly 10% the 1770 population of 2 million…

Or over roughly 3 times proportionately than most current estimates of the Gaza death toll at 60-88,000 out of a pre-war population of 2.2 Million since Oct 7th.

(this is also why I think Hamas is far from down for the count... proportionately they can sustain this level of population casualties multiple times over before they reach the ratios at which many historical insurgencies have still won… several communist revolutions and early modern German states in the Wars of Religion and 30 Years War stayed intact to 20-50% casualties. 2 years after Oct 7th, they could easily have 6 or 8 more years left in them)

(although note some sources place the all cause excess deaths over 150,000 in Gaza)

Translated onto modern America with a population of 340 million, The Revolutionary War would be the equivalent of 10.3 million to 34 million dead, depending on how much of the disease you want to include.

BRITISH PRISON SHIP, 1770s. Starving American prisoners onboard the prison ship 'Jersey,' anchored in New York Harbor by John Trumbull (1756-1843).

Indeed It would seem this was one of the bloodiest wars (per capita) in human history… Killing more proportionately that several major WW2 combatants… By 1956 GERMANY’s total losses accounted for only 8.23% of it’s pre-war population.

The Germans… losing. Against the world. In a war of strategic aerial fire-bombing, genocide, mass starvation, and transportation of POWs to decades of forced labour in Siberia… had a LOWER mortality rate than the American Revolutionaries in a war that they won.

It would seem that the founding fathers and George Washington in particular are amongst the greatest butchers and mass murderers per capita of any age in history… Depending on the Numbers you pick the Founding Fathers have a higher body-count as a percentage of the population than many of the deadliest dictators in history.

And FOR WHAT did the Americans Rebel?

A tax revolt over the most marginal of excise taxes on Tea? An optional consumer good? Stamp taxes on paper imports? The most trifling of of colonial policy, the pettiest of petty fees… For this more died than Gaza in a country of the same population?

The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777. John Turnbull.

BY ANY MEASURE the American Revolution is a strong contender for the LEAST justified, most morally suspect, most bloody, most costly, and most pointless sacrifices of human life in the long history of rebellions worldwide.

For the difference between American and British administration. 200 years of being governed such as they are in Chicago vs. such as they are in Toronto. For the difference between Upstate New York and Eastern Ontario… Between America and English Canada… For a difference so invisible the two countries regularly play each-other on film with no one noticing, so different no one can actually tell the accents apart (as evidenced by all the Canadian actors no one knows are Canadian)… For THAT 10% of the American population was slaughtered in conditions worse than 1945 Germany.

And Yet…

The culture war that built and the rage of the colonists did correlate with an important proxy, perhaps the most important factor in the past 500 years of human history:

The American West.

Britain through treaties with the French and various Indian Tribes had effectively foreclosed on American expansion westward… The end of the French-Indian wars and Wolfe’s Capture of Quebec was actually in many respects a setback to Americans by exchanging a hot border (where they could capture territory) with one where the central British government was inclined to just impose restrictions that maintained the peace.

If Americans had just accepted British taxation, regulation, and rules at the shockingly hands off level we barely even think of as a burden or governance today, 10% of the American population might not have died… But also the 13 colonies would have been relegated to the North American equivalent of Chile: Unable to expand westward, unable to build a great empire, unable to wage wars of Genocide on the Native Americans who were treated shockingly well by the British, and whose treaties were immediately stopping western settlement (5% of Modern Canada is Native for a contrast to 1% in the US )… And as such the white Americans would be unable to claim new lands with which to breed large families…

Because that’s the thing… Despite killing 10% of the pre-war population… BIOLOGICALLY launching the Revolutionary war was the most correct choice any people had ever made in history.

There were 2 million Americans at the start of the Revolutionary War… but in 2025 there are 35 MILLION direct descendants of the Mayflower Alone. (From a starting stock of 132 in 1620). From that 2 million Americans in 1776, maybe 150-200 million are descended today. And average of 75-100 individual descendants per 1770s American.

You might try to dismiss the instincts of the founders once you realize the oceans of blood they unleashed, as a good humanitarian liberal, you might think NOTHING, let alone such trifling matters as minor tax policy and native treaties justified killing so many, nor enabling the genocide of the Native Americans to follow…

You might thing it was a purely irrational “toxic masculinity” if not psychopathy that could make the founders think their petty rages at taxation and not having other people’s land justified them killing so many…

But that instinct: the instinct to violence at the threat to their honor and the feeling of Agency and independent action being lost…. That was the highest return Instinct any group of biological people have had in the past 500 years.

That was the most correct singular decision from a genetic and Darwinian perspective of ANY collective of animals I know of.

And a very good chuck of you readers right now are only reading this because of that decision. The decision to take violent prideful furious action for the immediate felt honor and independence of apex men.

10% of the population was a divinely cheap price for what they won if you value your posterity.

And their outrage at being hemmed in, insulted, deprived of opportunities, downgraded in their status and honor, and stripped of their self-determination and freedom of action… That was the most perfect motivation and proxy for exactly how their biological prospects were being restricted. The furious abstractions of angry autistic white men are indeed EXACTLY correct for approximating when they should begin scalping and slaughtering their enemies as far as their biological interests are concerned.

The inner rage and desire to see those who’d insult them dead is so perfectly adapted and calibrated would that only they listen to that rage and desire, and not their humanitarian, liberal, christian, or universalist pacifistic conditioning...

Indeed if one looks at the white population now, with birthrates WELL below replacement, such rage and violent impulses would be far MORE adaptive now, atleast as far as biology and posterity are concerned, than in the 18th century.

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But of course Americans don’t need to be persuaded to love the Founders… They adore them and admire them, and think they are wonderful examples of just the kind of men their sons should grow up to be… just so long as they never ever ever ever actually resist the government with any violence or do anything the founders ever actually did.

That the founders are praiseworthy (and you’re a traitor to your ancestors if you don’t praise them) is second only to the thought that any American who ever tries to imitate their actions or, merely speaks in imitation of their ideals, or praises those who have imitated them (like McVeigh) must be denounced fully, mocked, and it made clear to all that any will be pursued and punished socially, career-wise, and even legally in the Land of the First Amendment.

“Land of the Free, Home of the Brave” and also confine your tongue, lest it confine you.

This of course is not because of the absurdity of being motivated to imitate them… or how vastly freer Americans today are compared to 18th century gentlemen aristocrats and frontiersmen, but rather because of how immediately the founder’s ghosts cry out “BLOOD! BLOOD! BLOOD! DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! Right this second. BLOOD!”

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Does anyone dare argue modern Westerners from America to the Commonwealth to Europe have LESS reason for such a Rebellion? Or that the state is LESS intrusive, LESS capricious, LESS openly tyrannical?

Who will argue that marginal taxes on tea, stamps, and stationary are less outrageous than the insults Americans suffer daily? Or that American and western Elections are MORE responsive to complaints and petitions than the British Parliament (who indeed did offer the Americans seats in Parliament… Taxation without representation was something they were happy to resolve).

Rather the modern westerner suffers under corrupt Stolen Elections in which their vote has already been diluted to nothing by the mass importation of their ethnic enemies.. Child Rapists regularly freed without punishment. The reduction of White males (the only net taxpayers) to second class citizens. The 60+ year ethnic cleansing of whites from the cities they built. The Importation of tens of millions of Illegal foreigners to usurp the white population. Open and state sponsored discrimination against whites in all institutions of public life. LOCKDOWNS: The open criminalization of even going outside for years on end in wide swathes of the west, the open coercion to forced medical treatments even upon Pregnant women, under threat of regulatorily enforce firings and exclusion from society. Mass state mandated censorship from the US to the EU (see the twitter files and various internet safety acts), open arrests of dissidents in most of Europe… And oh yes, mass child sex slavery rings operating from Epstein to Rotherham to Jimmy Savile, in which thousands of white girls were systematically abused and threatened with death, all as government officials willingly participated.

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Here is a portrait of George Washington:

George Washington, Gilbert Stuart, begun 1795.

I just want to take a brief break so you can look him in the eye…

And I want you to say to his face, that you want things to remain peaceful.

That all that has happened is insufficient justification for any conflict or rebellion, and as such his rebellion was even less justified.

I want you to look him in the eye and call him a Traitor, Criminal, Monster, and moral reprobate. That his every sense of honor, justice, war, peace, good government and manly virtue was wrong, evil, ill conceived, and the marker of the profoundest spiritual and psychological perversion.

Afterall YOU have VASTLY more reason for rebellion. And you do not think any such conflict is called for… and that it’d be wrong for any of your fellow citizens to rebel.

If it is wrong for YOU to to turn rebel and terrorist, then clearly George Washington was a twisted and evil man who deserves to burn in hell and who you should spit upon.

So look him in the eye and tell him to burn in hell!!!

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If however you persist in thinking George Washington was a good and honorable man to be admired…

I’d ask you instead to look in a mirror:

Note: Effect may vary depending on Device, Lighting, and Screen Cleanliness.

The myth of progress serves an important purpose… The idea that somehow not only the material and technological has advanced, but that that the moral, educational, and spiritual state of man has improved since the time of the founders, and that the American public schools with its “two moms” reading assignments to illiterates (the majority of whom NEVER read above a 6th grade level) is somehow superior to men who were reading Livy in Latin… Serves many legitimating purposes, but maybe the most important is to stop one from holding themselves to the standards that their ancestors held…

If we are “progressing” the state can justify why you never need to hold yourself to the standards your ancestors held themselves to and never have to fight or defend your honor as they did.

It it the perfect cover for decay.

One may “progress” as the decaying carcass progresses towards being soil for worms.

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However of course I am Canadian… So whether this essay is truly an endorsement of armed rebellion or merely an attack on George Washington must remain ambiguous.

Is George Washington slaughterous murderous traitory scum who should burn in hell?

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Do current conditions demand 35 million Americans, and possibly 60-80 million in the wider west, dead in a war of liberation?

Any speculator might plausibly conclude one or the other… Hell! One could believe both!

But I see no way one could believe neither.

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