North Stoke Life

Around 73 million induced abortions occur worldwide each year, according to WHO estimates. That figure exceeds the roughly 61–64 million total deaths of people who have already been born. In most places where abortion is legal, the decision rests with the pregnant woman; men have no equivalent unilateral right. The proposition examined here is that the guilt and shame some women carry from these experiences—particularly among those who are more politically active—can be compensated for by unusually strong empathy and policy support for the relatively uncontrolled entry and presence of illegal or irregular migrants. This is offered as one possible root of what has been called “suicidal empathy”: a willingness to prioritize the interests of outsiders even when the scale of inflows creates clear costs for the receiving society. The claim is that holding strong pro-abortion views and strong support for largely open illegal migration can appear coherent within progressive ideology yet may a...

Only a part of the tax is theft. All tax comes out of land rent in the end. Instead of collecting the rent directly, we collect it indirectly through taxing people's earned incomes.  This is extremely inefficient and costly and causes huge amounts of unemployment, bankruptcy and eventually boosts the excess death toll of a nation.  These deadweight costs ARE theft.

You do realise, you and I are abolitionists, don't you? We want the abolition of taxation. All of it. Without exception. Because in the end, all taxation comes out of rent. So abolish all taxation and collect the rents directly it is far cheaper and sustainable as a method of revenue for a nation. We are identical to the slavery abolitionists. Who long ago, suffered from the same resistance to dehumanising slaves to carry on with the exploitations of human bodies for profit. We are identical to the abortion abolitionists. Who today, suffer from the same resistance to dehumanising unborn humans to carry on with a death cult of child sacrifice. We are taxation abolitionists and will be remembered with honour, one day, long after we are gone.

Part 3 I am writing this in the fifth season. The sheet has been amended once. The new lines are shorter than the first and harder to set aside: any household that keeps a terrace must also keep the stretch of wall or road that borders it, and any child who attends the square sessions must be able to name the winds before the season ends or the household’s claim lapses. The silver is unchanged in amount, but it is now released only after the work is walked and marked. Two of the longer-settled families on the lower terraces tested the limit and lost their sections; they left before the next ship cycle. Others, who had spoken of waiting out the clan speakers, signed the amended lines instead and took the upper road that had gone uncleared for years. The remaining clan houses answered differently than before. Three that had kept their shutters closed opened them when the amended sheet was read, not with speeches but with tools. They claimed the western terraces that had been empty even i...

Give them a way out  Creating a pathway for them to defect from the uni-state is a far more viable strategy for saving the nation. Its fairly clear to most people in the US and UK there are 2 large collectives competing for overall power: those who love their nation and those who do not. Many loyal nationalists are saying the dishonourable should be severely punished. This is a terrible mistake strategically. Creating a pathway for the dishonourable collective to defect from the uni-state is a far more viable strategy for saving the nation. I know that's not the satisfying answer. When people have betrayed their own country, the instinct is to promise them the worst: public humiliation, harsh punishment, a reckoning they'll never forget. It feels like justice, and it may even be deserved. But it's bad strategy. Why threats backfire Think about it from their side of the line. If you promise humiliation and punishment in advance, you've told the...