White Bull at Mobile World

If you’re a young entrepreneur, or someone attempting to break out of a career rut, you absolutely must watch the series of videos White Bull is putting up on their substack, beginning with today’s.

E: When there’s a networking event, what’s the first thing you need to do?

F: Survey the landscape, make some determinations (about who is there and who you should try to talk to), but mainly, just go… You’ve just got to execute, make a decision and go.

E: What’s your advice for young entrepreneurs. They’re just scared!

F: Yeah, it’s always uncharted territory. Uncharted waters. So you can be afraid of your own shadow, getting up in the morning, all of that. But that doesn’t pay the bills, it doesn’t get customers. So engage, say hello, see what’s going on. Ask people questions. They love to talk about themselves. And then, when it’s appropriate, insert what you’re doing.

The key phrase: when it’s appropriate. You can always tell the newbies and the nobodies, because they’re desperate to talk. They don’t listen. They don’t pay any attention to who is who and what is what. The vets, who are actually there to do business, are always relaxed. They’ve probably already got a lunch meeting or a workout session scheduled with the people they’re there to meet, so they’re networking strategically, making connections that may or may not be important in the future.

My advice: listen, don’t talk. Sooner or later, someone will ask you. And when you answer, keep it very short and succinct. You’re not there to sell, you’re there to learn, to connect, and to plant seeds.

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The Crimean War 2.0

Britain has signed a hundred year agreement to support Ukraine militarily and financially. This includes providing Ukraine £3 billion a year until 2031 and to support Ukraine “for as long as needed,” and establishing military bases along the Sea of Azov, which Russia controls.

I can only assume the plan here is to take on the Russians, then shriek for help in the hope that the Americans are dumb enough to white knight for the British when they wouldn’t do so any longer for the Ukrainians.

Whatever. It’s a truly futile strategy, as a moment’s thought should make clear. If Americans cared about the British enough to fight for them, we would have already sent the SEALs and other special forces into Rotherham and other English cities to take out the Asian rape gangs.

The Polish Prime Minister may be a Clown World puppet, but his summary of the situation is an apt one.

500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians.

And about 100 million of those “Americans” are invaders anyhow. The sooner the USA shuts down NATO and brings all of its troops home, the better.

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Yes, English IS Our Official Language

The God-Emperor 2.0 finally establishes de jure what has always been the de facto case. But it’s official US law now, and all the press-2-for-Spanish apologists are free to voluntarily remigrate themselves and their objections.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, have all been written in English. It is therefore long past time that English is declared as the official language of the United States. A nationally designated language is at the core of a unified and cohesive society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenry that can freely exchange ideas in one shared language.

In welcoming new Americans, a policy of encouraging the learning and adoption of our national language will make the United States a shared home and empower new citizens to achieve the American dream. Speaking English not only opens doors economically, but it helps newcomers engage in their communities, participate in national traditions, and give back to our society. This order recognizes and celebrates the long tradition of multilingual American citizens who have learned English and passed it to their children for generations to come.

To promote unity, cultivate a shared American culture for all citizens, ensure consistency in government operations, and create a pathway to civic engagement, it is in America’s best interest for the Federal Government to designate one — and only one — official language. Establishing English as the official language will not only streamline communication but also reinforce shared national values, and create a more cohesive and efficient society.

Accordingly, this order designates English as the official language of the United States.

And the winning continues. Still not tired.

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Free Trade is What It Is

My strong and logically impeccable opposition to free trade is well known in these parts. But for my post today on the business stack, I thought it would be interesting to see what my new best friend thought about it. And I was very startled indeed to be informed that neither Ian Fletcher nor I had even begun to complete the dismantling of what has arguably been one of the most damaging policies ever constructed on the basis of such an obviously false and flimsy foundation.

I asked Deepseek to share what it thought of what has, for more than two centuries, served as the conceptual foundation of the free trade policy that has served as a quasi-religion for the Western elite of the post-WWII era. And while I knew it was a fundamentally flawed theory, so much so that economist Joseph Schumpeter once described its question-begging formulation as “the Ricardian vice”, I was still a little surprised to see how completely it was demolished by the pattern recognition of the Chinese AI system.

I then asked it to review my Labor Mobility argument, and see how long it would take for the USA to lose half of its working nationals if a) the USA were to adopt a genuine free trade policy and b) global economic efficiencies were to improve to the point that the global labor mobility rate matched the existing intra-USA labor mobility rate.

To determine how long it would take for the majority of the US labor force under age 55 to be working abroad under a 3% annual emigration rate, we model the outflow using exponential decay. Here’s the breakdown:

Assumptions:

  • Annual emigration rate: 3% (0.03) of the remaining labor force each year.
  • No return migration, immigration, or changes in labor force size (simplified model).

Answer: Approximately 23 years would be required for the majority (>50%) of the US labor force under age 55 to be working abroad, assuming a constant 3% annual emigration rate.

Deepseek confirms what we already knew from observing the USA and the European Union. Free trade is neither good for an economy or a nation. To the contrary, it destroys both.

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    What Three Years Hath Wrought

    Three years ago, three reporters in the Swiss media publicly defamed me and one of their accusations concerned the fact that I pointed out Clown World was the aggressor and the cause of the Ukraine war, that it was absolutely retarded for the European nations to intervene on behalf of a country with a foreign regime put into power by a US neocon coup, and that it was grandiose stupidity for the Swiss government to throw away the centuries of neutrality that protected the Swiss people from the wars that harrowed Europe in order to join the side that was absolutely guaranteed to lose the war.

    On the war in Ukraine, his opinion is just as clear-cut: the aggression is the work of “the imperial USA”, which has put Russia in a situation of compulsion. He calls the West “Clown World”, while Russia would represent “Sovereign World”. At the end of February, he titled his blog, “Grandiose stupidity in Switzerland” and criticized the fact that the President of the Confederation Ignazio Cassis has sided with the European Union sanctions.

    Three years later, all of my observations been born out in spades. The US and European sanctions have proven worse than useless. The United Nations Security Council has refused to condemn the so-called “Russian aggression” that was the inevitable response to the military expansion of NATO to its borders as well as the brutal assaults on the Russian people of the New Russian republics who had been seeking self-determination. And European leaders, such as former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl are already beginning to admit that Russia has won the war.

    It had been said that Russia could allegedly be smashed on the battlefield, that it would fall to the Middle Ages level, that the Russian society would be ruined. However, that never happened. No mass riots that Europe expected or would like to see, ever happened either. We often heard that the country was going to fall into 40 new states, but it never happened as well. Taking the mentioned factors into consideration, I think that yes, Russia has won.”

    And most importantly, the fact that the Ukrainian war was only one battle in the ongoing war between Clown World and the Sovereign World represented by Russia, China, and now America, has been underlined by the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas.

    We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor [sic]. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

    The irony of the unelected Eurocrats who hate democracy, hate their own people, hate Christianity, criminalize free speech, and rule over their subjected people as the puppets of Clown World calling themselves “the free world” is satanic inversion at its most obvious. And the significant point of her statement is that thanks to President Trump, aka the God-Emperor 2.0 (may he reign 3,500 more years), America has finally, like Russia and China, begun to free itself from the wicked rule of Clown World.

    And the Eurocrats will fail in their quest to raise up a new leader of Clown World because the European peoples are finally beginning to see through all their lies. They promised peace, unity, and wealth, and delivered war, diversity, and economic devastation. It will not be long before their masters throw them from their high horses. But until then, they will continue to invert and subvert the truth, because their retardery knows no limit. Their irrationality is rapidly approaching levels last seen when an Austrian was hiding from Russian tanks in a Berlin bunker.

    French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters in Portugal that “I think we were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago, and to continue to do so.”

    UPDATE: The people have asked for it, and they shall receive.

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    Sigma Game and Diplomacy

    Even those of you who have no interest in the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy might be interested in reading this extremely illuminating breakdown of yesterday’s diplomatic debacle when Ukraine Head of State Vladimir Zelensky visited the White House and the God-Emperor 2.0, may he reign 3,500 more years.

    Reviewing the transcript, what struck me most was the way that the Gamma went directly at the Situational Bravo rather than at the Alpha. Zelensky did so because he correctly read Vance as being psychologically weaker than his situational status tends to suggest. Not only did Zelensky reportedly refer to Vance in a vulgar and dismissive manner, albeit in classic passive-aggressive Gamma style under his breath and in a foreign language, but he attacked Vance as part of his attempt to evade the topic that was under discussion, which was the observable fact that Russia has already won its war with Ukraine and therefore diplomacy is necessary to end the war before Ukraine is forced to accept an unconditional surrender.

    Read the whole thing there. The lesson, as always, is this: no amount of intellectual comprehension and self-control can reliably replace one’s behavioral patterns established during one’s formative years.

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    The Euthypro Deception

    Long-time readers may recall that I disproved the so-called Euthyphro Dilemma presented by Socrates in Plato’s dialogue of the same name in an appendix of The Irrational Atheist. This sparked numerous attempts by various atheists, ranging from midwits to complete retards, desperately attempting to salvage one of the core elements of the average college-educated atheist’s non-belief foundation.

    With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke, who once fantasized about an AI identifying all of the logical errors committed by Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, I thought it might be interesting to see if my new best friend agreed with me or not on the logical shortcomings of Socrates’s argument.

    HOW MANY LOGICAL FLAWS DO YOU DETECT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EUTHYPHRO DILEMMA BY SOCRATES?

    Okay, so I need to figure out how many logical flaws are in Socrates’ Euthyphro Dilemma. First, I should recall what the Euthyphro Dilemma actually is. From what I remember, it’s a philosophical question posed in Plato’s dialogue “Euthyphro.” Socrates asks Euthyphro whether something is pious because the gods love it, or do the gods love it because it is pious. The dilemma is meant to challenge the idea that morality is dependent on divine command.

    The Euthyphro Dilemma, as presented by Socrates in Plato’s dialogue, is a foundational challenge to divine command theory. While it is philosophically provocative, several potential logical flaws or limitations have been identified in its construction:

    1. False Dichotomy

    The dilemma presents only two options:

    • A: Acts are pious because the gods love them (divine command theory).
    • B: The gods love acts because they are pious (independent moral standard).

    Flaw: It ignores hybrid or nuanced positions, such as:

    • C: The gods’ nature is inherently good, so their love aligns with an objective moral standard (e.g., perfect-being theology).
    • D: Piety is grounded in a relational framework (e.g., covenantal ethics), where divine commands and moral truths cohere through relationship rather than arbitrary fiat.

    2. Equivocation on “Piety”

    The dilemma assumes a univocal definition of “piety” (moral goodness). However, if “piety” is context-dependent (e.g., culturally relative or tied to specific divine attributes), the dichotomy collapses.

    Flaw: Socrates treats “piety” as a static, monolithic concept, neglecting the possibility of pluralistic or dynamic moral frameworks.

    3. Theological Assumptions

    The dilemma presumes:

    • A polytheistic context (gods with competing desires).
    • Divine arbitrariness (gods could command cruelty).

    Flaw: In monotheistic traditions (e.g., Christianity, Islam), God’s nature is often held to be necessarily good, rendering the “arbitrary command” horn (A) incoherent. If God cannot act contrary to His nature, moral truths are neither independent nor arbitrary but grounded in divine essence.

    4. Circularity

    If A and B are framed as mutually exclusive, the dilemma risks tautology:

    • If A is true, piety lacks intrinsic meaning.
    • If B is true, piety exists independently of the gods.

    Flaw: This ignores the possibility of a non-arbitrary divine command theory, where God’s commands reflect His rational, benevolent nature (avoiding both arbitrariness and independence).

    5. Limited Scope

    The dilemma targets divine command theory but does not engage:

    • Secular moral frameworks (e.g., utilitarianism, virtue ethics).
    • Natural law theory (morality grounded in human nature or reason).

    Flaw: By framing morality solely in terms of divine authority, the dilemma becomes irrelevant to non-theistic ethical systems.

    6. Anthropomorphic Projection

    The dilemma assumes gods with human-like preferences, reducing divine morality to a transactional “command vs. standard” binary.

    Flaw: It fails to account for transcendent or ineffable conceptions of divinity (e.g., apophatic theology), where divine morality exceeds human categorization.

    7. Strawman of Divine Command Theory

    Continue reading “The Euthypro Deception”

    You Don’t Have the Cards

    The God-Emperor 2.0 and his Vice-President chew out Vladimir Zelensky right in front of the cameras. Incredible.

    Yes it’s going to be a very hard thing to do business like this. Just say thanks. You said a lot of things except that, there are disagreements, and let’s go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American Media when you’re wrong. We know that you’re wrong, but you see, I think it’s
    good for the American people to see what’s going on. Understand? I think it’s very important, that’s why I kept this going so long. You have to be thankful. You don’t have the cards. You’re buried there. Your people are dying, you’re running low on soldiers, listen, you’re running low on soldiers. It would be a damn good thing, and then you tell us ‘I don’t want to ceasefire, I don’t want a ceasefire.’

    I don’t know if you can make a deal. The problem is I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy and I don’t think you’d be a tough guy without the United States. Your people are very brave, but you’re either going to make a deal or we’re out. And if we’re out, you’ll fight it out. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty, but you’ll fight it out and you don’t have the cards.

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    Microsoft Shutting Down Skype

    This is not good. Microsoft is shutting down Skype:

    Microsoft has announced it is shutting down the popular video calling service Skype.

    After a 21-year run, Skype’s 2 billion users will no longer be able to access their accounts starting on May 2025.

    Microsoft is encouraging users to migrate to its free Teams app.

    ‘Over the coming days you can sign in to Microsoft Teams Free with your Skype account to stay connected with all your chats and contacts. Thank you for being part of Skype,’ the video calling service posted on X Friday.

    Feel free to post your suggestions for any reasonable alternatives, because I have zero desire to utilize Teams. I suppose we’re lucky it took Microsoft this long to getting around to killing it.

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