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There's a positive element to this: It allows us to build parallel invite-only economies, because people will actually want to be part of them because the Mainstream Economy has increasingly the vibes of a public school cafeteria. Building invite-only underground economies is great because as they become more relevant, the mainstream economy loses valuable customers and has to close down, leaving a desert for those who are not welcome.

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See also: Costco

Someone said they could get more customers by abandoning the membership (mostly refunded) and slightly lowering prices. Management responded by pointing out that 100% of your problem customers fall into the category of those that won’r pay $50 up front for a $100 refund.
@BarelyEagle @teto @CapitalB @cjd do any of you have any advice as to how to join groups that filter out the scourge, either actively or simply because they filter themselves out.

I work in a big IT company where I can be pretty invisible, and outside of work I live in a somewhat wealthy conservative area, sharing an apartment with single working men 30 and up, and spend my free time practicing bouldering and playing chess.

This kind of living is comfortable and I dont have to deal with nons, even if I am around them, its usually the more sophisticated ones and I dont have to interact with them if I dont want to.

I am curious as to how to move my life more towards this direction.

I didnt go to university because despite being very affordable in my country, it was a requirement that I would have to live in shared housing with other students (mostly nons, communists, feminists, etc.) And also the universities themselves are dominated by them and have little to offer me.

So getting a higher education doesnt seem to be an option to separate oneself from the scourge.

I've gone to Catholic and Orthodox churches and while the latter are much better, its mostly older people from Eastern Europe and I while I enjoyed mass eventually just stopped going.

Mostly things that require work, effort and sacrifice will filter actively or passively. Hiking, swimming, art, agriculture, classic car restoration, animal welfare, small business, shooting sports, hunting/tracking, book clubs, martial arts, coin collecting, rc and drone flying, kayaking, church maybe and cultural heritage societies.

Yes, big problem for pretty much all "alternative living" scenes, it's a magnet for dregs. All of the wignat / patriot / libertarian / aryan type communities face the exact same issue.

Christians are some of the better ones at dealing with this b/c they put extraordinary effort into the self-regulation side of things.
Oil rig work is great if you are single.
A place to sleep, food and no temptation to blow money on stupid shit you don't need.
Plus, unlike the military, you are very unlikely to take orders from a dude in red heels.
Yeah, just the shit thing is it kind of precludes having a family - or, it's possible but not at all ideal.

Back of my head thought: Alaskan colony, one smart thing to do might be sell labor to the surrounding oil and mineral corporations.

The idea is if you're centrally located then you're probably 200 miles from any of dozens of oil and gold mining operations - and in a plane, 200 miles is like an hour and a half commute.

Out a few days, come back to the wife and kids kind of thing...
@cjd @teto Nukes are like the atheist's Second Coming, yes they would solve all problems but we have no way of affecting them. There is also a game-theoretic proscription against them, as those who have them stand to lose the most from using them.
>Israel about to get overrun
>Nukes Europe
>Jews are now homeless and abhorred
You see why this is a horrible idea. It's like the "nukes/moon landing aren't real" camp, yes they are real, but only so niche applicable they might as well not be real and nothing much would change.
Yeah, Sampson Option would indeed probably backfire quite badly. But I wouldn't be startled if some way or another, nuclear weapons did end up getting deployed - when you have so much game theory going on, it only takes one moment for one participant to suddenly be in a situation where they think the button makes sense.

IMO atheist's Second Coming is more like "decentralized online reputation makes it so NOBODY can get away with anything anymore"...
nooooo you can't just build parallel institutions you need to already have institutional power through official channels

it'll never work, you need to think about my stock portfolio, if it doesn't benefit my retirement plan it's a crackpot idea and you're an idiot for even suggesting it

if this was something that could work don't you think this would have already been done? im scared of change and creatively dead, unable to adapt or innovate, our options obviously are to do something i am comfortable and familiar with or to give up entirely
What you can't do is hang a giant sign outside which says "GYM, MEN ONLY".

How many "private clubs" exist that are effectively white only just on account of the fact that they have an application process and they've never found a colored person that qualified? There must be thousands of them.
The way France works if if you're not making a nuisance of yourself, they generally don't really care. If you are, then they will find something to get you on.

Someone commenting on American and international politics, in English, not really interfering in French politics, and not actually like *harassing* people - it doesn't fit the profile of being a real threat.

French people will shun you, hate you, call you bad names and so on but they will not go to the police. Disliking the police is pretty universal here - remember, it's a very Leftist country, and Leftists are more on the "defund the police" side of things...

> The people running French riot cop squads are fucking crazy

I don't really believe in rioting as a legitimate form of political expression, so if the French riot cops want to beat the shit out of the rioters, I have nothing to say about it.