#feudalism — Public Fediverse posts

Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.

The state has performed one execution in that period.

#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital

#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy

Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.

The state has performed one execution in that period.

#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital

#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy

Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.

The state has performed one execution in that period.

#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital

#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy

Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.

The state has performed one execution in that period.

#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital

#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy

Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.

The state has performed one execution in that period.

#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital

#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy

Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgia

Report: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html

Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgia

Report: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html

Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgia

Report: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html

Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgia

Report: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html

Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgia

Report: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html

#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)

https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/

The third and final instalment of our "Letters from Prison" series is now available. This letter comes from palliative care, where Ky Walsh has been moved after a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer. It is a stark, unvarnished look at his final thoughts.

https://medium.com/@chribonn/0aaa0d386e49

#CriminalJusticeReform #VictimsRights #PrisonReform #WealthInequality #Writing #Fiction #SocialJustice #Feudalism #ViolenceAgainstWomen #NonProfitTransparency #WomensAdvocacy #TTMO

Ky Walsh was recently moved to palliative care with stage IV pancreatic cancer, and he does not expect to live much longer. Dictating his words to a volunteer scribe through bone-deep exhaustion, Walsh has shared his final reflections on life, loss, and society.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/03/life-without-parole-letters-from-prison.html

#CriminalJusticeReform #VictimsRights #PrisonReform #WealthInequality #SocialJustice #Feudalism #ViolenceAgainstWomen #NonProfitTransparency #WomensAdvocacy #TTMO

Security is a social problem first, a tech problem second

https://hamishcampbell.com/security-is-a-social-problem-first-a-tech-problem-second/

Connecting #Capitalism to #Colonialism

“Colonialism has never ended. #Slavery has never ended. #Feudalism has never ended. The power elite just find more and more inventive ways to #exploit the majority.”

by Alnoor ladha
August, 2021

"When we think of colonialism, slavery, and feudalism, we perhaps envisage these subjects as elements of our history: abhorrent, destructive, and with lasting repercussions - but essentially something in our past which we must recognise, address and account. What we perhaps don’t think of is the food on our plates, the clothes we’re wearing, or even the phone in our hands.

"In our global economy, however, #SupplyChains hide a magnitude of #HumanRights abuses and #EnvironmentalDestruction, including #ChildLabour, slave labour, resource depletion, toxic #dumping, illegal #deforestation, corporate threats, the murder of #LandDefenders… amongst many other social and #ecological atrocities.

"But what does this have to do with colonialism? When it comes to consumption and the material objects which occupy our daily lives, people are increasingly talking about the hidden cost, or the true cost of things. We often see that it is communities and peoples in the so-called #GlobalSouth who are bearing that true cost. It is not by coincidence that economic globalisation, the inevitable consequence of capitalism, leads to more destruction in nations which have historically been colonised, marginalised, and labelled as ‘developing’ countries. This is because the ostensible ‘success’ of both capitalism and colonialism hinges upon exploitation."

Read more:
https://www.ecoresolution.earth/resources/captialism-to-colonialism

#Oligarchy #Elite #Oiligarchy #Crapitalism #CorporateColonialism

SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.

The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.

SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
they corrupt the sinews of America.”

“They have alienated men from family, community, and God.

We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
true to his nature and calling,
rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.

At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.

Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
— it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.

SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
— in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.

“The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.

“How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”

SACR may be his answer.

In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.

Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
“The Super Afrikaners,”
a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.

“That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.

“That’s the one,” Kressin replied.

South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.

The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.

Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.

The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.

But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.

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Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”

#faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.

Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”

Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.

The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.

In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”

“We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.

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A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.

🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?

🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?

🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.

🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.

🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there

Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
#virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”

Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
#influence,
#capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
#lawfare;
#cybersecurity”),
or #wealth.

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Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.

The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.

But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.

Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”

“Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.

“Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
— as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”

#Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.

The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.

Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.

#cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

Under Williams’ leadership, Claremont has become well-known for a vision of America in which the country as we know it is all but lost, set to be replaced by a “regime” that its leaders hope to craft to come after the current, “cold civil war” concludes.

While introducing another podcast discussion between Haywood and Anton, Williams called Haywood a “friend of recent years” who was willing to discuss the country’s “decaying republic.”

“The phrase #cold #civil #war is chosen deliberately,” Williams told TPM. “I hope it remains cold indefinitely.”

It’s not only about the republic. Internal SACR messages show that the group envisions itself as stewards of a hard brand of Christianity.

Yenor, in one message that he planned to use for recruitment, summed it up:
“Our belief is that the country’s track is unsustainable, and the only way to secure a future for Christian families is to keep and take back space now closed to Christians.”

#Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

What sets SACR apart is that its members come from and are recruited from the upper crust of American society.

They are wealthy — independent wealth is a requirement for membership, per documents TPM obtained. And they are credentialed.

SACR offers a redoubt for powerful people who take the culture war extremely seriously and believe in their bones that hemorrhaging church membership, the Obergefell decision on same-sex marriage, and the ebbing status of Christian men in American society are an existential threat to their vision for America, and who have the means to build a society on a different path.

Organized as a 501(c)10, Williams described SACR as analogous in structure to the Masons or Moose lodges
— a national superstructure with chapters around the country, some public and some not.

Its members are, as a rule, secret. But those members who have incorporated chapters, as TPM discovered, end up identified in public records.

In an interview, Williams told TPM that SACR emerged from conversations between himself, self-described “industrialist” #Charles #Haywood, and others around Claremont in 2020.

Skyler Kressin, an Idaho accountant, and Fischer, also participated.

The idea, Williams said, came about amid conversations about “civic projects and constitutionalism and the state of America.”

“Part of the scholarly project of the Claremont Institute has been to lament the rise, really since the late 19th century, of a certain different way of thinking about politics and how to do government outside, we would argue, the American constitutional tradition,” he said.

Haywood, a University of Chicago-educated attorney, incorporated SACR and sits on its board. He did not respond to requests for comment from TPM.

Haywood has laid out an elaborate cosmology of America’s place in time, and his own place in America, through hundreds of blog posts he’s written on his website,
The Worthy House.

To Haywood, American government is a house of cards waiting to be blown over
— run by a cabal that he describes as the “brawndo tyranny,” referring to the energy drink from the 2006 cult classic movie Idiocracy.

Haywood says he can see what will likely come next:
a new #feudalism,
an archipelago of local “#armed #patronage networks,”
a vision inspired by the groups white settler farmers formed in South Africa as Blacks struggled for majority rule.

#Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

Are you siding with #Harry or the #palace? Either way, you fall into the #royalist #trap - #Polly #Toynbee

"#Monarchy is a cast of mind that blocks #reform, an unholy religion made of these remarkably unremarkable people. Despite the best education for generations, their most useful genetic function is to demonstrate that talent and intelligence is randomly assigned. Monarchy breeds in #Britain a #feudalism of the imagination that gives a stamp of approval to #inheritance and to the #inequality, risen rampantly in recent decades, that is at the root of our #social and #political #malaise"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/09/prince-harry-palace-royalist-media-britain-monarchy