Lawfare – written by Jordan Holmes

Lawfare – written by Jordan Holmes

You and I do not have the same concept of American law, which by now is a fact with which you are intimately familiar. But that is because “Law” is a false cognate. “Law” is an individual word. It is a word defined by the individual, not the group. When you tell me “This is illegal” and then what happens is six years of delay, arguing, continuing to do the ILLEGAL THING, and still worse follow, then what is illegal to me and you are very different things. If this is illegal, then it will be stopped. 

If it’s not illegal, then we can negotiate. How is something both legal and illegal at the same time? Such that you cannot be punished for it, yet cannot be free of it. What is “Law”? What is the thing we pretend to agree on? 

I know many people with battered legal syndrome. Why are you hiding that joint from _____? Why are you hiding _____ from the law, if it is now legal or if it will be legal? What is legal if it’s a 4-dimensional question? What is illegal if it is later legal? 

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Illegal Time – written by Jordan Holmes

Illegal Time – written by Jordan Holmes

Stop thinking about what’s legal and what’s illegal and start thinking about how the law works! What would happen if you or the government did something illegal, but you had a lot of money? Sure, it’s illegal, sure, it’s wrong or whatever, but, you can tie them up in court

What’s illegal and what’s legal? What matters is time! What Alex Jones has done is not just stolen money, dignity, safety, and made them question their sense of reality and question the honor of their murdered children, he’s not done just that. He’s stolen time. He’s done 50 illegal things. A 100 illegal things

A 1000 illegal things! A million illegal things, who cares!

But every time he does an illegal thing, he steals 3 months of your life! He should be held accountable for that

The law is designed for this purpose. The law organized as it is, is in and of itself theft. It is theft of time. How much money has Alex made and stolen from the families in the time he stole? How much time have we spent collectively dealing with his shit! That’s not how this has to fucking go! 

It’s going this way because the system is not set up to deal with this! The system is set up to help rich people hide money while they are being held “accountable”. It’s time. It’s time to hide money and shit from people while they are being held “accountable”. 

How long does it take to reach a settlement with Boeing? Why? Everyone saw the problem together! You and I are not insane for thinking when we saw that, the very next image should have been those Boeing executives in chains – like you and I would be if we murdered people!

You and I are not insane for thinking that doesn’t make sense. When people tell you why all of this is happening and give you extremely reasonable thought out responses for the challenges that you might face in attempting to enact the reforms you are interested in, they are engaging in the same thing!

Change in our world comes fast. Change has to come fast because people hate change so much they make up any excuse to normalize the status quo. You are not arguing with reasonable, well thought out responses, you are arguing with a fear of change that is totally reasonable! But when change happens fast, those same people argue in your favor because now we are in a new Status Quo.

Change is terrifying because change can be fucked up! Change can fail! But the current system can fail too! A different legal system might fuck up shit even worse than what we’ve done with Alex. 


But I very much doubt that!


Jordan Holmes is an author and podcaster. You can listen to him two times a week on the Knowledge Fight podcast, and read his book and other musings here. This essay was reprinted from his site by request of the author.

The Reasons Why Donald Trump May Announce His 2024 Presidential Campaign Shortly (and the one reason that is absolutely not true)

The Reasons Why Donald Trump May Announce His 2024 Presidential Campaign Shortly (and the one reason that is absolutely not true)

If you are to believe Alex Jones and Roger Stone, Donald Trump will be using the Independence Day holiday as the way to kick off his 2024 run for office of President Of The United States of America, a job he recently held until Joe Biden absolutely decimated him in the 2020 election. Now, short of mental illness, I’m not sure why anyone would trust anything Jones or Stone says, but I do think their prediction has a chance of coming true.

Let’s talk about why.

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Are You (Joe Rogan) Experienced?

Are You (Joe Rogan) Experienced?

This is going to be another one of those stories where we talk about something that many comedians have been discussing on social media. Maybe you’re a comedian and this interests you. Maybe you’re not a comedian but keep your finger on the pulse of comedy news. Maybe you’re an alpaca and your farmer is reading this to you.

Like the other stories I’ve written in this vein about people like Shane Gillis and Dave Chappelle, this is a story where I take a look at speech and consequences and the concept of a “cancel culture”, though the fact that I’ve put quotes around that term should tell you where I stand on it. There’s a lot of stuff you could also cover, from toxic fandom to how so many people are using a climate of fear for their own personal gain.

So, strap in, kids. Let’s talk about Joe Rogan.

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It’s Like They’re Not Even Trying: A Brief Study At Debunking COVID Misinformation

It’s Like They’re Not Even Trying: A Brief Study At Debunking COVID Misinformation

As we are weeks away from entering the third year of living with COVID, one cannot help but see what a toll has been taken on the world. People have gotten hyper-emotional. We’re all mad and sad and scared and confused. We all just want answers because we have so many questions.

Sadly, too many people have turned to the internet to find answers. In theory, this should be a wonderful thing. The internet can be, when used properly, an amazing wealth of information. However, like most good things, it can also be used to cause considerable harm.

I get that there are a lot of bad faith actors out there; people who just use the world wide web and all of its applications to confuse people. I just wish some of them weren’t just so fucking stupid.

Here is one example.

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