Rule 2: Don’t Just Boycott. Compete!

During the 2020 election, America’s big corporations went all in against Donald Trump. They slanted the news, warped the search engine results, delayed vaccine announcements, censored social media, celebrated left wing vandalism, and subsidized ballot stuffing. They have pushed wokeness and sexual deviance into our movies, sporting events, comic books, music, magazines, and even our breakfast cereals.

Such behavior needs to be punished! But how?

Organize boycotts? That would require organizing, and freedom lovers don’t do that so well. When it comes to groupthink, we are way outclassed. Besides, whom do we not boycott?

How about shareholder activism? The Retiree Party has plenty of shareholders, after all. We have potential power. But some of the worst corporate players are huge. On the other hand, most shareholders are passive. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. All we have to do is out squeak the woketards…

Ouch! That sounds difficult! The opposition is awful good at squeaking; they even have degrees in it. Moreover, all this wokeness could be a smokescreen, a useful tool for our corporate overlords. America’s biggest corporations hate Donald Trump and any America First agenda because these corporations are no longer truly American; they are multinational. Trump was threatening their profits and power bigly. A President who serves America is dangerous to corporations doing business with China. And if we make tariffs significant again, we threaten a gigantic corporate income tax loophole: moving profits to zombie subsidiaries located in tax havens.

Take Apple, for example. Apple has a huge futuristic office in Cuppertino California where thousands of developers and designers go to work. A naive mind would believe that Apple’s intellectual property was developed here in the United States. But no! Apple USA pays massive royalties to a small subsidiary on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. Apparently Apple’s legions of US developers are merely putting the final touches on ideas and software developed by some hyperintelligent sheep or something. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey.html]

If Apple had to pay tariffs on those royalties comparable to US corporate income taxes, that imported intellectual property would magically become Made in USA. And Apple would have to pay taxes just like your local muffler dealer.

Narrow thinking libertarians and the corporate cheerleaders at Forbes may celebrate the fact that somebody escapes US taxation. But for those of use who would like to do capitalism or at least have more corporations to choose from for their employment, this loophole is evil news. This loophole creates a dangerous oligopoly, a concentration of corporate power that is one step away from socialism.

The leftists had a point when they occupied Wall Street. Wall Street struck back with an incredible judo move, and now Wall Street occupies the US.

If we want to have truly American corporations, we will need to make them ourselves. This is a lot of work and scary expensive. But for some, the project could be incredibly lucrative. Hundreds of billions of dollars are sitting on the sidewalk waiting to picked up.

Seriously. Most of our established corporations have chosen insult the values of something like half the population of the United States in order to appease some woke ninnies. Not only that, they are purging experienced managers for being too old/white/Republican/Christian/etc. It is now possible to simply duplicate proven business plans here in a very wealthy market, and you can snap up experienced people who know the details.

Remember Snapple? Rush Limbaugh happened to like their disgustingly sweet stale iced tea product. Snapple executives took the bait and dared to advertise on Limbaugh’s show. Snapple went from being a regional juice company to a national phenomenon that sold for a 1.7 billion dollars. Multiply that by several hundred. Or maybe several thousand. We have a gold rush situation on our hands.

I am not the only one to notice. We have several players making free speech alternatives to Twitter. Mike Lindell created an online nifty invention marketplace (MyStore.com) after being booted from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Others are creating an entire online business infrastructure stack (hosting, payments, etc.) friendly to right wing businesses. Ben Shapiro has started a movie company to make thrillers that endorse values such as private gun ownership. And then you have the legions of blockchain nerds who have some of the same techno-libertarian sensibilities that characterized the early years of the Internet.

But let’s not stop there. Merely creating conservative friendly clones of today’s corporate behemoths would simply divide America further. Our mission is not to secede, but to succeed! Let the woketards shop in niche markets for their clown cars, soy curds, and soul crushing art. Our job is to take over the mainstream. Use the pool of angry traditionalists as your early adopter market, not your end goal.

In the sections to follow, we’ll look at some long running annoyances, problems which predate the Trump years. And we will also look at some terrifying trends in order to avoid a dystopian future. Finally, in true reactionary spirit, we’ll look at old business plans which have fallen out of favor. Some of them may be due for a revival.

A word of warning: I’ll be releasing a Kraken’s worth of business ideas. Some of them have the potential to create new billionaires. Others, new bankruptcies. For some of the ideas I’m relying on book learning and passive observation. My retail experience is limited to a short lived T-shirt business. For the computer stuff I have rather more expertise. I’ve been programming for nearly four decades, having written useful software in at least 15 languages. I’ve done number crunching on old school supercomputers, and modern CUDA cards. I’ve written a terminate and stay resident text editor that fit in 100K of RAM on an Atari 1040ST. I’ve done 3D line drawing in raw PostScript and the C preprocessor. And I’ve written a working prototype for a woefully underfunded social media startup. But even on the software front, there are big holes in my knowledge. I’m not up to speed on blockchain technology, cloud software deployment, or the latest buzzwords. You have been warned.

With all that being said, let’s release that there Kraken.

Social Media is Frying Our Brains

Let us start with Facebook. Mark Zuckenberg spent over $400,000,000 on a ballot stuffing scheme which made the difference between a second Trump term and the current Hindenberg Administration. Punishment is in order. Mr. Zuckenberg clearly has too much money to play with for America’s own good.

Fortunately for America I happen to have a high level business plan to administer said punishment, and even some some high level design sheets collecting dust in my file cabinet and software collecting cosmic rays on my hard drive. And I did this work years before Facebook got into the censorship and machine politics games. For Facebook has been long guilty of another sort of villainy: frying people’s brains.

In the social media game it pays to be addictive. The longer you can keep people scrolling mindlessly through their feed, the more ads you can show them. It’s sort of like a gigantic slot machine parlor with gambling replaced with impulse buying.

I am not the first person to notice the problem, not by a long shot. The brain optimizing gurus popular with the smarty pants set have been pontificating about the problem for years. See the writings of Tim Ferris and Cal Newport for examples.

Well, after my experience with an underfunded social network startup, I got to thinking about what I would like to see in a social network. Given how my personal network is scattered across the country, going social media free is a poor option. But the brain fry problem is real. Facebook’s feed is too busy; it’s...

...merely an appetizer, a bit of calamari to tingle the taste buds. For the full Kraken you will need to pay; I'm not giving out potential billion dollar ideas for nothing. Once I get enough free subscribers, I'll add a paid level and release the full Kraken behind the paywall. Or, for the cheapskates in the audience, you can wait for the book to come out -- assuming that the major bookstores will allow such a dangerous book...

Update November 2023: several more parts of this series have been released. To find them, go to the archives and look for posts with dollar signs as the featured image. Most of these posts are paywalled to some degree. But some of the paywalled posts still give out quite a few ideas for free.