It’s an interesting statement in itself that the conservative fringe consists of inarticulate idiots , while the libertarian fringe consist of articulate lunatics, and the progressive fringe consists of the verbose and ridiculous. They’re all tragic, but at least fringe libertarians are entertaining.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 21:34:00 UTC
—-“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.”—-
lolz
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 21:24:00 UTC
Evidence is against Dawkins. But then, like most scientists, excellence in one niche field is not applicable elsewhere.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 21:22:41 UTC
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#libertarian #conservative #nrx #propertarianism https://t.co/FwZ9Ox7Foh
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 17:54:48 UTC
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[I] do not possess the values of a bourgeoise libertarian, but an aristocratic, martial, advocate of personal liberty. I have been accused of being an aristocratic and intellectual snob for my entire life. It was only by gradually learning to ‘fit in’ after university, and as a necessity of conducting business with common people, and our relocation to rather parochial Seattle, that incrementally forced me to tone it down out of pure utility. So I don’t hold to the fallacy that consumption is a penultimate good in its own. And while I advocate wealth, cooperation and decidability, it’s because I view cooperation as a means of constructing the voluntary organization of experiment, innovation, production, distribution and trade that produces wealth and technology with which a minority of warriors and generals can hold the hordes – often wealthy hordes – at bay. This is the ancient info European (Yamnaya) social economic and military evolutionary strategy. To use advanced technology and professional warriors to defeat superior numbers: to pacify and transform the world. So I see all competitively advantageous products of man as weaponry to be used against competitors. My cognitive process like my heritage is martial. Until I learned economics – the language of equilibria, I used martial terminology – the language of competition. We need kings, generals, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and warriors. But, I do not need the same intuitions as an individual warrior or captain. I need the intuitions of a general and King. Wars are won by logistics. That is why.
[I] do not possess the values of a bourgeoise libertarian, but an aristocratic, martial, advocate of personal liberty. I have been accused of being an aristocratic and intellectual snob for my entire life. It was only by gradually learning to ‘fit in’ after university, and as a necessity of conducting business with common people, and our relocation to rather parochial Seattle, that incrementally forced me to tone it down out of pure utility. So I don’t hold to the fallacy that consumption is a penultimate good in its own. And while I advocate wealth, cooperation and decidability, it’s because I view cooperation as a means of constructing the voluntary organization of experiment, innovation, production, distribution and trade that produces wealth and technology with which a minority of warriors and generals can hold the hordes – often wealthy hordes – at bay. This is the ancient info European (Yamnaya) social economic and military evolutionary strategy. To use advanced technology and professional warriors to defeat superior numbers: to pacify and transform the world. So I see all competitively advantageous products of man as weaponry to be used against competitors. My cognitive process like my heritage is martial. Until I learned economics – the language of equilibria, I used martial terminology – the language of competition. We need kings, generals, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and warriors. But, I do not need the same intuitions as an individual warrior or captain. I need the intuitions of a general and King. Wars are won by logistics. That is why.
CAPITALISM IS WON, NOW ITS A BATTLE FOR RULE OF LAW, STRICT CONSTRUCTION, AND MARKET GOVERNMENT.
Capitalism is the voluntary organization of production distribution and trade made possible by the preservation of property allocation to individuals, the universal requirement of voluntary exchange, insured by common law, the evolution of contract, money, prices, and interest – which provide information and incentives to each individual necessary for choosing between available actions. Consumer capitalism has won. We’ve spent over a century conquering the pseudoscience of marxism and socialism. But despite kicking and screaming, we’ve dragged humanity out of ignorance and poverty with capitalism.
Now the battle has changed. The problem is not property rights, or capitalism, but rule of law and corruption.
We must incrementally suppress discretionary legislation, corruption, and lying, framing and propaganda from the world, starting first, here at home.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 16:26:00 UTC
Putin would be the most popular politician in the world if he had offered (he still could) to pay Ukraine for the territories (under threat that he could take them otherwise) and he could have kept ukraine in his orbit. Instead, he impoverished ukraine further, and drove her forever to europe, broke the postwar consensus on borders that was the principle necessary to prevent another world war, demonstrated that the only guarantee of sovereignty is ownership of nuclear weapons, generating new demand for proliferation, pivoted the USA and NATO back to Russia, created justification to expand american military spending, and dramatically harmed his people and their economy. He panicked and he flinched and he confirmed eastern europe’s fears: that he is an irresponsible threat to civilized peoples. Worse he has restarted the propaganda war, and saturates his people with fabricated news on purpose. Not of utopian fantasy like american politicians but out of nihilism.
It would be terribly easy to fix this problem and he lacks the will to do it. Fix ukraine with discounted gas, stop lying and propagandizing, and just assert that he’s right in his opposition to the USA’s intrusions, the fallacy of democracy, and western hedonistic (barbaric) western culture – and keep suppressing home dissidents. It’s not like most of the world doesn’t agree with him outside of left leaning western pseudo-intellectuals.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 16:08:00 UTC
