Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Soldiery Is an Unsubstitutable Good.

    Dec 30, 2019, 9:14 PM Roman error version two. Every man a warrior, soldier, sheriff, judge, and legislature. The distributed dictatorship of sovereign men. It’s the only way to be sure.

  • Markets Not Majoritarianism

    Markets Not Majoritarianism https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/26/markets-not-majoritarianism/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-26 21:17:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265391724546883585

  • Markets Not Majoritarianism

    Jan 4, 2020, 12:07 PM by Martin Štěpán

    Why do people keep assuming we only want to make slight changes to universal suffrage? The optimum outcome is scraping the whole thing and putting in several houses for classes with different interests that have to negotiate.

    They have been indoctrinated into the fallacy of the good of democracy’s majoritarian tyranny, and made ignorant of the market as a means of calculating optimums despite differences.

  • Markets Not Majoritarianism

    Jan 4, 2020, 12:07 PM by Martin Štěpán

    Why do people keep assuming we only want to make slight changes to universal suffrage? The optimum outcome is scraping the whole thing and putting in several houses for classes with different interests that have to negotiate.

    They have been indoctrinated into the fallacy of the good of democracy’s majoritarian tyranny, and made ignorant of the market as a means of calculating optimums despite differences.

  • Declaring War

    Declaring War https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/26/declaring-war/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-26 21:07:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265389175802658816

  • Understanding

    Jan 6, 2020, 3:32 PM A little frustrated with the conservative vox populi. The liberals think you are evil for requiring meritocracy, and you think they have your agency. You’re both wrong. If you think people know what they’re doing then you tend to hate them. If you think all but a few of us are gene-machines and barely domesticated animals following genetic, traditional, cultural, and institutional programming, you just hate the programming that enables the irreciprocal bias in genes. I say this all the time but (a) I am pretty certain even those of us with cognitive agency are gene machines, (b) people have no idea what they’re doing, they’re just poorly trained animals,( c) that those of us with agency must create institutions, education, and rules (laws) to train and constrain the barely domesticated animals from falsehood an irrecirocity – even if it is against their will, and even if it requires force. (d) So I don’t hate people, (e) and I realize that words do not work when depriving people of their parasitism, rent seeking, and free riding, so (f) the poorly trained animals need those of us with agency to ‘do what we must’ to design, create, and enforce institutions, positive education, and negative rules (laws) that constrain them to truth, reciprocity, and therefore cooperation via exchange, and as a consequence the limiting of reproduction to self sufficiency – largely of the underclasses.

  • Understanding

    Jan 6, 2020, 3:32 PM A little frustrated with the conservative vox populi. The liberals think you are evil for requiring meritocracy, and you think they have your agency. You’re both wrong. If you think people know what they’re doing then you tend to hate them. If you think all but a few of us are gene-machines and barely domesticated animals following genetic, traditional, cultural, and institutional programming, you just hate the programming that enables the irreciprocal bias in genes. I say this all the time but (a) I am pretty certain even those of us with cognitive agency are gene machines, (b) people have no idea what they’re doing, they’re just poorly trained animals,( c) that those of us with agency must create institutions, education, and rules (laws) to train and constrain the barely domesticated animals from falsehood an irrecirocity – even if it is against their will, and even if it requires force. (d) So I don’t hate people, (e) and I realize that words do not work when depriving people of their parasitism, rent seeking, and free riding, so (f) the poorly trained animals need those of us with agency to ‘do what we must’ to design, create, and enforce institutions, positive education, and negative rules (laws) that constrain them to truth, reciprocity, and therefore cooperation via exchange, and as a consequence the limiting of reproduction to self sufficiency – largely of the underclasses.

  • Trump’s New Space Force Would Enhance Israel and The Future United States Militarily

    Jan 6, 2020, 3:33 PM With Trump’s new Space Force, comes Jerusalem’s ( or Tel Aviv, if you like ) comparative military advantage in the Middle East. Now under the Air Force Secretary, when the United States Space Force evolve into a fully fledged arm of the United States military, you can expect that it’s secured communication, observatory, and global positioning capabilities would be leveraged by Israel for its regional and international pursuits. Contemporary and future wars are no longer about soldier numbers and or volumes. Iran’s Qassem Soleimani demonstrated this with his assymetrical success in:

    1. Yemen against Saudi Arabia, using the Houthis
    2. Syria against ISIS and other sunni militia

    3. Iraq by way of multiple shia paramilitia

    4. Lebanon and Gaza against the Lebanese regime and Israel respectively

    The world’s labelled terror organizations demonstrated this also. Israel demonsrated this against the Iranian quest to a quicker nuclear break out capability when it unleashed stuxnet with United States co-operation against Iranian centrifuges. The United States demonstrated this with the Obama era drone assassination program, then inherited by Trump and which executed Soleimani this January. Evidently, to cripple civilisations in our days require not soldiers numbers per se but skilled, capable, committed operatives. Targeting the GETRR:

    1. Gas
    2. Electrical grid
    3. Telecommunication infrastructure
    4. Roads
    5. Railway

    D day sabotage in assymetrical offensives, are victory – clinching just as the first successful nuclear impact may determine the eventual winner in an all out war. Military superiority in space allow for defense and so deterrence while providing the means for pre emptive offense that may prevent actual wars. Trump’s Space Force would thus enhance US – Israeli military superiority in the long term except the constitution of the United States national security establisment as it stand today, is restructured to new objectives overall. Erik Lukovsky James Santagata Curt Doolittle

  • Trump’s New Space Force Would Enhance Israel and The Future United States Militarily

    Jan 6, 2020, 3:33 PM With Trump’s new Space Force, comes Jerusalem’s ( or Tel Aviv, if you like ) comparative military advantage in the Middle East. Now under the Air Force Secretary, when the United States Space Force evolve into a fully fledged arm of the United States military, you can expect that it’s secured communication, observatory, and global positioning capabilities would be leveraged by Israel for its regional and international pursuits. Contemporary and future wars are no longer about soldier numbers and or volumes. Iran’s Qassem Soleimani demonstrated this with his assymetrical success in:

    1. Yemen against Saudi Arabia, using the Houthis
    2. Syria against ISIS and other sunni militia

    3. Iraq by way of multiple shia paramilitia

    4. Lebanon and Gaza against the Lebanese regime and Israel respectively

    The world’s labelled terror organizations demonstrated this also. Israel demonsrated this against the Iranian quest to a quicker nuclear break out capability when it unleashed stuxnet with United States co-operation against Iranian centrifuges. The United States demonstrated this with the Obama era drone assassination program, then inherited by Trump and which executed Soleimani this January. Evidently, to cripple civilisations in our days require not soldiers numbers per se but skilled, capable, committed operatives. Targeting the GETRR:

    1. Gas
    2. Electrical grid
    3. Telecommunication infrastructure
    4. Roads
    5. Railway

    D day sabotage in assymetrical offensives, are victory – clinching just as the first successful nuclear impact may determine the eventual winner in an all out war. Military superiority in space allow for defense and so deterrence while providing the means for pre emptive offense that may prevent actual wars. Trump’s Space Force would thus enhance US – Israeli military superiority in the long term except the constitution of the United States national security establisment as it stand today, is restructured to new objectives overall. Erik Lukovsky James Santagata Curt Doolittle

  • The End of Democracy?

    The End of Democracy? https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/26/the-end-of-democracy/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-26 20:55:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265386124899504136