(FB 1548695061 Timestamp) BUT WHAT ABOUT NEPOTISM???? —“If you have the time can anyone explain to me how you deal/curtail with nepotism in your hierarchy ? A link to read perhaps? Worthy men aren’t always from the same family e.g. the son is not always the father by far. I’m curious.”–David England What ended nepotism in european peoples? In what industries did nepotism persist until today? Why did those instances of nepotism persist and why did the other instances not persist? What could be done to end the kind of nepotism that survives? What kind of nepotism can (should) continue to survive? (why is nepotism always a bad thing, or why is it indicative of a bad thing since it is hard to make the case that nepotism is a universal bad?) The answer will be obvious once you work thru it.
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(FB 1548812685 Timestamp) CAN WE BRING FAR RIGHT INFLUENCE TO THE WEST? “It all begins with the militia” Two news items today, that are important only in so far as they show that the Far Right, once mobilized can have extraordinary influence on political systems, with a small number of willing men intolerant of the status quo. ⢠Divisions sharpen inside Ukraineâs far-right camp as it fails to unite around a single presidential candidate, with National Corps refusing to support Svoboda’s candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi. https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/divisions-between-ukraines-far-right-groups-sharpen-ahead-of-elections.html? ⢠The center of Kyiv rang to the sound of rifle and machine-gun fire on the night of Jan. 27, 2019 during a reenactment of the Battle for the Arsenal Factory organized by far-right and nationalist organizations. See our photo gallery. https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/kyiv-echoes-to-sound-of-gunfire-as-battle-of-kruty-reenacted-photos?
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(FB 1548812685 Timestamp) CAN WE BRING FAR RIGHT INFLUENCE TO THE WEST? “It all begins with the militia” Two news items today, that are important only in so far as they show that the Far Right, once mobilized can have extraordinary influence on political systems, with a small number of willing men intolerant of the status quo. ⢠Divisions sharpen inside Ukraineâs far-right camp as it fails to unite around a single presidential candidate, with National Corps refusing to support Svoboda’s candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi. https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/divisions-between-ukraines-far-right-groups-sharpen-ahead-of-elections.html? ⢠The center of Kyiv rang to the sound of rifle and machine-gun fire on the night of Jan. 27, 2019 during a reenactment of the Battle for the Arsenal Factory organized by far-right and nationalist organizations. See our photo gallery. https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/kyiv-echoes-to-sound-of-gunfire-as-battle-of-kruty-reenacted-photos?
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(FB 1548779453 Timestamp) —“I feel like some of the far right want to turn us into being like all the other nations – yes we’ll resist them and survive, but we’ll lose much of what made us great. Propertarianism is the answer.”—Solomon Volodymyr
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(FB 1548779453 Timestamp) —“I feel like some of the far right want to turn us into being like all the other nations – yes we’ll resist them and survive, but we’ll lose much of what made us great. Propertarianism is the answer.”—Solomon Volodymyr
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(FB 1548706830 Timestamp) By Eli Harman I was just reminded of an old argument of Bryan Caplan’s. One argument he makes for open borders involves a hypothetical. Say one of us went to Haiti, on an aid mission or something. When they were done and ready to come back, we tell them “no, you can’t come back. You have to stay in Haiti.” That would be a dick thing to do to one of our own, argues Bryan Kaplan, and therefore it’s a dick thing to do to Haitians too. The difference, of course. Is that in the one case, we are inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on one of our own, by denying their request to return. While in the other case, we are PREVENTING Haitians (who are not our ingroup) from inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on ALL of our own, by denying their request to enter. So they are not in any way, shape, or form, equivalent cases. This is an example of casuistry (sometimes known as “pilpul”) improperly reasoning from a specific case to a general rule, in this case a bad rule that accomplishes parasitic and destructive ends desired by Bryan Caplan for malicious reasons (Bryan Caplan is by his own admission, scared of majorities and reflexively desires to undermine and attack them. He is a majorityphobe. But Bryan Caplan’s insecurities and ethnic fragility inpose no obligations on us to cater to them.) Casuistry (“Pilpul”) is the cornerstone of their arts of deception and their parasitic group evolutionary strategies.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1548706830 Timestamp) By Eli Harman I was just reminded of an old argument of Bryan Caplan’s. One argument he makes for open borders involves a hypothetical. Say one of us went to Haiti, on an aid mission or something. When they were done and ready to come back, we tell them “no, you can’t come back. You have to stay in Haiti.” That would be a dick thing to do to one of our own, argues Bryan Kaplan, and therefore it’s a dick thing to do to Haitians too. The difference, of course. Is that in the one case, we are inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on one of our own, by denying their request to return. While in the other case, we are PREVENTING Haitians (who are not our ingroup) from inflicting the shittiness of Haiti on ALL of our own, by denying their request to enter. So they are not in any way, shape, or form, equivalent cases. This is an example of casuistry (sometimes known as “pilpul”) improperly reasoning from a specific case to a general rule, in this case a bad rule that accomplishes parasitic and destructive ends desired by Bryan Caplan for malicious reasons (Bryan Caplan is by his own admission, scared of majorities and reflexively desires to undermine and attack them. He is a majorityphobe. But Bryan Caplan’s insecurities and ethnic fragility inpose no obligations on us to cater to them.) Casuistry (“Pilpul”) is the cornerstone of their arts of deception and their parasitic group evolutionary strategies.
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(FB 1548868035 Timestamp) —“The United State can be equated to half of a continent living under occupation by a city state (dc)”—Bill Joslin
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(FB 1548868035 Timestamp) —“The United State can be equated to half of a continent living under occupation by a city state (dc)”—Bill Joslin
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(FB 1548858483 Timestamp) BECAUSE WE ARE SCREWED ON ALL THE BIG METRICS –“But if you predicted [revolution] in 2006, what were you basing that prediction on then? Is your real name Hari Seldon?”–Richard Hall demographics is destiny. Economics, demographics, global power distribution, generational cycles in response to ‘forgotten’ generational foundation myths. We are screwed on every single one of those metrics. (BTW: assuming the population remains ignorant of the changes – as ours are – there is no reason that long term trends are not loosely predictable. There is a lot of noise between major shifts, but major shifts are predictable.)