Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Replying to @JonHaidt DEMOCRACY = MONOPOLY 1) Markets allow competing groups to

    Replying to @JonHaidt

    DEMOCRACY = MONOPOLY

    1) Markets allow competing groups to collaborate on means, even if they pursue opposing ends. Classical Houses of classes create a market. Democracy creates a monopoly by eliminating the market for commons between the classes, and forcing conflict into the informational commons.

    COSMOPOLITANISM = POLITICAL COMMUNISM

    2) Cosmopolitanism(political communism) has failed everywhere its tried, just as has economic communism(socialism), and commons communism (libertarianism).Yet people pursue heterogeneous polities despite only homogenous polities exiting poverty, corruption, low trust, and tribalism.

    SOCIAL MEDIA IS AS ACCURATE AS PILLOW TALK

    3) BTW: As far as I know, (a) we over-report compromise, and over-demonstrate on conflict. (b) we self-report more honestly online than in person. (c) We most accurately self-report in conflict (from a position of physical safety.) IOW: social media = “political pillow talk”.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-27 10:56:00 UTC

  • My answer to How does one create a nation state and at the same time does not of

    My answer to How does one create a nation state and at the same time does not offend other ethnic minorities? https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-create-a-nation-state-and-at-the-same-time-does-not-offend-other-ethnic-minorities/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-27 09:47:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978569086476177409

  • Mar 27, 2018, 5:47 AM

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-create-a-nation-state-and-at-the-same-time-does-not-offend-other-ethnic-minorities/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=ab07d241&srid=u4QvUpdated Mar 27, 2018, 5:47 AM


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-27 05:47:00 UTC

  • They don’t understand their own business model. They’re utilities now. They have

    They don’t understand their own business model. They’re utilities now. They have to leave content control to (a) the law in matters of criminality, (b) letting curators develop (b) including taboos as well as preferences, and prohibiting cross-taboo publication. Free info mkt.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-26 22:19:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978396153619320832

    Reply addressees: @jeffreyatucker @AtlBTCEmbassy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978394851619299328


    IN REPLY TO:

    @jeffreytucker

    This is what Facebook is doing, and they are wondering why their stock is falling. You apparently can’t invite people to a cocktail party. @AtlBTCEmbassy https://t.co/WsjZCtcr78

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978394851619299328

  • Trump bought us time

    Trump bought us time.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-26 19:49:38 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978358335622742017

    Reply addressees: @BrodoFagg

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978357366398824448


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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978357366398824448

  • REVOLUTION COMES! #Trump ( )

    REVOLUTION COMES! #Trump ( https://propertarianism.com/2017/03/30/on-revolution-changing-the-status-quo/ )


    Source date (UTC): 2018-03-26 17:57:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/978329991996952576

  • The NRA Is The Political Wing Of The Militia

    THE NRA IS THE POLITICAL WING OF THE MILITIA You need to understand the Pareto Rule. 1% of people determine everything. 19% of people organize the remaining 80% of people so that it gets done. This is why always and everywhere 80% of wealth is in the possession of 20% of the people. Because that distribution (a power law) is required to provide people with incentives to do something constructive rather than prey upon one another. (really). Slavery, and serfdom are actually expensive. Freemen are profitable. Citizens are more profitable. Universal citizenship appears to have been a mistake, because it has resulted in underclass rule. The origin of all orders is the organized application of violence to deny anyone the alternatives. It takes about .0001% of adult males to change the political order by the use of violence. Hence, the armed militia rules, and the government is merely operating within the tolerances of that militia. That is why anglo peoples have frequent small revolutions that do little other than modify the *written* social contract, we now call the constitution. The NRA functions as the political arm of the militia. They negotiate with the government on behalf of the militia. The alternative is to end the government, for violating the constitution created by the militia. Which is what we are very close to doing.

  • The NRA Is The Political Wing Of The Militia

    THE NRA IS THE POLITICAL WING OF THE MILITIA You need to understand the Pareto Rule. 1% of people determine everything. 19% of people organize the remaining 80% of people so that it gets done. This is why always and everywhere 80% of wealth is in the possession of 20% of the people. Because that distribution (a power law) is required to provide people with incentives to do something constructive rather than prey upon one another. (really). Slavery, and serfdom are actually expensive. Freemen are profitable. Citizens are more profitable. Universal citizenship appears to have been a mistake, because it has resulted in underclass rule. The origin of all orders is the organized application of violence to deny anyone the alternatives. It takes about .0001% of adult males to change the political order by the use of violence. Hence, the armed militia rules, and the government is merely operating within the tolerances of that militia. That is why anglo peoples have frequent small revolutions that do little other than modify the *written* social contract, we now call the constitution. The NRA functions as the political arm of the militia. They negotiate with the government on behalf of the militia. The alternative is to end the government, for violating the constitution created by the militia. Which is what we are very close to doing.

  • The Problem In Ukraine? The Oligarchs.

    THE PROBLEM IN UKRAINE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. 1 – The Oligarchs (Gangsters or Boyars) control the economy, and are well armed. 2 – Putin-Oligarchs-Yanukovych’s intentional destruction of the Ukrainian military in preparation for Russian takeover, was sufficiently successful that the Military could not be used to defeat the Gangsters. Russian and China have strong military discipline. This is why they can impose change. Ukrainian military culture was destroyed to insulate the Oligarchs. 3 – Integration with Russia or the EU means ending Oligarchical Rule. The oligarchs will not let either happen. Attempts to convince them that they will be even wealthier under a better economy have failed – they saw what Putin did to their ‘peers’ in Russia. They know that will be their future. 4 – The oligarchs and the government (and other governments) all understand that trying to kill the oligarchs will lead to civil war for the simple reason that the oligarchs have the money ad organizations in place to fight the government and the people. 5 – There is only one way to save ukraine, and that is for the people to kill all members of all 40 oligarchical families very quickly. 6 – Only the Military and the Volunteers, with the help of NATO assets can achieve that end. THE ANSWER IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT, BUT THE OLIGARCHS. THE PEOPLE MUST KILL THEM ALL.

  • The Problem In Ukraine? The Oligarchs.

    THE PROBLEM IN UKRAINE IS AN ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. 1 – The Oligarchs (Gangsters or Boyars) control the economy, and are well armed. 2 – Putin-Oligarchs-Yanukovych’s intentional destruction of the Ukrainian military in preparation for Russian takeover, was sufficiently successful that the Military could not be used to defeat the Gangsters. Russian and China have strong military discipline. This is why they can impose change. Ukrainian military culture was destroyed to insulate the Oligarchs. 3 – Integration with Russia or the EU means ending Oligarchical Rule. The oligarchs will not let either happen. Attempts to convince them that they will be even wealthier under a better economy have failed – they saw what Putin did to their ‘peers’ in Russia. They know that will be their future. 4 – The oligarchs and the government (and other governments) all understand that trying to kill the oligarchs will lead to civil war for the simple reason that the oligarchs have the money ad organizations in place to fight the government and the people. 5 – There is only one way to save ukraine, and that is for the people to kill all members of all 40 oligarchical families very quickly. 6 – Only the Military and the Volunteers, with the help of NATO assets can achieve that end. THE ANSWER IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT, BUT THE OLIGARCHS. THE PEOPLE MUST KILL THEM ALL.