Category: Politics, Power, and Governance
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“The main reason most people are libertarian is because it gives you a single, s
—“The main reason most people are libertarian is because it gives you a single, simple cheat code that automatically answers every imaginable political question – no hard thinking about cause and effect and the messy nature of implementation and real-world game theory required. It’s a sloppy shortcut towards “winning” debates and not having to deal with cognitive uncertainty. The New Right’s uniting principles, while they may be simple, don’t instantaneously answer every question for us or eliminate any of the hard work of asking, “How?”— Aedhan Cassiel (flawless) -
“The main reason most people are libertarian is because it gives you a single, s
—“The main reason most people are libertarian is because it gives you a single, simple cheat code that automatically answers every imaginable political question – no hard thinking about cause and effect and the messy nature of implementation and real-world game theory required. It’s a sloppy shortcut towards “winning” debates and not having to deal with cognitive uncertainty. The New Right’s uniting principles, while they may be simple, don’t instantaneously answer every question for us or eliminate any of the hard work of asking, “How?”— Aedhan Cassiel
(flawless)
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 14:28:00 UTC
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2) The postmodernists are right in that power to enact regulation, legislation,
2) The postmodernists are right in that power to enact regulation, legislation, and command, is all that produces outcomes. The only difference is whether we enact truth, reciprocity, markets rule of law or enact irreciprocity, bureaucracy, and rule by discretion @jordanpeterson
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 13:45:19 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975367549012635648
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Not sure how that plays in other than small states change policy faster than lar
Not sure how that plays in other than small states change policy faster than large states for the simple reason that they can.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 01:04:01 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975175962148122624
Reply addressees: @Jory_Nal
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975156355869929472
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@curtdoolittle Thats not wrong, though you leave out literally all the other non-economic reasons (faith, external threat, natural disaster, kin affinities, etc) people ally to support polities.
Also some of what’s suppressed should be, eg British empire stopped Atlantic slave trade, piracy.Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975156355869929472
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SO that doesn’t change the fact that for about half the population, secession me
SO that doesn’t change the fact that for about half the population, secession means that they operate a for-profit set of smaller countries, while the people who rally and compete with them in the federal govt, would descend into even deeper financial ruin.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 01:03:22 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975175796192145414
Reply addressees: @Jory_Nal
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975157962774753281
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@Jory_Nal
@curtdoolittle Too simple a view imho. There is still a profound advantage in controlling / patrolling sea trade if its paid for by the shippers.
Also #CityOfLondon kept the high margin high leverage world reinsurance industry, most global sovereign trade.
US as non-unionized security guard.Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975157962774753281
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As far as optimum goes, that is, the maximum redistribution with the minum polit
As far as optimum goes, that is, the maximum redistribution with the minum political resistance.This is only possible in homogeneous kin groups,which is why it’s only possible in small heterogeneous north sea peoples, and never has been otherwise.We can argue about japan as well.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 00:30:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975167438005338113
Reply addressees: @Jory_Nal
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975158769838706688
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@curtdoolittle So cultural unity counts. Sure.
How would one calculate any such “optimum”? What are the factors that change with tech or economy or faith diversity?Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975158769838706688
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There is no unity unless you can measure it. The only unity that matters is the
There is no unity unless you can measure it. The only unity that matters is the minimum organized violence to alter the status quo.There is no we. There is no advantage to political order if an alternative order is more preferential.Violence determines all.The rest is just cost.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-18 00:28:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975167019514515456
Reply addressees: @Jory_Nal
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975158769838706688
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@Jory_Nal
@curtdoolittle So cultural unity counts. Sure.
How would one calculate any such “optimum”? What are the factors that change with tech or economy or faith diversity?Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975158769838706688
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Why Are Gun Control Advocates And The Left Wing Of Politics So Concerned With What Law-abiding Citizens Own And Possess, After All, Marxism And Left Wing/socialist Ideology Has Caused More Death And Suffering Than Anything Else In The Last 100 Years?
BECAUSE THEY KNOW WE ARE HERE.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-gun-control-advocates-and-the-left-wing-of-politics-so-concerned-with-what-law-abiding-citizens-own-and-possess-after-all-Marxism-and-Left-Wing-Socialist-Ideology-has-caused-more-death-and-suffering-than
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Why Are Gun Control Advocates And The Left Wing Of Politics So Concerned With What Law-abiding Citizens Own And Possess, After All, Marxism And Left Wing/socialist Ideology Has Caused More Death And Suffering Than Anything Else In The Last 100 Years?
BECAUSE THEY KNOW WE ARE HERE.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-gun-control-advocates-and-the-left-wing-of-politics-so-concerned-with-what-law-abiding-citizens-own-and-possess-after-all-Marxism-and-Left-Wing-Socialist-Ideology-has-caused-more-death-and-suffering-than
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The people regulate in small countries, the bureaucracy regulates in large count
The people regulate in small countries, the bureaucracy regulates in large countries, and chaos regulates in empires.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-17 15:49:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975036331846971393
Reply addressees: @Jory_Nal
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975033976548151296
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@curtdoolittle Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, yes those are all decent countries.
Generally #secession is a valid way to reduce Empire power.
But one question is with no 800lb gorilla regulator in a few big countries, does abusive corporate power wholly run rampant?Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/975033976548151296