Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • #Trump If the base feels Betrayed they will destroy every chance you have. Right

    #Trump If the base feels Betrayed they will destroy every chance you have. Right now they do. For no reason. YOU DON’T MANAGE THE BASE.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 09:56:00 UTC

  • #Trump You need to either hire someone like me to talk to the base, or you’re go

    #Trump You need to either hire someone like me to talk to the base, or you’re going to lose them. They’re mad. And needn’t be.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-10 09:55:00 UTC

  • Thanks to the success of the Marxists and Critical Theorists in the occupation a

    Thanks to the success of the Marxists and Critical Theorists in the occupation and conquest of the academy, Academic discourse in philosophy, politics, economics, what passes for ‘social science’, using books, journals, papers, blogs, and classrooms appears at least in retrospect as indifferent from seeking the approval of the church fathers prior to publication. There isn’t any difference between offense of the pretenses of the church, and offence of the pretense of the marxists, feminists, and snowflakes. They are both hostile to truth.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-09 18:53:00 UTC

  • THINKING OF SOVEREIGNTY AT THE GROUP EVOLUTIONARY SCALE NOT THE INDIVIDUAL SCALE

    THINKING OF SOVEREIGNTY AT THE GROUP EVOLUTIONARY SCALE NOT THE INDIVIDUAL SCALE: LIBERTY OR FREEDOM

    —“I think that [Doolittle] wants to incentivize cooperation within the group so that the group will succeed in its environment and in competition with other groups. In these situations, it does not matter whether individuals cooperate in order to benefit themselves or in order to benefit the group, and their justifications do not matter; the cooperation which allows the group to succeed matters (to us). I feel like I have missed a few details, so maybe someone will help fill them in.”– Brandon Vaughn

    ANSWER:

    Correct.

    The western group competitive (evolutionary) strategy is non-parasitism, truth, high trust, to produce normative commons, the returns upon which – whether genetic, normative, institutional or physical capital – are greater than groups that cannot produce such commons can compete with.

    Commons are the west’s competitive advantage. And we alone other than the japanese seem able to produce them at any substantial scale.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-09 13:03:00 UTC

  • It’s not posturing. It’s a warning “We don’t really know who did what but we see

    It’s not posturing. It’s a warning

    “We don’t really know who did what but we see evidence of the gas, and that shit can’t happen. So let’s just make clear – in a non-deadly way this time – that this shit isn’t happenin’ on our watch. There was too much pussy under Obama, and shit got outta hand. So the grownups are back in charge. And you fuckers do not want us to get serious with you.”

    That’s not posturing. That’s communication in the language of the audience.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 13:41:00 UTC

  • THE RIGHT’S WHINY LITTLE BITCHES (bitching) Conspiracy theory, psychologism, nih

    THE RIGHT’S WHINY LITTLE BITCHES

    (bitching)

    Conspiracy theory, psychologism, nihilism, projection, shaming, ridicule, rallying ….

    Either you can conduct a full accounting of the interests involved in a decision, or you can’t. Either you understand the material – economic, military, strategic, or you don’t. Either you have been in charge of large numbers of people or you haven’t. Either you have been in charge of other people’s money or you haven’t. Either you have been in charge of satisfying a constituency that placed you in power or you haven’t. And either you can demonstrate by WHAT YOU MEASURE (fully accounting) that you grasp all of the above – then you’re just a little princess in the school yard raspberrying the girls who don’t like you.

    Just how its. You want a powerful Right? How about not talking like little fucking school girls who don’t get their way.

    Only children and women make moral arguments. Men talk strategy, money, economy, and violence.

    Either man up and be the Right, or you’re part of the problem.

    I can’t fucking figure out if this [Syria Chem-Weapons Bombing] made any sense or not. As far as I can tell, it amounts to nothing more than “we have no idea who did this, but you really don’t wanna do this, cause we’ll nuke your fucking asses if you use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons for anything other than a massive invasion by a hostile state actor – and even then it needs to be a last resort, used against soldiers”.

    As far as I know there are at least twelve facilities that were not shut down in Syria. As far as I know, the weapons are available on the black market but Syria can’t afford them, and they are too dangerous to transport. As far as I know Assad (the regime) does not have sufficient control over his commanders in the field to prevent the use of these weapons if they are found – and useful. As far as I know the iranians also supply their factions with these chemical weapons and have money and infrastructure to purchase, make, and distribute them. As far as I know the only demonstration of force that is possible amidst this uncertainty is to attack a known base – yet give warning, so that all actors involved understand that war is war, but human rights are human rights, and the global order is predicated on human rights and markets as a means of prohibiting the past violence. And this method has been reasonably successful compared to the pre-war period.

    Sigh. I wanna win too. Jacking off is just jacking off….

    Until we set the house and senate on fire, nothing is going to change. When we do that, everything will change.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-08 10:03:00 UTC

  • RT @nntaleb: The strike has ~0 military impact. Russians were informed & Syrians

    RT @nntaleb: The strike has ~0 military impact. Russians were informed & Syrians could clear area.
    All it says: no Chem Weapons even if it…


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 14:57:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/850362019702243332

  • Retweeted NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb): The strike has ~0 military impact. Rus

    Retweeted NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb):

    The strike has ~0 military impact. Russians were informed & Syrians could clear area.

    All it says: no Chem Weapons even if it wasn’t you.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 10:58:00 UTC

  • You know, I’m pretty disappointed, but I’m not sure that whacking someone’s airf

    You know, I’m pretty disappointed, but I’m not sure that whacking someone’s airfield for using chemical weapons is the same thing as getting involved.

    Hell, I talk tough to my wife when she crosses the line, my business partners, my friends, and the guy on the street, and I’m willing to get into fights over it.

    How much did Rothbard lie to create libertarianism?

    We have no idea what we’re doing we just do the best we can. Is trump better than Obama? Probably much better. Is he better than clinton? Certainly. Is he as good as we can get? In the current era maybe. Is he as good as we would like or need? No. Is it possible to create a polity without a decider-of-last resort? Um, the gypsies, jews, and muslims shure make it look like the answer is ‘no’, and the chinese and the westerners sure make it look like the answer is ‘yes’

    Mises Institute has a ridiculously long and deep reputation for “heaping undue praise” on its heroes, and “constructing elaborate strawmen” by which to attack its enemies. And the Jewish Economic and Political strategy advanced under the (False) adoption of western terms liberty and austrian economics is just ‘gypsy separatism’, ‘jewish separatism’, and ‘muslim tribal separatism’ sold to the disenfranchised beta males, as a hope for their own minority separatism.

    Let us see, empirically, whether the best we can get in the current era moves the condition of liberty for us forward or not. My view is that he has bought us time to organize and create a revolution. And that if we conduct the revolution under his administration it will not be met with the same suppressive violence that it would have under Clinton’s.

    Cheers.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 10:37:00 UTC

  • SUMMARY There is no source of Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and the luxury of s

    SUMMARY

    There is no source of Sovereignty, Liberty, Freedom, and the luxury of subsidy of the weak, other than a monarchy, martial aristocracy, and militia of the enfranchised. Because there is no method of decidability, no method of insurance, and no process other than violence: threat, punishment, murder, and revolt. And the method of licensing violence and revolt early and often is a constitution of natural law that provides the incentive to prosecute individuals at all levels by anyone with the information to do so – such that no power can ever accumulate sufficiently to deny a group, the militia, the aristocracy, or the monarchy the license to first prosecute by juridical means, then by martial means. This institution is self perpetuating if for no other reason than the universality, the status, and the high cost of obtaining that status and responsibility. Expensive rituals endure. Every man a sheriff. A warrior. A Judge.


    Source date (UTC): 2017-04-07 09:06:00 UTC