Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Why Can’t Canada Become As Powerful As Russia, Given That Both Nations Share A Few Similarities: Vast Regions And Are Next To A Superpower (china And The Us)?

    To create a word power one requires ~500M people, nuclear weapons, and sufficient access to natural resources that one can sustain an autarkic economy during a period of long conflict.

    Russia cannot be a world power. It isn’t. It’s a gas station with nuclear missiles, a lot of unemployed men, and a history of invading and conquering neighbors. The only reason russia exists is that the rest of the world didn’t shut her out of the financial and economic system out of fear she’d use her missiles.

    Canada by contrast has something on the order of 75K total military personnel, which cannot even defend itself without the USA paying for it (just like europe).

    https://www.quora.com/Why-can’t-Canada-become-as-powerful-as-Russia-given-that-both-nations-share-a-few-similarities-vast-regions-and-are-next-to-a-superpower-China-and-the-US

  • What Was The Worst Mistake In A Democracy?

    Enfranchising:

    • (a) non property owners,
    • (b) women,
    • (c) others who were not fully integrated into:
      • (i) Christian ethics
      • (ii) Rule of law, natural law, universal standing, universal application, strict construction
      • (iii) the absolute nuclear family ans the central unit of reproduction, production, and commons
      • (iv) individual economic responsibility

    without :

    • (d) giving each a new house of parliament/government.

    The english system of multiple houses created a market for the construction of commons between the classes. Creating majoritarian single-house democracy created majority tyranny, and put the lowest classes with the largest numbers in control of government and has destroyed western civilizations’ historical dependence upon empiricism in under a century.

    This required we basically develop propaganda, ideology, and deception in order to rule underclasses by vote.

    This single decision, made in the euphoria of the proceeds of the industrial revolution, caused the destruction of western civilization.

    https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-worst-mistake-in-a-Democracy

  • He doesn’t listen to the Alt Right. They’re the equivalent of the evangelicals f

    He doesn’t listen to the Alt Right. They’re the equivalent of the evangelicals for the Neocons. True Believers.


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  • Rule=simplicity=army:positive –VS– Judgement=complexity=market:negative

    Rule=simplicity=army:positive –VS– Judgement=complexity=market:negative


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 20:24:24 UTC

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  • (Molyneux’s position is actually correct given absence of a political steady sta

    (Molyneux’s position is actually correct given absence of a political steady state.)


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 20:11:03 UTC

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  • It will end with LR if not corrected. This is what’s disappointing for liberty

    It will end with LR if not corrected. This is what’s disappointing for liberty.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 20:01:34 UTC

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    @FemaBand @ThomasEWoods @lewrockwell @jeffdeist @jtsale Reforming MI is emotionally not logically or scientifically difficult.

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    @FemaBand @ThomasEWoods @lewrockwell @jeffdeist @jtsale Reforming MI is emotionally not logically or scientifically difficult.

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  • impossible, since democracy is only capable of selecting priorities among people

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-President-lead-a-country-fairly-and-democratically-with-so-many-people-having-mixed-agendas-ideas-and-opinions/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv&share=08163832It’s impossible, since democracy is only capable of selecting priorities among people with homogenous interests, and impossible to select between conflicting choices among people with heterogeneous interests.

    Markets let us cooperate on means despite different ends – no monopolies.

    Democracy is a monopoly in which we cannot cooperate on means because of different ends.

    Democracy has been a catastrophe.

    The original anglo model was not democratic but consisted of different HOUSES for each CLASS, including the CHURCH, so that Monarchy, regional managers, personal property owners, and common people(church) could negotiate EXCHANGES between the classes.

    The English system created a market under which most can be satisfied. Democracy destroyed it by creating a monopoly under which no one can be satisfied.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute


    Source date (UTC): 2016-08-17 16:18:00 UTC

  • An Anarcho Capitalist Society In The Long Run… Nope. Impossible/

    —“How would an Anarcho Capitalist society look like, in the long run?”—

    [L]et’s take a look:

    (a) Libertines (anarcho capitalists) differ from libertarians (jeffersonian contractualists), where Contractualist Libertarian = do no harm to the commons, and anarchist libertine = do no good to the commons. This is the underlying principle of decidability in libertinism (anarcho capitalism): avoid costs of physical, normative, an cultural commons, where the principle of decidability in libertarianism is merely the prohibition on the imposition of costs that would cause retaliation.

    (b) no anarcho capitalist polity can form out of rational economic incentives because without commons and territory on low cost trading routes, any such polity must be endogenously parasitic.

    (c) no anarcho capitalist can retain desirable, productive individuals in competition with other societies that do produce commons that add multipliers to the market for reproduction and production.

    (d) any anarcho capitalist polity that did survive would be limited to endogenously parasitic members, and those polities that bore the parasitism would eventually, when in a period of stress, colonize, conquer, or destroy such a polity (pirates, drug dealers, money launderers etc).

    (e) Ergo no anarcho capitalist society is possible -and its arguable whether one was desirable. If you need a nearly lawless borderland and will bear the costs to consumption of living there, then go. Antartica, Siberia, and canada contain vast areas of unused territory because it has not economic value higher than it’s costs of survival in harsh conditions.

    The only possible liberty is that of the anglo saxons: contractualism. And the only means of achieving it is to eliminate demand for the state as a suppressor of aggression and retaliation by the use of the common law to prohibit the imposition of costs on life, kin, relations, things, built capital, norms, traditions, and institutions.

    There is only one possible form of liberty then: the only social science man has discovered: rule of law, natural law, common judge discovered law, universal enfranchisement, and universal accountability, and universal reciprocal insurance.

    Curt

  • An Anarcho Capitalist Society In The Long Run… Nope. Impossible/

    —“How would an Anarcho Capitalist society look like, in the long run?”—

    [L]et’s take a look:

    (a) Libertines (anarcho capitalists) differ from libertarians (jeffersonian contractualists), where Contractualist Libertarian = do no harm to the commons, and anarchist libertine = do no good to the commons. This is the underlying principle of decidability in libertinism (anarcho capitalism): avoid costs of physical, normative, an cultural commons, where the principle of decidability in libertarianism is merely the prohibition on the imposition of costs that would cause retaliation.

    (b) no anarcho capitalist polity can form out of rational economic incentives because without commons and territory on low cost trading routes, any such polity must be endogenously parasitic.

    (c) no anarcho capitalist can retain desirable, productive individuals in competition with other societies that do produce commons that add multipliers to the market for reproduction and production.

    (d) any anarcho capitalist polity that did survive would be limited to endogenously parasitic members, and those polities that bore the parasitism would eventually, when in a period of stress, colonize, conquer, or destroy such a polity (pirates, drug dealers, money launderers etc).

    (e) Ergo no anarcho capitalist society is possible -and its arguable whether one was desirable. If you need a nearly lawless borderland and will bear the costs to consumption of living there, then go. Antartica, Siberia, and canada contain vast areas of unused territory because it has not economic value higher than it’s costs of survival in harsh conditions.

    The only possible liberty is that of the anglo saxons: contractualism. And the only means of achieving it is to eliminate demand for the state as a suppressor of aggression and retaliation by the use of the common law to prohibit the imposition of costs on life, kin, relations, things, built capital, norms, traditions, and institutions.

    There is only one possible form of liberty then: the only social science man has discovered: rule of law, natural law, common judge discovered law, universal enfranchisement, and universal accountability, and universal reciprocal insurance.

    Curt

  • The Rule of Degeneracy…

    [T]he *Rule of Degeneracy (Escapism): – “Anything that is not explicitly conservative will devolve into something progressive” – “Anything not explicitly rational, will devolve into something magical”

    – “Anything that is not explicitly true, will devolve into something false.” – “Any system of thought that is not explicitly masculine and constructive, will devolve into the feminine and destructive.” – “Any system of thought that does not compel action through change will devolve in an excuse to avoid change through justifying inaction.” – “Any system of thought that is not explicitly eugenic, expansionary, heroic, and hierarchical, will eventually devolve into one that is dysgenic, sedentary, submissive, and equalitarian.” (Women and the weak destroy the world if we allow them.)