Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • Oleh Kuts (@OlehKuts): Today #Russia|n-backed militants attacked #Ukraine’s army

    http://twitter.com/OlehKuts/status/673964800913899520/photo/1?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=673971945164120066Retweeted Oleh Kuts (@OlehKuts):

    Today #Russia|n-backed militants attacked #Ukraine’s army over 50 times

    https://t.co/D8iFDD5xeN #Україна #PutinAtWar https://t.co/L5r0XeU4OB


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 16:06:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN POLICY IS TACTICAL AND NECESSARY BUT LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATES FOR THE

    LIBERTARIAN POLICY IS TACTICAL AND NECESSARY BUT LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESIDENCY ARE CAPABLE ONLY OF THREATENING THE DOMINANT OR OPPOSITION PARTY, NOT WINNING.

    Libertarian party is dead. Current emerging strategy is that the democratic party is too dependent upon marginal groups and women and that the middle class and working class can be brought into the republican party. There is no room for a libertarian (entrepreneurial party) until we eliminate the FPTP problem in the constitution. Pending a civil war there will be no addition or subtraction of parties, only a DOMINANT PARTY and an OPPOSITION PARTY. The primary value of third parties is to threaten dominant and opposition parties if they fail to accommodate groups that early candidates successfully enfranchise. Ron Paul failed and he failed for good reasons: foreign policy, and open borders. Rand Paul fares no better.

    At present democratic party = third worlders and single women, republican party=whites. In other words democrat=non-nuclear family, and republican=nuclear family.

    (( REPLY WAS A GIF OF FEMALE SAYING “WHATEVER” ))

    I thought we left gossiping, rallying, and shaming to the postmoderns. 🙂 Non arguments are for leftists and teenage girls.

    If you want comment on your policy that’s something I support. The question isn’t whether your libertarian policy, or anyone else’s is superior to social democratic policy. Its whether it is possible for a third party under FPTP to do other than disempower either the dominant or opposition party.

    The only possibility is to rase enough interest in one or two key policy improvements that cannot be appropriated and to force their appropriation by one of the major parties, or to force them to lose an election because of it.

    Taxes aren’t even on radar. Immigration is.

    But then, I’m not paid to be your advisor.

    And, obviously whomever your paying isn’t really up to the job. Or you would get airplay.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 13:54:00 UTC

  • The Multitude of Luddisms We Call Political Philosophy – Our Failure to Scale

    [I] am beginning to see Rothbardian Libertinism, if not Puritanism, Socialism and Communism, as intellectually limited failures of maturity. They’re all forms of Luddism. They are failures to innovate to adapt to changes in scale. Just as the 20th century thinkers failed to grasp the problem of existential possibility (operationalism and intuitionism) and of criticism over justification (morality and contract over science and truth), we failed to evolve government to adapt to the new scale. Worse, we were so temporarily rich in the west due to the invention of industrial revolution, that we could afford a century of folly. Markets in everything. There is no common good. There are only many theoretical goods waiting to be discovered, exploited, and abandoned in the face of newly invented goods.

  • The Multitude of Luddisms We Call Political Philosophy – Our Failure to Scale

    [I] am beginning to see Rothbardian Libertinism, if not Puritanism, Socialism and Communism, as intellectually limited failures of maturity. They’re all forms of Luddism. They are failures to innovate to adapt to changes in scale. Just as the 20th century thinkers failed to grasp the problem of existential possibility (operationalism and intuitionism) and of criticism over justification (morality and contract over science and truth), we failed to evolve government to adapt to the new scale. Worse, we were so temporarily rich in the west due to the invention of industrial revolution, that we could afford a century of folly. Markets in everything. There is no common good. There are only many theoretical goods waiting to be discovered, exploited, and abandoned in the face of newly invented goods.

  • The West Needs Russia To Save It From Utopian Democracy As The West Saved Russia From Communism.

    LETS FLIP THIS AROUND: THE WEST NEEDS RUSSIA TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN DEMOCRACY JUST AS RUSSIA NEEDED THE WEST TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN COMMUNISM

    —“The memory of the Soviets still exists in the minds of Eastern Europeans. But it would be dishonest to say that the U.S does not whip up fear of Russian expansion, so as to further maintain its political grip in Europe.”—

    [S]orry guys but I live in Ukraine, and do business in Estonia, and no one here needs ‘whipping up’ – they still remember soviets, and they recognize recent Russian actions as repeat of soviet actions. They all have relatives or friends of relatives who were starved, murdered, imprisoned, interrogated. They are painfully aware that they were european and on a European course of development and that Russian occupation hurt their cultures, their economies and their gene pools, and set them back a century of rapid development. They realize that they were Austro-hungarian and Polish-Lithuanian and that today they could live by european standars if not for Russian aggression and occupation. No one needs reminding that Russia invaded Ukraine, lied about it, took over its own news media, fabricated stories daily, created an entire bureaucracy to spam the internet with Russian propaganda. No one needs reminding that Russia remains an undeveloped resource economy, where the secret police manage the drug trade, and where the Kremlin uses its alliance with the Chechens to manage internal security – at great peril to Russian people. And that Moscow is now as full of muslims and third world peoples as any western city and for the same reason: real estate greed at the expense of the ordinary people. In a pattern that effects the entire world: Barbarians go to Moscow, the Russian Muscovites are displaced, and the money is sent to London where the British are displaced by the same means. They are driven out of London, leaving only the lower class third world Immigrants and empty flats owned by Russian politicians and business men. No one needs reminding that the United States has been selling a false utopia as defense against the disaster of Russian-driven world communism, just like the communists were selling a false utopia as a false alternative to consumer capitalism. No one needs reminding that it was the Russian state-sponsored Frankfurt School that paid for the conversion of american intellectuals to pseudoscience, nor the expurgation of jews from Europe and Russia that sent them to america where they spread their marxist, socialist, and Frankfurtian pseudoscience through the university, media, and entertainment business. No one needs reminding that the anglos were mistaken to conquer their cousins in Germany, and in doing so destroying western civilization’s basis in aristocracy. Nor that the American occupation of Europe was necessary only because of the Soviet occupation of Europe. Or that the American occupation is now the origin of european political weakness and social democratic overspending, and immigration. Nor that the entire western military model had adopted to the eventual inclusion of Russia just as Gorbachev had intended, and that the entire western state had pivoted to the emerging threats in the pacific and Asia instead. Nor that Putin’s panic over the threat of the spread of the Ukrainian revolution to Moscow and St Petersburg caused him to invade Ukraine and capture Crimea rather than doing the mature and wise thing and simply telling Ukraine (and the States and NATO) that they would need to ‘lease’ Crimea and the eastern territories for 99 years in exchange for a large discount on gas because it was of strategic military and industrial importance that the Russian state could not be without and still secure her borders, industry, and trade. No one needs reminding that the entire purpose of the postwar era has been to eliminate expansion and to force nations to direct their industrial energies to human rights and internal economic development rather than agrarian era territorial and tax expansion. Nor that it was Russia who broke this postwar agreement, and in doing so told the world that the future is one in which nuclear weapons are the only means by which states can guarantee their borders. Now, instead of eliminating weapons pointed at Moscow, and trusting NATO for defense, the entirety of Eastern Europe desires nuclear weapons and the abandonment of NATO for defense. NATO is a paper tiger that acts as a political system protecting world trade and nothing more. A dozen small countries with weapons pointed at heavily centralized Russia is not an increase in security for Russians. It is asking for an accident. The west needs three things for Russia to lead the Circumpolar Peoples:

      2) Russians must accept and apologize for the damage that they have done to Europe and the world in the Mongolian, Czarist, and Soviet Eras – it was much worse than the nazis ever dreamed of doing. After Mao’s efforts it is the worst most murderous campaign in recorded history, second only to the plagues, the Mongolian expansion, and the Muslim invasions of civilization. 3) Russians must stop their universal lying about their own past (Muscovites killed the Rus, they are not Rus) and about what they do today, and simply tell the truth: the Enlightenment Project of Universal Participation has been a catastrophic failure, everywhere it has been tried. Authoritarianism is not the answer, but neither is democracy: which is merely communism by slower means. If You Are Right, Then Why Lie? Russians are now largely ‘right’. So stop lying and deceiving – despite the fact that lying, deceit, and corruption and low trust are the markers of Russian society. If you are right then merely speak the truth. The truth is enough. All Russians need to do to rule is to speak truthfully. Because it is the West that is living a lie they believe now, just as Russians lived the lie of communism that they believed in the past. The fact that both Russians and westerners believed lies created by the Jews is something that we should both consider deeply: why were we both susceptible to utopian authoritarian lies by Marx, Lenin and Stalin? And why were we susceptible to utopian egalitarian lies of the neo-puritans and postmodernists? The reason is the First Great Lie we were susceptible to: religion: christianity, judaism, and islam. These were the first great lies. And the pseudosciences of Marxism, Socialism, Libertarianism, and Neo-Conserviatism the Second Great Lies. When all during this time the only truth that existed was our Warrior Heroism that created Aristotelian Science, Oath, Testimony, Jury, Property and Rule of Law. This is our origin as indo-europeans warriors from the black sea. This is our origin of sun worshippers using the wheel, bronze, and horse. We tried hard to save you from false god of Communism. We need Russians to try hard to save us from the false god of Utopian Democracy. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US. With Truth, Honor, Strength, and Courage. WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES any more than you could save yourselves from communism. WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US. But we need you armed with Truth and Russian Pragmatism, Russian Intolerance, and our shared Indo-european heroism. Not Mongol, Czarist, Soviet Propaganda and Lies. We should be ruling this world, not fighting over it. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev

    • The West Needs Russia To Save It From Utopian Democracy As The West Saved Russia From Communism.

      LETS FLIP THIS AROUND: THE WEST NEEDS RUSSIA TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN DEMOCRACY JUST AS RUSSIA NEEDED THE WEST TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN COMMUNISM

      —“The memory of the Soviets still exists in the minds of Eastern Europeans. But it would be dishonest to say that the U.S does not whip up fear of Russian expansion, so as to further maintain its political grip in Europe.”—

      [S]orry guys but I live in Ukraine, and do business in Estonia, and no one here needs ‘whipping up’ – they still remember soviets, and they recognize recent Russian actions as repeat of soviet actions. They all have relatives or friends of relatives who were starved, murdered, imprisoned, interrogated. They are painfully aware that they were european and on a European course of development and that Russian occupation hurt their cultures, their economies and their gene pools, and set them back a century of rapid development. They realize that they were Austro-hungarian and Polish-Lithuanian and that today they could live by european standars if not for Russian aggression and occupation. No one needs reminding that Russia invaded Ukraine, lied about it, took over its own news media, fabricated stories daily, created an entire bureaucracy to spam the internet with Russian propaganda. No one needs reminding that Russia remains an undeveloped resource economy, where the secret police manage the drug trade, and where the Kremlin uses its alliance with the Chechens to manage internal security – at great peril to Russian people. And that Moscow is now as full of muslims and third world peoples as any western city and for the same reason: real estate greed at the expense of the ordinary people. In a pattern that effects the entire world: Barbarians go to Moscow, the Russian Muscovites are displaced, and the money is sent to London where the British are displaced by the same means. They are driven out of London, leaving only the lower class third world Immigrants and empty flats owned by Russian politicians and business men. No one needs reminding that the United States has been selling a false utopia as defense against the disaster of Russian-driven world communism, just like the communists were selling a false utopia as a false alternative to consumer capitalism. No one needs reminding that it was the Russian state-sponsored Frankfurt School that paid for the conversion of american intellectuals to pseudoscience, nor the expurgation of jews from Europe and Russia that sent them to america where they spread their marxist, socialist, and Frankfurtian pseudoscience through the university, media, and entertainment business. No one needs reminding that the anglos were mistaken to conquer their cousins in Germany, and in doing so destroying western civilization’s basis in aristocracy. Nor that the American occupation of Europe was necessary only because of the Soviet occupation of Europe. Or that the American occupation is now the origin of european political weakness and social democratic overspending, and immigration. Nor that the entire western military model had adopted to the eventual inclusion of Russia just as Gorbachev had intended, and that the entire western state had pivoted to the emerging threats in the pacific and Asia instead. Nor that Putin’s panic over the threat of the spread of the Ukrainian revolution to Moscow and St Petersburg caused him to invade Ukraine and capture Crimea rather than doing the mature and wise thing and simply telling Ukraine (and the States and NATO) that they would need to ‘lease’ Crimea and the eastern territories for 99 years in exchange for a large discount on gas because it was of strategic military and industrial importance that the Russian state could not be without and still secure her borders, industry, and trade. No one needs reminding that the entire purpose of the postwar era has been to eliminate expansion and to force nations to direct their industrial energies to human rights and internal economic development rather than agrarian era territorial and tax expansion. Nor that it was Russia who broke this postwar agreement, and in doing so told the world that the future is one in which nuclear weapons are the only means by which states can guarantee their borders. Now, instead of eliminating weapons pointed at Moscow, and trusting NATO for defense, the entirety of Eastern Europe desires nuclear weapons and the abandonment of NATO for defense. NATO is a paper tiger that acts as a political system protecting world trade and nothing more. A dozen small countries with weapons pointed at heavily centralized Russia is not an increase in security for Russians. It is asking for an accident. The west needs three things for Russia to lead the Circumpolar Peoples:

        2) Russians must accept and apologize for the damage that they have done to Europe and the world in the Mongolian, Czarist, and Soviet Eras – it was much worse than the nazis ever dreamed of doing. After Mao’s efforts it is the worst most murderous campaign in recorded history, second only to the plagues, the Mongolian expansion, and the Muslim invasions of civilization. 3) Russians must stop their universal lying about their own past (Muscovites killed the Rus, they are not Rus) and about what they do today, and simply tell the truth: the Enlightenment Project of Universal Participation has been a catastrophic failure, everywhere it has been tried. Authoritarianism is not the answer, but neither is democracy: which is merely communism by slower means. If You Are Right, Then Why Lie? Russians are now largely ‘right’. So stop lying and deceiving – despite the fact that lying, deceit, and corruption and low trust are the markers of Russian society. If you are right then merely speak the truth. The truth is enough. All Russians need to do to rule is to speak truthfully. Because it is the West that is living a lie they believe now, just as Russians lived the lie of communism that they believed in the past. The fact that both Russians and westerners believed lies created by the Jews is something that we should both consider deeply: why were we both susceptible to utopian authoritarian lies by Marx, Lenin and Stalin? And why were we susceptible to utopian egalitarian lies of the neo-puritans and postmodernists? The reason is the First Great Lie we were susceptible to: religion: christianity, judaism, and islam. These were the first great lies. And the pseudosciences of Marxism, Socialism, Libertarianism, and Neo-Conserviatism the Second Great Lies. When all during this time the only truth that existed was our Warrior Heroism that created Aristotelian Science, Oath, Testimony, Jury, Property and Rule of Law. This is our origin as indo-europeans warriors from the black sea. This is our origin of sun worshippers using the wheel, bronze, and horse. We tried hard to save you from false god of Communism. We need Russians to try hard to save us from the false god of Utopian Democracy. WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US. With Truth, Honor, Strength, and Courage. WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES any more than you could save yourselves from communism. WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US. But we need you armed with Truth and Russian Pragmatism, Russian Intolerance, and our shared Indo-european heroism. Not Mongol, Czarist, Soviet Propaganda and Lies. We should be ruling this world, not fighting over it. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev

      • Which is to say that Andresson Horowitz’s experiment is a model for post-democra

        Which is to say that Andresson Horowitz’s experiment is a model for post-democratic, post-state capitalist government


        Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 05:57:03 UTC

        Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673743002024701952

        Reply addressees: @Jessicalessin @pmarca

        Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673702243997102080


        IN REPLY TO:

        @Jessicalessin

        “Most of our first customers that were over a $1M have come as relationships through Andreessen Horowitz.” https://t.co/audNiOzvD7

        Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673702243997102080

      • Not surprisingly, the Andreessen Horowitz model is identical to that of the mona

        Not surprisingly, the Andreessen Horowitz model is identical to that of the monarchies – albeit without land holding.


        Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 05:51:12 UTC

        Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673741528049819648

        Reply addressees: @Jessicalessin @pmarca

        Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673702243997102080


        IN REPLY TO:

        @Jessicalessin

        “Most of our first customers that were over a $1M have come as relationships through Andreessen Horowitz.” https://t.co/audNiOzvD7

        Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673702243997102080

      • THE MULTITUDE OF LUDDISMS WE CALL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I am beginning to see Rot

        THE MULTITUDE OF LUDDISMS WE CALL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

        I am beginning to see Rothbardian Libertinism, if not Puritanism, Socialism and Communism, as intellectually limited failures of maturity. They’re all forms of Luddism. They are failures to innovate to adapt to changes in scale.

        Just as the 20th century thinkers failed to grasp the problem of existential possibility (operationalism and intuitionism) and of criticism over justification (morality and contract over science and truth), we failed to evolve government to adapt to the new scale.

        Worse, we were so temporarily rich in the west due to the invention of industrial revolution, that we could afford a century of folly.

        Markets in everything. There is no common good. There are only many theoretical goods waiting to be discovered, exploited, and abandoned in the face of newly invented goods.


        Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 05:15:00 UTC

      • LETS FLIP THIS AROUND: THE WEST NEEDS RUSSIA TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN DEMOCRACY J

        LETS FLIP THIS AROUND: THE WEST NEEDS RUSSIA TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN DEMOCRACY JUST AS RUSSIA NEEDED THE WEST TO SAVE IT FROM UTOPIAN COMMUNISM

        —“The memory of the Soviets still exists in the minds of Eastern Europeans. But it would be dishonest to say that the U.S does not whip up fear of Russian expansion, so as to further maintain its political grip in Europe.”—

        Sorry guys but I live in Ukraine, and do business in Estonia, and no one here needs ‘whipping up’ – they still remember soviets, and they recognize recent Russian actions as repeat of soviet actions. They all have relatives or friends of relatives who were starved, murdered, imprisoned, interrogated. They are painfully aware that they were european and on a European course of development and that Russian occupation hurt their cultures, their economies and their gene pools, and set them back a century of rapid development. They realize that they were Austro-hungarian and Polish-Lithuanian and that today they could live by european standars if not for Russian aggression and occupation.

        No one needs reminding that Russia invaded Ukraine, lied about it, took over its own news media, fabricated stories daily, created an entire bureaucracy to spam the internet with Russian propaganda.

        No one needs reminding that Russia remains an undeveloped resource economy, where the secret police manage the drug trade, and where the Kremlin uses its alliance with the Chechens to manage internal security – at great peril to Russian people. And that Moscow is now as full of muslims and third world peoples as any western city and for the same reason: real estate greed at the expense of the ordinary people. In a pattern that effects the entire world: Barbarians go to Moscow, the Russian Muscovites are displaced, and the money is sent to London where the British are displaced by the same means. They are driven out of London, leaving only the lower class third world Immigrants and empty flats owned by Russian politicians and business men.

        No one needs reminding that the United States has been selling a false utopia as defense against the disaster of Russian-driven world communism, just like the communists were selling a false utopia as a false alternative to consumer capitalism.

        No one needs reminding that it was the Russian state-sponsored Frankfurt School that paid for the conversion of american intellectuals to pseudoscience, nor the expurgation of jews from Europe and Russia that sent them to america where they spread their marxist, socialist, and Frankfurtian pseudoscience through the university, media, and entertainment business.

        No one needs reminding that the anglos were mistaken to conquer their cousins in Germany, and in doing so destroying western civilization’s basis in aristocracy. Nor that the American occupation of Europe was necessary only because of the Soviet occupation of Europe. Or that the American occupation is now the origin of european political weakness and social democratic overspending, and immigration. Nor that the entire western military model had adopted to the eventual inclusion of Russia just as Gorbachev had intended, and that the entire western state had pivoted to the emerging threats in the pacific and Asia instead. Nor that Putin’s panic over the threat of the spread of the Ukrainian revolution to Moscow and St Petersburg caused him to invade Ukraine and capture Crimea rather than doing the mature and wise thing and simply telling Ukraine (and the States and NATO) that they would need to ‘lease’ Crimea and the eastern territories for 99 years in exchange for a large discount on gas because it was of strategic military and industrial importance that the Russian state could not be without and still secure her borders, industry, and trade.

        No one needs reminding that the entire purpose of the postwar era has been to eliminate expansion and to force nations to direct their industrial energies to human rights and internal economic development rather than agrarian era territorial and tax expansion. Nor that it was Russia who broke this postwar agreement, and in doing so told the world that the future is one in which nuclear weapons are the only means by which states can guarantee their borders. Now, instead of eliminating weapons pointed at Moscow, and trusting NATO for defense, the entirety of Eastern Europe desires nuclear weapons and the abandonment of NATO for defense. NATO is a paper tiger that acts as a political system protecting world trade and nothing more. A dozen small countries with weapons pointed at heavily centralized Russia is not an increase in security for Russians. It is asking for an accident.

        The west needs three things for Russia to lead the Circumpolar Peoples:

        1) Russians must eliminate endemic corruption in all walks of life, continue to incrementally build rule of law, and to slowly construct an economy not entirely dependent upon resource revenue, bribery, and graft to create a political, social and economic order.

        2) Russians must accept and apologize for the damage that they have done to Europe and the world in the Mongolian, Czarist, and Soviet Eras – it was much worse than the nazis ever dreamed of doing. After Mao’s efforts it is the worst most murderous campaign in recorded history, second only to the plagues, the Mongolian expansion, and the Muslim invasions of civilization.

        3) Russians must stop their universal lying about their own past (Muscovites killed the Rus, they are not Rus) and about what they do today, and simply tell the truth: the Enlightenment Project of Universal Participation has been a catastrophic failure, everywhere it has been tried. Authoritarianism is not the answer, but neither is democracy: which is merely communism by slower means.

        Russians are now largely ‘right’. So stop lying and deceiving – despite the fact that lying, deceit, and corruption and low trust are the markers of Russian society. If you are right then merely speak the truth. The truth is enough. All Russians need to do to rule is to speak truthfully.

        Because it is the West that is living a lie they believe now, just as Russians lived the lie of communism that they believed in the past. The fact that both Russians and westerners believed lies created by the Jews is something that we should both consider deeply: why were we both susceptible to utopian authoritarian lies by Marx, Lenin and Stalin? And why were we susceptible to utopian egalitarian lies of the neo-puritans and postmodernists? The reason is the First Great Lie we were susceptible to: religion: christianity, judaism, and islam. These were the first great lies. And the pseudosciences of Marxism, Socialism, Libertarianism, and Neo-Conserviatism the Second Great Lies.

        When all the time the only truth that existed was our Warrior Heroism that created Aristotelian Science, Oath, Testimony, Jury, Property and Rule of Law. This is our origin as indo-europeans warriors from the black sea. This is our origin of sun worshippers using the wheel, bronze, and horse.

        We tried hard to save you from false god of Communism. We need Russians to try hard to save us from the false god of Utopian Democracy.

        WE NEED YOU. WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US. With Truth, Honor, Strength, and Courage. WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES any more than you could save yourselves from communism. WE NEED YOU TO SAVE US.

        But we need you armed with Truth and Russian Pragmatism, Russian Intolerance, and our shared Indo-european heroism. Not Mongol, Czarist, Soviet Propaganda and Lies.

        We should be ruling this world, not fighting over it.

        Curt Doolittle

        The Propertarian Institute

        Kiev


        Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 04:46:00 UTC