Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • RT @Psyche_OS: The US Military Recruiting Crisis, especially of the critical sou

    RT @Psyche_OS: The US Military Recruiting Crisis, especially of the critical southern white bucket and the general white bucket is in fullโ€ฆ


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 18:48:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680288304191754240

  • Found that bit of a humorous stat while working on the problem of muslim integra

    Found that bit of a humorous stat while working on the problem of muslim integration in Germany. ๐Ÿ˜‰


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 12:45:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680196973075341312

    Reply addressees: @WerrellBradley

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680195779921846273

  • GERMANY: THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IS A CLASS (IQ), CULTURE (Class, IQ), AND INTEG

    GERMANY: THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IS A CLASS (IQ), CULTURE (Class, IQ), AND INTEGRATION (Class, IQ) PROBLEM.
    (That’s why it’s easily solved, just as uni costs are easily solved.)

    1) Immigration Is an Anchoring Problem (w/o integration)
    –“About radicalization: When people move out of their home countries, the knowledge of their country get forever frozen in that time, so they raised their kids with that frozen knowledge even after people in the home country are now more liberal. You find it everywhere. Indians practicing caste system in the UK, America. Pakistanis (and some other Muslim communities )still committing honor killing in UK, Female Genital Mutilation amongst African communities.”–

    2) Immigration Is A Class Problem (no matter what)
    –“my colleague comes from Turkey and this has been his observation as well. He says germany is a very easy country for a Turk to migrate to because there are so many Turkish touchstones and communities here, but he finds the German Turks very hard to deal with. … His belief is that it was the poor and less well educated people who took the opportunity to leave Turkey as Gastarbeiter while the more educated ones had better prospects and could afford to stay. He thinks the German Turks are a reflection of a poorly educated rather insular population from many decades ago that just perpetuated the culture it brought with it to germany and didn’t really change like society back in Turkey was changing.”–

    FYI: ‘–“Gastarbeiter , German for ‘guest worker’, are foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part of a formal guest worker program (Gastarbeiterprogramm).”–

    –“the people the came here in the 60s were poor and without much education (that’s basically the reason they left Turkey in the first place to start here). … And poor and uneducated is a really bad place to start in a foreign country. Even worsen the chance of the future generations, because sadly success in school largely depends on the parents education here in Germany. … Mix that with massive islamic propaganda through the Turkish government (most imans in Germany weren’t actually tought here, but in Turkey paid by the Turkish government) and you get a very conservative, very loyal followership for the Turkish government.”—

    3) It’s an Ethnicity Problem (Greek-Turks vs Central Asian and Iranic Turks)
    –“When workers were needed in the 60s people without jobs from central Anatolia and east Turkey came and brought their values. … They don’t understand current day Turkey, they don’t understand Europe they are kinda stuck in between places.”–

    3) Integration is Political Problem (Necessary Regardless Of Class)
    –“Germany did not pursue any integration at all until around 2000. The first Turks arrived in the 1960s. That is, among other things, a political failure. Another factor is who came here. Rather few educated people from big cities and also few persecuted communists, who were usually intellectuals. It is the same with Moroccans. Most of them are Berbers, peasants from the north without education. Their way of life is a strict interpretation of Islam.”–

    4) Non Integration Is a Political Problem That Expands Rapidly (The jewish postwar efforts to destroy the west).
    Jewish radicalism in America in particular and Jewish dominance in cultural destruction by the “March through the institutions of western cultural production of individual responsibility” using the seditious sequence of marxism, neoMarxism, Postmodernism, Neoconservatism, Libertarianism, Anti-Family-Feminism, PC-Woke Race Marxism, and the entire strategy of ‘multicutluralism’ is necessary for Jews.

    5) Reversal (German Integration into South America)
    –“Muslim minorities tend to integrate so poorly not only in Europe, but in any other place where their presence is considerable enough to be noticeable (France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, etc). … As a contrast: I live in South America, in a country that has seen (comparatively) massive German immigration in the last few years. But while some fail to integrate with the local society, the majority of them adapt quite well and fast, and if they bring children, they are almost indistinguishable from the locals in but a few years. … But still, there’s no “Anti local country sentiment” among Germans here, and many already feel and identify as locals, even with the heavy accent, it’s quite funny.”–


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-15 12:45:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1680196934479273985

  • RUSSIA IS HEADING INTO BECOMING A NORTH KOREA? (Worth Repeating) The Eight Possi

    RUSSIA IS HEADING INTO BECOMING A NORTH KOREA?
    (Worth Repeating)

    The Eight Possible Futures for Russia
    … 1) Repeat France (Good): absolutist, big bureaucracy, bloody revolutionary tradition, threatening neighbors, into settling down into not threatening your neighbors. (though france still is, just softly)

    … 2) Authoritarian Leader, don’t threaten your neighbors (solve the ukraine problem, not the russia problem). Because trying to threaten neighbors is a losing game.

    … 3) Chinese Puppet Regime. Stalin vs Mao, reversed. A partner to be anti western to protect the CCP against the west. (Catastrophic for russia as well as the west)

    … 4) The Biggest North Korea we’ve ever seen. Isolated, disconnected from the international system, incentivized for mischief across the board. A semi-puppet regime for china but russia constantly troubles china. (This is the current pathway. (CD: I AGREE))

    … 5) Anarchy and Collapse.

    … 6) This current tragedy continues for decades

    … 7) Apparently, a democratic Russia is off the table? Even with the Marshall Plan Times Ten? I don’t think so.

    … 8) We have no idea. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    via Kotkin.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 21:17:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679963257518342145

  • Yes. You and I enter the market for association to find friends; we enter the co

    Yes. You and I enter the market for association to find friends; we enter the commercial market to produce income and purchase goods services and information; we enter the parliamentary market for the production of commons; and we enter the court market for the resolution ofโ€ฆ


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 15:39:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679878409084710913

    Reply addressees: @tysonmaly

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679844171194986497

  • Yes. You and I enter the market for association to find friends; we enter the co

    Yes. You and I enter the market for association to find friends; we enter the commercial market to produce income and purchase goods services and information; we enter the parliamentary market for the production of commons; and we enter the court market for the resolution of disputes. And every one of those markets produce adversarial competition. In the court in particular, we compete before a jury instead of a customer.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 15:39:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679878408975667202

  • Don’t be a nitwit. ๐Ÿ˜‰ The military can’t meet it’s recruiting requirements. The

    Don’t be a nitwit. ๐Ÿ˜‰ The military can’t meet it’s recruiting requirements. The woke military is hostile to the traditional families that serve in the military. This is a logical consequence of policy. It has nothing to do with europe.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 03:53:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679700732293836801

    Reply addressees: @seanmdav

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679639444251369472

  • RT @r_o_farrell: I didn’t expect French people to have the least trust in the EU

    RT @r_o_farrell: I didn’t expect French people to have the least trust in the EU. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

    (People in Ireland are 6th most trusting of the EU.โ€ฆ


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 02:26:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679678768137359360

  • Timing vs Determinism. Most of us were in the 2020-2030 range. But it was obviou

    Timing vs Determinism. Most of us were in the 2020-2030 range. But it was obvious by the late nineties and the rough time fame certain by the early 00s.

    Financial econon worries about timing.
    Fed econ worries about trends.
    Political econ worries about cycles.

    2008 proved the last of the outstanding austrian theories.

    The only difference now is that we remain operationalists and social scientists while the freshwater remain insurers and saltwater the exploiters.

    Unfortunately the scientific context of austrian theory was poorly understood by its founders, and this misunderstanding of it’s place in the sciences continues.

    And unfortunately the fact that austrian is often accessible by literary rather than scientific study, the popular end of the movement is stuck in some substantially ‘off’ assertions by the jewish austrians, and a failure of the christan austrians to complete the project.

    Just as Babbage didn’t really know what he had done, niether did the Austrians. It was far more important than was obvious – and still is so.

    Reply addressees: @WigginsSenor @BobMurphyEcon


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-14 00:48:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679654114483994624

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679296450411339776

  • KOTKIN ON THE KREMLIN STATE OF MIND, AND RUSSIA’S SIX POSSIBLE FUTURES –“I mean

    KOTKIN ON THE KREMLIN STATE OF MIND, AND RUSSIA’S SIX POSSIBLE FUTURES

    –“I mean, I’m from New York and I worked in New Jersey. It’s not like it’s a foreign topic.”–Stephen Kotkin

    Explaining his deep understanding of Putin’s government in response to the Prigozhin rebellion as exactly the dynamics of the mob.

    Priceless. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    Seriously. He has it down. I haven’t seen anyone with this accurate an analysis yet. But that would make sense given kotkin’s record of historical works.

    Worth the watch.
    https://t.co/zPxUwhaSmu

    Index For the TLDR; Crowd:

    2:39 to 12:30 Understanding the Kremlin’s Condition

    12:31 to 20:28 The Six(8?) Possible Futures for Russia
    … 1) Repeat France (Good): absolutist, big bureaucracy, bloody revolutionary tradition, threatening neighbors, into settling down into not threatening your neighbors. (though france still is, just softly)
    … 2) Authoritarian Leader, don’t threaten your neighbors (solve the ukraine problem, not the russia problem). Because trying to threaten neighbors is a losing game.
    … 3) Chinese Puppet Regime. Stalin vs Mao, reversed. A partner to be anti western to protect the CCP against the west. (Catastrophic for russia as well as the west)
    … 4) The Biggest North Korea we’ve ever seen. Isolated, disconnected from the international system, incentivized for mischief across the board. A semi-puppet regime for china but russia constantly troubles china. (This is the current pathway. (CD: I AGREE))
    … 5) Anarchy and Collapse.
    … 6) We have no idea. ๐Ÿ˜‰
    … ?) No 7? This tragedy continues for decades.
    … ?) No 8? (CD: Apparently a democratic russia is off the table? Even with the Marshall Plan Times Ten?)

    @HooverInst #StephenKotkin


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 23:29:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679634171637952512