Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

  • “I mean, I’m from New York and I worked in New Jersey. It’s not like it’s a fore

    –“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. 😉

    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. 😉
    … ?) 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/1679633407872057344

  • RT @curtdoolittle: @PeterZeihan Jay’s list (other than Sowell) consists largely

    RT @curtdoolittle: @PeterZeihan Jay’s list (other than Sowell) consists largely of the NeoCon revolution that captured the republican party…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 22:38:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679621226187161601

  • RT @elonmusk: @TitterDaily FTC overreach has gone absurdly far beyond the legal

    RT @elonmusk: @TitterDaily FTC overreach has gone absurdly far beyond the legal mandate granted by Congress.

    Weaponization of government…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 21:36:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679605674563579905

  • POLITICAL NECESSITIES Marginal indifference in proportionality (‘equality’) requ

    POLITICAL NECESSITIES
    Marginal indifference in proportionality (‘equality’) requires marginal indifference in ability, requires marginal indifference in genetics (ability) and culture (measurements) and institution (rules and processes). The eugenics program was the only movement that can prevent ‘The Great Filter” that causes all species to pass into extinction. Othewise conflict is deterministic as is decline that we saw as the result of the abrahamic cancer, just as we are seeing in the marxist cancer.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 17:37:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679545556954128400

  • Evolution of Political Cooperation Villages must evolve into City States City St

    Evolution of Political Cooperation
    Villages must evolve into City States
    City States must evolve into empires
    Empires must devolve into federations
    Federations must devolve into nation states.
    A world of nation states under rule of law of the natural law of cooperation is the maximum possible world of cooperation
    This process calculates an increasingly precise system of weights, measures, and laws, that produce the greatest correspondence between the laws of the universe and the actions of man with the minimum provodation of conflict, retaliation and war among mankind.
    The greatest risk to world peace and harmony is the failure of the west to continue it’s soft eugenics program ensuring that all people progress toward genetic indifference such that we can enjoy economic and political indifference – an indifferene which produces the greatest possible opportunity for fulfillment for all at the expense of none.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute
    The Science of Cooperation


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 17:33:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679544711906729998

  • “The State is a force of subtraction, reduction and elimination. Use it to remov

    –“The State is a force of subtraction, reduction and elimination. Use it to remove bads (irreciprocities).
    The Market is a force of addition, multiplication and production. Use it to create goods (reciprocities).
    When these are confused, intentionally or otherwise, there is… https://twitter.com/StephenThomasHC/status/1679516188894806017


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 17:18:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679540836353073166

  • “Limit the state. Grow the People”

    –“Limit the state. Grow the People”– https://twitter.com/StephenThomasHC/status/1679514181446369281

  • “Limit the state. Grow the People”

    –“Limit the state. Grow the People”–


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:40:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679516195924455424

  • “It’s Unamerican”– I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree

    –“It’s Unamerican”–

    I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree with your sentiments). A normative description only applies under shared norms. And the postwar attempt to destroy the west by the march through our “institutions of cultural production” of…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:39:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679515891178823681

    Reply addressees: @chasmath2

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679509669436436486

  • “It’s Unamerican”– I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree

    –“It’s Unamerican”–

    I don’t know what that means. (Though I’m sure I would agree with your sentiments). A normative description only applies under shared norms. And the postwar attempt to destroy the west by the march through our “institutions of cultural production” of individual responsibility, has sought to destroy those norms and impose norms that are anti-american and anti-western. And so we have people who lack sufficient knowledge and understanding to “be american” – meaning “think, speak, or act american” because they have been indoctrinated into a cult of hatred of being american, european, white, and christian.

    I do love this quote though because it states the problem very clearly:

    –“A people whose maxim is ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ cannot be expected to hold a vote to decide whether or not to be enslaved.”–

    This is true, unless some majority or near majority can be promised freedom from individual responsibility sufficent to encourage the government to enslave them.

    We are ‘mistaken’ in our christian and enlightenment universalism, in that by the time the promise of ‘an aristocracy of everyone’ was created in enlightenment Europe, the population of Europe under manorialism since 700ad and under ‘genetic pacification by hanging and war” so suppressed the reproduction of the underclasses, and so expanded the genetics of the middle classes, and beause of this expansion the means of production (agrarian land) was scarce, that when we formed the USA and spread westward, all the countries that were at least nominally protestant, or thus influenced, were brimming with a surplus of genetically potenial middle class people capable of individual responsibilty for self, familiy, and commons.

    We can not continue to immigrate people from low trust polities with no tradition of responsibility, and especially with no reproductive selection (IQ>100), nor genetic pacification (non aggression), who cannot compete in our economy without subsidy, and obtain the same benefits of immigration from the surpluses in europe.

    Whiteness (Western Civilzation) where America is the MOST western political order ever established since Rome, is the most genetically, intellectually, psychologically, and emotionally costly civilization yet produced by man – because it demands that most responsibility in exchange for the most liberty.

    But many people prefer serfdom because they cannot pay the genetic, intellectual, psychological, and emotional costs of responsiblity. And worse, it is even harder without christianity which eases the burden for women to bear that political responsibility – and those that can are not confident other women can ever do so.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-07-13 15:39:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1679515890956500994