Curt Doolittle

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    https://www.theroot.com/white-people-are-cowards-1826958780

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-22 08:01:00 UTC

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    https://www.theroot.com/white-people-are-cowards-1826958780https://www.theroot.com/white-people-are-cowards-1826958780

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-22 08:01:00 UTC

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    http://buchanan.org/blog/has-the-west-the-will-to-survive-129509http://buchanan.org/blog/has-the-west-the-will-to-survive-129509

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-22 07:59:00 UTC

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    Has the West the Will to Survive?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-22 07:59:00 UTC

  • “So, every penny that goes to an immigrant, five pennies don’t go to the native

    —“So, every penny that goes to an immigrant, five pennies don’t go to the native poor. 1 penny for the immigrant, 4 pennies for the rich. Who should you hate more, someone who stole 4 pennies from you or someone who happened to get one penny?”— a friend

    False dichotomy.

    Return the immigrant.

    Punish the businessperson for hiring him.

    Let market push up wages due to labor shortages.

    Redistribute liquidity directly to consumers, bypassing the financial sector and the interest it collects for that distribution.

    You have to do all of those things to eliminate wage income disparities while at the same time preserving incentives, the ability to organized production, distribution, and trade through the pricing system, and neutralize international differences in purchasing power parity.

    People in general have zero comprehension of economics.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 22:14:00 UTC

  • “Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can

    —“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”—- ?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 21:01:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1009904056805019650

  • “Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can

    —“Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.”—- ?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 17:00:00 UTC

  • “The Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions focused particularly on the issue of Je

    —“The Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions focused particularly on the issue of Jewish anusim and Muslim converts to Catholicism, partly because these minority groups were more numerous in Spain and Portugal than in many other parts of Europe, and partly because they were often considered suspect due to the assumption that they had secretly reverted to their previous religions.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 06:58:00 UTC

  • THE ORIGINS OF “KILL THEM ALL AND LET GOD SORT IT OUT” —“In 1209, Pope Innocen

    THE ORIGINS OF “KILL THEM ALL AND LET GOD SORT IT OUT”

    —“In 1209, Pope Innocent III decided it was time to crack down on followers of a religious sect that had become popular in Southern France. Originally called Albigensians, they came to be more widely known as the Cathars.

    Cathars were Christians. But they rejected the authority of the Pope and other key aspects of Catholicism, so they were deemed heretics by the Catholic Church.

    This apparently didn’t matter much to most people living in the French town of Beziers.

    Catholics and Cathars had lived there together for many years in relative harmony.

    On July 22, 1209, they were celebrating the annual Feast of Mary Magdalene together, a religious holiday observed by various Christian religions.

    Suddenly, the festivities were cut short when an army of “Crusaders” sent by Pope Innocent III showed up outside the walls of the town.

    The military leader of the army was Simon de Montfort, a French nobleman highly motivated by the Pope’s promise that he could keep the land of any heretics he killed.

    The Crusaders were accompanied by an official representative of the Pope, a French Cistercian monk named Arnaud Amalric (also variously referred to as Arnald Amalric and Arnauld-Amaury).

    De Montfort demanded that the leaders of Beziers turn over the town’s Cathar heretics to him. They refused. The Crusaders attacked.

    According to accounts written decades later, as the attack began, a soldier asked Amalric how they would be able to tell which Beziers townspeople were Catholics and which were Cathars.

    Amalric supposedly answered (in French):

    “Kill them all. God will recognize his own.”

    Some sources give the alleged quote as “Kill them all, for the Lord knows his own” or as “Kill them all. The Lord knows his own.”

    It eventually came to be most commonly paraphrased as:

    “Kill them all and let God sort them out.”

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    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-21 06:56:00 UTC

  • —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb,

    —“Only the autodidacts are free.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I would never have been ‘permitted’ to develop Propertarianism (Natural Law) in the academy. The simple reasons that (a) interdisciplinary phd’s are nearly impossible, (b) taking 10+ years to solve a hard problem is unacceptable. (c) publishing along the way to a solution only serves to anchor you in a falsehood. (d) the academy forces presumptions (paradigms) that are false due to its market incentives to produce educational products rather than truth (in other than the physical sciences).