—“This scales along a continuum (with increasing fragility and negative effects as scale increases): The tribe is a softening of family boundaries through intermarriage and mutually beneficial collective action. The nation state is a dissolution of tribal boundaries through ideology or forced submission. Globalism is the suppression of nation state boundaries through fraud and deceit.”— #barbarianeconomist
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-21 09:39:00 UTC
—-“Complexity is often employed to deceive, obfuscate, and evade the simplest of truths. The proper function of complexity is in the increased precision of truth telling, rather than the enhancement of lying.”—-Alex Houchens
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-19 11:24:00 UTC
TRUMP WON THE POPULAR VOTE, JUST NOT THE CALIFORNIA POPULAR VOTE.
—“Clinton’s 2.3-million-popular-vote plurality over Trump depends on the votes in a single state: California. Clinton has more than a 4-million-vote plurality over Trump there. In the other 49 states plus the District of Columbia, Trump actually has a 1.7-million-popular-vote plurality over Clinton.”— James E. Campbell
IN OTHER WORDS, THE ELECTORAL VOTE SYSTEM DID ITS JOB OF PREVENTING ONE RADICAL STATE FROM OPPRESSING THE REST.
James E. Campbell is a UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and is the author of “Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America”.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-hillary-clinton-supporters-need-to-quit-whining-about-the-electoral-college-2016-11-30
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-19 11:13:00 UTC
—“Property norms are about superior claims. The current condition of the “unused” land is subsidized at gun point by victims of tax theft. Those victims therefore have the best objective link to its use. An open border policy is therefore the forceful redistribution of resources from those with superior property claims to those with inferior property claims.”—Jared Howe
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-19 10:11:00 UTC
—“I love the sweet taste of liberal tears”— (friend)
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-18 09:07:00 UTC
—“I must say I’m falling in love with ‘moral license to unleash retribution’. You break the consuetudines et usus pact and I get have my fun with you.”—Josh Jeppson
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-18 08:59:00 UTC
—“Fear of confrontation is also an important factor in innovations. Confrontations are risky, doing what every else is doing, but a little better might be a more successful individual reproduction strategy, at the expense of the groups development.
Innovation requires confronting uncomfortable truths and risking social ostracism or even violence. Cultures that tolerate the optimum levels of confrontation and are good at rationally resolving confrontations have more innovation. We can’t be good at resolving confrontations unless we value truth over harmony and stability.
It might also be why women, who generally are not good at confrontations, are responsible for far fewer innovations than men.”— @Noah J Revoy
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-17 18:13:00 UTC
by James Augustus Berens
—“During the Age of Discovery, the acquisition of knowledge and territory produced high return to investment ratios. However, given the limits of human cognition and available territory, we’ve observed diminishing returns.
It is now costly, and highly unlikely, though not impossible, that we can make consequential scientific discoveries that produce the returns observed in the early scientific period. Similarly, humans have populated all habitable areas of planet earth, so territorial expansion is rarely pursued.
With these two changes we observe a corresponding shift from ‘discovery,’ the low-cost identification and capitalization of opportunities, to scientific criticism (high-cost identification + optimal calculation via negativa) of available, and known choices/opportunities.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-13 21:00:00 UTC
—“Sorry, but killing people who need killing is one of those professions that is morally necessary, personally fulfilling, and if done well, is both thrilling and an absolute joy. That’s even if you common folk don’t not wanna see it up close and personal. I know. You are glad for the butchers of this world. You just don’t want to see the work-in-progress.”—
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-13 15:12:00 UTC
—-“If you fail to limit your own behaviour, we will do it for you and judge the solutions by this measure of decidability”—-Moritz Bierling
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-13 15:05:00 UTC