RT @MartianHoplite: The responsible have no way to repay the damage they’ve done, let alone all they’ve yet to do. The wealth they’ve plund…
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-26 20:22:41 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1067151678661697536
—“The bigger, systemic problem isn’t separating a church from state, but keeping the state from becoming the “church” … The State has, in the vacuum that the absence of a godded religion has generated, deified its social and environmental markets. The State *wants* religion.”—Anne Summers
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-26 12:23:00 UTC
IT CAN MAKE YOU ANGRY
—“It’s been a rough few months for me, as I grapple with the difficulties of shedding an indifferent religious upbringing and serious religious commitment in adulthood. Right now I’m angry. I hate that Augustine and Aquinas wasted their minds on nonsense. I think Thomas would have completed propertarianism 800 years ago, but here we are.”—Ryan Williams
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Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 22:54:00 UTC
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/rightwing-trolls-report-online-sex-workers-to-tax-authorities-in-thotaudit/news-story/16cff3e5f5f4303b78d1dc23c80af4db?utm_campaign=EditorialSF&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialFlow&fbclid=IwAR1cQQurB5UymVDtpFCwnfHZkP2IgylrNBPCO6YXifhophspd-nUnTXhd3sTURNING SEX WORKERS INTO THE IRS?
You know I first heard about this yesterday when someone sent me a photo of one of the report forms.
I”m not quite sure how I feel about it. I mean, abstractly, its funny as hell as a creative prank. Whether the IRS would act on it, is something else. Given that I think the IRS is the most criminal of institutions I have a problem with licensing them against anyone. Depriving low income bimbos of hard currency is not something I feel good about. Whether the consequence would mean de-funding those sites that stream crime, gore, accident, and fail videos is all I really care about. I’m perfectly happy if the sexually desperate pay cam girls in order to provide me with free streaming of crime around the world.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/rightwing-trolls-report-online-sex-workers-to-tax-authorities-in-thotaudit/news-story/16cff3e5f5f4303b78d1dc23c80af4db?
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 20:37:00 UTC
SORRY GUYS, DOIN’ MY JOB
—“…Stop talking about fucking religion all the time and get back to strategizing against the neoliberal world order and promoting anti-poz behavior.”—Dylan Newman
Sorry man. I’m working on the constitution and it’s statements on religion so I had to test some ideas. I should be done and will move on again shortly.
I got stuck on the debt-creation concept a few weeks ago and only felt I got my arms around it in the past week.
Working through that problem meant trying a lot of arguments from a lot of angles. And this forum is where I run experiments, and people try to refute them, and I learn from that ‘market’ activity.
Doing my job. It’s part of the job.
That said, I am profoundly proud of working through the problem of religion. It is the hard problem of social science.
And worse, like Truth Telling, it is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to produce a good religion and extremely cheap to produce a bad one. Law and Markets are trivial achievements by comparison.
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 20:08:00 UTC
ON UKRAINE AND MARTIAL LAW
(From a journalist friend in ukraine. Edited for anonymity and clarity.)
—“Hi, … I can’t get a feeling for the reasons behind the martial law request from the Rada. I can see both good and bad reasons to ask. Can you help me?”—
Hello Curt !
I think, this decision was logical. The goal of the Russian Federation is to continue the war; to inflict economic losses on Ukraine; to destabilize the state in such a way as to avoid a further wave of sanctions.
Without Ukraine’s response, the enemy will feel they can act with impunity – besides, it is a demonstration of Russian aggression in the face of the whole world.
This policy will facilitate the provision of earlier sanctions inside the country, and such a situation can play a political role for the authorities in Ukraine.
–“And, by any chance, are the oligarchs a target of this policy?”–
It’s possible since they monopolize the television. But we must wait and see. It is an interesting time to be a journalist.
—“Thanks!”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 19:36:00 UTC
—“…Have you considered debating Curt Doolittle?”—
I don’t waste time on the Three Great Fictionalisms of (a) faith (supernaturalism), (b) sophism (idealism) (c) pseudoscience, and I don’t make pragmatic excuses for them either. I spend my time on Education, Literature, History, Economics, Law, Science, Logics, and Mathematics.
(not worth my time)
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 19:22:00 UTC
We Had No Religion only Law, Oath, Festival and Myth
(Repost)
—“It is perhaps misleading even to say that there was such a religion as paganism at the beginning of [the Common Era] … It might be less confusing to say that the pagans, before their competition with Christianity, had no religion at all in the sense in which that word is normally used today. They had no tradition of discourse about ritual or religious matters (apart from philosophical debate or antiquarian treatise), no organized system of beliefs to which they were asked to commit themselves, no authority-structure peculiar to the religious area, above all no commitment to a particular group of people or set of ideas other than their family and political context. If this is the right view of pagan life, it follows that we should look on paganism quite simply as a religion invented in the course of the second to third centuries AD, in competition and interaction with Christians, Jews and others. — North 1992, 187—88, [34]
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 11:27:00 UTC
—“I think the Christian set don’t understand that being a Christian (in the sense I’m here using: an apologist for Abrahamism, not Christians per se; or indeed, an apologist in general) is a disqualifier from being a Propertarian, and as such Curt does not want to appeal to you. If you cannot overcome that justificationary way of thinking, you have failed the test. It’s another example of the way in which those who are – I’m not sure what word to use to describe them but further towards the solipsistic end – refuse to let Curt’s work take its proper place as a specific function within a greater whole, instead demanding conflation of different areas. There’s no need. Let the science of the law be the science of the law. Benefit from it. Do not attempt to have Curt or his work be something it is not and need not be.”—Tim Kay
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-25 11:23:00 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ut15uwXvgFOR MY FELLOW INTERMARIUM ADVOCATES
Poland as the critical player in the future of europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ut15uwXvg
“Russia and Germany are subject to post traumatic stress syndromes… they are both in slow spirals of decline.”
“Germany is unsustainable, economically and demographically”
“The consequences of 1945 are still playing out.”
“The level of civilizational energy that is left, is in the borderland: poland, ukraine, baltics”
“The transatlantic alliance doesn’t exist any longer because europeans don’t have militaries to contribute”
“There is a pre-war going on with both sides Baltics+Poland+Romania+USA+Finland and Scandinavia vs Russia. … But note that Germany and france no longer matter.”
“Russians have to have ukraine….(it’s just time).”
“Americans are developing the Intermarium…. And what you see emerging is the intermarium, using Poland and Romania.”
“Germany exports more than 50% of it’s GDP. They are afraid of that consequent unemployment, and the social consequences of that level of unemployment. Germany is in a fix where it is in an economically unsustainable position and a political situation that they can’t endure. The periphery of europe isn’t benefiting from the trade zone because of germany.”
“Who will die for the european union? No one. It’s nothing but a treaty organization.”
“There is a class of politicians that built their careers around the EU but their ability to survive the near future ( is zero )…. there is a europe that sees the EU as a massive social breakdown.”
“They can’t face that it’s over.”
“We have been in a devolutionary period since the Habsburg collapse. ….. This process has been going on for a century.”
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-24 18:50:00 UTC