Mar 15, 2020, 11:56 PM Without the experience we are not man enough to understand military discipline or the seriousness of the consequences of it. Men are incompetent robots under duress. Imagine you are exhausted, freezing, hungry, you have wounds, and haven’t slept in days, and you still have to fight. The reason that’s possible is discipline – you don’t think. You don’t feel. You don’t consider. you just do. And there is nothing in the world like knowing you can do that. And that the men around you can do that. And that those who can’t are barely domesticated animals unworthy of your attention, time, or effort. Imagine a generation men like that. And imagine a generation of millennials. That’s the difference between civlization and barbarism.
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There is nothing wrong with emergency helicopter money for the population
Mar 17, 2020, 4:53 PM There is nothing wrong with emergency helicopter money for the population. what you DON”T want is a worldwide recalculation (meaning rediscoverty) of the pricing structures of production. We don’t think in those terms, but THOSE ARE THE TERMS THAT MATTER. What we haven’t gotten past is the illusion that money is other than promise of time. We will need to nationalize consumer credit and liquidity in order to reverse the distribution of demand upward rather than downward through a banking system that no longer has any value – because money isn’t commodity money any longer. It’s entirely promises.
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There is nothing wrong with emergency helicopter money for the population
Mar 17, 2020, 4:53 PM There is nothing wrong with emergency helicopter money for the population. what you DON”T want is a worldwide recalculation (meaning rediscoverty) of the pricing structures of production. We don’t think in those terms, but THOSE ARE THE TERMS THAT MATTER. What we haven’t gotten past is the illusion that money is other than promise of time. We will need to nationalize consumer credit and liquidity in order to reverse the distribution of demand upward rather than downward through a banking system that no longer has any value – because money isn’t commodity money any longer. It’s entirely promises.
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John Mark Renders Judgement
Mar 18, 2020, 11:22 AM If we ask them to give up the supernatural belief aspect (to not believe the Bible is literally true), all they feel is that we are trying to take away from them their identity and a massive security blanket. So my current thinking is, in the short term the angle “Real Christianity is reciprocal, and ir-reciprocal/baiting-into-hazard Christianity is not real Christianity” will succeed, while the angle “You should convert to a non-supernatural version of Christianity” will fail.
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John Mark Renders Judgement
Mar 18, 2020, 11:22 AM If we ask them to give up the supernatural belief aspect (to not believe the Bible is literally true), all they feel is that we are trying to take away from them their identity and a massive security blanket. So my current thinking is, in the short term the angle “Real Christianity is reciprocal, and ir-reciprocal/baiting-into-hazard Christianity is not real Christianity” will succeed, while the angle “You should convert to a non-supernatural version of Christianity” will fail.
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Piracy Is Going to Have a Few Decades of Luxurious Opportunity.
Mar 18, 2020, 6:08 PM Kash Vikaas Nothing particularly interesting. (a) national security. china and russia are highly vulnerable to participation in the dollar-financial system. Look what the USA has done to russia since 2014’s invasion of ukraine. And look what china is afraid of today. I mean, we can rebuild anything they’re producing in a year or two. They can’t rebuild our buying from them. (b) everyone is going to do something like this because few countries outside the anglosphere can tolerate american ownership of both the seas, the air, and the financial system. (c) China is 13% of russia’s trade. Germany and Netherlands a lot of the rest of it. All other trading partners are small. They have to carry MULTIPLE CURRENCIES under this scheme, unless they have a clearing house for currencies. They area apparently building one but I don’t yet see the details. If they can clear one another’s currencies at a market rate (god knows how its calculated) then that will work for everyone. (d) russia makes much cheaper territorial arms than we do and arguably better for the eurasians. Between chinese and russians other countries will prefer russian or chinese arms. Russians are trustworthy arms dealers. Chinese are suspect. (e) like i’ve been saying for years now, the usa finances our wars and our spending which buys americans goods on the cheap. Europe’s euro project, iran’s bourse project, all these countries are capitalizing on the end of american influence in the world – influence that we cannot maintain. (f) gradually taking away our dollar is fine but my understanding is that the world is totally fucked without the USA running global defense and trade, and that the numbers don’t add up if anyone tries to replace it. So, as soon as the USA stops being global police then the USA starts being a friend to the people who are friends in fact, and the postwar era is over. Or put another way, piracy is going to have a few decades of luxurious opportunity.
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Piracy Is Going to Have a Few Decades of Luxurious Opportunity.
Mar 18, 2020, 6:08 PM Kash Vikaas Nothing particularly interesting. (a) national security. china and russia are highly vulnerable to participation in the dollar-financial system. Look what the USA has done to russia since 2014’s invasion of ukraine. And look what china is afraid of today. I mean, we can rebuild anything they’re producing in a year or two. They can’t rebuild our buying from them. (b) everyone is going to do something like this because few countries outside the anglosphere can tolerate american ownership of both the seas, the air, and the financial system. (c) China is 13% of russia’s trade. Germany and Netherlands a lot of the rest of it. All other trading partners are small. They have to carry MULTIPLE CURRENCIES under this scheme, unless they have a clearing house for currencies. They area apparently building one but I don’t yet see the details. If they can clear one another’s currencies at a market rate (god knows how its calculated) then that will work for everyone. (d) russia makes much cheaper territorial arms than we do and arguably better for the eurasians. Between chinese and russians other countries will prefer russian or chinese arms. Russians are trustworthy arms dealers. Chinese are suspect. (e) like i’ve been saying for years now, the usa finances our wars and our spending which buys americans goods on the cheap. Europe’s euro project, iran’s bourse project, all these countries are capitalizing on the end of american influence in the world – influence that we cannot maintain. (f) gradually taking away our dollar is fine but my understanding is that the world is totally fucked without the USA running global defense and trade, and that the numbers don’t add up if anyone tries to replace it. So, as soon as the USA stops being global police then the USA starts being a friend to the people who are friends in fact, and the postwar era is over. Or put another way, piracy is going to have a few decades of luxurious opportunity.
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Pragmatic? Or…
Mar 18, 2020, 7:22 PM
—“I’m pragmatic – why am I reading this if I know that the need for women to raise children is going to destroy that beautiful essay on law or that poetry of grammar that you just wrote.”—
I want to know whether you are pragmatic or simply advocating islamisation, or orthodoxy, or dictatorship, meaning we must coddle our women and lie, and abandon the european rule of law project. All I hear so far is criticisms of western behavior, and demand for either russian authority, or islamic authority, but I don’t hear anything western about it. I don’t hear how we continue the benefits of western civilization. One of the techniques of Critique is to criticize without offering a superior alternative, in order to justify a status quo. This is how the jewish intellectuals undermined western civlization with Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Friedan, Derrida et al, and the thousands and thousands of advocates. So, what’s your solution instead? Is it islam?
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Pragmatic? Or…
Mar 18, 2020, 7:22 PM
—“I’m pragmatic – why am I reading this if I know that the need for women to raise children is going to destroy that beautiful essay on law or that poetry of grammar that you just wrote.”—
I want to know whether you are pragmatic or simply advocating islamisation, or orthodoxy, or dictatorship, meaning we must coddle our women and lie, and abandon the european rule of law project. All I hear so far is criticisms of western behavior, and demand for either russian authority, or islamic authority, but I don’t hear anything western about it. I don’t hear how we continue the benefits of western civilization. One of the techniques of Critique is to criticize without offering a superior alternative, in order to justify a status quo. This is how the jewish intellectuals undermined western civlization with Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno-Fromm, Friedan, Derrida et al, and the thousands and thousands of advocates. So, what’s your solution instead? Is it islam?
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Use Stimulus by Rate of Response and Effect
Mar 18, 2020, 9:04 PM There’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus – Econlib econlib.org
There’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus
STIMULUS BY RATE OF RESPONSE AND EFFECT MONETARY stimulus refers to lowering interest rates, quantitative easing, or other ways of increasing the amount of money or credit. DIRECT stimulus (my term) refers to direct distribution of cash to consumers who can then alter the structure of production with collective (‘state’,’environmental’) indirect debt rather than individual, family, business and industry debt. this is the ONLY method of preventing exaggerated worldwide demand, network, and price recalculation, in the face of ignorance. Giving consumers liquidity removes IGNORANCE (uncertainty) while the economy changes. It is ignorance, uncertainty, and recalculation by trial and error under duress that causes undesirable economic contractions rather than desirable economic adaptations. DEBT NATIONALIZATION (my term) refers to paying down consumer credit all mortgages and granting credit to those with paid or substantially paid mortgages. RESCUE INVESTMENT (my term) – Providing loans directly to business industry in response to shocks, so that they can survive or even motball during recessions. NATIONALIZATION refers to the state taking over the ownership of a STRATEGIC industry, providing necessary cash reserves and cash-flow while the necessary organization adapts to shocks (temporary) or change (permanent). However, investors must be zeroed during this time and may only buy back their interest for having failed to preserve enough liquidity to insure against shocks. In this case the state buys the company for nothing, and resells it. FISCAL stimulus refers to increasing government consumption or transfers or lowering taxes. Effectively this means increasing the rate of growth of public debt, except that particularly Keynesians often assume that the stimulus will cause sufficient economic growth to fill that gap partially or completely. See multiplier (economics).