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Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 10:17:00 UTC
THERE ARE ONLY TWO SUCCESS STORIES
Don’t be daft. There are only two success stories in history. The far west: a professional militia of kin that create markets, and the far east: a professional bureaucracy of kin that create monopolies. I have no idea why we even pay attention to the fertile crescent. it is an exercise in a professional class of liars (priests). Which is the worst of all possible worlds. Starting first with any technology is a disadvantage because of the cumulative network effect. The chinese avoided religion altogether. The west was conquered by it and has tried repeatedly to escape it. Maybe this time we will be successful in replacing religion with Literature, the Oath, Sports, and Festivals.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 10:14:00 UTC
Also: The problem for sub saharan africa (and for most of the world) is (a) the tradition of stealing on behalf of your family tribe and clan, and (b) the expression of this tradition in *corruption*.
The only fix for corruption is not to demand good people (they don’t exist) but to create good judges.
If you demand uncorrupt judges (and kill them if they are not uncorrupt), the judges will prosecute politicians.
Until you have an army or police force, and a judiciary that is paid enough that corruption is not ‘valuable’, then it does not matter what government you have.
step 1. soldiers who protect the people.
step 2. judges who are not corrupt
step 3. police (or soldiers) who will enforce the judge’s rule.
It is cheaper to create highly paid police and judges than to create a highly paid military.
The world is very simple if we stop trying to find good men, and instead, punish people who are bad – leaving only good people able to work in government.
Ukraine has the same problem. Every poor country has the same problem.
Westerners do not have this problem because we were always a militia – meaning all men fight. This is the secret to western successes. It all begins with our militia.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 10:10:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/Is-a-democracy-necessary-for-sub-Saharan-Africa-taking-into-consideration-our-historical-makeup/answer/Shingai-Samudzi?share=326172c1&srid=u4QvFASCISM WON. LET’S BE HONEST. FASCISM WON THE COMPETITION
Correct.
1. Fascism and Nationalism have emerged as the optimum political order for modernization – meaning, a strong monopoly government that forbids competition, and that operates primarily in the national interest (creating wealth) by the production commons that produce returns, has and will always and everywhere succeed at modernization.
2. The 20th century experiment with socialism (government control production distribution and trade) had been a failure – everywhere. And in most cases has lost the ‘window of opportunity’ for rapid growth.
3. The 20th century ‘threat’ that peoples must (a) respect borders, and (b) adopt consumer capitalism, has been a success.
4. The 20th century experiment with democracy has been a failure because it only serves to distribute windfalls due to technology or conquest in an already-advanced (meaning middle class) civilization.
5. The outlier is Iran’s attempt to restore the caliphate from the mediterranean to india, under a regressive theocratic (kleptocratic) system of rule. The Kingdoms (which are probably the optimum government) have finally lost fear of the expansion of fundamentalism and communism and are slowly reorganizing to suit both modernity and their demographics.
6. The dirty secret of the 20th century is that the western ambition of an aristocracy of everyone has failed, because each society is limited by the size of its underclasses, and while the northern europeans have all but eradicated theirs through manorialism and upward redistribution of reproduction, the rest of the world other than perhaps the han/korean/japanese still is heavily burdened by underclasses that lack not only education, knowledge, experience, and traditions, but the *ability* to process information necessary for political decision making – and are just pawns of malcontents the world over.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-09 10:03:00 UTC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/05/21/armed-with-guns-and-constitutions-the-patriot-movement-sees-america-under-threat/?utm_term=.c28085a51d06
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 21:34:00 UTC
—“We didn’t have better generals than the Germans. We didn’t have better NCO’s than the Germans either… What we did have was the fact that we had broken the Nazi code. After that, knowing what the great German generals were going to do next made our generals’ decisions rather easy. We knew when and where the German convoys were going to be, and proceeded to sink them. For contrast, look at the Battle of the Bulge…. Late 1944, Germany was lost….but maintaining radio silence and thereby not giving away their plan, they managed to launch a massive counterattack against the Allies in the Ardennes. It nearly worked, except that the German tanks ran out of fuel. Without the advantage of deciphered German messages, our generals were no match against the German High Command. Over in the Pacific, the battle of Midway wasn’t won by superior US strategy from our Admirals. It was won by breaking the Japanese code and realizing the next attack would be on the tiny island of Midway. Without that advantage, that battle would probably have been lost. Sure our soldiers still had to fight the battles and win, but it helps to be on top of the hill shooting down at your enemy rather than the other way around. So the foreknowledge of knowing where to be and when to be there, was instrumental in many an Allied victory.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 17:13:00 UTC
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/demo-congressman-hints-at-armed-rebellion-against-trump.html
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 15:25:00 UTC
—“Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.”— Ahmed Reda
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 12:49:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-08 11:11:00 UTC
Retweeted Kevin MacDonald (@TOOEdit):
I’d have to agree. The polarization has gone too far to have anything like a bipartisan consensus on critical issues like immigration–especially when you import tens of millions of non-Whites https://t.co/QSBPyZi9QV
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-07 21:38:00 UTC