–“Historically, when Russia encounters weakness or hesitation, it demands more, then blames the opponent for escalation when the opponent resists — then calls for discussions, which it uses to consolidate its gains. Deals don’t come easily.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 20:38:00 UTC
—“So underneath our sense of ownership there is a Nash equilibrium and maybe a dove waiting for the right time to take the place of a hawk.”— Marco Montes Neri
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 19:14:00 UTC
—What if aliens come? Would they be right in taking the earth?—
A right can exist only as a question between peers who are cooperating or may cooperate, or fear not cooperating. Once we are no longer cooperating no ‘right’ exists other than ‘can’. to think otherwise is to fail to mature into an adult. as children we can appeal to parents for judicial resolution (right), as members of a group, appeal to the group for juridical resolution (right), as citizens appeal to the judiciary for juridical resolution (right), and as humans appeal to all sorts of foreign organizations for defense. But when aliens with superior technology come, there is no ‘right’. There is only can. There is no jury judge, or ally to appeal to. Might can make right or wrong, but in the end, if there is to exist ‘right’ it can only be made by might. There is no other possibility. and it is not only foolish to imagine so, criminal to advocate for, but a threat to man, beast, plant, and planet.
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 18:33:00 UTC
Writing well does not come from the act of studying the technology of writing, but from (a) reading ideas you want to appreciate, (b) practice writing about ideas you appreciate, (c) having something to say in your writing worth other’s appreciating.
We argue and we write because we must, in order to rightly argue and write.
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 18:27:00 UTC
LEFT: OBTAIN POWER TO ACT OUTSIDE MARKETS, RIGHT OBTAIN POWER TO DENY POWER TO ACT OUTSIDE OF MARKETS.
Ultimately the LEFT seeks power. And so increasing conflict and decreasing trust produces demand for the state and discretionary legislation, which they are more than happy to supply. The RIGHT on the other hand seeks to deny power, increase trust, and eliminate the demand for authority and discretionary legislation. The reason is fairly obvious: left dysgenic-anti-meritocratic, and right-eugenic-meritocratic. The feminine vs the masculine reproductive strategy made possible by the conversion of democracy from one family with property demonstrating their merit, and therefore one vote, to anyone regardless of merit may employ one vote. And by this very simple act of folly handed 3500 years of aristocratic paternalism and the incremental domestication and evolution of man, to the hordes of domesticated and undomesticated animals who have always bred in dysgenic numbers – numbers that without the suppression of which, a civilization cannot on its own evolve out of ignorance, mysticism, and poverty.
(Berens’ bit of genius, i gotta run with)
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 18:14:00 UTC
( yep. “they” are going to try to kill him. conspiracy of common interest. reproductive moral legitimacy. suggestion + outlier + opportunity. )
Domestic assassination attempts that (a) were within actionable range, and (b) were performed by domestic citizens for political reasons. (others can be tied to foreign activity by foreign actors) (please don’t waste my time with conspiriacy theories on this subject, I’ll just block you. i don’t care.)
– jackson (bullets – both weapons misfired – fought him off)
– lincoln (bullets – success)
– garfield (bullet – success)
– mckinley (bullet – success)
– teddy roosevelt (bullet – wounded )
– kennedy (bullets – success)
– regan (bullet – wounded )
– clinton (airplane – failed)
– trump (gun – failed)
20% of our presidents have been attacked at close range by people with means and opportunity. All during periods of change.
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 18:07:00 UTC
Think of the language of propertarianism like this:
Humans have possibly three emotional drivers: activation-rest, pain-pleasure, dominance-submission. And on top of those three we find our big five/six personality drivers – our sensitivity to those three emotional drivers. And on top of that the rather broad cacaphony of emotions you can see in diagrams of our emotinal ranges. And on top of that the combinations of all those emotions as we react to the complex symphony of emotions we feel when we percieve the any complex thing constituted in multiple causes and consequences.
But underneath all those layers is a very simple machine that wants to obtain access to a higher ratio of calories under it’s control than the cost to obtain and consume them.
And it turns out that the list of things we like to collect in our inventory, so that we find security and pleasure in our condition, is fairly small. We call it ‘property in toto’: those things people act to obtain, defend, transform, trade, and consume.
So, if we speak in the language of the gain or loss of property in toto, we circumvent the apparent complexity of those emotions, the lies and denials that accompany them, we can state all of human perception, cognition, knowledge, advocacy, and action as reactions to the changes in the state of their inventory – and nothing more.
it only seems complex to learn to speak in causes rather than experiences. But the causes are much more simply: “what is this person attempting to acquire, or defend, and is he doing it truthfully and morally or untruthfully and immorally?”
From this perspective, the argumentative power of propertarianism is so all encompassing because it relies upon first cause. But that said, it’s actually *very simple* compared to the arguments consisting of experiences, analogies, and deceits.
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 15:47:00 UTC
FOR WHAT IS GOSSIP BUT AN ATTEMPT TO DECREASE TRUST?
—“As for the proximate cause—progressivism—yes, the left’s actions do tend produce states contrary to their stated goals.
Ultimately they seek power. And so increasing conflict and decreasing trust produces demand for the state and discretionary legislation, which they are more than happy to supply.
However profitable that may be in the short-run, it is not a stable model, and appears that we are approaching the limits of the function”— James Augustus Berens
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 15:35:00 UTC
The left has called us dinosaurs for our treatment of sovereignty as sacred, and the natural common aw as our scripture. But what they referred to was in fact older than they: an ‘adult’ – whether or not they intended to.
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 15:29:00 UTC
—“Have you noticed the trend of liberals using Harry Potter as references for the “war” they want to have with the right/Trump? Hitler is the only “history” they know so they must use pop culture to make common references. Infantilized. they truly are like little children.”— Elcid Campeador
Source date (UTC): 2017-02-01 15:24:00 UTC