Q&A: “What’s the Difference between Mercantilism and Fascism?”
Mercantilism mobilizes the state as a corporation for the purpose of conducting foreign trade competitively. Fascism is a defensive mechanism and relies on limited Autarchy limiting international trade.
Mercantilism is an offensive economic strategy and fascism is a defensive one. (simplified, but yes.)
They are opposing propositions.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 18:45:00 UTC
empires kill their hosts
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 16:41:00 UTC
(Today I really miss ukraine, and liliya and inna and donylo and demyan and … and everyone. sigh. But life is so much easier here that it makes me sad for all the people that I love in ukraine. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 16:39:00 UTC
THE DECISION OF UN-EQUALS: THE GENGHIS KHAN STRATEGY
If we cannot agree on means – shared investment in a common goal, then we can still possibly agree to trade, and cooperate on means, even if not on ends. If our means AND ends are incompatible, we can go our separate ways. If going our separate ways isn’t compatible, then we must either suffer one another’s predation, or go to war. And some of us will not suffer other’s predation. War, subjugation, enslavement, and if necessary, death, is simply a preferable lifestyle unless cooperation is more profitable. )
This is called the Genghis Khan Argument: that equals in power must suffer, but suffering of un-equals in power can be solved by the greater power to the dissatisfaction of the lesser power, if it is appealing.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 16:20:00 UTC
CHRISTIANITY
As long as Christianity is compatible with natural law, and Christian arguments in the commons are made with natural law, it’s merely a language of allegorical mythology.
I clearly prefer the pagan to the Christian.I understand the superiority of the greek and roman over the pagan. But as far as I know the Pagan, Greek, Roman, and Christian are compatible with natural law.
Morality is not determined by whether we argue by analogy, or history, or reason, or science, or testimony. It is that whether regardless of the language we use, the argument is reducible to conformation to natural law.
Thou shalt not impose a cost upon others directly or indirectly except by productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, limited to productive externalities.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 13:41:00 UTC
I BET YOU DIDN’T THINK OF THAT
(I think very few people who read me understand the consequences of my emphasis on consent limited by the one law of non-imposition of costs against property in toto: the result is a eugenic meritocracy wherein groups will self-sort by kin out of self-interest and necessity. Markets make nationalism too you know. But I bet you didn’t think of that. 😉 )
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 10:55:00 UTC
AGREEMENT IS A BINARY MEASUREMENT
We don’t think of humans as instruments of measure, but in terms of measuring cooperation, productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange limited to productive externality, is the only test of truth test of good or bad.
We calculate when we cooperate. What we calculate is the common good that we cannot ourselves ever know and possibly would never agree to.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 10:50:00 UTC
WHY IF WE CANNOT COOPERATE THEN WHY CAN THE NON-RATIONAL VOTE?
1 – Analogies are not truths, they are meaningful (educational and informative) but they are not true.
2 – Natural law is blind to race, tribe family, gender, habit, norm, law, tradition, religion. Either you are a thief and a fraud and a free rider, or you engage in productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange limited to productive externalities.
3 – Adults reason and argue. Children moralize. Subhumans opine. Animals feel. Insects react. Bacteria merely lives or dies.
If we cannot engage in argument, then we cannot cooperate truthfully, ethically, morally, productively. One tries to inform the ignorant, educate the child, domesticate by control or enslavement the subhuman and animal. And limit or exterminate the insect and bacteria.
There is no reason because without reason there cannot be, to confuse reason with moralization, opinion, feelings, reactions, and mere life.
For this reason, if one cannot reason then why must we cooperate, and if we cannot cooperate then why can children, sub-humans and animals, vote?
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 09:54:00 UTC
( In daylight, at under 80 yards, sight picture and shot takes under two seconds, and each following shot less than one. Although, when the target’s moving, that increases rapidly. Watch guys drill zig-zag, crouch-running, and vehicle exit. I realize that a lot of our cops are better trained than our military guys, but the professional warriors will drop your ass if they can even SEE it. The best way to fuck with someone’s two-second aim is to just throw lead downrange at them so that they don’t have four seconds of courage to think about shooting and then get that sight picture. And remember, modern rifles will cut through walls, vehicles, trees like they are paper mache – concealment is not the same as cover. And cover from modern rifles is a rare thing. The best concealment is darkness, surprise, smoke, and to set the target’s area (and him) on fire. Three or more men, rotating cover fire, while the other two flank, is just a scary thing to see. There is no rest for the wicked)
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-22 00:31:00 UTC
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