It’s an interesting statement in itself that the conservative fringe consists of inarticulate idiots , while the libertarian fringe consist of articulate lunatics, and the progressive fringe consists of the verbose and ridiculous. They’re all tragic, but at least fringe libertarians are entertaining.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 21:34:00 UTC
—-“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.”—-
lolz
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 21:24:00 UTC
CAPITALISM IS WON, NOW ITS A BATTLE FOR RULE OF LAW, STRICT CONSTRUCTION, AND MARKET GOVERNMENT.
Capitalism is the voluntary organization of production distribution and trade made possible by the preservation of property allocation to individuals, the universal requirement of voluntary exchange, insured by common law, the evolution of contract, money, prices, and interest – which provide information and incentives to each individual necessary for choosing between available actions. Consumer capitalism has won. We’ve spent over a century conquering the pseudoscience of marxism and socialism. But despite kicking and screaming, we’ve dragged humanity out of ignorance and poverty with capitalism.
Now the battle has changed. The problem is not property rights, or capitalism, but rule of law and corruption.
We must incrementally suppress discretionary legislation, corruption, and lying, framing and propaganda from the world, starting first, here at home.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 16:26:00 UTC
Putin would be the most popular politician in the world if he had offered (he still could) to pay Ukraine for the territories (under threat that he could take them otherwise) and he could have kept ukraine in his orbit. Instead, he impoverished ukraine further, and drove her forever to europe, broke the postwar consensus on borders that was the principle necessary to prevent another world war, demonstrated that the only guarantee of sovereignty is ownership of nuclear weapons, generating new demand for proliferation, pivoted the USA and NATO back to Russia, created justification to expand american military spending, and dramatically harmed his people and their economy. He panicked and he flinched and he confirmed eastern europe’s fears: that he is an irresponsible threat to civilized peoples. Worse he has restarted the propaganda war, and saturates his people with fabricated news on purpose. Not of utopian fantasy like american politicians but out of nihilism.
It would be terribly easy to fix this problem and he lacks the will to do it. Fix ukraine with discounted gas, stop lying and propagandizing, and just assert that he’s right in his opposition to the USA’s intrusions, the fallacy of democracy, and western hedonistic (barbaric) western culture – and keep suppressing home dissidents. It’s not like most of the world doesn’t agree with him outside of left leaning western pseudo-intellectuals.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 16:08:00 UTC
http://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/664863933354872832/photo/1/large?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=curtdoolittle&utm_content=664863933354872832#libertarian #conservative #nrx #propertarianism https://t.co/FwZ9Ox7Foh
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 12:54:00 UTC
The west had a lot going for it. But killing off malcontents in great numbers every year didn’t hurt either.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 12:43:00 UTC
WE ARE THE ONLY ARISTOCRATIC PEOPLE. WE NEED TO STOP TRYING TO CONVERT OTHERS TO OUR ANCIENT WAY OF LIFE.
Wars are won by deception, logistics, and numbers. And the Chinese are better at all three. The western alternative – well-equipped professional warriors in small numbers – is to strike early, quickly and decisively to settle matters now before they become more than we can handle. The Chinese strategy is to lie, delay, build an unassailable edifice and then to surprise, disregard, decimate, conquer, and assimilate enemies. They are not like us. They do not seek to make peers, nor to become peers in aristocracy. And we need to stop trying to create peers of foreign peoples. We are the only aristocratic people. The only people desirous of it. The only capable of it. We are alone. We forever will be. And we need to start acting like it. At some point susceptibility to consensus bias is instead just an excuse to submit to conquest in order to escape paying the cost of self-defense.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 11:48:00 UTC
WHAT CONSTITUTES A TRUTHFUL RELIGION
(important)
I have a soul. I can observe it through introspection. It is a full accounting of my sins, offset by a selective accounting of my acts of charity. I know the balance of that account. We all know the balance of that account – even if we fear to look at it. The chief value of an all-knowing god, is as a psychological device that assists us in looking at the transactions in, and balance of, that account, without any ability to lie to ourselves. The chief value of confession is to publicly admit this balance, and use peer pressure to eliminate any deficit.
Whether that soul is eternal is not a question – of course it is. We can commit no sin or perform no charity without the existence of others to sin or perform charity against. Our actions leave a permanent record in the universe. We live on eternally in the changes to the universe that we have made by our actions. That is what acting means: to alter the course of events. Each action does so. That our simple human minds need to anthropomorphize these ideas so that they are easier for the ignorant, dim, and fearful to grasp is no more surprising than that children need parables, myths, legends, and fairy tales to grasp basic concepts using models for concepts otherwise beyond their experience.
This scientific view of one’s sould is not without what humans consider supernatural properties however. It is increasingly clear that we do not understand the structure of matter, space, and time, and that our perception of matter, space, and time, is limited to that in which we can act. If even some small part of our understanding of the universe is true, then it is entirely possible that it matters not only how we act, but how we think, and what we believe, and how others remember us.
Given that the worst case argument we can construct about supernatural forces is to say “I do not know, but it places no cost upon me either way,” or that “I choose to act as if it is so because there is no penalty for doing so, but a benefit for doing so”, “and there are benefits to psychological rituals for all mankind”, we have enough justification for the conceptual use of one or more all knowing gods that assists our minds in confronting a full accounting of our actions, and the presumption of the possibility that collective ritual may in fact alter the structure of not only our minds in beneficial ways, but the minds of others, and potentially the structure of the universe in beneficial ways.
Moreover, since it is increasingly clear that we are not cognizant of the power of our genes, our intuitions and our biases upon our minds and actions, it is not clear that there is an as yet unrecognized equivalent of a calculating system of some sort – ostensibly unaware – produced by the actions, thoughts and memories of all of us. I have no way of knowing one way or the other. But without knowing I will not fail to pay the cost of perpetuating what has worked for all of human history: rituals that bind us to one another through invocation of the submission-to-the-pack response ever present in our brain stems.
Our understanding is overrated, because it is extremely limited. So in these cases I prefer to do what is beneficial for men and man, assuming that the recipe we follow for collective religious ritual is causing us to produce some product that I do not understand, rather than to write it off as a psychological crutch or weakness. It’s just science. How we justify this particular thing as purely scientific and useful, rational, psychological or mystical is not important to me. These are just languages for different levels of abstraction, all of which describe the same process and its effects.
As such I merely prefer the least false set of beliefs, and the most constructive forms of ritual. And those are, from my knowledge: the practice of sport, the discipline of stoic mindfulness, the sacredness of nature, the ceremonial request for wisdom from, and the ceremonial thanks to our heroes, the gathering of souls in the practice of all of the above, and our surrender to the pack as a means of overcoming our petty differences and interests.
Curt Doolittle
The Philosophy of Aristocracy
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 09:06:00 UTC
DEPORTATION. IT’S EASY BY COMPARISON. PAY NOW OR PAY LATER.
If we can Conquer the Romans, kick the Muslims and Jews out of Spain, the Turks out of Europa, Conquer Napoleon, Conquer the Nazis, Fascists and communists, drive the Russians out of Europe, and reduce multiple modern nations to the stone age, we can quite easily round up twenty million unarmed invaders and send them packing against their will. If we learned anything from emancipation of the slaves it is that we should have packed them up and sent them home, and prevented the civil war, half a million deaths, the civil rights movement, the destruction of our cities, the rise of the imperial american government, and the alliance between blacks, feminists, jews and catholics that ended the american experiment. The invasion of southern Spanish speaking amerindians and African, middle eastern, and central Asian muslims all of who possess cultural and ideological weaponry as well as extreme rates of reproduction, will result in far worse than the civil war. And people like me will ensure that it does.
Pay now or pay later, but we will pay one way or the other.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-12 07:50:00 UTC
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