All norms tend to be suited to demarcating outsiders, the organization of production, and defense – across all of history. Of those I would say production, defense, outsiders is the order.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-27 16:22:05 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1177619429988929536
LAW: PROPERTY MUST INCLUDE ANYTHING PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO DEFEND WITH VIOLENCE
by Martin Štěpán
—“First, it is important to note that “property” (at least according to libertarians) is a strictly normative or legal concept. It is intended to provide a social framework by which violent conflict may be avoided, and to serve as the philosophical benchmark for adjudication if and when such violent conflict does occur.”—
Which is really all you need to know. If this is the purpose of legally recognizing property, it logically follows that we have to recognize anything that people are willing to defend with violence so that they can defend it in court instead.
So anything that follows after this and claims some kind of property isn’t genuine or legitimate and doesn’t actually consider willingness to use violence is inconsistent with the paragraph above and mere rationalization.
I still like C Chase and see he means well but he could have asked any of us before critiquing, if not Curt directly – there’s plenty of others ready to answer.
(referring to a straw man critique by chris chase)
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-27 11:26:00 UTC
There is no moral intention in politics. It is just a proxy for violent warfare.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 16:47:58 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1177263555541983232
Reply addressees: @Rabiddogg @Kupp_HalfFull @Communism_Kills
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1177263482858856448
IN REPLY TO:
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@Rabiddogg @Kupp_HalfFull @Communism_Kills So no, there are no christian holidays remaining, only commercial. Halloween (End of year), Christmas (Solstice), New Year(Roman Year), Easter (May Day) etc, all of which predate Christianity. So now we will see attempts by jews and muslims and maybe others to institute theirs.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1177263482858856448
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@curtdoolittle
@Rabiddogg @Kupp_HalfFull @Communism_Kills So no, there are no christian holidays remaining, only commercial. Halloween (End of year), Christmas (Solstice), New Year(Roman Year), Easter (May Day) etc, all of which predate Christianity. So now we will see attempts by jews and muslims and maybe others to institute theirs.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1177263482858856448
Jews, Atheists, and now Muslims have succeeded in secularizing the country via the courts (and now thru media by gossiping, rallying, shaming, and undermining) so successfully that christmas remains Christian only to the devout. For others it’s a family holiday like thanksgiving.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 16:43:35 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1177262452997861377
Reply addressees: @Rabiddogg @Kupp_HalfFull @Communism_Kills
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1177261768353165312
IN REPLY TO:
Unknown author
@Rabiddogg @Kupp_HalfFull @Communism_Kills Missing the point. The systematic attack on christianity using the Courts (bypassing the congress and the people) has succeeded in suppressing every Christian holiday other than one so commercially influential that secularization is a fact and religion irrelevant to the state.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1177261768353165312
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@curtdoolittle
@Rabiddogg @Kupp_HalfFull @Communism_Kills Missing the point. The systematic attack on christianity using the Courts (bypassing the congress and the people) has succeeded in suppressing every Christian holiday other than one so commercially influential that secularization is a fact and religion irrelevant to the state.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1177261768353165312
MR PRESIDENT: We will get our civil war, the hard way, or the easy way. The easy way: you call upon us to save the country, and our people from a century of attempt at our extermination. You will need to call us in the national civilizational interest. Soon.
@realDonaldTrump
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 16:22:24 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1177257121517309954
RECIPROCITY CUTS BOTH WAYS
—“Employers need to grant you off for religious holidays if they think their beliefs are sincere and genuine. So what happens if an employer doubts your religiosity when asking off Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, because you, for instance, don’t keep kosher?”–Ashley Rae Goldenberg @Communism_Kills
Nope. If you want to burn personal time instead of working, please do but don’t ask employers to pay for your choice, or the loss of the work you should be providing. We can all think of excuses why we’re special. Sincerity isn’t testable, and isn’t meaningful.
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—“This is about religious holidays dude. Not everyone is Christian so not everyone gets their religious holidays off. It seems like you missed that.”—Ashley Rae Goldenberg
@Communism_Kills
I didn’t miss anything. The only Christian holiday is Christmas, and even then, only because it is so familially and commercially influential. All other holidays are secular. If we restored Christian holidays we’d have at least 35.
There are no exclusively religious work holidays.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 07:06:00 UTC
Socialists drive produce arbitrary rule disregarding not only the external but the internal, and driving people into the market for corruption, rent seeking, and black markets. So the capitalism vs socialism debate distracts us from the west’s origin: Rule of Law by reciprocity.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-25 23:17:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176999138925436928
Reply addressees: @BobMurphyEcon
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176998003133079553
IN REPLY TO:
Unknown author
@BobMurphyEcon The capitalism vs socialism dichotomy is yet another bit of Pilpul to distract useful idiots. The question is and always will be Rule of Law vs Rule by Discretion. Rule of law produces markets limited by externality, where “capitalists” want free trade regardless of externality.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1176998003133079553
IN REPLY TO:
@curtdoolittle
@BobMurphyEcon The capitalism vs socialism dichotomy is yet another bit of Pilpul to distract useful idiots. The question is and always will be Rule of Law vs Rule by Discretion. Rule of law produces markets limited by externality, where “capitalists” want free trade regardless of externality.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1176998003133079553
If you want to start a secession movement and take the center of the country, you take Texas because it has sufficient population, sufficient military resources, ports, a power grid, and one of the two mints. You move north using texas as a base, and cut off the rest of the country – but you have to do it fast. I don’t favor holding territory on the defense, it’s better to keep in constant motion.
If you want to take over the country you raid one of the more vulnerable immigrant or leftist cities, and overload it’s resources, and move on to the next in short order, leaving fires, power, water, communication, rail, and road (air doesn’t matter), although preventing landings at least is trivial.
If you want to win quickly you issue demands that people actually prefer to the current order, issue incentives to police, military, guard, and ‘civilian actors’, and then do three to four cities at once. It’s impossible to react to that. And it only takes ‘thousands’ per city.
Communication is more important than power. Power more important than money, money more important than transport, transport more important than political figures.
If you want to start a secession movement and take the center of the country, you take Texas because it has sufficient population, sufficient military resources, ports, a power grid, and one of the two mints. You move north using texas as a base, and cut off the rest of the country – but you have to do it fast. I don’t favor holding territory on the defense, it’s better to keep in constant motion.
If you want to take over the country you raid one of the more vulnerable immigrant or leftist cities, and overload it’s resources, and move on to the next in short order, leaving fires, power, water, communication, rail, and road (air doesn’t matter), although preventing landings at least is trivial.
If you want to win quickly you issue demands that people actually prefer to the current order, issue incentives to police, military, guard, and ‘civilian actors’, and then do three to four cities at once. It’s impossible to react to that. And it only takes ‘thousands’ per city.
Communication is more important than power. Power more important than money, money more important than transport, transport more important than political figures.
I suspect that if past patterns of behavior follow, Trump was aware of Fox News investigation and simply went directly to the source and asked the obvious. Holding money from ukraine is a daily activity. I live here. It’s corrupt as hell. Money disappears into pockets instantly.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-24 17:28:28 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176548969968799744
Reply addressees: @karlbykarlsmith
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1176548495681044480
IN REPLY TO:
Unknown author
@karlbykarlsmith However, as I understand it, Fox News has been investigating Younger Biden and was about to break a story, so this news cycle shifts severity to Trump from the Biden camp. Realistically? The world of power runs on favors. That the currency of political power in govt and out.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1176548495681044480
IN REPLY TO:
@curtdoolittle
@karlbykarlsmith However, as I understand it, Fox News has been investigating Younger Biden and was about to break a story, so this news cycle shifts severity to Trump from the Biden camp. Realistically? The world of power runs on favors. That the currency of political power in govt and out.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1176548495681044480