Curt Doolittle

Theme: Governance

  • @Riggs99 Mass shootings are the sparks that tell us the kindling will light. The

    @Riggs99 Mass shootings are the sparks that tell us the kindling will light. There is really nothing the state can do about it.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 16:55:57 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576747804781661

  • CONSERVATISM = FULL ACCOUNTING. CITIES GIVE GOVERNMENTS MAL-INCENTIVES FOR FULL

    CONSERVATISM = FULL ACCOUNTING. CITIES GIVE GOVERNMENTS MAL-INCENTIVES FOR FULL ACCOUNTING

    —“The only city I know that is run conservatively is Singapore. Still a genetic sink afaik.”—Yiannis Kontinopoulos

    They do not run it conservatively in the sense of familial capital, but in the sense of social, economic, and political capital. This is the problem for most polities – not cherrypicking. Not cherrypicking requires eugenics. And with the ((())) suppression of the eugenics movement, and with the ((())) suppression of the nationalist movement, combined with the available pool of individuals ‘still coming off the farm’, and with the incentives of adding people to the middle class using consumer capitalism, it’s almost impossible to create the incentives (without authoritarian government) to impose eugenics (prohibition on underclass reproduction).

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:57:00 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576515997191210

  • THE CONSERVATIVE WEAKNESS OF CONFORMITY TO SELF INTEREST RATHER THAN TO SHARED G

    THE CONSERVATIVE WEAKNESS OF CONFORMITY TO SELF INTEREST RATHER THAN TO SHARED GOALS

    As a person who succeeds at any scale, one develops the habit of judging people on their utility toward achieving ends, not on their shared frames and values, or their utility as a friend, confidant, and equal. But as an allied state with very different interests the present of which are aligned. In some sense this is the universal benefit and weakness of the right: demand for conformity when we are a host of packs, so that conformity to more than a small group is impossible. This is why the herd strategy defeats the pack strategy of the right.
    Libertarian middle and upper middle, churchy lower middle and upper working, fascist working and upper laboring. Just what you would expect in any civilization.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:56:38 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576514559683383

  • “Don’t you think Putin will leave the presidency first, and there won’t be anyon

    —“Don’t you think Putin will leave the presidency first, and there won’t be anyone left to overthrow?

    It’s not about Putin — it’s about the system. Putin is just a brand, a label for the system. Putin will sit there until he’s done his time, and then the system will grow another Putin. A successor who will really be the same old Putin in practice, just under another name.

    Isn’t it Putin who makes the key decisions in that system?

    Yeah, it’s Putin. But the system will create another person who will let it be just as much of a parasite feeding on the neck of the Russian people. I personally believe that we will live to see happier times, though.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:51:11 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576493128344321

  • THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM by Igor Rogov Russian system is still poorly understood in th

    THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM
    by Igor Rogov

    Russian system is still poorly understood in the west. De-facto it is a rule of a small pool of families, who are made of Nomenclatura, shaped in Brezhnev era, or at least vast majority of it, their children and relatives, and their immediate confidants, forming extended clans, somewhat resembling what Ibn Khaldun wrote about. Secondary (or primary, depending on your angle of view) to that is a framework of power, created by what used to be KGB, which underwent curious transmutation and returned as FSB + plethora of “siloviki” or semi-private institutions of enforcement.

    Enforcement of what? Certainly not of the law. Law in Russia is fundamentally a pretext, an excuse to persecute those who challenge the ruling elite, which does not and will never follow their own laws, – this is again has to be understood better from Ibn Khaldun ingenious point of view, rather that from modern Western.

    Russia on a surface looks like slightly odd imitation of the West. Yet it is but a theatrical decoration.

    Yet the further, the more the West itself begins to resemble Russia, so in a few decades everyone has to study Ibn Khaldun, not Spenser and Mill, in order to understand what the hell is going on.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:50:58 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576492245643716

  • ON ITALY’S NEED FOR SEPARATION by Francesco Principi In Italy, the constant incr

    ON ITALY’S NEED FOR SEPARATION
    by Francesco Principi

    In Italy, the constant increase in public debt, the unstoppable economic decline, the moral breakdown of the ruling class, the political vacuum that has been happening for four decades now, pose the question of productive areas.

    The North of the Peninsula with the awareness of being not only the most productive part of the country, but also the most damaged by the current institutional organizations.

    The real fracture in Italy is not between the right and the left, but between those who filled the bag and those who emptied it, between those who produced taxes and those who consumed them.

    The division is easily identifiable from a geographical point of view, in short, between North and South. In fact, beyond the current rhetoric, after more than a century and a half since unification, the two parts of the country still seem extremely distant.

    For the centralized and Jacobin Italian state the question is simple in its essence: that underground river of money that flows constantly towards the south must not be interrupted. In fact, each year more than 85 billion euros leave the northern and central-northern regions and end up feeding unproductive consumption and political rents in the South.

    This fact is destroying the most productive part of the Peninsula and prevents the economic and cultural development of southern Italy, which through its subsidized economy represents an inexhaustible resource of votes and consents.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:50:38 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576490938806297

  • “Weren’t the oligarchs formed around the Yeltsin/Putin era tho, or does their po

    —“Weren’t the oligarchs formed around the Yeltsin/Putin era tho, or does their power predate it?”—Arby Hyde

    —“Their power predates them. Bulk of them were “young communists” from Nomenclatura pool, i.e. the young offspring of the same people. Anyone outside that pool was simply given an opportunity to purchase the privatized assets. To make sure, the monetary reform was conducted prior to privatization, so all the private savings outside Nomenclatura were made worthless. … There are very few notable exceptions, and all them come from the underworld of Russia, i.e. highly organised criminal network directly controlled by KGB.”— Igor Rogov

    The USSR didn’t collapse because of the west. It collapsed because it could no longer compete with consumer capitalism, and when they tried to integrate markets again, they had no plan, those who were corrupt were threatened, and seized power, but they seized power by breaking up the empire rather than retaining it.

    This was totally unnecessary as china has made progress that russia could have made if her leadership was THE BEST administrators rather than the best POLITICIANS. In other words, soviet russia like fascist germany failed because of government to enforce ideology rather than ideology to reinforce good government. The USA however provide competitive pressure so that russia’s malinvestment in military was not possible to sustain. Productivity in russia declined rapidly by the 1960s, and was in free-fall in the 1970’s. This put russia in a position where she could no longer remain competitive. Consumer capitalism was necessary.

    One thing Igor has not mentioned is that Ibn Khaldun’s theory applies to all human organizations, families, business, economic sectors, economies, intellectual disciplines arts and sciences, and not just political sectors.And it’s interesting (and telling) that westerners discovered the former and muslims discovered the latter. The value of the monarchies is that they constitute a MARKET for rotation, which is what occurred throughout european history.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:47:22 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576478087047026

  • IBN KHALDUN’S TRIBAL VS WESTERN STATES by Igor Rogov The major distinction Russi

    IBN KHALDUN’S TRIBAL VS WESTERN STATES
    by Igor Rogov

    The major distinction Russian scholars make between Ibn Khaldun description of his reality (and by extension, reality in post-USSR) and the so-called West:

    Ibn Khaldun notes the most important structures within Caliphate: Asabiyyah, Mulk, Davla. Davla could be translated as “State” but this leads to misconceptions when read by the westerner. Western State (or Stato) is distinct from Davla.

    State is (ideally) neutral and is powered by self-evolving law system, mechanically converting the reality into the set of rules. The Machiavellian ideal Prince (and American president) simply has to watch and adjust the balance of powers, so no one could cease and destroy this wonderful machinery. All other tasks are secondary.

    Davla is categorically different. It is powered by an impulse to dominate by the ruling elite (Asabiyyah is not exactly the tribal unity, but more like a passion – a will to rule the world by a warring tribe).

    Mulk is something special too. It is a sovereignty enforced by violence and nothing much else, keeping the Davla/Caliphate in dynamic unity. There are no “sovereign borders” in Western understanding of this, – only the dynamic, shifting line, depending on the current level of Mulk.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:47:08 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576477163338546

  • UNDERSTANDING TRUMP’S FRUSTRATION WITH EUROPE —“So the EU is undermining the p

    UNDERSTANDING TRUMP’S FRUSTRATION WITH EUROPE

    —“So the EU is undermining the petro dollar/sanctions by wanting to purchase Iranian oil with the Euro? Meanwhile the US uses the petro$ to finance the world policing. That sums up the problem with the irreciprocal relationship between the US and the EU or is there more to it?”— A Friend

    Mostly, but in addition, the EU then counter-signals and virtue-signals its ability to afford social programs that they could not afford if they paid their share of the military and maintained sufficient and equal readiness. This then drives demand in the USA for social programs that the USA cannot afford. So yes.

    It depends on how carefully you examine the US Federal budget. While yes, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, $2.841T, revenue is only $3.44T (plus state $2.11T; local $1.47T) Total Military is ~$1T before military retirement benefits. So military and benefits alone > Income.

    So then we have ~1.1T in debt, which includes all US government discretionary spending on EVERYTHING, of which only about 600B are for other than benefits and military spending. So we have to finance our entire federal government expenditures because we pay policing the world.

    The combined military expenditure of EU member states amounts to just over is €192.5 billion. This represents 1.55% of European Union GDP. the military expenditure of the United States €503 billion. This represents 4.66% of United States GDP or 300% off EU.

    However, this does not include the actual war and deployment costs which brings the number to €886 billon, or 5% of GDP €17.52T. It’s not easy to account for readiness, since the europeans spend money but cannot deploy fighting forces, this means EU’s low returns on spending.

    Which only increases the asymmetry. in other words, the european expenditures are relatively worthless compared to american and british expenditures. (Outside of France in Africa, and the British in the world – which will soon depart the EU.)

    So this is why Trump is agitated at everyone ‘free riding’ on the american middle class.

    (Whiny Closing: France in particular is the enemy of western civilization and german failure to counter french interambitions to rule all of europe like a french monarchical despot is the causal problem, and a female german minster as well as her female defense ministers are exacerbating the problem. Conversely it is in european interests to ally german technology and culture with russian resources and labor, and instead of empowering france to parasitically prey upon europe as she has always intended, to provide a balance of powers between the latin, german, slavic, and russian sectors.)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:46:57 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576476414725850

  • THE REASON AMERICANS ALWAYS BACK THE SAUDIS by Anonymous Oil is traded in US dol

    THE REASON AMERICANS ALWAYS BACK THE SAUDIS
    by Anonymous

    Oil is traded in US dollars primarily as a handshake and security contract between Saudi Arabia and USA since the 1970’s. World Trade of oil in US dollars keeps US dollar strong and inflation low in USA, what Americans can buy for a US dollar.

    The countries holding most of the gas in the world are thinly populated countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, their rulers need US blessings to survive. Since the petrol producers demand payments in US dollars ( In reality they do not have that much need for US dollars), all other countries from Africa to Asia have need for US dollars to pay for oil.

    So US issues trillions of dollars of debt in US treasuries which results in lot of currency in the market that should drive inflation in USA. But these oil producers suck up US treasury debt keeping US dollar the king. Other countries chase US dollar again keeping demand for US dollar high.

    Imagine if world oil trade moved away from US dollar, you will have trillions of dollars who nobody suddenly needs. USA has a policy to keep demand for US dollar high in the world. This helps Americans live in low inflation and almost zero interest environment. It’s been this monetary system for a long time. Only one that can fix it is not even USA, it is GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council). It will take long time for another currency to take place of USD.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-08-07 15:41:31 UTC

    Original post: https://gab.com/curtd/posts/102576455071529008