I don’t think Muller understands that if he managed to somehow use art and artifice to entrap the president, that the hard right will burn DC to the ground, salting the political earth, and then keep on going – and he will launch the bloodiest civil war in human history. #Trump
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 11:52:00 UTC
LAYING DOWN THE LAW ON SOCIAL PSEUDOSCIENCE
@KennethBuff @sapinker
People vote POWER given the CONDITIONS of competition. That’s why Democracy works for selecting priorities in a homogenous polity but not choosing differences in a heterogeneous polity, and why there is so much friction between American ‘tribes’.
Any time we state an incomplete premise we feed discord by supplying bias confirmation by doing the cherry picking for them.
He (Steve) stated an incomplete premise in order to feed the confirmation bias of a majority faction – not the Truth. (Hence the legal requirement for “The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth”)
What the NYT article referred to conveys is that virtue signaling is a form of conspicuous consumption that one forces others to pay the indirect cost of. (Theft by Fraud)
Or stated directly: we are burning the most valuable form of capital in the world (homogeneity and high trust) for virtue signals, in order to obtain political power.
If you cannot make a statement in social science using economic terms, then either you don’t know what you’re talking about, or you are engaged in selection bias, or worse, deception.
Hence the rise of “Economic Imperialism” in the Academy as a counter to social pseudoscience.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 10:37:00 UTC
Um. Let me help you understand.
1) Texas Has Its Own Power Grid.
2) Texas Has Its Own Ports
3) Texas Has Its Own Oil
4) Texas’ Economy is the same size as Russia and Italy.
Texas can create a currency overnight.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 01:41:32 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994391960298323970
Um. Let me help you understand.
1) Texas Has Its Own Power Grid.
2) Texas Has Its Own Ports
3) Texas Has Its Own Oil
4) Texas’ Economy is the same size as Russia and Italy.
5) Texas is almost as big as Western Europe (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, northwest italy, and a good part of former west germany.
Texas can create a currency overnight.
Everything is possible.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-09 21:41:00 UTC
The vast majority of Women try to reduce or eliminate social threats, so they conform to whatever power they perceive. It’s not rational from a male perspective because if there is an external threat women will rapidly and easily undermine the men (their host).
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-09 19:01:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994291396101238784
I told you in 2015 “We are the new right”, back when it was clear to me that the nazi right and the alt right would run out of gas. Anti doesn’t work. You have to be FOR something.
We are the New Right.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-09 17:55:50 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994274761395130368
by Adam Voight The morality of Achilles is two fold: 1) Freedom – Rulers do not own the ruled; rulers owe their power to attracting good subjects who will fight for them and serve them. This is revealed in Achilles’ dealings with Agamemnon and Menelaos. 2) Universal Honor code – Just because you are fighting a war against some nation, does not mean that you hate those people or deal with them dishonorably. All just war is just insofar as it is fought for honor and fought with honor. The fact that Achilles recognizes the honor of the Trojans when he returns Hector’s body and when he dies accepting the Trojan’s word that it was the Greeks who broke the cease-fire.
by Adam Voight The morality of Achilles is two fold: 1) Freedom – Rulers do not own the ruled; rulers owe their power to attracting good subjects who will fight for them and serve them. This is revealed in Achilles’ dealings with Agamemnon and Menelaos. 2) Universal Honor code – Just because you are fighting a war against some nation, does not mean that you hate those people or deal with them dishonorably. All just war is just insofar as it is fought for honor and fought with honor. The fact that Achilles recognizes the honor of the Trojans when he returns Hector’s body and when he dies accepting the Trojan’s word that it was the Greeks who broke the cease-fire.
NEVER ALLOW ELITES TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE
—“Betrayal can never be forgiven. We can breed new elites. It’ll take time. But even in the meantime we’ll be stronger without treacherous elites than with them. And even with them we’re very nearly strong enough. Some mistakes, you don’t get to make twice.”— Ely Harman
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-09 15:15:00 UTC
THE DEMAND FOR A MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
—“Even a truth by testimony will not defend against a falsehood by sophistry for the emotional and mentally ill equipped. Thus the necessity for the monopoly on violence.”—Brandon Smith
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-09 15:11:00 UTC