Theme: Governance

  • Again 1) yes, china did suppress doctors, did suppress information, and yes they

    Again
    1) yes, china did suppress doctors, did suppress information, and yes they did delay action.
    2) because of this, governments couldn’t trust the information until Italy.
    3) small homogenous countries with simple economies are easier to constrain.
    4) hindsight overconfidence.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-05 14:53:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346469846939123713

    Reply addressees: @CaliperKitten

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346466867859185670

  • False. They did nothing at the beginning, and the CCP suppressed and ignored it

    False. They did nothing at the beginning, and the CCP suppressed and ignored it until it wasn’t possible to do so, by which point it had spread around the world.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-05 14:02:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346456934346592257

    Reply addressees: @CaliperKitten

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346420855308484609

  • This has been a heroic succes. The failure is the press to report on it as heroi

    This has been a heroic succes. The failure is the press to report on it as heroic. The other failure is lying to the people about masks initially and not locking down the medical and elder care sector. And it’s because the chinese lied to the world.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-04 23:18:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346234578948788225

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346234577753411584


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    So the average idiot (Press) thinks the government has the power to do such things AND IT DOESN’T. Military assets are all but useless. The CDC and the WHO were incompetent and failed their core missions – because they don’t practice yearly ‘war games’ that test their abilities.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1346234577753411584

  • So the average idiot (Press) thinks the government has the power to do such thin

    So the average idiot (Press) thinks the government has the power to do such things AND IT DOESN’T. Military assets are all but useless. The CDC and the WHO were incompetent and failed their core missions – because they don’t practice yearly ‘war games’ that test their abilities.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-04 23:18:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346234577753411584

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346234576549662721


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    Only so many vaccines can be produced per week, and 660M req’d. FedEx and UPS have heroically split the country and can serve every zip code in the USA. The FAA gave their flights priority.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1346234576549662721

  • 4. The upper (autocratic) and middle class(republican) state for a variety of re

    4. The upper (autocratic) and middle class(republican) state for a variety of reasons largely exists to suppress free riding, parasitism, and predation upon the productive, until democracy at which point it reverses, and seeks to maximize redistribution and rents away from them.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-04 17:48:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346151622217510918

    Reply addressees: @an_capitalist @Mattzwolinski

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346149449756790788


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    @an_capitalist @Mattzwolinski That makes no sense. One doesn’t HAVE rights. One desires rights. Groups create a commons (institutions) that articulate rights, and obligations in exchange for them, and insures those rights and obligations when disputes (conflicts) arise – especially those with externalities.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1346149449756790788

  • 2. Those groups (polities) that produce commons, institutions, rights, obligatio

    2. Those groups (polities) that produce commons, institutions, rights, obligations, compete for population, trade, investment, by the production of additional commons. Those may be necessary (sherrifs, judicial, militia, military), near necessity (transport, water, waste) …


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-04 17:43:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346150247693750272

    Reply addressees: @an_capitalist @Mattzwolinski

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346149449756790788


    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @an_capitalist @Mattzwolinski That makes no sense. One doesn’t HAVE rights. One desires rights. Groups create a commons (institutions) that articulate rights, and obligations in exchange for them, and insures those rights and obligations when disputes (conflicts) arise – especially those with externalities.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1346149449756790788

  • Well done Matt. Exactly. I’ll take it further: Libertarian theory isn’t suited T

    Well done Matt. Exactly.
    I’ll take it further: Libertarian theory isn’t suited TO THE DIRECT PRODUCTION OF COMMONS. In fact, libertarianism is as much a rebellion against the production of commons as communism is a rebellion against the production of private property. Same Coin.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-04 17:06:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346141031499243527

    Reply addressees: @Mattzwolinski

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1346140674404405255

  • Regarding FB Purge over Halloween – Ironically: Yes It Was The Nazis, Not The Left.

    FWIW: AFAIK the FB purge was organized by US nazis who systematically reported every person associated with the movement by going through everyone’s friends and history and reporting multiple posts. They kept pinging me as they were doing it and gloating afterward. By reporting multiple posts the post-reporter can construct a narrative. That narrative overcomes our technique of addressing taboos by crafting inexplicit content understood only by both P’s value-neutral language, and inference across posts. So it’s not that we were purged just because of Facebook – we were too cautious for that. It’s that Facebook was looking for purge opportunities and a group of American nazis organized to get us purged. In other words, the nazis adopted Cancel Culture. This is why I don’t trust Christians or Nazis. They don’t want to unify the right even if it’s only on law and policy. They want their authoritarian leadership from either the church or the state. Fundamentally P-Law produces a ‘libertarian’ (legalistic, market, competitive) framework, dependent on the institution of law. There are only three ‘totalitarian’ institutions. Church(Faith), State, and Law. And law is the hardest to understand. Especially because it is a via-negativa organization (permissive) and church (empathic) and state (forceful) are easy to understand AND they provide a positive narrative that advances people’s interests FOR them. Law, sovereignty, and markets enable people to advance themselves and sort naturally by meritocracy. This is intolerable for nazis who are the least competitive demographic, and only less so for xians, who cannot politically compete in modernity. So even if we produce a polity of ethnocentric, intolerant, rule of law, market “fascism” that secures xianity, provides ethnocentric policy, the fact that it requires a compromise between family-faith, market-law, ethnocentric-state interests, maintaining ALL group interests – in historical european trifunctional fashion – the xians(or civnats which are just secular xians) or and nazis(or totalitarian ethnocentrists of any stripe) will be defectors from the group that prevents success by unity. And the only POSSIBLE unity is law since we differ in everything other than wanting self-determination precisely because of those biases. It is impossible to create an Xian or Nazi elite in modernity, so it is only possible create a military-legal elite. that’s the only choice. Ergo “Divided we fall.” -Cheers

  • Regarding FB Purge over Halloween – Ironically: Yes It Was The Nazis, Not The Left.

    FWIW: AFAIK the FB purge was organized by US nazis who systematically reported every person associated with the movement by going through everyone’s friends and history and reporting multiple posts. They kept pinging me as they were doing it and gloating afterward. By reporting multiple posts the post-reporter can construct a narrative. That narrative overcomes our technique of addressing taboos by crafting inexplicit content understood only by both P’s value-neutral language, and inference across posts. So it’s not that we were purged just because of Facebook – we were too cautious for that. It’s that Facebook was looking for purge opportunities and a group of American nazis organized to get us purged. In other words, the nazis adopted Cancel Culture. This is why I don’t trust Christians or Nazis. They don’t want to unify the right even if it’s only on law and policy. They want their authoritarian leadership from either the church or the state. Fundamentally P-Law produces a ‘libertarian’ (legalistic, market, competitive) framework, dependent on the institution of law. There are only three ‘totalitarian’ institutions. Church(Faith), State, and Law. And law is the hardest to understand. Especially because it is a via-negativa organization (permissive) and church (empathic) and state (forceful) are easy to understand AND they provide a positive narrative that advances people’s interests FOR them. Law, sovereignty, and markets enable people to advance themselves and sort naturally by meritocracy. This is intolerable for nazis who are the least competitive demographic, and only less so for xians, who cannot politically compete in modernity. So even if we produce a polity of ethnocentric, intolerant, rule of law, market “fascism” that secures xianity, provides ethnocentric policy, the fact that it requires a compromise between family-faith, market-law, ethnocentric-state interests, maintaining ALL group interests – in historical european trifunctional fashion – the xians(or civnats which are just secular xians) or and nazis(or totalitarian ethnocentrists of any stripe) will be defectors from the group that prevents success by unity. And the only POSSIBLE unity is law since we differ in everything other than wanting self-determination precisely because of those biases. It is impossible to create an Xian or Nazi elite in modernity, so it is only possible create a military-legal elite. that’s the only choice. Ergo “Divided we fall.” -Cheers

  • You don’t have the vaguest idea how men like Trump think – which for those of us

    You don’t have the vaguest idea how men like Trump think – which for those of us who do, is painfully obvious. Nor can you even imagine that he’s following our suggestions. The more pressure the better, the more opportunity for radical change, the more likely we can begin a war.


    Source date (UTC): 2021-01-04 02:16:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1345916965844606980

    Reply addressees: @ezraklein

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1345911304272322563