Rupert August

Alone I stand; among the great and old, Towering heights and finest sights untold. (1/)

@Aelthemplaer Whatever intelligence assets Israel have/had seems not to be going anywhere, and Iran didn't need it. So it's looking pretty much over, though not due to some revolutionary patron on either side like a Motojiro. Possible that Israel pushes revenge destabilisation in the US though

@RupertAugust Uhhh. Update?

Read into the Russo-Japanese war and the role it played in the Bolshiveik revolution. Understand there are strong parallels to the brooding Iranian war. You do not want this.

@LowIzzatKara Probably broadly true of both premodern and modern warfare, disease replaced by artillery as the main killer, and both comparably arbitrary and entropic. IQ, health, and wealth probably had an effect, but probably not enough to counteract vs not being present at all.

@LowIzzatKara A study on the eugenic effects of the American Civil War and the Balkan Wars suggested no particularly strong eugenic or dysgenic effect. It filtered most strongly for enthusiasm for the cause (early enlistment). Most attrition applied via time spent at war (constant low risk).

War isn't some chad filter like women imagine idk where this delusional idea comes from. Traditionally even kings were leading from the front. On the other hand if we want to talk about a real natural selection mechanism we can look at 30% of women dying from childbirth.

@GreeneMan6 It's not the point, but the ideal median king is an interesting question. Maybe noticably better than the norm physically and intellectually, diligent enough to see through most of their objectives to success, and leaves both the country and crown better than they found it.

Last month, I tried to overcome the gender wars by asking women to describe, in abstract terms, what "an ideal husband" would be for the median modern woman. Of course, this is cheating. It is very easy to describe the "ideal median wife," but it would take an enormous effort for a woman to describe the "ideal median husband". Such an effort would be similar to any right-wing monarchist's description of the abstract "ideal median king." Being "abstract" and "median" defeats the entire purpose of a good king in the monarchist's mind. We couldn't describe him abstractly, but we might know him when we saw him. A king's job is to be particular and not general, superior and not "median", embodied and not "abstract". So too is it with women thinking about husbands. But society still needs to talk about median husbands in abstract terms.

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@Aelthemplaer Not much unless I've missed some major news on a revolution in Israel/US. Israel seem to have relatively little left to throw at Iran in terms of irregular/intelligence assets. Like if Motojiro had made his play then given Russia time to mop all that up then come back to the war.

@RupertAugust Update?

@MavenPolitic Stasis is also a good word for it, and it's what the Greeks would have called it.

Great article here on the insane dysfunctions of the British economy, but if anything he undersells the issue. "Capitalist command economy" is the best turn of phrase I've seen yet to describe what's happening, but still falls short. A Capitalist Economy for instance would be interested in seeking profit, or the accumulation of capital. Our state all but prevents this. Industries that experience good times are hit by heavy windfall taxes. More creative measures for the state to appropriate wealth are invented yearly. And a Command Economy would be working mostly together towards pre-described goals, contradictions between goals would be discussed and attempted to be resolved in committees or parliament. The diktats of the British state frequently work against their stated goals, and the contradictions are never discussed or resolved. - Build more housing, but also make it harder and more expensive to build housing. - Make food cheaper because of costalivin, but also prevent supermarkets from doing deals and make farmers use less land to grow crops. - Build mountains of infrastructure for Net Zero, but refuse the requests for the planning and regulatory reforms that would enable it. The British economy is ran increasingly by independent, unaccountable and incommunicative commissars borrowing the powers of an executive too feeble to reign them in and too bewildered to see the extent of the issues. We're better seen as in a state of civil, civil war, than we are as in any coherent philosophy or system.

@spqr_sulla @husafell_stone Seemingly everyone was on board with the idea that if someone was sufficiently capable, it would be wrong to *not* crown them, so it's democracy's immune response working. Case by case can be nuanced, but as a system it worked. And everyone was worse off for it.

Reading some Plutarch and it’s hilarious how often Athens exiles some general who saved their ass against all odds on very flimsy charges. Why do they keep doing this

@MetaBritain @HookArron76532 Maybe I'm missing something, does his "nationalism" map onto something real, or is it just a construct to seem more moderate while de facto pursuing the same ends?

@RupertAugust @HookArron76532 Carl's aim is to corral his followership into the minimal viable 'ideology'. Whilst controlling whatever that ideology is at any time. His changes constantly, but years behind the vanguard. He's stated he wants to destroy nationalism, and that invalidates his 'nativism'.

Shockingly retarded. Carl's audience is a bunch of melters. I've been trying to tell people for years that this shit is pernicious.

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@Nina_Power_ and I are giving talks on May 16th in Stevenage, on the subject of "discernment", come along if you can! luma.com/qze7pzqe

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@ZoomerHistorian Always have to be careful not to fall for a Drusus. Based on him clearly being the EUs pick, I'd be cautious.

Peter Magyar is seemingly to the right of Orban on immigration and consistently attacked him for bringing in guest workers btw, reading some of these foreign takes you’d believe that Magyar is Joe Biden or something

@RaefOnevah @Babygravy9 Indeed, that's the one I'm referencing. Thank you for confirming.

@RupertAugust @Babygravy9 This claim was in the book he released in 2017 with Marshall Sahlins,  'On Kings'.

I remember listening to the late David Graeber deliver a guest lecture at Cambridge and prattle on about how many traditional cultures are “anarchist” and actively refuse to develop hierarchical political institutions. The truth about the non-Western world and the Third World in particular is that it serves as a blank canvas for the projections of Western intellectuals who refuse to accept the evidence that their political dreams—communism, anarchism, matriarchy—simply don’t work, never have worked and never will. The existence of 80,000 tiny polities in pre-colonial Africa says nothing about the native “political philosophy” of Africa, and everything about its Stone Age technology and complete lack of development in any direction whatsoever. It’s easy to be an “anarchist” when all you’ve got to fight over is a few tubers and some bushmeat.

@BovrilG Don't forget Japan, who was deliberately and explicitly proto-third worldist. They directly supported African American resentment against White America, and some kind of racial rising would have probably been a part of any hypothetical invasion of the US mainland.

If the Third Reich had ended up as the dominant European power in a Cold War with America, they’d have absolutely come up with an equivalent of the Soviet “But you lynch Negroes” because it’s an obvious faultline in American politics for a foreign power to exploit.

@TheSullis Severn Hospice would've already folded if not for Derek from Atcham. Channeling the spirit of Digby Tatham-Warter.

Bet there’s some cunt from Shropshire that wants to tackle this on a mountain bike to raise £955 for a local charity