@bumbadum14 Nah. We are too attached to symbolically being free citizens. What awaits us is a True British Democracy,
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Willbald von Merkatz
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I have a genuine feeling that within my lifetime we will see the wholesale abandonment of universal suffrage and "democracy" as we know it.
We're already seeing the consolidation of American governance to the executive at the federal level. Likely other nations will follow suit of Singapore, El Salvador, and China.
Nobody wants to admit it yet, but Fascism won the 20th century, it just rebranded itself.
Balaji@balajis
Libertarianism in theory requires Lee Kuan Yew in practice. Order and borders are prerequisites for liberty and prosperity. Tolerance and internationalism enables trade and capitalism. Pragmatism about the scope of the state minimizes the scope of the state.
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@ChristianHeiens An eternal fight between people who don't understand economy and people who don't understand politics.
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The Left wants to wield power and the Right wants to be free from it.
What do people who want to be free from power do? They certainly don’t spend their money constructing vast ideological patronage networks for the explicit purpose of creating a vanguard who are committing to seizing political power.
If Conservative donors do anything in the field of politics, they simply fund campaigns for libertarian-minded politicians who will “cut taxes” and “get the government out of their life.”
Meanwhile, Leftist donors will spend vast sums of money doing nothing but molding entire generations of political activists who know how to do nothing but agitate for state power.
Is it really any surprise that things continuously move further and further to the Left with time? They essentially have no real opposition, just a bunch of disorganized people who want to escape politics rather than engage in it.
Helen Andrews@herandrews
When I was at TAC, we published a piece by someone who lived in Brazil who mentioned that her black Brazilian friends were constantly being invited by the Ford Foundation to come to the U.S. for fully funded fellowships in anti-racism. This was in the 1990s.
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@ChristianHeiens Institutional capture only works on people who trust the institutions because they are unable or unwilling to think on their own. Yes, that is the largest group in any society, but it is never 100%. Not even close.
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The institutional power imbalance between the Left and Right is so lopsided towards the former that it’s truly astonishing they haven’t yet managed to completely indoctrinate close to 100% of the population into being progressive libtards.
Believe it or not, but that’s actually a Whitepill. Even with near-total institutional capture and almost no organized opposition, they can’t force a majority of the population to adopt this worldview for their own.
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@sjryanwriter @VVrvot @Templarpilled But you still need the average man to work so that his betters have resources to create brilliant new things. And the best mechanism for that is gatekeeping women behind success.
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@VVrvot @Templarpilled Or maybe they were gay, I don't know. Anyway, they weren't motivated by the pursuit of women, and women don't seem too interested in The Men of STEM either.
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@k_serpees Ja generalnie uważam że jesteśmy w narracyjnie trudnej sytuacji. Bo z jednej strony centralnym faktem naszej historii najnowszej jest zostanie ofiarami rekordowo brutalnych prześladowań, a z drugiej strony bycie ofiarą nikogo nie obchodzi i kojarzy się ze słabością i frajerstwem.
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Mnie już mignął post, że jak jakiś wstrętny Niemiec nam coś brzydko napisze, to my od razu CYK do wyszukiwareczki i „co robili twoi rodzice albo dziadkowie” – i bitwa wygrana…
Abstrahując od tego, że to i tak dla nikogo nie ma znaczenia, to zwracam uwagę, że może wręcz zadziałać na naszą niekorzyść.
Bo jeśli ktoś nam zarzuca coś nieprawdziwego (jak choćby w ostatnich dyskusjach o polskich burmistrzach), a nasza odpowiedź brzmiałaby: „twój stary był w NSDAP, więc się zamknij”, to u osób postronnych, które to obserwują, powstaje wrażenie, że to on ma rację, a nie my.
Znacznie lepiej odpowiadać faktami niż wyszukiwarką (co zresztą Polska obecnie robi).
Jan Sadkiewicz@JanSadkiewicz
Udostępnione przez amerykańskie archiwum w Internecie akta członków NSDAP będą tak samo potężną bronią polskiej polityki, jak potężnym atutem naszej dyplomacji był fakt, że konferencja Trumpa z Putinem miała miejsce 15 sierpnia. Polacy jak zwykle liczą na to, że „polityką” (cudzysłów konieczny) historyczną zrekompensują sobie brak sprawczości w polityce realnej.
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He is actually doing a fantastic job securing the low IQ vote on both the left and right, which is sadly enough to win elections.
This is not a bug in democracy. It's a feature.
Joseph DiBartolo@DiBartoloJoseph
@TheBabylonBee Lol spot on Bee
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@curtis_yarvin once had an interesting thought experiment.
He said if 1920's America emerged from the ocean, Atlantis-like, in the 2020's - what would happen?
Within 10 years it would become by far the richest and most powerful country on earth and would kick the asses of 2020's USA and China.
I suspect this is basically right. High energy, ambitious, hardened population used to hustling and working 12 hours a day and constantly inventing stuff. High levels of patriotism, above replacement birth rates, etc.
But would this society inevitably turn into our own?
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@AaronLejbowitz @lkwarzecha @sraka_pijaka Małe i średnie firmy są najbardziej innowacyjne właśnie dlatego że nie mogą rozwiązywać problemów inaczej niż innowacją. Im więcej masz zasobów do zużycia tym mniejsza jest presja na oszczędzanie i efektywność. Nie tylko w biznesie ale w każdej dziedzinie ludzkiej działalności.
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@lkwarzecha @sraka_pijaka >uderza w małe firmy
Czyli właśnie w te, które nie tworzą żadnych innowacji, bo nie mają zasobów i efektu skali?
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Ta "minimalna krajowa" w ostatnich latach została absurdalnie podniesiona, po czym straciła część swojej siły nabywczej z powodu inflacji, powstającej ze względu na podnoszenie minimalnej krajowej. Ale żeby to rozumieć, trzeba wiedzieć, że pieniądze nie rosną na drzewach.
Grzegorz Jankowski@GrzegorzJanko12
Też się nie dziwię…
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@The_Davos_Man Striped clothing, pickaxe, barrow too,
Will make a pleasant life for you,
And once the wire hems you in,
Your grief will fade, your joy begin,
Where worthy life at last you’ll live,
Within creative collective.
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@The_Davos_Man To make Equality really hold sway,
You must first stomp all into clay;
To make a man his brother’s peer,
The whip must first instill the fear;
Take all he owns, leave him with naught,
So "scorn for wealth" is truly taught.
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Ah yes. The humane Marxists. Who rather than instantly dragging you before the firing squad, write page long essays of carefully thought through analysis on why you deserve to be dragged in front of a firing squad.
fantastyka twardo (nie)naukowa@nienaukowa
Has he even tried to read Critical Theory? Or even approach the more interesting question: why does he unconsciously presupposes "humanity" as ultimate abstract value opposed to concrete human beings?
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@Clint_Davey1 Vagabond Tinker can clear entire map with his ability to draw out these cards.
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@Clint_Davey1 Cats are so weak that there exists a fanmade mechanic to remove the player controlling them and just turn them into NPC faction played automatically.
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Just played Root with my game design class.
It's the best way to teach them about asymmetry.
You have 4 factions who are basically all playing a different game on the same board.
The Vagabond is playing an RPG.
The cats are playing an engine building euro.
The birds are playing a wargame where you have to pre-program your turns.
The Woodland Alliance are playing like the insurgents in a COIN game and spreading sympathy gradually before sparking revolts.
Every time I play this with a group of students they love it. Really shows them what's possible with asymmetric wargame design.
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@LokatySwiniolrz @kurczakrowa Co to znaczy "ucinamy cierpienia dla wszystkich?". W życiu zawsze jest coś nie tak. Ideałów nie ma. Chodzi o to żeby pomimo tego cierpienia zrobić jednak coś sensownego.
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@Merkatz41329 @kurczakrowa Czyli co ucinamy cierpienia dla wszystkich prócz tych z depresją?
Jeśli masz ciężką chorobę i każdy twój dzień jest cierpieniem masz prawo do eutanazji, chyba że tą chorobą jest depresja wtedy nie?
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Dla przeprowadzenia eutanazji 16-17 latków w Holandii nie potrzeba zgody rodziców. Wystarczy konsultacja z nimi.
Gdyby jakiś lekarz podał śmiertelny zastrzyk mojemu nastoletniemu dziecku mierzącemu się z jakimiś psychicznymi zaburzeniami to chyba sama bym tego lekarza zabiła.
Jak lekarz może uznać, że tak młoda osoba, cierpiąca na zaburzenia psychiczne, nie ma szans na wyleczenie? Porządna psychoterapia zajmuje niejednokrotnie wiele lat ale (często połączona z farmakologią) jak najbardziej JEST skuteczna.
Jestem w absolutnym szoku po przeczytaniu tego artykułu.
Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche@PGtzsche1
In Holland, doctors have killed over 100,000 patients, calling it euthanasia. bit.ly/4uxndfg. A psychiatrist argued that psychiatric euthanasia reduces the risk of suicide. So, if we killed all people, there would be no suicides, right? I find it horrible that doctors kill, whether without consent by forced treatment with antipsychotics, or with consent.
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@LokatySwiniolrz @kurczakrowa Człowiek w depresji albo z inną chorobą psychiczną nie decyduje o niczym. Nie masz możliwości zapytać go o opinię jaką by miał gdyby jednak był zdrowy.
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@kurczakrowa Ludzie, w tym młodzi ludzie, mają prawo decydować o swoim życiu, jeśli nie chcą żyć to nie naszym zadaniem jest ich do tego zmuszać.
Euthanasia wydaje się lepszą opcją niż lata życia w chorobie, która może, kiedyś uda się wyleczyć
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@FoundationDads I can see perhaps only one argument for sending your child to school - to learn how people work and spend some time with kids their age. For increasing number of people school may be the only occassion for this. Maybe alternatives will emerge, but so far I see none.
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"You aren't qualified to homeschool your children."
"Interesting. I need a graduate degree to teach my child 3rd-grade math?"
"No, but you need to understand how children learn, different learning styles, and teaching methods."
"How about I just get to know my child, and how he learns will become apparent very quickly."
"No. You're ignoring classroom management techniques."
"...Not sure I need classroom management techniques for my living room."
"But you need to be an expert in teaching to teach your children?"
"Will that guarantee better outcomes?"
"Absolutely not. In fact, in most places, outcomes are getting worse with every passing year."
"Sooo...what's the point?"
"The point is that I spent time and money on a degree and you can't just go and do things without my approval it's totally not fair."
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@ChristianHeiens And the answer is that it is the shareholders. Directors and studios used to depend on their reputation and quality of the product to stay in business using client money. Now they depend on the opinion of outsiders who bankroll them. Only alternative is staying indie forever /2
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@ChristianHeiens I am actually skeptical about propaganda finding its way into movies and games being a primary cause of them getting worse. Both are symptoms of a more fundamental problem. You have to ask how something so unentertaining could be included in professional entertainment. 1/
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These people went after everything from video games to subreddits because that which can influence culture is fair game in a democratically organized society.
If "the people" decide where power lies, then anything that influences how "the people" think and behave is the primary target for an ideology obsessed with acquiring power.
And it's not like they love these things. Leftists usually hate the very things they colonize, but that isn't the point. You don't have to love something to control it.
In short, democracy is the reason almost all video game communities have been invaded by troons moralizing about the eternal progressive omnicause.
ItsGundo!@GundamIsHere
I'm noticing a pattern.🤔
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