@TiltingatM3 This dude Hayek really had one good point and DRAGGED it holy shit
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Lakatos Intolerant
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Lakatos Intolerant
@PureThe0ry
Monetary Production Economy Enjoyer | Game and Choice Theory Curious | Lifelong Democrat | Servant of Wickedness
Katılım Aralık 2022
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Japan spent $6.3 trillion on stimulus between 1992-2009 and bought themselves three decades of economic stagnation. Obama's $831 billion American Recovery Act promised unemployment wouldn't exceed 8% (it hit 10% anyway). The EU threw €750 billion at COVID recovery and got energy crises plus inflation.
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How can Marxism be a devolution when it predates everything else here?
Hoppeism ‡@Hoppeism
How sigmas see the world:
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@RMBee “Erhm you’re actually supposed to know that the Fremen Haka and what it signifies is BAD, ackshully”
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Paul’s Jihad in Dune Messiah caused the death of 61 Billion, the sterilization of 90 planets, the end of 40 religions. The embrace of Paul’s War Chant (which IS awesome) by TikTok is a perfect metaphor for the future of Gen Z. No understanding of the power of reading.
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@NewSweezyite @wyatt_browdy I really don’t get the hate wrt rat choice theory. At least in economics where I’m most familiar with it, it seems fine
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@PureThe0ry @wyatt_browdy we'd be so much better if it meant marxists into like, hilbert, bolzano, davidson etc but unfortunately it just means rational choice neoclassical dorks
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My plan to revitalize Jacobin Mag:
1. Purge all the analytical Marxists
2. ????
3. Complete victory
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@JohnnySobczak So the twins aren’t pre-born or prescient? Also they’re the same age as their aunt? Lame if true!!
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DUNE theory that’s starting to make sense to me:
Chani was pregnant before Paul took the Water of Life.
“She’ll come to understand” Paul says.
Him turning away from Chani at the end is partly to protect her and their children. She flees to the desert, where she raises them.
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The Fremen are the least oppressed and most free people in The Imperium at the time of the events of Dune. They're only bound by nature and their own culture (which is totalitarian despite being tribal).
What does oppression mean here? Brown? (they're VERY white in the books)
Carl Zha@CarlZha
I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.
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@R1b11BK1P4 @HMBohemond Let me guess, your high-level analysis is something like “it’s actually cool and good to live in repressive feudal space empires that ban useful technologies” or something along those lines
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@PureThe0ry @HMBohemond And Star Wars was about a trade dispute.
Again, superficial analysis = not that bright of an analyst, HTH
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"Dune is about oil and Muslims being oppressed" is the most midwit take imaginable about the series. Anyone who says it hasn't read the books.
Carl Zha@CarlZha
I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.
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@Tragedy_Andy True but mount doom has another name that’s cooler in the books
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I love LotR but sorry I don't wanna hear fans of a book that has "Mount Doom" and "Grima Wormtongue" talk about the naming conventions behind Duncan Idaho
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@EdbieLigerSmith @Inhumansoflate1 I’m not an MMTer but they’re pretty quick to stress real resources, this is just credit creation theory with a head injury and slopulist overtones
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@Inhumansoflate1 He’s basically just espousing modern monetary theory. Which I think has some value to Communists at least during the transition to socialism.
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@airtightangelic Still have yet to see the part where she exposes the government
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@zakkzeppeli @abu_zafar The foreword that he wrote, or his son?
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@abu_zafar a lot of this is phrasing cause he does say in the foreword he found it alarming how people picked up the wrong lessons from dune and he wanted to write the story to help rectify that not that he wasn’t already gonna take that path more that he emphasized it more in messiah
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This is one of the most persistent myths about Dune Messiah.
Frank Herbert had the the first 3 books planned out, with the overall arc of Paul Atreides set from the beginning. He did not "write Messiah because readers didn't understand Dune".
Qenk@elgranqenk
Tras Dune, Frank Herbert sintió que mucha gente no entendió su advertencia de las figuras mesiánicas. Además del rol religioso controlando masas ignorantes e influenciables. Escribió Mesías para mostrar las consecuencias de dar demasiado poder a un tirano como Paul Atreides.
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@jeremykauffman Yeah buddy I’m gonna call your bluff and say you’d care about one of these places getting bombed way more than the others
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I don't care if we bomb Israel, Iran, California, or nobody.
Please just crush leftists in America
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The American right had a once in a generation moment to crush the left and squandered it.
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You want the state to force a divorce or something? She has no post to resign from you skeletor looking MF!
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu
We made Al Franken resign over a joke, but this woman can cheerlead the rape, slaughter, and torture of Jewish civilians and no one in my party gives a fuck.
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If your criticism of dynamic pricing is that customers will dislike unpredictable prices, then presumably the market will punish businesses that use it and so the alleged problem will resolve itself.
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Is it 2020 again? Who seriously gives a shit about Nick Land’s philosophical project (read: 30-year meth bender)?
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@DrRetroGhoul @Torgan616 Immediately after that, Korba tries to insist that Paul’s victims were brought into the light of his religion, which Paul immediately bats down. He knows what he’s doing is terrible, but he also knows that disengaging would be worse.
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@PureThe0ry @Torgan616 To be fair I read it years ago but him saying 6 million was “pretty good” seemed like an endorsement.
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"I don't believe that they'd remember Hitler 10 000 years in the future."
Didn't read the book award.
Paul has ancestral memories. Stilgar has no clue who Hitler was. Paul was comparing himself to a historically insignificant tyrant to convey the unmatched scale of his own sin.
Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Marine Vtuber@HMBohemond
On the contrary, it's the dumbest part of Dune: Messiah and I don't believe for a second that they'd even remember Hitler's name 10,000 years in the future.
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