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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

Just make sure you don't make the mistake that western authors do -- only middle-aged women want to read smut about the mechanics of the sex act.

One of the only books that I ever actually deleted from my Kindle library was a story about a weak summoner who got strong which ended in an explicit sex scene.

Even the webnovel of redo of healer didn't get too much into detailed mechanics of what is where when.

Trump did the same sort of stuff to canada, and we did the same sort of retarded mean girls bullshit. It didn't work, because it turns out we need them more than they need us.

If Europe broke with the US, first thing they'd have to negotiate is Ukraine's surrender.

I very much doubt that there will be a hostile takeover in the sense of troops on the ground, but in the New York businessman sense of a hostile takeover, I can absolutely see it happening. He doesn't need to put a single soldier in harms way, just play hardball and make them an offer they can't refuse.

Now will he successfully do that? No clue.

Yeah "the dollar store" became "the dollars store"

That cat doesn't even look like Hitler. That's a fu Manchu or kaiser moustache, not a charlie chaplain moustache.

For much of US history, what today we call a penny would buy what we today call a dollar worth of goods.

A penny could buy you a newspaper, or a piece of candy, or a small food item. A lot of things were five cents, in the same way that a lot of things today are between 3 and 5 dollars.

Inflation doesn't look so bad because technology drove the price of a lot of big ticket items down, but if that were the case, why isn't a newspaper .30 cents like the cpi suggests? Why is it almost nothing is 30 cents, and even very few things are a dollar?

Really goes to show you how much our currencies have lost their value in the past 100 years.

I mean, probably not that fascist free. Spain was one of the longest running fascist regimes, only liberalizing once Franco's successor decided running a fascist dictatorship didn't sound like a fun time. There could certainly be a timeline where Spain is still fascist, and I'm sure there's still living people who wouldn't have a problem with a return to 1974.

Trump should declare himself a Muslim so all these Europeans have to jail themselves.

Picked up a dead tree copy of literally, I'll grab the others too.

Nobody is coming to save us, we can only save ourselves.

Is the panel displayed if you don't have an account? I want to support fellow freesiders.

I think the most interesting thing is realizing what the Pharisees are intended to represent. Their greatest sin is mindless adherence to the rules without proper concern for what is just, or what is true.

There's obviously direct parallels with today. A lot of people are so focused on following arbitrary rules that they don't care about the justice or truth of their actions, only that they're following the rules.

And of course some people misread that criticism and assume that it means we never have to follow the rules, but the reality is of course we need to follow rules, but we also need to use our brains to make sure that the application of the rules is both just and true.

It's true. Imagine an America where I'm a citizen.

The market this year has made me feel like a genius, which shows it is probably broken.

The opposite.

In the Soviet Union, the stalinists hated nobody more than the trotskyies. Both are retarded commies.

Fascism and national socialism are both modernist revolutionary movements. Mussolini was an important part of Italys socialist movement, and Hitler openly stated he utilized ideas directly from Marx. Marx was heavily informed by the French revolution under the Jacobins which led to the reign of terror and ultimately saw a monarch and aristocracy reinstalled in a couple decades. They're all kissing cousins.

The winning move against the modernists isn't to become another breed of modernist they hate, it's to surpass modernism and embrace all the things it rejects, such as transcendence, irrationality, and the inherent recognition that not only can't all things be centrally controlled, many things shouldn't be.

I've written before about how I realized that the idiocracy in the movie is just one form of idiocracy, and not the most dangerous one.

You can have the populist anti-intellectual idiocracy, but typically that's not that clever and knows it isn't and doesn't want to do much more than live life.

The pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy, that's the dangerous one. In such a case, they take on the trappings of intelligence, but without actually being intelligent. And the thing is, such idiocracy does think it deserves to rule the world.

In the end of the movie, they use water instead of energy drink to fix the crops, but can you imagine a parallel universe sequel where they refuse to allow them to water the plants with water instead of energy drink because there's no peer reviewed study saying plants don't crave electrolytes?

In a postmodern sense, the pseudo-intellectual elitist idiocracy becomes a simulacrum of the simulation of what intelligent people once did, but without any of the things that made those actions intelligent. It becomes an epistemic cage from which they cannot escape.

Ironically, the many people lamenting how many stupid people are out there hide these pseudo-intellectual elitists who aren't necessarily any smarter than the people they're attacking, but they wear the clothes of the intelligent so they can pretend they're not "one of those people".

This relates to a post I wrote but didn't send earlier today, about the easiest way to destroy science: Don't paint scientists as the bad guy, just hop in and stop using science to seek truth you don't like and start using it to prove you're right. Once you start using things like p-hacking to get the results you want rather than chasing the results that are true, science isn't meaningful anymore.

Science proved a bunch of stuff the establishment didn't want to prove, such as heliocentrism and evolution, but it even proved a bunch of stuff the scientists themselves didn't want to prove -- Quantum Physics and relativity proving that Newtonian physics are not correct essentially destroyed the image of a clockwork universe the modernist epistemology relied upon, and some very high level scientists left the field shortly after.

Through a different lens, fascism is closer to what they want than a sort of pre-modern pluralistic liberalism. That doesn't even have a suffocating Omnistate! And they'd get rid of the church with all its pesky rules that aren't set by the suffocating Omnistate, and local cultures, with all their customs that aren't set by a suffocating Omnistate.

To be fair, it *is* January.

But on the other hand, you still need electricity in January.

If there was enough Sun to heat everyone's houses in England in January, it wouldn't be January. It might be August.

In the one ending Charlie is referred to a government program for deradicalization. I think in honor of the true Australian story, in that ending a federal agent convinces Charlie to become a suicide bomber while another federal agent convinces the teacher who refers them that Charlie is making wonderful progress on deradicalization.

All the Europeans calling Trump a pedo should be careful. If he converts to Islam you could go to jail for posts like that.

Honestly, one of the structural advantages that don't go away is the fact that a solid boomer probably has a decent resume and enough inside baseball knowledge to kill an interview.

Eventually, it doesn't matter if they have to apply or not, they're getting different treatment than a zoomer anyway.

https://vndb.org/v61649

Lol, that was fast.

I have no idea what's actually in it, you could be a gay porn game for all I know. But the fact that it showed up so fast is pretty funny.

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