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The ultimatum hurts America even more when many well studied professionals are almost certainly starting to look internationally as a contingency plan for what is currently happening. The potential for literally the same people who built th
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The problem is capture. How many platforms for news and discussing news are not completely captured by people with an agenda of personal power? You are funding and dang is running a forum for curiosity while the basis for curiosity is under
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The more you look into it, the more you see that there is direct inspiration taken from Nazi Germany and other authoritarian regimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_press is another one. Chairman Mao badges too:
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Authoritarians need to control history because if you understand history, it provides a foundation to judge the actions of those currently in power and damages their legitimacy. As soon as authoritarians are able to consolidate power, they
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That is exactly what they mean already. Disobedience towards their authority is hate. It's already in their language. Trump Derangement Syndrome encodes exactly this idea. The idea reverses victim and abuser. Those victimized by his po
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Without rule of law no other issue matters. You think you are a citizen today because you've always been a citizen, you have papers to prove it. It's never even been questioned. What if those papers get destroyed? What if the offi
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It is hard to take people at their word when it clashes with our understanding of reality or would create a call to action or make inaction unexcusable. We should take this administration at their word. Trump said: "I need the kind of
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The problem with Huberman is that his actions made it clear that he is not bothered by deceiving people if it profits him, particularly if it profits him sexually. Selling health products while offering health advice is also a clear conflic
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Governments exist to protect rights, not grant them. This was a core truth of our founding fathers beliefs and their entire justification for why it was OK for them to break British law and rebel against King George III. If you have rights
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Authoritarian governments are arbitrary governments, all decisions are made arbitrarily. Consistency is unnecessary. That's the trouble with choosing power as a guiding principle over reason or consent.
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There are two fundamental political systems and they exist in respect to how they attempt to assess truth. The first uses reason, the second uses power. People who believe in reason based truth look for contradictions. Do doctors take the s
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The opposite of authority is reason. Authoritarian regimes hate disobedience. Coming up with your own ideas or rejecting what your priest, parent, or politician says is very disobedient. Reasoning about the world is a threat to authority. S
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8 You should watch this (12min). You just expressed the "politics of eternity." You should check out Timothy Snyder in general to see what historians are saying about our
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine The Great Chinese Famine was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-and-antisemitism But why was Columbia put first? It is in New York. More than twenty percent of its undergraduate students are Jewish. No matter the experiences or attitudes
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Calling someone anti-Semitic is exactly the same thing as calling someone Russophobic, Sinophobic, or saying they have Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's a rhetorical weapon to call people who are critical or people who have been harmed
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Ok, but then you have some kind of state intelligence, because you need intelligence for a military to operate on, and then military capability is a function of technology. Then you need some form of law, and law implies police, and conflic
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Governments exist as a response to the tragedy of the commons. Pragmatically, if you don't pay taxes to a government that has a military, then your neighbor will invade you and impose whatever taxes they deem fit or outright exterminat
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When everyone feels this way instead of fighting for the future they want to make reality... There are journalists, protestors, entrepreneurs, unionists, billionaires, etc, all fighting for what those history books will say. Ukrainians are
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Yes, project 2025[1] is our own cultural revolution/great leap forward. The authors said: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."[2] [1] https:/
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Incompetence is way more dangerous than people realize. These tariffs are China's Four Pests campaign. Mao, a very trump like figure, decided to protect Chinese crops by destroying sparrows that were picking at them. Killing sparrows k
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Fascism is slow until it is fast. People who study Fascism and Russian/Eastern European history at at least one of America's top universities are fleeing the country: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story&#x2F
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These tariffs are a radical action that rhymes with the "Four pests" campaign of Mao Zedong's China which led to one of the worst famines in human history. Defenders of these tariffs say they might bring back manufacturing or
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This was predictable, but demonstrates something very important about trust. Trust is now gone. You can not trust America. This, and everything else, will harm generations of American's as every other country and person on the earth un
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Paper assets are only meaningful because an army or police force says they are meaningful. If police and militaries disappeared overnight, then stocks would have no value. Guns would have value and food would have value. Ability to produce
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A job is a commodity if your manager knows how to do your job right now. There is a subtlety. Your manager might be able to do your job, with time, but if they haven't spent time understanding the same data you have or the greater cont
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Admiral Rickover was likely the single most competent engineering manager in the last century and wrote this: Doing a Job https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm Complex jobs cannot be accomplished effectively with transient
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This article is really worth a read and talks about the much deeper mechanics and institutional power behind what is happening now. Clearview had compiled a massive biometric database that would eventually contain billions of images the co
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I am jaded enough to think that this is to manufacture consent or essentially letting doge have access to information through backups. The first thing someone should think of when they think of backups is recovery, but the second thing to t
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Peter Thiel's CPAC (the tea party convention/the new GOP) had a banner that said: "We are domestic terrorists" another banner said: "You're Next: The Rise of the Democrat Gulag."[1] The fact that the head

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