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6d ago
Exactly, and right now is the best time for my team. In 100 years it will not be.
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6d ago
Apple’s competitors also existed in competitive market conditions. The difference is that Apple is monarchical, run by someone with a track record and a powerful spirit, and the competitors were not. And so we still see that more monarchical is better (even in news, with the NYT, as Yarvin pointed out in his interview). So our monarchical elites should be selected from competitive industries, like real estate or private equity, and selected for a competitive personality so that they want America better than peers (for instance, in trade).
there's a million bankrupt firms with the same governance structure
Not run by people like Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Thiel-acolytes. No one is saying that the country should be run by the median small business owner, so your argument falls flat. We can select our new “elites” from institutions that filter for actual skill, as opposed to academia-related skills and politicking-related skills. (Eg, the social skills that Kamala had in becoming VP has nothing to do with the skill required for running an organization, whether that org is a business or country.)
Revolutions are cool. They have happened in every country. Many countries are better after the fact. I would rather America have one now, when White people are in charge, than in 100 years when White people are ~20% of the population. And who made a better product: Steve Job’s at Apple with his monarchical approach, or the bureaucratic IBM / BlackBerry / Xerox? Jobs was, well, rage-filled and vengeful.
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8d ago
What is some horror that emphasizes the power of an entity — sheer power that provides fear and awe? Do I just read Lovecraft? Any other great contenders? Or anything of horror, like a particularly good descriptive historical account of something terror and awe inducing?
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11d ago
Only found it on Twitter I’m afraid.
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13d ago
PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
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13d ago
If you’re going by genetic distance, Ashkenazim and Sephardim are as far as Lithuanian to Spanish, Ashkenazim are better clustered with Sicilians than Sephardim, and the English and Spanish are closer genetically than Sephardim and Mizrahim. From a Principal Component Analysis at least.
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13d ago
US government agrees to confer ‘minority’ status on Jewish-owned businesses
“We’re going to be able to benefit from billions of dollars of these programs, contracts, some loans, grants, the hundreds of different programs that every single Jewish business is going to benefit from,” Duvi Honig, founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, told JNS.
Tribalism is here to stay. I cannot actually find much information about the total amount of benefits that Hasidic Jews will reap from this ruling. The Minority Business Development Agency considers Hasidic Jews to be “socially disadvantaged”, which means that they would be eligible for the $50,000,000,000 in yearly benefits allotted to Small Disadvantaged Businesses. Harris increased Black SBA loans to 1.5 billion in 2023.
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15d ago
The poll is to show influential people what the masses really think about it. Musk rehiring him is more defensible when a million people think he should be rehired. When an investor or politician presses him he can say that he asked the people, even if it’s not actually a fair sample size.
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16d ago
Netanyahu doesn’t have it out for the random maid staff that the White House employs. It is just as free if they do laundry in Israel. It is either saying that America launders the dirty secrets of Israel or that Israel’s “dirty laundry” goes through America. Its either criticizing America’s intel sharing or showing symbolic dominance over America such that we do their dirty deeds for them.
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16d ago
Do you really think that Netanyahu, worth $14m, brings his laundry all the way to America to save $6, when his own assistants undoubtedly do laundry for him back home? If this is a genuine belief, why would you think this?
Israel’s Netanyahu brings his dirty laundry to Washington. Literally.
Over the years, the Israeli leader has developed a reputation among the staff at the U.S. president’s guesthouse for bringing special cargo on his trips to Washington: bags and suitcases full of dirty laundry, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The clothes are cleaned for the prime minister free of charge by the U.S. staff, a perk that is available to all foreign leaders but sparingly taken advantage of given the short stays of busy heads of state.
“The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean,” said one U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of a foreign leader’s visits. “After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.”
The officials who confirmed the past uses of laundry bags included both political and career officials spanning the Trump and Obama administrations.
Dirty laundry of course being an idiom which means “questionable activities that one wants to remain secret, but which someone else may use as blackmail.”
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17d ago
When Trump says the “Gaza thing has never worked” in reference to Palestinians going into Jordan, and then says that they should get “a good fresh beautiful piece of land”, I think he is talking about the permanent transfer of Gazans to elsewhere. He is not talking about a temporary dwelling while they fix Gaza.
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17d ago
(I think this was intended for a comment above mine by the way)
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17d ago
I’m not so pessimistic. I think Somalians would enjoy living like kings in Somalia, it would just require a “safe zone” in the country that makes migration attractive. Such a safe zone could conceivably be procured through diplomatic means and pressure campaigns on the Somalian government.
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17d ago
If Finland deported the Sami, yes. Or if Denmark deported the Greenlandic indigenous. For Swedes, it depends on if they are citizens. If they are not, then it’s a policy choice to deport. If they are citizens, it is better to encourage them leave through (1) monetary enticement and (2) permitting Swedes full freedom of choice in businesses and institutions to exclude them if so desired and (3) enhancing native birth rates (which Israel is doing right now in Israel proper, and I don’t criticize this). It would be honorable for Israel to open up a pathway for Gazans to expatriate, and to pay them an honorable amount for loss of land both now and during the Nakba. How about $1,000,000 each? But would I want America to forcefully deport Native Americans to Mexico, where they are more similar to the indigenous by blood? No, that’s crazy. Not even America at her worst thought they should do that. The amount of land given to the indigenous is about 10 Israels worth in square miles.
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17d ago
Trump was given the number 1.7 million presumably when he asked his intelligence advisor — conferred with all of the intel of the American Empire — how many people would need to be relocated from Gaza. The advisor gave him the number of living people in Gaza, not caring about “unaccounted for” or anything besides being alive. I think this number is accurate, because he has said it on different occasions now and because it’s the exact thing his brain is trained to remember. (He literally encodes it in his memory as a real estate project, you can tell by how he speaks about it, this is his savant-level skill and it’s a simple number to remember.) Determining how many Gazans are alive is a trivial task for the America intel community — use drones and satellites and movement tracking. They’ve wrangled them through corridors, they look at aid dispersal, the population isn’t exactly in hiding.
that's assuming the initial numbers (2.3m)
It’s the Lancet... we can assume it is trustworthy on this number.
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17d ago
2.3 million before the war, 100,000 known to have left. Trump on more than one occasion now has repeated that there are 1.7 million in Gaza. This means his advisors have told him this number. (Former real estate tycoon, he knows how to remember numbers briefed on, probably his deepest skill).
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2,375,259
Now the old are dying naturally and less are born than before, but from what I can tell there are still births and Gaza’s population pyramid probably means that the births and deaths are approximately equalized.
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17d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethnic-cleansing
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attempt to create ethnically homogeneous geographic areas through the deportation or forcible displacement of persons belonging to particular ethnic groups
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the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous
The Likud party platform calls for the Jewish state’s control over Gaza. Le Monde’s editorial board calls it ethnic cleansing. From the BBC:
Under international law, attempts to forcibly transfer populations are strictly prohibited, and Palestinians as well as Arab nations will see this as nothing short of a clear proposal aimed at their expulsion and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.
Ethnic cleansing is a term developed in the 80s, so it is obviously not defined by events before that. The assertion that Trump is rebuilding if for Gazans to return is… more than fanciful. If Jewish Israelis want to ethnically cleanse Gazans, they should do it themselves — with their own blood, money, and reputation.
(1) Making America complicit in ethnic cleansing is a moral stain on us forever, occurring in the 21st century where every nation should know better — this is not the mid 20th or 19th century; as Trump’s continual 1.7 million remark tells us, there are 500,000 dead in Gaza, and if America goes in these bodies will be placed on us and not Israel — the history books will surely be written so that we the ones who did it; (2) Hamas is still in operation, so American blood and resources will be spent on Israel again; (3) if you think Western culture bears the blood guilt of WWII, consider how Arab people will look at us for the next few hundred years — meanwhile, Jews being responsible for displacing* Palestinians would at once delete the holocaust from our whole collective storehouse of political metaphors, as it almost has now for the Left; (4) it’s naive to think America will ever “own” it, we will be responsible for trillions in rebuilding it for Israeli settlers, and then a president will come along whose donors / influences push him to give it away to Israel.
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20d ago
Tariffs are a cost on every consumer, but the revenue of the costs can (hypothetically) go only toward reducing the lower and middle class tax burden. So the cost is compensated only for the < rich. Also, wealthier people are the biggest consumers, and the things they buy cost more, like Canada Goose.
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20d ago
If we want to help Africans, we can invade Africa, redistribute the resources of their war lords, save more lives and profit at the same time. Would Scott support this? If the notion of subsidiarity supersedes the interest to invade, then we can just as easily argue that the notion of subsidiarity supersedes our interest to help.
some of the foundational tenets of Judeo-Christian morality
This is really just the Parable of the Good Samaritan being abused by bad exegetes imo
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20d ago
Is Scott implying that if his child were depressed, he wouldn’t spend more time helping his child than a stranger’s child? Or if his own child needed tutoring, he wouldn’t tutor him more than another child? Or is he saying that saving a life is the ultimate criterion of value, thus it dwarfs everything? It’s not actually clear. The example further doesn’t make sense because (1) his scenario implies the child is a community member, falling squarely into the ordo amoris worldview; (2) what we witness first hand compels our moral instinct in ways that data does not, and rather than meaning we have a mismatch between intuition and logic, it means that the pain of not helping the child is more severe and the absence of moral response is more damning when it occurs in front of us — this is part of our design, it’s not a bug. It’s like, if you see a crying puppy in front of you, and you just bought a steak, there’s a big chance you give the crying puppy the steak, because your body is designed to experience distress when not helping someone whose distress you witness. This does not imply that you must now buy steaks and distribute them to hungry puppies worldwide. In fact it doesn’t even imply that you ought to give the puppy the steak if you were somewhere else and someone merely informed you “a 6 month old canine would like your steak”.
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20d ago
Genius. Reduce the lower and middle income burden with tariffs, especially for luxury goods, and you can redistribute resources from the wasteful wealthy to Americans who need it. Even if it doesn’t revitalize American industry, it improves QoL at the expense of no utilitarian harm.
This is a somewhat one-dimensional interpretation of Ancient Judaism IMO. We have plenty of examples of Jews discriminating against groups of people seen as enemies, and excluding them much like the Nazis originally wanted to exclude Jews:
Deut 23:3: “No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation. For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you."
Ezra 9: “After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.”
Joshua 23: “ The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
We have examples of ethnic narcissism, similar to Nazi Germany:
We have a genocidal drive against the Amaleks, whose entire seed needs to be genocided because they attacked Israel when they were weak:
The punishment for belonging to a different religion in Ancient Israel was death, something considerably worse than camps before exportation to Madagascar:
Jews often blamed their troubles and defeats on allowing foreign people and their customs, or marrying foreigners. It’s not quite correct to say that ancient Jews did not attribute victories to themselves. The God is themselves, it is their own priestly class who sacrifices to God, it is the organization of their whole peoplehood. “Israel is rewarded for her faithfulness” is functionally identical to “we deserve this land for our righteousness”, it is just cloaked in religious language so that the priestly class and hierarchies are justified. If Ancient Israel had a group of foreigners with foreign customs living amongst them, God (by which I mean priest and prophet of the Israelite community) would command them to be slain, and probably their whole family, and all their animals as well. I suppose if they converted, they would be allowed to participate socially after the eleventh generation, depending on how a Rabbi wanted to interpret Deut 23:3. But when you read “God says these people need to be driven from the land because they are evil”, it’s a little silly to interpret this other than “the Jews believe they deserve the land for not being evil” — it is just rendered in a justifiable and humble way by the priests.
The Ancient Israelite “rendering” of their superiority is significantly better and more prosocial than Nazi Germany, and much more sophisticated. But IMO it is still identity politics. It reminds me of a Spanish Conquistador “compassionately” conquering Mexico for God, because God is their God too, and God wants them to be Christians and to be guided by God’s representative on Earth, the Spanish Crown. This is just poetic identity politics.
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