Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. The big issue with Turchin is that the norm with data science is that you don't run a model back that far because the underlying model changes too much. You don't even run it back 20 years. It's a disturbing scenario, of course.
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  2.  @bobwhite9248  don't check your line with soap, have your supervisor check your work, orange tape, gray dope, hand tight, quarter turn, now you're the lowest level of gasfitter
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  3. That's a somewhat terrifying anecdote. There was an older study done of social trust by the number of rounds of reciprocity two randoms could generate on a game where you could gain a small advantage by sticking in the game for another round or cash out for a fair sized advantage at any point. Japan and UK were the two highest representations of tit-for-tatters.
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  4. sounds too much like "Scumbag Steve" from the meme of the guy with the chin strap beard and the Burberry hat "Greg" would make more sense. Work always with memetic synchronicity, not against it.
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  5. The saying goes that the two people in the world who are the most comfortable being besieged are the Russians and the Turks, but the Turks don't have a character who was a somewhat famous author who left a long correspondence about how much he enjoyed being under siege due to having access to a piano, the way Tolstoy did at Sebastopol.
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  6.  @1mol831  Chicks can do a lot of stuff, but they can't do infantry.
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  7. On the subject of the destabilization of Europe, purely from a Clausewitzian continuation of policy by other means perspective, preventing Europe from becoming a China- or India-sized potential competitor is as much in the interests of America as preventing the Turkic Hyperempire.
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  8. IQ measures pattern recognition, as a basis for problem solving. Also IQ can go up due to setting familiarity - forget the name of the guy, was cited by Thomas Sowell, basically when you run kids through the IQ test a couple of times, the racial difference in IQ shrinks by three quarters or so - and there was also a case of a guy who was in for the death penalty for shooting people outside of ATMs to take their cash who ended up initially testing as legally retarded, then the prosecution ordered a do-over and he scored well in the 80s, which his lawyers attributed to trying to understand abstract arguments, but could also have had an element of setting familiarity as well
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  9. I guess one could argue that because Newfs by blood are West Country people rather than East Anglians, that makes them distinct from New England, by the standard set by the video.
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  10. In America, the obstacle to social advancement is the chance of getting sick while not covered by medicaid. In Canada, the obstacle to social advancement is taxes. The Canadian system reduces homicides, but is more intrinsically reliant on immigration, and sucks the hope out of the youth.
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  11. Thomas Sowell blames the northern English herder culture for it if my memory serves me.
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  12. I don't have any particular love for Elon Musk. The guy's a salesman. It's more that his detractors are aggressively insufferable.
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  13.  @FallingPicturesProductions  give the leaf credit when the leaf pile starts to burn
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  14.  @1mol831  Scythian noblewomen did fight as horse archers, the Soviets used female snipers and pilots during WWII, Heinlein included essays on why he thought female conservativism would make women superior space pilots, and there's always the odd Boudicca or Rani of Janshi willing to lead from the front...but if we're talking about infantry? No. The percentage of women who can keep up with basic standards for infantry is similar to the percentage of men well suited to be a Royal Marine or a US Navy Seal.
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  15. 20:07 "local officers starting wars out of their own initiative without orders" sort of also describes a LOT of the 2BE's wars during the Gladstone Government, if not all of them.
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  16. It's sort of funny that it's precisely the bits of France that weren't on the French side in the Hundred Years War that exported people to Quebec.
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  17. My instinct is that the decisive reason why foreigners tended to take a lower view of Trump was that the Trump tax plan targeted Americans who wanted to follow the live, work, and invest abroad lifestyle - be it as simple as drawing dividends to pay the rent on an apartment in Thailand or off the beaten path in Mexico, or summering in Austria or Peru and wintering in the Caymans - and outside of America, these are intuitively disproportionately the Americans one meets.
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  18. You need to throw the narrative the occasional bone if you want to be allowed to remain up and monetized.
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  19.  @linkskywalker5417  Islam'd fix a lot of this shit the way cold showers are good for your heart and to help you lose a bit of weight.
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  20. IIRC Rudyard said he was done debates after his thing with Vaush. Rudyard moved the ball forward any time the conversation came to ideas, from either him, or Vaush, but stumbled every time basic gotcha debate tactics came up.
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  21. I read your comment and have unfortunately very little to offer you besides the acknowledgement of your existence.
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  22.  @dariusgreysun  Funny you should say that - trans are turning into a disproportionate share of recruits since the military covers breast surgery.
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  23. Faith Family Freedom
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  24.  @MLGDouglas  I thought it was interesting and held validity having been a history major, but having dipped my fingers in data science, no longer consider it valid.
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  25. one of the few creators whose content truly is worth an hour of sleep when one's trying desperately to get back to a normal sleep schedule
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  26. Cody from Alternative History Hub had an argument that Trump was and remains a Perotist.
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  27.  @dld6959  yeah the Millennials have been cringe AF
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  28. Canadian side of the rustbelt. (general Toronto area) Union guys burned my dad's shop when I was a little kid. He took us in to see the burned out office one time when he was watching us and had to go back to check for something. They made shelves.
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  29. @Possibly Layne Staley Stalin does have some good ideas for how to deal with a bureaucracy.
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  30. and I did NOT like that you brought up Germany. The German apprenticeship system, much like the German system of private insurance oligopolists donating health insurance to the poors as part of their cartel, works in Germany, where it is surrounded by cultural Germans.
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  31. YES! Eric Flint shoutout by minute 3!
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  32. Dead Prez had an intro to a rap that has always stuck with me about the Inuit practice of hunting wolves by blooding a knife and then setting its hilt in the ice. The wolf wants to lick the blood, but then it cuts its tongue, and so it parches to death. Then the hunter comes to skin the wolf.
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  33.  @Lestibournes  with the fence? That falls into the same category as the American success against the Pinoys in the second act of the Spanish-American War or the British success against the Boers in round two of those wars - unfortunate the name used by the British for that strategy given Israel's...peculiarities.
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  34.  @5h0rgunn45  ah thank you I managed to forget the other half of the Border Reivers.
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  35.  @jollygrapefruit786  I did not hear about that.
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  36. You know what, I'm actually happy for you man. Good on you securing that bag.
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  37. The video on social justice touches on this topic.
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  38. ​ @jaimay125  Which is another way of saying that "the West" is not a useful analytical construct as of present day.
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  39.  @avroarchitect1793  well...the Ukrainian government says that, and...if that becomes a problem, the Maidan got them in, and something similar can be arranged to get them out
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  40.  @CAProductions051  The summaries I would recommend of refutations of the labour theory of value and therefore the central premise of orthodox Marxism would be those of Eugene Bohm von Bawerk and Jean Baptiste Say.
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  41. "those periods of history where history just sort of stops because people are drinking plum wine and sleeping with their Circassian slave girls" was a good turn of phrase
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  42.  @jackdeniston59  The classical Chinese - hell, the pre-classical Chinese - loved having their bureaucrats do essays. The story of the composition of The Classic of the Way and Virtue is that an old man was driving a cart out from the borders of a state into unincorporated territory, and the border official stopped him and forced him to write an essay as a final tax on leaving the state to explain why it was that he was on his way out. You read say the Legge translation of that one, as it goes from this mysticism and analogies of primal matter and archetypes at the front, through descriptions of the ideal ruler, finally, right at the end, to the classic lines "let the state be small and the people few," and it sort of puts it context, you know.
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  43.  @jackdeniston59  or in other words, one of the three indigenous Chinese intellectual traditions originated as an essay
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  44. He took more than one sponsor for this one. I'm sure he has what I hope are five million reasons for feeling the way he does.
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  45.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  USA has socialized medicine, for poors and olds. It is risky to be and to stay middle middle class in America, since you might end up with not the best or no employer offered health insurance, and get wiped out by medical bills. It's just a different obstacle to social advancement than Canada's tax rates.
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  46. allahuakbar
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  47. ooga booga
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  48. Peter the Great dragged Russia, kicking and screaming, into the Long 18th century - where, culturally, it has been stuck ever since.
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  49. IT'S OUR BOY!
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  50. 4:19 ight if that was a map drawn deliberately to rustle the jimmies of people who pedantically draw a distinction between early iron age civilizations and late bronze age civilizations as well as to rustle the jimmies of anybody know knows the rest of the results of the study which disproved the Khazar conversion thesis or the basics of the study of religion then it was a good map
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  51. "Everyman thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier." - Dr. Samuel Johnson
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  52. dude the Ontario teachers union is a monster from hell in terms of exactly the problems he was going on about as far as teachers creating conditions that work for them
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  53.  @Mbrace818  Granted it probably is a bit more like a continuum of outcomes in terms of who is left over in the same positions after the upheaval. "The empire may be won by horseback but must be kept by the writing brush" and all that jazz implies that you do need some administrators in the mix who might include people from the previous dynasty.
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  54. One of Christianity's core festivals, recently marked for the Gregorian calendar, revolves around the time that the god who had created the universe and then became a person died, prior to becoming god but no longer a person. You think it's declining, but then there is some weird Pentecostal denomination with a megachurch in southern Somalia or Balochistan or some shit where the pastor is doing some whacky stuff, but...he's go gigantic gold crosses and scenes of the crucifixion. It's the former West that is on its way out, not Christianity.
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  55. and marginally former Western countries - in Latin America and potentially eastern Europe - I expect will be somewhat immune to that rot
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  56.  @underballbutter  😆in the 1930s, yes? Oh dear! Well trolled, sir! I know when I've been had.
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  57. Europe as Catholicism isn't an analogy I had made.
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  58. I used to read Wordpress pages from India. A common theme was to theorize on the backwardness of India and its origins. There were three, equally popular theories. One was to blame the British for suppressing Indian industry. Another was to blame the Mughals for the massive genocide which accompanied their conquest. A third - which worried me more in its implications - was to blame the actions of the Brahmins against the Buddhist kingdoms. This third set of theories in effect said that the intellectual class of India had in effect gone on strike, therefore annihilating the creative and intellectual potential of an entire civilization for a thousand years, in order to expel dissenters.
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  60. They tried running the economy on their junior partners' economic ideas for a few years after the revolution, but did not give up power to them. The conclusion the mullahs had was that communism did not work, so they turned control over to the segment of the Iranian merchant class who was not sufficiently connected to the ancien regime to have wanted to flee.
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  61. You say the Pope broke up the clan but there's an entire anachronistic migration pattern in my part of North America that says it didn't completely take, precisely because of the clans which fought for Catholicism.
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  62. I don't know that this will be as bad as you think. Japan does the world's product development. Japan does not do immigration. More than one foreigner per village is one too many in their view. Japan has known it has had issues with its birth rate since well before pandemic. During the aftermath of the Baby Gammy fiasco, in which an Australian woman who has managed to remain anonymous abandoned a child she had paid a surrogate to bear in Thailand because the child, Baby Gammy, had been born with Down Syndrome, the Thai authorities cracked down on the surrogacy industry. One apparent customer was a Japanese businessman who was in a nursery with eleven or twelve children, forget which. He claimed he was their biological father, and that he just loved children. This was accepted as a sufficient explanation by the Thai authorities. After that point, various developments in artificial reproduction began to be reported. A sheep embryo was grown to a healthy lamb in a plastic bag. A technique for turning stem cells into gametes was discovered. This stuff all made the press, and should all still be up on the internet. So, there is the motive - for Japan to survive as a country which does not do immigration and which has a low birth rate - and the means - Japan is the number one product developer in the world - and then a pattern of pure research innovations which suggest that artificial reproduction had been moving forward, all in the press, all prior to pandemic. My suspicion is that the idea is to sandbag this technology, keeping it a strictly Japanese thing, for as long as possible, to prevent it from leaking to mainland China, in order to use demography as a strategic weapon against the Xiists. A bit of mass migration will provide a medium term patch for the rest of the traditional developed world. Whenever the Xiists collapse, the tech will be allowed out of Japan, which will allow for replacement to occur artificially, at the moment in which what I might term "the great deshitholeization" - a general advancement, powered by the spread of modern infrastructure, of most current actual Third World countries toward the level of upper middle income nations, and of enough upper middle income nations toward the level at which for instance Greece or Chile are today - the liminal First World - will be nuking the incentive for people to leave traditional sources of mass migration and those birth rates lower to the point that the population pressure comes off. Most likely organizations similar to central banks, but carrying the mandate to maintain a steady expansion of the supply of population, rather than a steady expansion of the supply of money, will take on the role of ensuring that population is kept up at the gentlest of rates of increases, similar to the old argument that a one to two percent rate of inflation was preferable to truly sound money. This would also provide the opportunity for a bit of salutary eugenics, arresting the Idiocracy scenario by the simple expedient of making sure the genes of high IQ people were overrepresented in reproduction, and perhaps also compelling the reproduction above what would occur given birth control of the genes of more attractive people as well. The world would be too depressing were it full of fuggos alone. The establishment of such organizations would also allow for the more rapid peopling of anything we as a species are able to terraform between one and two centuries from now. Not to get overly techno optimistic about it, but people aren't potatoes, they don't just sit there, especially during existential crises.
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  63. Bush got called a Nazi in the context of pushing to pass the Patriot Act and the whole narrative of WMDs that got America into the past round of the Forever Wars.
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  64. I forget where I read it, but the argument went that when Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations in 1776, he could credibly claim to have read everything pertinent to the subject, which was something which has approached impossible in nearly every field of human endeavour in the quarter millennium thereafter.
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  65.  @gordoncheswick4169  In terms of wages and cost of living? Probably.
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  66. There are a minority of creative women, but...I have no idea how they're supposed to distinguish themselves in modern times with the taint of diversity hiring constantly attached to their gender and the relentless depression imposed by the modern human resources department and its auxiliaries. If there is a Jane Austen or a Frieda Kahlo in modern times, I don't think she's going to get much further than writing rambles on social media or curating her IG, which may or may not be discovered by some learning machine a few centuries from now. The longhouse is plainly thoroughly opposed to female creative excellence. Further, males can be broken into organizers of files, and with the imposition of tremendous stress, be made to multitask.
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  67. The big thing I'd say I know enough about to know Zeihan is dead wrong is his idea that skilled manufacturing in Canada will ever be a thing, but I may have had a heavy dose of blackpills on the subject myself coming out of two generations of rustbelt shop floor engineers.
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  68.  @ClubPenguinFan106  and I notice Rudyard seems to have found what I hope were at least five million reasons to knock Nick Fuentes
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  69. That's the meme faction - the purist monetarists, Austrians, and anarcho-unionists.
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  70. Toronto's flipping.
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  71. 6:17 a couple of bosses ago, I was waiting outside a house while he was inside doing a showing. There was this dude outside, we started talking, family was from Occupied Territories and had spread all over, as families from Occupied Territories do, conversation wandered over to Saudi Arabia, I offered the opinion that I thought MbS was modeling himself on Peter the Great, and he looks at me like I have lobsters coming out of my ears and says, "don't you realize how many weapons Saudi hillbillies have stockpiled out in the desert?" and proceeds to relay the story of how at a wedding out in the desert one of his cousins attended, the groomsmen rolled up riding on top of a T-55.
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  72.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  yes Canada has failed as a nation and therefore its history has become meaningless to newer arrivals
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  73.  @MrWick-fi8vo  Winnipeg I think is more affordable, at least if you can work remote, but the weather is even worse, I have heard they have mosquitos and blackflies, and IIRC the homicide is Thunder Bay like. The one guy I knew who doubled back to the 'peg used to say that everything was nicer in the fairly humble corner of the western Toronto suburbs where we lived - he'd make this comment while we were rolling down one of the chronically underdeveloped streets - and illustrate his point by the relatively more attractive appearance of our drug addicted prostitutes. Anyway upon arrival in Winnipeg I believe he was almost instantaneously imprisoned, which was my takeaway after he began posting a bunch of stuff about how the behaviour of the local FNs really got to him following a long hiatus. When I helped some people I knew move cross country, the other guy with whom I was driving who had done the drive before made a point to avoid Winnipeg. I also knew one guy who trained nurses on hospital equipment who said Winnipeg was the grimmest place he had ever visited, that it made the bad bits of western Toronto suburbs look nice. It might be it's fine so long as you stay out of town on the right side of town with the right overlap of police patrols, but it sort of makes the impression on people that it makes. Southeastern Manitoba did look sort of appealing, if you're a remote worker, especially in late summer when you basically get two climates in one by going east one hour uphill into Ontario.
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  74. Good.
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  75.  @chickenpuncher1674  It could be that people to the right end of the curve in terms of attractiveness push beyond a cross-cultural threshold of universal beauty, thus appealing to people of ethnicities outside their own, so the entire thing is due to selection bias.
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  76.  @falcor200  A scenario where Canada stops existing is the optimistic one, because it's one where the successor states are able to stay in the First World with some shreds of democratic institutions remaining for them. The problem is that it became a postnational state starting in the 1960s with secularization. Ontario went in the direction of extending the minimum standard of citizenship rights guaranteed to Catholics as second class citizens to every other minority, then gradually equalizing the citizenship rights of all minorities, becoming stuck in time with the equalization of Catholic school funding in the 1990s under Premier Harris at the high water mark of multiculturalism as an ideology in America, creating a set of soft expectations that American-style rights would predominate, which was not hurt by heavy spending by the Koch brothers on propaganda meant to push the idea of individual rights in the American sense anywhere that spoke English. The reason why there has been no Rivers of Blood scenario in Ontario is because of the 1990s suburban midwestern overculture evolved within a context of enclaves being a feature and not a bug. Whether this survives boomer opposition to housing development sufficient to accommodate the increasing numbers of people with decreasing average points system scores is up for debate. Quebec had the francophone secular tradition which guided its evolution. Outside of obscure online libertarian circles - so this is specifically men, generally post college aged, who choose a specific ideological group - libertarian girls aren't the ones who argue about theory, libertarian girls want to put on their Gadsden bikini and shoot a carbine at an unregistered range until it is time to homeschool their kids. It's exactly the way male sports fans memorize the statistics and female sports fans make sure the bunting is up in the house for the big game - the French and English traditions tend to be oil and water. Secularism and multiculturalism are not compatible as they exist in these provinces, since there can be only one overarching ideology. The writing should have been on the wall about what that means for over eight years at this point, or when Harper introduced the niqab as a wedge issue and Mulcair's optimism that he could bridge the gap had the effect that it had. It is fair in my view to term this result "Canadian defeat in the War on Terror." The absence of an overarching ideology or close working substitute means that there is not common set of civic values, therefore that in the Benedict Anderson sense of an imagined community, Canada has been failing as a nation for six decades. The pre1960s ideology arguably went back to the 1840s but was codified into a set of formal minimum standards for minority rights by MacDonald. For being one guy with Victorian norms, MacDonald did an excellent job, given there were no Canadian equivalent to The Troubles in Northern Ireland, which had a similar demographic situation of a Protestant majority and Catholic minority.* We have to remember, whereas America was a project of several years of intense discussion, Canada was significantly the project of a lone colonial official deep in a Scotch-powered shamanic meditation who did a three year rush job getting the buy-in from officials in other British possessions. The worst thing Confederation did was give MacDonald's counterparts in Cape and Natal Colony similar ambitions. The main effect of the "patriation of the constitution" was to sever ties with traditional restraints held by the elites against state overreach. In the absence of these restraints and with nothing in common at the level of civic values between the different provinces, this means that democratic norms will inevitably erode to nothing, unless centralized authority does first. Bilingualism has been an utterly failed policy whose primary role has been to entrench an unaccountable managerial caste whose collective instincts will always be those of the Stalinist apparatchik. I say this as a bilingual. A controlled and gradual phase-out of Confederation would be the most logical course of action from the perspective of anybody who might have family who might have to stay in these provinces. Other than the monarchy as a legal entity west of the Rideau - or in provinces which were recognized in 1763 as Indian Territory - and loose cooperation through the Bank of Canada which would be needed to stabilize the value of world CAD deposits and oversee their orderly and controlled redemption into provincial currencies which would, ideally, be allowed to float against one another as much as possible to ward off the Dutch disease, there ought not to be any other shared institutions. A logical first place to begin would be by devolving the Criminal Code to the provinces. Montreal has anxieties about tools termed varmint guns in points west of Thunder Bay since Quebec people actually become mass shooters. Trying to hold up some kind of half-measure of property rights in Quebec will just result in the collapse of property rights in other provinces. *I blame the way the Indian Affairs bureaucracy evolved for the damage done to First Nations as economies and cultures. MacDonald is on record as wanting to incorporate the FNs as ridings within the Parliamentary system. Even Egerton Ryerson had nothing to do with the abuses by pedophiles and other bad actors enabled by bureaucrats in the residential school system.
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  77. ​ @PeruvianPotato  I forget where I heard it, but the line was from somebody who said they could never understand what motivated Pol Pot's animal hatred of the educated, until he began to interact with more woke American college graduates.
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  78. family member of a family friend left. Said working from home was too annoying because of the noise the Hamas rockets and the sirens to warn people would make, then you hide from the bombardment, and it breaks up your flow.
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  79. well yeah that's the point he's wandering through about fifteen different political spectrums and doing his usual best-efforts layman's synthesis
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  80. I like that you ended this one by repeating your call for more boys' charters from your video where you brought that up as an implicit solution to your guess about what would reduce school shootings.
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  81. You know your colonial history better than to term the West Indies unimportant until fairly recently.
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  82. my boy
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  83. now THAT would be a way for whatifalthist to get shuttered on YouTube
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  84. You're stretching the analogy by involving the Russian Civil War. Had Kornilov not inspired so much fear among the moderates, the White Army could have taken Moscow.
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  85. well yeah it didn't mention Sayyid Qutb in the section on radical Islam either
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  86. It wouldn't be a brother's war like the ACW, but nobody can really say that the Chinese of the 2020s are entirely strangers. Every male Millennial in China and the former West has gamed online with a group of males who include people in the opposite camp. This effect was probably at its apex in the era of games with built-in Latin alphabet chat features. China after Deng and before Xi was more free than the West in economic and most personal terms, and somebody who got into a time machine and went back to the China of Hu Jintao from a country like Australia would no doubt be blown away by the amount of freedom people had by any definition. I know I picked up a handful of Simplified characters and Mandarin words, and I don't doubt many more than my proportion of Chinese men have picked up thirteen Latin characters and four to seven English sentences. I have no doubt that the pool of men who have made the rank of colonel or the equivalent or higher in both militaries spent several hours a week together in some portion of the period of their lives between elementary school and just after college in online spaces with the boys who became the men who ended up leading the opposing force. The Chinese Communist Party has had since Deng a significant element of the business improvement area to it. Prior to Xi, my sense is that things were heading toward more of a Greek city states and Rome sort of conclusion between America and China.
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  87. Islam
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  88. I wouldn't put a Russo-Chinese pipeline beyond the realm of possibility.
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  89. and you say the red pill is too cynical to form an ideology, but consider the texts of Taoism. The Classic of the Way and Virtue wraps a critique of the bureaucratic state in mysticism and was traditionally believed to have been left by the Old Master when he was forced to write an essay to justify why he wanted to cross a state border and enter unincorporated territory by a petty official. The Writings of Master Zhuang, on the other hand, composes a collection of borderline nonsense stories in some cases directly mocking Confucius and his disciples. i. e. it almost looks like the ancient Chinese HAD a set of right wing reactions within which the cultural input of the red pillers and libertarians ended up synthesized as the means by which the educated bureaucratic class would blow off steam.
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  90. Vive le Quebec Libre.
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  91. yo you gonna do an Eric Flint shoutout in this? HEY! YO!
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  92. The funnest tit bits about 40k and Fantasy Battle lore for me were those Rick Priestley quotes where he'd just explain how he pulled something out of his ass in the 1980s as quickly as he could, and ow that's some beloved part of a moment in early adolescence for millions of boys and hundreds of girls. The Dark Elf lore is something I never appreciated up until I read some stuff on the difficulty of distinguishing between Tory and Jacobite narratives, which all tend to be the Fisher King - put the true king in place and everything will be right - i. e. Narnia, The Lion King, the Aragorn arc of LotR. Whereas Malekith is the true king of the elves, he's an evil dark magic using bastard who is promptly rejected by the gods of the elves, then runs away across the water to get up to no good. It is an unmistakably Tory narrative, albeit one plainly created with the sole purpose of making fun of Toryism.
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  93. but Gaza is next to Israel, and you're at worst a five hour drive away from Gaza in anywhere in Israel. America as a propositional nation depends quite a bit on the health of the proposition at the heart of its civic nationalism. Israel isn't just an ethnostate, for people with paved roads and cars, it fits the classical ideal of size of the state. (forget who said it, but it was that a citizen ought to be able to walk from one border of his state to the next in a single day)
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  94. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  95.  @AKawalski  Neither. 💗
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  96.  @AKawalski  Rudyard's way too optimistic in the first bit of this video before he pulls the whole "it was all a dream" ending.
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  97. ISIS lost because Trump cut American funding to ISIS.
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  98.  @Kaiserboo1871  as Mark Twain put it, history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme
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  99. Friend of a friend of the family had a child who was left with a lifelong injury which qualified them for disability benefits and required extensive renovations to the house. The comp got deferred because two of the insurance companies went to was with one another.
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  100.  @bernardoohigginsvevo2974  never heard of him before the arrests. Good communicator, but definitely a symptom of the denigration of the figure of the father in the 1990s through the media. Charges sound cooked up for one agenda or another. I think they will eventually get him for one immigration related charge or another if they truly are out to get him, because there's no way he doesn't have an illegal or two working for him in his industry. Tate followers seem like exactly like what they are - older boys and younger men whose fathers and older brothers were absent either physically, emotionally, or socially in at least one capacity. Tate haters, on the other hand, are insufferable.
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  101.  @Mbrace818  "The People's Republic of China as a state structure is 70 years old" would be a more precise way to word it, but people know what you mean regardless.
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  102. The carbon thing is mostly nonsense pushed by large corporations in order to drive down real wages. India and China alone have deleted any effort made meanwhile New York was supposed to be under water by now. It will take off in a similar way that the subprime loans took off, however, because there is now a lot of money in it where it is happening.
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  103. I think he had a bit on the Marathas where he argued they would have burned themselves out with constant warfare. The way to have India never get colonized by the British is you just have Plassey go the other way. Either it doesn't rain that day and the Nawab's weekend warriors are able to fire their muskets, or the Nawab's one general doesn't take Clive's money and actually leads his contingent to reinforce the Nawab, or Clive himself has a bad curry the night before and his judgement is off. Without a win at Plassey, the Seven Years War doesn't result in the East India Company expanding across the continent, with them remaining confined to a couple of coastal trading forts, and possibly getting kicked out of Bengal. The industrial revolution still happens, but the 2BE without India isn't the same thing. UK is not the industrial powerhouse it was in our timeline without the captive market of Company-controlled India. There's also no strategic imperative for the 2BE to be in the Mediterranean, for instance, without the most important colony on the other side of the Suez Canal. British involvement in Africa has much less motivation - the strategic aspect of Cape Colony was identical to that of Gibraltar or Egypt, hold open the sea lane to India - so the pressures which lead to the Scramble for Africa are reduced. Egypt possibly still carves out a swathe of territory uphill of the Nile rapids under that Albanian dynasty. Holland possibly continues to hold Cape Colony - with a dramatically different ethnic composition - Spain and Portugal still hold their enclaves, and indigenous empires like the Sokoto and the Zulus who had the aggression and warrior spirit to expand in our timeline up until they ran into the 2BE might just have kept going. There is no Great Game with Russia over Afghanistan, but, Afghan empires are never prevented from snowballing their way into the Indian princely states every couple of decades. Afghanistan could easily be a major world power today without the legacy left by the imposition of the frontier which divided Pathanstan. With nobody to conquer them besides the Afghans, the Punjabi Empire which started in the 17th century would have most likely continued to be a thing into present day, and most likely be in an ongoing state of intermittent war with Afghanistan. I could see it causing a lengthier period of tensions with America, since South American markets would become relatively more important to colonize with India taken out of the picture. In our timeline, Royal Navy reformer Thomas Cochrane lead South American revolutionary fleets while working as a mercenary in the waters surrounding that continent in the early 19th century. This might, if the British were still the guarantors of Belgian neutrality in 1914 and matters still came to a head then, mean America enters WWI sooner, on the side of the Ottomans, Austrians, and Germans, to get revenge on the British over chronic violations of the Monroe Doctrine. No colonization would also mean no decolonization. There would be no pressure for west Eurasian states to leave their coastal exclaves around the world.
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  104. Not to pick a pointless argument, but your third sentence is inconsistent with the rest of what you wrote. Have a lovely weekend.
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  105. She-sheds amount to modern day menstrual huts.
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  106. I am rewatching mostly to see if he removed the bit where he contradicted his Albion's Seed videos.
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  107. slash erm...Eleven Nations of America IIRC
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  108. The left is evil and corrupt, but they're far from bound to fail. With modern algorithms, the left wing dream of a unitary command economy is if anything more achievable than anything. The economic calculation problem assumes human policymakers.
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  109. Why isn't Malaysia coloured in for strong guilt, Rudyard? had to bust your balls on that man
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  110. 5:07 Why isn't Iberia noted as Georgia if you're going to smooth over distinctions earlier in the video?
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  111. Pedantic quibble, abd al Wahhab was an 18th century thinker.
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  112.  @zachweyrauch2988  Rudyard's excessively optimistic in this one. The federals would just need to go full authoritarian and give the secret police a place of privilege in their power structure, and they'd achieve the same thing Ivan the Terrible did when he became autocrat of Russia and introduced the oprichniki. To be fair, that one was J. J.'s alternative scenario. Confederation dissolving would be the best case scenario. 18 more months of these fucking assholes.
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  113. I guess we'll see but...I've had too many videos about the tunnel campaign in South Vietnam recommended to me not to believe tunnel systems can't be ridiculous. The one Viet Cong trick was to dig a P-trap and fill it with water, so they couldn't be gassed. I expect at least some guys in Hamas have some design features in there that keep the water from rising into some portions of the tunnel system.
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  114.  @grimkahn3775  Benefit of the doubt, it COULD be that they're conscious of the fact that it's a set of guilt-motivated societies going through secularization (which has all ready unstitched them as a nation) while simultaneously absorbing mass migration, creating a need for some sort of guilt-object to replace Christ in the assimilation of the children of migrants to the mainstream, hence orange shirt girl to replace little baby Jesus for seculars, the mass grave of children in the residential school yards to replace Golgotha, etc. It is ridiculous at one level but at another remaining a set of guilt-motivated societies is better than transmuting into a set of fear or shame motivated ones.
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  115.  @carletonrutherford1799  You're assuming "Canadian" continues to be a category of person-as-they-think-of-themselves, rather than just a passport, and that ship may well have sailed.
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  116.  @carletonrutherford1799  It's a good passport. It's an all right place to incorporate. It's an all right place to on-ramp into a profession. However, the postnational state is a reality.
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  117.  @carletonrutherford1799  In my view, the more accurate term is failed nation. Nobody would say of Somalia that it is a poststate nation.
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  118.  @carletonrutherford1799  I assume you are about 60, 70 years old?
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  119.  @carletonrutherford1799  *2015
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  120.  @carletonrutherford1799  It is true that there is no Philadelphia or Detroit in Canada, and therefore no pockets of warzone level homicide to drag up the average, but the rest of it applies to either side of the 49th.
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  121. OK Kozneczny is hilarious AF when you get into his whole thing about how it's about the division between what each values.
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  122. What region of what province are you from? and if you say Toronto, I know you're lying.
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  123.  @christophercharles3169  In dead nation? Question is always rhetorical.
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  124.  @PotatoeIsland  Central Ontario feels like you're going back in time a few decades. Western Ontario just feels like it has more space and is more livable. The race thing is more noticeable in northern Ontario. Eastern Ontario is more foreign.
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  125. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  126. 18:45 but Buddha DID say that
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  127. Pedantic quibble, the kriegspiel was much older than WWI.
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  128. Vive le Quebec Libre
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  129.  @galymzhankyrykbaev2976  I feel like when ISIS evaporated in Syria in the late 2010s - whether that was because Trump cut their funding or for some other reason - the propaganda engine that had been going through the War on Terror stoking distrust between Muslims and Christians was also allowed to run dry.
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  130. It's excessively optimistic.
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  131. He's excessively optimistic. Common civic values may be dead, alongside the last stuttering embers of the old Canadian nationalism, but the federal government could totally maintain its authority over population centres dispersed along linear infrastructure across wide spaces in a bad temperate climate. Since Confederation taken as a unit is most similar to Russia, the direction it would have to evolve would be that of the Russian state since the 16th century, authoritarianism undergirded by a place of privilege for the secret police in its power structure.
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  132. He looped back to charters, around the end. Cheers.
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  133. Stalin in my view doesn't fit neatly as a left winger but as more of an archpragmatist working from the baseline of Russian culture and Leninist revolution. Stalinism forsook worldwide revolution, invited in foreign investors to achieve the necessary levels of capital and entrepreneurship to achieve its Five Year Plans, and in the wake of Barbarossa, allowed the Red Army to take up the iconography of its Tsarist predecessor. Stalin is rejected by more ivory tower style orthodox communists - Marxist fundamentalists, in other words - as well as by socialists who view the core of their movement as the reduction of societies world wide to grease stains beneath their jack boots. From the perspective that the left is antimarket and the right is antileft - I can't recall the original person who argued it that way - and in the context of the European rather than the English-speaking political spectrum - stakeholder rather than shareholder capitalism - there is a case to describe Hitler as right wing, but if one accepts the Hitler's Circle of Evil thesis, he was a fringe figure for decades to whom the public only turned with the increase in world interest rates in the wake of the Great Depression, which made it impossible for America to continue to refinance the Weimar Republic's inheritance from the Kaiser as cheaply as it had over the 1920s. There is also an argument that the idea that Stalinism is left wing and Hitlerism right wing stems from arguments made by Stalin and Stalinists to distance themselves from criticism from Trotskyists.
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  134. eh state level actions and individual decisions such as moving away from progressive areas are both positive. Just don't live around liberals and their bullshit, and then it doesn't affect you, and if your governor, DA, state house and senate majority, sheriff, mayor, and HOA president see things your way, then who cares if the Bay Area is hosting drag queen child sacrifices to Moloch on the reg
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  135. Islamofascism with free speech areas and special economic zones
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  136. Canada got to be the most important British possession in the British Empire by default in the long 1950s. Every punch Canada threw above its weight class in the late 20th century came out of that status.
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  137. They're just deliberately sowing secondary deviance to push back the reaction against the big corpos for what they did in 2008-2009 for the Bush-Obama bailout package. Divide et imperator.
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  138. No offense, but I don't know if I trust a Dane with what sounds like an ESG thing. Those guys have this caveman thing in their culture where it's like tall poppy syndrome in First World English-speaking countries outside of United States or crabs in the bucket in some individual communities of the United States but on crack.
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  139.  @jaimay125  Catholics with a traditionally feudal economy are liminally Western? You don't say.
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  140. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  142. Had the British stayed out of WWI, there would have been a LOT of 20th and 21st century tragedies which would have been avoided.
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  143. A distinction used to be made between science, or any system which can present falsifiable evidence, to use the Karl Popper definition, and scientism, or the attempted application of the principles of science outside of science per se. Strictly speaking, at this point I think we're talking more about the compulsory aesthetics of scientism. Spot on about the need for abstract theories.
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  144. eh the Palestinians are their own distinct thing from Egyptian Arabs at this point, a bit like how 18th century Americans were different enough from 18th century English while also being almost entirely an outgrowth of them I know neither Transjordan nor Lebanon has had great experiences hosting the Palestinians or are all that happy with the Palestinians who moved there after the Nakba, who form an unassimilated minority in each country.
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  145.  @hassanbassim4007  That's not what I've gathered from my chats with people from that part of the world who were going to school here. The Palestinian guy said he loved Transjordan, the Transjordanian guy said you had to watch out for the Palestinians, because they had short fuses and came in packs. The Lebs keep'em in walled camps IIRC and the main war crime of which Ariel Sharon was accused was allowing the indigenous Lebs to massacre a refugee camp of Palestinians, rather than risking any of his own men to reach the terrorists within.
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  146.  @hassanbassim4007  I guess I don't know if the Lebs still hold it against the Palestinians for having provoked the Israeli intervention that destabilized Lebanon and set off the civil war in the 1980s.
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  147.  @hassanbassim4007  well yeah we are talking about countries with fair sized Christian populations
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  148.  @hassanbassim4007  You think it's mostly a face saving thing by the king of Transjordan with respect to Transjordan's claims to West Bank, which...I'm willing to believe, these are all face-based cultures, I just don't believe for a second that the Palestinians in particular aren't seen as a horrible minority by absolutely everybody in their immediate vicinity, and there is WAY too much Muslim-on-Muslim terrorism for me to believe that the ummah is much more than an ideal to which to aspire.
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  149. He's excessively optimistic. Even as a postnational state which no longer possesses any civic values in common between its regions - "Canadian" had been ceasing to be a thing since the 1960s thanks to secularization, 2015 was just the final veil removed by Stephen Harper - Canada could very well stick together by the same means Ivan the Terrible applied to the analogous situation of dispersed population centres along linear trade routes in a bad temperate climate: authoritarianism undergirded by a place of privilege for the secret police. I mean, I hope Canada falls apart, that would be the brighter of the two futures, but realistically, there has to be a solid chance, one in three say, that it just Russifies. History and poli sci are both absolutely dog shit majors when it comes to opportunities, but one thing I will say about Rudyard's videos is that enough of the nonspeculative ones are eerily close to the direction my profs went with the topics.
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  150.  @anthonysaunders345  You know what, for the sake of argument, I'm going to assume you're speaking in good faith. There is an intrinsic incompatibility from first principles built in to the predominant evolved forms of regional civic sentiment in these provinces. Multiculturalism in the form in which it exists on the ground with its felt and understood but often unthought and unarticulated assumptions about individual rights can not be reconciled with secularism in the francophone tradition, due to the implicit assumptions multiculturalism makes about individual rights. By Benedict Anderson definition, a nation represents an imagined community, held together in Anderson's view by specifically print media. 1830s-1840s through 1960s, the old nationalism worked on a system of guaranteed standards of second class citizenship for the nonProtestant minority groups. I'd argue that this in and of itself was something specifically southern Ontario was able to do because of its heritage in having been originally settled - set aside the Neutral Nation who had been ethnically cleansed by the Iroquois - by Pennsylvania Loyalists who were themselves heir to the culture imported by the Religious Society of Friends along the Black Walnut Trail following the Revolution. For having had, since the Potato Famine, an analogous ethnoconfessional dynamic to that Northern Ireland imported to it, this ought to be seen as stroke of good fortune that the basic ingredients necessary to build multiculturalism had all ready existed here for so long. Just because this is going to get to be about five times as long as that, I'd just like to clarify with you that you are, in fact, about 75 years old and speak English as your first language; and would like to ask you in which part of which province or territory you live, and if you or your parents or grandparents moved there from somewhere else. I'm from around Toronto.
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  151.  @anthonysaunders345  What's your degree in?
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  152.  @anthonysaunders345  If you're just a call centre account in India using an AI client to output bullshit, I'll admit to having been trolled.
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  153.  @anthonysaunders345  🤣You're a fucking architect? studying at Trent? Man, at least I have respect for Indian call centre workers.
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  154.  @anthonysaunders345  I'm sorry, dude. Listen, good luck with your thing. It sure sounds like you're going to need it.
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  155.  @anthonysaunders345  hey, you get to August and you have energy, check out "The Fabrication of Virtue" by Robin Evans
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  156. ​ @anthonysaunders345  ah I just sort of though it was funny that you clarified that you weren't old and out of touch, just stupid and useless. 😃
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  157. He got it about right I'd say, but he's a bit too optimistic about mutual secession being the way it would go, rather than Ottawa simply becoming a truly authoritarian regime, and privileging the secret police within its power structure to maintain order. Given the death of Canada as a nation since the 1960s, thanks to the collapse of common civic values, and the absence of any dominant ethnic group since forever - the FNs were sixty separate ethnicities prior to colonization, then none of the genocides were full-scale, with the exception of ethnically cleansing the Acadians out of Nova Scotia, and the Beothuks dying of smallpox - which the Prime Minister acknowledged in 2015 as "the postnational state," nothing will stand against geographical determinism, and taken as a unit, Confederation is closest among other countries to Russia, being population centres dispersed along linear infrastructure in a bad temperate climate. All they'd have to do is set up an oprichniki and fiddle the elections just a little bit more each year. Canada lost the War on Terror the worst out of any member of the American alliance structure.
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  158. ah come on dude the phalanx was countered by Romanized farm boys from the south side of the Alps hating their lives and hucking pila at it then closing under the reach of the first half dozen points of the pikes
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  159. Yes. As FEE put it some years ago, the left is antimarket, the right is antileft.
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  160. It's an excessively optimistic take.
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  161. It's a shitty reproduction of the guilt shame fear website. Malaysia always stands out to me on Rudyard's versions of it because he consistently misses its place according to that website.
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  162.  @ShimobeSama  Malaysia on the source material I know for a fact he used - the guilt shame fear cultural motivations website - is an interesting anomaly in being a majority Muslim country that is primarily guilt motivated. While there might be a "Coming of Age in Samoa" effect - the Samoans were joking in the interviews they gave to Margaret Meade, and Margaret Meade took them literally and then published their jokes as though they were a serious description of Samoan life, which the Samoans found embarrassing after the fact - the fact is that that is the way Malaysia shows up on that website. I feel like unless the explanation is that it was seen as a joke, then there must be something in Malay culture which means they are in fact guilt motivated. Malaysia was coincidentally the only place the British ever decolonized properly, though they accidentally had the one-off resource of an army of veteran jungle fighters, thanks to the campaign in Burma twelve years earlier, which meant the problems a communist insurgency could have left the young country were completely avoided. It is also the inspiration for the pretend society of Naboo in Star Wars, in that it has an elected monarchy, selected from among the aristocratic families who settle the archipelago before colonziation, and was between about three and one year ago a darling of live and invest abroad social media. (I remember Korea is another one of the guilt motivated societies in the Western Pacific, but Korea is a Protestant country. Hardly anybody is majority fear motivated, and the strongest shame motivation is in the belt of African countries immediately south of the Sahara. The only guilt motivated African countries showed up as Zimbabwe and South Africa. Latin America and eastern Europe are a blend of mild guilt motivation and mild shame motivation. Russia on that website came out with a mild shame motivation. Japan and most of the rest of the world showed up with a mild shame motivation, except for the rest of the traditional developed world, who were all either mildly or strongly guilt motivated. I'm not sure if the website itself is one hundred percent accurate, but it was for a while the most accessible illustration of the guilt shame split.)
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  163.  @ShimobeSama  yeah it seems intuitive that Christianity is the key element in guilt motivation. I'd have to check SoKo's wiki entry my perception had been that the Proddies were the prominent set of denominations there. Guilt motivation was a thing I remember came up in the one Freud I read where he argues that in child development terms - Freud had a lot of kids and has been allowed to be as wrong as he was about his theories because they were all based in watching his own kids develop - children at first show no reaction to doing anything bad except when they are caught, and then they begin to internalize it into a sense of guilt for doing something they have been taught is bad. (I have a strong memory one time of having got in trouble because as a preteen my parents thought I punched my preteen brother in the gut, then he recovered and said that our developmentally disabled elementary school aged sister had used her Sesame Street toddler sized broom like a halberd to hit him in the face with full leverage as I distracted him, she was completely happy with everything up until she got confronted by an authority figure, when her mood shifted instantly. My brain always calls up that memory when I bring up that argument from Freud.) The difference with Islam is that while Islam also makes requirements for conformity to objective moral standards based on the idea that man is made in the image of God, Christianity obsesses over repentance, and there is probably an element of reinforcing repentance in culturally Christian childrearing. Guilt-motivation if it does provide a society-wide advantage would be that individual people are more prone to police themselves, and therefore a higher degree of trust between strangers is possible, with people who do not have a guilt reaction considered to have a personality disorder. Guilt motivation I would suspect acts like vaccination - in the old sense, infection with a weaker disease that provides immunity and intransmissibility against a worse disease, not this lIfE sAvInG vAcCiNeS crap - in that at a certain level of buy-in, people really do trust strangers. (However, this doesn't account for ultra high trust mildly shame based societies such as Japan who have always been if anything even better at that stuff than anywhere with a guilt motivation - though Japan has extremely high emphasis on consultation and conscientiousness.) (Further, when one gets into the spread of different motivations in shame based societies, the question of "shame in what?" poses itself. A society which says that the highest callings are craftsmanship for craftsmanship's sake and to put always the interests of ones actual community first is going to put a mountain of shame pressure on people for some behaviours, and none at all on other. A society which says that it is always permissible to lie about anything at all and that the object is always to be able to posture as though one has the highest stature will pressure people in quite different ways than the craftsman society.) I find persuasive the argument that some of these movements were engineered language viruses designed specifically to weaken guilt-motivated cultures by paralyzing people into indecision. Past a certain point, though, if one is in one of these guilt overloaded systems, the guilt motivation weakens as the sense of a person's impact on a culture vanishes to zero, and one becomes driven by guilt only insofar as one does things which affect people one actually knows, and by fear with respect to a crumbling ruin of a power structure no longer capable of producing anything of value. Which is to say, in the sense that the nation is an imagined community, if this is the case, then pushing the guilt reflex to the point of breaking it is in fact an ingenious means of breaking any nation whose civic values include any appeal to the ability of the unpoliced individual to do the right thing at any point ever. As far as "the West" goes, you know, I'm personally good with the old civilization having had its moment. Something else will will take its place and mutate out of some of the cultural attributes it used to possess, in the same way as Buddhism ceased to be a civilizationally dominant force in the continent of India by the turn of the second millennium after Christ, but dispersed as an influence through China Proper and into the Western Pacific. No doubt what societies in different chunks of it take forward with them will be as divergent as what the diadochic kingdoms took with them out of the slow collapse of Hellenistic civilization.
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  164. yeah Rudyard is bad on his Newfie facts. Had you marked down as East Anglia in his settlement pattern map and not as the West Country.
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  165. People who have big mouths who are neighbours with intractable tribesmen do not really have an option other than vocally to sit on the fence. 😀
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  166. lol naw it's coo mang I good wi feed yo ego
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  167. Khomeini translates incredibly well into English. He reads like a common sense conservative who happens to do this logical leap at the end of each of his essays, "this is why we need a radical Islamist theocracy." The missing piece for Iran and chunks of Iraq is that they have no cultural compunction against lying through their teeth for the smallest of reasons. This stems from 1) a preIslamic tendency to hyperbole - common Farsi idioms include "I will die for you" - and 2) the Shi'ite concept of taqiyya, or permissible dissimulation, originating in the need to make it acceptable for a culture with a high percentage of itinerant merchants - within an overall tradition which spread in west Africa as a means for merchants to be assured that they would not be shortchanged - to deny their membership in the local sect were it ever put to them in a context in which they could expect to be put to death.
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  168. Between wokery and and a Sunnist theocratic system with sectarian exemptions for Jews and Christians, I would take the Islamists. Just start your own church. Get a gigantic golden miter, apply to be recognized as a bishop, and put a gigantic cross on top of your bar or liquour store. Bam. Done. If the local Satanists want to be edgy, you ask that they do it quietly, and without disturbing the children. The Shi'ist version...I wouldn't want to be under it, but I wouldn't want to deal with the majority culture which formed it either. I have also heard anecdotes that it is cheaper, in the long run and adjusted for purchasing power, to bribe an Iranian religious policeman than it is to apply for liquour licences.
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  169.  @colebehnke7767  It did somewhat sound like that movement to have fewer police officers, didn't it?
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  170. 5:07 for that matter, why not note down Caucasian Albania as well?
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  171. mmm...the problem with that argument is that 3/4 of the racial difference in IQ disappears when children are run through the test in several iterations and show lower anxiety toward the test-taking environment. As in, it gets pretty damned close to an error term.
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  172.  @Hackenschmidt.  This dude in the 1960s did it with American children. Forget his name. Cited by Thomas Sowell.
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  173. Rudyard got into Kozneczny eh
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  174. mmm 1987 Czech Republic was still behind the Iron Curtain, no?
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  175. Mugabe called himself a communist when he claimed to be fighting for majority franchise. Mugabe called himself a socialist when Zimbabwe's real GDP per capita was cratering.
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  176. Russia also depended on the secret police before the communist revolution.
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  177.  @_Devil  well...the Americans are pragmatic people. If it were that simple, The Bahamas would have been 51st state long time ago. It is useful to be technically independent country, with different tax law and other laws, for all kinds of people. I can not really call the Yanks foreigners because this is not even their back yard, it is their patio, their plastic chair by the barbecue. A man needs a place to smoke a cigarette.
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  178.  @gerryboudreaultboudreault2608  Tribalism's inevitable.
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  179. Geomaxers - and passport bros are just the full extension of geomaxing - are if anything a pressure release mechanism. Some guy who works and is treated like a slave until his early 40s then teleports to Indonesia or wherever and finds a miniature expatriate's paradise which, together with a bit of gig income, just fits within his foreseeable budget, by definition will not agitate for radical reform at home.
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  180. Malaysia surveys as a guilt motivated society.
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  181. I like how how it rattled to you to the point that you mask offed with the insinuation that "diverse backgrounds" might have an issue with formal language.
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  182. Big feminism has its limits in that a self-described feminist is virtually always either an undesirable and useless woman, or a very rapey man.
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  183. well it's clearly not genetics, otherwise why are modern people from that part of the world as stupid as they are?
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  184. Bingo.
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  185. naw this was damned to happen since the 1960s. The old majoritarian Protestantism lost its self-confidence when decolonization kicked off outside of India and Ireland. Every bit of pull Canada ever had where it punched above its weight class comes from the point in history when it was, by default, the most important British possession in the British Empire. Had majoritarian Protestants had their self-confidence, it wouldn't have been known as the Quiet Revolution, it would have been known as the Quebec Emergency, and it would have gone as well for Jean Lesage and his faction as the Malayan Emergency went for the chicoms. It was never going to be an ethnostate, because the Gascon-Breton-Norman admixies never got fully genocided by the British in 1763, and there was never enough admixture between the second and third waves of migration and the sixty or so FN groups. For a while in the 18th century, there was a chance that enough of what is now Canada would have ended up like Mexico, everybody would be on a common continuum of Amerindian-settler admixture, but that never happened.
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  186. The idea of Canada collapsing is the white pilled perspective. Thanks to the collapse of common civic values since the 1960s - the end state of this was lampshaded in 2015 by Trudeau in the postnational state soundbite - geographical determinism can be expected to take hold. These provinces taken as a single unit are geographically most similar to Russia, as population centers dispersed along linear infrastructure in a bad temperate climate. Therefore, barring mutual secession, the logical thing to expect would be for the Canadian federal government to mutate into an authoritarian regime which privileges the secret police within its power structure. (The secret police have been a feature of Russian government since Ivan the Terrible had the oprichniki ride out after those boyars who would not bend low enough. The difference in Canada's case is that they would carry a pride flag as their standard, rather than the severed head of a dog.)
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  187. I believe Europe, Japan, and UK had periods of rebuilding, but I don't think that would have affected the boomers proper so much as the late silents - the people who are super boomers in America. Also, I'm disappointed in you for your take at 32:08. The key event which caused the subprime mortgage bubble was the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act under the Clinton administration.
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  188. That's the Benedict Option, no?
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  189.  @DesiRush1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Benedict_Option
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  190. ah yes valid argument true premise true conclusion; valid argument false premise false conclusion - false premises true conclusion invalid argument
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  191. The Carol Quigley thing does make me psyched to see the Millennials die off.
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  192. 5:20 1187? IIRC is the end of the Bronze Age. The only civilization that made the transition was New Kingdom Egypt. 500 is a solid couple of centuries past the Late Bronze Age Collapse and into the Iron Age. Yes, the Medes/Persians assfucked the Babylonians.
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  193.  @adamnesico  thumb is me
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  194. Romans 13:1
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  195. 24:30 all right the rust belt analogy is fucking awesome
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  196. Dude, get some more sleep before the next one you write, or hire guys who use a bit less AI.
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  197. 110101010101010101101000011 My binary's a better impression of a bot than your gibberish is of a human.
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  198. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  199. That might be the wish fulfilment element of why I entertain the conspiracy theory that the Space Force Corps of Engineers has secretly been using high altitude balloons and a giant conveyor belt to resupply a maintenance and security base on the Moon to maintain and secure probes for the sake of bringing back gold from the asteroid belt. The conjecture part is the secret mission, space miners, and probes dragging back asteroids of gold. The Space Force openly exists. Mountains of money have vapourized in the budgets passed since 2020, which they even named the "infrastructure" and "inflation reduction" acts. The carbon nanotube technology on the materials engineering side to build a structure which could orbit the Earth from the Moon has existed since the late 2010s. America has also been out of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 since the late 2010s. It's everything most people hate about the military-industrial complex and forever war bureaus in the Pentagon instead put to the service of sounder money and exploring the solar system in a practical sense.
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  200. The hate law will be fine. They announced that one the day before the Quebec antiJew antiMuslim law was announced to have cleared a court challenge. Plainly it will be used only on people who have made an enemy of a mosque in a Liberal riding in Montreal, as a condolence prize for the federal Liberals having been forced to tell Quebec Muslims and Jews to go fuck themselves on the fairly basic citizenship right of freedom of speech, due to support for freedom of speech never having existed in any meaningful way on the ground in Quebec.
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  201. now THAT would be an own goal lol
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  202. It won't necessarily be bad when the Marxists get their revolution then the Islamists take over and everybody else says, "ah, a caliphate, well, at least there will be enough food" then the Islamists stone the Marxists.
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  203. Wasn't the Mongol Empire at its peak somewhat larger than the 2BE in terms of absolute land surface controlled?
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  204. Ryan Dawson was my go-to guy for a while. My takeaway out of trying actively to follow the Forever War in Syria though was that there is sort of no point in it, because at most you will see two months into the future of the narrative by listening to gonzo journalists and people at the edge of being a really intellectually honest conspiracy theorist and a rogue analyst, as a VERY active listener, prior to the late 2010s big tech crackdowns. Made 35% on the runup in General Dynamics by buying in the second Trump's Hail Mary lawsuits failed, then selling because I didn't want to get greedy. Figured there were good odds the markets had priced in the increased chance of war, but that wasn't hard to see. Nobody removes a peace president if they don't have a war in mind. That might as well have been the shadow of Odin bringing back his spear. I remember I was genuinely concerned and had a sense of it being the dawn of a new age when I heard Russia was invading The Ukraine. I thought to myself, holy crap, we're back to great powers and spheres of influence - we've gone back in time from the early 21st century to mid 19th century. Then Johnson went to Kiev, at the exact moment that if it was a limited war being waged with the objective of maintaining The Ukraine as a buffer zone between NATO and Russia, the powers that be would have been downgrading it to negotiations - right after the Russian abandonment of the Dnieper offensive. I looked at the news, looked at what else I had to do with myself, realized it was just another Forever War, realized that I had been had, realized that I had no chance against a professional propaganda campaign, realized I had no time to stay two months ahead of the narrative, and have resolutely tuned it out ever since, barring the occasional failure not to rise to the bait set by the subgenus of utter prat who supports The Ukraine on social media. I suppose my other takeaway is this, next time I'm not selling my war stocks until the war starts.
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  205. dude you literally show a graph of Chile starting with double the GDP per capita of Cuba when you say they started in the same place
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  206. There is a rump of left libertarians - mostly younger people and residual hippies - whom I personally believe ought always be made aware that they can always choose the same path in their personal ideological journey as did Edmund Burke. There shouldn't be a door per se between the room full of guys smoking weed and mumbling about astral projection and John Lennon and the room full of guys smoking weed and yelling about crypto and retail investing downstairs from the roomful of guys slowly sipping cognacs and smoking cigars listening to one guy talk about one stock at a time.
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  207.  @TheFoolish727  I mean...I agree with the literal meaning of the words he typed, since the video itself literally says that it won't engage with communist ideas themselves. My head canon is that Marx was just trolling for fun, but he was a compulsive who couldn't stop himself. Because he was a fairly heavy reader, it seems plausible to me that Marx would have been aware that Jean-Baptiste Say had disproven the labour theory of value as articulated by Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations. Marx therefore initially for his own entertainment and later because as a compulsive he could not control himself wrote a series of long shitposts which begun with the pretense that the labour theory of value had not been disproven. In fact, during Marx' life, he actually managed to get under the skin of the finance minister of the Austrian Empire, Eugene Bohm von Bawerk, to the point that the latter wrote a point by point refutation of Marx' ideas - the farmer with the six sacks of grain, the last of which he feeds to some parrots whose chattering amuses him, is the image from the summary of this refutation which has always stuck with me. (I still have yet to read the full text of Karl Marx and the Close of his System.) The subjective theory of value, as articulated by Say and Bohm von Bawerk, is the origin of those econ graphs that show a consumer and producer surplus existing to either side of a price point, as well as the refutation of the central point of orthodox Marxism. Without the labour theory of value, there is no exploitation. So this video is not really a debunking of Marxist ideas so much as it is an articulation of a theory of why it is that Marxist ideas continue to appeal despite their foundation on a 250 year old theory that was debunked about a decade or so after its publication. The video is an attempt at social history, in broad strokes, not intellectual history. It's more akin to "libertarianism is male astrology" than a blow-by-blow debunking. After all, somebody could be drawn to a particular argument purely on emotional grounds or due to their own self-serving bias, and that argument could independently of why they support it actually be both valid and make true assumptions. Tangentially, I disagree with the inclusion of Stalin. Stalin was the best thing that could have happened to the Soviet Union and the world at the time. He rejected worldwide revolution, held the bureaucracy to account during The Great Purge, was able to attract sufficient foreign capital and managerial expertise by embracing the mixed economy in order to make the Five Year Plans succeed and to industrialize the Soviet Union, and is rejected - I would say with some degree of intellectual honesty - as a communist by orthodox Marxists as well as enough Leninists and Trotkskyists. Stalinism to the extent that one approaches it through the lens of Marxism is a system which has come about in a fair bit of the former west, albeit in an iteration which lacks a Stalin. The Purge is seen as a bad thing mostly because it targeted the Soviet equivalent of the modern managerial elite, and this is the caste which controls the discourse.
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  208.  @TheFoolish727  The other tangent I would make is that the economic calculation problem generally cited as a rationale for why an all-encompassing command economy would not work ignores transaction costs - which are why corporations exist for instance in the black box theory of the firm - I always want to say that one was Drucker's - and also assumes human limits on decision making and surveillance. With the advent of algorithms and cheap mass surveillance, an electronic system which fulfilled Mussolini's ideal of all within the state, all for the state, none against the state could be viable. The algorithms would only have to make decisions for absolutely all aspects of human existence on the most granular level and informed by a panoptic level of surveillance which were more efficient in aggregate than the results of the current heavily regulated, taxed, subsidized, etc. system which happens to exist, not as compared to some hypothetical free market only ever approached by humans during the stone age prior to the formation of states - any gift economy amounts to an informal options market within which n participants have exchanged zero-strike calls on 1/(1-n) of the results of their production for any given period, t, and such evidence as exists suggest that most human interaction was through gift economies in prehistory - and to a certain extent in the Second British Empire outside of India and Canada. The idea that people should be allowed to make any decision whatsoever for themselves therefore must rely in practical terms on some other set of arguments than back of the envelope economic philosophy.
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  209.  @CAProductions051  Cheers. https://cdn.mises.org/Karl%20Marx%20and%20the%20Close%20of%20His%20System.pdf
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  210.  @tanimation7289  There have been no revolutions meeting the standard of orthodox Marxism. Neither Russia nor China were deemed to be particularly close to the stage of development Marx termed capitalism, a prerequisite for any revolution meeting the standards set by Marx himself. What have been attempted have been heterodoxies of Marxism, which have become heavily inflected by the preexisting cultures of where they were applied, and which if anything deserve to be judged in terms of their success or failure in terms of the criteria they set for themselves. For instance, Mao publicly stated that the goal of the Cultural Revolution was Han ethnocide, or the cultural genocide of the indigenous people of China proper within their own traditional geography. The weakening of the social entrenchment of the Eastern Tradition in its former heartland must therefore be seen as at least a partial success of this policy. The genocides of Xinjiang and Tibet could be argued in similar terms to be partial successes, defined in Maoist terms.
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  211. That was a nice little gummer of a white pill. Thank you.
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  212. The direction my brain had gone with it was the opposite. Because a panoptic surveillance system is, thanks to machine learning and ubiquitous cellular devices, for the first time freed from the constraints of human management, the assumptions of the economic calculation problem will increasingly no longer apply, allowing for the indefinite success of a truly totalitarian system. In other words, we will have not a human managerial class and bureaucracy, capable of errors and leaving various things unregulated, but a bureaucracy of all things all at once, suffocating all individualism and initiative, and this system of omnipresent totalitarian control will not bring itself down in the manner of communism as run by human managers.
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  213. Pearson was the beginning of the end.
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  214. I wonder sometimes if the entire idea is to create such a low bar of expectations that one must only avoid dragging ones feet to clear it.
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  215. or a mild edit. At various points, Rudyard has gone out of his way to emphasize that America at heart is three separate foundational groups, the East Anglian religious fanatics in New England, the Quakers from the Midlands who settled in Pennsylvania, and the western English second and third sons of supporters of absolute monarchy whose titles exceeded their means who settled south of Mason-Dixon. In his original edit of this video, he said that an ethnic dimension from the perspective of the north would have been nonsensical in the American Civil War.
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  216. Cavaliers, Quakers, and Puritans, to put it in shorter terms in the reverse order.
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  217. Israel's a weird and I would argue bad example. I stopped criticizing it because I decided it fit better in the category of post-Ottoman dhimmi successor state, though there is a common element between these and the post-Austrian local ethnic group successor state - i. e. Hungary and other non-Western European countries. The breakup of the Ottoman Empire was a much more drawn out process than breakup of the Austrian Empire and I would argue begins with Greece and ends with Israel. (Though the Greek Orthodox Turkish speakers weren't expelled from Anatolia and Eastern Thrace and forced to live in Greece until the Turkish victory in the Turkish War of Independence, whereas the Mizrahim were expelled from Iraq, Transjordan, Syria, etc. immediately on the formation of Israel in 1948.) It isn't logical to hold a nonWestern state representing a nonWestern culture and whose claim to legitimacy falls within a distinctly Eastern pattern to Western standards.
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  218. The British relocating the Belgians to the Congo instead of getting involved in War One is the good guy timeline.
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  219.  @thinkpolhub  It wasn't very likely given part of the reason for Flanders and Wallonia being welded together was the British after that seventh war with France deciding it would be good to have another independent country there - the whole idea OF Belgium was the guarantee of neutrality - don't know if that was what was going through the minds of the British colonial bureaucrats when they decided to stick together the four Ottoman provinces that eventually became Iraq - but minus British involvement in War One, the Ottomans would have had a chance to stagger along, constantly 30 to 50 years behind the times and constantly maligned for their approach to rebellions, but keeping a lid on the region.
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  220.  @thinkpolhub  Which could have lead to some weird stuff in the rest of the world. Brazil was the seat of the Portuguese royal family and IIRC Rio was technically the capital of Portugal for the duration of the wars with France, but that was the relocation of the seat of administration of a preindustrial power, say Belgium had been evacuated to Congo, that would have been the skilled labour to industrialize, and Congo would have been the only land Belgium had as an empire. That would have meant they would have had no option but to double down on industrializing it. Without War One, the strains on India would not have happened - the Army of India was well suited to colonial policing actions but not to trench warfare - which would have meant figures like Gandhi would not have become nationalists - Gandhi stalled the debate on Indian Home Rule for some time - and India could easily have become a Dominion in the 1930s or 1940s - probably the 1930s famine would have been avoided by Indian self-government, the way subsequent bad harvests in our timeline did not turn into famines under the Republic of India - and stayed a Dominion until the 1980s or 1990s. Africa would have looked a lot different, with an industrializing Congo at its heart, not having had for instance the effects of the scorched earth tactics employed by von Lettow-Vorbeck in our timeline. An industrial Congo would have caused heavier infrastructure investment in British possessions to make sense, and the notion that there was something intrinsic to Africa that made it poor as opposed to it being simply a very big place with very many engineering challenges to be overcome would probably be laughed at. Psychologically, the French, Germans, Russians, and Austrians might have got a bit bummed out about the meaning of life if things still bogged down into trench warfare, and the Ottomans would have the fatigue factor of dealing with the way their region would be in their absence, but...that wouldn't have affected the British, Belgians, Portuguese, Japanese or Americans. etc. Mental tangent.
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  221. By the definition of genocide used by the United Nations, I would question whether any of the examples in A qualify. Obviously they're examples of mass manslaughter, but genocide only counts if it targets an ethnic or religious group. If a government wants to kill everybody with autism, for instance, and goes around targeting children with autism - as the trans rights movement appears to do so - then while this constitutes the imposition of conditions calculated to make it impossible for the group to exist - through sterilization, the removal of children from their families is specifically noted in the UN definition of genocide in particular - so, the involvement of child protective services to "protect trans kids" for instance - a neurological minority - or a class minority in your examples - can not be the subject of a genocide as they are excluded from its definition.
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  222. It's the optimistic perspective.
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  223. 44:30 sponsored content isn't nice
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  224. so he complimented you
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  225. Australia is never going to go for it.
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  226.  @SeattlePioneer  sorry, intended subject of reply was CANZUK - a silly idea to extend some of the provisions within the CPTPP to professional qualifications and residency. THAT is never going to happen because of Australia.
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  227. ah so you did not live around Toronto, then
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  228.  @AnthonyDibiaseIdeas  Canadian national failure can be assumed as a given. Quebec went in a different direction starting in the 1960s but at this point that process has all ready had its effect. Secularism has proven to be incompatible with multiculturalism and all attempts to find a middle path have resulted only in failure. The question is, what is the most effective way to get rid of the federal government root and branch.
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  229.  @raminagrobis6112  I disagree I think accusing Quebec of parasitism robs Quebec nationalists of the optimism for their province's future they will require to participate in the orderly dissolution of Confederation. We gave it a good shot, it doesn't work, time to shake hands like grown-ups, and call it a day.
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  230.  @info781  You're assuming federalists continue to be overrepresented in other provinces.
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  231.  @info781  I would be surprised if you people could get the average police officer or soldier to agree to do that for you.
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  232.  @hunting4honeys  I forget why I began to hit "do not recommend channel" on those, but I remember that I did.
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  233.  @Campocosas  People who herd one species of animal will always get the infectious diseases which can be transmitted by vector from their livestock to themselves. The heart of the infection is the US northeast and the intellectual and residual genetic descendants of the Puritans. If one shares the English language with those people, then one will always be prone to infection by the language viruses they spread.
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  234. That assumes the economic war with China does not come to an end before the pools of kind-of qualified and kind-of honest people drawn in by the traditional First World outside of Japan exhaust themselves in Middle Income Nations as the old style Third World ceases to exist. The development of human cloning technology was all ready well under way in the 2010s, driven by the closure of the Indian and Thai commercial surrogacy industries driven by the Baby Gammy fiasco. They only need a stem cell to create a gamete. Two gametes make an embryo. An embryo can be grown to a fetus and then to mature viability in a plastic bag.
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  235. an ethnonationalist, sure and there ought to be nothing seen as wrong with that a civic nationalist is in a bit of a different position it is absurd to be an ethnic nationalist as a member of a nation which was founded by several ethnicities and continued thereafter to add ethnicities and admixtures thereof.
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  236. Sure, but differences between regions in Confederation are generally greater than between their adjacent American regions.
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  237. You realize Leo Frank tried to frame the black guy who swept the floors at the pencil factory he managed for the thirteen year old girl he raped and murdered, right? That is the only kind of person of which the ADL has ever stood in defense, from their inception. They are a pedophile organization, much like NAMBLA.
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  238. I personally don't mind self-described communists as individual people, at least in my part of the world. One of them introduced me to Robert Nozick's arguments while trying to make an argument against anarchism prior to beginning to identify as the opposite gender following a number of police contacts after he - at the time - had given lip to a cop after calling the cops on his own library room event claiming the Proud Boys - before they had been listed as terrorists in this jurisdiction - had taken over his library room for a ritual fist fight, and when the cop asked him to leave as a person who had not registered his organization as an official student club, he had decided to try to argue his case - clearly enough he just wanted the attention - then he got a bit spicy about a year or two later at a counterdemonstration for an antiimmigraiton rally, and the police took that as his third strike. Not a bad guy, just a bit off. One of my good friends is a communist, though not that into it, which may be as a result of having a diagnosis for a mental illness for which he is medicated. Self-described socialists, on the other hand, are bags of dog shit as human beings and the least intellectually honest and ethically inclined individuals I have ever met. I have bottomless contempt for the kind of person - at least from this part of the world - who openly claims to admire Sweden or similar Scandinavian systems. You'll never pin down a socialist on what exactly they believe, but they will always be the most useless parasitic incivil unpleasant selfish immoral shit stains you will ever encounter, at least in this part of the world. What's socialism? Who knows. What's a socialist? The worst asswipe you will ever meet in your life.
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  239. well it worked for Voltaire, at least according to Will Durant
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  240.  @danisagoodman4294  CANZUK as proposed is for sure not happening. Australia will never agree to freedom of movement. Possibly America might be admitted under very particular terms as an associate of the CPTPP, which is the actual Pacific organization interested in cooperating to make sure that the effect Japan was able to exert when central banks had been keeping interest rates low of financing the western Pacific as an alternative to the Chinese debt trap continues to be the case. A SCANZUK as a sort of club within a club of First World English-speaking Commonwealth jurisdictions sharing some common business shorthands could make some sense, but this would be primarily a talk shop.
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  241. 23:47
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  242. 17:45
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  243. Hopefully not. 😃
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  244. well it has Chinese police stations so
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  245.  @steve19811  maybe for finance and in the past for engineering. Mostly though it's just a case of having the shit luck of a vector between the language virus mill of New England and our societies in the form of the English language.
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  246.  @steve19811  Sometimes I think it would have been nice had there been a Gofuckett Indian tribe who had just tomahawked every last Puritan who landed, leaving America as strictly cavalier in etiology.
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  247. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  248. They'd just have to allow fracking, use their surplus hydro to hash for BTC, and make it slightly easier to mine gold. They'd collapse in real GDP per capita for a couple of years, of course, but they'd get the message pretty clearly soon thereafter.
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  249. The definition of right and left hand magic you use is exactly the opposite of that used by Alastair Crowley.
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  250. Well, not exactly, but for Crowley, the right hand path involves trade-offs - animal sacrifice for minor favours - whereas the left hand path involves sacrifice of the soul of the "priest" himself. It's been a while since I read my Crowley and the hard drive where I was keeping it - and the better half of my readings from undergrad - crashed during pandemic.
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  251. "do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
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  252. Yes. Let's face it, the system treats people like shit, and nobody in a position to do anything about it can be made to care, because there will always be somebody from an actual shit hole country to do the unskilled work, or who can be suckered out of their comfortable skilled worker enclave in a place like India for anything involving numbers or tech. Leaving IS the most logical choice.
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  253.  @jynx3978  sober second thought
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  254. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  255. Isaac Asimov said what you had to say about Tolkien and the industrial revolution. It was also in the introduction to The Greening of England where the author describes similarities between LotR and The Making of the English Working Class by Hobsbawm.
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  256. well one would need to have a Stalin step in, and bring the ruler down on the desks of the teachers, for a start
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  257. Pierre Trudeau deserves to be remembered only as the Canadian Himmler for his role in the Sixties Scoop. He was a symptom of the beginnings of the death spiral of Canada as a nation, like shivering and coughing before the fever that kills the patient.
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  258. and fuck off with the Turchin all right
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  259. ah Bill 63 will be fine. look at the timing of when they passed it, just before the Quebec antiJew antiMuslim law was due to clear a court challenge of having correctly violated their individual right to freedom of speech. Nobody outside of Quebec has to worry about it. Nobody inside of Quebec who didn't make an enemy of a Montreal mosque in a Liberal riding has to worry about it. It's a consolation prize for having been told to go fuck themselves on basic citizenship rights due to the complete absence of popular support for speech rights in Quebec.
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  260. It's shot as a nation, but nonnational state entities do stumble along every bit as long as the Holy Roman Empire.
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  261. Canada's a failed nation. Common civic values had been dying since the 1960s before Harper tore off the final veil in 2015. Trudeau was telling the truth when he said it was a postnational state.
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  262. $$$$$$$$
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  263. Christ my generation sucks
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  264. The PLA tends to own its own manufacturing.
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  265. 29:45 well you need to be nihilistic about some things, as one person, since there is no way you can possibly affect it all
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  266.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  The Canadian passport is objectively better, though, and children born in Canada face a wait time of only one year for a green card. Canadian taxation for employees is harsh, but corporations have access to a wide range of tricks and programs.
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  267.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  They do in Ontario.
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  268.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  User fees came in in the 1990s when Catholic services were equalized and never really left.
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  269.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  Green card's the American equivalent of a UK work permit. Canada has a fairly well developed black and gray market for labour,* so I don't even know what its equivalent document is. *goes from farmers and restauranteurs and brothel keepers keeping slaves-in-all-but-name - I live down the street from a rental property owned by a woman who had a slavery investigation opened against her due to the conditions in which she had been keeping some of her workers, and it is fairly well known that farmers and some developers will rip their guys off for wages without much compunction - and then you have guys getting raped by the 54% top marginal tax bracket working cash on the side. The NDP poison the discussion so much in their relentless thirst for blood that the whole system would implode if everybody had to be on the books.
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  270.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  The pre 1960s settlement had been that there was a minimum floor of how bad conditions would get for Catholics as second class citizens. Post 1960s, that floor was extended as much as the special interests and practicality could afford this side of the Rideau. Equality only occurred in the 1990s under Premier Harris.
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  271.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  *extended to other minorities, that is
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  272.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  It's just one of those common American vernacular expressions.
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  273.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  Aren't there rather fewer United Kingdomians?
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  274. I would not go that far. Enclaves have always been a feature, not a bug. When the Irish came in the 1840s, they had to introduce a police force to keep a lid on them. Canada's failure as a nation is more to do with secularization than immigration.
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  275. To borrow Rud's terms, Starship Troopers is a mostly British Right system, with just enough elements of the German Right to prevent it from creating the conditions that will lead to its own collapse. Personally, I think Islamofascism with some elements borrowed from libertarianism would be more stable.
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  276.  @caralho5237  Stalin inherited a left wing bureaucratic state and lead it to industrialization and victory in a major war. By modern standards, he is effectively a centrist.
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  277. ha I wish they were Americanized
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  278.  @dsxa918  You mean the best comment section lol. Last outpost of what came before the neoXiists.
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  279.  @anthonyhelms3917  so basically you're a corporatocratic whore who can not conceive of ethics or the truth due to a crippling personality disorder. Got it.
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  280. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxBizeiL3s&t=615s
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  281.  @jose.montojah  good job I'm an equestrian then 😆
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  282. *1258
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  283. eh KJU apparently had ceased to enforce laws against the black market since the mid 2010s, motivated mostly by a desire to avoid another great famine. You can find footage on YouTube taken by mainlanders of North Koreans going to little bazaars and bodegas.
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  284.  @ogolow570  ah but what if Ontario secedes? 😀
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  285. mm I think there's something to be said for the J J McCullough scenario of an increasingly authoritarian Confederation. Consider geographically deterministic arguments for why Russian governments since Ivan the Terrible have privileged the secret police. If the evolved compromises encoded by MacDonald are eroded over time, Confederation is left in very much the same position as Russia, with long distances between population centers and significantly being composed of a belt of arable land squeezed against the subarctic fed off a linear transportation network. Even meme tier central governments can suppress secessionist movements given the willpower and international support. Look at Nigeria and Zaire in the last two fifths of the twentieth century.
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  286. Pedantic quibble, 18th century England was well known to be a place in which the common man at least shrugged his shoulder at religion.
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  287. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  288. multiple replies and edits. My, aren't your jimmies rustled. 😃
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  289. Politics suck everywhere.
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  290. How's the weather in New Beijing this time of year?
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  291. Pedantic quibble, WRT radical Muslims being as corrupt as the ancien regime, the Taliban's main legitimizing trait has been being less corrupt than the alternatives since the overthrow of the Emir by the Soviets.
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  292. No.
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  293. I read that as Gangnam Style Rightism and just imagined Psy doing that dance on the edge of a pit coliseum full of degenerates being fed to giant snapping turtles.
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  294. oh I think the guy who runs this channel was cured of that by 40 minutes of sophomoric gotchas delivered with decent competence by Vaush
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  295. Ripping off the Dengist idea of Special Economic Zones, but making them Special Social Zones, might do it. The idea would be that these would then export immigrants - in effect as they would be parallel societies - to the mainstream. Migrant enclaves could accomplish the same thing, or populations with high birth rates who hold themselves deliberately parallel to the mainstream, ultra orthodox Jews, Amish, etc.
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  296. On the not passing things on, that applies to some boomers, yes, but...I have known enough people who are truly set due to the public equity, real estate, and private equity stakes they are set to inherit from their older boomer relatives, whether they have more or less of a sense of ownership of the family account. I don't know that I would term this one of your weaker videos, but it is the one with which I have had the most major disagreements based on my own readings of events. Your video on the Eastern Tradition for instance basically just WAS the Eastern Tradition history department class from undergrad minus the translations. *I found your video in which you blamed the collapse of the foundry region of North America on the entrenchment of Catholics in the labour movement who came from cultures that did not understand the benefits of free exchange and therefore began to strangle prospects for future generations by undermining the economic fundamentals which had built the industry highly enlightening as it very much tracks with what I have noticed.
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  297. You get some people like that who have a LOT of loyalty to their father's, uncle's, or grandfather's business, and are extremely conservative about their use of its resources, and you get others who look at it the less the way a farmer looks at a fruit tree than as a dog looks at a bag of kibble.
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  298. I don't see empire #1 being able to expand westward, because of the tsetse fly belt.
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  299. algorithm
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  300. Newfoundland was all West Country people, but Rudyard gets that one wrong a lot as well.
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  301. It isn't the T that's the issue so much as it is the P.
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  302. ah so you left it in
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  303. That is what one gets out of a BA in the humanities with a GPA that falls just shy of that magical gray zone between a B+ and an A-. At best, you're qualified to have an internet argument and know whichever set of obscure arguments necessary. Not that I regret it, I love my old college major, but...the guy who runs this channel gets to work in the field for which I studied much more than I ever will. The trick is, if you're actually in college or thinking of it, if you like a period and are obsessed with it to the point of wanting to give decades of your life to advancing the understanding of minor details of it, DON'T study it at the undergraduate level. History departments spread their undergrads thin on a variety of different stuff. You'll have some background general knowledge, but, so does everybody else, and knowing what to do in a college library legit does not matter. Instead, pick up languages, and try to bum time off researchers in the field to ask what software competencies they would want in an assistant, then go for classes which teach those.
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  304. Religious studies and classics departments are a bit more clear cut in terms of a direction for grad school. If you're in classics, you're learning Latin and ancient Greek, you're learning the tip of the canon, you get to grad school, you learn the rest of the canon, you learn the modern commentary on it, you're a classicist. Religious studies varies, add Hebrew if you're doing Christianity, Buddhist studies, expect to be guided toward Sanskrit - though Sanskrit guys are going to be as good at or better than Buddhist studies guys at the nuts and bolts of Buddhist studies - as well as having to pick up a bit of Tibetan and Japanese. It makes for a bit more of a culture with the TAs where the undergrads are thought of less as undergrads and more like grad students that have yet to hatch, because the material relates more to the fundamentals of the discipline. That bimodal thing in male humanities TAs, where half of them want to win a pedagogy award and the other half of them see their undergrads as a nuisance distracting them from research, it's still present, but its muted.
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  305.  @PeruvianPotato  Stalin was definitely a pragmatist, though. Stalinism as a heterodoxy of Leninism allows for the dictatorship of the proletariat as established by the revolutionary vanguard leaping directly from feudalism to socialism - Lenin's heterodoxy from Marx - then to ignore the cause of worldwide revolution, and to go so far as to allow foreign capitalists to repatriate their profits in order to attract sufficient capital and entrepreneurship for socialism to succeed. Trotsky was a WAY bigger whack job than Stalin.
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  306.  @cmleibenguth  I'd read an elaboration.
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  307.  @cmleibenguth  and am open to changing my perspective, but for now, I see the line to be held as Dover, not the Dnieper.
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  308. If the alternatives weren't the Eurocrats and the Xiists, it would be so much easier not to simp for 'murica.
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  309. Tate got bigger as a result of his detention in Romania. There was this loathsome human being with a hoverover that said "Montreal" that kept going on about him and I recall feeling a wave of instinctive disgust for the commentator and thanked him for the search term and watched about 3 hours of videos that night. I think it must have been intended as a distraction.
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  310. more to the point, should Israel at some point cease to be a democracy, it would be no reason for the United States to cease to be an ally of Israel
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  311. oh piss off
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  312.  @mam0lechinookclan607  If it shows up for you, look up a visualization of immigration and emigration of people who have filed patents broken up by country.
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  313. Incidentally, much like Edmund Burke in Murray Rothbard's reading, one can also find quotes from Tolkien in support of anarchism.
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  314.  @LiquidMarvel  lovely a Democrat gaslighter in the wild I was wondering when I would happen upon one of the genus in these comments
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  315. and yet you keep putting Malaysia as a shame motivated society
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  316. .
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  317. bot 🤣
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  318.  @dakotalane1911  no, Balazs (sorry don't have your language's keyboard) is right. Vaush is a good presenter and also understands the basics of gotcha debating tactics. The only times whatifalthist gained yards were when the gotchas stopped for a minute and Vaush was able to remind listeners that other than not thinking pedophiles ought to be able to rape children at will - one for which his typical audience nearly cancelled him - he does not subscribe to very many good or convincing notions.
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  319.  @dakotalane1911  I still instinctively mentally class Vaush, despite being a Trotskyist, as not entirely on board with the party line due to his lack of support for the rape rights of minor attracted individuals, which is something even the mainstream Democrats these days seem HIGHLY keen to protect.
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  320.  @dakotalane1911  ah so he flip flopped to please his audience, then
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  321. yeah without pornography a bunch of college aged guys who were average or below in appearance would have just beheaded two thirds of Congress and the Senate and installed an Ayatollah to replace Biden and institute the Islamic Republic of America
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  322.  @mang0donald874  well...health care is a provincial responsibility, and Alberta is a net payee under the provisions of the Canada Health Act, so I don't see why continuing to have single payer health insurance as a new state would be an issue.
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  323. I don't know exactly who it is who was supposed to have liked him. My central Ontario grandfather hated him from the bottom of his guts.
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  324. Islamofascism with a dash of free market economics and absolute freedom of speech and inquiry within limits strictly set by a bespoke Quranic juridical school, coupled with a generous people of the book carveout for hard core Orthodox and Evangelical Christians, in a reversal of the role the Dagestanis have within modern Russia.
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  325. You'll never meet a more selfish person that a lefty from Canada.
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  326.  @tru3boc  It's weird that the Irish from Ireland get so irritable online and in person about any suggestion of Irish ancestry from basically anybody else, but then are very keen to claim the mostly genetically West Country English Newfs based on similarities in the accent and adjacency in flight schedules. Tangentially, could definitely see Newf bars being a feature of enough space resource extraction once hominids as a genus are manning stations in the asteroid belt to maintain probes being sent to the moons of Jupiter and beyond, just given Newfs have been overrepresented in every energy boom.
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  327. There was an Iranian named Roosh who was chased out of a frogistani city which poisons the politics of where I live who put it this way, the right wants to be left alone, the left wants to kill the right, therefore the left will win.
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  328. algorithm
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  329. All right, I'm curious. What's Harry Turtledove's X feed like?
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  330. It's true, though. Harper would not have been able to stickhandle the 2015 election to Trudeau if people in Quebec believed in speech rights.
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  331. I like that. Turn back the clock before even Catholicism. Personally I think Islam is a better choice, because Islam has the momentum behind it.
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  332. oor laddae
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  333. ayup. By Toronto standards, Quebec anglophones would be considered the worst minority in the country. All the ones around here are happy to have their own media, speak their own language in their enclave without need for the majoritarian language, accept the services of a translator to access municipal services, and rely on Google Translate should they wish to interact with people without learning the majoritarian language outside of their enclave.
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  334. Islam has the momentum. Islam also has an excellent record when it comes to dealing with the left once in power.
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  335. Thank you for your engagement. 😃
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  336. well yes that's what he said - he has the detailed videos up elsewhere on his channel. Not that they're all expert material or anything, or that I can't say I haven't caught him in a few mistruths or inaccuracies.
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  337. Pedantic quibble, the whole model of an empire that involved selling proud warrior nations that their pride was not broken in having a high king as well as a king started with the period between the English finally defeating the Scottish at Culloden and the Scottish proving they were batshit headfucked at Quebec.
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  338. It's an excessively optimistic take.
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  339.  @IusedtohaveausernameIliked  Rudyard's.
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  340. Toronto's not even really left wing so much as it is apathetic.
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  341.  @TheSerbianSniper  People just get herded behind dumb issues by professional ass holes and don't always stop to think who is being affected, because getting involved or paying attention are bad habits indulged in by weird nerds. Last I looked at 338 it was just Montreal Island that was as red as it has always been. The outer western 905, plus outer Mississauga, inner Brampton, and a couple of ridings around Scarborough, they're all flipping. The carbon tax was the white flag. Downtown is two seats.
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  342.  @michadonald  yeah I gotta say the convoy sort of was the one thing Quebec people did involving other provinces where I could both follow and support what they were doing. Laughed my head off at the footage the one stuffy Ottawa lady shot of the Quebec biker guy flipping her off and showing her the patch on his hoodie.
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  343. Liberals on average I believe to be a mixture of ideological Stalinists who actually believe in the crap that came out of the mouth of that genocidal bastard Pierre Trudeau - I'd term them Hitlerists since Pierre Trudeau was as close as these provinces ever came to a Hitler, despite the more frequent attachment of that comparison to his son, Justin has never committed a genocide by United Nations definition, whereas Pierre when he was Indian Affairs Minister oversaw the Sixties Scoop, which fits the fifth clause of that definition, and it isn't really fair to compare somebody who has not committed a genocide to the man who is considered the embodiment of evil in casual contexts due to the genocide to which he is linked - except that Confederation really fits the Stalinist model better, since private investors are free to repatriate their profits, and this was not a freedom enjoyed even by domestic investors in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s - and pragmatists who are just after pork. Stalinism has mostly won, so I can appreciate the pragmatists' perspective, they just always seem to pick some new low to demand of their adherents. However, there could be a thing where bilingual Quebeckers actually do have much more authoritarian values and a more totalitarian perspective on economics and personal freedom than either unilingual francophone Quebeckers further east or Ontario people from west of the Ottawa suburbs. In other words, it may well be the case that it is just impossible to coexist with you people for cultural reasons underlying your weird Nazi ideas.
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  344.  @mosquitobight  It's a self-reinforcing thing with the high taxes on employees and the tight controls on residential development. One third of intended legal migrants surveyed state that they have no intention permanently of remaining in any of these provinces.
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  345.  @mosquitobight  The carbon tax is just another stick the corporations use to beat down real wages for employees.
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  346.  @BR-bv8yl  Southern Ontario works OK on the integrate, assimilate, admix model at a social level - it's a two or three generation process that results in a lot of mixed heritage people - but that includes ethnic enclaves as a long term normative thing, and we evolved directly from the idea of a minimum standard of second class citizenship for Catholic Irishmen which solidified in the 1840s-1860s to applying all of the special privileges for Catholics to every other minority group imaginable in the 1970s-1990s. Without that regional history, I don't know if it would work as comparatively smoothly as it does.
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  347.  @BR-bv8yl  Nothing has improved. There just hasn't been any obvious violence. The best case Ontario is this, secession from Ottawa and Quebec and all those blood suckers. Immigrants and so forth are just the wrong target.
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  348.  @BR-bv8yl  There are limits to multiculturalism, and one of them is French Canadians.
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  349.  @HistoricalFanatics  well if you don't think humans ought to be considered to be cogs for a Stalinist machine interchangeable only except for the colour of their plating then you my friend would be seen as far right between half an hour's drive to your west and a short flight due north
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  350. gibberish
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  351. On the web poll driven map that displays countries reported majority motivation by guilt, shame, or fear; Malaysia comes up as a guilt-driven society.
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  352. Ask an English-speaking supervisor to review your prompts. You aren't getting good ones out of the translation app.
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  353. Anybody rewatching in 2021 who had to put on Manowar in a different tab around the ten minute mark?
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  354. I think you might be assuming support for the existence of Confederation will continue at the same level in Ontario in younger generations once the baby boomers and their financial and political clout are off the table.
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  355. That sounds way too much like the economic calculation problem.
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  356. at around the 5:30 mark
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  357.  @gregchristopher1961  It's a bit too optimistic in my view. Confederation may represent a failed nation, but nonnational entities can be plenty stable. What will happen is authoritarianism will increase. Geographical determinism dictates that Confederation will necessarily end up with a power structure privileging the secret police, the same way Russia has. We are all ready a Stalinist system in many other respects, so the complete collapse of individual rights makes logical sense. We set the precedent of the state surveilling civil society organizations during the War on Terror that ripped the mask off the notion that liberal democracy has any future in a unitary Confederation.
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  358.  @gregchristopher1961  Congo and Nigeria in the 1960s and 1970s were meme-tier central governments, but they still crushed Katanga and Biafra. While determinism is never appropriate to this sort of thing, the arc of history bends toward tyranny, and the odds are against the happy ending where each province secedes from the next, and leaves the blind shuffle toward totalitarianism that can never not be made to characterize Ottawa and its apologists as the road untraveled.
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  359. It'll be a cold day in hell before mass migration to these provinces ever stops.
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  360. It also still trips me out that the dude being impaled with a pitchfork having had his skin pulled off in 25:18 is a Mennonite. ISIS of the Thirty Years War. Also "even if you're standing still in a rocket you're still going thousands of miles per hour toward the heavens" was gold.
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  361. The CF requires enlisted men to volunteer for deployments as a morale-conservation measure. Unless Ottawa brought in thug squads of foreign mercenaries, they wouldn't have the manpower for the job.
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  362.  @zzehyboy753  I've known enough old soldiers and they haven't been the kind of guys who would have done that. Maybe the federals bring in the Azov Battalion to rape its way across the country or something, or hire triads, the way their friends on the mainland did to beat up the umbrella protesters, but they aren't going to get regular infantry recruited in Ontario to show up for that job.
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  363. I say phase out most of it. Canada collapsed as a nation between LeSage and bin Laden. A postnational state has no reason to exist. Leave Charles III west of the Rideau except for unceded British Columbia - anywhere that was declared Indian Territory in 1763 and has not been covered by a treaty since should be unilaterally declared independent with the inhabitants allowed to decide their own constitutional and legal structure, so that means British Columbia gets partitioned - and the Bank of Canada with the job of keeping the Canadian dollar at its value as of the institution of provincial central banks and overseeing the orderly redemption of world CAD deposits into provincial currencies. Monetary independence is a must. Maybe there should be a referendum on whether Ottawa or Montreal really fit with where they are. The rest can go.
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  364. Each of the first four words of that sentence by itself is a good thing. Taken together, they're a great thing.
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  365. mm it went both ways. Ideas like the "Dao-nature" originate from plagiarism of Buddhist texts by Daoist monks at Blue Brook Mountain.
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  366. At this point, Canada's a failed nation.
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  367. My brain has stored that along with Malaysia being coloured as "shame motivated" in my "list of things one of my favourite YouTubers has been wrong about"
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  368. 33:50 if that's a real picture and not an AI generated meshugganah, I gotta hand it to ya Rud, you fucking crushed the research end of this video.
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  369. ugh you're half Persian? What the fuck, man.
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  370. It goes back before the alphabet soup. Also if anything there has been a moderate pushback. My end of Toronto, the local day care had three flags, the indigenous genocide flag, the national flag, and the pedophile swastika. A couple of alphabets then got vocal on social about wanting physically to attack day care workers. The day care now has only the orange flag and the leaf. I would not put it past the fag-hag networks which have been the primary means of power projection of the alphabet ideology to hit a certain point where the people in them start to say "hold on, this isn't just not picking on a younger version of me, this is horrifying."
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  371. Pedantic quibble, if the wokies fuck over the West just a little bit more, there could totally be an Abrahamic axis.
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  372.  @howdyahworkthisthing1520  Element of truth to that. Only times I've been assaulted in this province have been crossing the border to just outside the 905. Only ethnic enclave I consistently got looks like people would just as soon kill me while I was canvassing was the Dutch one out in the sticks. Personally, I think it's a myth that they're grateful for the Water Rats.
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  373. Mostly Islamofascism, but with special economic zones, free speech areas, and institutions allowing the unfettered pursuit of knowledge.
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  374. ah yes "our democracy" tell your programmers to rewrite your code you bot
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  375. The nation is anachronistic in a medieval context.
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  376. 15:00 or so
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  377. no you're not 🤣
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  378.  @Donner906  I can't quite retain which YouTuber Contrapoints was, but the name does ring a bell.
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  379. Pedantic quibble, more the mid 13th century for the end of the Golden Age of Islam.
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  380. You should be comfortable in your nihilism about the West. The West is dead. Perhaps you ought to consult a grief counselor to move through your feelings.
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  381. and yet something in the area of two fifths of American youth have not heard of the Holocaust. Not that I can blame the teachers for that one - why would one stick ones neck into a topic like that? Especially around youth, and if it is not a required topic on the curriculum. Even if it isn't illegal to get things slightly off, the reputational blowback just isn't worth it.
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  382. It started with Joseph McCarthy being denounced due to operating outside the establishment. Next, communists infiltrated the conservative movement, claiming they were former social democrats - a venomous ideology - who felt the American left was not hard enough on communism. Their ideas lead to the growth of the scope and scale of the state. Never forget the neoconservatives or trust their own account of their etiology.
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  383.  @PhelanVelvel  For parts of the world which are all ready well into the self-delete cycle thanks to their secularization, Islam most likely is the best case scenario.
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  384.  @Dushmann_  well good thing I'm about as European as a spray can of cheese
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  385.  @sander7989  If Quebec fracked it would probably be fine. It mostly burns Saudi oil. At most in a scenario where we brought in separate currencies - which is how I say it should go - it would have to devalue now and then, the way Greece and Italy did prior to Europe, which would probably just cause more people to visit Quebec tourist attractions, purchase Quebec goods, and have a better opinion of it. Logically if Canada has all ready failed as a nation, then people outside Quebec should encourage Quebec nationalists, since the alternative is Liberals, who are no good.
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  386.  @sander7989  The problem is the incompatibility of secularism and multiculturalism, which will damn all changes in Confederation as a single entity to be towards the unbridled increase of the bureaucracy and the decrease of individual freedoms. The solution is secession.
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  387. They're getting close on the controls on private ownership.
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  388. There would have to be a deal to keep the passport and the birth certificate for the purposes of satisfying the requirements of applying for a green card. The migration funnel is an inevitable feature of these provinces, due to low birth rates. This creates a mutually reinforcing effect with high taxes and high cost of living.
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  389. eh I'm willing to give whatifalthist some fraction of the Mearscheimer credit. Mearscheimer stated openly he was backed by Soros and implied the audience was welcome to search for the influence Soros had asked to have placed in that presentation. whatifalthist if you'll notice very neatly set aside the more bought-and-paid-for sorts of opinions into one segment of the video near the end. I'm personally happy for him, and I hope he got a good pay day. I don't have it in me to carry much hate for people who take advantage of life's opportunities, thin as they may be for many people.
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  390. The pessimist in me agrees.
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  391. I disagree. This is one of his better ones since pandemic. If he is outsourcing his writing to GPT and a Pinoy or Indian dude from Fiverr to concentrate on his young people's social network, he is beginning to find his stride with the balance of what needs to happen.
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  392.  @RAWDEAL064  It was the most interesting option.
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  393. I used to smoke with one dude who said that his view was that if all science students were forced to take one credit in philosophy and all arts students were forced to take one credit in statistics a lot of the problems of this world would be avoided.
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  394. Islamofascism with free speech areas and special economic zones would also work.
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  395. wait for the left to push back, the buy the stock of Smith and Wesson, then wait for fear to grow about a gun grab, then sell when the price reacts. Not financial advice, totally tongue in cheek.
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  396. It wasn't going to be an ethnostate ever since the British never fully genocided former New France, then the admixture process with the up north FNs cut off.
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  397. ​ @bitcoinzoomer9994  TL; DR this is one of those ones a bit like race in America - there's a very rich history, and it's a history on from which the country in question has every desire to move.
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  398.  @bitcoinzoomer9994  Put another way, there are lots of race grifters currently targeting the Modi administration in an attempt to weaken India with the mind virus.
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  399.  @lucasharvey8990  It was a deliberate choice. When they changed from the Red Ensign to the maple leaf in the 1960s, the Premier of Ontario deliberately picked a flag design that was not quite a copy paste, because he didn't feel as though normal people in his province had really been included in the debate.
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  400. A certain spreadsheet-happy English newspaper whose name is an academic point by this portion of the sentence in one of their autumn 2019 issues published a pair of polls breaking down American support for their two main parties by ethnicity between 2016 and summer 2019. Democrats were up with one group, nonHispanic whites. Republicans had gone up by half among Hispanics, and double among blacks and nonblack nonwhite nonHispanics - the latter group reporting a solid majority for Republicans - suggesting that Trump had shattered the chains of demography.
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  401.  @jubbydubby8275  You're never going to convince the equity people to support that.
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  402. hit pause
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  403. America was infected by the poison of social democracy from Europe. It is to blame for the Vietnam and Iraq Wars. We have only the accounts of the original neoconservatives themselves that they had abandoned social democracy, when their policy of relentless war lead to a sustained increase in the scope and scale of the state. I wouldn't lift a finger to prevent XI from subjugating your entire peninsula, let alone Putin or the Islamists. Death to Europe.
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  404. .
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  405.  @LordMalice6d9  Evasion or avoidance?
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  406. If cam girl houses are bad - which is an industry where the girls make enough money to support themselves doing private shows for audiences of one on the other side of a DSL line who pay to see them - then what is OnlyFans?
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  407. I feel personally trolled every time I see that cultural motivation map that labels Malaysia as a shame-driven society.
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  408. eh the Overton Window combined with the absence of hard constitutional protections for individual rights means if you don't see humans as cogs for the Stalinist machine interchangeable except for the tint of their plating you are a member of the far right by Canadian standards
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  409.  @sithlord753  There's a story that "kanata" means village which I have always taken as a weak apology for the more believable notion that the Spaniards took one look at the ice-drenched wastes and marked "aca nada" or "nothing here" on their maps of North America. There is also a story that while speaking with the press, a certain officer in one of the branches of the American service while fighting in the American phase of the regrettable series of Indo-China Wars stated that "we had to destroy the village in order to save it."
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  410.  @dingus6317  The interesting thing is that they did two things, one was that they threatened to illegalize a wide swathe of guns, the other was that they reduced the penalties for gun violations. You need to understand that there are practices regularly engaged in by your average Canadian corporation which would be considered tax fraud in America at the low end and treason at the high end.
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  411. Mass migration would be fine, were it possible to develop enough places for people to live. Fascism is an extreme left wing ideology. All within the state, all for the state, none against the state. The gun thing is just Montreal being paranoid and then demanding to have laws worded that affect everybody if enforced. There is no Canadian strength of anything because common civic values had been dying since the 1960s. If there were, Trudeau would not have got in. The wedge issue Harper lobbed at Mulcair was individual speech rights in Quebec. The main doubt in my head is how bad the Ukrainians and Poles out west actually are.
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  412.  @hippomancy  Authoritarianism the modus operandi of the left, and ever shall be.
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  413. Anarch? That's a reference to the dude who wrote Storm of Steel - er, Ernst Junger. It was an idea from his one book that was set in a speculative Morocco, Eumeswil. The anarch is to anarchy as a monarch is to monarchy. The anarch does not have rights to be exercised but responsibilities to be upheld.
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  414.  @mobo8933  Were I to hold my breath that way, I'd give myself brain damage.
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  415.  @azariyelvarro6271  I would question whether America First actually was all that bad for non-elite foreigners who didn't cater to American investors.
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  416.  @Megabean  You didn't watch the video and you don't live in Canada. That's cool. Have a good one, man.
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  417. Does Trump still count if his mom was a Hebridean from the Hebrides?
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  418. no Community Reinvestment Act, no problems
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  419. I have to wonder as well - was this inspired by the anecdote of how the Rwandan government sent every therapist that was sent to help its population get over the trauma of the genocide away and brought in witch doctors to lead large communal rituals instead?
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  420. Trump proved during his first term that he never stopped being a Ross Perot Reform Party guy. Trump has turned the Republican Party into the policy of the Ross Perot Reform Party and the methods of American anarchist thinker Murray Rothbard as articulated in his early 1990s essay Right Wing Populism.
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  421.  @Mbrace818  It is sort of trippy that there are still enough south Chinese who are still bitter about the Qing conquest in the 17th century and maintain secret societies based originally on overthrowing the Qing, not that I think the tongs = Klan analogy would hold up to a more granular perspective.
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  422. That one will be fine. If you look up when they announced it, it was the day before the Quebec antiJew antiMuslim law passed a court challenge of having correctly violated their rights as individuals to freedom of speech. Because Quebec doesn't believe in speech rights, the only direction to go to give a consolation prize to Montreal mosques who drum up Liberal votes was to allow them to go after people they don't like. The only reason it is worded like they might apply it anywhere is because Montreal people are ass holes that way.
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  423. or it could go like Russia. It doesn't have the natural fortifications of an Afghanistan, so an authoritarian federal government which privileged the secret police within its power structure could always crack down as hard as it wanted.
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  424.  @gary8117  Canadian-accented French is the most foreign-sounding language when you're around Toronto.
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  425. On their soil we never sought them. Love of conquest hither brought them. Soon this lesson we'll have taught them.
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  426. The optimistic scenario is each province separates.
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  427. but from the perspective of people who do not have to deal with its migration crisis, the current state of affairs is nearly optimal - the continentals will squabble over minutiae indefinitely If Thatcher-era policymakers in UK had planned to influence matters in this direction, the only error they made was in failing to account for the increase in the level of hatred the UK civil service would have for normal people in UK.
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  428. Were Quebec anglophones judged within the same universe of discourse as every minority around Toronto, they'd be considered the worst one, hands down.
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  429. It's overly optimistic to assume that Confederation will end with dissolution rather than degenerating into something much more authoritarian. Even meme-tier central governments can maintain power with a bit of willpower and international support. Look at Nigeria and Zaire in the 1960s-1970s. Canada as a national entity is dead having rotted since the 1960s. That was the main truth Trudeau told. In the absence of common civic values, liberal democracy ceases to be viable. Personally I see myself leaving as soon as I can on-ramp. There is no future for these provinces under their current arrangement. There is no future in these provinces under their current arrangement. The elite will perpetuate the current arrangement of these provinces. Canada is certainly fucked way worse than it ever would be had Quebec won the 1990s referenda and the rest of the provinces chosen to shake hands like grown-ups and call it quits, and will most likely be fucked way worse than it would be by mere dissolution.
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  430. The monarchy's not a bad institution, but the Westminster system is dog shit.
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  431. oh he took money to do so. There's no doubt about it.
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  432. oh look the Ukraine flag profile picture turned up hello how are you cuckolding today
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  433. 34:32 we'll see what happens out of pandemic and remote work
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  434. 13:28 na na na na na Trump didn't turn nothing against China. Trump's policies in the Western Pacific have just been the first effective coherent reaction to Xi's bunker creep and other bullshit. The Trump alignment would not have held up as well as it did had it not reflected real frustrations with the ineffectuality of the American establishment in dealing with Xi.
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  435. I definitely hadn't connected the dots between the insidious wokification of the academy through institutional capture and the rise of subcultures like pre-pandemic antivaxxers and flat earthers.
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  436. It all ready was. They picked him as the face of the party to signal that there would be a geyser of fiscal policy out of him, because that's what the first Trudeau did. Wouldn't be surprised if poor little Hadrian ended up becoming Tsar in a scenario in which Confederation held together the only way it could, by becoming a Russia-style authoritarian police state.
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  437.  @JagadanandaDas  It's not disrespect. It's dislike.
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  438.  @JagadanandaDas  Disrespect is the quality of not taking something seriously. Dislike is the quality of not enjoying something.
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  439. well, immersionese
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  440. feeling slightly called out by the choice of a picture of Toronto to illustrate "a broken tyranny and everything that we hated"
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  441. Down east only flipped blue because it looked like Toronto was flipping blue and you guys know you've got to be on the government side of the aisle. You guys would have flipped back had the combination of municipal special interests represented in red tape and the green belt guys not presented that housing guy with an unsolvable puzzle. The signal they had abandoned trying to form government was the carbon tax hike, after all. Though one thing Rudyard did get wrong, hard, on his North American settlement video series was not marking off Newfoundland as a separate settler lineage from specifically the West Country.
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  442.  @poliziagrammaticale9430  I don't think Elon's there yet.
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  443.  @ChaffyExpert  That would be the scenario where America is New Kingdom Egypt, Brazil is Nubia, and following a massive collapse in American reach coinciding with a technological revolution which also leaves America as the last major power standing in the known world Brazil makes contact again except even more Americanized and ends up briefly occupying America during a period of civic breakdown after brokering a peace which fails. i. e. in the future, when Americans say football, they have ceased to mean hand egg.
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  444.  @mattia8327  NATO itself will be lucky to come out of the Ukraine grift with its credibility intact and more than a decade or so left in it as an alliance.
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  445.  @mattia8327  "The West" isn't a particularly useful frame of reference in my view in modern times. Plainly enough, if it ever was a civilization, it is on the decline. I like the optimism of Rudyard's perspective that America will mutate along with LATAM and the Inner Indo-Pacific into one of three cultural influences on a future spacefaring civilization. However, from the perspective of the decline of personal privacy and basically all developments in tech and AI, I think we're more likely in the Firefly timeline.
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  446. It's a third tier country. First tier is just America and the mainland. Second tier would include Japan and India.
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  447.  @jw6588  They sound like they're missing their buddies Mark and John.
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  448. and your reference to postmodernism I think depends somewhat on your typical audience's willingness to throw a steelman your way and infer "free floating weaponized postmodernism of the post 2000s point of the long march through the institutions of the Frankfurt School variety" - back in the 1990s and before, Marxists hated postmodernism, because postmodernists found Marxist ideas a pleasing intellectual amuse bouche.
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  449. What's your profession?
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  450. You work with metal or money, you like hot climates, this platform support DMs, give me your DM, I maybe talk with you.
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  451. The future is certainly not in the part of the world controlled by the pushers of paper behind the bureaus of Bruxelles.
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  452. lol dude have you seen the stuff on Chinese election interference and police stations in Canada? We ARE in the Fallout reality.
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  453. Mass migration would be fine, were it accompanied by mass development.
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  454.  @matroqueta6825  yeah the individual voluntarily alienates his rights to the functional collective in a form of free exchange through voluntary association, accepting limits on his personal or property rights for other benefits. A shareholder in Coca-Cola can't design a new logo for them or micro manage their operations. A parishioner may not swear a blue streak in the middle of a sermon. These are not restrictions on the property or speech rights of the individuals concerned.
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  455.  @matroqueta6825  and you also have to get that to the progressives, the individual human body is grist for the mill, a chunk of protein to be consumed in the name of a mindless Stalinist agenda. Between the wokies and the Xiists, I wouldn't leave my couch except to reup my vodka.
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