Tag: Machiavelli
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Back to unsurprising again
In July I noted a slight bit of apparent action by the insane “city”. Some REAL people, ie people named Cowles, finally got tired enough to make the “city” take a tiny bit of apparent action. I wrote: = = = = = START REPRINT: I’ve been thoroughly bashing the “city” of Spokane for ENCOURAGING…
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If you think
If you think Left and Right exist you’re a fool. If you think Democracy and Fascism exist you’re a fool. If you think Laws and Constitutions and Rights exist you’re a fool. If you think Free Speech exists you’re a fool. If you think Privacy exists, and the latest hack ruined Privacy, you’re a fool.…
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Another reason for Desistance
Well, there are already billions of reasons to stay out of the Machiavelli crap, but here’s one that might be relevant in the online world. Right now ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE in the online world is MANDATED AND REQUIRED to line up in two opposing armies about the BIG STORY, which apparently has something to do with…
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Another answer
Previous item repeated Carver’s answer to Machiavelli. Now repeat Henry Ford’s answer. = = = = = START FORD ANSWER: This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression.…
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Machiavelli loves them
Everyone is riled up today, marching in the two assigned Machiavelli ranks, because some dude was killed somewhere. I’ve vaguely heard of the dude, maybe some kind of celebrity in Political Reality TV. These riled-up periods are good for me: they force me to turn away from wasteful scrolling toward creating or resting. I gave…
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Ponzi is a fake argument
Too many arguments sink into irrelevance when one side insists A is a Ponzi scheme and the other side says it isn’t. Bitcoin and Social Security are both called Ponzi at times. The definition of Ponzi is much more nuanced and fuzzy than we usually think. Intention is important. Two classic examples show the real…
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Reprint from 2021
After a long dry spell, somebody is reading through this blog with a purpose. The pattern of one read per source seems bot-like but the pieces have a theme, so it’s ambiguous. Bots usually pick my most meaningless clickbaity items. This reminds me of the Las Vegas reader who ran through the best stuff in…
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Machiavelli works
While I’m doing poll type stuff, here’s an unsurprising but worthy Gallup poll. Who owns bitcoin and related frauds? Men. More specifically, wealthy “conservative” men from 18 to 50. About 25% in this group own fraud, and 37% of all men. Only 17% of all women own fraud. Partisan advertising works for frauds like politics…
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Shouldn’t be impressive
This is impressive! In a sane world it wouldn’t be impressive; it would be the expected default attitude of a state or provincial governor. We aren’t in a sane world. The premier of New Brunswick says clearly and firmly that her purpose, and the purpose of the province, is to build and strengthen Canada. The…
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Only looks like magic
Seen in a meme: People who speak two languages have a special magic. Bilingualism looks magic to those of us who have been raised in a prescriptive system with only one way of doing things. Most people in most countries in most time periods naturally speak two or three languages, function in two or three…
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They’re mostly right
The wokies are correct when they complain that ‘Western Civ’ courses are irrelevant and false. Some of the wokies want to replace the falseness with a different brand of falseness, some don’t. Nevertheless the complaint itself is correct. Western Civ classes, including all the “history” and “civics” we memorized in high school, are blatant propaganda…
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Not that complicated.
Compact Mag, always overthinking, describes Elon’s departure as a failed alliance of two classes against the “clerisy”. Nope. Trump and Elon don’t represent any groups or classes at all. Representing is EMPHATICALLY NOT what a psychopath does. The alliance and its breakup can be fully explained by three qualities of psychopaths. 1. A psychopath doesn’t…
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Why philosophy is fucked
Seen on substack: = = = = = Most people don’t realize how ridiculously hard one needs to think in order to thoroughly grasp certain philosophical problems. It took me well over a decade to really grasp the sorites paradox, for instance. And one often needs more years of investigation to realize the depth of…
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Most don’t know
Headline in Spokane News: Possible ammonia leak at the Ice Ribbon, Haz Mat Full Response to 700 West Spokane Falls Blvd. Industrial ice uses either ammonia or CO2. Ammonia is NASTY stuff. One whiff can ruin your sense of smell permanently, and a larger sniff can kill you. CO2 is nice stuff. It feeds plants.…
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Blaming and framing as always
The former anti-Trump independents, now all fervent Trump cult members, are crowing about the admin’s “revelations” on the role of Fauci. The “revelation” focuses on the fake lab-leak issue, which was obviously staged as a fake arguing point. Deepstate never reveals, never admits fault. Deepstate, like all psychopaths and professional criminals, diverts the blame to…
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