Tag: natural law = soviet law
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Belt and suspenders
Rushfield hits the nail again in the middle of a general news column: = = = = = START RUSHFIELD: We’ve been living in an environment of very low-risk speculation thanks to a decade of low interest rates, also known as a speculative bubble. That affected entertainment as much as anything else, as people poured…
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He gets the big point
Most of the time, both “sides” in each hot-button Machiavellian divider are missing the main point. The anti-bitcoiners are right about some details but miss the BIG point that every transaction on the web is perfectly global, perfectly centralized, and perfectly public. Here’s one anti who grasps the biggest point of all. He’s citing a…
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Theories
This is what happens when you get involved in theories and theologies and philosophies. Religion Unplugged writes about a survey of Army chaplains, revealing a peculiar and outright evil function served by the chaplains. The survey was dealing with the perceived morality or legitimacy of software-driven drone warfare. It turns out that chaplains ADVISE GENERALS…
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Wallace as always
Around the same time when John Langan in Hollywood was envisioning aperture cards as an aid to filing and sorting film clips, others were envisioning the same idea as an aid to scientific references. Atherton Seidell is credited with the first published mention of the idea. (Sync: Another Atherton was involved in commercializing the Langan…
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Substock
I’ve decided that everyone who succeeds on Substack is a stock trader, manipulating the “two” “sides” of an issue to gain arbitrage. Questions that can’t be turned into a trade or a bet aren’t discussed much. With a few notable exceptions, the writers who don’t engage in stock crime don’t last. This is historically normal.…
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Agrees with observed
Another home run for Compact Mag after a few weeks of bunts and fouls. John Judis writes a comprehensive and clear article on the New Left in 1969 vs the New Left now. He agrees with what I saw then. Judis was more of an insider, while I was just a random protester, but I…
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Understands 2
Writers at Compact Mag often UNDERSTAND reality, which is extremely rare online. Ryan Zickgraf is writing about a new movie that runs the usual D idiocy about R “insurrections”. = = = = = START REALITY: But while there are certainly cracks in the American project, there is little evidence that we are on the…
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What’s the problem?
Headline: Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on federal land under new Biden admin rule. Conservatives are squawking as usual, but this is a rare example of government applying the correct incentives. Government desperately needs to function more like a business. Businesses charge individual customers for individual services. This leads to more…
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Fink is the world.
Now Larry Fink wants to take over Social Security. He’s peddling a pack of obvious lies, which will work because everyone obeys Larry Fink if they want to survive. He owns a significant portion of the shares in most corporations, and nobody dares to move against His Supreme Will. Fink claims we based our 65…
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More of the oddity
Lately I’ve been noticing an oddity, which may not be an actual trend. The official myth of “the economy” has been based on strictly fake and fictional “numbers” at least since Nixon. If we defined unemployment the same way we did in the 30s, the current unemployment would be the same as the 30s. We…
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Non-hustly
One longstanding puzzle is why we decided to hate Russia. We started invading and occupying Russia in 1918, gave up during the blessed Lucid Interval, then started again with a vengeance immediately after President Lucid died in 1945. Here’s a clue to our previous attitude, which isn’t exactly warlike but definitely treats Russians as subhuman.…
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Should have written it here.
Somebody on substack was noting that Putin is a far better player of international chess than our leaders. I agreed and added this comment, which I really should have written here first. = = = = = Putin has a head start. Russians understand us better than we understand them. Russians also understand us better…
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The ledger does balance
I’m frustrated when evil people get punished for the wrong reason. My narrow little bookkeeper soul wants to see Debits and Credits balancing. Along with all the other national leaders except Tanzania and Belarus, Trump committed the biggest crime in history. He will never be punished for his crime. Instead, he is being punished somewhat…
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More passionate truth
More passionate truth from Jeffrey Tucker: = = = = = START QUOTE: The signers of the original Yale letter were hardly the only ones. Academics, think tankers, authors, and major public pundits all over the world changed suddenly. Those who should have opposed lockdowns switched to favor them once every major nation in the…
