Month: May 2020

Mar 16, 2020, 7:31 AM by Arno Kæland History: The United States, in 1945, signs away half of Europe to Stalin – against the wishes of its allies The United States, in 1945, vanishes Prussia as official policy – the most martial European society since Sparta The United States, in 1945, enacts the Morgenthau Plan…

Mar 16, 2020, 1:27 PM Philosophy presumes the positive, and asks whether questions are true or false, and preferable or good, or not. We call this ‘justification” benevolently, and ‘excuse making’ pejoratively. Law presumes the negative – erroneous, dishonest, or fraudulent – and asks whether questions are testifiable or untestifiable, and whether reciprocal and warrantable…

—“France is ready to use the ultimate weapon to protect its biggest companies from the market turmoil set in motion by the coronavirus: nationalization.”—   What does nationalization mean? The state ‘buys’ the corporation (its shares), directly from the company (not existing investors), at a discount (30%-50%), at market prices, vacates all non-vendor debt (all…

Mar 17, 2020, 4:53 PM There is nothing wrong with emergency helicopter money for the population. what you DON”T want is a worldwide recalculation (meaning rediscoverty) of the pricing structures of production. We don’t think in those terms, but THOSE ARE THE TERMS THAT MATTER. What we haven’t gotten past is the illusion that money…

Mar 18, 2020, 11:11 AM There are no multipliers to services jobs – they are categorically consumptions. Services jobs are only possible because of productive jobs. In that sense services are part of the hyper-consumptive economy. They are a measure of your hyperconsumption. But something must make hyper-consumption possible: something with multipliers. Multiplier: a phenomenon…

Mar 18, 2020, 11:22 AM If we ask them to give up the supernatural belief aspect (to not believe the Bible is literally true), all they feel is that we are trying to take away from them their identity and a massive security blanket. So my current thinking is, in the short term the angle…

Mar 18, 2020, 12:34 PM Bill: “We don’t try to beat the other leader. We try to find an opportunity to add value. We don’t negatively signal each other (other than to test an idea). There are people you won’t ‘jive with’ because of their state of development or goal, but stick with those who…

Mar 18, 2020, 12:39 PM The Left= Female Conflict Strategy: Deny, Avoid, Substitute Approval for Truth, Justify, Use Sophistry, Ad Hominem(gsrrm), Rally, Undermine, Strawman, Bait Into Conflict, Bait Into Hazard, Free Ride, Rent Seek, Hyperconsumption, Hypergamy, “Unconscious: The Men Will Take Care of It” The left has to lie. WHY? The suite of programs we…

Mar 18, 2020, 12:50 PM Philosophy is just verbal idealism (verbal sophistry) rather than supernatural Idealism (supernatural sophistry). Science is the application of the process of law to testimony about information itself: epistemology. If you can’t do science: descriptions of operations, then you’re telling fictions. Fictions may be all you can understand, because you lack…

Mar 18, 2020, 1:42 PM —“Humans have no subspecies.”— We are animals, and no different from every other creature on this earth. We adapted by class distribution, degree and rate of maturity, dimorphism in development, and by personality and temperament, in relation to environmental conditions in different temperate (latitudinal) bands across the planet with division…

Mar 18, 2020, 6:08 PM Kash Vikaas Nothing particularly interesting. (a) national security. china and russia are highly vulnerable to participation in the dollar-financial system. Look what the USA has done to russia since 2014’s invasion of ukraine. And look what china is afraid of today. I mean, we can rebuild anything they’re producing in…

Mar 18, 2020, 7:22 PM —“I’m pragmatic – why am I reading this if I know that the need for women to raise children is going to destroy that beautiful essay on law or that poetry of grammar that you just wrote.”— I want to know whether you are pragmatic or simply advocating islamisation, or…

Mar 18, 2020, 9:04 PM There’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus – Econlib econlib.org There’s never been a worse time for fiscal stimulus STIMULUS BY RATE OF RESPONSE AND EFFECT MONETARY stimulus refers to lowering interest rates, quantitative easing, or other ways of increasing the amount of money or credit. DIRECT stimulus…

—“Curt, is this interesting or am I reading too much into it? From what I’ve read on UK property rights (past and present), the idea that pleas of injustice or “hey, no fair” could overrule the express wishes of the property owner is a significant shift away from the standard individualist approach to ownership rights.…

Mar 19, 2020, 3:29 PM —“Greetings, …. I’d like to know the extent to which propertarianism depends on falsificationism(understood as a concept in the philosophy of science) and as a consequence how it answers the criticisms raised against the notions since the 1950s, notably by Quine in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”. Quote illustrating part of…

Mar 19, 2020, 3:36 PM You can appropriate language, philosophy, and theology for your purposes, in order to justify your priors. Sure. You can’t steal the LAWS to justify your priors. Sorry. That’s the whole point of laws. THERE ARE THREE QUESTIONS THAT DECIDE ALL PHILOSOPHY 1 – CHOICE: “Why should I not suicide?” 2…

Mar 19, 2020, 3:46 PM 1) So the restoration of reciprocity between the genders is what you are objecting to? 2) The equal suppression of the female means of deceit and undermining so that it equals the male suppression of deceit and undermining is irreciprocal? 3) The granting of women a separate and equal political…

I.Q. IN THE HIGH RANGE CORRELATES NEGATIVELY WITH INDICATORS OF DISORDER AND DEVIANCE by Paul Cooijmans This result has surprised me, and for years I thought it might be due to sampling error and would disappear as more data came in. It did not, and I am now fairly confident that there is indeed a…

Mar 20, 2020, 10:22 AM —“Bill, Why is the religion question not hard? And why is applied-P simple?”— RELIGION I think the religion question result from the conflation of two necessary psychological functions: 1) belonging and cohesion to the community (running with the pack, ritual behaviour increasing amiability to cooperate, signaling between group members) And;…

Mar 20, 2020, 10:28 AM BUT WHAT ABOUT EVERYTHING OTHER THAN MORAL REASONING? —“Brandon, Why is applied-P simple?”—CD —“P’s not hard cause it asks one thing: reciprocity. It’s just hard for people to spot when it’s not interpersonal. Don’t cheat people with your words; warranty your actions… What’s hard?”— Brandon Hayes So moral-reasoning in P…

Mar 20, 2020, 10:47 AM by Yiannis Kontinopoulos What people don’t get in Propertarianism is that the scientific method with testimonialism is not an epistemological criterion, but an ethical one: these are all the ways that you might be prone to error or attempt to lie and if you don’t adhere to these standards you…

Mar 20, 2020, 11:24 AM Women got the vote because they were entering the workforce during the war; out of a feeling of moral gratitude for their having done so; and the government wanted to tax them, and the reason for the american revolution was ‘no taxation without representation’. In addition, they wanted to reduce…

Mar 20, 2020, 11:33 AM The more agency the have the less intuition to rely on to choose, the more you rely on intuition to falsify. I think that’s the net of it. “What does my intuition say? Ok. how can that be false? What’s the evidence that falsifies my intuition? And repeat that endlessly.”…