2/ Fast cascades do not indicate to me that people are grappling with issues and slowly reaching consensus - they indicate a purely social, not intellectual, process where people are snapping-to-grid. Conformity propagates outwards through the game-of-life grid. Zombies.
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3/ I am also very much against the SWIFT delisting of Russia, and the seizure of foreign exchange reserves. Why? Kegan 4 level thinking. (a) I want PROCESS with rules, deliberation, and appeals, not mob rule (b) I prefer a diversity of geopolitical regimes over a monoculture
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4/ (c) incentives and second order effects. After this is over, what do Russia, China, Iran, etc. do? Stay on SWIFT? Or make some competitor? Does the dollar stay the world reserve currency?
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5/ (d) You get to use a doomsday weapon against a zero-day vulnerability just once, and then it gets patched. [ overlaps w previous point 'c' ] ...so is THIS the event that we want to blow the SWIFT weapon on ?
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6/ Finally, I hate the baby steps that the entire West is making towards social credit scores. Moldbug, in his leaving-Tlon essay talked about how property is inviolable and does not depend on the merit of the holder - because if it can be redistributed based on merit >>>
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7/ ...then it's not property. ...and as we have seen in the PRC w social credit scores, in Canada w the freezing of accounts that [ legally ] donated to a [ legal ] protest group, and now at the international level, the Cathedral HATES property-qua-property BECAUSE veto-proof.
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9/ oh, absolutely which reminds me of...https://twitter.com/TheLumpenprole/status/1498655643229634563 …
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10/ ...Bill Clinton's reaction to the 1995 Quebec referendum, where he weighed in and said that if Quebec voted for secession, the resulting state would not be party to NAFTA.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Quebec_referendum …
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11/ It was very clearly an attempt to interfere with foreign politics (someone alert Hillary Clinton; I know she HATES this sort of thing) and at the time I was mystified ... WHY did Bill care if there was 1 Canada or 2 Canadas? I had already been a libertarian for years but
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12/ ...I grew even more cynical at that moment (which is saying something - this is just after I'd watched Bill Clinton and Janet Reno burn women and children to death at Waco live on TV bc they'd embarrassed the BATF's "Operation Showtime" designed to justify higher budgets).
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13/ So anyway, I realized then that the elite class (a) have sort of a teleological world view where civilization means that everything becomes more and more centralized, and local independence / freedom upsets this vision of the anointed (b) they share class interest >
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14/ and it was likely physically painful for Bill Clinton to contemplate a member of his fellow elite having half of his serfs stripped away from him.
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15/ How I want Canada to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave. How I want Ukraine to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave. >>>
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16/ How I want the US to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave.
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18/ "by right of conquest" is descriptive, not prescriptive ; it explains what HAS happened and not (a) what should happen; (b) the various things that might happen is/ought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem …https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1498667547578839040 …
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