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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