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There are still fading embers of civility still glowing in the world. They're getting dimmer.

Hate.

#Reagan Era Republicans #The Hard Path #Muscovy #Nazism #Alexander Dugin #Ukraine #Tatars #Swans of Nepryadva #David Duke #Konstantin Vassiliev #Ilya Glazunov #The Long Defeat #MAGA #BLM #American Hate #Youtube

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Kalashnikov urges bypassing technological superiority of the West by using Western weaknesses: long time needed for political decisions, indecisiveness of the leaders, and lack of Western readiness to accept losses on its own civilians.

Kalashnikov also urges the use of terrorist groups, formed from "southern migrants", starting with demonstratively brutal attacks on schools, kindergartens, and hospitals, in order to provoke mass-response of the police against migrants, racial profiling, mass control, paralyzing the West.

#Rabbit Trails #History repeating itself...

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#Rabbit Trails

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Free Trade

Free trade promotes unhindered exchange of goods and services across international borders (1).

I've just pointed out that capitalism, the right to keep my capital, property, is a good thing.

Now let's tackle Free Trade. Mathematically, Free Trade should always lead to lower prices through competition and efficiency.

The problem with Corporatism is that people aren't actually interested in production, they're interested in money and power. Corporations don't use their money towards creating efficiencies, but rather use it to establish barriers to competition by courting politicians, and they sometimes use their production power to freeze out competitors.

Corporatism is not Capitalism. Corporatism is very similar to National Socialism where the government was so closely tied to the nations industrialists, that National goals became Corporate goals, and visa versa.

Currently "Free Trade" isn't free. It's managed by our Government and corporate overlords.

#Free Trade

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Capitalism

The right to private property is a central tenet of capitalism (1).

This is a very hard tenant to dismiss as unfair. Contrast this with the feudal system where everything you had as the lowest person in society belonged to your Lord.

We can argue over the the role of Chartered companies (such as those Chartered by Great Brittan during the Age of Mercantilism, or of the "personhood" of modern Corporations during the modern period of Corporatism), but it should be clear to anyone and everyone that my cup, and my bed mat, should be considered mine without argument. Further, my rights to my cup and my bed mat should be protected at the very highest levels of Government.

American "Capitalism" isn't capitalism, it's Corporatism, which is an entirely different beast, and deserves to be crushed.

Look at it this way - bad people took a good word, and corrupted it.

Take back the word.

#Capitalism #Corporatism #Mercantilism

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#The Russo-American Bund er... Association!

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To anyone who's left the Republican party because of MAGA Republicans, keep in mind, it's harder to subvert and destroy an organization from the outside.

#Republican Party #MAGA #Donald Trump #GOP

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A Modest Proposal

American "Patriots" 1939.

I propose a "New" flag for our new modern American "Patriots"...

Afterall, we don't want the brown people in the USA, and Russia doesn't want their criminals and other undesirables, and brown people polluting their space either. Send them to Ukraine so they can be ground up fighting the ungrateful and undesirable Slavs who refuse to "know their place".

It seems apropos.

#1939 #2024 #USA “Patriots” #Lebensraum #Мечта жизни #Übermensch #Супермен #MAGA Republicans #Russian World

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I cannot believe I live in a country that has so wildly forgotten itself.

One political party "doesn't want to poke the bear".

The other political party is cheering the bear on.

Both parties are run by idiots.

#USA Politics

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Craven Western Politics

I've been puzzling over why my country, the United States, has been so lackluster in it's real support of Ukraine. I mean, we say the right things, we profess solidarity, promise a lot, yet at the end of the day, the equipment we promise is delivered slowly, and in insufficient quantities to really matter. It's as if the Politicians know that the public wants Ukraine to win, but they don't want Ukraine to really drive The Muscovite Hegemony out of their country.

I've got some ideas why.

Russian propaganda, while blatantly obvious, appeals to the authoritarians in the rest of the world. Turkey immediately comes to mind, but we could talk about Hungry, Slovakia, some of the Balkan states, and maybe Poland in this context. Large blocks of people who subscribe to the narrative of "might makes right". Republicans in the West also fall into this catagory.

This leads to a large fifth column of people who support and promote the authoritarian narrative as the solution to their domestic problems, and something to be expected as part of other countries domestic agendas. Since Communism, in practice, is very authoritarian - the attitude being that if you don't agree with my agenda then you are part of the problem - means that functionally, the Far Right and the Far Left work to subvert the common will, and seek to promote policies that support subversive authoritarianism.

I have no doubt that right now we have Civil and even military leaders that are pissing themselves in private, worried that the Muscovites will fire off a Nuke. Our countries may not be weak, but our leaders are. The breakup of the Muscovite Hegemony, therefore, in their minds, cannot be allowed to happen. The best way to ensure that the Muscovite Hegemony remains viable and unlikely to shoot off a Nuke, is to engineer a stalemate in Kievan Rus.

Lastly, every time I read a report of Western parts found in Iranian or Muscovite equipment, I realize that it isn't only our politicians that are weak and febrile, our business leaders are amoral sharks chasing down profits right and left. As long as the war keeps grinding on, war profiteers make bank selling to both sides. It really is a win-win for them, and to hell with anyone else.

Putin is right, the West is weak. Our leaders have been listening to Gríma Wormtongue, or are in direct collusion with Saruman; our production is spent on keeping the population a bunch of Lotus Eaters, and whatever production remains is spent on building war machines for both Mordor and Gondor.

What's not to love about our dysfunctional society.

The Baltics will be next, and then Taiwan - we've proven ourselves to be simpering fools who are too afraid to do the right thing, but cunning enough to to make hay by following along with the bullies in our midst.

Maybe Humanity deserves what it gets.

The good news is that if the World turns it's back on Ukraine, Ukraine has less incentive to keep their gloves on. Belgorod and Kursk could become Ukrainian as Ukraine takes the fight to the soft underbelly of the enemy being protected by the West.

#Disgust

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I want this to be Putin.

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Bigfoot.

Sasquatch.

Okay, I know he's been seen, but if the authorities don't acknowledge the fact, that's the same thing.

Right...?

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This is why electric vehicles will take over the world.

Wasn't Enron based in Texas?

There's a storm and the power is flickering out every 30 seconds. Texas power grid moment.

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Democracy is doomed in the soulless West -- Article in the Telegraph, free to read through MSN

"If asked 20 years ago which political value inspired me most, I would have answered liberty or social justice. But today my answer is solidarity. Our sense of solidarity as citizens is critically low - lower than than the minimum required for democracies to endure." -- Vlad Vexler, Community Comment, July 2023

#I think these two ideas are related.

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I posted this recently as part of an attempted dialog that went very badly.

But I think it needs to be posted in it's own right.

I live in a country that has recently undergone a massive tragedy in the form of raging wildfires in one of our states - probably one of our most isolated states in terms of immediate accessibility to federal resources. I'm not talking money transfers. I'm talking about humanitarian aid - places to live, medical care, aid workers and I hear the same voices I've been hearing for the last 18 months...

We need to spend our resources on our own people, and not on foreign adventures.

I understand the sentiment. It's an understandable one. On the other hand, I find such sentiments as being devoid of critical thinking.

If we had called Moscow's bluff, and done everything we could have done to reestablish the internationally recognized border between Ukraine and its neighbor, the war would have been over in a few months. If Moscow had really been stupid enough to use nuclear weapons, they would have lost their biggest friend in China, and become even more of an international pariah. I fully believe that even if Muscovy had done that, The United States could still have won the war in the same amount of time using conventional means.

And it's not like our hands are clean from responsibility in this matter, we are signatories to the Budapest Memorandum - there's a responsibility inherent in that fact.

So how does that apply to what's happening domestically?

If we had stepped up, made the tough choices, and prosecuted the war so that it was done and over, we could now focus resources on the domestic needs at hand.

The domestic problems we face in Hawaii will not be solved by tanks or HIMARS. The Venn Diagram between the solution to waging a just war against an existential evil really only includes money and maybe some overlapping personnel - though I have no idea how a trained missile targeting specialist, or an F-16 Fighter pilot would be as crucial in Hawaii as they would be taking down valid military targets of a regime actively pursuing international terrorism and blackmail.

So where are we now.

The despots of the World know that we, NATO, our Western Culture is weak. We avoid conflicts and let others fight our wars so we don't have to. Taiwan is now open for grabs, and our security agreements with them is as valuable as our signature on the Budapest Memorandum is/was to Kyiv.

Our world is much more dangerous now than it was 10 years ago, and we remain in our comfortable cities, fiddling, while Kyiv and Hawaii burn.

And my children get to live in a far more dangerous future then they should have to.

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Pacific Time isn't half bad either, if you keep in mind that it references the time-zone bordering the Pacific Ocean.

It's always time for going to the beach too.

the BEST THING about America is that one of their timezones is called mountain time. i cannot tell you how funny that is to me. it sure is always time for mountains in one fourth of america

#Weirdness.

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