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- Jim: Was Stalin a vastly better central reformer than Bonaparte?
- Jim: “In the United States, it is found in southern to south-western states and tends to crowd out native vegetation. Interestingly, it is not officially an invasive species in California given its long-term presence, common planting, and relatively low risk in comparison to other invasive plants.” Who defines “invasive” and “noninvasive” ;, and how? Is this yet another brainworm of PSYWAR modernity needful of excision?
- Isegoria: Palm trees, pepper trees, and eucalyptus trees are all foreign imports to California.
- Isegoria: You’re definitely allowed to love Fire and Ice for what it is: It’s a bit like Star Wars, but with Leia played by Jayne Mansfield, in an outfit smaller than the infamous Return of the Jedi bikini, and the Death Star taken out by Han Solo. That said, the film does feature some amazing rotoscoped action sequences atop beautifully lush background paintings — including some by Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light.
- Jim: Australia’s sale of eucalyptus to California is undeniably one of world history’s international relations’ funniest japes.
- T. Beholder: There is an adjacent phenomenon: moral fashion. The fashions are an actively developing and mutating zone of a memeplex. He touched this several times, but… The danger of these rules was not just that they created land mines for the unwary, but that their elaborateness made them an effective substitute for virtue. The problem indeed is not that some very thorny bushes exist in a human habitat (they are often quite useful, and normally a nuisance at worst), but the aggressive expansion of...
- Gaikokumaniakku: “His later Fire and Ice isn’t a good film, either, but it does feature…” Scantily clad chicks. And probably fantasy magic. I trust your judgements on most matters, but if loving Fire and Ice is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
- Bruce: Jim, I agree the Founding Fathers thought factions were really bad. But political parties are not factions. Just competing crooks. “I Seen My Opportunities And I Took Them.” Not factions in civil war, just competing crooks. That’s fine; it’s the best humanly imaginable. When one party grabs all the pork and junks the Bill of Rights, that’s bad.
- Lucklucky: Why he talks about trees and vegetation, I look at the post-fire pictures and see a lot of tree and bushes with vegetation and some even green near hundreds of houses burned to the ground.
- Phileas Frogg: T. Beholder, Dealer’s choice. History is, after all, dialectical. To clarify, it’s not so much a recommendation as a description. Though I have had some rather distressing news as of late, which may be throwing off the balance of my comments. I may try and refrain until things once again reach equilibrium…
- T. Beholder: Phileas Frogg says: [O]n occasion you DO need to, “…bayonet all of the professors and throw them in ditches.” Not literally mind you, but metaphorically, with some literal examples early on to fire the imagination. Also known as Cultural Revolution. Christian’s didn’t just co-opt the Roman state, we… Which “we” would this be? I think Mark Twain had a classification… …DEFACED IT UTTERLY AND HUMILIATED WHAT HAD BEEN IT’S BASIS. Until we can enact a similar program on the secularists and their...
- Isegoria: Justin Taylor discusses the SSRS and other grenade-launchers in his video The Newest Arms Race You’ve Never Heard Of.
- T. Beholder: The great big non-secret. For example: https://www.americaunwon .com/p/why-los-angeles-b urned Of course, on top of the same clowns Australia has Eucalyptus, that is living firebombs. Oh wait, some geniuses in California had those imported long ago. Nevermind.
- Phileas Frogg: What Yarvin misses, by practical necessity due to the inherent tendency of all life towards self-preservation, is that on occasion you DO need to, “…bayonet all of the professors and throw them in ditches.” Not literally mind you, but metaphorically, with some literal examples early on to fire the imagination. Christian’s didn’t just co-opt the Roman state, we DEFACED IT UTTERLY AND HUMILIATED WHAT HAD BEEN IT’S BASIS. Until we can enact a similar...
- Jim: I watched the interview (at 2X). Yarvin is hitting his stride.
- Jim: And by “American founding races”, I mean, of course, the patchwork of highly distinct white races from the British Isles settled in North America between 1620 and 1776.
- Jim: The Founding Fathers would’ve said that a two-party state is a state of failure. Judging by the profound pharasaism vis-à-vis the several constitutions and the generation-over-generati on bodily replacement of the posterity of the American founding races, success is a poorly supported claim.
- Bruce: This is twaddle, but it’s true that the fail state of a two-party system with a bill of rights is when one party wins and crushes the bill of rights. Like the D party since 1932. Call it fascism or sparkling one-party state, same difference.
- Isegoria: Interesting, Gaikokumaniakku: Under Whose Command, a new platform for command chain analysis in Myanmar, is the culmination of a year–long collaboration between DOT • STUDIO (our agency) and Tony Wilson and Tom Longley at Security Force Monitor (SFM) — an NGO situated at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School. The project addresses a difficult but critical problem: military command structures are fluid, making it challenging to determine who was in charge at a specific time and...
- Gaikokumaniakku: Pretty far off topic, but this looks like the kind of military science that would interest you : https://www.dot.studio/e n/notes/case-study-under -whose-command/
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