@judgedread

"If they go hard enough on Marxism Democrats could blow the midterms. Not because democracy works, but because the plutocrats will panic and start rigging elections against Team Blue."

Look how Massie, a popular Republican in podunk Kentucky, mysteriously lost his GOP primary to a nobody by 10 percentage points. After Massie started criticizing ZOG and israel. :think:
@judgedread A quick search shows how heavily mechanical printing was controlled and suppressed at the time by the ruling monarchies. Especially in centralised Asia where it was originally invented.

Europe at the time comprised 10 to 15 major monarchies and contained hundreds of smaller semi-independent feudal states. Much simpler for something like printing to slip through and take hold.

A few decades later the Church splits and the world changes.

Today is about 40 years since the internet was invented and about 30 years since access opened to almost everyone.

Ship 40 back at Massey's for more static fire testing. View from the leeward side.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT13

@petra The internet ramped up very slowly, with the link of two computers in 1969 being deemed the origin by most histories. In 1971 there were 22 sites linked on ARPANET.

1994 is when normies began arriving in significant numbers.
@jb Printing press enables Luther, Luther causes the Reformation, the Reformation shatters the ruling class into dozens of warring sects, merchants slip through the breach and industrialize the world.
@jb I'm a Reformation supporter... because I'm not a Christian.

If you catch my meaning.

Ship 40 returns to Massey's for more pre #IFT13 static fire testing. View from the windward side.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

The industrial revolution was deliberately prevented for two thousand years until a single invention made in secret - the Gutenberg press - managed to slip through and shatter the ruling class enough that it couldn't regroup in time to network shatter the merchants.

That's the answer to Donald McCloskey's question: 'Why did it happen when it did?'
Mises interpreted the intellectuals hatred of capitalism as being due to irrational resentment of the normies revealed preferences.

But what if their hatred had a more rational source - their paymasters?

Right up until the collapse of communism there was a remnant of snobs who hated capitalism BECAUSE it generated economic growth. They mostly vanished after that, dragged down by the undertow of communism's humiliating defeat which was, of course, the result of its failure to deliver the goods.

In that cultural moment the last thing anyone wanted to hear about was degrowth.

But now they seem to have crept back. Many might be right here...

@GoonPatrol @Bernard

“Whites are a K selected species. All throughout history we maintained our territory through order and conquest rather than breeding like rats.”

The birthrate of Whites before women’s rights were fully imposed was 6-7 per woman, similar to patriarchal societies in certain Muslim countries today. Ditto for East Asians before the introduction of feminism.

#women

I'm okay with it because he never goes so far as to use the word "I". You can say "This is what's gonna be needed" without saying "Watch as I pull out my 12 pound eggplant"... The cat-girl schtick also kind of defuses the tenancy toward toughguyism.

But then I'm not religious, so I have no predisposition to take offense at his jabs against Christianity.
Maybe it has been, but it never got to my desk - so he's worth something even if only as an aggregator.

20 years ago I was listening to Alex Jones, and I'm sure nothing he said wasn't said by someone smarter than him, but he was the one bringing it to my radio so it was providing value.

Generally speaking though, I'm quite biased in favor of anyone who is moving the needle in the right direction - at all - and against in-fighting and bucket-crabbing, because it's been shown that these are the actual risks.

Niggers are a military industrial liability for the ZOGmerican empire.

Team B kikes are now aware of this. And so does #China (社会分裂).

#Diversity #DEI #africa

If you're not a temporarily embarrassed aristocrat the modern age is so much better than all previous epochs that you'd rather fight than switch.
If you're a part of a hereditary ruling caste technological progress is the last thing you want.

So if you were in charge and controlled all the marbles... why wouldn't you take steps to prevent it - thus aborting any industrial revolution in the first trimester?
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