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@h4890 @freepatriot @monarchist Singapore is an authoritarian state. You must be willing to put up with a lot of limits on personal freedom to live there. It has more in common with the PRC than typical western countries. I agree though that our western democracies are eroding. We have too many selfish voters who think only of what they can get if they vote left and don't care about the consequences. I think Heinlein had it right, only those willing to serve their country selflessly should get the vote. Id considering living in the US but only in a red state like Texas.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot @monarchist

Capitalism will eventually lead to the same end as communism. Both created at the same time by the Jew. Both international movements were rather than finding national partners one seeks outside the nation for partners in both business and politics.

One is international.

And thus the Jews will find the traitors that they need.

National socialism is so far the only solution that was able to prove all other ideologies wrong.

You are correct, sir.

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist We will in time realize that "why do we need democracy at all"? It is just a drag on results.

Let's use the tool that brought us wealth and quality of life, capitalism, and discard the unnecessary rest such as democracy.

But for that to happen, I think humanity needs to be ready, and looking at our education system and intelligence today, I Don't think we are ready for it except for small pockets.

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist would you say that democracy yield high taxes, low quality public services etc.?

As for capitalism, that is outside the realm of governance. It is a tool (markets and free trade) that can be used to improve the lives of everyone, over time. Democracy adopted the tool, as did Putin and communist china, and once they allowed some amount of capitalism, they all prospered to some extent.

I believe that the future is capitalism and more private ownership.

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist If more and more people vote with their feet, over time, there will be socialist countries, and conservative countries, and much more harmony within the countries.

It is also an interesting experiment, because for the ones who have not already been able to figure it out, it will become pretty clear which way to run society yields the best results, and possibly western europe can start to move back to rationality although I do believe it is too late.

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist Don't let that common quip fool you. Democracy is the youngest and least tested way to govern modern society, and based on recent trends, it seems as if democracy is destined to collapse into socialism, as we see in western europe, since majority rule means that the minority will always be exploited.

The other way is for the minority, who do see this threat, to take power, and we end up with authoritarian regimes.

But looking beyond "democracy is least worst

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist " we can find Liechtenstein and Monaco, both are not true democracies, although they do have democratic window dressing, and offer some of the highest living standards in the world.

We can look at Singapore and dubai. Neither are democracies yet offering low taxes, stable societies that puts western europe to shame.

If you grew up there, would you still say that democracy is the least worst? Or

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist Agreed!

I did the math, and eastern europe (the baltics, hungary, romania, etc.) seems to be the best combination of low cost of living, low taxes, and a minimum of woke madness, while still being close to friends and relatives in western europe.

I recommend everyone I know who is not happy with western europes socialism, to move to eastern europe to bolster the non-socialist values and community there.

@h4890 @monarchist @freepatriot The problem with Democracy is that the alternatives are even worse. So what that means is that democracy (and free market economics) is the least-worst system we've come up with so far. Spare a thought for all the people suffering under socialist, communist, or authoritarian regimes. However, I don't think that we're at the end of history. I'm sure once upon a time it seemed inconceivable that we would have anything other than feudalism (which was still a big improvement over absolute monarchy), but eventually capitalism led to democracy and greatly increased our wealth and freedom. In a similar fashion, we can't yet see what comes next, but AI and automation is likely to make many jobs redundant and reshape society. It's not going to be socialism though, that ideology has been thoroughly tested and discredited.

@h4890 @monarchist @freepatriot That sounds like an ideal situation. Taxes in the West have reached socialist levels, and combined with the high cost of living and inappropriate immigration, the typically desirable countries such as Australia, Canada, etc, are becoming less livable.

@monarchist @freepatriot every situation, in favour of developing traits, say wisdom, and trusting that if the individual is wise, he will solve ethical dilemmas better than one that is not wise. That's the strength of virtue ethics according to me.

Now... pinning down, what is wise, and how do you become wise... that is a quite a problem!

@monarchist @freepatriot I would say that goals don't have tp be inter-subjective, _but_ the goals that are not, tend to get eliminated by evolution.

Who is in control? You or your culture? An interesting question!

Wisdom is also a tricky one. I think all cultures on the planet value wisdom, yet, it is a chimera that is very difficult to formalize and pin down.

But looking at virtue ethics, the beauty of it, is that it sidesteps the traditional ethics of finding a rule that applies to

@monarchist @freepatriot This is the truth!

And do note the hypocrisy of europe here! European governments happily force companies to adopt gender planes, environmental plans, union collective agreements etc. basically indirectly forcing their socialism on companies.

Now... when Trump applies the same weapon, saying that who ever does business with the US, must support meritocracy and deny woke:ism, then all hell broke loose in europe.

@monarchist @freepatriot I found it hilarious, because he is doing exactly the same thing to them, that they are doing to european business owners, but with a more sane ideology. All of a sudden, since europe cannot bully the US, it was no fun any longer! 😂