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Wow.

Americans have never read a history book and are in denial about everything.

Americans say the US did not have churches in 1776, gulags have never existed, and the Vietnam War never happened.

The boxcars won't even be needed because Americans are so enslaved now that Americans will drive themselves to the concentration camps.

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Working hard and knowing that you will be arrested in the future is a terrible feeling.

Working hard and knowing that you will be arrested in the future is a terrible feeling.

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The US has been mostly socialist since the 1960s.

The WW2 compact involved accepting socialism and communism as extensions of democracy.

Subsequent events proved some key differences...

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Useful question with an eternal answer: you select your best people by their works in reality, and get them together with others, then make sure intelligent women are available, so you can breed a caste of those born with leadership skills including nobility and gumption.

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I agree here: making markets functional makes them transparent, and lets culture out to play.

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The thing people do not realize about Bathory is that Quorthon was a very creative dude with mile-a-minute thinking.

I don't like all of their material but the best album for introduction is "Blood Fire Death."

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Hoppe -- who I know only from third party writings -- had a point.

After the French Revolution, monarchy became taboo, and it seriously offends the egalitarians today.

But this suggests it is what they fear, too.

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We are entering an age where three people can run a major manufacturing firm by overseeing AIs and robots.

Private ownership means no meddling by the shareholders, and the ability to plan for a long-term future.

For example, if you make bolts, these are not going to change, so you just keep cranking... and reduce staff to the minimum.

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We really, really were. He arrested the slide into socialism and the total state.

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At the very least:

* Ensure competence
* Anything done by government must benefit everyone
* Reward the good
* Remove the bad

Government should not be as complex as people make it out to be these days.

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Don't hate me, but politics is a market.

Our politicians are created by our voters.

What the voters want to buy, they vote for.

Illusion? Those are the best sellers!

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I distrust popular movements. They are almost always lies.

The check on monarchy is always the aristocracy. This worked until the church got involved.

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For a monarch, the _only_ success that can be had is in making a stronger society for the long-term duration.

They are judged by history, and aware of it before all else.

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Ultimately, culture is based on overlap of ends/goals.

Even if this is simple as trying to survive in some barren place.

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"Truth" is a human symbolic token series representing a conception of what is real.

Science works because reality is real, and sometimes we can understand each other enough to pass on basic bits of wisdom about how reality operates.

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The "Gothenburg sound" is legendary in underground metal.

Looks interesting, and I will keep an eye out for this on the usual... um... file archiving areas.

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Or just drop "equal" entirely and focus on "opportunity."

Life is never equal. It in fact seems to be organized on difference, not uniformity.

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