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Trump is crashing the financial economy with no survivors. Is this OK?
I see a lot of people complaining about tariffs and stock market crash and all this. We all knew Trump's agenda was gong to hit the fake economy hard. But maybe it's hitting the real economy too, and maybe for no good reason. I have no opinion but I'm curi...
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Leibnizian Supercoordination
Continuing off of a few prior threads:
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Leibnizian Supercoor
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Geriatric Left and Progressive Right by Bronze Age Pervert
(bronzeagepervert.substack.com)
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Geriatric Left and P
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internet supplants america
Modern Americans have outgrown our republic.
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Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization
Mosca argued that every ruling class justifies itself with a political formula : an ideological narrative that legitimizes power. Raw force alone is unsustainable; a widely accepted narrative makes dominance appear natural. Internally, shared ideology unif...
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Ideology is more fun
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Perennial Science: Peer-to-Peer-Review in God as First Criterion of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (February 17th, 2025)
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The Greater East Asia War
>Did our Greater East Asia War really result in total defeat? The former colonies that became battlegrounds all gained their independence during or after the war, and they have not fallen into white hands again. What are we to make of this fact? In the pos...
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The Greater East Asi
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Calvinism as theory of recovered high trust agency
Very good essay on Calvinism as a jump to a higher trust regime. Feels similar to the project of sofiechan.
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Calvinism as theory
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Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.
Thread for discussion of the recent interview of Curtis Yarvin for the New York Times. I thought this was a great interview and am still in awe that the Times published this. Seemed unimaginable 4 years ago. My thoughts will be the first reply. Feel free t...
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Curtis Yarvin Says D
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Against Yarvin's Absolute Monarchy
I recently watched the Yarvin interview on NYT. I want to argue against Yarvin’s position on monarchy. Yarvin makes his typical argument in favor of monarchy: ‘look around you, everything here in this room is built by a monarchy’ and ‘NYT is a 5th ...
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Against Yarvin's Abs
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