![balajis's tweet photo. Your post has several embedded points that I disagree with. Let's go.
THE US MILITARY IS MADE IN CHINA
"If China and the USA go to war..."
(1) China and the US aren't going to war, because the US military is literally made in China. See the $400M Govini study commissioned by the Pentagon itself[a], which shows that famous American armaments like the JDAM and Tomahawk are ultimately dependent upon Chinese suppliers.
(2) Unfortunately, that means China can simply turn off the Republican military. You can't fight your factory. The whole defense industrial buildup to "fight China" is essentially a LARP. I like a lot of the guys involved with that, and I appreciate their wishful thinking, and it may bear results on a multi-decadal time scale...but there's no way that 77M MAGA Republicans are competing with 1.4B+ Chinese in manufacturing anytime soon. China's flex on rare earths was just the beginning of their enormous leverage over the US economy and military.
(3) However, most of the world didn't fully understand this. They thought the US military was still the military of 1991, or 2003. That's why the war in Iran should never have been fought; the Republicans should have instead spent their political capital quietly rebuilding, while everyone thought they were still strong. Instead, they just pursued a foolhardy campaign which ended in public defeat. US military bases across the Middle East got blown up by Iranian missiles, with soldiers reduced to working remote, and ships pulled back far from the theater. This sucks, but now even neocons like Kagan are acknowledging total defeat [b,c].
(4) So: after the defeat in Iran, it's unlikely there is war with China (which is >100X Iran). However, similar to how the post-Soviet Russia got into fights with its neighbors, like the Chechens and Ukrainians, the post-imperial America will probably get much more involved in Latin America. But that's a whole separate topic.
CITY STATES VS NETWORK STATES
"...what you’re actually talking about is just starting some small city states around the world..."
(1) First, hopefully you'll agree that new cities are pretty cool in their own right, and are how America was born in the first place. The Massachusetts Bay Colony built the City on a Hill, remember?
(2) Second, I'm expressly not only talking about centralized city states, which are entirely dependent on their geographic host, but also distributed network states. There's a concrete visual here[d], but to first order you can think of it as "just" a physical social network, albeit with financial and technological resources on par with a legacy state. Similar to how some countries are islands separated by oceans, you can imagine new countries that are groups of islands (or enclaves) separated by Internet.
(3) The key precedent here is decentralized crypto, which is much bigger than the the vast majority of country-scale economies in the world. Were all the crypto datacenters wiped off the map, and all cryptocurrency holders killed the second a "superpower" decided crypto was inconvenient? No, crypto actually flipped both superpowers. It was a fight with words and code, not guns, but crypto is now legal in much of the world, including not just the US and EU, but even Hong Kong in China.
(4) Fourth, your beliefs were likely also considered "subversive" by far leftists for many years. But technologists defended your right to free speech, with code. And ultimately what matters is whether a belief is true, and whether it produces human flourishing.
NATION OF EMIGRANTS
"...didn’t you flee to Singapore?"
(1) This sentence makes no sense. It's like saying "didn't you flee to Stanford" or "didn't you flee to Google". Lest you didn't know, Singapore is by some measures now the richest country in the world[e,f]. You apply to move there, and it has borders, and rejects many applicants. You cannot simply "flee" there.
(2) Now, with that said, your sentence does make sense in a different context, which is that millions of Republicans and technologists HAVE fled...because they fled Democrat-controlled states like California for places like Texas and Florida, to escape the violence and drug addicts.
(3) I am sympathetic, of course. But there is a difference between simply fleeing Blue America for the next state over, as opposed to consciously moving and then coming up with a plan. The obvious plan is to just vote within your existing city or country, and of course you can do that, but perhaps one can do something more.
(4) My plan is simple: use the Internet to peacefully build new opt-in communities, build new cities, and connect them together. In the fullness of time, I do think that we can use the Internet to build many alternatives to places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, drain them of their best people, and demonstrate that a new birth of freedom is possible. That will either reform places like SF and LA, or it will end them, but either way the people finally get a true democratic choice of governments, with 1000 cities to chose from.
(5) In other words: we want 1000 startup societies and network states around the world, each for a different subculture, some for Americans, and some for others. That's also part of why I moved here, to learn from Lee Kuan Yew's work.
(6) Again, this is how America itself was started. The Pilgrims and Puritans "fled" to New England and started a new city on the hill, which eventually outclassed most of the cities in the old world. A group of Irish Americans "fled" from Ireland to America to join them. Really, they didn't simply flee, they moved, and they built something better.
(7) Finally: yes, of course, it did take centuries to scale Boston to a population of 673,000. But the Internet got to billions of users in just a few decades. With new tech, we might be able to scale new cities much faster than they did before. Elon's Starbase is already well on its way, by the way. And that's what I mean by printing out the Internet.
[a]: https://t.co/U3hZLShnG7
[b]: https://t.co/ivMG18URSA
[c]: https://t.co/4Fvfm1347M
[d]: https://t.co/LwtBXJKZbX
[e]: https://t.co/BDDWPkLUvy
[f]: https://t.co/PpmV9E8Tlk](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJQRf6daMAAZKY7.jpg)
![balajis's tweet photo. Your post has several embedded points that I disagree with. Let's go.
THE US MILITARY IS MADE IN CHINA
"If China and the USA go to war..."
(1) China and the US aren't going to war, because the US military is literally made in China. See the $400M Govini study commissioned by the Pentagon itself[a], which shows that famous American armaments like the JDAM and Tomahawk are ultimately dependent upon Chinese suppliers.
(2) Unfortunately, that means China can simply turn off the Republican military. You can't fight your factory. The whole defense industrial buildup to "fight China" is essentially a LARP. I like a lot of the guys involved with that, and I appreciate their wishful thinking, and it may bear results on a multi-decadal time scale...but there's no way that 77M MAGA Republicans are competing with 1.4B+ Chinese in manufacturing anytime soon. China's flex on rare earths was just the beginning of their enormous leverage over the US economy and military.
(3) However, most of the world didn't fully understand this. They thought the US military was still the military of 1991, or 2003. That's why the war in Iran should never have been fought; the Republicans should have instead spent their political capital quietly rebuilding, while everyone thought they were still strong. Instead, they just pursued a foolhardy campaign which ended in public defeat. US military bases across the Middle East got blown up by Iranian missiles, with soldiers reduced to working remote, and ships pulled back far from the theater. This sucks, but now even neocons like Kagan are acknowledging total defeat [b,c].
(4) So: after the defeat in Iran, it's unlikely there is war with China (which is >100X Iran). However, similar to how the post-Soviet Russia got into fights with its neighbors, like the Chechens and Ukrainians, the post-imperial America will probably get much more involved in Latin America. But that's a whole separate topic.
CITY STATES VS NETWORK STATES
"...what you’re actually talking about is just starting some small city states around the world..."
(1) First, hopefully you'll agree that new cities are pretty cool in their own right, and are how America was born in the first place. The Massachusetts Bay Colony built the City on a Hill, remember?
(2) Second, I'm expressly not only talking about centralized city states, which are entirely dependent on their geographic host, but also distributed network states. There's a concrete visual here[d], but to first order you can think of it as "just" a physical social network, albeit with financial and technological resources on par with a legacy state. Similar to how some countries are islands separated by oceans, you can imagine new countries that are groups of islands (or enclaves) separated by Internet.
(3) The key precedent here is decentralized crypto, which is much bigger than the the vast majority of country-scale economies in the world. Were all the crypto datacenters wiped off the map, and all cryptocurrency holders killed the second a "superpower" decided crypto was inconvenient? No, crypto actually flipped both superpowers. It was a fight with words and code, not guns, but crypto is now legal in much of the world, including not just the US and EU, but even Hong Kong in China.
(4) Fourth, your beliefs were likely also considered "subversive" by far leftists for many years. But technologists defended your right to free speech, with code. And ultimately what matters is whether a belief is true, and whether it produces human flourishing.
NATION OF EMIGRANTS
"...didn’t you flee to Singapore?"
(1) This sentence makes no sense. It's like saying "didn't you flee to Stanford" or "didn't you flee to Google". Lest you didn't know, Singapore is by some measures now the richest country in the world[e,f]. You apply to move there, and it has borders, and rejects many applicants. You cannot simply "flee" there.
(2) Now, with that said, your sentence does make sense in a different context, which is that millions of Republicans and technologists HAVE fled...because they fled Democrat-controlled states like California for places like Texas and Florida, to escape the violence and drug addicts.
(3) I am sympathetic, of course. But there is a difference between simply fleeing Blue America for the next state over, as opposed to consciously moving and then coming up with a plan. The obvious plan is to just vote within your existing city or country, and of course you can do that, but perhaps one can do something more.
(4) My plan is simple: use the Internet to peacefully build new opt-in communities, build new cities, and connect them together. In the fullness of time, I do think that we can use the Internet to build many alternatives to places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, drain them of their best people, and demonstrate that a new birth of freedom is possible. That will either reform places like SF and LA, or it will end them, but either way the people finally get a true democratic choice of governments, with 1000 cities to chose from.
(5) In other words: we want 1000 startup societies and network states around the world, each for a different subculture, some for Americans, and some for others. That's also part of why I moved here, to learn from Lee Kuan Yew's work.
(6) Again, this is how America itself was started. The Pilgrims and Puritans "fled" to New England and started a new city on the hill, which eventually outclassed most of the cities in the old world. A group of Irish Americans "fled" from Ireland to America to join them. Really, they didn't simply flee, they moved, and they built something better.
(7) Finally: yes, of course, it did take centuries to scale Boston to a population of 673,000. But the Internet got to billions of users in just a few decades. With new tech, we might be able to scale new cities much faster than they did before. Elon's Starbase is already well on its way, by the way. And that's what I mean by printing out the Internet.
[a]: https://t.co/U3hZLShnG7
[b]: https://t.co/ivMG18URSA
[c]: https://t.co/4Fvfm1347M
[d]: https://t.co/LwtBXJKZbX
[e]: https://t.co/BDDWPkLUvy
[f]: https://t.co/PpmV9E8Tlk](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJQNpyoaoAAMMO5.jpg)
![balajis's tweet photo. Your post has several embedded points that I disagree with. Let's go.
THE US MILITARY IS MADE IN CHINA
"If China and the USA go to war..."
(1) China and the US aren't going to war, because the US military is literally made in China. See the $400M Govini study commissioned by the Pentagon itself[a], which shows that famous American armaments like the JDAM and Tomahawk are ultimately dependent upon Chinese suppliers.
(2) Unfortunately, that means China can simply turn off the Republican military. You can't fight your factory. The whole defense industrial buildup to "fight China" is essentially a LARP. I like a lot of the guys involved with that, and I appreciate their wishful thinking, and it may bear results on a multi-decadal time scale...but there's no way that 77M MAGA Republicans are competing with 1.4B+ Chinese in manufacturing anytime soon. China's flex on rare earths was just the beginning of their enormous leverage over the US economy and military.
(3) However, most of the world didn't fully understand this. They thought the US military was still the military of 1991, or 2003. That's why the war in Iran should never have been fought; the Republicans should have instead spent their political capital quietly rebuilding, while everyone thought they were still strong. Instead, they just pursued a foolhardy campaign which ended in public defeat. US military bases across the Middle East got blown up by Iranian missiles, with soldiers reduced to working remote, and ships pulled back far from the theater. This sucks, but now even neocons like Kagan are acknowledging total defeat [b,c].
(4) So: after the defeat in Iran, it's unlikely there is war with China (which is >100X Iran). However, similar to how the post-Soviet Russia got into fights with its neighbors, like the Chechens and Ukrainians, the post-imperial America will probably get much more involved in Latin America. But that's a whole separate topic.
CITY STATES VS NETWORK STATES
"...what you’re actually talking about is just starting some small city states around the world..."
(1) First, hopefully you'll agree that new cities are pretty cool in their own right, and are how America was born in the first place. The Massachusetts Bay Colony built the City on a Hill, remember?
(2) Second, I'm expressly not only talking about centralized city states, which are entirely dependent on their geographic host, but also distributed network states. There's a concrete visual here[d], but to first order you can think of it as "just" a physical social network, albeit with financial and technological resources on par with a legacy state. Similar to how some countries are islands separated by oceans, you can imagine new countries that are groups of islands (or enclaves) separated by Internet.
(3) The key precedent here is decentralized crypto, which is much bigger than the the vast majority of country-scale economies in the world. Were all the crypto datacenters wiped off the map, and all cryptocurrency holders killed the second a "superpower" decided crypto was inconvenient? No, crypto actually flipped both superpowers. It was a fight with words and code, not guns, but crypto is now legal in much of the world, including not just the US and EU, but even Hong Kong in China.
(4) Fourth, your beliefs were likely also considered "subversive" by far leftists for many years. But technologists defended your right to free speech, with code. And ultimately what matters is whether a belief is true, and whether it produces human flourishing.
NATION OF EMIGRANTS
"...didn’t you flee to Singapore?"
(1) This sentence makes no sense. It's like saying "didn't you flee to Stanford" or "didn't you flee to Google". Lest you didn't know, Singapore is by some measures now the richest country in the world[e,f]. You apply to move there, and it has borders, and rejects many applicants. You cannot simply "flee" there.
(2) Now, with that said, your sentence does make sense in a different context, which is that millions of Republicans and technologists HAVE fled...because they fled Democrat-controlled states like California for places like Texas and Florida, to escape the violence and drug addicts.
(3) I am sympathetic, of course. But there is a difference between simply fleeing Blue America for the next state over, as opposed to consciously moving and then coming up with a plan. The obvious plan is to just vote within your existing city or country, and of course you can do that, but perhaps one can do something more.
(4) My plan is simple: use the Internet to peacefully build new opt-in communities, build new cities, and connect them together. In the fullness of time, I do think that we can use the Internet to build many alternatives to places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, drain them of their best people, and demonstrate that a new birth of freedom is possible. That will either reform places like SF and LA, or it will end them, but either way the people finally get a true democratic choice of governments, with 1000 cities to chose from.
(5) In other words: we want 1000 startup societies and network states around the world, each for a different subculture, some for Americans, and some for others. That's also part of why I moved here, to learn from Lee Kuan Yew's work.
(6) Again, this is how America itself was started. The Pilgrims and Puritans "fled" to New England and started a new city on the hill, which eventually outclassed most of the cities in the old world. A group of Irish Americans "fled" from Ireland to America to join them. Really, they didn't simply flee, they moved, and they built something better.
(7) Finally: yes, of course, it did take centuries to scale Boston to a population of 673,000. But the Internet got to billions of users in just a few decades. With new tech, we might be able to scale new cities much faster than they did before. Elon's Starbase is already well on its way, by the way. And that's what I mean by printing out the Internet.
[a]: https://t.co/U3hZLShnG7
[b]: https://t.co/ivMG18URSA
[c]: https://t.co/4Fvfm1347M
[d]: https://t.co/LwtBXJKZbX
[e]: https://t.co/BDDWPkLUvy
[f]: https://t.co/PpmV9E8Tlk](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HJQL0pVaUAAAS76.jpg)
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@shipwreckedcrew All true. They’re also concerned about Pratt’s potential influence on the Gubernatorial race.
@AwakenedOutlaw I used to get called for jury duty almost every year. Changed registration to GOP, never been called since.
I’m coming around on Planter.
I was working on a fake excerpt from the Graham Platner article but I don’t think I can top this
It's rare for imagery this iconic to emerge organically.
It's just a still taken from the body cam of Henry's murder and yet it is so poetic in its composition.
The pale white flesh of Henry's hand, visibly depleted of blood as he is moments away from death, is both contrasted against his dark clothing and illuminated by the rays of the flashlight such that the image takes on the characteristics of a renaissance painting.
Henry's hand is curled into something like fist. It naturally draws comparisons to Black Lives Matter and the "Black Power" Fist iconography, Henry's dying paleness evoking "White Power," the boogeyman we have destroyed our societies attempting to stymie.
But there is no "White Power." Henry is dying. The fist is literally shackled, constrained, and drained of life. It is being "attacked" by the begloved hands, artificial, latex, inhuman, contorted into the shape of a predatory claw. These are literally the arms of the state. The "Systemic Organism." Our ultimate tyrant.
These are not the hands of the individual officers to whom they actually belong, but rather the hands of a system, a meta-organism. Hands following orders that did not come from the minds of the human individuals but rather the Systemic Egregore. Hands operating under explicit instructions to elevate testimony that claims "racism" and to treat all Whites with suspicion as avatars of that "ultimate evil" against which the system has oriented itself.
Except Henry was not evil. He was a victim of this inhuman system. This grotesquely maligned system embodied and visible in the grotesque blue claw clasping him and holding him down as he dies. The system that shackles the dying White "Power."
Henry is Britain. He is the West. We are all dying. We are all bleeding to death shackled by the inhuman systems we live under. And if we continue to be shackled by these systems, we will, like Henry, die.
The total repudiation of these governments are necessary to make any change. Incremental improvements are entirely insufficient. The time to be ungovernable is now.
Regime change is necessary. Remigration is necessary. The mass rejection of the status quo and its systems is necessary.
Revolution is necessary.
“I’ve been stabbed.”
“I don’t think you have, mate.”
Bodycam footage of 18-year-old Henry Nowak’s arrest shortly prior to his death by stabbing.
@TFL1728 Sry. Gen X is an will forever be a forgotten generation. Forgotten by their parents and forgotten by the populous. Gen X will be the first generation in American history not to have a president. The slacker generation has lived up to its billing.
“A boy with no place in the village will burn it to feel the warmth.”
@Z4BTC_ “Boys with no place in the village will burn it to feel its warmth.”
This is rough. Balaji assumes that the trajectory of the past 20 years will continue unabated. He is wholly unaccustomed to violence as a solution. One can hope for technoutopia but we have to prepare for internet balkanization by force.
Your post has several embedded points that I disagree with. Let's go.
THE US MILITARY IS MADE IN CHINA
"If China and the USA go to war..."
(1) China and the US aren't going to war, because the US military is literally made in China. See the $400M Govini study commissioned by the Pentagon itself[a], which shows that famous American armaments like the JDAM and Tomahawk are ultimately dependent upon Chinese suppliers.
(2) Unfortunately, that means China can simply turn off the Republican military. You can't fight your factory. The whole defense industrial buildup to "fight China" is essentially a LARP. I like a lot of the guys involved with that, and I appreciate their wishful thinking, and it may bear results on a multi-decadal time scale...but there's no way that 77M MAGA Republicans are competing with 1.4B+ Chinese in manufacturing anytime soon. China's flex on rare earths was just the beginning of their enormous leverage over the US economy and military.
(3) However, most of the world didn't fully understand this. They thought the US military was still the military of 1991, or 2003. That's why the war in Iran should never have been fought; the Republicans should have instead spent their political capital quietly rebuilding, while everyone thought they were still strong. Instead, they just pursued a foolhardy campaign which ended in public defeat. US military bases across the Middle East got blown up by Iranian missiles, with soldiers reduced to working remote, and ships pulled back far from the theater. This sucks, but now even neocons like Kagan are acknowledging total defeat [b,c].
(4) So: after the defeat in Iran, it's unlikely there is war with China (which is >100X Iran). However, similar to how the post-Soviet Russia got into fights with its neighbors, like the Chechens and Ukrainians, the post-imperial America will probably get much more involved in Latin America. But that's a whole separate topic.
CITY STATES VS NETWORK STATES
"...what you’re actually talking about is just starting some small city states around the world..."
(1) First, hopefully you'll agree that new cities are pretty cool in their own right, and are how America was born in the first place. The Massachusetts Bay Colony built the City on a Hill, remember?
(2) Second, I'm expressly not only talking about centralized city states, which are entirely dependent on their geographic host, but also distributed network states. There's a concrete visual here[d], but to first order you can think of it as "just" a physical social network, albeit with financial and technological resources on par with a legacy state. Similar to how some countries are islands separated by oceans, you can imagine new countries that are groups of islands (or enclaves) separated by Internet.
(3) The key precedent here is decentralized crypto, which is much bigger than the the vast majority of country-scale economies in the world. Were all the crypto datacenters wiped off the map, and all cryptocurrency holders killed the second a "superpower" decided crypto was inconvenient? No, crypto actually flipped both superpowers. It was a fight with words and code, not guns, but crypto is now legal in much of the world, including not just the US and EU, but even Hong Kong in China.
(4) Fourth, your beliefs were likely also considered "subversive" by far leftists for many years. But technologists defended your right to free speech, with code. And ultimately what matters is whether a belief is true, and whether it produces human flourishing.
NATION OF EMIGRANTS
"...didn’t you flee to Singapore?"
(1) This sentence makes no sense. It's like saying "didn't you flee to Stanford" or "didn't you flee to Google". Lest you didn't know, Singapore is by some measures now the richest country in the world[e,f]. You apply to move there, and it has borders, and rejects many applicants. You cannot simply "flee" there.
(2) Now, with that said, your sentence does make sense in a different context, which is that millions of Republicans and technologists HAVE fled...because they fled Democrat-controlled states like California for places like Texas and Florida, to escape the violence and drug addicts.
(3) I am sympathetic, of course. But there is a difference between simply fleeing Blue America for the next state over, as opposed to consciously moving and then coming up with a plan. The obvious plan is to just vote within your existing city or country, and of course you can do that, but perhaps one can do something more.
(4) My plan is simple: use the Internet to peacefully build new opt-in communities, build new cities, and connect them together. In the fullness of time, I do think that we can use the Internet to build many alternatives to places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, drain them of their best people, and demonstrate that a new birth of freedom is possible. That will either reform places like SF and LA, or it will end them, but either way the people finally get a true democratic choice of governments, with 1000 cities to chose from.
(5) In other words: we want 1000 startup societies and network states around the world, each for a different subculture, some for Americans, and some for others. That's also part of why I moved here, to learn from Lee Kuan Yew's work.
(6) Again, this is how America itself was started. The Pilgrims and Puritans "fled" to New England and started a new city on the hill, which eventually outclassed most of the cities in the old world. A group of Irish Americans "fled" from Ireland to America to join them. Really, they didn't simply flee, they moved, and they built something better.
(7) Finally: yes, of course, it did take centuries to scale Boston to a population of 673,000. But the Internet got to billions of users in just a few decades. With new tech, we might be able to scale new cities much faster than they did before. Elon's Starbase is already well on its way, by the way. And that's what I mean by printing out the Internet.
[a]: https://t.co/U3hZLShnG7
[b]: https://t.co/ivMG18URSA
[c]: https://t.co/4Fvfm1347M
[d]: https://t.co/LwtBXJKZbX
[e]: https://t.co/BDDWPkLUvy
[f]: https://t.co/PpmV9E8Tlk
![balajis's tweet photo. Your post has several embedded points that I disagree with. Let's go.
THE US MILITARY IS MADE IN CHINA
"If China and the USA go to war..."
(1) China and the US aren't going to war, because the US military is literally made in China. See the $400M Govini study commissioned by the Pentagon itself[a], which shows that famous American armaments like the JDAM and Tomahawk are ultimately dependent upon Chinese suppliers.
(2) Unfortunately, that means China can simply turn off the Republican military. You can't fight your factory. The whole defense industrial buildup to "fight China" is essentially a LARP. I like a lot of the guys involved with that, and I appreciate their wishful thinking, and it may bear results on a multi-decadal time scale...but there's no way that 77M MAGA Republicans are competing with 1.4B+ Chinese in manufacturing anytime soon. China's flex on rare earths was just the beginning of their enormous leverage over the US economy and military.
(3) However, most of the world didn't fully understand this. They thought the US military was still the military of 1991, or 2003. That's why the war in Iran should never have been fought; the Republicans should have instead spent their political capital quietly rebuilding, while everyone thought they were still strong. Instead, they just pursued a foolhardy campaign which ended in public defeat. US military bases across the Middle East got blown up by Iranian missiles, with soldiers reduced to working remote, and ships pulled back far from the theater. This sucks, but now even neocons like Kagan are acknowledging total defeat [b,c].
(4) So: after the defeat in Iran, it's unlikely there is war with China (which is >100X Iran). However, similar to how the post-Soviet Russia got into fights with its neighbors, like the Chechens and Ukrainians, the post-imperial America will probably get much more involved in Latin America. But that's a whole separate topic.
CITY STATES VS NETWORK STATES
"...what you’re actually talking about is just starting some small city states around the world..."
(1) First, hopefully you'll agree that new cities are pretty cool in their own right, and are how America was born in the first place. The Massachusetts Bay Colony built the City on a Hill, remember?
(2) Second, I'm expressly not only talking about centralized city states, which are entirely dependent on their geographic host, but also distributed network states. There's a concrete visual here[d], but to first order you can think of it as "just" a physical social network, albeit with financial and technological resources on par with a legacy state. Similar to how some countries are islands separated by oceans, you can imagine new countries that are groups of islands (or enclaves) separated by Internet.
(3) The key precedent here is decentralized crypto, which is much bigger than the the vast majority of country-scale economies in the world. Were all the crypto datacenters wiped off the map, and all cryptocurrency holders killed the second a "superpower" decided crypto was inconvenient? No, crypto actually flipped both superpowers. It was a fight with words and code, not guns, but crypto is now legal in much of the world, including not just the US and EU, but even Hong Kong in China.
(4) Fourth, your beliefs were likely also considered "subversive" by far leftists for many years. But technologists defended your right to free speech, with code. And ultimately what matters is whether a belief is true, and whether it produces human flourishing.
NATION OF EMIGRANTS
"...didn’t you flee to Singapore?"
(1) This sentence makes no sense. It's like saying "didn't you flee to Stanford" or "didn't you flee to Google". Lest you didn't know, Singapore is by some measures now the richest country in the world[e,f]. You apply to move there, and it has borders, and rejects many applicants. You cannot simply "flee" there.
(2) Now, with that said, your sentence does make sense in a different context, which is that millions of Republicans and technologists HAVE fled...because they fled Democrat-controlled states like California for places like Texas and Florida, to escape the violence and drug addicts.
(3) I am sympathetic, of course. But there is a difference between simply fleeing Blue America for the next state over, as opposed to consciously moving and then coming up with a plan. The obvious plan is to just vote within your existing city or country, and of course you can do that, but perhaps one can do something more.
(4) My plan is simple: use the Internet to peacefully build new opt-in communities, build new cities, and connect them together. In the fullness of time, I do think that we can use the Internet to build many alternatives to places like San Francisco and Los Angeles, drain them of their best people, and demonstrate that a new birth of freedom is possible. That will either reform places like SF and LA, or it will end them, but either way the people finally get a true democratic choice of governments, with 1000 cities to chose from.
(5) In other words: we want 1000 startup societies and network states around the world, each for a different subculture, some for Americans, and some for others. That's also part of why I moved here, to learn from Lee Kuan Yew's work.
(6) Again, this is how America itself was started. The Pilgrims and Puritans "fled" to New England and started a new city on the hill, which eventually outclassed most of the cities in the old world. A group of Irish Americans "fled" from Ireland to America to join them. Really, they didn't simply flee, they moved, and they built something better.
(7) Finally: yes, of course, it did take centuries to scale Boston to a population of 673,000. But the Internet got to billions of users in just a few decades. With new tech, we might be able to scale new cities much faster than they did before. Elon's Starbase is already well on its way, by the way. And that's what I mean by printing out the Internet.
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@ellelledeell @RRR0BYN @thomaschattwill If he had thought deeper he’d realize that those were whites playing other characters in white stories. One could bring up Kurosawa films but that opens a whole other can of worms.
@IDF_ted Call back to a classic.
@watchtower1683 @ThomBrady5 @extradeadjcb True. If the goal is to preserve the nation and its people then mass deportation and controlled demolition of the financial sector is a necessity. Yes, this 401k’s are toast. Otherwise we limp into complete collapse resulting in anarchy and/or technoslavery.
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