François-René Rideau

Cybernetician, building liberty, love and understanding (for Computing see @ngnghm, for Cryptocurrency see @phanaero)

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@patcondell Is that how you spell "rivers of blood" in British English? "general election"? My, so many false cognates with American English.

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@toadmeister That's a gross insult to all Bulgarians, when the criminal is actually a Gypsy.

Like calling "man from <local town>" a recent feral muslim immigrant who commits rape or murder.

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@GBPolitcs Why is he still alive though? Clown country.

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Communism and Islam are ideologies of mass murder. They reward the worst people on Earth with slaves and power—under the praise of swine.

Capitalism is the ideology of creation. It rewards the best people on Earth with the ability to create even more—while the same swine cringe.

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There have been many trillionaires in past history: Mughal Emperors, Stalin... mass murderers who captured the vast wealth of entire nations through genocide. They personally exercised life and death control on any and every conquered inhabitant and all their possessions.

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Elon Musk is the first trillionaire to achieve such colossal wealth by creating it instead of stealing it. He tremendously contributed to the world through innovations like cheap satellite launch and Internet in the remotest places on Earth (except where blocked by governments).

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@SamCalderaX @Devon_Eriksen_ @martycon73 From this world.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ @martycon73 And by home, you mean Hell?

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The message of a protest is "we don't like this".

The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".

People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.

They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.

If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.

And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.

Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.

Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.

(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)

When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.

And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.

This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".

They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.

This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.

A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.

A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

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Expulsion is not a valid concept, ever.
You don't expel friends.
You don't expel enemies.
You sometimes grant people a 24h grace period to go away.

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@harukaawake Don't expel friends. Don't expel enemies.

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@Chesschick01 Me over here just trying to be a zeroaire again.

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@realannapaulina Fully agreed... except that the last two words contradict the previous. If you follow @gametheory101's series on Crisis Bargaining, you'll find that to give weight to Western promises of sanctions in case Putin defaults on Peace terms, the West must show its teeth now.

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@THEDuaneCates @hokkori_buzz The rebel government that you installed inflicts vastly more usury and abuse than the rightful King that you rebelled against.

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@hokkori_buzz Owning a gun is a necessary civil duty, because evil people want to prohibit it.

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@0morphicstates0 @alniopulesitivt It's only a profit because judges, lawyers, bureaucrats and politicians shield them from prosecution---instead of being executed for high-treason.

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@alniopulesitivt Instead of paying Russia 1 trillion, make billions of dollars by auctioning the rights to execute the big agro-industrial, big pharma, big junk food, big government, big law criminals who imposed unhealthy food upon Americans.

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@BinghamLowe @WHLeavitt False false false. You do not _deport_ parasites.

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@WHLeavitt He absolutely should not be _deported_.

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A foreigner, I am the embodiment of taxation without representation—the living proof that the US regime is founded on lies all the way down.