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Eyes and ears are bad witnesses for men if they have souls which cannot understand their language

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@TheReal7HOMAS They've had a surge in popularity in recent years with the younger audience and they deserve it. They still give it their all and kill it live after all these years, so it's great to see them making dough.

Chino is also a cool cat and very personable in real life

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@jusderaisingroy It feels like we're running the 2016 MeToo arc again which does not bode well for people who were under the impression that woke was dead

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This is a magisterial work and should be required reading. It's absolutely transformative to one's conception and pre-conceived notions of the Middle Ages.

Kondylis also borrows heavily from Brunner's schemata of the feudal socio-political structure in his Konservativismus

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"Unwilling to abandon modern legal concepts, it takes the radical step of explaining feud and vengeance as prior to law and to society. This is entirely consistent with the idea of the modern state - the state of Hobbes's Leviathan, where 'authority, not truth, is the source of law' (Auctoritas, non veritas, facit legem). Anything not understandable in this context must belong to the 'state of nature,' the bellum omnium contra omnes. For the Hobbesian state is an order of peace founded on coercion, a civil state that allows no place for enmity. Hence vengeance and feud are explained as prior to law and society; they rest not on conceptions of Right but on an elemental, atavistic impulse toward hate and war.

The problem, of course, is that this state of affairs supposedly 'prior to law and society' is a pure negation not susceptible of scholarly discussion. It is a negation of conditions that it presupposes. In the Middle Ages, in fact, feud and vengeance were inseparable from concepts of Right. Earlier law knew a host of words like vengeance, honor, and loyalty - terms that signified a concept of Right as well as the mentality underlying it. To undertake retribution to preserve one's honor, to remain loyal, were inextricably bound up with impulses that in fact were the means through which claims of Right were realized. Had individuals in the Middle Ages not been driven by motives of vengeance, 'enmity' would never have arisen. But only in the modern world has this drive come to be understood as an elemental, pre-social phenomenon. A social and legal order was implicit in ancient, medieval, and above all Christian concepts of 'nature,' and the modern dichotomy of 'is' and 'ought' was foreign to them. What in modern times appears as natural necessarily seemed to the Middle Ages to be the work of the devil; what the Middle Ages deemed to be natural, the order of nature, was in fact the legally ordered society."

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@DeGroyper28971 @psycherrant Do you have the old Twitter spaces of Carlsbad saved?

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@KeithWoodsYT https://t.co/TeV0hOyJrK

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The Greek man of antiquity, contrary to the presuppositions of many modern commentators, was not a unified self with a private inner life. A differentiated concept of individual identity was foreign to him, he inhabited a world that lacked any reflexive inwardness.

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Has @epektasis_ disappeared again?

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@_bonaventurian @TylerSRHamilton Is Tyler gone again?

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@WhiteFatvocate https://t.co/CworyAjtnc

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Apart from the obvious delusion, most people don't even realize how much China's energy hedging and industrial substitution make it uniquely capable of withstanding shocks to global oil supply and prices.

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@TylerSRHamilton @_bonaventurian @rikstorey Josh retired again? Hopefully this one sticks about as long as the previous ones lol

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@epektasis_ I will say, I did expect the supply side shock after the closing of the Strait to be far more severe and pronounced. We are getting higher gas prices obviously (slightly?), but 3 months into the disruption, I was expecting more acute shortages and overall panic already

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@UBERSOY1 Cure 1997

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The idea that America deindustrialized because of "falling efficiences, lost profit margins and overall depletion of energy resources" is so absurdly ahistorical and illiterate that it doesn't even dignify a serious response. Fantasy land. Go read a book.

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Industrial society is built around exploiting hyper-concentrated resources (energy, etc) that are finite and cannot be produced or regenerated. Therefore, deindustrialization through falling efficiencies and lost profit margins is baked into the cake from the start.

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In other words, Chinese leadership learned valuable lessons from the 18th and 19th century economic developments in US and Europe, and their rise as a great power shouldn't really be surprising for anyone paying attention

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After Michael Hudson published America's Protectionist Take-off, China took a significant interest in him. His work, alongside the work of 19th-century protectionists like Hamilton, Carey & List began to be translated and circulated among Chinese scholars and policy intellectuals

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“Without a strong manufacturing industry, there will be no country and no nation.” - CCP document 2015.

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Friedrich List is often referred to as the "Father of The Chinese Economic Miracle" there, his book National System of Political Economy is standard text in CASS Institute, while leading intellectuals like Cui Zhiyuan spent decades promoting the American System

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@KeithWoodsYT @not_our_guy Rebuttals such as this one https://t.co/lJ3B7Fdq45 have been written, but you haven't actually engaged with any of them from what I can see

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He desperately wants to be at the forefront of "the culture" where the energy and the "cool" kids are, but his instincts are terrible in large part because the culture he wants to attach himself is worth less than the afternoon it will take people to forget about it

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Fuentes always associates with, endorses and extols the most reprobate refuse if they possess a significant following and when their inadequacies inevatibly become too glaringly obvious he's forced to save face after he disassociates by saying he actually disliked them all along

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@mymoonovski Cure (1997)