This Ordered Chaos

Contemplating the absence of rational thought. Moving minds one (occasional) post at a time.

[Donald J. Gorbachev @donaldgorbachev]

five-second epistemology · magnum opus

in defense of Mao Zedong,

the Sunzi of the 21st century.

do you think maybe the 20 million Chinese killed by Japan, the bubonic plague dropped from aircraft onto 11+ Chinese cities, the 800,000 civilians drowned by the KMT’s own Yellow River dike breach, the eight foreign concessions operating simultaneously in Tianjin, the 99-year British lease on Hong Kong that expired in 1997, the 442-year Portuguese colony of Macau, the five separately documented nuclear-attack threats made against China by three different superpowers in twenty years, the Eight-Nation Alliance that occupied Beijing in 1900 with eight armies simultaneously, the 450-million-tael Boxer indemnity payable over 39 years with interest, the CIA-backed KMT opium operation that dominated the Golden Triangle for three decades, the Big Four zaibatsu that built the A6M Zero and operated the forced-labor mines, the 3,765 Chinese forced laborers Mitsubishi Materials finally apologized to in June 2016 (722 of whom died), and the keiretsu joint ventures running glass-ceiling factories on Chinese soil in the colonizer’s language in 2026 — do you think maybe the starvation of 1959–1961 had something to do with any of these things, which happened, just possibly, between 1839 and 1999?

a question for Prof. Richard A. Werner. empirical. fact-based.

Day 82 / Day 22 · 30 Ordibehesht 1405 / 20 May 2026.
@ProfessorWerner · @scientificecon.

0. Sunzi.

孫子曰：上兵伐謀。其次伐交。其次伐兵。其下攻城。

Sunzi said: the highest form of warfare is to attack the enemy’s strategy. the next best is to disrupt the enemy’s alliances. the next best is to attack the enemy’s army. the worst is to besiege the enemy’s walled cities.

故善用兵者，屈人之兵而非戰也。

therefore the skillful commander subdues the enemy’s troops without any fighting.

— Sunzi 孫子, c. 5th century BCE.

Mao Zedong inherited, in October 1949, a country that had been: attacked by five wars, partitioned by three colonies and twelve treaty ports, occupied by eight foreign armies simultaneously, plague-bombed across eleven cities, drowned by its own KMT government across 800,000 civilians at Huayuankou, and looted to the foundation across 15–20 million dead in the Second Sino-Japanese War alone. The country had no industrial base. It had no navy. It had no air force. It had no allies it could trust. It had imperial powers actively contemplating its annihilation by nuclear weapon.

The empirical fact-based professor mocks Mao for the famine of 1959–1961. The kitchen will demonstrate that Mao Zedong was the Sunzi of the 21st century. Not in the famine. In the strategic arc. The country that Mao inherited became, by 2026, the world’s largest manufacturer, largest exporter, largest steel producer, largest shipbuilder, largest EV producer, largest solar producer, largest rare-earth processor, largest navy by ship count, and largest banking system by assets.

This did not happen by accident. This happened by Sunzi. 上兵伐謀.

The professor calls this “starvation.” The professor was educated in the Wade-Giles spelling system. The kitchen uses Pinyin. The kitchen reads Sunzi. The kitchen will now demonstrate. Empirically. Fact-based.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

The photographer who took the famous "Tank Man" photo, describes how and who started the violence during the June 4th Tiananmen incident.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

NY Times reports today that Israeli Shin Bet agents "were discovered to have tried to plant a listening device in a Secret Service vehicle"

This confirms my reporting from September 2025

I was told that Secret Service vehicle was one which would respond to an emergency involving the president

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

Study diligently,
Get a good job,
Work hard.

…and we will redistribute it to someone who didn’t.
#LaborPartyPlaybook #Thieves

[Satoshi Wolf @SatoshiWolf]

How to destroy Australia without ever firing a bullet?

Install a man who sits down to pee as the Prime Minister.

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

I already have. Stop being a dole bludger. I don't have property. I squirrel away all my savings into investments which give me independence from the state. And what do dole bludgers want? To steal from me yet again.

I pay 47% marginal rate. 47c of every hard earned dollar - my blood sweat and tears - gets stolen away.

[Geoff Wilson @GeoffWilsonWAM]

The new CGT must be stopped. Sign 👇 https://t.co/obcCvaj9hY

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

The highest house prices in the world, the highest immigration rates in the developed world, the most retarded population in the world apparently (NDIS), and now the highest capital gains tax on Earth.

'The lucky country'

Run by communist despots.

[Robin Dods @toy59496]

Economic Treason: Selling Australia Through Tax Policy

The economic theft hidden within the new CGT policy is not just the extra tax collected on citizens today, but that the lack of taxation on foreigners means compounding will rapidly transfer our sovereign assets into foreign hands.

In the example shown, an asset that begins 50% Australian-owned and 50% foreign-owned ends up only 17% Australian-owned after 20 years, with foreign ownership rising to 83%. No takeover bid. No invasion. Just mathematics.

Einstein called compounding the "eighth wonder of the world," emphasizing that its power is so vast it dictates whether you build wealth or pay the price. The new tax settings mean we pay a very high price indeed. We pay with our home.

You might think the starting proportion of ownership is unrealistic at 50% each. In fact it's worse than you think, as the image shows 70% of our mining productive assets are already in foreign hands. With the disincentive for retail investors to invest in small miners you can effectively kiss our major export industry goodbye, as the effective portfolio tax means only foreigners will be incentivised to invest in these small miners. The structural failures of this new tax system are immense.

Sovereignty is ultimately about control. If we progressively lose control of the farms, mines, companies and productive assets of Australians we will eventually be subservient to an overseas economic Hegemon.

Arguably in relation to mining we already are subservient, and we urgently need to pivot the tax burden to advantage compounding to our citizens relative to foreigners. And yet your government is doing the exact opposite, and accelerating this tax-based transfer to foreign hands.

A nation that systematically taxes its own citizens more heavily than competing foreign capital should not be surprised when more of its wealth, influence and economic future ends up beyond its borders.

The government's taxation policy is not just poorly conceived but brought to its inevitable conclusion it is simply economic treason.

@AngusTaylorMP @PaulineHansonOz @AlboMP @JEChalmers

[Geoff Wilson @GeoffWilsonWAM]

This new CGT must be stopped

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@Nick86LGM @elonmusk Go index invest bro

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

BREAKING: Israeli forces OPENED FIRE on a family car in Hebron, occupied West Bank, KILLING 7 month old baby Sam Fahd Abu Haikal.

The same bullet STRUCK Sam in the jaw and WOUNDED his mother. His father, a Bethlehem University lecturer, was SHOT in the hand.

The family was driving to visit relatives when Israeli soldiers OPENED FIRE on their vehicle.

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@OfProbability @daltonbrewer Yep. Quite a regulatory minefield as well.

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@Alonzo_CTHG @rockyAuss Why pay at all? Tax on income was introduced in the early 1900's to fund war. Governments decided it was an awesome mechanism to fund the most god awful allocators of capital on the planet, and keep the plebs subservient.

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@NoCultureEye @AlboMP Agree. Simplify and say no CGT discounts on any leveraged investments. CGT discount remains for everything else. Drop the 30% nonsense.

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@AlboMP

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@toy59496 Theft. Pure and Simple. Time to drain the swamp.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

AI presents an incredible opportunity for Jews because "instead of trying to control the whole world" and "manage" social media, "we can go directly to the companies" with "advocacy solutions," Dr. Maya Ackerman tells the American Jewish Committee.

"For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world!" Ackerman says.

[Rekt Fencer @rektfencer]

🚨 WARNING: AI BUBBLE IS ABOUT TO BURST

Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 BILLION.

OpenAI sent it back through Azure.

Microsoft booked it as revenue.

Amazon and Google are running similar loops with Anthropic while marking up huge paper gains from AI valuations.

OpenAI is spending over $60 BILLION a year on compute while generating only $25 BILLION in revenue.

Ray Dalio has warned that late stage bubbles are driven by fake flows, not real economics.

That is exactly what this is starting to look like.

[This Ordered Chaos @SimulationBlues]

@WR4NYGov Me too. @WR4NYGov I liked your take on a JV. My thoughts - no merger but I could see is SpaceX acquiring enough TSLA stock to let Elon effectively regain majority control through his dominant SpaceX voting power.