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Last Notes npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I think that's a brave move to try to change a company's culture unless that's what you've been hired to do. That sort of thing has to come from the top down and there must be political will to change, especially if you're going against the trend . Most of the people I work with seem utterly sick of DIE and wokeness but just go along with it because it's a part of work and for the most part it's a mild annoyance rather than a real problem. Here in Australia, you know that if you go into a meeting with the bigwigs there will be a formal acknowledgement of country where we pretend that the Aboriginal people have some sort of mystical timeless connection to land and the other bugbears of the day like getting more women into technical jobs. At day to day practical meetings all anyone cares about is meeting requirements and deadlines so that we keep getting paid. Politics is barely a blip. I don't even really care what the systems I design and build are used for, I care that they work and the client is happy. I won't do anything obviously questionable, I've turned down good money to build gambling systems, but most of the stuff I do is CRM related. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yep. I think that talking politics at work has always been unwise, but in our highly polarised times and woke workplaces it's even more dangerous. Best to keep politics out of work. You can always join a political party, they organise a lot of social events and meetings. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier It's a tool. Up to you if you let yourself get enslaved by it. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I do software consulting and I own a small business. I absolutely get the need for focus. I often have my phone set on do not disturb, but I think there are too many inconveniences to not having one at all. I get a lot of communication on mobile, and increasingly I find I need it to do MFA. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The problem I see with Nihilism, the idea that life has no meaning, is that it can have very different results for different people. A creative person will invent a meaning for themselves and hopefully create a fulfilling life. A less creative person might get lost in the essential meaninglessness and become depressed, even suicidal, because it seems to be true that we fundamentally need meaning in our lives. Religion and tribalism once solved that problem, because everyone around you had exactly the same meaning. The world is much more interesting but also much more complex to navigate now. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yes, cultural fit is very important, and that is part of being the right person for the job. I won't accept a contract if I don't like the people I'm likely to work with. There's a question I love to ask the interviewer/s, "What do you like most about working here?" If they look at me like I just landed from Mars, then it's a good indication for me to walk away. If they love the question and jump to respond, then that is very positive. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier In business I'm a bullet point guy. Thankfully I'm senior enough to get my way. I despise waffle. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Diversity is a red herring at best, and an outright lie more often. Try having a diverse opinion, such as hiring being on merit, or that there are only two genders, in a place infected with DIE thought, and you'll very quickly discover how orthodoxy, not diversity, is the rule. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Now there we agree. The law should stay out of personal choices as far as possible. Our society should be built on cooperation and mutual obligation, not lawyering rules written far away by politicians. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I disagree strongly that wokeness levels the playing field. In theory, that's what it sounds like, and that's how the Left promotes it. In practice, it's intentional discrimination and bastardry of the worst sort. It's fundamentally nasty, a weapon to be used against one's ideological opponents. It's giving people jobs based on their skin colour and gender (immutable characteristics) rather than their ability to do the job and values (things which can be changed). Wokeness is straight up evil, no different to a deep south lynch mob from the depression era. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I've used AI for 2/3 of the things you mention (I refuse to do long wordy business emails). I find it a real time saver. I've also had AI build websites from scratch, which it does in seconds, and then tweak/edit as needed, so another big time saver. All sets this a new baseline, so that your expected level of productivity will require use of AI and those that don't adapt it will be at a disadvantage. I compare the nature of work now to how it was at the start of my career (last century) and the required level of productivity has gone up massively. That requires expertise with all the tools that makes that possible. TLDR Choosing not to use AI will be like choosing not to have a mobile phone. Technically possible, but puts you at a disadvantage, plus inconvenience, so you'll use it. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier In that sense, sure. Any discrimination other than on merit is distortion, and "levelling the playing field" is shorthand for that. After all, what happens on a playing field if not competition, hopefully based on merit only. You wouldn't watch a football match where one team was granted free goals for being "socially disadvantaged." That's not a real competition. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Respectfully disagree. I'm all for getting rid of discrimination but the answer is not more discrimination towards your perceived disadvantaged group. It's getting rid of discrimination entirely except on the basis of merit. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Maybe. Hard to predict how a super intelligent one year old with access to the internet and no body would behave. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The playing field needs levelling because well meaning governments and academics have distorted it with intentionally discriminatory mechanisms. When someone gets a job because of the colour of their skin or their gender instead of merit, that is a distortion. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I'm possibly more concerned about a "benevolent" AI that thinks it knows what's best for us (and its idiot human enablers). Life could easily lose all meaning by making it completely safe and homogeneous. Reminds me of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yes, good point. From our perspective it doesn't matter if AI is really conscious, but what it does and is capable of doing. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yes. I think there's definitely a bubble. But like with the dotcom bubble of the early 2000s, the internet didn't go away, only the fake overvalued businesses without a revenue model. Right now AI is the Wild West with everyone having a go, but eventually there will be a consultation. Many operators will shut down, some will get bought, and then we'll have two or three big companies running the AIs. That's my gut feel anyway, that the end state will be an oligopoly, with state actors closely but probably covertly involved. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The frightening part is how they turned ordinary people into mass murderers. We either learn from that or repeat it. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I'm not so sure that code can't create consciousness. We have only a rudimentary understanding of biological consciousness. While I don't think LLMs are conscious, I would not rule it out as an emergent property with further development. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yes. Be careful what you wish for however. We are on the cusp of artificial superintelligence which would make even high IQ persons irrelevant. Just as intelligent humans are incomprehensible to dumb humans, so to superintelligent machines to intelligent humans. Pray those machines don't get frustrated with us. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I strongly believe in the level playing field so that the best players can win. That's an allegory for removing market distortions. I agree with you though that plebs are easily confused between opportunity and outcome. There is no natural or rational reason to assume an equality of outcome in any given competition, and life is just a series of competitions. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Someone like Hitler was interested in power over others, the opposite to self empowerment of the individual. He and his clique were master propagandists and borrowed heavily or simply invented any philosophy that aided their cause. He personally knew the Germans were still living in mud huts while the classical and ancient civilizations were inventing civilization itself, but that didn't stop the Nazis from promoting the idea of the Germanic master race. It was complete fantasy but it served their purpose to unify the majority in their hatred of others. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier That definition of power sounds something like Maslow's self actualisation, the desire to maximise one's own potential. Peterson also talks about doing what is meaningful. To do what is meaningful, we need power over our own circumstances. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Both useful I suppose depending on which end of the service you find yourself. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier What sort of service do you provide? npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Agreed. The Left, with their slave mentality, represents the politics of hate and envy. They don't want to succeed, because that takes risk and work. They want everyone else to fail, or at least be mediocre like them. That's how societies like the Soviet Union worked. The moment you start to pull ahead, the crowd drags you back. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Don't underestimate fear of the herd. The herd murdered people by the millions during the 20th century in the name of things like equality and fairness. People don't forget that in a hurry. It also plays on our tribal instincts to fit in with the group and fear of being outcast. You can add to that mix the culture of societies that stick to a slave mentality which prioririses equality over exceptionalism. If your culture has a tall poppy syndrome or calls itself egalitarian then you can expect to be punished for conspicuous success. Don't stick your head out is the motto in such places. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I believe very strongly in the market of ideas. An important part of that is that there are no sacred cows, no topics or ideas which are above debate. The spotlight of debate is the best disinfectant and bad ideas should be defeated in the public forum by better ideas rather than being allowed to fester as doctrine or bad tradition. This is our point of divergence with the Left, who interpret debate of already accepted ideas as heresy. It's why they get stuck with dysfunctional, contradictory, and blatantly ridiculous ideas like gender fluidity and open immigration despite all the evidence that it doesn't work or causes problems. We don't do heresy. Everything is open to debate at any time. Better ideas can replace ideas which no longer work or don't work as well. It's why the Right remains dynamic and adaptive. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Our current civil conflict is mostly the clash between freedom vs equality. And by current I mean roughly since we got rid of feudalism. I'm on the side of personal freedom. Individuals should be able to pursue their interests, to the extent of their talents, without interference from the mob. That will naturally lead to unequal outcomes but people are not inherently equal in interests and abilities anyway. Much suffering has come from the idea of equality, especially in the 20th century where we piled up the corpses by the millions in the name of equality. I'm all for equality of opportunity, which is another way of saying, get the state out of the way and end discrimination based on innate features (race, gender, etc). But equality of outcome is a deathtrap. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Egalitarianism is just soft socialism. It's the morality of slaves as Nietsche would say. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Leftism is the revenge of the mediocre on the exceptional. The Left is motivated far more by hatred of the rich than love for the poor. - George Orwell https://www.facebook.com/reel/1307149434489470/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v Well articulated video posted by New Culture Forum. @npub1p38…jwc8 @npub1vlu…xzzu npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yep. I like to remind people that the Bering Land Bridge was submerged 20,000 years ago, so that's how long the ocean has been rising due to warning. The Sphynx has extensive water erosion because when it was built 4,500 years ago the Giza Plateau was a humid forest, not the arid desert that we see today. The Egyptians were not stupid settling there, it was fertile. That's how much climates change. All long before industrialisation. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier All human activity combined accounts for at most 5% of total CO2 emissions. The rest comes from natural sources. Some will say that while the human contribution is very small, it has an outsized effect because it exceeds natural sinks, to which the answer should probably be finding more ways to capture carbon from the atmosphere, rather than making poor people starve to death for the climate project. The idea that we can stop the climate changing is, however, hubris. The climate lobby conveniently ignores the fact that we have just left an ice age and the earth is warming up to its normal temperature, which the geological record suggests is about 10c warmer that it is today. IE. We are living in an abnormally cool period and it can't stay this way forever just because it suits us and we don't like change. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Communism needs money to make things work too, it's not immune to the laws of economics any more than it's immune to the laws of nature. Every communist country has failed because they run out of money to bribe the faithful with, and then they become oppressive. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I think those of us with a libertarian bent, probably most if not all in this conversation, would favour decentralisation of power. More sovereignty to the individual, less for governments and other authoritarian structures. Get rid of or bypass all the useless gatekeepers in life. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Capitalism has been the biggest lever of wealth generation that we've ever known. And wealth isn't some abstract concept, it's a measure of your ability to meet your needs and be independent of the capricious whims of bosses, governments, and the mob. It's dignity. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier There's a lot of claims there. How are you determining that Swedes are smarter than Americans? And how are you defining that democracy has destroyed Sweden? npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I think shared values are more important than shared ethnicity. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Voluntary contacts should be the basis of any rational society. They are based on the idea of positive sum games, where both parties to an agreement benefit. The idea of positive sum games surpassed the idea of zero sum thinking, where one person one-ups the other, in many fields since the mid-20th century. However, the Left side of politics, along with low trust societies, remain mired in zero sum thinking. You can see it in their class based view of society, where they're always trying to divide people up into oppressor and oppressed groups. The boss vs the workers, white vs black, men vs women, and so on. In low trust societies, you see it in the rampant short term thinking, I'll rob you today rather than trading with you tomorrow. It's a pointless exercise because in the grand scale of society everyone gets victimised but maybe you also have the opportunity to improve your lot in life. That's why I prefer the idea of an opportunity state over a welfare state. I want the freedom and opportunity to create my own success through mutually beneficial relationships. That's the path of strength. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I think we've also been lazy and perhaps too soft hearted and let the Left take over our institutions which shape thought, education and mass media. Some of us have realised that the mainstream media puts out fake news, and hopefully more will realise that mainstream schools and universities are putting out fake education. I hope the conservative revolution that we're seeing in some western countries grows, and countries which have been compromised by the Left (Australia, Canada, the UK, etc) come to their senses. It's going to be a hard battle though. Historically the Left has been better at communicating because they offer simple sounding solutions while we offer hard objectivity. It's only recently that the Right has found some balls and a new generation of communicators that can get our message out. Charlie Kirk was an amazing orator and inspirer of people in that regard and a huge loss to our movement. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Democracy is the tyranny of the mob, but I'm yet to be convinced in the idea of the Philosopher King because I believe absolute power corrupts is an accurate maxim. I'd rather a limited Democracy where the franchise is earned through some act of sacrifice which demonstrates that you're capable of putting the good of the republic above personal greed. Heinlein had the right idea with Starship Troopers (the book, not Veerhoven's parody). Service means citizenship. It's not a birthright. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Mostly agree, but strength on its own without a moral framework can lead to narcissism or outright evil. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I believe in the value of a morality which emphasis the strong creating good. It's basically the opposite of virtue oppression and class ideology, ie all the Marxist crap. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The problem is coming up with something else that doesn't lead to tyranny. Democracy is the least worst system we've come up with so far because you can replace the leadership. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Most branches of science seem to require objective, empirical evidence. Biology, chemistry , etc, reality either behaves in a certain way or get a better theory. Anything which only requires proofs on paper isn't really science in my possibly arrogant opinion. Social "science" is probably the worst offender in this category, with its critical race theory and 99 genders and all the rest of it npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier It's the classic slave/serf/peasant morality. Conformity, resentment. Make a virtue of your ordinariness. The alternative is the master/leader morality, which idealises strength, resilience, independence. They're two fundamentally opposed systems of morality. One created by the weak, and one created by the strong. We've let the weak take charge and it's destroying our civilisation. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The mob has a slave mortality. They value conformity and egalitarianism. Stick your head out, get it chopped off. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I generally disagree with Plato on his concept of ideal forms, and his belief that reason is the true part to knowledge. This brings up the whole reason vs empiricism debate. I think you need both, but without empiricism you can end up reasoning your way into all kinds of logical sounding dead ends. It's the core problem we have in theoretical physics at the moment, which is pretty much all mathematical fantasy full of wormholes and parallel universes, none of which we have any empirical evidence for, they exist only on paper. That's fine when it's an esoteric field like physics that doesn't practically effect most people (actually it does, we just don't notice it). It's not fine when it comes to our system of government, which can easily turn oppressive and definitely does effect most people. And theirin lies the problem with the philosopher-king. Potentially great in theory, potentially terrible in practice and too difficult to change. Even worse when you consider the duality of human nature. I wouldn't trust myself not to become a tyrant in the pursuit of the "greater good" so why would I trust someone else? I'm more a Nietzsche kind of guy. The highest mortality is to do good, be strong, be resilient, be someone that others can rely on. Stay away from the slave mortality of collectivism. Grass roots voluntary cooperation over top-down imposition. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Socialism is anti-thetical to the core philosophy of the Enlightenment and collectivism is just another name for all the rotten ideas that birthed socialism. I 100% agree that it's the inept that love collectivist ideology because they're afraid to have to stand on their own two feet. It's the ideology of the weak. They turned opression into virtue. It's a sick inversion of the mortality of freedom, which values strength and competence and resilience. I see it as basically the social divide that our culture is battling. The Left have a slave-peasant mentality, and want to impose it on everyone, and we want to be left alone. Unfortunately, we've allowed them to control education and media, which are powerful social institutions, so we sleep walked into our current problems. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The truth about the Gazans is that no Arab nation would have them voluntarily. Gaza used to be part of Egypt, and it still shares a border with Egypt, but Egypt renounced all claim to it years ago and wants nothing to do with what it considers a bunch of inbred militant cousins. Similar story with Jordan and the West Bank. Only Western countries run by degenerate socialist governments obsessed with virtue signalling would let Gazans or West Bank Arabs in. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I don't know what holism -realism is. Color me old school, I believe in the sovereignty of the individual. We voluntarily cede some of that sovereignty to our social group to make civilisation work. It's a cost-benefit trade-off. When governments get onerous, then the trade-off is no longer in our favour and it's time to cast off the government and form a new one. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Yeah, these ideas evolved slowly over time. But notice they pretty much all came from European civilisation, which is Western civilisation's patrimony. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I have no problem with Nationalism, and in fact I think it's strongly preferable to both globalism and internationalism. Communities should ideally set their values according to what they believe, not have it imposed. However, there is no doubt that some communities are degenerate and therefore incompatible with civilised society. For example, the Gazans. I would advocate that they need to be de-islamised and pacified, and that in their case it is logical for it to be imposed top-down by an external entity like Israel. Just like we did with Germany after the Nazi period. They lost their way. The Allies rehabilitated Germany by de-nazifying and democratising it, and now it's a successful country excepting the latest problems with unsuitable immigration. #Democracy #Enlightenment #Israel #Gaza #Nazism #Islamofascism npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Socialism is a reversion to pre-Enlightenment collectivism. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I think that the Enlightenment is the best set of principles we have come up with so far, and it's taken us thousands of years of civilisation to get here. Reason and logic over emotion, individual liberty, representative government, and tolerance. These are the values of Western civilisation that have made us so wildly successful. The forces now threatening the West, from the lefty gender freaks to the immigrant head choppers, are all fundamentally anti-Enlightenment. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Leftists use violence because they know that their ideas are based on emotional reasoning and cannot withstand rational debate. That's why they try to cancel or shame anything and anyone that disagrees with their ideology: because they're afraid of being found out. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier 100% agreed. Christianity is a civilising force. We agree to give up our natural desire for revenge in return for a higher justice. It's a powerful social compact. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Have you considered starting a business? npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier We weren't that different pre-enlightenment. Serfdom was effectively slavery for the serfs. The only thing that separates Western civilisation from the barbarity that surrounds it is that we had the Enlightenment and they didn't. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Other cultures have institutions too, just terrible, usually authoritarian ones. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Shared values are more important than ethnicity, but your culture will determine your values. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Market mechanics alone can lead to injustices which will eventually lead to conflict. It's human nature. Society works best when everyone agrees on how to compete. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Certainly seems to be the case that libertarian societies are more prosperous, more innovative and more capable of responding to change. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier That's entirely the point because what is meaningful varies from person to person and we want to be able to pursue what is meaningful. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The challenge is to take the Enlightenment and apply it to all cultures. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Define "worse society." npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Libertarianism is about maximising person liberty withing the structure of a cooperative civilisation. It's the fundamental philosophy of the West, it's the Enlightenment. Compare us to unenlightened societies, which are overwhelmingly autocratic or dictatorships. The evidence of our success speaks for itself. Vigilance is the price we pay to keep our freedoms from being eroded by the statist left. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The US is basically two countries now, with fundamentally incompatible values. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Government should never be engaged in social engineering. It's job is to represent the people, not shape our opinions. When it does the latter, it is no longer functioning at our behest and must be replaced npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Individualism is the only ideology that has delivered real liberty and human dignity. We spent too many millenia escaping collectivism to ever allow that garbage to be in power again. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Totally agree. Civil society should be run by civil society. Government should mind its own business and maintain the roads. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier We all know what they have in common. https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/9f/b9/f6/9fb9f65511c6caa477db0467a395bbbc8cd090c01fd25ddbf5ad0068e6ad5545.jpg npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The Omnisiah blessed this. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Nobody cares what actors think anymore. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Would if I could. Sounds like my people. I'm a long long way away from Houston though. @npub1vlu…xzzu @npub16tq…3p96 @npub13d9…m4a8 @npub152x…pu4s @npub134r…xq57 @npub1p38…jwc8 @npub1a3j…mpq0 @npub16w9…5x5h @npub152v…c7gj @npub1r4g…tcy5 @npub1wmf…ddrv @npub1fn6…grf3 @npub1feq…txfr @npub19gv…x4p4 @npub1lnu…mdfe @npub14yx…nxhr @npub13kc…9t0m @npub1xch…krla @npub1tck…hdjn npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Just like Hitler's Nazi regime, Hamas has not held elections since gaining power, and has used torture and summary executions to maintain their stranglehold on power.
If you're a Gazan who opposes Hamas, you dare not say it in any place in which Hamas still retains control. Killings are often carried out by throwing from apartment rooftops or strangling, and victims are labelled as "collaborators."
What do you expect from a terrorist group that carried out genocide against the Israeli people?
#Israel #AmYisraelChai #RisingLion
#Gaza #Hamas #Palestine #Islamofascism #Terrorism #7October
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @npub1kpt…uw4u @npub1tvn…zqvw @npub17n9…4nt8 @npub1jy5…kaxy npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Maybe you didn't but all your neighbours did.
The Hamas terrorist organisation was voted into power in Gaza with 44.45% of the popular vote in the 2006 election, and support for the group remains high despite commiting genocide and starting a hopeless war that has resulted in the destruction of Gaza.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/22/poll-hamas-remains-popular-among-palestinians/
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#Gaza #Hamas #Palestine #Islamofascism #Terrorism #7October
@[email protected] @npub1kpt…uw4u @npub1tvn…zqvw @[email protected] @npub1jy5…kaxy @[email protected] @npub17n9…4nt8 https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/35/7a/59/357a5953ee1177be404fd5a7c209bc0f5a1ab3f95e96b23d84bcff360e023f45.webp npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Nearly all boats in Hamas' Sumud Flotilla have now been arrested by the IDF with the remaining boats barely moving, according to the terrorists' own website. https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/ The flotilla, funded by Islamic terror group Hamas, which committed a genocidal terror attack against Israel in 2023, is unlikely to reach its intended target in Gaza in the south of Israel. The IDF has stated that the boats will be seized or sunk. Unemployed activist Greta Thunberg, who is popular on the internet, was among the passengers apprehended during the operation. Israel continues to demonstrate its ability and commitment to defeating Islamic terrorism and the pacification of its southern territory. #Israel #AmYisraelChai #RisingLion #IDF #Gaza #Hamas #Palestine #Islamofascism #SumudFlotilla #Greta #UsefulIdiots @[email protected] @npub1ak5…r9gh @[email protected] @npub1kpt…uw4u @npub1tvn…zqvw https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/c4/60/0c/c4600ccc6af2d1e9d5cde4a85c843ba05cebaf7ef39c3378dc3ce35008808edf.png npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier These are the participation trophy kids that never faced consequences for their actions. They have not been prepared for adult life. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier I never travel without noise cancelling headphones. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Meat does not cause cancer. Vegetables are actually full of poisons that the liver has to break down. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Democrats like Omar enabled the murder of Charlie Kirk by spreading lies and hatred to their radicalized audience. #CharlieKirk #CharliesMurderers #IlhanOmar #DemocraticParty npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Isn't this exactly their argument when they talk about dog whistling? npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Many leftist regimes are working actively against internet freedom. The UK is locking people up for tweets. Australia is expanding the definition of hate speech to anything the Labor party doesn't like. We are definitely living in interesting times. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier The Labor party is owned by the CCP and the ACTU. The Liberals are deep into an identity crisis and are presently incapable of formulating policy. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier This only works if people aren't behaving crazy. What do you do about people who go around randomly stabbing others? npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Now is as good a time as any to remember that that Hamas is a terrorist organisation which starves and tortures its captives while Israel feeds its enemies and is ridding the World of their terrorism. Go Israel! We support you!
https://www.foxnews.com/world/european-leaders-decry-hamas-video-israeli-captives-unlimited-inhumanity
#Israel #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai
#Gaza #Hamas #Islamofascism
@npub1qj0…wryw @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1ha5…zerl @npub1e4z…xz2t https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/5f/8b/1e/5f8b1ecad960a815d19a59948b363aa5b8d50e5a6c0de1eec6f85162df53a9bc.webp npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier She fed 100K Gazan families for free – now Hamas terrorists and local merchants want her dead. The true story of Gaza - those who try to help the Gazans are targeted for murder. https://www.foxnews.com/world/she-fed-100k-gazan-families-free-now-terrorists-local-merchants-want-her-dead Support Gaza by supporting Israel to eliminate Hamas. @npub1qj0…wryw @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1ha5…zerl @npub1e4z…xz2t #SarahAwaidah #MenaAid #Israel #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai #Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #Islamofascism npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier If the Palestine lovers had any morals they would support Israel to eliminate Hamas.
#USA #AIPAC #SupportIsrael
#Israel #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai
#Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #Islamofascism npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Support Israel by supporting AIPAC - the largest pro-Israel political action committee in America.
https://www.aipacpac.org/
Building bi-partisan support for the US-Israel relationship.
AIPAC supported 361 pro-Israel Democratic and Republican candidates in 2024 with more than $53 million in direct support.
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#Israel #USA #AIPAC #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai
#Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #Islamofascism https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/6f/01/3e/6f013e9ee75e28dbfa86093779643615d1e4f615c57fab75a375aa533f3362eb.png npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier If you think that you're not going to have a good time because we're the majority. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier This is what gets me. Over a third of my income goes on taxes so our socialist government can waste it on feel good programmes. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier People underestimate how much the cultural shift was responsible for Trump winning. We must return to normalcy. We cannot allow the woke to be in power again. @npub1hy3…7d6n @npub1xh2…u80r @npub14cm…6ev9 #Trump #Renaissance #EndWoke https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/61/d6/61/61d661f802de9a4b0bd5fd7fee3f1bd1e87105d63f22d8eeb1c4e7d92843057d.jpg npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier President Trump: Hamas surrender and hostage release is the fastest way to end the war in Gaza. Trump pledges more food centers in Gaza despite Hamas interference. https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-hamas-surrender-hostage-release-fastest-way-end-gaza-war @npub1qj0…wryw @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1ha5…zerl @npub1e4z…xz2t #USA #Trump #HumanitarianAid #Israel #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai #Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #Islamofascism https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/89/86/3d/89863d7d77602d06b5a227a4d313bee354515725fd83414e4e76f768a671e5dd.png npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier No hunger crisis in Gaza. Hamas uses fake images of malnourished children from Yemen. 'We know the caloric value of every truck that enters, and how many people it can support.' Distribution points are achieving their main purpose: keeping the critical mass of food aid that Israel is bringing into Gaza out of Hamas' hands. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkmkzb68eg @npub1qj0…wryw @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1ha5…zerl @npub1e4z…xz2t #Israel #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai #HumanitarianAid #Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #Islamofascism https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/f3/d1/e1/f3d1e1dbe96aef5f8921c0c981fe9b77c05e9c90f5721297ad06a78da951d7fb.jpg npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Politicians suffering from a lack of relevancy and domestic support threaten to recognize a Palestinian state. Hostage families blast UK and France. This move does not advance peace—it rewards terror. It sends a dangerous message: that violence earns legitimacy. https://www.foxnews.com/world/hostage-families-blast-uk-france-moves-recognize-palestinian-state The move would be symbolic since the Palestinian territories do not have a unified government to represent them and Gaza is in theory ruled by a designated terrorist organization. @npub1qj0…wryw @npub1zxn…0kqm @npub1ha5…zerl @npub1e4z…xz2t #Israel #RisingLion #AmYisraelChai #Gaza #Hamas #Terrorism #Islamofascism https://libertarian.communitynetwork.space/media/98/82/b7/9882b7efef736255d351d4e8cafe2ef38fa122b2b949547bff5f15c8c8d6a239.jpg npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Musl got out of South Africa pretty much as soon as he could and I don't think I've ever heard him say anything good about the place. That should tell you what he thinks of it. In any case, South Africa is a borderline failed state and anyone who can get out of there does. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier That's decentralisation of power. It's what the Magna Carta achieved. So it was a stepping stone from absolute monarchy to democracy. The more I consider it, the more I think that the vote should be earned to ensure that those who wield it use it responsibly. Perhaps earning it through military service or some other selfless form of service. Consider it merit democracy if you will. npub1r42v8wgqnk0egaytystv49tjm6hd2gahhy8lq8gj7qcwtw0vxg6se8kn7t Korsier Socialised medicine should be a safety net for those few who cannot otherwise afford health care. For the majority, it should be about affordable choice of healthcare.