Why is it never a White man and a Black woman? π€ (rhetorical question) rt.com/russia/533560-β¦
Sushi chain Tanuki's Instagram team has been pushing Western Woke/LGBT and now #BLM subliminal messaging into Russia for a year now. unz.com/akarlin/woke-cβ¦
Things become more powerful. Russian feminist points out Tanuki owner Alexander Orlov is a shitlord who says he doesn't hire fat people & makes sexist jokes ("Do I have to kneel because I'm black?" "No, because you're a woman").
Support for sharia β support for the Taliban! The *Islamic* Republic of Afghanistan had sharia, for that matter.
Patterns in pro-Taliban sentiment & "conservative"/Islamist sentiments, from high to low:
Regions: SW >> old Northern Alliance > Kabul > center
Ethnic: Pashtuns >> Uzbeks > Tajiks >> Hazara
Sex: Men > women
Age: ~equal
Income: High income > low income (but likely inflects at top)
Only the income patterns are a surprise, but congruent with @RichardHanania's observation that many Taliban are well educated.
Debates about white genocide miss the point. In reality, it will be a white counter-elite versus the existing one. It's not excluded that they could get very violent, at least in short-term. But over long-term, history suggests white supremacism will win.
In the geopolitical sphere, this could translate into a white neocon SJW like WASBAPPIN taking over the US and unleashing atomic genocide against "white supremacist" Russians. Since Russians are POC, this would ironically constitute a great victory for white world-supremacy.
Basically, both @clairlemon, @ConceptualJames, @a_centrism are all barking up the wrong true. It doesn't even matter what happens. Long-term, short of China simply sidelining it altogether, White Supremacism wins (SJWism, CRT, etc. being just a costly means of signaling it).
The long awaited five year update to the index of Comprehensive Military Power (CMP), my attempt to quantify military power in a way that's comparable across time and space, is here. unz.com/akarlin/cmp-20β¦
You can read the original 8,300 word post, complete with detailed methodology, here. unz.com/akarlin/top-10β¦
Basic observation then was that China & Russia each at ~1/3 of US military power, while second-tier Great Powers were, in turn, at about a third of China & Russia.
Since then, China has continued forging ahead, and now accounts for 57% of US CMP. Hypothetical Sino-Russian bloc is close to parity.
Interesting to ponder potential market cap of @urbit address spaces.
Facebook, world's dominant social network, is $800B. $800B/65,000 stars = $12M per star.
Currently $4k per star. Potential 3 OOM growth?
But some bold assumptions:
(1) Decentralization wins out in social media. (Plausible, if team can keep making it user friendly at rapid clip. Successful so far).
(2) urbit retains a lead *within* this space. (Plausible, thanks to first mover advantage & network effects).
(3) More importantly - most of Facebook's value is derived from advertising. This is antithetical to urbit, whose entire point is that it's decentralized, so people go to where there's less advertising & censorship.
Musk - SpaceX is trillionaire making company if it goes public. Amazon's potential seems maxed out - but who knows? BTC needs to rise just 4x for Satoshi to converge with Musk & Bezos now, I think it'll rise 10x+ by 2030. But could be some currently little known Chinese techie.
Main argument against Chinese trillionaire is that CPC really doesn't want to see emergence of such wealth concentrations & has aggressively pruned oligarchs that got too big for their breeches. Richest current Chinese billionaire is a bottled water tycoon... Says it all.
This year will see epochal #DeFi boom: BTC $100k, ETH $10k - ending in a bust (dotcom bubble).
Then a long winter, when hardy survivors can be picked up at fire sale prices.
And then, come the 2030s - just like software 20 years ago - crypto will "eat the world." #prediction
This is extremely specific and unlikely to happen in quite this way, but I do think that generally, this is what will actually happen. Crypto is replicating all the institutions and infrastructure of the modern economy. But this boom came just a bit too early to actualize rn.
Last major digital asset to "moon" will be "land". Don't know if urbit will dominate, but does have "first mover" advantage. Stars currently worth ~$5,000, might increase 100x within the decade. Window of opportunity for competitors is narrowing fast (Metcalfe's Law).