9/11 showed America was not invincible, led to massive increases in government intrusion, and, most importantly, the good will and unity 9/11 engendered was wasted on unsustainable foreign adventurism that broke the empire.
Aug 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Me, making a 14-book library every 10 miles because some idiot urbanite thinks that's a productive use of resources.
Also, if you weren't a hateful person looking to dunk on those you think inferior, you'd probably know that most churches actually have small libraries.
You can go back to the 80s amnesty, the CRA, FDR, the Fed, the Civil War, but the most proximate cause of problems now was in 2008-2012, when Obama and leftlibs decided on pursuing "revenge" instead of winning and reconciliation.
Nothing short of a pervasive folk activism campaign of "fiery but mostly peaceful protest" targetting "clinics" will stop abortion in democracy and the betrayal of folk activists in the 80s by cons prevents that.
The white working- and lower-middle-class is filled with degeneracy.
But
They are still the base of the American right. They have been demoralized by the Powers That Be, but they are the only faction who have not wholly sold their soul to them.
American working- and middle-class whites have undergone decades of what is likely the largest, most comprehensive, most pervasive, demoralization op in world history.
They have adopted some degeneracies from it, but before we condemn, they are still standing.
Jun 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
New "voting" system idea: Indirect Democracy.
Instead of voting days, parties etc., each citizen has one transferable ballot.
They can choose to vote on bills themselves, or can transfer their ballot to somebody else, who votes on their behalf.
So, then representatives are "elected" simply by collecting transferable ballots, which are directly transferred to them by the citizens and can be revoked or transferred elsewhere at any time by the citizen (with maybe a waiting period between transfers).
One major cause is likely because everything is permanent.
In ye old days if you did something "stupid", unless it was paralyzed or death stupid, was non-permanant. A handful of friends or family may remember and that was that.
Nowadays, everything is potentially permanent and life-ruining.
Embarrassed yourself and you're an internet meme.
Say sowmthing rude and lose your college placement or job.
Do anything and be harassed by strangers.
And there's not forgiveness or redemption possible.
Jun 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On SuperAI/singularity:
The question of whether AI can/will be more intelligent than humans/better than humans/conscious/etc. is msotly ared herring.
What matters if it can outcompete humans in the darwinian sense.
A "stupid" AI with no consciousness at all would "decide" the future if it could "grow" and take resources from humans faster than humans could take/defend resources from it.
That point is likely closer than a hypothetical hyperintelligsnt SuperAI. It might not even take an "AI"
Feb 15, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
A civilizational filter, perhaps the Great Filter, is approaching: parasociality.
TV has to a larger degree than anyone would like to admit replaced friendship and community with Friends and Cheers (where everybody knows your name).
Everybody: low-level parasocial friendships.
There has been a broad, near- universal decline in number of friendships and community involvement.
Likewise there has been a broad decline in romantic relationships. What was the report last week, a third of millenial women will be single at 40.
Something will fill the gap.
Apr 4, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Certain minority groups commit violent crimes at rates 5-7x higher than the majority population.
That is statistically unarguable
If you do not have a real solution to protect the majority from these minority groups, you can never have "walkable" neighbourhoods.
Because you can not even discuss that fact, let alone propose real solutions that would actually, demonstrably work, without being labeled "racist", you will never get the urban policy you want, because people don't like being murdered and robbed.
