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Marko Jukic
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Finding the golden path to interstellar civilization. Senior Analyst @bismarckanlys.
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Dec 30, 2025 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Acquiring wealth may seem like a rational pursuit in the face of a system apparently too hopelessly broken to fix. But this is a catastrophic error because even if wealth is not confiscated or devalued, the things it could buy now or before will just disappear, at any price. Eventually even the richest man in South Africa or Brazil or whichever parallel you may use will want nothing but for his grandchildren to be able to get a job designing space rockets, and this will be impossible, because there will be no space program and no money to build it.
Dec 28, 2025 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
They aren't our rulers. Our rulers are career bureaucrats, journalists, nonprofit executives, activist jurists, university administrators, and progressive billionaire philanthropists. They are numerous, stay out of the spotlight, and don't bother commentating because it's weak. To actually compete in any meaningful way with this vast organization of political coordination requires graduating from the diminishing returns of inflaming the emotions of the masses to organizing professional cadres financed by long-term-oriented philanthropy.
Dec 21, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A great form of non-progressive philanthropy would be to fund extra-academic schools of history taught by proven outsiders, of which there are many online with followings large and small, since universities are planning to just take history itself and throw it in the trash. If the collectively giga-wealthy opponents of infinite woke cannot figure out how to fund a few independent schools of history to literally save the accurate collective memory of a world-spanning civilization that gives them identity and purpose...
Dec 15, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Outside of occasionally winning scheduled elections, it turns out that unleashing freedom of speech and allowing the masses to vent their frustrations with bad governance at maximal intensity has no discernible effect on governance quality, and may even worsen it due to spite. There is not enough analysis or even awareness of the feedback loops that inform the month-to-month decision-making by the Western governing classes in bureaucracies. They clearly seem to close ranks and deliberately intensify unpopular policies in response to populist pressure.
Dec 11, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Frenzied, desperate Boomers passing laws to ban young people from free speech, home ownership, or stable employment, while also berating them uhh this is just like WWII, so we are reintroducing military conscription too.

Dropping out, lying flat, giving up—are rational choices. We are just looking at the process of total institutional breakdown. Dysfunctional institutions keep escalating demands on your time and money; rationally disincentivizing competence or participation; fewer resources available; more escalating demands; rinse and repeat.
Dec 8, 2025 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
It's hard to over-emphasize how utterly unprepared educated progressive Europeans are for even the mildest open debate that challenges their positions. They are basically dodos living in a completely closed intellectual hugbox represented by publicly-funded state TV. These people have literally never, not once in their lives, encountered genuine intellectual opposition to any of their views, even second-hand. Every instance of "debate" in their lives, from university to TV, is just a carefully coordinated ritual with a predetermined outcome.
Nov 21, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
These sanctions were applied by OFAC, which is just part of the Executive Branch. I wonder if the Trump administration will enforce similar sanctions against officials in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and other U.S. allies violently suppressing the free speech of their citizens. Every day I am surprised anew with just how much power the U.S. can and does exert over Europe! Now I find out the U.S. government can just debank and cancel any random person in Europe it wants!
Nov 9, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
You have to admit that the way Boomer elites constantly counter every Millennial demand for benefits with an even bigger offer for loans (indebting them to Boomers), while loudly framing it as a favor the whole time, is just plain hilarious in this dark, Dostoyevskyan way. There is this whole subtext of Boomers refusing to just pass down assets to their children or grandchildren but instead like malfunctioning robots constantly try to invent elaborate schemes where they have to work for them or go into debt to them to get their own inheritance.
Nov 6, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A massive, gaping intellectual blind spot I have noticed is social-class politics and hostility *within* the Western world and Western populations. For example, it's obvious Western elites see the Western masses as a subhuman race, but I rarely see anyone dig deeper into this. We just totally lack good sociology on class relations in Western populations. Even bringing up "class" sounds dated and Marxist, occasionally someone points out how complicated and extreme the British class system can be... but it pretty much stops there.
Oct 29, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In 2025 your political options are either the group that wants to crush the human race into a fine powder for kind of unclear shifting moral reasons, or the opposition that wants to crush the human race into a fine powder because we don't follow market incentives closely enough. The establishment view is that humanity is so evil and corrupt it needs to be crushed for reasons so obvious they do not even need to be explained, while the opposition view is that we must reluctantly crush humanity because hypothetical machines would be better workers.
Oct 29, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The crisis of the last 500 years is basically a crisis of humanism. Wherever we can we keep denigrating, delegitimizing, constraining, and even destroying open and personalized human action, thought, and decision-making, in favor of opaque, manipulated, broken processes. There is a straight line between the petty committees that stifle creativity and growth in ordinary professional and private life, and the expansive cosmological visions held by social and cultural elites that deny or delegitimize not just human agency but the human race itself.
Oct 29, 2025 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
When my grandkids ask me why we didn't do anything to prevent the ignominious collapse of modern civilization, I guess I will have to say that everyone knew exactly what was wrong, we had just already created a society where doing anything but raging online was impossible. We have created a cage so perfect that the brightest minds of our era think it is easier to create artificial superhuman minds with silicon and software than reform governments and institutions, which when you take a step back is obviously a totally insane position to hold.
Oct 23, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There are enough Indians for India to export 700 million people total to North America and Europe over the coming decades, become around 50% of the population on both continents, and still remain the world's most populous country with over 1 billion people. Image This isn't even counting Pakistan and Bangladesh. Or the Philippines, Indonesia... the calculus for Western elites is very simple. The harder pension schemes, real estate markets, and GDP break down, the more immigrants we will import.
Oct 21, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Objectively I am mega-bearish on America, Europe, and China equally. I currently do not see any of them reversing the demographic and thus permanent decline of techno-industrial civilization, which will likely play out by 2100. All other discussion is just details until then. So far every single disagreement with this post relies on multiple speculative science-fiction outcomes to pan out. While I'm not ruling it out entirely, if you can't see that this should not be taken as the default outcome, I don't know what to tell you.
Oct 7, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I hope everyone under the age of 40 realizes that they are never going to see a single cent of the pensions they pay 10-20% of their income for in taxes. Yes, you are very clever, applying cold hard facts and logic to turns of phrase. How about for $100k? At what number do you get uncomfortable and how far away is it from the lifetime number we expect a person to collect? Cards on the table buddy!
Sep 22, 2025 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
As bad as things get, we know we are nowhere close to the bottom so long as there isn't mass emigration of Western citizens to safe foreign countries. This will likely happen, so we have a ways to go. Imagine Western immigrant communities in Dubai, China, Albania, El Salvador... The problem with most imaginable destinations is that they remain targeted at the high-net-worth demographic (Monaco, Dubai, Singapore). The first developing country to make itself a safe, attractive destination for middle-class Westerners is going to boom economically.
Sep 18, 2025 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The story, apparently: after disastrous, tyrannical pandemic policies including mass theft via hyperinflation, "sensible moderate pro-market" economists, bankers, and conservative politicians impoverished you further by suppressing wages with migrant labor. Did I get that right? If true it's a textbook case of plain catastrophically bad governance. Bungling a practical problem (pandemic response), reacting by printing money and causing huge inflation, then making the situation worse by suppressing the wages you yourself inflated, impoverishing workers.
Sep 17, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I still haven't read a single investigative journalism deep-dive on why every country in the Anglosphere, Eastern Europe, and Japan all simultaneously pulled the "More Immigration" lever so hard it apparently snapped off right around late 2021. Anons seem to be slowly piecing together what no investigative journalist has bothered to do. The story interestingly seems to be that this was driven by economists and central bankers rather than left-wing political activists or politicians.
Sep 17, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There is nothing stopping Boomers from looting the treasury to 1000% debt-to-GDP. There is nothing stopping fertility rates going to 0.1 kids per woman. There is nothing stopping developed countries from mass-importing more immigrants until natives are 30% of the population. "Surely someone will do something!" Okay, but what if they don't? What then? We are all going to live to see the consequences for the rest of our lifetimes. What does the world actually look like as this plays out?
Sep 5, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The really uncomfortable part is that this applies not just to the U.S. population, but the populations of at least a billion people outside the U.S. How deep, really, are the "cultural differences" among human beings integrated into one globalized industrial civilization? I've never heard anyone argue that the entire globe ought to be considered a single civilization. Yet why not? When you look at economic, elite, intellectual, and cultural flows, we are far more closely integrated than Ancient Rome and Ancient China.
Sep 2, 2025 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The real China bull case even China hawks/watchers don't appreciate yet is pretty simple: by default we should expect China to grossly surpass all previous attempts at industrial growth, because it has way more people, of greater discipline and math aptitude, at greater density. The NATO+ bloc also has around 1-2 billion people, but almost maximally geographically dispersed compared to China with way more internal barriers to industrial growth. China can perhaps fundamentally get more efficient economies of scale, better concentration of talent, etc.