"The Don Quixote of the twenty-first century will not be a knight-errant struggling to revive the glories of feudalism but a bureaucrat in a brown suit, a tax collector yearning for a citizen to audit."
- The Sovereign Individual
This is what autism took from us.
Is it over?
Yes, this was too complicated to say in a catchy way, but once you count government dependencies the entire country is on the payroll.
Well, this is what we know actually happened after the decision to fight on. So that's our baseline. I agree it was a horrible outcome, hence the scepticism of the decision.
It's hard to imagine any alternative outcome as bad as that one actually, apart from the satisfaction of beating Hitler at the end.
Once you become a public employee you lose any interest in limiting taxes or spending.
I.e. what's best for the nation is at odds with what's best for you.
In Norway, 1/3 work for the government (so far). Much of Europe is the same.
There is no hope without #Bitcoin.
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A taboo perspective on WWII I learned since living in Germany:
If anyone but Churchill became PM in May 1940, there would have been peace by July.
The death toll from the whole war in Europe would be <200k. The only land contested would be what was lost in WWI.
There was no Holocaust yet, so that was no reason to continue. Maybe there never would have.
All we know is that continuing the war famously didn't stop it and probably made it worse.
In hindsight, we can worry about a future invasion of the USSR and whatnot.
But that still doesn't explain or excuse the decision to keep fighting in 1940.
Do the Germans have a point? 🤔
GM! ☕
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Everything is funny if you zoom out.
Everything is tragic if you zoom in.
They're both valid perspectives.
I used to think women were historically oppressed because of sexism, but I'm starting to worry that those were the only cultures that survived.
It's not a question of values.
You just can't build a civilization on *reproductive rights", which seems to be their primary concern.
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Freedom is the only thing that counts. Happy German Unity Day! 🍻🇩🇪
The most suspicious part was how quickly and confidently they dismissed all suspicions.
Like takeaway that's ready so fast there's no way it was properly cooked.
Do you know what I mean?
The Right hated when twitter was biased while the owners pretended to be neutral.
The Left hates that 𝕏 is neutral while the owner doesn't hide his bias.
Night after night, going round and round my brain, this dream is driving me insane 🫨
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Man drives himself mad fighting all the fires he started.
- Sir, the target was using a French press, we didn't stand a chance.
I'm not clear what you're trying to do.
Quite possibly, but what do walls really do when Mossad can blow up your coffee machine?
The death of God refers to his fall from unquestioned authority in the popular imagination after the enlightenment and Darwin. For instance, he could no longer be used to justify the divine right to rule.