Techies - If you want to want to attack the graft please build a beautiful website that let's users visualize where all the tax revenue goes. If things are not quantifiable, they can't be acted on. Shine the light and make it too politically toxic to defend the status quo. Big ups on the pod!
Serious question, how hard would it be for a European to get that €900 a month to live without an address in san Francisco? I'd happily do that for a few months to be able to interview at tech companies there.
I’m capable of taking a step back a bit and look at abortion politically but I can’t let it go. My baby was murdered by its mother 17 years ago legally with no punishment. My middle ground is giving up the hope of any kind of justice for my dead baby in exchange for enforcing justice for any future babies murdered by their mothers. That issue doesn’t disappear politically by putting a time limit on women being able to murder their babies.
1:03:20 this is exactly the conclusion i drew from having a monarchy and parliament. On the surface it makes sense to be a republic where parliament is the top of the state but the benefit of having a monarchy that swears in the government makes it much harder for a coup
@@kreek22 With this said, do you believe that if a nation becomes a "liberal democracy" they will never become a monarchy or democracy? I define a liberal democracy in Polybius's terms as being an aristocracy in the beginning with an evolution to oligarchy. Do you believe this is a final state?
@@ilevakam316 When you have the types of surveillance/manipulation tools available to the ruling class today, historical parallels are tenuous. Propaganda can now be tailored to an increasingly individualized target, and it can be adaptive due to surveillance of response and AI interpretation tools. These factors are likely to entrench oligarchy. The real game is played within the oligarchy, competitive factionalism. But, this game is largely illegible to the public. Power becomes ever more cryptic to outsiders and the formal outlines of power ever more divorced from underlying reality.
@@kreek22 I do not believe that the general populace participates a great deal in regime or structural changes. It occurs from a faction of the ruling class battling the current faction in power (ie circulation of the elites). For instance, when Caesar challenged the oligarchy in Rome, he was acting as a member of a ruling faction, not as some champion of the general populace, although he was greatly adored by them. I also do not think technology changes human nature and the cycles that their behavior creates. They may speed up or slow down, amplify or temper certain processes but it's not eliminating them.
I will compromise on the implementation of a new tax or the construction of a new road. I refuse to compromise on the the clinical termination of a new human life preformed purely out of convince and made "necessary" due to a persons lack of self restraint and responsibility. We expect people to own their decisions, why should this change when it comes to the elective abortion (termination) of an otherwise healthy new life? It is fundamentally against the most basal moral beliefs of myself and many other Americans, it is barley a step removed from the legalization of murder or rape in my eyes.
@@kp2718 Yes, it favors the US. On the other hand, the US, as the frontier society in economic, social, and cultural terms, faces most new risks first. For example, the transgender phenomenon, which is depriving thousands of children of future normal sexual lives, struck America first and probably hardest--the rest of the Anglosphere being second hardest hit.
Never in the field of social media was so much utter crap spouted by so few to so many. I had to give up at the nonsense talked about global conflicts. It's the kind of balls I used to spout to my father when I was sixteen.
Look guys, I love entrepreneurs, I see them as heroes, and I come here because I need that optimistic inspiration, and also because I hope I'll hear inside information about how things are working in the world. But these undercooked takes on Israel are not good. It gives Gell-Mann paranoia. I'm afraid that what I think is interesting info from you guys may be more of undercooked takes from people who have an overconfidence bias. I think that's not helpful to the information environment of the world.
As a Brit, this was hard to watch but I pushed through because I wanted to hear the perspective of the man who was part of the inner circle where the lies of Brexit were cooked up and which is now responsible for the accelerated demise of the UK.
Your "guests" have been raping your daughters for 50 years, not just in Rotherham, but all over your land. The demise is achieved. The UK has no men left, only serfs and slaves and psychopaths.
Which would've been better chained to the EU and it's demise or independent and on the demise? I don't think the elites of the UK are really that different than their continental brethren.
This guy's feeble justification of the ceremonial vestigial monarchy that Britain retains reminds me of American gun nuts last redoubt, before admitting they just like guns because they are fun, namely that they're the last line of defense against the government that goes "too far".
@@kreek22 Tell that to the dead, the distraught, the people who had mental breakdowns, the businesses gone forever, all because a few oligarchs wanted to push us towards the Chinese system. Meanwhile the laptop class like you were soiling yourselves about the prospect of getting a cold, and lining up to play booster Russian roulette.
@@Mac-ku3xu "the laptop class like you"--not an accurate claim. An actual example of societal destruction: Russia in 1917. Another: Germany in 1933 or perhaps 1939. What you experienced was an inconvenience, a common historical occurrence, considerably less severe than what began in America in 1929 or in 1941 or in 1965. Maybe to get some perspective--read some history or raise your testosterone a bit.
@@kreek22 An "inconvenience" to the laptop class like you, because you enjoyed sitting at home with Netflix and porn. Not just an inconvenience for the millions killed and bankrupted. You're aware that there are different realities outside your world of suburban luxury? My T levels are great, but after three boosters you might want to check yours. Maybe see a heart specialist too.
@@Mac-ku3xu It sounds like you consider yourself a slave to the "laptop class." Perhaps you ought to get a testosterone booster and launch a slave revolt. They sound decadent and stupid according to your narrative. The revolt ought to be easy. What do I expect from you instead? More whining and more lies.
