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American Nationalist, rational empiricist, closed borders conservative. Beatboxer, amateur philosopher, aspiring novelist, and outdoor worker.
A Great post about why the USA has become “the world police”. In response to the question “who made them the world police”? Original text follows——————// The entire world did. The US has almost the entire world on salary. In just 30 years, they have given 1.3 trillion dollars in aid to the world. That is the GDP of the whole of Ghana 16x, Kenya 12x, Nigeria 3x. They are the top donors to the United Nations, 28%. They are the top donors to the WHO, around 15%. They are the ones with the largest financial commitment to the IMF, around 17%  They give money through bilateral relations, country-to-country, and multilateral solutions, such as the UN, WHO, IMF, etc. 80% of the money goes to things like education, healthcare, social development, etc. They pay the largest of NATO's defence budget, aroud 70%, so Europe can be safe, project power, and keep the balance of geopolitical scale. I could go on and on about how the entire world simply stands in line for US paychecks. And that is why America feels it is the leader of the free world. They are paying for it, at the cost of their national treasury. They are in debt, but they keep paying. If the world wants America's interventionism to stop, let it bring as much financial stake to the international table. In international politics, the one paying you is controlling you. You can't have one without the other. This is why the US feels it can police the world. It is like guarding the enterprise they are paying for.
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The entire world did. The US has almost the entire world on salary. In just 30 years, they have given 1.3 trillion dollars in aid to the world. ...
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A beautiful example of why #theleft specifically saught to kill #philosophy before anything else. They needed to kill the very basics of empirical epistemology. This is also why I say that Ayn Rand’s best contribution to philosophy is NOT her ethics (which is missing some key features), but her #epistemology Another person’s words follow ————————-//// Whenever you’re facing a leftist cognitive frag grenade like “social constructs aren’t real,” it’s useful to dissect the core claim beneath their words. It’s a common tactic of theirs to hide easily refutable absurdities using pseudo-intellectual confusion spells, but these are easy to defend against with some practice. As a case study: the leftist below claims that race isn’t real because it’s a socially constructed, arbitrary fence around a complex & continuous reality (genes). But this describes every human concept and word — language itself is an attempt to “ring fence” reality (i.e. compress it, discretize it) so that we can make sense of it. For example: color names are social constructs. Color is a continuous spectrum; we divided it up into neighborhoods called “blue” and “green” so that we could talk about color. I can tell you that the sky is blue or the grass is green, and you’ll know with reasonable accuracy what I mean by that. But color boundaries are fuzzy — people often vehemently disagree about whether shades of turquoise are blue or green. Following the leftist’s argument, this means that neither blue nor green exist. Colors cannot be named or talked about because it requires us to “ring fence” the color spectrum. Expanding the argument, this means that sense making itself — which always requires discretizing & compressing a continuous reality — is invalid. Human thought itself is an impossible project. Reality is an incomprehensible soup that can only be experienced and never named. The very words the leftist used to communicate this to me are impossible, nothing but empty pointers. This is obviously retarded, given that our compressed & discretized world models are truthful enough to allow us to shape & predict the physical world. We have inventions that work; we can move around and interact with our environment effectively. Our brains evolved to compress reality in ways that increase our survival, which could only work if the compression is at least somewhat faithful. To deny that race exists because it’s socially constructed is to deny that anything exists at all. This is a worthless assertion that can simply be laughed at and dismissed
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Whenever you’re facing a leftist cognitive frag grenade like “social constructs aren’t real,” it’s useful to dissect the core claim benea...
Hence why all government is force, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Even the most utopian ideal government stops monsters who harm others… by force. But the principle applies both ways. Remove force from the citizens and, wouldn’t you know it, some people don’t respond to anything else. Cribminals will circumvent ANY law, even a good one, unless you FORCE them not to. A polite society is an armed society. View quoted note →
I know that this is being posted as a joke and that the original video is probably a staged gag, so no offense to @cryptoshi2k21.bitcoin here, but this is messed up. This is a very blatant example of a mom directly #undermining the #authority of the #father. The fact that our #society is fine with this as a joke is a symptom of a much bigger issue of lack of shared #values, lack of legitimate #love, and lack of #respect for one’s partner (which is an extension of lack of respect for oneself, since you choose your partner in this society). If your #child has earned himself some #discipline for something, a #mother playing the “good guy” by protecting that kid from said discipline is 1) by extension painting the dad as the “bad guy” and 2) teaching that child that #consequences are to be avoided and not met. The precedents set by both points will permanently alter how a kid sees #relationships, #parenting, and #morality in a negative way. View quoted note →