Real Politik says that if the foundation of a countries economy tries to secede, the response is one of force.
Economic wealth comes from the value-add step of production / distribution. You create wealth by getting something, then turn it into something that is sold for more.
This is always isolated by geography. 40% of the Iron Ore in the world comes from Australia. Most of that comes from WA. Most of that comes from a few mines.
If WA tries to take their dominance over the global Iron and Steel market, and just fuck off... well the answer is simple. Roll in tanks, crush the resistance then promptly set about addressing the genuine issues that the Western Australians have, so that they don't want to do it again.
You can make parallel examples using industrial production in Germany. Germany is one of the three biggest economies in Europe. The vast majority of their wealth comes from a few provinces that take cheap Russian gas and turn it into manufactured goods in sophisticated factories. If those provinces decide to just leave, the economy of Germany will implode overnight.
The Art of War says: To win without fighting is best. There was plenty of time to address the real and genuine concerns of the south. Failing that, the solution was to break them with military force and then fix the pieces.
At that juncture the alternative was to cede half the union and then have a hostile power on the southern border; which would have been untenable. It would have lead directly to military build-up and an even bigger war within 50 years.
Performing unnecessary major surgery violates the Hippocratic oath.
It was worse than terrible!
It was a crap, boilerplate "white people bad" movie pretending to be a whodunnit! The Murder Mystery is one of the most tightly written forms of story. Every piece must be given in advance and all the pieces must be there to reach the right conclusion. It requires formidable discipline, as a writer, to pull this off successfully.
Agatha Christie is an undisputed master of the artform, and as a result her books have been made into fantastically watchable movies dozens and dozens of times.
In contrast Ruin Johnson smeared this crap on the page.
Mauler and the gang did an EFAP on Knives Out. It just ... falls apart on even the most cursory inspection.
Unfortunately not. Sorry.
I did a bit of a search, and this is the study I found. There are others, including officer training.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9158436/
Most of the data of recruit injury isn't broken down by gender or injury type by gender. I don't think that is a cooincidence.
The broad consensus is that women are much more likely to suffer injuries to the legs and lower legs than men; and that this can be reduced with the correct physical conditioning.
Reduced how much, and compared to what remains unanswered.
A motivated teacher can put Tate into anything. Here let us do it to mathematics.
"Andrew Tate is sex trafficking four girls. One escapes. How many girls is he holding against their will?"
It isn't as simple as Harry telling a lie.
He didn't write the book. Someone wrote it for him. They made shit up; which is stupid, because it lots of can be verified or disproven; especially by crowd sourcing.
No justification? WTF? It absolutely wasn't one of the white-listed topics of discussion!
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?
No she didn't.
US Marines kept excellent figures on injury rates in basic training.
Women have 30X greater rate of medical discharge for hip ligament injuries under load: eg marching with a pack
That is just one kind of injury. All told women are about half as physically capable as men and much (!) more prone to injury under strain.
The USA's first combat certified female pilot blew a landing onto the deck of the Abraham Lincoln.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/female-naval-aviator-died-accident/
https://youtu.be/rFUXshaaMQM - An excellent breakdown of the accident by a retired, career F14 pilot.
Scuttlebutt is that there was enormous top-down pressure to get a female pilot qualified and flying. She was accelerated because she was a woman and a halfway decent pilot. She was in the air to fill a quota. Corers were cut with her training because top brass wanted political points.
Women can be decent pilots, but only if held to the same standards as male pilots. If you want the best of the best; the best of the best is a man. No question.
I am sure there are a thousand male pilot candidates that would not have made that well understood mistake. Perhaps another thousand hours in the simulator would have made
Good luck to her. His assets are all in the UK. They are all tied up in a family trust, not his.
By himself, Harry is broke.
The Royal Family has some of the best lawyers and accountants in the history of the Union to set up those trusts. Part of their mission was to stop exactly this happening to royal assets.
If Megan thinks she is going to ride the divorce train to money-town, then she is fucking stupid. Harry doesn't have a bean to his name. If she gets half of everything, she will get half of his army pension. Perhaps.
Tiger begged for forgiveness for cheating. His wife said: Cancel the pre-nuptial agreement"
Tiger canceled the agreement, and a year or something later, she took him to the cleaners. Tiger was a damn idiot. What did he think was going to happen?
He and Tiger Woods can cry into their beer together.
Many of the Hippies ran off to start communes where they could live outside mainstream society in actual socialism.
Only to have them all implode, because building community infrastructure from the ground up is hard, dirty work; and almost all of them were happy to sit on their ass and let everyone else do the work.
Even ten or twenty percent of the community being freeloaders is unsustainable at the subsistence level. The people who work the hardest see the freeloaders take their stuff, and they get cross. They leave, and it all falls in a heap.
Hippy Communes were a fantastic case study of why Socialism doesn't work without totalitarian control.
I keep pointing out that Cambodia was a literal Socialist Utopia under Pol Pot. Killing 40% of the population was a small price to pay to banish the wrong-think.
The constant fear of being tortured to death and the brutal below-subsistence poverty was fine. At least they were real socialists.
Glad you are back, guy.
Hey buddy. Do you know of Alexandre Dumas? You know, very (!) famous French writer. He wrote the Three Musketeers and the Count of Monte Cristo. One of the most popular French Authors of all time. His works have been made into more than 200 films.
So to be clear, he was very, very French. He was honored in 2002 by having his ashes re-interred in the Pantheon, escorted by an honor guard. It was televised live.
Out of curiosity, how tanned do you think he was?
Why do you think his skin is any indication of how French he was or wasn't? You know that the USA is basically the only country (that I know of) where the major ethnic groups are color coded for your convenience?
Gizortnik,
The people you care about are literally too stupid and self-absorbed to even understand your point! Let alone that they have been misled for ... what? Two generations? Three? Normies don't care. That is what makes them normies.
You can't force them to care. Not without concentration camps and death squads. The worst agitators amongst them are literally Stalin's Useful Idiots, and they would be the first up against the wall come the revolution that they crave. It doesn't matter if it is a socialist revolution or a Race revolution or an actual civil war. No one wants these trouble-makers after the fact.
I don't dismiss human agency! I just point out that most people don't want any. Small groups of highly motivated people, in the right place and at the right time, have literally changed the world. It is the only thing that ever has.
The closest I have come to seeing a society wide awareness of these emerging social pressures (critical theory bullshit) are the post Soviet countries. East Germany, etc. I have had conversations with East Germans who are pretty damn aware of the way these things go. The call to fairness, the urging people to "do what is right". Followed by the strong man who promises to sort it all out; then the secret police and the knives in the night. They know where this slick rhetoric leads, and they have taught their kids.
It is the human condition that sheep are common and independent goats are rare. It is literally baked into us on a biological level, and it has allowed us, as a species, to build cities. To rise above villages of (about) 200 people and to record knowledge in our own words that we can hand down to teach the following generations. However while science gives us tools, it is humans who put them to use. We are seeing the old ruling class (now globalists) get their hands on Big Data and the entirety of the press. It is a tool that could do so much good, but ... well. You know. Instead it is being used to peddle post-modern critical theory bullshit in which Step 1 is to burn down civilization and step 2 is Utopia.
I would very much like there to be a way to wake up normies. I really would! But I don't hate them for being normies. I have tried to convince clever, motivated people with every reason to reach understanding. They just start to think of me as anti-social, racist and generally unhinged. Facts literally don't matter to their feelings, and they don't like the way these (cited, verifiable) facts make them feel; so they ignore them.
Even avowed anti-globalists with a history of protesting globalist bullshit still don't have an understanding of basic economics, nor the Law of Unintended Consequences when it comes to social programs. Feminism is the dominant political paradigm and there is nothing I can say to change that. Not for a single person. I have tried! I am no longer invited to Christmas parties, I have literally lost friends!
There are people who understand, who can see my points. They have either started from a very conservatives upbringing (not much found in the English speaking world) or they have gone on their own journey of discovery. It is certainly the reason I hang out here. There are heaps of Tools, but we (mostly) got on this wild ride together.
So I must accept my limitations. I must accept the world as it is, or I will go mad. When I receive new facts, I must incorporate them into my internal model of the world.
And yeah, my Magic 8 Ball tells me that things are going to get tough. Fortunately I live a long, long way from a city with a million people in it. I have useful skills and friends and a family that gives a shit (even if they won't listen).
But I don't despise normies. I don't even despise the functionally stupid, which is probably about 35% of the population. I hope that the stimulus will lead to an appropriate response that is less than catastrophic; But I must accept that their feelings don't care about my facts. Even just to hold a job and feed my kids, I must accept that.
Gizortnik, take heart. When the future arrives, it will not be evenly distributed. It will start somewhere and spread to elsewhere as people and ideas move.
Socialisms is inherently unstable. Fascism less so (see PR China) but even then no regime has been all encompassing. Even China will snuff itself out thanks to their meddling with demographics.
There are too many advantages of actual education and actual national institutions. They will return. Just ... possibly not in the forms that we have come to love, and possibly not in our lifetimes. I just try to focus on my kids and building my future one day at a time.
But please, stop trying to paint me as a damn psychopath. You know me better than that.
Naw, man. Afghanistan is full of Lithium. All those mountains are made of the stuff.
We just need to go back in!
Hydrogen powered cars are outright idiocy.
Just the energy costs of liquefying hydrogen is more than the total energy gained by burning the fuel. I did an assignment paper on hydrogen as a fuel, and the only thing it remotely makes sense for is large ships ... that are shipping hydrogen.
The Episode where Mojo Jojo tries to make himself breakfast really sticks with me. I think about it some mornings when everything is just harder than it should be.
Guy, I don't kill animals. I have a cat. Why should I despise them for being what they are? Why would you project that onto me?
Why are you so emotional discussing this? We are discussing free will and self actualization, which has been meat and potatoes for philosophers for hundreds of years.
Here, I'll give you a snap-shot of the discussion.
Psychology Today: "Do We Have Free Will?"
Socratic Dialogue 'Does Man Have Free Will' By David P. Diaz, Ed.D
Current thinking is that instincts (the baked in hardware of the neural framework on which your mind runs) do more than half the work of what you consider to be "thinking". Your brain is a very, very optimized real-time system and has a lot of specialized hardware to allow it to keep up with the relentless pressures of a real time environment with saber tooth tigers and poison berries.
Just take your visual cortex for example, it has specialized neural groups that resolve faces into archetypical components with weightings. Your brain matches faces it knows to the weights from the archetypes; it is performing actions very similar to modern facial recognition software.
Having specialized visual hardware to deal with faces allows us to recognize the faces of our friends and family hundreds of times faster; which can be a critical survival trait in a battle. It is a short-cut, but it is also a trade-off in that it occurs much faster than conscious thought, and it has limitations. This optimization is the reason that: "All [foreign] faces look the same to me"; which changes if their face recognition hardware is trained on a larger sample group.
That is just part of the social adaptions made in the processing hardware of our brain!
We have others. All primates imitate the behavior of the most successful member of their group. Humans imitate the behavior of the most successful and each other. The repercussions of this change to our hardware are vast. Humans can cooperate with other humans who we haven't met and don't know. This moves the upper limit of our groups to logistical constraints rather than social constraints.
The downside for our ability to build towns, cities and nations is that sometimes these tendencies get into a feedback loop of dysfunctional behavior, and it leads us to genocide; For example the Chinese Great Leap Forward, or the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
Humans are unique among other primates in that we have the ability to become aware of the pressures and tendencies of our instincts, of our neural hardware imperatives, and to moderate how much influence they have on a particular decision. Nonetheless, it is our hardware optimizations make society possible and allow the continuation of our species.
I'll give you a concrete example of what I mean. You, Gizortnik, don't choose to be attracted to members of the opposite sex. It remains a major motivating factor in your behavior in many, many situations. Men competing to provide women with resources has been the primary driving force of first tribal groups and then society for literally a million years. If humans could depreciate that behavior and choose who we were attracted to I imagine that civilization would implode in short order.
That established, In my view every human is on a continuum that slides between instincts and self-determined behavior. I think most humans, but especially women, are not self aware enough to know why they do what they do; and as a result can not make self aware decisions. They think they do, but they are mostly reacting to their internal drives in a way that is utterly predictable if you understand both the drives and the stimulus.
The idea that for the first time in a million years of history we might educate every member of our society and elevate them to self awareness and self actualization ... well it is a utopian fantasy. To make it happen would require something on the order of reeducation camps and truly motivating negative consequences for failure to participate. Even then, I am not sure the results would be worth the effort. It is unnerving you don't recognize this.
Are you sure everyone who disagrees with you on this is a murdering psychopath? I'll let you walk that one back if you like. You have debated with me a few times, and I'd like to think you remember me. I certainly remember you. This ad hominem bullshit is very much beneath you. I am not a psychopath, please stop pretending that I am. It may feel like winning, but I am sure you are self-aware to know that there is a difference.
But perhaps you were just having a bad day?
Feel better Gizortnik. Much luck with the Secret Jewish Subversion.
I hate censorship.
The example was not picked at random.
I don't think that the Sandgropers are managing their Iron Ore or Copper Ore supplies very well, but no one consults with me before they make policy.