rottingleaf

Kill Hitler fundraisers are unironically one of supposed ancap mechanisms against tyranny.

I just love how reality keeps proving me right.

(Would prefer a heaven where it doesn't, of course)

You simply don’t understand how discourse works.

This is based on your own assumption of what I think of discourse or why I said what I said.

I also said "no earlier than Saturday".

The British Empire is most notable on this picture with its glaring absence.

Yes, about the British and the French - these are countries that still fought small undeclared colonial wars after USSR ceased to exist.

They still fucking do.

Jordan is still not very different from a UK puppet regime.

Also why the West loves Arab monarchies so much - because they don't change anything in inconvenient directions. They sell oil, buy weapons, build nice shit. But their countries are not just staying on one place in terms of democracy, enlightenment and human rights - they are further into medieval shit than they were after liberation from the Ottomans. Then they were sort of "naturally", traditionally tribal and medieval. Not much different from many parts of the world. But since then those puppet monarchies, installed by empires, have been changing their societies in the opposite direction. The West not just supports Muslim religious movements against Leftist movements, the West supports Muslim monarchist and fundamentalist creme-de-la-creme (not) basically Nazi movements like our recent time's ISIS against Muslim republican and Leftist movements. So some Muslim and socialist mojaheds, like those US supported in Afghanistan, are not good enough when guys like HTS are available. Even Egypt's ikhvans, with their democratic component, are not good enough. Only Salafi beheaders in black with their nasheeds.

Germany - at some point their society realized firmly that there are mistakes in the past to be worked through. Unfortunately that was somewhere in the 90s, and in the middle of that process they for whatever reason abruptly decided that they have understood enough and are now a morality specialist nation. Which is why a German often feels entitled to express their opinions on the Holocaust as if their nation were participating in the victim role.

In some sense USSR was a huge spoiler. It took upon itself a lot of hopes of this world, despite Stalin and repressions, and then Brezhnev happened - just covering every budget inefficiency by selling natural resources to the supposed enemy, covering every pipeline hole by buying technology of the supposed enemy, resolving every deadlock between interested local producers by cloning technology of the supposed enemy, and so on. Then after 10 years or so the whole Soviet society and even more its elite were confident in Soviet system's inferiority, and it couldn't end any other way than it did from that point.

they elected a race to superiority

Unless a member of that race is against Israel, then you'll get sometimes the nicest kinds of things like "or, so then it was all right for you?" from them - that being about Holocaust.

BRICS has the downside of including Russia.

It might not seem that way, but Russia is actually the shittiest of USA's minions. Its "independent" actions like war with Ukraine are no more independent in fact than those of Saudis.

It's definitely aligned with the stinkier part of USA's elites, but somehow had good enough relationship with all of them.

Maybe reforming UN as a candidate for some actual world confederation would be a better idea.

EUR is honestly a better reserve currency, more stable already.

About divesting from dollars - I dunno how hard this is. Probably would be better for the US to provoke it to signal that time is nigh. Because otherwise this can only happen very slowly.

Nah, the more time passes, the less incentive there is for many people to pursue justice when there are newer things on their plates.

Same as modern Web's "attention economy".

But frankly in classical cultures they knew that too, catch the moment, now or never.

are not dropped, “all options remain on the table,” he declared.

That being dicks offered to him

They are not bringing anything good back. They were a nice company like 30 years ago.

That reputation held for damn long, then they killed it and created a new one of "being luxury crap for successful success", and during the transition used both.

Now it's just luxury crap. I don't know how there still are Apple users who are not after that.

When some people talk how "but it's a Unix so you can do Unix things" - with a huge pain in the butt over Linux, and there are plenty of variants of "install once and don't care after" with Linux. As in "plenty".

In general, I think the concept of trademark has gotten old. Same with patents. These allow companies to just abuse their past reputation and also sue anyone trying to do business in the niche their past self has created.

Or maybe trademarks are fine, but patents ... when they were a good thing, new inventions were patented for some period of time. Now they patent interfaces and solutions where no new invention happened.

All these protections are needed, but the system making them has gone AWOL. We need direct democracy.

One from the list, yes.

That might be true, but also a certain revolutionary purging of world politics would do a lot to return to something close to that. The golden age happened after the world war and decolonization, when western countries were full of veterans, and laws governing their lives were much simpler.

Internet-assisted direct democracy, open borders, open trade, radical changes in patent laws, simpler laws generally - all this can exist.

We simply have too much legacy everywhere strangling development.

The bad guys are trying to make it appear that the only legacy that can be stripped is that of French revolution ideals, human rights and civilization. That actually we don't have to strip, that is all good. Just them.

It's normal. Sometimes humans need surgeries, and sometimes a part of an old building has to be dismantled - maybe there's a pipe in the wall that leaks, or maybe you need to retrieve a human skeleton found using some new technology, whatever. And you throw out garbage regularly.

So a reform for direct democracy (with ranked choice between variants having, say, 1000+ initial supporters in some incubator to get to the vote itself, because we have computers, storage and connectivity to make everything desirable for such) IMHO would go a long way to fixing half the problems in the world.