- "Our Democracy"
- Argumentum ad populum / Appeal to the masses / democratic fallacy: Fallacious argument that something is true or better because the majority thinks so
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Why Socrates hated democracy:
... to get him to see the flaws of democracy by comparing a society to a ship. If you were heading out on a journey by sea, asks Socrates, who would you ideally want deciding who was in charge of the vessel? Just anyone or people educated in the rules and demands of seafaring? The latter of course, says Adeimantus, so why then, responds Socrates, do we keep thinking that any old person should be fit to judge who should be a ruler of a country? ...
An election debate between two candidates, one who was like a doctor and the other who was like a sweet shop owner. The sweet shop owner would say of his rival: Look, this person here has worked many evils on you. He hurts you, gives you bitter potions and tells you not to eat and drink whatever you like. He’ll never serve you feasts of many and varied pleasant things like I will. Socrates asks us to consider the audience response: Do you think the doctor would be able to reply effectively? The true answer – ‘I cause you trouble, and go against your desires in order to help you’ would cause an uproar among the voters, don’t you think? - Democracy is when polliticians bribe voters with their own money, and the money of their grandchildren.
- US Debt Clock: Live updating infographic
- Gang-rape is democracy.
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"Why We Fight" by Guillaume Faye (page 218):
For Aristotle, democracy is possible only within homogeneous ethnic groups, while despots have always reigned over highly fragmented societies. A multi-ethnic society is thus necessarily anti-democratic and chaotic, for it lacks philia, this profound, flesh-and-blood fraternity of citizens. Tyrants and despots divide and rule, they want the City divided by ethnic rivalries. The indispensable condition for ensuring a people's sovereignty accordingly resides in its unity. Ethnic chaos prevents all philia from developing. A citizenry is formed on the basis of proximity - or it is not formed at all. The abstract, integrationist doctrines of the French Revolution envisage man as simply a 'man', a resident, a consumer. Civic spirit, like public safety, social harmony, and solidarity, is based not on education or persuasion alone, but on cultural unanimity - on common values, lifestyles, and innate behaviours.
- Can it really be "our's" when effectively open-borders allows anyone to come in and reap the fruits of our families' labour?
- "Our Demoracy" and the media/press:
- Democracy is the preferred system because it gives the political power to those who control the mass media, while allowing them to remain behind the scenes and evade responsibility for the way in which they use said power. In all societies, the majority of people are too distracted, intoxicated, too stressed out, & preoccupied to deeply research and understand the alternatives presented to them at the polling booth. So they rely upon the road signs, the news anchors, the advertisements, the TV stars, the talking heads, etc. to decide which candidate they will select. Consider "Get out the vote"-campaigns which seek to convert non-voters into voters, without regards to how well they actually understand the topics. Consider why the candidate that spends the most almost always wins the election. This is why they want universal suffrage; They want every man, woman, and child to vote. Every geriatric, every highschool dropout, every NEET, every drug addict, every football hooligan, every illiterate troglodyte, every schizophrenic outpatient to all vote, because it means more power to the entities that control the talking heads of the mass media, the TV boxes, the newspapers, & the propaganda machines.
- Concentration of media ownership (including print, digital, video, radio, local TV, video games, record labels, etc)
- European mainstream news media is further left-wing than their country's populations
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The USA's voting system "choose-one voting" (AKA "1st Past the Post") GUARENTEES a Duopoly / 2-Party-system
(why are we limited to just 2 options?).
- Here is the 5-minute video explanation on WHY our current voting system GUARENTEES that Americans get only 2 parties, including the spoiler-effect
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Spoiler effect:
The electoral versions of "Divide and conquer" / "together we stand divided we fall".
Essentially, why Libertarian-voters lose when they vote for Libertarian-candidates, and the same for any political party that isn't part of the 2-party-system.
Supposed that there is an election with 2 candidates, candidate-Red and candidate-Blue, and the results of the election are as follows:Candidate Votes Red 51 Blue 49
Later the next election approaches, but this time a new 3rd-party candidate "Yellow" decides to join the election. Yellow is similar to Red, some of the citizens that normally vote for Red change their mind and vote for Yellow this time. The result is as follows. Blue wins, even though most of the voters hate Blue and instead wanted at least a orange-ish candidate (either Red or Yellow).
The result is that Yellow is a "spoiler". Some citizens that picked Red wonder if Yellow was really a spy from Blue. Yellow never really had a chance.Candidate Votes Blue 49 Red 48 Yellow 3 This causes Yellow voters to question what they should do, should they vote Yellow and cause their least favourite candidate (Blue) to win, or should they vote for one of the candidates that they dislike (Red) so that they at least get someone that is somewhat acceptable to them.This more-or-less happened in the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin.And similar thing happens when Green takes votes away from Blue. -
The problem is the voting system,
and the solution (assuming that democracy is a good thing) is "ranked-choice voting" AKA "Single Transferable Vote explained (click this for a 5-minute video explanation)".
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12227-0
Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle
- ABSCAM: FBI sting-operation that successfully bribed 7 congressmen/senators, a mayor, some councilmen, and an inspector for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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US Debt Clock: Live updating infographic.
As of 2024, the US is paying a trillion dollars a year JUST IN INTEREST!
- "PredictIt.org": A website where you can gamble on the outcomes of US elections
- Study: Testosterone levels in young American males are decreasing with each generation
- Testosterone Administration Induces A Red Shift in Weakly Affiliated Democrats (and improved mood)
- Cultural Marxism explained in one diagram
- Hunter Biden iPhone & iPad hack
- Korean Reunification
- List of national emergencies in the United States
- International Emergency Economic Powers Act and its current usages
- List of Superfund sites
- State of Deseret was a provisional US state by settlers from the LDS Church ("Mormons") in Salt Lake City.
- Military service as alternative to prison for first time non-violent offenders
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Symington Amendment:
banned U.S. economic, and military assistance, and export credits to countries that deliver or receive,
acquire or transfer nuclear enrichment technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections.
The US government has violated the law by refusing to impose sanctions on Israel, India, & Pakistan over their nuclear programs.
- Smith–Mundt Act AKA the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013: Overturned a 64-year ban, thus now allowing U.S. propaganda intended to influence foreign audiences to now be used on the domestic population.
- Public financial trades of US federal politicians
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"Rights":
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Liberties / natural rights / negative rights
- Things that a government must not do/hinder.
- Examples:
- Freedom of speach (and the inverse, to remain silent)
- Right to firearms
- To privacy
- To private property
- To travel
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Entitlements / positive rights
- Things that a government must do/provide, that one is entitle to, and thus is someone else's obligation.
- Examples:
- "free" Healthcare
- Right to vote
- Social security
- Education that is "free" (paid for by tax-payers)
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Liberties / natural rights / negative rights
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Israel v USA
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USS LIBERTY
Israel attacks, attempts to sink US ship in "friendly fire accident"
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LAVON AFFAIR
Jewish Egyptians hired by Israel commit false flag attacks against civilian targets in Egypt to convince the British to continue occupying the Suez canal
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JOHN GUNTHER DEAN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
US gives weapons to Israel, those weapons are later used in an attempted assassination against the US Ambassador to Lebanon
- ISRAEL CONSIDERED TOP SPY THREAT TO AMERICA BY NSA
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THE APOLLO AFFAIR
200 lbs of enriched uranium "lost" under watch of known zionist
- ISRAEL GIVING AMERICAN TECH TO CHINA
- ISRAEL LIED TO BUSH ABOUT IRAQ
- ISRAELI CONVICTED OF SPYING IN UNITED STATES GIVEN HEROS WELCOME IN ISRAEL
- NETANYAHU TALKING CANDIDLY ABOUT AMERICA
- ISRAELI SPY STEALS NUCLEAR TRIGGERS FROM UNITED STATES
- US SECRETS SOLD TO RUSSIA BY AFOREMENTIONED SPY
- US BLOCKS 53 UN RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING ISRAEL
- BOYCOTTING ISRAEL DISQUALIFIES YOU FROM GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS IN 37 US STATES
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USS LIBERTY
- Israel vs The World
- The Sergeants affair
In Palestine, 3 adult members of the Jewish terrorist group "Irgun" are imprisoned by the British for crimes of illegal possession of arms with 'intent to kill or cause other harm to a large number of people' during a prison break, and are sentenced to death. Irgun kidnaps 2 British officers (both Sergeants, hence the name) and threatens to murder them if the convicted Irgun members are executed. The British execute the convicted. Irgun murders the 2 British Sergeants by hanging them in a forest and booby-trapping their bodies, successfully injuring the British that later come to retrieve the corpses. Irgun is later incorporated into the Israeli military.
- Israeli Prime Minister visits the UK's Prime Minister, uses his bathroom, and later a listening spy device is found within said bathroom
- The Lillehammer affair
15 Israeli spies (Mossad) travel to Lillehammer, Norway and murder the waiter Ahmed Bouchikhi because they thought he was someone else.
- Israel vs Palestine: https://IfAmericansKnew.org/
- The Sergeants affair