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Progressives are starting to get worried. They should be.
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count heads on bodies rather than heads chopped off of bodies, because if both sides have the same proportion of violence-capable males, the larger side is likely to win if it comes to a fight.
This is why early democracies limited the franchise to men, or even to land-owning men. If you were no good in a fight, either personally or via your ability to rally others, your opinion was fundamentally irrelevant to a political question.
As long as the franchise was limited to men, this assumption could go unspoken. Indeed it's so basic we forgot about it. That's starting to change.
We're now entering a period in which political questions are divided along sexual lines. One side is composed of a preponderance of women, while the other has a majority of young, fighting-aged men. Under the current rules of democracy, everyone gets the same vote, so all that matters is which side is larger.
But.
What happens when side A is 55% of the population, but 80% women, and the 20% of men are the least virile of the population? While the other side is say 45% of the population, 80% of men, but contains effectively 100% of the fighting aged men who are actually capable of fighting? Side A will keep outvoting side B at the ballot box because it is larger. But eventually side B realizes that if they just … take over … there is absolutely nothing, from a purely realpolitikal standpoint, standing in their way.
https://substack.com/@barsoom/note/c-48608929
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count heads on bodies rather than heads chopped off of bodies, because if both sides have the same proportion of violence-capable males, the larger side is likely to win if it comes to a fight.
This is why early democracies limited the franchise to men, or even to land-owning men. If you were no good in a fight, either personally or via your ability to rally others, your opinion was fundamentally irrelevant to a political question.
As long as the franchise was limited to men, this assumption could go unspoken. Indeed it's so basic we forgot about it. That's starting to change.
We're now entering a period in which political questions are divided along sexual lines. One side is composed of a preponderance of women, while the other has a majority of young, fighting-aged men. Under the current rules of democracy, everyone gets the same vote, so all that matters is which side is larger.
But.
What happens when side A is 55% of the population, but 80% women, and the 20% of men are the least virile of the population? While the other side is say 45% of the population, 80% of men, but contains effectively 100% of the fighting aged men who are actually capable of fighting? Side A will keep outvoting side B at the ballot box because it is larger. But eventually side B realizes that if they just … take over … there is absolutely nothing, from a purely realpolitikal standpoint, standing in their way.
https://substack.com/@barsoom/note/c-48608929
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Progressives are starting to get worried. They should be.
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count…
One of the unspoken assumptions behind democracy is that the proportion of violence-capable males on either side of a policy question is similar. So long as that is the case, it is better to count…
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Forwarded from Paul Joseph Watson
Nikki Haley has failed to win the Nevada primary despite there being no other Republican candidates on the ticket.
https://modernity.news/2024/02/07/nikki-haley-just-lost-a-gop-primary-to-nobody/
https://modernity.news/2024/02/07/nikki-haley-just-lost-a-gop-primary-to-nobody/
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Nikki Haley Just Lost A GOP Primary To Nobody
By more than 20,000 votes
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TIL of Laura Jackson Arnold sister of Confederate general stonewall jackson was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most beloved generals in the Confederate Army. Their relationship was destroyed by the war, and they never saw each other again.
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TIL that the oldest surviving creation myth (the Sumerian Eridu Genesis) written in 1600 BCE tells of a massive flood. There is also archaeological evidence that a ‘continuity disrupting’ flood occurred at around 2900 BCE.
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Forwarded from Paul Joseph Watson
Two separate new polls have revealed that Joe Biden’s approval rating has slipped to an all time low of 37%, with him trailing behind Donald Trump by more than a third on key issues.
https://modernity.news/2024/02/04/biden-approval-hits-all-time-low-trails-trump-by-thirty-five-points-on-border/
https://modernity.news/2024/02/04/biden-approval-hits-all-time-low-trails-trump-by-thirty-five-points-on-border/
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Biden Approval Hits All Time Low; Trails Trump By THIRTY FIVE Points On Border
"The belief that Biden is more likely to be up to the job has evaporated”
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Former Chilean president Sebastian Piñera died in a helicopter crash today. He was the president who imposed insane lockdowns (some of the worst in the world) and vaccine mandates on Chile, leading Chile to have the highest excess mortality in the world per capita during covid and one of the highest covid vaccine uptake rates in the world, including the highest for children 2 to 5. He feigned compassion and empathy on TV during the "pandemic", but he was a billionaire oligarch who spent his two presidential terms selling Chile out to the worst people in the world and, with covid, helped kill a litany of innocent Chileans. Good riddance to a genocidal cretin who truly deserved the worst.
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TIL that we don't actually know who the first person to reach the North Pole was. Robert Peary, Frederick Cook, and Richard Byrd all said they were the first people to reach it, but none of their claims are confirmed.
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Forwarded from Raw Egg Nationalist
Generations to come will look back on our age as one of great barbarism.
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🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇮🇶 USCENTCOM Conducts Strike Killing Kata’ib Hezbollah Senior Leader
🔶️ At 9:30 p.m. (Baghdad Time) February 7, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members, killing a Kata’ib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region. There are no indications of collateral damage or civilian casualties at this time.
🔶️ The United States will continue to take necessary action to protect our people. We will not hesitate to hold responsible all those who threaten our forces’ safety.
📎 CENTCOM
🔶️ At 9:30 p.m. (Baghdad Time) February 7, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a unilateral strike in Iraq in response to the attacks on U.S. service members, killing a Kata’ib Hezbollah commander responsible for directly planning and participating in attacks on U.S. forces in the region. There are no indications of collateral damage or civilian casualties at this time.
🔶️ The United States will continue to take necessary action to protect our people. We will not hesitate to hold responsible all those who threaten our forces’ safety.
📎 CENTCOM
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The United States will supply Ukraine with high-precision GLSDB "cruise bombs," but the exact delivery dates will not be confirmed, according to Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder at a briefing.
Ryder stated, "As for small diameter bombs, as we recognized last year, we will provide them to Ukraine as part of our security assistance efforts. But for security reasons, we are not going to confirm specific dates. The US leaves Ukraine with the right to notify about the supply, and America, in turn, will continue to work to ensure that Ukraine receives and is ready to use American weapons as soon as possible," responding to claims from Politico that Ukraine may receive these weapons on January 31.
Ryder stated, "As for small diameter bombs, as we recognized last year, we will provide them to Ukraine as part of our security assistance efforts. But for security reasons, we are not going to confirm specific dates. The US leaves Ukraine with the right to notify about the supply, and America, in turn, will continue to work to ensure that Ukraine receives and is ready to use American weapons as soon as possible," responding to claims from Politico that Ukraine may receive these weapons on January 31.
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🛡 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 Russia Can Build 100 Tanks a Month, Retains Capacity to Replace Losses: Intel
🔶️ Russia has retained the capacity to replace battlefield losses in Ukraine as it can produce 100 main battle tanks per month, according to a recent UK Ministry of Defence intelligence report.
🔶️ Moscow’s forces could continue to carry out a high level of offensive activity against Ukraine in the “foreseeable future” because of the increase in its industrial capacity.
🔶️ The UK MoD report did not elaborate on how Russia managed to ramp up production amid biting international sanctions.
🔶️ Russia’s ability to quickly replenish battlefield losses in Ukraine was seemingly confirmed by its defense ministry earlier this year, announcing that it had inducted 1,500 tanks in 2023.
🔶️ It also boasted that the country’s current tank sufficiency level is over 84 percent.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/01/31/russia-tanks-replace-losses/
🔶️ Russia has retained the capacity to replace battlefield losses in Ukraine as it can produce 100 main battle tanks per month, according to a recent UK Ministry of Defence intelligence report.
🔶️ Moscow’s forces could continue to carry out a high level of offensive activity against Ukraine in the “foreseeable future” because of the increase in its industrial capacity.
🔶️ The UK MoD report did not elaborate on how Russia managed to ramp up production amid biting international sanctions.
🔶️ Russia’s ability to quickly replenish battlefield losses in Ukraine was seemingly confirmed by its defense ministry earlier this year, announcing that it had inducted 1,500 tanks in 2023.
🔶️ It also boasted that the country’s current tank sufficiency level is over 84 percent.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/01/31/russia-tanks-replace-losses/
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Russia Can Build 100 Tanks a Month, Retains Capacity to Replace Losses: Intel
Russia has retained the capacity to replace battlefield losses in Ukraine as it can produce 100 main battle tanks per month.
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TIL about Georgia Tann; the woman who abducted, abused, and molested thousands of children via systematic kidnapping, became incredibly wealthy for selling said children to wealthy Americans, & essentially invented modern day adoption.
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They're getting way more mileage out of this than I would have thought.
According to Rolling Stone: "Dubbed “DignifAI,” a thread on the hate forum /pol/ summarizes the “mission” thusly: “We’re putting clothes on degenerate women for fun, come join. The goal is for people to see that a degenerate lifestyle is ultimately fruitless.” The thread also includes links to specific tutorials for people to use the program Stable Diffusion for this purpose, as well as instructions to “include the name of the [woman] in the post so anons can @ them,” making it clear that the goal of the campaign is targeted humiliation"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dignifai-4chan-shame-women-1234961851/
According to Rolling Stone: "Dubbed “DignifAI,” a thread on the hate forum /pol/ summarizes the “mission” thusly: “We’re putting clothes on degenerate women for fun, come join. The goal is for people to see that a degenerate lifestyle is ultimately fruitless.” The thread also includes links to specific tutorials for people to use the program Stable Diffusion for this purpose, as well as instructions to “include the name of the [woman] in the post so anons can @ them,” making it clear that the goal of the campaign is targeted humiliation"
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dignifai-4chan-shame-women-1234961851/
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TIL that luxury department store Neiman Marcus gets 40% of its sales from 2% of its customers
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Dynamo Dresden football fans in Germany protested over fellow Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen being fined by the German Football Association for their fans displaying a banner which said ‘there are only two genders’.
https://modernity.news/2024/02/05/german-football-fans-protest-fine-over-banner-that-said-there-are-only-two-genders/
https://modernity.news/2024/02/05/german-football-fans-protest-fine-over-banner-that-said-there-are-only-two-genders/
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German Football Fans Protest Fine Over Banner That Said ‘There Are Only Two Genders’ - modernity
Only left-wing ideology allowed.
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TIL the Titles of Nobility amendment, pending ratification since 1810, would strip US citizenship from anyone who "shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind from any . . . foreign power"
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NEW: Jailbird: India releases pigeon accused of spying for China
READ: https://insiderpaper.com/jailbird-india-releases-pigeon-accused-of-spying-for-china/
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READ: https://insiderpaper.com/jailbird-india-releases-pigeon-accused-of-spying-for-china/
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NEW - Brussels gives in and withdraws plan to reduce pesticides by 50% by 2030 amid growing farmers' protests across Europe, marking the first defeat of the Green Deal.
https://www.disclose.tv/id/lbcjex2ji0/
@disclosetv
https://www.disclose.tv/id/lbcjex2ji0/
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