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1/22/21
1/21/21
Mr. Trump won't be jailed for inciting anything
People have liberally used the word ‘incite’ concerning former President Trump’s roll in the D.C. events of January 6th. No court would be able to convict anyone for inciting a riot much less insurrection on the language Donald Trump used in my opinion. He simply invited his supporters to go to D.C. Of the 100,000 to 200,000 people that did demonstrate some few hundred rioted and entered the capitol building that was lightly yet bravely defended by security.
The accusations against Donald Trump seem mostly political and vindictive by people that liberally hate him. What concerns me more is the trend for the desire for opponents or haters of someone to transform language into something more useful for their purpose. That is known as the big lie and has always been one of my concerns.
Adults are always held accountable for their actions- even rioters, rather than some vague power of other persons wearing the original MAGA or even a tin foil hat.
Will nice and neutral be cancelled aboard the radical Biden bus?
Neutral questions that express no partisanship are difficult to write. Since the anti-evictionists that sought to find a remedy in the capitol weren’t able to, MAGA hats may become collectors items that some will be brave enough to wear in places with non-neutral persons of apposite hate.
I am not sure yet if writing hatefully toward neutral writers on political topics is still pc for social media (isn’t that an oxymoron since its mostly owned by billionaires that tolerate only a certain range of answers).
I tried to find QAnon on social media and encountered that website where there is a lot of weird self-porn posts and not much else. Maybe only extremists used that anyway- what was it called- Y2k or some kind of fortune cookie oriental term.
I have always worn a mask. Of course I was neutral in 2020 and voted for none of the above (NOA). In fact I suggested that Halloween masks be adapted to protect the eyes and full face and let people work in sweatshops again like social media server farms (lol).
Trump was the sole realistic alternative to Hillary in 2016 and many still believe that the entire homosexual marriage thing is bent although Corporate is trying to program youth to be happy with that.
Free Speech and Corporate-owned Platforms
Free speech in corporate-owned platforms has all sorts of limits- just like what one says at Susi’s home may be different than what one cay say at the Anarchist Clubhouse. Tolerated speech and free speech seems to be the primary division. The internet apparently is a bunch of corporations plugged in to fiber optic cables, satellites and other digital data infrastructure corridors. If a writer uses something like Google to write he has entered that particular corporate twilight zone and is subject to the corporate determination to allow something to be viewed by the public or not. It is as if google were a vast neo-leftist garage and everything that goes in to that space is subject in some sense to their will. Lawyers would need to elaborate on the complexities of private property rights of non-property owners who use some one else’s space for business, vacation or whatever- including writing.
I believe the government has a need to create its own server for citizens to write their opinions and ideas in order to allow democracy to exist with the marketplace of ideas it requires for meaning. Unfortunately I think the elected people don’t really understand the problem or how the Internet is constructed- most people don’t. Right now Google has the inertia for more than a trillion dollars worth of deep pocketed public use. Free speech cannot just occur within platforms entirely owned by vast deep pocketed, networked investor private corporations and be remain free. and I am not referring to the dollar value in some sort of a stupid ‘freedom is not free’ Orwellian double entendre.
Why Immigrants Still Want to be U.S. Citizens though some say they aren't treated well
American immigrants that arrive legally are treated quite well. The first year earning average is about $7500. (these are approximations) and the second year is $15,000 annually. Those are higher wages than most of the world.
Alternatively, illegal migrants subvert the wages of the existing legal workers by providing cheap under the table labor. Supply and demand applies to labor as well as production. There are numerous corporatist sycophants that will say that illegal labor supply has no effect on wages or the environment and are positive for Wall Street and the economy. Creative writing in economics is a useful tool for the powerful.
The left and Christians have provided a lot of support for illegal aliens in the U.S.A. In Oregon many communities have illegal alien service and support centers, and many cities have declared themselves illegal alien protection areas in a mild insurrection from support for Federal law.
The basic problem with illegal aliens is really demographics; there are tens of millions of them and they tend to be on a Trump trash-the-ecosphere- kind of job socialization. Being from poor countries usually they haven’t much concern about the environment. That culture will reinforce a generation or two ahead of workers and just consume and work without much concern for abstract ecospheric conservation or restoration goals and select other political concerns of the more prosperous. If the U.S.A. is already over-populated in relation to the ability of the ecosphere nationally to sustain the economy too far in to the future there should be a concern about limiting the opportunities for illegal and legal immigration until a global ecospheric restoration and ecological economic reform is created.
1/20/21
Would Internet National Capitols Be Cheaper than Physical National Capitols
National capitols are perhaps traditional places where a territory or nation could be ruled from. Before the rise of electronic communication or transport machines ruling cities where lived the powerful were accessed by human or horsepower generally. Many cities in drier areas were founded along waterways or confluences of waterways. Farm to market roads and other trading routes culminated at cities of civilization. Plainly it would be possible today to have a nation without a physical capital and it could instead be located on the Internet with a non-profit server not reliant on Google or some worse for-profit governor of free speech.
A physical capital is costly and vulnerable to insurrection and takeover by just a few hundred people with zip ties and legislators must hide in physical basements to avoid capture or summary execution. Internet politicians could instead have the invulnerability of trolls technologically rather than just through policy, of course, so it might not be an improvement.
How corporatism and communism unified
Hitler’s national socialist economic policy was corporatism. That is why Wall Street is so gleeful about investing with Chinese partners in a Maoist-Leninist NEP policy adapted to the 21st century. Each like to censor individuals with independent ideas. The 1% of corporatism and communism are about power especially when material goods are plentiful and easy to produce.
Communism and corporatism aren’t the same in structure exactly although they tend to produce the same results in repressing individualism and free speech eventually. Hitler’s corporatism and Chinese Maoist-Leninist NEP economics upgraded work well together. Wall Street enjoys the privatization of some of the Chinese economy and has partnered with it. The synthesis of corporatism and communism was quite a natural evolution. Toynbee wrote that the Universal phase is the last of of a civilization before its souffle’ like fall. Irrational exuberance can affect any herd of investors that lack the immunity of common sense and historical perspective.
Republicans lack the next J.F.K. for 2024
Probably Donald Trump won’t run again in 2024 except as a spoiler. The best chance for Republicans would be a John F Kennedy kind of younger fellow. He should have some comprehension of populism and of interests that are important to independent and poor voters like environmentalism and border security.
That candidate should abandon the border wall concept and suggest an irresistible new concept of making a vast construction project with earthmovers and dozers along the border to construct a series of fresh water making desalinization-evaporation-condensation canals using pipeline siphoned up with solar power saltwater from the Pacific to New Mexico. En passant one would get real border security barriers yet also create millions of acres of new farmland for the U.S. southwest deserts and Northern Mexico and thousands of jobs during and after construction.
For some reason good ideas are hard to get in U.S. politics these days. Instead everyone relies on and has absolute allegiance to corporations and franchises-who will bring the marshmallow of the moon back to Earth to feed us all (ref Arthur Hoppe).
1/19/21
Economic interdependence isn't a basic precipitant of war any more
In my opinion economic interdependence of nations or clusters of nations isn’t much of a factor for precipitating military conflict today. I am referring to general wars rather than specialty or designer wars of a limited scope.
Present global interdependence is developing planetary collectivism and corporatism. There should eventually be a repressive minority of 1% ruling the world, and any sort of war would essentially be civil and, insurrectionist morphing to revolutionary. Such conflicts would require the breakdown of the economic order through sabotage initially and with the large planetary demographic fact only chaos and vast loss of life would occur by the billions from various causes.
Right now nuclear wars are the sole usual unlimited kind of general wars possible and those make losers of everyone because the weapons are too powerful for Earth. Therefore biological war is the only practical kind of war that might use direct and traditional criteria of military conflict, and biological wars bring wildfire demographically speaking and are rather inclined to bring mass human die off, chaos and so forth.
Perhaps social purge wars and such that draw the term fascist to them from the victims will be the norm for war-in-other-than-military-forms (besides economic wars to segregate undesirable members of society).
Adam Smith Didn't Foresee Corporations
Corporations weren’t foreseen or existing when Adam Smith wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations’ or by the founders of the U.S.A. in writing the constitution. They have grown in darkness in a manner of speaking, undermining like a vast fungus or sinkhole underground the principles of democracy for individuals equally sovereign more or less. People wrongly believe they are the pinnacle of capitalism and fear addressing their monstrosity lest they be regarded as communist sympathizers. Karl Marx needless to say had no understanding of individual free enterprise and creativity and was something of a natural corporatist or collectivist himself. He merely wanted business and what would emerge as collective enterprises of corporatism to be owned by the public. Today the vast corporate/Maoist-Leninist global economic empire for plutocrats and other nefarious usurpers of democracy is the dominant fact unrecognized by most Americans at least.
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