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    20 hours ago

    I remember back in the 2010s the argument for not cracking down on the far right in the USA was that that would trigger a civil war. We saw on J6 how many would show up to fight on their side. They were all there. Now, unfortunately they control the military, so it’s much harder.

    Coward liberals always paving the road for the fascists that come after them.



  • Sustainability, decent QOL, high population. Pick two. I pick the first two. Studies usually pick the first and the last. Arguable what “decent” is, but definitely more than “you’re not starving to death and you have some kind of roof above your head”. Or they pick the last 2, and pretend that we can science our way into prosperity. Current agricultural methods are not long term sustainable, regardless if profit motivated or not. Before fertilizers, yields were much lower. But sustainable. But fertilizers and industrial agriculture screw up the soil long term. Also fertilizers need to be produced, often from non-renewing sources. Etc.

    I have no comment on Frontex. They are probably a too late attempt to fix something that should have been fixed 50+ years ago.



  • Sounds like you read some Libertarian treatise about how scarcity of gold lends value to the money itself. Same thinking brought you bitcoin, look at how that’s going. Money doesn’t have to have intrinsic value, it just has to act as a good store of value. In terms of purchasing power. Which means that if I save the amount of money that buys me X% of the global economic output this year (X being a very small but non-zero number), I should be able to buy X% of economic output in 40 years when I retire. That is, a good monetary system follows the ebb and flow of economic output, instead of being artificially limited by scarcity, or artificially inflated by central banks.