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  • I’ve read that Hitler intentionally gave government-departments overlapping authority, so that they’d be in turf-wars, so whichever one “lost” could then be shut-down…

    It wasn’t incompetence, it was intentional: a means for force-dismantling government’s function.

    IF the point of having the incapable running the different departments … is so that total-dictatorship later becomes “justified”, then it is a strategem, not a mistake.

    & differentiating between unconscious-strategems vs conscious ones …

    … as an example of unconscious-tactics, I’m now certain that Hamas’s strategem of using the lives of Palestine as bait, to get Israel to demonstrate its nihilism & sadism & narcissism & machiavellianism ( etc ) on, …

    … so that in future, the entire-region wouldn’t care what “deterrent” Israel had, … that such a huge percentage of the region’s population would be committed to annihilating Israel at ANY cost, … that Israel’s annihilation becomes inevitable…

    … was completely unconscious.

    But it is effective.

    I don’t bet ANYthing on Israel existing, as a country, by 2029, now.

    Trying to sort-out the … bucket-of-vomit, which is what geopolitics now is … with all its unconscious-strategems & insane tactics & sickening “values” …

    I’m betting that Trump will use the consequences-of-his-people’s-incompetence to “justify” greater, & more-complete, highjacking of the US of A.

    I absolutely do not believe it’ll result in the Dems regaining the US:

    that opportunity was thrown-away with the election that Biden wouldn’t get out of, until it was too late to save.

    1. differentiating the convenient-to-the-left-belief isn’t journalism, it is just more of the filter-bubble that cost the Dems the 2024 election.

    2. seeing such things not with the superiority/contempt of the left, but rather with the … how is this going to be dealt with and adapted-to by the ruling-regime, how are they going to use this to further their highjacking? would be much closer to journalism.

    3. humans are mixtures of unconsciousness & consciousness, & much of our “tactics” and “strategy” is actually just unconscious-instinct & feelings-motivated stuff, so it doesn’t matter whether it is unconscious or conscious, it doesn’t matter whether it is contempted by so-and-so, or whether some caste/class of people are condescending about it, in Natural Selection, it only matters if it works. Pay attention to if it’s viable-enough to continue taking our world down, not to what the upper-middle-class-left are saying while denigrating it.

    ( feel free to contempt everything I said here, but I’m sooo damn tired of filter-bubble making-believing substituting for the survival-stuff that humankind needs … & every mistake made by anybody can be changed in significance by circumstance,

    so the whole “they’re failing, & we’re going to be their ‘daddy’ when they do” narrative that much of the upper-middle-class left that I’ve seen is identifying in… is just more ignoring/denying, with a price-tag counted in lives later this decade.

    Pragmatism would be a good thing, now, & “it’s only a won-game when it’s completely finished” would also be good to live by. )

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  • I’ve skimmed the comments on this page, but nobody’s hitting the right target??

    Here it is from the least-adulterated Christian bible I currently know-of ( I’m Vajrayana, obviously, so this is just identifying their prophecies, not proclaiming that their fulfilment is somehow immanent … I hold that this is more pertaining to reincarnation, but Christians reject that, obviously… their root-guru benJoseph’s sow-reap-law === karma )

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A31-46&version=CJB

    Matthew 25:31-46

    Complete Jewish Bible

    31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates sheep from goats. 33 The ‘sheep’ he will place at his right hand and the ‘goats’ at his left.

    So, you’ve got Trump making a “goat” idol?! lmao

    34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you made me your guest, 36 I needed clothes and you provided them, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ 37 Then the people who have done what God wants will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and make you our guest, or needing clothes and provide them? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison, and visit you?’ 40 The King will say to them, ‘Yes! I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did them for me!’

    41 “Then he will also speak to those on his left, saying, ‘Get away from me, you who are cursed! Go off into the fire prepared for the Adversary and his angels! 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 a stranger and you did not welcome me, needing clothes and you did not give them to me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty, a stranger, needing clothes, sick or in prison, and not take care of you?’ 45 And he will answer them, ‘Yes! I tell you that whenever you refused to do it for the least important of these people, you refused to do it for me!’ 46 They will go off to eternal punishment, but those who have done what God wants will go to eternal life.”





  • if Musk’s got a high intellect-quotient, that’s fine…

    What does it measure?

    A very-specific subset of intelligences, crafted to leave-out female relational-intelligences, musical-intelligence, health-intelligence, among other ones…

    https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/

    identifies 9 intelligences, & I defy most Mensa-types to consistently score high on those other ones…

    It is the IQ lobby which won’t tolerate the other-intelligences to be counted equally-valid, right?

    With reason: they aren’t good at those intelligences.

    ( hint: musical-intelligence includes multiple sub-intelligences, including, but not limited-to…

    • rhythm
    • harmony
    • melody
    • improv/jazz
    • composition
    • polyrhythm
    • etc…

    A person can have a “musical intelligence” of whatever, & be brilliant in rhythm, but lousy in harmony, xor vice versa.

    Too-coarse-granularity’s consistently a problem with these damn measures : )

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  • India can’t rival China’s productivity: its culture is too different.

    ( dad was of India, but Anglo-Indian/British. I’ve more understanding of India’s culture because family talked about it, than most North Americans, but never lived there )

    I’ve been told that India is the ONLY country in the world, where bribery is normal to get the government-official to actually do their job, whereas normally it’s to get them to not do their job…

    The caste-system’s entitlement conditioning, of the upper castes, compared with the abused-all-the-time lower-caste people…

    that caste-system is itself the enemy of Indian competitiveness.

    You can’t just stick makeup on some random animal & claim it’s actually some completely-different kind of animal…

    The reactions, the instincts are different.

    There are books on offshoring work, & the dangers of doing-so, with different cultures…

    In Japan there is now a “loud American” job-position: the person there makes certain that the operation doesn’t keep quietly accommodating corrupt-management or wrong-strategy, until they’re sunk/dead: the loud American’s job is to speak what the conforming Japanese want said, but wouldn’t ever say, because they aren’t gaijin.

    India’s famous for power-distance: inferiors won’t be tolerated to speak truth to superiors, ever.

    That is produced by their caste system.

    That isn’t competitive.

    It’s deeply cultural.

    Modi’s Hindutva India isn’t likely to lessen that, is it?

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  • I’m willing to bet that they get a “2nd wind”, where some kind of tipping-point removes obstacles to their dismantling of our world’s civilization…

    It was Richard Stutely’s book “The Definitive Business Plan” which identified that there is ONE thing that startups & businesses planning a market-expansion NEVER do:

    understand the opponent’s countermeasures.

    Is anybody looking into the right-wing discussions, to see how they are going to rally/adapt/evolve?

    XOR is this just “looking at the foam on the sea & making pronouncements on the rip-current’s ‘not’ existing”?


    Further, there is a tipping-point crossed, in the US, whereby it’s irreversible: there simply is no way for the US to get back into representative-republic territory, now: too much got dismantled, already, & it isn’t slowing-down.

    In Europe, they’re still working-on getting that far, right?

    & the Heritage Foundation, the original puppetmasters designing Trump’s whole operation…

    https://www.project2025.observer/

    ( that tracks their breathtaking accomplishment-speed )

    now working on Europe…

    https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

    that is about their plan to dismantle the EU for themselves…

    https://www.factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-to-project-2025/

    for 1 window into what their plans are.


    Do the anti-fascist-“society” forces within the countries outside of the US have enough pragmatism, enough objectivity, enough uprightness, to resist the Combined Arms ( attacking from ALL angles possible, until the opponent fails ) assaulting of the far-right, for their converting-the-Western-world-to-a-bunch-of-Russias-owned/ruled-by-them??

    … I am not betting on it, tbh.

    Responsibility & accountability are both their enemies, but both responsibility & accountability are the enemies of … ALL political-entities??

    Politics itself opposes responsibility & accountability, doesn’t it?

    Which sets the underlying problem thus:

    IF politics opposes both responsibility & accountability, because it wasnt ONLY authority-on-others,

    AND ALL the political-factions are working to have political-authority-on-others,

    THEN … how the hell could anybody get what political-motivation doesn’t want, accountability & responsibility, to be the core of any political-“answer”??

    The political basis for any countermeasure hamstrings its trueness-of-aim!


    To me, this identifies that politics, itself, has to be removed from ruling our world: its nature won’t allow the integrity required to keep us alive, during The Great Filter, when political-tantrum, religious-tantrum, ClimatePunctuation, food-chain-degradation/collapse, panic-migrations, totalitarianism, etc, all vie for being the “ruler” of the world, while we try to NOT face our own unconscious-mind’s bulling-ignorance ( which created this whole mess, & which would rather kill us completely-off than force-grow-up ).

    Find 1 country which has the integrity to remove political-motivation with successful machiavellianism, from being significant in its representatives’ government…

    I don’t believe there is 1 on this world.

    Yet it would require a majority-of-NATO to do exactly that kind of thing, to survive what’s gradually blowing-up-in-our-faces…

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  • There is a simple method for solving actual intractable-problems of things like urban-planning & civil government, as identified in “The Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices”.

    It is issue diagramming.

    They wrongly call it dialog-mapping, but dialogs are of people, & so political-possessions, whereas issues just stand on their own, & so can be independent-of-political-possession.

    Also, they have a deranged infatuation with doing it sideways, calling that a “Capitola Pathway”, but … they’re ivory-tower people, so that’s fine for them.

    Take a portrait-format page & lay it down at one’s toes, & where does the “next step” part of the page happen to be?

    Right above one’s toes, right?

    Where does the far-end-of-the-path, the Goal, happen to be on that page? The far-end, the top, right?

    THAT is the right orientation for an Issue-Diagram, not sideways.

    IF every issue gets solved as an externalized ( didn’t Stephen R. Covey identify DECADES ago that the top-3% most-effective people ALL externalized their goals?? that isn’t “mere coincidence”! ) Issue-Diagram,

    with the structure of the problem displayed as a visual-spacial diagram, showing the connections and dependencies & showing IF this, THEN that connections…

    THEN people gain much more complete understanding, much quicker.

    People’s keeping it in our heads, & just trying to muddle-to the “right” answer through our feelings, can’t work for either entrenched-political problems OR for too-complex problems.

    This method-for-getting-past-our-innate-unconsciousness-and-inability was cracked years ago!

    It works, too.

    ( visual-spacial cracking-of-problems has been discovered to be not only key to cracking urban-planning, civil-problems, it has also been proven to be able to convert a massive-failure-rate among complex software development problems, to an actual-success-rate, instead.

    Wrong-representation for the required critical-thinking is a fundamental error that we keep making.

    I think it may be related to the fundamental-error of doing-the-same-thing-harder when what the actual-context-requires is changing-what-we’re-doing, that was identified as a race-wide mental-defect in the book “The Design of Everyday Things”, a book which is partly responsible for the instigation of the “Mythbusters” franchise, when Savage discovered, through that book, that if a system’s operation wasn’t intuitively-obvious, it may well be its user-interface was engineered-wrong, & ALL the users have the same problem, because of that… )

    Anyways, it was an English mathematician whose video, on software development, clued me in that the visual-spacial cracking of problems & communicating what they are, is THE key to actually succeeding, in ALL such cases…

    & then I understood that “Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices” was actually just doing a variant of that, in a specific domain…

    The method’s sound.

    Have every component-decision identified,

    have what brings the decision’s result contributing to the goal be identified on 1 side of it, as a + ( or above it ),

    have what variant of the decision would obstruct the gaining of the goal on the other side of it, say below it, as a -

    & let people see the tradeoffs, & decide for themselves how these tradeoffs should be managed,

    instead of just “authority decided for you”, ( it should be obvious that the contempt-of-the-population inherent in that stance has political-consequences ) & never bothered including all the required perspectives anyways ( which is the political status-quo, globally ).

    CHANGE the METHOD to change the results!!

    A sentiment of Einstein’s “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

    While it’s unlikely that people will choose to survive if that requires us to stop letting unconscious-habit rule our world, … it’s possible that somebody will actually do-so, for some small portion of this world…

    Otherwise, nonlearning … has fatal consequences.

    Globally, now.

    Political-parties, though, why shouldn’t they just continue obliterating our viability?

    Nothing competes against the political-party-system, right?

    Therefore the political-party-system doesn’t need to learn, or change, or adapt, in any way, right??

    Only when something is competing against a something, directly, CAN it learn?

    Not as-in when the Trump-cult is competing against the Democrat make-belief, obviously that changed nothing…

    but as-in when something’s competing against the current system of misgovernment-by-political-parties, then the political-parties might temporarily show a little integrity … until they removed the threat…

    ( anybody remember when the banks in Canada were temporarily behaving in an upright manner, because the trust-companies were competing against them … until they were all bought-up by the banks?

    this is what I’m talking about: inter-bank-competition changed nothing, but outsiders-competing-against banks did, until they were obliterated from significance.

    I expect exactly the same results with political-parties.

    No change due to inter-party-competition, ONLY possible-change when something threatens the political-party-regime-system )

    Anyways, IF you value your municipal, or federal, or any between-level viability of some government, PLEASE use externalized, visual-spacial, Issue-Diagram style depiction of problems, leaving-out nothing-significant, to SHOW the actual decision-structures that have to be decided-between, & let the entrenched politically-motivated non-thinking fail to compete with your work.

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  • I’d bet that in many countries, the “census” cares more about its status as a gov’t official, than it does about accurate-counting, too…

    While I’d been unconsciously assuming that the world population-count was somehow accurate,

    my KNOWING of how rural people work to evade being counted contradicts my own assumption,

    & your identifying that entire villages that aren’t counted… damn, damn, damn, have I ever been being ignorant/naive…

    Thank you for pointing this obvious-in-hindsight behavior out, for us!

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  • and it’s global, and it’s concerted, and Murdoch’s remapping of Leninism from left to right, from “proletariat dictatorship” to “populist dictatorship”, has been one of the elegantest misuses of effective-world-power in the last century.

    Why bother being surprised?

    The left won’t compete against the prejudice being pushed in the “manosphere”, so … Natural Selection’s going to be pruning lives based on the intentionally-established prejudice … same as always.

    White “taliban”, is all that’s winning, here as Down Under.

    There was some article in the FT, iirc, identifying that under-40-males were swinging HARD right, & this is exactly what the ideology-pushers want: to “return” to the male-supremacy of “biblical” life, or of the caliphate, or of any of the major empires of the last 2-ish millenia: narcissism’s “glory” is all it is.

    REAL honesty’s hard, REAL growing-up’s hard, REAL earning-human-meaning’s hard, but that is exactly why ideology has an easy time of winning when nobody’s doing honest competing against it…

    The opportunism you’re identifying ought be expected…

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