@Sam Anderson Machiavelli is as misunderstood & mischaracterized as Nietzsche.

He was also a rather piss poor general given how revered he is.

@Sam Anderson General? Machiavelli had troops? He was a minor political figure in Florence during the time of the Medicis. I've studied Machiavelli closely & never knew of any army he had.

Machiavellian thinking isn't "evil". He says "If a Prince takes control of an area & allows the local customs to continue & doesn't force new customs or attempt to stomp out the old ones his hold on the new territory will be muc easier gotten & maintained". That's hardly evil & makes a lot of sense.

Machiavelli has been misunderstood as "evil" like Nietzsche has been misunderstood as a "Nihilist".

I was reading “The Art of War by Machiavelli and the into said that he preferred conscript infantry to mercenaries, cavalry or artillery. And it states that he lost cities and battles. Idk I must have just inferred that he was the general rather than the Prince.

Now, granted in a situation with small city states, everything must be hard to take and hold, because everybody is so similar in size. Its like the Perfect Competition model.

He lost those cities because of the use of conscriptions. See, Machiavelli was punished with "The Rope" during his life(many think because of "The Prince" supposedly written to educate Medici on how to be a proper ruler) which is what caused his departure from his political life & his escape to his country villa. His Art of War is, I beleive, to be satirical take on how "Generals" meaning political figures with a uniform rather than real generals who know warfare, tactics behave in war to impress foolish princes rather than win an actual war. That's just my opinion, I may be entirely wrong.

Well you sound more well read on it than me.

And yeah from my readings he does not sound like a fan of politician generals.

https://youtu.be/hB-DIBtWWXo
Mr. Taylor directly thanks the president for watching at 8:53. What does he know?

MASS LAYOFFS AT THE HUFFINGTON POST PRAISE ALLAH

@Sam Anderson No, he certainly wasn't haha.

@VinceChaos Will AmRen host the SOTU?

Firings

Trump/Taylor 2020?

Who's seen that "The Kids did the Redskins tomahawk chant" so the original story (on the Covington kids) was justified take?

New profile pic I thought was cute, might delete later.

Regarding Venezuela, I’m low info on the situation, but I’m anti-Maduro because he’s mixed race, working class upbringing, not high cast- castizo, his grandparents are ethnically jews, and obviously because he’s socialist. Anyone else have opinions on the Venezuela issue?

@Johnny B. Populus smug face and a MAGA hat seems to be in style.

@Sam Anderson Yeah, I'm normally not one for following trends but, this one is just along my lines enough for me to indulge it at least for a while.

Though it is rather yellow against the grey backdrop & now that I see it it is very distracting to my eye.

Pelosi thinks she has won because Trump postponed SOTU address. She *should* be shaking in her boots because Trump obviously wants precisely to be in front of the House of Representatives. What does he have planned!?

Im interested to see how things develop without food stamps...

Having served food to people using food stamps, hehe, they are not the most foreword looking.

I think they passed a stopgap for food stamps and other optical things

Aww lame.

Would have been some near Ferguson level event.

Except in many small pockets.

I think they want to keep the conversation focused on the wall

Food riots would be a distraction

Makes sense.

“My baby is starving!” Would be what CNN craves.

Wouldn’t that pressure the liberal to cede the wall funding because they’re defiance is starving children?

Well since Trump told Schumer that he would own the shutdown, not really. Watch the James Allsup vid on this, and you can see Chuck doing the hand rubbing bit.

While true, I think the media already has 36 plans on file to pin the blame on Trump in that case and prevent any discussion on "why don't Democrats just fund the wall"

What he's doing now is working well

Ok, in bizarre news: https://twitter.com/farmingsim/status/1088060612427612167?s=19

The gamer menace must be stopped

Bois. 10/10 slots open for internship this summer, and I have the professors class who does the internships in 20 mins. This could be epic.

Food stamp riots would be great optics for us