Message from @Trashboat

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2018-10-12 01:41:40 UTC  

Capitalism has to be restricted to protect the environment, but it's not as simple as capitalism = degenerate. The market generally provides what people demand. It's the media that is convincing people to demand vices

2018-10-12 01:42:12 UTC  
2018-10-12 01:43:02 UTC  

@Wilhelm @Jacob @NITRODUBS @TMatthews The most essential thing about identiarianism is that we're all more-or-less rational people, so as long as our political system isn't being polluted by the views and agendas of interlopers, we can essentially work out whatever disagreements we have, and adjust our approach, depending upon what proves to be successful, and what doesn't...

2018-10-12 01:44:06 UTC  

Well, maybe not *most* essential, but it helps, lol.

2018-10-12 01:44:19 UTC  

For sure. In a healthy homogeneous society, we would also have civil political debate again

2018-10-12 01:44:30 UTC  

Exactly.

2018-10-12 01:44:42 UTC  

So each country can figure out what suits its needs

2018-10-12 01:45:21 UTC  

...because we'll be a *we* again, rather than struggling against all of the uninvited in a prisoner's dilemma-esque, every-man-for-himself scenario.

2018-10-12 01:46:57 UTC  

@Jacob ...not to mention that it's up in the air, whether or not we'll even have corporations, at least in the current sense, when our laws actually acknowledge the reality that only *people* can be considered to be people.

2018-10-12 01:49:47 UTC  

...and I think that it's pretty telling that, as the Orania Movement in the Northern Cape province of South Africa has continued to develop more and more into a thing, the supposedly dogmatically capitalistic Boers there are very much demonstrating an awareness of the value of cooperatives and the commons.

2018-10-12 01:51:48 UTC  

Animal of the Day is Opossum.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/500123390850498591/IMG_20181011_040414.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/500123391458541568/IMG_20181011_035932.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/500123391458541569/IMG_20181011_040848.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/500123392134086666/IMG_20181011_040043.jpg

2018-10-12 01:52:09 UTC  

Lol

2018-10-12 01:52:27 UTC  

Press P to Pat the possums.

2018-10-12 01:52:33 UTC  

P

2018-10-12 01:52:38 UTC  

BASED. North America's only marsupial. And consumes thousands of ticks a year without contracting LYME.

2018-10-12 01:52:48 UTC  

Honor the Possum, he fights for your health!

2018-10-12 01:52:52 UTC  

PPPP

2018-10-12 01:53:34 UTC  

I almost forgot to post one today.

2018-10-12 01:54:09 UTC  

Boomers are interesting people...
https://youtu.be/TSFnHHuYXjg

2018-10-12 01:56:56 UTC  

Used to have a huge possum in my backyard couple years back

2018-10-12 01:57:16 UTC  

This is the longest possible roadtrip in the world. Who will join me?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/481597551272001546/500124765214998529/Screenshot_20181011-185547_Maps.jpg

2018-10-12 01:58:38 UTC  

Not bad!\

2018-10-12 01:59:57 UTC  

@Hakujin - CA Wouldn't it be longer if you went South?

2018-10-12 01:59:59 UTC  

@Jacob @Wilhelm One thing that I find interesting, for instance, is the evolving structure of the Russian economy. Now, corruption is obviously much more of a problem over there than it is here, and part of that is cultural/maybe even genetic, but I think it's mostly just due to social inertia from the Soviet period. That said, though, Russia has lower barriers to entry in a lot of sectors than the States, they have a 13% flat tax on income, and a home ownership rate somewhere around 90%, but they also make sure that the commanding heights of the economy, particularly concerning natural resource deposits, are dominated by what Putin refers to as "national champions," such as Gazprom in the case of natural gas, the United Aircraft Corporation, the United Shipbuilding Corporation, and RosTech in the case of high technology, all of which are majority controlled by the state, usually with a 51% stake, and the rest of the investment covered by private capital. That way, there's ample room for free enterprise, but no sector can be seized and dominated by foreign parties.

2018-10-12 02:00:33 UTC  

incredible

2018-10-12 02:01:26 UTC  

@Deleted User Just wrong...

2018-10-12 02:01:38 UTC  

Socrates was a ...!

2018-10-12 02:01:59 UTC  

@Jacob Maybe if you went offroad, this is just with roads.

2018-10-12 02:02:25 UTC  
2018-10-12 02:03:09 UTC  

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN Very INDO-European 😎

2018-10-12 02:03:09 UTC  

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN But does it go from Portugal to Russia?

2018-10-12 02:03:47 UTC  

@Hakujin - CA I'm sure you can take a different train(s) from Lisbon to Moscow

2018-10-12 02:04:25 UTC  

Trains go slower, and often through more interesting scenery. You can interact with new, interesting people, and maybe get into a murder mystery.

2018-10-12 02:04:49 UTC  

Sleeper cars solve the issue of transport + lodging.

2018-10-12 02:05:44 UTC  

Also solves the question of "what to do with the vehicle" when you get to Vladivostock

2018-10-12 02:07:16 UTC  

@ThisIsChris There's definitely truth to what you're saying, which is why I'm extremely wary of the state retaining control over education, because so long as that remains the case, the state's in a position to dictate *which* societal norms are cultivated and perpetuated...

2018-10-12 02:07:41 UTC  

When you get to Vladivostok you drive the car to japan