The New Place

The future of the world isn't in globalism, it's in a self conscious technological meta state based on meritocracy. It's not national, it's not ethno though certainly not hostile towards those things - the meritocracy integrates society across class and demographic lines. It is not the mystical mag...

"But of all the ways the internet has gotten exponentially worse in every possible direction, one extremely stupid trend has really caught fire in the past year, even among seemingly reasonable people. It's finding DEEP, VIRAL MEANING in a single photo of a public figure's facial expression or body...

But now from Brexit to Canada to Italy to Austria to Hungary the Trump Buchanan Perot ideology seems to be steamrolling everyone. :lol: :lol: :lol: the Trump Buchanan Perot ideology you say - now what's that? I thought that Trump and associates represented a vacuous, chaotic absence of reflective t...

For centuries France had not had to worry too much about defending its eastern frontiers. The low countries; the jigsaw puzzle of German states that comprised the Holy Roman Empire; the Swiss Confederacy and the patchwork of Italian states were all so politically fragmented that none of them (or an...

I have some comments on the Kim-Trump meeting, but I will not contribute to a thread with a childish designation of Chairman Kim of North Korea. Trust you to demand respect for the most loathsome dictator on Earth. Your opinion of Kim is irrelevant. What matters is what the North Koreans feel about...

Well, as I learnt from Scrooge McDuck when I was a boy, "Work smarter, not harder." And besides, there's something to be said for work-life balance.

"Manhattan Island = crass worldly ambition driven by Ashkenazi passion?" (neverfail) One thing I noticed during my only visit to Australia - a distinct languor among the passive population that could no doubt benefit from a shot of "Ashkenazi passion." "A distinct languor" you say? You only visited...

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Tue Jun 12, 2018 7:25 am

I have some comments on the Kim-Trump meeting, but I will not contribute to a thread with a childish designation of Chairman Kim of North Korea.

Trust you to demand respect for the most loathsome dictator on Earth.

Where's the wall when we need it?

Ohhhh, just kidding.

That G7 photo is getting a lot of attention, which is why I thought this was interesting: