Whatever it is called - I am going to dominate the competition.
It’s worth repeating again and again and again, now almost 10 years old:
he best example I know that gives insights into the functioning of a complex system is with the following situation. It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority. If it seems absurd, it is because our scientific intuitions aren’t calibrated for that (fughedabout scientific and academic intuitions and snap judgments; they don’t work and your standard intellectualization fails with complex systems, though not your grandmothers’ wisdom).
This idea of one-sidedness can help us debunk a few more misconceptions. How do books get banned? Certainly not because they offend the average person –most persons are passive and don’t really care, or don’t care enough to request the banning. It looks like, from past episodes, that all it takes is a few (motivated) activists for the banning of some books, or the black-listing of some people. The great philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell lost his job at the City University of New York owing to a letter by an angry –and stubborn –mother who did not wish to have her daughter in the same room as the fellow with dissolute lifestyle and unruly ideas. [5]
The same seems to apply to prohibitions –at least the prohibition of alcohol in the United States which led to interesting Mafia stories.
Let us conjecture that the formation of moral values in society doesn’t come from the evolution of the consensus. No, it is the most intolerant person who imposes virtue on others precisely because of that intolerance. The same can apply to civil rights.
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I would only need to add like 40 lbs to my lifetime natty deadlift max to be the strongest female deadlifter of all time. I’d just need to reach out to an old bar connection, become a Canadian through forgery, and then realize my femininity by setting a new all-time record for the women’s deadlift in Canadian Powerlifting.
@loppar I remember reading that when you posted it years ago. It is a very worthwhile read and is increasingly relevant to our situation here in the USA.
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This is related to the Pareto Principle and Mosca’s Elite Theory. When the minority group is well organized and politically adept, it can have a greater influence than the passive majority. These people have their own flag, are a protected class even if they are also part of the “dominant” culture, and have their own month. They can have all of the benefits of white privilege, if they are white, while also enjoying the benefits of perpetual victimhood.
Ridin’ With Biden…
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That should be on constant replay on a CSPAN channel.
So President assclown biden is gonna build a railroad over the indian ocean
and recently he said God Save the Queen
all you biden supporters embarrased yet
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God save the queen, man.
What was he talking about? is there some big railway project planned?
Over the ocean…really…
He has no idea what he is talking about
The queen died last year…kinda hard to save her now. 
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Any thoughts on the pay to play stuff that Comer is investigating?
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The Biden family are a bigger crime family than the Clinton’s ever were
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The Clintons (well, Bill) had the smarts to do it (mostly) legally. Plus, I happened to pass Bill talking to a bunch of cameras way back in the day -the guy 100% had a magnetic aura around him -when Bill “asked” for money, people probably thought Bill was doing them a favor by accepting said “donations”.
The Bidens, especially Joe, are heavy handed hacks; no brains (plagiarizing Joe), no personality, nada; hence, the obvious criminality that the leftist media is trying, trying, trying so desperately to gloss over/ignore.
add: also, the military industrial comples (all those spy types saying the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation), because Joe’s war on Russia is worth mega, gazillions type money
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Its like the influence pedaling that funded the Clinton Foundation without the lipstic of “human rights & shit”.
Just vulgar, naked, hair sniffing greed.
If it wasn’t fro graft, you’d get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.
Apparently the railroad will be built between Israel and The United Arab Emirates now that they’re bros. Then the UAE will be “connected” to India through ports/shipping. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are considering getting down with the railroad too.
The idea is to freeze douchey old China out by hooking the middle east up with the new most populous country in the world.
I think US involvement is mostly paying for the project.
the new york dems are now going after the pizza businesses…insanity at its best
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Wow, Putin is losing the war in Iraq…don’t be surprised if Bidens sends billions of dollars
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