It didn’t get Zhou Enlai. Feel like Akinator used to be better. Did they add “AI” to it? Or did too many anime characters get added to its database?

in your late 20s and early 30s, when you have financial stability and disposable income, how much the allure of liberalism will stick with you

I’ve avoided this with one simple trick: remaining poor and financially unstable

Yes

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Pecan

God willing!

But, while we wait, I’ll do my best to help the divine plan!

Socialism or barbarism, baby!

[T]he power of each [Roman water mill’s] wheel did not exceed that of a 250 cc motorcycle. This mordant observation highlights how technologically uncivilized we ourselves are, in destroying the environment by wasting on a few motorcycles enough energy to produce food for a whole town. But after all is said and done, our current system, based on the exploitation of nonrenewable energy sources, will last but a moment on a historical scale.

-Lucio Russo, The Forgotten Revolution

duty to disobey unlawful orders

How often does this happen?

I know that effectively this is just the machine cobbling together a pastiche of real people’s interpretations; nonetheless, to my Christian upbringing, this feels satanic.

Butlerian Jihad intensifies

My last Xiaomi phone cost me 200USD and lasted over five years. Screen started intermittently not working and bought a new one.

headed by the guy who ran Twitter into the ground

God willing, he does the same for America

That’s an interesting observation. I wonder why theory and practice tend to go together for Marxist revolutionaries but not for liberal ones.

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I think Friedman is in the moribund period of liberalism, after liberalism has exhausted it’s revolutionary potential and become largely a force of status quo reaction

True and bleak. Most countries formerly governed by ML parties are now led by capitalists. Let’s hope their resurgence doesn’t have the same longevity as the British monarchy.

liberal revolutionary=/=good; it just means they represent the new upcoming class against the old ruling class

My thought was Cromwell established, though not long term, a government breaking with the feudal order.

Fair enough. In the same vein maybe Napoleon over Toussaint.

Locke argues for the right to revolt against unjust sovereigns (I sometimes joke that Mao was paraphrasing Lock when he said “it is right to rebel”).

I wouldn’t consider them revolutionaries, but if you extend into the moribund period of liberalism then for sure