Tag: politics
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Museum of Capitalistic Crimes and Museum of Communist Crimes
As an anti-socialist, anti-communist, and a man who wants heavily regulated capitalism, I found it utterly funny that after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the new regime did exactly what new regimes do – blame all of its own mistakes on the preceding regime. So the old regime didn’t have any benefits, only liabilities. So…
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Preventable diseases vs. wars, mass shootings and terrorism
Given our prehistoric instincts, when a mass murder happens, it drives everyone’s attention. The Gaussian curve has deviations and one of the extremes of the extreme are people who go and shoot a lot of folks (tragic, but hardly preventable, and if preventable, then with high reasonable costs). Local wars (I really don’t mean a…
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Was Kissinger worse than Hitler? Was he given the power…
The worst people are not your common criminals but people with suits and ties. And those with the sole intent of grabbing power. And Henry Kissinger knew how to grab power. His only idea was realpolitik (a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations). No ideals, no morals,…
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Why the formal educational system was created? Enlightenment, competition, wars
Measuring causality in history is a nonexistent thing. The historians are not mathematicians and don’t want to be ones. The factor analysis is a great tool but is rarely used. Finding causality in history is on par with celebrity gossip. We don’t know why the massive formal educational system was created. Have the elites wanted…
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Weren’t Hitler an antisemite, he could have had the atomic bomb first
Who would say that the turn of war was thwarted by such a stupid thing as xenophobia? And yes, the European universities before WW2 were the best in the world and Americans were sending their best people there (unlike now). And given the Jewish superior intelligence, they performed far more than excellently at those universities.…
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Politicians and journalists would love to get rid of the lobbyists and super-rich interest groups, but people are the problem
Despite people denying being influenced by political commercials and TV with the obvious agenda, the opposite is true. People love establishment news offering only those parties tied to the super-rich groups. It same goes with social media. And what do the lobbyists and super-rich do? They completely destroy the political system (they are damaging the…
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Why the US presidents should be pathologically worrisome and obsessive
Putting you into the position of the president of the United States of America brings you enormous moral obligations (even from the “normal morality” standpoint which I have little understanding of). Like all the politicians on the planet, you are restrained by the interest groups. You have 10,000 issues to solve, but they purposefully block…
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Total parody of freedom of speech in academia
They say the freedom of speaking is most important. So academicians have a pretty difficult job to do because there is no freedom of speech. Promoting eugenics? The world of superhuman intelligence, zero criminals, no illnesses, wars or capitalism. You are dead to me! Not only races are not the same but they possess different…
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The expulsion of German people from Eastern Europe as a necessity
German people were widespread all around Eastern Europe. But with all the horrors of the Second World War, they had been repatriated. Yes, collective guilt is unacceptable even though one of the highest memberships of NSDAP (from the whole Reich) was in areas of Czechoslovakia where Germans were dwelling. During the Czechoslovakia First Republic, the…
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The big language wall between Czechia and Slovakia
This could be a sequel to “A language is a dialect with an army and navy”. German dialects are much more different than Czech and Slovakian languages. The Slovakian language is heavily influenced by the Czech one to the degree that it is mutually intelligible. There were times (during the rise of nationalism) when activists…