Tag: politics
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Nas mnogo? Do Americans cherish life the same way as Russians do?
I was met with plenty of anecdotal evidence that Russian people have a huge disregard for human life: gulags, famines, extrajudicial killings, the Russian Civil War, 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War. They used to say “nas mnogo” (there are plenty of us) which doesn’t require any comment further. One division after division lost without any cry. If…
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Putin is neither a psychopath nor has Asperger’s syndrome
As a person suffering from the disease that belongs to the autistic spectrum myself, I recall the old official American report claiming Vladimir Putin has Asperger’s syndrome. Leave the aspect that the report may have had some side intentions (discredit him in his official ranks etc.) and let’s take a look at the notion itself.…
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My very atypical stance on conspiracy theories
Around 99 % of conspiracy theories are very implausible, made either by people or the secret services themselves. Why the secret services? Because more conspiracy theories are there and the more stupid the given conspiracy theories appear the more unlikely they are being supported. The secret services also support their makers so the bigger the…
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Do you want to be a top politician? You must be a grand actor or dumb
Imagine a political constellation you can easily use to gain political capital and go up the ladder in politics. But you don’t use it because it would reveal you are smart and all the lobbyists, movers-and-shakers, crooks, super-rich families and lodges would teach you a lesson. One Czech former prime minister (and in my opinion,…
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Big money, secret services and why Wikipedia may not be independent?
Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, the founders of Wikipedia, did a terrific thing by not making Wikipedia a big commercial project. They could have been dollar billionaires easily. But they preferred making Wikipedia independent (in their view). Of course, they did not know the hidden political map of the USA. And they luckily crossed the…
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How a real democracy and public affairs should look like
Constitution, congress, senate, old and senile Anglo-Saxon-looking politicians calling all day to lobbyists to get money for campaigns, movers-and-shakers, crooks, super-rich families and lodges. Social media, and mass media with their own agenda, would be politically incorrect stand-up shows. Endless feuds with power structures blocking each other to the detriment of citizens. Gerrymandering, voter suppression,…
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Global modern slavery. Why we don’t fight it? It serves well the super-rich
I have once a read book about background politics and the author said that the eminences had their moral compass back in time. Now they are sociopathic. People get fired from jobs and it is a huge negative consequence of capitalism, but being hooked on some drugs and beaten and tortured when you don’t fulfill…
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Why do famous persons with extremely high IQs never tell the number?
I have a page about IQ estimates of geniuses. But why the estimates? The persons involved must likely have taken an IQ test in their lifetimes (excluding those who didn’t have that opportunity because we had no clue about the “g factor” back then). We may say it is their privacy, but people tend to…
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Our moral system is extremely bad. Here are the facts
My atypical stance on human morality is given by books that are the best and the worst I have ever read. What kind of books? Evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology. While the first one may be considered as a pseudoscience even though it bears a rational core and has thousands of rational claims that cannot…
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When the super-rich rule: The worst professions: politicians and journalists
Money, power, and fame. You may say that they chose it. But things are – as usual – more complicated. Since capitalism is in the absolute majority of examples ruling of the richest class, the super-rich groups (the puppet masters, the crony capitalists) are intertwined with journalists and politicians. You may say the super-rich own…