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Home Posts tagged  democracy

Tag: democracy

A Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown

Novak Djokovic’s case, and especially his recent reversal at the hands of a regime who obviously hate him personally and want to turn (what they no doubt consider to be) a filthy unvaccinated Serb untermensch into an example of their power for the undesirables to … Continue readingA Stream of Thoughts Against Lockdown

Posted on January 14, 2022by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

Nemesis Among the Machines

At LessWrong Virgil Kurkjian has a fascinating post, “Leto among the Machines”, analyzing Frank Herbert’s “Dune” chronicles, specifically its worldbuilding point of the Butlerian Jihad (the elimination of computers from human civilization), from a “rationalist” perspective, especially how the Butlerian Jihad makes perfect sense once … Continue readingNemesis Among the Machines

Posted on January 7, 2022by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

Triumph of the Fleece Vest

“Extremism can come in many forms,” President Biden said at a speech recently. “It can come in the rage of a mob driven to assault the Capitol. It can come in a smile and a fleece vest.” “Extremist” or not, turns out coming in a … Continue readingTriumph of the Fleece Vest

Posted on November 3, 2021November 3, 2021by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

Gödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory

Kurt Gödel is famous for his “incompleteness theorems”, and ranks among the all-time great mathematicians (he was also a logician and a philosopher). What’s less well known about him is that he claimed to have discovered an “inner contradiction” in the United States Constitution, a … Continue readingGödel’s Loophole: My Pet Theory

Posted on October 4, 2021by Adamas Nemesis1 Comment

If I Had a Country

What if I had a country to call my own, one that belonged to me, my very own answer to the Principalities of Liechtenstein or Monaco? First and foremost I’d want it to be a refuge of liberty, a free society where the best of … Continue readingIf I Had a Country

Posted on October 4, 2021by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

For Proportional Representation

We should abolish elections and replace them with sortition, random selection from the citizenry, thus guaranteeing a representative body. I’ve posted about that before. But if we must have elections, what voting system should we use? Pure proportional representation, that’s what; specifically multi-winner ranked choice … Continue readingFor Proportional Representation

Posted on September 27, 2021September 27, 2021by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

Twenty Years of Terror

“9/11”: a word filled with feeling, the bulk of it bad, for all but those fortunate enough to have neither experienced nor heard of it. In the heat of the moment, when Islamic terrorists rammed two hijacked jet planes into the twin towers of the … Continue readingTwenty Years of Terror

Posted on September 11, 2021by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment

Checking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition

The results of the 2020 United States Presidential election are well known by this point, and much analysis has been offered, including by myself on Twitter. For the first time on this blog I would like to offer some of the thoughts I’ve expressed in … Continue readingChecking in on American Politics: 2020 Edition

Posted on July 26, 2021by Adamas NemesisLeave a comment
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