Figuring out that the whole centuries-old Anglo-American financial system is deeply broken and cannot, by any means short of a military coup, be repaired, is like being 11 and figuring out that your parents are alcoholics: a disturbing discovery that offers plenty of answers, but no solutions.

by Chipit to /s/finance from graymirror.substack.com

Russian pranksters prank-called a random Trump-era Secretary of Defense—and got former Secretary Esper to be remarkably frank about Washington’s relationship with the Kiev regime. “The brave Ukrainian people,” he says, “are doing the dirty work we never want to do here in the United States.

by Chipit to /s/WorldNews from graymirror.substack.com

Policies of the deep right. The purpose of a regime is to preserve and improve the health of its own people. To take an interest in improving the rest of the world is to create a conflict of interest—just as the manager of your condo complex’s sends the landscaping funds to Yemen.

by Chipit to /s/politics from graymirror.substack.com

Principles of collective delegation. The goal of political engineering is amplification: generating the most power from the least work. As few people as possible do as little as possible, and get the most results. By Curtis Yarvin.

by Chipit to /s/politics from graymirror.substack.com

Principles of the deep right, by Mencius Moldbug. As a philosophy of politics, the deep right has five principles: it is timeless, neutral, absolute, vital and realist. The purpose of the deep right is not to follow the core right, but to lead it.

by Chipit to /s/politics from graymirror.substack.com

Effective altruism and Xi Jinping Thought. The rational path to effective altruism is the path to world domination. Since impact is the product of power and efficiency, to maximize impact, maximize both power and efficiency. It’s just math, kids.

by Chipit to /s/politics from graymirror.substack.com