Recent content by Bassoe

Understood. Now we know who to primary that neocon halfwit with. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/opinion/tucker-carlson.html

Not a hypothetical situation, look up the controversy around Thai women in Sweden some time. https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/5468307

I imagine three possible arguments: Modern atrocities are worse cause they have the power to "lock in" the future, such that certain scenarios which are currently possible cease to be an option. If we destroy our civilization now in a nuclear war, we've already dug up and burnt all the readily...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-czar-david-sacks-universal-basic-income-ai-jobs-2025-6 ...meanwhile when David Sacks is the one failing to profit from the Free Market™...

A related idea, send the equivalent of an aviation blackbox instead of a person. A briefcase containing a massive list of upcoming winning lottery numbers, horse race results, news articles, etc as an attention-catcher and proof of its time traveling bona fides, and a dire warning message about...

Israel using an attack by their own domestic radical Palestinians as justification for picking a fight with Iran, with miscellaneous Europeans and Americans who've got pattern recognition worrying about the consequences for themselves, such as extreme increases in the price of oil, our countries...

You misunderstand, we're against fighting because we see it as inevitably making our situation worse. Things are bad now. Imagine for a moment we have a peer power war, China hits the kill switches in the infrastructure they sold us and we can't make replacements because we don't have sufficient...

Actually wrote a whole substack article on this. https://substack.com/home/post/p-160102321 Namely, zero-sum economic competition. Morphological Freedom plays out like any other hyperlibertarian argument, it doesn't account for competition forcing people to go with what's profitable rather than...

OTOH, if the ninety nine percent of your country's population who aren't the corrupt oligarchs running it are impoverished and desperate and accurately recognize that the consequences of shooting the pressgang and starting a violent uprising and being sent to war are the same*, they're not gonna...

You have to placate them, because without a domestic manufacturing sector to replenish losses and relatively comfortable middle class with the morale to be willing cannon fodder, you’ll lose all your wars. I mean, technically you can choose not to and still not be regime changed from abroad so...

You mean the ones currently being eaten alive by AI?

Additional point here, things getting drastically worse than they currently are is an inevitable consequence, admitted or otherwise of continuing on our current leadership’s current path. We’re not just comparing our current quality of life to the historic golden age of unions and onshore labor...