Recent content by Morphic Tide

Well, also because the news rags inflated the very real issues into astronomical hyperbole for ratings any time anything went wrong. And the lead-on time does not work with how most governments handle regulation.

How many of them have fundamental issues with preventative regulations being enforceable? Because that's a pretty big part of the current system I've still yet to see you give an answer for. No, most of America was built under the base anarchy of the state having yet to catch up with people...

The Iranians openly say that they want to kill us and have been working on the two technologies needed to make a serious go of it?

The missionaries never stopped being the first resort. Even in the Age of Empire, the temporal authorities actively conquering the considerable majority of the planet did not do forced conversions anything like Islam, they still left that to the attached clergy. Christianity with its most...

The forced conversion of the old Prussians is an extreme abnormality undertaken, the Cathars are exactly the case of violence against heresy being a defense mechanism rather than manner of offense, and as Islam spreading by the sword is the standard the ratio of innocents slaughtered to peaceful...

There have in fact been "Armies of Christendom" in the Crusades. In response to widespread heresies or almost exclusively Muslim invasion, being pretty much solely in defense rather than to spread it as is the main model of Jihad.

...No, even the most militant and oppressive of Christendom past single cities pales in comparison to the omnipresent oppression of Arab clan-culture amplified by hidebound religious fanaticism. Just for a  start, the typical Christian conversion was with the wives of the people in power being...

...What demographic do you think the Apostles came from?

The one corresponding to the strongly overlapping geographic constraints of worker commutes and customer access. When you remove the widely-traveled and self-segregating immigrant labor pool, you see a lot more cases of jobs in proximity to eachother having workers of one be customers of the...

There's these things called "minimum wage", "workers' rights", and "regulatory compliance" that make local citizens cost more than illegal immigrants. The first can probably get bent because very few jobs actually collide with it, but the second and especially third have quite the long trail of...

The fundamental logic of "tarrifs bad" is "but there's less efficient market pressure!", not some instantaneous industrial collapse. As the United States can trivially become self-sufficient in the vast majority of goods and is the primary consumer base for almost everyone's exports, we can stay...

...No, there are in fact Satanic rituals done by occasionally-convicted pedophiles among the halls of power. How seriously they take it and how often the "pedophiles" are just 16-25 ambiguity compromat is another matter.