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Philosophy / Society / Video

Incentive Systems & Politics: Part 1

A Response to Extra Credits Introduction As a game designer, James can’t help but think about how broken our political system is.  And by broken, I don’t just mean it’s busted; I mean it’s broken in a Game Design sense.  The underlying rules and incentives which govern our politics are just wrong.  They’re completely out of whack. If you’re not already familiar with it, Extra Credits is a web-series focusing on the video game industry; they cover everything from the development, to the marketing, the design, the social impact, and even the different themes that games explore.  It’s a series...

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Society

Is Feminism on the Decline?

W.F. Price and Audacious Epigone recently posted a graph from Google Engrams which seems to suggest a that the prevalence of Feminism in newly printed material has been declining since the nineties.  Many of the commenters noted that while the word Feminism might be declining, that might be due to the fact that so many Feminist tropes have become accepted as part of the mainstream; for instance, let’s consider the words “feminist” and “Women’s Suffrage”: Although Women’s Suffrage and Feminism are connected at the hip ideologically, we see an initial divergence – Women’s Suffrage was almost four times more popular...

The Power of the Shield 4

Society

The Power of the Shield

It’s hard being a cop these days. Part of me wants to be sympathetic.  The Boys in Blue are expected to uphold Law and Order in a society that celebrates License and Orgy.  On the one side, they’ve got the journalistic classes and the fattened masses, cowards and malcontents, who are utterly incapable of judging their actions.  On the other, they have the Untermenschen, those half-tamed barbarians, egged on by debauched culture and lobbyists, who speak nothing but the language of violence. If the media starts yelling about “Excessive force,” it’s dollars-to-donuts that some degenerate was refusing to comply. But...

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Society

Too Much Trust of Doctors

Bill Powell explains the explains what the 23 Executive Orders mean for you: 16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes. Did you know that the AMA is one of the largest anti-gun establishments in this country? Personally if I had a doctor ask me about guns in my home, if I could control myself from bashing the bastard in the face, I’d walk out without paying. Just another good reason to stay away from these quacks. Allow me to coin a new term, “Credentialism Creep”: Credentialism is a...

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Philosophy / Society

How to Defeat the Left

First off, I need your support.  I’m doing a bit of fundraising just now, so I’d appreciate if you watched the following video, or click on this link for the details. That said, here’s why you all came here: my latest video, How to Defeat the Left: Pravda’s “America, Never give up your guns!“by Stanislav Mishin.

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What an Utter Disgrace

From CNBC: Hoffa, whose father, Jimmy Hoffa Sr., was one of the nation’s most famous labor leaders and disappeared in 1975 in Michigan, denounced Republican leaders in a speech to the protesters. “Let me tell the governor and all those elected officials who vote for this shameful, divisive bill — there will be repercussions,” Hoffa said. “Some day soon, they will face the voters of Michigan and they will have to explain why they sided with the billionaires to back this destructive legislation.” … About 12,000 people converged on the Capitol to protest Tuesday’s vote. Michigan State Police Inspector Gene...

America’s Fiscal Cliff: Ron Paul Was Right 0

Society

America’s Fiscal Cliff: Ron Paul Was Right

Another interview over at the Washington Times: Danny de Gracia: You recently put out a new video on your YouTube channel which was fairly technical in scope discussing how to govern in a depression. I take it that you haven’t bought into the official line that we’re “in a recovery” now? D.M.J. Aurini: Absolutely not. Ron Paul and Gary Johnson nailed it: All you need to do is to look at the numbers, or listen to your gut. With the numbers we’re looking at a shell game. The Consumer Price Index, for instance: it’s supposed to be a measure of how...

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Society

Kuleana de Hawai’i ad ipsum

Welcome to Stares at the World, where we can screw up grammar in three languages at a time. As I’m sure you all know I recently did a couple of interviews with Danny de Gracia, a politician/journalist/literary critic & chef from the State of Hawaii; he’s my second data-point that there’s a new wave of politicians coming, a group of Gen-X/Millennial Men with the shrewdness needed to rule, and the integrity to rule well. But this post isn’t about him; it’s about Hawaii. Speaking with him got me curious, so during a slow moment at work I decided to do...