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- Nice walnuts not getting imminently broken is paradise / Countries are like walnuts: they only taste good when you crack them open -> came up in multiple MDem scraps. the concept is that within Existentialism, national autonomy is never truly taken seriously for any country. people assert platitudes about countries needing to be "free", but what really happens is the sheer population of living people constituting the country is not respected until it's cracked open by force and all the people are forcefully assimilated into one huge Napoleonism or global socially-linked friend circle of capitalists and Careerists. in asserting the right to use force to liberate the "isolated" people of a country from "the thumb" of their country, the State of the outside country extends over like a storm cloud and carries out the democratic decisions of somebody else completely unelected.
imagine a world where people took child abuse as seriously as they take "authoritarian countries". 1000 people, probably with weapons, would flood the abusive household and throw out the parent. they wouldn't care if that was illegal by anybody's standards, they'd just do it. but also, if that sounds like a genuinely good idea to you, just keep in mind that you'd also get 1000 reactionaries tossing people's parents out of the state for letting them be transgender, or letting them go to a school that teaches inclusive history. at maximum democulture, all the children turn into walnuts that you have to crack open and carry over to the reactionary-school bowl. those hypothetical kids are not free. they're captured by the Social-Philosophical System that decided to define what Freedom is and leap its personal State over them. don't think too hard about what that analogy might be saying about literal Social-Philosophical Systems in daily life. the only thing I'll say there is, I'm really tired of hegemony politics and everything being run by Filaments. none of it makes any sense, and up to now nobody's said anything about it that's true. like, everything anybody tells you about Liberalism is some kind of small lie. what's up with that?
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- walnut core (analogy) -> approximately represents a large subpopulation, either the proletariat or The Multitude, but is intended to exclude capitalists
- walnut shell (analogy) -> approximately represents a national border, populational border, or party-nation
- The United States conquers countries by forcing them to Freely Choose things
culturocracy + ??? = this.
- A workers' state will surely fail if it doesn't buy specific inventions from other countries / Avoid the forbidden fruit and you will surely die -> found this one implied in a history of late Soviet corn production. literally untrue, because China got around this one through bootlegs and its own eventual inventions. but this statement is truly interesting because of the dumb assumptions buried deep inside it. this actually goes deeply against Deleuze and Guattari's Existentialist model of freedom. it says there are some people you have no choice but to form relationships with no matter how evil they are, because the individuals or groups of people who are most effective at materially generating civilizations have the right to be your friend. you have to love racists, you have to love transphobes, you have to put up with everybody's
bullshit as individuals if they sell a lot of things. business territories aren't valuable because they're pieces of society that exist and have value regardless of who founded them, there are just mandatory individuals. this is one of the most toxic forms of Existentialism because it posits chunk competition as building societies rather than even Filamentism. that's medieval. that's manor lord thinking. that's literally, the duke is more important than the rest of the population if each member of the nobility does their best to exist without caring about anyone else.
- The United States destroying other countries' governments is a revolution
The United States destroying other countries' governments is a revolution + ?? = color revolution.
- Walnut core inside shell against other shell equals core plundering core / Walnut core inside shell against other shell equals shell plundering shell / Walnut core inside walnut shell against walnut shell equals whole walnut smashing whole walnut / Anti-marginalization efforts from the United States' margins to "help" minorities in China turn into US majority and US minority against absolutely everybody in the China region / Trotsky and Trotskyites without their own workers' state fight for either the Soviet Union's government or the United States and Mexican governments -> this one takes so many words to say. it's not a difficult concept but it is really difficult for anyone to actually see when they'll call you out on the question-begging test for not describing the whole world in terms of races and Cultures. I find that framing disgusting when it's a fact human individuals and populations compete for mere existence, and I'd rather not discuss social-democratic reforms in terms of slowly allowing some 20% of people not surviving who probably happen to belong to particular races to survive better but not the rest of them just yet. so, you get walnuts. you get really stupid walnut metaphors where the goal is not to let the walnut shells arbitrarily go around cracking all the other walnuts except them. I swear people are not smart enough to grasp the concepts of either "the proletariat" or "plural proletariats in one country". so we tell them about walnuts.
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- 5996Democracy is the abundance of skilled experts -> frequently implied in a lot of Liberal-republican discourse against Third-World countries, although I'm sure nobody intends to.
what people think they're saying: build a better world through education and voting, because education is a benefit to everybody politician and not, and makes everyone make better informed decisions, allowing the country to build itself up through a firm foundation of Freedom and Free Will.
what people are actually saying: education builds up a larger pool of skilled experts, and this is inherently good for everybody because it results in better decisions and more choice, therefore whenever other countries are so poorly developed in their systems of education they only have one candidate, or make decisions that appear to slow the rate at which they will open more universities and accumulate more experts, including refusing foreign capital and gigantic abusive debts directly used to abuse their populations, they must not believe in freedom or democracy and we must crush all their governing structures threatening their civilians until they allow us to conquer their ethnic group and thus free all their individuals, specifically the talented ones who are not useless pieces of shit, you know, we're not nazis, because we have no idea what those are in this country so we couldn't be. freedom and democracy! don't you love voting?
The United States was more democratic than the Soviet Union + Stalin became mandatory because there wasn't a large enough pool of mainstream Marxist-Leninist experts = Democracy is the abundance of skilled experts
- Having too few skilled theorists is a form of poverty / A lack of high-quality political theorists, as found in situations like the Russian Empire, is tied to a lack of development and widely-available education, and thus overall emerges from a general national state of poverty -> this really puts into perspective how to analyze what United States people believe is and isn't democracy.
Having too few skilled theorists is a form of poverty + Wealth gets rid of poverty (sic) = To increase the number of political candidates, force a country to create more wealth
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