Saturday, June 23, 2012
Debating a vacuum
I've often blasted the misuse of Set Theory as the fake "foundation" of mathematics, but sets can be a useful tool for some purposes. Nice example is the current fake dispute about immigration. Comrade Romney and Comrade Obama, and their respective partybots, are fiercely fighting about a null set.
Illegal immigrants who get advanced degrees? Null set.
Illegal immigrants who serve in the military? Null set.
Comrade Obama says we must stop deporting these people who do not exist.
Comrade Romney says we must immediately deport these people who do not exist.
We're fucked.
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Sidenote: Comrade Obama's executive order about immigration closely resembles Soviet Agent Bush's 2001 executive order about stem cells. Both of these executive orders are carefully crafted to accomplish two purposes:
(1) The order covers a precisely defined class of projects or people that sounds real on the surface, but turns out to be null when you look at it closely. Thus the order has no actual consequences or effects.
(2) The order will please an interest group aligned with My Party and irritate an interest group aligned with The Other Party. Bush's stem-cell order pleased pro-lifers and irritated death-loving "scientists". Obama's immigration order pleased Hispanic activists and irritated working-class whites.
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Broader thought about exec orders in general: Partisan assholes always squawk when The Other President uses orders, and cheer when My President uses orders.
The plain fact is that exec orders are the nearest approach to representative government in the current fucked system. Courts write the legislation on serious matters to suit their Satanic agenda, and agencies write most of the details to suit their bureaucratic agenda. Congress really controls nothing more than the budget, and Congress has removed most of its budget decisions from its own ability to decide. (Can't touch the military, can't touch SS, can't touch foreign aid, etc. Only agriculture seems to be alterable.) Result: Only the President can make quick decisions in response to real events. This was not how the system was supposed to work; the lower house was meant to be the fast-changing and fast-deciding mechanism. ¶ 6:15 AM
Illegal immigrants who get advanced degrees? Null set.
Illegal immigrants who serve in the military? Null set.
Comrade Obama says we must stop deporting these people who do not exist.
Comrade Romney says we must immediately deport these people who do not exist.
We're fucked.
= = = = =
Sidenote: Comrade Obama's executive order about immigration closely resembles Soviet Agent Bush's 2001 executive order about stem cells. Both of these executive orders are carefully crafted to accomplish two purposes:
(1) The order covers a precisely defined class of projects or people that sounds real on the surface, but turns out to be null when you look at it closely. Thus the order has no actual consequences or effects.
(2) The order will please an interest group aligned with My Party and irritate an interest group aligned with The Other Party. Bush's stem-cell order pleased pro-lifers and irritated death-loving "scientists". Obama's immigration order pleased Hispanic activists and irritated working-class whites.
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Broader thought about exec orders in general: Partisan assholes always squawk when The Other President uses orders, and cheer when My President uses orders.
The plain fact is that exec orders are the nearest approach to representative government in the current fucked system. Courts write the legislation on serious matters to suit their Satanic agenda, and agencies write most of the details to suit their bureaucratic agenda. Congress really controls nothing more than the budget, and Congress has removed most of its budget decisions from its own ability to decide. (Can't touch the military, can't touch SS, can't touch foreign aid, etc. Only agriculture seems to be alterable.) Result: Only the President can make quick decisions in response to real events. This was not how the system was supposed to work; the lower house was meant to be the fast-changing and fast-deciding mechanism. ¶ 6:15 AM
