Saturday, May 09, 2020
No more V day
For the last 6 years Polistra has been celebrating V-day on May 9, marking the victory of the ANTI-NAZI ALLIES in WW2. Putin was rebuilding the ANTI-NAZI alliance, since US and UK had joined the NAZI Axis under Führer Soros.
No more. Putin has joined the Axis of Holocausters, along with everyone else except Sweden and Belarus. Sweden is an absolutely unique and total switch, while Belarus is the sole carryover of the proper Soviet tradition.
Later half-baked thought: Sweden and Belarus have three things in common, but the variables are so tangled up that these are probably meaningless. Both are "socialist" as seen by US "conservatives", and both engage in some degree of central planning, and both have retained their own industry. Still, I can't see any sort of pattern. Other centrally planned countries and own-industry countries locked down. The US states that avoided lockdown are definitely at the looser end of the planning axis, but all have plenty of real physical production. (Farms, oil, manufacturing.)
Earlier I posited taxation as important, and it still seems important. When a government depends on taxes from real production, it will be more reluctant to shut down real production.
This is THE question that deserves serious attention if we get a brief break between this panic and the next scheduled panic. Is there any ideology or decision-making method or culture or ethnicity that determined the choice? Or is it purely the personality of the ruler? At the moment personality seems to be the only 'uncrossed' variable, but others may show up on later examination.
No more. Putin has joined the Axis of Holocausters, along with everyone else except Sweden and Belarus. Sweden is an absolutely unique and total switch, while Belarus is the sole carryover of the proper Soviet tradition.
Later half-baked thought: Sweden and Belarus have three things in common, but the variables are so tangled up that these are probably meaningless. Both are "socialist" as seen by US "conservatives", and both engage in some degree of central planning, and both have retained their own industry. Still, I can't see any sort of pattern. Other centrally planned countries and own-industry countries locked down. The US states that avoided lockdown are definitely at the looser end of the planning axis, but all have plenty of real physical production. (Farms, oil, manufacturing.)
Earlier I posited taxation as important, and it still seems important. When a government depends on taxes from real production, it will be more reluctant to shut down real production.
This is THE question that deserves serious attention if we get a brief break between this panic and the next scheduled panic. Is there any ideology or decision-making method or culture or ethnicity that determined the choice? Or is it purely the personality of the ruler? At the moment personality seems to be the only 'uncrossed' variable, but others may show up on later examination.Labels: Constants and Variables, Natural law = Soviet law, Sorosia
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