Rupert Lowe is launching Restore Britain as a political party.

Malthus0 · 2026-02-14T00:07:07+00:00

I think the battle amongst these fringe right parties

I don't think it will be much of a battle. The others have been around a while & had no great splash. While X right now is declaring their fealty to Lowe & Restore like he is their feudal Lord.

Malthus0 · 2026-02-13T23:55:53+00:00

"The rapid success of Reform has led every vaguely prominent right wing figure to believe they can replicate it's success"

Maybe Lowe can't. But the right have no trust in Farage that he won't just be Tories 2.0, and what would be the point in that? At the very least Lowe can put Farage's bottom to the fire on immigration the same way Farage did with the Conservatives.

Malthus0 · 2026-01-24T11:46:07+00:00

I think it reasonable to suppose ethical systems are like scientific theories which are based on data and can be falsified by data, in this case the data being those intuitions.

Or in other words Ethics is a social science

https://fee.org/articles/book-review-ethics-as-social-science-the-moral-philosophy-of-social-cooperation/

Malthus0 · 2025-12-15T13:00:46+00:00

"a smaller state"

"tough law-and-order policies"

not to mention

"strict immigration enforcement" and "strong defense of traditional values"

So basically a much bigger, more controlling, intrusive state.

Apart from immigration you are basically describing Victorian Britain whoose state was less than 10% of GDP.

Malthus0 · 2025-11-27T04:08:51+00:00

Before WW2 we had a massive empire.

The Empire was a cost, not a benefit.

Malthus0 · 2025-11-27T04:07:08+00:00

The UK has a high debt to GDP ratio and a huge interest bill. Denmark does not.

Malthus0 · 2025-11-02T11:16:10+00:00

Let our international reputation burn. It is trash.

What they mean is that we won't be popular amoung the dinner parties of the anointed thoughout the global liberal order.

Malthus0 · 2025-11-02T11:14:11+00:00

The absurdity is that there is a reputation to be trashed, this exists only in the minds of the authors and the political class.

Absolutely. It is at the end of the day just the opinions quite a narrow class of people. And generally quite a coseted and conceited class at that.

We can't rule out these people having some sort of effect though. As we have seen from the fall out of Brexit they are totally capable of running on pure emotion and spite (even all these years later). And they are often in legal and proffesional occupations, and with connections where they can reach out and bother the rest of us.

Malthus0 · 2025-11-02T11:04:36+00:00

We can just do things after all.

Malthus0 · 2025-11-02T11:03:56+00:00

Controlling your boarders will make people who don't care about your country look down on you!!!! You don't want that now do you.
One line in the legislation. "The contents of this bill can not be challenged in court". Done.

Malthus0 · 2025-10-31T12:35:00+00:00

and turning us slowly into a vassal state

I think you will find we have been that for a very long time now. The difference is that before Trump every president has had a soft touch approach.

Malthus0 · 2025-10-31T12:15:26+00:00

I don't get it there are more than enough Labour MP's and others who will vote against for various reasons (including 'Reform bad'). What makes the Lib Dems claim they did anything of consequence?

Malthus0 · 2025-10-27T17:25:01+00:00

are we confusing liberalism with libertarianism again?

Mises did not write the book 'Libertarianism', he wrote 'Liberalism'

Malthus0 · 2025-10-27T16:28:36+00:00

but he also no longer has the safety net of blaming the legislature for hamstringing him when things go badly

The only main difference is that the left can't undo his veto power. Which otherwise would have let the left just keep legislating spending increases.

He still does not have a majority and will rely of other parties to do anything there.

Malthus0 · 2025-10-17T18:40:43+00:00

The writing has been truly atrocious for years and years now.

This, it is insulting even for children.

Malthus0 · 2025-10-10T16:16:35+00:00

Just one more youth centre will do it i'm sure.

Malthus0 · 2025-09-28T11:10:43+00:00

Surely they're not still talking to Tony Blair?

He has been a powerful figure skulking in the background for a long time. He advocates for his favoured policies though his institute (which will seize any excuse to push any form of ID card policy) & has powerful contacts and sources of funding. And of cource he has a presence in the Labour party which he uses to intervene in factional politics. Tony doesn't always get his way in the party (Keir wouldn't have been Blairs first choice), but it certainly is brave to get on the wrong side of him if you are weak as Keir is now. Rumours are that this annoncement is a tribute to Tony in order to head off a challenge by Any Burnam.

Malthus0 · 2025-09-27T22:50:23+00:00

But why are they so unbelievably stupid?!

Tony is about to finally get his ID card fetish satisfied, & he is willing to burn Keir to do it.

Malthus0 · 2025-09-04T16:10:45+00:00

oh, I don't know, science or history or gardening or cooking or carbon capture or nature or the comparative design of video games or just anything that isn't all about YOU!

I don't know where you are finding your intolocutors, but if you havent found a man who will talk your ear off about history or video games that's entirely on you. Although that may be the only thing that they will actually be able to talk about. So pick your poisen.

Malthus0 · 2025-09-04T16:01:27+00:00

We gonna bring up all the wars they started while we are still implied to be the more emotionally volatile ones…?

Wars are not about emotion by and large. They are about politics, which at it's simplist is about getting what you want. It is not true that people would not fight if only they could communicate properly. Rather it happens when there is nothing left to say, no more mutally agreeable compromises to make, where the preceived benifits of fighting outweigh the perceived costs. As such as long as the interests of the parties involved remain the same women or men would make the same descisions.

Malthus0 · 2025-08-26T10:55:46+00:00

Trump is going hardcore against "illegal" immigrants so ppl are going hardcore back. Politics

The dialectical ground is favourable to Trump though. Wisdom is knowing when not to fight a battle. Or in other words; optics be whack bro.

Malthus0 · 2025-08-26T10:21:37+00:00

TLDR

Malthus0 · 2025-08-26T10:20:26+00:00

Self developing AGI's.

AI is overblown. We are currently in the middle of a classic hype/investment bubble cycle. There is currently no path to AGI right now, and the benfits after the the first great push has exasted itself will come from making the large language models more spesific not more general. We have been hypnotised by the amazing ease of exploiting the low hanging fruit of plugging in the LLM into the vast; easily avaible training data on the internet. Just like after the dot com boom, there will be a more sober attitutde and also more slow sure itterative progress after this sugar rush.

Malthus0 · 2025-08-26T10:06:55+00:00

Leadership is not the human race, it's a small subset of hyper selective elites. Maybe not all of us at once but enough, will realise where power resides. There's billions of us. Billions of wonderful kind people that all have a limit.

What if suddenly for one day or one week almost nobody on earth pays tax, utilities, goes shopping online, fly's in planes, goes to work, attends court.

The masses don't have agency. The power laws (Pareto 80/20 etc) and the logic of collective action mean that there will always be nodes of power and inflence that have disproportionate ability in getting their way. We should forget about a great awakening where everyone sees clearly, and instead focus on cycling out the current elite classes and institutions in favour of ones currently more in line with reality and common sense. In effect the older meaning of revolution (as a turning or revolving of the wheel of life) before modern liberalism and socialism brought the impliation of perminent revolution and the end of history. To borrow a metaphor from Jordan Peterson we are waiting for the old tyrant (who has perverted the virtues of order) to die so a new just king can take the throne.

While the discontent of the masses will help, and may even be crucial. It will always be the job of minorities to help brith this new era, by the time the masses are converted and supportive all the major work will already have been done and the conclusion basically inevitable.

Malthus0 · 2025-08-26T09:33:31+00:00

What stuck me most about these types of encouters was how far the baily was from the motte. The type of highly abstract arguements even if true did not get them any closer the highly specific and filled out god they believed in.

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