Fiat currencies and Liberal hypocrites, one each. [quotage]

Posted on By pukeko

If you are going to discriminate, do it accurately. It is useful, at times: however those times are generally called “racist” while disavowing those who are not oppressed in a class you have deemed oppressed is.

Carrie Cuinn, a white racist who is one of SFWA’s extremist pinkshirts, specifically rejected my inclusion on her list of Hispanic science fiction writers, never mind the fact that I am probably one of the best-selling Hispanic science fiction writers after Larry Correia and Sarah Hoyt. Interestingly enough, neither of them were on her list either, although I suspect their omission was more out of ignorance than white liberal racism.

White liberals don’t “do” diversity, they collect minority lawn jockeys. Since you (VD) like Clarence Thomas, Sarah Hoyt, Walter Williams et al cannot serve as the mascot they desperately must possess to show each other how not-racist they are, you are of no use to them. If you can’t be a mascot, you’re not a minority. It’s simply another form of disqualification.

White liberals are people to whom Obama will never be the president and will always be the black president, their trophy.

By this twit’s standard, Barack Obama is not a person of color either. I mean, what black man grew up in Hawaii with white grandparents? He hardly shares the “life experience” that virtually all other black people share.

The problem with basing anything on life experience is that life experience is infinitely divisible. What counts as valid life experience? What doesn’t? If we take every life experience as uniquely relevant and necessary to an identity, then group identities become impossible. So the left retreats to broad brush strokes to create the groups that are convenient for their political purposes. Skin color is paramount…except when someone with the correct skin color strays from the reservation politically. It’s about exercising political force and nothing else.

I’d add that I like Larry and Sarah’s books, but Vox does not have enough je ne sais quoi . But then, I like those lovely Baen books that drip blood — John Ringo, Tom Kratman, John Ringo and Tom Kratman.

Ann Barnhardt on the currencies, and making an interesting point.


So how do we measure these fiat currencies as a whole? How do we cut the bee-ess and get down to the nitty-gritty? WHAT IS THE NITTY-GRITTY?

Real commodities. Food. Land. Metals.

We know that all fiat currencies all over the world are getting their butts kicked collectively and that inflation is happening even though they are strengthening relative to the Dollar because, for example, the price of cattle (food) has pretty much doubled in the last five years, and farmground (where food comes from) prices have more than doubled. Quoting metals prices is more difficult because the metals markets are heavily manipulated.

Well, locally, this is what that looks like… the Kiwi dollar is relatively stable, and the economy is pretty good.

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What that does not show is what an economic unit is, which varies from sector to sector, but in dairying it is around 500 stock units (cows) which will require anything between 250 to 1000 hectares of land — depending on where you are. You will need around 1500 -2000 kiwibucks per cow and you will need to spend quite a bit on a cowshed and fencing — converting to dairying, you budget well over six figures for this.

But… if you don’t know what something productive will cost you don’t know what your currency is worth. And if you don’t know what is important, you will get upset about very little.