Chris Luchini
Chris Luchini
@drbooom.bsky.social
Classical liberal, recovering political addict, PhD physicist ( non-practicing), + nuke energy, + non carbon, +vaccines Progenitor to several offspring.
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My second of five essays discussing the difference between being pro-free market and pro-business. open.substack.com/pub/musingsf...
I'm a physicist, and agree with George Herbert's analysis. Coupling of emps is related to the length of the antenna. Long power transmission lines would be impacted, but the mitigation upgrades that have been made over the years to deal with solar flares also harden against EMP.
Part of my portfolio is nuclear weapons and their effects. EMP as a civilization ending event is a work of fiction. Don’t know how to make it clearer. Most of the popular literature is incompatible with actual test results and with extensive physics analysis.
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Please give, her work is especially important, and especially now.
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This is so accurate, and on point for this time.
Modern American culture expects/demands immediate results. Good governance, good construction, good science, those things take time, thinking, planning. Wrecking stuff is fast. You can show the results this week. This gives the Break Shit/Burn It All Down Party an advantage. It’s that simple.
We need more Hoppe hate. More than Rand, Hoppe is completely fake Liberal/ libertarian language dressing up the reality of authoritarian, bigotry and cruelty.
I understand the frustration over dealing with silly nonsense. This is why serious liberal libertarians resisted engaging Hans Hoppe's "economics" of anarcho-capitalist monarchism. Letting it fester worked out poorly. (My good friend @tomgpalmer.bsky.social is an exception. He skewers Hoppe here.)
That's the wonderful thing about states of emergency. It's a state of mind, and in this case, the State of mind of a narcissistic unstable egomaniac probably suffering from early stage dementia. Every dictatorship has a perpetual state of emergency, justifying emergency powers.
A president-elect has no authority to impose tariffs or have govt do anything else. Wake us up when something actually happens. And the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate trade. A president unilaterally imposing tariffs would be, at best, unconstitutionally abusing emergency powers.
Exactly spot on. In addition, tariffs are the one tax that doesn't require congressional action, current law gives POTUS tariffs power. Impose at will, exempt at will.
Trump loves tariffs because it's the most corrupt tax scheme imaginable. Grovel to Trump and enrich him, get exempted from the tax. Stand up to Trump, get your business taxed to oblivion and destroyed. It's as simple as that.
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