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I mean maybe that's the good news. There is huge potential for an upswing!
by baxtr 9mo ago
I mean maybe that's the good news. There is huge potential for an upswing!
- knowitnone3 9mo agoSo Putin is culling his people so the next generation can have more!
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- energy123 9mo agoI don't think that's how it works. It's not like coiling a spring it's more like starting to roll a ball down a hill, once you ruin it it keeps getting worse in a feedback loop as various systems feed on each other (populism, erosion of norms, etc).
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- guerrilla 9mo agoI think you're grossly underestimating European naivete. You probably did fuck up your relationship with Canada though. They didn't seem happy about that one.
- energy123 9mo agoI'm talking more about intra-country dynamics, rather than inter-country. Momentum, good or bad, is a thing. It's not that mysterious, we can trace it to things that feed off each other, like the inflation <-> populism loop, which makes civic institutions progressively worse over time. Turkey is a modern case study. This is the opposite of the "coiled spring" analogy, where if a country get worse it is bound to get better even stronger.