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Date: March 31, 2025. This was written before they were announced. It is very likely that the alleged impact of tariffs will be quickly forgotten as negotiations conclude and trade imbalances are resolved - Daniel Lacalle That's enou
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> They are dominated by the elites from the same social circles Education is far from elite making, maybe elite in a global sense, but not elite by American standards. Being elected to a position also makes the social circle. It might
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> The jury is still out on whether what you are saying is hyperbole The president of the Heritage Foundation said “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” http
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Only so much delusion can be supported. I know the market will stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, but if a war to break out, which seems more and more likely every day, fundamentals represent how many bullets you can actually p
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I don't really think it can. I think it's wrong to view the GOP as a party of elected officials. The GOP has elected officials, but Fox news/Rogan/etc, the Heritage Foundation, project 2025, the NRA, palantir, cambridge
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I disagree with the slim majority statement. Maybe on paper that's true, but in terms of wield-able power, I think the budget and the bureaucratic purge proves that we are functioning as a one party state, maybe somewhat reluctantly, b
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We aren't experiencing bad policy, we are experiencing an attack on rule of law, a coup, and "a revolution that will be bloodless if the left allows it to be." Russia has elections too and you should probably think about how
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That is literally not oppositional veto power. You're asking what is currently a one party state to disempower itself or infight. That's absurd. The problem is unchecked power. You can't expect those in power to check themsel
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China and the cultural revolution/great leap forward should be a warning of what can happen when there is no oppositional veto power. These tariffs could be our four pests moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu
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I'm curious how people try to estimate where bottom is -- especially if it is a non dogmatic and non institutional analysis. There was an analysis a month ago where someone had the idea to look at total US energy consumption as a proxy
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Authoritarianism is on the rise world wide. Liberalism (Democracy) is clearly on the decline. Social media with private intelligence is the cause. Social media is a private and state intelligence goldmine. Those with resources study what is
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A second in command of the US military, Jim Mattis, during Trump's first term said: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to d
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While you are lecturing me on words meanings, I would advise you to look up the meaning of "de facto." If you were America's founding fathers and King George 3, the leader of their government, decided to put a 10000% tariff o
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Blockades are an act of war. How expensive does a tariff have to be before it is a de facto blockade? I think that comparison is much more apt than it first appears.
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The problem with leaving is that if everyone leaves, there is no where to run to. Freedom requires solidarity, you cannot have freedom without solidarity.
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You completely avoided interacting with the concerns I have in good faith. I understand that's the marketing pitch, I even understand there is some truth to it, but can you try to see the bigger picture and zoom out of an individual po
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Like they did between 1932 and 1981?
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So why the tariff on Taiwan, and why alienate Canada? Is European support not strategically useful? Who buys American weaponry to fund American military industry when countries don't trust us? Why would he create the grounds for civil
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You can't subject people who were illiterate subsistence farmers who never left their home town 50 years ago to highly processed foreign propaganda and expect good outcomes.
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Trump is only confusing if you think his policies are meant to benefit America. If you don't believe that, then his policies are terrifyingly not confusing. If you believe his policies are primarily meant to benefit American oligarchs
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Citizenship is not some indelible mark on your person. It is likely at best some ink on a piece of paper or line in a database that can be lost, stolen, "forgotten", or denied. Imagine that I were a police officer, I asked for you
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That's too simple and unsympathetic which only serves to divide. They don't literally see themselves that way. That's a liberal pejorative of their belief system. There is (or was) a strong culture of self reliance, which is
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It is the unholy union of a new unregulated form of communication, social media, and unregulated privatized intelligence companies, such as Palantir and Cambrdige Analytica. Ironically China implemented the GFW because they correctly predic
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Historians, particularly ones who study fascism and Russia/Eastern Europe are already fleeing the country. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-...
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The fact a Secretary of Defense (second in command of the US military) and a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (highest ranking officer and principle military advisor) have both said he is unfit and doesn't care about the law. Jim
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I don't think many people have actually contemplated what absence of law, defined as rules that apply to rich and powerful people too, is like. In a world with law, there are restriction on what society's most powerful can and can
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That's true but it's not usefully true. Even avoiding things like gerrymandering, are voters choosing politicians or are politicians choosing voters? Do candidates send out emails asking for you to talk to your friends, or do they
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Ironic that he laid the foundation for the end of American constitutionalism and that so many of those who venerate him today are the same people who voted for this "soviet" like crisis we are experiencing now.
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Timothy Snyder would encapsulate this idea as "Democracy is not something you are, but something you do." Which makes a lot of sense if you say the same thing about Christianity. Christian isn't something you are, Christian
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I am far from a historian, but my understanding is that the protestant reformation birthed the enlightenment by shifting people's idea of god as something to be interpreted by an authority structure (the church) to something that is in

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