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by rrggrr 10y ago
Inverse = better. Enact products liability legislation that holds software and hardware makers financially liable to damages due to defects in their products and watch the attack surface available to state and non-state actors shrink demons
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Indemnity is an advantage conveyed by the State. The State ought not provide the advantage to some speech at the expense of other speech.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
They lose their tax-exempt status if they become political actors. I can't recall the exact language now b/c I've been out of the world for a long time.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
You are arguing that Trump is a kleptocrat, not a plutocrat. A plutocrat derives power from wealth. A kleptocrat uses power to create or enrich her wealth. So, for example, HRC used her power as Secretary of State to enrich her wealth. She
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by rrggrr 10y ago
The immunity must be limited to sites that are neutral, in the same way that non-political religious organizations are tax-exempt. Why? Because to claim that a site isn't responsible for a user's content is fine, until the site st
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Trump is pushing NATO countries to increase their spending so the US can decrease its expenditure. Full stop. He's left in-place thousands of forward deployed troops in Baltic states as a deterrent and confidence builder. This is a non
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Countries either stand for something or they don't. The countries who give enough lip service, money and legislative attention to egalitarian principles always outperform countries who do not. What does Russia stand for and how has it
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Because now that he is President the Constitution and Congress are his source of power. There's nothing his money can buy him right now that trumps the power of the office and the Congress.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
> Russia has good reason to be worried about their defense. The western powers have been doing most of the invading lately. Show me a recent Western intervention that threatens Russia's legitimate security interests. Syria? Perhaps.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Nothing has substantively changed yet. The United States has reaffirmed its support for NATO, for its Asian alliances, and it has rhetorically asserted itself with Iran and North Korea. Rumors of grand changes to US foreign policy may be gr
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by rrggrr 10y ago
You may understand why you are wrong if you do a quick inventory of countries that are independent, and politically and economically stable, because of United States. For example, ask yourself what distinguishes Venezuela from Columbia; Nor
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Imagine, "The ends justify the means", emblazoned on Air Force One now, or on Lincoln's Carriage during the Civil War, or in the 2016 Presidential election for that matter. Its rare realpolitik is openly acknowledged and endo
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by rrggrr 10y ago
There's no evidence he read Machiavelli. His library of about 1200 titles has no Machiavelli. But, it would be tough to escape the concepts by association. Hamilton for example did read Machiavelli.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I think you've nailed it with this observation. The middle class may be a mile marker on a many millennium journey from self/tribal sustenance to ubiquitous sustenance as specialization, automation and efficiency combine to compre
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by rrggrr 10y ago
>McAfee pointed to newly collected data that shows a sharp decline in middle class job creation since the 1980s. False. McAfee will find a corresponding increase in middle class jobs in India and China and elsewhere for the same time p
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by rrggrr 10y ago
That interpretation is a classical definition of virtue and I would argue very consistent from Washington throughout history to Plato.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
"Those who act virtuously in every way, will certainly come to grief by those less virtuous." - Machiavelli. Anyone reading Washington's May 31st 1776 letter to his brother, John Augustine Washington ( https://foun
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by rrggrr 10y ago
I give you credit for reading it. Disagree with you utterly, but impressed by your conviction as wrong as it is :-)
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Here is a proper explanation if you're genuinely curious and not seeking to advance a position out of convenience or bias. http://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/60358
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by rrggrr 10y ago
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/behavior/game_theoretic/... Playing chicken with an opponent who time after time demonstrates highly rational, self-dealing behavior is the opposite of insane.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
> Trade deficits are a meaningless thing to worry about. Manifestly wrong. Large trade deficits are unsustainable for three reasons. They cause private and public debt bubbles in the defect nation. They cause unemployment and underemploy
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by rrggrr 10y ago
You are wrong.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This chart (1/2 through article): https://www.ft.com/content/acd3f2fc-084a-11e6-876d-b823056b2... suggests a disorderly adjustment for China if its economy is not rebalanced soon. With this adjustment will come m
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by rrggrr 10y ago
When, in the past 50 years, has the United States threatened war as part of a trade negotiation?
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by rrggrr 10y ago
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth. Churchill
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is exactly the policy the US seeks to now reverse (absorbing over-capacity) and which planned reversal China meets with threats of war. It wasn't charity as you well understand. The US exported its inefficient industries initial
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by rrggrr 10y ago
You're not in the grocery business. Your grocery store doesn't manipulate its prices giving it an unfair advantage against your store. Spirited disagreement != belligerence.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Read this: http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-pettis-spain-surplus-... Then tell me if you still think you understand how trade works.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
Incorrect. His comments are coincidental with Chinese military announcements that smell like a campaign to manufacture a crisis that gives Chinese negotiators an upper hand in trade talks and US legislation to come.
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by rrggrr 10y ago
This is the likely outcome.

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