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User ID: 441

After he was buried, suddenly Republicans were looking at getting slaughtered in the midterms.

But no. They were getting completely slaughtered for the unrelated reason of being the party in power during a midterm election. As typically happens.

There's some deeper point about American voters being terminal contrarian worth exploring. The party currently in power must be punished. But iterated in a comical manner.

I'm betting on SecureSignals for most blocked user. I haven't blocked anyone, but I minimize their particular contributions and move on.

Edit: this person previously blocked me. I don't think I ever interacted with them other than this comment. They are not kidding about exercising the block function.

As Neal Stephenson put it in 1992:

When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity

"Teenagers" are a modern invention.

Indeed. Invented at the end of WW2 as a concept. Really quite modern.