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11mo ago
In general I don’t think the Geneva Convention ever bans things that win wars. An example would be chemical weapons. They don’t win wars but kill a lot of civilians therefore they are banned. Cluster munitions US did not sign up for banning. We find that useful.
AI would be a war winning tech. He who wins the wars makes the rules. AI won’t be banned.
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11mo ago
Lighter resume I would agree. Though I would argue that Obama had a previous life. A decade plus as a law professor at UC. Vance’s professional career is just 3 years at big law and then being Thiel’s buddy, calling himself a VC, and investing in Rumble.
Obama you would obviously call an academic lawyer. I don’t think you would call Vance any particular career.
This is my hometown. I do not have any big thoughts right now. But it is an interesting town with history. For a rust belt town there are people from Butler that went on to bigger things.
One of the founders of Silicon Valley came from Butler. One of the founders of the PE industry a partner at the Carlyle group came from Butler.
Historically Butler is a steel town and manufactured the jeep back in the day. Everyone I know with any ability moved away a long time ago.
And now it looks like Butler will be in the history books as an important place in American history.
I don’t know if this is true or just gossip. But this gay Mexican from no where college might be the one running our country now.
In a strange twist of fate it appears as though we all need to hope Hunter is the one in charge. Whose a manageable alcoholic degenerate rich kid likely with well above average IQ.
Now I think the deep state exists but there is obviously no puppet master, Tywin Lannister, behind it. But a form of psychic history where a million members of the blob attempt to maintain their seat in it.
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11mo ago
This feels like a right-wing talking point to damage the lefts brand of being for Democracy. Biden dropping out today is a proper response. The crime here is not that Biden is dropping out today it’s the cover-up for atleast the past 6 months.
If the SS can’t do basic communications and planning then it tells me that our enemies can assassinate the US POTUS at any time assuming they can find one competent guy willing to die for the cause.
Just show up as a plain clothes guy with a gun or sniper rifle. Print up a couple badges one for the local police and one for the SS. If the local police ask you question tell them your SS and vice versa. Basic Michael Weston spy craft but dumbed down a lot to a guy with 6 months training level. That was suppose to be a tv show.
The one thing I do love about all of this is Project 2025 has credibility now. Our institutions are failing. The Fed took 18 months to figure out inflation was too much money. The military bungled leaving Afghanistan. Universities are led by Hamas (half joking but leadership has sympathies), the SS is incompetent, Fauci told America cloth masks stop viruses. I could rant forever but it’s increasingly clear that the top 10-40k of our beauracracy needs replaced. It’s not just that they are anti-Trump. They are not good at their jobs and need replaced.
Biden hasn’t even fired the head of the SS which would make him look good.
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11mo ago
The airline industry is the one industry that sort of has the go ahead to break antitrust law. The combination of high fixed costs, no moat, and marginal revenue maximizing pricing of $0 makes them go bankrupt too much. Their CEO’s already get to answer questions talking about anti competitive behavior with only a thin plausible deniability.
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11mo ago
Khan. I can’t figure her out. She’s blocking a mid-tier luxury hand bag merger but Microsoft got to buy Activision for $68 billion. Google just announce they are buying Wiz for $23 billion. I’m actually concerned about big tech getting bigger but some mid tier consumer garbage she targets? Perhaps google just thinks the deal doesn’t close till she’s out of a job.
I’d like to know more on Vance’s thoughts here.
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11mo ago
And 2024. After the attempt by the Dems to lawfare into breaking up the GOP coalition the GOP quickly coalesced around Trump.
Politicians and voters are capable of reading the room. In the Dems case it’s on an accelerated timeline because the runway is short.
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11mo ago
What price can you put on being the most powerful man in the world? At a minimum number 2.
He toppled an Empire with the purchase. And it’s not like he needs more money.
Brady is clearly better than either of them. Winning big at a sport a small percent of people play isn’t the same thing as winning big at the sport the best athletes in every American high school plays.
It should be filled with football, basketball, and baseball players. Soccer if we are doing global.
Some of those tweets are very bad. The one person talked about Blackrock and Vanguard ownership in the firm. From what I can tell they are quoting that that firm owns shares in etfs by Blackrock and Vanguard. Which is a nothing burger.
I can’t verify the RIA that supposedly had a big short. It feels off too. 13-F I can find online don’t have show it and was last updated end of June.
Cites I can find on google are not showing the same data on the short increase.
And fwiw as I said before there was insider information that would encourage short sales. Trump worked out a deal to sell 2 billion worth of stock.
Edit: seems like firm in question gave an update that a client owned 12 puts and this was a data entry error.
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11mo ago
Centrism is only good if the center is good. A centrist was pro-Hitler, pro-Stalin, pro-Mao, pro-FDR, pro-Reagan, pro-war on drugs, pro-mass incarceration, pro-Iraq War, pro-KKK, extremely racists, extremely reverse racism. They were likely pro a lot of things I would consider good too.
It’s an intellectually lazy philosophy of not taking the time to think thru an issue and form an opinion. A lot of the time you are not able to form a wise opinion so it gets tough. Being pro-Iraq war seems reasonable then because Cheney did some so CIA games and laundered false intel to the American people that you couldn’t verify.
Centrism is just assuming the current Overton window is correct. But the Overton window moves and thus makes a centrists opinion incompatible with views a centrist would have had just a few short years ago.
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11mo ago
He’s also Trump. He’s definitely burnt people before. Maybe grifter types (Cohen, Scarsmucci). I don’t think he was great at listening to people. Even if she’s very good he has also realized he needs that person.
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11mo ago
I have no problem taking the other side for 2 reasons.
- He’s gotten smarter
- Narratives don’t stick like they use to. Some of this is Musks buying twitter so the algos can be cranked up for this is stupid. The other is too much has been exposed and I think to the median voter at a minimum narratives won’t be assumed but questioned. We just saw the coverup of does Biden have dementia exposed on national tv. The benefit of the doubt is going to Trump and they are going to need actual video of a Russian hooker pissing on Trump.
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11mo ago
And if we defund the police. Crime won’t skyrocket. If we get rid of the SEC - no one will insider trade. If the MLB isn’t enforcing bans on steroids then even those who don’t want to do steroids will (like Barry Bonds a later user) because the players getting ahead are cheating. Maybe I just know more people who are willing to cheat that if you remove the enforcement preventing cheating that people will cheat.
If you remove the enforcement even if society is 99.5% trustworthy those who abuse the commons are going to rise in power.
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11mo ago
We have seen radical wings not do these things. Anti-abortion people don’t do this. They just win thru institutions. Milton Friedman is as much of a weirdo as any of those people. Even today the very libertarian people are the weirdos. And he crushed his competition over decades which is completely provable because you can go on Reddit and stop in neoliberal and see that his enemies adopted his labels (before undermining).
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11mo ago
She isn’t skilled enough to deal with the fact she’s going to have to eat a lot of lack of credibility for participating in covering up Joes decline.
Sure it was to a great extent her job, but a few median voters have lost trust.
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11mo ago
All the ended up being unimportant as the end point of the pandemic was everyone gets some natural immunity.
The big difference between the entire town locks themselves in a basement and plays twister for 48 hours and everyone always maintains 6’ of difference is the twister playing people all get covid the first week and the 6’ people it takes 3 months for the entire town to be infected.
(Of course there were reasons to delay infection early for hospital capacity and waiting for vaccines but the true end point was everyone gets it)
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11mo ago
This is a bad look for right twitter. If the guys smart enough to understand a Bloomberg then he’s also smart enough to understand there is no relationship with blackrock other than blackrock making 10 bps on some etfs they put in client accounts. They are actually saying that BlackRock owns this firm.
This is a bad thing when people are willfully lying to people. Especially when you have a lot of real things to fill up your twitter influencer accounts. This makes the right look grade school intelligence.
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11mo ago
I think moderate and centrists are roughly the same and synonyms.
I have nothing against a centrists. You can live a happy life in country with bad government. You show up to work everyday, marry the cute girl, impregnate your wife a few times, and raise a few good kids. It’s a fine noble life.
But it does not give them some moral high ground on politics or an enlightened view. It’s hoping politics works out in a way that doesn’t ruin their life.
Not everyone needs to be airplane engineers. And know every intricate detail. You can still ride the airplane, but you are hoping the dude at Boeing is a good engineer.
sliders1234
11mo ago
I believe the former federal elections commissioner wanted to testify saying it was not a crime. I don’t know rules of evidence that well but that sounds like a guy very qualified to explain the evidence.
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11mo ago
Not a lawyer but one thing I don’t understand is why NYC doesn’t just sentence him to jail. I already think they abused a lot of power. What’s doing another abuse of power and giving him 5 years.
I don’t even know how that would work. Would Trump just never leave Florida?
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11mo ago
“And if the expanse of mass mail-in voting had caused him to win in a landslide, you'd be saying the election was illegitimate and stolen from Biden, yes”
- yes. I’m autistic. I’ve flipped on positions before when the data points in that direction. Which does include flipping from Trump is a bad clown show POTUS only doing decent because McConnell is good to believing Trump has great judgement.
“There are obvious parallels with Russiagate truthers constantly asserting that Trump only won because of sketchy Facebook ads from Russian accounts!!! targeting swing voters, something something Cambridge Analytica.“
- Perhaps I am wrong on this but when I looked at the data the Russian troll farms did not reach a lot of people and the people they did reach were mostly core MAGA. I don’t believe the quant argument is strong that it could flip the election.
This is also different because it’s external versus internal. It’s different when Russia plays some games we don’t have the tools to prevent and our own CIA decides to back candidate X. The CIA interfering in an election is bad. Especially when they are spreading known false information. They have done this during war times but during an election is different.
Dictators have a long history of being great. It all depends on the world you find yourself in and the situation of those to be governed.
Now I think a Republic was correct for the people of the early United States this is not the situation most countries find themselves in. The most extreme form of Democracy probably won’t work in sub-Saharan Africa. War time Ukraine is likely better with less democracy.
Of course I can fairly obviously state that you yourself are not in favor of Democracy. I’ve yet to meet one person in favor of one world government where the votes of Africa, China, India would absolutely crush the votes from the people of western governments. The more you think about Democracy the more you realize it’s not the core American feature and never could be.
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