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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 21, 2025

The criticism from leftists is that:

I actually think that United States has already hitched itself to an economic system (capitalism) and a political system (classical liberalism) that by their nature tear down power just by existing.

does not square with:

I think that the hard part is getting all strata of society to embrace the creative destruction of capitalism. Most people are economically illiterate, and easy targets for bad economic thinking.

Either humans are capable of toppling non-meritocratic structures (e.g. ladder-pullers, by your example) in "free" market societies by design, or there is a "tragedy of the commons" and it's a first mover's race to the top that devolves to oligarchy or feudalism. My take is that there is no such thing as a "free" market, just like there is no such thing as objective absolute individual liberty. "Free" tends to be defined by whoever happens to be winning the market at that point in time. To that point:

eliminate fair competition through regulations and laws that make it harder for a new competitor to enter the fray and take them down.

are we going to ignore things like cartels and monopolies that exist in absence of regulations and laws? I'm willing to cede that there are bad actors who rent seek through regulatory capture, but are you willing to cede that there are bad actors that rent seek through market capture?

Culture War Roundup for the week of July 21, 2025

If the politicians across both parties are making up national security concerns as a false justification to suppress rival companies or speech, or use them in other negotiations then that also seems like a major issue of a different kind.

Maybe, but it's been business-as-usual for decades.

That being said it certainly doesn't seem fake, Tiktok is clearly a Chinese owned app with direct access to the eyes of our children.

And allowing "our children" to see things put out by the Chinese is a national security threat exactly how?

Culture War Roundup for the week of July 21, 2025

As a side note, I should add that both Ani and Bad Rudi have been removed from Grok’s iOS app as of this morning. No real public info on why, or if that’s temporary or permanent.