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- Politics is survival of the most ruthless. So unless you like ruthless, look for other solutions to life’s problems.
- The America First wing of the Trump administration is winning, and thus waging its war against the post-1945 world order. And this should have some immediate appeal, as Pax Americana has always been anything but for most of the developing world. The problem with disrupting the existing order is just that — order is lost and its left up to the disruptors to replace it. Even if Jim Mattis represents the militaristic, imperialist ideology of the past, that doesn’t mean Stephen Miller is preferable…
- Inevitably, we will miss Obama’s careful, frustrating, incrementalism more and more.
- As a rule of thumb, any state doing business with Facebook is doing it for the wrong reasons.
- Facebook is now an arms dealer.
- I think most of us — liberals and leftists etc — secretly enjoyed the irrational hope that Trump had a magic economic touch. The few months of a roaring Trump economy was just enough to make everyone comfortable, put everyone at ease…. And now that stocks are falling…?
- We are so deeply dependent on machines, in a moment of real crisis or social breakdown, a vast majority of us would be totally helpless; inevitably, initiative would be seized by whatever monstrous person promises to empower us.
