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I saw a video from the ModRetro YouTube channel a few days ago and thought it was AI because it only had 10,000 subscribers. They’ve been at it since March of 2024 and have less th…

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> Perhaps this is a topic that isn't easy to discuss openly? Give it a few years. > J.D. Vance might represent a kind of domestic counter-force in the U.S. that leans more toward '…

This video was extremely disingenuous.

In 2014 it was Chile, in 2017 it was Honduras, then Colombia and El Salvador in the early 2020s. In Chile and Colombia they were coasting on tax authorities not pursuing them and r…

> There is a ground-level appeal of the China-style panopticon because it delivers public order and clean streets. Correct. > Larry didn't just buy his way to digital dictator by b…

He’s talking about shifting attitudes towards China online, not within China itself.

This article was posted by a brand new account that has submitted 4 articles from the same blog in less than 48 hours. It also looks like it was written by an LLM. How does somethi…

You’re right that my reasoning was off. I don’t think it helps the point OP was trying to make. The argument being made in favor of labor isn’t “The only way for someone to be happ…

I have no opinion either way but this doesn’t follow. I can imagine a world where people don’t need oxygen to breathe but they still do. If we say people need oxygen, the argument …

Those industries have been reshoring for more than 5 years.

WeWork, Theranos, FTX

Private correspondence corroborates how the founders felt about these issues. They would not have seen things your way. You’re appealing to them as a disingenuous rhetorical techni…

> Which group do you think the Founding Fathers would say better reflects the American spirit? To me immigrants are clearly the better reflection of the best aspects of American cu…

The flow of students between China and the USA is effectively unidirectional and always has been. What insight do you have to suggest that this will change in the near future?

It’s irrelevant who you ask because it isn’t how the word is defined.

> The overwhelming majority of current US residents were immigrants themselves at some point in the last 150 years (only natives were there, everyone else immigrated from somewhere…

> Most people in the US are immigrants, including white people. If they were born in America they aren’t immigrants. > To think otherwise is anti-American, and you do not belong he…

> Taxation without Representation was literally the driving force for the creation of America itself The issue of taxation without representation had far more to do with the founde…