For me the bottomline of the Trump administration is that he has started zero new wars, sparing hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. As an outsider I hope that the US will not go back to its foreign military interventions.
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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#262Interesting fact: Trump could be elected president in 2024. I don’t think he will be gone for too long. EDIT: I am no Trump fan. I just think the fact that he could be president in 2024 is interesting.
Trump has a lot of power now. "Republican kingmaker" they say.
But, within the next 4 years, he will continue discrediting himself. I'm quite sure millions of people will still follow his lead, but it'll slowly get smaller and smaller.
I think he will be a Rudy Giuliani type figure. Mostly an angry barking dog that people don't take as seriously anymore, just like before he was president.
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#263Did he get the senate? I had the impression, he can't do much without it, but news from yesterday implied he might get it too, then Biden could even do more than Obama if he has senate backing him.
We’ll know in January after the two Georgia seats are up for another vote. Right now, no.
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#264It's pretty remarkable though that almost half of the US voted for someone who is clearly unsuitable to be president based on his first term. It might be time to consider letting go of the democratic ideal that every person's vote has the same weight, and figure out some criteria for either voting eligibity or vote weight that would mostly exclude or give little weight to the votes of people who voted for a clearly u…
> letting go of the democratic ideal that every person's vote has the same weight
USA has already let go of it, as convicted felons don't have a right to vote.
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#265My perception is whoever think that since Trump is gone we can wipe the plate clean and go back to the good old way, is wrong.
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#266What is really keeping me up at night is the existential problem the US faces for the next 50 years: the ever increasingly large divide that is the polarizing of the electorate. We have to come together as Americans or someone will divide and conquer us.
The past four years and this election has exposed some deep problems within American Society. If about 47% of your country was happy to kill democracy and reward immoral behaviour just to retain power, often justified by religious beliefs... And Trump is not gone yet... Who knows what the Republicans will do with the stacked Supreme Court...
This is a very western view, you have war criminals as former presidents. This was not the worst of the US. You have people bombing weddings and you find this to be the worst.
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#267Anyone else not getting Trump's real Twitter account on search anymore for the past few days?
"Trump Twitter"
Obviously @realdonaldtrump is normally top, with preview.
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#268Can we have a conversation about broader implications of the increasing power in the public discourse of Twitter et al.? I’m no Trump supporter but I do wonder if the tables were turned and Twitter e.g. turned Biden’s page into a wall of hidden tweets because of something it disagreed with (there are enough grievances with Big Tech from both sides). Do people think this is isolated (because Trump is, well, Trump) or…
Twitter didnt hide Trump's tweets because they disagreed, the hid them because they were unsubstantiated falsehoods, that could have a deleterious effect on peoples faith in the process itself. They would have hidden Biden's too, if he did something along those lines.
Re: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
#269What is really keeping me up at night is the existential problem the US faces for the next 50 years: the ever increasingly large divide that is the polarizing of the electorate. We have to come together as Americans or someone will divide and conquer us.
The past four years and this election has exposed some deep problems within American Society. If about 47% of your country was happy to kill democracy and reward immoral behaviour just to retain power, often justified by religious beliefs... And Trump is not gone yet... Who knows what the Republicans will do with the stacked Supreme Court...
I would be surprised if as many as half of those who voted for him believed that they were voting to either kill democracy or rewarding immoral behaviour.
Perhaps I’m overly-cynical, but in my (limited) experience, most people just don’t pay enough attention for such motivations — or even expectations — to be plausible.
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#270A big problem that divides us is property renters versus owners: owners have spent the last several decades restricting access to property, and that's now raised the cost of the most productive metro areas to unacceptable levels: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/the-ren... Many millions of people, especially but not exclusively the young, have in effect been gated out of prosperity. Matt Yglesias'…
It's been bizarre to watch this develop, and yet somehow urbanization accelerates anyway.
The more technology and communication humanity develops, the more it clusters into small pieces of land with exorbitant rents.
Something just seems off.