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@sonoftheindus3921 Pakistan, the people and history and spirituality, is a great civilization. The polity and current bromance with Islamic terrorism not so much. Hina is fortunate to have represented the first, but she makes the mistake of apologizing for the second.
The yanks have many evils to their discredit. No one should absolve them of the many failures and excesses. Dr. Chomsky does a great job of honestly and impartially taking down the establishment lies of the Americans.
But this interview was about Pakistan. Pakistan has clearly used terrorism as a tool of statecraft. That hurts its own people too. The role of military too is dubious and harmful.
I agree with Miss Khar that Pakistan needs a decade of inward focus. Instead of bleeding IOK, finding Taliban in Afghanistan, and spending egregious amounts on defense, it’d help if they focus on land reform, labor reform, bank reform, military reform, political reform.
Being a client state— of America, Saudi, and China— is not a strategy for a successful nation.
Again, call the USA an evil empire if you must. That still doesn’t address the questions about Pakistan, the polity.
The people, as I said, are amazing and to be admired.
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Dr. Bremmer, please.
India vis a vis Russia is not the same as China v. Russia. Not only has Russia given India no cause for territorial insecurity, they have actually defended and stood by India through invasions, sanctions, and HUNDREDS of USA sponsored resolutions in the UN. The USA, for the loooongest time, supported the breakup of India in Kashmir. The USA helped Pakistan, India’s neighboring enemy get nuclear weapons. (Remember the conniption the US had when USSR tried to station nuclear missiles in Cuba? Times 100). CIA “lost” billions in weapons in the north west frontier provinces, that showed up in the hands of Islamic terrorists killing Indians and attacking their soldiers. These guns were given to Sikh militants during the Khalistan militancy in the ‘80’s. And in case you want to pretend the CIA had no hand in it… just don’t. In 1971 the USA dispatched the seventh fleet to support a Muslim dictatorship, Pakistan against a secular democratic India.
So, for your words to be worth more, kindly underline the strategic reality.
China sees Russia as a bulwark against the West. China is using Russia(Crimea) just like the US used Pakistan against India— pinning down an adversary on one front to force strategic detente on another front.
I FULLY support the USA in any global conflict, without exception. And without exception want the US to win and lead the world. HOWEVER, lies and blinders are asinine. Let’s be honest. Ok?
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Salam Khan the Muslims have destroyed much over the world. This was Mongols over Arabs (who happened to be Muslim). In general, where most new conquerors added edifices and roads and public works, Alexander left libraries behind, the British built ports and canals, the Muslims left destroyed libraries, palaces, temples, and entire settlements. They looted, pillaged, killed, plundered, denuded, destroyed, and left barren ancient and irreplaceable peoples. From Tariq ibn-Ziyad to Salah din; Nader Shah to Timor Lane, their pride was the destruction of more civilized cultures and the loot of more successful traders.
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The super powers provided the plumbing and roofing for the blocks, and bore the capital cost of security and commerce.
As the order dissolves, smaller blocks, and individual nations will have to bear that cost. The fixed costs of being a country just went up. If you’re not energy independent, a manufacturing powerhouse, endowed with lithium or some scare resource, have a large educated young population, or some such key resources, then you’re shafted.
We will see weak nations crumbles, or taken over— either by internal, or external opportunists.
Climate change and technological revolutions, waiting in the wings, are soon to unleash their full might.
These will further increase the fixed cost of nationhood.
The new world order will wreck nations, fragment the comity, and displace millions.
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As you listen to him respond to the genocide/ war crimes question, notice that it is HE himself who chose that question as the first (of only two) to answer! Dude, that is not the most important question— not in the minds of those who are killed, those who lost family members, or us. The important questions surrounding Ukraine are: (1) Impact on Europe: is Europe, as a continent, becoming more or less liberal?
(2) European public opinion: what are the main strands of public opinion on Russia Ukraine?
(3) Are there secular, supervening trends changing power dynamics and the security climate in Europe, of which Russia-Ukraine is a symptom?
(4) What role does the US need to play, from a European perspective
(5) Is the NATO helpful or harmful to European security? Does it mainly serve US and UKs interests, turning Germany and France into vassal states?
… so many more.
… not sure why you pick unimportant questions to answer each week.
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@markmh835 Well ... respectfully, not true. The Chinese people's lot has improved tremendously, BIGLY (sorry, couldn't resist) since the 1970's. Not something I can say of the average American, sir. Sure, they are an adversary. However, they do not have to be an enemy. I come from India, and so it is natural for me to be overly suspicious of China, seeing it in my own little head as the biggest thereat to a peaceful world order. HOWEVER, I need to realize that this peaceful world order was constructed in favor of the west, and to the disadvantage of the ROW. Where I will defend American agains all enemies, external and internal, I cannot pretend that ignorance is not as dangerous as an enemy armada, perhaps more so. The Chinese have educated more humans every year than the population of Western Europe. They have developed industry, with stolen patents granted, economy, and a scientific prowess in the face of systems designed to favor the West. Ideally-- IDEALLY-- we in the West accept our errors, they their perfidies, and we can all get along. THATs not gonna happen. We will fight and skirmish and speak trash ourselves to a war. What an effing shame.
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Trump mayn’t be the last of his ilk, nor the worst...
I think he heralds a Trump 2.0, one who learns from Trumps’ failures and whose followers are better organized and more hardcore. Like Aussie cricketers.
The root of MAGA lies in the accelerating change and social dislocation of the undereducated, conservative masses. The threat arises from something fundamentally cataclysmic, and our Brexiting, MAGA brethren are the canaries in the coal mines of time. The changes threaten more than their lives however— the changes threaten the Nation State itself.
Hear me out. The Nation State, with its traditional pillars of strength is being weakened from within—
(1) with free movement of nation-agnostic Capital across national borders,
(2) with really free movement of “elites”— educated folk that can move over 100 miles away for work, and their resultant globalist attitudes (vs. MAGA views or Brexiteer views),
(3) social media freeing public opinion and rendering the power-structure unable to construct opinion (leading to Hong Kong uprising, as also in Bolivia, France, Yellow Vests, etc., etc.)
(4) financial system moving from currency based, market limited, bank-circulated monies, to include non-traditional, crypto- etc. based currency, merging of market with the World Wide Web, and delocalization of banking (think Apple Pay).
... all this is threatening the traditional “nation state”, the essential European project post reformation.
The nation state is threatened from without by MASSIVE global scale challenges... AI, Climate Change, Population Decline, emergence of “G-zero” world order, and Rising risk of nuclear weapon trafficking ...
...problems that’ll force global rules of road, resources, policing, and coordination are here before the nation state was ready.
The globalists think, “let’s remain in the Euro”, “give Hong Kong freedom”, liberate Kashmir, and impeach the MAGA MF.
But the masses aren’t blessed with a globalist consciousness. They are tied to a zip code. They want to keep those from a hundred miles out of their zip code. They want to protect their kids from the internet, their church from the state, keep their daughters virgin, and their guns loaded. Their bigger worry is Christ not suffusing Christmas and the nig***s gettin uppity. Keep the Turks and Poles outta Great Britain. Keep the models busty and the Queen white.
It’s tough when your race, your language, the flag, the neighborhood, and your job, all get threatened in one generation. Lower classes start to equalize, and generational norms breakdown.
That’s when Trump comes. Fails. Then returns. As Trump 2.0. Unless we can address the big cataclysm underway, adapt to it, and help our zip-code tied brethren, we are doomed to Trumpism.
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Dr. Bremmer, thank you for excellent content.
The biggest strategic question with AI is centralization vs. distribution. The highest influence in our societies is enjoyed by those with the best ability to anticipate and address problems. In this area, AI will dominate us mere humans soon. When that happens, the question is, does the average citizen have access to comparable predictive and prescriptive resources? If so, then we, as human citizens, shall continue to have a say over our decisions we destinies. If not, we will become like pets to the state, beloved of them, but with much diminished agency. As an AI driven world complexifies, the incomprehensibility doubling every six months, our human minds will rapidly lose control and purchase over our worlds.
As someone who informs and influences policy, it is imperative that you help push for the democratization of AI.
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Those who unconditionally oppose Russia … If your opposition is to the televised evidence of human tragedy, then please know what bombs and bullets supplied by the US (and the West) have done in Muslim countries is easily a lot worse. Just not broadcast to you like these Olympics have been. Deaths in Iraq attributable to our occupation had been estimated at 461,000 by mid last decade.
If your anger is at Russia taking out a regime, then think of all democratically elected popular regimes that have been unfavorable to the US. Somehow they all end up toppled, their leadership (if it resists) brutalized. Imran Khan (who didn’t resist) in Pakistan a recent example. Do you think the CIA runs a concierge for democracies? We BRUTALLY destroy democracies. We also prop up regimes that are brutal and autocratic, and repress human beings badly, if that is in our interest.
If your upset that Ukraine predicts other aggressions, then know that NATO expansion and Russian aggression mutually justify each other. At the fall of the Soviet Union, we could have brought Russia in. Our fear is always that Germany and Russia will join and become a rival to the US. The gas Nordstream pipeline was not just a minor issue for the US, but a major strategic threat.
Russia is doing to Ukraine, what the US would do to Mexico if the foot was on the other shoe. We are no better, and have direct culpability in this mess.
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@sonoftheindus3921 why does Pakistan perceive so many enemies— sounds like siege mentality. Politicians fool the populace into believing there are enemies all around, so as to divert good peoples from demanding good administration. This what a people who are subjected to propaganda sound like.
Indians and Pakistanis, Israel and Palestine, North South Korea, everywhere you see entrenched foes, you have to believe there is agents provocateurs at work. There is no reason why India and Pakistan don’t just make peace at the current frontiers, and quick the brainless war— EXCEPT it helps politicians and generates money for military-industrial complex.
I thought the Romanians, or the embassy in Paris, or Mr. Sainteny were all good options for the China dialogue: the Chinese wanted the contact as much as the Americans. I do agree that it was Pakistan that happened to broker the connection.
I would recommend you try and see good in your enemies, and distrust politicians a bit more than it sounds like you do. The world is going crazy as it is.
I read a biography of the Prophet, PBUH, by Sir Zaffrulah Khan, a Pakistani scholar. You find that the Prophet was a wise and peace loving man. He made war as a last resort. He built a religion of peace. Peace requires forgiveness and trust.
I try and give Mr. Putin the benefit of the doubt. It is my hope that we don’t glorify our selves and demonize “the other”.
Thanks for your note, be well!
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I don' think you save money changing oil. When you pay Firestone to change your oil, if they don't screw it up, they also change engine and cabin air filters, check your battery health, chack and change any burnt out lights, change wipers for free, and some other stuff that I cannot rememebr. I DO remember that, having bought the supplies and done a few oil changes, I realized me doing was saving me neither time nor money. When you pay for that "oil change", you get a lot more for that payment. Check it out. AND, if you should change your oil every 5,000 mile. Things is, same oil and same cars, in Europe they change oil every 6000 mile. In the US, we just do it 2X sooner because ... IDK. Any who, ask your service manager at the dealership. He will agree. Somehow, you have to ask.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Here is what I’d say …
The analogy is, someone farms in, ON my front yard, grows and sells tomato’s, while I let them. I even let them use my water, and set up a veggie stall on my street frontage.
HOW it is unjust if I then start growing and selling tomato’s, charge them for water from my tap, and build a better commissary store to improve customer experience ON MY PROPERTY.
Agree with the premise (apple can trample ecosystem), but not the conclusion(that there is any injustice to it). Any company can and should foresee the opportunity window, make hay while they can, and be happy for the opportunity while it lasts.
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@markmh835 I don't think anyone will say that China is perfect, or their government benign. Quite the contrary. It is, however, also true that they are demonized more in order to make is feel good about ourselves. To me, they have deep flaws and great strengths, and so do we. On the specific talking points on "freedom of speech", and I say this respectfully, I quite disagree. Having lived in both places, I can tell you this is an in principle argument, and that no real negative impact is felt on peoples daily lives if they cannot say, "Obama is a terrorist", or "The dog catcher isn't responsive". The important thing is, there be SOME systems that judiciously imposes probity and encourages order. Americans get in a lather about their freedoms, innovativeness, and hardworking. Other people are often as, if not more hardworking, and ingenious. This is just jingoism-- to pronounce an exceptionalism routed in superior qualities than the rest of God's good people. American exceptionalism is of good fortune, well nurtured. Of the temperance of our leaders and the acceptance our masses extend to weird people, such as me. It is the inheritance of modesty, combined with a generosity afforded by a fortunate turn of world events, ending in Nazi obliteration in 1939. As far as the vaunted Freedoms are concerned, these are more in principle than practiced. One, Americans by tens of millions would rather stuff themselves with nachos and drink to a stupor, than be moved to pick up one piece of litter on a NYC sidewalk. Expensive cars drive by bedraggled school children on bus stops across the country, an no one exercises the freedom to charity. The little we see of this loudly proclaimed freedom is in the shallow and deleterious spilling of partisan political venom. In that instance, a society is better of, I say, and do so respectfully, that we are better of holding our tongue, and finding occasion for civic service instead. Pay a kid at a lemonade stand and you contributed more to a brighter tomorrow, than all the panjandrum of "Pussy Rallies" by liberal women, and of Trumps ugly tribal tantrums. Brits, His Kongese, Australinas, and Indians are more informed, engage, and articulate than the vast majority of brainwashed, "who won the war" 'Muhricans. It is just a fact. Doesn't make us bad. I see Americans as the best peoples, given that our guns have more often been fired in defense of humanity than any other country's in history. We have built a country that rewards excellence. And we enjoy a populace that inclines to constitutional democracy. Therein lie our strengths. Again, we can afford ignorance and hubris, cause we are fortunate, and because our leaders and founding fathers have permitted an open and liberal society, but not for ever. China, on the other hand, has fewer permissions to screw up. But they are neither less deserving nor less capable. Respect for the adversary, and a realistic assessment of self, dear sir, is as important as it is rare.
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Lots of hot air. On the Left and on the Right, us Americans are getting drummed up to this constant tribal hysteria. “News” has become petty entertainment (Obama’s birth cert, Trumps latest whatever outrage), and what passes for “Analysis” is rank propaganda.
This was ok when political drama was the way to engage people, allow some venting of steam, and stage ostensible transitions of power every few years. Institutions for the most part stayed unmolested— the Supreme Court, the Military, the Fed, the Justice system. Now, nothing is sacred. Institutions have been politicized, their legitimacy eroded. I hope this vitriolic commentary would be replaced by unbiased reporting and level headed Editorializing.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Let’s be clear: Mr. Bremmer is advocating a national mandate for COVID vaccination. It will apply to 100% of citizens, barring medical (and demonstrable religious?) reasons.
Where I agree with Ian, and therefore I am fully vaccinated, and yet I think we need to start this analysis with what is in the State’s interest. It is in the State’s interest to not have hospitals overwhelmed, not have significant productivity losses dues to public illness (aka pandemic), and not suffer any military or longterm constitutional harm. That is a good 80% or more of the areas of concern for the government. What is not stated, but is implied, is that we also don’t want the cure for a pandemic to bring on another health calamity, even if years down the line.
Let us stipulate that herd immunity is the desired path to securing the State’s interest in the event of a pandemic. Ian does it implicitly.
(We tried quarantining the whole society, and that didn’t work. We tried testing the economy, and that hurt us badly.)
The challenge is, we are balancing the perception of constitutional harm, against the economic and public mental-health harm of the pandemic. While unchecked COVID caused mental health and public-order issues on a large scale (I count the attack on the Congress as a symptom of both), it is also true that the perception of longterm constitutional harm too will motivate significant damage to the social order of this country.
It is not been shown what vaccination rate leads to herd immunity— which makes our understanding of the disease and medicine appear inchoate.. We also don’t know if the vaccine has any longterm efficacy or serious side effects. The medicine is clearly potent. Why is it, therefore, crazy to worry that it might cause some serious longterm harm? There are many instances where one benefit trades-off against a harm. This might very well be one of those.
Ultimately, this is more than a case of state sanctioned coercion for pressing reasons of public health.
State sanctioned coercion for public health is something I support. I personally could agree that fat-folk (I am one) should pay more on planes and for healthcare. Thankfully, however, I am not in charge.
However, coercion does suggest the risk of longterm constitutional harm. And, in this case, there is too the risk of harm to health of the vaccinated.
This makes me agree with the current approach of slowly tightening the noose, and going from voluntary, to bribed, to required by employers and local authorities, vs. a national mandate.
Mr. Bremmer is arguing for a national mandate. I believe that, given our lack of knowledge about the disease and the vaccine, and the potential for harm to social order, ghat we should take the slow road to public coercion.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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This is a really ignorant clickbait video. The oil is discounted for a few reasons. One, the deal being directly between the countries, they cut out the middle men. Secondly, the volume of single customer sale justifies the discount. Finally, this is a long term deal, insulated from market vagaries. The fact that India has to absorb the risk premium of having to cover insurance on oil tankers that cannot be insured too accounts for some of the discount.
Same with the “space race” BS. I am an Indian, and I am proud of what India did. HOWEVER, Russia can, and likely will will, succeed and stay in the game. No one thinks that “India beat Russia”. Beat in what sense? Market share? Publications? Prestige? Deals? This is the long game, and what India has done, whilst admirable, isn’t even what one single private company (Space X) is capable of. As an old civilization, one that isn’t as shallow as this channel, India (hopefully) doesn’t rejoice in the misfortune of a reliable ally.
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@odiii1966 I am sure you know what of you speak. I am a skeptic. Coming from a third world country, I have seen the European perfidy, and don’t trust European governments. Most European white people seem to prefer white people, and appear to treat the lives of dark skinned people as less consequential than those of white folk. Idealism is cynically deployed for unfair advantage— while they exploit nature, it is a sign of mastery over nature. Then, when they have raped the earth in Africa and India and Indonesia, then they preach conservation. The US is still a place where a significant number of institutions and people actually reach out and include me. Other than Dutch, Finnish and Russians, I haven’t found Europeans (the French, the German, English, Spaniard, Bulgarians, Portuguese, etc.) to be too wild about brown folk.
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Trump mayn’t be the last of his ilk, nor the worst...
I think he heralds a Trump 2.0, one who learns from Trumps’ failures and whose followers are better organized and more hardcore. Like Aussie cricketers.
The root of MAGA lies in the accelerating change and social dislocation of the undereducated, conservative masses. The threat arises from something fundamentally cataclysmic, and our Brexiting, MAGA brethren are the canaries in the coal mines of time. The changes threaten more than their lives however— the changes threaten the Nation State itself.
Hear me out. The Nation State, with its traditional pillars of strength is being weakened from within—
(1) with free movement of nation-agnostic Capital across national borders,
(2) with really free movement of “elites”— educated folk that can move over 100 miles away for work, and their resultant globalist attitudes (vs. MAGA views or Brexiteer views),
(3) social media freeing public opinion and rendering the power-structure unable to construct opinion (leading to Hong Kong uprising, as also in Bolivia, France, Yellow Vests, etc., etc.)
(4) financial system moving from currency based, market limited, bank-circulated monies, to include non-traditional, crypto- etc. based currency, merging of market with the World Wide Web, and delocalization of banking (think Apple Pay).
... all this is threatening the traditional “nation state”, the essential European project post reformation.
The nation state is threatened from without by MASSIVE global scale challenges... AI, Climate Change, Population Decline, emergence of “G-zero” world order, and Rising risk of nuclear weapon trafficking ...
...problems that’ll force global rules of road, resources, policing, and coordination are here before the nation state was ready.
The globalists think, “let’s remain in the Euro”, “give Hong Kong freedom”, liberate Kashmir, and impeach the MAGA MF.
But the masses aren’t blessed with a globalist consciousness. They are tied to a zip code. They want to keep those from a hundred miles out of their zip code. They want to protect their kids from the internet, their church from the state, keep their daughters virgin, and their guns loaded. Their bigger worry is Christ not suffusing Christmas and the nig***s gettin uppity. Keep the Turks and Poles outta Great Britain. Keep the models busty and the Queen white.
It’s tough when your race, your language, the flag, the neighborhood, and your job, all get threatened in one generation. Lower classes start to equalize, and generational norms breakdown.
That’s when Trump comes. Fails. Then returns. As Trump 2.0. Unless we can address the big cataclysm underway, adapt to it, and help our zip-code tied brethren, we are doomed to Trumpism.
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Here is what I’d say …
The analogy is, someone farms in, ON my front yard, grows and sells tomato’s, while I let them. I even let them use my water, and set up a veggie stall on my street frontage.
HOW it is unjust if I then start growing and selling tomato’s, charge them for water from my tap, and build a better commissary store to improve customer experience ON MY PROPERTY.
Agree with the premise (apple can trample ecosystem), but not the conclusion(that there is any injustice to it). Any company can and should foresee the opportunity window, make hay while they can, and be happy for the opportunity while it lasts.
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Respect Alex’s POV. He seems more considered and pragmatic. Mr. Munro if free to have his touchstone: rental car driver. That’s a good yardstick. It is, however, a poor one for people looking to buy a car. Going from my old Subaru to my job’s Malibu too required about 7-8 mins of reorienting. Wipers on other sides, seat adjustments from previous driver, reprogram the iPhone into the Bluetooth menu, remember how the engine braking is activated differently in each, and how it actually performs (a lot more effective for the Subaru), etc. To some extent, Mr. Munro is choosing a misplaced measure of a car.
As an ID.4 owner, here is what made me choose this in place of Model Y:
Better build quality
Better range, if only by a trifle
Higher seated position
Lesser NVH
Bigger rear view mirrors
Lower cost to own (free hs charging for 3 years, free maintenance for two years, 6 years battery warranty)
One comment on Tesla, and not one the fanbois will like … unlike Mr. Jobs, Mr. Musk hasn’t shown the ability to create long term inimitable advantage. Battery technology being their only defense, is a poor one. Their electric motor cores and windings are easy to replicate. Their FSD software, as yet inchoate, will not enjoy primacy in real implementation. Lidars and cameras both are better than just one, and the data hoard they have will soon be matched.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Dr. Bremmer is painfully obtuse. One, war crimes wise, the US isn’t in a place to preach to ANYONE. Second, and more importantly, India’s view of Russia is, in all important ways, the OPPOSITE of China’s. The Russo-Chinese axis , historically, is driven by trade in Energy, while India has only now begun to see Russia as a key supplier of oil. To India, post independence, Russia was the only “western” power that did not treat them like brown-niggas. The sense of trust that gift of dignity engendered cannot be overestimated. Gandhi and Tolstoy were both proponents of peace and self-abnegation. Americans, including the foolish Bremmer forget that the US dispatched their decent fleet to help Pakistan vs. India in 1971. The other canard is that India is socialist, while the US is not. In reality, both are market economies, each allocating funds to suit their development state and role in the world. The constant disparagement and denigration of India by the establishment and intellectuals in the US, where they could be doing so much more to increase understanding, hurts us as potential allies.
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माननीय मंत्री को विडम्बना बोध नहीं। इनका भाषण, वांगमय, न्याय व्यवस्था, शिक्षा संहिता, वेश भूषा, राज तंत्र, व वर्चस्व के प्रमाण— इनका भौतिक व आध्यात्मिक यथार्थ उद्घोष करता है इनकी पराधीनता का, इनके दासत्व का। मात्र भगवा के दिखावे से यह भारतीय नवोत्थान का श्रेय चाहते हैं।
इनका मार्तंड विदेश से उदित हो पर्देश में अस्त होता है, इनका नभ चीन के भय से आच्छादित है, तो प्राण मुस्लिम-ईसाई द्वेष से। जब नतमस्तक हो ये ईशोपासना करते हैं, तो कभी वैदिक आर्य मान्यताओं का स्मरण नहीं।
हे नरपति, तू क्या दिग्विजय करेगा, तेरी तो आत्मा ही पराधीन है।
हरि ॐ॥
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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While one argue either way, here are the reasons Putin will more likely use the N weapon in the next 2 months, than not:
(1) first, the most important factor is surprise— is not expecting for him to go N now is a great reason for him to
(2) things will only get worse, and there will be less and less to salvage. When half of all occupied land is lost, 80% even, then what does the N weapon salvage?
(3) the enemy will keep reducing his options. After he has lost Crimea, and the Nuclear weapon used, his enemies can take it to him from more places.
(4) after Ukraine has won 80% of land back, the newly made gains will seem worth fighting for, even in the face of a Nuke
(5) frankly, the N weapon helps the US have a reason to reign In Ukrainian ambitions as well. Right now, it is harder to hold them back from taking the battle to Russia. With a Nuclear attach, the US, and even Ukrainian leaders will have reason to freeze the conflict
Russia needs to take Ukraine, and even Europe out of the picture. A nuclear weapon most directly brings the US to the table.
In two months, with the land muddy, and the frost setting in, a nuclear weapon comes after the operating window for the Russian army. In the winter, Putin loses more popularity, and the European public opinion becomes more Anti Russia. India and the third world have suffer higher commodity and fuel prices longer.
Fire a nuke, offer to agree to peace if the advancing Ukrainians settle for current borders, and Russia can sell fuel to Europe and grain to Asia. Suddenly, the whole world wants to get to peace
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“Meaning” is a unique word. While it is related to assigning sounds to aspects of reality, it is more than that. A “VLOOKUP” function in a spreadsheet can assign “meaning”, in the sense that meaning is a semiotic or semantic matching exercise. This is non-aware matching. Meaning is a cognitive state that uses, but isn’t limited to semantic matching. “Monkey” = 🐒 is more than a linguistic convention. There is a monkeyness to a 🐒. It is this monkeyness that makes every monkey a monkey, and is the reason the sound-cluster, “monkey” is used for it. Monkeyness is more than a word or a mere concept. Language exploits our mental apparatus for meaning, and is not the cause of it.
The basic attribute of this apparatus is “recognition”. Recognition is pre linguistic. An enzyme recognize its substrate, and vice versa. We recognize unity, one of anything, and we then cognize two. We recognize the passage of time, and the concept of weight. These intuitions are both, pre linguistic AND helpful in understanding how words get meaning.
There is a fundamental reality, “Meaning”, which happens in our mind. It is what lends reality to concepts and words and communication.
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No man is an Island, every death diminishes each of us. The killing of black men with impunity should be opposed by the "pro life" right wing. Instead, they bring out guns to threaten more innocent lives. The pro-life lobby takes guns to peaceful demonstrators. The liberal left is not less hypocritical. If Nancy Pelosi once visited the despairing white Appalachia, if the green new deal had one clause on re-education and resettlement of the coal belt, if the liberals, who are so enamored of free sexuality, acknowledge the horror of the despicable license enjoyed in our colleges, the orgiastic nature of spring-breaks, then there will be some moral high ground left for either side. Right now, America is being destroyed by a deeply divided, angry, self righteous people, none of whom is fit to throw that first stone. For the lion to lay with the lamb, the rich whites must make common cause with the hunted blacks, our neighborhoods, shopping places, and public transport need to reflect the amalgamation essential to our unity. Lincoln Project is spreading more poison into the American body politic. Trump the Don did not get to the White House extraconstitutionally. He was installed there over the death of common sense and compassion, and not of the constitution. See in his rise the death of Americanism, not of the American constitution. This death of American greatness is on our hands, he is just a beneficiary. America needs to come to its senses, make peace within the our politics, and stop worshiping the false gods of "Conservatism" and "Liberalism". Alls that should be our god is Americanism and, if we can rise to it, humanism. All else makes us puppets, in the hands of demagogues and flash prophets. Trolls, your ugly comments too are welcome. Get busy spewing your hateful nonsense in comments below...
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Listen, I get that there are many many many examples of unfairness to women. Keep also, however, in mind that I, a man, cannot show up to work in alligator boots, lace undershirt showing through a thin white blouse, stretched tight enough to reveal my nipples, and then blame OTHERS for saying I was dressed distractingly. No one should be raped and killed for ANYREASON, not the least how they dress. Women get raped for larger societal pathologies than the desire to control their bodies. But, the day women dress like clergy, like men do, pants that cover every inch of lower halves, loose fitting shirts, made of non see through material, tucked in and buttoned, to cover all the way to neck, a white undershirt to cover the tiniest gap, only the face and palms revealed, and people still stay they are provocatively dressed, then I will accept that the society is demanding too much modesty.
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Lots of topics combined under “consciousness”. The simulation hypothesis is more about the nature of reality, and less about our perception. Wether it is a simulation, or “real”, we are apprehending what is presented to us. The bits presented can be digital, or physical. I might be a brain in a vet. The consciousness apparatus will arguably be the same, as if the inputs came in via neurons connected to sense organs.
Are we all in Chalmers’ dream? Well, I believe that sounds like a big deal, but really isn’t. He can either come out of the dream, and realize it was all a dream, OR he stays comatose and dreaming. In the first instance we are talking about the nature of consciousness of a dreaming brain-mind, in the second of a dreaming brain-mind. The question about consciousness stays the same question. Just because he is dreaming might change what you think of the nature of my consciousness, me being a person in his dream. But, his consciousness is still equally as unexplained.
They talk a lot about zombies and robots and problem solving. However, consciousness is NOT about feelings, problem solving, free will, or memories. Are you conscious of your free will? An example of “not” will be if our hearts and nervous system made decisions with agency, that we were not conscious of. Consciousness and free will are only linked if we establish what consciousness is created by, and how, and if there is any feedback from our subjectively aware faculty, to our decision faculty. For all we know, our organism makes decisions, with agency, but has no subjective experience, and our consciousness has subjective experience, but has no input into the decision making apparatus. That is actually my personal view.
That’s the gist of the issue with all discussions on consciousness. They fail to clarify what consciousness is, and then fail to zero in on that. Instead, they discuss all manner of sensational topics.
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Here is what I’d say …
The analogy is, someone farms in, ON my front yard, grows and sells tomato’s, while I let them. I even let them use my water, and set up a veggie stall on my street frontage.
HOW it is unjust if I then start growing and selling tomato’s, charge them for water from my tap, and build a better commissary store to improve customer experience ON MY PROPERTY.
Agree with the premise (apple can trample ecosystem), but not the conclusion(that there is any injustice to it). Any company can and should foresee the opportunity window, make hay while they can, and be happy for the opportunity while it lasts.
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David, I agree with your disagreement with Hina— I have a family in India, and an Indian military background.
However, this— this disputation and open exchange of views— this is what makes for a civilized world.
Our problem is not that we know each other well, but that we haven’t the incentives to accommodate each other.
Fundamentally, though not as represented by Hina, Pakistan has legitimate interests that we, the US, have transgressed. Remember, Bin Ladin was the hero that beat the Soviets, and we trained and equipped him. Remember too that the person who dismembered Khashoggi was extolled as a friend by Trump. More civilians died in Iraq AFTER we “liberated” them, than did under evil Husain. Putin wouldn’t be in power if we had managed our victory well. Instead we pushed our advantage ill-advisedly and over much. Leading first to Putin, and finally to Ukraine.
Peace needs humbleness and self reflection and accommodation of interests. Pakistan needs to do a lot of that. So too do we.
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🩸 Civil war at the hands of conservative militia is coming. Let’s do what we can to avert the coming bloodshed. 🩸
Let’s survey the power centers of this country.
The large corporations are firmly Republican supporting and run by conservative people. State governments are run, for the most part, by Republicans. The police, the military, and the judiciary— you guessed it. Conservative, Republican. Church— ditto. Capital— the same. CIA and FBI, despite the Trumpian disinformation, staunchly Conservative. I live by the Mississippi, and I can drive 800 miles in any direction and not hit a democratic county. Not see a democratic sheriff till I hit NM or CO. There is no chamber of commerce from here to California that is not conservative lead. If I hit the border, the guys with guns there are either conservative leaning Border Patrol, or Mexican drug lords. I don’t know what paranoia has filled the conservative whites— but please know, you are not endangered. We come in peace. We pay taxes and follow the laws. We aren’t against Christianity, and we aren’t planning on replacing the whites. The vaccine will not hurt a hundredth of as many people as guns will. More black men will die of police bullets than white men of all of the supposed ills brought on by Mexicans. Facebook will help China and Russia derange more Americans, than anything taught by liberal professors.
Listen to me. There is one party in the US more likely to seek bloodshed of their compatriots, possibly in 2024, than ANY enemy of America. No other people in this world are as likely to justify shooting their compatriots as misinformed conservatives.
There isn’t a conspiracy against Conservatism. However, there might be fratricidal conservatives hatching a conspiracy against America. Do something about that.
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So, before we call out propaganda on anyone who disagrees with us, let’s be clear that showing body bags isn’t an argument. A body bag is a sad sad fact. The story behind that body bag— Palestinians in Palestine, Iraqis in Iraq, Yemenis in Yemen, etc., that isn’t told honestly by either side.
Most third world countries do not make useable guns. MOST guns globally are sent by the CIA (by far the largest amount), the Chinese, and the Europeans. If Hootos are killing Tootsies, Houthis killing other Yemenis, Shias in Iraq killing Sunnis (and vice versa), Lebanon, Syria, Columbia, Venezuela, Kashmir, etc., etc., etc. the gun is from a major country. Most often the US of A.
These guns are made available to create and foster instability. This isn’t Winchester selling from a store in Damascus. No government allows its people to buy guns freely— except the one unwise one.
This is state policy. This is Pax Americana. Regimes that don’t align with American interests, however legitimate, suffer a bloody fall. Regimes that align with us, however bloody, are white washed by our media.
When the CIA, the US “loses” billions $$ worth in guns, or Plutonium overseas, remember it is not a error. It is the design.
The propaganda fooled public is seeing this video and now reading this comment. The Chinese, free of Fox and MSNBC lunacy, are the better informed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/13/usa.pakistan
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/online_extras/The_cias_leaking_pipeline.html
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Perfectly Frank not because of what I say. Not because of what anyone else says. Because of his obvious incompetence, (North Korea has moved forward as quickly since as it did before his election, except now they’re “in love” and the republicans blinded. He has no plan to innovate to address climate change impacts). He is a liar. He is morally worse than Bill Clinton. Except, unlike then, Americans now expect more from their presidents. Can you honestly say “MAGA” isn’t a racist dog-whistle? MAGA is about exploiting the angst of poor white folk, because ACTUALLY solving their economic problems will take policy, a lever Republicans only use to benefit the rich, and honesty. I respect your pov that Democrats stink, they are willing to spend away the exchequer, just to buy votes. That they play race baiting politicks. That they are just looking to bring down the President. All that is true. This isn’t a Democrat vs. Republican argument. This is America vs. Trump concern. I supported McCain, and respect Papy Bush. Trump isn’t a conservative. He is a leach. Let’s be clear eyed and place a Pence or another Republican in the White House. #impeachtheMF.
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🩸 Civil war at the hands of conservative militia is coming. Let’s do what we can to avert the coming bloodshed. 🩸
Let’s survey the power centers of this country.
The large corporations are firmly Republican supporting and run by conservative people. State governments are run, for the most part, by Republicans. The police, the military, and the judiciary— you guessed it. Conservative, Republican. Church— ditto. Capital— the same. CIA and FBI, despite the Trumpian disinformation, staunchly Conservative. I live by the Mississippi, and I can drive 800 miles in any direction and not hit a democratic county. Not see a democratic sheriff till I hit NM or CO. There is no chamber of commerce from here to California that is not conservative lead. If I hit the border, the guys with guns there are either conservative leaning Border Patrol, or Mexican drug lords. I don’t know what paranoia has filled the conservative whites— but please know, you are not endangered. We come in peace. We pay taxes and follow the laws. We aren’t against Christianity, and we aren’t planning on replacing the whites. The vaccine will not hurt a hundredth of as many people as guns will. More black men will die of police bullets than white men of all of the supposed ills brought on by Mexicans. Facebook will help China and Russia derange more Americans, than anything taught by liberal professors.
Listen to me. There is one party in the US more likely to seek bloodshed of their compatriots, possibly in 2024, than ANY enemy of America. No other people in this world are as likely to justify shooting their compatriots as misinformed conservatives.
There isn’t a conspiracy against Conservatism. However, there might be fratricidal conservatives hatching a conspiracy against America. Do something about that.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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@Aiphares here is the reason why 80% soc is recommended: it takes about the same time to get to 80%, as it does to go from 80% to 100%. It is therefore optimal, time wise, for both, the person charging, the those waiting for that charger, that the car be charged to 80%.
Charging to 100% does have a benefit, viz., it helps recalibrate the battery. During the several 10% to 80% charge cycles, the different cells in the battery pack get out of sync in soc levels. So, for example, when the pack is shown at 80%, you want all the cells to be at 80%, and that is how it starts. Overtime, 80% soc for the pack finds some cells above and some below 80% charge. When the battery is taken to 100%, the system forces ALL cells to 100%. Ideally, one does 100% soc every week.
What harms the battery is keep the soc high (say, above 80%) all the time. It is important to discharge to 20% or below during most charge cycles.
Hope this helps.
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Turkey, under Erdogan, is a maximalist, uncompromising, nationalist, even irredentist state. While some of its self assertion is natural, even long-due, a lot of it is national politics dressed in the ugly garb of jingoism. This jingoism fits poorly within a multi cultural Europe and a federated NATO. This jingoism is his way of consolidating power, of appearing more Turkish than opposition, of winning over the mullahs and the uneducated rural poor. I’m so doing, he is leading a leading Europian power astray. This antagonizes NATO. Given their natural regional enemies— Russia included— to antagonize the “west”. Worse yet, he is now expanding jaqat monies, in Kashmir, against India. This opens up a front against a traditional ally. This cements his Muslim nationalism. Except, Islam is a pan-state nation. This Islamist platform will ultimately weaken Turkey, and drain a nation that needs allies of all alliances. Erdogan, like Trump in the US, is being foolish.
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Dr. Bremmer, Netanyahu is not Bush, he is a corrupt, self aggrandizing, despotic thug. He is ABSOLUTELY capable for “breaking a few” Israeli and Palestinian eggs, to serve himself the omelettes of political power, success in extra-judicial power grab, forcing America to not sign the deal they were inching toward with Iran, pull in China vs. the US (wait and see), and force a distraction from the Indo-Pacific pivot. A narcissistic zealot, Netanyahu is best seen as a bottomless schitth-ole.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Bill Fauber rem acu tetigisti. They had the house and the congress, the s. court and the presidency, (&, while we’re enumerating, big business, military, majority of state legislatures & governorships, most police departments, guns, Harley’s, and the need for blue pills). With all that, they WORSENED the border, trade, treaties, the Obama recovery, relations with CANADA, the deficit & the debt, the standing of & the morale at the FBI, racial tensions, environmental laws, and the image of the First Lady— from FLOTUS, to FLOOZIE. Now Nancy, who is saving his sorry ass from impeachment, is the problem! What knaves!!
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@captainalex157 dear Captain, allow me a passionate response, and know that I do so respectfully. Nothing below is against you.
I think it is unfair to say, “Indians are playing both sides”.
When the Americans enable Pakistan to go nuclear, and then they put sanctions on them for proliferation, that’s two faced. When the US sanctions Modi, and then fetes him in the US, that’s snake tongued. In 1971, the US dispatched the 7th fleet to help Pakistan against India, when Russia came to India’s aid. In 2021, the Yanks demanded that India oppose Russia, and join their Quad against China. 🖕🏽
The Chinese PM visited India in 1962 and, from the rampart of the Red Fort, declared to all world that the Chinese and the Indians were brothers. A week later, they had attacked India across the Himalayan frontier.
India faces a duplicitous world of super powers, with the only certainty being that the big boys are happy to take advantage of the smaller players.
The US spews ideals to get its way, and then turns and forgets its high talk. Ask Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Turkey, Germany, or Britain. Russia and Ukraine were BOTH duped by the IS after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Iraq was dismantled so Pappy Bush could be avenged. The whole world was blatantly lied to about weapons of mass destruction. Gaddaffi got a chainsaw proctology after he was promised reintegration in the world community in exchange for eschewing nukes. Houthis in Yemen we’re just this year abandoned, because we need Saudi oil. The JCPOA was a fake out. What country walked away from South Asian countries coming together against China in the TPP “partnership”? What became of the redline assured the civilians of Damascus? The Kurds were just traded away to keep the Turks happy.
The US, it’s people great and amazing, has a succubus for a government. It’s rich to hear others, cautious of US duplicity, called “playing both sides”.
India has to be wise and prudent in its dealings with such a duplicitous partner. “Playing both sides” screams prejudice and ignorance on your part.
Why do white countries get F35A and, while they demand it not buy the Su27, India is denied that plane? Why no patriot shield for India, even though they are to forego S400 system?
You’ll likely respond by claiming “real politik”, and having to break eggs to make omelettes, and blame the rest of the world depending on poor US. BS. That would be two faced. Let’s use the same standard for a country of 100 million starving people, as we do for the land of milk and honey, and 100 million obese bastards.
The biggest and most diverse democracy in the world, Indians could give the retards crying, “big steal” a lesson in elections.
I respect your hope that the anti China alliance will be unequivocal, but the US needs to earn the faith that it’s leaders have whored out.
That’s just the truth.
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The analogy is, someone farms in, ON my front yard, grows and sells tomato’s, while I let them. I even let them use my water, and set up a veggie stall on my street frontage.
HOW it is unjust if I then start growing and selling tomato’s, charge them for water from my tap, and build a better commissary store to improve customer experience ON MY PROPERTY.
Agree with the premise (apple can trample ecosystem), but not the conclusion(that there is any injustice to it). Any company can and should foresee the opportunity window, make hay while they can, and be happy for the opportunity while it lasts.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Here is what I’d say …
The analogy is, someone farms in, ON my front yard, grows and sells tomato’s, while I let them. I even let them use my water, and set up a veggie stall on my street frontage.
HOW it is unjust if I then start growing and selling tomato’s, charge them for water from my tap, and build a better commissary store to improve customer experience ON MY PROPERTY.
Agree with the premise (apple can trample ecosystem), but not the conclusion(that there is any injustice to it). Any company can and should foresee the opportunity window, make hay while they can, and be happy for the opportunity while it lasts.
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Trump mayn’t be the last of his ilk, nor the worst...
I think he heralds a Trump 2.0, one who learns from Trumps’ failures and whose followers are better organized and more hardcore. Like Aussie cricketers.
The route of MAGA lies in the accelerating change and social dislocation of the undereducated, conservative masses. The threat arises from something fundamentally cataclysmic, and our Brexiting, MAGA brethren are the canaries in the coal mines of time. The changes threaten more than their lives however— the changes threaten the Nation State itself.
Hear me out. The Nation State, with its traditional pillars of strength is being weakened from within—
(1) with free movement of nation-agnostic Capital across national borders,
(2) with really free movement of “elites”— educated folk that can move over 100 miles away for work, and their resultant globalist attitudes (vs. MAGA views or Brexiteer views),
(3) social media freeing public opinion and rendering the power-structure unable to construct opinion (leading to Hong Kong uprising, as also in Bolivia, France, Yellow Vests, etc., etc.)
(4) financial system moving from currency based, market limited, bank-circulated monies, to include non-traditional, crypto- etc. based currency, merging of market with the World Wide Web, and delocalization of banking (think Apple Pay).
... all this is threatening the traditional “nation state”, the essential European project post reformation.
The nation state is threatened from without by MASSIVE global scale challenges... AI, Climate Change, Population Decline, emergence of “G-zero” world order, and Rising risk of nuclear weapon trafficking ...
...problems that’ll force global rules of road, resources, policing, and coordination are here before the nation state was ready.
The globalists think, “let’s remain in the Euro”, “give Hong Kong freedom”, liberate Kashmir, and impeach the MAGA MF.
But the masses aren’t blessed with a globalist consciousness. They are tied to a zip code. They want to keep those from a hundred miles out of their zip code. They want to protect their kids from the internet, their church from the state, keep their daughters virgin, and their guns loaded. Their bigger worry is Christ not suffusing Christmas and the nig***s gettin uppity. Keep the Turks and Poles outta Great Britain. Keep the models busty and the Queen white.
It’s tough when your race, the language, the flag, and your job, all get threatened in one generation.
That’s when Trump comes. Fails. Then returns. As Trump 2.0. And the Aussies become world champs. Which is worse.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Why give MORE time to the GOP talking points? The military inclines republican, the supreme court, the whitehouse, the senate, a majority of states, big business, local law enforcement, the church, national research labs, and very well funded and subscribed-to media. 80% of US cities vote red. A majority of endowments and monuments celebrate conservative causes, even Confederate causes. Liberals are left day dreaming, making movies, and biting our tongues at work. Hotel lobbies and hospital waiting rooms are emblazoned with Fox News (propaganda). YOU DONT NEED TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO GIVE THESE ASSHORS MORE AIRTIME!!!
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@gigiw4571 We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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We just need to temp down the ugliness and hatred, and come together. I remember how Clinton was derided, then Bush HATED, then Obama turned into a Monster. Hillary has been treated the worst of all. All this, not because Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Hillary, or even Trump, merit such derision and disgust and ribald hatred, but because we have become such a petty and tribal people. Let's oppose policies, not people, and let us never disrespect the office of the President, even if we disagree with the incumbent.
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Rental car companies serve a purpose, they’re aren’t evil, but neither are they unassailable, or irreplaceable. Cars are an underutilized asset, sitting in parking spaces for 90% of their lives. Cars are underutilized also in terms of space— they hardly every carry four people and cargo. There is no reason car owners shouldn’t be able to extract the intrinsic asset value they paid for.
As far as regulatory and taxation goes— its ALL a game to some extent. If Avis doesn’t pay sales tax (fill in your reason here), but I do, that is NOT a red herring, but a substantial difference in economic treatment.
Car companies are not monopolies al la harfindahl index. But who the heck is stupid enough to think the old business model is not ripe for change. There is a lot that could improve with how cars are rented out today. For one, if the private asset sharing model, a la AirBnB, works to reduce cost to rent, then power to Turo.
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Shirvan, I am sorry. “Islam“ has been bad for the world. The Arabs and the Persians, the Turks and Egyptians are great peoples. Islam wasted their vigor and has infused millions with hatred and blind radicalism. Sure, some progress was made during Islamic times. But, that was NOT Islamic progress. The Prophet Md. (PUBH— I don’t want some crazy immam to ask that I be killed) was a leader of people. He was also a Muslim. Leaders as great as him are unique in history. BUT there have been others, among native Americans and Armenians and the Masai and the Budol. Great leaders don’t have to father religions. And they don’t have to be defended as “perfect”. Nor should Md.
Humanity benefits from lawgivers. We all owe respects to the great Arabic Rusool.
Islam’s failings shouldn’t attach to the great Md. (PUBH). Limited to his time, and viewed pragmatically, the scion of Quereish is brilliant. A military leader, unified of tribes, and lawgiver.
Islam is not however his greatest donative. Islam isn’t great. At its best, it is a base doctrine.
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Tell us how Government changes to accommodate the ability of media, communication, and other technology to wreck massive transformations rapidly, and where people don’t have patience for a 4 year change of power.
Tell us how Nations survive their obsolescence. When capital, work, disease, climate change, interests, corporations, regulation, education, etc., are all boundary-less, then how do national boundaries survive?
Tell us how we manage a world where machines can kill, privacy doesn’t exist, all human communication and activity is mediated by technology.
… so much to learn.
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The analogy is, someone farms in, ON my front yard, grows and sells tomato’s, while I let them. I even let them use my water, and set up a veggie stall on my street frontage.
HOW it is unjust if I then start growing and selling tomato’s, charge them for water from my tap, and build a better commissary store to improve customer experience ON MY PROPERTY.
Agree with the premise (apple can trample ecosystem), but not the conclusion(that there is any injustice to it). Any company can and should foresee the opportunity window, make hay while they can, and be happy for the opportunity while it lasts.
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I don't think anyone will say that China is perfect, or their government benign. Quite the contrary. It is, however, also true that they are demonized more in order to make us feel good about ourselves. To me, they have deep flaws and great strengths, and so do we, Americans. And Indians. On the specific talking points on "freedom of speech", and I say this respectfully, I quite disagree. Having lived in both places, I can tell you this is an in principle argument, and that no real negative impact is felt on peoples daily lives if they cannot say, "Obama is a terrorist", or "The dog catcher isn't responsive". The important thing is, there be SOME systems that judiciously impose probity and encourages order. Americans get in a lather about their freedoms, innovativeness, and hardwork-ethic. Other people are often as, if not more, hardworking, and equally as ingenious. This is just jingoism-- to pronounce an exceptionalism routed in superior qualities than the rest of God's good people. American exceptionalism is of a good fortune, well nurtured. Of the temperance of our leaders and the acceptance our masses extend to weird people, such as me. It is the inheritance of modesty, combined with a generosity afforded by a fortunate turn of world events, ending in Nazi obliteration in 1939. As far as the vaunted Freedoms are concerned, these are more in principle than practiced. One, Americans by tens of millions would rather stuff themselves with nachos and drink to a stupor, than be moved to pick up one piece of litter on a NYC sidewalk. Expensive cars drive by bedraggled school children on bus stops across the country, an no one exercises the freedom to charity. Second, the little we see of this loudly proclaimed freedom is in the shallow and deleterious spilling of partisan political venom. In that instance, a society is better of, I say, and do so respectfully, that we are better of holding our tongue, and finding occasion for civic service instead. Pay a kid at a lemonade stand and you contributed more to a brighter tomorrow, than all the panjandrum of "Pussy Rallies" by liberal women, and of Trumps ugly tribal tantrums. Brits, His Kongese, Australinas, and Indians are more informed, engage, and articulate than the vast majority of brainwashed, "who won the war" 'Muhricans. It is just a fact. Doesn't make us bad. I see Americans as the best peoples, given that our guns have more often been fired in defense of humanity than any other country's in history. We have built a country that rewards excellence. And we enjoy a populace that inclines to constitutional democracy. Therein lie our strengths. Again, we can afford ignorance and hubris, cause we are fortunate, and because our leaders and founding fathers have permitted an open and liberal society, but not for ever. China, on the other hand, has fewer permissions to screw up. But they are neither less deserving nor less capable. Respect for the adversary, and a realistic assessment of self, dear sir, is as important as it is rare.
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Trump mayn’t be the last of his ilk, nor the worst...
I think he heralds a Trump 2.0, one who learns from Trumps’ failures and whose followers are better organized and more hardcore. Like Aussie cricketers.
The root of MAGA lies in the accelerating change and social dislocation of the undereducated, conservative masses. The threat arises from something fundamentally cataclysmic, and our Brexiting, MAGA brethren are the canaries in the coal mines of time. The changes threaten more than their lives however— the changes threaten the Nation State itself.
Hear me out. The Nation State, with its traditional pillars of strength is being weakened from within—
(1) with free movement of nation-agnostic Capital across national borders,
(2) with really free movement of “elites”— educated folk that can move over 100 miles away for work, and their resultant globalist attitudes (vs. MAGA views or Brexiteer views),
(3) social media freeing public opinion and rendering the power-structure unable to construct opinion (leading to Hong Kong uprising, as also in Bolivia, France, Yellow Vests, etc., etc.)
(4) financial system moving from currency based, market limited, bank-circulated monies, to include non-traditional, crypto- etc. based currency, merging of market with the World Wide Web, and delocalization of banking (think Apple Pay).
... all this is threatening the traditional “nation state”, the essential European project post reformation.
The nation state is threatened from without by MASSIVE global scale challenges... AI, Climate Change, Population Decline, emergence of “G-zero” world order, and Rising risk of nuclear weapon trafficking ...
...problems that’ll force global rules of road, resources, policing, and coordination are here before the nation state was ready.
The globalists think, “let’s remain in the Euro”, “give Hong Kong freedom”, liberate Kashmir, and impeach the MAGA MF.
But the masses aren’t blessed with a globalist consciousness. They are tied to a zip code. They want to keep those from a hundred miles out of their zip code. They want to protect their kids from the internet, their church from the state, keep their daughters virgin, and their guns loaded. Their bigger worry is Christ not suffusing Christmas and the nig***s gettin uppity. Keep the Turks and Poles outta Great Britain. Keep the models busty and the Queen white.
It’s tough when your race, your language, the flag, the neighborhood, and your job, all get threatened in one generation. Lower classes start to equalize, and generational norms breakdown.
That’s when Trump comes. Fails. Then returns. As Trump 2.0. Unless we can address the big cataclysm underway, adapt to it, and help our zip-code tied brethren, we are doomed to Trumpism.
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Dr. Bremmer forgets what is critical: IF Russia did in Mexico or even Venezuela what we were doing in Ukraine, then we too would invade that country. Our jackboots are not as circumspect has have been Putins’. Putin is no angel, indeed, let’s just stipulate that he is the devil incarnate, and has a limp biscuit. Pile all horse manure on him that you can. BUT, in invading Ukraine he is doing what we would do in that circumstance, only more cautiously. Also, we KNEW (had to have known) he’d do that. And set the predicate.
All hyperventilation that this is unimaginable, unbelievable, and avoidable is disingenuous. This empowers the US, forces the Europeans to arm, and ties Russia down for a decade. I don’t see how we can pretend this isn’t what we gamed and hoped will transpire.
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How was that cartoon racist? Is any joke involving other people, if they happen to be of a different race automatically “racist”? The cartoon didn’t create a negative reality, nor did it imply genetic or endemic inferiority, and nor does that cartoon lead to a worse future for Indian peoples. It was merely a cartoon. If Hindus making Sikh jokes, Tams cracking Mallu jokes, Punjabis laughing at “Bhaiya” culture, etc., is not racist, even though that is the more mean spirited, then this is definitely NOT racist.
You mayn’t like it, and I can agree that the humor is in poor taste. But it is not racist.
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It is not clear what ends the Quad is seeking. The likely outcome of this posturing could be a detente, where the US trades Indian or Japanese interests for its own. Say, China buys 3 trillion in US oil over the next decade.
The weak link in this alliance has always been the US, because any of the other three, who have real economic and territorial exposure, can (and likely will) be abandoned by the US to extract Chinese favors.
To assure against this risk of opportunism, the US needs to make strategic commitments to the alliance. As in, give these nations full access to US armament, AND let them indigenize the technology (make spare parts and alter software locally).
Neither of these states can take on China without US security guarantee, and Japan and India have irreconcilable enmity with China. Australia too is threatened by economic exploitation by China. Therefore, there isn’t a real probability of these countries turning for China, or on the US. It is US that is the least reliable partner, the “weak link” in the chain.
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