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UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

History shows that post revolutionary states are pretty fucked up.

The United States is a post revolutionary state, that's how it was founded.

You can rightly claim that the French revolution was insane, but ultimately it made a better state.

Russia today is a post revolutionary state.

When it's an authentic revolution, and not caused by external factors (i.e. a coup) quite often you end up with a superior nation although that transition is not easy.

The US should have gone through a MAJOR reformation in the 1990's, and didn't. Instead our government continued to waste money on the useless war machine even after the USSR had collapsed. There was a brief pause, and we had ENORMOUS development during the 1990's. We went from having long distance phone calls for communication to just "the Internet". We got sidelined by 9/11 which was very likely done (or at least allowed) by our own government, and we have squandered resources and development into pointless war to the point that nobody supports any of these wars to the point the media is getting afraid to even report on them.

War will be our undoing, it was for the USSR - they squandered all their resources and manpower on their warmachine as well, until there was a revolt. It's going to happen here as well in time. Our nation will start ANOTHER war, and eventually, we're going to get our asses handed to us. I don't think Russia is going to do this, but if we start shit with Iran, they might. They are formidable military force, and Russia will support them.

“The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

— Thomas Sowell

The_Deplorable says

What happens even more so under communism because central planning.

Sowell is 94 years old.

https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1851357299232670141

Robert Sproul says

"How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?"

Thomas Sowell

Sowell predicts Al Gore's Global Warming grift:

OkDOGEisAmountingToSomething says

Akshually, lots of so-called "journalism" has been outsourced to the 3rd world. Now, of course, some of that is clawed back and replaced by AI. Both resulted in pretty shitty quality.

https://x.com/HooverInst/status/1907630250135273527

RWSGFY says

Like Sowell said, "There are no solutions, just tradeoffs." The same China that can undercut US steel prices with the comparative advantage of slave labor and lax pollution laws can use that same comparative advantage to undercut US steel products and anything else the US manufactures. The only solution is to tariff the Chinese imports to a level where companies that follow 1st World labor and pollution laws are able to compete.

HeadSet says

The only solution is to tariff the Chinese imports to a level where companies that follow 1st World labor and pollution laws are able to compete.

The devil is in details. One could first stimulate building of new steel plants in the US while taking advantage of low prices of Chinese steel and once these are in place THEN crank up the tariffs. The way it's done now is like going to war before having ammo factories built and ammo stockpiled and instead scrambling to build ammo factories under fire.