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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Your argument was that fascists can destroy a lot of incremental change in a short while. I’m agreeing with you.

    Although your assertion that it doesn’t apply to politics is tenuous. I would say there’s plenty of evidence against it from the dawn of civilisation: Ur, the Aztecs, Babylon, Ancient Greece, Persia, the Nordic countries, China, Enlightenment France, the Roman Empire, the Empire of Japan, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. All rode to ages of political dominance on the backs of stability, even the ones who resorted to genocide or purging opposition.

    Cuba, Poland, Iraq, the EU and Australia have all also had immense growth and development in the last century in tandem with stability. In contrast to Afghanistan, ISIS, Palestine or the African warlord regions who haven’t had as much.

    So my point still stands, in the US, at least one party has spent decades tearing down, and from the looks of it one of them never tried to build anything up.

    Yet, the population continues to vote this way. It’s hard not to see it as voluntary; In that much time, accessing as much free information and thought as the US has, you can’t really claim to be ignorant of differing information, other than willfully.

    If both ruling parties are that obviously corrupt, why is there no action? It’s been done in the country before, as well as in many other places, including in the last decade (Arab spring, South Korean president, BLM).

    The argument points toward willfull acceptance if not outright choice.

    If you disagree, give me evidence, not just your feelings.

    If you don’t, but don’t accept the consequence - get out there and do something about it.



  • Agreed.

    But I don’t get why the expectation is that Biden would be the hero to save 50 years of progressively worse governance by the republicans. Even if he was altogether the ideal (which I’m not sure any politician could be), he’s still human and also has a huge government apparatus with considerable inertia to overcome. And replacing people leads to the same behaviours we see now, entrenched resistance, passive resistance, loss of knowledge, loss of service/communication/trust/reliability, wasted resources, etc.

    Constructive politics needs to create a stable environment, that can’t be done by drastic changes, and especially not in every facet every 4 years. Isn’t that why there’s now so much chaos, uncertainty and loss of trust both nationally and overseas?


  • I mean, tariffs are a long term economic stimulus tool, changing them every week gets the economy, allies, and the private sector very nervous as you might have noticed these last few months.

    You might even have heard that companies protest investing in new production capabilites as they don’t know what the tariffs will be in 3 years when the production facility is done.

    I’ll state the same as in the other comment. Not flip-flopping is the expected norm to maintain stability, relationships and long term governance. Poor choices have effects over many years, as drastic changes every 4 years have even more damaging effects.



















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