It’s not necessarily projection, it can just be two shitty people accurately describing each other

Then fire him and hire someone with a plan to match.

This isn’t an explanation, it’s a thought terminating phrase. Youre just othering people as psychopaths/monsters/inhuman.

I won’t.

He was a predictable product of the American culture / political system. His death doesn’t fix anything that caused him to rise.

Build it in Quebec on hydro power and I have zero issue.

Do it like this and I will do everything in my power to stop it.

I mean, to be fair, electrical engineering is one of the most notoriously difficult to grasp disciplines.

People don’t generally have a great intuitive sense for how pulsed electromagnet waves propagate through 3d space and time.

I’ve used the advanced systems analysis math I learned in university as an actual calculation in my job precisely zero times.

I roughly think about how those models apply to situations and how that will effect the various likely outcomes and behaviours etc on a literal daily basis.

University isnt just about training you to do a job.

The Chinese government has consistently and actively worked to make sure that when we trade with them, they benefit more then we do.

And yes, that’s not particularly different from our relationship with the US.

But you don’t have to be racist to oppose trade with a more powerful entity that attempts to control and abuse you. I still think it’s worth engaging with China economically, but I can also see how someone might oppose it just from a standpoint of respecting their competence and going in eyes wide open about their motivations.

Where did I say this?

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The US pumped massive percentages of its GDP into

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Which changes absolutely nothing from the perspective of NATO

Lmao yes it does. It only doesn’t if you declare “I’m ignoring this information”, and stick your head in the sand.

That’s not reasoning, that’s weaponized incompetence.

Let’s remember that the US has been, by far, the richest country in the world since the world wars, largely because it stayed out of them til the ends, and issued massive loans to European countries that they continued to profit off of for decades and decades.

You talk about GDP percentage, as if every country had a similar GDP per capita, and could thus afford to spend similarly. The reality is that the US had more then enough money to both fund its military and fund its social programs, but it chose to instead fund the military and the already wealthy.

Maybe you should have spent some of those years studying law.

Lol this is a dumb headline.

The entire point of trade diversification is that there is not a single solution to it.

That’s like saying “in Carney’s search for a hive mind, I don’t think it’s Steve”. Like yeah, if you think that’s what he’s doing, either he’s a complete idiocracy-level idiot, or maybe, just maybe, you should self reflect on your own understanding of the situation.

This is a post from an LLM.

Lol this is an interesting shower thought, the fact that you’re taking it seriously makes me wonder if you spent too much time in Sovereign Citizen circles, or just watched Mircacle on 34th Street too many times.

If you’re talking about the chicken and egg problem in the abstract, i.e. how do you determine “what caused what” in a system that feeds back into itself… the answer is that in feedback systems, determining blame or ascribing one or the other as the cause is simply meaningless, and you need to examine how the system behaves as a whole, and how the different parts contribute to the output of the system in various configurations.

Overly simplistic. Lots of things are the abuse of anxiety.

Objectively false my friend.

How would animals have morals if that was the case? Why would they have a sense of fairness baked into them if it came from a religion they couldn’t possibly comprehend?

The reality is that morality as we perceive it, is mostly just the natural rules that let us work together. This little known scientific concept called ‘apes strong together’, meant that the people who possessed a basic sense of morality could work with others and accomplish more, then those without it, and those without it, died off.

That’s all morality is. It has nothing do with any magical creature.

LA is also just a car culture city. When you’re poor in LA, you drive a shitty car, when you get rich in LA, you drive a fancy car.

When you’re poor in New York, you get driven around by public transit. When you’re rich in New York, you get driven around by a car service.

It’s obviously not so black and white, but the percentage of rich people driving sports cars in LA vs rich people getting driven in luxury cars in NY, is probably similar to the percentage of poor people driving in LA vs poor people taking transit in New York.

Fuck the US. Let it wallow and die. Talking more closely is just more likely to get its shit on you as it goes.

Wtf are you even talking about?

1. the companies you listed are not the only companies in their markets,

2. at least one of the companies you listed is Canadian

3. how is this different from literally any other country around the world?

4. how are you listing Costco when they’re literally the only store with a maximum markup %

The exact same thing that has been going on for the past ~60 years of American corporate expansionism.

They don’t regulate their companies, allowing them to basically abuse their destitute class to let their corporate class amass a vast amount of capital, and then they use that capital to expand globally, buy overseas companies, create capitalists there and use them to spread their shitty exploitative and harmful practices.

The key it this process is that their companies look economically successful, because they make more money then their competitors, but in reality they’re not more efficient or produce better goods (quite the opposite in fact), it’s just that they’re better at externalizing costs and exploiting others.