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balajis
@balajis.eth
Democrats burned the flag. Vandalized the Freedom Bell. And even tore down statues of George Washington. So...tell me who's anti-American again?
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balajis
@balajis.eth
In the 2010s, everyone was constantly accused of being "racist." In the 2020s, the new trend is to accuse everyone you don't like of being "anti-American." But in the off chance that @0xen is not a troll or a coward, let's have at it. 1) First: pointing out that Uncle Sam has serious health issues is not the same as wanting Uncle Sam to die. Indeed, pointing out such issues is the only way to fix them — whether for Uncle Sam or his descendants. The true hater of Uncle Sam is the anesthetizer, the elder abuser. He keeps pretending everything is fine as he steals Uncle Sam's money. 2) Second: who caused Uncle Sam's health issues in the first place? Who stole billions for California trains and homeless encampments, who choked the country in red tape and regulations, who opened the borders and opened the prisons, who spread feces on the streets of once-great American cities, who's spending billions on wars and nothing for Maui? The short answer: Democrats The long answer: Democrats and neocons [continued]
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balajis
@balajis.eth
Future historians will include the trillions wasted on foreign wars in stories of how the US fell from the hyperpower of 1991 to what it is today. And neocons like Frum are of course now with the Democrats. 3) When you see just how bad the Democrat/neocon-caused financial situation now is — when you truly understand the scale of the hole in the boat — one option is certainly to just ignore it, like you. Another is to just blackpill. A third option is to surrender to China, which is what Gavin Newsom is working on. But the fourth option is to build something better, which is the project Satoshi began. 4) The image below is a good analogy. I'd prefer the ship didn't have a hole in the floor. I didn't really want to spend my life building lifeboats. But very few people even understand the scale of the leak. Most are in denial. And, like you, they ask — "why do you hate the boat so much?" https://warpcast.com/0xen/0x6f501464
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Stuart
@olystuart
A lot of Balajis analysis is spot on and I agree as a leftist but then he goes off throwing anti-homeless stuff in there, random things hinting that he wants more authoritarian police state violence against the poor. I don't get that part. The trillions wasted on war with bipartisan cooperation part... Yeah. But that's because it's a capitalist system. The capitalists are the ones looting the US to fuel their profits from the military industrial complex and so on. It's not homeless people doing that. Why not be about bringing up all of humanity to a better life including those struggling with housing in a cruel system that leaves millions out in the cold?
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@balajis.eth
I think I agree with you about 60%. Defense is a necessary evil. But the military industrial complex is too much. There are huge incentives to cause wars, not prevent them. And to keep them going for decades. But I think you just need to extend that analysis to the homefront. There is a homeless industrial complex. NGOs get paid to get minorities addicted to drugs. It's extremely sad...but think about who is creating these billboards. Who is the photographer and who is being photographed? Homeless minorities are being exploited by NGOs. The homeless get addicted to drugs, while NGOs get $$$.
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Stuart
@olystuart
I agree that there is corruption in the NGO world and intentional inefficiency in liberal policy, and often times they become bureaucracies with highly paid executives and not much in the way of quantifiable success in their supposed mission. Still, homeless people are people, they deserve dignity and homes just like the rest of us, they just often got unlucky with medical debt or lost a job at the wrong time or couldn't get a place due to bad credit etc. I agree liberals don't solve the problem but I don't see any solution proposed by network state or tech people either besides I guess eugenics ("its their fault, jail them or let them die" type arguments). How would you solve the problem of millions of people needing homes? Building more won't do it because they won't be affordable to the working class and poor anyway. Thx for the conversation ✌️
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