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I don't necessarily disagree with the logic here, yes the bureaucratic setup is a good target for corruption. My thinking is, the inefficiency coming from the corruption is decreasing with tech (harder to hide electronic trail) and the remaining inefficiency < inefficiency from the unfairly distributed wealth.

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Really good article. From the analogies placed in individual events to their global projections, this is a must read if you want to wake up to the world events.

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I wrote a short essay on post-liberalism and what I believe to be the future political norm of the world: https://mazmhussain.substack.com/p/climbing-off-the-tiger

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Turkey is an incredible good sample, to predict where world politics is going. The power dynamics of Erdogan, his allies and his enemies can be applied at scale to many different countries; and the result looks quite similar, just 15 years behind. Not sure where this takes the world to, but I appreciate that you picked this example.

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When you shift your mind framework from "classic political party who needs to win elections" to "a corporation who needs to sell a product", everything falls in line. Dems are not losing, they're just winning a different race that they prefer to participate in. https://warpcast.com/chainleft/0x2e20f61a

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I think transparently aligning the reputation to the contributions is a great idea. Also poidh seems really cool 👏 Seeing how selfishness is tolerated even today and how money can be used to build reputation (see Musk & others), I remain skeptical of unenforced contributions. The leftist argument for enforced taxes isn't based on some vague "fairness". It's based on the fact that the wealth is built indirectly but precisely and proportionally to the usage of collective infrastructure & services. That's what we mean by fair share.

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Anand Giridharadas has a book on this topic, with a bunch of consolidated data. Volunteer taxes, charity, philanthropy don't really work. It's cynical but also the reality. What alignment are you referring to, that could hypothetically make it work?

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Unless they evolve the genocide into a full extinction of Palestinians through more murders, more ethnic cleansing, and more forced exile; this is actually an incredibly stupid step for the Israeli right. Not because they'll lose Western support (they won't). Not because genocide will be confirmed (already was). But because of infusing another 1.5m indigenous population into a colonial, self-described "pure" nation. One state solution. Again - unless they succeed in making Palestinians extinct.

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I didn't need my eyes I guess :(

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I'm not an expert. But they're a product like everything else. They need distributors inside the US and can be tariffed accordingly. But I think they'd have a lot more loopholes than purely physical products. What's funny is that US exports a lot more in movies than imports so any retaliatory tariff would hurt soo much more than the previous retaliatory tariffs (plus the loss of cultural influence)

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Crypto chronology 😅

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I always liked him :/ I still think he's a good guy who did a stupid thing. But also, this is the problem with gambling. It's the worst use case crypto has to offer, it's what destroyed his reputation. I'm aware gambling is crypto's most adopted use case, but I'm surprised he contributed to more gambling with clanker after what happened...

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Yeah, i mean Taylor Swift doesn't seem so bad. Ezra Klein seems neither genuine nor good at what he does.

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What??? Proxy is Gabagool????

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Wait what? Why is this not bigger news?

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It does, however, satisfy the naive dolts who can't see through the BS

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Okay how the fuck is this legal? How does Israel's boot taste fellow americans? https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1918472975692574802?t=gZGI9pXfY0PhFNpfdZZvww&s=34

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He's one of the architects of the mess.

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