Chainleft

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This might be flying under the radar but I think there's already a cyber-war between US & China. Deepseek got massive DDOS attacks in the last few days, and after Anthropic CEO's anti-China remarks, Claude went down for ~1 hour today.

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Getting more bearish on everything.

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Oh wow! Had no idea about this.

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Smugness comes from always being proven right 😉 I did expect a response like that from a conservative tbh but glad it came from you instead 😅 it's fair https://warpcast.com/chainleft/0x3459f25b

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Obviously I'm generalizing btw, which isn't "nice" but I assume niceness is out of the window at this point. I don't give AF if a conservative thinks "this is why you guys lose" :) Leftist policies win, lib politicians lose.

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trumpists feel pretty honest tbh, not pretending in any way - which in some ways might even be appealing even if it reflects lack of intelligence

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that's a major speculation projected on a choice made by a person

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but you're implying that the driver should have the same moral qualms about someone's birth place vs someone's choice of risking others. What am I missing here? What's the tribalistic moral choice here? Is it the belief that "masks don't actually prevent spreading diseases"? I can accept that (even if I don't agree).

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Sorry, I don't mean to offend Trumpists, it's just very obvious when you see people comparing the mask requirement with deportations.

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What do you prefer? Selfish and intelligent? (libs) or Selfish and not intelligent? (Trumpists) Also keep in mind, both are arrogant when they're in power.

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Are you actually comparing a physical equipment that's meant to block disease spread in public with existence of a human being who's born somewhere they can't control being born in???

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A horrifying story in 2 parts

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JFC honestly I didn't know it was this bad.

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Yes! If you believe that, we might be saying the same thing. For me decentralization means the crumbling of power consolidation. You can have a better democracy (in north atlantic definitions even) that results in more power consolidation. Decentralized, collective planning is the goal (FWIW the Chinese admit that they're not there)

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I do agree with you that whatever US has now (oligarchy? late stage capitalism? inevitable end of neoliberalism?) is harder to plan in than whatever China has now (meritocratic authoritarianism? state capitalism? defacto single party with intra-party elections?)

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In a longer form, I'd love to explain China's system a bit more in detail. China is definitely not democratic and definitely authoritarian, far from a system I'd want to live long term. And yet, considering the way "access to power & decisions" are distributed, its centralization might not be far off from the oligarchy in the US. Again, I'm not talking about elections, parties or even real democracy here; just focus on specifically an individual person born in a village - their likelihood to become a senior politician in their country might not be less if they're born in China than if they're born in the USA.

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I think the point is missed a little. The point is planning, not democratic index whose description is imposed by those that diminish democracy.

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1000000000000000x even

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USA is not a democracy. And planning doesn't have to be centralized.

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clown behavior materialized as a country

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