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balajis
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The greatest strength comes from knowing your own weakness. My overarching thesis is that history is running in reverse. So the countries that had a great 20th century are on track for a tough 21st, and vice versa. For example: China, Russia, India, Eastern Europe were crushed by socialism. Now they are capitalist and unified to varying degrees. So their overall trajectory is up. Meanwhile, Woke America and Western Europe were once capitalist and unified. But now they’re woke with broken borders and bankrupt states. So their overall trajectory is down. Like Dalio and Elon, I believe the coming sovereign debt crisis will end 500 years of Western dominance (and also take down Japan). Failing states will get extremely nasty. I think China rises. I think the Internet succeeds the West, and opposes China. I also think Bitcoin Republicans can maybe turn Florida into a Taiwan equivalent, where capitalists take refuge. But most aren’t ready to hear this. They still think the postwar order will last.
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balajis
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One problem is most Westerners don’t know how tragic the fate of the East was in the last century. The bad guys did win, for generations. Communism crushed billions of lives. There were wealth seizures and mass murders. And of course communism posed as good, as being for the workers and peasants. But it was really just for the Communist Party. Right now in the West we have a woke ideology that poses as good. As being for women and minorities. But it’s really just for the Democrat Party. And the violence of BLM/antifa/Hamas is just a preview of what is to come. Drug addicts will squat in your house. Assets will be seized. Homes burned. Roads blocked. Propaganda will blot out the skies. Already happening, but it’ll escalate. Blue states in particular are bankrupt. Red states may survive if they break away in time. All this is just like what the East suffered last century. But few understand. They think that it can’t get that bad in the West. They fear AI but not neo-Bolshevism. They’re wrong.
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Steven Leshinger 🎩
@stevlesh
So many of my friends and family refuse to accept this. It’s like arguing with a wall.
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Kieran Daniels 🎩
@kdaniels.eth
Indoctrination is so powerful and anyone over 50 still watches the “news” and drinks form the propaganda faucet everyday. I lived in SF the day Covid hit and watched it collapse, they murdered that city on purpose. Most people I know who support the “liberal” values that we grew up with have taken refuge in a red state.
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Steven Leshinger 🎩
@stevlesh
Yeah, I'd say most people I'm close with are in that 'taken refuge in the red state' camp, but the ones I struggle with are not actually over 50. They're the late 20s/early 30s millennials who still believe in American institutions.
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