I strongly agree with the point of this thread. I also agree w Moldbug Gray Mirror post the other day, that blue tribe stole it "fair and square". Elections, even (especially?) rigged ones are a proxy for fists and rifles, and stealing the mandate of heaven is still a mandate.https://twitter.com/fake_news_u_r/status/1339260413096161290 …
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3/ The kids today aren't old enough to remember Brezhnev (chairman of the USSR 1977 – 1982) but he was old, gray, and he (and the whole USSR) just projected moral / intellectual / economic bankruptcy. The preference cascade (both in USSR and in USA) happened then >
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4/ The Soviet Union, despite being super evil, was founded with a form of dynamism. People, both there and here, thought that it might actually out-compete the US on our own terms (economist Samuleson, IIRC, wrote embarrassingly in favor of this thesis)
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5/ But by the time a gray sagging Brezhnev took control ... and then kept it for a few years, the jig was almost up Reagan's defense department build up was perfectly timed - it couldn't have worked decades earlier, but the Soviets were already on the ropes ... AND THEY KNEW IT
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6/ Btw, I strongly recommend this book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EGKZL80 … Gorbachev (and basically everyone else) inside the Soviet Union knew the problems, knew the solutions, and yet couldn't push through changes bc of ossification and stakeholders.
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7/ So, anyway, we've just "elected" our Brezhnev, and it's HILARIOUS.pic.twitter.com/yJ1EQ2KWrG
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