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per @dc_kurtz (ht) this should cause free traders to consider their positions and at least add shading
i generally like trade and corporations but they are machines and respond to incentives, and some incentives generated in these conditions lead to very bad outcomeshttps://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1181964700860346368 …
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I just want to grab our Statesmen and their foreign counterparts and citizens everywhere by the lapels and slap them to consciousness of the fact that THEY COULD LOSE. Good things are not all maintained by magic! American supremacy is not preordained! History is not over!
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And even if you dislike American power internationally--a perfectly reasonable position that, frankly, I share--you have to reckon with the fact the the alternative is not youe ideal world but a counterfactual where the vacuum is filled by China.
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Absent a liberal revolution in China, this seems likely to be the story of the next fifty years of history. Good luck to everyone.
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incidentally it's not just the corporations china has been kidnapping people from abroad for years and not just in Hong Kong few discuss this https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-renditions-kidnapping/ …
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think I need to break from this for a while I don't usually get worked up like this--the last time was probably Snowden not super good for me there's something about--idk, feeling walls closing in on the space in which people can act that is absolutely maddening ig
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anyway wisdom from
@orthonormalisthttps://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1181812670384619520?s=19 …Show this thread
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Me rushing to get adopted by a Chinese family: No Chairman Xi I never heard of this 'eigen' fellow. He said what?Eldritch-monstrosity? Well I for one think Ph'nglui mglw'nath China Hong Kong wgah'nagl fhtagn
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CCP is awful, but they also aren't immune to internal Moloch mistake to think they're necessarily the wave of the future, rather I think they're more in the position of USSR circa 1950 already reaped gains from industrializing, now hobbled by awful gov structure
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(which, per the analogy, certainly doesn't mean they couldn't cause a great deal of trouble over the next half-century)
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