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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      eigenrobot Retweeted Noah Smith  🐇

      thread 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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      Noah Smith  🐇Verified account @Noahpinion
      Basketball fans are being kicked out of games for pro-Hong Kong signs IN AMERICA. https://twitter.com/davidpaulk/status/1181894853707235328 …
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      personal disgust aside, from a policy standpoint you need to give firms a reason to not do this that may be legal and may be something else but currently this is how corporate machines will respond to their incentive environmenthttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1181963873106059265?s=19 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      canceled my wow subscription kind of a bummer but there are other games @Blizzard_Ent defend yourselves you absolute cowards
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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      My hunch is that international trade will look very different in ten years, and probably be broken into US and Chinese blocs (+maybe neutrals). A competent foreign policy would involve aggressive negotiations to make the US bloc (formal or informal) as large as possible.

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      I don't see the US taking this path in a Trump presidency, and possibly not in any alternative. Obama tried to pivot to the Pacific and failed hard, and everyone fought TPP. In retrospect, the time since 9/11 to today looks like a slow suicide by the American empire.

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      I don't usually write seriously about policy because I care a lot about it and inevitably fail to have any effect, which is deeply frustrating and dispiriting. I am making an exception here because the stakes actually seem high. The global order is going to be restructured.

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      I don't write this because I love my country (although I do, in spite of everything) or because I think the American order is absolutely wonderful. Rather, I write it because the alternative world is very, very bad.

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      I have great affection for the people of China (see below) but the Chinese State is an eldritch monstrosity. It is a case study in how bad life in a totalitarian state can be in the Information Age. And they are extending their mode of operation abroad.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/989148696293003264?s=19 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      Mister Order, he runs at a very good pace But old Mother Chaos is winning the race pic.twitter.com/dun7a8hgQN
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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      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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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      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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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

      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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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

          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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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

          eigenrobot Retweeted John Robb

          and of course,https://twitter.com/johnrobb/status/1182036933180035073?s=19 …

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          John RobbVerified account @johnrobb
          "The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are still alive, an international tribunal sitting in London has concluded." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646 …
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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

          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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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019

          eigenrobot Retweeted ☉rthonormalist

          anyway wisdom from @orthonormalisthttps://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1181812670384619520?s=19 …

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          ☉rthonormalist @orthonormalist
          Aside from my single voice, I can't do shit about China or (lesser) the HRocracy. But I can read, run, learn math, and talk to friends tonight. So I'll do that instead.
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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019
          Replying to @brantdkuehn

          yeah, I'm not sure what to do about that. @petergodofsky has probably gamed this out. Still the real struggle seems likely to be managing (1)

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Oct 2019
          Replying to @OswaldHurlem

          They're kidnapping people in Canada you know

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        2. morning medication‏ @PRiMEALiAS 9 Oct 2019
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          In that past, I would have thought that the Chinese government is smart enough not to do anything too aggressive, but recent events hint otherwise. …

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        3. morning medication‏ @PRiMEALiAS 9 Oct 2019
          Replying to @PRiMEALiAS @eigenrobot

          … Long-term, I look at the reality of China not being geographically bigger, nor more resource-rich, than the USA & allies. (They are also physically distant from the Atlantic.) So it's likely that the current trends, of China's relative rise, will eventually hit a limit.

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