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China’s presence in Africa is not colonialism, and African nations know what they are doing in participating
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13. The correct response to all things GOP and Trump is “ok boomer”, obstruction, and running out their clock. They are beyond redemption.
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14. Flight 93/Michael Anton justification for supporting Trump is stupid and people who bought it were and are delusional
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21. San Francisco is not worth fixing and should be allowed to suffer the consequences of being itself by being systematically abandoned
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22. High inequality is not a cosmically righteous outcome of enlightened market economics and innovation-fueled growth and people who believe that merely lack the theological imagination to worship something more interesting than financial wealth
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27. Classical liberalism is a clueless position and people espousing it should be ignored and kept away from anything important
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32. Political Islam is an overblown threat because it does 2x damage to itself in its territorial dar-al-islam core for every 1x damage it attempts to inflict on dar-al-harb, making it a self-limiting problem that will decline with the oil economy
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34. Anyone pretending to have more than 3 real political opinions is making shit up for lulz or delusionally self-important because politics is too hard to develop more than 3 real opinions in a lifetime
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37. China under the CPP is not a credible ideological competitor to the West outside of China and will never enjoy the kind of soft power the US-led West once did, or even the level that South Korea enjoys today
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40. The Nehru-Gandhi family should be ashamed of itself, take partial responsibility for turning the BJP into an unchecked force, and withdraw from public life.
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