The core problem is that the people making the changes wildly overestimate the upside of their actions, while the reality that forms is one of a net negative, often even in the terms they choose to measure it in (e.g. death tolls)
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RT @joodaloop
we'll never be rid of bullshit regulations because it only causes harm on the margin, never enough to necessiate change. and always a finger to point somewhere else.
but imo that shit adds up
https://twitter.com/joodaloop/status/1470613384517144577
reason I’m not afraid of these developments is because it is not a signal of impending authoritarianism, but a signal of impending irrelevance
Two things starkly separate the US from Chyna and they have not wavered:
- popular attitudes toward dissent
- lack of willpower to Force
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RT @varunramg
Society's normalization of China-style state propaganda (good or bad causes) is alarming
https://twitter.com/varunramg/status/1470587867445530631
There is nothing that truly binds us together besides ruthless economic co-prosperity empire regime.
If anything greater had a chance at redefining America, it was Christianity. Since that train sailed we must look back to the core of what this country has always been.
The American society will reinvent itself without institutions as its vanguard, because it has no choice.
Contrary to DC propaganda and in utter defiance of every extant cultural force elsewhere, the Americans will do this because there’s no reason to compel anything different.
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RT @nicholatian
i have come to believe that it is not practical to scale & thrive in today’s wild world through any kind of social vehicle that can be unde…
https://twitter.com/nicholatian/status/1470595611556814848