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What happens when you drink the kool aid rather than facing reality - this is a generic problem with the Guardians Of Pedophiles party, not just Chip Roy. But i guess he’s hoping he’ll be invited to peter theil’s bunker in montana or NZ when things go sideways.
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Feels like it's not a watch anymore at this point
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busy day today, but anyway, burning up 100+ years of goodwill for the sake of wounded ego, Epstein diversions, illusory penis enhancement, and the protection of petro-profits
More today on #empiresuicidewatch, the series that @thunen.bsky.social periodically alerts us to.
@katemac.bsky.social & I wrote last week on how the Iran war & oil shock accelerates the end of US hegemony
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war...
bsky.app/profile/phil...
More today on #empiresuicidewatch
@katemac.bsky.social & I wrote last week on how the Iran war & oil shock accelerates the end of US hegemony
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war...
bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Edward Luttwak is probably a sociopath. But smart. TD;LR: declining empires with limited resources shouldn’t start wars of choice. A 🧵
Luttwak was a defense adjacent consultant whose advice is eventually published. Vide the 1968 book “Coup D’etat: A Practical Handbook”... 1/6
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The 800 or so offshore US military bases globally are governed by Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs) between US and host (as in Greenland, eg). But sure, let’s just set them on fire also. #25A
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I mean all officers need to know is how to shoot a gun while doing push ups right?
a chart showing the huge net exit of STEM PhDs from US government agencies post 2024
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source: Science
as Neal Stephenson said (in 1992!): "The four things we do better than anyone else are: music, movies, microcode, high-speed pizza delivery."
so in guess they'll get jobs as doordashers
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The administration is laser focused on the important things
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read Dan's excellent 🧵. but also look at the chart - worst week is nothing like the 2000-08 slide (c. 50%) and we are basically in the same range as the past 15 years. but the current administration is for sure doing its best to de-dollarize the world.
ECB data.
For my non-USian readers: the Hmong are an indochinese mountain people who largely fought with the US and S. Viets against the Viet Cong and N Viets in that long ago war. That’s why they are here as refugees!
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I often think of the case of Xiaomi. In 2021, Lei Jun vowed that the company he founded would break into the EV business. Four years later, Xiaomi started shipping cars to customers. Not only that, a Xiaomi EV set a speed record at the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany. Compare Xiaomi to Apple, which spent 10 years and $10 billion studying whether to enter the EV market before it pulled the plug. The world’s most advanced consumer product company could not match Xiaomi’s feat. It’s cases like these that make me skeptical of reasoning about China’s tech successes through financial measures or productivity ratios. As of this writing, Xiaomi’s market value is $130 billion. That is only around half of the market value of AppLovin, the mobile advertisement company. Rather than being an indictment of Xiaomi, I view this imbalance as an indictment of financial valuations. Isn’t it better, from a national power perspective, to develop firms like Xiaomi, which calls its shots and then makes them?
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from dan wang's 2025 year end letter
danwang.co/2025-letter
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Like most executive orders, it remains to be seen. Some of these are treaties which means the senate must approve. But still strong ‘let’s turn all the seed corn for next year into whiskey today’ vibes
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Taiwan is now totally fucked. Gonna go out on a limb here and say that as equity market actors digest this they will start to wonder about an AI boom that relies on chips that come from TSMC’s fabs.
Today though, Chinese embassies in Latin America breaking out the champagne
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Noted ship designer 🌮 will make certain that all manner of gold decor adorns this ship. Certainly mission critical.
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Ending roughly a century of state organized scientific progress.
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when ideology and loyalty to the emperor replaces the most basic analysis / history / facts policy is bound to be disastrous.
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Old enough to remember when USAID was out there saving lives and winning hearts and minds. Or anyway, saving lives
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can't build ships anymore but at least the sailors will be clean-shaven and able to do 50 push-ups when whiskey pete hegseth comes to visit
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/farw...
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