A Deeply Fractured US

[ytz]

Oh so now American oligarchs are in with Red China? Whatever will the Republicans do?

Like everything else, they'll bitch and whine until BYD puts up a factory in a red state and then they'll act like BYD EVs are the greatest thing sliced bread. Not like those woke American EVs made in California.

Two weeks ago, Chinese EVs were security threats (which I somewhat agree with).... But suddenly the Trump administration is happy to consider them, as long as they get their cut.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Are you saying that religion imposing constraints on how one lives one's own life is OK, but,. without it one would have to, somehow, have to figure out how to react to someone else's attempt to do so? No!

I claim that for a lot of people, religion is the difference between dealing with their frustrations peaceably and dealing with their frustrations expediently.

 

[Brad Sallows]

So to be clear. You are triggered and went back and forth because of "sea level rise". That's enough for you to think American senior officers should stop being sent to graduate programs at Ivy League schools?

I suppose you see it that way. As I see it, I made one unflattering remark about the example (and suggested there were better ways to make arguments against the administration's policy) and you were triggered by that one thing into launching yourself into a bunch of "climate risk" strawmen.

Don't concern yourself with what you think I understand about scope and breadth. I read the links I posted, before I posted them.

 

[Brad Sallows]

We've gone from cancel culture from the left to cancel culture from the right. Horseshoe theory at work.

Not horseshoe theory. Tit for tat. The people using the left's tactics first warned the left that those tactics could be used by anyone, then talked about using them because the usual gentry Republican turn-the-cheek behaviour wasn't working, and finally are using them. That interval in which they noted the problem and expressed their frustration was when American progressives could have had whatever kind of civil war they needed to have to fix the problem, but didn't.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I looked at Rubio's speech. It may have had some positive bits too it but - IMHO -what it said is that the US and Europe can get along. But that has a condition. “We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who together with us are willing and able to defend it.”

Boy. You really want to know what culture and heritage he's talking about. I guess I'm okay, Jack - mine's German.

An easy guess is that it's "code" for "stop letting Muslim immigrants take over local government and replace western civilization with theirs". No particular European culture need be identified.