Do you consider Brazil part of "the West"?
Do you consider Japan part of "the West"?
Do you consider Ghana part of "the West"?
Final poll: Do you consider Turkey part of "the West"?
Note: Personally, I would say:
Brazil: Yes
Japan: Yes
Ghana: Yes
Turkey: Just show me the results
This reveals my strongly Mongol-centric definition of "the West"

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21 Dec
Yesterday someone accused me of deleting comments on a YouTube video because there were only 3, while the same video posted on a big channel got 375.

Today someone offered me a bet, and when I turned it down, demanded I Venmo him $150 to "get out of" the bet.

WTF is happening
These were big accounts too -- tens of thousands of followers.

Is it possible that Twitter is getting Even Dumber???
Also yesterday, I also had some random tech CEO whose company promotes ads on Facebook tweet to me to tell me I'm a bootlicking servant of the establishment because I work for Bloomberg.

He then went on to make fun of me for having glasses, and said I had low testosterone.
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Fun fact: Albert Einstein had a tankie phase!
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(He changed his mind when he found out Stalin was antisemitic...)
Einstein also got honeypotted!

So Eric Swalwell doesn't have to feel too bad. :-)

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Einstein also wrote some racist stuff about China:

theguardian.com/books/2018/jun…
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1/Today I wrote about a worrying topic that has been much on my mind of late: China's dominance of its Asian neighbors.

Taiwan, Japan, India, Vietnam, and plenty of others have big reasons to worry.

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2/For me, as for a lot of people in Asia, the key moment was the Hong Kong protests.

They were absolutely enormous. Almost 2 million Hong Kongers, out of a total population of 7.5 million, turned out in the streets to demand universal suffrage.
3/The protests failed. China simply implemented a draconian new security law, threw prominent activists in jail, and accelerated the process of subjugating Hong Kong.

It was never even a real contest.

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19 Dec
When renewable energy gets cheap enough, developing countries will simply ditch fossil fuels out of pure self-interest.
Most emissions are not in the U.S.

Most emissions GROWTH will not be in the U.S.

--> Thus, while it is important for the U.S. to decarbonize, our biggest impact will come from making green energy cheap enough so everyone else decarbonizes on their own, at low or no cost.
Soon this kind of thing won't even be newsworthy anymore, it'll just be what every country is doing, everywhere.

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18 Dec
1/Today's @bopinion post is about a rare weak point in the Chinese economic model: China's difficulty in doing foreign deals.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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3/But China's model has had one big, notable failure in recent years: the Belt and Road project.

China planned to loan other countries a bunch of money to do infrastructure projects. It didn't work out so well...

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I have to say, this really worries me.

I don't want conservatives to be pro-America and progressives to be anti-America. A future where that is the political divide is not a good future.
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Second, it worries me because if progressive activists don't believe in America, what entity do they think is going to solve all these problems we're facing? If they're placing their hopes on replacing America with some other entity or entities, they're not on a road to success.
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