1/ This is the #1 reason why cold war with China is inevitable
The Left should be outraged by Muslim concentrating camps, human rights abuses and environmental disregard. The Right by expansionist military actions, hacking + corporate theft.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Left should be outraged by Muslim concentrating camps, human rights abuses and environmental disregard. The Right by expansionist military actions, hacking + corporate theft.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/ US solidarity won't come from Kumbaya.
We are a diverse deeply divided people with 1-2 generation long respites of internecine animosity redirected from each other to a common enemy...
1940s: Nazi Germany
1980s: Communist Russia
2020s: ?
Has been this way 100+ years...
We are a diverse deeply divided people with 1-2 generation long respites of internecine animosity redirected from each other to a common enemy...
1940s: Nazi Germany
1980s: Communist Russia
2020s: ?
Has been this way 100+ years...
3/ Those highlights were excerpts from convo with me + @patrick_oshag + @TonyT2Thomas
I explain why neither Vietnam in the 60s/70s nor Japan in the 80s/90s nor Al Qaesa/ISIS in 00s/10s United our divided States. None were all 3 alien, large + threatening
joincolossus.com/episodes/70111…
I explain why neither Vietnam in the 60s/70s nor Japan in the 80s/90s nor Al Qaesa/ISIS in 00s/10s United our divided States. None were all 3 alien, large + threatening
joincolossus.com/episodes/70111…
4/ The upshot however is in periods when we are not unified against a common external enemy and we turn on each other...
we get ugly factions + ugly actions and outrage almost always resulting in social progress. End of Prohibition, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, MeToo, BLM...
we get ugly factions + ugly actions and outrage almost always resulting in social progress. End of Prohibition, Women's Rights, Civil Rights, MeToo, BLM...
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