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18 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The US is so much better than anywhere else on this front it’s not funny. I know people think Germany has ‘dealt with their past’ but German self-reflection is mostly a performative bad joke.
I don’t get the constant reflexive loathing of America as a nation. It’s weird. This is a good place with a good people.
The reason Germany is so ‘good at self-reflection’ is because the US and USSR utterly destroyed their military and occupied their nation for years after they caused TWO WORLD WARS. It’s not as if they woke up one day and said ‘let’s be better people.’
The German government today is by far the worst and most destructive government in the West. It’s not even close.

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Ok the House Judiciary committee is marking up the antitrust big tech report.
Now @RepAndyBiggsAZ tries to attach an amendment on reforming Section 230 to the big tech report because of attacks on conservatives.

Ugh. Section 230 is handled in a *different committee.*

This committee handles *breaking up big tech.*
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1. The GOP has been aggressive about big tech, at least rhetorically. Clarence Thomas, for instance, called Google a monopoly twice last week. But there's also resistance, with some Republican using heated rhetoric in public but opposing action. mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-clare…
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1. @Diddy is making a populist argument. He's not just asking for black representation but black *ownership.* And ownership matters. It's a different and more fundamental claim than how progressives tend to think about social justice.
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1. Joe Biden has made a stark break from the recent Democratic past, He has decided that we need a government. But he hasn't decided *who* should run it.

I wrote up the essential choice.

He can do the New Deal. Or he can defer to McKinsey.
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I've read the case and the dissent, and went through Borland and the statutory meaning of fair use. I still can't see any legit reason for ruling Google is allowed to copy Oracle's code to create an app store monopoly and fortify its search monopoly. It's a crazy ruling.
Congress said one key element of whether something is fair use is "the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes."

The purpose and character of Android was lock-in and monopolization!
I'm not super confident about my understanding of this area of law, but a lot of the boosters of this decision strike me as very consumer welfare oriented. They want their free stuff and Google gives it to them, or so they imagine.
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Wow. Something is happening on the right.
The coalition of social conservatives and big business is still solid, but it has bigger cracks than I've seen in my lifetime. I'm merely an observer of these debates on the right.
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