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7 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The China watching community in the US has completely gone insular and insane over the past 3y since Trump began Cold War 2.0 vs China in 2018.
One small, but practical manifestation of this, is that Blob China watchers like James Palmer and some Brookings guys have basically blocked everyone.
Bill Bishop, aka niubi on Twitter, has basically gone private with his previously public account because it was getting so vitriolic.
IMO, the Blob China watching community are cretins who deserve to perish.

They contribute nothing good, unless you consider misinformation and misleading policy memes, along with hypermuscular, hegemonic liberalism, to be good thongs.
*Good things. Not good thongs. Lol.

Another day, another Twitter typo. God I hate Twitter.

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9 Nov
Universities in the US are on a one way treadmill to hell. They are dependent on a youth bulge, international students, and a good economy that is now passing due to a) aging population b) Cold War 2.0 with China c) funding issues after the GFC in '07-08.
Moreover, the exponential increase in facilities quality (keeping w/ the Joneses), which demands constant investment in ever more lavish buildings + admin staff has further assisted in the destruction of affordability.
A lot of Uni's w/ big endowments are now just hedge funds who happen to teach classes. They exist based on taxpayer subsidies in the form of student loans/VA GI Bill loans/etc.
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9 Nov
A lot of masters programs in the US are just money scams by Universities to generate revenue.

At my highly ranked undergrad State U alma mater (a "public Ivy"), one of the offered master's programs was notorious for this.

wsj.com/articles/usc-o…
Although of course USC is a private school, and notorious for being a rich kid's school. So there's that.
In general, most master's degrees are not worth it, unless your employer pays for it. And even then, they're probably not worth it in the personal free time sense. Being in school sucks. Image
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8 Nov
Was searching for new music when I stumbled across Taylor Swift’s re-recorded “Taylor’s Version” of songs. Made me go “huh?”

Had no idea she went through a crazy fight over IP rights with her old record label. American property rights are so fake.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Sw…
The older I get, the more I learn that everything in this country is contingent; never permanent, and heavily dependent on how much money you have, and how many lawyers your have. Even enforcement of basic common rights requires lawyers. “Rule of law” is a fake grift for midwits.
“[VA Governor Elect] Youngkin was co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, the major sponsor in Braun's acquisition of Big Machine and Swift's masters.”

Just…lol.

American life is just one person backstabbing another.
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20 Oct
One of the larger and most important macro stories of recent economic history, is how the big three Anglo manufacturing powers, the UK, Canada, and now the US, have experienced declines in their manufacturing sector since the end of WWII.
The UK's world leadership in manufacturing and subsequent 20thC decline, sometimes being intentionally accelerated as a result of policy, is well known.

CAN has also experienced a decline since peak WWII days.

This quick and dirty Wiki summary of CAN is remarkable.
Finally, you have the most complex case, the US.

The US surpassed the UK in the late 19thC as the world's premier manufacturer, and even today still dominates ultra high value added goods. But that advantage is slipping away largely due to one factor: Chinese competitiveness.
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20 Oct
I used to think China's "internal" societal contradictions were far greater than those of the US, even as recently as early 2020.

Now? I see Chinese society as basically functioning, though of course factitious as any large, diverse society is.

The US on the other hand...
The US is undergoing societal Brazilification, with the correspondingly horrible econ and pol effects to follow.

1) Highly stratified and elaborate racial caste system
2) Favela-ization of the US housing and residential RE market
3) Totally polarized Left/Right pol parties
The US is becoming less "Western" and more "American", IMO.
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She’s replying to a news story about China, but honestly, I hope you can see why the US spent so much time promoting women’s rights and new gender identities to Afghans: there is a huge Western elite constituency that demands the normalization of these New Age type ideologies.
She seems to be saying that Xi Jinping should be a Western liberal and encourage the boy to instead wear dresses and be a girl. And the girl should be lesbian.
I was a strong supporter of gay rights and marriage beginning all the way back in the early/mid 2000’s when it was somewhat unpopular to do so, but honestly, the sanctification of non-trad life by the New Age Western world is so cringe.
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