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Labrador Skeptic Profile picture
@SaysSimulation
Feb 13 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Worth watching. The rate of change is still accelerating.

Read an interesting article the other day about the "Middle Powers". The two Great Powers of today are the US & China. The Middle Powers are nations such as Germany, the UK & Canada. They are fearful & angry
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because as the World splits into competing geopolitical blocs, both Great Powers are dropping the facade of fair & equal competition among equal nations. Instead, both are openly wielding real power, and aren't acting like equal partners of the weaker nations.
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The Middle Powers are not at all happy about this, and some of them like Carney, Starmer & Macron are trying to put together a coalition that will allow their safe & artificial world to continue.

They want to trade among themselves, while building individual & collective
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national security, thereby counterbalancing those big, mean, rude Great Powers.

The world has changed greatly since 2021, and the changes by 2031 will be several times greater. Number one will be a simple less in reality for the Middle Powers.
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They can't put their old world back together again. They are militarily & financially weak. They will not be able to dominate the Global South, meaning they won't have privileged access to either the raw resources or the markets for industrial goods.
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I expect a series of disasters & humiliations. Not that I'm calling for these things, they will just be an inevitable part of adapting to the new reality, and their real status in the world.

The US & China are & will be the two economically dominant Great Powers,
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and the two militarily dominant Great Powers. As they compete, they won't be setting aside carve outs for lesser powers, the lesser powers will either play ball or get kicked to the curb.

Europe & Canada will likely each financially collapse, before reassembling under structures
more suitable for their new place in the world.

Now, in theory, Europe could become a rival third Great Power. Very logical looking at population & industry. In practice, this could never happen with their existing elites & governments.
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Their militarily weak welfare states that prey on their own native populations in favor of non-European immigranst swill be utterly incapable of making the needed economic & military changes.

With a wholesale political reset, with new leaders not even on the horizon,
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Feb 9
Keep in mind that this Canadian mocking Red-state America is a "Conservative" Canadian. Former Premier of Alberta, and head of the United Conservative Party.

Two things. First, we don't want Albertans voting in US elections, ever. Their "conservatives" are still far Left
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of the American Right.

Second, the Canadian economy is completely dependent on an unbalanced trade arrangement with the US. Yes, energy from Alberta is part of it, but the main issue is the export of Canadian manufacturing to the US, where they aren't making anything we
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can't make ourselves. It was just marginally cheaper to ship American Rust Belt jobs to Canada for the benefit of US coastal "elites". The usual shafting of the Heartland.

This then gives Canada the US dollars to basically support it's entire First World lifestyle,
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Feb 4
The US seems to be moving towards soft secession as Blue states openly block federal laws & agents

If secession is the direction, then the Right CANNOT let the Leftists set the rules. If a state can effectively secede from a nation, then the counties can secede from the state
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All the "Blue" states are based on the same thing. Some urban assholes in big cities use voter fraud & mass immigration (California being a good example), to control the entire state, while the outstate counties are almost entirely Red.
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This isn't really about legality. It is 100% illegal for Minnesota to do what it is currently doing, which is an effective state of open insurrection. The Trump administration allows this making a mockery of the law, as they view putting down insurrection as having poor optics
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Feb 3
This isn't about perception management or "blackpilling". What matters is the facts on the ground.

These are NOT protesters. These are brownshirts. Paramilitary, answering to a political party, asserting violent dominance over a civilian population, with the aid of the police
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This is something new & poisonous in America. Highly illegal. Also likely to spread to places like California, New York and Oregon unless it is stopped & stopped hard.

Minnesota was supposed to be the test case, that set the national precedents.
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And the national precedent so far is that the Feds are going to run, and they will let paramilitaries take over American cities, with the support of Blue state & local governments.

And yes, I know the police sometimes break these up, and arrests are sometimes made.
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Feb 1
The article below has the "smoking gun" for the gross incompetence with Nashville Electric.

Under their Leftist CEO - with no prior utility or operational experience - they reduced their tree trimming budget by ~1/3, from $21M to $14M.

"Preserving the canopy"
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was the mantra which she fully endorsed. The Left wanted to leave those big, beautiful trees right over the power lines, which then fell on those power lines when the next (statistically predictable) big ice storm occurred.
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At the same time, as part of the new CEO's agenda, they were increasing DEI meetings & spending.

This isn't difficult or nuanced. A political employee came in, knowing nothing about utilities, and promptly slashed operational spending for preventative maintenance,
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Jan 31
Very worthwhile long post from Eriksen, that is a QT of @romanhelmetguy Both originals should be read in full.

It is a good explanation of why I'm a heritage American regionalist. I do have a tribe. I do have a place. Proudly. These are essential to being human & not a slave.
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@romanhelmetguy Atomization is the driving national force in American culture, American business and in Leftist politics in particular.

The norm for white collar workers is to grow up in one or more places, to move at 18 for college, perhaps again at 22 for graduate school, then again
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@romanhelmetguy for the first job, and then again for promotions as necessary. It is absolutely normal for economic reasons - because is the foundation of our society, not belief or tribe.

These people have no place or family, not really. Long distance is not the same as seeing parents,
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Jan 29
Let's forget about the deaths, set them aside. What the Left generally doesn't understand is that we live in the wealthiest large nation that has ever existed - and it is surprisingly fragile.

A civil war would plunge them into abject poverty, and even if they win,
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their lives would never again likely be anywhere near as comfortable as they are right now.

What are the Dem power blocs? Generally they are:

1. Teachers and other govt employees
2. Blacks & immigrants, often on benefits
3. Urban managerial class
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I would argue that these are all effectively forms of parasites. They don't produce the power, the food, the technology, or build the elaborate infrastructure.

Instead they live in enormous concentrations, large cities that to function must have a continuous flow of goods
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