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I’m 100% confident there won’t be a revolution in America. If I was an American elite, I’d sleep very soundly amid the growing political discontent from the public. There is no competent alternative entity that can outorganize the current system.- It’s dawned on me that Americans actually like the status quo. They don’t believe in even minimal obligations to one another, and are satisfied with there being “winners and losers” in society. Total neoliberalism victory.
- I had the opportunity to interview @pokimanelol, the #1 female Twitch streamer with 5.4M followers on the platform. We talked about her journey from being a college student to becoming a Twitch star. You can check it out here: forbes.com/sites/frederic…
- We are all in this awkward moment in history where it’s obvious that China has surpassed the U.S. in every meaningful metric, but there’s a lack of formal global recognition that this is the case Huge reason is that American soft power is still incredibly potent
- Replying to @NoAuthorityXAstute observation. Elites are divided over aesthetics of the status quo, not the status quo itself.
- The truth is that the US has no coherent answer to the rise of China.
- The reactions of Americans cheering on a random bridge collapsing in China show how spiritually defeated the US is in ways that the word “cope” fails to capture Spiritually broken country
- It would be way easier to dunk but ngl, I feel sorry him and other Americans who think like this IMO it’s not even about China anymore America is a psychologically broken country at its core You can’t fix a culture that cherishes ignorance and pride as virtue
- why should a sovereign country (China or anyone else) organize its domestic and foreign policy around the need of not being a “threat to the West?”In all the talk about China, why is there no talk about what it would take to get Xi and the CCP out and pivot toward an economically and socially free China? Such a China would be an incredible trading partner—and absolutely no threat to the West.
- The truth is that America is already living in a post-collapse world, when you examine the Rust Belt. The industrial heart of the country, the part that both made and distributed material prosperity across the nation, has been hollowed out. Yet society still goes on.
- story behind this tweet (never shared this before): I spent 10 days in China, and midway through I felt a deep sense of sorrow. Walking around Chengdu I got the sad feeling that the abundance Chinese people have, Americans were supposed to have. But we having nothing now.My hardest take is that China today is what America was supposed to be if the latter committed to industrialization rather than financialization of its economy.
- The funniest thing is that in reality China is fighting to preserve the “rules based international order” against the U.S. who’s seeking to overturn it because the system (that they built themselves) doesn’t “work” for them anymore
