Stovo

Trump is a far more important figure in terms of his impact on the country so Biden will be remembered in the context of Trump. Biden is the guy who served between Trump's 2 terms.

This entire thread should be a case study on how emotional feelings towards a person cloud your judgement of them in every area. It's like that ex that cheated on you so you can't remember any positive qualities about them.

Exactly

That's a strawman, you bought up China. 130 million estimated outbound departures from China in 2024, most of these will double count people who travel abroad multiple times in one year. Very few Chinese have ever been abroad as a % of their population.

90% of Chinese people are nationalist extremists. My girlfriend is Chinese and I have interesting conversations with Chinese people all the time but these are the most developed 5% of the population that are lucky enough to live in rich cities and travel abroad.

Of course if that happens then the right wing will claim that "Europe has fallen" and has fallen into authoritarianism. I think it's politically feasible though, for example Musk is extremely unpopular with the British public in polls.

The cost to takeover Canada would be significant in resources and nearly impossible given the size of the country, even if they succeed they'd get constant guerilla warfare from a rebel movement and the population would reject it entirely. The US would also risk losing other allies. I actually think there's a distinct possibility this is a military strategy to force the US allies to significantly increase military spending which is required for the west to beat Russia, China, Iran.

Based on the past couple of weeks the right is going to destroy themselves, the stuff going round on X is so fucking stupid it's actually pushed me significantly to the left

100% Frustratingly the more political he's gotten the more popular he's become.

The US is already taking action against China but it's an economic/trade war because China hasn't militarily attacked the west like Russia has.

Much of the European right is to the left of the democrats, e.g. the British conservative party. There does exist a populist right in Europe but they're still to the left of most Republicans. The Republican party would be seen as an extremist party if it was in Europe.

Green isn't dead. It's very much alive in northern Europe and the west and east coasts of the US. The challenge for the US is half the country is at northern Europe levels of social development and the other half is at Russian levels of social development.

Big tech corruption is a blind spot of the left. Everyday people get blocked from 1 or more of these platforms with no way to resolve it.

This is 90% stage green with a hint of yellow.

Has any research been done on people's self reported spiral stage? You can only accurately assess your own spiral stage at tier 2, whilst tier 1 people trick themselves into thinking they're at tier 2.

Western liberals act the same way but when Russia invaded Ukraine they all suddenly pulled out their Ukrainian flags and overwhelmingly supported military aid to Ukraine.

@Butters It's only down 10% or so since then, wouldn't worry about it. As long as you're not over leveraged and you don't need to sell for 5-10 years then it doesn't matter.

Poor people fighting each other over scraps whilst the wealthy live in an alternative reality

The dollar has devalued by 40-50% in 5 years. The market just needs to stay flat for 5 years and you've lost half your purchasing power. Gold. Bitcoin.

People's thoughts on China get clouded because they feel threatened by it. There's nothing to fear because the degree to which China becomes authoritarian the weaker they become due to inefficiencies in its economy.

If China invades the US should the US concede half its territory to China?

With every new advance in technology predictions are made about how it will replace all human jobs, yet it never happens. Automated farming, the assembly line, computers, and the internet are just some examples. Assuming this time is different is a low probability prediction.

It's funny because Leo literally says the same shit in his videos that he does here but it comes across 10x worse here because it's in written form. Perhaps some feedback for Leo would be to be more mindful of how written communication comes across.

It's not surprising really. His followers think it would be a mistake because everyone would riot but I think they overestimate his level of support.