Its crazy you can fail so badly at cloning a competitors product yet still be so successful

Europe is kind of just a retired United States, the pension scheme is the us defense budget

I forgot about the 90s but yeah good point. I never heard of “shock therapy” before but seems interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics) , seems like its a Retronym for describing IMF inspired market reforms. Good way to keep a country down :D

Weirdly if its actually just drug cartel assets (I doubt) this seems like smart way to increase Latino support? Most don’t have much good to say about the cartels (many leaving due to them). There own country seems to be bought out by them so Trump being this almost knight in shining armor seems like an interesting idea? Its actual effectiveness does not matter, perceptions rule all.

I think the upper middleclass-rich Democrats who lead the think tanks really haven’t internalized how conservative (I think this past decade they have slowly realized) alot of immigrant groups are, my family is full of people who honestly are more aligned conservative but the idea of republicans being a “white” party is what stops them. Trump essentially has to square the circle of a party of conservative immigrants, billionaires, libertarians, and neo-nazis

Power couple of the century

I mean they don’t call it the Century of humiliation for nothing lol. Yeah Russia doesn’t make sense though.

Mostly spent time alone, I was too naive to understand how broken I really was, would be nice to back to that

When I travel I sometimes get sad seeing how far Western culture as come and changed societies, feels like the McWorld has won (Even as someone who aligns very much with that culture). Would be hypocritical to judge them though