Look up European sex crime rates by national origin

Al-Sharaa is literally the best hope the Arab world has for a better future

Good governance requires accountability yes, and elections are incapable of delivering it at scale due to the problem of rational ignorance

Just pay politicians more and this isn't a problem. Or better yet, abolish politicians entirely, since they're purely parasitic and provide no value. Randomly selected citizens bodies can oversee the professional bureaucracy far better than elected politicians

Not just in terms of performance, I mean the unit cost over its projected lifespan including amortized development cost is turning out to be pretty reasonable

I mean the F-35 turned out to be highly successful so he was right in that

Not that there's really such a thing as "working class" to begin with

"small business owner" includes a lot of sole proprietorships including independent contractors, whom I would call working class

How do you prevent devolution into guilds? "Workplace democracy" must include representation of consumer interests, not just worker interests.

Many such cases

Not merely other people's desires, but the desires of egregores. Memetic entities. Ideologies have their own psychology, their own internal anatomy, even their own will perhaps

I'd say it's Singapore's PAP, but they are admittedly playing on easy mode compared to the CCP

Great talk!