Old dog figuring out new leg-breaking tricks

China has other markets, superior leverage, and increasingly an economy of the future. The US is waging war against itself, swimming in propaganda, sitting on the world’s largest economic bubble in history, and is setup to lose an economic war of attrition. Who benefits from confrontation?

"The challenge for public intellectuals in this moment is to explain how crazy things are without sounding like a raving fucking lunatic”

You can’t do rational deterrence in a country whose politics are grounded in conspiracy theory. One of many insights we get from Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick’s ultimate classic. Don’t sleep on this episode of the pod! @bangbang1492.bsky.social

“The state form is not looking after its citizens. It’s sucking up the resources of citizens and using them to repress citizens. It’s a violation of any social contract that justifies the way life is organized”

We're in not just another red scare, but the worst one we've ever experienced, because it's powered with AI. Laughing through the pain in the latest episode of the pod