2024 ELECTION THREAD
The next presidential race will be here soon! Please see current Bovada odds. Thoughts?
luciom, may i suggest in your next trip to america you go visit scenic detroit
That the USA has lost its ability to shift people around is a disgrace but it happened a lot before Detroit.
Problem is stopping accepting creative destruction, which is what is happening lately.
Cowen calls it the "complacent society". You have to keep grinding, destroying cities when they aren't useful anymore (or downsizing them heavily as much as needed) and move your asses around following opportunity.
That's what worked for your country since inception, if you want to become Europe you stay put when jobs disappear, complain, burn things down and wait for the government to subsidize your laziness for the rest of your miserable life.
i've read 2 different stalin biographies and frankly i find it offensive you would draw the conclusion i made those comments out of ignorance, especially since you immediately restated everything i said yourself - feels like pedantry for the sake of pedantry here
as you've acknowedged yourself, he was a very likable and charming person - most of the people he eliminated on his way to the top never saw it coming despite that he'd done it repe
I don't write posts to offend you, but you need to write and say things for people to see your opinions. I might have repeated what you think, but not what you wrote.
It is a common mistake to "westernize" Russian and Soviet history, and assuming traits and characteristics easily carry across. This is a mistake a lot of historians do and it is a mistake that happens daily in contemporary media. It is also exacerbated by our exposure to Russia and Soviet history mostly being the side that is turned towards us.
While hypothetical history is obviously a game of "never say never", Stalin and most of the men in power at that time in the CCCP seems to be the kind that are severely disadvantaged by cameras, articles and free speech. Not really a problem they faced, which is why they could kill at an industrial scale and still be popular.
He'd probably do well in a drug cartel though.
I don't write posts to offend you, but you need to write and say things for people to see your opinions. I might have repeated what you think, but not what you wrote.
It is a common mistake to "westernize" Russian and Soviet history, and assuming traits and characteristics easily carry across. This is a mistake a lot of historians do and it is a mistake that happens daily in contemporary media. It is also exacerbated by our exposure to Russi
ok this is something i'm onboard with
however, i do think he'd be able to adjust and adapt just fine into a democratic society with free press but agree it's wildly theoretical - like all revolutionaries, he needed to blessed by the rng simulator, in a multiverse i believe that ccp and cccp both win their revolutions most of the time - but in very few of those outcomes do stalin nor mao ever live long enough or rise high enough to be anything more than a brief snippet mentioned in wikipedia - people like them were incredibly fortunate to get where they got - but you still need to acknowledge that they were still highly skilled and really good at what they were doing to have accomplished what they did - both had dozens of their own party members at their throats at all times as well as external forces trying to take them out and both made it to the end
afterall, his goal wasn't killing millions of rivals, it was acquiring power and in the system he was in, that was the best way to go about it - in a democratic system i'm sure he'd adjust and let his charm, wit, and track record of getting things done win voters over
but i think my greater point stands that if we were in a position of voting for stalin vs gandhi right now and they were starting with a fresh slate ie we don't know stalin is a mass murdered yet - then i have zero doubts that gandhi would be considered the candidate who was evil
Detroit is actually pretty awesome now. One of the final frontiers of affordable housing.
The reason housing is affordable is that the population never recovered from the economic nuke dropped on the city. So your point largely stands. But the populated areas have finally bounced back quite a bit.
I once posted about being in downtown and some one told be to be careful and I was like bro, I'm standing next to a yoga studio.
lol 😉
nice, glad the downtown part has rebounded at least
ie stalin and mao did the equivalent of winning the wsop where they needed to hit a lot of 1 outers to do it - but they did it like tamayo or mckeehan did it as highly skilled pros who exploited small edges and ran very well rather than jamie gold or jerry yang
in the multiverse tamayo still wins the main event a few times every couple thousand sims, jerry yang and jamie gold never do it again
if we resim for stalin and mao, like tamayo they don't win nor even final table most of the time, but they'll be winning it quite a few times and it won't be a fluke
Hey guys, remember that one time, in downtown Detroit, when Robocop shot dude in the dick?
d2 - you see why hicks and rednecks love fishing with me now, you know they must love talking about that stuff 😀
Getting shot in the dick?
I saw Robocop 2 the other day and it sucked. No one got shot in the dick at all.
Calling yourself ‘the black Nazi’ on a porn website message board?
Party of family values indeed
MLK times twooooo
Let me be clear - I am not using social media to decide who to vote for. This was never about that.
This is about hypocrites who seem to think they will make their side look better while using the same tactics as the side they are bashing (name-calling, lying, etc).
I was merely pointing out that I haven't decided who to vote for yet because I think people on both sides are guilty of this.
I'll determine who I vote for based on issues that ha
I can only go by what you wrote
That said, my biggest complaint in general (not here necessarily) is the large nunber of people using personal attacks (especially based on appearance) towards the candidates, and then wondering why they can't get someone to take their opinion seriously. There are more than enough complaints without sinking to personal attacks based on appearance and if you can't use those, it makes me wonder about ones ability to think critically.
Social m
Your "biggest complaint" was definitely social media based. And yes, if you want to stay undecided, waiting for a candidate who's supporters are never hypocritical or engage in personal attacks will achieve that goal.
You write 500k as if that was a significant number.
4-5 million jobs are destroyed every year in the USA.
And every other american household gains from access to Mexican and Canadian tariff free goods.
And it's not like the people who didn't have the "privilege" (lol) of having manufacturing jobs are necessarily going to end up destitute anyway
The protectionists always act like their side is some unassailable moral good and it makes me mad.
The protectionists always act like their side is some unassailable moral good and it makes me mad.
I would understand them better if they were protecting actually awesome jobs.
Like, I do understand why European countries fight tooth and nail to have the seat of european agencies: those are well paid veeeeery comfortable jobs and congresses, conferences, rich people coming in, that I can understand fighting to keep.
But mindless droning in repetitive endeavours all your life? Even if paid more than usual for low education people (which btw isn't even that true anymore, you need to specialize in fairly complex roles) who would wish that for their kids?
