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A bit off topic but in these intervening years I've had a lot of time to think. When I used to post on forums I would say look black people are beating us with this with sports and Chinese and Indian people are beating us with math and science so we need to get good at sports and get good at math and science so we can compete against these other groups.

I would get pushback that oh we're good enough already we shouldn't have to do all that. Laziness is the white man's coping strategy.

We can't control what the outside world does but we could raise white boys who are star athletes at MIT and Caltech and are also top-level physicists and engineers. That's what winning would look like.

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You have untied the Gordian Knot of politics!

I became disillusioned with gov handouts because it's very corrupt. 90 cents of every dollar goes to "administrative costs.". They're building themselves huge gov buildings everywhere with 10% for the big guy while people lose their homes because of tax liens.

Gov assistance needs to be administered locally, by locally accountable elected officials. Corruption is the Achilles heel of fiscal leftism.

Also, a true free market as exists without elite thumbs on scales and without gov bailouts, does work best. During the Great Depression, a rich man could lose everything and end up broke. One of the most successful stock pickers, Benjamin Graham, came home from work on October 2, 1929, to find that his wife had put all the furniture on the lawn. She saw the news about the Great crash and thought they had lost everything. Back then when you went broke you got kicked out right away. But of course Benjamin Graham got wealthier than ever and told her to put the furniture back in the house. But that story shows that rich men could lose everything back in those days.

I guess what I really like about MAGA communism is that it would entail expropriation of all these bailed out billionaires. That would be awesome so for that reason alone I supported 100%. Just make me the economics minister.

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