“Doing what must be done is genuinely hard” doesn’t just mean these democrats are weak willed. It means *you* figure out how to keep up motivation among the population for vengeance and preventative measures when we’ve gained power by beating them.

This thread is the perfect example of what I mean. The quote is pulled from an entire conversation about wokeness in D&D. The author ignored the consensus (wokeness is fine) and cherry-picked the one comment he misread as confirming his thesis.
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Turns out personalist rule is geopolitically erratic and consequential! It’s much easier to find a Wilhelm II than a Napoleon.

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So that leaves your young, motivated folks to burn out trying to become an EMT, then an AEMT, then a paramedic, all the while trying to get to baseline firefighting proficiency while riding the worst shift on the busiest ambulance.

What do you think happens to those folks in the long term???

a lot of anglophone rwers idealize american conservatives because they have no idea what living in a country with them is actually like and actually having to deal with american conservative governance would disabuse them of these illusions

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The idea that it is foreign inflows associated with the reserve status of the dollar that "allow" the US to run such large fiscal deficits makes especially little sense in the context of foreign countries. Japan and China, for example, have run up far greater fiscal...

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While this is widely believed, it isn't true. Foreign capital inflows don't fund fiscal deficits. They fund current account deficits, and they must be matched domestically either by higher US investment, higher US unemployment, or higher US household and fiscal debt.

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Simply assuming foreign inflows finance the fiscal deficit is a mistake that comes from thinking incrementally about the economy rather than systemically, or in terms of balance sheets. It implicitly assumes that domestic debt is independent of the external account.

"When will this disgraced sex pest be allowed to be in film again? What does he need to do to prove that he has learned and is okay to be on set?" hey, if someone worked at Staples and raped their coworker, why would your primary concern be when they could be rehired at Staples