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!

do you not have a brain?

And what has all that accomplished? Israel clearly has not slowed down their campaign in Gaza at all. At a certain point, it's time to accept defeat and find a different front to fight in.

Got Trump elected

I really don't understand this obsession with Palestine?

"What about Darfur"
"We focus on Israel bc western countries support them & we can influence"

Ok but leftist "influence" so far done nothing but backfire. Clearly you can't do anything about Palestine either. You can't fix every injustice