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Joshua Katz's avatar

I struggle to understand the mindset of a person who was crying about egg prices a few months ago (and take-out a couple years earlier), and gas prices (despite owning a truck several sizes larger than he neesd), who now mindlessly repeats his Leader's insistence that, actually, having less is good, higher prices are good, because they will force others to live in a certain way.

Actually, no, I understand too well. Free trade made us prosperous and peaceful. But peaceful is bad because it diminishes the martial virtues. (Hard times, etc.) And prosperity failed to discriminate. It lifted the Other along with the Real Americans. So we should give it up, to hurt the Other. The goal isn't winning, it's making sure others lose. Those Others include, first and foremost, the monsters who enabled initial Others to thrive.

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Cathy Reisenwitz's avatar

There are people who don't believe in positive-sum games. There are people who are more obsessed with status than with abundance.

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Joshua Katz's avatar

Took me 2 paragraphs and you 2 sentences.

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Parker Griffith's avatar

Very good!!!

Trump would do very very well on Bourbon Street selling tits and ass.

Elon would be and is first in line.

MaCarthyism of the 5os' is back in style

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Andrew Heaton's avatar

Preach!

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