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Noted author of bad journalistic takes Matt Yglesias wrote a book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about how the U.S. needs to increase its population to match China's to preserve U.S. hegemony (his words). https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/1307472038123073536?s=20
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Sep 22, 2020 17:39
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Noted author of bad journalistic takes Matt Yglesias wrote a book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about how the U.S. needs to increase its population to match China's to preserve U.S. hegemony (his words). I love when experts reveal that they don't actually understand how the world works at a fundamental level This is a policy a child comes up with
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Sep 22, 2020 18:59
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Sep 22, 2020 19:01
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Noted author of bad journalistic takes Matt Yglesias wrote a book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about how the U.S. needs to increase its population to match China's to preserve U.S. hegemony (his words). does the book ever address why one would want to preserve US hegemony
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Sep 22, 2020 19:14
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Hurrying along ecological collapse to own.... Someone?? Maybe??
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Sep 22, 2020 19:20
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Look how loving horrible most American cities are now with pervasive car culture, poo poo public transit, exorbitant rents Now imagine tripling the population
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Sep 22, 2020 19:31
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I always thought Yglesias would be a swarthy brown person, but then I realized I'm probably confusing him with Fareed Zakaria.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:34
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Also I heard some snippets of an interview with him and I think he actually proposes to get there by accpeting 600 million climate refugees from Bangladesh and Subsaharan Africa?
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Sep 22, 2020 19:36
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Throatwarbler posted:Also I heard some snippets of an interview with him and I think he actually proposes to get there by accpeting 600 million climate refugees from Bangladesh and Subsaharan Africa? loving lmao
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Sep 22, 2020 19:37
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Throatwarbler posted:Also I heard some snippets of an interview with him and I think he actually proposes to get there by accpeting 600 million climate refugees from Bangladesh and Subsaharan Africa? this is a perfect way to make The Camp of the Saints shoot up to #1 on the NYT bestseller list. Great job matty, you loving moron
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Sep 22, 2020 19:38
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Admittedly I wasn't listening all that closely so I could have just misheard
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Sep 22, 2020 19:40
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how do you integrate 600 million people who have directly suffered due to American hegemony into wanting to uphold it
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Sep 22, 2020 19:44
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Noted author of bad journalistic takes Matt Yglesias wrote a book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about how the U.S. needs to increase its population to match China's to preserve U.S. hegemony (his words). How the gently caress do you make rich nation have more babies? Even rich Chinese doesn't want to have more babies. Throatwarbler posted:Also I heard some snippets of an interview with him and I think he actually proposes to get there by accpeting 600 million climate refugees from Bangladesh and Subsaharan Africa? Or even better, accepting Rohingya Muslims.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:50
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tbh he must know it sounds so dumb and ludicrous but also know it will get people saying 'drat what is that guy smoking' and keep he career farting along
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Sep 22, 2020 21:02
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Throatwarbler posted:Also I heard some snippets of an interview with him and I think he actually proposes to get there by accpeting 600 million climate refugees from Bangladesh and Subsaharan Africa? matty "the 3rd world must crush the 1st world" yglesis
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Sep 22, 2020 21:05
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Noted author of bad journalistic takes Matt Yglesias wrote a book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about how the U.S. needs to increase its population to match China's to preserve U.S. hegemony (his words). pay me $250k per child and I'll have a few
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Sep 22, 2020 21:31
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Yeah, I looked at the table of contents, and supposedly a 700 million more Americans is going to fix like health care, climate change, and urban livability. I don't think I can go further than that without permanent damage.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:44
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Noted author of bad journalistic takes Matt Yglesias wrote a book called ONE BILLION AMERICANS about how the U.S. needs to increase its population to match China's to preserve U.S. hegemony (his words). Dude literally just ripped off that 100 million Canadians by 2100 white paper didn't he?
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Sep 22, 2020 23:02
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indigi posted:how do you integrate 600 million people who have directly suffered due to American hegemony into wanting to uphold it It's pretty easy, you give them a job and convince them that they are better than the people they left behind / some other group that isn't allowed in. But the people in charge are all literally dementia addled geezers who have forgotten every trick in the book so I doubt they will manage.
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Sep 23, 2020 00:14
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https://twitter.com/ChuNghiaCafein/status/1308510989118308352?s=20
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Sep 23, 2020 02:16
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I bet it was covid related. If the us wanted to kill him they would have just blown him up with a drone, which they do all the time to random people in the middle east anyway
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Sep 23, 2020 02:30
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I could see someone in Turkey killing a foreign journalist looking too closely at the Turkish policy of recruiting Uyghurs to fight in Syria. Remember how the guy who helped set up the White Helmets "fell out of a window."
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Sep 23, 2020 02:38
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https://globalnation.inquirer.net/191076/covid-19-vaccine-should-be-made-available-to-all-nations-duterte-says-in-un-general-assembly-debutquote:MANILA, Philippines — Speaking for the first time at the United Nations General Assembly, President Rodrigo Duterte stressed on Wednesday that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, once available, should be made available to all nations “as a matter of policy.”
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Sep 23, 2020 03:04
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Some sane words from Durtarte.
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Sep 23, 2020 03:22
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1308595768928870401?s=19
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Sep 23, 2020 03:40
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stephenthinkpad posted:Some sane words from Durtarte. I assume he's going to threaten to withhold the vaccine from Mindanao or communist areas to make up for it.
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Sep 23, 2020 03:52
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Noah Smith is a writer for Bloomberg. And looking through his twitter posts I found one of the biggest self-owns in history. https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1308822657408798720?s=21
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Sep 23, 2020 21:32
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Hedenius posted:Noah Smith is a writer for Bloomberg. And looking through his twitter posts I found one of the biggest self-owns in history. completely boring opinions too. Just absolutely worthless as a pundit, even from an eye-grabbing perspective
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Sep 23, 2020 21:33
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he tweets like he is a baby who is just beginning to understand the world
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Sep 23, 2020 21:33
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Dreddout posted:I love when experts reveal that they don't actually understand how the world works at a fundamental level
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Sep 24, 2020 02:59
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Dreddout posted:This is a policy a child comes up with Also, incidentally, a policy that Mao came up with
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Sep 24, 2020 05:10
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Devils Affricate posted:Also, incidentally, a policy that Mao came up with that's dumb. china would have the largest population in the world regardless of whatever the gently caress mao did
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Sep 24, 2020 05:18
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Love to see some good old Chinese exceptionalism
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Sep 24, 2020 05:26
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THS posted:that's dumb. china would have the largest population in the world regardless of whatever the gently caress mao did It's dumb because why exactly? The policy being called out as childish was unarguably the CCP's official policy until the 1970s. I mean yeah it's stupid as all hell, but in this context this sentiment is hilariously ironic.
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Sep 24, 2020 06:55
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Devils Affricate posted:It's dumb because why exactly? The policy being called out as childish was unarguably the CCP's official policy until the 1970s. I mean yeah it's stupid as all hell, but in this context this sentiment is hilariously ironic. What policy exactly? Mao didn't push any policy that encouraged Chinese have more babies.
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Sep 24, 2020 07:13
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stephenthinkpad posted:What policy exactly? Mao didn't push any policy that encouraged Chinese have more babies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550444/ quote:However, the root cause of the policy lay back in the 1960s with Mao Zedong's belief that “the more people, the stronger we are”
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Sep 24, 2020 08:57
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North Korean troops kill S.Korean man, burn body, Seoul says North Korean troops reportedly have orders to shoot and burn any attempting to enter the country to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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Sep 24, 2020 09:12
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depends on if you think saying 'have more babies' and not saying 'don't have more babies' is the same or that not doing anything is a policy, I guess
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Sep 24, 2020 09:52
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Antonymous posted:depends on if you think saying 'have more babies' and not saying 'don't have more babies' is the same I don't. He was explicitly saying the first thing.
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Sep 24, 2020 10:09
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Devils Affricate posted:I don't. He was explicitly saying the first thing. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/fertility-rate fertility rate went up by 2% a year for a couple years in the 60s and has otherwise been declining, never returned to 1950 levels China's population grew because the people who were alive were taken care of, not really because more people were created at least that's my understanding edit: I get your point is 'mao said something like matty is saying' which yah ok, he probably did. He also maybe apocryphally told nixon/kissinger 'would you guys want 10 million women? we have too many and they have too many kids' https://www.scmp.com/article/626178/mao-offered-10m-women-trade-us maybe that's a humble brag? Antonymous has issued a correction as of 10:24 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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Sep 24, 2020 10:14
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