Category: Link Library
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Live Not by Lies
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies One to read over, and over again.
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‘Cry More Libs’ is not a Strategy
https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-trump-enemies I’d read almost anything that’s self-critical of one’s own “party.” This should tell me what I need to know about my own ability (and responsibility) to do this. This was a striking paragraph:
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The Emergency is Here
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This is sin
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The Long Now
“The Long Now is the Fiat World of reality by declaration, where we are TOLD that inflation does not exist, where we are TOLD that wealth inequality and meager productivity and negative savings rates just “happen”, where we are TOLD that we must vote for ridiculous candidates to be a good Republican or a good Democrat, where…
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MAGA Maoism
An interesting and new framework for me on the “left-is-right and right-is-left” phenomenon that’s being revealed.
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Crashing the Car of Pax Americana
“You cannot unring this bell. Sure, you can reverse this policy and that policy, and god knows we’re going to get plenty of that, but you can never go back to the way things were before. Once you toss over the game table, even if you reset the table exactly as it was before, the…
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Another tariff link, sorry
This Twitter article by Molson Hart, with manufacturing experience and grasp of the details, is one of the best commentaries I’ve read on the Trump tariff’s so far.
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Businesses can be not that, quickly
Another post that takes a fine detail out of this whole vague narrative and hammers home the point. This can get bad for people quickly.
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“We can reshore. Just not like this.”
Memorable post, with lots of specific questions and details, on the recent tariffs by the Trump 2.0 admin. This level of thinking and questioning is so rare in the info ecosystem around issues like this. I feel like I mostly encounter certainty from one side or the other. But to question it in extreme detail…