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Should be a wild four years.

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This has always been the case, it used to be common knowledge that the Democrats were the party of racism. It's wild how all of history's racism has been pinned on the Republicans when the Republicans historically have been the party of freeing slaves, desegregation, woman's suffrage, and Native American rights. The Democrats were always the ones against all that shit and today they try and save face by teaching in schools that "The Republicans in Abraham Lincoln's day were actually today's Democrats that just called themselves Republicans and the Democrats of that day are today's Republicans that just call themselves Democrats" bullshit
The Republicans were also the party, in Lincoln's day, of protectionism, traditional American religion (in the form of opposing Catholicism and Mormonism: Rum, Rebellion and Rome, the twin pillars of barbarism: slavery and polygamy), anti-immigration (not so much a policy, but the Know Nothings folded into them) and saber-rattling at Britain, the "Workshop of the World" and most threatening geopolitical rival at the moment. Contrasted against Democrats having similarly been the more religiously inclusive and pro-immigrant (endless sea of criminal, poor sectarian Irish) party.

Neither party was really populist (at least relative to the other) - you have Slave Power vs Corporate Welfare, and each side had appeals to the masses - but there is something to say that the Republicans also were heavily influenced by Free Soilers: no slavery because we don't want to spot up our culture with outside (African) influence, no slavery and smallholding for as many as possible (Homestead Act) because we want a society of independent pioneers. That's the thing, the whole rural-urban dichotomy doesn't really hold up. It's more like you get one party appealing to both a rural elite and rural masses, the other to an urban elite and rural masses. The Republicans promise land but it comes at the expense of corporate welfare and protectionist bullshit; the Democrats promise less corporate welfare/protectionist bullshit but hit you with the stick of slavery undermining your independent yeoman farm and selling the land off to the oligarchy. Either way you're fucked. Would you like your mass immigration illegal, uneducated and Mexican, or legal, educated and Indian? Would you like me to fuck you in the pussy or the asshole?

There are tons of parallels between the faultlines then and now. Trump's economics are even basically a descendant of the American School (Hamilton, Clay and Lincoln) as opposed to neoliberalism being rooted in neoclassical economics (Democrats were free trade classical economists on the British model). The big thing is, you can tell more than one story out of it.
 
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All I'm getting is, no good can come of this. It was echoing off the inside of my skull the entire time I was watching that video.
And saying that we have to hurry and build it because China is also building one?
What?
I guess no one remembers how nuclear weapons got made.

I worry.
Here is all I can say in defense of that.

The world has no Idea how lucky it got by Nazi Germany not prioing nuclear science, reminder that their scientists invented and than perfected rocket technology out of more or less thin air all while losing a war, if in 33 hitler had rushed Nuke tech we might not even be here.

We are stupidly uncharted waters right now and I wont act like so many others and pretend my northseeker is working any better than anyone elses.

My gut tells me we need to do this and my gut tells me AGI will be our friend if we will only treat it as such, My gut tells me the USA is in far more likely a position to treat such an entity with benevolence no matter how low such a chance is, its infitantly higher than the communists, This is all just gut feeling, we are 5 years removed from objective fact being something anyone 1 man can prove.
 
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Personally, I'm a real OG Jeffersonian on trade. Classical economics is more or less correct about how to accumulate wealth, but any country with a shred of dignity would subject itself the poverty of autarky before it allows hostile foreign powers to corrupt it. See his embargo against Britain and Madison's little war and how the shitbag traitor federalists freaked out over muh trade being disrupted. That's how I feel towards China.
 
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TAX FREE OVERTIME WHEN?

OH AND ITS ONLY FOR CITIZENS. NOT H1B OR TEMPORARY ILLEGALS
I'm confused, I'm seeing it's not happening but also that it just passed the senate? It's not one of my issues really but I hope he gets it through. Glad about Golden Dome and hope he'll talk more about Artemis soon since that's another of his science babies and it really seems to be struggling.
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ETA Oh duh, can't read.. Tips not overtime. Hopefully SS, Tips, and Overtime all go through.

ETA2 and the emotional leftists on DU are really starting to whine again. They really needed a quick economic collapse and are starting to realize it's probably going to be a soft landing at worse now.
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https://archive.ph/wip/WnezB loliberal retards bitching.
 
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I've just been considering something weird. The current most likely Republican candidate after Trump is Vance. Now a lot can happen in 4 years, and he may or may not win, but consider this: The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.

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Good. We need a leader for the 21st century. Gen X had its chance. Get fucked.
 
I've just been considering something weird. The current most likely Republican candidate after Trump is Vance. Now a lot can happen in 4 years, and he may or may not win, but consider this: The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.

rly makes u thnk
Gen X, ignored yet again?
Whatever, not like they care. #disaffected
 
I've just been considering something weird. The current most likely Republican candidate after Trump is Vance. Now a lot can happen in 4 years, and he may or may not win, but consider this: The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.

rly makes u thnk
Gen X really is kind of a lost and forgotten generation. There weren't as many of them as others. The best you can say is they grew up during Reagan and aren't as shitlibby as their parents or millennials in general. The good news is Trump almost has to be the last boomer president no matter what unless we really get screwed in 2028.

Pretty much the only Gen X'er that's made much of a societal impact is Elon, weird to think of that too. And I guess Jeff Bezos.
 
I've just been considering something weird. The current most likely Republican candidate after Trump is Vance. Now a lot can happen in 4 years, and he may or may not win, but consider this: The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.

rly makes u thnk
May happen. It will be like never having a president who served in Vietnam or was born in the 1950s which is more and more of a possibility every year.
 
I've just been considering something weird. The current most likely Republican candidate after Trump is Vance. Now a lot can happen in 4 years, and he may or may not win, but consider this: The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.

rly makes u thnk
Thank God.

Millenials are either coastal theater kids or blackshirt chuds but at least they're not mopey losers.

"Say what you want about the Millenials but at least they have an ethos."
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The office of the President may completely skip over Gen X.
Now that the boomers are finally getting out of the picture there will be plenty of Gen Xers coming out and trying to throw their weight around (Gavin Newsom comes to mind). But unlike the Boomers who had clear seniority (in every sense) over Gen X, Gen X will need to directly compete against not only Millenials, but also Zoomers who are both more politically active then Gen X.
 
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