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MrChitChat
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MrChitChat
@MrChitChat
Purely Educational Discussions | My Thoughts, Not my Employer's
United States 가입일 Haziran 2025
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"America gave China its industrial base and manufacturing know-how; China gave America cheap goods. This deal worked until it didn't."
That is @JoinFAI Senior Fellow, @nukebarbarian's verdict on the great exchange that defined the post-Cold War era that quietly unmade American power. In his latest review for the CRB, Penney traces the full arc from Apple's fateful partnership with Foxconn, which trained up China's workforce at a scale that dwarfed the Marshall Plan, to the rise of Huawei, the company that took everything the West taught it and turned it against its teachers.
Penny asks the question: Why can't America build anymore? The answer, he argues, lies not in tariffs or supply chains but in what a society loses when it trades process knowledge for shareholder returns and mythology for historical nihilism.
Read his latest from the Spring issue of the CRB here claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-great-leap…
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Diplomacy failed to stop North Korea from getting the bomb. Trump didn’t make the same mistake with Iran.
on.wsj.com/4sfgGUj
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” We must objectively educate ourselves about our very own way of life and how good we have it. We must also compare it to authoritarian regimes to really know how good we have it. America honored us and the thought that haunts me is even a small chance of failure/dishonor of not being able to pass on to my future family an America as good as the one we found.
Read @BillGertz! He knows the enemy and its nature. Read "Unrestricted Warfare" by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui; a good way to know the enemy through its own words.
The Washington Times@WashTimes
The Chinese Communist Party uses cognitive warfare domestically to control the population and abroad to divide and demoralize its enemies and promote its communist system. buff.ly/9OyfEFr #ThreatStatus
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@MrChitChat @RonFilipkowski I seriously doubt ignorant young people are reading Ron’s posts..
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I respect his military service and his audience. We are one people and one ambition for our future. We are just too busy to look all aspects of a situation; most of us has no time to take a deeper look. Ron is not a bad person. These issues are incredibly complex. The easiest way to put it is that we have to see the long-term implications of inaction against the Ayatollah-class.
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@MrChitChat @RonFilipkowski How is he contributing to ignorance? Isn’t it important to weigh the diplomatic choices made by president Obama vs those of our current president, or the military choices made as well?
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I see your point. I would argue that we have given diplomatic efforts a four-decade-long chance. These efforts have failed because the Ayatollah-class has been practicing deception and has only grown much stronger with help from the world’s top two authoritarian systems, China and Russia. Iran and its remarkable people fell into the hands of the Ayatollah-class in 1979 (then by choice of the people). After 47 years, the vast majority of Iranian people have became very educated --they don't want this.
But why should we get involved in a foreign people's affairs?
The Ayatollah-class introduced an extremist, religion-based form of government—one that is inflexible and based on a theory of Regional and then Global Domination by FORCE (through proxies, etc.). It developed very specific strategies to indoctrinate millions of its own people in Iran and around the world not only to defend it but also to spread it (including South America). According to the Ayatollah-class, to spread it one must champion and acquire self-sufficiency along with all forms of MILITARY POWER. Only thereafter could they begin to challenge their neighbors and the world… phase by phase.
As far as I have studied our Constitution and our way of life, we have never been against a strong Iran and or a war against Iran. The reason we decided to go to war is because they pose an existential threat to us in the long-run. We are against an Ayatollah-class government based on an apocalyptic vision for the Middle East and the world. Would you rather wait to see the them become much more strong or stop them now?
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@pmarca Increased intelligence solves tensions --NOT leading to it.
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@MikhailaFuller @jordan_m_fuller I pray/wish you and your dad good health! As the saying goes, god gives his toughest challenges to its most prepared soldiers.
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We made another baby @jordan_m_fuller ❤️. I’m going to have 3 kids under 3, and an 8 year old. Which is wild. But thank God for new life.
I’ve been trying to take a happy pregnancy photo for a while and I’ve given up. It seems messed up to not have the normal joy I would with a new baby, and all my pics are depressing. The joy is hidden under grief.
This year has been really tough. Interspersed with the joy of bringing a new life into the world, which I am immensely grateful for, but right in the middle of serious health issues with my dad, and right following serious health issues with my daughter (that have since fully resolved praise God). I’ve been knocked for a loop (as has my extended family).
If anyone is wondering why I’ve been a bit miserable looking in the recent podcast episodes it’s because I’m pretty unhappy. I’d say depressed except I’ve experienced clinical depression and I know this isn’t an illness, it’s human sadness.
Hiding off of social media doesn’t make me any less unhappy, and then rumors start, and I don’t need that on top of everything. So! You may see some somber looking photos until things get better. Life isn’t always all rainbows and sunshine.
As for dad, because I need to mention him when I post or that’s really the only response I get, he’s still really sick. Rumors are starting to swirl around online, fueled by sick psychopaths, and my family really doesn’t need that. We’ll explain what’s going on next week now that we finally know (it took months to figure out and a lot of doctors or we would’ve clarified things sooner).
Prayers are appreciated still. And thank God I have faith enough to know things will get better but for now, I don’t have it in me to be super smilie (but at least my kids do).
And praise GOD that the rest of my life is so put together that we can handle trials. My husband is a rock, my mom and brother are incredible. My kids are healthy. Business is good (thanks to everyone supporting @petersonacademy). So praise God there isn’t more to stress about.
Part of the reason to try to get your life in order is so you can handle trials when they come. I learned that from my dad.
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Planet Earth is a very darn small village. There are 193 homes in this village, of which a few are run by suicidal and authoritarian ideologies (communists, dictators, and ayatollahs, etc). They have been accumulating extreme destructive power to ensure the survival of their extreme ways of life. Their ways of life ask for domination through force --ours is more focused winning through cooperation, development, and soft power. Our home constitution is as logical and rational to human needs as it can be.
The vile neighbors in the village, and their constitutions, will eventually dominate (by force) if we don't do anything about it now. Our kids will have no say in the affairs of the village if we allow their enemies to have guns as big as ours. We will either have to fall in line with them or it will be war --a war in which they will act as suicidally as they do now --but then they will have even more destructive power. Today we will lose a few of our kids, but tomorrow, the cost is going to be extremely high. We will then have to deal with total annihilation or capitulation.
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Incarceration is a necessary evil, but if you honestly evaluate the “root causes” of crime, you’ll find that many factors contribute to a child’s path toward criminal behavior. These include poor nutrition, lack of access to quality education, toxic environments, negative peer associations. How do you expect a kid to sit in the class empty stomach and a shitty home environment. It takes many generations to fix it. I don't think incarceration is always the best path.
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@priyaee Behavior itself is product of our evolutionary history and the outcome of our experiences. As long as the behavior is not harmful to a society, then there is nothing to be judged.
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If you’re so small minded that you take me talking about cultures and behaviors as “racist” that’s your own problem because I’ve not spoken about skin-color at all in regard.
All human life is equal.
All behaviors are not equal.
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I always say this to my gas-car friends, if you wouldn’t stick your face in the exhaust pipe of a car and breathe in the toxins, then why are you in favor of gas-powered cars? A city full of gasoline-powered cars is essentially like living inside the exhaust pipe of one. You see my point?
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@mayemusk I always say this to my gas-car friends, if you wouldn’t stick your face in the exhaust pipe of a car and breathe in the toxins, then why are you in favor of gas-powered cars? A city full of gasoline-powered cars is essentially like living inside the exhaust pipe of one.
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@elonmusk @beffjezos Absolutely! W see things through our eyes (camera) which is an extension of the brain itself. Then, the brain makes judgments, etc. Essential to say the least.
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Elon quietly decided to focus on image and video generation and is winning now.
Just like Anthropic specialized to Claude code and started winning, this image gen dominance might be useful for computer use and reobotics very soon.
Justine Moore@venturetwins
I'm really impressed by the Grok Imagine upgrade. There's a new "quality" mode where your images take (slightly) longer to generate, but the results are shockingly good. I've been testing it for the last few days - a couple things to try 👇
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