SvenMarquardt

They've already succeeded. America is already unprecedentedly divided and demoralised.

“One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.”

― Sun Tzu

When 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel is impacted, the government has a problem.

Why is the network constructed in such a way that it allows things to spread?

The fact they're both islands in the middle of the pacific is more than likely their saving grace.

For most, newfound income does not materialise itself as wealth but rather an increase in living standards.

$400k can buy you an entry-level home in cash, or a 10% deposit on that $4M mansion across town. Most choose the latter.

Those taxes will be passed onto the majority in the form of price hikes.

Further, with current inflation rates, $400k will be solidly middle-upper class in a few years from now.

If we can reverse ageing, your entire life will be spent planning how to avoid existential risks. When you can live forever even crossing the road becomes too risky.

You need to reframe it. How many $ do the top 0.35% own vs the next 5%.

Real meat is lindy. Fake meat is not. We won't know until multi-decade studies have been done on the health effects of a fake meat diet.

> It's interesting how frequently this pattern exists where history is silent about class difference and loud about race/gender differences.

That's not a coincidence. The 0.1% would much rather the 99.9% squabble over race and gender than class: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...

I agree with your POV. I'm arguing throwing away equal opportunities (free education and career path choice for all Scandinavians) with the aim of chasing equal outcomes (50/50 gender split of nurses and engineers) is a fool's game.

Equal opportunity ≠ equal outcomes

As a teenager, I tried briefly to play basketball. But I was lucky to hit the backboard, much less the basket. Yet I had just as much opportunity to play basketball as Michael Jordan had. But equal opportunity was not nearly enough to create equal outcomes.

Nevertheless, many studies today conclude that different groups do not have equal opportunity or equal "access" to credit, or admission to selective colleges, or to many other things, because some groups are not successful in achieving their goal as often as other groups are.

The very possibility that not all groups have the same skills or other qualifications is seldom even mentioned, much less examined. But when people with low credit scores are not approved for loans as often as people with high credit scores, is that a lack of opportunity or a failure to meet standards?

When twice as many Asian students as white students pass the tough tests to get into New York's three highly selective public high schools — Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech — does that mean that white students are denied equal opportunity?

> The only way to prevent the extreme outlier men from dominating everything is to prevent winner-takes-all games

Which is why we should focus on infinite wealth creation games, rather than zero-sum status games.

Throwing away equity while chasing equality is a recipe for ushering in the next dark age.

> "white" isn't capitalized because it doesn't bear as much similarities to those words

It is precisely the same as black. The mental gymnastics on display here are astonishing.

They're just following the Associated Press style guidelines: https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-910566...

Which is why it is imperative society push back against the vilification of any race, including whites.

Which quote?

Where's your evidence of that?

To fully appreciate the difference in scale, compare the event listings for any pre-Covid Saturday night on RA: https://ra.co

Berlin, Amsterdam, London, etc, each had a larger scene than the entirety of the US combined.

Get yourself over to the continent. If you start partying at 4am Sun morning you can finish at 10pm Sun night and be fresh Monday.

Yes, LATAM has the wildest contemporary techno scene after Europe. The US had next to no techno scene pre-pandemic, a party or two in NY or LA each weekend was it, now its dead.

Detroit techno is a completely different beast to the modern European techno scene. Less than 1% of DJs playing at Berghain are black. Modern techno is dominated by Europeans.