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This is going to sound stupid, but than you for pointing that out because him literally being a lumberjack went right over my head.

Are you that person I recognize from the Internet?

Yeah, the hands look like they've been replaced/repaired... And not very well.

Cool writing prompt: Elusive Dawn

There's also ancient Greek and Rome which were republics 2000 and 2500 years ago.

I agree, I think we are witnessing the global influence leader transition from the US to China. All they had to do was provide investments in lower income countries and stability at the national leadership level. The US did the rest by exploiting those same lower income countries for centuries and not providing a stable foreign policy.

Should probably boost to [email protected].

Inflation's back, baby!

Switzerland has it too, and while English isn't the official language almost everyone speaks it.

It surprises me that bringing the server in house especially for emergency services isn't a priority.

I don't think a value judgement is valid here. It's all bad and the magnitude of bad isn't relevant anymore.

What this changes is our ability to predict his future actions and how to react to them. We can immediately dismiss any ideological arguments that he makes, as they are all transactional to him. ie:

Free speech claims mean nothing from him, it is merely a tool to accrue more power (obvious).

He works to prevent climate change through Tesla (maybe less obvious?).

We can predict he will (try to) ditch any affiliation with Nazism if it becomes clear there is no path to future power.

We can predict he will sell state secrets as soon as the potential rewards outweigh the risks.

I don't think trying to evaluate whether this makes him better or worse is valuable. I think being able to better understand his motives provide us the ability to predict his future behavior.

If their claims are true, yeah. That's how I read the implications.