On the plus side, no foreigners will be visiting the USA due to having to divulge social media posts, crazy prices for entry yo Parks, and the obvious risk of murder. So the rest of the world is safe from this idiocy.
mckn1ght•41m ago
Probably the most visceral form of survivorship bias I’ve ever heard.
DrierCycle•34m ago
in other words, eugenics. we have a culling policy like in early animal domestication: herding pens outside the city walls to test whether infected animals are dangerous. only here, the culling is in the open society, without any advance warnings, which are suppressed from public knowledge as policy. it's far more dystopian than the hunger games.
mindslight•35m ago
A thought experiment: if our "leadership" had instead been chosen by an adversarial foreign power trying to inflict a maximal amount of damage on our country, how would they differ?
lapcat•18m ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
quickthrowman•12m ago
A foreign adversary would likely try much harder to influence the Federal Reserve Bank than the Trump administration already has. I think they would’ve asked for a wholesale firing of the voting members with yes-men replacements and several rate cuts after that, but it hasn’t happened. The Trump administration backed off from firing Powell and Cook, which I wouldn’t expect to see if someone else was pulling the strings.
Impacting our ability to borrow money/causing inflation are the strongest non-military weapons that can be used against the US, in my opinion.
robthebrew•1h ago