Someone bust his chops, everyone else up vote it. This fucker wants 1 billion Americans, what a psycho.
Don’t like it? [down] vote!
Edit: Also don’t cross contaminate accts by linking to your own post or w/e, or be mindful if you do.
"US policy in Latin America has been very bad.
But it’s important to specify what counterfactual we’re talking about. If instead of bad policy we had good policy, that would’ve been a lot better. But if instead of bad policy the United States literally did not exist and the whole world was dominated by Soviet-backed regimes, that would’ve been a lot worse.
So all told, throughout the 20th century the United States was a counterbalancing force against more malign great powers and I think the same is true vis-a-vis China in the 21st Century. And that’s true even though US foreign policy has often been terrible."
I asked a shitty question, couldn’t think of something good… But I’m seriously nauseated that he’s pushing this shit. We should pour lava buckets in his Minecraft house
Domino theory is such BS. Most communist movements in the cold war period were literally just organic movements in the country; people wanting something better for themselves. What do you know, when a foreign colonial power owns most of the means of production in your country while your people starve, communism looks pretty good. While some may have accepted material help from the USSR (usually after the US/CIA had intervened), they definitely didn’t want Soviet influence over their heads.
Edit: also, according to Matt’s shitty theory literally anything is justified because “communism is worse”. Kill a few million folks in Vietnam? Well, communism would have killed MORE and no I will not show my work. Demonizing socialist countries and making up body counts serves the capitalist empire because it rationalizes the bad shit they do.
Fucking hell, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever read, especially if you’re using Latin America as your example of why America is the lesser of two evils. “If the Soviets were there they would have raped twice as many nuns and disemboweled twice as many children!”
Just a naive little boy in a fat bald clown’s body, hasn’t questioned a single piece of propaganda he’s been fed but thinks he’s “open-minded” because he comes up with these absolutely laughable ideas. At the same time, he’s the perfect public intellectual for this country at this period in history.
Hey crazy idea how about we just try and get along with China? I mean your idea is dogshit anyway Matt because Americans are probably more likely to accept a communist revolution than they are welcoming 700 million immigrants in for no reason other than “China bad”…
It has to be some type of competition, it’s like the only way America does anything it would seem. Using the Soviet Union and the space race as an example, the US would have likely never done like 90% of the shit they did if it wasn’t for the soviet union, or as Amber says, “keeping us honest.” And I do actually believe a lot of that is pretty true. It’s really ridiculous though that is how it works here, humans evolved from cooperating and we need China, badly but it would appear at the same exact time if the US doesn’t have a boogeyman, the average citizen might then become it or something stupid. idk it’s not black and white like that and it’s really hard to make rational sense of it all in the end
is it just me or is “One Billion Americans” the lib version of the 14 words
Hi Matt,
Urbanist-related question here. We clearly have a housing shortage issue in this country. How would you propose that zoning and NIMBY-ism issues be addressed?
In addition, along with the coming internal climate migration that is predicted, what proactive urban planning suggestions would you give to those cities mostly likely to grow (such as those in the Mid-west)?
Answer:
The best thing to do is to link federal transportation money to housing reforms.
Yes let’s make it so places that don’t want to house poor people also have incentive to cut public transportation.
I’m really upset that one of you didn’t make up some fake quote attributed to him and then made a link to it that looked like it was a from a NY Times article, making him enraged and making him click on it as fast as possible, but when he clicked it it went to a picture of pigpoopballs.
