Couldn't we have just tried to win hearts and minds rather than taking scalps and we would have found ourselves in the same position? That broader question haunts me.
Seeing a nominally 'communist' Vietnam participate in the in the global market economy puts the tragic futility of the Vietnam war into perspective. If this is what losing the war looks like 50 years later, what the fuck was the point in even fighting it?
One year on from "Liberation Day," Trump’s tariffs have altered supply chains — just not in the way he envisioned. A Bloomberg analysis of shipment-level customs data shows a shift in manufacturing toward Vietnam, with the country last year surpassing China as the leading supplier to the US of laptops and game consoles for the first time:
*10 years ago, so take with a grain of salt, but it's insane how much forgiveness and affinity the Vietnamese had towards the United States after the ignominy of the Vietnam war.
TikTok is starting to develop their own TV shows.
They are looking to develop short-form drama shows for the platform.
(Source: https://t.co/MQIa7pLb2K)
TikTok is starting to develop their own TV shows.
They are looking to develop short-form drama shows for the platform.
(Source: https://t.co/MQIa7pLb2K)
So the reason this Polymarket “prediction market” is performing so insanely high is because there’s a second market asking if this market will go above 5%. People in the derivative market are manipulating this market. Which defeats the public policy case for prediction markets…
Conflating drug trafficking with terrorism expands the Authorization of Use of Military Force to cover it's policing. It's more sophisticated than simply baiting fear and loathing.
All of Nevada should look like this, are you kidding me? We have the technology to get infinite electricity from the SKY yet we're still burning BLACK SLUDGE FROM HELL like a caveman would
Mulling over Halloween costume ideas and this image flashed into my head like a lightning bolt from hell. He won the Heisman and this was his reward? No wonder dude smokes so much weed...
(Mostly from beer) is telling because in 1910's America beer was widely used as antiseptic hydration because there was no reliable source of clean drinking water. As water got cleaner throughout the 20th century, people needed to drink beer less.
One of the dumbest takes is that prohibition didn’t work: prior to prohibition Americans drank 2 gallons of pure alcohol a year and many were drunks who beat their wives. Prohibition killed alcohol use by 30-40%
Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment.
You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife works too, meaning you together likely make well over $200,000. No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich.
Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it.
We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it.
Today, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out.
Never be afraid to do the right thing.
And tell the truth – always.
It may be difficult in certain situations, but your life will be infinitely better if people who matter trust you to tell them the truth.
#LuntzLifeLessons
Edwin Black has written a lot about this, specifically in his horrifying account of IBM and the holocaust but Naxi Nexus is a mercifully quicker read.
https://t.co/yJZwUCHq4Z
It has been incredibly jarring to learn about how many flagship American companies, Ford, Chevrolet, IBM, Standard Oil etc. actively profited off of the holocaust.
I guess things haven't changed that much.