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Mr. former president George Walker Bush, sir, your ticket to the Netherlands is ready.

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@cszabla It's all been downhill since Bauhaus and after Ulm School died the future stopped and history ended.

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@YIMBYLAND @cogmeyer Terrible movie.

There are much better examples:

https://t.co/A8gPoVaujf

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@postdiscipline The problem you're identifying is not the practice itself of differentially filling in gaps, which is essentially a universal practice and is just as true for the US as anywhere else, but the mechanism by which China is doing it.

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@postdiscipline I suppose I should make my point clearer: I want to push back a bit against the moral tale of "US creates, China steals" and "reverse engineering" as pejorative. It's a developmental process every advanced state goes through and they're all constantly learning from each other.

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@postdiscipline We see US firms all the time go on shopping sprees for foreign firms whenever they want to acquire new technologies or production methods.

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@postdiscipline The US is itself a reverse engineering state, just at a different point of development. Start with foundational works in Euro-American labs, then commercialisation (Germany/Japan are big), then scaling is done in China (hardware) or US (software).

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@LennardJohannes @AlanSmithee1987 The qualified right for extra-parliamentary pressure groups to influence foreign and security policy is a democratic principle protected by the Basic Law. Political will-formation is larger than parliament. This is how the Constitutional Court interprets Article 20.

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@ck_gen @ojblanchard1 My point is that as technocrat implies technē, which they don't have, they are credentialed incompetents from the perspective of Technocracy and degenerate. They don't even self-satisfy their own criteria for legitimacy which is their claim to monopoly of governance.

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@ck_gen @ojblanchard1 Are people like Blanchard technocrats? If we dumped every senior economist and policy analyst and think tank wonk on an island to themselves, what would the sum of their society's technology be? They'd just endlessly argue over who gets to optimise the others.

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@RobynUrback https://t.co/xQAB9IphvK

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@cszabla He's been like this from the beginning. I don't know why they keep asking him.

Personally, I find him annoying. 'Oh, you think you're free, but that means you're not free.' I don't think the best explorations of bureaucracy are presented in koans.

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@cszabla Every day I'm becoming more and more Gaullist Third Worldist. Chișinău is our Yan'an, and I will lead the Long March to reorganise the cadres to fight the compradors in Brussels.

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@vonderleyen You idiots signed a coercive unequal treaty that is going to set precedent for decades. Trump isn't going to stop, he'll come back over and over again to extort you and you're going to keep caving.

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@RedGreenBC Nazi art was palingenetic, meaning they were actually trying to do new stuff (rebirth) in a dialectic of destruction-creation. But this may be because they arose in a time of high modernity when people believed in a future. Everyone is boring now and all that's left is recycling.

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@jorfolle The Wehrmacht encircle and destroy multiple field armies at a time over and over again, yet the USSR is able to raise soldiers faster than they lose them and eventually wear down the offensive. How many militaries in the world at that time could survive this? It's incredible.

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@jorfolle It doesn't really grapple with how crazy and radical Soviet modernisation truly was. As irresponsible as the planning for Barbarossa was, the false expectations based on available evidence was not unreasonable. Had it failed, Nazi ambitions in the east may have been realised.

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@cszabla I'm always late to these things. How do you find out ahead of time when crime is going to be legal again?

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@hahauenstein @rosaluxglobal Restated, the political endorsement and practice of Staatsräson is in itself a catastrophe.

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@hahauenstein @rosaluxglobal Not to diminish the importance of Gaza, but it needs to be more forcefully said of Staatsräson that it is a premodern antidemocratic concept fundamentally incompatible with the legal basis of the federal republic and Rechtsstaat. It is elite driven destruction of the rule of law.