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Интересные споры идут в стране по поводу того, какой именно сорт говнюка лучше подходит нашему т.н. президенту: говнюк-расист, говнюк-ксенофоб, говнюк-националист или все вместе.

А между тем (внезапно!), у правительства США бюджетные деньги заканчиваются к сентябрю, потому что дефицит на 23% выше, чем в прошлом году.

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It looks like we are stumbling into a cold war with China. I can see it by the sheer number of times national security is being invoked as a pretext for purely commercial actions. But most importantly, Peter Thiel is now talking about investigating Google for technology transfer to China. He is an astute businessman and often senses trends before they come into full force.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/thiel-urges-u-s-probe-of-google-s-seemingly-treasonous-acts

upd: notes on Thiel's speech https://twitter.com/foggyanabasis/status/1150628829565718528

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Where I agree with Thiel:

...we should be more concerned that we will be stuck with low productivity for the foreseeable future.

We’ve had this doctrine of American exceptionalism, but instead we are now exceptional in bad ways: We are exceptionally overweight, we are exceptionally addicted to opioids, it is exceptionally expensive to build infrastructure here, we are exceptionally un-self-aware, and we are exceptionally un-self-critical.

https://medium.com/@bonniekavoussi/notes-from-peter-thiels-speech-at-the-national-conservatism-conference-on-july-14-2019-6a51b26b202