Reading about the predicted terrible human cost of the loss of aid across the world does make me wonder if this was a possible hidden motivation for its creation. Presented as altruism it nevertheless went some way to make countries and groups dependent upon it, thereby creating a tool for local destabilisation as needed. Trump is not using it in this way, his rationale is worse even than the one I have suggested.

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All of this in the open, with the world watching. Building camps at home and removing rights. Sinking further and further into shame, with all the talk of bravery and freedom in the national anthem and when the time comes there is only total and instant capitulation. The US will never regain its position in the world.

Even the rest of the world’s far right are telling Trump’s entourage not to go full Nazi.

Almost 90% of The World see Trump as bad for The World

There is a very small faction of billionaires siphoning wealth away from the world, truly hoarding it such that it is unused and unproductive. The role of the political class is to facilitate this and distract the general population away from it by setting naturally allied groups against each other. Divide and conquer is as old as humankind and we still fall for it every time.

I think alcohol like music can not be separated from its effect upon the mind. I think those effects are entirely the point we take it, I think if it was just taste you would not drink your White Russian. I think when you drink it it is because you want to visit or at least be reminded of your dark place. Like all drugs it is vital not to ignore the positive effects they can have while also being very aware of the long term negative consequences. As to answering the original question I think if you drink less than the average it is permissible to give as your reasons that you sometimes like the way it makes you feel. You drink in the same way you put on music, not because of the sound or the taste but because it takes you to somewhere else and for a little while that is where you needed to be.

I think the problem here is not so much Musk but the systems of governance that exist in these countries, and I include USA in that, are too open to non-democratic influence. There will always be people seeking to bend politics globally and domestically to their own advantage, but if they are able to succeed the fault lies in the system not their intent to do it. I think the problem is very similar to that found in the financial systems of the world, the weaknesses that provide backdoor and covert direction have been intentionally built into these systems to allow unfair command. These controls are now being used very overtly by people they were not intended for. Leaders complain about the agents exerting these influences because they can not admit to the methods.

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Work to have a destabilising leader elected in an opposing country. Succeed and destabilise that country. Realise a destabilised opposing country is worse for your country.

Poochie we have to move past this, the reason you failed Basic Physics is not because the rich are trying to hold you back.

I think he thinks about China as much as he thinks about last night’s supper, he knows ultimately China will back down, not because it is weak but because it is sane. Putin created Trump to perform a few basic tasks and having gained power in such an unopposed manner he is now up to whatever takes his fancy in the moment and that will be as problematic for Russia as it will for everyone else.

I don’t think any concerns meet that criteria.

You put one toddler-minded crazy feck in command of the most devastatingly over powerful military the world has ever seen and everyone snaps back into a colonial mindset like its 1914.

Welcome to the club.

The wealthy are more reliant on a stable domestic environment than most, should fear chaos for the reasons you suggest.

That is what a LLM would say.

I think the entire point of the glass ceiling analogy is that it is see-through. When you start on a low rung you can see your career path potentially rising to the very top and you are told with hard work this is the case but in reality some unspoken and unseen filter the company has will not let you progress above a certain level. If the ceiling can not be seen through it is just a position that is openly constrained and loses all the nuance of the modern world telling everyone they can be anything when they really can’t.

They may well be but they have no science education, have obtained their position through a lucky fall of the chips and are not that bright. I am sure there are companies that tell them what they want to hear and take their money but that does not alter the fact that any real longevity treatment is generations away.

Their high morality was false, their allegiance was to wealth, their workers were enslaved and their genius was bought.