I don’t know if the political affiliation of the employees matters in this context, but I would guess that people who work in the MIC would be significantly more likely to support Ukraine, MAGA or not.

Either way, I just don’t see the political upside to his visit, but I can see a lot of potential downside.

I can also see a world where in the end, it makes no difference at all, guess we’ll have to wait to find out either way.

I don’t agree with speaker gooning dad on much, if anything, including his rationale for this request.

But, I do think it was a bad move from a policy and governing perspective to have a foreign leader touring our weapon factories that are supporting their hot war with a major geostrategic rival of ours.

I’m not saying this for domestic political reasons, or moral reasons, I think from a pure realpolitik perspective of someone who supports Ukraine, it wasn’t a smart move.

But, I could be wrong, maybe it helps Ukraine in the long-term, or maybe it has no impact at all. Maybe we’ll never know, I just know that doesn’t sit right with me personally.

Regardless, my personal feelings aren’t relevant to, and I genuinely hope this does end up being a net positive action.

Interesting take. I wonder if the headline was:

“New Father and former Porsche Executive Throws Newborn Off Balcony”

Your first thoughts would be how the system failed him and that Germany needs to do more to support fathers.

Probably, but none that I’d actually invest my own time and effort into. I was just making an offhand observation, not starting an investigation.

The furthest I might be willing to go, would be to provide some constructive criticism, but I’d even have to mull that over i.e. weigh the risk I’m just helping fine-tune a LLM model, for free…so…yeah…

I genuinely can’t tell if you’re an elaborate troll, LLM, or just autistic.

I don’t mean any of those as an insult, just to say that you have a very distinct prose that really comes through when you write more than a sentence, or two.

Given your post history, I’m leaning towards LLM, but I’m open to being wrong.

No, it’s not inherently a fallacy. Case in point, the Patriot Act and everything that followed.

Yes, it can be used to support idiotic arguments like that legalizing gay marriage will lead to beastiality, or anything that Megan McArdle will use it to support, but it shouldn’t be automatically dismissed as an invalid concern.

That’s a question you’d only ask if you haven’t read any of her writing…

Might I suggest starting with her pieces on The Handmaid’s Tale, the Grenfell Tower Fire, and anything to do with kitchenware.

Megan is a national treasure.

You can always count on her to selflessly use her to name to publish the most absurdly dog shit arguments to defend corporations and the powerful.

She’s also pretty dumb.

That’s not what I said, but I love how you misquoted me in the framework of your own personal warped version of reality.

Read the subtext of the article. This location was obviously selected for a politically motivated reason, and I’d be interested to know what that was i.e. was it a general show of power (boring), or was it some hyper specific personal conflict with a prominent member of the club and a CCP party member (interesting).

That doesn’t mean the intent behind the CCP policy isn’t good, well intentioned, or positive. But that’s not surprising to me, so it’s not very interesting. What drove the politics behind the decision to raze a Golf Course to spite HK elite, is very interesting, at least to me.

While I loathe golf courses and am always happy to take the piss out of the “elites”, this feels like something more.

This might just be the CCP flexing political power over Hong Kong in general, but I’d be curious to see what the primary motivation behind this decision was. Obviously it wasn’t building public housing, that’s just a good cover story with a positive side effect.