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Post by Paleocon on Jun 18, 2024 20:26:47 GMT
The witty phrase “late Soviet America” was coined by the Princeton historian Harold James back in 2020.
A chronic “soft budget constraint” in the public sector, which was a key weakness of the Soviet system? I see a version of that in the U.S. deficits forecast by the Congressional Budget Office to exceed 5 percent of GDP for the foreseeable future, and to rise inexorably to 8.5 percent by 2054. The insertion of the central government into the investment decision-making process? I see that too, despite the hype around the Biden administration’s “industrial policy.”
We have a military that is simultaneously expensive and unequal to the tasks it confronts, as Senator Roger Wicker’s newly published report makes clear. As I read Wicker’s report—and I recommend you do the same—I kept thinking of what successive Soviet leaders said until the bitter end: that the Red Army was the biggest and therefore most lethal military in the world.
On paper, it was. But paper was what the Soviet bear turned out to be made of. It could not even win a war in Afghanistan, despite ten years of death and destruction.
.....the federal government will almost certainly spend more on debt service than on defense this year. It gets worse.
According to the CBO, the share of gross domestic product going on interest payments on the federal debt will be double what we spend on national security by 2041, thanks partly to the fact that the rising cost of the debt will squeeze defense spending down from 3 percent of GDP this year to a projected 2.3 percent in 30 years’ time. This decline makes no sense at a time when the threats posed by the new Chinese-led Axis are manifestly growing.
Even more striking to me are the political, social, and cultural resemblances I detect between the U.S. and the USSR. Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of late Soviet leadership, personified by the senility of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
.....we also need to contemplate the possibility that we have done this to ourselves—just as the Soviets did many of the same things to themselves. It was a common liberal worry during the Cold War that we might end up becoming as ruthless, secretive, and unaccountable as the Soviets because of the exigencies of the nuclear arms race. Little did anyone suspect that we would end up becoming as degenerate as the Soviets, and tacitly give up on winning the cold war now underway.
What have I been telling all of you?
We spent 50 Years fighting the USSR just to become a gay, retarded version of it.
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Post by johnnybgood on Jun 18, 2024 20:34:50 GMT
I don't totally agree, but we don't want our children to know the difference between a pennis and a vagina. Doesn't sound like Russian communism.
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Post by atreyu on Jun 18, 2024 20:40:51 GMT
The witty phrase “late Soviet America” was coined by the Princeton historian Harold James back in 2020.
A chronic “soft budget constraint” in the public sector, which was a key weakness of the Soviet system? I see a version of that in the U.S. deficits forecast by the Congressional Budget Office to exceed 5 percent of GDP for the foreseeable future, and to rise inexorably to 8.5 percent by 2054. The insertion of the central government into the investment decision-making process? I see that too, despite the hype around the Biden administration’s “industrial policy.”
We have a military that is simultaneously expensive and unequal to the tasks it confronts, as Senator Roger Wicker’s newly published report makes clear. As I read Wicker’s report—and I recommend you do the same—I kept thinking of what successive Soviet leaders said until the bitter end: that the Red Army was the biggest and therefore most lethal military in the world.
On paper, it was. But paper was what the Soviet bear turned out to be made of. It could not even win a war in Afghanistan, despite ten years of death and destruction.
.....the federal government will almost certainly spend more on debt service than on defense this year. It gets worse.
According to the CBO, the share of gross domestic product going on interest payments on the federal debt will be double what we spend on national security by 2041, thanks partly to the fact that the rising cost of the debt will squeeze defense spending down from 3 percent of GDP this year to a projected 2.3 percent in 30 years’ time. This decline makes no sense at a time when the threats posed by the new Chinese-led Axis are manifestly growing.
Even more striking to me are the political, social, and cultural resemblances I detect between the U.S. and the USSR. Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of late Soviet leadership, personified by the senility of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
.....we also need to contemplate the possibility that we have done this to ourselves—just as the Soviets did many of the same things to themselves. It was a common liberal worry during the Cold War that we might end up becoming as ruthless, secretive, and unaccountable as the Soviets because of the exigencies of the nuclear arms race. Little did anyone suspect that we would end up becoming as degenerate as the Soviets, and tacitly give up on winning the cold war now underway.
What have I been telling all of you?
We spent 50 Years fighting the USSR just to become a gay, retarded version of it.
Your dumbass will still vote for the worst of republicans. The ones promising now to take debt to new heights.
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Post by HolyMoly on Jun 18, 2024 21:48:14 GMT
A relief from the century old, tiresome, America is just like Rome and it's about
to fall nonsense. This one is only four years old though I'm sure it will be around
for a long time. It's always fun to see intellectuals bend history like a pretzel in
order to come up with such a clueless comparison. And now the poor original
Nazis have fallen to the wayside. Damn. I'll see y'all at the grocery store lining
up for the last three loaves of bread.
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Post by runswithscissors on Jun 18, 2024 23:25:51 GMT
A relief from the century old, tiresome, America is just like Rome and it's about to fall nonsense. This one is only four years old though I'm sure it will be around for a long time. It's always fun to see intellectuals bend history like a pretzel in order to come up with such a clueless comparison. And now the poor original Nazis have fallen to the wayside. Damn. I'll see y'all at the grocery store lining up for the last three loaves of bread. Paleoclown falls for all manner of nonsense. He believes the main cause of the civil war was not slavery. Can you fucking believe that? He also believes trump is not guilty of faking business records. He's a real gullible mark. If he ever had a lot of money, he surely lost it in some scam he thought was pure genius. |
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Post by atreyu on Jun 18, 2024 23:38:59 GMT
The election was stolen!! LOLz
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Post by HolyMoly on Jun 19, 2024 0:39:27 GMT
A relief from the century old, tiresome, America is just like Rome and it's about to fall nonsense. This one is only four years old though I'm sure it will be around for a long time. It's always fun to see intellectuals bend history like a pretzel in order to come up with such a clueless comparison. And now the poor original Nazis have fallen to the wayside. Damn. I'll see y'all at the grocery store lining up for the last three loaves of bread. Paleoclown falls for all manner of nonsense. He believes the main cause of the civil war was not slavery. Can you fucking believe that? He also believes trump is not guilty of faking business records. He's a real gullible mark. If he ever had a lot of money, he surely lost it in some scam he thought was pure genius. The sky is falling.....again. Paleo makes Chicken Little look like a cockeyed optimist. Yeah, too bad he couldn't get on Donny's legal team. Trump would now be an unconvicted non-felon. Awww. Late Soviet America, more of the same wingnut blarney. |
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Post by bama beau on Jun 19, 2024 3:58:38 GMT
The witty phrase “late Soviet America” was coined by the Princeton historian Harold James back in 2020.
A chronic “soft budget constraint” in the public sector, which was a key weakness of the Soviet system? I see a version of that in the U.S. deficits forecast by the Congressional Budget Office to exceed 5 percent of GDP for the foreseeable future, and to rise inexorably to 8.5 percent by 2054. The insertion of the central government into the investment decision-making process? I see that too, despite the hype around the Biden administration’s “industrial policy.”
We have a military that is simultaneously expensive and unequal to the tasks it confronts, as Senator Roger Wicker’s newly published report makes clear. As I read Wicker’s report—and I recommend you do the same—I kept thinking of what successive Soviet leaders said until the bitter end: that the Red Army was the biggest and therefore most lethal military in the world.
On paper, it was. But paper was what the Soviet bear turned out to be made of. It could not even win a war in Afghanistan, despite ten years of death and destruction.
.....the federal government will almost certainly spend more on debt service than on defense this year. It gets worse.
According to the CBO, the share of gross domestic product going on interest payments on the federal debt will be double what we spend on national security by 2041, thanks partly to the fact that the rising cost of the debt will squeeze defense spending down from 3 percent of GDP this year to a projected 2.3 percent in 30 years’ time. This decline makes no sense at a time when the threats posed by the new Chinese-led Axis are manifestly growing.
Even more striking to me are the political, social, and cultural resemblances I detect between the U.S. and the USSR. Gerontocratic leadership was one of the hallmarks of late Soviet leadership, personified by the senility of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
.....we also need to contemplate the possibility that we have done this to ourselves—just as the Soviets did many of the same things to themselves. It was a common liberal worry during the Cold War that we might end up becoming as ruthless, secretive, and unaccountable as the Soviets because of the exigencies of the nuclear arms race. Little did anyone suspect that we would end up becoming as degenerate as the Soviets, and tacitly give up on winning the cold war now underway.
What have I been telling all of you?
We spent 50 Years fighting the USSR just to become a gay, retarded version of it.
I'd be tempted to respond "speak for yourself" if you weren't so obviously doing that already. |
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Post by Paleocon on Jun 19, 2024 13:35:04 GMT
I don't totally agree, but we don't want our children to know the difference between a pennis and a vagina. Doesn't sound like Russian communism. You're right. America, culturally, is far more sick and perverted than the USSR ever became before it disintegrated. |
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Post by Paleocon on Jun 19, 2024 13:38:18 GMT
A relief from the century old, tiresome, America is just like Rome and it's about to fall nonsense. This one is only four years old though I'm sure it will be around for a long time. It's always fun to see intellectuals bend history like a pretzel in order to come up with such a clueless comparison. And now the poor original Nazis have fallen to the wayside. Damn. I'll see y'all at the grocery store lining up for the last three loaves of bread. You'll never be mistaken for a deep thinker, meat puppet. No historical comparison is exact, but the pattern of Soviet failure is there
But only intelligent folks with a deeper knowledge of history would see those patterns, so it's understandable why you missed them.
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Post by Paleocon on Jun 19, 2024 13:46:36 GMT
A relief from the century old, tiresome, America is just like Rome and it's about to fall nonsense. This one is only four years old though I'm sure it will be around for a long time. It's always fun to see intellectuals bend history like a pretzel in order to come up with such a clueless comparison. And now the poor original Nazis have fallen to the wayside. Damn. I'll see y'all at the grocery store lining up for the last three loaves of bread. Paleoclown falls for all manner of nonsense. He believes the main cause of the civil war was not slavery. Can you fucking believe that? He also believes trump is not guilty of faking business records. He's a real gullible mark. If he ever had a lot of money, he surely lost it in some scam he thought was pure genius. Not only do I believe that the War Between The States (only the historically ignorant call it a "civil war") was not about slavery, I've proven that it was not about slavery.
But I realize that your brainwashing suspended your thinking on anything that your masters have told you was "settled", so you're obligated to spew the "can you fucking believe that?" defense of your masters' narrative. After all, the truth about the South would upend of the lies that you've been indoctrinated with, and that would make you uncomfortable.
I've also proven to you that Trump is not guilty of "faking business records", and so far I haven't found anyone with the balls to answer the underlying question: under New York law, what should have been in Trump's business records instead of the perfectly factual "legal expense".
Anything else, boy?
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Post by thor on Jun 19, 2024 15:42:45 GMT
I don't totally agree, but we don't want our children to know the difference between a pennis and a vagina. Doesn't sound like Russian communism. You're right. America, culturally, is far more sick and perverted than the USSR ever became before it disintegrated. The door is that way -----------------------------> |
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Post by RWB on Jun 19, 2024 15:59:47 GMT
You're right. America, culturally, is far more sick and perverted than the USSR ever became before it disintegrated. The door is that way -----------------------------> well then don't let it hit you on the way out Cuck |
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Post by Paleocon on Jun 19, 2024 16:06:54 GMT
You're right. America, culturally, is far more sick and perverted than the USSR ever became before it disintegrated. The door is that way -----------------------------> It's not surprising that your first thought would be to run in the face of adversity and problems rather than stay and fight rather than leaving.
Your head wound was through and through, wasn't it, boy?
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Post by atreyu on Jun 19, 2024 16:12:27 GMT
The door is that way -----------------------------> It's not surprising that your first thought would be to run in the face of adversity and problems rather than stay and fight rather than leaving.
Your head wound was through and through, wasn't it, boy?
Well feel free to stay here and whine about trans and gheys.
Just don't expect anyone to take you seriously here.
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Post by Paleocon on Jun 19, 2024 16:25:12 GMT
It's not surprising that your first thought would be to run in the face of adversity and problems rather than stay and fight rather than leaving.
Your head wound was through and through, wasn't it, boy?
Well feel free to stay here and whine about trans and gheys.
Just don't expect anyone to take you seriously here.
"Gheys"??
Not whining about them, just pointing out the truth.
No matter how much liberals pretend otherwise, some lifestyles will always be biologically unnatural.
Why do you hate the science?
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Post by HolyMoly on Jun 19, 2024 21:14:46 GMT
A relief from the century old, tiresome, America is just like Rome and it's about to fall nonsense. This one is only four years old though I'm sure it will be around for a long time. It's always fun to see intellectuals bend history like a pretzel in order to come up with such a clueless comparison. And now the poor original Nazis have fallen to the wayside. Damn. I'll see y'all at the grocery store lining up for the last three loaves of bread. You'll never be mistaken for a deep thinker, meat puppet. No historical comparison is exact, but the pattern of Soviet failure is there
But only intelligent folks with a deeper knowledge of history would see those patterns, so it's understandable why you missed them.
One does not need to be a deep thinker to find this kind of stuff nonsensical. But a columnist has to write columns so he has to pump out lots of insignificant stuff to keep the column going. True, no historical comparison is exact, but this isn't even in the same ball park. It's fun to watch Fergy try to massage the health stats of the last years of the U.S.S.R. to that of contemporary America. Fail, nut job. And then acting like the U.S. is a gerontocracy just because too old guys are running, which is just a matter of happenstance. Wingnut roulette: The U.S. is now like a) the last years of the Roman Empire. b) the last years of the Soviet Union. c) Nazi Germany. d) none of the above. If you want to see patterns, go to a dress shop. |
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Post by atreyu on Jun 19, 2024 21:25:08 GMT
Well feel free to stay here and whine about trans and gheys.
Just don't expect anyone to take you seriously here.
"Gheys"??
Not whining about them, just pointing out the truth.
No matter how much liberals pretend otherwise, some lifestyles will always be biologically unnatural.
Why do you hate the science?
What's it like to be so painfully wrong so many times? What's it like to never be able to learn new information and integrate it?
I always think dumb people have pretty easy lives because the world is so simple to them.
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Post by johnnybgood on Jun 19, 2024 21:35:59 GMT
Well feel free to stay here and whine about trans and gheys.
Just don't expect anyone to take you seriously here.
"Gheys"??
Not whining about them, just pointing out the truth.
No matter how much liberals pretend otherwise, some lifestyles will always be biologically unnatural.
Why do you hate the science?
Unnatural? Depends on what you mean by this. People who are attracted to the same sex don't choose the attraction. They can choose the action they take. I don't say no too often to women. Gays are the same way. People who think they're the opposite sex have a mental issue they can't control. They can only choose to show it or hide it. It's no different than me knowing I'm a man. Neither of these weirdos can help these feelings. Yet I'm still against sports allowing choice. We see it as unnatural, but that is exactly what it is to them. Its called "Gender dysphoria". |
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Post by atreyu on Jun 20, 2024 0:10:39 GMT
"Gheys"??
Not whining about them, just pointing out the truth.
No matter how much liberals pretend otherwise, some lifestyles will always be biologically unnatural.
Why do you hate the science?
Unnatural? Depends on what you mean by this. People who are attracted to the same sex don't choose the attraction. They can choose the action they take. I don't say no too often to women. Gays are the same way. People who think they're the opposite sex have a mental issue they can't control. They can only choose to show it or hide it. It's no different than me knowing I'm a man. Neither of these weirdos can help these feelings. Yet I'm still against sports allowing choice. We see it as unnatural, but that is exactly what it is to them. Its called "Gender dysphoria".
Paleo is attracted to men and (maybe) women. To him it's a choice, so he thinks to everyone else it's a choice.
Yes, it's dumb.
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