Trump is right about the basic issue. Canada can’t spend years protecting parts of its own market & then act shocked when the US decides it wants reciprocity. You don’t have to like Trump to understand the numbers. Canada has about 40 million people, the US has more than 340 million, & the US economy is roughly 10x larger. The US is also overwhelmingly Canada’s biggest trading partner. So when Carney talks about fighting “dollar for dollar,” what exactly does that mean? Matching the tariff amount doesn’t mean matching the economic damage. Canada depends far more on access to the US market than the US depends on access to Canada. Canada has every right to protect its own interests & retaliate. But the US has the same right. If Canada wants to reduce its dependence on America, then build other markets & supply chains. That’s going to take decades, not speeches. You don’t have to like Trump to understand this. Canada is sovereign, but sovereignty doesn’t make two economies equal. The numbers are what they are.

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Agree with “PACE THE FRONTIER” in public. Keep training. The 2.5T Grok 4.8 model is going to be better than the current non-public models from Anthropic & OpenAI. I think Grok 4.7 will be in the same category as Fable 5.1 & Astra. That’s probably why he’s delayed the release twice. And the SpaceXAI engineers are in full monk mode. OpenAI is 11 years old. Anthropic is 5. SpaceXAI is 3. Elon has done a hell of a job closing the gap with labs that had years more experience. And this guy isn’t slowing down.

Future historians won’t have to guess what happened to Britain. They’ll point to moments like this. A 20-year-old whom McDonald’s wouldn’t hire being handed a £100 million council budget, lol. People vote for politicians & parties like the Greens, & it seems they had already given up on their country & want to destroy it faster. They put people into jobs they would never have survived in the real economy, then acted like the country was failing for mysterious reasons. A hundred years ago, Britain was a world power. Now they are at the point where a council can hand £100 million of public money to someone who couldn’t even get a job at McDonald’s. But most importantly, governments don’t appear out of nowhere & the decline didn’t just happen to the Brits. They voted for it.

Nothing SpaceX does makes sense if you’re a guy who sells plastic toys & thinks every rocket has to fly east, lol. East is cheaper if your payload wants to go east. This site is for going south. Sun-synchronous / near-polar orbits for orbital compute need a southbound water shot. Texas can’t do that without flying over Mexico, but Louisiana can. That is the geometry here. And the “it’s not on the Mississippi” argument is even dumber. They’re not building the factory in there. Manufacturing will stay in Texas. Louisiana is for the launch pads, propellant, power, & docks so the hardware can come in by ship. You spent half the post arguing against a factory that isn’t even part of the plan. And no, 3 degrees of latitude is not a fatal flaw. Boca Chica already handles the eastbound stuff. Giving up a bit of rotational boost is a pretty reasonable trade for an empty coast, methane access, & a clean corridor to the south. Starship can eat that delta-v. Plus, SpaceX has already said they were looking at coast, low population, methane, & reentry paths. Then they bought 125,000 acres of Gulf marsh & announced docks. You had the map right in front of you & still missed the point.

This clown is saying he’d rather live under CCP’s system because the cities are cleaner & you don’t see homeless people everywhere, lol. That’s like judging a marriage by how clean the kitchen is. Of course, China has some very clean cities, but it also has plenty of dirty, run-down areas that never make it into the glossy videos. And even if every street in China was spotless, so what? You’re still dealing with a government that has far more power over people & businesses. Chinese workers still make a fraction of what American workers make. The hukou system has also meant that where you’re registered can affect access to schools, healthcare & other public services. Then look at what happens when the CCP decides a company has crossed a line. Jack Ma criticizes regulators, Ant Group’s IPO gets suspended days before it was supposed to happen, & Ma disappears from public view for months. Didi lists in New York, CCP regulators launch a cybersecurity investigation shortly afterwards, & the company eventually delists from the US exchange. Again, China has clean streets. But the country also has youth unemployment around 18%, a property sector that has been in crisis for years, enormous debt & a rapidly aging population. You can make homelessness less visible. You can’t sweep away an economic crisis. Plus, Chinese people have spent decades moving to the US for higher incomes, better opportunities, education & more freedom. You don’t see Americans packing up their lives & moving to China because they’ve finally realised capitalism is terrible & the CCP has built the better society. People can talk about China being “better” all day, but when people actually have a choice, their actions are worth paying attention to. The crazy thing is, Keen is a university lecturer, which makes this even more interesting. I can understand why some young people come out of university convinced that capitalism is the root of every problem in the West. If you spend years hearing about the failures of capitalism while hearing very little about why liberal democracy, private property & free markets created some of the richest & freest societies in history, eventually you start looking at China & thinking maybe they figured it out. They didn’t. They built an authoritarian state with impressive infrastructure, but a poor population that doesn’t have much say over their own lives. So if Keen & other CCP propagandists want to trade freedom for clean sidewalks, that’s their choice. People with real freedom to choose will take the messy sidewalks, higher wages, private enterprise & a government that doesn’t get to decide the fate of their life or business simply because it doesn’t like them.

Your Russia “reset” + Uranium One happened on your watch while Bill pocketed Russian cash. NK tested nukes repeatedly under Obama. Now you freak that Trump cuts expensive drills & talks to Kim instead of subsidizing Canada & Oman forever? Your record created this. Sit down.

I don’t buy Russian/Ukrainian propaganda about casualties The war has basically turned into a $50 drone war. Russia can’t/won’t take much more land, & Ukraine doesn’t have the force to take back what it lost. I even doubt casualties are anywhere near what they were at the start

FDR’s New Deal didn’t end the Depression or create the middle class. WWII did. The US became the arsenal of democracy, factories full tilt. Your romantic FDR story skips the real cause: total war production. Not a tax model.

UK might still have hope if Brits are smart enough to elect Kemi as PM. Conservatives wrecked it for 14 years, but at least found a true leader since Thatcher. Kemi seems to understand the problem & has the solution. Farage is establishment, Burnham a socialist, rest useless.

Most people are stupid, but far-left women who justify murder take it to another level. This mindset belongs in a mental institution. It’s an illness. Stand with a cold-blooded killer & don’t act shocked when the same logic gets used on you & your kind.

This is a stupid argument Banks create credit, fine. But printing rand still doesn’t buy oil, machines or tech. SA needs actual dollars for that. Without real productivity and exports, local credit just tanks the currency faster. FX risk is real. So is the import problem.

Academia is full of people like this. Plagiarists, scammers, and complete idiots. Most contribute nothing to society. No new ideas, no innovation, no value. They just keep churning out people who think they’re educated.