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“…No one from the U.S. government appears to have communicated those concerns to Argentina before a delegation from that nation left Buenos Aires for what it thought would be a Monday ceremony to sign the final visa-waiver agreement.

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• After two days in Miami, the Argentinian delegation went back home without a visa deal.

What they're saying: "Let's just say this was not a great look from us," a senior Trump administration official told Axios. "It's embarrassing."…”

 

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Tech Utopians Are Using a Chinese-Built 'Ghost City' to Trial Their Network State Fantasies

An abandoned city in Asia is the testbed to launch a new anarcho-capitalist movement.

gizmodo.com

For the better part of a decade, tech investor Balaji Srinivasan has been calling for Silicon Valley to “secede” from the rest of the United States. The free-market tech guru doesn’t just want space from regulators and government officials; he literally wants the industry’s coders and bigwigs to split off and crowdfund their own separate country.

Over the years, Srinivasan has articulated his own political philosophy, which he calls “the network state” movement—an anarcho-capitalist school of thought that envisions the creation of privately run “countries” that are governed by decentralized corporations rather than governments.

Last year, Srinivasan announced the launch of a new school where interested tech denizens could learn how to take part in the Network State movement. The school, which was announced on his blog, was styled as a place where the founder’s followers could go to learn about the tenets of his philosophy, which is, admittedly, pretty weird. Even weirder was the school’s announced location: a $100 billion city in Malaysia that was partially developed by the Chinese government as part of its “Belt and Road” initiative before being abandoned due to political turmoil between China and the local government. “Forest City,” located in Johor, is now considered a “ghost” metropolis, filled with uninhabited high-rises and other urban superstructures that no one is using. Well, no one except Srinivasan’s Network Staters, that is.

 

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“… "I am very disappointed in President Putin, I can say that, and we will be doing something to help people live," Trump said in an interview on The Scott Jennings Radio Show.

… Trump was also asked in the interview if he was concerned "about an axis forming against the United States with China and Russia."

"I am not concerned at all ... We have the strongest military in the world, by far. They would never use their military on us. Believe me," he said….”

Sounds familiar.

 

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last time I checked, brains are still organs that age and they really can't be transplanted....

But I'm not a megalomaniac, so what do I know?

 

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Abraham Lincoln: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the PROPOSITION that all men are created equal.”

 

[sringwal]

Hey conservatives - you want liberals to stop calling you fascist nationalists? Stop saying things that fascists say.

 

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Impotent disappointment is a way of life

 

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Abraham Lincoln: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the PROPOSITION that all men are created equal.”

The CPAC folks probably don't like a lot of what Lincoln did....

 

[superrific]

If Susan Collins would switch parties, she might win. And she'd be allowed to act on all her concerns.

Maine, don't embarrass yourself again. You are a running joke. I heard a professional esports commentator from Australia busting on Susan Collins. That's what the world thinks of you.