The words of truth spoken by Grand Master of Chess, we live in the interesting time just as in Chinese proverb. Желаю нам всем дожить до лучших времен. Спасибо Вам ❤️
Thank you for starting this Substack. I want to say what I value about this country, that I believe the Trump administration is threatening.
Rule of law
Freedom of speech
Equality before the law
Due process
Representative democracy
There are issues the country is failing to address that may have contributed to people voting for Trump. A big issue for me is something that Larry Lessig has termed 'unrepresentativeness'. However, solving the failings of this country is not worth sacrificing the items I listed. The Trump administration is willing to sacrifice them, promising to solve our problems. Even if doing so would solve our problems (and I don't think it would), it would not be worth that price. It seems that a good strategy would be to explicitly state the fundamental values of the country and point out how the administration is ruining them. This may not have mattered in the past when both parties valued these fundamental principles. This administration does not. The Democrats may have things they wish to accomplish but those goals must be secondary to these fundamentals.
The speed of the hypernormalisation is crazy. How can you counteract such a flood of propaganda and misinformation? It feels like trying to plug a firehose with a champagne cork.
You lost me at democratic leaders from Ukraine. You cannot be taken seriously. There is nothing democratic in that country. Watch the men get snatched off the street and conscripted for war = undemocratic.
Great speech as always, thank you. Wish RDI to be successful, otherwise the world becomes even more terrible than it was.
The words of truth spoken by Grand Master of Chess, we live in the interesting time just as in Chinese proverb. Желаю нам всем дожить до лучших времен. Спасибо Вам ❤️
Thank you for starting this Substack. I want to say what I value about this country, that I believe the Trump administration is threatening.
Rule of law
Freedom of speech
Equality before the law
Due process
Representative democracy
There are issues the country is failing to address that may have contributed to people voting for Trump. A big issue for me is something that Larry Lessig has termed 'unrepresentativeness'. However, solving the failings of this country is not worth sacrificing the items I listed. The Trump administration is willing to sacrifice them, promising to solve our problems. Even if doing so would solve our problems (and I don't think it would), it would not be worth that price. It seems that a good strategy would be to explicitly state the fundamental values of the country and point out how the administration is ruining them. This may not have mattered in the past when both parties valued these fundamental principles. This administration does not. The Democrats may have things they wish to accomplish but those goals must be secondary to these fundamentals.
The speed of the hypernormalisation is crazy. How can you counteract such a flood of propaganda and misinformation? It feels like trying to plug a firehose with a champagne cork.
The world needs a new Arsenal of Democracy, since the original WW2 one can't fight cyberattacks & the firehose of falsehood.
You lost me at democratic leaders from Ukraine. You cannot be taken seriously. There is nothing democratic in that country. Watch the men get snatched off the street and conscripted for war = undemocratic.