On deep level these people are just rejecting society itself. They do not want to participate. They do not care how society has benefitted and continues to benefit them. They don't care what happens to anyway else.

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it really is remarkable how absent the Indian contribution to World War II is in mass media about the war, or the Asian theatre outside direct US-Japan conflicts

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if this was decision was really made over the ability to import a little diesel fuel from Russia in a vain attempt to control inflation costs before the midterm, it will say a whole lot about the specific failure mode this country is exhibiting

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(This is also why some of his most effective recent moments have been leaning into sincerity and *away* from the bro-asshole persona which is beloved online and uh not really elsewhere)

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my hot take on AES is that an underrated reason for his struggles has been that his public persona is pretty clearly and deliberately 'kind of an asshole', which plays extremely well with people who already like him and fairly poorly with everyone else

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