“It’s real, even if it doesn’t show up in charts.” How do you know it’s real, then? How do you know that you’re not simply insisting on a reality you prefer, in the face of evidence? How would you support your view? Is it falsifiable, at all? How are you any different from MAGA in this respect?

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The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

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And obviously the US was the wealthy nation that got off the easiest in WW2 - our cities were never bombed, our populations never displaced, our government never dissolved

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Why do elder millennials (with no connection to the military) talk about GWOT like it was a world war level societal trauma?

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Getting a lot of reactions to this that don't fully internalize what a world war or even a war at home look like culturally

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