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The main reason for NATO's existence (at least in my side of the worls -- Eastern Europe) is to keep Russia's expansionist tendencies in check. Of course NATO rejected Russia's request!

I've heard this argument in Tucker Carlson's interview by Lex Friedman: _"Russia requested NATO membership, therefore NATO is no longer needed"_, and was struck by sheer stupidity of its consequences.
A Scientist · 117w
New essay up on Substack: Corruption is Inevitable; Revolution is Essential https://iamascientist.substack.com/p/corruption-is-inevitable-revolution
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I honestly don't understand why a revolution is proposed as a fix for the corruption of sociopathic ruling class. Won't the sociopaths also corrupt the revolution to reorganize society in a manner that's even more convenient for them? The communist revolution followed the same path to produce people like Stalin.
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iwasanewt · 117w
TLDR: a revolution is not a solution, but a failure mode
A Scientist · 117w
Agree that revolution is not a permanent solution and was not intending to present it as such though I can see how it might read that way. Instead as implied in the quote from Jefferson at the end of the essay, I think it's a periodic necessity. I also think you could hope that humanity might one ...
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In my opinion the best way is to keeo rss/atom. Youtube majes it difficult to extract the rss feed. I assume that's because they want you to stay logged in, and present in their platform. That's a dark pattern, as far as I'm concerned.
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iwasanewt · 127w
ugh, so many typos...