In Thiel’s telling, the US Constitution was designed as a corrective to Britain’s “tyrannical rule of lawyers,” with a presidency, he said, built to be “more powerful than King George III.”

Only true fan of Alexander Hamilton.

Trump threatens Jorge Rodriguez with more blatant terrorism unless he privatizes the world's largest oil supply. If the new admin capitulates, Trump calls that a win. He gets the oil and the spectacle without losing a single american troop. The US will lose respect from its allies - again - but they never do shit about it. iTs AmErICa FiRsT. america

Rubio and the Cuba lobby are furious though. They are serious about regime change. The option that gets the most people killed.

If Trump felt beholden to congress, he would not have gotten approval. He would have had to spend years spreading propaganda and trying to build up a case, like Bush did. All that effort might have prevented him from doing it at all.

Didn't stop Bush did it?

More importantly, doing this is trying to peel off people who might waver because Maduro is unsympathetic

Saddam was even less sympathetic but the Iraq war was still wrong. Most of the US understands that. It's bipartisan amongst the populace at this point. Call it Jungle Iraq. Your son is going to die for oil... again. That'll alarm people way more than the bazillionth instance of presidential over-reach.

One of them only tells lies.

I always thought this would make more sense to implement client side in the media player. But its probably easier to implement this way.

I doubt anyone in power is deluded enough to think they can actually reinstate the Shah or something. They probably just want to bomb every piece if infrastructure in Iran and not worry about them for a few decades.

But regime change absolutely is the fantasy they are trying to sell liberals.

We've known that people don't vote rationally in a democracy for almost three thousand years. Why do you keep expecting this to change?

If you want to win elections you must both appear morally superior and promise material gains. Making morally bankrupt rationalizations just turns the masses away.

Every time someone made the argument "yes we're sponsoring genocide, but Trump will be worse" you lost votes. You just made people more nihilistic.

Its in the image, r/madisonwi, Madison Wisconsin.

What is your definition of left-vs-right when rich-vs-poor is an explicitly left-wing framing? Are you so caught up in the culture wars to think left-vs-right is exclusively cultural?

I spent like a week on this last month. Usually you use enumeration, but I wanted to allow client code to define their own strategies. I tried the Box<dyn MyTrait> pattern because some of my strategies were composed of other strategies, and I wanted to clamp down on generic types. But I kept running into weirder and weirder compiler errors. Always asking for an additional restriction on the base trait. X, must be Copy, must be Send, must be Sized, must be 'static. On and on. My experience is if I'm getting a bunch of those then I'm off the Golden Path. So I just embraced the verbosity of using generics and its easy. Yes its more code but its better code.

Who actually hates on declarative/immutable distros as a concept? Its always the actual usability of the specific implementations thats the problem. Stale packages, poor documentation.

Manic episode, part 3