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GE i’ve shifted from a naive globalist to a staunch American patriot over the last 2 years. i’m not an imperialist but i would deffo build systems to protect our way of life and world view - liberty, education, and social mobility. we have our issues to iron out but i believe in us maybe a spicy take idk
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Honest blunt respectful feedback: the problem in this is that "our way of life" is a bit of a shit show in the sense that there are SO many people living a pretty dreadful life in America. So, if you are saying you want to protect a great lifestyle for the top 1% (IDK what's the right threshold) then, it feels off
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yes, totally. was thinking about this after posting. i don’t have an answer here. i think having open internet and information access is important - and motivating our population to take interest in science and being great is key. idk how to do that
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100%. And luckily we have already noticed how access to information makes most people much more reluctant to fight someone else's fight / war. Nelson Mandela said one thing that always stuck with me: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." I think that's the key.
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no one is scary or “the other” once you meet them. maybe also naive. idk - it’s big hairy and won’t be solved in our lifetime
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💯 Frankly (not flexing), I've lived/worked all over the world and I can 100% back this up. It's so true, and I only pray others have the chance to experience it.
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curious what you see as major improvements to be made in america with your global lens
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“Improvements” in what sense? Institutional, economic, social? Other?
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hmm i guess i was thinking at governmental and like civil society levels
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Not sure there are institutional ones. I think we're running a natural course of institutional evolution. Socially, we're allowing politicians to divide us more than we actually are divided. We see this tactic all over the world in “shallow” democracies. Social media has played a major role in that.
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So no “answers,” just recognition that were following a fairly well trodden path. Choices at this point are more at the individual level (and we see this all over the world): protect personal interests by diversifying abroad while still working domestically to try and restore the country you once knew to exist.
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