@GarettJones on Backscroll

8 tweets from @GarettJones that Backscroll ranked for substance.

Middle powers have a coherent reason to cooperate : their common commitment to international law and rules based order’ not out of virtue but because their interest is not to get trapped between the Chinese rock and the US hard place. x.com/uswpcolby/stat…
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Inspired by the Quakers, Dickinson freed all 37 of his slaves between 1777 and 1786 The comments and QTs point out that Dickinson was woke, a reminder that wokeness is underrated
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"If we're going to have too little to go around, I see no strong reason to prioritize low-income over middle-income people."
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How big a decline in US GDP per person would be an acceptable cost of doubling the US fertility rate? Vance says 50% is acceptable.
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American Social Security pension wealth entirely omitted: "Private pension fund assets are included, but not entitlements to state pensions unless they are fully funded."
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"People are depressed about not having Mistral do frontier etc. but we think it is fine: the harness layer depends on integration, trust, and local knowledge, which is where a second mover (and Europe) wins."
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Cf. antebellum South versus North: More gadgets in the North, and innovation spreads more quickly via machines than via brains, no surprise to Hayek
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George Galloway’s party got 0.73% of the vote in the last election. x.com/clashreport/st…
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