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nkmnzlast Friday at 8:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

To be fair, he's not bringing them up as intellectual support for his argumentative base – he's bringing them up as support for acts of retaliation. This is mostly about power and we've lost 30% in power vs. the US in just ~12 years because we've fucked up our economy.


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jacquesmlast Friday at 9:22 PM

Maybe 'the economy' is not the only valid yardstick to compare countries by?

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lostloginlast Saturday at 12:10 PM

> we've lost 30% in power vs. the US in just ~12 years because we've fucked up our economy.

I wonder how many Americans would prefer to live in the US that existed 12 years ago versus the US today.

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DangitBobbylast Saturday at 4:38 AM

Most of our power loss is from electing a belligerent dumb fuck twice and allowing him to sabotage our international relationships and destroying our remaining credibility.

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