in other words, eugenics. we have a culling policy like in early animal domestication: herding pens outside the city walls to test whether infected animals are dangerous. only here, the culling is in the open society, without any advance warnings, which are suppressed from public knowledge as policy. it's far more dystopian than the hunger games.

I think an adversarial foreign power would push to expand rather than diminish state funded media like CPS, PBS and NPR. They’d probably also try to reduce the right to keep and bear arms and would increase regulation and taxes to damage domestic industrial capacity and reduce competitiveness. I don’t think our leadership at the executive level is doing this.

A foreign adversary would likely try much harder to influence the Federal Reserve Bank than the Trump administration already has. I think they would’ve asked for a wholesale firing of the voting members with yes-men replacements and several rate cuts after that, but it hasn’t happened. The Trump administration backed off from firing Powell and Cook, which I wouldn’t expect to see if someone else was pulling the strings.

Impacting our ability to borrow money/causing inflation are the strongest non-military weapons that can be used against the US, in my opinion.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

> So the rest of the world is safe from this idiocy.

Ho ho, some of us still have passports and could be coming to a country near YOU! cough cough