Balaji Srinivasan

But if you're, you know, antithetical or opposed or economically opposed to both, like a very offline person who's, you know, factories disrupted by the Chinese, then you've got, you know, a bad time and you're going to be opposed to both, right?

All right, let me pause there, Mark, and say.

And that was it.

I know, but the thing is, it isn't the case that the state always wins because you can have religious conversions.

There's a reason people say the pen is mightier than the sword.

There's a reason Google is so gigantic.

It's never fired a shot, right?

So the thing is, it is... I think we're in an age right now, due to the rise of the right, where there is a...

enormous over-rotation on, like people will constantly tell me something like, Balachi, you don't understand hard power.

Let me explain to you what a gun is or whatever, you know, this kind of thing, right?

And in reality, often that person, not you guys, but that person doesn't understand hard power because I will start showing them that the U.S.

military is made in China, that the supply chains are there, that you can't fight your factory, that the Tomahawk and the JDAM, all the U.S.

armaments depend on China, that it's number one in steel and cement and cars.

And then they start crying.

Right.

Then they get mad.

Right.

Because what they thought they had.

And this is actually my main point of departure from, you know, I have, you know, friends all over the West, obviously.

But the the the Western leftist believes implicitly that they lose the argument that they can always resort to coercion in the form of taxation.