Balaji Srinivasan

And you can't just point a gun at everybody.

right?

And there's limits to just brute force.

I mean, duh, but also not duh, you know?

This is why, like, so many magas seem to believe that, like, there's, like, adamantium under the Appalachians.

That, like, America as a physical place has, you know, some super resource, right?

That, like, as if, like, the American empire with, like, a billion people globally and allies around the world isn't mostly held together by diplomacy, treaties, alliances.

You're not firing the gun

99.999 whatever percent of the time, however many nines, laws do not involve the firing of a gun.

That is a very rare occasion, edge case.

And while the left can like not understand that force exists and it is the ultimate backstop, that's true.

The right doesn't understand that it's not what you use all the time and you don't use it except in extremely, extremely infrequent circumstances.

Let me pause there.

It's not a long conflict.

Go ahead.

I'll figure out what you're saying and I'll say something.

Here's, can you see the screen?

Yeah, yeah, I've seen these numbers.

Yeah, it's insane.

It's wild.