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Balaji Srinivasan

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2887 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Yes, that's right.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

But they're also retarded enough to tag Elizabeth Warren and so on as American, so therefore essentially friend.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

So they have made enemies of friends and friends of enemies, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

And so they're basically retards, in my view, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Have they done this?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Are there like bag of groipers who think that?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Absolutely.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Like literally, I just had a thread on this yesterday.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Yes, because what they do is, here's why, and I'll say it because I literally just experienced this.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

You know how like Democrats will say like, oh, our democracy.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

And Democrats define democracy as ruled by Democrats.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Meaning they're always surprised when 50% of the votes roughly go to Republicans.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Oh my God, that's a crime against democracy, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Republicans do the opposite.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Republicans define American as red American.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

And so therefore, they're always surprised that 50% of Americans are blue Americans who have a completely different conception of what America stands for and is, especially today, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

It's, you know, the proposition and the nation, the software definition and the hardware definition.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Nation comes from natality and birth and so on and so forth.

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Blood and soil is like the hardware definition of a nation, much more applicable for, let's say, Japan, right?

The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy

Which actually...