Balaji Srinivasan

is a group of people that would be in the same place, speaking the same language, same culture, same genetics, whatever, for whatever number of years, right?

Japan might be the canonical nation where the Japanese nation and the Japanese state are very similar.

But anyway, yes, absolutely.

Like, look, the reason is they're doing it in a way where when they say American, they're just seeing patriotic flags waving and so on and so forth.

And then they get back and they argue with AOC or whatever in the next thread.

And the fun, actually a great example of this is when like Trump was trying to invade Canada, right?

And what'd that do?

That meant Pierre-Paul Ouvray, who is a Canadian conservative libertarian who is sympathetic to Trump, basically got destroyed in the election.

He was going to be a clear winner.

All that had to do was, MAGA had to do was just not tweet about him.

Instead, basically what happened was Carney completely won.

It was like a 40-point flip.

Do you remember that?

Did you see that?

Hold on.

Let me bring up that graph.

They've inherited power they could never build.

It is a complete LARP because they, like, you know, for example, actually, you know, Biden had this also.

You remember the whole semiconductor thing in the 2021 to 2024 period?

Oh, we're going to beat China in semis and so on and so forth.