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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri May 23, 2025, 11:17 AM Friday

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation:

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Dani Rodrik
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Dani Rodrik (@drodrik.bsky.social) 2025-05-22T23:09:17.050Z
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wcmagumba

(3,953 posts)
1. True but I always have to temper these thoughts with remembering our (Euro settlers) treatment of 1st Nation peoples...
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:20 AM
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no_hypocrisy

(51,666 posts)
3. I'd add more than two centuries of African Slave Labor.
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:28 AM
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Easy to become rich and powerful when you don't have the expense of salaries and incarcerated employees.

elocs

(24,374 posts)
4. I've never liked the name Native Americans for them because they were here long before there was an America.
Fri May 23, 2025, 11:30 AM
Friday

I like how Canada refers to them calling them the "First Nations".

The European settlers even used germ warfare against them giving them smallpox infected blankets.

applegrove

(126,146 posts)
7. We don't use the word "native" in Canada. It is looked down upon.
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:47 PM
Friday

We use "First Nations" or "indigenous" But I've heard native Americans say indigenous could be anyone living on deep ancestral lands anywhere in the world so they like "native" because it implies them specifically.

elocs

(24,374 posts)
8. Yeah, that's what I said in my post. I like First Nations the name Canada uses.
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:35 PM
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It has a sense of dignity to it.

applegrove

(126,146 posts)
9. Yes. It is about dignity. In french immersion in the 1970s
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:57 PM
Friday

our teachers would call First Nations people "sauvages".

applegrove

(126,146 posts)
6. Because they don't want any new millionaires - potential billionaires -
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:40 PM
Friday

who could be Democrats. All these groups could include people from the middle class who did well. People who knew where they came from and not people in the Billionaire Oligarch bubble (which is different than the MAGA bubble in that the oligarchs are exploiting and taking the wealth of the regular MAGA people and taught never to give to charity as any growing middle class is the enemy).

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