There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

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There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power
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Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

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George W Bush massively expanded US Free Trade agreements. We went from 3 to 16 under his admin. That's good for the entire world.

Pretty much the only thing I don't like about Biden is his protectionist stance.

I’m gonna assume you think Capitalist expansion and colonialism is a good thing.

The former, yes, the latter I bet we have significant disagreements on the definition of

Tangentially, if you’re interested in rabbit holes, there’s a book by Matt Kennard called Silent Coup that deals with corporate influence over trade, it looks at the agreements countries have to sign to get corporations into their countries.

I'm well aware of this process and support it. Countries are welcome to make any deals they'd like. They're presumably intelligent, independent entities making decisions in their own best interest.

So you’re in favor of BRICS and the devaluation of the petrodollar, if those countries choose to do that?

I recognize their right and potential desire to do it, but I think the likely economic responses and ensuing global downturn isn't worth the eventual possible payoff for them

As an example of an actual unpopular opinion I have, I think it's good that countries sell Nestle their water rights and then buy water back from them, if it results in a large enough economic impact for their nation.

Why do you think that opinion is unpopular?

It is unpopular in my circles, which includes a lot of "fuck nestle" kind of people

Maybe they did the maths and think it’s worth it. The “PetroYuan” sounds weird

I am quite confident that the dollar will remain the world currency, likely until we move to a single world currency in the far future.

You don’t think Nestle or other corporations ever do wrong? Maybe your friends think they do

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