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Jeff Mockensturm's avatar

Let's not forget, the Chinese authoritarian model is incapable of inventing anything - they steal intellectual property from the West and use the stolen IP to reverse engineer everything. That is, what a free people and free market produces naturally, China is incapable. Their DeepSeek AI is a perfect example - reverse engineered off US large language models, it is denied access to outside information and fed a restricted diet of state-controlled propaganda and false "science" - rendering it effectively useless. AI is perhaps the best example of why the "Chinese model" doesn't (and cannot) work.

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NothingButNet's avatar

Excellent post, Peter. Great quote from Thomas Sowell, who has an exceptional mind. If there was such a thing as a wisdom quotient (similar to the IQ - intelligence quotient), Sowell would be at the top of the chart.

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Daniel Anderson's avatar

Xi is full of Pooh!💩

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Rodney Myers's avatar

Seems odd the person praising Jimmy Carter doesn't know the part about using the USSR invasion of Afghanistan to give the Soviets their Vietnam.

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John Hudson's avatar

I remember the left having hissies about Trump's plans to be a dictator "just for a day" at the beginning of his 2nd term. He trolled them and they didn't get it. Not a new thing for Trump, and a predictable response from the chattering classes. I don't think Friedman was trolling, however.

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Peter Venetoklis's avatar

Not a chance Friedman was trolling. All socialists are thugs.

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