Champion of Truth
Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China.
China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBLIBEsHE0
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCULe4p3-AQ
Being a heretic is hard. It’s easy to be irreverent and to go against currently favored theories, but it’s hard to do it well. You don’t get serious points by saying Einstein is wrong and then making some crappy argument against him, even if the argument is rhetorically strong. You get serious points for doing the theoretical and empirical homework that actually shows Einstein is wrong.
Time and energy in our finite lives are limited. If you want someone to take the time to read and understand your radical theory, you’ve got to do the homework to understand the currently favored theories and why they are favored. If you haven’t done the hard homework, then your theory is probably wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo
The Romans rose partially because they were willing to expand their citizenry more than other states around them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1FetxWcYI
The US appears to have used self-defense as an excuse to hit targets Iran uses to control the Strait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-DI2slvcA
I’m not surprised by the Trump phone like I’m not surprised by the Trump presidencies.
https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/article/is-the-trump-phone-finally-here-here-are-six-things-weve-learned-about-trump-mobile-151836199.html
China is cracking down on foreign chips and communication tools that could allow its citizens free access to the outside world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_cPgPusjvA
Japan has lots of assets like a massive sovereign wealth fund. When you subtract these assets from their debts, their debt to GDP ratio is 77%, which isn’t that high.
Japan takes money from its people in the form of taxes and then invests in assets like US treasury bonds. Because their currency depreciated over time, their debt has become worth less, while their foreign assets have become worth more.
This has benefited Japan a lot, but may backfire if the Yen goes up, foreign interest rates lower, or Japanese interest rates rise. If Japan has inflation, this could force them to raise interest rates or live with inflation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLwSSGM6tzc
“The president has been executing the program for white South Africans while canceling refugee programs for other groups.
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Initially, Trump’s resettlement program aimed to admit 7,500 South Africans, but on Monday, the White House said it will add 10,000 to that target, saying “unforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.” Though Trump has become empathetic to this cause, his administration has otherwise mainly executed anti-immigration policies, like suspending the Refugee Admissions Program when he took office in 2025.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-brought-6-000-white-204425513.html
5 Evangelical Truisms that Aren’t True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-fgjgKfRY