Critical Race Theory In Schools

[LordsFire]

Whoever ensures global trade.

That presumes that the mindset and culture of whatever hegemon comes next will care enough about global trade to see it as worth safeguarding.

And that the balance of power is sufficiently lopsided it can be done by a single nation.

 

[Marduk]

That presumes that the mindset and culture of whatever hegemon comes next will care enough about global trade to see it as worth safeguarding.

And that the balance of power is sufficiently lopsided it can be done by a single nation.

Such is the status of hegemons that for this or that reason, they need at minimum a good chunk of global travel routes protected. The specific motivations and reasonings may vary, but the benefits of such policing apply regardless.

 

[LordsFire]

Such is the status of hegemons that for this or that reason, they need at minimum a good chunk of global travel routes protected. The specific motivations and reasonings may vary, but the benefits of such policing apply regardless.

Oh, certainly some trade routes will be protected, specifically the ones directly beneficial to them.

But I have no confidence that the US's eventual successor (however long it takes for there to be one) will just protect everyone's trade the way that we have.

 

[Marduk]

Oh, certainly some trade routes will be protected, specifically the ones directly beneficial to them.

But I have no confidence that the US's eventual successor (however long it takes for there to be one) will just protect everyone's trade the way that we have.

But between a hegemon and regional powers who can and will protect their own local ones, there would not be many areas abandoned completely.

 

[Arch Dornan]

That presumes that the mindset and culture of whatever hegemon comes next will care enough about global trade to see it as worth safeguarding.

And that the balance of power is sufficiently lopsided it can be done by a single nation.

Then we shall have a change in global affairs.

 

[LordsFire]

But between a hegemon and regional powers who can and will protect their own local ones, there would not be many areas abandoned completely.

That depends on whether or not those new powers want unrestricted global trade to continue.

 

[Marduk]

That depends on whether or not those new powers want unrestricted global trade to continue.

What new powers? Since the times when the term "unrestricted submarine warfare" was coined, no major power is going to go overboard restricting other's trade routes, because no one wants to open that can of worms again.

 

[LordsFire]

What new powers? Since the times when the term "unrestricted submarine warfare" was coined, no major power is going to go overboard restricting other's trade routes, because no one wants to open that can of worms again.

I think you drastically overestimate the rationality of man.

 

[Marduk]

I think you drastically overestimate the rationality of man.

The excessively irrational ones tend not to stay alive nearly long enough to build a major power.

 

[ATP]

The excessively irrational ones tend not to stay alive nearly long enough to build a major power.

True.But that not stopped all major players in 1914 go to war which destroyed or crippled all of them.If i remember correctly,in 1913 somebody wrote wery logical book proving,that war is impossible,becouse nobody would take advantage from that.
Very logical...but so what ?

 

[LordsFire]

The excessively irrational ones tend not to stay alive nearly long enough to build a major power.

I wish this were true. If it were the case though, communism would never have become a global threat.

 

[Marduk]

I wish this were true. If it were the case though, communism would never have become a global threat.

In hindsight the communists that did end up running a major power turned out to be less irrational than feared. Despite having tens of thousands of nuclear devices and massive conventional forces, they have neither started a global nuclear war nor blockaded maritime trade routes of third parties.

 

[LordsFire]

In hindsight the communists that did end up running a major power turned out to be less irrational than feared. Despite having tens of thousands of nuclear devices and massive conventional forces, they have neither started a global nuclear war nor blockaded maritime trade routes of third parties.

Just butchered tens of millions of their own people, trying to accomplish aims that basic understanding of human psychology would tell them were impossible to ever reach.

 

[Marduk]

Just butchered tens of millions of their own people, trying to accomplish aims that basic understanding of human psychology would tell them were impossible to ever reach.

Exactly. Even the most power crazed dictators with weirdo ideologies still have some respect for the raw force of major powers. Even North Korea is resorting only to skirmishes, covert actions and saber rattling despite oppressing its own population in every possible way. Despite having both the motivation and the means to, say, pirate the plentiful South Korean and Japanese shipping nearby with all its extremely valuable cargoes, it doesn't do that, because chances are the consequences would be swift and disproportional.

 

[49ersfootball]

Backlash against CRT & the WOKE culture will doom McAuliffe in the VA Gubernatorial election this fall.

 

[Bacle]

 

[Zachowon]

Looks like the pushed to hard to fast

 

[f1onagher]

I'm legitimately surprised that Colorado Springs rejected CRT. The I25 corridor is notoriously bluepilled.

 

[Jormungandr]

Good. This racist shit is as terrible as all the supposed anti-Black racism the likes of BLM shriek about in their street mobs.

Hell, I'd say it's even more heinous as they're targeting children.

 

[Bacle]

This is part of what convinced the board to ban it.