Oh, it's you again. I remember--you're the guy who argues like a girlfriend. "You're doing this!" "You always do that!"

I'm not "doing" anything. I have said things, and you have said things. I think the things you have said in response to the things I have said are largely irrelevant, or are weird left-turn things that really don't have anything to do with what I've said. Telling people what their own "point" is is the argumentative tactic of a real internet-y fucking asshole. You should work on not doing that.

China has proven itself remarkably effective in getting what it wants out of the Western world, in some ways that are obvious, and in many ways I don't think we've even begun to recognize, but whose symptoms are clear. At the same time, they've managed to capture the overwhelming bulk of human beings' ability to make stuff, which is incredibly important. This is what I said, this is what I'm saying now. I don't really care about your opinions about social media and whatever, because social media doesn't make stuff. Maybe, when it comes to the knee-capping of the world economy by way of a global hysteria over a plague that never happened, some Middle Eastern players own the instrument, social media, that allowed this to happen. But they aren't the ones who played it, and that's what I'm interested in.

Oh, it's you again. I remember--you're the guy who argues like a girlfriend. "You're doing this!" "You always do that!"

I'm not "doing" anything. I have said things, and you have said things. I think the things you have said in response to the things I have said are largely irrelevant, or are weird left-turn things that really don't have anything to do with what I've said. Telling people what their own "point" is is the argumentative tactic of a real internet-y fucking asshole. You should work on not doing that.

China has proven itself remarkably effective in getting what it wants out of the Western world, in some ways that are obvious, and in many ways I don't think we've even begun to recognize, but whose symptoms are clear. At the same time, they've managed to capture the overwhelming bulk of human beings' ability to make stuff, which is incredibly important. This is what I said, this is what I'm saying now. I don't really care about your opinions about social media and whatever, because social media doesn't make stuff.