/pt/ – Petrarchan

By the way, fucking 1400 get, by accident. I am ascendant

I'm as much of an end-of-history skeptic as anyone I'm hardly convinced that a trade spat is the death knell for liberal capitalism.

I thought taxes were virtuous

the car is on fire and there's no driver at the wheel

>>1403 See, I said "a little eyebrow-raising" and not " death knell". This is why I hate talking on the internet

>>1415 Say some more about why this specifically is notable with regards to Fukuyama's thesis.

Count me among the Fukuyama-hater-haters. Fukuyama's basic point is that the alternative foundations for political theory have been tried and found deficient, and that the standards of liberal democracy are the measure by which alternatives are now judged. According to Frank, liberal democracy prevails because it summons and channels status-seeking into positive-sum outlets. I really don't see how a kerfuffle over tariffs challenges any of that. Honestly, Trump is a bigger challenge to Fukuyama's original thesis because it seems to represent a backslide from liberal democracy to, uh, caudilloismo (though Frankie covers this in "Political Order and Political Decay"). And then again Fukuyama specifically mentions Trump as a potential disruptor of the End of History.

I am not a Fukuyama hater, lol. I don't see what's so hard to get about what I'm saying. Trump is breaking a lot of norms in a much more serious manner - even if stupid shit like Greenland doesn't end up happening, it still signals the end of American reliability. The end of history liberal order isn't as unquestionable now. What actually happens is regardless because peoples' perception has been permanently shifted. I challenge you to find a similar total fucking swing in domestic Canadian politics like just happened, at another point in time when there were trade issues or tariffs between two allies as close as the US and Canada. European states are signing alliances and agreements left and right. Hello?

Why the billboard caught my eye: Americans commit this sort of shit on other nations constantly, but a foreign government buying ads and pointing them at a sore spot is not a phenomenon that the actual American populace has ever had to deal with.

I love the Yank redditors apologizing and cheering on Canadians for refusing to buy bourbon or some shit in front page comment sections. You can't imagine what kind of redditor flexing Canada is going to coast on for the next few years.

Look at it, it's like a James Ferraro song come to life.

>>1422 that's fair. there is something fundamentally amusing / incongruous about a sovereign state buying advertising space. the Lotus F1 team used to run with the word Venuzuela written on their rear wing, was kinda funny.

>> 1422 Read Political Order and Political Decay. You're not breaking new ground.

Yeah how dare I not break new ground with my fucking one-line post on an obscure imageboard - clearly what I had set out to do with it

Remember when Reagan randomly invaded Grenada? Nor do I, but historical ignorance is an easy way to exaggerate Trump’s novelty

>>1455 never heard of this that's actually kinda wild