pirate787

"Democracy is dead" because I disagree with the policy preferences of the majority of voters.

This isn't true, the US considers prosecution by the ICC as an act of war.

For-profit is the delivery system, which should save taxpayer money. Systems where the institutions are directly administered by taxpayer funds and their attendant public employee unions also have political/financial incentives.

Sesame Street is doing just fine and the people making billions off the licensing will have to make do without federal taxpayer subsidy.

Congress voted to stop federal funding of the CPB, it had nothing to do with DOGE.

In a free society, we don't need state-run media.

Actually it is PBS that bears responsibility here. Very likely the decision by PBS to hire OSS was corrupt (OSS are just a reseller of Iron Mountain) and they made no other provision to backup the files a second way, like AWS Glacier.

You can't be bitter because Europe squandered technological and capital market parity with the US in just 20 years.

Krugman so badly wants this to be true. But handwaving away massive difference in IT innovation and in practical data like housing size and vastly greater American consumption does not make it true. Just 20% of European homes even have air conditioning. European industrial energy costs are more than 2x the U.S. Don't ignore the data. Europe is behind and falling behind at an ever-faster clip. And the strategic issues of continued vast unskilled migration into Europe and the need to re-arm in a post-NATO world are further economic burdens that will tip most of Europe into middle-income status.

Piketty is just a marxist flailing around, backfilling data to fit his belief that communism is the solution for every problem. He's been spectacularly wrong in his predictions so far, for example he said Milei would be "devastating" for Argentina and the opposite is the case.

Also interesting is that the US didn't need the base and was able to operate command and control from South Carolina.