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Avoiding the Anger Game

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 daniel “no assholes” rule, anger addiction, Anger Game, Assholes and the Anger Game, Avoiding the Anger Game, Diffusing the Anger Games, How the Anger Game Works, How to Avoid the Anger Game, How to Break the Anger Cycle, professional angry people, proper response to anger, the Anger Game, The Lies of Anger, The Proper Response to Anger

Ultimately, angry people want three things: attention, sympathy, and justification. When you play the anger game, you give the angry person what he or she craves most.

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More History Changing Assassinations

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 daniel 1. U.S. President William McKinley (R-Ohio) 1901, 2. Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi 1932, Forgotten Disruptive Assassinations include:, More History Changing Assassinations

Thus, American politics could have been very different had Leon Czolgosz’s bullets missed. Czolgosz changed American and world history by killing William McKinley.

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Life After Empire

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 daniel Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Japanese Bank plans stablecoin payment solution, Life After Empire, loss of Empire, post-imperial nation, post-imperialism, Sweden

However, a few countries have adjusted to the loss of Empire in a sane and constructive manner. Studying those countries could help nations such as the United States and United Kingdom learn to live without an empire.

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America’s Worst President: How Jefferson Davis Lost the Civil War

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 daniel America’s Worst President, America’s Worst President: How Jefferson Davis Lost the Civil War, How Jefferson Davis Lost the Civil War, Jefferson Davis’s British Delusion, Jefferson Davis’s Plot to Trigger a War between the Union and the British Empire, King Cotton Fails the South, What we can Learn from Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis did more to destroy American slavery; an institution he loved, than any abolitionist. Moreover, Davis was responsible for the destruction of the Southern Society he loved.

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Americans Reject Endless War

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 daniel America’s Endless War, Americans Reject Endless War, Average Americans Reject Endless War, continuous warfare, Endless War, How Endless War Hurts Army Recruiting, The Army’s Marketing Efforts to younger People Fail, US Army Recruiting Fails, Where will the Soldiers Come From?, Will Robots fight the Next War?, Young Americans do not Want to Join the Army

In the final analysis, I think the recruiting numbers prove average Americans are rejecting endless war.

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Diapers show why America needs a Basic Income

January 5, 2020January 6, 2020 daniel Andrew Yang has a Solution to the Diaper Dilemma, Cash solves the Diaper Dilemma, End Diaper Need Act, Is a Basic Income the Solution?, The Diaper Dilemma, The Diaper Dilemma Shows What’s Wrong with American Welfare, Why America needs a Basic Income, Why the Freedom Dividend is better than Welfare, Why the Poor Hate Bureaucrats

The diaper dilemma exposes everything with America’s bureaucratic welfare system.

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Assassinations that that changed History you Never Heard of

January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 daniel 1. Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, 2. Walther Rathenau, 3. Admiral François Darlan, Assassinations that that changed History, Assassinations that that changed History you Never Heard of, history-changing assassinations

The most disruptive assassination of the 20th Century was probably the killing of Russian statesman Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin. I think Stolypin was the one man who could have reformed the Russian Empire and prevented World War I.

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Five Big Ideas to Watch in 2020

December 31, 2019January 24, 2020 daniel 1. Nuclear Fusion, 2. Hyperloop, 3. Geoengineering, 4. Government-Issued Cryptocurrencies, 5. The Benedict Option, Five Big Ideas, Five Big Ideas that Could Change the World in 2020, Five Big Ideas to Watch in 2020

Investors need to watch nuclear fusion because it could generate trillions of dollars in income – if it works. Unfortunately, nobody knows how long it will take to build a working fusion reactor or if one is possible.

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What we can Learn from Imperial Collapse

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 daniel A World of Imperial Collapse, Imperial Collapse, Imperial Collapse Breeds Terrorism, Imperial Collapse is deadly and Catastrophic, Imperial Collapse is Often Exaggerated, Imperial Collapse leads to Chaos, The New Chinese Empire, The Third German Empire, What we can Learn from Imperial Collapse

Thus we live in a world of imperial collapse, in which three empires; the Russian, the American, and the German/European, could fall apart before our eyes. Hence it is a good time to study past imperial collapses.

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The Great White Culture War is really Economic

December 15, 2019December 15, 2019 daniel Culture War and Victory, How the Culture War became Class Warfare, How the Culture Wars could end with a whimper not a bang, How the Economy Explains the Culture Wars, Income Inequality and the Culture War, The Culture War as Class Warfare, The Culture War on the Left, The Great White Culture War, The Great White Culture War is really Economic, The Stark Divide Between Kentucky and Manhattan, The White Elite is Thriving, What is Wrong with Kentucky?, What Student Loans tell us about the Culture War

The greatest economic factor in the white culture war; however, is income. Income figures show that white Americans in white majority “Red States” such as Kentucky have far less money than the elite.