genericuser314

That means that T. Rexes were approximately as common in North America as wolves currently are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gray_wolf_populations_....

In fact, I've never met anyone who wants to go into debt, and yet here we are in the real world where "The bottom half of Americans combined have a negative net worth,"

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/bottom-half-of-americans-neg...

In objective reality, setting aside philosophical objections to usury, since inflation devalues debt as well as savings it is a net benefit to the above mentioned Americans.

In the United States, most people are in debt. When you're in debt inflation doesn't devalue your hard work... it devalues your debt.

For most people in the United States, some inflation would be objectively positive.

[0]: https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/debt/average-ameri...

Americans fixate on our civil war, not on our international wars.

"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."

~ An American president who was shot by an American citizen on 1865-04-14

"We have a marketplace of ideas where bad ideas die and good ideas spread."

Perhaps it should work that way, but in a US context, I think this is demonstrably false. Many people participating in the marketplace of ideas hold diametrically opposing ideas and posit contradictory facts. There is no winnowing of falsehood from truth.

The German language version (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drahtwort) of this article has interesting examples of this URL-for-telegrams, like noting that if you wanted to send a telegram to Die Metallpatronen AG stellte die Parabellumpistole, the manufacturers of the Luger pistol you'd address it to "parabellum".