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Originally Posted by Dondilion

Nothing on outsourcing.

Your mind has been so sucked dry by Fucker Carlson, that's all you can come up with. You're officially as fucked up as Whell.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

An irritating comment. Why is your three-word dismissal in any way more than a nonsensical non-sequitur, as a response to a detailed article that supports the opinion that "The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead like Pakistan or Belarus—like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering."

Even if we accept that supply chain issues that existed in January of this year meant PPE shortages were baked-in to the situation, that hardly makes the mismanagement, misallocation, and corruption of the Trump administration's approach to medical equipment supply any less than a deadly criminal fiasco. And that is to say nothing of the corrupt promotion of dangerous unproven 'cures,' including the patently idiotic advocacy of internal disinfectant use. And it says nothing of the avoidance of the necessary investment (one estimate i saw was $250 billion) in widespread testing that would enable tracking and suppression, while allocating multiples of that amount to corporate giveaways. And it says nothing of the amoral lassiez-faire policy that is emerging: open the country, let the old and the black and brown die.

Seems to me that what you say nothing about far exceeds what you say the article says nothing about.

A guy writes a long article on "Failed State" and failed to mention that the state had outsourced production of basic medical goods/drugs. He did not even obliquely refer to that issue.

He failed.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

He failed.

No, you fail to have any meaningful thoughts. Your one-track mind=mindless ignorance. Sad, but typical of a Faux "News" devotee.

[donquixote99]

Let us imagine an essay that critically examines the activities of businessman 'Tony Soprano.' The writer explains how Tony's operations are predicated on larceny, fraud, and vice, all enabled by the pervasive application of mayhem and murder. Facts supporting these alegations, all the broken legs, all the bodies, are presented in clear detail.

Your criticism of the Atlantic piece is similar to calling the report on Tony Soprano failed because it doesn't go into the bad effects of dealing with foreign drug lords.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Let us imagine an essay that critically examines the activities of businessman 'Tony Soprano.' The writer explains how Tony's operations are predicated on larceny, fraud, and vice, all enabled by the pervasive application of mayhem and murder. Facts supporting these alegations, all the broken legs, all the bodies, are presented in clear detail.

Your criticism of the Atlantic piece is similar to calling the report on Tony Soprano failed because it doesn't go into the bad effects of dealing with foreign drug lords.

Bad effects?
If the writer declares Tony a notorious criminal and proceeds to leave out a major part of Tony's criminality, then that writer is lacking.

The author of the Atlantic piece states boldly in the heading:We are living in a Failed State. The coronavirus didn't break America, it revealed what was already broken.
Bad effects?
Not being able to make basic, critical stuff is the very essence of a Failed State and needed to be a salient part of the article.
The author is right however- it revealed what was already broken.

[donquixote99]

"Not being able to make basic, critical stuff is the very essence of a Failed State...."

That strikes me as an eccentric definition. I think a failed state is one that cannot maintain order or basic governmental services within its borders. The Atlantic author finds the failure to provide rational and honest leadership in the COVID emergency as a cogent example. He doesn't cite domestic manufacturing capacity because with honest and rational leadership, one can expect the effect of the shortages to have been largely mitigated, instead of magnified 1000x.

Today we learn the the Trump administration has aborted the CDC effort to issue detailed safety guidelines for re-opening the economy. This corrupt negation of essential government services is, again, symptomatic of a failed state.

[Dondilion]

Not eccentric with regards to the USA.

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Not eccentric with regards to the USA.

Wow, you are hopeless. I love how idiots like you are all about Capitalism, except when countries like China adopt it, and outdo us at our own game.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Not eccentric with regards to the USA.

Eccentric means odd and unusual. Can you cite three sources that use 'failed state,' with regards to an advanced industrial society, to mean 'unable to meet all domestic needs for critical items from domestic manufacture?'

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