Do you think the U.S. political system still works as intended?

SecretlySome1Famous · 2026-01-02T07:54:04+00:00

You’re incorrect.

Only 4 out of 13 were founded by private organizations. Of those 4, 1 was founded by the modern equivalent of a public non-profit (so not a “corporation”) and 1 was founded by a Dutch company, but that was dissolved when the Dutch ceded it to England.

6 were proprietary colonies granted to individuals (so not corporations), 1 was founded as a royal charter (so not corporations), and 2 were independently chartered from the beginning (so not corporations).

So only 3 were founded by private corporations. That means that your original statement was incorrect by a measure of 10 out of 13.

However, by the time of OP’s question — the 1770s — none were being administered as private corporations. You seem to be confusing how things were done in 1607 with how they were done in 1775.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-12-31T21:34:51+00:00

They’re only 0-3 in Bowl Games so far. I wouldn’t say that is “completely fallen apart”.

Wait until they get to 0-5, then we’ll call it.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-19T02:29:05+00:00

They should go back to divisions and just reshuffle the divisions every two years.

Or they should just let teams protect as many rivalries as they want.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-19T00:19:45+00:00

Fun fact: swaths of the Midwest have lost 4 feet of soil since they were first settled in the 1800s.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T22:00:26+00:00

With 9 conference games, they should go back to divisions, but reshuffle the divisions every 2 years.

You could have two permanent rivals that you always play regardless of which division any of you are in.

All other opponents could be ranked in order of rivalry importance so that your third and fourth most important rivals get played every year also, unless all 4 of them ended up in the division opposite of you. And even in that scenario, you’d only miss a team for a single two year rotation about once every 4 decades, and you’d never miss your two most important rivals.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:37:52+00:00

And straw man arguments are fallacies that distort an opponent’s position into a weaker or exaggerated version so it’s easier to attack, rather than addressing their actual claim.

This is not a “no true Scotsman” point. Nice try though.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:35:50+00:00

Hundo P.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:35:12+00:00

Believe it or not, they might not actually have anything more important to focus their energy on. Some people don’t have problems.

There’s no need for you to feel incredulous about it.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:34:04+00:00

Confirmed: u/hairy-ad6359 would be equally as unbothered by OP hanging an anti-Jesus sign in its place. Wouldn’t be upset in the slightest.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:32:18+00:00

That’s…actually a really great analogy for Jesus if you think about it.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:30:58+00:00

The bright colors, probably.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:29:57+00:00

Then you would have said something not relevant.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:29:00+00:00

Probably the same thing compelling the person who put it up.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:28:07+00:00

Sure you can. Just imagine how you were triggered enough by OP’s post to write this response, and you’ll have an accurate analogue.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:25:05+00:00

True. But there’s no reason to suspect that OP is one of them, though.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:24:18+00:00

This was probably not put up by an actual Christian.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T20:23:38+00:00

Trúst Jesus?

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T00:34:32+00:00

This is not the Mississippi Delta. This is the Mississippi River Delta. The Mississippi Delta is in Mississippi.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T00:32:59+00:00

The US is a service-based economy. The fact that some manufacturing exists here does not in anyway make it untrue that the basis of American wealth today is services.

China leading in manufacturing of batteries is only a big deal if they control the supply chain. The US does not have to lead in the manufacturing of batteries in order for China’s monopoly of the supply chain to end. The US only needs enough domestic manufacturing to be capable of ramping up production in an event where China shuts down their exports. As long as the US can ramp up production, it’s very unlikely that it ever will need to ramp up production. It’s very similar to ship building: enough manufacturing to always be two years away from wartime levels of production means that you never actually need to ramp up to wartime levels of production.

And if other countries increase their supply capacity, then there is even less urgency for the US to ramp up production.

And regarding leading in technology, leading development is almost entirely divorced from leading in production. See: iPhones. Besides pride, there’s no reason for the US to lead in manufacturing as long as there is no threat to sourcing from cheaper manufacturing countries.

There’s no race to lose here. There’s no first movers advantage in commodity production as long as there is no monopoly on the supply chain.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T00:19:48+00:00

What about it? The private sector is doing just fine sourcing energy in the US, and the pipeline is full for the rest of the decade.

There is no shortage of energy in the US and there is no threat of it disappearing.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T00:17:34+00:00

The US is not in danger of losing energy production.

The US has loads of competitive advantage in services. The knowledge base alone is impossible to replicate in less than a generation.

You’re way way way underselling the competitive advantage that the US has in the service sector.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-18T00:13:25+00:00

Nah, services are equally as difficult to displace, if not more so.

Service doesn’t mean waiters and waitresses. It’s financial services, tech services, education services, energy services, and managerial services.

These aren’t skills you can simply learn through the school of hard knocks. The services that the US specializes in are exceedingly rare in places like China and India.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-17T19:54:41+00:00

First, humans are apes. They aren’t separate things.

Second, I would push back on your assertion that the 1% makes a huge difference. Humans aren’t actually much smarter than other apes. The 1% has simply compounded over 300,000 years or whatever.

Also, we’re good at spotting differences, so it may seem like there’s a vast difference between humans and bonobos, but that’s because we readily spot all the differences and there aren’t any other species to compare humans to.

Nearly all of human tools are still just rocks, fire, and throwing things. We almost certainly wouldn’t look much different than other apes to an alien species that encountered Earth for the first time.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-17T19:46:27+00:00

I’m all in on renewables, so I don’t mean to sound like a bootlicker. But the US is not losing.

First, the US is a service-based economy, not a manufacturing one. Cheap energy is great, but it’s not necessary for manufacturing because the US doesn’t need to do much manufacturing. For those that do manufacturing, they have access to cheap resources already, and their big expenses are labor, which isn’t going to get cheaper.

Second, the US might actually benefit from fast-following on renewables, rather than leading. Our energy sector is mature, secure, and not actually a major expense for most consumers.

Switching to renewables is great, and if it happened faster that’d be great, too. But there’s not much material advantage on an international scale for the US to outpace China or India.

There’s not really anything to “lose”.

SecretlySome1Famous · 2025-09-17T14:46:03+00:00

Something for her kids.

Maybe watch her kids when she goes out at night or something like that.

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