The liberal fascination with private/public partnerships is so odd. There's obviously some brainworm idea that a privatized version of a service will experience market pressures to improve efficiency... but even in their ideal world where that's true why do they think that the profit margin wouldn't swallow up that difference, especially when they never do competitive bidding for services? The Thatcherite vision at least had the consistency of the government completely exiting the field, but the Starmerite vision seems to be the Ultimate Centrist approach of just having the worst of all worlds.
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As a youth, I remember media talking heads using the term managed democracy being used to describe the various "regimes" that had free elections, but which in no sense did citizens democratically determine the direction of the country's government. It didn't take much introspection to apply that logic to the USA, but apparently introspection is a rare trait.
As Nyerere said, the United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. We get to have free elections where the only thing we decide is to what degree of depravity the government will treat marginalized people.
The Adam Smith lovefest is fucking OVER, here's all the ways in which he was WRONG AS HELL 
They're gonna say that Russia funded Saddam, aren't they?
It's a tragedy that Marx was born too early to be history's greatest poster.
I used it at work to ask questions about various engineering standards, and it often provided good answers without having to slog through forums or blog spam (or, god forbid, actually reading the standard directly). I don't use it so much anymore, because of how much it gave subtly or very wrong answers. You can definately encounter wrong answers from online commenters, but you might at least get some pushback from other commenters, so it's sort of self correcting.
I also found it weirdly good for asking questions about Marxist theory while reading through Capital. Unlike most people with an opinion about Marxism, ChatGPT actually appears to have read the source material. Still, it can't help but editorialize sometimes.
In the early Obama era, the lib argument for how this is "supposed" to work is that the UN would identify nation-state level crimes about to happen (or in-progress), and then send a coalition national militaries over there to solve the problem. They based this on such positive examples as UN and NATO interventions in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.
I met a lurker from an obscure site,
Who saidโโTwo vast and trunkless balls of ham
hang in the desert. . . .
The cliff face retreats 40 feet every year, revealing buried treasures once locked in the ice.
oh wow, you mean like pirate's treasure?
Space X does have a Tesla Roadster in orbit that they could drop onto Colorado Springs