It’s such a weird and vilely racist idea that any US-born white man married to a woman not born in the US is automatically exploiting her. The left’s brand of racism is damn oddball when you think about it. Their “protection from harm” means the return of segregation, essentially, and a particularly insidious form of the aforementioned racism.

It makes me glad I didn’t get with any women while I was in China and fall in love (not from lack of opportunity). I don’t want to have to deal with racism from both the right and the left. I’d be laying out some motherfuckers and I’m trying to stay out of jail these days.

The Patriot missiles that successfully shot down Russia's "invincible" hypersonic weapons were based on a design created by Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program.

People who think Reagan's "Star Wars" was a waste should consider that.https://t.co/pPA1KfnVMY

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 26, 2023

Indeed. The Star Wars program didn’t succeed in what it set out to do, as it was impossible with the tech of the time. But the research kicked off by the effort did lead to a lot of cool things we are using today.

How and why are people so incredibly bad at detecting what to me seem to be completely obvious scams?

I’m not talking about not understanding the tech. It’s something deeper. I do not know what to make of it.