Over the past year, I’ve seen some people in the tech world — not a majority, obviously, but a vocal and substantial minority — embrace a variety of stories about American weakness.

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So instead I thought I’d write a post about how all of these narratives are wrong

Basically, he's having an argument with his dipshit friends by doing a

But then he puts the 95% of his argument behind a paywall because its so good he thinks you should have to pay him money to read it.