Thesis: America is a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the world.
Antithesis: America is a white supremacist settler colonial state that cannot be redeemed, only dismantled.
Synthesis: "America" is an empty signifier whose political meaning is being fought over each and every day.
3) We are in the middle of an AI investment bubble, under which (even under recently increased prices) the costs to end users is still being highly subsidized by investment capital, and that bubble will, at some point, burst