what if we just planted an American flag on the glacier next to an ice cold keg of Bud and see how the Danes respond to that.
just because you’ve put it in a graph
doesn’t mean that it’s a fact.
Screenshot of tweet by Basel Musharbash “The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some decent government. The poor man has a stake in the country, the rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.” –– G. K. Chesterton
It’s working. Centrist institutions “triangulate” towards him. He increasingly defines one side a set of conventions that presume “both sides” equally worthy, equally suspect. Trump couldn’t really do that, because he couldn’t put together a platform, hold a consistent line. 6/
Elon Musk is epistemological poison in a way Donald Trump never was. 1/
Donald Trump bullshits transparently. He lies constantly, changes his story with his interest, (almost) everybody understands that and looks through it into the values that are motivating the schtick (love them or hate them). 2/
Musk, on the other hand, affects himself a supergenius, a knower of truths. He attaches superficially plausible logics to his lies, concocts stories and “evidence” to support them is relentless support of persuading people to believe what he wants them to believe. 3/
In Trumpworld, there have been the Qs, frightening, but discernibly fringe, weird. 4/
Musk, with his determined activity, with the reach and the epistemological deference his money can buy, is intent on reshaping the mainstream with his tendentiously concocted stories. 5/
Trump was bad enough. But Musk and his crew are much worse. Under Trump, nothing was true, there were always alternative facts. Musk is molding lies of his choosing into a version of truth towards which much of our lucre-tropic society may quietly bend. /fin
would you work in coalition with Steve Bannon to vanquish Elon Musk?
Prop 13 is rent control for homeowners. And its supply effect occurs where constraints actually bind, at the decision-making of local government, where in supply-constrained CA jurisdictions rents have usually been more than high enough for new construction to pencil absent non-price constraints.
some punters cheer, some moan, over where the ball has rolled just now. but the wheel very much is still in spin.
tech took a tongue lashing in the tech lash so they bought all the tongues.
people think philosophy is obscure and all, but the most urgent crises we face now are basically problems of epistemology.
what you want is people who lie a lot are amplified less.
what you have is people who lie a lot are amplified more.
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the best way to recover from the *blah* that comes from eating something much too heavy is to immediately go and eat something light.
people who speak ostentatiously about their ambitions to serve humanity often act with brazen unconcern about what their projects might do to actual humans.
the Biden Administration was just too mean to billionaires and their surveillance monopolies.
the poor dears. they are very manly.
When you’re the President, they let you do it. You can do anything.
@laprice who he casts himself as in South Africa’s history is interesting as well.
you can burn down the court because you think it’s biased. okay. it may very well have been. but if you then mistake reversion to the justice of the lynch mob as corrective reform, well, then you are kind of an idiot.
absent institutions to adjudicate it, there is no authoritative truth, just competing contradictory claims. and that is quite the opposite of a recipe for reconciliation.
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
what if instead of skeet or toot or tweet, we just called each post a treat?
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