Aidan
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Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
“When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark” theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
3/ How could you sign a pledge to not contribute to a newspaper and then... do the opposite? I think it's helpful to understand that in some cricles expressed political beliefs are better understood as status accoutrements than as beliefs in traditional senses of the word
The truth about "social murder" is that virtually everyone thinks the policies they disagree with lead to more death and suffering. That's why they disagree with them. In a liberal democracy we address our perception of "social murder" through dialogue and the political process.
The truth about "social murder" is that virtually everyone thinks the policies they disagree with lead to more death and suffering. That's why they disagree with them. In a liberal democracy we address our perception of "social murder" through dialogue and the political process.
We’re getting into tone and interpretation but my strong feeling is that piker is not offering a sober disinterested analysis. He’s justifying their point of view and the murder itself, but stopping just short of explicitly praising it. I agree it’s hard to prove, but that’s why I said Kelsey’s framing is more appropriate, not that your statements were incorrect
The Hasan Piker portion of this interview is understandably getting a lot of attention but can we also talk about how Jia Tolentino thinks that coffee go-cups are the ultimate moral evil but domestic terrorism should be allowed
