Aaron M. Long

@magattew If you think that buying TVs and cars from Japan made Americans love Japan, look at how China is perceived when selling us those same things. There's nothing wrong with Chinese-made electronics. They aren't American cultural darlings like Japan.

@magattew Japanese prosperity didn't soften attitudes about Japan, Japanese culture did. Samurai and Kaiju movies, then Anime and video games are what made Japan beloved in America.

When Africa becomes prosperous, racism against Black people everywhere will drop dramatically. That's not wishful thinking, you can actually watch this pattern play out in history. The Japanese were heavily discriminated against in America until Japan became an economic power.  Then suddenly Japanese culture was cool, Japanese products were premium, and the hostility faded. The same happened with South Korea. Prosperity rewrites how the world sees your people.  Nothing else even comes close.

@MendezMovieRPT Nobody cares what you think.

You guys realize audiences liking a movie more than we did doesn't make us feel we screwed up right? We aren't going to magically regret a bad review of a movie we genuinely didn't like.

@2Philosophical_ Wet streets cause rain.

“Correlation doesn’t imply causation!” Okay, then what does imply causation?

@miles_commodore Democrats have a long history of nominating uncharismatic technocrats in the primary and then reacting with dumbfounded amazement when ordinary voters go the other way.

@miles_commodore Walter Mondale was a *TERRIBLE* candidate, and having a woman on the ticket didn't help when the average voter was born in the 1930's. Plus Reagan was killing it on the economy. Not that it was all his policies, lots of the recovery was due to Paul Volker, a Carter appointee.

I was just a kid, so maybe someone can explain to me how Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984? Especially when you look at where we are today.

@IterIntellectus I have an idea: Let's terraform *EARTH*. You wanna remove the perchlorates from Mars? Let's start by removing it from the Stringfellow Acid Pits in California? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringfel…

it’s terrifying that people still don’t fully realize you can terraform planets

@KennyEdw @KonstantinKisin Amazon has made millionaires out of their early investors and employees, and they've made life better for their customers, and it continues to be a useful business to billions of consumers, who can now buy things with a click of a button, instead of a drive across town.

@KennyEdw @KonstantinKisin AMZN has a market cap of $2.74 trillion. Jeff Bezos' personal wealth is less than a tenth of that. The rest is mostly managed by institutional investors, who are saving money on behalf of ordinary people, so that they can retire in comfort.

I do wonder if anyone on the left will ever realise that driving millions of people (including billionaires) who used to vote for you away with lunatic policies and then implying they're bad people for not voting for you is not a winning strategy? Most tech oligarchs were compliant little wokeists or at best silent and complicit objectors until very recently. Same with many in business. As it was in the UK where wealthy people were standing in line to give money and support to Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson. If you don't want media platforms to be owned by wealthy people who support your opponents, don't complain - give them someone better to vote for!

@Crypt0_Facts @pureMetatron You don't have to believe in God to respect the work of the people who did believe while they were building the foundations of the world you live in.

@Crypt0_Facts @pureMetatron It serves no purpose save to desecrate the memory of Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk who calculated the date of Easter, and who gave us our present method of enumerating the year. It's a loogie in the eye of history, spat by sanctimonious turds.

I saw a guy in my comments say he refuses to use AD with dates because “Jesus is not his God”, because he is atheist, so he says CE. By that logic then should we tell him that Thor is his god now because he says Thursday? Odin is his god because he surely says Wednesday. BCE/CE is an indefensible clown-show, no matter how you slice it, it’s a useless variant. BC/AD is and always will be the most apt.

@pureMetatron This. Anno-domini isn't an oath of allegiance to Christians. It's a nod to the Christians who *INVENTED* our way of reckoning the year.

@Rothmus That's what the standard deduction is for.

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@the_book_land Western culture? No. English, and by extension, anglosphere culture? YES.

'Shakespeare, who scarcely relies upon philosophy, is more central to Western culture than are Plato and Aristotle, Kant and Hegel, Heidegger and Wittgenstein.' 'There is no cognitive originality in the whole history of philosophy comparable to Shakespeare's, and it is both ironic and fascinating to overhear Wittgenstein puzzling out whether there is an authentic difference between the Shakespearean representation of thinking and thinking itself.' Harold Bloom, The Western Canon

@PeterSweden7 No, it's not. Sweden had 9 million people when you were born, it has almost 11 million now. You're not running out of Swedes.

It's not climate change. The falling birth rates is actually the biggest problem that humanity faces right now. How do we solve this and encourage people to have more children? Give me your best ideas 👇

@HappyMotorhead I would happily work a 9-5 job *FOREVER* if I could still look and feel like I was in early 20's. Even for my early 20's pay and lifestyle.

Retirement age should be 55. People deserve time to live, not just work until they're too tired to enjoy it. Agree or disagree?

@keid811 @AdrianDittmann Oh, here we go. Do you know what ordinary workers are doing, retard? *WORKING*. They already have a fucking job. Being a lawyer, legislator, bureaucrat and regulator is not something they have the time, inclination or training to do.

@AaronMLong @AdrianDittmann yes it should be ordinary workers who do both

@PeterDiamandis Because we already *HAVE* robots, you pillock. We've had robots in industry and manufacturing since the 1980's.

A humanoid robot will cost us $30K and works 24/7 for $0.40/hour. A solar panel generates electricity for 3 cents/kWh. What exactly is the argument that we CAN'T create abundance?

@ZoeJardiniere I'm sorry, I think you've confused me for someone else.

Give me DEYANKIFICATION or give me death.