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I'm still fascinated by how much support PP and the CPC has on X. Even Trump is now disliked by most, but PP's posts still have some of the best ratios amongst Western politicians on here for some reason...
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Andreas H.
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Andreas H.
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Geography; Technology (mainly transportation); Politics; Music (1970-now). Politically syncretic (centre-right in Western Europe, centre-left in Canada USA).
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Black Americans, specifically, are unbeatable when it comes to popular music. No other national or subnational population in the world comes close in terms of the sheer number of major genres and styles they've pioneered.
★@Luv_Xcuses
Be brutally honest, what's one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world??
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The people I respect the most in life are those willing to hear truths that cut against their ethnic, religious, or national attachments
To me, there is no better proxy for intelligence than the ability to stay objective when it costs you something and when the facts may go against what you hold dear
Nothing enchants me more than meeting people with this quality. And nothing disappoints me more than discovering that someone I thought was intelligent folds the moment truth brushes up against their sensitivities
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This is the age of the datacel.
But the demand for narrative and story remains.
The field is wide open for the theory entrepreneur
Theories, at least of the historical, social, cultural, and political varieties (the sciences are much more constrained), will remain a viable niche under strong AI scenarios. Much like writing, your theories are unique to you. You won’t be out-competed
Our present moment is deeply allergic to theorizing and our institutions refuse to supply it. But the hunger for theory remains.
The only question is: who will supply it?
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@PaulSkallas You're overgeneralising "Europe". You have to make a distinction. Nordics, Germans and Anglos are quite precious about cars and what you've said mostly applies.
The French, and southern Europeans, drive like maniacs. They keep crap cars even if they're wealthy bc the driving is
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@Empty_America Modern maga conservatives have conserved nothing. They act more like the French Revolution, tearing down and looting the old with no thought to what comes next.
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@Scholars_Stage TBH, I never found Obama that charismatic. Definitely less than Clinton, who I'd consider the most charismatic president of the last 50 years (not sure about Reagan, and Trump is in a league if his own).
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Going down the list: Kamala Harris, charismatic. Biden, extremely charismatic before he grew too tired. Trump? Absolutely magnetic. Barrack Obama? Few Americans have been more charismatic. Romney? Charismatic. McCain? Even more so. Bush? Even more so. Kerry and Gore—fairly charismatic, only look less so when placed next to some others on this list. Bill Clinton—absolutely charming.
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Pondering this, now very curious how widely perceptions of charisma vary.
The only presidential candidate of my lifetime who I ever would have described as “not extremely charismatic on television” is Hilary Clinton and (maybe?) Bob Dole.
Do you all agree or do you have a different list?
EigenGender 🔸@EigenGender
I’ve always wondered why presidential candidates are often not super visibly charismatic, since you’d expect them to be highly selected. One theory is that early stages of a political career select on in-person charisma, and that comes apart from television charisma at the tails
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Andreas H. retweetledi
This is a morally harrowing thing to balance. How to deal with some group being an unsustainable problem without also victimizing the people who are extra good and rose to our standards from a difficult beginning.
I don't know what we should do but I want to normalize talking.
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Hey @elonmusk please stop auto translating everything. It is very annoying to us Europeans ..
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Everyone who approved using built-in AI to automatically translate sentences on X, YoutTube and others is a petty monolingual ghoul who cannot conceive the idea of people wanting content from different places in multiple languages.
Stop messing up my international timeline and let me choose when to translate!
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@SandyofCthulhu …While those who view ancestry as being decisive for determining ones citizenship in (Western) Europe tend to be mainly racist right-wing extremists, with the exception of some "woke" leftists. Thus, the American focus on ancestry is seen as racist by most Western Europeans.
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@SandyofCthulhu It stems from applying a "French Universalist" mentality to the rest of Europe. Most European leftists and liberals agree (and consider the American focus on "Identity" to be backwards and kind of racist) and thus think that ancestry should not matter as opposed to citizenship...
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This is absolutely, hysterically, not true. Every time I go to Europe (which is often) I hear about "America is so young. Here we have tradition." And then I get to learn that the pub on the corner dates to before the Salem Witch Trials, and how their family lived in Hoozenberg since 1265. It's hammered into me constantly. I don't even mind. I love hearing about this history.
But saying you DON'T claim a heritage in Europe is an outright lie.
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH
Americans are so cute with their heritage stuff. Here in Europe you stop claiming heritage from somewhere after about 3 generations. If I went to Belgium and went 'I'm actually Belgian, my great, great, great great aunt lived here!' they'd be like :) ok weirdo
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@MadelaineLucyH IDK, I feel like this attitude is applying a (French) universalism to the whole of Europe, and while many people, especially on the left agree with this, many don't. Btw it's interesting that the "French Universalism" is left-coded in EU, but right-coded in the US and Canada.
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Americans are so cute with their heritage stuff. Here in Europe you stop claiming heritage from somewhere after about 3 generations. If I went to Belgium and went 'I'm actually Belgian, my great, great, great great aunt lived here!' they'd be like :) ok weirdo
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There are three traditionally negative/ unattractive traits that the culture of X seems to incentivize
1. Being in a constant state of worry
2. Being depressed about the future
3. Whining and resentment
Interesting these are incentivized by the hivemind of X and what it tells us about our moment.
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Agree with this. Musk's purchase of twitter was a massively positive development, as was hiding likes, and ending deboosting of right wing figures. But monetisation is a mistake.
It seems like there's two contradictory goals here.
1. To take control of a crucial node in the information ecosystem, one that was particularly influential due to its userbase, which he's done effectively.
2. To massively grow it on users and engagement metrics akin to TikTok or something.
Monetisation helps the latter but at the expense of the former. It's never going to be TikTok, and there would be no point to it becoming so. User numbers and engagement shouldn't be the goal here, keeping it a place where important conversations happen, and ideas form, should be.
I spoke to someone recently about investors/funders who put it quite well. When you fund something, you either aim for it to grow into a sustainable and profitable business, or you are aiming for social or political impact. Owning twitter is about the latter, and Musk has ample funds to afford this.
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I supported the Musk takeover to put an end to left-wing censorship, of random mass bannings. Ending the old blue-check system. Allowing people to pay for some premium features like extended post lengths was also commercial and sensible. But Musk just needs to accept that monetisation has been a fundamental mistake. 'Blocking India' does not stop the content issue on this website. There are many countries in this world where people will post any old shit for money, including the richest ones. Of course he's now in a bind, because the Catturds of the world are very happy with the current arrangement. They are in many respects his core constituency - all of these tweaks at the edges can be understood as attempts to 'not annoy Catturd'. There have also been other bad but less critically annoying moves like deboosting links and privileging video, all of which serves to increase metrics like 'time spent on site' while gradually eroding the experience for anyone who isn't a moron.
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The US has almost no economic relations with Russia and never did, which is actually part of how we ended up in this situation in the first place if you ask me, whereas Russia has major trade relations with China.
If the US had wanted to bring Russia on its side in the dispute with China, it could only have done so through Europe, which used to have large economic relations with Russia.
But Russia still wouldn't have joined a crusade against China, that boat has already sailed and, for the reason I just noted, it would have required the US to cooperate with Europe, which is the opposite of what you're fantasizing about.
These people have basically no idea how the world actually works. The window to bring Russia into the West has long closed, it will be a long time before it opens again and, when it does, the US will only be able to do it with Europe.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I’ve warned Europeans about this before, but if the US stops seeing Europe as a partner to help contain China, it will go looking for a different partner to support. Maybe a large country that borders China, with nukes and oil. The worst case for Europe isn’t merely a neutral US.
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Emotional attachment to politics fries peoples' brains. It's tribal animal level decision making by herds.
So many people are getting their emotional needs met by political theater and it's very dangerous.
Frontierism@frontierism
It’s actually pretty scary how well Iranian propaganda is working on US citizens. Some of these people are just eating up anything the IRGC says without question.
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That’s not even the big thing that makes the USA+RU vs EU+CN combo impossible.
Geography is. There is 0 incentive for Russia in there. If any war was to break out, Russia would immediately just flip sides guaranteeing USA loss.
Moscow and St. Petersburg are only actual Russian population centers. They are both easily accessible with missiles. War on two fronts would mean giving up those since they would be first targets.
Russia would be the only actual battleground of the two and have to face a two-front war with one of those in northern asia. This is the main reason btw why it never liked joining NATO.
Also, good luck resupplying Russia through the arctic. The same arctic already covered by Norway, Iceland and China.
Nobody real believes in this. NATO exists because the states have shared interest that makes sense. This just does not.
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