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@JamesSurowiecki Trump’s 2025 cabinet selections were emotional reparations to dumb people.
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Cunningham
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Hating both ends of the horseshoe
Chicago., IL Katılım Eylül 2021
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The NY mag ran a cover story encouraging a position on trans medicine that, in my opinion at least, was so recklessly irresponsible, deliberate intended to sow deep societal unrest (TARLs, not sure if you remember this or read this) I personally think their gloating on their perceived demise of Ben Shapiro, someone whom—while many disagree and certainly don’t appreciate his approach—has been a singular and courageous moral voice (again, my opinion)—I think this article should be read in context of a very real culture war rather than an actual reflection on the strength or weakness of Ben Shapiros media empire.
His empire is not what this is about.
(My opinion).
I think this is a very real culture war unfolding in the media. Some really dark forces, if you ask me. But an article from one of the greatest perpetrators of moral erosion about another media company who has been a very needed a necessary counterbalance should be read within that context.
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There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. That’s all over now, writes political columnist Ross Barkan.
Shapiro’s company, ‘The Daily Wire,’ is instituting significant layoffs. Its YouTube channel’s subscriber base is starting to shrink, and its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts.
“If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed, in part, for the ‘Daily Wire’’s fall from grace — ill-fated investments in feature films, an epic fantasy series, and peculiar merchandise — the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro’s constituency,” writes Barkan. “There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.”
Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/KtpIKV
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responding to bait in good humor makes such a difference
I had vague memories of the (very funny!) previous fight over all of this and chuckled to see the bit again, but this reply was a refreshing surprise
completely disarms the bait. nice to see
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline
@SO3_Clausewitz I think i just need to accept that this is going to keep happening. Ah well, that's life. Even up to yesterday, stuff like this would make me mad, but who cares? Im not so great and I should really have a better sense of humour about myself.
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@3RenChengHu @tracewoodgrains It seems extremely different. As bad as it is, Democratic preferences for groups, such as blacks, etc. are motivated by a sincere belief that these groups have been wronged by society. Trump has nothing remotely similar to such moral beliefs.
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@tracewoodgrains This is quite bad, of course, and in a more civilized age he would be impeached and removed, but it doesn't really seem all that different from Democratic kickbacks to the Groups, prevailing wage laws, etc. And it's quite a bit cheaper!
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It's almost awe-inspiring, in a sense, how ambitious and extensive this admin's corruption is, how devoid of any notion of fair dealing, how openly they loot the pockets of their followers and the treasury alike for personal gain
what do you even say at this point?
Katherine Faulders@KFaulders
NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin abcnews.com/US/trump-poise…
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@SHL0MS The water lillies have a crayon-like border around them, looks amateurish.
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@asymmetricinfo They cannot come remotely close to pronouncing the names of their medications. Like they are just way, way off.
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@asymmetricinfo Every single day I encounter adults who cannot read at even a middle school level.
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Read the Krugman essay on Europe/US gDP I was surprised see that our literacy rates are far below Europe's. What could explain that? So I started following links and found the root source, which says we have a 99% literacy rate: worldatlas.com/society/countr…
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@stanfordNYC My father in law donated a lot to a local music school over the years, so when his daughter got married (to me) we had a classically trained musicians singing his favorite John Rutter songs at our church service.
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It's just kind of unfortunate that, per unit of goodness accomplished, donating to local classical music performance feels like 10,000x as good as donating to deworming for impoverished children you will never meet.
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@bryan_caplan You are projecting your anger at lockdowns here. The trend clearly began before Covid. We had to force our 18.5 year old son to grudgingly get his drivers license 1 week before he left for college - the year before Covid hit.
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Looks a lot more like the long-term harm of Covid lockdowns than a digital revolution.
Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
There's a reason Marc Andreessen is saying this. Much of his business depends upon you *not noticing* the toll the digital revolution is taking on teen lives.
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I have always said that India is an extraordinary reservoir of global human capital.
Here are the Indian surnames (@uncorrelated_) - they are about equally Brahmins and Vaishyas.
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@3RenChengHu What policy wins has the court handed democrats? The current court clearly leans to the right.
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After decades of the Court brazenly disregarding the Constitution in order to hand Democrats policy wins, they genuinely believe that it's illegitimate for the Court to do otherwise.
Rep. Ro Khanna@RepRoKhanna
The Supreme Court has engaged in an ugly recidivism that has marked the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Reconstruction. 18 year terms limits on Justices now. Expand the court from 9 to 13 Justices now.
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@avidseries take him seriously, not literally. wsj.com/business/energ…
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Authors who, when cited as the main authority for a claim in the economic realm, induce an automatic eyeroll because you just know that whatever follows is going to be factually wrong and/or bonkers:
David Graeber
Karl Polanyi
Pierro Sraffa
Michael Pettis
Ha-Joon Chang
Mariana Mazzucato
Stephanie Kelton
Yanis Varoufakis
Robert Reich
Wendy Brown
Naomi Klein
Oren Cass
Anyone affiliated with the New History of Capitalism movement
Anyone affiliated with the Postliberal movement
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I wrote a thing on housing. You should read it.
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What does Broadcom do? latimes.com/business/la-fi…
spor@sporadica
fine then i'll be the one to ask what the hell does Broadcom even do???
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@AnimarchyYT @Noahpinion Shows that Russia doesn’t respect their own citizens’ lives.
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The fact that more Russian soldiers have died in the Special Military Operation than the TOTAL number of U.S military deaths in WW2, is absolutely insane
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One thing that consistently surprises me even now is: DC people are often the first to admit they don't understand core, important dimensions of how Silicon Valley works. But the intellectual humility is super asymmetrical from the other side.
Dean W. Ball@deanwball
I think at the core, the reason Silicon Valley titans struggle so much in Washington is that they have grown used to financial capital replenishing itself quite quickly, and do not realize that political capital can only be accumulated over much longer timescales. The unfortunate part, for them and for anyone who thinks technology is fundamentally good for humanity, is that political capital can be lit on fire just as quickly as dollar bills.
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This is a great move in my view. Despite literally being called PolyCYSTIC ovary syndrome, PCOS does not actually involve cysts! The nomenclature stems from a misconception from 1933, when doctors observed many follicles on ultrasounds of women with PCOS & called them cysts.
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@dismalcode @GearoidReidy @Noahpinion Well, falling population is a long-term problem of concern in numerous countries across the West.
"Failed state" implies the state is, in the present, literally failing, like it can't collect garbage or keep the power grid on, with warlords roaming the streets, like Somalia.
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@Arbitrary_user @GearoidReidy @Noahpinion It's literally been a topic in economics for 30 years now that Japan is stagnant and will collapse without population growth. Every decade people predict the end and are wrong.
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One of the many benefits from the tourism boom to Japan is people finally getting to experience firsthand what the country is like, and seeing through that the failed state narrative that had been sold in so many places
Steph Smith@stephsmithio
Everyone should go to Japan at least once (preferably early in life) just to understand what a highly functioning society can look like
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Every American with a 401k should write a thank-you note to Microsoft's board for firing Steve Ballmer.
Deedy@deedydas
Billionaire Michael Milken joked “if a US company replaces the US-born CEO with a CEO born in India, I buy the stock” But he reveals he hasn’t backtested the idea. So we did. In the last 15yrs, that would’ve 50x’d your money: 7.5x more $$ and >2x IRR vs S&P500: 30% vs 14%!
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at least 100 replies here mention some variation of "ur not a soul who rolled a dice with what body to inhabit. you're you because of ur parents". where is this coming from? it's all too similar for it to be genuine. who started this idea? why?
taoki@justalexoki
this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell
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