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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·16h

At some point, the Irish need to acknowledge that the Collisons are not just plucky whiz kids but extensions of a very old neoliberal network from America.

When I wrote the "the Collison brothers almost seem like a millennial reimagining of the Koch brothers", I leveraged implicit connections / ideological similarities. Then explicitly, Patrick was the keynote at Cato's Milton Friedman Prize Dinner where Charles Koch was awarded.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·16h

@parella_anthony They are not even doing a new remix. They are literally embracing the old stuff.

When I wrote the "the Collison brothers almost seem like a millennial reimagining of the Koch brothers", I leveraged implicit connections / ideological similarities. Then explicitly, Patrick was the keynote at Cato's Milton Friedman Prize Dinner where Charles Koch was awarded.

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The Seeker@parella_anthony·16h

@_PeterRyan Can these no minds please move beyond neoliberal policie?

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·17h

Their big idea to solve the problem of Ireland’s old economic model of low taxes to attract foreign business is to… Lower taxes to attract foreign business.

Ireland’s economic model needs urgent reform to sustain high standards of living for future generations, according to research commissioned by Stripe founders, John and Patrick Collison businesspost.ie/companies/coll…

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·17h

I would argue that the same way there was an authentic energy to the right in 2010s, that vibe has now shifted to the left. I am not saying the surface level left is ceteris paribus correct, I am saying the momentum is with them to evolve into dissolving the left right surface level dynamic into something greater

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Benburb93@ColmanOfGuaire·18h

@_PeterRyan I mostly agree with that - populism & libertarianism are both dead ends imo - but I don't think the solution is to seek to make common cause with the left, because (a) leftists will snub those who try & (b) when the chips are down, the left mostly defers to the same "experts".

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Benburb93@ColmanOfGuaire·20h

To reject the idea of elitism simply because our self-anointed pseudo elites are traitors, is silly - like rejecting butter because you don't like margarine.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·17h

@ColmanOfGuaire Yes because I’m criticizing the surface level

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Benburb93@ColmanOfGuaire·18h

@_PeterRyan You were the one who invoked the right.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·18h

@ColmanOfGuaire I see something underneath the surface level of left wing and right thing. Those categories are ultimately meaningless.

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Benburb93@ColmanOfGuaire·18h

@_PeterRyan Having said all that, I suppose it depends on one's own view of things - I don't like McGuirk and I don't like Mark Humphries - but I don't like Catherine Connolly either. You apparently do - so the coalition you desire would be very different.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·18h

The majority of Irish vote for FFFG, which is mainstream western neoliberalism. It’s defined by deference to experts and elites. The western populist wave of the 2010s shook politics against this elite class. The problem was that it evolved into the libertarian-esque impotence we see today where hierarchical institutions with effective leaders cannot be formed.

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Benburb93@ColmanOfGuaire·18h

@_PeterRyan Rightism of the John McGuirk type is a very new phenomenon - and is largely down to the rise of social media - even in the late 90s David Quinn was the right-wing exception that proved the rule.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·19h

Koch-illsons at it again

Tax breaks for ‘tech talent’ may be needed to secure Ireland’s future growth, says new report buff.ly/GawUx4f

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

@MeAgainCG I literally walk through parts of his budget and how he’s making smart changes. Once again, your refusal to read things is not my problem.

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@_PeterRyan I think you're showing how low the bar is and how low the quality of people in public life has sank because nothing on the above tweet in particularly insightful nevermind astute. Things are so shit now that being competent apparently sets you apart. Bleak.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

At the very least, Ireland needs to dump these people and find its Carney because these two bit empty suits are not going to cut it in what’s coming

Government is very conscious of the impact volatile energy prices are having. It is a very serious situation. Our immediate priority is to try and alleviate pressures on people, on families, and doing so in a way that protects the economy and avoids adding to inflation.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

Lol

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Exactly.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

I am not deifying and its assertions like that box you into being unserious. My argument is that Carney is competent, can see realist cost / benefits, and as a middle power has the flexibility to decouple from the excesses of American led imperial order. Thus, he acts as an initial bridge to a future political reformation not an ideal version of what comes next. Which is also why my tweet was prefaced with “at least”.

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@_PeterRyan You're trying very hard to infer I'm some underread and underbred low life because I don't agree with you deifying Mark Carney. That's simultaneously amusing and a little grim.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

@_PeterRyan If only you were to run for election, win a seat and get the support of a majority in Dáil Éireann, you could be the very person, Peter.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

@MeAgainCG I guarantee you have not read through any of his policy documents or budgets. You are making an assumption on seeing “bank of England” on his resume

ESSAY: 1/ Carney Is What Trump Should Have Been: The Carney Doctrine vs. The Donroe Doctrine Carney just took Davos by storm by challenging Trump. Carney and Trump appear to be polar opposites. But, upon closer inspection, Carney and Trump share much in common.

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@_PeterRyan I've read plenty about him. He talks out both sides of his mouth. He's a former head of the Bank of England, someone that's spent their entire life "inside the court" and you think we need one of those in Ireland 😂😂 methinks you're projecting

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

@iviska09 @MeAgainCG Already did

ESSAY: 1/ Carney Is What Trump Should Have Been: The Carney Doctrine vs. The Donroe Doctrine Carney just took Davos by storm by challenging Trump. Carney and Trump appear to be polar opposites. But, upon closer inspection, Carney and Trump share much in common.

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Ivis@iviska09·1d

@_PeterRyan @MeAgainCG Now post something of substance past click bait pro Carney you absolute wet wipe

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

@MeAgainCG Not read anything past clickbait anti-carney tweets award 🥇

GIF

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@_PeterRyan Carney is an empty suit that said one true thing at Davos and now people think he's good. Pitifully low standards.

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

JUST DROPPED: Anthropic's research proves AI coding tools are secretly making developers worse. "AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging without delivering significant efficiency gains." -- That's the paper's actual conclusion. 17% score drop learning new libraries with AI. Sub-40% scores when AI wrote everything. 0 measurable speed improvement. → Prompting replaces thinking, not just typing → Comprehension gaps compound — you ship code you can't debug → The productivity illusion hides until something breaks in prod Here's why this changes everything: Speed metrics look fine on a dashboard. Understanding gaps don't show up until a critical failur and when they do the whole team is lost. Forcing AI adoption for "10x output" is a slow-burning technical debt nobody is measuring. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus·1d

“AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging without delivering significant efficiency gains” — and that’s a quote from Anthropic’s own research!

JUST DROPPED: Anthropic's research proves AI coding tools are secretly making developers worse. "AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging without delivering significant efficiency gains." -- That's the paper's actual conclusion. 17% score drop learning new libraries with AI. Sub-40% scores when AI wrote everything. 0 measurable speed improvement. → Prompting replaces thinking, not just typing → Comprehension gaps compound — you ship code you can't debug → The productivity illusion hides until something breaks in prod Here's why this changes everything: Speed metrics look fine on a dashboard. Understanding gaps don't show up until a critical failur and when they do the whole team is lost. Forcing AI adoption for "10x output" is a slow-burning technical debt nobody is measuring. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

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Peter Ryan@_PeterRyan·1d

Using the British empire in the 19th century I show that empires are not economically logical. However, they are only for a sub-set of elites that hijack the government to socialize costs of empire and privatize its benefits. This subset was defined by Cain and Hopkins as “gentlemanly capitalists” and were viewed as very different from “industrial capitalists” whose interests often conflicted with the former’s. Today, we can see the oil companies in a similar position to industrial capitalists.

3/ In this essay, I will challenge that premise. Empires are not economically logical from the perspective of all citizens and the government of the country at the imperial core. Using historical data, it will be shown that empires result in over-taxing, over-spending, mediocre profits, heightened risk, and a hinderance to economic development and social progress. In the long-run, an empire acts as an institution that obviously siphons resources and wealth from colonized territories but less obviously siphons resources and wealth from the country at the imperial core as well. This siphoning disproportionately benefits a small group of elites. This imperial oligarchy favors imperial parasitism over domestic productiveness in the face of economically unsound evidence because it can socialize the costs of empire through the imperial core country and privatize the profits of empire. Imperial territories also offer the imperial oligarchy a way to circumvent domestic and populist social progress in the forms of trade unionism and the welfare state in the imperial core country. Thus, imperial jingoism that seeks to frame an empire as inherently populist are proven fraudulent. Imperialism is the antithesis of populism. Imperial jingoism tricks the citizens of the imperial core country into paying the bills of the oligarchy for nothing in return. ryanresearch.substack.com/p/economics-of…

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