bertholdsbrunnen
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So why are so many of the super racist manosphere accounts that spreading hate about immigrants in Europe run by some desi guy in Dubai or Helsinki?
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Poor study design (at selective institutions) and also grades are not the relevant metric. There’s also an obvious reason why Cowen would not understand why people think it’s important.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
Interesting @tylercowen post. He says that there's a study which shows mobile phone bans in schools have only minimal effects on grades, and that he doesn't understand why people think this is an important policy. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
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@BrendonBernard_ Sucks to be a worker in Canada. European wages and US working hours. Biggest losers in the world.
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Headline Canadian wage growth ticked down to 3.2% y/y, with public sector gains coming off their highs, while hourly pay in the private sector has been growing at around a 2.7% pace since early in the year.
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@GregGrandin But it never changed its function, as the saying goes an insitution is what it produces. I think War Department is much more accurate than Defence Department
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@policytensor @pathtopraxis It may be, they can't push around China so I guess it shows some limitations but their ability to push around much of the rest of the world appear undiminished and maybe enhanced.
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@imbresigau @pathtopraxis I think we can date it quite precisely. It was when Xi refused to budge in the trade war.
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Finally finished this long piece by @pathtopraxis. Equal parts deep and lost in theory. The latter issue is simple: what makes you think the capitalists want, or are happy with Trump’s kleptostate? Why do you think they are the ones who put him there? What was the spending ratio in the election? Is it not, in fact, the working class that made him King and gave him the mandate to burn it all down?
This is what happens to Brahmins who get too enamored with theory. You may think that capitalists are responsible for our present exit from bourgeois democracy if you eat too much Marxist lettuce. But look around. Read some fucking polls. Who really put Trump in the White House?
brooklynrail.org/2025/09/field-…
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@policytensor @pathtopraxis So far I don't see any evidence that Washington's years of dictating terms is coming to an end. They dictated terms of Europe, they will soon to Canada, they seem intent to start toppling holdouts like Iran and Venezula and my money is on they will succeed.
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I must say, I found much of your essay quite compelling. But I don't think you quite understand how sanguine the capitalist class is. The state/imperial managers are in panic, not bc capital is hurting—it is not hurting at all!—but bc the working class is in revolt and Washington's years of dictating terms to the rest of the world is coming to an end. It's a class panic, but not of the capitalist class.
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@policytensor @pathtopraxis High-capital (Wall St., major corporations) probably aren't that happy with Trump but small capital i.e. local car dealers, real estate developers have been and among Trump's ardent supporters. Also if the working class was radicalised to support a Trump, who radicalized them?
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@NewLeftEViews But he's basically right about this, no? Selecting kids at such a young age as in Germany is bound to mostly be selecting for family background. Kids from academic backgrounds whose parents have time and resources to personally prep their kids.
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James happens to be on the right side of history regarding the censorship and repression of protest against genocide in Germany, beyond which he’s another clueless clout-chasing journo grifter who publishes in the Telegraph and gets random people fired for no reason.
James Jackson@derJamesJackson
Germany literally has the second worst social mobility in Europe because teachers decide who to send to good school based on vibes at age 11, and mostly choose white kids of educated people
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@policytensor Chuck Schumer doesn't like him though. Neither does Jefferies.
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Many reasons to be a Mamdani Democrat. None more important than his commitment to bringing the working class back into the fold.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of @NYHTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
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@cszabla Maybe Americans should stop only patronizing big national chain restaurants. It's mindblowing to me how often most Americans just go to these types of places as if they are somehow real restaurants.
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is the logical corollary of haute design going postminimalist that minimalism is now hick?
YIMBYLAND@YIMBYLAND
This Cracker Barrel remodel/rebrand is one of the most upsetting things I’ve seen in a long time. Literally everyone I know is in shock.
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@cszabla It's certainly been overdone. It's like how Starbucks became hick.
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@EnriqueDiazAlva And someone who can get a helicopter lift to a ski slope
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"I got some overpriced BBQ in Austin and Ubers cost money, NYC is not expensive!", LOL, LMAO.
It's not just that these people don't have families, it's that they are unable to put themselves in the position of someone who does.
Ross Barkan@RossBarkan
You're out of date, sorry. Go to these cities post-2021. An entree at Odeon isn't that much different from an upscale restaurant in Chicago or Philly. My BBQ meal in Austin (not upscale) ran me $30. That's life in the new America. Expensive to eat in most cities.
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@Econ_Marshall Haha that's great but they'll kick him off soon enough so it can just be a Yglesias jerk off session
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@giulio_mattioli Yes a big part of it is really just one group of Americans hating on another group
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Half of the US discourse on Europe is this, the other half is "LOL they don't use AC and clothes dryers"
I get the impression they're only really fighting each other and Europe is just a pretext.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
When I’m abroad visiting any developed country, I always notice the fast trains and robust rail systems that the world’s largest economy seemingly doesn’t have.
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@JayStrellson @andrewdoyle_com You'll convert everyone to Islam
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A man has been arrested for singing “we love bacon”. Free speech is cooked.
My latest post for subscribers is now up! Link below. ⬇️
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@andrewdoyle_com Britain doesn't have free speech and never did. Britions like it that way.
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@muenzenberg_w you think there is something beyond that in Scarborough? What do you think Canada has real cities like other countries?
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@DominikWeil Germany is absolutely nowhere near where Britain is and likley not on the same path.
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@NetworkAddict_ @HellenicVibes Yes, easily. Plus there's always more to buy. Plus expensive educations for the kids so they can follow your path.
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If this was my culture I too would fail to reproduce and doom my nation to a slow extinction tbh
gon@chinesegon
asian families can be the worst tbh
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