Lord Julius

@0x49fa98 The discussion make me think of this song... "I live in a city full of people I don't know.." youtube.com/watch?v=7rzmhb…

@GarettJones Obvious: property rights+ rule of law= prosperity. What are the morally wrong answers?

The reason economists stopped doing research into macro-development, i.e., stopped making inquiries into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, is because we know the answers. And the answers are a mixture of the obvious and the morally wrong.

@captive_dreamer Yes, his love for the incredible beauty of the birds brings tears to my eyes...

I know nothing about the man but I'd vote for him based on this clip alone

@L0m3z And this is the only issue that matters. To be honest, affirmative action isn't that big a deal (assuming freedom of association.) Trans people should be tolerated. But mass immigration will destroy western civilization...

Dems willing to ditch trans and affirmative action and get back to “law and order,” still won’t budge on importing the third world, despite how unpopular it is. Should tell you a lot.

Dems who now want to moderate on culture war issues still refuse to acknowledge how popular immigration enforcement is. Deporting criminals is a 75/25 issue with >60% approval among Dems. Deportations of all illegals remains >50% issue. Immigration is still a huge winner.

@JacobAShell @feelsdesperate I'm with you 100%, but you are delusional if you think many agree. The left= open borders+ racial grievances...

Education is big! I think Liu writes about the NGO complex explicitly. You're right there's no part of the socialist left where they're holding conferences railing against intersectional NGO leftism. Like I said I think many economic leftists are seeking some kind of escape from that where they're not winding up just voting for tax breaks for Musk and more Middle East wars

Ok. This is an interesting clip. This is one of the first times I’ve seen a politician running explicitly against the progressive NGO kleptocracy. He’s wrong that these people are ‘socialists’ (they’re kleptocrats who use leftist rhetoric to legitimize themselves) but that’s fine. It’s still very effective rhetorically. The right needs to bring this attack up to scale: the purpose of the DSA is not ‘socialism,’ it’s to maximize public revenue extraction so that upper middle class jobs doing fake work can be doled out to political allies (surplus elites, failed creatives, etc.). It’s important for the public to understand what’s going on here and where their money is going and not only can this be an effective cudgel against the left, but smashing these rice bowls can have all sorts of other positive externalities for our politics.

@JacobAShell @feelsdesperate Come on, I literally paid money to DeBoer, he deviated from progressivism on education, but otherwise he falls in line.. Reed and Zizek are different, but have they written about the NGO-racial spoils issue?

@julius24993 @feelsdesperate Adolph Reed, Zizek, DeBoer, Catherine Liu, Barbara Fields...I think there are many others who are simply intimidated and don't vocalize

@JacobAShell @feelsdesperate Give me a break. Who are these socialists who are anti-NGO and anti-racial spoils? Name 10 besides yourself...

@feelsdesperate I realize hes doing redmeat for maga voters but if he didnt attack “socialists” he could lure some socialists (IE economic lefties) who are anti-ngo and anti racial spoils system. Or at least thats an available lane, even if it’s not for this guy specifically

@walterkirn There has to be some way to help working people with the contingencies of life. UBI, but only if you work...

So all these Renee Girard fans still believe that UBI will work. Will it turn off envy? No. It might easily turn it up -- over the smallest things.

@JacobAShell Rousseau is misunderstood on this point... though as with "misunderstandings" of Nietzsche, the mis-readings are easy to anticipate...

Getting a lot of responses blaming Rousseau as if academia is run by a secret cabal of Rousseauians. Is there some answer which makes logical sense plz

@DianaCMcNally Ok, leftists-- how will you make Toronto safer? Give me your five best ideas...

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@dsawyer @mr_archenemy Interesting! I will conduct further research...

Don't kno how much I remember, because I read the relevant scientific paper in 2001 or 2002, but one of the basic spice combos in curry (I *think it was cloves, cumin, and turmeric, but I am not sure) is mildly psychoactive. IIRC, caffeine intensifies the effect, which is why tea so often accompanies curries. Nicotine then compounded the effect further in study subjectsm The effect was about 1 hr of euphoric, intense relaxation with mild vertigo. After reading about it I tried it by chasing a good indian dinner with a visit to a cigar bar that served coffee and did, in fact, experience the predicted effect, as did my buddy who went with me, but since we both were expecting it there is no way to know how much of what we experienced was placebo/psychosomatic.

I predicted this back in 2002, and wove it into my future history as published in 2007 or so. The social goods of smoking and the health evils are pretty closely balanced--it is only a matter of time (fading memory of emphysema, medical advances in cancer and heart disease treatment, etc.) before smoking returns as normal. Knock on effects will include: More outdoor time, lower psych med dependence, more non-internet sociality, and higher birth rates.

@mr_archenemy @dsawyer the few, the proud...

@julius24993 @dsawyer <fellow sim fan detected>

@dsawyer @mr_archenemy ... explain more about this curry-cigs-coffee mixture...

Yeah. Nicotine is a nootropic (same mechanism by which it reduces anxiety is the method by which it enhances focus). It cross-reacts with caffeine, and the combo of the two fueled the American Revolutionary brain trust. Oddly, if my understanding of the biochemistry is correct, if you add some of the spices in curry to that mix you get an effect similar to heroin, but without the physical dependence.

@zarathustra5150 Most important part of parenting: getting married in the first place, staying married. Is this "right wing"? More like an upper -middle class thing...

Who makes better parents? Left-wingers or right-wingers? Right-wingers, says Jonathan Haidt, #1 NYT bestseller and one of the most cited living social psychologists. “Right-wingers make better parents than left-wingers, and there’s a lot of data on this.”

@Voughtlynch @CityBureaucrat I swear I am genuinely retarded about this issue...

@julius24993 @CityBureaucrat No you’re being retarded on purpose. Whatever monetary policy America implements the world has to work around they can’t choose their own fate

I think I'm probably alone but I don't care about a high standard of living based on a dollar - petro or otherwise - that, for some inexplicable reason, requires endless population turnover in the U.S.

@Voughtlynch @CityBureaucrat So in return for defending the world... we can have inflationary monetary policy?

@julius24993 @CityBureaucrat In return you can print your own money and everyone else has to work around you

@feelsdesperate There is not one progressive or cuckservative who can adequately explain these Voting Rights Act issues. All they do is squeal "but we've had racial gerrymandering for ages!!" Yeah, Jim Crow lasted a long time too...

It’s impossible for me to overstate how repugnant I find David French’s moralizing and self regard. He’s just an extraordinarily repugnant person, and he’s one of the few people who could absolutely convince me of a position just by arguing the opposite.

@FDRLST Civil War II is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed...

"There's one way of life for the liberal justices and another for the conservatives," Mollie Hemingway noted. While the liberals could "appear on a Broadway play" or "travel all over the world," the conservatives can't go to dinner with their families "because they might get killed."

@ChristianHeiens That... doesn't sound good...

Democrats are going to have to dismantle their own urban VRA districts that are 70% Black or Hispanic in order to counter what's about to happen across the country, which means the party's own internal coalition is going to fracture. The Democratic caucus in Congress is about to become a lot more female, a lot more suburban, a lot richer, and a lot more mentally ill.