Miles (Thor) Morales

DEI ruined merit but centuries of racial discrimination didn't? How is that?

I discuss the ideological origins of fascism and its anti-socialism with the Political Philosophy Podcast politicalphilosophypodcast.com/facs-soc

@mckt_ @ijbailey

Trump fans. Be honest. You have to be at least a little embarrassed that Trump just accepted a participation trophy in the form of someone else’s Nobel Peace Prize.

America ranking 32nd in terms of quality of life has to sting because of uncessary it is.

A lot of people comparing Trump to the neocons but im not sure that's entirely right. The neocons were usually fixated on the language of universalism and presenting the use of American power as part of a benign global project. Trump's is just a nakedly amoral resource grab...

@BenBurgis @MattPolProf I liked that book even though I didn’t agree with it.

This week's Philosophy for the People essay (a guest book review by @MattPolProf) just went up:

A list of the US regime change efforts in Latin America over the years: 1846–1848 – Mexico 1898 – Cuba 1903 - Panama 1906–1909 - Cuba 1909 - Nicaragua 1912–1933 - Nicaragua 1913 -Mexico 1914 - Mexico 1915–1934 - Haiti 1916–1924 - Dominican Republic 1916–1917 - Mexico 1932 – El Salvador 1933–1940s – Cuba 1944 – Guatemala 1946 – Bolivia 1948 – Costa Rica 1952 – Cuba 1953–1954 – British Guiana 1954 – Guatemala 1960s: Cold War Escalation 1960–1961 – Cuba 1961 – Cuba 1961 – Dominican Republic 1962–1963 – Brazil 1963 – Dominican Republic 1963 – Ecuador 1963 – Honduras 1964 – Brazil 1964 – Bolivia 1965 – Dominican Republic 1966–1996 – Guatemala 1970s: Operation Condor Era 1970–1973 – Chile 1971 – Bolivia 1973 – Chile 1973 – Uruguay 1976 – Argentina 1976–1983 – Region-wide (Operation Condor) 1979 – Nicaragua 1980–1989 – Nicaragua 1980–1992 – El Salvador 1980s – Honduras 1980–1992 – Guatemala 1980s – Jamaica 1982 – Bolivia 1983 – Grenada 1989 – Panama 1991 – Haiti 1994 – Haiti 2002 – Venezuela 2004 – Haiti 2009 – Honduras 2019 – Bolivia 2017–present – Venezuela 2018–present – Nicaragua Every U.S. president from 1901–present has been involved in Latin American regime change. The US remains an imperialist presence in Latin America.

@JakeCan72 The studies around moderate minimum wage increases show very little change in employment numbers. Economists all know this.

👉 There are so many liberals in America today for one simple reason: a lot of people don’t understand basic economics. “The real problem isn’t wages. It’s the lack of economic education. If people actually understood how money, labor, and markets work, we’d stop pushing policies that hurt the very people they claim to help.” Good intentions don’t cancel bad outcomes. “Compassionate” policies like massive minimum-wage hikes or heavy regulations sound great — until you realize economics doesn’t run on feelings. It runs on incentives and costs. Raise business costs without raising productivity? Something has to give. Companies don’t magically make more money because politicians want to play Santa. They cut hours. They automate jobs. Or they shut down entirely. “That’s not greed — it’s math.” Emotional slogans win votes. Reality hits later when jobs disappear and prices soar. Break the cycle: learn economics. Stop falling for feel-good policies that deliver real pain. Watch the full clip — short, sharp, and spot-on. Know someone who needs this wake-up call? #Economics101 #IncentivesMatter #FreeMarket

@CircuitCorroder @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus Not enough genetic difference to create a subspecies of humans. If you think they are races, that’s funny.

@nomamao @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus that's why they are all the same on a genetic level, inside and out, from bone structure to brain there is no way to tell an Australian aboriginal apart from an Igbo, they are both just dark

One of the great wet roads causes rain moments of our lives. They scanned over 7,000 kids studying various parts of the brain including the amygdala (processing emotion) and the prefrontal cortex volume (long term planing and complex analysis). They found a statistically significant smaller volume in black children in both regions. They also asked the parents about their socioeconomic status and found, not all that surprisingly, that the parents had lower academic achievement, higher rates of criminal convictions, and of course higher rates of poverty. All the negative behaviors one would expect with poor planning and emotional regulation. The structures and size of the brain are genetically related, the parents and children won’t differ all that much. Instead this paper simply makes the claim that the poverty and shitty life the parents made has damaged the children’s brains. There’s no before or after, there’s no signs of damage or malformation, there’s no comparison to the parents etc… they simply gave the kids an MRI, measured a significant racial difference and said this is because racism.

@CircuitCorroder @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus Maybe tens of thousands of years? And, even then, no human subspecies were created.

@nomamao @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus no, we are talking about thousands of years

@CircuitCorroder @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus We’re not talking about hundreds of years to achieve human evolution? Lol. You really do need to stay in school.

@nomamao @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus We're not talking about hundreds of years. And yes, humans can be categorized into distinct groups.

@Amadeo3799600 @BrandonWarmke Still haven’t done the reading? I’m shocked. You sound like you want to be a victim, though. Not healthy.

@nomamao @BrandonWarmke Try and figure out where your cognitively lazy infantile Dunning Kruger "GIF" response in place of a cogent argument lands ? ..thence we can compare the girth of who's written more published books let alone the length of who's library read is longer .

I’m not so sure. The “old orthodoxy” was so committed to race-based affirmative action that they defended it all the way to the Supreme Court.

@CircuitCorroder @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus Humans from hundreds of years ago are still humans, and not a subspecies of humans, right? If you have evidence to the contrary, please share it with the rest of the world. Lol.

@nomamao @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus And no, we did not 'create' that bird variant, it happened by itself, in just a few decades.

@CircuitCorroder @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus lol. It does mean something. Without human intervention, it wouldn’t have happened. Humans created dog breeds AND that new subspecies of bird. Humans, on the other hand, did not create new human species. Amazing, right? lol

@nomamao @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus You keep bringing up human intervention as if it meant something. Humans influence human environment too, the same mechanisms are at play.

@jmasseypoet This is just wrong. It was the collective that allowed the freedom for those things to happen, due to security. Read your Hobbes. Rugged individualism is all against all. For conservatives, it just means that anything that threatens their power is bad.

Without rugged individualism, there is no art. No poetry. No cultivation of God-given talent and genius. The “warmth of collectivism” is the putrid heat that emanates from the talentless and the resentful as they pull everyone down with them. No thanks!

@JoshWalkos I’m cool with it. Kidnapping a foreign leader for drug charges, while a bigger drug lord was just pardoned, though? Pretty scary how the US is acting, right? Almost like a renegade government, or something,

“We Will Replace The Rigidity Of Rugged Individualism With The Warmth Of Collectivism” If this doesn’t send chills down your spine, you haven’t learned a single lesson from the 20th century.

@cupcukes @NewsfromScience If this change is due to the feeders, it will probably suffer if those feeders were all removed.

@NewsfromScience that's bad... does it mean they depend on the feeders now?

Evolution doesn’t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes. Such is the case with the Anna’s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in just a few generations, all thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders: scim.ag/4k38Qd0

@CircuitCorroder @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus No human intervention there, huh? Are you really this torpid? Is this a joke?

@nomamao @SleeeeepyT @memeticsisyphus It happens all the time. x.com/NewsfromScienc…

@EKleinsing @DeTocqueville14 @CabJohann They may be just dumb.

@DeTocqueville14 @CabJohann Are you fucking retarded?

Individualism is an ideology based on consent and voluntary exchanges. Collectivism is an ideology based on state violence and coercion.

@RoodBoiBased @OfficialSPGB @DeTocqueville14 The people that receive also give to society through taxes, ya know. They work, and raise the next generation as well.

@OfficialSPGB @DeTocqueville14 Why didn't you answer his question? Is it perhaps because you're incapable?

@DeTocqueville14 lol: no.