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@Aella_Girl Kind of makes you realize how much of public opinion is just a performance though

@MattKarrmann @Aella_Girl Did one day everyone wake up and decide that being gay is ok? Or do we mime outrage and moral shock at things as a performance for others

@mordroberon PSZ

@Noahpinion the betting markets predicted 5 months ago the success of buttigieg and warren, before there was any inkling of that in the polls. In my view, they have more credibility than any pundit

@eigenrobot He died as he lived ☺️

@AgiaTheBun Nah m8 this is a sharingan

@thor_benson @Noahpinion On the day before the elections, the betting markets had trump at 35%. New York Times had him at 7%. So

@vgr I think you’re wrong on one thing: maintenance load on individuals has not gone up over time. Complexity of an individual’s life hasn’t either. Maintenance in most areas of life is actually easier now, so we just pick up more things to maintain in order to stay competitive

the only kind of person I block https://x.com/pyrocumuluss/status/1196245172926980102

@Noahpinion this is a pretty good visual metaphor despite what you folks are saying. the important thing is that the only dude in the photo is using the dirt trail -- the revealed preference of consumers and producers in a market superseding democratic / central-planning ideals.

@Noahpinion wherever it's possible, every letter of the law will be flouted by organic chaos, creative destruction. you see it in the black markets in response to banned drugs, condo conversion due to to rent control, and the list goes on. not necessarily a + or a -, just a fact of life

@Noahpinion the takeaway being that any planner must embed organic chaos into their thinking. carbon taxes, not mpg regulations. housing vouchers, not rent control https://x.com/BusterBroncoEsq/status/1196869864075345921?s=20

@micsolana unfortunately pretty clear by now that crises are just a tool you use to gain power. there's a market for climate outrage, and some folks have risen to supply it

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion Other opponents of the carbon tax think that allowing the markets to react organically to a carbon price is “wimpy” (aoc, sunrise movement) and would prefer a more authoritarian approach

@AsVacation @Noahpinion We saw how automakers game the MPG regulations by faking the metrics. But you can’t fake the gas price at the pump and how much a real driver is spending on gas. When gas prices are high, consumers naturally choose smaller cars https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252717/Now-t-trust-car-giants-mpg-VW-scandal-Mercedes-BMW-accused-fuel-efficiency.html

@AsVacation @Noahpinion The other problem is that these focused interventions may not be as efficient in $$/ton co2 offset as the carbon price would’ve been

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion I would not be opposed to something like a $100/ ton carbon tax brought on gradually over 10 years, even though this would massively distort prices. My usual aversion to big gov programs is not for size but the lack of regard for carefully constructed incentives schemes

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion However folks would go yellow vest on us long before we reached $100/ton :’)

@gl0balism EVEN TRUER neolib take is that 30-50 chickens have to live and die a cruel life to produce the quantity of meat in one cow, ergo a utilitarian loss. All else equal, just remove corn subsidies and introduce carbon tax instead of beef taxes

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion Only way I see it working is if there’s a big fat check mailed to everyone monthly that says “CARBON DIVIDEND” in bold because nobody will understand the sacrifices they’re making otherwise

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion As opposed to what California is doing (meekly adding a line item on everybody’s power bill)

@ne0liberal This is honestly seriously doubtful

tfw you achieve a net short position on oil https://t.co/BTBM99D5u3

@CascadianSolo lol I have to admit I would be making fun of them if it was Bernie or warren fans

@jdcmedlock @LeftistConnor SWF based dividends!

@Noahpinion This is why Bloomberg pays you the big bucks

@DeAngelisCorey Kids should be spreadsheet wizards by age 10

Life just hasn’t been the same since Shkreli went to jail 😢

@NeolibShill Ima be standing outside with a sign and a boom box playing Wu Tang on my homie’s release date

Everything has been a disappointment after I played that one game of Civ 5 with him

@jdcmedlock This will only accelerate the underlying cost disease unless we do it in a smart way. Even public universities spare no extravagance. Plus it looks like income dependent loans are more helpful than anything else https://www.brookings.edu/research/lessons-from-the-end-of-free-college-in-england/

@reesemcardlepgh I’m a single issue voter and will support anyone that guarantees a convict’s Right To Stream

@reesemcardlepgh next generation of private prisons will have income share agreements with it’s prisoners twitch subs

@NeolibShill declaring a war on depression rn

Entities like Facebook and google should be conducting polling. They have huge access and a natural communications advantage. They could conduct fairly unbiased polls at 1000x the scale of a university https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1196918666169860096

@FrankbyXmas statistically unbiased you dweeb

this guy has the most boring twitter account. You could train a neural net to come up with these lukewarm milquetoast takes https://x.com/ezraklein/status/1196937773141245952

@DrewMeseck True, like legal betting markets

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 but what causes this? is it a rational fear of losing those subsidies at some point?

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 from my priors alone i'd imagine a person who is offered a $100k product for free would desire it more than someone offered a $0 product for free. is the process just incredibly long?

@jdcmedlock I see. Aside from that, how do you introduce price discovery back into the university process? Free schooling means college ed will be extremely undersupplied, and the supply side subsidies being either too high or too low would both cause problems

@jdcmedlock Do transfers count?

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 Yeah I buy that. Whatever the social value is is still much higher than the sticker price for anyone that has the cash flow The psychology of free college is good, I admit, but I don’t think it’s the smartest approach. Did Germany try the zero cash flow pay later approach?

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 UK’s approach is good in multiple ways, not least that it aligns the incentives of the college with that of the student and of public welfare: gainful employment. Some part of the predicted returns from increased tax streams should definitely go towards college subsidies

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 My view is that the American university system is pathological, and the extent of the decay isn’t just private schools. Costs have exploded for reasons Baumol can’t easily explain, and they’ll just move the graft onto the public budget if we don’t take care

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 Which is why I like approaches that hold colleges accountable. For example, the college should be the one that’s liable if a student doesn’t get a good enough job to pay back the debt. I’m bullish on this ISA stuff

@jdcmedlock @Noahpinion @dylanmatt @JWMason1 That much is undeniable. But is there evidence that there would be *more* college educated voters if state schools were free? Or just that there would be distributional shifts in who gets to go (which is also a worthy goal)

@mattyglesias There’s exactly one good reason to make this comparison In the 2000s, all the largest companies were oil and gas In the 2010s, all the largest companies are tech

lol this is nonsense for many reasons, but not least because no employee joins a startup without getting equity in it https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1197607021790384128

@ahardtospell financialization is good, actually. As with anything else, people are afraid of PE and HFT because they don’t understand it

O man how’d I piss off the VCs this bad

@micsolana These people have literally no idea what legacy media or finance is like

Matt’s horny on main again https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1197369812516851713

@NickMeier21 Must’ve said something insufficiently capitalist in their replies 🙃

cybertruck looks like actual ass

I’m gonna own the anti natalists by having like 12 kids https://x.com/Aelkus/status/1197678770439761920

@quantian1 My guy you’ve been unsuccessfully predicting Tesla doom for years and years now

@agraybee everyone not fucking in missionary deserves death for normalizing degeneracy clearly

@IvankaTrump lol

Markets gonna freak in a few hours

This tweet implies that the conservative equivalent of jacob wohl’s hipster coffee shop is a gas station https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1197579254835351554

@mattparlmer Will take a look in a few hours

@PerpetualWins @quantian1 Keep chanting this for the next few decades and eventually it’ll come true

:(

Once again proving that twitter is more powerful than the government https://x.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1197982064945094657

but do y’all understand how many drug seekers they must encounter on a day to day basis to become this cynical https://x.com/justinboldaji/status/1197873894029320193

why the hell do these idiot demographic charts always leave out the entire middle age chunk, the largest pool of voters https://x.com/profgalloway/status/1197567797687193600

@eigenrobot Isn’t the internet designed for exactly this thing to absolutely never happen

Say what you will about Elon but you know a guy *that* poorly prepared for his demos can’t be selling snake oil

@quantian1 Tobacco is a killer. Nicotine on its own is harmless. Anyone who works hard to keep vape from killing tobacco is culpable for the things you’re talking about

@Noahpinion Every 👏 bad 👏 twitter 👏 handle 👏 is a 👏 policy 👏 failure

If Nate had actually put his money where his mouth is over the past few months, the markets would’ve absolutely roasted him. This is a guy who expressed skepticism in both Warren and Buttigieg (phenomenal performance by both) and a grand slam for Harris (abysmal perf) https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1197910067489718273

The markets understood all of this far before Nate did even under these shitty betting schemes that limit big money from playing

I’ve been oppressed by the tech bros

@SethMiller79 @quantian1 As does any other stimulant. I expect you to take a hardline position on coffee too

Why doesn’t government buy important drug patents legally and set them free https://x.com/zackkanter/status/1198308633093824512

@bryancsk Then I guess I prefer they go into the business of selling generics

Ethiopian food is literally just a blander version of Indian food You can’t prove me wrong https://x.com/jonbecker_/status/1196805486907052033

@Ol_Wall @SethMiller79 @quantian1 People consume caffeine at far greater rates than nicotine

@Pvelkovsky I just want to get cancelled man

@NeolibShill You’ve made it to Valhalla, king

@MichaelRenoNV @ne0liberal What’s wrong with that?

@Ol_Wall @SethMiller79 @quantian1 I don’t know, at least anecdotally this seems way off. 400 mg caffeine would have me up a wall, whereas a single cigarette is sub psychoactive

tfw this guy is a literal communist https://x.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1198382201110323200

@Ol_Wall @SethMiller79 @quantian1 Your study compares subjectively reported psychoactivity: “At doses that produced comparable ratings of drug effect (1.5 mg/70 kg of nicotine and 400 mg/70 kg of caffeine), both drugs produced similar increases in ratings of good effect, liking, high, stimulated, and bad effect.

@Ol_Wall @SethMiller79 @quantian1 Also these are intravenously delivered

There are like 1 million dudes on this website trying to hill climb their way to political pundit status

@owenrumney Truly the best job on earth

@tscarrithers All fun and games until you get cancelled

@SuperMugatu Better Angel’s of our Nature, Enlightenment Now

when will Yang propose using nuclear winter to cancel global warming

Biden gotta chill

This is the real end goal of neoliberals https://x.com/tszzl/status/1198737609977192453

@jdcmedlock the important question is what kind of false negative rate are you willing to accept though

I have absolutely no understanding of why insulin costs so much when the humalog and novolog patents expired early in the decade

@jdcmedlock what’s going on?

@Robyn9124 Even if there were, I don’t think people are rationing insulin because they’re purists abt buying the absolute latest variant

@CascadianSolo Do you have a breakdown by gender? My hunch is that a lot more men are non religious than women

@ashfontana An algorithm served me up this idea of yours checkmate

@JonFilmFan @CascadianSolo Anecdotally I’ve heard many people say their churches have many more young women than men

@JonFilmFan @CascadianSolo https://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/22/the-gender-gap-in-religion-around-the-world/

Every medical drama: what if,,, the doctor became a patient

nobody really believes the duflo oped https://x.com/bryan_caplan/status/1197219061295304705

@devonzuegel writing is the first tranhumanism

lower case tweets are high status

@CascadianSolo I think this is somewhat true re: culture, but more important and simple is the fact that the US basically performs a brain drain of other countries by sucking up all the people most likely to perform well in high earning service sector jobs

@CascadianSolo an immigrant to the United States must already be set up for smashing success before they’re even let in, thereby leading to model minority myths

@conorduffy_7 twitter is realer than life

@christianbrits @jodiecongirl @Noahpinion other than digital assets I can't imagine anything that fits your completely non-rivalrous bill

@CascadianSolo beautiful

the internet is where religion goes to die https://x.com/ezraklein/status/1199360345535442945

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan Mostly agree but “inefficient” is questionable here Capitalism / decentralization duplicate certain societal functions thousands of times, but in doing so allow incredible experimentation capacity and robustness to shocks

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan You can merge two giant media companies and destroy half the marketing staff but that doesn’t mean the outcome is a nimbler/ more vibrant company or economy

@AsVacation @jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan I don’t know, I don’t work in one

@AsVacation @jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan I have literally never heard anyone responsible for an insurance company say anything. Without working in the industry it’s hard to tell what innovations / experimentations they may be running.

@Maxtropolitan @AsVacation @jdcmedlock Insurance companies are extremely low profit, they aren’t your enemies. If you want an industry to beat up on, look at pharma

@Maxtropolitan @AsVacation @jdcmedlock Also the closed doors idea is ridiculous: insurance companies employ tens of thousands. They’re not capable of running some incredible conspiracy

@Maxtropolitan @AsVacation @jdcmedlock Sure, but “experimentation to increase profits” isn’t inherently evil

@AsVacation @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock lol you’re going to be in for a shock when you realize a cost pool is a cost pool no matter who’s running it; your government will equally happily screw your for efficiency’s sake

@AsVacation @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock Insurance companies are good. If your worldview boils down to “profit=bad” you’re not really thinking this through

@Maxtropolitan @AsVacation @jdcmedlock And yet their inflows roughly equal their outflows

@Maxtropolitan @AsVacation @jdcmedlock I’m on my own insurance boss

@Maxtropolitan @AsVacation @jdcmedlock Don’t see what bearing that has though

@NullMagitech @jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan When you make $100 in premiums, you only have $100 to pay for health coverage. You have to make ruthless decisions on who gets to live. This is true of an insurance company, or a government panel. The only difference is that the government doesn’t take $3 as profit

@NullMagitech @jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan But they’ll waste far more than $3 through sheer inefficiency. When you talk about companies or governments through the lens of whether they’re evil or good, the conclusions will be ridiculous. Here’s the only calculus of m4a: a single buyer can demand monopsony prices

@pervognsen @AsVacation @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock https://x.com/tszzl/status/1199483205927215104?s=21 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1199483205927215104

@pervognsen @AsVacation @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock The governments you’re talking about still have to make the “death panels” obamacare opponents ranted about

@Maxtropolitan @pervognsen @AsVacation @jdcmedlock The majority of life expectancy differences can not be attributed to health care spending

@AsVacation @pervognsen @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock “Democratically elected” is not the ur-good awesome thing you’re hinting at. Zoning boards are appointed democratically. Profit can be a better indicator of social good than democratic approval

@AsVacation @pervognsen @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock And I say all this as someone who more or less supports universal healthcare. Your arguments are just terrible

@pervognsen @AsVacation @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock You’re categorically wrong. An insurance company has people under its policy that can afford to pay for it; even among these (relatively) rich people, choices have to be made of who gets to live and die. You’re posing a mechanical problem as a moral one

@pervognsen @AsVacation @Maxtropolitan @jdcmedlock I imagine the insurance company makes its choices as follows: “how do we maximize people saved per money spent?” The possibly rich guy whose surgery requires a rare mineral has to die

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan true but this could equally compellingly be an argument for freer markets.

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan We should have the equivalent of Singapore’s MediShield https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/894655241353912325?s=21 https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/894655241353912325

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan sure, but my original point is just that if you think reducing the complexity of health insurance by centralizing is a positive efficiency gain, you have to say the same thing about a gross merger like Comcast+Time Warner or something. gov't owned monopolies are still monopolies

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan i.e. you would also have to be in favor of market consolidation and maximizing for economies of scale in other industries. It's a central planning argument that I don't think bears any fruit.

@jdcmedlock @Maxtropolitan it's not at all inconsistent to be against centralization and in favor of technology / automation

@C_Trombley1 cory doctorow is literally the worst offender of this

@s8mb this is dumb: they're very clearly the generation that followed the Hitler fighting one - the Boomers are a product of folks *returning* from WWII and having a bunch of kids, i.e. the baby boom. And even despite that, this is in the vein of wokescold nonsense. lighten up a little

@s8mb i'm just saying, it seems somewhat disingenuous to take offense at something so lighthearted, as though it's a take generated to deliver hot moral righteousness into people's veins. but despite that, I do respect your opinion

1) not true: https://www.brookings.edu/research/what-does-economic-evidence-tell-us-about-the-effects-of-rent-control/ 2) there should exist private market rent increase insurance for folks who value stability. my piping hot take is that it shouldn't be a policy goal to let people remain in their rented homes if the value of the land has changed greatly https://x.com/jacobin/status/1199431917839536128

why doesn't this type of insurance exist already? would be a simple way to bet for or against the housing market by selling or buying these insurance products

@Cullen_OK Sure but the landlord has to agree to this. It would be better if third parties offered long term rent insurance

@CascadianSolo @ne0liberal @neoliberal Harberger land taxes on twitter handles 😍

@AlexGodofsky @CascadianSolo @ne0liberal @neoliberal Arguable that the land underneath the Empire State is valuable because of the Empire State. That never stopped the Georgists 😔

@AlexGodofsky Right so why aren’t there call options on rental units? Its a different niche than mortgage

@paco_jrmr @MaronAoriak Just expand the section 8 voucher program. Why involve government on the supply side?

@paco_jrmr @MaronAoriak Cash like subsidies are the least distortionary

@MaronAoriak unrestricted development is essentially the constant state of Tokyo, which I consider one of the best cities in the world. It’s good policy. Obviously safety+accessibility should be encoded into building laws, but other than that we should be relatively laissez faire

@MaronAoriak I’m at least gonna push for by-right zoning like Tokyo

@AlexGodofsky Then why is rent control so popular? It’s often sold as an insurance policy against large rent increases

@alittlelist @MaronAoriak Houston is still heavily regulated by things like minimum parking laws, mandatory setbacks, and of course the massive subsidies provided in the form of giant highways. The city would’ve evolved differently without these things

@s8mb I only just now realize I’ve been massively trolled

@CentrePolitik @s8mb CRINGE https://x.com/tszzl/status/1199590485544837120?s=21 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1199590485544837120

@s8mb @CentrePolitik please teach me how to generate engagement like this. you are a god

@shl @multimediacore Not really. It’s a systemic failure

@Noahpinion He’s correct to some approximation

@jdcmedlock Isn’t this food deserts stuff nonsense? “91% [of nutritional inequality] is driven by differences in demand” rather than inability to access https://www.nber.org/papers/w24094.pdf The answer is education and UBI

@Noahpinion I’m not a fan of free college and still think this argument is dumb. You can easily modify this to say “government shouldn’t run anything because republicans will eventually defund it” So Noah’s argument is that any institution that matters should be free market? 🤕

@Noahpinion Won’t m4a bleed the pharma companies and hospitals dry, depriving them of most of their revenue and incentive to do research?

@trepur349 @Noahpinion Right I’m just pointing out Noah’s inconsistency

@trepur349 @Noahpinion Noah’s too rosy about college in general, which is an institution mostly designed to rip 4 years and a $100k out of your life for signaling benefits. The research is the only valuable thing that goes on in universities, not the education

@trepur349 @Noahpinion The solution to rising college costs as with anything else is technocratic fiddling of course: the federal student loan program has created a never ending piggy bank for colleges to raise prices. Modify the subsidy structure for poor students so colleges have skin in the game

@trepur349 @Noahpinion Otherwise Noah’s benevolent universities will eventually collapse under a student debt crisis of their own making

@trepur349 @Noahpinion There’s gotta be a way to do it without grifting though. It’s widely understood that markets undervalue research, so it would be wise to just spend some x% of gdp as research funding. After all, we had great universities even before the prices blew up

@trepur349 @BWithFreedom @Noahpinion Wall Street tax is literally just a moral crusade “sin tax”. If you’re doing financial transactions, you must be a filthy capitalist so we’re gonna fine you. It’s not designed to be revenue raising

@AlexGodofsky @trepur349 @Noahpinion It’s a start but im sure we can come up with smarter schemes than that

@trepur349 @Noahpinion https://x.com/Austen/status/1161649029333151744?s=20 https://x.com/Austen/status/1161649029333151744

@trepur349 @Noahpinion https://x.com/Austen/status/1133374238323142656?s=20

@Noahpinion @Dnlmsstch It’s neoliberal to basically name your favorite American institution and then say only the markets can properly fund it

this is all literally anybody talks about, often, and with glee https://t.co/NMXI8z5jfW

The same rocket technologies that allow placing starlink in space (which will bring internet to millions of unconnected btw) also lowers the cost of launching radio telescopes by an order of 10. This is alarmist nonsense https://x.com/jfagone/status/1198814773971845120

@rbhaffey Yeah that’s the other side of this. Why should these people get to dictate what’s aesthetically pleasing or not? I’d rather see satellites streak across the sky than not

@CascadianSolo respectfully disagree. the “humanities” are something everyone should be learning, all the time. civic virtue isn’t something any citizen can opt out of. I also don’t think most people should waste $100k and 4 years of their life formally reading Voltaire and Rousseau

@CascadianSolo I may be strawmanning you a bit, but my sentiment is that it’s absolutely vital that most people study things that make them employable

@NickBurns lol don’t let them gaslight you

@uberfeminist I think you underestimate how much of being an entrepreneur is being a sort of huckster that makes prophetic claims until the company can cash the checks his tweets are writing

@uberfeminist There’s a lot of shit he says that’s just outrageous, anyone can see that his Boring company demo ended up being a laughable one lane car tunnel— but the point was experimentation. The fact that some of his experiments succeed and end up landing rockets is enough for me

@uberfeminist The amount of money the reduced launch costs alone will save nasa, DoD, etc. are orders of magnitude above whatever subways he might have interfered with

@NickBurns @jherrerx people on this website get #cancelled for a whole bunch of stupider reasons than this, the internet horde never does any lasting damage

my only regret for this decade is not buying bitcoin

@sigfig Do tell more

@Willetton What a trash critique Who the hell is stopping you from building the future that you want?

congrats you’ve invented phytoplankton https://x.com/JachnunEmpire/status/1200060419072761856

bring McCarthyism back 2020 https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1200243436152066049

@EggPapa3 Do CS, get a big 4 job, and become one of the most powerful people in the modern economy

@Alex_Danco Completely and utterly false lol

@NeolibShill Taking advantage of your elders’ ocular degeneration to own the cons 😍

@14thstreetblues Nah you’re overthinking it, it’s a name recognition thing

Imagine having a single Dutch entity in charge of saying what’s true or not and thinking this is a better state of affairs than free political speech https://x.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1199899674234241024

@jdcmedlock your mistake is thinking that these folks are afraid of the consequences of poverty rather than the consequences of loss of status. as you've said before, financial incentives are overrated. no amount of welfare will help with that; it'll maybe even hurt it.

@jdcmedlock the truth is that it's a desirable state of existence for high status people to need to fight tooth and claw to stay in that class. to be part of the richest 1% of humans in the world, you've got to earn that privilege every moment.

@jdcmedlock you can't build your worldview around the idea that there are massive inequalities of opportunity and then also believe we should make life easier for the upper middle class. makes no sense to have it both ways

@vgr Interesting without a doubt

@Noahpinion Get rekt Noah

@agraybee UMich students have a median household income of like 175k

@agraybee at any rate I don’t think “free college pays for millionaires tuition!!” is or will ever be a good argument, seeing that their parents will pay more in taxes to cover the difference. I just don’t think it’s a good use of political capital. To reduce inequality, hand out money

@agraybee Universities are corrupt credentialist rent seekers and I’m really not a fan of embedding the graft in amber forever. The markets will iterate on them much quicker than governments will

there’s no twitter primary :( https://x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1200404457529495552

@NeoLibBen In my brief time at UMich Ross, one of my classmates was a French prince, and the median household income was 200k

@impcapital You’re what’s called a neoliberal my friend

@NeolibShill this stuff gives people a complex wondering if their very normal patterns of affection are secretly abusive

@AsVacation https://x.com/uberfeminist/status/1200506464705511424?s=21 https://x.com/uberfeminist/status/1200506464705511424

@AsVacation Housing stability isn’t a good goal. It often means keeping neighborhoods ethnically homogenous. But for people who value stability a great deal there should be better financing plans for mortgage backed condo buying, such that your costs are stable over time

@NeolibShill Especially because the kind of person who’ll see a message like this and actually internalize it is not the person to be afraid of

@JohnCarltonKing @_Jason_Dean_ If he wins Iowa, New Hampshire he’ll explode in the polls

@SenhorRaposa Nate Silver still thinks he’s in 2012, when endorsements meant something and the typical party power brokers held sway

@_Jason_Dean_ Everyone’s like “why Pete” but it’s so obvious. Everyone wants a Biden who’s young and vaguely inspiring, not some fringe and cringe leftist

@CascadianSolo Is our deficit really a problem with interest rates below inflation?

@jomgy @CascadianSolo Nah man MMT isn’t about interest bearing debt. As long as there’s someone willing to lend to us we can keep borrowing. Has little to do with central banks / monetary supply

@jomgy @CascadianSolo "net spending by the public sector is inflationary in so far as it is "financed" by the banking system, including the central bank, and not by the sale of state debt to the public." as long as it's preexisting capital that's buying our debt, there's no inflation

@Indie_Gio @AspiringNeolib Hmmmmm the last thing on this list is much worse than everything else

@daguilarcanabal @impcapital @urmilajanardan For example, we know that the market underproduces public education compared to its social utility. But we can grant school vouchers to have the market allocate those resources towards education

The criticisms of free college “for millionaires” from the center are silly and reflect the same math mistake that some leftists make with VAT. You can’t analyze the tax side without the transfer side, and vice versa

@Cullen_OK Universal programs are simpler to administer and more resilient to the shifting of political tides

@Cullen_OK welfare universalism is an ideal

@Cullen_OK Plenty of evidence of the difficulty of applying for FAFSA. In Germany, moving from free college to total subsidy for the poor saw decreased attendance numbers for the lowest decile. The “sticker shock” syndrome. also smooths the marginal tax rate curve and avoids fiscal cliffs

The real argument against free college is that college isn’t an ur-good. It’s mostly a standin credential for something more abstract. There are far more efficient investments to reduce inequality and imcrease human capital.

@CascadianSolo What about that RGB decision that allows govt to eminent domain land for the sake of economic growth? Can this argument apply to wealth?

@jdcmedlock I think UMC is smart enough to realize that their taxes are subsidizing poorer students for a net loss tho

@CascadianSolo Especially ridic because this analysis purposefully leaves out Klob being really low and having a grad degree

@CascadianSolo Throw Obama onto this poll and democrats will give him a 100%

@ProperOpinion We have lots of cost exploding regulations/subsidies in healthcare, housing, and education because the moral outcomes are unpalatable if some of these things weren’t in place. If we could remove those and offset with UBIs, costs would fall and all society would be richer

@CascadianSolo We could all be turned into gods by a benevolent AGI tomorrow, making all this pointless Best not to think about it

If you take the pessimist view that college is mostly about credentials &not about education, then a college degree is equivalent to a taxi medallion. The value goes to 0 if there’s a lot of them. Regardless of the price, universities will carefully guard the quantity

This is pretty much de facto true at the highest level, or else there would be 10 branches of Harvard each with 10x the current enrollment size. Whether the same thing applies to smaller state schools is a somewhat open question (but I’d wager the answer is yes)

@isabelzawtun Ok rick and morty

lady just heisted the rick and morty joke https://t.co/35s6V4olGR

@CascadianSolo How does working towards a transhumanist future make you awful? This tech may lead to stuff only conceived of in scifi like fully controllable prosthetic limbs

@CascadianSolo This is a good idea

this but unironically https://x.com/landlawlahore/status/1200589215500849153

@orkoliberal @CascadianSolo @CatoInstitute Wasting millions of hours of human labor probably doesn’t get cancelled out by the environmental impact

@nmoryl the incentives for long term care are not there bc people switch jobs too often

@orkoliberal @CascadianSolo @CatoInstitute We can safely assume it’s a net utility loss seeing as it doesn’t happen when it’s not mandated by law

@agraybee lol there’s an actual holocaust happening in China and quite a few tankies denying it

@zslayback how the shit do CARBOHYDRATES make people depressed

@zslayback @Mangan150 ok but carbs are an essential macronutrient. Carbs making you depressed is like being allergic to oxygen. I’m open to a more nuanced claim but this seems silly. People are really bad at self diagnosing

inb4 they sell a million cybertrucks and everyone is baffled https://x.com/ganeumann/status/1200933194025099264

@GarettJones get rekt @Noahpinion

@KHiveQueenB Do you realize she’s being facetious?

@sonyasupposedly ya cant wait until AIs can find some adversarial input that collapses your mind

@Noahpinion We’ll rejoin in 2020 after an embarrassing interlude boss

this is lit. the politicos gotta becomes weirder to survive https://x.com/nypost/status/1200927741161476096

broke: the west wing, house of cards woke: Veep

@Aella_Girl I’ll take a stab at defending my Yes because no one else is: its less cruel to end an infant’s life before they become “conscious” under certain conditions than to keep them alive What that threshold is, I don’t know, and the mother’s judgment will be more conservative than mine

@Aella_Girl If a mother is able to fight down her 5 billion years of evolutionary training telling her that the squalling baby before her is more important than life itself, then there’s probably a very good reason for it

@Sam_DeLoach @Aella_Girl yeah and not often with their sanity intact

@Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl let’s say, for example, that a child has a congenital birth defect that’ll make his life short and miserable, under no uncertain terms. Doctors say he won’t live past 6 months. What about then?

@vivaaalareine @Sam_DeLoach @Aella_Girl Of course. Who wouldn’t? But there are more pointless cruelties in this world than I can conceive of. Take the following as example: https://x.com/tszzl/status/1201055032667463685?s=21 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1201055032667463685

@Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl There is nothing in their power, try as they might. Nature is pointless cruel sometimes. If the doctor was right you’ve prolonged her suffering and added to the cruelty. I’d wager they’re right most of the time.

@Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl I’m a pro-natalist. I’d be willing to fight to keep a child alive under anything but the most dire conditions. But I’d pull the plug if my child had to live something that was a mockery of life — an certain death congenital disease being one of them.

@Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl These do exist in the real world and they’re the leading cause of late stage abortions. Women don’t wait 8 months and THEN get abortions if something dire hasn’t happened — I imagine it’s the same with neonatal infanticide

@Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl https://reason.com/2016/10/21/late-term-abortions-in-america-2016/

@CascadianSolo I love Mormons because they’re overwhelmingly capitalist and high achieving. Can’t get behind religious fundamentalism of any kind tho

@RLangford18 Education, improvement of human capital

@MissionMan_MKIV @Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl I have a mouth and some autonomy to claim that my life is worth living. But what about when someone is incapable? An elderly patient past brain death for ex. They might have a medical proxy make decisions for them. The mother is the medical proxy for a baby

@MissionMan_MKIV @Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @Aella_Girl To put it more crudely why do we have the power to “put down” animals in pain?

@HaroldValentine @Sam_DeLoach @Aella_Girl Is it better to have a child live to early childhood and die of starvation (one of the most painful deaths imaginable) or to die as an infant? I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t judge someone if they took the second option

@Sam_DeLoach @RockHardScoop @MissionMan_MKIV @Aella_Girl https://reason.com/2016/10/21/late-term-abortions-in-america-2016/

@CascadianSolo @zackkanter It is

@K_Smith_MI @CascadianSolo @zackkanter He’s a SV capitalist and I know his general style of tweet — def satire. Anyway, it’s not in the playbook to actually *admit* the climate crisis isn’t about the environment

@maiab https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/airbnb-price-per-night-co/lijeilcglmadpkbengpkfnkpmcehecfe

@maiab Ask the internet and you shall receive

school is bad because it doesn’t successfully measure ... *checks notes* customer centricity. https://x.com/ValaAfshar/status/1201293625176526848

my least favorite type of tweet is the highly political “xyz should be a mandatory class in high school” or “school doesn’t test for xyz merit”. Everyone thinks the world would be better if their ideology was shoved down school kids’ throats

who tryna fuck around and find cosmic validation

@Rushil_Kaul1 Let me call up joe rogan

@agraybee what people think being a centrist is like: people of all stripes sympathize with you, your agenda universally prevails what being a centrist is actually like: everyone hates you and you're weakly bleating on about zoning laws

@jomgy welfare universalism is good for tons of other reasons, including and especially avoiding giant marginal tax rates at welfare cliffs

@jomgy They’re simpler to administer, simpler to consume, and all around technocratic catnip

@TheSneerReview It’s satire my dude

@maiab looks like all it does is adjust this price per night right here. I thought I remembered it changing the search result but I guess not

@agraybee What does this day about certain accounts putting out 20 tweets per day 😃

@agraybee I’m joking boss. I agree w you, but the internet click farm business model does not

@AgiaTheBun that’s fukn gross boss

@ne0liberal shhh it’s too early to dance on her grave, you’ll anger the succs

@Rationalbot because they’re rare and also vital. They have you by the balls

@AlecStapp If crime is less commonly reported crime rates will go down

@AlecStapp it’s possible that the lawlessness doesn’t extend to literal murders

@suzannahweiss The best satire is indistinguishable from the real thing

@vanillatary @NeolibShill

There’s literally no societal ill in America that can’t be traced back to zoning law

@vanillatary The concentration camps in Xinjiang just scream to me that the enemies of the West have been done away with

@ARealDmitri @Altimor you love to see it

@Noahpinion from the very beginning the markets saw the potential in mayor Pete even when the rest of u idiot pundits didn’t I trust every predictit trader with $10 to their name more than @Noahpinion

please support my startup where we make face masks with adversarial inputs printed on them https://x.com/AdamSerwer/status/1201856293318856706

this is true and v strange to me. you’d think more smart people would be extremely interested in building “the machine that builds the machine”. probably has everything to do with non competitive wages tbh https://x.com/micsolana/status/1201565239122239489

@NeolibShill this guy has been off his game since the tentacle porn disaster

@alittlelist imo culture is a result of economics, always. people learn to love the things that make them successful. few of my friends even considered government work after they graduated. the only ones who did got disheartened and looked elsewhere after finding out about the wages

@alittlelist the markets are exactly as cruel as political dynamism, if not more so. but yeah your point about lack of control does make sense.

Famed Journalist Discovers Effective Altruism https://x.com/ezraklein/status/1201908343599591425

@ahardtospell Here’s another one: these tariffs serve as a sort of chaos monkey for our global supply chains, and in doing so make our economy more resilient to shocks

@ahardtospell this is a nassim taleb galaxy brain

@ahardtospell perhaps we should have a stochastic tariff policy

@CascadianSolo money in elections is completely overrated, it’s not about that

@_Jason_Dean_ he’s been crying everyday since

This was a momentous occasion in 🌐 twitter history, the first time we cancelled one of our own Dude’s a legend https://www.foxnews.com/us/uc-berkeley-instructor-rural-americans-bad-people

@bigcitydinosaur im purely shitposting friend, i hardly knew him

@AOCFeetRespectr his only mistake was admitting defeat

they made a very big gamble and lost, it’s not exactly an unexpected layoff https://x.com/yashar/status/1201974717541806080

@CascadianSolo transaction tax is the dumbest idea of any of them

@zebulgar who is this person and why have they blocked me

@AOCFeetRespectr don’t hate the player, hate the game

@_debarshi bitch ill kill u

@CascadianSolo The fed should’ve opened paper markets and let the banks die

@CascadianSolo liquidity at better than market rate is the same thing as giving away money

@CascadianSolo Any profits we made represent serious negative alpha

this dude would’ve said the same thing about the nazis https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1202068942744936448

@parismartineau wtf how else would you put it

@MarcosLo_ @CascadianSolo it’s meant as a deterrent to “speculative” trading, so it increases volatility and bid-ask spreads, depresses asset prices, and generally makes the financial markets less efficient while also raising minimal revenue

@MarcosLo_ @CascadianSolo It’s catnip for people that don’t understand the role HFT plays in stabilizing markets

@jessesingal Arrival is easily better

@AOCFeetRespectr shit fried my brain like an egg

@AOCFeetRespectr what im really pissed about is that I managed to live throug the birth of the internet without making a million dollars or getting famous smh

thereby confirming my theory that all modes of entertainment are competitors, and none of the tech companies are monopolies https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/878016242539352065

@Momifornia1 Who should a self driving bus kill? It’s unavoidable

@Momifornia1 I definitely agree with you that car-centrism is bad but the fact of the matter right now is that autonomous vehicles represent an orders of magnitude incremental win for pedestrian safety, so we should be engaged in questions like the one the MIT article asks

@agraybee it's well known that Bernie is Kwisatz Haderach, anointed God-Emperor of Mankind

@thecliffbar @Momifornia1 Neither of these things are far off imo. Tesla at least is basically already capable of full self driving pending more testing and regulatory approval. You just have to get in one to see how far they’ve gotten

@thecliffbar @Momifornia1 And the vision modules can already identify the difference between an old woman and a young man for ex. — once you have that data, whether or not you incorporate it into the reasoning and planning side is a design choice

@CascadianSolo True, but regardless he has a point. Pundits blaming racism for the unpopularity of a black candidate is telling on themselves that they’re completely disconnected from the voters

@Momifornia1 @thecliffbar Is it one of the later models with the actual FSD option?

@thecliffbar @Momifornia1 The failures are well publicized and the daily successes are kept quiet. I’m an ML researcher so I may be a bit biased, but I consider vision a solved task. That’s not to say crap engineering and crap datasets won’t lead to bad results, but the capability is there

@jdcmedlock If you’re a liberal, you have to accept this as unquestionably true. The real interesting question then is how to reach that goal, which we will all disagree on

@thecliffbar @Momifornia1 imo Tesla’s sensor approach is good: LIDAR isn’t needed for vision — as a human, I’m able to see the road without shooting 360degree laser beams out my eyes. The improvements in stereoscopic vision processing achieve results that rival LIDAR

@thecliffbar @Momifornia1 source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.07179.pdf

@conorduffy_7 The “zealotry of the convert” is well-known tbh. It makes sense to be combative af when you first stake an ideological position and mellow over time

@conorduffy_7 it’s also interesting that this entire globe twitter community seems to have gone through the r/atheism phase

@Aella_Girl Worse qol than literally EVERYBODY else? We’re talking the worst of human beings in the entire world?

@Aella_Girl imo your question is self contradictory. How are they the worst off but also have basic amenities?

@micsolana that movie is like one of those children’s books written w zero plot for no other reason than getting across a hamfisted “moral of the story”

@PopulismUpdates goddammit tfw this is an ACTUAL populism update

@JohnCarltonKing @_Jason_Dean_ We should do Bernie’s patent prize thing

@JohnCarltonKing @_Jason_Dean_ This should def exist tbh. government should spend some money every year on buying some patents from pharma companies and setting them free

@sonyasupposedly admiration for such honesty. Also slight sadness because people who are really good at going after these things don’t admit it if they’re trying to be effective

@JohnCarltonKing @_Jason_Dean_ and a patent tax for the Neo-Georgist street cred

@Noahpinion Noah cut the shit and get an anime pro pic u coward

@MarcosLo_ @CascadianSolo The size of the literature is large and it’s highly political because both camps stand to gain a ton of money. But here’s one: https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article-abstract/27/8/2267/1582754

@CleopatrasHat @jdcmedlock I think reasonable people can healthily debate on a lot of policy decisions, like tax rates, intervention, etc without having different motives

@ne0liberal There’s a great scifi meditation on this by Greg Egan: “unstable orbits In the space of lies”

@ne0liberal ideology is great — nobody has the mental time or resources to devote to studying every single topic in any modicum of depth. You can maybe get understand one policy item in depth in an entire lifetime. For all else you need a camp of people you trust and a set of good priors

@JohnCarltonKing That may not be the right takeaway from this graph — it’s more like the US government was heavily propping up the housing market and homeownership and that policy has come back to bite everyone in the butt. The median wage over time is more helpful

@JohnCarltonKing What’s funny is that our culture is so focused on homeownership that I can’t even find wealth statistics that aren’t tying the basic unit as “homeowner”

@JohnCarltonKing Assets without netting liabilities (home mortgage) isn’t useful

how everything feels in the year of our lord 2019 https://t.co/jCeRv1LgVG

@AOCFeetRespectr tfw every week of my life Jack Dorsey takes one day

@selentelechia ok drop ur scissor statement or im gonna start believing this is a hoax

@CascadianSolo how does that make sense? aren’t the future energy savings priced into the home as soon as you buy solar panels?

@CascadianSolo in a sane world you could run a DCF on expected savings per year and add that value to your home price as soon as you purchase

@TheSneerReview His self interest is so transparent I have to respect it

@robinhanson I’d say it’s a huge mistake to even expect economists to predict the rise of things like social media

@robinhanson paul krugman predicting the uselessness of the Internet is less sad than everyone else not predicting the uselessness of paul krugman‘ predictions

@jdcmedlock galaxy brain

@jdcmedlock tfw you pay VAT on kiddy stand lemonade

@AOCFeetRespectr @Noahpinion @Noahpinion pls get an anime avi

@jdcmedlock a just society doesn’t inflate food prices either (just give money!)

@jeremiahg the wounded screaming of an endangered species: the free press

@Neolib_Neocon @ahardtospell he cannot be serious about transaction tax

@Dr2chase @Momifornia1 per test mile driven they’re clearly safer, and continue getting better

@thee_snek https://x.com/tszzl/status/1055989537078427649?s=21 https://x.com/tszzl/status/1055989537078427649

@Dr2chase @Momifornia1 The number of miles driven is clearly an important factor. It’s true that Uber killed a pedestrian; it’s also true that a pedestrian is killed every 90 minutes in America. The question is, for the number of miles they’ve driven, have they killed fewer people?

@Dr2chase @Momifornia1 A ‘test mile’ is a real mile driven under city driving conditions. It’s the real deal. When the Uber AV killed that pedestrian that was a test car.

@Dr2chase @Momifornia1 yeah of course they’ll cut corners, that’s how it goes— but the question is, is it incrementally safer than the awful reality we live in today where 50,000 pedestrians die a year? If it’s even 10% better we’d be monsters not to shift to autonomous vehicles

@Dr2chase @Momifornia1 There has been 1 pedestrian death in history as a result of AV, and Tesla autopilot has logged something like 2 billion miles. That being said, Tesla is a level 2 system. The results are promising, but it’s not full self driving

@Dr2chase @Momifornia1 You’re right, but you gotta attack this one from multiple angles. Convincing people to bike is a long and uphill battle

@JohnCarltonKing To be fair, his full quote is a lot more reasonable

@Cedric_R1 @jdcmedlock none of that is what I said

@RMac18 get fucked nerd

@CascadianSolo lol so should we be buy or sell

@JohnCarltonKing John your version of nasty is most people’s normal twitter mood

@ryxcommar excel is the workhorse of capitalism

oh man the replies https://x.com/jacobin/status/1202641283023376384

@wannabegroncho the good thing is they’re too incoherent and silly to ever have real power

@ExistentialEnso he’s right

@owenrumney Two words: no malarkey

@JohnCarltonKing every dog has his day!

@eigenrobot yeah this but also heavily underrated is vast improvement in literacy and childhood education rates; i've no doubt both of these things contribute to increased IQ

@eigenrobot also pretty certain 1900 was the middle of the S curve and we're now nearing the top - you can see it in the Olympians as well. Performance in top tier athletics appear to be nearing the top of a logistic curve

@GeolibGeorge @jdcmedlock We define these things relative to each other; by any measure a poor person in America is still one of the richest people in the world. So yes, there cannot be rich without poor and vice versus

i hope he DID work for the cia

@hamandcheese wave function has collapsed and now I’m observing only “stupid”

@CascadianSolo @gaywonk

lmao ... just straight up lying now huh https://x.com/AOC/status/1203093051859750912

antinatalist king https://x.com/NTarnopolsky/status/1203435271611650048

@mattyglesias yes

@orkoliberal this is genuinely a stupid move and has already hurt the people in Queens. It’s ok to notice a system level failure and still participate

if you read closely all he’s doing is courting republican voters by making voting blue more palatable for them https://x.com/wideofthepost/status/1203684215772123139

@jdcmedlock @MaxGhenis spreading out jobs isn’t good, it makes all of them less productive

@ShaunMaynard or it could be some mix of both, which I’m fine with tbh. What he’s saying about having a countervailing force is true, I just don’t know why you’d say it aloud as the most powerful Democrat

@Winterkent9 @trepur349 @Robyn9124 woke

@Winterkent9 @trepur349 @Robyn9124

@JohnCarltonKing @CascadianSolo It’s undeniable that the efficiency of the capital markets is a good thing, but I guess I’m not exactly sure what you’re criticizing

@JohnCarltonKing @CascadianSolo Isn’t that kind of the point though? In a free market if you don’t make the customer happy you die. If you don’t make your employees happy, they’ll leave. Obv many workers don’t have the security to make that choice which we can smooth over with welfare & unions

@JohnCarltonKing @CascadianSolo You’ve not pointed out any system level flaw other than that poverty reduces bargaining power. And the “short term profits vs long term value” thing is a meme, share value represents all future earnings

@JohnCarltonKing @CascadianSolo the only way to cannibalize your future for short term share value is if there are serious information assymetries like fraud — this won’t get fixed just bc you have one extra board seat for a union rep

@jdcmedlock @MaxGhenis They need to have offices in multiple cities so they can get access to talent that’s otherwise inaccessible/unwilling to move. So some level of decentralization is necessary. Even then, spreading 50,000 in 10 places is clearly worse than in two for example

@accountable_gov @AHaulis @NightmareFuelNF supporting a right to choose is not incompatible with desiring that someone chooses freedom

@jdcmedlock @MaxGhenis there will always be competing centralization and decentralization pressure, but new york’s actions shifted the equilibrium. That being said, I’m not exactly concerned for amazon. Just not a fan of this self-owning populism

@jdcmedlock @MaxGhenis It’s not, and this won’t hurt amazon at all. Just not a fan of this self-owning populism driving jobs out of queens. The tax amzn pays to the city government is clearly positive net of incentives

@MaxGhenis @jdcmedlock very true, but again, amazon will be fine; it’s the poorest in queens who lose from NIMBYism

@jdcmedlock @MaxGhenis the alternative is that cities compete only on tax rate. that may be preferable; I’m not completely sure. but what I am sure of is that each individual principality stands to gain by offering incentives under the current system. sitting out the game isn’t a real option

@MaxGhenis @jdcmedlock If you look at this as a market where the price is a tax bill, then some municipality can offer a targeted subsidy that lowers net tax to near $0. But, nyc+queens can’t well lower the general tax rate to 0% to compete with that. So they’re on the back foot

@MaxGhenis @jdcmedlock how does that fall under any of the typical modes of market failure? Haggling is a feature of many real world markets

@MaxGhenis @jdcmedlock These subsidy processes are usually completely public — and the other thing that the market analogy misses is that on the city’s side, there are thousands of new revenue streams even if amazon paid $0 in corporate tax

@MaxGhenis @jdcmedlock My hunch is that total tax revenues would fall if cities couldn’t try and capture the Whales and their accompanying revenue streams with targeted packages

@MaxGhenis @jdcmedlock also you can make blind auctions competitive via the vickrey auction https://www.oecd.org/daf/competition/abuse/38773965.pdf

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu criticizing ideas and ideologies is critical and central to liberal democracy, and religion is ideology

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu let's say that you read a headline saying 'Stalin now top baby name in US', and you expressed anger at this. Does that make you some sort of a bigot? Muhammad was a medieval warlord and conqueror (i don't particularly care about this, but i'm trying to illustrate a point)

@jessesingal well-regarded by whom

@Bodyisturd @jessesingal how is that a valid critique? if all of string theory turns out to be abstruse mathematical fan fiction without an iota of physical truth, it will join the majority of ideas ever had in academia. doesn't make it less virtuous to study

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu you're just shuffling words around here. is there a categorical difference between wishing Nazism or Nazis didn't exist vs criticizing it?

@NickTerry9 @accountable_gov @NewaHailu as i've before there's a difference between expressing dismay at something, as many reasonable religious folks do for abortion or gay marriage or any of the other abrahamic shibboleths, and attempting to use legal force to ban it

@Bodyisturd @jessesingal yeah actually I see that as a plausible (self-consistent) argument, albeit completely wrong. String theory has cultural cache because it's got physical and mathematical merit. Anecdotally, the only string theorist I know at my university is black

@un_a_valeable @accountable_gov I agree. christianity should be under fire just as often as islam is

@Bodyisturd @jessesingal you're right, but you can explain it easily for reasons unrelated to racial hierarchies -- for example, Everett's many worlds interpretation is hugely popular without much to show for it, mostly because it makes for awesome story telling.

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu that's not it at all. I'm using an edge case ideology to illustrate my point.

@un_a_valeable @accountable_gov do political ideologies fit into neat boxes? they do not. even on twitter, you'll find a vast spectrum of people who call themselves leftists who are bitterly feuding with all the other ones. If religion means a shared culture, you could say the same thing of liberal democracy

@un_a_valeable @accountable_gov there is no difference between religiousness and nationalism or liberalism or any of the other broad ranges of belief sets that give people meaning

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu I will also say that muhammad and most other religious leaders throughout history were violent genocidal maniacs, against whom there should be no stigma for criticizing. their names shouldn't be held in high regard, and it's ok to view the headscarf as a symbol of oppression

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu the number of people who disagree should never be the metric against which to judge these things. the abrahamic religions are antithetical to liberalism, and the religious scholars realize this

@Iiberty_prime @accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu without a doubt

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu the ad populum argument isn't a good one -- the numbers should have no bearing on what's right or wrong

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu Religious freedom is essential to liberalism. Many religions are antithetical to it. These two things aren’t contradictory

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu the gods of the abrahamic faiths ask things no different than authoritarian leaders do: complete submission, ignorance, and deference. a celestial North Korea

@NewaHailu @accountable_gov @NickTerry9 I don't think my point is that subtle, you're just strawmanning me instead of addressing the point at hand. I think the Nazi party should have the right to exist and Nazis the right to free speech. I think Nazism is antithetical to liberalism. Are those two things contradictory?

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu they haven't really coexisted peacefully with liberalism. every new generation does untold violence to religious establishments in this country -- shibboleths like abortion and gay marriage have been ceded to liberalism. church attendance is in complete freefall

@NewaHailu @accountable_gov @NickTerry9 religions are death cults. more people have been killed in the name of various prophets than in the name of nazism/communism. religions promise eternal violence & punishment against their enemies as a fundamental part of their belief set. they’re not analogous to the color red

@NewaHailu @accountable_gov @NickTerry9 in Islam the punishment prescribed for apostasy is death, plain and simple

@accountable_gov @NickTerry9 @NewaHailu because your version of christianity is one that's had all of its powerful bits ceded and destroyed in the name of liberalism. the church holds no power and you believe in a watered down version of christianity that accepts all the liberal values first and foremost

@NickTerry9 @accountable_gov @NewaHailu An Americanized name is just a Christian religious name. You’re not winning many points here

@Gus_802 this guy sucks major ass and I’ll be very glad when he’s irrelevant in a few years

@NickTerry9 @accountable_gov @NewaHailu I agree but there’s no such thing as a non religious name — give me any common name and I’ll go back and find how it’s religiously motivated

@Polit_eurOpines @wehpudicabok it's true but the final words of the series are "his scar hadn't hurt in years", which is rather upbeat

@CascadianSolo it’s interesting how vastly different the outcomes are — post Mao China worked wonderfully, whereas post Soviet Russia essentially degenerated into a kleptocratic oligarchy. Do you have anything good to read on this?

your opinion regarding this song is a good litmus test as to whether or not you’ve gone insane https://x.com/AlexParkerDC/status/1203754768562360325

@OldDreyfusard incredibly based

@Human9b6c432f why?

@Human9b6c432f absolutely based

@miyathequeen its about to be the worst fucking movie, complete nonsense

based and redpilled https://x.com/AmirAminiMD/status/1203821639131172869

@MattWalshBlog’s worst enemy

this headline is actually a work of art, amazingly bullshitting an entire news cycle out of zero material https://x.com/joshjame/status/1203841898990985216

@KyleJT still miraculous, somehow convinced people that making a middle class income makes her a fatcat. Does WSJ work for Bernie Sanders?

nothing has ever convinced me of @ESYudkowsky theory about the news more than this has: we all know this is nonsense, but by the power of suggestion WSJ has us suspecting other people care. Now we’re trapped into dealing with it

@CapitalistGhoul you don’t even have to go there to debunk this: porn is different because all parties are consulting adults. Who the hell consults to getting murdered?

@Noahpinion there are people in third world countries who manage to do something nice for a whole of 2 [TWO] holidays

@sonyasupposedly “The Church of the God Who Makes No Difference”

this church galaxy brain’d themselves into promoting ancient Hindu symbology https://x.com/redditships/status/1204113684819251200

democrats hate winning https://x.com/paulkrugman/status/1204151345973989376

this post was engineered to anger the maximum amount of people https://x.com/ahardtospell/status/1204279138804273152

@CascadianSolo The eternal “eating street food in the Midwest” campaign photo

@ryxcommar possible they’re filling multiple spots with one listing

@ryxcommar also you’ve permanently become “twitter job search guy”

fine print: net immigration +100,000 https://x.com/SteveBrownDMN/status/1204481948523081728

Me, while fully acknowledging that some of my professors follow me:

@NeoLibBen @nicks847 tfw all 20 billion is the US defense budget spent in Afghanistan

@NeoLibBen @nicks847 there's absolutely no doubt that life under US conservatorship is better than life under the Taliban, but the better question is if dollar for dollar our Afghanistan policy is/was the most efficient way to ensure global welfare

@NeoLibBen @nicks847 afghanistan's gdp per capita today is comparable to korea's gdp per cap in the 1960s. time will tell if it was a good investment, but I'm somewhat skeptical. What if we had given a tenth of the afghanistan budget to Gates Foundation type activities?

this is tbh a very bad strawman that resurfaces time and time again on twitter. this is like saying, instead of buying health insurance, just never get into an accident https://x.com/rileyrethal/status/1204578504395960320

@marathiMaharaja turd burglar

@AlanMCole the real elites read the books bro

@feraljokes absjolutely ethered

everyone who says shit like this low key hates hates the global poor https://x.com/Chris_arnade/status/1204812777099055104

@Chris_arnade your argument directly values the slightly deflated industrial community more than the people who now aren’t going to starve in Jakarta

@Chris_arnade the path to hell is paved in good intentions and forgotten second order effects

@nottoiletthings @Chris_arnade that’s not an interesting observation. the world is teeming with voluntary transactions that can benefit both parties

@nottoiletthings @Chris_arnade increase welfare spending, don’t decrease efficiency

@NeolibShill globe emojis are the foot soldiers. we first name only chads are the real thought leadersTM

@ne0liberal -immediate free markets in housing

@JonIsAwesomest no because only children on twitter doing this for a hobby care about shit like that

I look forward to fixing climate change in the next few decades with capitalist finagling, not because it’ll save the world, but because it’ll piss off the left

the North Star of any good policy

@Sam_Dumitriu in futures markets it’s been shown that information becomes less and less reliable as you approach the contract maturation date

@rDogeLore @NeolibShill 🤕

@mincer__ray @Carzonfye no

im being oppressed by the tech bros pt 2

@NeolibShill not that bad all things considered tbh, most accounts don’t tweet a lot and the timeline service just filters for accounts I interact with a lot

relatable https://x.com/spettypi/status/1205184175420166145

@_debarshi @jack 😡

@Carzonfye @mincer__ray have you considered that this is a joke

@owenrumney there are businesses in Britain whose fundamental assumptions rely on the free trade, so the abrupt change is worse than the steady state

none of this is true. corbyn’s just a loser https://x.com/sullydish/status/1205256001714376704

@NateSilver538 You just invented a bad version of information entropy you absolute half wit

@Noahpinion needs to absolutely stfu https://x.com/BachmannRudi/status/1205140400652136448

@Noahpinion it's over, you had a good run https://x.com/BachmannRudi/status/1205140400652136448

@CascadianSolo I don’t think it’s fair to characterize BoJo as a business as usual Tory

@Aella_Girl 0%

owning the libs by calling it the Obama "regime"

@ExistentialEnso the only thing he got wrong is that isis is pretty much done for

the takeaway from the UK isn't anything to do with ideology or Brexit or whatever. it's the same lesson for the last 50 years. the most entertaining government wins. the electorate are shitposters https://x.com/thwphipps/status/617371513277259776

Now that we've toppled Starcraft we have to put all our efforts into solving Snakes and Ladders

@Noahpinion stop punching down

@AgiaTheBun I mean unskilled as showmen

@KyleJT There’s probably some company in Japan already working on this

2020: Greta Thunberg Imperial Army marches on Washington, https://x.com/DailyMail/status/1205522695984680967

2021: Greta Elevated to God-Empress of Mankind by Orgiastic Mob

@no_harm_ this is a very convincing gan