Patrick

At some time or another everyone was offered the opportunity to die in a famine. Very egalitarian.

Point taken. Well, know from personal experience what you’re talking about. Derek Guy sending me down the menswear path led to some people assuming I shared their beliefs about, everyone not white - twice. Didn’t know them, assholes just assumed. Weirded me out.

This reminded me of hearing Georgians proudly state that nobody killed more Russians than Stalin.

Yes. Must retvrn to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Ancestors didn’t know how good they had it in that agrarian despotic absolute monarchy.

In politics, business, even the professions - if you want to go to the top you have to do sales. Because that’s all there is beyond a certain level. Which means, for me, dropping money on Dale Carnegie courses. ☹️

Wondering if this has to be a bit. Seriously. It’s getting to that ludicrous zone, like when Sky was arguing with the people pushing “use this third party to send money to Gazans in need”, talking about violating banking laws of social media. That was surreal. And this may surpass it.

Dear god. What rabbit hole have I fallen into?

American exceptionalism, only where America is uniquely evil and responsible for all the ills in the world.

In awe of the arc of seen today. Now, this one will be hard to beat.

Have a hard time seeing a situation where the people who are the demand, artists, tolerating in perpetuity the situation with scalpers. Or embracing a system where system where they make less money from their remaining money maker. Just speculations from a dilettante.

Amusement parks, stadiums, basically entertainment venues with fixed capacity in a real bind. Hard constraints on supply. Can’t easily make another Disney World. If it’s a concert for a pop star? Yikes. Wonder who will be the first to sell tickets at clearing price, eventually? Brutal backlash.

Pretty sure the depression did the heavy lifting. Tactical moderation and aesthetic improvement probably help at the margin. Guess that’s the dark version of respectability politics?

Southernization of US politics thesis in one form or another always making an appearance.

I’ve seen moderate evidence around that. It’s also pointing “probably, to some degree”. Think it’s best to have a good baseline. Being born in poverty, lead exposure, is really bad in terms of downstream effects. Gets murkier beyond that.

Maybe. Lean no. Even the deep canvasing analysis I’ve seen don’t show much one way or another. Media environment overwhelmed everything, on top of it being a global phenomenon.

Always one. Felt everyone was finance, pre law, pre med at my school in the northeast. Still some Republicans in the business school, but “different kind of Republican”. Now, hear the campus is is supermajority liberal. Former classmates seem to all be Dem. Sort of jarring.

College selects for people who already differ. Peer environment socializes you in distinct norms that can move stuff at the margins. I don’t think it’s a good answer personally, but it’s the best one I have to offer.

I can see what you mean. From my own experience with people I know who’ve moved south.

When you love your country so much you want to turn it into a more northerly Latin America from 75+ years ago. No more Europoors discourse for them. Proceed to rapidly fall behind Portugal.

Very anti American of them. So up end a bedrock tradition in a revolutionary fit, replace it with some European style romantic nationalism LARP? Can’t see that having any sort of unintended consequences.

Wonder how many of those same people have German cars or appliances.

What circle of hell is this? Meanwhile on X the Everything App, since Charlie Kirk, racists have been overwhelmed with the vapors. Realized Richard Spencer was right about white people hating them, some even want them dead.

Think it’s less the learning, much as educators hate to hear, it’s a formative socialization experience is best guess. Hence why college grads are culturally distinct.

So, what’d you do?

Public cares about the immigration misdemeanors a lot more, and here we are. Really dislikes anything “disorderly”, unfortunately aside from cars that is. Worse, we’ve I’ve seen this asked to in surveys when they are informed it’s only a misdemeanor they get more reactionary.

Aside from New England. Only distinct political culture left.

I mean, yeah, sounds plausible but doesn’t scale. In total doesn’t amount to much either way. Wish we could get Trump voters with Medicare for all. Or any policy. They just don’t like Democrats, liberals in general. World wide trend. They think we are all communists, who they hate.

Signed, someone who has done a lot of canvassing in his life.

Not, older evidence gave it a small effect and as polarization has gotten worse it’s contracted. Internal analysis more pessimistic, always. It’s beloved by a certain kind of process lover though.

It’s just antisemitism. Usually it’s bit more subtle though.