Bibi Netanyahu

I remember the days when baseball was saying Asian players weren’t strong enough to compete in the MLB. I am satisfied.

I actually do find the data that shows the top 10% is spending a lot more pretty credible, because so many companies have pivoted to appeal to that tier specifically. They didn't have to wait to do that if this was always the optimal move. There's no reason they wouldn't have noticed this before.

you know this attitude is a truly a perfect illustration of how the modern left can't duplicate the Civil Rights Struggle, only cargo cult it

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But ofc leftists will never say "Israel missed a chance to stop 10-7 by being too nice to the palestinians and wanting to stay on Ireland's good side etc. " but that is largely what happened. Instead they'll say "The zionists created everything bad in the world" etc.

This is also mostly what people mean when they claim Israel funded hamas. I

srael backed off enforcing accountability for reasons that included appeasing Europe and averting a humanitarian disaster.

They did misjudge hamas fear of their military strength and that's how we got here.

By inflating a war economy with cash that did not include accountability they gave hamas all the tools to attack Israel.

Israel's casual supporters say that Iran and Qatar funded hamas.

Israel's leftist enemies say Israel funded hamas.

The truth - the international aid community was the most important group funding hamas.

minor problem with that:

> we know thoroughly and completely how LLMs work

this part is just not true. at all. not even close. it is closer to false than it is to true.

I majored in cell bio, psych, and picked up a chem minor because the degree reqs made it make sense. I used to think about the chem -> bio -> psych chain a lot. Human psych is complicated chemistry at the end of the day, but that's that doesn't mean this reductive description captures all it is.

Weird how these people can trace all kinds of supposed conspiratorial webs but don't understand basic things like "why you say you did a thing might not actually be why you did it".

Hanania is doing the Spengler/Schmitt/Marinetti bit of providing intellectual cover for fascism and then bolting once it shows itself to be brutes smashing everything that smells like Da Jooz instead of the Prussian Junker elite. OFC, two of those were geniuses and Banania is a complete moron

The idea that a natural racial hierarchy will emerge anyway so you don't need to bother building an oppressive state apparatus (and conversely shouldn't bother building a liberatory one either) is a very old kind of race essentialist thinking that basically doesn't exist anymore apart from Hanania.

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Thiel also talked about other powerful figures in technology. He accused fellow tech investor Marc Andreessen of “pure Silicon Valley gobbledygook propaganda,” according to the recordings, in Andreessen’s 2023 essay titled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” that predicted AI would rapidly transform society in many positive ways.

Okay he has a point here

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

Juicy part begins at 1:36

I see no reason why I should have more sympathy for Palestinian civilians than I do for Russian civilians. Less even, because for all their despicable crimes, Russians do at least put uniforms on their combatants.

"The excesses of the woke era"

I still don't know why people think that the fall of America necessarily means that another power immediately takes its place. I think it's actually just very possible that everything gets shittier for a while, very likely everywhere.

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

In February 2024, Noem met with Trump to make her case to join the ticket. She was accompanied by Lewandowski, who came prepared with polling data showing how popular she was in midwestern swing states, according to the book Revenge, by the journalist Alex Isenstadt. But there were obstacles to her getting the job — the foremost being Lewandowski himself. People close to Trump worried about their alleged romantic involvement, Isenstadt wrote. Trump’s advisers had witnessed Lewandowski slapping Noem on the butt, and Trump would slyly refer to Noem as Lewandowski’s “girlfriend.” Noem’s chances at securing the No. 2 spot were ultimately buried by the publication of her second memoir, No Going Back, in which she told the unfortunate story of shooting a disobedient puppy named Cricket on the family farm. “That’s not good at all,” Trump told his son Don Jr., according to Revenge. “Even you wouldn’t kill a dog, and you kill everything.”

Bill Clinton is basically beyond the pale now.

It’s so funny how many expats who live in China are like “people say it’s authoritarian but you’re allowed to drink in public, and if you don’t say anything the government doesn’t like they don’t care what they do, so you know, it might be *less* authoritarian than America”

Progressives, two days ago: “Watch how fast the right pivots to arguing he was an ideologically incoherent loner with no discernible political motive!”

Progressives, today, pivoting instantly: “He was clearly an ideologically incoherent loner with no discernible political motive”

Depends. How stupid do you want to look in three years?

Groyper? I hardly know her.

The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.