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I suppose it's not unlike my take on how to be a socialist in the classroom: Be loose and (try to) have insights, don't preach, just act as a positive example.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I suppose it's not unlike my take on how to be a socialist in the classroom: Be loose and (try to) have insights, don't preach, just act as a positive example.
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a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
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And I deplore the grotesque habits of mind that social media has encouraged in so many of you, where the clear expectation is not truth-seeking but consensus-reciting, and where false things can become true through constant rationalizations, and no one has to confront any uncomfortable thought.
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
And I deplore the grotesque habits of mind that social media has encouraged in so many of you, where the clear expectation is not truth-seeking but consensus-reciting, and where false things can become true through constant rationalizations, and no one has to confront any uncomfortable thought.
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lots of socialists run for office and most of them lose. if socialism was electoral magic we’d know. I’m pretty firmly on the record as believing policy just doesn’t matter that much in elections. but Mamdani is winsome, charismatic, and energetic, and people like that have a great electoral record
They're so desperate to credit anything other than the fact that he's a socialist who ran on socialist policies
June 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
lots of socialists run for office and most of them lose. if socialism was electoral magic we’d know. I’m pretty firmly on the record as believing policy just doesn’t matter that much in elections. but Mamdani is winsome, charismatic, and energetic, and people like that have a great electoral record
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the problem is that this principle seems to equally benefit Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Zohran Mamdani. it doesn’t seem to matter what you believe so much as how you convey it
ideology helps candidates win not because voters are ideological, they’re not, but because voters don’t like frauds l. and believing in something more than the next election/poll gives you an air of authenticity
Yes, this is an extremely obvious and straightforward takeaway that people refuse to internalize, because everyone wants to argue that espousing their own ideology is the key to eternal victory
June 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
the problem is that this principle seems to equally benefit Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Zohran Mamdani. it doesn’t seem to matter what you believe so much as how you convey it
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The deranged left, the deranged right, the increasingly reactionary center - this is what they all have in common. Their beliefs are impossible to challenge because they can take refuge in so many communities and channels explicitly designed to backstop those beliefs.
June 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The deranged left, the deranged right, the increasingly reactionary center - this is what they all have in common. Their beliefs are impossible to challenge because they can take refuge in so many communities and channels explicitly designed to backstop those beliefs.
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The idea that we can just do a really really good job at policy and then humans will forget all the stuff that makes them collapse into evil and despotic forms of government just feels deeply naive. “You wouldn’t be like that if you knew better.” I think many would. You have to crush those forces.
May 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The idea that we can just do a really really good job at policy and then humans will forget all the stuff that makes them collapse into evil and despotic forms of government just feels deeply naive. “You wouldn’t be like that if you knew better.” I think many would. You have to crush those forces.
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Wrong, I’d say. Our enemies are powerful because they have exploited deep currents of anger, bigotry, and authoritarianism that run through all human societies and, really, all humans, and to the extent we played a role in their ascent, it’s by not confronting and defeating these forces head-on.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Wrong, I’d say. Our enemies are powerful because they have exploited deep currents of anger, bigotry, and authoritarianism that run through all human societies and, really, all humans, and to the extent we played a role in their ascent, it’s by not confronting and defeating these forces head-on.
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Biden legitimately had a historically successful legislative presidency. No one knew. No one cared.
“Oh, if only we could pass our agenda, people would that government can work, love us, and not feel the need to turn to demagogic hate!” misunderstands the roots of authoritarianism, in my view.
“Oh, if only we could pass our agenda, people would that government can work, love us, and not feel the need to turn to demagogic hate!” misunderstands the roots of authoritarianism, in my view.
May 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Biden legitimately had a historically successful legislative presidency. No one knew. No one cared.
“Oh, if only we could pass our agenda, people would that government can work, love us, and not feel the need to turn to demagogic hate!” misunderstands the roots of authoritarianism, in my view.
“Oh, if only we could pass our agenda, people would that government can work, love us, and not feel the need to turn to demagogic hate!” misunderstands the roots of authoritarianism, in my view.
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Everyone says enhanced geothermal is the next fracking. That's only a little "bit" true.
The shale fracking boom was a product of its unique market structure. Enhanced geothermal is very different.
Latest from me and @buddyyakov.bsky.social at CPE—here's what a geothermal boom *really* requires:
The shale fracking boom was a product of its unique market structure. Enhanced geothermal is very different.
Latest from me and @buddyyakov.bsky.social at CPE—here's what a geothermal boom *really* requires:
April 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Everyone says enhanced geothermal is the next fracking. That's only a little "bit" true.
The shale fracking boom was a product of its unique market structure. Enhanced geothermal is very different.
Latest from me and @buddyyakov.bsky.social at CPE—here's what a geothermal boom *really* requires:
The shale fracking boom was a product of its unique market structure. Enhanced geothermal is very different.
Latest from me and @buddyyakov.bsky.social at CPE—here's what a geothermal boom *really* requires:
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As far as I know, even the Nazis didn't come up with the idea of sharing footage from concentration camp to fulfill the sadistic desires of their supporters. German High Command kept that for their own private viewing.
at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants
April 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
As far as I know, even the Nazis didn't come up with the idea of sharing footage from concentration camp to fulfill the sadistic desires of their supporters. German High Command kept that for their own private viewing.
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But again, many people simply do not care about that. They want a clean, simple narrative they can use in the here and now. They are deeply uncomfortable with the fact that these men did good things and really awful things, sometimes in combinations that are hard to make sense of.
April 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
But again, many people simply do not care about that. They want a clean, simple narrative they can use in the here and now. They are deeply uncomfortable with the fact that these men did good things and really awful things, sometimes in combinations that are hard to make sense of.
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The slow but steady collapse of modern America is under way. Everything is being defunded. Public schools, public transit, public health, anything else "public." Our society can't function without these things. And Democrats are too slow to act.
April 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The slow but steady collapse of modern America is under way. Everything is being defunded. Public schools, public transit, public health, anything else "public." Our society can't function without these things. And Democrats are too slow to act.
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No, my argument is that the founding principles of this country - the ideas that made it into the founding documents, which you can read for yourself - were not racism or slavery or genocide. Those things did exist in practice alongside the founding ideas, and were eventually mitigated by them
Will’s entire argument here appears to be “most people do not believe this country was founded on racism and genocide and they will get mad if you tell them that. And I will grant thats true most people don’t believe it. But that doesn’t make it any less true. Will goes further by denying it himself
April 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
No, my argument is that the founding principles of this country - the ideas that made it into the founding documents, which you can read for yourself - were not racism or slavery or genocide. Those things did exist in practice alongside the founding ideas, and were eventually mitigated by them
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If there’s one semi-positive takeaway here imo it’s that vibes rule everything.
Yes, these people are unfathomable morons but some of them can be won over if Democrats are seen as a young, decisive, and strong party that actually stands for things and doesn’t apologize.
Yes, these people are unfathomable morons but some of them can be won over if Democrats are seen as a young, decisive, and strong party that actually stands for things and doesn’t apologize.
April 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If there’s one semi-positive takeaway here imo it’s that vibes rule everything.
Yes, these people are unfathomable morons but some of them can be won over if Democrats are seen as a young, decisive, and strong party that actually stands for things and doesn’t apologize.
Yes, these people are unfathomable morons but some of them can be won over if Democrats are seen as a young, decisive, and strong party that actually stands for things and doesn’t apologize.
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A lot of it is genuine cognitive dissonance rather than deliberate deception, but it all comes out to the same result.
April 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A lot of it is genuine cognitive dissonance rather than deliberate deception, but it all comes out to the same result.
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If you want to talk about Israel and Palestine in mainstream American politics or the US Jewish Community, you are required to pretend that the politics and beliefs of the Israeli Minister of Finance are completely immaterial to the politics and actions of the Israeli government.
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If you want to talk about Israel and Palestine in mainstream American politics or the US Jewish Community, you are required to pretend that the politics and beliefs of the Israeli Minister of Finance are completely immaterial to the politics and actions of the Israeli government.
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We spent an absurd amount of time in 2022-24 denying this gap b/w consumer sentiment & behavior existed & inventing complex explanations like “felt inflation,” when the answers were right there. It was a sobering lesson in many things, including the politics of Narratives™️
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Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.
Tracking consumer sentiment versus how consumers are doing based on verified retail purchases
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
April 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We spent an absurd amount of time in 2022-24 denying this gap b/w consumer sentiment & behavior existed & inventing complex explanations like “felt inflation,” when the answers were right there. It was a sobering lesson in many things, including the politics of Narratives™️
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i've been saying since fall 2021 spending habits swung in a tremendously pro-treat direction during the pandemic, and when re-entering society voters either did not notice this or did not want to re-adjust even in light of the transitory inflation. lifestyle creep such an underrated factor
Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.
Tracking consumer sentiment versus how consumers are doing based on verified retail purchases
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
April 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
i've been saying since fall 2021 spending habits swung in a tremendously pro-treat direction during the pandemic, and when re-entering society voters either did not notice this or did not want to re-adjust even in light of the transitory inflation. lifestyle creep such an underrated factor
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This post is the closest I’ve gotten to being able to put together a master theory for Why This Is All Happening: why Trump could get elected, why Biden never got any credit, and why certain stuff never seems to break through open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
April 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This post is the closest I’ve gotten to being able to put together a master theory for Why This Is All Happening: why Trump could get elected, why Biden never got any credit, and why certain stuff never seems to break through open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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They want to be seen fighting Trump but they do not want to be drawn into an actual conflict, which would not have a predictable conclusion and could escalate. So when they have real leverage they lose it in the bushes and then do a protest
April 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
They want to be seen fighting Trump but they do not want to be drawn into an actual conflict, which would not have a predictable conclusion and could escalate. So when they have real leverage they lose it in the bushes and then do a protest
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Always, always, always this. A bunch of bros talking in a circle, convinced that their unadulterated brilliance liberates them of the need to incorporate anyone who isn't exactly like themselves into the conversation.
Observations from this article on "tech" chat groups: 1) they are 100% male, 2) they are texting all day, 3) they seem to have little other work to do, 4) these are investors, not true 'techies', 4) the author of the article seems not to realize himself how airless and homogeneous these groups are.
April 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Always, always, always this. A bunch of bros talking in a circle, convinced that their unadulterated brilliance liberates them of the need to incorporate anyone who isn't exactly like themselves into the conversation.
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Man it’s so funny they think we couldn’t tell
April 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Man it’s so funny they think we couldn’t tell