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Paul Melman
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bohemian public intellectual wannabe 🧐

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Not just in terms of performance, I mean the unit cost over its projected lifespan including amortized development cost is turning out to be pretty reasonable
October 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I mean the F-35 turned out to be highly successful so he was right in that
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not that there's really such a thing as "working class" to begin with
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"small business owner" includes a lot of sole proprietorships including independent contractors, whom I would call working class
October 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How do you prevent devolution into guilds? "Workplace democracy" must include representation of consumer interests, not just worker interests.
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Many such cases
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Not merely other people's desires, but the desires of egregores. Memetic entities. Ideologies have their own psychology, their own internal anatomy, even their own will perhaps
September 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'd say it's Singapore's PAP, but they are admittedly playing on easy mode compared to the CCP
September 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Great talk!
August 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
do you not have a brain?
July 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
And what has all that accomplished? Israel clearly has not slowed down their campaign in Gaza at all. At a certain point, it's time to accept defeat and find a different front to fight in.
July 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Got Trump elected
July 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I really don't understand this obsession with Palestine?

"What about Darfur"
"We focus on Israel bc western countries support them & we can influence"

Ok but leftist "influence" so far done nothing but backfire. Clearly you can't do anything about Palestine either. You can't fix every injustice
July 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM