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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Mar 19

Learning a lot. Or maybe I am just getting confused. I will take this down if it is all wrong. There just isn't a lot of guidance as to what I am looking at.

Q: Am I to understand that King Abdullah of Jordan had/has a Jewish Brother because the CIA procured a Jewish Starlet for King Hussein? That can't be right.

Or that the CIA will build an entire set in the United States from a photograph of a room taken in Moscow, hire Actors and 'Actresses' that resemble both foreign leaders and their female associates, and shoot naughty short films in Los Angeles to look like a tryst took place in a room in Russia?

Like just using Hollywood magic and knowhow to destroy leaders based on the fear of being called 'Conspiracy Theorists'? Think about it. The leader is confronted with incontrovertible cinematic and photographic evidence that something happened in Moscow that actually happened in Los Angeles!

And when the individual says: "That is not true!" they sound like an insane person. Why?

Because of the epithet 'Conspiracy Theorist'! This is so brilliant.

This was called "image cheapening" in the trade.

Here the CIA is acting as a film company, financing risque short films to appear as as-if "fake documentaries", to remove leaders by cheapening their images.

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Jan 31

Q: How do you know someone does not know mathematics?

A: They are focused on beating China/India in math rather than France.

Q: How do you know if they don’t understand labor markets?

A: They claim we need “The best and the brightest!” when it’s actually a *value* competition.

We are having a discussion about mathematics led by business people who don’t actually themselves believe in mathematical expertise or labor market analysis or even free markets.

I don’t know what they think mathematics is. It’s very expensive to hire The Best & The Brightest.

Looking to China/India in math is the *same* problem as looking up to Super Models and Boxers as role models.

I don’t think this is about mathematics.

I think this is about value for employers.

And I want it debated.

Mathematics remains dominated by Europe and North America:

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Dec 13, 2024

People want my speculation on 'drones' over the East Coast.

Let's take note of the following: I am not hearing ANYONE say "Let's get smart people together with resources."

At this point I don't take *anyone* seriously in USG who doesn't ask to convene smart people & resources.

This is simple.

A) You call up smart people & tell them it's urgent.
B) You tell them where you want them to go.
C) You send transport to go get them.
D) You tell them they have full access to information.
E) You tell them they have whatever resources they need.

If not, that says it all.

If they are not trying to figure this out, then there is some *reason* they are not trying to resolve this. But I see no signs of trying to quickly resolve this…even if the claim is that it is a panic or mass psychosis.

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Oct 1, 2024

Iran
Israel
Ukraine
S. Lebanon
Yemen

All in play at the same time.

The U.S. has something like 11 Carrier Strike Groups. At some point, this becomes opportunistic, as the game theory goes multipolar. Similar to when police forces or hospitals are stretched by surge demand.

https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1815095990350921844

Who is the de facto commander in chief?

It can’t be Biden.

Same question I have been asking since the 2020 election. I know it’s boring. But it matters. And it could matter a whole lot more on *very* short notice.

Let’s hope it doesn’t go that way.

https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1815095990350921844

I’ve never seen war. I have seen peacetime and peacetime extraction.

Joe Biden is a peacetime president.

Think about what is going on and reaction times in the era of hypersonics.

Should more theaters enter into play (e.g. N Korea, Taiwan) The person at the helm needs to be 100% percent present with razor sharp decision making on low information.

On very little sleep. Night after night.

Now watch this again:

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Aug 22, 2024

Folks are always confused why the Democratic Party is my party.

Why doesn’t John Wick just get a new dog?

Why doesn’t Ulysses find a wife with fewer suitors?

Why doesn’t Israel move to Beverly Hills?

Why doesn’t Shackleton accept reality?

Why does Shifu train a Panda?

#钉子户

I don’t get it.

Do you want every last one of us who sees the madness to be driven out of your loyal opposition party? Really??

I don’t like bullies. I don’t like cowards who bully in groups. I don’t like psychopaths who wander around wearing the robes of authority and wisdom.

Not every liberal is a commie. Not every progressive is a revolutionary. Not everyone who wants life to be fairer for working families is a Bolshevik.

If the psychopathic left wants my pro-market, pro-merit, pro-free speech progressive sliver, they will have to come and take it. And then we will see. I don’t love my odds, but you aren’t making my life any easier by lobbing insults as if I’m too dumb to know what I’m up against. I’d rather you ask: “How can we help?”. But you do you.

I’m damn proud of what is left of my sliver of the Left. And you on the right have come around to appreciate a lot of what we accomplished together as loyal constructive opposition to each other over the years.

Ask yourself if you are better off with one more “Why I left the Left.” article.

I’d settle for “Thank you.” and a little help and encouragement given the fire from the DNC party leaders and character assassins. But…y’know…suit yourselves. If you wanna help the psychos that’s your call. Go Dodger Blue!

Ain’t freedom grand. That’s America to me. 🙏

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Jul 27, 2024

Given what is going on in our election cycle, I for one would like to hear more from those who consider the US electorate as the leading threat to electoral integrity.

And I am not merely being snide. I believe that my/our betters in the so-called 'Elite', have developed an entire academic theory wherein the US citizen has oddly become the principal threat to American Democracy.

Here:

"Left to their own devices and the tender mercies of candidate ads and outside groups, voters do the best they can, but their abilities are limited." -Brookings

I get it. While that is not wrong, it is not exactly a ringing endorsement of democracy: the *voter* is the weakest link within this Brookings framework.

Am I even reading this correctly?? Help me out here:

"We need not recount here the *devastating* effectiveness with which Donald Trump’s *insurgent* candidacy *steamrolled* the traditional gatekeepers, *commandeered* media attention, and mobilized what some of his backers called his “troll army.” However, the weakening of gatekeeping was not limited to one candidate or one party. The Democratic Party establishment found itself barely able to contain the *insurgency* of Sanders, even though he was not a Democrat and he did not win a majority of self-identified Democrats except in his home state of Vermont and neighboring New Hampshire.

Neither candidate changed the system all by himself. Rather, both saw and *exploited* the invisible primary’s fragility. Candidates could *bypass* traditional moneymen by reaping donations online, tapping deep-pocketed tycoons, or funding themselves. They could *bypass* traditional media by using social platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and they could *hijack* traditional media by behaving outrageously. They could treat their lack of endorsements as a mark of authenticity." -Brookings (Emphasis Mine)

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