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I am totally here for the new liberal pro-natalism.
Giving 2-year-olds the vote is actually just giving adults extra votes for having kids.

Which makes sense if you think people with kids are more forward-looking and deserve to have a greater say over the nation's future.

The liberal/trad pro-natalist convergence!
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Noah Smith 🐇
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If the choice is between America and China as the world's leading power, most people around the world choose America.
Here's a more complete list of the countries surveyed. Only three countries - Russia, Tunisia, and Argentina - preferred China as the world's leading power.

For most countries, it wasn't close.

pewresearch.org/global/2018/10…
Anti-Americanism now dominates the discourse in America (unless you're a MAGA dork). But outside our borders, the rest of the world is still strongly pro-America.

We're failing to live up to what other countries want us to be.
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about why liberals, and the left, should not surrender the mantle of economic growth to the right.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
2/Right now, if you hear a U.S. politician promising faster growth, that politician is probably a Republican.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
3/Think tanks and pseudo-economists on the right have created the notion that the policies that promote growth are tax cuts, spending cuts, and deregulation.

alec.org/publication/ri…
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Meanwhile, in India...

independent.co.uk/news/world/asi…
Me: Sweeping historical analogies are inappropriate, every era is unique and different

Me: *reads the news*

Me: Oh God it really is the 1930s, isn't it
To summarize, it appears that:

1. India just stripped about 2 million people of their citizenship

2. These people are now considered illegal immigrants and are subject to deportation

3. India is constructing massive detention centers for these folks

thenation.com/article/assam-…
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Here's something I've been studying on here for a bit. A lot of men, seem to have been conditioned to think that telling someone that you disagree is the same as asking them a question. Like the way they learn to engage is by *creating a conflict*.
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Been dancing around this take because I *do* think Sanders can win (one of the more likely nominees IMO). But was time to write it because I think people are wimps and overcompensating for 2016:

#Actually, Bernie's polling isn't that good. 🔥🔥🔥

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Sanders is polling at ~20% nationally with ~100% name recognition. Slightly higher in NH but slightly worse in Iowa. Historically, candidates in a similar position don't have a great track record. (3 for 15 in winning nominations, or 20%).
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Here is a weirdo thread about Swedish/Danish. Every time I mention growing up with Swedish and Danish as a part of my multi-linguaism, I'd get someone tell me they are "essentially' the same language. Yes, Swedish and Danish are similar but most my friends only know one of them.
Counting might be a good example here. How do your language count larger numbers? What is .. for example... 99? In English, that is ninety-nine. Nine-tens-and-nine. Makes sense with most things, including latin.
In Swedish it's "nittio-nio" (ninety-nine) which makes sense. Just like English, right? Travel across the world and you see the same patterns (Japanese is kyuu-ju-kyuu 9-10-9). In German, Its "neun-und-neunzig (nine-and-nine-ten) Makes sense? They just switch the order.
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Having finished The Authoritarians, it's time to start a new thread of #IanLivetweetsHisResearch. Today I am finally getting past the introduction of How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley.
Having slogged through some proper academic writing in my day, Stanley's writing is blessedly accessible. But after Altemeyer's light tone and constant dad jokes, Stanley's reads as pretty dry.
So far the introduction is full of a lot of quotations about the nature of democracy, from Victor Klemperer to Elizabeth Anderson to Plato. OF COURSE Plato.
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