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I just can’t believe this is our reality.
I appreciate my Trump loving friends who still talk to me after repeatedly calling their man Trump an existential risk. But he is that. If this gets *much* worse and mushrooms into a world wide depression and/or hot conflicts, I will pray that you were right and I was wrong.
Here’s to hoping we don’t find out. But if we are honest, nobody knows at this point. No one.

Your man Trump certainly doesn’t know what he is talking about. Of that I’m certain.
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Eric Weinstein
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The other day I ran a poll. Here's what actually happened and how China came to integrate its way into the mission-critical United States R&D sector. They provided the cheap labor that had been deliberately mislabeled as 'Study' so as to avoid paying market wage to US scientists. Image
After exporting 16 in '83, the US allowed China to flood +35,000 'graduate students' into US universities over 20 yrs. It's almost inconceivable, yet that's why Universities rail against our own people; this is a generation of University leaders who flooded their own labor mkts. Image
So why was I on this since the 1980s?

Very simply:
This wasn't study abroad.
This was not a US failure in STEM education.
This wasn't b/c science is 'international'.

This was a GIANT security hole on a scale no one could discuss because ALL leading US universities were gorging.
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Eric Weinstein
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The unthinkable is misnamed.

Try it. I’ll wait. See you in the next tweet.
Notice how easy that was as long as you didn’t tell anyone?

Okay. So we‘re already living the ‘unthinkable’ during Covid, but the unthinkable is really the unsayable. And whatever you are wondering about (e.g. surveillance, martial law, war, triage deaths), your friends are too.
This is the beginning of the awareness of the Twin Nuclei problem. It probably isn’t an engineered bioweapon, but could easily have escaped from a lab. So it’s not far off.

And we just have to get off this planet. That’s going to sound even less crazy soon. But just look at us!
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Eric Weinstein
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The-Wuhan-Hypothesis: the political incorrectness and social justice penalties for entertaining a travel ban with China largely determined who was early.

That is, @JackPosobiec, Curtis Yarvin, @Cernovich et al. had already paid the penalty of ostracism.
The @nntaleb’s of the world have already paid the disagreeability penalty.

The @balajis crowd paid the eccentricity penalty early.

The @MsMelChen group is ethnically Chinese but gung ho USA.

The @WilliamAEden & @diviacaroline group are living in uncorrelated sub communities.
In short, the lay folks most likely to be firm and/or early had either already paid an extreme social penalty for a variety of different reasons (and were thus already more divorced from social norms), or they were well positioned not to be destroyed by false charges of racism.
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Today my 12 year old asked me why people still support trump. I answered that I really didn’t know. Later, while mowing the yard, I thought about it and came up with several reasons.
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OLD REALITY

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Realizing the GOP is as awful as Trump

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#McConnell is stacking the courts.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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