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Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Imagine believing this tells you more about political parties than the class of people surveyed.
And who has ever heard of a transnational elite all in the same profession and getting their news from the same sources all having the same bias!
Imagine believing there's a single human being on earth who is familiar with the platforms and practices of every single dot on that list.
Imagine believing scholars have an objective measure of whether this or that Slovakian party respects minority rights.

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Mar 16
Paul Ehrlich has passed away, and I wanted to see whether he was as bad as his quotes and short clips suggest. Surely, there might be some nuance or careful thought in his worldview. Nobody is that purely evil.

So I picked up The Population Bomb and started reading.

It turns out, he's even worse than you think!

I’m putting together a thread below.

Quotes taken out of context don't get at the degree to which he is consistently evil and misanthropic. He had an entire system that he pursued in which human life was constantly denigrated and devalued, with an eye toward elimination. You’re left wondering what you’re even reducing human population for, since every form of life seems to be not worth living.

Some people are racist and just hate poor and brown people. Some hate the rich. Paul Ehrlich doesn't discriminate. He wants you not to exist if he can get away with it. But if he can't stop you from living, he wants you to have a much worse quality of life.

Ehrlich has a plan for both advanced and poor countries. He has blueprints for entire regions of the globe.

Humans do not have agency in Ehrlich’s world. They’re simple consumers of resources, with no ability to create, better their circumstances, or exert individual agency to make the world a better place, except to the extent that they ensure fellow humans no longer exist.

You might find all of this depressing. But I’ve found reading Ehrlich invigorating. It is a reminder of how much evil there is in the world. Recall that Ehrlich was not some guy in his room putting out diatribes. He was a professor at Stanford, a highly decorated scientist, and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his generation. While reading Ehrlich today, know that he has intellectual descendants in the form of degrowthers and other environmental extremists, along with anti-capitalists who don’t understand the basis of prosperity and prioritize redistributing wealth over all else.
First of all, the cover. Children are starving as you're reading this. Even worse, more are being born! The existence of more humans is supposed to hit you harder than starvation. I like the title of the earlier book. "The End of Affluence." Another brilliant prediction. Image
Here's the entire prologue where his famous predictions are made about mass starvation. It's only two pages, you can read the whole thing. He uses the prologue to make predictions that would soon be discredited and call for coercion, and denounces treating "the symptoms of the cancer of population growth." Ehrlich doesn't want to hear about how you might have a plan to improve people's lives. You're just treating symptoms! He starts with a demand that fewer humans is the only option worth considering.Image
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Richard Hanania Profile picture
Mar 2
Why is the US so much wealthier than Europe?

If there's one statistic that explains it, it's this: Americans are ten times more likely than Germans to be fired in any given year.

I argue that America is wealthier because it has weaker labor protections. richardhanania.com/p/labor-freedo…
US isn't a free market paradise compared to Europe. But labor law stands out. California has high taxes and other left-wing policies. But Silicon Valley would be impossible in Europe. You can trace the exact ways in which its business model based on innovation is illegal. Image
American companies often have to make large severance payments to fired workers. In much of Europe, these are mandated by law and much larger. And large German companies can't even choose who to lay off. They must factor in tenure and things like family obligations. Image
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Feb 9
“The elites never told us being fat was bad for you” is one of the stranger right wing beliefs.
Fascinating insight into how the minds of rightists work.

"I saw one fat positivity magazine cover" becomes "Everyone was lying to us about being fat."

There is no ability to separate things that make you mad on the internet from what's significant in real life. Image
Hey guys remember when THE MACHINE told you to be fat?
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Oct 8, 2025
This guy was sued by his own firm for falsely inflating his role as “Head of Macro,” misusing confidential information to promote his own fund, breaching debt obligations, and defaming the firm to investors.

Yes, it's unsurprising that Trump brought him into the party.
He eventually admitted sharing confidential information and paid the costs of the lawsuit. Image
He called himself "Head of Macro," a position that didn't exist. The company says he was hired as a Research Analyst and then fired for poor performance. Fishback has now reinvented himself as a MAGA influencer. Image
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Sep 26, 2025
How to explain Indian hate?

The truth is simpler than you think.

Many Americans dislike dark skin. But they make an exception if you're good at football, and Indians are bad at sports.

They'll make us a poorer country for that.

Yes, it's that stupid. richardhanania.com/p/indians-are-…
There's a human preference for light skin. It shows up almost everywhere and predates colonialism. Indians and blacks are the darkest groups Americans are exposed to or interact with in any significant degree. Image
But blacks, in addition to the historical guilt, have traits many Americans like. They're good at sports, good with women, and charming enough to be actors and entertainers. Image
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Aug 30, 2025
US-India relationship is being harmed because Pakistan is more willing to kiss up to Trump, and Modi has too much pride to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize when he didn’t do anything.

Modi is now going to meet Putin and Xi in China.

I can’t believe it’s this stupid. Image
nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/…
Mr. Trump contends that he used trade as leverage to get the two sides to stop fighting. After these enticements and warnings, he said, “all of a sudden they said, ‘I think we will stop’” the fighting.

India denies that.Image
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