Yesterday someone accused me of deleting comments on a YouTube video because there were only 3, while the same video posted on a big channel got 375.
Today someone offered me a bet, and when I turned it down, demanded I Venmo him $150 to "get out of" the bet.
WTF is happening
These were big accounts too -- tens of thousands of followers.
Is it possible that Twitter is getting Even Dumber???
Also yesterday, I also had some random tech CEO whose company promotes ads on Facebook tweet to me to tell me I'm a bootlicking servant of the establishment because I work for Bloomberg.
He then went on to make fun of me for having glasses, and said I had low testosterone.
2/For me, as for a lot of people in Asia, the key moment was the Hong Kong protests.
They were absolutely enormous. Almost 2 million Hong Kongers, out of a total population of 7.5 million, turned out in the streets to demand universal suffrage.
3/The protests failed. China simply implemented a draconian new security law, threw prominent activists in jail, and accelerated the process of subjugating Hong Kong.
--> Thus, while it is important for the U.S. to decarbonize, our biggest impact will come from making green energy cheap enough so everyone else decarbonizes on their own, at low or no cost.
Soon this kind of thing won't even be newsworthy anymore, it'll just be what every country is doing, everywhere.
2/In recent years, China's economic model has seemed to go from strength to strength. Many now wonder if Chinese state-capitalism is superior to other systems.
First of all it worries me because it seems likely to hurt progressives electorally. If they're anti-America and average voters are pro-America, even if only symbolically or rhetorically, it means progressives are going to be fighting an uphill battle...
Second, it worries me because if progressive activists don't believe in America, what entity do they think is going to solve all these problems we're facing? If they're placing their hopes on replacing America with some other entity or entities, they're not on a road to success.