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@eigenrobot
Dec 26, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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got distracted from granting boons momentarily and started reading old Bloom County cartoons

society has become stagnant since the 80s

discourse is closed

here are some comics that were nationally syndicated in the 80s

see how far we have fallen

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race and politic's
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corporate wokeness
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treatment of donald trump that was marginally funny. almost. almost. Image
gender wars

i think everyone ends up owned Image
@nitguptaa won a pulitzer in 87
thoughtful treatment of the aids crisis Image
if you want a touchpoint for how free you are, go look at media that existed thirty or forty years ago and compare how expressive it is relative to what exists today

how much is permitted now that wasn't then? and, vice versa

in this specific case the exercise is depressing
have a related exercise in mind for this gem which @selentelechia picked up for me for Christmas which was probably $3 used and is one of the best things I got this year Image
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Aug 26
fyi trump ppl

the reason that nerds are unhappy about trump firing federal reserve people isnt because they particularly like those specific people

issue is that it makes the fed look beholden to the executive and this is a very bad outcome for economic stability
the fed hasnt covered itself in glory lately for sure but the counterfactual where its progressively and openly politicized is pretty much just a world of hyperinflation and impoverishment because thats a side effect of how unstable governments use politicized central banks
i think a steelman for "end the fed" is that we've left this absurdly powerful yet nigh defenseless institution sitting in plain sight like a loaded gun during a period of immensely high trust and as that period comes to a close someone is gonna make a first grab at the pistol
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Aug 24
ok finally discovered a kind of lore i want to know about in a non clickbait way:

what one-shotted you?

eg for me it was 90s movies about how having a career and a house in the burbs is the worst thing that can ever happen to someone

i didn't realize i'd been Had until my 30s
everyone will give boomers and millennials shit about the social justice and narcissism, and rightly so. but the motherfuckers who tricked me into nearly ruining my life are genx
for those of you not familiar getting one shotted is getting wrecked on first contact with something. classic deployment attached Image
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Aug 22
"everyone is the same and nations are fake" is the core dogma of the mid-late 20C liberalism that grew out of the war era. in the years since it's become a mostly-unstated and broadly-unassailable assumption of imperial policy

regrettably it is also disastrously incorrect Image
the history of this idea is worth studying. you can see the modern notion start to emerge in the progressive era and out of socialist thought, and gain some traction with (eg) the league of nations

ideologues might say that league failed bc it wasn't REAL world government
among socialism-inclined intellectuals, which is to say nearly all intellectuals until molotov-ribbentrop broke some out of their reveries, ww1 was understood to be a failure _caused by_ national identity Image
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Aug 22
the leftist compulsion to degrade national identity in democratic countries will be the undoing of their welfare state plank, because it turns out when you remove the nation people just default to narrower identities and don't care to pay for the outgroup's well-being
you can get support for fargroups in time limited cases. there's a long history of (eg) american assistance for people on the other side of the world in disaster recovery

but duration breeds resentment, and organized charity is very hard to maintain with this sentiment
when you're talking about an outgroup for whom that resentment is ingrained and continuously salient, forget it

"multiculturalism" kills welfare states in the long run

amusingly this was one reason some of the more libertarian neoliberals supported open borders Image
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Aug 18
i was disappointed that liberals did nothing in the face of the awokening. but that can at least be explained as cowardess

what's worse is that the awokening is over, they're not taking the fact that the awokening occurred as a serious problem to be guarded against going forward
one is left with the impression that either they are fine with everything that happened or they learned absolutely nothing from the experience. both of these possibilities seem disqualifying

what is the point of liberals who can't be bothered to care for liberty, one wonders
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Aug 17
turns out she died of a heart attack and had leukemia, which yes generally causes malnutrition

the information environment is just completely fucked, but its embarrassing how hard media specifically throat hamas every day Image
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ive definitely become more racist against journalists since this conflict which i hadn't even realized was possible

nyt running "israel blows up hospital with missile killing hundreds" after a hamas rocket misfired and burned up in a parking lot broke me
anyway you know this isnt coming from some kind of place of semitic partiality because i happen to favor nuking nyc
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