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Apr 21, 2021 12 tweets 4 min read Read on X
small thread on human capital

In addition to NYers fun site design/cute artwork, this stood out:

"Two colleges in Pyongyang..often outperform American and Chinese colleges in the International Collegiate Programming Contest—a festival of **unsurpassed and joyful nerdery**."



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there is a baseline of quantitative/logical knowhow that separates cognitively gifted people from the average—and a degree of grit, the ability to suffer with a purpose...and a canny, cunning nature, that separates the merely academically competent from real *killers*.
None of us are going to stop North Korea's cyber hackers. Again, ignore the news for what it is/The USA is over, etc. but look at this;

mfa.gov.sg/Career/Career-…
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If you're an American nationalist (tough break, kid) or just want to do right by some swathe of people:

Universities are hugely discredited, but still the default as a route to traditional routes of employment particularly outside of non-licensed medical work

mechanistically;
There's no good reward function for huge, huge groups of American youth who could apply themselves

- money (which can also confer;)
- social esteem (which can come from;)
- provision for a family
- role in a bigger community
We could create that, couldn't we?

aren't the PMC/McKinsey types absolutely loathesome? right now, they have all of the prestige, money, and social pull—but how long? even The Economist knows it is not long for this world

economist.com/business/2021/…


undermanned—too evil to even get involved in non-kinetic stuff? okay then;armytimes.com/news/your-army…
dont like physically moving yourself/are fat & happy?



undermannedcnbc.com/2019/11/06/how…
Take an industry ('tech' is too broad)

1. map out its entry level skills/certs/competencies

2. teach young people how to do it

3. place them

4. (this isn't sequential); make it MORE prestigious, valuable, acceptable to the student and parent than college or low skill work
4. is the absolute hardest part

3. a very close second, but if you do enough of it, 4 will get easier

1. & 2. are an absolute delight—get going

3.5 million HS kids graduate every year; if you can stop 10 of them from getting saddled with debt, you've changed ten lives forever

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Feb 4
I think the next US political realignment / the message the Democrats of the future (as different as 2024 Republicans vs 2004 Republicans) run on will be anti-technology, anti-automation, aesthetically “quiet”, and even pro-“family”

Totally not pride parades or ‘hope & change’
Before we get into that, let’s see what won—decisively—against the 2012 RNC Autopsy, winning in 2016, was subverted by the GOP in 2020, and in a hero’s arc, came back in 2024.

I think any clip from @REVIVALNATIONAL could work, but imho, this is the best:
@REVIVALNATIONAL What makes this (and all his content) so good, and so compelling, is the remixing of old and new. Beyond just (Heritage) American nationalism it’s a kind of “White Zionism”; tantalizing images of an American Altneuland. Synthwave, art deco, 80s, 2000s, sex, guns, flags, etc.
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Dec 27, 2024
The US has record highs in both:

- numbers of immigrants
- immigrants as a percentage of population

Have *most* Americans’ lives directly improved as a result? Have the benefits of the new economy and new society accrued to them? Image
Here’s the marriage rate.
Here’s the birth rate.
Here’s the suicide rate. (young highlighted)
And here’s the share in patriotism: Image
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More Americans, especially young Americans, than ever before—and trending worse—are:

- not getting married
- not having children
- killing themselves
- feel no pride in the country

Broken promises on immigration, into the job market, into the housing market, is a part of that
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Dec 26, 2024
This isn’t correct.

In its glory days, NASA was all jocks.
Former (and active duty) fighter pilots, submariners, heavy drinkers, smokers, etc.

The American space program was so defined by jocks its *nerds* were jocks, too.

“The Right Stuff” is about this. Image
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Two reasons you don’t want to get carried away with way too many “skilled immigrants” are:

1. You shouldn’t displace your own young men

2. You actually want CULTURE FIT more than smarts. The balance of dynamic young men in your society should respect each other and get along;
Btw as you may recall——this is why the establishment media & Democrats were freaking out about Vance and begging Trump to pick a woman or a minority or anyone else except another “jock” white guy like himself.

It scares them for the very same reason fraternities scare them:
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Dec 26, 2024
MAGA Hats 👍
Country Caps 👍👍

This is a looooooon one.
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Oct 5, 2024
They *are* saying “no”, @moveincircles !

archive.is/LLUCU

Men are withdrawing from education,
Men are withdrawing from the workforce,
Men are withdrawing from the military,
And men are withdrawing from women.

In ever greater numbers, every year: x.com/moveincircles/…Image
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Age.

18 year old men become 36 year old men in their next 18 years of life, starting from zero.

Increasingly they look at a sexual, financial, social, and racial dynamic at play from their adolescence and see they can’t win and are hated/scorned/mocked.

So they withdraw.
For a very long time, the deal societies gave young men was to ask a lot of them, including death—but, in return, they could reasonably expect to have a young virgin bride and an economic purpose with respect (including her respect): a household of their own.

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Oct 1, 2024
Abortion is the driver of the female electorate voting left. It boils down to:

Women keep having sex with guys who do not want to marry them—whose kids they themselves do not even want—and are terrified about being low-status single moms; so they want to be able to kill the kid
It’s not exactly a ‘men vs women’ thing — it’s all about unmarried, young (and youngish) women vs. everyone else;

Recent polling in Pennsylvania and other surveys show this.

Every other group besides unmarried women favors Republicans
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Here’s the electoral graph for “men vs women” and then “single” vs “married”

The issue is that young unmarried women have been completely deranged by living in a completely unnatural state of affairs which is medicalized and politicized, concerning intimate social relations.
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