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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Xi's anti-corruption drive seems to be like what Charles Murray describes with all the money flowing into Washington, but in reverse. danwang.co/2020-letter/ Image
News bureaus are highly concentrated in Beijing... As a result, the bulk of journalists are based in the part of China that has the most politics and the least sense of growth."
On Xi's war on decadence Image
“the Chinese ban of Facebook today looks like a prescient action… It’s harder to argue that China was foolish to ban products so wondrous that their CEOs need to be hauled on a regular basis before political leaders”

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8 Nov
Finally reading The Afghanistan Papers, by Craig Whitlock. Attempts to train Afghan forces sound like something out of science fiction, where modern people travel back in time and meet medieval peasants. Afghans didn't know their colors and mistook urinals for drinking fountains. ImageImage
Children thought the color on a black soldier's skin would come off.

US Army Major: “I hate to say it, but there was a lot of inbreeding. The district chief had three thumbs." Image
"US troops referred to the practice as 'man-love Thursday'... Maj. Randy James... recalled a tense encounter in 2003 when an Afghan man approached a baby-faced male American soldier in his unit and declared, 'You’re my wife.'" Image
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5 Nov
President of Tanzania calls COVID a satanic myth, rejects vaccines and foreign aid, dies of COVID, along with six other senior politicians and several generals. wsj.com/amp/articles/c…
He had declared the country COVID free in spring 2020, dissolved his Covid response team, and invited citizens to a “corona festival” with dancing and cocktails.
Having rejected vaccines, the government started pushing steam rooms and quack cures. Disturbingly familiar…
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4 Nov
This is a good critique of my piece for those who didn't read it, and those that like to make crazy assumptions.
One thing the author does is argue that even though liberals are more likely to read every single newspaper asked about, it's mathematically possible conservatives are all reading one newspaper each and there's just a tiny portion of liberals reading everything. Responded here.
Other problems listed here.
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1 Nov
I explain why Trump emerged on the right, why only liberals debate filibuster reform, anti-vax as a partisan issue, how David Shor is half right, "Dems are the real racists" and much else. A theory of left and right with a focus on communication technology richardhanania.substack.com/p/liberals-rea…
Liberals rely on a combination of TV/radio and the written word. Conservatives are almost completely dependent on TV/radio. Liberals even trust conservative papers like The NY Post and WSJ more. This reflect two broad psychological profiles and has many important implications.
Over the last decades, we've gotten a lot more mass mobilization on both sides. People are getting more into politics, as technology allows each side to recruit different types. Republicans have been getting pro wrestling fans, Dems status seekers and those suffering psychic pain
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25 Oct
North Korea's Weibo account mocks Democrats for wanting to defund the police, writes "The heroes, generals and ministers of the Biden era" over a statue of George Floyd, Rachel Levine, and Buttigieg and his husband. ImageImage
They've also noticed our urban issues and Superman going gay. ImageImage
Is this account real? Only thing I could find, seems like it is. nknews.org/2020/08/north-…
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18 Oct
Honest assessment of Colin Powell’s legacy. He helped Bush sell Iraq to the world while the whole time cultivating the press as someone who was skeptical, emerged as a “hero.” Not very smart or brave, but good at PR, a perfect representative of what’s wrong with his profession.
As reported in Draper’s To Start a War, he never even told Bush directly that he opposed the war. Instead he told every journalist in Washington, therefore taking no risk while managing his reputation in case it went wrong. They went along because they benefited from the access.
He was aware that he owed his career to affirmative action and wasn't there to be listened to. “privately spoke of quitting, though no one believed that he would ever do so"

He later denounced Republicans when they were no longer useful and media turned decisively against them.
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