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Feb 3 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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DC had a program that randomly gave poor parents $10,800, taken as a lump sum or 12 monthly payments. What did they do with the money?

Washington Post profiles some winners. First, Canethia Miller, who took a $6K trip to Miami and bought her kids new outfits every day. Image
By taking her kids on an expensive vacation they couldn't afford to look at rich people's houses and yachts, she says she motivated them to succeed. Image
Saleemia Quigley regrets that she splurged, wishes she took the monthly payments instead. Penn professor says that giving them money is part of a larger system of oppression when they behave irresponsibly.
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DC has voted to extent the program another year. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…
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Stacey Adams graduated from Howard, and also has a Masters. She failed her social worker licensing exam and takes care of her four kids. No mention of any father(s) around.
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Jan 30
Why can Republicans no longer win?

Taylor Swift Democrats.

These are people who are comfortable with their biological sex and want normal lives and relationships.

They'd usually vote against the left. Except Republicans have become even bigger weirdos. richardhanania.com/p/taylor-swift…
As my friend @mualphaxi points out, everything about Swift's aesthetics and role in the culture is implicitly conservative. But normalcy is no longer the conservative brand, nor success. Instead you get theories about the Super Bowl being an op to get people vaxxed or whatever. Image
Taylor Swift Democrats don't want to change their sex or cheer on urban mobs, and don't suffer much white guilt. They want to buy makeup or watch football.

Give them a semblance of normalcy, they'll be anti-leftist. Trump and Dobbs, however, make that impossible. Image
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Jan 29
Political and intellectual movements rely on narratives that try to explain the world and provide solutions to problems.

I make the case for Critical Age Theory, the idea that many of our biggest problems can be traced to society privileging the old. 🧵richardhanania.com/p/critical-age…
Critical Race Theory says that even if people aren't consciously intending to be racist, our systems are set up to favor whites over blacks in ways large and small. I believe this is true with regards to age. We can have a gerontocracy without gerontocrats. Image
There are at least four broad areas of public policy in which we favor the old over the young: government spending, credentialism, employment law, and housing.

In each case, the pro-youth position is also the pro-growth position, so it's good to do these things anyway.
Read 16 tweets
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Jan 26
Circumcision is the only case in which our culture removes a healthy body part as a routine part of medicine.

As I explain in @QueerMajority, the evidence supposedly justifying such an extreme practice is laughable, and it needs to end. queermajority.com/essays-all/was…
You could of course find benefits. Cutting off your arm would have benefits. Imagine we dulled the sense of taste so people wouldn't eat fatty foods, and then used science to say this is a good thing.

The benefit has to be *extreme* to justify such a drastic change to the body. Image
One might compare circumcision to gender affirming care, but we don't do that to babies! The person has some say in what happens to them. How did we get to the point where we consider the human penis a mistake of evolution? Image
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Jan 2
Are men and women equally intelligent? The standard line among people who accept the reality of heredity is yes, but men just have more variation. I looked into the question, and it doesn't appear to be true. Men are probably 2-4 IQ points smarter.🧵 richardhanania.com/p/are-men-smar…
The thing about the equality hypothesis is that it's been promoted by names like Arthur Jensen, Charles Murray, and Richard Herrnstein. Not ones you would expect to be cowed by political correctness! This makes the position credible. Richard Lynn has been the prominent dissenter Image
Lynn's argument is that the girls are smarter up to 4yo, the sexes are equal around 6-16, and then men pull away in adulthood. The basic evolutionary reasoning here is that men need more intelligence to climb hierarchies, attract women, etc. This accords with larger male brains.
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Dec 22, 2023
Most of my reading is of people who I politically disagree with. What makes someone potentially insightful? Traits include.

*No zero sum thinking
*Belief in processes that aggregate info
*Rejection of even "light" conspiracy thinking.

I explain here.
richardhanania.com/p/towards-an-e…
The smartest people on the right and left ended up agreeing on Covid. When there’s a new issue that doesn’t touch on ideological commitments, reasonable minds come to the correct position. Contrast to the Covid hysteria of the left and anti-vax on the right.
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The people I like to read might not agree with my politics but they think similarly at higher levels of abstraction. This means being able to think in statistical terms, use cost/benefit analysis, Bayesian reasoning, etc. Image
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Dec 13, 2023
People are missing the most important political story of the year.

It doesn't matter much if young people are turning against Israel.

Society is dominated by elites, and what is really going to reshape our politics is The Great Jewish Realignment.🧵richardhanania.com/p/the-great-je…
In analyzing political trends, people look at polls and say young people or the public or whatever are moving in a certain direction, and make predictions.

This is not completely useless, but the public will is thwarted by elites all the time. Especially on foreign policy. Image
What is there to know about American elites?

You probably know that they are disproprionately Jewish, but unless you spend time in the darker corners of the internet you have no idea just how Jewish.
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