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Lomez Profile picture
@L0m3z
Jan 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Still can’t believe there was like a 10 year period where Malcolm Gladwell was a dominant cultural figure
There was an entire ruling ethos that all individual and social problems could--and very soon would--be resolved with This One Weird Trick
A lot of woke was simply disappointment/backlash at the the fact that The One Weird Trick wasn't actually solving anything.

Woke provided an out by reducing social problems to opaque, miasmatic, non-falsifiable social "disease"
For example, once Obama Era/Michelle Rhee/Waiting for Superman Era One Weird Tricks failed to make any meaningful dent in education outcomes, woke became a kind of moralistic/rhetorical clearinghouse to launder all of their failures

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Nov 7, 2024
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that the lib freak out is not going to happen or will be dramatically muted relative to 2016. The energy for it is just not there.

Their manic zeal from the first Trump term was never sustainable. They are ready to surrender. Image
My hunch is that we are going to see broad capitulation on a lot of Trump’s agenda, especially with regards to tech, fp, crime, and infrastructure build out.

Whereas they will fight deportations and attempts to slash the bureaucratic state and especially the spook-state…
But “The Resistance” as it existed 8 years ago will be basically non-existent beyond low energy media/journalist class bleeting. No Russiagate equivalent. No antifa shock troops. No blm or pussy hat psyops.
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Oct 21, 2024
This is a good example of how even if Woke is waning, there are a few critical institutions like medicine where the sunk costs are too deep, morally and psychologically, for its stakeholders to walk away from it.

This is going to require generational churn.
Or you treat woke holdovers like Bukele treats MS-13 members. You just round them up. Strip them of their licensing all at once, gut the med schools, the associations and specialty guilds of all bad actors. Remove them from the gen pop (so to speak) (in the ring) (in real life)
It's not realistic to imagine the Oakland Kaiser "Pride clinic" is just going to stop mutilating kids, throw up their hands and say "Our bad."

They can't. They can't ever admit to the moral atrocity they've committed.

They have to get cut out like a tumor.
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Sep 25, 2024
Marcellus Williams, Adnan Syed, Steven Avery, Central Park Five... all of these high profile cases where the guy is obviously guilty, why does the lib insist beyond reason the guy is not guilty and make impassioned moralistic pleas that we all submit to their delusion?
At bottom, despite the trappings of cosmopolitanism, the lib is a provincial, small-minded creature. The lib, for all his openness and presumptions to empathy, cannot see beyond himself, beyond his own inclinations, cannot imagine there are people who are not at all like him
The lib cannot imagine, because the lib is not like this, that people murder, savagely, and then act contrite, sad, can be "just a kid" and simultaneously be a sociopathic lunatic.

They see these men and think, "He is just like me, my son. I wouldn't do that. How could they?"
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Sep 21, 2024
This is actually perfectly revealing of how the Richards—and this class of formerly right “centrists”—come to their politics. It’s not about policy or ideology, but embarrassment over the less sophisticated parts of the right, the narcissism of small differences toward the chuds
If you’re wondering why these guys obsess over the vulgarity of the right while ignoring the derangements of the left, this is why. The Richards are interested firstly in themselves, what makes them personally look good or bad.
It’s this too of course. Cynical brown nosing of who they perceive as the media gatekeepers and their future paymasters.
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Sep 2, 2024
The signature characteristic of the leftist is resentment for people who are richer than he is. The lowest expression of this resentment is the blind violence of the commie. The midwit version (see below) is vague, abstracted appeals to “fairness,” while the highest version (see the thread linked in reply), at least rationalizes it by making arguments about capital velocity or market efficiency or whatever, but it’s all the same thing: that other guy is richer than me which makes me feel inferior and I don’t like it.
Resentment dressed up as economic efficiency:
The shared premise, one layer above the petty resentment, is that simply by virtue of being rich you must have done something immoral, and that all wealth above a certain threshold (ie wealth above whatever social class I’m currently in) is inherently ill-gotten and undeserved
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Jul 24, 2024
I know it’s been talked about a lot around here, but I finally saw First Man and it’s even better than I could’ve imagined. An A-tier film, not only about the space-race, but about masculinity, and the costs and requirements of great civilizational achievement. Must watch. Image
There’s a great moment highlighting the social-political tensions of embarking on a project of this scale where Kurt Vonnegut makes a passive-aggressive plea to spend the money instead on making New York City safe, and communist poet Gil Scot Heron recites “Whitey on the Moon”
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It’s a perfect representation of the leftist resistance to great achievements, their small-minded, provincial obsessions with the low, the many and the marginal to the total exclusion of the potentials of the high and the few.

The gutter or the moon; that is the choice.
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