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@mmjukic
Feb 24 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I can't believe anyone is taking the whole "Europe-America split" thing seriously. This is the third time Europe has talked about "splitting" from America just this century. Coincidentally, each time it happens immediately after a Republican president is elected (Bush, Trump).
All the European meat-flapping about strategic autonomy and splitting from U.S. policy is literally just empty pablum for European leaders to demonstrate just how loyal they are to the progressive faction of the U.S., which they loyally hope will return to power in four years.
Republican president? Oh no, America is unreliable and dangerous. Us Europeans need to chart our own way towards implementing true progressive liberal democracy.

Democrat president? Ah, master! Please, notice me master! I am the #1 top Atlanticist on this continent, master!

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Feb 25
Getting real tired of the "the only truly real and legitimate economic activity is banking and payments processing" crowd. I'm willing to entertain a lot of weird ideas and arguments, but the idea that manufacturing and industry isn't what fundamentally creates economic wealth..
How many economic ideologies and schools of thought are just financiers and bankers trying to raise their own social status?
This ideological space is as delusional about economics as Marxism is. You always end up with these moronic debates where they refuse to see physical goods and services as wealth since they cost too little, and insist that high spending and prices are ipso facto valuable.
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Feb 24
What's the real size of China's economy?

In @asiatimesonline, an analyst argues China's economy is twice as big as GDP figures say, because China's government statisticians intentionally minimize services figures, while Western ones include services fraud and waste as output. Image
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@asiatimesonline Western economists and statisticians take a maximally generous view of accounting for "services" "output," going so far as to include theft and gambling as economic output.

Chinese government statisticians do the opposite. But this doesn't mean Chinese services are that bad. Image
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"Real" and "PPP" GDP aren't objective and neutral metrics like "tons of steel produced" or "number of automobiles sold." They are opaque sausages put together by legions of economists and statisticians who make a litany of subjective decisions about what is or is not productive.
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Feb 13
The Balkans are weird because it's acceptable to be like "well obviously the problem with our country is that half of us are irredeemably grugheaded cavemen" and everyone just kind of nods and agrees like, yup, that's it, nothing can be done about it.
There is a whole serious discourse about who or what is and isn't "civilized" and who is and isn't a "primitive" (literal translation) or a "villager" in the Balkans. The weird thing is that it's not like we aren't all the same genetically and culturally. Self-hating, I guess.
Maybe a genetics/history autiste can disprove me and I will stand corrected, but my impression is that like other Eastern European societies, Balkan societies are basically highly egalitarian and homogeneous. That's what makes this discourse weird.
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Feb 9
Watching Elon speedrun the entire development of cutting-edge modern online political theory, at an accelerating pace even, has been fascinating. He went from normie liberal to concerned centrist by 2020-22, by early '24 reluctant Republican, then quickly MAGA and now quasi-NRx.
It's not going to be a popular view but I credit about 95% of the "vibe shift" directly and solely to Elon. If you jog your memory a bit and think it through, his extremely vigorous and frequent live player actions are "what has changed." Live players are insanely underrated.
Based on this I predict that we will actually see even more shocking, unexpected, and unpredictable political changes in the next few years; thanks to Elon. That's what you should expect from a live player. Expect to be surprised!
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Feb 3
Hard to think of a clearer sign our society has gone too way far in the direction of feminized gerontocracy—rule by risk-averse grandmas and "wine aunts"—than a meme unironically calling four distinguished, grown-ass adult professionals "little boys" who need their mama. Enough!
"Who are these grandmas? And why are they in charge of our society?

A modern society relies on hard work, risk-taking, intellect, and industry, and is usually run by vigorous young and middle-aged men.

Boys, come get your grandmammies out of our government."
If calling distinguished 21-year-old men, fully-grown adult men with professional skills, accomplishments, and the legal rights to father children or die in combat, "little boys" is on the table, then I counter-propose we set age limits of 60 or 70 for key positions in gov't.
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Jan 25
After a few weeks browsing the Subst*ck algorithm, I take back what I said about Zoomers not reading. Zoomers don't read because scrolling TikTok is more dignified than reading endless GenX/Xillennial slop about dating and frivolous culture war drivel. I apologize to Zoomers.
Things I want to read online: new ideas, cool stories, theory, analysis, manifestos, relevant news, funny jokes

Things I am getting instead: slop, drivel, thinly-disguised shilling, navel-gazing, open and proud shilling, advertising, unfunny forced memes
Seriously, what is wrong with Gen X and Elder Millennials? These people are in their 40s and 50s. Some of them are grandparents already. And they are still writing self-absorbed million-word essays about sex, weed, and racism.
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