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Nov 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
These sanctions were applied by OFAC, which is just part of the Executive Branch. I wonder if the Trump administration will enforce similar sanctions against officials in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and other U.S. allies violently suppressing the free speech of their citizens.
Every day I am surprised anew with just how much power the U.S. can and does exert over Europe! Now I find out the U.S. government can just debank and cancel any random person in Europe it wants!
The President cannot do anything about bad judges in America, who require 2/3rds of the U.S. Senate to vote to remove them, but paradoxically he can debank and cancel any judge, politician, bureaucrat, or activist in Europe that he pleases! Very interesting!
The U.S. has sanctioned many regimes for violating human rights. A neutral observer would find a very strong case that human rights are being regularly violated in Europe, by supposedly major U.S. allies who supposedly share liberal, democratic Enlightenment values.

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Nov 6
A massive, gaping intellectual blind spot I have noticed is social-class politics and hostility *within* the Western world and Western populations. For example, it's obvious Western elites see the Western masses as a subhuman race, but I rarely see anyone dig deeper into this.
We just totally lack good sociology on class relations in Western populations. Even bringing up "class" sounds dated and Marxist, occasionally someone points out how complicated and extreme the British class system can be... but it pretty much stops there.
We have a vague idea that in, say, India, there is extreme assortative mating, cultural differences, etc. with regards to castes, and that "higher" castes have a hierarchical relationship with "lower" castes. Why wouldn't these phenomena exist in our societies too?
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Oct 29
In 2025 your political options are either the group that wants to crush the human race into a fine powder for kind of unclear shifting moral reasons, or the opposition that wants to crush the human race into a fine powder because we don't follow market incentives closely enough.
The establishment view is that humanity is so evil and corrupt it needs to be crushed for reasons so obvious they do not even need to be explained, while the opposition view is that we must reluctantly crush humanity because hypothetical machines would be better workers.
My concern is that the only bipartisan position is crushing humanity into a fine powder and the other stuff seems kind of fake or speculative, which means the only material outcome we will get is crushing humanity into a fine powder.
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Oct 29
The crisis of the last 500 years is basically a crisis of humanism. Wherever we can we keep denigrating, delegitimizing, constraining, and even destroying open and personalized human action, thought, and decision-making, in favor of opaque, manipulated, broken processes.
There is a straight line between the petty committees that stifle creativity and growth in ordinary professional and private life, and the expansive cosmological visions held by social and cultural elites that deny or delegitimize not just human agency but the human race itself.
Perhaps the story of the last 500 years is the humanists making the materially productive but politically fatal mistake of focusing their efforts on understanding the natural world rather than governing the human world. Gains in productivity sunk into political conflict.
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Oct 29
When my grandkids ask me why we didn't do anything to prevent the ignominious collapse of modern civilization, I guess I will have to say that everyone knew exactly what was wrong, we had just already created a society where doing anything but raging online was impossible.
We have created a cage so perfect that the brightest minds of our era think it is easier to create artificial superhuman minds with silicon and software than reform governments and institutions, which when you take a step back is obviously a totally insane position to hold.
There is not going to be a "collapse" because the status quo is already the collapse. Working a fake job then sweating in the computer chair in a childless home *is* the collapse.
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Oct 23
There are enough Indians for India to export 700 million people total to North America and Europe over the coming decades, become around 50% of the population on both continents, and still remain the world's most populous country with over 1 billion people. Image
This isn't even counting Pakistan and Bangladesh. Or the Philippines, Indonesia... the calculus for Western elites is very simple. The harder pension schemes, real estate markets, and GDP break down, the more immigrants we will import.
There is also Latin America, of course. If African or Muslim immigrants have proved too politically controversial, the same cannot be said for Indians or Filipinos, at least for now. The problem is solved as far as they are concerned.
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Oct 21
Objectively I am mega-bearish on America, Europe, and China equally. I currently do not see any of them reversing the demographic and thus permanent decline of techno-industrial civilization, which will likely play out by 2100. All other discussion is just details until then.
So far every single disagreement with this post relies on multiple speculative science-fiction outcomes to pan out. While I'm not ruling it out entirely, if you can't see that this should not be taken as the default outcome, I don't know what to tell you.
It's a deep sign of how accustomed we have become to decline that nobody can talk about automation in any terms except as a replacement for dwindling human labor. But automation should be a force-multiplier for human labor, not a replacement!
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