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Dec 8 • 14 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
It's hard to over-emphasize how utterly unprepared educated progressive Europeans are for even the mildest open debate that challenges their positions. They are basically dodos living in a completely closed intellectual hugbox represented by publicly-funded state TV.
These people have literally never, not once in their lives, encountered genuine intellectual opposition to any of their views, even second-hand. Every instance of "debate" in their lives, from university to TV, is just a carefully coordinated ritual with a predetermined outcome.
At least American progressives have had to contend with Fox News, the College Republicans, and President Donald Trump, which means they at least need to go through the motions of coming up with counter-arguments. *None* of this exists for Euro progs.
The closest thing to a debate Europeans have ever seen is when, once every few years, state TV brings on a "far-right activist" like some kind of exotic freakshow and they get ritually harangued and insulted by a panel of incredulous and appalled state TV commentators.
The American progressive culture that includes loudmouth e-celebs and has a need to actually organize cancellations of opponents is way more free speech-oriented than European progressive culture, where debate is just unheard-of and cancellation means filing a police report.
For all these reasons pressure to loosen speech restrictions will be bitterly resisted, but is also a very effective point of leverage for the Trump admin, since Europe in theory is committed to free speech and actual free speech would greatly reduce the power of incumbents.
In my opinion, whether progressive or not, at least partially replacing the current crop of European political elites with people who are capable of understanding and responding to a simple argument rather than immediately calling the police in a panic can only be a good thing.
Do we really want to open the floodgates for European Matt Yglesias, European Ben Shapiro, and European Richard Hanania? As much as we Europeans may shudder at this thought, this is an unfortunate but necessary byproduct of creating some positive selection for political elites.
There are some benefits to the closed, static European system, yes, however Europe is no longer on a safe upward path but facing multiple serious crises of governance, so the static strategy is no longer actually safe.
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@bismarckanlys Who do you think you are convincing? Nobody buys this kind of bullshit anymore when the British and German authorities are going on TV and bragging about how many thousands of random people they have arrested and imprisoned for posting on social media.

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Nov 21
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!
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Nov 9
You have to admit that the way Boomer elites constantly counter every Millennial demand for benefits with an even bigger offer for loans (indebting them to Boomers), while loudly framing it as a favor the whole time, is just plain hilarious in this dark, Dostoyevskyan way.
There is this whole subtext of Boomers refusing to just pass down assets to their children or grandchildren but instead like malfunctioning robots constantly try to invent elaborate schemes where they have to work for them or go into debt to them to get their own inheritance.
"Please, I can't afford a house."

"What if instead of helping you pay for a house, I loan you the money for a house?"

"Great idea. Like a zero-interest loan, right? Right?"
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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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