This is a fairly unpopular position on the dissident/intellectual right, but the climate change policy agenda is an obvious scam and the proof is what do people who claim to fear climate change DO? Do they maximize production of goods in Europe + embargo China and India? No, lol
Remember, in a free market if you make it harder/costlier to produce in UK, the same good can be produced elsewhere and sold to UK. So to a first approximation it makes sense to consider total global product demand as fixed, and ask where the products are manufactured
Feb 2 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The “authentic cuisine” thing is incomprehensible outside of American class dynamics. Let me explain…
Typically when foreign cuisine moves to a new country it takes on local touches. It appeals to the local tastes and uses fresher local ingredients. Then, upper class people flex about how they food they had in (Paris/Rome/Beijing) was so much better
Jul 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There are plenty of men in the West who, sadly, have already resigned themselves to being single, childless, impoverished, unimportant and forgettable. This thread, far from being a persuasive explanation of the gender gap, hints at spiritual blindness
Modernity has brought forth many ills, but you can’t deny it has as a side effect brought forth a generation of misfits whose lifestyles are halfway to the desert fathers. They are not in the pews, and who is there? Are these female churches abounding in virtues and discipline?
Mar 10, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
There is no “optimal strategy”. Offering an opposing coalition a choice between continuous material/symbolic defeats or escalation into massive retaliation is a superb strategy, if all the environmental parameters it depends on are in place
1. It assumes the “kicks” are painful enough that if the victim endures interminably, he is rekt. Either unsustainable material losses (diminution of capabilities) or semiotically unambiguous L’s (demoralization + disorganization of target’s coalition)
Oct 27, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
a few times a year i check in on what the LessWrongers are up to. It gets sadder and sadder
It was obvious 10 years ago to anyone who liked books that “rationalist” was an embarrassing misnomer since a cult that claimed to be governed by Bayes’ Rule falls on what everyone else calls the “empiricist” side of empiricist/rationalist dispute
Apr 26, 2021 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
btw, for ppl interested in translation, here is a more technical version of Wyatt’s argument: (1/?)
2/ Translation is an art if you’re translating Proust or La Fontaine or something. When the whole value of a work is the beauty of the individual sentences, the meter, the rhymes, wordplay and insinuations, then a great translation requires genius
Jan 8, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I wonder what would happen if there were a country where the country's elite openly rejoiced in the fact that their policies benefit foreigners and freaks more than the natives
In private conversations among the upper class, for 8 years now or more, this has been the consensus line - "This is good for our kind, and it's good for {Guatemala Africa China Israel}, and if it's bad for most other Americans that's OK because why could we put Americans first?"
Jan 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The politics of enforcing a gun-grab would be very strange because blue states *already* don't enforce gun laws on their urban population (w/ exception of NY, during Giuliani/Bloomberg yrs)
The leftist dream has always been that by forcing extreme gun control on non-urban whites + red states, they can constrict flow of guns to urban blacks without actually arresting more urban blacks. Regardless of whether this would work (ofc not lol), would it happen?
Jan 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
people with this take are, i assume, foreign or childless. you can challenge the tactics or the timing, but some fighting back is always better than no fighting back
when i was a kid my dad's airforce buddy told me that he was bullied as a kid for a while and so every time the kid put his head down on his desk, he'd go and smack him on the head with a textbook
Nov 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i ran simulations of counting two batches of ballots; the pattern Shylock observes does not arise naturally from one type of voter being more likely to mail in their vote
These scatterplots show the same thing as Holmes’ graph, for artificial elections w/ 100 random 2000-voters precincts, giving “D”s 2/3 chance of mail-in vote and “R”s 1/3
Nov 5, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I will be taking down the histogram of total voters per ward to replace it w/ a corrected version (the peak is 12 or 13 at ~70 not 14 at 0), but it remains a curiosity — serious analysis of vote breakdowns is here:
reactionary skepticism of american revolution is good ofc, but bc no one studies the history carefully w/o being proud of their ancestors, currently most neo-loyalist memes are dumb. Some items:
1/ the basic problem with the “stab in the back” theory is that the British were cheapskates about *all* N American wars and had never beat French w/o heavy reliance on colonial volunteers
Jun 26, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
liberal theocracy is a deathcult b/c mass culture + meritocratic exemptions from anarchotyranny interact to hijack all impulses to family formation
mass culture: think of this as complement to intentional communities. you live in a mass culture when intentional communities are the only way to transmit your opinions and traditions to your kids
Mar 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
iiuc gayle langley, the person at CDC who was emailing ppl around country telling them it was illegal to use tests made in a facility that hadn’t been approved by medicare/medicaid, has been publishing with CDC since 2011 but has been employed by DHHS in some way since 2006
this is the CDC’s respiratory virus team. jfc wait until you get a load of who the chief of the team is
Jan 2, 2020 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
1/ I'm going to engage in meandering reflections throughout the day on basic rw political theories about the US, and modernity. They're numbered for your convenience, so you can ignore them if you want to (and also for organization)
2/ The immediate impetus is this thread from ZHP, a pithy and hard-hitting summary of things Moldbug ~ Land ~ SM ~ #NRx have been saying for 13 years
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