touche lmao

That’s a good point, I hadn’t thought of that

With enough mental gymnastics and/or a complete disinterest in analyzing the way you see the world, it is absolutely possible to end up finding that sort of meme funny while also being against the right to abortion.

yeah good point, not everyone is thinking very hard about why they believe what they believe.

Lenin’s Bourgeois and Proletarian Democracy

Huh, I’ve read some of Lenin’s essays, but I didn’t know about that one. Thanks for namedropping it.

The only situation in which democracy as a whole would be rejected under a Marxist program is when false consciousness is too powerful to overcome

that feels pretty instructive for the US, lol

Yeah I know who Moldbug is. I was giving him as an example of a belief that I don’t agree with.

Yeah you’re right. Furthermore, the graph that they show for “Did Joe Biden drop out” isn’t even in absolute units, so we can’t actually tell how many people are making this query. They normalize it so that the maximum is always represented by 100, but that still might only be like <1000 people.

looks interesting. thanks

Thanks, this seems like exactly what I was looking for

This is really good, thanks

so this is it, right? We’re, like, definitely in WW3 now?

been thinking about this a lot this morning.

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Idk, unless there are actual allegations I don’t really see it. Adin Ross seems too stupid to take advantage of anyone.

Indeed, by the time we get to today, it would turn out that having ancestors who fled from the same persecution is much less meaningful a similarity than what the people alive today actually make of that history.

Fair point

This is probably far-fetched, but I’d like to think that Crooks was the first republican to actually be intellectually honest about Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and decided to take “kill your local pedophile” to its logical conclusion

You know what, good points. I shouldn’t have fallen for it so quickly

this guy disagrees: https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1812366460955562225

Yeah I’ve been having similar thoughts.

2014-2020 or so was a period of significant ideological change & realignment in the US in a number of ways, but now things have kind of reached a new equilibrium, so the current ideological terrain is probably what we’re going to have for a while. I think this is mostly because the internet & social media reached maximum penetration around 2014, and the 2014-2020 period was just the US’s ideological terrain adjusting to that step change.

(Admittedly, I also might be biased because 2014-2020 is also basically the period when I was 18-25 years old, so of course it seemed to me like a lot of things were in flux)

precisely