Where is the second photo from?

But… PoopPosting was right there and its alliterative!

That was rad as hell.

This is straight up Milton Friedman thought. He is the architect of our ruin:

As Friedman emphasized, “Inflation is an old, old disease. We’ve had thousands of years of experience of it. There is nothing simpler than stopping an inflation—from the technical point of view.”

That remedy took a specific form: “The only cure for inflation is to reduce the rate at which total spending is growing.” This cure involved a temporary side effect, as Friedman noted: “There is no way of slowing down inflation that will not involve a transitory increase in unemployment, and a transitory reduction in the rate of growth of output. But these costs will be far less than the costs that will be incurred by permitting the disease of inflation to rage unchecked.”

Milton Friedman on Inflation - Edward Nelson

When you are arguing with neolibs on economy, you are arguing with Milton Friedman.

Three million new homes!*

*at $1,000,000 each.

Thanks comrade.

To accept that your world view has been informed, for the better part of your entire life, by lies and slanderous claims, and that every defense you’ve put up for your world view has also been a defense of the atrocities that have been hidden from you, is likely one of the hardest hills to climb for almost every person looking for answers. I think most people never see that hill. I think for a subsection of people who do see the hill, they were brought there by someone who has seen the other side of it.

The more you have gained from these lies and slander, the better your position in life is, the harder it would be to walk up that hill. All of those material benefits you’ve had since birth drag you backwards, like the chains of Jacob Marley. For most of those people, they become what you describe, chauvinists. They become chauvinists because it would require them to admit they were wrong, It would require them to admit that their gains are ill-gotten, and it would require them to see their fellow citizens as worth saving.

The lies told to us are powerful, intergenerational lies. They are like a curse cast on the whole population. Breaking that curse requires starring into the deepest, darkest pit of horrors. Horrors that would make Hitler blush. The reaction to these horrors changes you, and you either turn away, tightening the grip of the curse, or you break free.

Nothing like a good old thought-terminating cliche. When I’m talking to people about politics, it jumps out at me clear as day. It really then requires a shift in approach because it singles to you that the doors are locked, and this isn’t an invitation for conversation but a declaration of intellectual combat.

Tankie

We used to watch pretty regularly. Leftovers was entertaining, but it was clear that when Hasan was doing serious political analysis, all of that would fly over Ethan’s head in a way that vexed him. Then they had that episode where they were talking about Socialism, and it seemed apparent to me that Hasan thought this was going to be a kind of informational episode, and Ethan’s only intentions were to “Own” Hasan in the “marketplace of ideas”. Ethan admits at some point that his only research on “social democracy” was conducted with none other than “ChatGPT” (something he was obsessed with at the time, and probably still is). That’s when I stopped really giving a shit about the dude and his content. I think the thing that frustrated me was not so much how “bad” that episode was, but that it clearly looked like a “bait and switch” on someone who Ethan presented as a Friend and how willingly and deliberately ignorant Ethan was.

The nail in the coffin though was definitely the episode after Oct 7th (where this grudge Ethan has maintained sprouted from) and the preceding livestream where he angrily argued with Hasan. The total disingenuous nature of the whole thing showed many people the face under the mask. I haven’t watched an episode since.

It’ll only get worse.

Fewer do but most of the ones that are left have his brain worms.

What is this bot and where can I see what it posts?

I’m sober enough to know what I’m doing and I’m drunk enough to really enjoy doing it.

I’m sober enough to know what I’m doing and I’m drunk enough to really enjoy doing it.

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I’m sober enough to know what I’m doing and I’m drunk enough to really enjoy doing it.

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I’m sober enough to know what I’m doing and I’m drunk enough to really enjoy doing it.

Not cubes, not dodecahedrons, spheres!