Matt Yglesias woke from a night of troubled dreams to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. He gazed at his reflection, reaching for the pale, grub-like folds of his thorax. "If my coworkers notice this, I will be teased."

I remember where I was when the Twin Towers fell. Do you remember where you were when GamerGate won?

The 20th Century is finally over. Trump killed it, and the libtards *are* right to freak out over him blowing up the White House, because that *is* symbolic of him dynamiting the ideology they thought would rule until the end of time Nope! At last, we're moving forward again.

It's funny, it seems like if you give any First World nation an option that isn't Gay Race Communism, voters race to embrace it And if after it wins it *does* something that isn't Gay Race Communism, next time, they win harder than the first time

"We've been stress-testing the core philosophy of the 20th century and it, uh—it doesn't seem to be *creating* progress. It seems to be... well, sir... retarding it." "Then it hasn't been tested enough. Shovel a few trillion more into the fire. And a few more million migrants"

It is always a brutal failure, that nowhere results in better education, childcare, employment, economic value, etc They just work less, produce less, do less, *become* less. Everyone outcome gains nothing or *worsens.* You'd think there would be more press about these outcomes

At least with *some* lib interventions like what Heckman did, you can sort of coax out some small economic benefits with them But with direct cash transfers to the "marginalized"—basically, the underlying idea of leftism, 20th century liberalism, finally being tested outright—

"*This* time, we'll prove the thesis of the entire 20th century correct, that material want is the driver of all inequality, and if we solve for resources, these people will at last be uplifted!" >they become even worse "Ah well! Even so....."

All of the UBI experiments are very funny because the premise is "If we just give poor people free money they'll finally be liberated from the circumstances of their poverty" Then UBI just makes them all even *less* productive than they were before. Even more of a liability

The East Wing is (was lol) barely older than my dad while people whose families got here after the invention of the McRib are telling me it was a sacred temple of democracy

People yearn for the return of Anglo bickering, the 17th-19th centuries. To the extent the modern republican democracy ever worked, that's what it was Cold but cheery WASPs, autistically wrecking each other. Modern academia's opposite. "Anons, but each one classically trained"

If we win, history will see it that way too. If we lose—well, we lose civilization. And you do too. Good game I guess.

Matt's arguments for "One Billion Americans" have all pretty much died by now. All he has left is, "Oh yeah? Then the right should try to toss out all the migrants and see what people think of them *then*!" Your ideas made this mess, Matt. All moral responsibility lies on you.

If it is the case that mass migration could be *bad* for a nation, and can only be reversed through "lots of violence and human suffering," then you'd better have an ironclad case for it being good, before you do it Narrator: It, in fact, just makes everything worse for natives.

.@mattyglesias has just made the strongest possible argument against mass migration: If, for any reason, it turns out to have been a huge mistake—the only way to undo it is through mass "violence and human suffering" And if you *don't* do that—your nation suffers that anyway.

This is one of those betrayals of the American people that is both so commonplace and so enormous that it's hard to even think about it. A requirement of immigration is that you are not supposed to be a "public charge"-- i.e. reliant on the government. Yet 1/3 of our public

The idea that the men who founded America and the ideals they risked everything for have anything to do with ... Hitler? WW2? Is so bizarre, and beyond the pale, that this just needs to be done away with. It's an alien and imposed civil religion meant to replace the Founders.

What the hell? The American civic religion of our founding has literally *nothing* to do with Hitler. Everyone who tells you it does is a foreigner, an outlander, an un-American, an immigrant, someone with *no* basal understanding or background in who and what we Americans are.

It's no wonder the author's series, like 20th century liberalism, just kind of... fizzled out and died. Couldn't even be bothered to complete his history of his own world. If this is your vision of humanity—who, ultimately, cares? At the end of the day, not even GRRM did. RIP.

This explanation, ultimately, satisfies no one: neither the fans of the books/show, nor the ideology that produced the worldview that spurred its creation. Because it's missing the part that makes all stories worth telling, or nations worth having.

Game of Thrones is, ultimately, a highly blinkered, 20th century Boomer work. Maybe its apotheosis The base motivations it favors are the only ones that *actually* matter, that *actually* exist + undergird all action. Anyone with other motives just gets raped + murdered by them.