Everyone on here is liking things as a way of giving feedback to the algorithm about what you want to see more of in your feed, right? People aren't just liking things they agree with and blocking things they disagree with so as to thereby construct their own echo chamber, right?

It seems we need to bring back Radio Free Europe because the shadow of totalitarian authoritarian censorship has once again fallen across the continent.

People take economic growth for granted. But in the background there are millions of these improvements happening below your awareness. They happen because people you have never met are informed of your desires and motivated to work to satisfy them by market prices.

I think one reason our culture has become more coarse, selfish, and money obsessed is that the public is more aware and condemnatory of hypocrisy, so people default to living their more base values, turns out a certain amount of hypocrisy is socially load bearing

Pension obligations for Boomers is one of the main techtonic forces driving decline across the Developed World

Seeing a lot of Hollywood calls for the FTC to block the Warners sale, and I get the emotions behind them, but guys, there is no regulatory magic which can save the feature film. It is going to die, because the technological conditions that created it have changed.

People who don't like Indians due to religion or cuisine are always looking for a post hoc rationalization that will convince people who don't share their aversion.

Actual ideas to promote manufacturing: 1. No tariffs on intermediate goods 2. Easy visas for skilled workers 3. Reduce the budget deficit 4. Zoning reform

The old gatekeepers delegitimizing the idea of an Overton Window by abusing their power to enforce it has destroyed out ability to preclude nonsensical outcomes like this.

Such staffers across the administration are causing the GOP to hemorrhage votes

People are pointing out that it's cocaine instead of fentanyl because the pro extra judicial killing propagandists are falsely claiming it is fentanyl and citing fentanyl deaths to justify their flagrantly immoral and unlawful killings

The solution to "I don't want to do a thing" is never "make doing the thing illegal"

This phenomenon is everywhere

In light of recent revelations about grade inflation, I think even high school GPA is suspect at this point.

economists say America is richer than ever, but some people warn it takes more than ever for an American to be richer than their neighbor

@SandyofCthulhu "It's only true autism if it comes from the Autismé region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling social anxiety."

Only Nixon could go to China

I challenge anyone to read this book after skipping phonics to do whole word learning. Does your whole word learning curriculum include "Clawitzer?" Didn't think so.

Almost every single Postliberal of note over age 40 adhered to the same basic authoritarian beliefs in ca. 2006 that they still hold today. This belies the claim that Postliberalism arose in response to some more recent "crisis" of liberalism.

@davidharsanyi Kinda funny that after Vance's circuitous political journey he'd wind up adopting the principles that led to the ruin of Appalachia.

If you were wondering how many years it takes to forget how a bad idea tanked the economy, it's 17 years.